Zero tolerance = zero thinking. It's a way to remove the responsibility out of school administrators and pin it on some other government body, probably one with lawyers. It's a "Just following orders" for education.
They're fucking children, they don't know what's best for them. If you expect them to excessive "individual responsibility" and pay attention to the teacher for a payoff 20 years in the future then you're a stupid, incorrect ideologue and out of touch with reality.
Usually the complain is that they give away MS software licenses. The conspiracy there being that they'll be hooked and once they move beyond soul crushing poverty they'll pay for the software. And that's disgusting when he should be giving out free IBM and RedHat contracts so that those vendors will be contractors when the children stop having to eat dirt to keep the hunger pangs away. The other big complaint I've seen is that they've invested in a refinery or something. As we all know, oil companies are evil and the last thing Africa needs is more local industry.
Basically, the problem is that he's Bill Gates, and that's a bad thing. Every dollar M$ made is tainted blood money. They made Dell pay a site license for Windows installation! Have you forgotten the burned villages of the Browser Wars? Remember that time they sent anthrax to that Linux User's Group? We are all victims. No amount of malaria vaccinations and AIDS research and all that other shit could ever atone for such depraved crimes.
Which would be absurd, because you don't need a massive domestic surveillance system to defeat malware. Even if it is true, all it would prove is that the NSA in it's capacity of securing networks, is a good thing to have around. I don't think very many argue against the idea of the NSA's role in SELinux on a rights-encroachment basis.
You either know what was meant and have nothing more to say other than meaningless bullshit to evade the issue that you advanced a ridiculous proposal that cops shoot people in the backs; or you are a retard who has nothing more to say.
Either way, I think it's clear that this discussion is over. Go waste someone else's time.
Attempt to evade or defeat tax - Any person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any tax imposed by this title or the payment thereof shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a felony
So there. Now, are you done wasting my fucking time with autistic quibblings over the law (please know that this is not a court and I don't give a shit if you are a lawyer; nor do I care if you can cite some other obscure law that claims otherwise)? Or would you like to continue propping up your quickly failing arguments by calling my credibility into question? Unless you were trying to to resort to legalism in a round-about way....
Also, I'd like to congratulate you on the most textbook example of an ad hominem that I've seen in months! Seriously, that was nice. Usually when people complain about that, it's not really ad hominem because what was actually said was "you're wrong, and that makes you an idiot", but you nailed it perfect with that "you're an idiot, so you're argument is wrong". Bravo.
Might it be possible to construct a scenario where cops are authorized to use deadly force to stop an active killer while not having a policy of shooting bike thieves in the back? I know that that doesn't lend itself very well to black and white thinking, but... think it over.
If fleeing were a felony(and it is in some places)
Lots of things are felonies. Not paying my taxes is a felony. But I don't think it would be justified if I got shot while not paying them.
stopped the future crimes
Laugh Out Loud. I don't think any future crimes that a bike thief can be assumed to commit in the future if not stopped by all means necessary are worth killing him over.
I won't say that he isn't a very brilliant computer scientist, but Dijkstra considers many (probably most) things harmful and very little of his rants are of relevance or worth.
Police try to link everything to pedophiles or terrorists. It's part of the standard procedure these days. There needs to be no mastermind behind that fear-mongering. (Aside: I tried to think of an analogy for this and came up with "If the police said that Linux was evil because it more was being used to securely keep child porn, you wouldn't blame Microsoft for pushing it.", but I guess that wouldn't be completely implausible).
they even have their planted agent(s) inside Wired Magazine to do the heavy lifting for them.
Please know that Wired has nothing to do with the "Assange did Parliament" story. That's on the News of Iceland site. The story on Wired that is (slightly dishonestly) juxtapositioned to it is a much more interesting story of apparently deliberate bad BGP announcements being made to reroute traffic around the world, like, at least 38 times that have been noticed. The only connection to the bullshit tabloid story is that the traffic was rerouted to either Iceland or Belarus all those times. If there is anyone bought off, it's samzenpus, but I think it can be demonstrated that he's just mildly retarded and possibly high while editing. Shame on you, samzenpus.
It's pretty hard to say no when the guy with the biggest guns and millions of murders to back them asks you to do something.
Serious question: do Europeans ever take responsibility for anything, or do they just like to blame all their failings on the US or use some variant of `I was just following orders!'?
You get an ugly pink page returned when you request anything from the IP address\range. Apparently done on at least the.htaccess level, because it blocks everything. Very easy to evade though.
It's not being banned you stupid fuck, a single museum is deciding not to show what would appear to be a political movie masquerading as a scientific documentary.
Clean room reverse engineering is already legal (patents not withstanding). WIne hasn't gotten any lawsuits from Microsoft.
