Correct, but are the attacks actually trying to fax a coherent document? Or just "jam up the works" with tons of calls, handshaking that doesn't work, etc?
Plus it's a monotreme, meaning it only has one "exit hole", like birds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca). No separate urine/feces/reproductive tracts. Plus they have 10 sex chromosomes (and their X chromosome resembles the sex chromosome of birds)
Why doesn't the state raise the speed limit if everyone is driving 75 on a road with the speed limit set to 55?
Because then less than 100% of highway drivers would be technically breaking the law, and thus wouldn't allow cops to pull anyone at all over with no other reason than "he was speeding".
An indication from a trained working dog is legal grounds for probable cause to search a person.
See, I have a problem with that. I know and fully understand that dogs are VERY good at detecting odors and don't have legimitate false positives all that often (no citation on that). Good tools for the job.
The problem is that they can be induced to indicate by the trainer. It's like having a radar gun with a secret button that displays 96mph on the display no matter what the actual speed is. There are countless, countless reports of a dog alerting on some "suspicious" guy for drugs, no drugs are found, but lo-and-behold other illegal stuff just happens to be found in the search.
Dogs have a root password, and it is their handler's will/direction.
Repost from a random slashdotter from about a year ago:
It would be easy and obvious to point to all the different productive ways we could have spent that $1,000,000,000,000. But we all know that we wouldn't have. To fund health care or mass transit or research and development into clean, renewable energy sources, or simply to ensure that all Americans have adequate food and housing, and that all children are well-educated, are liberal fantasies. Taking even incremental steps on any of those requires the political version of a bloodbath. But funding actual bloodbaths hardly requires debate. Those are our national political values.
You are obviously educated heck a lot of people around here are smart enough to know that the Swastika wasn't always used for that. I think a large number of those educated people would also be smart enough to realize that the large demographic for these games even if it is rated M for mature aren't mature/educated enough to distinguish the difference between the two symboles.
Well tough shit for them. Why should we have to sink to the level of the lowest common denominator?
Unless, of course, the issue isn't really about insensitive Internet pedants being a pain in the ass, but about Microsoft wanting to prevent stupid, uneducated people from quitting XBox Live because they got (wrongly) offended.
Modern Atheism is a belief system aka. a religion.
BZZT.
Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Atheists don't claim to know what's going on, and they don't make up answers to make themselves feel better.
I suppose it's POSSIBLE that the Christian God of the Bible is real....I suppose it's also possible that there's an invisible pink unicorn in my back yard, or that the universe was created last Tuesday in situ and all our memories are false.
Or, we could go with the mostly likely scenario...things are they way they are because of (a) physics and (b) the anthropic principle.
Dante Hicks is just like you. He looooves grape soda. He knows what it's like when the guy at the supermarket won't take your "food stamps". Or how it feels to wait all month for your "welfare check".
What does rooting the Android accomplish? Beyond the ability to change your prompt... what is the result of this?
I don't have an Android so if somebody could enlighten me (and I'm sure others as well). Much appreciated. AC
Edit hosts file to get rid of ads Enable swap on SD cards to help low-memory devices Increased range of dynamic under/overclocking Better backup capabilities Cool stuff like wifi tethering Much better performance (better kernels, i/o scheduling, etc)
It's not legal to trespass into someone's home just because the door was unlocked.
Which is not at all what Google did. Your wireless router transmits data into public space (the street). Anyone is free to collect that data. Don't like it? Paint your house in RF-blocking paint or don't use wireless!
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Correct, but are the attacks actually trying to fax a coherent document? Or just "jam up the works" with tons of calls, handshaking that doesn't work, etc?
Plus it's a monotreme, meaning it only has one "exit hole", like birds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca). No separate urine/feces/reproductive tracts. Plus they have 10 sex chromosomes (and their X chromosome resembles the sex chromosome of birds)
Just weird weird weird!
I am SO fucking glad I'm a beta.
Just wait until someone (human) you love is paralyzed. You'll change your tune REAL quick.
Who's going to research new drugs if the work will be stolen and sold for just the cost of production?
Government-funded, baby. See the NSF, NIH, etc model.
Why doesn't the state raise the speed limit if everyone is driving 75 on a road with the speed limit set to 55?
Because then less than 100% of highway drivers would be technically breaking the law, and thus wouldn't allow cops to pull anyone at all over with no other reason than "he was speeding".
