Yeah we are also one of the few states apparently that are a single party state for recording. Only 1 person in a conversation need be aware of the recording of a phone call for it to be admissible. This also means that if you are the one recording you do not have to tell the person at the other end (as you are the single party) apparently.
As a long time listener of Garage Logic on AM1500 (I only had AM in my car growing up, go fig) they frequently refer to a guy named Samer (sp?). He had a theory that the reason people, as a whole, have lost it, is that all the electromagnetic noise and radiation we have created litterally is frying out brain's ability to function normally.
With all this talk about wireless charging and what I see in the world, I am starting to wonder if this Samer theory has legs... and if so what are the implications on humans?
We know power lines can confuse cows internal compass. We've seen radar stations toss migratory birds a curve ball. What are the larger implications on humans since we've never really looked into how much all that 'noise' effects us.
Simply ask yourself this: You are in a room with 5 people in silence. Any stress? Ok now as the noise increases, does the stress? Now ask this: what about all the noise you don't perceive but still might pick up... is this going to be just more noise and if so what are the implications if we assume the Samer theory has some validity.
You know that really pissed me off in the movie. Being an old comic guy, the whole deal was Adamantium was an attempt at Vibranium. It just ruined the whole damn movie up until the adamantium bullet which took the movie from aweful to just plain brain rotting stupid.
Don't you people have friends? Network man! Network! People aren't products, you don't go to the store to buy them off a rack. There isn't "A PLACE" to meet people. You can meet them anywhere. You need to re-learn how to network.
Call a friend up (I assume you have one) and go ANYWHERE with your friend. When you two are having a good time doing whatever it is you do it will draw others to you. Your group gets bigger. Go to different locations. Group gets bigger. Eventually your social group hits a critical mass (4-8 people) that you can consistently "do things" with.
At that point you are "socially" accessable. You are a functioning human being that interacts with people. Potential "mates" see this, you are 'normal' (whatever that actually means) and not a creepy basement dweller.
It is the macro version of the "Get a plant, get a pet, then try people" buildup.
You don't GO somewhere to meet people, you meet them everywhere you go. Target, Irish Pub, Dance Club, Bondage-a-go-go night, library, street, sidewalk, dog park, etc.
Yep the same Minnesota that also makes it "illegal to export women out of state for the purpose of entertainment" and has a law that "prohibits liquor stores and care dealerships being open on a sunday."
How dare these people set laws based on their values. We should be as intolerant and bigoted towards "their values" because they are not "our values". Tolerance is a two way street my friend.
Oh and just for shits and giggles it's either Saint Paul or Minneapolis that has an unenforced local law citing that you can't have a red car (because at one point it was reserved for emergency vechicles...).
Hell my town has a law that requires two trees in your front yard and no grass can be high then 12 inches.
In a world where everyone hates everyone just about ever law is gonna piss someone off.
Anyways sounds like that sodomy law is right up the current goverment's alley, a new revenue source to pay down some of that debt.
As a Minnesotan, and risking a political flame war of titanic scale I'll say this:
By and large, Minnesota has been friendly to businesses (There is a reason Target, 3M, US Bank, Amex, etc. stick around despite obscene taxes) and that whole MN Nice thing? Total BS. Left leaning in the cities, right leaning in the boonies, and jdugemental through and through. I blame Garrison Keeler. Why? I don't know, my usual escape goats, the Dutch, just don't seem appropriate. Once you get north of Grand Rapids (hell north of Pine City) you rock the boat and people get pissed. We're not fond of jury duty (When I went up the group I was in, only 4 of us didn't bother uttering every racial slur we could find just to get out of jury duty... Nothing more comical then seeing people accidentally ramble off their own racial slur, Punk Ass Chalk Cracker... wait.. I am a Punk Ass Chalk Cracker... DAMN IT! Seriously a guy started screaming I hate Jewapnooks... WTF is that anyway? I get the Jew part, I think the nook is supposed to be Chinook; but what is with the Ap? And aren't the a Chinook western tribe? Why not pick on a local tribe. At least show some state pride and pick a local one... Man that was a fun two days...)
Where was I?
Oh yes, MN. We are rather judgemental and my experience has been, in this case as far as conversations go, most people thought her to be a bit... ummm.... kinda... no real way to say this nicely.... a dead beat piece of crap. The moment she started talking about her kids that made it come off like she was trying to pass the buck to her own... That pissed some people off apparently (I haven't watched this as close as the better half). I would assume people on the jury didn't take kindly to that.
The damage award though I think is actually a red herring of sorts. If I didn't know any better I would bet that it was intentionally set to an absurd amount for an easy appeal. Sympathetic judge with a backdoor wink so to speak....
