Within minutes of Friday's shootings, police were using the system to track the suspected getaway car.
But how can this be? All guns were confiscated in England, and what with the "free" healthcare, high taxes to ensure a civilized society, mandatory BBC to make you "THINK RIGHT", blah blah blah, surely a shooting of a cop cannot happen!
Stanley Kubrick made A Clockwork Orange as warning to society, he was just 25 years too early. In any case, I can change a license plate in the England with just a strip of black vinyl tape.
Yes, yes, mode me down as a flambe troll for shouting out the bleeding obvious, I really don't give a fuck.
On the bright side, double jeapordy was eliminated in England, so these "suspects" can be tried over and over again till they are convicted.
And so can YOU!
Wheee!
And then again, if the English cared about cops, they would give them all guns so they would have a chance to defend themselves, instead of being slaughtered in the streets by thugs entiteled to legal aid.
The enclosure doesn't have to be air tight. But the gaps or holes in the foil need to be smaller then the wavelength your trying to attenuate. This is why RF "screen rooms" can use copper screen instead of solid copper and still be effective to up around 3 GHz.
It has to be significantly less, and the smaller the slot the more effective it is.
I want the 4 minutes spent reading the article back.
A breathless journalist discovers that putting a product thru manufacturing requires coordination of lots of small parts, from many different vendors and countries. Journalist also learns that a screw-up in any of these parts will cause a PROBLEM!
Here is a newsflash for Journalists: The
xbox is trivial to manufacture compared to other products. Go tour a plant making large Xerox machines, or a Toyota factory, if you want to see something which actually has a challange to it.
This article seems more like an ad for what is in reality a small, cheap, and disposable PC with some ductwork in it, a technology that was used on mainframes 20 years ago. This smells like an attempt to make people believe in "genius which is xbox"
I think there should be a new rule for journalists (and for school teachers as well): You are not allowed to write/teach about something technical (math, science, engineering) until you have spent time doing it professionaly. No more "how they build the widget"
articles unless you are a manufacturing engineer with factory experience. Cut down of some of this fluff.
2) NO transmission repair costs, it uses constant mesh planetary gears instead
I have Toyotas out in the back pasture that have been retired at 264000 miles due to rust. I have never seen a transmission failure/problem in a Toyota car
3) minimized eng wear because the electric motor handles high torque demands
Motor ( a 4AFE ) was still running when car was retired due to rust. Only weak spot on these cars is deposits on the valve stems which make the valves stick open. I just pull the heads, beadblast the valves and heads, have the seats cut and the valves ground, reassemble, total cost in parts is $80 to cut the seats and the valves, about $30 for head gasket and sundries.
4) minimized eng wear because the engine is spun up BEFORE any cylinder ignition
See Above!
5) minimized eng wear because the engine fires 2 cyl and then the other 2 on start
Huh?
6) The engine was designed lighter because of the shared load so bearing wear is reduced
This is just not an issue if you keep the oil changed. The engine will outlast the rest of the car.
7) minimized eng and exhaust system wear because of first 5 minute warmup cycle
Exhaust wear will be worse, because of the multiple heating and cooling cycle. An exhaust system kept hot 100% of the time will last longest because the most destructive corrosion does not occur at elevated temperature.
To sum up: The prius will not save you money on repair just because it is a hybrid. Anyone who can assemble a PC can change the brake pads by following the instructions in the Toyota service manual which is available by calling Toyota MDC
No, you are completely wrong. People are not "told" where to live. Those buildings are owned by the gouvernment, but they are rented for a very cheap price to families who would not be able to afford to rent a place otherwise. Many people chose and applied for going to those buildings in the 60's. With the 70's/80's immigration waves, those rental places were still rented to the ones who could not afford lodging otherwise, that is, the immigrants.
So, in your own words, these people have no choice. They are told where to live. Those who have a choice, live elsewhere.
What you think is scary in many ways and shows that all you know about the situation comes from CNN and Fox news where the reality is VERY distorted. Fox news is so shockingly out of context that it definitely is anti-french propaganda rather than "news".
I have not watched CNN or Fox for about 10 years now. My knowledge of the situation comes from working in France, and interacting with French Arabs, and also from working in Black Africa. Too bad an alternate point of view "scares" you. Boo hoo.
Oh, and a last thing: you mix up african and north-african (arabic) culture. The vast majority of post-immigrants are from an arabic culture, and are not africans. So, you really have no idea what you are talking about and thus, I suggest you just shut up.
