It's not that ignorance isn't plausible, or even relevant, but that it cannot be used as prima facie evidence against criminal charges. It doesn't *excuse* a criminal act. It *can* be mitigating though. If it were any other way, you'd have people claiming they didn't know rape was illegal.
The problem I have with the theory of pubescent shifting is twofold: First, medical science was certainly not inspecting or documenting the sexual development of girls until quite recently. I believe that it is precisely because we have more clearly defined the properties of puberty, along with the more thorough physical examinations common to modern medicine, that we are able to identify those properties earlier and more reliably. Just because you wear light-amplifying glasses doesn't mean it's getting light earlier.
Second, even ancient rituals, like bar and bat mitzvahs, suggest that boys and girls were considered mature by age 12 and 13, respectively. To chose those ages, we can be reasonably certain that either all, or nearly all, girls and boys were presumed to have become sexually mature by such age. It's the same reason we use ages 18 and 21 today; not because a few people *might* be capable of handling added responsibility by those ages, but because the overwhelming majority *will* be.
There's a greater opportunity that I will lose my arm if I stick it in a wood chipper. That doesn't mean it's "guaranteed safe" by not placing it in said chipper. The opposite of "greater than" is not zero.
And it's no less propaganda than any stump speech you'll hear today.
Every era has its own issues, and must grapple with them accordingly. History can be a good guideline, but each situation is unique. Instant global communication was not a factor when Common Sense was written; nor was healthcare, nor WMDs, nor pollution (on any significant scale) etc. Likewise, some issues have ceased to be relevant. The fact that England is across an ocean, for example, is nearly moot when it comes to governance in the modern world. Washington, D.C. is closer to London than it is to Hawaii, so if the U.S. can govern Hawaii, then England could govern the U.S.
None of this is to say that new issues can't be tackled using the same strategies as in the past, but when you introduce new variables into an equation (or remove others), it must be re-balanced if you wish to keep the results consistent -- shutting our eyes and singing a song about the past doesn't fix anything.
warning, even reading the description will make you reach for the brain bleach
Meh.. I'm a huge pussy when it comes to seeing *actual* injury, especially intentional, but fictional scenarios don't bother me much at all -- especially a highly implausible and unworkable scenario such as this. I haven't watched the film, but you'd have to prevent suffocation, dehydration, malnutrition, and infection. Not to mention that popping stitches is hard enough to prevent accidentally, let alone intentionally. It's ridiculous.
You obviously missed the fact that he had to type that on his laptop from 2009 on a puny 30Mbit connection, you insensitive clod. If having to use a laptop, let alone one from last year, isn't peasantry, then I don't know what is.
Lastly, just put a fucking antenna on the phone like every phone for 20 years has had, and these problems disappear entirely.
The reason antennas migrated to the interior wasn't (just) for aesthetic reasons, but because the advent of fractal antennas allowed an (electrically) simple antenna that could be tuned for multiple frequencies (multiband) in a compact package. This was basically the biggest revolution in antennas in 30+ years. It's the reason we have bluetooth and WiFi on USB sticks and in phones, as well as RFID tags. It doesn't hurt that they're also dirt cheap to manufacture.
0.55% of 1.7M iPhones (the number of units sold in the first 3 days -- presumably more have been sold since then) is still 9,350 people. And considering that for each actual complaint, there are anywhere between 10 and 25 people with the same problem who *don't* complain, that's a lot of people.
Furthermore, *every* iPhone 4 that was tested (that I've seen) has the problem. A supposed lack of consumer awareness doesn't negate that fact. Citing a low and mostly irrelevant statistic is a transparent attempt to downplay the problems of a phone that loses a signal when you hold it like a phone. It's like buying a new car with chipped paint, and the dealer saying "Oh, well, we'll throw in a free car cover, then nobody will see the chips."
At least they've dropped the "restocking fee" for returning the phone, but it's all pretty poor service in my opinion. What I see is a CEO trying to call a bluff. "Really? You don't like it? Then return it." I honestly hope thousands of people return their phones, even if they buy a new one when the problem is truly resolved.
