The US gov't already slaps big tariffs on all kinds of things, which is why we USA people pay more for sugar than the rest of the world. Why we (USA people) pay more for medicines. And many other things. I see no reason not to slap tarrifs on everything coming in from China, based on the foregoing reasons, but would rather have cheap solutions to everything too. But would rather protect American jobs.
I was thinking along the same lines. this judge is clearly making himself and the city more vulnerable to him suing the pants off the lot of them. This is clearly a violation of excessive bail, and thus violates his Constitutional rights. He needs some high powered litigator to go after these guys. I don't see how he can lose. Someone needs to show this judge and DA the light. I was going to say something else, but I wouldn't want to be locked up for some trumped up BS just for political speech.
Welcome to the New and Improved USA, where Free Speech is now a crime. Home of the despoitic rulers, and increasingly severe Police State.
Well, that's because you Australians all talk funny. With funny words and all like Barbie. Why do y'all have a fixation on a small plastic female toy doll? Must be all those years of solitude on the prison continent. I mean really, what do you expect in a land that elects a life sentenced IRA prisoner as governor? Of course one of those same prisoners went on to become a long serving US Congressman from NY. So you see we're not all that different after all. Except, y'all don't know how to properly speak English.
Also, it's biologically incorrect to say the Human race is comprised of many races. There is only one race of humans. The differences in humans could really only best be described as breeds. The Europeans, you can think of as thoroughbreds. Since they are so interrmixed that no one base breed can reliably be assessed anymore. Or you could just call them mutts. Thoroughbred being a fancy name for highly mixed "breed" (aka mutt), or thoroughly bred.. Sure there are traits that can be picked up, like the Caucasian breed. Then of course there are hundreds of African Breeds, and many Asian breeds, and a whole lot more. Although, I'm not certain there are enough differences between one group and another group in the Homo Sapiens Sapiens race to qualify as a breed. As a hobbyist animal breeder, I tend to say there aren't, but I don't have sufficient genetics data on the many types of humans to make an informed decision. Certainly there are characteristics that breed true among the many different types of humans. Interestingly, it has been shown over and over again that breeding for a single breed tends to accentuate the bad genes and that cross-breeding overall tends to improve the gene pool. So, all the concentration on keeping "races" pure only leads to weakening of the human race on the whole. We should rampantly and randomly (within the natural selection paramters) interbreed. In other words, we should deprogram people and let nature work the way it's supposed to.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to overcome thousands of years of programming. Since everyone is a bit "racist". Everyone. Just like everyone is a "sexist". Partly, because if you say you aren't you prove you are, and there is no way to you aren't, because any attempt to prove you aren't proves you are.
Speak for yourself. I don't consider the victims who have allowed their machines to become and continue being part of the botnets to be innocent. I may yet one day write a bot to go out and take down all these machines with a wipe command. I'm may just be waiting for my child to graduate HS so, when the inevitable boys in black or blue come to take me away as an evil bad hacker I won't have so much to give a hoot about it. Hey, it may be even a decent retirement strategy, three squares, unlimited library privileges, dry roof, no financial worries, free healthcare. Who's going to want to bugger a decrepit old prune in the joint?
Wow! Talk about transparent aluminum! You can see right through while it's burning in a big fiery ball. Look it sparkles!
Yea, It's raining sapphire!
Oh GOD! RUN FOR THE HILLS! IT'S RAINING SAPPHIRES!
Isn't this similar to what caused a recent extinguished some significant life about 13,000 years ago? Didn't they discover a fine layer of microscopic diamond ash that was responsible for a lot animals, especially the Mammoths and people dieing in North America? Sure this was on a much larger scale and shorter timeframe. Isn't there some danger in seeding the atmosphere with microscopic aluminum particulate matter? Sure it's only going to be in small quantities... at first. But we're talking about getting this high up into the atmosphere where it could stay for years. It could even at some point alter the cloud formation and other weather conditions on the planet.
Although, it's not what I would call ac green solution. You should wee what it takes to produce aluminum powder. It's about 95% waste, 5% product. Of course, I exaggerate, but not by much. It's a horrible process to extract it from raw material. Which is why so many companies love recycling aluminum. It's hugely cheaper and cleaner to get aluminum from cans than from ore. Of course, now NASA's going to be taking all our aluminum cans, so you can expect the cost of... well everything to go up (except for rocket fuel). Quick, buy some stock in ALCOA!
So has any one tested that male US swimmer that demolished all the swimming records recently. Does he have some genetic abnormality that gave him an advantage? Did Babe Ruth have some abnormal advantage? Perhaps we should exhume his grave and do some genetic tests on his remains and if he ahd anything beyond what some arbitrary council deems fair He should be stripped of his records? I have yet to see anyone bring up this issue for any male not found to be using illegal steroids. It's ok for any male to have naturally occurring steroids through the roof, but when it happens to a woman, LOOK OUT!
The reason women have their own class for sports is that they have genetically controlled different skeletal, hormonal and muscular differences. If you can't comprehend this you just might be a 500 lb geek that has never seen his own body parts and has never left his basement and interacted with females. Or perhaps one of those males who are threatened by competitive females.Certainly there are some women, capable of competing on the same level as most men, but, there's no way the best woman athlete in any one category is going to be able to match the best male athlete in that event. It's just not ever going to happen shy genetic manipulation or a helluva lot of steroids.
I can relate to your rant on women getting to play with men and not vice versa. There was a sophomore girl on my HS swim team (girls and boys in separate categories but trained together), who could beat the crap out of me. But she was also on the US Olympic team, and I was just your average sophomore HS athlete. Two years later, I doubt she could have beaten me though (I'd picked up a few more lbs of muscle and a lot of speed, and need for a razor).
