God that Laser pointer in the movies pisses me off. I took one from some 11-13 year old boy and smashed it to pieces last year. Got a standing elvation in the theatre for my actions.
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So what your saying is... That I can try to convince her that since she enjoyed it so much it only "seemed" like 30 seconds:)
I always thought this phenomenon was a survival reaction. You body basically pumps out an enormous amount of adrenaline which clears your head, keeps you from panic, and increases your maximum physical capabilities (Even though you can injure yourself due to over exertion when it wears off).
I don't think that time slows down I think that you temporarily speed up and your perception of time is skewed.
Why would this be fake? He's a Sci-Fi writer... It's not like they have any interest in Geeky stuff... I mean seriously which sci-fi writer would be interested in computers, space travel, technology, and other related things.
It apparently is better to kill a person then to be a "Peep 'n' Tom" in your book. As a murder is not subject to being a registered murder and publicly ostracized. This "sex" offender BS really needs to have some granularity or they need to make all Felony+ charges add you to a list.
When I was younger I worked at a resourt doing houskeeping and eventually interior painting as a Journeyman's helper. During the summer I would sit out on the beach and chat with individuals and families whom vacationed there. One Middle Eastern man was there with his family and during our conversation it turned out he did biological weapons research and methods to apply this technology directly to medicine.
I am just indicating exactly what the parent already stated. Once the technology is created it is a matter of finding alternate ways it can be applied to benifit many different correlating fields of study. And there are actually people out there who do this research.
I am glad you pointed out the parent's flaw in his understanding in what is being asked. The point is not the amount of laws or the expectation that the laws will not be broken, it is about the average persons ability to know right from wrong.
For example: You get pulled over by a police officer for speeding. You knew you were speeding the "Law" was posted and quite easily understood. The police officer then writes you a ticket for speeding and adds on the additional "crimes".
(Non comprehensive list) Exhaust hangs to low (My buddy actually got this one on a stock exhaust) Tail lights out/dim Tinted windows are too dark.
And now your speeding infraction turns into something worse because the officer is taught a portion of the laws that the average civilian had no idea existed. This is the current problem with our law system and why your intended jab at the 10 commandments put mud on your face.
I think part of the problem is so much of the music is crap and has devalued music considerably. Before when I was younger you would purchase an album for $15 and at least half the music was enjoyable. Now adays your lucky if it is 1/4 of the music. $1 buck a song IMHO is pretty expensive for the investment it takes to produce the song.
Here is a comparison:
Cost of an inexpensive hollywood movie is around 100 million. The DVD gets released and it is $30 and lasts for 90 minutes or 33 cents a minute. Cost of an album is about $15 bucks and runs for about 45 minutes or 33 cents a minute. Cost to produce said music is far from 100 million dollars. My point is they are charging highly inflated rates for the investment put into the music. The actual value of the music is changing and 33 cents a minute just does not cut it anymore.
Not to justify copywrite infringement but I would guess that a fairly large chunk of people who "Pirate" music/software/movies don't have jobs due to being underage and could not purchase said items anyway. They are not directly cutting into the bottom-line. Music is failing because of the poor quality and the price. Bringing the price even down to a quarter a song like the old Juke boxes would still be profitable just not outlandishly profitable like it currently is.
Umm, TV & Video Games make you fat. America did not have a fat problem before we had 2+ TV's and Consoles in your home. Basically now that people are not obtaining the exercise level of the pre electronics age we have become fat. Food intake plays a part but regardless exercise plays a major role in maintaining a non-obese state.
I walked about an average of 6 hours a day for 30 days while in Italy September '06. I was eating 3 meals a day and the meals were larger than I eat at home (I was raised to empty the plate) and I ended up loosing 35lbs while there. In a normal day I only walk 15-20 minutes a day and have gained back about 25 of the 35 lbs lost last year. W/o changing my diet and can loose considerable weight at a fast rate just by increasing my exersize level.
