If you ask me, he should have the book thrown at him. Not for the animated stuff, but for having had -real- pictures. How the hell was he let off the hook the first time?
Car etiquette is not necessarily mandated by law at all. A commenter above mentioned car stereos. I would also include pointless revving of engines, car parking faux pas (like spot stealing). And even if ridiculous car mods aren't poor etiquette, they're certainly bad taste!
It's not just cellphones. All technology has an integral etiquette, from cars to scissors. If you think about it, you can find examples for pretty much anything on your desk, and can probably come up with good reasons for why we have the social mores that we do. Everything from not chewing on other people's pencils to not touching someone else's monitor screen.
Cellphones only draw our attention because they're fairly new technology (compared to, say, pencils) and the offenses commitable with a phone can be extremely annoying and in some cases deadly.
This is a much broader topic if you take the time to look into it.
If you have one week to live, but there's an operation that might give you another 10 years, or might kill you on the table, most people would take that chance. And that's what it is - taking a chance. Yes, I agree we should try to reduce the risks, but we have to be realistic and accept that things will go wrong.
Risk is a part of life - there is always a risk even for utterly trivial routine surgeries like having an ingrown toenail cut out. People have died as a result of that surgery, but very few. Probably more people die in cars on the way to the hospital. If we only did things that carried no risk no one would do anything.
You wax lyrical about going to the moon, but just remember three men died on the ground before we even got a moon rocket in the air. We've lost 14 astronauts in the STS program alone. Space flight is astonishingly risky and expensive. Stuff blows up All The Time. But we judged those risks to be worth the value of the enterprise.
But a surprising amount of technology is inspired directly or indirectly from fiction. I work in robotics and I can tell you that there isn't a single person I've met robotics conferences who didn't grow up thinking about robots from the works of Asimov or Lucas or Japanese anime. We loved them and we wanted to be a part of that - to make it so.
Science fiction is a history of the future - a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Or better yet, use your access to space to sell rides to satellites and make lots of money. Funny how all the really crazy terrorist-supporting countries are dirt poor out there. Somehow I suspect that if they worked out this capitalism thing, they'd be a lot less violent when profit's to be made.
This was back in the days before the internet - back when schools didn't have webpages and nobody knew how to use computers even when we had them. I expected to be handed a neatly printed tome to peruse, but none was forthcoming.
I have never had any trouble taking boxes of electronics bits with me, even circuit boards and suspicious-looking wiring, with me on a plane. It might be because there are no large batteries of ambiguous looking blocks of substance in there that might be bombs. Although, it might also be because my batteries are all small and the name on my boarding pass has a 'doctor' in front of it.
See now, if you were smart you could have planted the bomb in the school, filmed it when they detonated it later, and used the footage for your film skit...
I would really like to know what policies these are, specifically. I'm too tired of hearing about people being raked through the mud for violating so-called policies.
Once, when I was a student, I tried to get a copy of the school's policy manual. I was politely but firmly told to sit down and shut up. To be honest, I don't believe that such things even exist, or if they are they are so broadly defined as to be useless for informing behaviour.
I think everybody does this. In my aerorobotics lab we have a 'spares' airframe too. Anything where you can't easily make a replacement gets manufactured in duplicate or triplicate the first time so that when it inevitably breaks, you can just yank one off the spare.
Given their tendency to picket soldier's funerals, I'm glad the Patriot Guard Riders are level-headed. Nothing says "America Disagrees With You" like 100 Harley riders carrying flags standing between you and the people you're trying to bother.
I'm not an American, but people like the PGR make me think that the spirit that made that country great still lives on.
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If you ask me, he should have the book thrown at him. Not for the animated stuff, but for having had -real- pictures. How the hell was he let off the hook the first time?
When's the yard sale? I hear you have some shuttles going cheap. I want to get the launch equipment to go with it.
Car etiquette is not necessarily mandated by law at all. A commenter above mentioned car stereos. I would also include pointless revving of engines, car parking faux pas (like spot stealing). And even if ridiculous car mods aren't poor etiquette, they're certainly bad taste!
