In real life, we have rules which are called "laws." Account suspension happens by moving your avatar to a special facility called a "jail." Occasionally (depending on the situation), your account may be terminated entirely, often by means of "lethal injection" or "the chair."
Oh come on, this is a fantasy world. Execution is handled by feeding your character to a dragon or dropping a boulder on their head.
As I recall, this result of this case was that building inspectors now need a warrant to come on your property. But Building inspectors are Public employees, it doesn't apply to private citizens.
I'm surprised. I'd have expected that they'd rule that the inspectors were acting as agents of the police and were, therefore, subject to the same constraints.
Assuming it's actual child porn involving real children, and not a bunch of photoshopped fabrications.
Hence the investigation. Replying to the upthread guys, you could ignore LOTR.divx if you like. It'd be morally precarious, but you have no obligation to report any illegal activity, not even kiddy porn. Most of us would be happy to do so, however.
Just put 2 ASD's (anti-shoplifting devices) like EM or RFID labels in the item, one very large, visible and obvious, the other very hard to detect by humans.
If it's so hard to detect, how will the checkout clerk find it? If they can't find it, won't that lead to lots of false alarms and the ensuing complacency when they occur? Wouldn't that lower security?
For e.g. we kill rats to stop the spreading of plague, and mosquitoes to stop the spreading of malaria.
Yeah, like that'll ever happen - may as well try to kill all the roaches. Most of the species we eradicate live in isolated habitats, which we then bulldoze for whatever reason.
It's a two-way street. If species don't die off, new ones can't flourish. Don't pretend that you can comprehend what's best for a system as large as the earth.
That's not what's been happening - we've been eradicating species left and right for a good 200 years, and new ones usually don't pop back up in their place because we're there.
Could have been a bad (not expensive enough) controller, of course, and he thought it was better than we did - probably cognitive dissonance at work though.
I got the fatty bo baddy Logitech racing wheel for GT3, and it changed the game for me - partial throttle and advanced driving techniques were both more natural and harder.
Not saying space science is bad or counterproductive--not at all. But the promise of transhumanism defies the english language to come up with superlatives. There really are no words for it.
Sorry, I just keep thinking of that sad sack of shit from Transmetropolitan. Trying to escape his own damaged mind by changing his skin...
I'd also like to think some municipalities could ban them within their borders (after all, they're supposed to be off-road vehicles; so let them stay out in the country), but I doubt even that would work.
Something as simple as not requiring that parking garages accomodate them (they're big, and space is tight in the city) might be enough. They do seem to be soccer-mom material, anyway.
Who are these people to profess to know better than I as an SUV owner what *my* needs are for a vehicle?
They know that most of the people who have SUVs don't need them and some are just getting them because they're free (that tax loophole from 2003).
t least the typical SUV driver is doing something useful with his/her vehicle when you see him/her driving around. Meanwhile, we have literally hundreds of auto races held each year with cars much less fuel eficient than any SUV, not to mention burning through brakes, tires, and everything else at an incredibly fast rate - and you don't see anyone picketing out in front of the Indy or NASCAR races, do you?
INDY and Nascar provide entertainment and consume a rather small amount of fuel compared to just the commuters in a large US city. Indy also advances the state of the art, especially in tire design. Also, you can't discount entertainment value entirely - tourism is a large part of a lot of areas' revenue and it's as useful as any large rock concert.
And if someone gets enough enjoyment and perceived usefulness out of driving their SUV that only gets >18 MPG, well - so be it.
FYI, H2s get 8 and most other large suvs get 12-14. Even my favorite car (WRX) gets 22.
t $4.00 a gallon here (you Americans think you have it bad, hahahaha...) I still spend less on gas per month on that car than I do when I visit the USA with other cars. I was in New York City and Boston in the past few weeks and was disgusted by how many Hummer H2's were driving around.
New York City?!! Where in the hell do you park a H2 in Manhattan?
Hmmm, while technically possible (Google Maps shows a 16 hour drive from Tucson to Austin) seems a little unlikely. Guess it depends on what time you got up (before dawn?) and how late your dinner was.
In my current car, that's a 10 hour drive. In a WRX, it's probably 8-9. From what I hear, AZ and west TX are just utterly empty - last gas for 50 miles empty.
Is there a reason your family needs to be so large?
Maybe they're catholic. I met one of my aunt's families at a funeral, and they had something like 8 kids. The father was a carpenter, the mother didn't work. I guess they couldn't figure condoms out, because they were way over the family size they could support.
Anyway, it doesn't matter - the average family size is below replacement if you only count people born here, so it's not like your overpopulation argument is relevant.
