Well to start with the 21 age for alcohol is ridiculous. There's no reason why one should be able to kill, vote and be killed but not purchase alcohol.
Furthermore, both the drinking and driving ages are STATE defined laws and not federal*. Originaly, so was the minor execution laws. It was a state by state decision. Some states banned it, some states allowed it, some states required the minor be tried as an adult first.
Furthermore, we're talking about different things here. In one case, we're talking about a minor being able to make decisions for themselves or being competent to do something, the other is talking about punishment for a minor and whether that minor WAS competent enough. As was pointed out in another example, minors can drink alcohol, but their parents are then responsible for the results.
*The federal drinking age is not actualy a mandatory law. Rather the federal drinking age is a condition of recieving federal money for highway and road matenence in the state. A state could have a lower drinking age. Most chose not to.
So the question becomes then, what is the difference between someone who is 17 years and 364 days and 23 hours old who brutaly rapes and muders a woman compared to someone who is 18 years 0 days and 0 hours old? When one becomes 18 is one magicaly more capable of understanding the right and wrong of a situation?
If you actualy read anything, you would notice most of the disenting opinions beleived that competency should be established on a case by case basis. This ban effectively says everyone under 18 is not conpetent enough to know that murder is wrong.
Some links that may be helpful to you and remember, just because something is useing QuickTime calls does not mean that it's just for multimedia. QuickTime is more than just a media player on OS X:
Probably because I just hasn't been done yet because no one has felt the need. iCab disables cmd-tab because the purpose of that mode is to turn it into a kiosk. So what you need to do is look at how VLC or other applications can switch to full screen mode and maintain command-tab and combine that with your application. And just because it's a video game doesn't mean command tab is automaticaly disabled. SNES9X has a full screen mode and command tab works fine. Same with worms3d.
Like I said, I don't think you're looking very hard.
especially since I still haven't seen a non-game/non-multimedia application on OS X that can take over the full screen!
You my friend ate not looking hard enough then. iCab ( i believe, or maybe they renamed it iKiosk) can do that, and it's a browser. Specificaly the mode was designed for kiosks where one wanted the use to browse a specified page and not access the rest of the net.
Then there's virtualPC which somehow manages to use a full screen for it's purposes.
And those are just two I can think of off the top of my head at 3 am.
you have something screwed up with your network then. Either that, or you didnt' tell the other computers to look for shared music. iTunes allows you to share without looking for shared music and look for shared music without sharing yourself. They're two check boxes. Did you hit them both?
Imagine that, people are willing to pay for ease of use and a single point of use. Which is probably why people are willing to shell out lots of money for a calculator when a paper and pencil and a little brain power can do the same thing.
The only way for there to be a truely verifiable election is to make it open, so that everyone and you can see who you voted. Ofcourse, the obvious problem with this is the potential for real voter intimidation.
In the end, because we demand a secret ballot system, there will never be a fully accountable system, the best we can do (in my opinion) is to make the process and minimal and failure-point-less (new word for the day) as possible.
You place far more faith in the intelligence of your voters than I. When it comes to filling out ballots and verifying what they've done, voters seem to be dumber than a 5 year old.
The instructions in florida said to check to make sure you had punched all the way through. The ballots here in NC said make sure you complete the arrow next to your candidates name and only that name. People still failed.
If the vote becomes invalid at the place when a complaint is made, that means some people get to vote twice, and maybe when they shouldn't have. If you don't allow for complaints after the fact, you'll be charged with disenfranchisement (could you imagine telling the voters that their complaints are no longer valid once they leave the polling place.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't allow these systems if people want them, but let's not pretend this is going to do much to solve anything. It's feel good policy to make everyone feel better about their vote, much like all the revamped security at airports is feelgood security.
"The machine printed out bad receipts" (faded ink / or claims of tampering, remember we can't even get people to punch a hole properly, let alone check a receipt)
or
"The receipts were confusing, people didn't understand what they were saying"
then of course there's the missing ballot box problems, or the gjust human error. What happens if you have more receipts than electronic votes? What if you have less? What happens when kids with laser printers start forging receipts?
