Surely that's worse. I'm not sure you want a guy who just does what he is told even when he thinks it is the wrong thing to do running the country. Will he keep doing that when he's running the show?
Are you seriously claiming that a terrorist can try to sneak whatever it is they aren't allowed to have on to a plane, and if they get picked for the screening that would detect it can just say "no thanks" and walk away (to the end of the line to try again)?
Because that would be more retarded than the retarded security screenings themselves.
If groping adults is defensible or condonable then so is groping children. Since if you skip children then the terrorists will just take children with them and hide whatever they are sneaking in on them.
So no being against the children groping but not the adult groping is pure "touching children" bullshit.
Given there's a passive attack against WEP the router can't possibly block you. Heck there's an active attack that just replays packets so you'll have to block yourself...
Even the brute force key guessing technique is done offline on a single captured packet. Your router is magic!
Every instance of the applicatoin of copyright law does not need to incentivize the creation/distribution of works. The overall effects of the applications of them should in order for them to meet their goal.
Just because one doctor screwed up and killed a patient does not mean that having modern medical doctors does not meet the goal of keeping people alive longer than they would without.
For the first line, yes the US dollar has provided stability, the problem is it is now not doing so. The dollar's devaluing is pushing prices higher and pumping inflation everywhere else (there should be inflation in the US - that's what happens when you borrow lots, but it is being seen elsewhere instead). The rest of world isn't going to put up with that forever, hence the moves at moving to "currency baskets" and so on.
For the last line, I stated what the guy was for using in the first damn comment, and of course it was none of the currencies you listed.
I didn't read the rest, since it's one huge block of unreadable text.
Which is completely irrelevant to the US not liking the idea of a transition away from trading oil in US dollars and from using US dollars as reserves.
And also completely unrelated to what I claimed which had nothing to do with manufacturing or debt to GDP ratios and so on.
There's certainly no blaming of the US - it's the only place that doesn't get any of the blame since they aren't the ones choosing to use another country's currency for world trade. Your the only one who mentioned the US being a cause or being expected to fix things.
There's also no "inflicting" or malice involved (from China). It will change at some point and everyone knows that (we don't use the pound sterling for international trade anymore after all). Obviously the US would prefer it to be later, while some others would prefer sooner, while some others just want to be ahead of the curve without spooking the markets and triggering a collapse that hurts them.
Being the world's reserve currency has *huge* advantages and the US can't really be faulted for benefiting from them. However, take those advantages away and you are going to be in trouble if you have relied on them. Also note that said cratering of the economy isn't the end of the world, it's just a restructuring though one in which the US emerges from significantly less wealthy (but positioned to boom again if the government can manage the transition).
More reasonable (but still off in conspiracy land) when Strauss Kahn talked up Special Drawing Rights to replace US dollars for reserves and for oil trading - http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/10/markets/dollar/index.htm. Such a move would crater the US economy (yes even further). Saddam and Gadaffi also got on the "trade oil in something other than dollars" bandwagon before the US bombed their countries.
Sure, but non-dickheads when they see something they know you didn't mean to trash would get it and give it to you.
Of course being a dickhead doesn't mean you are stealing, just that you're a dickhead. And back then moon rocks likely weren't seen to be so special (certainly not worth millions on the "black market", since nobody expected the US to just visit a few times and then forget all about it for decades).
This will be complicated by it not being trash put on the curb but the remains from a fire being cleaned up (so still on the property in question, but soon to be picked up by the disposal folk), and whether it's property of the US Government no matter what in any case.
It'd sure suck when 15 years later they brute force it via the combination of Moore's law and your choice of "1234567890" as your password and a long standing bug in the software you used.
It'd suck even more if the following trial ended with you sentenced to 6 months of weekend detention.
You mightn't, but in many states* such an action will land you a felony and get a registered sex offenders list entry. And of course it's a Federal crime to boot.
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Because for the customer it is a latte or two, for netflix it is a latte or 46 million.
Fucking google it you dumb shit.
Obviouslt since slashdot is running on the code that slashdot is running on it is eating its own dogfood.
It's not inexplicable. It's the "I can't believe these idiots keep paying these prices" price hike.
Surely that's worse. I'm not sure you want a guy who just does what he is told even when he thinks it is the wrong thing to do running the country. Will he keep doing that when he's running the show?
Surely not.
Are you seriously claiming that a terrorist can try to sneak whatever it is they aren't allowed to have on to a plane, and if they get picked for the screening that would detect it can just say "no thanks" and walk away (to the end of the line to try again)?
Because that would be more retarded than the retarded security screenings themselves.
If groping adults is defensible or condonable then so is groping children. Since if you skip children then the terrorists will just take children with them and hide whatever they are sneaking in on them.
