>Um, people, since Ford Motor Company acquired Volvo, they have become nothing but pieces of shit
They are overpriced, but the don't seem to have a bad build quality. I've been driving a 740 wagon since '92; it's a Canadian model, which is a European model that had final assembly in Canada, somewhat different from a US model of the same year (more spartan on features, speedometer in km/h, and so on).
Anyway, when I travel, I sometimes rent a Volvo sedan. I've put a lot of miles on "Ford" Volvos doing that, and I don't see where the claim that they are "pieces of shit" comes from. I doubt it comes from Volvo owners. I also have a small Ford truck, an '04 model Ranger with a 6-cylinder. It gets fantastic mileage, and handles great.
So, what was the problem again? If the assertion is that they are built by slaves or something, well, I can't really follow that.
> treat people like cattle by making them wait in lines (like our DMV)
Not every DMV is inefficient, badly managed, or hostile to the customer. The one I use is the most efficient public service I've ever seen, and most services are available online anyway.
> Nazis were socialists.
Nazis called themselves socialists and perhaps they affected the meaning of the word by doing so. Hitler loved the socialist ideas as long as they could only benefit people of "German blood". You picked a real good example to show your understanding of what socialist ideas are there.
FWIW, I also do not agree that America is a "police state", although I do feel that the Executive Branch has asserted more authority than I believe they are entitled.
So you can get killed by an industrial robot if you don't follow safety procedures. It stands out as a story because of the romanticism over "robots", but there are no shortage of people who get electrocuted because they don't follow lockout tagout, who suffocate because they don't follow confined space entry protocols, who are blinded because they refused to wear goggles, or who lose hands because they refused to let a safety harness slow down their press brake operation.
"All this talk of swiping the luggage and such has me thinking. What if I go to the range that morning and the machine picks up trace amounts of gunpowder? What happens then?"
Your stuff gets swabbed, and they ask you a lot of questions.
Happens to me all the time. One of my workplaces is a nitrogen-rich environment. My laptop and bag and certain of my books, and my work shoes, routinely set off the swab test.
I have a colleague who makes commercial fireworks as a hobby, and his regular job involves demolition, from time to time. Everything the man owns is tainted with stuff that interests air security people.
You get used to it. When you have a good explanation and don't act nervous when you tell them what they already know, they tend to be reasonably quick about the screening. I think it helps that when you test positive for ammonium nitrate, everybody who comes near you from that point on is some kind of supervisor.
"He was arrested when he jumped out of the box at his mother's house after the delivery guy dropped him off - and the delivery guy SPOTTED him getting OUT of the box!"
So in court it's really just the delivery guy's word against the suspect? Since the feds had no evidence, I can't see how this would have led to a conviction. It's not a crime to jump out of a box at your mother's house. How he got into the box would have been pure speculation on the part of the delivery guy. In other words, if he had made the whole thing up, what would be different about the case?
Yes, sometimes the line is short, sometimes a long line moves quickly. The same terminal at the same airport can be dramatically different at different times.
I understand, but those are still the things that keep me with dedicated windows machines and also keep me dual booting for XP and the reason I run Windows 2000. As an IT geek myself, I understand the issues fully, but as a *user* I still feel justified to complain.
First, I love VMWare. Been a user since the first release.
But it has a couple of problems. One problem is that it is not effective for audio software, neither for synthesis programs nor for low-latency recording. I realize this isn't the main purpose of VMWare, but it is my primary application for Windows. I understand the problems, especially with things like ASIO drivers that need to be down to the metal, but I still think it would be nice to have a low-latency audio interface, and really high performance usb2.0 and fireware connectivity. Others have itches to scratch in 3-D graphics and such, but music production is mine.
The other big problem is economic. In order to use WindowsXP or anything else with WPA, I need a separate licence for the instance under VMWare (different for EACH VM!), and another licence for the WindowsXP instance in the dual boot. This is an unreasonable restriction, in my opinion.
The only "wild west type shootout" I've ever seen was at a drive-in movie theatre in Texas (the Lone Star, I think that's Duncanville, can't remember.)
