The issue of a warrant is irrelevant. If my cell phone is encrypted, they can search it all they want, warrant or no warrant, and they won't get anything because it's all encrypted.
When was the last time that the US really screwed up in protecting its economic interests though?
Practically constantly for the past decade. Iraq, Afghanistan, the 2008 financial crisis. We spent a trillion dollars in the first two and got nothing back from it. And we could have saved a trillion dollars in the last one, if we were more focused on domestic criminals rather than projecting military power throughout the world.
As for terrorism, people will want to kill us less if we kill fewer of them. Cutting the military is a win win situation for everyone who doesn't get a boner from killing innocent brown people.
No, you go first. What part of the military wouldn't you cut, and why? Keep in mind that cutting the military by 3/4 we'd still have the largest military budget in the world by a factor of two.
Journalism in the US is atrocious, but Fox news is in a league of its own. The amount of time someone spends watching Fox news is *inversely* correlated with factual answers to questions about current events. Sensationalism is a problem everywhere, but Fox news is pure propaganda.
Abolishing slavery put a lot of people out of business too. I don't weep for them, nor will I weep for anyone put out of business by the abolition of copyright. Profit is not more important than civil rights.
Why would you wear gloves for handling Jalapeños? those are really mild chiles
Exactly what I was going to say. You're going to be putting the peppers directly on a highly senstive mucous membrane, why the hell would you need gloves on your hands?
By holding to that definition, you reject the rule of law in favor of the rule of man. Clearly the Supreme Court is made of fallible humans, and they have made errors in the past. Why even have a Constitution if you believe that what 9 people in robes say about it is more important than what it actually says?
Or they are normal people, without much domain knowledge, forced to handle too many cases in too little time, and fit within the rules of a broken system.
The right thing to do if you're given too many patents to examine is to grant none of them.
but you still in principle are not against taking the movie or novel that my brother put his heart, soul, and financial future into making and giving it away to anybody who wants it, because in your theory he has no particular right to the fruits of such labor because it's bits on a disk instead of, say, a piece of hardware like your the expensive computers and smartphones middle-class users use to view the content, right?
Yes, exactly. Bits on a disk are not scarce. Hardware is scarce. The two are entirely different economic paradigms and it makes no sense to force one to be like the other. The real injustice is in the government trying to subvert basic laws of economics.
As such, this would include second-hand smoke, impaired (or delayed) mental function where concentration is required (such as driving), or other activities which may end up requiring an undue amount of compensation from society to balance out
True, but you have to apply the same analysis to all recreational activities. If you're going to ban Cannabis because it's dangerous, you have to ban all other recreations which are more dangerous than Cannabis. Turns out Cannabis is one of the safest recreations, you're more likely to cause long term brain injury by playing football than smoking cannabis.
I start to wonder if the person isn't compensating for a fundamental life issue that is causing them undue stress that needs to be dealt with.
Possibly, but that's their business and you should mind your own.
i simply thought that sobriety was a trait held in high esteem by society in general, along with kindness, charity, and goodwill.
No, not really. A kind drunk is far preferable to a judgmental teetotaler. Kindness is in itself a virtue. Sobriety is at best loosely associated with virtue.
That's why you apt-get upgrade (or equivalent) frequently. If your OS vendor can't be bothered to patch their packages in a timely fashion, get a different OS.
external binary plugins are much more susceptible to security problems
Who said anything about "external binary plugins"? Use the system PDF viewer. Obviously you trust the system you're using, so why not trust the system PDF viewer?
Granted, this may be part of my lapsed Catholic upbringing, but I was under the impression drinking was considered morally wrong
They may have considered it such, but they were wrong. Not only wrong, but by judging people by the way they have fun they are themselves immoral. Moralizing is immoral. Live and let live.
What would be great is if an SSD controller was smart enough to know which blocks haven't been touched in ages, and move the oldest data to blocks that are reaching their rewrite limit.
It's probably video games themselves that have contributed to the decrease in violence. Those who are prone to violence are attracted to violent media and this keeps them off the streets where violence is more likely to occur.
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The issue of a warrant is irrelevant. If my cell phone is encrypted, they can search it all they want, warrant or no warrant, and they won't get anything because it's all encrypted.
So what exactly is gonna differentiate this from a mid-level to high-end gaming rig?
It will run what Sony wants it to run and nothing else.
Cut the military, and put all the savings into science. Science provides the best ROI of any economic activity.
When was the last time that the US really screwed up in protecting its economic interests though?
