"http://anime720.com/" appears to be a bungled/bad site. Follow at own risk. Won't let you see Much but main page if ad-block is on. acts suspicious with a modal dialog or click through you can't get rid off otherwise. Might just be bad site design, or might be worse.
It LOOKS like they're just trying to get add revenue for listing links to other peoples stuff, but it just sets off alarm bells when a site throws up a dialog box you can only turn off by clicking ONE of the two buttons. ANYTHING else just pops the box back up and you can't do ANYTHING else, even click on another tab in firefox untill you click the correct button. Just screams mall-ware to me, though I didn't bother trying to find out for certain.
"http://anime720.com/" appears to be a bungled/bad site. Follow at own risk. Won't let you see Much but main page if ad-block is on. acts suspicious with a modal dialog or click through you can't get rid off otherwise. Might just be bad site design, or might be worse.
It LOOKS like they're just trying to get add revenue for listing links to other peoples stuff, but it just sets off alarm bells when a site throws up a dialog box you can only turn off by clicking ONE of the two buttons. ANYTHING else just pops the box back up and you can't do ANYTHING else, even click on another tab in firefox untill you click the correct button. Just screams mall-ware to me, though I didn't bother trying to find out for certain.
Until they revolt over the wardens inept and corrupt administration and the fact that crucial survival resources are dwindling to the danger point from being shipped to earth.
That's when the loonies start dropping big cans of whatever is handy on earth. With difference in gravity wells it's not that hard to effect kilo or even megatons of energy release at the impact point.
With a smart enough computer aiding in the logistics of the revolution it can happen.
People who "know better" than the web form they're using to put there address in are usually wrong when it's vendor delivered product. Not all software is so simplistic, some actually uses that info for more than slapping an address on an envelope or package for USPS to deal with.
Assuming you can fill out an address online other than how it clearly indicates is retarded arrogance, and I have to deal with it daily.
The field is NOT irrelevant, try using a cc/debit card online when you have a unit number in your billing address, Try ordering delivery from your local delivery food service online and mangling the address like that (and then don't answer your phone for more fun). Just two real world examples I've dealt with.
Let the software do it's job, don't try to second guess it by putting things in the wrong field and don't complain when you do and things get screwed up because it'll be YOUR fault.
And here I thought they treated as a unique field so they could accurately deliver the mail. My point still remains, don't deliberately fill out online address form differently than they explicitly ask you too and expect it to just work, it often won't.
If you don't put things in the right boxes online things fail. If I put my apt number in as part of the street name field my debit card won't be accepted by online retailers because the billing address doesn't match (so that's banks and most online commerce sites that treat it as a unique field).
Assuming that it makes no difference if you fill a web form out correctly is ok because of assumptions about how it's stored in the DB is just asking for trouble.
The USPS is amazingly good at sorting out mangled addresses, if you are NOT using the USPS (such as the local food delivery place, or other local vendor delivered goods) fill out your address online how THEY want it or expect issues, the same with using a credit/debit card online.
Even the USPS treats it as a unique field.
There is a separate field there for just the apartment/unit line. And uses it as I said, it fails if you put the apt number in street name but works fine if you put it correct field.
Multiple sub-elements of a full address may be on the same physical line, such as town and state, but one wouldn't argue the state is part of the town name.
I'll admit a lot of software out there is brain damaged like that. To much of it to assume that any random software can figure out you meant ct. when you typed crt or even figure our you live on south lane when you typed in just south, even though there is a south drive across town and a south court two blocks away.
I've never seen it done that way, but I've seen the results of NOT putting your unit number in the box for it. If the system doesn't have a unique field for it then you have to append it. But every online system I've interacted with has an additional line for the address.
But treating it as part of the street name is ripe for mistakes, especially considering how common some street names is.
It's really stupid to ignore it when you have different fields for different parts of an address, if it makes no difference how the info is stored you lose nothing doing as presented, if it does and you ignore the given format you create issues for no reason.
You should always use the correct spelling and abbreviations with any online commerce. Spelling out lane or drive or court , etc. can make it difficult if not impossible to accurately locate you.
If something is being delivered to you and the address is not correct, or the phone number is NOT answered (or long distance) you might not get what you ordered.
