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>> ^WKB:

>> ^kceaton1:
Of course this has nothing on Korea, China, etc...

Of course it does. Those nations all think that 'football' should primarily use feet to manipulate the ball. How absurd is that?!?


You're crazy!!!11!

>> ^kceaton1:

Of course this has nothing on Korea, China, etc...


Of course it does. Those nations all think that 'football' should primarily use feet to manipulate the ball. How absurd is that?!?

@NetRunner

I guess the point I was trying to make was that I have personally seen the system fail in the last 6 months. My brother was a fucked up mess mentally, and to this day is still irrational to the point that it's like trying to talk to a wall on many topics......especially topics that landed him in the court system. He's not quite as irate as he was, since he got the shit kicked out of him so bad in prison holding (contempt of court charge and was held until his trial could be completed and him sentenced, got probation). He was beaten by 5-8 guys, which they've only charged 2.....broke his shoulder bad enough that they thought he'd need surgery to repair it for the first couple days after it happened. He now has a virtually unusable arm, he can't lift it even as high as his should and there for awhile he couldn't grip anything or raise it beyond his waist. He was also knocked unconcious and had his head split open. And the kicker here was that prior to this they kept him in solitary due to his outbursts related to his mental condition. Within 24 hours of being put into the public areas of the prison, this happened to him. And they didn't press charges until he brought it up with his probation officer and they had no record of it when he mentioned it. They also withheld pain medications....and have now refused to pay medical expenses for what happened in jail...they've even billed him for the trip to and from the hospital for treatment.

Now....this incident could have been prevented a minimum of 3 months ago when they sent him to a mental facility in another city ...for evaluation. They told my parents he was going to be evaluated for a mental disorder (because this happened in the past and even though he went to months of treatment they never corrected it, just covered it). It turned out, the only thing he was being evaluated for was mental competency....does he know right from wrong. That's it. They didn't confirm if he was bipolar like previous diagnosed, or borderline personality disorder like previous diagnosed....or schizophrenic like they thought he was before bipolar was the diagnosis. So they took someone who had previously been diagnosed with a mental disorder, tested him for competency, held him in jail and on house arrest due to the mental disorder, and put then him on trial untreated for his mental disorder. He was put back into jail when he failed to take medications while on house arrest. What sane, rational thinking person would refuse to take a pill a day so he could stay in a house where he can eat regular food, sleep in a bed, take showers regularly..etc? And for that matter, what sane rational thinking person would chew out a judge and then refuse to take a piss test and land himself in jail in the first place when they were going to let him go bail free?

There was ONE, just ONE sheriff in the whole court building that took it upon himself seeing that my brother was not thinking properly...to try to get him in and out of the building without arresting him. All of the others wanted to take him down as soon as he left the court room...he told them no and that he would take responsibility for it. And from there on, everything else was an utter failure. The court system that could force treatment on him to get him back to normal didn't do it, and they are the only ones who can unless you get power of attorney over someone through a lengthy 6+ month process that costs a nice chunk of change.

There's just a near complete lack of division for criminals aside from the worst crimes such as rape, child crimes, and murder...after that..everyone is a criminal whether they truly understand their guilt or not or whether they can be "cured" or not. Personally after seeing what my brother has had happen to him, I think I'd rather be dead than go to prison on any charge......they don't foster anything but breakdown physical, mental, or emotional in those places.

This is a great idea until you hoist your bike 5 meters up off the street, then some other bike nerd comes along and parks his on the same pole 4 meters up.

Now you'll never get that package all the way across town in 15 minutes & will be fired from your messenger job. The kicker is, you're probably now deeper in debt from laying out for this ridiculous motorized lock. You're out of a job & owe a couple G's on your Discover card. Your APR skyrocketed after the recession, and unless you marry rich, you're not going to be out of this hole for years. Of course, the only rich broad who's going to date an inked up, out of work bike messenger is just doing it to piss off daddy, so you'll probably get some crazy blue blood sex out of the deal. But you're just not husband material, and waking up to a pair of Nantucket Red shorts on the foot of you bed isn't going to pay those bills.

Kind of a neat concept though.

I like how the kid starts out his miraculous vision all causal. =]

"saw my dad.. in a little room.. talkin' ta god."

Then the kicker..!!

"Uh, yeeeah. [god is so big] he can, actually, fit the entire world.. into his hands.."

lmao! The look on Gretchen Carlson's face was ppppriceless. = D

>> ^grinter:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^rychan:
Hmm... Some Internet contrarian are saying that an after-the-game penalty kick (such as this) is over when the ball is stopped, and that by stopping the forward motion of the ball this play was dead. The Fifa rule book doesn't seem entirely clear on when such penalty kicks are over. But I think this is definitely a goal and the ball was not stopped.

The penalty kick is stopped once it's forward momentum of the ball is spent. Obviously in this case it wasn't spent...the was no second touch to propel it towards the goal...it just came off and spun in. If the keeper had stopped it completely and then tossed it into the goal it wouldn't have counted.

I agree that it's a goal, but..
the forward momentum of the ball was spent, ..on rotational momentum, ..which was cashed in later for new forward momentum at a higher rate of exchange.


Ok fine the point is that it was not propelled towards goal by the kicker a second time.

They're not illegal, just immoral. Here in Canada, a company recently got some bad press when it was revealed they were selling these kinds of books - catalogues of available government grants and low-interest loans. The kicker was, all of the information they packaged in the catalogs was publicly available for free.>> ^NordlichReiter:

Looks like bullshit.
A scam. Something about this seems illegal.

