All testimony should be under oath and encrypted with moderately weak encryption, so it's not public now, but we're guaranteed of distributed.net beating the hell out of it sooner or later.
Everyone already knows they're guilty as hell, except for the maybe 15% of Fox-News-watching Baptist-church-attending santorum-spewing Young-Earth-believing folks who just don't give a shit because Bush is on the side of "values". Making them look guilty as hell has no drawback any more.
If they let the filth take over, the filth will ruin them.
By filth you probably mean porn, right?
So someone might post some porn on Livejournal. If you don't like it, don't read it. How exactly is porn going to take over and force out nonpornographic uses of LJ?
Some laws are grounded in reality while others are just on the books... If they are on the books they should be enforced.
This is where I lose you. You think that the Alabama police should be arresting people for sodomy or (until a few years ago) marrying someone of a different race?
There are many checks on dumb laws. The first is the intelligence of legislators. Since that often fails, we have other checks: the people can just not obey them, and if they don't, the police can choose to not enforce them, the judges can choose to not sentence for them... you might have heard of the Scopes trials?
This power, to selectively enforce the law, is used more often than you might think.
There's a difference between a reason and an excuse. The *reason* the network went down was related to the MS patches. That's not an excuse -- Skype admits there is no excuse, and is now fixing their code.
1) Some people buy more fast computers than other people. 2) Like, a *lot* more. 3) These have to be bloody *fast* computers, if they're causing Doppler shifts.
I think everyone realizes the difference between "useful and popular" and "ad-spamming sons of bitches". Slashdot's ads I have no problem with. But show me annoying blinky ads, flash ads, ads in my way, anything with audio, and you go into the bit-bucket.
My PhD advisor does computational quantum chromodynamics on supercomputers. Quantum chromodynamics is the current theory of the nuclear force. Unfortunately, nobody can actually calculate all that much with it because the math is too hard, but we think it's the right theory because of some symmetry arguments. One of the big challenges at the moment in high-energy theory is to actually see what QCD predicts. Basically the perturbation + renormalization approach that worked so well for quantum electrodynamics doesn't work on QCD because of the "asymptotic freedom" property of quarks: the potential between two quarks grows without bound as you separate them, until it's big enough that you wind up color-polarizing the vacuum and creating a wad of quarks and gluons if you try to separate two quarks.
Since perturbation theory doesn't work, the only way to get answers out of the thing is to solve the equations numerically on a lattice using Monte Carlo methods. To do this requires, as you probably guessed, Big Fucking Computers.
I'd like to live in a country free of fanatical religious people of any stripe, but that would require deporting 90% of Alabama if we're to do it by deportation.
I agree that we need to stay out of their politics and feuds. This means stop giving aid to Israel, btw. The West ought to just admit that we screwed up by taking a bunch of land from people who hate the Jews and putting the Jewish homeland there; I have no idea why we didn't give them a big chunk of West Texas instead. Nobody lives there, the climate's reasonably similar, and it's at least got oil. No reason we should get involved in two groups of people's claims, based on ancient writings, that their ancestors really like a particular scrap of dirt in Palestine.
The odds of your tax money going to anything but bean-curd studies in Western Iowa if it wasn't going to security is pretty slim. Some of it goes to build highways. I like that. Maybe we could pay those folks a little more, to fix up bridges before they fall down?
Some of it goes to pay for real scientific research that's not pork. I like that too.
Some of it goes to pay for those folks who'll come by and put your house out if it catches on fire (at least around here).
But the reality is that all you are all really saying is that you think better and smarter than everyone else. Maybe you do. Not than everyone else -- most of America agrees with me, according to polls.
The current administration is in place precisely because the average American doesn't want to be treated like they are dumb. So stupid people are more electable because they make the average American feel smart?
How many AVERAGE Americans actually feel that the changes to security have affected them at all?
They have affected the ratio between the tax I pay and the government service I get in return.
