If the dash cams prove anything, the footage will always be "missing" in those events, or abuses will happen in the dead-zones that, of course, the corrupt officers will know of and tell each other about.
Nobody's ever invented a word or phrase like nigger, porch monkey, wetback or jew that's offensive to white hetero males. If you're a white hetero male, then you don't get to decide anything; otherwise there's already a stack of words for you to be offended by.
Who cares about the performance of the card BEFORE it hits the screen? If it is faster on-screen than the competitor, then it should be considered faster, because what other judgement could be made by the user?
Because it tells you how much extra headroom is available in rendering that screen, and if all the cards render current games at monitor refresh speeds, you can't really gauge how fast they are with respect to each other. Think of it as futureproofing.
Then consider futureproofing as a scam anyway, because no matter how "futureproof" it is, some new feature or extension will come out that won't be supported, even if it required no extra silicon.
The problem is that, according to the story's poster, the change not only affect new pilots, but also all the old previously bought and previously accessible content. Suddenly, all the part services which you did like and for which you gave money, stops working too.
There's a reason why you don't make deals with the devil.
The problem isn't that crowdsourcing fingered too many of the wrong people, the problem is that all the photographic evidence was transparent and all the investigation was opaque.
People can therefore only spot potential suspects, and it takes investigation and cross referencing to rule them out or not. All that investigation stuff is secret, so it's no wonder people start shouting about mob justice when it appears the investigators aren't even investigating when, the truth is, they've already investigated that angle.
The crowdsourcing shows that no detail will be left unexposed, but in order for that to be helpful, the other side of the research has to be exposed also.
However, I got 100 resumes. Only two were female, and the first point on her experience was "able to type 50 word per minute" and the second described herself as a "furry" *in* the resume.
I guess that second one was so she could claim fursecution when not hired.
Since the gun background check bill died because it was believed it create a registry of gun owners (it didn't)
No, it died because it was believed that it MIGHT BE USED to create a gun owner database.
I'd love to figure out how they can enforce universal background checks without a database. At some point in a criminal investigation, they're going to have to check if (gun->currentOwner() == gun->backgroundCheckedOwner())....
I don't know what the sampling methodology was, but it's usually pretty reliable. The figure I saw was 88% as of 2 weeks ago.
Then you don't know if it's bullshit. If I'm going to toss statistics around I want to be sure I'm not spreading lies, but that's just me. It's certainly feasible for someone with an axe to grind to simply not care.
That might be because you were arguing for a bill that would limit our rights in the story about a bill that is going to limit our rights.
If you want universal background checks to pass and CISPA, not to pass, you are being logically inconsistent with respect to citizen's constitutional rights.
But he said reasonable background checks.
LOL, kidding, that's probably the greatest weasel word ever to disguise tyranny.
That's a bit simplistic. If the system stays the same, the next guy in will vote the same way. We have to get corporate money out of DC AND campaigns. When politicians are no longer beholded to them to get reelected, they won't be subservient anymore.
The checks and balances are to blame, too. The Supreme Court has been declining to hear cases that are paramount to our liberties protected in the Constitution, and the cases they do hear are most often split down conservative/liberal lines instead of what the law actually is. The system can't possibly work when 1/3 are corrupt, 1/3 is a megalomaniac, and 1/3 is phoning it in. I'll leave it to you to decide which branch is which.
Because it's the same argument from the NRA regarding the 2nd Amendment. It doesn't stipulate "small" arms, just arms, which includes bombs. In fact, this bombing shows that it's more difficult to kill a lot of people with a bomb than with an AR-15. So, by the numbers, we should legalize bombs and outlaw the AR-15. Of course, the NRA doesn't care about numbers and I'm not sure what they care about. It's clearly not the 2nd Amendment as-written.
No, it isn't the same argument. It isn't even an argument at all. How about you save your criticism of the NRA's opinions on bombs until they actually have an opinion on some tangential concept completely removed from their mission statement. Also, please hold your breath while waiting.
This incident could have been substantially mitigated by removing or locking all trash cans on the street where spectators would be and placing the in-use trash cans fifty feet up the side streets, and a reasonable distance from where people would line up to get food from any food vendors. People might grumble about having to walk to throw things away, but had the trash cans been farther back, those bombs would have gone off almost harmlessly, with at most one or two people killed or injured, instead of killing three people and injuring almost two hundred.