No, you are aparently unable to realize that both Black africans and North africans (Arabs) are involved in the rioting. Africa has more than just two cultures by the way, the Arabs and the Blacks each have many, many different customs based on individual tribal traditions. Your simplistic lumping into two heaps is amusing.
The non-sense on american television spreads on slashdot as usual. People, put your nose out and go visit your neighbours. Thank you.
Does anyone get their news from TV these days? How primitive. I've visited my neighbours in Africa, in France, and in America. Have you?
You take no issue with my original points about the nanny-state, lack of jobs, and Elitist racism. There may be hope for you yet.
The French state owns 30% of all housing. These people are dependents of the French state. They live where they are told.
That's not the cause of the trouble, however.
An all-pervasive nanny state which results in huge unemployment and no hope for advancement, A French elite mentality that Africans are sub-human, and endless dicking around with muliticultiralism which has allowed the formation of an African state within France, have given the results seen for the last two weeks.
Look at an SUV today: 4 doors and a tailgate/hatchback.
Now look at those station wagon images I linked..
Only diff
is that the station wagon is 3 feet (1 meter) lower and will not roll over at the drop
of a hat.
SUVs are a seperate mileage catagory from cars,
and by moving the "station-wagon" product from the car
catagory to the truck catagory, automobile makers managed
to provide what people wanted to buy and avoid that pesky
mileage/safety regulation.
It's a classic case of unintended
consequences of regulation: A regular station wagon
could be less heavy, more fuel efficient, and less likely
to roll over than its replacement, the SUV. The station wagon
is dead, thanks to CAFE regulation. The SUV has sprung up
to replace it, since it is a "truck" and exempt.
it's probably safe to say that the British police are not above the law.
Bullshit. British police are more brutal than most American ones. From Amnesty International:
In May an inquest jury returned a verdict of ''accidental death'' in the case of Glenn Howard, but added that the police officers had used excessive restraint and had subsequently failed to provide medical care. He died in January 1999 after being in a coma since December 1997. There were no prosecutions or disciplinary action.
In June an inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing in the case of Christopher Alder, a black former paratrooper who died in April 1998 in Hull police station. A videotape showed how officers ignored him as he lay on the police station floor for 10 minutes before they realized he was unconscious. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was considering whether to bring prosecutions against five officers.
In June the High Court instructed the prosecution authorities to re-examine their decision not to prosecute seven prison officers involved in the death in prison of Alton Manning, who died in 1995 after being restrained.
In November the CPS decided that no criminal charges would be brought against eight police officers reportedly involved in the restraint of Roger Sylvester in January 1999. The exact cause of his death remained disputed; an inquest was pending.
In December the CPS decided that no criminal charges would be brought against the police officers who shot dead Harry Stanley in September 1999. Harry Stanley was walking home carrying a repaired table leg in a bag. He had stopped in a pub, where another customer mistook his Scottish accent for Irish and the table leg for a shotgun and alerted the police. Armed police officers approached Harry Stanley from behind and reportedly shouted a warning. Harry Stanley did not stop, and when he turned around, reportedly after another police shout, he was shot dead.
In February, a coroner's jury issued a verdict which effectively rendered the killing of unarmed IRA member Diarmuid O'Neill lawful. Diarmuid O'Neill was shot dead during a police raid in west London in September 1996.
God, you're an idiot. You really think that the finding an illegal machine gun in Britain is easier than filling in some paperwork in Texas?
God, you don't get out of your parents' cellar much do you? All it takes to get a gun in Britain is a
case of Irish
It's pretty obvious that you no idea of US gun laws at all, That you are unaware that no new machine guns are available for the civilian market, and that the cost of the legally available used machine guns (pre ban) available on the civilan market has risen to over ten thousand dollars per unit.
Meanwhile, a few days ago a man was kicked to death in England by a group of 4 teenagers because he refused to light their cigarette.
There is a reason that a bunch of English people left England to found America a long time ago, and the attitude which you have managed to preserve from your forebearers who stayed behind is a big part of it.
From a Caltech commencement address given in 1974.
Also in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a
method was discovered for separating the ideas--which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This
method became organized, of course, into science. And it developed very well, so that we are now in the scientific age. It is such a
scientific age, in fact, that we have difficulty in understanding how witch doctors could ever have existed, when nothing that they
proposed ever really worked--or very little of it did.
But even today I meet lots of people who sooner or later get me into a conversation about UFO's, or astrology, or some form of
mysticism, expanded consciousness, new types of awareness, ESP, and so forth. And I've concluded that it's not a scientific world.
