If morality is all that kept people in check then even the tiniest percentage of people with lax morality would lead to a total collapse of society. A petty criminal could get very rich in such a world. Go to someone's house, smash windows, steal everything, move on.
You would need some sort of a public protection organisation, one able to stop these crimes by force and provide a threat of punishment to discourage more... which is what the police are for, when they do their job properly.
In a conflict between violence and non-violence...
You know of Tank Man, the famous protester in China? You don't know his name though. Because after the protest he vanished and was never seen or heard from again. The only force that can really counter violence is more violence. That is why most countries have a police force: A legitimate force, able to counter violent crime with violent enforcement, but willingly (-ish) subject to constraints and accountability.
I don't know about how the Taliban thinks, but I am too familiar with the ways of thinking of Christian fundamentalists. They often consider sin as not merely a set of rules, but almost a substance. Something that can linger, corrupt and taint. I know of one chuch that rejected a huge donation from a lottery winner because they thought gambling was a sin, and thus money obtained from gambling would be perminantly stained with that sin. There might be something similar going on with the Taliban: Once a computer has been used for something obscene (And this being the Taliban, it might not even be porn - they probably consider a lot of things obscene) it becomes dirty in their eyes, and only fire can purify it.
Hmm... from what I've read so far, it fits into exactly the same niche as does C++. Which explains the obscurity: Why learn Objective-C when the more-popular C++ does just the same thing, and offers greater access to skilled programmers and reuseable code?
Does anyone except IOS developers use Objective-C? I've never seen it even mentioned elsewhere, though wikipedia said it has long existed. I gather it's a very obscure language that Apple chose and threw into the spotlight.
All the funnier for them getting their astrological calculations wrong: The Age of Aquarius doesn't begin for about six hundred years yet.
Astrological calculations can get very complicated. On the principle that anything with lots of math in has to be right, astrologers added increasing complexity to each of the several competing and contradictory systems in use. Exactly when the AoA starts depends mostly upon estimating by eye where to site the invisible line that separates constellations.
That is obvious. WMP is the player that comes preinstalled on windows, and unless they have need for something else, that is the player most people will continue to use. Same reason IE remains so popular, and the reason Bing is the second-most-popular search engine for English-language searches.
You can insert some microsoft-bashing here if you want, but to be fair, every OS bundles a ton of helpful programs now for web-browsing and media-playing.
That's the usual situation with ed2k protocol servers. Get one of the mods that adds support for the Kad network, and use that - I've never had any such false-result spam when searching kad.
Anyone else do an easy Domains by Proxy?
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I like to debate politics online. It is important to remain anonymous when debating politics, because there are a few extremeist crazy people around who believe it is their patriotic duty to utterly destroy their opponents. I've heard some real horror stories about that - one blogger I used to debate was known for impersonating his opponents and posting in support of child porn, even going so far as to buy a domain under a false name. I'd rather not risk setting off one of those nuts and having them send false accusations to my employer. I work with children in a very sensitive country, the mere hint of suspicion is enough to not only get me fired but ensure I never work in the sector again.
I used godaddy solely because they also offered Domains by Proxy, allowing me to keep my real identity secret. I don't use them for hosting though.
"What metric does the US government use to determine if some content is infringing that makes it worth shutting down access to the entire website?"
The standard one court order. Just needs a single judge to sign the paperwork. The entire point of SOPA is to shut down sites that are hosted and operated from outside the US, so a full trial is not possible.
It's caused by inept code that just runs at maximum frame rate regardless of display. Those 2d animations are probably being generated at several thousand FPS, just because the programmer didn't know how to limit it to something more reasonable.
I would if I could, but I'm not that good at tablet hacking. Currently it can almost, but not quite, handle playing episodes of Friendship is Magic. I want to be able to watch those while on train journeys, but in high-motion scenes it struggles no matter what player I use - I suspect because the embedded h264 acceleration isn't being used. If I could get just 10% more processing performance, it should be able to manage.
Radically right wing. It's hard enough trying to make everyone fit into the left-right spectrum that American politics forces them into, without getting the ends mixed up.
You ask the critical question of the modern age: "If I let the hundred die, I'm not liable. If I kill the ten to save them, do I get charged with murder? If so, fuck 'em."
