Most of the content that I download is TV shows that I already pay for, I just don't want to watch them at the times that they air. Most of them are also not "On-Demand". I certainly don't want to watch them in some crappy web-based format that buffers every 10 seconds for 800x600 resolution. That leaves downloading them in High-def. I can get them in under 10 minutes and watch them whenever I want.
The slight difference in percentages really surprised me. Somehow I expected better of the private sector.
I have seen quite a few "Government" built software applications. 40% of the time it is a single person or kid just out of college with no or not much experience that works in that group and was asked to create it because they have programming experience on their resume. Another 40% of the time it is someone who bid low on it and is frantically posting to forums and groups asking for help with their work because they really don't know what they are doing. With these first two you can also add in that the application was created in DOS and now runs in a emulator on a winME system.
It looks like the remaining 15-20% may actually know what they are doing.
I Think you make a great point for military use. The issue is that local police get their hands on all of this equipment thanks to SWAT and other such programs.
The military is much better trained for these types of situations, they have been in actual combat and (mostly) know the difference in situations that call for deadly force or not.
The local police just like to use whatever toys they are given. What I have seen from local police training is: "Here is your mace/tazer/peppper spray, let me zap/spray you with it once so you know how it works... go have fun". It should be ingrained in them that you only use these where you would previously have had to pull your gun. I have volunteered at a few police departments and have seen this personally.
"Same LSD story every time: "Young man on acid, thought he could fly, jumped out of a building. What a tragedy." What a dick! Don't go blaming acid on this guy. If he thought he could fly, why didn't he take off from the ground first to check it out? . . . I'd like to see a positive LSD story. Would that be newsworthy? Just once?"
I am pretty sure they didn't dose these people into oblivion. Very small amounts can have the effects they are talking about... in fact large doses may not leave them being able to "hold coherent conversations" with the staff.
Breathalyzers have quite a few inherent issues, i feel. The first and foremost is that they use some formula to blanket determine the "too drunk to be driving" limit for all people. There is such a thing as functional tolerance with alcohol.
The second thing is that the formula takes the "breath alcohol to blood alcohol ratio" to determine BAC. Perhaps I am being naive here, but what if some alcohol comes out of your mouth and goes into the device... wouldn't that result in a much higher reading?
But mainly I feel that I shouldn't be charged with a crime if I haven't actually done a crime. Sure doing certain things is stupid, but unless it adversely affects someone else or their property, how is that a crime?
Way to fall into all the stereotypes of drug use. Let me guess, if he had a red nose and slurred his words, he would be drunk...
There are certain signs that people exhibit on certain substances, but there are also mental conditions and even caffeine that can mimic some of these signs.
I have seen people on PCP before, unless this guy did an extremely small amount, I highly doubt he ingested it. More likely he was just high on feeling what he was doing was right.
I think the key to all of this for me, and why I like it over other similar models, is this statement:
"You can get them from item drops, or from the crafting system. It might be a little easier to buy them in the store, but you can get them without paying."
If you are lazy, you can pay. If you don't want to pay, you can work a little for it. Sounds good to me!
I prefer to buy the physical book, then download an E-copy from someone who has done some decent editing and make it readable. I like having both options and use both regularly.
Home schooling seems like the best answer. Now you can a police record for missing a certain number of days in school. If that were the case when I was growing up, my life would have been a lot different. The time in life that kids are in school are for learning more than just textbooks. It is for making mistakes that should not carry into the rest of your life, but hopefully be used to improve the rest of your life.
This is almost a new iteration of survival. It doesn't matter if it seems like the right thing to do, contacting the "authorities" will result in a punishment for someone, it is what they do, it is what they are trained and told to do. This guy most likely would have been fine if he would have called a tech and asked for help that way.
Why did Flickr need to remove it again? I think due process should apply to this along with everything else. This whole idea that we can destroy data first, then figure out if the person is in the wrong seems to be one of the main issues with current tactics and future legislation that is trying to be pushed through.
I am on Verizon and I hit 2G on a monthly basis. My girlfriend goes into the 6G range. Mine is mostly through Pandora and random apps. Hers is through Video conferencing and social apps. Any kind of streaming on a regular basis can eat through bandwidth very quickly, especially when phones keep getting better and better resolution.
I am pretty sensitive to caffeine, but love all kinda of loose leaf tea. I can't even drink as much green tea as I want without overstimulating myself. I just sip at it constantly until I realize that my hands are starting to sweat, this app may be useful for me to drink as much as possible, but not get too much caffeine. Decaffeinated tea is not an option, it is simply bad tea that has had the caffeine 'washed' out along with most of the good flavor.
That really isn't that many machines for testing. When I was testing PART of the components for the SQL team we had hundreds of physical machines (500+) and thousands of virtual machines (2000+) running daily, weekly and on-demand tests. Of course the main thing that escaped them was that there was no way for the dev team to check all those results, so most were useless.
I was diagnosed at an early age with ADHD (mid 70s) and was given Ritalin. I sat and watched a wall melt for hours. After that my mother did some reading and found out that diet can have an extreme influence on this type of thing. With an elimination diet it was easy to see that there were a few large trigger items. She then only allowed me to have those in moderation (dairy and some citrus). There were other items that varied, so we had to go through the elimination process every few months.
At time I would accidentally ingest something that would make me a bit crazy at the wrong moment, but I learned what to look for and how to control it. All the people I have known that have taken it from an early age turn into 4 year olds if they don't get their medication, they have have no reason or ability to train themselves on how to function without it. I find that sad.
