Actually, the shutter snap sound in digital cameras was optional when they first came out. It was only until enough women complained about men surreptitiously taking upskirt pictures that the sound was made mandatory.
Not quite right.
Many/most digital cameras actually have mechanical shutters that do make noise. You might be thinking of mirrorless cameras that do without the noise from mirrors slapping but but do have shutter noise. Smaller P&S digital cameras can be shutterless.
http://www.premiumbeat.com/blo...
They haven't been 'tracked', I don't think, as much as they have been recorded as text or even images attached to records in NCIS database. That's the National Crime Information Center not the TV show. (https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ncic)
I would suppose, without reading all the associated articles on the NIST site, that the program is aimed both at recognizing types of tattoos from images and characterizing them in an associated record in a searchable database and a kind of image matching search that is done by Google and Tin-Eye.
From years of looking at photos and editing them, my attention is distracted from the content/subject of the image by little things like a horizon or a vertical wall being slightly tilted - even as little as half a degree, unless it is clearly an artistic choice. For me, at least, flat appearing horizons and walls that are vertical (as I know and expect them to be) make the photograph easier to see and appreciate.
In NYC, where there is a large concentration of Jews, they are ubiquitous in most areas of industry. In other parts of the country, where they migrated for opportunity, they are generally concentrated in fields which are transportable. Lots of doctors, attorneys, businessman, teachers, social workers, scientists.
We lived in a small New England town. The only Jews were either in the professions or were shopkeepers.
I assume you're an ignorant bigot and didn't know all that.
There are some facts that you may unaware of.
There was free entry to and from Gaza until Hamas started rocketing in 2001.
The wall, which in most places is chain link fence, was erected as a reaction to the suicide bombings - which have essentially disappeared.
Gaza has a border with Egypt on the south (Egypt refused to take Gaza along with the Sinai when the Sinai was given back to Egypt as part of a peace process.)
Jordan annexed the West Bank as part of an invasion and remained there for ~20 years - (1948-1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The current status of the West Bank is a 'disputed territory' and Jordan actually has renounced any claims, although Jorfan still has guardianship of the Al Aqsa Mosque.
Sorry I don't have any mod points to mod this up.
I read the referenced articles, the open letter, searched for the original blog about BMW.
Whatever the inferred tone, the facts seem to speak for themselves about the event being late and poorly planned and the BMW being screwed up.
Elon Fanboys need to take a step back.
In the early-mid 80's I used a portable computer (sewing machine form factor) called a Zorba that would boot in one of 20 or 30 CPM formats depending on floppy disk used.
This reminded of the only time in my working life that I was reported for harassment. I was coming out of my office (CIO medium-size medical foundation) just as a woman from another department passed, trailing a nice perfume. (I knew her by sight only) 'Nice smell', I said and went on about my business. And she walked directly into HR and filed a harassment complaint.
Sorry, wrong. The relative expansion, contraction of materials allows margins of fillings to leak. The benefit of amalgams is that they corrode in the margins and the corrosion products seal the gap.
They were free to enter and leave, sans barriers and checkpoints after Israel withdrew from Gaza. Then Hamas started rocketing Israel and the current situation evolved.
I am waiting for anyone to point to a situation where the Israel response could have been different and Israeli lives not be threatened.
I only have experience in one prison and teaching only classes in statistics but a good many of the guys I come across have little or no education but are enormously intelligent. A prison acquaintance committed a truly heinous crime when young, spent 30+ years in prison and earned batchelor's and master's degrees while incarcerated. All this without access to the internet or much in the way of books for resources. The really painful part about teaching there is dealing with human capital that is going to waste.
Consider a donation sent.;) I've added it to my list to make yearly donations to as well. I don't care about deducting it. That's not why I do it. Usually just the EFF and Red Cross reduce my tax burden to the maximum allowed so I don't much worry about it after those two.
For the last two years, I have taught statistics (as a volunteer) in a local medium/high security prison. I realize that I am in contact with an atypical slice through prison population but it is still stereotype-breaking. They are civil, respectful, friendly - and intelligent. They do the assignments, read any collateral materials they can and, for the most part, are as good a class as I have ever taught (and my prior experience was teaching stats to physicians and dentists in grad programs.) Although I never ask directly, the men in my classes seem to have been in the system for a while. During a conversation before class one of them confided his sentence was life plus a hundred years; not too much of a leap to intuit that he was a very bad guy. If you are interested in reading a bit more - or even giving a few dollars to support our effort (Teachers are volunteers and buy all their own books and supplies for the classes.), the url is http://www.prisonscholarsprogr... and it is a 501c3 so any gift is tax-deductible.
Unless you want to spend several months a year of your life auditing inefficient "charity" organizations and trying to make judgments about whether they're doing it right and spending your dollars wisely...and hey if you think you're good at that you should probably start your own charity. But if you do, everyone will expect you to work for free. It's a viscous circle.
'viscous circles' make moving around slow because viscous means sticky or gummy. 'vicious circles' are chains of events which that are self-reinforcing and with generally increasingly detrimental results.
