You are in a state of denial. In Columbine, it was well known that the shooters had been bullied for a very long time before the shootings. Not a month after the incident, I watch a news story about a student being expelled for having a gun. The reporter was interviewing a fellow student, and right on national television, the student stated that several members of the football team had been threatening to beat up the gun carrying student, and that the gun a carrying student had said he would shoot anyone that tried. The gun carrying student was expelled. Not the school endorsed gang.
It is well known that members of sports teams are given extra powers in school affairs, and that physical violence will be far more tolerated by those groups.
So, just to be clear, EVERY time you hear a story about the 'weird' kid snapping and going on a shooting rampage, you have seen the "popular media" report on a story in which a bully is protected by the school administration.
So, every time a teacher says to do something, they should be confronted with the question of "Do we have to?" It would grind the school to a halt. Most schools have a standing policy that assemblies are mandatory.
I didn't get skepticism from the local news station. I was told that they wouldn't do serious stories on the subject. If you live in the North Bay (California), and want to spend a week sitting on a roadside, you can verify the situation for yourself. I had a web site about it for a while before the police threatened me. I certainly am not willing to have my family killed over it. It will take someone willing to risk more than I am to go head to head with a corrupt police force. I sold my home and moved.
Yeah, what need did an employee have to plug their home computer into the companies electrical outlet. If your advice had been implement in the 70's, we could have avoided this whole problem and not had PCs in the workplace at all. It's too bad companies didn't have the foresight...
I guess you didn't read the other posts. You know, the ones that made it clear that here in CA taping a phone conversation without prior consent by the other party is a criminal act that will give them an excuse to arrest you. Besides the fact that I never expected the police to threaten me, and once they did, I realized that this was a situation that I was just going to remove myself from. When people who have no reason to fear the law applying to them, and are well armed, threaten you, you don't make them do it again unless you are suicidal, and are willing to fight it out to the bitter end. I chose to sell my home and move to another city, as I wasn't willing to have me, or my family murdered.
Of course if we were to force a change in the socket, why not use that as an opportunity to mandate the switch to DC lighting at the same time. Safer and as I understand it, more energy efficient. Of course the the switch would be easier if they simply mandated that new construction required the new wiring. As soon as the first housing division went up, it would be immediately economical for local stores to carry the new bulbs. After the dust settles, you start offering rebates for upgrading existing wiring, similar to what they do for upgrading windows. When the number of DC CF homes gets to be larger than the AC incandescent homes, the incandescents would be considered "specialty" lighting, and would only be used where they are really needed.
I would guess that within a few years, people would look at the current lighting as see it the way we now see the old knob and wire systems.
That's all fine and dandy, but the reality is that my word against the police on whether they threatened me or not will only lead to a he said she said situation. It is naive to think that the police officer, and the mayor that had them threaten me would be more than unconvinced by my accusations. It is also naive to believe that an "accident" or "random home invasion" wouldn't be enough of a convince to make sure that me, my wife, or son didn't have an unfortunate event happen. If I were single, I might have considered fighting it farther, but I wasn't going to have my wife or child murdered over this event. I did try contacting the FBI, but the response I got back, boiled down to "It's a local matter. It has to be handled locally." The prudent thing to do was sell my home, and move somewhere that I was no longer considered an "inconvenience" to the local police. I suppose in the long run I could consider the experience to be a "learned a lesson the easy way" experience.
I am in CA. I have never heard of the exception for public official and employees. Is that employees of public officials, or employees of anybody? Also, do you happen to have a reference. I would love to be well armed (metaphorically speaking) should this kind of thing ever happen again.
I tried that. The one local TV channel told me that they would not cover it because the city would cause them all sorts of problems if they did anything beyond a fluff piece, and the nearest station that was not inside the city limits was in San Francisco. They are far enough away that the problems of one neighborhood 60 miles away was not even on their radar.
I see by your comparison of pancreatic cancer to the problems associated with not being circumcised that you are fully aware that your statement about there being no medical reason to circumcise was untrue.
Notice that I neither said that circumcision was good nor bad. I even went so far as to say that the benefits and drawbacks can be debated. I only targeted one single point of your post that was untrue, and you validated it. In response, you made an absurd statement and tried to attribute it to me. This puts you in the camp of 'fanatic', as you ignore what you don't want to hear, and attempt to villify those that don't accept every detail of your argument. Even when it is clear that you know you are lying about some of them.
You also show dishonesty in your argument (another indication of fanaticisms) by comparing preventative treatment between a person having major surgery for an ailment that affects.0001% of the population with one that is minor surgery (not even requiring stitches) that affects as much as 10 percent of the population.
