You predict tides? Congratulations! Fishermen use Solunar Tables? Woweee! Well done on tearing down that strawman! For a second there I thought your post might say something useful.
There's no scientific evidence that the moon can be used to accurately predict weather patterns more than a year in advance and no evidence it can be used to predict earthquakes. If you know something I don't, care to share?
Do you really think so? I'm not so sure. Cover-ups don't necessarily happen that far up the food-chain. At least, I suspect, not so far up that the Pope would be sure to hear about it. It's more likely to be a local bishop/deacon who turns a blind-eye or gives the priest "counselling" and "spiritual guidance" or has him moved to another diocese rather than calling the cops.
I'd happily concede if it was an "undeniable fact", but this sums up my feelings rather well: "It's always simple. There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right."
People who put more importance on how the words are spelled then[sic] on their meaning are actually at a disadvantage.
I wonder how many of them are compete[sic] poets.
...but can they put meaning beyond that of the words with[sic] resorting to anagrams and the like.
On[sic] interesting thing is it does prove that words are[sic] definite pasterns[sic] to them.
Captain Irony says: "YOUR HILARIOUS!"
Seriously though, if being a great Scrabble player is what they strive for then whether or not they can write gripping spy thrillers or complex technical documents is completely academic. Their brains are better able to spot patterns than most people's. If this were a story about 100m sprinters whose muscles were "better" than those of "normal people" would you be saying "Yeah, but can they run marathons?"?
There are people (evidently) who are incapable of stringing a sentence together. Some are incapable of spelling even the simplest words. These super scrabble players probably have useful vocabularies comparable to a "normal" person, but they are also able to spot patterns. If Scrabble is your game of choice, then yes, this is a Good Thing.
Honest question, I'm not a top scrabble player, so is that why I don't get the significance of them being 9 letter words and not 7? Or is it a cautionary tale about playing the word "ion" in vulnerable areas of the board lest it be co-opted by another player.
I've never had it happen when handing in my resignation, or seen it happen to anyone I know, or heard about it happening to anyone I know, but perhaps it depends on the events leading up to the resignation? Some people just resign because they want to move on to bigger and better things and not because they've had a spat with management. If you had, or if you were *fired* I can understand it of course.
Is it really common for this to happen over a simple resignation?
That is, the potential criminal will notice the police presence and decide its not a good time. Thus there would be some feedback from the prediction method back onto itself.
Or the criminals don't notice the police presence and get caught in the act, reinforcing the prediction?
Indeed. I also heard a story that they often park up at McDonalds drive-thru carparks because, they argued, that they're usually positioned in ideal locations, between population-centres. Don't know how true that is. It's certainly the excuse I'd come up with if I kept being sighted at McDonalds when I should be on duty...
Yeah man! We just need to hack the Gibson and reverse the polarity on the mainframe firewall in order to drop a logic bomb through the backdoor. Alternatively, paying street-kids to commit petty thefts in areas away from your target area is much much simpler than "hack into the system" and/or "feed the computer false info".
And as a bonus, I change the name from "Work" to "Santa" during christmastime. Scares the hell out of a kid throwing a tantrum when I threaten them with a long distance call to the North Pole.
The person on the line will just assume that you're indisposed at the moment, which you are, and either leave a message or call back.
All the while the 'phone is ringing and ringing and ringing. Depending on your job function the call could be orders of magnitude more important than whatever the hapless bore is banging on about.
Oh hi boss, just returning your call regarding the serve....
Right, no..I got the messages you le...
Well...no...I agree it is very urgen...
I was at my desk!
I just couldn't take the ca...
Well, I don't know if it'll seem more important now, bu...
Bob was telling me about his fishing trip with the kids at the weekend. Did you know he caught 3 cod and 2 snapper? Hello? Hello? Boss?
Exactly how I felt too. This is the exact same reason that I enjoyed watching Shutter Island through again. There are clues all the way through as to what's really going on but they slipped past because once again, I trusted that the protagonist's truth is the truth. Watch it again and there are some real stand-out moments when you think "How the hell did I miss *that*?"
You mean, on the pavements/sidewalks? Crossing the road at pedestrian crossings where cars are forced to stop for pedestrian traffic? (Sorry if you live in a third-world country that doesn't have pedestrian crossings.)
Also, what the hell do you mean by "greater rights"? You've used an awful lot of words (and grocer's apostrophes) to say nothing.