Most people believe so many wonderful things that I decided to investigate why they did. And what has been referred to as my curiosity
for investigation has landed me in a difficulty where I found so much junk that I'm overwhelmed. First I started out by investigating
various ideas of mysticism and mystic experiences. I went into isolation tanks and got many hours of hallucinations, so I know something
about that. Then I went to Esalen, which is a hotbed of this kind of thought (it's a wonderful place; you should go visit there). Then I
became overwhelmed. I didn't realize how MUCH there was.
At Esalen there are some large baths fed by hot springs situated on a ledge about thirty feet above the ocean. One of my most pleasurable
experiences has been to sit in one of those baths and watch the waves crashing onto the rocky slope below, to gaze into the clear blue
sky above, and to study a beautiful nude as she quietly appears and settles into the bath with me.
One time I sat down in a bath where there was a beatiful girl sitting with a guy who didn't seem to know her. Right away I began thinking,
"Gee! How am I gonna get started talking to this beautiful nude woman?"
I'm trying to figure out what to say, when the guy says to her, "I'm, uh, studying massage. Could I practice on you?" "Sure," she says.
They get out of the bath and she lies down on a massage table nearby. I think to myself, "What a nifty line! I can never think of anything
like that!" He starts to rub her big toe. "I think I feel it," he says. "I feel a kind of dent--is that the pituitary?" I blurt out, "You're a helluva
long way from the pituitary, man!" They looked at me, horrified--I had blown my cover--and said, "It's reflexology!" I quickly closed
my eyes and appeared to be meditating.
That's just an example of the kind of things that overwhelm me. I also looked into extrasensory perception, and PSI phenomena, and the
latest craze there was Uri Geller, a man who is supposed to be able to bend keys by rubbing them with his finger. So I went to his hotel
room, on his invitation, to see a demonstration of both mindreading and bending keys. He didn't do any mindreading that succeeded;
nobody can read my mind, I guess. And my boy held a key and Geller rubbed it, and nothing happened. Then he told us it works better
under water, and so you can picture all of us standing in the bathroom with the water turned on and the key under it, and him rubbing the
key with his finger. Nothing happened. So I was unable to investigate that phenomenon.
But then I began to think, what else is there that we believe? (And I thought then about the witch doctors, and how easy it would have
been to check on them by noticing that nothing really worked.) So I found things that even mor
Today I got a note from Brooks Brown, who if you can cast your mind back all the way to 1999 was the Columbine student who warned police deputies that Eric Harris was building pipe bombs and had threatened to kill him.
........
I can't speak for anyone else, but my FRIENDS don't threaten to kill me. A little revison after the fact, maybe? (shrug)
Anyway, Columbine happened the way it did because it could. It had nothing to do with video games, or puppies, or a lack of group hugs. The place was a "Gun Free Zone", which is just another way of saying "A Barrel With Fish In It"
Think about this: How many people would Beavis and Butthead have killed if every teacher had been trained and armed? Three? Now how many if every student had been trained and armed? None? A Half?
Beavis and Butthead are to blame for the killings, no one else. School authorities are to blame for making it so DAMN easy to do.
I know it shouldn't happen, but it does, in just the same way that people associated educated accents with intelligence and working-class accents with stupidity.
Here, I'll fix the error for you:
[I know it shouldn't happen, but it does, among the rarefied strata that we inhabit, in just the same way that elitist bigots associate educated accents with intelligence and working-class accents with stupidity.]
There. Makes more sense that way, and is a natural progression of how these sorts of people used to judge others based on sex or skin color, and still discriminate against the Irish.
Looking at your personal website, we see:
[David Given] was born in Scotland sometime in the 1970s. Details of his early life are somewhat unclear but he is believed to have gone to a series of mildly prestigious schools. After graduating from St.Andrews University, he was forced to leave Scotland and work in the barbaric wastes of Reading.
So really, your own bio is written in the style of the sort of British elitist crap that has been eradicated in the USA, with the exception of the intelligentsia of the ivy league coasts.
My '57 BelAir gets me from point A to point B just fine... problem is... nobody makes parts for it anymore. Can anyone recommend a similar car without power steering and respectable milage?
The internet is just a easier way of getting the information you want. Why wait for a push system when you can pull the info with no ads or other irritants? And why have someone read information to you off of a telepromter when you can read it yourself faster? I won't even get into all the bais and plain misinformation which is passed of as "news".
Uses for TV: The DVD player and Netflix, or public library.
Uses for internet: everthing else.
Uses for cable: don't have it, use DSL.
