I think GP is referring to an instance where the Church of Scientology bugged the conference room of an IRS office. That's pretty ballsy, in my opinion.
"IT Best Practices." That would be the documentation for your systems detailing network maps, authorization levels, passwords, processes for managing changes to critical systems (init scripts), backups, disaster recovery, failover, etc. You mean, you don't have that written down anywhere? Oopsies. You should. If your head IT guy gets hit by a bus and dies, you need a way of letting his survivors run the network. Otherwise, it's easy to have to find that proverbial server-in-a-sealed-closet.
"Web 2.0" AJAX has been revolutionary, from my prospective as an end-user. Compare AJAX Gmail with the HTML-only version of Gmail. It's pretty dramatic. Meebo, Google Docs, Google Wave, etc. These are very different ways of interacting with the Internet than plain old HTML.
Are the government servers more reliable, or more secure than the regular servers? If that's the case, what does that say about the peons who don't have access to it?
Fittingly, the guy who writes an anti-police screed on Slashdot has a signature that reads: "Interested in Deep Water Culture hydroponics? Just ask me!" Yes. Let's ask Khyber what that's all about.
Bill Frist was a heart surgeon who later became a Republican Senator. He turned out to have sold his medical beliefs for political gain. During the Teri Schiavo controversy, Frist watched some videotape, then offered his medical belief as a doctor that Teri had brain function. After Schiavo died, an autopsy revealed that her brain had shrunk to the size of a fist, and that there was no chance for higher brain function.
In other words, Frist was dead wrong. But it wasn't because he was stupid. He was blinded by his politics.
Well, you missed the boat on that one, good sir. The Nobel Peace Prize jumped the shark when it was awarded to Henry Kissinger and Yasser Arafat. A few people called Kissinger a war criminal, but even if you disregard those slurs, you would have to admit that he was a warmonger. And Mr. Arafat was the crier of crocodile tears after suicide bombers killed innocents, then wrote a check to the next of kin to the suicide bombers.
My brother works in an emergency room. He notes how fragile the human body is compared to the interior of a car. A patient of his was admitted from a minor car accident where he was rear-ended at least than 20 mph. The patient, who did not have his seat belt on, slapped his head against the steering wheel. That opened up a gash that required dozens of stitches.
You can very easily be in a heavily-built car but suffer severe injuries in a relatively minor accident if you are not buckled up. A newer car would crumble to absorb the shock. The tank would hold its shape, then slam into you as you're held in place by inertia.
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Having vehicles on the road traveling much slower than the flow of traffic is a hazard. That's why it's actually illegal in some states to drive slower than 40 mph on the highway absent some emergency. If a bike can only travel 10 mph, they should not be going on a roadway where the flow of traffic is going at more than 40 mph. It's just dangerous.
You can try this if you're ever on trial. You'll regret your position as jurors ask you questions like, "Do you believe in God?" or "Are you married" or "swear that you didn't do it."
This is ridiculous tripe. It's easy to beat up on lawyers but the law is complicated because our lives are complicated. As technology advances, more laws are necessary to regulate them. The laws are complicated because we elect to have more complicated laws. If you disagree, let me know what you feel about proposed net neutrality laws. Stealing is wrong, sure, but what about insider trading laws? What about environmental pollution laws? You can only have the Ten Commandments as law, but you would be surprised with the kind of stuff you can get away with otherwise.
People don't like lawyers because they represent people they don't like. You hit a car and the other side sues for millions. You hate their lawyer because he's the messenger. Similarly, the other side hates your lawyers. But if you get arrested by the government, the first thing out of your mouth would be "I want a lawyer."
The reason, by the way, that jurors are not allowed to read newspapers during deliberations is that some facts may have been excluded. Perhaps the suspect made statements under torture, or perhaps some evidence was illegally served, and the judge excluded the statements on that basis. The jury is not allowed to know those facts, but can easily find them online or in the papers. Society has decided that evidence gained by torture or through illegal searches cannot be used. Barring the jurors from reading the newspapers for a while seems like a small sacrifice. In any event, it's not because lawyers want to protect their revenue stream, it's to protect our constitutional rights.
