Please tell me, Mr. Coward, what facts did I "shade"?
I said Dooley initiated the verbal confrontation. I also said James initiated the physical altercation. This is true - Dooley had turned around and was leaving the scene when James assaulted him in an attempt to take control of the gun. Dooley, being older, smaller, and weaker, could reasonably fear for his life when someone bigger, stronger, and younger attacks him. And yet despite his claim of "self defense" he was still arrested in less time than it took for the Sanford police to identify Trayvon Martin.
That is a sick suggestion. Some of those police officers probably have kids who go to Pitt. I doubt any of them are more concerned with a couple extra bucks when their own kid's life could be on the line.
Lots of universities in the Pittsburgh area are getting bomb threats. I know CCAC is getting a bunch of them, too. They're now checking everyone's bags when they go into the building.
University of Pittsburgh is NOT Pennsylvania State University.
And for what it's worth, why would you want to punish an entire school for what a couple administrative and athletic folks have done? There were a lot of people who went to Penn State who were revolted by Sandusky's behavior. These are people with lives, with bills to pay, with careers to start. If anything, punish the athletic program and the administration, which were both complicit in the scandal. But don't punish the professors and students who are just trying to make a living, and who did nothing to contribute to the scandal.
It can take years from the time a murder happens until the murderer is arrested. During that time, the police will often say that the perpetrator is not a suspect, even though they are nearly certain he/she is guilty. Think of the Hans Reiser case, were you also complaining they didn't arrest him immediately?
You should review the case of Trevor Dooley and David James. James went for Dooley's gun and got shot in the altercation. James was much bigger than Dooley, who was elderly. Dooley also claims he feared for his life, and the shooting was in Florida in September 2010 so Stand Your Ground is his defense.
Dooley was arrested two days after the shooting, despite eye witnesses who say that James went for Dooley's gun.
But Dooley was black and James was white, so I guess that may have had something to do with it.
The lead investigator initially wanted to file manslaughter charges. The state attorney drove fifty miles on a Sunday night to over-rule the lead investigator.
As far as the New Black Panthers, if you can point out what law they broke, go for it. Just remember there's that first amendment and all. Trust me, if any NBP had kidnapped or killed George Zimmerman, there would be charges.
Yes, because saying hello is how you would approach a "fucking punk" (his words) who "always gets away" (his words again). Those words represent his state of mind just minutes before the shooting.
Much more likely is that Zimmerman wanted to be a hero and tried to detain Martin until the police arrived. And if some guy who is clearly not an officer tries to detain me, I am going to put up a fight to defend myself. As a teenager, for all I know he's trying to kidnap me. And if I saw the gun, I would certainly fear for my life, which under Florida's SYG law means that I could respond with deadly force.
I suggest you review the way Florida handles other shootings. Specifically, look up the incident involving Trevor Dooley and David James. It has many similarities.
Dooley confronted James. Dooley had a gun, but did not pull it out. James initiated a physical altercation to take the gun away from Dooley. James was shot in the process.
Dooley was 69, with fused discs in his neck. James was 41, six inches taller, seventy pounds heavier, and had been in the Air Force. Dooley claims he feared for his life - a claim I find reasonable, given the disparity between the two (much more reasonable than a 28-year old man armed with a gun fearing for his life at the hands of a teenager armed with skittles and iced tea). Eye witnesses saw James go for Dooley's gun, while acknowledging that Dooley initiated the verbal confrontation.
There are, however, two significant differences. The first is that Trevor Dooley was arrested merely two days after the shooting. The second is that Dooley is black and his victim, James, was white.
So yes...declining to file charges that the lead investigator recommended is unusual. The state attorney driving 50 miles on a Sunday night to discuss the incident is unusual. Taking the shooter's word for it that his record was clean is unusual. Making no attempt to notify the parents of a dead teenager and instead waiting for them to file a missing person's report is unusual.
If you had pants on, then there would be no skin to skin contact. Chances are you also had a 1.5T scanner, or maybe 3T, where the risk of burn is not as great. 7T is pretty scary IMO.
If you have the stomach for it, you can do a google image search for "mri burn" and you'll see some pretty nasty ones.
Looking at your article, I'm left wondering, if the H and E fields are so capable of ionization, why aren't MRIs giving everyone cancer? I mean, an MRI has up to seven Teslas of magnetism. Around ten Teslas you can make frogs levitate. Ten Teslas is way fucking bigger than any H field you will see in the near field, I don't care if you're just one angstrom away from the antenna.
