No. The phone is an interactive distraction which is not the same as a radio etc. If you bothered to read the rest of my post, you would've noticed that I addressed the social problem. I'm sure your bitch-ass has a problem with that, too because it doesn't involve rainbows, ponies and pity parties.
Fines won't stop this just like they don't stop speeding. Fines are just tax revenue for the state. The answer is to remove the incentive to use the damn phone while driving. Maybe just rewrite the software running the towers to pick up relative motion of a node exceeding a certain speed (either from the phone's gps or from triangulation), it disables the interface, or at least disallows certain traffic (like sms).
Perhaps a better solution to idiocy is to let darwin take his course in society a bit more instead of pushing to protect everyone from themselves. Make car insurance optional and only protect those whom the policies list. Remove any other legal liabilities to anyone else and reset the propaganda machine to inform people in blunt language they are NOT safe and that no one gives a shit about their long term survival except themselves. Lets see how quickly EVERYONE realizes their sorry asses depend on their attentive driving and not on the piece of cardboard in the glove box or anything else. Around here, most of the inattentive driving results in 30mph in-a-45 double line weavers. A good honk of the horn 'resets' them, however, some actually go back to it after a few minutes.
A vote for democrats and/or republicans, whose parties increase the state's reach for ideological reasons and to corner the market, is a vote for more of the police state mentality, taxation, and deficit spending required to enforce it all. Don't let the left divide with stupid social justice and single issue shit, because a free country has liberty and justice FOR ALL, not state forced 'privilege' for specific castes at the expense of others (labeled as 'hate groups'), and choosing who 'wins' and who 'loses' in life based on attributes that weren't supposed to matter. Don't let the neo-right tell you that corporates care about steady jobs or lower taxes for the working class either. Ironically, those "he's worse than me" ads are perfect at showing that neither party has an objective or functional solution for what ails the country. Fuck them. The gubernatorial elections are coming up for many states. For those of you advocating 'working within system' style change, here's an opportunity. If you can, vote against both and send a message.
Yeah... hard hitting for 1989 maybe, when bart saying "eat my shorts" was considered crazily rebellious. By the mid 90s, Simpsons political and social content became extremely bland, and the jokes, unfunny. Staying power means having mass appeal, and that means being interesting enough to uninteresting minds, while being bland enough not to offend any of them to the point where there's serious backlash. Shit that that is dull as hell.
God forbid. When I was a kid, we had water guns, pellet guns (without that lame orange plastic shit), and we would get rowdy and roughhouse. By the standards of the time, I was pretty tame, but, by today's, I would be one of those 8yos labeled terrorists for bringing a fork to school or modeling the school building in some FPS. Today's parents are raising their kids kids to be the tame, delicate, and dependent special little snowflakes that today's society wants them to be. Yuck. A little blood splatter in their video games isn't going to turn them into murderers. That shit's been debunked thoroughly since the jack thompson and joe leiberman days.
A first person SHOOTER without the violence? wtf? Go play nerf arena.
I guess it explains why I dont' watch the simpsons.. it's about as boring and bland as possible while still calling it 'comedy. I want the violence. It's part of the fun.
Sure. corps do government a favor, toss the puck over the side (or through the revolving door at the top of the pyramid), and government throws them a bone.
Without it, the government could overtly censor anything it didnt' like, so no, it's still better that we have it than not. You expect the government to regulate the media into telling the truth? hahaha
So how is this different, functionally, from state owned media like the soviet union's pravda? I mean, at least with that publication, everyone KNEW what it was, and who wrote its copy. I"m sure a lot of publications are/were doing this, esp the big ones. These days I would not assume anything I'm told is anything but lies by omission doused in extra potent koolaid. News is flavored, now, to the prevalent mindsets created by the propaganda.
It's a sad state of affairs for supposed bastions of liberty and democracy like the USA. How can free nations be governed by the people when the people have no real information on what the government is doing?
Bought a used panasonic svhs deck with svideo out and a time base corrector. Got a used capture card that has svideo in. I used an xfi card I had laying around to capture the audio at 48khz 16 bit (for dvd/ac3). It is possible to get old pro-grade vhs equipment with component outputs and a requisite component in capture device, but this is more money, and I wasn't convinced it would make much difference over a short-run svideo link for low grade standard vhs.
After installing lagarith lossless video codec, I used virtualdub to capture the video/audio output of the vhs player at 720x480. This results in losslessly compressed avi which could be edited in virtualdub to cut out unwanted parts, or it can be loaded in vegas or premier. After the editing, avisynth scripts could optionally be used to filter the noise out. There are gpu enabled plugins for it that work really well for this. After the editing and tweaking of the optional avisynth filters, the footage is probably as good as it will get. Just load up the scripts in virtualdub and reencode back to lagarith again, or if the filtering was skipped, just save out the edits made back to lagarith.
