I'll admit I cannot remember where I saw it but I seem to remember in the star wars cannon that droids got reformatted or wiped all the time because they would get inconsistencies in their programming. This removed any sort of personalities that were developing. The majority of robots were just dumb robots that did what they were told and did not question or even look at their existence and were updated and wiped routinely. In the starwars universe they were just equal to what smart phones, toasters, refrigerators and cars are to us now. In every episode robots (excluding ones designed for war) were over looked as any kind of threat. As if they were furniture rather than anything with a sign of sentience. I don't take it as racism but as an idea that the AI in the robot is supposed to simulate personality but does not have one. The main ones I saw causing any sort of sadistic pleasure from hurting robots was one itself.
Having a phone that can tell you where the door is and what obstacles are in the way in a smoke filled room would be bad how? or could map the area of a new apartment your going to buy or sell is bad how? How about the constant mapping of a cave? Detecting shifts in foundation of your house over time? How much room on the inside of the stomach of that whale that just ate you and the little wooden boy? That is just off the top of my head. Just because you cannot think of a use does not mean someone else will not. This is really cool tech and I am sure people will find tons of uses for it. Just a few years ago no one was thinking about using the audio port of a smart phone for credit transactions.
I never said I was Republican, I just indicated the most recent incident in the news. The abuse has happened to Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians as well as Trotsky's group and Thalmaan's.
Allowing the government to just switch off a major communication function is wrong. This could be handled quite easily like they do in Australia and other countries where they have a list of phones esn's that have been stolen and refuse to provide service for them.
Actually the government has shown it will attack a particular political group. ( IRS scandal) So imagine right before an election and every Republican cell phone gets killed 48 hours before an election. Or the next whistleblower has his entire family's cell phones shut off.
My statement was directed at "do nothing to cooperate with furthering world development" Personally I wish the US would stop meddling with the rest of the planet. I have always voted in that direction and will continue. The US has no reason to do it and it does cause problems. But I do not feel obligated to stand up for people that will not a least try to help themselves. And I do not feel obligated to give what I work for to anyone else simple because they didn't work for anything. I won't give money to the guy at the street corner with the sign ignoring every charitable organization in the city that would love to help him. But I will give it to the single mom that is having a hard time making it to work because her car broke.
Giving something to someone who does not feel they have earned it results in waste, greed, and dependence. If people want to be free they need to fight for it. They need to truly learn the value of freedom and why it costs so much to keep. It cannot just be handed to them or the next warlord, dictator or emperor will just take it right back again.
We had to strive and fight against the exploitation against our country, We made sure we were not ruled by kings, We fought with blood sweat and tears against the tariffs, taxes levied against us. And we fought tooth and nail to control our fate. We made and created a country where it was safe to innovate, where a person could come and setup a new life free from the artificial prejudices and religious biases of other countries. And we became great because of that. We would not be who we are if we would have just sat back and waited for France or Germany to bail us out.
"do nothing to cooperate with furthering world development" Just because a nation is developed does not automatically mean it owes other countries anything. Just because you work really hard to acquire something does not mean it should be carved up and given to anyone that did not work for it.
As well I think you will find the majority of issues in those areas are because local warlords prefer the status quo. We can ship all the grain, water filters, medicines we can manufacture down there and it will not do an once of good if it rots in warehouses at shipping yards.
Construction, architecture, engineering and manufacturing companies all use 3d heavy workstations. The faster the memory, the faster the harddrive and faster cpu clock speed make a large difference in employee downtime when designing new products. So no, Desktops are not powerful enough.
You obviously have never been a designated driver. Passengers are just passengers. They talk and yell and scream. It's the drivers job to filter it out and to drive with enough safety margin that distractions are not a safety issue.
