Most child molesters / sex offenders are actually quite intelligent. They setup and exploit national as well as international rings to share photos etc. They commit their crimes dozens, sometimes hundreds of times under the radar without being caught. Never ever dismiss them as morons. They are often the hardest criminals to catch and furthermore convict. The worst ones are also the best at the manipulation, not just of children, but of the justice system.
Case in point, the Catholic churches issues with sex offenders. They masterfully manipulated an entire international religious organization and continue to do so to this day. It takes a lot of resources to deal with these people and it takes a huge emotional toll on the people who do it for a living.
I always preferred walking or riding but the gas prices are what finally drove me over the edge. I live in CA and it's pushing 4$ a gallon right now, in some places it's gone over 4. So I just ride my bike, everything I need is in riding distance. If I do have to go further I have my car, which is a rather fuel efficient Saturn. I think I've put all of 60$ in the tank this year total. To me that's how it should be.
I blame a lot of the fuel efficiency problems on city planers. The layouts of our cities are really bad for fuel economy, especially place like San Francisco and Los Angeles. California also suffers badly from a lack of a good public transit system. We have buses but it's not good enough.
Part of the problem is also social. People want their big tanks (Hummer, Suburban etc) because they feel safe in them. For whatever reason people equate size with safety even though it's not the actual case.
...to go into serious, life crippling debt. We should be working on ways of getting out of debt, not ways to make consumerism even fucking worse than it is now. 50 years ago the average American was saving 10-30% of their income a year as savings. Today it's closer to 2%. To make matters worse banks are tossing out cards like a child molester does candy. Interest only loans are now normal. We're on the verge of a housing collapse because of all the shoddy loans to people over extended as it was.
What possible justification can there be for making it even easier to spend money you don't fucking have? I'm no socialist but I'll be god damned if capitalism means "spend till your ass bleeds"
My understanding is that it has a lot less to do with the angle and more to do with the time between shots. He was using a bolt action rifle and needed to pull the bolt back each time he fired. A lot of people feel that he would have to be superman to have fired as quickly as he did. Granted he was a trained marksman but even a lot of other trained marksmen believe it was just too fast for a single shooter.
I installed it on my windows laptop not too long ago. Things in Edgy worked fine but as soon as I went to Feisty I started having issues. Like my wireless card suddenly stopped working. Feisty is riddled with bugs, especially for laptop users. The Dell deal will probably solve that problem on Dell hardware but for most of us Ubuntu needs some more Q&A. I was very disappointed when they released a kernel update that killed most peoples installs while Feisty was in beta, and then had a full Feisty release the next week. Hardly enough time to repair and test the fixes.
Ubuntu isa nice distro but it needs work. I will continue to use it but nly beause I know how to tweak and fix things. Your average user does not. IMO software installation on Linux needs a lot of work. f we could get it to the point of ease that Apple has then I feel Linux would be a real alternative to windows.
I was a hardcore geek for a long time. I've been using less and less the last few years however due to personal choice and quality of life choices. The more technology we seem to use these days the less social we seem to become. Answer honestly, when was the last time you had a chat with your neighbor? Do you even know their names? In my sociology class less than 5% of the students could answer yes to that last question or remember the last conversation they had. In most countries it's normal to know those around you, to have a sense of community. Here in America we're becoming estranged from one another, not completely because of technology, but it's a large contributing factor. I'll pass on the transplants. I prefer the natural me. These all seem like breast implants for technology nerds anyway.
I was immersed heavily in SV startup hell back in 1995-2001. I will happily admit that I would now fail hs IQ test. I wouldn't touch that dead horse with a ten foot pole. These guys are living in the past. SV is no longer the hub it once was, nor should it be. The boom that happened there KILLED their cost of living. Firefighters and teachers were living in homeless shelters because the cost of living got so high. People are tired of that shit. Seriously, just move on. Branch out. There is no reason for every tech related startup to be cenetered in one tiny little community.
Take some literary theory classes and you will quickly begin to come to the conclusion that it is impossible to seperate writers from bias. In the few rare occasions that you can (stereo instructions for example) the READER will still add their own bias to their interpretation of it.
