you need to have money to BUY those print supplies.
Any homeless guy in the USA can beg enough change or recycle enough
cans to get a magic marker and write stuff on cardboard fished out of
a dumpster. They can write "FUCK THE PRESIDENT" on the cardboard if they
want. Usually though, they just write a brief, sad bio and a plea
for more change.
All these arguments about needing money to carry out free speech
in the USA just don't ring very true at all. Any starving college
student can get a blog for nothing, and use free wi-fi to post stuff.
They only need the computer, and you can get wifi capable stuff for
$200. Heck, I bet even the homeless guys could swing that if they cared.
They usually just want food and beer though.
Yeah, you need to "money" to carry out free speech; but it's such
a pittance that it's virtually meaningless to even consider it a factor.
Then, to add to that, if what you say is by any means compelling, people
will give you money to say it. They'll even give you money to say
that the USA is bad and ought to be more like Venezuela.
I'm from Washington DC. One memorable Saturday morning I rolled out
of bed late, and heard a bullhorn. It was PRO-CASTRO demonstrators
marching through the intersection of 18th and U St. NW. The police
were there to PROTECT them. They must have had a permit. They marched
peacefully down 18th, made a left on U, and marched off into the distance.
My first thought was: Try having a pro-Bush march in the middle of Havana.
I bet most of the commies in that march hardly had a nickel to rub together.
Yeah, it cost money for them to get the permit... probably very little money.
They got their word out. Most people just didn't care. Wacko protestors
blocking traffic again. Life goes on. The USA is still great, because
nobody gets their undies in a bunch about shit like that.
Putting up a blog devoted to how much you hate Amazon, and
finding every story about how they suck, did somebody wrong, etc.
THAT would be an example of rightful protest.
In the real world, it would be like marching with a sign. DDoS is
more like smashing windows and blocking the street without a permit.
As for Wikileaks, they seemed good at first. The early cables were
questionable, but you could still give them a pass. Then they started
releasing sensitive locations that might be terror targets. That's not a leak!!!
A leak is "my boss is breaking the law". "My country has weak spots, here they are"
is NOT a leak. That's an attack. DDoS is an attack too.
Wikileaks is behaving more like a bunch of self-styled anarchists than
an investigative journalism outfit.
When I was posting more frequently, other Slashdotters would step
in to remind people that it's grammar nazi bait. Actually, it's an illustration
of McKean's law, which is a variation of Murphy's law. There are two
huge errors in there. Most people only find one.
OK... it was a fit of passion, with the known list of holes
now being (predictably) poked in it by the Slashdot community.
That said, we plainly need to be more selective about who gets
more scrutiny, and who doesn't. IMHO, it will be difficult to do that
without some lawyer claiming that it's discrimination. We're going
throug this whole exercise of violating everybody's rights
in order to avoid violating somebody's rights. Plainly, that's
not the correct answer.
Just dump PC (Political Correctness) already. If you're from a short
list of countries, or you're an American convert to Islam, you get a pat-down.
Discrimination? No. It's just the profile of a terrorist. If middle-aged
Caucasian Catholic men start lighting their underwear on fire, pat them down
too.
Google around for Chicago tunnels. From time-to-time, tunnel
systems have appeared to ship goods. They only make economic sense
in certain special conditions. A general-purpose tunnel system isn't
something that makes business sense in most cases.
Add the modern threat of bomb delivery, and the idea is DOA most places.
Even the once fairly common pneumatic tube is no longer found in
very many places. It was used mostly for documents, which are sent
over the Internet "tubes" now.
We plainly aren't getting rid of trains, trucks, roads, etc. The tube
system would be redundant, costly, unnecessary. Next!
Those would be a poor choice, since they're "crown gold". This
is an alloy with copper, which makes the coin more durable. As for
dissolving, this is possible if the "water" was actually aqua regia--a
particular type of acid that dissolves gold.
Then again, perhaps your Krugerrands are only gold on the outside,
with a chocolate center. A terrible ripoff. It wouldn't be so bad,
except that the chocolate they put in those coins is some of the worst
candy ever. Even when I was a kid I was like, "Blech!".
We're not living in fantasyland. We can't snap our fingers and make everything
fair and efficient. For the forseeable future, we have forms. As long as we
have forms, they should be easy on the eyes.
Dude, tell the prof and all the other TAs we're throwing
away the econometric models we've been working on. We're
going with Transport Tycoon. Hellllo, Nobel Prize!
True; but it's interesting
when a different interpretation appears to apply. There are also
some who believe that the rewards (or punishments) of the afterlife
begin in this life.
And yes, the Bible (IMHO, most religious texts) tend to reflect
the beliefs of the reader at times, as much as the intents of the
authors or Author.
Lincoln said it best when he said: "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other"
I was looooong out of games by the time that came out.
I was thinking about Dragon's Lair.
Of course, there was minimal gameplay there, and the fact
that it was difficult and cost $0.50 vs $0.25 per play didn't
help much either. I was a teenager either spending $0.25/game,
or getting games for the C-64. Then I lost interest.
I'm sure that if I had been at the right age group, at the right time, I might
have loved Zelda.
