A very small percentage of bad apples in our society spoil a lot of things for the rest of us. I'm all for using technology that makes it easier to identify the bad apples from the rest of us that just want to live our lives peacefully. The better the tools law enforcement has, the better for all of us.
Ah, but who gets to define what a 'bad apple' is? I bet your definition may be different than the folks who will do the enforcing. And if the definition ever changes to include *you*, then you're screwed.
When faced with 10 different choices, and having no data by which to differentiate them, humans choose the familiar. If you've never had a Coke in your life, but you've seen the logo everywhere you go for a decade, when faced with 10 unknown colas and no opportunity to do research, you're most likely to pick the Coke because it feels like a known element even though it isn't.
No one is immune to that. Including you.
I am now that I know about it. If someone gives me 10 choices of anything, one of which I'm familiar with and have never tried, I'll think back to writing this response and will do other than you suggest. I'm a HUGE cynic, and any time I become aware of a 'tactic', I become immune to it. And since I had to take a marketing class in college (*shudder*) and read sites like The Consumerist, I know a lot of tactics.
Kind of like a Borg; you have to keep using different phaser frequencies otherwise their shields will adjust. Just like mine do.
That might be the 2 states that he didn't include when he wrote "48";).
The 2 that you don't need a permit in actually still DO issue permits themselves, so they're part of the 48 that issue them as well. Not requiring permits but still issuing them might seem strange, but they do it for reasons of reciprocity. IE, in a state that DOES require a permit to carry concealed, they will generally recognize the permits of a set list of other states. So while in those 2 (Vermont and Alaska IIRC) a citizen might not need a permit to carry, many will still go through the effort of getting one so that they have an accepted permit available when they visit a DIFFERENT state.
Aye mate, I completely misread the post I replied to. I thought he meant the other 2 states *not* included in the 48 are where you didn't need a permit. Inclusive instead of exclusive.:)
For those worrying about vigilantism*, consider that 48 states have CCW permits of one sort or another. That in 2 states you don't even need a permit. Not in IL (or WI). IL has no conceal-carry law, meaning it's ILLEGAL to do (when loaded anyway):
So I put in the word for slashdot at my secret neocon command in the bowels of Mt. Doom at GOP's secret conspiracy bunker. As I am only a low level functionary in the vast plan to corporatize the world for massive profits, I cannot guarantee success, but, let's see what happens. If I hadn't been paying attention to your previous posts, I'd have believed you were joking.
So, where exactly is the secret conspiracy bunker? In Vegas, "disguised" as a brothel, perhaps?
Sunshine gives me goosebumps every time I see it. Sure, the whole Pinbacker thing (which is a Dark Star reference) is retarded, but the rest of the movie is simply AMAZING.
Never have I seen interplanetary space travel depicted so realistically and soberly (other than the fact that they have gravity on board, but hey). Never have I seen a movie that made space seem more dangerous. Death is only a few feet away at all times. Plus the psychology of knowing that your death is almost certain, but going on a mission anyway...that movie just blows my mind. And the Underworld soundtrack is AWESOME.
God I've turned into a beer snob. Hand-crafted Belgian ales ftw. -- Quand on est bête, c'est pour longtemps Unibroue! Best Belgian beers around, made in Quebec!
I'm a male in my early 30s and I have a "bisected stream" issue like 80% of the time I take a leak standing up.
It must be the shape of the urethral opening, but I get the main stream and sometimes a secondary "side piddle", much like pouring water from a glass (some snakes down the side of the glass). Probably about 5% of the volume of the main stream.
This can result in some nasty surprises since you can't really feel it happening. You look down after taking a leak and notice "oh my, I just pissed all over my right pant leg". I've gotten into the habit of putting my right hand kind of to the side to block the side-piddle if it does happen. Better on your hand than on your pant leg.
YMMV, obviously. This has never been officially diagnosed by a doctor (not that big a deal, and I'm sure as shit not having surgery done to fix it), but it does happen.
I don't know if anyone was confused by the abbreviation, but anyway, DVR seems to be Digital Video Recorder. Maybe it's just because I'm from sweden. Anyway, hope it helps someone. I believe the Swedish acronym is BBB. Then again, BBB is the Swedish acronym for just about anything; ask that famous chef of theirs.
The US War on Drugs has led to lower prices and higher purity of the product being smuggled into the country. I would *love* to see the logic behind that one. I'm sure you have no citation because it doesn't make any sense.
Did the street price of booze go up or down during Prohibition? I'm betting up.
And I'm a white guy who was born in Africa and is now an American citizen. I have no problem referring to myself as African-American just to see the look on a person's face. Or being called white, or telling American born blacks who refer to themselves as African-Americans that they aren't 'African' enough. Silly Rodesian...
t's founder, not flounder. A flounder 1) is a bottom-dwelling flat fish 2) was a Delta House pledge. Either could give NASA a run for its money, May I have 10,000 marbles, please?
Any sign of the leather goddesses? Wow, and I thought I was the only one who remembered that particular text-adventure game. My Dad had it on an unlabeled floppy in a drawer somewhere. Being like 11 and playing that game was great.;)
Having done most of my education in Virginia (6th grade through PhD), I think I have some idea how this is going to go.... But the bulk of the instruction will consist of the teacher plopping an over-produced, over-dramatic, under-budgeted, cheesy videocassette into an old VCR that the school should have replaced last century with something more modern. Obviously you haven't been to Fairfax County! With their millions of dollars, the teacher will plop an over-produced, over-dramatic, under-budgeted, cheesy Blu-Ray disc into a multi-thousand $ player connected to an 52" OLED TV.
