A lock on your own house to which you do not have the master key is not a security system, it is a jail.
I get his overall point regarding source, I do, and I agree; but it would help his case if he didn't use such broken analogies. If I have a key, and the landlord has a master key, it does not mean I'm in "jail"; he's not going to lock me into my own home because I have a key of my own, just not a master key. It's just that the landlord can get into my home too. It's more like easy-peasy burglary, but "jail" was a rather stupid way to put it.
Considering that some people will drive an extra 3 miles to go to a gas station that's just 4 cents cheaper per gallon, yeah, a lot of people probably would.
Censorship has a flatter connotation to it than bias.
Most journalists are loathe to criticize Obama but will do so just enough lately to maintain some sense of credibility; after all, when a "journalist" fawns and creams himself over a political figure like so many did at the 2008 inauguration, a total 180 is nigh impossible. They publicly bought it hook line and sinker, and now they can't back down.
You know, I looked at that and looked at that, and thought something was wrong, but had a brain fart and thought, no, there's no "e" on the end.
Spank me with a wet noodle, I'm an idiot.
Ah, but then... here is the very important part: it's open for abuse. The system you mention is a very good system as long as the one doing the checking is wise enough to not push it too far. But it can be very easy to think people should be doing more (the stereotypical boss who wants more productivity and doesn't care about how it works in practice, or looks at the wrong productivity signals [tickets solved vs difficulty/importance of tickets solved]), and/or sanction things that you normally wouldn't even if you knew them.
EVERY system is open to abuse, that's human nature.
Those delivery workers who were goofing off were in fact guilty of abusing the current system., so... abuse happens. Was this fair to their coworkers-? No.
This rule postulates GPSes be installed in the police cruisers, not the cop's personal vehicles.. they're on the clock, so it'd be a little hard to see how this would be abused. It's accountability.
Perhaps the next advancement in "body cavity" bombs is goatse-ing the victim?
Oh god...lol. now there's an image to get stuck in ones' mind. It'd be like loading a cannon. I'll need industrial strength hypnotism to purge that mental picture.
"Misunderstood"? Wow, that's a mantra for the far, far, left. "Society is just so mean, he's misunderstood"..
I have no issue stating that prisons are over populated with people who are not physically dangerous, and/or shouldn't be there (guys busted for pot for example) but saying they're "misunderstood" is akin to saying they're just children who didn't know any better. Um, a little personal responsibility please? There still must be some repercussions, commensurate to the hacking/stealing/damage they perpetrated.
'Starship Troopers is satire, a ruthlessly funny and keenly self-aware sendup of right-wing militarism,' writes Marsh..
Oh yes, because Obama and the basically democrat majority congress for the past 12 years has proven to be such pacifists.
I think we can safely dispense with such antiquated and biased terms, the left has been no different from the right, most especially since getting the White House.
For evidence, just look at Kerry's 180 turnabout views on recent events, vs Kerry's stance from 8 years ago.
Tehran would be a pain only because I think their insurgency would make Iraq's look like a picnic. Getting to Tehran, no problem, on that we'd agree.. holding it, not so much, and it wouldn't help that we're already war-weary and nearly broke.
You just lost a lot of credibility due to 1) the "racist fearmongering" remark, which was just uncalled for and out of proportion, and 2) your gross overestimation of the US military capabilities. You think London would be a piece of cake? or Tehran?
It's a psychological spiel.... Just like in medieval times showing the instruments of torture were usually enough to extract confessions, so does telling people about the polygraph. The main difference probably being that the instruments of torture can actually deliver what is promised, something the polygraph cannot.
Maybe, maybe not. Enough innocent people in history (witch hunts come to mind) have "confessed" just to get the torture to stop, so they're actually lying.
I'm pretty sure he meant within a reasonable tolerance. An hour seems like a reasonable tolerance. More than that, not so sure.
I am, however, all for getting rid of the stupid DST nonsense. I don't know why anyone would feel that getting up in the morning in the pitch dark is better than going home in the dark. My brain/body tells me to stay in bed until the sun starts to rise. Well actually that's a lie, my brain tells me to get up after the sun's been up for several hours..:) but the point remains.
