As someone pointed out, waterboarding is torture. So is being randomly beaten, which is a tactic the Chinese frequently employ as well.
Do some research and read some stories about what happens there. Being forced to sit in 'stress' positions for long periods of time can do permanent damage, and it's definitely torture. So is being shot up with psychoactive substances before interrogation.
There are these things called human rights that we pretend to hold sacred. Strangely, we even publicly state that they should apply to criminals. But, I guess you want to live in a world where they have no rights at all and can be tortured for years on end without even a fair trial. And anybody who is upset that this is how they will be treated "should've thought about that a little earlier".
Sorry, no, I don't agree.
If the Guantanomo Bay torture camps didn't exist I might be in your camp, though the issue of the extradition treaties being highly one-sided is still worth complaining about.
Revealing someone who likes to minimize the bad things Microsoft does and just say people are jealous of their success or that they just do what any company should be doing.
Of course, if by "turn the company into another Microsoft" you mean creating a monstrously profitable giant - well, isn't that the goal of every corporation out there?
Well, that, IMHO, is not the defining characteristic of Microsoft. The defining characteristic of Microsoft is the ruthless, underhanded quasi-legal business tactics and their rampant abuse of monopoly power. Your attempt to minimize this by implying that Microsoft is a perfectly normal monstrously profitable behemoth is revealing.
Apple does this too, but it can't do it as much as Microsoft does. I actually have no doubt that Apple would be just as bad as Microsoft in this regard should they ever achieve the necessary market power, though I might be wrong. Their willingness to sell music on iTunes that has no DRM and hence no particular attachment to their hardware is interesting from this perspective.
You're going to eventually anyway. It's slow, the model is seriously constraining, and it has a bunch of extra features that really aren't all that useful.
Consider using something like Mercurial (my favorite) or git instead. They are much better suited for collaborative development, especially if the teams are loosely coupled.
Then, why isn't Donald Rumsfeld, at least, in jail? The instructions to make that prison the way it was came from the top. The punishment should reach there too.
This is not an extreme crime. Killing 50 hookers over a span of 10 years is an extreme crime. Shooting people randomly with a sniper rifle is also pretty extreme.
Killing your ex-wife in rage during an argument when she's also had an affair and embezzled from you is not that extreme. It, in fact, is sadly all too common a scenario (though the having an affair and embezzling bits are details that change from case to case). It is definitely criminal, and definitely deserves punishment. But reacting as if it's the most horrible thing in the world isn't particularly realistic.
That's true. But one of the very useful purposes of government is moderating people's desire for vengeance and solving problems with violence.
I would hope that if I were ever to find myself in that position I would remember my principles and keep true to my ideals. But I might well abandon them in the grip of the powerful emotions I would likely experience.
I know, second guessing juries is a common pastime in the US. I was happy to speculate before the verdict. After the verdict I was much less comfortable doing so. I feel that juries usually know what they're doing no matter how much people might slam them.
And now, of course, the only question was whether or not he actually planned to do it or whether it just happened because he got angry and lost control. Neither is excusable though.
"An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I feel that your argument comes from a very 'eye of an eye' sort of moral position, and I don't feel that position is overall helpful for the human race.
Yes, Nina is dead now, and Hans is not. That is tragic, and Hans is directly responsible for that tragedy. But I feel the punishment should be based on a combination of rehabilitation and deterrence, not on trying to exact some kind of state mandated reciprocal vengeance on Hans.
The grandparent had a point you seemed to have missed. The problem is the lines. Allowing people to use pencil and paper instead of voting machines isn't enough. If the encourage option is the voting machine a lot of people will stand in line waiting for one to be available without really thinking about using pencil and paper to get out of line more quickly.
So, for the availability of paper and pencil voting to solve the line problem, you have to do a few things:
You have to have a whole bunch of privacy booths for the pencil and paper voting.
You have to have plenty of pencil and paper ballots available.
You have to regularly announce (especially when the lines are longer) that pencil and paper are an option and that there are a lot of free booths.
Doing those things will solve the line problem. The mere availability of pencil and paper voting does not.