Granted, FAR more posts are made safely every day than those that result in injury or death, however the exact same is true of water fights.
Millions of posts are written on the internet, every day. How many result in injury or death? Now, how many of these massive, "organised", water-fights among "adults" occur every year?
Oh, and please don't confuse "a few kids running around in the yard squirting each other" with "100s of adults in a public space squirting each other", it makes you look foolish.
Except that there are 10s or 100s of 1000s of after work football matches every year. How many result in a woman being punched to the ground by a man? How many end with someone being stabbed to death? How many end with 9 arrests and "children as young as 5" at a riding school being thrown from their horses?
And these water-fight events aren't the same as children in the back-yard playing, they're 100s of "adults" getting together to have a water-fight so please don't try and conflate the two to argue that similarly high numbers of water-fights take place compared to football matches.
Your logic is just as faulty as the grandparent's. You're comparing apples with oranges. Getting run over crossing the road and falling out of bed result from necessary activities. Moreover, millions of instances of "crossing the road" occur harmlessly every day (hour? minute?) and 100s of millions of people go to bed every night without falling out of bed and dying.
You're right, it would be great if 100s of people could get together and have an innocent water-fight where no-one gets hurt and nothing gets damaged. You're right, but they demonstrably can't. It is a sad state of affairs when an adult is arrested for planning a water fight. You're right and I completely agree!
However:
This takes place barely one week after 4 major cities in England suffered some of the worst rioting the country's ever seen resulting in 1000s of arrests.
The London riots started after a "peaceful protest".
The riots were organised by people using BlackBerry messenger
Previous large "organised" water-fights (disproportionately so, compared with other organised events) have led to criminal damage, violence and death.
Taken in context, the police force's reaction is a little more understandable than the title suggests: "Police arrest man over blackberry water fight plan". It's still bloody ridiculous, and should never have happened, but if you insist on ignoring history, and the context of the news, you're not much better than the people who think this arrest was entirely appropriate.
Oh, and as an aside, to all the people whining about Rupert Murdoch and The Sun, just shut the fuck up. As much as I hate The Sun, and I hate them enough that I won't visit that link, someone was stabbed at one of these events, people were assaulted and people were arrested. Those are, what I call, "facts". It's almost completely irrelevant to the discussion to harp on and on about The Sun as if you're the first person to realise what a shit paper it is when you can get the same facts (albeit with considerably less bias and bile) from any number of other newspapers.
1. AFAICT: The police are already investigating Blackberry messages (with RIM's co-operation) as part of the riot/looting investigation.
2a. Facebook is not entirely conducted through HTTPS. There is an option to always connect through https, but as far as I know it is turned off by default.
2b. Where it is turned on, many Facebook games/applications don't support https and you will be prompted to "turn it off." We all know how well security fares in the face of "You have to do this to click the dancing monkey. Do it now or you won't get to click the dancing monkey"
2c. As you say, who gives a pig's trotter if it is "conducted through HTTPS", if it's a status message. It doesn't matter one jot that "I think we should loot some TVs from Dixons" was encrypted end-to-end because it's now right there as your status. Hell, even if it's a Facebook message, there is now nothing to stop a recipient of the message forwarding it to the police.
Genius. Except I can't think of many instances of airline hijacking where the hijacker just wanted to crash the plane into the ground. In fact, the only one that sprang to mind was that unhinged crew member on the UPS/Fedex (?) flight who wanted to bring the plane down so his family would get the insurance pay-out. (Though the EgyptAir Flight 990 posted below by an AC might also fit the bill). If the pilot wants to commit a terrorist act, i.e. crashing into a building, then "point nose up herp derp" isn't going to work. And if he's trying to fly somewhere hot, humid and light on extradition treaties, he's definitely not going to want to crash into the ground. However, if the pilot just wants to commit suicide, then yes, that would work.
Ahem, not to excuse them, but MPs weren't robbing innocent people on the streets or burning shops or running over people trying to protect their community. When they submitted their expenses claims or when Andy Coulson, Rebecca Brookes and their lackeys were hacking phones there weren't thousands of people living in fear of their lives, afraid to leave their homes. There is a difference between someone who robs a bank with a gun and someone who commits a cheque fraud. Similarly, there's a difference between expenses fraud and burglary, theft, robbery, assault and arson.
