Sorry to be anal, but Treason cannot be committed outside of a declared war.
Article 3 Section 3 of the Constitution. The writers were VERY careful to be extremely specific when defining it, since it had been used as a generic charge for anyone who displeased the king for so long.
Even the Rosenbergs were executed for 'Conspiracy to commit espionage' .
"The chain of accountability for these cables goes to tax payers via elected officials (and layers upon layers of bureaucrats). If you want to change that, elect someone who runs on the platform of total government transparency.'
You keep trying to make the same point over and over again. Without success. It has NOTHING to do with electing good officials, that is usually impossible as we have a choice of criminal oligarch scumbucket 'A' or criminal scumbucket 'B' with the only difference being the letter after their names.
This is a nation of LAWS, not of men; our laws should be designed so that whatever crooked Asshole we elect has no way to hide their actions. Procedures should be in place, and restrictions on the power and secrecy of each and every govermental entity and everyone working for it, that protect us from the WORST person that could concievably hold the position.
maybe it is just me, but wouldn't it be easier to just teach drivers to watch the hell out for pedestrians?
oh right, my bad, in this world no one can be bothered to look out for themselves or anyone else... we need to pay $150 for an extra to make our nice, quiet car contribute to the already horrific noise polution.
Seems to me it's the pedestrians that should be looking out for the cars, not the opther way around. Any idiot crossing a street without looking is a drag on the gene poole anyway (obviously not counting blind folks)
I used to use an 8"x10" camera, with 25 ASA film. As much as I really like digital, and I do, there is simply no way an 8x10" ('contact')print from a mere 120 megapixel file is going to be even close. I'll get stoked when we're talking 100+ gigapixels.
IT would be as unthinkable as geting rid of books.
Admittidly, my goal is to have all the information that has ever existed and I wish painful death on anyone and any group that would prevent that. As a member of homo sapiens all the information that has ever existed or will exist is my birthright (except for the private information of others, if they wish to be paranoid; I prefer the slow public death of those who abuse rather than preventing access to, information). Outside of spam I archive nearly everything, going back to documenataion from a COBOL program in the mid '70's. Until I can have a jack put into my brain that dumps multiple OC-225 streams straight from all existing backbones directly into my brain I'll have to settle for maxing out my library, my Amazon credit card and multiple email accounts.
Data, like sex, firepower, horsepower and tube wattage, is inherently GOOD!!!
IMHO Google could very well offer a choice in that matter; vis a vis seeing the site as flagged or relegated to the bottom. Just a check box in one's preferences. Google is under no obligation to anyone other than their stockholders to do squat; they are not a public utility nor a monopoly so they can bloody well use any method to rate sites they want and Devil take the hindmost; no one is obligated to use them.
When you're dealing with my data and my deadlines even a failure rate of 0.001% is too damn high by several orders of magnitude. I don't care what my gear costs, I don't care what name is one the lable of the box or the disc; I know one thing only- it MUST work.
I respectfully beg to suggest that while English has indeed appropriated many French words and phrases Latin had contributed many more to many more languages. While I am the first to grab a word, phrase or concept from ANYPLACE if it will help me get my point across, and love the French culture and language (I live in the middle of the Sonoma Napa wine country and can spend entire weekends contemplating terroir), Latin is like a big ugly box of tools, coated with grease and blood and a fair amount of rust, French is more like a picnic basket filled with really good food and wine:-); I would not really want the former on a picnic nor the latter when there is ugly and unpleasant work to be done (I mean how many other languages even NEEDED a word -"decimate" - that means (or at least orignally meant) to kill every tenth person?
Respectfully, I think Latin is a very effective language for all kinds of communication. Many Latin words have more universal meaning then English, French or Russian phrases. "Ad hoc" is a great example of a concise term with a precise meaning that needs no translation. There is an advantage to a dead language; unlike English meanings aren't mutatingl thus you can often get a better feel for exactly what someone from a different era and different culture was saying without the problem of words such as "gay", "Stupid" or "sick" having very different meanings a few generations later. 'Good' language is that which communicates what and as you intend, be it technical jargon, slang, Oxford English, Spanglish; if the sender and receptor send and receive the right message it's good language; withing that context Latin can, and often is, highly effective.
Well, in strictly scientific terms you are correct; but when it comes to things like climate change and other phenomena highly detrimental to my continued existence then the standard of proof is a *little* lower. I consider it analogous to what is the acceptable probability that someone responsible for the daycare of my children is an AIDS infected serial child molester; that is the same probability that I consider acceptable for an action to be allowed to continue; one can prattle on about being unable to prove a negative forever and ever amen, but comes a time where we've just got to say that anything that emits pollution other than that made in the course of natural biological processes needs to be shut down, immediatey.
