Okay, Vietnamese, it was still a not a knife. The assumption is that it did look like a knife for as long as it took to kill her from across the room though. Otherwise it'd be like, murder or something, instead of the innocent mistake it certainly was.:-]
Yes, another morally neutral tool gets used for good again. And I'm so happy we have people with guns in custom vehicles and body armor running around to suppress anyone who might appear to have a short range food preperation tool in use in their own kitchen.
I'm also really happy they keep those "peaceful protesters" confined to designated free speech zones, or shot in the face with chunks of wood from a rifle. Either way, good times!
My point is that while anything can be classified as a weapon, guns are fairly unique in that and feeble idiot can pick up a pistol and kill someone from across a reasonably sized room with little warning or ability to defend yourself.
Versus a martial artist or a guy with a spiked bat, you can run away or to a limited extent block attacks. And the spiked bat isn't subtle, you might realise the guy holding it is a psycho out to smash in your head.
All I want to point out is that guns are destructive by nature and serve little function in a civilized world. You seem to make arguments that martial arts are baseball bats are just as bad, I disagree wholeheartedly.
How is a gun any different than a baseball bat? They both can kill, and kill people very effectively. The main difference is just a matter of range to be effective. And with good training you don't even "need" weapons, as knowledge of martial arts can be almost as effective as having a gun,
Actually, baseball bats are often much bigger/heavier, require more effort to cause damage with (pulling a trigger versus bringing 20 pounds of mass up to speed manually). Further they have a widely accepted use that doesn't involve violently poking holes in live or inanimate objects (save for the occasional window).
I'd like to see how martial arts allows someone to walk a straight line through a cube-farm and trivially kill/seriously injure a few dozen people.
I understand the M.A.D. theory behind everyone "packing heat". I just think probable death should be dealt with more effort than the tightening of a single finger. Many people are not responsible enough for that, and many other people who would seem responsible would be prone to abusing their ability for various reasons.
Cool heads are less likely to prevail with guns deployed.
It's amazing how lucky these chip manufacturers are. Imagine to what lengths people need to go in other industries in order to convince customers to upgrade. If all you are selling is a damn chocolate bar, there is only so much that you can do to improve it.
Theres alot of room to improve ona chocolate bar after you've been using it for a couple years.
I'd personally advise only consuming them then once, then buying a new one when I wanted to use it again.
And I don't assume they had error correction overhead raining on their parade either...
It does tick me off when someone measures really big sizes in bits. Especially on devices that manipulate data in blocks that are 16384 times the size of the chosen metric.
Measuring network speeds in bits is also rather irritating.
And I'll try not to get started on when people insist on using decimal reasoning with binary data size calculations. (anyone want my old 134.217728 megabyte stick of ram?)
Microsoft terminates work on IE, they own the browser market, spyware runs rampant, all is good in the universe.
Firefox appears and chomps into their dominance, offering features and spyware noncompliance that makes IE6 look like a Microsoft product.
Microsoft internally goes, shit, our browser marketshare is weak, people are acting like IE is a Microsoft product for once! We need to make it look better, pull the browser team back together, do something, and up the version number!
Actually, I dunno why they give a damn about browser marketshare, ignoring that having a dominant browser that only really works on their platform keeps people using their cash-cow OS so they can view MS-HTML websites without difficulty and reap the latest in spyware technology.
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adding adaptive compression to FLAC
In what way is FLAC's compression not adaptive?
While FLAC is great, Apple has no controll over what direction FLAC takes.
And we know Apple will have a fit if FLAC takes a turn towards being steadily maintained!
Surely you meant Arisu.
Okay, Vietnamese, it was still a not a knife. The assumption is that it did look like a knife for as long as it took to kill her from across the room though. Otherwise it'd be like, murder or something, instead of the innocent mistake it certainly was. :-]
Yes, another morally neutral tool gets used for good again. And I'm so happy we have people with guns in custom vehicles and body armor running around to suppress anyone who might appear to have a short range food preperation tool in use in their own kitchen.
I'm also really happy they keep those "peaceful protesters" confined to designated free speech zones, or shot in the face with chunks of wood from a rifle. Either way, good times!
Mod me informative! :-)
I hope they get somewhere soon. I have yet to trust Macromedia, and guess what, I still don't!
My point is that while anything can be classified as a weapon, guns are fairly unique in that and feeble idiot can pick up a pistol and kill someone from across a reasonably sized room with little warning or ability to defend yourself.
Versus a martial artist or a guy with a spiked bat, you can run away or to a limited extent block attacks. And the spiked bat isn't subtle, you might realise the guy holding it is a psycho out to smash in your head.
