I think there's a basic misunderstanding here. When I say "break the law" I mean just that, because the department itself requires that the officers obey the law. YES they have the authority to "break the law" by using their lights and sirens when it is allowed by the department (and city/state regulations) but that does NOT mean they can break it at will, outside of the regulations.
Do not confuse the authority to break it under specific circumstances with the authority to break it at all times, under ANY circumstance.
And do not get hung up on the phrase "break the law." You know what I mean. If there is a posted speed limit of 25 and the officer is going 70 then he is technically breaking the law unless he is operating under the regulations for his department/city/state. Being a sworn officer gives absolutely no protection under the law for breaking laws that are not covered by regulations.
Officers are supposed to obey all traffic laws. Code 1 and code 2 responses require obeying the laws. Only code 3 calls (lights and siren) allow them to break these laws.
Cops frequently break these rules. Sometimes it's about expedience, sometimes it's about laziness.
Most cops have informal "code 2 high" which means not using lights or siren and breaking traffic laws as safely as possible. Sometimes they will just use a quick squirt of the lights to get through an intersection.
Bottom line: if the regulations specify obeying the law then they damn well ought to. They are setting a horrible example. When the regulations allow it they should of course feel free to go all out.
The "war" to protect our privacy and individual freedoms has been over for a few years now. Posting on the internet is not going to change anything. Anything you do, anything you say, anything you write is now fair game for surveillance and use against you.
It's over, people. Democrats will use these powers the same way as Republicans because it is not about politics, it's about power. The era where our country could be one of the good guys is gone, and now the world sees us as just another threat to freedom.
Stop wondering how other countries could yield to evil, they did it exactly the same way we did: quietly.
In the late 1980s I worked at a chain bookstore. I walked in one morning and the front table was stacked high with an L. Ron title, 'Battlefield Earth' maybe?
I'd never looked at his fiction so I picked one up and pretty much just laughed out loud and put it back.
We never sold any of them. Not even one. It was crappy, even worse than the Honor Harrington series.
Posting that you are NOT upgrading is quite valid. This is not just some simple tech forum, people are forming opinions about technology here. It's just as important to know that someone is NOT upgrading to a new piece of hardware/software/whatever as it is to know about those jumping in and upgrading. That you are NOT upgrading to CS3 is informative in its own way and might make people question if it's worth it for themselves.
It's good to actually see different opinions, even if one doesn't agree with them. One day you might see that.:)
Nice try, but when I was online in the starting areas all I heard from people were the same thing. "I can't move." "It never stops loading" etc. OK, so it's hundreds of objects, not thousands. It only FEELS like thousands. Any machine (like mine) that can run modern online games like WoW, EvE, CoH, etc. should be able to have at least acceptable performance, and it's far from it.
The content of SL is so primitive and inconsistent there is no reward for the effort one has to make to get anywhere or find anything. It might've looked impressive to someone is say, 1998, but in 2007 it just looks crappy.
The basic experience has always been the problem with SL. If you can't move easily, if the performance is hideous, and the appearance is awful any other feature is a moot point. Fix that basic experience and it would have the potential to be interesting.
Over the last week I've taken my fifth visit to SL since it began. Although the interface has changed a smidgen, and there are now partially fleshed out tutorials nothing has really changed.
Avatars still look like very old Poser characters. Animations for things as simple as walking are poorly done. People look like skittering wind up toys.
Performance is very, very poor, as always. Moving even a couple of virtual feet triggers up to several minutes of lag while thousands of objects load, usually in teeny bite size primitives.
And as usual, within a couple of minutes leaving the tutorial area I was hopelessly lost and unable to find anyone to talk to.:)
Second Life has always been nothing more than an experiment in marketing. I don't understand how anyone could possibly spend more than a short while in there before becoming completely frustrated with the hideous performance.
The number of people in this thread saying "Oh well, there's nothing we can do about it anyway" is just bizarre. It's one thing to think the threat is not worth the money, it's another to think there's no point in even trying to defend against it. Weird.
Perhaps SOME meetings are not meant to be creative, and are just for information sharing but many meetings ARE meant to be creative. Many meetings are intended for problem-solving, for example, and creativity can be quite useful so you don't want to stifle it.
