Let's hope you get into this situation, have two kids to feed, along with loss of your employer's medical coverage. Maybe have a car loan and not have any income for payments.
I can honestly say that I would not wish that on anyone.
Just find where they live and have an Airhorn Debate with them at the crack of dawn.;) After drinking that much, they will likely be very receptive to your persuasion tactics.
on what grounds, shooting is considered educational?
Let's see. I don't shoot guns, but wouldn't mind doing so. Here's how I might consider it educational. Most of these things apply to archery (which I enjoy) as well:
Mental discipline. (Patience, handling misses) Improve eye-hand coordination. Improve control over body mechanics (breathing, stillness). Practice distance estimation. Improve muscle memory.
All of this is in addition to the practical aspect of having practice putting rounds down range. Ballistic exercises are something where, while there's a lot to learn from a book, you will have a hard time getting better at unless you DO it. Moreover, it's a good practical application of the discipline of waiting for others (range is clear, etc) and being courteous.
I'd totally consider a range trip with my kid(s) to be both educational and fun.
I know you're joking, but the article the other day about protesters getting pepper sprayed mentioned that the first aid for that is to put liquid antacids in your eyes, effectively. I imagine that fat-based products might help there..... please don't test this.:D I can make no promises that it'd be a wise idea to put anything in your eyes.
You just made me cry. Thanks. Seriously - it was both surprising and touching.
The key thing (IMO) in what you're saying is that there are treasurable moments in all of our lives, with various people that we love, which we (or they!) might want to look back at. I know nearly nothing about my parents other than the time I spent with them -- I don't know what made them laugh, the funny things they said to one another, etc. I rarely got to see them doing things THEY liked, etc, and even the ones that I did see are nothing but fuzzy memories.
I would love to have been able to watch video of making bread with my mom, or watch my dad build his beach cart (or the garage-elevator), or watch him tinker on all sorts of stuff. I'd absolutely be in tears if there existed video of me and my dad backpacking together when I was a teenager. Heck, I wish I had more tangible memories of him talking with my grandfather (or my uncles) when I was a kid, as not all of them are alive. In thirty+ years, my son may want to show his kid that grandpa was a programmer, or watch me roto-till the garden for my wife. (Probably not.) He may want to see how proud I am of the things he builds. We will surely (I pray) do things that will be memory-worthy, and I hope I'll manage to catch some of them on film.
At the same time, I'm well aware of the underwhelming nature of most video I've shot. But, I'm loathe to delete them, as storage is comparatively free compared to the cost of not having it. But, then, I'm a pack rat.:)
That's part why they're PEs, yes. However, if every/most person who was willing to hire a PE behaved in this way (which the OP was implying), at some point the temptation to say "I think so...?" or otherwise NOT walk away could be larger.
It's really interesting to see that it's believed to have been an error "...in hand-transcription of a mathematical symbol in the program specification, in particular a missing overbar". If the specs you write code from aren't right, it's very hard to write code that passes muster. Even more fascinating is the way it was simplified when explaining the error to congress and other groups (the press, etc), since most people wouldn't understand what the overbar represented. I'm sure that sort of simplification of explanations happen all the time.
That's an interesting question, though -- how much DOES a performance car like that take to develop, and how's that work out for the average unit cost? Is their production process significantly more expensive than most other cars? (E.g., hand built, or something?) What is it that makes a Porsche (or BMW, etc) cost more than a Toyota or the like, other than that's what people will pay?
You might bash it for being Java-based, but the deployment of it is one of the slickest I've ever seen short of Steam. Automatic updates, etc, and no restrictions on downloading it. Knowing it was Java under the hood actually made me more impressed.
Moreover, there's very little a blue-shirt (low-ranking) officer could realistically do to resist or stop the actions of their superior officers (white shirts).
Something tells me that walking downtown to a protest wearing weapons would be a very very foolish invitation to be treated as a violent protester. It doesn't seem wise to try to "appear threatening" (physically) to the police. Then again, it doesn't seem wise to appear to be carrying a camera sometimes, either.
Exactly. We care little about why they are protesting (though I'm sure we aren't all happy about the mess the financial industry is in), but we care a lot about the way the protesters are treated. I'd hate to think about what might happen to me or my friends/family at a peaceful protest (not that we go to any).
Moreover, there's something pretty nerdy about being able to say, "The police say that it was provoked. Here are four simultaneous viewpoints from different cameras all showing that they are liars." Until recently, high quality video cameras were something that few people had. Now, nearly anyone with a smartphone can take good quality video, and even can upload it to the internet. In the past, police only needed to break the cameras and maybe some faces, and the evidence would disappear. Now, it's a lot harder to suppress (if and when it happens), because once things are on the internet (especially from multiple now-ubiquitous cameras) it's extremely difficult to remove them.