I am paying extra taxes for things which benefit nobody.
That TSA screener may not be inconveniencing me that much, but the pothole he's not fixing because he wasn't hired as a construction worker instead may be.
The Soviets eventually won the war, but US aid (food, supplies, and the bases-for-ships trades) helped Britain out at a time when the Nazis weren't even at war with Stalin yet.
This of course isn't to belittle the native British contribution, of course, just saying that Stalin had nothing to do with the Battle of Britain.
Grandparent wasn't saying that the world would have been at absolute peace without the US invading Iraq.
But the world was doing pretty well -- sure, the Middle East was trying to kill itself, but it's *always* doing that. The people with the *serious* militaries, however, were at peace. We had a golden opportunity to *not* spend our national wealth on the military; for the first time there were really no serious military threats to Western democracy. We could have done something useful...... and instead, we go start a dumbshit war that's wasted more American blood and money.
You may have an honest disagreement with Clinton about what the correct way to use the US's resources is. Maybe you would rather have lower taxes, or better infrastructure, or aid to the Third World, or free nationally subsidized porn, than universal health care -- that's a debate our nation is going to have to have, and sensible honest citizens can have differences of opinion.
But Bush isn't even *attempting* to use his power, or your money, for anything beneficial to the USA. He is actively using our country's resources to harm the US, for ideological and political reasons.
Hillary might use your tax money to do the wrong sort of good. Bush is using it to do harm.
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The latter, with intentional irony regarding its etymology and the former.
All testimony should be under oath and encrypted with moderately weak encryption, so it's not public now, but we're guaranteed of distributed.net beating the hell out of it sooner or later.
Everyone already knows they're guilty as hell, except for the maybe 15% of Fox-News-watching Baptist-church-attending santorum-spewing Young-Earth-believing folks who just don't give a shit because Bush is on the side of "values". Making them look guilty as hell has no drawback any more.
If they let the filth take over, the filth will ruin them.
By filth you probably mean porn, right?
So someone might post some porn on Livejournal. If you don't like it, don't read it. How exactly is porn going to take over and force out nonpornographic uses of LJ?
That's still different than forcing someone to patronize a specific company.
but the state is not that technically savvy
The state is technically savvy enough to implement GPS guidance in the bombs we're using, at great taxpayer expense, in Iraq.
If we can afford the technical expertise to prosecute a useless war, the state can afford to hire somebody to load Ethereal on a router.
Some laws are grounded in reality while others are just on the books... If they are on the books they should be enforced.
This is where I lose you. You think that the Alabama police should be arresting people for sodomy or (until a few years ago) marrying someone of a different race?
There are many checks on dumb laws. The first is the intelligence of legislators. Since that often fails, we have other checks: the people can just not obey them, and if they don't, the police can choose to not enforce them, the judges can choose to not sentence for them... you might have heard of the Scopes trials?
This power, to selectively enforce the law, is used more often than you might think.
In our analogy, this corresponds to "recompile the snoopware for Linux".
... and they are telling him that he has to make a specific purchase to do so.
Telling a drunk driver that he must drive with an ignition interlock is one thing. Telling him that he must install it on a Ford is another.
Sadly LDS has a high vapor pressure in its concentrated form, and we're smelling the fumes as far south as southern Arizona.
So, let me get this straight. There are two formats and a lot of money competing to let us watch shitty movies in ever higher resolutions.
Could we please get less shitty movies at *any* resolution?
There's a difference between a reason and an excuse. The *reason* the network went down was related to the MS patches. That's not an excuse -- Skype admits there is no excuse, and is now fixing their code.
Isn't this how it's supposed to work?
1) Some people buy more fast computers than other people.
2) Like, a *lot* more.
3) These have to be bloody *fast* computers, if they're causing Doppler shifts.