This is what I HATE selectively-enforced laws.
More like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_in_the_Dark
The most surprising turn of events since the unexpected end of the century in '99.
The century ended at the end of the year 2000, as there was no year 0.
Pedants unite!
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
As do people who are intelligent:
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-02-26/health/liberals.atheists.sex.intelligence_1_sexual-behaviors-liberalism-exclusivity?_s=PM:HEALTH
An indication from a trained working dog is legal grounds for probable cause to search a person.
See, I have a problem with that. I know and fully understand that dogs are VERY good at detecting odors and don't have legimitate false positives all that often (no citation on that). Good tools for the job.
The problem is that they can be induced to indicate by the trainer. It's like having a radar gun with a secret button that displays 96mph on the display no matter what the actual speed is. There are countless, countless reports of a dog alerting on some "suspicious" guy for drugs, no drugs are found, but lo-and-behold other illegal stuff just happens to be found in the search.
Dogs have a root password, and it is their handler's will/direction.
Repost from a random slashdotter from about a year ago:
It would be easy and obvious to point to all the different productive ways we could have spent that $1,000,000,000,000. But we all know that we wouldn't have. To fund health care or mass transit or research and development into clean, renewable energy sources, or simply to ensure that all Americans have adequate food and housing, and that all children are well-educated, are liberal fantasies. Taking even incremental steps on any of those requires the political version of a bloodbath. But funding actual bloodbaths hardly requires debate. Those are our national political values.
How about this symbol? Is it cool to use because people aren't as familiar with it?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/KKK-symbol.jpg
You are obviously educated heck a lot of people around here are smart enough to know that the Swastika wasn't always used for that. I think a large number of those educated people would also be smart enough to realize that the large demographic for these games even if it is rated M for mature aren't mature/educated enough to distinguish the difference between the two symboles.
Well tough shit for them. Why should we have to sink to the level of the lowest common denominator?
Unless, of course, the issue isn't really about insensitive Internet pedants being a pain in the ass, but about Microsoft wanting to prevent stupid, uneducated people from quitting XBox Live because they got (wrongly) offended.
Dunning? Six Corners? Norwood? Edison Park?
that 79 year old WW-II vet with the metal hip :)
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79? He would have been 14 years old in 1945.
Plus, in Israel, profiling pretty much works as follows: Not a Jew? Suspicious.
You can see why this doesn't work in ye olde melting pot that is the USA.
Modern Atheism is a belief system aka. a religion.
BZZT.
Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Atheists don't claim to know what's going on, and they don't make up answers to make themselves feel better.
I suppose it's POSSIBLE that the Christian God of the Bible is real....I suppose it's also possible that there's an invisible pink unicorn in my back yard, or that the universe was created last Tuesday in situ and all our memories are false.
Or, we could go with the mostly likely scenario...things are they way they are because of (a) physics and (b) the anthropic principle.
Isn't it awesome when a new version of your OS performs *better* than the last one on the same hardware?
It sure is. Mac OS X has been doing this for almost a decade.
Dante Hicks is just like you. He looooves grape soda. He knows what it's like when the guy at the supermarket won't take your "food stamps". Or how it feels to wait all month for your "welfare check".
Sure you are. So long as it's displayed in plain view (no mirrors on my shoes), I can take a picture of anything I want.
What does rooting the Android accomplish? Beyond the ability to change your prompt... what is the result of this?
I don't have an Android so if somebody could enlighten me (and I'm sure others as well).
Much appreciated.
AC
Edit hosts file to get rid of ads
Enable swap on SD cards to help low-memory devices
Increased range of dynamic under/overclocking
Better backup capabilities
Cool stuff like wifi tethering
Much better performance (better kernels, i/o scheduling, etc)
It's not legal to trespass into someone's home just because the door was unlocked.
Which is not at all what Google did. Your wireless router transmits data into public space (the street). Anyone is free to collect that data. Don't like it? Paint your house in RF-blocking paint or don't use wireless!
agree with most of your sentiment, but let's not forget that these bombs were defused minutes before going off
But they were defused on the ground, right? So if they were only *minutes* from going off, wouldn't they have gone off on the ground?
Uh huh. Remind me who all had validly-issued IDs on 9/11? Oh yeah, all the terrorists.
Also, you really think some airline drone employee can detect a faked ID? Give me a break.
Even easier, just use a pair of walkie-talkies or something.