If you are around US military helicopters much you quickly discover that our newer stuff is fairly stealthy.
Most of the heavy troop transports still sound like they do in movies about Vietnam, but the light ones and most of the attack helicopters are very quiet once they get up to speed. Presumably the one assigned to Bush will be flying high enough to keep the rotor wash from mussing his hair so I doubt the crowd will hear it at all.
It really is spooky to look over your shoulder and see an attack helicopter floating a couple hundred yards away when you had to idea it was even there.
I would really love to see this blossom into a good old fashioned KDE vs Gnome war.
To help that get the dander up I'll point out that anyone who cared about the 'right' way to do things with regard to user interfaces would be using OSX.
The Vista installer is just fine, apart from the fact that it installs Vista.
Compared with XP it is 'prettier', asks fewer questions, and can slipsteam updates on its own. I never did try it on blank disk (not formatted with any file system). The XP installer not being able to continue without one was always annoying.
While cleaning out my hunting cabin I found a Dell Latitude LS that I thought I'd lost. Nice small laptop but it had Windows 98 on it.
Since my current laptop needs are met by Apple I thought I might as well see how Ubuntu will run on it. During the install I was concerned that it might somehow think I wanted to keep the Win98 partition despite the fact that I specifically asked it to use the entire disk. It never really did confirm anything.
The problem with incidents like these (the actual ones) is that it is difficult to collect the necessary information you would need to determine which dots to follow in order to safely evacuate. Who knows where the assailant is? How many of them are there? How are they equipped?
I've been on patrols that were ambushed. These were well trained well disciplined professional soldiers and the first minute or so was still total pandemonium and I really have no recollection of specifically what any of us did. Until we were able to assess the situation the best thing anyone could do was get behind solid cover and figure out the nature of the threat.
The last thing I would want some teacher doing is making tactical decisions about how to get a classroom full of students out of as building, particularly when the teacher has no way to know what is going on anywhere else in the building. The portion of the VT incident that happened in the classroom area lasted 9 minutes. No time to determine the specifics of what was going on and where, consult a building plan to determine evacuation routes, communicate them to the professors in the classrooms, then have them execute the plan. Doing anything other than barricading oneself in a safe room in a situation like this is a tactical mistake.
driving an object able to kill a person within a split seconds notice
makes me picture a child standing in the middle of the street, his cell phone rings and a text message pops up: You are about to be hit by a car. A split second later a car with a cell phone texting driver mows the kid down.
The above creative work by me is hereby released under whatever CC license will let you turn it into an anti-cell phone texting while driving commercial. Not because I agree but because I think it would be hilarious.
Anyway, the law is indeed 'about' insurance companies if by 'about' you mean 'lobbied for by'. There were already plenty of penalties for running over children whether you were texting or talking or thinking about sailboats. These penalties were plenty sufficient to keep people from running over children for sport.
So you mean that the financial and possible civil penalties a driver faces for slamming into another object, regardless of the cause, are not sufficient to keep people from slamming into other objects?
Nearly everyone I know has a cell phone. Half the people I pass in traffic when I am in large cities either have a bluetooth headset on or are holding a phone to their ears. It has been this way for 5 years. Yet there are not smashed vehicles littering the sides of the roads I drive. I don't have to pull over for a funeral procession more than two or three times per year.
When the RIAA lobbies for some new law to protect the public at large from the imagined evil of pirates they are villified. When the insurance companies do it, they get a pass.
The place has always had drawbacks: spamming; crapflooding; Shoeboy; ACSII art; goatse links; Jon Katz; Michael Sims.
Most of the 'debate' is the same record being played over and over. This article so far is, and certianly will continue to be, no exception. No new ground will be broken and the comments will be nearly identical to what went up during the Napster debate. Despite the lameness filters and low karma post restrictions, Slashdot has far more actual trolling than it ever did when Adequacy crowd was here.
I am here now, subscribing, because there are a small minority of users who actually not only know their stuff but actively participate in fields that are relevant to many of the submissions that go up. There aren't many places one can go on the internet and have a discussion with an actual attorney who actually defends RIAA cases. Bruce Perens doesn't show up just anywhere and comment on FOSS issues. There was some article on here a few days ago about carbon nanotubes, and I don't know carbon nanotubes from cans of paint so I may have been getting hoodwinked, but there seemed to be people posting who actually had more than just cursory knowledge about the things.