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Most of the content that I download is TV shows that I already pay for, I just don't want to watch them at the times that they air. Most of them are also not "On-Demand". I certainly don't want to watch them in some crappy web-based format that buffers every 10 seconds for 800x600 resolution. That leaves downloading them in High-def. I can get them in under 10 minutes and watch them whenever I want.
The slight difference in percentages really surprised me. Somehow I expected better of the private sector.
I have seen quite a few "Government" built software applications. 40% of the time it is a single person or kid just out of college with no or not much experience that works in that group and was asked to create it because they have programming experience on their resume. Another 40% of the time it is someone who bid low on it and is frantically posting to forums and groups asking for help with their work because they really don't know what they are doing. With these first two you can also add in that the application was created in DOS and now runs in a emulator on a winME system.
It looks like the remaining 15-20% may actually know what they are doing.
I Think you make a great point for military use. The issue is that local police get their hands on all of this equipment thanks to SWAT and other such programs.
The military is much better trained for these types of situations, they have been in actual combat and (mostly) know the difference in situations that call for deadly force or not.
The local police just like to use whatever toys they are given. What I have seen from local police training is: "Here is your mace/tazer/peppper spray, let me zap/spray you with it once so you know how it works... go have fun". It should be ingrained in them that you only use these where you would previously have had to pull your gun. I have volunteered at a few police departments and have seen this personally.
Certain uses of Yoga and Meditation have this same goal.
Obligatory Bill Hicks quote:
"Same LSD story every time: "Young man on acid, thought he could fly, jumped out of a building. What a tragedy." What a dick! Don't go blaming acid on this guy. If he thought he could fly, why didn't he take off from the ground first to check it out? . . . I'd like to see a positive LSD story. Would that be newsworthy? Just once?"
I am pretty sure they didn't dose these people into oblivion. Very small amounts can have the effects they are talking about... in fact large doses may not leave them being able to "hold coherent conversations" with the staff.
The big part of that lie is that pot is set as the same schedule as meth... what kind of message does that send to anyone that has tried pot?
Breathalyzers have quite a few inherent issues, i feel. The first and foremost is that they use some formula to blanket determine the "too drunk to be driving" limit for all people. There is such a thing as functional tolerance with alcohol.
The second thing is that the formula takes the "breath alcohol to blood alcohol ratio" to determine BAC. Perhaps I am being naive here, but what if some alcohol comes out of your mouth and goes into the device... wouldn't that result in a much higher reading?
But mainly I feel that I shouldn't be charged with a crime if I haven't actually done a crime. Sure doing certain things is stupid, but unless it adversely affects someone else or their property, how is that a crime?
Way to fall into all the stereotypes of drug use. Let me guess, if he had a red nose and slurred his words, he would be drunk...
There are certain signs that people exhibit on certain substances, but there are also mental conditions and even caffeine that can mimic some of these signs.
I have seen people on PCP before, unless this guy did an extremely small amount, I highly doubt he ingested it. More likely he was just high on feeling what he was doing was right.
I think the key to all of this for me, and why I like it over other similar models, is this statement:
"You can get them from item drops, or from the crafting system. It might be a little easier to buy them in the store, but you can get them without paying."
If you are lazy, you can pay. If you don't want to pay, you can work a little for it. Sounds good to me!
All I need is a box that can be accessed wirelessly and output to my TV.
I prefer to buy the physical book, then download an E-copy from someone who has done some decent editing and make it readable. I like having both options and use both regularly.
Home schooling seems like the best answer. Now you can a police record for missing a certain number of days in school. If that were the case when I was growing up, my life would have been a lot different. The time in life that kids are in school are for learning more than just textbooks. It is for making mistakes that should not carry into the rest of your life, but hopefully be used to improve the rest of your life.
This is almost a new iteration of survival. It doesn't matter if it seems like the right thing to do, contacting the "authorities" will result in a punishment for someone, it is what they do, it is what they are trained and told to do. This guy most likely would have been fine if he would have called a tech and asked for help that way.
Why did Flickr need to remove it again? I think due process should apply to this along with everything else. This whole idea that we can destroy data first, then figure out if the person is in the wrong seems to be one of the main issues with current tactics and future legislation that is trying to be pushed through.
I am on Verizon and I hit 2G on a monthly basis. My girlfriend goes into the 6G range. Mine is mostly through Pandora and random apps. Hers is through Video conferencing and social apps. Any kind of streaming on a regular basis can eat through bandwidth very quickly, especially when phones keep getting better and better resolution.
I am pretty sensitive to caffeine, but love all kinda of loose leaf tea. I can't even drink as much green tea as I want without overstimulating myself. I just sip at it constantly until I realize that my hands are starting to sweat, this app may be useful for me to drink as much as possible, but not get too much caffeine. Decaffeinated tea is not an option, it is simply bad tea that has had the caffeine 'washed' out along with most of the good flavor.
That really isn't that many machines for testing. When I was testing PART of the components for the SQL team we had hundreds of physical machines (500+) and thousands of virtual machines (2000+) running daily, weekly and on-demand tests. Of course the main thing that escaped them was that there was no way for the dev team to check all those results, so most were useless.
I was diagnosed at an early age with ADHD (mid 70s) and was given Ritalin. I sat and watched a wall melt for hours. After that my mother did some reading and found out that diet can have an extreme influence on this type of thing. With an elimination diet it was easy to see that there were a few large trigger items. She then only allowed me to have those in moderation (dairy and some citrus). There were other items that varied, so we had to go through the elimination process every few months. At time I would accidentally ingest something that would make me a bit crazy at the wrong moment, but I learned what to look for and how to control it. All the people I have known that have taken it from an early age turn into 4 year olds if they don't get their medication, they have have no reason or ability to train themselves on how to function without it. I find that sad.