You can make an effective explosive from propane mixed with liquid ammonia. The question is how much you can drag along before someone says, as noted above, "Why are you carrying a bunch of gallon jugs??"
[Some years ago my neighbor's travel trailer turned into a small bomb from both the gas and fridge systems leaking at the same time. Flattened the trailer, the garage, and a row of mature pines. 'Course, that probably involved 10 gallons of propane, a bit much for carry-on luggage.]
When I was in the 6th grade, I made a bow-and-arrow from two ballpoint pen refills, a straight pin, and a rubber band. Imagine my astonishment when I shot it and my improvised "arrow" flew across the whole classroom and embedded itself in the drywall.
Now imagine a whole army of ballpoint-archer terrorists.;)
Remember when going out to the airport, parking at the end of the runway, and watching the planes was a popular spectator sport? (Well, at least for those of us old enough that commercial airliners were a novelty...)
Now, you'd barely get parked and get your binoculars out, and the SWAT team would descend on you.
I'm wondering how they can hold that email (a collection of electrons) isn't private, ie. privately owned by its author, but an MP3 (also a collection of electrons) is indeed private property that could be 'stolen'.
Back in the days of dialup, because that email went over a telephone line, it was held that it did require a warrant. However, this was also taken to NOT apply if it went over a network. (There was a court case over it, tho that's all I remember about it. This was back so long ago that broadband was rare.)
And they forget that the Constitution, and in particular the Bill of Rights, is not a set of limits on what the People may do. Rather, it is a set of limits on what the *government* may do.
However, the common modern misinterpretation is that it's more in line with the old Soviet jape: "All things not compulsory are forbidden."
That was real common with Maxtors... they'd just QUIT between one moment and the next. Replacing the logic board often fixed the issue, as with yours. I've never done it myself (I learned from others' misery and never use Maxtors for anything but scratch space) but I know one guy who practically made a business of it.
I'm also wondering just how long the NK armed forces would remain loyal once they've crossed the border... I'd guess until either each unit's CO runs out of ammo, or someone frags him.
Hadn't realised the Cat masses that much. Holyshit... same applies to rail, tho, a few tons one way or the other is trivial when the lightest railcar I see going by (I live next to a busy freight line) rates at 68,000 lbs empty, plus or minus accumulated crud. And a lot of the load is sea-cargo containers, which I doubt were more than inventoried as "container #NNN, XX-tons" on their way off-ship.
Right, arrest you before you can make noise and disturb the peace... before any crime (er, infraction, more likely) is committed. So what someone needs to do is have all the setup for the "illegal party" -- except don't party. Just rig all the props. Then let's see what the cops have to say, not to mention the courts.
Methinks that's more to the point... it's like road checkpoints, an excuse to poke their noses in, just in case you MIGHT have pot in the trunk, or in the case of house parties, meth in your bathtub.
I doubt noise complaints are more than the excuse, just as drunk driving is the excuse for road checkpoints. Both are fishing expeditions using an occasional real problem as the excuse to escalate a fishing expedition into an investigation.
Methinks the drop in Real Crimes (per FBI stats) leaves cops with not enough to do *to justify their jobs*, so they're inventing new opportunities to Stop Crime.
The majority of pro-atheist arguments I've seen have centered on "evidence that there is no god". Which isn't the same as "there is no evidence of god". These are different arguments. -- Your argumentative types may vary.
(I no longer have any arguments, since I don't care.:)
I think it's the American culture of "stay in school, get a good job" and that it's such an expectation that we Yanks just go to college immediately after high school. I think we might be better served by a year or two roaming the earth and doing odd jobs, tho... given how many college kids don't seem to really know what they want to do as yet, and are going to school out of sheer force of habit.
OTOH, the study culture is hard to get back into once you've left it.
I've met plenty of aggressive-atheists who are hellbent on selling you their lack of religion, or "there is no god" or whatever. I don't think this is intrinsically better than the aggressive-religioso who is hellbent on selling you his god. The religious types are more likely to band together on their own, which can become a sort of mob rule. However, the atheist types can impose their vision too, see various Communist regimes that forbade the practice of religion.
[disclaimer: I'm an atheist who doesn't give a damn what anyone else believes, tho I might find it interesting to talk about]
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You can make an effective explosive from propane mixed with liquid ammonia. The question is how much you can drag along before someone says, as noted above, "Why are you carrying a bunch of gallon jugs??"
[Some years ago my neighbor's travel trailer turned into a small bomb from both the gas and fridge systems leaking at the same time. Flattened the trailer, the garage, and a row of mature pines. 'Course, that probably involved 10 gallons of propane, a bit much for carry-on luggage.]