People wouldn't grumble about it, they'll just throw it on the street. Now instead of a suspicious bag hiding in a garbage can you have a suspicious bag hiding under any of a number piles of paper plates and napkin wads. Maybe it gets kicked around, too.
Why the network operators didn't get requests to shutdown the network, that doesn't mean it wasn't jammed. The military has jammers it uses where they suspect IEDs to prevent triggering via the cell network. There is no reason why the BPD, DHS or other agency would not have jammers for such an occasion. I would be surprised if they did not with all the money that was thrown around after 9/11
So it's impossible to create a bomb that will detonate on loss of signal?
The jammers aren't for preventing explosions. It's for preventing civilian communication. In case of insurrection.
OT prediction: If it turns out that the act was committed by an American nutjob, as with the Oklahoma City bombing the media and political system will quickly forget about it. If it turns out that it was done by a "furriner", we'll hear lots about those awful "terrists" for some time, everyone will make vicious pronouncements, and they won't forget about it. In either case, little if anything will be done that's relevant to preventing future such acts.
(But this is just based on history. I could be wrong, so stay tuned.;-)
I dunno, I'm of the inclination that the amount of media attention will be directly proportional to how many rights will be compromised with the resulting legislation. Which works for both the "terrist" excuse (yay more warrant-less ass ramming) and home grown nutters (the public can't buy certain chemicals, no matter how useful they are in ways not related to explosives).
Just do what I do... use a phone built in the early 2000's. When mine breaks, I can find a replacement for less than $30 without all the new crap installed on it.
Will they even make dumb phones / feature phones 5 years from now? 10? They will effectively become unobtanium, like a quality CRT display, a quadraphonic sound system, or a box of floppy discs.
Since nobody actually uses these things, we're turning them off.
Back when I had a Wii, in order to get these network services, you essentially had to set the device to never turn off. And that was something I deemed as pointless and a waste of power.
And, really, who needs to get the weather and news on the Wii?
But, somehow everybody seems to keep acting as if the game console is going to become your internet hub.
They're just glorified RSS readers. How much does it really cost to maintain them? How many new functionality changes are they expecting? Are we planning to discover a new type of weather or something?
It smacks of Nintendo being a little bit of a tightwad over it, especially considering that anyone going out of their way to use a Wii to get this information is more aware of it and more likely to play a game on it, too.
I'm just anecdotal evidence, but I have always seen plenty of WiiU boxes on the floor at my local Best Buy. I don't think sales have been as brisk as they've hoped, and I personally believe there intentionally poor distribution to cause the illusion of shortages to defend the poor sales. Anyone who wanted one could pick up a phone and discover there was a stack of them here.
I recall when the Wii was released, no matter who you called, nobody had it.
I don't understand the expression of surprise in the first part of the summary. The "cafes" referred to are set up specifically to skirt the state gambling laws by taking advantage of the "sweepstakes" loophole. They make it appear that you're playing video poker, roulette, etc. but you're really just revealing your sweepstakes winnings, which were predetermined when you bought into the game. Bloomberg Businessweek had an interesting article on these things a few years ago.
Here's the thing about this moral panic. Florida allows gambling. Florida allows casinos. This is clearly just a move to protect the interests of the existing casinos by eliminating the competition that was successfully able to also provide gambling entertainment with significantly lower startup costs.
Seems like those startup costs omitted kickbacks to the politicians.
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Back in my bar hopping days.
The bars I went back to were the ones I could have a conversation with the bartender, regardless of their sex.
You don't pick up the bartender. It's nice to chat with them when they aren't busy.
Interaction is part of the bar scene.
Hard to do that with a robot
Looks like you'll have to chat up the robot maintenance guy instead.
Yes. Once we get those cameras installed.
If the dash cams prove anything, the footage will always be "missing" in those events, or abuses will happen in the dead-zones that, of course, the corrupt officers will know of and tell each other about.
Nobody's ever invented a word or phrase like nigger, porch monkey, wetback or jew that's offensive to white hetero males. If you're a white hetero male, then you don't get to decide anything; otherwise there's already a stack of words for you to be offended by.