It makes no sense to wait up to watch OTA TV to find out what the weather is. Same for the news: I don't care about Michael Jackson, or the white blond female kidnap victim of the week (tm)
[Ever notice there are few/no non-white, non-cute, non-female kidnap victims on tv? If you think that's because male minorities are not victims of crime, think again!].
I theoretically could use Tivo to timeshift this info, but why bother when everything I want to know about is available online.
I was at a Rona recently getting some bags of gravel for a project.
Don't ever buy dirt/stone based products in bags. The cost in my area (near Manchester, NH, USA) is US$0.00075 per pound for bulk gravel, (I pick up, the yard loads, with my trailer), VS about US$0.20 for gravel at a Home Despot (in bags, I pick up)
It really adds up after a few bags.
I don't know which Rona you went to, or I would have done a search for a gravel yard near you:)
Ever wonder why computers are made of metal? Why the plastic pieces are made of plastics that meet flammability performance standards?
Tiny Tim raises his hand
Yes, Tiny Tim?
Please, Mr Deacon Sir, so that if some source of ignition is present, the computer does not turn into a fireball spewing deadly poisionous smoke, Sir!
Very Good, Tiny Tim. And what happens if someone hangs up huge sheets of generic, flammable plastic in an area with lots of potential ignition sources?
Please, Mr Deacon Sir, sooner or later it catches fire, and people die. If these boneheads are lucky, Sir, someone from the Building Facilities or the Building Inspector will see this website and make them take it down, Sir.
Very good, Tiny Tim. The rest of the class is to read up on Flammability.
"Street crime" is usually taken care of by the police and is really none of your business.
Not only is this bullshit, it is also the cause of much of the casual crime that goes on today. If you see an old lady being kicked on the ground by someone trying to rob her, that's everybodys business. Obviously, the police are not on the spot when crime happens. They just show up later to collect the bodies.
If, however, you prefer no one helps you when you get mugged, I guess I'll respect your wishes.
The rest of your "class warfare" rant is too foolish to bother responding to.
a group of high-profile security researchers is fighting back, vigilante-style.
This emotionally laden language has been deliberately chosen to make it sound like this activty is a "bad thing [tm]"
I truly believe it is the duty of every person to fight against clearly evil activity.
This includes a mugger hitting an old lady, a middle age man trying to drag a pre-teen girl (or boy) in to a car idiling in the street, and a person trying to kick in the door of the elderly couple down the street.
If the people disabling bot-nets make every effort to be certain they do not harm innocent or uninvolved people (and the standard here is very high), then they are doing a public service. (if they take the attitude, like some "anti-spam" people, of -> 'kill them all, let God sort them out, they are just assholes with very, very small peckers')
Those who believe the gub'mint is going to be johnny on the spot to fix all your boo-boos are sadly misguided: there is neither the manpower or the reaction time to fix everything "bad" in the world. That depends on YOU.
66.163.161.45 is filthy. Blocking mail that has URLs pointing there will stop a fair amount of spam. Not an approach I'd use myself, but certainly a lot more effective (in terms of spam caugh and false positives) than many, many other approaches in widespread use.
Paul chose to host his website there, despite supposedly knowing a lot about the spam issue. That was probably not a good call.
Let me reword your justification of of this behaviour so others can see the flaw in it more clearly:
[66.163.161.45 is a filthy neighborhood. Lots of criminals live there. So, a group of vigilantes randomly started machine gunning people walking the street. Not something I'd do myself, I prefer to use a shotgun, but certainly more effective then using the court system. Paul chose to live there, and he should have known it's a bad area. If he gets shot at random, well, too fucking bad, he should have known better. Living there was probably not a good call.]
Some days it's hard choosing between deleting 400 spams a day and dealing with the exsistance of "spam blocking" groups. Then I read a comment from an "anti-spam" person and I think I'll be safer choosing to work that delete key.
Linux is free only if you value your time at zero.
This cutsy, glib phrase must die.
Windows costs $ up front in addition to the time spent fussing with it, not to mention the reboots needed after changing settings/installing programs. Every OS needs setup and administration. Some just charge you $ as well.
There is a huge industry which provides Windows support for a fee. Obviously this industry exists because of a need, and they are charging a lot more than 40 an hour to fix windows boxes.
On the other hand, I did recently use the free itunes for windows to turn an ancient pc into a standalone jukebox, and I have to give apple credit, it works
great, nice interface, logical behaviour. I just feed it new CD's occasionally (from the heaps that litter the space around the stereo amp) while it plays the party shuffle of music that is already loaded.
