Comment Re:Expensive and fragile (Score 1) 96
"cuts out when...a bird lands in front of it or something" With a sufficiently-powerful light, that situation would only last for a fraction of a second.
And then you get Internet and fried chicken!
"cuts out when...a bird lands in front of it or something" With a sufficiently-powerful light, that situation would only last for a fraction of a second.
And then you get Internet and fried chicken!
More cancer too. Why not jump right up to X-Rays?
Fuck it, gamma rays.
I vote for death rays.
Spend any amount of time on Twitter and it is clear that "abuse" in forms other than malicious is rampant. For example, the guy with 17k followers who follows 18k people. His whole Twitter ring is a meaningless bunch of follows/followers/retweets designed to make people look (or feel) popular. In the end, it is just noise.
Drug sniffing dogs are no more addicted to drugs than bomb sniffing dogs are addicted to explosives, cash sniffing dogs addicted to cash or cadaver sniffing dogs addicted to dead people. Seriously, dogs have keen noses and will find whatever they are trained to find. The rumor that dogs are turned into drug addicts in order to find drugs is pure unadulterated bullshit.
Except this one cash sniffing dog I saw -- gold grills; Rolex; diamond studs in his ears as large as dog biscuits...
Today's nerds do more meth than they used to. In fairness, the hours we're being pressured to work do require some form of amphetamines.
The older, more refined nerd prefers Adderall.
The even older, even more refined nerds prefer a good night's sleep. And alcohol.
Police offices these days are crooks who reinterpret the law as they choose.
Generalize much?
A long time ago we asked to not be burdened with the task of policing ourselves. The opposite extreme is the Gestapo, and we've been inching closer ever since.
That was a second detention, done without probable cause (since he had already dealt with the reason for the stop), and was therefore unlawful.
The lack of probable cause is not related to the fact that the officer already dealt with the reason for the stop. Hypothetically speaking, on the officer's return to the vehicle he could have noticed something that would lead to the moving violation turning into a longer detention. That was apparently not the case here.
Although Dig Dug would be an obvious choice too.
And Mr. Do. But the open world of Minecraft offers near unmatched digging-based time wasting without the added stress of increasing level difficulty. And the possibility of finding shiny blue diamonds...Oh my, I do believe I'm a tad flush.
Kobalt Digging Shovel and Kobalt Fiberglass Pick Mattock are my favorites for digging.
Is there an Android port available yet?
Maybe people will stop playing this waste of bandwidth.
If you can think of a better program with which to spend three hours digging then I'd like to hear it.
Wrong.
It's a crime. It's a computer crime, and you're supposed to know that.
By the letter of the law it is a computer crime, but by intention it is an act of vandalizing a computer. Those are two very different things. If he looked up test answers, changed grades, or altered attendance records, then I would accept it as a computer crime. This is an instance of blind application of a law.
'hacking' needs to have some lower bounds, and this sounds more like a case of simple vandalism then any kind of intrusion.
This isn't even close to hacking or any kind of computer crime. I'm surprised they didn't throw in hate crime charges for good measure.
I started programming at age 10 on a Vic-20. By high school (1987) I wanted nothing to do with literature classes, but I had it crammed down my throat that one needed to be well rounded, and science and mathematics just weren't enough (I didn't go to Catholic school, so that isn't a literal cramming down my throat). Then came the magnet schools, and their more targeted programs; but alas, it was too late for me.
My opinion: Kids need to be well rounded coming out of high school. Writing should be emphasized more, based on the writing quality of my peers and those younger than me. What we need to change is the idea that we must go to college, and that trade jobs are for blue collar people.
I fear we have created a chasm between the college and no-college crowd, and a strict division of college and no-college jobs. College people largely end up with high-level skills; no-college people end up with practical skills that used to be viewed as essential. We college people have divested ourselves of having to truly know that world. We consume at a level that allows us -- and sometimes even requires us -- to live in blissful ignorance.
In conclusion: Take your college degree and learn how to make your own sausage. Or bread (without a machine). Or soap. Or operating system.
Why don't they just put up a normal sized fence, but cover it in cock lube so that it's really slippery and anyone who tries to climb it will just fall off?
To prevent people from jumping over, they should put tasers along the top, with computer-guided targeting systems that will shoot the tasers into the genitalia of anyone jumping the fence.
If somebody does make it over, they can just beat the person in the groin with sticks.
Sure, then the White House grounds would be inundated with masochists getting their jollies by scaling the fence; soon, as the prisons fill with them the ACLU gets involved, declaring the security practice "discriminatory," and our courts are clogged with lawsuits declaring the right to have one's testicles electrocuted is guaranteed in the Constitution. The Department of Health and Human Services will find some US code that can be interpreted loosely to agree with that assertion and circumvent Congress, forcing states to provide Testicle Electrocution centers. Due to cost concerns the states will be allowed to make electric car charging stations dual purpose ("charge your electric car...or your nuts"), but soon angry parents will protest because charging stations near schools will have to allow guys to pull out their nuts in public. The teachers' unions won't allow the government to move the charging stations because they are in bed with the "green" movement, so now regular old perverts will hang out at the stations and pretend they are electrocuting their nuts.
In conclusion, your idea will lead to perverts showing their balls to school girls, you insensitive clod.
It would make more sense for them to practice at the "real" White House, and have Obama move to the remote "fake" White House. Is there any reason the POTUS needs to be physically located in downtown DC?
Proximity to lobbyists and think tanks?
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
