DPR is thus a man who frequently quotes an overly simplistic book of philosophy that provides no evidence for its claims, and uses it to justify a quest to overthrow civilisation via crime in order to established a promised utopia. That description reminds me of another category of criminal that has occupied a lot of attention from western governments in the last decade.
As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong. It is not my business to be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way; its very Constitution is the evil. This may seem to be harsh and stubborn and unconciliatory; but it is to treat with the utmost kindness and consideration the only spirit that can appreciate or deserves it. So is an change for the better, like birth and death which convulse the body. Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
Yes, those who preach law and order tend to be unable to empathize with the oppressed.
For example, a slave that is currently lashed every night and raped by the master might love it if the counterfeiter ruins the master's day a little.
Whether I'm a slave or not, I am completely in favor of the assassination of such a monster. Law and order is worthless if it allows atrocities to happen.
What value does law and order have to the slave? Law and order is nothing more than a tool, and when that tool is wielded by evil, it serves evil. A society where injustice is enforced by the government and cheered on by patriots is no society that is worth having.
Think about it, if you were the slave in your scenario, would you really care that an abolitionist had counterfeited currency? Hell no! If you thought that counterfeiting would lead to your freedom, I bet you would run the presses yourself.
How about letting the elderly live there? It takes time for low level radiation to cause tumors. If you're old enough that you won't be around to see the cancer, you have nothing to worry about.
If he's an ally in the fight against slavery, you're damned right you don't do anything about it. And in this case, what we're talking about is a modern equivalent to the underground railroad. DPR enabled the oppressed to live freer at great personal risk. That's worthy of respect.
constitution was written the way it was for some very good reasons. What do you suppose is going to exist, say 100 years from now?
The Constitution, the way it was written, provides a mechanism for keeping the Constitution up to date. That mechanism does not include "ignore any part of the Constitution that is inconvenient". That mechanism requires ratification by the states.
If you write a document like that, ridged, unforgiving, you end up with something that works for about 10 years then needs to be rewritten.
Good, then amend the Constitution every 10 years, and get 3/4 of the states to ratify it. If you can't, then you don't really have united states at all.
When you dig into the complaint it becomes painfully clear how sloppy this guy was: He had a Google+ page, a LinkedIn profile, youtube, etc., -- there is considerable captured traffic between the Silk Road webserver sent outside the Tor network, including e-mails and other accounts authorities are now using to collect the realworld identities of many of the administrators and regular contributors to the site. He didn't encrypt anything on the servers -- they didn't even need a fucking password to get this information.
That's good news. That means someone competent can fill the vacuum left by the takedown of Silk Road.
I think he discounts the value of the implied 0-100% scale in a pie chart. If I have a bar graph, with 3 bars 60%, 20%, and 10%, even if there's a scale on the graph it's not immediately obvious that we're missing 10%. With a pie chart, it is impossible to miss that missing 10%. There's value in that.
Pie charts are overused, as are bar charts (box plots are usually better), but they have their place. Their place is representing proportions of a whole, and that's it.
Mr. Habib, a well-known South African scholar who has criticized the war in Iraq, was denied a visa by the U.S. government in a letter saying he âoeengaged in a terrorist activity,â an accusation Mr. Habib has vigorously denied.
No, no it does not look nice. It looks like complete and utter shit. Seriously, how can anyone look at this and not see garbage?
And no, I'm not sorry at all. Everyone involved in this design getting past the drawing board should be fired, from a cannon, into a giant vat of hot grits.
virtually all the people who seem to be obsessed with Bitcoins really, really, really, don't like FSB, considering it a form of fraud. It isn't, it's a quirk of accounting
It's not that implausible in the case of Titan. The moon is covered with hydrocarbons, it would be more suprising if none of those hydrocarbons were unsaturated. And that's all we're really talking about, individual propane monomers that have had a couple hydrogens knocked off. They're not even claiming to have found polypropylene.
There is no middle ground anymore theres the far left and the far right and a giant gulf in the middle with a few real centrists mixed in.
There is no far left in American politics. Obama is well to the right of most first world politicians, and in American context is somewhere around Reagan or Nixon. The Democrats are a right wing party, and the Republicans are a far right party. The extreme left of American politics, represented by Bernie Sanders and Elizibeth Warren would be centrists in any sane country.
And helium cannot be enriched or purified? Is it really better to let a (practically) non-renewable resource escape into space than save it for when it becomes economical to refine?
I think I first touched the internet in late 98 or early 99, at the computer lab of the local community college satellite campus. Found out about their machines when I dropped my wheelchair using mother at GED classes. If memory serves me correctly they were PII 233's with 32MB RAM running Netscape Communicator on WinNT. 4.0 Netscape would crash if you looked at it funny.
Surprisingly, a machine of this vintage is still marginally functional on the internet. I have a P-II 266 running Windows 98 and Firefox 2.0. It's slow, but functional enough to navigate to gamecopyworld for ancient no-cd cracks for the vintage games I play on the thing. I'm sure having the RAM maxed out at 384MB helps a lot though...
Don't worry, you'll almost certainly be able to use your existing USB joypads with your Steam Machine. I'm glad Valve is trying something new with this controller. It probably will suck, but that's why Steam OS is configurable.
I'm not seeing a downside to this. It's not like they are getting good PR out of it. Anything that gets information out of the control of the main stream media, and lets people make up their own minds is a good thing. It's OK for us to listen to their message, and condemn them when we decide that it is evil on our own. We don't need CNN to do that for us.
It's the same thing, with a smaller connector. Unless you're talking about the really ancient ports on an XT. But in that case, I don't think you need n-key rollover anyway.
