You make a number of point, but no attempt to link them to each other.
Before tasers, an officer wasn't allowed to just knock a suspect out with a nightstick if he was worried he'd try and run. How is using a Taser different? Both are incapacitating, and both carry a risk of fatal injury.
You have a beef with a ticket? Being arrested? Have your day in court. Sue afterward for unlawful prosecution. Knock yourself out.
No where in the constitution does it give you the right impede the police officers duty. If he is wrong, it will be found out in a court of law.
I don't understand the relevance of this point, unless you're trying to imply that people who dislike indiscriminate use of tasers are dislike it because it makes it harder for them to kill cops at traffic stops.
Any time a suspect does not comply with the officers direction, it is a life or death situation. Period.
Saying "Period." after a sentence seems to be some sort of shorthand for "please don't question that bit; it's a little shaky". If an unarmed shoplifter is running from police, and is asked to stop, and doesn't, why is it life or death situation? Should he be tasered (which, after all, carries the risk of fatal complications)? If this had happened before the use of tasers, should he have been shot?
Yeah, because when they used guns exclusively it was commonplace to shoot someone in cuffs for struggling against being put in a police car, or shoot someone, yell "get up" at them, then shoot them again cause they can't.
Using Tasers instead of guns is a good thing, but they are constantly being used in situations which would not warrent the use of a firearm, and Taser International's own training and marketing material is a least partly to blame.
amen. OSS, alsa, pulseaudio, for christsake just give me sound that works without having a million handler processes.
So just use ALSA!
The situation on Linux is that there used to be OSS, and now there is ALSA. ALSA works fine, for pretty much everybody. There are a few legacy apps which use OSS because no one is updating them, and obviously, it would be nice if they would play nice. Pulseaudio is a bit strange, but nothing requires it's use, and IMHO there is no real reason for it to be used unless you want to do somewhat strange things (that you generally can't do on any other type of OS). Don't use pulseaudio if you don't want to; if your distro forces it on you, use a sane one.
This scary graph and related ideas tends to get mentioned in connection with this: this conflates libraries, sound servers, and drivers to some extent. One could draw a similar graph for windows, featuring programs using the Quicktime library, the WMP library, MME, DirectSound, WASAPI and various other APIs and libraries (and I haven't even gone into the changes to the audio driver model). WMP would have plenty of in arrows from applications using its libraries, and plenty of out arrows because it supports more than one API. And don't forget that there are still legacy applications which need to be the only app playing audio, just like on Linux.
Audio technology has evolved, lots. Having backward compatibility requires that things get slightly complex. Everybody is doing this. I think Linux is doing it rather well, although certain distros make some odd choices.
OSS was okay.
OSS made it impossible to play more than one stream at once on a lot of hardware.
limited by NIC's speed or if I use Gigabit, by HDD's writing speed
Gigabit is awesome! It's worth noting that for most hardware, you should disable compression (if you're using something like rsync that does that) over a gigabit link, because once disk bandwidth is limiting, compression actually slows things down.
To me, fearing a gun in and of itself is about as rational as being afraid of walking in front of a parked car because it might slip into gear by itself and run me over.
And fearing a very large sniper rifle being openly carried in a public place is like being afraid to walk in front of a stationary car with a broken window and a balaclava-clad driver revving the engine.
A gun is fundamentally an inanimate object and has no will and purpose of it's own. Guns by and of themselves are not dangerous
You're just redefining dangerous (and, arguably, purpose). By your logic, alcohol, cigarettes, chainsaws, cars and drugs aren't dangerous.
The guns are safely locked away
Why?;-)
It always amazes me that people who would recoil in horror at the thought of judging a person by their colour or appearance have no problem judging the intent of an inanimate object by it's colour and appearance.
I'm not sure how else I'm meant to tell different objects apart, to be honest, other than feeling them all, which would be rather time consuming. I don't treat my toothbrush the same way I treat this computer, and it isn't because I'm a racist.
I've seen people get paralyzed because a black beetle crawled across the kitchen counter. I suspect many people have the same irrational fear of guns, [...] It's a phobia which is NOT rational
The thing that makes the beetle phobia irrational is that the beetle involved is harmless (well, technically I'm probably making an assumption about what part of the world you're from there). Whatever you think about gun control, you surely don't think they aren't dangerous. What exactly would you consider a rational phobia?
I'm almost sure RHEL has packages for kernel sources. Stop fetching your own.
Yes, it unfortunate that your distro doesn't package that driver. But couldn't you script the repetitive process of rebuilding it? I refuse to believe that it takes three hours to actually compile, so presumably this includes having to look up how to do it, every time.
Again, you've got to spend the 3-6 hours of extra work every time you 'yum update' your kernel, you've got to manually go get the kernel sources, prepare a build environment, and compile the module against the new kernel, before it will even be willing to load the driver.
