I would be very surprised if you didn't have the right to *demand* a breathalyzer to prove you innocence.
And if the police says "No", and throws you into a cell, how will you prove later that your demand was ignored ? Your right is nominal, since it can't be enforced.
I love how the police try to lie about what they can and can't do, just to intimidate people.
The police, just like everyone else, can do anything, provided that they don't get caught. Since it's the police who's supposed to do the catching, the police can do anything as long as there's sufficient internal corruption in the police force to foil any investigation into its activities.
You can't win a muscle-flexing contest against the police. Your only winning moves are to either:
Purge the corruption from the police force and then keep it under surveillance to keep it from being corrupted again or
Keep your head down and not draw attention to yourself.
Option number two is easier and safer to you as an individual, so it's the one that most people take. The habit of people to consider the typical victims of police misconduct - the poor and the young - as social outcasts and deserving of their fate can also be considered taking option two; after all, if someone deserves to be mistreated, I'm not being a bad person when i do nothing about it, right ?
Imagine a digital camera embedded into your hat or eyeglasses, activated by a button inside your jacket pocket.
Assuming your hat is reasonably sturdy, you could easily embed one of the new camera / mobile phone combos in it. The problem is the lens, which size is unlikely to shrink much since that would make it gather much less light.
It's like the difference between writting fan fiction and creating your own universe. There is simply a greater realm of possibility when you have blank pages.
There is an infinite realm of possibility either way. You can change whatever you like in the fanfic universe. The Force could turn out to be a primitive application of One Power and the Old Republic the Age of Legends of the Wheel of Time (with Palpatine, with his habit of coming back from the dead ad nauseaum, being the Dark One), for example. Or maybe Luke went to the Dark Side. Or maybe Anakin stayed at the Temple and didn't fall, and Mace Windu killed Palpatine and went to the Dark Side, seeing Sith everywhere and taking control of the Republic to root them all out. There are endless possibilities in fanfic; if anything, there are more possibilities than in original fiction since you don't need to establish the characters or the universe so you can tell short stories that would require too much setup to work as original fiction.
Besides, you never begin with empty pages. In order for your writing to have any meaning to the reader, you have to take concepts from reality - space and time, laws of physics, human emotions... The page is never blank.
So what about us gals that have male avatars on games? Where's our study?
A guy who wears a miniskirt is a pervert and a weirdo. A girl who wears shorts is normal and "free from gender stereoptypes" or something like that. In our culture it is accepted for females to dress like males, but not for males to dress like females. By extension, I doubt that females playing males are going to get a study, since it is accepted, maybe even expected.
That's why I hate using things like ventrilo because then you hear the big raspy voice coming out of that hot looking priest avatar.
Any open-source voice converters out there to remedy this ? Shouldn't be too difficult - just raise the pitch a few octaves.
For that matter, it shouldn't be too hard for a man to learn to speak with a womans voice, drag queens do it all the time. Just tighten your vocal cords or whatever.
Sorry, but that's not the proper use of begs the question. You mean "raises the question."
The regularity this discussion breaks out on Slashdot prompts the question: can the literal meaning of a phrase be incorrect usage ? You beg for your life, you beg for attention, you beg for money. So why couldn't a particularly stupid action beg a question ? Because the latin phrase referring to circular reasoning was once translated as "begging the question" ?
Tell me, when I want to refer to a logical conclusion being assumed in one of the premises, what do I say?
Circular reasoning.
"Begging the question" is a bad translation of a latin phrase, AFAIK. It never should have been used to refer to circular reasoning in the first place. All it creates is confusion.
3. Since I'm already taking on a role completely different from what I normally wear, why not go all the way ? Most RPG main characters end up single-handedly saving the world, so they already have nothing to do with me - so why should they be the same gender ?
4. Most female RPG sprites are better looking than male ones. This isn't as relevant anymore, since most polygonal characters are awfull-looking no matter their gender;(.
5. And of course, sometimes you don't have a choice - think FF6 or Valkyrie Profile. The main character just happens to be female and that's that. Live with it or die trying;).
My Firefox rarely crashes. Your computer is broken.
I use Linux and hibernation and typically have about a hundred or so Web pages open at once. Firefox 1.0 crashes once every few months. Any newer version I've tried crashes every few hours. Since no other program has a problem, not even the same programs earlier version, I find it hard to believe that the problem is in my computer and not in Firefox.
Sorry, but "rarely" is not good enough for my use - it must be "almost never". I'd say "never", but Firefox being a C program and thus subject to memory leaks, buffer overflows and other such memory management problems propably makes that an unfeasible goal.
