Don't forget that in many jurisdictions, the police are fully permitted to lie to a suspect as a valid method of interrogation so never believe what you're being told.
You're implying that only blind children wouldn't notice the nails and I can think of a dozen scenarios in which they wouldn't be noticeable and still be very dangerous.
Agreed. Its a strange world when you think killing someone for trying to rob you is acceptable.
The same country that touts due process and a fair legal system believes in offing someone for walking onto the wrong property by accident.
Note the children who've been shot while trick or treating. Or this documentary camera man, who died while leaving the property. Situations like this do not exactly inspire confidence in the kind of logic home defence proponents use.
I'm pretty certain it has more to do with being an expert in your field and realizing how much you should trust experts in their own fields.
I know quite a bit about my car, but I still bring it to a mechanic for most work, and I expect him to bring me his computer and not screw around with it himself.
By the same token, when I need legal work done, I bring it to a lawyer, and I don't do surgery either.
I hear that from a lot of people, but I usually call them unobservant.
If you have to focus so hard on what you're doing that you don't notice what's going on around you, then you're way more intense than me. I beat several games on the hardest difficulties all while enjoying the scenery and replaying sequences on purpose just to get the full effect of them.
You've got to admit that a few of those scenes were just incredibly well done though, from the exploding mid-air jumper to the snapped neck when the impaled body's head was used as a stepping stone.
I watched that movie back-to-back with Sin City with a friend to compare the first to the stylized fake gore and extremely suggestive dialogue of the second.
The best feature of Soldier of Fortune was the gore. You aim for the shoulder and blow the guy's arm off and he can't shoot you anymore, voila. You can tell, just by looking, whether you hit the guy critically or not. If his neck is spurting blood, you know you don't need to put another bullet in him.
The game's big selling feature was accurate weapons and dismemberment, so if you don't like those things, play something else.
The limiter in your BMW is based on the speed rating of your tires for safety reasons. Most cars are limited to the sidewall rating of the stock tires they are designed with.
If your car ships with Z rated tires, your limiter is higher than someone with H rated.
I drove well over the speed limit once getting my very pregnant wife to the hospital and told her in advance that if anyone tried to pull me over I'd call 9/11 and explain and keep driving.
People who believe speed is the cause of all problems don't understand its use in emergency manoeuvres.
Of course, the lower accident rate on highways that went to 75mph instead of 55, or the lower death toll on the Autobauhn than on many American highways confuses them too.
For the nay-saysers, speed isn't implicitly causing accidents, poor driving and/or unforseen circumstances are.
The only speed that is nearly guaranteed not to cause an accident is zero. By getting in the car at all, you've increased your odds of being in a collision far more than the subsequent increase caused by speeding.
There's a radio show where I live that hosts call-ins, and one of the regular guests repairs appliances for a living. He frequently fields the "I'm replacing my old fridge to save the planet, which one should I get" question to which he inevitably points out that throwing out the old fridge prematurely and/or causing the new one to be manufactured (by increasing demand) does more harm to the environment than using the old, less efficient model until its really dead.
Your cable company is no different from you. They have limited rights to use the content in question which in their case includes distribution (with certain strings attached in some cases).
You're missing a major difference between opening your source and Open Source -- people can compile in the changes that would fix the bugs in Open Source, nobody's allowed to use their own compiled binaries from Microsoft source except Microsoft (check the licensing).
As a result, you end up with people who simply work on bug proofing the kernel and other applications because it scratches and itch or because they're paid by an organization who cares (RedHat, Novell, Oracle, the NSA themselves). Those advantages are implicitly made available to the users of those systems and therefore the entire community (due to GPL licensing).
Because its substantial overkill. You've just requested a whole boat load of protocols that need to be handled and complied with instead of a specialized wireless device made by the millions in China.
Of course if it were licensed cheaper, bluetooth could easily have taken over this wireless audio market and we could avoid a lot of frequency clutter with an intelligent and more well-secured existing protocol.
If I didn't have a bit of a brash personality, I'd go visit the five neighbouring houses (three across the street, one beside, one behind, with 55ft wide, 110ft lots) and explain that their wireless products are way too hot.
There's no reason for your wireless reception to be 25% in my living room across the road.
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Which part of "must accept interference, including harmful interference" did you miss in the FCC warning?
Don't forget that in many jurisdictions, the police are fully permitted to lie to a suspect as a valid method of interrogation so never believe what you're being told.
It will, but you may get away with it if you didn't know they were a government agent at the time.
Why do you think the FBI wear those huge "FBI" logos everywhere? You can't get away with claiming you didn't know it was an agent you shot at.
You're implying that only blind children wouldn't notice the nails and I can think of a dozen scenarios in which they wouldn't be noticeable and still be very dangerous.
Setting out to harm people is wrong. Get over it.
Agreed. Its a strange world when you think killing someone for trying to rob you is acceptable.
