You mean like when the US Supreme Court ruled that local governments could seize private property under Imminent Domain and have it developed commercially and it was ok because it was going to generate more taxes?
Yeah, and how does the world look through those rose-colored glasses??
Correct. It's imminent domain cuz their going to cease the property real soon.
Able to explain past events? YES Able to make predictions? YES Predictions do better than chance? NO Experts in the field are paid well? YES Uses its own obscure terminology? YES
I don't think he is a teabagger or a conservative. He is a nutjob who was almost certainly going to snap someday. The question is, was his choice of target influenced by teabaggers, conservatives, and right wing pundits' inflammatory, violent anti-government rhetoric?
In what units is relevance measured? Who can take this article seriously? Next I'll post an article on global warming backed up by in-depth interviews with 6 people I met on the bus.
T And victims are often prosecuted if they do anything to try to protect themselves
Can you provide evidence to justify this? It is a widespread belief, but the law authorities claim it is not true. In all the cases I have seen, there was pretty good evidence that the accused wend beyond self-defence (legal) to retribution (illegal).
Of course, the belief itself is damaging to society - but I am afraid we have the tabloid press to blame for that.
I personally know someone (not a friend of a friend) who was charged with violating firearms laws for using pepper spray on someone who attacked her. She lives in Rhode Island but used it in Massachusetts where it is not legal without an FID card.
I know someone who was sequestered on a capital case. They ended up sentencing the guy to death. (he killed someone in prison with a shiv while serving a life sentence -- not a very nice guy). They put them up in a decent hotel near the courthouse.
They don't sequester people on civil trials unless it is some celebrity thing. The civil trial I was on took 3 mornings. I went to work in the afternoon and stayed late so I didn't actually miss any work. It was not much of a burden for the one time in the 20 years I've lived in this state.
If your using a DIMM slot for power, and SATA for data transfer, why not use the power supply for power instead of losing a memory slot?
Power from a cable has to be regulated to be clean enough to run the flash drive. Motherboard power is already clean and the correct voltage. This saves power regulation and an unneeded drive housing.
Bringing down a plane is trivial to do without getting on board. You can use SAMs, maybe even a high-power laser. That's not what TSA is trying to prevent now. Their goal is to prevent another 9/11.
If you are on a plane which is hijacked today you have maybe 5 minutes to regain control if you want to survive. Once a plane is believed to be under the control of terrorists it will be shot down by the US military.
Read the 9/11 commission report. Cheney scrambled jets but they were too slow to stop the attack. That won't happen again.
Referral to the police station is of very quesitonable legality.
Uhh, referral to the police is foolish and a waste of time but it's not of "questionable legality". I can refer anything I want to the police. Doesn't mean they will investigate it or do anything but it's not a crime to tell the police about a civil affair.....
So, 24 songs are worth $222,000... no, actually it's $1,920,000... wait, I mean $54,000... did I say that? I meant $1,500,000...
Who the hell decides these amounts? The guy who wrote the Windows file copy dialog?
Just look up "restitution" in google news for recent settlements:
$53,824 for stabbing someone in Pittsburgh. $150,000 for selling 15 skid steer loaders (whatever they are, they sound big). $1.5M for giving away 24 songs
So does convicting someone of conspiring to commit a crime that never actually took place.
I hope you mean "because in the end they decided not to do it" and not "because the police stopped them".
Because man, I am happy that the police doesn't have to stand by and wait until a crime has actually happened. Prevention is as much a part of their job as investigation.
That's where we differ, then. I'm not happy with police "preventing crime". Look up the Tulia TX drug sting - it prevented a whole lot of drug crime. Or look up how the police prevented Fred Hampton and the black panthers from committing crimes in Chicago. If you think those are exceptional cases, then tell me what exceptional punishments happened to the police officers involved.
A better measure would be cost per 1000 miles. The inverted mpg unit tends to hide the true costs of inefficient cars. At $3.00/gal and $0.16/kwh a 20 mpg SUV costs $150 per 1000 miles while a 48 mpg hybrid costs $62.50 and a Tesla Roadster (240V x 70 A x 3.5Hr charge => 245 mile range) costs $38.40. Of course, the gasoline has substantial taxes added to pay for roads while residential electric rates are a bargain.
The reason for throwing the wallet in the post box is that it prevents it from being found until the thief is gone. Post boxes are secure. It's nothing to do with ethics.
I figured this case was something like that. Somebody bought the laptop, realized it was stolen, and returned the data, figuring that was the important part (and not wanting to be out the money that they paid). I doubt the thief was that honorable.
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Why do people treat genetic data as though it's the most confidential document in history? It's just a long string of base pairs, amirite?
Are you kidding? This could lead to the ultimate identity theft.
app wasn't solely developer lingo -- dating back to NeXTStep, .app was the suffix for application bundles, like .exe/.com for MS-DOS.
I didn't think anyone other than developers ever used NeXTSTEP.
We must have ruskies working for the MBTA then.
Snowzilla has been in use for years.
You mean like when the US Supreme Court ruled that local governments could seize private property under Imminent Domain and have it developed commercially and it was ok because it was going to generate more taxes?
Yeah, and how does the world look through those rose-colored glasses??
Correct. It's imminent domain cuz their going to cease the property real soon.
$5 on economics
LOL. Let's see.