It seems to me, that the receipt system does nothing except add more steps and more points of failure to the existing system.
Could you imagine the crys of "voter disenfranchisement" if they had to shut down some of the machines because they ran out of paper/ink?
Unfortunately, paper ballots are just as prone to problems as anything else (see Florida and inabilities to punch holes).
Heck even in this past election, in NC the ballot is paper with uncompleted arrows next to the candidates name. Voting is simple, complete the arrow of your candidate. There were still problems.
I've thought long and hard about this, and the more I think about it, the more I wonder, how does a paper trail solve anything? If the receipt tells you what you want to hear, you won't question it, and your vote cna be tampered with as much as they want after the receipt is printed.
God if only we could. Asbestos is wonderful stuff, unbelievably useful. When recently doing some repairs on some water pipes, I happened to be lucky enough to use a small asbestos heat shield (basicaly something like a piece of cloth, not unlike a pot holder). The pipe I needed to do some welding on was less than an inch from the wood of house. Using the asbestos shield, I finished all the welding and there wasn't even a mark on teh wood that would have indicated someone was playing with fire there.
Oh wow, a whole fucking year. Do you have any clue what sort of research needs to go into this before you issue a repair/recall program. For one, you have to have a certain threshold before you even begin looking at a problem. Just because a handful of people are having a problem is not indicative of a wide spread problem. Then, once you've established there is a problem, you need to figure out the specifc cause, and a fix for the furture models as well as your replacements. After that you neeed to figure out which models specificaly are affected, and where the affected models are made. Then get the prduction houses to change their production and manufacture you a series of replacement parts, and then finaly you can issue the recall.
It's also a reported fact that anyone who paid for the repairs was given a refund when the recall was announced.
I believe that at sea level the boiling point of water is 212 degrees. Whether 190 degrees is "well below" 212 degrees is a matter of opinion,
20 degrees is well below.
It was established in the trial by experts that Coffee served at home is generally 135 to 140 degrees.
According to which pansy ass brewers? I quote
According to the SCAA, the optimal water temperature for coffee is 92 - 96C (197.6 - 204.8F) for 90% of the contact time.
http://coffeefaq.com/coffaq1.htm
Hell they even recomed you do Tea at at least 175.
135-140 means people might as well be serving coffee made with tap water.
The important fact is that water heated to 185 degrees causes a 3rd degree burn. As the temperature decreases toward 155 degrees, the extent of the burn relative to that temperature decreases exponentially.
Any hot water can burn ou and cause severe burns depending on a lot of factors.
McDonald's QA manager testified that a burn hazard exists with any food served at 140 degrees or above, and that McDonald's coffee was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat. They also knew that at least 700 of their customers were burned, but still refused to lower the temperature to a more reasonable one. Not all of those previous incidents were about spills. In many cases customers mouths and throats were burned with 3rd degree burns from trying to drink the coffee.
And I've burnt my mouth on fresh pizza from a pizza shop. Does that mean the pizza is not fit for consumption or does it mean I should do the smart thing and let FRESHLY COOKED food cool before consuming it.
The problem here is that if you establish that is was a standard across the board the McDonalds served coffee like this all the time, then we reach one of two conclusions.
1) The woman never drank at McDonalds before, and is therefore an idiot for not exercising caution while handlling a hot beverage of unknown temperatures from an unfamiliar source.
or
2) The woman knew how hot McDonalds serves their coffee and either forgot or chose to ignore the risks.
Eitherway, McDonalds did nothing more than serve fresh brewed coffee at the temperatures at which coffee is brewed. There's no wrong doing here and no misdeed. Just stupidity on the part of consumers.
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Well to start with the 21 age for alcohol is ridiculous. There's no reason why one should be able to kill, vote and be killed but not purchase alcohol.
Furthermore, both the drinking and driving ages are STATE defined laws and not federal*. Originaly, so was the minor execution laws. It was a state by state decision. Some states banned it, some states allowed it, some states required the minor be tried as an adult first.
