you're right. actually in the 60s it was attack dogs and fire hoses where I'm from. man, wish they hit this guy with a fire hose up close... I hear crushed ribs are great for your health.
do you know how police offers used to be trained to get compliance? I've gone through it.
it's too bad you think this is too much but the old way of doing it would have hurt the guy a lot more. it turns out when a large kid doesn't want to move when you tell him, it's a lot safer to just use pain compliance(for the kid and cop). the other option, if the training was there, was either a very painful joint lock on teh wrist(which can lead to permanent/ multiple weeks of damage) or a few nerves located under the ear.
I've moved people and been moved with those two. I promise you, feel that and hten a low power stun gun(this wasn't a full taser, if you can scream during the tasing, it's a low power stun gun) and I bet you'll start believing in the benefits of the taser. most cops I know love the taser because now they have a simple, less destructive way to get pain compliance that requires far less training than joint locks and pressure points(the two above can cause a broken wrist or dislocated jaw if adrenaline gets a bit out of control).
state law in teh US, want to be able to use a taser? part of your training is being hit by one at full power.
PS this guy probably was hit wtiha stun gun on a low setting. you can tell because I know 8 people who have been tased and every single one told me you can move a muscle while it's going on, complete lock up. I've seen a couple videos of it and it looks like that is the case there as well.
oh, and not certain on fl, but you need to get hit again in NC when getting re-trained.
simple, linux isn't OSX running on their hardware. contrary to popular belief, apple is just about equivalent to MS, they just failed in the 80's and 90's. they don't stop trying just like windows isn't stopping. so why should linux users feel shafted? they should have expected it and be used to it by now. I was used to it when I was running linux (for the short time it was... )
I'd argue MSFT does well because they deliver what people want. everyone on slashdot likes to call it FUD or intertia, but by about a mile and a half they have the best office program in the world. Their browser for a long time was top tier (I'd heard great things about netscape but it wasn't any better and a lot more of a hassle).
I've never felt locked in to MSFT, I've felt I'm using poor replacements whenever I've gone and changed what I work with. My apple is a friendly OS. Things are a bit easier to find which made me a couple hours quicker in getting up and running, but there is no office software for it I'd stomach using so I can't work on one. Linux is just more of a hassle to maintain(I've tried it on every computer I owned for the last 7 years and it's never just installed cleanly and worked without an issue). their one piece of momentum is that on the rare occasion I want to sit back and play a computer game, I have the entire world of games open to me on windows and not on any other computer.
so what is so inferior and where have they locked me in? I know someone on here would say "oh, you just don't understand how they got htere" but why should I care? I know they are the one company that delivers everything I need in an OS with the flexibility of any hardware combo I want. when their browser went to the crapper, I moved to firefox. but I still demand the other 3 things in my computer and they offer it.
just because the iPod is good doesn't make a single apple machine built throughout the 90's worth a damn thing. they were all even more crash happy than windows. I remember thinking stability when I went from using an apple at school to windows at home, and that is sad. if it had been apple's choice though, I probably wouldn't have had a computer for many many more years because of their outrageous pricing for subpar hardware(I'm not debating price competitiveness today where they are only marginally more expensive).
what you meant to say is the only reason it seems like we are black and white in the US is because you are too lazy to actually see the spectrum that exists. While to generally be elected in most areas you have to run as one of the 2 parties, that means very little as to the division of power.
here is a hint, talk to a democrat in NC. Now go talk to a democrat in california. see how many divisive issues they agree on.
but wait, they both voted democrat so they must be the same, right??
glad to know I came up in an education system that stresses trying to understand poetry and gave absolutely no credit for rote memorization of poetry + someone else's explanation of it. Too bad all the chinese people I know can quote poetry like a literature PhD but are unable to discuss it at a 14 year old level because all they were ever trained to do was memorize.
I hope my child has teachers with the drive to try and step outside of the state dictated courses of study and incorporate a variety of subjects into their work. That was, before the drive by republicans in my state to turn everything into a Chinese/Indian/Japanese styled standardized test, the way things used to be taught.
**yeah, I know it isn't just republicans, but in Florida, they lead the drive for it and having experienced the change first hand, feel just how detrimental it is to a decent education. If Einstein thought his formal education stifled creativity, I wonder what he'd say of the classes going on today.....
decent but slightly off. Kennedy only increased the presense to about 15k troops mainly in advisory positions, LBJ went on to massively increase our presense (100's of thousands) adn Nixon kept it up for a short while; followed by withdrawal over several years.
