Woah, my bad. In my defense, I never read the Known Space short stories. Time to do that. From the link I gave previously, though, the only thing getting through the hull is visible light. Let's not investigate where all that energy goes - we wouldn't want people to call us nerds...
I prefer <a href></a>, which renders like some shit I made up, primarily because it allows me to put shit I made up between the tags. Being readable is a secondary benefit.
I keep seeing your comments popping up cautioning that Cogent isn't necessarily the wronged party here. Besides the names of where it's happened before, do you have any information about those other events? On the face of it, it seems easy to say, "Well, either Cogent is being a dick, or Level3, TeliaSonera, AOL, and now Sprint are being dicks. Given the options, that would seem to indicate that Cogent is the one being a dick." The problem with this thinking, though, is that there are a lot of dicks out there, and Cogent seems to be doing its damnedest to change the way telecom/Internet works, something market leaders never seem to like.
Translation: As a lawyer (working in a courtroom setting), be prepared to deal with more asshats than the typical person. I think I'll stick with my job(programmer), and work with people who generally don't have a clue about technology. And, of course, hope fervently that I never need a lawyer in a courtroom setting, because then I might be the asshat in the situation.
There are no valid reasons for why blacks couldn't vote after slavery was abolished. After you have a war to say those dark-skinned folks are people too, and they can own land, pay taxes, and join the military, but voting is out, it's pretty clear that there was a logical breakdown involved. I think it's fair to say that American democracy was, at the very least, flawed.
I believe a speeding ticket is a fine imposed by the government, yet is not due to a criminal act. Misdemeanors are not treated equally with felonies - only one makes you a criminal. Now the question is, do mandatory damages set by the government for civil cases fall under the same category as fines? I doubt it's something the founding father's even considered, and it's certainly a flawed position.
Sounds like a small-ish booster stage to break orbit, and keep going with the VASIMR would be a useful idea, so far as absolute time goes. I doubt it would be worth the extra effort, though.
Currently the selection on WiiWare is pretty limited unless you want old NES games.
First, WiiWare is all new games (that may look strikingly similar to various DS games). What you're talking about is the Virtual Console. Second, it's not just old NES games, or even just old Nintendo games. It's all kinds of old games from a variety of consoles. Now why aren't you excited about this ?!?!
Door locks do not work. Because it is always somehow possible to bypass them - be it by picking, drilling, bashing the door down or smashing a window.
The difference is, if you break into my house, you're in my house. If you break DRM, anyone who's even a little interested in bypassing it can just take a copy of yours. It's the exact same thing as with digital media. Not everyone is interested in ripping CDs and DVDs, but this hasn't stopped them from proliferating across the internet.
I wonder how many crusaders, people spending their lives to right the injustices of the world, there would be if they could just remove those troublesome memories and go on with their lives. Would there be anything left to motivate us to make the world a better place?
This is beyond absurd. I wonder if they've outlawed paper-rock-scissors for solving civil disputes? Coin tosses? UFC cage matches? If it's not being brought up to the courts, and both parties agree to it, why are the courts getting involved? The only valid reason I can see is if the resolution provided by the arbitration method isn't legal or humane (corporal punishment (assault) or some such). This may be applicable for shari'ah law, but I don't know.
One solution is to do all inspections in a quarantine zone, where you aren't allowed to take anything in or out, besides your uniform and a security badge. Issue them coveralls with no pockets.
And make the coveralls orange. We need these people clearly identified.
I previously read on/. a method of shipping your camera gear safely.
A reader had said he'd purchased a larger aluminum suitcase / roadcase, with foam cutouts for his camera gear, and a flare gun.
Upon arriving at the airport, he'd declare he had a weapon, and check the suitcase as a weapon. It got stored, handled and inspected differently, and he never had any loses.
Seems to make sense to me...
Finally! A case where the current administration is actually promoting the constitution!
The Conservatives in Canada managed to finally unite the right over the past decade and a half.
