Fight it with everything you got? Really? Like what? Somehow, I don't think old copies of Bear Party, empty cans of pringles, and that musty smell of your mother's basement is going to make anyone stand up and take notice. Well, maybe the musty smell, but that's not the kind of noticin' you want if you know what I mean.
Well, exactly. There was just an article here about Facebook's evil interfaces.
Maybe this is what they were talking about?
Oh, no, I don't mean as in the Catholic Church is evil *nervous chuckle*, hehe, not at all.
What I mean is that a "fan" could just be someone who clicked on a link? Facebook added a new feature that takes your preferences and makes them into linkable groups. I clicked on one of them and it listed me as a fan. Something similar could have happened with this group. Why on earth would anyone want to be a priest?
They already do that. They're called nuns. Nuns are just booty call for priests. An old timer once told me stories of orphanages attached to convents so they could dump off the children. Not sure if its true, but the Church's hypocrisy wouldn't make me the least bit surprised.
Snow? Why, when I was a kid we played tag right there in the lava beds. Oh sure, sometimes we'd become engulfed in flames, but that was just part of the fun. The toxic volcanic gasses? Oh sure, we'd pass out from time to time, but losing oxygen to the brain is part of childhood. It never GOONURBLE affected me, gopher tooth SNARF for willing. ARF!
you both are missing the point of the iPad. Nobody said it was a full blown computer.
I cannot interface with an "archaic PBX system" with my wii, either. Or maybe I can. I don't care.
The iPad, like a wii, is a dedicated console. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's a piece of consumer electronics *just* like the huge tower desktop running linux that you probably have. The difference is that it doesn't purport to do everything. But you can take it with you, surf the web, check email, play games, watch videos, create documents, and it's small, light, has a powerful battery, and works very well. Your desktop PC may be able to do everything, but you can't take it with you.
Have a toolbox? I do. I have a big one with all kinds of tools in it that stays in my garage. I have smaller ones I take with me to go to a friends house to fix something, to keep in the car, etc. Yes, people, different tools for different jobs. Why is that such a hard concept?
Totally agree with the bits about linux, but for the last few months I have been developing full time on a macbook. I moved to it from linux.
I'd say the Mac is just as geek friendly as linux. If you want the powerful *nix CLI, it's got that, and you get better hardware to boot. Of course, you don't get a free as in speech OS.
If you haven't used the touchpad on a macbook, it's a real joy and it alone is worth the cost of admission.
For a while, I missed it greatly. It was hard at first but it's so easy. Don't know the package name? Google apt-get install [expected package name]. Usually one of the first results. Done.
"to make things 'easier' for the lazy idiots who can't be bothered to apply themselves to learning how to use something properly" I see your point, but on the other hand as a geek who is also a user, when it comes to getting work done I don't want to futz with configs. I enjoy hacking and learning, but some things I do not care about.
Ever set up eMail on a mac? It's brilliant. Why would I care to perform mundane configurations when I can enter my email address and password and let the damn computer find the mail server and figure out which port and protocol to use?
I get paid to write code, not to painstakingly configure my local dev environment's apache settings. In fact, the latter prevents the former from happening in a timely fashion, and takes money out of my pocket.
Computers are more than hobbyist devices. Though they are fun to tinker with when you are in hobbyist mode, they are also tools to accomplish work. If every time I had to work on my car I had to assemble a ratchet wrench and carve the handle out of a solid piece of metal, I'd get nothing done.
"It seems more likely that you were ignorant of the law "
Yeah, I have to admit that is a possibility. But making a right on red without stopping doesn't mean you don't have to yield to oncoming traffic. In my case, there were no pedestrians and no oncoming traffic. Just open road. If I was ignorant of the law, then my $100 just ensure I won't forget.
What makes me think it might have been legal at one time is that several people I spoke to also got the same ticket and didn't know it was illegal, and the city ordinance that made provision for the red light cameras specifically mentions stopping before making a right on red. Why declare it illegal if it was previously illegal?
that's a good recommendation, but perhaps a bit too technical. If you just want to understand tube circuit topology, try looking for something simpler (google for Jack Darr instrument repair).
