you will find those who will claim it should be possible to use drugs like cocaine and meth and heroin freely. these are people who only see the constraints on their personal freedom, and not costs to society
You are absolutely wrong. It is *because* of the costs to society that we must legalize drugs like meth and heroin. Criminalization does not work, anyone who wants these drugs can get them. So the only question is, how can we reduce the harm they cause?
some people can't wrap their minds around the simple and obvious fact that using some drugs: heroin, cocaine, and meth, is all downside.
I agree, these drugs are all downside. It doesn't matter, criminalization only amplifies the downside. We didn't relegalize alcohol because of its health benefits. We legalized it because it wasn't going to go away, and criminalization only made it worse. The exact same holds for meth and heroin.
What I like about it is that I get a clear chocie between 2 moderate people.
No you don't. You get a "choice" between two authoritarian corporatists. Neither of which differ on any issue of importance. If you care about the TSA, there's no choice for you. If you care about drug policy, there's no choice for you. If you care about drone strikes on american citizens, there's no choice for you. If you care about justice being applied equally to the rich and the poor, there's no choice for you.
How often do you need to read what's behind your console? And how often does what's behind your console interfere with reading what's on it? I can't imagine any circumstance where the former would happen more often than the latter.
Is Seamonkey plugin compatible with Firefox? Adblock Plus, NoScript, and Ghostery are the only reasons I still use Firefox. I make Firefox more usable with Pentadactyl, so I'd need something like that too.
As a professional engineer, accountability starts the moment you have a license number in your state.
Any opinion you give on any project makes you liable.
Only if the opinion you give is incorrect. These scientists gave the correct opinion, the chance of an earthquake was remote according to the best data and best models available. The fact that an earthquake happened is not inconsistent with the chance of it happening being remote.
I find it hard to believe a country like Italy would convict based on not having the ability to predict an earthquake.
Really? You find it hard to believe that politicians would abuse the justice system for political points in Italy? In Italy? Really? That's hard to believe?
I did some reading, and the charges have more to do with creating a perception that the earthquake risk was remote and being negligent in their duty to keep the people educated about earthquake preparation and vigilance.
If the earthquake risk was in fact remote, then how does this amount to anything other than convicting them for not predicting the quake? Just because it happened doesn't mean it was likely to happen. Long shots do occur.
My initial reaction was the typical knee-jerk thought that "innocent until proven guilty" has clearly been thrown out the window, but after further reflection I changed my mind. If you are accused of a crime in court you will end up having to pay legal fees.
No, you were right the first time. Forcing innocent people to pay legal fees is an abdication of the principle that you're innocent until proven guilty. If you're falsely accused, the accuser and the state should be required to make complete restitution, including your time billed at an hourly rate that would make your attorney blush. Anything less encourages the law to be used as a weapon.
You did the wrong thing. What you should be afraid of is not a bad president. What you should be afraid of is a never ending sequence of bad presidents that we can't do anything about because our electoral system is broken. By voting either D or R, you are casting a vote in favor of lack of choice. That has far worse consequences than just one bad president. Take the long view next time.
Here is how to know Obama is doing a pretty good job: Almost all major accusations against him are factually wrong, or nonsense.
Bullshit. Obama has failed to faithfully enforce the laws of the United States by failing to prosecute anyone for the well documented torture under the Bush administration, or any of the well documented fraud that lead to the 2008 financial crisis. He continues to engage in warrantless wiretapping. He signed the unconstitutional NDAA. He has prosecuted government whistleblowers under the espionage act at a rate that exceeds all previous administrations combined.
No, Obama is not doing a pretty good job, unless you thought Bush was doing a pretty good job. In that case, Obama is doing a fantastic job by embracing and extending virtually all of Bush's abuses of power.
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I do not understand why people think that voting for a third party is throwing away your vote
Voting for either major party is throwing your vote away. The only vote that matters is a protest vote.
you will find those who will claim it should be possible to use drugs like cocaine and meth and heroin freely. these are people who only see the constraints on their personal freedom, and not costs to society
You are absolutely wrong. It is *because* of the costs to society that we must legalize drugs like meth and heroin. Criminalization does not work, anyone who wants these drugs can get them. So the only question is, how can we reduce the harm they cause?
some people can't wrap their minds around the simple and obvious fact that using some drugs: heroin, cocaine, and meth, is all downside.
I agree, these drugs are all downside. It doesn't matter, criminalization only amplifies the downside. We didn't relegalize alcohol because of its health benefits. We legalized it because it wasn't going to go away, and criminalization only made it worse. The exact same holds for meth and heroin.
What I like about it is that I get a clear chocie between 2 moderate people.
