Unlike the USA the UK has a concept of minimum force. If you see a black guy in your neighbourhood and think he may be causing trouble you are not just allowed to kill him.
The UK can jail you just for being around with the wrong sort of people. If you're with a known criminal person and they commit a crime you can get the exact same sentence as they do just for being there. The idea is to stop you from hanging out with the wrong sort of people.
He doesn't come across as someone who will run down the street attacking everyone in sight, he isn't radical and (apart from knowing a lot of martial arts) doesn't seem to be anyone out of the ordinary.
No, but the sort of people who attend his conferences might be.
That old Vax might still be pumping transactions out for a very long time; replace it with something new, and the same might not be said.
By the time the new thing breaks you'll be able to run a VAX emulator on something that costs $100 (and it will run faster on a tiny fraction of the power and fit on a shelf...)
Yeah, but give how many years they've been working on this, how lazy/incompetent do you have to be to not have a working machine?
Any script kiddie could have a prototype knocked together in a weekend. Getting it 100% right is a little bit harder than that, sure, but we're still getting colossal screwups, not subtle bugs.
Why must a single LED provide all the light? Couldn't an array of, say, four LEDs, each equivalent to a 25W incandescent and using mirrors and/or lenses to even out the light distribution, get the same efficiency and substitute for a 100W bulb? Am I missing something obvious?
If you look closely at the "high-power" LEDs that's exactly what they are.
But in the end, TSA's mission was something no one knew how to figure out.
Yeah, there's no way they could have copied the Israelis or anything like that.
(The people who sat an air marshal next to the shoe bomber a few weeks before the TSA let him board a 'plane with a one-way international ticket and no luggage)
- Get into some physical activity that you _enjoy_. This was huge for me. I can’t stand doing a workout for the sake of it. I have little free time and I don’t want to spend it doing something monotonous. Got into a little “for fun” floor hockey thing and loved it. It turned into something I actually looked forward to. From their got into some other stuff.
I recommend shovelglove for this. It's cheap, suitably geeky and really works.
Probably this sort of thing gets boring after some days having to look at this machine...
Why don't you ask the hot girls who have to go back and forth through the scanners while they call a few more people over to have a look, "just to be sure".
Or the pedophiles who've been arrested while in the employ of the TSA.
Just because you don't mind, or you think you'd get bored, doesn't mean everybody else feels the same.
2) deter all but the most determined and clever enough terrorists...
There's nothing particularly clever about beating security - the C4 goes in the same body cavities as people use every day to get drugs and cellphones into prisons.
Or if you prefer liquid explosives, just get several people with permitted-size bottles of liquid to go through and combine the liquid in a bigger bottle (or plastic bag) on the other side.
Or...any of many other obvious ways to do it.
As for determination...they're religious whacko suicide bombers. Enough said?
(All this assumes that terrorists are magically impotent if they can't get through Airport security, which is laughable...just bomb the queues for the scanners)
One of the rare examples where typing in all-caps is appropriate.
In case anyone missed the best piece of advice you'll ever get regarding your digital pictures, it was:
DO NOT PRINT AT HOME
Anyone else care to repeat?
I'll third it: DO NOT PRINT AT HOME
And: No matter where you end up printing, keep a few digital copies on different types of media too. The JPG format is going to be around for a looooong time.
Every year? Like there is a UN coordinator on a budget?
Nope, that's an average. If you want a particular year you you can look it up if you want to.
It won't change the fact that you sound like a buffoon when you post stuff like that as an 'argument'. Is that really how you justify your position to yourself?
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What happens if you put a PoE device on each end of the cable? Free energy...?
EDI can be embedded in XML before storing it in your SQL database. I'm sure there's a Java library for doing this.
Unlike the USA the UK has a concept of minimum force. If you see a black guy in your neighbourhood and think he may be causing trouble you are not just allowed to kill him.
The UK can jail you just for being around with the wrong sort of people. If you're with a known criminal person and they commit a crime you can get the exact same sentence as they do just for being there. The idea is to stop you from hanging out with the wrong sort of people.
He doesn't come across as someone who will run down the street attacking everyone in sight, he isn't radical and (apart from knowing a lot of martial arts) doesn't seem to be anyone out of the ordinary.
No, but the sort of people who attend his conferences might be.
(or so they think)
XML in SQL - 100% more win!
That old Vax might still be pumping transactions out for a very long time; replace it with something new, and the same might not be said.
