I'd like to point out that you don't say "used successfully"
Sometimes, splatteringly, instantly, utterly lethal force is the only thing that will work -- for example when Charlie Jihad is reaching for the Big Red Switch, would you want a microwave ray that might work in five or six seconds, or an M2 that makes lots of remarkably big holes in the same time?
... storage space. Movies are big and I don't think that jukeboxing movies and my 30 gigs of music on a 60gb iPod Video is going to be very practical -- I have a lot of DVDs I'd like to rip onto a video iPod.
Can we expect a bump in the capacity then?
Err, no. If you ate calcium oxide, it'd cook your guts.
Besides that, I think it's something I put in my swimming pool; the bag has warnings about producing hydrogen when mixed with water. Anyone got a match? ^_^
You can save text as small jpeg images, with sequentially numbered filenames. Import them in that order (it does automatically) with the software, and you get 'pages' of text. Sure the quality ain't great, but it's of similar quality to my Treo 90's screen.
Show me a $25 Palm that I'm not afraid to loan out that does images and music; otherwise this has found its niche. (Well, it may wind up a digital pictureframe in the near future...)
Crapness on the part of the sources yes; have you checked yours?
There are more than three million illegal guns in Britan now. (The Guardian, September 3, 2000) I don't consider "how few" an approrpriate description for that.
It seems like the ban was implemented in 97; at least that's the first year that legally held guns dropped. That year there were 2,647 handgun crimes; in 2000 it increased to 3,685.
Exactly, and someone is dead because of it, so he's in jail now. What's the problem? Still doesn't make him innocent. Revenge is not a part of the legal system in any civilized country.
Revenge was not involved. According to Dictionary.com,
1. To inflict punishment in return for (injury or insult).
2. To seek or take vengeance for (oneself or another person); avenge.
Revenge is done after the fact, not while you're defending yourself against a percieved threat to your life. I don't believe that anyone should have to kill another in self defense, but the truth is that police can't be everywhere at once, and if they could, would you be willing to tolerate that level of scrutiy?
A continuing parliamentary inquiry into the growing number of black market weapons has concluded that there are more than three million illegally held firearms in circulation - double the number believed to have been held 10 years ago - and that criminals are more willing than ever to use them. One in three criminals under the age of 25 possesses or has access to a firearm. 262
262 Reported in The Guardian, September 3, 2000
According to the latest statistics I have easy access to... "Contact Crimes" constitute robbery, sexual assault, and assault with force. In England and Wales, 3.6% of the population was victimized in 1999, and 1.9% of the US population was in the same period.
Comparing crime rates between America and Britain is flawed. In America, a gun crime is recorded as a gun crime. In Britain, a crime is only recorded when there is a final disposition (a conviction). All unsolved gun crimes in Britain are not reported as gun crimes, grossly undercounting the amount of gun crime there. 260 To make matters worse, British law enforcement has been exposed for falsifying criminal reports to create falsely lower crime figures, in part to preserve tourism.261
260 Gallant, Hills, Kopel, "Fear in Britain", Independence Institute, July 18, 2000 261 "Crime Figures a Sham, Say Police ", Daily Telegraph, April 1, 1996
Of course he wanted to harm them; he believed they wanted to harm him.
And I'm rather inclined to say someone who's house has been broken into at least two dozen times before -- with no police response, ever, has one of the better reasons I've heard for being paranoid.
Also, the first kid lunged for Tony with a flashlight, in a dark house. He was firing blind when he shot at robber #2.
I'm not sure whether the previous robberies were armed; however one in three criminals under age 25 is armed, and violent crime is (as of 1999) just shy of double America's rate in Britan according to the Dutch ministry of justice in a 2001 report. It seems very unlikely that all 24 were unarmed.
There is a very simple way around that -- don't make it a door. Put a bulkhead where the door to the cockpit normally is. Put the door to the cockpit on the outside of the plane. The only way to enter or exit the cockpit would be through the external door.
So how would the pilot pee? Get some coffee so he doesn't fall asleep midflight?
Not a bad idea inherently, it'll just take a lot of attention to detail to make it practical.
Depends on how much of 'you' is left in your organic mind at that point.
Personally, I'd use a fist-size lump of synthetic diamond and ruby (ruby lasers for optical processing in the diamond substrate) implanted between my kidneys and interfaced through my brain. As neurons fail, it'd take over for them, until they all fried; at that point there should be sufficient nanotechnology to construct a new body.
Neatly sidesteps all the happy fun continuity questions, I think.
Consequently, they'll simply go elsewhere, where there are similar opportunities without such draconic laws.
Actually, laws have nothing to do with furries or otherkin; the word you're looking for is draconian.
No, we are *not* screwed, democracy is *not* lost, and who said anything about giving up?
