The counterweight issue could be resolved with a Katamari strategy. Granted, it would unproductive weight, but it would work. The next step would be adding a Mr. Fusion to the rover, so that it could process what ever it scooped up into fuel.
I think it is because it is acceptable to use them in local law enforcement, even though it is banned during wars. Crowd control would normally be handled by the locals anyway, as we have no jurisdiction outside of the fence. Hollow points can really eff up a person, which is why they are banned in warfare. In traditional warfare, especially when dealing with Conscripts, it is not the individual Soldier that wants the war, it is the collective will. There is no reason to punish them individually with cruel weapons, it is only necessary to remove them from the fight. Now with jihadist's on the otherhand... they deserve whatever they get, they have no respect for the honor of warfare, they fight out of hate.
I am a computer operator by trade for the USAF, but I have also been called on to provide base security. Luckily, I've never had to deal with a riot scenario, but I've always wondered why I've been given hollow point ammunition. It is considered a violation of the Law of Armed Conflict to use them on enemy combatants, but it's somehow OK to use them on our fellow citizens.
The only Less Than Lethal weapon that was issued was pepper spray, and that is not designed for crowd control. I am all for more LTL weapons to use domestically, whether by the Armed Forces to protect National Security assets, or loaned out to Police Departments.
This is much ado about nothing.
I've seen software in the past that would not grant license to military customers. I can tell you that as a sysadmin for the USAF, I am always looking for ways of doing things that save tax payer money, like using free VMware server instead of IBM Power5 virtualiztion. Irrespective of the umbrage I take from people telling me I can't use their software at work, I see it as utterly foolish. Not that the software in mention has any value to the military, but if real FOSS had this license, it would do more to continue the military's reliance on big-tech companies like MS and Oracle. All this expensive software comes from our tax dollars.
Have you seen the highways at 7:00am on a workday? There's a reason they call it rush hour. If automobiles are the primary cause of pollution, and commuting is one of the primary uses of automobiles then it stands to reason that if a large percentage of people telecommuted CO2 emissions would be significantly less.
Industry is a large contributor to emissions, including shipping via boat and truck.
Isn't telecommuting allowing people to work where they live? How do you get closer than that.
Telecommuting is an end run around living close to were you work. It allows people to live farther from their employers. It also allows for less accountability, but that is another matter.
So we should use more gas to keep prices higher. Not sure I follow your logic there.
Whatever mechanism is used to keep gas prices higher will ultimatly lead the market to improving efficiency, benefitting the environment. It doesn't have to be increased consumption, it could be increased taxes, lower supply or more expensive, harder to ship additives like ethanol.
Ahh.. but obviously they don't, otherwise your privacy wouldn't have been violated. Security procedures should have been in place. That particular data shouldn't have been taken off site, and if it was it should have been encrypted. The security issue isn't telecommuting by itself, that's just a convenient excuse.
They do, because they are investigating it. I am not speaking about the underfunded VA which had lax policies, but the Federal Government. Your attitude of "who cares about the victims when there is global warming" is worse than even the VA's snub to our right to privacy.
My Wife and I happen to be two of the Veterans whose data was stolen. Not only is your comment insulting to all active duty and retired military, it is ignorant. Do you think that telecommuting has that great of an impact on CO2 reductions? How about increasing the fuel efficiency of vehicles instead, or having people live closer to where they work? When less people drive to work, demand on gas drops, lowering prices, making it less economical to use alternative sources of energy, or improving fuel efficiencies.
I'm glad that the people in charge value my privacy more than you do.
I share many of the same views as your hitleresses so called gulfstream liberal, yet I work for a living. I think you need to bring some perspective to this rant and point out that Mrs. Malkin is a revisionist that justified the internment of the Japanese-descended Americans, and feels the same should be done to all Arabs.
I do have the gall, sir, to criticize you for driving a Jeep. Get a toyota if you want to drive your 2 kids around. You certainly don't need an SUV for 3-4 people.
