Wait. If you had a family, you wouldn't want to be able to protect them? I guess that explains why you don't see the issue that arises with the magnetic-ring safety you mentioned. Allow me to spell it out for you.
I realize training the kid to use and respect the gun is key... as opposed to just hiding it from him. Burying your head in the sand with a child + gun in the house is a disaster waiting to happen.
But no matter how much I'd teach or train the kid, and no matter how responsible I think he might be for an age... I'd always have a fear that the 6yo kid might learn the combination to the safe, show it to a friend, *something* happens, and now either my kid or the friend is now dead.
I'm NOT saying that nobody should keep a kid in the house: teaching the kid to respect it is key and probably works well enough.
But I'm just a little too paranoid about that stuff and would rather play it safe.
It was so useful to you, that you made a dummy account, on the hope that someone else made a real account?
Honestly, yeh.
It was an old friend of mine and we lost track after college, she was a pretty social person and FaceBook sounded like the thing she'd be into. I tried looking her up via the normal route such as white pages and stuff and asking a couple of people that knew her. When I didn't have any luck I tried FaceBook but still never managed to get in touch.
That's as far as I took it though. I figured if she was off the grid enough to not be found via the normal non-stalker-ish methods she probably had her reasons.
Why is very simple, people don't trust them. They use technology to prevent a simple mechanical device from working, which do you think is more likely to break?
^^^
I'm not a gun owner, and probably will never be. But if I ever decided to go that way I'd probably get an old-school 6-shooter revolver since it's not like I'm ever going to need to be in a gun fight and worry about my ammo clip. I'd want simple function and maintenance. And considering it will be in a safe anyway I'm not going to say But what if I need it in an instant
Centuries-old tech vs electronics: which is going to fail first? I'd rather worry about the revolver itself and maintaining it instead of whether some cheap circuitboard is going to short out or if I got a bad batch from a factory in China.
Though, I recall seeing one solution where the "safety" part was a magnetic ring you had to wear on your shooting hand. I'd probably be OK with that since it's also just simple mechanics.
Now... if I wanted a gun AND had a family then I might change my tune. But chances are if I ever had a family I'd turn my gun over to the police for destruction.
Meanehile, I've heard that dogs have a hard time seeing actual images on the screen due to how their eyes are setup. That perhaps a bright-yellow ball flying across the grass on the TV might as well appear like Pong (black screen, white box flying across).
But I used to hear this a lot back on the old tube / CRT days. Who knows if flat panels work differently since they're not scanning each frame.
Personally I stay off Facebook. I made some dummy account years back just because I was unsuccessfully try to find an old friend I'd lost touch with. It's still there gather dust, I have ZERO friends on it and no posts since the day it was created like 3 years ago.
I'm in IT and I know people that feel the same way, they don't want to bother with the fake socialization or post stuff out there linked to their real name for the whole world to see. I have 10 years of experience behind me and a Masters in Computer Science. If that's not enough to show I'm in the IT field then it's a sad state of the field that someone with 1 year of experience and a FaceBook account would get preference.
Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of Facebook or Twitter either. I DO think they have their uses, such as Facebook finding old friends you lost touch with years ago and to be hang-outs for fans and clubs and whatever. And some Twitter feeds are quite useful, giving news or humorous anecdotes.
But yeh, I've seen what Matt Smith is talking about. People exaggerate how "into" something they are, yet I know them in real life and the cause / sport / whatever they claim to be so into.... they maybe spend one weekend a year doing.
And some twitter rants: they just forward something they heard on Twitter and feel it's the truth, when you dig past the onion layers and find out it's not. But, I read it on Twitter Umm, good for you? That doesn't make it true.
Pff, the real danger is the large trans dimensional window in all of the owners' sleeping rooms. There's always another dog trying to get in whenever my pup would enter the room.
Seriously though, never had my dogs care that much about the TV. Maybe a little but nothing much.
But as puppies, watching them react to mirrors was hilarious! Depending on the dog, they'd treat the reflection like an intruder or perhaps immediately take them to be a new new friend. In either case it would be a hyped up reaction.
TV's though? Meh, maybe some dialog or sound effects would get their attention but that's about it.
I always loved microfiche... I thought it was cool. Back when my middle school wasn't very big on PC's we had loads and loads of microfiche that we could print out and stuff.
But, it does have some disadvantages. Heat and humidity can distort the image, and eventually damage the film by either distortion or fungus.
However I don't know what the threshold temperatures are.
It's possible for a kid or 20yo to not know about Kirt: if the kid is a teenager and doesn't have cable, and isn't into sci-fi enough to have seen the films it's possible.