PS/2 ports are the only keyboard interfaces that generate interrupts intstead of polling, and the only ones that can handle n-key rollover in a sane fashion.
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DPR is thus a man who frequently quotes an overly simplistic book of philosophy that provides no evidence for its claims, and uses it to justify a quest to overthrow civilisation via crime in order to established a promised utopia. That description reminds me of another category of criminal that has occupied a lot of attention from western governments in the last decade.
Ooh, I know! It's investment bankers, right?
Once they were given a proper warrant, complying is the principled thing to do.
No, that's the safe thing to do. The principled thing to do is to engage in civil disobedience.
My example wasn't from the slave's perspective
Yes, those who preach law and order tend to be unable to empathize with the oppressed.
For example, a slave that is currently lashed every night and raped by the master might love it if the counterfeiter ruins the master's day a little.
Whether I'm a slave or not, I am completely in favor of the assassination of such a monster. Law and order is worthless if it allows atrocities to happen.
What value does law and order have to the slave? Law and order is nothing more than a tool, and when that tool is wielded by evil, it serves evil. A society where injustice is enforced by the government and cheered on by patriots is no society that is worth having.
Think about it, if you were the slave in your scenario, would you really care that an abolitionist had counterfeited currency? Hell no! If you thought that counterfeiting would lead to your freedom, I bet you would run the presses yourself.
How about letting the elderly live there? It takes time for low level radiation to cause tumors. If you're old enough that you won't be around to see the cancer, you have nothing to worry about.
If he's an ally in the fight against slavery, you're damned right you don't do anything about it. And in this case, what we're talking about is a modern equivalent to the underground railroad. DPR enabled the oppressed to live freer at great personal risk. That's worthy of respect.
constitution was written the way it was for some very good reasons. What do you suppose is going to exist, say 100 years from now?
The Constitution, the way it was written, provides a mechanism for keeping the Constitution up to date. That mechanism does not include "ignore any part of the Constitution that is inconvenient". That mechanism requires ratification by the states.
If you write a document like that, ridged, unforgiving, you end up with something that works for about 10 years then needs to be rewritten.
Good, then amend the Constitution every 10 years, and get 3/4 of the states to ratify it. If you can't, then you don't really have united states at all.
That's good news. That means someone competent can fill the vacuum left by the takedown of Silk Road.
I think he discounts the value of the implied 0-100% scale in a pie chart. If I have a bar graph, with 3 bars 60%, 20%, and 10%, even if there's a scale on the graph it's not immediately obvious that we're missing 10%. With a pie chart, it is impossible to miss that missing 10%. There's value in that.
Pie charts are overused, as are bar charts (box plots are usually better), but they have their place. Their place is representing proportions of a whole, and that's it.
Yes, because .08333333333333333333333333... is so much more intuitive than 1/12.
There's another teaching opportunity. Using nothing more than a compass and straight edge, divide the pizza into equal portions.
Adam Habib was denied entrance in 2006.
It looks nice, I'll give you that.
No, no it does not look nice. It looks like complete and utter shit. Seriously, how can anyone look at this and not see garbage?
And no, I'm not sorry at all. Everyone involved in this design getting past the drawing board should be fired, from a cannon, into a giant vat of hot grits.
virtually all the people who seem to be obsessed with Bitcoins really, really, really, don't like FSB, considering it a form of fraud. It isn't, it's a quirk of accounting
What's the difference?
It's not that implausible in the case of Titan. The moon is covered with hydrocarbons, it would be more suprising if none of those hydrocarbons were unsaturated. And that's all we're really talking about, individual propane monomers that have had a couple hydrogens knocked off. They're not even claiming to have found polypropylene.
There is no middle ground anymore theres the far left and the far right and a giant gulf in the middle with a few real centrists mixed in.
There is no far left in American politics. Obama is well to the right of most first world politicians, and in American context is somewhere around Reagan or Nixon. The Democrats are a right wing party, and the Republicans are a far right party. The extreme left of American politics, represented by Bernie Sanders and Elizibeth Warren would be centrists in any sane country.
And helium cannot be enriched or purified? Is it really better to let a (practically) non-renewable resource escape into space than save it for when it becomes economical to refine?
I think I first touched the internet in late 98 or early 99, at the computer lab of the local community college satellite campus. Found out about their machines when I dropped my wheelchair using mother at GED classes. If memory serves me correctly they were PII 233's with 32MB RAM running Netscape Communicator on WinNT. 4.0 Netscape would crash if you looked at it funny.
Surprisingly, a machine of this vintage is still marginally functional on the internet. I have a P-II 266 running Windows 98 and Firefox 2.0. It's slow, but functional enough to navigate to gamecopyworld for ancient no-cd cracks for the vintage games I play on the thing. I'm sure having the RAM maxed out at 384MB helps a lot though...
Don't worry, you'll almost certainly be able to use your existing USB joypads with your Steam Machine. I'm glad Valve is trying something new with this controller. It probably will suck, but that's why Steam OS is configurable.
I'm not seeing a downside to this. It's not like they are getting good PR out of it. Anything that gets information out of the control of the main stream media, and lets people make up their own minds is a good thing. It's OK for us to listen to their message, and condemn them when we decide that it is evil on our own. We don't need CNN to do that for us.
It's the same thing, with a smaller connector. Unless you're talking about the really ancient ports on an XT. But in that case, I don't think you need n-key rollover anyway.
PS/2 ports are the only keyboard interfaces that generate interrupts intstead of polling, and the only ones that can handle n-key rollover in a sane fashion.
Bugs aren't vegan.
I think that's an intentional part of the mod point allocation algorithm. Try posting less.