>The fact that she refuses to return it with the knowledge that it isn't hers makes it posession of stolen property, which is a felony.
The fact that she has expressed a racially motivated reason for not returning it makes it a hate crime as well. Conceivably, she could do life without parole for this.
>It could have been worse. Their "victim" might have pulled a REAL gun and returned fire.
Where I live, deadly force would be justifiable, if you were assualted with a paintball gun. The fact that paintball matches require protective gear is all the evidence you would need to support the apprehension of being put in danger.
"Once the rightful owner contacts you requesting its return, and you flat-out refuse because their "white ass doesn't deserve it", yes. At that point it's stolen. "
It also moves from "theft" into "hate crime" at that point.
>I'm not in the military, but doesn't "conduct unbecoming" finish with "of an officer"?
In the movies, yes. In real life, you don't want to be charged with a petty crime while on active duty. Things like assaulting a civilian, theft of property, or drug posession, are wisely avoided.
Some thieves stole a camera, among other things, and spent the rest of the night taking pictures of themselves committing other crimes.
One of them was caught a few days later, with my camera. The police returned my camera, and when I checked the memory card, I found that it contained a number of pictures of the two guys who had taken pictures of each other, breaking into cars and houses, all very clear and recognizable. It was obvious that the police had not inspected the camera memory.
The guy that was caught, had tried to claim that the camera was his, and when they pressed him with the evidence they had, he eventually admitted to one car break-in, and insisted he was alone. The date-stamped images on my camera told a different story. It was actually very satisfying to show this stuff to the detective. But, he made it clear to me that thieves doing stupid things is not at all unusual.
>Strange... WGA says my copy of Windows XP is perfectly vaild...
Of course it does. It quietly logs your IP, and on their end a request for your info is printed and mailed to your ISP, but at your end everything looks just fine.
It happens so frequently with MSDN keys that they have a support position just to handle the specific scenario of an MSDN activation already used in the wild before it is sold.
There are still many systems that run without being connected to any network. If those started routinely failing, MS would have a big support problem on their hands.
>This is just really stupid! why do you buy a laptop? so its lightweight & mobile!
More important to me is silence. The typical portable machine is much quieter than a dektop even after tweaking it for silence. You can spend a small fortune to quiet down a desktop and still not do better than the average notebook.
"It might be just me but I think newer audio equipment might sound better, but they don't seem to be as indestructible as some of the older equipment I have seen."
I agree, and my '65 Fender DeLuxe guitar amp agrees as well.
But the biggest thing that came with digital audio, in my opinion, is that *speakers* in particular are FAR better than what we had before. The average nearfield monitor set today is at least on par with the audiophile amp/speaker systems of the 1970s. And even though I kept my Teac 4-track, I have no intention of ever using it again.
CDDA had the biggest impact on Radio, probably even bigger than the impact of Stereo FM.
People under 30 don't even realize that there was a time when music broadcasts routinely featured record scratches, skips, different dynamic characteristics, and so on.
But once we crossed that threshold, where even the cheapest radio now has better dynamic range than some of the true audiophile rigs of the last generation, the idea of "improving quality" is lost on an audience that has already seen a plateau, the limits of human perception being reached and exceeded in some cases. Why should they care?
1920s cameras were commonly focused and framed by viewing the focal plane directly, though usually with the image inverted.
I suspect that we overestimate the extent to which we have exceeded the future views of people from the early 20th century. If we could, we might even discover that we have not met the expectations of the people who were present at the beginning of the technological ramp-up, which rapidly ramped WAY DOWN around 1970.
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>I can't prove it, but I am certain that this is the way the ancients perceived the sky.
Ancients, as well as contemporaries who live in the mountains and who sail the seas...
>Um, people, since Ford Motor Company acquired Volvo, they have become nothing but pieces of shit
They are overpriced, but the don't seem to have a bad build quality. I've been driving a 740 wagon since '92; it's a Canadian model, which is a European model that had final assembly in Canada, somewhat different from a US model of the same year (more spartan on features, speedometer in km/h, and so on).
