Gimme a break. I didn't realise the police were clergy! What law was this guy breaking by sending sexually explicit messages? As for the issue of using police equipment for personal messages, if this was permitted at the time, again what's the problem? If he was breaking a law why isn't this what we're hearing about rather than the fact that he liked to talk dirty?
It just happens to be a recession and people are spending less on luxuries... like video games.
Dude, not cool! First you you couldn't be bothered maintaining a l33t gam31ng r1g because of petty things like compatibility and cost. Then you said video games are a luxury! Every gamer knows they're not a luxury, they're a human right. So that's it! Hand in your l33t gam1ng card, grandad! And get out of my treehouse! (If I can't be on your lawn, you can't be in my treehouse!)
The above does not work - they were broken long ago - and the above post shows a buckload of ignorance. Addons like oldbar do work, but what a pain to disable a garbage feature that just gets in the way and shows everything you've searched to all and sundry.
Don't like the project? When was the last time you were in the developers forum? Things don't get changed overnight. They are discussed thoroughly and lots of RCs go by before you get a new version. If you weren't there to provide your opinion, don't complain.
The developers had a lot of comments on things like the so called "awesome" bar which is a piece of shit. They promptly ignored a slew of complaints and went out of their way to remove options to turn awesomebar off. I don't need to be abused repeatedly to get the hint. The devs on Firefox do not listen. So before you tell someone not to complain why don't you get the horseshit out of your ears and get the whole story. You might find it beats just pouncing on someone and telling them to shut up. You might find yourself coming across as something other than a rude whiny child. By the way I find the irony in your telling me not to complain now based on your false assumption that assumed I didn't earlier to be quite funny.
This data would seem to support the removal of the government run insurance plan and its replacement with a private plan.
Oh look the sheep has given up on competent government, and is serving himself up to the wolves for lunch in the hope that they'll protect him.
All private health care is in business for is to take profit. They have have no more interest in providing a service than the government does. Privatization advocates are at best dishonest.
Install Firefox 2 and see how often you get nagged to upgrade. Then there's the fact that security fixes are only released for the latest browser, extensions don't support the old version etc.
I'd love to have Firefox 1.0 co-exist with 3.0 but it'd be a pain in the neck to run with all the nagging.
Take a look at some of the footage of those French fighter jocks doing terrain avoidance at a few feet high. Incredible.
As for thunderbird the email program, I like some things about 3, and not others. I'm glad the devs allow you to switch the old toolbar back on. Much better than the Mozilla Firefox attitude of forcing you into changes you don't want to make.
Have you ever met RMS face to face and listened to him explaining himself?
I have and after he was done with his ridiculous straight delivery of the whole St. IGNUtius spiel, I asked a simple question. "How do you counter when people suggest that OSS is harder to use". His reply was dismissive. "It is? I haven't heard that". Why? Possibly because I was the only person in the room dressed in a suit. I'd just come from work. My conclusion is that the man has no social skills and brings all the ridicule and misinterpretation he garners upon himself.
Actually it's not the fines or enforcement. It's training.
Also look at pilots who must by law be on the radio while piloting a vehicle in 3 dimensions that falls out of the sky if you slow down too quickly or bank too sharply while going slow. They are taught aviate, navigate, communicate - in other words fly and know where you are before worrying about the communication part.
Even if you remove mobile phones, radios and all other electronics, what about all the other distractions on the road? What about the piece of newspaper that flys onto your windscreen? What about a baby that starts choking in the back seat?
Train people to cope with distractions while driving (making it part of the driving test) and you've got a much safer environment than one where they've been reduced to the point where a driver can no longer cope with one.
The BART shooting incident appears to have been incompetence in that the officer thought he pulled his taser. You'd have to be pretty brazen to shoot on purpose while surrounded by the public. The cop that threw the guy at the wall probably didn't realize that the glass would break. The guy was resisting and trying to attack the cop.
I find it hard to believe that anyone's going to mistake their gun for their taser. In any case the subject had already been subdued. This excuse comes off sounding as plausible as the dog ate my homework.
