As you are already modded way up and I've already posted in this article and spent my mod points today please accept my applause. That was rather well done on such short notice(just under 1/2hour it looks like).:)
Alright what state are you talking about. Many(most?all?) seem to have some sort of buffer mechanism in the law.
Here (Missouri) complete consent is at 17, if everyone involved is at least 17 it's not illeagle on age alone.
If everyone is under 21 and over 13 (14 through 20 inclusive) it's the same, no age based foul.
Also if one person is under 17(but at least 14!) and the other 21 or older, the older person can have as an affirmative defence that (s)he reasonably believed the other person to be at least 17. ("we met in a bar where she was being served, here are my five witnesses including the guy who carded her and was fooled by her sister's d.l. saying she was 22")
Also though the phrase statutory rape is used alot in these discussions that's not always the crime. Here statutory rape is one felony category lower than forcible rape. And where it's a person over 21 and one under 17 but over 13 it's just statutory sexual assault and a couple categories lower.
At least that's how it was a few years ago when I last got involved enough in a discussion to actually look it up (a friend, 20 at the time, had been told he could go to jail for having sex with his 17 year old GF, we wound up looking it up in the library copy of the statutes which were from 1997). The point of this paragraph is bassically IANAL and you should check with one before you get to serious with someone who's a minor (or if you're the minor for that matter).
I watch very little tv myself. Mostly because I took an unintended break from it for over a year (got stuck to poor to do satalite and to far out to get more than 2 snowy channels SOMETIMES.
When I finally moved back into an area where I could get decent tv reception I found 99.99% of about as entertaining as watching paint dry and pduced by and for people with an IQ<60, expecially the 'big hits'.
Or hex edit the answers in the binary to all be your name.
Did that with one game that did a check everytime you ran it. Not because I was using a 'warez' copy, I had bought it, but because I spilled a glass of tea on the manual and wrecked about 1/3 of the answers. Of course that wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had the book out to find a doc-check answer in the first place.
The ONLY real benifit of copy protection schemes is to make money for the people that develope them. That was true before the internet when the cracks would take up to weeks to circulate the bbs's, and much more true when the cracks can sit on some site in a country that doesn't care. They're snake oil. Once ONE person or group has cracked it once, it becomes trivial for anyone else to do so, by simply downloading the crack.
PC games have thier place as well. Morrowind and the Sims stand out as just two examples of where pc's are clearly superior to consoles.
Oddly enough someone acted like fps were all pc gamers cared about, yet that genre is where consoles tend to shine(except in realm of Maps, consoles simply don't even touch pc's here).
I only find consoles marginally better for the race games, unless you but a good steering wheel and pedal set which you could also do for consoles.
Simply put there are areas where each is clearly superior to the other and it's not likely to change without one of them taking on the characteristics of the other and essentially eliminating the distinction.
No. just because some group wants to use the word outside it's actual definition doesn't change the definitions most people use.
However your obtuseness makes me suspect a troll. So this is my last attempt to explain a basic fact to you.
I'm pretty shure the gp meant a Bussard Ramjet. This works by collecting interstellar hydrogen using a magnetic field spread over many miles at the front end and compressing it down to a tiny point behind the craft. This compression causes a fusion reaction that results in fusion byproducts Much heated exiting backwards while imparting a forward momentum on the craft.
The reason it's called a ramjet is because like the sort of ramjet you're apparently thinking of it requires a healthy velocity to work, to slow and you're not going to be collecting enough hydrogen fast enough to start a fusion reaction.
Ion or solar sail could be good way to work up to ramjet speeds, though a healthy chemical rocket boost and a slingshot manouver(sp?) to pass nearer the sun where the hydrogen density is high could work also.
BRIGHTSIDE!?!?! a few russian nukes lying around where someone could stumble across them and possible make a working device is a bright side?!?!?!
Well then again I suppose it could be a bright side, for a second or so till the shockwave hit right after the flash.
Solar sails use photon pressure, aka light. Not having rtfm I suppose they could have intended to use the solar wind as well with this one, but light is what you'd use for intersteller distances.
On idea that's been kicked around is to put a huge laser on the moon and shine it at a retreating solar sail to give it an extra push to bring it up to higher speeds faster. This has the advantage beign able to use a huge facility without taking it along. Of course you'd have to reverse the sail much sooner and spend more time slowing down, unless of course there is a civilisation at the destination to build and shine an apropriate laser at you.
