Erik Scott was killed outside a Costco by police. The police say he was trying to draw his weapon, but some witnesses seem to doubt that. It's been pretty hard to find much on the web about this that doesn't seem heavily biased -- the first I read about it was last week, on a page (I can't find) which basically alleged he was gunned down while trying to comply with police orders.... the inquest appears to have found the officers justified. Basically, the police shot him, feeling that he was drawing his weapon (and was a threat), but he had not in fact drawn it, and had not even removed it from its holster. Or, that's what I gather from the report of the coroner's inquest. The family will be suing to find out more.
Basically, the lesson is, be very damn careful when carrying, concealed or not. It also makes one wonder how one can comply fully (and quickly) enough with officers' lawful demands when the act of doing so (removing one's weapon) can be easily confused with drawing it. Scary stuff, and makes me somewhat glad I'm unlikely to be in that situation.
I dislike the loss of the LAN play option, but I will absolutely be buying Diablo III. It's a game built by one of the best game houses out there, with fantastic art and story. And killin' baddies. Similarly, I want to play Fallout: New Vegas, despite having been mildly pissed about parts of Oblivion, and having never finished Fallout3 -- I hunger for the game world, and trust that the game devs will create a world which is Awesome.
I don't think that is correct. How would you know it was the optimal solution, unless you've exhausted all the contenders? It's like saying you can verify that something is prime without having tried all of its potential factors.
[note: I am not a mathemetician, so it's possible that both of the above are possible... but it would greatly surprise me if that were the case.]
So... it's 1985. Marty is ~18. That means he was born ~1967, conceived ~1966. That means that there's about 11 years between when they last saw "Calvin Klein" and when they had Marty. I think that it would be somewhat far-fetched to suspect an affair with the guy.
Thanks (and to Raenex too). It's nice to reaffirm that it's the exception, rather than the rule. I'll try to keep that in mind, next time I see something that needs fixing.:)
People with complaints, especially when other people have acted in ways that seems jerk-ish, tend to be more vocal than those who have entirely pleasant experiences.
I'm afraid to post to Wikipedia. Most of the time I know nothing about it, but sometimes I find the occasional spelling error, or word choice error, or find that a link to a book in the series is incorrect (e.g., there IS a wikipedia page on said book, but the series article doesn't link correctly to it). I don't bother to change them specifically because of this perception of revert-happy (and ban-happy) maintainers. I'd love to contribute, but I can't really spare the time to become an expert on the nuances of being a Wikipedian in order to fortify myself against the potential BS. Sure, many articles aren't perfect, and many aren't mired in edit-wars, but the general feeling I get from the myriad stories like this is that it's a waste of my time to bother. One could understandably see why this dismays me.
More importantly, how many of us would be ordering mainly because we want to read the book versus we want to reward the author for being a non-jerk, and hey this book looks neat too? I'd fall in the latter, if I were to read it.
On the other hand, that's exactly the reason I deliberately look for Baen-published books at the bookstore when I'm looking for something new. Read about their awesome policies, read Honor Harrington online, bought some (not enough!) novels in print later.
While I admire the clever humor, you bring up an even more subtle point: even harsh punishments do not always prevent crimes. The crimes which get the harshest punishments are often the ones done when farthest from thoughts about repercussions, and thus the detterence effect is not always clear.
I suspect customs entry is a hassle in the US not because of our expectation of privacy, but because much of our policy is driven by irrationality and fear.
Not screwing with customs officers, even though we might think they are Doing it Wrong, will certainly make it easier on you as a traveler on this particular trip. Many people are jaded enough that they don't feel like jeopardizing their personal safety in order to/maybe/ effect some change later which/might/ lead to less rights-abuse for other passengers in the distant future. Especially when the courts will likely A-OK such absues as perfectly within the duties of customs because it's not considered technically inside the country (among other reasons).
Similarly, not pointing weapons at police officers who break into your house by mistake is much more conducive to your safety, despite having just had your rights (mistakenly) trodden over. It's basically the difference between pragmatism and idealism. I'm not so idealistic about my rights that I want to endanger my immediate family. (Yes, I've basically admitted that I'm less American than our founding fathers. I do feel a little shame about that.)
They might not need the bandwidth, but the convenience to customers (not to mention ads/promotions to gain new customers) are much easier to do in a Steam or AppStore-like environment.
Just wait for someone to get a black market supply of various ones of these and just go around spraying crowds of people... or figure out how to make the sprayers malfunction and spray random people.