Google goes down quite frequently. You can actually check the Google Apps Status Dashboard to verify. A widespread and prolonged outage of Gmail was pretty odd, though IMAP and POP servers stayed up so my Blackberry kept on pushing out Gmail.
Because a design patent can be infringed only by an exact copy. Furthermore, you can knock it down if you can prove a patented aspect is functional. It is much more limited than a utility patent. Furthermore, Google's minimalist search engine page is iconic. It runs completely contrary to the instinct of every other portal other than Altavista. When you see a minimalist box, you think Google.
We don't hear about good lawyers ever. Instead, we have to put up with bullshit posts like yours that don't even make sense. You say that district attorneys are evil. You also said that criminal defense lawyers are slimy. I guess you think the only decent people in the criminal justice system are the criminals. I know your retort already: the system punishes people for minor crimes like marijuana possession. Well, you're also siding with the child molesters and rapists. SOMEONE has to put them away, and SOMEONE has to defend those innocently accused of the crime. That's a lawyer. Or we could do without lawyers and stone people on the accusation of three others. Your choice.
It does matter if the subject is a public figure or not. Otherwise, all the criticisms of your political leaders and celebrity gossip would be downright criminal. "Obama's a Nazi." Libel. "Britney's a drunk." Slander. Etc., etc.
In game theory, there's a play called follow the follower. Pretend you have a yacht race. The tacking of the sails is the important strategy. Choose the right one and you'll go faster. The leader of the race, once they built up a good lead, will look back at the guy right behind them and do what they're doing regardless of whether or not they think it's right. Why? Because if they choose the same bad strategy, it will both slow them down the same amount. And the leader will maintain his lead. Or pretend you had a casino night where the last man standing wins it all. It comes down to two people on the roulette wheel. The leader will do whatever the second-place guy does. Because he will maintain his lead.
Microsoft has a huge lead on Linux and OS X in terms of marketshare. So it's dangerous for MS to innovate because they might lose marketshare to Linux and OS X. Microsoft has to follow the follower to make sure it maintains its lead. Game theory is a bitch sometimes.
Vista SP3 was released a few months ago. Fixed some problems. The huge innovations in Windows 7 involved the GUI. I can understand why Microsoft wouldn't change the GUI in Vista via Service Pack because that would just piss all the Vista users off that their interface changed.
The Boeing 787 is not only brand new, but it was built using revolutionary materials (extensive use of composites) and a new process in design (totally on computers) and a brand new method of fabrication (outsourced). Growing pains.
Dissent isn't un-American. What Pelosi said was that drowning out the other side so that there cannot be any debate is un-American. I agree. The town hall protesters are not interested in a debate. They are showing up, and walking up within a few feet of the speaker to yell at them in a physically-threatening manner.
The protesters don't even have anything intelligent to say other than, "YOU'RE LYING TO ME!" and "YOU'RE A BUNCH OF SOCIALISTS." That's not debate. That's a hateful mob trying to rule by intimidation. Look up videos of these confrontations. It's freaking terrifying. Tell me that's American.
For more fun, look up how Republicans and conservatives freely called Democrats un-American or anti-American. For fuck's sake, a few months ago, Republican Senator Inhofe called Obama "un-American" for opposing the war in Iraq. A speech is un-American but showing up threatening physical force and painting swastikas is not?
If it weren't for class action lawsuits, corporations would have perverse incentives to salami slice and take small portions of money from a lot of consumers, none of whom would have an incentive to sue for a few dollars. Pretend a phone company rips off all of its customers by $5. They have 5 million customers, so they get $25 million they are not entitled to. Without class action lawsuits, no one would bother suing over $5, and the phone company gets to keep the money. A class action lawsuit will force the company to cough up the $25 million. Sure, each customer will only get a small settlement, but that's the exact circumstance the class action was designed to fix.