I will repeat again, in case you still have a hard time understanding, the benefits and drawbacks can be debated all day long, but the statement that there is no medical reason for for circumcision is unequivocally wrong.
The pros and cons of circumcision can be debated all day long, but the statement of "medically unnecessary genital mutilation of infants." is just simply wrong. There is this thing called "skin adhesions" that happen between the shaft/foreskin and the head of the penis. In circumcised boys, this can be inconvenient. In extreme cases, it can lead to permanent minor disfigurement. In uncircumcised boys, the problems can be much worse, and are much more likely to take place. There are a whole group of medical problems that circumcision prevents, and there a many men who end up having to get them later in life when they are MUCH more traumatic because of them.
Because then they wouldn't need to have a "random gang related shooting, where the assailant could not be identified". They would simply drive over and arrest me for criminal activity. That combined with the fact that when the police threaten you, and the threat goes all the way to the top of the city government, you simply sell your home and move somewhere else. Yes, all the way to the top. It was the mayor herself that told me I would be receiving a call from the police department concerning my complaints.
This only works if the police don't kill you. I had a similar problem where the city I lived in thought it was a good idea to dump freeway traffic on one side of a residential neighborhood, and pick it back up on the other. They didn't want to build the freeway in the land that was already owned and waiting for the freeway. I personally witnessed over 150 car crashes in just the one city block in front of my house. A few pedestrians a year would get run down, and the police would tell anyone that called them about hit and runs in our neighbor hood that those were civil matters, so they would refuse to even take a report.
When my wife and I started raising a stink, and making public statements about the situation. Started taking photos, and logging traffic speeds... I received a phone call from the police department telling me "Your just trying to make trouble.", "You better drop this. We know who you are." Now, there are some who might claim that this was not a threat of violence, but I think most sane people would take it as a very real threat.
I have been saying for years that the problem is simple. Build cars that are all electric, but have the power source in the trunk. Make the connection to the rest of the car a simple plug (or two), and you have a perfect vehicle to support whatever future power source we decide to go with. If you just travel around town, you drop in the battery pack. You want to go across country, you drop in the gas generator. You want to head up to the mountains for a ski weekend, you drop in the fuelcell because you know there is are a couple of hydrogen refuling stations between here and there. The electric company has a secret meeting with the oil and hydrogen company? Drop in a propane generator and away you go.
I seems that the auto industry is intentionally trying to force use to stay on oil. Even the prius was obviously designed as a way to prevent the move away from oil.
Not Apple, Red Hat or Novell, but I believe the whole Reiser incident was pretty well covered on Slashdot, and that had less to do with tech than this did.
I'm not an expert, but Have installed a few alarm systems. Every one that I have dealt with has a 'program' mode that allows a company like ADT to remotely program your controller. The way it works is that the box is set to wait for a ring, hang up then another ring. Could it be something along those lines? If it is, it simply needs a flag turned off in the controller.
Most houses have access to the POTS from the outside. It is just as easy for the "bad guy" to snip the POTS line as it is for them to shut off the power. Given that batteries on alarm systems are well known, it seems more likely that the "bad guy" would go the route of snipping phone lines over cutting power. Of course if the alarm is set to call over VOIP, or even as a TCP/IP, the "bad guy" would have to worry about cutting the phone line, the cable line, AND knocking the satellite dish out of alignment.
There is no irony in the GPL being meaningless without copyright. The GPL is a "If 'The Man' is going to enforce the very bad idea of copyright and software licensing, then they we will use that enforcement against itself to keep people free. If 'The Man' gives up on these very bad ideas, then the GPL will no longer be necessary." kind of document.
It is a little like the US Constitution. If there were no one who would ever want to keep us from exercising our inalienable rights, the Constitution would be completely meaningless.
That is a fine explanation. Very easy for us non particle physicists to understand, and completely fits into our high school level understanding of physics. Thanks.
Tell him the truth. Tell him that Vista has all sorts of problems, that his games will crash, and that due to OEM licensing deals, it is very hard to get a computer that has XP on it. His ire will be right where it belongs. On Dell and MS. Protecting the less technically inclined from the truth is not protecting them at all.
My understanding was that at about 17MP, the pixels are as small or smaller than the Nickle (is it nickle?) particles used in film. If that is true, I would expect that somewhere around the 20MP point, we will see the shift away from MP to optics as the deciding factor. I know that better optics would make a bigger deal than higher MP count, but I also suspect that it is cheaper to improve the MP count than to improve the optics.
Besides, wasn't it just last year that IBM stopped officially supporting OS/2? Give me a company that will continue to support products for a decade after they are essentially dead, and then license the product to a third party to offer support beyond that, any day.
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Amiga Basic was written by Microsoft. The basic on the C64 was as well.