Also, since a few versions ago, most extensions changed to be enabled by default when the browser is upgraded.
The idea is (overly) simple: if you accept the United Nations as a political entity, you have to accept Israel, since they were both formed by roughly the same nations with the same amount of authority.
This idea is patently ridiculous. I and my friends can form an organization and call ourselves "The World Union" if we want. We don't need any external authorization to associate in such a way. Does that mean that we have the authority to declare some of our neighbours backyard to be an independent nation ?
Any group of sovereign nations can form a political entity, call it whatever they like and give it as much authority over themselves as they please. EU was formed in this way. This in no way implies that any other action taken by these nations is legitimate (or illegitimate for that matter).
You think such an advanced coder who SERVED in UN, an agency which was started as response to Nazi nightmare, to prevent it from happening again would belive what he wrote?
I'm a bit confused here. Are you trying to imply anyone who doesn't support Israeli policies - in this case an attack against another country - is a Nazi ? Does the rest of the world owe Israel unconditional support because a bunch of madmen murdered a lot of jews 60 years ago ? And does the world owe similar unconditional support for Russia, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and every other group of people the Nazis persecuted ?
In fact I'm a bit uncertain if there were any group of people the Nazis didn't persecute at one time or another - not even Nazis themselves were safe from being murdered by other Nazis, as the SA learned to their sorrow.
You live in a cube? How have you retained your individuality?
He hasn't, or at least won't for very long. Cubicles are the larval state of a Borg cube. As soon as the Dilborts replace the PHB with a Bald Female Boss they'll be good to go.
Usually the people who I see say "I could care less" seem to have an understanding of the english language no better than an elemtary schooler. When called out for using it, I have never seen the intelligent response you gave, but instead "I don't care. You know what meant", which suggests to me that they're just ignorant and not paying attention to the words they use.
There are two major problems with your conclusion. They are:
If I explain something to you, and you - instead of answering to whatever I said - start making corrections to my grammar, it suggests to me that you have no good answer to whatever I just said. After all, if you did, then why not say it ? And since you are being pedantic instead of just admitting you don't have an answer further declines my opinion of you.
Who are you to claim that a certain usage of words and expressions is correct and another is not ? Who defines what is correct english and by what authority do they define this ? No matter how much it galls certain obsessive-compulsive control freaks, natural language is not computer language and does not need to conform to any specific formula, as long as it is easy to undertand by the target(s) of the communication.
Because of these two problems, your judgement of these people as ignorant is false. You, on the other hand, are likely to come across as an arrogant asshole to them. They are showing rather great self-control in replying somewhat politely instead of answering as I would: "Up yours".
Stop trying to make people conform to your or your favorite authority figure of choices definition of "correct" words and instead concentrate on the message the words carry.
The universe is so anoying, why won't it let us just go out an take a look?
Getting out of the universe is easy: just sit still and do nothing whatsoever (or if you're impatient, jump from somewhere high). Getting back in is the problem.
The TPM manufacturer has a root certificate which it uses to sign each TPM key. This way people can tell that a message actually comes from a valid TPM and not a fake. It prevents virtualization of TPMs.
Unless the root certificate gets stolen.
Not that I would ever advocate such a thing, goodness, no ! It would mean that we, the computer owners, would have complete control over our property - and then Disney might lose potential future profits ! Clearly Disney's intellectual property rights trump our property rights !
So no matter what you do, don't hire anyone to steal the key !
The military is fine, the mafia that controls it from above is not.
That makes about as much sense as saying: "Mafia killers are fine, the mafia bosses that control them from above are not." In fact it's exactly the same, since US Army enforces the will of US government, just like Mafia killers enforce the will of Mafia leaders.
RCP and Swing are two different things. You want to compare SWT and Swing. And that's a Holy War I'm not inclined to get involved in.
Swing comes with the JRE and is good enough. SWT requires you to bundle the support libraries to each platform your application has to work in. SWT may or may not be better than Swing for the developer, but it introduces platform dependencies beyond having to have the JRE, and it likely won't give any benefits for the end user. It certainly doesn't guarantee decent speed - Azureus uses SWT and its interface is slow like a tarred slug.
Not much of a war there - SWT, a hundred peasants with nothing but their (self-)righteousness against ten thousand knights of Swing armed to their sharpened steel-tipped incisors;).
To scale past one machine, it would have to have replication, which I thought was the point at which MS wanted you to move to SQL Server?