Yeah, I also hate the way every time I want to install a new version of Linux I have to manually repartition the disk with a magnetised needle, held between my teeth. Wait, what?
Seriously though, what the hell? Which distro do you use, and, for god's sake, WHY? Normal distros packages such modules, and make sure they match the kernel version automatically.
I am in the small set of users who actually rebuild such modules, because I use Gentoo FFS, not a distro generally regarded as user-friendly, and even Gentoo automates the process you just described using a single command (module-rebuild rebuild). I can't imagine a set of slow hardware and multiple such drivers that could result in it taking anything near 3 hours, much less six (hell, building a new kernel, including all necessary internal and external modules, takes much less than three hours). Module-rebuild on my box updates the nvidia drivers (yes, I know that's a wrapper), the KVM kernel module, and my LIRC (remote control) drivers, in under three minutes. What modules do you need to rebuild?
This is of course a good thing, but the original convention covers many more areas, including situations much more common in the US than child prostitutes and soldiers.
Just the same as developing supposedly "anti-vehicular" mines with extra-sensitive fuses, because anti-personnel landmines are (quite rightly) forbidden.
I'd like to add a particularly disturbing example to the list: the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
It has been signed and ratified by every UN member state, except for Somalia and the USA. The USA signed it in 1995 (around the time the last few normal states were ratifying it), and has still refused to ratify it. I can't find any information on whether Somalia signed, but that's entirely academic because Somalia continues to lack a functioning government which could ratify UNCRC.
If it's been useless for 63m years, with no selective pressure to keep it static, it will have accumulated a lot more errors than that. From the same article, my emphasis:
The remains of this non-functional gene with many mutations, is however still present in the genome of the guinea pigs and in humans.
Also, a single base-pair can be in one of four states, and so stores two bits of data, making 1-bit errors impossible.
A number of people doubt the bacterial bubonic plague/rats/fleas explanation due to the rapid manner of spread of the disease. A viral haemorrhagic fever, possibly airborne, is given as a more likely alternative.
The rapid spread would have been in part due to refugees fleeing the infected areas, unaware that they were incubating the disease. The plague is also potentially airborne, spreading to the lungs in severe cases and thereby allowing direct transmission between humans, which would allow the refugees to infect locals very fast.
Also, the reason the Black Death is thought to have been caused by bubonic plague is that there are many contemporary illustrations and descriptions of the victims, and they look a lot like modern plague victims. In an admittedly brief search, I couldn't find any reference to VHF producing buboes. Any alternative cause for the Black Death would surely have to produce those in at least a very sizable proportion of cases.
These are my suggestions from a Linux perspective; It's possible that not all of these have MacOS ports (and I know Mac people have a fierce aversion to X11 apps).
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No, it works on the water in the animal. Red blood cells aren't ferromagnetic; all the iron is in haemoglobin, not little metallic bits.
Before tasers, an officer wasn't allowed to just knock a suspect out with a nightstick if he was worried he'd try and run. How is using a Taser different? Both are incapacitating, and both carry a risk of fatal injury.
I don't understand the relevance of this point, unless you're trying to imply that people who dislike indiscriminate use of tasers are dislike it because it makes it harder for them to kill cops at traffic stops.
Saying "Period." after a sentence seems to be some sort of shorthand for "please don't question that bit; it's a little shaky". If an unarmed shoplifter is running from police, and is asked to stop, and doesn't, why is it life or death situation? Should he be tasered (which, after all, carries the risk of fatal complications)? If this had happened before the use of tasers, should he have been shot?
Yeah, because when they used guns exclusively it was commonplace to shoot someone in cuffs for struggling against being put in a police car, or shoot someone, yell "get up" at them, then shoot them again cause they can't.
Using Tasers instead of guns is a good thing, but they are constantly being used in situations which would not warrent the use of a firearm, and Taser International's own training and marketing material is a least partly to blame.
Correction to the above: ALSA enable dmix by default. It takes a distro or user to purposefully disable it.
If Ubuntu didn't package the ALSA driver you needed, that is a problem with Ubuntu, not ALSA (unless you built them from SVN or something).
What apps broke? OSS apps are broken, in that they hog the soundcard. They used to do that under pure OSS too.
So just use ALSA!
The situation on Linux is that there used to be OSS, and now there is ALSA. ALSA works fine, for pretty much everybody. There are a few legacy apps which use OSS because no one is updating them, and obviously, it would be nice if they would play nice. Pulseaudio is a bit strange, but nothing requires it's use, and IMHO there is no real reason for it to be used unless you want to do somewhat strange things (that you generally can't do on any other type of OS). Don't use pulseaudio if you don't want to; if your distro forces it on you, use a sane one.
