Where have his rights under the Uniform Code of Military Justice been violated? He hasn't been tried yet, so where, precisely, has his right to a fair trial been violated?
"There is a steady stream of "$PERSON$ loses job/house, kills family, self, occasionally neighbors and/or a cop or two" stories in the US."
The US is vast, has hundreds of millions of citizens, and with those odds there will ALWAYS be delectable, mediagenic tragedy to sell the public.
Revenge? Americans are sheep. Europeans too, though the example of Alfred Herrhausen shows how vulnerable even protected persons are to attack (and the method, if used with a modern EFP lens design encased in the usual pipe, is far from obsolete).
"Probably they will be in an encrypted password vault, dozens of which are available for Android or iPhone."
Mine will be unused.
"Your credit cards will be moving to the phone. Tap to pay terminals are springing up everywhere. Near Field Communication chips are being introduced into cell phones. They are already HUGE in Japan."
I give a shit what is HUGE in Japan?
"You will still need to password enable payment, but you won't be carrying a wallet full of risky credit cards in the future."
I don't carry a wallet full of risky credit cards NOW. One card, that's it. No debit cards, which I will not have.
"And those digital car keys? The rush to push button ignition is just to prep you for that being triggered by the presence of your phone as well."
I'm a mechanic. If my old PATS system annoys me the PCM will be flashed with a "PATS delete", No problem
"Its all going into the phone, my friend, so get use to it."
I welcome other folks getting used to it. I spent my life learning how to make most of the tech I use serve me and see no reason to stop.
"The Amish won't use Electricity. Don't be that guy."
Blind technophilia/= "Amish".
One may choose from a wide variety of tech in ones personal life, Amish tech or computing tech any anything in-between.
It's all about "serving me". MY convenience, MY wants, not the wants of marketroids. OTHER people exist for them to fuck, which is fine with me.
"This is serious stuff and I believe the majority of people who get hit by cars were not stupid and not doing the wrong thing."
The vast majority of pedestrians and cyclists I've seen in decades of commuting wear dark clothing (= low vis at dawn and dusk) and don't use crosswalks. They aren't smart enough to walk AWAY from the road, and since being carless is generally a result of losing your license for being a drunk, the sort that get killed in my area tend to aid the process by wandering where they'll get squashed. Mopeds especially are used by drunks (fair enough since they shouldn't be driving anything heavy!) and being a small mobile obstacle with poor lighting they get drilled fairly often.
Roads are for MOTOR vehicles in practice. Bicycling is recreation, not transportation. Riding one is basically suicidal in much of the US where it will NEVER (sorry, NEVER) be worth the vast investment to widen the roads and most distances are too far for practical biking.
BTW I grew up in urban New Jersey and never knew anyone who got hit as a pedestrian. The accepted rules:
Stay the fuck off the road. Look before you cross so nothing is close enough to be ABLE to hit you. Run across the street or walk VERY briskly. If walking by the road, try to stay outside guardrails etc.
As we taught our motorcycle safety classes, it doesn't matter if you are in the "right", it matters that you don't contribute through action or inaction to getting hit!
"Forcing students to memorize the proper spelling of words is often ineffective, and teaching students to use the goddamn spellcheck would prevent far more errors."
That which you cannot spell, you may not be able to read.
Employers should use literacy tests to sort wheat from chaff.
"But there is a difference between the attention of your neighbors, with whom you have some kind of dynamic relationship, and the whole rest of the world, over whom you have no influence, social or direct."
Most sex crimes are commited by people who know the victim.
"The same technology that is used to give a decent bidet clean and check the urine for problems can be easily used as evidence for job termination, or even probable cause for search warrants should it find certain chemicals in the pee stream."
"Why stop there? Lets get each of them a limo and a call girl too."
Too bad we can't use limos as they are cheaper than MRAPs...
In my day we paid for whores out of pocket, but now the UCMJ for no reason other than to pander (pun intended) to Bible Thumpers and Feminazis says that's illegal. It would be fair if they did fund brothels in compensation.:)
If they have any sense, they take the money, they use it, and then seek ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION with the money they would have spent on university after reading their contract to determine exceptions.
For example:
Obtain monies.
Blow on booze and hookers.
Join military (free education afterwards for teh win) and do a full career, retiring before 50 and free to play.
"When can we start seeing attempts to cleave these AGE molecules in-vivo in humans? I want to live longer. Just like some people want to see other planets, I want to see more time."
Slashdot Mirror
"What does it take to get a government of the people, for the people, and by the people in today's world?"
Periodic killing of degenerate governments and the people who support them.
In politics as in nature, death is useful to species adaptation and removes obstacles.
You mention Private Manning. Citation needed.
Where have his rights under the Uniform Code of Military Justice been violated? He hasn't been tried yet, so where, precisely, has his right to a fair trial been violated?
Have some UCMJ:
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm
"There is a steady stream of "$PERSON$ loses job/house, kills family, self, occasionally neighbors and/or a cop or two" stories in the US."
The US is vast, has hundreds of millions of citizens, and with those odds there will ALWAYS be delectable, mediagenic tragedy to sell the public.
Revenge? Americans are sheep. Europeans too, though the example of Alfred Herrhausen shows how vulnerable even protected persons are to attack (and the method, if used with a modern EFP lens design encased in the usual pipe, is far from obsolete).
"Meanwhile, many other Linux distros have been shipping on ARM devices since before Ubuntu was a distribution."
I thought Linux was a derivative of Ubuntu! (runs)
"But the crux of the matter was, the simpler the approximation, the more we could associate ourselves in that role,"
Peanuts. Calvin and Hobbes, xkcd.
"A linear induction motor is not a railgun. "
Except when trolling for page hits. :)
"Well you will. So get used to it."
Asserted conclusions /= proof.
