If Apple can claim copyright over their entire platform, then why can't IBM turn around and do the same thing with the PC platform? This is the sam thing that Microsoft was sued for: Locking customers in to only your own 'licensed' products, and not letting them choose otherwise.
Clearly, Apple controls almost the entire market of non-PC platform computers, with RedHat/Linux taking up only a few percent. Since Apple makes using any non-apple licensed software/hardware a violation of their EULA, users are forced to buy from them, and only them, definitely making this a monopoly.
I think Goolgle started to rapidly lose it's "Mojo" when it started sleeping with the land of Mickey Mao.
Google has pretty much turned itself into an electronic handmaiden at the whims of the Chinese Government. One they started abusing their massive amount of clout by selling out to the Chinese, people got wise and started to realize that Google has become a "Little Brother" who is easily controlled by Big Brother.
The best precaution and protection you can get is from killing yourself.
Death, as it seems, completely blocks the effects of toxic compounds that we may be exposed to.
People PLEASE! If you can't go through life without asking to be notified of EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE hazard in life, then plese do humanity a favor and die. OXYGEN is hazardous. WATER (dihydrogen monooxide) is hazardous. SODIUM CHLORIDE is hazardous. Every single compound and element we use in our daily lives *IS HAZARDOUS*.
If you can't deal with the hazards of life, then you don't need it.
This reminds me of the scene in the 'Simpson's Movie' where the government gets Tom Hanks to sell the idea of turning Springfield into a "New And Improved!" Grand Canyon.
With the way they are heading with Vista, they would have been better off hiring Andrew "Dice" Clay to try and sell it.
Does anybody actually realize that the Earth has cycles of global warming/cooling? Yeah the Earth is warming up, there is not question about it. But, how do we know if we are heading up another peak in the warming/cooling cylce? The way I hear it from ecofreaks is that the temperature increase is a permanent incline, versus the peaks/valleys of historical cooling/heating cycles.
What would be really cool is if we could try to build a device that collects/absorbs heat on Earth, and then shoots/ejects it into space. Maybe, since we can already turn matter into heat energy, what about turning heat energy back into matter?
It will take too long for us to counteract the heat we will absorb in the futuree. Wouldn't it make more sense to deal with the heat we already have by converting it into matter or discharging it into space?
Personally, I think that the judge should have commended the students for taking the initiative to test the security of a public sysem thanked them for bringing it to the publics attention. Plus, he should have laid into the MBTA for trying to sweep the whole thing under the rug.
This sort of thing is inevitable: Every time a human designs a system to the best of their abilities, they should always be open to the findings of other humans who test their system. Human systems are ever-evolving technologies that another human will always be able to figure out and outsmart. They should be thankful that someone beat their system AND told them about it. If it was me, I'd have just kept my mouth shut, loaded up a bunch of cards for my buddies, and ridden the subway so much it would count as a job.
Just remember:
Every puzzle can be solved. Every code can be broken. Every device can be cheated.
These yuppie clowns are just being pissy because some students outsmarted a bunch of highly-paid managers and executives at their own game. I'd be pissed too, but at least I'd be nice about it and ask "How in the hell did you do that?". This turned into a case of "Advertising-By-Litigation"
Asking "How'd you do that"" it a whole hell of a lot more productinve that saying "Shut the fuck up, kid, or well throw you in jail!".
A word of advice: Never be rude to a guy with a straight razor or a guy who just out-smarted you, because they are equally dangerous.
"is a voluntary, blanket music license; essentially, bringing the collection society model to end users. In this model, consumers would pay royalties into a pot (by paying an extra monthly fee to their ISPs, for instance) and would then have access to all the music from all the labels that participate in the scheme."
-----Yeah. I'll bet those monthly fees will rise faster than cable and telephone fees combined. One the fees is agreed on, the ISPs and labels can raise it at will, and customers will take yet another kick in the nuts.
They threaten people to hand over their money to them at the proverbial gunpoint, but instead of brandishing a Colt.45, they decide use a Flash Gordon ray gun.
What Mrs. Andersen is doing is the equivalent of taking the ray gun away, breaking as many bones of theirs as she can, and then taking *their* money. The RIAA has been trying to take people's money with largely baseless lawsuits for a while. Now, they get to see what it's like being on the business end of one of those lawsuits, with the exception that the other lawsuit is actually a *really* good one.