The RDH is good if you want to get into some very technical and math-heavy material. If you want to just start building stuff, then it won't really get you started (or at least it didn't work for me). The RDH is unix, and you wouldn't introduce your grandmother to computing via a the nix CLI.
http://music-electronics-forum.com/ is a very good community where you can find loads of information about tube circuits (though most of it skews toward musical instruments).
Many cyclists suck just as bad as many motorists and don't even come close to obeying traffic laws. I cannot tell you how many times I have been sitting at a red light and some cyclist whips between the two lanes and makes a right turn in front of me.
I believe drivers should give guys on bikes a break, but you don't help your cause when you get all aggressive about it. A few weeks ago I witnessed a bike on a sidewalk running into a car making a right turn. My wife almost hit a bike in the same exact circumstance. In both cases, the car was in the intersection first and the cyclist just kept going. If cyclists are supposed to obey the rules of the road, they should not be attempting to pass on the right, especially when there is no clearly marked bike lane.
Traffic cameras should apply to cyclists. All cyclists should be forced to wear license plates or ride on the sidewalk. There is no accountability to cyclists who drive on the roads. Perhaps the same accountability would go a long way.
the mandatory stop before making a right on red is a local law here in St Louis. Have not recently checked MODOT's latest traffic rules book, but right turns on red used to be allowed unless there was a sign prohibiting it.
thing is, it's a local (city) ordinance. Those traffic books are for state laws. Cities deciding to get "clever" to generate profit is distasteful and strikes me as an abuse of the law. Just found out there is a class action lawsuit pending right now regarding St Louis's red light cameras. I sure hope they break backs of the red light camera companies.
you're taking a lot of heat for your post, but I have to thank you! I just paid my $100 to the city of STL for the same thing. I actually debated it back and forth quite a bit, and ended up paying it because I don't have a lawyer for a spouse.
I made a right turn on red at manchester and kingshighway. I did not stop. Why? Because I didn't know that was the law. In MO, it's legal to make a right on red unless a sign prohibits this. I googled for the traffic code, and what I found was appalling: full stop on red is required before making a right, and this was added in the same bit of the traffic code that added the provisions for red light cameras. So the city criminalized formerly legitimate behavior, banking on the general populace's ignorance of this change, all for profit.
I made the right without a stop. But I didn't know the law had changed. What, am I and other motorists supposed to know where to find changes to the traffic laws and know when they change? Preposterous. The law is out of reach of the common man, and this is precisely what these evil corporations who set up the lights are banking on. Had I blatantly run a red light, I'd shut up and pay. But here the law is dubious.
I read that they are issuing arrest warrants for failure to pay. On one hand, if they were to arrest my wife, I'd hire a lawyer and sue them for false arrest (because she was not the driver at the time). On the other hand, my wife might be arrested while driving, so that's ultimately why I grit my teeth and paid up. There is a class action lawsuit against the city. I wonder how I could become a party to this? http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/02/plaintiffs_seek_class_action_lawsuit_against_st_louis_red_light_cameras.php?page=2
The biggest problem I have is that the red light companies have a share in the revenue and thus have a vested interest in "convincing" the city to play by their rules. So you are basically getting buttraped by some corporation and since the government has a share in the profit they fail to protect citizens against this tyranny. It's becoming a new form of oligarchy, or more precisely, corporatocracy.
"Then when a ticket shows up they get their panties in a wad and actually learn the law,"
dude, seriously? In St Louis, they made it mandatory to stop at red lights before turning right. When did this change happen? Along with the ordinance to add red light cameras. Awfully suspicious, it sounds a lot like collusion between the corrupt city officials and the red light camera contractors. They criminalized perfectly legitimate behavior in order to generate profit. Oh sure, you expect that from corporations, but from your local government? Then again, this is St Louis, so I guess it makes sense in the crooked little backwater town.
It's not like they mail out changes to the traffic laws to the general public. Oh, sure you could do a search online for the laws, but in many cities it's not exactly easy to find. And once you find them, can you understand the wording of the law? Maybe we can, but I'd bet that average americans would neither be able to find the laws nor understand them. And then, you'd have to know there was a change to the law to seek out in the first place. If the law is out of reach of the common man, such draconian enforcement is unwarranted. And yet they do it.
