Boy, I hope they're using Mary Lou Jepsen's Pixel Qi (http://www.pixelqi.com/) screens. I am far from a hardcore programming geek, but I could use something like this for a simple E-reader and Mutt email device.
I won't be supporting the national ACLU anytime soon. Seems that they love every bit of the constitution except the Second Amendment. Even after the Supreme Court handed down its Heller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller) decision, they had the audacity to disagree with them and spout all sorts of non-sense about "the militia".
So, we can drop F-bomb all day long, but I don't have the right to self defense? What good is that if the one's on the receiving end of the F-bombs have all the guns??
I'm a gun toting American! I'm also a liberal, and an atheist, and I live in New York City. What exactly does "turning one's cheek" have to do with with carrying a firearm? You do realize that part in the bible about "turning cheeks" had to do with petty insults, right? You do realize that the overwhelming majority of _law abiding_ persons who own/carry firearms do so with the knowledge that they are only to be used only the event of IMMINENT FEAR OF DEATH AND/OR GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM. Even the disciples carried swords, you dimwit. With that said...
A paradoy of your deity might be considered a petty insult. This is the instance where you turn the other cheek. You don't go around killing people for this petty shit.
See my above post. I was in a hurry to write before, but now I have a few minutes to elaborate.
Using Mr. Jenkin's humanure method, one only needs a small bucket and clean cover material; all things that should be available locally. The humanure toilet can be kept indoors with no smell or chance of spreading any disease. After one year you will have a nice small compost pile that you can use on your food crops. No need to ship in bags or pay any patent royalties.
Joseph Jenkins --author of the Humanure Handbook-- has been doing this for close to thirty years. His concept also has the benefit of being patent free and simpler. Look see here:http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure.html
All you need is a 5 gallon bucket, some cover material (rice hulls, sawdust, shredded newspaper, or coffee grounds), and teensy bit of brain power.
After reading Joseph Jenkin's excellent book, The Humanure Handbook (http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure.html and available for free here: http://humanurehandbook.com/downloads/Humanure_Handbook_all.pdf), I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about not just human waste but the waste that comes from everyday computing.
I think what you and I want is the combination of a Beagle Board and a Pixel Qi display (http://www.pixelqi.com/). That display has been mentioned on Slashdot before. You could also start developing super efficient programs on something like a PC Engines ALIX board (http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm) or a Technologic Systems ARM based board: http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/arm-sbc.php#ts-7800-series The TX boards come with Debian pre-installed and boot up in less that2-3 seconds. They seem to be very hacker friendly.
Of course, the other side of the equation is the WWW that we connect to. Is there anyone giving any consideration to efficient computing on the server side? Web forums vs. mailing lists; fancy web sites vs. lean, mean, and candid web design? Are there resources online where I can learn how to design a lean, mean, yet somewhat modern looking web site and run it off something like the aforementioned ALIX (500 Mhz AMD Geode) board? Does HTML help at all in this regard?
I even miss the old but lean Slashdot of long ago.
We're talking about *cops*. We entrust them with our lives, and give them power over us, so yes,...
Going off slightly off topic from the main article...
Who is we? I don't *entrust* my life to any police officer or any other official, and I sure as hell don't give them any "power" over me. This is on of the greatest myths, misconceptions, whatever-you-wanna-call-it that is self perpetrated amongst the American public. You alone are responsible for your own safety.
Don't get me wrong: I don't have issues with hating law enforcement and such but...
The police have no responsibility or legal obligation to protect you. Nada, zero, zip. Wanna know why? Because court after court --including the Supreme Court of the United states-- has ruled so.
The Warren v. D.C. case is most relevant here. Even if the police, that most people "entrust" their lives to, spectacularly fail at doing their job your have zero legal recourse. But wait, it gets better and stranger!
Consider the case of Linda Riss, in which a young woman telephoned the police and begged for help because her ex-boyfriend had repeatedly threatened "If I can't have you no one else will have you, and when I get through with you, no-one else will want you." The day after she had pleaded for police protection, the ex-boyfriend threw lye in her face, blinding her in one eye, severely damaging the other, and permanently scarring her features. "What makes the City's position particularly difficult to understand," wrote a dissenting opinion in her tort suit against the City, "is that, in conformity to the dictates of the law, Linda did not carry any weapon for self-defense. Thus, by a rather bitter irony she was required to rely for protection on the City of New York which now denies all responsibility to her." Riss v. New York, 240 N.E.2d 860 (N.Y. 1968). [Note: Linda Riss obeyed the law, yet the law prevented her from arming herself in self-defense.]