The 8139 is one of the shittiest NICs ever created. It personifies the Realtek ethos of bottom-of-the-barrel, "get it to sort-of work and ship it" engineering. The fact that it works on "any operating system you've ever installed" is a testament not to the virtues of Realtek, but the skill and dedication of a few people who undertook the monumental task of creating drivers. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I have $5 surround sound on my motherboard, but I still wouldn't piss on Realtek to put out a fire.
* Supports several extremely cheap PCI 10/100 adapters based on
40 * the RealTek chipset. Datasheets can be obtained from
41 * www.realtek.com.tw.
42 *
43 * Written by Bill Paul
44 * Electrical Engineering Department
45 * Columbia University, New York City
46 */
47/*
48 * The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is
49 * probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible
50 * exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master
51 * DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance
52 * gains that bus-master DMA usually offers.
53 *
54 * For transmission, the chip offers a series of four TX descriptor
55 * registers. Each transmit frame must be in a contiguous buffer, aligned
56 * on a longword (32-bit) boundary. This means we almost always have to
57 * do mbuf copies in order to transmit a frame, except in the unlikely
58 * case where a) the packet fits into a single mbuf, and b) the packet
59 * is 32-bit aligned within the mbuf's data area. The presence of only
60 * four descriptor registers means that we can never have more than four
61 * packets queued for transmission at any one time.
62 *
63 * Reception is not much better. The driver has to allocate a single large
64 * buffer area (up to 64K in size) into which the chip will DMA received
65 * frames. Because we don't know where within this region received packets
66 * will begin or end, we have no choice but to copy data from the buffer
67 * area into mbufs in order to pass the packets up to the higher protocol
68 * levels.
69 *
70 * It's impossible given this rotten design to really achieve decent
71 * performance at 100Mbps, unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or
72 * some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it.
73 *
74 * On the bright side, the 8139 does have a built-in PHY, although
75 * rather than using an MDIO serial interface like most other NICs, the
76 * PHY registers are directly accessible through the 8139's register
77 * space. The 8139 supports autonegotiation, as well as a 64-bit multicast
78 * filter.
79 *
80 * The 8129 chip is an older version of the 8139 that uses an external PHY
81 * chip. The 8129 has a serial MDIO interface for accessing the MII where
82 * the 8139 lets you directly access the on-board PHY registers. We need
83 * to select which interface to use depending on the chip type.
84 */
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It's not that ignorance isn't plausible, or even relevant, but that it cannot be used as prima facie evidence against criminal charges. It doesn't *excuse* a criminal act. It *can* be mitigating though. If it were any other way, you'd have people claiming they didn't know rape was illegal.
a madman armed with an axe and knife breaking into your house...is not something to ignore.
Nor are the acts of madmen worth extrapolating into a larger problem, the same way Jodie Foster isn't a cause of presidential assassinations.
Oops, that should have been reversed; girls @ 12, boys @ 13
The problem I have with the theory of pubescent shifting is twofold: First, medical science was certainly not inspecting or documenting the sexual development of girls until quite recently. I believe that it is precisely because we have more clearly defined the properties of puberty, along with the more thorough physical examinations common to modern medicine, that we are able to identify those properties earlier and more reliably. Just because you wear light-amplifying glasses doesn't mean it's getting light earlier.
Second, even ancient rituals, like bar and bat mitzvahs, suggest that boys and girls were considered mature by age 12 and 13, respectively. To chose those ages, we can be reasonably certain that either all, or nearly all, girls and boys were presumed to have become sexually mature by such age. It's the same reason we use ages 18 and 21 today; not because a few people *might* be capable of handling added responsibility by those ages, but because the overwhelming majority *will* be.
There's a greater opportunity that I will lose my arm if I stick it in a wood chipper. That doesn't mean it's "guaranteed safe" by not placing it in said chipper. The opposite of "greater than" is not zero.
And it's no less propaganda than any stump speech you'll hear today.
Every era has its own issues, and must grapple with them accordingly. History can be a good guideline, but each situation is unique. Instant global communication was not a factor when Common Sense was written; nor was healthcare, nor WMDs, nor pollution (on any significant scale) etc. Likewise, some issues have ceased to be relevant. The fact that England is across an ocean, for example, is nearly moot when it comes to governance in the modern world. Washington, D.C. is closer to London than it is to Hawaii, so if the U.S. can govern Hawaii, then England could govern the U.S.
