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>Specially when he burns alive a cat while laughing.

Covered in episode the first episode. Maybe you weren't paying attention!

Polaroid instant film is awesome and is not like Super 8 at all (except they're both old). There is nothing digital that works as well as Polaroid (or Fuji) instant film. No, carrying around a digital printer doesn't work as well, yet. Integrate the digital printer into the camera so that you don't notice the printer at all, then it will moot the instant film. This Super 8 thing just seems crazy. It's conspicuously added inconvenience where instant film is just the opposite, an instant photo.

>When the lone "insane" person is vindicated, great wealth and success seem to follow.

I must not have been paying attention. When did that ever happen?

Look in that data and tell me how many companies are hiring. These companies are treading water. They are furlough-ing people, laying people off, getting bought by bigger companies looking for a bargain, etc, etc, etc.

I have one of those super cheap knock-offs. It's been the most trouble-free gamepad adapter so far out of: PS3 wireless, PS4 wireless, and even my Steam Controller when I first got it.

I'm in agreement with most of the things you said, and I wasn't really meaning to advocate for Matlab; but rather just to point out another reason why someone might choose it. I used it in college, and at one company I worked at. It was much nicer to work with than LabView. I appreciated the hand-holding I got from Matlab, but eventually became competent enough to do my job in several languages, mainly Python.

>I just dislike contributing to the market share of software I could never afford to run on my personal computer.

I agree and that's one reason I tend toward OSS in courses I teach now, unless there is no practical alternative.

>Oh, and reading and understanding licenses is HARD?!?!? WTF?

Hey, man, you know what? Some people want absolutely nothing to do with legal/compliance folk in large bureaucratic companies. Not that they aren't lovely people, but that involving them in your work is more risk/work than it's personally worth.

>but really, at no time in the 90's and 00's did you think it may be worth some time?

Hearkening back to the 90's and 00's, I'd venture to guess that there may have been some amount NIH syndrome at MS with respect to OSS, in addition to uncertainty as to how future inevitable licensing problems would be resolved in courts.

In addition to the advantages of Matlab mentioned by others, a lot of uni/college freshman level (and even upper level) STEM curricula include one or more courses involving Matlab. They've gotten themselves included in a few textbooks as well.

With less discipline and more self aggrandizing macho bullshit.

I don't require police to martyr themselves. My own problem with the Garner homicide is that I don't think they needed to tackle Garner at all. An even more cynical view is that they wanted to tackle him, wanted an excuse to act violently, and cultivated that situation hoping for that end (not necessarily that they wanted to kill him, but they wanted an arrest, and were game for a use of force). I don't know the whole truth of it but I do know that the basis of it was tax evasion, not an imminent threat to public safety that needed immediate detention at all costs.

Replace the police with robots? No thanks.

>Get dang to ask me to stop, and I will.

Good grief, someone go and tattle to the moderator...

This is just my opinion but I think that trying to bully or intimidate your way through arguments on this subject isn't going to be a useful tactic for gun rights in the long run. IOW, it's going to eventually end in a severe curtailment of gun rights. It works now because of the number of individuals with uncompromising positions on the matter and their voting habits, not because of the strengths of their arguments.

>But consider for a moment how "really unpleasant" the other side is when they blithely talk about using murder to confiscate me and mine's Constitutionally protected property, protected for just this reason.

I must have missed that part. Please consider how much you've overreacted to nearly everything in this subthread; and while you're at it, consider how much that kind of reaction re-enforces a negative stereotype of gun rights proponents as unhinged people prone to making threats of violence.

No, people often use less-formal language when addressing an audience containing subject matter lay-persons and non-experts. Other people also just prefer informal prose; it's less intimidating.

Everyone's favorite faux pas, clip vs magazine, is a mostly useless distinction. Both items offer a similar functionality to decrease the reloading time of their respective guns^W firearms; and there is rarely a case where both a magazine and a clip exist for a particular gun^W firearm so it shouldn't be a cause for much confusion. It doesn't help the gun-nomenclature pedant's case that magazines are commonly marketed by gun/shooting retailers as "clips". Another one is bullet vs cartridge vs round but depending upon context bullet is the only one that is unambiguously connected to guns^W firearms.