"Probably they will be in an encrypted password vault, dozens of which are available for Android or iPhone."
Mine will be unused.
"Your credit cards will be moving to the phone. Tap to pay terminals are springing up everywhere. Near Field Communication chips are being introduced into cell phones. They are already HUGE in Japan."
I give a shit what is HUGE in Japan?
"You will still need to password enable payment, but you won't be carrying a wallet full of risky credit cards in the future."
I don't carry a wallet full of risky credit cards NOW. One card, that's it. No debit cards, which I will not have.
"And those digital car keys? The rush to push button ignition is just to prep you for that being triggered by the presence of your phone as well."
I'm a mechanic. If my old PATS system annoys me the PCM will be flashed with a "PATS delete", No problem
"Its all going into the phone, my friend, so get use to it."
I welcome other folks getting used to it. I spent my life learning how to make most of the tech I use serve me and see no reason to stop.
"The Amish won't use Electricity. Don't be that guy."
Blind technophilia /= "Amish".
One may choose from a wide variety of tech in ones personal life, Amish tech or computing tech any anything in-between.
It's all about "serving me". MY convenience, MY wants, not the wants of marketroids. OTHER people exist for them to fuck, which is fine with me.
"...and passwords for your bank, online stores, Google (Docs (where you're writing your half-finished novel))..."
That sort of fuckup could be regarded as "LARTing by events". I don't leave passwords or important work on my phone. Ever.
"hunter-gatherer societies only worked a couple of days a week."
Go live that way then tell us how it (actually) works out!
"This is serious stuff and I believe the majority of people who get hit by cars were not stupid and not doing the wrong thing."
The vast majority of pedestrians and cyclists I've seen in decades of commuting wear dark clothing (= low vis at dawn and dusk) and don't use crosswalks. They aren't smart enough to walk AWAY from the road, and since being carless is generally a result of losing your license for being a drunk, the sort that get killed in my area tend to aid the process by wandering where they'll get squashed. Mopeds especially are used by drunks (fair enough since they shouldn't be driving anything heavy!) and being a small mobile obstacle with poor lighting they get drilled fairly often.
Roads are for MOTOR vehicles in practice. Bicycling is recreation, not transportation. Riding one is basically suicidal in much of the US where it will NEVER (sorry, NEVER) be worth the vast investment to widen the roads and most distances are too far for practical biking.
BTW I grew up in urban New Jersey and never knew anyone who got hit as a pedestrian. The accepted rules:
Stay the fuck off the road. Look before you cross so nothing is close enough to be ABLE to hit you. Run across the street or walk VERY briskly. If walking by the road, try to stay outside guardrails etc.
As we taught our motorcycle safety classes, it doesn't matter if you are in the "right", it matters that you don't contribute through action or inaction to getting hit!
"Forcing students to memorize the proper spelling of words is often ineffective, and teaching students to use the goddamn spellcheck would prevent far more errors."
That which you cannot spell, you may not be able to read.
Employers should use literacy tests to sort wheat from chaff.
Using it makes you look fucking ancient. "Grok" was in fashion a LONG time ago. Time to let it go.
"But there is a difference between the attention of your neighbors, with whom you have some kind of dynamic relationship, and the whole rest of the world, over whom you have no influence, social or direct."
Most sex crimes are commited by people who know the victim.
Given the burden of the many ad-ons I run, I'm not sure which is fucking up, the browser or the add-ons.
One nice thing about running 8GB RAM on a 32-bit system with PAE enabled is that when FF gobbles memory it maxes out at 4GB!
I'll keep it for the add-ons. RAM is cheap.
"They practically encouraged people to pirate Windows in the 3.x days."
It worked superbly with Office 97 etc.
If you want to catch fish, throw some chum before the bait with the hook in it. :)
"The same technology that is used to give a decent bidet clean and check the urine for problems can be easily used as evidence for job termination, or even probable cause for search warrants should it find certain chemicals in the pee stream."
Better put one in the sink then. :)
The Gulf War is ancient history, and the Patriot missiles and tracking systems have had a couple decades to mature.
To give an idea of the timeline, someone who enlisted during Desert Shield could be retired by now.
"Why stop there? Lets get each of them a limo and a call girl too."
Too bad we can't use limos as they are cheaper than MRAPs...
In my day we paid for whores out of pocket, but now the UCMJ for no reason other than to pander (pun intended) to Bible Thumpers and Feminazis says that's illegal. It would be fair if they did fund brothels in compensation. :)
"Posted as AC so as to not incur the wrath of the Linux Youth."
Not posted AC.
Piss on the Linux Youth. They do for Linux adoption what pedo priests do for Catholic recruiting.
I can't wait until they become the BSD Youth and someone else has the benefit of their enlightened advocacy. :P
"Apparently not accepted for humans in captivity...good news for those of you still living in mom's basement."
That's not captivity, that's sweet, nay, exquisite, voluntary submission.
"and forget that for each Zuckerberg there are hundreds of dropouts that are desperately seeking jobs at Burger King. "
There are plenty of GRADUATES holding those jobs already, making it difficult for dropouts to enter the workforce.
Stay in school, kids. The deep fryer beckons!
"You just looked at ASCII Child porn. You should be ashamed of yourself."
ASCIICP NAO!
If they have any sense, they take the money, they use it, and then seek ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION with the money they would have spent on university after reading their contract to determine exceptions.
For example:
Obtain monies.
Blow on booze and hookers.
Join military (free education afterwards for teh win) and do a full career, retiring before 50 and free to play.
"When can we start seeing attempts to cleave these AGE molecules in-vivo in humans? I want to live longer. Just like some people want to see other planets, I want to see more time."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjbAgwdBaTI
You must never have served. There have always been gays in the service, usually left alone if they do their jobs.