Speaking as someone from the UK (where the actual, you know, murder victim came from) I can assure you that most people here believe that the pretty white US girl is as guilty as the dark skinned African male actually convicted.
80+ words per minute, lol, what are you a fucking secretary? no one cares, fag.
No, he's someone who uses a computer every day and doesn't want to be slowed down by being so lazy he can't be bothered to learn how to use it properly.
The fact remains that you will never be able to match the typing speed achieved on a keyboard, even with limited travel, when typing on a tablet's screen.
Most users I know use the "hunt and peck" technique and are unable to touch-type, so they will never be able to match the typing speed achieved on a keyboard, even with a physical keyboard. A tablet virtual keyboard thus proves no disadvantage to them.
If you can't touch type, you are not a serious computer user. Simple as that. I don't care how many how many shiny apps you can whizz through by scrolling with your finger, that is just media consumption. Well, whoopy doo, I can use the remote on my fucking TV too.
Not to mention that, when typing on a screen, you must keep your eyes on that "keyboard" like a fucking moron.
This has the be the stupidest complaint about tablets that I hear in every discussion. You don't need to be able to touch-type because you're looking at the keyboard anyway!
No, I think yours is the stupidest defence of not touch typing that I have ever heard. If there were no advantage in touch typing instead of staring at your fingers as you typed, no one would bother touch typing in the first place.
Not to mention that, when typing on a screen, you must keep your eyes on that "keyboard" like a fucking moron. I haven't looked at my keyboard in decades, because I clearly feel where the keys are.
How does that even work? My hands are on the keyboard when I type on my tablet, I can't type and look at the keyboard at the same time. Usually I just stare off into space focusing on what I want to sound while tapping away.
What bollocks, you cannot touch type on a fucking touchscreen keyboard, end of story.
Uh, OK, right, so, when I need to type in class, at my desk (or at another venue), I have a (highly portable [and the competition is improving everyday, soon we will have even better rollout keyboards, better foldout keyboards etc,.) keyboard, then, when I pack it in my (small) backpack and go for a hike, and use it to take some pictures of some cool things there, and track my jog, and get my bearings, then use it to orient myself to the locally viewable stars just after dark, and then I can watch a netflix/free-tv (with less ads than on broadcast, and yet not pirating) after getting home, it is also my calendar, scheduler, has replaced my guitar-effect pedals (a Zoom 707, and a nicer snarling dogs Wah, replaced by a five dollar app [with FAR less line-noise than they ever put out]).
can I toss the keyboard from a laptop on the desk, and just run out the door with just the display in a small backpack, or slipped into my camera case, when I am going for a jog?
Who would take a tablet jogging?. Or do you call "walking briskly down to the coffee shop in training shoes" a jog?
Sorry, no, it's not a moderate typing speed discrepancy, it's a massive discrepancy, a factor of 3 at best and more like 10 in practice.
Nope, I am always slow.
That is a silly argument. It's like saying that a Ferrari or Porsche is no faster than a one litre Nissan Micra because you don't ever drive more than 60 mph anyway.
Uhh, *you* may not be able to type on a tablet quickly, but I can bust out some verbage with decent speed. Certainly well enough that I don't feel the need to go hunting for a 'physical' keyboard.
Fine, you are not a touch typist and don't need to be able to enter text quickly and accurately. No one is saying there isn't a niche for computers used for media viewing, that is self evidently what most people use iPads for. Basically, the tablet becomes a glorified remote control for your TV.
no nasty useless poorly written BB server in the back office that everyone hated to deal with.
Business users of phones don't have to deal with the BB server in the back office, that is the job of IT. Unless you think that businesses should be run to suit the philosophy and personal preferences of IT staff, that is a totally irrelevant criticism.
If the phones and email work well and robustly for the users, that is what matters, not how elegantly coded the fucking server software is.
How much money have cellphone operators spent on studies showing that mobile phones are completely harmless? And how much was spent by independent organizations? Which figure do you think is higher?
Irrelevant horseshit.
There is not only no evidence supporting a link between cellphones and cancer, there is no plausible theoretical basis for it besides "OMGZORZ RADIATORS R TEH BAD!!!!!1" The frequencies involved are too low to be ionizing. Dielectric heating could be a problem, but not at the power levels involved. That leaves what? The tumor gremlins who live in every Samsung handset?