Also your apartment number/letter (or suite or such) is NOT part of the street name. If there is a box for 'unit' or apartment use only it for that.
A computer is trying to match up your address most of the time and if it can't a human may try to call you to find out where you are.
Where I work if you don't put in an address the computer can locate we usually call, if no one answers we cancel the order rather than waste time and risk the chance it's a set-up to rob the driver or a prank. All the majors do this in food delivery and most of the small ones.
If you don't know the correct abbreviation for the suffix then look it up since you are already online.
The person continuing to give step by step directions when asked for the street address is a self centered idiot who thinks what's going through his head is more important than the other person actually arriving.
The person asking for the address is trying to save them BOTH wasted time. In a professional setting the directions giver is also a jerk treating the other person like they don't know their job and self centered assuming the other person has no other customers to serve or even think about other than them.
Giving someone direction step by step when they didn't ask for them is a waste of time. It assumes to many factors about how the person is getting there and their knowledge of the landmarks YOU think are significant.
The FIRST thing to do is not start giving directions, give the address and ANSWER the questions the other person asks about where you are, trying to give them more specific direction than they ask for is 90% of the time stupid or worse. Certianly tell them if you think the answer will cause them difficulty ("yes it's off elm, but the road is blocked by construction there, you have to come in off 5th") . I routinely as part of my job ask people for their street address and get the name of their subdivision and directions termed in right or left (that's just stupid).
And I get people who have NO clue what any street near them but theirs is called and even then don't know if it's a lane road drive or court.
If you are calling someone who needs to be able to accurately locate your home, KNOW where you live, not just the street name and number, but also a few nearby streets and for pities sake what TOWN you are in, not just the county (If you are in an un-encorporated section of the county, what towns post office covers you is usually, but not always, the right answer there).
If asked a question about where you live, ANSWER IT, don't get mad say "if you'd just follow the directions I'm trying to gie you...", that marks you a self centered idiot.
Try Pathfinder, it's basically what 4th should have been. The classes maintain their flavor while gaining options. They streamlined what needed it (NOTE streamlined what was needed. NOT made stupidly dumb everything) http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG 95%+ compatible with 3.5
I've been playing since 1982 and pathfinder is the best version of AD&D I've seen yet, not perfect, but it's never been perfect.
AD&D has a cycle to it, version, add on rules till it gets to be a mess to track them, then new version, lather rinse repeat. But it's still a lot of fun.
With addresses you can have a st. a rd. an ave. and a ct. all in the same town. Do you want your mail delivered half way across town and your food all the way across town? Remember in most cases a computer is doing the routing. and don't even get me started on people to stupid to put apartment numbers/letters in the box clearly labeled for it and instead treat it has part of the street name or even building number.
Off Topic and possibly wrong, but IIRC he did that because of a dispute with a publisher(Warner bro's?) who held contractual rights on the use of 'Prince'.
I dunno, my anecdote agrees with the other guy. My dad had a digital camcorder and was looking into upgrading. This is the man who screw up a mostly locked down laptop he only used for web browsing and email (o.k. mostly instead of entirely locked down was my mistake.)
I have a 20 year old sub $10/hour employee with a mid-range blackberry, and the rest of them probably average $200 phones (a couple of geezers like me and two single moms bring that average way down).
My thinking is look at the prices and availability of them, that suggests a fairly high number of people have them, I'd guess (just that a guess) well over 20%, but probably not as high as 60%, say 1/4 to 1/3.
IIRC, ammo bins had to be in the same or adjacent body parts, different ammo (even subtypes) in different bins. But weapons could pull from any valid bin. IE two LRM5 in the left arm could pull from any bin with LRM ammo left arm or left torso section.
Actually Jump jets are restricted to torso and leg slots. Also machine guns are tiny compared to a Mech and mostly anti-personal in use so putting them on the legs (when the 'ankle' is shoulder to head high on a human) makes some sense.
That's Michigan as best I can tell, I'm in Missouri. Slashdot's screwed up drop box doesn't work right and my previous got posted as plain text screwing up the post(sorry, should have caught it) and dropped the ref to title in Missouri statute.
