I think 600 million more indians in the next 45 years is definitely a significant increase in the population.... that is like another western europe(more considering their population crunches going on now...)
the upper end projection is an increase by over 900 million people.... again.. not insignificant..
by my last comment I am talking about what they have done for the last 6 years. every time a new ipod gen comes out, they generally have new types of data they can hold (photos, video, etc) and this has traditionally required a day or 2 for people to update their software to handle the new data types.
The MPAA and RIAA have no say over the way the database works as it is highly doubtful the works sold through the iTunes store make up even a reasonable minority of the total data stored on iPods today. They have probably pushed for updates on the DRM apple employs. Why you seem to think Apple would roll over now when they have been hawks at keeping things at the status quo boggles me.
All this really does is break all the legacy 3rd party software people who aren't tech oriented were introduced to. My sister's program for pulling stuff off someone's ipod and putting them on her computer is now broken. She isn't one to try and figure out exactly why this is(she hardly understands what an OS is), she just figures the software is bad. It's equivalent to MS changing the.doc format to break every other office package out there. sure, you can say give it a bit and people will figure it out, but it doesn't make it anything but monopolistic.
where did you get the idiotic idea that the iPod database encryption was a feature? if by feature you mean "ensures you will be using apple software unless you go out of your way to figure out why your iPod now reports 0 songs" yeah, I guess it is. This is the equivalent of MS making windows only work cleanly with IE back in the mid 90's. All it does is make other software look "incompatible" and create a false perception of superiority for apple.
A) go pick someone up who with 3 large men you can't get hand cuffs on. quit ignoring the situation and acting like it's even possible. If the kid is strong enough to resist being hand cuffed then you probably are gonna have a few issues with lifting him and carrying him out while his hands are free.
B) I'm glad you did martial arts training. but I'm gonna bet you aren't very good or never did it seriously to understand the risk of the pain compliance techniques to get someone to give you their arms while keep you and others around safe. common injuries (some I've taken in order to prove that it really is how far you have to go to make them work) include: broken wrists, severely strained forearm muscles, torn rotator cuffs, dislocated(partial and full, of course) shoulder, neck sprains, broken ribs. it's too bad no one ever taught you the consequences of what happens when you use these compliance techniques or the difference between the wide range of tasers and stun guns that are available.
It is impossible to find a case of death due to the stun gun he was hit with. well, not impossible, but I have spent hours on multiple occasions trolling the web for reports of a single instance. there are tons of reports of death due to the more lethal version of the taser(the one that locks up all the muscles in your body and leaves you too weak to move properly for a significant period of time). The dangers associated with a stun gun he was hit with is burning of the skin and clothes at the point of contact. I will concede that death is possible but those are the common(by a long shot) consequences.
so for a phone to work properly, it is completely dependent on the OS on my computer to get full functionality?
give me 3 features of the iPhone that are somehow dependent on running leopard vs windows or any other version of OSX... I'd love to actually hear them and realize how glad I am I didn't waste money on a phone that would be sub par unless I anted up 1k dollars to get a new computer.
well, they did it with the last set if iPods ( to try and force iTunes use on everyone again) and Jobs has said that it is one of his goals to get rid of these hacks on the iPhone.......
piracy is generally an activity committed on the high seas. I think you are remembering stories of the vikings which did rape and pillages in villages. Pirates generally commandeer ships and steel your shit(and hten most likely kill you).
once the 'in it for pure profit' guys all exit the market, we can renew the market with quality folks who are in it for the art! (remember when that was the case?)
no, don't remember at all.... when was that? what fictitious history books have you been reading?
so in other words be just as childish and stupid about how you live your life because someone else is?
how about people today take the high road and just boycot all big media? you want to give them a real fuck you? one hwere the government won't step in and help them constantly? Don't buy, download, listen, or watch any of their stuff. support independent labels and independent movies or find something else to do!!!
your idea is stupid. people have been doing it and it's not giving the media companies a bloody nose. It's giving them massive government support around the world, direct tax revenue flowing towards them, and a reducing of our legal rights because they can make a legit complaint.
I hope kids around hte world finally realize that you don't harm a media company by downloading their stuff; you only make them more powerful by giving them powerful allies in various governments and legal precedents around the world. The person who downloads rampantly is doing them the greatest favor imaginable.
I didn't know he used the fake steve blog to flame linux?? worse yet, you seem to have believed what you read on a blog with the word Fake in it.
of course, you might be the kind of person that things A Modest Proposal was just an misnomer and the content was actually what the author was suggesting.....
