We won't let them drink or gamble until 21, vote, smoke or sign contracts until 18, but we used to allow execution of 16 year old kids (Nevada actually killed someone who was a 16 year old at the time of their offense) and we still have CHILDREN SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE, juvie lifers, children who it is illegal to parole forever, thus thrown away.
Even for fairly minor offenses, we have kids in Florida who are banned for life from voting for a juvie felony even though they aren't old enough to vote yet. How can a right not yet granted be revoked? And they do enforce felon non-voting with active checks and purges from the rolls of felons; heck they removed tons of people before the 2004 election, including non-felons and people supposedly convicted in 2007 even though that year hadn't come yet. But I digress.
Lower the voting age to 13 and treat children fully as adults, or bring back the juvenile justice system.
Pick an age:
For voting Drinking Smoking Gambling Signing contracts Being drafted Being executed (abolish the death penalty instead, but if not...) Being sentenced to life without parole (or even with, or for any minimum sentence or any maximum over 5 years - so all sentenced must be from 0 to x months/years, max 5, mandatory parole reviews, must grant parole unless a clear and present danger). Able to do adult things
Pick a number from 13 to 21 and stick with it. Either they are responsible (trusted, but also held accountable) or not. Don't try to give them responsibilities and not rights.
We don't allow private companies to make and enforce their own laws.
In a way, we do. The DMCA allows a private company to write their own restrictions using DRM, and enforce it to with the power of law. Actually, even better, they write the "law" and our government enforces it for them, with 5 year no-parole, must-serve-the-whole-sentence-with-only-slight-tim e-off-for-good-behaviour-so-you-still-do-4.5-years prison sentences.
Those over-engineered player pages with Javascript or other (ActiveX, the horror) controls around it usually only work right on Windows, often only with IE, sometimes only with a specific version of it, and often enough, not even then.
Seriously (d) would be for bug fixes/security patches in general, e would be for ones that are expected to almost certainly not break anything.
e level upgrades: should be nearly 100% safe d: should be safe, necessary fixes that could break things (e.g. fix a security hole but certain programs could have issues). NO API CHANGES or ADDITIONS! c: new features. Usually safe, but not for mission critical servers. NO API drops/deprecations. b: Major upgrade. System tools may need upgrading, app breakage can occur but not extreme. old APIs deprecated. a: Extreme upgrade. Only twice so far. Whole system replacement can be expected, old APIs dropped
Taking away the right to bear arms for offenses committed before the passage of the law is another example.
18 USC 922(g)(8) and 18 USC 922(g)(9) are examples. 10 year sentence for violation (18 USC 924(a)(2)).
That's ex-post facto, since taking away the right to bear arms is a punishment, and this punishment (18 USC 922(g)(8) and 18 USC 922(g)9)) is being imposed on people even though it was not a punishment in force at the time of the act which resulted in the loss of the right to bear arms.
It would be like passing a law giving people a 10 year sentence if posted anything on the Internet (1st Amendment instead of 2nd) after they had driven more than 10 mph over the speed limit (minor criminal) or if they'd ever lost a lawsuit (civil), and furthermore, imposing the penalty for acts committed before the new law was passed. Yes, absurd, but a clear parallel to the 18 USC 922(g)(8)/(9) case.
You can use solar to recharge your car. Quite feasible in a sunny climate such as Las Vegas.
Also, if the electricity comes from hydro or another green source, using the electric car benefits the environment, since a green source of energy is used instead of gasoline.
To use an easy example, if recreational drug users were a unified voting block, they could take over the country in an election cycle. But because the law makes it dangerous to use drugs recreationally, users are forced to protect themselves with a shield of privacy (which has been steadily eroded by the war on drugs over the years).
Plus in many cases if you are caught, you lose the right to vote forever. Which obviously means the people who are allowed to vote are going to be more anti-drug on average that the population as a whole. Control who is allowed to vote and you control the government.
Plus do we really need more than normal CD or TV quality? A choice between that and freedom versus high-def and no freedom is easy.
As for new content, if the content providers stop producing, so what, we've got enough content now. And if they stop producing, they stop profiting and go bankrupt so they won't do that.
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You should get sent to Gitmo yourself for putting that disguised logout from Slashdot link in your sig.
Postscript is good, but funny you mention it and an under $100 printer in the same post.
Postscript printers can't be had for under $1000, even mind $100.
Heck even if you use euros or pounds, I still think it holds, you'll need over a 1000 of them to buy a PS capable printer.
We won't let them drink or gamble until 21, vote, smoke or sign contracts until 18, but we used to allow execution of 16 year old kids (Nevada actually killed someone who was a 16 year old at the time of their offense) and we still have CHILDREN SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE, juvie lifers, children who it is illegal to parole forever, thus thrown away.
Even for fairly minor offenses, we have kids in Florida who are banned for life from voting for a juvie felony even though they aren't old enough to vote yet. How can a right not yet granted be revoked? And they do enforce felon non-voting with active checks and purges from the rolls of felons; heck they removed tons of people before the 2004 election, including non-felons and people supposedly convicted in 2007 even though that year hadn't come yet. But I digress.
Lower the voting age to 13 and treat children fully as adults, or bring back the juvenile justice system.
Pick an age:
For voting
Drinking
Smoking
Gambling
Signing contracts
Being drafted
Being executed (abolish the death penalty instead, but if not...)