The media is doing exactly what it always has done. Provided facts laced with opinions. This has been going on since the dawn of time. Our jobs as readers are to parse that information as best we can. Reading it is a active, not passive, experience. You can't expect to be spoon fed the truth. The truth itself is subjective and often subject to interpretation.
I still work offline often at school. I also don't like the idea of my applications suddenly not working because of a browser update, nor do I like the idea of application developers having to work around browser incompatibilities. I've also never seen an in-browser MSWord like application that could do everything I needed it to. Some come close but google docs comes up short, as does every other one I've tried.
Why bother competing with the iPhone? 99% of it's features are useless to the average user. It's doomed to fail like the Mac Cube did. It targets an extremely small group of people, made smaller by vendor lock-in (via AT&T), you can't replace the battery which is a massive problem with something that needs to be charged as often as a color screened handheld device running a near full blown version of OSX. Don't get me wrong here, the idea is neat but with a 500-600$ price tag it's utterly pointless.
So why would Sun, or anyone for that matter, wish to compete in this market? There was an article recently, I believe on the NYT, I can't find it presently, that said cell use was declining. The novelty has dropped off. I know people will buy these devices but not nearly enough to make the market profitable.
Maybe it's just me. I personally hate cell phones and use mine only to talk to my girlfriend and parents or for roadside emergencies. Everyone else can wait till I get home. My 10 years of being on-call in the IT business probably biased me also. Regardless, I don't see the point to these devices.
You do know Apple is still charging the same 9.99$ for the whole album right? They only increased the per song price. The songs also come with the album art embeded in the file. You aren't paying more, period. You also get the convieniance of buying online and getting immediate delivery.
Looking forward to seeing this take off. My Uni. uses WebCT which everyone seems to absolutely hate. We're a "paperless campus" too so we're forced to use that damn thing. In the long run we need open standards in schools across the board. Not one of my professors knows what an.odt document is let alone OpenOffice. So adding to tuition and living costs, in order to get an education I need to pay the Microsoft tax or risk subtle inconsistencies in my.doc files from OpenOffice or other text editor exporting to Word format.
The best place in the world for open source and open formats is in education. They level the playing field, but only when implimented correctly.
Kids rarely appreciate what is given to them. If they had made it a program that rewarded students with academic success and achievement their results would have been different. Blindly giving them to all students undoubtedly would fail. Most kids these days happily trash everything they encounter. It's why most intelligent parents don't give their kids a nice car as their first automobile. They get a POS that no one cares about and can easily be replaced. Then the kid earns their own nicer car (or earns the first one off the bat depnding on the financial status of the family etc).
We can argue all day about the educational benefits of these laptops but if the kids just trash them from the get go there are no educational benefits. I wouldn't trust kids today with a pen let alone a laptop.
The word has a specific definition. Forced Penetration. An orange isn't an apple just because some county out in boondock USA doesn't know the difference. If it isn't forced penetration then it is assault, battery or harassment. You don't get to use the words interchangeably simply because you don't know what they mean literally.
Seeing as how I volunteer at a womens center in my off time, counseling battered and raped women, I'd say I do actually. Look the laws up yourself. Rape is penetration, whether it be penile or with an object. Everything else is battery, assault or harassment.
Ah yes. The "get on meds" retort. That's usually where people go when they lose the argument. You've obviously spent too much time on usenet. By all means though, I'm an easy target, just a nameless person on slashdot. It doesn't change what you're doing.
Any respect I had for you as a software developer is gone. Good luck though, sounds like you will need it.
The problem with your argument is that no one has even tried to make something better. You jump on the Microsoft bandwagon every single time. I miss the Miguel from the Gnome project. This new Miguel is just a Microsoft sellout. Silverlight hasnt even begun to take root, not by a long shot, and yet here you are already working hard to make sure it does.
Microsoft is not unbeatable. They have failed at everything they've tried over the last 5 years, whether it's Vista, IE7 or Zune. Making the stupid assumption that Silverlight is the next greatest thing is why people have lost respect for you.
