Most mental handicaps are not hereditary; my youngest daughter has an IQ of 130. The oldest was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck
You see? The umbilical cord made her less human! Your brain makes you human and hers is less human-brain-like so she is less human-like!
PS I highly doubt you're all that smart. I've met smart people, they're really, really fucking smart. Not folks that are brainy and worked out quantum physics and could handle the math. I'm talking about people who look at things and go, "... what?" and just toss out a solution to half the world's problems. Some people just see things.
Yes but that's not the point. The point is that, while some people do lose limbs to legit motorcycle accidents and other legit crap (including crap like momentary non-routine distraction), a lot of people are just morons that only survive on the grace of being too stupid to get their head into position to be taken off. Regardless, people who know folks who get injured will empathize and find offense at the concept of anyone getting injured in a similar way because they're a moron--regardless of whether or not their friends got injured exactly because they're morons or just for bad luck. Thus the question arises: is our children rational?
Manually adjusting individual paragraphs is a nightmare. A style-based approach is a hell of a lot faster and more visually consistent (you should see the documents that get passed around most offices; often they don't have the same formatting throughout, and when people try to change stuff they scroll through 40 or 50 pages looking at individual elements and applying/removing bold and changing font sizes--sometimes 14-16 instead of all 14 or all 16, sometimes wrong font). Valuable time indeed.
Loading advanced MSOffice files into LibreOffice is terrifying in some cases, in others it somehow just works and I'm not exactly sure why it works. On the other hand, creating documents... I keep finding MSOffice severely lacking, difficult to use, etc, and I actually took OFAD classes in college where they taught us specifically how to use MSOffice (this is why I make all my documents with styles and use spacing and page breaks to accomplish everything instead of just hitting enter a bunch of times and bluntly applying fonts).
It's strange because LibreOffice is a piece of shit. MSOffice is WORSE.
preloading it with everything including the kitchen sink doesn't seem like a bad idea.
What I don't get is I download a 700MB Ubuntu CD and I'd get a full Office suite, photo editing software, e-mail and Web browsing, instant messaging clients, a media player that plays everything, CD burning software, an advanced desktop (okay, Gnome Shell is better, but would also fit so the point is moot--even KDE fits), solitaire, all in about 2-3 gigs installed. How's it Windows takes 20 gigs to install?
Unions would be great. If we started getting labor unions, I'd LLC and form my own union here. Then I could suck up union dues while making it harder to hire new employees and fire old ones, but rack up the demand, squeezing my employer's profits into my pockets. I'd get everyone $10/hr more but take $12/hr and be rich!
Yes, exactly. So while 19 year olds can have premarital sex in college with their entire dorm and come home pregnant, retards are just like the 12 year old gifted girl that made it into college early by passing her GED and escaping middle school: oh she's a hot college freshman, but if you fuck her you go to jail.
You see? This is how we ensure 'humane' treatment and 'protect' these people. Make sure nobody can 'take advantage of them'. If they get pregnant, somebody done broke the law.
Smaller businesses will have to charge sales tax the moment Amazon's situated to satisfaction. The witch hunt will begin immediately. Also, raising taxes will bring the French Revolution eventually, though America has a lot of problems besides government tax (i.e. economic rent from every fucking business coupled with not only idiots who don't understand the stock market, but idiots who think the stock market is specifically NOT a zero sum game and that somebody doesn't have to lose money for someone else to make money).
Well, your emotional offense would be expected; but is it rational? That is, is it completely true and obvious that someone would be a dumbass and take a curve way too fast for conditions or for their bike (hint: cruisers don't turn)? I see plenty of people riding in shirts and t-shirts with baseball caps at 80-100mph on the highway and, while I'm sure if one of your friends lost a limb doing some dumbshit thing like this you'd be upset about it, he'd still be a dumbshit.
What I want to know is how is this powered. Not by raw muscle movement pulling cables I guess. Lithium ion (4 hole chemistry)? Organo-lithide high-capacity (6 hole chemistry) batteries? Beta-voltaic cells with a small piece of radioactive material (20 year battery)?
