If you want the laws changed, write/speak to your congress (wo)man.
I laugh every time I see this. First off, if your congress (wo)man's political party opposes your view, you are immediately S.O.L. Secondly, if you want to effect change, a letter isn't going to do anything except prompt a bland response via form letter. Every time. Join or form a lobby and donate LOTS of money. Donate to the target party's/parties' campaign(s) as well; now that donation limits have been abolished, your ability to "help" your party has only improved, right?
Know their proper function please.
Just wow. It's their function to check each other, as powers should. It can be the difference between throwing the book at an offender to issuing the minimum fine to throwing out the case and declaring the law unconstitutional. Just as the executive branch has the option of not enforcing the law at all.
There are plenty chances for undesired, unjust laws to be swept under the rug without legislation, and the fact that no one will even bother replacing or modernizing an outdated law being used for predatory litigation is just sad.
His remarks came as wildlife group Traffic presented a report called "Imperilled[sic] Custodians of the Night" which warned about the declining owl population in India.
Please tell me something was lost in translation. There is also a misspelling in the quote so I hope "Custodians" was meant to be a slightly more endearing term.
Appropriately weighty principles guide our course. First, we recognize that police power draws from the credo that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Second, while this maxim rings utilitarian and Dickensian (not to mention Vulcan[21]), it is cabined by something contrarian and Texan: distrust of intrusive government and a belief that police power is justified only by urgency, not expediency.
Spock is quoting Dickens, and the general maxim can be traced back to Aristotle at least.
Corporations here like to believe that any public funds for telecommunications are a free gift to their shareholders.
I've always wonder why the government just gives the money away instead of exchanging it for stock. Its all the burden of an investment with none of the benefits.
Is any other type infrastructure ever considered a risky investment that needs to be publicly subsidized? Is it immoral to harass/vandalize a telco that has been jerking us around for years with poor customer service and spotty at best connectivity? How can we affect change if we can't even vote with our dollars?
Then why do aggressive pan-handler's make four times as much as the quiet kind? We live in a world where even just yelling can be good enough to effect change.
Liu is going to love reading this when he get out of jail
Reads what, Slashdot comments?
all you guys can talk about is war and violent uprising.
You must be kidding; if you actually bothered to read the posts you would note how most of them seem to be about hypothetical trade futures between superpowers, ideological rants (both sides), or other nerdy nonsense. In fact, it has even been stated (and positively modded) on this page that the "tipping point" would only occur if China executes a "Military invasion of a 1st world western country." [vux984] Violence, as most of us here will agree, is the last refuge of the incompetent. [Asimov]
It is like you guys are trying really hard to prove the Chinese government is right to lock him up - that his ideas are actually dangerous.
True, if indeed he was talking about terrorism only occurring in the United States, and not in its totality. I saw no reason to restrict his statement to terrorism in the US alone because he never explicitly qualifies it as such and terrorism that occurs in other countries should matter.
So by this logic all I need is a few hundred counterexamples and the point is refuted? Of course there are terrorists everywhere, which is why I asked if he was just being hyperbolic. It's OK to be hyperbolic (I assume you are as well), but one should probably make the differentiation when saying inflammatory things like
Because we've had just as many terrorists of domestic extraction as we've had foreign ones.
Another distinction he should make is who this "we" is. Is he speaking for Americans or all denizen of the Earth?
Jim Henson's Muppet Vision 3D was the apex of 3D anything ever. This is two decades old, and still the best use of the "current" 3D gimmick, mainly because they knew it was just a gimmick when they made it.
Technically, you are not required to believe either way... God either exists or doesn't, and one's belief in him would have no effect on His existence, unless it does, in which case, what?
Your assertion also relies on people en masse believing empirical evidence. I'll believe that when when I see it!
Why do people attribute to one country's people things that obviously apply to all people? Why do people think this post is in any way insightful?
Do I just need to start my inane generalizations with "Before this post gets modded as a troll or flamebait, it is my humble and sincere view..." to substantiate my otherwise vaguely hypocritical flamebait post?