If murderers just stopped wanting to kill us. If drivers just wouldn't have accidents. If kids just didn't wander into swimming pools and drowned..........
Utopia is a pretty cool place. I'd like to go there too.
I don't know about anyone else but if I can "fight to the end" and wring out an extra 30 years of life from this body, I have every intention of do so. Just because someone is 60 doesn't mean their life is less valuable or that they have no more to contribute to this society. Your assertion that we "prop up" bodies wishing to die is assinine in the extreme. If we had taken that stance 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago, we'd never have extended the average life span by 20 years + and made the advancements in medicine we have.
Life is precious and until someone proves otherwise, we only get one shot at it. I don't see how you can put a price tag on that. Maybe your family puts such a low value on each others lives but mine certainly does not. I valued my grandmother and great grandmother all the way up till the end and would have paid any costs asked of me to keep them alive longer.
I remember studies from the late 90's about human perception, specifically in regards to insects. Ever notice a small spider out of the corner of your eye while watching TV? Ever wake up from a DEAD sleep to find a spider hanging over you? It was proposed that humans developed a "sixth sense" like this during our evolution to protect us from smaller and more deadly creatures such as poisonous snakes and spiders. The idea is that we percieve more around us than we are consciously aware of and our subconscious has the ability to red flag certain things and awake our consciousness to it. Speaking from personal experience, I have woken out of a dead sleep and found a spider over me, several times. I thought to myself "what a coincidence", but after hearing about the studies, whenever they were, I can't find them now, I realize it's very possible we have a sort of sixth sense in the non literal meaning of the words.
My guess is that this type of perception is what they are alluding to. The "gut instinct" of it.
Wipe the flash. Force a reload on the firmware etc etc etc etc. You can not secure a device when the theif has physical access to it. Anyone that has worked with ATM's knows this.
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Most child molesters / sex offenders are actually quite intelligent. They setup and exploit national as well as international rings to share photos etc. They commit their crimes dozens, sometimes hundreds of times under the radar without being caught. Never ever dismiss them as morons. They are often the hardest criminals to catch and furthermore convict. The worst ones are also the best at the manipulation, not just of children, but of the justice system.
Case in point, the Catholic churches issues with sex offenders. They masterfully manipulated an entire international religious organization and continue to do so to this day. It takes a lot of resources to deal with these people and it takes a huge emotional toll on the people who do it for a living.
I always preferred walking or riding but the gas prices are what finally drove me over the edge. I live in CA and it's pushing 4$ a gallon right now, in some places it's gone over 4. So I just ride my bike, everything I need is in riding distance. If I do have to go further I have my car, which is a rather fuel efficient Saturn. I think I've put all of 60$ in the tank this year total. To me that's how it should be.
I blame a lot of the fuel efficiency problems on city planers. The layouts of our cities are really bad for fuel economy, especially place like San Francisco and Los Angeles. California also suffers badly from a lack of a good public transit system. We have buses but it's not good enough.
Part of the problem is also social. People want their big tanks (Hummer, Suburban etc) because they feel safe in them. For whatever reason people equate size with safety even though it's not the actual case.
...to go into serious, life crippling debt. We should be working on ways of getting out of debt, not ways to make consumerism even fucking worse than it is now. 50 years ago the average American was saving 10-30% of their income a year as savings. Today it's closer to 2%. To make matters worse banks are tossing out cards like a child molester does candy. Interest only loans are now normal. We're on the verge of a housing collapse because of all the shoddy loans to people over extended as it was.
What possible justification can there be for making it even easier to spend money you don't fucking have? I'm no socialist but I'll be god damned if capitalism means "spend till your ass bleeds"
My understanding is that it has a lot less to do with the angle and more to do with the time between shots. He was using a bolt action rifle and needed to pull the bolt back each time he fired. A lot of people feel that he would have to be superman to have fired as quickly as he did. Granted he was a trained marksman but even a lot of other trained marksmen believe it was just too fast for a single shooter.