Being sentenced to life without parole (or even with, or for any minimum sentence or any maximum over 5 years - so all sentenced must be from 0 to x months/years, max 5, mandatory parole reviews, must grant parole unless a clear and present danger).
Able to do adult things
Pick a number from 13 to 21 and stick with it. Either they are responsible (trusted, but also held accountable) or not. Don't try to give them responsibilities and not rights.
We don't allow private companies to make and enforce their own laws.
m e-off-for-good-behaviour-so-you-still-do-4.5-years prison sentences.
In a way, we do. The DMCA allows a private company to write their own restrictions using DRM, and enforce it to with the power of law. Actually, even better, they write the "law" and our government enforces it for them, with 5 year no-parole, must-serve-the-whole-sentence-with-only-slight-ti
Then it is worthwhile spam.
Censorships is useless, it took a minute to find the lat/long of the containment building is at
42.654596 N, 71.324487 W
Those over-engineered player pages with Javascript or other (ActiveX, the horror) controls around it usually only work right on Windows, often only with IE, sometimes only with a specific version of it, and often enough, not even then.
Very good.
:)
I'd add an (e) (Oracle has 5
Seriously (d) would be for bug fixes/security patches in general, e would be for ones that are expected to almost certainly not break anything.
e level upgrades: should be nearly 100% safe
d: should be safe, necessary fixes that could break things (e.g. fix a security hole but certain programs could have issues). NO API CHANGES or ADDITIONS!
c: new features. Usually safe, but not for mission critical servers. NO API drops/deprecations.
b: Major upgrade. System tools may need upgrading, app breakage can occur but not extreme. old APIs deprecated.
a: Extreme upgrade. Only twice so far. Whole system replacement can be expected, old APIs dropped
OSS sound is deprecated? So much for ALSA just being an alternative, now it is crammed down our throats.
ALSA is LINUX specific, OSS is cross platform. We are taking a step back just because the high end audio people want extra features.
Make it an OSS extension, or just go ahead with the ALSA push and let's make Linux specific APIs and drop any pretense of UNIX/POSIX compatibility.
Using Java and optimizing for performance is like using Windows and optimizing for stability, or like living in hell and optimizing for coolness.
You get PAID (real money) to do THAT (virtual world stuff).
Talk about the new economy - make real money from unreal worlds.
Citation for point 4:
http://www.slate.com/id/2106714/
On the flip side, one of the 9/11 hijackers was arrested 2 days earlier for doing 90 mph in a 65 mph zone.
Had the cop known he was on the government's terror list, 3000 people would still be alive and the World Trade Center would still be standing.
Very funny, but I think it is likely that anyone showing up on any semi-public criminal list would start getting tons of solicitations from lawyers.
Many lawyers would rather tell them to keep it up, and keep making the money. :)
Taking away the right to bear arms for offenses committed before the passage of the law is another example.
18 USC 922(g)(8) and 18 USC 922(g)(9) are examples. 10 year sentence for violation (18 USC 924(a)(2)).
That's ex-post facto, since taking away the right to bear arms is a punishment, and this punishment (18 USC 922(g)(8) and 18 USC 922(g)9)) is being imposed on people even though it was not a punishment in force at the time of the act which resulted in the loss of the right to bear arms.
It would be like passing a law giving people a 10 year sentence if posted anything on the Internet (1st Amendment instead of 2nd) after they had driven more than 10 mph over the speed limit (minor criminal) or if they'd ever lost a lawsuit (civil), and furthermore, imposing the penalty for acts committed before the new law was passed. Yes, absurd, but a clear parallel to the 18 USC 922(g)(8)/(9) case.
You can use solar to recharge your car. Quite feasible in a sunny climate such as Las Vegas.
Also, if the electricity comes from hydro or another green source, using the electric car benefits the environment, since a green source of energy is used instead of gasoline.
But if you call Free 411 (1-800-373-3411) they do give you an ad first, but they are FREE.
Regular 411 you pay (thru the nose) for, so that is a much different situation.
Li-ion batteries have few toxicity issues either
So you don't get poisoned, you get blown up.
Li-ion batteries would create an inferno at best and an explosion at worst in an accident which damaged the batteries.
To use an easy example, if recreational drug users were a unified voting block, they could take over the country in an election cycle. But because the law makes it dangerous to use drugs recreationally, users are forced to protect themselves with a shield of privacy (which has been steadily eroded by the war on drugs over the years).
Plus in many cases if you are caught, you lose the right to vote forever. Which obviously means the people who are allowed to vote are going to be more anti-drug on average that the population as a whole. Control who is allowed to vote and you control the government.
That's amusing?!
Modding of the above down is why I have Extra 'Flamebait' Modifier +6 set in my preferences.
Microsoft doesn't feel threatened by Wine since it doesn't run, or runs poorly, many must-have Windows programs.
One can't use Wine as a substitute for Windows. If you needed Windows, you still need Windows and Microsoft still gets paid.
I'd rather have my freedom than their content.
Plus do we really need more than normal CD or TV quality? A choice between that and freedom versus high-def and no freedom is easy.
As for new content, if the content providers stop producing, so what, we've got enough content now. And if they stop producing, they stop profiting and go bankrupt so they won't do that.
He wouldn't be able to post. Aside from his legal woes, his computer filesystem would be corrupted.
Reiser kills files too.