Yes, when parents don't feed their children because they need drug money, its (sic) a victimless crime, no one other than the parent is hurt!
The crime was neglect.
When people cant think properly because they've taken too many drugs...
This isn't a crime, but it should be, under the same logic that attempted suicide is a crime.
... or can't afford what they a mentally or physically dependant (sic) on, and rob/kill others for drug money, its a victimless crime. The people robbed/killed certainly weren't hurt.
The crime was robbery.
People dealing drugs to others, even when the others haven't been shown how dangerous the drugs are, is a victimless crime. The people who recieved (sic) the drugs certainly weren't hurt!
After all the education we in the US receive, you can hardly say that anyone who's gotten beyond the 3rd grade is unaware that drugs are dangerous. This is a victimless "crime." The only time it should be a real crime is when you get drugs that are laced with something else. That doesn't happen though. You have to pay extra.
Honestly, I could care less about the people who know the risks, and still use the drugs to the point of harming themselves. It's those that use them and harm others in the process, that bother me.
So, despite your sarcasm, in the end it seems that you agree. Drug crimes are victimless crimes. The peripheral crimes are caused by people who don't know what they're doing, lack self-control, or lack moral restraints. Those people are stupid, and would be doing stupid things that endanger others even without drugs. The thing that's preventing you from thinking about this clearly is the brainwashing you received as a kid that you've never been able to shake off.
Sprint! Fucking Sprint sells your e-mail address! In 2 years and over 200 companies, with a different unique address for each company I've given it to, only Sprint (besides free porn sites) and First Premier Bank (shitty credit card company) has ever sold my e-mail address. I've had e-mail greeting cards sent to some of these addresses and not had them sold, but those rat-bastards did.
This comes up every single time, so forgive me if I'm not as polite about it as I could be.
The human eye sees ~25-30fps, true, but it does not sample the same way your monitor outputs it. The human eye refreshes at that rate, which means anything that's seen for less than that amount of time leaves a partial imprint. Thus, the motion blur you see when something, even in real life, goes by really fast. Since the monitor is outputting static frames, you don't get that partial imprint, and it looks choppy. Television, on the other hand, does pick up the motion blur, because of the way the cameras work. There are a number of studies showing that we benefit from higher FPS, up to and over 100 sometimes.
Also, there's really no such thing as 32-bit color. I suppose you could put a different number of bits for RGB, and many schemes do, but the 32-bit you're thinking about is RGBA. 24-bit is the exact same thing, without the alpha channel, and we also benefit from far more colors than current hardware outputs, because the current 16.7m colors that are output don't account for much luminosity, and for plenty of other reasons I don't care to look up right now.
When you try to stick your hand through the monitor and pick up a Coke, or catch a running kitten, that's when you can say we've got enough. Until then, please try to at least understand the subject you're discussing, and not try to come off as authoritative when you don't even know what 32-bit color means.
What exactly about climbing into one man's stretched-out anus in one universe, possibly getting a belt-loop caught on his wedding band in the process, and climbing out of another man's stretched-out anus in another universe, possibly getting a belt-loop caught on his wedding band and cursing to yourself because it happens every time, is disturbing?
WebDAV is ridiculously easy in both Apache and IIS. Not sure what you were trying to set it up in, but if it was either of those, try again, just not so hard.
I've always wondered about this. Aren't files always eventually deleted with an unlink() call? What reason is there that unlink() can't be modified to instead move the link to a.Trash/ which is then scrounged when more space is needed? You could either auto-delete the oldest files, or if you wanted to not affect FS fragmentation delete a file whenever you needed to clobber one of its sectors. Sure, performance will drop when you get a drive full of deleted files that have to be cleared every time you write, but it wouldn't be that bad, and it would only really be useful on/etc/usr/share/home and maybe/var. It doesn't even seem like you'd need to modify the underlying FS, except maybe for the sector clobbering part, but I don't know the kernel internals well enough to say for sure.
Any kernel/FS hackers know this one? There's probably a real good reason that I'm missing, if not I've been thinking for a while that it'd be a good place to start my kernel hacking.
the brain in particular runs more efficiently on ketones than it does on glucose.
