Not THAT much harder. I've seen MiGs on Ebay. And there's been aircraft carriers, too. Do we need to worry about the al qieda fighter jets, too?
We're talking al Qaida, not the Chechnyans. You don't think the Russians worry about Al-Qieda?
Possibly- but right now I've got grave doubts about US border security and the effectiveness of the US Military in general do do anything at all. While vigilance about border security is likely a good thing, I personally think you've leapt over "vigilance" and straight into Clancy-inspired paranoia.
I'd agree (having been raised evangelical/catholic (don't ask) and having been exposed to my share of contemporary christian music) that most of the bands suck ass, but when there are exceptions they're quite notable. Demon Hunter is the most recent one I can think of, but I do believe King's X was a christian rock band before they "went secular" (a phrase that always amused me when spoken, as it was accompanied by such a sad intonation).
In my life I've had more than a few friends who are either asian-american or actually immigrants from a number of countries. The whole idea of "oriental" being derogatory was a surprise to them (and also kind of amusing), which says something when they are actually of east asian ethnicity, or were, in fact, born in one. I had one friend who, being asian herself, was informed in law school (in her 20's) that using oriental was derogatory, something that just flabbergasted her. So I wouldn't take your explanation as being particularly commonplace except maybe in some circles.
Well, setting aside your dubious assessment of US coastal patrol capabilities for the moment, it's a pretty long way from buying old freighters to buying military vessels. Anyone with the right amount of money can do the former, the latter is a wee bit harder. After all, the Russians don't exactly want their subversive elements using their old hardware against them. I'd wager that the Tamil Tiger navy is a far more effective military force than this so-called "navy".
You talking about Zuse's Z* series? They were interesting, but I don't know how useful research is if the crap gets blown out of them by allied bombing, and the Z4 didn't get finally finished until after the war was over (at which point its descendant, which for the life of me I can't remember the exact model number of, was a commercial product as well), at which point both the US and Britain were well on their way to having the same sort of technology.
While funny, I personally think the likelihood that the pr0n industry will be the first to promote and make use of VR interfaces in a mass-consumer fashion is very high.
It was possible with XP as well. I've made a few slipstreamed SP2 CDs, and after you figure out the process (thanks google), it's fairly trivial to accomplish.
they better make sure that server runs on everything from NT4 to 2003, because otherwise that'll cause some big problems; even moreso since there is a not-insignificant number of offices in the world that have no servers locally
Can't speak for the OP, but when I worked for a university, the support was "best effort". You bought your own hardware, then we'll help if we can, but don't feel obligated to go out of our way to fix anything that is a personal machine. University owned hardware we supported, but that's pretty standard.
I dunno about the CPUs, but I'm pretty sure the rest meet the specs of a fairly standard Dell Optiplex GX-280 from about 2-3 years ago. Not really all that strange.
I still deal with on a regular basis (twice this week so far) with WinNT4 machines on people's desks, and we "standardized" to WinXP over 2 years ago. Sometimes that shit just hangs around forever, y'know?
494/694 in minneapolis is 65 and was 55 most of the time I was growing up
I-25 heading north through the Denver Tech Center (not sure how far south it goes) is 65 as well.
I imagine it's similar elsewhere. Would be weird to only have it in those places. Anyway, yeah, I always wonder if those zones are "forgotten" in some fashion. There's some stretches of I-80 in nebraska where there's no road work for miles, but the orange "work zone fines doubled" are still posted.
There's one I can think of though, when they laid I-35E in St Paul to go through a residential neighborhood, it was only allowed because that part was limited to 45mph. Now, granted, there's really no way someone could mistake it for a residential neighborhood anymore, but the speed limit still stands at 45mph.
But from GP's description of the accident, the rear-ending was totally unjustified. The consequences may not have been severe this time, but the kid was indeed not paying attention. It is understandable when people skid on unexpected ice or oil or something like that, but in this case the only reason for the accident was inattention, which is a symptom of a poor driver, not bad luck.
What is a "justified" collision? Even if there was weather cops will often ticket you for reckless driving because you weren't "driving appropriate to the weather conditions". The fact of the matter is, there is a penalty for a certain infraction, and the offending driver received it in this case. Saying that "it could have been different" is pointless unless we want to start having probability-based infractions.
actually a huge number of speed limits have changed since 1970. I recall not 15 years ago driving on a good number of interstates got you a speed limit of 55. Now in many metro areas the freeways are at least posted to 65, and the rural interstates to 75+. Vastly different.
