As sad as children being killed with a gun is, it was just over 1% of accidental deaths in 2009. It would be a much better idea to work to lower the main causes of accidental death, just as: automobiles (41%), suffocation (21%), and drowning (15%). Lessen one of those and you will save many more lives. Nobody will ever notice however, because those types of deaths don't mean big news ratings and newspaper sales.
28 Deaths is a tragedy, 28,000 is a statistic.
When humans get all emotional, all reason goes out the window. That's why with the past shootings there hasn't been much action to restrict guns. Quite the opposite. It has been proven that as more people are trained in, and carry weapons, violent crime goes down. Murders may stay the same, because you can't stop someone who is determined to die, but many muggings, robberies, and rapes get stopped and are never reported to the police.
I hope you realize there is no such thing as non lethal weapons. The technical term is "Less than Lethal" because they can still kill or seriously injure. The military uses basically a hard core paintball gun in detention camps. It does serious damage if you shoot it in the wrong area. Ever get a frozen paintball in your eye? Tazers kill too, especially if the person has some sort of electrical implant. just google around. The argument you didn't mean to kill the person with a tazer wouldn't hold, just try explaining it to the family. It's the same as if you stabbed or shot or made someone beed somehow and they bled to death. "Well, I didn't mean to kill them I only sliced him up with my kitchen knife."
Guns aren't responsible for violence anymore than cakes are responsible for fat people.
I see this so often and I think it is inherently false. Case in point: Guns are designed to kill. Cakes (or cars, or....) are not.
And yet cars kill many thousands more people every year than guns. Where is your login in this? In the last 4 years there have been 32,000 to 40,000 deaths from cars every year.
These are the things that anti-gun people ignore. It's a shame that guns are used in crimes such as these, but taking 1 tool away from someone doesn't stop them from doing what they are determined to do.
The intended use of a gun is to make chunks of metal go very fast. Very similar to a car. Except cars are much larger and hollow, so people can climb in. Why aren't you screaming for car manufactures to be sued as accessories to murder? They could incorporate some extremely intrusive technology to make sure you don't go too fast, like >5mph, or to make sure you have 0 detectable alcohol in your breath *every* single time you move the shifter from park or get out of the seat. Why don't people want that? Cars kill tens of thousands of people every year. Alcohol too! Lets bring back probation! That causes society so many problems it must be liquid evil. Right? What do you mean I'm being crazy?
I have shot somewhere between 20,000-50,000 bullets since age 7. Not once have I hurt someone, nor has anyone gotten hurt around me. How many times have you gotten into a car and nobody or nothing has gotten hurt?
Remember. 28 dead is a tragedy. 28,000 is a statistic.
This definition doesn't explicitly say that stealing removes an object from the owner's use, merely that you took something without permission.
(ie, making a copy is taking a copy, and if you were not authorized to make that copy you are stealing it)
>1. to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force
This definition fits nicely with the vernacular usage that you're decrying
>2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
Sorry, you still have it confused. I can take a copy of a cd off the store shelf. That is stealing. If I use a computer to make a copy, well, I didn't take something. I made something; a copy, in fact, leaving the original untouched and as it was
As for the 2nd definition, it refers to plagiarism. It is illegal for me to take a song you have written and claim that I wrote it.
The law does forbid me to use someone else's exact wording/music tune/etc. for a certain number of years, but it's is not theft, it is not stealing. If it was, many people would be brought up on felony charges for grand larceny.
buildings. Also wooden buildings should also be supplanted with earthen ones when their time is up. Cob and adobe last way longer, takes way less energy to create the materials (straw, sand and clay) and won't be destroyed by california's wildfires, and if built with a concrete pad in the foundation will also stand up to earthquakes.
Until the first rainstorm... not everybody lives in the desert, genius. Most of us, in fact. There is a reason the woodland indians didn't live in mud homes... and it isn't lack of mud.
