Why is that relevant? What are they going to do, recharge their battery powered Humvees?
No, they are going to have U.S. soldiers doing guard duty at the reactor. Duh. Just like we do guard duty in Serbia, Sinai, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and all kinds of other places, including everywhere we have an embassy.
Who would you rather have guarding it? The French? Someone made a joke in another thread about two drunk Germans taking over the reactor...
What, with their obvious tectonic stability, vast distance from any faults and subduction zones, and lack of volcanic activity, they are the perfect choice for building a big, expensive, multinational fusion reactor.
Personally, my preferred choice would be Canada, somewhere on the Canadian Shield.
To quote the wise sages of the Quake 3 voiceover...
HUMILIATION!
I figured what Microsoft was thinking was more like one the one that came with one of the newer point releases:
HOLY SHIT!
(It happens when you get gibbed when you are really close to capturing the flag. I about fell out of my chair the first time my machine spouted out "HOLY SHIT!" when playing Q3. I had the volume way up, too.)
Emergencies do not necessarily mean there is a power outage.
Suppose the phones go down. This happened in an area where I was living when someone cut the sole long distance line in the region. Hospitals could not communicate, and family members could not check on the status of their loved ones. Hams like me carried the messages.
Emergency to a ham doesn't necessarily mean disaster, it means any situation where the normal lines of communications are disrupted.
Examples of times where Hams are used for communications even when the phone lines are up, and the power is up:
- Coordinating evacuations (fire, etc). You coordinate the evacuation of thousands with the phone system or the internet... let me know how it goes.
- Car accident in the middle of nowhere.
- Search and rescue efforts. Clicking and talking on a multi-access channel works a lot better than cell phones.
There are also communities where it is a primary method of communication. There is a place called Three Rivers here in Oregon, near Lake Billy Chinook. They do not have power, they do not have phones, matter of fact, they don't have any public utilities. There's several hundred homes, each with solar and wind power, and wells or trucked water. Some cellphone coverage is available, but not much. *Everyone* has a CB or ham radio.
Its debatable if he even lied, and even if he did lie, its not necessarily purgery. He said he "did not have sexual relations" with Monica.
sexual relations==euphamism for intercourse oral sex!=intercourse
Bullshit. I've got a Webster's Dictionary sitting in front of me that was published before the Clinton administration.
sexual relations, 1. sexual intercourse; coitus. 2. any sexual activity between individuals. [1945-50]
You can't tell me that oral sex does not fall into number 2 there. Hence the word "sex" in the phrase.
So, at least in that statement, he wasn't lying. Splitting hairs yes, lying no.
Yes, he was, per my point above.
But even if he did lie under oath, its not purgery if its not relevant. As his getting a BJ from Monica didn't have anything to do with the supposed harrasment against Paula Jones, it wasn't relevant.
Go watch a a few trials sometime. It was absolutely relevent. It establishes a pattern of behavior where a powerful person is requesting (and sometimes getting) sexual favors from someone who is a lot less powerful.
We just had a case locally where a cop was getting BJs in return for not issuing tickets. (Again, power over powerless). Turns out there were over a dozen different women before one finally turned him in. I see very little difference between that and what Clinton was doing. It is not ethical to solicit sexual anything from someone in that relative position from you. Period.
How many women did Clinton really take advantage of using his positions as Governor and then President?
They do have a private life, you know. It is not our concern who they sleep with, eat with, talk to in their personal time. It is not because they hold a public office, they don't have a right to privacy. Everything that doesn't influence the execution of their mandate is not our concern, and should remain private. Public life != Big Brother
I think that's exactly the point the parent post was trying to make.
In other words, if politicians wouldn't want it, the people probably dont want it either.
A private citizen's life should remain private as well, and all talk of putting RFIDs on every single thing, including people, should be put to rest.
If you want a used, older, manual-focus camera, the Canon T70 might be one to consider.
I've got one, it takes FL and FD lenses that are relatively cheap. I got an 80-200 zoom in perfect condition for $25.
My only gripe about the T70 is that it has no depth-of-field preview, and no aperture-priority mode, but if you understand photography, this shouldn't be a problem for you. If you plan on leaving it in the automatic mode or shutter priority modes, also not a problem.
Its big brother, the T90, is also a good camera, but not very cheap to be had.
As an alternative, you can donate your left testicle and firstborn child as part of the payment. And you will still need to filthy rich to buy one, I'm sure.
First of all, there are legitimate uses of ball bearings. It's pretty obvious what they're used for. You choose a very poor example to make your point.
There are also legitimate uses for universal garage door openers. Or do you deny this?
Also, there is no monopoly on garage door openers or garage door openers or their remotes. If a company wishes to stop third-party remotes from opening their garage door openers, then that is there right.
It is their right, yes, but not by applying law that deals with copyrights to something that should be covered by trade secret or patent.
Or, please explain how some copyrighted material was accessed? (Even then, see below for the interoperability exemption.)
