I thought, 'This will be cool; everyone will think it's their Springfield.' And they do.
Mine is Springfield, Massachusetts.. I knew it had nothing to do with the one on the show./
I remember reading an article more than 15 years ago where they interviewed some of the
Simpsons staff writers. A couple of them were from New England, and said that certain
elements of the town were copied from their home state, and that they included various
(visual and other) references to Springfield, MA in the show.
What I don't understand is why American universities even have campus police?
Just how bad is the crime situation on your campuses that you need both a dedicated police force and a security force on top of that?
They are sworn as State Police officers, which gives them superior jurisidiction over the local police in the town that the university is located in. This means that the town police officers do not have jurisdiction on the campus. It also means that when the local police make a radio call about someone who might be a student, in town, the campus police can rush over there and take charge over the situation. Rescuing the kids from the local police, basically. The universities here are located within towns -- all the university buildings are scattered around the town, rather than mostly being on a single central campus. The "Campus Police" are all over the town, exercising their police powers upon situations involving students, and doing so in a way that conforms to the sensibilities of the educational institution rather than those of the local police.
Just about every warp ship I've seen re-entering normal space, does so with a light show. Sometimes it looks like they've even ripped a hole in local space.
Arrested by who? Their peers who do not want to be videotaped either?
By metacops, naturally.
But who metas the metacops?
Citizens who start organizing multiple-person, coordinated, long range sniper rifle and IED attacks on complicit judges and top police/security officials, torching of police stations and infrastructure like police/SWAT armories, motor-pools, helicopters/helipads, aircraft and police vehicle refueling equipment & facilities, etc, as well as taking out individual off-duty cops and their families at home. They refuse to police themselves, so we are therefor forced to do it for them.
It used to be the case that if I were to see a cop in trouble (being beaten, shot, stabbed, etc), I'd do whatever I could to help. These days, I'll turn my back and walk away. They are no longer "protectors", they are now simply "enforcers", and I have no sympathy at all for the ill-fate of enforcers.
Strat
So, you used to fantasize that you're a superhero, but now you've an evil supervillian?
How much energy would be needed to lift a house for a short period of time using magnetic levitation?
This is impossible to estimate because nobody knows how f*ing magnets actually work.
Meanwhile, the tides come in, the tides go out, and tsunami's are the problem.
If you're getting frisked, we're no longer talking about "law abiding citizens".
RIght on! The police never arrest people who are innocent. If you're arrested, you're guilty!
Granted, they certainly could use this device to scan random people. But that's an unconstitutional search which the Supreme Court would slap the Hell out of.
Yes, they've already ruled on this, regarding scanning anyone who enters certain parking lots in Queens, or tries to go into the buildings there to use a public conveyance. (Oh, wait! They ruled that you give up your rights when you enter those "special" places. Like airports. Or bus terminals, or subways, or many buildings. Or when you try to drive a car into a tunnel in New York City. Or, well, like anywhere in New York City, where as you well know you give up your Second Ammendment rights. )
<quote><p>I love COBOL statements like</p><p>MULTIPLY SEVEN BY SIXTEEN</p><p>rather than</p><p>7 * 16</p><p>How that made things more reasonable is beyond me. Yes, some variants of COBOL do allow more ordinary mathematical expressions like you would see in C++ or even FORTRAN, but this is a "feature" of COBOL that has always seemed a little off.</p></quote>
COBOL always had FORTRAN-like arithmetic statements since the first adopted version of the language standard in 1968. It also had error handling, and many other features.
COMPUTE ANSWER = 7*16
DIVIDE ARROGANCE INTO IGNORANCE GIVING MISINFORMATION REMAINDER STUPIDITY.
DIVIDE INFORMATION BY EXAMPLE GIVING POINTY-HEAD ROUNDED ON SIZE ERROR PERFORM BETTER-THAN-C
Not to mention you have thousands upon thousands of years where there was no such thing as copyright, and it in no way prevented people from either creating new works of art, nor from earning a living from them.
You're a little confused or ignorant of history: for thousands of years there were very few books, they were available only to a few very rich people, and in general the world was a very different place. Very recently in history, the printing press was invented. And authors immediately started getting screwed by copying.
It was 2013 when they were all finally captured, transported in white trucks,
loaded onto wooden fishing boats and banished to the evacuated island of
Me-shima. The sullen, glowing creatures, some with open sores and missing
hair, were unloaded from their crates by the workers in their hazard isolation suits.