Able to explain past events? YES
Able to make predictions? YES
Predictions do better than chance? NO
Experts in the field are paid well? YES
Uses its own obscure terminology? YES
Seems to fit the same criteria.
There's a pretty good article on the reliability of Wikipedia here
I don't think he is a teabagger or a conservative. He is a nutjob who was almost certainly going to snap someday. The question is, was his choice of target influenced by teabaggers, conservatives, and right wing pundits' inflammatory, violent anti-government rhetoric?
Given the fact that Sarah Palin's website had a gunsite target on her district, you mean?
“We’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list,” Ms. Giffords said last March.
In what units is relevance measured? Who can take this article seriously? Next I'll post an article on global warming backed up by in-depth interviews with 6 people I met on the bus.
go get your coat and hand in your geek card at the door.
The fun is in writing the program that solves the puzzle
Too easy. 12 lines of lisp. The true geek writes the program that generates the puzzles.
T And victims are often prosecuted if they do anything to try to protect themselves
Can you provide evidence to justify this? It is a widespread belief, but the law authorities claim it is not true. In all the cases I have seen, there was pretty good evidence that the accused wend beyond self-defence (legal) to retribution (illegal).
Of course, the belief itself is damaging to society - but I am afraid we have the tabloid press to blame for that.
I personally know someone (not a friend of a friend) who was charged with violating firearms laws for using pepper spray on someone who attacked her. She lives in Rhode Island but used it in Massachusetts where it is not legal without an FID card.
I know someone who was sequestered on a capital case. They ended up sentencing the guy to death. (he killed someone in prison with a shiv while serving a life sentence -- not a very nice guy). They put them up in a decent hotel near the courthouse.
They don't sequester people on civil trials unless it is some celebrity thing. The civil trial I was on took 3 mornings. I went to work in the afternoon and stayed late so I didn't actually miss any work. It was not much of a burden for the one time in the 20 years I've lived in this state.
Its a good thing problems like this don't happen in other areas. Imagine if the auto industry did this!
If your using a DIMM slot for power, and SATA for data transfer, why not use the power supply for power instead of losing a memory slot?
Power from a cable has to be regulated to be clean enough to run the flash drive. Motherboard power is already clean and the correct voltage. This saves power regulation and an unneeded drive housing.
Bringing down a plane is trivial to do without getting on board. You can use SAMs, maybe even a high-power laser. That's not what TSA is trying to prevent now. Their goal is to prevent another 9/11.
If you are on a plane which is hijacked today you have maybe 5 minutes to regain control if you want to survive. Once a plane is believed to be under the control of terrorists it will be shot down by the US military.
Read the 9/11 commission report. Cheney scrambled jets but they were too slow to stop the attack. That won't happen again.
Read "Worlds-Antiworlds: Antimatter in Cosmology" (1966) by Hannes Alfvén. Its the original discussion of this topic.
correct. Mass can't be negative. The particles have opposite charge.
Referral to the police station is of very quesitonable legality.
Uhh, referral to the police is foolish and a waste of time but it's not of "questionable legality". I can refer anything I want to the police. Doesn't mean they will investigate it or do anything but it's not a crime to tell the police about a civil affair.....
Making false reports is definitely a crime.
So, 24 songs are worth $222,000... no, actually it's $1,920,000... wait, I mean $54,000... did I say that? I meant $1,500,000...
Who the hell decides these amounts? The guy who wrote the Windows file copy dialog?
Just look up "restitution" in google news for recent settlements:
$53,824 for stabbing someone in Pittsburgh.
$150,000 for selling 15 skid steer loaders (whatever they are, they sound big).
$1.5M for giving away 24 songs
See? The law makes perfect sense.
So does convicting someone of conspiring to commit a crime that never actually took place.
I hope you mean "because in the end they decided not to do it" and not "because the police stopped them".
Because man, I am happy that the police doesn't have to stand by and wait until a crime has actually happened. Prevention is as much a part of their job as investigation.
That's where we differ, then. I'm not happy with police "preventing crime". Look up the Tulia TX drug sting - it prevented a whole lot of drug crime. Or look up how the police prevented Fred Hampton and the black panthers from committing crimes in Chicago. If you think those are exceptional cases, then tell me what exceptional punishments happened to the police officers involved.
Liberal as I am, Hate Crime still makes me uneasy too. So does convicting someone of conspiring to commit a crime that never actually took place.
Great idea. It will happen about the same time that "white collar crimes" are treated the same as mugging or burglary.
hmm. green, orange, red, blue - correct
But Fedora is friendly rounded hippie shapes like guitar pics, Windows uses harsh, wavy squares like shards of glass. See the difference?
A better measure would be cost per 1000 miles. The inverted mpg unit tends to hide the true costs of inefficient cars. At $3.00/gal and $0.16/kwh a 20 mpg SUV costs $150 per 1000 miles while a 48 mpg hybrid costs $62.50 and a Tesla Roadster (240V x 70 A x 3.5Hr charge => 245 mile range) costs $38.40. Of course, the gasoline has substantial taxes added to pay for roads while residential electric rates are a bargain.
The reason for throwing the wallet in the post box is that it prevents it from being found until the thief is gone. Post boxes are secure. It's nothing to do with ethics.
I figured this case was something like that. Somebody bought the laptop, realized it was stolen, and returned the data, figuring that was the important part (and not wanting to be out the money that they paid). I doubt the thief was that honorable.