Actually, if I were stuck in an area with an unpleasant climate, the
possibility for an interest in games to come back is always there.
As I'm in my 40s though, it has to be about more than how fast you can
twitch your fingers...
I stopped caring about games when the arcade
graphics got "cartoony". I briefly regained interest
with Quake, then went back into remission.
It was an addiction. It was probably unhealthy
at times. I spend more time in the big blue room
with the bright light now. I'm probably much better off.
For example, "Black" was pejorative. The accepted term
at the time was "Negro", which has turned around and become
a pejorative. Similarly, "queer" was also an insult,
and it became the name of a movement.
If you unfairly treat X to the point where X has a higher
moral claim then you do, then eventually X becomes a compliment.
When "pirates" were copying floppies and the industry
was simply saying "don't do that", the industry seemed to
have the moral high ground. In those days, I was on the side
of the industry. When they started laying six figure judgements
on students, they lost me. I'd be proud to call myself a pirate now.
At current exchange rates, 2.5 million pounds is about $4 million.
With that much money on the line, I would consider the possibility of flagrantly violating the law, and moving someplace nice that will legally protect me in exchange for a smaller tax.
Of course, he's not a corporation so the other sovereigns will probably just tell him to piss off; but it's worth researching.
I was working tech support in the late 90s. This stuff was not
common, but it was still "in the wild". Somebody fielded a call
from a woman who, when asked what here OS was, replied "WordPerfect".
The wise tech realized that WordPerfect was one of these companies
that had written their own shell. From the Layman's PoV, it was easy
to regard the shell as the OS. The woman was not nearly the idiot
that some techs had made her out to be.
No, we can't compete but for a different reason. China has vast reserves of the "magic smoke" that they stuff into electronic gizmos. That's why all the factories are there. The magic smoke is so plentiful, that it hangs in the air and all they have to do is compress it and put it inside plastic casing. The US exhausted its supply of magic smoke 50 years ago.
Wow, the RAV4 EV was available before the Norman Conquest of England!
Do you see that? Next to the knight on that tapestry? It looks like
a smudge. Zoom in. Enhance. A bit to the left, see that? Zoom in. Enhance.
Enhance. Zoom in. There it is!
Slashdot Mirror
you need to have money to BUY those print supplies.
Any homeless guy in the USA can beg enough change or recycle enough cans to get a magic marker and write stuff on cardboard fished out of a dumpster. They can write "FUCK THE PRESIDENT" on the cardboard if they want. Usually though, they just write a brief, sad bio and a plea for more change.
All these arguments about needing money to carry out free speech in the USA just don't ring very true at all. Any starving college student can get a blog for nothing, and use free wi-fi to post stuff. They only need the computer, and you can get wifi capable stuff for $200. Heck, I bet even the homeless guys could swing that if they cared. They usually just want food and beer though.
Yeah, you need to "money" to carry out free speech; but it's such a pittance that it's virtually meaningless to even consider it a factor. Then, to add to that, if what you say is by any means compelling, people will give you money to say it. They'll even give you money to say that the USA is bad and ought to be more like Venezuela.
I'm from Washington DC. One memorable Saturday morning I rolled out of bed late, and heard a bullhorn. It was PRO-CASTRO demonstrators marching through the intersection of 18th and U St. NW. The police were there to PROTECT them. They must have had a permit. They marched peacefully down 18th, made a left on U, and marched off into the distance. My first thought was: Try having a pro-Bush march in the middle of Havana.
I bet most of the commies in that march hardly had a nickel to rub together. Yeah, it cost money for them to get the permit... probably very little money. They got their word out. Most people just didn't care. Wacko protestors blocking traffic again. Life goes on. The USA is still great, because nobody gets their undies in a bunch about shit like that.
Putting up a blog devoted to how much you hate Amazon, and finding every story about how they suck, did somebody wrong, etc.
THAT would be an example of rightful protest.
In the real world, it would be like marching with a sign. DDoS is more like smashing windows and blocking the street without a permit.
As for Wikileaks, they seemed good at first. The early cables were questionable, but you could still give them a pass. Then they started releasing sensitive locations that might be terror targets. That's not a leak!!! A leak is "my boss is breaking the law". "My country has weak spots, here they are" is NOT a leak. That's an attack. DDoS is an attack too.
Wikileaks is behaving more like a bunch of self-styled anarchists than an investigative journalism outfit.
Government workers sitting around all day playing Farmville on spare servers from the farm service's server farm!
When I was posting more frequently, other Slashdotters would step in to remind people that it's grammar nazi bait. Actually, it's an illustration of McKean's law, which is a variation of Murphy's law. There are two huge errors in there. Most people only find one.
It is discrimination and it doesn't work. The Israelis would be doing just that if it worked, and they don't do that
Really? Read some links and get back to me.
OK... it was a fit of passion, with the known list of holes now being (predictably) poked in it by the Slashdot community.
That said, we plainly need to be more selective about who gets more scrutiny, and who doesn't. IMHO, it will be difficult to do that without some lawyer claiming that it's discrimination. We're going throug this whole exercise of violating everybody's rights in order to avoid violating somebody's rights. Plainly, that's not the correct answer.
