While it may be comforting to portray the "other side" of the Iraq conflict as "insane nutjobs,"
I wasn't meaning to portray the "other side" as that. I'm portraying the jihadists as insane. The Iraqis who were/are opposed to US rule for reasons that weren't "Because I think God wants me to try to destroy the US and Israel" don't seem to be making as much trouble as the jihadists. I'd guess it's because they realize that while the US is going to keep a leash on Iraq, they still have more self-determination now than they did before or than they would if they died fighting the US military. Though that's just what I gather from the news, I could be wrong there. In any case, I didn't mean that all insurgents in Iraq were insane, just the insane ones.
I don't believe it was inappropriate to prosecute him for what he did regardless of what his intentions may have been at the time.
Strawman . No one is saying Swartz was completely innocent of any crime. Fuck off and stop trying to distort the argument, if that's what you're doing. If you're not trying to make a strawman argument, listen/read what people are actually saying before you jump to a response.
They're also armed with an irrational belief that God is on their side, and a death wish. Small arms and IEDs in the hands of an insurgent force who ISN'T fighting out of insanity? Not going to last that long. Iraq's army crumbled quickly.
Maybe I'm being wildly optimistic, but I'd hope most gun owners would realize that the voting box and soapbox are their main two lines of defense against tyranny. The ammo box was a viable option at some point in our history. I don't know when it stopped being so, but it definitely isn't now.
I think the point was that apple may have a PR problem, not a real "Oh my god, kids will see titties and will become sex perverts" problem. The chances of some idiotic overly-concerned parents organization realizing that safari gets on the web, and there's fucking on the web aren't zero, sure, but they're low.
"New app! Twitter! Popular! Children! PORNOGRAPHY!" Repeat 20 times. Run on fox news for a day. Apple would have a bit of a problem then.
They couldn't even be bothered to suggest that the asteroids might have evil aliens on them, and that we might bring back some of their spores.
It boggles the mind why they went with a financial mechanism to a star wars movie rather than the much simpler "Alien contaminant." Has the writer only watched "Star wars" and not "Alien?"
Well, we do have a clue about some things. From TFA
Noting the successful White House petition to build a Star Wars-style "Death Star," rejected by the administration partly for fiscal reasons, Simberg seeks to prove that the cost of a moon-sized terror weapon, while immense, would not be quite as great as the White House claimed. Then he suggests that a combination of asteroid wealth, space-based manufacturing and construction, advanced technology and perhaps an excess of megalomania on the part of future politicians could make a Death Star possible. Why anyone would want a moon-sized terror weapon capable of destroying entire planets is another question entirely, but given the flow of wealth from asteroid mining, such things are perhaps economically possible.
We do know that won't happen. We also should have a clue that when "We'll be able to afford to build THE DEATH STAR!!!" Is the only "nightmare" raised by asteroid mining that they mention, we should ignore whatever moron wrote it.
Then again, it's "yahoo news," and I could have seen that before I clicked on it, so shame on me for actually looking at it.
The fuck is he smoking? You're telling me that if I entered your private property and hid a laptop in your closet and attached it to your router and started retrieving everything sent across or hosted locally and then retrieved it at a later date, that would not be illegal?
The breaking and entering would be, but that wasn't the focus here. And for your metaphor to work, you would need to have legal access to the "everything sent across or hosted locally." You chose your metaphor because it would necessarily involve stealing personal information, Aaron had access to JSTOR.
What he was charged with, was copyright infringement (possibly trespass), written up as hacking and wire fraud.
What's the matter you couldn't take the time to read the docket? Go ahead and say that the prosecutor was seeking overreaching charges but for fuck's sake, people, a lot of the things he did should still be crimes!
So... basically you're repeating what he just said with hysterics and obscenities. You've really contributed a lot here.
If true, it will be followed up on, if not, it will be followed up on with corrections.
Yes, after the XL pipeline is approved, after most countries use it as an excuse to avoid committing to reducing carbon output, after legislators, lobbyists, and the conservative biased media have declared global warming to be a hoax, there may be a correction. And then there will be some other reason, quite possibly "Okay, yes, it's going to happen now, and is going to be bad, but we may as well keep using coal. And you can't possibly hold the people who made those decisions responsible! They've retired to mountaintop mansions!"
That's just a slot in a regular bowl. And it does something: you could watch a video while eating. The cupholder, you still have to carry both, and you can't use the phone while drinking.