I live in the city of St Louis, and here it is legal to make a right turn on red. Always has been, unless a sign specifically prohibits it.
Enter the red light cameras. In the bill that legalizes the cameras is also a clever change to the law: you must stop before making a right turn on red. So this crooked backwater river town criminalized formerly legal behavior (silently, of course, unless motorists seek out changes to traffic laws) solely to make profit. Well though out, sure, but in the sense that it's a nasty little trick to generate revenue for this crappy hellhole of a city. Of course, there is no representation for the extra revenue being generated, unless you consider crumbling infrastructure a public service.
That's not fair. The law is essentially out of the reach of average citizens, and even if they could find it to read it many might not understand the legalese. So the only to learn the law is via a $100 dollar fine, which was the whole point of the law anyhow. It's unfair, and when someone in power decides it's unconstitutional I'll be first in line for the class action lawsuit.
just to clear one thing up: the last version of MSSQL I used was 2000 (one place I worked was still using that exclusively but was keeping up pretty well with Oracle versions) I hear the newer versions are much better, more Oracle like. So didn't mean to totally knock MSSQL. But even comparing MSSQL 2000 to Oracle 7 favored Oracle.
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Fight it with everything you got? Really? Like what? Somehow, I don't think old copies of Bear Party, empty cans of pringles, and that musty smell of your mother's basement is going to make anyone stand up and take notice. Well, maybe the musty smell, but that's not the kind of noticin' you want if you know what I mean.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Wow. I don't think I could have said it better. Haven't had mod points in years, and I'd spend them all on you.
Does /. even give mod points anymore?
Well, exactly. There was just an article here about Facebook's evil interfaces.
Maybe this is what they were talking about?
Oh, no, I don't mean as in the Catholic Church is evil *nervous chuckle*, hehe, not at all.
What I mean is that a "fan" could just be someone who clicked on a link? Facebook added a new feature that takes your preferences and makes them into linkable groups. I clicked on one of them and it listed me as a fan. Something similar could have happened with this group. Why on earth would anyone want to be a priest?
They already do that. They're called nuns. Nuns are just booty call for priests. An old timer once told me stories of orphanages attached to convents so they could dump off the children. Not sure if its true, but the Church's hypocrisy wouldn't make me the least bit surprised.
Snow? Why, when I was a kid we played tag right there in the lava beds. Oh sure, sometimes we'd become engulfed in flames, but that was just part of the fun. The toxic volcanic gasses? Oh sure, we'd pass out from time to time, but losing oxygen to the brain is part of childhood. It never GOONURBLE affected me, gopher tooth SNARF for willing. ARF!
Three nuns decide to confess to a priest.
The first nun comes to the priest and says "Forgive me father, for I have sinned. I have looked at a man's penis."
The priest says "Go wash your eyes in holy water and you shall be healed."
The other nuns proceed likewise. Afterward, the priest hears a commotion in the church. He runs in to find the nuns fighting.
The second nun approaches the priest and says "Father, sister Jones wants to sit in the holy water before I gargle it!"
Oh!
And another:
what pennance do you get for commiting fornication? Three hail marys and an our father.
What do you get for child molestation? Two candy bars and a pack of baseball cards!
"And you've been around here long enough to know better than give an automotive analogy to computer technology. It's just lame."
fair enough. s/car/bicycle
the point was about tools, not the car ;)
free or not, nobody wants your kids, Kevin Federline!
you both are missing the point of the iPad. Nobody said it was a full blown computer.
I cannot interface with an "archaic PBX system" with my wii, either. Or maybe I can. I don't care.
The iPad, like a wii, is a dedicated console. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's a piece of consumer electronics *just* like the huge tower desktop running linux that you probably have. The difference is that it doesn't purport to do everything. But you can take it with you, surf the web, check email, play games, watch videos, create documents, and it's small, light, has a powerful battery, and works very well. Your desktop PC may be able to do everything, but you can't take it with you.