Oops, my fault for copy & paste error... It didn't look right, but I hadn't had my coffee yet;-)
The Parent was referring to music ripped with itunes, not music purchased from Apple. Yes, I hate DRM, but at least you can burn the songs as many times as you want... AAC is patented, but only encoders (and maybe decoders?) need to pay royalties. Anything saved/streamed doesn't require payments, unlike MP3.
AAC is an *international* standard. Just because it is patented, doesn't mean it's proprietary. Look up the definition of the word. You don't like it because it doesn't meet *your* definition of free, but it's an open spec, governed by an international standards body. WMA, on the other hand, is nowhere even close to that. MS controls everything about it, and only tells people small parts of it that they don't mind you knowing. That's proprietary.
Apple's preferred format, AAC, is not propriety, it is a full standard. Try looking something up before you type, or stop spreading FUD. Just because a company chooses not to add AAC support to it's players doesn't make it propriety. It's probably as free as mp3, so I don't see your logic. Anyway, you can rip music into AAC, Lossless compressed, wave, aiff, and mp3. Oh my god, choices! Guess what, the ipod can play all those formats too.
Apple may not have a nice gui for copying songs back off your ipod, but that doesn't matter. They don't *stop* you from doing it, not on a mac, not on windows, that's the point. There are no secret drivers with hidden APIs that override the system ones. They are just in a folder marked "invisible". Nor do they encrypt all songs when you transfer it to your ipod. They just copy them exactly.
--Sadly, text alone cannot convey the depths of my sarcasm.
Sorry, buy AAC is a standard format, as much as mpeg4 is. Granted, your $5 128M mp3 player may not be able to play it, but WinAmp, XMMS, WindowsMediaPlayer all can play AAC last I checked. Hell, there are even command line tools that can.
From the dictionary: Third World noun (usu. the Third World) the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. ORIGIN translation of French tiers monde first used in the 1950s to distinguish the developing countries from the capitalist and communist blocs.
The Third World later became a synonym of these nations that aligned themselves with neither the West nor with the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War.
Yes, people use it to mean any poor, undeveloped country, but that is mainly from a lack of knowledge about what the word means. They assume that since most third world countries are poor, it means poor countries. A x B != B x A
3rd World? Stop using words and phrases which you have no idea what they mean. 1st World countries are mostly US and Western Europe. 2nd World countries are the Communist countries: Russia, China, etc. 3rd World countries are everything else.
Court records: Publicly available. I can go down to city hall and look up just about any civil case. Are they publicly announced? No. I don't look at my daily newspaper and see "John sued Jane for $3 for a bottle of shampoo."
You're still so damn sure that publicly available and publicly announced are the same thing? There IS a difference, and you're just too damn dense to see it.
If there is *any* profit to be made by announcing it, it will be announced. Think about the life of *anyone* in the public eye. Actor, writer, politician, suspected terrorist [phear]. You don't see your neighbors in the news because nobody gives a crap about them. If Jane was suspected of stabbing John, you can bet they will tell the world that John sued Jane before he was stabbed.
Apple never supported the open source version of darwin in any way beyond lip services, some server space, and releasing source packages in mostly unbuildable form. They took from many open source projects but returned precious little to the community. At the end of the day Apple does what immediately benefits Apple.
Well, yes. Any company does what benefits them, and if they don't, they can be sued by the shareholders.
Apple has done many things to improve OSS. Ever hear of GCC? Apple has more devs working on gcc than anywhere else, last I heard. They have made great improvements to many projects. It's not always given back in the easiest to understand form, but it's given back. We at fink have taken many of apple's patches and cleaned them up for things like xorg, and they made a lot of patches to fix it that would have taken the community forever to do on its own.
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Ok, imagine two armies about to meet in a decisive battle. One is led by a general who can't stop talking, and every grunt in his army knows all the general's plans a week in advance. Another army is led by a tight-lipped general, who keeps all the strategy in his head, and in heads of his closest assistants who aren't talking either. All other things being equal, who is more likely to have an advantage?
The tight-lipped army, of course. He will know every detail of his opponent's plans and defeat him. It's one of the basic rules of combat.
