With terahertz scanners already appearing in airports and hospitals, the question that now urgently needs answering is what level of exposure is safe."
Zero. That's what is 'safe'.
Someone would have a hard time killing me with a single pushpin, but I'm not too keen on any attempts.
A 9-5 job with weekends, vacations and holidays still leaves a lot of time for creation. Music finds a way; it doesn't need to be spoon-fed. If someone makes music that others want to listen to, and if they're passionate about it, it will survive.
Such a beautifully naive viewpoint.
My father-in-law was the frontman for a moderately successful band in the 70s-80s. As much as he loved his music, sometimes life gets in the way. Stick a child into your situation and that 9-5 job is the least of your distractions from your art. He and his wife basically stopped professionally creating music to care for their family.
And on my side of the family, my father developed what could have been the roots for New Age genre in the late 50s. We came across a large volume of notes and work as well as some recordings. Now, I can't guarantee that he would have been seen as the 'originator' but you didn't start to see some of his influences until about 25 years later. I can tell you one thing. He had to stop what he was doing to go work in the steel mill so he could feed his family.
While music may 'find a way' it certainly isn't helped by the concept that it should be limited to 'folk' style production. It may eventually come to pass (as did the New Age genre), but we are certainly retarding its development if we force it all to be created in someone's spare time.
An artist is a hard, tiresome job that, in the past, drove you crazy (or you already were crazy), made you destitute and often a loner. Even if you managed to survive on your art, many times it wasn't even appreciated until after your death.
Besides, Bono isn't an idiot. He has achieved things most of us never will. He is most certainly wrong on occasion (everyone is), but that hardly makes him an idiot.
Winning the lottery doesn't also include a boost to your IQ in addition to the monetary prize. Achievement is not an indicator if someone is an idiot or not. Like that guy that won the lottery and left $200k sitting in his car at a strip club. He achieved a lot more (in terms of wealth) than I may, but that doesn't mean he isn't an idiot.
Feel free to hold on to your belief. You can call it anything you like, but the degree to which you cling to a belief has no effect on its veracity.
Would it be flamebait to refer Terry Schaivo a vegetable when discussing her condition? No. It might be uncouth, or inconsiderate, but it is just a reference to the actual legal definition for her condition 'Persistent Vegetative State'. Flamebait would be calling her a bitch for no other reason than to incite another person to defend an unjustified personal attack.
Meh. It's not that hard to defeat. You can: setup a computer as a honeypot - it serves up the "pirated" material people are trying to download and logging their IP addresses. You can write an application/custom installer that phones home. When pirates install some application, they're also notifying you that they just installed a pirated application. I'm sure I could come up with lots of other ways.
Your definition of "pirated" sounds a lot like "Distributed by an entity authorized by the copyright holder" to me.
There are so many things going on out there that you are likely to stumble upon something that in hindsight appears serendipitous. You may have won a lottery, but since you have tickets to million different ones, it's not that amazing really.
It was frighteningly easy for me to get a concealed carry permit. It was even scarier to find out that without much practice at all, my range shooting was in the 99th percentile compared with police.
You hit the target you were aiming at right? What's scary about that?
Nah, give them something like a blackjack or a slapper. Basically a bit of lead on the end of a leather strap. Or even a nightstick.
The knives could really ruin someone's day, but the nightsticks would give all of the passengers an effective but mostly non-lethal weapon which could be employed against anyone who tried anything dangerous.
Could even be great comedy. Some guy acts up and pegs the guy in front of him with the night stick, and the guy behind him then reacts and beans him, causing a chain reaction to the back of the plane until the entire passenger cabin is knocked unconscious except for the last guy. Pilots keep the doors locked and the last guy stretches out across 3 seats.
But seriously, I'd have no problem if they did give a nightstick to every single passenger as they boarded the plane.
By all means lets fill post after post with hair brained schemes that no one has tried and insist our systems are useless because you might be able to sneak a toy onboard an airplane.
If you had an ounce of understanding you would realize that no one is looking for the toy. They are watching the boy worrying about someone detecting the toy.
The real TSA screeners are not the highschoold dropout instructing you to remove your shoes.
Then they won't see the person who kills everyone waiting in line AT the security checkpoint. You know, that area in the airport where no one has yet been screened, contains a large amount of people and obstacles to movement with no clear exits...
