But I can't. I just can't. This is fucking retarded. I'm embarrassed of a society where an idea like this gets any traction at all.

If Ford isn't going to let me upgrade my soon to be outdated version of Sync which of you guys knows the uber-nerd whose got Ubuntu working on his 2014 Ford Mustang GT?

Yes, the ruggedness is the main priority. Once a piece of hardware is certified and flight-tested, you have so much invested in the computer design that you don't want to just throw away the design because there are faster chips for sale.

And there's the question of whether the extra processing power is beneficial for the task at hand. Why pay more for extra processing power that isn't used anyway? There's likely a finer degree of control and timing now, but it's not like reentry physics has gotten more complicated in the past 12 years.

This probably doesn't happen very often but "I did not see that line". Shutting up now.

No. It's not. He explained it to you perfectly and if you don't understand it then you simply don't understand how any of this works and you're not able to participate in this discussion. He did not say that they could arbitrarily assault people who are not using force of any kind. He told you that they were allowed to escalate to a higher level of force if you fail to comply with them. They issue you a verbal command and you tell them to go fuck themselves for instance. Then they are allowed to beat your ass into compliance. That's the gist of it. They get to shoot you if you decide to try and beat one of them up too. That's because they're carrying a handgun and they are allowed to do whatever it takes to keep that handgun from falling into your hands. Go back and re-read what this AC said and when (if) the light bulb comes on you'll feel better.

"PS I also grew up Dellwood, my childhood home is about 1 mile where they are rioting." Hopefully that's still the case.

I hate to be a dick about Larson because he's died and it's never a great idea to speak poorly of the dead but his "ideas" were mostly ripped off takes on other people's ideas that he saw in popular films. The guy was successful doing this but he really just cranked out cheap copies of things and trends he saw in films. OK, he did that often. Not always but quite often. I'll give him that. There was probably an original idea in there every now and then. Not many of course. He did work in Television after all.

Yes it was however in the case of Buck Rogers the movie did come out in theaters prior to the television series showing up. It was always intended to be the pilot for a new TV series though. I imagine they worked that trick out from their previous experience with Battlestar Galactica but executed it better the second go round.

The problem in the US isn't the absence of such laws, it's the absence of oversight and enforcement of those laws.

Why would you enforce a law that has no explicit penalty, seems like a waste of resources ;)

... conceive of what function such a bit could have, without having some down side..

Power-save -> 0, Performance -> 1

"Connections" was great. It was old even when they aired it but still, you weren't going to get to see that again on PBS and I watched the follow up series too. Definitely long gone. I miss that stuff badly. Television today is abysmal

It's not a lot better, but some: http://www.denverpost.com/news...

Sounds like someone spammed the system.

I try to be a normal guy, but these special interest groups that keep terrorising companies needs to stop. Perhaps it is time to start the same to those that give any money to Greenpeace. I wonder how they would like it if say their lifeblood (cash) was suddenly under constant attack, and they had to focus on defending that as opposed to doing the work they want to do. They say they have 2.9 million people who give them money. Perhaps it is time to show the top donors... well how about all their donor and then companies can start to decide if they want to employee people like that.

Crazy world.

 

I think it's worrisome that my government thinks it should have the ability to get into every single aspect of my life with minimal obstruction because "someone", "somewhere", is doing something they shouldn't be. I am thinking of the children. I'm thinking that unless people stand up to this kind of shit "the children" are going to grow up in a world where they have absolutely no privacy and think it's perfectly acceptable for that to be the case.