Anyway, enough emo about Slashdot. I don't think it has or ever had much credibility as a serious news site but it certianly offers something unique. If you can sift through the massive amount of drivel it makes visiting worth the time.
The crucifix was not actually art, just the art world's equivalent of a troll. It was created because some people enjoy pushing boundaries and the uproar over the Mapplethorpe Exhibit (which was actual art and not just trolling, by the way) put those boundaries in the spotlight.
And while there were people who upheld it being categorized as art, on principle, even though they knew better, the resulting ramifications are still felt by people who seek public money for their art. The changes made by politicians as a result of the controversy were a polite society's equivalent of rioting. The whole thing was similar to the way actual musicians stood up for 2 Live Crew's right to ramble on in whatever infantile way they wanted.
I've not played the game you mention but I suspect that if Jesse Helms (or whomever his living successor is...I think Helms is deceased) walks in on his kids playing it today, it will be front page news tomorrow. The decisions society makes about which kind of expression is acceptable are mostly based on emotion and emotions can be easily manipulated by those in charge.
The cruise control system in my truck has an inclinometer to determine whether it is climbing a hill and it can choose to be much less aggressive in trying to maintain speed when going up one.
It is the only vehicle I've had where I liked using the cruise control, the others all annoyed me by nearly redlining the engine if it lost a couple of MPH.
And you don't exactly download some CAD drawings and build a few in your garage, safely hidden from the space cameras.
As was pointed out during the Wen Ho Lee case (My Country Against Me), most of the knowledge necessary to build city destroying nuclear devices is already available to the public.
I have Comcast and mostly use on demand to watch reruns of Venture Brothers.
This past weekend a girl (I'm serious now...stick with me) wanted to watch some movie or another off the thing so we put it own. I was astounded to find an unskippable commercial....for the movie we were about to watch.
I'm not initiate in all the many angles marketers have devised to get into my brain but I can't figure that one out. I'm about to watch the movie and if it doesn't indoctrinate me into whatever cultural franchise they are trying to create I'm not sure a 2 minute commercial will help.
They may have been doing this all along for movies but the Adult Swim intros remain skippable.
Oh man, you've read 1984 too? How crazy is that? That we've both read the same book, I mean, of all the books out there you and I have both read the same one. That really is just so neat.
And you were able to apply what you read in 1984 here, to this situation. You were able to draw those parallels and then make a post about it. You know, that really is novel. You are such a smart smart person you are. That you could just take the concepts described in that book, even though it was set in a made up land and involved made up people, and use them to describe your feelings about some current real life situation....that is just so wonderful.
Someone is doing some kind of spying, and a government is involved, and citizens and such, and corporation, and you pull out some concepts from the most famous book in the world about those very same things, that every Western child over the age of 12 has probably read and understood, and you post them here. So clever! I am so jealous of you!
This investment we're making in schools is really paying off I tell you. Critical thinking is at an all time high.
Gah, I doubt Illinois would give you a pass on that FOID, you already have to go through a NICS check when you buy a gun...and you can't carry them can you?
But this is a short run change that everyone is complaining about not being forced to use in the first place, so the costs involved aren't really figuring in yet.
It may turn out that per track prices are driven back down as more digital audio services come online, sign DRM free agreements with labels, etc. For the moment iTunes kind of has this locked up and can indeed ask a premium regardless of their cost.
My only disagreement is with you claiming that the employer acted correctly. Traditional HR policies are mostly geared around doing everything possible to keep the company from being sued, even if that isn't the 'correct' thing to do morally or ethically or even rationally.
I think lending validity to hypersensitive reactions based on overheard conversations is not a good thing for a company's long term workplace environment. And in the broader sense, pretending that things like this make us safer detracts from real issues that actually would make us safer if we had time or inclination to address them. Firing everyone who verbalizes something that someone might feel is threatening won't get us any closer to figuring out the differences between all those people and the VT shooter.
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If you are around US military helicopters much you quickly discover that our newer stuff is fairly stealthy.
Most of the heavy troop transports still sound like they do in movies about Vietnam, but the light ones and most of the attack helicopters are very quiet once they get up to speed. Presumably the one assigned to Bush will be flying high enough to keep the rotor wash from mussing his hair so I doubt the crowd will hear it at all.