Yes, it's lucky that we know with 100% certainty that only ionizing radiation causes cancer isn't it? Oh, wait...
Well, Texas is more than twice as large as Italy, has around half the population, and the GDP of the two are comparable.
You forgot to mention their very similar contributions to culture and world civilization. One gave us da Vinci and Dante, the other John Wayne and, er...
How delightfully lofty and optimistic of you. Next time you're being beaten to death by a murderer and you have a knife or a gun you can use to defend yourself, I hope you remember what you just said and lay back and die like a good boy instead of harming some innocent brute to save your own life.
Out of Martin and Zimmerman, there's only one who has demonstrably killed another human being, and only one who has the chance to do so again..
If all you have is a pistol, then you go from fists to lethal force instantly when a certain threshold is crossed by the assailant. Since you can't be sure that the guy who smashed your skull into the concrete and is mounted on top of you will stop at any point, you pull the trigger and keep pulling until you're out of ammo or the threat is neutralized.
Only if you're a total fucking wuss. In most normal parts of the world, Zimmerman would have ended up with a few scratches and bruises and his pride hurt because he got beaten up by a teenager that he had provoked.. But because it's the US and this wuss has a gun, the kid is shot dead.
Yes, it's possible that Martin would have killed him with his bare hands, but it is extremely unlikely unless he had previous form as a genuine psycho (i.e. not just someone who listened to gangsta rap and wore a hoody)..
The "appropriate" response to someone following and harassing you is to call the police, and report the incident, and ask for a police officer to come and assist you. Not to turn around and coldcock your harasser.
Yes, I can see that would be the natural response for a 17year old black kid being hassled by a mad white guy with a gun and a bad attitude.
Deadly force should never be used, even in self defense.
There are times that deadly force MUST sometimes be used in self defense, if you intend to survive.
It just seems unlikely on the face of it that Zimmerman was in such mortal peril.
The fact that you're getting roughed up a little (or even quite a lot) does not mean you have the right to kill the person roughing you up. Self defence (at least here in the UK) has to be proportionate. If someone smacks you in the face, you can't go and get a sword and decapitate them or pull out your handy sawn-off shotgun and blast them in two. But you can certainly hit them back, and hard too.
1st degree murder...whaaaat? That's premeditated murder, like when you lie in wait for someone. Sorry, you have no business discussing this situation with adults.
If you pursue someone with a gun on your person and they end up shot dead with it, there is a prima facie case for premeditated murder. Your only sane way out is to call it self defence somehow, i.e. yes you happened to have a gun, but you only used it when the person turned psychotic and you thought he was going to kill you. Which is what Zimmerman is now saying.
HOWEVER it went down, Zimmerman escalated a nothing-doing situation to a murder.
Exactly. Even if he had caught an unarmed Martin breaking and entering he still wouldn't have been justified in killing him. As it was, the kid appears to have been guilty mainly of being black in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I actually am somewhat surprised at the number of people who post here and seem to be pro-gun and simultaneously bothered that Zimmerman is being tried.
Ignoring the race aspects for a moment, it makes perfect sense that people who believe in carrying guns around get a little nervous when someone doing that kills someone and can't pull the old Texas "he was invading my home" defence and automatically walk away. There are consequences to your actions. If you're a poorly trained, psychologically unstable dick trying to compensate for your fear through carrying a deadly weapon, why is it a surprise when things go wrong?
Recently, some Royal Marine Commandos in the UK have been charged with murder (for killing an insurgent in Afghanistan without apparently following the rules of engagement correctly). If professional soldiers can get it wrong, what chance does some amateur have?
Trayvon isn't on trial, therefore his speech is not being used against him, so miranda rights are pointless
And why isn't he on trial? It's political correctness gone mad. Time after time, the white man gets victimised for simply defending himself, and the black guy gets off scot free despite being, er, black. Your country is going to the dogs, I tell you.
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This is insane, why is a computer programmer under solitary confinement?
Why, should computer programmers have some special exemption from the law?
Speaking as someone from the UK (where the actual, you know, murder victim came from) I can assure you that most people here believe that the pretty white US girl is as guilty as the dark skinned African male actually convicted.
