Not at all. The best recent breakthrough in getting people to stop speeding have been big signs that show you your speed. Now, just about in every school zone, I get a flashing light when I'm going over 20mph. No cop, no ticket, no privacy invasion. I get a personal message that I am breaking the law. And really, that's all it takes.
Someone's obviously thinking about this problem. Sounds much more likely to have an impact than receiving a ticket in the mail two weeks later.
One other idea I had was to configure traffic lights to turn red for 5 minutes if someone is speeding in the road leading up to them, and a ticker at the intersection showing the number plate of the offender for all to see. There's no justice like angry mob justice:)
Quite the opposite - once it's figured out who's behind it the penalty will be hard.
That won't happen though if it saturates the food chain and the detectives are more interested in finding snacks to eat...:)
And I would hate to have permanent potheads around on the roads. There are enough stupid people on the roads these days, and we don't need them to be stoned stupid.
Yes that is one drawback. While driving stoned is hardly the danger that a 0.05% BAC brings, it's still a hazard i'd rather avoid. Stoned cops might be a problem too if they got a little careless with their guns.
1.) They are certain that heredity is solely controlled by genes. 2.) They are certain that DNA is the sole mechanism for passing on genes. 3.) That looking at DNA sequences is a productive method of finding causes of things.
Personally I believe that they are uncertain in (1), uncertain in (2) and that (3) is not true. DNA is a waste of time with regards to 99.99999% of human behaviour.
WTF have you been smoking? Even if 1 and 2 are not completely true, there is enough about us programmed into our genes that it's still a useful thing to know. Human behaviour is part nature part nurture, not exclusively one or the other, and I bet the nature part is more than the 0.00001% figure you cite. Understanding the nature part can help us understand the nurture part better, so it's not a waste of time.
Oh noes, you're offended by reality. Get over it. Just like everyone else. It's supposed to be an encyclopedia of FACTS. Fact is, war, famine, sex, drugs, and vulgarity are part of the life we live in. Should we start adding censors to articles on "Intelligent Design" because it's offensive to the people who know it's not factual?
Getting upset or offended by stuff is human nature. I bet seeing pictures of the little girl ripped to pieces by the neighbors pet dog in Melbourne the other day would be upsetting, maybe even more so if you are a parent (or maybe that's just me), and maybe even more so if you've ever been attacked by a dog yourself.
People aren't robots, and whether rational by your standards or not, some of reality scares people. Don't you wish there was a pixelation mask over goatse with a caption "wash your eyes after clicking here to view image"? At least then you'd only have yourself to blame for clicking.
Saying he doesn't deserve any leniency without knowing the full story is just wrong.
As long as you know the full story of _what_ he did, then _why_ he did it shouldn't really matter unless it can be established that he was mentally incompetent at the time eg under duress (family being held hostage etc), having a psychotic episode, really really drunk/wired, upset because favourite TV show just got cancelled, or whatever else counts for "temporarily insane" these days.
all of the account/password/access termination must be done prior to the person knowing that they are to be terminated
That was the joke when I used to work at <big company>... if someone's swipe card didn't let them in the building in the morning someone else would ask "oh... do you still work here?". The swipe cards were just magnetic cards and they did seem to wear out quickly so it wasn't that uncommon... but you always wondered for a second when it failed to swipe first go.
Once the blue smoke is released, the magic is lost.
This is true of people and of computers... guess which one will get you longer in prison of you are found to be responsible for the release of the blue smoke?
Really? You believe in what you've said that much?
This is a common myth, which I will hereby dispel: <snip>
I think you should get a T-Shirt made with that text on it, and wear it when you go out on the town. That will help you enforce the world-view you've already cemented into your head. I never said that there were lots of 'perfect' cops, but there is a fair bit of room between 'good' and 'perfect'.
most drug company pages will have to have open Walls
Most drug company pages? I suspect the conversation might have started with Facebook saying something like "Nice pharmaceutical page you have there... it would be a shame if something happened to it..." and some companies just couldn't afford the protection money.
I think he's got mozilla disease. 10 year at 2.6, then 3.0, now 3.1.
I'm guessing they just dropped the unnecessary middle number. It used to be that the major number was more like 2.6 not 2. They just finally did some garbage collection of the name, sort of?
