I would imagine the easiest way to nullify this law, were it to pass, would be for websites to post a generic disclaimer that all comments posted are works of fiction written by the webmaster.
As a conservative I'm a little disturbed that you claim to be one yet would be happy about increased censorship of government employees. Real conservatives are against government interference, even when the government is your employer.
I'm not impressed. I can find content just like what you described all over blogs, and the US Government hasn't seem to have gotten to those yet. Are you saying that yours was just that more subversive? Were you that close to exposing the "truth" that "they" don't want us to know? Are you sure you don't just have an inflated opinion of the importance of your own work? Perhaps a bit paranoid?
Or do you think it might have been those "damn Jews"?
What irrational replies? I've seen maybe 3 vaguely anti-Chavez posts in this thread. This is one big Chavez love fest going on here. Shutting down a news outlet? Oh, that's ok, it was just the "Fox News of South America!" Where is your supposed reverence for free-speech-all-else-be-damned?
+5 Insightful? Only on Slashdot.
You're overlooking a few things. First, SKYSCRAPERS being demolished in a major US city, causing tremendous damage to the economy and infrastructure for years and years, as well as the fact that innocent people were MURDERED by terrorist agents is a pretty big fucking deal. The knowledge that we were woefully unprepared for it and that foreign agents are actively working to do it again is also a pretty big fucking deal. Saying that disease kills more people, or accidents kill more people and therefore terrorism threats should be ignored is so bloody asinine and outrageous.
People like you apparently would be content to have building after building come down, and as long as there are still natural and accidental causes of death that have higher death tolls, no big deal.
Unreal.
It is more like leaving your wallet at the scene of a crime, but in this case the ease of modifying the tags creates instant reasonable doubt. Apple isn't doing anything to track or monitor you, so the "nothing to hide" analogy doesn't work here.
The reasons given here are valid and pretty obvious reasons why you'd want to store binaries in version control. But what is the big advantage of storing deltas of binaries, instead of complete files like CVS? Is it just disk space savings?
That's like, just your opinion man. It's just a cultural thing. People in these other countries don't even want free speech - they'd be offended if one of their lawmakers suggested it. Just because it flies in America doesn't mean its "right". In fact, these days, adoption by America is a reason to look at an idea with more scrutiny.
The 5MB Apple ProFile sold for $3499 in 1981. If a Lisa or Apple III doesn't count as a "Desktop", then certainly the original IBM PC does, and its first 5MB hard drive cost $2000.
My point is many people often explain away even the most complex aspects of human behavior in evolutionary terms, drawn strictly from their imaginations, without offering even the slightest bit of evidence in support. It merely has to "sound plausible", then everyone sits back, nods their heads in agreement, and mods +5 Insightful.
I accept the theory of evolution so please don't mod me "-1 Creationist". I'm just saying these fanciful "explanations" are about as rigorous as Freud.
But are these points relevant? Did the article feature young earthers criticizing the claims in any way?
I don't understand why we have to have the religion debate every time an article mentions a date more than 6000 years in the past.
In theory, sure. That's the problem with all of these breathless pronouncements of the post 9/11 police state - a few hastily written laws creates a lot of potential abuses, in theory. There are very few totally clean (i.e., not tainted by some relationship to real terrorists) examples of these abuses. How many times have we heard that Bush critics can be thrown in Gitmo as enemy combatants? Could it technically happen? I guess, if you go by the letter of the law. Has it ever happened? No chance.
Your best example you folks trot out is Jose Padilla, a terrorist who had his civil rights abused. Hardly a clean example.
And 7,000 seems to satisfy my uninformed beliefs better than 500. I just assumed the number of amputees has by now greatly exceeded the death toll. I've heard analysts talking about how this will be a boon to the prosthetics industry and that we'll see advances in prosthetics faster now that demand is so much higher. I know there's got to be many eye and ear and hand injuries that are equally disabling that aren't counted there, but I'm still shocked to see a ballpark figure of "over 500".
Only 500 soldiers have lost limbs since the start of the war? Why does that sound so unlikely? We've been hearing all along that the death toll is so much lower than previous US wars because of advances in trauma care that allow soldiers to survive injuries that were once not survivable, but we're seeing a huge increase in limb loss in the trade off.
... what the issue is? When I click the link to the forum post, this is the question:
"I am considering buying this new Airport, but I will need to set up a VPN between it and my work location. Can this device cope with doing that? The old Airport Extreme could not."
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the summary. The old Airport Extreme could not? The summary says "These issues were not experienced in Apple's earlier Airport Extreme".
Does this mean I can't use my Cisco VPN client to connect to my work VPN? Or are people trying to use the Airport Extreme Base Station as VPN hardware (which it is not)?
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I would imagine the easiest way to nullify this law, were it to pass, would be for websites to post a generic disclaimer that all comments posted are works of fiction written by the webmaster.
Sorry about that. I'll keep my point but redirect it toward a hypothetical pseduoconservative facist sympathizer.
As a conservative I'm a little disturbed that you claim to be one yet would be happy about increased censorship of government employees. Real conservatives are against government interference, even when the government is your employer.
Maybe you're not telling us everything?