So no being against the children groping but not the adult groping is pure "touching children" bullshit.
The entire post I replied to was arguing that the copyright system isn't meeting it's goals.
All I claimed was the goals don't have to be met individually by every case.
So clearly someone else did suggest it was relevant.
And I didn't make an argument I just stated why I saw no need to answer the stupid questions that had nothing to do with my claim.
Which makes it even better. Having the computer "read" the manual of one game makes it better at playing a different game.
And yet somehow I've managed to buy dozens of games that are non-FPS in the last few years. Must have been made by aliens I guess.
Given there's a passive attack against WEP the router can't possibly block you. Heck there's an active attack that just replays packets so you'll have to block yourself...
Even the brute force key guessing technique is done offline on a single captured packet. Your router is magic!
Whether they meet their stated goals or not is irrelevant to whether they have to in every case in order to do so.
Every instance of the applicatoin of copyright law does not need to incentivize the creation/distribution of works. The overall effects of the applications of them should in order for them to meet their goal.
Just because one doctor screwed up and killed a patient does not mean that having modern medical doctors does not meet the goal of keeping people alive longer than they would without.
What other things do you know that bear no resemblance too reality?
Do you not have an enter key?
For the first line, yes the US dollar has provided stability, the problem is it is now not doing so. The dollar's devaluing is pushing prices higher and pumping inflation everywhere else (there should be inflation in the US - that's what happens when you borrow lots, but it is being seen elsewhere instead). The rest of world isn't going to put up with that forever, hence the moves at moving to "currency baskets" and so on.
For the last line, I stated what the guy was for using in the first damn comment, and of course it was none of the currencies you listed.
I didn't read the rest, since it's one huge block of unreadable text.
Which is completely irrelevant to the US not liking the idea of a transition away from trading oil in US dollars and from using US dollars as reserves.
And also completely unrelated to what I claimed which had nothing to do with manufacturing or debt to GDP ratios and so on.
There's certainly no blaming of the US - it's the only place that doesn't get any of the blame since they aren't the ones choosing to use another country's currency for world trade. Your the only one who mentioned the US being a cause or being expected to fix things.
There's also no "inflicting" or malice involved (from China). It will change at some point and everyone knows that (we don't use the pound sterling for international trade anymore after all). Obviously the US would prefer it to be later, while some others would prefer sooner, while some others just want to be ahead of the curve without spooking the markets and triggering a collapse that hurts them.
Being the world's reserve currency has *huge* advantages and the US can't really be faulted for benefiting from them. However, take those advantages away and you are going to be in trouble if you have relied on them. Also note that said cratering of the economy isn't the end of the world, it's just a restructuring though one in which the US emerges from significantly less wealthy (but positioned to boom again if the government can manage the transition).
Depends on how deep you go down the conspiracy path.
At the extreme end, when they got involved in exposing that the US has no gold - http://www.eutimes.net/2011/05/russia-says-imf-chief-jailed-for-discovering-all-us-gold-is-gone/
More reasonable (but still off in conspiracy land) when Strauss Kahn talked up Special Drawing Rights to replace US dollars for reserves and for oil trading - http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/10/markets/dollar/index.htm. Such a move would crater the US economy (yes even further). Saddam and Gadaffi also got on the "trade oil in something other than dollars" bandwagon before the US bombed their countries.
Hence if you like firefly you would have to like Buffy.
A bad 90s show with more episodes in the 2000s than the 90s...
This is slashdot, you can't lie Firefly without liking Buffy surely?
Given that word was used a couple of sentences later I wouldn't think you woud need to assume.
But what does it matter, am I wasting my time playing snakes and ladders with the kid too?
Sure, but non-dickheads when they see something they know you didn't mean to trash would get it and give it to you.
Of course being a dickhead doesn't mean you are stealing, just that you're a dickhead. And back then moon rocks likely weren't seen to be so special (certainly not worth millions on the "black market", since nobody expected the US to just visit a few times and then forget all about it for decades).
This will be complicated by it not being trash put on the curb but the remains from a fire being cleaned up (so still on the property in question, but soon to be picked up by the disposal folk), and whether it's property of the US Government no matter what in any case.
It'd sure suck when 15 years later they brute force it via the combination of Moore's law and your choice of "1234567890" as your password and a long standing bug in the software you used.
It'd suck even more if the following trial ended with you sentenced to 6 months of weekend detention.
Nice title.
contempt gets you the joys of an indefinite stay at jail. Until you comply or they finally accept that you aren't going to.
You mightn't, but in many states* such an action will land you a felony and get a registered sex offenders list entry. And of course it's a Federal crime to boot.
* Yeah, yeah US-centric, but it's slashdot...