That makes sense. I was worried that something else was going on where SSL certificates were being used for more than they were intended for, causing insecurity. Cf. social security numbers.
The helplessness of the average human is a global phenomenon. Of course, airlines don't help much. I once had the first flight in my itinerary canceled, and while I was waiting in line with the other 100 passengers from that flight to take care of it, I also called the airline's customer service line. I offered to rent a car at my own expense and drive it to the hub airport, but they wouldn't accept that since it was more than 300 miles away. And, of the 3 airports they served within 300 miles, there were no open seats in the next few days. So even if you are willing to help yourself, the airlines won't accept it.
The possibility that transatlantic flights between the USA and Europe will be grounded for months leads to the possible reinstatement of making the trip by luxury steamer. Are any of the Titanic's sister ships still afloat?
How does one use a certificate to intercept and redirect a connection intended for legitimate.example.com to evil.example.net? You're missing the step of how that is done. My understanding, apparently wrong, is that the SSL certificate for a TCP server does two things: It authenticates to the client that he is connected to the correct site and it includes a public key for encrypting communication between server and client. That is, it tells the client that it got the right server. Just how does one use an SSL certificate to force a client to connect to the wrong server?
Read the actual laws sometime. In my state and all others that I have checked, the rules are:
If the light is green, you may enter the intersection if it is clear
If the light is yellow, you may enter the intersection if it appears safe to do so
If the light is red, you may not enter the intersection
The rule is about entering the intersection. If you are in it already when the light turns red, you of course have to clear it and it is legal to do so. Also, the traffic laws generally do not require the level of prescience that you suggest they do: It is not possible to know with certainty at the time you enter an intersection whether you will be able to make it through before the light turns red.
Turning to the question at the end of the blurb, my understanding is that most of these cameras take more than one picture, with the first one being taken immediately when the light turns red and the second one when a car is detected entering the intersection from the direction that has a red light. This is necessary because, as the submitter understands, it is illegal only to enter the intersection on a red light, not to be in it when the light turns red.
I have wished for the past two years that I could find my old Radio Shack experimenter kit with the breadboard and spring connectors. Those things are as good to hand down to the next generation as Legos are, and also just as useful and fun when you're an adult. Or at least I think mine would be if I could find it so I could relearn all the things that I only partially understood back when I was more focused on getting to the next blinkenlight.
For me, it was more cheap than lazy or sloppy. But I second most of the advice and offer the following:
Great soldering station with adjustable temperature: SS-1 for $40. Get this one or something like it. It's worth every penny.
Now, story time with a good moral. I was, two years ago, working on something with a super-cheap soldering iron that came with a computer toolkit with various screwdrivers and such, all of which are great other than the soldering iron. My grip on it slipped and my instinct from years of having pens and pencils slip in my hand was to pinch harder. Unfortunately, the lack of a safety guard on the iron meant that I pinched down very hard with my thumb and first two fingers on the hot barrel of the iron. The blisters went away after a few weeks but the pain lasted longer.
If a comment is truly bigoted, then it's not really a very good joke in my book. If it pokes humor at the bigotry, then it is. However, consider a joke about lynching blacks in the South. Is that bigoted toward blacks, a joke about Southern stereotypes, or bigoted toward the South? Or does it depend on the audience?
I don't think that my joke derives its humor from accepting stereotypes about Arkadelphia or its ten thousand or so fine residents. I don't personally hold on to any such stereotypes, so for me at least the humor comes from its having a silly name. For those who found a stereotype in it and then took offense to that stereotype, the prejudices involved are in their own minds and not in mine. And that is funny.
I develop things just for him. It's part of my campaign to make the world a weirder place by code-stalking people and writing software just for each target.
Did you ask anyone in the South (capitalize that, by the way; it's a cultural region and not just a direction on the compass) if they appreciate the humor of Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy, both of whom are extremely popular comedians whose material largely revolves around a caricature of Southern rednecks? Most of the people I know from the South have enough of a sense of humor about the stereotypes that apply to their roots (which do not rise to the level of bigotry and prejudice just because someone makes a joke about them).
