Thanks, the ricochet option hadn't occurred to me. It's certainly a possibility.
I doubt he managed to load his gun with police standard ammunition. It's a converted starter pistol. I highly doubt those rounds would even fit in its chamber (although I'm not a firearms expert by any means).
And maybe I have an over-romanticised idea of what competent policing should be like, gleaned by watching too many films, or reading too many books, but honestly, if there's more than one of you, you are heavily armed, wearing protective gear, and you're facing down a drug dealer with a gun, I honestly believe you should be able to apprehend that man without shooting him dead. If firearms officers are allowed to unload on anyone when they "believe" there is a thread to life, that basically equates on them unloading on anyone. Such as <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/may/13/ukguns.hughmuir">Men carrying table legs</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes">Brazillian electricians</a>.
One day that could be me, or someone important to me.
In addition to that self serving reasoning, I also think the interests of justice and the public are better served by trying that man, in court, and sending him to prison.
I've started with facts and then moved straight on to stating my opinion. I do not know that they reacted in a hysterical fashion. I don't know what happened. However, I *infer* that they reacted in a hysterical fashion from the known facts that the victim did not fire his weapon, and an officer shot another officer.
I don't know whether the man they shot was a drug dealer or not (my cousin who lives in the area says he was known as one locally, but this is not a fact). I don't know whether he threatened police with his firearm* or not. What has been stated as fact so far is that there is no forensic evidence to suggest he fired his pistol. The bullet that lodged in the radio of one of the arresting officers was a type issued to police, and was most likely fired by another of the arresting officers.
My opinion is that the arresting officers (who were armed, and if they were armed UK police that means they were a. armed with effective and highly lethal firearms and b. wearing suitable protective gear) could, and indeed should have arrested him, not fatally shot him. Then he would be sitting in a prison cell right now. Riots could possibly have been avoided (this is not to say that they wouldn't have happened at another time, of course, since this event was merely a catalyst).
Instead, they reacted in hysterical fashion, a police officer got shot and it set off the chain of events we have seen in the last week.
WHY are the UK armed police, who are a specially trained force, not trained better? Why do they react so badly? Why are they not trained in using appropriate levels of force?
* For people who care, his firearm has been stated to be a BBM Bruni self-loading pistol, converted to fire live ammunition. I'm guessing this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQf6MSvOSLs
Why should that man NOT go to jail? It doesn't matter how much the goods were worth, it matters much more that he observed that the shop was being looted, and crossed the threshold into the shop anyway. It doesn't really matter what he exited with.
As soon as people started muting shutting down Blackberry Messenger, I had a bad feeling that this bullshit would follow.
The politicos don't understand the role that social media and internet communications play in people's lives. They wouldn't suggest shutting down the POTS network, or the postal service. Well, actually, that's giving them too much credit. They'd probably suggest exactly that.
The last revision of the old-style 360 is also significantly quieter than those that came before. It's MUCH quieter than my cousin's first-revision Elite.
because they're too fucking stupid, or too apathetic.
People read the Sun because it's easy to read. Some soundbites, some tits, nothing remotely intellectually challenging. And since they've been reading the Sun for years, they don't really want to stop.
And people continue to pay money for Sky because they want America's Next Top Model, and they don't want to have to go to the effort of putting up a good enough aerial to receive freeview (yes, even though the ~£100 it would cost them to pay someone to do it for them will net them free TV for the foreseeable future) and they can't get Virgin Media. Or, even worse than that level of apathy, maybe they CAN get Virgin Media but they've had Sky so bloody long they've now developed a brand-allegience so strong that they won't even consider switching.
I haven't run it yet. I've got as far as assembling a Quadra 610 (needed to source a new HDD), an AAUX transceiver for ethernet, and a CD drive I think might work (from a Performa 5400). Don't have a lot of time to devote to the project at the moment.
You can't emulate it, no really, not even using that thing you think will work. You need a 68k mac to run it, such as an SE/30, or Quadra. It won't run on any of the LCs. Even if you try anyway. It won't run on a powermac, even if you try anyway. Not even if you do that thing you're going to try. You a particular type of CD drive to install it.
Branson has nothing to do with Virgin Media in any practical sense.
All the separate cable companies in the UK slowly merged into each other until there was only Telewest Broadband and NTL left. Telewest had a vaguely decent reputation, NTL had an awful one. They merged into NTL:Telewest (with NTL being the effective parent company), then they bought Virgin Mobile and rebranded themselves as Virgin Media. Ergo, Virgin Media is basically NTL with a shiny new image.
For the curious, the PS3 does not need to be able to run unsigned code.
The methodology is fairly simple. As far as I can tell, the Kinect sensor is connected to a PC running Windows, then software on the PC interprets movements captured by the sensor and translates them into controller movements, which are sent to the PS3 using diyps3controller, which emulates a PS3 controller using Bluetooth.
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Thanks, the ricochet option hadn't occurred to me. It's certainly a possibility.
I doubt he managed to load his gun with police standard ammunition. It's a converted starter pistol. I highly doubt those rounds would even fit in its chamber (although I'm not a firearms expert by any means).
And maybe I have an over-romanticised idea of what competent policing should be like, gleaned by watching too many films, or reading too many books, but honestly, if there's more than one of you, you are heavily armed, wearing protective gear, and you're facing down a drug dealer with a gun, I honestly believe you should be able to apprehend that man without shooting him dead. If firearms officers are allowed to unload on anyone when they "believe" there is a thread to life, that basically equates on them unloading on anyone. Such as <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/may/13/ukguns.hughmuir">Men carrying table legs</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes">Brazillian electricians</a>.
