It's the principle that if you're a US business or citizen, selling to US citizens or business, you can't get away with illegal behaviour by just shifting the illegal part of the process to another country.
If it's not illegal in that country, it's not illegal behavior. This is the US trying to project its jurisdiction across the entire world, which is an extremely dangerous practice.
Consider what would happen if this principle were applied everywhere. Going to Holland to smoke some pot? Expect to get arrested when you return home. No alcohol sales in your county on Sundays? If you drive one county over to buy some, now you're a smuggler!
How would the US react if other countries attempted to enforce their laws against people in the US?
There are many reasons for it, but some include the reason "because general public is stupid and would panic if they had known".
Which is a blatantly anti-democratic justification. If you're not going to trust the public, why not just come out and declare a military dictatorship?
if you want people to have frank ideas, their ideas need to be kept private
How convenient. If you want to cover up crimes, their ideas need to be kept private too.
It doesn't appear the government has asserted the document is classified - that's a term of art meaning that the release of the data would compromise national security in some way.
By "compromise national security" you mean "embarrass the US government", right?
The problem with good cops, is that even a completely honest cop is charged with enforcing unjust laws. Someone who is truly a good person will not allow themselves to be an agent of injustice. As a result, there is no such thing as a good cop.
I'd suggest using a TV. LCD or CRT won't matter. A DVD player might be the best way to watch Dr Who on your TV, but other options are available. I used XBMC on an Xbox to watch Dr Who.
The best place to watch Dr Who would be someplace with comfortable seating and few distractions. Probably your living room if you have one.
If you're wondering when to watch Dr. Who, I found it best to watch in the evening. Usually between 9pm and 11pm. After that, I'm too tired to pay attention. Before that, I'd rather do something interactive. Of course, YMMV.
Seriously, I say lets take all the fines for traffic violations, and rather than give them to the police or govt....let's pool it and redistribute it BACK to the citizens at EOY that haven't committed any infractions, as a type of reward.
Why stop with traffic violations? The profit motive is just as corrupting for other crimes. ALL fines should be paid back out to the public, or simply destroyed increasing the value of our dollars.
OS X has solved more flamewars than it sparked. It's a great middle ground, where both GUI lovers and CLI lovers are welcome. You don't have to be a fanatic to like OS X, unlike OS 9 and earlier.
Obviously, there are still good reasons to use systems other than OS X, but everyone can agree that OS X is a big improvement.
Yes, still the case. I had heard that ATI was getting better, so I bought a 4350 for an HTPC build. I was unable to get it working properly with any X.org driver besides VESA. The open source driver flickered constantly. The proprietary driver gave me a black screen, with no errors or warnings or any sort of hint as to the problem.
nVidia on the other hand, I've never had a problem that rerunning the driver installer won't fix.
Good god no! I can't stand wearing headphones for more than 10 minutes at a time. Earbuds, circumaural, doesn't matter. Besides, what head phones can compete with the kick of a good subwoofer?
Right now? Mainstream music has utterly sucked since the late 90s. If you want some quality music over P2P, check out bt.etree.org.
Personally, my downloading is at an all time low because I have everything I want. I pass up free leech at the private trackers I'm on, simply because I wouldn't have the time to use it anyway.
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Don't forget FOAD.
It's the principle that if you're a US business or citizen, selling to US citizens or business, you can't get away with illegal behaviour by just shifting the illegal part of the process to another country.
If it's not illegal in that country, it's not illegal behavior. This is the US trying to project its jurisdiction across the entire world, which is an extremely dangerous practice.
Consider what would happen if this principle were applied everywhere. Going to Holland to smoke some pot? Expect to get arrested when you return home. No alcohol sales in your county on Sundays? If you drive one county over to buy some, now you're a smuggler!
How would the US react if other countries attempted to enforce their laws against people in the US?
There are many reasons for it, but some include the reason "because general public is stupid and would panic if they had known".