Sometimes I think that the RIAA's lawyers know they have no case (or at least a very shakey one), but just continue following orders because, regardless of the judgement, they still get paid. However,the same cannot be said for the RIAA.
"it couldnt possibly mean you're an engineer/architect working for that bank you're parked outside of who just happens to be driving your wifes car after she had been shopping, and the kid left his toys in the car....right? no, i wouldnt buy it either, but its still on the police to PROVE malicious intent."
-----No, but anybody with so much as half a brain can tell which one is more probable. The chances of your scenario are pretty damn small, compared to the probability of a bank robber.
Try this: Someone shows up to a 1500+ person environmental protest outside a power station. They are in possesion of: Knives, bolt cutters, chisels, a throwing star, AND BALACLAVAS. Did they:
A) Show up spontaneously, along with 1500+ people, to help with relighting the pilot light on the water heater, opening a couple of stubborn envelopes, and lighten up the spirits of the employees with a friendly board game, B) Show up for a 'Pancake Breakfast', C) Show up to protest the power station, with some of them planning to: Use the bolt cutters and chisels (to break into the power station and its buildings), while concealing their identities (with the balaclavas), and injuring/intimidating/threatening/harassing employees (with the knives and throwing star)?
If the cops caught someone in the middle of the night in a city, trying to break into a car with a Slim Jim (the kind used to open locked cars, not the "food"), is it reasonable for the cops to suspect that he is up to no good, or to just drive away and leave the guy alone to do his thing and assuming it's his car? Having a Slim Jim is not illegal, but suspicious. It's weather or not you have a legal reason that deterines if you are breaking the law or not.
Playing a board game with a balaclava is not suspicious. Showing up to a very large, heated protest with one, where people have knives, throwing stars, bold cutters, and chisels *IS*.
Look, just because Congress is as knowledgeable as a brick when it comes to science, doesn't mean that the public is. Yes, a lot of the public is as ignorant as Congress when it comes to science, but we usually look it up in a book rather than making a beeline for the nearest lobbyist.
Well, how can people fight back against this? Easy:
Secretly plant GPS trackers on police cars. Then, use the data to see:
1) How much time cars spent at coffee shops, 2) How much time cars spend at fast food restaurants, 3) How much time cars spend idle during a shift, 3) How much time cars spend idle at night, 4) How much time cars spend patrolling high-crime areas, 5) How much time cars spend patrolling low-crime areas, 6) How much time cars spend chatting it up instead of patrolling, 7) How much time cars spend in certain areas, 8) How much time cars spend sitting at the station, rather than patrolling.
Police agencies can claim that you need a license to perform investigations on them, but you can point out that they need a warrant to investigate you. So, seeing as how "After-The-Fact" court challenges permit such surveillance, you can say that the court challenges also permit you to do the same without one, since a warrant is also a license.
If you personally release the information, you have to defend yourself against unlicensed investigation. But, if you release it anonymously, not only will you truly embarrass the department, but you will probably get enough publicity where agencies will shy away from using such tactics if they now they could be humiliated on a national, if not global level.
So what if they caught violent criminals and drug dealers. What good is catching 1 suspect when you had to track 10 Honest Joes?
Honest civilians CAN'T:
1) Carry firearms without a permit. (Impossible to obtain in most of California), 2) Carry a knife without a permit, 3) Defend their property (In California, you have to make an attempt to leave before you can use any force against an intruder/criminal), 4) Defend yourself against an intruder without considering the lawsuits you can be liable for from the attacker/criminal/intruder.
California is geared to put the law on the criminal's side. Our legislators think it's better to let the police handle it, even when in most cases the criminal will never be caught and you'll never get your stuff back. If you want to move here, get ready to bend over for the criminals and politicians (thy are pretty much the same thing, anyway).
Of course, their will be departments who will cite the cost of fuel when it comes to actively patrolling an area. All you need to say is "Get out and walk". If an officer is incapable of doing foot patrol, then how is he capable of being a police officer? I know plenty of officers who used to walk beats. It CAN be done. Plus, when an officer walks a beat, he spends more time in a given location, rather than just driving by for a second or two. It's easy to hide from a driving by in a car, but it's much harder to hide from one walking by you.