If you talk back, disobey orders and give them a hard time, crap like this will most likely happen to you because you escalate the situation and make the lives of people who already have miserable jobs more miserable. That's not an excuse, but don't be surprised when stuff like this happens.
I see you're doing a wonderful job protecting your image as the land of the free there.
Land of the scared, more like. Every fucking time I see a post like this I wonder what happened the USA of the 80s and how the fuck did you let a bunch of ass backward goat herding religious imbeciles assist your own country's corrupt fuggknuckles into turning your country into a parody of justice and freedom?
I'd be thanking my stars I don't live there except everything your country does ours tries to emulate.
For the microscope, get them interested with a "toy" one for about $30 and if they find that fun, move on to a more serious unit for $300 and up.
Binoculars. I've been happier with binocs I picked up for $25 than I have been with a pair I bought for $150. Once you start spending over $50, you're best to do your research and buy a pair around the $200-$300 from a reputable brand. 7x50 is best for astronomy. Anything over 10x isn't suitable to hand hold. Zoom binocs are more fragile.
Telescope. DO NOT pick up a department store telescope. Start them off with a dobsonian. (Good for everything but deep sky photography). What counts most in a telescope for deep sky observing is diameter. 8" is a good compromise. These days you can larger telescopes that collapse so you might be able to go up to about 12" but price increases with size. Make sure it fits in your car.
Hiking GPS. One that does mapping. I'm partial to Garmin.
Camera. Often overlooked, it can be used for a wide variety of things. Low power microscopy, bird identification. Something that does PASM. Ideally something that has decent macro and has at least 10x zoom. You can pick up brand new cameras that fit this description for around $200. They won't match much more expensive camera, but they do well. Next step up is an SLR.
Radio scanner. Becoming less of a good idea as transmissions are moving towards encryption. But still an excellent tool for plane spotting. Take s snapshot with a good zoom camera and you'll be able to look up the plane's registration in a publicly available database which will give you make, model, owner etc.
Chem sets might be disappearing but electronics kits that teach the basics are still around.
For younger ages a good mechano set isn't a bad place to start learning basic engineering principles.
Kites and remote control aircraft are excellent for teaching about aerodynamics. Anyone can fly a small kite but if you want to learn to fly r/c aircraft be sure to join a club and do it right or you'll waste time and money and have frustrated kids. Best idea these is to start on a simulator.
Never forget the value of a good book or documentary. Carl Sagan's Cosmos is a little bit dated but still excellent. Universe. Walking with Dinosaurs....lots of good science stuff available. Your kids don't need to be cartoon and fairytale drones. You can set up one day a week to watch a series. If it's available for free on TV all the better.
Check out some of the excellent scientific software around. Some of the most amazing stuff is free. From planetarium software to math software, it's all there if you're willing to spend time learning and teaching with it. Don't discount web sites as well. I can think of a couple of incredible web sites including NASA and Hubblesite. There's a lot of stuff that's out of copyright but still relevant. I just downloaded some out of copyright birding books the other day. Check out open library. There may even be value in university level Open Course Ware depending on the subject (but remember your kids don't know calculus so keep math topics light).
If there's a local library, get your kids a library card and take them there when you can.
Until you can manage 3D without the polarised glasses, I doubt it'll take off as anything more than a novelty. This is more of a barrier than even new hardware requirements. You average viewer wants to be able to relax in front of a movie. Those that don't wear glasses to begin with - ie the majority - can't do that while wearing these glasses. Until you can relax, fall asleep and cuddle or get romantic without having to worry about glasses poking you in the head or eye or getting in the way, it just isn't going to be mainstream.
I am not a lawyer, and you do not have deep pockets to fight it but....If you've given the entire story they may be violating the DMCA by refusing to reconnect you if you respond to the accusation by saying you were not doing it. Next, it could be defamation to tell other people you were doing something illegal if you were not. It could also be considered coercion to pressure someone to admit to a crime they did not commit. I'd be getting legal advice, preferably pro bono if you can find it.
It seems to me it ought to be defamation to accuse someone of a crime without making an effort to check that it's true, and run around telling his access provider.
