For those that are really willing to take the risk for on they love, I wonder if tests might eventually branch out into couples where one partner is infected and the other is "clean?"
Certainly there are a lot of other nasty viruses out there, and though an HIV vaccine would be a great boon to many people I wonder how much irresponsibility it would cause amongst others?
Just because you can't get pregnant through your normal sexual conduct doesn't mean you can't ever do so. There are Lesbian's who opt for fertilization through donated sperm, etc etc. In your case, however, my guess is that you have no such plans. Still, people do change their minds, so I guess that as recommended by others a letter of absolution or something along those lines might reduce your docs worries enough for him to prescribe the treatment. That, or finding a doctor who gets your situation a little better.
OK, so what they should have said is lbs/weight, but:
a) Weight in a vehicle is not evenly distributed. The actual weight on the front-axle and rear-axle will differ depending on, for example, where the engine is located.
b) Again, by weight, you're getting more than 60-70lbs. Otherwise a smaller object would be able to hold the car up easier...
c) The inflation pressure of a tire, balloon, etc, is the pressure of air inside the tire. More air, more pressure as you're cramming more molecules into a smaller space. Changing the air-pressure in the tire does not magically decrease the overall downward-pressing weight of the vehicle.
d) It's not a function of the size of the USB stick, it's partly related to how much weight the tire not touching the stick is already being. An underinflated tire might mean that more of the tire itself contacts the road, alleviating the pressure on the part that touches the thumb-drive, but you can't really figure those numbers out without measuring them. A very inflated tire might mean that most of the road-touching surface touches the USB-stick first, but again it's a function of the surface-area contact and not the tire-PSI itself.
Running the thing over with a car might not be 2000 pounds of pressure, but PSI in a tire is not equivilent to the pressure underneath the tire, it's the internal air-pressure inside the tire in terms of pounds/pressure per square inch of volume inside the tire.
You can test it by driving a car up on top of your toes... 30psi should be a piece of cake if your statement is correct.
If the drivers are precompiled binaries, it could be a problem. If they're source, or a partial-open-source with a stub (like NVidia's) it should work on most distros without issue. I've seen a couple drivers that were initially released just for RedHat/SuSe/etc and not Debian, but I was able to make them work for Debian without too much problem.
Indeed, I think that it's a trade-off between practice/experience and dexterity. In a new situation, the older person might not be expected to be as dextrous, but with something he/she is experienced at, that person will probably do just fine - with some possible loss due to things like arthritis, etc.
Basically, I'd expect an old music could keep on wailing on a sax or a guitar, and an old gamer will probably still be a good gamer depending on how varied the games are from his/her experience. Even if your grandpa can't beat you at DDR, he might still kick your ass at Mario and Donkey Kong:-)
One media report carried on CNN and major TV networks, and later denied, said the woman had Vaseline, a screwdriver, matches and a note on the Islamic militant group al Qaeda. The FBI's Day said a search of her belongings produced no dangerous materials and no note from al Qaeda.
She had hand-cream and matches in her handbag, no screwdriver. Also, neither article mentions her being Pakistani, perhaps you're confusing it with another article?
If you are using Windows XP as guest OS and if you want to use high resolution modes which the Cirrus Logic BIOS does not support (i.e. >= 1280x1024x16), then you should use the VESA VBE virtual graphic card (option `-std-vga').
I used this recently to install an AMD64/testing debian machine. While I can say in some ways it was quicker to click the various options, I've found that it sometimes has an annoying lack of consistency (probably due to the porting from curses). Notable that sometimes one must click on an option, and then choose "Continue", while other times you can (or must) double-click the option in question. Particularly annoying is when I've set an option, and it goes back to the selection screen, when I hit continue it asks me to set the option again rather than going on to the next step...
Better than the old RPM-based (without a package-updating/downloading frontend) distro that I've been having fun maintaining lately. Try upgrading glibc on one of those babies and watch all your apps blow up.
I suppose if they find games requiring a larger capacity in the future, one way to deal with that would be to bundle either a HD-DVD upgrade coupon with the game, or game coupon with the drive.
And accord to th elatter story about the women on a plane: The US Attorney's office in Boston said the woman will be arraigned on Thursday on unspecified criminal charges.
Kinda sad. Certainly she was disruptive, but from the description she was being loud and running back+forth to the can, so perhaps she was having a case of critical diarrhea or something similar. Hardly something requiring a fighter-jet escort or court charges except for the massive paranoia that has been instilled in people nowadays.