I still have not figured out how to "reshuffle" the party shuffle deck, so to speak, but even though my bias is generally anti-apple, I am assuming that the option is there somewhere, and I must give them praise where praise is due.
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You don't have to speak loudly to pick for the mic to pick up.
Within minutes of Friday's shootings, police were using the system to track the suspected getaway car.
But how can this be? All guns were confiscated in England, and what with the "free" healthcare, high taxes to ensure a civilized society, mandatory BBC to make you "THINK RIGHT", blah blah blah, surely a shooting of a cop cannot happen!
Stanley Kubrick made A Clockwork Orange as warning to society, he was just 25 years too early. In any case, I can change a license plate in the England with just a strip of black vinyl tape.
Yes, yes, mode me down as a flambe troll for shouting out the bleeding obvious, I really don't give a fuck.
On the bright side, double jeapordy was eliminated in England, so these "suspects" can be tried over and over again till they are convicted.
And so can YOU!
Wheee!
And then again, if the English cared about cops, they would give them all guns so they would have a chance to defend themselves, instead of being slaughtered in the streets by thugs entiteled to legal aid.
Feh.
Some people actually believe the "News" that is on TV.
It has to be significantly less, and the smaller the slot the more effective it is.
As per the charts at :
http://www.omegashielding.com/html/emisions%20and% 20immunity.html
A breathless journalist discovers that putting a product thru manufacturing requires coordination of lots of small parts, from many different vendors and countries. Journalist also learns that a screw-up in any of these parts will cause a PROBLEM!
Here is a newsflash for Journalists: The xbox is trivial to manufacture compared to other products. Go tour a plant making large Xerox machines, or a Toyota factory, if you want to see something which actually has a challange to it.
This article seems more like an ad for what is in reality a small, cheap, and disposable PC with some ductwork in it, a technology that was used on mainframes 20 years ago. This smells like an attempt to make people believe in "genius which is xbox"
I think there should be a new rule for journalists (and for school teachers as well): You are not allowed to write/teach about something technical (math, science, engineering) until you have spent time doing it professionaly. No more "how they build the widget" articles unless you are a manufacturing engineer with factory experience. Cut down of some of this fluff.
1) The brake pads will wear less because of regenerative braking
Well, let us see what brake pads for a prius cost:
brake pads for a prius Oh. $28.79
2) NO transmission repair costs, it uses constant mesh planetary gears instead
I have Toyotas out in the back pasture that have been retired at 264000 miles due to rust. I have never seen a transmission failure/problem in a Toyota car
3) minimized eng wear because the electric motor handles high torque demands
Motor ( a 4AFE ) was still running when car was retired due to rust. Only weak spot on these cars is deposits on the valve stems which make the valves stick open. I just pull the heads, beadblast the valves and heads, have the seats cut and the valves ground, reassemble, total cost in parts is $80 to cut the seats and the valves, about $30 for head gasket and sundries.
4) minimized eng wear because the engine is spun up BEFORE any cylinder ignition
See Above!
5) minimized eng wear because the engine fires 2 cyl and then the other 2 on start
Huh?
6) The engine was designed lighter because of the shared load so bearing wear is reduced
This is just not an issue if you keep the oil changed. The engine will outlast the rest of the car.
7) minimized eng and exhaust system wear because of first 5 minute warmup cycle
Exhaust wear will be worse, because of the multiple heating and cooling cycle. An exhaust system kept hot 100% of the time will last longest because the most destructive corrosion does not occur at elevated temperature.
To sum up: The prius will not save you money on repair just because it is a hybrid. Anyone who can assemble a PC can change the brake pads by following the instructions in the Toyota service manual which is available by calling Toyota MDC
So, in your own words, these people have no choice. They are told where to live. Those who have a choice, live elsewhere.
What you think is scary in many ways and shows that all you know about the situation comes from CNN and Fox news where the reality is VERY distorted. Fox news is so shockingly out of context that it definitely is anti-french propaganda rather than "news".
I have not watched CNN or Fox for about 10 years now. My knowledge of the situation comes from working in France, and interacting with French Arabs, and also from working in Black Africa. Too bad an alternate point of view "scares" you. Boo hoo.
Oh, and a last thing: you mix up african and north-african (arabic) culture. The vast majority of post-immigrants are from an arabic culture, and are not africans. So, you really have no idea what you are talking about and thus, I suggest you just shut up.
No, you are aparently unable to realize that both Black africans and North africans (Arabs) are involved in the rioting. Africa has more than just two cultures by the way,
the Arabs and the Blacks each have many, many different customs based on individual tribal traditions. Your simplistic lumping into two heaps is amusing.