At my University, there are always officers out patrolling the campus. CSU Monterey Bay, where I attend, is a *massive* campus, and everybody, even cops, have to drive the 3 miles between graduate/employee/student houses ("East Campus") and main campus. But when cops are in the main campus area, where the dorms, residence halls, and undergraduate apartments are, they do alot of footwork. Even at night, they are always patrolling the entire campus. East Campus is so far away, the only practical way to get there is to drive, YET they still very actively patrol that area nonetheless, even during the quiet summer sessions. Officers even eat with us, chat and joke it up with us, and have a very prominent personal and physical presense. Unfortunately, this is not the case with most city and municipal departments, where most of law enforcement's time is spent patrolling the break room for truant donuts and "hot" coffee.
I'd rather have to carry a weapon and deal with a criminal personally (even if I end up losing), than let Big Brother shove a leash up the public's ass.
Only Barney Fife needs a satellite to do his work for him.
"nerve cells require a Na/K gradient, but to establish and maintain that gradient, they need calories -- thermochemical energy -- that they get from sugar"
-----They don't get thermochemical energy from sugar - Glucose does not contain sodium or potassium. That, and the brain does, again, not use thermochemical energy. The body's metabolism does, but not the brain.
"Eating (mostly) cooked meals would have lessened the energy needs of our digestion systems, thereby freeing up calories for our brains."
-----Brains don't "run off" of calories. Neurons use the differene in electrical potential, not heat (calories). Nerves fire based on differences in potential and maintaining resting potential (Na+/K+-ATPase). The only things consumed in brain activity are sodium, potassium, and ATP. The brain does not "burn calories", and does not need calories. Calories are a measure of heat energy. The brain functions by using electrochemical, not thermochemical, energy. Rather, it "burns" sodium, potassium, and ATP.
My father has a vintage Victrola (tall, stand up, flip-top cabinet about 1.75' square x 5 feet tall with a crank on the side) and a bunch of *very* old records (some with copyright stickers dating "1903" or "1913", I don't have them in front of me). I don't know what the records are made out of, but it seems to be a sort of very hard plastic. Possibly Bakelite, but I'm not sure. I would love to find someone who could digitize these for me, because some of the songs are quite classic.
However, the needles, unlike modern records, are, quite literally like very short finishing nails with the heads cut off. This, combined with the weight of the arm means that with each play, the record quality decreases, as you can see a visible layer of the plasitc peeling and curling up off the record surface and around the needle/nail.
Doe anybody know of a specialist who deals with professionally digitizing such old records?
""This is Mr. Deeb's hobby. He's still got bunches of ideas. I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere. This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation.... There are regulations about how much you're supposed to have, how it's detained, how it's disposed of."
-----What's next? Raiding people who take part in a hobby?
Good idea! Next on thie "To Raid" list:
1) Home gardeners: because they deal with toxic chemicals. Since the are adept at growing things, they *potentially* apply that knowledge to cultivating marijuana or opium poppies. 2) Model rocketeers: because they deal with flammable materials. Since they are knowledgible in rocketry, they could *potentially* build a missile. 3) Hunters: because they have guns and know how to use them. 'Nuff said. Plus, they know how to kill things. 4) Sport fishermen: because they have boats that could *potentially* be used to smuggle drugs or weapons into the country. They also know how to kill things. 5) Computer enthusiasts: because they are knowledgable in computers, and could *potentially* hack into the pentagon and steal national secrets. 6) Auto mechanics: because their knowledge in automobiles means they they could *potentially* build car bombs. 7) Hot dog vendors: because their integration with the public means they could *potentially* introduce weaponized pathogens into large populations unnoticed. 8) Amateur pilots: because they can *potentially* fly suicide missions into buildings (remember 9/11?!). 9) Woodworkers: because they can craft sharp objects out of wood that could *potentially* be snuck undetected through an airport x-ray machine. 10) Musicians: because Rock N' Roll is the Devil's music. 11) ANYBODY WHO IS IN POSSESION OF A CAN OF RAID, ROUNDUP, OR LYSOL: because the only excuse for having it is killing things.
Instead of going after drug dealers, murderers, and incompetent state employees, Massachusetts decides Julius Kelp is more dangerous. Way to go.
