Well, in Texas, they would charge them with Conspiracy, and could even charge it up as high as a felony. Because of how Texas law is structured, if you're part of the conspiracy, you're just as guilty, even if you had no active part in the crime itself. So, if you and your buddies decide to rob a store, and one of your hot-headed friends shoots a cop, under Texas law you are ALL cop killers and will probably end up on Death row. In this case, the two people were in a criminal conspiracy to illuminate aircraft, and so all you have to prove is that they were both there, and that the laser in question was being shined on the helicopter in question. Doesn't matter who was specifically holding it at the moment. Of course, thats under Texas law.
and people do need to learn how to use lasers responsibly before the gov. decides to take them away from us.:(
I agree with the senitment, but thinking about it, I don't see how they could do so without crippling our civilization. Lasers are, simply, EVERYWHERE. There are, by my count, 18 lasers just in the room I'm in (that I know of). Every DVD burner has a blue laser that can blast your retina into oblivion in a matter of moments. They're in our cars, in our schools, in our homes. I think this is a case of Bester's PyrE. Its out in the hands of the people now, and we're going to have to learn to use it responsibly or suffer the consequences.
Who cares about the science, I just want to see "Bear" eat something even MORE disgusting than last week. Though it'll be hard to top the raw goat testicles. His descriptions of what the horrible things he eats taste like are the highlight of the show.
"Its like a rotting prawn filled with four day old garbage!"
Supressors are not illegal, as is widely believed. You DO, however, have to have a federal firearms deadler's license. When you have one of those, you can legally own a fully automatical supressed weapon, or perhaps a nice supressed.223 (for example) that you can shoot from a few blocks away and take down the speakers with.
If you use subsonic ammo, the noise is roughly the same as dropping a marble on a tile floor.
It isn't zero sum. Enough food is donated to feed all those starving people, but getting it into those people's mouthes is hard. A lot of times, the UN aid trucks show up, drop off bags of food, and then the local warlord shows up and picks them up five minutes later and takes them across the border to sell.
Dumping more food on those families isn't going to help. Giving people across the border the tools to learn, however, helps the people recieving their XOs. Don't forget, the governments of these countries BUY them for the most part.
Well, there ARE, its just that the consequences are not something most people would find favorable. We could always use our nukes to wipe out all higher life on the planet, thus solving the hunger problem and the poverty problem.
What makes you think food should be regulated by the same "market forces" that price things like a Wii or an ipod? I'd rather have extra food sitting around every year and a subsidized farm industry because food is one of those things I need to keep being alive. If someone takes away my Wii or my Archos Jukebox, I'll find a way to move on with my life. Market forces are not the solution to every problem.
Or get hired in the enforcement division and then have a buddy send an email with a copyrighted poem in it to every congressperson. Then go and seize all their computers, their network infrastructure, their blackberries (lol), etc. Be sure to bring snacks and a lawn chair, sit back, and enjoy the exploding heads show.
If you broadcast without using the proper protocols (including a unique radio callsign), the FCC will rain hell down on you. Fines, equipment confiscation, and all that fun stuff. And expect the Hams in the area to report you, as you'll be stepping on people's toes.
Hmm, I wouldn't depend on any kind of encryption at all. Instead, security for this kind of thing should be handled by making the entire process human readable and verifiable by any literate person.
The setup is simple. You have one machine that has some sort of electronic interface (touchscreen, keyboard, mouse, scroll wheel, whatever), and this machine lets a voter select all their candidates and other votes. Once they confirm that they are satisfied, they hit a "vote" button, and that machine prints out a human readable ballot that indicates each race and the candidate or option (in the case of referendum votes) selected. The voter than signs this ballot and inserts it into the secure optical scanner, which reads the votes and registers them electronically. The ballot, once read, is dropped into a secure hopper where it is stored.
If there are any questions or a recount is needed, ballots can either be re-scanned or they can be hand-counted by human beings. This is the vital part of the "paper trail" that some people seem to miss. Its not having paper in the process, its having paper that has been verified by each voter and that can be read by a human.
Violence and killing offf limits? Joshua 6:21, for one example. Violence and killing is the bread and butter of the Abrahamic (Judeo-Chrislamic) faiths.
I know that Verizon is spending a bunch of money to bring fiber to the curb in my neighborhood with their FiOS service. I actually switched to it from Charter's Cable Modem and it is vastly superior. So, while all you people are choking on your copper connections, I'll be riding the light through the brownouts and downloading 30gig videos just cause I can.
Who says you need to even be in the same city when you fire the thing? Pre-position it and then call in the firing order with your cell phone from the beach. Then hang up and enjoy the eye candy.
Thing is, the jury would have instructions from the judge to determine guilt based on the facts and the law as written. Ignorance is not a defense to prosecution. Even when the ignorance is widespread.
I find that most teenyboppers (the ones usually doing this) respond promptly to a quick, "How about you shut the fuck up?" I usually try, "Please stop talking, I'm trying to watch the movie," first, but when it comes down to it I just want them to stop making noise.
What I suspect they might start doing is having a "checkin" system for phones, just like they do for coats at some places in the north. For a premium, they might even offer a service where if your phone rings, they'll beep one of those flashy vibrating coasters they give you at resturaunts when you're waiting so you can come check and see who it is. This has the added benefit of getting people off the fucking phone while they're watching the movie.
