that's not the reason forms are filled in in uppercase. It's to remove ambiguity in casing when it comes to identifying individuals from documents - you could claim that McCleary and Mccleary are two different people (they're both acceptable variants of the same thing), but when all other details are relevant for two people you can safely make the assumption that the two variants in fact describe the same individual. But still, the argument would be made on the basis of using the wrong camel case! Uppercasing everything removes that avenue and maintains consistency in form data.
Also, and just as importantly, U.C.C. 1-201(10) requires that important terms on official documents such as legal texts especially contracts are displayed PROMINENTLY. The easiest way to do this on any block of text is to PRINT IT IN UPPERCASE. This denotes specific meaning to individual words and strings within the document that are printed in uppercase (often with the help of a glossary of terms at the beginning or end of the document), to differentiate from those same words printed normally. It's the textual equivalent of Legalese.
that information is probably proprietery, all I can tell you is what I saw in a courtroom mounted on an easel: a map showing a tickmarked path with timestamps every few ticks and three marks which apparently indicated the location of the handset when calls were either initiated or answered. When asked by the judge where the trace came from, the prosecutor stated that it came from cell site data, connected to the accused's mobile phone.
CSD is very accurate. I've sat in on a case where it was used to retrace a person's precise movements to the second and to within three metres, using data that was six months old. It resulted in a conviction for arson reckless and attempted multiple murder.
Searches under PATRIOT don't require a warrant - until the end of December.
All a Fed has to do is whisper "suspected terrorist" into the air and he can then hold you in a six by eight room with two chairs and one small table with a steel bar across one side, with no warrant or charge, until you grow old and die.
bollocks. Actually, no. You are perfectly entitled to say what you want. I on the other hand, am perfectly entitled to kick you the fuck out of my house if I don't like what you have to say. Or my webserver.
'Freedom of speech' is an awesome and wonderful thing. But where do you draw the line?
It's simple: you don't. It's right there in the First Amendment: any speech is legal, as long as it isn't something along the lines of yelling "fire" in a theater.
How quaint. But there is one problem for you:
The First Amendment does not apply in MY house.
If it were MY webserver, it would be subject to the same rules as my living room. Period. Which means, if you don't like my rules (no drugs, no alcohol, no shooting at the windows with a BB gun), then you're perfectly entitled to FUCK OFF. The first priority for me is me. The second priority for me is commercial obligations (ie catering to advertisers who might like my rules which is why they CHOOSE to advertise with me). YOU are pretty fucking far down the list.
Dacron (a polyester-cotton mix) would be perfect, I think. A single strand of Terko Satin (an industrial brand I have a mile of in three ply twist, that I use for fishing mainline and netmaking for snares) has a breaking strain of 25kg and is the same thickness (and about the same weight) as 2kg nylon monofilament.
A little history: Dacron used to be the preferred alternative for fishing line as opposed silk or cotton (the former of which was not very waterproof unless soak-treated with beeswax, the latter vulnerable to rot), until the cheaper alternative (nylon) became available. That's the only reason nylon is used now: it's cheaper. I love dacron because it's WAY stronger and it doesn't stretch (nylon monofil has a stretch potential of something ridiculous like 15%).
uh... yes, it does. ANY radiated energy flux density decreases as an inverse function of the square of the observer's distance from the origin (visualised as a point source). Ergo, with a beam from a laser, the origin is actually far behind the actual source, so for example a laser beam of radius 1mm emanating from Earth (fired parallel to a telescope) to the Moon would be something like 60km wide by the time the reflected light returns to Earth. The simple reason for this is that like a choked shotgun, as soon as the beam leaves the "barrel" (the optical focussing system inside the laser) it (the light beam or the cloud of shot and expanding hot gas) begins to diverge. The breech for your laser is a few virtual km behind the source (the muzzle).
