Why are you asking me? I clearly stated I don't agree.
I'm not the person you are replying to, but I also got the impression that you were somehow upset that a simple process was a problem somehow.
Taking the opportunity to expand on your comment about the money, think of an even more absurd example.
Vehicle registrations. Why the hell do you have to renew a registration every 1-2 years? It's still the same vehicle, and registration is not inspection. It's simply a yearly tax on owning a vehicle.
Quoted for irony. And I'd take facing someone with a knife over a gun any day.
Oh hell no. I'd rather not.
I've even been trained in ways to disarm a knife, and you know what? I don't trust myself to do that EVER. It's much easier to keep the barrel of a firearm pointed away from you in a scuffle than escaping from someone with a knife.
I've been mugged before too, and a knife in your back is a hell of a lot scarier since the person is much more likely to use it if they get pissed off. Firearms draw attention.
Opt-in is currently available from NUMEROUS commercial sources. And if you are opting-in, then those are certainly an option and a hell of a lot cheaper for Australians.
You mean the system that resulted in Congress getting a foot in the door to pass all sorts of laws that they would have no Constitutional right to pass in the first place?
Even if you got every single citizen of your state to agree to change one of these laws, the Federal Government would use this system's financing scheme to bully you into keeping the law.
Open up a chemical supply store. Same chemical two product advertisements:
1. Ammonium Nitrate - Excellent fertilizer for your grape vines. 2. Ammonium Nitrate - As seen in Oklahoma City. (Customers who purchased this item also purchased Fuel Oil)
That won't take off in places where ISPs cap transfers or on medium- to high-latency wireless links. Good luck running this business model on a smartphone.
When ISPs are now getting into the business of streaming content, caps don't matter at all*.
You're still free to jailbreak your phone and the iPhone emulator in the iPhone SDK allows you to run any program you want AND decompile/debug it.
You're full of FUD and I suggest you get off the Internet. Now!
You are only free to jailbreak your iPhone because Apple has failed to stop you from doing it. With that definition of 'free' I think it needs a big honkin' asterix placed next to it.
Any system that requires you to circumvent measures which were specifically installed to prevent you from using the hardware in a manner not pre-approved by the manufacturer is not free.
Please, provide a citation stating that it's impossible to perform controlled experiments on clouds, preferably with a lucid explanation for why it is so.
I'll give you a slightly tongue in cheek response. But it does identify some problems.
It's just too damned expensive to fly planes through several thousand clouds in a single study. The cost of making a proper control group would be meteorological.
If you can't use the Wiimote for aiming and look control in an FPS you suck. It works fine, it's fast and much easier to get used to than aiming with an analog stick.
Ahh yes, the standard rebuttal of any video game arguement. Your complaint is invalid because you don't play with the finesse that I have arbitrarily deemed to be the minimum.
It's like running faster and the goal line just gets farther away.
I'd say it's like running faster and the goal line has shifted into a parallel universe in which alternate you has already crossed the goal line and is making childish faces at you.
I'd also imagine that anti-matter weapons would leave some nasty side effects hanging around after detonation.
That's one of the more interesting aspects of anti-matter weaponry. The entire concept is that there isn't anything of the bomb hanging around after detonation. This is of course, assuming the basic concept of an anti-matter 'bomb' in which matter and an equal portion of anti-matter are combined and in the process annihilated.
Fission weapons (and fusion weapons are essentially fission initiated) don't really annihilate anything. The bonds are broken, or isotopes fused, but the matter is still there. That is the fallout.
Antimatter+Matter... once it is 'done' it is basically done and speeding away from the location at the speed of light. Any lingering effects are likely due to whatever was at the site of the explosion that didn't react well to being exploded.
Can someone comment on how feasible it would be to make one of these for less than the $200 they ask?
Source the parts better. It sounds like they have pulled this diode from a display projector, I'm sure that you might be able to buy a broken projector for a few dollars and pull the part yourself.
Those kinds of interrogations are far worse than any polygraph could possibly be.
Yeah, not really. I've got my family to think of, and I hate doing job searches and seeing Polygraph required next to all of the tasks that I used to do with just a SSBI.
See how well you do if your clearance is turned down and your employer has to stick you on Overhead for 4 months while they look for a job you can do that doesn't require that level of clearance? Think THAT won't negatively impact our career?
It's not about security, unless you are talking about job security. I can walk into job fairs, and holding a specific clearance is often more important than having direct and useful job experience. Its because the process takes so damned long, and is expensive AND you can't just initiate your own personal investigation. I can go out and get a degree, get certifications, and all sorts of training and qualifications. The one thing you CAN'T do is have yourself investigated so that you can apply for these jobs.
Hell, I CAN'T leave the industry because I don't want to lose my clearance in the off-chance that I'd ever want to come back.