Just because Fox News isn't really news doesn't mean there can't be either the Daily Show or good news programs in existence. equivalently, just because a lot of bloggers are full of shit doesn't mean their can't be extremely informative blogs and blogs that parody people(as all a blog really is is a method of communicating and it's the person on the other end that is at fault for hte quality of that blog).
When police momentarily released Meyer's arms, he can be seen sticking them straight up in the air (the submissive posture assumed by someone being held at gunpoint).
except he didn't get on their bad side until he tried to run back into the forum after starting to walk out. Generally that can get you in trouble simply because you are indicating you were using false pretenses to get the cops to be less strict with you. at that point there is a good chance you will try something stupid so they will arrest you to remove you from the building.
1) calmly comply with the officers and possibly diffuse the situation by not sounding like a 12 year old screaming for a video game
2) walk out with the officers while yelling about freedom of speech
3) create a scene at which point you will be arrested for doing just that.
you know, sometimes a cop will let you get away without being arrested if do you just calmly do what they feel is necessary for order to return to the situation(in this case, a situation they were told to keep safe and cordial for everyone involved). just like you can talk a cop out of a ticket or talk one into letting you sleep off your alcoholism in a cell for the night rather than possibly go to jail for a DUI, cops are reasonable if you are.
Now, if you think they should have just arrested him right now for disorderly conduct and dragged him away then you are basically saying the cops should have less leeway in how strict they are with enforcing certain laws. The arrestable offense was acting like he was going to walk out (after being pushed towards the door) and then flailing away with his arms, trying to push through the cops to get back towards the mic.
I woudl say they were perfectly legitimate and he knew why he was being removed. He basically complied with their attempts to remove him once the large black officer came over and pushed him he started walking. He was an idiot to create a scene and try to push the officers away, flailing his arms, to run back into the forum(after almost reaching the door!)! That is what got him arrested rather than just removed and told to go cool down and quit ranting like a child.
except now it's become a religious state with massive infighting between groups and the deterioration of women's rights across the country as it turns to more classic islam. The great part about Sadam is while he was a dictator, at the very least he wasn't religious at all.
we took a dictatorship that ruled brutally and replaced it with a breaking theocracy. worse yet, we made sure to arm both sides (the formerly oppressed and former leaders) by not having a proper plan to quickly reintegrate the armed forces which were mainly Sunni. In doing this we basically created hte perfect climate for a brutal civil war out of which another dictator could easily rise up. And now the problem is he'll be religious, and the only thing worse than any given person is that same person who is an extremist in a religion.
I'm not saying Sadam was a good person. But we went their with the wrong goals and now only in those few areas that are completely homogenous have we been able to provide any increase in quality of life. The repressed Shiites are not fighting militias in the streets and leading groups to wipe out Sunni's in their neighborhoods while the Sunni's do the same thing.
I try to look at the bright side when I had homework on a saturday or now when I have to go to work on a sunday afternoon for a few hours, but when people's lives are being ruined you should just look at it honestly. It doesn't do much good to see the silver lining while a country is inching closer to civil war and we have to realize that is our fault(and this includes every single American because it is still our country doing it).
so someone who says a number of blogs are full of crap(which they are, many are just people using the cover of being 'unbiased' to flame) compared to a blog which was admittedly a parody of certain people is somehow inconsistent?
I didn't realize that if someone denounces the media as biased they can't go make the daily show......
you're right. so how about you go learn about the different methods of getting someone who is resisting to comply. guess what, it isn't as easy as just putting cuffs on their wrists. It may be hard to imagine, but you can resist almost as effectively while hand cuffed (and seeing as how the kid wasn't letting them cuff him, how about you show me a nice, not-painful way to force someone).
you seem to think there is some large difference between a stun gun and the shoulder locks required to both force someone to submit to being cuffed or some of the wrist locks that you can use which would get a person to walk out (there are pressure points as well that some cops learn).
you're right, if safety terms they are a world apart. if the cop makes a small mistake, the kid's wrist could break, shoulder dislocate, or rotator cuff get injured. that is serious damage. how about before you start trying to argue the reason to use certain pain compliance methods in different situations you actually go learn how each one works and the real dangers of each; maybe even feel what they are like. most people who have the choice suddenly realize why many cops prefer stun guns: They don't want to cause any permanent damage or long term injuries!*
now it's obvious you are biased against tasering someone. that's fine but then just say you feel these stun guns are equivalent to the tasers that immobilize someone. no person trained in how the two work(or who have felt both) would agree but you can have your opinion about the tools available to a cop; this doesn't mean that your opinion is what a cop should base his use of these tools on. A cop should base his decision to use any of the things in his repertoire on experience with each tool, good science as to it's safety, and the situation.