Just dump PC (Political Correctness) already. If you're from a short list of countries, or you're an American convert to Islam, you get a pat-down. Discrimination? No. It's just the profile of a terrorist. If middle-aged Caucasian Catholic men start lighting their underwear on fire, pat them down too.
Google around for Chicago tunnels. From time-to-time, tunnel systems have appeared to ship goods. They only make economic sense in certain special conditions. A general-purpose tunnel system isn't something that makes business sense in most cases.
Add the modern threat of bomb delivery, and the idea is DOA most places.
Even the once fairly common pneumatic tube is no longer found in very many places. It was used mostly for documents, which are sent over the Internet "tubes" now.
We plainly aren't getting rid of trains, trucks, roads, etc. The tube system would be redundant, costly, unnecessary. Next!
Those would be a poor choice, since they're "crown gold". This is an alloy with copper, which makes the coin more durable. As for dissolving, this is possible if the "water" was actually aqua regia--a particular type of acid that dissolves gold.
Then again, perhaps your Krugerrands are only gold on the outside, with a chocolate center. A terrible ripoff. It wouldn't be so bad, except that the chocolate they put in those coins is some of the worst candy ever. Even when I was a kid I was like, "Blech!".
That's outside the scope of the problem.
We're not living in fantasyland. We can't snap our fingers and make everything fair and efficient. For the forseeable future, we have forms. As long as we have forms, they should be easy on the eyes.
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Why should a form have fancy formatting?
I already feel like hanging myself when I do my taxes. I shouldn't feel like gouging my eyes out too.
Dude, tell the prof and all the other TAs we're throwing away the econometric models we've been working on. We're going with Transport Tycoon. Hellllo, Nobel Prize!
I'm starting to think N. Korea is spot on..
Uh-oh, it must be true then.
True; but it's interesting when a different interpretation appears to apply. There are also some who believe that the rewards (or punishments) of the afterlife begin in this life.
And yes, the Bible (IMHO, most religious texts) tend to reflect the beliefs of the reader at times, as much as the intents of the authors or Author.
Lincoln said it best when he said: "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other"
I'm not as religious as I used to be, but I couldn't help but be reminded of some Bible verses:
"God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil" Ecclesiastes 12:14 (New International Version)
"On the day of judgment, men will render account for every careless word they utter." Matthew 12:36 (Revised Standard Version)
"Everything that is hidden will be shown, and everything that is secret will be made known." Luke 12:2
I was looooong out of games by the time that came out. I was thinking about Dragon's Lair.
Of course, there was minimal gameplay there, and the fact that it was difficult and cost $0.50 vs $0.25 per play didn't help much either. I was a teenager either spending $0.25/game, or getting games for the C-64. Then I lost interest.
I'm sure that if I had been at the right age group, at the right time, I might have loved Zelda.
Actually, if I were stuck in an area with an unpleasant climate, the possibility for an interest in games to come back is always there. As I'm in my 40s though, it has to be about more than how fast you can twitch your fingers...
I stopped caring about games when the arcade graphics got "cartoony". I briefly regained interest with Quake, then went back into remission.
It was an addiction. It was probably unhealthy at times. I spend more time in the big blue room with the bright light now. I'm probably much better off.
Maturity? Embrace it.
For example, "Black" was pejorative. The accepted term at the time was "Negro", which has turned around and become a pejorative. Similarly, "queer" was also an insult, and it became the name of a movement.
If you unfairly treat X to the point where X has a higher moral claim then you do, then eventually X becomes a compliment.
When "pirates" were copying floppies and the industry was simply saying "don't do that", the industry seemed to have the moral high ground. In those days, I was on the side of the industry. When they started laying six figure judgements on students, they lost me. I'd be proud to call myself a pirate now.
why is the enforcement agency of the federal government (the FBI) involved in this matter?
Because economic espionage is a Federal crime.
Please dispense "ever". It redundant.
FTFY.
At current exchange rates, 2.5 million pounds is about $4 million.
With that much money on the line, I would consider the possibility of flagrantly violating the law, and moving someplace nice that will legally protect me in exchange for a smaller tax.
Of course, he's not a corporation so the other sovereigns will probably just tell him to piss off; but it's worth researching.
I was working tech support in the late 90s. This stuff was not common, but it was still "in the wild". Somebody fielded a call from a woman who, when asked what here OS was, replied "WordPerfect". The wise tech realized that WordPerfect was one of these companies that had written their own shell. From the Layman's PoV, it was easy to regard the shell as the OS. The woman was not nearly the idiot that some techs had made her out to be.
No, we can't compete but for a different reason. China has vast reserves of the "magic smoke" that they stuff into electronic gizmos. That's why all the factories are there. The magic smoke is so plentiful, that it hangs in the air and all they have to do is compress it and put it inside plastic casing. The US exhausted its supply of magic smoke 50 years ago.
Wow, the RAV4 EV was available before the Norman Conquest of England!
Do you see that? Next to the knight on that tapestry? It looks like a smudge. Zoom in. Enhance. A bit to the left, see that? Zoom in. Enhance. Enhance. Zoom in. There it is!