The IS poster is simply saying that for TGs, the surgical alteration to make them some form of apparent IS is optional from a physical perspective, and if I'm not mistaken expensive. Which is why she qualified that statement. Y'all are too sensitive. Not that you don't have reason to be. So lighten up on the girl. Personally, I find the whole surgical alteration a bit creepy, but totally logical. In fact, I find it hard to fathom why all G&L people don't do it. Based on my limited understanding of the whole thing. I mean if you're attracted to the same sex, the best chance of finding the best mate is to alter your parts to maximize potential relations with the sex you're attracted to. Fortunately, for me, I don't have that problem. I like women and I have all the necessary parts interact with them. My heart goes out to those poor souls that don't fit into the "right" pegs.
I have an idea. What does her birth certificate say?
Naturally she could be a true hermaphrodite (aka intersex). These are people with XXY, XXYY, XXYYY, et cetera chromosomal makeups. So, if a birth certificate and a physical exam aren't good enough for these creeps at RIAA, oops, I mean IAAF, then count her chromosomes. Does she have a Y chromosome? If no then, she's female. If yes, does she have more Y chromosomes? If yes, then does she have any male body parts? If yes, then does she have eggs or sperm? Eggs = female. Sperm = male. Both = male with benefits or lost queen of the Amazons (you pick). It's not rocket science folks. It's biology. What, did all these RIAA, err, IAAF folks fail high school biology?
I, for one, welcome our new Amazon overlord! All hail Queen Semenya!
First, I once believed like you apparently do about the McDonald's coffee lawsuit. I then learned about the facts of the case, and I was wrong, as you are.
Then we disagree. I've read up on the case and I've had hot coffee spilled on me. It doesn't have to be too terribly hot. My mother taught me early on to respect hot things. That includes keeping them away from my groin.
This rant has been thoroughly debunked many, many times, and I'm not going to do it again,
Thank God!
Last, I hate overbroad comments like yours. PC is typically a code word for "evil liberals," and your post reeks of accusing the damn libs of removing personal responsibility and common sense from our lives. I'm as liberal as they come, and I think that if anyone needs a warning label that jars of peanuts contain peanuts, they're an idiot and society would probably be better off without them.
--Jeremy
PC is what is overbroad. If you can't recognize Political Correctness when you see it, then you've been successfully brainwashed. I'm pretty far out there on the liberal scale, more so than anyone I know. Which is what makes your comment funny. Of course, I have Conservative traits too, and some in the Middle (your basic blue-purple-red political nightmare). PC isn't owned by Liberals, and the fact that you use the "Lib" derogatory exposes you as a likely Conservative. But who am I to judge. I don't care if you're blue as the blue boy or red as a cherry, I will fight you PC wherever it grows. The "civilized" world of people has survived for more than 10,000 years without PC and we can do just fine without it.
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Jesus is/was* a fiery radical far beyond the bonds of mere MPG (Mortal Political Guise). *Depending on your faith or lack there of.
I hate PC comments like yours. It should not be anyone's responsibility to warn blazing fools not to put steaming hot coffee in their lap and try to drive, or not to iron clothes while wearing them, or that a jar of peanuts contains (wait for it) PEANUTS! Yeah that last one is a real warning message, pick a jar of peanuts and read it for your self. Anyone ignorant enough to not know that a jar of peanuts contains peanuts needs a lifetime treatment at the local electrical shock therapy center.
I am so tired of this "label anything because someone might sue you for them being an idiot" fad. It should be an affirmative defense of anyone that you are not responsible for other people being too stupid to live. Maybe that was your point. I hope so.
Of course, this doesn't apply to all countries. This would probably succeed in the UK and has already done so at least once in Australia. Just saying.
I doubt the MTA has a wing and a prayer in this country, Especially if he typed it all in. Of course, it's a government thing too. They may have a copyright on the schedule. But as long as he's not presenting it in the same format and presentation he should be fine. The application is likely ok. It's a transformative work, as long as he's not pulling the data from one of their databases. Unless they have one also, then it could get touchy.
FYI, my legal opinion is illegal, so if it gets you sued or hard time in Sing Sing, don't blame me!
They don't work for us, they work for the city that employed them. We may pay their salaries through taxes but we have absolutely no control over them
Maybe, you have a new and amazing definition for "no power", but in my definition "absolutely no control over them" is equivalent to "no power over them". So yes someone did say we have no power over them and that someone was you.
And again in your last reply you state again that we have no power, only this time you add a bit of a qualifier. I guess my mistake was to paraphrase you. That must be what confused you.
When I added the "elected/hired", it was a reference to the hiring that our elected officials do in our stead. You've apparently never seen a local community band together and demand the firing of an incompetent city employee. So yes, they do work for us and they can be canned bu actions of the citizens.
It all comes back to the vote.
And all the laws that you mentioned in responding to my psots. Not to mention specific things they are required to do because of laws. Also, the courts. It's certainly not perfect, but it's not as bleak as you paint it. It's not all tied directly to the vote for a person. There are also certainly plenty of cases were citizens have raised petitions to add or change or remove laws passed by local officials. There are also cases where citizens have struck down laws through court action. Removed sitting governors by petition. You're either intentionally ignoring all this and lumping it all as tied to a vote for or against an individual candidate. But there is so much more to it than your overly simplistic point of view. BTW, not all judges are elected, so they don't have to fear a vote against them.
You're talking in circles. So, I'll let you chase your tail now, since you obviously can't, or won't, grasp this advanced topic.
You can get thrown into one of his 'jails' by... defaulting on your child support payments.
And rightly so. Deadbeat parents deserve electroshock therapy, and I don't mean to the brain.
That was a bad example to use to show him as a bad guy. However, I suspect he's probably as bad as is made out here. But,I'll not make any judgments, without all the facts.
Note to self, change route to visit brother in So Cal.
My long winded response was to your statement that outside of our vote we "have no power over them". Which is simply not true at the local level. we can use other people within the government to force them to do what we want. Provided what we want is appropriate. If you don't think that is power to make them do what we want, I'm not sure I can make you understand why the sky looks blue in the daytime, let alone anything else.
The fact is "we the people" is all about getting people together and doing something, when the person "we the people" have elected/hired to do it doesn't do it. You seem to have some misunderstanding of what "we the people" is all about. And no I don't agree with you, or I wouldn't have wasted the time to respond. You're stating I do based on your misinterpretation of my words doesn't make it so.