Most pollution in cities such as LA and Houston are a result of Industry and Shipping, not autos. If there were global regulations on the shipping industry, we would see real change
Actually a recent study has shown that cellular RF has caused microbubbles to form in the lenses of eyes. http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000363052092/
so taking the news that 30-45% of medical studies are flawed, you have a 30% to 45% chance of your cell phones making you blind.
And I always thought it was self abuse...
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like Sim Earth. I don't know the coding behind the classic, but it does allow for mutations, and the critters do seem to move around similar to the GoL.
If everything already measured now prevents anything in the past from happening, & if a past actually remains after it has departed, then there has to be a future as well. If something measured in the future cannot be changed in the past, then aren't we in essence predestined based on the actions of our decendancts? Is this a quantum explanation for Fate?
The people that feel safe are the masses. There are people whose job is to not be complacent. While I have little faith in the TSA to do that job (butcher knife in the purse), I trust that various agencies are looking out in the our collective best intrests. Albeit sometimes heavy handedly. (See guard pilot arrested for sarcastic comment on how WTC families get more than those of dead veterans)
I agree that this could be a 'slippery slope' issue, however, on the side of practicality, and my experience in the military where I have to show my ID always, I think it is ridiculous.
However the dude in question is satisfying on of the requirements for challenging a law through the judiciary. He is being harmed by a policy.
I just think a lot of the opinions expressed by some of the members indignant about showing ID is nothing more than youthful rebellion. Several retailers ask for your ID. Perhaps it helps with demographics, but it also serves to aid the customer with lost reciept returns.
That said, there is no right to shop at sams, or even the right to fly. You can get your pilots license (although Homeland defense now requires you to prove citizenship prior to training). You can drive, although DPS/DMV requires you to prove your Identity and submit your thumbprint and photo. I've never ridden by bus, but for a cash purchase, I don't know why they'd need your ID.
This is not communist russia by asking to see identification when boarding an airplane. If all it does is provide the illusion of saftey to the masses, it has served some purpose.
You sir, are a nitwit. Almost all Corporations do not serve for the public good, but for the good of their stock holders. They have rights over private property just like you do. Sam's Club, is a Club requiring membership. This is how they subsidize their overhead.
Showing your ID does not make you a sheep, it makes you less of an asshole for not backing up a line at a security checkpoint, when plenty of other people have places to go.
Fight the system through organized protests, individual protests just inconvenience others.
Most of the videos can be removed by "zeroizing" the.bik files. That was an old trick back in the day when game releases came ripped, and in 1.44MB chunks.
BF1942 and BFV videos could be bypasses with the/restart switch IIRC.
More sound and fury. As long as coeds are willing to sell their dignity on the latest GGW Spring Break for a T-Shirt, then I don't think there will be much to worry about.
Don't all colleges already have your information? Some even have smart card ID's.
Just like the recent Sony debacle with the sharpie, here is another work around involving indelible ink.
For your protest signs and flyers, go to a store and buy posterboard, then draw your own graphics. Unfortunatly, with out the use of periphirals like stencils, your choice of fonts will be limited.
What about shooting the quickly passing by farm hand, or children that stray into the kill zone? Just as the internet empowers perverts to imitate women in chat rooms, or blatant racism in forums, the anonymity (real or perceived) will silence some people's conscience.
I attended Spring ISD schools from 2nd semester of K-12, and rode the bus until my Senior year.
Spring had a great curriculum, but it was administered like a fascist state. It has a dress code that rivals the military. (Administrators thought that it was more important that a student shaved than attend class, and would put unshaven student in In-School-Suspension)
The police in the article is probably the Spring ISD school police department, not real cops. Rejects that couldn't even become constables. 1 step above parking lot security.
Spring has only 2 high schools, when I last attended in '96, the population of my HS was around 2400. I think by now, both HS must have over 7000 students combined. It would be interesting to see how they handle tracking RFID tags there.
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The counterweight issue could be resolved with a Katamari strategy. Granted, it would unproductive weight, but it would work. The next step would be adding a Mr. Fusion to the rover, so that it could process what ever it scooped up into fuel.
