A comment on that article claims "That image is from a Palestinian bomb factory" and includes an image link, but that seems broken at the moment. Using TinEye I found no hits on the image.
In this case, stay put, go public. Shadow organizations don't like the light.
If you run, you are separated from people who can support you. You lose access to your resources. If you run, you can be disappeared and no one will know, because you're on the run, right?
Since you're a witness - Let people know, tweet, do a blog about it. "Hey Joe, I saw the damnedest thing..." By doing this you have already accomplished the thing they wanted to prevent - your talking about it. Taking you out then is counterproductive. Taking you out would increase scrutiny of whatever you saw.
At this point you can sit back and wonder if they were really out to get you, or were you just paranoid. Hopefully you'll never know.
Mayflies was really good, about a generation colony ship run by a brain-computer.
I think his most chilling was War of Omission which was based on a device that could remove things from space-time entirely, so that they never existed. Not even a memory is left behind. Brrr.
I actually think it would take longer to copy it than to make your own.
And its so minimal that given the same variable names I can see multiple students in the same class coming up with the exact same function, except for spacing.
By his graph, it looks like he's saying that he waited until almost at the stop sign, sneezed and slammed on the brakes, came to a stop of zero duration while obscured behind another car stopped at the stop sign, then gunned it to cross the intersection.
And that the officer totally missed the difference in position between a car that sails through an intersection as opposed to one that both decelerates to a full stop and accelerates fully up to speed over a period of about 3 seconds,
Hmmm. Maybe...
But I'd really like to see this demonstrated. It would make an interesting project. Mythbusters?
...There's the golden rule, for starters. He didn't invent it, but he was instrumental in the widespread use of its positive statement ("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" as opposed to "Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him")...
Not to disagree with the general intent on your post, but the golden rule isn't well worded. I'd hate to be in a room with a masochist who followed it.
Hmmm. I can't help thinking of a quote:
"Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time."
As for what would be just in this case, I don't know. I've seen the justice system do some amazingly right things, and heard of others that were terrible and a betrayal of public trust.
Sadly, it depends on the quality of the judge involved. And a criminal judge can do horrendous damage, both to the people involved, and the justice system itself.
Hutchins said: "I don't believe the First Amendment is any guarantee to those who wish to disrupt the government,"
So, if I decide to vote against the incumbents in political office I forfeit my first amendment rights? Or is it only if I discuss doing so? Maybe I have to put a sign in my yard first? Or is participation in or organization of a rally against those rascally incumbents a necessary precondition? How about a sit-in? Civil disobedience?
This sounds like the kind of thing where the bar will become lower and lower over time.
Hacking into the computers would --NOT-- have been good. Definitely not anymore. Though it was good when Kirk did it to Khan, before "hacking the computer" became cliche.
There was one thing that really cheesed me about Wrath of Khan: they kept harping about Khan's intelligence (which he was), but the writer's gave no good example of it. The surprise attack on Enterprise only happens because of a mistake on Kirk's part, not due to Khan's intelligence.
For example, it would have played better with Khan hacking the Enterprise's control systems to cause them to lower shields. Of course this was the early 80's so I'll cut them some slack there.
It would have been better to expand on Khan's intelligence by demonstration rather than just relying on exposition.
Likewise, apply this to game writing where it applies.
"being somehow accidentally introduced into their system"
Yeah, the traditional pathologist's post-autopsy Shot O' Bile would probably be a bad idea. Seriously...how would you accidentally ingest somebody's body fluids? Wear a face mask. You're all set.It would not have to be ingested, or even breathed if polonium particles were airborne (someone else commented on this). Lots of sharp things are used for cutting in an autopsy, a small slip and you could cut through your protective gear while wrist deep in blood. How much polonium would be dangerous? A half gram in one place will heat itself to 750 kelvin from released energy so the stuff is pretty potent.
The delay is believed to be over concerns about the health implications for those present at the examination.
If they're concerned, they're too ignorant about science to be qualified to do the exam. The rule of thumb is that alpas are stopped by air. Even if the guy's body fluids got on you, the alphas wouldn't get through your epidermis -- and I assume people doing autopsies are going to be wearing latex gloves, a mask, etc., since they don't want to get exposed to AIDS, etc.
I think they are more concerned about the Polonium-210 being somehow accidentally introduced into their system during the autopsy rather than the direct radiation.
A quick read about Polonium shows that its soluble in dilute acids. I wonder if thats how it was introduced?
