This was a retired COP. Even under the most fascist gun control regime, this is the kind of guy that's going to STILL be armed.
Not in England, he wouldn't be; the majority of cops aren't allowed to carry firearms either, only the firearms division.
The fact is, there was an argument and it got physical. We'll have to wait for FACTS before we can judge the events, instead of making them up to justify our point of view.
To be clear... it seems that was not an argument. The old man was harassing the person who was texting, which resulted in loud rebukes and other defensive actions.
In that case, the argument of self-defense would be invalid. Clearly; aggravated 2nd degree murder.
The shooter should be hanged.
Well he's not texting anymore. And the guy with the gun isn't shooting people anymore. I think this is a win for movie-go'ers.
Except the ones present during the altercation, that got the shit scared out of them.
By the way loud argument and shooting are both way more disruptive than texting
I motion that guns be banned from theatres, and there should be signs hung up that say "Please check your weapons at the door," and "No shooting during the movie.".
Solaris has actually been quite good since Solaris 10.
Solaris 10 was developed and released (in 2005) by Sun, five years before Oracle acquired them.
I used to run Solaris on my UltraSPARC boxes at home until Oracle made that very difficult.
I'm afraid that SPARC and Solaris are now nothing but historical curiosities to all but the wealthiest who are locked in to Oracle's platform.
It's too bad Oracle won't invest any time to port some of the better aspects of Solaris to Linux.
There's no point. While Oracle tries to milk the cash cow and sweat their assets, Linux will gradually overtake Solaris all on its own.
Oracle will begin the fade into obscurity like the other dinosaurs before it (ICL, Tandem, DEC, Compaq, HP, Microsoft...)
Nobody hires IBM because they're cheap. You hire IBM because you want it done right the first time, on time. That said, that's a $15 per customer for what is I'm guessing a monthly billing process.
12 people built and ran instagram before it was bought out by facebook. They created $1.2 billion dollars of value. That's $100 million each. To generate $100 million in value in the manufacturing sector requires considerably more resources, long term investments and planning. And employees. And management.
The mail order company I worked for, their online division kept growing and growing the share of sales but they didn't lay off anyone in the mail order division due to loyalty to the employees. But they also didn't hire anyone new. Newcomers to their market don't even have a printed catalog anymore, and mail orders are processed by the IT staff on an ad hoc basis. Newcomer companies just have 2-3 employees where legacy companies have 20 or more along with 10 years of paper records to store and organize.
Yesterday I wrote a script that automates 80% of my coworker's job which was manual data entry for our system, which will allow our department to shed 1-2 jobs over the next 2-3 years.
Heck the financial industry used to be 100% manually processed and employed many many thousands of people across the country, now most trades are processed through four or five "large" firms who employ a couple hundred employees each in just a few cities.
Brick and mortar retail is seeing a decline matched almost dollar for dollar with gains in online retail, especially on holiday sales events.
If you don't see the data, it's because you're actively avoiding looking for it.
CENTRAL SERVICES!
We do the work, You do the pleasure!
Google resents NSA intrusion, because it horns in on their turf...
Calling First Contact "great" is stretching the truth a bit. It was watchable, mostly.
The whole system is a bit broken to be honest, and feels like shoehorning answers.
On rewatch now, I find that Generations and Insurrection aren't too bad, aside from making Worf the butt-of-jokes. I find TSFS ok too, aside from the campy hair cuts. And I actually accepted the reboot, at least it was an original story.
This last travesty I hated, but it would have been so easy to fix. Just call Cumberbach "Harrison" all the way through, don't make any reference to Khan or eugenics. Remove the stupid "KHAAANNN" shout, remove the galaxy-spanning transporter, and think of a better fix than the super-blood.
The opening scene on the red planet was great, I accepted Pegg hanging a lantern on hiding the ship underwater, fine with the volcano solution (despite the term "cold fusion"
It all went downhill when they brought Khan in, crashing out below TMP and Nemesis.
It did inspire me to start reading the books though.
This version of Windows is guaranteed to be great. Windows has been going back and forth between one crap version and one great version for over a decade.
It is kind of like some IQ test pattern matching questions:
Win 95 - crap
Win 98 - great
Win ME - crap
Win XP - great
Vista - crap
Win 7 - great
Win 8 - crap
Win 9 - (see the pattern?)
Yes
Now
Star Trek 1 TMP - crap
Star Trek 2 TWOK - great
Star Trek 3 TSFS - crap
Star Trek 4 TVH - great
Star Trek 5 TFF - crap
Star Trek 6 TUC - great
Star Trek 7 Generations - crap
Star Trek 8 First Contact - great
Star Trek 9 Insurrection - crap
Star Trek 10 Nemesis - gre.... oh bugger the system fell apart
Systems only exist until they are broken.
I fear you're right but hope you're wrong. My laptop is about 5 years old and I've used it heavily (I wrote Nobots on it, see my sig if you're curious) and have been shopping for a replacement. But all the new ones are either Chrome, W8, or Apple. Apple would be acceptable if they weren't so expensive, but I don't trust Google any more and W8 is an unusable clusterfuck.
And the guy at the store said installing Linux on one (he had Chrome and Windows) would void the warrantee. Screw that, if it has a factory hardware defect that isn't readily apparent I'm screwed.
So I really hope you're wrong and Microsoft pulls its head out of its ass. I do NOT want a phone' interface on my computer and I don't want a computer interface on my phone.
It kind of bums me out a little.
You're right, laptops today suck. I'm on my second T410s -- I destroyed the first one.
As I was born in the 80s I'm not scared about putting whatever software I want on. I want a laptop with a
* Trackpoint
* Matte Screen
* Proper keyboard, not chiclets
* Seperate page up/page down/home/end/insert/delete/function/print screen keys
They just don't exist anymore, even the thinkpad has fallen with the T430.
Bottom line, if it matters, it makes slightly more sense to drive on the right side. The opposite of the way the brits do it.
I think you'll find that it is the British who are right on this point and it is Johnny Foreigner who is wrong.
Meanwhile getting drunk, driving a car and actually killing 4 people doing that gets no jail time at all. US law needs justice like a fish needs a bycicle.
This goes with pretty much every other aspect of life in america, I don't see why you're shocked.
As long as they have emergency lights on the vehicle it should be OK.
Speeding without indication to other drivers would be to cause unnecessary danger, and it will of course cause someone to cut them off just because as well as some cops stopping them instead.
As long as they have emergency lights on the vehicle it should be OK.
Speeding without indication to other drivers would be to cause unnecessary danger, and it will of course cause someone to cut them off just because as well as some cops stopping them instead.
Unmarked police cars often speed without lights on. At least they used to 15 years ago when there was a police presence on the motorway.
The ones that cause danger are the cars doing 40mph on the motorways you have a stream of traffic trying to merge doing 60, they encounter an idiot going dangerously slow in the inside lane, and a wall of lorries overtaking said idiot at 56mph.
Ui motorwys need a minimum speed, with the death penalty for those going slower.
The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong -- until the next person quits or is fired.