I think everyone realizes the difference between "useful and popular" and "ad-spamming sons of bitches". Slashdot's ads I have no problem with. But show me annoying blinky ads, flash ads, ads in my way, anything with audio, and you go into the bit-bucket.
My PhD advisor does computational quantum chromodynamics on supercomputers. Quantum chromodynamics is the current theory of the nuclear force. Unfortunately, nobody can actually calculate all that much with it because the math is too hard, but we think it's the right theory because of some symmetry arguments. One of the big challenges at the moment in high-energy theory is to actually see what QCD predicts. Basically the perturbation + renormalization approach that worked so well for quantum electrodynamics doesn't work on QCD because of the "asymptotic freedom" property of quarks: the potential between two quarks grows without bound as you separate them, until it's big enough that you wind up color-polarizing the vacuum and creating a wad of quarks and gluons if you try to separate two quarks.
Since perturbation theory doesn't work, the only way to get answers out of the thing is to solve the equations numerically on a lattice using Monte Carlo methods. To do this requires, as you probably guessed, Big Fucking Computers.
I'd like to live in a country free of fanatical religious people of any stripe, but that would require deporting 90% of Alabama if we're to do it by deportation.
I agree that we need to stay out of their politics and feuds. This means stop giving aid to Israel, btw. The West ought to just admit that we screwed up by taking a bunch of land from people who hate the Jews and putting the Jewish homeland there; I have no idea why we didn't give them a big chunk of West Texas instead. Nobody lives there, the climate's reasonably similar, and it's at least got oil. No reason we should get involved in two groups of people's claims, based on ancient writings, that their ancestors really like a particular scrap of dirt in Palestine.
Some of it goes to pay for real scientific research that's not pork. I like that too.
Some of it goes to pay for those folks who'll come by and put your house out if it catches on fire (at least around here). But the reality is that all you are all really saying is that you think better and smarter than everyone else. Maybe you do. Not than everyone else -- most of America agrees with me, according to polls. The current administration is in place precisely because the average American doesn't want to be treated like they are dumb. So stupid people are more electable because they make the average American feel smart?
How many AVERAGE Americans actually feel that the changes to security have affected them at all?
They have affected the ratio between the tax I pay and the government service I get in return.
I am paying extra taxes for things which benefit nobody.
That TSA screener may not be inconveniencing me that much, but the pothole he's not fixing because he wasn't hired as a construction worker instead may be.
So what are we going to do, kill one out of four Muslims?
How about trying to reduce the percentage of Muslims that want to kill us, rather than reduce the population of Muslims?
The Soviets eventually won the war, but US aid (food, supplies, and the bases-for-ships trades) helped Britain out at a time when the Nazis weren't even at war with Stalin yet.
This of course isn't to belittle the native British contribution, of course, just saying that Stalin had nothing to do with the Battle of Britain.
Grandparent wasn't saying that the world would have been at absolute peace without the US invading Iraq.
... and instead, we go start a dumbshit war that's wasted more American blood and money.
But the world was doing pretty well -- sure, the Middle East was trying to kill itself, but it's *always* doing that. The people with the *serious* militaries, however, were at peace. We had a golden opportunity to *not* spend our national wealth on the military; for the first time there were really no serious military threats to Western democracy. We could have done something useful...
You may have an honest disagreement with Clinton about what the correct way to use the US's resources is. Maybe you would rather have lower taxes, or better infrastructure, or aid to the Third World, or free nationally subsidized porn, than universal health care -- that's a debate our nation is going to have to have, and sensible honest citizens can have differences of opinion.
But Bush isn't even *attempting* to use his power, or your money, for anything beneficial to the USA. He is actively using our country's resources to harm the US, for ideological and political reasons.
Hillary might use your tax money to do the wrong sort of good. Bush is using it to do harm.
How could you tell the results apart from his normal standard of public speaking?
PNG doesn't compress photographs that well... ... and jpegs from the camera are already pretty big. 4MB for an 8-10 million pixel image?