If you point at something in the distance, the domesticated dog looks in the direction you're pointing. The wolf, however, will just stare at your hand.
You are confusing trained behavior with biology. My dogs certainly look at my hand when I point.
Do you have internet access ? Then publish your own account and let the devil take the hindmost. It pisses me off to see people who whine about freedom of speech issues and never put that freedom to good use. Personally, the only time I have been reported in the newspaper was for doing 86mph in a 70 limit. I don't give a fuck if that shows up on google, and I'm a professional driver. It amuses me that for all the whining about censorship on this forum, when the censorship would work in your favour, you're all for it ! But of course, that's different.
You are attributing the general comments on slashdot to me personally. I think you can figure out where that may result in your cognitive dissonance.
I could publish my own account, but it isn't worth it to me. I would merely draw attention to an article which I do not wish attention drawn to. That doesn't mean I have to like it.
Well, clearly those HR reps are doing a piss-poor job and ought to be fired - throwing away potentially the most skilled candidates because of a crappy method isn't a strategy that works in the end.
Do you think that would ever come to light? The HR guy probably had to narrow down the candidates to a handful, and unless some strange circumstance led to the investigation of that particular HR downselection, I don't think it would ever come to light. In the end, that applicant wasn't hired because of some permanent record of an arrest for a crime that they may not have committed.
Your attitude is what is 100% wrong with the recent attitudes toward raising children - protecting them from the consequences of their actions. Have fun raising your kids - you won't know you've fucked up until they are grown and it is too late.
In this society, consequences are quickly becoming a total and complete destruction of their adult life. When 'mooning' someone can land you on the sex-offender registry, there are some consequences that we do need to protect our children from.
I'm not so sure that burglary should be mandatory behaviour for students. I'm pretty sure that most people know that burglary is a stupid thing to do, and are aware of the consequences.
Ignore burglary for a moment. Consider underage drinking. Often this is included in police announcements to newspapers. But, they are underage, so you won't get their names right? Well thanks to being in the USA, underage includes people ages 18-20, so you can be charged as an adult, for committing an underage crime, and your name is published.
I was arrested for being too close to underage drinkers once. I was 20, at the same party, but not drinking (I was the DD). However, being 'underage' I was considered by local law to have been de-fact 'underage drinking' and was charged accordingly. The charge was tossed by a judge later, but the police announcement would have remained.
How many HR reps would toss out an applicant because they have an arrest record on the internet, but no record of that arrest being tossed out by a judge later?
In my case, there is an article that I wrote for the editorial of my newspaper when I was a freshman in college. I still stand by my statement, however my statement is not what is printed. The editorial staff took my letter and cut it down to fit into a rather 'blurb' style. The result is that my letter now looks like this:
Statement *rationale for statement* conclusion, with the rationale heavily edited. It nearly changes my statement from a criticism of a policy for very specific reasons into an ignorant sounding rant.
It isn't even that bad, but it isn't what I said. And it shows up when you google my name a few pages in.
That's a good thing. Otherwise I could stuff my pockets...
Bullshit. And you call yourself an engineer?
If I'm that crazy that I'm going to strap myself with C4 and get onto a plane, do you think I give a damn about much else?
Stuff a pound of C4 up your rear and that's it. No fancy checks there. Don't get complicated with security, because it's so damned easy to circumvent with 30 seconds of thought.
But if one is serious about picking good equipment and are not presently tied down with any vendor lock-in, then it is all a matter of personal preference.
Sure, you may not be getting vendor lock in, but what about the people actually using the equipment? What are they used to using? Windows? MacOS? It is an important question.
What if he has an emergency and needs to leave the project with little notice. Who is going to take over for him? Finding someone to quickly pick up for MacOS or Windows is probably an order easier than finding someone who is capable and willing of supporting linux overseas.
It's nice to take a stand for what you believe in, but don't forget your true mission, and if you don't give them the best, then you aren't really doing your job.
I wasn't rebutting anything, I was providing a link with more info on the subject. I really don't care what people who can't be bothered to read think.
The internet 'standard' generally works like this:
1. Person makes claim. 2. critic posts snopes link, indicating that it is a false urban legend.
Linking snopes in support of a statement is like scratching your temple with your middle finger while walking past a cop.
I think the simple fact that we exist shows that God, if he does exist, is not omniscient and omnipotent. Why create the Universe if you already know exactly how everything will happen?
I'll ponder that question on my way to go watch my favorite movie again.