Which is a blatantly anti-democratic justification. If you're not going to trust the public, why not just come out and declare a military dictatorship?
if you want people to have frank ideas, their ideas need to be kept private
How convenient. If you want to cover up crimes, their ideas need to be kept private too.
Why does that matter? As long as you get enough funds to repair the roads, you can distribute the tax any way you want to achieve a desired outcome.
Shouldn't we be encouraging people to use less gas? An excise tax on gasoline is an excellent way to do so.
It doesn't appear the government has asserted the document is classified - that's a term of art meaning that the release of the data would compromise national security in some way.
By "compromise national security" you mean "embarrass the US government", right?
Been to the mall lately?
Good god no! Why would any adult go to the mall? Especially an adult with internet access.
That's the problem a good cop would be one who enforced the spirit above the letter of the law.
Unless the spirit of the law is what is evil. Would a good cop enforce the Fugitive Slave Act?
The problem with good cops, is that even a completely honest cop is charged with enforcing unjust laws. Someone who is truly a good person will not allow themselves to be an agent of injustice. As a result, there is no such thing as a good cop.
I'd suggest using a TV. LCD or CRT won't matter. A DVD player might be the best way to watch Dr Who on your TV, but other options are available. I used XBMC on an Xbox to watch Dr Who.
The best place to watch Dr Who would be someplace with comfortable seating and few distractions. Probably your living room if you have one.
If you're wondering when to watch Dr. Who, I found it best to watch in the evening. Usually between 9pm and 11pm. After that, I'm too tired to pay attention. Before that, I'd rather do something interactive. Of course, YMMV.
Windows *was* sugar coated DOS for a decade.
And my ranking was purely based on CLI environments. Would you really rather use Powershell or Cygwin than native Bash or CSH?
Seriously, I say lets take all the fines for traffic violations, and rather than give them to the police or govt....let's pool it and redistribute it BACK to the citizens at EOY that haven't committed any infractions, as a type of reward.
Why stop with traffic violations? The profit motive is just as corrupting for other crimes. ALL fines should be paid back out to the public, or simply destroyed increasing the value of our dollars.
True, but a strong third (after linux and bsd) is better than being dead last.
OS X has solved more flamewars than it sparked. It's a great middle ground, where both GUI lovers and CLI lovers are welcome. You don't have to be a fanatic to like OS X, unlike OS 9 and earlier.
Obviously, there are still good reasons to use systems other than OS X, but everyone can agree that OS X is a big improvement.
I found that a single-card single-monitor setup did not work at all with ATI on Linux. With ATI on Linux, YMMV.
Anthropogenic climate change is a much more plausible doomsday scenario than either grey goo or AI.
Yes, still the case. I had heard that ATI was getting better, so I bought a 4350 for an HTPC build. I was unable to get it working properly with any X.org driver besides VESA. The open source driver flickered constantly. The proprietary driver gave me a black screen, with no errors or warnings or any sort of hint as to the problem.
nVidia on the other hand, I've never had a problem that rerunning the driver installer won't fix.
Good god no! I can't stand wearing headphones for more than 10 minutes at a time. Earbuds, circumaural, doesn't matter. Besides, what head phones can compete with the kick of a good subwoofer?
Seriously, if you try to promote freedom and free code, you have to allow people to use it how they want.
If you want to promote freedom and free code, you have to ensure that EVERYONE has the same rights to the free code.
Right now? Mainstream music has utterly sucked since the late 90s. If you want some quality music over P2P, check out bt.etree.org.
Personally, my downloading is at an all time low because I have everything I want. I pass up free leech at the private trackers I'm on, simply because I wouldn't have the time to use it anyway.
allow me to burn purchased songs to CD's where they can be ripped back to MP3 free of the restrictions!
Free of high frequency components too! Plus bonus transcode artifacts!
Funny, I've only seen 4 of those actually holding public office.
A state run by religious conservatives is also highly authoritarian. Who would have thought?
Don't be too hard on them. Any HVAC system can be circumvented using windows.
Practically? It's several times the GDP of the US.