The non-sense on american television spreads on slashdot as usual. People, put your nose out and go visit your neighbours. Thank you.
Does anyone get their news from TV these days? How primitive. I've visited my neighbours in Africa, in France, and in America. Have you?
You take no issue with my original points about the nanny-state, lack of jobs, and Elitist racism. There may be hope for you yet.
That's not the cause of the trouble, however.
An all-pervasive nanny state which results in huge unemployment and no hope for advancement, A French elite mentality that Africans are sub-human, and endless dicking around with muliticultiralism which has allowed the formation of an African state within France, have given the results seen for the last two weeks.
Let's not lose track of how we got to where we are now.
Gov mileage quotas spelled the doom of a vehicle that many people wanted:
The Station Wagon
Or the Shooting Brake for EUians.
Look at an SUV today: 4 doors and a tailgate/hatchback.
Now look at those station wagon images I linked..
Only diff is that the station wagon is 3 feet (1 meter) lower and will not roll over at the drop of a hat.
SUVs are a seperate mileage catagory from cars, and by moving the "station-wagon" product from the car catagory to the truck catagory, automobile makers managed to provide what people wanted to buy and avoid that pesky mileage/safety regulation.
It's a classic case of unintended consequences of regulation: A regular station wagon could be less heavy, more fuel efficient, and less likely to roll over than its replacement, the SUV. The station wagon is dead, thanks to CAFE regulation. The SUV has sprung up to replace it, since it is a "truck" and exempt.
Bullshit. British police are more brutal than most American ones. From Amnesty International:
In May an inquest jury returned a verdict of ''accidental death'' in the case of Glenn Howard, but added that the police officers had used excessive restraint and had subsequently failed to provide medical care. He died in January 1999 after being in a coma since December 1997. There were no prosecutions or disciplinary action.
In June an inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing in the case of Christopher Alder, a black former paratrooper who died in April 1998 in Hull police station. A videotape showed how officers ignored him as he lay on the police station floor for 10 minutes before they realized he was unconscious. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was considering whether to bring prosecutions against five officers.
In June the High Court instructed the prosecution authorities to re-examine their decision not to prosecute seven prison officers involved in the death in prison of Alton Manning, who died in 1995 after being restrained.
In November the CPS decided that no criminal charges would be brought against eight police officers reportedly involved in the restraint of Roger Sylvester in January 1999. The exact cause of his death remained disputed; an inquest was pending.
In December the CPS decided that no criminal charges would be brought against the police officers who shot dead Harry Stanley in September 1999. Harry Stanley was walking home carrying a repaired table leg in a bag. He had stopped in a pub, where another customer mistook his Scottish accent for Irish and the table leg for a shotgun and alerted the police. Armed police officers approached Harry Stanley from behind and reportedly shouted a warning. Harry Stanley did not stop, and when he turned around, reportedly after another police shout, he was shot dead.
In February, a coroner's jury issued a verdict which effectively rendered the killing of unarmed IRA member Diarmuid O'Neill lawful. Diarmuid O'Neill was shot dead during a police raid in west London in September 1996.
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God, you don't get out of your parents' cellar much do you? All it takes to get a gun in Britain is a case of Irish
It's pretty obvious that you no idea of US gun laws at all, That you are unaware that no new machine guns are available for the civilian market, and that the cost of the legally available used machine guns (pre ban) available on the civilan market has risen to over ten thousand dollars per unit.
Meanwhile, a few days ago a man was kicked to death in England by a group of 4 teenagers because he refused to light their cigarette.
There is a reason that a bunch of English people left England to found America a long time ago, and the attitude which you have managed to preserve from your forebearers who stayed behind is a big part of it.
And I just finished reading the Richard Feynman article on Cargo Cult Science.
Article Text below as slashdotting prevention:
Cargo Cult Science
Richard Feynman
From a Caltech commencement address given in 1974. Also in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas--which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science. And it developed very well, so that we are now in the scientific age. It is such a scientific age, in fact, that we have difficulty in understanding how witch doctors could ever have existed, when nothing that they proposed ever really worked--or very little of it did.
But even today I meet lots of people who sooner or later get me into a conversation about UFO's, or astrology, or some form of mysticism, expanded consciousness, new types of awareness, ESP, and so forth. And I've concluded that it's not a scientific world.
