>>>against the law in Germany to have unsecured wireless networks.
Really? Well then that really calls into question the Government's motives. ("Heil!") Are they policing a naughty corporation, or are they seeking to use the data themselves to punish citizens. ("Heil!") The people at Google should do the right thing and destroy the drives immediately, rather than turn it over to the German Protective Squadron. ("Sig heil!") Wunderbar.
That's why most of my facebook is blank. I listed my High School and College so I could reconnect with friends, and that's it. And from time to time I go through my profile and delete 90% of my older, obsolete postings.
I don't understand why men would want to date an old woman. Pot-bellies, non-firm breasts, hugh jass butts. Maybe it's the aspect of gaining access to lots of money.......... hmmmm......... where do I sign up?
>>>Frankly, I give a shit if the S.S. can read the information on my phone if they detain me. First, in order for me to be detained by the S.S., I'd have to be in a pretty precarious situation in the first place.
Yeah. After all the government never, never arrests innocent people and throws them in jail to rot. So you're right. Nothing to fear.
/end sarcasm
Here's an interesting case where government cops entered the wrong house (therefore an illegal warrantless search) to do a drug raid. Of course there were no drugs at the address (again: wrong house), but the man inside was scared to death so he ran to his bedroom and hid for fear of his life. When the intruders entered, he acted in self-defense of his life and killed the intruder. Then he was charged with murder and sentenced to life for murder.
That man is completely innocent, but nobody seems to give two shits. He's already spent a decade in jail. It could have just as easily been you.
>>>I don't understand why people think this is a good thing.
Because the Patriot Act takes-away my right to a jury trial, and that means I need extra tools (like remote erasing) to protect myself from perpetual imprisonment by the government.
The military computer had no password protection, so this guy "hacked" nothing. He is not a hacker..... the front door was wide open. In most U.S. jurisdictions leaving the front door open makes the OWNER guilty of the crime, so the network IT guy should be the one charged. The person who entered through the front door gets a lesser sentence of "trespassing" which is just a few months jailtime.
>>>My local power plant burns oil. I'd simply replicate oil and trade them for its value in electricity.
That's about equivalent to saying an electric car doesn't need to be plugged-in. Just tie a generator to the wheels and recharge the battery as you drive. BOTH violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Perpetual motion doesn't exist. While you might be able to replicate oil, the amount of energy contained in said oil would be MUCH less than the amount of electricity used to create the oil in the first place, due to inherent losses inside the Replicator (like internal resistance of the wires, coils, etc).
>>>Teachers are hired to teach, not to sit in the back of the classroom
I think the best teachers don't teach at all. They direct the students down a path, and the students teach themselves as they read the text, solve the math problems, or whatever. For me there's nothing more boring than a teacher that won't shut up and let me THINK on my own.
>>>marginalize the civil rights movement as being associated with the Black Panther movement >>>suggesting McCarthy was justified in his persecution of people because of their beliefs? >>>Did you hear them try to remove any mention of Thurgood Marshall, the first black supreme court justice?
I see no evidence of this in the article. Did you just make it up? .
>>>Do you see that Texas is putting Jefferson Davis up there as a righteous individual alongside Abraham Lincoln and giving his words a platform?
Do you not see that Censoring history is ALSO wrong? The purpose of history is to tell BOTH sides of the story, not to demonize one side as "evil" as you seem to be implying. Let Davis' words be included in the textbooks, and let the students decide *for themselves* what they think of him and other southerners (like Robert E Lee). Don't force them to adopt your viewpoint ("The southerns were a bunch of lowlife mother fuckers") down their throats.
That is not history - that's propaganda and you should be ashamed of yourself for implying that's what History books should be.
Utah wanted to ban gay marriage, and the Californians flew or drove to the state in order to interfere with Utah politics. Utah law is for Utah citizens. People living in other states have no business interfering - you don't live there.
>>>Which is why the conservatives fought against it every step of the way. >>>And why they continue to fight against it today.