To experience righteous glee of behaving in a perfectly legal manner (in all likelihood I am in the left lane because the right lane is driving slower than the speed limit, while I'm within a few miles of it on the top end; hey, speedometers have a margin of error, after all) while an asshat behind me is mad he can't aggregiously break the law by passing me? Dunno. Nonetheless, a short survey of this particular article thread shows pretty readily that people are under the impression that there's "speed limit" lanes and "speeding" lanes. Anything I can do to dispel that myth is probably worthwhile.
No, it's speeding. The highway patrol is free to ticket or not ticket at their discretion, and they can also drive whatever speed limit they desire while on duty (without being reckless of course). Just because everyone else is speeding, doesn't mean it's legal, regardless of whether or not there's a cop with a ticket gun out there.
So, your solution to the fact that you're speeding (a traffic violation), is to commit another traffic violation in the process of trying to get around someone. You were dropped on your head as a child, weren't you.
Why did he get to drive home when it was obvious that he couldn't drive safely?
Because we don't penalize people for traffic offenses that didn't occur. Rear-ending someone (as I am assuming happened through process of elimination, since you didn't state it outright) is a very common accident type, regardless of age. Asserting that someone shouldn't be driving because they _could_ have caused a serious accident in some other hypothetical situation that did not occur is stupid, since every one of us is potentially an accident waiting to happen (see a poster above who, correctly, asserts that everyone believes they're a good driver, and everyone else is an accident waiting to happen). He rear-ended you, no one was injured, and he got a ticket. That's how it should be, instead of your bizarre thought-experiment traffic law scenario.
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Not THAT much harder. I've seen MiGs on Ebay.
And there's been aircraft carriers, too. Do we need to worry about the al qieda fighter jets, too?
We're talking al Qaida, not the Chechnyans.
You don't think the Russians worry about Al-Qieda?
Possibly- but right now I've got grave doubts about US border security and the effectiveness of the US Military in general do do anything at all.
While vigilance about border security is likely a good thing, I personally think you've leapt over "vigilance" and straight into Clancy-inspired paranoia.
Not only that, but the WWII flag of japan had a friggin _rising_sun_ on it.
Now granted, that flag is out of favor because it conjures up images of imperial japan in wwii, iirc, but nonetheless.
I'd agree (having been raised evangelical/catholic (don't ask) and having been exposed to my share of contemporary christian music) that most of the bands suck ass, but when there are exceptions they're quite notable. Demon Hunter is the most recent one I can think of, but I do believe King's X was a christian rock band before they "went secular" (a phrase that always amused me when spoken, as it was accompanied by such a sad intonation).
In my life I've had more than a few friends who are either asian-american or actually immigrants from a number of countries. The whole idea of "oriental" being derogatory was a surprise to them (and also kind of amusing), which says something when they are actually of east asian ethnicity, or were, in fact, born in one. I had one friend who, being asian herself, was informed in law school (in her 20's) that using oriental was derogatory, something that just flabbergasted her. So I wouldn't take your explanation as being particularly commonplace except maybe in some circles.
Well, setting aside your dubious assessment of US coastal patrol capabilities for the moment, it's a pretty long way from buying old freighters to buying military vessels. Anyone with the right amount of money can do the former, the latter is a wee bit harder. After all, the Russians don't exactly want their subversive elements using their old hardware against them. I'd wager that the Tamil Tiger navy is a far more effective military force than this so-called "navy".
the al-Qieda Navy? ...
You talking about Zuse's Z* series? They were interesting, but I don't know how useful research is if the crap gets blown out of them by allied bombing, and the Z4 didn't get finally finished until after the war was over (at which point its descendant, which for the life of me I can't remember the exact model number of, was a commercial product as well), at which point both the US and Britain were well on their way to having the same sort of technology.
While funny, I personally think the likelihood that the pr0n industry will be the first to promote and make use of VR interfaces in a mass-consumer fashion is very high.
It was possible with XP as well. I've made a few slipstreamed SP2 CDs, and after you figure out the process (thanks google), it's fairly trivial to accomplish.
Unless your NAT setup sucks, there's no reason you should be rooted in 5 minutes even pre-sp1 as far as I can recall.
