The Daily Mail noted that it was subsequent to an assault as well. Age I'm not sure about. Wouldn't a 20-year old be in college? (In the rare case a Saudi girl ever goes to college.) Either way, it's more than just 'not fitting the crime' but at least 40x worse than the crime. It's one thing to go to prison for assault, that's fine, but to have that assault revisited on the perpetrator not once (which too might even be close to reasonable) but 90 times is nothing short of insane barbarism.
In case you have to be reminded of basic history, Texas was first an independent republic having won a revolution against Mexico before it went through the territory/statehood process (which of course was in turn before its secession as part of the CSA).
Bullshit is the opposite of truth. Your last sentence alludes to the real truth, which is 'this is what I want even though it won't happen'. But merely wanting something isn't going to rewrite human nature. That's as much genetic as it is social. Even if we could eliminate the instincts that have put us at the top of the food chain I doubt that it would make us very fit to explore space. Although the reality of space exploration is almost certainly 'apes or angels', I don't think we want to turn ourselves into a herd of ibexes before we leave the cradle on the chance that odds are we won't meet any lions. Even if that chance is astronomically (heh) high, as long as it is possible such self-neutering is irresponsible.
Yeah, I'm fairly certain public policy is the captive directly of a cabal of ex-lawyers and indirectly of delegated/representative mob-rule through opinion polls. As an alternative a "scientific-technological elite" sounds like a goddamn utopia.
This all hinges on how you define 'authorization' in the law you quote without citing (which is a state law and has no bearing on 98% of the country). IMO, when a machine is configured to essentially broadcast anywhere within range and at all times, 'HEY DO YOU WANT AN ADDRESS?! I WILL TOTALLY GIVE YOU AN ADDRESS!! C'MON!' That is authorization. Having this idea that authorization is something that a person must do consciously every time for every one is stupid, and fundamentally at odds with basically every login system everywhere.
If I connect to an FTP site and login as ftp with a password that is also ftp or my email or whatever, then obviously that ftp server was configured to accept access from anybody. Nobody is going to have a leg to stand on coming back and saying 'well, I didn't specifically authorize you personally!' That's bullshit.
If an owner wants his equipment to not hand out addresses to everybody at all times, it is his responsibility to configure the equipment differently. The end.
My counter anecdote is this: I have built nothing but AMD systems for my own use since my first K6-2 in 1998. I have never had an AMD chip or a motherboard for same fail on me. I would wager you just buy crappy boards.
Not to mention that comparing its accuracy rate with false convictions as an argument to use it to try to get more convictions doesn't really follow. If a jury acts on the evidence from an fMRI that falls within the 10-24% and consequently produces another false conviction, what, exactly, has been improved?
While I'm sure that your experience with your son was stressful and traumatic, what kind of self-centered, conceited asshole do you have to be not to be able to see that just because CPC couldn't do much for your son that does not negate the immeasurable value that they have provided to kids with cancer or other serious potentially fatal conditions. If you have a child in pain games are about the best way to get their minds off of that pain and brighten their mood however little. It's this fundamental lack of understanding that have made all your posts on this subject epic trolls.
How dense are you that you're bitching about Jerry, Mike, and Khoo's salaries. You're so fucking stupid that don't even read what you write yourself, so here's the emphasis: "amounts were paid by Penny Arcade, Inc. "
Yeah, that's right, money not from CPC, but just a disclosure of what they make as employees of PA Inc. from revenues of PA Inc. All of which are wholly separate from CPC, but are simply disclosed because they are coincidentally officers of CPC. Oh, the horror, they have jobs with another organization and they make money!!1 Idiot. Only one person is paid from CPC, Kristin Lindsay, and that was 37k in 2007. A living wage if even that.
So, yes, all of your allegations are demonstrably false, based on your own incapacity to understand how charities work or even what their tax disclosures mean. Though I should thank you, as without your ignorant cynicism as a foil I would never have had four +5 posts in a single topic. It takes an epic troll for that, and you were the right guy for the job.
In the Star Trek context, I agree, it doesn't make sense simply because they should have moved beyond something equivalent to laser guidance. However it's also possible that this is the result of extremely capable computer extrapolation. If the max speed and max maneuverability of the weapon are known, as soon as you have different known points in space-time for the torpedo you can create a cone of probable paths extrapolated from that axis. Faster the torpedo, the narrower the cone, and while the screenplays all call for the torpedoes to be dramatic, relatively slow-moving hammers, the design specifications are for independently warp capable munitions. I'm sure that the maneuverability at speeds in excess of c is pretty limited.
It's southwest of Spain you dolt, way to prove the guy's point!
(Depending on the way you interpret the peninsula geo-spatially... it's probably more just 'west' than north or south, but there is more Spain to the north of Portugal, whereas there is only the ocean to the south.)
