Speaking as the eldest of three brothers, ain't that the truth! My next younger brother gets more 'tang than my younger younger brother and me put together!
And lest you think that I'm deriving erroneous conclusions based solely on my family, the Times article backs me up:
Another potential explanation concerns how individual siblings find a niche in the family. Some studies find that both the older and younger siblings tend to describe the first-born as more disciplined, responsible, a better student. Studies suggest -- and parents know from experience -- that to distinguish themselves, younger siblings often develop other skills, like social charm, a good curveball, mastery of the electric bass, acting skills.
... all four of which are much more attractive to women than intellectual smarts.
Nope. Each family member must pay every time they listen to the CD, every time they hum or whistle a tune from the CD, and every time they think of the music. Which presents a problem if you get a song stuck in your head... a problem for you anyway.
Not only would it be pretty cool, sword combat is a more elegant and civilized way of dispatching your enemies.
Also, sword combat requires at least some training. You would think that one's sensei would explain that indiscriminately slicing and dicing people is, at best, dishonorable.
Under the bill, states voluntarily participating in the system would have to file an audit with the U.S. attorney general of all the criminal cases , mental health adjudications and court-ordered drug treatments
Okay, calm down, relax, take a deep breath. Making a database of all the mental health adjudications, while certainly not desirable, != making a database of everyone who's ever received mental health treatment. This applies to people who have been declared to require mental health assistance by the courts, not Joe Blow who goes to see his therapist once a week.
What I find most troubling is that they intend to create a Federal database of ALL THE CRIMINAL CASES in the U.S. Anybody here ever fought a traffic ticket in court? Anybody here ever been cited for disorderly conduct, or public drunkenness, or disturbing the peace? Did anybody fight those charges instead of settling out of court?
Well, now the Federal government will know about it.
Actually, he wouldn't even have to say all that. IANAL(yet), but I do believe that simply saying, "Officer, this conversation is being recorded" would be sufficient.
IIRC, there was one in Washington earlier this year. Fark covered it (of course), and it may have merited coverage here. I recall the teacher being smokin' hot, which is probably why it sticks in my memory.
Actally, come to think of it, I'm starting to remember details. (Coffee's starting to kick in.) It went something like this:
"Gorgeous 24-year-old teacher gets down with 17- or 18-year-old male student, who could (and did) legally consent to their coupling. Gorgeous 24-year-old teacher is arrested and thrown in jail, charged with $crime, sentenced to four years in jail. Gorgeous 24-year-old teacher is bailed out of jail by simian husband. Gorgeous 24-year-old teacher gets engaged to 17- or 18-year-old male student, who can legally consent to said endeavour."
True, you could be watched either way. But if it's a person watching you, that person is subject to the human inadequacies we all share. That person can be tricked, fooled, distracted, avoided even. (Provided you can figure out who they are.) While a camera could be fooled too, it's harder to trick a machine than an actual, live human being.
Plus, actual, live human beings can (usually) be reasoned with if they should happen to stop and question you. You don't have to answer their questions, either. With a camera, there's no reasoning, there's no questioning. The authorities have their evidence and they come arrest you.
See, there's this thing called the "right to privacy". I'm not sure they have it in the UK, but we do here in the good ol' USA (which doesn't stop our government from infringing upon it, but that's another story.)
IANALY*, but I believe it would be covered under the Fourth Amendment right of protection against unreasonable searches.
Simply put, if you are doing nothing wrong, you have the right to be (and right well should be) left alone.
If he was also designing mobs [sic] to represent other students, teachers, and other school officials, then there might be cause for concern.
Exactly! What if it was a mod for, say "Dead Rising", in which you blast the living fsck out of zombies at a mall? Exactly how is that different from blasting the living fsck out of zombies at one's school? Shit, it'd be a great map, as numerous other posters have already stated. Plus, if you knew the layout from actually going to school there, you could totally pwnz0r teh n00bz;D
completely random thought, and ironic too: the captcha I got for this post was "sinister"...
the IP addresses the RIAA has for the violations may be mapped to computers in common areas, making it difficult to determine just which people may have made the downloads.
