I've been to sports bars and geek bars, the geekier bars were decidedly less... exhuberent.
besides, how much damage can a nerd punch really do. the guy watching hockey in a flannel vest can probably punch a hole in the table. the guy in the khakis watching starcraft probably can't even lift the table.
I certainly hope there are myriad other reasons you have for not living there, not least of which being that the uncharged felon Bloomberg runs the ship. I hear he's so slimy, slugs say "EW!" when they touch him
Don't forget that under his instruction and pay that several individuals broke many federal laws by lying on paperwork and illegally transporting firearms across state lines.
He had no authority to do that, actually interfered with LEGIT investigations, and in the end walked away without a blemish. Er, except, the DA down in (iirc) Virginia did tell him to stay away or he'd have him arrested.
Cause the dude broke many federal laws. Very many. He formed a gunrunning gang and got away with it because of who he is. Land of equality my fat pasty ass.
The cop stops you, immediately, thus ending the unsafe situation on the road.
Remember, traffic enforcement is about the safety of the public, not revenue generation.
traffic lights cannot resolve an unsafe situation. at best, they'll stop it roughly 2 weeks after it's happened.
if traffic tickets were, in fact, simply a form of revenue generation and not intended to be rules by which the roads may be made safer for all using them? well by golly, if that were the case, it sure would be a good idea to use traffic cameras! same revenue stream as an officer, less overhead!
of course, we all know traffic tickets really ARE about revenue generation, but if they were to admit that the public would be on their ass to reform the system -- and so long as they're keeping up the charade that it's all about keeping us safe, traffic cameras should absolutely be disallowed from ticketing anybody for anything, ever.
Assuming they have insurance. Assuming you can afford to lose the use of your car for several days, possibly weeks. Assuming you don't injure yourself. Assuming they don't strike you with such force that you are then driven into the vehicle in front of you, which by golly usually winds up being your fault anyway. Assuming your insurance company won't raise your rates for being hit by someone else.
Yeah, what you say sure makes sense, until you start actually digging in to what the real costs of someone else hitting your car may be.
Not all NYC cops hate truck drivers. My dad used to take a truck up to the city (not box truck, tractor trailer, and not through but just into, and at night); I forget the details, but when he had first started going up there one night he'd stopped at a red light. Cop pulls up, tells him to blow through.
Yeah, apparently down around that edge of the city, that time of night, there's practically no traffic -- but there was, and most likely is, a much greater chance that someone would attempt to open the trailer and steal things out of it or just outright carjack the truck from him if he were to stop at a redlight.
The cop instructed him to blow through red lights. Because it was the safest thing to do.
No camera (and the plural of cameras is CAMERAS, without the apostrophe -- I know you're all a bunch of toothless criminals down there in Superjail Island, Australia is essentially Texas minus the Mexicans, but come on at least make an effort to write properly) would ticket one single of those young females, because the camera cannot determine what they were doing. The ONLY enforcement method which is able to stop unsafe driving such as you describe is an officer in a car driving down the road. A stationary patrol car sitting hidden in a speed trap won't be able to see what the driver is doing, and the officer would be focusing and concentrating on the radar gun more than discerning what the driver of each car is doing.
Of course, to do that the police would actually have to enforce traffic laws for the sake of public safety, and we all know that is unquestionably not the case. It's simply revenue.
Nobody would even read that shit, anyway. Hell, the only time I even look at my local police report in the paper -- when I even BUY a paper -- is when I know work is going to be slow and I'm going to have a "stomach ache" for an hour around lunch time. and even then it's a cursory glance. the police roundup in the local paper has maybe, maybe a dozen entries. i'm guessing for a place as big as NYC, listing all the people that would get ticketed would take half a newspaper. Who's really going to comb through that, and when there's that many other people listed with you is it REALLY doing anything? Being the lone 'bad guy' is a deterrent.. being one of thousands, over something so trivial, is beyond anyone's giving-a-fuck
Washington, DC... was not designed to be an inhabited city. It was designed for looks. Nobody was supposed to be a permanent resident of Washington, D.C. That's why it's such a shithole. Compared to NYC, which is a shithole because they keep electing Bloomberg mayor (how is this guy not in jail, anyway -- he proudly has boasted about sending people under his employ and direction to states other than New York, having instructed them to BREAK FEDERAL LAW BY LYING on paperwork for firearm purchases, and then illegally transporting those firearms back into New York state. none of this was done with any authority other than his as a *private citizen*, since the powers of a mayor end at the edge of his jurisdiction and the entire affair was his own private enterprise).