I frequently wipe my drives. I'm what I like to call a file packrat. Junk builds up on my computer, and every month or so I burn what I want to keep onto a DVD and then format my machine.
I've tried things like playing around with special partitions, and using different disks for different aspects of the OS (swap file, and so on). But usually it takes me an install or two before I get it right. Sometimes I even switch back to my previous OS since the new one isn't quite to my liking. I've got about 20-30 HDDs sitting around in various states of repair. Some are on the block for magnet extraction and coasters, some are still good, but small. Unfortunately for me, I always have some sort of disk failure. I'm constantly pulling drives and swapping them between my boxes and my machines.
The probability of my drive being anything but a fresh install over a 2 month period is likely 0. And unfortunately for me, I'm horrible at keeping track of my backup files. It's horribly inefficient, but it doesn't bug me enough to fix the problem. My important documents are stored on physical media, and separate drive should I lose one or the other during the reformatting.
I'm very careless with my ripped music. It's from my own CD collection, but as I've said, I'm careless with CDs, so I've just switched over to using the internet as my own backup service for publicly available files.
So my important documents are backed up, I use the internet as a backup for any music/video files which I owned the media for, and I generally don't know which HDD is in my machine at any one time. The only thing I do know is that I format them very often.
I also am terrible at keeping my network in any constant state. I've switched between several routers in a month (Gotta try out all the versions of DD-WRT) and for periods, I gave up on securing my network aside from putting in a white list. If someone wants to hop on and browse a few sites, that works with me, and QoS keeps them behaving on the bandwidth front.
Needless to say, I'd be surprised if someone could figure out what was going on with my machines, and what they could possibly expect to be there.
(On one machine, in the past 2 months, I've had Mythbuntu, XP, 2000, and just recently for kicks win95. Hey I found the CD and wanted some nostalgia. That lasted for an hour or two and now I'm either going to play around with Ubuntu again, or mess with the new Fedora release)
Modern man is the first species on earth to have the ability to dramatically alter the ecological equilibrium established before it, on a global scale. This makes the modern man unique.
Not quite true.
Just take a moment to realize where all the O2 you are breathing came from. We are just the first species/group to be capable of contemplating how we affect the environment.
A balanced and closed ecosystem is naturally self correcting. Humans will prove no different. The available resources will be consumed, humans will die off in large numbers and a balance will be reached eventually where real sustainability can be achieved.
That assumes that the balance includes humans, and that the self-correction doesn't involve the scale slipping so far that it falls off the pivot and crashes to the floor in some snowball-earth scenario.
All I know is that if this planet is going to shift into some sort of state which is inhospitable to human life, then I'd rather risk destroying a few ecosystems if the alternative is certain extinction.
That's a bit overboard, I think. You're basically claiming (and I'm trying not to strawman you, here) that abstract concepts can't be used to identify patterns, but instead can only be used to identify identical things. There's plenty of reason for me to label myself at time=2009 and myself at time=2007 the same person, just as we label anything else that changes but maintains identifiable and distinct patterns.
As a scientist, individual identity seems like a common and accurate label for each person's idiosyncratic tendencies
No, don't destroy my plan for the perfect crime.
"Unfortunately, the entity that killed him ceased to exist the instant after the murder occured."
I, well the guy that just said I a moment ago, except I meant me, no not that me, this me now...
My wife and my mother have both encountered these problems:
I told it to sync and it erased everything.
Do I have to use iTunes?
I saw you use your phone as a modem, can I do that?
I really wish that the keyboard would go into landscape mode.
Why does safari always crash?
Do you know how to get it to play that video?
All those comments and questions from people who are certainly not techies. And you can't claim that Jailbreaking is an appropriate option since it is something that Apple tries to prevent.
Not that I can provide serious input to testosterone injections specifically, but what doesn't increase the risk of cancer? Living in California, I am beginning to think that we have some miasma that turns everything into a carcinogen. I recall hearing about a study that showed repeated injections of saline caused cancer in some laboratory mice. My suggested hypothesis: Too much of anything is bad for you
Everyone who lives long enough will develop cancer. If you were to look at men who died over age 80, I believe that the rate of those who test positive for prostate cancer is near 100%. Thankfully prostate cancer is generally very slow in developing, so by the time it could be a problem, it might be 20 or 30 years off, and at 110 prostate cancer is probably the least of your problems. I'd imagine that the rate is somewhat similar for women and some other form of cancer. It's just that given enough time, there will be some cell in your body that mutates in just the right way to become cancerous.