One pretty universal way to prevent people from doing something is pain. Children usually burn themselves one good time on a hot stove or maybe even hot soup and they learn what not to do. Pain does not always mean physical it can also be mental. Some mental methods would be taking something away thats dear to them such as a favorite toy. Maybe even making them take a timeout, go to their room, or grounding them from seeing friends. All of the traditional punishments work great in teaching an acceptable level of behavior with children. And if parents stick to these punishments and follow through with them the children generally learn what is accptable behavior and what is not. There are always going to be a small few whom just don't get it and those have a bunch of terms for them such as troublemaker or brat and maybe a few others. Each of these punishments can easily be associated with an equivilent adult punishment. The bottom line is each of the traditional punishments removes freedom of one nature or another.
Today if I spent one day in a grocery store just listening and watching children with their parents I will see all of the normal behavior expected of children. However something new has cropped up in society which is a complete and total disrespect for authority. I was completely shocked the first time I heard a little boy probably 6 or 7 tell his mother to "Shut the fuck up I don't have to listen to you" and to my amazement he was not slapped silly. No the mother said "Don't talk to me like that it is not nice". Which obviously did not change the childs behavior. This scenario I have seen more than once while shopping. I don't know about you but as a child I only swore at my parents one time ever.
Children and Adults behavior is influenced the same way. They will do everything they can to prevent their lifestyle from changing for the worse. If the punishments were actually followed through with instead of matrixing out criminals the next day who should be in jail for months I believe the risk/reward will grow to the point where it is not worth it for most criminals.
You know everyone wants profiling to be wrong but the problem is that it has better odds of being correct than a coin flip. Different ethnic groups are drawn to different things. Maybe it is genetic or social it does not really matter. The reason they profile is because it is accurate enough. Think of it in computer terms for a second. If you walk into a server farm and its room tempature or hotter and your troubleshooting an issue with server randomly rebooting what is most likely the first thing your going to check? Maybe lower the tempeture of the room because over heating would be the most likely cause. But lets say by happenstance it turns out that all the failing server are indirectly using the same wall outlet and a short in it was the cause of the issue. Profiling is the obvious and most likely answer but it is not always the right answer.
I guess it really comes down to "When" did the FBI learn that this proceedure was bunk. And how many years did they keep it in practice. When it was scientifically believed accurate none of those cases should be eligable for review if it ever comes to that. We as a society cannot make it to easy for criminals to get away with crimes or the crime rate will rise. Right now the crime rate is high because infractions have not been punished harsh enough from parents and law. Without making the risk much greater than the reward the activity will continue.
No mods points currently or I woulda boosted you up.
I partly think Psychology is needed due to the fact we have much less social interaction in modern society than in the past. Previously people actually communicated everything face to face and learned to read emotion and moods and could easily determine how a person would react to something as large an environmental change or as small as a verbal comment. Today a vast majority of communication is done remotely either over a phone or in some form of text on the internets which, in my opinion, is causing people to completely loose the ability to see the obvious.
to realize the bullet evidence is not the proverbial "Hand in the cookie jar". Police generally have to have a pretty good reason to detain you for something since this was pre-patriot act. Unless someone goes back over the case history and looks at the evidence this one piece may not have even been required to seal a conviction is was just the cherry on top.
I really do not like the available bandwidth argument. 15 years ago there was no home based broadband and the argument was still being made that there was not enough bandwidth. A decade ago AOL lost a HUGE suit over it.
These companies are holding a monopoly and raking in the cash. If you take into account just the internet sector has something like 13 million subscribers that 650 million gross a month. Their cable TV pretty much uses the same bandwidth also. Why are they not investing their huge profits into infrastructure to improve their maximum bandwidth. The technology is already avaialable so there is no valid excuse. If you increase your bandwidth to a point that it is impossible to saturate it then the issues will go away. Basically if everyone can download High Def content faster than you can play it the network cannot be saturated.
If you are not well traveled (IE you have never traveled outside of the USA) you could not possibly fathom women walking around on beaches topless/naked without people leering at them. Topless women in Swim settings is the norm in the Europeian Mediterranean and also FKK (Nudism) is very popular in Germany.
The "first" comment about pictures allows me with high accuracy to determine it is an American Civilian making the comment. Ignorance is not bliss it only makes you look stupid.
This was obviously created in Japan with Japanese in mind. I am curious "out of the box" how it functions against other nationalities who's facial features are significantly different. I would suspect it would be unable to identify the age and require an identification card of some sort.
At first I thought this was a repeat of the previous robot article. I guess I really should brush up on the difference between androids and robots.
