basically, what they are saying is that they are not sure if anything is real. are they the kind of people you want controlling your economic future? it's bad enough that they are fools enough to think the way they do, but to let their victims -- us -- know they think that way proves they are not only fools but madmen. vote for Trump! he's crazy enough to destroy the whole, worthless system.
To threaten harm in order to prevent another from doing what is not unlawful is the crime of assault. In many states it's a felony, e.g., Maryland, which is my home state. Battery btw is the actual physical violence.
Why do so many people here not know this??
the strength of linux is the people who maintain it and keep it secure. i doubt if we will continue our support if linux becomes mainly a tool for capitalist profits.
the free software community came to be because tech heads cdn't get the tools they needed on small machines using proprietary OS. this is the core of FS strength. f*ck with that and we will go away.
it never had to happen. responsible leaders north and south were working towards a resolution of the problem. the brits manipulated the situation so that the fire eaters in the south and extremist abolitionists in the north got hold of the situation and stampeded the country into fratricide. this was the beginning of the end for the Republic. it left us with a standing army, a policy of aggression against the third world, and the beginnings of a police state. worst of all, it left us with a ruling class which is the plaything of the brits. Lincoln was a tool of the brits.
Reuters i believe is one of the press d*cks -- oops organs -- which helped bring us the u.s. government's 9/11 excuse for unleashing terrorists on its citizens. and helped as well to bring us WMD, as well as the Iran program to build an H bomb, as well as [fill in your favorite]. or am i misinformed?
please, CIA/NSA/whatever troll, don't be so obvious. We resent it because we find distasteful the spectacle of the brain dead pretending to intellectual competence. How many people on this site do you think you're fooling? Idiot lackeys like you are what is making America a pimple on the ass of history. but, then again, who but idiots wd want to work for the American 'intelligence' establishment?
My instinct is against affirmative action as currently applied, for many practical reasons, most of them covered in these comments. That aside, here is my analysis of the situation.
On the one hand, there is the conservative position that the procedure for deciding the issue is the state-level procedure. On the other hand, there is the at least implicit position of Justice Ginsburg et al., i.e., that it is the obligation of the federal government to ensure that a state doesn't pursue policies which violate the Constitution. (To take an example which puts some flesh on the general statement, without federal intervention the disenfranchising of blacks in the south would have gone on until the likes of Bull Connor deigned to change their minds on the issue.) It is tempting to say that it's a crap shoot and give the benefit of the doubt to the SCOTUS. I disagree with this.
The first question which the court must address is whether the Michigan policy is a violation of the Constitution. It is the answer to this question which then must decide whether the state or federal procedure is to be applied. And it is exactly the SCOTUS and no other institution which must answer the first question. To my great amazement, I can find in neither camp any reference to this simple fact.
The majority decision of course implicitly denies the court's responsibility to answer the central question, but the other side ignores this denial and so, it seems to me, is in no better shape than its opposition.
wow! there's so much that's new and really thought provoking in what this guy is saying. and did you hear about the lecture he gave last week on this new thing they call 'fire'?
"The finance aristocracy, in its mode of acquisition as well as in its
pleasures, is nothing but the rebirth of the lumpen proletariat on
the heights of bourgeois society." from The Class Struggles in France
by Karl Marx
"Take a piece of tweaker trash, put it in a thousand-dollar suit, and
whaddaya get?" Karl Marx, updated
I am completely disgusted with the law enforcement system in this country, with two exceptions. One is an honest lawyer I know in northern California. The other is almost all of the cops I've dealt with in many parts of the country. I kid you not. I had especially close dealings with them in two different situations over a period of ten years in Humboldt county, CA, and in all but one case I found them to be very good people. (The 'one case,' wasn't a bad guy, just incredibly stupid. I think the Arcata PD has gotten rid of him.) In fact, from those two experiences and others I've had over many years dealing with the police, I sometimes wonder if everything wdn't go completely to hell if they weren't trying to do their jobs. I am very sure that complete hell would break out if everything was left to the lawyers. Police work tends to attract hard asses. The legal 'profession' definitely attracts sociopaths. The latter is a conclusion I base both on personal experience and on studies done by psychiatric professionals.
BTW. After 50 years of driving a car, I've been asked once if I knew why the cop had stopped me. And the next time you get stopped for something you did which was against the law, ask yourself if it was someone else being stopped and they had done something dangerous, wdn't you want the cop to issue a ticket?
