At a minimum, stability is needed in contracts and laws. I suppose that's part of the reason that some legal terms have a meaning divorced from everyday usage.
In 1985 I was running 78 simultaneous telco channels 24/7, bare metal, on a 6 MHz Z80. Why in the world would you be running an operating system to do that? There are too many things running an OS for which there is no excuse to have an OS.
(Billing and some overhead was handled by another 6 MHz Z80 running TurboDOS, which could be shut down for hours at a time.)
In small towns, police serve at the pleasure of a small number of people. If they abuse the locals, they don't stay employed very long. A lot of displeasure with police could be avoided if control were local and obvious.
Option 5: take it to the police, hand it over to them, and describe where and when you found it.
Option 6: mail it anonymously to the police, describing where and when you found it. For the paranoid, this is the safest option that still allows the possibility that the true owner gets his money back.
Option 7: Canvas the neighborhood, asking if anybody had lost anything. (Can you describe it?)
Option 8: Put up a poster there, saying: valuables found at this location, call XXXxxxx with description.
Personally, I think being abusive towards a police officer should get you arrested.
You are among the majority of people who think that the police should have special privileges beyond the minimum needed for the performance of those among their duties which are just. I do not agree.
Police officers are individuals. I've seen them be far more nasty than the situation required. I've seen them receive abuse without responding, that no person should have to endure. The fact that there aren't a whole lot more Darwin award recipients among those abusing policemen is a great commendation for the police in general.
Prove it. Not just the easy cases where things go bad, not just the average trend. You wrote NEVER, so prove never, that there is no situation where "vigilante justice" is preferable to all other possibilities.
Blacks are about 9% of Connecticut's population. That's below the national average but higher than most states. If 3 times as many whites as blacks are arrested for crimes, blacks have a (91/9)/3 = 3.4 times higher crime arrest rate
The difference in incarceration rates is mainly because black criminals were far more likely to be convicted and sentenced to prison time than white criminals who had committed the same offense
Don't you see the bias in that claim? Processing through the government justice system is what filters arrest rates into conviction and sentencing rates. You are saying that conviction in Connecticut is significantly different from having actually committed the crime. You are claiming that the notoriously liberal state of Connecticut unjustly imprisons a disproportionate number of blacks. Thus one and probably both of the following claims is true: liberals are disproportionally bad, blacks are disproportionally bad, based on the numbers you cite and other publicly available information.
To the extent that any effect exists, a pub named "Hobbit" would probably help the business of the Hollywood Corp. This is pure assholery, and the legal threat harms the franchise.
Good idea. I hope you're planning on using ECC. Still, it seems that there will be adventurous people who want to experience another star system, so that interstellar bodyfax is going to have to be sent back with experience intact.
There's the possibility that an interstellar object would have position and velocity appropriate to provide "slingshot" acceleration toward another goal, such as has been used for planetary exploration. My guess is it isn't likely.
Except for some vague references to parallelizing (alleged) essentially single threaded code and peephole optimization, what have they done? Where's the great advance in software that the headline promises? How are the new algorithms difference from the old ones? Where's the statement of the underlying difficulties? TFA is inexcusable puffery.
That's an interesting tidbit, and an illustration of how silly social engineering can be. Singapore is 85 miles from the equator, so they don't experience summer and winter as the temperate zones do.
Generally, office jobs are 9-5 if lunchtime is minimal (nominally 20 minutes) or 8-5 if an hour is allowed for lunch. My guess is that employees like to maximize home time, and prefer 9-5 over a leisurely lunch.
Most business communication does not span 5 or more time zones. When it does, the effective rule is "deal with it". Schedule conversations when the other party is available, or make special arrangements.
The electrons in wire move toward the positive terminal at a rate measured in millimeters per minute. Their motion has no practical relevance to the behavior of electric circuits.
First, the average motion of electrons is many orders of magnitude different from the instantaneous velocity, which is about 1500 km/s in copper. Second, have you never heard of vacuum tubes? Typical television CRTs have electron velocity in excess of 0.3 c. I don't know what electron velocity is in modern silicon semiconductors, but to get 25 ps switching times with a 100 nm gate width, effective speeds must be well in excess of 4000 m/s.
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The other two daughters want a study also. Gonerilonomics. Cordeliaonomics.