I don't think so. Best buy took the money, check, credit card... Best Buy is responsible for seeing that the contract was fulfilled. While not fraud it *IS* 'negligence' by any legal definition.
I have an upright bass and can get that, two violins, a guitar, an accordian and three people wround in my Honda CRV. At 26mpg. Not a bad compromise, overall.
"Hacking has a correct use, and then a meaning to idiots. Idiots like you.
I almost like it when fucking morons like you and yours use 'hacking' in a prejorative manner, it lets me know that they don't know shit about computers or technology and I can either stop reading right there or assume that everything else they say is wrong.
I'd prefer to be the one staging gladiatorial games between the lazy bums and charging the rich up the wazingus to watch it. I think that's what called a win/win. Actually, I'm not rich, don't drive a Lexus (old Honda) and work a mid level tech job. It's just that I don't really give a shit if anyone else is rich or poor, it simply doesn't fucking matter to me if Gates has 15 or 50 billion nor if ten or ten million Somalis starve to death next month.
And I don't expect Gates or any Somalis to give a flying fuck about me, either; unlike liberal bed wetters I see inequality as the natural state of mankind, so why waste a lot of resources trying to rectify it? If you don't like being poor, do something about it, if you're rich and feel guilty then give it away and join the peach corps. It's your own fucking life.
The rich nor the poor are no better or worse than anyone else; I like the idea of a former 20 million a year corporate raider CEOs getting raped in the prison shower but I don't think the most avaricious 'chainsaw' type is doing anything other than what you, I or the bum holding the 'vet with aids, homeless will work for food, God bless' sign would do if given the chance.
"wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces"
This from a guy who was a major corporate lawyer who helped the railroads steal huge swaths of the country, freed the slaves only in states over which he did not have control while not freeing them in areas he did, authorized the 'march to the sea' second only to Dresden in terms of the worst atrocity needlessly comitted by the American military ( debate WRT Hiroshima aside). Ohm yeah, the little bit of suspending Habeus Corpus and imprisoning editors who were against the war.
Works for me. You, and only you are responsible for how your life turns out. Government only exists to protect my stuff and my rights from you taking them by force, threat of force, or fraud - and of course to protect you likewise from me, otherwise it shouldn't do jack squat. If that's depreved indifference to you it is liberty, freedom, rationality, 'survival of the fittest', 'the war of all against all' or whatever else anyone wants to call it as far as I'm concerned.
True conservatives dont hate the poor, they just don't give a shit about the poor; there's an important difference. If you can't feed yourself while I drive a Lexus it is not my problem, it's yours; quit smoking crack and fathering illegitimate children and get a job, and if you get a nicer Lexus than mine more power to you. And I have guns because you ain't "ENTITLED" to any of my stuff regardless of what your buddy Al Sharpton or Howard Dean says, and you don't get any special priveleges, bonuses or goverment extras or preferential treatment form the government over me just because your mother was a crack ho and my daddy was the third generation to go to Harvard Law. It's not the government's business if one person is dies of starvation while someone else has enough money to buy a third world country.
Actually, I'm not the only one who can tell when something is spelled wrong, even if I don't know the correct waqy to spell it. I'm sure there's a term for it, but you gotta know what I mean - something just looks wrong.
And I think there is a difference between a quickie post between friends or on a bbs as opposed to a formal solicitation for business. I usually don't spellcheck an off-the-cuff email to a bud, I damn well do so for a resume. I mean of course I know that they actually misspell stuff like 'penis' to get past spam filters.
What I STILL cannot figure out is WHY some jerk off thinks I would refinance my mortgage with, or trust the health and safety of Mr. Happy to, someone who cannot even fucking *SPELL*!!
Perhaps I'm too old school; I reserve the title 'hackers' for people who do creative and interesting 'hacks', indeed when seeing it used in a disparaging way I know I'm dealing with the ignorati.
Same for me. I have a upright bass. I got the tat tor remind myself that, even at 43, I am a bassist with a decent day job, not a tech who playes bass at night.
It wouldn't be having the tat/piercing itself (they're not exactly a blow against the Empire at this point), but the fact that someone would display it rather than cover it up.
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Sorry to be anal, but Treason cannot be committed outside of a declared war.