DC was actually very well designed if it was kept to its original purpose, but they kept letting people build houses all over the place instead of kicking them to the curb like they should have.. now look at it. good lord. i'd rather be homeless in alaska than a homeowner in DC.
Said demographic is hardly stingy. Kids that grew up on video games are now adults. Not 18, not 19. 30 year olds. Many of them have quite a bit of disposable income. Many of them drink.
And here's another fun thing. Drunk gamers do not tend to be the violent, confrontational types when they get drunk. Drunk gamers aren't at risk of getting into brawls because one team or another won or lost. Sports fans riot after big matches. Gamers do not. I'm guessing a bar full of nerds watching Starcraft is a hell of a lot more of a friendly environment than a bar full of guys watching soccer -- regardless of how much they've had to drink.
That's so far away from what's actually going on that you should go hang yourself in the closet in shame.
Make warp drive. Patent it. No problem.
Make spaceship that looks exactly like the USS Enterprise. Try to patent THE SHAPE of the ship. Also, the shape is now just a box. A rudimentary geometric object with no details anywhere.
Sounds dumb? Apple not only thought it was smart, but actually GOT the patent, AND thought it would hold up in court. good luck with that!
The patent doesn't look like an iPad or Galaxy Tab, either.
And yes, it is prior art. The tablet is not a new or novel idea. A particular implementation may be, but as can be clearly demonstrated the concept of a flat device similar in form and size to a pad of legal-sized paper which dynamically displays information on its top face has been around FOR FUCKING DECADES. Apple can't patent an idea that clearly predates their company. And Steve should probably be run out of Dodge for even trying. This is why people don't like him -- because he's a massive prick.
Firstly, that's a TRADEMARK, not a PATENT. Secondly, it's a specific shade of red. Thirdly, they also have a trademark on the coca cola bottle shape -- their glass bottles had a distinct, and unique, shape. Fourthy, that, too was also simply a trademark, and not a patent.
Most importantly, and fifthly, and finally,
THIS IS A PATENT ON A RECTANGLE. That's the design of a pad of paper. It's an LCD monitor you can touch, with all processing integral to the thing. There is not a single fucking thing novel or inventive about any of this. You can't patent a goddamned rectangle. That's ridiculous.
actually, if they hit DC, we just declare the disaster so severe that the united states no longer exists -- they killed the beast! -- and then pick up right where we left off with USA2. Minus all our debt to them. Because that was USA1.
well, there was that book, "Mitochondrial Eve", but that traced all human mitochondrial DNA back to, if I recall, 8 women living at different times and in different places around the world -- that is, there's (as far as they found) 8 variations of mitochondrial DNA to be found in modern day humans, not that all of us trace back to those 8 ladies.
Hey, it gets better, there's been a push by certain democrats in washington you can probably name to expand the no-fly list (terror watch list) in both size and scope.
They want to be able to revoke constitutionally-guaranteed rights from people by putting their name on those lists. the lists that work so well, as you've discovered. and not a "oh, you're not the guy you thought we were", which is what your brother keeps getting -- they're talking about "oh, sorry, we think you might be this other guy who we think is a terrorist, so sorry, you can't purchase that firearm!"
It really depends entirely on the difference in the price of the REs.
I have no idea how big of an effect the price of REs has on making anything, so no idea what the threshold would be -- but it's not unreasonable to consider that the competition would use their advantage in sourcing their materials to outprice the Good Company who isn't dealing with China, and thus drive Good Company out of business in the short-term regardless of how much better Good Company would perform in the long-term.
Here's the problem. If you don't buy the cheaper materials, your company might not even be around in 2 years. That's the problem. The solution should be a moratorium on chinese REs, or at least a tariff, neither of which will ever happen, and neither of which would work anyway because places like.. well, China.. wouldn't participate, so those that did would just be committing economic suicide.
there's mines in the US that have been closed, yes. "fast" is relative; the one major mine i recall hearing about was exploring reopening, and "few years" pops to mind as the timeline for getting it back to production
Don't forget Lake Superior, which is more local for more people I assume -- it's a deep'n, and cold. 2 C average temp, according to wiki. Too cold for gas producing decomp bacteria. Lake's known for keeping its dead.
You're also forgetting the carbon footprint required to get the person into any of those totally sequestered situations, too, of course.