Eisenhower was a Republican. The initial troop deployment (around 1955) and the official beginning (1959) fell well within his terms. Now if you mean to say: American involvement initiated(it was a conflict between the 2 parts of vietnam) by a republican, escalated by Johnson, promised exit by nixon leading to a further escalation, finally leaving due to a myriad of reasons you'd basically get the crux of it.
Nixon didn't lose the war any more than the president who oversees our withdrawal from Iraq will have lost Iraq. Vietnam was lost by Eisenhower and Kennedy and Iraq will be lost by Bush. The seeds of both losses have little to do with the last year or 2 of the conflicts and far more to do with the first 2 or 3 years of the conflict.
how about total war: rome? I love that game and can start a new campaign at any time because the world does go on without you. if you just sit in your cities and remain happy with a few regiments, you'll get destroyed. and every time you start conquering land, there are always different factions in control of different areas, and the cities are always built up differently outside of the very early stages of the game.
hm.... amazon and every other major book retailer did it for the 6th harry potter when they realized that demand wasn't meeting orders, and they didn't wait to do it. They announced a price cut on the book before it was released and returned the money (CASH) to the people who bought it earlier.
but if you already bought an apple iphone, what are your choices for this? their over priced (by a lot larger margin) accessories? an iPod to replicate function (and also greater margin)? their computers(doubtful, way too expensive compared to the size of the rebate)?
all in all, they win huge without actually doing anything to reduce their profits. and they get about 80 mm dollars of zero interest loans during this time period. You're right, it's a good business move when your phones aren't selling anywhere near as well as you hoped. you are able to keep most of the profits in house. but they aren't being some benefactor feeling like they had overpriced their product and everyone deserves some money back.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
Chinese revolution would be the first to come to mind in recent history. While less common, the number of instances where it COULD occur is also far less in recent history. I'm confining myself to post WWII for this. I'll see if I can think of others.
Generally, to overthrow a well entrenched power doesn't require more than popularity. If there is only a small minority trying to sieze back power from which ever group holds support from the majority, then they will generally lose(though not always). Iran was such a situation but that was because they rallied popular support quickly before throwing out the Shah.
For vietnam, we definitely slaughtered many civilians. the civilian death numbers for Vietnamese is put between 2 and 4 million people (see wikipedia for sources) and 1 mm north vietnamese troops. If you include thsoe who probably died due to our use of Agent Orange, I'd say we were pretty damn brutal. for a country who at the time had around 35 mm people, I'd say 1/7 dead is pretty brutal. Even Russia didn't lose that many (though close) during WWII.
As for Iraq, there are a series of reasons why the US isn't winning, but not being brutal by mass murder sure as hell isn't one of them(seeing as how that goes against the long run plan for the country).
you should probably wonder then how Afghanistan defeated the Soviet empire, the US was completely whipped by the VC, and how the US and England are getting their asses handed to them in Iraq. It's not just the pro-gun culture in America, and your belief has been historically proven wrong many times.
where did this huge bias come from? I've always thought american tv news was terrible, nad hoped during my 1 month in london(for work) I'd see some great journalism on the BBC.
It's the EXACT same BS you get on CNN! It is just as ego centric, just as biased, and just as much false information as anything on US TV before Fox News(which of course, got the US back in the lead for biggest amount of BS on a news program).
Worse yet, the interviews they had with world leaders were complete set ups to make one group look like the "evil" side.
So what about the BBC makes you think it's better? that it biases the other way from US tv news doesn't make it better btw, just more in line with your personal beliefs if that is how you feel.....
I'm not actually versed on the math, but I'd wonder what it would be like with teh collisions(ie in large galaxies what percent of mass is centered in teh central black hoels and surrounding things and how much of that gets radiated during a collision)....all I'm sure about is it will be less...
you sound reasonably computer savvy, so just build her(or rebuild the slow one) so it runs fast enough for her. Just b/c what she does is simple doesn't mean people like to have to be on a slow machine to do it. I can do my work on an ass slow machine, it's just number crunching. I still rpefer to do it on a top end, dual processor, multi core, 4 gb memory system so I don't have to twiddle my thumbs for too long.
because those 338 were actual bots trolling for an unprotected/easy to get into windows machine?
most of the studies I've seen measure the number of times some one tries to remotely contact your computer without your initiating in, so it's not surprising that when a bot trolls over your IP address it queries regaurdless of OS... that doesn't mean it's a bot which tries to open a mac os X hole.
now those types of attacks are probably 100% windows oriented. if your attack has to be completely automated to try that many times, it doesn't make sense to have it query 300 times nad only 2 or 3 times run across a G4 mac nad 5 or 6 times run across an intel mac. that is a size issue. you don't waste time trying to write an automated attack that have to query through 95% of the windows/linux/anything else machines out there just to get to a mac.
