Would this be the same Bush from the Bush family that were VERY friendly with the Bin Laden family all those years ago?
They still are. In fact Bush Sr. works as a consultant to the Bin Ladens. Bush Jr. has declared the Bin Laden family and their connections to the Bush family off limits to all investigation as well.
NT4 and XP are different distros though. That's like telling RH to upgrade your RH6 servers to RH9 for free with support.
No it's not. Firstly, NT4 and XP are not different distros. If they were, it would be like upgrading RedHat to gentoo.
That said, the poster didn't ask for support, the poster asked if you could upgrade for free. You could have in theory a RH6 box which you had upgraded all the way through to RH9. In fact, I think you can upgrade a RH6 box to RH9, but I haven't tried it, to be honest. Nevertheless, it is free.
The difference between Linux and Windows here is that NT4 plus service packs and hotfixes is NT4 with service packs and hotfixes, whereas you could conceivably, by continuing to patch and upgrade the system, have a box which started in the NT4 days of Linux which is running the latest version today. It is not a new OS even though there have been considerable improvements, and you do not have to pay a premium to get there.
"But if they change their mind and start harassing Internet-security researchers, I'll be back."
Or does that sound like a threat?
No, it's not a threat, it's a fact. Besides, it is just a rephrasing of what the judge said. The judge said "If and when there is a concrete threat of enforcement against Bernstein for a specific activity, Bernstein may return for judicial resolution of that dispute"
The only thing about all of those linked stories is... they aren't American citizens being held in Guantanamo. However you feel about their detention in Cuba (of all places!), it really has no relevance to the post about due process. Non-American citizens have no inherant rights to a speedy (or any) trial in America.
Actually they do, but currently the government is bending the law. Firstly, this country was founded on the principle that all men are equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. People in other countries do not have a different creator.
Historically, non-citizens in this country have enjoyed, in addition to rights granted by international law, many of the rights granted to US citizens. There have been cases where international law has been bent before, such as the refusal of states to notify the consulate of the country of origin of aliens sentenced to die as required by international law and as requested by the federal government, but there have never been abuses on the current scale.
In addition, the "combatants" at guantanimo bay have not been clasified under any legal term because no matter how they were classified their current treatment violates their rights under US and international laws. If they are criminals they get a trial; if they are prisoners of war they get freed at the end of the war, etc.
Also, there are people at Guantanimo bay who are technically citizens of the United States or a western democracy such as the UK or Australia. They are not getting the treatment usually afforded such citizens.
On top of all of this, when our citizens get into trouble abroad there are often treaties in place which guarantee their rights, and outcry when those rights ae violated. Likewise when people from other countries get into trouble here. Such outcry often ends in some kind of compromise and these treaties are supposed to be enforced. They are not being enforced here and neither is there any compromise.
Then there are the people who were rounded up and detained within the US. Most were non-citizens, but some were citizens. In these cases none of the normal due-process was followed (access to a lawyer, specific charges, etc etc) and neither have many of these people been released. As far as anyone can tell, there have been people imprisoned with no access to lawyers, no charges, no evidence, and no trial for over 2 years now. Numbers have ranged from hundreds to thousands because the administration is not admitting a lot and hoping people will just forget about the whole thing.
The whole process is unamerican, antidemocratic, and is the doctrine of our very enemies; it needs to be stopped.
Submarine" is a different kind of abuse of the patent system. It means becoming aware that someone is infringing your patent, but intentionally refraining from mentioning it until the victim has poured a heavy investment into the technology.
Then you spring the patent on him when it's too late for him to avoid it. He's then forced to concede to onerous licensing terms, or write-off the whole project.
Waiting to annouce the patent can actually increase the punitive damages you'll collect. Or at least weaken a potential competitor. The supreme example is the Polaroid patent on instant film development, which cost Kodak around $500,000,000
2) Delay the hell out of the patent filing process so that the patent is not granted sometimes for upwards of 10 years. Wait for people to implement the technology you are claiming.
3) ???
4) Profit!
It sucks and it is a serious abuse. Then there is the case like with the GIF patent which covered technology that was freely allowed to be used, then one day some company comes out of the blue and says "Oh, we bought this patent awhile back an dnow we are going to start suing people who use it!" It did not help that the patent changed hands several times, or that several times over the threat was made, public outcry ensued, then the company promised and swore to bugger off. (The fighting predates the web, even.)