I think a *LOT* of people are getting these mixed up.
well.. obviously, yes, as generally these "protests" are formed based on half-truths and misremembered lies.. but this one particularly.
this dude wasn't murdered, he was killed. justifiably killed. sucks, but don't go throwing knives at cops. don't care who you are, if you throw a knife at a cop and there is the slightest chance you may have another knife on or near you -- your ass is gonna get shot. cops get paid putting their lives on the line, but they don't get paid TO put their lives on the line.
regardless of whether or not the protest is justified, it's counterproductive. you'd think a plan to draw public attention and support for a cause or reason would, you know.. try to maybe NOT PISS OFF THE PUBLIC. These protests are *always* organized and filled with 5 year olds -- no, I'm serious, these are people who never grew up, who never learned that throwing a temper tantrum does not result in you getting your way.
There are effective ways to hold a protest, and there are effective ways to hold a rally, but neither of them involve intentionally disrupting and disturbing the transit of the public at large. because that *IS* illegal and a violation of rights.
A homeless drunk was killed. Sad. Still a person, but he was drunk, he was armed, he acted aggressively towards police. He had a glass bottle, at least one knife. I wouldn't be shocked if his clothing could have concealed other weapons.
I suppose we'll just have to wait and see what the eye witnesses say, but based on what I can find.. when the cops showed up Hill pulled his knife on the approaching officer Psycho-style, moved at him aggressively and didn't drop his knife and was shot. It appears the knife was thrown after he was shot. That's.. actually entirely consistent with a scenario in which the cops were justified. A taser is not a response to a lethal threat. A taser is to be used in situations where there is no lethal threat present.
This was suicide by cop. I'm calling it right now. Sad for Hill, but the officers were absolutely in the right.
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I'm friends with a Bears fan and trust me, sometimes I get the impression that he'd rather it be a dog and pony show
I've been to sports bars and geek bars, the geekier bars were decidedly less... exhuberent.
besides, how much damage can a nerd punch really do. the guy watching hockey in a flannel vest can probably punch a hole in the table. the guy in the khakis watching starcraft probably can't even lift the table.
I certainly hope there are myriad other reasons you have for not living there, not least of which being that the uncharged felon Bloomberg runs the ship. I hear he's so slimy, slugs say "EW!" when they touch him
Don't forget that under his instruction and pay that several individuals broke many federal laws by lying on paperwork and illegally transporting firearms across state lines.
He had no authority to do that, actually interfered with LEGIT investigations, and in the end walked away without a blemish. Er, except, the DA down in (iirc) Virginia did tell him to stay away or he'd have him arrested.
Cause the dude broke many federal laws. Very many. He formed a gunrunning gang and got away with it because of who he is. Land of equality my fat pasty ass.
The cop stops you, immediately, thus ending the unsafe situation on the road.
Remember, traffic enforcement is about the safety of the public, not revenue generation.
traffic lights cannot resolve an unsafe situation. at best, they'll stop it roughly 2 weeks after it's happened.
if traffic tickets were, in fact, simply a form of revenue generation and not intended to be rules by which the roads may be made safer for all using them?
well by golly, if that were the case, it sure would be a good idea to use traffic cameras! same revenue stream as an officer, less overhead!
of course, we all know traffic tickets really ARE about revenue generation, but if they were to admit that the public would be on their ass to reform the system -- and so long as they're keeping up the charade that it's all about keeping us safe, traffic cameras should absolutely be disallowed from ticketing anybody for anything, ever.
Assuming they have insurance.
Assuming you can afford to lose the use of your car for several days, possibly weeks.
Assuming you don't injure yourself.
Assuming they don't strike you with such force that you are then driven into the vehicle in front of you, which by golly usually winds up being your fault anyway.
Assuming your insurance company won't raise your rates for being hit by someone else.
Yeah, what you say sure makes sense, until you start actually digging in to what the real costs of someone else hitting your car may be.
Not all NYC cops hate truck drivers. My dad used to take a truck up to the city (not box truck, tractor trailer, and not through but just into, and at night); I forget the details, but when he had first started going up there one night he'd stopped at a red light. Cop pulls up, tells him to blow through.
Yeah, apparently down around that edge of the city, that time of night, there's practically no traffic -- but there was, and most likely is, a much greater chance that someone would attempt to open the trailer and steal things out of it or just outright carjack the truck from him if he were to stop at a redlight.
