The point is that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Do you not think that there wouldn't be significant support for putting Muslims in internment camps? When we have elected officials participating in racist displays such as this, I wouldn't put anything past them.
Sedition hasn't been used against speech since the 60s, because the military industrial complex hasn't been seriously challenged since the 60s. When a serious movement for peace and freedom appears, you can bet your ass that they'll be up to their old tricks again.
I wasn't clear enough. Encouraging people to engage in specific acts of Civil Disobedience, such as "Tonight, we hold the Wisconsin Capitol at all costs" must be protected speech in any free country.
What if the "crime" is sedition? If the British government could have obtained the identities of Publius, where would we be today? Isn't it hypocritical for a government to pass laws that would have made its very existence impossible?
If she grew up in the internet age, she has no excuse not to understand the technology. If Grandma thinks the computer is magic, that's understandable. Someone who was born in 1996 should know better.
I wouldn't say she "deserves" to lose her data, but she really should know better.
Consider the financial meltdown for a moment. Do you realize that NO ONE has gone to jail for that? Nobody. Nada
Don't forget torture, warrantless wiretapping, abuse of National Security Letters, and so on. The powerful regularly get away with massive crimes. The American legal system exists only to protect them from us.
Alcohol is convenient and safe, but hardly the most effective way to clean your cartridge. It's not terribly good at getting up any non-polar residue that may be on the contacts. Use contact cleaner/TV tuner cleaner for most cartridges, for tough ones use a metal polish.
Don't worry. The Supreme Court will be back to their old tricks again in Al Kidd v Ashcroft. They may throw us a bone once in a while, but don't think for a second that they are on our side.
You're going to dig for info on their union-busting, but you're going to be very embarrassed if you find out that the Obama administration was in bed with these scumbags on some other sleazy project(s) that come up too.
If Obama has unclean hands he deserves whatever he gets.
In reality, this is nothing but empty sabre rattling.
It's easier for MS to take a hands-off approach, as the end result sells hardware and has no impact on the XBOX360's platform security, whereas on the PS3 it is a direct attack on the platform's ability to keep the closed environment that publishers demand.
I agree that this hack isn't really relevant to Sony's actions, but the Xbox360 has been cracked wide open for some time. Microsoft has handled this much better than Sony.
No ISP should interfere with video traffic on its network. By singling out these prohibitions against Comcast, there is implicit permission for other companies to block video traffic. That is bad. If there were sufficient protections for network neutrality, there would be no need for these prohibitions in the Comcast merger at all.
The guy in question is actually a very reasonable person. He was a CIA analyst for 25 years and advisor to the first President Bush. He's not any more a nutjob than Hillary Clinton is.
The entire thing was captured on video, and reported in many non-mainstream news sources. The mainstream media will of course not report on anything that conflicts with the narrative the government puts forth.
If events did not transpire as described, you could find at least one report saying so. There is no evidence otherwise, so the media simply doesn't acknowledge it happened.
If you're worried about a one-sided account, there's half a dozen mainstream news channels with professional reporters who could shed light on the issue. Not one of them has chosen to do so.
The US government only cares about the right of the people to express dissent against foreign leaders they disapprove of. In fact, no more than a month after Hillary Clinton gave that speech, she gave another address condemning foreign governments for silencing dissent. During that speech, Army veteran and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern turned his back. For that silent, peaceful, non-disruptive act he was dragged from the room and assaulted.
This is the definition of hypocrisy. Hillary Clinton witnessed the scene happening directly in front of her and never said a word. These are the kind of people we have leading America today.
There's nothing OCD about immediately emptying the recycle bin after you delete something. The point of deleting something is to free up drive space. If it just sits in the trash can, taking up drive space. There is no point to this, just fucking delete it and reclaim that space.
What's OCD is the people who delete something and want to keep it around forever. That's hoarding, learn to let go.
When you're talking about government officials, corruption is always the most plausible explanation. Even the ones who are honest themselves are corrupted by way of honestly following a corrupt system.
KQV is already VGA, which is the standard they target with these remakes. It's also the last time Sierra adventure games had a coherent style. After KQVI (which was on the same engine as V), KQVII went to hand drawn FMV animation. KQVIII was a 3rd person 3d action adventure game (and sucked horribly). Other franchises like Gabriel Knight tried live action FMV, or attempted to shoehorn the point and click formula into 3d. None of these really make good models for an updated KQV.
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I apologize for the double negative.
The point is that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Do you not think that there wouldn't be significant support for putting Muslims in internment camps? When we have elected officials participating in racist displays such as this, I wouldn't put anything past them.
Sedition hasn't been used against speech since the 60s, because the military industrial complex hasn't been seriously challenged since the 60s. When a serious movement for peace and freedom appears, you can bet your ass that they'll be up to their old tricks again.
I wasn't clear enough. Encouraging people to engage in specific acts of Civil Disobedience, such as "Tonight, we hold the Wisconsin Capitol at all costs" must be protected speech in any free country.
