"Firearms are't tools useful for any other purpose than killing". Yes, they were designed for that one purpose, and they do it well.
Now, as for your post is ignorant:
1) "Acting in "self-defense" doesn't make an action morally defensiable." Who is talking about morals? WTF? If someone threatens eiter me, my family, or my friends with deadly force, you're goddamed right I'm going to respond in kind, and in spades. Two wrongs do not make a right, that is true. But because there are assholes among us that are willing to hurt the ones we care about, I don't see it as being wrong to stop them from doing so, by and and all means necessary.
So you want justification for guns?
The Second Ammendment defends the rights of citizens to privatly own firearms for one simple reason: power. It gives them the ultimate right, and ability, to stop a goverment gone completely out of control. Before you go ahead and say "but what about the military", I say this: The military, assuming that everyone followed the orders to turn against their countrymen, would have, on 500,000 people on their side. If all armed Americans turned against the govenrnment and military, you'd have something like 50 million people banding together. The point was to give the government something to fear: the knowledge that they couldn't get too out of control without the risk of getting their asses handed to them. Granted, in modern-day American society, such a revolt is unlikely. But time has proven that if you manage to piss Americans off badly enough, we will fight (see: Japan, prior to WWII. They didn't think we'd fight. They were deadly wrong).
It's not a considence that it was the Second Amendment. They thought it to be that important.
Consider that.
Lucasfilms does have THX certification and specifications for certain home-theatre amplifiers (namely $$$ ones), supposedly for utterly perfect sound reproduction. Any corelation between the movie's name and the certification?
...but if you think about, it was just a matter of time before something like this caught on. In CS/CE, the measure of how big of a man/woman you are is how many certs you have to your name (at least it is in quite a few corportate environemnts). Soon enough, we'll see job postings that see "CEH preferred".
Though as it was already pointed out, this is an excellent example of social engineering. They ought to give kickbacks to Mitnik for every fool who enrolls in the class.
A note to the parent of the thread: I'm not attacking/putting down/otherwise disagreeing with you or anyone else. I'm just posting. The job you have as the parent of an Autistic child is countless times harder than a "normal" parent, and their job sucks to start with!
The rise in a lot of "unknown in origin" diseases might not have as much to do with environment as we think, or as much as the media would want you do believe. Sure, it plays a role, but it's likely a minor one. The three things that do play a huge role: 1) Genetics. 2) Population. 3) Diagnosis.
Works something like this:
1) Genetics. Some place like Silicon Valley, as the parent mentioned, has largely the same subset of people in it. Given that there is some sort of genetic predisposition to what kind of intellegence you have (ie: you're good with your hands, you're killer at mathematics), it's plausable to assume that the people who frequent such a place has the same sort of genetic subsets. Which is great: you have lots of people who think the way you do. It also sucks in that every subset has certain genetic predispositions, and the flaws that go with them. So if you have a whole lot of the same sort of people, with the same sort of genome.....you run that much better of a chance of having odd things happen.
2) Population. Let's say that autism occurs (for whatever reason) in 0.00001 percent of the population. Given that the world population is increasing at an incredable rate, the rate of historically rare diseases goes way the hell up.
3) Diagnosis. 100 years ago, lots and lots of people died from Cancer. We have no idea how many, really, 'cause there was absloutely no solid way to dignose it. Same thing for disesases like Autism. 50 years ago, the child might have been labeled "troubled" or "maladjusted". The fact that there are defined guidelines these days means that we have a better idea, as a whole, what things are actually afflicting society. Couple this idea with #2, and you have diseases that "didn't exist" 50 years ago running rampant in society.
My point: sure, thinks like smoking while pregnant will cause problems. The odds that something like this causes a problem like Austim.....well, I'm more likely to be hit by lightning while wearing my tin-foil hat.
The human genome, while decoded, has more unknown stuff in it than the nearest 3 galaxies. Before we go chasing ghosts, we need to look to our own cells.
And yes, I am a biologist. You should hear the arguements about this sort of shit at lunch break.