Anyway, More complex is effectivly as safe as less complex as long as the default options do not immediatly provide vulnerabilities. The more complex a device is the less features ID10T users will be able to misconfigure as it will be to complex for them to move much past the basics such as voice/text messaging.
I like how you try spin it into meaning that America is killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. You do realize that we are not forcing dumbasses to strap bombs to their chests walk into a market and detonate. This shit was happening before we even stepped foot into Iraq it just was not in the news. Now these religious factions just have a way of justifying these horrendous acts they are inflicting on the civilians.
Unlike humans alien species have been getting shorter over the years. Back when this occured aliens were many times larger and so where their spaceships. If you factor in the ratio of modern day aliens and circles in corn fields and compair it to tree's and the "Comet blast" you will find that the ratio is almost identical.
is how desensitized people are to this type of violence. One of my co-workers is friends with an individual that attends that school. He made a joke "Well at least I get to take the rest of the week off and do some drinking!".
I actually agree with your sentiment. The problem with societies when it comes to arms is the mixed opinions on having arms. If either extreme ever happened the amount of violent crime would drop siginifcantly. Basically if 100% of people had guns or 100% of people did not have guns the effect would be basically the same.
The problem is 100% of people having handguns is more likely to happen as you cannot take guns away from people who illegal posses them.
His screenshot stops at F and is in alphabetical order. Did this guy forget to press "next" and see the remaining of the 32 that detected it? Or are only the antivirus programs with names that start with the first 7 or so characters able to catch this neat trick?
I think possibly the article is bogus or poorly researched.
Most likely both of your experiances are correct. This may be a demographic depending on location and/or cost of attending your said schools. For example when I was in highschool they were attempting a pilot program called CIM/CAM (No idea what it stands for). My class was the first in the nation on this program which started when we were freshmen. By our Junior year they had allowed students back into the "easier" diploma route because most students could not handle the coursework.
If you watch Carlos Mencia at all he even has a song about lowering the standards on everything as being the "American Way".
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God that Laser pointer in the movies pisses me off. I took one from some 11-13 year old boy and smashed it to pieces last year. Got a standing elvation in the theatre for my actions.
So what your saying is... That I can try to convince her that since she enjoyed it so much it only "seemed" like 30 seconds :)
I always thought this phenomenon was a survival reaction. You body basically pumps out an enormous amount of adrenaline which clears your head, keeps you from panic, and increases your maximum physical capabilities (Even though you can injure yourself due to over exertion when it wears off).
I don't think that time slows down I think that you temporarily speed up and your perception of time is skewed.
Why would this be fake? He's a Sci-Fi writer... It's not like they have any interest in Geeky stuff... I mean seriously which sci-fi writer would be interested in computers, space travel, technology, and other related things.
Your logic confuses me.
It apparently is better to kill a person then to be a "Peep 'n' Tom" in your book. As a murder is not subject to being a registered murder and publicly ostracized. This "sex" offender BS really needs to have some granularity or they need to make all Felony+ charges add you to a list.
When I was younger I worked at a resourt doing houskeeping and eventually interior painting as a Journeyman's helper. During the summer I would sit out on the beach and chat with individuals and families whom vacationed there. One Middle Eastern man was there with his family and during our conversation it turned out he did biological weapons research and methods to apply this technology directly to medicine.
I am just indicating exactly what the parent already stated. Once the technology is created it is a matter of finding alternate ways it can be applied to benifit many different correlating fields of study. And there are actually people out there who do this research.
I am glad you pointed out the parent's flaw in his understanding in what is being asked. The point is not the amount of laws or the expectation that the laws will not be broken, it is about the average persons ability to know right from wrong.
For example: You get pulled over by a police officer for speeding. You knew you were speeding the "Law" was posted and quite easily understood. The police officer then writes you a ticket for speeding and adds on the additional "crimes".
(Non comprehensive list)
Exhaust hangs to low (My buddy actually got this one on a stock exhaust)
Tail lights out/dim
Tinted windows are too dark.
And now your speeding infraction turns into something worse because the officer is taught a portion of the laws that the average civilian had no idea existed. This is the current problem with our law system and why your intended jab at the 10 commandments put mud on your face.