I live in New York City. See the problem? If I want to take responsibility (and I am willing) for my own safety the City of New York won't let me. I am forced to depend on them. And if they force me to depend on them for me safety and make an utter mess of protecting me, then I have zero legal recourse.
I really would love an eInk (read: no back light) MPD client for my custom MPD server. Although, stealing Internet access is not my forte. I wonder of the modem can be swiped out for a WiFi card.
It's a stripped down Debian that's designed to run on embedded devices, and run entirely in RAM. It keeps Debian's APT package manager for super easy installation. Only 128MB or disk space (tiny base install) required for the base install. I use this distro on my PC Engines Alix board for a audiophile USB music server.
In regards yo getting it installed, you can either take out the HD and do the install on another machine or beg-borrow/steal a PCMCIA USB adapter.
If you use X, I would recommend a super lightweight window manager like Openbox, or better yet Awesome. You should also check out dvtm; 'tis a console tiling manager. Cool, eh?
Don't forget that the majority of the mining was done to supply that war (WWII) effort. The US military used munitions in the *billions* of rounds, not to mention supplying the allies.
Intel just released the D945GSEJT Atom board. This is not the same boards that used to older 945 chipsets. The older boards needed a fan on the chipset for it sucked up almost 20 watts!! The new board is mini-itx so it should fit in just about any case and runs on a single 12 volt coaxial plug so no need for a buly ATX PSU.
I also use, and am a big fan of the PC Engines Alix boards: http://www.pcengines.ch/ You have several board styles to choose from. You can install Voyage Linux (Debian based and keep APT!!) on a compact flash with a simple installation (specifically for ALIX) script: http://linux.voyage.hk/
My alix, which I use as a USB music server, draws a measly 3 watts (Kill-A-Watt meter) when playing FLAC files. You can attach a low power USB hard disk for added storage if you want to run NFS.
"Mandatory vaccines in hospitals make a lot of sense. It is really common sense."
Prove it.
Are there any long term studies that show what affects there are on humans from repeated, yearly flu vaccinations? Just claiming it is "common sense" --without any data or facts to support your claim-- doesn't make it so. Don't confuse my query with other types of vaccines that have long established saftey record.
"As a health worker, your first responsibility is to your patients, and getting the flu shot is part of that."
I am a health care worker. I've been busting my ass on a New York City ambulance for the last 13 years. No, my "first responsibility" is *not* to my patients, it is to my partner and I. Since day one of _any_ training curriculum that I have ever completed the lesson has _always_ been "scene safety". Is it safe for my colleague and I to proceed and help? If not, do not proceed until it is safe to do so. In the extreme hypothetical situation where you died in the 3 seconds that it took to me to don a pair of latex gloves, can I be faulted? Absolutely not. So, is it safe for me to get these vaccines on a yearly mandatory basis? We just don't know.
Shit, I can't believe what a stink people are making about this flu. There are a thousand other areas of infection control people should be worried about *before* the masses start getting hysterical about mandatory health care worker vaccinations. You would not believe how basic hygiene and cleanliness are sorely lacking in today's (I work in New York City) health care environment. Simple things, like wiping down the blood pressure cuff or the EKG leads between patients with hospital grade disinfectant wipes, are rarely done. Physicians who won't wash their hands between putting their bare hands on a patient's skin. Stretchers and gurneys that have obvious, gross dried blood on the railings because "housekeeping" only does a cursory wipe of the gurney mattress.
This is not an epidemic or pandemic. The CDC nor the WHO have suggested nor required mandatory vaccinations. Nor has any other state of the union. You and I are one of many of millions of organisms that live, adapt, and co-exist with one another on this planet. No one has ever guaranteed you a long and prosperous life. You are born into this world and you takes your chances; viruses, fungus's, parasites, cancers, warts and all.
You have every right to request a health care provider that meets your specific criteria, e.g., being a Harvard M.D. or having been vaccinated against swine flu, but you don't have the right to request that I be forced to inject something into my body that I am uncomfortable with.
Preface: I'm Debian GNU/Linux user of 10 years, but not a professional computer geek. I use GNU/Linux to get work done.
