hear hear!
I've often wondered why all the pirate parties out there have such a narrow field of view. I also wonder what would happen, should they get a larger number of seats and asked to take a stand on global issues.
if I were really paranoid, I'd start thinking the big parties are using the (new) small parties to split the rogue votes, which are understandably getting more and more. So when a party comes along with just that agenda the parent mentions, they'll get far less votes than they might under other circumstances.
it's like the company that does actually invent a pill that makes your schlong bigger - but no matter how they advertise, they can't get through the spam.
let me tell you about europe, specifically germany. we don't have the idiotic two party system of the states or britain. hell, jump the 5% and you're in.
we all know politicians lie when they open their mouths. but nowadays, it seems, they aren't even trying to appear in the light of being the representatives of the people. more bs followed by even more bs. kill civil rights, kill social benefits, 'let the rich eat em all!'.
couple weeks back we had the european election here in germany. I really wanted to vote - really really did. but between the usual 5 suspects that have been conning us for the past 5-50 years and the new hardliners who just want to become part of the so-called 'elite' - it's all one big vote for "fuck you and bend over, dear tax-payer!".
maybe the people in canada aren't too lazy to vote - they might just be pissed off with the scum running the place.
"There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order." - Ed Howdershelt
don't apologise - you were spot on. the best he can offer is some random anecdotal evidence. seeing as this is/., it's hard to believe he actually has slept with a woman - thus his 'evidence' succumbs further scrutiny. don't apologise for his shortcomings.
and listening to someone who calls themselves "meatbag pussrocket" and actually apologising to them, is YOUR shortcoming.
oh come on mods, don't moderate a comment with the same (insightful / informative) content down, just because someone beat them to the punch by few seconds.
stick to modding good comments up instead of burning peoples karma who actually mean well.
no of course, you're right. ms earns by selling products that run on linux and mac. hell, back then their largest profit-margin was on beos. I remember this proggie.. um.. worpderfect - it ran on loonix cmdln.
it's pure and basic maths - create a plattform and create a mass-business product that is dependent on that plattform. the basis of your earnings will be a derivative of the expansion of your plattform.
I, sir, am drunk. you, sir, are dumb and wrong. tomorrow I shall have sobered up. what are you gonna do?
ms, to the larger part, makes money from the programs and products they sell that run on windows machines.
they don't care if their software is pirated - in fact they actually want the largest market share they can achieve. may that goal be reached through legitimate sales or not.
all this is, as it was with xp, vista and all the other recent ones is some more FUD. the drm is just slightly easily enough cracked, the effort and expertise needed to actually apply the crack just above "oh well, if it doesn't work, I'll just have to buy it".
I was thinking the same thing. to me it sounds more like they want to replace copper with fiber as their base of infrastructure, so they can digitize everything from the consumer onwards.
makes sense - GCHQ will have a lot less hassle spying on people.
Most recent events in a nutshell:
Islamists have invaded Pakistan and claimed the Swat Valley for their cause. Pakistan sent their army in, which had little to not effect. A peace agreement between Pakistan and the Islamists was formed, which stated, among other things, that the Swat Valley had to introduce Sharia Law (Islamic law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia No education for women, education usually based on the koran, death by stoning, maiming of people, to name a few punishments & "perks") and the Islamists wouldn't advance further into Pakistan. As to be expected, Sharia Law was introduced and only weeks later the Islamists continued on to occupy further parts of Pakistan.
As of writing, they have closed in approx 60 miles to the capital Islamabad.
Pakistan has, in modern times, always been extremely unstable and I personally doubt that it would take much to overthrow the government - especially in these trying times.
oh, and the kicker? Pakistan has nukes.
if anything can change the geopolitcal balance over night, it's nukes in the hands of jihadists.
I don't believe that this necessary will lead to censorship of other "offensive" or politically incorrect material.
how can you even know that, when the list contents aren't made public? Every time these lists have leaked from various countries, there have been blacklisted websites that have nothing to do with child porn! Quoting from your own link:
"The list is generated without judicial or public oversight and is kept secret by the ISPs using it. Unaccountability is intrinsic to such a secret censorship system."
So why are all these lists secret? The official reason is evident; the authorities don't want to create a mailing-list for the best kiddie smut on the net.