There's no such thing as a "real" Klingon Bat'leth, for starters. Second, those kinds of weapons are props and do not hold an edge very well. Swords made for Renaissance faires are well known not be to be up to actual battle standards. But what's to stop someone from putting some nails in a cricket bat and going to town on someone with that? Going to ban cricket too? How about wood saws and hacksaws? Axes? Hatchets? Sledge hammers?
Always. Some people just can't face reality and will defend him no matter what. The number of scandals and screw-ups in this administration is astounding. A lot of this shut-eye attitude comes form the mind-numblingly simplistic, childish notion that democrat politicians are philanthropic good guys with huge hearts who only want what's best for everyone and republican politicians are greedy selfish warmongers bent on power and fueled by bigotry - a cut and dried black& white world.
I'm wondering, Europeans were so in love with Obama in 2008, what do they think now? They got the man they wanted in the White House.
I've been playing around with my LEAP motion sensor for a while now, which is close as affordable consumer tech currently gets, and it's a mixed bag.
On one hand, I get gorilla arm; also, my computer is in a basement with poor lighting and I think that affects it's tracking some; there's also the very good point that there is no tactile feedback (that could be rectified if such an interface required some kind of finger glove;) but regards gorilla arm, it makes more sense to me to stand and gesticulate than sit, which seems to reduce that a bit, and coupled with a really good voice recognition feature (we're getting there) I could envision a day were people are using this more and more; the keyboard could become moot in the future.
Personally though, I like typing; I just hate the new modern keyboards with their spongy feel and minimal travel, again, lack of tactile feedback is a lose.
The biggest lose with the keyboard, currently, is that the mouse is separate. You have to keep removing your hand from the keys, over to the mouse, move something, then move your hand back, type some more, repeat.
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A lock on your own house to which you do not have the master key is not a security system, it is a jail.
I get his overall point regarding source, I do, and I agree; but it would help his case if he didn't use such broken analogies. If I have a key, and the landlord has a master key, it does not mean I'm in "jail"; he's not going to lock me into my own home because I have a key of my own, just not a master key. It's just that the landlord can get into my home too. It's more like easy-peasy burglary, but "jail" was a rather stupid way to put it.
Pssthpok, I say..
Considering that some people will drive an extra 3 miles to go to a gas station that's just 4 cents cheaper per gallon, yeah, a lot of people probably would.
Censorship has a flatter connotation to it than bias.
Most journalists are loathe to criticize Obama but will do so just enough lately to maintain some sense of credibility; after all, when a "journalist" fawns and creams himself over a political figure like so many did at the 2008 inauguration, a total 180 is nigh impossible. They publicly bought it hook line and sinker, and now they can't back down.
If I could blow shit up with my wand I wouldn't be posting on /., I'd be out blowing shit up.
I know what you mean.
Confringo or Reducto? (Bombarda isn't canon but was in PoA movie)
D'oh!!!
You know, I looked at that and looked at that, and thought something was wrong, but had a brain fart and thought, no, there's no "e" on the end.
Spank me with a wet noodle, I'm an idiot.
I agree, you can never have too many winter socks.
Is this Dumbledor?
..has been greatly exaggerated lately by trade journals. There are some backup scenarios for which hard disc backup just isn't viable.
Viva la tape.
Ah, but then... here is the very important part: it's open for abuse. The system you mention is a very good system as long as the one doing the checking is wise enough to not push it too far. But it can be very easy to think people should be doing more (the stereotypical boss who wants more productivity and doesn't care about how it works in practice, or looks at the wrong productivity signals [tickets solved vs difficulty/importance of tickets solved]), and/or sanction things that you normally wouldn't even if you knew them.
EVERY system is open to abuse, that's human nature. ... abuse happens. Was this fair to their coworkers-? No.
Those delivery workers who were goofing off were in fact guilty of abusing the current system., so
This rule postulates GPSes be installed in the police cruisers, not the cop's personal vehicles.. they're on the clock, so it'd be a little hard to see how this would be abused. It's accountability.
I don't disagree.
Perhaps the next advancement in "body cavity" bombs is goatse-ing the victim?
Oh god...lol. now there's an image to get stuck in ones' mind. It'd be like loading a cannon. I'll need industrial strength hypnotism to purge that mental picture.
"Misunderstood"? Wow, that's a mantra for the far, far, left. "Society is just so mean, he's misunderstood"..