For example, a wonderfully entertaining idea for an act of civil disobedience: Take a wireless laptop, PA speakers, and a DLP projector, and set it up next to the Washington Monument or something. Establish a wi-fi link to some government building (bonus points if it's the Pentagon!) and fire up Kazaa. (or p2p app of your preference; but Kazaa is easily recognizable by the unwashed masses)
Download Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" and play it right there.
Answer questions, pass out leaflets, post one up on the monument. Pack up, go home, and if the PTB have anything to say about it, defend with 'it's political speech.'
so... it's ethical to tell someone that they're going to suffer and die because that sheep that would otherwise wind up as lamb chops shouldn't die in a medical laboratory.
Pardon me if I call BS on this.
That's the entire point -- in my mind, these should be pulled out of whatever testing is going on and monitored to see *just how human* we made them, and perform non-destructive (MRI, PET) brain scans to see what makes them tick. I'm not sure what we would learn, but it could definitely be applied to human medicine, or perhaps noninvasive neural interfaces.
Hell, they'd make good pets for the researchers' kids; that way they'd recieve more intellectual stimulation than they would in a laboratory setting. You probably won't be makinig Pinky or Brain, but it still seems worthwhile
The civil liberties crowd will be happy that we're back to innocent until proven guilty -- "there's a large chasm between suspected and convicted" after all.
The US Constitution does NOT hamper the ability of a content provider to censor the content they provide. Under your argument the FCC itself would be unconstitutional. So would filters in libraries.
Even if you wanted to be a Terminator, establishing a direct enough interface to directly read and write to your brain is going to be difficult enough that mind-raping people casually is going to be damn difficult. Especially when neural firewalls hit the market.
That said, I'd absolutely love such a nanotech body when my clone craps out.:)
... but HL2 still crashes at every scripted event, and I'm on AOHell. It took 4 hours to decrypt game content after installing from CD.
There is no way in the seven circles of Hell that I'm going to buy Aftermath until they patch HL2 properly. And apologise for the $55 I spent the first week HL2 came out which remains in limbo after I bought that thing which was totally unfit for its purpose.
I've seen HL2 run properly, and it's awe-inspiring. But Valve can keep their download until something turns around.
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I'd like to point out that you don't say "used successfully" Sometimes, splatteringly, instantly, utterly lethal force is the only thing that will work -- for example when Charlie Jihad is reaching for the Big Red Switch, would you want a microwave ray that might work in five or six seconds, or an M2 that makes lots of remarkably big holes in the same time?
No. It's a less lethal weapon. There's a good reason that they're not calling them "nonlethal" anymore.
... storage space. Movies are big and I don't think that jukeboxing movies and my 30 gigs of music on a 60gb iPod Video is going to be very practical -- I have a lot of DVDs I'd like to rip onto a video iPod. Can we expect a bump in the capacity then?
Err, no. If you ate calcium oxide, it'd cook your guts.
Besides that, I think it's something I put in my swimming pool; the bag has warnings about producing hydrogen when mixed with water. Anyone got a match? ^_^
Or, face-hardened RHA steel, or ceramic plates, or... Hey, maybe we could call it the Mjolnir Mk.1?
Not yet; I'm looking for a PSP ebook processor that can be adapted for use with the Juicebox.
You can save text as small jpeg images, with sequentially numbered filenames. Import them in that order (it does automatically) with the software, and you get 'pages' of text. Sure the quality ain't great, but it's of similar quality to my Treo 90's screen.
Show me a $25 Palm that I'm not afraid to loan out that does images and music; otherwise this has found its niche. (Well, it may wind up a digital pictureframe in the near future...)
Crapness on the part of the sources yes; have you checked yours?
There are more than three million illegal guns in Britan now. (The Guardian, September 3, 2000) I don't consider "how few" an approrpriate description for that.
It seems like the ban was implemented in 97; at least that's the first year that legally held guns dropped. That year there were 2,647 handgun crimes; in 2000 it increased to 3,685.
Exactly, and someone is dead because of it, so he's in jail now. What's the problem? Still doesn't make him innocent. Revenge is not a part of the legal system in any civilized country.
Revenge was not involved. According to Dictionary.com,
1. To inflict punishment in return for (injury or insult).
2. To seek or take vengeance for (oneself or another person); avenge.
Revenge is done after the fact, not while you're defending yourself against a percieved threat to your life. I don't believe that anyone should have to kill another in self defense, but the truth is that police can't be everywhere at once, and if they could, would you be willing to tolerate that level of scrutiy?
Even if they had the capability, are not required to by law (Town of Castle Rock, Colorado v. Gonzales, South v. Maryland, Warren v. District of Columbia - this last one involved several calls to 911 over the course of a half an hour to report a housebreaking (and assault and rape). "For the next fourteen hours the women were held captive, raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon each other, and made to submit to the sexual demands of Kent and Morse.") The sad fact of the matter is that many people do consider the woman found in an alley raped and strangled with her pantyhose morally superior to the woman holding a smoking 357 and standing over the body of a would-be rapist. I don't get it.