Do you REALLY need to haul around a boat to have fun? Boats are uber-gas hogs so now you're driving a monster truck and hauling a gas guzzling , pollution (air and noise) spewing recreational vehicle out into the wilderness where peace and quiet should be what we seek.
The boat probably doesn' impact the car's mileage too much and they probably only use it a few times a year, so it may suck up gas (or not - who knows how big it is?), but not that much. They probably are going to some lake where lots of other people have boats, so that area is already loud. It's great that you want to go camping. The nice thing is that you have enough room to go camping well away from big loud boats.
Sorry kid, but what I choose to drive *is* my business, and you can huff and puff and stamp your little foot in indigation all you want, you won't change that.
Tranlation: I'll defend my selfish ass by calling you a liberal and giving you the finger. Then I'll go home and masturbate to pictures of Dick Cheney.
The real point is, all of this SUV hatred is completely misplaced, and completely ignores people's rights to purchase and use whichever product they'd prefer to own.
Nobody is seeking to ban SUVs, they just find these wasteful activities offensive, and they see them every day. Are you going to argue that they have no right to be angry that you're using way more reasources than is reasonable?
Way to add to the argument. Here's the problem: cars damage to road in proportion to the fourth power of their axle load. A 6600 lb SUV does 23 times the damage as a 3000 lb car. Justify that.
My family has 7 people in it. To travel semi-comfortably on vacation, we pretty much have to use a Suburban. A minivan, while it does have room for 7, doesn't have room for luggage. We're not anywhere near alone in this.
I drove a Ford Freestar recently with 6 people. We had luggage and went on a 1500 mile road trip. While we had one fewer person than you, we could have taken one more, and luggage space wasn't a problem. We also got 20 mpg for the entire trip.
The Ford itself had crappy build quality, but I would buy it if I had the need and it were built by Honda.
The way I usually hear these things playing out is that nothing is done. Of course, it's usually legal porn. I hope your roommate got a nice bonus for dealing with all that crap.
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In real life, we have rules which are called "laws." Account suspension happens by moving your avatar to a special facility called a "jail." Occasionally (depending on the situation), your account may be terminated entirely, often by means of "lethal injection" or "the chair."
Oh come on, this is a fantasy world. Execution is handled by feeding your character to a dragon or dropping a boulder on their head.
Clerks don't need to know where RFID tags are in a garment. Radio frequency turns them on and off.
RFID tags are passive. Are you suggesting that the security scanners query the inventory every time it sees an RFID to see if it's marked sold?
As I recall, this result of this case was that building inspectors now need a warrant to come on your property. But Building inspectors are Public employees, it doesn't apply to private citizens.
I'm surprised. I'd have expected that they'd rule that the inspectors were acting as agents of the police and were, therefore, subject to the same constraints.
Assuming it's actual child porn involving real children, and not a bunch of photoshopped fabrications.
Hence the investigation. Replying to the upthread guys, you could ignore LOTR.divx if you like. It'd be morally precarious, but you have no obligation to report any illegal activity, not even kiddy porn. Most of us would be happy to do so, however.
Just put 2 ASD's (anti-shoplifting devices) like EM or RFID labels in the item, one very large, visible and obvious, the other very hard to detect by humans.
If it's so hard to detect, how will the checkout clerk find it? If they can't find it, won't that lead to lots of false alarms and the ensuing complacency when they occur? Wouldn't that lower security?
For e.g. we kill rats to stop the spreading of plague, and mosquitoes to stop the spreading of malaria.
Yeah, like that'll ever happen - may as well try to kill all the roaches. Most of the species we eradicate live in isolated habitats, which we then bulldoze for whatever reason.
It's a two-way street. If species don't die off, new ones can't flourish. Don't pretend that you can comprehend what's best for a system as large as the earth.
That's not what's been happening - we've been eradicating species left and right for a good 200 years, and new ones usually don't pop back up in their place because we're there.
Could have been a bad (not expensive enough) controller, of course, and he thought it was better than we did - probably cognitive dissonance at work though.
I got the fatty bo baddy Logitech racing wheel for GT3, and it changed the game for me - partial throttle and advanced driving techniques were both more natural and harder.
Not saying space science is bad or counterproductive--not at all. But the promise of transhumanism defies the english language to come up with superlatives. There really are no words for it.
Sorry, I just keep thinking of that sad sack of shit from Transmetropolitan. Trying to escape his own damaged mind by changing his skin...
"The chairleg of Truth demands BLOOD!"
I'd also like to think some municipalities could ban them within their borders (after all, they're supposed to be off-road vehicles; so let them stay out in the country), but I doubt even that would work.
Something as simple as not requiring that parking garages accomodate them (they're big, and space is tight in the city) might be enough. They do seem to be soccer-mom material, anyway.