Nationally, the conservatives have been fairly unified for most of Canada's history. The Reform Party only came into existence in 1987, 20 years ago. Before then, the conservatives have been pretty unified.
Canada historically votes for a Federal Liberal party.
Canada historically votes Liberal or Conservative, with about 2/3 of the elected governments being Liberal and about 1/3 being conservative. Given that the opposition was almost always Liberal or Conservative, I think it's safe to say the electorate has a strong history with both parties.
Having watched a few episodes of Heroes this season, I'd say Quinto is a better actor than the character of Sylar called for until this season. I'm prepared to lay all the shitty lines he's had on the writers at this point, and not his two-dimensional acting. In two episodes, thanks to the joy of time travel, you see him as the classic psychotic villain, someone who's looking at his life and wondering if perhaps there's a better way, and a father who's desperately fighting his demons to give his kid the life he never had. And they were convincing, to me anyway. I think he'll play a Vulcan a million times better than what's-her-name from Enterprise, and give a respectable portrayal of Spock. His biggest problem is going to be acting in the shadow of Leonard Nimoy.
I'm ambivalent towards dogs. I think any dog that attacks a person (yes, without justification) twice should be put down and their owner charged with assault. Far better to put the dog down the first time, or at least keep it penned such that it can NEVER happen again. I'm tolerant towards other humans. I think people who can't see the value of stopping criminals who probably won't target them (not too many rapists targeting males, and the odds are the OP was male) deserve to be called down in public, and I, too, hope they suffer something tragic and very personal in the (very faint) hope that they gain enlightenment.
Thanks, I'll pass on that flight... until you get all the bugs worked out of those systems
It's interesting the way people rationalize things isn't it?
Statistically, you are far more likely to die in a car on the way to work than you are in a commercial passenger aircraft. Statistically, the computer system in a commercial passenger aircraft is far less likely to fsck things up than a human pilot (although that's saying nothing about the _size_ of the fsckup, should one occur...)
So, how many chambers does your revolver need before you're okay with playing russian roulette? The issue is the unknown more than anything else. I'm pretty ambivalent about flying in airplanes, even small private craft. But I'm not too happy with the idea of flying in an airplane which is suffering from random errors of unknown frequency. And despite the relatively few number of cases heard, we don't know the true frequency. How do we know the problem isn't caused by degradation, which means every flight has more risk than the one before it? At least when I get in my car, I have a fair idea of the risks involved (although I may miscalculate those risks), and have some chance of averting or minimizing mishaps.
There were a number of actions during the Vietnam War that would classify as "terrorism-anti-war protesters". If I were to bomb a sleepy reserve base in the name of peace (yeah, crazy, and not rare), I think that would qualify. Now, waving signs and shouting slogans? Not really.
And, taking into consideration, how cost-effective was the first successful Proton flight, or those for the first year or so? Moreover, how many rockets did von Braun wreck before we got to the Gemini program?
Sure, it's not cheaper than the established models, but that's no reason to think they can't further improve their product.
Also, it doesn't cost you one damned cent, which isn't something you can say about the national programs, assuming you're from one of the supporting nations. That's the beauty of private development.
Well, good news for them, and probably GMU, is that I've never heard of a jury requiring you to do the thing you sued a competitor for if you lose the case. So I'm guessing even Thomson Reuters will want this case to disappear, once their divisions talk to each other.
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Woah, my bad. In my defense, I never read the Known Space short stories. Time to do that. From the link I gave previously, though, the only thing getting through the hull is visible light. Let's not investigate where all that energy goes - we wouldn't want people to call us nerds...
Anyone know what the standard made-up unit is for energy/time?
Not counting the old standard (Horses) mentioned previously, I believe the unit you're searching for is the Watt (joules/second).
Whoosh (n.): The sound a ship with a General Products #2 hull makes as it soars over your head.
I prefer <a href></a>, which renders like some shit I made up, primarily because it allows me to put shit I made up between the tags. Being readable is a secondary benefit.