Also, copyright is a lazy protection. If it weren't there and I absolutely had to keep you out, I could do things like encrypt the binary in parts so that it never appears in memory in it's entirety. It wouldn't stop anyone dedicated, but it'd keep out 99% of people.
that field would be far more advanced by today if we didn't have copyright
Doubt it. It's not advanced because it's not that interesting. Everyone can write code and share code and be sure that, because of copyright protection and whatever OSS license, it will be returned to the public. Surely this is better than having to fiddle with hex dumps for ten hours just to understand that they changed that int to a float.
(and already, despite copyrights, we're seeing hobby projects which disassemble amiga code and turn it into x86 binaries with added functionality like opengl graphics)
68K isn't the most complex processor in the world; it's pretty easy to understand. Slogging through disassembly of modern x86 produced by a compiler is a total bitch, (like when you first see a COBOL program that was written by multiple people over 20 years). Seriously, what the fuck is the instruction `CVTTPS2PI' supposed to be? Well, it converts two single floats to two signed integers by truncating the fractional part. Obvious, right?
Those damages are punitive, to provide incentive to never do it again. If it only covered costs, then it would still be profitable to do it because not everyone is going to waste their time suing over $2K.
Everyone cheers these big payouts but forgets that in the end we pay.
Tough shit. Let me guess, libertarian? I love it when they preach freedom, but get pissy whenever someone else's exercise in freedom ends up costing them.
to people who would be lucky to make a million in their lifetime
How dare they aspire to anything above their station.
yet complain when it means their medical costs go up to cover the doctors insurance premiums.
And insurance companies that regularly insure shitty doctors will go out of business and the quacks can't practice anymore, raising the quality of healthcare provided for all.
How so? Just because there is a lack of copyright, that doesn't prevent me from distributing a binary of whatever source code I found without releasing my changes to the source code as well.
Get over yourself. Programming isn't some mystical art that can only be done by the gifted. You don't need to be an non-functioning autist or idiot savant to write another boring inventory management system interface in Ruby on Rails or whatever asinine fad is being pushed this year.
No, I cannot allow that. Even if you leave Slashdot for whatever shitty site that is, I will come to your house, put a gun to your head, and force you to read Bitcoin stories much like Unknown Lamer does here. You must read them. This is not an option. If you had a choice, there would be some sort of summary on the front page with a link instead of how it is now where every bitcoin story locks your browser and won't let you navigate away unless you post.
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With all the zero tolerance BS going around?
Zero tolerance = zero thinking. It's a way to remove the responsibility out of school administrators and pin it on some other government body, probably one with lawyers. It's a "Just following orders" for education.
They're fucking children, they don't know what's best for them. If you expect them to excessive "individual responsibility" and pay attention to the teacher for a payoff 20 years in the future then you're a stupid, incorrect ideologue and out of touch with reality.
Usually the complain is that they give away MS software licenses. The conspiracy there being that they'll be hooked and once they move beyond soul crushing poverty they'll pay for the software. And that's disgusting when he should be giving out free IBM and RedHat contracts so that those vendors will be contractors when the children stop having to eat dirt to keep the hunger pangs away. The other big complaint I've seen is that they've invested in a refinery or something. As we all know, oil companies are evil and the last thing Africa needs is more local industry.
Basically, the problem is that he's Bill Gates, and that's a bad thing. Every dollar M$ made is tainted blood money. They made Dell pay a site license for Windows installation! Have you forgotten the burned villages of the Browser Wars? Remember that time they sent anthrax to that Linux User's Group? We are all victims. No amount of malaria vaccinations and AIDS research and all that other shit could ever atone for such depraved crimes.
Which would be absurd, because you don't need a massive domestic surveillance system to defeat malware. Even if it is true, all it would prove is that the NSA in it's capacity of securing networks, is a good thing to have around. I don't think very many argue against the idea of the NSA's role in SELinux on a rights-encroachment basis.
You either know what was meant and have nothing more to say other than meaningless bullshit to evade the issue that you advanced a ridiculous proposal that cops shoot people in the backs; or you are a retard who has nothing more to say.
Either way, I think it's clear that this discussion is over. Go waste someone else's time.
Attempt to evade or defeat tax - Any person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any tax imposed by this title or the payment thereof shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a felony
So there. Now, are you done wasting my fucking time with autistic quibblings over the law (please know that this is not a court and I don't give a shit if you are a lawyer; nor do I care if you can cite some other obscure law that claims otherwise)? Or would you like to continue propping up your quickly failing arguments by calling my credibility into question? Unless you were trying to to resort to legalism in a round-about way....