The only reason that we don't find cancer more often in autopsies of those over 80 is that the cause of death over 80 is generally pretty obvious, or non-sinister. You don't need to do much investigation on someone's prostate or non-critical organs of those over 80 who died of a heart attack since the telltales are pretty obvious.
The only virus I've gotten in the last ten years of using Windows was the Vundo virus, on my work computer, through Sun Java. Make sure you're holding the right company to task: I'm certain that at this point there are far more security holes in popular third-party applications from companies like Adobe than in Windows itself.
Damn I hate that one. I want to clear it off, but I can't because the wife needs a windows machine to access her online courses. I don't dare risk clearing off Windows during finals week, but I've got the Ubuntu CDs burned and waiting...
I knew a guy who wrote a virus/worm back in college and it spread pretty far, but it never got my ire up like these botnetters. Had the guy I knew made something so criminal as these, I probably would have thumped him pretty hard. But his intention wasn't damage or greed, just curiosity, and it cleared out of him pretty quick after I talked to him a bit.
And thank you for proving exactly why I wouldn't support such an initiative.
It would give the government the go-ahead to truly regulate the internet for our own good. It would be for the children, against the terrorists, and... progressive.
You would be giving the government the authority to limit your speech in the guise of protection. Very likely worthless protection with a whole helping of surveillance and record keeping.
Then, when you step out of line, your license is not renewed. Or, more likely, since you run Linux, a dangerously mutable untrustworthy operating system, you wouldn't be granted a license at all.
No thanks, I don't need or want a license to exercise my rights.
The US can't abuse ICANN. Well, it CAN, but when it does, it will lose all control over it as the EU/China/Russia/Australia... every other nation works to set up it's own segregated service. The other nations could force the US to release control if the US gave them a reason to. So as long as the US remains a relatively benign aspect of ICANN, it can remain in control.
And that's a good thing, it means that through the Mutually Assured Destruction that would occur in the event of an abuse of ICANN, it generally remains true to what it is supposed to do without becoming more than what it was intended to do.
I kind of view the US' control over ICANN as the Royalty in the UK. Sure, they technically have a lot of power, but the instant they tried to use that power it would evaporate away in an instant.
That's actually *explicitly* illegal over here. It's illegal to search anyones garbage without having proper authority to do so. Of course, that wasn't entirely your point, but just in case someone starts to dig and gets arrested...
Where is 'over here'?
Over here in Pennsylvania, my grandfather made quite a successful living as a junk-man. We used to go round on 'big trash day' and see what we could scrounge up. Lamps, desks, dressers, and scrap material were our primary trade. My grandfather even had a system where he knew what type of scrap to take to what auction and what time of year to do it to get the best prices.
But the short of it was this:
Recycling in my neighborhood was stronger BEFORE the municipal recycling programs started. I knew a family that supported themselves by collecting newspapers and cans for the city.
When the city implemented it's own mandatory recycling program, they lost their income. Now they sell newspapers on the street corner. It breaks my heart, as the one lady is nearing 80 and is now suffering from Alzheimer's. The daughter keeps them together, as the two other siblings also have development issues.
They won't accept charity, but I always buy extra from them when I drive by. I just tell them that it's for our break room.
Being in the middle of a large field isn't a threat at all assuming there are plenty of other objects around that are far more conductive and higher than you are.... Ignorance and misinformation makes life fun doesn't it?
Yeah about that ignorance and misinformation.
Notice I said, 'Middle of a large field'. I did not say 'middle of a large field that happens to have a really tall metal object in it to act as a lightning rod.
I knew slashdot could get real pedantic, but good god man! It's an analogy. Yes I know there could be trees in the field. Perhaps I should also mention that this field is next to a coal fired power plant and thus you should probably consider the effect on property values. Of course that wouldn't matter if you couldn't get the permits to build there.
Middle. Large. Field. It wasn't that damned complicated.
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If you point at something in the distance, the domesticated dog looks in the direction you're pointing. The wolf, however, will just stare at your hand.
You are confusing trained behavior with biology. My dogs certainly look at my hand when I point.
Do you have internet access ? Then publish your own account and let the devil take the hindmost. It pisses me off to see people who whine about freedom of speech issues and never put that freedom to good use. Personally, the only time I have been reported in the newspaper was for doing 86mph in a 70 limit. I don't give a fuck if that shows up on google, and I'm a professional driver. It amuses me that for all the whining about censorship on this forum, when the censorship would work in your favour, you're all for it !
