Financial companies (in the US, at least) are obligated by
law to keep paper trail of every transaction for
many years...
Are the governments cutting themselves some
slack in the, probably, most important field (like they do
in other areas)? Or do the voters get a paper receipt documenting, how they voted -- so a contested election
can be manually recounted (even if with a certain margin of error)?
In what SciFi I read, such "robot" would be called the other person's "avatar". Mind you, there is no need for
the other person. An avatar can represent a computer
or some other (semi-)sentient being...
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If they can trace a spammer they can trace activists, dissidents, anybody who might be a terrorist,
They already can. And they do if they think they can win a conviction. They don't go after spammers, because spamming
is not illegal. Outlawing it in some fashion and charging a
law enforcement agency (FBI?) with enforcing the law would be how things were done in this country for years.
It does not need to be "swat", however -- spamming is a "white-collar", mmmm, misdeed (not a crime yet), and it is unlikely the suspects will violentrly resist apprehension.
they can trace anybody. Sure they can do it now to a large degree, but if there's a Federal SWAT team they'll need access to some sort of system right? Something like the Terrorist Information Awareness network or Carnivore but geared specifically towards email and only email.
I'd say, SpamHaus and other vigilantes (or anti-business terrorists:-) provide plenty of leads and evidence already. If the new force is, indeed, created and
successfull, the vigilantes will, probably, dissolve as the spamming subsides. To keep it low, the force, however, will be able to keep the vigilantes' methods -- setting up "honeypot" e-mail addresses on web-pages, etc.
It's annoying, yes, but I'd hate to think that I lost a single message from a client because I was just a tad too overzealous in my blocking. [...]
If that's not you, hey, no skin off my back. Just don't expect me to switch ISPs or anything if you can't get mail from me because SPEWS hates somebody who used to be on a netblock a few/16's away from mine.
Unless, of course, I am your client... Then you, probably, will consider switching. Which is the point, kind of.
Spamassassin and the like do a decent job of helping the spam problem, but my users still complain that their SPAM box has 80 messages a day...even if they get no false positives.
My SpamAssassin is configured to reject the suspicios e-mails with a polite message:
550 This looks too much like spam. Please, contact your intended recipient with a short plain-text message
This way, I don't have to worry much about false positives -- the innocent senders (if any) will immediately know, what happened and will be able to get around the problem.
I don't like that a single, powerful state ditches the judgement of United Nations and gets to promoting its interests using military force.
If it was not obvious from the beginning, it should be obvious now -- the judgement of the UN was impaired by the alarm over American power. The non-American disaproval of the war has very little to do with the actual merits of the US' arguments.
I like that this administration ended up finding enough consistency to, indeed, ditch this poor judgement of the international body.
I maintain, that in some circumstances, the risk of "slipping" is worth it...
When you look at it as a citizen of the wanna-be empire, maybe. But definitely not when you are dweller of a country with not-so-good relations to the superpower.
Ha! A dweller or a (cruel, incompetent, and hated) ruler? Let me assure you, that back, when I was such a dweller, my point a view was much the same as it is now after my status has been upgraded to the citizenship of the empire you loath so much...
Can the people, who have never tasted the true oppression listen to those, who have?
I think, you are confusing the "BUSINESS REPLY MAIL" with the official government envelopes... The warnings on the latter are intended to prevent the government employees from using them for their own correspondence...
Two rings. One -- with the ear-piece -- for the thumb, another -- with the microphone -- for the pinkie.
Spread your fingers, raise them to your head and talk. The third piece -- with the antenna -- can be somewhere else on the body, like some other form of jewelry (belly chain, or an ancle bracelet).
The pieces will communicate with the antenna over something very short-range, like bluetooth.
The dialing done by rotating the little dial (!) on one of the rings or something. Click the rings together to hangup -- or to answer a call...
When it happens, just remember. You read it here first.
Those were not recent events. Regardless of whether removing Saddam was or was not the US' (primary) objective, it happened. This was a recent development, which we both like, contrary to your earlier statement, that you disklike all of them.
Yes, it is a dangerous slope and will require skill and wisdom not to slip down.
To this I wholeheartedly agree. However, the last thing I will rely in this world on is the wisdom or sincerity of politicians.
I must point out, that you deliberately dropped my next sentence -- that such unwillingness to rely on skill (not sincerety!) and wisdom of polititians condemns millions to decades of sufferings under brutal dictatorships. I maintain, that in some circumstances, the risk of "slipping" is worth it...
The yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a front page article about this. There is no denying, he went to China (after paying off his mortgage and transfering the house ownership to his Christian wife) in October 2001, while telling friends he was going to Palestine (his family lives there). He said, he went there to search for business opportunities, but made no phone calls to China prior to going there -- FBI has his phone records. His friends he say he was becoming increasingly Muslim in recent years, but rejected violence. His lawyer (yes, unlike the really "disappeared" people, he has a lawyer) explains his sudden mortgage payoff by Islam's prohibition to borrow money at interest. May be. But there are plenty of other unanswered questions.
