We don't kill people for the same reasons as those countries.
That's hardly relevant. The point is that you kill people, not what your rationalisations are for killing people.
The death penalty is up to the states.
No, the death penalty is up to the American people. Apparently most of them are fine with it. In addition, it doesn't have to be up to the states. The federal government could outlaw it (even if it takes changing the constitution). Apparently they are fine with it too.
The reason capital punishment is outlawed in Europe is because all of the countries together (through various European institutions such as the European Union) decided that it was against basic human rights and should not be allowed. If Europe could do it, then so can the US.
Not at all. Human beings have no moral authority to kill other human beings. To do it anyway, premeditated and intentionally, when there is no immediate danger to anyone else, is barbaric. It's what barbarians do. You are lowering yourself to the level of the very people you are punishing.
for example, child molesters and rapists and murderers get out of prison and commit their crimes again.
So lock them up for the rest of their lives. It's cheaper too.
putting down a monster is not barbaric,
They are not monsters, they are human beings. You may be able to lull yourself into acceptance by demonising human beings and pretending that you're in a fairy story, but I don't think that is fair or productive.
it is the merciful thing to do
You are confused on what is merciful.
In addition, you are ignoring the fact that many of these "monsters" of yours turn out to have been perfectly innocent. Fuck you for being perfectly OK with calling them monsters and taking away their lives after years of psychological torture, destroying the lives of their friends and family in the process. And fuck the US for doing it.
Maybe it's time for the US to take the hint and stop this barbaric and medieval practice?
Seriously, why does it not bother more Americans that by having the death penalty they find themselves in the illustrious company of countries such as Libya, Sudan, China, Iran, Iraq and North Korea (the "Axis of Evil") and Syria?
I think every country on Earth can safely assume that the NSA spied on and recorded some large proportion of their telephone calls. It's almost naive to be outraged every time it gets confirmed.
How is this a twist? First of all, I'm pretty sure this was already common knowledge. I remember reports of tests and studies like this for years. But also, is anyone surprised? If it's already known that schoolchildren perform sub par in tests then obviously once they grow into adults they are going to perform sub par on similar tests. Why would they suddenly have magically learned those missing skills?
This once again confirms what a terrible educational system the US has. I have no personal experience with it, but my brother has, and he tells me that he had three different history classes, but anything resembling actually useful skills was a distant joke...
I don't even have to read the article to know from which country this piece of garbage reporting came: the United Kingdom, the only country in the EU which still uses those quaint and archaic units, and also famously EU-phobic, always generating scary stories about the EU which are wildly inaccurate at best and downright bullshit most of the time.
if this scheme goes ahead, how long will it be before the U.S., Europe and other territories employ devices that do this, too?
Moscow is in Europe, so it would already be "Europe" employing these devices. In the EU this would definitely be very illegal, but unfortunately Russia isn't in the EU. It is under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights though, who I assume would have some strong words to say about it.
All the commentary I'm reading about this just talks about using it to decrypt captured traffic. One aspect I've not seen anyone address yet is this: wouldn't this allow them to spoof the services in question, and just capture any data they want directly? If you have someone's server certificate (which the server will give you freely), and the corresponding private key, you can set up a server which looks exactly like the real, say, gmail.com, legit certificate signed by a trusted CA and all, and capture unencrypted data to your heart's content.
Maybe that's what the government wants those private keys for? It would completely sidestep the issue of forward secrecy. To me that's even more scary than the possibility that they may be capturing encrypted traffic and using these keys to decrypt it...
Pirates actually exist and are people who steal cargo, take hostages and murder people. Unauthorised distribution has nothing to do with piracy. Please stop calling it that, you're playing into the hands of the content industry who want to make it sound scarier than it is.
you replied to a post talking about "A developer..." with a gender specific response "...her IDE..."!
