Looks like both a large bovine, and one that has the double muscling gene. (Which also occurs in other species -- humans, dogs, and I believe also mice.)
A whippet with double muscling is a bizarre sight.
I don't know about the cops doing it (tho egging on by shills as you describe is a time-honored technique; I remember reading about it being done during the French Revolution!), but I do know paid professional "protesters" incite both protests and disorderly conduct regularly. From what I've heard, there's considerable doubt as to whether ANY of the "protests" of the past several decades have been anything but professionally incited. Word around at the time was that the WTO protest was wholly astroturfed by pro inciters. I remember someone pointing out that the same faces were to be seen at every protest of anything in the northwest for the past decade, including that one. -- The pay is reputedly pretty good too. The conflict industry is quite profitable. (You don't see Jesse Jackson wearing secondhand suits, do you??)
I expect the cops know this and sometimes react by trying to get those pros to jail themselves. But I also expect the pros know the drill and so it's just ordinary idiots who get inflamed by any police shills. IMO the authorities pushing anyone toward disorderly or criminal conduct is entrapment, regardless of the situation.
But it does occur to me to wonder if the top dogs in the conflict industry are paying the cops to help stir things up -- cuz if there wasn't conflict, these people would be out of a relatively cushy job and might have to actually work for a living. I can't see ordinary beat cops thinking that a riot is a good idea, without someone Way Up Above pushing the concept, who has a vested interest in conflict... the more conflict, the more speaking engagements and the more books sold to those outraged by Whatever, especially if their Outrage became Us vs Authority (ie. was incited to become a riot thus memorable in the public eye -- cheap advertising!!)
So... the notion that we need more and better crowd control is suspect from the gitgo. If you need more than water cannon, maybe you should be looking somewhere other than at the crowd.
Ah, but you know it now:) I looked into it when it first came around, noted that it offered the perk of notifying me about relationship changes, and since I find it interesting to read what my fans and freaks have to say, this was a nice timesaver vs looking down the list to spot the new names. Since it doesn't charge for every page viewed, a sub lasts me a couple years, and that feels like enough of a bargain to keep me subscribed.
We already have water cannon, if the object is crowd control/riot control/etc. Why do we need something with what strikes me as considerably more potential for damaging people, since they won't be able to SEE it and get the hell out of its path?
Potatoes are a gateway to violence. Millions of children are taught to drive pointy objects into Mr.Potatohead. Then they grow up to be punks and drive nails into each other's scalps.
Clearly potatoes are a menace to society, and should be banned.
The only site I subscribe to is... Slashdot. Why? Well, I use it every day, and the sub has a few small perks that are useful to me. But I probably wouldn't do so except that they made it easy and cheap: it costs me 5 cents per page, paid in $5 units whenever I run out of "pages". (But you knew that.:)
I don't use the NYTimes site nearly that often -- usually I only do so when some link from here refers me there, which amounts to once or twice a month, and occasionally to refer someone to an old article. Okay, as it stands that wouldn't impact me, which is probably fair. Would I consider an arrangement similar to slashdot's? Probably, if I were that regular a reader. But a flat rate? Probably not.
BTW the oldest login cookie on my computer is from NYTimes.com, dating to 1996:)
Small Example -- a friend has a very expensive transparency scanner that he sees no reason to spend several hundred bucks to replace -- but it will only play ball with Win98. So he keeps a Win98 system for its sole use, that being more economical than replacing the scanner.
Large Example: There are a lot of point-of-sale units out there that will only speak to some older version of WinNT, or at best to Win2K. Which is more cost-effective for a cash-strapped small business -- replacing dozens, hundreds, or maybe even thousands of these units at a couple grand apiece, or maintaining a few paid-for NT/2K servers for their benefit?
While this is definitely a niche market, don't dismiss the need -- it has real economic impact, and as a result it's unlikely to go away any time soon.
"ReactOS offers a third alternative, for people who are fed up with Microsoft's policies but do not want to give up the familiar environment, architectural design, and millions of existing software applications and thousands of hardware drivers."
Exactly... and the unfortunate fact is, we got to this point by trying to be cooperative in the face of the massive 'inconvenience' that the authorities are able to inflict on us when we don't bend over. If no one had ever bent over in the first place, the authorities wouldn't have the default winning position.
Don't forget that such "massacres" are in fact loud, messy SUICIDES: "On my way out, I'll show the world just how much they hurt me, and hurt them back just as much".
There, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with parenting today:
Your excellent and old-fashioned parents would have known enough to assume the best, and stuck up for their kid, and meanwhile you were allowed to do what normal kids do -- experiment with whatever comes to hand.
Nowadays we squelch the experimenting in the name of safety, and castigate any parent or child who doesn't like being locked into the Safety Bubble. Thanks to the insanity of "zero tolerance" and "safety uber alis" and always assuming the worst, we're raising a generation of neurotics and incompetents. And quite possibly a generation of the worst sort of rebels, once they get out there on their own (think SDS, etc.)
According to TFA, this is a school that "emphasizes technology skills". The principal SHOULD have had the tech skills to evaluate the project, or at least had plenty of access to someone who did -- maybe the kid's science teacher is a logical candidate??
But no, instead here we go stifling innovation in the name of "a little temporary safety".
This is all fine and dandy, but the problem arises when you cultivate the orchids to the point that they dominate the population. The fact is, without the majority being dandelions, the species won't survive. You need a lot of dandelions to take care of even just a few orchids. Conversely, orchids cannot take care of dandelions, or even of themselves should their world go pear-shaped.
Civilized society may be approaching that point where the orchids begin to dominate -- and then what happens next time there's a major upheaval??
TFA puts this in a nutshell: ========= Experts say such high expectations are a recipe for disappointment. Meanwhile, they also note some well-meaning but overprotective parents have left their children with few real-world coping skills, whether that means doing their own budget or confronting professors on their own.
"If you don't have these skills, then it's very normal to become anxious," says Dr. Elizabeth Alderman, an adolescent medicine specialist at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City who hopes the new study will be a wake-up call to those parents. ========
Maybe not. Have you ever watched how other animals deal with each other? They hit, bite, kick, scratch, and generally knock each other around, both for fun and to discipline an underling. And they don't wind up "scarred for life" by it. Why are humans so fragile??
I think the truth is that we're NOT, and that a certain level of interpersonal violence is actually normal, simply because we're animals, and that's how animals instinctively behave.
Hell, watch how children discipline one another when there's no adult intervention -- one hits, the other hits back; the first learns that there are direct consequences to being a jerk, and the 2nd learns that it's okay to defend yourself. But if an adult intervenes, the first kid fails to receive the lesson (other than "don't let 'em see you do it"), and the 2nd learns to be a victim. This is a recipe for creating bullies and wimps, but it won't lead to normally-adjusted kids who figure out that you can only go so far before you reap consequences.
Until less than a century ago, this is how most kids grew up. Then we started overprotecting all the kids just like some pampered royalty had been, and now what? We have a generation of spoiled brats and victims, and now we're seeing the consequences of these maladjusted children raising children.
As to violence that goes too far and kills someone -- all species engage in a certain amount of culling behaviour, and human children are no different. A child that is "odd" or sub-normal will get picked on by other kids, because instinct says "cull the weakling". But now we rescue those weaklings, because it's not PC to let anyone be maltreated. While this benefits those weaklings, what is it doing to our society and our gene pool, over the long term?? Nothing good, I suspect.
This reminds me of a study a while back that concluded that kids actually do NOT get a "sugar high". And on thinking about that...
Adults eat 3 times a day. But that's not often enough for kids. By the time the next meal rolls around they've run out of fuel and are dragging. Give 'em sugar and that fuel is replenished (remember, everything in your body ultimately runs on sugar), and they rebound to the merely NORMAL kid energy level, which is a LOT more than most modern adults think. (At least, now that we're all supposed to be full-time couch potatoes and never go outdoors.)
Not to mention a potential lifesaver for that patient who's bleeding out. Sometimes you just don't *have* time to wait for someone to hoof it up the stairs.
It's also a good example of *appropriate* tech for the job at hand, which is moving small objects to and from multiple locations as rapidly as possible. It's still in use because it's efficient and cost-effective for a sprawling facility that needs to move lots of small objects.
Seems to be another benefit for money-handling is that it's relatively secure against in-transit pilferage, tho that doesn't rule out deliberate mis-routing.
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Looks like both a large bovine, and one that has the double muscling gene. (Which also occurs in other species -- humans, dogs, and I believe also mice.)
A whippet with double muscling is a bizarre sight.