I thought Linux was just a kernel? Should not the headline read "A Linux distribution that has Wine installed *might* be vulnerable to Windows viruses?"
You can make a microwave signal go light years and a HAM signal go a few feet
Just for clarification, ham radio operators operate in the microwave region as well. They perform EME (earth-moon-earth) using microwave radios with regularity.
It's kinda obvious that you have never worked in health care. Let me 'splain Lucy:
Aside from actually getting health care providers to _actually_ wash their hands, sinks and hand washing don't do much against aerosolized particles especially when someone is coughing in your immediate vicinity.
You can also spread nasties in all sort of interesting ways, like say, EKG leads, which have been proven to be a vector for MRSA. That reusable blood pressure cuff in the emergency room triage that has been used on all sorts of patients? Think it gets "disinfected" after every patient by the triage nurse? Ha!
You can counter their[1] arguments by saying that this will eventually be used to train police officers. Can also be used to train citizens who have concealed handgun permits.
[1] The same people who were, in the late 70's, against police officers having bullet proof vests becuase they claimed it would make them more reckless in their actions.
Hundreds of comments and no one has brought up the specifics of the porn they were making and convicted of.
Lizzie Borden and her husband caught the attention of the feds because of a documentary called American Porn, being filmed by PBS Frontline. Borden directs the movies, and for this particular film (a rape movie) Borden had hired her friend as the rape victim. Borden never told her friend exactly what was going to happen to her and Frontline didn't know either. After the actress is thrown into the back of the van she was taken to a deserted building where 2 male "actors" proceed to actually beat the actress with fists while having sex with her. That's when the Frontline producer ordered his crew to stop filming and leave the premises. The film ends with the actors fakingly slitting the actress's throat and leaving her in a pool of blood.
I'm not giving my opinion as to whether this constitutes "obscene" speech, but these are the facts.
Now, I know a lot of folks will say that we see "depictions" like this on TV, but is that the same as someone actually being pummeled by fists while having sex? Discus...
Hundreds of comments and no one has brought up the specifics of the porn they were making and convicted of.
Lizzie Borden and her husband caught the attention of the feds because of a documentary called American Porn, being filmed by PBS Frontline. Borden directs the movies, and for this particular film (a rape movie) Borden had hired her friend as the rape victim. Borden never told her friend exactly what was going to happen to her and Frontline didn't know either. After the actress is thrown into the back of the van she was taken to a deserted building where 2 male "actors" proceed to actually beat the actress with fists while having sex with her. That's when the Frontline producer ordered his crew to stop filming and leave the premises. The film ends with the actors fakingly slitting the actress's throat and leaving her in a pool of blood.
I'm not giving my opinion as to whether this constitutes "obscene" speech, but these are the facts.
Now, I know a lot of folks will say that we see "depictions" like this on TV, but is that the same as someone actually being pummeled by fists? Discus...
I was recently watching the news, and they were showing how children are being killed in record numbers by gun violence in Chicago.
Careful there. By kids do we mean small children shot by stray bullets? Or do we define kids the way Brady Campaign & Co, like to define "kids", as 15 to 21 year old street thugs who are in the process of committing a crime?
And the reporter asked "If these deaths were caused by the swine flu, the media, government, and the public would be be all over it. But because it's just urban violence, nobody cares about these deaths."
I disagree. The media always reports stories about gun violence. They always make a big deal about it. But they *rarely* report stories about law-abiding citizens using their legally owned guns to defend themselves. And when it does get reported, the fact that a law abiding citizen did have a gun is casually sanitized from the details. Compare the Wikipedia article of the Appalachian school shooting to what you can Google from the media outlets.
It seems to me that this country has it's priorities backwards. NOT ok to have 2 people die of Swine Flu, but OK for 30 kids to die from guns. OK for tens of thousands to die from lack of affordable healthcare EVERY YEAR, but billions and trillions spent because 3000 people die from ONE isolated incident of terrorism.
Sorry, but people making much ado about terrorism is the same as people making much ado about the so-called "gun-violence" epidemic. There is no epidemic. People advocating stricter "control" measures don't give a crap about safety; they have deep rooted fears only care about controlling other people and situations beyond their control.
