"The arresting officer will simply say,"He never asked that" if it ever makes it that far."
But if you're in court for "obstructing justice" after the officer refused to identify himself, it will be on the cop/DA to prove that you didn't ask, not the other way around.
"And they have the right to tell you,"You can find it out on the police report which you can pick up at the courthouse prior to your hearing for this ticket for obstruction of justice.""
And while at the courthouse you will tell the judge that you are not guilty and point out that you cannot obstruct justice if you aren't able to verify that it really is law enforcement you're obstructing. You'll be off the hook, the judge will be ticked that their time has been wasted and Bad Things will happen to the offending officer for embarassing the department like that.
Law enforcement and the judicial system are part of two different branches of government for a reason.
"'I got together [with Zabel] and wrote a treatment earlier this year that specified how to save [Star Trek] and develop a series that would restore the series in a big way,'"
"Yeah! First we'll start with some D&D characters..."
The last Ranger movie they did had its good points (and his name was "G'Kar"), but it also had that silly holographic tank for the weapons officer.
Really, I haven't given up on Enterprise yet, and so far it's better than JMS' more recent works in my opinion.
From my own experience they're both pretty damned easy to pirate on. I'm against having to open a console case for any reason on philosophical terms but I've managed to boot burned code on both of these consoles.
You can pirate software on the PS2 exactly the same way you do it on a PS1: You change disks without letting the machine know you changed disks. You can do this either electronically (install a mod chip that lies to the rest of the hardware) or you can do it physically (defeating physical switches that let the machine know the drive is open).
With the PS1, the lid pushes in a button that indicates to the hardware that the lid is open. A spring works well in the original PSX while the PSOne requires a little more creativity with a small, plastic tab. Once you've got that, all you need to do is insert a disk you know will eventually stop spinning so you can make the swap. The ol' Action Replay disk works well for this (but not Game Shark). And now you can play your favorite NES games through an emulator to your heart's content without ever cracking open the case.
The PS2, with its front-loading mechanism, is a bit trickier. The easiest way to do it (without opening the case) is to carefully remove the front of the disc tray so you can then slim jim the tray open. If you look on the bottom side of the tray you can see a groove in which a locking arm moves through. The trick is to move that locking arm back out of the way. Once you do that, the trick again is to get a disk that you know will stop spinning. If you're trying to play PS1 softawre, you can use the PS1 flavor of Action Replay (as before). If you're trying to run PS2 software (say, an SNES emulator) things are trickier and unfortunately the PS2 flavor of Action Replay won't help you (it never stops spinning as far as I can tell). You can find proper boot disks in the Hong Kong gray market, but note you'll need a boot CD and a boot DVD, using the proper one for the media you're aiming to run. Once you've done that, all you need is a Super Wild Card to dump your SNES carts and you can then put all your SNES periphernalia safely into storage.
The PS2 will read music CD-RWs but not PS1 code on said CD-RWs. I haven't had the opportunity to try PS2 code on a CD-RW, though. The PS1 doesn't seem to want to read CD-RWs at all, no matter what's on it.
"This is a civilian contractor we are talking about here. If you read my post you would see that civilian contractors apparently can't be court martialed except during times of war and the Congress has unfortunately not declared war in Afghanistan or Iraq so they can't be court martialed."
That still leaves two options:
Turning them over to local law enforcement. Their land, their laws, their standards for making sure they're (mis)treated in custody. Isn't that what the FBI threatened some of the African embassy bombers with to get them to consent to extradition?
Guantanamo. It's outside the US, they aren't uniformed combattants... isn't that what we have Camp X-ray for?
"There should be a new rule, the U.S. should stop waging wars unless the Congress has the guts to actually declare war."
If Congress had the nerve to pass such legislation we wouldn't need it to begin with.
"Umm, that's a less than two and a half-hour drive, and you flew?"
The "A" in "ERAU" stands for "Aeronautical." You go there to either learn how to fly planes, fix planes or build planes. When he says he "flew down to Titusville" he meant he flew the plane himself, most likely in one of the school's airplanes (they practically own Daytona Beach International).
If you want to fly jumbo jets for a living you need to rack up a lot of hours before the FAA lets you, to the point where it's pretty common to work for the school as a flight instructor for a while after you graduate. In order to rack up flying hours you need to... well... fly an airplane. And that's what the school's fleet of airplanes is for.
At any rate, as an engineering major I'm amazed that an aerosci student figured out how to turn on a computer, let alone stumble onto Slashdot.:)
"That means anything can happen, including "wardrobe malfunctions", and it won't be edited."
Sure, but if it were intentional then the show should have been rated as such. What's the point of these silly V-chips if the ratings don't match the content?