You (should) still be immune to phishing scams if you refuse to give _any_ personal information out unless _you_ initiated the contact (and then only with known-good contact info for a business, such as calling a number printed on your phone bill). If you get an email like this, _call the company._ Yes, I know that it's usually impossible to get through, but even if you can't or don't, nothing bad will happen.
Actually, I've started to wonder why companies don't just digitally sign all their emails. If the emails were signed and people educated to check that, wouldn't that solve problems like this?
Likewise, I would feel better about receiving utility/credit card/purchase/etc emails if they were encrypted so that only I could read them. Do I really want just anyone sniffing network traffic to have that information?
This guy I know has a lot of guns. He also makes a lot of his own ammo. Recently, he *gasp* cleaned his pistol. Clearly he is hiding evidence and he is the killer we are looking for.
Of course to make this analogy complete, you'd have to add that the shot was fired from his house.
Choice of college is important when you consider which recruiters will come on campus to interview for new hires. Often there is a limit to how many are hired each year, if you happen to be at a campus that gets good recruiters your chances are that much better.
It might also be best to allow for travel in your last semester before graduation, you might easily spend a week on interviews and travel if you interest enough recruiters. I didn't realize that and was unable to complete a project in one class - that cost me a grade.
You can increase your chances by maintaining a high grade point of course, its also very good to participate in corporate internships if possible. Working on interesting independent projects with full documentation and high quality code practices would give you something to knock there socks off when you show it to them.
If this really is a decent lump of cash, you'd be much better off investing it...If I had 25 to 50 thousand spare cash...
The high end would only be three to four thousand dollars.
And in 10-15 years you'll be back in glasses as your eyes naturally tend towards farsightedness.
IANAD but you might need glasses then. If you do they probably won't be bifocals. Those can be awkward, especially when trying to peer at a computer screen.
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Alas! Those who have met Nyarlathotep no longer have souls.
Therefore, they became bankers.
Or even farther back: 1826 The Last Man by Mary Shelly. Alas, again no zombies.
Try Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain or Richard Matheson's I am Legend if you want to go back to as original source as I can come up with.
A little earlier is 1949's Earth Abides, haven't read it in years, but I recall it as being very good. No zombies though.
A comment on that article claims "That image is from a Palestinian bomb factory" and includes an image link, but that seems broken at the moment. Using TinEye I found no hits on the image.
Ah, found it: http://www.apimages.com/Search.aspx?st=k&remem=x&entity=&kw=palestinian+bomb+factory&intv=None&shgroup=-10&sh=10
First two images on the list, different angles.
In this case, stay put, go public. Shadow organizations don't like the light.
If you run, you are separated from people who can support you. You lose access to your resources. If you run, you can be disappeared and no one will know, because you're on the run, right?
Since you're a witness - Let people know, tweet, do a blog about it. "Hey Joe, I saw the damnedest thing..." By doing this you have already accomplished the thing they wanted to prevent - your talking about it. Taking you out then is counterproductive. Taking you out would increase scrutiny of whatever you saw.
At this point you can sit back and wonder if they were really out to get you, or were you just paranoid. Hopefully you'll never know.
Mayflies was really good, about a generation colony ship run by a brain-computer.
I think his most chilling was War of Omission which was based on a device that could remove things from space-time entirely, so that they never existed. Not even a memory is left behind. Brrr.
I'm going to add C.L.Moore as under appreciated, then saw that Lewis Padgett was a pseudonym for her collaborative works with her first husband.
Her "Vintage Season" has stuck with me to this day.
I actually think it would take longer to copy it than to make your own.
And its so minimal that given the same variable names I can see multiple students in the same class coming up with the exact same function, except for spacing.
By his graph, it looks like he's saying that he waited until almost at the stop sign, sneezed and slammed on the brakes, came to a stop of zero duration while obscured behind another car stopped at the stop sign, then gunned it to cross the intersection.
And that the officer totally missed the difference in position between a car that sails through an intersection as opposed to one that both decelerates to a full stop and accelerates fully up to speed over a period of about 3 seconds,
Hmmm. Maybe...
But I'd really like to see this demonstrated. It would make an interesting project. Mythbusters?
"Lord of Light" is fantastic. I'd also add "Dilvish the Damned" to the list.
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Nice tagline... now I'll have to re-read that book.
...There's the golden rule, for starters. He didn't invent it, but he was instrumental in the widespread use of its positive statement ("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" as opposed to "Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him")...
Not to disagree with the general intent on your post, but the golden rule isn't well worded. I'd hate to be in a room with a masochist who followed it.