Not the whole education system, but definitely high school. Colleges here just have to make up for how shitty high schools are. Which seems to make them better, but that's four years of wasted time for every kid in public high school
That is one way in which using logic would prevent them from making fools of themselves. I'd argue there would be other steps in the process where thinking before speaking would have stopped it, but that is one indeed.
I know for at least a while, rooting and jailbreaking were also declared kosher by the librarian of congress. Is that not the same declaration, and are they also going to expire soon?
They didn't expect it to last longer than 3 months. They were wrong. They didn't expect it to be able to gain self-awareness, build a rocket, and launch itself into space again...
Well, when you make it pretty much impossible to raise taxes (as California has done) but fail to control wild spending (as California has done), legislators get creative. In the dumbest possible ways.
It's a bit like saying "Okay, we don't have enough money to pay for our credit card bills" is fine if it gets you to stop using your credit cards, but if you say "So we're just not going to pay the bills" and keep spending, that is only a wise move if short-term is all that matters to you. Which describes most politicians.
"Hacker" was co-opted to mean "criminal who happens to use a computer as anything more sophisticated than hitting someone over the head with one and mugging them."
Then Anonymous came along and started doing things which were clearly not simple crimes. "Hacktivist" was starting to sound different to the public. "Hackers are cybergangmembers and bad, but 'Hacktivists' have principles and are maybe good!"
The powers that be clearly realized they were losing the war of words, so now "Hacktivists" is going to be used to describe what had previously been called "hackers" and what should probably actually be called "plain criminals."
As far as foreign policy goes? Israel. Duh. They might be acting upset that Obama would dare suggest it's even possible that what they're doing could be wrong, but they still know the US and Obama are more pro-Israel than most of the world, and certainly anyone nearby.
As far as the country itself? I'm guessing there are a few countries smart enough to realize that our trade policy isn't the best way to define a whole country.
I've encountered far more egomaniac male scientists than I have encountered egomaniac female scientists, despite knowing more female scientists. I suspect if you could find a way to more accurately separate out selfish scientists from non-selfish ones, you'd find that correlates much more with intentional misconduct than male/female.
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While it may be comforting to portray the "other side" of the Iraq conflict as "insane nutjobs,"
I wasn't meaning to portray the "other side" as that. I'm portraying the jihadists as insane. The Iraqis who were/are opposed to US rule for reasons that weren't "Because I think God wants me to try to destroy the US and Israel" don't seem to be making as much trouble as the jihadists. I'd guess it's because they realize that while the US is going to keep a leash on Iraq, they still have more self-determination now than they did before or than they would if they died fighting the US military. Though that's just what I gather from the news, I could be wrong there. In any case, I didn't mean that all insurgents in Iraq were insane, just the insane ones.
I don't believe it was inappropriate to prosecute him for what he did regardless of what his intentions may have been at the time.
Strawman . No one is saying Swartz was completely innocent of any crime. Fuck off and stop trying to distort the argument, if that's what you're doing. If you're not trying to make a strawman argument, listen/read what people are actually saying before you jump to a response.
They're also armed with an irrational belief that God is on their side, and a death wish. Small arms and IEDs in the hands of an insurgent force who ISN'T fighting out of insanity? Not going to last that long. Iraq's army crumbled quickly.
Maybe I'm being wildly optimistic, but I'd hope most gun owners would realize that the voting box and soapbox are their main two lines of defense against tyranny. The ammo box was a viable option at some point in our history. I don't know when it stopped being so, but it definitely isn't now.
I think the point was that apple may have a PR problem, not a real "Oh my god, kids will see titties and will become sex perverts" problem. The chances of some idiotic overly-concerned parents organization realizing that safari gets on the web, and there's fucking on the web aren't zero, sure, but they're low.
"New app! Twitter! Popular! Children! PORNOGRAPHY!" Repeat 20 times. Run on fox news for a day. Apple would have a bit of a problem then.
Judging by what I've seen of the ... ahem... youtube community, I would think they should be tricking youtube commenters OUT of google plus.
They couldn't even be bothered to suggest that the asteroids might have evil aliens on them, and that we might bring back some of their spores.
It boggles the mind why they went with a financial mechanism to a star wars movie rather than the much simpler "Alien contaminant." Has the writer only watched "Star wars" and not "Alien?"
Noting the successful White House petition to build a Star Wars-style "Death Star," rejected by the administration partly for fiscal reasons, Simberg seeks to prove that the cost of a moon-sized terror weapon, while immense, would not be quite as great as the White House claimed. Then he suggests that a combination of asteroid wealth, space-based manufacturing and construction, advanced technology and perhaps an excess of megalomania on the part of future politicians could make a Death Star possible. Why anyone would want a moon-sized terror weapon capable of destroying entire planets is another question entirely, but given the flow of wealth from asteroid mining, such things are perhaps economically possible.