Now for more subtle virusses, it depends. there wont' be money in a virus that can own a bunch of mac machines, even if it's more virulent than any windows virus. It's simply because the goal usually is to get as many passwords, user names, and bank account numbers as possible when you are paying for it. a mac virus may get you 5%, but that is leaving the feast on teh table for a few morsels. Now for the whitehat and researchers, the Mac is real target. Why? there is all the fame and glory of being the guy to find your way into the mac security world. But this (probably) isn't because it is Mac or because Apple has a bunch of bad ass engineers. It's because apple now carries the torch for anyone who thought they wanted into the fortress of Unix.
Apple is just the face of people who are trying to find weaknesses in a far more mission critical system and apple has piggy backed off of that success(not in a bad way, it's probably 100x smarter to just take the well tested tank rather than try to build one from scratch).
Is Apple good at security? they are probably as good as anyone else. Is Unix the gold standard for a secure OS? resounding yes.
your argument about iTMS isn't very valid. Are you trying to compare a commercial site definitely behind several walls of 3rd party protection to a desktop running at home which has maybe one line of protection? Worse, because it's a commercial site, Apple would be in huge problems because it would put it's customers data at risk so they don't have a reason to announce they were hacked, ever. Only the hacker would want the fame, and that wouldn't help him commit credit card fraud. It's why when amazon's subsidiary had that issue a while back, they denied it to the bitter end....
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you're right. actually in the 60s it was attack dogs and fire hoses where I'm from. man, wish they hit this guy with a fire hose up close... I hear crushed ribs are great for your health.
do you know how police offers used to be trained to get compliance? I've gone through it.
it's too bad you think this is too much but the old way of doing it would have hurt the guy a lot more. it turns out when a large kid doesn't want to move when you tell him, it's a lot safer to just use pain compliance(for the kid and cop). the other option, if the training was there, was either a very painful joint lock on teh wrist(which can lead to permanent/ multiple weeks of damage) or a few nerves located under the ear.
I've moved people and been moved with those two. I promise you, feel that and hten a low power stun gun(this wasn't a full taser, if you can scream during the tasing, it's a low power stun gun) and I bet you'll start believing in the benefits of the taser. most cops I know love the taser because now they have a simple, less destructive way to get pain compliance that requires far less training than joint locks and pressure points(the two above can cause a broken wrist or dislocated jaw if adrenaline gets a bit out of control).
state law in teh US, want to be able to use a taser? part of your training is being hit by one at full power.
PS this guy probably was hit wtiha stun gun on a low setting. you can tell because I know 8 people who have been tased and every single one told me you can move a muscle while it's going on, complete lock up. I've seen a couple videos of it and it looks like that is the case there as well.
oh, and not certain on fl, but you need to get hit again in NC when getting re-trained.
simple, linux isn't OSX running on their hardware. contrary to popular belief, apple is just about equivalent to MS, they just failed in the 80's and 90's. they don't stop trying just like windows isn't stopping. so why should linux users feel shafted? they should have expected it and be used to it by now. I was used to it when I was running linux (for the short time it was... )
I'd argue MSFT does well because they deliver what people want. everyone on slashdot likes to call it FUD or intertia, but by about a mile and a half they have the best office program in the world. Their browser for a long time was top tier (I'd heard great things about netscape but it wasn't any better and a lot more of a hassle).