Maybe they should change their state name from Massachusetts to simply "Ass Hats".
"Either the poster didn't properly read, or he/she just considers zoning bylaws useless. For those that do think zoning bylaws serve no point, let me reference the recent propane explosion that occured in the middle of a Toronto residential neighbourhood, leaving two people dead and hundreds of homes damaged, and is now the subject of a zoning review"
-----So does this mean that I should only be able to conduct chemistry experiments in areas zoned as "Industrial"? So, because of *ONE* propane explosion, you now think that anyone experimenting with chemicals needs to be in a properly zoned area? You must be one of those idiots who conducts an EIR before taking a dump, right?
So, now that you seem to think that you have justified your claim of requiring correct zoning before conducting chemistry experiments, why not:
1) Require all web surfing be done from monitored areas, since potential hackers might break into an area of national security. 2) Require all internet users to be identified with a unique number, since anonymous web surfing can pose a "danger" to national security. 3) Abolish prepaid cellular, since anonymous phone calls can be used to stalk, harass, and harm other people.
Zoning laws are used to keep industrial, commercial, and residential areas separate. They are not, were not, and never shoulbe intended to keep people from acting within the law.
By the way, not only did I dispose of my acetic acid/calcium bicarbonate experiment by dumping it on the side of the road, with complete disregard for the environment, but I also discharged the CO2 it generated directly to the atmosphere, untreated.
What genius 'zoning' idea do you propose next? Citing people who fix their cars in their driveways because they are in an area zoned "Residential", and "Industrial"?
Keep a duplicate of your business contacts on a separate, private computer. Keep "shill" contacts, such as the plumber, local RadioShack, Fry's, your Mother-In-Law, random 'Big-Industry' email addresses that are easily available from websites, and maybe a few close friends on your site. When you establish contact that you may want to keep secret from your employer as a 'fail-safe' or 'golden parachute' (should you be laid off or decide to switch employers), enter it into your privately-controlled database and delete it from your social networking page, or use a disposable, anaonymous email address for exchange of contact information.
The only copies that you have are privately owned, and not subject to any company controls, as they constitute private information (just like your address books and recipe books at home). If your boss sues you for a list of your contacts, simply hand over the list of shill contacts. You can't perjure yourself, since you can claim that you made the contacts outside the course of business (conversation at the coffee shop/bar/restaurant/telephone call/school/travel/etc.). When your boss supoenas your Social Networking contacts, all he is able to get is a list of your commonly available shill contacts. He can't prove you are keeping a secret list of contacts somewhere else, so you can't get into trouble because nobody can prove a separate list exists.
Law circumvented. Judgement null. Next task, please.....
"Children with the genetic variant are unable to learn from mistakes. No matter how many tests they blow by partying the night before, the lesson just doesn't sink in."
-----This is the type of person most commonly known as a DUMBASS. Other terms include, but are not limited to: Idiot, moron, knucklehead, bonehead, airhead, shit-for-brains, pea-brain, fucktard, and Congressman.
I wonder how long it takes before criminals start claiming, "I'm sorry, your honor. It's not my fault. I have a genetic disorder that prevents me from learning from my mistakes."
Every slimy and scuple-less defense lawyer will be all over that "research" like a pack of dogs on a three-legged cat.
Call it cruel, but sometimes a.45 is the best medicine for stupidity.
Can't the students just go outside the jurisdiciton of U.S. law? I mean, an American gag order isn't legal in another country. It would be cool to have them give their presentation without fear of punishment in the faces of the MBTA, withthe MBTA completely helpless to do anything back.
I used to use an Atari 2600. Pretty simple set up. Small, compact and plugged right into my TV. Plus, with the addition of a cheap little switch, I could blow up incoming asteroids during commercial breaks......sigh..... How I miss my Atari.
Real men don't need controllers with a dozen buttons to beat games. They only need a joystick and a button.
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If Apple can claim copyright over their entire platform, then why can't IBM turn around and do the same thing with the PC platform? This is the sam thing that Microsoft was sued for: Locking customers in to only your own 'licensed' products, and not letting them choose otherwise.
Clearly, Apple controls almost the entire market of non-PC platform computers, with RedHat/Linux taking up only a few percent. Since Apple makes using any non-apple licensed software/hardware a violation of their EULA, users are forced to buy from them, and only them, definitely making this a monopoly.
