Uhhm, NO!
Basically what thier going to look at is who escalated it to phyisical violence and whether they had ANY other reasonable course of action, being able to just leave and go home counts as a reasonable alternative. The one who resorted to physical violence is gonna do time, the one who honked is going to get a stern talking to and maybe a fine for disturbing the peace. IANAL
No it's not states rights vs the peoples safty. It's more about the federal government NOT cutting itself in for a share of the $$.
How on earth is putting the federal government in the loop to take it's slice of the funding pie gonna do anything but REDUCE the funding.
Guesse what, you have the same option every one of your examples is answered by. Move out.
Seriously if you think socialism is such a great idea there are several countries that surviveing on it. Of course you'll only get to keep 1/3 to 1/2 of the money YOU earn, and have few to no choices other than the state system even if that system isn't so good.
For some people this a fine way to just drift through life, and having the state take on many of thier responsibilies for them is worth the lower standard of living.
If you cap the bottom end of a nations standard of living you also cap the top end (excepting the 'leaders' who of course get the best). You also all but elliminate any chance of those ends moving up faster than dead slow without outside help.
And obviously you did NOT read his post. How can you call someone wrong if you don't know what he said.
Now if you did read it, then try to say something related to what he said.
Funding for local should be local. This cuts out the middleman (fed gov) and thier 'share' of the pie. Frankly I don't wan't the feds taking any of the money I pay towards local police and paying for porkbarrel projects with it. They can not take the money in the first and let my local gvt collect taxes to support the local police, FireFighters, and so on. This way we can get a few more of each for the same amount of $$.
Bush didn't re-do somthing stupid, so it's his fault? Bush has issues don't get me wrong, but this idiocy of adding an extra step and overhead to police funding isn't one of them.
There can be a small intervall between damage and pain, somtimes enough to act. I've been there.
Me and someone else got into an argument that he tried to win by kneeing me in the groin, I knew I was going to double over in sever pain, but for a really clear instant I hadn't felt it, so I aimed my forehead at his nose, didn't quite break it clean, but it was cracked and smashed and bloody. Of course I was tossing lunch on the ground and didn't much care, but he wasn't following up on his 'argument' eigther.
Ok, you sir have seen to many movies. In real life you parry a full size (4 or more d cell) MagLight (by brand, or sturdiness alike) with your forearm and it's going hurt like hell in a very short (nerv relay+plus cognition time <.5 seconds) if it's not outright broke.
A really solid 6+ d-cell maglight will do MORE damage for a comparable blow than many of those wooden nightsticks. In fact those nightsticks are RESTRAINT devices to a large degree and are made of wood to limmit damage, you don't think it wouldn't be easy to have them made of a lightweight metal composition that hit harder than wood if they were there to do damage? In some cases the police are not even allowed to have them made of the really hard woods for that reason. I strongly suspect many police have the huge maglights just so they have somthing a bit tougher should they need it, somtimes you need raw damage and shooting would be unnaceptable (thing pcp freak in a crowd, pain won't stop him, to many around to risk shooting).
No throwing your vote away is voting for someone just because you don't think anyone else can win. It's a self fullfing prophecy.
The only way to NOT throw your vote away is to vote for whom you honestly WANT to win. Elswise you keep electing the same crooks who have no worries they migh lose thier jobs if they don't shape up.
When you vote lesser of two evils your saying "go ahead and keep screwing me, I won't do anything about it" and incouraging them.
And ccw is Carry of a Concealed weapon permit. More and more states are making these available, some on a shall issue basis, as they see the benifits of lower crime in other states that have done so.
I ONCE got fooled by a goatse.cx link, and at the time I was wondering how bad could it be. Now I know, I have no intention of finding out how bad somthing could be. I don't even have a rough description of the tubgirl, yet despite my dangerously high level of curiousity (about everything) I've witheld following the link the few times I've seen it.
Fourtunately your right sofar, no-one has pulled such a stunt, or tried that I know off outside of cheap westerns and other fictions.
On the other hand with todays rail-networks you have alot fewer trains than what a good passenger system would require. Plus while toxic chem trains can be verry hazzardous indeed, they're still moving rather slowly compared to high speed rail.