One day that could be me, or someone important to me.
In addition to that self serving reasoning, I also think the interests of justice and the public are better served by trying that man, in court, and sending him to prison.
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Argh.
I've started with facts and then moved straight on to stating my opinion. I do not know that they reacted in a hysterical fashion. I don't know what happened. However, I *infer* that they reacted in a hysterical fashion from the known facts that the victim did not fire his weapon, and an officer shot another officer.
I don't know whether the man they shot was a drug dealer or not (my cousin who lives in the area says he was known as one locally, but this is not a fact). I don't know whether he threatened police with his firearm* or not. What has been stated as fact so far is that there is no forensic evidence to suggest he fired his pistol. The bullet that lodged in the radio of one of the arresting officers was a type issued to police, and was most likely fired by another of the arresting officers.
My opinion is that the arresting officers (who were armed, and if they were armed UK police that means they were a. armed with effective and highly lethal firearms and b. wearing suitable protective gear) could, and indeed should have arrested him, not fatally shot him. Then he would be sitting in a prison cell right now. Riots could possibly have been avoided (this is not to say that they wouldn't have happened at another time, of course, since this event was merely a catalyst).
Instead, they reacted in hysterical fashion, a police officer got shot and it set off the chain of events we have seen in the last week.
WHY are the UK armed police, who are a specially trained force, not trained better? Why do they react so badly? Why are they not trained in using appropriate levels of force?
* For people who care, his firearm has been stated to be a BBM Bruni self-loading pistol, converted to fire live ammunition. I'm guessing this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQf6MSvOSLs
Why should that man NOT go to jail? It doesn't matter how much the goods were worth, it matters much more that he observed that the shop was being looted, and crossed the threshold into the shop anyway. It doesn't really matter what he exited with.
damnit, *mooted
As soon as people started muting shutting down Blackberry Messenger, I had a bad feeling that this bullshit would follow.
The politicos don't understand the role that social media and internet communications play in people's lives. They wouldn't suggest shutting down the POTS network, or the postal service. Well, actually, that's giving them too much credit. They'd probably suggest exactly that.
Also, "One of the things going on with VOD is that there's been fairly steady trends over some time period now for adult to go down".
Which, when you think about it, is pretty ironic.
The last revision of the old-style 360 is also significantly quieter than those that came before. It's MUCH quieter than my cousin's first-revision Elite.
because they're too fucking stupid, or too apathetic.
People read the Sun because it's easy to read. Some soundbites, some tits, nothing remotely intellectually challenging. And since they've been reading the Sun for years, they don't really want to stop.
And people continue to pay money for Sky because they want America's Next Top Model, and they don't want to have to go to the effort of putting up a good enough aerial to receive freeview (yes, even though the ~£100 it would cost them to pay someone to do it for them will net them free TV for the foreseeable future) and they can't get Virgin Media. Or, even worse than that level of apathy, maybe they CAN get Virgin Media but they've had Sky so bloody long they've now developed a brand-allegience so strong that they won't even consider switching.
I haven't run it yet. I've got as far as assembling a Quadra 610 (needed to source a new HDD), an AAUX transceiver for ethernet, and a CD drive I think might work (from a Performa 5400). Don't have a lot of time to devote to the project at the moment.
To provide you with more info:
You can't emulate it, no really, not even using that thing you think will work.
You need a 68k mac to run it, such as an SE/30, or Quadra.
It won't run on any of the LCs. Even if you try anyway.
It won't run on a powermac, even if you try anyway. Not even if you do that thing you're going to try.
You a particular type of CD drive to install it.
More info here: http://www.aux-penelope.com/
The original study, which Dvorak helpfully forgot to link to:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June11/PinchAmazon.html
Ctrl-esc (or Windows key), then right arrow, enter. My system didn't even ask for confirmation.
Or ctrl-esc, right, right, R (restart)/H (hybernate)/S (sleep)/W (switch user)/L (log off)/O (lock)
IBM won't,
http://www.ecomstation.com/
(fantasy hat on) Can we have SuSE back as an independent German company again please? It is a shadow of its former self.
"listen to a goddamn radio station"
I can't talk about the rest of the world, but there ARE no good radio stations in the UK.
With the possible exception of BBC 6 Music, and BBC Radio 1 after about 7pm on very occasional weekdays, when all the idiot DJs are in bed.
Bah. USA only.
Mod parent up, thank you.
Branson has nothing to do with Virgin Media in any practical sense.
All the separate cable companies in the UK slowly merged into each other until there was only Telewest Broadband and NTL left. Telewest had a vaguely decent reputation, NTL had an awful one. They merged into NTL:Telewest (with NTL being the effective parent company), then they bought Virgin Mobile and rebranded themselves as Virgin Media. Ergo, Virgin Media is basically NTL with a shiny new image.
Anyone know if Virgin Media are joining in this game? They're usually head of the line when it comes to doing evil stuff, just behind BT ...
See upthread: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2049060&cid=35576354
That data can be copied in to a new profile. I'm pretty sure.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
That is for FF3, but may still hold true. Worth a try, anyway.
For the curious, the PS3 does not need to be able to run unsigned code.
The methodology is fairly simple. As far as I can tell, the Kinect sensor is connected to a PC running Windows, then software on the PC interprets movements captured by the sensor and translates them into controller movements, which are sent to the PS3 using diyps3controller, which emulates a PS3 controller using Bluetooth.
Pretty bloody clever but the lag must be awful.