I've pointed out elsewhere that I am really entertained by this thread for the reason that it has drawn out a lot of the biases people hold, demonstrating them by how they react to the simple, succinct joke that I told about Arkadelphia. That's one of the reasons I like jokes so much, both telling them and hearing them: For every joke ever told, somebody out there will find it offensive. Jokes, then, are a litmus test for people's attitudes and biases. Tell enough jokes and record a person's reactions to them all, and you will be able to understand how he thinks better than you ever could just by asking him what's on his mind.
Wouldn't that be bigotry against prejudice? I think that would be a fun one to sign up for. You could lynch people for hiring underqualified whites instead of a qualified black woman. And I think you could even lynch your own members just for signing up. How fun would that be?
I'm from a place where people tell jokes, some people laugh at them, and some other people get offended by them because they heard the joke through the lens of their own prejudices and intolerance. Same as where you're from and same as where you live now.
I suppose you also get offended whenever Jeff Foxworthy starts a joke with "You may be a redneck if..." or when Larry the Cable Guy portrays a caricatured stereotype of a Southern hick. You may want to inform their millions of fans in Arkansas that they should stop laughing because these jokes aren't funny and their laughter demonstrates a lack of good genetics on their part.
Incidentally, I do notice that you said inbreeding isn't a problem anymore, but nothing about the illiteracy. I suppose it would take two generations of you and other outsiders before that one goes away? I honestly wish I could mod your comment +1 Funny because it is either a subtle, well-played joke or just plain stupid, and I'm optimistic enough to think the former. Simply put, the stereotype that you suggest I'm not allowed to joke about is reinforced by nearly your entire comment.
Please find the hatred in my original joke. I'd love to know where it is hidden. The more interesting thing here is how people's reactions to this thread demonstrate their own subtle prejudices.
That kind of hypersensitivity to made-up racial issues is common, and it's likely the reason that someone actually thought my joke about Arkadelphia was racist. Most of the people I have known who talk about racism haven't actually seen it. As you know, there is not really that much racism going on between blacks and whites in the South. For the most part, the South got over it. If you want real racism, try living on an Indian reservation if you're a member of the wrong tribe. No, not everyone there will hate you for your race, but more than a few will and it often turns violent.
I often wonder if part of the continued perception of there being racism where it simply doesn't exist comes from a desire to still have that problem, a self-pity kind of thing. Perhaps it's a feeling of being defined by being on the losing side of racial prejudice or perhaps it's the need for something to point to outside of oneself as the reason he or she is not getting ahead in life but, whatever the reason, a lot of supposed racism is imagined.
By your logic, there is literally no difference between you and a person who has had a frontal lobotomy. Your use of an ad hominem argument is indistinguishable from the complete inability to think rationally.
Your inability to appreciate a joke does not make the joke unfunny to others and does not mean that the joke-teller is responsible for lynching members of a minority out of pure bigotry and hatred. By the way, he was joking. Most jokes have an element of truth and an element of exaggeration. George Carlin knew this and discussed it when explaining why it's okay to joke about rape, to the tune of a laughing audience and millions of dollars. Your inability to take it as a joke almost certainly comes from your own biases, not from those of the person who told it. The same applies to the guy who claimed that my original joke about Arkadelphians using Facebook, which started this whole thread, was racist.
You're not alone in your reaction, whether it qualifies as overreacting or not. It was a joke, as I pointed out in the earliest response I posted to it (oddly, that one is currently modded down to 0 points for being offtopic). I also wasn't nearly as general in the telling of it as the people who are offended by it seem to think. It was a joke about, as I also have joked in this thread, "the city of brotherly boats" - and nothing else.
It is the nature of jokes that virtually all of them can be taken in an offensive way. It is the nature of people that a few of them are virtually guaranteed to take every joke in an offensive way. I do not bow to political correctness (which I consider to be a form of laziness and dishonesty - changing how you refer to something to pretend that problems associated with that thing no longer exist) and I do not generally conform my jokes to the ideals of a few.