No offense obviously, but this is ridiculous. Are you trying to say that the brain runs better on something the body is able to produce, but prefers to run on something it can't? Wouldn't you think that we would just evolve a more efficient method for producing ketones if that were the case? There would be a significant advantage to anything that thrived on less required variation in food sources.
French fries and onion rings are basically the tools of the devil.
Quoted for Truth. ~350 calories (medium fries from BK) for something that just leaves you hungry afterward? With the diet I'm on now I'd have to skip a whole meal just to eat fries! That's one thing I won't be putting back in my diet when I go on maintenance. Even though I'll be eating ~3500Kcal a day there's a whole lot of stuff I'd rather build and power myself on.
Get a cheapo 1GHz box with 3 contiguous 5 1/4 bays, 5 SATA drives, a SATA controller, and put up a Linux box, software RAID it, which can expand RAID 5 arrays (few hardware RAID can), LVM on top of that. This gives you everything you want and is about as cheap as you can possibly do what you're looking for. Share files with NFS & Samba.
Those weren't real death threats, and she over-reacted to what's basically a 13-year-old with a big mouth. If somebody calls me a big fat jerk and I go and shoot myself in the head because of it, is the person that called me a big fat jerk suddenly guilty of some massive conspiracy to create chilling effects? No! I'm just a moron, in addition to being a big fat jerk.
There is absolutely no reason for this woman to believe that these are actually death threats. She has more chance of getting killed for looking at somebody the wrong way in the wrong neighborhood, and the thing that actually makes me dislike this woman that I've never even heard of before this, is that she damn well knows it, she's just trying to snowball this because she thinks she's somehow going to stop the Greater Internet Fuckwad Law.
As for your current problem, lie. Double fuck 'em. Tell the support rep you were mistaken, the machine having a keyboard problem has never had Linux. Any Slashdotter should be able to BS through a Windows troubleshooting session, and if they want you to run some app and send results, bite the bullet, tell them you'll have to call back later, backup, load Windows, get your hardware, and restore.
Well then, I'd say your only option, and same for everyone with Speakeasy service, is to find out where to send letters to BestBuy that state, as non-confrontationally as possible but in crystal clear terms, that you will find another service as soon as there is a change in: and then list exactly what you want to stay the same. If you put general terms, such as "if you make the service worse", even if they do listen (which is unlikely, but you gotta try), they'll manage to convince themselves that pulling a PageFinder is improving.
The simple explanation, that doesn't require hardwiring colors into the brain (which raises extremely tricky questions with both your synesthaesia guy and your mouse), is that the brain, or even eye, which does a surprising amount of visual processing, recombines the individual cone information it gets into at least some approximation of a full spectrum
Violet is especially tricky. Its wavelength is shorter than blue, but in addition to stimulating your blue cones, your red cones are also slightly sensitive to it. The camera, however, sees the pure, very deep blue. Then, when it goes to display it on the LCD, it only turns on the blue pixel instead of the blue and a little red.
Another thing that people don't generally notice is that the RGB pixels or phosphors don't match up perfectly with everyone's cones. The only way I can think of to have faithful color representation is to have one "pixel" on both camera and display that is sensitive to and can emit any visible frequency of light, with perfectly flat response. IOW, maybe flying AI-controlled cars will have a camera/display like that.
I know you're just being a twat, but it's not necessarily paying attention that's the problem. For me, it was homework. One class had no homework. Another, 90% of your grade was homework. That was the year my guidance councilor gave up on me. When I walked in there with a 101 in one class and a 9 in the other but a 95% test average, they realized I just wasn't going to do it and no amount of punishment would make me, and just stopped trying and let me go to the computer class at BOCES. Of course, the instructor there was used to dealing with kids like me, and realized that reward was my motivation instead of avoiding punishment, and the worst punishment was disappointment. I was completely manipulated into succeeding. If schools were filled with teachers who actually understood that their job is to put knowledge into kids heads and that they need to find the best way to do that instead of expecting kids to basically do their jobs for them and learn however the teacher prefers to teach, we'd have a much better educational system.