The suspect in question is a teacher. It's not impossible that he met the girl through that, either by teaching in hero school or even being her teacher (substitute or permanent).
You might also want to add that:
some rich, white, *AMERICAN* girl was killed.
There's a lot more than can be done locally about a local murder than one overseas. Both pieces of news matter, but one is more local and can be dealt with by local police/courts/etc
So who is it that has registered this "word mark" anyhow? The blog itself is pretty short on details, as it appears those that link to or use virtualdub have been getting the letters, and not the author himself.
Also, one wonders if there is some legal way to charge and/or get money back from somebody who is illegally using the name of your product to extort money.
It was in the "Posleen War" series by Ringo, and was something to the effect of:
Heroes are created because somebody made a mistake. We don't want heroes in this war.
These situations are also where contingency plans come into affect. Yes, you shouldn't need one, but in the case of an unexpected scenario, or mistake, they could be what saves the day. One situation I can easily think of is where the person watching the child has a medical accident out at the park, or on a hike, whatever.
I was just noticing this the other day. Nobody wants to have a 'play' area for anything that is more dangerous than tiddlywinks and hopscotch. Playgrounds are neutered versions of the days of old, with rubber shields on everything, a maximum height of about 2 feet, and an absolute minimal of anything that might invite a lawsuit.
I remember when I was a kid, the playground had a tire bridge held up by chains, a real (decomissioned) train caboose, and many other things. Parents would actually sit nearby and (heaven forbid) watch their children play, and if little Billy was climbing on the area of the caboose that was dangerous/unallowed, mom would tell him to get his ass down.
Nowadays, our playgrounds are not nearly as fun, and many older youth or even adult activities are curtailed or nonexistant simply because the facility owners can't risk the lawsuits. I'm a big fan of airsoft (similar to paintball), and trying to find land to play on has been a bitch at times because even for adults, nobody wants to risk that somebody might be injured and sue. As a school-district worker, I've seen many of the field-trips I used to attend be cancelled, either because parents themselves are too worried about injuring their little darlings, or because the schools just cannot afford insurance for the risks anymore.
No wonder all our kids are getting fat and lazy, the only activities they can enjoy nowadays are the low-risk ones that don't involve getting much off your ass. It's a sad, sad world that lawyers have made, where being injured automatically makes you a victim with a big settlement, rather than somebody who accepted the visible and known risks of a given situation, and didn't make the odds (or in many cases, somebody who did something that was dumb, outside the rules, and got hurt+sued anyhow).
I'm not saying that they shouldn't have access, the issue is sometimes in the timetable (e.g. how to notify concerned 3rd-parties) as well as a presentation of such materials. If a judge wants to see the pictures, I find that a reasonable request. Now if it was a tabloid trial and a lawyer wanted to wave them in front of a courtroom, that might be a different issue (in other words, one should be able to present a reasonable statement as to what the files contain, and as such allow for an acceptable viewing condition for verification).
But the main issue is not with encrypted files, but with files that *appear* to be encrypted. The above is a reason I might be using encryption (the "don't have anything to hide" arguement that is so often used fails to distinguish between private and illegal), but that I in fact use encryption should be in no way indicitive that I have an illegal activities to hide, but may in fact lead to an assumption that I am withholding access to evidence that actually does not exist (a file that is large and filled with gibberish-like data might appear to be a hidden encrypted volume, but in fact be a swapfile).
In a case that I've never been able to understand, I was once called up by a police officer accusing me of shoplifting from a movie store, with my vehicle plate # and description on file. He railed at me for quite awhile despite my protestations of innocence, even claiming to have video of me committing a theft. When I called the store owner, we found out that:
a) No thefts had been commited at that store any time recently
b) The item supposedly stolen was not something the store had ever carried (some adult movie)
c) They did not have recording cameras (only screen output)
It took, however, a call from the store owner herself to the police to get them to leave me alone. As I later went over the description and found some flaws between my usual garb (which was consistent with the officer's description) and what I was wearing that day, I can only assume that somebody whom didn't like me called it in, and the police failed to verify it was a legitimate call. That being the case I would hate to see what could happen if I was called in for something more publicly heinous. It seems that using either the big "T" or the big "P" are a good way to have the police drop on somebody like a 100-ton boulder.
Well, in some cases it seems that the mere presence of trace-hiding or encryption technology has been used to insinuate guilt. That's wrong.