... in which case they will simply sue every student at UW, thus making even more money in the settlements than they would to begin with.
Although I do agree that any obstruction of the free flow of information is detrimental to science and academia, I don't think that's the point of this initiative.
Exactly! Proper citation and giving credit where credit is due should in no way inhibit the free flow of information. After all, everybody has to borrow and cite and work off of others' work in order to create or discover or innovate. Even Newton said, famously, that he had only gotten where he was by "standing on the shoulders of giants."
2 x Dell PowerEdge 6950 4U rackmount server, one running Windows, one running Linux: $72,592 4 x Dell PowerVault MD3000 3U rackmount hard drive array (4.5 TB apiece): $118,248 1 x Dell PowerVault 114T 2U rackmount tape drive (w/ 100 x 800 GB tapes; 80 TB total): $14,868 1 x Dell PowerVault TL4000 3U rackmount tape library (w/ 100 x 800GB tapes; 80 TB total): $28,016 1 x Dell PowerConnect 6024F 1I fiber / gigabit ethernet Switch (w/ 54n router): $4670
: ~$7500 1 x Behringer SRC2496 ULTRAMATCH PRO (2U rackmount D/A converter): $130 1 x Behringer TDF1616 16-Channel TDIF Interface (2U/2): $50 1 x ART Digital MPA Tube Microphone Preamplifier (2U): $400 1 x Behringer PX3000 Ultrapatch Pro Patch Bay: $65 1 x Behringer T1952 Tube Composer: $460 1 x PreSonus Central Station Monitor Switch with remote control (1U): $650 1 x MOTU HD192 I/O Expander Interface (4U): $1515
Stuff below the cooling system hooked into a Behringer Eurodesk SL3242FX-Pro 24-channel mixer: $700
Subtotal: $249,864
+ NY 8.25% sales tax: $270,477.88
Then there's the multitude of guitars, basses, drums, keyboards, and mics that I would need to hook into the system, which would easily tack on another ~$20-40K...... Of course, then I'd have to set up a full-on, balls-out recording studio: $250,000... which would probably require moving into a new apartment: $75,000... and then there's all the labor costs involved: $50,000... and the costs involved in hiring clean ho's to be my studio groupies: $100,000...
Plus, if you add water to the ash (rain or snow, doesn't matter), it turns into concrete. So, essentially, the entire western US gets turned into a parking lot.
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And lest you think that I'm deriving erroneous conclusions based solely on my family, the Times article backs me up:
I rest my case.
pwned.
Nope. Each family member must pay every time they listen to the CD, every time they hum or whistle a tune from the CD, and every time they think of the music. Which presents a problem if you get a song stuck in your head... a problem for you anyway.
Not only would it be pretty cool, sword combat is a more elegant and civilized way of dispatching your enemies.
Also, sword combat requires at least some training. You would think that one's sensei would explain that indiscriminately slicing and dicing people is, at best, dishonorable.
Okay, calm down, relax, take a deep breath. Making a database of all the mental health adjudications, while certainly not desirable, != making a database of everyone who's ever received mental health treatment. This applies to people who have been declared to require mental health assistance by the courts, not Joe Blow who goes to see his therapist once a week.
What I find most troubling is that they intend to create a Federal database of ALL THE CRIMINAL CASES in the U.S. Anybody here ever fought a traffic ticket in court? Anybody here ever been cited for disorderly conduct, or public drunkenness, or disturbing the peace? Did anybody fight those charges instead of settling out of court?
Well, now the Federal government will know about it.
Actually, he wouldn't even have to say all that. IANAL(yet), but I do believe that simply saying, "Officer, this conversation is being recorded" would be sufficient.
Well that's not unique to TPB, that could (and probably does) happen with most of the major .torrent sites. Yet another reason to use SafePeer.
A very compelling reason to 1) wire the TV through the stereo and 2) throw a compressor in between the two.
IIRC, there was one in Washington earlier this year. Fark covered it (of course), and it may have merited coverage here. I recall the teacher being smokin' hot, which is probably why it sticks in my memory.