If they want to stop third party remotes from being made, perhaps they should make their signalling system a bit more secure?
It also wouldn't take too much effort to build an opener if you really wanted to break into someone's garage. Someone parked on the street with a frequency counter can get the frequency for that garage door opener, and then it is a simple matter of recording the signal and reproducing it.
You aren't going to stop it by making legitimate devices illegal.
Should universal TV/stereo/etc. remotes be made illegal? Using your logic, they should. Someone could turn my TV on by pointing one through a window and cost me money when the power bill comes.
Also, there is no interoperability at issue here. That is simply not correct. I think you misunderstand what it means. The classic example of this is Compaq reverse engineering IBM's BIOS for the purpose of allowing software that runs on IBM machines to run on Compaq machines. Interoperability does not apply here, however. The two situations are not similar at all.
Sure there is. It is legal to make devices that are interoperable with other manufacturer's products. The DMCA even specifically allows it with regard to reverse-engineering copy control methods to provide interoperability. Though the DMCA still shouldn't apply here.
There is no word as viruses. The medical word virus is taken from latin where it comparable to pestilence (they really didn't know what a virus was 2 millenia ago, did they?) As such, the plural of virus is virus, just as we don't have pestilences.
Actually, it's more comparable to the word "poison," and we do have "poisons."
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Why is that relevant? What are they going to do, recharge their battery powered Humvees?
No, they are going to have U.S. soldiers doing guard duty at the reactor. Duh. Just like we do guard duty in Serbia, Sinai, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and all kinds of other places, including everywhere we have an embassy.
Who would you rather have guarding it? The French? Someone made a joke in another thread about two drunk Germans taking over the reactor...
I think this is a *test* reactor, not one meant to be put into actual large-scale operation.
Much like the *test* reactor near Atomic City, Idaho... it only powered Atomic City, not half of Idaho.
Seriously, would you want the first one built to be the one powering your country?
What, with their obvious tectonic stability, vast distance from any faults and subduction zones, and lack of volcanic activity, they are the perfect choice for building a big, expensive, multinational fusion reactor.
Personally, my preferred choice would be Canada, somewhere on the Canadian Shield.
To quote the wise sages of the Quake 3 voiceover...
HUMILIATION!
I figured what Microsoft was thinking was more like one the one that came with one of the newer point releases:
HOLY SHIT!
(It happens when you get gibbed when you are really close to capturing the flag. I about fell out of my chair the first time my machine spouted out "HOLY SHIT!" when playing Q3. I had the volume way up, too.)
Humiliation probably set in a little later...
Google caches for the MovieMistakes.com stuff:
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Sorry, Return of the King isn't cached yet...
Only six comments on this article, and it's already gone.
Sigh...
Emergencies do not necessarily mean there is a power outage.
Suppose the phones go down. This happened in an area where I was living when someone cut the sole long distance line in the region. Hospitals could not communicate, and family members could not check on the status of their loved ones. Hams like me carried the messages.
Emergency to a ham doesn't necessarily mean disaster, it means any situation where the normal lines of communications are disrupted.
Examples of times where Hams are used for communications even when the phone lines are up, and the power is up:
- Coordinating evacuations (fire, etc). You coordinate the evacuation of thousands with the phone system or the internet... let me know how it goes.
- Car accident in the middle of nowhere.
- Search and rescue efforts. Clicking and talking on a multi-access channel works a lot better than cell phones.
There are also communities where it is a primary method of communication. There is a place called Three Rivers here in Oregon, near Lake Billy Chinook. They do not have power, they do not have phones, matter of fact, they don't have any public utilities. There's several hundred homes, each with solar and wind power, and wells or trucked water. Some cellphone coverage is available, but not much. *Everyone* has a CB or ham radio.
On second though, college doesn't really leave me time to play games.
And I can honestly say that the single "feature" that is missing that I would most strongly desire is the ability to plug in more RAM into the sucker.
I want to run java apps on a pocket calculator, not just be restricted to their idiotic perception of "BASIC".
Yeah, it needs more memory, but you can still run the Waba Virtual Machine (which can run some java applets).
Of course, gcc cross-compiling to the TI-89/92 has been happening for a long time.
Anyways, this sort of thing bypasses TI's restrictions on what assembly programs can do.
So does the TICT exepack system and program starters like Super Start, without losing the "calculator" part of the calculator.
If you install it, the calculator no longer does math.
Kinda defeats the purpose of having a calculator, no?
Now if someone ported the yacas engine to it, and made it similar to the original interface, that would be something!
I'm not going to put an alternative OS on my calculator that just plays games, when I can have a gameboy advance for $100 and get color too!
sexual relations==euphamism for intercourse
oral sex!=intercourse
Bullshit. I've got a Webster's Dictionary sitting in front of me that was published before the Clinton administration.
You can't tell me that oral sex does not fall into number 2 there. Hence the word "sex" in the phrase.
So, at least in that statement, he wasn't lying. Splitting hairs yes, lying no.
Yes, he was, per my point above.
