Same circumstances for me -- except I came away from the launch feeling completely terrified. In addition to the excitement that still welled up around shuttle launches back then, it was especially potent because there was a teacher on board. It's definitely one of those I-remember-exactly-where-I-was-when-it-happened moments.
It should be noted that the result would likely be very different in the US. There are cases that have held that using things like infrared scans or even the heightened senses of drug-sniffing dogs are an unreasonable violation of privacy without any probable cause or reasonable suspicion. The flying robots in the story similarly have such "heightened senses" and, thus, would probably violate US citizens' Constitutional rights.
Then the Young Bull fragged the Old with a railgun, just before rocket-jumping over the corpse on his way to L-O-L copulation.
(ftw)
In all seriousness, I'm hopeful for SP1, but I'll definitely wait to install until there's some more feedback. I use XP at work, Vista at home.. I seem to be one of the few that doesn't mind the OS, and even prefers it to XP in several ways.
As an ebay seller and buyer, I do think the ever-present threat of feedback retaliation is pretty hindering to the feedback system as a whole. As a seller, I used to leave feedback for the buyer upon receipt of payment --- however, I've moved to waiting to leave feedback until after the buyer leaves ME feedback.
Doing so makes sense: the transaction isn't complete when one part receives money --- the transaction is complete when the buyer confirms receipt of the auction item and is satisfied with it, per the description on the auction page itself. If there are problems with the item, two mature parties can still likely come to an arrangement (re: returns, discounts, whatever) --- all these factors, for me as a buyer or a seller, help determine the type of feedback I leave. I don't think that it's right to have a seller leave immediate feedback upon payment --- unless there was some kind of tiered feedback system that rated the different parts of the auction (1. initial communication and payment; 2. item receipt and satisfaction?).
In any case, as either a buyer OR a seller, I am scared to leave negative feedback --- a note against my 100% rating wouldn't be good. I've only ever left one negative remark for a buyer.. for someone who won an auction I was running and then decided that they didn't want the item after all (or that their kid didn't want the item, actually). I had to run through the process of having all my ebay fees refunded to me, all b/c a negligent buyer didn't understand and/or care about the policies governing the site.
SO, in essence, I think the feedback system on ebay DOES need work, and I think the initially invisible feedback system proposed by several people above is a great, simple, and elegant solution.
I'm sure many of us remember the "Win a date with Jesus" site that lived at jesus.com for many, many years. You could even take a bath with Jesus. I've often wondered how it was that always-datable Jesus came to sell the domain.
Yup. The store I bought the game from actually checked my ID before they let me have it (I'm 28, FYI.. and I like to *think* that I don't look like a teenager anymore).
I was trying to remember mine as well ---- and then your post reminded me of how my mom still talks about how I would also "play" PacMan on an arcade cabinet located at a Chinese restaurant my parents frequented. I must have played hundreds of "games" on it, costing my parents a grad total of "0" dollars. A couple of years later, I remember watching my dad play Galaga and thinking that he was AMAZING.
The electronic first game I owned, and could play in the comfort of my own home, was a hand-held thingie ordered from the all-might SEARS catalogue. The game was about driving down a street, avoiding fallen trees, picking up women hitch-hikers, and dropping them off at bus stops. I must have racked up DAYS of playtime on that thing.
I am actually a fan of the INSERT key, believe it or not. I don't use it regularly, but it does get a workout every-so-often.
..I do agree with you about the other ones though. I don't work as an IT staffer BUT, as one of the few tech-savvy people around my work place, I've helped troubleshoot a number of questions from colleagues with "faulty" laptop keyboards ---- the solution to keys not working as they should is, quite often, an engaged number lock (which, in terms of laptops, is actually a useful key in certain situations).
The assholes, rummaging through a hard drive means LOOKING into someone's personal life, proprietary information, or the like. Rummaging through a suitcase doesn't involve asking for receipts of when, where, and for how much the clothing or toiletries were purchased, or for or by whom the purchases were made.
Rummaging through someone's laptop doesn't involve the things you cite either. The point of the searches is that, as the article states, things present on your laptop are just like documents present in your briefcase. If, instead of using a computer to store all your personal files (bills, receipts, kiddie porn, whatever) you carried around original hardcopies of everything with you ===== then, when they search your briefcase, customs WILL known the receipts oof when where, and for how much... blah blah blah.
I think that I see the reasonableness of the majority of the court decisions --- thinking of a computer as a container makes a lot of sense. I can't tell customs folks to not look in my bag b/c I have a receipt, credit card, or soemthing else personal in there --- it's not hard to see how that logic can vault over to not wanting customs agents to look through my laptop.