Hmmm. I can't help thinking of a quote:
"Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time."
As for what would be just in this case, I don't know. I've seen the justice system do some amazingly right things, and heard of others that were terrible and a betrayal of public trust.
Sadly, it depends on the quality of the judge involved. And a criminal judge can do horrendous damage, both to the people involved, and the justice system itself.
Hutchins said: "I don't believe the First Amendment is any guarantee to those who wish to disrupt the government,"
So, if I decide to vote against the incumbents in political office I forfeit my first amendment rights? Or is it only if I discuss doing so? Maybe I have to put a sign in my yard first? Or is participation in or organization of a rally against those rascally incumbents a necessary precondition? How about a sit-in? Civil disobedience?
This sounds like the kind of thing where the bar will become lower and lower over time.
Best not to begin...
Something else that is interesting is the composition of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee.
Its composed of 24 members, 13 Democrat, 11 Republican.
25% of the subcommittee is from California.
http://judiciary.house.gov/about/subcourts.html
There was one thing that really cheesed me about Wrath of Khan: they kept harping about Khan's intelligence (which he was), but the writer's gave no good example of it. The surprise attack on Enterprise only happens because of a mistake on Kirk's part, not due to Khan's intelligence.
For example, it would have played better with Khan hacking the Enterprise's control systems to cause them to lower shields. Of course this was the early 80's so I'll cut them some slack there.
It would have been better to expand on Khan's intelligence by demonstration rather than just relying on exposition.
Likewise, apply this to game writing where it applies.
"being somehow accidentally introduced into their system"
Yeah, the traditional pathologist's post-autopsy Shot O' Bile would probably be a bad idea. Seriously...how would you accidentally ingest somebody's body fluids? Wear a face mask. You're all set.It would not have to be ingested, or even breathed if polonium particles were airborne (someone else commented on this). Lots of sharp things are used for cutting in an autopsy, a small slip and you could cut through your protective gear while wrist deep in blood. How much polonium would be dangerous? A half gram in one place will heat itself to 750 kelvin from released energy so the stuff is pretty potent.
If they're concerned, they're too ignorant about science to be qualified to do the exam. The rule of thumb is that alpas are stopped by air. Even if the guy's body fluids got on you, the alphas wouldn't get through your epidermis -- and I assume people doing autopsies are going to be wearing latex gloves, a mask, etc., since they don't want to get exposed to AIDS, etc.
I think they are more concerned about the Polonium-210 being somehow accidentally introduced into their system during the autopsy rather than the direct radiation.A quick read about Polonium shows that its soluble in dilute acids. I wonder if thats how it was introduced?
You (should) still be immune to phishing scams if you refuse to give _any_ personal information out unless _you_ initiated the contact (and then only with known-good contact info for a business, such as calling a number printed on your phone bill). If you get an email like this, _call the company._ Yes, I know that it's usually impossible to get through, but even if you can't or don't, nothing bad will happen.
Actually, I've started to wonder why companies don't just digitally sign all their emails. If the emails were signed and people educated to check that, wouldn't that solve problems like this?
Likewise, I would feel better about receiving utility/credit card/purchase/etc emails if they were encrypted so that only I could read them. Do I really want just anyone sniffing network traffic to have that information?
This guy I know has a lot of guns. He also makes a lot of his own ammo. Recently, he *gasp* cleaned his pistol. Clearly he is hiding evidence and he is the killer we are looking for.
Of course to make this analogy complete, you'd have to add that the shot was fired from his house.
Doors open at 6pm on Friday, 1pm Saturday and Sunday.
We saw the trailer to Call of Cthulhu at the festival last year. By special audience request it was shown twice - everyone was much impressed with it.
It might also be best to allow for travel in your last semester before graduation, you might easily spend a week on interviews and travel if you interest enough recruiters. I didn't realize that and was unable to complete a project in one class - that cost me a grade.
You can increase your chances by maintaining a high grade point of course, its also very good to participate in corporate internships if possible. Working on interesting independent projects with full documentation and high quality code practices would give you something to knock there socks off when you show it to them.
The high end would only be three to four thousand dollars.
And in 10-15 years you'll be back in glasses as your eyes naturally tend towards farsightedness.
IANAD but you might need glasses then. If you do they probably won't be bifocals. Those can be awkward, especially when trying to peer at a computer screen.
Plus you'll still have those 10-15 years without!
RIAA: "My god! We'll be ruined! Gentlemen, we have to protect our phoney baloney jobs!" (Apologies to Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles".)