You must live in a nicer (driver wise) area than I do, not being tailgated is the exception (late night and other low traffic times) and frankly no around here expects someone to stop for a yellow unless it's likely to turn red before they can make it through or mostly through the signal.
It may not be the smartest or safest attitude, but ignoring it will cause an accident, possibly a bad one.
Yellow is only a warning (this state, by law) that a green light condition is going to end and or a red light start. One is expected to use judgement (unfortunately most "judge" they can "make it") and do whichever is safer under the conditions.
<blockquote>
(a) Vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal alone shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection at a clearly marked stop line but, if none, then before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until an indication to proceed is shown except as provided in paragraph (b);
(b) The driver of a vehicle which is stopped as close as practicable at the entrance to the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then at the entrance to the intersection in obedience to a red signal, may cautiously enter the intersection to make a right turn but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal at the intersection, except that the state highways and transportation commission with reference to an intersection involving a state highway, and local authorities with reference to an intersection involving other highways under their jurisdiction, may prohibit any such right turn against a red signal at any intersection where safety conditions so require, said prohibition shall be effective when a sign is erected at such intersection giving notice thereof; </blockquote>
Hmm, you seem to misunderstand (or I misstated) the timing. In the second scenario what if oncoming traffic gets a green left arrow (that your light doesn't) while oncoming traffic STILL has a green light.
Perhaps where you are that timing is not allowed, but it happens here. Suppose the the vehicle in the oncoming turn lane is larger(semi's often need the whole space, or at least to much for both turn lanes to go at once, thus one side leads the opposite follows in some intersections) and needs to make a wide turn it can't without running you over, if the oncoming lights then go all red for cross traffic at the same time then he now has to wait a full cycle again and hope the next guy doesn't do the same thing.
Not only that but you're now pulling in front of a light just turning red and someone cutting it fine who can't see you (big vehicle stuck in the left turn lane blocking his view remember) just t-boned a car (yours) that had it been back behind the marked lane likely wouldn't have been there (admittedly he shouldn't have run the red, but you're dead so you don't care) that couldn't see him because of said big vehicle.
I've seen the aftermath of just such an accident a few seconds after it happened (heard it, but was joining the street a couple blocks away from a side street) thankfully no one died, and the guy t-boned only had minor injuries because it was a lower speed road.
I was going nowhere in a hurry so I stayed to see what was happening, there seemed some doubt as to whether the light was red or still yellow when one car entered the intersection, there wasn't any over where the turning car was and while I didn't see any arrests or tickets issued myself there was no doubt who the police saw as the culprit.
Yeah that's my point, the worst people for using the 'pull out' trick are from nearby states.
We most certainly have intersections where it's dangerous to pull partway into an intersection like that.
To be honest left turns with signal lights mostly seem to have a turn arrow at 4 ways except low traffic density areas and a the occasional odd exception.
The pull out trick is most often used badly where the light setup none or just the one street t-ing into another.
But even where there is a full set of lights people still pull that trick and I know personally how deadly stupid driving can be. I lost my brother and father in an accident a few months ago triggered by someone crossing the center line, my brother dodged him, but the resulting skid as my brother returned onto the pavement from a soft shoulder in the rain put them into oncoming traffic at a combined speed near 100mph/165kph. We don't know if the guy who caused was trying to pass or drunk or on the phone or if he knows anything happened. My brother was a skilled driver, I've been in the car when a tire blew out bad slamming that backside against us against fire hydrant and watched his reflexes avoid the telephone pole that aimed us at and a moving truck on the other side and safely stop us on curb, the accident happened over 15 years later with the last 5+ having him driving for a living in urban and sub-urban areas.
I don't mention this to gain sympathy, but merely to show why I'm a bit strident about these things. full disclosure and all that, I can't claim full impartiality.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll take the safer society instead of the police state thank you very much.
Mycroft
"http://anime720.com/" appears to be a bungled/bad site. Follow at own risk.
Won't let you see Much but main page if ad-block is on. acts suspicious with a modal dialog or click through you can't get rid off otherwise. Might just be bad site design, or might be worse.