As far as glow discharge, the glowing is not caused by the electric field ionizing the atoms. Rather, the electric field accelerates the electrons, and when the accelerated electron slams into an atom, *that* causes the ionization. Those glowing tubes that you mentioned earlier? Did you know that sometimes they put in a trace of radioactive gas to help seed electrons in the tube? You only need a few to start, and once they get moving they cause more, kinda like a nuclear chain reaction.
It sounds like you should do some more research on dielectrics and breakdown voltage. You seem to think that dielectric breakdown causes ionization, when the reverse is actually more true; ionization reduces the dielectric constant for the path that has been ionized.
The shit got modded +5 because...lo and behold...RF from a mobile phone is non-ionizing radiation. I agree that the term "radio waves" could have been better. But it would take tens of thousands of RF photons simultaneously striking the same exact electron at the same exact time to give it enough energy to break free from the atomic bond it has formed. It only takes one photon from an x-ray to do the same.
Go ahead. Do the math. Look up the energy it takes to ionize an atomic bond. Calculate the energy in an RF photon at 2.4 GHz. Calculate the energy in a photon of an dental x-ray (not sure what frequency they use). And then marvel at the four orders of magnitude between the two. I did this once, and maybe I should have saved a copy of the results so that I could paste it into the discussion every time some tin foil hatter thinks that 2.4 GHz "radiation" will give you cancer.
The primary mode of action for RF energy on biological tissue is in the form of heating. Just like your microwave. The electric field causes the dipole water molecules to rattle around, and the increased friction results in heat.
In fact, if you get an MRI, they make sure that for example your thighs are not touching each other. Because if they are, your flesh forms a loop antenna that can pick up the RF energy in the magnet room...which will cause localized heating and burns.
"-Prepare the patient for the MR procedure by using insulation material (i.e., appropriate padding) to prevent skin-to-skin contact points and the formation of “closed-loops” from touching body parts."
Left 4 Dead 2 cost me $5. I've played for over 800 hours so far. This is less than one cent per hour. I spend more on electricity to play the game than I do the actual game.
My wife also got a copy for $5. She has played for almost 2000 hours.
Your analogy is improper. Beating your wife isn't a minor traffic infraction. The bench warrant in this case was not issued for any sort of violence, but was issued for a minor traffic infraction. Ergo, this man was arrested for a minor traffic infraction, even though he was pulled over as a result of someone else's infraction.
Do some more research. He "blew off his court date" because he paid the fine. It was a clerical error - the clerk was supposed to cancel the court date once the fine was paid.
He also had a receipt from the court proving that he paid the fine.
"Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, sent kids to juvenile detention for crimes such as possession of drug paraphernalia, stealing a jar of nutmeg and posting web page spoofs about an assistant principal (3 months of hard time). Some of those sentenced were as young as 10 years old. A mother of one of those sentenced by judge Caivarella lashed out at him after the guilty verdict. Sandy Fonzo’s son, Edward, was a promising young athlete in high school when at the age of 17 he found himself in front of judge Caivarella for possession of drug paraphernalia. With no prior convictions, the judge sentenced Edward to months in private prisons and a wilderness camphe missed his entire senior year in high school. Edward never recovered from the experience according to his mother and in June 2010 he took his own life at the age of 23."
Stealing a fucking jar of nutmeg. Kids as young as 10 years old.
Well, the local grocery store isn't going to let me poke around their electronics. And for good reason; if they let just anyone poke around then they could also get compromised pretty easily.
That said, I keep an eye out for skimmers and other devices that are attached to the reader. And I always visit the same grocery store, which is pretty much the only place my debit card is used. Again, my financial info is not just scattered all around, and I rather like it that way, which is why I hate when any new service pops up that demands my info.
No, it's not just as unavoidable. You can't hand someone cash over the web. Transactions are stored in databases that are attached to Internet-facing websites that can be SQL-injected, etc.
The only people who have my credit card are the bill companies that automatically hit my account once a month, gas stations, Steam, Newegg, and Amazon. No one else knows my CC. If I can't get it through one of those retailers...I don't get it.
I am the only person who touches my debit card. No one walks away with it. If I don't swipe it personally, I don't give them my debit card.
So many posts are all worried about giving people HIV. It's good to see someone knows what they're talking about.
Not only is the HIV replication-deficient, but it's not even given to the people. They extract the T-cells, reprogram them outside of the human body with the modified HIV, then put the modified T-cells back into a human. This should allow them to double-check whether the modified T-cells are safe before inserting them back into a patient.
You do know that they are not actually infecting people with HIV, right? Instead, they're extracting T-cells from a human, then reprogramming them with a modified strain of HIV, letting them replicate, and then inserting the T-cells back into the body.
Granted, there are different problems for each type of vector that is used for modifying cells...but the whole HIV thing is pretty much overblown, from what I have read.