The workers were helicoptered onto a waiting ship back to Nagasaki, leaving
the radmonkeys miserably exiled to the tiny island, presumably forever.
It has been 17 years, now, but the scientists stopped remotely monitoring
the radmonkeys long ago. Budget cuts happened almost immediately, but moreso,
everyone wanted to forget about the entire disaster. The "humane" thing had
been done for the radmonkeys, after the sickening had been done to them.
The novel anti-radiation gene therapy experimentation had not yielded
any results, and the radmonkeys became less and less interesting,
and more a reminder of so many things gone wrong.
When the initial survey team was dispatched to Me-shima this summer,
they expected to find the island a little smaller (owing to the ocean
rise from global warming), but perfectly safe. What they were not
expecting, were living radmonkeys.
A lot of people are complaining about changes that will destabilize their system - such as log analysis programs that would need to be changed to use the new system. A lot of people are complaining about how they would have to do something different - can't just/sbin/grep. A lot of people are making assumptions about deficiencies in a hypothetical system. There's a lot that is unknown about doing things in this different way, and its outside the experience and skills of many of the posters. And then, a lot of the messages are just bitching about how they hate one Linux distro or another (for inflicting a new GNOME on them, for example). Some good questions, also a lot of ignorant FUD.
Seems to me that those are all separate issues, which need to be addressed by more concrete, information. Above all this is the big question of how experimental the distro ought to be, for the customers it is intended to serve.
UNIX and Linux are already technologically about 40 years out of date, compared to previous (but not well known/popular) systems. Progress on operating systems is so slow it makes me want to kill myself when I think about.
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All this has happened before, and it will happen again... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_X-30
I thought, 'This will be cool; everyone will think it's their Springfield.' And they do.
Mine is Springfield, Massachusetts.. I knew it had nothing to do with the one on the show./
I remember reading an article more than 15 years ago where they interviewed some of the Simpsons staff writers. A couple of them were from New England, and said that certain elements of the town were copied from their home state, and that they included various (visual and other) references to Springfield, MA in the show.
It's clearly in North Takoma.
These are not self replicating and can't adjust their own code.
Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
How does law enforcement make a request to track a cell phone? Is it a phone call? A web-based system?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/01/1754231/aclu-obtains-cell-phone-tracking-training-materials
"When you take me out to the party in my surry with the fringe on...."
"Penny...Penny...Penny..."
Does the federal government not regulate local PD's measures in crowd control?
What country are you from?
What I don't understand is why American universities even have campus police?
Just how bad is the crime situation on your campuses that you need both a dedicated police force and a security force on top of that?
They are sworn as State Police officers, which gives them superior jurisidiction over the local police in the town that the university is located in. This means that the town police officers do not have jurisdiction on the campus. It also means that when the local police make a radio call about someone who might be a student, in town, the campus police can rush over there and take charge over the situation. Rescuing the kids from the local police, basically. The universities here are located within towns -- all the university buildings are scattered around the town, rather than mostly being on a single central campus. The "Campus Police" are all over the town, exercising their police powers upon situations involving students, and doing so in a way that conforms to the sensibilities of the educational institution rather than those of the local police.
Remind me again, artor: universal health care -- fatal, or non-fatal in your economic system?
Just about every warp ship I've seen re-entering normal space, does so with a light show. Sometimes it looks like they've even ripped a hole in local space.
You've got to learn WHY things work on an international space station...
Citizens who start organizing multiple-person, coordinated, long range sniper rifle and IED attacks on complicit judges and top police/security officials, torching of police stations and infrastructure like police/SWAT armories, motor-pools, helicopters/helipads, aircraft and police vehicle refueling equipment & facilities, etc, as well as taking out individual off-duty cops and their families at home. They refuse to police themselves, so we are therefor forced to do it for them.
It used to be the case that if I were to see a cop in trouble (being beaten, shot, stabbed, etc), I'd do whatever I could to help. These days, I'll turn my back and walk away. They are no longer "protectors", they are now simply "enforcers", and I have no sympathy at all for the ill-fate of enforcers.
Strat
So, you used to fantasize that you're a superhero, but now you've an evil supervillian?
How much energy would be needed to lift a house for a short period of time using magnetic levitation?
This is impossible to estimate because nobody knows how f*ing magnets actually work.
Meanwhile, the tides come in, the tides go out, and tsunami's are the problem.
If someone asks you if Google is God, you say "YES!"