it seems your argument wouldn't fit in a common sense or science pile. science is what my argument is based one. common sense would be an argument based on the cop considering the public perception of his actions(kind of what you were talking about). but we need a third pile for your argument: one where we put all the arguments that ignore the details of the situation when it suits them. let's ignore the fact that he wasn't cuffed until after he was tasered because he was resisting. let's ignore the fact he didn't comply with multiple verbal commands from the cops. and let's ignore the fact of what it actually takes to make someone physically comply with your commands and what tools actually exist that can be used.
*I'm sure there are a few cops out there that just want to try out their new toy. cops can be childish as well as professional. I even know a couple who said they were that childish when they first started.
I think it's pretty standard in the financial industry. we have massive databases to hold risk information for our trading desk. It's pretty standard and these are very large databses(in txt format we are talking about 20 to 50 mb files just to dump a subset of this data).
but from that raw data, we need to do relatively complex analytics that can't be done outside of either our own program or excel. I format and organize all the data in my sql queries for this stuff but then the analytics eat up massive size and the data output into excel isn't small (last data set was 9000 rows by 220 columns this morning). I'm not sure of a better way to do it but OO doesn't handle my work stuff well at all. excel sure as heck isnt' great but it's pretty standard at our bank to be running spreadsheets between 10 and 50 mb (depending on what we are doing).
if you have a suggestion I'd love to hear it but short of writing our own software, we use excel.
I love OO as an idea but I've always said I can't use it till it gets competitive with excel. you think you had problems with 500kb file? I got a core 2 duo but my files are more along the lines of 40 mb..... open office just dies. excel doesn't do much better but I can be sure it'll run.
I find boot times for open office pitifully slow but I'm running version 2.0 or earlier.... it runs fast enough for my home use but I want to kill it every time I try to do work on it.
now go look up teh difference between being hit with a 50k volt taser (your references) and a stun gun. one burns the skin, the other incapacitates your muscles from responding.
I didn't realize you were incapable of doing proper, accurate research on a topic. the first step is understanding the difference between the wide range of "tasers" that are used by law enforcement. I'm glad you've now shown that many people use the 2 terms interchangeably and therefore, a blind google search leads to articles about the taser vs. what this kid was hit with.
great source, a wikipedia article which has actually got about 20 tags for "citation needed". shall I go edit the page now and say something completely different? Wikipedia is good, but use a bit of care when citing it as it is always a work in progress.
again, find something on a stun gun. it is different from a taser as most people know them. they cause local pain and only minimally effect the nervous system, which is why he could scream in pain and then walk out.
stun guns aren't lethal!!!! this is slashdot for cryin' out loud. (not a taser, that would have preventing him from yelling OW).
of course, he could have died from shock if they had accidentally dislocated his shoulder while trying to make him stand up and move.
I find it telling you consider a stun gun lethal when used once on a person. I'd love to see some proof of this. this isn't a full powered taser btw so pointing to valid examples of that are not going to get you brownie points.
screaming OW can be done when hit with a low power stun gun. the problem wtih calling htem all tasers is you begin to think of something that does more than stings.
these are safer than using pressure points you learn. too much adrenaline means it goes from positive pain compliance to accidental(and usually severe) nerve or joint injuries. this causes the same amount of pain but in a controlled manner.
I wonder if you have ever actually tried to drag someone who is resisting away from an area.
guess what, it isn't easy. It isn't even as straight forward as you may think. You have a good chance of hurting yourself in trying to drag someone kicking and screaming.
of course, there are other ways to get someone to walk where youw ant. there are long series of pain compliance techniques cops used to be taught. let me(or someone who knows them) do a few on you. then i fyou want, you can feel a stun gun at low power. I bet you'll pick the latter. most cops love the stun gun because it's straight forward, effective, and less prone to causing permanent damage when the cop has adrenaline rushing through him.
before you start talking theoretically, try to do some of these things you think are so straight forward. I promise they aren't that easy and most are MORE dangerous to the person being dragged away.
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real engineers use slide rules......
400mm till 2025 adn another 190mm from 2025 to 2050..... I think table c-2 (thumbnail image 1/2 way down).