The reason we have elected officials is so we are left free to do other things. The reason for our government structure is so we can use one against the other when needed. Hence using the courts against the executive is a totally valid way of telling one branch of government what to do. That is what it was designed for, and until you understand that you won't understand diddly about government. This approach is frequently used by people in the various branches of government. It's just sad that the average American has no grasp of this.
Sure we can't directly order this that or the other thing. But it is also possible to get involved in the local government. You can go to the city council meetings and use you 1st amendment right to speak out about things. You can talk directly to these people and suggest action. You can get a petition going with registered voters. You can become friends with the local politicians. There must be at least fifty ways to interact with your local government, and get action. Will it always work? Hell NO! But then, I don't have that level of control over my own family. But we certainly have more control than just our vote.
If you do your duty and go and vote and then leave it at that, you get exactly what you deserve. If you get active in your local government and still don't get the things you want, then that's another thing. Run for office, and become a council member.
Even an average nut job like Palin was able to figure this out. I expect better from so-called Nerds. Local elections are the only ones that you can really do something about correcting mistakes. The amount of effort required, depends on the size of your locale obviously. For my locality it would probably only take 501 people to vote for anyone to get a seat on the council, in an off year.
Furthermore citizens can direct police investigations, to some degree. There is the power of arrest that all citizens retain, except in one state where that right is a bit more restricted (you can arrest, but not move the prisoner, you need to call a local agency to come and pick up). That of course, open the private citizen arresting to possible civil suit should the person get off. There is also the ability to get a Writ of Mandemus from a local court ordering the police to investigate. You can talk directly to the local prosecutor. There are things that can be done, but they require work and the investment of time, away from the computer. Really bad hiring decisions, can be corrected with community involvement. Nothing always works and there are dangers involved with getting involved.
But if you aren't willing to get involved, then you really shouldn't expect them to do what you want them to do. Unless you elect and employ only those with telepathic powers who can, and do, read the minds of their constituents. Not something I want, but to each their own.
Alternatively, if you "know" that involvement is useless in your case due to every official being corrupt, and you don't move away to some better place, then Darwin principles will take care you and you have no more need to worry.
I agree with both the parent and gp here. To a degree.
One the one hand, Police officers should definitely not be trackable 24/7, due the the fact that there are a lot of really bad people who would love nothing more than to kill said officers. Police risk their lives everyday to protect the general populace, and in exchange they rightly expect the general populace to protect them back. Now if you have evidence of a cop gone bad, then of course that rule no longer applies.
On the other hand, she used publicly available information showing the lack of protection that the local government has done to protect this officer. If his address was publicly available, then this is something that should have been pointed out and fixed. This is the city/county/state's fault. Someone there should be held accountable. In my state, that information is not publicly available and it is crime to divulge it.
She was wrong to publish it and is rightly jailed because of it. She went too far. She should have notified the local agencies about the public availability of that information, and not posted it online. This is a Captain Obvious (r) conclusion, and since she doesn't have that basic common sense, she has officially been whacked with a clue stick.
Naturally the solution is to legalize drug usage, and put in sane regulations and control. Then we won't have the stupid unwinnable Drug War to worry about anymore and police can go back dealing with real criminals as the illicit drug trade disappears and the rampant crime that goes with it. It seems to have worked pretty good with alcohol. I don't see a lot of street illegal alcohol sales nor a bunch of organized criminals killing cops over their illegal alcohol business.
That however doesn't mean we should let the bad guys have easy access to kill the, theoretically, good guys. I realize that cops aren't always the good guys. But if you really want to do something about the bad cops, become part of the solution and become a good cop and bring your friends with you.
Not all safes can be broken into without destroying the contents.
On the encryption key issue, it looks like it's time to implement a new type of encryption.
Here's my idea. This one is like True Crypt. Only a bit more bent.
You have n more encrypted file systems, but n+1 passwords.
When you give the password for the innocuous encrypted filesystem and they aren't satisfied with that, you give them the n+1th password which is a self destruct password that obliterates the true file system. It's a bit extreme, but it's a final solution. But that won't be sufficient, so after activating the n+1th password it becomes a stale password and the system generates a new random password and doesn't give it out. Then, once the PC is powered down it can't ever be accessed again. This will b\prevent them from removing the drive and powering it up someplace else where they can do some deep level analysis on the device to recover the erased data. You could even go further in that once it is in this state it continues to randomly shuffle the data everytime it's powered up.
This may be overkill.
Alternatively, you could have a system that once you've activated the self destruct, it never shows you the actual filesystem, until you insert a stick with an additional password stored in a certain location. Then never have this key on you or in any place that police can get at it.
Of course, if the governments are going to make us criminals for protecting our own secrets that aren't illegal, we could always accommodate them and become criminals. So here's another option, which I really don't recommend, but it should work. Except for me for having divulged it on the internet. Form a dummy company to own your computers, hire some kid off the street as your IT technician. Make sure you don't get his physical description, right name, SSN or address. Using true crypt, and put all the second passwords on a stick. Fire the kid. Report the stick with the passwords stolen. Give the police the information that will never find the kid. Continue to use your computer, and make sure to add new innocuous files into the dummy filesystem. Then when asked for the second password tell them you don't know it and can't retrieve it, because the stick that had the passwords was stolen and you've reported it to the authorities but they haven't caught the culprit yet. You haven't deleted the old filesystem, because you really want to retrieve your valuable IP that is stored in there. They of course will want to verify some of those facts, but you're covered because it really happened, sort of. So now you're guilty of filing a false police report, but at least you won't go to jail for not revealing you passwords. The downside of course it you have to actually lie to the police and commit a crime to protect you from something that should never have been a crime.
