As a side note, this is a conversation I've had with my daughters.
"Imagine a woman all dolled up in club wear and heavy makeup, walking down that same street. She gets assaulted. Who's fault is it?"
"Well, sure not hers. She should be allowed to wear what she wants!"
"Ok, now imagine a man in an expensive, well-tailored suit, nice haircut, expensive watch, shiny black leather wingtips, walking through a 'bad' part of town. He gets mugged."
"Well, what did he expect, dressing like....ohhhhhh."
Well, how safe is it to be walking around with a pocket full of cash? What if you get robbed? What if you drop your wallet? What if you go to the bank machine and it dispenses too few bills, but thinks it dispensed them all? What if you go to a teller to withdraw cash and watch them count it, but the bank gets robbed?
At least with credit card payments, there's a known and tested dispute process in place.
Supposedly they'd tested it themselves beforehand by shooting at a similar book without the human backstop, but your initial point is absolutely correct; if you point a gun at a human being, you intend to kill them. No ifs, ands, or buts.
Shit, I've got perfectly good color vision, and I've played games where two factions are 'blue' and 'ever so slightly different blue' to the point that straight manufacturing variance can cause issues. Let alone fading/wear/whatever after a few years of use.
Or, put another way, take these different types of unlawful killings.
1) John is out hunting. He sees a deer, snaps his rifle up to his shoulder, takes the shot. Bob was behind the deer, behind a screen of foliage, not wearing blaze orange.
2) John is out hunting. He sees something moving in the bushes, assumes it's a deer, takes the shot, surprise, it's Bob.
3) John is out hunting. He sees a deer, sees Bob standing near the deer, in blaze orange. John knows he's not a good shot, but takes the shot anyway.
4) John is out hunting, sees Bob. He knows Bob's been banging his wife, so he gets pissed, and shoots Bob.
5) John finds out that Bob has been banging his wife. John overhears plans by bob for a hunting trip, lays in wait, and shoots him.
6) John hates Jews. Bob has curly hair, what John considers to be a Jew-like nose, and a last name that involves the word 'stein' or 'man' or something else which is, to John's mind, stereotypically Jewish. John shoots bob.
7) John hates Jews. Bob has curly hair, what John considers to be a Jew-like nose, and a last name that involves the word 'stein' or 'man' or something else which is, to John's mind, stereotypically Jewish. John kills Bob in a particularly grotesque fashion; lets say he kills Bob by slicing off Bob's penis, chunk by chunk, all while taunting Bob about circumcision. He then carves Nazi swastikas into Bob's forehead, paints anti-semetic slogans on the outside of the house, thinking that Bob's neighbours are also "jewish."
It's a sector, but with additional features and options that the average sector user doesn't want or need. Also, hopefully higher quality of manufacturing and parts that will stand up to more rigorous use, wider range of environmental conditions, etc etc. More expensive than a regular sector.
Lets say I write a news story about the assassination of JFK. In my story, psychic warriors from Belize set up a shooting range in Istanbul, and use the power of psychic teleportation to teleport a bullet from a rifle, fired on this range in Istanbul, into JFK. Meanwhile, the little grey Aliens from Zeta Eridani 99 are using their invisible kazer rifles (kinda like a laser, but instead of light, they use the enigmatic and hitherto undiscovered K-waves) to also shoot the President, but miss, hit the bullet that just teleported in and went through the President, causing it to ricochet through him again.
This story, were it to be published, would a) be essentially a work of fiction, and b) the president would still have been assassinated.
In other words, that particular newspaper could have all of the important facts wrong, but Russia could still have been influencing the election.
Dude, she came out of the election with a) fewer seats, and b) having lost her majority. She gambled, and she lost. She is objectively worse off than she was had she not called for the election.
She went in with a majority government, came out with a minority. That means that now her party needs votes from other parties to pass legislation. Which means that they now need to make compromises and deals.
So yeah, this isn't a win. It's like saying 'I walked into a casino with a hundred bucks, hoped to walk out with 150, instead walked out with 75. This looks like a win.'