I've never felt locked in to MSFT, I've felt I'm using poor replacements whenever I've gone and changed what I work with. My apple is a friendly OS. Things are a bit easier to find which made me a couple hours quicker in getting up and running, but there is no office software for it I'd stomach using so I can't work on one. Linux is just more of a hassle to maintain(I've tried it on every computer I owned for the last 7 years and it's never just installed cleanly and worked without an issue). their one piece of momentum is that on the rare occasion I want to sit back and play a computer game, I have the entire world of games open to me on windows and not on any other computer.
so what is so inferior and where have they locked me in? I know someone on here would say "oh, you just don't understand how they got htere" but why should I care? I know they are the one company that delivers everything I need in an OS with the flexibility of any hardware combo I want. when their browser went to the crapper, I moved to firefox. but I still demand the other 3 things in my computer and they offer it.
just because the iPod is good doesn't make a single apple machine built throughout the 90's worth a damn thing. they were all even more crash happy than windows. I remember thinking stability when I went from using an apple at school to windows at home, and that is sad. if it had been apple's choice though, I probably wouldn't have had a computer for many many more years because of their outrageous pricing for subpar hardware(I'm not debating price competitiveness today where they are only marginally more expensive).
what you meant to say is the only reason it seems like we are black and white in the US is because you are too lazy to actually see the spectrum that exists. While to generally be elected in most areas you have to run as one of the 2 parties, that means very little as to the division of power.
here is a hint, talk to a democrat in NC. Now go talk to a democrat in california. see how many divisive issues they agree on.
but wait, they both voted democrat so they must be the same, right??
glad to know I came up in an education system that stresses trying to understand poetry and gave absolutely no credit for rote memorization of poetry + someone else's explanation of it. Too bad all the chinese people I know can quote poetry like a literature PhD but are unable to discuss it at a 14 year old level because all they were ever trained to do was memorize.
I hope my child has teachers with the drive to try and step outside of the state dictated courses of study and incorporate a variety of subjects into their work. That was, before the drive by republicans in my state to turn everything into a Chinese/Indian/Japanese styled standardized test, the way things used to be taught.
**yeah, I know it isn't just republicans, but in Florida, they lead the drive for it and having experienced the change first hand, feel just how detrimental it is to a decent education. If Einstein thought his formal education stifled creativity, I wonder what he'd say of the classes going on today.....
decent but slightly off. Kennedy only increased the presense to about 15k troops mainly in advisory positions, LBJ went on to massively increase our presense (100's of thousands) adn Nixon kept it up for a short while; followed by withdrawal over several years.
Eisenhower was a Republican. The initial troop deployment (around 1955) and the official beginning (1959) fell well within his terms. Now if you mean to say:
American involvement initiated(it was a conflict between the 2 parts of vietnam) by a republican, escalated by Johnson, promised exit by nixon leading to a further escalation, finally leaving due to a myriad of reasons you'd basically get the crux of it.
Nixon didn't lose the war any more than the president who oversees our withdrawal from Iraq will have lost Iraq. Vietnam was lost by Eisenhower and Kennedy and Iraq will be lost by Bush. The seeds of both losses have little to do with the last year or 2 of the conflicts and far more to do with the first 2 or 3 years of the conflict.
how about total war: rome? I love that game and can start a new campaign at any time because the world does go on without you. if you just sit in your cities and remain happy with a few regiments, you'll get destroyed. and every time you start conquering land, there are always different factions in control of different areas, and the cities are always built up differently outside of the very early stages of the game.
hm.... amazon and every other major book retailer did it for the 6th harry potter when they realized that demand wasn't meeting orders, and they didn't wait to do it. They announced a price cut on the book before it was released and returned the money (CASH) to the people who bought it earlier.
but if you already bought an apple iphone, what are your choices for this? their over priced (by a lot larger margin) accessories? an iPod to replicate function (and also greater margin)? their computers(doubtful, way too expensive compared to the size of the rebate)?
all in all, they win huge without actually doing anything to reduce their profits. and they get about 80 mm dollars of zero interest loans during this time period. You're right, it's a good business move when your phones aren't selling anywhere near as well as you hoped. you are able to keep most of the profits in house. but they aren't being some benefactor feeling like they had overpriced their product and everyone deserves some money back.
You sure ought to son. we will be having a long talk in the morning when you get to work. I expect to see you in my office first thing.
What's a religion without nasty threats?
Philosophy?
good, that makes you Bhuddist right;-)?
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
which kind of makes you Hindu as well...
so you're hindu right? only major religion left:-)
:-)
well, maybe not major by your standards, only a billion of us
Chinese revolution would be the first to come to mind in recent history. While less common, the number of instances where it COULD occur is also far less in recent history. I'm confining myself to post WWII for this. I'll see if I can think of others.