NSA and the rest of the spooks have been claiming that they are able to spy on whomever, whenever they want. The real message of this story is that the spook claims are lies. Spook technical resources are bankrupt because competent technicians are people of conscience. You can't isolate creativity. If it can't function in all areas it can't function in any. And people who are cowards in dealing with organizational authority will be cowards in their work, and cowards can neither create nor maintain large, reliable systems.
I disagree because you completely ignore the big picture, which is the result of the tendency of capitalism to destroy itself in exactly the way we are now witnessing. In a healthy capitalist economy most investment money goes to business operations which create useful product (including food, shelter, and clothing, but much more of course beyond that). But capitalism has this self-destructive tendency to put more and more money into speculative titles for the sake of mere paper profits (e.g., corporate shares with prices completely out of whack with their dividend yields). This tendency produces situations like the current one, i.e., the slashing of living standards to divert more and more money into speculative bubbles. The real horror of such situations is that the speculative bubbles take on a life of their own and must be fed with more and more cash to avoid things like the dot-com and sub-prime crashes, cash which in a healthy economy wd go to expanding the real economy.
I invite your response, both out of optimism that you will have something to teach me and out of a desire to maintain the high level of discussion on this site. .
Ditto, ditto, ditto.
And because it is able to generate an unlimited amount of close translations, the technology would it seems to me change our whole concept of dictionaries used by those who want to read foreign texts without external translations. Whenever I want to understand a word, what I want also is to learn it for its future appearances, but I can't learn a word without lots of examples. With the dictionary I have in mind, you find the word in a corpus of good literature in the language (if good lit' is what yr wanting to translate;o) and underneath the relevant texts in, say, Latin, are very close translations of the texts in English. With such a tool, you keep finding examples of the word until you get a solid feel for it. It seems to me that such a 'dictionary' would be infinitely quicker and easier to use than conventional dictionaries.
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basically, what they are saying is that they are not sure if anything is real. are they the kind of people you want controlling your economic future? it's bad enough that they are fools enough to think the way they do, but to let their victims -- us -- know they think that way proves they are not only fools but madmen. vote for Trump! he's crazy enough to destroy the whole, worthless system.
the debate resolves into a debate about property rights.
it seems to me that every right to property must be defined by the society which protects it.
or am i missing something?
nods
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http://www.technologyreview.co...
http://www.technologyreview.co...
and lots of similar stuff
clap tests? who knows.
sink stoppers even?
To threaten harm in order to prevent another from doing what is not unlawful is the crime of assault. In many states it's a felony, e.g., Maryland, which is my home state. Battery btw is the actual physical violence. Why do so many people here not know this??
the strength of linux is the people who maintain it and keep it secure. i doubt if we will continue our support if linux becomes mainly a tool for capitalist profits.
the free software community came to be because tech heads cdn't get the tools they needed on small machines using proprietary OS. this is the core of FS strength. f*ck with that and we will go away.
yep
it never had to happen. responsible leaders north and south were working towards a resolution of the problem. the brits manipulated the situation so that the fire eaters in the south and extremist abolitionists in the north got hold of the situation and stampeded the country into fratricide. this was the beginning of the end for the Republic. it left us with a standing army, a policy of aggression against the third world, and the beginnings of a police state. worst of all, it left us with a ruling class which is the plaything of the brits. Lincoln was a tool of the brits.
Reuters i believe is one of the press d*cks -- oops organs -- which helped bring us the u.s. government's 9/11 excuse for unleashing terrorists on its citizens. and helped as well to bring us WMD, as well as the Iran program to build an H bomb, as well as [fill in your favorite]. or am i misinformed?
please, CIA/NSA/whatever troll, don't be so obvious. We resent it because we find distasteful the spectacle of the brain dead pretending to intellectual competence. How many people on this site do you think you're fooling? Idiot lackeys like you are what is making America a pimple on the ass of history. but, then again, who but idiots wd want to work for the American 'intelligence' establishment?
"Obama making this shit up is not particularly plausible." do you mean we shd believe what he says?
why do most of these posts sound like their written by CIA trolls?
My instinct is against affirmative action as currently applied, for many practical reasons, most of them covered in these comments. That aside, here is my analysis of the situation.
On the one hand, there is the conservative position that the procedure for deciding the issue is the state-level procedure. On the other hand, there is the at least implicit position of Justice Ginsburg et al., i.e., that it is the obligation of the federal government to ensure that a state doesn't pursue policies which violate the Constitution. (To take an example which puts some flesh on the general statement, without federal intervention the disenfranchising of blacks in the south would have gone on until the likes of Bull Connor deigned to change their minds on the issue.) It is tempting to say that it's a crap shoot and give the benefit of the doubt to the SCOTUS. I disagree with this.
