An answer to you and the post immediately below: No physics don't change, training does. A cop is better trained in tactical driving than the average citizen. You may be a good driver, but it is fairly improbable that you have the requisite training to make you safer at speeds higher than the average speed of traffic around you (which *should* be at the posted limit). I don't condone that they would speed when off duty, and I think they should get a mark for it or some such, but as to why things are different, it's training.
I worked with a guy (he was head of security for my old employer). He was on a local road with steep ditches on either side for a rather long stretch (5 or 6 miles). It is a two lane road and there was ample on-coming traffic. A paramedic turned on their priority lights behind him (thus they were in a hurry and he was obligated to yield), but there was no safe way to get out of the way. His solution was to speed up to about 85/90Mph (50 speed limit) and pull over as soon as the road widened enough to allow so.
Well a cop heading the other direction flipped a U-turn and promptly caught up and pulled in behind him, citing him for: Failure to yield, reckless, speeding, evading (apparently the cop figured since his lights were on our guy was running, never mind he couldn't see them). Cop refused to listen to the explanation of no safe place to pull over.
Come court day bob told the judge what happened and that his was the only reasonable and prudent course of action. Judge asked what experience he had driving at high speeds. Reply? Pursuit instructor and EOD officer for HM Army and MI6 back home in England.
That's easy to deal with. Install a dash cam then drive "on the line" or where the cam shows the middle of the road to appear. When she swerves in hit her. follow up with a lawsuit and press charges of reckless driving.
Just this morning I went to pick up my kid from spending the night with her cousin. Neighbor put super glue in the locks of one of the cars. Due to previous incidents*, and the flanking houses being empty and up for rent there is no doubt as to who did the deed. Since there is no camera there is no proof. Looks like the same hooligans that did our car will do theirs next:-)
-nB
* another busybody, who calls the cops if you park more than 18 inches away from the curb or on the sidewalk or too close to the mailbox or fire hydrant or any other number of things you do they don't approve of. The superglue followed several keyings and other vandalism, which only seems to happen if you park in front of their house. This is on a cul-de-sac with virtually no available parking. Personally I want to gorilla glue their front door shut.
I can not verify the world is round myself, I do not have the means to do so, thus I rely on the belief that others who have stated it is round are correct. Not saying that I agree with religion (to some extent I do, but I see other options as well) just refuting your loon statement as being accurate. Once disproven in any way, a scientific conjecture can no longer be considered a theory. -nB
It's a non-issue. From TFS:
The next big challenge for OpenID proponents is teaching AOL's userbase how to make use of this new technology good luck with that one... Brings back thoughts of eternal september -nB
Maybe you should read the privacy policy on my site: http://www.farmersreallysucks.com/privacy.shtml I deal nicely with the problem. If someone has a beef with farmers and wants to post it, I'll conduct the whole exchange through e-mail, then post the page to the internet, unlinked from the website. They say "yes that's what I want to say" then I delete all my correspondence with them and finally link the page into the site.
If I get a subpoena I'll comply with the following statement: Due to standard operating procedure I have no records of who posted that message in question.
Again, it kinda fits with your statement in that I take my submitters privacy very seriously, but I am not a privacy service so to speak. -nB
If I call you a nigger while hitting you in the face then in California I get an extra 10 years for a hate crime enhancement (IIRC on the time). If I call you a nigger without hitting you in the face you can sue me for something like emotional distress.
I agree with everything you say except one thing (please tell me you were trolling, please please please):
Gitmo makes the Japanese internment camps of WWII look like quilting bees. and in true American over-reaction style: you now neet to be taken out back and shot.
In all seriousness though, there is little resemblance (the only thing I can think of is that they both are detention centers) between Gitmo and WWII prision camps on any side*, especially the Japs. While we are fairly buddy buddy now, the way our POWs were treated was very very bad.