OTOH it's so they can fill it up with whatever the gov't doesn't agree with.
These actions by our respective governments are so ludicrous, that I just can't write it up to the common incompetence they display.
Furthermore, the fact that most western govnments are doing this at the same time, indicates to me, that they all seem to love the idea of having more control over the net.
child porn is just such a welcome excuse.
espionage, counter-espionage, counter-counter-espionage, etc, are part of the doctrine and thus are usually planned and prep'ed way in advance. all it takes is a flip of a switch.
once you've posted anonymously in a thread you cannot moderate the thread anymore and the comments you have moderated lose their score.
sounds a lot like the "post anonymously" option doesn't disclose your name and keeps your karma from getting touched.
otherwise, I'm sure they know every posssible detail there is to know about every AC and non-AC post.
although I'm knowledgable in basic medicine and human anatomy, I don't have a degree in that field. furthermore it's a topic of heated debate mixed up with many urban legends and anecdotal evidence.
I believe the first historic story on the matter I read was about a scientist who was fascinated by the guillotine during or after the french revolution. he asked a prisoner sentenced to death, to help him with his studies.
once his head was chopped off, the scientist called the prisoner's name. The prisoner's eyes opened and he looked at the scientist. The scientist managed to repeat this 2-3 times within 30 seconds.
for the love of me, I can't remember the name of the scientist, nor the prisoner.
anyhow, it is my understanding that in a life and death situation, the body won't succumb to such "trivialities" like losing blood pressure. My point being, a human would be so fired up on adrenaline and, through the decapitation, shock, that the body would make the very most of the reserves it still has (as Ron Wright puts it: "After your head is cut off by a guillotine, you have 13 seconds of consciousness (+/- 1 or 2). [...] The 13 seconds is the amount of high energy phosphates that the cytochromes in the brain have to keep going without new oxygen and glucose."). Life wants to live.
I guess the real question is, whether the person is still conscious or not. I guess the prisoner from my former example who reacted to the scientist calling his name could be seen as consciousness. But maybe the scientist had to bark his name loudly and it was just some reflex.
truth be told, I don't really know. Can we get some test-subjects here, please?;)
you need just the right amount of torque to snap a persons neck by hanging, which takes a bit of math to determine how long the rope and how high the fall needs to be for a certain weight and height of a person. if the rope is too short, the executee will end up being strangled. if the rope is too long, the head of the executee will pop off like the head of a champagne bottle.
as someone mentions below this post, popping the head off and breaking the spinal cord essentially leads to death in the same way (oxygenated blood cannot reach the brain / heart stops beating).
hanging is easier on the eyes, but imho decapitation by guillotine might be a better way, as hanging can be botched up easily.
fun fact:
it can take up to a minute to lose consciousness after the brain isn't supplied with oxygenated blood anymore, although somewhere around 5-20 seconds is more common. so if you ever get your block chopped off, take a minute to savour the view.
after that, brain death takes around 6 minutes.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/massacre
"The intentional killing of a considerable number of human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people."
high kills can mean massacre, but technically war is civilized.
having an unbalanced kill ratio doesn't mean shit. it can mean many things, for instance:
one aside has better
- training
- weapons
- tactics
- body armor
- etc
if you generally compare modern wars to each other, you'll notice how western countries take less and less casualties and it's all thanks (to the greater part) to new and improved body armor. The KIA toll in afghanistan or Iraq would be much higher if GIs still had Vietnam-era flak-jackets. Nowadays we get more (multiple) amputees than anything else.
furthermore, and this is the actual kicker, there were over 600 WIA (wounded in action) in Falluja. I hope this sheds more light on the matter.
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hear hear!