Republican is a political party. Conservative is is an adjective. In the political sense the word has specific meanings. The Republican partie's platform and/or what individual republicans say and/or do, do not match all those meanings at all times.
I could stand around claiming to be the smartest man in the world, or best looking, yet that does not make it so, no more than a group claiming a lable automatically qualify for it.
That was my sole point. I personally am more philosophically aligned with the libertarian party, though not in everything, nor to the idealistic degree they sometimes take it.
Nope. They're for limiting government interference to the bare minimum.
This means not taxing and regulating the crap out of bussiness or individuals.
So they would protect the rights of the people (I assume this is what you mean by 'public rights'), mostly by not stepping on them.
And if you polled criminal defendants I'm shure you'd get a pretty high self labeling of innocent.
This doesn't make it so. The simple truth is the republican platform claims consertive on many issues, but the way actual republicans vote/act varries quit a bit.
Frankly I see both parties as corrupt and self serving.
Problem is it's possible to put a signal that the camera could dectect, but not the human eye (or at least not noticeable by most persons), into the vido stream such that it simply refuses to record it.
You don't notice macrovision on most vhs (analog) tapes, yet when copy-ing with another vhs machine the copy shows the effects in many cases. My AIW video card supports tv-in and can detect macrovision (wich it promply 'honors' by scrambling the video output).
This kinda of crap needs to be fought, only way to slow it down.
It's how party affiliation and state affiliation are noted.
L-TX= Libertarian party, Texas. TX is the standard 2 letter abbreviation for Texas. L is libertarian and R is Republican and D is democrate. I think it G for green and I means independant (no party) don't recall the rest.
The hand may be sticking out, but then so is the sword. Frankly getting an arm cut right at the wrist isn't as likely as a nasty cut farther up, above the elbow. Though with light sabers having no effective guard I can see the likelyhood of a closer contact increasing some, but when you consider the likely positions of the respective swords/sabers for a wrist cut to occure you can see where the looser would have be significantly out-matched for such a cut to be very likely.
But notice how many pivotal moments are when some-one looses a hand. Not all of them, nor do they occure every time a hand is lost, but it seems a bit high for random chance.
Luke finds out about his father when he looses his. Finally throws off the emperor's manipulations when he takes Vaders. Also Anakin's first significant defeat is loosing his hand to Doku. And he slices off Mace's hand as his first deliberate step towards switching sides.
The question however was only semi-serious. The lost hand referent is likely drawn from existing mythology and symbology. For example Tyr's loosing a hand to enable the binding of Loki's wolf-like ofspring (Fenris?).
There are other referents IIRC, but I'm up way past bedtime to be thinking completely clearly.
gahh, to many people think paper rpgs are for 14yo's. reflexes got me.
However I thought to whom I'd give an account of what would be obvious.
I was talking about going by there if anything description worthy was happening and report back here.
If it's just lawyers pushing paper around and makeing obscure leagle points then only a small handfull of people here will care about the details.
However if soemone has managed to set up some sort of pro bnetd demonstration or some such it might be worth a look-see and taking some notes to relay back to the slashdot crowd.
It doesn't seem likely that anything interesting in that manner is happening, but odds are I'll be within a few miles of the place so it seemed worth asking.
However it looks like after an hour only the two of us care to post at all here so I'm probably just wasting electrons at this point.
Trust me, nothing to worry about. Having friends you see on a regular basis is fairly normal when you grow up. Some people even see members of the other gender on a regular basis when they grow up.
By which I mean picketing or possibly a viewers gallery.
Monday night is me and my friends 'game' night. Game can mean rpg (pen and paper) or video or whatever we decide, and it just seems apropriate this is getting started near where we game (anyone got the exact adress?).
If there is any 'action' of any sort (other than lawyerees being tossed around) me and my friends might be able to stop by and give an account.
Well I'm pretty shure R2 belonged to Padme and C3P0 was Anakins.
That not owning droids. Considering how prevalent they are (almost to the point where NOT useing a droid for something is bizzare) I would have to say the not ever owning droids should have got a startled reaction from Luke and could only have been part of the "I'm a total recluse wierdo" cover Obi-Wan was hiding under.
Actually Luke thought his life was boring because he was always dreaming about what if. Yoda even gives him gruff about it indirectly talking to Obi-Wan's ghost on dagobah just before Luke figures out who he is.