You can't lock your luggage anymore when traveling (right?) --- why should you be able to 'lock' your computer? It's possible to store very personal effects in either, but no one claims 5th amendment rights when security asks you to unlock your bags for inspection.
It's easy to see how the default siding would be to limit access to one's electronic files ---- but I really do think there's a reason why the appealed decisions by the courts turned out the way they did.
It's exactly the opposite: there are protests, large ones, every day in America. The problem is that they're all pre-approved by police and don't really affect any change. Nearly every protest/demonstration I've gone to (and yes, like many protestors, I went to a bunch when I was a sparkly-minded undergrad) takes the atmosphere of a party or some other social event. You'll see kids banging on drums, playing music, dancing, or whatever.
It would take something pretty extraordinary to elevate a protest to the 'angry mob' you're referring to, given how sanctioned demonstrations are these days.
Ditto. I've been a subscriber to and user of the xbox live service for over a year now, and I've been nothing but happy with it. It has remained the number one reason why I'm happy I have a 360 and not a PS3. The issues over the past week have been the first time that I've seen glitches in the service.
I don't think that's the point. Whether or not you can hold a laser point steady on a distant target is irrelevant ---- what matters is that, as the article states, it's illegal to point lasers at aircraft. I'd imagine that this means arbitrarily shining lasers into the sky, even to watch "tracers" (again, from the article), is done at one's own risk.
..or, more appropriately, at one's own and other's risk.
..of course, with this announcement, the next version of Scrabble will have to be rescored and retiled to accomodate more possible entries. I, for one, welcome our alphanumeric overlords.
I think the point is to encourage all students to consider post-secondary education, whether that's college or tech school. It's a fine idea -- I imagine that 'C' performers, in many areas, are seldomly encouraged to go on with their education/training after HS graduation.
Langford said the computers are more than sufficient for Birmingham students' needs. "We're not trying to give these kids a computer that would launch a space shuttle."
One-space-shuttle-per-child: a project for the next generation.
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Same circumstances for me -- except I came away from the launch feeling completely terrified. In addition to the excitement that still welled up around shuttle launches back then, it was especially potent because there was a teacher on board. It's definitely one of those I-remember-exactly-where-I-was-when-it-happened moments.
It should be noted that the result would likely be very different in the US. There are cases that have held that using things like infrared scans or even the heightened senses of drug-sniffing dogs are an unreasonable violation of privacy without any probable cause or reasonable suspicion. The flying robots in the story similarly have such "heightened senses" and, thus, would probably violate US citizens' Constitutional rights.
WHOOOOOSH! Oh shit, and there we go again! Now I'm going to have to explain a dozen times again how I was being sarcastic.
000012 times??!
In other news, Craigslist is sueing casual sex.
You might find this helpful: PLAGIARISM.
Then the Young Bull fragged the Old with a railgun, just before rocket-jumping over the corpse on his way to L-O-L copulation.
(ftw)
In all seriousness, I'm hopeful for SP1, but I'll definitely wait to install until there's some more feedback. I use XP at work, Vista at home.. I seem to be one of the few that doesn't mind the OS, and even prefers it to XP in several ways.
I imagine that the hidden feedback system is something they've thought about already --- it seems too intuitive and simple to have passed over.
As an ebay seller and buyer, I do think the ever-present threat of feedback retaliation is pretty hindering to the feedback system as a whole. As a seller, I used to leave feedback for the buyer upon receipt of payment --- however, I've moved to waiting to leave feedback until after the buyer leaves ME feedback.
Doing so makes sense: the transaction isn't complete when one part receives money --- the transaction is complete when the buyer confirms receipt of the auction item and is satisfied with it, per the description on the auction page itself. If there are problems with the item, two mature parties can still likely come to an arrangement (re: returns, discounts, whatever) --- all these factors, for me as a buyer or a seller, help determine the type of feedback I leave. I don't think that it's right to have a seller leave immediate feedback upon payment --- unless there was some kind of tiered feedback system that rated the different parts of the auction (1. initial communication and payment; 2. item receipt and satisfaction?).
In any case, as either a buyer OR a seller, I am scared to leave negative feedback --- a note against my 100% rating wouldn't be good. I've only ever left one negative remark for a buyer.. for someone who won an auction I was running and then decided that they didn't want the item after all (or that their kid didn't want the item, actually). I had to run through the process of having all my ebay fees refunded to me, all b/c a negligent buyer didn't understand and/or care about the policies governing the site.
SO, in essence, I think the feedback system on ebay DOES need work, and I think the initially invisible feedback system proposed by several people above is a great, simple, and elegant solution.
Forgot another one: jesus.com
I'm sure many of us remember the "Win a date with Jesus" site that lived at jesus.com for many, many years. You could even take a bath with Jesus. I've often wondered how it was that always-datable Jesus came to sell the domain.