It is when you're the government and you don't have to care about market pressure.
Ironic, then, that people upthread are suggesting market pressure ass a way to fix this problem.
Don't you just *hate* it when people don't obey you?
No, I hate it when people reduce the level of discourse to what I'd find in the average preschool.
Admit it: you voted for Bush and believe we invaded Iraq because Saddam was a bad man.
Who are these people to profess to know better than I as an SUV owner what *my* needs are for a vehicle?
They know that most of the people who have SUVs don't need them and some are just getting them because they're free (that tax loophole from 2003).
t least the typical SUV driver is doing something useful with his/her vehicle when you see him/her driving around. Meanwhile, we have literally hundreds of auto races held each year with cars much less fuel eficient than any SUV, not to mention burning through brakes, tires, and everything else at an incredibly fast rate - and you don't see anyone picketing out in front of the Indy or NASCAR races, do you?
INDY and Nascar provide entertainment and consume a rather small amount of fuel compared to just the commuters in a large US city. Indy also advances the state of the art, especially in tire design. Also, you can't discount entertainment value entirely - tourism is a large part of a lot of areas' revenue and it's as useful as any large rock concert.
And if someone gets enough enjoyment and perceived usefulness out of driving their SUV that only gets >18 MPG, well - so be it.
FYI, H2s get 8 and most other large suvs get 12-14. Even my favorite car (WRX) gets 22.
t $4.00 a gallon here (you Americans think you have it bad, hahahaha...) I still spend less on gas per month on that car than I do when I visit the USA with other cars. I was in New York City and Boston in the past few weeks and was disgusted by how many Hummer H2's were driving around.
New York City?!! Where in the hell do you park a H2 in Manhattan?
I wish people would mind their own business.
When you wander into my lane with a phone attached to your ear, it becomes my business. Pay attention or pull over.
Hmmm, while technically possible (Google Maps shows a 16 hour drive from Tucson to Austin) seems a little unlikely. Guess it depends on what time you got up (before dawn?) and how late your dinner was.
In my current car, that's a 10 hour drive. In a WRX, it's probably 8-9. From what I hear, AZ and west TX are just utterly empty - last gas for 50 miles empty.
Is there a reason your family needs to be so large?
Maybe they're catholic. I met one of my aunt's families at a funeral, and they had something like 8 kids. The father was a carpenter, the mother didn't work. I guess they couldn't figure condoms out, because they were way over the family size they could support.
Anyway, it doesn't matter - the average family size is below replacement if you only count people born here, so it's not like your overpopulation argument is relevant.
Do you REALLY need to haul around a boat to have fun? Boats are uber-gas hogs so now you're driving a monster truck and hauling a gas guzzling , pollution (air and noise) spewing recreational vehicle out into the wilderness where peace and quiet should be what we seek.
The boat probably doesn' impact the car's mileage too much and they probably only use it a few times a year, so it may suck up gas (or not - who knows how big it is?), but not that much. They probably are going to some lake where lots of other people have boats, so that area is already loud. It's great that you want to go camping. The nice thing is that you have enough room to go camping well away from big loud boats.
Sorry kid, but what I choose to drive *is* my business, and you can huff and puff and stamp your little foot in indigation all you want, you won't change that.
Tranlation: I'll defend my selfish ass by calling you a liberal and giving you the finger. Then I'll go home and masturbate to pictures of Dick Cheney.
The real point is, all of this SUV hatred is completely misplaced, and completely ignores people's rights to purchase and use whichever product they'd prefer to own.
Nobody is seeking to ban SUVs, they just find these wasteful activities offensive, and they see them every day. Are you going to argue that they have no right to be angry that you're using way more reasources than is reasonable?
Get used to disappointment, sunshine.
Way to add to the argument. Here's the problem: cars damage to road in proportion to the fourth power of their axle load. A 6600 lb SUV does 23 times the damage as a 3000 lb car. Justify that.
My family has 7 people in it. To travel semi-comfortably on vacation, we pretty much have to use a Suburban. A minivan, while it does have room for 7, doesn't have room for luggage. We're not anywhere near alone in this.
I drove a Ford Freestar recently with 6 people. We had luggage and went on a 1500 mile road trip. While we had one fewer person than you, we could have taken one more, and luggage space wasn't a problem. We also got 20 mpg for the entire trip.
The Ford itself had crappy build quality, but I would buy it if I had the need and it were built by Honda.
I had a roommate that was stuck in that position.
The way I usually hear these things playing out is that nothing is done. Of course, it's usually legal porn. I hope your roommate got a nice bonus for dealing with all that crap.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't mandated filters illegal in a library?
Everytime you masturbate, a Slashdot dupe is posted.
Nah, there'd a whole lot more dupes then.