>>>In my opinion, Kozinski has just publicly demonstrated that he is not qualified to be a judge at all
In my opinion, Jane Q. Public has demonstrated she doesn't have a clue because if she had read the article, she would see the judge is arguing FOR privacy, not against it.
AND: I'm trying to figure out the connection to Asimov's "Dead Past" story. I guess the judge is saying our cellphones and other modern tech allow the government to see where we are at any moment in time. Hence: We lost privacy just as the Time viewer in Asimov's story caused its character to lose their privacy.
>>>They see that the people they know can see the pictures of their cute kids.
Funny you bring that up. I just tried to log into facebook from a wireless device (instead of my home PC), and facebook made me identify a bunch of people in various pictures. Problem: Some of the pictures are kids I've never seen, or random uploaded comic/joke images, or people I know online but not by sight, so I couldn't identify them even if I saw them. Basically I couldn't get past this security. Why couldn't they just send me a verification email like normal? Stupid stupid facebook.
>>>Rights do not cease to be rights merely because the majority of people do not exercise them
Too bad no one thought to apply this axiom to the Vaccine Opt-out debate (different slashdot article). Just because 99.9% of people do not to exercise their right to skip the needle, does not mean the other 0.1% lose their right to make their own Choice. We should not be forcing them to be injected. (IMHO)
And just to stay on topic: We should be forcing ANYONE to do things they do not want to do. Like forcing them to give-up personal information. Or saliva for DNA testing (yes it's happened). Or the key to their laptop's encryption.
>>>" I don't trust the people inside the DC Beltway. They are sick (control freaks)."
Have you bothered to read the crap the D.C. politicians and bureaucrats are putting out? When they take-away the right to trial (NDAA), arrest Amish farmers for selling natural unpasteurized milk, forbid little girls from drawing guns in school (and then arrest the father of said child), give laptops to kids for the purpose of spying on them at home, send out VIPR teams to social security centers and post offices to force people to submit to breast & crotch-groping patdowns, regulate that it you deposit more than $1000 cash you should be placed on a Terrorist watchlist, and then put warning labels on bottles that say "Water does not cure dehydration".....
Well it's damn obvious they are a load of control freaks.
Oh good. I'm not the only one thinking along these lines. The simplicity of typing 10 PRINT"HELLO" 20 GOTO 10 gives instant gratification on those old 8 bit machines.
Although I'd probably use a Commodore 128 emulator because it has built-in sound and graphics commands. For me I just took the C128 Users Guide and went through one command at a time "playing" with them to see what they could do. About a week later I was writing my first graphics-based Star Trek program.
And then I jumped into assembly and C, once I had the BASIC foundation, but desired faster execution.
Most of the so-called "releases" from Apple are just minor upgrades to the ongoing OS X project..... equivalent to Microsoft service packs. SO:
Apple had 9 updates (9.2,10.0,.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7) Microsoft also had 9 (XP-0, -1, -2, -3, Vista-0, -1, -2, Seven-0, -1).
But Microsoft provides support across ~13 years (from XP-SP0 initial release to 2014) whereas apple only provides support for 1/3rd as long. Apple's philosophy forces people like me to buy new hardware to stay up-to-date (since 10.6, 10.7 won't run on my too-slow Mac).
But I do have manners (something you appear to lack). If you give government the power to force disease vaccines, you also give government the power to force sterilization vaccines (in order to enforce some future 1 child policy). There is nothing you can do to stop them, once this law has passed.
Try thinking beyond just this year, and think about the long-term ramifications.
You sound like Rick Santorum (or similar persons of his ilk). "We must round-up the gays and cure them of their mental illness. We have vaccines now which will do the job. It is for the good of society."
I am the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson of William Shakespeare. I claim his works as formerly his, and now my, "intellectual property". I will be sending a cease-and-desist letter shortly.
I think they should be charged as accessories to the death, just as happens if you help a gangster find the address of a guy who owes him money. You didn't do the killing yourself but you did help accomplish the task.
>>> You half-wit, if you distrust this government so much, just leave.
I'll remember that the next time someone argues the government should not ban same-sex marriage, or ban abortion: "If you want to be gay or terminate your pregnancy, then just leave and go somewhere else, you half-wit." NAH. I'm not an asshole.
I respect other people's opinions even if I don't agree with them. YOU might want to try that yourself. (In other words stop the name-calling; you're not in high school anymore.)
What I posted was not a troll. It was an OPINION based upon my own personal thinking (I don't trust governments, corporations, or the unelected bureaucrats therein). It seems like a sensible philosophy to me, given the last 100 years of government/corporate history.
If the students/teachers are already vaccinated, then they have nothing to fear from unvaccinated kids. The students/teachers are immune from those deadly diseases.
I consider this a "pro-choice" issue just as important as the pro-choice issue of abortion. Or wanting to date a partner of the same sex. Or smoking. It's YOUR body not the government's; they shouldn't have power to block you from lighting a cigarette, or having homosexual relations, or getting an abortion, or exercising the option not to be vaccinated.
