BTW, I would be really pissed if government starts using the money they stole from me to pay for other people's addictions.
It already is being used to deal with the problems. You pay for police who try to enforce the drug laws and your house gets broken into by someone looking for something to sell to fund his habit. My way is just cheaper.
1: You legalise it and let normal businesses supply drugs. Result: -higher quality drugs so no more drugs cut with ground glass etc. -the criminal aspect drops away since there's so little profit in it unless you set really really high taxes on it. -There's still a group with a reason to try to get new people hooked on drugs.
2: You don't legalise selling drugs but the government supplies free drugs like I said. Result: -nobody can sell drugs profitably. -the criminal aspect drops away unless you're retarded and stigmatise people who come forward for the drugs. -The government certainly isn't going to try to get more customers since the more addicts they supply the more it costs, they have no reason to get jimmy idiot addicted.
1 is better for personal freedom and all that. 2 is better if you want to have the minimum number of people addicted to drugs.
Drug dealers would shit themselves at the idea of either situation coming to pass.
Thing is the know how isn't the big deal. Any decent group of physics PHDs and professors could build a bomb with the right materials. The only thing really stopping every tom dick and harry from building one is the uranium enrichment. That takes serious money and time to get working.
Hmm.... I dunno. If I was currently selling illegal drugs in the US and wanted to continue to rake in giant piles of money I'd be making political donations to whoever was pushing the "tough on drugs" laws with a little note along the lines of "keep up the good work mate". Why? Well if it was legalised I'd be ruined!
Who was hurt most by the ending of prohibition? The mob of course, they wanted it to never end. Legal distributors selling safer cheaper drugs would push them out of the market entirely.
The best thing that can happen for them is for a competitor to be busted, they can just expand into their former market overnight. Sure they might be busted themselves but the organisations which survive and grow will be the ones which are best at avoiding getting caught.
I've heard that during prohibition foreign alcohol producers quietly lobbied to keep prohibition since consumption didn't go down, the American producers were pushed out of business and import taxes went the way of the morning mist.
Few people seem to be able to graps this, drug laws just create a situation where there's a group of people distributing drugs with a large financial incentive to expand their market.
Want to get rid of the drug dealers? It only takes a few easy and cheap steps. Step 1: Provide free high quality drugs to people already addicted with no criminal penalties or consequences to people who come forward and ask for them. Step 2: You're basicly done, you've knocked the bottom out of the drug buisness, you are now the distributor and you have no reason to try to get more people addicted. Drug dealers can no longer make any profit out of getting kids addicted since they just go to you when it starts costing money.
Much much much much cheaper than the massive failure that the war on drugs is.
So how does it tell the site that you're you? cookies can't be seen between sites can they, IP address wouldn't be reliable. Is it just a case of sending you back with a code in your get/post request?
I just don't get the point of this. I go to a website and there's a little note *You can use your openid here!* and I sign in with it. but wait! it was a trick, they grabbed my username and password, now they have my openid login.
Unless I've missed the point somehow and there's some way to know if the site you're on is accredited.
I take it Real World / Road Rules are like big brother over here. "big brother season 3065 now with even more fucked up people!"
But unfortunatly this site isn't available to people in europe and I can't be assed going through a proxy.
Fucking regional distribution. I'll stick with piracy since at least the pirate sites treat me the same whether I'm a fucking red blooded american or not.
Walking into an art gallery, taking a painting off the wall and walking out without paying is stealing. The owner no longer has it and I have it.
Walking into an art gallery and taking a photo without paying for a painting is not stealing. The owner still has it, I merely made myself a copy.
I haven't forced anyone to do anything. If you don't want me to make a copy be it in my mind or on paper or on a memory card then don't put it where I can see it.
It is nothing like stealing. It is nothing like slavery.
I don't care if your mommy told you you were special and ever since you think you have a right to decide what I put in my mind, on my paper or in my memory card.
And the problem? A builder doesn't get paid every time someone walks into a building he's worked on, a cheff doesn't get a payment when someone copies their dish in another resteraunt, what makes you different? Why should muscicians be paid per copy, let them work by the hour on stage like normal people. They're not fucking royalty.
Oh wait, your mommy told you you were special and you still believe it's true.
Or even worse!!! If, after you finish writing a beautiful program, your employer said "thanks" and paid you only once for the hours worked and DIDN'T SEND YOU A CHECK EVERY YEAR FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, YOUR CHILDRENS LIVES AND THEIR CHILDRENS LIVES! SHOCK HORROR!!!!!
Don't forget copying things into your brain! That's reproduction too! Or light reflecting off a mirror and so creating another copy of a copyrighted work! Reproduction I say!
Similar here. To anyone still in school: Make sure the sys admin is your friend. it makes life easier.
In high school I found a number of flaws on my school network and talked to one of the admins who I knew well.No problems at all. In hindsight I knew jack squat back then compared to now but it was a good learning experience and it's always fun to be able to do things which your classmates have been locked out from.