Aslo if highspeed rail became widespread in use and locations, it would become a bigger target. Think how few people currently live near rail lines compared to how many live where a plane could hit them. I suspect this is a major reason why trains are much less of a target than a plane, though with the increasing security (percieved at least) around planes, secondary targets become more feasible.
FWIW I used to live next door to a paint factory that gets the occasional shipment by rail (line has little spar right into the plant) and my dad has worked there since 1970. They do have one chemical that is VERY hazzardous, Touluine(sp?) di-isocyanate. I think I got that right, it's simular to the chemical that killed all those people in india when the Union Carbide plant went boom, the biggest difference is it's neutralized by water, though a 50/50 mix of water and alchohol is better. The pre-9/11 safty measures on this stuff was pretty serious, my dad tells me they've had whole-plant meetings about safty and security on a regular basis since then, and put even more leak alarms and other stuff as well. They are owned by an international conglomerate.
The only thing that worries me is if some idiot decides because thier doing this then thier liable for every virus/spammbot/whatever connected to thier network.
This is where they need to have a good AUP in place that specifies that they MAY do this but are in no way liable if they miss one and that all liability for compromised machines belongs to the owner of said machine.
I hate punching holes in my own ideas, but honesty requires it when I see one potentially that bad. Then again IANAL so maybe I'm worried over nothing.
First off J.J. Jameson is supposed to be like that, and so is parker around him. That IS the way it was in the commics when parker was still new at the Bugle (first few years anyway).
OK the fusion magnetism and tritium are horrible science, but frankly 99% of the audience will buy it because thier NOT nuclear physcist or even close.
It wasn NOT thier chief scientist that went nuts in the last movie, it was thier founder, and no one knew it, they thought he just tragically died. Many companies survive without thier founder once they hit mega-corp status like ozcorp borders on at that point in the marvel timeline. Heck Apple survived firing Jobs and Woz going off on his own.
I guess if your not much of a fan of Spider Man, or even commics this will only be an average movie to many. But IF you like comics, and especially Spider Man. This is a pretty good movie to see, excluding the whole fusion/tritium issue and the stupid train dead end for no reason.
If you don't get why MJ saying "go get 'em tiger" had to be in the movie, it might not work as well for you.
Doesn't suprise that pumps are off. I once filled a tank on a car with.4 gallons MORE than it could hold (including fill tube, engine was off), and it had a little left when I pulled in, say 1/10 of a tank.
It had an anual inspection sticker indicating it had been tested that month, when I said somthing to the manager he was short with me and said "it's accurate". I almost argued with him, but instead paid him and told him I would avoid shoping where I get treated like shit for pointing out a miss-callibrated pump. I Implied it was deliberately off, and said it loud enough the people near me could hear it.
GAk forgot half of it. sorry i'm brain dead, I stayed up playing games on an emulated c64 all night then the boss called me early and asked me to come in on 4 hours sleep.
I figured the sound system didn't need to be all that good for an mp3 player, but even if it couldn't handle the complexity, likely the processor could emulate the sid, and translate that to what the mp3's output can handle.
I downloaded Vice last night and used it to play Earth Orbit Stations till way to late. Then I got called in early this morning to work:/
Fourtunately my boss is pretty cool, I just explained why I was so dragged out and slap-happy and she laughed. (She was having a bad day too) I swear if she wasn't married and working on a second child I'd be having thoughts I shouldn't about the boss.
Try this on for size, a high-speed train will mass several times that of a tractor-trailor rig. It wil likely be traveling significantly faster as well.
Now what happens when, as this train is pulling into an urban area, someone de-rails it.
Also what happens if someone sabotages the anti-collision systems? Hopefully that is very hard indeed.
It is a lower security risk than an airplane in that your limited to a more selective corridor of potential damage, but a train will most likely outmass an airliner. It may be safer from a burning/exploding fule point of view though.
Just some thoughts.
Yeah I remember playing around with SAM (software automatic mouth). it's two modes (english and 'phonetic') and especialy the pitch, giving you a voice that sounding like the robot had JUST been neutered.
One of the fun things was the copy protection they would put on those things.
