That's Rule 0, but we did come up with some weird builds where the character was unkillable, like the Warforged Fighter / Barbarian / Juggernaut / Frenzied Berzerker build with some of the BoHM feats.
I really enjoyed playing my Whisper Gnome Beguiler / CG Paladin build, but the DM moved to a different city.
First, the highest law in Canada is the Constitution. We have our own, it's a little different than yours.
A close second is the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC). To get there, you'd have to have a court case in your provincial Supreme Court, then appeal that to the Appeal Court of your province, and then up to the Supreme Court of Canada. What the SCC says goes, and it's binding on the country basically forever.
Parliament can pass laws, but they have to be brought in three times, with a quick stint through the Senate in between each "reading". After the third reading, the Governor General (Her majesty's representative in Canada) gives Royal Assent. This is basically 100% guaranteed, the GG will not refuse to pass a law that's been passed by Parliament and the Senate. It COULD happen, in theory, but it's got less chance than all the man pages in Linux being done by lunchtime tomorrow by volunteers from Microsoft.
So, that's how we get new laws in Canada. Laws that are against the Constitution get picked up by court cases and then eventually end up in the SCC. One famous case is Insite, which allows safe drug use in provincially-run clinics and may be one of the most important court cases in Canadian History. Anyway, the SCC will decide whether a law passed by Parliament is valid under Canadian Law. Remember what I said about the Constitution? You can't violate it, The End. That includes our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is really close to your Bill of Rights but with less ammo and more privacy.
Now, the government has just passed an updated Copyright Act, which the SCC went over and changed to be a little more suitable with Canada's higher laws. That's what the two links in the article detail, so I won't go into them again. The thing is that Parliament won't open it up again, as far as Canada's concerned it's a done deal.
One of the jobs I applied for years ago was Engineer for the Ambulance Service. It required you to be on call 24/7, since when 911 went down you'd have to stop whatever you were doing and go fix it.
Is it really that big a problem to have the buzz of a vibrating cell phone go off in the same room as you? Believe it or not, you're not the only PC in your own private universe. Other people have emergencies.
Cell phone users will still play their games. They'll still try to connect.
As for your Faraday cage / rebar thing, you clearly haven't ever seen cement construction, nor do you know how a Faraday cage works. Read up. Eh, on both, I think.
approach to fighting cell phones. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(X) Emergency calls and other legitimate cell uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop callers for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (X) Users of cell phones will not put up with it (X) Motorola will not put up with it (X) The police will not put up with it (X) Requires too much cooperation from cell phone users ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many cell users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Profit-minded mentality of wireless carriers (X) RF uses beyond cell phones (X) Asshats (X) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing infrastucture investment in cell technology ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than TDFM to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install Flash games on their phones ( ) Armies of worm riddled SMS-hacked cell phones ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of cell phones ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who use cell phones ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Facebook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical (X) Any scheme based on forced failures is unacceptable ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve phone fraud or credit card fraud (X) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending text messages should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your phone company? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time phone numbers are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government listening to my calls ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
If there's a fraudulent charge, I won't pay it. That's why I don't care. If someone steals my CC info via an RFID long-range reader, it doesn't matter. It's not my money, it's MasterCard's. It only becomes my money once I've paid my bill. I don't care if that charge is $0.25 or $25,000. If I didn't make it, I'm not paying it.
I liken my CC to my user account. I can use it all the time, go to any shady place and use it, no worries. My bank card, that's root, and I only use it at trusted locations and as infrequently as possible.
I've got one on my CC. It works great, I can just wave my wallet at the reader and I'm good to go. I don't have to touch the pen or pinpad that Typhoid Mary and Ebola Gary have been licking.
It's limited to $50 transactions.
The field is very short, approx 6".
It's my CC, so there's a buffer between it and my real money.
I'm an EE. An RF EE. They're fine. The machines aren't always set up to take them though, so it doesn't work everywhere.
You can be inarticulate and still be right. Those signs with the Tea Party protester that read "Descent is the greatest form of patriotic!" were, although poorly worded, extremely insightful and show a greater understanding of how the political system is supposed to work than the last president you had and the current prime minister we have. (In Canada, we have a "Shadow Government" that critiques what the government is doing.)
To dismiss what someone is saying because they aren't phrasing it like a dissertation does a disservice to both universal suffrage and the English language.
Move to the Pacific Northwest. That's what my wife and I did.
