In my high school etymology class, we were given bonus points for finding in print examples of the obscure words we learned in class. I found the most by focusing on comic books. Supervillain vocabulary is replete with big words.
Honestly, is the Court going to believe the measurement of a piece of equipment on the plaintiff's car? The plaintiff might as well include a photo of the radar gun at 66 MPH proving guilt! I have all kinds of data showing that he was speeding, believe me.
Courts like weighing evidence against evidence. Almost all evidence comes from some partial observer.
The judge who allowed the case to proceed in the first place is also an idiot. I see no good reason why the case wasn't thrown out immediately.
I see an incredibly good reason: Any speeding ticket is really a summons to a court trail. You can admit guilt and forgo the trial by paying the fine, or you can go to court (or neither and get a warrant for your arrest issued). Throwing the case out would result in a "win" for the kid.
I can't quite fathom why the court system allowed "So what if the radar said I was going 62 at that point in time. I was going at 45 at two other completely different points in time." as an argument.
It was allowed because GPS doesn't poll your Speedometer; the only things GPS knows are time and position (and position isn't absolute). To get the average speed between two points, it uses only time and position to extrapolate. So, the GPS data said 46.8 MPH at every point between point A and point B. Reasonable enough to warrant a closer look.
Anyway, if the kid wanted to defend himself with "I wasn't even there! I was framed! Aliens!" that's his right. A waste of the court's time, but I'd be appalled by a court that didn't allow evidence based on personal predudices.
They point is companies should make a reasonable effort to make thier products accessable to the handicapped. I'm not sure of the law but in principle it is the right thing to do.
"Companies that make basic-wheelchairs need to be sued by people with only one arm; they can't use them!"
No. The right thing to do is to not buy their product, and if you happen to see a market that isn't being exploited, start a new business that exploits it. Forcing people to do business a certain way is the Communist Way.
Imagine if he came up with a practical way for a blind person to drive safely and he suggested it and the car companies refused.
Sounds like he could make a killing in an untapped market. He should talk to some investors.
Naming such an abomination the OpenOfficeMouse is a perfect way to help discredit OpenOffice. If so, expect OpenOfficeSocialMedia with mandatory PGP for the desktop and iOpenOffice with no save-file feature for the iPhone soon.
Back when there was a serious MS excel bug, there was a State agency website in Iowa(?) that was serving up an infected xls file for some semi-important accounting thing.
They shouldn't be worried. The government almost never passes laws which cannot be enforced. They've got a pretty good grasp on technology.
This law can be enforced easily. Enforcement =/= blocking sites. Enforcement == fining/shutting down ISPs who don't block sites. It's almost a "Don't breathe" law, and enforcement is simple.
Bad. As you said, slippery slope. More likely than all-out censorship: false positives. Oops. hormel.com is on the SPAM list now. Pay $$$ and apply the following forms in triplicate to be removed from the list.
If the thirty seconds it would take you to apologize, scribble a telephone number, and run off, would completely ruin the interview, then the person on the other side is a completely OCD asshole.
Hear, hear! I'd ask the woman for her phone number, and maybe if I could take her picture for my phone. Then if the interviewer grumbled, I'd show her photo and say, "sorry I'm late, I just had to get her phone number." If he thought less of me for that, then he's a stick in the mud.
Worst case scenario, you can flip *your* business card to her as you say omygoshI'mlateformyinterviewcallme! Most women won't, but the women who do call...
Every time I hear those commercials, it always sounds like "There's an app for that" They run "a map" together too quickly, obviously trying to make "a m" sound like "an". Can you trademark the homophone of a catchphrase? IE, can Marvel sue if I have a rock-covered guy in a movie yell "It's clobberin' thyme!", even if it's appropriately used (the villain is punching a spice factory).
The researchers who made the discovery scanned the spinal cords of volunteers while applying painful heat to one arm. Then they rubbed a cream onto the arm and told the volunteers that it contained a painkiller, but in fact it had no active ingredient. Even so, the cream made spinal-cord neural activity linked to pain vanish.
According to this, there's no way to tell whether it was the cream or the brain. The doctors didn't rub cream on anyone without telling them anything and/or rub cream on anyone saying that it contained suspended HCL? Tell people they were rubbing a pain killer powder on their skin? There was no control group? This wasn't a well planned experiment. Just having a soothing balm on the skin might be enough to lower heat pain. Speaking of which: did they try any other types of pain? Heat pain feels quite a bit different from impact pain.
Any medical or bioinformatics Windows research program. They all assume admin rights.
Also: Computer games. Admin access should be a requirement listed on the box so I know which poorly written games to avoid.