Seriously, this is scare tactic shit. You wanna talk about nasty stuff in your house? Go look at what a gallon of gasoline has in it. Or that can of roach killer. Or how about the spray wax you use for polishing furnature? All of it's pretty nasty stuff. Far nastier than the potential of some brominated bullshit getting you.
Thus far, I find it odd no one has inquired as to the exact nature of how the hell someone got so far into the system as to be able to copy source code. That's not something any company leaves sitting in/pub. Whomever pulled this off (assuming it's not bullshit) knew something (social engineering, perhaps), for I'm sure Sisco has been hammered by attacks for years, just like any large company.
My one thought: it's all bullshit until Cisco comes out and says they were hacked. Anyone can put together a bunch of seemingly well-written code and say that they were l33t and got in to Cisco.
The proof is in the pudding. And all I see so far is some sugar.
"We will show that our approach offers better value, better security and better opportunity."
Better security: This comes, what....2 weeks after their biggest montly rollout of security patches for every version of windows?!
Better Value: Windows XP Full (home) edition: 264.99 at Staples.com. FreeBSD/Linux....0.00
Value? WTF?
Better Opportunity: A better opportunity indeed! For them to make more money, of course.
Someone ought to tell Balmer that the masses may be asses, but we're not quite as dumb as he thinks. That goes for him employees as well. 50 percent believe the lies; 50 percent know it's all bullshit.
"But members of the panel appeared to disagree with the company's claims, saying repeatedly that Diebold had been less than forthcoming during the state's nearly five-month investigation into its practices, often producing "frivolous" documents or responding slowly to state queries."
Perhaps I'm just a cynic of the first order, but why on earth would they be less-than-forthcoming if they didn't have some sort of adjenda of their own? You would think that, as a large business, they'd be as forthcoming as possible to put the voters (and the investigatigators) minds at ease with the new technology. Of course, if you were hiding something.....
Fudging elections is not a new concept. This is just a new twist on it./tinfoil hat on
Circuit breaker is a fairly simple electromagnetic device, and no matter what size or shape of current rating they have, they all work on the same principle, so therefore are at least similar to the ones you have in your house.
I hope they didn't buy them from Georgia Pacific, though!
No matter how many splits, branches, and bugfixes....
Mozilla will _always_ have the cooler logo.
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Sorry, but I've gotta throw my 0.02 in here. Finally, a topic I know something about:
Chipping a turbo car (most of the time) involves re-timing when the wastegate kicks in. A turbo will produce boost just about forever (so long as you can spin the blades faster and faster), so at some point, you dump so much pressure in the cylinder that you start to blow head gaskets and all sorts of other nasty stuff like that. The wastegate kicks in at some point, dumping off the extra pressure at a preset psi. By modding the gate's setpoint, you make more pressure, and therefore more power.
True, some engines can take the extra boost just fine (cast iron blocks are very good for abuse. Aluminum....eeeh), some will blow sky-high the first time you try it. It's a calculated risk, just like OC'ing your processor. It IS harder on your engine, no doubt. So while it make take it, the damn thing might go 20 or 30k miles before it should have otherwise. Of course, if you are doing mods like this, you likely don't care about the 20 or 30k. As for naturally aspirated engines, you don't have wastegates to play with. Sure, you can fuck with throttle response curves and the like, but it's not nearly as effective.
You want real power? Go get a bike. Figure this:
An Aprilia Mille weighs about 400 pounds. Puts out 140 horses. That gives me a hp/weight ratio of about 2.8. Cost: about 18 grand.
A Pontiac Vibe weights about 2800 pounds. Puts out 127 horses. That gives me a hp/weight ratio of about 22. Cost: about 18 grand.
A Dodge Viper weights about 3400 pounds. Puts out 500 horses. That gives me a hp/weight ratio of about 6.8. Cost: about 80 grand.
We're not talking about Oprah's perfume here.
We're talking about methanol. If you DRINK it it can blind you. Getting a good lung-full of it just makes you cough like hell.
I'm forced to use Office XP here at work. XYZ pharmaceutical company I work for is certainly not going to be moving to a desktop other than Windows, so I'm stuck with Office XP. That being said, I'm glad to see MS reacting to the threat of OO. If it means they have to put an extra group of developers/debuggers to make the damn thing work better, I'm all for it.