What I posted was not a troll. Stop trying to censor other peopler's opinions just because you don't like them. This isn't China. Slashdot is not the Great Firewall where moderators block "badthink" from being visible.
IT was an OPINION based upon my own personal thinking (I don't trust governments, corporations, or the bureaucrats therein). It seems like a sensible philosophy to me, given the last 100 years of government/corporate history.
>>>Don't confuse politicians with the agency doing the science.
Okay.
The current head of the U.S. Dept. of Health wrote in multiple papers/textbooks that he thinks it is acceptable to inject women with sterilants after their 2nd child, in order to limit population. Now remind me again: Why am I supposed to trust people like him w/ injecting children and teenagers??? I cannot think of any reason.
>>>I trust Government regulation based on scientific research
I will never understand people who say "I trust government," and then 5 minutes later rail against the corporations and how they can not be trusted to take care of their employees/customers/factory environment.
Governments==corporations==strangers youve never met. You can't trust ANY of them. If you distrust Microsoft or Goldmann-Sachs or Foxxconn, you should distrust the government just as strongly.
Better not move to Texas either, where the governor overruled the Legislature and issued an executive order forcing girls to get Gardasil shots (even though Gardasil doesn't do anything useful). He was repaying Merck who helped get him elected.
So you think the government should have absolute control over injecting ANY chemicals they desire for citizens age 0-18? Hmmm. Yeah that's never caused any problems in the past (unless you were black and the government experimented upon your children) (see the PBS documentary). I'm sorry but I don't trust the government anymore than I trust Microsoft or any other megacorp.
The government should not be able to force free citizens to inject chemicals into their body (or water; like fluoride). Once you give them the power to inject good things into sovereign persons' bodies, like vaccines, you also give them power to inject bad things, like sterilants.*
* * Imagine some future distopia where the Vermont government limits parents to just 1 baby each. Like China does. The precedent has been set.
While I don't agree that vaccinations are dangerous, I'd still rather leave the decision to the parents of the child rather than same unnamed bureaucrat. I don't trust the people inside the DC Beltway. They are sick (control freaks).
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Except posting links isn't illegal.
The U.S. is like the Roman Empire in its last years. Trying to boss people around and not being too sucsessful because the power had waned.
>>>In my opinion, Kozinski has just publicly demonstrated that he is not qualified to be a judge at all
In my opinion, Jane Q. Public has demonstrated she doesn't have a clue because if she had read the article, she would see the judge is arguing FOR privacy, not against it.
AND: I'm trying to figure out the connection to Asimov's "Dead Past" story. I guess the judge is saying our cellphones and other modern tech allow the government to see where we are at any moment in time. Hence: We lost privacy just as the Time viewer in Asimov's story caused its character to lose their privacy.
>>>That judge is an idiot who is attempting to use "teh innerwebs" as justification for increased surveillance.
ALMOST ALL THE PEOPLE COMMENTING HERE NEED TO READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE. THE JUDGE IS SAYING HE DOES not LIKE THE WORLD WE'VE CREATED.
>>>They see that the people they know can see the pictures of their cute kids.
Funny you bring that up.
I just tried to log into facebook from a wireless device (instead of my home PC), and facebook made me identify a bunch of people in various pictures. Problem: Some of the pictures are kids I've never seen, or random uploaded comic/joke images, or people I know online but not by sight, so I couldn't identify them even if I saw them.
Basically I couldn't get past this security.
Why couldn't they just send me a verification email like normal? Stupid stupid facebook.
>>>Rights do not cease to be rights merely because the majority of people do not exercise them
Too bad no one thought to apply this axiom to the Vaccine Opt-out debate (different slashdot article). Just because 99.9% of people do not to exercise their right to skip the needle, does not mean the other 0.1% lose their right to make their own Choice. We should not be forcing them to be injected. (IMHO)
And just to stay on topic: We should be forcing ANYONE to do things they do not want to do. Like forcing them to give-up personal information. Or saliva for DNA testing (yes it's happened). Or the key to their laptop's encryption.
>>>" I don't trust the people inside the DC Beltway. They are sick (control freaks)."
Have you bothered to read the crap the D.C. politicians and bureaucrats are putting out? When they take-away the right to trial (NDAA), arrest Amish farmers for selling natural unpasteurized milk, forbid little girls from drawing guns in school (and then arrest the father of said child), give laptops to kids for the purpose of spying on them at home, send out VIPR teams to social security centers and post offices to force people to submit to breast & crotch-groping patdowns, regulate that it you deposit more than $1000 cash you should be placed on a Terrorist watchlist, and then put warning labels on bottles that say "Water does not cure dehydration".....
Well it's damn obvious they are a load of control freaks.
Oh good. I'm not the only one thinking along these lines. The simplicity of typing 10 PRINT"HELLO" 20 GOTO 10 gives instant gratification on those old 8 bit machines.
Although I'd probably use a Commodore 128 emulator because it has built-in sound and graphics commands. For me I just took the C128 Users Guide and went through one command at a time "playing" with them to see what they could do. About a week later I was writing my first graphics-based Star Trek program.
And then I jumped into assembly and C, once I had the BASIC foundation, but desired faster execution.