I have no issue stating that prisons are over populated with people who are not physically dangerous, and/or shouldn't be there (guys busted for pot for example) but saying they're "misunderstood" is akin to saying they're just children who didn't know any better. Um, a little personal responsibility please? There still must be some repercussions, commensurate to the hacking/stealing/damage they perpetrated.
Personally, just for the coolness factor, I think he should name it, "Wolf", for maybe one of the following:
* World Object Language Framework
or
* Wolfram Object Language Framework
Im just barking at the moon.. I really have no idea what I'm talking about.
'Starship Troopers is satire, a ruthlessly funny and keenly self-aware sendup of right-wing militarism,' writes Marsh..
Oh yes, because Obama and the basically democrat majority congress for the past 12 years has proven to be such pacifists.
I think we can safely dispense with such antiquated and biased terms, the left has been no different from the right, most especially since getting the White House.
For evidence, just look at Kerry's 180 turnabout views on recent events, vs Kerry's stance from 8 years ago.
So, FTW means something other than I thought?
Well, actually, sometimes I'll exclaim, "Fuck the what?!".. just to be goofy. A little like saying, "bass ackwards".
WFT!
WTF is that acronym?
It's Yodanese
Tehran would be a pain only because I think their insurgency would make Iraq's look like a picnic. Getting to Tehran, no problem, on that we'd agree.. holding it, not so much, and it wouldn't help that we're already war-weary and nearly broke.
You just lost a lot of credibility due to 1) the "racist fearmongering" remark, which was just uncalled for and out of proportion, and 2) your gross overestimation of the US military capabilities. You think London would be a piece of cake? or Tehran?
It's a psychological spiel.... Just like in medieval times showing the instruments of torture were usually enough to extract confessions, so does telling people about the polygraph. The main difference probably being that the instruments of torture can actually deliver what is promised, something the polygraph cannot.
Maybe, maybe not. Enough innocent people in history (witch hunts come to mind) have "confessed" just to get the torture to stop, so they're actually lying.
I'm pretty sure he meant within a reasonable tolerance. An hour seems like a reasonable tolerance. More than that, not so sure.
:) but the point remains.
I am, however, all for getting rid of the stupid DST nonsense. I don't know why anyone would feel that getting up in the morning in the pitch dark is better than going home in the dark. My brain/body tells me to stay in bed until the sun starts to rise. Well actually that's a lie, my brain tells me to get up after the sun's been up for several hours..
There's no such thing as a "real" Klingon Bat'leth, for starters. Second, those kinds of weapons are props and do not hold an edge very well. Swords made for Renaissance faires are well known not be to be up to actual battle standards. But what's to stop someone from putting some nails in a cricket bat and going to town on someone with that? Going to ban cricket too? How about wood saws and hacksaws? Axes? Hatchets? Sledge hammers?
While MSNBC, CBS, and ABC are probably defending the NSA spying because criticizing it would tarnish Obama's godlike reputation.
Always. Some people just can't face reality and will defend him no matter what. The number of scandals and screw-ups in this administration is astounding. A lot of this shut-eye attitude comes form the mind-numblingly simplistic, childish notion that democrat politicians are philanthropic good guys with huge hearts who only want what's best for everyone and republican politicians are greedy selfish warmongers bent on power and fueled by bigotry - a cut and dried black& white world.
I'm wondering, Europeans were so in love with Obama in 2008, what do they think now? They got the man they wanted in the White House.
I've been playing around with my LEAP motion sensor for a while now, which is close as affordable consumer tech currently gets, and it's a mixed bag.
On one hand, I get gorilla arm; also, my computer is in a basement with poor lighting and I think that affects it's tracking some; there's also the very good point that there is no tactile feedback (that could be rectified if such an interface required some kind of finger glove;) but regards gorilla arm, it makes more sense to me to stand and gesticulate than sit, which seems to reduce that a bit, and coupled with a really good voice recognition feature (we're getting there) I could envision a day were people are using this more and more; the keyboard could become moot in the future.
Personally though, I like typing; I just hate the new modern keyboards with their spongy feel and minimal travel, again, lack of tactile feedback is a lose.
The biggest lose with the keyboard, currently, is that the mouse is separate. You have to keep removing your hand from the keys, over to the mouse, move something, then move your hand back, type some more, repeat.
You want to be like the Greeks, and can't even say the word "FUCK"?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Don't you mean "What the FVCK is wrong with you?"
No, that would be Roman.