OK, she isn't a supermodel. But like the postcard from The Body Shop I have up on my refrigerator says, neither are all but 8 women on Planet Earth.
She's not fat nor is she skinny. She's neither breathtakingly beautiful nor hideously ugly. She's just an ordinary looking woman. The article makes a big deal that Linus is also a very ordinary looking guy.
I really don't see why this makes any difference whatsoever with anything having to do with Linux.:P
Oh, it has nothing to do with Linux, and you are right. My take on it was that they are actually a fairly well-matched couple. Perhaps things running smoothly in the Torvalds castle has an effect on Linux, but that is about it.
I was mainly responding to the idiot that said she was ugly. I think it is irrelevant if she is to anyone but Linus, and besides as I said inner beauty is far more important than the physical. She obviously has some inner beauty in that she supports Linus and he seems very happy in their relationship (going by the pictures, as I have not read any words from Tove, it seems she is as well).
I also thought it was too bad that journalists do not have more pictures of the Torvalds family, and as I pointed out, what photos there are are just snapshots rather than portraits (whereas Linus has been the subject of innumerable portraits). Then again, I remember the first Linus picture I saw in Wired back in 1994 was a shirtless Linus drinking a beer in his dorm room; yes, very ordinary-looking.
I guess it was probably stupid to reply to a troll about Tove being ugly, but I realized I had not seen any pictures of her as well, got curious, and went off on a tangent. It happens.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, anyway. Personally, I don't consider most supermodels all that great because that isnt my idea of physical beauty, nevermind my insistence on giving more weight to inner beauty.
Not really true of real innovations, such as the fractal compression technologies that are just now becoming public.
As for this patent... sure, it's obvious now, but this patent was filed seven years ago. Was it a common practice back then?
Yes, Yahoo already had it then, and was copying a long line of others who had published local weather reports and stock market info based on user profiles.
Dipshit, the default read on slashdot has the domain in [] after the link. We can see where it goes. Also, try hovering over it. WE CAN SEE WHERE IT GOES. Man you are stupid
Actually, I have seen some pretty clever goatse links that defeat the [] domain feature. Sure this feature cut down on the goatse links, but some poeple have linked to personal websites that redirect to goatse. I have actually seen some links to commercial sites that somehow redirect to goatse. I have not figured out how they did that; it was pretty clever.
That wasn't a troll you moron. That was an obvious attempt at humor. Whether or not it was actually funny is left up to the reader and depends on his or her sense of humor.
However, you got trolled by it, and it wasn't even a troll. YHBT, you fucking moron, and so did many others. HAND.
It's actually a very old troll. I used to see it more often and had kind of missed it. It was nice to see an old friend again. It is actually a pretty funny troll, if only very obvious. It used to get a lot more bites with people actually trying to critique the technical points in the troll, which are deliberately absurd.
Too bad they don't make them like they used to... I used to read at -1 just to get trolls since often they were better reading than the "article" or the comments. But I stopped that ever since the page-widening crapflooders took over. I much prefer a well-crafted troll or at least an osm story to the crapflooding. Even goatse is better than that!:P
The question you pose can be taken at a different level. Many developments in China become much more clear if you take the long view. The Chinese have viewed the rest of the world as inferior for milleinia. Then the west came along in the last couple centuries and poked a few holes in that in a big way, yet it remains entwined in their mindset, perhaps with a vengence. Despite numerous faults, Richard Nixon was an astute obsever of the international playing field, he felt that the 21rst Century would be the Chinese century. This is but an early step along the road to getting things to where the Chinese feel they are supposed to be.
I am inclined to agree with you. This is much like the fear the US developed of Japanese technological and economic superiority which, for me was an outgrowth of changes resulting from our challenge presented to them in the 1800's. In other words, Oriental cultures considered themselves superior, but were faced with the technology of the West which they could not counter, and the power of global trade.
Japan and China have spent the time since trying to counter this buy expanding trade and increasing focus on technology. Japan has been more successful so far, but now that our industries are being exported and the federal government is creating laws to hamper US innovation it is giving China a major leg up.
