Finally why would they use them over of all things an anti-war protest?
I mean if you want to spy on them you send in agents with small cameras and MK1 eyeballs and ears. It would be cheaper and far more effective.
There's a cost to putting eyes and ears on the ground. The Feds would rather put payroll money into a nice, fat corporate contract. Privatization where it's at these days.
If you wanted to test them with untrained observers in the wild then just about any sporting event right down to a high school football game would do and again be less likely to end up in the Washington Post.
Maybe the tests over high school football games were wildly successful and the devices are in production use now.
With the wholesale evesdropping the Feds have allegedly been involved with through the telcos in the "War on Terror" and the conflation of patriotism with blind obedience, I don't doubt there are massive programs to collect as much information as possible about the government's "enemies" inside our own borders.
Move the computer to a public location.
That way you can watch them. Eewww!! Aren't there laws against watching a minor masterbate? Think of the children!!
That robberies occur around check-cashing businesses on payday is not surprise to anyone. I'd like to know what other patterns they found, but in the spirit of the parent post, why would the cops tip their hand to would-be criminals? All told, TFA is just a short fluff piece with no real detail apart. The city reports two consecutive years of double digit decreases in violent crime. There's a lot more going on here than extra patrols around the check-cashing businesses on Friday afternoon.
You think there'd be a more humane way of killing any animal than to insert (i.e. shoot) a bomb inside its body.
Do you have any idea how large a 50' whale is? I suppose a more humane way to kill it would be with a big-assed cannon, but regular guns, spears, etc are simply not immediately lethal to an animal of that size. Shooting a whale with an elephant gun is comparable to shooting a grizzly bear with a BB gun. An explosive tipped harpoon shot into a critical area is very humane method of dispatching a whale. It's certainly faster than poking the animal with so many spears it looks like a porcupine and waiting for it to bleed to death.
The Natives generally hunt from skin covered boats which are far too small for a cannon. The explosive tipped harpoons are also tied to a line and bouy system, making the whale much easier to recover if it sinks after death, as many do.
Move to Alaska... we used to have 5 time zones, now we have 2. They were compressed back in the 80s so we wouldn't be so far away, timewise, from the rest of the country. Best case scenario... you effectively get triple DST. Unfortunately, you have to live in the Aleutian Islands for that benefit.
> The ultimate kill with a rifle is only the very end of the process.
I've hunted since I was 10 years old. The kill is most certainly NOT the end of the process. The carcass needs to be cleaned and packed out (unless you're one of those hunters who never leaves the roadway). The meat typically needs to be cut into roasts and steaks, ground into burger or sausage, then wrapped and frozen. The very end of the hunting process is when you sit down in front a roast beast dinner... best accompanied by vegetables from the garden.
That being said, pulling the trigger should be left to someone who can see downrange. Hunting accidents aren't uncommon, even here in Alaska where the hunters/square mile is pretty low. I'd support blind hunters if the firearm had an interlock system where a sighted assistant hunter had to actively engage a mechanism allowing the trigger to function. If and only if the sighted assistant/guide is holding the 'button' down could firearm be discharged. If the assistant sees something unsafe at the very last instant, he simply releases his grip on the button, instantly securing the firearm.
Global warming is happening. We need to figure out how to either deal with the consequences or figure out how to stop it. Knowing how to stop global warming is the part of the system that requires we know if man or nature is the cause.
Been there, done that. My first job out of school had me managing a computer lab full of CTOS machines and a B1900 mainframe, later replaced with an A4, about $250k of equipment that Unisys had donated to the university. It ran well if, and only if, 100% of the machinery on the network was Unisys. Years later I bought the lot at auction for $300.
The problem with isolating a cube dweller from everyone else's sounds is that you need a ceiling to do so effectively. The problem with ceilings is then you need ventilation and fire sprinklers to each cube. That's a huge cost and removes any advantage cubicles may have, in particular, being able to rearrange them into a new floor plan.
I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts, the money used to pay these county level homeland security officers came directly from a federal DHS grant. DHS grant money is everywhere these days.
Is anyone receiving a fat campaign contribution in exchange for this legislation? Hard to believe some Congress-critter is going to this effort to exclude Google, Yahoo!, etc. without a push from some big players lining up to come in and take over the HUGE Chinese market.
By the time you pay Uncle Sam his cut in income tax AND self-employment tax (~14% last time I did contract work), $25/hr turns in to a mere $16 dollars in your pocket. Take your expenses out of that. Of course, you can play depreciation games with hardware and software you purchase in support of your business enterprise. You can also claim expenses for travel to the customer's site. Especially tasty if you have to meet with the customer in in a nice location such as the Mexican Riviera!
The money is nice, but it's the lifestyle most of us like. Nothing pumps up your adreneline like busting into 50 foot seas, while you're 25 feet above the deck tieing down an 800 pound crab pot. I would guess that blasting off the face of the planet into space is a big motivator for many of the astronauts.
Exactly my point! If more kids learned about firearms the right way instead of "Oh my Gosh, look what I found in Dad's nightstand - let's play Dirty Harry", we would all be much safer. Parents, IMHO, whether they are gun owners or not, need to a) become informed about firearm safety themselves and b) teach their kids about guns, removing the mystery and romance associated with gun play as well as instill respect for the real damage guns can cause.
I grew up hunting and fishing at a young age in Montana and Alaska. We had guns scattered throughout the house and every single one of them was always treated as though it were loaded, whether it had shells in it or not. My mom's four kids and my step-dad's four kids all made it to adulthood and there aren't any holes in the house.