Alright, I'll try one last time to make this clear. YOU WOULD NOT HAVE RESPONDED IF I HAD SAID "HIS"!!! You started this whole argument solely because I said "her" while (still!) being oblivious to the fact that your doing so demonstrates a deep seated sexism in society, where nobody finds it remarkable to say "his" where some pronoun of indeterminate gender is needed but gets all high and mighty if someone says "her" instead. In other words, you're only complaining that I didn't use a neutral pronoun because I used a female one instead of a male one.
You're missing the point. Your display of sexism isn't in the content of your post, it's in the fact that you chose to comment at all, which I'm pretty sure you would not have done had I said "his" instead of "her".
I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that you would not have written that post had I said "his". I'd say there's a good chance that you're more sexist than me. I'd also like to point out that "their" is plural and does not mean "his or hers", so it would be grammatically incorrect.
I wonder how long it will be before these are launched without rockets by firing them into orbit directly from Earth in some way. Something like a rail gun with the satellite in a bullet shaped sabot-like shell with just a small retro rocket for orbital insertion.
Once you have an ISP controlled WiFi installation at each customer house, it is easy to provide the hotspot service.
Well no. You need two Wi-Fi access points, and two logical connections to the ISP. The public access point must be completely separate from your own Internet connection, otherwise there would be no end of trouble. People could hack your LAN, use up your bandwidth or use the connection for all kinds of illegal activities for which you might be held liable. You need special hardware to do all that, just any regular Wi-Fi enabled router won't cut it.
The problem with the argument that the extradition to Sweden is just a ploy to subsequently get him extradited from Sweden to the US is that nobody has ever been able to convincingly explain why the US would not just ask the UK to extradite him. The UK has already shown itself to be perfectly willing to extradite even its own citizens to the US. And they had no problem in agreeing to Sweden's extradition request. What reason is there to think that if the US wanted him extradited the UK would refuse? Why would it be necessary to get him to Sweden first?
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Do those of you arguing so ardently against the death penalty apply the same logic to abortion?
Why don't you explain how you think they are the same, so I can demolish your argument.
We don't kill people for the same reasons as those countries.
That's hardly relevant. The point is that you kill people, not what your rationalisations are for killing people.
The death penalty is up to the states.
No, the death penalty is up to the American people. Apparently most of them are fine with it. In addition, it doesn't have to be up to the states. The federal government could outlaw it (even if it takes changing the constitution). Apparently they are fine with it too.
The reason capital punishment is outlawed in Europe is because all of the countries together (through various European institutions such as the European Union) decided that it was against basic human rights and should not be allowed. If Europe could do it, then so can the US.
you are confused on what is barbaric.
Not at all. Human beings have no moral authority to kill other human beings. To do it anyway, premeditated and intentionally, when there is no immediate danger to anyone else, is barbaric. It's what barbarians do. You are lowering yourself to the level of the very people you are punishing.
for example, child molesters and rapists and murderers get out of prison and commit their crimes again.
So lock them up for the rest of their lives. It's cheaper too.
putting down a monster is not barbaric,
They are not monsters, they are human beings. You may be able to lull yourself into acceptance by demonising human beings and pretending that you're in a fairy story, but I don't think that is fair or productive.
it is the merciful thing to do
You are confused on what is merciful.
In addition, you are ignoring the fact that many of these "monsters" of yours turn out to have been perfectly innocent. Fuck you for being perfectly OK with calling them monsters and taking away their lives after years of psychological torture, destroying the lives of their friends and family in the process. And fuck the US for doing it.
Maybe it's time for the US to take the hint and stop this barbaric and medieval practice?
Seriously, why does it not bother more Americans that by having the death penalty they find themselves in the illustrious company of countries such as Libya, Sudan, China, Iran, Iraq and North Korea (the "Axis of Evil") and Syria?
I think every country on Earth can safely assume that the NSA spied on and recorded some large proportion of their telephone calls. It's almost naive to be outraged every time it gets confirmed.
How is this a twist? First of all, I'm pretty sure this was already common knowledge. I remember reports of tests and studies like this for years. But also, is anyone surprised? If it's already known that schoolchildren perform sub par in tests then obviously once they grow into adults they are going to perform sub par on similar tests. Why would they suddenly have magically learned those missing skills?