None of this is to say that new issues can't be tackled using the same strategies as in the past, but when you introduce new variables into an equation (or remove others), it must be re-balanced if you wish to keep the results consistent -- shutting our eyes and singing a song about the past doesn't fix anything.
Re:US Hysterical
We are pretty funny, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we're hysterical. Hilarious maybe.
The 00's called; they want their joke back.
Yeah, puppies are bad, but not as bad as people.
Pics or it didn't happen.
warning, even reading the description will make you reach for the brain bleach
Meh.. I'm a huge pussy when it comes to seeing *actual* injury, especially intentional, but fictional scenarios don't bother me much at all -- especially a highly implausible and unworkable scenario such as this. I haven't watched the film, but you'd have to prevent suffocation, dehydration, malnutrition, and infection. Not to mention that popping stitches is hard enough to prevent accidentally, let alone intentionally. It's ridiculous.
Similarly, I have used anesthetic. Without splinters, because I am a junkie.
The woman at the counter looked funny at him and I intervened knowing how punctual the Germans sometimes are.
Good thing you were there to add a measure of cromulence.
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For male patients (aka, anyone reading this), putting a hot girl in the room will instantly cure any phobia... except perhaps fear of women.
You obviously missed the fact that he had to type that on his laptop from 2009 on a puny 30Mbit connection, you insensitive clod. If having to use a laptop, let alone one from last year, isn't peasantry, then I don't know what is.
It's funny because it's true. For anyone who didn't know, glaciers literally move at a glacial pace.
Most people, yes, though perhaps not with the same Rube Goldbergois.
Like everything else, it's not as exclusive as it used to be. :(
Astronaut 1 stamps her foot on the floor of the cave.
Astronaut 1: This ground sure feels strange. It doesn't feel like rock at all.
Astronaut 2 kneels and studies the ground, then attempts to study the outline
of the cave.
Astronaut 2: There's an awful lot of moisture in here.
Astronaut 1: I don't know. I have a bad feeling about this.
Lastly, just put a fucking antenna on the phone like every phone for 20 years has had, and these problems disappear entirely.
The reason antennas migrated to the interior wasn't (just) for aesthetic reasons, but because the advent of fractal antennas allowed an (electrically) simple antenna that could be tuned for multiple frequencies (multiband) in a compact package. This was basically the biggest revolution in antennas in 30+ years. It's the reason we have bluetooth and WiFi on USB sticks and in phones, as well as RFID tags. It doesn't hurt that they're also dirt cheap to manufacture.
0.55% of 1.7M iPhones (the number of units sold in the first 3 days -- presumably more have been sold since then) is still 9,350 people. And considering that for each actual complaint, there are anywhere between 10 and 25 people with the same problem who *don't* complain, that's a lot of people.
Furthermore, *every* iPhone 4 that was tested (that I've seen) has the problem. A supposed lack of consumer awareness doesn't negate that fact. Citing a low and mostly irrelevant statistic is a transparent attempt to downplay the problems of a phone that loses a signal when you hold it like a phone. It's like buying a new car with chipped paint, and the dealer saying "Oh, well, we'll throw in a free car cover, then nobody will see the chips."
At least they've dropped the "restocking fee" for returning the phone, but it's all pretty poor service in my opinion. What I see is a CEO trying to call a bluff. "Really? You don't like it? Then return it." I honestly hope thousands of people return their phones, even if they buy a new one when the problem is truly resolved.
Specifically, it's a Devanagari R with a horizontal line through the top
Those letters look all Chinese n'junk.
Pronunciation is a soft R, similar to French.
And Boston.
The 8139 is one of the shittiest NICs ever created. It personifies the Realtek ethos of bottom-of-the-barrel, "get it to sort-of work and ship it" engineering. The fact that it works on "any operating system you've ever installed" is a testament not to the virtues of Realtek, but the skill and dedication of a few people who undertook the monumental task of creating drivers. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I have $5 surround sound on my motherboard, but I still wouldn't piss on Realtek to put out a fire.
http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/pci/if_rl.c