he could then get a wifi card and hijack a neighbors signal and that would not be monitored. it's a deserved punishment, his convenience should not be a consideration. although i'd prefer microsoft not be given such preferential treatment.
what about me shining my 1000 watt bulb through your windows to read the book you are holding? (for a wireless connection i have to send signals back into your home too)
i dont beleive it should be illegal myself, but i do beleive it is important to try and consider your oppositions point of view.
also, bycicles for the US just aren't practical. a large portion of the modern united states was built with cheap oil in mind, suburbs were built to sprawl over the landscape with the assumption that the residents would be able to easily and cheaply drive many miles to work and back. a commute of 30 miles is not strange, and to ride a bike that far each day would simply take too long for the purpose of a commute and there would be no place to shower and change for the vast majority of commuters. the few offices that do have showers in the restrooms arent set up to allow each and every employee to use them each day, but instead for the couple of employees who live close enough to ride to work or run, or who can get there early enough to rum a few miles before work.
the entire infrastructure and layout of modern cities in this country is simply wrong for mass bicycle commuting. the last job i had where it would have been possible was 7 miles away from home and a large portion of the trip was on a narrow road which would have been shared with yuppie suburban drivers (a very dangerous breed).
the problem is not that we drive too much, it's that we have purpose built this country for driving.
the kessel run is an area populated by black holes, a ship that moves faster does not have to steer so far around each black hole and can cut closer to each event horizon, allowing a trajectory that is closer to straight and therefore shorter.
and what specific crime would this imply? none? well then, it's not incriminating is it?
a man walking down the street at night with a criminal record and a large flathead scredriver in his pocket, well you can infer that the screwdriver is for auto theft. that's a specific crime. keeping data under extra encryption? is it fraud? blackmail? not sure? if all the investigators can determine is that it's a 'bit odd' then it's nothing more than a lead, something to investigate further.
"the defendant had LOCKS on his FRONT DOOR!! When the police entered the residence they also found a spare room that also had its door locked. there is only ONE possible reason for this, yes the defendant is GUILTY!!! what sort of nefarious criminal needs to keep TWO doors in his private residence locked?!"
i'm not a lawyer but i go drinking with a few, so this is a laymans understanding.
it's only obstruction of justice if there is an ongoing investigation at the time. everyone needs to learn this phrase: "am i being investigated in the commission of a crime, officer?" if the answer is "no" you dont have to speak to them further, and there is no obstruction charges for silence at that point.
taking off vertically from the ground and landing again is not the same as slowing yourself down from mach 5 before making a crater.
it's simply too much energy to dissipate in that manner when you're gaining so much energy from the descent itself.
what about the improved materials that will no doubt be developed in such a pursuit? materials that could save lives in auto accidents, perhaps technologies that will speed up terrestrial travel? when you go to mars, you dont just set foot on a red rock, everything that is developed to achieve that has uses back home.
why on earth would you assume were catching the first of the line? we've been to that depth so few times i doubt we've even seen 1/10 of the species that are already going strong.
and what about the first of a new species that gets eaten by a predator before procreating? it's all part of nature, even if we use scalpels instead of incisors.
Microsoft has long since squandered the benefit of any doubt. It's currently reasonable to assume they are not doing anything good in any ethical sense.
you've got 3 wrong. the GPL doesn't say you may not change this software in anyway unless you use this license for it. you can keep your changes private and not license it at all. the GPL license only affects your changes of a piece to a piece of software if you want to distribute it. it's a fine distinction but an important one.
the point of the GPL is to prevent you from limiting another persons freedom with that piece of software.
to respect the freedoms of another individual requires that you, from time to time, restrict yourself in some way. this is what the GPL asks, from my understanding of it anyway.
but we could make solar sails. and if we have spacecraft with sails, have space pirates, and pirates are cool. thus, i think you'll agree solar is the superior power source...matey
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if it were written by berkely breathed, they probably would.
they are only trying to catch a buzz
he could then get a wifi card and hijack a neighbors signal and that would not be monitored. it's a deserved punishment, his convenience should not be a consideration. although i'd prefer microsoft not be given such preferential treatment.
what about me shining my 1000 watt bulb through your windows to read the book you are holding? (for a wireless connection i have to send signals back into your home too) i dont beleive it should be illegal myself, but i do beleive it is important to try and consider your oppositions point of view.