But of course, that's different.
You are attributing the general comments on slashdot to me personally. I think you can figure out where that may result in your cognitive dissonance.
I could publish my own account, but it isn't worth it to me. I would merely draw attention to an article which I do not wish attention drawn to. That doesn't mean I have to like it.
Well, clearly those HR reps are doing a piss-poor job and ought to be fired - throwing away potentially the most skilled candidates because of a crappy method isn't a strategy that works in the end.
Do you think that would ever come to light? The HR guy probably had to narrow down the candidates to a handful, and unless some strange circumstance led to the investigation of that particular HR downselection, I don't think it would ever come to light. In the end, that applicant wasn't hired because of some permanent record of an arrest for a crime that they may not have committed.
Your attitude is what is 100% wrong with the recent attitudes toward raising children - protecting them from the consequences of their actions. Have fun raising your kids - you won't know you've fucked up until they are grown and it is too late.
In this society, consequences are quickly becoming a total and complete destruction of their adult life. When 'mooning' someone can land you on the sex-offender registry, there are some consequences that we do need to protect our children from.
I'm not so sure that burglary should be mandatory behaviour for students. I'm pretty sure that most people know that burglary is a stupid thing to do, and are aware of the consequences.
Ignore burglary for a moment. Consider underage drinking. Often this is included in police announcements to newspapers. But, they are underage, so you won't get their names right? Well thanks to being in the USA, underage includes people ages 18-20, so you can be charged as an adult, for committing an underage crime, and your name is published.
I was arrested for being too close to underage drinkers once. I was 20, at the same party, but not drinking (I was the DD). However, being 'underage' I was considered by local law to have been de-fact 'underage drinking' and was charged accordingly. The charge was tossed by a judge later, but the police announcement would have remained.
How many HR reps would toss out an applicant because they have an arrest record on the internet, but no record of that arrest being tossed out by a judge later?
What's the problem ?
In my case, there is an article that I wrote for the editorial of my newspaper when I was a freshman in college. I still stand by my statement, however my statement is not what is printed. The editorial staff took my letter and cut it down to fit into a rather 'blurb' style. The result is that my letter now looks like this:
Statement *rationale for statement* conclusion, with the rationale heavily edited. It nearly changes my statement from a criticism of a policy for very specific reasons into an ignorant sounding rant.
It isn't even that bad, but it isn't what I said. And it shows up when you google my name a few pages in.
That's a good thing. Otherwise I could stuff my pockets...
Bullshit. And you call yourself an engineer?
If I'm that crazy that I'm going to strap myself with C4 and get onto a plane, do you think I give a damn about much else?
Stuff a pound of C4 up your rear and that's it. No fancy checks there. Don't get complicated with security, because it's so damned easy to circumvent with 30 seconds of thought.
But if one is serious about picking good equipment and are not presently tied down with any vendor lock-in, then it is all a matter of personal preference.
Sure, you may not be getting vendor lock in, but what about the people actually using the equipment? What are they used to using? Windows? MacOS? It is an important question.
What if he has an emergency and needs to leave the project with little notice. Who is going to take over for him? Finding someone to quickly pick up for MacOS or Windows is probably an order easier than finding someone who is capable and willing of supporting linux overseas.
It's nice to take a stand for what you believe in, but don't forget your true mission, and if you don't give them the best, then you aren't really doing your job.
I wasn't rebutting anything, I was providing a link with more info on the subject. I really don't care what people who can't be bothered to read think.
The internet 'standard' generally works like this:
1. Person makes claim.
2. critic posts snopes link, indicating that it is a false urban legend.
Linking snopes in support of a statement is like scratching your temple with your middle finger while walking past a cop.
so you're suggesting that, instead of going to barcelona, it would be better for him to travel back in time to the biogenesis era?
Just don't step on any insects while you are there. I just finished clearing the doughnuts from yesterday's rainstorm.
I think the simple fact that we exist shows that God, if he does exist, is not omniscient and omnipotent. Why create the Universe if you already know exactly how everything will happen?
I'll ponder that question on my way to go watch my favorite movie again.
I frequently wipe my drives. I'm what I like to call a file packrat. Junk builds up on my computer, and every month or so I burn what I want to keep onto a DVD and then format my machine.