How many people have been trapped buying Apple ACCs only to discover they couldn't play them on their MP3 player? Yes, I know there's work-arounds, but that's the point - they are making it difficult to use the content you've LEGALLY purchased! Do they not understand that's a DISincentive to buyers?
Well, that's the paragraph that kills your post. That's like me discovering I can't play DVD-Audio discs in my cd player. If the player says it supports CDs, and not DVD-Audio, well, I bet it doesn't know wtf to do with the DVD-Audio disc. "But they are both audio discs!" you say. Yup... that's nice. Also, notice how the extension on the files you buy is.m4p? Guess what that stands for: Mpeg4 Protected. Normal AAC files end in.m4a, or Mpeg4 Audio. Do you think there might be a difference in the data of those file formats? Not many players other than the ipod support mpeg4 at all, let alone the encrypted mpeg4 files.
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Don't be a troll, of course you can make an "On the Go" playlist. Apple even calls it that. Read any docs or reviews on the product and you'll discover that holding the center button down adds a song/album/etc. to a new playlist. You can even remove songs from the playlist.
The dreamcast did an amazing job for being so under powered, compared to the ps2 and friends that came after it. Just because someone doesn't throw 5GHz of power at a game doesn't mean it can't look amazing.
Hitachi SuperH SH-4 RISC CPU @ 200MHz NEC PowerVR2 graphics chip Yamaha AICA sound system (64 channel PCM sound) 16 MB main memory 8 MB texture memory 2 MB sound memory 12X GD-ROM (double density CD-ROM) drive 33.6Kbit modem or 10/100 Ethernet
Also, this thing could do 800x600 VGA, totally cool. They are still a ton of fun to play, esp. Soul Calibur;-) I'm *still* trying to get the ethernet adaptor...
"So many people are robbing children of their childhood these days in exposing them to things that are inappropriate."
So many people today are robbing children of life and experience by sheltering them from what the world is and what is in it. Death used to be a family affair, with the casket in the living room, and kids would watch their grandparents get old, sick and die. Not today. Old people are shoved into 'retirement' homes as soon as they become less useful and more of a pain.
We force children to wear helmets to do anthting from sports to riding a bike, and we refuse to let them learn *anything* from experience. Example: would you ever sit and watch your kid put a penny in a light socket? Why not? It's a good lesson to learn, listen to your elders, they usually know what they are talking about. I graduated from school in 2000, and most of you have no idea how sheltered and spoiled most of the people I had as classmates were. It is embarrassing to be even in the same age group as these kids.
The moral is *do* things with your children, don't leave them alone in front of *any* game system/tv/whatever. Teach them actively, and the would may stop going to hell.
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As sad as children being killed with a gun is, it was just over 1% of accidental deaths in 2009. It would be a much better idea to work to lower the main causes of accidental death, just as: automobiles (41%), suffocation (21%), and drowning (15%). Lessen one of those and you will save many more lives. Nobody will ever notice however, because those types of deaths don't mean big news ratings and newspaper sales.
28 Deaths is a tragedy, 28,000 is a statistic.
When humans get all emotional, all reason goes out the window. That's why with the past shootings there hasn't been much action to restrict guns. Quite the opposite. It has been proven that as more people are trained in, and carry weapons, violent crime goes down. Murders may stay the same, because you can't stop someone who is determined to die, but many muggings, robberies, and rapes get stopped and are never reported to the police.
OMG I want a GAU-8 booster for my civic! I could really burn the ricers with that ;-) I couldn't stop laughing when I saw that.
I hope you realize there is no such thing as non lethal weapons. The technical term is "Less than Lethal" because they can still kill or seriously injure. The military uses basically a hard core paintball gun in detention camps. It does serious damage if you shoot it in the wrong area. Ever get a frozen paintball in your eye? Tazers kill too, especially if the person has some sort of electrical implant. just google around. The argument you didn't mean to kill the person with a tazer wouldn't hold, just try explaining it to the family. It's the same as if you stabbed or shot or made someone beed somehow and they bled to death. "Well, I didn't mean to kill them I only sliced him up with my kitchen knife."