Mecha in Robotech and the like... are NOT robots. They are vehicles piloted by people. The transformers are robots that happen to be sapient. Big metal walking thing != robot. Absence of pilot inside != robot.
Technically, the vehicle Transformers are Mecha that happen to be sentient. There's an episode of the Rodimus-Prime era Transformers series where Cobra Commander transfers the Autobot minds into cloned human bodies (a tech from a previous GIJoe episode featuring Shipwreck) and they have to pilot their own Mecha bodies.
you are describing your own experience and thinking it has anything to do with everybody's experience
He's regurgitating what he hears people saying all the time. That's reality. Or, you could keep dismissing him and stick with your version:
income keeps going up
because of skyrocketing prices for everything. Movie theaters have become a luxury outing, and despite what the media says about the economy, luxury still sells. People still do it, but not once every other weekend any more. Theaters are close to empty for everything except summer blockbusters. Even then, a full week after it opened, my girlfriend and I had the first 30 minutes of Dark Knight to ourselves, then another couple snuck in. 4 people, a long movie. Bad business.
Why is this bad business? If you reduce your customers enough, you're dependent upon them. If they leave you, you're out a lot of money per person. Each one of us in that theater was 25% of their income for that showing, and we were couples, so we were really two 50% units. Had the other couple not shown up, the theater would have been 50% down. Semi-trucks take to parking in Movie theater lots at night now, because they know the lots won't fill (presumably they get the theater manager's permission, since I never see a cop chase them off; might be another revenue source for theater owners).
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Q: What's the difference between a comic and a graphic novel?
A: About twenty quid.
s/comic/novel/ and it's still true
In my high school etymology class, we were given bonus points for finding in print examples of the obscure words we learned in class. I found the most by focusing on comic books. Supervillain vocabulary is replete with big words.
Honestly, is the Court going to believe the measurement of a piece of equipment on the plaintiff's car? The plaintiff might as well include a photo of the radar gun at 66 MPH proving guilt! I have all kinds of data showing that he was speeding, believe me.
Courts like weighing evidence against evidence. Almost all evidence comes from some partial observer.
The judge who allowed the case to proceed in the first place is also an idiot. I see no good reason why the case wasn't thrown out immediately.
I see an incredibly good reason: Any speeding ticket is really a summons to a court trail. You can admit guilt and forgo the trial by paying the fine, or you can go to court (or neither and get a warrant for your arrest issued). Throwing the case out would result in a "win" for the kid.
I can't quite fathom why the court system allowed "So what if the radar said I was going 62 at that point in time. I was going at 45 at two other completely different points in time." as an argument.
It was allowed because GPS doesn't poll your Speedometer; the only things GPS knows are time and position (and position isn't absolute). To get the average speed between two points, it uses only time and position to extrapolate. So, the GPS data said 46.8 MPH at every point between point A and point B. Reasonable enough to warrant a closer look.
Anyway, if the kid wanted to defend himself with "I wasn't even there! I was framed! Aliens!" that's his right. A waste of the court's time, but I'd be appalled by a court that didn't allow evidence based on personal predudices.
They point is companies should make a reasonable effort to make thier products accessable to the handicapped. I'm not sure of the law but in principle it is the right thing to do.
"Companies that make basic-wheelchairs need to be sued by people with only one arm; they can't use them!"
No. The right thing to do is to not buy their product, and if you happen to see a market that isn't being exploited, start a new business that exploits it. Forcing people to do business a certain way is the Communist Way.
Imagine if he came up with a practical way for a blind person to drive safely and he suggested it and the car companies refused.
Sounds like he could make a killing in an untapped market. He should talk to some investors.
If some crackpot makes ridiculous demands of my company, my policy would be default-ignore too.
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
What's "dark"? Why would you need a lantern? Even puzzles aren't as accessible because they're "seen" from a different perspective.
Naming such an abomination the OpenOfficeMouse is a perfect way to help discredit OpenOffice. If so, expect OpenOfficeSocialMedia with mandatory PGP for the desktop and iOpenOffice with no save-file feature for the iPhone soon.
Back when there was a serious MS excel bug, there was a State agency website in Iowa(?) that was serving up an infected xls file for some semi-important accounting thing.
I feel it as a personal accomplishment I *dont* have social network accounts on Facebook, Myspace and alike.
Wait, so that's a fake you on FB whose last status update was "I <3 my little ponies"? I can't be your friend any more. I like the FB you better.
Even though people will undoubtedly claim it changes the taste of the food,
Well, the laser kinda burns the apple at that spot, so conceivably it could change its taste.
I hear burning organic stuff creates carcinogens too.