I have no clue... We knew she was guilty but we all waited on the award. The question I have is did Bill's Gunshop see a surge today and possible tomorrow of a bunch of nervous computer geeks....
Remember, when visiting MN, if you are a lefty, just keep asking "What would Wellstone Do?" and if you are a righty... well... just say you live in Hudson and you'll be ok. Oh and say Ufda instead of Whew and you'll blend right in. And it is pronounced MIN-NAH-SODA here.
I am a representative of the city of Bozeman, Montana. The quality of your post has pre-qualified you for a position in our city hall. Please contact us as soon as possible.
Great sir but first before I apply I need to validate you are in fact an employee of a government agency since impersonating government employees depending on state may in fact be illegal.
Please provide a list of your bank accounts and passwords so we can verify your direct deposit information.:)
They can already get your bank information in the process of a background check in addition they can ask the IRS for your returns. Remember this is a government background check not a private business.
Depending on the security clearance you need above and beyond just the application you'd be suprised what they do and who they talk to.
This would have NOTHING to do with monitoring and shaping your network traffic. None at all. ISPs don't do that.
And they won't be sending you:
"We have observed an unusual amount of encrypted traffic originating from your IP address" email implying that using encryption will get you disconnected.
Nope never will happen. They won't be injecting packets either to kill you VPN connections because that can't figure out what traffic you are sending. They would never do that, at least until your employers get involved asking why they were tampering with a secure connection to a financial institution. Nope not at all. Hamachi works great when it doesn't mysteriously die...
And they'll never send you a "Friendly Reminder" warning that using Tor to hide software piracy is still illegal, even if you are chatting with people in China on the annaversary of Tieniman.
Because they never inspect your traffic in order to identify what you are doing on their connecition.
They also don't send "friendly reminders" when you use PGP encrypted email that they are simply checking in on "unusual activity on their email server."
Nope, no motivation at all for switching on and using IP6 except perhaps the ability to assign static IP address for better tracking...
I wonder: Anyone out there with a brand new shiney IP6 address try a release\renew to see if you get a new address?
(1) Mass media has no effect on those that don't watch it.
(2) Special Interest Groups are people that get organized and participate. Red Cross is a special interest group, VFW is a special interest group, Nurses Union, NRA, Green Peace, your local church, PETA, Sierra Club, Knights of Columbus, Rotary Club, businesses and their employees. This irrational hate of special interests (not implying you) is always from the disorganized people that want to invest nothing in the political system (time, money, or effort) but demand equal footing with those that put in the effort. The NAACP is a special interst group, the PTA, trade groups. They are all run by and funded by, people. It's not my fault that the majority of the politically lazy can't organize.
I wonder when women were demanding sufferage if people were bitching about that special interest group also? Civil Rights? The only complaints I hear is about special intersest groups that people oppose but it's magically OK for special interest groups that a person agrees with.
YOu can grab the quake 1 engine from ID software and get a basic FPS game up in about 5 hours solo. This is suggested as an excercise in using middleware, not coding a game engine from scratch.
You see they are obviously over their limit. By law you are required to cut them off. You don't.
All 100 die from alcohol poisioning. You are getting charged with 100 counts, civil or criminal depending on country, for not cutting them off (assuming law requires you to).
The violation as it is written is MAKING AVAILABLE not ALLOWING PEOPLE TO DOWNLOAD. So the car manufacture (another possible analogy) is required to limit car speeds to no more then 160 lets say. They don't and 1200 cars go out without the limit. The cops find out, and now the car manufacturer is going to get cited for all 1200 cars, regardless if all 1200 went over the limit or not.
I understand your logic, but laws and logic are not always in agreement. I mean hell in all due fareness in the previous example, who should get fined, the manufacturer or the owner for not getting the limiter fixed?
Since there is a tax break for games that are culturally British, now is the time for you to quit screwing around on space stations, brow beat the rights to Ultima back, and Get Lord British and the Avatar kicking ass and taking names once again in Sorsia. RESSURECT ORIGIN PLEASE! I need a good Wing Commander game KTHX!
We now return you to your regularlly scheduled M$ vs Linux/. flame war...
The problem is they do not have to download from her, it is enough to make available. Here, to play devils advocate is a suggestion:
You illegally perform a concert of some sort in front of 30,000 people in an auditorium. Regardless if people are paying attention to you or not, doesn't change the fact you performed in front of 30,000 people. Hell all 30,000 people could be deaf for all we care.
They could go with the fact that at the time those songs were made avaialble there were 2 million Kazaa users on the network\in the cloud\etc.
