I guess, I think people should be held accountable for their actions regardless of the circumstances, and not because of them.
Meaning that if someone is drinking and driving or texting and driving, or talking to their wife and driving, and they get into an accident and kill someone, the punishment should be the same.
You and I both may think the person texting and driving is an a$$hole, but in a free society, that person has that right. Now if they get into an accident, it is a different situation. They should be held accountable. Freedom means that individuals must be held responsible for their actions. However it is not up to the state to baby everyone, and tell people how to behave.
There are millions of distractions on the road every hour. Are you going to make them illegal. In some ways engaging in a heated conversation when you are driving is just as distracting, if not more then texting. Come to thing of it, driving is inherently dangerous. Maybe we should keep people from doing that too. It is just a matter of how far you are willing to go to legislate 'good behaviour'
In a free society, shouldn't people be allowed to buy snake oil if they choose to. More importantly, why is a state that is trying to protect the population from the likes of 'Kevin Trudeau' and at the same be peddling lottery tickets to those who are bad at math?
That was one of the premises of hitler's 'Mein Kampf'. Govt. should focus on one clearly defined set of goals, and then move onto the next. If you throw too many things at public at one time, the masses will get confused and not know what to do. 8-)
In the U.S, President Obama's case, he is trying to set up a system where nobody has to worry about getting sick and possibly dieing ever, and in Israel they are tackling to popcorn crisis.
I think this is flame bate (God I hope it is), but I will bite.
People in U.S. of A used to be able to get away with this wild reckless kind of behavior. I remember traveling in the bed of a pickup, riding a bicycle w/o a safety helmet, and drinking water straight from the garden hose totally oblivious to saliva borne pathogens deposited by the kid before me. Those crazy days are gone forever. Now that we are growing up, and becoming a more civilized society, I realize that my parents subjected me to child endangerment. They should also be arrested. Think of the children.
In the more civilized world, people should be prevented from making dangerous choices, for themselves, and those around them. Back in the crazy days we did reckless things like send space ships to the moon, or travel on wooden ships that had in no way passed a Coast Guard safety inspection. Now we wory about unauthorized texting, or someone not spending every single ounce of attention to driving on roads that are backed up for miles with traffic jams.
Well, at least we have a president that realizes the dangers that we face. He will wrap us up in a comfortable safety net of subsidized health care. This way noone will be injured or die. If the crazy individualists still insist on endangering themselves and the families (think of the children) by not buying into the program they should be jailed.
Actually, now that I think of it jail is the solution to our problems. 1% of the population incarcerated. I think we can do better America. We can do 10%. By providing free room and board for those eviceted in the housing crises, America will be fulfilling its social contract to help those in need, and looking after their safety at the same time. I mean you would not let a stray dog just run around will-nilly on the streat. Why should you let a person?
-America. -Land of the free and home of the brave.
After reading the article, I can only be outraged by Maria Elena Tostado, the administrator who let political expediency outweigh academic legitimacy.I guess the lesson, we should learn from this is that evil wins. I can think of dozens of examples from my own life where the dogs have won.
The only lesson, that I can learn from this affair, is that we need more guns in schools.
Actually, my Kindle has increased my reading dramatically. Now that I have thousands of public domain e-texts at my disposal, I have brushed up on early American history (Benjamin Franklin) and Marry Shelly. I would never have been acquainted with these authors, unless the Kindle had been invented. So I thank Amazon for doing a little be to better my literacy, and make my world a little less barren.
As for your point about people willingly entertaining themselves to death; If lawyers can sue Mc. Donald's for making hot coffee, why can't we hold the cable TV corporations for retarding a generation.
Copyrights are a detriment to human progress. When Benjamen Franklin and others created the idea of the public library, it was so that people could free themselves from ignorance and use their new found knowledge to create a better life for themselves and posterity. Now in the year 2010, that dream dream of free knowledge for freedoms sake is very very sick. In the USA, libraries are shutting down earlier and earlier, and the masses are kept satiated with a steady supply of pointless entertainment, and meaningless work. Copyright "rights holders" want to keep you in ignorance and beholden to them for knowledge.
However there is hope on the horizon. Thanks to the up-coming and inevitable e-book revolution, the written word will be free from the printed page, and those that would control those pages. Let us burn down the publishing houses, and give a Kindle to every man, women and child. Those that want to make a living of the work and sweat of others e.g. Publishing houses, the Author's guild, and the descendants of the writers who still want to be Paid 70 plus years after the actual author's body has been eaten by worms should find themselves dead in the street.