People, always think that the 5th amendment is to protect the guilty, but it's not. It's to protect the innocent. For example, someone shots and kills your neighborhood drug dealer (you know who it is - you see the traffic going in and out), while you're out at dinner. You come home just before the police and they begin asking you some questions, about his killing, and somewhere in there they give you a leading question to which you respond "I don't even have a gun". How did you know he was killed by a gun? Then they ask you even more leading questions, to which you say " Hey, I don't even know this guy. I never really liked him." Oh you didn't like him? Motive, opportunity (he's in your neighborhood, knew the means of death. Three strikes, a good prosecutor could rig the right jury to fry you on those bits of circumstantial evidence. I can't take credit for this scenario, it's a hack from some university law professor with a famous video "Don't talk to the Police". Great video, and a must watch for every person alive today. And that my friends is how innocent people get to go to jail, because the system is f**ked up beyond all repair (to paraphr
Small lies are what ultimately result in failed marriages. This is because small lies have a way of snowballing. Let's take your sex example. If you don't communicate your dissatisfaction about the sex you get, then over time you begin to lose interest in your unsatisfying partner, This generally leads to wandering eye and worse. Now take the couple that is smart enough to communicate like "I don't like that. Do this instead, Oooh ahhh OOOO!". This is how you communicate and wind up with a partner who out of affection for you WANTS you to be happy and is willing to learn how to do that, and vice versa.
So my advice to this pair of Geeks is PUT DOWN TFM AND COMMUNICATE!
If you are honest and communicative, you can survive marriage. There is no FM for marriage and I'm not talking about "Friendly" here. Ok.
If you have to ask/. for marriage advice, my advice is DO NOT GET MARRIED!
This means I can no longer email my employees and contractors about work from my administrative account and have to erase my administrative address book. I also have to return all the company pagers!. Well returning the pagers might actually save me some bucks.
Wow! How did this ever get approved as a patent? Talk about obviousness.
I have prior art for this, but unfortunately, I wrote it and it's never been published. This was a work for hire. I wrote a mainframe program that used a central database to send out emails and pages to various people. Some people only got emails some got pages and emails. The program included a severity code to determine if only an email was sent or if a page was also required. I wrote this before 1997. I may still have all the pieces, but it requires: a Unisys mainframe, A Unisys print manager, a PC with ProComm installed, a mail server, a phone line, and pagers/cell phones..
What you've missed is that without the Oxygen atoms, this is probably WAY more malleable and stronger than a synthetic sapphire. Just a guess but I don't think you can make bullet resistant sapphires (or any crystalline solid, they're way to hard).
Hunh? I don't recall discussing hardness or malleability or strength, and what does any of that have to do with transparency?
But, here let me fix your comment. You meant to say "I don't think you can make bullet resistant sapphires (or any crystalline solid, they're way too brittle)."
Hardness (or ductility) does not necessarily coincide with bulletproofness. There are a number of factors that determine hardness and malleability. Among them is the lower strength bond between single crystals in uniform crystalline structures that cause sapphires and diamonds to shatter. But there is a way of building fulerene carbon molecules and compressing them so that they are both hard and not brittle. Hard as in hard as diamonds. It's also possible to grow crystal structures that are very hard and only brittle along one dimension, or non-uniform in crystalline structure, or interspersed crystalline and amorphous structure (as in certain steels), or single crystal structures. If you can control the dimension susceptible to cleavage and fracture, so that it can not be subject to fractioning stress, then it could be bulletproof.
In closing, you might note, that the Aluminum they showed in the picture in TFA sure looks like synthetic sapphire. Aluminum, is a truly amazing metal. They did an experiment in orbit some years ago, where they manufactured an aluminum bar in very low gravity.
During the process of making the aluminum bar, they pumped small air bubbles in it. The aluminum form a honeycomb-like structure that was: stronger, harder, and lighter than any metal made on Earth. I don't know what the ductility was. It was not however malleable. Malleable metals aren't known for strength though, hence the need to work harden metals and annealing to achieve the desired balance. I know of some malleable polymers that are highly strong, but no unworked malleable metals that are.
Alternatively you can deprive metals of electrons for 40 femtoseconds by passing an electric current through them. So, the scientists have found a new way to make internal electric currents in metals. BRILLIANT!
So where can I get my own "most powerful X-Ray laser" so I can generate my own electricity? And when will I be able to make enough electricity to disconnect from the grid? What's the ROI? If you pass current through Aluminum blocks does that make them transparent to extreme UV, as long as the UV beam follows less than 40 femtoseconds behind the current? Enquiring minds want to know. Put it all together in a cylinder and you get a X-Ray-UV Death Gun Turret (patent pending), or XUDeGuT.
Yes, but "extreme UV" is all the way down on the end and is ORDERS of MAGNITUDE shorter than plain old generic UV light.
Holy craptastic! Talk about selective editing! Oh, wait, I'm on/.
Rather than go to all this expense they could just grow AL2O3 crystal and have permanent "transparent Aluminm". Some chemi-Nazi/.er will now correct me to say that Al203 is "alumina" and not aluminum, to which I will say, alumina is not alumina, but Aluminum oxide, and hence Aluminum, or we could just say white sapphire. Just like Iron oxide is considered "iron", I consider aluminum oxide "aluminum".
It's just a name, If I want to call white sapphire transparent aluminum, I will since it's nothing but aluminum molecules with a little oxygen added. Of course, it look like they're trying to do something unusual with transparent aluminum to make it transparent to certain wavelengths. Which might have some interesting real world applications. I wonder how good naturally occurring transparent aluminum, I mean white sapphire, is at being transparent to ultraviolet? I imagine the crystal matrix is quite large, but is it large enough to allow significant passage of ultra-violet? I'll bet there are other crystal structures that would fit this bill also.
The article doesn't state if this is pure aluminum or not, but seems to imply it is. In other words, the X-Ray beam is doing what the oxygen atom does in white sapphire, pulling away the outer electron. So, the interesting conclusion is that a pure Al+ crystal should be transparent, if you could make it and make it stable. Another fine example of man ALMOST re-inventing something that Nature already has done. Way to go guys!