This is part of the slippery slope. Making Available doesn't imply that anyone has to actually download them. Now do the math... Epp!
It is a subtle and deepy philisophical statement. Doom 3 was a product, a game engine to be specific. Same with Unreal 2. Both were lousy games.
Technologically they were impressive yes, but a game, not so much.
You have to go in making a GAME. That will shape the entire development process versus going into it as a product otherwise the video game industry will burn itself out just like the movie industry... wait... shit.. We complain about how remakes and sequels in movies but video games? Lets make another ZELDA... crap.. too late...
Based on iTunes Store, digital distribution on the iPhone, and the quality of games released to the iPhone I can only draw a two word conclusion based on the products offered.
Facts as far as humans are concerned are not truths in many situations.
It would be a cold fact that eliminating certain people with disorders would reduce health care costs or as Logan's Run toyed with, eliminate 'elderly' people that are past their prime.
Facts are not the be all, end all, of a debate.
We have morals that are sound, that have little bearing on fact. We are not machines, nor are we deterministic devices like a computer. Facts alone do not guide our judgements, or you will find, facts and logic are pretty damn cruel.
Take a look back at the eugenics movement which cruel as it was, was based on simple 'facts'
"Some things are right, some are wrong, some are true, some are false, some are facts, some are fiction, but more often we find more truth in fiction, alas more false in facts. Truth may not be right, nor shall we depend on falsehoods to guide us to green pastures, but as man we shall ponder all that is and decided what is best for us. Be that 'best' lay in truth, fact, or fiction, we shall decide as men not machines, with souls not functions. For what are we without faith but poorly designed machines..."
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Yeah we are also one of the few states apparently that are a single party state for recording. Only 1 person in a conversation need be aware of the recording of a phone call for it to be admissible. This also means that if you are the one recording you do not have to tell the person at the other end (as you are the single party) apparently.
As a long time listener of Garage Logic on AM1500 (I only had AM in my car growing up, go fig) they frequently refer to a guy named Samer (sp?). He had a theory that the reason people, as a whole, have lost it, is that all the electromagnetic noise and radiation we have created litterally is frying out brain's ability to function normally.
With all this talk about wireless charging and what I see in the world, I am starting to wonder if this Samer theory has legs... and if so what are the implications on humans?
We know power lines can confuse cows internal compass. We've seen radar stations toss migratory birds a curve ball. What are the larger implications on humans since we've never really looked into how much all that 'noise' effects us.
Simply ask yourself this: You are in a room with 5 people in silence. Any stress? Ok now as the noise increases, does the stress? Now ask this: what about all the noise you don't perceive but still might pick up... is this going to be just more noise and if so what are the implications if we assume the Samer theory has some validity.
You know that really pissed me off in the movie. Being an old comic guy, the whole deal was Adamantium was an attempt at Vibranium. It just ruined the whole damn movie up until the adamantium bullet which took the movie from aweful to just plain brain rotting stupid.
How the hell can you screw up Wolverine?
Never ceases to amaze me that people with money seem to have no problem getting organs but people without money seem to die waiting for them...
Don't you people have friends? Network man! Network! People aren't products, you don't go to the store to buy them off a rack. There isn't "A PLACE" to meet people. You can meet them anywhere. You need to re-learn how to network.
Call a friend up (I assume you have one) and go ANYWHERE with your friend. When you two are having a good time doing whatever it is you do it will draw others to you. Your group gets bigger. Go to different locations. Group gets bigger. Eventually your social group hits a critical mass (4-8 people) that you can consistently "do things" with.
At that point you are "socially" accessable. You are a functioning human being that interacts with people. Potential "mates" see this, you are 'normal' (whatever that actually means) and not a creepy basement dweller.
It is the macro version of the "Get a plant, get a pet, then try people" buildup.
You don't GO somewhere to meet people, you meet them everywhere you go. Target, Irish Pub, Dance Club, Bondage-a-go-go night, library, street, sidewalk, dog park, etc.
Yep the same Minnesota that also makes it "illegal to export women out of state for the purpose of entertainment" and has a law that "prohibits liquor stores and care dealerships being open on a sunday."
How dare these people set laws based on their values. We should be as intolerant and bigoted towards "their values" because they are not "our values". Tolerance is a two way street my friend.
Oh and just for shits and giggles it's either Saint Paul or Minneapolis that has an unenforced local law citing that you can't have a red car (because at one point it was reserved for emergency vechicles...).
Hell my town has a law that requires two trees in your front yard and no grass can be high then 12 inches.
In a world where everyone hates everyone just about ever law is gonna piss someone off.
Anyways sounds like that sodomy law is right up the current goverment's alley, a new revenue source to pay down some of that debt.