Yet he comments on how X-wings are just like flying something he's used to back home, and he admits to being a pilot when talking to Han the first time'"...You bet I could, I'm not such a bad pilot myself...".
And that whole bullyseyeing womprats back home thing.
I figure he'd done some flying, possibly with the equivalant of crop duster, and shooting at 'womp-rats' from his craft.
Though I suspect his adventures would more like a SF version of huck fin or dukes of hazzard.
There couldn't be any use of the force in any way Luke or his friends could take serious (I fear the writers would try and sneek it in and so over use it no one would believe it could happen that much without Luke noticing).
You forgott FOtO was cgi because ALL of it was. You notice in SW because it switched back and forth and we still can't quite do it perfect.
In fact we deliberately avoid doing as well as we can sometimes because there is range of almost but not quite perfect that is actually prone to wierding out people. It's like the brain is o.k. with 'this is fake' and 'this is not fake' but when it has trouble telling it just freaks out.
I seem to recall a/. article about effect a while back.
As good as Nicholson was I sincerely hope they do.
And I hope they drop the 'kill off ongoing villians at the end' piece of stupidity that the other Batman series did.
+ spoiler + . . . . . . . However I worry about that last bit see-ing as how this one ended. Still the vehicle they used was very un-batman like(excluding Darknight Returns of course) though with a good bit of reasoning to explain it. And to quote "I gotta get me one of those" I think gordan said it.
They also skipped some of Bruce's pre-batman training and focused almost entirely on the ninja like combat training. But considering that took up half the movie I don't entirely blame them, and they did hint at it.
And to bring this back on topic I'll point out how The speach about anger giving him power, but potentially poisoning his mind and ruining his ability to do justice was very reminiscent of SW and the darkside/lightside thing about anger and hate.
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As you are already modded way up and I've already posted in this article and spent my mod points today please accept my applause. That was rather well done on such short notice(just under 1/2hour it looks like). :)
Mycroft
Alright what state are you talking about.
Many(most?all?) seem to have some sort of buffer mechanism in the law.
Here (Missouri) complete consent is at 17, if everyone involved is at least 17 it's not illeagle on age alone.
If everyone is under 21 and over 13 (14 through 20 inclusive) it's the same, no age based foul.
Also if one person is under 17(but at least 14!) and the other 21 or older, the older person can have as an affirmative defence that (s)he reasonably believed the other person to be at least 17. ("we met in a bar where she was being served, here are my five witnesses including the guy who carded her and was fooled by her sister's d.l. saying she was 22")
Also though the phrase statutory rape is used alot in these discussions that's not always the crime. Here statutory rape is one felony category lower than forcible rape. And where it's a person over 21 and one under 17 but over 13 it's just statutory sexual assault and a couple categories lower.
At least that's how it was a few years ago when I last got involved enough in a discussion to actually look it up (a friend, 20 at the time, had been told he could go to jail for having sex with his 17 year old GF, we wound up looking it up in the library copy of the statutes which were from 1997). The point of this paragraph is bassically IANAL and you should check with one before you get to serious with someone who's a minor (or if you're the minor for that matter).
Mycroft
I watch very little tv myself. Mostly because I took an unintended break from it for over a year (got stuck to poor to do satalite and to far out to get more than 2 snowy channels SOMETIMES.
When I finally moved back into an area where I could get decent tv reception I found 99.99% of about as entertaining as watching paint dry and pduced by and for people with an IQ<60, expecially the 'big hits'.
Mycroft
Or hex edit the answers in the binary to all be your name.
Did that with one game that did a check everytime you ran it. Not because I was using a 'warez' copy, I had bought it, but because I spilled a glass of tea on the manual and wrecked about 1/3 of the answers. Of course that wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had the book out to find a doc-check answer in the first place.
The ONLY real benifit of copy protection schemes is to make money for the people that develope them. That was true before the internet when the cracks would take up to weeks to circulate the bbs's, and much more true when the cracks can sit on some site in a country that doesn't care. They're snake oil. Once ONE person or group has cracked it once, it becomes trivial for anyone else to do so, by simply downloading the crack.
Mycroft
PC games have thier place as well.
Morrowind and the Sims stand out as just two examples of where pc's are clearly superior to consoles.