When dealing with a police officer who you believe is abusing their authority, there is only one sensible strategy: you say, "Officer, would you please explain to me what law I've broken?" If they can't give you a proper answer, you say, "I'm sorry, but if I'm not accused of anything, I don't think I have to talk to you."
Say these things in a respectful tone of voice. And then Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Getting into lame political arguments with a cop is not ever going to accomplish anything useful. On the contrary, arguments and self-justification can give them the legal hook they need to act against you. If you don't believe me, ask Randal Schwartz.
He's right. Personally, I wouldn't even so go as far as asking what law I broke. Just ask if you are being detained or not. If the answer is yes, don't say another *word*.
Watch this video at least once a year. Every year.
This video is of law professor James Duane giving a lecture on why you should never, *EVER*, talk to the police without a lawyer no matter what the circumstances. Even as something as seemingly simple as getting a speeding ticket. He also lays out (in layman's terms) why the fifth amendment was designed to protect the innocent. He gives equal time to a police detective as balance to everything he had just said.
Lenovo? Considering a Thinkpad Netbook? I'm typing this on a Thinkpad X40 running Debian; 2.4 lbs of full size keys goodness. I won't consider another machine without its keyboard or Trackpoint. But I can only drool at the thought of am X series type Thinkpad with and ARM based CPU and true all day capability.
Lenovo with an ARM cpu on a Thinkpad? Nah, it'll never happen... And I understand this even though my profession has nothing to do with the computers.
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Boy, I hope they're using Mary Lou Jepsen's Pixel Qi (http://www.pixelqi.com/) screens. I am far from a hardcore programming geek, but I could use something like this for a simple E-reader and Mutt email device.
She also has a blog: http://pixelqi.com/blog1/
Supposedly, hackers will be able to buy raw screens for DIY projects. Might be ideal for hooking up to a BeagleBoard.
I won't be supporting the national ACLU anytime soon. Seems that they love every bit of the constitution except the Second Amendment. Even after the Supreme Court handed down its Heller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller) decision, they had the audacity to disagree with them and spout all sorts of non-sense about "the militia".
So, we can drop F-bomb all day long, but I don't have the right to self defense? What good is that if the one's on the receiving end of the F-bombs have all the guns??
At least some states chapters of the ACLU have differing opinions: http://onemansthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/nevada-aclu-supports-an-individual%E2%80%99s-right-to-bear-arms-2/
Links:
http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice_prisoners-rights_drug-law-reform_immigrants-rights/second-amendment
I'm a gun toting American! I'm also a liberal, and an atheist, and I live in New York City. What exactly does "turning one's cheek" have to do with with carrying a firearm? You do realize that part in the bible about "turning cheeks" had to do with petty insults, right? You do realize that the overwhelming majority of _law abiding_ persons who own/carry firearms do so with the knowledge that they are only to be used only the event of IMMINENT FEAR OF DEATH AND/OR GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM. Even the disciples carried swords, you dimwit. With that said...
A paradoy of your deity might be considered a petty insult. This is the instance where you turn the other cheek. You don't go around killing people for this petty shit.
See my above post. I was in a hurry to write before, but now I have a few minutes to elaborate.
Using Mr. Jenkin's humanure method, one only needs a small bucket and clean cover material; all things that should be available locally. The humanure toilet can be kept indoors with no smell or chance of spreading any disease. After one year you will have a nice small compost pile that you can use on your food crops. No need to ship in bags or pay any patent royalties.
Joseph Jenkins --author of the Humanure Handbook-- has been doing this for close to thirty years. His concept also has the benefit of being patent free and simpler. Look see here:http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure.html
All you need is a 5 gallon bucket, some cover material (rice hulls, sawdust, shredded newspaper, or coffee grounds), and teensy bit of brain power.
You can get the book on Amazon or download it for free from his site: http://humanurehandbook.com/downloads/Humanure_Handbook_all.pdf
After reading Joseph Jenkin's excellent book, The Humanure Handbook (http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure.html and available for free here: http://humanurehandbook.com/downloads/Humanure_Handbook_all.pdf), I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about not just human waste but the waste that comes from everyday computing.
I think what you and I want is the combination of a Beagle Board and a Pixel Qi display (http://www.pixelqi.com/). That display has been mentioned on Slashdot before. You could also start developing super efficient programs on something like a PC Engines ALIX board (http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm) or a Technologic Systems ARM based board: http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/arm-sbc.php#ts-7800-series The TX boards come with Debian pre-installed and boot up in less that2-3 seconds. They seem to be very hacker friendly.