Ursula Le Guin did some good work in her day. We should respect Ms. Guin, like we respect a slightly senile and kindly Grandma, but we should not let our lives by run by your old grandparents.
-Strike a blow for freedom today, by downloading an illegal e-book today and reading it.
I think we need guidance too. Case in point the financial crisis. At one time Americans would have had enough horse sense to realize they need to work hard, and live humbly in order to survive and produce a strong vibrant economy.
Now we sit around all day watching MTV, and wondering why the government does not help us with health care. If we could get someone like Pat Roberston to convince Americans that MTV is the work of the devil, and that unless their children do well in Calculus and take LOTS of physics courses they are going to HELL, the USA would be a lot better off.
I some senses the United States is going to hell because we have foresaken basic education. Sure it is a hell of our own doing, and we have no further to look then the Mirror to see the devil. But on some level, Hell, and the Devil are nevertheless very very real.
It is easy to flippantly ridicule a comment like this. However if you actually take the time to THINK about it for a little while, it may not be so crazy after all.
For the past three hundred years Hati has been in a precarious situation. However, right next door, the Domican Republic , things are much better off. Why?
If you are unwilling to accept that it is in fact the work of the DEVIL, there are two options:
1) The blacks in Haiti are naturally inferior, and incapable of governing themselves.
2) The world for the past three hundred years has waged a continuous and systematic crusade against the blacks in Haiti in response to the overthrow of the French rulers 300 years ago.
If you believe the 2nd, you must also believe there is an organization to carry out this task. Hence you believe a shadowy illuminate exists controlling the affairs of nations. This is pretty insane if you ask me. It also makes a nation weak by blaming all the difficulties on others and not accepting responsibility yourself. If you believe the 1st option, you are a racist. Noone likes racists.
However if you just blame it on the devil, you have assigned a nations ills to ONE cause that the nation can rally behind and fight. By claiming that the Devil made Haitians deforest half their country in order to make charcoal, or that the Devil make the politicians corrupt and self interested, you are facing the problem head on. Religion was created to force people who have no natural proclivity 'to do the right thing', onto the path of the straight and narrow. By blaming the counties ills on sins, you are encouraging the Haitians not to Sin. This is a good thing. We need Christian fundumentalists to come into the country, take it over, and root out the Devil from every rock and cranny that he might be hiding under.
Not all the stations are going offline immediately. The station in Attu will stay online for another 5 months I believe, because they act as secondary chains to the ones in Russia.
It is interesting that Russia is keeping their chain online, whereas we are giving up ours. I guess it is just a sign that our empire is in decline.
This brings up an interesting question. What happens when we do abandon Attu. Right now there are only 20 people on the whole island. Attu is way outside of TTW. The mineral rights alone might be worth fighting over. I hereby offer my services to the united states to homestead, and create a permanent U.S. presence on the island. Ahh. I come cheap, and do not need all the supplies and logistics that the current Coasties are needing.
Actually the process has been going on for a LONG time. Slashdot readers are just finding out about it now because they are not 'in the know', and the DHS likes to play things close to the hip. There is such a thing as For Official Use Only. Just because the tax payers are footing the bill does not mean that they actually have any right to know what is going on in their Coast Guard.
Here is the whole story. LORAN has been kept online until now because it provides a cost effective backup to GPS. The entire LORAN constellation can be kept up for much less then the price of 1 satellite, if someone should decide to take it out. GPS can be jammed fairly effectively. There are plenty of plans on the internet to do just that. My favorite one has a GPS jammers attached to a balloon that travels overhead. Thankfully our enemies are not very creative. LORAN uses a 1 MW Medium Frequency transmitters that are much harder (or would require much more power) to jam.
The chain is being taken down because, President Obama needs a token cost cutting measure to give to the U.S. public in face of a massive budget increase. I am for saving money, but he is going about it in a misguided manner. The major cost from LORAN is not the equipment. It is the people you have to pay to staff LORAN stations in far off places like Attu. The problem is that he is not getting rid of these people. These people whose sole job is to take care of LORAN are being transfered into other jobs in the Coast Guard where they were not needed before, and are not needed now. There are about 100 individuals. If we could fire these individuals due to needs of the service, we could really save some money.
Slashdot Mirror
OK. Why is the state, and it's publicly funded prosecutor going after Trudeau.
I guess, I think people should be held accountable for their actions regardless of the circumstances, and not because of them.