Anyway, when I travel, I sometimes rent a Volvo sedan. I've put a lot of miles on "Ford" Volvos doing that, and I don't see where the claim that they are "pieces of shit" comes from. I doubt it comes from Volvo owners. I also have a small Ford truck, an '04 model Ranger with a 6-cylinder. It gets fantastic mileage, and handles great.
So, what was the problem again? If the assertion is that they are built by slaves or something, well, I can't really follow that.
> treat people like cattle by making them wait in lines (like our DMV)
Not every DMV is inefficient, badly managed, or hostile to the customer. The one I use is the most efficient
public service I've ever seen, and most services are available online anyway.
> Nazis were socialists.
Nazis called themselves socialists and perhaps they affected the meaning of the word by doing so. Hitler loved the socialist ideas as long as they could only benefit people of "German blood". You picked a real good example to show your understanding of what socialist ideas are there.
FWIW, I also do not agree that America is a "police state", although I do feel that the Executive Branch has asserted more authority than I believe they are entitled.
So you can get killed by an industrial robot if you don't follow safety procedures. It stands out as a story because of the romanticism over "robots", but there are no shortage of people who get electrocuted because they don't follow lockout tagout, who suffocate because they don't follow confined space entry protocols, who are blinded because they refused to wear goggles, or who lose hands because they refused to let a safety harness slow down their press brake operation.
>Heh. Actually, that is an interesting idea. If the races were reversed, this might actually be an issue.
Oops! Are you suggesting that hate crime laws only protect people of certain races?
If that were the case, they could never stand up to the doctrine of "equal protection", which is pretty much the whole motivation for such laws.
"All this talk of swiping the luggage and such has me thinking. What if I go to the range that morning and the machine picks up trace amounts of gunpowder? What happens then?"
Your stuff gets swabbed, and they ask you a lot of questions.
Happens to me all the time. One of my workplaces is a nitrogen-rich environment. My laptop and bag and certain of my books, and my work shoes, routinely set off the swab test.
I have a colleague who makes commercial fireworks as a hobby, and his regular job involves demolition, from time to time. Everything the man owns is tainted with stuff that interests air security people.
You get used to it. When you have a good explanation and don't act nervous when you tell them what they already know, they tend to be reasonably quick about the screening. I think it helps that when you test positive for ammonium nitrate, everybody who comes near you from that point on is some kind of supervisor.
"He was arrested when he jumped out of the box at his mother's house after the delivery guy dropped him off - and the delivery guy SPOTTED him getting OUT of the box!"
So in court it's really just the delivery guy's word against the suspect? Since the feds had no evidence, I can't see how this would have led to a conviction. It's not a crime to jump out of a box at your mother's house. How he got into the box would have been pure speculation on the part of the delivery guy. In other words, if he had made the whole thing up, what would be different about the case?
Yes, sometimes the line is short, sometimes a long line moves quickly. The same terminal at the same airport can be dramatically different at different times.
How often do you fly? Once since 2001?
A lot of us take one or two trips a week.
I understand, but those are still the things that keep me with dedicated windows machines and also keep me dual booting for XP and the reason I run Windows 2000. As an IT geek myself, I understand the issues fully, but as a *user* I still feel justified to complain.
First, I love VMWare. Been a user since the first release.
But it has a couple of problems. One problem is that it is not effective for audio software, neither for synthesis programs nor for low-latency recording. I realize this isn't the main purpose of VMWare, but it is my primary application for Windows. I understand the problems, especially with things like ASIO drivers that need to be down to the metal, but I still think it would be nice to have a low-latency audio interface, and really high performance usb2.0 and fireware connectivity. Others have itches to scratch in 3-D graphics and such, but music production is mine.
The other big problem is economic. In order to use WindowsXP or anything else with WPA, I need a separate licence for the instance under VMWare (different for EACH VM!), and another licence for the WindowsXP instance in the dual boot. This is an unreasonable restriction, in my opinion.
The only "wild west type shootout" I've ever seen was at a drive-in movie theatre in Texas (the Lone Star, I think that's Duncanville, can't remember.)
Very scary.
>Oooh... let's all hail Jeb for that little bit of legislative stupidity.