In my case, I'm an amateur photographer. I have some various pictures of women I know, all above the age of consent, and taken (or given to me) with permission. Some are friends, others may have been previous relationships (usually deleted at the termination of the relationship), etc. However, I wouldn't want my friends or especially my current gf to look at them. I personally wouldn't want cops looking at them either, nor would the subject of the picture likely want them to.
Now, as I said I'm just an amateur/hobbyist. There are plenty of other cases where some material may be private, but not illegal. In some of these cases the material may even be professional. Clients would be rather upset if photographer X's collection of pictures were seized and viewed by unwanted persons. Said clients might be even more concerned if they were shown in a courtroom full of people (lawyer displaying photo and asking "are you SUUUUURE that this person is of legal age").
Some things are private, or personal, and there they many reasons to have material protected. Pictures are one case, confidential client/business information, medical records, and others exist. There are cases where even in a courtroom, one might be reticent to have it display unless particular privacy conditions were met, and/or there was time to notify concerned parties. You should be able to prove within reasonable doubt that the files in question are in fact legal, but private material.
And further to that. Let's say you are a photographer in the above situation, maybe an amateur. You do release the key(s) to your various files so that the cops can view them. The find another file which looks suspicious, and demand access. However, that file is actually just swap data, something that you don't have a password to (I download various things that end up password-protected, with the buggers online wanting me to hit their website and click banners to get a key), or just an otherwise nonsense file. Well, now how am I to prove that file X, which police are demanding access to, is in fact something I cannot provide access to, whether or not I am willing?
Digital files are amorphous by nature, and unlike a safe or some other well-defined object there isn't a magical way to strongly determine what they all contain.
Sure. You can also not go to the goatse site, but that doesn't make it an overly productive addition to the net. It's not that those sites can't be productive though, it's just that many aren't
Not all these changes have been positive. In terms of large-scale changes along those lines I'd probably include the nasties such as doubleclick and whatnot. They've definately had a lasting impression on how advertising is done on the 'net (regardless of poor motives or whether it was a possitive impression)
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For those that are really willing to take the risk for on they love, I wonder if tests might eventually branch out into couples where one partner is infected and the other is "clean?"
Certainly there are a lot of other nasty viruses out there, and though an HIV vaccine would be a great boon to many people I wonder how much irresponsibility it would cause amongst others?
Just because you can't get pregnant through your normal sexual conduct doesn't mean you can't ever do so. There are Lesbian's who opt for fertilization through donated sperm, etc etc. In your case, however, my guess is that you have no such plans. Still, people do change their minds, so I guess that as recommended by others a letter of absolution or something along those lines might reduce your docs worries enough for him to prescribe the treatment. That, or finding a doctor who gets your situation a little better.
OK, so what they should have said is lbs/weight, but:
a) Weight in a vehicle is not evenly distributed. The actual weight on the front-axle and rear-axle will differ depending on, for example, where the engine is located.
b) Again, by weight, you're getting more than 60-70lbs. Otherwise a smaller object would be able to hold the car up easier...
c) The inflation pressure of a tire, balloon, etc, is the pressure of air inside the tire. More air, more pressure as you're cramming more molecules into a smaller space. Changing the air-pressure in the tire does not magically decrease the overall downward-pressing weight of the vehicle.
d) It's not a function of the size of the USB stick, it's partly related to how much weight the tire not touching the stick is already being. An underinflated tire might mean that more of the tire itself contacts the road, alleviating the pressure on the part that touches the thumb-drive, but you can't really figure those numbers out without measuring them. A very inflated tire might mean that most of the road-touching surface touches the USB-stick first, but again it's a function of the surface-area contact and not the tire-PSI itself.
Running the thing over with a car might not be 2000 pounds of pressure, but PSI in a tire is not equivilent to the pressure underneath the tire, it's the internal air-pressure inside the tire in terms of pounds/pressure per square inch of volume inside the tire.
You can test it by driving a car up on top of your toes... 30psi should be a piece of cake if your statement is correct.
Glad to oblige:
roman_mir:~# shutdown -h +2 'I just want to go to sleep'
If the drivers are precompiled binaries, it could be a problem. If they're source, or a partial-open-source with a stub (like NVidia's) it should work on most distros without issue. I've seen a couple drivers that were initially released just for RedHat/SuSe/etc and not Debian, but I was able to make them work for Debian without too much problem.
Indeed, I think that it's a trade-off between practice/experience and dexterity. In a new situation, the older person might not be expected to be as dextrous, but with something he/she is experienced at, that person will probably do just fine - with some possible loss due to things like arthritis, etc.