I know a man, recently deceased, who was with the Marines in WWII. He landed immediately following the bombs and liberated our men. I only know of three times that man cried: When his daughter died at age 16 from a brain tumor, he cried (and had a heart attack and quit smoking, at her deathbed request). When his grandson died at the age of 15, via a chickenshit GSW to the back and through the heart. When he landed in Japan and saw the wrath and destruction of the bombs, and how our prisoners were treated.
He didn't cry when he found out he had cancer He didn't cry when he found out he had it again, thrice more. He didn't cry when he knew he was dying. He *almost* cried when he thought of never seeing his great grandchildren again. If a man like that cried for our soldiers who didn't die, that says volumes to me.
The prisoners in Gitmo are feed three times a day, watered whenever they want. Given their religious texts. Allowed to wear their religious garments. Allowed freedom to move about. Are not in daily, constant fear of being beaten randomly, forced to work in our factories, producing the very things used to kill their brothers-in-arms.
To compare the two on even remotely even footing turns my stomach. At least you didn't compare them to the German concentration camps. -nB
* I consider one of the darkest moments in my country's post civil war history the instant that the order to round up certain Asian/Pacific Americans and isolate them in concentration camps of our own was signed. It only was eclipsed by the darkness of those orders being followed.
"I can't decide if this sort of 'cooperation' is better or worse for employees." It's better than joblessnes, but often worse from a work/life balance as you are still always trying to get onto the next big contract. -nB
if you absolutely refuse to believe in a divine being [...], there are nontheist religions such as [...] Satanism. Um... isn't this one believing in a divine entity (name's Jerry BTW), just he's not so nice? Just askin:-) -nB
Yes yes, flamebait I know. The curiour side of me wants to see a Clinton/Rice ticket... The pragmatic side of me says we're all fscked no matter what. If a good Libertarian or independent (Ross Perot anyone?) were to run in all 50 I bet they'd win. Our decrepit 2 party system won't let anyone else in, in enough states to matter.
I propose the following voting system: Since we all generally consider our elected officials a compromise of whose less bad lets vote that way! Vote for the one person you think is the absolute worst to have in office. Like golf, the one with the lowest score wins. Simple and it would really spice up the mix of parties in office. -nB
I've never dealt with a company that put limits on the amount of data I can move around "per second" or some such -- that's home-broadband thinking. While I understand your point, there is some truth to the GP post. You pay both for connection speed and for bandwith, thus: My gripesite about Farmers Insurance is hosted at ThePlanet. I can pay them for connection to up to 4 backbones and at two different link speeds: 100Mbps to a link aggrigator, or directly into an OC at 622Mbps, then I can pay them for bandwith (in my case 24GB/month). Sinc my gripesite is not that important I only pay for 100Mbps links, but I have links to two backbones.
So yes there is some rate limiting at the big datacenters. -nB
Jahn points the finger at detractors as well: 'If people don't believe us after all the results we've produced, then they never will.'" This is the singular piece of research that he has produced. And I agree with him, I don't believe them! -nB
No, the NSA'a computers monitor the communications, the people monitor the computers, which have a list of keywords likely weighted. once a conversation gets too "heavy" a human monitor gets involved. Um... at least that's how I'd do it. -nB
If EMI put their whole catalog on-line similar to how allofmp3 works, where I pay based on download quality and can preview at ultra-low quality for free, then even if they are 4x the price of allofmp3 I will always buy my music from them rather than elsewhere. Especially if the interface is as easy to use. -nB
True enough, but I've always looked at it as such: Closed DRM == one set of eyes for the "good" guys (arguably the bad guys in this case but whatever) == pwned by the freedom fighters. licensed DRM == several sets of eyes, eyes with different corporate mentalities, eyes with different outlooks, thus sorta like OSS == less breaches.
Every american should have basic (and I do mean *BASIC*) health care covered socially. This includes random things like broken legs and car wreck injuries and not things like chemo therapy (and I say that as a cancer survivor). We already have this in the US, and IIRC it includes chemo if you are sick enough. It's called the emergency room, the USA's secrete socialized healthcare. -nB
But never the less: Old enough to somke Old enough to get shot in the military Old enough to vote in your commander in cheif Not old enough to drink? WTF!