I get the impression that most of the pro-jamming sentiment around here is founded on anger at the idea of personally being forced to listen to someone else's conversation while in a public space. Or, more plainly, just being forced to listen to others.
>.>
Certainly you realize that you're just trying to justify the pro-jamming argument by libeling the character of those who make an argument against jamming, instead of legitimately addressing the concerns they raise (also known as an ad-hominem logical fallacy). Many of these anti-jamming posts quote very valid concerns that have nothing to do with "don't jam _me_" (among them being that it's illegal to broadcast in the electromagnetic spectrum in a manner inconsistent with FCC licensing).
If you have a problem with someone's conversation, how about being an adult and asking them to please quiet down? Or being a juvenile and inserting yourself into their conversation? Or perhaps you should bring some ear plugs or headphones? Those are much nicer alternatives to rudely and anti-socially attacking everyone who dared sit too close to you on public transportation, most of whom likely have done nothing to you to deserve being treated that way.
The answer to self-modifying code problems with the cache is to flush and invalidate the cache. I know that for a PowerPC architecture, if you modify an assembly instruction, you should use the following sequence of instructions to flush and invalidate.
If you do, then you are receiving an entitlement from the government, in the form of the mortgage interest deduction, or in the form of your health benefits being paid with pre-tax income.
Do you have children? You might be receiving an entitlement referred to as the Earned Income Tax Credit.
About 50% of state prisoners in 2006 were incarcerated for non-violent crimes.
About 90% of federal prisoners in 2008 were incarcerated for non-violent crimes.
America is very much a non-violent place. If you don't believe me, go live in Afghanistan or Pakistan or Sudan or Israel or Syria or Libya or Iraq or Burma.
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Please tell me, Mr. Coward, what facts did I "shade"?
I said Dooley initiated the verbal confrontation. I also said James initiated the physical altercation. This is true - Dooley had turned around and was leaving the scene when James assaulted him in an attempt to take control of the gun. Dooley, being older, smaller, and weaker, could reasonably fear for his life when someone bigger, stronger, and younger attacks him. And yet despite his claim of "self defense" he was still arrested in less time than it took for the Sanford police to identify Trayvon Martin.
Unless the bomber's target is the law enforcement officers who will be investigating the bomb threat.
That is a sick suggestion. Some of those police officers probably have kids who go to Pitt. I doubt any of them are more concerned with a couple extra bucks when their own kid's life could be on the line.
Lots of universities in the Pittsburgh area are getting bomb threats. I know CCAC is getting a bunch of them, too. They're now checking everyone's bags when they go into the building.
University of Pittsburgh is NOT Pennsylvania State University.
And for what it's worth, why would you want to punish an entire school for what a couple administrative and athletic folks have done? There were a lot of people who went to Penn State who were revolted by Sandusky's behavior. These are people with lives, with bills to pay, with careers to start. If anything, punish the athletic program and the administration, which were both complicit in the scandal. But don't punish the professors and students who are just trying to make a living, and who did nothing to contribute to the scandal.
You don't have the right to infect my kids with your easily prevented diseases.
No, good sir. Fuck you for your wanton disregard for my own child's health. Fuck you.
It can take years from the time a murder happens until the murderer is arrested. During that time, the police will often say that the perpetrator is not a suspect, even though they are nearly certain he/she is guilty. Think of the Hans Reiser case, were you also complaining they didn't arrest him immediately?
You should review the case of Trevor Dooley and David James. James went for Dooley's gun and got shot in the altercation. James was much bigger than Dooley, who was elderly. Dooley also claims he feared for his life, and the shooting was in Florida in September 2010 so Stand Your Ground is his defense.
Dooley was arrested two days after the shooting, despite eye witnesses who say that James went for Dooley's gun.
But Dooley was black and James was white, so I guess that may have had something to do with it.
The lead investigator initially wanted to file manslaughter charges. The state attorney drove fifty miles on a Sunday night to over-rule the lead investigator.
As far as the New Black Panthers, if you can point out what law they broke, go for it. Just remember there's that first amendment and all. Trust me, if any NBP had kidnapped or killed George Zimmerman, there would be charges.
Yes, because saying hello is how you would approach a "fucking punk" (his words) who "always gets away" (his words again). Those words represent his state of mind just minutes before the shooting.
Much more likely is that Zimmerman wanted to be a hero and tried to detain Martin until the police arrived. And if some guy who is clearly not an officer tries to detain me, I am going to put up a fight to defend myself. As a teenager, for all I know he's trying to kidnap me. And if I saw the gun, I would certainly fear for my life, which under Florida's SYG law means that I could respond with deadly force.