Ad to that, the fact that speech recognition is built in and works reasonably well - getting better by the day.
Yeah, we're pretty much approaching the fucking singularity. Again.
80+ words per minute, lol, what are you a fucking secretary? no one cares, fag.
No, he's someone who uses a computer every day and doesn't want to be slowed down by being so lazy he can't be bothered to learn how to use it properly.
I think he's referring to Ultrabooks, which are just as light, but vastly more powerful.
I think you misspelled expensive.
It is ridiculous to compare something costing GBP 200 with something that's over GBP 1000.
Most users I know use the "hunt and peck" technique and are unable to touch-type, so they will never be able to match the typing speed achieved on a keyboard, even with a physical keyboard. A tablet virtual keyboard thus proves no disadvantage to them.
If you can't touch type, you are not a serious computer user. Simple as that. I don't care how many how many shiny apps you can whizz through by scrolling with your finger, that is just media consumption. Well, whoopy doo, I can use the remote on my fucking TV too.
This has the be the stupidest complaint about tablets that I hear in every discussion. You don't need to be able to touch-type because you're looking at the keyboard anyway!
No, I think yours is the stupidest defence of not touch typing that I have ever heard. If there were no advantage in touch typing instead of staring at your fingers as you typed, no one would bother touch typing in the first place.
Not to mention that, when typing on a screen, you must keep your eyes on that "keyboard" like a fucking moron. I haven't looked at my keyboard in decades, because I clearly feel where the keys are.
How does that even work? My hands are on the keyboard when I type on my tablet, I can't type and look at the keyboard at the same time. Usually I just stare off into space focusing on what I want to sound while tapping away.
What bollocks, you cannot touch type on a fucking touchscreen keyboard, end of story.
Uh, OK, right, so, when I need to type in class, at my desk (or at another venue), I have a (highly portable [and the competition is improving everyday, soon we will have even better rollout keyboards, better foldout keyboards etc,.) keyboard, then, when I pack it in my (small) backpack and go for a hike, and use it to take some pictures of some cool things there, and track my jog, and get my bearings, then use it to orient myself to the locally viewable stars just after dark, and then I can watch a netflix/free-tv (with less ads than on broadcast, and yet not pirating) after getting home, it is also my calendar, scheduler, has replaced my guitar-effect pedals (a Zoom 707, and a nicer snarling dogs Wah, replaced by a five dollar app [with FAR less line-noise than they ever put out]).
Sweet fucking Jesus you sound like a tool.
can I toss the keyboard from a laptop on the desk, and just run out the door with just the display in a small backpack, or slipped into my camera case, when I am going for a jog?
Who would take a tablet jogging?. Or do you call "walking briskly down to the coffee shop in training shoes" a jog?
Sorry, no, it's not a moderate typing speed discrepancy, it's a massive discrepancy, a factor of 3 at best and more like 10 in practice.
Nope, I am always slow.
That is a silly argument. It's like saying that a Ferrari or Porsche is no faster than a one litre Nissan Micra because you don't ever drive more than 60 mph anyway.
Uhh, *you* may not be able to type on a tablet quickly, but I can bust out some verbage with decent speed. Certainly well enough that I don't feel the need to go hunting for a 'physical' keyboard.
Fine, you are not a touch typist and don't need to be able to enter text quickly and accurately. No one is saying there isn't a niche for computers used for media viewing, that is self evidently what most people use iPads for. Basically, the tablet becomes a glorified remote control for your TV.
no nasty useless poorly written BB server in the back office that everyone hated to deal with.
Business users of phones don't have to deal with the BB server in the back office, that is the job of IT. Unless you think that businesses should be run to suit the philosophy and personal preferences of IT staff, that is a totally irrelevant criticism.
If the phones and email work well and robustly for the users, that is what matters, not how elegantly coded the fucking server software is.
How much money have cellphone operators spent on studies showing that mobile phones are completely harmless? And how much was spent by independent organizations? Which figure do you think is higher?
Irrelevant horseshit.
There is not only no evidence supporting a link between cellphones and cancer, there is no plausible theoretical basis for it besides "OMGZORZ RADIATORS R TEH BAD!!!!!1" The frequencies involved are too low to be ionizing. Dielectric heating could be a problem, but not at the power levels involved. That leaves what? The tumor gremlins who live in every Samsung handset?