I think Goolgle started to rapidly lose it's "Mojo" when it started sleeping with the land of Mickey Mao.
Google has pretty much turned itself into an electronic handmaiden at the whims of the Chinese Government. One they started abusing their massive amount of clout by selling out to the Chinese, people got wise and started to realize that Google has become a "Little Brother" who is easily controlled by Big Brother.
The best precaution and protection you can get is from killing yourself.
Death, as it seems, completely blocks the effects of toxic compounds that we may be exposed to.
People PLEASE! If you can't go through life without asking to be notified of EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE hazard in life, then plese do humanity a favor and die. OXYGEN is hazardous. WATER (dihydrogen monooxide) is hazardous. SODIUM CHLORIDE is hazardous. Every single compound and element we use in our daily lives *IS HAZARDOUS*.
If you can't deal with the hazards of life, then you don't need it.
This reminds me of the scene in the 'Simpson's Movie' where the government gets Tom Hanks to sell the idea of turning Springfield into a "New And Improved!" Grand Canyon.
With the way they are heading with Vista, they would have been better off hiring Andrew "Dice" Clay to try and sell it.
Does anybody actually realize that the Earth has cycles of global warming/cooling? Yeah the Earth is warming up, there is not question about it. But, how do we know if we are heading up another peak in the warming/cooling cylce? The way I hear it from ecofreaks is that the temperature increase is a permanent incline, versus the peaks/valleys of historical cooling/heating cycles.
What would be really cool is if we could try to build a device that collects/absorbs heat on Earth, and then shoots/ejects it into space. Maybe, since we can already turn matter into heat energy, what about turning heat energy back into matter?
It will take too long for us to counteract the heat we will absorb in the futuree. Wouldn't it make more sense to deal with the heat we already have by converting it into matter or discharging it into space?
Just my $.02
I don't know about Germany, but I know here in the U.S. you can't be fined for not having a permit that you cannot obtain.
Personally, I think that they can't be prosecuted for driving without insurance only if insurance is offerd for such 'vehicles'.
This reminds me of the time when I had my dog pull me down the street into town on my skateboard.
All I got was a few chuckles from a passing cop.
Personally, I think that the judge should have commended the students for taking the initiative to test the security of a public sysem thanked them for bringing it to the publics attention. Plus, he should have laid into the MBTA for trying to sweep the whole thing under the rug.
This sort of thing is inevitable: Every time a human designs a system to the best of their abilities, they should always be open to the findings of other humans who test their system. Human systems are ever-evolving technologies that another human will always be able to figure out and outsmart. They should be thankful that someone beat their system AND told them about it. If it was me, I'd have just kept my mouth shut, loaded up a bunch of cards for my buddies, and ridden the subway so much it would count as a job.
Just remember:
Every puzzle can be solved.
Every code can be broken.
Every device can be cheated.
These yuppie clowns are just being pissy because some students outsmarted a bunch of highly-paid managers and executives at their own game. I'd be pissed too, but at least I'd be nice about it and ask "How in the hell did you do that?". This turned into a case of "Advertising-By-Litigation"
Asking "How'd you do that"" it a whole hell of a lot more productinve that saying "Shut the fuck up, kid, or well throw you in jail!".
A word of advice: Never be rude to a guy with a straight razor or a guy who just out-smarted you, because they are equally dangerous.
"is a voluntary, blanket music license; essentially, bringing the collection society model to end users. In this model, consumers would pay royalties into a pot (by paying an extra monthly fee to their ISPs, for instance) and would then have access to all the music from all the labels that participate in the scheme."
-----Yeah. I'll bet those monthly fees will rise faster than cable and telephone fees combined. One the fees is agreed on, the ISPs and labels can raise it at will, and customers will take yet another kick in the nuts.
The RIAA is like a completely inept mugger:
They threaten people to hand over their money to them at the proverbial gunpoint, but instead of brandishing a Colt .45, they decide use a Flash Gordon ray gun.
What Mrs. Andersen is doing is the equivalent of taking the ray gun away, breaking as many bones of theirs as she can, and then taking *their* money. The RIAA has been trying to take people's money with largely baseless lawsuits for a while. Now, they get to see what it's like being on the business end of one of those lawsuits, with the exception that the other lawsuit is actually a *really* good one.