Also, I'd like to congratulate you on the most textbook example of an ad hominem that I've seen in months! Seriously, that was nice. Usually when people complain about that, it's not really ad hominem because what was actually said was "you're wrong, and that makes you an idiot", but you nailed it perfect with that "you're an idiot, so you're argument is wrong". Bravo.
If fleeing were a felony(and it is in some places)
Lots of things are felonies. Not paying my taxes is a felony. But I don't think it would be justified if I got shot while not paying them.
stopped the future crimes
Laugh Out Loud. I don't think any future crimes that a bike thief can be assumed to commit in the future if not stopped by all means necessary are worth killing him over.
Yes, definitely. Because that is the logical conclusion of not executing suspects on sight. Brilliant work, you deserve a prize.
I won't say that he isn't a very brilliant computer scientist, but Dijkstra considers many (probably most) things harmful and very little of his rants are of relevance or worth.
The crime was probably pissing off King Fatass. In that case, guilt would be pretty obvious.
they even have their planted agent(s) inside Wired Magazine to do the heavy lifting for them.
Please know that Wired has nothing to do with the "Assange did Parliament" story. That's on the News of Iceland site. The story on Wired that is (slightly dishonestly) juxtapositioned to it is a much more interesting story of apparently deliberate bad BGP announcements being made to reroute traffic around the world, like, at least 38 times that have been noticed. The only connection to the bullshit tabloid story is that the traffic was rerouted to either Iceland or Belarus all those times. If there is anyone bought off, it's samzenpus, but I think it can be demonstrated that he's just mildly retarded and possibly high while editing. Shame on you, samzenpus.
Some people write more interesting things than `Hello World' in node.js you ignorant code monkey.
It's pretty hard to say no when the guy with the biggest guns and millions of murders to back them asks you to do something.
Serious question: do Europeans ever take responsibility for anything, or do they just like to blame all their failings on the US or use some variant of `I was just following orders!'?
Nope, nope, nope. The speed of light is c, the speed of light in various materials is denoted as factors of c (0.65c or 0.99999c).
Things aren't so terrible. Just relax for a second and broaden the criteria by which you judge.
You get an ugly pink page returned when you request anything from the IP address\range. Apparently done on at least the .htaccess level, because it blocks everything. Very easy to evade though.
It's not being banned you stupid fuck, a single museum is deciding not to show what would appear to be a political movie masquerading as a scientific documentary.
Also, copyright is a lazy protection. If it weren't there and I absolutely had to keep you out, I could do things like encrypt the binary in parts so that it never appears in memory in it's entirety. It wouldn't stop anyone dedicated, but it'd keep out 99% of people.
that field would be far more advanced by today if we didn't have copyright
Doubt it. It's not advanced because it's not that interesting. Everyone can write code and share code and be sure that, because of copyright protection and whatever OSS license, it will be returned to the public. Surely this is better than having to fiddle with hex dumps for ten hours just to understand that they changed that int to a float.
(and already, despite copyrights, we're seeing hobby projects which disassemble amiga code and turn it into x86 binaries with added functionality like opengl graphics)
68K isn't the most complex processor in the world; it's pretty easy to understand. Slogging through disassembly of modern x86 produced by a compiler is a total bitch, (like when you first see a COBOL program that was written by multiple people over 20 years). Seriously, what the fuck is the instruction `CVTTPS2PI' supposed to be? Well, it converts two single floats to two signed integers by truncating the fractional part. Obvious, right?
Music and movies have special rules.
Everyone cheers these big payouts but forgets that in the end we pay.
Tough shit. Let me guess, libertarian? I love it when they preach freedom, but get pissy whenever someone else's exercise in freedom ends up costing them.
to people who would be lucky to make a million in their lifetime
How dare they aspire to anything above their station.
yet complain when it means their medical costs go up to cover the doctors insurance premiums.
And insurance companies that regularly insure shitty doctors will go out of business and the quacks can't practice anymore, raising the quality of healthcare provided for all.
Nice try, but that rarely ever happens.
How so? Just because there is a lack of copyright, that doesn't prevent me from distributing a binary of whatever source code I found without releasing my changes to the source code as well.
Get over yourself. Programming isn't some mystical art that can only be done by the gifted. You don't need to be an non-functioning autist or idiot savant to write another boring inventory management system interface in Ruby on Rails or whatever asinine fad is being pushed this year.
No, I cannot allow that. Even if you leave Slashdot for whatever shitty site that is, I will come to your house, put a gun to your head, and force you to read Bitcoin stories much like Unknown Lamer does here. You must read them. This is not an option. If you had a choice, there would be some sort of summary on the front page with a link instead of how it is now where every bitcoin story locks your browser and won't let you navigate away unless you post.
Most uninformed post of the entire story? Only time will tell!