Joking is also squarely outside the definition of bigotry, which is an absolute hatred and intolerance of members of a group or at least intolerant devotion to your own prejudices or opinions. The simple fact is that I am an American in general and a "hick" in particular. You may be missing some of the humor because you are neither, but there's a reason that Jeff Foxworthy is so famous for his "You might be a redneck if..." joke meme and Larry the Cable Guy is so popular as portraying a stereotype of Southern hicks - and it's not simply prejudice against hicks by other Americans. It's because drawing out and making caricatures of stereotypes that are at least partially true about hicks is funny to every hick in the audience, and most of us in the USA have at least a little hick in us.
But, again, hicks and Southerners are not the target of my joke. The most interesting part of this entire thread has been watching it draw out the prejudices of others in how they interpret what I said. One guy thought it was racist, for instance. You thought it was anti-hick. I'm sure that someone, somewhere will read it and think it's offensive to autistic children. We all read things through the lens of our own biases.
There are also Lakes which are not lakes, such as Lake Maracaibo, a bay. We also have the Aral Sea, a lake. The point is that there are proper nouns that are the correct names for bodies of water, and in English the name of the body of water known to the Romans as mare nostrum is the Mediterranean Sea. Translations from other languages in which it is known as something equivalent to "middle of the Earth ocean" should use the correct English name for the body. If they do not, then they are mistranslations.
Where the hell does an accusation of racism come from? The flamebait mod from a moderator who did not appreciate the joke is understandable, but racism?
I've always viewed making up words to win at Scrabble as a bit of a challenge and a perfectly valid way to play the game. If you can convince the other players that checking the dictionary to challenge your word is a bad idea, such as by making up an etymology and definition that fits the etymology. Allowing proper nouns would be like letting people choose which cards they want to draw in draw poker.
The funny part of the joke is that there are people who think that copying and pasting long portions of an article from The Onion to the Slashdot front page constitutes an April Fool's Day prank.
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That makes sense. I was worried that something else was going on where SSL certificates were being used for more than they were intended for, causing insecurity. Cf. social security numbers.
The helplessness of the average human is a global phenomenon. Of course, airlines don't help much. I once had the first flight in my itinerary canceled, and while I was waiting in line with the other 100 passengers from that flight to take care of it, I also called the airline's customer service line. I offered to rent a car at my own expense and drive it to the hub airport, but they wouldn't accept that since it was more than 300 miles away. And, of the 3 airports they served within 300 miles, there were no open seats in the next few days. So even if you are willing to help yourself, the airlines won't accept it.
The possibility that transatlantic flights between the USA and Europe will be grounded for months leads to the possible reinstatement of making the trip by luxury steamer. Are any of the Titanic's sister ships still afloat?
How does one use a certificate to intercept and redirect a connection intended for legitimate.example.com to evil.example.net? You're missing the step of how that is done. My understanding, apparently wrong, is that the SSL certificate for a TCP server does two things: It authenticates to the client that he is connected to the correct site and it includes a public key for encrypting communication between server and client. That is, it tells the client that it got the right server. Just how does one use an SSL certificate to force a client to connect to the wrong server?
Read the actual laws sometime. In my state and all others that I have checked, the rules are:
The rule is about entering the intersection. If you are in it already when the light turns red, you of course have to clear it and it is legal to do so. Also, the traffic laws generally do not require the level of prescience that you suggest they do: It is not possible to know with certainty at the time you enter an intersection whether you will be able to make it through before the light turns red.
Turning to the question at the end of the blurb, my understanding is that most of these cameras take more than one picture, with the first one being taken immediately when the light turns red and the second one when a car is detected entering the intersection from the direction that has a red light. This is necessary because, as the submitter understands, it is illegal only to enter the intersection on a red light, not to be in it when the light turns red.
I have wished for the past two years that I could find my old Radio Shack experimenter kit with the breadboard and spring connectors. Those things are as good to hand down to the next generation as Legos are, and also just as useful and fun when you're an adult. Or at least I think mine would be if I could find it so I could relearn all the things that I only partially understood back when I was more focused on getting to the next blinkenlight.