By the way, ever wonder what the security guards (if any) at a school are capable of preventing or slowing down? Hint, that security isn't there to stop anyone with the intention of causing real harm.
Physical security at the point of the event is a myth. I'm with Bruce on this one, you have to catch them long before they arrive at the point of the event.
It isn't letting them get their way, it's that people react based on complaints from the whiners. The average person doesn't complain when they see some animal peeing in a field, but someone might. So the government agency sees 100% of the complaints in the 'Censor' column.
It isn't the average American that is the problem, it is the idiot in the government. The idiot wasn't elected, was likely hired, and worked their whole life in the government. And frankly, when faced with a government that is selling out their future and their rights, the average american is not as concerned with blurred images on tv.
If you get arrested, I can report that you were arrested. I can report the facts of said arrest, and as much as is known about the circumstances of said arrest.
Yes, there are idiots like the Nancy Graces of the world who will try and convict people in the court of public opinion for the purposes of sensationalist journalism, and it's okay as long as they use the word "alleged" every ten minutes or so. Yes, that's within their rights, and the rules of the system, and if you would call that abusing the system, I'd agree.
You 'can'. That doesn't make it right.
If I get arrested, it is a very real risk to me that I could lose my clearance and therefore my job. In fact, I HAVE to report arrests even though the charges were later dropped (because I was arrested for something I didn't do). However, I still have to report that arrest and explain it every 3-5 years and HOPE to god that whomever is adjudicating my clearance this time decides that I'm still good. My entire career depends on it.
So if some law-and-order mouthbreather decides that it is a good thing to release old arrest records to a newspaper, or it gets commented on again, that is going to directly impact my ability to continue to work.
Let me remind you, the charges were dropped. They had the wrong guy. I was completely cleared. Yet that arrest will follow me till the day I retire, or when people stop doing background checks on me (Yeah, fat chance, they will probably do it for my retirement home).
It is fucking serious business, and just because you 'can' doesn't make it right.
Really, on what planet does that exist? Right now I'm booked for a flight from Pennsylvania to Colorado. Both involve a layover in Chicago.
My round trip cost for the flight was about $200. The first half is actually direct, and will only take me about 4-5 hours. The return trip has a 2 hour delay due to the layover.
Now lets compare that to what Amtrak offered me.
Same departure time/date. I would leave PA on Sunday and arrive in Denver on.... Tuesday. So that means I'll HAVE to purchase the rooms. (27 hours of travel time if you ignore the transfer delays)
Round trip cost for Amtrak with the necessary rooms? $800+ Not to ignore the fact that I'd spend nearly 2.25 days travelling alone. If I were to drive, GoogleMaps puts the travel time at 22 hours. So I could rent a car for a week, drive there in less time, and actually have three other people travel with me for no additional cost. The cost on Amtrak would be $2400 before tax to take 3 people from PA to CO.
Trains are good for sightseeing tours for a couple at most. A family would be expensive beyond belief. Better to fly and then rent a vehicle (since you have to rent a vehicle on the other end for the train anyway.
Nonsense. Nobody in their right mind has any difficulty distinguishing between depictions of nudity and pornography - the fundamental problem with porn is not that it depicts naked people engaged in the natural activity of copulation, but that it is so obviously false and artificial. Porn, in my view, does not make people obsessed with sex - it turns you off from it; especially if you imagine this is the way it should be.
Nobody in their right mind... Tell that to the Discovery Channel (and pretty much any other television station).
They are starting to censor animals now. A dog standing up on its hind legs to grab something off the table will often be 'blurred' in a very specific location.
How do you explain free speech zones then during the bush administration?
Do you even know what a free speech zone was?
They were implemented when there were hundreds and thousands of people who were intentionally trying to be as loud and obnoxious as possible in order to create the maximum disturbance possible.
Now, if every single one of these people decided to mail a letter to every person in the country expressing their opinion, would the government do anything to stop it? If these people decided to go door to door around 11am, in groups small enough to not cause congestion on the roads, and left when the people asked them to leave, would the government stop it?
Your right to free speech is unlimited, your right to block me from crossing the street safely is limited.
Because scientist's interpretation of what they see is never wrong! When did science start to feel more like religion to me...