It's not very probable, but it's possible.
Heck, I met a kid that was into computers and didn't know about disks larger than a 3.5" floppy. Not that he knew and hadn't seen one before, but thought 3.5" was the only kind ever used.
Gasp! You mean I can't fly around in floating-car like the Jetsons that is able to hold into a small briefcase?
Yeh, science fiction has teased us with a bit too much. Between constraints on materials and the laws of Themodynamics we can't really do all of the cool stuff that we've seen in comics and movies. Not now, possibly never.
Obviously there's room for advancement to be made. Carbon Nanotubes offer interesting manufacturing abilities as the technology (and tube-size) improves. But things are harder to do that people realize.
Unfortunately, it's not as efficient as you'd hope. A lot of energy is lost during transmission over distance. Which is one of the reasons why Nuke plants and such are aren't just made in the middle of nowhere and piping energy to the country.
On average, I can't say whether your typical house (and its distance from the power plant) using X kilowatts is better/worse than your car engine generating X killowatts... but unfortunately distance plays a factor.
How many times are you going to post the same comment?
I first posted it under the AC post because I didn't see that an actual person had posted something similar. Since AC posts often get modded down or ignored I figured I'd copy/paste it to this one.
But, as "Gabe" says in the actual news post for that day, he actually LIKES the TIle UI. I like it too. But, I can see it not being for everyone, and it obviously has some short-comings.
You see, I'm cool with that. Restaurants are full of enough noise/static that so long as the family calms it down quickly or takes it to the bathroom/hallway/etc to calm it down then it's cool.
But being seated at the table NEXT to a family that has the baby cry and cry and cry and they do nothing about it... well that sucks. I get responses "it's only for 5 minutes" and I say "no it's been longer"
My favorite is "we learned to live with it, so you can too." Umm, it's your kid so you're supposed to get used to it. I'm not related so I don't have to get used to squat.
Honestly, the cellphone thing has gotten *better* by me. It used to be pretty bad; maybe 10 years ago people would talk on the phone and stuff or have TXT chats back-and-forth with the thing beeping each time. Now I guess the people that do / did that are either more discreet or realize that it sucks and stop all-together.
But, what still annoys me... bringing an infant to a 10PM+ showing of a loud / scary movie. What. The. Hell. You're ruining the experience for lots of people, which is inconsiderate as hell. Obviously the infant isn't to blame, it's just a child.
Whenever I bring this up people treat me like the Devil, but it's flippin' annoying when some parent brings their kid to a 10PM or 11PM showing of a loud and scary movie. The infant inevitably freaks out at some point and starts crying and crying and CRYING. And only half the time does the mother carry the infant outside to try to calm it down. Of course the whole theater lets out a collection sigh or F-bomb because the parent is being inconsiderate.
Listen, I get it... you're a parent and you still want to have a life. Well, having a kid means making some changes: you don't get to get to the Bahamas every year, you don't get to go out drinking every Friday night, and you shouldn't bring your infant to a 10PM airing of a horror flick. They have matinee showing of colorful and cheerful movies for kids: learn to the theaters then. Wanting to have a life doesn't mean you get to poop on 100+ people's evening.
So either get a baby sitter, ask a relative to watch the kid, go to an earlier showing, or wait until the DVD.
The same kind of goes with fancy restaurants... if your kid is too young and/or you can't control them then please don't ruin the experience for the whole place (or just the surrounding tables).
Agreed, the reason for attractive females (or even males) is because it works. Hence why so many of the sales people for whatever industry are charismatic and attractive.
I went to a (somewhat) nearby Ford dealer 2 years ago to start buying a car. I pretty much decided which one I wanted and the specs, I was just seeing how this dealer compared to the other Ford nearby since both were rated well for their repairs/maintenance/etc.
I walk in there are 2 guys and 1 sales woman; the women was a dream. She was hotter than most of the TV actresses out there that are known for their looks: she was bordering on model-class. She was dressed classy but still incredibly gorgeous. I heard her say she'd just come back from break and found out she was the only sales person free at the moment.
I LEFT.
Why? Because she was at the level that, I'm sorry to say, I wouldn't be thinking 100% clearly. I'm not saying she would have talked me into buying the most expensive car or anything sitcom-oriented, but chances I wouldn't have held my own as much as I should have. Had she been just been your average looking girl I wouldn't have cared.
So I left; ultimately bought the car from a 55yo guy at the other Ford and got a good deal.
I don't have to install a plugin. I have to install an extension instead. Can someone tell me how/why this is better/different? FFS!
