The number of firearm crimes which resulted in injuries has more than doubled in six years: from
2,378 in 1998/99 to 5,358 in 2004/05. The largest rise was seen in crimes involving non-air
weapons.
Where the fuck are you getting your statistics? These are from the Home Office. Honestly, you're just completely wrong.
The state had the *power* to keep women from voting. After that amendment, the state no longer had that *power*.
Wait, what? You could just as reasonably say after women's suffrage, the state had the *power* to allow women to vote. Before suffrage, the state did not have that power.
Like I've said in other posts, using electricity to heat your home is about 100% efficient. You can't get around the fact that _all_ energy goes to heat ultimately. The reason boilers are not 100% efficient is because they _have_ to spit out exhaust fumes. I'd be amazed if boilers actually hit 90% efficiency... I wonder how they calculate those figures.
Writing on consumer level "hardware" RAID 5 is very slow depending on the hardware. Like I said in my post, it is entirely dependent upon the implementation, and most implementations are very slow. It seems some motherboards are getting a lot better recently, primarily because of bus architecture presumably. Anyway, my point still stands - RAID 5 _is_ slower writing than single disks generally on consumer hardware. Sorry you got an offtopic mod, and I didn't. I deserve one more.
Anyway, like I said before on topic... this woman did little wrong except from being a little bit ignorant. She took the safe course, which she had to take in the circumstances, and now is perhaps exploring other possibilities. It would be really interesting if she actually helped explore FOSS solutions as a result of this incident.
I'm just shocked that all literate people in the Western world wouldn't be familiar with any country in Europe.
Really? There are many countries in Europe which I know little to nothing about. For example, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Which way round they are geographically I don't know, and culturally I know _very_ little about them. Kosovo, Montenegro, and Macedonia I have little knowledge of, apart from the recent (comparatively) wars. Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan I've got basically 0 knowledge of (though I did meet someone from Georgia a while back, coincidently when the whole South Ossetia invasion was kicking off, so I know a little about Georgia). Slovenia? I wouldn't be able to find it on an unmarked map. Then there's Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and the Vatican which are all countries technically. And Kaliningrad Oblast, which I just found out about now, which is a part of the Russian Federation I never knew about.
Europe is a complicated place, and not knowing a country in Europe is not a sign of gross ignorance. However, I do agree with you that not knowing about Portugal would be a little weird. They were one of the most important countries on earth a few centuries ago. A hint for those who don't think so - why do you think Brazilians speak Portuguese? That being said, Lithuania used to be a very big force in Europe too, and no one knows about that.
Back on topic.... This teacher seems to not be in the wrong at all. She confiscated CDs that she knew nothing about that were being given out in class. Now she's learnt that they are not harmful, she's is interacting with the OSS community. If I were in her shoes, and even knowing about Linux etc, I probably would have taken similar steps. You just don't know what is on a CD or DVD, and if they are distributed in your class, and something nasty is on them, you will be held responsible. Even if nothing nasty is on them, I can just imagine someone going home and trying to install Linux on their home computer, and there being problems, and parents getting annoyed. When Linux tries to install on my system, for example, it boots up and show 2 unformatted hard drives, and would ask to create a partition on one of them, not recognising any existing partitions. I've got a fakeraid stripe over those two hard drives, which everything of mine is on.
OT on RAID etc : I back up everything I will be _really_ annoyed if I lose, on an external web host in the US, and back on my parent's PC... I actually have very little data which cannot easily be downloaded again if lost. RAID is Useless for home systems. RAID 5 is slower than single disks when writing, and little faster when reading. CPU usage is not the problem with fakeraid 5, it's the infrastructure bottleneck with having the CPU doing parity calculations. Look at the benchmarks people.
Ok, I've just looked at the benchmarks and it seems I'm a little out of date in some cases. Low bus bandwidth is a killer when it comes to RAID 5, and recent consumer motherboards (especially seemingly by Intel) seem to have countered this problem to some extent. I've not seen full analysis yet, so I will reserve judgement.
However, if you just buy a stock motherboard and expect great RAID 5 performance, be prepared to be disappointed. RAID 0 (striping, should be AID 0, there's no redundancy here) will always give you very significant speed increases (ie. double for 2 disks, triple for 3, up to the throughput of the interface), both in reading and writing (though not seek times obviously). If you _really_ want redundancy and speed increases cheap, _not backup_, consumer RAID 1+0 is a good choice in my opinion - it comes close to the performance of striping, with redundancy, at double the HD cost... Is redundancy that important? How OT am I.
Your furnace was designed to heat, and unless it's an antique it's designed to do so as efficiently as possible. Your PC isn't.
