So if someone runs up and pantses you and another takes a pic of you in your skivvies, you were in public so there's no recourse for them posting it all over the Facebook?
No - "pantsing" someone, i.e. making unwelcome physical contact, is called "assault," possibly even "sexual assault," and is illegal. Posting a picture, obtained illegally, in a public forum is also a crime, probably harassment (but more likely, defamation), and is prosecutable in civil court at the very least.
Videotaping cops doing their jobs in a public place is not assault, nor is it harassment. Also worth note - the cops do not get to press charges on your behalf (as the cop in this tale apparently took it upon herself to do), they merely serve the charges being filed and make arrests if necessary.
Yeah ok the pics/vid of the *cops* is fine. But what about the other individuals in the frame of the shot? Do they have a right not to be filmed?
Voting numbers are so pathetically LOW that really you are right. But the actual REASON that voting doesn't matter is that people like YOU can't be bothered to put down the beer can and go out and vote.
Well who are you going to vote for? Assuming you are American you have the choice between Democrat and Republican and thats pretty much it. So whats the fucking point??
Seriously. People voting just makes them feel like they have a legitimate claim to power, thats all. See what happens if voter turnout drops below 5% and then wheres their 'legitimate' claim to power.
Incidentally, the big 'full faith and credit' case, that has never had its day in court, for whatever reason, is probably the one that would erupt if a homosexual couple duly married according to the procedures of a state where such is legal were to demand that a state where it isn't(or is overtly banned at the constitutional level) give full faith and credit to the actions of the state that married them. That one would get a bit touchy...
That would be awesome. Could even lead to a schism between the states! If theres one thing I'd like to see in my life time (next to contact with extraterrestrials) it would be the breakup of the united states of america. I know, its a lot to ask.
My 2c to that: Security and freedom are divergent goals. If we want to be completely safe, we'll have to be locked up in our homes. We risk death or injury every time we step out into the world. I thought this is what the "land of the free and home of the brave" in your national anthem meant. If you want to be free, you just have to be brave.
They should really change the anthem "land of the trapped, home of the cowards". As it is whenever people around the world hear it today they just laugh at America.
But you too are a real phenomenon. Psychopaths exist. It's a fact that must be accepted and factored into human interactions.
This is actually something that certain MMOs (such as Eve Online) are very good training for. I plan to get my child playing it asap so he can quickly understand how to deal with this kind of people (who are very very common in its player base).
Grief in a MMORPG, and you get kicked out and have to restart as a noob with low stats.
Interestingly some MMOs are based on encouraging players to grief and are mostly populated by sadists and masochists. (Eve Online for example).
I'm kind of reminded of the reason Buddhism was banished from India; the idea was that Buddhism was a religion tailored to attract all the demons posing as human beings. Once they all took up Buddhism, they were easily identified and purged. Maybe purge the (online world) of certain categories of MMO players?
re-watching Gerry Anderson shows proves to me that actual explosions and fire are a LOT more entertaining than computer graphics. Theres a feeling of realism in watching it; your brain KNOWS that this is a real object and this is real smoke etc. Modern CG just isn't the same.
Also imagine how much more fun it was to work on! Actually building models and then blowing them up.
I'd certainly feel better about my own lack of wealth if I could write off all self-made billionaires as assholes, but I prefer not to make assumptions about the character of people I never met.
So on what do you base your assertion? The Winklevoss thing, or something else?
The SGS is pretty much brick proof, even if you screw up the simple root instructions.
Currently running over clocked (Semaphore) CM 10 JVT with no problems.
Brick proof until the USB connector dies part way through an update. Jjust had that happen, brand new SGS, started to root it, failed, couldn't connect on USB again. Took it back and got a replacement though. I did read somewhere that the USB connectors on these can be dodgy.
This scenario evokes International Rescue. Obviously that says I'm old.
They will have to build something to carry this stuff. I imagine it'll be big and green and kind of look like a frog. It'll have a modular container system so it can carry different payloads for different disasters including one with a submarine.
The US support to Israel have never been for humanitarian purposes. It's there to secure a strong ally in the middle east. Removing that support might not be a bad idea since it creates a lot of hate towards the US amount the surrounding countries but the US will have to make sure that it doesn't rely on the middle east for oil first.