I'm a gun^W firearm owner, and TBH I don't see a lot of diversity of opinion among firearm-rights activists; so while it might be easy in some cases to debate only those who share my interests, it isn't particularly productive. It's up to firearm-rights activists to accommodate debate from laypersons (and politely educate them if needed), just as doctors, scientists, and other experts must do so for respective laypersons they encounter in each of their fields.

>Why else would there be racial covenants explicitly excluding non-caucasians?

Late to the party but I think Jews were also usually excluded.

The chief DA is elected in Texas. The police chief isn't elected but works for the Mayor/City Council. Many judges are elected and others are appointees. Differences in local politics and structure exist, but IMO it is fair to say that those positions are political.

>>and must appeal to the masses.

As to GP's assertion that those people must appeal to "the masses", I think that one must be very careful as to how they define "the masses"; to me "masses" is not the correct word since IMO there is usually a much smaller faction of the local population(s) of people that vote, and/or are active in local politics.

>Sure, letting a murderer off

http://www.falseconfessions.org/fact-a-figures

It's a Pilatus light turboprop. ICE, Immigration Customs Enforcement ~7 years ago. http://flightaware.com/photos/view/53716-5521e014cab4a6aa9de...

N404KR ? Or another?

MTailor or M-Tailor? Looks like y'all may have an imitator.

Buying several suits? Get yourself on an airplane to Hong Kong. Go to Nathan Road. Be accosted by a hundred Bangladeshi salesmen trying to drag you into their tailor storefront. Pick one you like. Day 1 get fitted, day 2, second fitting. Maybe allow another day for corrections. Before you go, do some research on fabric and stuff, and take photos of styles you like. If you don't know what to pay before you set foot in the shop, you might pay too much.

I'm not sure who should be more embarrassed by the video. I'm not exactly a fan of so-called piracy, but neither am I am fan of the companies (their business practices) which prevailed in the lawsuit against the man. I gave the guy a view.

>Soon, everybody here will know the man, imagine being him and walking on the street..

I predict a lot of high-fives and free pints.

How do you like that jingle in the "You would not steal a car" one? Fun fact, it was pirated by the anti-piracy groups involved in its production.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111201/17275016947/anti-...

As useless as walmart's website is, I doubt that HN could break it by simply visiting. As the other poster said, if it's broke, that's probably due to black Fri/holiday traffic.

I'm not suggesting, I'm pointing out the fact that the FBI has systematically perverted the courts with bogus testimony, and for a long time.

I'd suggest that the fraction of wrongly convicted people is much higher than the number of those who are/were known to be wrongly convicted.

>People are not being wrongly incarcerated (wholesale) for violent crimes that dont exist, not being violent is sufficient to avoid incarceration for such crimes.

That's absurd. You're completely ignoring the face that the FBI invented completely bogus disciplines of forensic science (hair analysis, bite marks) and self-certified experts in those disciplines who then went forth and helped convict scores of people for two decades.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...

>The United States legal systems are massively distributed, fault tolerant, resource starved systems that consume exclusively dirty input from malicious users.

I like that assessment.

Getting rid of weeds will be a continuous task. Farmers don't want to run tractors down rows any more than they have to, nor will they want to run a full sized tractor full-time.

Blocking breaks webpages sometimes.

Part time blocking can create even more focused profiles Poisoning the well is better if you aren't willing to or can't commit to 100% blocking.

Obfuscating snoopers' profiles is more satisfying.

Lighting which slowly increases in intensity in concert with an alarm clock.

Home lighting which is activated by a motion sensor but doesn't blind you or awaken others but helps prevent you from stumbling through the home in the middle of the night.

Lighting which could be coordinated with media controls.

Simply more economical way to move or add an additional light switch than hiring an electrician to do it the old fashioned way.

But that's like saying that your telephone or PC does not communicate until you invoke it. Arguably, that may be the default mode of the devices, but it is not strictly true ("hackers", legal & illegal wiretaps, etc.). You're depending upon the device to behave as it should, but you don't have complete authority over the device.