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The US gov't already slaps big tariffs on all kinds of things, which is why we USA people pay more for sugar than the rest of the world. Why we (USA people) pay more for medicines. And many other things. I see no reason not to slap tarrifs on everything coming in from China, based on the foregoing reasons, but would rather have cheap solutions to everything too. But would rather protect American jobs.
I was thinking along the same lines. this judge is clearly making himself and the city more vulnerable to him suing the pants off the lot of them. This is clearly a violation of excessive bail, and thus violates his Constitutional rights. He needs some high powered litigator to go after these guys. I don't see how he can lose. Someone needs to show this judge and DA the light. I was going to say something else, but I wouldn't want to be locked up for some trumped up BS just for political speech.
Welcome to the New and Improved USA, where Free Speech is now a crime. Home of the despoitic rulers, and increasingly severe Police State.
Well, that's because you Australians all talk funny. With funny words and all like Barbie. Why do y'all have a fixation on a small plastic female toy doll? Must be all those years of solitude on the prison continent. I mean really, what do you expect in a land that elects a life sentenced IRA prisoner as governor? Of course one of those same prisoners went on to become a long serving US Congressman from NY. So you see we're not all that different after all. Except, y'all don't know how to properly speak English.
Also, it's biologically incorrect to say the Human race is comprised of many races. There is only one race of humans. The differences in humans could really only best be described as breeds. The Europeans, you can think of as thoroughbreds. Since they are so interrmixed that no one base breed can reliably be assessed anymore. Or you could just call them mutts. Thoroughbred being a fancy name for highly mixed "breed" (aka mutt), or thoroughly bred.. Sure there are traits that can be picked up, like the Caucasian breed. Then of course there are hundreds of African Breeds, and many Asian breeds, and a whole lot more. Although, I'm not certain there are enough differences between one group and another group in the Homo Sapiens Sapiens race to qualify as a breed. As a hobbyist animal breeder, I tend to say there aren't, but I don't have sufficient genetics data on the many types of humans to make an informed decision. Certainly there are characteristics that breed true among the many different types of humans. Interestingly, it has been shown over and over again that breeding for a single breed tends to accentuate the bad genes and that cross-breeding overall tends to improve the gene pool. So, all the concentration on keeping "races" pure only leads to weakening of the human race on the whole. We should rampantly and randomly (within the natural selection paramters) interbreed. In other words, we should deprogram people and let nature work the way it's supposed to.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to overcome thousands of years of programming. Since everyone is a bit "racist". Everyone. Just like everyone is a "sexist". Partly, because if you say you aren't you prove you are, and there is no way to you aren't, because any attempt to prove you aren't proves you are.
Speak for yourself. I don't consider the victims who have allowed their machines to become and continue being part of the botnets to be innocent. I may yet one day write a bot to go out and take down all these machines with a wipe command. I'm may just be waiting for my child to graduate HS so, when the inevitable boys in black or blue come to take me away as an evil bad hacker I won't have so much to give a hoot about it. Hey, it may be even a decent retirement strategy, three squares, unlimited library privileges, dry roof, no financial worries, free healthcare. Who's going to want to bugger a decrepit old prune in the joint?
Wow! Talk about transparent aluminum! You can see right through while it's burning in a big fiery ball. Look it sparkles!
... at first. But we're talking about getting this high up into the atmosphere where it could stay for years. It could even at some point alter the cloud formation and other weather conditions on the planet.
... well everything to go up (except for rocket fuel). Quick, buy some stock in ALCOA!
Yea, It's raining sapphire!
Oh GOD! RUN FOR THE HILLS! IT'S RAINING SAPPHIRES!
Isn't this similar to what caused a recent extinguished some significant life about 13,000 years ago? Didn't they discover a fine layer of microscopic diamond ash that was responsible for a lot animals, especially the Mammoths and people dieing in North America? Sure this was on a much larger scale and shorter timeframe. Isn't there some danger in seeding the atmosphere with microscopic aluminum particulate matter? Sure it's only going to be in small quantities
Although, it's not what I would call ac green solution. You should wee what it takes to produce aluminum powder. It's about 95% waste, 5% product. Of course, I exaggerate, but not by much. It's a horrible process to extract it from raw material. Which is why so many companies love recycling aluminum. It's hugely cheaper and cleaner to get aluminum from cans than from ore. Of course, now NASA's going to be taking all our aluminum cans, so you can expect the cost of
So has any one tested that male US swimmer that demolished all the swimming records recently. Does he have some genetic abnormality that gave him an advantage? Did Babe Ruth have some abnormal advantage? Perhaps we should exhume his grave and do some genetic tests on his remains and if he ahd anything beyond what some arbitrary council deems fair He should be stripped of his records? I have yet to see anyone bring up this issue for any male not found to be using illegal steroids. It's ok for any male to have naturally occurring steroids through the roof, but when it happens to a woman, LOOK OUT!
The reason women have their own class for sports is that they have genetically controlled different skeletal, hormonal and muscular differences. If you can't comprehend this you just might be a 500 lb geek that has never seen his own body parts and has never left his basement and interacted with females. Or perhaps one of those males who are threatened by competitive females.Certainly there are some women, capable of competing on the same level as most men, but, there's no way the best woman athlete in any one category is going to be able to match the best male athlete in that event. It's just not ever going to happen shy genetic manipulation or a helluva lot of steroids.
I can relate to your rant on women getting to play with men and not vice versa. There was a sophomore girl on my HS swim team (girls and boys in separate categories but trained together), who could beat the crap out of me. But she was also on the US Olympic team, and I was just your average sophomore HS athlete. Two years later, I doubt she could have beaten me though (I'd picked up a few more lbs of muscle and a lot of speed, and need for a razor).
The IS poster is simply saying that for TGs, the surgical alteration to make them some form of apparent IS is optional from a physical perspective, and if I'm not mistaken expensive. Which is why she qualified that statement. Y'all are too sensitive. Not that you don't have reason to be. So lighten up on the girl. Personally, I find the whole surgical alteration a bit creepy, but totally logical. In fact, I find it hard to fathom why all G&L people don't do it. Based on my limited understanding of the whole thing. I mean if you're attracted to the same sex, the best chance of finding the best mate is to alter your parts to maximize potential relations with the sex you're attracted to. Fortunately, for me, I don't have that problem. I like women and I have all the necessary parts interact with them. My heart goes out to those poor souls that don't fit into the "right" pegs.
