1. Yes, so much more barbaric than someone who killed someone for money or because they felt like it. If they are dead they will NEVER kill again. Ted Bundy escaped from a holding cell and killed more people. He's not the only exampple of this.
2. No, the death penalty is not a deterrant. If it was intended to be a deterrant then people convicted of first-degree murder who are executed would have to outnumber the amount of people hit by city buses each year.
3. So we should treat murderers to the chance that they may change their behavior? Their victims can't change their behavior. It is then dumped on the citizens of a state to pay 70,000 per POS per year on average.
"The death penalty for human beings is wrong. It is applied with gross unfairness, mostly to black and brown people and to those who don't have enough money to hire competent lawyers."
There are plenty of white and yellow people executed, and many who have expensive lawyers. If black and brown people are the ones who get more frequently executed then *gasp* maybe they commit the majority of the capital crimes? I'd love to see more premeditated murders executed. It is shit that someone decides to take someone's son or daughter away and gets rewarded with cable TV, three meals a day, and a library with internet access for the next twenty to forty years at on average seventy thousand dollars a year. Anyone who deliberately takes another's life deserves no better his or herself. I only wish that a terrorist who blows up a building or a wicked husband who beats his spouse to death with a hammer could receive the same consideration.
Of course I'm just a ignorant, savage american what do I know. All the smart people come from Europe and Canada.
Maybe you missed it, but the two ways of filtering out "infringing copies" used on Napster are by filename and by acoustic fingerprint. Most parodies use the original music written and often the same tracks layed down by the original artists, and simply alter the words. So if I don't like N*Synch and decide to parody one of their songs, say 'It's gonna be me' and title it 'It's gonna be me -- parody by evilpaul13.mp3' my uninfringing parody will be filtered and no one will ever hear it. I was pretty sure derivitive works in the form of paraodies were protected by the Fair Use clause of the Copyright Act.
FYI, the rights of the individual supercede any held on IDEAS by a corporation, which in fact owns the music you know and so love.
Maybe you ought to put down your Thesarus and have a look at history son, my good buddy and massmurdering pal Mao did his best to remove all of China's wealth of history from the minds of the people and replace it with his little red book.
"Outward looking nation"? You must have some good drugs, they isolated themselves for longer than the US has existed.
And maybe you missed it, but over the last two years, the "Eastern Tiger" markets have gone down the toilet. Two billion chinese, whose combined legally recognized, natural rights equate to less than that of one US citizen. Must make you proud to be chinese.
1) Anyone who would argue that this situtation was anything but the metaphorical ass in a Ferrarri tearing it up down the interstate and causing an accident with a big rig is a certed idiot.
2) The US filed a complaint with the Chinese over that same pilot earlier in the year over similar behavior. We don't award jackasses medals for roadrage when they get themselves killed, and an idiot in a multimillion dollar fighter jet deserves no different.
3) I don't think that the computer controlled autopilot can be blamed for a midair collision. The US plane was following a set course, no one forced the chinese fighter pilots to get so close to it that physical contact was possible.
So no one can use "Open" or "GL" preceded or followed by someting else without it being confusing? Most "end users" don't know what OpenGL is, who SGI is, or anything about either. To them, "OpenGL" is some confusing computer stuff that they really don't care about. Only "computer savy" users are going to know what OpenGL is, and they can typically read a web page.
Put on your first page in "nice" 72pt font "This page is not in any way associated with OpenGL, Silicon Graphics Inc., or any other major corporation or copyrighted or trademarked property unless explicitly stated to be so involved." I don't think you could be held liable for stupid people who find that "confusingly similiar."
So wouldn't it make sense to buy a Sledgehammer that will be faster while providing legacy support for the next few years until Intel starts cranking out a faster, more powerful chip?
And the Democrats will steal our money for their Socialist programs, and our freedom with their enviromental propaganda. If I can tell that I have a federal gov't on a daily basis, the Federal Gov't is invasive and in violation of my rights.