:-)
Basically, I'd expect an old music could keep on wailing on a sax or a guitar, and an old gamer will probably still be a good gamer depending on how varied the games are from his/her experience. Even if your grandpa can't beat you at DDR, he might still kick your ass at Mario and Donkey Kong
One media report carried on CNN and major TV networks, and later denied, said the woman had Vaseline, a screwdriver, matches and a note on the Islamic militant group al Qaeda. The FBI's Day said a search of her belongings produced no dangerous materials and no note from al Qaeda.
She had hand-cream and matches in her handbag, no screwdriver. Also, neither article mentions her being Pakistani, perhaps you're confusing it with another article?
I've got mine up to 1024x768 with the emulated Cirrus Login, and with the newer versions the VBE emulation should let you get a lot higher:
From the qemu Documentation
If you are using Windows XP as guest OS and if you want to use high resolution modes which the Cirrus Logic BIOS does not support (i.e. >= 1280x1024x16), then you should use the VESA VBE virtual graphic card (option `-std-vga').
I used this recently to install an AMD64/testing debian machine. While I can say in some ways it was quicker to click the various options, I've found that it sometimes has an annoying lack of consistency (probably due to the porting from curses). Notable that sometimes one must click on an option, and then choose "Continue", while other times you can (or must) double-click the option in question. Particularly annoying is when I've set an option, and it goes back to the selection screen, when I hit continue it asks me to set the option again rather than going on to the next step...
Better than the old RPM-based (without a package-updating/downloading frontend) distro that I've been having fun maintaining lately. Try upgrading glibc on one of those babies and watch all your apps blow up.
I suppose if they find games requiring a larger capacity in the future, one way to deal with that would be to bundle either a HD-DVD upgrade coupon with the game, or game coupon with the drive.
Sounds like it would be pretty hard to contain in an inconspicious container. I doubt a suntan-lotion bottle or a baby's milk bottle would do the job.
And accord to th elatter story about the women on a plane:
The US Attorney's office in Boston said the woman will be arraigned on Thursday on unspecified criminal charges.
Kinda sad. Certainly she was disruptive, but from the description she was being loud and running back+forth to the can, so perhaps she was having a case of critical diarrhea or something similar. Hardly something requiring a fighter-jet escort or court charges except for the massive paranoia that has been instilled in people nowadays.
Is like stating that the unborn son of Jim Smith is going to be the next president
The suspect in question is a teacher. It's not impossible that he met the girl through that, either by teaching in hero school or even being her teacher (substitute or permanent).
You might also want to add that: some rich, white, *AMERICAN* girl was killed.
There's a lot more than can be done locally about a local murder than one overseas. Both pieces of news matter, but one is more local and can be dealt with by local police/courts/etc
So who is it that has registered this "word mark" anyhow? The blog itself is pretty short on details, as it appears those that link to or use virtualdub have been getting the letters, and not the author himself.
Also, one wonders if there is some legal way to charge and/or get money back from somebody who is illegally using the name of your product to extort money.
It was in the "Posleen War" series by Ringo, and was something to the effect of:
Heroes are created because somebody made a mistake. We don't want heroes in this war.
These situations are also where contingency plans come into affect. Yes, you shouldn't need one, but in the case of an unexpected scenario, or mistake, they could be what saves the day. One situation I can easily think of is where the person watching the child has a medical accident out at the park, or on a hike, whatever.
I was just noticing this the other day. Nobody wants to have a 'play' area for anything that is more dangerous than tiddlywinks and hopscotch. Playgrounds are neutered versions of the days of old, with rubber shields on everything, a maximum height of about 2 feet, and an absolute minimal of anything that might invite a lawsuit.
I remember when I was a kid, the playground had a tire bridge held up by chains, a real (decomissioned) train caboose, and many other things. Parents would actually sit nearby and (heaven forbid) watch their children play, and if little Billy was climbing on the area of the caboose that was dangerous/unallowed, mom would tell him to get his ass down.
Nowadays, our playgrounds are not nearly as fun, and many older youth or even adult activities are curtailed or nonexistant simply because the facility owners can't risk the lawsuits. I'm a big fan of airsoft (similar to paintball), and trying to find land to play on has been a bitch at times because even for adults, nobody wants to risk that somebody might be injured and sue. As a school-district worker, I've seen many of the field-trips I used to attend be cancelled, either because parents themselves are too worried about injuring their little darlings, or because the schools just cannot afford insurance for the risks anymore.