Scott Adams' Falacy #24: IGNORING ALL ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE Example: I always get hives immediately after eating strawberries. But without a scientifically controlled experiment, it’s not reliable data. So I continue to eat strawberries every day, since I can’t tell if they cause hives.
Wrong, the only population you are concerned with is you, and every test of that population shows 100% response to the stimulus.
this list is incomplete In the 80's a California regional airline suffered a crash when a disgruntled (are employees ever gruntled?) forced his way into the cockpit with a handgun, shot the pilots and ran the plane into a hillside near San Luis Obispo, killing all aboard. I was part of the team that recovered body pieces and identified the remains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
This didn't happen at the Army Base entrance; it happened at the separate entrance to NSA (there are lots of entrances, some through the Army base and this separate large multi-lane NSA-only entrance). There are thousands of people that go through that gate in the AM and PM and entering/lowering gates would be a real log-jam. Typically, in addition to actual barriers that can be raised in a moment out of the ground, there is usually a NSA police car parked to partially block the lane that people have to drive around. In the event of a problem the NSA car eases forward - just in case. My surmise is that, if the big barriers go up, it happens at all the gates and there had better be a good reason, not just a transient issue. Without knowing the specific details of this case, my guess is that there was an issue, they were told to turn around, the SUV moved to block them actually proceeding in rather than turning and they charged the NSA SUV. The barriers went up, in case this was a multi-vehicle attempt - and all over Ft Meade, the barriers went up.
Actually Israel absorbed the almost one million Jews evicted from Arab countries for no reason except that they were Jews. After WWII, Germany absorbed and resettled the millions of ethnic Germans evicted from what became post-war Poland. It is only Palestinians who were kept in camps by their Arab supporters.
Then that should have been a point for peaceful negotiation. Land for peace has always been a part of Israel's negotiations. Israel withdrew troops and settlements from Gaza, hoping for peaceful neighbors. There were no border restrictions or barricades just hope for a peaceful life. In the face of continuing threats and rocket attacks, Israel still provides electricity, water and medical care to Gaza. With peace, Gaza could have been prosperous and successful, instead Hamas chose war.
I have yet to hear someone suggest a course that Israel could have taken at any point, that would have had a peaceful solution.
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Actually, the shutter snap sound in digital cameras was optional when they first came out. It was only until enough women complained about men surreptitiously taking upskirt pictures that the sound was made mandatory.
Not quite right. Many/most digital cameras actually have mechanical shutters that do make noise. You might be thinking of mirrorless cameras that do without the noise from mirrors slapping but but do have shutter noise. Smaller P&S digital cameras can be shutterless. http://www.premiumbeat.com/blo...
Define the 'upper echelons' and where the factoid comes from. If Bernie had run and won, would that make the most-upper echelon 100% Jewish?
They haven't been 'tracked', I don't think, as much as they have been recorded as text or even images attached to records in NCIS database. That's the National Crime Information Center not the TV show. (https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ncic) I would suppose, without reading all the associated articles on the NIST site, that the program is aimed both at recognizing types of tattoos from images and characterizing them in an associated record in a searchable database and a kind of image matching search that is done by Google and Tin-Eye.
From years of looking at photos and editing them, my attention is distracted from the content/subject of the image by little things like a horizon or a vertical wall being slightly tilted - even as little as half a degree, unless it is clearly an artistic choice. For me, at least, flat appearing horizons and walls that are vertical (as I know and expect them to be) make the photograph easier to see and appreciate.
In NYC, where there is a large concentration of Jews, they are ubiquitous in most areas of industry. In other parts of the country, where they migrated for opportunity, they are generally concentrated in fields which are transportable. Lots of doctors, attorneys, businessman, teachers, social workers, scientists. We lived in a small New England town. The only Jews were either in the professions or were shopkeepers. I assume you're an ignorant bigot and didn't know all that.
There are some facts that you may unaware of. There was free entry to and from Gaza until Hamas started rocketing in 2001. The wall, which in most places is chain link fence, was erected as a reaction to the suicide bombings - which have essentially disappeared. Gaza has a border with Egypt on the south (Egypt refused to take Gaza along with the Sinai when the Sinai was given back to Egypt as part of a peace process.) Jordan annexed the West Bank as part of an invasion and remained there for ~20 years - (1948-1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The current status of the West Bank is a 'disputed territory' and Jordan actually has renounced any claims, although Jorfan still has guardianship of the Al Aqsa Mosque.
Sorry I don't have any mod points to mod this up. I read the referenced articles, the open letter, searched for the original blog about BMW. Whatever the inferred tone, the facts seem to speak for themselves about the event being late and poorly planned and the BMW being screwed up. Elon Fanboys need to take a step back.
In the early-mid 80's I used a portable computer (sewing machine form factor) called a Zorba that would boot in one of 20 or 30 CPM formats depending on floppy disk used.
This reminded of the only time in my working life that I was reported for harassment.
I was coming out of my office (CIO medium-size medical foundation) just as a woman from another department passed, trailing a nice perfume. (I knew her by sight only)
'Nice smell', I said and went on about my business.
