The Union government (in general not the current admin) wants to squash Patriots trying to protect the Constitution from "domestic enemies" i.e. the leaders. It's really no different than how a Communist government acts.
I wonder if the central government is required to obtain a warrant first, or if they can simply demand "unencrypt that google email" without any kind of oversight by the judges. The police have that power now, in regards to searching homes, thanks to the unconstitutional Patriot Act.
Do you think the EU would have handled it any differently? I don't. They deport people all the time.
I think the sentence is okay but excessive. 10 million minutes times 0.01 per minute (wholsesale) == $100,000 damage to the company. Ten years for stealing such a small amount of money is ridiculous, as is the extra 1 million fine on top of it. The CEOs stole 1,000,000 times that amount from US taxpayers and get no punishment.
>>>NEVER, EVER let your girlfriend know what is going on. It gets you in trouble every time.
Or you could just stay single, and refuse to hang-out with domineering women. Sure compromise is good but what difference does it make whether I take the trash out "RIGHT NOW honey!" or if I wait until tomorrow morning as I'm headed-out to work? None.
But yeah..... stupid to commit a crime and then talk about it. At least wait until the statute of limitation have run out and THEN brag about it.
>>>The best way is to get that flash off the camera
You're right. I rarely use the flash on my camera, because I prefer to turn-on all the lights in a room and get things as bright as possible. It makes a better picture and a more realistic effect, versus the "bright face" appearance of flash lighting.
>>>>>Photoshop filters are no replacement for actual light. >> >>Eventually, a raw 3D picture with color data can be rendered into any picture you may want.
Eh... maybe in the era of Star Trek (2100s) but for now it's not possible. Even digital zoom doesn't work properly, just blowing-up the existing image rather than interpolating missing data. I agree with the Grandparent Poster that actual light is preferable, just as real actual zoom (using a lens) is better.
Still it's pretty impressive how far Digital cameras have come since 2000 (when they were basically junk). Looks like it's time to get rid of my old S-VHS and 35mm analog units.
Good grief. I can't believe how readily you (and others) are to watch your right to speak, print whatever you wish, and basically be a Free Individual..... be taken away. The central Union government is demoting you to the level of a Serf and you cheer them on. .
Protip: I see it as aggressive murder of innocents (in Afghanistan/Pakistan) by a government waging an unconstitutional, undeclared war (just like Vietnam). Our government is FAR more scary to me than Bin Laden.
>>>The Pentagon didn't really 'buy' the books. They paid for them. There's a difference. >>>Some body at the pentagon "Oh, shit, this has classified intel in it. Call up the publisher"
So? This is a difference that matters not. (Like whether I paid the hooker with dollars or euros - the end result is the same.) I can not lay my hand on any part of our Union Constitution that gives the general government power to censor information.
If the Pentagon left classified information slip out (i.e. info that they are holding americans without trial; killing innocent women/children; et cetera), then too bad for them. Let them do a better job. A democratic Republic can not work if the leaders treat the People like Serfs (or children).
The People have a right to know because the people are the source from which all legitimate authority comes from. Just as we discovered the truth behind the Watergate or McCarthy scandals, we need to discover the truth today. Not censor it.
Most publishers are "artists" at heart and anti-censorship.
They want to able to print anything they wish. So I suspect the publisher was threatened by the Current Administration to either censor portions of the book, or have their bank accounts frozen. As I said just a suspicion but not unprecedented. Of course such a move violates our 9th and 10th Amendment rights. --
>>>Union members choose whether or not to be in the union.
False. I wish it was true but in many cases (especially unionized factories/offices), there's no choice but to join. Some even subtract the dues direct from your paycheck.
>>>If you don't try to achieve a more fair distribution of profits, that is what will hurt citizens.
But it should be MY choice. Maybe I'm willing to work at only 75% my regular income, because I like the Hobbit and want to see it made. (Or maybe I'm just not greedy.)
>>>There's no reason to think that a universal preference would exist for solar systems facing us edge on
How about the tendency for all solar systems to orient themselves in the same "up/down" direction as the galaxy, so then they'd all have an edge-on view of one another. Or maybe I'm making a false assumption?
>>>American soldiers are fighting a known enemy who kills more innocent civilians and children then the American soldier even thought to [independent.co.u
(1) None of our business. The US government's job is to police THIS continent, not the Asian continent 10,000 miles outside its jurisdiction. THAT job belongs to the government of Afghnistan and Pakistan, respectively.
(2) Only ~3000 Americans were killed by the "enemy" known as Bin Laden. In contrast the US Terror Soldiers have killed ten times that number, almost all innocent men/women/children, plus 1000 american deaths.
(3)(a) It would have been wiser to not go to war. Then we'd have 3000 dead not ~35,000.
(3)(b) We'd also have 1100 billion more dollars in the US treasury which could be used for, oh I don't, SAVING lives (medicare/schip) rather than ending them.
>>>but what if the results is *more* death (of both soldiers and innocents) ?
Unlikely. It the American people become incensed at seeing innocent Afghani women/children getting killed, they will turn against the war, and it will end early like Vietnam ended early.