So tell me where they went fairy tale on us here?
Here is just a gross simplification, so I may not be completely accurate, but I fail to see where this is fairy-tale science.
Characterization: Isn't that where we are finding that galaxies aren't behaving as we expect them to, and that behavior is in the form of gravitational interactions which shouldn't happen given the amount of mass which we can see.
Hypothesis: There is something there which for some reason has a lot of mass, but we can't see it. Literally: Dark Matter
Deduction: If Dark Matter is weakly interacting as is suggested by the fact that we can't currently see it. If we are able to detect an interaction which cannot be accounted for among known particles, you have either discovered dark matter, or some other particle altogether if that detected particle is not massive enough when combined with the rate of interaction and the mass of the detected particle.
Experimentation:
Stick a detector way down in a mine shaft which will help filter out a lot of things which could cause a false positive. Look for interactions which do not match any known possible interactions.
Again, that is grossly simplified, but I don't see the jump in logic you are looking for.
If their technology was sufficiently advanced, they would be able to capture all EM output of the star. So, like the parent, I believe that we've already found evidence of advanced civilizations wrapping off the stars for themselves: "dark matter."
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With terahertz scanners already appearing in airports and hospitals, the question that now urgently needs answering is what level of exposure is safe."
Zero. That's what is 'safe'.
Someone would have a hard time killing me with a single pushpin, but I'm not too keen on any attempts.
Damn. I don't know how the air-travel industry will manage to survive without you.
Not just him. I will not subject myself to such scans either. I'm sure there are others.
So then why didn't they just harvest the shit out of the "unobtanium" in the mountains instead of the big tree?
The mountains were normal rock that probably contained a magnetic material. Maybe they had a lot of lodestone.
A magnet will float on a superconductor. So the 'magnetic' rock floated above the superconducting 'unobtainium'.
A 9-5 job with weekends, vacations and holidays still leaves a lot of time for creation. Music finds a way; it doesn't need to be spoon-fed. If someone makes music that others want to listen to, and if they're passionate about it, it will survive.
Such a beautifully naive viewpoint.
My father-in-law was the frontman for a moderately successful band in the 70s-80s. As much as he loved his music, sometimes life gets in the way. Stick a child into your situation and that 9-5 job is the least of your distractions from your art. He and his wife basically stopped professionally creating music to care for their family.
And on my side of the family, my father developed what could have been the roots for New Age genre in the late 50s. We came across a large volume of notes and work as well as some recordings. Now, I can't guarantee that he would have been seen as the 'originator' but you didn't start to see some of his influences until about 25 years later. I can tell you one thing. He had to stop what he was doing to go work in the steel mill so he could feed his family.
While music may 'find a way' it certainly isn't helped by the concept that it should be limited to 'folk' style production. It may eventually come to pass (as did the New Age genre), but we are certainly retarding its development if we force it all to be created in someone's spare time.
An artist is a hard, tiresome job that, in the past, drove you crazy (or you already were crazy), made you destitute and often a loner. Even if you managed to survive on your art, many times it wasn't even appreciated until after your death.
And that was a good thing?
Ever gotten lead poisoning from tapwater? It sucks
So THAT is Bono's motivation. It all makes sense now.
Besides, Bono isn't an idiot. He has achieved things most of us never will. He is most certainly wrong on occasion (everyone is), but that hardly makes him an idiot.
Winning the lottery doesn't also include a boost to your IQ in addition to the monetary prize. Achievement is not an indicator if someone is an idiot or not. Like that guy that won the lottery and left $200k sitting in his car at a strip club. He achieved a lot more (in terms of wealth) than I may, but that doesn't mean he isn't an idiot.
Feel free to hold on to your belief. You can call it anything you like, but the degree to which you cling to a belief has no effect on its veracity.
Would it be flamebait to refer Terry Schaivo a vegetable when discussing her condition? No. It might be uncouth, or inconsiderate, but it is just a reference to the actual legal definition for her condition 'Persistent Vegetative State'. Flamebait would be calling her a bitch for no other reason than to incite another person to defend an unjustified personal attack.
Meh. It's not that hard to defeat. You can: setup a computer as a honeypot - it serves up the "pirated" material people are trying to download and logging their IP addresses. You can write an application/custom installer that phones home. When pirates install some application, they're also notifying you that they just installed a pirated application. I'm sure I could come up with lots of other ways.