As much as I'd like to see OO make huge inroads into the multinational corporations, I know that's at least half-a-dozen years down the road. So in the meantime, if I can have a product that does not completely suck....well....make the workday go by faster.
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"Firearms are't tools useful for any other purpose than killing". Yes, they were designed for that one purpose, and they do it well.
Now, as for your post is ignorant:
1) "Acting in "self-defense" doesn't make an action morally defensiable." Who is talking about morals? WTF? If someone threatens eiter me, my family, or my friends with deadly force, you're goddamed right I'm going to respond in kind, and in spades. Two wrongs do not make a right, that is true. But because there are assholes among us that are willing to hurt the ones we care about, I don't see it as being wrong to stop them from doing so, by and and all means necessary.
So you want justification for guns?
The Second Ammendment defends the rights of citizens to privatly own firearms for one simple reason: power. It gives them the ultimate right, and ability, to stop a goverment gone completely out of control. Before you go ahead and say "but what about the military", I say this: The military, assuming that everyone followed the orders to turn against their countrymen, would have, on 500,000 people on their side. If all armed Americans turned against the govenrnment and military, you'd have something like 50 million people banding together. The point was to give the government something to fear: the knowledge that they couldn't get too out of control without the risk of getting their asses handed to them. Granted, in modern-day American society, such a revolt is unlikely. But time has proven that if you manage to piss Americans off badly enough, we will fight (see: Japan, prior to WWII. They didn't think we'd fight. They were deadly wrong).
It's not a considence that it was the Second Amendment. They thought it to be that important. Consider that.
Lucasfilms does have THX certification and specifications for certain home-theatre amplifiers (namely $$$ ones), supposedly for utterly perfect sound reproduction. Any corelation between the movie's name and the certification?
Though as it was already pointed out, this is an excellent example of social engineering. They ought to give kickbacks to Mitnik for every fool who enrolls in the class.
You must be new here.
This is
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Then read it again.
It's amazing how much better you can make your shots come out just by knowing what you camera can do to help you out of tough spots!
The rise in a lot of "unknown in origin" diseases might not have as much to do with environment as we think, or as much as the media would want you do believe. Sure, it plays a role, but it's likely a minor one. The three things that do play a huge role: 1) Genetics. 2) Population. 3) Diagnosis.
Works something like this:
1) Genetics. Some place like Silicon Valley, as the parent mentioned, has largely the same subset of people in it. Given that there is some sort of genetic predisposition to what kind of intellegence you have (ie: you're good with your hands, you're killer at mathematics), it's plausable to assume that the people who frequent such a place has the same sort of genetic subsets. Which is great: you have lots of people who think the way you do. It also sucks in that every subset has certain genetic predispositions, and the flaws that go with them. So if you have a whole lot of the same sort of people, with the same sort of genome.....you run that much better of a chance of having odd things happen.
2) Population. Let's say that autism occurs (for whatever reason) in 0.00001 percent of the population. Given that the world population is increasing at an incredable rate, the rate of historically rare diseases goes way the hell up.
3) Diagnosis. 100 years ago, lots and lots of people died from Cancer. We have no idea how many, really, 'cause there was absloutely no solid way to dignose it. Same thing for disesases like Autism. 50 years ago, the child might have been labeled "troubled" or "maladjusted". The fact that there are defined guidelines these days means that we have a better idea, as a whole, what things are actually afflicting society. Couple this idea with #2, and you have diseases that "didn't exist" 50 years ago running rampant in society.
My point: sure, thinks like smoking while pregnant will cause problems. The odds that something like this causes a problem like Austim.....well, I'm more likely to be hit by lightning while wearing my tin-foil hat. The human genome, while decoded, has more unknown stuff in it than the nearest 3 galaxies. Before we go chasing ghosts, we need to look to our own cells.
And yes, I am a biologist. You should hear the arguements about this sort of shit at lunch break.
In Soviet Russia, the PBDE's inhale you!
Seriously, this is scare tactic shit. You wanna talk about nasty stuff in your house? Go look at what a gallon of gasoline has in it. Or that can of roach killer. Or how about the spray wax you use for polishing furnature? All of it's pretty nasty stuff. Far nastier than the potential of some brominated bullshit getting you.