Almost all energy used in the home gets converted to heat. In the case of a PC, I'd guess it would be easily over 99% efficient as a heater. Quit calling people dumbass while simultaneously not understand basic thermodynamics. It is basically impossible to make an inefficient electric heater.
Whereas if you go and switch on the boiler for the central heating you're burning fuel on site and getting heat with near-perfect efficiency.
Well, yes, if you don't mind having a house filled with smoke and/or co2. Boilers have exhaust vents for a reason, and they have to pump the hot gasses they produce somewhere, which is almost invariably straight outside. Home boilers are far from near perfect efficiency.
I do agree though that it is _more_ efficient in most cases to use gas directly rather than using electricity generated by gas. However, many people have their electricity generated by other means - France, for example, produce over 75% of their electricity with nuclear power.
This step is never inefficient. All electric appliances are very close to 100% efficient at converting electricity to heat, because there's nothing else it can ultimately become. The only way you lose 100% efficiency is when energy leaves your house (light, and to a far lower extent sound).
Has anyone else actually tried going to the web page in question from the UK? Because I'm supposedly one of those blocked from seeing this page (with TalkTalk), and I can see it just fine. Also, I for one find this much more disturbing, but that may just be me.
Censorship is never a good idea (or even "not a bad idea" ).
I believe censoring child rape videos is probably a good idea, if only for the wellbeing of the child in question. If you really believe censorship is never a good idea, I don't want to live in your society.
Please, let us know why you think censorship is not inherently bad.
I'll chime in and give a simple example. If someone illegally took a photo of me or one of my family naked, using a hidden camera, I would like there to be legislation in place which allows me to control (ie. stop) distribution of that photo. This would be censorship, and I personally think it is entirely valid.
Copyright is a form of censorship, too, and though personally I believe it has vastly exceeded its remit, I do believe especially in many of its early implementations copyright law was beneficial to society as a whole.
That our society has descended to the point that people are suspicious of someone who works hard for the benefit of others with no expectation of reward is very, very sad.
I don't know whether you noticed, but the people mentioned were older people - those of previous generations. If younger people have no problems with this, surely our society is getting better, by your definition.
What do you want to prefer to tell a potential rescue team? "I'm in the middle of the Sahara, try to find me" or "I'm at xxxx'N, xxxx'E, come pick me up"?
Well, it probably wouldn't matter anyway, since the rescue team probably wouldn't be able to figure out where they are, because satnav has been banned in Egypt for all but the military.
I'm not sure where you live, but Secret Ballots are part of just about every western democracy. That's right, privacy is pretty much integral to all modern democracies.
A grey hat in his basement can give me a trojan, perhaps fuck up my computer. The government can send hordes of armed men round to my house and lock me up for the rest of my life. Although I do probably trust the government more than some random, I know which one I am more scared of.
Have you actually looked at any benchmarks for RAID 5 on consumer devices? In real life, RAID 5 is useless for everything but very specialist applications. It just does not offer any performanec increase, at all. It does, however, provide redundancy if a disk goes down.
That depends on your RAID system. I used to love the idea of RAID 5, until I actually looked at the benchmarks. Unless you have proper dedicated decent hardware calculating the parity (which really costs), writing to a RAID 5 is dog slow. Like, a lot slower than writing to a single disk in most cases. Reading is quicker, but far from wonderful on consumer level hardware.
In my opinion, if you want a consumer level raid solution that will actually offer increased performance, RAID 1+0 is a good option. Personally for my home system I just stripe 2 drives, backup my important stuff, and cross my fingers.
That's what they basically do now, and is kind of the point. One of the reasons Latex is used for condoms is it's water (and other fluid) repellent qualities. What else do you expect the liquids to do apart from swish around, just waiting to drip out?
Methinks a permeable condom wouldn't sell too well.
A place which has lipstick on the glass at your table just screams hygiene.~
No, actually a place which has lipstick on the glass at your table is a place in which I'd be worried about the hygeine. Also, what was that funny squiggle at the end of your post?
I believe anyone who gives me a glass with lipstick or any kind of blemish on it should be executed since they obviously do respect me as a human being and therefore cannot be a valuable member of society.~
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These columns are, in order : Year, Total injuries, Fatal injury, Serious injury, Slight injury, all from non air based firearms in the UK :
1998/99 864 49 162 653
1999/00 1,195 62 200 933
2000/01 1,382 72 244 1,066
2001/02 1,877 95 392 1,390
2002/03 2,179 80 416 1,683
2003/04 2,367 68 437 1,862
2004/05 3,856 77 410 3,369
The number of firearm crimes which resulted in injuries has more than doubled in six years: from 2,378 in 1998/99 to 5,358 in 2004/05. The largest rise was seen in crimes involving non-air weapons.