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The crime was neglect.
This isn't a crime, but it should be, under the same logic that attempted suicide is a crime.
The crime was robbery.
After all the education we in the US receive, you can hardly say that anyone who's gotten beyond the 3rd grade is unaware that drugs are dangerous. This is a victimless "crime." The only time it should be a real crime is when you get drugs that are laced with something else. That doesn't happen though. You have to pay extra.
So, despite your sarcasm, in the end it seems that you agree. Drug crimes are victimless crimes. The peripheral crimes are caused by people who don't know what they're doing, lack self-control, or lack moral restraints. Those people are stupid, and would be doing stupid things that endanger others even without drugs. The thing that's preventing you from thinking about this clearly is the brainwashing you received as a kid that you've never been able to shake off.
Sprint! Fucking Sprint sells your e-mail address! In 2 years and over 200 companies, with a different unique address for each company I've given it to, only Sprint (besides free porn sites) and First Premier Bank (shitty credit card company) has ever sold my e-mail address. I've had e-mail greeting cards sent to some of these addresses and not had them sold, but those rat-bastards did.
No, you misunderstand, it was just an easter egg.
Abridged, I assume?
This comes up every single time, so forgive me if I'm not as polite about it as I could be.
The human eye sees ~25-30fps, true, but it does not sample the same way your monitor outputs it. The human eye refreshes at that rate, which means anything that's seen for less than that amount of time leaves a partial imprint. Thus, the motion blur you see when something, even in real life, goes by really fast. Since the monitor is outputting static frames, you don't get that partial imprint, and it looks choppy. Television, on the other hand, does pick up the motion blur, because of the way the cameras work. There are a number of studies showing that we benefit from higher FPS, up to and over 100 sometimes.
Also, there's really no such thing as 32-bit color. I suppose you could put a different number of bits for RGB, and many schemes do, but the 32-bit you're thinking about is RGBA. 24-bit is the exact same thing, without the alpha channel, and we also benefit from far more colors than current hardware outputs, because the current 16.7m colors that are output don't account for much luminosity, and for plenty of other reasons I don't care to look up right now.
When you try to stick your hand through the monitor and pick up a Coke, or catch a running kitten, that's when you can say we've got enough. Until then, please try to at least understand the subject you're discussing, and not try to come off as authoritative when you don't even know what 32-bit color means.
Well, that's great for all the as-yet-nonexistent things that aren't us.
What exactly about climbing into one man's stretched-out anus in one universe, possibly getting a belt-loop caught on his wedding band in the process, and climbing out of another man's stretched-out anus in another universe, possibly getting a belt-loop caught on his wedding band and cursing to yourself because it happens every time, is disturbing?
WebDAV is ridiculously easy in both Apache and IIS. Not sure what you were trying to set it up in, but if it was either of those, try again, just not so hard.
Yeah, but the multimedia apps on the AS/400 are well worth the money you'll pay for them.
Man, that's gotta make ordering take-out a bitch...
I've always wondered about this. Aren't files always eventually deleted with an unlink() call? What reason is there that unlink() can't be modified to instead move the link to a .Trash/ which is then scrounged when more space is needed? You could either auto-delete the oldest files, or if you wanted to not affect FS fragmentation delete a file whenever you needed to clobber one of its sectors. Sure, performance will drop when you get a drive full of deleted files that have to be cleared every time you write, but it wouldn't be that bad, and it would only really be useful on /etc /usr/share /home and maybe /var. It doesn't even seem like you'd need to modify the underlying FS, except maybe for the sector clobbering part, but I don't know the kernel internals well enough to say for sure.
Any kernel/FS hackers know this one? There's probably a real good reason that I'm missing, if not I've been thinking for a while that it'd be a good place to start my kernel hacking.
No offense obviously, but this is ridiculous. Are you trying to say that the brain runs better on something the body is able to produce, but prefers to run on something it can't? Wouldn't you think that we would just evolve a more efficient method for producing ketones if that were the case? There would be a significant advantage to anything that thrived on less required variation in food sources.