I keep seeing your comments popping up cautioning that Cogent isn't necessarily the wronged party here. Besides the names of where it's happened before, do you have any information about those other events?
On the face of it, it seems easy to say, "Well, either Cogent is being a dick, or Level3, TeliaSonera, AOL, and now Sprint are being dicks. Given the options, that would seem to indicate that Cogent is the one being a dick." The problem with this thinking, though, is that there are a lot of dicks out there, and Cogent seems to be doing its damnedest to change the way telecom/Internet works, something market leaders never seem to like.
Translation: As a lawyer (working in a courtroom setting), be prepared to deal with more asshats than the typical person.
I think I'll stick with my job(programmer), and work with people who generally don't have a clue about technology. And, of course, hope fervently that I never need a lawyer in a courtroom setting, because then I might be the asshat in the situation.
Surely what is required is to isolate the sensitive information, so that it can be protected.
Only encrypting the sensitive data is like carrying water in bucket used for target practice: stuff will leak.
He said isolate, not encrypt. It changes the context a bit, doesn't it?
There are no valid reasons for why blacks couldn't vote after slavery was abolished. After you have a war to say those dark-skinned folks are people too, and they can own land, pay taxes, and join the military, but voting is out, it's pretty clear that there was a logical breakdown involved. I think it's fair to say that American democracy was, at the very least, flawed.
I believe a speeding ticket is a fine imposed by the government, yet is not due to a criminal act. Misdemeanors are not treated equally with felonies - only one makes you a criminal.
Now the question is, do mandatory damages set by the government for civil cases fall under the same category as fines? I doubt it's something the founding father's even considered, and it's certainly a flawed position.
Sounds like a small-ish booster stage to break orbit, and keep going with the VASIMR would be a useful idea, so far as absolute time goes. I doubt it would be worth the extra effort, though.
Currently the selection on WiiWare is pretty limited unless you want old NES games.
First, WiiWare is all new games (that may look strikingly similar to various DS games). What you're talking about is the Virtual Console.
Second, it's not just old NES games, or even just old Nintendo games. It's all kinds of old games from a variety of consoles.
Now why aren't you excited about this ?!?!
P.S. Honestly, not even half serious.
DRM does not work.
Mathematically speaking.
Door locks do not work. Because it is always somehow possible to bypass them - be it by picking, drilling, bashing the door down or smashing a window.
The difference is, if you break into my house, you're in my house. If you break DRM, anyone who's even a little interested in bypassing it can just take a copy of yours.
It's the exact same thing as with digital media. Not everyone is interested in ripping CDs and DVDs, but this hasn't stopped them from proliferating across the internet.
I wonder how many crusaders, people spending their lives to right the injustices of the world, there would be if they could just remove those troublesome memories and go on with their lives. Would there be anything left to motivate us to make the world a better place?
Tabacco causes far more being legal, cheap and highly addictive (far more than heroin).
In fact (according to the American Cancer Society circa 1993 for the USA) annual death statistics are:
Total tobacco related: 434,000
Heroin/Morphine: 2,400
And to sate your curiosity, here are the other common killers:
Alcohol-related: 105,000
Car accidents: 49,000
Suicide: 31,000
AIDS: 31,000
Murder: 22,000
Fire: 4,000
Cocaine: 3,300
Food for though, eh!
I agree! I think it's high time we outlawed fire!
This is beyond absurd. I wonder if they've outlawed paper-rock-scissors for solving civil disputes? Coin tosses? UFC cage matches? If it's not being brought up to the courts, and both parties agree to it, why are the courts getting involved? The only valid reason I can see is if the resolution provided by the arbitration method isn't legal or humane (corporal punishment (assault) or some such). This may be applicable for shari'ah law, but I don't know.
As far as I'm concerned, legal punishment of any severity for simply challenging the beliefs of the majority is not acceptable anywhere.
Yes, that was never a problem in America. More recent examples can be found if you bother to look.