Yes, it's lucky that we know with 100% certainty that only ionizing radiation causes cancer isn't it? Oh, wait...
Well, Texas is more than twice as large as Italy, has around half the population, and the GDP of the two are comparable.
You forgot to mention their very similar contributions to culture and world civilization. One gave us da Vinci and Dante, the other John Wayne and, er...
How delightfully lofty and optimistic of you. Next time you're being beaten to death by a murderer and you have a knife or a gun you can use to defend yourself, I hope you remember what you just said and lay back and die like a good boy instead of harming some innocent brute to save your own life.
Out of Martin and Zimmerman, there's only one who has demonstrably killed another human being, and only one who has the chance to do so again..
If all you have is a pistol, then you go from fists to lethal force instantly when a certain threshold is crossed by the assailant. Since you can't be sure that the guy who smashed your skull into the concrete and is mounted on top of you will stop at any point, you pull the trigger and keep pulling until you're out of ammo or the threat is neutralized.
Only if you're a total fucking wuss. In most normal parts of the world, Zimmerman would have ended up with a few scratches and bruises and his pride hurt because he got beaten up by a teenager that he had provoked.. But because it's the US and this wuss has a gun, the kid is shot dead.
Yes, it's possible that Martin would have killed him with his bare hands, but it is extremely unlikely unless he had previous form as a genuine psycho (i.e. not just someone who listened to gangsta rap and wore a hoody)..
Police didn't tell him shit, a 911 dispatcher did (hint, you are under no legal obligation to do a damn thing that a dispatcher tells you)
Legalism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
The "appropriate" response to someone following and harassing you is to call the police, and report the incident, and ask for a police officer to come and assist you. Not to turn around and coldcock your harasser.
Yes, I can see that would be the natural response for a 17year old black kid being hassled by a mad white guy with a gun and a bad attitude.
Deadly force should never be used, even in self defense.
There are times that deadly force MUST sometimes be used in self defense, if you intend to survive.
It just seems unlikely on the face of it that Zimmerman was in such mortal peril.
The fact that you're getting roughed up a little (or even quite a lot) does not mean you have the right to kill the person roughing you up. Self defence (at least here in the UK) has to be proportionate. If someone smacks you in the face, you can't go and get a sword and decapitate them or pull out your handy sawn-off shotgun and blast them in two. But you can certainly hit them back, and hard too.
1st degree murder...whaaaat? That's premeditated murder, like when you lie in wait for someone. Sorry, you have no business discussing this situation with adults.
If you pursue someone with a gun on your person and they end up shot dead with it, there is a prima facie case for premeditated murder. Your only sane way out is to call it self defence somehow, i.e. yes you happened to have a gun, but you only used it when the person turned psychotic and you thought he was going to kill you. Which is what Zimmerman is now saying.
HOWEVER it went down, Zimmerman escalated a nothing-doing situation to a murder.
Exactly. Even if he had caught an unarmed Martin breaking and entering he still wouldn't have been justified in killing him. As it was, the kid appears to have been guilty mainly of being black in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I actually am somewhat surprised at the number of people who post here and seem to be pro-gun and simultaneously bothered that Zimmerman is being tried.
Ignoring the race aspects for a moment, it makes perfect sense that people who believe in carrying guns around get a little nervous when someone doing that kills someone and can't pull the old Texas "he was invading my home" defence and automatically walk away. There are consequences to your actions. If you're a poorly trained, psychologically unstable dick trying to compensate for your fear through carrying a deadly weapon, why is it a surprise when things go wrong?
Recently, some Royal Marine Commandos in the UK have been charged with murder (for killing an insurgent in Afghanistan without apparently following the rules of engagement correctly). If professional soldiers can get it wrong, what chance does some amateur have?
A fit 6'2 17 year old who fist fought for sport could credibly get an out of shape heavier man afraid for his life.
An out of shape heavier man with a fucking gun. I know who had the upper hand in that particular confrontation right from the beginning.
Trayvon isn't on trial, therefore his speech is not being used against him, so miranda rights are pointless
And why isn't he on trial? It's political correctness gone mad. Time after time, the white man gets victimised for simply defending himself, and the black guy gets off scot free despite being, er, black. Your country is going to the dogs, I tell you.