I think the reason that Apple is so celebrated here is that OS X provides what many long-time Linux users/developers have wanted: a highly functioning unix-like system under the hood with a nice polished user interface.
This hits it on the head. The OS itself might be highly locked down, but there's still lots of really good stuff to use as a tool.
Whenever I've watch webcasts of people coding things like Rails, or Clojure, or any of the tremendously geeky things I look for at times, it seems like nearly everyone is using TextMate. I want to use that software. It looks awesome, has some awesome code templating shortcuts, and is only available for OSX. D'oh. As yet, I'm unwilling to buy a mac just to get TextMate, but that might be because I don't code much at home right now.
Ironically, I tried the E text editor (which claims to be a clone for Windows), and hated it. Perhaps I tried it too early in its development...
Nerds appreciate technical mastery, but we also appreciate aesthetics. Look at how many "clean" UI mods/skins there are, or the people that are so devoted to fundamentals that they use Ratpoison. When we find something nice, we often look to push it as far as it can go. In the case of Apple, that "something" is a grounding in good user interface principles (on which some of the apple UI engineers have written some great books -- e.g. the Humane Interface). The entire product is a tightly designed, pasterfully deployed product.
It's hard not to appreciate that on several levels. It does its function VERY well, even if it doesn't do many others. (Which, not coincidentally, is a core tenet of the Unix way of building tools.) It's pretty. As a geek, I find the aesthetics of Apple's products to be extremely compelling (even if I find myself disliking their mice, and don't think I'd like their keyboards). Steve geeks out on getting the design Just Right, and I respect him a lot for that. Even if I wish he didn't lock things down so severely.
It may be "for the lulz", but that doesn't excuse it, nor does it diminish how disruptive and disrespectful it is. I'd never even consider doing something like this, because it violates the basic "don't be a dick" principle.
The general public generally considers "news" to mean "the truth about what is happening". (Sure, that's not accurate, but it's what most people believe it means, or should mean, at a gut level. When news organizations lie, people think poorly of it.
The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.
In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation.
There was apparently some confusion as to whether the FCC actually prohibited news organizations from lying -- but this court case cleared that up. However, this does also mean that Fox (and Rupert Murdoch) are the only ones who have specifically gone to court in order to protect their right to broadcast lies. As a news organization. The others at least pretend to try to give the truth, even if in doing so they incorporate varying degrees of bias, but Fox flat out deliberately lies. (The others might also, granted, especially now that Fox cleared the way, but that would go against what many would consider professional journalistic integrity.)
How many of them (other than Fox) have gone to court to establish that their "news" is meant only for intertainment and is not meant as a guarantee of there being any factual content?
I was under the impression that effectively blackmailing your employer into keeping you around, due to your Unique Expertise, was a surefire way to get fired as soon as someone finds out you're doing it.
Camera + computer + water hose == water autoturret. Dogs might stay out of your yard if they were sprayed with a hose every time they came onto your grass.
Your water bill might be high, and local pedestrians may not like you. Local kids would likely play with it. A sign on your yard to the effect of "No dogs allowed. Dogs on this yard will be sprayed percilessly with cold water." might help explain it. You probably also need to be a handier guy with garden and electronic equipment than I am.
there was phone tapping and bugging, but not blatantly and not widespread.
There was in the days of J. Edgar Hoover... or, at least, the popular view of his organization was of doing that. There's a reason some people would say "fuck Hoover" on the phone. (Of course there was no way it was as widespread as it is now. Technology marches on.)
How often does whistleblowing involve leaking documents obtained legally? I thought it was part of the definition that someone is breaking the law in order to expose unethical (or other illegal) behavior.
Doh -- I missed mentioning that "Phase" wiring, one of the first ones mentioned, is for AC circuits. Until I read the list on the wiki page a little more deeply, I hadn't noticed that. Interestingly, what I noticed from the link you posted was that the coloring seemed to correlate pretty well to the wiki page, so perhaps I misunderstood your post as disagreeing with the parent post:
Usually, three copper wires come into the home. Two are covered in black insulation and one has white insulation. Sometimes one wire is red instead of black. Each black or red wire is called a "hot" wire and has 110-volt AC. The white wire is called the "common" and is grounded at the power station.
Phase wire in a circuit may be black, red, orange (high leg delta) insulated wire, sometimes other colors, but never green, gray, or white (whether these are solid colors or stripes). The neutral wire is identified by gray or white insulated wire, perhaps with stripes. Grounding wire of circuit may be bare or identified insulated wire of green or having green stripes.