I went to the local newsagency and bought a whole SHEET of cardboard, then cut out the middle and drew christmas trees and smiley faces, and stuck it around my computer monitor. Then I navigated to a web site with christmas imagery and video and stuff. I brought my wife in and said MERRY CHRISTMAS from your geeky husband. It didn't impress her. I didn't get any. In fact she wants me to see a nice doctor tomorrow, who's going to give me a free special white jacket. I don't understand! No one appreciates geeks!
(By the way I used a NOVILLIUM Entel i7, a DemVidia 240GX video card, a Pell monitor, and cardboard by the Cardboardmen. You should buy them because they're much cooler than an iPhone. This advert was sponsored by the letter F and the number 2)
How about a public (anonymised) repository of fingerprints. The idea is this: I can't change my prints, nor can I get back control once the government has taken them. But I could publish them to the world. That makes the print very easy for anyone else to fake. In other words, plausible deniability.
Your plausible deniability just landed you in jail for aiding terrorists. Please try again later.
But you do bring up an interesting point. Is IQ related to crassness? I rather suspect not. I work with some very bright engineers who probably wouldn't be able to speak if it wasn't for swear words.
Not the point I was making at all. Crass is probably unrelated. Stupid definitely is related to an act performed for amusement which could cause serious injury.
But yeah, he liked lewd jokes and fart competitions. That, alone, doesn't make someone dumb.
Lighting farts does though. You an injure yourself badly doing it.
I never said lewd jokes made one "dumb". I used lighting of farts as an example of something an idiot would do. The rest of your spiel about your granddad was touching but irrelevant. I don't know the man but wouldn't call him an idiot based on what little you've told me about it.
The idiot is called an idiot for a reason. You don't walk up to someone who spends their spare time lighting their farts and ask them to assess anyone's intelligence, least of all their own.
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Gimme a break. I didn't realise the police were clergy! What law was this guy breaking by sending sexually explicit messages? As for the issue of using police equipment for personal messages, if this was permitted at the time, again what's the problem? If he was breaking a law why isn't this what we're hearing about rather than the fact that he liked to talk dirty?
It just happens to be a recession and people are spending less on luxuries... like video games.
Dude, not cool! First you you couldn't be bothered maintaining a l33t gam31ng r1g because of petty things like compatibility and cost. Then you said video games are a luxury! Every gamer knows they're not a luxury, they're a human right. So that's it! Hand in your l33t gam1ng card, grandad! And get out of my treehouse! (If I can't be on your lawn, you can't be in my treehouse!)
The above does not work - they were broken long ago - and the above post shows a buckload of ignorance. Addons like oldbar do work, but what a pain to disable a garbage feature that just gets in the way and shows everything you've searched to all and sundry.
Don't like the project? When was the last time you were in the developers forum? Things don't get changed overnight. They are discussed thoroughly and lots of RCs go by before you get a new version. If you weren't there to provide your opinion, don't complain.
The developers had a lot of comments on things like the so called "awesome" bar which is a piece of shit. They promptly ignored a slew of complaints and went out of their way to remove options to turn awesomebar off. I don't need to be abused repeatedly to get the hint. The devs on Firefox do not listen. So before you tell someone not to complain why don't you get the horseshit out of your ears and get the whole story. You might find it beats just pouncing on someone and telling them to shut up. You might find yourself coming across as something other than a rude whiny child. By the way I find the irony in your telling me not to complain now based on your false assumption that assumed I didn't earlier to be quite funny.
This data would seem to support the removal of the government run insurance plan and its replacement with a private plan.
Oh look the sheep has given up on competent government, and is serving himself up to the wolves for lunch in the hope that they'll protect him.
All private health care is in business for is to take profit. They have have no more interest in providing a service than the government does. Privatization advocates are at best dishonest.
They force you to upgrade?
Install Firefox 2 and see how often you get nagged to upgrade. Then there's the fact that security fixes are only released for the latest browser, extensions don't support the old version etc.
I'd love to have Firefox 1.0 co-exist with 3.0 but it'd be a pain in the neck to run with all the nagging.
Take a look at some of the footage of those French fighter jocks doing terrain avoidance at a few feet high. Incredible.
As for thunderbird the email program, I like some things about 3, and not others. I'm glad the devs allow you to switch the old toolbar back on. Much better than the Mozilla Firefox attitude of forcing you into changes you don't want to make.