And she walked directly into HR and filed a harassment complaint.
Sorry, wrong.
The relative expansion, contraction of materials allows margins of fillings to leak.
The benefit of amalgams is that they corrode in the margins and the corrosion products seal the gap.
They were free to enter and leave, sans barriers and checkpoints after Israel withdrew from Gaza.
Then Hamas started rocketing Israel and the current situation evolved.
I am waiting for anyone to point to a situation where the Israel response could have been different and Israeli lives not be threatened.
. That's not what this is about. This is about weeding dumb people out of the Naval Academy.
Like Organic Chemistry
I only have experience in one prison and teaching only classes in statistics but a good many of the guys I come across have little or no education but are enormously intelligent.
A prison acquaintance committed a truly heinous crime when young, spent 30+ years in prison and earned batchelor's and master's degrees while incarcerated. All this without access to the internet or much in the way of books for resources.
The really painful part about teaching there is dealing with human capital that is going to waste.
modded up - if I had points.
Consider a donation sent. ;) I've added it to my list to make yearly donations to as well. I don't care about deducting it. That's not why I do it. Usually just the EFF and Red Cross reduce my tax burden to the maximum allowed so I don't much worry about it after those two.
thanks, every dollar helps.
For the last two years, I have taught statistics (as a volunteer) in a local medium/high security prison. I realize that I am in contact with an atypical slice through prison population but it is still stereotype-breaking.
They are civil, respectful, friendly - and intelligent. They do the assignments, read any collateral materials they can and, for the most part, are as good a class as I have ever taught (and my prior experience was teaching stats to physicians and dentists in grad programs.)
Although I never ask directly, the men in my classes seem to have been in the system for a while. During a conversation before class one of them confided his sentence was life plus a hundred years; not too much of a leap to intuit that he was a very bad guy.
If you are interested in reading a bit more - or even giving a few dollars to support our effort (Teachers are volunteers and buy all their own books and supplies for the classes.), the url is http://www.prisonscholarsprogr... and it is a 501c3 so any gift is tax-deductible.
certainly wish I had mod points left for this response.
"very vocal, very small minority of believers with the rest of them."
This is in contradiction with every single, large poll I've seen taken of Muslim countries.
Unless you want to spend several months a year of your life auditing inefficient "charity" organizations and trying to make judgments about whether they're doing it right and spending your dollars wisely...and hey if you think you're good at that you should probably start your own charity. But if you do, everyone will expect you to work for free. It's a viscous circle.
'viscous circles' make moving around slow because viscous means sticky or gummy.
'vicious circles' are chains of events which that are self-reinforcing and with generally increasingly detrimental results.
Scott Adams' Falacy #24: IGNORING ALL ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE
Example: I always get hives immediately after eating strawberries. But without a scientifically controlled experiment, it’s not reliable data. So I continue to eat strawberries every day, since I can’t tell if they cause hives.
Wrong, the only population you are concerned with is you, and every test of that population shows 100% response to the stimulus.
Stop eating strawberries.
this list is incomplete
In the 80's a California regional airline suffered a crash when a disgruntled (are employees ever gruntled?) forced his way into the cockpit with a handgun, shot the pilots and ran the plane into a hillside near San Luis Obispo, killing all aboard. I was part of the team that recovered body pieces and identified the remains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Yes, I see.
You don't know what should have been done in the 2 or 3 seconds that the car rolled forward but certainly not what they did.
Perhaps move the herd of unicorns into their path?
This didn't happen at the Army Base entrance; it happened at the separate entrance to NSA (there are lots of entrances, some through the Army base and this separate large multi-lane NSA-only entrance). There are thousands of people that go through that gate in the AM and PM and entering/lowering gates would be a real log-jam.
Typically, in addition to actual barriers that can be raised in a moment out of the ground, there is usually a NSA police car parked to partially block the lane that people have to drive around.
In the event of a problem the NSA car eases forward - just in case.
My surmise is that, if the big barriers go up, it happens at all the gates and there had better be a good reason, not just a transient issue.
Without knowing the specific details of this case, my guess is that there was an issue, they were told to turn around, the SUV moved to block them actually proceeding in rather than turning and they charged the NSA SUV.
The barriers went up, in case this was a multi-vehicle attempt - and all over Ft Meade, the barriers went up.
Actually Israel absorbed the almost one million Jews evicted from Arab countries for no reason except that they were Jews.
After WWII, Germany absorbed and resettled the millions of ethnic Germans evicted from what became post-war Poland.
It is only Palestinians who were kept in camps by their Arab supporters.
Then that should have been a point for peaceful negotiation.
Land for peace has always been a part of Israel's negotiations.
Israel withdrew troops and settlements from Gaza, hoping for peaceful neighbors.
There were no border restrictions or barricades just hope for a peaceful life.
In the face of continuing threats and rocket attacks, Israel still provides electricity, water and medical care to Gaza.
With peace, Gaza could have been prosperous and successful, instead Hamas chose war.
I have yet to hear someone suggest a course that Israel could have taken at any point, that would have had a peaceful solution.