Hijacking at the top of the thread just to point out:
The cops didn't actually trawl facebook in this case, and it's a classic case of the summary being extremely misleading. Posting fake events will only waste your own time.
How would you feel if you visited a bank the day after it had been robbed, and random people accused you of being a bank robber, just because you happened to be at the scene of a previous robbery?
I just drove 80km across Brisbane*, and saw no less than ten police cars stopped by road works with their flashing lights on. Apparently it's now SOP to have a cop at every road works, in addition to all the other flashing lights and distractions
Except jumping on foot is not only possible, it's easy. The money is offered for something the lawyer claims is impossible. There was no need for you to synthesise some hypothetical case when an actual one exists.
There's been an open source BIOS project for years. I'm not holding out much hope of getting anything useful out of it, I just switched to a platform that already had it right. x86 Mac with EFI, of course.
In New Zealand it works similarly, except you must provide information about the person who was driving, or that it was stolen at the time, again in a notarized affidavit. Seems reasonable, barring the theft of it you should be aware of every person that drives your car.
Say the car was involved in a fatal hit/run or bank robbery, it's not going to do you much good to say that anybody could have been driving your car. Similarly if you left your keys in it and it was stolen, you are somewhat liable for making your car too easy to steal.
Unless you live in a country where a gigabyte of data costs as much as a meal, which would make it a costly legitimate defense. Besides, I'm sure if someone like me were prosecuted, a savvy prosecutor would assert we are in a position to know better than to use WEP, after a little discovery about what I do for a job. Not saying your argument is weak, I'm just sayin'. Know what I'm sayin'?
Exactly. No, as long as one life was saved it is almost never worth it. People kill themselves, they don't inadvertently meet powerpoles due to a lack of billboards telling them not to. You'll never be able to say whether 'investing' in a road safety campaign saves any lives or not, but when the majority of them seem far more distracting anyway it's not unreasonable to say that some of them will have had the opposite effect (I refer to my post earlier in this thread explaining no less than 12 pictorial signs only a couple of metres apart).
Safety Skeptic? Far from it - I believe in safety, that's why I tell my machine operators and forklift drivers that I'll fire them if I see them listening to music players under their earmuffs. I put people on notice for leaving shit in walkways. But I don't feel sorry for people who suffer purely from their own stupidity and don't believe there's much you can do to stop that happening. Years ago, one of our guys broke a leg under an 800 kilogram roll of paper - he hadn't mounted it with the hydraulic crane completely, and thought he could finish off the job by kicking it on. Tucked inside his "get well soon" card was a "you're fired you stupid prick, every one of us is ashamed of you and your cost to our production will be borne by us all" card.
I have no idea what database engine iTunes uses, and that's the point. Out of the box, it doesn't suck, and AmaroK does.
And that's still not considering the looong startup time of AmaroK, the non-log volume control with all the variance in the bottom quarter of the dial, the regularity with which AmaroK corrupts its own DB, the lack of gapless playback (just trying doesn't count). You seem to think I haven't used AmaroK - I did for years when I ran linux because it was indeed the best available - for Linux. Dozens of apps were like that for me, like Gimp. It's terrible, but it's the best we had. Then I dropped Linux, along with all of these apps that were brilliant, as long as we ignored the commercial offerings.
Face it - you'd use a better media player if you could. Even Windows Media Player (ignoring DRM and concentrating purely on playback) runs rings around AmaroK.
"TFA" is worthless, but speculating on potential spikes in common, relatively flat variables should not eliminate the speculation on effects of observable variation in very prominent and very uncommon variables. Put more simply, and in a car analogy, if you install a set of used tires and 2 blow out during your normal commute home, look first at your tires and then at potential anomalies in the road.
Four about five years now, "Healthnsafety" has been an entire industry in New Zealand. It's not helping us in this time of recession that some of the highest paid people are doing nothing toward actual production but instead holding regular meetings about things like how often the fire exit signs need to be cleaned and so on. Local councils have handfuls of people deciding what ever to do next, all in the name of safety. The newspapers love to report how many road fatalities we didn't have in a given month, as if that's some useful statistic.
On the whole, we seem brainwashed enough as a nation that it doesn't look like it's going anywhere. Most of the people I speak to genuinely believe things like judder bars, huge reflective signs you need to dip for at night, $40,000 solar powered signs reminding us to wear our seatbelts all make us safer and are worth it. Time and time again solar panels get ripped off (you know, the really expensive things) and rather than fire some stupid twit on the council for having such a crazy idea in the first place, the thefts are denounced as putting "lives at risk". I give up, I swear in 20 years all this country will be good at is holding health and safety meetings and nothing else.
About a year ago in Matakana, NZ they erected a series of signs, no less than 12 of them, all only a couple of metres apart. The series of pictures was meant to represent one's life flashing before one's eyes, but had two unintended (but obvious side effects):
It took people's eyes off the road for a good few seconds to try and figure out what all the signs were
Due to the sheer number of posts being driven into the ground without planning or consent, communications fiber in the ground didn't stand a chance.