In college I mentioned one I found to a sys admin who was a friend of my family who comes back with "Very good but I'm sure there's much worse there if you take the time to look, just drop me a mail with anything you find." I sometimes wonder if he intentionally leaves unimportant sections lightly secured to give students something to poke at.
Just make sure they decide you're not a threat, if you're an awkward overeagar kid the attitude will be 'heh, he's fine, probably won't even find anything' and they'll simply be surprised if you do come up with something. Just make certain that you don't do any damage.
It will be considered a mangled document. Never mind that it's also an old style passport, if the RFID tag is broken then it's considered the same as if the passport was dipped in ink or burned too badly to read.
The fun starts when you consider that RFID tags break if exposed to too stong a signal of the kind used in RFID scanners. You could build one fairly easily, stick it in your backpack and hang out or even walk through somewhere with a lot of tourists.
It was more in reference to the fact that nothing is done when the more powerful countries break the rules against torture, mass murder etc. International pressure to get the government there to respect things like the UDoHR yes, but war? That's a bit over the top for an individual.
I'm going to guess easier to copy than traditional passports.Can find anyone who can copy my passport in a few minutes after simply passing me on the street while my passport was inside my bag without me knowing they've obtained a copy?
And the problem is that even though I bought a "license" to play it I can't play it because the company has shut down it's DRM servers, the company has gone out of buisness, the company has simply experienced a "temporary loss of service" or they've just decided to have a laugh and turn their servers on and off a few times for no reason.
Furthermore if I cannot convert to whatever format I like and have to use a *company* brand player to play a piece of music I've gotten from a large music publishing company then is not the company using it's large market share in one area(music)/government granted monopoly(copyright) to disadvantage the competition in another area(hardware for playing music).
Simply I don't buy anything with DRM any more, Spore was too much of a fuckup to get working until I got the crack and I've lost the use of software I've paid for before due to DRM.
Ya, I don't like anything which has to call home either.
"It allows you to protect and share content in the home, in a way that people own the content, not the devices."
does it let me change it into another format so I can play it on devices which don't support your data format without loss of quality? If not then I don't own the content. Of course if you include a tool which allows me to convert it into MP3 or other formats of my choice with zero or ~zero loss of quality then no problem.
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BTW, I would be really pissed if government starts using the money they stole from me to pay for other people's addictions.
It already is being used to deal with the problems. You pay for police who try to enforce the drug laws and your house gets broken into by someone looking for something to sell to fund his habit. My way is just cheaper.
2 situations:
1: You legalise it and let normal businesses supply drugs.
Result:
-higher quality drugs so no more drugs cut with ground glass etc.
-the criminal aspect drops away since there's so little profit in it unless you set really really high taxes on it.
-There's still a group with a reason to try to get new people hooked on drugs.
2: You don't legalise selling drugs but the government supplies free drugs like I said.
Result:
-nobody can sell drugs profitably.
-the criminal aspect drops away unless you're retarded and stigmatise people who come forward for the drugs.
-The government certainly isn't going to try to get more customers since the more addicts they supply the more it costs, they have no reason to get jimmy idiot addicted.
1 is better for personal freedom and all that.
2 is better if you want to have the minimum number of people addicted to drugs.
Drug dealers would shit themselves at the idea of either situation coming to pass.
Not really, in tech the US is nothing special, the US however does have massive financial and military power.
Thing is the know how isn't the big deal. Any decent group of physics PHDs and professors could build a bomb with the right materials. The only thing really stopping every tom dick and harry from building one is the uranium enrichment. That takes serious money and time to get working.
Hmm.... I dunno.
If I was currently selling illegal drugs in the US and wanted to continue to rake in giant piles of money I'd be making political donations to whoever was pushing the "tough on drugs" laws with a little note along the lines of "keep up the good work mate".
Why? Well if it was legalised I'd be ruined!
Who was hurt most by the ending of prohibition? The mob of course, they wanted it to never end.
Legal distributors selling safer cheaper drugs would push them out of the market entirely.
The best thing that can happen for them is for a competitor to be busted, they can just expand into their former market overnight. Sure they might be busted themselves but the organisations which survive and grow will be the ones which are best at avoiding getting caught.
I've heard that during prohibition foreign alcohol producers quietly lobbied to keep prohibition since consumption didn't go down, the American producers were pushed out of business and import taxes went the way of the morning mist.
Few people seem to be able to graps this, drug laws just create a situation where there's a group of people distributing drugs with a large financial incentive to expand their market.
Want to get rid of the drug dealers? It only takes a few easy and cheap steps.
Step 1: Provide free high quality drugs to people already addicted with no criminal penalties or consequences to people who come forward and ask for them.
Step 2: You're basicly done, you've knocked the bottom out of the drug buisness, you are now the distributor and you have no reason to try to get more people addicted. Drug dealers can no longer make any profit out of getting kids addicted since they just go to you when it starts costing money.
Much much much much cheaper than the massive failure that the war on drugs is.
They sell a physical product, a book. Otherwise, tough luck.
*from the end of the log*
gmc my sisters boyfriend left home leaving a suicide note..
i'm off
Jesus, isn't it bad taste to leave in things like this when you're posting a log to a news site?