Not neccessarily. Not all solutions require a single coherent database where all changes are instantly visible to everyone. An online shop, for example, could have multiple database machines serving the catalog and simply have the catalog manager propagate any changes to them all. This means that some of the machines are serving the new catalog a few minutes earlier than others, but it won't make any difference. Similarly, the order system could pick an "order processing server" at random. In order to keep the inventory coherent, make it have one server which allocates certain number of inventory items to each order processing server, and when that server has used them up (or a certain time has passed, or the inventory server asks for it), it reports to the inventory server to get more.
Of course this is really just programming replication / caching by yourself, instead of using a database feature for it, but it is possible.
I've watched school districts in the US spend insane amounts of money on computer technology on the basis of blind faith that computers will automagically improve the quality and effectiveness of education.
They do. The students who couldn't care less about the subject will surf the Web instead of disturbing others. This means that those who want to can learn in peace. Compare this to how some banks put lego blocks to the waiting area to keep the kids busy while their parents conduct their business.
However, the question still remains if it would be more cost-effective to get lego blocks rather than computers to the classroom. Heck, some of the problem kids might actually take up engineering from there !
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And if the police says "No", and throws you into a cell, how will you prove later that your demand was ignored ? Your right is nominal, since it can't be enforced.
The police, just like everyone else, can do anything, provided that they don't get caught. Since it's the police who's supposed to do the catching, the police can do anything as long as there's sufficient internal corruption in the police force to foil any investigation into its activities.
You can't win a muscle-flexing contest against the police. Your only winning moves are to either:
Option number two is easier and safer to you as an individual, so it's the one that most people take. The habit of people to consider the typical victims of police misconduct - the poor and the young - as social outcasts and deserving of their fate can also be considered taking option two; after all, if someone deserves to be mistreated, I'm not being a bad person when i do nothing about it, right ?
Assuming your hat is reasonably sturdy, you could easily embed one of the new camera / mobile phone combos in it. The problem is the lens, which size is unlikely to shrink much since that would make it gather much less light.
There is an infinite realm of possibility either way. You can change whatever you like in the fanfic universe. The Force could turn out to be a primitive application of One Power and the Old Republic the Age of Legends of the Wheel of Time (with Palpatine, with his habit of coming back from the dead ad nauseaum, being the Dark One), for example. Or maybe Luke went to the Dark Side. Or maybe Anakin stayed at the Temple and didn't fall, and Mace Windu killed Palpatine and went to the Dark Side, seeing Sith everywhere and taking control of the Republic to root them all out. There are endless possibilities in fanfic; if anything, there are more possibilities than in original fiction since you don't need to establish the characters or the universe so you can tell short stories that would require too much setup to work as original fiction.
Besides, you never begin with empty pages. In order for your writing to have any meaning to the reader, you have to take concepts from reality - space and time, laws of physics, human emotions... The page is never blank.
A dude trying to pass as a lady to get free karma.
A guy who wears a miniskirt is a pervert and a weirdo. A girl who wears shorts is normal and "free from gender stereoptypes" or something like that. In our culture it is accepted for females to dress like males, but not for males to dress like females. By extension, I doubt that females playing males are going to get a study, since it is accepted, maybe even expected.
Any open-source voice converters out there to remedy this ? Shouldn't be too difficult - just raise the pitch a few octaves.
For that matter, it shouldn't be too hard for a man to learn to speak with a womans voice, drag queens do it all the time. Just tighten your vocal cords or whatever.
"I beg you, my liege, have mercy!"
"No, grammar nazi pigs like you deserve no mercy. Off with his cowardly head!"
The regularity this discussion breaks out on Slashdot prompts the question: can the literal meaning of a phrase be incorrect usage ? You beg for your life, you beg for attention, you beg for money. So why couldn't a particularly stupid action beg a question ? Because the latin phrase referring to circular reasoning was once translated as "begging the question" ?
Circular reasoning.
"Begging the question" is a bad translation of a latin phrase, AFAIK. It never should have been used to refer to circular reasoning in the first place. All it creates is confusion.
3. Since I'm already taking on a role completely different from what I normally wear, why not go all the way ? Most RPG main characters end up single-handedly saving the world, so they already have nothing to do with me - so why should they be the same gender ?
4. Most female RPG sprites are better looking than male ones. This isn't as relevant anymore, since most polygonal characters are awfull-looking no matter their gender ;(.
5. And of course, sometimes you don't have a choice - think FF6 or Valkyrie Profile. The main character just happens to be female and that's that. Live with it or die trying ;).