Sometimes I think that the RIAA's lawyers know they have no case (or at least a very shakey one), but just continue following orders because, regardless of the judgement, they still get paid. However ,the same cannot be said for the RIAA.
Probable Reason: The spam you were getting dropped off because it was probably coming from one spammer who just got shut down.
"it couldnt possibly mean you're an engineer/architect working for that bank you're parked outside of who just happens to be driving your wifes car after she had been shopping, and the kid left his toys in the car....right? no, i wouldnt buy it either, but its still on the police to PROVE malicious intent."
-----No, but anybody with so much as half a brain can tell which one is more probable. The chances of your scenario are pretty damn small, compared to the probability of a bank robber.
Try this: Someone shows up to a 1500+ person environmental protest outside a power station. They are in possesion of: Knives, bolt cutters, chisels, a throwing star, AND BALACLAVAS. Did they:
A) Show up spontaneously, along with 1500+ people, to help with relighting the pilot light on the water heater, opening a couple of stubborn envelopes, and lighten up the spirits of the employees with a friendly board game,
B) Show up for a 'Pancake Breakfast',
C) Show up to protest the power station, with some of them planning to: Use the bolt cutters and chisels (to break into the power station and its buildings), while concealing their identities (with the balaclavas), and injuring/intimidating/threatening/harassing employees (with the knives and throwing star)?
If the cops caught someone in the middle of the night in a city, trying to break into a car with a Slim Jim (the kind used to open locked cars, not the "food"), is it reasonable for the cops to suspect that he is up to no good, or to just drive away and leave the guy alone to do his thing and assuming it's his car? Having a Slim Jim is not illegal, but suspicious. It's weather or not you have a legal reason that deterines if you are breaking the law or not.
Playing a board game with a balaclava is not suspicious. Showing up to a very large, heated protest with one, where people have knives, throwing stars, bold cutters, and chisels *IS*.
FYI: 2+2=4
Look, just because Congress is as knowledgeable as a brick when it comes to science, doesn't mean that the public is. Yes, a lot of the public is as ignorant as Congress when it comes to science, but we usually look it up in a book rather than making a beeline for the nearest lobbyist.
Well, how can people fight back against this? Easy:
Secretly plant GPS trackers on police cars. Then, use the data to see:
1) How much time cars spent at coffee shops,
2) How much time cars spend at fast food restaurants,
3) How much time cars spend idle during a shift,
3) How much time cars spend idle at night,
4) How much time cars spend patrolling high-crime areas,
5) How much time cars spend patrolling low-crime areas,
6) How much time cars spend chatting it up instead of patrolling,
7) How much time cars spend in certain areas,
8) How much time cars spend sitting at the station, rather than patrolling.
Police agencies can claim that you need a license to perform investigations on them, but you can point out that they need a warrant to investigate you. So, seeing as how "After-The-Fact" court challenges permit such surveillance, you can say that the court challenges also permit you to do the same without one, since a warrant is also a license.
If you personally release the information, you have to defend yourself against unlicensed investigation. But, if you release it anonymously, not only will you truly embarrass the department, but you will probably get enough publicity where agencies will shy away from using such tactics if they now they could be humiliated on a national, if not global level.
So what if they caught violent criminals and drug dealers. What good is catching 1 suspect when you had to track 10 Honest Joes?
Honest civilians CAN'T:
1) Carry firearms without a permit. (Impossible to obtain in most of California),
2) Carry a knife without a permit,
3) Defend their property (In California, you have to make an attempt to leave before you can use any force against an intruder/criminal),
4) Defend yourself against an intruder without considering the lawsuits you can be liable for from the attacker/criminal/intruder.
California is geared to put the law on the criminal's side. Our legislators think it's better to let the police handle it, even when in most cases the criminal will never be caught and you'll never get your stuff back. If you want to move here, get ready to bend over for the criminals and politicians (thy are pretty much the same thing, anyway).
Of course, their will be departments who will cite the cost of fuel when it comes to actively patrolling an area. All you need to say is "Get out and walk". If an officer is incapable of doing foot patrol, then how is he capable of being a police officer? I know plenty of officers who used to walk beats. It CAN be done. Plus, when an officer walks a beat, he spends more time in a given location, rather than just driving by for a second or two. It's easy to hide from a driving by in a car, but it's much harder to hide from one walking by you.