Article 3 Section 3 of the Constitution. The writers were VERY careful to be extremely specific when defining it, since it had been used as a generic charge for anyone who displeased the king for so long.
Even the Rosenbergs were executed for 'Conspiracy to commit espionage' .
should be to ruthlessly 'brain drain' the rest of the world.
"The chain of accountability for these cables goes to tax payers via elected officials (and layers upon layers of bureaucrats). If you want to change that, elect someone who runs on the platform of total government transparency.'
You keep trying to make the same point over and over again. Without success. It has NOTHING to do with electing good officials, that is usually impossible as we have a choice of criminal oligarch scumbucket 'A' or criminal scumbucket 'B' with the only difference being the letter after their names.
This is a nation of LAWS, not of men; our laws should be designed so that whatever crooked Asshole we elect has no way to hide their actions. Procedures should be in place, and restrictions on the power and secrecy of each and every govermental entity and everyone working for it, that protect us from the WORST person that could concievably hold the position.
maybe it is just me, but wouldn't it be easier to just teach drivers to watch the hell out for pedestrians?
oh right, my bad, in this world no one can be bothered to look out for themselves or anyone else... we need to pay $150 for an extra to make our nice, quiet car contribute to the already horrific noise polution.
Seems to me it's the pedestrians that should be looking out for the cars, not the opther way around. Any idiot crossing a street without looking is a drag on the gene poole anyway (obviously not counting blind folks)
Because the article was about the Canon 120 megapixel chip.
I used to use an 8"x10" camera, with 25 ASA film.
As much as I really like digital, and I do, there is simply no way an 8x10" ('contact')print from a mere 120 megapixel file is going to be even close.
I'll get stoked when we're talking 100+ gigapixels.
IT would be as unthinkable as geting rid of books.
Admittidly, my goal is to have all the information that has ever existed and I wish painful death on anyone and any group that would prevent that. As a member of homo sapiens all the information that has ever existed or will exist is my birthright (except for the private information of others, if they wish to be paranoid; I prefer the slow public death of those who abuse rather than preventing access to, information). Outside of spam I archive nearly everything, going back to documenataion from a COBOL program in the mid '70's. Until I can have a jack put into my brain that dumps multiple OC-225 streams straight from all existing backbones directly into my brain I'll have to settle for maxing out my library, my Amazon credit card and multiple email accounts.
Data, like sex, firepower, horsepower and tube wattage, is inherently GOOD!!!
IMHO Google could very well offer a choice in that matter; vis a vis seeing the site as flagged or relegated to the bottom. Just a check box in one's preferences. Google is under no obligation to anyone other than their stockholders to do squat; they are not a public utility nor a monopoly so they can bloody well use any method to rate sites they want and Devil take the hindmost; no one is obligated to use them.
When you're dealing with my data and my deadlines even a failure rate of 0.001% is too damn high by several orders of magnitude.
I don't care what my gear costs, I don't care what name is one the lable of the box or the disc; I know one thing only- it MUST work.
I respectfully beg to suggest that while English has indeed appropriated many French words and phrases Latin had contributed many more to many more languages. While I am the first to grab a word, phrase or concept from ANYPLACE if it will help me get my point across, and love the French culture and language (I live in the middle of the Sonoma Napa wine country and can spend entire weekends contemplating terroir), Latin is like a big ugly box of tools, coated with grease and blood and a fair amount of rust, French is more like a picnic basket filled with really good food and wine:-); I would not really want the former on a picnic nor the latter when there is ugly and unpleasant work to be done (I mean how many other languages even NEEDED a word -"decimate" - that means (or at least orignally meant) to kill every tenth person?
What I really want is a world-wide minimum wage, in American dollars; a equal playing field for all.
Respectfully, I think Latin is a very effective language for all kinds of communication. Many Latin words have more universal meaning then English, French or Russian phrases. "Ad hoc" is a great example of a concise term with a precise meaning that needs no translation.
There is an advantage to a dead language; unlike English meanings aren't mutatingl thus you can often get a better feel for exactly what someone from a different era and different culture was saying without the problem of words such as "gay", "Stupid" or "sick" having very different meanings a few generations later.
'Good' language is that which communicates what and as you intend, be it technical jargon, slang, Oxford English, Spanglish; if the sender and receptor send and receive the right message it's good language; withing that context Latin can, and often is, highly effective.