I have an idea. What does her birth certificate say?
Naturally she could be a true hermaphrodite (aka intersex). These are people with XXY, XXYY, XXYYY, et cetera chromosomal makeups. So, if a birth certificate and a physical exam aren't good enough for these creeps at RIAA, oops, I mean IAAF, then count her chromosomes. Does she have a Y chromosome? If no then, she's female. If yes, does she have more Y chromosomes? If yes, then does she have any male body parts? If yes, then does she have eggs or sperm? Eggs = female. Sperm = male. Both = male with benefits or lost queen of the Amazons (you pick). It's not rocket science folks. It's biology. What, did all these RIAA, err, IAAF folks fail high school biology?
I, for one, welcome our new Amazon overlord! All hail Queen Semenya!
First, I once believed like you apparently do about the McDonald's coffee lawsuit. I then learned about the facts of the case, and I was wrong, as you are.
Then we disagree. I've read up on the case and I've had hot coffee spilled on me. It doesn't have to be too terribly hot. My mother taught me early on to respect hot things. That includes keeping them away from my groin.
This rant has been thoroughly debunked many, many times, and I'm not going to do it again,
Thank God!
Last, I hate overbroad comments like yours. PC is typically a code word for "evil liberals," and your post reeks of accusing the damn libs of removing personal responsibility and common sense from our lives. I'm as liberal as they come, and I think that if anyone needs a warning label that jars of peanuts contain peanuts, they're an idiot and society would probably be better off without them.
--Jeremy
PC is what is overbroad. If you can't recognize Political Correctness when you see it, then you've been successfully brainwashed. I'm pretty far out there on the liberal scale, more so than anyone I know. Which is what makes your comment funny. Of course, I have Conservative traits too, and some in the Middle (your basic blue-purple-red political nightmare). PC isn't owned by Liberals, and the fact that you use the "Lib" derogatory exposes you as a likely Conservative. But who am I to judge. I don't care if you're blue as the blue boy or red as a cherry, I will fight you PC wherever it grows. The "civilized" world of people has survived for more than 10,000 years without PC and we can do just fine without it.
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Jesus is/was* a fiery radical far beyond the bonds of mere MPG (Mortal Political Guise).
*Depending on your faith or lack there of.
I hate PC comments like yours. It should not be anyone's responsibility to warn blazing fools not to put steaming hot coffee in their lap and try to drive, or not to iron clothes while wearing them, or that a jar of peanuts contains (wait for it) PEANUTS! Yeah that last one is a real warning message, pick a jar of peanuts and read it for your self. Anyone ignorant enough to not know that a jar of peanuts contains peanuts needs a lifetime treatment at the local electrical shock therapy center.
I am so tired of this "label anything because someone might sue you for them being an idiot" fad. It should be an affirmative defense of anyone that you are not responsible for other people being too stupid to live. Maybe that was your point. I hope so.
Of course, this doesn't apply to all countries. This would probably succeed in the UK and has already done so at least once in Australia. Just saying.
I doubt the MTA has a wing and a prayer in this country, Especially if he typed it all in. Of course, it's a government thing too. They may have a copyright on the schedule. But as long as he's not presenting it in the same format and presentation he should be fine. The application is likely ok. It's a transformative work, as long as he's not pulling the data from one of their databases. Unless they have one also, then it could get touchy.
FYI, my legal opinion is illegal, so if it gets you sued or hard time in Sing Sing, don't blame me!
They don't work for us, they work for the city that employed them. We may pay their salaries through taxes but we have absolutely no control over them
Maybe, you have a new and amazing definition for "no power", but in my definition "absolutely no control over them" is equivalent to "no power over them". So yes someone did say we have no power over them and that someone was you.
And again in your last reply you state again that we have no power, only this time you add a bit of a qualifier. I guess my mistake was to paraphrase you. That must be what confused you.
When I added the "elected/hired", it was a reference to the hiring that our elected officials do in our stead. You've apparently never seen a local community band together and demand the firing of an incompetent city employee. So yes, they do work for us and they can be canned bu actions of the citizens.
It all comes back to the vote.
And all the laws that you mentioned in responding to my psots. Not to mention specific things they are required to do because of laws. Also, the courts. It's certainly not perfect, but it's not as bleak as you paint it. It's not all tied directly to the vote for a person. There are also certainly plenty of cases were citizens have raised petitions to add or change or remove laws passed by local officials. There are also cases where citizens have struck down laws through court action. Removed sitting governors by petition. You're either intentionally ignoring all this and lumping it all as tied to a vote for or against an individual candidate. But there is so much more to it than your overly simplistic point of view. BTW, not all judges are elected, so they don't have to fear a vote against them.
You're talking in circles. So, I'll let you chase your tail now, since you obviously can't, or won't, grasp this advanced topic.
You can get thrown into one of his 'jails' by ... defaulting on your child support payments.
And rightly so. Deadbeat parents deserve electroshock therapy, and I don't mean to the brain.
,I'll not make any judgments, without all the facts.
That was a bad example to use to show him as a bad guy. However, I suspect he's probably as bad as is made out here. But
Note to self, change route to visit brother in So Cal.
My long winded response was to your statement that outside of our vote we "have no power over them". Which is simply not true at the local level. we can use other people within the government to force them to do what we want. Provided what we want is appropriate. If you don't think that is power to make them do what we want, I'm not sure I can make you understand why the sky looks blue in the daytime, let alone anything else.
The fact is "we the people" is all about getting people together and doing something, when the person "we the people" have elected/hired to do it doesn't do it. You seem to have some misunderstanding of what "we the people" is all about. And no I don't agree with you, or I wouldn't have wasted the time to respond. You're stating I do based on your misinterpretation of my words doesn't make it so.
