If you're a citizen, and you kill someone in self defense, there aren't any problems.>/i>
Well, if you think spending lots of money to defend your self isn't a problem... Go search for a few actual cases of self-defense and the aftermath and you'll quickly see a number of horror stories.
Citizens can go about their lives normally and all we ask in a self defense case is "did they THINK their life was in danger and did they THINK that the only way to avoid it was to use deadly force?". That doesn't cut it with cops, sorry. People can make mistakes, surgeons and lawyers and cops CAN'T.
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The standard in Wisconsin for the use of deadly force is: Would a reasonable person believe that they (or someone they're defending) was in danger of death or grave bodily injury? The same standard also holds for police. 'Course, police poke into things that the rest of us would probably just walk away from...
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I've had DirecTV for about 4 years now. During that time the signal has degraded because of weather 4 or 5 times that I recall. Once I had to go out and remove snow from the dish. The other times were during REALLY good thunderstorms (nearly dark and droplets big enough to look like hail when they hit the ground).
I did have to cut down some weeds last year...
Well, I've a Canon BJC 610 that's outlived the PC I bought it with...
I buy paper by the ten ream box at least four times a year.
Color (CMYK) is decent, there's separate ink tanks for each color and ink from CarrotInk is pretty cheap ($15.00 for a set of four tanks).
Resolution isn't bad either (720x720).
For a home-use printer, this sucker's pretty good.
Well, given that there was lots of documentation available that referred to "Low" and "Full" speed, it's not surprising that they didn't change those terms.
If'n they'd got manufacturers and vendors to use the "High" speed designation exclusively instead of starting out using the "USB 2" nomenclature, this wouldn't be such an issue. Once the "USB 2" was the commonly used description, they shouldn't have tried to change it. Either the terms of use on the standard didn't clearly spell out how to handle this, the USBIF didn't enforce them enough or they changed what how they wanted to handle it. Whichever happened was clearly a mistake (amazing how clear things are when they're behind you!).
A High speed device starts out the same as a Full or Low speed device and then sends a "chirp" to indicate that it has Full speed capablilities. A High speed port recognizes the chirp and switches to High speed. Other ports don't recognize the chirp and thus ignore it. (Specs are available for download at the USBIF.)
Everyone concentrates on how strong these fibers are. I'm wondering just how thin they are -- there's an old SF idea of a "monomolecular fiber" that can be used to cut through just about everything because it's VERY strong and VERY thin.
The idea even shows up in "The Santa Clause" when the elves free Santa (Tim Allen) by using tinsel to cut the hinges on a jail cell.
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If you're a citizen, and you kill someone in self defense, there aren't any problems.>/i> Well, if you think spending lots of money to defend your self isn't a problem... Go search for a few actual cases of self-defense and the aftermath and you'll quickly see a number of horror stories. Citizens can go about their lives normally and all we ask in a self defense case is "did they THINK their life was in danger and did they THINK that the only way to avoid it was to use deadly force?". That doesn't cut it with cops, sorry. People can make mistakes, surgeons and lawyers and cops CAN'T. <IANL> The standard in Wisconsin for the use of deadly force is: Would a reasonable person believe that they (or someone they're defending) was in danger of death or grave bodily injury? The same standard also holds for police. 'Course, police poke into things that the rest of us would probably just walk away from... </IANL>
I've had DirecTV for about 4 years now. During that time the signal has degraded because of weather 4 or 5 times that I recall. Once I had to go out and remove snow from the dish. The other times were during REALLY good thunderstorms (nearly dark and droplets big enough to look like hail when they hit the ground). I did have to cut down some weeds last year...
Well, I've a Canon BJC 610 that's outlived the PC I bought it with... I buy paper by the ten ream box at least four times a year. Color (CMYK) is decent, there's separate ink tanks for each color and ink from CarrotInk is pretty cheap ($15.00 for a set of four tanks). Resolution isn't bad either (720x720). For a home-use printer, this sucker's pretty good.
Well, given that there was lots of documentation available that referred to "Low" and "Full" speed, it's not surprising that they didn't change those terms.
If'n they'd got manufacturers and vendors to use the "High" speed designation exclusively instead of starting out using the "USB 2" nomenclature, this wouldn't be such an issue. Once the "USB 2" was the commonly used description, they shouldn't have tried to change it. Either the terms of use on the standard didn't clearly spell out how to handle this, the USBIF didn't enforce them enough or they changed what how they wanted to handle it. Whichever happened was clearly a mistake (amazing how clear things are when they're behind you!).
A High speed device starts out the same as a Full or Low speed device and then sends a "chirp" to indicate that it has Full speed capablilities. A High speed port recognizes the chirp and switches to High speed. Other ports don't recognize the chirp and thus ignore it. (Specs are available for download at the USBIF.)
Everyone concentrates on how strong these fibers are. I'm wondering just how thin they are -- there's an old SF idea of a "monomolecular fiber" that can be used to cut through just about everything because it's VERY strong and VERY thin.
The idea even shows up in "The Santa Clause" when the elves free Santa (Tim Allen) by using tinsel to cut the hinges on a jail cell.