Furthermore, we're talking about different things here. In one case, we're talking about a minor being able to make decisions for themselves or being competent to do something, the other is talking about punishment for a minor and whether that minor WAS competent enough. As was pointed out in another example, minors can drink alcohol, but their parents are then responsible for the results.
*The federal drinking age is not actualy a mandatory law. Rather the federal drinking age is a condition of recieving federal money for highway and road matenence in the state. A state could have a lower drinking age. Most chose not to.
You do know the average time served on a life sentence in the US is ~30 year right?
So the question becomes then, what is the difference between someone who is 17 years and 364 days and 23 hours old who brutaly rapes and muders a woman compared to someone who is 18 years 0 days and 0 hours old? When one becomes 18 is one magicaly more capable of understanding the right and wrong of a situation?
If you actualy read anything, you would notice most of the disenting opinions beleived that competency should be established on a case by case basis. This ban effectively says everyone under 18 is not conpetent enough to know that murder is wrong.
More:
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http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000028.
apparently Opera 6.0 had fullscreen mode too
www.opera.com
Some links that may be helpful to you and remember, just because something is useing QuickTime calls does not mean that it's just for multimedia. QuickTime is more than just a media player on OS X:
n /F ullScreen.html
/ tn 2068.pdf
R ef erence/ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSOpenG LContext.html
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/FullScree
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/pdf
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/
Probably because I just hasn't been done yet because no one has felt the need. iCab disables cmd-tab because the purpose of that mode is to turn it into a kiosk. So what you need to do is look at how VLC or other applications can switch to full screen mode and maintain command-tab and combine that with your application. And just because it's a video game doesn't mean command tab is automaticaly disabled. SNES9X has a full screen mode and command tab works fine. Same with worms3d.
Like I said, I don't think you're looking very hard.
especially since I still haven't seen a non-game/non-multimedia application on OS X that can take over the full screen!
You my friend ate not looking hard enough then. iCab ( i believe, or maybe they renamed it iKiosk) can do that, and it's a browser. Specificaly the mode was designed for kiosks where one wanted the use to browse a specified page and not access the rest of the net.
Then there's virtualPC which somehow manages to use a full screen for it's purposes.
And those are just two I can think of off the top of my head at 3 am.
If it's so simple write it yourself.
you have something screwed up with your network then. Either that, or you didnt' tell the other computers to look for shared music. iTunes allows you to share without looking for shared music and look for shared music without sharing yourself. They're two check boxes. Did you hit them both?
As far as I know, there's no equivilent program for windows, which is a shame.
VLC can play the video and audio streams independantly from one another.
Imagine that, people are willing to pay for ease of use and a single point of use. Which is probably why people are willing to shell out lots of money for a calculator when a paper and pencil and a little brain power can do the same thing.
Difference is, JustePort only sends MPEG4
The only way for there to be a truely verifiable election is to make it open, so that everyone and you can see who you voted. Ofcourse, the obvious problem with this is the potential for real voter intimidation.
In the end, because we demand a secret ballot system, there will never be a fully accountable system, the best we can do (in my opinion) is to make the process and minimal and failure-point-less (new word for the day) as possible.
You place far more faith in the intelligence of your voters than I. When it comes to filling out ballots and verifying what they've done, voters seem to be dumber than a 5 year old.
The instructions in florida said to check to make sure you had punched all the way through. The ballots here in NC said make sure you complete the arrow next to your candidates name and only that name. People still failed.
If the vote becomes invalid at the place when a complaint is made, that means some people get to vote twice, and maybe when they shouldn't have. If you don't allow for complaints after the fact, you'll be charged with disenfranchisement (could you imagine telling the voters that their complaints are no longer valid once they leave the polling place.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't allow these systems if people want them, but let's not pretend this is going to do much to solve anything. It's feel good policy to make everyone feel better about their vote, much like all the revamped security at airports is feelgood security.