With the new RF blocking paint I've been reading about (sorry for no link, too lazy, use google or something), they could even turn the theaters into a big farraday cage and make it so you simply CAN'T talk on the phone while in the movie. I'd love to see something like that.
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Well, in Texas, they would charge them with Conspiracy, and could even charge it up as high as a felony. Because of how Texas law is structured, if you're part of the conspiracy, you're just as guilty, even if you had no active part in the crime itself. So, if you and your buddies decide to rob a store, and one of your hot-headed friends shoots a cop, under Texas law you are ALL cop killers and will probably end up on Death row. In this case, the two people were in a criminal conspiracy to illuminate aircraft, and so all you have to prove is that they were both there, and that the laser in question was being shined on the helicopter in question. Doesn't matter who was specifically holding it at the moment. Of course, thats under Texas law.
I agree with the senitment, but thinking about it, I don't see how they could do so without crippling our civilization. Lasers are, simply, EVERYWHERE. There are, by my count, 18 lasers just in the room I'm in (that I know of). Every DVD burner has a blue laser that can blast your retina into oblivion in a matter of moments. They're in our cars, in our schools, in our homes. I think this is a case of Bester's PyrE. Its out in the hands of the people now, and we're going to have to learn to use it responsibly or suffer the consequences.
"Its like a rotting prawn filled with four day old garbage!"
So, how's the weather in Redmond? Did you take the rejection of Vista personally?
Supressors are not illegal, as is widely believed. You DO, however, have to have a federal firearms deadler's license. When you have one of those, you can legally own a fully automatical supressed weapon, or perhaps a nice supressed .223 (for example) that you can shoot from a few blocks away and take down the speakers with.
If you use subsonic ammo, the noise is roughly the same as dropping a marble on a tile floor.
I mean, you're either trolling, or you just equated bi-lingual education to stabbing old women. Either way...
Dumping more food on those families isn't going to help. Giving people across the border the tools to learn, however, helps the people recieving their XOs. Don't forget, the governments of these countries BUY them for the most part.
Well, there ARE, its just that the consequences are not something most people would find favorable. We could always use our nukes to wipe out all higher life on the planet, thus solving the hunger problem and the poverty problem.
What makes you think food should be regulated by the same "market forces" that price things like a Wii or an ipod? I'd rather have extra food sitting around every year and a subsidized farm industry because food is one of those things I need to keep being alive. If someone takes away my Wii or my Archos Jukebox, I'll find a way to move on with my life. Market forces are not the solution to every problem.
Or get hired in the enforcement division and then have a buddy send an email with a copyrighted poem in it to every congressperson. Then go and seize all their computers, their network infrastructure, their blackberries (lol), etc. Be sure to bring snacks and a lawn chair, sit back, and enjoy the exploding heads show.
If you broadcast without using the proper protocols (including a unique radio callsign), the FCC will rain hell down on you. Fines, equipment confiscation, and all that fun stuff. And expect the Hams in the area to report you, as you'll be stepping on people's toes.
The setup is simple. You have one machine that has some sort of electronic interface (touchscreen, keyboard, mouse, scroll wheel, whatever), and this machine lets a voter select all their candidates and other votes. Once they confirm that they are satisfied, they hit a "vote" button, and that machine prints out a human readable ballot that indicates each race and the candidate or option (in the case of referendum votes) selected. The voter than signs this ballot and inserts it into the secure optical scanner, which reads the votes and registers them electronically. The ballot, once read, is dropped into a secure hopper where it is stored.
If there are any questions or a recount is needed, ballots can either be re-scanned or they can be hand-counted by human beings. This is the vital part of the "paper trail" that some people seem to miss. Its not having paper in the process, its having paper that has been verified by each voter and that can be read by a human.
Violence and killing offf limits? Joshua 6:21, for one example. Violence and killing is the bread and butter of the Abrahamic (Judeo-Chrislamic) faiths.
Why not grab a 3m x 3m x 10cm sample of the surface, take it to a lab, hose it down, drop a rock on it, and turn on a fan?
But can the light make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs?
I know that Verizon is spending a bunch of money to bring fiber to the curb in my neighborhood with their FiOS service. I actually switched to it from Charter's Cable Modem and it is vastly superior. So, while all you people are choking on your copper connections, I'll be riding the light through the brownouts and downloading 30gig videos just cause I can.
I, for one, welcome our new molecule destroying overlords.
Who says you need to even be in the same city when you fire the thing? Pre-position it and then call in the firing order with your cell phone from the beach. Then hang up and enjoy the eye candy.
On the other hand, protesters could use them on cops to prevent excessive use of force.
Something to think about.
I'm glad that Carmack isn't evil.
Who'd have thought this generation's Einstein would be making video games?
Oh wow, I wish I had mod points. That was absolutely hilarious :)
Okay, it's not that funny.
:)
Yeah, actually it is
Thing is, the jury would have instructions from the judge to determine guilt based on the facts and the law as written. Ignorance is not a defense to prosecution. Even when the ignorance is widespread.
I find that most teenyboppers (the ones usually doing this) respond promptly to a quick, "How about you shut the fuck up?" I usually try, "Please stop talking, I'm trying to watch the movie," first, but when it comes down to it I just want them to stop making noise.
With the new RF blocking paint I've been reading about (sorry for no link, too lazy, use google or something), they could even turn the theaters into a big farraday cage and make it so you simply CAN'T talk on the phone while in the movie. I'd love to see something like that.