Practically constantly for the past decade. Iraq, Afghanistan, the 2008 financial crisis. We spent a trillion dollars in the first two and got nothing back from it. And we could have saved a trillion dollars in the last one, if we were more focused on domestic criminals rather than projecting military power throughout the world.
As for terrorism, people will want to kill us less if we kill fewer of them. Cutting the military is a win win situation for everyone who doesn't get a boner from killing innocent brown people.
No, you go first. What part of the military wouldn't you cut, and why? Keep in mind that cutting the military by 3/4 we'd still have the largest military budget in the world by a factor of two.
Journalism in the US is atrocious, but Fox news is in a league of its own. The amount of time someone spends watching Fox news is *inversely* correlated with factual answers to questions about current events. Sensationalism is a problem everywhere, but Fox news is pure propaganda.
Anyway, in case it is genuine: Somebody has been freeloading, so what?
Ask yourself, why would someone go to such great lengths to use someone else's bandwidth?
Refusing to issue patents you cannot properly examine is the only way to take the job seriously.
Abolishing slavery put a lot of people out of business too. I don't weep for them, nor will I weep for anyone put out of business by the abolition of copyright. Profit is not more important than civil rights.
I was referring to your mouth. And wash your hands when you're done chopping.
Why would you wear gloves for handling Jalapeños? those are really mild chiles
Exactly what I was going to say. You're going to be putting the peppers directly on a highly senstive mucous membrane, why the hell would you need gloves on your hands?
By holding to that definition, you reject the rule of law in favor of the rule of man. Clearly the Supreme Court is made of fallible humans, and they have made errors in the past. Why even have a Constitution if you believe that what 9 people in robes say about it is more important than what it actually says?
Or they are normal people, without much domain knowledge, forced to handle too many cases in too little time, and fit within the rules of a broken system.
The right thing to do if you're given too many patents to examine is to grant none of them.
The Supreme Court cannot 'reach a ruling in contradiction with the law'.
Sure they can. Who is going to stop them?
Reach a ruling that is in contradiction to the law as written. Being the Supreme Court this is not really a appealing option
Really? That never stopped the SCOTUS.
but you still in principle are not against taking the movie or novel that my brother put his heart, soul, and financial future into making and giving it away to anybody who wants it, because in your theory he has no particular right to the fruits of such labor because it's bits on a disk instead of, say, a piece of hardware like your the expensive computers and smartphones middle-class users use to view the content, right?
Yes, exactly. Bits on a disk are not scarce. Hardware is scarce. The two are entirely different economic paradigms and it makes no sense to force one to be like the other. The real injustice is in the government trying to subvert basic laws of economics.
As such, this would include second-hand smoke, impaired (or delayed) mental function where concentration is required (such as driving), or other activities which may end up requiring an undue amount of compensation from society to balance out
True, but you have to apply the same analysis to all recreational activities. If you're going to ban Cannabis because it's dangerous, you have to ban all other recreations which are more dangerous than Cannabis. Turns out Cannabis is one of the safest recreations, you're more likely to cause long term brain injury by playing football than smoking cannabis.
I start to wonder if the person isn't compensating for a fundamental life issue that is causing them undue stress that needs to be dealt with.
Possibly, but that's their business and you should mind your own.
i simply thought that sobriety was a trait held in high esteem by society in general, along with kindness, charity, and goodwill.
No, not really. A kind drunk is far preferable to a judgmental teetotaler. Kindness is in itself a virtue. Sobriety is at best loosely associated with virtue.
That's why you apt-get upgrade (or equivalent) frequently. If your OS vendor can't be bothered to patch their packages in a timely fashion, get a different OS.
external binary plugins are much more susceptible to security problems
Who said anything about "external binary plugins"? Use the system PDF viewer. Obviously you trust the system you're using, so why not trust the system PDF viewer?
That's what CUPS-PDF is for. Any application that can print, can print to PDF with CUPS.
Granted, this may be part of my lapsed Catholic upbringing, but I was under the impression drinking was considered morally wrong
They may have considered it such, but they were wrong. Not only wrong, but by judging people by the way they have fun they are themselves immoral. Moralizing is immoral. Live and let live.
By that argument, football, motorcycle riding, or hell, failing to put on sunscreen would also be immoral.
If that's the case, they should enforce it at the controller and advertise the usable space, not the maximum.
What would be great is if an SSD controller was smart enough to know which blocks haven't been touched in ages, and move the oldest data to blocks that are reaching their rewrite limit.
It's probably video games themselves that have contributed to the decrease in violence. Those who are prone to violence are attracted to violent media and this keeps them off the streets where violence is more likely to occur.