That's not murder, though. It's a justified killing or at worst homicide. That's not a loophole. It's the very definition of the crime of murder: it cannot be justified by self-defense, defense of others, or necessity.
No, no, no. The defendant is not a lawyer, or a trier of fact. He has no idea if he was liable or not. He can only admit to what he physically did, but he can't be allowed to draw conclusions of law on what that action constitutes.
Pretend you asked a criminal defendant whether or not he murdered the victim. He says yes, he did. But he had *killed* the person in self-defense, and did not understand this distinction while on the stand. A judge shouldn't say he was liable of murder just because of that admission.
The defense was stupid for not prepping him. The judge is retarded for ruling on liability.
Ever wonder why a parking ticket is $65 when it's only $0.25 for an extra twenty minutes of parking? Because the law is meant to dissuade you from breaking the law. If a parking ticket cost $0.25, then no one would ever pay for parking, and instead, just play their chances. If you could buy music for $1, go ahead and buy it. Don't steal it and expect to be fined only $10. If the system worked like that, NO ONE WOULD BUY MUSIC ONLINE. Like it or not, the RIAA owns the copyrights. They want to sell CDs. Sharing it online is not fair use. You want it, go buy it. You don't like it, don't buy it. Don't go steal it.
Of course, $3 million might violate the Constitution's due process clause. We'll see.
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I think GP is referring to an instance where the Church of Scientology bugged the conference room of an IRS office. That's pretty ballsy, in my opinion.
"IT Best Practices." That would be the documentation for your systems detailing network maps, authorization levels, passwords, processes for managing changes to critical systems (init scripts), backups, disaster recovery, failover, etc. You mean, you don't have that written down anywhere? Oopsies. You should. If your head IT guy gets hit by a bus and dies, you need a way of letting his survivors run the network. Otherwise, it's easy to have to find that proverbial server-in-a-sealed-closet.
"Web 2.0" AJAX has been revolutionary, from my prospective as an end-user. Compare AJAX Gmail with the HTML-only version of Gmail. It's pretty dramatic. Meebo, Google Docs, Google Wave, etc. These are very different ways of interacting with the Internet than plain old HTML.
Are the government servers more reliable, or more secure than the regular servers? If that's the case, what does that say about the peons who don't have access to it?
There are no dogs in Liberty city because they all got run over already.
Then how are they supposed to leverage their market power in cell phones and portable audio devices onto your computer?
Fittingly, the guy who writes an anti-police screed on Slashdot has a signature that reads: "Interested in Deep Water Culture hydroponics? Just ask me!" Yes. Let's ask Khyber what that's all about.
Bill Frist was a heart surgeon who later became a Republican Senator. He turned out to have sold his medical beliefs for political gain. During the Teri Schiavo controversy, Frist watched some videotape, then offered his medical belief as a doctor that Teri had brain function. After Schiavo died, an autopsy revealed that her brain had shrunk to the size of a fist, and that there was no chance for higher brain function.
In other words, Frist was dead wrong. But it wasn't because he was stupid. He was blinded by his politics.
They should have been a bit more generous with the copies of Windows 7. Two copies would have allowed you to raffle one off or play games for it.
"This degrades the award so much it's laughable."
Well, you missed the boat on that one, good sir. The Nobel Peace Prize jumped the shark when it was awarded to Henry Kissinger and Yasser Arafat. A few people called Kissinger a war criminal, but even if you disregard those slurs, you would have to admit that he was a warmonger. And Mr. Arafat was the crier of crocodile tears after suicide bombers killed innocents, then wrote a check to the next of kin to the suicide bombers.
My brother works in an emergency room. He notes how fragile the human body is compared to the interior of a car. A patient of his was admitted from a minor car accident where he was rear-ended at least than 20 mph. The patient, who did not have his seat belt on, slapped his head against the steering wheel. That opened up a gash that required dozens of stitches.