Have you ever met RMS face to face and listened to him explaining himself?
I have and after he was done with his ridiculous straight delivery of the whole St. IGNUtius spiel, I asked a simple question. "How do you counter when people suggest that OSS is harder to use". His reply was dismissive. "It is? I haven't heard that". Why? Possibly because I was the only person in the room dressed in a suit. I'd just come from work. My conclusion is that the man has no social skills and brings all the ridicule and misinterpretation he garners upon himself.
Actually it's not the fines or enforcement. It's training.
Also look at pilots who must by law be on the radio while piloting a vehicle in 3 dimensions that falls out of the sky if you slow down too quickly or bank too sharply while going slow. They are taught aviate, navigate, communicate - in other words fly and know where you are before worrying about the communication part.
Even if you remove mobile phones, radios and all other electronics, what about all the other distractions on the road? What about the piece of newspaper that flys onto your windscreen? What about a baby that starts choking in the back seat?
Train people to cope with distractions while driving (making it part of the driving test) and you've got a much safer environment than one where they've been reduced to the point where a driver can no longer cope with one.
Extree! Extree! Read all about it! Copyright holders rob you blind!
Seriously what the fuck do these jokers hope to gain? How much can you expect to profit in this niche market to begin with?
I'm surprised the fuckers haven't hired thugs to go around and burn down public libraries.
Ohm-i-god, Watt charged with resistance? Power to the people! Lead the re-Volt! We have the capictyto-r-esist!
The BART shooting incident appears to have been incompetence in that the officer thought he pulled his taser. You'd have to be pretty brazen to shoot on purpose while surrounded by the public. The cop that threw the guy at the wall probably didn't realize that the glass would break. The guy was resisting and trying to attack the cop.
I find it hard to believe that anyone's going to mistake their gun for their taser. In any case the subject had already been subdued. This excuse comes off sounding as plausible as the dog ate my homework.
If you talk back, disobey orders and give them a hard time, crap like this will most likely happen to you because you escalate the situation and make the lives of people who already have miserable jobs more miserable. That's not an excuse, but don't be surprised when stuff like this happens.
I see you're doing a wonderful job protecting your image as the land of the free there.
Land of the scared, more like. Every fucking time I see a post like this I wonder what happened the USA of the 80s and how the fuck did you let a bunch of ass backward goat herding religious imbeciles assist your own country's corrupt fuggknuckles into turning your country into a parody of justice and freedom?
I'd be thanking my stars I don't live there except everything your country does ours tries to emulate.
For the microscope, get them interested with a "toy" one for about $30 and if they find that fun, move on to a more serious unit for $300 and up.
Binoculars. I've been happier with binocs I picked up for $25 than I have been with a pair I bought for $150. Once you start spending over $50, you're best to do your research and buy a pair around the $200-$300 from a reputable brand. 7x50 is best for astronomy. Anything over 10x isn't suitable to hand hold. Zoom binocs are more fragile.
Telescope. DO NOT pick up a department store telescope. Start them off with a dobsonian. (Good for everything but deep sky photography). What counts most in a telescope for deep sky observing is diameter. 8" is a good compromise. These days you can larger telescopes that collapse so you might be able to go up to about 12" but price increases with size. Make sure it fits in your car.
Hiking GPS. One that does mapping. I'm partial to Garmin.
Camera. Often overlooked, it can be used for a wide variety of things. Low power microscopy, bird identification. Something that does PASM. Ideally something that has decent macro and has at least 10x zoom. You can pick up brand new cameras that fit this description for around $200. They won't match much more expensive camera, but they do well. Next step up is an SLR.
Radio scanner. Becoming less of a good idea as transmissions are moving towards encryption. But still an excellent tool for plane spotting. Take s snapshot with a good zoom camera and you'll be able to look up the plane's registration in a publicly available database which will give you make, model, owner etc.
Chem sets might be disappearing but electronics kits that teach the basics are still around.
For younger ages a good mechano set isn't a bad place to start learning basic engineering principles.