"the text part was a page or two from "The Wizard of Oz""
So the spammers are violating intellectual property laws? Well, that's a whole different story, then! Forward this off to the feds and they'll be arrested inside of a week, likely for violations of the DMCA PATRIOT Act or some such nonsense.
"Why not get maximum lift and just use a vacuum rather than a lighter-than-air gas?"
Because 14.7 psi is a nasty pressure differential to maintain (it's about a ton per square foot, or ten tonnes per square meter depending on where you live). A pinprick in a gas cell holding helium (maintained at slightly higher than air pressure) will slowly leak helium and gradually lose lift. A pinprick in a vacuum chamber will have air rushing in through that pinprick at monstrous velocities (~Mach 1, IIRC), possibly tearing a much bigger hole causing a catastrophic loss of lift as well as being knocked around in a random direction by the brief gale-force winds you just created (good luck maintaining control).
You could compensate for this by over-engineering your vacuum chambers by adding more/stronger materials, making the whole thing heavier and thus eliminating any advantages you'd have from using a vacuum instead of a light gas.
Um... hello? Have you not heard of Cassini? Sure, there may have been some fly-bys of Saturn and its moons in the past, but certainly none that are going to be spending a few years in the area. If the latest group of pictures from Phoebe are any indication...
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The speech, or the applause?
"The arresting officer will simply say,"He never asked that" if it ever makes it that far."
But if you're in court for "obstructing justice" after the officer refused to identify himself, it will be on the cop/DA to prove that you didn't ask, not the other way around.
"And they have the right to tell you,"You can find it out on the police report which you can pick up at the courthouse prior to your hearing for this ticket for obstruction of justice.""
And while at the courthouse you will tell the judge that you are not guilty and point out that you cannot obstruct justice if you aren't able to verify that it really is law enforcement you're obstructing. You'll be off the hook, the judge will be ticked that their time has been wasted and Bad Things will happen to the offending officer for embarassing the department like that.
Law enforcement and the judicial system are part of two different branches of government for a reason.
Note carefully that "Lost my virginity" appears nowhere on this list. :)
I loved B5 and all, but...
"'I got together [with Zabel] and wrote a treatment earlier this year that specified how to save [Star Trek] and develop a series that would restore the series in a big way,'"
"Yeah! First we'll start with some D&D characters..."
The last Ranger movie they did had its good points (and his name was "G'Kar"), but it also had that silly holographic tank for the weapons officer.
Really, I haven't given up on Enterprise yet, and so far it's better than JMS' more recent works in my opinion.
"The PS1 apparently isn't powerful enough to do the audio emulation,"
Bullshit
"Slightly harder to pirate on ps1 vs ps2?"
From my own experience they're both pretty damned easy to pirate on. I'm against having to open a console case for any reason on philosophical terms but I've managed to boot burned code on both of these consoles.
You can pirate software on the PS2 exactly the same way you do it on a PS1: You change disks without letting the machine know you changed disks. You can do this either electronically (install a mod chip that lies to the rest of the hardware) or you can do it physically (defeating physical switches that let the machine know the drive is open).
With the PS1, the lid pushes in a button that indicates to the hardware that the lid is open. A spring works well in the original PSX while the PSOne requires a little more creativity with a small, plastic tab. Once you've got that, all you need to do is insert a disk you know will eventually stop spinning so you can make the swap. The ol' Action Replay disk works well for this (but not Game Shark). And now you can play your favorite NES games through an emulator to your heart's content without ever cracking open the case.
The PS2, with its front-loading mechanism, is a bit trickier. The easiest way to do it (without opening the case) is to carefully remove the front of the disc tray so you can then slim jim the tray open. If you look on the bottom side of the tray you can see a groove in which a locking arm moves through. The trick is to move that locking arm back out of the way. Once you do that, the trick again is to get a disk that you know will stop spinning. If you're trying to play PS1 softawre, you can use the PS1 flavor of Action Replay (as before). If you're trying to run PS2 software (say, an SNES emulator) things are trickier and unfortunately the PS2 flavor of Action Replay won't help you (it never stops spinning as far as I can tell). You can find proper boot disks in the Hong Kong gray market, but note you'll need a boot CD and a boot DVD, using the proper one for the media you're aiming to run. Once you've done that, all you need is a Super Wild Card to dump your SNES carts and you can then put all your SNES periphernalia safely into storage.
The PS2 will read music CD-RWs but not PS1 code on said CD-RWs. I haven't had the opportunity to try PS2 code on a CD-RW, though. The PS1 doesn't seem to want to read CD-RWs at all, no matter what's on it.