Unless you want to say, develop the most profitable game of all time, which is online only. Obviously is makes no sense to design a single player game first if you aren't creating a single player game.
Honestly, the big games are all about money (most are created by large public companies, so no surprise there!), and unless there is a subscription or in-game transactions, there isn't much money in keeping free servers running indefinitely.
Lets see, most profitable game of all time? World of Warcraft? Was that developed as a multiplayer game first? Not really. Its based on an old RTS game. While there was a multiplayer component in the original 1996 game, it wasn't the primary target and it was completely playable and enjoyable as a single player game.
So I'm going to argue that the most profitable game of all time was designed as a single player game first, since todays World of Warcraft is really an 'expansion' from that original 1996 RTS 'Warcraft: Orcs and Humans'.
When did Carl Sagan say that? In the Cosmos series, episode 8, he says, "... if we do not destroy ourselves, I believe that we will one day venture to the stars."
As for Fermi's Paradox, I think that one solution that is oft overlooked is that we simply haven't spent enough time looking. We've only had radio telescopes advanced enough to really detect extraterrestrial intelligence for about 50 years. It's almost comical that we would expect it to be so easy.
I'm not sure. There was a series on TV that I was addicted to, I watched every episode, I think it was aimed at kids. It wasn't specifically about space and I'm not sure that it was a 'Carl Sagan' series. But what he said is burned into my mind.
Actually I guess its one of the things that really started me believing in myself and my thinking since here was some famous scientist saying something that, to me, was just obviously false. So if I can *see* that, well I must be smart.:)
Anyhow I'm prompted to download Cosmos and watch it to see if its what I was watching.
That's an interesting hypothesis, and personally I hope it's right. I've always worried that the Fermi Paradox results from the enormous costs of traveling interstellar distances. Societies that could attempt it simply don't because it is prohibitive to do so. I'd much rather our species travel to another planet only to find it covered in algae than to have our species bottled up here for eternity.
Reminds me very much of "The Mote in God's Eye". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye The humans discover faster-than-light travel and encounter an intelligent species that never discovered the secret. They have degenerated into a civilization / crash / rebuild cycle.
I hope the same doesn't happen to us, as I don't think faster-than-light travel is possible.
I'll never forget, as a child, having my respect for Carl Sagan completely destroyed when I heard him say that, since the distances involved in interstellar travel were so huge it was impossible that any alien species would ever make such journeys. Even at as a child I could conceive of aliens for whom a journey of 1000 years would be acceptable. Why couldn't Carl Sagan conceive of it?
Hey look, God did sent bears to kill the children who mocked the old man's bald spot, but he DIDN'T put unicorns in North Korea. (2 Kings 2:23-24)
Get it straight!
and I've known many christians who say either "it was totally justified because they were mocking a PROPHET of THE LORD" or "it was ok because they weren't children they were teenagers".
I've heard you can add certificates to your browser to let the proxy server be trusted, but I can't confirm this.
I recently discovered that the Microsoft Threat Management Gateway can use group policy to push its certificate out to domain workstations and thereby 'man in the middle' their HTTPS traffic to inspect it for threats or naughtiness.
If it got compromised, of course, it'd be able to inspect for online banking, logins, passwords etc...
Advertising does use hypnotic techniques and people are amazingly suggestible. Anyone can be hypnotised (unless they've had posthypnotic suggestions implanted which block that state.
I say this as someone who participated in an experiment to see if it was possible to use hypnosis to block further hypnosis. It was successful. It had the side effect of making a lot of advertising cause the anti-hypnosis reaction to kick in. It was an eye opener.
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So if someone runs up and pantses you and another takes a pic of you in your skivvies, you were in public so there's no recourse for them posting it all over the Facebook?
No - "pantsing" someone, i.e. making unwelcome physical contact, is called "assault," possibly even "sexual assault," and is illegal. Posting a picture, obtained illegally, in a public forum is also a crime, probably harassment (but more likely, defamation), and is prosecutable in civil court at the very least.
Videotaping cops doing their jobs in a public place is not assault, nor is it harassment. Also worth note - the cops do not get to press charges on your behalf (as the cop in this tale apparently took it upon herself to do), they merely serve the charges being filed and make arrests if necessary.