False. MONARCHISTS fought the 1600s-1800s revolutions. Modern-day *American* conservatives are not monarchists. They are more like Adams or Jefferson, preferring as little government as possible, because government is THE barrier that blocks the People's access to liberty.
>>>liberals are generally concerned with the welfare and liberty of of the people
You can have neither if you are a mere puppet of the government Lords, who shall use laws to direct your every choice, as if you were a Serf. you. Example: Not being able to buy a proper toilet that only needs one flush, due to "low flow" laws that created crappy toilets. - Another example: Not being able to say, "I don't want hospital insurance. I want to pay cash directly to my doctor," due to being fined as punishment. - Another example: Not being able to grow more than 10 acres of wheat to feed your cattle, due to government rationing (see Wickard v. Filburn).
From my perspective, liberalism is anti-choice and merely a throwback to the age of monarchs/oligarchs. It isn't anything new. .
>>>The Republican party has been solidly Corporatist for decades.
Not really. Corporatism is what Mussolini did in Italy - privately-owned companies but the Government makes all the day-to-day decisions. i.e. Central planning. That's definitely not Republican in nature. That's a Liberal idea... just slightly to the right of communism.
>>>He was very firmly anti-slavery... except for, you know, owning slaves.
False. Jefferson no more owned slaves than you own your house. The bankers own your house, and the bankers owned his slaves. Jefferson considered doing as Washington had done, and freeing his slaves, but his lenders would not allow him to do it. Nevertheless Jefferson did free SOME of the slaves as time went on. And when he died, the bankers took everything - house, land, and slaves.
+1 for you sir. "Apple discard support for 10.5 already, and that's only out the gate for 3"
As for PowerPC Linux I considered it, but then it's not really a Mac anymore, is it? I also considered running AmigaOS, but rejected it for the same reason. A Mac without OS X is no longer a Mac (IMHO).
...although I guess it's not really FUD. More like Used Car Salesman speak: "This car runs great! You'll love it. (Except that apple stopped supporting it last year.)" To hear thee fans talk, Macs have no flaws, but THIS Mac owner considers half a lifespan to be a flaw.
I had my Commodore 64 for ten years. My Amiga 500 for ten years. My Win98 laptop for over 10 years. Et cetera. There's no reason for my MacG4 to be obsolete in only half that time.
Which is illegal per Apple's Terms of Service..... not that they'll come arrest you, but still you are violation. Plus the average Mac user wouldn't know how to "hack" the 866 MHz limitation, so they'd still be stuck on 10.4
>>>you can actually use a Mac for 5 years versus needing a 3 year replacement with Windows boxes
Bullshit. I'm using XP right now and the machine is almost 9 years old (Pentium 4). My laptop still has Windows 98 for god's sake, and it runs everything I throw at it. The Microsoft support cycle is about double Apple's cycle (probably because businesses pressure MS to support old hardware).
Do they? I spent $300 for my IBM PC and if I sold it on ebay, I'd probably get ~$100. About 66% devaluation. My G4 Mac would have cost $1200 when new and it too sold for only $100, so that a 91% devaluation. I disagree with your premise.
"In fact" they are not. Children are scientifically defined as the juvenile *sterile* member of a species. 14 year olds are not sterile..... they have become adults in the biological and natural sense.
Now if you want to argue a 14 year old is an inexperienced human being, I will concur with that. But I won't call him or her a child. It's simply not true.
So Shakespeare's Romeo should be sentenced to prison for the rest of his life because he "abused" the minor named Juliet. Yeah. Got it. You're a Puritanistic prude.
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>>>against the law in Germany to have unsecured wireless networks.
Really? Well then that really calls into question the Government's motives. ("Heil!") Are they policing a naughty corporation, or are they seeking to use the data themselves to punish citizens. ("Heil!") The people at Google should do the right thing and destroy the drives immediately, rather than turn it over to the German Protective Squadron. ("Sig heil!") Wunderbar.
Ditto. It appears reclaim didn't really change my settings (hence why it still showed red). Saveface did all the work.
