There's no hard rule about using "were" after "if". For example, it's perfectly correct to say "If I was rude to you, I apologize" since you're talking about a situation that happened in the past. However, if you know you weren't rude and you wished to make a point, you could say "If I were rude to you, I would have insulted him too". There is a difference and using only "If I was..." loses that distinction. Perhaps the subtlety is lost on those who aren't familiar with it, however.
That may be true, but you're changing the subject to fines which has no bearing on whether or not tracking should be implemented. He may not pay fines when pulled over by a police officer either, and that is not an argument for the elimination of police officers any more than it is an argument for the elimination of cameras. Either tracking via cameras is bad for 100% of the citizens (of which he is one) or it's not. Make that argument.
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In the end, we haven't seen the contract, the bids, nor the RFP so there's no point continuing to argue based on assumptions.
"I was born on July of the fourth!"
They probably asked for genuine Cisco equipment and awarded the contract to the lowest bidder who, unbeknownst to them, used counterfeit products.
Jamming GPS is active against GPS. It's passive against a device that uses GPS.
By that measure, installing a faraday cage around my home would sabotage your cell phone.
My question was whether it is legally considered sabotage. As in: what law or treaty would such an action violate?
Thank you for making an assumption about what I do or do not understand.
However it was not available for purchase for 99% of the people who wanted to watch it, so people pirated it.
Because it's a basic human right to be able to consume other people's content on your own terms.
Inertial guidance is nothing new, it was developed in the 1930s, German V1 and V2 missiles used it.
V1s did not, they just had a simple gyroscope.
Which had no inertia?
It was passively interfered with by preventing its use of GPS. Is that legally considered sabotage?
My iPad displays its WiFi signal strength in kilopascals, or you can change this in the settings to display millimeters of mercury.
The attractiveness of the opposite sex greatly increases by two to four beers.
There's no hard rule about using "were" after "if". For example, it's perfectly correct to say "If I was rude to you, I apologize" since you're talking about a situation that happened in the past. However, if you know you weren't rude and you wished to make a point, you could say "If I were rude to you, I would have insulted him too". There is a difference and using only "If I was..." loses that distinction. Perhaps the subtlety is lost on those who aren't familiar with it, however.
Wikipedia actually has a pretty good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subjunctive#Summary_of_forms
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-subjunctive.htm
Modem handshake noise is no longer widely recognised.
*wipes tears from keyboard...*
Why was your keyboard crying?
And when you get a ticket, you can pay the fine in "cynyr dollars" which conveniently uses Monopoly money as its currency.
You've heard of the electoral collage, right?
Is that where they arrange pretty pictures of those running for office?
The grammatically correct meme is "If Taco were still around".
Having said that, I've no doubt violated Muphry's Law somewhere in this post.
That may be true, but you're changing the subject to fines which has no bearing on whether or not tracking should be implemented. He may not pay fines when pulled over by a police officer either, and that is not an argument for the elimination of police officers any more than it is an argument for the elimination of cameras. Either tracking via cameras is bad for 100% of the citizens (of which he is one) or it's not. Make that argument.
I have the same reaction when people tell me that Slashdot has "editors". Puh-leeze... they're just glorified mouse clickers.
If he's in a car, then his own camera system will be tracking his movements and he'll be subject to it as much as anyone else.
*Frame-dragging is negligible in this case, and you're a nerd if you were going to mention it... says the nerd.
Frame dragging occurs at relativistic speeds. Were you thinking of the coriolis effect?
What part of "New York Times" confused you into thinking I was talking about /.?
I think it was the part where you failed to mention New York Times in your comment.
The trouble with albedo puns is that people don't reflect enough on them.
high albedo
Isn't that what got Clinton in all the trouble?
He didn't get in that much trouble, though it did reflect poorly on him.
Celsius is problematic because the degrees are too large
I hate integers because the numbers are too far apart.