The boards were all ordered down a couple of weeks later, but hey, at least we were all a little be safer for the time! Seriously, all road safety awareness in NZ is this pathetic.
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The cops didn't actually trawl facebook in this case, and it's a classic case of the summary being extremely misleading. Posting fake events will only waste your own time.
Oh, it works (by FOSS definition). Now got and look at the supported motherboards/chipsets page.
Please, don't give them ideas.
It's the only place I can get a signal! Your wifi might as well be encrypted.
I just drove 80km across Brisbane*, and saw no less than ten police cars stopped by road works with their flashing lights on. Apparently it's now SOP to have a cop at every road works, in addition to all the other flashing lights and distractions
Don't tase me, young man!
Except jumping on foot is not only possible, it's easy. The money is offered for something the lawyer claims is impossible. There was no need for you to synthesise some hypothetical case when an actual one exists.
Fair enough, but one would hope their Lawyer would have a better way with words than "bet you a million bucks"
There's been an open source BIOS project for years. I'm not holding out much hope of getting anything useful out of it, I just switched to a platform that already had it right. x86 Mac with EFI, of course.
Nah, go on - tell him how you really feel.
I think I've just figured out why there's such a backlog.
15 feet!? You were either way off in your measurement, extremely lucky, one-legged, or have a pretty perverse definition of 'awesome'.
I wish you wrote man pages
Kindly ask before just grabbing my IP, asshole.
Why?
I fail to see specifically which part of the GP's argument you are even refuting.
Say the car was involved in a fatal hit/run or bank robbery, it's not going to do you much good to say that anybody could have been driving your car. Similarly if you left your keys in it and it was stolen, you are somewhat liable for making your car too easy to steal.
Wow, will you check out the slash sixty-four on that! Whoo whoo whoo!
Unless you live in a country where a gigabyte of data costs as much as a meal, which would make it a costly legitimate defense. Besides, I'm sure if someone like me were prosecuted, a savvy prosecutor would assert we are in a position to know better than to use WEP, after a little discovery about what I do for a job. Not saying your argument is weak, I'm just sayin'. Know what I'm sayin'?
Safety Skeptic? Far from it - I believe in safety, that's why I tell my machine operators and forklift drivers that I'll fire them if I see them listening to music players under their earmuffs. I put people on notice for leaving shit in walkways. But I don't feel sorry for people who suffer purely from their own stupidity and don't believe there's much you can do to stop that happening. Years ago, one of our guys broke a leg under an 800 kilogram roll of paper - he hadn't mounted it with the hydraulic crane completely, and thought he could finish off the job by kicking it on. Tucked inside his "get well soon" card was a "you're fired you stupid prick, every one of us is ashamed of you and your cost to our production will be borne by us all" card.
You might say I believe in a kind of Darwinism.
And that's still not considering the looong startup time of AmaroK, the non-log volume control with all the variance in the bottom quarter of the dial, the regularity with which AmaroK corrupts its own DB, the lack of gapless playback (just trying doesn't count). You seem to think I haven't used AmaroK - I did for years when I ran linux because it was indeed the best available - for Linux. Dozens of apps were like that for me, like Gimp. It's terrible, but it's the best we had. Then I dropped Linux, along with all of these apps that were brilliant, as long as we ignored the commercial offerings.
Face it - you'd use a better media player if you could. Even Windows Media Player (ignoring DRM and concentrating purely on playback) runs rings around AmaroK.
I'm glad you're not bitter!
Four about five years now, "Healthnsafety" has been an entire industry in New Zealand. It's not helping us in this time of recession that some of the highest paid people are doing nothing toward actual production but instead holding regular meetings about things like how often the fire exit signs need to be cleaned and so on. Local councils have handfuls of people deciding what ever to do next, all in the name of safety. The newspapers love to report how many road fatalities we didn't have in a given month, as if that's some useful statistic.
On the whole, we seem brainwashed enough as a nation that it doesn't look like it's going anywhere. Most of the people I speak to genuinely believe things like judder bars, huge reflective signs you need to dip for at night, $40,000 solar powered signs reminding us to wear our seatbelts all make us safer and are worth it. Time and time again solar panels get ripped off (you know, the really expensive things) and rather than fire some stupid twit on the council for having such a crazy idea in the first place, the thefts are denounced as putting "lives at risk". I give up, I swear in 20 years all this country will be good at is holding health and safety meetings and nothing else.
Mod parent informative. South Auckland is New Zealand's Johannesburg. Being fatally wounded in a car crash would be somewhat a relief.
The boards were all ordered down a couple of weeks later, but hey, at least we were all a little be safer for the time! Seriously, all road safety awareness in NZ is this pathetic.