Well, in strictly scientific terms you are correct; but when it comes to things like climate change and other phenomena highly detrimental to my continued existence then the standard of proof is a *little* lower. I consider it analogous to what is the acceptable probability that someone responsible for the daycare of my children is an AIDS infected serial child molester; that is the same probability that I consider acceptable for an action to be allowed to continue; one can prattle on about being unable to prove a negative forever and ever amen, but comes a time where we've just got to say that anything that emits pollution other than that made in the course of natural biological processes needs to be shut down, immediatey.
I don't think so.
Best buy took the money, check, credit card... Best Buy is responsible for seeing that the contract was fulfilled. While not fraud it *IS* 'negligence' by any legal definition.
I have an upright bass and can get that, two violins, a guitar, an accordian and three people wround in my Honda CRV. At 26mpg. Not a bad compromise, overall.
"Hacking has a correct use, and then a meaning to idiots. Idiots like you.
I almost like it when fucking morons like you and yours use 'hacking' in a prejorative manner, it lets me know that they don't know shit about computers or technology and I can either stop reading right there or assume that everything else they say is wrong.
I'd prefer to be the one staging gladiatorial games between the lazy bums and charging the rich up the wazingus to watch it. I think that's what called a win/win. Actually, I'm not rich, don't drive a Lexus (old Honda) and work a mid level tech job. It's just that I don't really give a shit if anyone else is rich or poor, it simply doesn't fucking matter to me if Gates has 15 or 50 billion nor if ten or ten million Somalis starve to death next month.
And I don't expect Gates or any Somalis to give a flying fuck about me, either; unlike liberal bed wetters I see inequality as the natural state of mankind, so why waste a lot of resources trying to rectify it? If you don't like being poor, do something about it, if you're rich and feel guilty then give it away and join the peach corps. It's your own fucking life.
The rich nor the poor are no better or worse than anyone else; I like the idea of a former 20 million a year corporate raider CEOs getting raped in the prison shower but I don't think the most avaricious 'chainsaw' type is doing anything other than what you, I or the bum holding the 'vet with aids, homeless will work for food, God bless' sign would do if given the chance.
"wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces"
This from a guy who was a major corporate lawyer who helped the railroads steal huge swaths of the country, freed the slaves only in states over which he did not have control while not freeing them in areas he did, authorized the 'march to the sea' second only to Dresden in terms of the worst atrocity needlessly comitted by the American military ( debate WRT Hiroshima aside). Ohm yeah, the little bit of suspending Habeus Corpus and imprisoning editors who were against the war.
" depraved indifference."
Works for me. You, and only you are responsible for how your life turns out. Government only exists to protect my stuff and my rights from you taking them by force, threat of force, or fraud - and of course to protect you likewise from me, otherwise it shouldn't do jack squat. If that's depreved indifference to you it is liberty, freedom, rationality, 'survival of the fittest', 'the war of all against all' or whatever else anyone wants to call it as far as I'm concerned.
Bullshit.
True conservatives dont hate the poor, they just don't give a shit about the poor; there's an important difference. If you can't feed yourself while I drive a Lexus it is not my problem, it's yours; quit smoking crack and fathering illegitimate children and get a job, and if you get a nicer Lexus than mine more power to you. And I have guns because you ain't "ENTITLED" to any of my stuff regardless of what your buddy Al Sharpton or Howard Dean says, and you don't get any special priveleges, bonuses or goverment extras or preferential treatment form the government over me just because your mother was a crack ho and my daddy was the third generation to go to Harvard Law. It's not the government's business if one person is dies of starvation while someone else has enough money to buy a third world country.
Actually, I'm not the only one who can tell when something is spelled wrong, even if I don't know the correct waqy to spell it. I'm sure there's a term for it, but you gotta know what I mean - something just looks wrong.
And I think there is a difference between a quickie post between friends or on a bbs as opposed to a formal solicitation for business. I usually don't spellcheck an off-the-cuff email to a bud, I damn well do so for a resume. I mean of course I know that they actually misspell stuff like 'penis' to get past spam filters.
What I STILL cannot figure out is WHY some jerk off thinks I would refinance my mortgage with, or trust the health and safety of Mr. Happy to, someone who cannot even fucking *SPELL*!!
Perhaps I'm too old school; I reserve the title 'hackers' for people who do creative and interesting 'hacks', indeed when seeing it used in a disparaging way I know I'm dealing with the ignorati.
They are there to protect the fnords
Same for me. I have a upright bass. I got the tat tor remind myself that, even at 43, I am a bassist with a decent day job, not a tech who playes bass at night.
It wouldn't be having the tat/piercing itself (they're not exactly a blow against the Empire at this point), but the fact that someone would display it rather than cover it up.