There are three ways that a one-time pad can be broken.
1: You're stupid enough to reuse a sequence from the pad. 2: The pad is compromised 3: The pad is improperly generated - which is to say, is not properly random.
A properly done OTP cannot be broken, because it's not algorithmic.
Man of Steel, Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad were all considered critical flops, regardless of what their box office takes were.
So, Wonder Woman may be DC's first 'good' movie. Or it may be yet another bungled attempt at replicating the Marvel movie magic. But because it's been made a cause, rather than a movie, it can never stand or fail on it's own merits.
If it's the first 'good' DC movie, there will always be the insinuation that it's being treated as 'good' because of the feminist angle. If it's yet another 'bad' DC movie, there will always be the insinuation that anybody that legitimately doesn't like it actually only dislikes it because they're misogynistic.
It's not like silly plots, action hero good guys, incompetent bad guys, and so on, are excusive to TV shows or movies. Ever read the Iliad and The Odyssey? The Epic of Gilgamesh?
You know, I was thinking something like this just the other night. If WW does well, people will complain that it's just because of the gender angle. If WW does poorly....people will complain it's just because of the gender angle.
My initial thought would be 'no, because the girl doesn't have a contract with the diary manufacturer to keep the communications private, nor have other people been communicating with the daughter via messages in the diary.'
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As a side note, this is a conversation I've had with my daughters.
"Imagine a woman all dolled up in club wear and heavy makeup, walking down that same street. She gets assaulted. Who's fault is it?"
"Well, sure not hers. She should be allowed to wear what she wants!"
"Ok, now imagine a man in an expensive, well-tailored suit, nice haircut, expensive watch, shiny black leather wingtips, walking through a 'bad' part of town. He gets mugged."
"Well, what did he expect, dressing like....ohhhhhh."
Well, clearly you've made up your mind about cash versus electronic payments, so I'm not sure why you're asking here.
Well, how safe is it to be walking around with a pocket full of cash? What if you get robbed? What if you drop your wallet? What if you go to the bank machine and it dispenses too few bills, but thinks it dispensed them all? What if you go to a teller to withdraw cash and watch them count it, but the bank gets robbed?
At least with credit card payments, there's a known and tested dispute process in place.
Supposedly they'd tested it themselves beforehand by shooting at a similar book without the human backstop, but your initial point is absolutely correct; if you point a gun at a human being, you intend to kill them. No ifs, ands, or buts.
If you've got a parrot that can shout at 150+db, that's impressive.
Out of curiosity, what happened to the rates of other forms of armed violence?
No, but it's probably against the law to willfully and knowingly interfere with police dispatch and what not.
Remember, most crimes have two elements; mens rea and actus rea. You have to do something naughty, and you have to know that it's naught.
Shit, I've got perfectly good color vision, and I've played games where two factions are 'blue' and 'ever so slightly different blue' to the point that straight manufacturing variance can cause issues. Let alone fading/wear/whatever after a few years of use.
Well, at least they shot first.
If you need additional training to understand what 'hold steering wheel' means, please report to the nearest termination booth, friend citizen.
Yes, but by the time you got across the street, said onion had turned into onion rings.
Kinda like the stepping switch for the POTS?
Hey, Buddy, Toranna's in Canada, eh? The FCC hasn't got any regulatory control over them, eh? Sorry.
Except that murder isn't 'just murder,' which is why there are so many subtle shades of it.
Negligent homicide, reckless homicide, willful homicide, premeditated homicide.
Or, put another way, take these different types of unlawful killings.
1) John is out hunting. He sees a deer, snaps his rifle up to his shoulder, takes the shot. Bob was behind the deer, behind a screen of foliage, not wearing blaze orange.
2) John is out hunting. He sees something moving in the bushes, assumes it's a deer, takes the shot, surprise, it's Bob.
3) John is out hunting. He sees a deer, sees Bob standing near the deer, in blaze orange. John knows he's not a good shot, but takes the shot anyway.