A problem they might not have had if they hadn't stuck the 4th number on the end in the first place...
my iPhone 3GS takes about 30 seconds to shut down, and about 35 seconds to boot. And when I say 'boot', I mean it's ready to go, not like the Windows definition of "there's your login prompt - you're booted". If it ever plays up I can be rebooted in under 90 seconds, and it hasn't actually needed rebooting since the last firmware update.
Unlike my previous Windows phone which took ages to boot and needed rebooting a couple of times a week.
It takes my work PC about ten minutes to get to a working desktop. Probably two minutes to actually boot to windows, three or four to get to the Windows logon (anyone who works Windows domains has learned that if you don't have some wait times built in, policies may not load and you get support calls)
That's what bugs me. Windows 2000 took a while to get to the logon screen, but once you were there you were pretty much good to go. XP put the logon up a bit earlier before the system was really ready so Microsoft could say "hey look - we booted faster". Windows 7 even more so.
I've noticed lately that google isn't nearly as sharp at finding the results I want. If I search for terms 'x', 'y', and 'z', google will sometimes give me a page with terms 'x' and 'y' but not 'z'. 'z' is on pages that link to the results, but google doesn't tell me this. If there are no pages with 'x', 'y', and 'z' on them then so be it, but don't give me pages that I don't want.
I'm not going to actually read the paper because i have a headache already, and i'm not saying that this guy isn't onto something, but if I had an 'automatic scientific paper generator', 'gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum' is exactly the sort of phrase it would be likely to spit out:)
When I was about 4 I saw something out the window that seemed to come down from the sky, hover for a bit while spinning in a spiral sort of fashion, then took off again. I seem to remember playing outside the night before watching the neighbors set off fireworks, and although I didn't connect it at the time that was probably it - an errant firework flew by the window and my imagination filled in the rest. The man in a black suit who spoke to me the next day explained that it was some swamp gas caught in a temperature inversion causing the moon to reflect into the window, but I think fireworks is more likely;)
It wasn't 4th of July when you saw your unidentified phenomena was it?
In an unrelated note, British Intelligence just "acquired" a new Hypersonick Glider. No details given yet.
Unlikely... I'm pretty sure the British mind is too highly evolved to be able to think in American so they would be unable to make use of the mind/machine interface.
(Firefox could go Mach 6 which is just hypersonic enough so I think i'll get away with the mix of references here:)
From what I understand its supposed to allow more functionality eventually. I can't really see what sort of functionality you need out of a tcp stack that wasn't already there. Anything else can be bolted on top.
Have you ever used the IPv6 "bolted on top" of the XP/2003 TCP/IP stack? The Vista implementation is much better. Guess why.
Screw the regular olympics. I want to see a games where nothing is off limits. If you want to have your legs replaced with giant springs, go right ahead. And you could save a bit of weight by having your skull lightened or replaced with a carbon fibre shell. The brain requires quite a bit of energy to run... i'm sure there are bits that could be removed that are surplus to requirements for an elite athlete.
One heart? I'm sure more blood could be pumped with two hearts, and maybe an extra lung to oxygenate that blood. Room in the abdomen could be made by removing everything else and then filling the blood with nutrients and cleaning it with machines before and after the race.
Steroids? Everyone's doing them anyway... lets see how far we can grow those muscles and shrink those testicles.
Then some genetic engineering once we get the hang of it. I think this idea was played out in Red Dwarf (or was it THHGTTG?) - genetically engineered soccer was over when one of the teams fielded a goalie who was just a great big rectangle of flesh the size of the goal, thus preventing the other team from ever being able to score.
If they were armed, he would have been shooting for oh . . . say. . . 20 seconds
Can't argue with that... a bunch of 15 year olds with guns would have well and truly finished him off in that time.
And then the police arrive, and the kids - scared out of their minds - figure that if one cop was shooting at them, the rest are probably coming to do the same, so they'll probably take a few police out too (better not give the chance for the police to shoot first). Then more police arrive to sort out the cop-killing kids.
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Not at all. The best recent breakthrough in getting people to stop speeding have been big signs that show you your speed. Now, just about in every school zone, I get a flashing light when I'm going over 20mph. No cop, no ticket, no privacy invasion. I get a personal message that I am breaking the law. And really, that's all it takes.
Someone's obviously thinking about this problem. Sounds much more likely to have an impact than receiving a ticket in the mail two weeks later.
One other idea I had was to configure traffic lights to turn red for 5 minutes if someone is speeding in the road leading up to them, and a ticker at the intersection showing the number plate of the offender for all to see. There's no justice like angry mob justice :)
Quite the opposite - once it's figured out who's behind it the penalty will be hard.