I use Linux and hibernation and typically have about a hundred or so Web pages open at once. Firefox 1.0 crashes once every few months. Any newer version I've tried crashes every few hours. Since no other program has a problem, not even the same programs earlier version, I find it hard to believe that the problem is in my computer and not in Firefox.
Sorry, but "rarely" is not good enough for my use - it must be "almost never". I'd say "never", but Firefox being a C program and thus subject to memory leaks, buffer overflows and other such memory management problems propably makes that an unfeasible goal.
But will they also work ?
Well, luckily it's well suited for that role ;).
I guess some people really love their browser, and not in the platonic sense...
Every firefox version beyond 1.0 crashes randomly on me. That's why I haven't updated and propably won't, either.
And of course I'd have to get new versions of all the extensions I'm using...
This idea is patently ridiculous. I and my friends can form an organization and call ourselves "The World Union" if we want. We don't need any external authorization to associate in such a way. Does that mean that we have the authority to declare some of our neighbours backyard to be an independent nation ?
Any group of sovereign nations can form a political entity, call it whatever they like and give it as much authority over themselves as they please. EU was formed in this way. This in no way implies that any other action taken by these nations is legitimate (or illegitimate for that matter).
I'm a bit confused here. Are you trying to imply anyone who doesn't support Israeli policies - in this case an attack against another country - is a Nazi ? Does the rest of the world owe Israel unconditional support because a bunch of madmen murdered a lot of jews 60 years ago ? And does the world owe similar unconditional support for Russia, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and every other group of people the Nazis persecuted ?
In fact I'm a bit uncertain if there were any group of people the Nazis didn't persecute at one time or another - not even Nazis themselves were safe from being murdered by other Nazis, as the SA learned to their sorrow.
He hasn't, or at least won't for very long. Cubicles are the larval state of a Borg cube. As soon as the Dilborts replace the PHB with a Bald Female Boss they'll be good to go.
There are two major problems with your conclusion. They are:
Because of these two problems, your judgement of these people as ignorant is false. You, on the other hand, are likely to come across as an arrogant asshole to them. They are showing rather great self-control in replying somewhat politely instead of answering as I would: "Up yours".
Stop trying to make people conform to your or your favorite authority figure of choices definition of "correct" words and instead concentrate on the message the words carry.
Have you considered a career in politics ?
Getting out of the universe is easy: just sit still and do nothing whatsoever (or if you're impatient, jump from somewhere high). Getting back in is the problem.
Unless the root certificate gets stolen.
Not that I would ever advocate such a thing, goodness, no ! It would mean that we, the computer owners, would have complete control over our property - and then Disney might lose potential future profits ! Clearly Disney's intellectual property rights trump our property rights !
So no matter what you do, don't hire anyone to steal the key !
That makes about as much sense as saying: "Mafia killers are fine, the mafia bosses that control them from above are not." In fact it's exactly the same, since US Army enforces the will of US government, just like Mafia killers enforce the will of Mafia leaders.
Swing comes with the JRE and is good enough. SWT requires you to bundle the support libraries to each platform your application has to work in. SWT may or may not be better than Swing for the developer, but it introduces platform dependencies beyond having to have the JRE, and it likely won't give any benefits for the end user. It certainly doesn't guarantee decent speed - Azureus uses SWT and its interface is slow like a tarred slug.
Not much of a war there - SWT, a hundred peasants with nothing but their (self-)righteousness against ten thousand knights of Swing armed to their sharpened steel-tipped incisors ;).
Not neccessarily. Not all solutions require a single coherent database where all changes are instantly visible to everyone. An online shop, for example, could have multiple database machines serving the catalog and simply have the catalog manager propagate any changes to them all. This means that some of the machines are serving the new catalog a few minutes earlier than others, but it won't make any difference. Similarly, the order system could pick an "order processing server" at random. In order to keep the inventory coherent, make it have one server which allocates certain number of inventory items to each order processing server, and when that server has used them up (or a certain time has passed, or the inventory server asks for it), it reports to the inventory server to get more.
Of course this is really just programming replication / caching by yourself, instead of using a database feature for it, but it is possible.
They do. The students who couldn't care less about the subject will surf the Web instead of disturbing others. This means that those who want to can learn in peace. Compare this to how some banks put lego blocks to the waiting area to keep the kids busy while their parents conduct their business.
However, the question still remains if it would be more cost-effective to get lego blocks rather than computers to the classroom. Heck, some of the problem kids might actually take up engineering from there !
Well, if you happen to live on the slopes of Himalaya, having fur will help keep out the frostbite, right ?