No wonder all our kids are getting fat and lazy, the only activities they can enjoy nowadays are the low-risk ones that don't involve getting much off your ass. It's a sad, sad world that lawyers have made, where being injured automatically makes you a victim with a big settlement, rather than somebody who accepted the visible and known risks of a given situation, and didn't make the odds (or in many cases, somebody who did something that was dumb, outside the rules, and got hurt+sued anyhow).
I'm not saying that they shouldn't have access, the issue is sometimes in the timetable (e.g. how to notify concerned 3rd-parties) as well as a presentation of such materials. If a judge wants to see the pictures, I find that a reasonable request. Now if it was a tabloid trial and a lawyer wanted to wave them in front of a courtroom, that might be a different issue (in other words, one should be able to present a reasonable statement as to what the files contain, and as such allow for an acceptable viewing condition for verification).
But the main issue is not with encrypted files, but with files that *appear* to be encrypted. The above is a reason I might be using encryption (the "don't have anything to hide" arguement that is so often used fails to distinguish between private and illegal), but that I in fact use encryption should be in no way indicitive that I have an illegal activities to hide, but may in fact lead to an assumption that I am withholding access to evidence that actually does not exist (a file that is large and filled with gibberish-like data might appear to be a hidden encrypted volume, but in fact be a swapfile).
In a case that I've never been able to understand, I was once called up by a police officer accusing me of shoplifting from a movie store, with my vehicle plate # and description on file. He railed at me for quite awhile despite my protestations of innocence, even claiming to have video of me committing a theft. When I called the store owner, we found out that:
a) No thefts had been commited at that store any time recently
b) The item supposedly stolen was not something the store had ever carried (some adult movie)
c) They did not have recording cameras (only screen output)
It took, however, a call from the store owner herself to the police to get them to leave me alone. As I later went over the description and found some flaws between my usual garb (which was consistent with the officer's description) and what I was wearing that day, I can only assume that somebody whom didn't like me called it in, and the police failed to verify it was a legitimate call. That being the case I would hate to see what could happen if I was called in for something more publicly heinous. It seems that using either the big "T" or the big "P" are a good way to have the police drop on somebody like a 100-ton boulder.
Well, in some cases it seems that the mere presence of trace-hiding or encryption technology has been used to insinuate guilt. That's wrong.
In my case, I'm an amateur photographer. I have some various pictures of women I know, all above the age of consent, and taken (or given to me) with permission. Some are friends, others may have been previous relationships (usually deleted at the termination of the relationship), etc. However, I wouldn't want my friends or especially my current gf to look at them. I personally wouldn't want cops looking at them either, nor would the subject of the picture likely want them to.
Now, as I said I'm just an amateur/hobbyist. There are plenty of other cases where some material may be private, but not illegal. In some of these cases the material may even be professional. Clients would be rather upset if photographer X's collection of pictures were seized and viewed by unwanted persons. Said clients might be even more concerned if they were shown in a courtroom full of people (lawyer displaying photo and asking "are you SUUUUURE that this person is of legal age").
Some things are private, or personal, and there they many reasons to have material protected. Pictures are one case, confidential client/business information, medical records, and others exist. There are cases where even in a courtroom, one might be reticent to have it display unless particular privacy conditions were met, and/or there was time to notify concerned parties. You should be able to prove within reasonable doubt that the files in question are in fact legal, but private material.
And further to that. Let's say you are a photographer in the above situation, maybe an amateur. You do release the key(s) to your various files so that the cops can view them. The find another file which looks suspicious, and demand access. However, that file is actually just swap data, something that you don't have a password to (I download various things that end up password-protected, with the buggers online wanting me to hit their website and click banners to get a key), or just an otherwise nonsense file. Well, now how am I to prove that file X, which police are demanding access to, is in fact something I cannot provide access to, whether or not I am willing?
Digital files are amorphous by nature, and unlike a safe or some other well-defined object there isn't a magical way to strongly determine what they all contain.
Sure. You can also not go to the goatse site, but that doesn't make it an overly productive addition to the net. It's not that those sites can't be productive though, it's just that many aren't
Not all these changes have been positive. In terms of large-scale changes along those lines I'd probably include the nasties such as doubleclick and whatnot. They've definately had a lasting impression on how advertising is done on the 'net (regardless of poor motives or whether it was a possitive impression)
There is something inherently wrong with the system when those who rise to the top are more likely to be dishonest than the general population.
Oil, grease, and shit all tend to float to the top...