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/Papers/gkh1/chap1.htm
I think 600 million more indians in the next 45 years is definitely a significant increase in the population.... that is like another western europe(more considering their population crunches going on now...)
the upper end projection is an increase by over 900 million people.... again.. not insignificant..
by my last comment I am talking about what they have done for the last 6 years. every time a new ipod gen comes out, they generally have new types of data they can hold (photos, video, etc) and this has traditionally required a day or 2 for people to update their software to handle the new data types.
.doc format to break every other office package out there. sure, you can say give it a bit and people will figure it out, but it doesn't make it anything but monopolistic.
The MPAA and RIAA have no say over the way the database works as it is highly doubtful the works sold through the iTunes store make up even a reasonable minority of the total data stored on iPods today. They have probably pushed for updates on the DRM apple employs. Why you seem to think Apple would roll over now when they have been hawks at keeping things at the status quo boggles me.
All this really does is break all the legacy 3rd party software people who aren't tech oriented were introduced to. My sister's program for pulling stuff off someone's ipod and putting them on her computer is now broken. She isn't one to try and figure out exactly why this is(she hardly understands what an OS is), she just figures the software is bad. It's equivalent to MS changing the
where did you get the idiotic idea that the iPod database encryption was a feature? if by feature you mean "ensures you will be using apple software unless you go out of your way to figure out why your iPod now reports 0 songs" yeah, I guess it is. This is the equivalent of MS making windows only work cleanly with IE back in the mid 90's. All it does is make other software look "incompatible" and create a false perception of superiority for apple.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070916-gtkpod-coders-crack-apples-new-ipod-checksum.html
yeah, it was cracked, but don't act like it was anything other than trying to keep the iPod locked to iTunes for the vast majority of users.
Of course, I love your last line. You act like any joe can actually go about doing even the first of your 3 step process.
I have no problem adding actual features to your database. YOu change it so you can include pictures and movies? great.
A) go pick someone up who with 3 large men you can't get hand cuffs on. quit ignoring the situation and acting like it's even possible. If the kid is strong enough to resist being hand cuffed then you probably are gonna have a few issues with lifting him and carrying him out while his hands are free.
B) I'm glad you did martial arts training. but I'm gonna bet you aren't very good or never did it seriously to understand the risk of the pain compliance techniques to get someone to give you their arms while keep you and others around safe. common injuries (some I've taken in order to prove that it really is how far you have to go to make them work) include: broken wrists, severely strained forearm muscles, torn rotator cuffs, dislocated(partial and full, of course) shoulder, neck sprains, broken ribs. it's too bad no one ever taught you the consequences of what happens when you use these compliance techniques or the difference between the wide range of tasers and stun guns that are available.
It is impossible to find a case of death due to the stun gun he was hit with. well, not impossible, but I have spent hours on multiple occasions trolling the web for reports of a single instance. there are tons of reports of death due to the more lethal version of the taser(the one that locks up all the muscles in your body and leaves you too weak to move properly for a significant period of time). The dangers associated with a stun gun he was hit with is burning of the skin and clothes at the point of contact. I will concede that death is possible but those are the common(by a long shot) consequences.
so for a phone to work properly, it is completely dependent on the OS on my computer to get full functionality?
give me 3 features of the iPhone that are somehow dependent on running leopard vs windows or any other version of OSX... I'd love to actually hear them and realize how glad I am I didn't waste money on a phone that would be sub par unless I anted up 1k dollars to get a new computer.
well, they did it with the last set if iPods ( to try and force iTunes use on everyone again) and Jobs has said that it is one of his goals to get rid of these hacks on the iPhone.......
piracy is generally an activity committed on the high seas. I think you are remembering stories of the vikings which did rape and pillages in villages. Pirates generally commandeer ships and steel your shit(and hten most likely kill you).
once the 'in it for pure profit' guys all exit the market, we can renew the market with quality folks who are in it for the art! (remember when that was the case?)
no, don't remember at all.... when was that? what fictitious history books have you been reading?
so in other words be just as childish and stupid about how you live your life because someone else is?
how about people today take the high road and just boycot all big media? you want to give them a real fuck you? one hwere the government won't step in and help them constantly? Don't buy, download, listen, or watch any of their stuff. support independent labels and independent movies or find something else to do!!!
your idea is stupid. people have been doing it and it's not giving the media companies a bloody nose. It's giving them massive government support around the world, direct tax revenue flowing towards them, and a reducing of our legal rights because they can make a legit complaint.
I hope kids around hte world finally realize that you don't harm a media company by downloading their stuff; you only make them more powerful by giving them powerful allies in various governments and legal precedents around the world. The person who downloads rampantly is doing them the greatest favor imaginable.
