Rape is not a fucking joke. It's a violent crime. Threatening to rape someone is just as heinous as threatening to kill them. If someone left a message on your voice mail saying that you should be murdered, you'd call the cops, they'd find the motherfucker, and he'd rightfully go to jail.
But when it's rape instead of murder, suddenly the right to free speech is more important? Sorry, no. If you threaten to rape somebody, you're a violent piece of shit and need to be dealt with by the police.
I had to do something similar when some moron attached his WAP to the apartment Ethernet network backwards. He'd connected the wall jack to one the LAN ports on his WAP, and was serving DHCP to the entire complex--thereby shutting down the entire network. Naturally he hadn't changed his admin password, so I logged in to the web interface and changed the name of his network to "please call xxx-xxxx." A few minutes later the phone rings, and a few minutes after *that*, we had a working network again. (And he had a new admin password.)
It gives me a lot more flexibility in how I get notified. I can turn SMS on and off at will with Twitter, use Twitterific/Growl instead, you name it. I'd rather not be paged when I'm sitting at my desk.
This is the point of a library, and there should not be a single comment on this article that ignores it. The beauty of a public library is that anyone--anyone AT ALL--has access to information. The Internet is great, but when you deprive poor people of access to information (by shutting down libraries), you're doing them a huge disservice.
(By the way, I do hope you understood that my reply was purely tongue-in-cheek. My obsession with Japan borders on obnoxious and I found your post very interesting.)
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Thank you, Meno. :-)
Seems to have worked for Bettie Page.
So we've learned that not everything fits into a nice, neat category.
Including men and women, some of whom enjoy gymnastics regardless of CmdrTaco's outdated ideas about gender.
Yes, I am sure about that, and you've completely missed the point.
Rape is not a fucking joke. It's a violent crime. Threatening to rape someone is just as heinous as threatening to kill them. If someone left a message on your voice mail saying that you should be murdered, you'd call the cops, they'd find the motherfucker, and he'd rightfully go to jail.
But when it's rape instead of murder, suddenly the right to free speech is more important? Sorry, no. If you threaten to rape somebody, you're a violent piece of shit and need to be dealt with by the police.
If by "deliberate design decision" you mean "laziness," yeah, I'll buy that.
And you guys wonder why you never get dates.
*raises her hand*
Geeks think everything is stupid.
Ha--it's taken a bunch of black-and-white photos of itself at odd angles. Are those for its MySpace page?
How in God's holy name did you get five informative points? You basically just said that "airports use radar, not radar." Uh, what?
I had to do something similar when some moron attached his WAP to the apartment Ethernet network backwards. He'd connected the wall jack to one the LAN ports on his WAP, and was serving DHCP to the entire complex--thereby shutting down the entire network. Naturally he hadn't changed his admin password, so I logged in to the web interface and changed the name of his network to "please call xxx-xxxx." A few minutes later the phone rings, and a few minutes after *that*, we had a working network again. (And he had a new admin password.)
They overstate everything's link to terrorism.
It gives me a lot more flexibility in how I get notified. I can turn SMS on and off at will with Twitter, use Twitterific/Growl instead, you name it. I'd rather not be paged when I'm sitting at my desk.
I can't speak to Twitter's fate, but it sure is handy for distributing Nagios notifications.
Apple has done even better than that. They went from 680x0 to PPC to x86, with a complete overhaul of the OS in between--and nobody got hurt.
The iTunes catalog is probably 20 terabytes. It would take you 3.5 years to download that on a 1.5 Mbps line, not considering overhead.
Equalizing access to information
This is the point of a library, and there should not be a single comment on this article that ignores it. The beauty of a public library is that anyone--anyone AT ALL--has access to information. The Internet is great, but when you deprive poor people of access to information (by shutting down libraries), you're doing them a huge disservice.
Does anyone else feel like they just read the first console in an old Bungie game? We should probably be arming ourselves.
That's more prisoners per capita than anyone.
We also have less than 5% of the world's population and over 25% of the world's incarcerated people.
Touché. :-)
(By the way, I do hope you understood that my reply was purely tongue-in-cheek. My obsession with Japan borders on obnoxious and I found your post very interesting.)
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"Haiku sense is tingling!"
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That's an incredibly generous estimate. I'd be surprised if the actual figure is more than six or seven to one.