It's not just cellphones. All technology has an integral etiquette, from cars to scissors. If you think about it, you can find examples for pretty much anything on your desk, and can probably come up with good reasons for why we have the social mores that we do. Everything from not chewing on other people's pencils to not touching someone else's monitor screen.
Cellphones only draw our attention because they're fairly new technology (compared to, say, pencils) and the offenses commitable with a phone can be extremely annoying and in some cases deadly.
This is a much broader topic if you take the time to look into it.
Where can I buy/join one of these clubs? I'll happily do either.
If you have one week to live, but there's an operation that might give you another 10 years, or might kill you on the table, most people would take that chance. And that's what it is - taking a chance. Yes, I agree we should try to reduce the risks, but we have to be realistic and accept that things will go wrong.
Risk is a part of life - there is always a risk even for utterly trivial routine surgeries like having an ingrown toenail cut out. People have died as a result of that surgery, but very few. Probably more people die in cars on the way to the hospital. If we only did things that carried no risk no one would do anything.
You wax lyrical about going to the moon, but just remember three men died on the ground before we even got a moon rocket in the air. We've lost 14 astronauts in the STS program alone. Space flight is astonishingly risky and expensive. Stuff blows up All The Time. But we judged those risks to be worth the value of the enterprise.
So too with medicine.
Clerical multitasking has been supported since Win95.
But a surprising amount of technology is inspired directly or indirectly from fiction. I work in robotics and I can tell you that there isn't a single person I've met robotics conferences who didn't grow up thinking about robots from the works of Asimov or Lucas or Japanese anime. We loved them and we wanted to be a part of that - to make it so.
Science fiction is a history of the future - a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In Soviet Russia, government works for you!
What exactly do you have against thin small outline packages, anyway?
You can't have been lucid - you forgot Uwe Boll.
Or better yet, use your access to space to sell rides to satellites and make lots of money. Funny how all the really crazy terrorist-supporting countries are dirt poor out there. Somehow I suspect that if they worked out this capitalism thing, they'd be a lot less violent when profit's to be made.
This was back in the days before the internet - back when schools didn't have webpages and nobody knew how to use computers even when we had them. I expected to be handed a neatly printed tome to peruse, but none was forthcoming.
Then we must liberate Belgium immediately! Think of the children!
I have never had any trouble taking boxes of electronics bits with me, even circuit boards and suspicious-looking wiring, with me on a plane. It might be because there are no large batteries of ambiguous looking blocks of substance in there that might be bombs. Although, it might also be because my batteries are all small and the name on my boarding pass has a 'doctor' in front of it.
And god forbid they should see a nipple until they are married!
See now, if you were smart you could have planted the bomb in the school, filmed it when they detonated it later, and used the footage for your film skit...
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Alternatively, he might be the school hero for getting everyone sent home early for the day!
I would really like to know what policies these are, specifically. I'm too tired of hearing about people being raked through the mud for violating so-called policies.
Once, when I was a student, I tried to get a copy of the school's policy manual. I was politely but firmly told to sit down and shut up. To be honest, I don't believe that such things even exist, or if they are they are so broadly defined as to be useless for informing behaviour.
I think everybody does this. In my aerorobotics lab we have a 'spares' airframe too. Anything where you can't easily make a replacement gets manufactured in duplicate or triplicate the first time so that when it inevitably breaks, you can just yank one off the spare.
No one expects the African Inquisition!
I'm sorry, but why is this moderated troll? This sounds like a valid avenue of investigation.
Given their tendency to picket soldier's funerals, I'm glad the Patriot Guard Riders are level-headed. Nothing says "America Disagrees With You" like 100 Harley riders carrying flags standing between you and the people you're trying to bother. I'm not an American, but people like the PGR make me think that the spirit that made that country great still lives on.
Also, the lunatic fringe is helpful in innoculating the rest of us from the related, milder forms of crazy.