One solution is to do all inspections in a quarantine zone, where you aren't allowed to take anything in or out, besides your uniform and a security badge. Issue them coveralls with no pockets.
And make the coveralls orange. We need these people clearly identified.
I previously read on /. a method of shipping your camera gear safely.
A reader had said he'd purchased a larger aluminum suitcase / roadcase, with foam cutouts for his camera gear, and a flare gun.
Upon arriving at the airport, he'd declare he had a weapon, and check the suitcase as a weapon. It got stored, handled and inspected differently, and he never had any loses.
Seems to make sense to me...
Finally! A case where the current administration is actually promoting the constitution!
The Conservatives in Canada managed to finally unite the right over the past decade and a half.
Nationally, the conservatives have been fairly unified for most of Canada's history. The Reform Party only came into existence in 1987, 20 years ago. Before then, the conservatives have been pretty unified.
Canada historically votes for a Federal Liberal party.
Canada historically votes Liberal or Conservative, with about 2/3 of the elected governments being Liberal and about 1/3 being conservative. Given that the opposition was almost always Liberal or Conservative, I think it's safe to say the electorate has a strong history with both parties.
Having watched a few episodes of Heroes this season, I'd say Quinto is a better actor than the character of Sylar called for until this season. I'm prepared to lay all the shitty lines he's had on the writers at this point, and not his two-dimensional acting. In two episodes, thanks to the joy of time travel, you see him as the classic psychotic villain, someone who's looking at his life and wondering if perhaps there's a better way, and a father who's desperately fighting his demons to give his kid the life he never had. And they were convincing, to me anyway.
I think he'll play a Vulcan a million times better than what's-her-name from Enterprise, and give a respectable portrayal of Spock. His biggest problem is going to be acting in the shadow of Leonard Nimoy.
I'm ambivalent towards dogs. I think any dog that attacks a person (yes, without justification) twice should be put down and their owner charged with assault. Far better to put the dog down the first time, or at least keep it penned such that it can NEVER happen again.
I'm tolerant towards other humans. I think people who can't see the value of stopping criminals who probably won't target them (not too many rapists targeting males, and the odds are the OP was male) deserve to be called down in public, and I, too, hope they suffer something tragic and very personal in the (very faint) hope that they gain enlightenment.
It's interesting the way people rationalize things isn't it?
Statistically, you are far more likely to die in a car on the way to work than you are in a commercial passenger aircraft. Statistically, the computer system in a commercial passenger aircraft is far less likely to fsck things up than a human pilot (although that's saying nothing about the _size_ of the fsckup, should one occur...)
So, how many chambers does your revolver need before you're okay with playing russian roulette?
The issue is the unknown more than anything else. I'm pretty ambivalent about flying in airplanes, even small private craft. But I'm not too happy with the idea of flying in an airplane which is suffering from random errors of unknown frequency. And despite the relatively few number of cases heard, we don't know the true frequency. How do we know the problem isn't caused by degradation, which means every flight has more risk than the one before it?
At least when I get in my car, I have a fair idea of the risks involved (although I may miscalculate those risks), and have some chance of averting or minimizing mishaps.
There were a number of actions during the Vietnam War that would classify as "terrorism-anti-war protesters". If I were to bomb a sleepy reserve base in the name of peace (yeah, crazy, and not rare), I think that would qualify.
Now, waving signs and shouting slogans? Not really.
And, taking into consideration, how cost-effective was the first successful Proton flight, or those for the first year or so?
Moreover, how many rockets did von Braun wreck before we got to the Gemini program?
Sure, it's not cheaper than the established models, but that's no reason to think they can't further improve their product.
Also, it doesn't cost you one damned cent, which isn't something you can say about the national programs, assuming you're from one of the supporting nations. That's the beauty of private development.
Well, good news for them, and probably GMU, is that I've never heard of a jury requiring you to do the thing you sued a competitor for if you lose the case. So I'm guessing even Thomson Reuters will want this case to disappear, once their divisions talk to each other.