Actually, he does have a slashdot account. The link in the summary to his account is b0rked. Click on the links to his name in the replies - they work:-)
It hasn't been "amateur" for a long time. Almost all participants get subsidies from various organizations (like pros get paid), there's doping (same as pro sports), there's the "whoever has the most money to spend getting their teams up to par will be very competitive (same as the pro teams), there's allowing professional players to compete (for example, hockey allowing NHL, EHL, and KHL players to play).
I've been boycotting the olympics for decades. However, I will cop to watching the Canada-US semi-final and the Canada-Sweden final in hockey, and I never watch hockey, not even the playoffs. Those two games were intense, probably because of the teams were composed of professional players.
People still buy their dead-tree books from various sources. Also, there are books that are out of print, books that never had a major distribution and got remaindered and ground up for pig feed (doesn't mean they're not good - it could be bad marketing, poor distribution agreements, etc).
I actually like the idea. Think of it - you've got your collection of books sitting in your bookcases, but you're getting old, your eyes aren't what they used to be... being able to re-read a favorite book in an electronic format that you can enlarge the fonts is going to make a lot of people happy.
The pitch was that the company gets to know your taste in books, since you've taken a picture of your bookcase. How much do you think a bookseller (Amazon, for example) would pay to get that data? Another "People who bought this also bought..."
The "carved up pics" are because it's (ugh!) wordpress, with a fixed-width columnar display. Needs someone with some css knowledge, or a different cms. Not everyone can get everything perfect.
Yes, a bloody revolution is needed in England.
The SJW leftists need to be murdered. One murder for every "Anti social" order they've enforced.
There needs to be blood. They need to be culled.
So your solution to people who go way over the line in one direction is to go way over the line in another direction. How's that working for you so far?
They are riding high as they imprison their idealogical enemies.
do you want the neighbors to see footage of your topless wife yelling at you? given the current laws, it is not unlikely that some footage might constitute child porn.
If your wife is an under-age child, you have bigger problems.
Besides, you can see that stuff on Cops and Cops Reloaded all the time. People behaving like idiots even when there's a camera getting it all. And if you think it's just cops and citizens acting stupid, you need to watch some of those stupid shows (not too many - they'll cause brain damage) where people take lie detector tests and dna tests to prove who was cheating on who first, who's the father of their kids, etc. People act stupid on camera all the time - just search Youtube.
Study: Police Body-Cams Reduce Unacceptable Use of Force
Where has the "unacceptable" word come from, which is peppered throughout the article? Isn't it enough to simply report, without resorting to subjective qualifications such as this, that:
Data from the Rialto experiment shows police officers are deterred [...] from using force in general
Maybe because there are times when the police are justified in using force, and that's acceptable? Why not focus on the unacceptable stuff?
You mean Michael Brown? In what way was he blocking traffic? How much traffic was blocked? I've not heard the media actually reporting the details of the police allegations on that.
In any case, the statement was:
I want cops to stop people walking in the middle of the street and ask them wtf they're doing
That doesn't specify blocking traffic in any way, and even then my solution was to say "Hey, use the Sidewalk" though where I am, as I said, there's a lot of streets without sidewalks to use. So people walk in the middle of the street a lot.
So I wonder, what are the police going to do?
Walking in the middle of the street? Walk closer to the curb. Walk on the shoulder. Walk on the grass. Someone walking in the middle of the street is what I would expect drunks, people high on drugs, with alzheimers, or dangerously low blood sugar would do.
why did the officer shoot a man who was unarmed ane 150' away?
If the officer pulled that off with a hand gun at 150', he's probably the best shot with a handgun in the world. Sign him up for the next biathlon, where the distance to the target is 160' and he gets to use a rifle.
If you need to record her to change her behavior, your relationship is doomed. I wonder what she does when you aren't around.
The usual stuff. Spit in his food, starch his underwear, throw out / erase his pr0n, set up a dating profile for him under "men looking for men", drive the car until there's just enough gas left to get home and park, unplug his phone at night while it's charging and plug it back in just before he gets up, redecorate the house, bake chocolate exlax chip cookies, stop replacing the toilet paper when he uses the last of it, ball up his clothes so they get good and wrinkled before she puts them up, wash his favorite jeans in hot hot water so they shrink... you know, the usual stuff.:-)
Not all motorists are calmed when they see my camera, but it seems many are (for example, they'll ease off tailgating me and shadowing my blind spots).
You are on a bicycle. You have no blind spots.
That's ridiculous.
Just as when driving your blind spots are at 7 o'clock and 5 o'clock. And just as when driving, one compensates by turning one's head or using a mirror.
Not to mention that there's a lot of people riding bicycles because their vision is no longer good enough to drive a 1500kg at 50km/h, but is still serviceable for riding a 15kg bike at 15km/h. Not just visual acuity, but also degradation of peripheral vision, blind spots on the retina, maybe slower reaction times...
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Actually, he does have a slashdot account. The link in the summary to his account is b0rked. Click on the links to his name in the replies - they work :-)
It hasn't been "amateur" for a long time. Almost all participants get subsidies from various organizations (like pros get paid), there's doping (same as pro sports), there's the "whoever has the most money to spend getting their teams up to par will be very competitive (same as the pro teams), there's allowing professional players to compete (for example, hockey allowing NHL, EHL, and KHL players to play).
I've been boycotting the olympics for decades. However, I will cop to watching the Canada-US semi-final and the Canada-Sweden final in hockey, and I never watch hockey, not even the playoffs. Those two games were intense, probably because of the teams were composed of professional players.