I didn't know he used the fake steve blog to flame linux?? worse yet, you seem to have believed what you read on a blog with the word Fake in it.
of course, you might be the kind of person that things A Modest Proposal was just an misnomer and the content was actually what the author was suggesting.....
Just because Fox News isn't really news doesn't mean there can't be either the Daily Show or good news programs in existence. equivalently, just because a lot of bloggers are full of shit doesn't mean their can't be extremely informative blogs and blogs that parody people(as all a blog really is is a method of communicating and it's the person on the other end that is at fault for hte quality of that blog).
When police momentarily released Meyer's arms, he can be seen sticking them straight up in the air (the submissive posture assumed by someone being held at gunpoint).
except he didn't get on their bad side until he tried to run back into the forum after starting to walk out. Generally that can get you in trouble simply because you are indicating you were using false pretenses to get the cops to be less strict with you. at that point there is a good chance you will try something stupid so they will arrest you to remove you from the building.
well, it was his choice:
1) calmly comply with the officers and possibly diffuse the situation by not sounding like a 12 year old screaming for a video game
2) walk out with the officers while yelling about freedom of speech
3) create a scene at which point you will be arrested for doing just that.
you know, sometimes a cop will let you get away without being arrested if do you just calmly do what they feel is necessary for order to return to the situation(in this case, a situation they were told to keep safe and cordial for everyone involved). just like you can talk a cop out of a ticket or talk one into letting you sleep off your alcoholism in a cell for the night rather than possibly go to jail for a DUI, cops are reasonable if you are.
Now, if you think they should have just arrested him right now for disorderly conduct and dragged him away then you are basically saying the cops should have less leeway in how strict they are with enforcing certain laws. The arrestable offense was acting like he was going to walk out (after being pushed towards the door) and then flailing away with his arms, trying to push through the cops to get back towards the mic.
I woudl say they were perfectly legitimate and he knew why he was being removed. He basically complied with their attempts to remove him once the large black officer came over and pushed him he started walking. He was an idiot to create a scene and try to push the officers away, flailing his arms, to run back into the forum(after almost reaching the door!)! That is what got him arrested rather than just removed and told to go cool down and quit ranting like a child.
except now it's become a religious state with massive infighting between groups and the deterioration of women's rights across the country as it turns to more classic islam. The great part about Sadam is while he was a dictator, at the very least he wasn't religious at all.
we took a dictatorship that ruled brutally and replaced it with a breaking theocracy. worse yet, we made sure to arm both sides (the formerly oppressed and former leaders) by not having a proper plan to quickly reintegrate the armed forces which were mainly Sunni. In doing this we basically created hte perfect climate for a brutal civil war out of which another dictator could easily rise up. And now the problem is he'll be religious, and the only thing worse than any given person is that same person who is an extremist in a religion.
I'm not saying Sadam was a good person. But we went their with the wrong goals and now only in those few areas that are completely homogenous have we been able to provide any increase in quality of life. The repressed Shiites are not fighting militias in the streets and leading groups to wipe out Sunni's in their neighborhoods while the Sunni's do the same thing.
I try to look at the bright side when I had homework on a saturday or now when I have to go to work on a sunday afternoon for a few hours, but when people's lives are being ruined you should just look at it honestly. It doesn't do much good to see the silver lining while a country is inching closer to civil war and we have to realize that is our fault(and this includes every single American because it is still our country doing it).
so someone who says a number of blogs are full of crap(which they are, many are just people using the cover of being 'unbiased' to flame) compared to a blog which was admittedly a parody of certain people is somehow inconsistent?
I didn't realize that if someone denounces the media as biased they can't go make the daily show......
you're right. so how about you go learn about the different methods of getting someone who is resisting to comply. guess what, it isn't as easy as just putting cuffs on their wrists. It may be hard to imagine, but you can resist almost as effectively while hand cuffed (and seeing as how the kid wasn't letting them cuff him, how about you show me a nice, not-painful way to force someone).
you seem to think there is some large difference between a stun gun and the shoulder locks required to both force someone to submit to being cuffed or some of the wrist locks that you can use which would get a person to walk out (there are pressure points as well that some cops learn).