Until you run into these problems:
"The machine printed out bad receipts" (faded ink / or claims of tampering, remember we can't even get people to punch a hole properly, let alone check a receipt)
or
"The receipts were confusing, people didn't understand what they were saying"
then of course there's the missing ballot box problems, or the gjust human error. What happens if you have more receipts than electronic votes? What if you have less? What happens when kids with laser printers start forging receipts?
It seems to me, that the receipt system does nothing except add more steps and more points of failure to the existing system.
Could you imagine the crys of "voter disenfranchisement" if they had to shut down some of the machines because they ran out of paper/ink?
Unfortunately, paper ballots are just as prone to problems as anything else (see Florida and inabilities to punch holes).
Heck even in this past election, in NC the ballot is paper with uncompleted arrows next to the candidates name. Voting is simple, complete the arrow of your candidate. There were still problems.
People are just freaking stupid.
I've thought long and hard about this, and the more I think about it, the more I wonder, how does a paper trail solve anything? If the receipt tells you what you want to hear, you won't question it, and your vote cna be tampered with as much as they want after the receipt is printed.
The version he distributed was not the new versions availible. Even under the new versions you sign an NDA.
, we would be living in asbestos houses.
God if only we could. Asbestos is wonderful stuff, unbelievably useful. When recently doing some repairs on some water pipes, I happened to be lucky enough to use a small asbestos heat shield (basicaly something like a piece of cloth, not unlike a pot holder). The pipe I needed to do some welding on was less than an inch from the wood of house. Using the asbestos shield, I finished all the welding and there wasn't even a mark on teh wood that would have indicated someone was playing with fire there.
Oh wow, a whole fucking year. Do you have any clue what sort of research needs to go into this before you issue a repair/recall program. For one, you have to have a certain threshold before you even begin looking at a problem. Just because a handful of people are having a problem is not indicative of a wide spread problem. Then, once you've established there is a problem, you need to figure out the specifc cause, and a fix for the furture models as well as your replacements. After that you neeed to figure out which models specificaly are affected, and where the affected models are made. Then get the prduction houses to change their production and manufacture you a series of replacement parts, and then finaly you can issue the recall.
It's also a reported fact that anyone who paid for the repairs was given a refund when the recall was announced.
Lots of treaties are negotiated by all parties involved, that doesn't mean everyone comes out equal.
20 degrees is well below.
It was established in the trial by experts that Coffee served at home is generally 135 to 140 degrees.
According to which pansy ass brewers? I quote
http://coffeefaq.com/coffaq1.htm
Hell they even recomed you do Tea at at least 175.
135-140 means people might as well be serving coffee made with tap water.
The important fact is that water heated to 185 degrees causes a 3rd degree burn. As the temperature decreases toward 155 degrees, the extent of the burn relative to that temperature decreases exponentially.
Any hot water can burn ou and cause severe burns depending on a lot of factors.
McDonald's QA manager testified that a burn hazard exists with any food served at 140 degrees or above, and that McDonald's coffee was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat. They also knew that at least 700 of their customers were burned, but still refused to lower the temperature to a more reasonable one. Not all of those previous incidents were about spills. In many cases customers mouths and throats were burned with 3rd degree burns from trying to drink the coffee.
And I've burnt my mouth on fresh pizza from a pizza shop. Does that mean the pizza is not fit for consumption or does it mean I should do the smart thing and let FRESHLY COOKED food cool before consuming it.
The problem here is that if you establish that is was a standard across the board the McDonalds served coffee like this all the time, then we reach one of two conclusions.
1) The woman never drank at McDonalds before, and is therefore an idiot for not exercising caution while handlling a hot beverage of unknown temperatures from an unfamiliar source.
or
2) The woman knew how hot McDonalds serves their coffee and either forgot or chose to ignore the risks.
Eitherway, McDonalds did nothing more than serve fresh brewed coffee at the temperatures at which coffee is brewed. There's no wrong doing here and no misdeed. Just stupidity on the part of consumers.
Idle speculation is not a proven track record of nearly perfect guesses while soliciting tips from insider sources.
Misconduct == illegal / harmful to the public interest
mac mini specs == none of the above.