1. It reflects the mentality of a once 13 year old girl's father.
Who are even less rational than 13 year old girls.
2. If you had, you should be prosecuted for statutory rape and then experience the flip side of the relationship with a large man named Tyrone while serving 10-20 years.
See above. You think forcible anal rape is a just consequence for a pleasurable activity the "victim" assented too? Even if she can't legally consent, her assent still means something. Statutory rape is not a violent crime.
And if she were my daughter, then yes, I would condemn you to castration and death by hanging. But that's just a Dad speaking.
And again, see above. Justice is supposed to be proportional. Something goes wrong in the head of parents that turns totally nice rational people into sick paranoid vengeful freaks. Shame on you, you're even more twisted than the man in the article.
It's a matter of legal philosophy. Most Americans want the police to stop crimes from happening
Most Americans are not self-aware enough to understand that if the police can arrest other people before they've even committed a crime, they can arrest you too, even if you haven't committed a crime because you might.
13 year olds are impressionable and malleable to outside influences
So are most people.
unless you're one of the unlucky ones whose mental maturation process is prematurely halted and never gets to the "adult" stage.
So anyone who disagrees with you has something wrong with their brain and is wrong by definition? Do you have an argument that's not an ad hominem?
I'm not going to argue that it's a good thing for a 30 year old to hook up with a 13 year old, but for something that's supposed to be so obviously bad it's remarkable how weak the arguments against it are.
Not for a reasonable price. I can get a faster processor, more ram, more HDD, and better everything else than my current laptop for $600. Everything else, except a better screen. I can get a better screen if I buy Apple, but not at a reasonable price.
Free in cost is a secondary concern. The real benefit in being free is that it's not beholden to marketing. You don't get software like LaTeX, R, UZBL, and Awesome from proprietary software houses.
Me I go about every 5 years between new machines mainly because i buy laptops
I'm hanging on to my laptop from 2006, and will do so for the forseeable future. You can't buy UXGA(1600x1200) laptops anymore, and WUXGA laptops are grossly overpriced, if you can even find one that's less than 17".
CPU and RAM have advanced to the state that it really doesn't matter what you get. The only component that actually matters is the display, and we have worse displays now than we did 6 years ago.
But people who always needed the power of a PC will continue needing one so they aren't going to go away.
But we'll lose the economies of scale that have made PCs so cheap. That, and people who "need" a powerful PC are largely professionals, so they will buy expensive business class computers. This will, for lack of a better term, digitally disenfranchise a large fraction of computer users, and make locked down corporate controlled media delivery they only real use case for computers in the future.
The Gates are a positive example, among the rich. Relatively speaking, they aren't that much more charitable than the 99%. So your question is addressed at the wrong audience.
That's not true, and the article you link makes it clear that it's not true: the poor give a greater proportion of their wealth to charity, which is different to giving more to charity.
Didn't you two just say the exact same thing?
As for your relative generosity point, that's surely just bonkers: your link claims that the "99%" give 4% of their income; Gates has given away around 50% of his net worth since 2007, and (according to Wikipedia) has pledged to eventually give away 95%. I don't see how you can look at those figures and arrive at the conclusion that he's not bee much more charitable than the ordinary person.
Gates could give away 99% of his wealth and still be fabulously wealthy. A poor person donating 10 dollars is making a sacrifice Gates will never approach.
I have. That's how I knew it was a bunch of context free excerpts. A lot of them are completely irrelevant to the case. e.g. Dotcom tells his people not to perform mass deletions of links if the request comes from Mexico. Completely irrelevant to a US court.
I think your original assessment is correct. Dotcom will lose big if he ever sees a US court. But not because he is guilty of breaking any law he had an obligation to follow. Only because the US justice system is wildly unjust.
If you read much of what I post, I'm about as pro constitution as you will find. This company appears not to be an issue, and what they are doing appears a non issue.