4) John is out hunting, sees Bob. He knows Bob's been banging his wife, so he gets pissed, and shoots Bob.
5) John finds out that Bob has been banging his wife. John overhears plans by bob for a hunting trip, lays in wait, and shoots him.
6) John hates Jews. Bob has curly hair, what John considers to be a Jew-like nose, and a last name that involves the word 'stein' or 'man' or something else which is, to John's mind, stereotypically Jewish. John shoots bob.
7) John hates Jews. Bob has curly hair, what John considers to be a Jew-like nose, and a last name that involves the word 'stein' or 'man' or something else which is, to John's mind, stereotypically Jewish. John kills Bob in a particularly grotesque fashion; lets say he kills Bob by slicing off Bob's penis, chunk by chunk, all while taunting Bob about circumcision. He then carves Nazi swastikas into Bob's forehead, paints anti-semetic slogans on the outside of the house, thinking that Bob's neighbours are also "jewish."
Should all of these carry the same penalty?
It's a sector, but with additional features and options that the average sector user doesn't want or need. Also, hopefully higher quality of manufacturing and parts that will stand up to more rigorous use, wider range of environmental conditions, etc etc. More expensive than a regular sector.
Lets say I write a news story about the assassination of JFK. In my story, psychic warriors from Belize set up a shooting range in Istanbul, and use the power of psychic teleportation to teleport a bullet from a rifle, fired on this range in Istanbul, into JFK. Meanwhile, the little grey Aliens from Zeta Eridani 99 are using their invisible kazer rifles (kinda like a laser, but instead of light, they use the enigmatic and hitherto undiscovered K-waves) to also shoot the President, but miss, hit the bullet that just teleported in and went through the President, causing it to ricochet through him again.
This story, were it to be published, would a) be essentially a work of fiction, and b) the president would still have been assassinated.
In other words, that particular newspaper could have all of the important facts wrong, but Russia could still have been influencing the election.
Dude, she came out of the election with a) fewer seats, and b) having lost her majority. She gambled, and she lost. She is objectively worse off than she was had she not called for the election.
She went in with a majority government, came out with a minority. That means that now her party needs votes from other parties to pass legislation. Which means that they now need to make compromises and deals.
So yeah, this isn't a win. It's like saying 'I walked into a casino with a hundred bucks, hoped to walk out with 150, instead walked out with 75. This looks like a win.'
Sorry, I'm specifically referring to the current crop of DCMU movies; Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, now Wonder Woman.
There have been some excellent movies made about DC properties in the past.
My original point stands.
Only if the dresser were maintained by somebody who'd agreed to keep the communications contained within private.
There are three ways that a one-time pad can be broken.
1: You're stupid enough to reuse a sequence from the pad.
2: The pad is compromised
3: The pad is improperly generated - which is to say, is not properly random.
A properly done OTP cannot be broken, because it's not algorithmic.
No, but it's more insidious than that, you see.
Man of Steel, Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad were all considered critical flops, regardless of what their box office takes were.
So, Wonder Woman may be DC's first 'good' movie. Or it may be yet another bungled attempt at replicating the Marvel movie magic. But because it's been made a cause, rather than a movie, it can never stand or fail on it's own merits.
If it's the first 'good' DC movie, there will always be the insinuation that it's being treated as 'good' because of the feminist angle. If it's yet another 'bad' DC movie, there will always be the insinuation that anybody that legitimately doesn't like it actually only dislikes it because they're misogynistic.
It's not like silly plots, action hero good guys, incompetent bad guys, and so on, are excusive to TV shows or movies. Ever read the Iliad and The Odyssey? The Epic of Gilgamesh?
You know, I was thinking something like this just the other night. If WW does well, people will complain that it's just because of the gender angle. If WW does poorly....people will complain it's just because of the gender angle.
My initial thought would be 'no, because the girl doesn't have a contract with the diary manufacturer to keep the communications private, nor have other people been communicating with the daughter via messages in the diary.'