You can very easily be in a heavily-built car but suffer severe injuries in a relatively minor accident if you are not buckled up. A newer car would crumble to absorb the shock. The tank would hold its shape, then slam into you as you're held in place by inertia.
Having vehicles on the road traveling much slower than the flow of traffic is a hazard. That's why it's actually illegal in some states to drive slower than 40 mph on the highway absent some emergency. If a bike can only travel 10 mph, they should not be going on a roadway where the flow of traffic is going at more than 40 mph. It's just dangerous.
You can try this if you're ever on trial. You'll regret your position as jurors ask you questions like, "Do you believe in God?" or "Are you married" or "swear that you didn't do it."
This is ridiculous tripe. It's easy to beat up on lawyers but the law is complicated because our lives are complicated. As technology advances, more laws are necessary to regulate them. The laws are complicated because we elect to have more complicated laws. If you disagree, let me know what you feel about proposed net neutrality laws. Stealing is wrong, sure, but what about insider trading laws? What about environmental pollution laws? You can only have the Ten Commandments as law, but you would be surprised with the kind of stuff you can get away with otherwise.
People don't like lawyers because they represent people they don't like. You hit a car and the other side sues for millions. You hate their lawyer because he's the messenger. Similarly, the other side hates your lawyers. But if you get arrested by the government, the first thing out of your mouth would be "I want a lawyer."
The reason, by the way, that jurors are not allowed to read newspapers during deliberations is that some facts may have been excluded. Perhaps the suspect made statements under torture, or perhaps some evidence was illegally served, and the judge excluded the statements on that basis. The jury is not allowed to know those facts, but can easily find them online or in the papers. Society has decided that evidence gained by torture or through illegal searches cannot be used. Barring the jurors from reading the newspapers for a while seems like a small sacrifice. In any event, it's not because lawyers want to protect their revenue stream, it's to protect our constitutional rights.
Google goes down quite frequently. You can actually check the Google Apps Status Dashboard to verify. A widespread and prolonged outage of Gmail was pretty odd, though IMAP and POP servers stayed up so my Blackberry kept on pushing out Gmail.
The most important aspect of the outage to me was that Google took responsibility for it. They explained exactly what happened, why it happened, and what was going to be done to prevent a recurrence. Also, no data was lost. Everyone has downtime. My prior firm rolled its own e-mail system, which was down at least two hours every month during prime business hours. Google has better uptime than most.
Because a design patent can be infringed only by an exact copy. Furthermore, you can knock it down if you can prove a patented aspect is functional. It is much more limited than a utility patent. Furthermore, Google's minimalist search engine page is iconic. It runs completely contrary to the instinct of every other portal other than Altavista. When you see a minimalist box, you think Google.
We don't hear about good lawyers ever. Instead, we have to put up with bullshit posts like yours that don't even make sense. You say that district attorneys are evil. You also said that criminal defense lawyers are slimy. I guess you think the only decent people in the criminal justice system are the criminals. I know your retort already: the system punishes people for minor crimes like marijuana possession. Well, you're also siding with the child molesters and rapists. SOMEONE has to put them away, and SOMEONE has to defend those innocently accused of the crime. That's a lawyer. Or we could do without lawyers and stone people on the accusation of three others. Your choice.
It does matter if the subject is a public figure or not. Otherwise, all the criticisms of your political leaders and celebrity gossip would be downright criminal. "Obama's a Nazi." Libel. "Britney's a drunk." Slander. Etc., etc.
In game theory, there's a play called follow the follower. Pretend you have a yacht race. The tacking of the sails is the important strategy. Choose the right one and you'll go faster. The leader of the race, once they built up a good lead, will look back at the guy right behind them and do what they're doing regardless of whether or not they think it's right. Why? Because if they choose the same bad strategy, it will both slow them down the same amount. And the leader will maintain his lead. Or pretend you had a casino night where the last man standing wins it all. It comes down to two people on the roulette wheel. The leader will do whatever the second-place guy does. Because he will maintain his lead.