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An answer to you and the post immediately below:
No physics don't change, training does.
A cop is better trained in tactical driving than the average citizen. You may be a good driver, but it is fairly improbable that you have the requisite training to make you safer at speeds higher than the average speed of traffic around you (which *should* be at the posted limit).
I don't condone that they would speed when off duty, and I think they should get a mark for it or some such, but as to why things are different, it's training.
I worked with a guy (he was head of security for my old employer). He was on a local road with steep ditches on either side for a rather long stretch (5 or 6 miles). It is a two lane road and there was ample on-coming traffic. A paramedic turned on their priority lights behind him (thus they were in a hurry and he was obligated to yield), but there was no safe way to get out of the way. His solution was to speed up to about 85/90Mph (50 speed limit) and pull over as soon as the road widened enough to allow so.
Well a cop heading the other direction flipped a U-turn and promptly caught up and pulled in behind him, citing him for: Failure to yield, reckless, speeding, evading (apparently the cop figured since his lights were on our guy was running, never mind he couldn't see them). Cop refused to listen to the explanation of no safe place to pull over.
Come court day bob told the judge what happened and that his was the only reasonable and prudent course of action. Judge asked what experience he had driving at high speeds. Reply? Pursuit instructor and EOD officer for HM Army and MI6 back home in England.
Result?
Case dismissed instantly.
It's all about training.
-nB
That's easy to deal with. Install a dash cam then drive "on the line" or where the cam shows the middle of the road to appear. When she swerves in hit her. follow up with a lawsuit and press charges of reckless driving.
:-)
Just this morning I went to pick up my kid from spending the night with her cousin. Neighbor put super glue in the locks of one of the cars. Due to previous incidents*, and the flanking houses being empty and up for rent there is no doubt as to who did the deed. Since there is no camera there is no proof. Looks like the same hooligans that did our car will do theirs next
-nB
* another busybody, who calls the cops if you park more than 18 inches away from the curb or on the sidewalk or too close to the mailbox or fire hydrant or any other number of things you do they don't approve of. The superglue followed several keyings and other vandalism, which only seems to happen if you park in front of their house. This is on a cul-de-sac with virtually no available parking. Personally I want to gorilla glue their front door shut.
I can not verify the world is round myself, I do not have the means to do so, thus I rely on the belief that others who have stated it is round are correct.
Not saying that I agree with religion (to some extent I do, but I see other options as well) just refuting your loon statement as being accurate. Once disproven in any way, a scientific conjecture can no longer be considered a theory.
-nB
From TFS: The next big challenge for OpenID proponents is teaching AOL's userbase how to make use of this new technology good luck with that one...
Brings back thoughts of eternal september
-nB
No.
The bin is labeled buy one get one free.
The guy at the register said they're both free.
-nB
Maybe you should read the privacy policy on my site: http://www.farmersreallysucks.com/privacy.shtml I deal nicely with the problem. If someone has a beef with farmers and wants to post it, I'll conduct the whole exchange through e-mail, then post the page to the internet, unlinked from the website. They say "yes that's what I want to say" then I delete all my correspondence with them and finally link the page into the site.
If I get a subpoena I'll comply with the following statement: Due to standard operating procedure I have no records of who posted that message in question.
Again, it kinda fits with your statement in that I take my submitters privacy very seriously, but I am not a privacy service so to speak.
-nB
Assuming you are black.
If I call you a nigger while hitting you in the face then in California I get an extra 10 years for a hate crime enhancement (IIRC on the time).
If I call you a nigger without hitting you in the face you can sue me for something like emotional distress.
-nB
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Well with your grasp of the /. post features you sure as hell aren't in IT...
you do that...
I'll have the BFG
-nB
In all seriousness though, there is little resemblance (the only thing I can think of is that they both are detention centers) between Gitmo and WWII prision camps on any side*, especially the Japs. While we are fairly buddy buddy now, the way our POWs were treated was very very bad.