THOSE aspects are I think very interesting to nerds, as it can be applied to all sorts of things that are not related to police actions. For example, you could in theory stream video from your car, which could be used later to show exactly how an accident happened.
"Stuff like matters" or "news for nerds" applies very clearly to a story about the abuse of civil rights in our country. Most of us nerds are actually very big on Rule Systems, and it's rare that we get such clear and flagrant abuse of the law by those who are supposed to uphold it caught on camera. Some people nerd out about all the ways our rights are being eroded, all the reasons we should wear tin foil, etc. Along that spectrum of issues are ones that only crackpots would care about (wifi allergies?), and others are issues that everyone should care about, including nerds.
Not to mention that we have history of other police agencies (in the UK, that is, not the US) infiltrating various special interest groups and at times suggesting more "active" protests or events, and even allegedly doing things like throw rocks and the like -- as you said, agents provocateur. Sadly, I can't spare the time to look for links to the blogs about the officers in question, but I read about them several months ago so presumably someone from the UK will remember what I'm referring to.
I'd be surprised if a force as large as NYPD didn't have some bad eggs interested in escalation of a protest into a riot. Apologies to those of you who aren't bad eggs.
You left out calling anyone a commie that dares to suggest the government should take money from ME to pay for OTHER PEOPLE. (Not that I feel that way, but apparently huge numbers of Americans do.)
Well, I did a bunch of searching in the Google Patent Search tool, but couldn't find a patent for it. I'm sure there is one, but there are so many others I just did not notice it. Hopefully someone can dig up a patent for this, as it might give a reason for why they arranged it that way.
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Better yet, color code it.
"Your password is the text in red: MyDogLovesPeas42"
(Obviously, then you'd get calls about "how do I enter my password in red", but at least they'd have the right characters.... ?)
Given the boss's tone, he'd probably say that since you're not an employee at the time of the drawing (if you're fired), you're ineligible to win.
Let's hope you get into this situation, have two kids to feed, along with loss of your employer's medical coverage. Maybe have a car loan and not have any income for payments.
I can honestly say that I would not wish that on anyone.
Just find where they live and have an Airhorn Debate with them at the crack of dawn. ;) After drinking that much, they will likely be very receptive to your persuasion tactics.
[Note: this is likely a very bad idea.]
Girls can be nerds too. News flash, at least some of them are likely to be attractive.
The real Stig is clearly the one that's the best driver.
I find it amusing that you're willing to spend time writing zeros to a disk when it's generally faster and easier to physically destroy them.
on what grounds, shooting is considered educational?
Let's see. I don't shoot guns, but wouldn't mind doing so. Here's how I might consider it educational. Most of these things apply to archery (which I enjoy) as well:
Mental discipline. (Patience, handling misses)
Improve eye-hand coordination.
Improve control over body mechanics (breathing, stillness).
Practice distance estimation.
Improve muscle memory.
All of this is in addition to the practical aspect of having practice putting rounds down range. Ballistic exercises are something where, while there's a lot to learn from a book, you will have a hard time getting better at unless you DO it. Moreover, it's a good practical application of the discipline of waiting for others (range is clear, etc) and being courteous.
I'd totally consider a range trip with my kid(s) to be both educational and fun.
I know you're joking, but the article the other day about protesters getting pepper sprayed mentioned that the first aid for that is to put liquid antacids in your eyes, effectively. I imagine that fat-based products might help there. .... please don't test this.:D I can make no promises that it'd be a wise idea to put anything in your eyes.
You just made me cry. Thanks. Seriously - it was both surprising and touching.
The key thing (IMO) in what you're saying is that there are treasurable moments in all of our lives, with various people that we love, which we (or they!) might want to look back at. I know nearly nothing about my parents other than the time I spent with them -- I don't know what made them laugh, the funny things they said to one another, etc. I rarely got to see them doing things THEY liked, etc, and even the ones that I did see are nothing but fuzzy memories.
I would love to have been able to watch video of making bread with my mom, or watch my dad build his beach cart (or the garage-elevator), or watch him tinker on all sorts of stuff. I'd absolutely be in tears if there existed video of me and my dad backpacking together when I was a teenager. Heck, I wish I had more tangible memories of him talking with my grandfather (or my uncles) when I was a kid, as not all of them are alive. In thirty+ years, my son may want to show his kid that grandpa was a programmer, or watch me roto-till the garden for my wife. (Probably not.) He may want to see how proud I am of the things he builds. We will surely (I pray) do things that will be memory-worthy, and I hope I'll manage to catch some of them on film.