Microsoft has a huge lead on Linux and OS X in terms of marketshare. So it's dangerous for MS to innovate because they might lose marketshare to Linux and OS X. Microsoft has to follow the follower to make sure it maintains its lead. Game theory is a bitch sometimes.
Vista SP3 was released a few months ago. Fixed some problems. The huge innovations in Windows 7 involved the GUI. I can understand why Microsoft wouldn't change the GUI in Vista via Service Pack because that would just piss all the Vista users off that their interface changed.
The Boeing 787 is not only brand new, but it was built using revolutionary materials (extensive use of composites) and a new process in design (totally on computers) and a brand new method of fabrication (outsourced). Growing pains.
Dissent isn't un-American. What Pelosi said was that drowning out the other side so that there cannot be any debate is un-American. I agree. The town hall protesters are not interested in a debate. They are showing up, and walking up within a few feet of the speaker to yell at them in a physically-threatening manner.
Mr. Gingrinch opines that Obama's health care plan has spectres of Nazism. Protesters promptly paint swastikas onto the door of politicians who support the plan and waive signs calling Obama a Nazi. A black politician received death threats, and references to himself and Obama as "niggers". They are standing outside of town hall meetings with guns strapped to their legs with a sign saying it's time to water the tree of liberty.
The protesters don't even have anything intelligent to say other than, "YOU'RE LYING TO ME!" and "YOU'RE A BUNCH OF SOCIALISTS." That's not debate. That's a hateful mob trying to rule by intimidation. Look up videos of these confrontations. It's freaking terrifying. Tell me that's American.
For more fun, look up how Republicans and conservatives freely called Democrats un-American or anti-American. For fuck's sake, a few months ago, Republican Senator Inhofe called Obama "un-American" for opposing the war in Iraq. A speech is un-American but showing up threatening physical force and painting swastikas is not?
If it weren't for class action lawsuits, corporations would have perverse incentives to salami slice and take small portions of money from a lot of consumers, none of whom would have an incentive to sue for a few dollars. Pretend a phone company rips off all of its customers by $5. They have 5 million customers, so they get $25 million they are not entitled to. Without class action lawsuits, no one would bother suing over $5, and the phone company gets to keep the money. A class action lawsuit will force the company to cough up the $25 million. Sure, each customer will only get a small settlement, but that's the exact circumstance the class action was designed to fix.
That's not murder, though. It's a justified killing or at worst homicide. That's not a loophole. It's the very definition of the crime of murder: it cannot be justified by self-defense, defense of others, or necessity.
No, no, no. The defendant is not a lawyer, or a trier of fact. He has no idea if he was liable or not. He can only admit to what he physically did, but he can't be allowed to draw conclusions of law on what that action constitutes.
Pretend you asked a criminal defendant whether or not he murdered the victim. He says yes, he did. But he had *killed* the person in self-defense, and did not understand this distinction while on the stand. A judge shouldn't say he was liable of murder just because of that admission.
The defense was stupid for not prepping him. The judge is retarded for ruling on liability.
Ever wonder why a parking ticket is $65 when it's only $0.25 for an extra twenty minutes of parking? Because the law is meant to dissuade you from breaking the law. If a parking ticket cost $0.25, then no one would ever pay for parking, and instead, just play their chances. If you could buy music for $1, go ahead and buy it. Don't steal it and expect to be fined only $10. If the system worked like that, NO ONE WOULD BUY MUSIC ONLINE. Like it or not, the RIAA owns the copyrights. They want to sell CDs. Sharing it online is not fair use. You want it, go buy it. You don't like it, don't buy it. Don't go steal it.
Of course, $3 million might violate the Constitution's due process clause. We'll see.