Where the fuck are you getting your statistics? These are from the Home Office. Honestly, you're just completely wrong.
Look, it's simple. All you need is one law for peanuts :
Foods which contain peanuts need to be labelled as such, unless it's FUCKING OBVIOUS* that they contain peanuts.
*fucking obvious includes, but is not limited to, the product actually being peanuts.
'normal' coffee just hurt, unless directly exposed to the eyes or sensitive membranes.
I really, really do not want to think about what you do with coffee and your sensitive membranes.
The state had the *power* to keep women from voting. After that amendment, the state no longer had that *power*.
Wait, what? You could just as reasonably say after women's suffrage, the state had the *power* to allow women to vote. Before suffrage, the state did not have that power.
Like I've said in other posts, using electricity to heat your home is about 100% efficient. You can't get around the fact that _all_ energy goes to heat ultimately. The reason boilers are not 100% efficient is because they _have_ to spit out exhaust fumes. I'd be amazed if boilers actually hit 90% efficiency... I wonder how they calculate those figures.
Writing on consumer level "hardware" RAID 5 is very slow depending on the hardware. Like I said in my post, it is entirely dependent upon the implementation, and most implementations are very slow. It seems some motherboards are getting a lot better recently, primarily because of bus architecture presumably. Anyway, my point still stands - RAID 5 _is_ slower writing than single disks generally on consumer hardware. Sorry you got an offtopic mod, and I didn't. I deserve one more.
Anyway, like I said before on topic... this woman did little wrong except from being a little bit ignorant. She took the safe course, which she had to take in the circumstances, and now is perhaps exploring other possibilities. It would be really interesting if she actually helped explore FOSS solutions as a result of this incident.
I'm just shocked that all literate people in the Western world wouldn't be familiar with any country in Europe.
Really? There are many countries in Europe which I know little to nothing about. For example, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Which way round they are geographically I don't know, and culturally I know _very_ little about them. Kosovo, Montenegro, and Macedonia I have little knowledge of, apart from the recent (comparatively) wars. Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan I've got basically 0 knowledge of (though I did meet someone from Georgia a while back, coincidently when the whole South Ossetia invasion was kicking off, so I know a little about Georgia). Slovenia? I wouldn't be able to find it on an unmarked map. Then there's Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and the Vatican which are all countries technically. And Kaliningrad Oblast, which I just found out about now, which is a part of the Russian Federation I never knew about.
Europe is a complicated place, and not knowing a country in Europe is not a sign of gross ignorance. However, I do agree with you that not knowing about Portugal would be a little weird. They were one of the most important countries on earth a few centuries ago. A hint for those who don't think so - why do you think Brazilians speak Portuguese? That being said, Lithuania used to be a very big force in Europe too, and no one knows about that.
Back on topic.... This teacher seems to not be in the wrong at all. She confiscated CDs that she knew nothing about that were being given out in class. Now she's learnt that they are not harmful, she's is interacting with the OSS community. If I were in her shoes, and even knowing about Linux etc, I probably would have taken similar steps. You just don't know what is on a CD or DVD, and if they are distributed in your class, and something nasty is on them, you will be held responsible. Even if nothing nasty is on them, I can just imagine someone going home and trying to install Linux on their home computer, and there being problems, and parents getting annoyed. When Linux tries to install on my system, for example, it boots up and show 2 unformatted hard drives, and would ask to create a partition on one of them, not recognising any existing partitions. I've got a fakeraid stripe over those two hard drives, which everything of mine is on.
OT on RAID etc : I back up everything I will be _really_ annoyed if I lose, on an external web host in the US, and back on my parent's PC... I actually have very little data which cannot easily be downloaded again if lost. RAID is Useless for home systems. RAID 5 is slower than single disks when writing, and little faster when reading. CPU usage is not the problem with fakeraid 5, it's the infrastructure bottleneck with having the CPU doing parity calculations. Look at the benchmarks people.
Ok, I've just looked at the benchmarks and it seems I'm a little out of date in some cases. Low bus bandwidth is a killer when it comes to RAID 5, and recent consumer motherboards (especially seemingly by Intel) seem to have countered this problem to some extent. I've not seen full analysis yet, so I will reserve judgement.
However, if you just buy a stock motherboard and expect great RAID 5 performance, be prepared to be disappointed. RAID 0 (striping, should be AID 0, there's no redundancy here) will always give you very significant speed increases (ie. double for 2 disks, triple for 3, up to the throughput of the interface), both in reading and writing (though not seek times obviously). If you _really_ want redundancy and speed increases cheap, _not backup_, consumer RAID 1+0 is a good choice in my opinion - it comes close to the performance of striping, with redundancy, at double the HD cost... Is redundancy that important? How OT am I.