Most people believe so many wonderful things that I decided to investigate why they did. And what has been referred to as my curiosity for investigation has landed me in a difficulty where I found so much junk that I'm overwhelmed. First I started out by investigating various ideas of mysticism and mystic experiences. I went into isolation tanks and got many hours of hallucinations, so I know something about that. Then I went to Esalen, which is a hotbed of this kind of thought (it's a wonderful place; you should go visit there). Then I became overwhelmed. I didn't realize how MUCH there was.
At Esalen there are some large baths fed by hot springs situated on a ledge about thirty feet above the ocean. One of my most pleasurable experiences has been to sit in one of those baths and watch the waves crashing onto the rocky slope below, to gaze into the clear blue sky above, and to study a beautiful nude as she quietly appears and settles into the bath with me.
One time I sat down in a bath where there was a beatiful girl sitting with a guy who didn't seem to know her. Right away I began thinking, "Gee! How am I gonna get started talking to this beautiful nude woman?"
I'm trying to figure out what to say, when the guy says to her, "I'm, uh, studying massage. Could I practice on you?" "Sure," she says. They get out of the bath and she lies down on a massage table nearby. I think to myself, "What a nifty line! I can never think of anything like that!" He starts to rub her big toe. "I think I feel it," he says. "I feel a kind of dent--is that the pituitary?" I blurt out, "You're a helluva long way from the pituitary, man!" They looked at me, horrified--I had blown my cover--and said, "It's reflexology!" I quickly closed my eyes and appeared to be meditating.
That's just an example of the kind of things that overwhelm me. I also looked into extrasensory perception, and PSI phenomena, and the latest craze there was Uri Geller, a man who is supposed to be able to bend keys by rubbing them with his finger. So I went to his hotel room, on his invitation, to see a demonstration of both mindreading and bending keys. He didn't do any mindreading that succeeded; nobody can read my mind, I guess. And my boy held a key and Geller rubbed it, and nothing happened. Then he told us it works better under water, and so you can picture all of us standing in the bathroom with the water turned on and the key under it, and him rubbing the key with his finger. Nothing happened. So I was unable to investigate that phenomenon.
But then I began to think, what else is there that we believe? (And I thought then about the witch doctors, and how easy it would have been to check on them by noticing that nothing really worked.) So I found things that even mor
I've spent the last 6 years of my life trying to figure out why my friends brutally murdered other friends of mine and kids at school.
From the 1up Jane Pinckard article
If anyone knows first-hand what violent video games might drive people to do, that would be Brooks Brown, a friend to the Columbine shooters.
From the 1up John Davison article
Today I got a note from Brooks Brown, who if you can cast your mind back all the way to 1999 was the Columbine student who warned police deputies that Eric Harris was building pipe bombs and had threatened to kill him.
I can't speak for anyone else, but my FRIENDS don't threaten to kill me. A little revison after the fact, maybe? (shrug)
Anyway, Columbine happened the way it did because it could. It had nothing to do with video games, or puppies, or a lack of group hugs. The place was a "Gun Free Zone", which is just another way of saying "A Barrel With Fish In It"
Think about this: How many people would Beavis and Butthead have killed if every teacher had been trained and armed? Three? Now how many if every student had been trained and armed? None? A Half?
Beavis and Butthead are to blame for the killings, no one else. School authorities are to blame for making it so DAMN easy to do.
Other outcomes do occur when the "victim" is not defenseless: Armed law student who put a stop to the shootings at the Appalachian Law School. You didn't see this on the evening "news", because the "news" people realized that it did not fit their political agenda, and so you did not need to know about it.
See here for a picture of the sign declaring that the University of Arizona does not allow guns on its premises. And here's an opinion piece in the University of Arizona student paper by Rachel Alexander arguing that this is a bad policy. Unfortunately, mass murderers don't pay attention to those signs. Only their victims do.
Here, I'll fix the error for you:
[I know it shouldn't happen, but it does, among the rarefied strata that we inhabit, in just the same way that elitist bigots associate educated accents with intelligence and working-class accents with stupidity.]
There. Makes more sense that way, and is a natural progression of how these sorts of people used to judge others based on sex or skin color, and still discriminate against the Irish.
Looking at your personal website, we see:
[David Given] was born in Scotland sometime in the 1970s. Details of his early life are somewhat unclear but he is believed to have gone to a series of mildly prestigious schools. After graduating from St.Andrews University, he was forced to leave Scotland and work in the barbaric wastes of Reading.
So really, your own bio is written in the style of the sort of British elitist crap that has been eradicated in the USA, with the exception of the intelligentsia of the ivy league coasts.
Do not judge the book by the cover, in either direction.
Boy are you in luck today!