I think it is because it is acceptable to use them in local law enforcement, even though it is banned during wars. Crowd control would normally be handled by the locals anyway, as we have no jurisdiction outside of the fence. Hollow points can really eff up a person, which is why they are banned in warfare. In traditional warfare, especially when dealing with Conscripts, it is not the individual Soldier that wants the war, it is the collective will. There is no reason to punish them individually with cruel weapons, it is only necessary to remove them from the fight. Now with jihadist's on the otherhand... they deserve whatever they get, they have no respect for the honor of warfare, they fight out of hate.
I am a computer operator by trade for the USAF, but I have also been called on to provide base security. Luckily, I've never had to deal with a riot scenario, but I've always wondered why I've been given hollow point ammunition. It is considered a violation of the Law of Armed Conflict to use them on enemy combatants, but it's somehow OK to use them on our fellow citizens. The only Less Than Lethal weapon that was issued was pepper spray, and that is not designed for crowd control. I am all for more LTL weapons to use domestically, whether by the Armed Forces to protect National Security assets, or loaned out to Police Departments. This is much ado about nothing.
I've seen software in the past that would not grant license to military customers. I can tell you that as a sysadmin for the USAF, I am always looking for ways of doing things that save tax payer money, like using free VMware server instead of IBM Power5 virtualiztion. Irrespective of the umbrage I take from people telling me I can't use their software at work, I see it as utterly foolish. Not that the software in mention has any value to the military, but if real FOSS had this license, it would do more to continue the military's reliance on big-tech companies like MS and Oracle. All this expensive software comes from our tax dollars.
Have you seen the highways at 7:00am on a workday? There's a reason they call it rush hour. If automobiles are the primary cause of pollution, and commuting is one of the primary uses of automobiles then it stands to reason that if a large percentage of people telecommuted CO2 emissions would be significantly less. Industry is a large contributor to emissions, including shipping via boat and truck. Isn't telecommuting allowing people to work where they live? How do you get closer than that. Telecommuting is an end run around living close to were you work. It allows people to live farther from their employers. It also allows for less accountability, but that is another matter. So we should use more gas to keep prices higher. Not sure I follow your logic there. Whatever mechanism is used to keep gas prices higher will ultimatly lead the market to improving efficiency, benefitting the environment. It doesn't have to be increased consumption, it could be increased taxes, lower supply or more expensive, harder to ship additives like ethanol. Ahh.. but obviously they don't, otherwise your privacy wouldn't have been violated. Security procedures should have been in place. That particular data shouldn't have been taken off site, and if it was it should have been encrypted. The security issue isn't telecommuting by itself, that's just a convenient excuse. They do, because they are investigating it. I am not speaking about the underfunded VA which had lax policies, but the Federal Government. Your attitude of "who cares about the victims when there is global warming" is worse than even the VA's snub to our right to privacy.
My Wife and I happen to be two of the Veterans whose data was stolen. Not only is your comment insulting to all active duty and retired military, it is ignorant. Do you think that telecommuting has that great of an impact on CO2 reductions? How about increasing the fuel efficiency of vehicles instead, or having people live closer to where they work? When less people drive to work, demand on gas drops, lowering prices, making it less economical to use alternative sources of energy, or improving fuel efficiencies. I'm glad that the people in charge value my privacy more than you do.
I share many of the same views as your hitleresses so called gulfstream liberal, yet I work for a living. I think you need to bring some perspective to this rant and point out that Mrs. Malkin is a revisionist that justified the internment of the Japanese-descended Americans, and feels the same should be done to all Arabs. I do have the gall, sir, to criticize you for driving a Jeep. Get a toyota if you want to drive your 2 kids around. You certainly don't need an SUV for 3-4 people.
Most pollution in cities such as LA and Houston are a result of Industry and Shipping, not autos. If there were global regulations on the shipping industry, we would see real change
Actually a recent study has shown that cellular RF has caused microbubbles to form in the lenses of eyes. http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000363052092/ so taking the news that 30-45% of medical studies are flawed, you have a 30% to 45% chance of your cell phones making you blind. And I always thought it was self abuse...
like Sim Earth. I don't know the coding behind the classic, but it does allow for mutations, and the critters do seem to move around similar to the GoL.