Well, if I look beyond the "gun culture" propaganda you're spitting up, I'd notice that you didn't pay the slighttest bit of attention to what he just said. We did not have school shootings in the 1950's. We did not have ANY restrictions on gun sales, ownership, etc in the 1950's. The United States was not substantially less urban during the 1950's. If you take into account the three variables that you are whining about here:
1) Gun ownership
2) Gun laws
3) Gun violence
Now let's see. Less people, proportionately, own guns now than in the 1950's. There are hundreds more gun laws now than in the 1950's. And there is substantially more gun violence now than in the 1950's.
Less guns. More laws. More violence.
Well, the largely urban society of the 1950's didn't need guns to shoot bears, and somehow, without prohibiting gun ownership, people didn't kill each other in record numbers.
P.S. I hate to be the one to break this to you, but in the United States if some enraged doctor beats me to death with his golf clubs, my family can't sue the police for not protecting me. The police do not have a responsibilty to ensure the safety of every individual citizen. They act AFTER THE FACT. They could arrest the doctor or take away his golf club until after he murdered me. Of course if I, being a lawabiding citizen, had been permitted to have a weapon to defend myself with, I might not be dead.
Couldn't someone write a proggie that does the following:
1) Will duplicate a set root directory structure, and copy all the files (basically mirror it) and rename the files (with long filename support) like
this/music/filename.mp3 -->/music/emanelif.mp3.
2) and a proggie that will accept user input for a search, and convert between the normal and backwards names and start napster searching.
M$ claims they removed RealMode DOS for stability reasons. IT seems to be true, as I haven't had it crash on me yet. Very odd for a Micro$oft product......perhaps it is a conspiracy.
First of all, I hate to be teh one to break it to Metallica, but they are turning a LOT of fans away from themselves through all this nonsense. i own a mere six Metallica Albums and I believe I have EVERY right to make an electronic backup of them. If I don't sell copies then how are they hurt by this? If they have ever even used Napster, and were in the room while their big-money lawyer was having his twleve year old son to install it on his "work" laptop they would know that it can share stuff you didn't intend it to. Next, how about the RIAA? It was only two weeks at most that the FCC was busting some CD sellers balls for illegal pricing schemes. They say *WE* are stealing? $20 US for a CD? It cost about 5 cents to make the things!!! That doesn't even go into the fact that artists are traditionally given ten percent of the PROFITS! you know profits, the money left over after those 5 cent pieces of platic and (I'll make a VERY liberal estimate) $1.50 US for the packaging. WHO is a thief???? In conclusion the RIAA can make it's mouth like a donut hole and swallow when instructed. I must hear bullshit about "reparations" to one black community or another for all the terrible things done to them two hundred years ago (don't mean to offend any black/.ers out there), so I say we have the RIAA pay reparations $8 Us Compact discs, and give artists 50% of the profits for a decade to repay all of us for the corporate buttfucking we have recieved over the past decade. DISCLAMER: THIS POST IS PROBABLY VIOLATING SOME ASS'S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OUT THERE, BUT SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND THINK ABOUT THIS. I WAS VIOLATING YOUR MOTHER AND DAUGHTER LAST NIGHT WITH AN ELEPHANT DICK.
MS Outlook and OE will NOT run attached documents, executables, or scripts by default. Outlook bugs/features are not responsible for this virus, windows scripting support is, and does have it's place. Scripts have legitimate reasons to be allowed to access hardware, and alter files it stores.
Embedded scripts DO NOT have access to files or the registry. Attached scripts have the same access of any other user files. DOS Batch files,.REG files, and scripts are ALL human readable, and can be detrimental to system integrity. Though if somebody owns an Athlon motherboard and Geforce videocard and post a message for a fix to add AGP2x support, somebody could just send a script that would do it and no manual registry editing would be needed. This is what many WindowsUpdates do.
The fact of the matter is, a user shouldn't run a file without ANY idea what it is. If one receives a file and is unsure of what it is they should send a "What did you send me?" email back. Batch files, scripts, and.REG files should be investigated before being run.
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1. Yes, so much more barbaric than someone who killed someone for money or because they felt like it. If they are dead they will NEVER kill again. Ted Bundy escaped from a holding cell and killed more people. He's not the only exampple of this.
2. No, the death penalty is not a deterrant. If it was intended to be a deterrant then people convicted of first-degree murder who are executed would have to outnumber the amount of people hit by city buses each year.