Okay. I'm using both XP (2007) and 10.5 (2010) with their date-of-last sale in the parentheses.
So Microsoft will provide a total support of 7 years from XP's final sale to 2014, whereas Apple only provided 1 and a half years for 10.5.
Most of the so-called "releases" from Apple are just minor upgrades to the ongoing OS X project..... equivalent to Microsoft service packs. SO:
Apple had 9 updates (9.2,10.0,.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7)
Microsoft also had 9 (XP-0, -1, -2, -3, Vista-0, -1, -2, Seven-0, -1).
But Microsoft provides support across ~13 years (from XP-SP0 initial release to 2014) whereas apple only provides support for 1/3rd as long. Apple's philosophy forces people like me to buy new hardware to stay up-to-date (since 10.6, 10.7 won't run on my too-slow Mac).
>>>No one said anything about forcibly injecting any chemicals.
That's what vaccines are
.
>>>Wow, you truly are an idiot, aren't you
Ooops. I didn't realize I was speaking to a juvenile. You haven't learned your manners yet, or how to act like an adult.
>>>Good god, you are a fucking moron, aren't you?
No.
But I do have manners (something you appear to lack). If you give government the power to force disease vaccines, you also give government the power to force sterilization vaccines (in order to enforce some future 1 child policy). There is nothing you can do to stop them, once this law has passed.
Try thinking beyond just this year, and think about the long-term ramifications.
You sound like Rick Santorum (or similar persons of his ilk). "We must round-up the gays and cure them of their mental illness. We have vaccines now which will do the job. It is for the good of society."
I am the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson of William Shakespeare. I claim his works as formerly his, and now my, "intellectual property". I will be sending a cease-and-desist letter shortly.
I think they should be charged as accessories to the death, just as happens if you help a gangster find the address of a guy who owes him money. You didn't do the killing yourself but you did help accomplish the task.
>>> You half-wit, if you distrust this government so much, just leave.
I'll remember that the next time someone argues the government should not ban same-sex marriage, or ban abortion: "If you want to be gay or terminate your pregnancy, then just leave and go somewhere else, you half-wit." NAH. I'm not an asshole.
I respect other people's opinions even if I don't agree with them. YOU might want to try that yourself. (In other words stop the name-calling; you're not in high school anymore.)
>>>(Score: 0, Troll)
What I posted was not a troll. It was an OPINION based upon my own personal thinking (I don't trust governments, corporations, or the unelected bureaucrats therein). It seems like a sensible philosophy to me, given the last 100 years of government/corporate history.
If the students/teachers are already vaccinated, then they have nothing to fear from unvaccinated kids. The students/teachers are immune from those deadly diseases.
I consider this a "pro-choice" issue just as important as the pro-choice issue of abortion. Or wanting to date a partner of the same sex. Or smoking. It's YOUR body not the government's; they shouldn't have power to block you from lighting a cigarette, or having homosexual relations, or getting an abortion, or exercising the option not to be vaccinated.
>>>(Score:-1, Troll)
What I posted was not a troll. Stop trying to censor other peopler's opinions just because you don't like them. This isn't China. Slashdot is not the Great Firewall where moderators block "badthink" from being visible.
IT was an OPINION based upon my own personal thinking (I don't trust governments, corporations, or the bureaucrats therein). It seems like a sensible philosophy to me, given the last 100 years of government/corporate history.
>>>Don't confuse politicians with the agency doing the science.
Okay.
The current head of the U.S. Dept. of Health wrote in multiple papers/textbooks that he thinks it is acceptable to inject women with sterilants after their 2nd child, in order to limit population. Now remind me again: Why am I supposed to trust people like him w/ injecting children and teenagers??? I cannot think of any reason.
>>>I trust Government regulation based on scientific research
I will never understand people who say "I trust government," and then 5 minutes later rail against the corporations and how they can not be trusted to take care of their employees/customers/factory environment.
Governments==corporations==strangers youve never met. You can't trust ANY of them. If you distrust Microsoft or Goldmann-Sachs or Foxxconn, you should distrust the government just as strongly.
Better not move to Texas either, where the governor overruled the Legislature and issued an executive order forcing girls to get Gardasil shots (even though Gardasil doesn't do anything useful). He was repaying Merck who helped get him elected.
So you think the government should have absolute control over injecting ANY chemicals they desire for citizens age 0-18? Hmmm. Yeah that's never caused any problems in the past (unless you were black and the government experimented upon your children) (see the PBS documentary). I'm sorry but I don't trust the government anymore than I trust Microsoft or any other megacorp.
The government should not be able to force free citizens to inject chemicals into their body (or water; like fluoride). Once you give them the power to inject good things into sovereign persons' bodies, like vaccines, you also give them power to inject bad things, like sterilants.*
*
* Imagine some future distopia where the Vermont government limits parents to just 1 baby each. Like China does. The precedent has been set.
While I don't agree that vaccinations are dangerous, I'd still rather leave the decision to the parents of the child rather than same unnamed bureaucrat. I don't trust the people inside the DC Beltway. They are sick (control freaks).