It's like saying a car crash is your fault because you didn't notice that somebody removed all your lugnuts, causing you to lose control. I mean, you can see the lugnuts weren't there, right?
Its more like you borrow a friends car that does not need lug nuts, replaced the tires with some that do require lug nuts, but then never install the lug nuts, and then proceed to crash it. But yeah, you should still just use braces anyway.
WARNING: enjoying "music" can stimulate dopamine release and induce a high known as "goosebumps" or "the spine tingles". Seriously, parents need to be aware of this so their kids don't turn into musicians. Oops, I mean drug addicts.
However, given the current influence of the media corporations with government, maybe we should leave well enough alone...
You're going to have to; their lobbies have a fair degree of control over every political party in every branch of government, so there is no way to vote against their agenda.
Personally, I'd like to see more work done in rural areas utilizing wireless broadband.
This already exists; its called satellite. While it is not as good as cable, it is a far cry better than dial-up, and it wont cost hundreds of millions of dollars to roll out to a group of people who typically take pride in their technophobia.
Anyway, I'm glad they did this, now the country can decide whether they want to spend their time on federal lawsuits of importance, like civil rights, or on this bullshit.
The country !=/. Turns out most people still don't know or don't care.
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If you want the laws changed, write/speak to your congress (wo)man.
I laugh every time I see this. First off, if your congress (wo)man's political party opposes your view, you are immediately S.O.L. Secondly, if you want to effect change, a letter isn't going to do anything except prompt a bland response via form letter. Every time. Join or form a lobby and donate LOTS of money. Donate to the target party's/parties' campaign(s) as well; now that donation limits have been abolished, your ability to "help" your party has only improved, right?
Know their proper function please.
Just wow. It's their function to check each other, as powers should. It can be the difference between throwing the book at an offender to issuing the minimum fine to throwing out the case and declaring the law unconstitutional. Just as the executive branch has the option of not enforcing the law at all.
There are plenty chances for undesired, unjust laws to be swept under the rug without legislation, and the fact that no one will even bother replacing or modernizing an outdated law being used for predatory litigation is just sad.
So, if I steal half a dozen cars from the local car dealer and give them to people, I get no punishment at all. My "proceeds" are exactly 0.
Wrong, your proceeds are exactly a half dozen cars. What you do with them afterwords is not applicable.
If you stole $1 million from a bank, your proceeds are $1 million. It doesn't matter if you give it all to charity later or not.
His remarks came as wildlife group Traffic presented a report called "Imperilled[sic] Custodians of the Night" which warned about the declining owl population in India.
Please tell me something was lost in translation. There is also a misspelling in the quote so I hope "Custodians" was meant to be a slightly more endearing term.
But what about the ones that panic or enrage us? Or use sex to sell? Or [insert stereotypical generalization]?
Appropriately weighty principles guide our course. First, we recognize that police power draws from the credo that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Second, while this maxim rings utilitarian and Dickensian (not to mention Vulcan[21]), it is cabined by something contrarian and Texan: distrust of intrusive government and a belief that police power is justified only by urgency, not expediency.
Spock is quoting Dickens, and the general maxim can be traced back to Aristotle at least.
Corporations here like to believe that any public funds for telecommunications are a free gift to their shareholders.
I've always wonder why the government just gives the money away instead of exchanging it for stock. Its all the burden of an investment with none of the benefits.
Is any other type infrastructure ever considered a risky investment that needs to be publicly subsidized? Is it immoral to harass/vandalize a telco that has been jerking us around for years with poor customer service and spotty at best connectivity? How can we affect change if we can't even vote with our dollars?
Beggars cant be criticizers.
Then why do aggressive pan-handler's make four times as much as the quiet kind? We live in a world where even just yelling can be good enough to effect change.
Liu is going to love reading this when he get out of jail
Reads what, Slashdot comments?
all you guys can talk about is war and violent uprising.