3. So we should treat murderers to the chance that they may change their behavior? Their victims can't change their behavior. It is then dumped on the citizens of a state to pay 70,000 per POS per year on average.
"The death penalty for human beings is wrong. It is applied with gross unfairness, mostly to black and brown people and to those who don't have enough money to hire competent lawyers."
There are plenty of white and yellow people executed, and many who have expensive lawyers. If black and brown people are the ones who get more frequently executed then *gasp* maybe they commit the majority of the capital crimes? I'd love to see more premeditated murders executed. It is shit that someone decides to take someone's son or daughter away and gets rewarded with cable TV, three meals a day, and a library with internet access for the next twenty to forty years at on average seventy thousand dollars a year. Anyone who deliberately takes another's life deserves no better his or herself. I only wish that a terrorist who blows up a building or a wicked husband who beats his spouse to death with a hammer could receive the same consideration.
Of course I'm just a ignorant, savage american what do I know. All the smart people come from Europe and Canada.
Maybe you missed it, but the two ways of filtering out "infringing copies" used on Napster are by filename and by acoustic fingerprint. Most parodies use the original music written and often the same tracks layed down by the original artists, and simply alter the words. So if I don't like N*Synch and decide to parody one of their songs, say 'It's gonna be me' and title it 'It's gonna be me -- parody by evilpaul13.mp3' my uninfringing parody will be filtered and no one will ever hear it. I was pretty sure derivitive works in the form of paraodies were protected by the Fair Use clause of the Copyright Act.
FYI, the rights of the individual supercede any held on IDEAS by a corporation, which in fact owns the music you know and so love.
I always just turned the worthless little bastard off, and he still is installed in Office XP, and as "functional" as before.
iConcur! (simple and to the point :)
Wow, genuine and throughly stupid flamebait.
Maybe you ought to put down your Thesarus and have a look at history son, my good buddy and massmurdering pal Mao did his best to remove all of China's wealth of history from the minds of the people and replace it with his little red book.
"Outward looking nation"? You must have some good drugs, they isolated themselves for longer than the US has existed.
And maybe you missed it, but over the last two years, the "Eastern Tiger" markets have gone down the toilet. Two billion chinese, whose combined legally recognized, natural rights equate to less than that of one US citizen. Must make you proud to be chinese.
1) Anyone who would argue that this situtation was anything but the metaphorical ass in a Ferrarri tearing it up down the interstate and causing an accident with a big rig is a certed idiot.
2) The US filed a complaint with the Chinese over that same pilot earlier in the year over similar behavior. We don't award jackasses medals for roadrage when they get themselves killed, and an idiot in a multimillion dollar fighter jet deserves no different.
3) I don't think that the computer controlled autopilot can be blamed for a midair collision. The US plane was following a set course, no one forced the chinese fighter pilots to get so close to it that physical contact was possible.
They're just picking on RAMBUST, makers of such fine products as.... ....they don't actually make anything do they?
So no one can use "Open" or "GL" preceded or followed by someting else without it being confusing? Most "end users" don't know what OpenGL is, who SGI is, or anything about either. To them, "OpenGL" is some confusing computer stuff that they really don't care about. Only "computer savy" users are going to know what OpenGL is, and they can typically read a web page.
Put on your first page in "nice" 72pt font "This page is not in any way associated with OpenGL, Silicon Graphics Inc., or any other major corporation or copyrighted or trademarked property unless explicitly stated to be so involved." I don't think you could be held liable for stupid people who find that "confusingly similiar."
So wouldn't it make sense to buy a Sledgehammer that will be faster while providing legacy support for the next few years until Intel starts cranking out a faster, more powerful chip?
It would be a huge security problem to say the least. Virtually uncontrolled outbound traffic.
They added DirectX to NT4, and added some flashy (fast effects) to the GUI which isn't slow like X. Lunix kernal? JeffK ware have j00 gone?
And the Democrats will steal our money for their Socialist programs, and our freedom with their enviromental propaganda. If I can tell that I have a federal gov't on a daily basis, the Federal Gov't is invasive and in violation of my rights.