1957 Bel Air parts.
Uses for TV: The DVD player and Netflix, or public library.
Uses for internet: everthing else.
Uses for cable: don't have it, use DSL.
It makes no sense to wait up to watch OTA TV to find out what the weather is. Same for the news: I don't care about Michael Jackson, or the white blond female kidnap victim of the week (tm)
[Ever notice there are few/no non-white, non-cute, non-female kidnap victims on tv? If you think that's because male minorities are not victims of crime, think again!].
I theoretically could use Tivo to timeshift this info, but why bother when everything I want to know about is available online.
Don't ever buy dirt/stone based products in bags. The cost in my area (near Manchester, NH, USA) is US$0.00075 per pound for bulk gravel, (I pick up, the yard loads, with my trailer), VS about US$0.20 for gravel at a Home Despot (in bags, I pick up)
It really adds up after a few bags.
I don't know which Rona you went to, or I would have done a search for a gravel yard near you :)
Ever wonder why computers are made of metal? Why the plastic pieces are made of plastics that meet flammability performance standards?
Tiny Tim raises his hand
Yes, Tiny Tim?
Please, Mr Deacon Sir, so that if some source of ignition is present, the computer does not turn into a fireball spewing deadly poisionous smoke, Sir!
Very Good, Tiny Tim. And what happens if someone hangs up huge sheets of generic, flammable plastic in an area with lots of potential ignition sources?
Please, Mr Deacon Sir, sooner or later it catches fire, and people die. If these boneheads are lucky, Sir, someone from the Building Facilities or the Building Inspector will see this website and make them take it down, Sir.
Very good, Tiny Tim. The rest of the class is to read up on Flammability.
Not only is this bullshit, it is also the cause of much of the casual crime that goes on today. If you see an old lady being kicked on the ground by someone trying to rob her, that's everybodys business. Obviously, the police are not on the spot when crime happens. They just show up later to collect the bodies.
If, however, you prefer no one helps you when you get mugged, I guess I'll respect your wishes.
The rest of your "class warfare" rant is too foolish to bother responding to.
a group of high-profile security researchers is fighting back, vigilante-style.
This emotionally laden language has been deliberately chosen to make it sound like this activty is a "bad thing [tm]"
I truly believe it is the duty of every person to fight against clearly evil activity.
This includes a mugger hitting an old lady, a middle age man trying to drag a pre-teen girl (or boy) in to a car idiling in the street, and a person trying to kick in the door of the elderly couple down the street.
If the people disabling bot-nets make every effort to be certain they do not harm innocent or uninvolved people (and the standard here is very high), then they are doing a public service. (if they take the attitude, like some "anti-spam" people, of -> 'kill them all, let God sort them out, they are just assholes with very, very small peckers')
Those who believe the gub'mint is going to be johnny on the spot to fix all your boo-boos are sadly misguided: there is neither the manpower or the reaction time to fix everything "bad" in the world. That depends on YOU.
Thank you, I had stupidly assumed it meant refresh as in browser refresh..
Let me reword your justification of of this behaviour so others can see the flaw in it more clearly:
[66.163.161.45 is a filthy neighborhood. Lots of criminals live there. So, a group of vigilantes randomly started machine gunning people walking the street. Not something I'd do myself, I prefer to use a shotgun, but certainly more effective then using the court system. Paul chose to live there, and he should have known it's a bad area. If he gets shot at random, well, too fucking bad, he should have known better. Living there was probably not a good call.]
Some days it's hard choosing between deleting 400 spams a day and dealing with the exsistance of "spam blocking" groups. Then I read a comment from an "anti-spam" person and I think I'll be safer choosing to work that delete key.
This cutsy, glib phrase must die.
Windows costs $ up front in addition to the time spent fussing with it, not to mention the reboots needed after changing settings/installing programs. Every OS needs setup and administration. Some just charge you $ as well.
There is a huge industry which provides Windows support for a fee. Obviously this industry exists because of a need, and they are charging a lot more than 40 an hour to fix windows boxes.
I'm glad you asked!
apple store:
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Price $1,000.00
from newegg:
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On the other hand, I did recently use the free itunes for windows to turn an ancient pc into a standalone jukebox, and I have to give apple credit, it works great, nice interface, logical behaviour. I just feed it new CD's occasionally (from the heaps that litter the space around the stereo amp) while it plays the party shuffle of music that is already loaded.
I still have not figured out how to "reshuffle" the party shuffle deck, so to speak, but even though my bias is generally anti-apple, I am assuming that the option is there somewhere, and I must give them praise where praise is due.