If you don't have a "all infrastructure will be down for the next 6 months" emergency plan and live in the PNW, it's going to really suck when something bad happens. Just hope that it's not in your lifetime.
Actually, that's what most people have as their plan. We've got a month worth of food and water, cold weather gear, etc.
>>>industry seems to think that $300+ per month is a reasonable price for a cable/satellite connection that has "all" the channels
Aren't you exaggerating a bit? Comcast charges around $100 and Dish just $50 for hundreds of digital channels.
No, he's not.
Shaw cable up here in Canada encrypts their channels. It's $150 a month plus equipment rental, which is required by the service and flaky as fuck to boot. If you want to get decent HD selection (let's go out on a limb and say HBO HD), you're looking at at least $225 with taxes.
The fact is, it's cheaper, easier, and more reliable for me to just rent my entertainment. Nothing down, nothing a month.
Nope, it is densest at 4C. I know this from spending my summers swimming in 4C water. The thermoclines set up, you get a bottom of near-freezing water, and the visibility is spectacular.
So you're saying that the armadillos have a better plan than you guys do? 0_o
As a scuba-diving Canuck, I look forward to trading in my 100#*, 7mm crushed neoprene drysuit for a rashguard. Also, the "wrecks" of old houses should be spectacular.
My house is 44m above current sea level.
*Okay, that's with the weights required to compensate for its buoyancy.
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"... okay, roll a d20."
And there's nothing wrong with saying, "I wasn't expecting that, let's take a five minute break while I puzzle it out."
That's Rule 0, but we did come up with some weird builds where the character was unkillable, like the Warforged Fighter / Barbarian / Juggernaut / Frenzied Berzerker build with some of the BoHM feats.
I really enjoyed playing my Whisper Gnome Beguiler / CG Paladin build, but the DM moved to a different city.
All right, here goes:
First, the highest law in Canada is the Constitution. We have our own, it's a little different than yours.
A close second is the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC). To get there, you'd have to have a court case in your provincial Supreme Court, then appeal that to the Appeal Court of your province, and then up to the Supreme Court of Canada. What the SCC says goes, and it's binding on the country basically forever.
Parliament can pass laws, but they have to be brought in three times, with a quick stint through the Senate in between each "reading". After the third reading, the Governor General (Her majesty's representative in Canada) gives Royal Assent. This is basically 100% guaranteed, the GG will not refuse to pass a law that's been passed by Parliament and the Senate. It COULD happen, in theory, but it's got less chance than all the man pages in Linux being done by lunchtime tomorrow by volunteers from Microsoft.
So, that's how we get new laws in Canada. Laws that are against the Constitution get picked up by court cases and then eventually end up in the SCC. One famous case is Insite, which allows safe drug use in provincially-run clinics and may be one of the most important court cases in Canadian History. Anyway, the SCC will decide whether a law passed by Parliament is valid under Canadian Law. Remember what I said about the Constitution? You can't violate it, The End. That includes our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is really close to your Bill of Rights but with less ammo and more privacy.
Now, the government has just passed an updated Copyright Act, which the SCC went over and changed to be a little more suitable with Canada's higher laws. That's what the two links in the article detail, so I won't go into them again. The thing is that Parliament won't open it up again, as far as Canada's concerned it's a done deal.
I was always disappointed that JLP even had to order the tea. The computer should always be ready to beam a hot cup of tea to his desk or hand.
First, my post was a joke, so lighten up Francis.
One of the jobs I applied for years ago was Engineer for the Ambulance Service. It required you to be on call 24/7, since when 911 went down you'd have to stop whatever you were doing and go fix it.
Is it really that big a problem to have the buzz of a vibrating cell phone go off in the same room as you? Believe it or not, you're not the only PC in your own private universe. Other people have emergencies.
Cell phone users will still play their games. They'll still try to connect.
As for your Faraday cage / rebar thing, you clearly haven't ever seen cement construction, nor do you know how a Faraday cage works. Read up. Eh, on both, I think.
Hey now, "Ribbon" was awesome, it was one of the best pieces of protective gear you could get in Final Fantasy
It pretty much knows what you are doing. You just need to choose
"change tea settings"
FTFY
The GP's name is "FloydMan". I'm assuming that he's a dude.
Admittedly, I've been shaving since 2004, but... uh... not that closely.
Did you wake up with your penis still attached to your body?