It really is spooky to look over your shoulder and see an attack helicopter floating a couple hundred yards away when you had to idea it was even there.
I do cardio on a recumbent exercise bike and the posture is fantastic for playing video games.
I would really love to see this blossom into a good old fashioned KDE vs Gnome war.
To help that get the dander up I'll point out that anyone who cared about the 'right' way to do things with regard to user interfaces would be using OSX.
The Vista installer is just fine, apart from the fact that it installs Vista.
Compared with XP it is 'prettier', asks fewer questions, and can slipsteam updates on its own. I never did try it on blank disk (not formatted with any file system). The XP installer not being able to continue without one was always annoying.
Ha, I felt that same fear just this weekend.
While cleaning out my hunting cabin I found a Dell Latitude LS that I thought I'd lost. Nice small laptop but it had Windows 98 on it.
Since my current laptop needs are met by Apple I thought I might as well see how Ubuntu will run on it. During the install I was concerned that it might somehow think I wanted to keep the Win98 partition despite the fact that I specifically asked it to use the entire disk. It never really did confirm anything.
Much to my relief Win98 was gone upon reboot.
The problem with incidents like these (the actual ones) is that it is difficult to collect the necessary information you would need to determine which dots to follow in order to safely evacuate. Who knows where the assailant is? How many of them are there? How are they equipped?
I've been on patrols that were ambushed. These were well trained well disciplined professional soldiers and the first minute or so was still total pandemonium and I really have no recollection of specifically what any of us did. Until we were able to assess the situation the best thing anyone could do was get behind solid cover and figure out the nature of the threat.
The last thing I would want some teacher doing is making tactical decisions about how to get a classroom full of students out of as building, particularly when the teacher has no way to know what is going on anywhere else in the building. The portion of the VT incident that happened in the classroom area lasted 9 minutes. No time to determine the specifics of what was going on and where, consult a building plan to determine evacuation routes, communicate them to the professors in the classrooms, then have them execute the plan. Doing anything other than barricading oneself in a safe room in a situation like this is a tactical mistake.
They have such things. One of the most popular (around here anyway) is the model 870 made by panic button manufacturer Remington.
Maybe I have a sick sense of humor but
driving an object able to kill a person within a split seconds noticemakes me picture a child standing in the middle of the street, his cell phone rings and a text message pops up: You are about to be hit by a car. A split second later a car with a cell phone texting driver mows the kid down.
The above creative work by me is hereby released under whatever CC license will let you turn it into an anti-cell phone texting while driving commercial. Not because I agree but because I think it would be hilarious.
Anyway, the law is indeed 'about' insurance companies if by 'about' you mean 'lobbied for by'. There were already plenty of penalties for running over children whether you were texting or talking or thinking about sailboats. These penalties were plenty sufficient to keep people from running over children for sport.
So you mean that the financial and possible civil penalties a driver faces for slamming into another object, regardless of the cause, are not sufficient to keep people from slamming into other objects?
Nearly everyone I know has a cell phone. Half the people I pass in traffic when I am in large cities either have a bluetooth headset on or are holding a phone to their ears. It has been this way for 5 years. Yet there are not smashed vehicles littering the sides of the roads I drive. I don't have to pull over for a funeral procession more than two or three times per year.
When the RIAA lobbies for some new law to protect the public at large from the imagined evil of pirates they are villified. When the insurance companies do it, they get a pass.
Here in the midwest we have expended just as much effort as you West coasters, only we covered everything with a carpet of lush green grass.
Unfortunately for the herbivores it isn't a food source. All it seems to be good for is selling bags of fertilizer and lawnmowers.
I have been here a long time, pre-karma anyway.
The place has always had drawbacks: spamming; crapflooding; Shoeboy; ACSII art; goatse links; Jon Katz; Michael Sims.
Most of the 'debate' is the same record being played over and over. This article so far is, and certianly will continue to be, no exception. No new ground will be broken and the comments will be nearly identical to what went up during the Napster debate. Despite the lameness filters and low karma post restrictions, Slashdot has far more actual trolling than it ever did when Adequacy crowd was here.