Nonetheless, you are correct that it's sp2 slipstreaming ftw
they better make sure that server runs on everything from NT4 to 2003, because otherwise that'll cause some big problems; even moreso since there is a not-insignificant number of offices in the world that have no servers locally
Can't speak for the OP, but when I worked for a university, the support was "best effort". You bought your own hardware, then we'll help if we can, but don't feel obligated to go out of our way to fix anything that is a personal machine. University owned hardware we supported, but that's pretty standard.
Sorry, meant GPUs not CPUs. The 280's standard came with the IGP stuff, but the options for graphics on a 280 were:
I dunno about the CPUs, but I'm pretty sure the rest meet the specs of a fairly standard Dell Optiplex GX-280 from about 2-3 years ago. Not really all that strange.
I still deal with on a regular basis (twice this week so far) with WinNT4 machines on people's desks, and we "standardized" to WinXP over 2 years ago. Sometimes that shit just hangs around forever, y'know?
494/694 in minneapolis is 65 and was 55 most of the time I was growing up
I-25 heading north through the Denver Tech Center (not sure how far south it goes) is 65 as well.
I imagine it's similar elsewhere. Would be weird to only have it in those places. Anyway, yeah, I always wonder if those zones are "forgotten" in some fashion. There's some stretches of I-80 in nebraska where there's no road work for miles, but the orange "work zone fines doubled" are still posted.
There's one I can think of though, when they laid I-35E in St Paul to go through a residential neighborhood, it was only allowed because that part was limited to 45mph. Now, granted, there's really no way someone could mistake it for a residential neighborhood anymore, but the speed limit still stands at 45mph.
But from GP's description of the accident, the rear-ending was totally unjustified. The consequences may not have been severe this time, but the kid was indeed not paying attention. It is understandable when people skid on unexpected ice or oil or something like that, but in this case the only reason for the accident was inattention, which is a symptom of a poor driver, not bad luck.
What is a "justified" collision? Even if there was weather cops will often ticket you for reckless driving because you weren't "driving appropriate to the weather conditions". The fact of the matter is, there is a penalty for a certain infraction, and the offending driver received it in this case. Saying that "it could have been different" is pointless unless we want to start having probability-based infractions.actually a huge number of speed limits have changed since 1970. I recall not 15 years ago driving on a good number of interstates got you a speed limit of 55. Now in many metro areas the freeways are at least posted to 65, and the rural interstates to 75+. Vastly different.
To experience righteous glee of behaving in a perfectly legal manner (in all likelihood I am in the left lane because the right lane is driving slower than the speed limit, while I'm within a few miles of it on the top end; hey, speedometers have a margin of error, after all) while an asshat behind me is mad he can't aggregiously break the law by passing me? Dunno. Nonetheless, a short survey of this particular article thread shows pretty readily that people are under the impression that there's "speed limit" lanes and "speeding" lanes. Anything I can do to dispel that myth is probably worthwhile.
No, it's speeding. The highway patrol is free to ticket or not ticket at their discretion, and they can also drive whatever speed limit they desire while on duty (without being reckless of course). Just because everyone else is speeding, doesn't mean it's legal, regardless of whether or not there's a cop with a ticket gun out there.
So, your solution to the fact that you're speeding (a traffic violation), is to commit another traffic violation in the process of trying to get around someone. You were dropped on your head as a child, weren't you.
Maybe some do, not all, certainly.
And the asshat who is 5 ft from my bumper isn't traffic, he's an asshat driving too close.
The speed limit is the *speed* *limit*, going less than it isn't illegal unless there's a minimum posted, AFAIK.
Why did he get to drive home when it was obvious that he couldn't drive safely?
Because we don't penalize people for traffic offenses that didn't occur. Rear-ending someone (as I am assuming happened through process of elimination, since you didn't state it outright) is a very common accident type, regardless of age. Asserting that someone shouldn't be driving because they _could_ have caused a serious accident in some other hypothetical situation that did not occur is stupid, since every one of us is potentially an accident waiting to happen (see a poster above who, correctly, asserts that everyone believes they're a good driver, and everyone else is an accident waiting to happen). He rear-ended you, no one was injured, and he got a ticket. That's how it should be, instead of your bizarre thought-experiment traffic law scenario.
That is, indeed, an interesting analysis. And pretty amusing if true.