Complex problem, simple solution. I tip my hat to them. Shit, I might even have a spot of tea, too.
My one thought: it's all bullshit until Cisco comes out and says they were hacked. Anyone can put together a bunch of seemingly well-written code and say that they were l33t and got in to Cisco.
The proof is in the pudding. And all I see so far is some sugar.
Better security: This comes, what....2 weeks after their biggest montly rollout of security patches for every version of windows?!
Better Value: Windows XP Full (home) edition: 264.99 at Staples.com. FreeBSD/Linux....0.00 Value? WTF?
Better Opportunity: A better opportunity indeed! For them to make more money, of course.
Someone ought to tell Balmer that the masses may be asses, but we're not quite as dumb as he thinks. That goes for him employees as well. 50 percent believe the lies; 50 percent know it's all bullshit.
Perhaps I'm just a cynic of the first order, but why on earth would they be less-than-forthcoming if they didn't have some sort of adjenda of their own? You would think that, as a large business, they'd be as forthcoming as possible to put the voters (and the investigatigators) minds at ease with the new technology. Of course, if you were hiding something.....
Fudging elections is not a new concept. This is just a new twist on it. /tinfoil hat on
Circuit breaker is a fairly simple electromagnetic device, and no matter what size or shape of current rating they have, they all work on the same principle, so therefore are at least similar to the ones you have in your house.
I hope they didn't buy them from Georgia Pacific, though!
So to get a brunette, does that mean we have to listen to the phrase "Take me home, I need to study?"
Or a redhead: "Take me home, I need to fsck?"
The rest of us breathe a sigh of relief the day you side-punch a Kenworth.
Chocolate covered apples, anyone?
.....that would have Martha Stewart approval?
Just sharks with frickin lasers instead
Mozilla will _always_ have the cooler logo.
Chipping a turbo car (most of the time) involves re-timing when the wastegate kicks in. A turbo will produce boost just about forever (so long as you can spin the blades faster and faster), so at some point, you dump so much pressure in the cylinder that you start to blow head gaskets and all sorts of other nasty stuff like that. The wastegate kicks in at some point, dumping off the extra pressure at a preset psi. By modding the gate's setpoint, you make more pressure, and therefore more power.
True, some engines can take the extra boost just fine (cast iron blocks are very good for abuse. Aluminum....eeeh), some will blow sky-high the first time you try it. It's a calculated risk, just like OC'ing your processor. It IS harder on your engine, no doubt. So while it make take it, the damn thing might go 20 or 30k miles before it should have otherwise. Of course, if you are doing mods like this, you likely don't care about the 20 or 30k. As for naturally aspirated engines, you don't have wastegates to play with. Sure, you can fuck with throttle response curves and the like, but it's not nearly as effective.
You want real power? Go get a bike. Figure this:
An Aprilia Mille weighs about 400 pounds. Puts out 140 horses. That gives me a hp/weight ratio of about 2.8. Cost: about 18 grand.
A Pontiac Vibe weights about 2800 pounds. Puts out 127 horses. That gives me a hp/weight ratio of about 22. Cost: about 18 grand.
A Dodge Viper weights about 3400 pounds. Puts out 500 horses. That gives me a hp/weight ratio of about 6.8. Cost: about 80 grand.
And you get more chicks with the bike, too.
Nice thinking!
What if I don't have a dick, you insensitive clod!
We're not talking about Oprah's perfume here. We're talking about methanol. If you DRINK it it can blind you. Getting a good lung-full of it just makes you cough like hell.
I'm forced to use Office XP here at work. XYZ pharmaceutical company I work for is certainly not going to be moving to a desktop other than Windows, so I'm stuck with Office XP. That being said, I'm glad to see MS reacting to the threat of OO. If it means they have to put an extra group of developers/debuggers to make the damn thing work better, I'm all for it.
As much as I'd like to see OO make huge inroads into the multinational corporations, I know that's at least half-a-dozen years down the road. So in the meantime, if I can have a product that does not completely suck....well....make the workday go by faster.