At a minimum, stability is needed in contracts and laws. I suppose that's part of the reason that some legal terms have a meaning divorced from everyday usage.
It's easy to turn café or féte into cafeteria.
In 1985 I was running 78 simultaneous telco channels 24/7, bare metal, on a 6 MHz Z80. Why in the world would you be running an operating system to do that? There are too many things running an OS for which there is no excuse to have an OS.
(Billing and some overhead was handled by another 6 MHz Z80 running TurboDOS, which could be shut down for hours at a time.)
Not necessarily. Read up on mu-law coding.
In small towns, police serve at the pleasure of a small number of people. If they abuse the locals, they don't stay employed very long. A lot of displeasure with police could be avoided if control were local and obvious.
Option 5: take it to the police, hand it over to them, and describe where and when you found it.
Option 6: mail it anonymously to the police, describing where and when you found it. For the paranoid, this is the safest option that still allows the possibility that the true owner gets his money back.
Option 7: Canvas the neighborhood, asking if anybody had lost anything. (Can you describe it?)
Option 8: Put up a poster there, saying: valuables found at this location, call XXXxxxx with description.
I'm sure there are other possibilities.
You are among the majority of people who think that the police should have special privileges beyond the minimum needed for the performance of those among their duties which are just. I do not agree.
Police officers are individuals. I've seen them be far more nasty than the situation required. I've seen them receive abuse without responding, that no person should have to endure. The fact that there aren't a whole lot more Darwin award recipients among those abusing policemen is a great commendation for the police in general.
Just to give figures: about 42% of households and 30% of adults in the US have one or more firearms. (Gallup, 2005)
Prove it. Not just the easy cases where things go bad, not just the average trend. You wrote NEVER, so prove never, that there is no situation where "vigilante justice" is preferable to all other possibilities.
Don't you see the bias in that claim? Processing through the government justice system is what filters arrest rates into conviction and sentencing rates. You are saying that conviction in Connecticut is significantly different from having actually committed the crime. You are claiming that the notoriously liberal state of Connecticut unjustly imprisons a disproportionate number of blacks. Thus one and probably both of the following claims is true: liberals are disproportionally bad, blacks are disproportionally bad, based on the numbers you cite and other publicly available information.
Connecticut has the 21st highest percentage of blacks, so it's not one of the lowest, it's on the high side of the middle.
There's a group of these frogs in California. Did they get there when the Brooklyn Dodgers moved?
To the extent that any effect exists, a pub named "Hobbit" would probably help the business of the Hollywood Corp. This is pure assholery, and the legal threat harms the franchise.
She might do well asking the ACLU to sue her persecutors.
Good idea. I hope you're planning on using ECC. Still, it seems that there will be adventurous people who want to experience another star system, so that interstellar bodyfax is going to have to be sent back with experience intact.
There's the possibility that an interstellar object would have position and velocity appropriate to provide "slingshot" acceleration toward another goal, such as has been used for planetary exploration. My guess is it isn't likely.
Except for some vague references to parallelizing (alleged) essentially single threaded code and peephole optimization, what have they done? Where's the great advance in software that the headline promises? How are the new algorithms difference from the old ones? Where's the statement of the underlying difficulties? TFA is inexcusable puffery.
And the automatic hole-in-one golf ball.
That's an interesting tidbit, and an illustration of how silly social engineering can be. Singapore is 85 miles from the equator, so they don't experience summer and winter as the temperate zones do.
Generally, office jobs are 9-5 if lunchtime is minimal (nominally 20 minutes) or 8-5 if an hour is allowed for lunch. My guess is that employees like to maximize home time, and prefer 9-5 over a leisurely lunch.
Most business communication does not span 5 or more time zones. When it does, the effective rule is "deal with it". Schedule conversations when the other party is available, or make special arrangements.
"High noon" in GMT doesn't make much sense in the Hawaiian night.
First, the average motion of electrons is many orders of magnitude different from the instantaneous velocity, which is about 1500 km/s in copper. Second, have you never heard of vacuum tubes? Typical television CRTs have electron velocity in excess of 0.3 c. I don't know what electron velocity is in modern silicon semiconductors, but to get 25 ps switching times with a 100 nm gate width, effective speeds must be well in excess of 4000 m/s.
In Los Angeles, some freeways are jammed from 6 AM to 10 AM and then again from 3 PM to 7 PM or later. Staggering business hours won't help there.