Just bad driving. If he knew that he needed to look he should have made sure he had a proper braking distance for the time it takes to check the screen. That's part of driving. Analyzing the environment and accounting for problems before they happen. My wife constantly got on me about slowing down for green lights ( I watch cross traffic and slow if it looks dangerous). One day we are driving late and I started slowing for a green light to watch cross traffic, I hit the brakes hard and a truck full on blew the light at 70 miles an hour. If I had not checked the cross traffic we would have been t-boned and our car would have taken out four drunks crossing the road. As it was the driver barely missed the drunks. Situational awareness is very important in driving.
Actually I think you will find it's tweeting and watching the police mop up the mess you made of someone else's body. Texting is just one symptom of distracted driving. There are others and putting in phone restrictions will only cover up one symptom instead of handling the main problem. Eating food, drinking water, writing notes, putting on makeup, talking to others in the car, noisy kids are all part of the problem and would not be handled by a phone with reduced or restricted capabilities. If we are going to take away freedoms of judgement we might as well try to handle the whole problem rather than restrict one little aspect.
how many have been stopped by TSA compared to people on the plane. From what I have seen and read the majority of plane endangerments in the last 10 years was stopped by passengers. From explosive shoes to crazed pilots.
I believe on Ruger Blackhawks and other single actions there is a pin that holds the entire cylinder in the frame. Open the gate, push the button on the side of the frame and pull the pin forward, it will release the entire cylinder from the frame.
I did not mean to say to insinuate it was unexpected. Children are children and bad judgement should be expected. What she did is to be expected of a child. The bad judgement is that it is not usually safe to be mixing chemicals with out a guardian in the area to oversee and I have no doubt she learned this lesson. I see the over reaction from the school administrator to be the whole problem. Instead of asking the child to not do experiments outside of the classroom (From the sounds of it the child had never caused any problems before) he went around the screaming the sky is falling. The kid popped a bottle get over it. Chastise and move on.
I think your confusing punishment with rehabilitation. This is a child that had bad judgement. She got her punishment, she got arrested, she got expelled, and she got charged with a felony. For a child those are all major. But on the other side she has been given a chance to push her energies into an area where she will not be endangering or causing heart attacks for school administrators. With children it is always better to drive the energy in the direction you want rather than straight up stop it.
The problem is there is no difference. Just because a gun is not available does not mean that violence is going to stop. Gun violence is just a symptom of overall violence. Removing the item that can level the difference between an 80 year old woman and a 300 lbs attacker is not going to reduce violence. It just makes the victims better targets. Raising the general income level for an area does reduce ALL violence.
Statistically guns do not cause violence, poverty does. Look at every city with a high gun violence rate and you will see all the poverty areas filled with your gun violence. But not the higher income areas. Restricting guns will not stop the violence, as seen in England, Australia and Mexico. All had increases of general violence after gun restrictions. But changing the general level of income will remove the largest amount of violence from those areas. If you want to lower murder, rape, arson, and drug use all you have to do is raise the level of income in an area. P.S. you also lower the average birthrate for the area as well.
What age are you talking about when you say kid? Are you talking 2 -3 years of age or are you talking 17? What if your are teaching the child about the dangers of firearms and how to safely handle one if they find it. Would that be a time when it was okay for a child to have a firearm? How about in the country where there are wild animals around would it be okay for a 12 year old to go outside and shoot the badger that is gnawing on his little brothers arm? Or the ten year old that shot home invaders? I knew a girl that when she was 8 years old was hunting to help put food on the table for her family. Even though she never had and accident with it should she never have touched that firearm? Not everyone lives in the city. Not everyone is in the same environment that you are in. And if your saying children are not mature enough to handle a firearm then we have a bigger problem because there are a ton of adults I would not trust with a firearm where I would trust that 8 year old with one.
Couldn't you just unload it? Put your thumb between the hammer and the frame, hit the release on the cylinder and empty the shells? I don't see how that would require an underwear change.