Because obviously if someone tries to buy something and Amazon is broken for an hour, they're just going to not-buy it or buy it from a competitor. Because you definitely can't wait an extra hour to place an order when it'll take 2-10 days for the product to get shipped to you anyway.
Well, they will frequently come back, yes. But the site being down also affects consumer confidence in a big way and that will make fewer people likely to go to the site.
So, using the metric of exactly how much you sell in a given time period is likely inaccurate, but I suspect the actual impact is higher, not lower.
Even for simple diff/commit purposes I find Mercurial much easier to use than either CVS or SVN. And I find CVS easier to use for such purposes than SVN. The biggest reason for this is that Mercurial is blindingly fast in comparison to SVN or CVS.
IMHO, SVN is a very poor tool who's only real advantage over CVS is that it happens to work whereas CVS fails to in several important cases.
The web really needs some sort of link to a SHA-256 hash or something. If that kind of link were allowed ubiquitously it could solve the Slashdot effect and also make caching work really well for pictures, Ajax libraries and a whole number of other things that don't change that often.
If I have to run particular software in order to communicate with someone else, I do not have full control over my computer. I would imagine that Microsoft's first step would be to make IIS refuse to communicate with anybody not running a Microsoft certified copy of IE.
I think I will have to understand the mechanism much more thoroughly to see if your arguments make sense. But until then, I am still very anti-TPM. I can only see bad things for little people coming from it.
So, how does the remote program know that the signature is generated by a program it trusts running on your computer?
Presumably the kernel has access to all memory, how does the process know that the kernel isn't going to hand the contents of memory off to something else? And if the kernel doesn't have access, how does the process send the contents of that memory to a device?
I own my computer. I bought the hardware. I should be able to do whatever I want with it. The reasons the concept of copyright has been created are not compelling enough to essentially force every computer to have a police chip in it to make sure we honor it.
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As someone pointed out, waterboarding is torture. So is being randomly beaten, which is a tactic the Chinese frequently employ as well.
Do some research and read some stories about what happens there. Being forced to sit in 'stress' positions for long periods of time can do permanent damage, and it's definitely torture. So is being shot up with psychoactive substances before interrogation.
There are these things called human rights that we pretend to hold sacred. Strangely, we even publicly state that they should apply to criminals. But, I guess you want to live in a world where they have no rights at all and can be tortured for years on end without even a fair trial. And anybody who is upset that this is how they will be treated "should've thought about that a little earlier".
Sorry, no, I don't agree.
If the Guantanomo Bay torture camps didn't exist I might be in your camp, though the issue of the extradition treaties being highly one-sided is still worth complaining about.
Revealing someone who likes to minimize the bad things Microsoft does and just say people are jealous of their success or that they just do what any company should be doing.
Of course, if by "turn the company into another Microsoft" you mean creating a monstrously profitable giant - well, isn't that the goal of every corporation out there?
Well, that, IMHO, is not the defining characteristic of Microsoft. The defining characteristic of Microsoft is the ruthless, underhanded quasi-legal business tactics and their rampant abuse of monopoly power. Your attempt to minimize this by implying that Microsoft is a perfectly normal monstrously profitable behemoth is revealing.
Apple does this too, but it can't do it as much as Microsoft does. I actually have no doubt that Apple would be just as bad as Microsoft in this regard should they ever achieve the necessary market power, though I might be wrong. Their willingness to sell music on iTunes that has no DRM and hence no particular attachment to their hardware is interesting from this perspective.
AFAIK, it still isn't free as in speech, just as in beer. I can do without that kind of free.
You're going to eventually anyway. It's slow, the model is seriously constraining, and it has a bunch of extra features that really aren't all that useful.
Consider using something like Mercurial (my favorite) or git instead. They are much better suited for collaborative development, especially if the teams are loosely coupled.
Then, why isn't Donald Rumsfeld, at least, in jail? The instructions to make that prison the way it was came from the top. The punishment should reach there too.
This is not an extreme crime. Killing 50 hookers over a span of 10 years is an extreme crime. Shooting people randomly with a sniper rifle is also pretty extreme.