Oddly enough someone acted like fps were all pc gamers cared about, yet that genre is where consoles tend to shine(except in realm of Maps, consoles simply don't even touch pc's here).
I only find consoles marginally better for the race games, unless you but a good steering wheel and pedal set which you could also do for consoles.
Simply put there are areas where each is clearly superior to the other and it's not likely to change without one of them taking on the characteristics of the other and essentially eliminating the distinction.
Mycroft
No. just because some group wants to use the word outside it's actual definition doesn't change the definitions most people use.
However your obtuseness makes me suspect a troll. So this is my last attempt to explain a basic fact to you.
Mycroft
I'm pretty shure the gp meant a Bussard Ramjet. This works by collecting interstellar hydrogen using a magnetic field spread over many miles at the front end and compressing it down to a tiny point behind the craft. This compression causes a fusion reaction that results in fusion byproducts Much heated exiting backwards while imparting a forward momentum on the craft.
The reason it's called a ramjet is because like the sort of ramjet you're apparently thinking of it requires a healthy velocity to work, to slow and you're not going to be collecting enough hydrogen fast enough to start a fusion reaction.
Ion or solar sail could be good way to work up to ramjet speeds, though a healthy chemical rocket boost and a slingshot manouver(sp?) to pass nearer the sun where the hydrogen density is high could work also.
Mycroft
BRIGHTSIDE!?!?! a few russian nukes lying around where someone could stumble across them and possible make a working device is a bright side?!?!?!
Well then again I suppose it could be a bright side, for a second or so till the shockwave hit right after the flash.
Mycroft
Solar sails use photon pressure, aka light. Not having rtfm I suppose they could have intended to use the solar wind as well with this one, but light is what you'd use for intersteller distances.
On idea that's been kicked around is to put a huge laser on the moon and shine it at a retreating solar sail to give it an extra push to bring it up to higher speeds faster. This has the advantage beign able to use a huge facility without taking it along. Of course you'd have to reverse the sail much sooner and spend more time slowing down, unless of course there is a civilisation at the destination to build and shine an apropriate laser at you.
Mycroft
Republican is a political party. Conservative is is an adjective. In the political sense the word has specific meanings. The Republican partie's platform and/or what individual republicans say and/or do, do not match all those meanings at all times.
I could stand around claiming to be the smartest man in the world, or best looking, yet that does not make it so, no more than a group claiming a lable automatically qualify for it.
That was my sole point.
I personally am more philosophically aligned with the libertarian party, though not in everything, nor to the idealistic degree they sometimes take it.
Mycroft
Nope.
They're for limiting government interference to the bare minimum.
This means not taxing and regulating the crap out of bussiness or individuals.
So they would protect the rights of the people (I assume this is what you mean by 'public rights'), mostly by not stepping on them.
Mycroft
And if you polled criminal defendants I'm shure you'd get a pretty high self labeling of innocent.
This doesn't make it so.
The simple truth is the republican platform claims consertive on many issues, but the way actual republicans vote/act varries quit a bit.
Frankly I see both parties as corrupt and self serving.
Mycroft
Problem is it's possible to put a signal that the camera could dectect, but not the human eye (or at least not noticeable by most persons), into the vido stream such that it simply refuses to record it.
You don't notice macrovision on most vhs (analog) tapes, yet when copy-ing with another vhs machine the copy shows the effects in many cases. My AIW video card supports tv-in and can detect macrovision (wich it promply 'honors' by scrambling the video output).
This kinda of crap needs to be fought, only way to slow it down.
Mycroft
It's how party affiliation and state affiliation are noted.
L-TX= Libertarian party, Texas. TX is the standard 2 letter abbreviation for Texas. L is libertarian and R is Republican and D is democrate. I think it G for green and I means independant (no party) don't recall the rest.
Mycroft
The hand may be sticking out, but then so is the sword. Frankly getting an arm cut right at the wrist isn't as likely as a nasty cut farther up, above the elbow. Though with light sabers having no effective guard I can see the likelyhood of a closer contact increasing some, but when you consider the likely positions of the respective swords/sabers for a wrist cut to occure you can see where the looser would have be significantly out-matched for such a cut to be very likely.
But notice how many pivotal moments are when some-one looses a hand. Not all of them, nor do they occure every time a hand is lost, but it seems a bit high for random chance.