That's why most of my facebook is blank. I listed my High School and College so I could reconnect with friends, and that's it. And from time to time I go through my profile and delete 90% of my older, obsolete postings.
RECLAIM doesn't seem to work. It tells me I have vulnerabilities, but when I click "fix" it doesn't fix the problems.
SAVEFACE - I'm not sure. It does something, but whether or not it actually worked is a mystery.
I don't understand why men would want to date an old woman. Pot-bellies, non-firm breasts, hugh jass butts. Maybe it's the aspect of gaining access to lots of money.......... hmmmm......... where do I sign up?
Or a Democrat claiming to be "Pro-Choice" but then votes to support a healthcare bill that takes-away choice (punishes people w/o hospital insurance).
Just trying to be balanced.
You used a Republican example
I used a Democrat example.
>>>Frankly, I give a shit if the S.S. can read the information on my phone if they detain me. First, in order for me to be detained by the S.S., I'd have to be in a pretty precarious situation in the first place.
Yeah. After all the government never, never arrests innocent people and throws them in jail to rot. So you're right. Nothing to fear.
Here's an interesting case where government cops entered the wrong house (therefore an illegal warrantless search) to do a drug raid. Of course there were no drugs at the address (again: wrong house), but the man inside was scared to death so he ran to his bedroom and hid for fear of his life. When the intruders entered, he acted in self-defense of his life and killed the intruder. Then he was charged with murder and sentenced to life for murder.
That man is completely innocent, but nobody seems to give two shits. He's already spent a decade in jail. It could have just as easily been you.
http://reason.com/archives/2006/10/01/the-case-of-cory-maye
>>>I don't understand why people think this is a good thing.
Because the Patriot Act takes-away my right to a jury trial, and that means I need extra tools (like remote erasing) to protect myself from perpetual imprisonment by the government.
>>>Tar Balls Found
(throws them into fireplace). Ahhhh. Free heat.
I never even noticed Pirate Bay's disappearance.
The military computer had no password protection, so this guy "hacked" nothing. He is not a hacker..... the front door was wide open. In most U.S. jurisdictions leaving the front door open makes the OWNER guilty of the crime, so the network IT guy should be the one charged. The person who entered through the front door gets a lesser sentence of "trespassing" which is just a few months jailtime.
>>>My local power plant burns oil. I'd simply replicate oil and trade them for its value in electricity.
That's about equivalent to saying an electric car doesn't need to be plugged-in. Just tie a generator to the wheels and recharge the battery as you drive. BOTH violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Perpetual motion doesn't exist. While you might be able to replicate oil, the amount of energy contained in said oil would be MUCH less than the amount of electricity used to create the oil in the first place, due to inherent losses inside the Replicator (like internal resistance of the wires, coils, etc).
>>>Teachers are hired to teach, not to sit in the back of the classroom
I think the best teachers don't teach at all. They direct the students down a path, and the students teach themselves as they read the text, solve the math problems, or whatever. For me there's nothing more boring than a teacher that won't shut up and let me THINK on my own.
>>>marginalize the civil rights movement as being associated with the Black Panther movement
>>>suggesting McCarthy was justified in his persecution of people because of their beliefs?
>>>Did you hear them try to remove any mention of Thurgood Marshall, the first black supreme court justice?
I see no evidence of this in the article. Did you just make it up?
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>>>Do you see that Texas is putting Jefferson Davis up there as a righteous individual alongside Abraham Lincoln and giving his words a platform?
Do you not see that Censoring history is ALSO wrong? The purpose of history is to tell BOTH sides of the story, not to demonize one side as "evil" as you seem to be implying. Let Davis' words be included in the textbooks, and let the students decide *for themselves* what they think of him and other southerners (like Robert E Lee). Don't force them to adopt your viewpoint ("The southerns were a bunch of lowlife mother fuckers") down their throats.
That is not history - that's propaganda and you should be ashamed of yourself for implying that's what History books should be.
>>>Get your hands off my future.
Right back at you.