I also wanted my stuff on dvd to hand to non-technical family, so I used hcenc to push the avisynth script to dvd compliant mpeg2. This encoder does an excellent job and takes avisynth scripts as input. For the ac3 audio, I used aften. I used dvdlab to create menus and master the dvd image. I suppose if menus aren't needed, the dvdlab step could be skipped by using dvdauthor, instead, to create the dvd-video file structure and imgburn to burn it to a disc. I do recommend at least placing indexes at regular intervals so that the video can be skipped through with the chapter skip buttons.
This windows-centric method really wasn't that hard and should be doable with OSS equivalents. In terms of cost, the deck I managed to get my hands on cost me $100, and the dvdlab software is cheap (free as in beer and uncrippled if you use it within the first 30 days of installation). Like everything else, it's a cost/benefit ratio calculation, but I really doubt anyone else could've gotten a better result, even with pro-grade hardware.
optional, if you want a nice gui for menus and mastering/authoring of a dvd-video compliant image/disc. http://www.mediachance.com/dvd...
to filter the video. requires learning its scripting syntax, and reasonably powerful gpu if you want to use the gpu accelerated plugins http://avisynth.nl/index.php/M...
well obviously they wouldn't have to go if they don't want to. either way the hospital staff will be exposed. the point is to minimize exposure to the general population.
Why are we bringing people infected with a virulent disease that has no real cure back to this country? Send doctors in a cargo plane with the needed equipment and to the patients there. Then quarantine the personnel and the patients for a minimum time before releasing to be sure it hasn't spread.
Total transparency is not healthy for human psychology and social behavior. Just look at what the spying programs have done to create the current delusional group psychosis that is washington DC culture. Do you really want to be at the mercy of a bureaucratically enforced morality for every little decision you make? If everyone knew everyone else's business, you can be sure that getting permission to do anything noteworthy would be next to impossible. You can kiss individuality goodbye.
I would never, ever want to live in such a society.
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No. The phone is an interactive distraction which is not the same as a radio etc. If you bothered to read the rest of my post, you would've noticed that I addressed the social problem. I'm sure your bitch-ass has a problem with that, too because it doesn't involve rainbows, ponies and pity parties.
Fines won't stop this just like they don't stop speeding. Fines are just tax revenue for the state. The answer is to remove the incentive to use the damn phone while driving. Maybe just rewrite the software running the towers to pick up relative motion of a node exceeding a certain speed (either from the phone's gps or from triangulation), it disables the interface, or at least disallows certain traffic (like sms).
Perhaps a better solution to idiocy is to let darwin take his course in society a bit more instead of pushing to protect everyone from themselves. Make car insurance optional and only protect those whom the policies list. Remove any other legal liabilities to anyone else and reset the propaganda machine to inform people in blunt language they are NOT safe and that no one gives a shit about their long term survival except themselves. Lets see how quickly EVERYONE realizes their sorry asses depend on their attentive driving and not on the piece of cardboard in the glove box or anything else. Around here, most of the inattentive driving results in 30mph in-a-45 double line weavers. A good honk of the horn 'resets' them, however, some actually go back to it after a few minutes.
A vote for democrats and/or republicans, whose parties increase the state's reach for ideological reasons and to corner the market, is a vote for more of the police state mentality, taxation, and deficit spending required to enforce it all. Don't let the left divide with stupid social justice and single issue shit, because a free country has liberty and justice FOR ALL, not state forced 'privilege' for specific castes at the expense of others (labeled as 'hate groups'), and choosing who 'wins' and who 'loses' in life based on attributes that weren't supposed to matter. Don't let the neo-right tell you that corporates care about steady jobs or lower taxes for the working class either. Ironically, those "he's worse than me" ads are perfect at showing that neither party has an objective or functional solution for what ails the country. Fuck them. The gubernatorial elections are coming up for many states. For those of you advocating 'working within system' style change, here's an opportunity. If you can, vote against both and send a message.
Yeah... hard hitting for 1989 maybe, when bart saying "eat my shorts" was considered crazily rebellious. By the mid 90s, Simpsons political and social content became extremely bland, and the jokes, unfunny. Staying power means having mass appeal, and that means being interesting enough to uninteresting minds, while being bland enough not to offend any of them to the point where there's serious backlash. Shit that that is dull as hell.
God forbid. When I was a kid, we had water guns, pellet guns (without that lame orange plastic shit), and we would get rowdy and roughhouse. By the standards of the time, I was pretty tame, but, by today's, I would be one of those 8yos labeled terrorists for bringing a fork to school or modeling the school building in some FPS. Today's parents are raising their kids kids to be the tame, delicate, and dependent special little snowflakes that today's society wants them to be. Yuck. A little blood splatter in their video games isn't going to turn them into murderers. That shit's been debunked thoroughly since the jack thompson and joe leiberman days.
At least we agree on nerf arena.
This is pure fantasy.
To really cut emissions we need emissionless power generation. The closest thing we get to that in reasonable power density is nuclear.