The cop instructed him to blow through red lights. Because it was the safest thing to do.
You're an idiot. Just letting you know.
No camera (and the plural of cameras is CAMERAS, without the apostrophe -- I know you're all a bunch of toothless criminals down there in Superjail Island, Australia is essentially Texas minus the Mexicans, but come on at least make an effort to write properly) would ticket one single of those young females, because the camera cannot determine what they were doing. The ONLY enforcement method which is able to stop unsafe driving such as you describe is an officer in a car driving down the road. A stationary patrol car sitting hidden in a speed trap won't be able to see what the driver is doing, and the officer would be focusing and concentrating on the radar gun more than discerning what the driver of each car is doing.
Of course, to do that the police would actually have to enforce traffic laws for the sake of public safety, and we all know that is unquestionably not the case. It's simply revenue.
Nobody would even read that shit, anyway. Hell, the only time I even look at my local police report in the paper -- when I even BUY a paper -- is when I know work is going to be slow and I'm going to have a "stomach ache" for an hour around lunch time. and even then it's a cursory glance. the police roundup in the local paper has maybe, maybe a dozen entries. i'm guessing for a place as big as NYC, listing all the people that would get ticketed would take half a newspaper. Who's really going to comb through that, and when there's that many other people listed with you is it REALLY doing anything? Being the lone 'bad guy' is a deterrent.. being one of thousands, over something so trivial, is beyond anyone's giving-a-fuck
Washington, DC...
was not designed to be an inhabited city. It was designed for looks. Nobody was supposed to be a permanent resident of Washington, D.C.
That's why it's such a shithole. Compared to NYC, which is a shithole because they keep electing Bloomberg mayor (how is this guy not in jail, anyway -- he proudly has boasted about sending people under his employ and direction to states other than New York, having instructed them to BREAK FEDERAL LAW BY LYING on paperwork for firearm purchases, and then illegally transporting those firearms back into New York state. none of this was done with any authority other than his as a *private citizen*, since the powers of a mayor end at the edge of his jurisdiction and the entire affair was his own private enterprise).
DC was actually very well designed if it was kept to its original purpose, but they kept letting people build houses all over the place instead of kicking them to the curb like they should have.. now look at it. good lord. i'd rather be homeless in alaska than a homeowner in DC.
Said demographic is hardly stingy. Kids that grew up on video games are now adults. Not 18, not 19. 30 year olds. Many of them have quite a bit of disposable income. Many of them drink.
And here's another fun thing. Drunk gamers do not tend to be the violent, confrontational types when they get drunk. Drunk gamers aren't at risk of getting into brawls because one team or another won or lost. Sports fans riot after big matches. Gamers do not. I'm guessing a bar full of nerds watching Starcraft is a hell of a lot more of a friendly environment than a bar full of guys watching soccer -- regardless of how much they've had to drink.
It's all just an effort to forget about the Bears
Whether or not they interact with it shouldn't matter (besides, if that's what you need, ST:TNG did it more than 20 years before this patent).
http://www.greenlightoffice.com/office/stationery/786300538-sparco-recycled-paper-note-pads-100-sheet-s-ruled-4-x-6-5-pack-yellow.html
THIS IS PRIOR ART.
That's so far away from what's actually going on that you should go hang yourself in the closet in shame.
Make warp drive. Patent it. No problem.
Make spaceship that looks exactly like the USS Enterprise. Try to patent THE SHAPE of the ship. Also, the shape is now just a box. A rudimentary geometric object with no details anywhere.
Sounds dumb? Apple not only thought it was smart, but actually GOT the patent, AND thought it would hold up in court. good luck with that!
The patent doesn't look like an iPad or Galaxy Tab, either.
And yes, it is prior art. The tablet is not a new or novel idea. A particular implementation may be, but as can be clearly demonstrated the concept of a flat device similar in form and size to a pad of legal-sized paper which dynamically displays information on its top face has been around FOR FUCKING DECADES. Apple can't patent an idea that clearly predates their company. And Steve should probably be run out of Dodge for even trying. This is why people don't like him -- because he's a massive prick.
Firstly, that's a TRADEMARK, not a PATENT.
Secondly, it's a specific shade of red.
Thirdly, they also have a trademark on the coca cola bottle shape -- their glass bottles had a distinct, and unique, shape.
Fourthy, that, too was also simply a trademark, and not a patent.