You are in a state of denial. In Columbine, it was well known that the shooters had been bullied for a very long time before the shootings. Not a month after the incident, I watch a news story about a student being expelled for having a gun. The reporter was interviewing a fellow student, and right on national television, the student stated that several members of the football team had been threatening to beat up the gun carrying student, and that the gun a carrying student had said he would shoot anyone that tried. The gun carrying student was expelled. Not the school endorsed gang.
It is well known that members of sports teams are given extra powers in school affairs, and that physical violence will be far more tolerated by those groups.
So, just to be clear, EVERY time you hear a story about the 'weird' kid snapping and going on a shooting rampage, you have seen the "popular media" report on a story in which a bully is protected by the school administration.
So, every time a teacher says to do something, they should be confronted with the question of "Do we have to?" It would grind the school to a halt. Most schools have a standing policy that assemblies are mandatory.
I didn't get skepticism from the local news station. I was told that they wouldn't do serious stories on the subject. If you live in the North Bay (California), and want to spend a week sitting on a roadside, you can verify the situation for yourself. I had a web site about it for a while before the police threatened me. I certainly am not willing to have my family killed over it. It will take someone willing to risk more than I am to go head to head with a corrupt police force. I sold my home and moved.
Yeah, what need did an employee have to plug their home computer into the companies electrical outlet. If your advice had been implement in the 70's, we could have avoided this whole problem and not had PCs in the workplace at all. It's too bad companies didn't have the foresight...
I guess you didn't read the other posts. You know, the ones that made it clear that here in CA taping a phone conversation without prior consent by the other party is a criminal act that will give them an excuse to arrest you. Besides the fact that I never expected the police to threaten me, and once they did, I realized that this was a situation that I was just going to remove myself from. When people who have no reason to fear the law applying to them, and are well armed, threaten you, you don't make them do it again unless you are suicidal, and are willing to fight it out to the bitter end. I chose to sell my home and move to another city, as I wasn't willing to have me, or my family murdered.
Of course if we were to force a change in the socket, why not use that as an opportunity to mandate the switch to DC lighting at the same time. Safer and as I understand it, more energy efficient. Of course the the switch would be easier if they simply mandated that new construction required the new wiring. As soon as the first housing division went up, it would be immediately economical for local stores to carry the new bulbs. After the dust settles, you start offering rebates for upgrading existing wiring, similar to what they do for upgrading windows. When the number of DC CF homes gets to be larger than the AC incandescent homes, the incandescents would be considered "specialty" lighting, and would only be used where they are really needed.
I would guess that within a few years, people would look at the current lighting as see it the way we now see the old knob and wire systems.
That's all fine and dandy, but the reality is that my word against the police on whether they threatened me or not will only lead to a he said she said situation. It is naive to think that the police officer, and the mayor that had them threaten me would be more than unconvinced by my accusations. It is also naive to believe that an "accident" or "random home invasion" wouldn't be enough of a convince to make sure that me, my wife, or son didn't have an unfortunate event happen. If I were single, I might have considered fighting it farther, but I wasn't going to have my wife or child murdered over this event. I did try contacting the FBI, but the response I got back, boiled down to "It's a local matter. It has to be handled locally." The prudent thing to do was sell my home, and move somewhere that I was no longer considered an "inconvenience" to the local police. I suppose in the long run I could consider the experience to be a "learned a lesson the easy way" experience.
OK, Thanks anyways. That is the way I understood the law.
I am in CA. I have never heard of the exception for public official and employees. Is that employees of public officials, or employees of anybody? Also, do you happen to have a reference. I would love to be well armed (metaphorically speaking) should this kind of thing ever happen again.
I tried that. The one local TV channel told me that they would not cover it because the city would cause them all sorts of problems if they did anything beyond a fluff piece, and the nearest station that was not inside the city limits was in San Francisco. They are far enough away that the problems of one neighborhood 60 miles away was not even on their radar.
I see by your comparison of pancreatic cancer to the problems associated with not being circumcised that you are fully aware that your statement about there being no medical reason to circumcise was untrue.
.0001% of the population with one that is minor surgery (not even requiring stitches) that affects as much as 10 percent of the population.
Notice that I neither said that circumcision was good nor bad. I even went so far as to say that the benefits and drawbacks can be debated. I only targeted one single point of your post that was untrue, and you validated it. In response, you made an absurd statement and tried to attribute it to me. This puts you in the camp of 'fanatic', as you ignore what you don't want to hear, and attempt to villify those that don't accept every detail of your argument. Even when it is clear that you know you are lying about some of them.
You also show dishonesty in your argument (another indication of fanaticisms) by comparing preventative treatment between a person having major surgery for an ailment that affects
I will repeat again, in case you still have a hard time understanding, the benefits and drawbacks can be debated all day long, but the statement that there is no medical reason for for circumcision is unequivocally wrong.