Yup. The store I bought the game from actually checked my ID before they let me have it (I'm 28, FYI.. and I like to *think* that I don't look like a teenager anymore).
How about these four: Rated M for Mature
I mean, seriously.
I was trying to remember mine as well ---- and then your post reminded me of how my mom still talks about how I would also "play" PacMan on an arcade cabinet located at a Chinese restaurant my parents frequented. I must have played hundreds of "games" on it, costing my parents a grad total of "0" dollars. A couple of years later, I remember watching my dad play Galaga and thinking that he was AMAZING.
The electronic first game I owned, and could play in the comfort of my own home, was a hand-held thingie ordered from the all-might SEARS catalogue. The game was about driving down a street, avoiding fallen trees, picking up women hitch-hikers, and dropping them off at bus stops. I must have racked up DAYS of playtime on that thing.
Man, I didn't get ANY oral hygene products with my kit. Not a one.
I am actually a fan of the INSERT key, believe it or not. I don't use it regularly, but it does get a workout every-so-often.
..I do agree with you about the other ones though. I don't work as an IT staffer BUT, as one of the few tech-savvy people around my work place, I've helped troubleshoot a number of questions from colleagues with "faulty" laptop keyboards ---- the solution to keys not working as they should is, quite often, an engaged number lock (which, in terms of laptops, is actually a useful key in certain situations).
Xeno will be dead. Win win situation. Xeno IS dead, you insensitive clod.
The assholes, rummaging through a hard drive means LOOKING into someone's personal life, proprietary information, or the like. Rummaging through a suitcase doesn't involve asking for receipts of when, where, and for how much the clothing or toiletries were purchased, or for or by whom the purchases were made.
Rummaging through someone's laptop doesn't involve the things you cite either. The point of the searches is that, as the article states, things present on your laptop are just like documents present in your briefcase. If, instead of using a computer to store all your personal files (bills, receipts, kiddie porn, whatever) you carried around original hardcopies of everything with you ===== then, when they search your briefcase, customs WILL known the receipts oof when where, and for how much... blah blah blah.
I think that I see the reasonableness of the majority of the court decisions --- thinking of a computer as a container makes a lot of sense. I can't tell customs folks to not look in my bag b/c I have a receipt, credit card, or soemthing else personal in there --- it's not hard to see how that logic can vault over to not wanting customs agents to look through my laptop.
You can't lock your luggage anymore when traveling (right?) --- why should you be able to 'lock' your computer? It's possible to store very personal effects in either, but no one claims 5th amendment rights when security asks you to unlock your bags for inspection.
It's easy to see how the default siding would be to limit access to one's electronic files ---- but I really do think there's a reason why the appealed decisions by the courts turned out the way they did.
It's exactly the opposite: there are protests, large ones, every day in America. The problem is that they're all pre-approved by police and don't really affect any change. Nearly every protest/demonstration I've gone to (and yes, like many protestors, I went to a bunch when I was a sparkly-minded undergrad) takes the atmosphere of a party or some other social event. You'll see kids banging on drums, playing music, dancing, or whatever.
It would take something pretty extraordinary to elevate a protest to the 'angry mob' you're referring to, given how sanctioned demonstrations are these days.
Ditto. I've been a subscriber to and user of the xbox live service for over a year now, and I've been nothing but happy with it. It has remained the number one reason why I'm happy I have a 360 and not a PS3. The issues over the past week have been the first time that I've seen glitches in the service.
Hah!
"Overwhelming heroism" is the best descriptor I've heard tagged onto the ending of Mass Effect. Nice one.
I don't think that's the point. Whether or not you can hold a laser point steady on a distant target is irrelevant ---- what matters is that, as the article states, it's illegal to point lasers at aircraft. I'd imagine that this means arbitrarily shining lasers into the sky, even to watch "tracers" (again, from the article), is done at one's own risk.
..or, more appropriately, at one's own and other's risk.
Two blank tiles will do the trick.
..of course, with this announcement, the next version of Scrabble will have to be rescored and retiled to accomodate more possible entries. I, for one, welcome our alphanumeric overlords.
If you were to look at the linked article, you'd see that, yes, w00t is spelled with zeroes, not "O's".
I think the point is to encourage all students to consider post-secondary education, whether that's college or tech school. It's a fine idea -- I imagine that 'C' performers, in many areas, are seldomly encouraged to go on with their education/training after HS graduation.
Give them a break! After all..
Langford said the computers are more than sufficient for Birmingham students' needs. "We're not trying to give these kids a computer that would launch a space shuttle."
One-space-shuttle-per-child: a project for the next generation.