Then we get to see the religious lobby screaming that the government is spending tax money to encourage fornication. That'll be entertaining. The only reason they aren't upset about the current anti-HIV schemes is that a third of it is reserved for abstinance-only campaigns.
It won't. They are offering a quick, cheap solution - people won't easily reject such an offer, even if it doesn't actually work. Plus they have a lot of religious support in some parts of the world - Muslims eager to demonstrate how the ancient practices of Islam included medical secrets only just discovered by those backwards westerners.
HIV isn't a death sentence for the well-off. Treating it requires a cocktail of antivirals, all of them very expensive, plus frequent tests to see when the drugs need swapping out as the virus evolves. The drugs themselves have some unpleasant side effects too.
Trial 1: One year.
Trial 2: Length unspecified, but probably one year.
Trial 3: Three years.
Add in about six months per trial for paperwork, awaiting new approval and so on... six and a half years.
This had better be good.
Interesting point to consider though. If the trials were conducted with reckless disregard for the safety of the test subjects, trials one and two could be eliminated. That saves three years, at the expense of perhaps killing a few of the volunteers in the remaining trial. If the vaccine makes it to practical use three years earlier though, that would be a lot more additional lives saved. Could more people be saved overall by considering testing volunteers semi-expendable in order to hasten medical advance?
More interetingly, are computer models squishy? This is actually training for general biology - the med-students still get to practice on cadavers - but looking at diagrams doesn't give the same feel for anatomy as something more tactile. It all looks so clean on the drawings.
No, just the border routers on all routes in and out of the US. This isn't new technology - China has been using exactly the same for years. A combination of DNS filtering with IP blocking.
You have guns. They have professional killers with precision attack drones. The possibility of armed revolution just isn't realistic any more. It'd need overwhelming public support, and that isn't coming in the age of television.
Correct. It's a de-facto ban on plain old incandescent bulbs because they can't possibly meet the new efficiency standards, but the hallogen bulbs can. It's just called a 'lightbulb ban' by opponents because it's an easier way to stir people up then honestly describing what the law actually does - and shorter too. Shorter helps a lot.
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If morality is all that kept people in check then even the tiniest percentage of people with lax morality would lead to a total collapse of society. A petty criminal could get very rich in such a world. Go to someone's house, smash windows, steal everything, move on.
You would need some sort of a public protection organisation, one able to stop these crimes by force and provide a threat of punishment to discourage more... which is what the police are for, when they do their job properly.
Discovered by US forces though - that means the claim has no credibility at all for anyone who distrusts the US government.
Perhaps they think it better to hold great power in a country of poverty than to serve in a country of wealth?
In a conflict between violence and non-violence...
You know of Tank Man, the famous protester in China? You don't know his name though. Because after the protest he vanished and was never seen or heard from again. The only force that can really counter violence is more violence. That is why most countries have a police force: A legitimate force, able to counter violent crime with violent enforcement, but willingly (-ish) subject to constraints and accountability.
I don't know about how the Taliban thinks, but I am too familiar with the ways of thinking of Christian fundamentalists. They often consider sin as not merely a set of rules, but almost a substance. Something that can linger, corrupt and taint. I know of one chuch that rejected a huge donation from a lottery winner because they thought gambling was a sin, and thus money obtained from gambling would be perminantly stained with that sin. There might be something similar going on with the Taliban: Once a computer has been used for something obscene (And this being the Taliban, it might not even be porn - they probably consider a lot of things obscene) it becomes dirty in their eyes, and only fire can purify it.
Hmm... from what I've read so far, it fits into exactly the same niche as does C++. Which explains the obscurity: Why learn Objective-C when the more-popular C++ does just the same thing, and offers greater access to skilled programmers and reuseable code?
Does anyone except IOS developers use Objective-C? I've never seen it even mentioned elsewhere, though wikipedia said it has long existed. I gather it's a very obscure language that Apple chose and threw into the spotlight.
All the funnier for them getting their astrological calculations wrong: The Age of Aquarius doesn't begin for about six hundred years yet.
Astrological calculations can get very complicated. On the principle that anything with lots of math in has to be right, astrologers added increasing complexity to each of the several competing and contradictory systems in use. Exactly when the AoA starts depends mostly upon estimating by eye where to site the invisible line that separates constellations.