Kites and remote control aircraft are excellent for teaching about aerodynamics. Anyone can fly a small kite but if you want to learn to fly r/c aircraft be sure to join a club and do it right or you'll waste time and money and have frustrated kids. Best idea these is to start on a simulator.
Never forget the value of a good book or documentary. Carl Sagan's Cosmos is a little bit dated but still excellent. Universe. Walking with Dinosaurs....lots of good science stuff available. Your kids don't need to be cartoon and fairytale drones. You can set up one day a week to watch a series. If it's available for free on TV all the better.
Check out some of the excellent scientific software around. Some of the most amazing stuff is free. From planetarium software to math software, it's all there if you're willing to spend time learning and teaching with it. Don't discount web sites as well. I can think of a couple of incredible web sites including NASA and Hubblesite. There's a lot of stuff that's out of copyright but still relevant. I just downloaded some out of copyright birding books the other day. Check out open library. There may even be value in university level Open Course Ware depending on the subject (but remember your kids don't know calculus so keep math topics light).
If there's a local library, get your kids a library card and take them there when you can.
Until you can manage 3D without the polarised glasses, I doubt it'll take off as anything more than a novelty. This is more of a barrier than even new hardware requirements. You average viewer wants to be able to relax in front of a movie. Those that don't wear glasses to begin with - ie the majority - can't do that while wearing these glasses. Until you can relax, fall asleep and cuddle or get romantic without having to worry about glasses poking you in the head or eye or getting in the way, it just isn't going to be mainstream.
first off, you would have 40% more muscle with no effort. The ladies will be a callin'
So will 'roids, but the side effects mean you won't be interested (and neither will they when they see you in all your glory)
I am not a lawyer, and you do not have deep pockets to fight it but....If you've given the entire story they may be violating the DMCA by refusing to reconnect you if you respond to the accusation by saying you were not doing it. Next, it could be defamation to tell other people you were doing something illegal if you were not. It could also be considered coercion to pressure someone to admit to a crime they did not commit. I'd be getting legal advice, preferably pro bono if you can find it.
It seems to me it ought to be defamation to accuse someone of a crime without making an effort to check that it's true, and run around telling his access provider.
I went to the local newsagency and bought a whole SHEET of cardboard, then cut out the middle and drew christmas trees and smiley faces, and stuck it around my computer monitor. Then I navigated to a web site with christmas imagery and video and stuff. I brought my wife in and said MERRY CHRISTMAS from your geeky husband. It didn't impress her. I didn't get any. In fact she wants me to see a nice doctor tomorrow, who's going to give me a free special white jacket. I don't understand! No one appreciates geeks!
(By the way I used a NOVILLIUM Entel i7, a DemVidia 240GX video card, a Pell monitor, and cardboard by the Cardboardmen. You should buy them because they're much cooler than an iPhone. This advert was sponsored by the letter F and the number 2)
My GUT feeling is that there's life on mars. I can smell it. Hell I can almost taste it!
(The above is a joke. Actually I have no idea if there is life on Mars).
Hey TSA dudes, do your bit for the environment and use ^H like we do on slashdot.
How about a public (anonymised) repository of fingerprints. The idea is this: I can't change my prints, nor can I get back control once the government has taken them. But I could publish them to the world. That makes the print very easy for anyone else to fake. In other words, plausible deniability.
Your plausible deniability just landed you in jail for aiding terrorists. Please try again later.
But you do bring up an interesting point. Is IQ related to crassness? I rather suspect not. I work with some very bright engineers who probably wouldn't be able to speak if it wasn't for swear words.
Not the point I was making at all. Crass is probably unrelated. Stupid definitely is related to an act performed for amusement which could cause serious injury.
But yeah, he liked lewd jokes and fart competitions. That, alone, doesn't make someone dumb.
Lighting farts does though. You an injure yourself badly doing it.
I never said lewd jokes made one "dumb". I used lighting of farts as an example of something an idiot would do. The rest of your spiel about your granddad was touching but irrelevant. I don't know the man but wouldn't call him an idiot based on what little you've told me about it.
The idiot is called an idiot for a reason. You don't walk up to someone who spends their spare time lighting their farts and ask them to assess anyone's intelligence, least of all their own.