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I'll admit I cannot remember where I saw it but I seem to remember in the star wars cannon that droids got reformatted or wiped all the time because they would get inconsistencies in their programming. This removed any sort of personalities that were developing. The majority of robots were just dumb robots that did what they were told and did not question or even look at their existence and were updated and wiped routinely. In the starwars universe they were just equal to what smart phones, toasters, refrigerators and cars are to us now. In every episode robots (excluding ones designed for war) were over looked as any kind of threat. As if they were furniture rather than anything with a sign of sentience. I don't take it as racism but as an idea that the AI in the robot is supposed to simulate personality but does not have one. The main ones I saw causing any sort of sadistic pleasure from hurting robots was one itself.
What I do with a bowl of green jello in the privacy of my own home is none of your business.
Having a phone that can tell you where the door is and what obstacles are in the way in a smoke filled room would be bad how? or could map the area of a new apartment your going to buy or sell is bad how? How about the constant mapping of a cave? Detecting shifts in foundation of your house over time? How much room on the inside of the stomach of that whale that just ate you and the little wooden boy? That is just off the top of my head. Just because you cannot think of a use does not mean someone else will not. This is really cool tech and I am sure people will find tons of uses for it. Just a few years ago no one was thinking about using the audio port of a smart phone for credit transactions.
Sooo much better than my post.
But I heard the Aquaman reboot was going to top this.
The only winning move is not to play.
I never said I was Republican, I just indicated the most recent incident in the news. The abuse has happened to Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians as well as Trotsky's group and Thalmaan's. Allowing the government to just switch off a major communication function is wrong. This could be handled quite easily like they do in Australia and other countries where they have a list of phones esn's that have been stolen and refuse to provide service for them.
Actually the government has shown it will attack a particular political group. ( IRS scandal) So imagine right before an election and every Republican cell phone gets killed 48 hours before an election. Or the next whistleblower has his entire family's cell phones shut off.
My statement was directed at "do nothing to cooperate with furthering world development" Personally I wish the US would stop meddling with the rest of the planet. I have always voted in that direction and will continue. The US has no reason to do it and it does cause problems. But I do not feel obligated to stand up for people that will not a least try to help themselves. And I do not feel obligated to give what I work for to anyone else simple because they didn't work for anything. I won't give money to the guy at the street corner with the sign ignoring every charitable organization in the city that would love to help him. But I will give it to the single mom that is having a hard time making it to work because her car broke.
Giving something to someone who does not feel they have earned it results in waste, greed, and dependence. If people want to be free they need to fight for it. They need to truly learn the value of freedom and why it costs so much to keep. It cannot just be handed to them or the next warlord, dictator or emperor will just take it right back again. We had to strive and fight against the exploitation against our country, We made sure we were not ruled by kings, We fought with blood sweat and tears against the tariffs, taxes levied against us. And we fought tooth and nail to control our fate. We made and created a country where it was safe to innovate, where a person could come and setup a new life free from the artificial prejudices and religious biases of other countries. And we became great because of that. We would not be who we are if we would have just sat back and waited for France or Germany to bail us out.
"do nothing to cooperate with furthering world development" Just because a nation is developed does not automatically mean it owes other countries anything. Just because you work really hard to acquire something does not mean it should be carved up and given to anyone that did not work for it. As well I think you will find the majority of issues in those areas are because local warlords prefer the status quo. We can ship all the grain, water filters, medicines we can manufacture down there and it will not do an once of good if it rots in warehouses at shipping yards.
Construction, architecture, engineering and manufacturing companies all use 3d heavy workstations. The faster the memory, the faster the harddrive and faster cpu clock speed make a large difference in employee downtime when designing new products. So no, Desktops are not powerful enough.
You obviously have never been a designated driver. Passengers are just passengers. They talk and yell and scream. It's the drivers job to filter it out and to drive with enough safety margin that distractions are not a safety issue.