The first question which the court must address is whether the Michigan policy is a violation of the Constitution. It is the answer to this question which then must decide whether the state or federal procedure is to be applied. And it is exactly the SCOTUS and no other institution which must answer the first question. To my great amazement, I can find in neither camp any reference to this simple fact.
The majority decision of course implicitly denies the court's responsibility to answer the central question, but the other side ignores this denial and so, it seems to me, is in no better shape than its opposition.
Or am I missing something?
cd you give us your sources for "95+%"? what kind and how much of applications work have you done?
wow! there's so much that's new and really thought provoking in what this guy is saying. and did you hear about the lecture he gave last week on this new thing they call 'fire'?
"The finance aristocracy, in its mode of acquisition as well as in its pleasures, is nothing but the rebirth of the lumpen proletariat on the heights of bourgeois society." from The Class Struggles in France by Karl Marx
"Take a piece of tweaker trash, put it in a thousand-dollar suit, and whaddaya get?" Karl Marx, updated
I am completely disgusted with the law enforcement system in this country, with two exceptions. One is an honest lawyer I know in northern California. The other is almost all of the cops I've dealt with in many parts of the country. I kid you not. I had especially close dealings with them in two different situations over a period of ten years in Humboldt county, CA, and in all but one case I found them to be very good people. (The 'one case,' wasn't a bad guy, just incredibly stupid. I think the Arcata PD has gotten rid of him.) In fact, from those two experiences and others I've had over many years dealing with the police, I sometimes wonder if everything wdn't go completely to hell if they weren't trying to do their jobs. I am very sure that complete hell would break out if everything was left to the lawyers. Police work tends to attract hard asses. The legal 'profession' definitely attracts sociopaths. The latter is a conclusion I base both on personal experience and on studies done by psychiatric professionals.
BTW. After 50 years of driving a car, I've been asked once if I knew why the cop had stopped me. And the next time you get stopped for something you did which was against the law, ask yourself if it was someone else being stopped and they had done something dangerous, wdn't you want the cop to issue a ticket?
BTW. see http://www.occupyhomesmn.org/sheriff_stanek_do_not_evict_the_ceballos_family . it's about two sheriffs who refused to evict families during the sub-prime mess.
NSA and the rest of the spooks have been claiming that they are able to spy on whomever, whenever they want. The real message of this story is that the spook claims are lies. Spook technical resources are bankrupt because competent technicians are people of conscience. You can't isolate creativity. If it can't function in all areas it can't function in any. And people who are cowards in dealing with organizational authority will be cowards in their work, and cowards can neither create nor maintain large, reliable systems.
I disagree because you completely ignore the big picture, which is the result of the tendency of capitalism to destroy itself in exactly the way we are now witnessing. In a healthy capitalist economy most investment money goes to business operations which create useful product (including food, shelter, and clothing, but much more of course beyond that). But capitalism has this self-destructive tendency to put more and more money into speculative titles for the sake of mere paper profits (e.g., corporate shares with prices completely out of whack with their dividend yields). This tendency produces situations like the current one, i.e., the slashing of living standards to divert more and more money into speculative bubbles. The real horror of such situations is that the speculative bubbles take on a life of their own and must be fed with more and more cash to avoid things like the dot-com and sub-prime crashes, cash which in a healthy economy wd go to expanding the real economy. I invite your response, both out of optimism that you will have something to teach me and out of a desire to maintain the high level of discussion on this site. .
;o) ) great stuff.
if the suits succeed, it will be another case of american productivity gutted by greedy stockholders.
the chief purpose of the U.S. government is to provide belly laughs for the electorate. O' doing a great job of it.
Ditto, ditto, ditto. And because it is able to generate an unlimited amount of close translations, the technology would it seems to me change our whole concept of dictionaries used by those who want to read foreign texts without external translations. Whenever I want to understand a word, what I want also is to learn it for its future appearances, but I can't learn a word without lots of examples. With the dictionary I have in mind, you find the word in a corpus of good literature in the language (if good lit' is what yr wanting to translate ;o) and underneath the relevant texts in, say, Latin, are very close translations of the texts in English. With such a tool, you keep finding examples of the word until you get a solid feel for it. It seems to me that such a 'dictionary' would be infinitely quicker and easier to use than conventional dictionaries.
HOORAY!