At my University, there are always officers out patrolling the campus. CSU Monterey Bay, where I attend, is a *massive* campus, and everybody, even cops, have to drive the 3 miles between graduate/employee/student houses ("East Campus") and main campus. But when cops are in the main campus area, where the dorms, residence halls, and undergraduate apartments are, they do alot of footwork. Even at night, they are always patrolling the entire campus. East Campus is so far away, the only practical way to get there is to drive, YET they still very actively patrol that area nonetheless, even during the quiet summer sessions. Officers even eat with us, chat and joke it up with us, and have a very prominent personal and physical presense. Unfortunately, this is not the case with most city and municipal departments, where most of law enforcement's time is spent patrolling the break room for truant donuts and "hot" coffee.
I'd rather have to carry a weapon and deal with a criminal personally (even if I end up losing), than let Big Brother shove a leash up the public's ass.
Only Barney Fife needs a satellite to do his work for him.
"nerve cells require a Na/K gradient, but to establish and maintain that gradient, they need calories -- thermochemical energy -- that they get from sugar"
-----They don't get thermochemical energy from sugar - Glucose does not contain sodium or potassium. That, and the brain does, again, not use thermochemical energy. The body's metabolism does, but not the brain.
"Eating (mostly) cooked meals would have lessened the energy needs of our digestion systems, thereby freeing up calories for our brains."
-----Brains don't "run off" of calories. Neurons use the differene in electrical potential, not heat (calories). Nerves fire based on differences in potential and maintaining resting potential (Na+/K+-ATPase). The only things consumed in brain activity are sodium, potassium, and ATP. The brain does not "burn calories", and does not need calories. Calories are a measure of heat energy. The brain functions by using electrochemical, not thermochemical, energy. Rather, it "burns" sodium, potassium, and ATP.
My father has a vintage Victrola (tall, stand up, flip-top cabinet about 1.75' square x 5 feet tall with a crank on the side) and a bunch of *very* old records (some with copyright stickers dating "1903" or "1913", I don't have them in front of me). I don't know what the records are made out of, but it seems to be a sort of very hard plastic. Possibly Bakelite, but I'm not sure. I would love to find someone who could digitize these for me, because some of the songs are quite classic.
However, the needles, unlike modern records, are, quite literally like very short finishing nails with the heads cut off. This, combined with the weight of the arm means that with each play, the record quality decreases, as you can see a visible layer of the plasitc peeling and curling up off the record surface and around the needle/nail.
Doe anybody know of a specialist who deals with professionally digitizing such old records?
""This is Mr. Deeb's hobby. He's still got bunches of ideas. I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere. This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation. ... There are regulations about how much you're supposed to have, how it's detained, how it's disposed of."
-----What's next? Raiding people who take part in a hobby?
Good idea! Next on thie "To Raid" list:
1) Home gardeners: because they deal with toxic chemicals. Since the are adept at growing things, they *potentially* apply that knowledge to cultivating marijuana or opium poppies.
2) Model rocketeers: because they deal with flammable materials. Since they are knowledgible in rocketry, they could *potentially* build a missile.
3) Hunters: because they have guns and know how to use them. 'Nuff said. Plus, they know how to kill things.
4) Sport fishermen: because they have boats that could *potentially* be used to smuggle drugs or weapons into the country. They also know how to kill things.
5) Computer enthusiasts: because they are knowledgable in computers, and could *potentially* hack into the pentagon and steal national secrets.
6) Auto mechanics: because their knowledge in automobiles means they they could *potentially* build car bombs.
7) Hot dog vendors: because their integration with the public means they could *potentially* introduce weaponized pathogens into large populations unnoticed.
8) Amateur pilots: because they can *potentially* fly suicide missions into buildings (remember 9/11?!).
9) Woodworkers: because they can craft sharp objects out of wood that could *potentially* be snuck undetected through an airport x-ray machine.
10) Musicians: because Rock N' Roll is the Devil's music.
11) ANYBODY WHO IS IN POSSESION OF A CAN OF RAID, ROUNDUP, OR LYSOL: because the only excuse for having it is killing things.