I've often wondered why all the pirate parties out there have such a narrow field of view. I also wonder what would happen, should they get a larger number of seats and asked to take a stand on global issues.
if I were really paranoid, I'd start thinking the big parties are using the (new) small parties to split the rogue votes, which are understandably getting more and more. So when a party comes along with just that agenda the parent mentions, they'll get far less votes than they might under other circumstances.
it's like the company that does actually invent a pill that makes your schlong bigger - but no matter how they advertise, they can't get through the spam.
apparently you've never heard of the company powergen, that went international and opened up an italian branch.
www.powergenitalia.com
heh!
let me tell you about europe, specifically germany.
we don't have the idiotic two party system of the states or britain. hell, jump the 5% and you're in.
we all know politicians lie when they open their mouths. but nowadays, it seems, they aren't even trying to appear in the light of being the representatives of the people. more bs followed by even more bs. kill civil rights, kill social benefits, 'let the rich eat em all!'.
couple weeks back we had the european election here in germany. I really wanted to vote - really really did. but between the usual 5 suspects that have been conning us for the past 5-50 years and the new hardliners who just want to become part of the so-called 'elite' - it's all one big vote for "fuck you and bend over, dear tax-payer!".
maybe the people in canada aren't too lazy to vote - they might just be pissed off with the scum running the place.
"There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order." - Ed Howdershelt
no shit.
so it does not protect homosexual men and heterosexual females?
I can guess who made / will make this mainstream.
Cpt. Obvious, is that you?
don't apologise - you were spot on. the best he can offer is some random anecdotal evidence. seeing as this is /., it's hard to believe he actually has slept with a woman - thus his 'evidence' succumbs further scrutiny. don't apologise for his shortcomings.
and listening to someone who calls themselves "meatbag pussrocket" and actually apologising to them, is YOUR shortcoming.
jesus.
"(...) who does this guy think I am?!"
oh come on mods, don't moderate a comment with the same (insightful / informative) content down, just because someone beat them to the punch by few seconds.
stick to modding good comments up instead of burning peoples karma who actually mean well.
3 months ago, I would have recommended scandinavia, especially sweden. not since the tpb trial anymore though.
no of course, you're right. ms earns by selling products that run on linux and mac. hell, back then their largest profit-margin was on beos. I remember this proggie.. um.. worpderfect - it ran on loonix cmdln.
it's pure and basic maths - create a plattform and create a mass-business product that is dependent on that plattform.
the basis of your earnings will be a derivative of the expansion of your plattform. I, sir, am drunk. you, sir, are dumb and wrong. tomorrow I shall have sobered up. what are you gonna do?
ms, to the larger part, makes money from the programs and products they sell that run on windows machines.
they don't care if their software is pirated - in fact they actually want the largest market share they can achieve. may that goal be reached through legitimate sales or not.
all this is, as it was with xp, vista and all the other recent ones is some more FUD. the drm is just slightly easily enough cracked, the effort and expertise needed to actually apply the crack just above "oh well, if it doesn't work, I'll just have to buy it".
+1 OHHHSNAP!
I was thinking the same thing. to me it sounds more like they want to replace copper with fiber as their base of infrastructure, so they can digitize everything from the consumer onwards.
makes sense - GCHQ will have a lot less hassle spying on people.
I'm not real worried about insurgents altering the geopolitical balance of power.
I guess you're not up-to-date with the happenings in Pakistan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8015604.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8016485.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7570286.stm
Most recent events in a nutshell:
Islamists have invaded Pakistan and claimed the Swat Valley for their cause. Pakistan sent their army in, which had little to not effect. A peace agreement between Pakistan and the Islamists was formed, which stated, among other things, that the Swat Valley had to introduce Sharia Law (Islamic law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia No education for women, education usually based on the koran, death by stoning, maiming of people, to name a few punishments & "perks") and the Islamists wouldn't advance further into Pakistan. As to be expected, Sharia Law was introduced and only weeks later the Islamists continued on to occupy further parts of Pakistan.
As of writing, they have closed in approx 60 miles to the capital Islamabad.
Pakistan has, in modern times, always been extremely unstable and I personally doubt that it would take much to overthrow the government - especially in these trying times.
oh, and the kicker? Pakistan has nukes.
if anything can change the geopolitcal balance over night, it's nukes in the hands of jihadists.
I don't believe that this necessary will lead to censorship of other "offensive" or politically incorrect material.
how can you even know that, when the list contents aren't made public? Every time these lists have leaked from various countries, there have been blacklisted websites that have nothing to do with child porn! Quoting from your own link:
"The list is generated without judicial or public oversight and is kept secret by the ISPs using it. Unaccountability is intrinsic to such a secret censorship system."
So why are all these lists secret? The official reason is evident; the authorities don't want to create a mailing-list for the best kiddie smut on the net.