This once again confirms what a terrible educational system the US has. I have no personal experience with it, but my brother has, and he tells me that he had three different history classes, but anything resembling actually useful skills was a distant joke...
Jesus Christ, that's horror movie territory!
If only he'd been using a centralised version control system... ;-)
I don't even have to read the article to know from which country this piece of garbage reporting came: the United Kingdom, the only country in the EU which still uses those quaint and archaic units, and also famously EU-phobic, always generating scary stories about the EU which are wildly inaccurate at best and downright bullshit most of the time.
Moscow is in Europe, so it would already be "Europe" employing these devices. In the EU this would definitely be very illegal, but unfortunately Russia isn't in the EU. It is under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights though, who I assume would have some strong words to say about it.
All the commentary I'm reading about this just talks about using it to decrypt captured traffic. One aspect I've not seen anyone address yet is this: wouldn't this allow them to spoof the services in question, and just capture any data they want directly? If you have someone's server certificate (which the server will give you freely), and the corresponding private key, you can set up a server which looks exactly like the real, say, gmail.com, legit certificate signed by a trusted CA and all, and capture unencrypted data to your heart's content.
Maybe that's what the government wants those private keys for? It would completely sidestep the issue of forward secrecy. To me that's even more scary than the possibility that they may be capturing encrypted traffic and using these keys to decrypt it...
Pirates actually exist and are people who steal cargo, take hostages and murder people. Unauthorised distribution has nothing to do with piracy. Please stop calling it that, you're playing into the hands of the content industry who want to make it sound scarier than it is.
Actually you are the one being sexiest
Why thank you very much!
you replied to a post talking about "A developer..." with a gender specific response "...her IDE..."!
Alright, I'll try one last time to make this clear. YOU WOULD NOT HAVE RESPONDED IF I HAD SAID "HIS"!!! You started this whole argument solely because I said "her" while (still!) being oblivious to the fact that your doing so demonstrates a deep seated sexism in society, where nobody finds it remarkable to say "his" where some pronoun of indeterminate gender is needed but gets all high and mighty if someone says "her" instead. In other words, you're only complaining that I didn't use a neutral pronoun because I used a female one instead of a male one.
You're missing the point. Your display of sexism isn't in the content of your post, it's in the fact that you chose to comment at all, which I'm pretty sure you would not have done had I said "his" instead of "her".
Maybe the poster is a woman?
Should it matter?
I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that you would not have written that post had I said "his". I'd say there's a good chance that you're more sexist than me. I'd also like to point out that "their" is plural and does not mean "his or hers", so it would be grammatically incorrect.
This is not a good sign. A developer with sufficient skills can be productive using vi as her IDE...
Simple. You can't.
I wonder how long it will be before these are launched without rockets by firing them into orbit directly from Earth in some way. Something like a rail gun with the satellite in a bullet shaped sabot-like shell with just a small retro rocket for orbital insertion.
Answers weighed and.... yeah, patent troll.
1. It's not money (it's a commodity)
2. They're not transmitting it (the users are)
Once you have an ISP controlled WiFi installation at each customer house, it is easy to provide the hotspot service.
Well no. You need two Wi-Fi access points, and two logical connections to the ISP. The public access point must be completely separate from your own Internet connection, otherwise there would be no end of trouble. People could hack your LAN, use up your bandwidth or use the connection for all kinds of illegal activities for which you might be held liable. You need special hardware to do all that, just any regular Wi-Fi enabled router won't cut it.
The problem with the argument that the extradition to Sweden is just a ploy to subsequently get him extradited from Sweden to the US is that nobody has ever been able to convincingly explain why the US would not just ask the UK to extradite him. The UK has already shown itself to be perfectly willing to extradite even its own citizens to the US. And they had no problem in agreeing to Sweden's extradition request. What reason is there to think that if the US wanted him extradited the UK would refuse? Why would it be necessary to get him to Sweden first?
I don't think you can top this. Or at least that anyone will for the foreseeable future... ;-)
Here, these fell out of your post: ' e ' ' ' e. My pleasure.