It LOOKS like they're just trying to get add revenue for listing links to other peoples stuff, but it just sets off alarm bells when a site throws up a dialog box you can only turn off by clicking ONE of the two buttons. ANYTHING else just pops the box back up and you can't do ANYTHING else, even click on another tab in firefox untill you click the correct button. Just screams mall-ware to me, though I didn't bother trying to find out for certain.
Mycroft
"http://anime720.com/" appears to be a bungled/bad site. Follow at own risk.
Won't let you see Much but main page if ad-block is on. acts suspicious with a modal dialog or click through you can't get rid off otherwise. Might just be bad site design, or might be worse.
It LOOKS like they're just trying to get add revenue for listing links to other peoples stuff, but it just sets off alarm bells when a site throws up a dialog box you can only turn off by clicking ONE of the two buttons. ANYTHING else just pops the box back up and you can't do ANYTHING else, even click on another tab in firefox untill you click the correct button. Just screams mall-ware to me, though I didn't bother trying to find out for certain.
Mycroft
Until they revolt over the wardens inept and corrupt administration and the fact that crucial survival resources are dwindling to the danger point from being shipped to earth.
That's when the loonies start dropping big cans of whatever is handy on earth. With difference in gravity wells it's not that hard to effect kilo or even megatons of energy release at the impact point.
With a smart enough computer aiding in the logistics of the revolution it can happen.
Mycroft
People who "know better" than the web form they're using to put there address in are usually wrong when it's vendor delivered product. Not all software is so simplistic, some actually uses that info for more than slapping an address on an envelope or package for USPS to deal with.
Assuming you can fill out an address online other than how it clearly indicates is retarded arrogance, and I have to deal with it daily.
The field is NOT irrelevant, try using a cc/debit card online when you have a unit number in your billing address, Try ordering delivery from your local delivery food service online and mangling the address like that (and then don't answer your phone for more fun). Just two real world examples I've dealt with.
Let the software do it's job, don't try to second guess it by putting things in the wrong field and don't complain when you do and things get screwed up because it'll be YOUR fault.
Mycroft
And here I thought they treated as a unique field so they could accurately deliver the mail.
My point still remains, don't deliberately fill out online address form differently than they explicitly ask you too and expect it to just work, it often won't.
Mycroft
If you don't put things in the right boxes online things fail.
If I put my apt number in as part of the street name field my debit card won't be accepted by online retailers because the billing address doesn't match (so that's banks and most online commerce sites that treat it as a unique field).
Assuming that it makes no difference if you fill a web form out correctly is ok because of assumptions about how it's stored in the DB is just asking for trouble.
The USPS is amazingly good at sorting out mangled addresses, if you are NOT using the USPS (such as the local food delivery place, or other local vendor delivered goods) fill out your address online how THEY want it or expect issues, the same with using a credit/debit card online.
Even the USPS treats it as a unique field.
Mycroft
Borg? Rule 34. o.k.:
http://www.rexwallpapers.com/wallpaper/Jeri-ryan-15/
http://media.photobucket.com/image/jeri%20ryan/ericp51/Jeri_Ryan-7of9_005.jpg
Mycroft
There is a separate field there for just the apartment/unit line. And uses it as I said, it fails if you put the apt number in street name but works fine if you put it correct field.
Multiple sub-elements of a full address may be on the same physical line, such as town and state, but one wouldn't argue the state is part of the town name.
Mycroft
I'll admit a lot of software out there is brain damaged like that. To much of it to assume that any random software can figure out you meant ct. when you typed crt or even figure our you live on south lane when you typed in just south, even though there is a south drive across town and a south court two blocks away.
Mycroft
I've never seen it done that way, but I've seen the results of NOT putting your unit number in the box for it.
If the system doesn't have a unique field for it then you have to append it. But every online system I've interacted with has an additional line for the address.
But treating it as part of the street name is ripe for mistakes, especially considering how common some street names is.
It's really stupid to ignore it when you have different fields for different parts of an address, if it makes no difference how the info is stored you lose nothing doing as presented, if it does and you ignore the given format you create issues for no reason.
Mycroft
You should always use the correct spelling and abbreviations with any online commerce.
Spelling out lane or drive or court , etc. can make it difficult if not impossible to accurately locate you.