OTOH it's so they can fill it up with whatever the gov't doesn't agree with.
These actions by our respective governments are so ludicrous, that I just can't write it up to the common incompetence they display.
Furthermore, the fact that most western govnments are doing this at the same time, indicates to me, that they all seem to love the idea of having more control over the net.
child porn is just such a welcome excuse.
espionage, counter-espionage, counter-counter-espionage, etc, are part of the doctrine and thus are usually planned and prep'ed way in advance. all it takes is a flip of a switch.
what's a disaster?
when a ferry with 1000 lawyers sinks.
what's a catastrophe?
they all survive.
:P
agreed. terrorism is the act of spreading fear and intimidation. unfortunately, nowadays this word is being used for anything the gov't doesn't like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
once you've posted anonymously in a thread you cannot moderate the thread anymore and the comments you have moderated lose their score.
sounds a lot like the "post anonymously" option doesn't disclose your name and keeps your karma from getting touched.
otherwise, I'm sure they know every posssible detail there is to know about every AC and non-AC post.
+1 hackable
crud, of course once I'd posted I remembered the name. Languille!
http://www.theguillotine.info/articles/livingheads.php
although I'm knowledgable in basic medicine and human anatomy, I don't have a degree in that field. furthermore it's a topic of heated debate mixed up with many urban legends and anecdotal evidence.
;)
I believe the first historic story on the matter I read was about a scientist who was fascinated by the guillotine during or after the french revolution. he asked a prisoner sentenced to death, to help him with his studies.
once his head was chopped off, the scientist called the prisoner's name. The prisoner's eyes opened and he looked at the scientist. The scientist managed to repeat this 2-3 times within 30 seconds.
for the love of me, I can't remember the name of the scientist, nor the prisoner.
anyhow, it is my understanding that in a life and death situation, the body won't succumb to such "trivialities" like losing blood pressure. My point being, a human would be so fired up on adrenaline and, through the decapitation, shock, that the body would make the very most of the reserves it still has (as Ron Wright puts it: "After your head is cut off by a guillotine, you have 13 seconds of consciousness (+/- 1 or 2). [...] The 13 seconds is the amount of high energy phosphates that the cytochromes in the brain have to keep going without new oxygen and glucose.").
Life wants to live.
I guess the real question is, whether the person is still conscious or not. I guess the prisoner from my former example who reacted to the scientist calling his name could be seen as consciousness. But maybe the scientist had to bark his name loudly and it was just some reflex.
truth be told, I don't really know. Can we get some test-subjects here, please?
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/17/dery-on-decapitation.html
http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/thefrenchrevolution/a/dyk10.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Dr.+Ron+Wright+guillotine&btnG=Search
you need just the right amount of torque to snap a persons neck by hanging, which takes a bit of math to determine how long the rope and how high the fall needs to be for a certain weight and height of a person.
if the rope is too short, the executee will end up being strangled.
if the rope is too long, the head of the executee will pop off like the head of a champagne bottle.
as someone mentions below this post, popping the head off and breaking the spinal cord essentially leads to death in the same way (oxygenated blood cannot reach the brain / heart stops beating).
hanging is easier on the eyes, but imho decapitation by guillotine might be a better way, as hanging can be botched up easily.
fun fact:
it can take up to a minute to lose consciousness after the brain isn't supplied with oxygenated blood anymore, although somewhere around 5-20 seconds is more common. so if you ever get your block chopped off, take a minute to savour the view.
after that, brain death takes around 6 minutes.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/massacre
"The intentional killing of a considerable number of human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people."
high kills can mean massacre, but technically war is civilized.
having an unbalanced kill ratio doesn't mean shit. it can mean many things, for instance:
one aside has better
- training
- weapons
- tactics
- body armor
- etc
if you generally compare modern wars to each other, you'll notice how western countries take less and less casualties and it's all thanks (to the greater part) to new and improved body armor. The KIA toll in afghanistan or Iraq would be much higher if GIs still had Vietnam-era flak-jackets. Nowadays we get more (multiple) amputees than anything else.
furthermore, and this is the actual kicker, there were over 600 WIA (wounded in action) in Falluja.
I hope this sheds more light on the matter.