When I was in the 6th grade, I made a bow-and-arrow from two ballpoint pen refills, a straight pin, and a rubber band. Imagine my astonishment when I shot it and my improvised "arrow" flew across the whole classroom and embedded itself in the drywall.
Now imagine a whole army of ballpoint-archer terrorists. ;)
Remember when going out to the airport, parking at the end of the runway, and watching the planes was a popular spectator sport? (Well, at least for those of us old enough that commercial airliners were a novelty...)
Now, you'd barely get parked and get your binoculars out, and the SWAT team would descend on you.
That's an interesting distinction, and good to know.
Tho I was thinking more in terms of just barging in and searching the whole business. (Well, if I remember what I meant, ha.)
That sounds good in theory, but in practice, if the cops want to raid someone, they can always find a judge willing to sign a warrant.
And that page spit up this tagline:
QOTD: "I don't think they could put him in a mental hospital. On the other hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out."
If there's no expectation of privacy, then it shouldn't be illegal to, say, hack into someone's PC.
Do as we say, not as we do!
For those who had the same question I did:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0218/Who-is-Joe-Stack
I'm wondering how they can hold that email (a collection of electrons) isn't private, ie. privately owned by its author, but an MP3 (also a collection of electrons) is indeed private property that could be 'stolen'.
Either falls under 'effects', ie. "your stuff".
Back in the days of dialup, because that email went over a telephone line, it was held that it did require a warrant. However, this was also taken to NOT apply if it went over a network. (There was a court case over it, tho that's all I remember about it. This was back so long ago that broadband was rare.)
And they forget that the Constitution, and in particular the Bill of Rights, is not a set of limits on what the People may do. Rather, it is a set of limits on what the *government* may do.
However, the common modern misinterpretation is that it's more in line with the old Soviet jape: "All things not compulsory are forbidden."
But if it only applies to a "home", then no warrant would be required to search a business.
Same with fixed wireless. Every time it rained or snowed, my connection was gone with the wind.
Tho from the failed bearings I've seen on Seagates, a grease fitting might be right in order!!
That was real common with Maxtors... they'd just QUIT between one moment and the next. Replacing the logic board often fixed the issue, as with yours. I've never done it myself (I learned from others' misery and never use Maxtors for anything but scratch space) but I know one guy who practically made a business of it.
I'm also wondering just how long the NK armed forces would remain loyal once they've crossed the border... I'd guess until either each unit's CO runs out of ammo, or someone frags him.
Hadn't realised the Cat masses that much. Holyshit... same applies to rail, tho, a few tons one way or the other is trivial when the lightest railcar I see going by (I live next to a busy freight line) rates at 68,000 lbs empty, plus or minus accumulated crud. And a lot of the load is sea-cargo containers, which I doubt were more than inventoried as "container #NNN, XX-tons" on their way off-ship.
Right, arrest you before you can make noise and disturb the peace... before any crime (er, infraction, more likely) is committed. So what someone needs to do is have all the setup for the "illegal party" -- except don't party. Just rig all the props. Then let's see what the cops have to say, not to mention the courts.
Methinks that's more to the point... it's like road checkpoints, an excuse to poke their noses in, just in case you MIGHT have pot in the trunk, or in the case of house parties, meth in your bathtub.
I doubt noise complaints are more than the excuse, just as drunk driving is the excuse for road checkpoints. Both are fishing expeditions using an occasional real problem as the excuse to escalate a fishing expedition into an investigation.
Methinks the drop in Real Crimes (per FBI stats) leaves cops with not enough to do *to justify their jobs*, so they're inventing new opportunities to Stop Crime.
A crime or an infraction??
I've run into 'em a lot. Prolly get more of 'em in the SF community, is why. Not so much stupid as convinced of the rightness of their evidence.
The majority of pro-atheist arguments I've seen have centered on "evidence that there is no god". Which isn't the same as "there is no evidence of god". These are different arguments. -- Your argumentative types may vary.
(I no longer have any arguments, since I don't care. :)
I think it's the American culture of "stay in school, get a good job" and that it's such an expectation that we Yanks just go to college immediately after high school. I think we might be better served by a year or two roaming the earth and doing odd jobs, tho... given how many college kids don't seem to really know what they want to do as yet, and are going to school out of sheer force of habit.
OTOH, the study culture is hard to get back into once you've left it.
I've met plenty of aggressive-atheists who are hellbent on selling you their lack of religion, or "there is no god" or whatever. I don't think this is intrinsically better than the aggressive-religioso who is hellbent on selling you his god. The religious types are more likely to band together on their own, which can become a sort of mob rule. However, the atheist types can impose their vision too, see various Communist regimes that forbade the practice of religion.
[disclaimer: I'm an atheist who doesn't give a damn what anyone else believes, tho I might find it interesting to talk about]