Ok great. Now lets see them put right what can be put right. There are people in Britain's jails today that are every bit as persecuted as Alan Turing was in his time. They're just there because of a different prejudice.
The right thing to do is to pardon anyone and everyone who is convicted of a victimless crime.
Instead of retroactively correcting the injustices of the past, how about we look at who is suffering injustice today? What are we doing today that future generations will be appalled at? We still persecute people for making harmless personal choices. Let's stop.
Someone hasn't been paying attention for the past 30 years. Reaganomics doesn't work. Why it doesn't work is an academic question, but simple reality is that it has been disastrous for this country.
Because good reading habits start young. If you don't teach people that libraries are awesome when they're young, they won't use libraries as an adult.
Yes, that is the crux of the issue. Anti-abortionists are simply incorrect about what a person is. If it doesn't have a neo-cortex, it's not a person. Period.
My long term domestic partner had an abortion years before we met. She has no regrets, and finds the propaganda about how emotionally harmful abortions are laughable.
You're right. But if you're going to modify the game executable it makes more sense to remove the protection entirely, than it does to reverse engineer the cryptography and reimplement the authentication server.
Example: Demanding a menorah or nativity scene be taken down from a common public area is NOT part of the First Amendment.
Having equal access to do a display of your own faith or celebrate Darwin's birthday is.
The First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. If they make a law respecting two establishements of religion, they are respecting an establishement of religion twice. You're not solving the problem by giving more religions access, you're doubling down on the same mistake.
You're right. If you can modify the executable you can tear out the protection. The fellow upthread was suggesting that someone code a dummy server, which couldn't be done if they used PKI.
I'm not a gamer, but I was wondering why some clever geek hasn't just fired up snort to see what their server's saying to the game, then built a 'bot that interacted in the same way with it locally.
The same thing that prevents some clever geek from just firing up snort to see what your bank's server is saying to your browser, and building a bot that interacted with it in the same way locally.
I have no idea if they've actually done it properly, but public key cryptography can be used to prevent exactly the attack you described.
The only "bad" social movement that I can think of in US history attributed to Christians would be the Temperance movement that eventually led to Prohibition. Obviously that didn't last. Everything else has been positive, often overwhelmingly so.
Don't forget the fight against reproductive freedom. The persecution of homosexuals. Their repeated attempts to inject mythology into our science classes. And our unwavering support of Israel despite well documented war crimes.
Religion has a positive effect, when the religious believe that God is the ultimate authority, and fight against earthly authority. When the religious believe that God has ordained the earthly authority, religion causes no end of evil.
The real fundamental good that you're observing is anti-authoritarianism. That they happened to be religious is mostly a coincidence.
Just imagine that you really believe that abortion (at any point in pregnancy) is morally identical to lining up young children and shooting them in the head. Do you see how that one position could outweigh all other considerations?
If they actually believed that, they should celebrate the murder of Dr. Tiller. Very few anti-abortion voices had that much integrity.
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Ok great. Now lets see them put right what can be put right. There are people in Britain's jails today that are every bit as persecuted as Alan Turing was in his time. They're just there because of a different prejudice.
The right thing to do is to pardon anyone and everyone who is convicted of a victimless crime.
Instead of retroactively correcting the injustices of the past, how about we look at who is suffering injustice today? What are we doing today that future generations will be appalled at? We still persecute people for making harmless personal choices. Let's stop.
This was 10th grade history where I was from.
Someone hasn't been paying attention for the past 30 years. Reaganomics doesn't work. Why it doesn't work is an academic question, but simple reality is that it has been disastrous for this country.
Why stop there? Why not pool everyone's data together, and charge us all the same price?
So how exactly does Estonia do it?
Wait, censorship is abuse of the First Amendment. What's the difference?
Because good reading habits start young. If you don't teach people that libraries are awesome when they're young, they won't use libraries as an adult.
Voting for either D or R is throwing your vote away. The only vote that counts is one for a third party.
Yes, that is the crux of the issue. Anti-abortionists are simply incorrect about what a person is. If it doesn't have a neo-cortex, it's not a person. Period.
My long term domestic partner had an abortion years before we met. She has no regrets, and finds the propaganda about how emotionally harmful abortions are laughable.
Similarly, it's 'virtually impossible' to prove that a DMCA complaint was issued in bad faith.
Better anarchistic thugs than authoritarian thugs.
How is 8 a hero when they work for 4 and 7?
Nah. Never expect cleverness where carelessness would as easily explain how it was achieved.
But never discount cleverness as a possibility.
You're right. But if you're going to modify the game executable it makes more sense to remove the protection entirely, than it does to reverse engineer the cryptography and reimplement the authentication server.
Example: Demanding a menorah or nativity scene be taken down from a common public area is NOT part of the First Amendment.
Having equal access to do a display of your own faith or celebrate Darwin's birthday is.
The First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. If they make a law respecting two establishements of religion, they are respecting an establishement of religion twice. You're not solving the problem by giving more religions access, you're doubling down on the same mistake.
You're right. If you can modify the executable you can tear out the protection. The fellow upthread was suggesting that someone code a dummy server, which couldn't be done if they used PKI.
If you believe that someone is a mass murderer, killing him would lead to a net decrease in murder. This is a positive result, right?
Adware is malware.
I'm not a gamer, but I was wondering why some clever geek hasn't just fired up snort to see what their server's saying to the game, then built a 'bot that interacted in the same way with it locally.
The same thing that prevents some clever geek from just firing up snort to see what your bank's server is saying to your browser, and building a bot that interacted with it in the same way locally.
I have no idea if they've actually done it properly, but public key cryptography can be used to prevent exactly the attack you described.
Abortion is a great example for this topic. Abortion doesn't hurt people.
The only "bad" social movement that I can think of in US history attributed to Christians would be the Temperance movement that eventually led to Prohibition. Obviously that didn't last. Everything else has been positive, often overwhelmingly so.
Don't forget the fight against reproductive freedom. The persecution of homosexuals. Their repeated attempts to inject mythology into our science classes. And our unwavering support of Israel despite well documented war crimes.
Religion has a positive effect, when the religious believe that God is the ultimate authority, and fight against earthly authority. When the religious believe that God has ordained the earthly authority, religion causes no end of evil.
The real fundamental good that you're observing is anti-authoritarianism. That they happened to be religious is mostly a coincidence.
The fear isn't of prayer. The fear is that our first amendment protections are incredibly ineffective.
Did you missspell 'misogynist' when you made your /. account?
Just imagine that you really believe that abortion (at any point in pregnancy) is morally identical to lining up young children and shooting them in the head. Do you see how that one position could outweigh all other considerations?
If they actually believed that, they should celebrate the murder of Dr. Tiller. Very few anti-abortion voices had that much integrity.