A) people don't like Silverlight
B) the rumor is Microsoft is dropping Silverlight
If (B) is true then you probably want some sort of alternative. For example, depending on how they code, the plug-in could be fairly modular. If that company / group goes belly-up then hopefully by then there are more modules to pick from.
OK, I try to keep an open mind and really don't care what people believe so long as A) they don't get into people's faces about it and B) the message is peaceful.
I don't even mind their big back-story about aliens and what-not. Ignoring the fact that a sci-fi writer wrote it, who's to say that's any more laughable than other stuff. And you could say that maybe he was just inspired by the spoken word or universal secrets to write his other stuff, which isn't that much more implausible than where many of the stories for the Bible came from.
But... in practice Scientology is making it quite hard to like or respect them. Between the lawsuits, making people's lives hell for leaving or speaking out against them, the pay-to-learn thing they have going on, etc it's hard for me to say "fine whatever"
And now this... sigh. It's just making it hard to respect you. I mean, lots of people HATE the Catholic church but you don't see them trying to stifle people's thoughts and comments about it.
Zimmerman really should have been the real nail in the coffin on your thoughts on THAT
I'm not getting into the whole "is he guilty / is he right / is he wrong" debate...
But the media was just horrible. Every picture shown of Trevon was like when he was 10 or 12. Seriously, for a while I thought "Damn, that guy shot a grade-schooler"
Then one of the big networks spliced together his 911 tape so he sounded quite racist; they since fired the guy who did it but are fighting back on a lawsuit about it saying nothing was done wrong. They hyped it up as white-on-black crime when he's not white. The list goes on and on.
Again, I'm not saying he's innocent and they portrayed him as guilty... nor am I saying he's guilty. Just the Media's behavior over the whole affair was horrible. WHICH makes the trial all the more difficult... now everyone has their lies and twists burned into their minds.
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Wait. If you had a family, you wouldn't want to be able to protect them? I guess that explains why you don't see the issue that arises with the magnetic-ring safety you mentioned. Allow me to spell it out for you.
I realize training the kid to use and respect the gun is key... as opposed to just hiding it from him. Burying your head in the sand with a child + gun in the house is a disaster waiting to happen.
But no matter how much I'd teach or train the kid, and no matter how responsible I think he might be for an age... I'd always have a fear that the 6yo kid might learn the combination to the safe, show it to a friend, *something* happens, and now either my kid or the friend is now dead.
I'm NOT saying that nobody should keep a kid in the house: teaching the kid to respect it is key and probably works well enough.
But I'm just a little too paranoid about that stuff and would rather play it safe.
It was so useful to you, that you made a dummy account, on the hope that someone else made a real account?
Honestly, yeh.
It was an old friend of mine and we lost track after college, she was a pretty social person and FaceBook sounded like the thing she'd be into. I tried looking her up via the normal route such as white pages and stuff and asking a couple of people that knew her. When I didn't have any luck I tried FaceBook but still never managed to get in touch.
That's as far as I took it though. I figured if she was off the grid enough to not be found via the normal non-stalker-ish methods she probably had her reasons.
Why is very simple, people don't trust them. They use technology to prevent a simple mechanical device from working, which do you think is more likely to break?
^^^
I'm not a gun owner, and probably will never be. But if I ever decided to go that way I'd probably get an old-school 6-shooter revolver since it's not like I'm ever going to need to be in a gun fight and worry about my ammo clip. I'd want simple function and maintenance. And considering it will be in a safe anyway I'm not going to say But what if I need it in an instant
Centuries-old tech vs electronics: which is going to fail first? I'd rather worry about the revolver itself and maintaining it instead of whether some cheap circuitboard is going to short out or if I got a bad batch from a factory in China.
Though, I recall seeing one solution where the "safety" part was a magnetic ring you had to wear on your shooting hand. I'd probably be OK with that since it's also just simple mechanics.
Now... if I wanted a gun AND had a family then I might change my tune. But chances are if I ever had a family I'd turn my gun over to the police for destruction.
Meanehile, I've heard that dogs have a hard time seeing actual images on the screen due to how their eyes are setup. That perhaps a bright-yellow ball flying across the grass on the TV might as well appear like Pong (black screen, white box flying across).
But I used to hear this a lot back on the old tube / CRT days. Who knows if flat panels work differently since they're not scanning each frame.
You see, THAT annoys me.
Personally I stay off Facebook. I made some dummy account years back just because I was unsuccessfully try to find an old friend I'd lost touch with. It's still there gather dust, I have ZERO friends on it and no posts since the day it was created like 3 years ago.
I'm in IT and I know people that feel the same way, they don't want to bother with the fake socialization or post stuff out there linked to their real name for the whole world to see. I have 10 years of experience behind me and a Masters in Computer Science. If that's not enough to show I'm in the IT field then it's a sad state of the field that someone with 1 year of experience and a FaceBook account would get preference.
Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of Facebook or Twitter either. I DO think they have their uses, such as Facebook finding old friends you lost touch with years ago and to be hang-outs for fans and clubs and whatever. And some Twitter feeds are quite useful, giving news or humorous anecdotes.
But yeh, I've seen what Matt Smith is talking about. People exaggerate how "into" something they are, yet I know them in real life and the cause / sport / whatever they claim to be so into.... they maybe spend one weekend a year doing.
And some twitter rants: they just forward something they heard on Twitter and feel it's the truth, when you dig past the onion layers and find out it's not. But, I read it on Twitter Umm, good for you? That doesn't make it true.
Pff, the real danger is the large trans dimensional window in all of the owners' sleeping rooms. There's always another dog trying to get in whenever my pup would enter the room.
Seriously though, never had my dogs care that much about the TV. Maybe a little but nothing much.
But as puppies, watching them react to mirrors was hilarious! Depending on the dog, they'd treat the reflection like an intruder or perhaps immediately take them to be a new new friend. In either case it would be a hyped up reaction.
TV's though? Meh, maybe some dialog or sound effects would get their attention but that's about it.
I always loved microfiche... I thought it was cool. Back when my middle school wasn't very big on PC's we had loads and loads of microfiche that we could print out and stuff.
But, it does have some disadvantages. Heat and humidity can distort the image, and eventually damage the film by either distortion or fungus.
However I don't know what the threshold temperatures are.
I'm pretty sure that it was a joke-posting.
I could see for fear of trademark issues.
Obviously the Star Trek owners have been pretty good about that sort of thing in the past, but maybe they just didn't want to risk it.
Or... they're just really big fans of the new continuity and believe there is no longer any Vulcan :-)
By "larger" I mean floppy disks that were physically larger like the 5.25's, the Bernoulli's, and the even bigger ones.
And 5.25's were still used ~25 years ago.
It's possible for a kid or 20yo to not know about Kirt: if the kid is a teenager and doesn't have cable, and isn't into sci-fi enough to have seen the films it's possible.
It's not very probable, but it's possible.
Heck, I met a kid that was into computers and didn't know about disks larger than a 3.5" floppy. Not that he knew and hadn't seen one before, but thought 3.5" was the only kind ever used.
The world is invaded by aliens, the country is in shambles...
There's only one weapon that can save you now: the might CHAIR
Throw chairs at your enemies and defend your planet. Customize and purchase new chairs: from the basic metal folding chair to the antique wingback
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Gasp! You mean I can't fly around in floating-car like the Jetsons that is able to hold into a small briefcase?
Yeh, science fiction has teased us with a bit too much. Between constraints on materials and the laws of Themodynamics we can't really do all of the cool stuff that we've seen in comics and movies. Not now, possibly never.
Obviously there's room for advancement to be made. Carbon Nanotubes offer interesting manufacturing abilities as the technology (and tube-size) improves. But things are harder to do that people realize.
Unfortunately, it's not as efficient as you'd hope. A lot of energy is lost during transmission over distance. Which is one of the reasons why Nuke plants and such are aren't just made in the middle of nowhere and piping energy to the country.
On average, I can't say whether your typical house (and its distance from the power plant) using X kilowatts is better/worse than your car engine generating X killowatts... but unfortunately distance plays a factor.
How many times are you going to post the same comment?
I first posted it under the AC post because I didn't see that an actual person had posted something similar. Since AC posts often get modded down or ignored I figured I'd copy/paste it to this one.
Pretty much mirrors my own. Although I would add in an extra side of "fuck you"...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/28
But, as "Gabe" says in the actual news post for that day, he actually LIKES the TIle UI. I like it too.
But, I can see it not being for everyone, and it obviously has some short-comings.
Penny Arcade.
'nuff said.
But, as "Gabe" says in the actual news post for that day, he actually LIKES the TIle UI. I like it too. But, I can see it not being for everyone, and it obviously has some short-comings.
You see, I'm cool with that. Restaurants are full of enough noise/static that so long as the family calms it down quickly or takes it to the bathroom/hallway/etc to calm it down then it's cool.
But being seated at the table NEXT to a family that has the baby cry and cry and cry and they do nothing about it... well that sucks. I get responses "it's only for 5 minutes" and I say "no it's been longer"
My favorite is "we learned to live with it, so you can too." Umm, it's your kid so you're supposed to get used to it. I'm not related so I don't have to get used to squat.