I know a man, recently deceased, who was with the Marines in WWII. He landed immediately following the bombs and liberated our men. I only know of three times that man cried:
When his daughter died at age 16 from a brain tumor, he cried (and had a heart attack and quit smoking, at her deathbed request).
When his grandson died at the age of 15, via a chickenshit GSW to the back and through the heart.
When he landed in Japan and saw the wrath and destruction of the bombs, and how our prisoners were treated.
He didn't cry when he found out he had cancer
He didn't cry when he found out he had it again, thrice more.
He didn't cry when he knew he was dying.
He *almost* cried when he thought of never seeing his great grandchildren again.
If a man like that cried for our soldiers who didn't die, that says volumes to me.
The prisoners in Gitmo are feed three times a day, watered whenever they want. Given their religious texts. Allowed to wear their religious garments. Allowed freedom to move about. Are not in daily, constant fear of being beaten randomly, forced to work in our factories, producing the very things used to kill their brothers-in-arms.
To compare the two on even remotely even footing turns my stomach. At least you didn't compare them to the German concentration camps.
-nB
* I consider one of the darkest moments in my country's post civil war history the instant that the order to round up certain Asian/Pacific Americans and isolate them in concentration camps of our own was signed. It only was eclipsed by the darkness of those orders being followed.
Refusing to testify will only usually end up in a fine and an overnight stay at the local lockup, if you at least show up.
-nB
"I can't decide if this sort of 'cooperation' is better or worse for employees."
It's better than joblessnes, but often worse from a work/life balance as you are still always trying to get onto the next big contract.
-nB
Just askin
-nB
so long as they're not a woman...
Yes yes, flamebait I know. The curiour side of me wants to see a Clinton/Rice ticket...
The pragmatic side of me says we're all fscked no matter what.
If a good Libertarian or independent (Ross Perot anyone?) were to run in all 50 I bet they'd win. Our decrepit 2 party system won't let anyone else in, in enough states to matter.
I propose the following voting system:
Since we all generally consider our elected officials a compromise of whose less bad lets vote that way!
Vote for the one person you think is the absolute worst to have in office. Like golf, the one with the lowest score wins.
Simple and it would really spice up the mix of parties in office.
-nB
You pay both for connection speed and for bandwith, thus:
My gripesite about Farmers Insurance is hosted at ThePlanet. I can pay them for connection to up to 4 backbones and at two different link speeds: 100Mbps to a link aggrigator, or directly into an OC at 622Mbps, then I can pay them for bandwith (in my case 24GB/month). Sinc my gripesite is not that important I only pay for 100Mbps links, but I have links to two backbones.
So yes there is some rate limiting at the big datacenters.
-nB
Simple, he has another browser instance that is an invert of this so he sees only roland stories, thus he can troll them better :-)
-nB
-nB
No, the NSA'a computers monitor the communications, the people monitor the computers, which have a list of keywords likely weighted. once a conversation gets too "heavy" a human monitor gets involved.
Um... at least that's how I'd do it.
-nB
If EMI put their whole catalog on-line similar to how allofmp3 works, where I pay based on download quality and can preview at ultra-low quality for free, then even if they are 4x the price of allofmp3 I will always buy my music from them rather than elsewhere. Especially if the interface is as easy to use.
-nB
True enough, but I've always looked at it as such:
Closed DRM == one set of eyes for the "good" guys (arguably the bad guys in this case but whatever) == pwned by the freedom fighters.
licensed DRM == several sets of eyes, eyes with different corporate mentalities, eyes with different outlooks, thus sorta like OSS == less breaches.
-nB
Eight ball says:
no
I'm inclined to agree.
-nB
-nB
I don't think that's a half bad idea...
But never the less:
Old enough to somke
Old enough to get shot in the military
Old enough to vote in your commander in cheif
Not old enough to drink? WTF!
Touche :-)