Although your points are mostly valid (with the input interface exception, though I dealt with that separately), the photon torpedo scenario is not only completely reasonable, it's present day technology. A military aircraft's onboard computer can tell through its sensor package when it is being targeted. This is because targeting systems are frequently active, radars pinging, lasers lasering, and generally doing whatever they can to track their target. This is also why ECM exists, to introduce enough noise to the sensors of a weapon that it can't maintain a signal, or to introduce 'louder' fake targets that the weapon will lock onto instead.
If you really think that looking at a picture for seconds, not even a minute, derails then entire legislative process or shatters the ability of somebody to do useful work for the rest of the day, I have little hope for your rational perception of the world or the human actors in it.
I don't have any double standards. I don't have a problem with the SEC, or the RNC using funds at a bondage club, or this.
I'm a home-owning, full-time employed registered voter and taxpayer, and I have no problem if a government employee uses my funds to look at some sexually-charged pictures now and then. Our whole society needs to lighten the hell up.
So his ears don't work because he's looking at something else for mere seconds? Please. I do all sorts of little non-work things between work things in order to maintain focus. If I did nothing but work at all times I would literally fall asleep.
This is nothing but manufactured outrage to make political hay. If I were in Florida I'd be more likely to vote for the guy now than before, since it seems to me Republican-or-no he's probably not some too-tightly-wound moralist of which there too many on both sides of the aisle.
It's not my paranoia, it's the PRC's, and it's very real. We're talking about people who think that IBM's 'smarter planet' slogan is an insidious harbinger of undermining China's sovereignty.
No realli! She was Karving her initals on the moose
with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given
by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian movies: "The Hot Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink".
Yeah, too bad that date is politicized because it is the national day of Taiwan/ROC. It could be interpreted as attempting to honor Taiwan and by extension provoke the PRC. You might think it's silly, but believe me, the PRC tracks every little thing that happens in connection with Taiwan, even things that might only be coincidentally symbolic.
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The Daily Mail noted that it was subsequent to an assault as well. Age I'm not sure about. Wouldn't a 20-year old be in college? (In the rare case a Saudi girl ever goes to college.) Either way, it's more than just 'not fitting the crime' but at least 40x worse than the crime. It's one thing to go to prison for assault, that's fine, but to have that assault revisited on the perpetrator not once (which too might even be close to reasonable) but 90 times is nothing short of insane barbarism.
At least they didn't beat the shit out of her and throw her in prison like they might have in Saudi Arabia.
In case you have to be reminded of basic history, Texas was first an independent republic having won a revolution against Mexico before it went through the territory/statehood process (which of course was in turn before its secession as part of the CSA).
Bullshit is the opposite of truth. Your last sentence alludes to the real truth, which is 'this is what I want even though it won't happen'. But merely wanting something isn't going to rewrite human nature. That's as much genetic as it is social. Even if we could eliminate the instincts that have put us at the top of the food chain I doubt that it would make us very fit to explore space. Although the reality of space exploration is almost certainly 'apes or angels', I don't think we want to turn ourselves into a herd of ibexes before we leave the cradle on the chance that odds are we won't meet any lions. Even if that chance is astronomically (heh) high, as long as it is possible such self-neutering is irresponsible.
Yeah, I'm fairly certain public policy is the captive directly of a cabal of ex-lawyers and indirectly of delegated/representative mob-rule through opinion polls. As an alternative a "scientific-technological elite" sounds like a goddamn utopia.
If the two effects are the same, why is the cause important?
This all hinges on how you define 'authorization' in the law you quote without citing (which is a state law and has no bearing on 98% of the country). IMO, when a machine is configured to essentially broadcast anywhere within range and at all times, 'HEY DO YOU WANT AN ADDRESS?! I WILL TOTALLY GIVE YOU AN ADDRESS!! C'MON!' That is authorization. Having this idea that authorization is something that a person must do consciously every time for every one is stupid, and fundamentally at odds with basically every login system everywhere.
If I connect to an FTP site and login as ftp with a password that is also ftp or my email or whatever, then obviously that ftp server was configured to accept access from anybody. Nobody is going to have a leg to stand on coming back and saying 'well, I didn't specifically authorize you personally!' That's bullshit.
If an owner wants his equipment to not hand out addresses to everybody at all times, it is his responsibility to configure the equipment differently. The end.
To hear them talk you'd think they were. And they're constantly harping about how GPGPUs are teh future and how processor companies need them so bad.
My counter anecdote is this: I have built nothing but AMD systems for my own use since my first K6-2 in 1998. I have never had an AMD chip or a motherboard for same fail on me. I would wager you just buy crappy boards.