As a Minnesotan, and risking a political flame war of titanic scale I'll say this:
By and large, Minnesota has been friendly to businesses (There is a reason Target, 3M, US Bank, Amex, etc. stick around despite obscene taxes) and that whole MN Nice thing? Total BS. Left leaning in the cities, right leaning in the boonies, and jdugemental through and through. I blame Garrison Keeler. Why? I don't know, my usual escape goats, the Dutch, just don't seem appropriate. Once you get north of Grand Rapids (hell north of Pine City) you rock the boat and people get pissed. We're not fond of jury duty (When I went up the group I was in, only 4 of us didn't bother uttering every racial slur we could find just to get out of jury duty... Nothing more comical then seeing people accidentally ramble off their own racial slur, Punk Ass Chalk Cracker... wait.. I am a Punk Ass Chalk Cracker... DAMN IT! Seriously a guy started screaming I hate Jewapnooks... WTF is that anyway? I get the Jew part, I think the nook is supposed to be Chinook; but what is with the Ap? And aren't the a Chinook western tribe? Why not pick on a local tribe. At least show some state pride and pick a local one... Man that was a fun two days...)
Where was I?
Oh yes, MN. We are rather judgemental and my experience has been, in this case as far as conversations go, most people thought her to be a bit... ummm.... kinda... no real way to say this nicely.... a dead beat piece of crap. The moment she started talking about her kids that made it come off like she was trying to pass the buck to her own... That pissed some people off apparently (I haven't watched this as close as the better half). I would assume people on the jury didn't take kindly to that.
The damage award though I think is actually a red herring of sorts. If I didn't know any better I would bet that it was intentionally set to an absurd amount for an easy appeal. Sympathetic judge with a backdoor wink so to speak....
I have no clue... We knew she was guilty but we all waited on the award. The question I have is did Bill's Gunshop see a surge today and possible tomorrow of a bunch of nervous computer geeks....
Remember, when visiting MN, if you are a lefty, just keep asking "What would Wellstone Do?" and if you are a righty... well... just say you live in Hudson and you'll be ok. Oh and say Ufda instead of Whew and you'll blend right in. And it is pronounced MIN-NAH-SODA here.
1.92 million isn't even 1% of the national debt. It's hardly excessive in that regard.
Hello sir,
I am a representative of the city of Bozeman, Montana. The quality of your post has pre-qualified you for a position in our city hall. Please contact us as soon as possible.
Great sir but first before I apply I need to validate you are in fact an employee of a government agency since impersonating government employees depending on state may in fact be illegal.
Please provide a list of your bank accounts and passwords so we can verify your direct deposit information. :)
They can already get your bank information in the process of a background check in addition they can ask the IRS for your returns. Remember this is a government background check not a private business.
Depending on the security clearance you need above and beyond just the application you'd be suprised what they do and who they talk to.
Tax Dollars At Work People!
And that tax money is now gaurantee people dumb enough to provide that information work in goverment.... ufda!
This would have NOTHING to do with monitoring and shaping your network traffic. None at all. ISPs don't do that.
And they won't be sending you:
"We have observed an unusual amount of encrypted traffic originating from your IP address" email implying that using encryption will get you disconnected.
Nope never will happen. They won't be injecting packets either to kill you VPN connections because that can't figure out what traffic you are sending. They would never do that, at least until your employers get involved asking why they were tampering with a secure connection to a financial institution. Nope not at all. Hamachi works great when it doesn't mysteriously die...
And they'll never send you a "Friendly Reminder" warning that using Tor to hide software piracy is still illegal, even if you are chatting with people in China on the annaversary of Tieniman.
Because they never inspect your traffic in order to identify what you are doing on their connecition.
They also don't send "friendly reminders" when you use PGP encrypted email that they are simply checking in on "unusual activity on their email server."
Nope, no motivation at all for switching on and using IP6 except perhaps the ability to assign static IP address for better tracking...
I wonder: Anyone out there with a brand new shiney IP6 address try a release\renew to see if you get a new address?
True everyone should also have to take a crack at path finding at least once. That and the Travelling Salesman algo.
(1) Mass media has no effect on those that don't watch it.
(2) Special Interest Groups are people that get organized and participate. Red Cross is a special interest group, VFW is a special interest group, Nurses Union, NRA, Green Peace, your local church, PETA, Sierra Club, Knights of Columbus, Rotary Club, businesses and their employees. This irrational hate of special interests (not implying you) is always from the disorganized people that want to invest nothing in the political system (time, money, or effort) but demand equal footing with those that put in the effort. The NAACP is a special interst group, the PTA, trade groups. They are all run by and funded by, people. It's not my fault that the majority of the politically lazy can't organize.