Shockingly enough, if instead of a laser you used a shotgun on half choke and had enough fast-enough-burning powder to actually reach the Moon, the shot would diverge enough to pass both sides without hitting.
in Britain the BPI and the PRS both act on behalf of the industry players. Neither of them actually own any IP yet they file copyright claims on behalf, thus violating common law in that only the victim of a crime OR the Crown (at the behest and following on from a police investigation) could file an information at a magistrate's court. Even in civil proceedings, nobody not directly involved in a case could file a claim. This is very well settled in case law (examples abound, BAILII is full of judges complaining about social workers and not police filing claims of child abuse, social workers DO NOT have investigatory powers under PACE, ergo notwithstanding the lack of forensic training, DO NOT have the AUTHORITY to file such claims).
by the way, it is NOT illegal to OWN jamming equipment in the UK. A 934MHz PMR is considered jamming equipment but since the band was co-opted for GSM mobile services way back when, it's been illegal to OPERATE IT. Notwithstanding the fact that the police RARELY pursue such usage since it is practically impossible for them to differentiate between a 934MHz rig pair and a GSM phone conversation. They would have to literally catch you in the act of keying with the radio's display clearly showing Tx in the 934MHz band.
search for PKI jammer, ESC Law Enforcement Supplies, the Homeland Security Act 2002, the fact that CELL PHONES COME WITH WARNINGS THAT THEY'RE NOT TO BE USED TO MAKE EMERGENCY CALLS, the Apple IMEI killswitch patent, the fact that TETRA (ERT radio systems) uses UHF rather than VHF hence is not vulnerable to commercially available jamming equipment, oh this is a pearler: the Metropolitan Police Service (a CIVILIAN agency) claims National Security considerations as an excuse to refuse to confirm that it is in fact using IMSI catchers and other equipment to interfere with OTA communications during times of what they would refer to as "civil unrest". This is the only link I'm giving you, search the rest yourself: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com... they're all over the fucking place.
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the power button on my laptop is the lid switch.
I drop the lid when the laptop's already powered down. When I lift it, it powers on.
Now I want to find a way of remapping that button for something else...
that's not the reason forms are filled in in uppercase. It's to remove ambiguity in casing when it comes to identifying individuals from documents - you could claim that McCleary and Mccleary are two different people (they're both acceptable variants of the same thing), but when all other details are relevant for two people you can safely make the assumption that the two variants in fact describe the same individual. But still, the argument would be made on the basis of using the wrong camel case! Uppercasing everything removes that avenue and maintains consistency in form data.
Also, and just as importantly, U.C.C. 1-201(10) requires that important terms on official documents such as legal texts especially contracts are displayed PROMINENTLY. The easiest way to do this on any block of text is to PRINT IT IN UPPERCASE. This denotes specific meaning to individual words and strings within the document that are printed in uppercase (often with the help of a glossary of terms at the beginning or end of the document), to differentiate from those same words printed normally. It's the textual equivalent of Legalese.
that information is probably proprietery, all I can tell you is what I saw in a courtroom mounted on an easel: a map showing a tickmarked path with timestamps every few ticks and three marks which apparently indicated the location of the handset when calls were either initiated or answered. When asked by the judge where the trace came from, the prosecutor stated that it came from cell site data, connected to the accused's mobile phone.
CSD is very accurate. I've sat in on a case where it was used to retrace a person's precise movements to the second and to within three metres, using data that was six months old. It resulted in a conviction for arson reckless and attempted multiple murder.
(R v Stafford)
From where do you draw the assumption (that I take serious offence to, by the way) that I'm American?
Searches under PATRIOT don't require a warrant - until the end of December.
All a Fed has to do is whisper "suspected terrorist" into the air and he can then hold you in a six by eight room with two chairs and one small table with a steel bar across one side, with no warrant or charge, until you grow old and die.
Yes, but what does the fox say?
rhymes with "vagina".
THIS.
You're in Reddit's living room. You insult the cat, they're gonna justifiably kick you the fuck out.
bollocks. Actually, no. You are perfectly entitled to say what you want. I on the other hand, am perfectly entitled to kick you the fuck out of my house if I don't like what you have to say. Or my webserver.
'Freedom of speech' is an awesome and wonderful thing. But where do you draw the line?
It's simple: you don't. It's right there in the First Amendment: any speech is legal, as long as it isn't something along the lines of yelling "fire" in a theater.
How quaint. But there is one problem for you:
The First Amendment does not apply in MY house.
If it were MY webserver, it would be subject to the same rules as my living room. Period. Which means, if you don't like my rules (no drugs, no alcohol, no shooting at the windows with a BB gun), then you're perfectly entitled to FUCK OFF. The first priority for me is me. The second priority for me is commercial obligations (ie catering to advertisers who might like my rules which is why they CHOOSE to advertise with me). YOU are pretty fucking far down the list.