Quoted for Truth. ~350 calories (medium fries from BK) for something that just leaves you hungry afterward? With the diet I'm on now I'd have to skip a whole meal just to eat fries! That's one thing I won't be putting back in my diet when I go on maintenance. Even though I'll be eating ~3500Kcal a day there's a whole lot of stuff I'd rather build and power myself on.
No shit, if I was making $12 an hour I'd be outta there in a heartbeat.
Malevolent.
AAAARGH!
Get a cheapo 1GHz box with 3 contiguous 5 1/4 bays, 5 SATA drives, a SATA controller, and put up a Linux box, software RAID it, which can expand RAID 5 arrays (few hardware RAID can), LVM on top of that. This gives you everything you want and is about as cheap as you can possibly do what you're looking for. Share files with NFS & Samba.
http://www.addonics.com/products/raid_system/ae4rc s35nsa.asp
Those weren't real death threats, and she over-reacted to what's basically a 13-year-old with a big mouth. If somebody calls me a big fat jerk and I go and shoot myself in the head because of it, is the person that called me a big fat jerk suddenly guilty of some massive conspiracy to create chilling effects? No! I'm just a moron, in addition to being a big fat jerk.
There is absolutely no reason for this woman to believe that these are actually death threats. She has more chance of getting killed for looking at somebody the wrong way in the wrong neighborhood, and the thing that actually makes me dislike this woman that I've never even heard of before this, is that she damn well knows it, she's just trying to snowball this because she thinks she's somehow going to stop the Greater Internet Fuckwad Law.
What do you call someone who still uses leetspeak after 2000?
Oh well. Stop buying HP then. Fuck 'em.
As for your current problem, lie. Double fuck 'em. Tell the support rep you were mistaken, the machine having a keyboard problem has never had Linux. Any Slashdotter should be able to BS through a Windows troubleshooting session, and if they want you to run some app and send results, bite the bullet, tell them you'll have to call back later, backup, load Windows, get your hardware, and restore.
Well then, I'd say your only option, and same for everyone with Speakeasy service, is to find out where to send letters to BestBuy that state, as non-confrontationally as possible but in crystal clear terms, that you will find another service as soon as there is a change in: and then list exactly what you want to stay the same. If you put general terms, such as "if you make the service worse", even if they do listen (which is unlikely, but you gotta try), they'll manage to convince themselves that pulling a PageFinder is improving.
Funny, I'm running 3GB in XP Pro.
The simple explanation, that doesn't require hardwiring colors into the brain (which raises extremely tricky questions with both your synesthaesia guy and your mouse), is that the brain, or even eye, which does a surprising amount of visual processing, recombines the individual cone information it gets into at least some approximation of a full spectrum
Violet is especially tricky. Its wavelength is shorter than blue, but in addition to stimulating your blue cones, your red cones are also slightly sensitive to it. The camera, however, sees the pure, very deep blue. Then, when it goes to display it on the LCD, it only turns on the blue pixel instead of the blue and a little red.
Another thing that people don't generally notice is that the RGB pixels or phosphors don't match up perfectly with everyone's cones. The only way I can think of to have faithful color representation is to have one "pixel" on both camera and display that is sensitive to and can emit any visible frequency of light, with perfectly flat response. IOW, maybe flying AI-controlled cars will have a camera/display like that.
No way man! What about Green Day? Oh man, they're totally punk, you can't understand what he's saying with an english accent.
I know you're just being a twat, but it's not necessarily paying attention that's the problem. For me, it was homework. One class had no homework. Another, 90% of your grade was homework. That was the year my guidance councilor gave up on me. When I walked in there with a 101 in one class and a 9 in the other but a 95% test average, they realized I just wasn't going to do it and no amount of punishment would make me, and just stopped trying and let me go to the computer class at BOCES. Of course, the instructor there was used to dealing with kids like me, and realized that reward was my motivation instead of avoiding punishment, and the worst punishment was disappointment. I was completely manipulated into succeeding. If schools were filled with teachers who actually understood that their job is to put knowledge into kids heads and that they need to find the best way to do that instead of expecting kids to basically do their jobs for them and learn however the teacher prefers to teach, we'd have a much better educational system.