I wonder when women were demanding sufferage if people were bitching about that special interest group also? Civil Rights? The only complaints I hear is about special intersest groups that people oppose but it's magically OK for special interest groups that a person agrees with.
YOu can grab the quake 1 engine from ID software and get a basic FPS game up in about 5 hours solo. This is suggested as an excercise in using middleware, not coding a game engine from scratch.
Grab the Quake 1 engine from ID. Just make a regular square map with some obsticals (think a paint ball court.)
There is enough documentation on the internet to get started. Another option is the DarkBASIC set that also helps work through a 3D FPS.
Don't worry about artistic quality, you are looking at technical implementation.
There is a bar and you are the bar tender.
There are 100 customers you serve alcohol to.
All 100 drink and drive.
They would get DWIs.
You are a bar tender.
You serve 100 people booze.
You see they are obviously over their limit. By law you are required to cut them off. You don't.
All 100 die from alcohol poisioning. You are getting charged with 100 counts, civil or criminal depending on country, for not cutting them off (assuming law requires you to).
The violation as it is written is MAKING AVAILABLE not ALLOWING PEOPLE TO DOWNLOAD. So the car manufacture (another possible analogy) is required to limit car speeds to no more then 160 lets say. They don't and 1200 cars go out without the limit. The cops find out, and now the car manufacturer is going to get cited for all 1200 cars, regardless if all 1200 went over the limit or not.
I understand your logic, but laws and logic are not always in agreement. I mean hell in all due fareness in the previous example, who should get fined, the manufacturer or the owner for not getting the limiter fixed?
Dear Richard Garriot,
Since there is a tax break for games that are culturally British, now is the time for you to quit screwing around on space stations, brow beat the rights to Ultima back, and Get Lord British and the Avatar kicking ass and taking names once again in Sorsia. RESSURECT ORIGIN PLEASE! I need a good Wing Commander game KTHX!
We now return you to your regularlly scheduled M$ vs Linux /. flame war...
you so totally missed the joke...
The problem is they do not have to download from her, it is enough to make available. Here, to play devils advocate is a suggestion:
You illegally perform a concert of some sort in front of 30,000 people in an auditorium. Regardless if people are paying attention to you or not, doesn't change the fact you performed in front of 30,000 people. Hell all 30,000 people could be deaf for all we care.
They could go with the fact that at the time those songs were made avaialble there were 2 million Kazaa users on the network\in the cloud\etc.
This is part of the slippery slope. Making Available doesn't imply that anyone has to actually download them. Now do the math... Epp!
Everyone taking programming should learn to program two specific games in the course of their curriculum:
TETRIS (Collision detection, input , output, real time game loop, sound, etc.. 2D collision)
Multiplayer FPS Clone (3D programming, basic modelling, networking, latency management, using established middleware, map design)
That will teach those kids that said, "When am I ever going to use Linear Algebra in real life!"
Whippersnappers...
"Make Games, Not Product."
It is a subtle and deepy philisophical statement. Doom 3 was a product, a game engine to be specific. Same with Unreal 2. Both were lousy games.
Technologically they were impressive yes, but a game, not so much.
You have to go in making a GAME. That will shape the entire development process versus going into it as a product otherwise the video game industry will burn itself out just like the movie industry... wait... shit.. We complain about how remakes and sequels in movies but video games? Lets make another ZELDA... crap.. too late...
Based on iTunes Store, digital distribution on the iPhone, and the quality of games released to the iPhone I can only draw a two word conclusion based on the products offered.
DIGITAL FLEAMARKET
Facts as far as humans are concerned are not truths in many situations.
It would be a cold fact that eliminating certain people with disorders would reduce health care costs or as Logan's Run toyed with, eliminate 'elderly' people that are past their prime.
Facts are not the be all, end all, of a debate.
We have morals that are sound, that have little bearing on fact. We are not machines, nor are we deterministic devices like a computer. Facts alone do not guide our judgements, or you will find, facts and logic are pretty damn cruel.
Take a look back at the eugenics movement which cruel as it was, was based on simple 'facts'
"Some things are right, some are wrong,
some are true, some are false,
some are facts, some are fiction,
but more often we find more truth in fiction, alas more false in facts.
Truth may not be right, nor shall we depend on falsehoods to guide us to green pastures, but as man we shall ponder all that is and decided what is best for us.
Be that 'best' lay in truth, fact, or fiction, we shall decide as men not machines, with souls not functions.
For what are we without faith but poorly designed machines..."
She shouldn't be charged with any criminal activities acted out by other individuals.
Umm isn't this a Civil case?