You must be kidding; if you actually bothered to read the posts you would note how most of them seem to be about hypothetical trade futures between superpowers, ideological rants (both sides), or other nerdy nonsense. In fact, it has even been stated (and positively modded) on this page that the "tipping point" would only occur if China executes a "Military invasion of a 1st world western country." [vux984] Violence, as most of us here will agree, is the last refuge of the incompetent. [Asimov]
It is like you guys are trying really hard to prove the Chinese government is right to lock him up - that his ideas are actually dangerous.
Have you even read Charter 08? Considering its content and that he "dedicated the receipt of the prize to the Tiananmen martyrs.", his ideas are very dangerous to the people in power in China, according to those same people, especially if they catch on.
True, if indeed he was talking about terrorism only occurring in the United States, and not in its totality. I saw no reason to restrict his statement to terrorism in the US alone because he never explicitly qualifies it as such and terrorism that occurs in other countries should matter.
If that isn't what he meant, touché.
Another distinction he should make is who this "we" is. Is he speaking for Americans or all denizen of the Earth?
Actually, he already made that distinction, you clod.
Because we've had just as many terrorists of domestic extraction as we've had foreign ones.
Another distinction he should make is who this "we" is. Is he speaking for Americans or all denizen of the Earth?
This is the only reason why the Chinese people have tolerated authoritarian governments one by one -- yes it's bad, but the alternatives simply stink.
This is a prime example of a false dichotomy.
Because we've had just as many terrorists of domestic extraction as we've had foreign ones.
Do you actually believe that or is this just hyperbole? Has there even been a single American suicide bomber?
Jim Henson's Muppet Vision 3D was the apex of 3D anything ever. This is two decades old, and still the best use of the "current" 3D gimmick, mainly because they knew it was just a gimmick when they made it.
Technically, you are not required to believe either way... God either exists or doesn't, and one's belief in him would have no effect on His existence, unless it does, in which case, what?
Your assertion also relies on people en masse believing empirical evidence. I'll believe that when when I see it!
Those who sat a lot and moved less than three and a half hours per day are the most likely to die early
Dying from what , exactly? They never specify, not even in the article. This is FUD .
Why do people attribute to one country's people things that obviously apply to all people? Why do people think this post is in any way insightful?
Do I just need to start my inane generalizations with "Before this post gets modded as a troll or flamebait, it is my humble and sincere view..." to substantiate my otherwise vaguely hypocritical flamebait post?
Right now is the time to act on wireless network neutrality, not 5 years from now when the wireless carriers have established non-neutral networks.
Sadly, if the ongoing political climate doesn't fundamentally change, neither of your optimistic time-lines are even remotely likely to occur.
It's like saying a car crash is your fault because you didn't notice that somebody removed all your lugnuts, causing you to lose control. I mean, you can see the lugnuts weren't there, right?
Its more like you borrow a friends car that does not need lug nuts, replaced the tires with some that do require lug nuts, but then never install the lug nuts, and then proceed to crash it. But yeah, you should still just use braces anyway.
IF this isn't just a political stunt, and actually becomes law, it would only be a matter of time before something like this happens.
WARNING: enjoying "music" can stimulate dopamine release and induce a high known as "goosebumps" or "the spine tingles". Seriously, parents need to be aware of this so their kids don't turn into musicians. Oops, I mean drug addicts.
However, given the current influence of the media corporations with government, maybe we should leave well enough alone...
You're going to have to; their lobbies have a fair degree of control over every political party in every branch of government, so there is no way to vote against their agenda.
Personally, I'd like to see more work done in rural areas utilizing wireless broadband.
This already exists; its called satellite. While it is not as good as cable, it is a far cry better than dial-up, and it wont cost hundreds of millions of dollars to roll out to a group of people who typically take pride in their technophobia.
Anyway, I'm glad they did this, now the country can decide whether they want to spend their time on federal lawsuits of importance, like civil rights, or on this bullshit.
The country != /. Turns out most people still don't know or don't care.
American expats are the only nationals in the world who have to pay income tax to their country of citizenship
That is only if they want to retain their USA citizenship. They don't have to keep it. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/841/how-do-i-go-about-renouncing-my-u-s-citizenship