No, I was pointing out the strong correlation between more gun laws and a SHARP decrease in gun violence. Oh wait, it's the other way around. :-P
Well, if I look beyond the "gun culture" propaganda you're spitting up, I'd notice that you didn't pay the slighttest bit of attention to what he just said. We did not have school shootings in the 1950's. We did not have ANY restrictions on gun sales, ownership, etc in the 1950's. The United States was not substantially less urban during the 1950's. If you take into account the three variables that you are whining about here:
1) Gun ownership
2) Gun laws
3) Gun violence
Now let's see. Less people, proportionately, own guns now than in the 1950's. There are hundreds more gun laws now than in the 1950's. And there is substantially more gun violence now than in the 1950's.
Less guns. More laws. More violence.
Well, the largely urban society of the 1950's didn't need guns to shoot bears, and somehow, without prohibiting gun ownership, people didn't kill each other in record numbers.P.S. I hate to be the one to break this to you, but in the United States if some enraged doctor beats me to death with his golf clubs, my family can't sue the police for not protecting me. The police do not have a responsibilty to ensure the safety of every individual citizen. They act AFTER THE FACT. They could arrest the doctor or take away his golf club until after he murdered me. Of course if I, being a lawabiding citizen, had been permitted to have a weapon to defend myself with, I might not be dead.
Yeah, and if you pit a 800Mhz Itanium against a 2Ghz Sledgehammer, I'd be very interested to see who is victorious.
So AMD should tell people that the Athlon makes the internet better, and have painted people beating on a big 'A'?
1) Will duplicate a set root directory structure, and copy all the files (basically mirror it) and rename the files (with long filename support) like this /music/filename.mp3 --> /music/emanelif.mp3.
2) and a proggie that will accept user input for a search, and convert between the normal and backwards names and start napster searching.
DOS was seemingly designed without security concerns, as a single user enviroment. Just MHO
M$ claims they removed RealMode DOS for stability reasons. IT seems to be true, as I haven't had it crash on me yet. Very odd for a Micro$oft product... ...perhaps it is a conspiracy.
First of all, I hate to be teh one to break it to Metallica, but they are turning a LOT of fans away from themselves through all this nonsense. i own a mere six Metallica Albums and I believe I have EVERY right to make an electronic backup of them. If I don't sell copies then how are they hurt by this? If they have ever even used Napster, and were in the room while their big-money lawyer was having his twleve year old son to install it on his "work" laptop they would know that it can share stuff you didn't intend it to. Next, how about the RIAA? It was only two weeks at most that the FCC was busting some CD sellers balls for illegal pricing schemes. They say *WE* are stealing? $20 US for a CD? It cost about 5 cents to make the things!!! That doesn't even go into the fact that artists are traditionally given ten percent of the PROFITS! you know profits, the money left over after those 5 cent pieces of platic and (I'll make a VERY liberal estimate) $1.50 US for the packaging. WHO is a thief???? In conclusion the RIAA can make it's mouth like a donut hole and swallow when instructed. I must hear bullshit about "reparations" to one black community or another for all the terrible things done to them two hundred years ago (don't mean to offend any black /.ers out there), so I say we have the RIAA pay reparations $8 Us Compact discs, and give artists 50% of the profits for a decade to repay all of us for the corporate buttfucking we have recieved over the past decade. DISCLAMER: THIS POST IS PROBABLY VIOLATING SOME ASS'S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OUT THERE, BUT SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND THINK ABOUT THIS. I WAS VIOLATING YOUR MOTHER AND DAUGHTER LAST NIGHT WITH AN ELEPHANT DICK.
MS Outlook and OE will NOT run attached documents, executables, or scripts by default. Outlook bugs/features are not responsible for this virus, windows scripting support is, and does have it's place. Scripts have legitimate reasons to be allowed to access hardware, and alter files it stores.
Embedded scripts DO NOT have access to files or the registry. Attached scripts have the same access of any other user files. DOS Batch files, .REG files, and scripts are ALL human readable, and can be detrimental to system integrity. Though if somebody owns an Athlon motherboard and Geforce videocard and post a message for a fix to add AGP2x support, somebody could just send a script that would do it and no manual registry editing would be needed. This is what many WindowsUpdates do.
The fact of the matter is, a user shouldn't run a file without ANY idea what it is. If one receives a file and is unsure of what it is they should send a "What did you send me?" email back. Batch files, scripts, and .REG files should be investigated before being run.