If something is being delivered to you and the address is not correct, or the phone number is NOT answered (or long distance) you might not get what you ordered.
Also your apartment number/letter (or suite or such) is NOT part of the street name. If there is a box for 'unit' or apartment use only it for that.
A computer is trying to match up your address most of the time and if it can't a human may try to call you to find out where you are.
Where I work if you don't put in an address the computer can locate we usually call, if no one answers we cancel the order rather than waste time and risk the chance it's a set-up to rob the driver or a prank. All the majors do this in food delivery and most of the small ones.
If you don't know the correct abbreviation for the suffix then look it up since you are already online.
Mycroft
The person continuing to give step by step directions when asked for the street address is a self centered idiot who thinks what's going through his head is more important than the other person actually arriving.
The person asking for the address is trying to save them BOTH wasted time.
In a professional setting the directions giver is also a jerk treating the other person like they don't know their job and self centered assuming the other person has no other customers to serve or even think about other than them.
Mycroft
Giving someone direction step by step when they didn't ask for them is a waste of time. It assumes to many factors about how the person is getting there and their knowledge of the landmarks YOU think are significant.
The FIRST thing to do is not start giving directions, give the address and ANSWER the questions the other person asks about where you are, trying to give them more specific direction than they ask for is 90% of the time stupid or worse. Certianly tell them if you think the answer will cause them difficulty ("yes it's off elm, but the road is blocked by construction there, you have to come in off 5th")
. I routinely as part of my job ask people for their street address and get the name of their subdivision and directions termed in right or left (that's just stupid).
And I get people who have NO clue what any street near them but theirs is called and even then don't know if it's a lane road drive or court.
If you are calling someone who needs to be able to accurately locate your home, KNOW where you live, not just the street name and number, but also a few nearby streets and for pities sake what TOWN you are in, not just the county (If you are in an un-encorporated section of the county, what towns post office covers you is usually, but not always, the right answer there).
If asked a question about where you live, ANSWER IT, don't get mad say "if you'd just follow the directions I'm trying to gie you...", that marks you a self centered idiot.
Mycroft
Try Pathfinder, it's basically what 4th should have been.
The classes maintain their flavor while gaining options.
They streamlined what needed it (NOTE streamlined what was needed. NOT made stupidly dumb everything)
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG
95%+ compatible with 3.5
I've been playing since 1982 and pathfinder is the best version of AD&D I've seen yet, not perfect, but it's never been perfect.
AD&D has a cycle to it, version, add on rules till it gets to be a mess to track them, then new version, lather rinse repeat. But it's still a lot of fun.
Mycroft
With addresses you can have a st. a rd. an ave. and a ct. all in the same town. Do you want your mail delivered half way across town and your food all the way across town? Remember in most cases a computer is doing the routing.
and don't even get me started on people to stupid to put apartment numbers/letters in the box clearly labeled for it and instead treat it has part of the street name or even building number.
Mycroft
Off Topic and possibly wrong, but IIRC he did that because of a dispute with a publisher(Warner bro's?) who held contractual rights on the use of 'Prince'.
Mycroft
I dunno, my anecdote agrees with the other guy. My dad had a digital camcorder and was looking into upgrading. This is the man who screw up a mostly locked down laptop he only used for web browsing and email (o.k. mostly instead of entirely locked down was my mistake.)
I have a 20 year old sub $10/hour employee with a mid-range blackberry, and the rest of them probably average $200 phones (a couple of geezers like me and two single moms bring that average way down).
My thinking is look at the prices and availability of them, that suggests a fairly high number of people have them, I'd guess (just that a guess) well over 20%, but probably not as high as 60%, say 1/4 to 1/3.
Mycroft
IIRC, ammo bins had to be in the same or adjacent body parts, different ammo (even subtypes) in different bins. But weapons could pull from any valid bin. IE two LRM5 in the left arm could pull from any bin with LRM ammo left arm or left torso section.
Mycroft
Actually Jump jets are restricted to torso and leg slots.
Also machine guns are tiny compared to a Mech and mostly anti-personal
in use so putting them on the legs (when the 'ankle' is shoulder to head high
on a human) makes some sense.