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You predict tides? Congratulations! Fishermen use Solunar Tables? Woweee! Well done on tearing down that strawman! For a second there I thought your post might say something useful.
There's no scientific evidence that the moon can be used to accurately predict weather patterns more than a year in advance and no evidence it can be used to predict earthquakes. If you know something I don't, care to share?
Do you really think so? I'm not so sure. Cover-ups don't necessarily happen that far up the food-chain. At least, I suspect, not so far up that the Pope would be sure to hear about it. It's more likely to be a local bishop/deacon who turns a blind-eye or gives the priest "counselling" and "spiritual guidance" or has him moved to another diocese rather than calling the cops.
I'd happily concede if it was an "undeniable fact", but this sums up my feelings rather well: "It's always simple. There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right."
People who put more importance on how the words are spelled then[sic] on their meaning are actually at a disadvantage.
I wonder how many of them are compete[sic] poets.
...but can they put meaning beyond that of the words with[sic] resorting to anagrams and the like.
On[sic] interesting thing is it does prove that words are[sic] definite pasterns[sic] to them.
Captain Irony says: "YOUR HILARIOUS!"
Seriously though, if being a great Scrabble player is what they strive for then whether or not they can write gripping spy thrillers or complex technical documents is completely academic. Their brains are better able to spot patterns than most people's. If this were a story about 100m sprinters whose muscles were "better" than those of "normal people" would you be saying "Yeah, but can they run marathons?"?
There are people (evidently) who are incapable of stringing a sentence together. Some are incapable of spelling even the simplest words. These super scrabble players probably have useful vocabularies comparable to a "normal" person, but they are also able to spot patterns. If Scrabble is your game of choice, then yes, this is a Good Thing.
Honest question, I'm not a top scrabble player, so is that why I don't get the significance of them being 9 letter words and not 7? Or is it a cautionary tale about playing the word "ion" in vulnerable areas of the board lest it be co-opted by another player.
I've never had it happen when handing in my resignation, or seen it happen to anyone I know, or heard about it happening to anyone I know, but perhaps it depends on the events leading up to the resignation? Some people just resign because they want to move on to bigger and better things and not because they've had a spat with management. If you had, or if you were *fired* I can understand it of course.
Is it really common for this to happen over a simple resignation?
That is, the potential criminal will notice the police presence and decide its not a good time. Thus there would be some feedback from the prediction method back onto itself.
Or the criminals don't notice the police presence and get caught in the act, reinforcing the prediction?
Indeed. I also heard a story that they often park up at McDonalds drive-thru carparks because, they argued, that they're usually positioned in ideal locations, between population-centres. Don't know how true that is. It's certainly the excuse I'd come up with if I kept being sighted at McDonalds when I should be on duty...
Ken Ring does. Using the moooooon! He also thinks he can predict long term weather patterns using the moon.
Yeah man! We just need to hack the Gibson and reverse the polarity on the mainframe firewall in order to drop a logic bomb through the backdoor. Alternatively, paying street-kids to commit petty thefts in areas away from your target area is much much simpler than "hack into the system" and/or "feed the computer false info".
And as a bonus, I change the name from "Work" to "Santa" during christmastime. Scares the hell out of a kid throwing a tantrum when I threaten them with a long distance call to the North Pole.
Why? Does he pay the bill?
The person on the line will just assume that you're indisposed at the moment, which you are, and either leave a message or call back.
All the while the 'phone is ringing and ringing and ringing. Depending on your job function the call could be orders of magnitude more important than whatever the hapless bore is banging on about.
Oh hi boss, just returning your call regarding the serve....
Right, no..I got the messages you le...
Well...no...I agree it is very urgen...
I was at my desk!
I just couldn't take the ca...
Well, I don't know if it'll seem more important now, bu...
Bob was telling me about his fishing trip with the kids at the weekend. Did you know he caught 3 cod and 2 snapper? Hello? Hello? Boss?
Exactly how I felt too. This is the exact same reason that I enjoyed watching Shutter Island through again. There are clues all the way through as to what's really going on but they slipped past because once again, I trusted that the protagonist's truth is the truth. Watch it again and there are some real stand-out moments when you think "How the hell did I miss *that*?"
You mean, on the pavements/sidewalks? Crossing the road at pedestrian crossings where cars are forced to stop for pedestrian traffic? (Sorry if you live in a third-world country that doesn't have pedestrian crossings.)