I work at an ad agency where by definition we have Creative Meetings where creative concepts are going to be brainstormed.
Meetings are not all simply to seek consensus, etc...
It's not meetings, it's how/why they are held
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Meetings by themselves don't have problems. It's meetings that are flawed.
1. Meetings that should never have been held. They serve no real purpose. 2. Meetings with no structure, and no one to lead them 3. Meetings where there is an agenda but no one follows it and no one guides it 4. Meetings that run overtime due to mismanagement and no one is willing to conclude it. 5. Meetings that start late because there is no respect for the time of the attendees.
These are just some of the things that make me dread meetings. Over the last 6 years out of the many meetings I've been obliged to attend maybe five were really useful.
I remember installing Magellan on my ALR 286 with a 40 meg HD around 1987-1988. I don't remember the exact feature set but after indexing the drive I could do pretty much everything I am able to do with the modern OS searches like Spotlight.
I'm glad that Spotlight is getting smarter but I think it's silly that these things were not part of the original release.
You don't always need to break new ground. Sometimes you just need to make sure you at least cover the ground already handled by the original innovators.
At my company I had to beg to be notified of new hires before their first day. Sometimes they still show up on the first day and I have no idea who they are, and no one even knows where they are supposed to sit.
I made a PDF full of nice big screenshots and labels as a reference for using remote access and webmail. I print it out for each new employee and offer to review it with them. No one wants the review, most people throw out the reference.
This would be fine except they're not doing it because they are skilled. They are doing it because they do not give a shit. After all, they can always just phone me at home on a Sunday night because they don't know how to use remote access.
I've discussed it with the General Manager and the HR Manager and tried to explain that it saves the company money when employees are more self sufficient, and that the investment in time spent training (15-20 minutes) is worth it in productivity. They also do not give a shit.
So I still print out the "welcome" docs and ask if people want to review it but... I also no longer give a shit. At least not until I work somewhere more sensible about productivity and the new hire process.:)
"...and it's debatable whether IT qualifies as a profession..."
That one's at the top of the second page. As soon as I saw it I knew I was reading the work of an idiot.
This is not reasoned input from someone at the receiving end of I.T. support, it's just another weasel on the web trying to get some attention. It is only masquerading as insight.
I was just leaving the house and I saw that there was a lunar eclipse. Then I turned the other direction and there was Hale-Bopp, a weird white smudge low on the horizon. That was so freaking cool. It stuck around for quite some time.
People who use APE dependent apps are already familiar with the bugs that come along with that choice. They shouldn't be surprised or alarmed by this. APE is already one of the first things I check for on an OS X machine that is acting flakey.//just say no to 'haxies'///they should call them 'crappies'
Some "breakthroughs" lead to dead ends, some are just paving the way to more effective treatments down the road. Some are so targeted that they aren't applicable to more than one type of cancer, or one particular form of a single type of cancer.
Red tape can indeed slow things down but it can also help winnow out the wheat from the chaff.
Far too many people "cross the border" not for actual treatments but bogus crap out of desperation, and then they die anyway. Wheee!//cancer survivor///had lots of rads////did not get to turn into the Hulk
I'm a cancer survivor and I don't buy into this conspiracy dumbness.
Best reason I can give is that cancer crosses all boundaries. Rich, poor, smart, dumb, everyone. So many people have suffered directly or indirectly from cancer it would be impossible to suppress major advances. Of the people involved in a major advance more than enough would have a personal interest in the progress that suppression simply could not succeed. Some things are too big and involve too many people to ever be suppressed. It's just not in human nature to stay silent about Big Things.
Eraser can (and will) destroy your install even if you do everything properly. Please check their support forum before using this software, it is hideously buggy and destructive.
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That has got to be the worst, most misleading headline you've managed to create.
You're not just an idiot, you're a fucking idiot. There's a distinction.
Are you thinking of plain old USC?
The UC system is broken down like the poster said. UCLA, UCSD, etc. They are also frequently described as "UC San Diego, UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine."
USC is not part of this state system.