If everything already measured now prevents anything in the past from happening, & if a past actually remains after it has departed, then there has to be a future as well. If something measured in the future cannot be changed in the past, then aren't we in essence predestined based on the actions of our decendancts? Is this a quantum explanation for Fate?
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Check out the other items, I've figured out the shirt anagram, its pretty cool.
the storage of massive amounts of information is easy, its reading it later that is the hard part.
The people that feel safe are the masses. There are people whose job is to not be complacent. While I have little faith in the TSA to do that job (butcher knife in the purse), I trust that various agencies are looking out in the our collective best intrests. Albeit sometimes heavy handedly. (See guard pilot arrested for sarcastic comment on how WTC families get more than those of dead veterans)
I agree that this could be a 'slippery slope' issue, however, on the side of practicality, and my experience in the military where I have to show my ID always, I think it is ridiculous. However the dude in question is satisfying on of the requirements for challenging a law through the judiciary. He is being harmed by a policy. I just think a lot of the opinions expressed by some of the members indignant about showing ID is nothing more than youthful rebellion. Several retailers ask for your ID. Perhaps it helps with demographics, but it also serves to aid the customer with lost reciept returns. That said, there is no right to shop at sams, or even the right to fly. You can get your pilots license (although Homeland defense now requires you to prove citizenship prior to training). You can drive, although DPS/DMV requires you to prove your Identity and submit your thumbprint and photo. I've never ridden by bus, but for a cash purchase, I don't know why they'd need your ID. This is not communist russia by asking to see identification when boarding an airplane. If all it does is provide the illusion of saftey to the masses, it has served some purpose.
You sir, are a nitwit. Almost all Corporations do not serve for the public good, but for the good of their stock holders. They have rights over private property just like you do. Sam's Club, is a Club requiring membership. This is how they subsidize their overhead. Showing your ID does not make you a sheep, it makes you less of an asshole for not backing up a line at a security checkpoint, when plenty of other people have places to go. Fight the system through organized protests, individual protests just inconvenience others.
Most of the videos can be removed by "zeroizing" the .bik files. That was an old trick back in the day when game releases came ripped, and in 1.44MB chunks.
BF1942 and BFV videos could be bypasses with the /restart switch IIRC.
More sound and fury. As long as coeds are willing to sell their dignity on the latest GGW Spring Break for a T-Shirt, then I don't think there will be much to worry about. Don't all colleges already have your information? Some even have smart card ID's.
country codes should not be TLDN's, but should proceed the .com or .net .etc.
Just like the recent Sony debacle with the sharpie, here is another work around involving indelible ink.
e =UTF-8&q=make+paper and your own ink http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=make+ink. k +screen+printer.
For your protest signs and flyers, go to a store and buy posterboard, then draw your own graphics. Unfortunatly, with out the use of periphirals like stencils, your choice of fonts will be limited.
For the overly paranoid (this is slashdot after all) you could make your own paper http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&i
For mass producing protest flyers, you could make a silk screen http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=make+sil
What about shooting the quickly passing by farm hand, or children that stray into the kill zone? Just as the internet empowers perverts to imitate women in chat rooms, or blatant racism in forums, the anonymity (real or perceived) will silence some people's conscience.
I attended Spring ISD schools from 2nd semester of K-12, and rode the bus until my Senior year. Spring had a great curriculum, but it was administered like a fascist state. It has a dress code that rivals the military. (Administrators thought that it was more important that a student shaved than attend class, and would put unshaven student in In-School-Suspension)
The police in the article is probably the Spring ISD school police department, not real cops. Rejects that couldn't even become constables. 1 step above parking lot security.
Spring has only 2 high schools, when I last attended in '96, the population of my HS was around 2400. I think by now, both HS must have over 7000 students combined. It would be interesting to see how they handle tracking RFID tags there.