Dacron (a polyester-cotton mix) would be perfect, I think. A single strand of Terko Satin (an industrial brand I have a mile of in three ply twist, that I use for fishing mainline and netmaking for snares) has a breaking strain of 25kg and is the same thickness (and about the same weight) as 2kg nylon monofilament.
A little history: Dacron used to be the preferred alternative for fishing line as opposed silk or cotton (the former of which was not very waterproof unless soak-treated with beeswax, the latter vulnerable to rot), until the cheaper alternative (nylon) became available. That's the only reason nylon is used now: it's cheaper. I love dacron because it's WAY stronger and it doesn't stretch (nylon monofil has a stretch potential of something ridiculous like 15%).
I thought what killed the Comet was the pissweak wing roots?
inverse square does apply to directional sources, the origin is behind the source is all.
uh... yes, it does. ANY radiated energy flux density decreases as an inverse function of the square of the observer's distance from the origin (visualised as a point source). Ergo, with a beam from a laser, the origin is actually far behind the actual source, so for example a laser beam of radius 1mm emanating from Earth (fired parallel to a telescope) to the Moon would be something like 60km wide by the time the reflected light returns to Earth. The simple reason for this is that like a choked shotgun, as soon as the beam leaves the "barrel" (the optical focussing system inside the laser) it (the light beam or the cloud of shot and expanding hot gas) begins to diverge. The breech for your laser is a few virtual km behind the source (the muzzle).
Shockingly enough, if instead of a laser you used a shotgun on half choke and had enough fast-enough-burning powder to actually reach the Moon, the shot would diverge enough to pass both sides without hitting.
they're still bitching abut Uber.
PS. Using all caps just makes me laugh. Yelling is a sure sign of a weak argument.
and calling out a stuck capslock key is a sure sign of an OCD freak with nothing to say.
so basically you're being alienated by your country of birth just so they can fuck it up some more by wedging a secret treaty in?
That's treason, dude. Simple as.
BTW, have you ever noticed that these TDNs and publicised copyright claims are always "the label" or "**AA" vs... and NEVER "The Band" vs...?
Makes you wonder who does actually own creative content rights...
in Britain the BPI and the PRS both act on behalf of the industry players. Neither of them actually own any IP yet they file copyright claims on behalf, thus violating common law in that only the victim of a crime OR the Crown (at the behest and following on from a police investigation) could file an information at a magistrate's court. Even in civil proceedings, nobody not directly involved in a case could file a claim. This is very well settled in case law (examples abound, BAILII is full of judges complaining about social workers and not police filing claims of child abuse, social workers DO NOT have investigatory powers under PACE, ergo notwithstanding the lack of forensic training, DO NOT have the AUTHORITY to file such claims).
the same way that Universal Pictures does.
by the way, it is NOT illegal to OWN jamming equipment in the UK. A 934MHz PMR is considered jamming equipment but since the band was co-opted for GSM mobile services way back when, it's been illegal to OPERATE IT. Notwithstanding the fact that the police RARELY pursue such usage since it is practically impossible for them to differentiate between a 934MHz rig pair and a GSM phone conversation. They would have to literally catch you in the act of keying with the radio's display clearly showing Tx in the 934MHz band.
search for PKI jammer, ESC Law Enforcement Supplies, the Homeland Security Act 2002, the fact that CELL PHONES COME WITH WARNINGS THAT THEY'RE NOT TO BE USED TO MAKE EMERGENCY CALLS, the Apple IMEI killswitch patent, the fact that TETRA (ERT radio systems) uses UHF rather than VHF hence is not vulnerable to commercially available jamming equipment, oh this is a pearler: the Metropolitan Police Service (a CIVILIAN agency) claims National Security considerations as an excuse to refuse to confirm that it is in fact using IMSI catchers and other equipment to interfere with OTA communications during times of what they would refer to as "civil unrest". This is the only link I'm giving you, search the rest yourself: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com... they're all over the fucking place.
I don't know if you Yanks get it, but yeah, I laughed until I squirted milk out my nose.
antihistamines??
I can buy loratidine over the counter - in fact my local supermarket has it next to the tampons and bandages.
a SMALL EMP pulse can be had by ramping an arc welder to the max and shorting it through a four inch bolt.