The reason we have elected officials is so we are left free to do other things. The reason for our government structure is so we can use one against the other when needed. Hence using the courts against the executive is a totally valid way of telling one branch of government what to do. That is what it was designed for, and until you understand that you won't understand diddly about government. This approach is frequently used by people in the various branches of government. It's just sad that the average American has no grasp of this.
How is this crazy comment insightful?
Sure we can't directly order this that or the other thing. But it is also possible to get involved in the local government. You can go to the city council meetings and use you 1st amendment right to speak out about things. You can talk directly to these people and suggest action. You can get a petition going with registered voters. You can become friends with the local politicians. There must be at least fifty ways to interact with your local government, and get action. Will it always work? Hell NO! But then, I don't have that level of control over my own family. But we certainly have more control than just our vote.
If you do your duty and go and vote and then leave it at that, you get exactly what you deserve. If you get active in your local government and still don't get the things you want, then that's another thing. Run for office, and become a council member.
Even an average nut job like Palin was able to figure this out. I expect better from so-called Nerds. Local elections are the only ones that you can really do something about correcting mistakes. The amount of effort required, depends on the size of your locale obviously. For my locality it would probably only take 501 people to vote for anyone to get a seat on the council, in an off year.
Furthermore citizens can direct police investigations, to some degree. There is the power of arrest that all citizens retain, except in one state where that right is a bit more restricted (you can arrest, but not move the prisoner, you need to call a local agency to come and pick up). That of course, open the private citizen arresting to possible civil suit should the person get off. There is also the ability to get a Writ of Mandemus from a local court ordering the police to investigate. You can talk directly to the local prosecutor. There are things that can be done, but they require work and the investment of time, away from the computer. Really bad hiring decisions, can be corrected with community involvement. Nothing always works and there are dangers involved with getting involved.
But if you aren't willing to get involved, then you really shouldn't expect them to do what you want them to do. Unless you elect and employ only those with telepathic powers who can, and do, read the minds of their constituents. Not something I want, but to each their own.
Alternatively, if you "know" that involvement is useless in your case due to every official being corrupt, and you don't move away to some better place, then Darwin principles will take care you and you have no more need to worry.
I agree with both the parent and gp here. To a degree.
One the one hand, Police officers should definitely not be trackable 24/7, due the the fact that there are a lot of really bad people who would love nothing more than to kill said officers. Police risk their lives everyday to protect the general populace, and in exchange they rightly expect the general populace to protect them back. Now if you have evidence of a cop gone bad, then of course that rule no longer applies.
On the other hand, she used publicly available information showing the lack of protection that the local government has done to protect this officer. If his address was publicly available, then this is something that should have been pointed out and fixed. This is the city/county/state's fault. Someone there should be held accountable. In my state, that information is not publicly available and it is crime to divulge it.
She was wrong to publish it and is rightly jailed because of it. She went too far. She should have notified the local agencies about the public availability of that information, and not posted it online. This is a Captain Obvious (r) conclusion, and since she doesn't have that basic common sense, she has officially been whacked with a clue stick.
Naturally the solution is to legalize drug usage, and put in sane regulations and control. Then we won't have the stupid unwinnable Drug War to worry about anymore and police can go back dealing with real criminals as the illicit drug trade disappears and the rampant crime that goes with it. It seems to have worked pretty good with alcohol. I don't see a lot of street illegal alcohol sales nor a bunch of organized criminals killing cops over their illegal alcohol business.
That however doesn't mean we should let the bad guys have easy access to kill the, theoretically, good guys. I realize that cops aren't always the good guys. But if you really want to do something about the bad cops, become part of the solution and become a good cop and bring your friends with you.
Not all safes can be broken into without destroying the contents.
On the encryption key issue, it looks like it's time to implement a new type of encryption.
Here's my idea. This one is like True Crypt. Only a bit more bent.
You have n more encrypted file systems, but n+1 passwords.
When you give the password for the innocuous encrypted filesystem and they aren't satisfied with that, you give them the n+1th password which is a self destruct password that obliterates the true file system. It's a bit extreme, but it's a final solution. But that won't be sufficient, so after activating the n+1th password it becomes a stale password and the system generates a new random password and doesn't give it out. Then, once the PC is powered down it can't ever be accessed again. This will b\prevent them from removing the drive and powering it up someplace else where they can do some deep level analysis on the device to recover the erased data. You could even go further in that once it is in this state it continues to randomly shuffle the data everytime it's powered up.
This may be overkill.
Alternatively, you could have a system that once you've activated the self destruct, it never shows you the actual filesystem, until you insert a stick with an additional password stored in a certain location. Then never have this key on you or in any place that police can get at it.
Of course, if the governments are going to make us criminals for protecting our own secrets that aren't illegal, we could always accommodate them and become criminals. So here's another option, which I really don't recommend, but it should work. Except for me for having divulged it on the internet. Form a dummy company to own your computers, hire some kid off the street as your IT technician. Make sure you don't get his physical description, right name, SSN or address. Using true crypt, and put all the second passwords on a stick. Fire the kid. Report the stick with the passwords stolen. Give the police the information that will never find the kid. Continue to use your computer, and make sure to add new innocuous files into the dummy filesystem. Then when asked for the second password tell them you don't know it and can't retrieve it, because the stick that had the passwords was stolen and you've reported it to the authorities but they haven't caught the culprit yet. You haven't deleted the old filesystem, because you really want to retrieve your valuable IP that is stored in there. They of course will want to verify some of those facts, but you're covered because it really happened, sort of. So now you're guilty of filing a false police report, but at least you won't go to jail for not revealing you passwords. The downside of course it you have to actually lie to the police and commit a crime to protect you from something that should never have been a crime.