If your speech isn't directly causing other crimes to be broken, it's probably protected.
Encouraging others to engage in Civil Disobedience is directly encouraging laws to be broken. This MUST be protected speech in any free society.
What if the "crime" is sedition? If the British government could have obtained the identities of Publius, where would we be today? Isn't it hypocritical for a government to pass laws that would have made its very existence impossible?
If she grew up in the internet age, she has no excuse not to understand the technology. If Grandma thinks the computer is magic, that's understandable. Someone who was born in 1996 should know better.
I wouldn't say she "deserves" to lose her data, but she really should know better.
Consider the financial meltdown for a moment. Do you realize that NO ONE has gone to jail for that? Nobody. Nada
Don't forget torture, warrantless wiretapping, abuse of National Security Letters, and so on. The powerful regularly get away with massive crimes. The American legal system exists only to protect them from us.
Popular support is a component of democracy but it's not enough to decide the fairness of laws.
Popular support is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for just laws.
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Rules are made for a reason. He knew the rules. He did the crime, and he's going to do the time.
As long as those in power claim to be above the law, that argument holds absolutely no water whatsoever.
Alcohol is convenient and safe, but hardly the most effective way to clean your cartridge. It's not terribly good at getting up any non-polar residue that may be on the contacts. Use contact cleaner/TV tuner cleaner for most cartridges, for tough ones use a metal polish.
I very rarely have the time to do this, and in many cases the people paying me have expressly forbid wasting time with dumb users.
Good for them! If someone is too stupid to use a computer that is their problem, the rest of us should not have to deal with it.
Don't worry. The Supreme Court will be back to their old tricks again in Al Kidd v Ashcroft. They may throw us a bone once in a while, but don't think for a second that they are on our side.
You're going to dig for info on their union-busting, but you're going to be very embarrassed if you find out that the Obama administration was in bed with these scumbags on some other sleazy project(s) that come up too.
If Obama has unclean hands he deserves whatever he gets.
In reality, this is nothing but empty sabre rattling.
Deleting a file should tell the OS that I don't need that data. That's what deleting is.
It's easier for MS to take a hands-off approach, as the end result sells hardware and has no impact on the XBOX360's platform security, whereas on the PS3 it is a direct attack on the platform's ability to keep the closed environment that publishers demand.
I agree that this hack isn't really relevant to Sony's actions, but the Xbox360 has been cracked wide open for some time. Microsoft has handled this much better than Sony.
No ISP should interfere with video traffic on its network. By singling out these prohibitions against Comcast, there is implicit permission for other companies to block video traffic. That is bad. If there were sufficient protections for network neutrality, there would be no need for these prohibitions in the Comcast merger at all.
The phrase "Comcast can't interfere with Internet video traffic flowing over its broadband network." Sounds pretty universal to me.
Really? To me it sounds like it applies only to Comcast.
The guy in question is actually a very reasonable person. He was a CIA analyst for 25 years and advisor to the first President Bush. He's not any more a nutjob than Hillary Clinton is.
The entire thing was captured on video, and reported in many non-mainstream news sources. The mainstream media will of course not report on anything that conflicts with the narrative the government puts forth.
If events did not transpire as described, you could find at least one report saying so. There is no evidence otherwise, so the media simply doesn't acknowledge it happened.
If you're worried about a one-sided account, there's half a dozen mainstream news channels with professional reporters who could shed light on the issue. Not one of them has chosen to do so.
The US government only cares about the right of the people to express dissent against foreign leaders they disapprove of. In fact, no more than a month after Hillary Clinton gave that speech, she gave another address condemning foreign governments for silencing dissent. During that speech, Army veteran and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern turned his back. For that silent, peaceful, non-disruptive act he was dragged from the room and assaulted.
This is the definition of hypocrisy. Hillary Clinton witnessed the scene happening directly in front of her and never said a word. These are the kind of people we have leading America today.
There's nothing OCD about immediately emptying the recycle bin after you delete something. The point of deleting something is to free up drive space. If it just sits in the trash can, taking up drive space. There is no point to this, just fucking delete it and reclaim that space.
What's OCD is the people who delete something and want to keep it around forever. That's hoarding, learn to let go.
No, thinking before you delete is a good habit to get into. When I hit delete, I mean delete. The computer should comply.
When you're talking about government officials, corruption is always the most plausible explanation. Even the ones who are honest themselves are corrupted by way of honestly following a corrupt system.
KQV is already VGA, which is the standard they target with these remakes. It's also the last time Sierra adventure games had a coherent style. After KQVI (which was on the same engine as V), KQVII went to hand drawn FMV animation. KQVIII was a 3rd person 3d action adventure game (and sucked horribly). Other franchises like Gabriel Knight tried live action FMV, or attempted to shoehorn the point and click formula into 3d. None of these really make good models for an updated KQV.
Really? It's easily the best of the text-parser games, but IMO surpassed by KQ V and VI. And I generally prefer the text parser for Sierra games.