I've tried things like playing around with special partitions, and using different disks for different aspects of the OS (swap file, and so on). But usually it takes me an install or two before I get it right. Sometimes I even switch back to my previous OS since the new one isn't quite to my liking. I've got about 20-30 HDDs sitting around in various states of repair. Some are on the block for magnet extraction and coasters, some are still good, but small. Unfortunately for me, I always have some sort of disk failure. I'm constantly pulling drives and swapping them between my boxes and my machines.
The probability of my drive being anything but a fresh install over a 2 month period is likely 0. And unfortunately for me, I'm horrible at keeping track of my backup files. It's horribly inefficient, but it doesn't bug me enough to fix the problem. My important documents are stored on physical media, and separate drive should I lose one or the other during the reformatting.
I'm very careless with my ripped music. It's from my own CD collection, but as I've said, I'm careless with CDs, so I've just switched over to using the internet as my own backup service for publicly available files.
So my important documents are backed up, I use the internet as a backup for any music/video files which I owned the media for, and I generally don't know which HDD is in my machine at any one time. The only thing I do know is that I format them very often.
I also am terrible at keeping my network in any constant state. I've switched between several routers in a month (Gotta try out all the versions of DD-WRT) and for periods, I gave up on securing my network aside from putting in a white list. If someone wants to hop on and browse a few sites, that works with me, and QoS keeps them behaving on the bandwidth front.
Needless to say, I'd be surprised if someone could figure out what was going on with my machines, and what they could possibly expect to be there.
(On one machine, in the past 2 months, I've had Mythbuntu, XP, 2000, and just recently for kicks win95. Hey I found the CD and wanted some nostalgia. That lasted for an hour or two and now I'm either going to play around with Ubuntu again, or mess with the new Fedora release)
What if the Mohammed comes across a Dracula or a Frankenstein?
I know what I would do, but at least the Mohammed would have access to holy weaponry.
Modern man is the first species on earth to have the ability to dramatically alter the ecological equilibrium established before it, on a global scale. This makes the modern man unique.
Not quite true.
Just take a moment to realize where all the O2 you are breathing came from. We are just the first species/group to be capable of contemplating how we affect the environment.
A balanced and closed ecosystem is naturally self correcting. Humans will prove no different. The available resources will be consumed, humans will die off in large numbers and a balance will be reached eventually where real sustainability can be achieved.
That assumes that the balance includes humans, and that the self-correction doesn't involve the scale slipping so far that it falls off the pivot and crashes to the floor in some snowball-earth scenario.
All I know is that if this planet is going to shift into some sort of state which is inhospitable to human life, then I'd rather risk destroying a few ecosystems if the alternative is certain extinction.
That's a bit overboard, I think. You're basically claiming (and I'm trying not to strawman you, here) that abstract concepts can't be used to identify patterns, but instead can only be used to identify identical things. There's plenty of reason for me to label myself at time=2009 and myself at time=2007 the same person, just as we label anything else that changes but maintains identifiable and distinct patterns.
As a scientist, individual identity seems like a common and accurate label for each person's idiosyncratic tendencies
No, don't destroy my plan for the perfect crime.
"Unfortunately, the entity that killed him ceased to exist the instant after the murder occured."
I, well the guy that just said I a moment ago, except I meant me, no not that me, this me now...
*bolts and runs for the door*
My wife and my mother have both encountered these problems:
I told it to sync and it erased everything.
Do I have to use iTunes?
I saw you use your phone as a modem, can I do that?
I really wish that the keyboard would go into landscape mode.
Why does safari always crash?
Do you know how to get it to play that video?
All those comments and questions from people who are certainly not techies. And you can't claim that Jailbreaking is an appropriate option since it is something that Apple tries to prevent.
But really, screw those odds. Or rather, don't.
1% is pretty much in line with other forms of contraception, in fact, it's pretty good.
Failure rates:
Condoms: 2% (typical 15%)
The Pill: 0.3% (typical 8%)
Depo Provera: 0.3% (typical 3%)
Vasectomy: 0.1% (typical 0.15%)
So short of a Vasectomy, a typical result of 1% is pretty damned good.