it's a shame they didn't go for the whole pound.
also, bycicles for the US just aren't practical. a large portion of the modern united states was built with cheap oil in mind, suburbs were built to sprawl over the landscape with the assumption that the residents would be able to easily and cheaply drive many miles to work and back. a commute of 30 miles is not strange, and to ride a bike that far each day would simply take too long for the purpose of a commute and there would be no place to shower and change for the vast majority of commuters. the few offices that do have showers in the restrooms arent set up to allow each and every employee to use them each day, but instead for the couple of employees who live close enough to ride to work or run, or who can get there early enough to rum a few miles before work.
the entire infrastructure and layout of modern cities in this country is simply wrong for mass bicycle commuting. the last job i had where it would have been possible was 7 miles away from home and a large portion of the trip was on a narrow road which would have been shared with yuppie suburban drivers (a very dangerous breed).
the problem is not that we drive too much, it's that we have purpose built this country for driving.
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the kessel run is an area populated by black holes, a ship that moves faster does not have to steer so far around each black hole and can cut closer to each event horizon, allowing a trajectory that is closer to straight and therefore shorter.
this is much more akin to not getting OFF the airplane when the engineers are *only* 85% sure it will crash on the next flight.
in fact, there are hills around San Francisco bay that are simply mounds of indian trash. when one site was too overrun, they moved to another.
and what specific crime would this imply? none? well then, it's not incriminating is it? a man walking down the street at night with a criminal record and a large flathead scredriver in his pocket, well you can infer that the screwdriver is for auto theft. that's a specific crime. keeping data under extra encryption? is it fraud? blackmail? not sure? if all the investigators can determine is that it's a 'bit odd' then it's nothing more than a lead, something to investigate further. "the defendant had LOCKS on his FRONT DOOR!! When the police entered the residence they also found a spare room that also had its door locked. there is only ONE possible reason for this, yes the defendant is GUILTY!!! what sort of nefarious criminal needs to keep TWO doors in his private residence locked?!"
i'm not a lawyer but i go drinking with a few, so this is a laymans understanding. it's only obstruction of justice if there is an ongoing investigation at the time. everyone needs to learn this phrase: "am i being investigated in the commission of a crime, officer?" if the answer is "no" you dont have to speak to them further, and there is no obstruction charges for silence at that point.
let me be the thousandth to say: Are they counting the usual, annual re-install?
taking off vertically from the ground and landing again is not the same as slowing yourself down from mach 5 before making a crater. it's simply too much energy to dissipate in that manner when you're gaining so much energy from the descent itself.
what about the improved materials that will no doubt be developed in such a pursuit? materials that could save lives in auto accidents, perhaps technologies that will speed up terrestrial travel? when you go to mars, you dont just set foot on a red rock, everything that is developed to achieve that has uses back home.
we need some nucular strategery up in here!
why on earth would you assume were catching the first of the line? we've been to that depth so few times i doubt we've even seen 1/10 of the species that are already going strong. and what about the first of a new species that gets eaten by a predator before procreating? it's all part of nature, even if we use scalpels instead of incisors.
someone just got his report card for physics.
this is exactly what you get when you have teenage guys going through strangers computers in private.
i'm just mad my geek squad friend never got me a copy of the stash before they left BB.
wouldn't we need free will to stop pretending we're special?
Microsoft has long since squandered the benefit of any doubt. It's currently reasonable to assume they are not doing anything good in any ethical sense.
wait, lets count. how many comments in is this joke?
i hope he doesn't lose the text file he keeps it in.
you've got 3 wrong. the GPL doesn't say you may not change this software in anyway unless you use this license for it. you can keep your changes private and not license it at all. the GPL license only affects your changes of a piece to a piece of software if you want to distribute it. it's a fine distinction but an important one.
the point of the GPL is to prevent you from limiting another persons freedom with that piece of software.
to respect the freedoms of another individual requires that you, from time to time, restrict yourself in some way. this is what the GPL asks, from my understanding of it anyway.
but we could make solar sails. and if we have spacecraft with sails, have space pirates, and pirates are cool. thus, i think you'll agree solar is the superior power source...matey