That is obvious. WMP is the player that comes preinstalled on windows, and unless they have need for something else, that is the player most people will continue to use. Same reason IE remains so popular, and the reason Bing is the second-most-popular search engine for English-language searches.
You can insert some microsoft-bashing here if you want, but to be fair, every OS bundles a ton of helpful programs now for web-browsing and media-playing.
That's the usual situation with ed2k protocol servers. Get one of the mods that adds support for the Kad network, and use that - I've never had any such false-result spam when searching kad.
I like to debate politics online. It is important to remain anonymous when debating politics, because there are a few extremeist crazy people around who believe it is their patriotic duty to utterly destroy their opponents. I've heard some real horror stories about that - one blogger I used to debate was known for impersonating his opponents and posting in support of child porn, even going so far as to buy a domain under a false name. I'd rather not risk setting off one of those nuts and having them send false accusations to my employer. I work with children in a very sensitive country, the mere hint of suspicion is enough to not only get me fired but ensure I never work in the sector again.
I used godaddy solely because they also offered Domains by Proxy, allowing me to keep my real identity secret. I don't use them for hosting though.
"What metric does the US government use to determine if some content is infringing that makes it worth shutting down access to the entire website?"
The standard one court order. Just needs a single judge to sign the paperwork. The entire point of SOPA is to shut down sites that are hosted and operated from outside the US, so a full trial is not possible.
It's caused by inept code that just runs at maximum frame rate regardless of display. Those 2d animations are probably being generated at several thousand FPS, just because the programmer didn't know how to limit it to something more reasonable.
I would if I could, but I'm not that good at tablet hacking. Currently it can almost, but not quite, handle playing episodes of Friendship is Magic. I want to be able to watch those while on train journeys, but in high-motion scenes it struggles no matter what player I use - I suspect because the embedded h264 acceleration isn't being used. If I could get just 10% more processing performance, it should be able to manage.
Radically right wing. It's hard enough trying to make everyone fit into the left-right spectrum that American politics forces them into, without getting the ends mixed up.
You ask the critical question of the modern age: "If I let the hundred die, I'm not liable. If I kill the ten to save them, do I get charged with murder? If so, fuck 'em."
Then we get to see the religious lobby screaming that the government is spending tax money to encourage fornication. That'll be entertaining. The only reason they aren't upset about the current anti-HIV schemes is that a third of it is reserved for abstinance-only campaigns.
"The ends never justify the means" is just a cliche excuse people use to escape having to make the hard decisions.
It won't. They are offering a quick, cheap solution - people won't easily reject such an offer, even if it doesn't actually work. Plus they have a lot of religious support in some parts of the world - Muslims eager to demonstrate how the ancient practices of Islam included medical secrets only just discovered by those backwards westerners.
HIV isn't a death sentence for the well-off. Treating it requires a cocktail of antivirals, all of them very expensive, plus frequent tests to see when the drugs need swapping out as the virus evolves. The drugs themselves have some unpleasant side effects too.
Trial 1: One year.
Trial 2: Length unspecified, but probably one year.
Trial 3: Three years.
Add in about six months per trial for paperwork, awaiting new approval and so on... six and a half years.
This had better be good.
Interesting point to consider though. If the trials were conducted with reckless disregard for the safety of the test subjects, trials one and two could be eliminated. That saves three years, at the expense of perhaps killing a few of the volunteers in the remaining trial. If the vaccine makes it to practical use three years earlier though, that would be a lot more additional lives saved. Could more people be saved overall by considering testing volunteers semi-expendable in order to hasten medical advance?
More interetingly, are computer models squishy? This is actually training for general biology - the med-students still get to practice on cadavers - but looking at diagrams doesn't give the same feel for anatomy as something more tactile. It all looks so clean on the drawings.
No, just the border routers on all routes in and out of the US. This isn't new technology - China has been using exactly the same for years. A combination of DNS filtering with IP blocking.
You have guns. They have professional killers with precision attack drones. The possibility of armed revolution just isn't realistic any more. It'd need overwhelming public support, and that isn't coming in the age of television.
Correct. It's a de-facto ban on plain old incandescent bulbs because they can't possibly meet the new efficiency standards, but the hallogen bulbs can. It's just called a 'lightbulb ban' by opponents because it's an easier way to stir people up then honestly describing what the law actually does - and shorter too. Shorter helps a lot.