I think there's a basic misunderstanding here. When I say "break the law" I mean just that, because the department itself requires that the officers obey the law. YES they have the authority to "break the law" by using their lights and sirens when it is allowed by the department (and city/state regulations) but that does NOT mean they can break it at will, outside of the regulations.
Do not confuse the authority to break it under specific circumstances with the authority to break it at all times, under ANY circumstance.
And do not get hung up on the phrase "break the law." You know what I mean. If there is a posted speed limit of 25 and the officer is going 70 then he is technically breaking the law unless he is operating under the regulations for his department/city/state. Being a sworn officer gives absolutely no protection under the law for breaking laws that are not covered by regulations.
I worked at two police departments.
Officers are supposed to obey all traffic laws. Code 1 and code 2 responses require obeying the laws. Only code 3 calls (lights and siren) allow them to break these laws.
Cops frequently break these rules. Sometimes it's about expedience, sometimes it's about laziness.
Most cops have informal "code 2 high" which means not using lights or siren and breaking traffic laws as safely as possible. Sometimes they will just use a quick squirt of the lights to get through an intersection.
Bottom line: if the regulations specify obeying the law then they damn well ought to. They are setting a horrible example. When the regulations allow it they should of course feel free to go all out.
The "war" to protect our privacy and individual freedoms has been over for a few years now. Posting on the internet is not going to change anything. Anything you do, anything you say, anything you write is now fair game for surveillance and use against you.
It's over, people. Democrats will use these powers the same way as Republicans because it is not about politics, it's about power. The era where our country could be one of the good guys is gone, and now the world sees us as just another threat to freedom.
Stop wondering how other countries could yield to evil, they did it exactly the same way we did: quietly.
In the late 1980s I worked at a chain bookstore. I walked in one morning and the front table was stacked high with an L. Ron title, 'Battlefield Earth' maybe?
I'd never looked at his fiction so I picked one up and pretty much just laughed out loud and put it back.
We never sold any of them. Not even one. It was crappy, even worse than the Honor Harrington series.
Posting that you are NOT upgrading is quite valid. This is not just some simple tech forum, people are forming opinions about technology here. It's just as important to know that someone is NOT upgrading to a new piece of hardware/software/whatever as it is to know about those jumping in and upgrading. That you are NOT upgrading to CS3 is informative in its own way and might make people question if it's worth it for themselves.
:)
It's good to actually see different opinions, even if one doesn't agree with them. One day you might see that.
Nice try, but when I was online in the starting areas all I heard from people were the same thing. "I can't move." "It never stops loading" etc. OK, so it's hundreds of objects, not thousands. It only FEELS like thousands. Any machine (like mine) that can run modern online games like WoW, EvE, CoH, etc. should be able to have at least acceptable performance, and it's far from it.
The content of SL is so primitive and inconsistent there is no reward for the effort one has to make to get anywhere or find anything. It might've looked impressive to someone is say, 1998, but in 2007 it just looks crappy.
The basic experience has always been the problem with SL. If you can't move easily, if the performance is hideous, and the appearance is awful any other feature is a moot point. Fix that basic experience and it would have the potential to be interesting.
Over the last week I've taken my fifth visit to SL since it began. Although the interface has changed a smidgen, and there are now partially fleshed out tutorials nothing has really changed.
:)
Avatars still look like very old Poser characters. Animations for things as simple as walking are poorly done. People look like skittering wind up toys.
Performance is very, very poor, as always. Moving even a couple of virtual feet triggers up to several minutes of lag while thousands of objects load, usually in teeny bite size primitives.
And as usual, within a couple of minutes leaving the tutorial area I was hopelessly lost and unable to find anyone to talk to.
Second Life has always been nothing more than an experiment in marketing. I don't understand how anyone could possibly spend more than a short while in there before becoming completely frustrated with the hideous performance.
The number of people in this thread saying "Oh well, there's nothing we can do about it anyway" is just bizarre. It's one thing to think the threat is not worth the money, it's another to think there's no point in even trying to defend against it. Weird.
Perhaps SOME meetings are not meant to be creative, and are just for information sharing but many meetings ARE meant to be creative. Many meetings are intended for problem-solving, for example, and creativity can be quite useful so you don't want to stifle it.
