Um... The history of the effectiveness of torture is that it isn't. People will lie to stop the pain. Basic human psychology backed up by the evidence.
greed = malice, really. Only difference is if you get more out of your malice besides the basic pleasure of screwing with someone. With greed, someone always loses.
Well, the carriage is their property, so they may have the right to search it... Not that I approve of that nitpicking, I'm just thinking how the idiot lawyers will try to portray it.
Hey! Mass drivers are easy to get used to. Pick the most agressive thing they could possibly do, and that's what they'll do. Rhode Island drivers are the worst... You NEVER know what they're going to do.
Of course, back to the initial point... I wonder how much of that '5-7%' is inflated. After all, most of the time the person speeding is considered 'at fault', regardless of the actual events. At least in the US.
Not to sound cynical, but 'cynical' is the way reality is... But if Lincoln frees the slaves, his party suddenly gets 1/8 more votes in the next election, don't they - and concentrated in the areas where they need the votes most.
Maybe I've been watching the political process to much lately.
"There has never been nor will there ever be a video game that can compare with great art and literature like Rafael, Picasso, van Gogh, James Joyce, Yeats, or Shakespeare."
This is a pretty weird statement just by itself. Why is it that in cars, electricity, and hundreds of other things that make the world better are positive, but somehow Shakespeare is still some sort of god when it comes to literature dispite HUNDREDS of years of progress in how literature is formed? Neil Stephenson is _way_ better. Are there things based on Shakespeare? Sure. That doesn't make it some sort of perfect work of literature. It's a building block to better things, just like Newton's Laws.
I know what you mean... I recently had to confirm registration to an e-mail that wasn't free (no gmail, etc.). So I set up a Comcast e-mail account for that purpose, being the only one I had access to. Apparently, Comcast drops spam without saying anything. I can't get the confirmation mail, there's no spam folder to check for false positives, tech support can't even access the spam folder to check, there's no way to alter that to 'expert mode' or something, and I can't whitelist any e-mail addresses.
As an semi-related problem, you can't forward a message with inline attachments (like graphics). You have to download the pics, and then attach them. Not a problem for me, but my mom forwards all these joke e-mails... And there's no way to fix that, either. Can't disable the brokenness, and you can't manually inline images. And just to round it out, you can't bookmark the e-mail page as far as I can tell. You try, and it ends up sending you to the homepage.
"I hope not. I imagine the police could give you the stuff and ask you if you ever committed any crimes. It'll be a routine thing, just like taking your fingerprint and DNA and firstborn, when you are arrested."
You'd have to be REAL careful with that. For example, if someone asked me that, I could say no, I haven't committed any crimes. Because I don't consider speeding to keep up with traffic, not coming to a COMPLETE stop at a stop sign at 3:00 in the morning on a weekday, etc. to be crimes. Even if I did do something 'serious' (heh) like smoke pot, I'd still be able to say, without lying, that I committed no crime. After all, I didn't commit anything I consider a crime.
On the other hand, suppose a person goes to a prostitute in Nevada, where it's legal, but is guilty about it. She could say she never committed a crime, truthfully... And still get 'caught'. A lot of people consider adultery a crime, but in most states, it's not. Same thing.
And it gets even worse when you look at the way I sometimes answer questions (I don't lie, except to people who won't take 'I'm not telling you that' for an answer)... Example: Suppose I had a terminal disease. Someone asks, "How are you doing?" - response: "Nothing you should be worrying about." That's directly true... Nothing they can do, so they shouldn't be worrying. Would they worry? Probably, but that is NOT what I said. English is way too mutable for someone like me, who has to translate visual thinking into 'normal' speech before saying anything, anyway. And anyone could train themselves to do it given the motivation and some practice. It's really the same principle as the first bit of the comment, just more generalized. Don't lie, just answer the question they asked instead of the one they meant. Or vice versa. Whichever is more in your favor.
"downward scroll is the most natural and familiar to people"
Funny... My first impression was 'It acts that way? That's really counterintuitive...'
Why do you think FPS games generally bind zoom in to 'scroll up'? Or 'move forward' to the uppermost key? It's more intuitive to think of toward the screen as zooming, just like if you're leaning forward (which generally allows more detail in everyday life). Binding text size down to scroll down would make more sense from a user-interface standpoint.
Of course, I think IE started it, so it's their error initially.