Killing your ex-wife in rage during an argument when she's also had an affair and embezzled from you is not that extreme. It, in fact, is sadly all too common a scenario (though the having an affair and embezzling bits are details that change from case to case). It is definitely criminal, and definitely deserves punishment. But reacting as if it's the most horrible thing in the world isn't particularly realistic.
That's true. But one of the very useful purposes of government is moderating people's desire for vengeance and solving problems with violence.
I would hope that if I were ever to find myself in that position I would remember my principles and keep true to my ideals. But I might well abandon them in the grip of the powerful emotions I would likely experience.
I know, second guessing juries is a common pastime in the US. I was happy to speculate before the verdict. After the verdict I was much less comfortable doing so. I feel that juries usually know what they're doing no matter how much people might slam them.
And now, of course, the only question was whether or not he actually planned to do it or whether it just happened because he got angry and lost control. Neither is excusable though.
"An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I feel that your argument comes from a very 'eye of an eye' sort of moral position, and I don't feel that position is overall helpful for the human race.
Yes, Nina is dead now, and Hans is not. That is tragic, and Hans is directly responsible for that tragedy. But I feel the punishment should be based on a combination of rehabilitation and deterrence, not on trying to exact some kind of state mandated reciprocal vengeance on Hans.
Ahh, yes, child molesters, dictators and mass murderers are of an equivalent level of moral depravity. Hmmm.... interesting.
Corporations are a legal pyramid scheme and the C?Os are near the apex of that pyramid.
Actually, you can train yourself out of that one too. It takes some self awareness and a little effort and a willingness to observe the signs.
Firefox basically can't do SOCKS proxying and connect to IPv6 sites, even if you configure a SOCKS5 proxy which can handle IPv6.
So your argument is that USSID 18 overrides the Constitution?
The grandparent had a point you seemed to have missed. The problem is the lines. Allowing people to use pencil and paper instead of voting machines isn't enough. If the encourage option is the voting machine a lot of people will stand in line waiting for one to be available without really thinking about using pencil and paper to get out of line more quickly.
So, for the availability of paper and pencil voting to solve the line problem, you have to do a few things:
Doing those things will solve the line problem. The mere availability of pencil and paper voting does not.
Well, they will frequently come back, yes. But the site being down also affects consumer confidence in a big way and that will make fewer people likely to go to the site.
So, using the metric of exactly how much you sell in a given time period is likely inaccurate, but I suspect the actual impact is higher, not lower.
Even for simple diff/commit purposes I find Mercurial much easier to use than either CVS or SVN. And I find CVS easier to use for such purposes than SVN. The biggest reason for this is that Mercurial is blindingly fast in comparison to SVN or CVS.
IMHO, SVN is a very poor tool who's only real advantage over CVS is that it happens to work whereas CVS fails to in several important cases.
I wish I could go back and my post...
It would also solve stupid things like Netscape ceasing to host the DTDs for RSS.
The web really needs some sort of link to a SHA-256 hash or something. If that kind of link were allowed ubiquitously it could solve the Slashdot effect and also make caching work really well for pictures, Ajax libraries and a whole number of other things that don't change that often.
If I have to run particular software in order to communicate with someone else, I do not have full control over my computer. I would imagine that Microsoft's first step would be to make IIS refuse to communicate with anybody not running a Microsoft certified copy of IE.
I think I will have to understand the mechanism much more thoroughly to see if your arguments make sense. But until then, I am still very anti-TPM. I can only see bad things for little people coming from it.
So, how does the remote program know that the signature is generated by a program it trusts running on your computer?
Presumably the kernel has access to all memory, how does the process know that the kernel isn't going to hand the contents of memory off to something else? And if the kernel doesn't have access, how does the process send the contents of that memory to a device?
There is no way to do this unless the remote server has some control over what is and is not allowed to run on my computer at some level.
I own my computer. I bought the hardware. I should be able to do whatever I want with it. The reasons the concept of copyright has been created are not compelling enough to essentially force every computer to have a police chip in it to make sure we honor it.