This scary graph and related ideas tends to get mentioned in connection with this: this conflates libraries, sound servers, and drivers to some extent. One could draw a similar graph for windows, featuring programs using the Quicktime library, the WMP library, MME, DirectSound, WASAPI and various other APIs and libraries (and I haven't even gone into the changes to the audio driver model). WMP would have plenty of in arrows from applications using its libraries, and plenty of out arrows because it supports more than one API. And don't forget that there are still legacy applications which need to be the only app playing audio, just like on Linux.
Here is why I can't be bothered to learn enough about the driver layer to give examples: "UAA is intended to be a complete replacement for developing WDM Audio Drivers; however, in some cases it may be necessary for an otherwise UAA-compliant audio device to expose capabilities that cannot be done through UAA. Windows will continue to fully support audio drivers that use the PortCls and AVStream drivers.
Audio technology has evolved, lots. Having backward compatibility requires that things get slightly complex. Everybody is doing this. I think Linux is doing it rather well, although certain distros make some odd choices.
OSS made it impossible to play more than one stream at once on a lot of hardware.
Gigabit is awesome! It's worth noting that for most hardware, you should disable compression (if you're using something like rsync that does that) over a gigabit link, because once disk bandwidth is limiting, compression actually slows things down.
Freud was, for the most part, full of shit. Most of his often cocaine-fuelled theories are no longer taken seriously by mainstream psychology.
And fearing a very large sniper rifle being openly carried in a public place is like being afraid to walk in front of a stationary car with a broken window and a balaclava-clad driver revving the engine.
You're just redefining dangerous (and, arguably, purpose). By your logic, alcohol, cigarettes, chainsaws, cars and drugs aren't dangerous.
Why? ;-)
I'm not sure how else I'm meant to tell different objects apart, to be honest, other than feeling them all, which would be rather time consuming. I don't treat my toothbrush the same way I treat this computer, and it isn't because I'm a racist.
The thing that makes the beetle phobia irrational is that the beetle involved is harmless (well, technically I'm probably making an assumption about what part of the world you're from there). Whatever you think about gun control, you surely don't think they aren't dangerous. What exactly would you consider a rational phobia?
I'm almost sure RHEL has packages for kernel sources. Stop fetching your own.
Yes, it unfortunate that your distro doesn't package that driver. But couldn't you script the repetitive process of rebuilding it? I refuse to believe that it takes three hours to actually compile, so presumably this includes having to look up how to do it, every time.
Yeah, I also hate the way every time I want to install a new version of Linux I have to manually repartition the disk with a magnetised needle, held between my teeth. Wait, what?
Seriously though, what the hell? Which distro do you use, and, for god's sake, WHY? Normal distros packages such modules, and make sure they match the kernel version automatically.
I am in the small set of users who actually rebuild such modules, because I use Gentoo FFS, not a distro generally regarded as user-friendly, and even Gentoo automates the process you just described using a single command (module-rebuild rebuild). I can't imagine a set of slow hardware and multiple such drivers that could result in it taking anything near 3 hours, much less six (hell, building a new kernel, including all necessary internal and external modules, takes much less than three hours). Module-rebuild on my box updates the nvidia drivers (yes, I know that's a wrapper), the KVM kernel module, and my LIRC (remote control) drivers, in under three minutes. What modules do you need to rebuild?
Portal and GTA aren't FPS.
This is of course a good thing, but the original convention covers many more areas, including situations much more common in the US than child prostitutes and soldiers.
The Segway has fans?
Just the same as developing supposedly "anti-vehicular" mines with extra-sensitive fuses, because anti-personnel landmines are (quite rightly) forbidden.
I'd like to add a particularly disturbing example to the list: the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
It has been signed and ratified by every UN member state, except for Somalia and the USA. The USA signed it in 1995 (around the time the last few normal states were ratifying it), and has still refused to ratify it. I can't find any information on whether Somalia signed, but that's entirely academic because Somalia continues to lack a functioning government which could ratify UNCRC.
That's an extremely thick cable...
From Wikipedia:
If it's been useless for 63m years, with no selective pressure to keep it static, it will have accumulated a lot more errors than that. From the same article, my emphasis:
Also, a single base-pair can be in one of four states, and so stores two bits of data, making 1-bit errors impossible.
The rapid spread would have been in part due to refugees fleeing the infected areas, unaware that they were incubating the disease. The plague is also potentially airborne, spreading to the lungs in severe cases and thereby allowing direct transmission between humans, which would allow the refugees to infect locals very fast.
Also, the reason the Black Death is thought to have been caused by bubonic plague is that there are many contemporary illustrations and descriptions of the victims, and they look a lot like modern plague victims. In an admittedly brief search, I couldn't find any reference to VHF producing buboes. Any alternative cause for the Black Death would surely have to produce those in at least a very sizable proportion of cases.
I would've thought he could just use lightning if he really wanted to blow someone up...
Clouds mess with things at 10,000ft too.
These are my suggestions from a Linux perspective; It's possible that not all of these have MacOS ports (and I know Mac people have a fierce aversion to X11 apps).