Retarded kids are sub-human and don't need rights.
In my state, the same laws that make it illegal to fuck 12 year olds make it illegal to fuck retards. Every time wording is encountered about someone being too young, it involves a list of things separated by commas. Under X age, or with more than a 4 year age difference, or with reduced mental facilities. They go through every length to make sure screwing retards is the same as screwing very small, possibly pre-pubescent children.
Retards must be removed from the gene pool because they have less functional brains and are thus less human. Making it illegal to screw sub-human retards is the best way to do that, according to my state politicians. I see now. "Protecting them" is a good cover story.
I have not bought a video game in decades. I gave that shit up. don't need it, can easily live without it and the companies are not worth supporting. its a huge waste of time and there are so many other things (yes, even online) that can make more productive use (and fun use!) of your time.
There was a time when this shit happened and the judge said, "Why did you warrantlessly enter the property in full force with no suspicion of hostile resistance?" The cops showed up with guns and armor, but they didn't raid the place cold unless they believed you were ACTUALLY DANGEROUS. If they felt that it was going to be knock knock sir you need to come with us, they did just that.
To be clear, if the cops thought you had made copies of movies on beta-max and were coming to arrest you, they'd knock on your door. With guns. If they thought you were running a meth lab and likely to have defenses and be willing to murder people who intrude, they would kick the shit out of your door and rush in with a small army and heavy weapons loaded and ready. In the event that the police used excessive force, and you react, and it seemed likely that police force was unexpected, and the police did not announce themselves, the judge would demand to know what the fuck the police were thinking.
It is acceptable for the police to shout, "Police, open up!" It is acceptable to reply, "I'm armed, the door is unlocked, enter slowly and show your badge." We have a negotiated understanding here. Be polite to the cops.
If the police kick the door in, the only thing you're certain of--even if they've declared they're police (I can do that)--is that somebody just kicked the shit out of your door and is rushing in with guns. If the police can't convince a judge that the person was presumed hostile and that maximum entry force was required, the judge should NOT sympathize with the police. Fair game if you're some kind of gangster with a criminal background that indicates a risk of hostility warranting an unannounced police entry in force. Seriously, we can decide that this was never going to go well and come in with a full military raid, but it better come with a risk assessment and criminal behavior profile attached to show expectation of violent resistance.
When your quite reasonable and sensible argument is contrasted with what I see the government actually doing and getting away with it leaves one to ponder why.
Well that's simple. The Government isn't doing anything sensible; they're left-wing crazies and right-wing power mongering dictators. Any application of logic would quickly lead to the above conclusions.
Actually, this is wrong. IANAL, but I *am* a right-wing logician so everything I say makes extreme amounts of sense.
What you need to understand here is that data stored "in the cloud" is data stored in leased property. That is, you store the data in property owned by someone else who has conferred to you access rights to use their property for storage--in fact, Web services like AWS hosted servers could be considered similar to living and operating space.
To the point, in one model you lease a home--house, apartment--or a building or office area in a building. Legally, leases make you a tenant, which gives you rights of occupancy. As such, the property is yours--the landlord is not legally capable of conferring to police the right to enter the property; the landlord cannot even enter the property himself without your consent, except in emergency situations (including property damage--leaking pipes etc). Thus you have legal ownership of everything in the rented space, and legal jurisdiction over such.
Cloud services similarly confer tenancy onto a customer. Certain facilities are turned over to the customer, keys made (login accounts), leases billed. The facilities are owned by the cloud service provider; however there are terms of lease, there is an expectation of control over facilities, an expectation of non-intrusion. Loading your data into "the cloud" doesn't confer the right for the provider to happily peruse your data. Your data could contain customer personal information, which would place the provider into a situation of high liability for casually perusing.
Counter-arguments about terms-of-service and other such things can be made here; but consider simply what would happen if a service provider chose to data mine through customers' private data. Think of the civil and criminal possibilities. We quickly realize that, in practice, such behavior would result in severe suits. If we surmise that the courts would judge against the provider, then we admit that a cloud service is a tenancy, a lease to resources and to space, and that it comes with tenant assumptions such as residency in said space--privacy, control, ownership.