"The first amendament doesn't say you have to speak the truth."
That's what state constitutions are for, and it's what they usually say (YMMV, of course).
What if you simply brought your own camera?
"Every meter of water depth you go down adds one (1) bar of pressure on you (aka one atmosphere)."
Try 10 meters.
H20 @ 1013.25 hPa (a/k/a "milibars") & 20 degres C = 998 kg/m^3 = 97.90 hN/m^3 (at 9.806 65 m/s^2)
1013.25 hPa / 97.90 hN/m^3 = 10.35 m
Yes, seawater is denser, but it's not that denser.
That still leaves two options:
- Turning them over to local law enforcement. Their land, their laws, their standards for making sure they're (mis)treated in custody. Isn't that what the FBI threatened some of the African embassy bombers with to get them to consent to extradition?
- Guantanamo. It's outside the US, they aren't uniformed combattants... isn't that what we have Camp X-ray for?
"There should be a new rule, the U.S. should stop waging wars unless the Congress has the guts to actually declare war."If Congress had the nerve to pass such legislation we wouldn't need it to begin with.
"Yes, but we don't have to ship fuel"
Um... if we don't have to ship them water, they can make their own rocket fuel they same way we do: cracking hydrogen and oxygen out of water.
"Umm, that's a less than two and a half-hour drive, and you flew?"
:)
The "A" in "ERAU" stands for "Aeronautical." You go there to either learn how to fly planes, fix planes or build planes. When he says he "flew down to Titusville" he meant he flew the plane himself, most likely in one of the school's airplanes (they practically own Daytona Beach International).
If you want to fly jumbo jets for a living you need to rack up a lot of hours before the FAA lets you, to the point where it's pretty common to work for the school as a flight instructor for a while after you graduate. In order to rack up flying hours you need to... well... fly an airplane. And that's what the school's fleet of airplanes is for.
At any rate, as an engineering major I'm amazed that an aerosci student figured out how to turn on a computer, let alone stumble onto Slashdot.
"That means anything can happen, including "wardrobe malfunctions", and it won't be edited."
Sure, but if it were intentional then the show should have been rated as such. What's the point of these silly V-chips if the ratings don't match the content?
"I'll be just as cool as that kid down the road who still has a working Virtual Boy."
You have a very interesting definition of "cool" there, m'boy...
"I'd like to put this to the test. Are the http logs for Slashdot available? Can we see what platforms and what browsers people are using?"
MSIE on Linux, of course!
"the text part was a page or two from "The Wizard of Oz""
So the spammers are violating intellectual property laws? Well, that's a whole different story, then! Forward this off to the feds and they'll be arrested inside of a week, likely for violations of the DMCA PATRIOT Act or some such nonsense.
"Why not get maximum lift and just use a vacuum rather than a lighter-than-air gas?"
Because 14.7 psi is a nasty pressure differential to maintain (it's about a ton per square foot, or ten tonnes per square meter depending on where you live). A pinprick in a gas cell holding helium (maintained at slightly higher than air pressure) will slowly leak helium and gradually lose lift. A pinprick in a vacuum chamber will have air rushing in through that pinprick at monstrous velocities (~Mach 1, IIRC), possibly tearing a much bigger hole causing a catastrophic loss of lift as well as being knocked around in a random direction by the brief gale-force winds you just created (good luck maintaining control).
You could compensate for this by over-engineering your vacuum chambers by adding more/stronger materials, making the whole thing heavier and thus eliminating any advantages you'd have from using a vacuum instead of a light gas.
Helium on earth is so rare that it was first discovered on the sun. That's why it's named after the Greek god of the sun, Helios.
On the flip side, we found hydrogen by cracking water.
"The japanese must have some technology to bring Bonham back from the dead!"
MechaBonham!
It's not plagiarism if I had no knowledge of the priar post. If it worked for the PC BIOS it works for me. :)
Besides, it was either that or yet another WinNT joke.
"a Japanese company that plans to use the 12-seat craft for (...) advertising."
If they put light-emitting diodes on the sides for an electronic billboard, would that make it a LED Zeppelin?
"Some people might like GNOME, but most do not. I do not like it because it is not configureable."
I suspect GNOME was made by that particular subset of Linux coders who feel "configurable" means "includes the source code."
Actually, we should be fine so long as we don't build a Voyager 6.
See, if you were a true Star Trek geek you would have know that. Tsk tsk...
Um... hello? Have you not heard of Cassini? Sure, there may have been some fly-bys of Saturn and its moons in the past, but certainly none that are going to be spending a few years in the area. If the latest group of pictures from Phoebe are any indication...
Troll.