Actally, come to think of it, I'm starting to remember details. (Coffee's starting to kick in.) It went something like this:
"Gorgeous 24-year-old teacher gets down with 17- or 18-year-old male student, who could (and did) legally consent to their coupling. Gorgeous 24-year-old teacher is arrested and thrown in jail, charged with $crime, sentenced to four years in jail. Gorgeous 24-year-old teacher is bailed out of jail by simian husband. Gorgeous 24-year-old teacher gets engaged to 17- or 18-year-old male student, who can legally consent to said endeavour."
Yeah, you've piqued our interest now. Out with it, man!
"George Orwell" was a pseudonym? Wow, you learn something new every day...
True, you could be watched either way. But if it's a person watching you, that person is subject to the human inadequacies we all share. That person can be tricked, fooled, distracted, avoided even. (Provided you can figure out who they are.) While a camera could be fooled too, it's harder to trick a machine than an actual, live human being.
Plus, actual, live human beings can (usually) be reasoned with if they should happen to stop and question you. You don't have to answer their questions, either. With a camera, there's no reasoning, there's no questioning. The authorities have their evidence and they come arrest you.
Bottom line, they both suck privacy-wise.
Oh my Gods, that would rock! (pun intended)
BRITS: "1984" was supposed to be a warning, not a gorram instruction manual!
See, there's this thing called the "right to privacy". I'm not sure they have it in the UK, but we do here in the good ol' USA (which doesn't stop our government from infringing upon it, but that's another story.)
... yet
IANALY*, but I believe it would be covered under the Fourth Amendment right of protection against unreasonable searches.
Simply put, if you are doing nothing wrong, you have the right to be (and right well should be) left alone.
*
If the priestesses were as hot as that oracle chick from "300"...
Holy hot damn, sign me up! (puns intended)
You just blew my mind.
FIGHT!
(cue Mortal Kombat theme)
Exactly! What if it was a mod for, say "Dead Rising", in which you blast the living fsck out of zombies at a mall? Exactly how is that different from blasting the living fsck out of zombies at one's school? Shit, it'd be a great map, as numerous other posters have already stated. Plus, if you knew the layout from actually going to school there, you could totally pwnz0r teh n00bz
completely random thought, and ironic too: the captcha I got for this post was "sinister"...
A rack cabinet (48U, consisting of the following:
... Of course, then I'd have to set up a full-on, balls-out recording studio: $250,000 ... which would probably require moving into a new apartment: $75,000 ... and then there's all the labor costs involved: $50,000 ... and the costs involved in hiring clean ho's to be my studio groupies: $100,000 ...
2 x Dell PowerEdge 6950 4U rackmount server, one running Windows, one running Linux: $72,592
4 x Dell PowerVault MD3000 3U rackmount hard drive array (4.5 TB apiece): $118,248
1 x Dell PowerVault 114T 2U rackmount tape drive (w/ 100 x 800 GB tapes; 80 TB total): $14,868
1 x Dell PowerVault TL4000 3U rackmount tape library (w/ 100 x 800GB tapes; 80 TB total): $28,016
1 x Dell PowerConnect 6024F 1I fiber / gigabit ethernet Switch (w/ 54n router): $4670
: ~$7500
1 x Behringer SRC2496 ULTRAMATCH PRO (2U rackmount D/A converter): $130
1 x Behringer TDF1616 16-Channel TDIF Interface (2U/2): $50
1 x ART Digital MPA Tube Microphone Preamplifier (2U): $400
1 x Behringer PX3000 Ultrapatch Pro Patch Bay: $65
1 x Behringer T1952 Tube Composer: $460
1 x PreSonus Central Station Monitor Switch with remote control (1U): $650
1 x MOTU HD192 I/O Expander Interface (4U): $1515
Stuff below the cooling system hooked into a
Behringer Eurodesk SL3242FX-Pro 24-channel mixer: $700
Subtotal: $249,864
+ NY 8.25% sales tax: $270,477.88
Then there's the multitude of guitars, basses, drums, keyboards, and mics that I would need to hook into the system, which would easily tack on another ~$20-40K...
If you give Sexybomber a cookie...
Plus, if you add water to the ash (rain or snow, doesn't matter), it turns into concrete. So, essentially, the entire western US gets turned into a parking lot.