Are you sure those aren't Drug War based exaggerations?
Addiction isn't 100% guaranteed, some combinations of users and patterns of use won't cause addiction.
Opiates are more addictive when people just want to "nullify their existance". If people actually enjoy doing more in life than sitting around high, they have a lower risk of addiction.
I've never heard a state gov't denying an ID card to those that can't get a driver's license.
It would be considered enough of a hardship to deny an ID card (almost impossible to use credit cards, checks, get on airplanes, heck you can get arrested and convicted for not showing ID to any officer that asks) that there would be an uproar about it, especially if no crime was committed.
Passports are treated as a luxury, as is int'l travel.
Annoy the wrong people (e.g. the State Department) and you lose your passport and your ability to go to travel to most countries.
Now Canada and Mexico will be off-limits too. For some people in the border regions, traveling to those countries regularly is a way of live (e.g. many in San Diego, etc).
The passport is treated as a privilege, and thus travel is too. One that can be revoked even if you committed no crime,
Do you know how hard it is to use Windows from an account without Adminstrator group? An account with Administrator group is pretty much just as dangerous as THE Administrator account? An account without even Power User is almost unusable.
Plus Windows security is so weak, it doesn't really matter anyway...
Make it so your spam filter drops any message that refers to an anonymous domain anywhere in the headers.
You won't get anonymous mail which may be bad (if someone needed to reach you) or good (spam being blocked).
Don't outlaw anonymous mail, just make it easy for people to refuse it. Just like anonymous call reject on telephone lines.
Any legitimate ISP that is non-anonymous could choose to accept mail from anonymous or "suspect" domains, but add a header to the mail, which could be used by anti-spam programs.
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Well yeah, he could go to CVS and get some headache medicine, he'll probably need it.
I wonder how Linux's integrity would hold up in a court of law...
nobody was hiding in a bush
Now we have a Bush to make sure no one is hiding. :)
Your argument is sound, but might not go over too well with many of the Slashdot crowd.
See sometimes we blame the tool for misuse (e.g. surveillance technologies, RFID, etc).
Sometimes we don't (P2P, etc).
Perhaps one should say this:
It's no worse than a P2P client, it isn't the technology itself that is the problem, just when people abuse it.
Doesn't Windows use BSD networking code?
Great, we are going to have people who will pervert a tool used to catch perverts.
Perpetual motion machines are rejected by the USPTO.
Are you sure those aren't Drug War based exaggerations?
Addiction isn't 100% guaranteed, some combinations of users and patterns of use won't cause addiction.
Opiates are more addictive when people just want to "nullify their existance". If people actually enjoy doing more in life than sitting around high, they have a lower risk of addiction.
That is still going on now.
Heck, people from those societies that practice it often bring that practice with them when they move to other countries.
It is a big problem in the USA.
"clean" energy source? Guess many geeks have nothing to fear then... :)
The Feds don't care about energy and pollution enough apparently.
Heck, they denied the Las Vegas Monorail's request for a downtown extension.
Vegas has way too much auto traffic and precious little public transit that people actually want to use.
I've never heard a state gov't denying an ID card to those that can't get a driver's license.
It would be considered enough of a hardship to deny an ID card (almost impossible to use credit cards, checks, get on airplanes, heck you can get arrested and convicted for not showing ID to any officer that asks) that there would be an uproar about it, especially if no crime was committed.
Passports are treated as a luxury, as is int'l travel.
Passports are easy to deny for bogus reasons.
It happened to Martin Luther King.
Annoy the wrong people (e.g. the State Department) and you lose your passport and your ability to go to travel to most countries.
Now Canada and Mexico will be off-limits too. For some people in the border regions, traveling to those countries regularly is a way of live (e.g. many in San Diego, etc).
The passport is treated as a privilege, and thus travel is too. One that can be revoked even if you committed no crime,
Ads that make noise are even worse.
And your post was made exactly at 9:11 PM. (PDT)
Was that intentional?
>I could promptly register myself as a 113 year old
;)
Need burial arrangements? Alzheimer's meds? Adult protective undergarments?
>hermaphrodite
We have a dating service just for you!
>with no money
We have a way to make money fast, get out of debt, and repair your credit.
>Ethnic group? Hittite
Cheap replicas of Bible-era artifacts are only $19.95!
>Collecting dried cicadas.
Come visit Bugs R Us.
>Convicted felon, too, with no voting rights
Clear your record at Scu M. Bags law offices.
As you were saying?
Well there would still be California.
Do you know how hard it is to use Windows from an account without Adminstrator group? An account with Administrator group is pretty much just as dangerous as THE Administrator account? An account without even Power User is almost unusable.
Plus Windows security is so weak, it doesn't really matter anyway...
Hope they have shirts that are 5XS and 5XL, since between those 2, that'd take care of over half the geeks. ;)
Infinity + 1 = Infinity:
inf.c:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
double a=1;
double b=0;
double c;
double d;
c=a/b;
d=c+1;
printf("%f %f %d\n", c, d, c==d);
return 0;
}
Output is:
Inf Inf 1
In which case I hope it is more nutritious than it is useful. :)
You mean like Linux 1.0 ;)
Where would you find that?
(even on other days of the year)
You can always move to Antarctica.
No mention of God, no taxes, no one will put you down for being an atheist.
Make it so your spam filter drops any message that refers to an anonymous domain anywhere in the headers.
You won't get anonymous mail which may be bad (if someone needed to reach you) or good (spam being blocked).
Don't outlaw anonymous mail, just make it easy for people to refuse it. Just like anonymous call reject on telephone lines.
Any legitimate ISP that is non-anonymous could choose to accept mail from anonymous or "suspect" domains, but add a header to the mail, which could be used by anti-spam programs.