So get crackin', ye of thin skin.
Who cares about the performance of the card BEFORE it hits the screen? If it is faster on-screen than the competitor, then it should be considered faster, because what other judgement could be made by the user?
Because it tells you how much extra headroom is available in rendering that screen, and if all the cards render current games at monitor refresh speeds, you can't really gauge how fast they are with respect to each other. Think of it as futureproofing.
Then consider futureproofing as a scam anyway, because no matter how "futureproof" it is, some new feature or extension will come out that won't be supported, even if it required no extra silicon.
I can even set gamma to a value less than 1 on my netbook, forcing me to use the gamma correction from Windows (with some problems)
What happens when you don't do that?
(Do user-choosable errors even count as problems?)
Why offer the feature if it's stripped, gimped, and only partially functional? Unless it's ammunition for the Feature Checkbox Wars.
The problem is that, according to the story's poster, the change not only affect new pilots, but also all the old previously bought and previously accessible content.
Suddenly, all the part services which you did like and for which you gave money, stops working too.
There's a reason why you don't make deals with the devil.
The problem isn't that crowdsourcing fingered too many of the wrong people, the problem is that all the photographic evidence was transparent and all the investigation was opaque.
People can therefore only spot potential suspects, and it takes investigation and cross referencing to rule them out or not. All that investigation stuff is secret, so it's no wonder people start shouting about mob justice when it appears the investigators aren't even investigating when, the truth is, they've already investigated that angle.
The crowdsourcing shows that no detail will be left unexposed, but in order for that to be helpful, the other side of the research has to be exposed also.
Fire Steve Ballmer
No originality points, but +100 full grasp of reality points.
However, I got 100 resumes. Only two were female, and the first point on her experience was "able to type 50 word per minute" and the second described herself as a "furry" *in* the resume.
I guess that second one was so she could claim fursecution when not hired.
No, it died because it was believed that it MIGHT BE USED to create a gun owner database.
I'd love to figure out how they can enforce universal background checks without a database. At some point in a criminal investigation, they're going to have to check if (gun->currentOwner() == gun->backgroundCheckedOwner())....
I don't know what the sampling methodology was, but it's usually pretty reliable. The figure I saw was 88% as of 2 weeks ago.
Then you don't know if it's bullshit. If I'm going to toss statistics around I want to be sure I'm not spreading lies, but that's just me. It's certainly feasible for someone with an axe to grind to simply not care.
That might be because you were arguing for a bill that would limit our rights in the story about a bill that is going to limit our rights.
If you want universal background checks to pass and CISPA, not to pass, you are being logically inconsistent with respect to citizen's constitutional rights.
But he said reasonable background checks.
LOL, kidding, that's probably the greatest weasel word ever to disguise tyranny.
That's a bit simplistic. If the system stays the same, the next guy in will vote the same way. We have to get corporate money out of DC AND campaigns. When politicians are no longer beholded to them to get reelected, they won't be subservient anymore.
The checks and balances are to blame, too. The Supreme Court has been declining to hear cases that are paramount to our liberties protected in the Constitution, and the cases they do hear are most often split down conservative/liberal lines instead of what the law actually is. The system can't possibly work when 1/3 are corrupt, 1/3 is a megalomaniac, and 1/3 is phoning it in. I'll leave it to you to decide which branch is which.
Because it's the same argument from the NRA regarding the 2nd Amendment. It doesn't stipulate "small" arms, just arms, which includes bombs. In fact, this bombing shows that it's more difficult to kill a lot of people with a bomb than with an AR-15. So, by the numbers, we should legalize bombs and outlaw the AR-15. Of course, the NRA doesn't care about numbers and I'm not sure what they care about. It's clearly not the 2nd Amendment as-written.
No, it isn't the same argument. It isn't even an argument at all. How about you save your criticism of the NRA's opinions on bombs until they actually have an opinion on some tangential concept completely removed from their mission statement. Also, please hold your breath while waiting.
This incident could have been substantially mitigated by removing or locking all trash cans on the street where spectators would be and placing the in-use trash cans fifty feet up the side streets, and a reasonable distance from where people would line up to get food from any food vendors. People might grumble about having to walk to throw things away, but had the trash cans been farther back, those bombs would have gone off almost harmlessly, with at most one or two people killed or injured, instead of killing three people and injuring almost two hundred.