That won't happen though if it saturates the food chain and the detectives are more interested in finding snacks to eat... :)
And I would hate to have permanent potheads around on the roads. There are enough stupid people on the roads these days, and we don't need them to be stoned stupid.
Yes that is one drawback. While driving stoned is hardly the danger that a 0.05% BAC brings, it's still a hazard i'd rather avoid. Stoned cops might be a problem too if they got a little careless with their guns.
that they have verified that
1.) They are certain that heredity is solely controlled by genes.
2.) They are certain that DNA is the sole mechanism for passing on genes.
3.) That looking at DNA sequences is a productive method of finding causes of things.
Personally I believe that they are uncertain in (1), uncertain in (2) and that (3) is not true. DNA is a waste of time with regards to 99.99999% of human behaviour.
WTF have you been smoking? Even if 1 and 2 are not completely true, there is enough about us programmed into our genes that it's still a useful thing to know. Human behaviour is part nature part nurture, not exclusively one or the other, and I bet the nature part is more than the 0.00001% figure you cite. Understanding the nature part can help us understand the nurture part better, so it's not a waste of time.
Yeah and all laws are consistently applied today...
That's the point. Once you contaminate every corn crop with this stuff, nobody will care anymore.
Oh noes, you're offended by reality. Get over it. Just like everyone else. It's supposed to be an encyclopedia of FACTS. Fact is, war, famine, sex, drugs, and vulgarity are part of the life we live in. Should we start adding censors to articles on "Intelligent Design" because it's offensive to the people who know it's not factual?
Getting upset or offended by stuff is human nature. I bet seeing pictures of the little girl ripped to pieces by the neighbors pet dog in Melbourne the other day would be upsetting, maybe even more so if you are a parent (or maybe that's just me), and maybe even more so if you've ever been attacked by a dog yourself.
People aren't robots, and whether rational by your standards or not, some of reality scares people. Don't you wish there was a pixelation mask over goatse with a caption "wash your eyes after clicking here to view image"? At least then you'd only have yourself to blame for clicking.
Saying he doesn't deserve any leniency without knowing the full story is just wrong.
As long as you know the full story of _what_ he did, then _why_ he did it shouldn't really matter unless it can be established that he was mentally incompetent at the time eg under duress (family being held hostage etc), having a psychotic episode, really really drunk/wired, upset because favourite TV show just got cancelled, or whatever else counts for "temporarily insane" these days.
all of the account/password/access termination must be done prior to the person knowing that they are to be terminated
That was the joke when I used to work at <big company>... if someone's swipe card didn't let them in the building in the morning someone else would ask "oh... do you still work here?". The swipe cards were just magnetic cards and they did seem to wear out quickly so it wasn't that uncommon... but you always wondered for a second when it failed to swipe first go.
Once the blue smoke is released, the magic is lost.
This is true of people and of computers... guess which one will get you longer in prison of you are found to be responsible for the release of the blue smoke?
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Really? You believe in what you've said that much?
This is a common myth, which I will hereby dispel:
<snip>
I think you should get a T-Shirt made with that text on it, and wear it when you go out on the town. That will help you enforce the world-view you've already cemented into your head. I never said that there were lots of 'perfect' cops, but there is a fair bit of room between 'good' and 'perfect'.
If a civilian beat someone up that badly, he'd be facing a few years in prison.
Cops should die. Painfully, slowly and messily.
How about we just have the law apply equally to everybody, cop and civilian?
IMHO, law enforcement should be held to a higher standard than everyone else. A bad cop screws up the system for everybody - cops and civilians alike.
Cops should die. Painfully, slowly and messily.
s/Cops/Bad Cops/
There _are_ good cops. They almost never make it into the news because that's just not the way news works, but they do exist.
most drug company pages will have to have open Walls
Most drug company pages? I suspect the conversation might have started with Facebook saying something like "Nice pharmaceutical page you have there... it would be a shame if something happened to it..." and some companies just couldn't afford the protection money.
I think he's got mozilla disease. 10 year at 2.6, then 3.0, now 3.1.
I'm guessing they just dropped the unnecessary middle number. It used to be that the major number was more like 2.6 not 2. They just finally did some garbage collection of the name, sort of?