Most importantly, and fifthly, and finally,
THIS IS A PATENT ON A RECTANGLE. That's the design of a pad of paper. It's an LCD monitor you can touch, with all processing integral to the thing. There is not a single fucking thing novel or inventive about any of this. You can't patent a goddamned rectangle. That's ridiculous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35TbGjt-weA
link absolutely fucking relevant.
actually, if they hit DC, we just declare the disaster so severe that the united states no longer exists -- they killed the beast! -- and then pick up right where we left off with USA2.
Minus all our debt to them.
Because that was USA1.
well, there was that book, "Mitochondrial Eve", but that traced all human mitochondrial DNA back to, if I recall, 8 women living at different times and in different places around the world -- that is, there's (as far as they found) 8 variations of mitochondrial DNA to be found in modern day humans, not that all of us trace back to those 8 ladies.
Hey, it gets better, there's been a push by certain democrats in washington you can probably name to expand the no-fly list (terror watch list) in both size and scope.
They want to be able to revoke constitutionally-guaranteed rights from people by putting their name on those lists.
the lists that work so well, as you've discovered.
and not a "oh, you're not the guy you thought we were", which is what your brother keeps getting -- they're talking about "oh, sorry, we think you might be this other guy who we think is a terrorist, so sorry, you can't purchase that firearm!"
Wow, and they're looking for 1580 SAT scores or better (verbal/math only, apparently, which is how it was when i took it, 1600 max).
That's 780V and 800M. Nothing less than perfection in math. There's a joke about the chinese and math in here somewhere, I'm sure of it.
It really depends entirely on the difference in the price of the REs.
I have no idea how big of an effect the price of REs has on making anything, so no idea what the threshold would be -- but it's not unreasonable to consider that the competition would use their advantage in sourcing their materials to outprice the Good Company who isn't dealing with China, and thus drive Good Company out of business in the short-term regardless of how much better Good Company would perform in the long-term.
Here's the problem. If you don't buy the cheaper materials, your company might not even be around in 2 years. That's the problem.
The solution should be a moratorium on chinese REs, or at least a tariff, neither of which will ever happen, and neither of which would work anyway because places like.. well, China.. wouldn't participate, so those that did would just be committing economic suicide.
Ugly situation every way you look at it.
there's mines in the US that have been closed, yes. "fast" is relative; the one major mine i recall hearing about was exploring reopening, and "few years" pops to mind as the timeline for getting it back to production
Don't forget Lake Superior, which is more local for more people I assume -- it's a deep'n, and cold. 2 C average temp, according to wiki. Too cold for gas producing decomp bacteria. Lake's known for keeping its dead.
You're also forgetting the carbon footprint required to get the person into any of those totally sequestered situations, too, of course.
I think a *LOT* of people are getting these mixed up.
well.. obviously, yes, as generally these "protests" are formed based on half-truths and misremembered lies.. but this one particularly.
this dude wasn't murdered, he was killed. justifiably killed. sucks, but don't go throwing knives at cops. don't care who you are, if you throw a knife at a cop and there is the slightest chance you may have another knife on or near you -- your ass is gonna get shot. cops get paid putting their lives on the line, but they don't get paid TO put their lives on the line.
regardless of whether or not the protest is justified, it's counterproductive. you'd think a plan to draw public attention and support for a cause or reason would, you know.. try to maybe NOT PISS OFF THE PUBLIC. These protests are *always* organized and filled with 5 year olds -- no, I'm serious, these are people who never grew up, who never learned that throwing a temper tantrum does not result in you getting your way.
There are effective ways to hold a protest, and there are effective ways to hold a rally, but neither of them involve intentionally disrupting and disturbing the transit of the public at large. because that *IS* illegal and a violation of rights.
A homeless drunk was killed. Sad. Still a person, but he was drunk, he was armed, he acted aggressively towards police. He had a glass bottle, at least one knife. I wouldn't be shocked if his clothing could have concealed other weapons.
I suppose we'll just have to wait and see what the eye witnesses say, but based on what I can find..
when the cops showed up Hill pulled his knife on the approaching officer Psycho-style, moved at him aggressively and didn't drop his knife and was shot. It appears the knife was thrown after he was shot. That's.. actually entirely consistent with a scenario in which the cops were justified. A taser is not a response to a lethal threat. A taser is to be used in situations where there is no lethal threat present.
This was suicide by cop. I'm calling it right now. Sad for Hill, but the officers were absolutely in the right.