Have a toolbox? I do. I have a big one with all kinds of tools in it that stays in my garage. I have smaller ones I take with me to go to a friends house to fix something, to keep in the car, etc. Yes, people, different tools for different jobs. Why is that such a hard concept?
Totally agree with the bits about linux, but for the last few months I have been developing full time on a macbook. I moved to it from linux.
I'd say the Mac is just as geek friendly as linux. If you want the powerful *nix CLI, it's got that, and you get better hardware to boot. Of course, you don't get a free as in speech OS.
If you haven't used the touchpad on a macbook, it's a real joy and it alone is worth the cost of admission.
I didn't appreciate apt-get until I moved to OSX.
For a while, I missed it greatly. It was hard at first but it's so easy. Don't know the package name? Google apt-get install [expected package name]. Usually one of the first results. Done.
Then I discovered macports. Not as nice though.
"to make things 'easier' for the lazy idiots who can't be bothered to apply themselves to learning how to use something properly"
I see your point, but on the other hand as a geek who is also a user, when it comes to getting work done I don't want to futz with configs. I enjoy hacking and learning, but some things I do not care about.
Ever set up eMail on a mac? It's brilliant. Why would I care to perform mundane configurations when I can enter my email address and password and let the damn computer find the mail server and figure out which port and protocol to use?
I get paid to write code, not to painstakingly configure my local dev environment's apache settings. In fact, the latter prevents the former from happening in a timely fashion, and takes money out of my pocket.
Computers are more than hobbyist devices. Though they are fun to tinker with when you are in hobbyist mode, they are also tools to accomplish work. If every time I had to work on my car I had to assemble a ratchet wrench and carve the handle out of a solid piece of metal, I'd get nothing done.
We're the developers of the round table
we code when we're able
we eat pizza with cheese
work when we please
and we don't act real stable
on second thought...this is a silly post. Let's not go there.
Didn't you see the title? "The miscellaneous ramblings of an eighty column mind."
"It seems more likely that you were ignorant of the law "
Yeah, I have to admit that is a possibility. But making a right on red without stopping doesn't mean you don't have to yield to oncoming traffic. In my case, there were no pedestrians and no oncoming traffic. Just open road. If I was ignorant of the law, then my $100 just ensure I won't forget.
What makes me think it might have been legal at one time is that several people I spoke to also got the same ticket and didn't know it was illegal, and the city ordinance that made provision for the red light cameras specifically mentions stopping before making a right on red. Why declare it illegal if it was previously illegal?
that's a good recommendation, but perhaps a bit too technical. If you just want to understand tube circuit topology, try looking for something simpler (google for Jack Darr instrument repair).
The RDH is good if you want to get into some very technical and math-heavy material. If you want to just start building stuff, then it won't really get you started (or at least it didn't work for me). The RDH is unix, and you wouldn't introduce your grandmother to computing via a the nix CLI.
http://music-electronics-forum.com/ is a very good community where you can find loads of information about tube circuits (though most of it skews toward musical instruments).
depends on what you are after. If you want audio equipment, go tubes.
Many cyclists suck just as bad as many motorists and don't even come close to obeying traffic laws. I cannot tell you how many times I have been sitting at a red light and some cyclist whips between the two lanes and makes a right turn in front of me.
I believe drivers should give guys on bikes a break, but you don't help your cause when you get all aggressive about it. A few weeks ago I witnessed a bike on a sidewalk running into a car making a right turn. My wife almost hit a bike in the same exact circumstance. In both cases, the car was in the intersection first and the cyclist just kept going. If cyclists are supposed to obey the rules of the road, they should not be attempting to pass on the right, especially when there is no clearly marked bike lane.