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Just make sure your piece is in a holster, not stuck in the waistband of your boxers and you'll be just fine....
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
http://forum.pafoa.org/news-123/105770-concealed-carry-holder-shot-killed-police-costco-nv.html
Erik Scott was killed outside a Costco by police. The police say he was trying to draw his weapon, but some witnesses seem to doubt that. It's been pretty hard to find much on the web about this that doesn't seem heavily biased -- the first I read about it was last week, on a page (I can't find) which basically alleged he was gunned down while trying to comply with police orders .... the inquest appears to have found the officers justified. Basically, the police shot him, feeling that he was drawing his weapon (and was a threat), but he had not in fact drawn it, and had not even removed it from its holster. Or, that's what I gather from the report of the coroner's inquest. The family will be suing to find out more.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/sep/28/jury-shooting-justified/
Basically, the lesson is, be very damn careful when carrying, concealed or not. It also makes one wonder how one can comply fully (and quickly) enough with officers' lawful demands when the act of doing so (removing one's weapon) can be easily confused with drawing it. Scary stuff, and makes me somewhat glad I'm unlikely to be in that situation.
I dislike the loss of the LAN play option, but I will absolutely be buying Diablo III. It's a game built by one of the best game houses out there, with fantastic art and story. And killin' baddies. Similarly, I want to play Fallout: New Vegas, despite having been mildly pissed about parts of Oblivion, and having never finished Fallout3 -- I hunger for the game world, and trust that the game devs will create a world which is Awesome.
Not perfect, but Awesome.
I don't think that is correct. How would you know it was the optimal solution, unless you've exhausted all the contenders? It's like saying you can verify that something is prime without having tried all of its potential factors.
[note: I am not a mathemetician, so it's possible that both of the above are possible ... but it would greatly surprise me if that were the case.]
So ... it's 1985. Marty is ~18. That means he was born ~1967, conceived ~1966. That means that there's about 11 years between when they last saw "Calvin Klein" and when they had Marty. I think that it would be somewhat far-fetched to suspect an affair with the guy.
I thought it was up, down, left, right, B, A, select and start?
Thanks (and to Raenex too). It's nice to reaffirm that it's the exception, rather than the rule. I'll try to keep that in mind, next time I see something that needs fixing. :)
People with complaints, especially when other people have acted in ways that seems jerk-ish, tend to be more vocal than those who have entirely pleasant experiences.
I'm afraid to post to Wikipedia. Most of the time I know nothing about it, but sometimes I find the occasional spelling error, or word choice error, or find that a link to a book in the series is incorrect (e.g., there IS a wikipedia page on said book, but the series article doesn't link correctly to it). I don't bother to change them specifically because of this perception of revert-happy (and ban-happy) maintainers. I'd love to contribute, but I can't really spare the time to become an expert on the nuances of being a Wikipedian in order to fortify myself against the potential BS. Sure, many articles aren't perfect, and many aren't mired in edit-wars, but the general feeling I get from the myriad stories like this is that it's a waste of my time to bother. One could understandably see why this dismays me.
More importantly, how many of us would be ordering mainly because we want to read the book versus we want to reward the author for being a non-jerk, and hey this book looks neat too? I'd fall in the latter, if I were to read it.
On the other hand, that's exactly the reason I deliberately look for Baen-published books at the bookstore when I'm looking for something new. Read about their awesome policies, read Honor Harrington online, bought some (not enough!) novels in print later.
While I admire the clever humor, you bring up an even more subtle point: even harsh punishments do not always prevent crimes. The crimes which get the harshest punishments are often the ones done when farthest from thoughts about repercussions, and thus the detterence effect is not always clear.
I suspect customs entry is a hassle in the US not because of our expectation of privacy, but because much of our policy is driven by irrationality and fear.
Not screwing with customs officers, even though we might think they are Doing it Wrong, will certainly make it easier on you as a traveler on this particular trip. Many people are jaded enough that they don't feel like jeopardizing their personal safety in order to /maybe/ effect some change later which /might/ lead to less rights-abuse for other passengers in the distant future. Especially when the courts will likely A-OK such absues as perfectly within the duties of customs because it's not considered technically inside the country (among other reasons).
Similarly, not pointing weapons at police officers who break into your house by mistake is much more conducive to your safety, despite having just had your rights (mistakenly) trodden over. It's basically the difference between pragmatism and idealism. I'm not so idealistic about my rights that I want to endanger my immediate family. (Yes, I've basically admitted that I'm less American than our founding fathers. I do feel a little shame about that.)