Before we know it the Chinese will be the number one producer and launcher of satellites in the world, will own the moon either de facto or overtly, and will have designs on the rest of the solar system while the US can barely get anything into orbit anymore. That is, unless we wake up again like we did in the 90's when US technology was king. We seem to have this pattern of letting things lie until we become an underdog in some area, getting beat by some other country and then suddenly waking up to that fact and starting in again. I guess that describes the Asian problem as well, so maybe this is just human nature. Still I would feel better if our country was more committed to maintaining a constantly escalating standard of excellence.
In another note, this is offtopic, but I had previously noticed this post in which you comment on some obscure texts on Alexander the Great you have been reading. I was wondering if you could give a lay scholar some recommendations in this area, because I am very interested in laying hands on as much material as possible here.
Maybe so. But she's still a fucking ugly dumbass who married a geek with a stupid name. So fuck you, and fuck "Tove" as well.
You know, I honestly doubt whoever wrote this has even seen Linus' wife. In truth, she does not appear in many photographs, so I had not seen her either. I always imagined her as a svelte ninja goddess.
Curious, I did a little Google research, and my personal conclusion is that there do not appear to be any glamour photos made of Tove (whereas there are many carefully grommed Linus images) and many of the pictures of her are bad. I don't think she is ugly, but some of the pictures are badly taken, on bad hair days, or somesuch.
"For example, a parent may not want a child to know the ins and outs (no pun intended) of the birds and the bees as they pertain to disabled adults, until the child is older"
Did I miss something in that sentence? Parents may not want their kids knowing about how the handicapped have sex until they're older?
Methinks the poster was referring either to restrictions protecting children being incompatible with accessability guidelines for handicapped surfers or more likely sexual instruction on medical websites geared to helping newly disabled people understand how to continue their sex lives. Probably both.
Are you going to be around your kids every single time they are on the computer? What if they aren't at home? Being good parents is definitely an important step, but to assume that parents have the resources to completely monitor what their kids do all the time is simply ridiculous. Maybe you should think your argument through better.
This is what logging, NetNanny and EyeSpy are for. EyeSpy is, IMHO the best childproofing for porn. It basically checks all images for how much skin here is and if it is more skin than a Sports Illustrated shoot or so, it blocks the picture. This way you don't have crap like the other porn blockers which block the Democrat's websites, PBS, etc.
Besides, if you are afraid your kids will watch porn what the hell are you doing leaving your kids alone? It is the parents' job to ensure that their children are supervised 24/7 until they are responsible enough to be unsupervised. If you are not doing that, you are basically saying you trust the kids not to do anything harmful like steal the gun and go shoot at pedestrians, drink alcohol or bleach, or surf porn.
When they do do those things it is an abdication of your responsibility as a parent to claim that it is anyone else's fault but your own. Honestly, I think such parents do not deserve to have children and should be sterilized after having them taken away. Be thankful this is a democratic society and we can't do that. But given the chouce between castrating the constitution, the internet, and free speech or castrating "parents" who refuse to do the actual parenting and just want to have children then foist the responsibility of raising them on the rest of the "village" I would vote for castrating the "parents" every time.
First of all, I saw porn from as early an age as 13, like either most boys did, or most boys wanted to... Sure it was nowhere near as explicit as the stuff available on the web today, but seriously, if people want to get porn, they will... And besides, what about the responsibility of the parents? I tell you, parents in the US love overbearing legislation, cause it means that someone else can be blamed for their failures as parents. And on a more constructive note: Why not have a test, like at the start of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, where only people over the age of 18 should be able to know the questions (and the answer is usually D: Meet the Press)?
That test was awesome. But one of the problems is that unless you were playing the game right when it came out, it was not so accurate. I played the game when it was old, and the questions were all about current events in the late 60's and early 70's so whereas I knew about some of them, many of the questions were pretty hard at the time.
What an astoundingly acute observer of the human condition Stereophile's editor proved to be! Of course, there were guys walking around with 'em (many wearing "Think Different!" T-shirts), but the streets were filled with fashionably dressed young women brandishing iPods as though they were this season's trendiest little Manolo Blahnik sling-back.