Traffic cameras should apply to cyclists. All cyclists should be forced to wear license plates or ride on the sidewalk. There is no accountability to cyclists who drive on the roads. Perhaps the same accountability would go a long way.
the mandatory stop before making a right on red is a local law here in St Louis. Have not recently checked MODOT's latest traffic rules book, but right turns on red used to be allowed unless there was a sign prohibiting it.
thing is, it's a local (city) ordinance. Those traffic books are for state laws. Cities deciding to get "clever" to generate profit is distasteful and strikes me as an abuse of the law. Just found out there is a class action lawsuit pending right now regarding St Louis's red light cameras. I sure hope they break backs of the red light camera companies.
perhaps, but changing the law to generate profit is shady. The law is to protect the public, not to fleece them.
you're taking a lot of heat for your post, but I have to thank you! I just paid my $100 to the city of STL for the same thing. I actually debated it back and forth quite a bit, and ended up paying it because I don't have a lawyer for a spouse.
I made a right turn on red at manchester and kingshighway. I did not stop. Why? Because I didn't know that was the law. In MO, it's legal to make a right on red unless a sign prohibits this. I googled for the traffic code, and what I found was appalling: full stop on red is required before making a right, and this was added in the same bit of the traffic code that added the provisions for red light cameras. So the city criminalized formerly legitimate behavior, banking on the general populace's ignorance of this change, all for profit.
I made the right without a stop. But I didn't know the law had changed. What, am I and other motorists supposed to know where to find changes to the traffic laws and know when they change? Preposterous. The law is out of reach of the common man, and this is precisely what these evil corporations who set up the lights are banking on. Had I blatantly run a red light, I'd shut up and pay. But here the law is dubious.
I read that they are issuing arrest warrants for failure to pay. On one hand, if they were to arrest my wife, I'd hire a lawyer and sue them for false arrest (because she was not the driver at the time). On the other hand, my wife might be arrested while driving, so that's ultimately why I grit my teeth and paid up. There is a class action lawsuit against the city. I wonder how I could become a party to this? http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/02/plaintiffs_seek_class_action_lawsuit_against_st_louis_red_light_cameras.php?page=2
The biggest problem I have is that the red light companies have a share in the revenue and thus have a vested interest in "convincing" the city to play by their rules. So you are basically getting buttraped by some corporation and since the government has a share in the profit they fail to protect citizens against this tyranny. It's becoming a new form of oligarchy, or more precisely, corporatocracy.
"Then when a ticket shows up they get their panties in a wad and actually learn the law,"
dude, seriously? In St Louis, they made it mandatory to stop at red lights before turning right. When did this change happen? Along with the ordinance to add red light cameras. Awfully suspicious, it sounds a lot like collusion between the corrupt city officials and the red light camera contractors. They criminalized perfectly legitimate behavior in order to generate profit. Oh sure, you expect that from corporations, but from your local government? Then again, this is St Louis, so I guess it makes sense in the crooked little backwater town.
It's not like they mail out changes to the traffic laws to the general public. Oh, sure you could do a search online for the laws, but in many cities it's not exactly easy to find. And once you find them, can you understand the wording of the law? Maybe we can, but I'd bet that average americans would neither be able to find the laws nor understand them. And then, you'd have to know there was a change to the law to seek out in the first place. If the law is out of reach of the common man, such draconian enforcement is unwarranted. And yet they do it.
It's not a fair system at all.
I live in the city of St Louis, and here it is legal to make a right turn on red. Always has been, unless a sign specifically prohibits it.
Enter the red light cameras. In the bill that legalizes the cameras is also a clever change to the law: you must stop before making a right turn on red. So this crooked backwater river town criminalized formerly legal behavior (silently, of course, unless motorists seek out changes to traffic laws) solely to make profit. Well though out, sure, but in the sense that it's a nasty little trick to generate revenue for this crappy hellhole of a city. Of course, there is no representation for the extra revenue being generated, unless you consider crumbling infrastructure a public service.
That's not fair. The law is essentially out of the reach of average citizens, and even if they could find it to read it many might not understand the legalese. So the only to learn the law is via a $100 dollar fine, which was the whole point of the law anyhow. It's unfair, and when someone in power decides it's unconstitutional I'll be first in line for the class action lawsuit.
just to clear one thing up: the last version of MSSQL I used was 2000 (one place I worked was still using that exclusively but was keeping up pretty well with Oracle versions) I hear the newer versions are much better, more Oracle like. So didn't mean to totally knock MSSQL. But even comparing MSSQL 2000 to Oracle 7 favored Oracle.