No, no, flamethrowers is the Bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and the Drug Enforcement Agency. The FBI doesn't do the heavy stuff anymore unless its the Hostage Rescue Team. You can't get the napalm smell out of those nice suits.
You fly back to school now, little Starling. Fly, Fly, Fly.
Helpful tip in these types of situation. Even if you haven't been formally arrested or mirandized yet, the trick is to spread your legs and put your hands on your head and then ask "is this the correct submission position, officer?" It messes them up something fierce. Because at that point there really isn't anything they can do to get a reaction from you and accuse you of resisting arrest. If you have witnesses, even better. The only thing an arresting officer can do is come down on your instep to try to get a reaction and or plant something on you, which is hard in that position because they are supposed to be frisking you. Its super easy to cuff you from there too and again their options get very limited.They hate that. Here you were messing with their system and they can't even rough you up. Just be polite from there on in and you are golden. Poor guys.
Uhmm, wow, quite the breath-taking swing of the logical generalization ax there man. As often happens though, this produces nothing but disconnected bullshit. The manufacturing engineer's at Stryker medical work right on the shop floor with the assembly techs. At ITW the seat heater project involved the engineer working on it hanging in right with us techs while we ran the tests. Civil Engineers are out at job sites to check and approve the results the tech's are getting from the geotechnical testing. The old roll of a P.E. stamping blueprints (prepared by a drafter and not them) is increasingly uncommon. Doesn't mean its a bad life though. Anyone with the intellectual toughness and agility to get an engineering degree is generally going to find an interesting life waiting for them. Just might not be in engineering.
You kids today with your GUI firmware. Spoiled rotten! That's what you are! WHEEZE.. Excuse me while I go get more of these tattoo's removed. Ouch, arthritis.
With the Good Doctor taking a bow, my former home state will be left to the not so tender mercies of that sinkhole of mediocrity and self congratulatory comedy, http://www.bobandtom.com./ I weep for the future.
In Mr. Nimoy's defense, I'm sure his response would be identical to the farmer who purposefully threw himself into a thorn bush, to wit, "It seemed the thing to do at the time."
Boggle the mind. I guess it didn't occur to the people involved that just as many bad things can be done with this data as good things? I can see the headlines now. Don't like African Americans? I'll load up the "Negro avoider" app on my computer. And never have my commute disrupted again by the sight of people I don't like. Or what about the "victim finder" app for child molesters? Just take the data on family occupancies and compare to local crime statistics and police coverage and voila! Thanks Victim Finder! I hope I'm just crazy but this seems like a triumph of enthusiasm over common sense at first glance.
It's hard to get angry at a bunch of engineers and government civil servants taking the next logical step in pattern recognition. Everybody involved is just individually contributing to a possible aid in dealing with a social problem. Let's face it, the most widely damaging forms of "evil" are rarely done by "evil" people. The next question I would also have would be, "what is the back end in this particular predictive system?" Are the consequences for the identified person punitive or does he or she get the help that he or she might need? Is this system designed to launch flowers at the target or bullets?
Not that anyone is going to read down this far. But what would make transparent aluminum so useful or even transparent steel a neat engineering material would be that you would have something with the formability of aluminum, that then could be heat treated to a certain surface hardness while still remaining transparent. Aluminum oxide and ceramics are all very well and good but the post and the responses kind of miss the point. Speaking as a metallurgist (or former metallurgist now, whatever) that is where the useful engineering properties come in. Etching it to check the heat treat would be very interesting also. I wonder what would happen? Hell, who knows what etchant you would even use? That would be some cool materials science and good luck to whoever, ever manages it. It really would be a new form of matter.
Machines should stay machines. Just get smarter and be better able to be used by us. I can't wait to give my design for the best safety gunlock ever to Springfield Armory! Machines = Machines. Humans = Humans. Humans with too much machine equals broken doll with living soul! SCARY! Like Chuckie! Humanity should be able to decide on that and they will once everybody on earth has a laptop! World government! Also the U.S. government just made money worthless because we are a debtor with the biggest gun on earth so all we need is an economy based on money, credit and sex as work and women are liberated from being slaves to men and garden of eden results! Works for lesbians and homosexuals right now! Unless they become indeterminate! YAH!
We are either the sum of our genes True False or Indeterminate. And the ideterminacy of Heisenberg is obvious in our DNA if you look at it a certain way.
Also, my slashdot ID is Phrackwulf
And that was supposed to be the symbol for "infinity" in the above equation but slashdot couldn't handle it!
Zim laughs at your inferior Earth technology! Stuck in pathetic martian dirt.. with your.. grr.. pathetic.. wheels of smell. With worthless... Errh..! BOW BEFORE ZIM!!!!
including werewolves, vampires and other less obvious or more decomposed individuals we find the entire Resident Evil series to be very offensive and in poor taste! And we prefer the term "differently alive."
Oh certainly, but I would point out that you brought up West Virginians, or as the residents of Maryland refer to them "Those rich coal miners who steal our wimmin!"
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"A man that eloquent in death deserves to be revered." Now I'm off to Berlin. I'm going to personally shoot that paper hanging son of a bitch!
So he'd be a "Zuckerbag" then?
No, no, flamethrowers is the Bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and the Drug Enforcement Agency. The FBI doesn't do the heavy stuff anymore unless its the Hostage Rescue Team. You can't get the napalm smell out of those nice suits.
You fly back to school now, little Starling. Fly, Fly, Fly.