The pros and cons of circumcision can be debated all day long, but the statement of "medically unnecessary genital mutilation of infants." is just simply wrong. There is this thing called "skin adhesions" that happen between the shaft/foreskin and the head of the penis. In circumcised boys, this can be inconvenient. In extreme cases, it can lead to permanent minor disfigurement. In uncircumcised boys, the problems can be much worse, and are much more likely to take place. There are a whole group of medical problems that circumcision prevents, and there a many men who end up having to get them later in life when they are MUCH more traumatic because of them.
Because then they wouldn't need to have a "random gang related shooting, where the assailant could not be identified". They would simply drive over and arrest me for criminal activity. That combined with the fact that when the police threaten you, and the threat goes all the way to the top of the city government, you simply sell your home and move somewhere else. Yes, all the way to the top. It was the mayor herself that told me I would be receiving a call from the police department concerning my complaints.
This only works if the police don't kill you. I had a similar problem where the city I lived in thought it was a good idea to dump freeway traffic on one side of a residential neighborhood, and pick it back up on the other. They didn't want to build the freeway in the land that was already owned and waiting for the freeway. I personally witnessed over 150 car crashes in just the one city block in front of my house. A few pedestrians a year would get run down, and the police would tell anyone that called them about hit and runs in our neighbor hood that those were civil matters, so they would refuse to even take a report.
When my wife and I started raising a stink, and making public statements about the situation. Started taking photos, and logging traffic speeds... I received a phone call from the police department telling me "Your just trying to make trouble.", "You better drop this. We know who you are." Now, there are some who might claim that this was not a threat of violence, but I think most sane people would take it as a very real threat.
I have been saying for years that the problem is simple. Build cars that are all electric, but have the power source in the trunk. Make the connection to the rest of the car a simple plug (or two), and you have a perfect vehicle to support whatever future power source we decide to go with. If you just travel around town, you drop in the battery pack. You want to go across country, you drop in the gas generator. You want to head up to the mountains for a ski weekend, you drop in the fuelcell because you know there is are a couple of hydrogen refuling stations between here and there. The electric company has a secret meeting with the oil and hydrogen company? Drop in a propane generator and away you go.
I seems that the auto industry is intentionally trying to force use to stay on oil. Even the prius was obviously designed as a way to prevent the move away from oil.
Not Apple, Red Hat or Novell, but I believe the whole Reiser incident was pretty well covered on Slashdot, and that had less to do with tech than this did.
I'm not an expert, but Have installed a few alarm systems. Every one that I have dealt with has a 'program' mode that allows a company like ADT to remotely program your controller. The way it works is that the box is set to wait for a ring, hang up then another ring. Could it be something along those lines? If it is, it simply needs a flag turned off in the controller.
They could only do active monitoring of an IP connection as active monitoring of a POTS would make the POTS unusable as a phone.
Most houses have access to the POTS from the outside. It is just as easy for the "bad guy" to snip the POTS line as it is for them to shut off the power. Given that batteries on alarm systems are well known, it seems more likely that the "bad guy" would go the route of snipping phone lines over cutting power. Of course if the alarm is set to call over VOIP, or even as a TCP/IP, the "bad guy" would have to worry about cutting the phone line, the cable line, AND knocking the satellite dish out of alignment.
There is no irony in the GPL being meaningless without copyright. The GPL is a "If 'The Man' is going to enforce the very bad idea of copyright and software licensing, then they we will use that enforcement against itself to keep people free. If 'The Man' gives up on these very bad ideas, then the GPL will no longer be necessary." kind of document.
It is a little like the US Constitution. If there were no one who would ever want to keep us from exercising our inalienable rights, the Constitution would be completely meaningless.
That is a fine explanation. Very easy for us non particle physicists to understand, and completely fits into our high school level understanding of physics. Thanks.
Tell him the truth. Tell him that Vista has all sorts of problems, that his games will crash, and that due to OEM licensing deals, it is very hard to get a computer that has XP on it. His ire will be right where it belongs. On Dell and MS. Protecting the less technically inclined from the truth is not protecting them at all.
My understanding was that at about 17MP, the pixels are as small or smaller than the Nickle (is it nickle?) particles used in film. If that is true, I would expect that somewhere around the 20MP point, we will see the shift away from MP to optics as the deciding factor. I know that better optics would make a bigger deal than higher MP count, but I also suspect that it is cheaper to improve the MP count than to improve the optics.
Besides, wasn't it just last year that IBM stopped officially supporting OS/2? Give me a company that will continue to support products for a decade after they are essentially dead, and then license the product to a third party to offer support beyond that, any day.