No you don't. You get a "choice" between two authoritarian corporatists. Neither of which differ on any issue of importance. If you care about the TSA, there's no choice for you. If you care about drug policy, there's no choice for you. If you care about drone strikes on american citizens, there's no choice for you. If you care about justice being applied equally to the rich and the poor, there's no choice for you.
How often do you need to read what's behind your console? And how often does what's behind your console interfere with reading what's on it? I can't imagine any circumstance where the former would happen more often than the latter.
Still no OpenGL required for Fluxbox. Still snappy on old hardware too.
Is Seamonkey plugin compatible with Firefox? Adblock Plus, NoScript, and Ghostery are the only reasons I still use Firefox. I make Firefox more usable with Pentadactyl, so I'd need something like that too.
Great, X11's network transparency sucks. The solution to this problem is to reimplement it better, not to replace X entirely and remove the feature.
X11 does facilitate the use of, say, NX and VNC though to mitigate the problem. Does Wayland? If so then bring it on I say
Wayland doesn't mitigate anything. It solves the problem by completely eliminating the feature.
We ran X on terminals far weaker than the average cell phone in the 90s.
Only negative is of course that you only get to meet the wardens and a few people the prosecutor wetted before letting them see you
Always check the door to the prosecutor's office for a bucket of water propped on it.
Because information is more dangerous than violence.
Can I get one of those for my laptop?
Everybody can imagine what this means for the long-term future of Italy as a place of innovation and science, which has already been damaged badly.
Same as it ever was, I'd guess. This is the same country that imprisoned Galileo after all.
As a professional engineer, accountability starts the moment you have a license number in your state.
Any opinion you give on any project makes you liable.
Only if the opinion you give is incorrect. These scientists gave the correct opinion, the chance of an earthquake was remote according to the best data and best models available. The fact that an earthquake happened is not inconsistent with the chance of it happening being remote.
I find it hard to believe a country like Italy would convict based on not having the ability to predict an earthquake.
Really? You find it hard to believe that politicians would abuse the justice system for political points in Italy? In Italy? Really? That's hard to believe?
I did some reading, and the charges have more to do with creating a perception that the earthquake risk was remote and being negligent in their duty to keep the people educated about earthquake preparation and vigilance.
If the earthquake risk was in fact remote, then how does this amount to anything other than convicting them for not predicting the quake? Just because it happened doesn't mean it was likely to happen. Long shots do occur.
If you don't use Microsoft's support, and you don't plan on buying new hardware any time soon, there's no reason to switch.
That would be understandable in itself. But Netflix won't let you distribute DRM-free content through Netflix either.
Unless you, as a content creator, wish to license your content to Netflix DRM-free. As the GP's link shows, they won't let you do that.
My initial reaction was the typical knee-jerk thought that "innocent until proven guilty" has clearly been thrown out the window, but after further reflection I changed my mind. If you are accused of a crime in court you will end up having to pay legal fees.
No, you were right the first time. Forcing innocent people to pay legal fees is an abdication of the principle that you're innocent until proven guilty. If you're falsely accused, the accuser and the state should be required to make complete restitution, including your time billed at an hourly rate that would make your attorney blush. Anything less encourages the law to be used as a weapon.
The PPC and 68K emulators exist already. Sheepshaver and Basilisk. But they require a copy of Mac OS, which would need to be licensed or replaced.
Or they'd need an API level simulator of classic Mac OS. But there's no preexisting project for GoG to capitalize upon here.
You did the wrong thing. What you should be afraid of is not a bad president. What you should be afraid of is a never ending sequence of bad presidents that we can't do anything about because our electoral system is broken. By voting either D or R, you are casting a vote in favor of lack of choice. That has far worse consequences than just one bad president. Take the long view next time.
No, it's been viewed as a gentlemen's agreement between aristocrats that they will consider each other above the law.
Here is how to know Obama is doing a pretty good job: Almost all major accusations against him are factually wrong, or nonsense.
Bullshit. Obama has failed to faithfully enforce the laws of the United States by failing to prosecute anyone for the well documented torture under the Bush administration, or any of the well documented fraud that lead to the 2008 financial crisis. He continues to engage in warrantless wiretapping. He signed the unconstitutional NDAA. He has prosecuted government whistleblowers under the espionage act at a rate that exceeds all previous administrations combined.
No, Obama is not doing a pretty good job, unless you thought Bush was doing a pretty good job. In that case, Obama is doing a fantastic job by embracing and extending virtually all of Bush's abuses of power.
Robots.txt. You can prohibit google or any reputable search engine from indexing your content.
I presume that's an exclusive "or".