This complicates things. On the other hand, it creates more resistance than grey area: it makes it... difficult to argue that a service provider has the right to turn over data of a customer, or that the police can order suspension of services to tenants through the service provider without an order to the tenants. It provides that ownership must be seized from tenants--search and seizure of the general service provider is potentially not legal, and could cause uncomfortable, difficult, complicated court battles.
I was questioning the 30% above average, since the average may be from 90mph winds to 120mph winds--which is 30%! What's the standard deviation here? Variance whatever.
I have like a 10 foot x 12 foot patch of grass out front, I didn't want a gas mower and I have no garage so I have to bring the mower inside the house after using it. o.x
LiveScribe has the best pen, but you need to use a Windows VM through VirtualBox to make it work.
LiveScribe uses Anoto paper. This is because the pen has a difficult time determining where exactly it is on a big, white sheet of paper. Think like being a sailor on the ocean with a star-free sky, no sun, no landmarks, no compass. You're fucked. The pen uses the dot pattern on Anoto paper to position itself on the sheet, to determine what page it's on, what book it's in, everything. The pattern is unique; the pen has a database of patterns it can reference to find the positional information based on the pattern it's given (effectively a 2D hash table).
On the flip side, LiveScribe pens are really crappy pens. The journal is the nicest journal you'll ever get; the pen is a crappy pen, not even a gel pen, and it'll wear out in 50 pages (at 2 cents per page, given pen cartridge prices).
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Most mental handicaps are not hereditary; my youngest daughter has an IQ of 130. The oldest was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck
You see? The umbilical cord made her less human! Your brain makes you human and hers is less human-brain-like so she is less human-like!
PS I highly doubt you're all that smart. I've met smart people, they're really, really fucking smart. Not folks that are brainy and worked out quantum physics and could handle the math. I'm talking about people who look at things and go, "... what?" and just toss out a solution to half the world's problems. Some people just see things.
Yes but that's not the point. The point is that, while some people do lose limbs to legit motorcycle accidents and other legit crap (including crap like momentary non-routine distraction), a lot of people are just morons that only survive on the grace of being too stupid to get their head into position to be taken off. Regardless, people who know folks who get injured will empathize and find offense at the concept of anyone getting injured in a similar way because they're a moron--regardless of whether or not their friends got injured exactly because they're morons or just for bad luck. Thus the question arises: is our children rational?
Also harleys don't turn that well.
http://www.kingsoftstore.com/windows/paragraph-adjustment.html
Manually adjusting individual paragraphs is a nightmare. A style-based approach is a hell of a lot faster and more visually consistent (you should see the documents that get passed around most offices; often they don't have the same formatting throughout, and when people try to change stuff they scroll through 40 or 50 pages looking at individual elements and applying/removing bold and changing font sizes--sometimes 14-16 instead of all 14 or all 16, sometimes wrong font). Valuable time indeed.
Loading advanced MSOffice files into LibreOffice is terrifying in some cases, in others it somehow just works and I'm not exactly sure why it works. On the other hand, creating documents ... I keep finding MSOffice severely lacking, difficult to use, etc, and I actually took OFAD classes in college where they taught us specifically how to use MSOffice (this is why I make all my documents with styles and use spacing and page breaks to accomplish everything instead of just hitting enter a bunch of times and bluntly applying fonts).
It's strange because LibreOffice is a piece of shit. MSOffice is WORSE.
preloading it with everything including the kitchen sink doesn't seem like a bad idea.
What I don't get is I download a 700MB Ubuntu CD and I'd get a full Office suite, photo editing software, e-mail and Web browsing, instant messaging clients, a media player that plays everything, CD burning software, an advanced desktop (okay, Gnome Shell is better, but would also fit so the point is moot--even KDE fits), solitaire, all in about 2-3 gigs installed. How's it Windows takes 20 gigs to install?