For me, it was more cheap than lazy or sloppy. But I second most of the advice and offer the following:
Great soldering station with adjustable temperature: SS-1 for $40. Get this one or something like it. It's worth every penny.
Now, story time with a good moral. I was, two years ago, working on something with a super-cheap soldering iron that came with a computer toolkit with various screwdrivers and such, all of which are great other than the soldering iron. My grip on it slipped and my instinct from years of having pens and pencils slip in my hand was to pinch harder. Unfortunately, the lack of a safety guard on the iron meant that I pinched down very hard with my thumb and first two fingers on the hot barrel of the iron. The blisters went away after a few weeks but the pain lasted longer.
If a comment is truly bigoted, then it's not really a very good joke in my book. If it pokes humor at the bigotry, then it is. However, consider a joke about lynching blacks in the South. Is that bigoted toward blacks, a joke about Southern stereotypes, or bigoted toward the South? Or does it depend on the audience?
I don't think that my joke derives its humor from accepting stereotypes about Arkadelphia or its ten thousand or so fine residents. I don't personally hold on to any such stereotypes, so for me at least the humor comes from its having a silly name. For those who found a stereotype in it and then took offense to that stereotype, the prejudices involved are in their own minds and not in mine. And that is funny.
I develop things just for him. It's part of my campaign to make the world a weirder place by code-stalking people and writing software just for each target.
Bender: Demand suddenly skyrocketed! YOU ALL SAW IT!
Did you ask anyone in the South (capitalize that, by the way; it's a cultural region and not just a direction on the compass) if they appreciate the humor of Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy, both of whom are extremely popular comedians whose material largely revolves around a caricature of Southern rednecks? Most of the people I know from the South have enough of a sense of humor about the stereotypes that apply to their roots (which do not rise to the level of bigotry and prejudice just because someone makes a joke about them).
I've pointed out elsewhere that I am really entertained by this thread for the reason that it has drawn out a lot of the biases people hold, demonstrating them by how they react to the simple, succinct joke that I told about Arkadelphia. That's one of the reasons I like jokes so much, both telling them and hearing them: For every joke ever told, somebody out there will find it offensive. Jokes, then, are a litmus test for people's attitudes and biases. Tell enough jokes and record a person's reactions to them all, and you will be able to understand how he thinks better than you ever could just by asking him what's on his mind.
Wouldn't that be bigotry against prejudice? I think that would be a fun one to sign up for. You could lynch people for hiring underqualified whites instead of a qualified black woman. And I think you could even lynch your own members just for signing up. How fun would that be?
I'm from a place where people tell jokes, some people laugh at them, and some other people get offended by them because they heard the joke through the lens of their own prejudices and intolerance. Same as where you're from and same as where you live now.
I suppose you also get offended whenever Jeff Foxworthy starts a joke with "You may be a redneck if..." or when Larry the Cable Guy portrays a caricatured stereotype of a Southern hick. You may want to inform their millions of fans in Arkansas that they should stop laughing because these jokes aren't funny and their laughter demonstrates a lack of good genetics on their part.
Incidentally, I do notice that you said inbreeding isn't a problem anymore, but nothing about the illiteracy. I suppose it would take two generations of you and other outsiders before that one goes away? I honestly wish I could mod your comment +1 Funny because it is either a subtle, well-played joke or just plain stupid, and I'm optimistic enough to think the former. Simply put, the stereotype that you suggest I'm not allowed to joke about is reinforced by nearly your entire comment.
Please find the hatred in my original joke. I'd love to know where it is hidden. The more interesting thing here is how people's reactions to this thread demonstrate their own subtle prejudices.
That kind of hypersensitivity to made-up racial issues is common, and it's likely the reason that someone actually thought my joke about Arkadelphia was racist. Most of the people I have known who talk about racism haven't actually seen it. As you know, there is not really that much racism going on between blacks and whites in the South. For the most part, the South got over it. If you want real racism, try living on an Indian reservation if you're a member of the wrong tribe. No, not everyone there will hate you for your race, but more than a few will and it often turns violent.