I installed it on my windows laptop not too long ago. Things in Edgy worked fine but as soon as I went to Feisty I started having issues. Like my wireless card suddenly stopped working. Feisty is riddled with bugs, especially for laptop users. The Dell deal will probably solve that problem on Dell hardware but for most of us Ubuntu needs some more Q&A. I was very disappointed when they released a kernel update that killed most peoples installs while Feisty was in beta, and then had a full Feisty release the next week. Hardly enough time to repair and test the fixes.
Ubuntu isa nice distro but it needs work. I will continue to use it but nly beause I know how to tweak and fix things. Your average user does not. IMO software installation on Linux needs a lot of work. f we could get it to the point of ease that Apple has then I feel Linux would be a real alternative to windows.
I was a hardcore geek for a long time. I've been using less and less the last few years however due to personal choice and quality of life choices. The more technology we seem to use these days the less social we seem to become. Answer honestly, when was the last time you had a chat with your neighbor? Do you even know their names? In my sociology class less than 5% of the students could answer yes to that last question or remember the last conversation they had. In most countries it's normal to know those around you, to have a sense of community. Here in America we're becoming estranged from one another, not completely because of technology, but it's a large contributing factor. I'll pass on the transplants. I prefer the natural me. These all seem like breast implants for technology nerds anyway.
I was immersed heavily in SV startup hell back in 1995-2001. I will happily admit that I would now fail hs IQ test. I wouldn't touch that dead horse with a ten foot pole. These guys are living in the past. SV is no longer the hub it once was, nor should it be. The boom that happened there KILLED their cost of living. Firefighters and teachers were living in homeless shelters because the cost of living got so high. People are tired of that shit. Seriously, just move on. Branch out. There is no reason for every tech related startup to be cenetered in one tiny little community.
Take some literary theory classes and you will quickly begin to come to the conclusion that it is impossible to seperate writers from bias. In the few rare occasions that you can (stereo instructions for example) the READER will still add their own bias to their interpretation of it.
The media is doing exactly what it always has done. Provided facts laced with opinions. This has been going on since the dawn of time. Our jobs as readers are to parse that information as best we can. Reading it is a active, not passive, experience. You can't expect to be spoon fed the truth. The truth itself is subjective and often subject to interpretation.
I still work offline often at school. I also don't like the idea of my applications suddenly not working because of a browser update, nor do I like the idea of application developers having to work around browser incompatibilities. I've also never seen an in-browser MSWord like application that could do everything I needed it to. Some come close but google docs comes up short, as does every other one I've tried.
Why bother competing with the iPhone? 99% of it's features are useless to the average user. It's doomed to fail like the Mac Cube did. It targets an extremely small group of people, made smaller by vendor lock-in (via AT&T), you can't replace the battery which is a massive problem with something that needs to be charged as often as a color screened handheld device running a near full blown version of OSX. Don't get me wrong here, the idea is neat but with a 500-600$ price tag it's utterly pointless.
So why would Sun, or anyone for that matter, wish to compete in this market? There was an article recently, I believe on the NYT, I can't find it presently, that said cell use was declining. The novelty has dropped off. I know people will buy these devices but not nearly enough to make the market profitable.
Maybe it's just me. I personally hate cell phones and use mine only to talk to my girlfriend and parents or for roadside emergencies. Everyone else can wait till I get home. My 10 years of being on-call in the IT business probably biased me also. Regardless, I don't see the point to these devices.
If you buy the whole album, even if it has 20 tracks, it's $9.99. Please do a little research before spreading this FUD.
You do know Apple is still charging the same 9.99$ for the whole album right? They only increased the per song price. The songs also come with the album art embeded in the file. You aren't paying more, period. You also get the convieniance of buying online and getting immediate delivery.
Looking forward to seeing this take off. My Uni. uses WebCT which everyone seems to absolutely hate. We're a "paperless campus" too so we're forced to use that damn thing. In the long run we need open standards in schools across the board. Not one of my professors knows what an .odt document is let alone OpenOffice. So adding to tuition and living costs, in order to get an education I need to pay the Microsoft tax or risk subtle inconsistencies in my .doc files from OpenOffice or other text editor exporting to Word format.