Yeah ok the pics/vid of the *cops* is fine. But what about the other individuals in the frame of the shot? Do they have a right not to be filmed?
Oh, that's good, acting like voting matters.
Voting numbers are so pathetically LOW that really you are right. But the actual REASON that voting doesn't matter is that people like YOU can't be bothered to put down the beer can and go out and vote.
Well who are you going to vote for? Assuming you are American you have the choice between Democrat and Republican and thats pretty much it. So whats the fucking point??
Seriously. People voting just makes them feel like they have a legitimate claim to power, thats all. See what happens if voter turnout drops below 5% and then wheres their 'legitimate' claim to power.
Incidentally, the big 'full faith and credit' case, that has never had its day in court, for whatever reason, is probably the one that would erupt if a homosexual couple duly married according to the procedures of a state where such is legal were to demand that a state where it isn't(or is overtly banned at the constitutional level) give full faith and credit to the actions of the state that married them. That one would get a bit touchy...
That would be awesome. Could even lead to a schism between the states! If theres one thing I'd like to see in my life time (next to contact with extraterrestrials) it would be the breakup of the united states of america. I know, its a lot to ask.
My 2c to that: Security and freedom are divergent goals. If we want to be completely safe, we'll have to be locked up in our homes. We risk death or injury every time we step out into the world. I thought this is what the "land of the free and home of the brave" in your national anthem meant. If you want to be free, you just have to be brave.
They should really change the anthem "land of the trapped, home of the cowards". As it is whenever people around the world hear it today they just laugh at America.
But you too are a real phenomenon. Psychopaths exist. It's a fact that must be accepted and factored into human interactions.
This is actually something that certain MMOs (such as Eve Online) are very good training for. I plan to get my child playing it asap so he can quickly understand how to deal with this kind of people (who are very very common in its player base).
Grief in a MMORPG, and you get kicked out and have to restart as a noob with low stats.
Interestingly some MMOs are based on encouraging players to grief and are mostly populated by sadists and masochists. (Eve Online for example).
I'm kind of reminded of the reason Buddhism was banished from India; the idea was that Buddhism was a religion tailored to attract all the demons posing as human beings. Once they all took up Buddhism, they were easily identified and purged. Maybe purge the (online world) of certain categories of MMO players?
Wow, have you used Linux since 1996?
I've used Linux since 1991.
Its improved A LOT.
re-watching Gerry Anderson shows proves to me that actual explosions and fire are a LOT more entertaining than computer graphics.
Theres a feeling of realism in watching it; your brain KNOWS that this is a real object and this is real smoke etc. Modern CG just isn't the same.
Also imagine how much more fun it was to work on! Actually building models and then blowing them up.
You base that assertion on what, exactly?
I'd certainly feel better about my own lack of wealth if I could write off all self-made billionaires as assholes, but I prefer not to make assumptions about the character of people I never met.
So on what do you base your assertion? The Winklevoss thing, or something else?
Merry Christmas!
Because he was a lying weasel.
The SGS is pretty much brick proof, even if you screw up the simple root instructions.
Currently running over clocked (Semaphore) CM 10 JVT with no problems.
Brick proof until the USB connector dies part way through an update. Jjust had that happen, brand new SGS, started to root it, failed, couldn't connect on USB again. Took it back and got a replacement though. I did read somewhere that the USB connectors on these can be dodgy.
Does anyone know what the margin of error is on this observation?
Within a scale of 13.3 billion years, 380 million could plausibly be within a margin of error...
Of course what you failed to mention is that Microsoft only did this because the European Commission forced them to
Perhaps this is so NOW. But it will be interesting to see what direction Microsoft takes after Steve Ballmer's departure in 2013.
What? Is he getting hit by an asteroid??
This scenario evokes International Rescue. Obviously that says I'm old.
They will have to build something to carry this stuff. I imagine it'll be big and green and kind of look like a frog. It'll have a modular container system so it can carry different payloads for different disasters including one with a submarine.
Or SHADO. Deploy Skydiver!
Get-off-lawn disclaimer: I'm a bit too young to have caught that when it originally aired.
The best part of that skydiver scene was the "Boosters ready!! *shake*" girl. Wearing a mesh shirt and nothing underneath.