Your furnace was designed to heat, and unless it's an antique it's designed to do so as efficiently as possible. Your PC isn't.
Almost all energy used in the home gets converted to heat. In the case of a PC, I'd guess it would be easily over 99% efficient as a heater. Quit calling people dumbass while simultaneously not understand basic thermodynamics. It is basically impossible to make an inefficient electric heater.
Whereas if you go and switch on the boiler for the central heating you're burning fuel on site and getting heat with near-perfect efficiency.
Well, yes, if you don't mind having a house filled with smoke and/or co2. Boilers have exhaust vents for a reason, and they have to pump the hot gasses they produce somewhere, which is almost invariably straight outside. Home boilers are far from near perfect efficiency.
I do agree though that it is _more_ efficient in most cases to use gas directly rather than using electricity generated by gas. However, many people have their electricity generated by other means - France, for example, produce over 75% of their electricity with nuclear power.
transforming electricity back to heat
This step is never inefficient. All electric appliances are very close to 100% efficient at converting electricity to heat, because there's nothing else it can ultimately become. The only way you lose 100% efficiency is when energy leaves your house (light, and to a far lower extent sound).
Random gray sections and flashing sections? Definitely Japanese porn.
Has anyone else actually tried going to the web page in question from the UK? Because I'm supposedly one of those blocked from seeing this page (with TalkTalk), and I can see it just fine. Also, I for one find this much more disturbing, but that may just be me.
Censorship is never a good idea (or even "not a bad idea" ).
I believe censoring child rape videos is probably a good idea, if only for the wellbeing of the child in question. If you really believe censorship is never a good idea, I don't want to live in your society.
Please, let us know why you think censorship is not inherently bad.
I'll chime in and give a simple example. If someone illegally took a photo of me or one of my family naked, using a hidden camera, I would like there to be legislation in place which allows me to control (ie. stop) distribution of that photo. This would be censorship, and I personally think it is entirely valid.
Copyright is a form of censorship, too, and though personally I believe it has vastly exceeded its remit, I do believe especially in many of its early implementations copyright law was beneficial to society as a whole.
The ABC?
No! They can't! Selling the alphabet, now that would be really low.
That our society has descended to the point that people are suspicious of someone who works hard for the benefit of others with no expectation of reward is very, very sad.
I don't know whether you noticed, but the people mentioned were older people - those of previous generations. If younger people have no problems with this, surely our society is getting better, by your definition.
What do you want to prefer to tell a potential rescue team? "I'm in the middle of the Sahara, try to find me" or "I'm at xxxx'N, xxxx'E, come pick me up"?
Well, it probably wouldn't matter anyway, since the rescue team probably wouldn't be able to figure out where they are, because satnav has been banned in Egypt for all but the military.
Wait a minute...
The prisons would be empty
Heh, that's what you think, but you're forgetting the new prisoners we'd get. I know I'd be locked up long ago for coveting my neighbour's ass.
I'm not sure where you live, but Secret Ballots are part of just about every western democracy. That's right, privacy is pretty much integral to all modern democracies.
You were asking for that, to be honest. Wait a minute...
What is next, insightful for a flippant 1 line response?
A grey hat in his basement can give me a trojan, perhaps fuck up my computer. The government can send hordes of armed men round to my house and lock me up for the rest of my life. Although I do probably trust the government more than some random, I know which one I am more scared of.
Have you actually looked at any benchmarks for RAID 5 on consumer devices? In real life, RAID 5 is useless for everything but very specialist applications. It just does not offer any performanec increase, at all. It does, however, provide redundancy if a disk goes down.
That depends on your RAID system. I used to love the idea of RAID 5, until I actually looked at the benchmarks. Unless you have proper dedicated decent hardware calculating the parity (which really costs), writing to a RAID 5 is dog slow. Like, a lot slower than writing to a single disk in most cases. Reading is quicker, but far from wonderful on consumer level hardware.
In my opinion, if you want a consumer level raid solution that will actually offer increased performance, RAID 1+0 is a good option. Personally for my home system I just stripe 2 drives, backup my important stuff, and cross my fingers.
That's what they basically do now, and is kind of the point. One of the reasons Latex is used for condoms is it's water (and other fluid) repellent qualities. What else do you expect the liquids to do apart from swish around, just waiting to drip out?
Methinks a permeable condom wouldn't sell too well.
A place which has lipstick on the glass at your table just screams hygiene.~
No, actually a place which has lipstick on the glass at your table is a place in which I'd be worried about the hygeine. Also, what was that funny squiggle at the end of your post?
I believe anyone who gives me a glass with lipstick or any kind of blemish on it should be executed since they obviously do respect me as a human being and therefore cannot be a valuable member of society.~