It doesn't have to be unconstitutional to be harmful. Communications providers should be blind to the content they transfer. Suppose the USPS wanted to implement parental controls of the mail. Would that not disturb you? The same thing goes for ISPs.
By that logic there should be no drinking age and most surely pornography should be able to be printed anywhere. There should be no movie rating system, lyrics rating system, or game rating system. Do you see that you have crossed well beyond the realm of common sense.
Perhaps we ought to move beyond the realm of common sense, and into the realm of hard data? Where is the actual data demonstrating that each of those policies has a beneficial result? If you don't have any, why should I trust your "common sense" over mine"?
Personally, I'd rather live in a world where Goatse is on every billboard than in a world where one young woman is denied access to information about birth control.
This is just fine if they also allow atheist groups to add items to the filter too. Given the amount of violence and sex in the bible, it would make just as much sense to censor the bible as anything else.
That's just as likely to be due to you changing layouts than any inherent benefit of the layout. If you had grown up with Dvorak, gotten RSI, and switched to Qwerty, you might feel similar relief.
The defining feature of a vaccine isn't whether it's against a virus or bacteria. A vaccine is something that primes your immune system to deal with a threat. TB is a bacteria, but the TB vaccine is a weakened form of that bacteria that primes your immune system to be ready for actual TB bacteria. That's a vaccine.
Antibiotics on the other hand are directly toxic to bacteria or fungi.
If you are playing 3D FPSs or RPGs, all monitors should be aligned in a single plane wth its center directly in front of you.
Only if the 3d is implemented by idiots. I should be able to place a monitor at any position and any angle and get a view of how the virtual works looks from there. If I want a monitor behind me so I can turn my head and see what's behind me in the virtual world, that should work as expected. Anything else is pointless garbage.
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1. It reflects the mentality of a once 13 year old girl's father.
Who are even less rational than 13 year old girls.
2. If you had, you should be prosecuted for statutory rape and then experience the flip side of the relationship with a large man named Tyrone while serving 10-20 years.
See above. You think forcible anal rape is a just consequence for a pleasurable activity the "victim" assented too? Even if she can't legally consent, her assent still means something. Statutory rape is not a violent crime.
And if she were my daughter, then yes, I would condemn you to castration and death by hanging. But that's just a Dad speaking.
And again, see above. Justice is supposed to be proportional. Something goes wrong in the head of parents that turns totally nice rational people into sick paranoid vengeful freaks. Shame on you, you're even more twisted than the man in the article.
It's a matter of legal philosophy. Most Americans want the police to stop crimes from happening
Most Americans are not self-aware enough to understand that if the police can arrest other people before they've even committed a crime, they can arrest you too, even if you haven't committed a crime because you might.
What more do you think Facebook has to do to make it obvious that it isn't 'most peoples' facebook', it is 'facebook's facebook'?
Or to be a little more pithy, you don't have a page on Facebook. Facebook has a page on you. Insert soviet reference if desired.
13 year olds are impressionable and malleable to outside influences
So are most people.
unless you're one of the unlucky ones whose mental maturation process is prematurely halted and never gets to the "adult" stage.
So anyone who disagrees with you has something wrong with their brain and is wrong by definition? Do you have an argument that's not an ad hominem?
I'm not going to argue that it's a good thing for a 30 year old to hook up with a 13 year old, but for something that's supposed to be so obviously bad it's remarkable how weak the arguments against it are.
As much as men who molest 13 year girls should be castrated and hung
I think you meant 'hanged' but hey, maybe there are 13 year old girls who like it that way.
Not for a reasonable price. I can get a faster processor, more ram, more HDD, and better everything else than my current laptop for $600. Everything else, except a better screen. I can get a better screen if I buy Apple, but not at a reasonable price.
Free in cost is a secondary concern. The real benefit in being free is that it's not beholden to marketing. You don't get software like LaTeX, R, UZBL, and Awesome from proprietary software houses.
governments don't give a stuff about you and me - they only care about the money
That's all you really needed to say.