Your post advocates a
(X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (X) vigilante
approach to fighting cell phones. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(X) Emergency calls and other legitimate cell uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop callers for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users of cell phones will not put up with it
(X) Motorola will not put up with it
(X) The police will not put up with it
(X) Requires too much cooperation from cell phone users
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many cell users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Profit-minded mentality of wireless carriers
(X) RF uses beyond cell phones
(X) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing infrastucture investment in cell technology
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than TDFM to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install Flash games on their phones
( ) Armies of worm riddled SMS-hacked cell phones
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of cell phones
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who use cell phones
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Facebook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
(X) Any scheme based on forced failures is unacceptable
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve phone fraud or credit card fraud
(X) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending text messages should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your phone company?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time phone numbers are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government listening to my calls
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
I have a mortgage, a job with a security clearance, no cell phone, and all my utilities are already hooked up.
If there's a fraudulent charge, I won't pay it. That's why I don't care. If someone steals my CC info via an RFID long-range reader, it doesn't matter. It's not my money, it's MasterCard's. It only becomes my money once I've paid my bill. I don't care if that charge is $0.25 or $25,000. If I didn't make it, I'm not paying it.
I liken my CC to my user account. I can use it all the time, go to any shady place and use it, no worries. My bank card, that's root, and I only use it at trusted locations and as infrequently as possible.
I've got one on my CC. It works great, I can just wave my wallet at the reader and I'm good to go. I don't have to touch the pen or pinpad that Typhoid Mary and Ebola Gary have been licking.
It's limited to $50 transactions.
The field is very short, approx 6".
It's my CC, so there's a buffer between it and my real money.
I'm an EE. An RF EE. They're fine. The machines aren't always set up to take them though, so it doesn't work everywhere.
You can be inarticulate and still be right. Those signs with the Tea Party protester that read "Descent is the greatest form of patriotic!" were, although poorly worded, extremely insightful and show a greater understanding of how the political system is supposed to work than the last president you had and the current prime minister we have. (In Canada, we have a "Shadow Government" that critiques what the government is doing.)
To dismiss what someone is saying because they aren't phrasing it like a dissertation does a disservice to both universal suffrage and the English language.
How do you think *I* feel?
I'm of Scottish Ancestry.
You have 30 videos in your ATM queue?
That's oddly specific. Do you have a job, or do they not care if you take long bathroom breaks?
No human anyway, but I'm sure some kind of ant would wonder what kind of creature managed to make it to the moon without an exoskeleton.
Holy crap, I've never seen humidity below 65% any time of the year. In the winter I run two DEhumidifiers full time to keep my house at 75%.
(Canada, what you'd call the PNW region.)
Move to the Pacific Northwest. That's what my wife and I did.
If you don't have a "all infrastructure will be down for the next 6 months" emergency plan and live in the PNW, it's going to really suck when something bad happens. Just hope that it's not in your lifetime.
Actually, that's what most people have as their plan. We've got a month worth of food and water, cold weather gear, etc.
That's your intro rate for the first 6 months, is it not?
I'm on the West Coast. It's Shaw or Telus, no resellers.
>>>industry seems to think that $300+ per month is a reasonable price for a cable/satellite connection that has "all" the channels
Aren't you exaggerating a bit? Comcast charges around $100 and Dish just $50 for hundreds of digital channels.
No, he's not.
Shaw cable up here in Canada encrypts their channels. It's $150 a month plus equipment rental, which is required by the service and flaky as fuck to boot. If you want to get decent HD selection (let's go out on a limb and say HBO HD), you're looking at at least $225 with taxes.
The fact is, it's cheaper, easier, and more reliable for me to just rent my entertainment. Nothing down, nothing a month.
Nope, it is densest at 4C. I know this from spending my summers swimming in 4C water. The thermoclines set up, you get a bottom of near-freezing water, and the visibility is spectacular.
So you're saying that the armadillos have a better plan than you guys do? 0_o
As a scuba-diving Canuck, I look forward to trading in my 100#*, 7mm crushed neoprene drysuit for a rashguard. Also, the "wrecks" of old houses should be spectacular.
My house is 44m above current sea level.
*Okay, that's with the weights required to compensate for its buoyancy.
They've also got to have an excuse for all the police forces in the US to have paramilitary gear.
"DrugS!!!"
... with your balls literally on the line, do you really want to test out that theory? ;)
I've had a vasectomy, so I don't particularly care about "sterility" as a side effect.