I suggest you review the way Florida handles other shootings. Specifically, look up the incident involving Trevor Dooley and David James. It has many similarities.
Dooley confronted James. Dooley had a gun, but did not pull it out. James initiated a physical altercation to take the gun away from Dooley. James was shot in the process.
Dooley was 69, with fused discs in his neck. James was 41, six inches taller, seventy pounds heavier, and had been in the Air Force. Dooley claims he feared for his life - a claim I find reasonable, given the disparity between the two (much more reasonable than a 28-year old man armed with a gun fearing for his life at the hands of a teenager armed with skittles and iced tea). Eye witnesses saw James go for Dooley's gun, while acknowledging that Dooley initiated the verbal confrontation.
There are, however, two significant differences. The first is that Trevor Dooley was arrested merely two days after the shooting. The second is that Dooley is black and his victim, James, was white.
So yes...declining to file charges that the lead investigator recommended is unusual. The state attorney driving 50 miles on a Sunday night to discuss the incident is unusual. Taking the shooter's word for it that his record was clean is unusual. Making no attempt to notify the parents of a dead teenager and instead waiting for them to file a missing person's report is unusual.
If you had pants on, then there would be no skin to skin contact. Chances are you also had a 1.5T scanner, or maybe 3T, where the risk of burn is not as great. 7T is pretty scary IMO.
If you have the stomach for it, you can do a google image search for "mri burn" and you'll see some pretty nasty ones.
By the way, I hope you get well soon.
Looking at your article, I'm left wondering, if the H and E fields are so capable of ionization, why aren't MRIs giving everyone cancer? I mean, an MRI has up to seven Teslas of magnetism. Around ten Teslas you can make frogs levitate. Ten Teslas is way fucking bigger than any H field you will see in the near field, I don't care if you're just one angstrom away from the antenna.
As far as glow discharge, the glowing is not caused by the electric field ionizing the atoms. Rather, the electric field accelerates the electrons, and when the accelerated electron slams into an atom, *that* causes the ionization. Those glowing tubes that you mentioned earlier? Did you know that sometimes they put in a trace of radioactive gas to help seed electrons in the tube? You only need a few to start, and once they get moving they cause more, kinda like a nuclear chain reaction.
It sounds like you should do some more research on dielectrics and breakdown voltage. You seem to think that dielectric breakdown causes ionization, when the reverse is actually more true; ionization reduces the dielectric constant for the path that has been ionized.
The shit got modded +5 because...lo and behold...RF from a mobile phone is non-ionizing radiation. I agree that the term "radio waves" could have been better. But it would take tens of thousands of RF photons simultaneously striking the same exact electron at the same exact time to give it enough energy to break free from the atomic bond it has formed. It only takes one photon from an x-ray to do the same.
Go ahead. Do the math. Look up the energy it takes to ionize an atomic bond. Calculate the energy in an RF photon at 2.4 GHz. Calculate the energy in a photon of an dental x-ray (not sure what frequency they use). And then marvel at the four orders of magnitude between the two. I did this once, and maybe I should have saved a copy of the results so that I could paste it into the discussion every time some tin foil hatter thinks that 2.4 GHz "radiation" will give you cancer.
The primary mode of action for RF energy on biological tissue is in the form of heating. Just like your microwave. The electric field causes the dipole water molecules to rattle around, and the increased friction results in heat.
In fact, if you get an MRI, they make sure that for example your thighs are not touching each other. Because if they are, your flesh forms a loop antenna that can pick up the RF energy in the magnet room...which will cause localized heating and burns.
http://www.mrisafety.com/safety_article.asp?subject=17
"-Prepare the patient for the MR procedure by using insulation material (i.e., appropriate padding) to prevent skin-to-skin contact points and the formation of “closed-loops” from touching body parts."
Left 4 Dead 2 cost me $5. I've played for over 800 hours so far. This is less than one cent per hour. I spend more on electricity to play the game than I do the actual game.
My wife also got a copy for $5. She has played for almost 2000 hours.
Your analogy is improper. Beating your wife isn't a minor traffic infraction. The bench warrant in this case was not issued for any sort of violence, but was issued for a minor traffic infraction. Ergo, this man was arrested for a minor traffic infraction, even though he was pulled over as a result of someone else's infraction.
Do some more research. He "blew off his court date" because he paid the fine. It was a clerical error - the clerk was supposed to cancel the court date once the fine was paid.
He also had a receipt from the court proving that he paid the fine.