Chicks dig iPods! This is good news for slashdotters and audiophiles alike (as, in a previously referenced article most audiophiles are men.
Ah but slashdot missed the chance to point this out, and stereophile recoiled from the idea they might be playing with the same toys as the girls. What horrors! Too bad they did not think they could play with the same toys with the girls, or wonder of wonders, talk with them! That would be horrid!
Over on our side of the pond in good old blighty the editor of the Sun newspaper once pubblished a top secret document.
A House of Commons lunch menu.
Now why was that classified!
You're lucky! Besides don't the press wiretap Parliament over there? Over here the FBI thinks it is an issue of national security that we never know they paid their agents to go to parties with JOhn Lennon! Most importantly we must never know about the parrot that said "Right on!"
You beat me to the punchline. The web is chock full of wild acusations and conspiracy theory pubs... so much so that reading anything takes 3-4 hits to try to verify the information.
Well in that case I guess you don't deserve to be free.
Tell me, do you approve with laws that allow police to get a warrant to search a house during an investigation?
Do you approve of speed limits?
Do you think that laws against killing other people are reasonable?
Do you use a creditcard to make purchases over long distances instead of sending cash?
You give up freedoms all the time for security.
Well, to be fair, the original poster misquoted Mr. Franklin, despite numerous citations of the quotation being available on the internet. The correct quote is:
The constitution provides for warrants and says that the police needing them is an essential liberty. I am not sure what you are getting at with the others. Even on slashdot I don't see what essential liberty I lose from the availability of credit cards, and as for the murder thing well the Declaration of Independance says that Life is an essential liberty so depriving someone of it is probably a Bad Thing.
"Proactive terrorism prevention" is, as many posters have pointed out, not designed to prevent terrorism. The government now has unprecedented power to control their own citizens, and if they happen to accuse a few brown-skins of being terrorists along the way then that's just an added bonus. How long did it take the US government to draw up the Patriot Act? 4 days after the WTC attacks? Or did they just have it sitting around, waiting for the right time to ply it on the unsuspecting masses.
Actually, it was never hidden that pretty much he whole USAPATRIOT Act was doing just that. Sitting around not going anywhere in Congress. Then 9/11 happens and people realize "hey, I bet right now we can put PATRIOT on anything we want and it will pass!" And they were right. There's all kinds of odd stuff in there. It's basically a wish list of stuff all kinds of politicians wanted but never could get passed. Most people focus on the FBI adittions, which date back to the Clinton years, but there's lots of pork in there, too.
"But if I'm alone in the car, the only way that I'm going to get un-lost is by using my phone."
So what did you do in the days before cell phones?
Ever hear of maps?
You're upset about someone talking on a phone, and you want them to spread open a map while driving? That is fucking dangerous!
Besides, if you get lost driving to Shirley's house, is it better to call Shrley, or to drag out a map? I haven't seen a map that shows me where random people I meet live. That would be a pretty damn good map!
Point (c) is actually quite valid. 'Cos otherwise, what's the point of having a missed-call listing facility on your cellphone, if you're forced to turn the phone off during the main times you can't answer it.
My missed call log does not show calls that were made if the cell was turned off. I do get voicemail, though.
You can make a safe bet that if other countries start going into space, the U.S. will suddenly get a renewed interest in it. We can't have someone scoping out space on the moon or building weapons of mass destruction up there...
Remember, the only reason we went nuts in the 60s to get someone on the news was that the USSR was trying to do it and launched a human into orbit first.
My concern has been that China has promised a moon base, but no one else has one. What if the Chinese decide they own the moon? Just imagine the war that would start.... And what the hell happened to our Mars base anyway?
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Would this be the same Bush from the Bush family that were VERY friendly with the Bin Laden family all those years ago?
They still are. In fact Bush Sr. works as a consultant to the Bin Ladens. Bush Jr. has declared the Bin Laden family and their connections to the Bush family off limits to all investigation as well.
NT4 and XP are different distros though. That's like telling RH to upgrade your RH6 servers to RH9 for free with support.
No it's not. Firstly, NT4 and XP are not different distros. If they were, it would be like upgrading RedHat to gentoo.