Correction: It is being used as a tiny pump. A guy where I used to work was experimenting with one. And I seem to recall him mentioning that he had to licence a patent of some sort for it. I'd really like to go more into it, but while that part's open (due to the patent), I'm fairly sure the rest of the thing is still 'classified' ('propriatary' always makes me wince). Which is really too bad... everything this dude did was cool (ever see less than a single drop of water burst through.025 inch wall thickness stainless steel tubing and heat-discolor it?)
"you might want to skip the movie and stay in the Oval Office doing your job."
Actually, in that case, see a double feature!
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I'm alergic to nickel. Makes it really hard to find glasses... unless you get titanium frames, the bows tend to be nickel. Even my old SS glasses cause problems. My skin turns green and rots any metal in contact with it.
I didn't say that the law states that it is fair use, I said that they will state that it is fair use. You'll probably get a ruling similar to 'while not explicitly mentioned, the court finds that the photocoping of a complete document by the government* for purposes of doing their job falls under fair use exemption.'
You have to remember the government we're dealing with here... This is a court system that stated that a farmer growing feed for his own animals, with no sales to anyone at all, violated a federal law and that because it was related to interstate commerce, the Fed had jurisdiction. Note the total lack of commerce, never mind interstate commerce, in my summary...
* At least, we can HOPE they limit it to 'government'...
You could probably do that, but photocopies for internal use is probably going to be ruled 'fair use', even if you can get a non-IRS judge to hear the case (they have their own court system, after all...), and expect to get audited until the end of time...
Ok, I read your link. It's nice to know that any choice would violate one of those 5, but for one of those 5, violating it has no negative concequences: independence of irrelevant alternatives.
I can't see any reason why you'd need to violate that, or even use it. Why use a subset? Use the whole damn set. Then it doesn't matter if "the result [is] be compatible with the outcome for the whole set of options." Or what if you do take a subset: How does it matter, considering the dropped candidates in any reasonable implimentation is the lowest ranked one? That candidate has already lost, and therefore dropping him/her doesn't have an impact on the ranking of the relavent set. The way it's phrased indicates that someone who votes 'Green, Lib, Dem, Rep', and has the Green and Lib dropped as they ended up having insufficient votes, should be able to reorder the irrelevent set without affecting the others... And with Green and Lib dropped, the order 'Lib, Green, Dem, Rep' is identical to the previous, so it that holds. And the rest of the 5 hold for instant runoff voting in general, so that's all 5.
He probably brings the point up because people will ask.
Think about it for a while, instead of having a knee jerk reaction, will you?
1) We want to legalize drugs
2) We want to get people to start growing hemp, which used to be and could be again one of the US' biggest cash crops
3) But suppose we can't get 1). Well, we could still start growing hemp, because we can easily tell the differance between the 2... so we should allow hemp to be grown, even if drugs are not legal.
Basically, people are arguing 'well, we can't do 2) because 1) won't work'. The point is that you don't need 1) for 2) to be viable, so the issues are seperate - it eliminates an argument against 2).
"Example, you can easily change the home page of every user by simply creating a policy object and applying it to an Active Directory User"
Solution: Don't Do That.
Sheesh... The only reasonable reason for setting everyone's home page to the same thing (eliminating the point of a home page) is to prevent the browser from being hijacked and pointing to a porn site... And you might notice that's not a problem with Firefox.
General rule: If it doesn't cause you any grief, and it makes the lives of the people who are trying to work with the program harder, and there's no legitimate reason to do it, don't do it. I can see locking down certain aspects of a computer. Some things that should never be locked down are instalation of utilities (WinZIP or equivilent, for example, or calculators, or unit converters) (if you're running on XP, this changes from merely bad practice to downright evil... Just lock down the system directory to prevent overwrites, but with XP, you can roll back even that), user preferances (desktop, font colors, and other things that people rely on changing for usability), time setting (this used to be a problem for me. The computer lost hours per day, and I didn't have access to set the time or load a utility that would allow automatic time syncronization), etc. All these make a computer less useful as a tool, reducing efficiency.
(yes, this is a big pet peeve of mine. I had to spend 3 months trying to get permission to install software I needed)
If you're going to be an idiot and try to flame me for you missing the blatently obvious bad joke, at least have the common curtesy to log in so I can foe you.