The US support to Israel have never been for humanitarian purposes. It's there to secure a strong ally in the middle east. Removing that support might not be a bad idea since it creates a lot of hate towards the US amount the surrounding countries but the US will have to make sure that it doesn't rely on the middle east for oil first.
Its to secure votes back in the USA.
Its an extension of the game. It continues the story.
Unless you want to say, develop the most profitable game of all time, which is online only. Obviously is makes no sense to design a single player game first if you aren't creating a single player game.
Honestly, the big games are all about money (most are created by large public companies, so no surprise there!), and unless there is a subscription or in-game transactions, there isn't much money in keeping free servers running indefinitely.
Lets see, most profitable game of all time? World of Warcraft? Was that developed as a multiplayer game first? Not really. Its based on an old RTS game. While there was a multiplayer component in the original 1996 game, it wasn't the primary target and it was completely playable and enjoyable as a single player game.
So I'm going to argue that the most profitable game of all time was designed as a single player game first, since todays World of Warcraft is really an 'expansion' from that original 1996 RTS 'Warcraft: Orcs and Humans'.
Ok wasn't Cosmos; Cosmos was 1980. I was still at school when I saw this on TV and I'm very very old :P
When did Carl Sagan say that? In the Cosmos series, episode 8, he says, "... if we do not destroy ourselves, I believe that we will one day venture to the stars."
As for Fermi's Paradox, I think that one solution that is oft overlooked is that we simply haven't spent enough time looking. We've only had radio telescopes advanced enough to really detect extraterrestrial intelligence for about 50 years. It's almost comical that we would expect it to be so easy.
I'm not sure. There was a series on TV that I was addicted to, I watched every episode, I think it was aimed at kids. It wasn't specifically about space and I'm not sure that it was a 'Carl Sagan' series. But what he said is burned into my mind.
Actually I guess its one of the things that really started me believing in myself and my thinking since here was some famous scientist saying something that, to me, was just obviously false. So if I can *see* that, well I must be smart. :)
Anyhow I'm prompted to download Cosmos and watch it to see if its what I was watching.
..because species with 1000 years lives dont evolve all that quickly.
The problem I had was that he COMPLETELY discounted the possibility. For him it was inconceivable. Carl FUCKING Sagan. I mean WTF was he smoking?
That's an interesting hypothesis, and personally I hope it's right. I've always worried that the Fermi Paradox results from the enormous costs of traveling interstellar distances. Societies that could attempt it simply don't because it is prohibitive to do so. I'd much rather our species travel to another planet only to find it covered in algae than to have our species bottled up here for eternity.
Reminds me very much of "The Mote in God's Eye". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye The humans discover faster-than-light travel and encounter an intelligent species that never discovered the secret. They have degenerated into a civilization / crash / rebuild cycle.
I hope the same doesn't happen to us, as I don't think faster-than-light travel is possible.
I'll never forget, as a child, having my respect for Carl Sagan completely destroyed when I heard him say that, since the distances involved in interstellar travel were so huge it was impossible that any alien species would ever make such journeys. Even at as a child I could conceive of aliens for whom a journey of 1000 years would be acceptable. Why couldn't Carl Sagan conceive of it?
I say those excuses don't make their god any less of an asshole.
I guess that by the standards of the day, he's a 'loving, fatherly' god...
Hey look, God did sent bears to kill the children who mocked the old man's bald spot, but he DIDN'T put unicorns in North Korea. (2 Kings 2:23-24)
Get it straight!
and I've known many christians who say either "it was totally justified because they were mocking a PROPHET of THE LORD" or "it was ok because they weren't children they were teenagers".
I've heard you can add certificates to your browser to let the proxy server be trusted, but I can't confirm this.
I recently discovered that the Microsoft Threat Management Gateway can use group policy to push its certificate out to domain workstations and thereby 'man in the middle' their HTTPS traffic to inspect it for threats or naughtiness.
If it got compromised, of course, it'd be able to inspect for online banking, logins, passwords etc...
Advertising does use hypnotic techniques and people are amazingly suggestible. Anyone can be hypnotised (unless they've had posthypnotic suggestions implanted which block that state.
I say this as someone who participated in an experiment to see if it was possible to use hypnosis to block further hypnosis. It was successful. It had the side effect of making a lot of advertising cause the anti-hypnosis reaction to kick in. It was an eye opener.