If these facts remain hidden then the war will go on and on and on, and the murder count will go up and up and up. Vietnam would have gone another five years if the military had acted like today's military (banning the release of video).
>>>Keep in mind that commodore64_love would have supported this move 150% had it been done during the Bush years. His mention and capitalization of Current Administration just further proves how much of a partisan ideologue he really is.
What the FUCK?
Where do you get off putting words in my mouth??? You have NO idea where my policies lie, and just because I am anti-Obama does not mean I am pro-bush. Stop thinking two-dimensionally. I never voted for the Tyrant Bush, and in fact have voted Libertarian in every election since 98.
MOD: -1 Random Ass Guessing by AC (who probably has a real account but was too cowardly to use it)
>>>"The Do Not Work Order tells actors, "If you are contacted to be engaged on The Hobbit please notify your union immediately."
It should be up to the actors whether or not they want to work on a non-union film. But I guess this is what happens when you make megaliths like corporations... there has to be counter-balancing force like the union, and the citizen gets squashed in the middle.
And here I am again, posting more numbers. The UMTS (3G) cellular network squeezes ~2 Mbit/s per 1.25 megahertz wide channel. So that would be only 9.6 Mbit/s in a 6 megahertz wide TV channel.
Where is this supposed "speed" you kept harping about? That's only 1/4 what a theoretical 16VSB TV broadcast does.
I notice I've sited number-after-number-after-number. In other words I backed-up my opinion.
Where's your backup to prove that these 6 megahertz channels can carry more than 40 Mbit/s datarate? Yeah I know. You don't have anything - meaning your OPINION that it can carry more is worthless. I and other readers can reject your claim that 6 MHz can carry more than 40Mb/s as fiction.
"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. "Then they came for the incurably retarded, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't them. "Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. "Then they came for me and by that time, no one was left to speak up." - Christian Pastor Niemoller who spent all of WW2 in jail:
The point of this speech is the same as Captain Picard's "with the first word censured, the first link in the chain is forged" speech. Every step is a step closer to YOU losing your liberty.
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Correct. I just vote for which ever man has the hotter face. (Or if I don't know - then the incumbent by default.)
The Union government (in general not the current admin) wants to squash Patriots trying to protect the Constitution from "domestic enemies" i.e. the leaders. It's really no different than how a Communist government acts.
I wonder if the central government is required to obtain a warrant first, or if they can simply demand "unencrypt that google email" without any kind of oversight by the judges. The police have that power now, in regards to searching homes, thanks to the unconstitutional Patriot Act.
>>>A bit like nursing a person back to full health, just to hang them..... that money does go towards a lot of jobs
You mean like smashing windows to create jobs.
Do you think the EU would have handled it any differently? I don't. They deport people all the time.
I think the sentence is okay but excessive. 10 million minutes times 0.01 per minute (wholsesale) == $100,000 damage to the company. Ten years for stealing such a small amount of money is ridiculous, as is the extra 1 million fine on top of it. The CEOs stole 1,000,000 times that amount from US taxpayers and get no punishment.
>>>NEVER, EVER let your girlfriend know what is going on. It gets you in trouble every time.
Or you could just stay single, and refuse to hang-out with domineering women. Sure compromise is good but what difference does it make whether I take the trash out "RIGHT NOW honey!" or if I wait until tomorrow morning as I'm headed-out to work? None.
But yeah..... stupid to commit a crime and then talk about it.
At least wait until the statute of limitation have run out and THEN brag about it.
>>>The best way is to get that flash off the camera
You're right. I rarely use the flash on my camera, because I prefer to turn-on all the lights in a room and get things as bright as possible. It makes a better picture and a more realistic effect, versus the "bright face" appearance of flash lighting.
>>>>>Photoshop filters are no replacement for actual light.
>>
>>Eventually, a raw 3D picture with color data can be rendered into any picture you may want.
Eh... maybe in the era of Star Trek (2100s) but for now it's not possible. Even digital zoom doesn't work properly, just blowing-up the existing image rather than interpolating missing data. I agree with the Grandparent Poster that actual light is preferable, just as real actual zoom (using a lens) is better.
Still it's pretty impressive how far Digital cameras have come since 2000 (when they were basically junk).
Looks like it's time to get rid of my old S-VHS and 35mm analog units.
The precise North Pole view of our system (by an alien astronomer) seems extremely unlikely.
>>>Mod parent up.
Good grief. I can't believe how readily you (and others) are to watch your right to speak, print whatever you wish, and basically be a Free Individual..... be taken away. The central Union government is demoting you to the level of a Serf and you cheer them on.
.
>>>protip: ongoing military actions.
Protip: I see it as aggressive murder of innocents (in Afghanistan/Pakistan) by a government waging an unconstitutional, undeclared war (just like Vietnam). Our government is FAR more scary to me than Bin Laden.
>>>The Pentagon didn't really 'buy' the books. They paid for them. There's a difference.
>>>Some body at the pentagon "Oh, shit, this has classified intel in it. Call up the publisher"
So? This is a difference that matters not. (Like whether I paid the hooker with dollars or euros - the end result is the same.) I can not lay my hand on any part of our Union Constitution that gives the general government power to censor information.