They shouldn't be worried. The government almost never passes laws which cannot be enforced. They've got a pretty good grasp on technology.
This law can be enforced easily. Enforcement =/= blocking sites. Enforcement == fining/shutting down ISPs who don't block sites. It's almost a "Don't breathe" law, and enforcement is simple.
Bad. As you said, slippery slope. More likely than all-out censorship: false positives. Oops. hormel.com is on the SPAM list now. Pay $$$ and apply the following forms in triplicate to be removed from the list.
-1 Flamebait? I see what happened: the mod thought it said Flamerbait.
If the thirty seconds it would take you to apologize, scribble a telephone number, and run off, would completely ruin the interview, then the person on the other side is a completely OCD asshole.
Hear, hear! I'd ask the woman for her phone number, and maybe if I could take her picture for my phone. Then if the interviewer grumbled, I'd show her photo and say, "sorry I'm late, I just had to get her phone number." If he thought less of me for that, then he's a stick in the mud. Worst case scenario, you can flip *your* business card to her as you say omygoshI'mlateformyinterviewcallme! Most women won't, but the women who do call...
When we start imprisoning people on the likelihood of their committing a crime, you may have a point. Right now, not so much.
Likelihood? He did it. Convicted. And he got a reduced sentence by saying the 21st century version of "the Devil made me do it"
Every time I hear those commercials, it always sounds like "There's an app for that" They run "a map" together too quickly, obviously trying to make "a m" sound like "an". Can you trademark the homophone of a catchphrase? IE, can Marvel sue if I have a rock-covered guy in a movie yell "It's clobberin' thyme!", even if it's appropriately used (the villain is punching a spice factory).
The researchers who made the discovery scanned the spinal cords of volunteers while applying painful heat to one arm. Then they rubbed a cream onto the arm and told the volunteers that it contained a painkiller, but in fact it had no active ingredient. Even so, the cream made spinal-cord neural activity linked to pain vanish.
According to this, there's no way to tell whether it was the cream or the brain. The doctors didn't rub cream on anyone without telling them anything and/or rub cream on anyone saying that it contained suspended HCL? Tell people they were rubbing a pain killer powder on their skin? There was no control group? This wasn't a well planned experiment. Just having a soothing balm on the skin might be enough to lower heat pain. Speaking of which: did they try any other types of pain? Heat pain feels quite a bit different from impact pain.
Any medical or bioinformatics Windows research program. They all assume admin rights.
Also: Computer games. Admin access should be a requirement listed on the box so I know which poorly written games to avoid.
:D Too bad there's no "+1 correctly applied extremely useless bit of trivia" moderation. I'd get +5 for sure.
Mecha in Robotech and the like... are NOT robots. They are vehicles piloted by people. The transformers are robots that happen to be sapient. Big metal walking thing != robot. Absence of pilot inside != robot.
Technically, the vehicle Transformers are Mecha that happen to be sentient. There's an episode of the Rodimus-Prime era Transformers series where Cobra Commander transfers the Autobot minds into cloned human bodies (a tech from a previous GIJoe episode featuring Shipwreck) and they have to pilot their own Mecha bodies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Human_(Transformers_episode)#Season_3_.281986-1987.29
A copy of OS X and Mac is profitable for Apple. A copy of OS X and an netbook probably isn't.
How much does that CD/DVD + manuals + box cost? What price does it sell for? OS X and a netbook isn't _as_ profitable, but there's still profit.
100% of Malware I've seen is on machines where I've given the end user admin/root access.
The kids who grew up around pen-knives are writing the zero tolerance laws. Experience often means diddly.
you are describing your own experience and thinking it has anything to do with everybody's experience
He's regurgitating what he hears people saying all the time. That's reality. Or, you could keep dismissing him and stick with your version:
income keeps going up
because of skyrocketing prices for everything. Movie theaters have become a luxury outing, and despite what the media says about the economy, luxury still sells. People still do it, but not once every other weekend any more. Theaters are close to empty for everything except summer blockbusters. Even then, a full week after it opened, my girlfriend and I had the first 30 minutes of Dark Knight to ourselves, then another couple snuck in. 4 people, a long movie. Bad business.
Why is this bad business? If you reduce your customers enough, you're dependent upon them. If they leave you, you're out a lot of money per person. Each one of us in that theater was 25% of their income for that showing, and we were couples, so we were really two 50% units. Had the other couple not shown up, the theater would have been 50% down. Semi-trucks take to parking in Movie theater lots at night now, because they know the lots won't fill (presumably they get the theater manager's permission, since I never see a cop chase them off; might be another revenue source for theater owners).