Hint: The DEPARTMENT of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco has a slightly different acronym.
"but keep in mind that the speed of sound changes along with a change in pressure"
That's what I thought, but not according to this...
You also might not want to shoot actual potatos, unless you're looking to make hash browns at mach 2. Very little structural stability, a potato has.:)
I know that projectiles can go supersonic, I just am missing how the calculations work for it. Must have to do with the lack of unrestricted flow... If you're still in school, how about asking a prof? All the MEs I know lean toward the dynamics/vibrations/material science end of the spectrum.
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Um... The history of the effectiveness of torture is that it isn't. People will lie to stop the pain. Basic human psychology backed up by the evidence.
greed = malice, really. Only difference is if you get more out of your malice besides the basic pleasure of screwing with someone. With greed, someone always loses.
I actually wonder how susceptible I am to all of this, myself...
I hope everyone liked the post I made snowgirl make.
Fixed that for ya.
Well, the carriage is their property, so they may have the right to search it... Not that I approve of that nitpicking, I'm just thinking how the idiot lawyers will try to portray it.
You forgot Boobies.
Yes, funny, but it's true. Sex sells isn't just a trueism - it's a biological effect used as a marketing exploit.
So, did it work, or is he still on the computer? :)
Hey! Mass drivers are easy to get used to. Pick the most agressive thing they could possibly do, and that's what they'll do. Rhode Island drivers are the worst... You NEVER know what they're going to do.
Of course, back to the initial point... I wonder how much of that '5-7%' is inflated. After all, most of the time the person speeding is considered 'at fault', regardless of the actual events. At least in the US.
/. is my first MMORPG, apparently.
Maybe I've been watching the political process to much lately.
"There has never been nor will there ever be a video game that can compare with great art and literature like Rafael, Picasso, van Gogh, James Joyce, Yeats, or Shakespeare."
This is a pretty weird statement just by itself. Why is it that in cars, electricity, and hundreds of other things that make the world better are positive, but somehow Shakespeare is still some sort of god when it comes to literature dispite HUNDREDS of years of progress in how literature is formed? Neil Stephenson is _way_ better. Are there things based on Shakespeare? Sure. That doesn't make it some sort of perfect work of literature. It's a building block to better things, just like Newton's Laws.
As an semi-related problem, you can't forward a message with inline attachments (like graphics). You have to download the pics, and then attach them. Not a problem for me, but my mom forwards all these joke e-mails... And there's no way to fix that, either. Can't disable the brokenness, and you can't manually inline images. And just to round it out, you can't bookmark the e-mail page as far as I can tell. You try, and it ends up sending you to the homepage.
"I hope not. I imagine the police could give you the stuff and ask you if you ever committed any crimes. It'll be a routine thing, just like taking your fingerprint and DNA and firstborn, when you are arrested."
You'd have to be REAL careful with that. For example, if someone asked me that, I could say no, I haven't committed any crimes. Because I don't consider speeding to keep up with traffic, not coming to a COMPLETE stop at a stop sign at 3:00 in the morning on a weekday, etc. to be crimes. Even if I did do something 'serious' (heh) like smoke pot, I'd still be able to say, without lying, that I committed no crime. After all, I didn't commit anything I consider a crime.
On the other hand, suppose a person goes to a prostitute in Nevada, where it's legal, but is guilty about it. She could say she never committed a crime, truthfully... And still get 'caught'. A lot of people consider adultery a crime, but in most states, it's not. Same thing.
And it gets even worse when you look at the way I sometimes answer questions (I don't lie, except to people who won't take 'I'm not telling you that' for an answer)... Example: Suppose I had a terminal disease. Someone asks, "How are you doing?" - response: "Nothing you should be worrying about." That's directly true... Nothing they can do, so they shouldn't be worrying. Would they worry? Probably, but that is NOT what I said. English is way too mutable for someone like me, who has to translate visual thinking into 'normal' speech before saying anything, anyway. And anyone could train themselves to do it given the motivation and some practice. It's really the same principle as the first bit of the comment, just more generalized. Don't lie, just answer the question they asked instead of the one they meant. Or vice versa. Whichever is more in your favor.
Funny... My first impression was 'It acts that way? That's really counterintuitive...'