If the Pentagon left classified information slip out (i.e. info that they are holding americans without trial; killing innocent women/children; et cetera), then too bad for them. Let them do a better job. A democratic Republic can not work if the leaders treat the People like Serfs (or children).
The People have a right to know because the people are the source from which all legitimate authority comes from. Just as we discovered the truth behind the Watergate or McCarthy scandals, we need to discover the truth today. Not censor it.
Most publishers are "artists" at heart and anti-censorship.
They want to able to print anything they wish. So I suspect the publisher was threatened by the Current Administration to either censor portions of the book, or have their bank accounts frozen. As I said just a suspicion but not unprecedented. Of course such a move violates our 9th and 10th Amendment rights.
--
>>>Union members choose whether or not to be in the union.
False. I wish it was true but in many cases (especially unionized factories/offices), there's no choice but to join. Some even subtract the dues direct from your paycheck.
>>>If you don't try to achieve a more fair distribution of profits, that is what will hurt citizens.
But it should be MY choice. Maybe I'm willing to work at only 75% my regular income, because I like the Hobbit and want to see it made. (Or maybe I'm just not greedy.)
>>>There's no reason to think that a universal preference would exist for solar systems facing us edge on
How about the tendency for all solar systems to orient themselves in the same "up/down" direction as the galaxy, so then they'd all have an edge-on view of one another. Or maybe I'm making a false assumption?
>>>I can't recall a single time where the population at large was involved in determining national security
Probably why we're in the current mess.
If the People knew what their leaders were doing behind closed doors (ACTA anyone?), they would no longer be our leaders.
>>>American soldiers are fighting a known enemy who kills more innocent civilians and children then the American soldier even thought to [independent.co.u
(1) None of our business. The US government's job is to police THIS continent, not the Asian continent 10,000 miles outside its jurisdiction. THAT job belongs to the government of Afghnistan and Pakistan, respectively.
(2) Only ~3000 Americans were killed by the "enemy" known as Bin Laden. In contrast the US Terror Soldiers have killed ten times that number, almost all innocent men/women/children, plus 1000 american deaths.
(3)(a) It would have been wiser to not go to war. Then we'd have 3000 dead not ~35,000.
(3)(b) We'd also have 1100 billion more dollars in the US treasury which could be used for, oh I don't, SAVING lives (medicare/schip) rather than ending them.
>>>but what if the results is *more* death (of both soldiers and innocents) ?
Unlikely. It the American people become incensed at seeing innocent Afghani women/children getting killed, they will turn against the war, and it will end early like Vietnam ended early.
If these facts remain hidden then the war will go on and on and on, and the murder count will go up and up and up. Vietnam would have gone another five years if the military had acted like today's military (banning the release of video).
>>>Keep in mind that commodore64_love would have supported this move 150% had it been done during the Bush years. His mention and capitalization of Current Administration just further proves how much of a partisan ideologue he really is.
What the FUCK?
Where do you get off putting words in my mouth??? You have NO idea where my policies lie, and just because I am anti-Obama does not mean I am pro-bush. Stop thinking two-dimensionally. I never voted for the Tyrant Bush, and in fact have voted Libertarian in every election since 98.
MOD: -1 Random Ass Guessing by AC (who probably has a real account but was too cowardly to use it)
>>>"The Do Not Work Order tells actors, "If you are contacted to be engaged on The Hobbit please notify your union immediately."
It should be up to the actors whether or not they want to work on a non-union film. But I guess this is what happens when you make megaliths like corporations... there has to be counter-balancing force like the union, and the citizen gets squashed in the middle.
>>>a guy who sent a bunch of random invoices to mid-size companies and a few of them got paid.
Hmmmm.
Interesting.
There's actually just two companies I'd target - the ones who didn't pay me for my last week of work.
P.S.
And here I am again, posting more numbers. The UMTS (3G) cellular network squeezes ~2 Mbit/s per 1.25 megahertz wide channel. So that would be only 9.6 Mbit/s in a 6 megahertz wide TV channel.
Where is this supposed "speed" you kept harping about?
That's only 1/4 what a theoretical 16VSB TV broadcast does.
>>>Are you really too fucking ignorant to read my entire post?
>>>You're still [stringing] fiber [over poles] to within 15 miles of every home.
Fixed that for you. And as I recall I said that in my very first post. "Are you really too fucking ignorant to read my entire post?"
I notice I've sited number-after-number-after-number. In other words I backed-up my opinion.
Where's your backup to prove that these 6 megahertz channels can carry more than 40 Mbit/s datarate? Yeah I know. You don't have anything - meaning your OPINION that it can carry more is worthless. I and other readers can reject your claim that 6 MHz can carry more than 40Mb/s as fiction.
Here's the exact quote (one version of it anyway)
"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
"Then they came for the incurably retarded, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't them.
"Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
"Then they came for me and by that time, no one was left to speak up." - Christian Pastor Niemoller who spent all of WW2 in jail:
The point of this speech is the same as Captain Picard's "with the first word censured, the first link in the chain is forged" speech. Every step is a step closer to YOU losing your liberty.