That would be Janet Napolitano, the liberal Democrat.
I'm one too, and I still say that you have a right to defend yourself in the face of a reasonable apprehension of a deadly threat.
A drive-by shooting with a paintball gun is such a threat, whether you think so or not.
>We need to know where the guys pics are located, where this happened etc, so we can geek band together and hunt this person down
c orona+NY&ll=40.75393,-73.8612&spn=0.001445,0.00339 &t=k&om=1
Have you checked the address?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=37th+ave+
>The fact that she refuses to return it with the knowledge that it isn't hers makes it posession of stolen property, which is a felony.
The fact that she has expressed a racially motivated reason for not returning it makes it a hate crime as well. Conceivably, she could do life without parole for this.
>It could have been worse. Their "victim" might have pulled a REAL gun and returned fire.
Where I live, deadly force would be justifiable, if you were assualted with a paintball gun.
The fact that paintball matches require protective gear is all the evidence you would need to support the apprehension of being put in danger.
"Once the rightful owner contacts you requesting its return, and you flat-out refuse because their "white ass doesn't deserve it", yes. At that point it's stolen.
"
It also moves from "theft" into "hate crime" at that point.
>I'm not in the military, but doesn't "conduct unbecoming" finish with "of an officer"?
In the movies, yes. In real life, you don't want to be charged with a petty crime while on active duty.
Things like assaulting a civilian, theft of property, or drug posession, are wisely avoided.
Some thieves stole a camera, among other things, and spent the rest of the night taking pictures of themselves
committing other crimes.
One of them was caught a few days later, with my camera. The police returned my camera, and when I checked the memory card, I found that it contained a number of pictures of the two guys who had taken pictures of each other, breaking into cars and houses, all very clear and recognizable. It was obvious that the police had not inspected the camera memory.
The guy that was caught, had tried to claim that the camera was his, and when they pressed him with the evidence they had, he eventually admitted to one car break-in, and insisted he was alone. The date-stamped images on my camera told a different story. It was actually very satisfying to show this stuff to the detective. But, he made it clear to me that thieves doing stupid things is not at all unusual.
>Strange... WGA says my copy of Windows XP is perfectly vaild...
Of course it does. It quietly logs your IP, and on their end a request for your info is printed and mailed to your ISP, but at your end everything looks just fine.
It happens so frequently with MSDN keys that they have a support position just to handle the specific scenario of an MSDN activation already used in the wild before it is sold.
There are still many systems that run without being connected to any network.
If those started routinely failing, MS would have a big support problem on their hands.
>This is just really stupid! why do you buy a laptop? so its lightweight & mobile!
More important to me is silence. The typical portable machine is much quieter than a dektop even after tweaking it for silence. You can spend a small fortune to quiet down a desktop and still not do better than the average notebook.
"It might be just me but I think newer audio equipment might sound better, but they don't seem to be as indestructible as some of the older equipment I have seen."
I agree, and my '65 Fender DeLuxe guitar amp agrees as well.
But the biggest thing that came with digital audio, in my opinion, is that *speakers* in particular are FAR better than
what we had before. The average nearfield monitor set today is at least on par with the audiophile amp/speaker systems of
the 1970s. And even though I kept my Teac 4-track, I have no intention of ever using it again.
CDDA had the biggest impact on Radio, probably even bigger than the impact of Stereo FM.
People under 30 don't even realize that there was a time when music broadcasts routinely featured record scratches, skips, different dynamic characteristics, and so on.
But once we crossed that threshold, where even the cheapest radio now has better dynamic range than some of the true audiophile rigs of the last generation, the idea of "improving quality" is lost on an audience that has already seen a plateau, the limits of human perception being reached and exceeded in some cases. Why should they care?
1920s cameras were commonly focused and framed by viewing the focal plane directly, though usually with the image inverted.
I suspect that we overestimate the extent to which we have exceeded the future views of people from the early 20th century. If we could,
we might even discover that we have not met the expectations of the people who were present at the beginning of the technological ramp-up, which rapidly ramped WAY DOWN around 1970.