At the same time, I'm well aware of the underwhelming nature of most video I've shot. But, I'm loathe to delete them, as storage is comparatively free compared to the cost of not having it. But, then, I'm a pack rat. :)
That's part why they're PEs, yes. However, if every/most person who was willing to hire a PE behaved in this way (which the OP was implying), at some point the temptation to say "I think so ...?" or otherwise NOT walk away could be larger.
For more details on the Mariner 1 error, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1
It's really interesting to see that it's believed to have been an error "...in hand-transcription of a mathematical symbol in the program specification, in particular a missing overbar". If the specs you write code from aren't right, it's very hard to write code that passes muster. Even more fascinating is the way it was simplified when explaining the error to congress and other groups (the press, etc), since most people wouldn't understand what the overbar represented. I'm sure that sort of simplification of explanations happen all the time.
I imagine that magnetic disks (or tape?) have better storage life than flash drives.
Don't judges normally come from the pool of lawyers? I thought that was a requirement, more than merely a convention, but I could be wrong.
That's an interesting question, though -- how much DOES a performance car like that take to develop, and how's that work out for the average unit cost? Is their production process significantly more expensive than most other cars? (E.g., hand built, or something?) What is it that makes a Porsche (or BMW, etc) cost more than a Toyota or the like, other than that's what people will pay?
You might bash it for being Java-based, but the deployment of it is one of the slickest I've ever seen short of Steam. Automatic updates, etc, and no restrictions on downloading it. Knowing it was Java under the hood actually made me more impressed.
Moreover, there's very little a blue-shirt (low-ranking) officer could realistically do to resist or stop the actions of their superior officers (white shirts).
Something tells me that walking downtown to a protest wearing weapons would be a very very foolish invitation to be treated as a violent protester. It doesn't seem wise to try to "appear threatening" (physically) to the police. Then again, it doesn't seem wise to appear to be carrying a camera sometimes, either.
Exactly. We care little about why they are protesting (though I'm sure we aren't all happy about the mess the financial industry is in), but we care a lot about the way the protesters are treated. I'd hate to think about what might happen to me or my friends/family at a peaceful protest (not that we go to any).
Moreover, there's something pretty nerdy about being able to say, "The police say that it was provoked. Here are four simultaneous viewpoints from different cameras all showing that they are liars." Until recently, high quality video cameras were something that few people had. Now, nearly anyone with a smartphone can take good quality video, and even can upload it to the internet. In the past, police only needed to break the cameras and maybe some faces, and the evidence would disappear. Now, it's a lot harder to suppress (if and when it happens), because once things are on the internet (especially from multiple now-ubiquitous cameras) it's extremely difficult to remove them.
THOSE aspects are I think very interesting to nerds, as it can be applied to all sorts of things that are not related to police actions. For example, you could in theory stream video from your car, which could be used later to show exactly how an accident happened.
"Stuff like matters" or "news for nerds" applies very clearly to a story about the abuse of civil rights in our country. Most of us nerds are actually very big on Rule Systems, and it's rare that we get such clear and flagrant abuse of the law by those who are supposed to uphold it caught on camera. Some people nerd out about all the ways our rights are being eroded, all the reasons we should wear tin foil, etc. Along that spectrum of issues are ones that only crackpots would care about (wifi allergies?), and others are issues that everyone should care about, including nerds.
Not to mention that we have history of other police agencies (in the UK, that is, not the US) infiltrating various special interest groups and at times suggesting more "active" protests or events, and even allegedly doing things like throw rocks and the like -- as you said, agents provocateur. Sadly, I can't spare the time to look for links to the blogs about the officers in question, but I read about them several months ago so presumably someone from the UK will remember what I'm referring to.
I'd be surprised if a force as large as NYPD didn't have some bad eggs interested in escalation of a protest into a riot. Apologies to those of you who aren't bad eggs.
I believe you mean "two weeks after the anniversary of the largest terrorist attack in the US", right?
For those of us who don't know, can you elaborate on what some of these less damaging treatments are?
You left out calling anyone a commie that dares to suggest the government should take money from ME to pay for OTHER PEOPLE. (Not that I feel that way, but apparently huge numbers of Americans do.)
Well, I did a bunch of searching in the Google Patent Search tool, but couldn't find a patent for it. I'm sure there is one, but there are so many others I just did not notice it. Hopefully someone can dig up a patent for this, as it might give a reason for why they arranged it that way.