That said, the poster didn't ask for support, the poster asked if you could upgrade for free. You could have in theory a RH6 box which you had upgraded all the way through to RH9. In fact, I think you can upgrade a RH6 box to RH9, but I haven't tried it, to be honest. Nevertheless, it is free.
The difference between Linux and Windows here is that NT4 plus service packs and hotfixes is NT4 with service packs and hotfixes, whereas you could conceivably, by continuing to patch and upgrade the system, have a box which started in the NT4 days of Linux which is running the latest version today. It is not a new OS even though there have been considerable improvements, and you do not have to pay a premium to get there.
"But if they change their mind and start harassing Internet-security researchers, I'll be back."
Or does that sound like a threat?
No, it's not a threat, it's a fact. Besides, it is just a rephrasing of what the judge said. The judge said "If and when there is a concrete threat of enforcement against Bernstein for a specific activity, Bernstein may return for judicial resolution of that dispute"
The only thing about all of those linked stories is... they aren't American citizens being held in Guantanamo. However you feel about their detention in Cuba (of all places!), it really has no relevance to the post about due process. Non-American citizens have no inherant rights to a speedy (or any) trial in America.
Actually they do, but currently the government is bending the law. Firstly, this country was founded on the principle that all men are equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. People in other countries do not have a different creator.
Historically, non-citizens in this country have enjoyed, in addition to rights granted by international law, many of the rights granted to US citizens. There have been cases where international law has been bent before, such as the refusal of states to notify the consulate of the country of origin of aliens sentenced to die as required by international law and as requested by the federal government, but there have never been abuses on the current scale.
In addition, the "combatants" at guantanimo bay have not been clasified under any legal term because no matter how they were classified their current treatment violates their rights under US and international laws. If they are criminals they get a trial; if they are prisoners of war they get freed at the end of the war, etc.
Also, there are people at Guantanimo bay who are technically citizens of the United States or a western democracy such as the UK or Australia. They are not getting the treatment usually afforded such citizens.
On top of all of this, when our citizens get into trouble abroad there are often treaties in place which guarantee their rights, and outcry when those rights ae violated. Likewise when people from other countries get into trouble here. Such outcry often ends in some kind of compromise and these treaties are supposed to be enforced. They are not being enforced here and neither is there any compromise.
Then there are the people who were rounded up and detained within the US. Most were non-citizens, but some were citizens. In these cases none of the normal due-process was followed (access to a lawyer, specific charges, etc etc) and neither have many of these people been released. As far as anyone can tell, there have been people imprisoned with no access to lawyers, no charges, no evidence, and no trial for over 2 years now. Numbers have ranged from hundreds to thousands because the administration is not admitting a lot and hoping people will just forget about the whole thing.
The whole process is unamerican, antidemocratic, and is the doctrine of our very enemies; it needs to be stopped.
Submarine" is a different kind of abuse of the patent system. It means becoming aware that someone is infringing your patent, but intentionally refraining from mentioning it until the victim has poured a heavy investment into the technology.
Then you spring the patent on him when it's too late for him to avoid it. He's then forced to concede to onerous licensing terms, or write-off the whole project.
Waiting to annouce the patent can actually increase the punitive damages you'll collect. Or at least weaken a potential competitor. The supreme example is the Polaroid patent on instant film development, which cost Kodak around $500,000,000
I had always seen submarine patents as
1)File patent with overly broad claim describing obvious incremental technology advances
2) Delay the hell out of the patent filing process so that the patent is not granted sometimes for upwards of 10 years. Wait for people to implement the technology you are claiming.
3) ???
4) Profit!
It sucks and it is a serious abuse. Then there is the case like with the GIF patent which covered technology that was freely allowed to be used, then one day some company comes out of the blue and says "Oh, we bought this patent awhile back an dnow we are going to start suing people who use it!" It did not help that the patent changed hands several times, or that several times over the threat was made, public outcry ensued, then the company promised and swore to bugger off. (The fighting predates the web, even.)
OK, she isn't a supermodel. But like the postcard from The Body Shop I have up on my refrigerator says, neither are all but 8 women on Planet Earth.
She's not fat nor is she skinny. She's neither breathtakingly beautiful nor hideously ugly. She's just an ordinary looking woman. The article makes a big deal that Linus is also a very ordinary looking guy.