(could it be the Irish?)
I'm not impressed. I can find content just like what you described all over blogs, and the US Government hasn't seem to have gotten to those yet. Are you saying that yours was just that more subversive? Were you that close to exposing the "truth" that "they" don't want us to know? Are you sure you don't just have an inflated opinion of the importance of your own work? Perhaps a bit paranoid?
Or do you think it might have been those "damn Jews"?
"Freedom from paying for goods and services" has never been one of our freedoms. That is a recent perversion of the term.
What irrational replies? I've seen maybe 3 vaguely anti-Chavez posts in this thread. This is one big Chavez love fest going on here. Shutting down a news outlet? Oh, that's ok, it was just the "Fox News of South America!" Where is your supposed reverence for free-speech-all-else-be-damned?
Right, because as we all know, humanity was atheistic until the 20th century, around the same time when scientific progress began its steady decline.
+5 Insightful? Only on Slashdot. You're overlooking a few things. First, SKYSCRAPERS being demolished in a major US city, causing tremendous damage to the economy and infrastructure for years and years, as well as the fact that innocent people were MURDERED by terrorist agents is a pretty big fucking deal. The knowledge that we were woefully unprepared for it and that foreign agents are actively working to do it again is also a pretty big fucking deal. Saying that disease kills more people, or accidents kill more people and therefore terrorism threats should be ignored is so bloody asinine and outrageous. People like you apparently would be content to have building after building come down, and as long as there are still natural and accidental causes of death that have higher death tolls, no big deal. Unreal.
It is more like leaving your wallet at the scene of a crime, but in this case the ease of modifying the tags creates instant reasonable doubt. Apple isn't doing anything to track or monitor you, so the "nothing to hide" analogy doesn't work here.
The reasons given here are valid and pretty obvious reasons why you'd want to store binaries in version control. But what is the big advantage of storing deltas of binaries, instead of complete files like CVS? Is it just disk space savings?
Why would it need to withstand terrorist attacks? I thought those were just a myth.
http://www.xtube.com/ and http://www.pornotube.com/ beat them to it.
Let's be honest, that's what we're talking about here.
That's like, just your opinion man. It's just a cultural thing. People in these other countries don't even want free speech - they'd be offended if one of their lawmakers suggested it. Just because it flies in America doesn't mean its "right". In fact, these days, adoption by America is a reason to look at an idea with more scrutiny.
The 5MB Apple ProFile sold for $3499 in 1981. If a Lisa or Apple III doesn't count as a "Desktop", then certainly the original IBM PC does, and its first 5MB hard drive cost $2000.
My point is many people often explain away even the most complex aspects of human behavior in evolutionary terms, drawn strictly from their imaginations, without offering even the slightest bit of evidence in support. It merely has to "sound plausible", then everyone sits back, nods their heads in agreement, and mods +5 Insightful.
I accept the theory of evolution so please don't mod me "-1 Creationist". I'm just saying these fanciful "explanations" are about as rigorous as Freud.
When did the theory of evolution devolve into dream analysis?
But are these points relevant? Did the article feature young earthers criticizing the claims in any way? I don't understand why we have to have the religion debate every time an article mentions a date more than 6000 years in the past.
Wow - right out of the gate! First post and we're already into creationism bashing!
In theory, sure. That's the problem with all of these breathless pronouncements of the post 9/11 police state - a few hastily written laws creates a lot of potential abuses, in theory. There are very few totally clean (i.e., not tainted by some relationship to real terrorists) examples of these abuses. How many times have we heard that Bush critics can be thrown in Gitmo as enemy combatants? Could it technically happen? I guess, if you go by the letter of the law. Has it ever happened? No chance.
Your best example you folks trot out is Jose Padilla, a terrorist who had his civil rights abused. Hardly a clean example.
Is there any actual evidence that unwittingly selling a sandwich to someone on this list would actually put a deli owner in legal jeopardy?
And 7,000 seems to satisfy my uninformed beliefs better than 500. I just assumed the number of amputees has by now greatly exceeded the death toll. I've heard analysts talking about how this will be a boon to the prosthetics industry and that we'll see advances in prosthetics faster now that demand is so much higher. I know there's got to be many eye and ear and hand injuries that are equally disabling that aren't counted there, but I'm still shocked to see a ballpark figure of "over 500".
Only 500 soldiers have lost limbs since the start of the war? Why does that sound so unlikely? We've been hearing all along that the death toll is so much lower than previous US wars because of advances in trauma care that allow soldiers to survive injuries that were once not survivable, but we're seeing a huge increase in limb loss in the trade off.
Does anyone know if this statistic is accurate?
... what the issue is? When I click the link to the forum post, this is the question:
"I am considering buying this new Airport, but I will need to set up a VPN between it and my work location. Can this device cope with doing that? The old Airport Extreme could not."
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the summary. The old Airport Extreme could not? The summary says "These issues were not experienced in Apple's earlier Airport Extreme".
Does this mean I can't use my Cisco VPN client to connect to my work VPN? Or are people trying to use the Airport Extreme Base Station as VPN hardware (which it is not)?
Maybe its because they need an effective CEO.