People, always think that the 5th amendment is to protect the guilty, but it's not. It's to protect the innocent. For example, someone shots and kills your neighborhood drug dealer (you know who it is - you see the traffic going in and out), while you're out at dinner. You come home just before the police and they begin asking you some questions, about his killing, and somewhere in there they give you a leading question to which you respond "I don't even have a gun". How did you know he was killed by a gun? Then they ask you even more leading questions, to which you say " Hey, I don't even know this guy. I never really liked him." Oh you didn't like him? Motive, opportunity (he's in your neighborhood, knew the means of death. Three strikes, a good prosecutor could rig the right jury to fry you on those bits of circumstantial evidence. I can't take credit for this scenario, it's a hack from some university law professor with a famous video "Don't talk to the Police". Great video, and a must watch for every person alive today. And that my friends is how innocent people get to go to jail, because the system is f**ked up beyond all repair (to paraphr
Small lies are what ultimately result in failed marriages. This is because small lies have a way of snowballing. Let's take your sex example. If you don't communicate your dissatisfaction about the sex you get, then over time you begin to lose interest in your unsatisfying partner, This generally leads to wandering eye and worse. Now take the couple that is smart enough to communicate like "I don't like that. Do this instead, Oooh ahhh OOOO!". This is how you communicate and wind up with a partner who out of affection for you WANTS you to be happy and is willing to learn how to do that, and vice versa.
/. for marriage advice, my advice is DO NOT GET MARRIED!
So my advice to this pair of Geeks is PUT DOWN TFM AND COMMUNICATE!
If you are honest and communicative, you can survive marriage. There is no FM for marriage and I'm not talking about "Friendly" here. Ok.
If you have to ask
Holy C!
I get all my news from /.
There someone had to say it!
Kharma whoring, or what?
This means I can no longer email my employees and contractors about work from my administrative account and have to erase my administrative address book. I also have to return all the company pagers!. Well returning the pagers might actually save me some bucks.
Wow! How did this ever get approved as a patent? Talk about obviousness.
I have prior art for this, but unfortunately, I wrote it and it's never been published. This was a work for hire. I wrote a mainframe program that used a central database to send out emails and pages to various people. Some people only got emails some got pages and emails. The program included a severity code to determine if only an email was sent or if a page was also required. I wrote this before 1997. I may still have all the pieces, but it requires: a Unisys mainframe, A Unisys print manager, a PC with ProComm installed, a mail server, a phone line, and pagers/cell phones..
What you've missed is that without the Oxygen atoms, this is probably WAY more malleable and stronger than a synthetic sapphire. Just a guess but I don't think you can make bullet resistant sapphires (or any crystalline solid, they're way to hard).
Hunh? I don't recall discussing hardness or malleability or strength, and what does any of that have to do with transparency?
But, here let me fix your comment. You meant to say "I don't think you can make bullet resistant sapphires (or any crystalline solid, they're way too brittle)." Hardness (or ductility) does not necessarily coincide with bulletproofness. There are a number of factors that determine hardness and malleability. Among them is the lower strength bond between single crystals in uniform crystalline structures that cause sapphires and diamonds to shatter. But there is a way of building fulerene carbon molecules and compressing them so that they are both hard and not brittle. Hard as in hard as diamonds. It's also possible to grow crystal structures that are very hard and only brittle along one dimension, or non-uniform in crystalline structure, or interspersed crystalline and amorphous structure (as in certain steels), or single crystal structures. If you can control the dimension susceptible to cleavage and fracture, so that it can not be subject to fractioning stress, then it could be bulletproof.
In closing, you might note, that the Aluminum they showed in the picture in TFA sure looks like synthetic sapphire. Aluminum, is a truly amazing metal. They did an experiment in orbit some years ago, where they manufactured an aluminum bar in very low gravity. During the process of making the aluminum bar, they pumped small air bubbles in it. The aluminum form a honeycomb-like structure that was: stronger, harder, and lighter than any metal made on Earth. I don't know what the ductility was. It was not however malleable. Malleable metals aren't known for strength though, hence the need to work harden metals and annealing to achieve the desired balance. I know of some malleable polymers that are highly strong, but no unworked malleable metals that are.
Alternatively you can deprive metals of electrons for 40 femtoseconds by passing an electric current through them. So, the scientists have found a new way to make internal electric currents in metals. BRILLIANT!
So where can I get my own "most powerful X-Ray laser" so I can generate my own electricity? And when will I be able to make enough electricity to disconnect from the grid? What's the ROI? If you pass current through Aluminum blocks does that make them transparent to extreme UV, as long as the UV beam follows less than 40 femtoseconds behind the current? Enquiring minds want to know. Put it all together in a cylinder and you get a X-Ray-UV Death Gun Turret (patent pending), or XUDeGuT.
Yes, but "extreme UV" is all the way down on the end and is ORDERS of MAGNITUDE shorter than plain old generic UV light. Holy craptastic! Talk about selective editing! Oh, wait, I'm on /.
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Sometimes, I forget.
Rather than go to all this expense they could just grow AL2O3 crystal and have permanent "transparent Aluminm". Some chemi-Nazi /.er will now correct me to say that Al203 is "alumina" and not aluminum, to which I will say, alumina is not alumina, but Aluminum oxide, and hence Aluminum, or we could just say white sapphire. Just like Iron oxide is considered "iron", I consider aluminum oxide "aluminum".
It's just a name, If I want to call white sapphire transparent aluminum, I will since it's nothing but aluminum molecules with a little oxygen added. Of course, it look like they're trying to do something unusual with transparent aluminum to make it transparent to certain wavelengths. Which might have some interesting real world applications. I wonder how good naturally occurring transparent aluminum, I mean white sapphire, is at being transparent to ultraviolet? I imagine the crystal matrix is quite large, but is it large enough to allow significant passage of ultra-violet? I'll bet there are other crystal structures that would fit this bill also.
The article doesn't state if this is pure aluminum or not, but seems to imply it is. In other words, the X-Ray beam is doing what the oxygen atom does in white sapphire, pulling away the outer electron. So, the interesting conclusion is that a pure Al+ crystal should be transparent, if you could make it and make it stable. Another fine example of man ALMOST re-inventing something that Nature already has done. Way to go guys!