@volumptuous

You have found it to be a nice thing for you, and that's great, I just have this sneaky suspicion that a large portion of those buying them will fiddle with them for a while and then realise that it's too big to carry around with them every day, so will use their phone, or not featured enough to use for other things they want, and so use a laptop or desktop. It's a suspicion of mine, and it may well be proven to be wrong.

I don't care where any given piece of tech comes from. I think the iPhone 4 looks like a very nice phone indeed... I won't get one because a) They are on plans that are over what I spend for a mobile phone, and b) I really don't like the whole app approval, must use iTunes, do things our way malarky... and no, I don't want to Jailbreak my phone to get around that, I'd prefer to support an OS that doesn't require it to be circumvented to be useful.

But I can see that it's an awesome phone that'll make many people really happy... very nicely designed too.

I just don't think this middle ground between a laptop and a mobile needed by as big a section of the population as is being touted. People think the idea is cool... this flat piece of tech that looks like it's from the future... but I think the huge success of the iPhone is that it's all those things, and it can fit in your pocket.

That's the kicker for awesome touchscreen phones... they fit in your pocket... they can be with you all the time. I guess I just don't see the use for one myself for the large portion of the population... for a smaller subset, like yourself, sure, they're wonderful...

Again though:

Macs... pretty awesome machines, and if Apple themselves, and their users, didn't go around pretending they were faultless and never crash and were god's gift to the computer world, then I'd like them even more. I still want one, sure, but can't afford one.

iPhones: Nice phones indeed, absolutely a revolutionary device with it's interaction and the App Store... I just have the better option of Android now, and want to go with that instead

iPad: To me... just lacking any real purpose for the the population at large. Yes, great in certain situations... just not that many.

Yep, it's fairly common to have two kickers, to keep the blockers guessing as to which direction the ball is gonna go.>> ^rychan:

I'm guessing he was supposed to miss the ball completely but accidentally scraped it.

^ All a matter of context I suppose. As I recall Bruce thought the same at one time, never make kicks above the waist. Your far better off targeting the shins, knees, thighs, and midsection. Mainly because their closer to the foot, utilizing both travel time and energy. Lower kicks can also fall beneath an opponents guard very easily. However, after training with several strong high kickers (i.e. Chuck Norris) Bruce changed his tune slightly, if the opportunity presents itself even a flashy high kick can be extremely devastating. Take one from the master, "be as water" nothing should be written in stone.

The problem is, the most popular dojos/dojangs you find today are either Tae Kwon Do or Karate and anyone who's been to a TKD/Karate tourney knows that high kicks are the only way to score points.

I had an idea for economic recovery :

national 50/50
It would be run by the state lottery commissions, except be a multi-state endeavor, like the PowerBall or MegaMillions. (hopefully every state would get on board)
50% of the face value ($1) of all tickets sold would go to the winner, and the other 50% would go to paying down the national debt.
And since there is always 1 winner, you could do it less frequently, maybe once per month.
Here's the kicker though - since it's on a national level, the winnings would be federal tax free (otherwise it would be more like a 25/75 instead of a 50/50). It could be counted as income for state and local taxes though.

>> ^yellowc:
Also please stop comparing this to the iPod/iPhone, if you think a bigger screen is a "small change", you need to take a course in Human Computer Interaction and then come back and repeat that sentence. I also bet you think that porting a desktop application to a mobile is just shrinking it down? Please.


Really? Because a larger iPod is exactly what this is. Whether or not that's a bad thing is up to you, but don't kid yourself; this is a bigger iPod, which allows some enhanced functionality... higher-res video and easier-to-read ebooks. That's all I get from it. Same ol' DRM, same ol' closed, propriety system. The kicker for me is that the muppets refer to this as a revolutionary way to browse the Internet, which is true if you like looking at blue Legos instead of being able to use Flash.

But jokes aside, I've had one event burn the realization into me that (airport) security is a people problem, not a technical problem (until we get real AIs with a creativity chip). San Francisco Airport, February 2002. Me a non US citizen, dressed all in black, longish hair and the infamous "ZZZ" on the ticket.

First, standard screening: the security people (mexican) are bitching at their supervisor (thai) in a strange mix of english, spanish and something I didn't get and I got the overall impression that they had to use hands and feet just to be able to communicate in broad terms. The guy giving me a rub-down with the wand didn't notice that the wands battery fell out until I pointed it out to him. He did the wand-to-wrist-watch test and failed to notice the missing beep. Just going through the motions, not really caring about the rest and seemed pretty harassed by just about everything

Second screening at the gate: I put my jacket to one side and my carry-on to the other. While I was more or less enthusastically frisked by another minimum wage security person, another was puzzeling if the math books he found in my carry on were a threat to national security. Here's the kicker: my jacket was pretty much worn out with holes in the pocket so you could reach all the way around inside. Perfect hiding spot of just about anything nasty and would warrant a closer look, right? Except noone even bothered to look at the jacket. Not once.

I can tell you, I felt very safe getting into my seat after boarding.

Ever since then I'm a fully paid up subscriber to Bruce Schneiers message that making people feel secure by doing blatant things with their rights isn't the same as making people secure by actually doing your job. So please, dear politicos and airport owners, pay the security people at the airport more than minimum wage. Give them job satisfaction and an incentive to do their job right. And quit wanking over cool tech stuff you saw in early 90s Schwarzenegger movies that just doesn't work in real life.

Upon further research: this story.
The kicker is that he'd do it again, if he can get his mom's permission.

(Also, it appears to be dead again. I only found it because it's in this compilation.)