I was trying to clutter the discussion with levity, but humor is subjective. Yes, she looks like a tornado victim, but her behavior sounds pretty inappropriate for an airport.
Disorderly conduct has a very precise definition with lots of case law behind it. While I agree with your broader point, it really doesn't apply in this case... From what the article says, she completely lost it.
Lol, exactly! The airport ain't the Jerry Springer show... Same thing happened recently when an otherwise respectible college football player went ballistic when they told him to pull his pants up.
All I'm saying is it adds to the picture I have of this woman. Add the looks and stupidity to her potty mouth and loss of temper. She's the whole package.
She wasn't arrested for a refusing a patdown. She was arrested for being belligerent.
Totally true. First, look at her picture.
Second, read the article: "...airport authorities say she was belligerent and verbally abusive to security officers..." and "...Abbott yelled and swore at Transportation Security Administration agents Saturday afternoon at Nashville International Airport..." and "After the woman refused to calm down, airport police said, she was charged with disorderly conduct and taken to jail." and:
“I still don’t want someone to see our bodies naked,” Abbott said
Again, take a look at that picture.
And if you were still in doubt of this woman's poise and refinement: "At one point, Abbott tried unsuccessfully to take a video with her cellphone."
I just saw the 4 ports in the PDF drawing and called then jets. Don't have time to read the whole paper, but the charts and heat model seem reasonable.
the benefit is that it creates an incentive to invent or code something that does a better job than the current patent.
That might be one of the effects of patents in meatspace, but I don't think the evidence supports this in the software world. People still make software in Europe, no?
I'm sorry, but how long would it take to crack open a cotton gin and devise a manufacturing process to produce them?
That might not be the best example, since that patent was pretty evolutionary and Whitney never really made much money off of it. It was easy for farmers to just copy.
The whole point of patents is to encourage people to share their "secret formula" rather than keep a trade secret that dies with the company/inventor. There is no need for software patents, as anyone with a debugger can see what your "secret formula" is. All you are doing at that point is protecting the interests of the patent holder, which does not exactly benefit society.
Except that there IS a drought at the moment, in eastern Africa... I'm sure those folk would really appreciate all that food you're burying. Thanks.
They certainly would, but then this is not really germane to the conversation. If you take away the subsidy, there would be no food to bury. In short, they'd be in exactly the same situation.
Perhaps there is some way in which you could distribute excess food without crashing food prices, but that's another discussion entirely.
I should have said that their current product isn't as good as DropBox and Google's free offering, and that their current backup product is pretty slick.
The new service seems to emphasize photo sync and music sharing, and I have no idea how well that will work.... but as I say, it had better be good.
Dell has zero track record and so I can't really lash out at them, but I'm quite skeptical that they can dazzle right off the line.
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I was trying to clutter the discussion with levity, but humor is subjective. Yes, she looks like a tornado victim, but her behavior sounds pretty inappropriate for an airport.
Disorderly conduct has a very precise definition with lots of case law behind it. While I agree with your broader point, it really doesn't apply in this case... From what the article says, she completely lost it.
She didn't have to go mama bear - she only needed to say "no". They might not have let her on the plane, but she wouldn't be sitting in jail.
Lol, exactly! The airport ain't the Jerry Springer show... Same thing happened recently when an otherwise respectible college football player went ballistic when they told him to pull his pants up.
All I'm saying is it adds to the picture I have of this woman. Add the looks and stupidity to her potty mouth and loss of temper. She's the whole package.
And apparenty she can't figure out how to register on slashdot.
You're right. Only good looking, smart people with tech skills deserve to have their rights respected.
She just looks like the people who yell at the cashiers at Wal-Mart, that's all.
PS - is your sig from the blurb to a low budget gay porno or what?
That all depends on whether you get your rocks off reading Dr. Seuss.
Agreed, that is troubling. Sono... sonic? Hello?
Still, the lady sounds like she was totally out of line.
If she had calmly stood her ground the worst that would have happened would be refusal to board the plane. Instead, she went all trailer park on them.
She wasn't arrested for a refusing a patdown. She was arrested for being belligerent.
Totally true. First, look at her picture.
Second, read the article: "...airport authorities say she was belligerent and verbally abusive to security officers..." and "...Abbott yelled and swore at Transportation Security Administration agents Saturday afternoon at Nashville International Airport..." and "After the woman refused to calm down, airport police said, she was charged with disorderly conduct and taken to jail." and:
Again, take a look at that picture.
And if you were still in doubt of this woman's poise and refinement: "At one point, Abbott tried unsuccessfully to take a video with her cellphone."
I just saw the 4 ports in the PDF drawing and called then jets. Don't have time to read the whole paper, but the charts and heat model seem reasonable.
Once again, my feeble attempt at humor is lost on the internet.
But I am curious how this alleviates that boundary layer...
Maybe it's a side-effect of using an air bearing? Little rotating concentrated jets of air blowing down on the hot metal plate....
And what about the continuously recurring "GPU" articles.
I think the news here is that someone is using them to actually render and display graphics, rather than to compute bitcoins.
the benefit is that it creates an incentive to invent or code something that does a better job than the current patent.
That might be one of the effects of patents in meatspace, but I don't think the evidence supports this in the software world. People still make software in Europe, no?
I'm sorry, but how long would it take to crack open a cotton gin and devise a manufacturing process to produce them?
That might not be the best example, since that patent was pretty evolutionary and Whitney never really made much money off of it. It was easy for farmers to just copy.
If patents were critcal to a healthy software marketplace, wouldn't Europe be a software desert?
The whole point of patents is to encourage people to share their "secret formula" rather than keep a trade secret that dies with the company/inventor. There is no need for software patents, as anyone with a debugger can see what your "secret formula" is. All you are doing at that point is protecting the interests of the patent holder, which does not exactly benefit society.
Well, yeah, but then they found themselves on the tail end of a lawsuit.
Except that there IS a drought at the moment, in eastern Africa... I'm sure those folk would really appreciate all that food you're burying. Thanks.
They certainly would, but then this is not really germane to the conversation. If you take away the subsidy, there would be no food to bury. In short, they'd be in exactly the same situation.
Perhaps there is some way in which you could distribute excess food without crashing food prices, but that's another discussion entirely.
food we bury in the ground (yes, really)
That's a good policy. We should always produce extra food and then bury the extra.
That way, when there's a drought, you just bury less food and no one starves, and prices stay relatively stable.
Food stability has to be balanced against food efficiency - not everything should be thrown to the free market.
I should have said that their current product isn't as good as DropBox and Google's free offering, and that their current backup product is pretty slick.
The new service seems to emphasize photo sync and music sharing, and I have no idea how well that will work.... but as I say, it had better be good.
Dell has zero track record and so I can't really lash out at them, but I'm quite skeptical that they can dazzle right off the line.
Apple's cloud product isn't as good at storage as what DropBox does for free.
Their cloud email/address/calendar sync isn't as good as what Google does for free.
Their cloud backup is pretty slick, but not so much better than what CrashPlan offers for free.
So they emphasize photo sync and music sharing. Meh, it had better be pretty good...
What hope does Dell have?
LOL, whattaya know? My memory ain't so good. :)
I'm sure this will be even more successful than the time they re-badged the iPod.