That's one of the best parts. Pregnancy is very, very stressful on a woman's body. So much so that in the US, the maternal mortality rate is actually greater than the mortality rate for abortion. Every time a woman dies following complications of abortion it gets widely reported all through the right-wing media - and it's true, some women do die as a consequence of abortion. But even if you ignore the ones conducted for medical reasons and include only the electives, it still saves more women than it kills.
You're right. Simply banning abortion doesn't get through courts, so the accepted pro-life strategy is to make sure abortion is legal yet as impractical as possible. They pass safety standards for clinics that are impossible to meet. They pass requirements that doctors have admitting privilege at a nearby hospital, knowing that many hospitals will refuse to grant such to any doctor who performs elective abortion. They mandate patients be emotionally blackmailed by forcing them to look at 3D ultrasounds for no medical purpose and require doctors tell lies about abortion causing breast cancer. This all in turn affects the position of the pro-choice faction: Many of them don't actually like the idea of abortion on demand, but they feel they have to support it anyway, knowing that any victory for the pro-life side is just going to serve to justify the next restriction they try to impose, and the next, until they reach their ultimate objective of a country where abortion is legal but not a single doctor will perform the procedure.
When a person poses an undeniable danger to the life of health of others and actively tries to prevent action to mitigate this danger, what other option is there?
The best you can do is put them in a comfortable, luxury quarantine center. They've committed no intentional crime.
Me too. We're using that approach for the HPV vaccination now.
Note that there has been absolutely no religious outrage at all about the vaccine 'endorsing sin.' This says a lot about the cultural difference between the US and the UK.
The courts don't, but there was political intervention in that case. Someone from the DHS got involved and declared that even though the family are technically in violation of the law, said law won't be enforced in this case. It appears the media coverage got them some friends in high places.
I've read some unreliable stories by homeschooling parents who really did have academic concerns. They find another problem: There is a support community for homeschoolers, with books an courses - but because the overwhelming majority of them are religiously or politically motivated, so is that community. There's no support for anyone who wants to homeschool for other reasons. You go to any homeschooling community, and you'll find them promoting books about literal creation and implicit american exceptionalism throughout.
There's also a very small number of people who have to homeschool because conventional education isn't available - severe disability with no local specialist schools, or behaviorial issues which resulted in expulsion from all public schools within range.
Basic information theory says this approach is going to have some trouble.
There was/is a p2p network, the OFF system, which was based around a similar idea. All it ever exchanged was random data. Two random blocks, XORed together, made the desired data - all you needed to know was which blocks. It was basically a technological cheat to subvert the legal system. Sneaky, but courts tend to frown on systems which are clearly designed to subvert the intent of a law.
You can see the same thing in the US debates on abortion and gun control. Both sides are afraid of incrimentalism by the other, which compels them to adopt the extremist position in order to prevent that strategy working.
It helps that Sony admins liked to keep nice handy unencrypted text files listing every login and password conveniently in one place. The hackers needed to use technical attacks to get that far, but once they compromised the server holding those it was plain sailing from then on. Office staff had their own password list too, where they recorded company credit cards and passwords for external services.
Farmers are widely reported having a similar problem. Common fertilisers are chemically identical to an explosive, just packaged differently - that's why you can build fertiliser bombs.
There's a secret blacklist in the UK called Cleanfeed - it's supposed to be for child porn, but the contents of the list is a closely guarded secret, and it's already known from an incident where Wikipedia was briefly blocked by mistake that many ISPs will spoof a 404 message rather than reveal the reason for the block, so it's impossible to say how many non-child-porn pages are blocked.
I'm not so sure. High bit depths are valuable in production - when you wouldn't want to use lossy compression at all, and big files are not great problem. Size matters for distribution of the finished image, and there's little point in more than eight bits per channel there - many monitors can't even display that many, and few people have the visual acuity to care.
9. Program it to be configured over keyboard only, using the lock-lights for feedback (Connect keyboard, press enter until lights flash three times, type in IP address/netmask/dns/etc, lights will flash to confirm each in turn).
10. IPv6 link-local address + Avahi.
11. Default IP address somewhere out the way, like 192.168.99.99 - configured PC accordingly, connect to IP, use web browser to configure. Just like almost every home router and access point I've ever encountered.
New sources are being discovered all the time. With the improvement in extraction techniques that made shale a viable source, by the time oil dries up it will be someone else's problem.