I don't know about the cops doing it (tho egging on by shills as you describe is a time-honored technique; I remember reading about it being done during the French Revolution!), but I do know paid professional "protesters" incite both protests and disorderly conduct regularly. From what I've heard, there's considerable doubt as to whether ANY of the "protests" of the past several decades have been anything but professionally incited. Word around at the time was that the WTO protest was wholly astroturfed by pro inciters. I remember someone pointing out that the same faces were to be seen at every protest of anything in the northwest for the past decade, including that one. -- The pay is reputedly pretty good too. The conflict industry is quite profitable. (You don't see Jesse Jackson wearing secondhand suits, do you??)
I expect the cops know this and sometimes react by trying to get those pros to jail themselves. But I also expect the pros know the drill and so it's just ordinary idiots who get inflamed by any police shills. IMO the authorities pushing anyone toward disorderly or criminal conduct is entrapment, regardless of the situation.
But it does occur to me to wonder if the top dogs in the conflict industry are paying the cops to help stir things up -- cuz if there wasn't conflict, these people would be out of a relatively cushy job and might have to actually work for a living. I can't see ordinary beat cops thinking that a riot is a good idea, without someone Way Up Above pushing the concept, who has a vested interest in conflict... the more conflict, the more speaking engagements and the more books sold to those outraged by Whatever, especially if their Outrage became Us vs Authority (ie. was incited to become a riot thus memorable in the public eye -- cheap advertising!!)
So... the notion that we need more and better crowd control is suspect from the gitgo. If you need more than water cannon, maybe you should be looking somewhere other than at the crowd.
I thought of that. Then I thought.. how often do you really need "crowd control" where you don't have a fire hydrant handy?
And then I thought... maybe in a 3rd world country. But we don't have many crowds rioting in cow pastures in the U.S.
Ah, but you know it now :) I looked into it when it first came around, noted that it offered the perk of notifying me about relationship changes, and since I find it interesting to read what my fans and freaks have to say, this was a nice timesaver vs looking down the list to spot the new names. Since it doesn't charge for every page viewed, a sub lasts me a couple years, and that feels like enough of a bargain to keep me subscribed.
As TFA fails to mention -- the portable boom box was a failed prototype.
We already have water cannon, if the object is crowd control/riot control/etc. Why do we need something with what strikes me as considerably more potential for damaging people, since they won't be able to SEE it and get the hell out of its path?
Or maybe that IS the object.
Potatoes are a gateway to violence. Millions of children are taught to drive pointy objects into Mr.Potatohead. Then they grow up to be punks and drive nails into each other's scalps.
Clearly potatoes are a menace to society, and should be banned.
The only site I subscribe to is... Slashdot. Why? Well, I use it every day, and the sub has a few small perks that are useful to me. But I probably wouldn't do so except that they made it easy and cheap: it costs me 5 cents per page, paid in $5 units whenever I run out of "pages". (But you knew that. :)
I don't use the NYTimes site nearly that often -- usually I only do so when some link from here refers me there, which amounts to once or twice a month, and occasionally to refer someone to an old article. Okay, as it stands that wouldn't impact me, which is probably fair. Would I consider an arrangement similar to slashdot's? Probably, if I were that regular a reader. But a flat rate? Probably not.
BTW the oldest login cookie on my computer is from NYTimes.com, dating to 1996 :)
Or can't justify the budget.
Small Example -- a friend has a very expensive transparency scanner that he sees no reason to spend several hundred bucks to replace -- but it will only play ball with Win98. So he keeps a Win98 system for its sole use, that being more economical than replacing the scanner.
Large Example: There are a lot of point-of-sale units out there that will only speak to some older version of WinNT, or at best to Win2K. Which is more cost-effective for a cash-strapped small business -- replacing dozens, hundreds, or maybe even thousands of these units at a couple grand apiece, or maintaining a few paid-for NT/2K servers for their benefit?
While this is definitely a niche market, don't dismiss the need -- it has real economic impact, and as a result it's unlikely to go away any time soon.
Or as it says on http://www.reactos.org/en/about_whyreactos.html
"ReactOS offers a third alternative, for people who are fed up with Microsoft's policies but do not want to give up the familiar environment, architectural design, and millions of existing software applications and thousands of hardware drivers."
This is exactly why ReactOS interests me.
So how DO they try to compensate for the fuel slosh?
IANAE, but my first thought was using a pressurized bladder to maintain a static "shape" inside the fuel tank.
I never heard of flouring a power pole -- what's that supposed to simulate??
Exactly... and the unfortunate fact is, we got to this point by trying to be cooperative in the face of the massive 'inconvenience' that the authorities are able to inflict on us when we don't bend over. If no one had ever bent over in the first place, the authorities wouldn't have the default winning position.