Instead of going after drug dealers, murderers, and incompetent state employees, Massachusetts decides Julius Kelp is more dangerous. Way to go.
Maybe they should change their state name from Massachusetts to simply "Ass Hats".
"Either the poster didn't properly read, or he/she just considers zoning bylaws useless. For those that do think zoning bylaws serve no point, let me reference the recent propane explosion that occured in the middle of a Toronto residential neighbourhood, leaving two people dead and hundreds of homes damaged, and is now the subject of a zoning review"
-----So does this mean that I should only be able to conduct chemistry experiments in areas zoned as "Industrial"? So, because of *ONE* propane explosion, you now think that anyone experimenting with chemicals needs to be in a properly zoned area? You must be one of those idiots who conducts an EIR before taking a dump, right?
So, now that you seem to think that you have justified your claim of requiring correct zoning before conducting chemistry experiments, why not:
1) Require all web surfing be done from monitored areas, since potential hackers might break into an area of national security.
2) Require all internet users to be identified with a unique number, since anonymous web surfing can pose a "danger" to national security.
3) Abolish prepaid cellular, since anonymous phone calls can be used to stalk, harass, and harm other people.
Zoning laws are used to keep industrial, commercial, and residential areas separate. They are not, were not, and never shoulbe intended to keep people from acting within the law.
By the way, not only did I dispose of my acetic acid/calcium bicarbonate experiment by dumping it on the side of the road, with complete disregard for the environment, but I also discharged the CO2 it generated directly to the atmosphere, untreated.
What genius 'zoning' idea do you propose next? Citing people who fix their cars in their driveways because they are in an area zoned "Residential", and "Industrial"?
Keep a duplicate of your business contacts on a separate, private computer. Keep "shill" contacts, such as the plumber, local RadioShack, Fry's, your Mother-In-Law, random 'Big-Industry' email addresses that are easily available from websites, and maybe a few close friends on your site. When you establish contact that you may want to keep secret from your employer as a 'fail-safe' or 'golden parachute' (should you be laid off or decide to switch employers), enter it into your privately-controlled database and delete it from your social networking page, or use a disposable, anaonymous email address for exchange of contact information.
The only copies that you have are privately owned, and not subject to any company controls, as they constitute private information (just like your address books and recipe books at home). If your boss sues you for a list of your contacts, simply hand over the list of shill contacts. You can't perjure yourself, since you can claim that you made the contacts outside the course of business (conversation at the coffee shop/bar/restaurant/telephone call/school/travel/etc.). When your boss supoenas your Social Networking contacts, all he is able to get is a list of your commonly available shill contacts. He can't prove you are keeping a secret list of contacts somewhere else, so you can't get into trouble because nobody can prove a separate list exists.
Law circumvented. Judgement null. Next task, please.....
"Children with the genetic variant are unable to learn from mistakes. No matter how many tests they blow by partying the night before, the lesson just doesn't sink in."
-----This is the type of person most commonly known as a DUMBASS. Other terms include, but are not limited to: Idiot, moron, knucklehead, bonehead, airhead, shit-for-brains, pea-brain, fucktard, and Congressman.
I wonder how long it takes before criminals start claiming, "I'm sorry, your honor. It's not my fault. I have a genetic disorder that prevents me from learning from my mistakes."
Every slimy and scuple-less defense lawyer will be all over that "research" like a pack of dogs on a three-legged cat.
Call it cruel, but sometimes a .45 is the best medicine for stupidity.
You are forgetting..... They don't care about their own people.
People have been seeding clouds for DECADES. This is as newsworthy as saying "China Seeds Clouds".
*yawn*
Can't the students just go outside the jurisdiciton of U.S. law? I mean, an American gag order isn't legal in another country. It would be cool to have them give their presentation without fear of punishment in the faces of the MBTA, withthe MBTA completely helpless to do anything back.
"Caucasian-pride-ridden state in the southern U.S."
-----So, Black Pride, Latino Pride, and Asian Pride are O.K., but Caucasian Pride is not?
I used to use an Atari 2600. Pretty simple set up. Small, compact and plugged right into my TV. Plus, with the addition of a cheap little switch, I could blow up incoming asteroids during commercial breaks. .....sigh..... How I miss my Atari.
Real men don't need controllers with a dozen buttons to beat games. They only need a joystick and a button.