As children, we learn how to drive a vehicle by watching our parents drive. Most US kids learn about firearms by watching television, not the best source of information and role modelling when it comes to gun safety. As when consuming alcohol, many of us, as kids, are magically expected to make the right judgements with firearms without the benefit of any real training or parental guidance. WRT Timmy accidently killing his sister: Guns don't kill people, ignorance kills people.
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There's a cost to putting eyes and ears on the ground. The Feds would rather put payroll money into a nice, fat corporate contract. Privatization where it's at these days.
If you wanted to test them with untrained observers in the wild then just about any sporting event right down to a high school football game would do and again be less likely to end up in the Washington Post.Maybe the tests over high school football games were wildly successful and the devices are in production use now.
With the wholesale evesdropping the Feds have allegedly been involved with through the telcos in the "War on Terror" and the conflation of patriotism with blind obedience, I don't doubt there are massive programs to collect as much information as possible about the government's "enemies" inside our own borders.
That's patently ridiculous. Everyone knows there's a positive correlation between the lack of pirates and global warming.
That robberies occur around check-cashing businesses on payday is not surprise to anyone. I'd like to know what other patterns they found, but in the spirit of the parent post, why would the cops tip their hand to would-be criminals? All told, TFA is just a short fluff piece with no real detail apart. The city reports two consecutive years of double digit decreases in violent crime. There's a lot more going on here than extra patrols around the check-cashing businesses on Friday afternoon.
Do you have any idea how large a 50' whale is? I suppose a more humane way to kill it would be with a big-assed cannon, but regular guns, spears, etc are simply not immediately lethal to an animal of that size. Shooting a whale with an elephant gun is comparable to shooting a grizzly bear with a BB gun. An explosive tipped harpoon shot into a critical area is very humane method of dispatching a whale. It's certainly faster than poking the animal with so many spears it looks like a porcupine and waiting for it to bleed to death.
The Natives generally hunt from skin covered boats which are far too small for a cannon. The explosive tipped harpoons are also tied to a line and bouy system, making the whale much easier to recover if it sinks after death, as many do.
Move to Alaska ... we used to have 5 time zones, now we have 2. They were compressed back in the 80s so we wouldn't be so far away, timewise, from the rest of the country. Best case scenario ... you effectively get triple DST. Unfortunately, you have to live in the Aleutian Islands for that benefit.
> The ultimate kill with a rifle is only the very end of the process. I've hunted since I was 10 years old. The kill is most certainly NOT the end of the process. The carcass needs to be cleaned and packed out (unless you're one of those hunters who never leaves the roadway). The meat typically needs to be cut into roasts and steaks, ground into burger or sausage, then wrapped and frozen. The very end of the hunting process is when you sit down in front a roast beast dinner ... best accompanied by vegetables from the garden.
That being said, pulling the trigger should be left to someone who can see downrange. Hunting accidents aren't uncommon, even here in Alaska where the hunters/square mile is pretty low. I'd support blind hunters if the firearm had an interlock system where a sighted assistant hunter had to actively engage a mechanism allowing the trigger to function. If and only if the sighted assistant/guide is holding the 'button' down could firearm be discharged. If the assistant sees something unsafe at the very last instant, he simply releases his grip on the button, instantly securing the firearm.
Global warming is happening. We need to figure out how to either deal with the consequences or figure out how to stop it. Knowing how to stop global warming is the part of the system that requires we know if man or nature is the cause.
Been there, done that. My first job out of school had me managing a computer lab full of CTOS machines and a B1900 mainframe, later replaced with an A4, about $250k of equipment that Unisys had donated to the university. It ran well if, and only if, 100% of the machinery on the network was Unisys. Years later I bought the lot at auction for $300.
The problem with isolating a cube dweller from everyone else's sounds is that you need a ceiling to do so effectively. The problem with ceilings is then you need ventilation and fire sprinklers to each cube. That's a huge cost and removes any advantage cubicles may have, in particular, being able to rearrange them into a new floor plan.
I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts, the money used to pay these county level homeland security officers came directly from a federal DHS grant. DHS grant money is everywhere these days.
Is anyone receiving a fat campaign contribution in exchange for this legislation? Hard to believe some Congress-critter is going to this effort to exclude Google, Yahoo!, etc. without a push from some big players lining up to come in and take over the HUGE Chinese market.
The only dead tree based periodical I read is one about dead trees: WoodenBoat Magazine. It's been a staple of mine for 20+ years.
By the time you pay Uncle Sam his cut in income tax AND self-employment tax (~14% last time I did contract work), $25/hr turns in to a mere $16 dollars in your pocket. Take your expenses out of that. Of course, you can play depreciation games with hardware and software you purchase in support of your business enterprise. You can also claim expenses for travel to the customer's site. Especially tasty if you have to meet with the customer in in a nice location such as the Mexican Riviera!
The money is nice, but it's the lifestyle most of us like. Nothing pumps up your adreneline like busting into 50 foot seas, while you're 25 feet above the deck tieing down an 800 pound crab pot. I would guess that blasting off the face of the planet into space is a big motivator for many of the astronauts.
I grew up hunting and fishing at a young age in Montana and Alaska. We had guns scattered throughout the house and every single one of them was always treated as though it were loaded, whether it had shells in it or not. My mom's four kids and my step-dad's four kids all made it to adulthood and there aren't any holes in the house.
As children, we learn how to drive a vehicle by watching our parents drive. Most US kids learn about firearms by watching television, not the best source of information and role modelling when it comes to gun safety. As when consuming alcohol, many of us, as kids, are magically expected to make the right judgements with firearms without the benefit of any real training or parental guidance. WRT Timmy accidently killing his sister: Guns don't kill people, ignorance kills people.