Now show me "Paint The Fence"
So, which of the paintings and photographs of Motif #1 are infringing, then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_Number_1 http://www.rockportusa.com/motifone/motif_named.html
Stop This Crazy Thing...!
If you're getting frisked, we're no longer talking about "law abiding citizens".
RIght on! The police never arrest people who are innocent. If you're arrested, you're guilty!
Granted, they certainly could use this device to scan random people. But that's an unconstitutional search which the Supreme Court would slap the Hell out of.
Yes, they've already ruled on this, regarding scanning anyone who enters certain parking lots in Queens, or tries to go into the buildings there to use a public conveyance. (Oh, wait! They ruled that you give up your rights when you enter those "special" places. Like airports. Or bus terminals, or subways, or many buildings. Or when you try to drive a car into a tunnel in New York City. Or, well, like anywhere in New York City, where as you well know you give up your Second Ammendment rights. )
New York, New York, it's a hell of a town!
<quote><p>I love COBOL statements like</p><p>MULTIPLY SEVEN BY SIXTEEN</p><p>rather than</p><p>7 * 16</p><p>How that made things more reasonable is beyond me. Yes, some variants of COBOL do allow more ordinary mathematical expressions like you would see in C++ or even FORTRAN, but this is a "feature" of COBOL that has always seemed a little off.</p></quote>
COBOL always had FORTRAN-like arithmetic statements since the first
adopted version of the language standard in 1968. It also had error
handling, and many other features.
COMPUTE ANSWER = 7*16
DIVIDE ARROGANCE INTO IGNORANCE GIVING MISINFORMATION REMAINDER STUPIDITY.
DIVIDE INFORMATION BY EXAMPLE
GIVING POINTY-HEAD ROUNDED
ON SIZE ERROR PERFORM BETTER-THAN-C
Not to mention you have thousands upon thousands of years where there was no such thing as copyright, and it in no way prevented people from either creating new works of art, nor from earning a living from them.
You're a little confused or ignorant of history: for thousands of years there were very few books, they were available only to a few very rich people, and in general the world was a very different place. Very recently in history, the printing press was invented. And authors immediately started getting screwed by copying.
1. It's in Siberia - you think he has insurance?
I imagine he bought it from "Peggy".
I can't wait for them to get here. I bet they're tasty.
You did notice that McDonalds latest item is McPopplers, right?
It was 2013 when they were all finally captured, transported in white trucks, loaded onto wooden fishing boats and banished to the evacuated island of Me-shima. The sullen, glowing creatures, some with open sores and missing hair, were unloaded from their crates by the workers in their hazard isolation suits. The workers were helicoptered onto a waiting ship back to Nagasaki, leaving the radmonkeys miserably exiled to the tiny island, presumably forever.
It has been 17 years, now, but the scientists stopped remotely monitoring the radmonkeys long ago. Budget cuts happened almost immediately, but moreso, everyone wanted to forget about the entire disaster. The "humane" thing had been done for the radmonkeys, after the sickening had been done to them. The novel anti-radiation gene therapy experimentation had not yielded any results, and the radmonkeys became less and less interesting, and more a reminder of so many things gone wrong.
When the initial survey team was dispatched to Me-shima this summer, they expected to find the island a little smaller (owing to the ocean rise from global warming), but perfectly safe. What they were not expecting, were living radmonkeys.
Let the free market succeed where the USPS only exists by monopoly.
No, USPS is no monopoly. If you think you can deliver letters across the country for less than half a dollar, you're free to do so.
Actually, USPS is a monopoly. It is a federal crime to deliver a letter. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes
A lot of people are complaining about changes that will destabilize their system - such as log analysis programs that would need to be changed to use the new system. A lot of people are complaining about how they would have to do something different - can't just /sbin/grep. A lot of people are making assumptions about deficiencies in a hypothetical system. There's a lot that is unknown about doing things in this different way, and its outside the experience and skills of many of the posters. And then, a lot of the messages are just bitching about how they hate one Linux distro or another (for inflicting a new GNOME on them, for example). Some good questions, also a lot of ignorant FUD.
Seems to me that those are all separate issues, which need to be addressed by more concrete, information. Above all this is the big question of how experimental the distro ought to be, for the customers it is intended to serve.
UNIX and Linux are already technologically about 40 years out of date, compared to previous (but not well known/popular) systems. Progress on operating systems is so slow it makes me want to kill myself when I think about.