According to the latest statistics I have easy access to... "Contact Crimes" constitute robbery, sexual assault, and assault with force. In England and Wales, 3.6% of the population was victimized in 1999, and 1.9% of the US population was in the same period.
Of course he wanted to harm them; he believed they wanted to harm him.
And I'm rather inclined to say someone who's house has been broken into at least two dozen times before -- with no police response, ever, has one of the better reasons I've heard for being paranoid.
Also, the first kid lunged for Tony with a flashlight, in a dark house. He was firing blind when he shot at robber #2.
I'm not sure whether the previous robberies were armed; however one in three criminals under age 25 is armed, and violent crime is (as of 1999) just shy of double America's rate in Britan according to the Dutch ministry of justice in a 2001 report. It seems very unlikely that all 24 were unarmed.
There is a very simple way around that -- don't make it a door. Put a bulkhead where the door to the cockpit normally is. Put the door to the cockpit on the outside of the plane. The only way to enter or exit the cockpit would be through the external door.
So how would the pilot pee? Get some coffee so he doesn't fall asleep midflight?
Not a bad idea inherently, it'll just take a lot of attention to detail to make it practical.
You'd destroy neither -- you'd use reintegration software to combine the two into one engram.
Depends on how much of 'you' is left in your organic mind at that point.
Personally, I'd use a fist-size lump of synthetic diamond and ruby (ruby lasers for optical processing in the diamond substrate) implanted between my kidneys and interfaced through my brain. As neurons fail, it'd take over for them, until they all fried; at that point there should be sufficient nanotechnology to construct a new body.
Neatly sidesteps all the happy fun continuity questions, I think.
Consequently, they'll simply go elsewhere, where there are similar opportunities without such draconic laws. Actually, laws have nothing to do with furries or otherkin; the word you're looking for is draconian.
No, we are *not* screwed, democracy is *not* lost, and who said anything about giving up?
For example, a wonderfully entertaining idea for an act of civil disobedience: Take a wireless laptop, PA speakers, and a DLP projector, and set it up next to the Washington Monument or something. Establish a wi-fi link to some government building (bonus points if it's the Pentagon!) and fire up Kazaa. (or p2p app of your preference; but Kazaa is easily recognizable by the unwashed masses)
Download Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" and play it right there.
Answer questions, pass out leaflets, post one up on the monument. Pack up, go home, and if the PTB have anything to say about it, defend with 'it's political speech.'
so... it's ethical to tell someone that they're going to suffer and die because that sheep that would otherwise wind up as lamb chops shouldn't die in a medical laboratory. Pardon me if I call BS on this.
Or "Coyote Ugly"
That's the entire point -- in my mind, these should be pulled out of whatever testing is going on and monitored to see *just how human* we made them, and perform non-destructive (MRI, PET) brain scans to see what makes them tick. I'm not sure what we would learn, but it could definitely be applied to human medicine, or perhaps noninvasive neural interfaces.
Hell, they'd make good pets for the researchers' kids; that way they'd recieve more intellectual stimulation than they would in a laboratory setting. You probably won't be makinig Pinky or Brain, but it still seems worthwhile
Even worse, this kids lawyer is NOWINGLY confusing the situation for his own gain. But then that's what they all do :(
Exactly -- the RIAA has been doing that since Day 1. Fair is fair, I think.
Besides, is three years in jail and a felony rap for downloading music fair? Bullshit. Did Congress come up with that one on their own? Bullshit.
Frankly, even if these kids were sharing the Library of Congress and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they hold the moral high ground.
The civil liberties crowd will be happy that we're back to innocent until proven guilty -- "there's a large chasm between suspected and convicted" after all.
The US Constitution does NOT hamper the ability of a content provider to censor the content they provide. Under your argument the FCC itself would be unconstitutional. So would filters in libraries.
I think he's getting the hang of this. ^_^
I think what you're referring to is utility fog.
:)
Even if you wanted to be a Terminator, establishing a direct enough interface to directly read and write to your brain is going to be difficult enough that mind-raping people casually is going to be damn difficult. Especially when neural firewalls hit the market.
That said, I'd absolutely love such a nanotech body when my clone craps out.
What, am I the only person who thinks that would be a fair deal? ^_^
I'd also want a rocket launcher, though. And maybe a 'la-ser'
You bet. I'm well over the requirements in most places, (memory, processing) and on par everywhere (but broadband) else.
I've replaced my modem, sound card, and video board since buying HL2, and nothing has helped.
... but HL2 still crashes at every scripted event, and I'm on AOHell. It took 4 hours to decrypt game content after installing from CD.
There is no way in the seven circles of Hell that I'm going to buy Aftermath until they patch HL2 properly. And apologise for the $55 I spent the first week HL2 came out which remains in limbo after I bought that thing which was totally unfit for its purpose.
I've seen HL2 run properly, and it's awe-inspiring. But Valve can keep their download until something turns around.