Of course, the other side of the equation is the WWW that we connect to. Is there anyone giving any consideration to efficient computing on the server side? Web forums vs. mailing lists; fancy web sites vs. lean, mean, and candid web design? Are there resources online where I can learn how to design a lean, mean, yet somewhat modern looking web site and run it off something like the aforementioned ALIX (500 Mhz AMD Geode) board? Does HTML help at all in this regard?
I even miss the old but lean Slashdot of long ago.
We're talking about *cops*. We entrust them with our lives, and give them power over us, so yes,...
Going off slightly off topic from the main article...
Who is we? I don't *entrust* my life to any police officer or any other official, and I sure as hell don't give them any "power" over me. This is on of the greatest myths, misconceptions, whatever-you-wanna-call-it that is self perpetrated amongst the American public. You alone are responsible for your own safety.
Don't get me wrong: I don't have issues with hating law enforcement and such but...
The police have no responsibility or legal obligation to protect you. Nada, zero, zip. Wanna know why? Because court after court --including the Supreme Court of the United states-- has ruled so.
Look at these court cases:
Warren v. District of Columbia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Castle Rock v. Gonzales: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales
DeShaney v. Winnebago County: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County
The Warren v. D.C. case is most relevant here. Even if the police, that most people "entrust" their lives to, spectacularly fail at doing their job your have zero legal recourse. But wait, it gets better and stranger!
Riss v. New York. Link: http://hematite.com/dragon/policeprot.html
Consider the case of Linda Riss, in which a young woman telephoned the police and begged for help because her ex-boyfriend had repeatedly threatened "If I can't have you no one else will have you, and when I get through with you, no-one else will want you." The day after she had pleaded for police protection, the ex-boyfriend threw lye in her face, blinding her in one eye, severely damaging the other, and permanently scarring her features. "What makes the City's position particularly difficult to understand," wrote a dissenting opinion in her tort suit against the City, "is that, in conformity to the dictates of the law, Linda did not carry any weapon for self-defense. Thus, by a rather bitter irony she was required to rely for protection on the City of New York which now denies all responsibility to her." Riss v. New York, 240 N.E.2d 860 (N.Y. 1968). [Note: Linda Riss obeyed the law, yet the law prevented her from arming herself in self-defense.]
I live in New York City. See the problem? If I want to take responsibility (and I am willing) for my own safety the City of New York won't let me. I am forced to depend on them. And if they force me to depend on them for me safety and make an utter mess of protecting me, then I have zero legal recourse.
Something to ponder.
I really would love an eInk (read: no back light) MPD client for my custom MPD server. Although, stealing Internet access is not my forte. I wonder of the modem can be swiped out for a WiFi card.
So remember emacs users, it's really not your fault!
Ducks...
Ooops. Sorry, I got really excited replying to your post. I love it when people try to recycle old hardware with Linux..
Voyage Linux: http://linux.voyage.hk/
dvtm: http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/
Use Voyage Linux!
It's a stripped down Debian that's designed to run on embedded devices, and run entirely in RAM. It keeps Debian's APT package manager for super easy installation. Only 128MB or disk space (tiny base install) required for the base install. I use this distro on my PC Engines Alix board for a audiophile USB music server.
In regards yo getting it installed, you can either take out the HD and do the install on another machine or beg-borrow/steal a PCMCIA USB adapter.
If you use X, I would recommend a super lightweight window manager like Openbox, or better yet Awesome. You should also check out dvtm; 'tis a console tiling manager. Cool, eh?
Don't forget that the majority of the mining was done to supply that war (WWII) effort. The US military used munitions in the *billions* of rounds, not to mention supplying the allies.
Just Google "treece, kansasa war effort"
Intel just released the D945GSEJT Atom board. This is not the same boards that used to older 945 chipsets. The older boards needed a fan on the chipset for it sucked up almost 20 watts!! The new board is mini-itx so it should fit in just about any case and runs on a single 12 volt coaxial plug so no need for a buly ATX PSU.