Guns aren't responsible for violence anymore than cakes are responsible for fat people.
I see this so often and I think it is inherently false. Case in point: Guns are designed to kill. Cakes (or cars, or ....) are not.
And yet cars kill many thousands more people every year than guns. Where is your login in this? In the last 4 years there have been 32,000 to 40,000 deaths from cars every year.
28 deaths is a tragedy, 38,000 is a statistic.
These are the things that anti-gun people ignore. It's a shame that guns are used in crimes such as these, but taking 1 tool away from someone doesn't stop them from doing what they are determined to do.
The intended use of a gun is to make chunks of metal go very fast. Very similar to a car. Except cars are much larger and hollow, so people can climb in. Why aren't you screaming for car manufactures to be sued as accessories to murder? They could incorporate some extremely intrusive technology to make sure you don't go too fast, like >5mph, or to make sure you have 0 detectable alcohol in your breath *every* single time you move the shifter from park or get out of the seat. Why don't people want that? Cars kill tens of thousands of people every year. Alcohol too! Lets bring back probation! That causes society so many problems it must be liquid evil. Right? What do you mean I'm being crazy?
I have shot somewhere between 20,000-50,000 bullets since age 7. Not once have I hurt someone, nor has anyone gotten hurt around me. How many times have you gotten into a car and nobody or nothing has gotten hurt?
Remember. 28 dead is a tragedy. 28,000 is a statistic.
Text editor? No, you are confused. They want you to buy a 1 year subscription to MS Office Super Pro. for the low cost of $999.99.
As for the 2nd definition, it refers to plagiarism. It is illegal for me to take a song you have written and claim that I wrote it.
The law does forbid me to use someone else's exact wording/music tune/etc. for a certain number of years, but it's is not theft, it is not stealing. If it was, many people would be brought up on felony charges for grand larceny.
Until the first rainstorm... not everybody lives in the desert, genius. Most of us, in fact. There is a reason the woodland indians didn't live in mud homes... and it isn't lack of mud.
Oops, my fault for copy & paste error... It didn't look right, but I hadn't had my coffee yet ;-)
The Parent was referring to music ripped with itunes, not music purchased from Apple. Yes, I hate DRM, but at least you can burn the songs as many times as you want... AAC is patented, but only encoders (and maybe decoders?) need to pay royalties. Anything saved/streamed doesn't require payments, unlike MP3.
AAC is an *international* standard. Just because it is patented, doesn't mean it's proprietary. Look up the definition of the word. You don't like it because it doesn't meet *your* definition of free, but it's an open spec, governed by an international standards body. WMA, on the other hand, is nowhere even close to that. MS controls everything about it, and only tells people small parts of it that they don't mind you knowing. That's proprietary.
Aw, hell. I'll even do step 1 for ya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding
Apple's preferred format, AAC, is not propriety, it is a full standard. Try looking something up before you type, or stop spreading FUD. Just because a company chooses not to add AAC support to it's players doesn't make it propriety. It's probably as free as mp3, so I don't see your logic. Anyway, you can rip music into AAC, Lossless compressed, wave, aiff, and mp3. Oh my god, choices! Guess what, the ipod can play all those formats too.
Apple may not have a nice gui for copying songs back off your ipod, but that doesn't matter. They don't *stop* you from doing it, not on a mac, not on windows, that's the point. There are no secret drivers with hidden APIs that override the system ones. They are just in a folder marked "invisible". Nor do they encrypt all songs when you transfer it to your ipod. They just copy them exactly.
--Sadly, text alone cannot convey the depths of my sarcasm.
Sorry, buy AAC is a standard format, as much as mpeg4 is. Granted, your $5 128M mp3 player may not be able to play it, but WinAmp, XMMS, WindowsMediaPlayer all can play AAC last I checked. Hell, there are even command line tools that can.