In Pennsylvania, a judge received a life sentence for taking kickbacks from a corporation of for-profit prisons for juveniles.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2011/08/12/pennsylvania-judge-gets-life-sentence-for-prison-kickback-scheme/
"Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, sent kids to juvenile detention for crimes such as possession of drug paraphernalia, stealing a jar of nutmeg and posting web page spoofs about an assistant principal (3 months of hard time). Some of those sentenced were as young as 10 years old. A mother of one of those sentenced by judge Caivarella lashed out at him after the guilty verdict. Sandy Fonzo’s son, Edward, was a promising young athlete in high school when at the age of 17 he found himself in front of judge Caivarella for possession of drug paraphernalia. With no prior convictions, the judge sentenced Edward to months in private prisons and a wilderness camphe missed his entire senior year in high school. Edward never recovered from the experience according to his mother and in June 2010 he took his own life at the age of 23."
Stealing a fucking jar of nutmeg. Kids as young as 10 years old.
How's THAT for evidence?
Well, the local grocery store isn't going to let me poke around their electronics. And for good reason; if they let just anyone poke around then they could also get compromised pretty easily.
That said, I keep an eye out for skimmers and other devices that are attached to the reader. And I always visit the same grocery store, which is pretty much the only place my debit card is used. Again, my financial info is not just scattered all around, and I rather like it that way, which is why I hate when any new service pops up that demands my info.
No, it's not just as unavoidable. You can't hand someone cash over the web. Transactions are stored in databases that are attached to Internet-facing websites that can be SQL-injected, etc.
The only people who have my credit card are the bill companies that automatically hit my account once a month, gas stations, Steam, Newegg, and Amazon. No one else knows my CC. If I can't get it through one of those retailers...I don't get it.
I am the only person who touches my debit card. No one walks away with it. If I don't swipe it personally, I don't give them my debit card.
So many posts are all worried about giving people HIV. It's good to see someone knows what they're talking about.
Not only is the HIV replication-deficient, but it's not even given to the people. They extract the T-cells, reprogram them outside of the human body with the modified HIV, then put the modified T-cells back into a human. This should allow them to double-check whether the modified T-cells are safe before inserting them back into a patient.
Wiki has a good article on various viral vectors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector
From what I've read, the main problem with lentivirus is that you don't know where exactly the payload will be inserted into the genome.
You do know that they are not actually infecting people with HIV, right? Instead, they're extracting T-cells from a human, then reprogramming them with a modified strain of HIV, letting them replicate, and then inserting the T-cells back into the body.
Granted, there are different problems for each type of vector that is used for modifying cells...but the whole HIV thing is pretty much overblown, from what I have read.
I get the impression that most of the pro-jamming sentiment around here is founded on anger at the idea of personally being forced to listen to someone else's conversation while in a public space. Or, more plainly, just being forced to listen to others.
>.>
Certainly you realize that you're just trying to justify the pro-jamming argument by libeling the character of those who make an argument against jamming, instead of legitimately addressing the concerns they raise (also known as an ad-hominem logical fallacy). Many of these anti-jamming posts quote very valid concerns that have nothing to do with "don't jam _me_" (among them being that it's illegal to broadcast in the electromagnetic spectrum in a manner inconsistent with FCC licensing).
If you have a problem with someone's conversation, how about being an adult and asking them to please quiet down? Or being a juvenile and inserting yourself into their conversation? Or perhaps you should bring some ear plugs or headphones? Those are much nicer alternatives to rudely and anti-socially attacking everyone who dared sit too close to you on public transportation, most of whom likely have done nothing to you to deserve being treated that way.
The answer to self-modifying code problems with the cache is to flush and invalidate the cache. I know that for a PowerPC architecture, if you modify an assembly instruction, you should use the following sequence of instructions to flush and invalidate.
dcbf
sync
icbi
isync
If you do, then you are receiving an entitlement from the government, in the form of the mortgage interest deduction, or in the form of your health benefits being paid with pre-tax income.
Do you have children? You might be receiving an entitlement referred to as the Earned Income Tax Credit.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/timeserv/annual/section2.html
The average time spent behind bars for someone who commits a violent crime in Florida is about 7.1 years.
Murder used to mean an average sentence of about 10 years. Lately it's an average sentence of about 20 years.
Sex crimes are around 6 years. This includes lewd acts on a child.
Armed Robbery is around 10 years.
http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/offenses/violent_crime/index.html
Violent crime is declining, even during a recession.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/p08.pdf
About 50% of state prisoners in 2006 were incarcerated for non-violent crimes.
About 90% of federal prisoners in 2008 were incarcerated for non-violent crimes.
America is very much a non-violent place. If you don't believe me, go live in Afghanistan or Pakistan or Sudan or Israel or Syria or Libya or Iraq or Burma.