I often wonder if part of the continued perception of there being racism where it simply doesn't exist comes from a desire to still have that problem, a self-pity kind of thing. Perhaps it's a feeling of being defined by being on the losing side of racial prejudice or perhaps it's the need for something to point to outside of oneself as the reason he or she is not getting ahead in life but, whatever the reason, a lot of supposed racism is imagined.
By your logic, there is literally no difference between you and a person who has had a frontal lobotomy. Your use of an ad hominem argument is indistinguishable from the complete inability to think rationally.
Your inability to appreciate a joke does not make the joke unfunny to others and does not mean that the joke-teller is responsible for lynching members of a minority out of pure bigotry and hatred. By the way, he was joking. Most jokes have an element of truth and an element of exaggeration. George Carlin knew this and discussed it when explaining why it's okay to joke about rape, to the tune of a laughing audience and millions of dollars. Your inability to take it as a joke almost certainly comes from your own biases, not from those of the person who told it. The same applies to the guy who claimed that my original joke about Arkadelphians using Facebook, which started this whole thread, was racist.
You're not alone in your reaction, whether it qualifies as overreacting or not. It was a joke, as I pointed out in the earliest response I posted to it (oddly, that one is currently modded down to 0 points for being offtopic). I also wasn't nearly as general in the telling of it as the people who are offended by it seem to think. It was a joke about, as I also have joked in this thread, "the city of brotherly boats" - and nothing else.
It is the nature of jokes that virtually all of them can be taken in an offensive way. It is the nature of people that a few of them are virtually guaranteed to take every joke in an offensive way. I do not bow to political correctness (which I consider to be a form of laziness and dishonesty - changing how you refer to something to pretend that problems associated with that thing no longer exist) and I do not generally conform my jokes to the ideals of a few.
Joking is also squarely outside the definition of bigotry, which is an absolute hatred and intolerance of members of a group or at least intolerant devotion to your own prejudices or opinions. The simple fact is that I am an American in general and a "hick" in particular. You may be missing some of the humor because you are neither, but there's a reason that Jeff Foxworthy is so famous for his "You might be a redneck if..." joke meme and Larry the Cable Guy is so popular as portraying a stereotype of Southern hicks - and it's not simply prejudice against hicks by other Americans. It's because drawing out and making caricatures of stereotypes that are at least partially true about hicks is funny to every hick in the audience, and most of us in the USA have at least a little hick in us.
But, again, hicks and Southerners are not the target of my joke. The most interesting part of this entire thread has been watching it draw out the prejudices of others in how they interpret what I said. One guy thought it was racist, for instance. You thought it was anti-hick. I'm sure that someone, somewhere will read it and think it's offensive to autistic children. We all read things through the lens of our own biases.
It's not so much Arkansas as a state, but the ridiculously silly name that they gave to the city of Arkadelphia, the "city of brotherly boats."
There are also Lakes which are not lakes, such as Lake Maracaibo, a bay. We also have the Aral Sea, a lake. The point is that there are proper nouns that are the correct names for bodies of water, and in English the name of the body of water known to the Romans as mare nostrum is the Mediterranean Sea. Translations from other languages in which it is known as something equivalent to "middle of the Earth ocean" should use the correct English name for the body. If they do not, then they are mistranslations.
How exactly does that qualify as racism?
Where the hell does an accusation of racism come from? The flamebait mod from a moderator who did not appreciate the joke is understandable, but racism?
The real question I have is how someone from Arkadelphia learned to get on Facebook in the first place, much less two of them.
All general statements are false.
I've always viewed making up words to win at Scrabble as a bit of a challenge and a perfectly valid way to play the game. If you can convince the other players that checking the dictionary to challenge your word is a bad idea, such as by making up an etymology and definition that fits the etymology. Allowing proper nouns would be like letting people choose which cards they want to draw in draw poker.
The funny part of the joke is that there are people who think that copying and pasting long portions of an article from The Onion to the Slashdot front page constitutes an April Fool's Day prank.
The papers are all digital. So you have to measure how many bits fit into a one-peck bucket.