I'm a huge clickety-clackity fan too... man, somebody should manufacture new clickety-clacketies. There sure seems to be a market!
Granted, they aren't too popular at the office...
The site's operator, a 30-year-old named Rick Wallace, wrote in a blog posting that he is trying to have himself and all his belongings seized and destroyed by Navy SEALS in the dead of night this week.
You said it was "not on a perfect geosync orbit". This implies that it is in a geosync orbit, albeit imperfectly. It would have been clearer to say "not in a geosync orbit" if that was what you meant.
and it just rotates around following the satellite
As XenonOfArcticus put it so eloquently:
Geosync birds do not move in the E/W direction, so the dish only has to track up and down. A previous poster who described the dish spinning around to track the horizon is sniffing skua dung.
Bill Hazen was in his cabin near Bakersfield, Calif., shortly after midnight when an intruder forced a sliding glass door. The Los Angeles minister was armed and ordered the man outside. During an ensuing scuffle the attacker ran, but an accomplice appeared in a pickup truck and tried to run down Hazen. The minister fired at the advancing truck and when the vehicle stopped, its occupant got out and said, "I counted six shots; you're out and now I'm going to get you." Hazen fired his large-capacity semi-automatic once more, dropping his adversary. Both men were taken into custody by sheriff's deputies.
You have the authority to say that Mr. Hazen should be dead, then? You might also read some of the other stories, and you can judge whether those people who defended themselves NEED a gun or not.
Anyway, why should you care if law-abiding citizens around you have guns? The only time you're going to see it is when it's defending a life. They are not any more of a threat to you than anybody else.
Anywhere else, you just get shot. At least here, you get a fair chance. *shrug*
Research by Jeff Miron at Boston University, examining homicide rates across 44 countries, found that countries with the strictest gun-control laws also tended to have the highest homicide rates. News reports in Britain showed how crimes with guns have risen 40 percent in the four years after handguns were banned in 1997. Police are extremely important in stopping crime, but almost always arrive on the scene after the crime occurs. What would the U.N. recommend that victims do when they face criminals by themselves? Passive behavior is much more likely to result in serious injury or death than using a gun to defend oneself.
I think just taking the money for the five extras and buying a real AR-15 would be much cooler.
You got that right! I do have a 1911 lookalike BB gun though. I can take in the garage for some sight picture and trigger control practice when shooting the real thing is impractical or inconvenient.
No auto parts store in the history of mankind has ever been robbed at gunpoint? Glad you could clue us in, thanks!
If you're going to carry, it's annoying to have to decide "do I carry here?" "do I carry there?". It's also dangerous to leave it in the car (subject to theft) and there's always the risk of a negigent discharge if you're constantly taking it on and off. Easier and safer to just carry everywhere, even in low-risk areas. Do you take your conact lenses out when you take a midafternoon nap? Of course not. Too much hassle to fiddle with them, even if you don't need them while sleeping.
even if you have a gun they don't expect, you're still at a huge disadvantage if they already have one pointed at you.
This is certainly true. But carrying a gun is only a small part of concealed carry. The biggest part is situational awareness -- don't let THEM get the drop on YOU. You must be able to ACT, not REACT. When you are reacting, you are behind the power curve and carrying a gun is useless.
If someone pointed a gun at me, I'm not going to draw mine. It would be suicide. But if I'm aware enough to see him starting to go for his before he can draw, THEN I have time to go for mine.
I would also rather lose my wallet than kill someone. Problem is, even after he has my wallet, he might still shoot me. It happened to a gas station clerk not too long ago. The clerk was the perfect victim, complied with all requests, handed over the money, kept his hands in the air... then he got shot for no reason other than the bad guy felt like it.
Always carry chambered! If you're trying to beat the bad guy to the draw, the extra half a second it takes to rack the slide WILL cost you your life.
While Hellboy certainly wasn't of Spiderman caliber, I feel that neither the $2 nor the two hours I spent to see it were wasted. Yeah, it's a campy low-budget film, but it aint bad for all that. I'll go to the sequel.
You have the right idea but don't use MACs. Do it in the cabling. Have separate networks or at least VLANs: one for permanent desktops that can be remotely patched by IT, and one for laptops to plug in or connect via wireless. Firewall the crap out of the laptop network. Require users to authenticate with a VPN and go through a SOCKS proxy if you have to... whatever it takes.
If only the guilty have anything to fear, then why do you have the right to remain silent after an arrent? Why aren't you required to testify against yourself in court? If you're not guilty, you have nothing to fear, so you might as well be forced to speak, right?
Man, that was a great movie. Jenny Agutter was a hottie, and those flaming pistols were cool. What's even better is you can find the DVD in the Wal-Mart $5 bin.
I tried to name my daughter Jessica Six, but the wife wouldn't go for it.:( At least she let me name her Jessica.:)
As I'm in IT, I often need to email executables to folks. Patches, fix tools, utilities, scripts, etc. Since my employer's Exchange servers do not allow.exe|.cmd|.bat attachments, I have to Zip everything up.
Worse, the recipient cannot simply open the file in WinZip from Outlook; since Outlook thinks ZIPs are dangerous for some reason, they must save it somewhere, THEN open it, THEN uncompress it, and finally they get to run it.
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Bittorrent uses a tit-for-tat algorithm, meaning peers will send you less bandwidth if you yourself are sending less bandwidth.
Thank you for making a Thursday night worth living. :)
I'm a huge clickety-clackity fan too... man, somebody should manufacture new clickety-clacketies. There sure seems to be a market! Granted, they aren't too popular at the office...
The site's operator, a 30-year-old named Rick Wallace, wrote in a blog posting that he is trying to have himself and all his belongings seized and destroyed by Navy SEALS in the dead of night this week.