Honestly, the cellphone thing has gotten *better* by me. It used to be pretty bad; maybe 10 years ago people would talk on the phone and stuff or have TXT chats back-and-forth with the thing beeping each time. Now I guess the people that do / did that are either more discreet or realize that it sucks and stop all-together.
But, what still annoys me... bringing an infant to a 10PM+ showing of a loud / scary movie. What. The. Hell. You're ruining the experience for lots of people, which is inconsiderate as hell. Obviously the infant isn't to blame, it's just a child.
Whenever I bring this up people treat me like the Devil, but it's flippin' annoying when some parent brings their kid to a 10PM or 11PM showing of a loud and scary movie. The infant inevitably freaks out at some point and starts crying and crying and CRYING. And only half the time does the mother carry the infant outside to try to calm it down. Of course the whole theater lets out a collection sigh or F-bomb because the parent is being inconsiderate.
Listen, I get it... you're a parent and you still want to have a life. Well, having a kid means making some changes: you don't get to get to the Bahamas every year, you don't get to go out drinking every Friday night, and you shouldn't bring your infant to a 10PM airing of a horror flick. They have matinee showing of colorful and cheerful movies for kids: learn to the theaters then. Wanting to have a life doesn't mean you get to poop on 100+ people's evening.
So either get a baby sitter, ask a relative to watch the kid, go to an earlier showing, or wait until the DVD.
The same kind of goes with fancy restaurants... if your kid is too young and/or you can't control them then please don't ruin the experience for the whole place (or just the surrounding tables).
Agreed, the reason for attractive females (or even males) is because it works. Hence why so many of the sales people for whatever industry are charismatic and attractive.
I went to a (somewhat) nearby Ford dealer 2 years ago to start buying a car. I pretty much decided which one I wanted and the specs, I was just seeing how this dealer compared to the other Ford nearby since both were rated well for their repairs/maintenance/etc.
I walk in there are 2 guys and 1 sales woman; the women was a dream. She was hotter than most of the TV actresses out there that are known for their looks: she was bordering on model-class. She was dressed classy but still incredibly gorgeous. I heard her say she'd just come back from break and found out she was the only sales person free at the moment.
I LEFT.
Why? Because she was at the level that, I'm sorry to say, I wouldn't be thinking 100% clearly. I'm not saying she would have talked me into buying the most expensive car or anything sitcom-oriented, but chances I wouldn't have held my own as much as I should have. Had she been just been your average looking girl I wouldn't have cared.
So I left; ultimately bought the car from a 55yo guy at the other Ford and got a good deal.
I don't have to install a plugin. I have to install an extension instead. Can someone tell me how/why this is better/different? FFS!
A) people don't like Silverlight
B) the rumor is Microsoft is dropping Silverlight
If (B) is true then you probably want some sort of alternative. For example, depending on how they code, the plug-in could be fairly modular. If that company / group goes belly-up then hopefully by then there are more modules to pick from.
LOL. Yeh.
I mean, it was neat to see them fire up the old WOPR again towards the end. And Claudia Black's voice was cool for the new computer.
But beyond that, it was hardly a worthy sequel to such a classic.
OK, I try to keep an open mind and really don't care what people believe so long as A) they don't get into people's faces about it and B) the message is peaceful.
I don't even mind their big back-story about aliens and what-not. Ignoring the fact that a sci-fi writer wrote it, who's to say that's any more laughable than other stuff. And you could say that maybe he was just inspired by the spoken word or universal secrets to write his other stuff, which isn't that much more implausible than where many of the stories for the Bible came from.
But... in practice Scientology is making it quite hard to like or respect them. Between the lawsuits, making people's lives hell for leaving or speaking out against them, the pay-to-learn thing they have going on, etc it's hard for me to say "fine whatever"
And now this... sigh. It's just making it hard to respect you. I mean, lots of people HATE the Catholic church but you don't see them trying to stifle people's thoughts and comments about it.
Zimmerman really should have been the real nail in the coffin on your thoughts on THAT
I'm not getting into the whole "is he guilty / is he right / is he wrong" debate...
But the media was just horrible. Every picture shown of Trevon was like when he was 10 or 12. Seriously, for a while I thought "Damn, that guy shot a grade-schooler"
Then one of the big networks spliced together his 911 tape so he sounded quite racist; they since fired the guy who did it but are fighting back on a lawsuit about it saying nothing was done wrong. They hyped it up as white-on-black crime when he's not white. The list goes on and on.
Again, I'm not saying he's innocent and they portrayed him as guilty... nor am I saying he's guilty. Just the Media's behavior over the whole affair was horrible. WHICH makes the trial all the more difficult... now everyone has their lies and twists burned into their minds.