The same country that touts due process and a fair legal system believes in offing someone for walking onto the wrong property by accident.
Note the children who've been shot while trick or treating. Or this documentary camera man, who died while leaving the property. Situations like this do not exactly inspire confidence in the kind of logic home defence proponents use.
I'm pretty certain it has more to do with being an expert in your field and realizing how much you should trust experts in their own fields.
I know quite a bit about my car, but I still bring it to a mechanic for most work, and I expect him to bring me his computer and not screw around with it himself.
By the same token, when I need legal work done, I bring it to a lawyer, and I don't do surgery either.
I hear that from a lot of people, but I usually call them unobservant.
If you have to focus so hard on what you're doing that you don't notice what's going on around you, then you're way more intense than me. I beat several games on the hardest difficulties all while enjoying the scenery and replaying sequences on purpose just to get the full effect of them.
You've got to admit that a few of those scenes were just incredibly well done though, from the exploding mid-air jumper to the snapped neck when the impaled body's head was used as a stepping stone.
I watched that movie back-to-back with Sin City with a friend to compare the first to the stylized fake gore and extremely suggestive dialogue of the second.
The best feature of Soldier of Fortune was the gore. You aim for the shoulder and blow the guy's arm off and he can't shoot you anymore, voila. You can tell, just by looking, whether you hit the guy critically or not. If his neck is spurting blood, you know you don't need to put another bullet in him.
The game's big selling feature was accurate weapons and dismemberment, so if you don't like those things, play something else.
So you're not aware of the black boxes major auto manufacturers started installing in cars?
The limiter in your BMW is based on the speed rating of your tires for safety reasons. Most cars are limited to the sidewall rating of the stock tires they are designed with.
If your car ships with Z rated tires, your limiter is higher than someone with H rated.
I drove well over the speed limit once getting my very pregnant wife to the hospital and told her in advance that if anyone tried to pull me over I'd call 9/11 and explain and keep driving.
A graded license that prevents large highway driving without secondary training and recertification would be much appreciated, personally.
I say all the time up here in Canada, if they really cared about speeding, they'd nail everyone going more than 1km/h over the speed limit.
They don't though, because they don't really care.
The police officer driving past me at 140 without his lights on doesn't think speeding is bad, he's doing it himself.
People who believe speed is the cause of all problems don't understand its use in emergency manoeuvres.
Of course, the lower accident rate on highways that went to 75mph instead of 55, or the lower death toll on the Autobauhn than on many American highways confuses them too.
For the nay-saysers, speed isn't implicitly causing accidents, poor driving and/or unforseen circumstances are.
The only speed that is nearly guaranteed not to cause an accident is zero. By getting in the car at all, you've increased your odds of being in a collision far more than the subsequent increase caused by speeding.
There's a radio show where I live that hosts call-ins, and one of the regular guests repairs appliances for a living. He frequently fields the "I'm replacing my old fridge to save the planet, which one should I get" question to which he inevitably points out that throwing out the old fridge prematurely and/or causing the new one to be manufactured (by increasing demand) does more harm to the environment than using the old, less efficient model until its really dead.
As a fellow inhabitant of the planet I'd like your carbon statistics on cars vs. the entire carbon output of the planet please.
Thanks.
Gee whiz, my book is so popular its being copied rampantly by pirates, damn them.
In other news, the twenty dollar bill is also popular, protected by the secret service, and also being counterfeit on a regular basis.
Get over yourself.
Your cable company is no different from you. They have limited rights to use the content in question which in their case includes distribution (with certain strings attached in some cases).
You're missing a major difference between opening your source and Open Source -- people can compile in the changes that would fix the bugs in Open Source, nobody's allowed to use their own compiled binaries from Microsoft source except Microsoft (check the licensing).
As a result, you end up with people who simply work on bug proofing the kernel and other applications because it scratches and itch or because they're paid by an organization who cares (RedHat, Novell, Oracle, the NSA themselves). Those advantages are implicitly made available to the users of those systems and therefore the entire community (due to GPL licensing).
... who would be working against their own teams while under contractual obligation to misrepresent their intentions :-)
"Agent Rolf has successfully inserted the new back-door in the database system."
We just bought a DECT phone, very nice reception and our old baby monitor was 900MHz which worked very well.
Checking labels lets us keep things in different spectrum.
Because its substantial overkill. You've just requested a whole boat load of protocols that need to be handled and complied with instead of a specialized wireless device made by the millions in China.
Of course if it were licensed cheaper, bluetooth could easily have taken over this wireless audio market and we could avoid a lot of frequency clutter with an intelligent and more well-secured existing protocol.
If I didn't have a bit of a brash personality, I'd go visit the five neighbouring houses (three across the street, one beside, one behind, with 55ft wide, 110ft lots) and explain that their wireless products are way too hot.
There's no reason for your wireless reception to be 25% in my living room across the road.