you're right, if safety terms they are a world apart. if the cop makes a small mistake, the kid's wrist could break, shoulder dislocate, or rotator cuff get injured. that is serious damage. how about before you start trying to argue the reason to use certain pain compliance methods in different situations you actually go learn how each one works and the real dangers of each; maybe even feel what they are like. most people who have the choice suddenly realize why many cops prefer stun guns: They don't want to cause any permanent damage or long term injuries!*
now it's obvious you are biased against tasering someone. that's fine but then just say you feel these stun guns are equivalent to the tasers that immobilize someone. no person trained in how the two work(or who have felt both) would agree but you can have your opinion about the tools available to a cop; this doesn't mean that your opinion is what a cop should base his use of these tools on. A cop should base his decision to use any of the things in his repertoire on experience with each tool, good science as to it's safety, and the situation.
it seems your argument wouldn't fit in a common sense or science pile. science is what my argument is based one. common sense would be an argument based on the cop considering the public perception of his actions(kind of what you were talking about). but we need a third pile for your argument: one where we put all the arguments that ignore the details of the situation when it suits them. let's ignore the fact that he wasn't cuffed until after he was tasered because he was resisting. let's ignore the fact he didn't comply with multiple verbal commands from the cops. and let's ignore the fact of what it actually takes to make someone physically comply with your commands and what tools actually exist that can be used.
*I'm sure there are a few cops out there that just want to try out their new toy. cops can be childish as well as professional. I even know a couple who said they were that childish when they first started.
you're about the 10th person to tell me.
I think it's pretty standard in the financial industry. we have massive databases to hold risk information for our trading desk. It's pretty standard and these are very large databses(in txt format we are talking about 20 to 50 mb files just to dump a subset of this data).
but from that raw data, we need to do relatively complex analytics that can't be done outside of either our own program or excel. I format and organize all the data in my sql queries for this stuff but then the analytics eat up massive size and the data output into excel isn't small (last data set was 9000 rows by 220 columns this morning). I'm not sure of a better way to do it but OO doesn't handle my work stuff well at all. excel sure as heck isnt' great but it's pretty standard at our bank to be running spreadsheets between 10 and 50 mb (depending on what we are doing).
if you have a suggestion I'd love to hear it but short of writing our own software, we use excel.
I love OO as an idea but I've always said I can't use it till it gets competitive with excel. you think you had problems with 500kb file? I got a core 2 duo but my files are more along the lines of 40 mb..... open office just dies. excel doesn't do much better but I can be sure it'll run.
I find boot times for open office pitifully slow but I'm running version 2.0 or earlier.... it runs fast enough for my home use but I want to kill it every time I try to do work on it.
now go look up teh difference between being hit with a 50k volt taser (your references) and a stun gun. one burns the skin, the other incapacitates your muscles from responding.
I didn't realize you were incapable of doing proper, accurate research on a topic. the first step is understanding the difference between the wide range of "tasers" that are used by law enforcement. I'm glad you've now shown that many people use the 2 terms interchangeably and therefore, a blind google search leads to articles about the taser vs. what this kid was hit with.
great source, a wikipedia article which has actually got about 20 tags for "citation needed". shall I go edit the page now and say something completely different? Wikipedia is good, but use a bit of care when citing it as it is always a work in progress.
again, find something on a stun gun. it is different from a taser as most people know them. they cause local pain and only minimally effect the nervous system, which is why he could scream in pain and then walk out.
stun guns aren't lethal!!!! this is slashdot for cryin' out loud. (not a taser, that would have preventing him from yelling OW).
of course, he could have died from shock if they had accidentally dislocated his shoulder while trying to make him stand up and move.
I find it telling you consider a stun gun lethal when used once on a person. I'd love to see some proof of this. this isn't a full powered taser btw so pointing to valid examples of that are not going to get you brownie points.
screaming OW can be done when hit with a low power stun gun. the problem wtih calling htem all tasers is you begin to think of something that does more than stings.
these are safer than using pressure points you learn. too much adrenaline means it goes from positive pain compliance to accidental(and usually severe) nerve or joint injuries. this causes the same amount of pain but in a controlled manner.
I wonder if you have ever actually tried to drag someone who is resisting away from an area.
guess what, it isn't easy. It isn't even as straight forward as you may think. You have a good chance of hurting yourself in trying to drag someone kicking and screaming.
of course, there are other ways to get someone to walk where youw ant. there are long series of pain compliance techniques cops used to be taught. let me(or someone who knows them) do a few on you. then i fyou want, you can feel a stun gun at low power. I bet you'll pick the latter. most cops love the stun gun because it's straight forward, effective, and less prone to causing permanent damage when the cop has adrenaline rushing through him.
before you start talking theoretically, try to do some of these things you think are so straight forward. I promise they aren't that easy and most are MORE dangerous to the person being dragged away.