So how does it tell the site that you're you? cookies can't be seen between sites can they, IP address wouldn't be reliable. Is it just a case of sending you back with a code in your get/post request?
I just don't get the point of this. I go to a website and there's a little note *You can use your openid here!* and I sign in with it. but wait! it was a trick, they grabbed my username and password, now they have my openid login.
Unless I've missed the point somehow and there's some way to know if the site you're on is accredited.
I take it Real World / Road Rules are like big brother over here. "big brother season 3065 now with even more fucked up people!"
But unfortunatly this site isn't available to people in europe and I can't be assed going through a proxy.
Fucking regional distribution. I'll stick with piracy since at least the pirate sites treat me the same whether I'm a fucking red blooded american or not.
Can just see it crawling into the first mars base years from now, dragging itself along with one functional arm unit. :D
How hard would it be to add an option "spoil vote".
Walking into an art gallery, taking a painting off the wall and walking out without paying is stealing. The owner no longer has it and I have it.
Walking into an art gallery and taking a photo without paying for a painting is not stealing. The owner still has it, I merely made myself a copy.
I haven't forced anyone to do anything. If you don't want me to make a copy be it in my mind or on paper or on a memory card then don't put it where I can see it.
It is nothing like stealing.
It is nothing like slavery.
I don't care if your mommy told you you were special and ever since you think you have a right to decide what I put in my mind, on my paper or in my memory card.
And the problem? A builder doesn't get paid every time someone walks into a building he's worked on, a cheff doesn't get a payment when someone copies their dish in another resteraunt, what makes you different? Why should muscicians be paid per copy, let them work by the hour on stage like normal people. They're not fucking royalty.
Oh wait, your mommy told you you were special and you still believe it's true.
Or even worse!!!
If, after you finish writing a beautiful program, your employer said "thanks" and paid you only once for the hours worked and DIDN'T SEND YOU A CHECK EVERY YEAR FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, YOUR CHILDRENS LIVES AND THEIR CHILDRENS LIVES!
SHOCK HORROR!!!!!
Don't forget copying things into your brain! That's reproduction too! Or light reflecting off a mirror and so creating another copy of a copyrighted work! Reproduction I say!
How hard could it be to add an option "Candidate A, Candidate B ,Spoil vote"
Euck! Anonymity is so easy yet he still didn't manage it.
Similar here.
To anyone still in school: Make sure the sys admin is your friend. it makes life easier.
In high school I found a number of flaws on my school network and talked to one of the admins who I knew well.No problems at all. In hindsight I knew jack squat back then compared to now but it was a good learning experience and it's always fun to be able to do things which your classmates have been locked out from.
In college I mentioned one I found to a sys admin who was a friend of my family who comes back with "Very good but I'm sure there's much worse there if you take the time to look, just drop me a mail with anything you find." I sometimes wonder if he intentionally leaves unimportant sections lightly secured to give students something to poke at.
Just make sure they decide you're not a threat, if you're an awkward overeagar kid the attitude will be 'heh, he's fine, probably won't even find anything' and they'll simply be surprised if you do come up with something. Just make certain that you don't do any damage.
It will be considered a mangled document. Never mind that it's also an old style passport, if the RFID tag is broken then it's considered the same as if the passport was dipped in ink or burned too badly to read.
The fun starts when you consider that RFID tags break if exposed to too stong a signal of the kind used in RFID scanners. You could build one fairly easily, stick it in your backpack and hang out or even walk through somewhere with a lot of tourists.
It's hard to find a large group of people more cynical than slashdot users.
If anything I'd say this proves that the cynical tend to be correct.
It was more in reference to the fact that nothing is done when the more powerful countries break the rules against torture, mass murder etc.
International pressure to get the government there to respect things like the UDoHR yes, but war? That's a bit over the top for an individual.
I'm going to guess easier to copy than traditional passports.Can find anyone who can copy my passport in a few minutes after simply passing me on the street while my passport was inside my bag without me knowing they've obtained a copy?
And the problem is that even though I bought a "license" to play it I can't play it because the company has shut down it's DRM servers, the company has gone out of buisness, the company has simply experienced a "temporary loss of service" or they've just decided to have a laugh and turn their servers on and off a few times for no reason.
Furthermore if I cannot convert to whatever format I like and have to use a *company* brand player to play a piece of music I've gotten from a large music publishing company then is not the company using it's large market share in one area(music)/government granted monopoly(copyright) to disadvantage the competition in another area(hardware for playing music).
Simply I don't buy anything with DRM any more, Spore was too much of a fuckup to get working until I got the crack and I've lost the use of software I've paid for before due to DRM.
Ya, I don't like anything which has to call home either.
"It allows you to protect and share content in the home, in a way that people own the content, not the devices."
does it let me change it into another format so I can play it on devices which don't support your data format without loss of quality?
If not then I don't own the content.
Of course if you include a tool which allows me to convert it into MP3 or other formats of my choice with zero or ~zero loss of quality then no problem.