I swear geos was king of the hill in that regard. They used the 'hidden' opcodes in the 6510 was supposed to be a clone of the 6502, but the design didn't wall off all un-expected values and you could get some wierd, but predictable, opcodes. Then they had self-modifieng code (pretty radical for then), code that probably ran on the floppy's processor, hidden tracks, half steped tracks, deleberate disk errors, paging tricks with the layered ram/rom, and probably custom media for all I know. It was the only one I couldn't completely figure out in a day or so. What thier doing these days with cd-roms and such is pure amature hour script kiddy wannabee by comparison. Great OS for the C=64 though, I used it from the time I bought it untill I finaly moved on to a 386sx-16.
I've tried some of the emulators from online, but can never get my favorite games to run right. Time to check again I suppose, maybe they've finally gotten some of them to work better. And maybee even Earth Orbit Stations is finally out there somewhere.
And a MPG! good grief I'd mod you +5 brave if it existed. Fourtunately (or not, depends on whether your paying for bandwith) Your already at +5informative.
You do realize you just linked to 80+ pictures in an early post in a front page slashdot story don't you.
Well I guess that's one way to test a systems load handling capacity, and as a bonus your smoke detectors.
It's simple. The US is phyiscally to big for this sort of thing to go nation wide. Now mind you they could do a couple or so on each coast. And just maybee somthing connecting a city or two in texas through Kansas city to St. Louis to Chicago, but even that may be stretching it.
Look at it as if each US state where a single european country, then make a comparison.
I know there is a goatse.cx joke in there somewhere. Just the thought of THAT showing up in some poor innocent household durring dinner.
The therapy bills alone would make it a felony I would think.
That's what finaly convinced me to tell firefox not to load slashdot's adds, except it still does, it just doesn't display them. Hopefully the bug is fixed by the time I get a new ver of ff (it's in 0.8). I would like to save the bandwith as well if possible. I'm in the boonies where 28.8 is a minor miracle of speed when I get it.
Slashdot Mirror
Uhhm, NO!
Basically what thier going to look at is who escalated it to phyisical violence and whether they had ANY other reasonable course of action, being able to just leave and go home counts as a reasonable alternative. The one who resorted to physical violence is gonna do time, the one who honked is going to get a stern talking to and maybe a fine for disturbing the peace.
IANAL
Mycroft
Thank you, not great, but this thread was in dire need of humor, any humor.
Mycroft
No it's not states rights vs the peoples safty. It's more about the federal government NOT cutting itself in for a share of the $$.
How on earth is putting the federal government in the loop to take it's slice of the funding pie gonna do anything but REDUCE the funding.
Mycroft
Guesse what, you have the same option every one of your examples is answered by. Move out.
Seriously if you think socialism is such a great idea there are several countries that surviveing on it. Of course you'll only get to keep 1/3 to 1/2 of the money YOU earn, and have few to no choices other than the state system even if that system isn't so good.
For some people this a fine way to just drift through life, and having the state take on many of thier responsibilies for them is worth the lower standard of living.
If you cap the bottom end of a nations standard of living you also cap the top end (excepting the 'leaders' who of course get the best). You also all but elliminate any chance of those ends moving up faster than dead slow without outside help.
Mycroft
And obviously you did NOT read his post. How can you call someone wrong if you don't know what he said.
Now if you did read it, then try to say something related to what he said.
Funding for local should be local. This cuts out the middleman (fed gov) and thier 'share' of the pie. Frankly I don't wan't the feds taking any of the money I pay towards local police and paying for porkbarrel projects with it. They can not take the money in the first and let my local gvt collect taxes to support the local police, FireFighters, and so on. This way we can get a few more of each for the same amount of $$.
Bush didn't re-do somthing stupid, so it's his fault? Bush has issues don't get me wrong, but this idiocy of adding an extra step and overhead to police funding isn't one of them.
Mycroft
There can be a small intervall between damage and pain, somtimes enough to act. I've been there.
Me and someone else got into an argument that he tried to win by kneeing me in the groin, I knew I was going to double over in sever pain, but for a really clear instant I hadn't felt it, so I aimed my forehead at his nose, didn't quite break it clean, but it was cracked and smashed and bloody. Of course I was tossing lunch on the ground and didn't much care, but he wasn't following up on his 'argument' eigther.
Mycroft
Ok, you sir have seen to many movies. In real life you parry a full size (4 or more d cell) MagLight (by brand, or sturdiness alike) with your forearm and it's going hurt like hell in a very short (nerv relay+plus cognition time < .5 seconds) if it's not outright broke.