We do know that won't happen. We also should have a clue that when "We'll be able to afford to build THE DEATH STAR!!!" Is the only "nightmare" raised by asteroid mining that they mention, we should ignore whatever moron wrote it.
Then again, it's "yahoo news," and I could have seen that before I clicked on it, so shame on me for actually looking at it.
The fuck is he smoking? You're telling me that if I entered your private property and hid a laptop in your closet and attached it to your router and started retrieving everything sent across or hosted locally and then retrieved it at a later date, that would not be illegal?
The breaking and entering would be, but that wasn't the focus here. And for your metaphor to work, you would need to have legal access to the "everything sent across or hosted locally." You chose your metaphor because it would necessarily involve stealing personal information, Aaron had access to JSTOR.
What he was charged with, was copyright infringement (possibly trespass), written up as hacking and wire fraud.
What's the matter you couldn't take the time to read the docket? Go ahead and say that the prosecutor was seeking overreaching charges but for fuck's sake, people, a lot of the things he did should still be crimes!
So... basically you're repeating what he just said with hysterics and obscenities. You've really contributed a lot here.
But you still have to carry both. You have to hold the phone which is holding the coffee.
If true, it will be followed up on, if not, it will be followed up on with corrections.
Yes, after the XL pipeline is approved, after most countries use it as an excuse to avoid committing to reducing carbon output, after legislators, lobbyists, and the conservative biased media have declared global warming to be a hoax, there may be a correction. And then there will be some other reason, quite possibly "Okay, yes, it's going to happen now, and is going to be bad, but we may as well keep using coal. And you can't possibly hold the people who made those decisions responsible! They've retired to mountaintop mansions!"
Tell me, Microsoft, what games of YOURS are still being played 20 to 30 years later?
Ski free.
That's just a slot in a regular bowl. And it does something: you could watch a video while eating. The cupholder, you still have to carry both, and you can't use the phone while drinking.
They're both pretty ridiculous, sure.
I guess the real question is, could he become king of England?
Well, no, cause he's dead.
Don't forget ski free!
Not the whole education system, but definitely high school. Colleges here just have to make up for how shitty high schools are. Which seems to make them better, but that's four years of wasted time for every kid in public high school
That link appears to be broken. ALSO PLZ SEED!
That is one way in which using logic would prevent them from making fools of themselves. I'd argue there would be other steps in the process where thinking before speaking would have stopped it, but that is one indeed.
I know for at least a while, rooting and jailbreaking were also declared kosher by the librarian of congress. Is that not the same declaration, and are they also going to expire soon?
They didn't expect it to last longer than 3 months. They were wrong. They didn't expect it to be able to gain self-awareness, build a rocket, and launch itself into space again...
Well, when you make it pretty much impossible to raise taxes (as California has done) but fail to control wild spending (as California has done), legislators get creative. In the dumbest possible ways.
It's a bit like saying "Okay, we don't have enough money to pay for our credit card bills" is fine if it gets you to stop using your credit cards, but if you say "So we're just not going to pay the bills" and keep spending, that is only a wise move if short-term is all that matters to you. Which describes most politicians.
"Hacker" was co-opted to mean "criminal who happens to use a computer as anything more sophisticated than hitting someone over the head with one and mugging them."
Then Anonymous came along and started doing things which were clearly not simple crimes. "Hacktivist" was starting to sound different to the public. "Hackers are cybergangmembers and bad, but 'Hacktivists' have principles and are maybe good!"
The powers that be clearly realized they were losing the war of words, so now "Hacktivists" is going to be used to describe what had previously been called "hackers" and what should probably actually be called "plain criminals."
As far as foreign policy goes? Israel. Duh. They might be acting upset that Obama would dare suggest it's even possible that what they're doing could be wrong, but they still know the US and Obama are more pro-Israel than most of the world, and certainly anyone nearby.
As far as the country itself? I'm guessing there are a few countries smart enough to realize that our trade policy isn't the best way to define a whole country.
In the PUG raids everyone had sound on but for some reason few had a microphone. Suddenly in the closed raids, most had. And high voices.
Sounds like xbox live.
Turns out I had been gaming with a lot of women
Ah... nevermind.
I've encountered far more egomaniac male scientists than I have encountered egomaniac female scientists, despite knowing more female scientists. I suspect if you could find a way to more accurately separate out selfish scientists from non-selfish ones, you'd find that correlates much more with intentional misconduct than male/female.