Just bad driving. If he knew that he needed to look he should have made sure he had a proper braking distance for the time it takes to check the screen. That's part of driving. Analyzing the environment and accounting for problems before they happen. My wife constantly got on me about slowing down for green lights ( I watch cross traffic and slow if it looks dangerous). One day we are driving late and I started slowing for a green light to watch cross traffic, I hit the brakes hard and a truck full on blew the light at 70 miles an hour. If I had not checked the cross traffic we would have been t-boned and our car would have taken out four drunks crossing the road. As it was the driver barely missed the drunks. Situational awareness is very important in driving.
toyota rav-4 and suzuki sidekick come to mind real quick. I'm sure I could find some more but I think your probably just enjoying being snippy.
Actually I think you will find it's tweeting and watching the police mop up the mess you made of someone else's body. Texting is just one symptom of distracted driving. There are others and putting in phone restrictions will only cover up one symptom instead of handling the main problem. Eating food, drinking water, writing notes, putting on makeup, talking to others in the car, noisy kids are all part of the problem and would not be handled by a phone with reduced or restricted capabilities. If we are going to take away freedoms of judgement we might as well try to handle the whole problem rather than restrict one little aspect.
You have no reason to hide anything says the Anonymous Coward.
how many have been stopped by TSA compared to people on the plane. From what I have seen and read the majority of plane endangerments in the last 10 years was stopped by passengers. From explosive shoes to crazed pilots.
I believe on Ruger Blackhawks and other single actions there is a pin that holds the entire cylinder in the frame. Open the gate, push the button on the side of the frame and pull the pin forward, it will release the entire cylinder from the frame.
I did not mean to say to insinuate it was unexpected. Children are children and bad judgement should be expected. What she did is to be expected of a child. The bad judgement is that it is not usually safe to be mixing chemicals with out a guardian in the area to oversee and I have no doubt she learned this lesson. I see the over reaction from the school administrator to be the whole problem. Instead of asking the child to not do experiments outside of the classroom (From the sounds of it the child had never caused any problems before) he went around the screaming the sky is falling. The kid popped a bottle get over it. Chastise and move on.
I think your confusing punishment with rehabilitation. This is a child that had bad judgement. She got her punishment, she got arrested, she got expelled, and she got charged with a felony. For a child those are all major. But on the other side she has been given a chance to push her energies into an area where she will not be endangering or causing heart attacks for school administrators. With children it is always better to drive the energy in the direction you want rather than straight up stop it.
The problem is there is no difference. Just because a gun is not available does not mean that violence is going to stop. Gun violence is just a symptom of overall violence. Removing the item that can level the difference between an 80 year old woman and a 300 lbs attacker is not going to reduce violence. It just makes the victims better targets. Raising the general income level for an area does reduce ALL violence.
Statistically guns do not cause violence, poverty does. Look at every city with a high gun violence rate and you will see all the poverty areas filled with your gun violence. But not the higher income areas. Restricting guns will not stop the violence, as seen in England, Australia and Mexico. All had increases of general violence after gun restrictions. But changing the general level of income will remove the largest amount of violence from those areas. If you want to lower murder, rape, arson, and drug use all you have to do is raise the level of income in an area. P.S. you also lower the average birthrate for the area as well.
What age are you talking about when you say kid? Are you talking 2 -3 years of age or are you talking 17? What if your are teaching the child about the dangers of firearms and how to safely handle one if they find it. Would that be a time when it was okay for a child to have a firearm? How about in the country where there are wild animals around would it be okay for a 12 year old to go outside and shoot the badger that is gnawing on his little brothers arm? Or the ten year old that shot home invaders? I knew a girl that when she was 8 years old was hunting to help put food on the table for her family. Even though she never had and accident with it should she never have touched that firearm? Not everyone lives in the city. Not everyone is in the same environment that you are in. And if your saying children are not mature enough to handle a firearm then we have a bigger problem because there are a ton of adults I would not trust with a firearm where I would trust that 8 year old with one.
Couldn't you just unload it? Put your thumb between the hammer and the frame, hit the release on the cylinder and empty the shells? I don't see how that would require an underwear change.