Unions would be great. If we started getting labor unions, I'd LLC and form my own union here. Then I could suck up union dues while making it harder to hire new employees and fire old ones, but rack up the demand, squeezing my employer's profits into my pockets. I'd get everyone $10/hr more but take $12/hr and be rich!
Yes, exactly. So while 19 year olds can have premarital sex in college with their entire dorm and come home pregnant, retards are just like the 12 year old gifted girl that made it into college early by passing her GED and escaping middle school: oh she's a hot college freshman, but if you fuck her you go to jail.
You see? This is how we ensure 'humane' treatment and 'protect' these people. Make sure nobody can 'take advantage of them'. If they get pregnant, somebody done broke the law.
Wink wink nudge nudge.
Smaller businesses will have to charge sales tax the moment Amazon's situated to satisfaction. The witch hunt will begin immediately. Also, raising taxes will bring the French Revolution eventually, though America has a lot of problems besides government tax (i.e. economic rent from every fucking business coupled with not only idiots who don't understand the stock market, but idiots who think the stock market is specifically NOT a zero sum game and that somebody doesn't have to lose money for someone else to make money).
One needs both. Examine the game of Go and attached philosophy.
Well, your emotional offense would be expected; but is it rational? That is, is it completely true and obvious that someone would be a dumbass and take a curve way too fast for conditions or for their bike (hint: cruisers don't turn)? I see plenty of people riding in shirts and t-shirts with baseball caps at 80-100mph on the highway and, while I'm sure if one of your friends lost a limb doing some dumbshit thing like this you'd be upset about it, he'd still be a dumbshit.
What I want to know is how is this powered. Not by raw muscle movement pulling cables I guess. Lithium ion (4 hole chemistry)? Organo-lithide high-capacity (6 hole chemistry) batteries? Beta-voltaic cells with a small piece of radioactive material (20 year battery)?
Your brain makes you human.
Retarded kids are sub-human and don't need rights.
In my state, the same laws that make it illegal to fuck 12 year olds make it illegal to fuck retards. Every time wording is encountered about someone being too young, it involves a list of things separated by commas. Under X age, or with more than a 4 year age difference, or with reduced mental facilities. They go through every length to make sure screwing retards is the same as screwing very small, possibly pre-pubescent children.
Retards must be removed from the gene pool because they have less functional brains and are thus less human. Making it illegal to screw sub-human retards is the best way to do that, according to my state politicians. I see now. "Protecting them" is a good cover story.
I have not bought a video game in decades. I gave that shit up. don't need it, can easily live without it and the companies are not worth supporting. its a huge waste of time and there are so many other things (yes, even online) that can make more productive use (and fun use!) of your time.
Good reason to give up books.
There was a time when this shit happened and the judge said, "Why did you warrantlessly enter the property in full force with no suspicion of hostile resistance?" The cops showed up with guns and armor, but they didn't raid the place cold unless they believed you were ACTUALLY DANGEROUS. If they felt that it was going to be knock knock sir you need to come with us, they did just that.
To be clear, if the cops thought you had made copies of movies on beta-max and were coming to arrest you, they'd knock on your door. With guns. If they thought you were running a meth lab and likely to have defenses and be willing to murder people who intrude, they would kick the shit out of your door and rush in with a small army and heavy weapons loaded and ready. In the event that the police used excessive force, and you react, and it seemed likely that police force was unexpected, and the police did not announce themselves, the judge would demand to know what the fuck the police were thinking.
It is acceptable for the police to shout, "Police, open up!" It is acceptable to reply, "I'm armed, the door is unlocked, enter slowly and show your badge." We have a negotiated understanding here. Be polite to the cops.
If the police kick the door in, the only thing you're certain of--even if they've declared they're police (I can do that)--is that somebody just kicked the shit out of your door and is rushing in with guns. If the police can't convince a judge that the person was presumed hostile and that maximum entry force was required, the judge should NOT sympathize with the police. Fair game if you're some kind of gangster with a criminal background that indicates a risk of hostility warranting an unannounced police entry in force. Seriously, we can decide that this was never going to go well and come in with a full military raid, but it better come with a risk assessment and criminal behavior profile attached to show expectation of violent resistance.