All I want to point out is that guns are destructive by nature and serve little function in a civilized world. You seem to make arguments that martial arts are baseball bats are just as bad, I disagree wholeheartedly.
How is a gun any different than a baseball bat? They both can kill, and kill people very effectively. The main difference is just a matter of range to be effective. And with good training you don't even "need" weapons, as knowledge of martial arts can be almost as effective as having a gun,
Actually, baseball bats are often much bigger/heavier, require more effort to cause damage with (pulling a trigger versus bringing 20 pounds of mass up to speed manually). Further they have a widely accepted use that doesn't involve violently poking holes in live or inanimate objects (save for the occasional window).
I'd like to see how martial arts allows someone to walk a straight line through a cube-farm and trivially kill/seriously injure a few dozen people.
I understand the M.A.D. theory behind everyone "packing heat". I just think probable death should be dealt with more effort than the tightening of a single finger. Many people are not responsible enough for that, and many other people who would seem responsible would be prone to abusing their ability for various reasons.
Cool heads are less likely to prevail with guns deployed.
are you upset that someone is NOT going to jail for commiting an utterly nonviolent offense?
:-)
Spam inspires violent offenses.
with only 2-3 seconds till warp core breach
I like how theres like, 5-20 redundant core ejection systems, and they all tend to fail when they're needed.
but I think that having a police officer with a gun is usually a good thing.
Tell that to the spanish lady who was caught peeling potatos or somesuch.
"DROP THE KNIFE!!!!"
"NO COMPRENDA ENGLA!!!"
"*BANG* *BANG* *BANG**BANG**BANG*"
There is nothing enharently evil about a gun, it is how it gets used that makes the difference.
I'll agree there.
So, Typical usage options include:
1. Wounding (possibly mortally) non-human animals.
2. Wounding (possibly mortally) humans.
3. Damaging small containers (or other "targets")/surrounding items.
4. Bludgeoning animals, human and otherwise.
Could someone find some constructive use for guns?
Preferably uses that don't start with the above.
I hereby nominate Color Inverted Vermiculate and the Quotes from Friends fortune file.
Just don't start a campaign of gassing planes.
You should have tried to get the job back, after so many project hinderances were, fired.
So how fast is 0.000000551 LoC/sec? :-)
It's amazing how lucky these chip manufacturers are. Imagine to what lengths people need to go in other industries in order to convince customers to upgrade. If all you are selling is a damn chocolate bar, there is only so much that you can do to improve it.
Theres alot of room to improve ona chocolate bar after you've been using it for a couple years.
I'd personally advise only consuming them then once, then buying a new one when I wanted to use it again.
And I don't assume they had error correction overhead raining on their parade either...
It does tick me off when someone measures really big sizes in bits. Especially on devices that manipulate data in blocks that are 16384 times the size of the chosen metric.
Measuring network speeds in bits is also rather irritating.
And I'll try not to get started on when people insist on using decimal reasoning with binary data size calculations. (anyone want my old 134.217728 megabyte stick of ram?)
I'm actually very relieved that slashdot readership recognizes, as I do, the intense parallels to Orwell's 1984 (Newspeak, doublespeak, etc.)
Doublethink you mean?
We've always been at war with privacy...
Didn't someone have MAME running on some other camera before?
Stupid stem-cell guzzling SUVs...
If you were able to backconvert to password + salt from hash, that would be minusminusgood.
According to my newspeak dictionary, that'd be double-plus-ungood.
Is installing Gentoo easier than simply running off of Knoppix?
What...you mean most open source software is also a buggy resource hog and doesn't live up to the author's exagerated claims?
And it costs too much! X-P
Nothing keeps you sharp like somebody looking to kick your butt.
Oh noes, Jar-Jar Binks is out to kick butt against FireFox.
Stay sharp FireFox team, you will need it! (wha?)
I fail to see how they admitted that IE is weak.
Microsoft terminates work on IE, they own the browser market, spyware runs rampant, all is good in the universe.
Firefox appears and chomps into their dominance, offering features and spyware noncompliance that makes IE6 look like a Microsoft product.
Microsoft internally goes,
shit, our browser marketshare is weak, people are acting like IE is a Microsoft product for once! We need to make it look better, pull the browser team back together, do something, and up the version number!
Actually, I dunno why they give a damn about browser marketshare, ignoring that having a dominant browser that only really works on their platform keeps people using their cash-cow OS so they can view MS-HTML websites without difficulty and reap the latest in spyware technology.