Me I go about every 5 years between new machines mainly because i buy laptops
I'm hanging on to my laptop from 2006, and will do so for the forseeable future. You can't buy UXGA(1600x1200) laptops anymore, and WUXGA laptops are grossly overpriced, if you can even find one that's less than 17".
CPU and RAM have advanced to the state that it really doesn't matter what you get. The only component that actually matters is the display, and we have worse displays now than we did 6 years ago.
But people who always needed the power of a PC will continue needing one so they aren't going to go away.
But we'll lose the economies of scale that have made PCs so cheap. That, and people who "need" a powerful PC are largely professionals, so they will buy expensive business class computers. This will, for lack of a better term, digitally disenfranchise a large fraction of computer users, and make locked down corporate controlled media delivery they only real use case for computers in the future.
only the most cynical of people
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Didn't you two just say the exact same thing?
Gates could give away 99% of his wealth and still be fabulously wealthy. A poor person donating 10 dollars is making a sacrifice Gates will never approach.
With the marijuana came tobacco, to which I'm addicted.
People who ruin perfectly good weed with tobacco should be shot.
I have. That's how I knew it was a bunch of context free excerpts. A lot of them are completely irrelevant to the case. e.g. Dotcom tells his people not to perform mass deletions of links if the request comes from Mexico. Completely irrelevant to a US court.
I think your original assessment is correct. Dotcom will lose big if he ever sees a US court. But not because he is guilty of breaking any law he had an obligation to follow. Only because the US justice system is wildly unjust.
If you read much of what I post, I'm about as pro constitution as you will find. This company appears not to be an issue, and what they are doing appears a non issue.
It doesn't have to be unconstitutional to be harmful. Communications providers should be blind to the content they transfer. Suppose the USPS wanted to implement parental controls of the mail. Would that not disturb you? The same thing goes for ISPs.
By that logic there should be no drinking age and most surely pornography should be able to be printed anywhere. There should be no movie rating system, lyrics rating system, or game rating system. Do you see that you have crossed well beyond the realm of common sense.
Perhaps we ought to move beyond the realm of common sense, and into the realm of hard data? Where is the actual data demonstrating that each of those policies has a beneficial result? If you don't have any, why should I trust your "common sense" over mine"?
Personally, I'd rather live in a world where Goatse is on every billboard than in a world where one young woman is denied access to information about birth control.
The indictments contain only excerpts, devoid of context, and are still not very convincing. What exact statement from Dotcom do you find so damning?
Also, I think you are wildly optimistic about the accountability of prosecutors.
You're not naive enough to think that they'll stop, just because the original justification is no longer valid, are you?
This is just fine if they also allow atheist groups to add items to the filter too. Given the amount of violence and sex in the bible, it would make just as much sense to censor the bible as anything else.
That's just as likely to be due to you changing layouts than any inherent benefit of the layout. If you had grown up with Dvorak, gotten RSI, and switched to Qwerty, you might feel similar relief.
Forget debuggers. I don't even load /. with javascript enabled.
The defining feature of a vaccine isn't whether it's against a virus or bacteria. A vaccine is something that primes your immune system to deal with a threat. TB is a bacteria, but the TB vaccine is a weakened form of that bacteria that primes your immune system to be ready for actual TB bacteria. That's a vaccine.
Antibiotics on the other hand are directly toxic to bacteria or fungi.
Really, the "Lets do nothing and let the Poor Die" plan doesn't work.
From the perspective of the .1% who run this country, what actually is wrong with that plan?
If you are playing 3D FPSs or RPGs, all monitors should be aligned in a single plane wth its center directly in front of you.
Only if the 3d is implemented by idiots. I should be able to place a monitor at any position and any angle and get a view of how the virtual works looks from there. If I want a monitor behind me so I can turn my head and see what's behind me in the virtual world, that should work as expected. Anything else is pointless garbage.
Not recommended without a Transwarp.