Why do you think FPS games generally bind zoom in to 'scroll up'? Or 'move forward' to the uppermost key? It's more intuitive to think of toward the screen as zooming, just like if you're leaning forward (which generally allows more detail in everyday life). Binding text size down to scroll down would make more sense from a user-interface standpoint.
Of course, I think IE started it, so it's their error initially.
If Goddess had intended us to spell things only one way, she wouldn't have given us so many letters.
Correction: It is being used as a tiny pump. A guy where I used to work was experimenting with one. And I seem to recall him mentioning that he had to licence a patent of some sort for it. I'd really like to go more into it, but while that part's open (due to the patent), I'm fairly sure the rest of the thing is still 'classified' ('propriatary' always makes me wince). Which is really too bad... everything this dude did was cool (ever see less than a single drop of water burst through .025 inch wall thickness stainless steel tubing and heat-discolor it?)
Actually, in that case, see a double feature!
I'm alergic to nickel. Makes it really hard to find glasses... unless you get titanium frames, the bows tend to be nickel. Even my old SS glasses cause problems. My skin turns green and rots any metal in contact with it.
You have to remember the government we're dealing with here... This is a court system that stated that a farmer growing feed for his own animals, with no sales to anyone at all, violated a federal law and that because it was related to interstate commerce, the Fed had jurisdiction. Note the total lack of commerce, never mind interstate commerce, in my summary...
* At least, we can HOPE they limit it to 'government'...
You could probably do that, but photocopies for internal use is probably going to be ruled 'fair use', even if you can get a non-IRS judge to hear the case (they have their own court system, after all...), and expect to get audited until the end of time...
I can't see any reason why you'd need to violate that, or even use it. Why use a subset? Use the whole damn set. Then it doesn't matter if "the result [is] be compatible with the outcome for the whole set of options." Or what if you do take a subset: How does it matter, considering the dropped candidates in any reasonable implimentation is the lowest ranked one? That candidate has already lost, and therefore dropping him/her doesn't have an impact on the ranking of the relavent set. The way it's phrased indicates that someone who votes 'Green, Lib, Dem, Rep', and has the Green and Lib dropped as they ended up having insufficient votes, should be able to reorder the irrelevent set without affecting the others... And with Green and Lib dropped, the order 'Lib, Green, Dem, Rep' is identical to the previous, so it that holds. And the rest of the 5 hold for instant runoff voting in general, so that's all 5.
Think about it for a while, instead of having a knee jerk reaction, will you?
1) We want to legalize drugs
2) We want to get people to start growing hemp, which used to be and could be again one of the US' biggest cash crops
3) But suppose we can't get 1). Well, we could still start growing hemp, because we can easily tell the differance between the 2... so we should allow hemp to be grown, even if drugs are not legal.
Basically, people are arguing 'well, we can't do 2) because 1) won't work'. The point is that you don't need 1) for 2) to be viable, so the issues are seperate - it eliminates an argument against 2).
Solution: Don't Do That.
Sheesh... The only reasonable reason for setting everyone's home page to the same thing (eliminating the point of a home page) is to prevent the browser from being hijacked and pointing to a porn site... And you might notice that's not a problem with Firefox.
General rule: If it doesn't cause you any grief, and it makes the lives of the people who are trying to work with the program harder, and there's no legitimate reason to do it, don't do it. I can see locking down certain aspects of a computer. Some things that should never be locked down are instalation of utilities (WinZIP or equivilent, for example, or calculators, or unit converters) (if you're running on XP, this changes from merely bad practice to downright evil... Just lock down the system directory to prevent overwrites, but with XP, you can roll back even that), user preferances (desktop, font colors, and other things that people rely on changing for usability), time setting (this used to be a problem for me. The computer lost hours per day, and I didn't have access to set the time or load a utility that would allow automatic time syncronization), etc. All these make a computer less useful as a tool, reducing efficiency.
(yes, this is a big pet peeve of mine. I had to spend 3 months trying to get permission to install software I needed)
Hint: The DEPARTMENT of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco has a slightly different acronym.
That's what I thought, but not according to this...
You also might not want to shoot actual potatos, unless you're looking to make hash browns at mach 2. Very little structural stability, a potato has. :)
I know that projectiles can go supersonic, I just am missing how the calculations work for it. Must have to do with the lack of unrestricted flow... If you're still in school, how about asking a prof? All the MEs I know lean toward the dynamics/vibrations/material science end of the spectrum.