I am here now, subscribing, because there are a small minority of users who actually not only know their stuff but actively participate in fields that are relevant to many of the submissions that go up. There aren't many places one can go on the internet and have a discussion with an actual attorney who actually defends RIAA cases. Bruce Perens doesn't show up just anywhere and comment on FOSS issues. There was some article on here a few days ago about carbon nanotubes, and I don't know carbon nanotubes from cans of paint so I may have been getting hoodwinked, but there seemed to be people posting who actually had more than just cursory knowledge about the things.
Anyway, enough emo about Slashdot. I don't think it has or ever had much credibility as a serious news site but it certianly offers something unique. If you can sift through the massive amount of drivel it makes visiting worth the time.
You should have gone on long enough to include at least one Black Flag song.
And while there were people who upheld it being categorized as art, on principle, even though they knew better, the resulting ramifications are still felt by people who seek public money for their art. The changes made by politicians as a result of the controversy were a polite society's equivalent of rioting. The whole thing was similar to the way actual musicians stood up for 2 Live Crew's right to ramble on in whatever infantile way they wanted.
I've not played the game you mention but I suspect that if Jesse Helms (or whomever his living successor is...I think Helms is deceased) walks in on his kids playing it today, it will be front page news tomorrow. The decisions society makes about which kind of expression is acceptable are mostly based on emotion and emotions can be easily manipulated by those in charge.
It is the only vehicle I've had where I liked using the cruise control, the others all annoyed me by nearly redlining the engine if it lost a couple of MPH.
Because that is what someone will pay.
And you can keep the love.
Yeah, and our public officials are unerring humanitarians who would never attempt to enrich themselves by doing something counter to our interests.
As was pointed out during the Wen Ho Lee case (My Country Against Me), most of the knowledge necessary to build city destroying nuclear devices is already available to the public.
Not to say that your idea won't work but you'd need a good supply of greenhorns.
I'd describe it as a milliamp signal...maybe millivolts depending.
If I turn on a lamp in my house the wires carry more amps than previous and they seem to be OK with it.
This past weekend a girl (I'm serious now...stick with me) wanted to watch some movie or another off the thing so we put it own. I was astounded to find an unskippable commercial....for the movie we were about to watch.
I'm not initiate in all the many angles marketers have devised to get into my brain but I can't figure that one out. I'm about to watch the movie and if it doesn't indoctrinate me into whatever cultural franchise they are trying to create I'm not sure a 2 minute commercial will help.
They may have been doing this all along for movies but the Adult Swim intros remain skippable.
And you were able to apply what you read in 1984 here, to this situation. You were able to draw those parallels and then make a post about it. You know, that really is novel. You are such a smart smart person you are. That you could just take the concepts described in that book, even though it was set in a made up land and involved made up people, and use them to describe your feelings about some current real life situation....that is just so wonderful.
Someone is doing some kind of spying, and a government is involved, and citizens and such, and corporation, and you pull out some concepts from the most famous book in the world about those very same things, that every Western child over the age of 12 has probably read and understood, and you post them here. So clever! I am so jealous of you!
This investment we're making in schools is really paying off I tell you. Critical thinking is at an all time high.
Gah, I doubt Illinois would give you a pass on that FOID, you already have to go through a NICS check when you buy a gun...and you can't carry them can you?
But this is a short run change that everyone is complaining about not being forced to use in the first place, so the costs involved aren't really figuring in yet.
It may turn out that per track prices are driven back down as more digital audio services come online, sign DRM free agreements with labels, etc. For the moment iTunes kind of has this locked up and can indeed ask a premium regardless of their cost.
And it really makes us all safer. After all, Joe Foss has indeed admitted to various acts of aircraft related violence.
A very level headed post, and mostly correct.
My only disagreement is with you claiming that the employer acted correctly. Traditional HR policies are mostly geared around doing everything possible to keep the company from being sued, even if that isn't the 'correct' thing to do morally or ethically or even rationally.
I think lending validity to hypersensitive reactions based on overheard conversations is not a good thing for a company's long term workplace environment. And in the broader sense, pretending that things like this make us safer detracts from real issues that actually would make us safer if we had time or inclination to address them. Firing everyone who verbalizes something that someone might feel is threatening won't get us any closer to figuring out the differences between all those people and the VT shooter.