Or illegally using a long cable to route the video output to another room where other people are watching TV.
Sure it does. I'm a centrist right-wing; I don't currently hold a House of Representatives seat, which are all taken by extreme right-wingers.
It'd also be a bomb. Hit it with a hammer, run. Energy dump.
Also 'crushed' is not a nano-material. Could you imagine nano-granularized silicon?
Because this is how we improved Carbon-Zinc and Alkaline dramatically.
When your quite reasonable and sensible argument is contrasted with what I see the government actually doing and getting away with it leaves one to ponder why.
Well that's simple. The Government isn't doing anything sensible; they're left-wing crazies and right-wing power mongering dictators. Any application of logic would quickly lead to the above conclusions.
Actually, this is wrong. IANAL, but I *am* a right-wing logician so everything I say makes extreme amounts of sense.
What you need to understand here is that data stored "in the cloud" is data stored in leased property. That is, you store the data in property owned by someone else who has conferred to you access rights to use their property for storage--in fact, Web services like AWS hosted servers could be considered similar to living and operating space.
To the point, in one model you lease a home--house, apartment--or a building or office area in a building. Legally, leases make you a tenant, which gives you rights of occupancy. As such, the property is yours--the landlord is not legally capable of conferring to police the right to enter the property; the landlord cannot even enter the property himself without your consent, except in emergency situations (including property damage--leaking pipes etc). Thus you have legal ownership of everything in the rented space, and legal jurisdiction over such.
Cloud services similarly confer tenancy onto a customer. Certain facilities are turned over to the customer, keys made (login accounts), leases billed. The facilities are owned by the cloud service provider; however there are terms of lease, there is an expectation of control over facilities, an expectation of non-intrusion. Loading your data into "the cloud" doesn't confer the right for the provider to happily peruse your data. Your data could contain customer personal information, which would place the provider into a situation of high liability for casually perusing.
Counter-arguments about terms-of-service and other such things can be made here; but consider simply what would happen if a service provider chose to data mine through customers' private data. Think of the civil and criminal possibilities. We quickly realize that, in practice, such behavior would result in severe suits. If we surmise that the courts would judge against the provider, then we admit that a cloud service is a tenancy, a lease to resources and to space, and that it comes with tenant assumptions such as residency in said space--privacy, control, ownership.
This complicates things. On the other hand, it creates more resistance than grey area: it makes it ... difficult to argue that a service provider has the right to turn over data of a customer, or that the police can order suspension of services to tenants through the service provider without an order to the tenants. It provides that ownership must be seized from tenants--search and seizure of the general service provider is potentially not legal, and could cause uncomfortable, difficult, complicated court battles.
I was questioning the 30% above average, since the average may be from 90mph winds to 120mph winds--which is 30%! What's the standard deviation here? Variance whatever.
If you're Sci-Fi you should look into Baen Publishing.
I have like a 10 foot x 12 foot patch of grass out front, I didn't want a gas mower and I have no garage so I have to bring the mower inside the house after using it. o.x
I bought a house so figured I'd need a lawn mower. That's my only experience with Fiskars.
LiveScribe has the best pen, but you need to use a Windows VM through VirtualBox to make it work.
LiveScribe uses Anoto paper. This is because the pen has a difficult time determining where exactly it is on a big, white sheet of paper. Think like being a sailor on the ocean with a star-free sky, no sun, no landmarks, no compass. You're fucked. The pen uses the dot pattern on Anoto paper to position itself on the sheet, to determine what page it's on, what book it's in, everything. The pattern is unique; the pen has a database of patterns it can reference to find the positional information based on the pattern it's given (effectively a 2D hash table).
On the flip side, LiveScribe pens are really crappy pens. The journal is the nicest journal you'll ever get; the pen is a crappy pen, not even a gel pen, and it'll wear out in 50 pages (at 2 cents per page, given pen cartridge prices).