They might not need the bandwidth, but the convenience to customers (not to mention ads/promotions to gain new customers) are much easier to do in a Steam or AppStore-like environment.
Just wait for someone to get a black market supply of various ones of these and just go around spraying crowds of people... or figure out how to make the sprayers malfunction and spray random people.
To knowingly do so. How do you prove that they knew it was fraudulent?
This hits it on the head. The OS itself might be highly locked down, but there's still lots of really good stuff to use as a tool.
Whenever I've watch webcasts of people coding things like Rails, or Clojure, or any of the tremendously geeky things I look for at times, it seems like nearly everyone is using TextMate. I want to use that software. It looks awesome, has some awesome code templating shortcuts, and is only available for OSX. D'oh. As yet, I'm unwilling to buy a mac just to get TextMate, but that might be because I don't code much at home right now.
Ironically, I tried the E text editor (which claims to be a clone for Windows), and hated it. Perhaps I tried it too early in its development...
Nerds appreciate technical mastery, but we also appreciate aesthetics. Look at how many "clean" UI mods/skins there are, or the people that are so devoted to fundamentals that they use Ratpoison. When we find something nice, we often look to push it as far as it can go. In the case of Apple, that "something" is a grounding in good user interface principles (on which some of the apple UI engineers have written some great books -- e.g. the Humane Interface). The entire product is a tightly designed, pasterfully deployed product.
It's hard not to appreciate that on several levels. It does its function VERY well, even if it doesn't do many others. (Which, not coincidentally, is a core tenet of the Unix way of building tools.) It's pretty. As a geek, I find the aesthetics of Apple's products to be extremely compelling (even if I find myself disliking their mice, and don't think I'd like their keyboards). Steve geeks out on getting the design Just Right, and I respect him a lot for that. Even if I wish he didn't lock things down so severely.
It may be "for the lulz", but that doesn't excuse it, nor does it diminish how disruptive and disrespectful it is. I'd never even consider doing something like this, because it violates the basic "don't be a dick" principle.
The general public generally considers "news" to mean "the truth about what is happening". (Sure, that's not accurate, but it's what most people believe it means, or should mean, at a gut level. When news organizations lie, people think poorly of it.
http://foxnewsboycott.com/resources/fox-can-lie-lawsuit/
There was apparently some confusion as to whether the FCC actually prohibited news organizations from lying -- but this court case cleared that up. However, this does also mean that Fox (and Rupert Murdoch) are the only ones who have specifically gone to court in order to protect their right to broadcast lies. As a news organization. The others at least pretend to try to give the truth, even if in doing so they incorporate varying degrees of bias, but Fox flat out deliberately lies. (The others might also, granted, especially now that Fox cleared the way, but that would go against what many would consider professional journalistic integrity.)
How many of them (other than Fox) have gone to court to establish that their "news" is meant only for intertainment and is not meant as a guarantee of there being any factual content?
I was under the impression that effectively blackmailing your employer into keeping you around, due to your Unique Expertise, was a surefire way to get fired as soon as someone finds out you're doing it.
Rrrrrreally. That sounds pretty cool, though I'd probably be as terrible at it as I am at Starcraft.
Camera + computer + water hose == water autoturret. Dogs might stay out of your yard if they were sprayed with a hose every time they came onto your grass.
Your water bill might be high, and local pedestrians may not like you. Local kids would likely play with it. A sign on your yard to the effect of "No dogs allowed. Dogs on this yard will be sprayed percilessly with cold water." might help explain it. You probably also need to be a handier guy with garden and electronic equipment than I am.
There was in the days of J. Edgar Hoover... or, at least, the popular view of his organization was of doing that. There's a reason some people would say "fuck Hoover" on the phone. (Of course there was no way it was as widespread as it is now. Technology marches on.)
How often does whistleblowing involve leaking documents obtained legally? I thought it was part of the definition that someone is breaking the law in order to expose unethical (or other illegal) behavior.
Doh -- I missed mentioning that "Phase" wiring, one of the first ones mentioned, is for AC circuits. Until I read the list on the wiki page a little more deeply, I hadn't noticed that. Interestingly, what I noticed from the link you posted was that the coloring seemed to correlate pretty well to the wiki page, so perhaps I misunderstood your post as disagreeing with the parent post:
http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/ac_wiring.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_wiring_in_North_America#Design_and_installation_conventions