Meaning that if someone is drinking and driving or texting and driving, or talking to their wife and driving, and they get into an accident and kill someone, the punishment should be the same.
You and I both may think the person texting and driving is an a$$hole, but in a free society, that person has that right. Now if they get into an accident, it is a different situation. They should be held accountable. Freedom means that individuals must be held responsible for their actions. However it is not up to the state to baby everyone, and tell people how to behave.
There are millions of distractions on the road every hour. Are you going to make them illegal. In some ways engaging in a heated conversation when you are driving is just as distracting, if not more then texting. Come to thing of it, driving is inherently dangerous. Maybe we should keep people from doing that too. It is just a matter of how far you are willing to go to legislate 'good behaviour'
-Regards
In a free society, shouldn't people be allowed to buy snake oil if they choose to. More importantly, why is a state that is trying to protect the population from the likes of 'Kevin Trudeau' and at the same be peddling lottery tickets to those who are bad at math?
Just Curious
That was one of the premises of hitler's 'Mein Kampf'. Govt. should focus on one clearly defined set of goals, and then move onto the next. If you throw too many things at public at one time, the masses will get confused and not know what to do. 8-)
In the U.S, President Obama's case, he is trying to set up a system where nobody has to worry about getting sick and possibly dieing ever, and in Israel they are tackling to popcorn crisis.
I think this is flame bate (God I hope it is), but I will bite.
People in U.S. of A used to be able to get away with this wild reckless kind of behavior. I remember traveling in the bed of a pickup, riding a bicycle w/o a safety helmet, and drinking water straight from the garden hose totally oblivious to saliva borne pathogens deposited by the kid before me. Those crazy days are gone forever. Now that we are growing up, and becoming a more civilized society, I realize that my parents subjected me to child endangerment. They should also be arrested. Think of the children.
In the more civilized world, people should be prevented from making dangerous choices, for themselves, and those around them. Back in the crazy days we did reckless things like send space ships to the moon, or travel on wooden ships that had in no way passed a Coast Guard safety inspection. Now we wory about unauthorized texting, or someone not spending every single ounce of attention to driving on roads that are backed up for miles with traffic jams.
Well, at least we have a president that realizes the dangers that we face. He will wrap us up in a comfortable safety net of subsidized health care. This way noone will be injured or die. If the crazy individualists still insist on endangering themselves and the families (think of the children) by not buying into the program they should be jailed.
Actually, now that I think of it jail is the solution to our problems. 1% of the population incarcerated. I think we can do better America. We can do 10%.
By providing free room and board for those eviceted in the housing crises, America will be fulfilling its social contract to help those in need, and looking after their safety at the same time. I mean you would not let a stray dog just run around will-nilly on the streat. Why should you let a person?
-America.
-Land of the free and home of the brave.
After reading the article, I can only be outraged by Maria Elena Tostado, the administrator who let political expediency outweigh academic legitimacy.I guess the lesson, we should learn from this is that evil wins. I can think of dozens of examples from my own life where the dogs have won.
The only lesson, that I can learn from this affair, is that we need more guns in schools.
-Regards.
But I'm sure NASA knows what they're doing...
-Famous Last Words
So, you mean that Uncle Jed, the Pig Fu&*er is on the cutting edge of genetic evolution, and ensuring plenty of 'horizontal gene transfer'?
Actually, my Kindle has increased my reading dramatically. Now that I have thousands of public domain e-texts at my disposal, I have brushed up on early American history (Benjamin Franklin) and Marry Shelly. I would never have been acquainted with these authors, unless the Kindle had been invented. So I thank Amazon for doing a little be to better my literacy, and make my world a little less barren.
As for your point about people willingly entertaining themselves to death;
If lawyers can sue Mc. Donald's for making hot coffee, why can't we hold the cable TV corporations for retarding a generation.
-Regards
Copyrights are a detriment to human progress. When Benjamen Franklin and others created the idea of the public library, it was so that people could free themselves from ignorance and use their new found knowledge to create a better life for themselves and posterity. Now in the year 2010, that dream dream of free knowledge for freedoms sake is very very sick. In the USA, libraries are shutting down earlier and earlier, and the masses are kept satiated with a steady supply of pointless entertainment, and meaningless work. Copyright "rights holders" want to keep you in ignorance and beholden to them for knowledge.
However there is hope on the horizon. Thanks to the up-coming and inevitable e-book revolution, the written word will be free from the printed page, and those that would control those pages. Let us burn down the publishing houses, and give a Kindle to every man, women and child. Those that want to make a living of the work and sweat of others e.g. Publishing houses, the Author's guild, and the descendants of the writers who still want to be Paid 70 plus years after the actual author's body has been eaten by worms should find themselves dead in the street.