Most of the objections I've seen are justified by ideology - conservatives arguing that net neutality is bad because all forms of government regulation are bad by default.
Pretty much. The ISP argument goes something like this: 1. The urban poor can't afford internet, and we're not going to pay for expensive cable-laying in areas of low population density because the RoI would be awful. 2. Unless new business opportunities change the situation, like being able to provide value-added service for preferred content providers (ie, demand money from other companies in return for not slowing their traffic down to an unusable level). 3. Therefore net neutality means no rural or low-cost internet.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK building a custom vehicle means subjecting it to a very strict testing process. Like the MOT, except far tougher to pass. If you meet the standards, the vehicle gets a certificate declaring it road-legal.
I was going to ask what sort of idiot keeps all their passwords listed in one place.
Then I saw SPE_02... which is exactly that. Files containing tons of passwords, clearly produced by Sony. Idiots.
A small point in their defense: Some of these lists are in the form of encrypted Excel files. So at least the put a password on them. I've no idea if MS Office encryption is any good or not. I'll take that point away for considering 'interview1' an acceptable password.
The SPE_01 dump has some interesting things. Contact details for lots of network executives, both within Sony Pictures and in those companies they had contact with. It also shows that, like every business, people were in the habbit of keeping a handy list of passwords for every service someone might need to log in to. There are a few interesting revlations (One of the vice presidents is working in the US on a green card, Family Feud is doing dismally in the ratings, the studio practically gave away The Dr Oz Show in syndication to build distribution before it got popular, even executives have to fill in those stupid performance goal forms). But it doesn't have any company-destroying releases or relevations of criminal activity.
SPE_01 is only a small part of what the hackers got - the part they chose to release straight away. It's also apparent that they got more data from elsewhere, because they have leaked yet-to-be-released movies that couldn't have come from any of the three hacked divisions that comprise SPE_01. I'm already seeing rumors of SPE_02, but havn't gotten that one for myself yet, so it would appear the hackers are putting it out in stages limited by their ability to figure out exactly what they've got and how best to use it.
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That's one of the best parts. Pregnancy is very, very stressful on a woman's body. So much so that in the US, the maternal mortality rate is actually greater than the mortality rate for abortion. Every time a woman dies following complications of abortion it gets widely reported all through the right-wing media - and it's true, some women do die as a consequence of abortion. But even if you ignore the ones conducted for medical reasons and include only the electives, it still saves more women than it kills.
You're right. Simply banning abortion doesn't get through courts, so the accepted pro-life strategy is to make sure abortion is legal yet as impractical as possible. They pass safety standards for clinics that are impossible to meet. They pass requirements that doctors have admitting privilege at a nearby hospital, knowing that many hospitals will refuse to grant such to any doctor who performs elective abortion. They mandate patients be emotionally blackmailed by forcing them to look at 3D ultrasounds for no medical purpose and require doctors tell lies about abortion causing breast cancer. This all in turn affects the position of the pro-choice faction: Many of them don't actually like the idea of abortion on demand, but they feel they have to support it anyway, knowing that any victory for the pro-life side is just going to serve to justify the next restriction they try to impose, and the next, until they reach their ultimate objective of a country where abortion is legal but not a single doctor will perform the procedure.
When a person poses an undeniable danger to the life of health of others and actively tries to prevent action to mitigate this danger, what other option is there?
The best you can do is put them in a comfortable, luxury quarantine center. They've committed no intentional crime.
Then they can get a medical note from a doctor.
Me too. We're using that approach for the HPV vaccination now.
Note that there has been absolutely no religious outrage at all about the vaccine 'endorsing sin.' This says a lot about the cultural difference between the US and the UK.
The courts don't, but there was political intervention in that case. Someone from the DHS got involved and declared that even though the family are technically in violation of the law, said law won't be enforced in this case. It appears the media coverage got them some friends in high places.
I've read some unreliable stories by homeschooling parents who really did have academic concerns. They find another problem: There is a support community for homeschoolers, with books an courses - but because the overwhelming majority of them are religiously or politically motivated, so is that community. There's no support for anyone who wants to homeschool for other reasons. You go to any homeschooling community, and you'll find them promoting books about literal creation and implicit american exceptionalism throughout.
There's also a very small number of people who have to homeschool because conventional education isn't available - severe disability with no local specialist schools, or behaviorial issues which resulted in expulsion from all public schools within range.