A really solid 6+ d-cell maglight will do MORE damage for a comparable blow than many of those wooden nightsticks. In fact those nightsticks are RESTRAINT devices to a large degree and are made of wood to limmit damage, you don't think it wouldn't be easy to have them made of a lightweight metal composition that hit harder than wood if they were there to do damage? In some cases the police are not even allowed to have them made of the really hard woods for that reason. I strongly suspect many police have the huge maglights just so they have somthing a bit tougher should they need it, somtimes you need raw damage and shooting would be unnaceptable (thing pcp freak in a crowd, pain won't stop him, to many around to risk shooting).
Mycroft
No throwing your vote away is voting for someone just because you don't think anyone else can win. It's a self fullfing prophecy.
The only way to NOT throw your vote away is to vote for whom you honestly WANT to win. Elswise you keep electing the same crooks who have no worries they migh lose thier jobs if they don't shape up.
When you vote lesser of two evils your saying "go ahead and keep screwing me, I won't do anything about it" and incouraging them.
And ccw is Carry of a Concealed weapon permit.
More and more states are making these available, some on a shall issue basis, as they see the benifits of lower crime in other states that have done so.
Mycroft
I ONCE got fooled by a goatse.cx link, and at the time I was wondering how bad could it be. Now I know, I have no intention of finding out how bad somthing could be. I don't even have a rough description of the tubgirl, yet despite my dangerously high level of curiousity (about everything) I've witheld following the link the few times I've seen it.
Mycroft
Fourtunately your right sofar, no-one has pulled such a stunt, or tried that I know off outside of cheap westerns and other fictions.
On the other hand with todays rail-networks you have alot fewer trains than what a good passenger system would require. Plus while toxic chem trains can be verry hazzardous indeed, they're still moving rather slowly compared to high speed rail.
Aslo if highspeed rail became widespread in use and locations, it would become a bigger target. Think how few people currently live near rail lines compared to how many live where a plane could hit them. I suspect this is a major reason why trains are much less of a target than a plane, though with the increasing security (percieved at least) around planes, secondary targets become more feasible.
FWIW I used to live next door to a paint factory that gets the occasional shipment by rail (line has little spar right into the plant) and my dad has worked there since 1970. They do have one chemical that is VERY hazzardous, Touluine(sp?) di-isocyanate. I think I got that right, it's simular to the chemical that killed all those people in india when the Union Carbide plant went boom, the biggest difference is it's neutralized by water, though a 50/50 mix of water and alchohol is better. The pre-9/11 safty measures on this stuff was pretty serious, my dad tells me they've had whole-plant meetings about safty and security on a regular basis since then, and put even more leak alarms and other stuff as well. They are owned by an international conglomerate.
Mycroft
The only thing that worries me is if some idiot decides because thier doing this then thier liable for every virus/spammbot/whatever connected to thier network.
This is where they need to have a good AUP in place that specifies that they MAY do this but are in no way liable if they miss one and that all liability for compromised machines belongs to the owner of said machine.
I hate punching holes in my own ideas, but honesty requires it when I see one potentially that bad. Then again IANAL so maybe I'm worried over nothing.
Mycroft
First off J.J. Jameson is supposed to be like that, and so is parker around him. That IS the way it was in the commics when parker was still new at the Bugle (first few years anyway).
OK the fusion magnetism and tritium are horrible science, but frankly 99% of the audience will buy it because thier NOT nuclear physcist or even close.
It wasn NOT thier chief scientist that went nuts in the last movie, it was thier founder, and no one knew it, they thought he just tragically died. Many companies survive without thier founder once they hit mega-corp status like ozcorp borders on at that point in the marvel timeline. Heck Apple survived firing Jobs and Woz going off on his own.
I guess if your not much of a fan of Spider Man, or even commics this will only be an average movie to many. But IF you like comics, and especially Spider Man. This is a pretty good movie to see, excluding the whole fusion/tritium issue and the stupid train dead end for no reason.
If you don't get why MJ saying "go get 'em tiger" had to be in the movie, it might not work as well for you.
Mycroft
Doesn't suprise that pumps are off. I once filled a tank on a car with .4 gallons MORE than it could hold (including fill tube, engine was off), and it had a little left when I pulled in, say 1/10 of a tank.