I didn't know Jen-Hsun Huang posted on /.
Not to mention that comparing its accuracy rate with false convictions as an argument to use it to try to get more convictions doesn't really follow. If a jury acts on the evidence from an fMRI that falls within the 10-24% and consequently produces another false conviction, what, exactly, has been improved?
While I'm sure that your experience with your son was stressful and traumatic, what kind of self-centered, conceited asshole do you have to be not to be able to see that just because CPC couldn't do much for your son that does not negate the immeasurable value that they have provided to kids with cancer or other serious potentially fatal conditions. If you have a child in pain games are about the best way to get their minds off of that pain and brighten their mood however little. It's this fundamental lack of understanding that have made all your posts on this subject epic trolls.
How dense are you that you're bitching about Jerry, Mike, and Khoo's salaries. You're so fucking stupid that don't even read what you write yourself, so here's the emphasis: " amounts were paid by Penny Arcade, Inc. "
Yeah, that's right, money not from CPC, but just a disclosure of what they make as employees of PA Inc. from revenues of PA Inc. All of which are wholly separate from CPC, but are simply disclosed because they are coincidentally officers of CPC. Oh, the horror, they have jobs with another organization and they make money!!1 Idiot. Only one person is paid from CPC, Kristin Lindsay, and that was 37k in 2007. A living wage if even that.
So, yes, all of your allegations are demonstrably false, based on your own incapacity to understand how charities work or even what their tax disclosures mean. Though I should thank you, as without your ignorant cynicism as a foil I would never have had four +5 posts in a single topic. It takes an epic troll for that, and you were the right guy for the job.
Very interesting, and a good catch. Looks like /. is going to feed him some more advertising revenue.
In the Star Trek context, I agree, it doesn't make sense simply because they should have moved beyond something equivalent to laser guidance. However it's also possible that this is the result of extremely capable computer extrapolation. If the max speed and max maneuverability of the weapon are known, as soon as you have different known points in space-time for the torpedo you can create a cone of probable paths extrapolated from that axis. Faster the torpedo, the narrower the cone, and while the screenplays all call for the torpedoes to be dramatic, relatively slow-moving hammers, the design specifications are for independently warp capable munitions. I'm sure that the maneuverability at speeds in excess of c is pretty limited.
It's southwest of Spain you dolt, way to prove the guy's point!
(Depending on the way you interpret the peninsula geo-spatially... it's probably more just 'west' than north or south, but there is more Spain to the north of Portugal, whereas there is only the ocean to the south.)
Although your points are mostly valid (with the input interface exception, though I dealt with that separately), the photon torpedo scenario is not only completely reasonable, it's present day technology. A military aircraft's onboard computer can tell through its sensor package when it is being targeted. This is because targeting systems are frequently active, radars pinging, lasers lasering, and generally doing whatever they can to track their target. This is also why ECM exists, to introduce enough noise to the sensors of a weapon that it can't maintain a signal, or to introduce 'louder' fake targets that the weapon will lock onto instead.
To be pedantic, it could be a chorded input system like the Twiddler which compresses the functionality of a whole keyboard into 16 buttons.
If you really think that looking at a picture for seconds, not even a minute, derails then entire legislative process or shatters the ability of somebody to do useful work for the rest of the day, I have little hope for your rational perception of the world or the human actors in it.
I don't have any double standards. I don't have a problem with the SEC, or the RNC using funds at a bondage club, or this.
I'm a home-owning, full-time employed registered voter and taxpayer, and I have no problem if a government employee uses my funds to look at some sexually-charged pictures now and then. Our whole society needs to lighten the hell up.
So his ears don't work because he's looking at something else for mere seconds? Please. I do all sorts of little non-work things between work things in order to maintain focus. If I did nothing but work at all times I would literally fall asleep.
This is nothing but manufactured outrage to make political hay. If I were in Florida I'd be more likely to vote for the guy now than before, since it seems to me Republican-or-no he's probably not some too-tightly-wound moralist of which there too many on both sides of the aisle.
Another dramatic moment ruined by crappy software! Damn you, Bill Gates!
It's not my paranoia, it's the PRC's, and it's very real. We're talking about people who think that IBM's 'smarter planet' slogan is an insidious harbinger of undermining China's sovereignty.
A moose once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initals on the moose
with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given
by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian movies: "The Hot Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink".
Well, since they already passed on Mincing Mollusc, I doubt they will have the exoskeleton for it.
Yeah, too bad that date is politicized because it is the national day of Taiwan/ROC. It could be interpreted as attempting to honor Taiwan and by extension provoke the PRC. You might think it's silly, but believe me, the PRC tracks every little thing that happens in connection with Taiwan, even things that might only be coincidentally symbolic.