The Fifth Amendment still applies. The most the NSA can do is pass it to the police with jurisdiction for a follow up investigation. Certain written guarantees may even prevent that much. In any case, a polygraph alone isn't admissible evidence, just a "point the investigation in the right direction" sort of tool.
You waive your Fifth Amendment rights when you take the polygraph and also when you submit to the background investigation. Think those HIPAA laws still apply? Nope, you have to sign a waiver for those as well.
Even if your expensive attorney can get it tossed as inadmissible (If you have a bad lawyer, it's going to be admissible), it can be used to perform searches and investigations which may not turn up anything, and as far as the courts are concerned, if you aren't charged or convicted, even if your life is turned upside down and you are out a hundred thousand dollars defending yourself, it's fair.
That and because the NSA doesn't deal much with the courts. They are not police or prosecutors, they are intelligence officers.
Or they are people like me who are simply engineers trying to do their job except that as the contracts come down the pipe, they increasingly require Full Scope Polys.
It isn't even that I needed a poly to get my job, but if I don't want to be let go, I need to submit to one.
So says you. Apparently, many people disagree, and "it's that way because I say so" doesn't work.
Except that's not the case. It's like you pointed to a cat and said 'What's that?'. And I said, it's a cat. That's not me going 'because I say so', it's a declarative statement.
The thing that gets me pissed is because people are looking at the statement going "I want to ban firearms, how can I interpret this statement in order to justify my position". That's what pisses me off, when authoritarians try that with any other part of the Constitution, people get rightfully pissed, but for some reason, because the Democrat Party has picked up gun control as a part of their platform, people try to wrap their mind around how they can justify that position even though they normally are fairly decent people who are interested in protecting civil liberties.
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Why are you asking me? I clearly stated I don't agree.
I'm not the person you are replying to, but I also got the impression that you were somehow upset that a simple process was a problem somehow.
Taking the opportunity to expand on your comment about the money, think of an even more absurd example.
Vehicle registrations. Why the hell do you have to renew a registration every 1-2 years? It's still the same vehicle, and registration is not inspection. It's simply a yearly tax on owning a vehicle.
Quoted for irony. And I'd take facing someone with a knife over a gun any day.
Oh hell no. I'd rather not.
I've even been trained in ways to disarm a knife, and you know what? I don't trust myself to do that EVER. It's much easier to keep the barrel of a firearm pointed away from you in a scuffle than escaping from someone with a knife.
I've been mugged before too, and a knife in your back is a hell of a lot scarier since the person is much more likely to use it if they get pissed off. Firearms draw attention.
What's the point of renewing a license at all if all you have to do is click a button or show up?
The fee. You do realize that it is all an excuse for the government to put what is essentially a toll booth into your day to day life.
Opt-in is currently available from NUMEROUS commercial sources. And if you are opting-in, then those are certainly an option and a hell of a lot cheaper for Australians.
The federal highway system
You mean the system that resulted in Congress getting a foot in the door to pass all sorts of laws that they would have no Constitutional right to pass in the first place?
Even if you got every single citizen of your state to agree to change one of these laws, the Federal Government would use this system's financing scheme to bully you into keeping the law.
Just consider the mission creep of the ATF which started as a simple branch of the IRS and was tasked with... collecting taxes on alcohol.
Now consider what they are involved in.
The president of the USA can declare a war. Personally. Thank goodness our queen cannot.
Minor technicality, if we still followed the constitution, the President cannot declare war.
Even if both guns work exactly the same?
Open up a chemical supply store. Same chemical two product advertisements:
1. Ammonium Nitrate - Excellent fertilizer for your grape vines.
2. Ammonium Nitrate - As seen in Oklahoma City. (Customers who purchased this item also purchased Fuel Oil)
Context matters.
It also caught fire.
All the better to illuminate the night!
It's a feature.
That won't take off in places where ISPs cap transfers or on medium- to high-latency wireless links. Good luck running this business model on a smartphone.
When ISPs are now getting into the business of streaming content, caps don't matter at all*.
(As long as you aren't the ISPs competition)
You're still free to jailbreak your phone and the iPhone emulator in the iPhone SDK allows you to run any program you want AND decompile/debug it.
You're full of FUD and I suggest you get off the Internet. Now!
You are only free to jailbreak your iPhone because Apple has failed to stop you from doing it. With that definition of 'free' I think it needs a big honkin' asterix placed next to it.
Any system that requires you to circumvent measures which were specifically installed to prevent you from using the hardware in a manner not pre-approved by the manufacturer is not free.
Please, provide a citation stating that it's impossible to perform controlled experiments on clouds, preferably with a lucid explanation for why it is so.
I'll give you a slightly tongue in cheek response. But it does identify some problems.