Mycroft
That's Michigan as best I can tell, I'm in Missouri.
Slashdot's screwed up drop box doesn't work right and my previous got posted as plain text screwing up the post(sorry, should have caught it) and dropped the ref to title in Missouri statute.
Mycroft
You must live in a nicer (driver wise) area than I do, not being tailgated is the exception (late night and other low traffic times) and frankly no around here expects someone to stop for a yellow unless it's likely to turn red before they can make it through or mostly through the signal.
It may not be the smartest or safest attitude, but ignoring it will cause an accident, possibly a bad one.
Yellow is only a warning (this state, by law) that a green light condition is going to end and or a red light start. One is expected to use judgement (unfortunately most "judge" they can "make it") and do whichever is safer under the conditions.
Mycroft
Left on red is illegal statewide:
<blockquote>
(a) Vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal alone shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection at a clearly marked stop line but, if none, then before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until an indication to proceed is shown except as provided in paragraph (b);
(b) The driver of a vehicle which is stopped as close as practicable at the entrance to the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then at the entrance to the intersection in obedience to a red signal, may cautiously enter the intersection to make a right turn but shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal at the intersection, except that the state highways and transportation commission with reference to an intersection involving a state highway, and local authorities with reference to an intersection involving other highways under their jurisdiction, may prohibit any such right turn against a red signal at any intersection where safety conditions so require, said prohibition shall be effective when a sign is erected at such intersection giving notice thereof; </blockquote>
Hmm, you seem to misunderstand (or I misstated) the timing.
In the second scenario what if oncoming traffic gets a green left arrow (that your light doesn't) while oncoming traffic STILL has a green light.
Perhaps where you are that timing is not allowed, but it happens here. Suppose the the vehicle in the oncoming turn lane is larger(semi's often need the whole space, or at least to much for both turn lanes to go at once, thus one side leads the opposite follows in some intersections) and needs to make a wide turn it can't without running you over, if the oncoming lights then go all red for cross traffic at the same time then he now has to wait a full cycle again and hope the next guy doesn't do the same thing.
Not only that but you're now pulling in front of a light just turning red and someone cutting it fine who can't see you (big vehicle stuck in the left turn lane blocking his view remember) just t-boned a car (yours) that had it been back behind the marked lane likely wouldn't have been there (admittedly he shouldn't have run the red, but you're dead so you don't care) that couldn't see him because of said big vehicle.
I've seen the aftermath of just such an accident a few seconds after it happened (heard it, but was joining the street a couple blocks away from a side street) thankfully no one died, and the guy t-boned only had minor injuries because it was a lower speed road.
I was going nowhere in a hurry so I stayed to see what was happening, there seemed some doubt as to whether the light was red or still yellow when one car entered the intersection, there wasn't any over where the turning car was and while I didn't see any arrests or tickets issued myself there was no doubt who the police saw as the culprit.
Mycroft
Yeah that's my point, the worst people for using the 'pull out' trick are from nearby states.
We most certainly have intersections where it's dangerous to pull partway into an intersection like that.
To be honest left turns with signal lights mostly seem to have a turn arrow at 4 ways except low traffic density areas and a the occasional odd exception.
The pull out trick is most often used badly where the light setup none or just the one street t-ing into another.
But even where there is a full set of lights people still pull that trick and I know personally how deadly stupid driving can be. I lost my brother and father in an accident a few months ago triggered by someone crossing the center line, my brother dodged him, but the resulting skid as my brother returned onto the pavement from a soft shoulder in the rain put them into oncoming traffic at a combined speed near 100mph/165kph. We don't know if the guy who caused was trying to pass or drunk or on the phone or if he knows anything happened. My brother was a skilled driver, I've been in the car when a tire blew out bad slamming that backside against us against fire hydrant and watched his reflexes avoid the telephone pole that aimed us at and a moving truck on the other side and safely stop us on curb, the accident happened over 15 years later with the last 5+ having him driving for a living in urban and sub-urban areas.
I don't mention this to gain sympathy, but merely to show why I'm a bit strident about these things. full disclosure and all that, I can't claim full impartiality.
Mycroft