From the dictionary: Third World noun (usu. the Third World) the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. ORIGIN translation of French tiers monde first used in the 1950s to distinguish the developing countries from the capitalist and communist blocs.
and Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world
The Third World later became a synonym of these nations that aligned themselves with neither the West nor with the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War.
Yes, people use it to mean any poor, undeveloped country, but that is mainly from a lack of knowledge about what the word means. They assume that since most third world countries are poor, it means poor countries. A x B != B x A
3rd World? Stop using words and phrases which you have no idea what they mean. 1st World countries are mostly US and Western Europe. 2nd World countries are the Communist countries: Russia, China, etc. 3rd World countries are everything else.
You guys really have no clue. Sad.
--Burn, Karma Burn!
Well, yes. Any company does what benefits them, and if they don't, they can be sued by the shareholders.
Apple has done many things to improve OSS. Ever hear of GCC? Apple has more devs working on gcc than anywhere else, last I heard. They have made great improvements to many projects. It's not always given back in the easiest to understand form, but it's given back. We at fink have taken many of apple's patches and cleaned them up for things like xorg, and they made a lot of patches to fix it that would have taken the community forever to do on its own.
The tight-lipped army, of course. He will know every detail of his opponent's plans and defeat him. It's one of the basic rules of combat.
"MacOS doesn't ship with the bash shell by default"? WTF are you smoking
/bin/*sh /bin/bash /bin/csh /bin/ksh /bin/sh /bin/tcsh /bin/zsh
$ ls
Face it, it is as close to UNIX as you'll likely ever get. What do you think xterm would run? xterm is not a shell, it's a terminal.
Well, that's the paragraph that kills your post. That's like me discovering I can't play DVD-Audio discs in my cd player. If the player says it supports CDs, and not DVD-Audio, well, I bet it doesn't know wtf to do with the DVD-Audio disc. "But they are both audio discs!" you say. Yup... that's nice. Also, notice how the extension on the files you buy is .m4p? Guess what that stands for: Mpeg4 Protected. Normal AAC files end in .m4a, or Mpeg4 Audio. Do you think there might be a difference in the data of those file formats? Not many players other than the ipod support mpeg4 at all, let alone the encrypted mpeg4 files.
Redundant? Can't we get a -1 Retarded mod?
Don't be a troll, of course you can make an "On the Go" playlist. Apple even calls it that. Read any docs or reviews on the product and you'll discover that holding the center button down adds a song/album/etc. to a new playlist. You can even remove songs from the playlist.
The dreamcast did an amazing job for being so under powered, compared to the ps2 and friends that came after it. Just because someone doesn't throw 5GHz of power at a game doesn't mean it can't look amazing.
;-) I'm *still* trying to get the ethernet adaptor...
Hitachi SuperH SH-4 RISC CPU @ 200MHz
NEC PowerVR2 graphics chip
Yamaha AICA sound system (64 channel PCM sound)
16 MB main memory
8 MB texture memory
2 MB sound memory
12X GD-ROM (double density CD-ROM) drive
33.6Kbit modem or 10/100 Ethernet
Also, this thing could do 800x600 VGA, totally cool. They are still a ton of fun to play, esp. Soul Calibur
"So many people are robbing children of their childhood these days in exposing them to things that are inappropriate."
So many people today are robbing children of life and experience by sheltering them from what the world is and what is in it. Death used to be a family affair, with the casket in the living room, and kids would watch their grandparents get old, sick and die. Not today. Old people are shoved into 'retirement' homes as soon as they become less useful and more of a pain.
We force children to wear helmets to do anthting from sports to riding a bike, and we refuse to let them learn *anything* from experience. Example: would you ever sit and watch your kid put a penny in a light socket? Why not? It's a good lesson to learn, listen to your elders, they usually know what they are talking about. I graduated from school in 2000, and most of you have no idea how sheltered and spoiled most of the people I had as classmates were. It is embarrassing to be even in the same age group as these kids.
The moral is *do* things with your children, don't leave them alone in front of *any* game system/tv/whatever. Teach them actively, and the would may stop going to hell.