Not that I can provide serious input to testosterone injections specifically, but what doesn't increase the risk of cancer? Living in California, I am beginning to think that we have some miasma that turns everything into a carcinogen. I recall hearing about a study that showed repeated injections of saline caused cancer in some laboratory mice. My suggested hypothesis: Too much of anything is bad for you
Everyone who lives long enough will develop cancer. If you were to look at men who died over age 80, I believe that the rate of those who test positive for prostate cancer is near 100%. Thankfully prostate cancer is generally very slow in developing, so by the time it could be a problem, it might be 20 or 30 years off, and at 110 prostate cancer is probably the least of your problems. I'd imagine that the rate is somewhat similar for women and some other form of cancer. It's just that given enough time, there will be some cell in your body that mutates in just the right way to become cancerous.
The only reason that we don't find cancer more often in autopsies of those over 80 is that the cause of death over 80 is generally pretty obvious, or non-sinister. You don't need to do much investigation on someone's prostate or non-critical organs of those over 80 who died of a heart attack since the telltales are pretty obvious.
The only virus I've gotten in the last ten years of using Windows was the Vundo virus, on my work computer, through Sun Java. Make sure you're holding the right company to task: I'm certain that at this point there are far more security holes in popular third-party applications from companies like Adobe than in Windows itself.
Damn I hate that one. I want to clear it off, but I can't because the wife needs a windows machine to access her online courses. I don't dare risk clearing off Windows during finals week, but I've got the Ubuntu CDs burned and waiting...
I knew a guy who wrote a virus/worm back in college and it spread pretty far, but it never got my ire up like these botnetters. Had the guy I knew made something so criminal as these, I probably would have thumped him pretty hard. But his intention wasn't damage or greed, just curiosity, and it cleared out of him pretty quick after I talked to him a bit.
And thank you for proving exactly why I wouldn't support such an initiative.
It would give the government the go-ahead to truly regulate the internet for our own good. It would be for the children, against the terrorists, and ... progressive.
You would be giving the government the authority to limit your speech in the guise of protection. Very likely worthless protection with a whole helping of surveillance and record keeping.
Then, when you step out of line, your license is not renewed. Or, more likely, since you run Linux, a dangerously mutable untrustworthy operating system, you wouldn't be granted a license at all.
No thanks, I don't need or want a license to exercise my rights.
Here is the cool part.
The US can't abuse ICANN. Well, it CAN, but when it does, it will lose all control over it as the EU/China/Russia/Australia... every other nation works to set up it's own segregated service. The other nations could force the US to release control if the US gave them a reason to. So as long as the US remains a relatively benign aspect of ICANN, it can remain in control.
And that's a good thing, it means that through the Mutually Assured Destruction that would occur in the event of an abuse of ICANN, it generally remains true to what it is supposed to do without becoming more than what it was intended to do.
I kind of view the US' control over ICANN as the Royalty in the UK. Sure, they technically have a lot of power, but the instant they tried to use that power it would evaporate away in an instant.
So when you round up 1000 people and plan to block a street, what is YOUR backup plan for ambulances?
That's what the permit is for.
That's actually *explicitly* illegal over here. It's illegal to search anyones garbage without having proper authority to do so. Of course, that wasn't entirely your point, but just in case someone starts to dig and gets arrested...
Where is 'over here'?
Over here in Pennsylvania, my grandfather made quite a successful living as a junk-man. We used to go round on 'big trash day' and see what we could scrounge up. Lamps, desks, dressers, and scrap material were our primary trade. My grandfather even had a system where he knew what type of scrap to take to what auction and what time of year to do it to get the best prices.
But the short of it was this:
Recycling in my neighborhood was stronger BEFORE the municipal recycling programs started. I knew a family that supported themselves by collecting newspapers and cans for the city.
When the city implemented it's own mandatory recycling program, they lost their income. Now they sell newspapers on the street corner. It breaks my heart, as the one lady is nearing 80 and is now suffering from Alzheimer's. The daughter keeps them together, as the two other siblings also have development issues.
They won't accept charity, but I always buy extra from them when I drive by. I just tell them that it's for our break room.
Being in the middle of a large field isn't a threat at all assuming there are plenty of other objects around that are far more conductive and higher than you are. ...
Ignorance and misinformation makes life fun doesn't it?
Yeah about that ignorance and misinformation.
Notice I said, 'Middle of a large field'. I did not say 'middle of a large field that happens to have a really tall metal object in it to act as a lightning rod.
I knew slashdot could get real pedantic, but good god man! It's an analogy. Yes I know there could be trees in the field. Perhaps I should also mention that this field is next to a coal fired power plant and thus you should probably consider the effect on property values. Of course that wouldn't matter if you couldn't get the permits to build there.
Middle. Large. Field. It wasn't that damned complicated.