People wouldn't grumble about it, they'll just throw it on the street. Now instead of a suspicious bag hiding in a garbage can you have a suspicious bag hiding under any of a number piles of paper plates and napkin wads. Maybe it gets kicked around, too.
Why the network operators didn't get requests to shutdown the network, that doesn't mean it wasn't jammed. The military has jammers it uses where they suspect IEDs to prevent triggering via the cell network. There is no reason why the BPD, DHS or other agency would not have jammers for such an occasion. I would be surprised if they did not with all the money that was thrown around after 9/11
So it's impossible to create a bomb that will detonate on loss of signal?
The jammers aren't for preventing explosions. It's for preventing civilian communication. In case of insurrection.
>Best course -- pray it turns out to have been a big gas leak.
A war on decrepit infrastructure would probably be a good thing.
Only if handled better than the Big Dig
I just felt a tremor in the force, like the Bill of Rights being stripped from hundreds of millions of Americans...
Bingo. Never let a good tragedy go to waste.
OT prediction: If it turns out that the act was committed by an American nutjob, as with the Oklahoma City bombing the media and political system will quickly forget about it. If it turns out that it was done by a "furriner", we'll hear lots about those awful "terrists" for some time, everyone will make vicious pronouncements, and they won't forget about it. In either case, little if anything will be done that's relevant to preventing future such acts.
(But this is just based on history. I could be wrong, so stay tuned. ;-)
I dunno, I'm of the inclination that the amount of media attention will be directly proportional to how many rights will be compromised with the resulting legislation. Which works for both the "terrist" excuse (yay more warrant-less ass ramming) and home grown nutters (the public can't buy certain chemicals, no matter how useful they are in ways not related to explosives).
Just do what I do... use a phone built in the early 2000's. When mine breaks, I can find a replacement for less than $30 without all the new crap installed on it.
Will they even make dumb phones / feature phones 5 years from now? 10? They will effectively become unobtanium, like a quality CRT display, a quadraphonic sound system, or a box of floppy discs.
Since nobody actually uses these things, we're turning them off.
Back when I had a Wii, in order to get these network services, you essentially had to set the device to never turn off. And that was something I deemed as pointless and a waste of power.
And, really, who needs to get the weather and news on the Wii?
But, somehow everybody seems to keep acting as if the game console is going to become your internet hub.
They're just glorified RSS readers. How much does it really cost to maintain them? How many new functionality changes are they expecting? Are we planning to discover a new type of weather or something?
It smacks of Nintendo being a little bit of a tightwad over it, especially considering that anyone going out of their way to use a Wii to get this information is more aware of it and more likely to play a game on it, too.
I'm just anecdotal evidence, but I have always seen plenty of WiiU boxes on the floor at my local Best Buy. I don't think sales have been as brisk as they've hoped, and I personally believe there intentionally poor distribution to cause the illusion of shortages to defend the poor sales. Anyone who wanted one could pick up a phone and discover there was a stack of them here.
I recall when the Wii was released, no matter who you called, nobody had it.
I don't understand the expression of surprise in the first part of the summary. The "cafes" referred to are set up specifically to skirt the state gambling laws by taking advantage of the "sweepstakes" loophole. They make it appear that you're playing video poker, roulette, etc. but you're really just revealing your sweepstakes winnings, which were predetermined when you bought into the game. Bloomberg Businessweek had an interesting article on these things a few years ago.
Here's the thing about this moral panic. Florida allows gambling. Florida allows casinos. This is clearly just a move to protect the interests of the existing casinos by eliminating the competition that was successfully able to also provide gambling entertainment with significantly lower startup costs.
Seems like those startup costs omitted kickbacks to the politicians.
Yes, actually. Especially if you can get a FOIA request written in such a way as to include them. Not saying it is easy, but it could be done.
Maybe they might not return a big black box on a sheet of paper with the page number being the only thing that isn't redacted.
With so many false alerts, will people believe the real thing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc60XPCXrh8
Who cares if they believe it? It's not like they would be able to do anything about it.