Luke finds out about his father when he looses his. Finally throws off the emperor's manipulations when he takes Vaders. Also Anakin's first significant defeat is loosing his hand to Doku. And he slices off Mace's hand as his first deliberate step towards switching sides.
The question however was only semi-serious. The lost hand referent is likely drawn from existing mythology and symbology. For example Tyr's loosing a hand to enable the binding of Loki's wolf-like ofspring (Fenris?).
There are other referents IIRC, but I'm up way past bedtime to be thinking completely clearly.
Mycroft
Shure you can, but only in the rare circumstance that you have a Holy Porpoise for it.
Mycroft
Well I don't have access to Kobold or I'd toss comets. To bad it got all smushed into a neutronion pellet. :)
Mycroft
gahh, to many people think paper rpgs are for 14yo's. reflexes got me.
However I thought to whom I'd give an account of what would be obvious.
I was talking about going by there if anything description worthy was happening and report back here.
If it's just lawyers pushing paper around and makeing obscure leagle points then only a small handfull of people here will care about the details.
However if soemone has managed to set up some sort of pro bnetd demonstration or some such it might be worth a look-see and taking some notes to relay back to the slashdot crowd.
It doesn't seem likely that anything interesting in that manner is happening, but odds are I'll be within a few miles of the place so it seemed worth asking.
However it looks like after an hour only the two of us care to post at all here so I'm probably just wasting electrons at this point.
Mycroft
Trust me, nothing to worry about. Having friends you see on a regular basis is fairly normal when you grow up. Some people even see members of the other gender on a regular basis when they grow up.
Mycroft
By which I mean picketing or possibly a viewers gallery.
Monday night is me and my friends 'game' night. Game can mean rpg (pen and paper) or video or whatever we decide, and it just seems apropriate this is getting started near where we game (anyone got the exact adress?).
If there is any 'action' of any sort (other than lawyerees being tossed around) me and my friends might be able to stop by and give an account.
Mycroft
Well I'm pretty shure R2 belonged to Padme and C3P0 was Anakins.
That not owning droids. Considering how prevalent they are (almost to the point where NOT useing a droid for something is bizzare) I would have to say the not ever owning droids should have got a startled reaction from Luke and could only have been part of the "I'm a total recluse wierdo" cover Obi-Wan was hiding under.
Mycroft
The punchline is a cut-n-paste troll actually got modded funny.
Mycroft
Actually Luke thought his life was boring because he was always dreaming about what if. Yoda even gives him gruff about it indirectly talking to Obi-Wan's ghost on dagobah just before Luke figures out who he is.
Yet he comments on how X-wings are just like flying something he's used to back home, and he admits to being a pilot when talking to Han the first time'"...You bet I could, I'm not such a bad pilot myself...".
And that whole bullyseyeing womprats back home thing.
I figure he'd done some flying, possibly with the equivalant of crop duster, and shooting at 'womp-rats' from his craft.
Though I suspect his adventures would more like a SF version of huck fin or dukes of hazzard.
There couldn't be any use of the force in any way Luke or his friends could take serious (I fear the writers would try and sneek it in and so over use it no one would believe it could happen that much without Luke noticing).
Mycroft
You forgott FOtO was cgi because ALL of it was. You notice in SW because it switched back and forth and we still can't quite do it perfect. /. article about effect a while back.
In fact we deliberately avoid doing as well as we can sometimes because there is range of almost but not quite perfect that is actually prone to wierding out people. It's like the brain is o.k. with 'this is fake' and 'this is not fake' but when it has trouble telling it just freaks out.
I seem to recall a
Mycroft
As good as Nicholson was I sincerely hope they do.
And I hope they drop the 'kill off ongoing villians at the end' piece of stupidity that the other Batman series did.
+ spoiler +
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However I worry about that last bit see-ing as how this one ended. Still the vehicle they used was very un-batman like(excluding Darknight Returns of course) though with a good bit of reasoning to explain it. And to quote "I gotta get me one of those" I think gordan said it.
They also skipped some of Bruce's pre-batman training and focused almost entirely on the ninja like combat training. But considering that took up half the movie I don't entirely blame them, and they did hint at it.
And to bring this back on topic I'll point out how The speach about anger giving him power, but potentially poisoning his mind and ruining his ability to do justice was very reminiscent of SW and the darkside/lightside thing about anger and hate.
Mycroft