A problem they might not have had if they hadn't stuck the 4th number on the end in the first place...
my iPhone 3GS takes about 30 seconds to shut down, and about 35 seconds to boot. And when I say 'boot', I mean it's ready to go, not like the Windows definition of "there's your login prompt - you're booted". If it ever plays up I can be rebooted in under 90 seconds, and it hasn't actually needed rebooting since the last firmware update.
Unlike my previous Windows phone which took ages to boot and needed rebooting a couple of times a week.
It takes my work PC about ten minutes to get to a working desktop. Probably two minutes to actually boot to windows, three or four to get to the Windows logon (anyone who works Windows domains has learned that if you don't have some wait times built in, policies may not load and you get support calls)
That's what bugs me. Windows 2000 took a while to get to the logon screen, but once you were there you were pretty much good to go. XP put the logon up a bit earlier before the system was really ready so Microsoft could say "hey look - we booted faster". Windows 7 even more so.
I've noticed lately that google isn't nearly as sharp at finding the results I want. If I search for terms 'x', 'y', and 'z', google will sometimes give me a page with terms 'x' and 'y' but not 'z'. 'z' is on pages that link to the results, but google doesn't tell me this. If there are no pages with 'x', 'y', and 'z' on them then so be it, but don't give me pages that I don't want.
rant over.
I'm not going to actually read the paper because i have a headache already, and i'm not saying that this guy isn't onto something, but if I had an 'automatic scientific paper generator', 'gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum' is exactly the sort of phrase it would be likely to spit out :)
When I was about 4 I saw something out the window that seemed to come down from the sky, hover for a bit while spinning in a spiral sort of fashion, then took off again. I seem to remember playing outside the night before watching the neighbors set off fireworks, and although I didn't connect it at the time that was probably it - an errant firework flew by the window and my imagination filled in the rest. The man in a black suit who spoke to me the next day explained that it was some swamp gas caught in a temperature inversion causing the moon to reflect into the window, but I think fireworks is more likely ;)
It wasn't 4th of July when you saw your unidentified phenomena was it?
Doing a bit of rogaining was he best thing I ever did to improve my ability to navigate.
So how does growing hair help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogain :}}
It keeps the head warmer and working at optimum temperature, obviously.
Slightly used, probably won't be able to fly again. Can still sell it to Canada though..
There are a few airlines in Australia who would probably put it into service tomorrow if they could get hold of it today.
In an unrelated note, British Intelligence just "acquired" a new Hypersonick Glider. No details given yet.
Unlikely... I'm pretty sure the British mind is too highly evolved to be able to think in American so they would be unable to make use of the mind/machine interface.
(Firefox could go Mach 6 which is just hypersonic enough so I think i'll get away with the mix of references here :)
So does a false positive mean you're dead?
Drug: Must find viruses. Oh, there's one...I think. And that one too. Oooh, actually, they're ALL viruses!
A Y-chromosone? That can't be good... better kill that cell just to be sure.
From what I understand its supposed to allow more functionality eventually. I can't really see what sort of functionality you need out of a tcp stack that wasn't already there. Anything else can be bolted on top.
Have you ever used the IPv6 "bolted on top" of the XP/2003 TCP/IP stack? The Vista implementation is much better. Guess why.
Screw the regular olympics. I want to see a games where nothing is off limits. If you want to have your legs replaced with giant springs, go right ahead. And you could save a bit of weight by having your skull lightened or replaced with a carbon fibre shell. The brain requires quite a bit of energy to run... i'm sure there are bits that could be removed that are surplus to requirements for an elite athlete.
One heart? I'm sure more blood could be pumped with two hearts, and maybe an extra lung to oxygenate that blood. Room in the abdomen could be made by removing everything else and then filling the blood with nutrients and cleaning it with machines before and after the race.
Steroids? Everyone's doing them anyway... lets see how far we can grow those muscles and shrink those testicles.
Then some genetic engineering once we get the hang of it. I think this idea was played out in Red Dwarf (or was it THHGTTG?) - genetically engineered soccer was over when one of the teams fielded a goalie who was just a great big rectangle of flesh the size of the goal, thus preventing the other team from ever being able to score.
If they were armed, he would have been shooting for oh . . . say. . . 20 seconds
Can't argue with that... a bunch of 15 year olds with guns would have well and truly finished him off in that time.
And then the police arrive, and the kids - scared out of their minds - figure that if one cop was shooting at them, the rest are probably coming to do the same, so they'll probably take a few police out too (better not give the chance for the police to shoot first). Then more police arrive to sort out the cop-killing kids.
Sounds like a great solution!