Your definition of "pirated" sounds a lot like "Distributed by an entity authorized by the copyright holder" to me.
Eric, you better stop screwing Janice in accounting on the conference table in the projection room before the boss catches and fires your ass.
Actually it's similar to a statement I made to a coworker a few years ago.
screwing in accounting? Now that's a euphemism I've not heard before.
But all citizens have an interest in not letting value vanish, so it is appropriate that the disclaimed value is transferred to the State to use it.
Kind of like all that manufactured capital that was destroyed in 'Cash for Clunkers'. Oh wait...
Except for the fact that he doesn't give a shit about you, because he doesn't know you exist.
So abuses are power are ok if it happens to some 3rd party?
There are so many things going on out there that you are likely to stumble upon something that in hindsight appears serendipitous. You may have won a lottery, but since you have tickets to million different ones, it's not that amazing really.
Did BadAnalogyGuy change his name?
Franklin DID sail in ships though.
And ending unequality and unfairness? the recent attempted bomber was actually fairly well off.
It was frighteningly easy for me to get a concealed carry permit. It was even scarier to find out that without much practice at all, my range shooting was in the 99th percentile compared with police.
You hit the target you were aiming at right? What's scary about that?
Nah, give them something like a blackjack or a slapper. Basically a bit of lead on the end of a leather strap. Or even a nightstick.
The knives could really ruin someone's day, but the nightsticks would give all of the passengers an effective but mostly non-lethal weapon which could be employed against anyone who tried anything dangerous.
Could even be great comedy. Some guy acts up and pegs the guy in front of him with the night stick, and the guy behind him then reacts and beans him, causing a chain reaction to the back of the plane until the entire passenger cabin is knocked unconscious except for the last guy. Pilots keep the doors locked and the last guy stretches out across 3 seats.
But seriously, I'd have no problem if they did give a nightstick to every single passenger as they boarded the plane.
Yes, yes, yes.
By all means lets fill post after post with hair brained schemes that no one has tried and insist our systems are useless because you might be able to sneak a toy onboard an airplane.
If you had an ounce of understanding you would realize that no one is looking for the toy. They are watching the boy worrying about someone detecting the toy.
The real TSA screeners are not the highschoold dropout instructing you to remove your shoes.
Then they won't see the person who kills everyone waiting in line AT the security checkpoint. You know, that area in the airport where no one has yet been screened, contains a large amount of people and obstacles to movement with no clear exits...
By the way, ever wonder what the security guards (if any) at a school are capable of preventing or slowing down? Hint, that security isn't there to stop anyone with the intention of causing real harm.
Physical security at the point of the event is a myth. I'm with Bruce on this one, you have to catch them long before they arrive at the point of the event.
It isn't letting them get their way, it's that people react based on complaints from the whiners. The average person doesn't complain when they see some animal peeing in a field, but someone might. So the government agency sees 100% of the complaints in the 'Censor' column.
It isn't the average American that is the problem, it is the idiot in the government. The idiot wasn't elected, was likely hired, and worked their whole life in the government. And frankly, when faced with a government that is selling out their future and their rights, the average american is not as concerned with blurred images on tv.
If you get arrested, I can report that you were arrested. I can report the facts of said arrest, and as much as is known about the circumstances of said arrest.
Yes, there are idiots like the Nancy Graces of the world who will try and convict people in the court of public opinion for the purposes of sensationalist journalism, and it's okay as long as they use the word "alleged" every ten minutes or so. Yes, that's within their rights, and the rules of the system, and if you would call that abusing the system, I'd agree.
You 'can'. That doesn't make it right.
If I get arrested, it is a very real risk to me that I could lose my clearance and therefore my job. In fact, I HAVE to report arrests even though the charges were later dropped (because I was arrested for something I didn't do). However, I still have to report that arrest and explain it every 3-5 years and HOPE to god that whomever is adjudicating my clearance this time decides that I'm still good. My entire career depends on it.
So if some law-and-order mouthbreather decides that it is a good thing to release old arrest records to a newspaper, or it gets commented on again, that is going to directly impact my ability to continue to work.
