Had my next door neighbor dealing with a bad divorce and his soon to be ex-wife hired a private investigator who placed a gps tracker on this guys car. He found it and asked me what to do about it. I told him to use google to find some address in the Far East and send the gps tracker via the slowest mail service he could get to there.
Don't know if he ever did it, but . . .
"If the perp ISN'T within three steps or so (and doesn't have his own gun pointed at you) you'll have a hard time justifying a self-defense shoot." - A friend of mine shot a burglar who was in the process of jumping off my friends second story balcony after throwing an expensive bicycle off first. He hit the punk right in the ass and the bullet traveled down the back of the leg and exited behind the knee. It left that loser with a permanent limp to remind him not to steal things. Police showed up, did their usual question and answer session, and hauled the thief off in an ambulance and later to jail. My friend was never charged with anything. In fact one of the cops told him good job because apparently the cops were after this guy for a while. This happened about 7 or 8 years ago, so the laws may have changed.
As a civilian, I had the opportunity several years ago to use some weapons that were modified to use compressed air (simulate recoil, etc.) to shoot at targets on a movie screen. Re-enacting things like hostage situations in an office, traffic stops gone wrong, etc.
Let me just say that using an M-16, SAW or Mossberg for any length of time (over 5 minutes) is *definitely* different than pointing and clicking with a mouse and that video games in NO WAY prepare anyone for the reality of using actual weapons.
I don't remember the actual name of this one rifle a Marine pulled out of the storage closet and was handling it like a toothpick. He handed it off to me and I just about fell face first just from the weight of it.
Nothing like having combat veterans laugh at a "dumb-ass civilian" to start your day out.
True, we are discovering new species all of the time, but there are several reasons why.
The first is that classifications are always changing. Scientists are always finding new methods/means to further divide an existing group of organisms based on some structure (existence of bones, arrangement of bones, habitat differentiation, etc.).
If I remember correctly, during one lecture a professor mentioned that two fish, virtually identical in outward appearance, lived within several feet vertically of each other, but for some reason I can't remember now, someone caught some of each, dissected them and found that they were different enough internally to classify them as two separate species.
Second, the total number of fishes believed to be in existence as of 1993 - 1994, was around 22,000 to 24,000. So at 15,000 catalogued so far, we still have a ways to go even with finding several hundred new species a year. Remember, we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the deep ocean.
Also, one of the graduate students in Marine Biology that I knew found 2 or 3 new species during his thesis work.
So, it's not that the scientists are not doing their job, it's just that the system used to classify species developed by Carl Linnaeus is being modified when some new specie is found and this can cause other species to be reclassified. Kind of like a ripple effect.
By the way, you do get to name the new species that you find with a few simple rules. You can't name it after yourself and it must pass through a standards committee.
Why wouldn't Geocities be allowed to either shutdown or allow someone to provide the uninstall fix for the worm when it tries to autoupdate itself?
If Geocities knows that one of their accounts is responsible for propagating this worm, then they should be legally/morally/ethically responsible for taking action to prevent the spread of this worm. Which in this case they did.
The worm on the client machine actually connects to the server, downloads the updates and then uninstalls itself. What could more beautiful than that?
If someone broke into my home while I wasn't there, I sure as hell hope my neighbors would call the police instead of saying "Oh, wait a minute, I don't have a legal right, I'll just let this crime continue"
IMHO, you sound like one of those security freaks that can't balance the need for security with the real world.
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Had my next door neighbor dealing with a bad divorce and his soon to be ex-wife hired a private investigator who placed a gps tracker on this guys car. He found it and asked me what to do about it. I told him to use google to find some address in the Far East and send the gps tracker via the slowest mail service he could get to there. Don't know if he ever did it, but . . .
"If the perp ISN'T within three steps or so (and doesn't have his own gun pointed at you) you'll have a hard time justifying a self-defense shoot." - A friend of mine shot a burglar who was in the process of jumping off my friends second story balcony after throwing an expensive bicycle off first. He hit the punk right in the ass and the bullet traveled down the back of the leg and exited behind the knee. It left that loser with a permanent limp to remind him not to steal things. Police showed up, did their usual question and answer session, and hauled the thief off in an ambulance and later to jail. My friend was never charged with anything. In fact one of the cops told him good job because apparently the cops were after this guy for a while. This happened about 7 or 8 years ago, so the laws may have changed.
If you have never heard of Tom Mabe and his response to telemarketers, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdoogjic4I
I think that the real Mafia plays by their own rules and that the **AA stands no chance.
As a civilian, I had the opportunity several years ago to use some weapons that were modified to use compressed air (simulate recoil, etc.) to shoot at targets on a movie screen. Re-enacting things like hostage situations in an office, traffic stops gone wrong, etc. Let me just say that using an M-16, SAW or Mossberg for any length of time (over 5 minutes) is *definitely* different than pointing and clicking with a mouse and that video games in NO WAY prepare anyone for the reality of using actual weapons. I don't remember the actual name of this one rifle a Marine pulled out of the storage closet and was handling it like a toothpick. He handed it off to me and I just about fell face first just from the weight of it. Nothing like having combat veterans laugh at a "dumb-ass civilian" to start your day out.
This has to be one of the funniest clips involving a telemarketer that I have heard in a long time.
http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/newsletters/2006/Telemarketer.mp3
The really scary statistic is that 9 out of 10 males in prison do the raping.
True, we are discovering new species all of the time, but there are several reasons why.
The first is that classifications are always changing. Scientists are always finding new methods/means to further divide an existing group of organisms based on some structure (existence of bones, arrangement of bones, habitat differentiation, etc.).
If I remember correctly, during one lecture a professor mentioned that two fish, virtually identical in outward appearance, lived within several feet vertically of each other, but for some reason I can't remember now, someone caught some of each, dissected them and found that they were different enough internally to classify them as two separate species.
Second, the total number of fishes believed to be in existence as of 1993 - 1994, was around 22,000 to 24,000. So at 15,000 catalogued so far, we still have a ways to go even with finding several hundred new species a year. Remember, we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the deep ocean.
Also, one of the graduate students in Marine Biology that I knew found 2 or 3 new species during his thesis work.
So, it's not that the scientists are not doing their job, it's just that the system used to classify species developed by Carl Linnaeus is being modified when some new specie is found and this can cause other species to be reclassified. Kind of like a ripple effect.
By the way, you do get to name the new species that you find with a few simple rules. You can't name it after yourself and it must pass through a standards committee.
Why wouldn't Geocities be allowed to either shutdown or allow someone to provide the uninstall fix for the worm when it tries to autoupdate itself? If Geocities knows that one of their accounts is responsible for propagating this worm, then they should be legally/morally/ethically responsible for taking action to prevent the spread of this worm. Which in this case they did. The worm on the client machine actually connects to the server, downloads the updates and then uninstalls itself. What could more beautiful than that? If someone broke into my home while I wasn't there, I sure as hell hope my neighbors would call the police instead of saying "Oh, wait a minute, I don't have a legal right, I'll just let this crime continue" IMHO, you sound like one of those security freaks that can't balance the need for security with the real world.