But even if he did lie under oath, its not purgery if its not relevant. As his getting a BJ from Monica didn't have anything to do with the supposed harrasment against Paula Jones, it wasn't relevant.
Go watch a a few trials sometime. It was absolutely relevent. It establishes a pattern of behavior where a powerful person is requesting (and sometimes getting) sexual favors from someone who is a lot less powerful.
We just had a case locally where a cop was getting BJs in return for not issuing tickets. (Again, power over powerless). Turns out there were over a dozen different women before one finally turned him in. I see very little difference between that and what Clinton was doing. It is not ethical to solicit sexual anything from someone in that relative position from you. Period.
How many women did Clinton really take advantage of using his positions as Governor and then President?
They do have a private life, you know.
It is not our concern who they sleep with, eat with, talk to in their personal time.
It is not because they hold a public office, they don't have a right to privacy.
Everything that doesn't influence the execution of their mandate is not our concern, and should remain private.
Public life != Big Brother
I think that's exactly the point the parent post was trying to make.
In other words, if politicians wouldn't want it, the people probably dont want it either.
A private citizen's life should remain private as well, and all talk of putting RFIDs on every single thing, including people, should be put to rest.
In Germany, at least, people can be sure not to be held prisoner without evidence.
Funny... 60-ish years ago Germany had a small problem with that.
Oh wait... they just shot people on the street corners. My mistake.
There were six deaths and 1400 injuries in the original WTC bombing in 1993...
Wow... someone else on Slashdot who hasn't forgotten history from just ten years ago.
I thought I was the only one.
If you want a used, older, manual-focus camera, the Canon T70 might be one to consider.
I've got one, it takes FL and FD lenses that are relatively cheap. I got an 80-200 zoom in perfect condition for $25.
My only gripe about the T70 is that it has no depth-of-field preview, and no aperture-priority mode, but if you understand photography, this shouldn't be a problem for you. If you plan on leaving it in the automatic mode or shutter priority modes, also not a problem.
Its big brother, the T90, is also a good camera, but not very cheap to be had.
In the U.S., the legal age of consent varies between 14 and 18, depending on what state you are in.
In Oregon, it's 18, but it is an affirmative defense if the age difference between the two people involved was less than 3 years.
As an alternative, you can donate your left testicle and firstborn child as part of the payment. And you will still need to filthy rich to buy one, I'm sure.
Anyone know if they've done any work on the issues with BPL and interference on the HF bands?
I, for one, do not welcome the interference from BPL in the HF bands.
Getting caught with your pants down while driving the wrong way on a one-way street just isn't just a bad idea, it's against the law.
He is talking about the symptoms of a greater problem. I can throw 2 video cards into windows 2000 and they just.... work.
You must not use Windows, if you think it's that easy.
Would you name the cards you tried, what driver you used, etc?
First of all, there are legitimate uses of ball bearings. It's pretty obvious what they're used for. You choose a very poor example to make your point.
There are also legitimate uses for universal garage door openers. Or do you deny this?
Also, there is no monopoly on garage door openers or garage door openers or their remotes. If a company wishes to stop third-party remotes from opening their garage door openers, then that is there right.
It is their right, yes, but not by applying law that deals with copyrights to something that should be covered by trade secret or patent.
Or, please explain how some copyrighted material was accessed? (Even then, see below for the interoperability exemption.)
If they want to stop third party remotes from being made, perhaps they should make their signalling system a bit more secure?
It also wouldn't take too much effort to build an opener if you really wanted to break into someone's garage. Someone parked on the street with a frequency counter can get the frequency for that garage door opener, and then it is a simple matter of recording the signal and reproducing it.
You aren't going to stop it by making legitimate devices illegal.
Should universal TV/stereo/etc. remotes be made illegal? Using your logic, they should. Someone could turn my TV on by pointing one through a window and cost me money when the power bill comes.
Also, there is no interoperability at issue here. That is simply not correct. I think you misunderstand what it means. The classic example of this is Compaq reverse engineering IBM's BIOS for the purpose of allowing software that runs on IBM machines to run on Compaq machines. Interoperability does not apply here, however. The two situations are not similar at all.
Sure there is. It is legal to make devices that are interoperable with other manufacturer's products. The DMCA even specifically allows it with regard to reverse-engineering copy control methods to provide interoperability. Though the DMCA still shouldn't apply here.
Mods, do your job and mod this troll down.
I think you are referring to your own post.
If you were a true LotR fan, you would not have misspelled Gollum and Isildur.
There is no word as viruses.
The medical word virus is taken from latin where it comparable to pestilence (they really didn't know what a virus was 2 millenia ago, did they?) As such, the plural of virus is virus, just as we don't have pestilences.
Actually, it's more comparable to the word "poison," and we do have "poisons."
For your viewing pleasure:
This one a month earlier:
(Yes, I deleted e-mail addresses to protect the guilty, but hey, it's principles.)
Another interesting note: The first time I tried to submit this: Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
So, at least we know he's lame.