A nice review here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/Intel_D945GSEJT_with_Morex_T1610
I also use, and am a big fan of the PC Engines Alix boards: http://www.pcengines.ch/ You have several board styles to choose from. You can install Voyage Linux (Debian based and keep APT!!) on a compact flash with a simple installation (specifically for ALIX) script: http://linux.voyage.hk/
My alix, which I use as a USB music server, draws a measly 3 watts (Kill-A-Watt meter) when playing FLAC files. You can attach a low power USB hard disk for added storage if you want to run NFS.
"Mandatory vaccines in hospitals make a lot of sense. It is really common sense."
Prove it.
Are there any long term studies that show what affects there are on humans from repeated, yearly flu vaccinations? Just claiming it is "common sense" --without any data or facts to support your claim-- doesn't make it so. Don't confuse my query with other types of vaccines that have long established saftey record.
"As a health worker, your first responsibility is to your patients, and getting the flu shot is part of that."
I am a health care worker. I've been busting my ass on a New York City ambulance for the last 13 years. No, my "first responsibility" is *not* to my patients, it is to my partner and I. Since day one of _any_ training curriculum that I have ever completed the lesson has _always_ been "scene safety". Is it safe for my colleague and I to proceed and help? If not, do not proceed until it is safe to do so. In the extreme hypothetical situation where you died in the 3 seconds that it took to me to don a pair of latex gloves, can I be faulted? Absolutely not. So, is it safe for me to get these vaccines on a yearly mandatory basis? We just don't know.
Shit, I can't believe what a stink people are making about this flu. There are a thousand other areas of infection control people should be worried about *before* the masses start getting hysterical about mandatory health care worker vaccinations. You would not believe how basic hygiene and cleanliness are sorely lacking in today's (I work in New York City) health care environment. Simple things, like wiping down the blood pressure cuff or the EKG leads between patients with hospital grade disinfectant wipes, are rarely done. Physicians who won't wash their hands between putting their bare hands on a patient's skin. Stretchers and gurneys that have obvious, gross dried blood on the railings because "housekeeping" only does a cursory wipe of the gurney mattress.
This is not an epidemic or pandemic. The CDC nor the WHO have suggested nor required mandatory vaccinations. Nor has any other state of the union. You and I are one of many of millions of organisms that live, adapt, and co-exist with one another on this planet. No one has ever guaranteed you a long and prosperous life. You are born into this world and you takes your chances; viruses, fungus's, parasites, cancers, warts and all.
You have every right to request a health care provider that meets your specific criteria, e.g., being a Harvard M.D. or having been vaccinated against swine flu, but you don't have the right to request that I be forced to inject something into my body that I am uncomfortable with.
Preface: I'm Debian GNU/Linux user of 10 years, but not a professional computer geek. I use GNU/Linux to get work done.
I thought Linux was just a kernel? Should not the headline read "A Linux distribution that has Wine installed *might* be vulnerable to Windows viruses?"
You can make a microwave signal go light years and a HAM signal go a few feet
Just for clarification, ham radio operators operate in the microwave region as well. They perform EME (earth-moon-earth) using microwave radios with regularity.
Some info here: http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Operating_Modes/EME/
As any toxicologist will tell you: Dosage is everything.
It's kinda obvious that you have never worked in health care. Let me 'splain Lucy:
Aside from actually getting health care providers to _actually_ wash their hands, sinks and hand washing don't do much against aerosolized particles especially when someone is coughing in your immediate vicinity.
You can also spread nasties in all sort of interesting ways, like say, EKG leads, which have been proven to be a vector for MRSA. That reusable blood pressure cuff in the emergency room triage that has been used on all sorts of patients? Think it gets "disinfected" after every patient by the triage nurse? Ha!
You can counter their[1] arguments by saying that this will eventually be used to train police officers. Can also be used to train citizens who have concealed handgun permits.
[1] The same people who were, in the late 70's, against police officers having bullet proof vests becuase they claimed it would make them more reckless in their actions.
Not just titties.
Hundreds of comments and no one has brought up the specifics of the porn they were making and convicted of.
Lizzie Borden and her husband caught the attention of the feds because of a documentary called American Porn, being filmed by PBS Frontline. Borden directs the movies, and for this particular film (a rape movie) Borden had hired her friend as the rape victim. Borden never told her friend exactly what was going to happen to her and Frontline didn't know either.
After the actress is thrown into the back of the van she was taken to a deserted building where 2 male "actors" proceed to actually beat the actress with fists while having sex with her. That's when the Frontline producer ordered his crew to stop filming and leave the premises. The film ends with the actors fakingly slitting the actress's throat and leaving her in a pool of blood.