I really don't see why this makes any difference whatsoever with anything having to do with Linux. :P
Oh, it has nothing to do with Linux, and you are right. My take on it was that they are actually a fairly well-matched couple. Perhaps things running smoothly in the Torvalds castle has an effect on Linux, but that is about it.
I was mainly responding to the idiot that said she was ugly. I think it is irrelevant if she is to anyone but Linus, and besides as I said inner beauty is far more important than the physical. She obviously has some inner beauty in that she supports Linus and he seems very happy in their relationship (going by the pictures, as I have not read any words from Tove, it seems she is as well).
I also thought it was too bad that journalists do not have more pictures of the Torvalds family, and as I pointed out, what photos there are are just snapshots rather than portraits (whereas Linus has been the subject of innumerable portraits). Then again, I remember the first Linus picture I saw in Wired back in 1994 was a shirtless Linus drinking a beer in his dorm room; yes, very ordinary-looking.
I guess it was probably stupid to reply to a troll about Tove being ugly, but I realized I had not seen any pictures of her as well, got curious, and went off on a tangent. It happens.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, anyway. Personally, I don't consider most supermodels all that great because that isnt my idea of physical beauty, nevermind my insistence on giving more weight to inner beauty.
Not really true of real innovations, such as the fractal compression technologies that are just now becoming public.
As for this patent... sure, it's obvious now, but this patent was filed seven years ago. Was it a common practice back then?
Yes, Yahoo already had it then, and was copying a long line of others who had published local weather reports and stock market info based on user profiles.
Dipshit, the default read on slashdot has the domain in [] after the link. We can see where it goes. Also, try hovering over it. WE CAN SEE WHERE IT GOES. Man you are stupid
Actually, I have seen some pretty clever goatse links that defeat the [] domain feature. Sure this feature cut down on the goatse links, but some poeple have linked to personal websites that redirect to goatse. I have actually seen some links to commercial sites that somehow redirect to goatse. I have not figured out how they did that; it was pretty clever.
That wasn't a troll you moron. That was an obvious attempt at humor. Whether or not it was actually funny is left up to the reader and depends on his or her sense of humor.
However, you got trolled by it, and it wasn't even a troll. YHBT, you fucking moron, and so did many others. HAND.
It's actually a very old troll. I used to see it more often and had kind of missed it. It was nice to see an old friend again. It is actually a pretty funny troll, if only very obvious. It used to get a lot more bites with people actually trying to critique the technical points in the troll, which are deliberately absurd.
Too bad they don't make them like they used to... I used to read at -1 just to get trolls since often they were better reading than the "article" or the comments. But I stopped that ever since the page-widening crapflooders took over. I much prefer a well-crafted troll or at least an osm story to the crapflooding. Even goatse is better than that! :P
The question you pose can be taken at a different level. Many developments in China become much more clear if you take the long view. The Chinese have viewed the rest of the world as inferior for milleinia. Then the west came along in the last couple centuries and poked a few holes in that in a big way, yet it remains entwined in their mindset, perhaps with a vengence. Despite numerous faults, Richard Nixon was an astute obsever of the international playing field, he felt that the 21rst Century would be the Chinese century. This is but an early step along the road to getting things to where the Chinese feel they are supposed to be.
I am inclined to agree with you. This is much like the fear the US developed of Japanese technological and economic superiority which, for me was an outgrowth of changes resulting from our challenge presented to them in the 1800's. In other words, Oriental cultures considered themselves superior, but were faced with the technology of the West which they could not counter, and the power of global trade.
Japan and China have spent the time since trying to counter this buy expanding trade and increasing focus on technology. Japan has been more successful so far, but now that our industries are being exported and the federal government is creating laws to hamper US innovation it is giving China a major leg up.
Before we know it the Chinese will be the number one producer and launcher of satellites in the world, will own the moon either de facto or overtly, and will have designs on the rest of the solar system while the US can barely get anything into orbit anymore. That is, unless we wake up again like we did in the 90's when US technology was king. We seem to have this pattern of letting things lie until we become an underdog in some area, getting beat by some other country and then suddenly waking up to that fact and starting in again. I guess that describes the Asian problem as well, so maybe this is just human nature. Still I would feel better if our country was more committed to maintaining a constantly escalating standard of excellence.