Generally, to overthrow a well entrenched power doesn't require more than popularity. If there is only a small minority trying to sieze back power from which ever group holds support from the majority, then they will generally lose(though not always). Iran was such a situation but that was because they rallied popular support quickly before throwing out the Shah.
For vietnam, we definitely slaughtered many civilians. the civilian death numbers for Vietnamese is put between 2 and 4 million people (see wikipedia for sources) and 1 mm north vietnamese troops. If you include thsoe who probably died due to our use of Agent Orange, I'd say we were pretty damn brutal. for a country who at the time had around 35 mm people, I'd say 1/7 dead is pretty brutal. Even Russia didn't lose that many (though close) during WWII.
As for Iraq, there are a series of reasons why the US isn't winning, but not being brutal by mass murder sure as hell isn't one of them(seeing as how that goes against the long run plan for the country).
you should probably wonder then how Afghanistan defeated the Soviet empire, the US was completely whipped by the VC, and how the US and England are getting their asses handed to them in Iraq. It's not just the pro-gun culture in America, and your belief has been historically proven wrong many times.
where did this huge bias come from? I've always thought american tv news was terrible, nad hoped during my 1 month in london(for work) I'd see some great journalism on the BBC.
It's the EXACT same BS you get on CNN! It is just as ego centric, just as biased, and just as much false information as anything on US TV before Fox News(which of course, got the US back in the lead for biggest amount of BS on a news program).
Worse yet, the interviews they had with world leaders were complete set ups to make one group look like the "evil" side.
So what about the BBC makes you think it's better? that it biases the other way from US tv news doesn't make it better btw, just more in line with your personal beliefs if that is how you feel.....
I'm not actually versed on the math, but I'd wonder what it would be like with teh collisions(ie in large galaxies what percent of mass is centered in teh central black hoels and surrounding things and how much of that gets radiated during a collision)....all I'm sure about is it will be less...
less, gravitational waves will draw a great deal of that mass-energy out of the local system..
you sound reasonably computer savvy, so just build her(or rebuild the slow one) so it runs fast enough for her. Just b/c what she does is simple doesn't mean people like to have to be on a slow machine to do it. I can do my work on an ass slow machine, it's just number crunching. I still rpefer to do it on a top end, dual processor, multi core, 4 gb memory system so I don't have to twiddle my thumbs for too long.
dude, it's simple....
want to get her to shut up, a swift boot to the head generally makes 'em think twice about bitching about the dishes
because those 338 were actual bots trolling for an unprotected/easy to get into windows machine?
most of the studies I've seen measure the number of times some one tries to remotely contact your computer without your initiating in, so it's not surprising that when a bot trolls over your IP address it queries regaurdless of OS... that doesn't mean it's a bot which tries to open a mac os X hole.
now those types of attacks are probably 100% windows oriented. if your attack has to be completely automated to try that many times, it doesn't make sense to have it query 300 times nad only 2 or 3 times run across a G4 mac nad 5 or 6 times run across an intel mac. that is a size issue. you don't waste time trying to write an automated attack that have to query through 95% of the windows/linux/anything else machines out there just to get to a mac.
Now for more subtle virusses, it depends. there wont' be money in a virus that can own a bunch of mac machines, even if it's more virulent than any windows virus. It's simply because the goal usually is to get as many passwords, user names, and bank account numbers as possible when you are paying for it. a mac virus may get you 5%, but that is leaving the feast on teh table for a few morsels. Now for the whitehat and researchers, the Mac is real target. Why? there is all the fame and glory of being the guy to find your way into the mac security world. But this (probably) isn't because it is Mac or because Apple has a bunch of bad ass engineers. It's because apple now carries the torch for anyone who thought they wanted into the fortress of Unix.
Apple is just the face of people who are trying to find weaknesses in a far more mission critical system and apple has piggy backed off of that success(not in a bad way, it's probably 100x smarter to just take the well tested tank rather than try to build one from scratch).
Is Apple good at security? they are probably as good as anyone else. Is Unix the gold standard for a secure OS? resounding yes.
your argument about iTMS isn't very valid. Are you trying to compare a commercial site definitely behind several walls of 3rd party protection to a desktop running at home which has maybe one line of protection? Worse, because it's a commercial site, Apple would be in huge problems because it would put it's customers data at risk so they don't have a reason to announce they were hacked, ever. Only the hacker would want the fame, and that wouldn't help him commit credit card fraud. It's why when amazon's subsidiary had that issue a while back, they denied it to the bitter end....