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Helpful tip in these types of situation. Even if you haven't been formally arrested or mirandized yet, the trick is to spread your legs and put your hands on your head and then ask "is this the correct submission position, officer?" It messes them up something fierce. Because at that point there really isn't anything they can do to get a reaction from you and accuse you of resisting arrest. If you have witnesses, even better. The only thing an arresting officer can do is come down on your instep to try to get a reaction and or plant something on you, which is hard in that position because they are supposed to be frisking you. Its super easy to cuff you from there too and again their options get very limited.They hate that. Here you were messing with their system and they can't even rough you up. Just be polite from there on in and you are golden. Poor guys.
Uhmm, wow, quite the breath-taking swing of the logical generalization ax there man. As often happens though, this produces nothing but disconnected bullshit. The manufacturing engineer's at Stryker medical work right on the shop floor with the assembly techs. At ITW the seat heater project involved the engineer working on it hanging in right with us techs while we ran the tests. Civil Engineers are out at job sites to check and approve the results the tech's are getting from the geotechnical testing. The old roll of a P.E. stamping blueprints (prepared by a drafter and not them) is increasingly uncommon. Doesn't mean its a bad life though. Anyone with the intellectual toughness and agility to get an engineering degree is generally going to find an interesting life waiting for them. Just might not be in engineering.
You kids today with your GUI firmware. Spoiled rotten! That's what you are! WHEEZE.. Excuse me while I go get more of these tattoo's removed. Ouch, arthritis.
With the Good Doctor taking a bow, my former home state will be left to the not so tender mercies of that sinkhole of mediocrity and self congratulatory comedy, http://www.bobandtom.com./ I weep for the future.
For the glorious leader, we shall crush the decadent Southern dogs!!
Stalinist Starcraft anyone? I don't think they'd find anything too ideologically objectionable in the game.
In Mr. Nimoy's defense, I'm sure his response would be identical to the farmer who purposefully threw himself into a thorn bush, to wit, "It seemed the thing to do at the time."
Boggle the mind. I guess it didn't occur to the people involved that just as many bad things can be done with this data as good things? I can see the headlines now. Don't like African Americans? I'll load up the "Negro avoider" app on my computer. And never have my commute disrupted again by the sight of people I don't like. Or what about the "victim finder" app for child molesters? Just take the data on family occupancies and compare to local crime statistics and police coverage and voila! Thanks Victim Finder! I hope I'm just crazy but this seems like a triumph of enthusiasm over common sense at first glance.
It's hard to get angry at a bunch of engineers and government civil servants taking the next logical step in pattern recognition. Everybody involved is just individually contributing to a possible aid in dealing with a social problem. Let's face it, the most widely damaging forms of "evil" are rarely done by "evil" people. The next question I would also have would be, "what is the back end in this particular predictive system?" Are the consequences for the identified person punitive or does he or she get the help that he or she might need? Is this system designed to launch flowers at the target or bullets?
I'm really being quite sincere right now.. Even though you stuck my wheels and killed me!
Not that anyone is going to read down this far. But what would make transparent aluminum so useful or even transparent steel a neat engineering material would be that you would have something with the formability of aluminum, that then could be heat treated to a certain surface hardness while still remaining transparent. Aluminum oxide and ceramics are all very well and good but the post and the responses kind of miss the point. Speaking as a metallurgist (or former metallurgist now, whatever) that is where the useful engineering properties come in. Etching it to check the heat treat would be very interesting also. I wonder what would happen? Hell, who knows what etchant you would even use? That would be some cool materials science and good luck to whoever, ever manages it. It really would be a new form of matter.
Machines should stay machines. Just get smarter and be better able to be used by us. I can't wait to give my design for the best safety gunlock ever to Springfield Armory! Machines = Machines. Humans = Humans. Humans with too much machine equals broken doll with living soul! SCARY! Like Chuckie! Humanity should be able to decide on that and they will once everybody on earth has a laptop! World government! Also the U.S. government just made money worthless because we are a debtor with the biggest gun on earth so all we need is an economy based on money, credit and sex as work and women are liberated from being slaves to men and garden of eden results! Works for lesbians and homosexuals right now! Unless they become indeterminate! YAH!
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We are either the sum of our genes True False or Indeterminate. And the ideterminacy of Heisenberg is obvious in our DNA if you look at it a certain way.
Also, my slashdot ID is Phrackwulf
And that was supposed to be the symbol for "infinity" in the above equation but slashdot couldn't handle it!
ARRRGGGH!
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Zim laughs at your inferior Earth technology! Stuck in pathetic martian dirt.. with your.. grr.. pathetic.. wheels of smell. With worthless... Errh..! BOW BEFORE ZIM!!!!
including werewolves, vampires and other less obvious or more decomposed individuals we find the entire Resident Evil series to be very offensive and in poor taste! And we prefer the term "differently alive."
Oh certainly, but I would point out that you brought up West Virginians, or as the residents of Maryland refer to them "Those rich coal miners who steal our wimmin!"
Seriously though, Yo mamma is HUGE! And this is Maryland we're talking about a state that looks up to New Jersey in terms of class and sophistication.
Guess I'm going back to Adobe 5.1 again. And yes, I still have the install.
"Because there's no defense, like a good offense!" Like shooting ducks in a barrel!
HEY! I carry Snickers (TM) bars in my pocket you insensitive clod!
Microsoft takes a good long look and throws itself into the abyss. "HERE WE ARE!" Infect us with viruses you script kiddies you! Windows 7 Neon Bulls eye, now in Home, Business and Ultimate flavors.