It had an anual inspection sticker indicating it had been tested that month, when I said somthing to the manager he was short with me and said "it's accurate". I almost argued with him, but instead paid him and told him I would avoid shoping where I get treated like shit for pointing out a miss-callibrated pump. I Implied it was deliberately off, and said it loud enough the people near me could hear it.
Mycroft
GAk forgot half of it. sorry i'm brain dead, I stayed up playing games on an emulated c64 all night then the boss called me early and asked me to come in on 4 hours sleep.
I figured the sound system didn't need to be all that good for an mp3 player, but even if it couldn't handle the complexity, likely the processor could emulate the sid, and translate that to what the mp3's output can handle.
Mycroft
"The SID is probably as important to music as the MOOG"
Well that makes sense. Considering it was designed to be a MOOG (the moog-3 iirc) on a chip.
Mycroft
I downloaded Vice last night and used it to play Earth Orbit Stations till way to late. Then I got called in early this morning to work :/
Fourtunately my boss is pretty cool, I just explained why I was so dragged out and slap-happy and she laughed. (She was having a bad day too) I swear if she wasn't married and working on a second child I'd be having thoughts I shouldn't about the boss.
Mycroft
I think that helicopter game was AirWolf, based on the tv series.
Mycroft
Fourtunately I have somehow missed that one. I don't even know what sort of gross/sick it is.
I have no plans of gaining first hand knowledge eigther.
Mycroft
Try this on for size, a high-speed train will mass several times that of a tractor-trailor rig. It wil likely be traveling significantly faster as well.
Now what happens when, as this train is pulling into an urban area, someone de-rails it.
Also what happens if someone sabotages the anti-collision systems? Hopefully that is very hard indeed.
It is a lower security risk than an airplane in that your limited to a more selective corridor of potential damage, but a train will most likely outmass an airliner. It may be safer from a burning/exploding fule point of view though.
Just some thoughts.
Mycroft
Yeah I remember playing around with SAM (software automatic mouth). it's two modes (english and 'phonetic') and especialy the pitch, giving you a voice that sounding like the robot had JUST been neutered.
One of the fun things was the copy protection they would put on those things.
I swear geos was king of the hill in that regard. They used the 'hidden' opcodes in the 6510 was supposed to be a clone of the 6502, but the design didn't wall off all un-expected values and you could get some wierd, but predictable, opcodes. Then they had self-modifieng code (pretty radical for then), code that probably ran on the floppy's processor, hidden tracks, half steped tracks, deleberate disk errors, paging tricks with the layered ram/rom, and probably custom media for all I know. It was the only one I couldn't completely figure out in a day or so. What thier doing these days with cd-roms and such is pure amature hour script kiddy wannabee by comparison. Great OS for the C=64 though, I used it from the time I bought it untill I finaly moved on to a 386sx-16.
I've tried some of the emulators from online, but can never get my favorite games to run right. Time to check again I suppose, maybe they've finally gotten some of them to work better. And maybee even Earth Orbit Stations is finally out there somewhere.
Mycroft
And a MPG! good grief I'd mod you +5 brave if it existed. Fourtunately (or not, depends on whether your paying for bandwith) Your already at +5informative.
Mycroft
You do realize you just linked to 80+ pictures in an early post in a front page slashdot story don't you.
Well I guess that's one way to test a systems load handling capacity, and as a bonus your smoke detectors.
Mycroft
It's simple. The US is phyiscally to big for this sort of thing to go nation wide. Now mind you they could do a couple or so on each coast. And just maybee somthing connecting a city or two in texas through Kansas city to St. Louis to Chicago, but even that may be stretching it.
Look at it as if each US state where a single european country, then make a comparison.
Mycroft
I know there is a goatse.cx joke in there somewhere. Just the thought of THAT showing up in some poor innocent household durring dinner.
The therapy bills alone would make it a felony I would think.
Mycroft
That's what finaly convinced me to tell firefox not to load slashdot's adds, except it still does, it just doesn't display them. Hopefully the bug is fixed by the time I get a new ver of ff (it's in 0.8). I would like to save the bandwith as well if possible. I'm in the boonies where 28.8 is a minor miracle of speed when I get it.
Mycroft