A first person SHOOTER without the violence? wtf? Go play nerf arena.
I guess it explains why I dont' watch the simpsons.. it's about as boring and bland as possible while still calling it 'comedy. I want the violence. It's part of the fun.
Excuse me, it's 'Dear Leader'. Please report to the ministry of truth for 'processing'.
Sure. corps do government a favor, toss the puck over the side (or through the revolving door at the top of the pyramid), and government throws them a bone.
Exactly.. at least it was honest in that regard.
Without it, the government could overtly censor anything it didnt' like, so no, it's still better that we have it than not. You expect the government to regulate the media into telling the truth? hahaha
So how is this different, functionally, from state owned media like the soviet union's pravda? I mean, at least with that publication, everyone KNEW what it was, and who wrote its copy. I"m sure a lot of publications are/were doing this, esp the big ones. These days I would not assume anything I'm told is anything but lies by omission doused in extra potent koolaid. News is flavored, now, to the prevalent mindsets created by the propaganda.
It's a sad state of affairs for supposed bastions of liberty and democracy like the USA. How can free nations be governed by the people when the people have no real information on what the government is doing?
Bought a used panasonic svhs deck with svideo out and a time base corrector. Got a used capture card that has svideo in. I used an xfi card I had laying around to capture the audio at 48khz 16 bit (for dvd/ac3). It is possible to get old pro-grade vhs equipment with component outputs and a requisite component in capture device, but this is more money, and I wasn't convinced it would make much difference over a short-run svideo link for low grade standard vhs.
After installing lagarith lossless video codec, I used virtualdub to capture the video/audio output of the vhs player at 720x480. This results in losslessly compressed avi which could be edited in virtualdub to cut out unwanted parts, or it can be loaded in vegas or premier. After the editing, avisynth scripts could optionally be used to filter the noise out. There are gpu enabled plugins for it that work really well for this. After the editing and tweaking of the optional avisynth filters, the footage is probably as good as it will get. Just load up the scripts in virtualdub and reencode back to lagarith again, or if the filtering was skipped, just save out the edits made back to lagarith.
I also wanted my stuff on dvd to hand to non-technical family, so I used hcenc to push the avisynth script to dvd compliant mpeg2. This encoder does an excellent job and takes avisynth scripts as input. For the ac3 audio, I used aften. I used dvdlab to create menus and master the dvd image. I suppose if menus aren't needed, the dvdlab step could be skipped by using dvdauthor, instead, to create the dvd-video file structure and imgburn to burn it to a disc. I do recommend at least placing indexes at regular intervals so that the video can be skipped through with the chapter skip buttons.
This windows-centric method really wasn't that hard and should be doable with OSS equivalents. In terms of cost, the deck I managed to get my hands on cost me $100, and the dvdlab software is cheap (free as in beer and uncrippled if you use it within the first 30 days of installation). Like everything else, it's a cost/benefit ratio calculation, but I really doubt anyone else could've gotten a better result, even with pro-grade hardware.
lagarith
http://lags.leetcode.net/codec...
hanks's mpeg2 encoder
http://hank315.nl/
virtualdub
http://virtualdub.org/
ac3 audio encoder
http://aften.sourceforge.net/
to master the mpeg2/ac3 elementary streams from hcenc and aften into dvd-video
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.n...
optional, if you want a nice gui for menus and mastering/authoring of a dvd-video compliant image/disc.
http://www.mediachance.com/dvd...
to filter the video. requires learning its scripting syntax, and reasonably powerful gpu if you want to use the gpu accelerated plugins
http://avisynth.nl/index.php/M...
take your wannabe sinophilic ass over to *.cn
well obviously they wouldn't have to go if they don't want to. either way the hospital staff will be exposed. the point is to minimize exposure to the general population.
Why are we bringing people infected with a virulent disease that has no real cure back to this country? Send doctors in a cargo plane with the needed equipment and to the patients there. Then quarantine the personnel and the patients for a minimum time before releasing to be sure it hasn't spread.
Moving infected people around is a mistake.
Total transparency is not healthy for human psychology and social behavior. Just look at what the spying programs have done to create the current delusional group psychosis that is washington DC culture. Do you really want to be at the mercy of a bureaucratically enforced morality for every little decision you make? If everyone knew everyone else's business, you can be sure that getting permission to do anything noteworthy would be next to impossible. You can kiss individuality goodbye.
I would never, ever want to live in such a society.
Yeah.. instead of timing your jumps, now you just hold down the jump key.
Or you could just learn to kill them. Abusers make easy frags.
haha yeah..I have to admit, the death sounds are funny...sampled from the show and mutilated..
Uh.. yeah, that's exactly what I said.
So when someone challenges your politics, you run away?
centrism and compromise don't define truth.
you will care when they tone things down to make your 'boss fight' more 'inclusive' to some generalized feminine stereotype.