(My wife taught there, talk about a district that thinks its shit doesn't stink when, in fact....it does!)
Another part is that Java already has reasonable solutions in the standard libraries for any fundamental structure. This makes all work purely academic. This isn't necessarily a big deal, but can affect motivation. Unless you're forbidden from using those libraries per terms of your academic projects! I wrote a recursive descent compiler (front end, parsed Pascal) and several layers of the TCP/IP stack (forgot which layers, but we had to do a (manual) CRC check in one of them) in Java!
The nice thing is that once you know how the basics work, your prof can say "Remember all those crazy methods you had to write to do simple stuff? Here are the libraries to do it in one line!"
It's almost like a programming language with "hard" and "easy" modes...
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A very small percentage of bad apples in our society spoil a lot of things for the rest of us. I'm all for using technology that makes it easier to identify the bad apples from the rest of us that just want to live our lives peacefully. The better the tools law enforcement has, the better for all of us.
Ah, but who gets to define what a 'bad apple' is? I bet your definition may be different than the folks who will do the enforcing. And if the definition ever changes to include *you*, then you're screwed.
When faced with 10 different choices, and having no data by which to differentiate them, humans choose the familiar. If you've never had a Coke in your life, but you've seen the logo everywhere you go for a decade, when faced with 10 unknown colas and no opportunity to do research, you're most likely to pick the Coke because it feels like a known element even though it isn't.
No one is immune to that. Including you.
I am now that I know about it. If someone gives me 10 choices of anything, one of which I'm familiar with and have never tried, I'll think back to writing this response and will do other than you suggest. I'm a HUGE cynic, and any time I become aware of a 'tactic', I become immune to it. And since I had to take a marketing class in college (*shudder*) and read sites like The Consumerist, I know a lot of tactics.
Kind of like a Borg; you have to keep using different phaser frequencies otherwise their shields will adjust. Just like mine do.
It's less of a time machine...and more of a dodge ball cannon!
The 2 that you don't need a permit in actually still DO issue permits themselves, so they're part of the 48 that issue them as well. Not requiring permits but still issuing them might seem strange, but they do it for reasons of reciprocity. IE, in a state that DOES require a permit to carry concealed, they will generally recognize the permits of a set list of other states. So while in those 2 (Vermont and Alaska IIRC) a citizen might not need a permit to carry, many will still go through the effort of getting one so that they have an accepted permit available when they visit a DIFFERENT state.
Aye mate, I completely misread the post I replied to. I thought he meant the other 2 states *not* included in the 48 are where you didn't need a permit. Inclusive instead of exclusive.http://www.concealcarry.org/carrylegal.htm
They didn't the last time I worked there, in 1994 (highschooler).
So, where exactly is the secret conspiracy bunker? In Vegas, "disguised" as a brothel, perhaps?
Sunshine gives me goosebumps every time I see it. Sure, the whole Pinbacker thing (which is a Dark Star reference) is retarded, but the rest of the movie is simply AMAZING.
Never have I seen interplanetary space travel depicted so realistically and soberly (other than the fact that they have gravity on board, but hey). Never have I seen a movie that made space seem more dangerous. Death is only a few feet away at all times. Plus the psychology of knowing that your death is almost certain, but going on a mission anyway...that movie just blows my mind. And the Underworld soundtrack is AWESOME.
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Quand on est bête, c'est pour longtemps Unibroue! Best Belgian beers around, made in Quebec!
http://unibroue.com/
Die mothafucka die muthafucka DIE!
I'm a male in my early 30s and I have a "bisected stream" issue like 80% of the time I take a leak standing up.
It must be the shape of the urethral opening, but I get the main stream and sometimes a secondary "side piddle", much like pouring water from a glass (some snakes down the side of the glass). Probably about 5% of the volume of the main stream.
This can result in some nasty surprises since you can't really feel it happening. You look down after taking a leak and notice "oh my, I just pissed all over my right pant leg". I've gotten into the habit of putting my right hand kind of to the side to block the side-piddle if it does happen. Better on your hand than on your pant leg.
YMMV, obviously. This has never been officially diagnosed by a doctor (not that big a deal, and I'm sure as shit not having surgery done to fix it), but it does happen.
I've grew up in Naperville and live in Peoria, and I can tell you anything S of I-80 is like a different state.
:)
It's not bad, just different.
Thanks for your comments. If I'm ever arrested, I hope the arresting officer puts as much thought into the process as you do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RED/BLACK_concept
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST#RED.2FBLACK_separation
Did the street price of booze go up or down during Prohibition? I'm betting up.
My Dad had it on an unlabeled floppy in a drawer somewhere. Being like 11 and playing that game was great.
(My wife taught there, talk about a district that thinks its shit doesn't stink when, in fact....it does!)
The nice thing is that once you know how the basics work, your prof can say "Remember all those crazy methods you had to write to do simple stuff? Here are the libraries to do it in one line!"
It's almost like a programming language with "hard" and "easy" modes...
I saw it on VHS in the 90s sometime, I remember it sucking badly.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0095738/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisins_(South_Park_episode)