It's just too damned expensive to fly planes through several thousand clouds in a single study. The cost of making a proper control group would be meteorological.
If you can't use the Wiimote for aiming and look control in an FPS you suck. It works fine, it's fast and much easier to get used to than aiming with an analog stick.
Ahh yes, the standard rebuttal of any video game arguement. Your complaint is invalid because you don't play with the finesse that I have arbitrarily deemed to be the minimum.
It's like running faster and the goal line just gets farther away.
I'd say it's like running faster and the goal line has shifted into a parallel universe in which alternate you has already crossed the goal line and is making childish faces at you.
And he is wearing a cowboy hat.
I'd also imagine that anti-matter weapons would leave some nasty side effects hanging around after detonation.
That's one of the more interesting aspects of anti-matter weaponry. The entire concept is that there isn't anything of the bomb hanging around after detonation. This is of course, assuming the basic concept of an anti-matter 'bomb' in which matter and an equal portion of anti-matter are combined and in the process annihilated.
Fission weapons (and fusion weapons are essentially fission initiated) don't really annihilate anything. The bonds are broken, or isotopes fused, but the matter is still there. That is the fallout.
Antimatter+Matter... once it is 'done' it is basically done and speeding away from the location at the speed of light. Any lingering effects are likely due to whatever was at the site of the explosion that didn't react well to being exploded.
Thermite
Fancy rust.
Can someone comment on how feasible it would be to make one of these for less than the $200 they ask?
Source the parts better. It sounds like they have pulled this diode from a display projector, I'm sure that you might be able to buy a broken projector for a few dollars and pull the part yourself.
Does the right to bear arms cover arms which are for more awesome than ever conceived of by the writers of the constitution?
I'd suggest you not have bare arms if this thing can set flesh on fire.
No one likes to be the guy with an out-of-date system not getting the full experience of the game.
Except that's exactly who you are as a console gamer. Only instead of turning down the graphics on new games, new games come pre-pegged at 'low'.
Those kinds of interrogations are far worse than any polygraph could possibly be.
Yeah, not really. I've got my family to think of, and I hate doing job searches and seeing Polygraph required next to all of the tasks that I used to do with just a SSBI.
See how well you do if your clearance is turned down and your employer has to stick you on Overhead for 4 months while they look for a job you can do that doesn't require that level of clearance? Think THAT won't negatively impact our career?
It's not about security, unless you are talking about job security. I can walk into job fairs, and holding a specific clearance is often more important than having direct and useful job experience. Its because the process takes so damned long, and is expensive AND you can't just initiate your own personal investigation. I can go out and get a degree, get certifications, and all sorts of training and qualifications. The one thing you CAN'T do is have yourself investigated so that you can apply for these jobs.
Hell, I CAN'T leave the industry because I don't want to lose my clearance in the off-chance that I'd ever want to come back.
The Fifth Amendment still applies. The most the NSA can do is pass it to the police with jurisdiction for a follow up investigation. Certain written guarantees may even prevent that much. In any case, a polygraph alone isn't admissible evidence, just a "point the investigation in the right direction" sort of tool.
You waive your Fifth Amendment rights when you take the polygraph and also when you submit to the background investigation. Think those HIPAA laws still apply? Nope, you have to sign a waiver for those as well.
Even if your expensive attorney can get it tossed as inadmissible (If you have a bad lawyer, it's going to be admissible), it can be used to perform searches and investigations which may not turn up anything, and as far as the courts are concerned, if you aren't charged or convicted, even if your life is turned upside down and you are out a hundred thousand dollars defending yourself, it's fair.
In this case if someone fails they aren't sick of a horrible disease they simply aren't allowed to get a job.
Yeah, getting blackballed from the industry you built your career on doesn't suck at all.
That and because the NSA doesn't deal much with the courts. They are not police or prosecutors, they are intelligence officers.
Or they are people like me who are simply engineers trying to do their job except that as the contracts come down the pipe, they increasingly require Full Scope Polys.
It isn't even that I needed a poly to get my job, but if I don't want to be let go, I need to submit to one.
Man, it must suck to be black and/or seedy looking. I have never once had a cop randomly pull me over and ask to search my car.
Lucky you?
So says you. Apparently, many people disagree, and "it's that way because I say so" doesn't work.
Except that's not the case. It's like you pointed to a cat and said 'What's that?'. And I said, it's a cat. That's not me going 'because I say so', it's a declarative statement.
The thing that gets me pissed is because people are looking at the statement going "I want to ban firearms, how can I interpret this statement in order to justify my position". That's what pisses me off, when authoritarians try that with any other part of the Constitution, people get rightfully pissed, but for some reason, because the Democrat Party has picked up gun control as a part of their platform, people try to wrap their mind around how they can justify that position even though they normally are fairly decent people who are interested in protecting civil liberties.