I think part of the problem is so much of the music is crap and has devalued music considerably. Before when I was younger you would purchase an album for $15 and at least half the music was enjoyable. Now adays your lucky if it is 1/4 of the music. $1 buck a song IMHO is pretty expensive for the investment it takes to produce the song.
Here is a comparison:
Cost of an inexpensive hollywood movie is around 100 million. The DVD gets released and it is $30 and lasts for 90 minutes or 33 cents a minute. Cost of an album is about $15 bucks and runs for about 45 minutes or 33 cents a minute. Cost to produce said music is far from 100 million dollars. My point is they are charging highly inflated rates for the investment put into the music. The actual value of the music is changing and 33 cents a minute just does not cut it anymore.
Not to justify copywrite infringement but I would guess that a fairly large chunk of people who "Pirate" music/software/movies don't have jobs due to being underage and could not purchase said items anyway. They are not directly cutting into the bottom-line. Music is failing because of the poor quality and the price. Bringing the price even down to a quarter a song like the old Juke boxes would still be profitable just not outlandishly profitable like it currently is.
Umm, TV & Video Games make you fat. America did not have a fat problem before we had 2+ TV's and Consoles in your home. Basically now that people are not obtaining the exercise level of the pre electronics age we have become fat. Food intake plays a part but regardless exercise plays a major role in maintaining a non-obese state.
I walked about an average of 6 hours a day for 30 days while in Italy September '06. I was eating 3 meals a day and the meals were larger than I eat at home (I was raised to empty the plate) and I ended up loosing 35lbs while there. In a normal day I only walk 15-20 minutes a day and have gained back about 25 of the 35 lbs lost last year. W/o changing my diet and can loose considerable weight at a fast rate just by increasing my exersize level.
Sure thing.
One pretty universal way to prevent people from doing something is pain. Children usually burn themselves one good time on a hot stove or maybe even hot soup and they learn what not to do. Pain does not always mean physical it can also be mental. Some mental methods would be taking something away thats dear to them such as a favorite toy. Maybe even making them take a timeout, go to their room, or grounding them from seeing friends. All of the traditional punishments work great in teaching an acceptable level of behavior with children. And if parents stick to these punishments and follow through with them the children generally learn what is accptable behavior and what is not. There are always going to be a small few whom just don't get it and those have a bunch of terms for them such as troublemaker or brat and maybe a few others. Each of these punishments can easily be associated with an equivilent adult punishment. The bottom line is each of the traditional punishments removes freedom of one nature or another.
Today if I spent one day in a grocery store just listening and watching children with their parents I will see all of the normal behavior expected of children. However something new has cropped up in society which is a complete and total disrespect for authority. I was completely shocked the first time I heard a little boy probably 6 or 7 tell his mother to "Shut the fuck up I don't have to listen to you" and to my amazement he was not slapped silly. No the mother said "Don't talk to me like that it is not nice". Which obviously did not change the childs behavior. This scenario I have seen more than once while shopping. I don't know about you but as a child I only swore at my parents one time ever.
Children and Adults behavior is influenced the same way. They will do everything they can to prevent their lifestyle from changing for the worse. If the punishments were actually followed through with instead of matrixing out criminals the next day who should be in jail for months I believe the risk/reward will grow to the point where it is not worth it for most criminals.
You know everyone wants profiling to be wrong but the problem is that it has better odds of being correct than a coin flip. Different ethnic groups are drawn to different things. Maybe it is genetic or social it does not really matter. The reason they profile is because it is accurate enough. Think of it in computer terms for a second. If you walk into a server farm and its room tempature or hotter and your troubleshooting an issue with server randomly rebooting what is most likely the first thing your going to check? Maybe lower the tempeture of the room because over heating would be the most likely cause. But lets say by happenstance it turns out that all the failing server are indirectly using the same wall outlet and a short in it was the cause of the issue. Profiling is the obvious and most likely answer but it is not always the right answer.
I guess it really comes down to "When" did the FBI learn that this proceedure was bunk. And how many years did they keep it in practice. When it was scientifically believed accurate none of those cases should be eligable for review if it ever comes to that. We as a society cannot make it to easy for criminals to get away with crimes or the crime rate will rise. Right now the crime rate is high because infractions have not been punished harsh enough from parents and law. Without making the risk much greater than the reward the activity will continue.