Also, what the hell do you mean by "greater rights"? You've used an awful lot of words (and grocer's apostrophes) to say nothing.
Granted, FAR more posts are made safely every day than those that result in injury or death, however the exact same is true of water fights.
Millions of posts are written on the internet, every day. How many result in injury or death? Now, how many of these massive, "organised", water-fights among "adults" occur every year?
Oh, and please don't confuse "a few kids running around in the yard squirting each other" with "100s of adults in a public space squirting each other", it makes you look foolish.
And these water-fight events aren't the same as children in the back-yard playing, they're 100s of "adults" getting together to have a water-fight so please don't try and conflate the two to argue that similarly high numbers of water-fights take place compared to football matches.
Your logic is just as faulty as the grandparent's. You're comparing apples with oranges. Getting run over crossing the road and falling out of bed result from necessary activities. Moreover, millions of instances of "crossing the road" occur harmlessly every day (hour? minute?) and 100s of millions of people go to bed every night without falling out of bed and dying.
You're right, it would be great if 100s of people could get together and have an innocent water-fight where no-one gets hurt and nothing gets damaged. You're right, but they demonstrably can't. It is a sad state of affairs when an adult is arrested for planning a water fight. You're right and I completely agree!
However:
Taken in context, the police force's reaction is a little more understandable than the title suggests: "Police arrest man over blackberry water fight plan". It's still bloody ridiculous, and should never have happened, but if you insist on ignoring history, and the context of the news, you're not much better than the people who think this arrest was entirely appropriate.
Oh, and as an aside, to all the people whining about Rupert Murdoch and The Sun, just shut the fuck up. As much as I hate The Sun, and I hate them enough that I won't visit that link, someone was stabbed at one of these events, people were assaulted and people were arrested. Those are, what I call, "facts". It's almost completely irrelevant to the discussion to harp on and on about The Sun as if you're the first person to realise what a shit paper it is when you can get the same facts (albeit with considerably less bias and bile) from any number of other newspapers.
1. AFAICT: The police are already investigating Blackberry messages (with RIM's co-operation) as part of the riot/looting investigation.
2a. Facebook is not entirely conducted through HTTPS. There is an option to always connect through https, but as far as I know it is turned off by default.
2b. Where it is turned on, many Facebook games/applications don't support https and you will be prompted to "turn it off." We all know how well security fares in the face of "You have to do this to click the dancing monkey. Do it now or you won't get to click the dancing monkey"
2c. As you say, who gives a pig's trotter if it is "conducted through HTTPS", if it's a status message. It doesn't matter one jot that "I think we should loot some TVs from Dixons" was encrypted end-to-end because it's now right there as your status. Hell, even if it's a Facebook message, there is now nothing to stop a recipient of the message forwarding it to the police.
Like "Me", "XP", "Vista" and "7"?
It's different because Google isn't paying him ;)
"Good" and "bad" in what respect? Wear on the roads? Congestion? Pollution?
Har-dee-har-har! :)
It's cloudier than a very cloudy thing anyway, so I'm not going to see anything tonight.
Genius. Except I can't think of many instances of airline hijacking where the hijacker just wanted to crash the plane into the ground. In fact, the only one that sprang to mind was that unhinged crew member on the UPS/Fedex (?) flight who wanted to bring the plane down so his family would get the insurance pay-out. (Though the EgyptAir Flight 990 posted below by an AC might also fit the bill). If the pilot wants to commit a terrorist act, i.e. crashing into a building, then "point nose up herp derp" isn't going to work. And if he's trying to fly somewhere hot, humid and light on extradition treaties, he's definitely not going to want to crash into the ground. However, if the pilot just wants to commit suicide, then yes, that would work.
Question to the knowledgeable: Is there any chance at all of seeing anything from here in New Zealand?
I'm not going to waste my time explaining why, but you're a fucking idiot.
Oh no, fantastic job you're doing ignoring the fact that many arrests, not for incitement, have already been made!
Ahem, not to excuse them, but MPs weren't robbing innocent people on the streets or burning shops or running over people trying to protect their community. When they submitted their expenses claims or when Andy Coulson, Rebecca Brookes and their lackeys were hacking phones there weren't thousands of people living in fear of their lives, afraid to leave their homes. There is a difference between someone who robs a bank with a gun and someone who commits a cheque fraud. Similarly, there's a difference between expenses fraud and burglary, theft, robbery, assault and arson.