Ursula Le Guin did some good work in her day. We should respect Ms. Guin, like we respect a slightly senile and kindly Grandma, but we should not let our lives by run by your old grandparents.
-Strike a blow for freedom today, by downloading an illegal e-book today and reading it.
I think we need guidance too. Case in point the financial crisis. At one time Americans would have had enough horse sense to realize they need to work hard, and live humbly in order to survive and produce a strong vibrant economy. Now we sit around all day watching MTV, and wondering why the government does not help us with health care. If we could get someone like Pat Roberston to convince Americans that MTV is the work of the devil, and that unless their children do well in Calculus and take LOTS of physics courses they are going to HELL, the USA would be a lot better off. I some senses the United States is going to hell because we have foresaken basic education. Sure it is a hell of our own doing, and we have no further to look then the Mirror to see the devil. But on some level, Hell, and the Devil are nevertheless very very real.
It is easy to flippantly ridicule a comment like this. However if you actually take the time to THINK about it for a little while, it may not be so crazy after all. For the past three hundred years Hati has been in a precarious situation. However, right next door, the Domican Republic , things are much better off. Why? If you are unwilling to accept that it is in fact the work of the DEVIL, there are two options: 1) The blacks in Haiti are naturally inferior, and incapable of governing themselves. 2) The world for the past three hundred years has waged a continuous and systematic crusade against the blacks in Haiti in response to the overthrow of the French rulers 300 years ago. If you believe the 2nd, you must also believe there is an organization to carry out this task. Hence you believe a shadowy illuminate exists controlling the affairs of nations. This is pretty insane if you ask me. It also makes a nation weak by blaming all the difficulties on others and not accepting responsibility yourself. If you believe the 1st option, you are a racist. Noone likes racists. However if you just blame it on the devil, you have assigned a nations ills to ONE cause that the nation can rally behind and fight. By claiming that the Devil made Haitians deforest half their country in order to make charcoal, or that the Devil make the politicians corrupt and self interested, you are facing the problem head on. Religion was created to force people who have no natural proclivity 'to do the right thing', onto the path of the straight and narrow. By blaming the counties ills on sins, you are encouraging the Haitians not to Sin. This is a good thing. We need Christian fundumentalists to come into the country, take it over, and root out the Devil from every rock and cranny that he might be hiding under.
The only reason, it would not be is if you believe the corporate news media, who got us into the situation that we are in right now. The only I
Not all the stations are going offline immediately. The station in Attu will stay online for another 5 months I believe, because they act as secondary chains to the ones in Russia. It is interesting that Russia is keeping their chain online, whereas we are giving up ours. I guess it is just a sign that our empire is in decline. This brings up an interesting question. What happens when we do abandon Attu. Right now there are only 20 people on the whole island. Attu is way outside of TTW. The mineral rights alone might be worth fighting over. I hereby offer my services to the united states to homestead, and create a permanent U.S. presence on the island. Ahh. I come cheap, and do not need all the supplies and logistics that the current Coasties are needing.
Actually the process has been going on for a LONG time. Slashdot readers are just finding out about it now because they are not 'in the know', and the DHS likes to play things close to the hip. There is such a thing as For Official Use Only. Just because the tax payers are footing the bill does not mean that they actually have any right to know what is going on in their Coast Guard. Here is the whole story. LORAN has been kept online until now because it provides a cost effective backup to GPS. The entire LORAN constellation can be kept up for much less then the price of 1 satellite, if someone should decide to take it out. GPS can be jammed fairly effectively. There are plenty of plans on the internet to do just that. My favorite one has a GPS jammers attached to a balloon that travels overhead. Thankfully our enemies are not very creative. LORAN uses a 1 MW Medium Frequency transmitters that are much harder (or would require much more power) to jam. The chain is being taken down because, President Obama needs a token cost cutting measure to give to the U.S. public in face of a massive budget increase. I am for saving money, but he is going about it in a misguided manner. The major cost from LORAN is not the equipment. It is the people you have to pay to staff LORAN stations in far off places like Attu. The problem is that he is not getting rid of these people. These people whose sole job is to take care of LORAN are being transfered into other jobs in the Coast Guard where they were not needed before, and are not needed now. There are about 100 individuals. If we could fire these individuals due to needs of the service, we could really save some money.