No mods points currently or I woulda boosted you up.
I partly think Psychology is needed due to the fact we have much less social interaction in modern society than in the past. Previously people actually communicated everything face to face and learned to read emotion and moods and could easily determine how a person would react to something as large an environmental change or as small as a verbal comment. Today a vast majority of communication is done remotely either over a phone or in some form of text on the internets which, in my opinion, is causing people to completely loose the ability to see the obvious.
to realize the bullet evidence is not the proverbial "Hand in the cookie jar". Police generally have to have a pretty good reason to detain you for something since this was pre-patriot act. Unless someone goes back over the case history and looks at the evidence this one piece may not have even been required to seal a conviction is was just the cherry on top.
I really do not like the available bandwidth argument. 15 years ago there was no home based broadband and the argument was still being made that there was not enough bandwidth. A decade ago AOL lost a HUGE suit over it.
These companies are holding a monopoly and raking in the cash. If you take into account just the internet sector has something like 13 million subscribers that 650 million gross a month. Their cable TV pretty much uses the same bandwidth also. Why are they not investing their huge profits into infrastructure to improve their maximum bandwidth. The technology is already avaialable so there is no valid excuse. If you increase your bandwidth to a point that it is impossible to saturate it then the issues will go away. Basically if everyone can download High Def content faster than you can play it the network cannot be saturated.
I know this is off-topic but...
If you are not well traveled (IE you have never traveled outside of the USA) you could not possibly fathom women walking around on beaches topless/naked without people leering at them. Topless women in Swim settings is the norm in the Europeian Mediterranean and also FKK (Nudism) is very popular in Germany.
The "first" comment about pictures allows me with high accuracy to determine it is an American Civilian making the comment. Ignorance is not bliss it only makes you look stupid.
This was obviously created in Japan with Japanese in mind. I am curious "out of the box" how it functions against other nationalities who's facial features are significantly different. I would suspect it would be unable to identify the age and require an identification card of some sort.
Well at least it is a fairly novel idea.
At first I thought this was a repeat of the previous robot article. I guess I really should brush up on the difference between androids and robots.
Anyway, More complex is effectivly as safe as less complex as long as the default options do not immediatly provide vulnerabilities. The more complex a device is the less features ID10T users will be able to misconfigure as it will be to complex for them to move much past the basics such as voice/text messaging.
I like how you try spin it into meaning that America is killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. You do realize that we are not forcing dumbasses to strap bombs to their chests walk into a market and detonate. This shit was happening before we even stepped foot into Iraq it just was not in the news. Now these religious factions just have a way of justifying these horrendous acts they are inflicting on the civilians.
"But dad" nothing. If you cannot tell your children to quit playing a game and have them obey you are a shitty parent. It's as simple as that.
Unlike humans alien species have been getting shorter over the years. Back when this occured aliens were many times larger and so where their spaceships. If you factor in the ratio of modern day aliens and circles in corn fields and compair it to tree's and the "Comet blast" you will find that the ratio is almost identical.
is how desensitized people are to this type of violence. One of my co-workers is friends with an individual that attends that school. He made a joke "Well at least I get to take the rest of the week off and do some drinking!".
I actually agree with your sentiment. The problem with societies when it comes to arms is the mixed opinions on having arms. If either extreme ever happened the amount of violent crime would drop siginifcantly. Basically if 100% of people had guns or 100% of people did not have guns the effect would be basically the same.
The problem is 100% of people having handguns is more likely to happen as you cannot take guns away from people who illegal posses them.
His screenshot stops at F and is in alphabetical order. Did this guy forget to press "next" and see the remaining of the 32 that detected it? Or are only the antivirus programs with names that start with the first 7 or so characters able to catch this neat trick?
I think possibly the article is bogus or poorly researched.
Most likely both of your experiances are correct. This may be a demographic depending on location and/or cost of attending your said schools. For example when I was in highschool they were attempting a pilot program called CIM/CAM (No idea what it stands for). My class was the first in the nation on this program which started when we were freshmen. By our Junior year they had allowed students back into the "easier" diploma route because most students could not handle the coursework.
If you watch Carlos Mencia at all he even has a song about lowering the standards on everything as being the "American Way".