Hey, you're a Hudson. Weird things happen to Hudsons :-)
People still buy their dead-tree books from various sources. Also, there are books that are out of print, books that never had a major distribution and got remaindered and ground up for pig feed (doesn't mean they're not good - it could be bad marketing, poor distribution agreements, etc).
I actually like the idea. Think of it - you've got your collection of books sitting in your bookcases, but you're getting old, your eyes aren't what they used to be ... being able to re-read a favorite book in an electronic format that you can enlarge the fonts is going to make a lot of people happy.
Try the link in the article. Between you and I, you exist, but who are we to argue with sanzempus?
The pitch was that the company gets to know your taste in books, since you've taken a picture of your bookcase. How much do you think a bookseller (Amazon, for example) would pay to get that data? Another "People who bought this also bought ..."
The user you requested does not exist, no matter how much you wish this might be the case.
Maybe a new, less obvious Nerval's Lobster?
Hate to reply to myself, but the summary is wrong (so what else is new ...) 32 gig and 64 gig models.
Only 3 gig of ram? Is this 2010?
The "carved up pics" are because it's (ugh!) wordpress, with a fixed-width columnar display. Needs someone with some css knowledge, or a different cms. Not everyone can get everything perfect.
How is a bunch of speculation a news story? Is this Foxdot?
They are riding high as they imprison their idealogical enemies.
[citation needed].
Here's a good start: http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/12/24/1821208/uk-man-arrested-over-offensive-tweet
He's not in prison.
Yes, a bloody revolution is needed in England. The SJW leftists need to be murdered. One murder for every "Anti social" order they've enforced.
There needs to be blood. They need to be culled.
So your solution to people who go way over the line in one direction is to go way over the line in another direction. How's that working for you so far?
They are riding high as they imprison their idealogical enemies.
[citation needed].
Your situation isn't the same as the shooting. There were sidewalks, and he wasn't using them, as required by law (jaywalking),
The UK is really reigning in on the content of speech.
It's "reining in", like the reins of a horse..
Not "reigning in", and not "raining in" either.
What next - they're - there - their?
Was the tweet offensive? Yes.
Did it warrant an arrest? If it did, then every late-night TV host and stand-up comic would be in jail.
do you want the neighbors to see footage of your topless wife yelling at you? given the current laws, it is not unlikely that some footage might constitute child porn.
If your wife is an under-age child, you have bigger problems.
Besides, you can see that stuff on Cops and Cops Reloaded all the time. People behaving like idiots even when there's a camera getting it all. And if you think it's just cops and citizens acting stupid, you need to watch some of those stupid shows (not too many - they'll cause brain damage) where people take lie detector tests and dna tests to prove who was cheating on who first, who's the father of their kids, etc. People act stupid on camera all the time - just search Youtube.
Study: Police Body-Cams Reduce Unacceptable Use of Force
Where has the "unacceptable" word come from, which is peppered throughout the article? Isn't it enough to simply report, without resorting to subjective qualifications such as this, that:
Data from the Rialto experiment shows police officers are deterred [...] from using force in general
Maybe because there are times when the police are justified in using force, and that's acceptable? Why not focus on the unacceptable stuff?
Yes. Cops behave within the limits of the law when they're watched and many can't be trusted when they're NOT watched.
People behave within the limits of the law when they're watched and many can't be trusted when they're NOT watched.
You mean Michael Brown? In what way was he blocking traffic? How much traffic was blocked? I've not heard the media actually reporting the details of the police allegations on that.
In any case, the statement was:
I want cops to stop people walking in the middle of the street and ask them wtf they're doing
That doesn't specify blocking traffic in any way, and even then my solution was to say "Hey, use the Sidewalk" though where I am, as I said, there's a lot of streets without sidewalks to use. So people walk in the middle of the street a lot.
So I wonder, what are the police going to do?
Walking in the middle of the street? Walk closer to the curb. Walk on the shoulder. Walk on the grass. Someone walking in the middle of the street is what I would expect drunks, people high on drugs, with alzheimers, or dangerously low blood sugar would do.
Maybe we should all wear body cams? No more "he said, she said", the level of domestic violence and child abuse might drop, etc. Just saying.
why did the officer shoot a man who was unarmed ane 150' away?
If the officer pulled that off with a hand gun at 150', he's probably the best shot with a handgun in the world. Sign him up for the next biathlon, where the distance to the target is 160' and he gets to use a rifle.
If you need to record her to change her behavior, your relationship is doomed. I wonder what she does when you aren't around.
The usual stuff. Spit in his food, starch his underwear, throw out / erase his pr0n, set up a dating profile for him under "men looking for men", drive the car until there's just enough gas left to get home and park, unplug his phone at night while it's charging and plug it back in just before he gets up, redecorate the house, bake chocolate exlax chip cookies, stop replacing the toilet paper when he uses the last of it, ball up his clothes so they get good and wrinkled before she puts them up, wash his favorite jeans in hot hot water so they shrink ... you know, the usual stuff. :-)
Not all motorists are calmed when they see my camera, but it seems many are (for example, they'll ease off tailgating me and shadowing my blind spots).
You are on a bicycle. You have no blind spots.
That's ridiculous.
Just as when driving your blind spots are at 7 o'clock and 5 o'clock. And just as when driving, one compensates by turning one's head or using a mirror.
Not to mention that there's a lot of people riding bicycles because their vision is no longer good enough to drive a 1500kg at 50km/h, but is still serviceable for riding a 15kg bike at 15km/h. Not just visual acuity, but also degradation of peripheral vision, blind spots on the retina, maybe slower reaction times ...