Utah wanted to ban gay marriage, and the Californians flew or drove to the state in order to interfere with Utah politics. Utah law is for Utah citizens. People living in other states have no business interfering - you don't live there.
>>>Which is why the conservatives fought against it every step of the way.
>>>And why they continue to fight against it today.
False. MONARCHISTS fought the 1600s-1800s revolutions. Modern-day *American* conservatives are not monarchists. They are more like Adams or Jefferson, preferring as little government as possible, because government is THE barrier that blocks the People's access to liberty.
>>>liberals are generally concerned with the welfare and liberty of of the people
You can have neither if you are a mere puppet of the government Lords, who shall use laws to direct your every choice, as if you were a Serf. you. Example: Not being able to buy a proper toilet that only needs one flush, due to "low flow" laws that created crappy toilets. - Another example: Not being able to say, "I don't want hospital insurance. I want to pay cash directly to my doctor," due to being fined as punishment. - Another example: Not being able to grow more than 10 acres of wheat to feed your cattle, due to government rationing (see Wickard v. Filburn).
From my perspective, liberalism is anti-choice and merely a throwback to the age of monarchs/oligarchs. It isn't anything new.
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>>>The Republican party has been solidly Corporatist for decades.
Not really. Corporatism is what Mussolini did in Italy - privately-owned companies but the Government makes all the day-to-day decisions. i.e. Central planning. That's definitely not Republican in nature. That's a Liberal idea... just slightly to the right of communism.
>>>He was very firmly anti-slavery... except for, you know, owning slaves.
False. Jefferson no more owned slaves than you own your house. The bankers own your house, and the bankers owned his slaves. Jefferson considered doing as Washington had done, and freeing his slaves, but his lenders would not allow him to do it. Nevertheless Jefferson did free SOME of the slaves as time went on. And when he died, the bankers took everything - house, land, and slaves.
+1 for you sir. "Apple discard support for 10.5 already, and that's only out the gate for 3"
As for PowerPC Linux I considered it, but then it's not really a Mac anymore, is it? I also considered running AmigaOS, but rejected it for the same reason. A Mac without OS X is no longer a Mac (IMHO).
Apple fans spread FUD every day.....
I had my Commodore 64 for ten years. My Amiga 500 for ten years. My Win98 laptop for over 10 years. Et cetera. There's no reason for my MacG4 to be obsolete in only half that time.
>>>I'm running 10.5.8 on a 400Mhz G4 right now
Which is illegal per Apple's Terms of Service..... not that they'll come arrest you, but still you are violation. Plus the average Mac user wouldn't know how to "hack" the 866 MHz limitation, so they'd still be stuck on 10.4
>>>you can actually use a Mac for 5 years versus needing a 3 year replacement with Windows boxes
Bullshit. I'm using XP right now and the machine is almost 9 years old (Pentium 4). My laptop still has Windows 98 for god's sake, and it runs everything I throw at it. The Microsoft support cycle is about double Apple's cycle (probably because businesses pressure MS to support old hardware).
>>>At least Macs lose value more slowly.
Do they? I spent $300 for my IBM PC and if I sold it on ebay, I'd probably get ~$100. About 66% devaluation. My G4 Mac would have cost $1200 when new and it too sold for only $100, so that a 91% devaluation. I disagree with your premise.
>>>most 14-year-olds are, in fact, children.
"In fact" they are not. Children are scientifically defined as the juvenile *sterile* member of a species. 14 year olds are not sterile..... they have become adults in the biological and natural sense.
Now if you want to argue a 14 year old is an inexperienced human being, I will concur with that. But I won't call him or her a child. It's simply not true.
>>>Citation required.
I was off by a year. Jerry Lee Lewis' lolita was actually 13: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis#Scandal - Should he or others like him spend life in jail for that act? It was consensual.
>>>the sexual abuse of minors
So Shakespeare's Romeo should be sentenced to prison for the rest of his life because he "abused" the minor named Juliet. Yeah. Got it. You're a Puritanistic prude.