I think your tagline adequately illustrates the point. :/
Don't forget that such "massacres" are in fact loud, messy SUICIDES: "On my way out, I'll show the world just how much they hurt me, and hurt them back just as much".
There, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with parenting today:
Your excellent and old-fashioned parents would have known enough to assume the best, and stuck up for their kid, and meanwhile you were allowed to do what normal kids do -- experiment with whatever comes to hand.
Nowadays we squelch the experimenting in the name of safety, and castigate any parent or child who doesn't like being locked into the Safety Bubble. Thanks to the insanity of "zero tolerance" and "safety uber alis" and always assuming the worst, we're raising a generation of neurotics and incompetents. And quite possibly a generation of the worst sort of rebels, once they get out there on their own (think SDS, etc.)
According to TFA, this is a school that "emphasizes technology skills". The principal SHOULD have had the tech skills to evaluate the project, or at least had plenty of access to someone who did -- maybe the kid's science teacher is a logical candidate??
But no, instead here we go stifling innovation in the name of "a little temporary safety".
This is all fine and dandy, but the problem arises when you cultivate the orchids to the point that they dominate the population. The fact is, without the majority being dandelions, the species won't survive. You need a lot of dandelions to take care of even just a few orchids. Conversely, orchids cannot take care of dandelions, or even of themselves should their world go pear-shaped.
Civilized society may be approaching that point where the orchids begin to dominate -- and then what happens next time there's a major upheaval??
TFA puts this in a nutshell:
=========
Experts say such high expectations are a recipe for disappointment. Meanwhile, they also note some well-meaning but overprotective parents have left their children with few real-world coping skills, whether that means doing their own budget or confronting professors on their own.
"If you don't have these skills, then it's very normal to become anxious," says Dr. Elizabeth Alderman, an adolescent medicine specialist at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City who hopes the new study will be a wake-up call to those parents.
========
Maybe not. Have you ever watched how other animals deal with each other? They hit, bite, kick, scratch, and generally knock each other around, both for fun and to discipline an underling. And they don't wind up "scarred for life" by it. Why are humans so fragile??
I think the truth is that we're NOT, and that a certain level of interpersonal violence is actually normal, simply because we're animals, and that's how animals instinctively behave.
Hell, watch how children discipline one another when there's no adult intervention -- one hits, the other hits back; the first learns that there are direct consequences to being a jerk, and the 2nd learns that it's okay to defend yourself. But if an adult intervenes, the first kid fails to receive the lesson (other than "don't let 'em see you do it"), and the 2nd learns to be a victim. This is a recipe for creating bullies and wimps, but it won't lead to normally-adjusted kids who figure out that you can only go so far before you reap consequences.
Until less than a century ago, this is how most kids grew up. Then we started overprotecting all the kids just like some pampered royalty had been, and now what? We have a generation of spoiled brats and victims, and now we're seeing the consequences of these maladjusted children raising children.
As to violence that goes too far and kills someone -- all species engage in a certain amount of culling behaviour, and human children are no different. A child that is "odd" or sub-normal will get picked on by other kids, because instinct says "cull the weakling". But now we rescue those weaklings, because it's not PC to let anyone be maltreated. While this benefits those weaklings, what is it doing to our society and our gene pool, over the long term?? Nothing good, I suspect.
This reminds me of a study a while back that concluded that kids actually do NOT get a "sugar high". And on thinking about that...
Adults eat 3 times a day. But that's not often enough for kids. By the time the next meal rolls around they've run out of fuel and are dragging. Give 'em sugar and that fuel is replenished (remember, everything in your body ultimately runs on sugar), and they rebound to the merely NORMAL kid energy level, which is a LOT more than most modern adults think. (At least, now that we're all supposed to be full-time couch potatoes and never go outdoors.)
Neither did I, and there were some doozies over in the Pneumatic Tubes discussion :)
Not to mention a potential lifesaver for that patient who's bleeding out. Sometimes you just don't *have* time to wait for someone to hoof it up the stairs.
Dang... and here I thought you were going to use it to deliver beer!!
It's also a good example of *appropriate* tech for the job at hand, which is moving small objects to and from multiple locations as rapidly as possible. It's still in use because it's efficient and cost-effective for a sprawling facility that needs to move lots of small objects.
Seems to be another benefit for money-handling is that it's relatively secure against in-transit pilferage, tho that doesn't rule out deliberate mis-routing.