Let me remind you, the charges were dropped. They had the wrong guy. I was completely cleared. Yet that arrest will follow me till the day I retire, or when people stop doing background checks on me (Yeah, fat chance, they will probably do it for my retirement home).
It is fucking serious business, and just because you 'can' doesn't make it right.
Really, on what planet does that exist? Right now I'm booked for a flight from Pennsylvania to Colorado. Both involve a layover in Chicago.
My round trip cost for the flight was about $200. The first half is actually direct, and will only take me about 4-5 hours. The return trip has a 2 hour delay due to the layover.
Now lets compare that to what Amtrak offered me.
Same departure time/date. I would leave PA on Sunday and arrive in Denver on.... Tuesday. So that means I'll HAVE to purchase the rooms. (27 hours of travel time if you ignore the transfer delays)
Round trip cost for Amtrak with the necessary rooms? $800+ Not to ignore the fact that I'd spend nearly 2.25 days travelling alone. If I were to drive, GoogleMaps puts the travel time at 22 hours. So I could rent a car for a week, drive there in less time, and actually have three other people travel with me for no additional cost. The cost on Amtrak would be $2400 before tax to take 3 people from PA to CO.
Trains are good for sightseeing tours for a couple at most. A family would be expensive beyond belief. Better to fly and then rent a vehicle (since you have to rent a vehicle on the other end for the train anyway.
Nonsense. Nobody in their right mind has any difficulty distinguishing between depictions of nudity and pornography - the fundamental problem with porn is not that it depicts naked people engaged in the natural activity of copulation, but that it is so obviously false and artificial. Porn, in my view, does not make people obsessed with sex - it turns you off from it; especially if you imagine this is the way it should be.
Nobody in their right mind...
Tell that to the Discovery Channel (and pretty much any other television station).
They are starting to censor animals now. A dog standing up on its hind legs to grab something off the table will often be 'blurred' in a very specific location.
How do you explain free speech zones then during the bush administration?
Do you even know what a free speech zone was?
They were implemented when there were hundreds and thousands of people who were intentionally trying to be as loud and obnoxious as possible in order to create the maximum disturbance possible.
Now, if every single one of these people decided to mail a letter to every person in the country expressing their opinion, would the government do anything to stop it? If these people decided to go door to door around 11am, in groups small enough to not cause congestion on the roads, and left when the people asked them to leave, would the government stop it?
Your right to free speech is unlimited, your right to block me from crossing the street safely is limited.
yeah right because intel won't simply buy up AMD's patents for cents on the dollar.
Because there aren't other companies that specialize in purchasing the patents of companies in order to sue the dominant manufacturer?
Because scientist's interpretation of what they see is never wrong! When did science start to feel more like religion to me...
So tell me where they went fairy tale on us here?
Here is just a gross simplification, so I may not be completely accurate, but I fail to see where this is fairy-tale science.
Characterization: Isn't that where we are finding that galaxies aren't behaving as we expect them to, and that behavior is in the form of gravitational interactions which shouldn't happen given the amount of mass which we can see.
Hypothesis:
There is something there which for some reason has a lot of mass, but we can't see it. Literally: Dark Matter
Deduction: If Dark Matter is weakly interacting as is suggested by the fact that we can't currently see it. If we are able to detect an interaction which cannot be accounted for among known particles, you have either discovered dark matter, or some other particle altogether if that detected particle is not massive enough when combined with the rate of interaction and the mass of the detected particle.
Experimentation:
Stick a detector way down in a mine shaft which will help filter out a lot of things which could cause a false positive. Look for interactions which do not match any known possible interactions.
Again, that is grossly simplified, but I don't see the jump in logic you are looking for.
I wouldn't accept a cheque for a house, especially not if I was incommunicado and thus unable to verify it immediately.
I wrote a personal check to pay for my house. Walked it to my bank and had them hit it with a rubber stamp and that was all we needed.
How hard can it be to stop doing it after you've been hauled before two tribunals?
You *are* breaking the law....
Curious, in the states you are not guaranteed legal representation for civil infractions. Do you get adequate representation at these 'tribunals'?
If their technology was sufficiently advanced, they would be able to capture all EM output of the star. So, like the parent, I believe that we've already found evidence of advanced civilizations wrapping off the stars for themselves: "dark matter."
The thing's got to have a tailpipe.