I work at an ad agency where by definition we have Creative Meetings where creative concepts are going to be brainstormed.
Meetings are not all simply to seek consensus, etc...
Meetings by themselves don't have problems. It's meetings that are flawed.
1. Meetings that should never have been held. They serve no real purpose.
2. Meetings with no structure, and no one to lead them
3. Meetings where there is an agenda but no one follows it and no one guides it
4. Meetings that run overtime due to mismanagement and no one is willing to conclude it.
5. Meetings that start late because there is no respect for the time of the attendees.
These are just some of the things that make me dread meetings. Over the last 6 years out of the many meetings I've been obliged to attend maybe five were really useful.
I remember installing Magellan on my ALR 286 with a 40 meg HD around 1987-1988. I don't remember the exact feature set but after indexing the drive I could do pretty much everything I am able to do with the modern OS searches like Spotlight.
I'm glad that Spotlight is getting smarter but I think it's silly that these things were not part of the original release.
You don't always need to break new ground. Sometimes you just need to make sure you at least cover the ground already handled by the original innovators.
...nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with moonrocks.
That's awesome. I could finally generate some revenue for my department... by leeching off of dumbness!
At my company I had to beg to be notified of new hires before their first day. Sometimes they still show up on the first day and I have no idea who they are, and no one even knows where they are supposed to sit.
:)
I made a PDF full of nice big screenshots and labels as a reference for using remote access and webmail. I print it out for each new employee and offer to review it with them. No one wants the review, most people throw out the reference.
This would be fine except they're not doing it because they are skilled. They are doing it because they do not give a shit. After all, they can always just phone me at home on a Sunday night because they don't know how to use remote access.
I've discussed it with the General Manager and the HR Manager and tried to explain that it saves the company money when employees are more self sufficient, and that the investment in time spent training (15-20 minutes) is worth it in productivity. They also do not give a shit.
So I still print out the "welcome" docs and ask if people want to review it but... I also no longer give a shit. At least not until I work somewhere more sensible about productivity and the new hire process.
"...and it's debatable whether IT qualifies as a profession..."
That one's at the top of the second page. As soon as I saw it I knew I was reading the work of an idiot.
This is not reasoned input from someone at the receiving end of I.T. support, it's just another weasel on the web trying to get some attention. It is only masquerading as insight.
I was just leaving the house and I saw that there was a lunar eclipse. Then I turned the other direction and there was Hale-Bopp, a weird white smudge low on the horizon. That was so freaking cool. It stuck around for quite some time.
People who use APE dependent apps are already familiar with the bugs that come along with that choice. They shouldn't be surprised or alarmed by this. APE is already one of the first things I check for on an OS X machine that is acting flakey. //just say no to 'haxies' ///they should call them 'crappies'
Some "breakthroughs" lead to dead ends, some are just paving the way to more effective treatments down the road. Some are so targeted that they aren't applicable to more than one type of cancer, or one particular form of a single type of cancer.
//cancer survivor ///had lots of rads ////did not get to turn into the Hulk
Red tape can indeed slow things down but it can also help winnow out the wheat from the chaff.
Far too many people "cross the border" not for actual treatments but bogus crap out of desperation, and then they die anyway. Wheee!
That is completely different from deliberately conspiring to suppress advances in treatment or cures.
It's awful, and it's wrong, but it's not the same thing.
I'm a cancer survivor and I don't buy into this conspiracy dumbness.
Best reason I can give is that cancer crosses all boundaries. Rich, poor, smart, dumb, everyone. So many people have suffered directly or indirectly from cancer it would be impossible to suppress major advances. Of the people involved in a major advance more than enough would have a personal interest in the progress that suppression simply could not succeed. Some things are too big and involve too many people to ever be suppressed. It's just not in human nature to stay silent about Big Things.
Eraser can (and will) destroy your install even if you do everything properly. Please check their support forum before using this software, it is hideously buggy and destructive.
It must've been very hard to re-write "Snood" for open source. Give them an award!
I was in the database.
Idiots.
And this happens the same week a mortgage company lost my parents's financial info for their home loan.