You said it was "not on a perfect geosync orbit". This implies that it is in a geosync orbit, albeit imperfectly. It would have been clearer to say "not in a geosync orbit" if that was what you meant.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Volkswagens... in Japan!
and it just rotates around following the satellite
As XenonOfArcticus put it so eloquently:
Geosync birds do not move in the E/W direction, so the dish only has to track up and down. A previous poster who described the dish spinning around to track the horizon is sniffing skua dung.
There are no collisions on switched Ethernet. These guys aren't using hubs any more. :)
In Russia, they seriously need a Beowulf cluster of ... this was going somewhere.
Just let me ask you this. Did Bill Hazen need a gun?
http://www.healylaw.com/self-def.htm#1990
Bill Hazen was in his cabin near Bakersfield, Calif., shortly after midnight when an intruder forced a sliding glass door. The Los Angeles minister was armed and ordered the man outside. During an ensuing scuffle the attacker ran, but an accomplice appeared in a pickup truck and tried to run down Hazen. The minister fired at the advancing truck and when the vehicle stopped, its occupant got out and said, "I counted six shots; you're out and now I'm going to get you." Hazen fired his large-capacity semi-automatic once more, dropping his adversary. Both men were taken into custody by sheriff's deputies.
You have the authority to say that Mr. Hazen should be dead, then? You might also read some of the other stories, and you can judge whether those people who defended themselves NEED a gun or not.
Anyway, why should you care if law-abiding citizens around you have guns? The only time you're going to see it is when it's defending a life. They are not any more of a threat to you than anybody else.
Anywhere else, you just get shot. At least here, you get a fair chance. *shrug*
Research by Jeff Miron at Boston University, examining homicide rates across 44 countries, found that countries with the strictest gun-control laws also tended to have the highest homicide rates. News reports in Britain showed how crimes with guns have risen 40 percent in the four years after handguns were banned in 1997. Police are extremely important in stopping crime, but almost always arrive on the scene after the crime occurs. What would the U.N. recommend that victims do when they face criminals by themselves? Passive behavior is much more likely to result in serious injury or death than using a gun to defend oneself.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott9.html
I think just taking the money for the five extras and buying a real AR-15 would be much cooler.
You got that right! I do have a 1911 lookalike BB gun though. I can take in the garage for some sight picture and trigger control practice when shooting the real thing is impractical or inconvenient.
No auto parts store in the history of mankind has ever been robbed at gunpoint? Glad you could clue us in, thanks!
If you're going to carry, it's annoying to have to decide "do I carry here?" "do I carry there?". It's also dangerous to leave it in the car (subject to theft) and there's always the risk of a negigent discharge if you're constantly taking it on and off. Easier and safer to just carry everywhere, even in low-risk areas. Do you take your conact lenses out when you take a midafternoon nap? Of course not. Too much hassle to fiddle with them, even if you don't need them while sleeping.
even if you have a gun they don't expect, you're still at a huge disadvantage if they already have one pointed at you.
This is certainly true. But carrying a gun is only a small part of concealed carry. The biggest part is situational awareness -- don't let THEM get the drop on YOU. You must be able to ACT, not REACT. When you are reacting, you are behind the power curve and carrying a gun is useless.
If someone pointed a gun at me, I'm not going to draw mine. It would be suicide. But if I'm aware enough to see him starting to go for his before he can draw, THEN I have time to go for mine.
I would also rather lose my wallet than kill someone. Problem is, even after he has my wallet, he might still shoot me. It happened to a gas station clerk not too long ago. The clerk was the perfect victim, complied with all requests, handed over the money, kept his hands in the air... then he got shot for no reason other than the bad guy felt like it.
Always carry chambered! If you're trying to beat the bad guy to the draw, the extra half a second it takes to rack the slide WILL cost you your life.
Teeth are primarily made of calcium, not ceramic.
While Hellboy certainly wasn't of Spiderman caliber, I feel that neither the $2 nor the two hours I spent to see it were wasted. Yeah, it's a campy low-budget film, but it aint bad for all that. I'll go to the sequel.
Vampire Hunter D... ah, my first anime ever. Hey, I liked it!
You have the right idea but don't use MACs. Do it in the cabling. Have separate networks or at least VLANs: one for permanent desktops that can be remotely patched by IT, and one for laptops to plug in or connect via wireless. Firewall the crap out of the laptop network. Require users to authenticate with a VPN and go through a SOCKS proxy if you have to... whatever it takes.
But... the article is about California, which is in the US, so I think that being US-centric is entirely reasonable in this case. :)
If only the guilty have anything to fear, then why do you have the right to remain silent after an arrent? Why aren't you required to testify against yourself in court? If you're not guilty, you have nothing to fear, so you might as well be forced to speak, right?
Here is some relevant discussion. A little long but it certainly does cover some of the finer points of the law.
It serves hostnames out of the dhcp.leases file... that rocks! Seems much simpler than DDNS. Thank you mOdQuArK! :)
Man, that was a great movie. Jenny Agutter was a hottie, and those flaming pistols were cool. What's even better is you can find the DVD in the Wal-Mart $5 bin.
:( At least she let me name her Jessica. :)
I tried to name my daughter Jessica Six, but the wife wouldn't go for it.
This is so clever I'm ashamed I didn't think of it.
As I'm in IT, I often need to email executables to folks. Patches, fix tools, utilities, scripts, etc. Since my employer's Exchange servers do not allow .exe|.cmd|.bat attachments, I have to Zip everything up.
Worse, the recipient cannot simply open the file in WinZip from Outlook; since Outlook thinks ZIPs are dangerous for some reason, they must save it somewhere, THEN open it, THEN uncompress it, and finally they get to run it.
It's a pain.