Basic information theory says this approach is going to have some trouble.
There was/is a p2p network, the OFF system, which was based around a similar idea. All it ever exchanged was random data. Two random blocks, XORed together, made the desired data - all you needed to know was which blocks. It was basically a technological cheat to subvert the legal system. Sneaky, but courts tend to frown on systems which are clearly designed to subvert the intent of a law.
You can see the same thing in the US debates on abortion and gun control. Both sides are afraid of incrimentalism by the other, which compels them to adopt the extremist position in order to prevent that strategy working.
And five more shall rise in its place.
It helps that Sony admins liked to keep nice handy unencrypted text files listing every login and password conveniently in one place. The hackers needed to use technical attacks to get that far, but once they compromised the server holding those it was plain sailing from then on. Office staff had their own password list too, where they recorded company credit cards and passwords for external services.
Then they bring in the bomb disposal robot to blow it up?
Farmers are widely reported having a similar problem. Common fertilisers are chemically identical to an explosive, just packaged differently - that's why you can build fertiliser bombs.
There's a secret blacklist in the UK called Cleanfeed - it's supposed to be for child porn, but the contents of the list is a closely guarded secret, and it's already known from an incident where Wikipedia was briefly blocked by mistake that many ISPs will spoof a 404 message rather than reveal the reason for the block, so it's impossible to say how many non-child-porn pages are blocked.
Someone, somehow, is going to find a way to drag this into the abortion debate. Should be entertaining.
That was last year.
I'm not so sure. High bit depths are valuable in production - when you wouldn't want to use lossy compression at all, and big files are not great problem. Size matters for distribution of the finished image, and there's little point in more than eight bits per channel there - many monitors can't even display that many, and few people have the visual acuity to care.
9. Program it to be configured over keyboard only, using the lock-lights for feedback (Connect keyboard, press enter until lights flash three times, type in IP address/netmask/dns/etc, lights will flash to confirm each in turn).
10. IPv6 link-local address + Avahi.
11. Default IP address somewhere out the way, like 192.168.99.99 - configured PC accordingly, connect to IP, use web browser to configure. Just like almost every home router and access point I've ever encountered.
New sources are being discovered all the time. With the improvement in extraction techniques that made shale a viable source, by the time oil dries up it will be someone else's problem.
It's disgusting, but effective.
Most of the objections I've seen are justified by ideology - conservatives arguing that net neutality is bad because all forms of government regulation are bad by default.
Pretty much. The ISP argument goes something like this:
1. The urban poor can't afford internet, and we're not going to pay for expensive cable-laying in areas of low population density because the RoI would be awful.
2. Unless new business opportunities change the situation, like being able to provide value-added service for preferred content providers (ie, demand money from other companies in return for not slowing their traffic down to an unusable level).
3. Therefore net neutality means no rural or low-cost internet.
So you're saying it's the work of a hack writer?
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK building a custom vehicle means subjecting it to a very strict testing process. Like the MOT, except far tougher to pass. If you meet the standards, the vehicle gets a certificate declaring it road-legal.
I was going to ask what sort of idiot keeps all their passwords listed in one place.
Then I saw SPE_02... which is exactly that. Files containing tons of passwords, clearly produced by Sony. Idiots.
A small point in their defense: Some of these lists are in the form of encrypted Excel files. So at least the put a password on them. I've no idea if MS Office encryption is any good or not. I'll take that point away for considering 'interview1' an acceptable password.
The SPE_01 dump has some interesting things. Contact details for lots of network executives, both within Sony Pictures and in those companies they had contact with. It also shows that, like every business, people were in the habbit of keeping a handy list of passwords for every service someone might need to log in to. There are a few interesting revlations (One of the vice presidents is working in the US on a green card, Family Feud is doing dismally in the ratings, the studio practically gave away The Dr Oz Show in syndication to build distribution before it got popular, even executives have to fill in those stupid performance goal forms). But it doesn't have any company-destroying releases or relevations of criminal activity.
SPE_01 is only a small part of what the hackers got - the part they chose to release straight away. It's also apparent that they got more data from elsewhere, because they have leaked yet-to-be-released movies that couldn't have come from any of the three hacked divisions that comprise SPE_01. I'm already seeing rumors of SPE_02, but havn't gotten that one for myself yet, so it would appear the hackers are putting it out in stages limited by their ability to figure out exactly what they've got and how best to use it.