The best place in the world for open source and open formats is in education. They level the playing field, but only when implimented correctly.
Kids rarely appreciate what is given to them. If they had made it a program that rewarded students with academic success and achievement their results would have been different. Blindly giving them to all students undoubtedly would fail. Most kids these days happily trash everything they encounter. It's why most intelligent parents don't give their kids a nice car as their first automobile. They get a POS that no one cares about and can easily be replaced. Then the kid earns their own nicer car (or earns the first one off the bat depnding on the financial status of the family etc).
We can argue all day about the educational benefits of these laptops but if the kids just trash them from the get go there are no educational benefits. I wouldn't trust kids today with a pen let alone a laptop.
That would be assault, not rape. I'm always astounded as to how completely ignorant people are.
The word has a specific definition. Forced Penetration. An orange isn't an apple just because some county out in boondock USA doesn't know the difference. If it isn't forced penetration then it is assault, battery or harassment. You don't get to use the words interchangeably simply because you don't know what they mean literally.
Seeing as how I volunteer at a womens center in my off time, counseling battered and raped women, I'd say I do actually. Look the laws up yourself. Rape is penetration, whether it be penile or with an object. Everything else is battery, assault or harassment.
Rape is literally penetration. If there is none, it's battery, harassment or assault. So no, there is no online rape.
Ah yes. The "get on meds" retort. That's usually where people go when they lose the argument. You've obviously spent too much time on usenet. By all means though, I'm an easy target, just a nameless person on slashdot. It doesn't change what you're doing.
Any respect I had for you as a software developer is gone. Good luck though, sounds like you will need it.
The problem with your argument is that no one has even tried to make something better. You jump on the Microsoft bandwagon every single time. I miss the Miguel from the Gnome project. This new Miguel is just a Microsoft sellout. Silverlight hasnt even begun to take root, not by a long shot, and yet here you are already working hard to make sure it does.
Microsoft is not unbeatable. They have failed at everything they've tried over the last 5 years, whether it's Vista, IE7 or Zune. Making the stupid assumption that Silverlight is the next greatest thing is why people have lost respect for you.
Invent something better and open source it rather than play catch up and gamble on the evil empire playing nice.
Seriously, rather than copy them, try being creative for a change and invent something better.
If murderers just stopped wanting to kill us. If drivers just wouldn't have accidents. If kids just didn't wander into swimming pools and drowned..........
Utopia is a pretty cool place. I'd like to go there too.
I don't know about anyone else but if I can "fight to the end" and wring out an extra 30 years of life from this body, I have every intention of do so. Just because someone is 60 doesn't mean their life is less valuable or that they have no more to contribute to this society. Your assertion that we "prop up" bodies wishing to die is assinine in the extreme. If we had taken that stance 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago, we'd never have extended the average life span by 20 years + and made the advancements in medicine we have.
Life is precious and until someone proves otherwise, we only get one shot at it. I don't see how you can put a price tag on that. Maybe your family puts such a low value on each others lives but mine certainly does not. I valued my grandmother and great grandmother all the way up till the end and would have paid any costs asked of me to keep them alive longer.
I remember studies from the late 90's about human perception, specifically in regards to insects. Ever notice a small spider out of the corner of your eye while watching TV? Ever wake up from a DEAD sleep to find a spider hanging over you? It was proposed that humans developed a "sixth sense" like this during our evolution to protect us from smaller and more deadly creatures such as poisonous snakes and spiders. The idea is that we percieve more around us than we are consciously aware of and our subconscious has the ability to red flag certain things and awake our consciousness to it. Speaking from personal experience, I have woken out of a dead sleep and found a spider over me, several times. I thought to myself "what a coincidence", but after hearing about the studies, whenever they were, I can't find them now, I realize it's very possible we have a sort of sixth sense in the non literal meaning of the words.
My guess is that this type of perception is what they are alluding to. The "gut instinct" of it.
Wipe the flash. Force a reload on the firmware etc etc etc etc. You can not secure a device when the theif has physical access to it. Anyone that has worked with ATM's knows this.