In another note, this is offtopic, but I had previously noticed this post in which you comment on some obscure texts on Alexander the Great you have been reading. I was wondering if you could give a lay scholar some recommendations in this area, because I am very interested in laying hands on as much material as possible here.
Maybe so. But she's still a fucking ugly dumbass who married a geek with a stupid name. So fuck you, and fuck "Tove" as well.
You know, I honestly doubt whoever wrote this has even seen Linus' wife. In truth, she does not appear in many photographs, so I had not seen her either. I always imagined her as a svelte ninja goddess.
Curious, I did a little Google research, and my personal conclusion is that there do not appear to be any glamour photos made of Tove (whereas there are many carefully grommed Linus images) and many of the pictures of her are bad. I don't think she is ugly, but some of the pictures are badly taken, on bad hair days, or somesuch.
Then again, you can judge for yourself, eh?.
Personally, I think she looks just fine. And if she makes Linus happy, that is all that matters, right? That makes her beautiful to me.
"For example, a parent may not want a child to know the ins and outs (no pun intended) of the birds and the bees as they pertain to disabled adults, until the child is older"
Did I miss something in that sentence? Parents may not want their kids knowing about how the handicapped have sex until they're older?
Methinks the poster was referring either to restrictions protecting children being incompatible with accessability guidelines for handicapped surfers or more likely sexual instruction on medical websites geared to helping newly disabled people understand how to continue their sex lives. Probably both.
Are you going to be around your kids every single time they are on the computer? What if they aren't at home? Being good parents is definitely an important step, but to assume that parents have the resources to completely monitor what their kids do all the time is simply ridiculous.
Maybe you should think your argument through better.
This is what logging, NetNanny and EyeSpy are for. EyeSpy is, IMHO the best childproofing for porn. It basically checks all images for how much skin here is and if it is more skin than a Sports Illustrated shoot or so, it blocks the picture. This way you don't have crap like the other porn blockers which block the Democrat's websites, PBS, etc.
Besides, if you are afraid your kids will watch porn what the hell are you doing leaving your kids alone? It is the parents' job to ensure that their children are supervised 24/7 until they are responsible enough to be unsupervised. If you are not doing that, you are basically saying you trust the kids not to do anything harmful like steal the gun and go shoot at pedestrians, drink alcohol or bleach, or surf porn.
When they do do those things it is an abdication of your responsibility as a parent to claim that it is anyone else's fault but your own. Honestly, I think such parents do not deserve to have children and should be sterilized after having them taken away. Be thankful this is a democratic society and we can't do that. But given the chouce between castrating the constitution, the internet, and free speech or castrating "parents" who refuse to do the actual parenting and just want to have children then foist the responsibility of raising them on the rest of the "village" I would vote for castrating the "parents" every time.
First of all, I saw porn from as early an age as 13, like either most boys did, or most boys wanted to... Sure it was nowhere near as explicit as the stuff available on the web today, but seriously, if people want to get porn, they will...
And besides, what about the responsibility of the parents? I tell you, parents in the US love overbearing legislation, cause it means that someone else can be blamed for their failures as parents.
And on a more constructive note: Why not have a test, like at the start of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, where only people over the age of 18 should be able to know the questions (and the answer is usually D: Meet the Press)?
That test was awesome. But one of the problems is that unless you were playing the game right when it came out, it was not so accurate. I played the game when it was old, and the questions were all about current events in the late 60's and early 70's so whereas I knew about some of them, many of the questions were pretty hard at the time.
What an astoundingly acute observer of the human condition Stereophile's editor proved to be! Of course, there were guys walking around with 'em (many wearing "Think Different!" T-shirts), but the streets were filled with fashionably dressed young women brandishing iPods as though they were this season's trendiest little Manolo Blahnik sling-back.
Chicks dig iPods! This is good news for slashdotters and audiophiles alike (as, in a previously referenced article most audiophiles are men.
Ah but slashdot missed the chance to point this out, and stereophile recoiled from the idea they might be playing with the same toys as the girls. What horrors! Too bad they did not think they could play with the same toys with the girls, or wonder of wonders, talk with them! That would be horrid!