By the time the new thing breaks you'll be able to run a VAX emulator on something that costs $100 (and it will run faster on a tiny fraction of the power and fit on a shelf...)
KDE4, Gnome3, Windows8, Vista... Sometimes change is just change, not improvement.
So... pick the good ones and ignore the bad. eg. Windows 7 is a massive improvement over XP.
Yeah, but give how many years they've been working on this, how lazy/incompetent do you have to be to not have a working machine?
Any script kiddie could have a prototype knocked together in a weekend. Getting it 100% right is a little bit harder than that, sure, but we're still getting colossal screwups, not subtle bugs.
I could give you the interpreted scripts that ran the counting software.
Yeah, but can you give me the source code for the interpreter?
Paper voting gives us things like Hanging Chads and people too dumb to follow the pointing arrow from the name to the box to check.
So? People that stupid deserve to have their votes invalidated.
If it was up to me I'd make people pass a basic general knowledge test before being allowed to vote.
Why must a single LED provide all the light? Couldn't an array of, say, four LEDs, each equivalent to a 25W incandescent and using mirrors and/or lenses to even out the light distribution, get the same efficiency and substitute for a 100W bulb? Am I missing something obvious?
If you look closely at the "high-power" LEDs that's exactly what they are.
eg. http://www.pbase.com/kds315/image/127711917/original.jpg
But in the end, TSA's mission was something no one knew how to figure out.
Yeah, there's no way they could have copied the Israelis or anything like that.
(The people who sat an air marshal next to the shoe bomber a few weeks before the TSA let him board a 'plane with a one-way international ticket and no luggage)
Weather is NOT climate, unless it supports your side of the argument
...or unless you're measuring average weather conditions, aka. climate.
- Get into some physical activity that you _enjoy_. This was huge for me. I can’t stand doing a workout for the sake of it. I have little free time and I don’t want to spend it doing something monotonous. Got into a little “for fun” floor hockey thing and loved it. It turned into something I actually looked forward to. From their got into some other stuff.
I recommend shovelglove for this. It's cheap, suitably geeky and really works.
Dihydrogen monoxide? You mean, like, from the toilet?
I always wondered why they can't distort the images like a hall of mirrors or something. That would be easy to do.
How did these officials ever think the technology as deployed was even remotely acceptable?
People can convince themselves of all sorts of things when they stand to make a nice profit.
Probably this sort of thing gets boring after some days having to look at this machine...
Why don't you ask the hot girls who have to go back and forth through the scanners while they call a few more people over to have a look, "just to be sure".
Or the pedophiles who've been arrested while in the employ of the TSA.
Just because you don't mind, or you think you'd get bored, doesn't mean everybody else feels the same.
2) deter all but the most determined and clever enough terrorists ...
There's nothing particularly clever about beating security - the C4 goes in the same body cavities as people use every day to get drugs and cellphones into prisons.
Or if you prefer liquid explosives, just get several people with permitted-size bottles of liquid to go through and combine the liquid in a bigger bottle (or plastic bag) on the other side.
Or...any of many other obvious ways to do it.
As for determination...they're religious whacko suicide bombers. Enough said?
(All this assumes that terrorists are magically impotent if they can't get through Airport security, which is laughable...just bomb the queues for the scanners)
DO NOT PRINT AT HOME
One of the rare examples where typing in all-caps is appropriate.
In case anyone missed the best piece of advice you'll ever get regarding your digital pictures, it was:
DO NOT PRINT AT HOME
Anyone else care to repeat?
I'll third it: DO NOT PRINT AT HOME
And: No matter where you end up printing, keep a few digital copies on different types of media too. The JPG format is going to be around for a looooong time.
Mod parent up.
Maybe you meant XP?
Windows 7 isn't brain-dead over swapfiles like XP is. It doesn't swap unless you're really out of RAM (an amazing breakthrough!)
So buy a dvd player for $20, and a Wii for $99. No extra payments over 2 years.
Apart from the cost of all the games for the Wii...
Volcanoes emit 300 million tons of CO2 per year
Every year? Like there is a UN coordinator on a budget?
Nope, that's an average. If you want a particular year you you can look it up if you want to.
It won't change the fact that you sound like a buffoon when you post stuff like that as an 'argument'. Is that really how you justify your position to yourself?
Yep. Just hang out in any climate thread on the Internet and you can see the results of their work.