I'm not giving my opinion as to whether this constitutes "obscene" speech, but these are the facts.
Now, I know a lot of folks will say that we see "depictions" like this on TV, but is that the same as someone actually being pummeled by fists while having sex? Discus...
Hundreds of comments and no one has brought up the specifics of the porn they were making and convicted of.
Lizzie Borden and her husband caught the attention of the feds because of a documentary called American Porn, being filmed by PBS Frontline. Borden directs the movies, and for this particular film (a rape movie) Borden had hired her friend as the rape victim. Borden never told her friend exactly what was going to happen to her and Frontline didn't know either.
After the actress is thrown into the back of the van she was taken to a deserted building where 2 male "actors" proceed to actually beat the actress with fists while having sex with her. That's when the Frontline producer ordered his crew to stop filming and leave the premises. The film ends with the actors fakingly slitting the actress's throat and leaving her in a pool of blood.
I'm not giving my opinion as to whether this constitutes "obscene" speech, but these are the facts.
Now, I know a lot of folks will say that we see "depictions" like this on TV, but is that the same as someone actually being pummeled by fists? Discus...
I was recently watching the news, and they were showing how children are being killed in record numbers by gun violence in Chicago.
Careful there. By kids do we mean small children shot by stray bullets? Or do we define kids the way Brady Campaign & Co, like to define "kids", as 15 to 21 year old street thugs who are in the process of committing a crime?
And the reporter asked "If these deaths were caused by the swine flu, the media, government, and the public would be be all over it. But because it's just urban violence, nobody cares about these deaths."
I disagree. The media always reports stories about gun violence. They always make a big deal about it. But they *rarely* report stories about law-abiding citizens using their legally owned guns to defend themselves. And when it does get reported, the fact that a law abiding citizen did have a gun is casually sanitized from the details. Compare the Wikipedia article of the Appalachian school shooting to what you can Google from the media outlets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_shooting
It seems to me that this country has it's priorities backwards. NOT ok to have 2 people die of Swine Flu, but OK for 30 kids to die from guns. OK for tens of thousands to die from lack of affordable healthcare EVERY YEAR, but billions and trillions spent because 3000 people die from ONE isolated incident of terrorism.
Sorry, but people making much ado about terrorism is the same as people making much ado about the so-called "gun-violence" epidemic. There is no epidemic. People advocating stricter "control" measures don't give a crap about safety; they have deep rooted fears only care about controlling other people and situations beyond their control.
When dealing with a police officer who you believe is abusing their authority, there is only one sensible strategy: you say, "Officer, would you please explain to me what law I've broken?" If they can't give you a proper answer, you say, "I'm sorry, but if I'm not accused of anything, I don't think I have to talk to you."
Say these things in a respectful tone of voice. And then Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Getting into lame political arguments with a cop is not ever going to accomplish anything useful. On the contrary, arguments and self-justification can give them the legal hook they need to act against you. If you don't believe me, ask Randal Schwartz.
He's right. Personally, I wouldn't even so go as far as asking what law I broke. Just ask if you are being detained or not. If the answer is yes, don't say another *word*.
For every one else I would watch this video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8167533318153586646
Watch this video at least once a year. Every year.
This video is of law professor James Duane giving a lecture on why you should never, *EVER*, talk to the police without a lawyer no matter what the circumstances. Even as something as seemingly simple as getting a speeding ticket. He also lays out (in layman's terms) why the fifth amendment was designed to protect the innocent. He gives equal time to a police detective as balance to everything he had just said.
Make you wear a helmet while driving your car.
Worse. And with apologies to George Carlin, you'll have to wear a helmet just to jerk off.
I came across this article at Windows for Devices earlier today: http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:PKmZMViNa2MJ:www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS9375883682.html+thinkpad+arm+netbook&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Lenovo? Considering a Thinkpad Netbook? I'm typing this on a Thinkpad X40 running Debian; 2.4 lbs of full size keys goodness. I won't consider another machine without its keyboard or Trackpoint. But I can only drool at the thought of am X series type Thinkpad with and ARM based CPU and true all day capability.
Lenovo with an ARM cpu on a Thinkpad? Nah, it'll never happen... And I understand this even though my profession has nothing to do with the computers.