Maybe you are doing something wrong there m8!! Powerpoint??!! Multi gigabit??? Anyway are you teaching literature or economics by any chance?
Back off man, s/he's a scientist! :)
Over on our side of the pond in good old blighty the editor of the Sun newspaper once pubblished a top secret document.
A House of Commons lunch menu.
Now why was that classified!
You're lucky! Besides don't the press wiretap Parliament over there? Over here the FBI thinks it is an issue of national security that we never know they paid their agents to go to parties with JOhn Lennon! Most importantly we must never know about the parrot that said "Right on!"
You beat me to the punchline. The web is chock full of wild acusations and conspiracy theory pubs... so much so that reading anything takes 3-4 hits to try to verify the information.
3-4 hits of what exactly? :)
"Ashcroft is actually now teaching local law enforcement how to misapply anti-terror legislation to petty crime"
can you link me to some articles concerning this revelation?
A little Google never hurt anyone.
Not only is Ashcroft spending thousands on drapes to cover lady Justice, but he has printed glossy brochures inviting people to lectures on how to extend the PATRIOT Act! And he's been going on tour on our dollars!
Here are some more choice selections for you. Remember the missing WMD in Iraq? Maybe it was Crystal Meth!
Well in that case I guess you don't deserve to be free.
Tell me, do you approve with laws that allow police to get a warrant to search a house during an investigation?
Do you approve of speed limits?
Do you think that laws against killing other people are reasonable?
Do you use a creditcard to make purchases over long distances instead of sending cash?
You give up freedoms all the time for security.
Well, to be fair, the original poster misquoted Mr. Franklin, despite numerous citations of the quotation being available on the internet. The correct quote is:
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" --Benjamin Franklin
The constitution provides for warrants and says that the police needing them is an essential liberty. I am not sure what you are getting at with the others. Even on slashdot I don't see what essential liberty I lose from the availability of credit cards, and as for the murder thing well the Declaration of Independance says that Life is an essential liberty so depriving someone of it is probably a Bad Thing.
"Proactive terrorism prevention" is, as many posters have pointed out, not designed to prevent terrorism. The government now has unprecedented power to control their own citizens, and if they happen to accuse a few brown-skins of being terrorists along the way then that's just an added bonus. How long did it take the US government to draw up the Patriot Act? 4 days after the WTC attacks? Or did they just have it sitting around, waiting for the right time to ply it on the unsuspecting masses.
Actually, it was never hidden that pretty much he whole USAPATRIOT Act was doing just that. Sitting around not going anywhere in Congress. Then 9/11 happens and people realize "hey, I bet right now we can put PATRIOT on anything we want and it will pass!" And they were right. There's all kinds of odd stuff in there. It's basically a wish list of stuff all kinds of politicians wanted but never could get passed. Most people focus on the FBI adittions, which date back to the Clinton years, but there's lots of pork in there, too.
We got the Two Minute Hates going on a small scale (the USA against anyone who doesn't agree with us).
Yes, I saw that on TV recently. I believe they call it FOX News. :P :)
"But if I'm alone in the car, the only way that I'm going to get un-lost is by using my phone."
So what did you do in the days before cell phones?
Ever hear of maps?
You're upset about someone talking on a phone, and you want them to spread open a map while driving? That is fucking dangerous!
Besides, if you get lost driving to Shirley's house, is it better to call Shrley, or to drag out a map? I haven't seen a map that shows me where random people I meet live. That would be a pretty damn good map!
Point (c) is actually quite valid. 'Cos otherwise, what's the point of having a missed-call listing facility on your cellphone, if you're forced to turn the phone off during the main times you can't answer it.
My missed call log does not show calls that were made if the cell was turned off. I do get voicemail, though.
You can make a safe bet that if other countries start going into space, the U.S. will suddenly get a renewed interest in it. We can't have someone scoping out space on the moon or building weapons of mass destruction up there...
Remember, the only reason we went nuts in the 60s to get someone on the news was that the USSR was trying to do it and launched a human into orbit first.
My concern has been that China has promised a moon base, but no one else has one. What if the Chinese decide they own the moon? Just imagine the war that would start.... And what the hell happened to our Mars base anyway?