While the government's behaviour does seem heavy-handed to me, I see no reason to doubt their sincerety (as over-rated as this virtue might be -- the sincerety). He will not be the first innocent person in history to be held -- that's just the unfortunate drawback of the best legal systems currently known. But the evidence against him -- as presented so far to the public -- is not the weakest in the history of such legal systems either.
If you want to fight human rights violations -- consult Amnesty International. They spend time and money researching and fighting some real abuses. Just pick any one instead of charging nearby windmills...
Who supplied him with conventional weapons and WMDs in first place? Why Rumsfield has shaken his hand circa '83?
You are changing the subject. I was referring to your
complaint about "recent developments". It was not a "charity", of course, but I still like it.
But remember: there was no single example in human history when a state that started using military force outside its borders ceased such practice voluntarily.
Sounds insightful, but is not. Remember, there was no single example in human history, when a person that started using, mmm, toilet paper, ceased such practice voluntarily.
In any case, I'd rather see more examples of US using its force, than of Saddam's Iraq using its. I do not accept the "any agression is bad" argument.
Yes, it is a dangerous
slope and will require skill and wisdom not to slip down. But not venturing there at all condemns too many people to the misery of living under murderous dictatorships, which was the whole point of my very fist participation in this discussion.
I don't see the current development as an improvement though.
I do. A blody dictator was ousted with remarkably
little "collateral damage". 15K bombs and missiles -- less than 2 thousands civilian victims -- the dictator killed (and would've continued killing) more.
Last time someone decided to screw the Nations, my home country lost quarter of its population in direct casualities, so pardon me my alertness.
I sympathize. But this is a wrong kind of argument. I can counter in a similar vain: "Last time Germany and Russia agreed on something, Poland disappeared".
The US currently has tremendously overwhelming advantage on the battlefield. Like a great scalpel, it -- coupled with the other modern surgery equipment, and the advanced post-surgery rehabilitation -- can be used to operate on things, which were traditionally only treated with drugs. Surgery is not always the best option, of course, but neither is the drug therapy.
It's excuse: We Cannot Violate The Sovereignty of Any Member of the International Community.
Alas, so far it was the best thing that people came up with.
That's true, unfortunately. What I was saying is, that the current situation is still flawed in a major way, and we should continue to look for better policies.
No, really, did you ever consider why Lynch law is outlawed?
Did you ever consider, why the Lynch law emerged in the first place? Depending on the number of the subjects and the level of the society's development, the governing principles (should) wary widely...
There are millions of people in a typical country today. Yet
there are less than 200 countries in the world. Even if we assume, that we should be looking for inter-sovereign principles in the domain of the inter-individual ones, we should not be blindly trying to pick the same solutions for both. Plainly, what is not good for millions may be the best for hundreds. And the other way around.
Similar things continue...
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Although similar persecutions continue in some countries to these days, the public opinion in many democracies would not tolerate any outside action against the oppressing governments.
Living your life under Stalin, Kim of North Korea, Castro, Saddam Hussein is worse than war... Trade sanctions -- a modern democracies' usual "civilized" weapon against each other -- don't work against these
scumbags. They pass the suffering onto their people...
Awww.... I give up. I can't even tolerate being sarcastic about this sort of bullshit... Robert, If someone refuses stuff on racist grounds, by definition they are always racist.
I'll even go one further and say racist fucking scum.
Nah Fuck Monster.
I don't think, race had much to do with the
Monster's decision. They "filtered" based on the address. Black or yellow -- the resumes don't say. So, don't get too worked up. This is not the cause -- yet...
FreeBSD 5 also has UFS2, which is also apparently a nice performance increase.
No... I asked this when UFS2 was checked in
and the developer responded, that the original
UFS was/is already almost as good as it is going
to get, providing "almost" the speed of the raw
diks. UFS2 provides new features -- the
the extended attribute support, better ACL handling, etc.
My uncle lives in Montana. this is how it was explained to me...
There might be something to his explanation, but
the real reason, as I stated, was that the "reasonable and prudent" (I misquoted originally) was considered too vague.
doing 90 through towns
All I ask for, is being able to go at 90 on a multi-line limited access highway legally in my recent issue Jetta. This would cut down my regular Boston-NYC commute by an hour each way... But nooo...
(which goes to show you, people will be idiots, at least some of the people, all of the time)
I'm guessing it would have to be released, otherwise it'd be some kind of perpetual energy system.
Not neccessarily. The energy harvested is
ultimately that of the Sun. Just as the systems
using the tides, wind, or the explicitly named
"solar power" stations. So, the laws of thermodynamics are safe:-)
This would've been a great solution, but the
speed limits are much too low where I live. AFAIK,
they are also too indiscriminate in most of the
world -- they don't take into account the quality of
the car (its suspension, breaks, and tires) nor the
quality of the driver (a NASCAR participant at
85 mph is a safer driver than an 80-year old at
50 -- especially, with a turn-light blinking for the
last 10 miles).
Montana's law, that allowed any "reasonable
and proper" speed was recently struck down as
too vague:-\ I'd love a system, where someone
could run through (and pay for) a higher classification for her/his car and him/herself to
get authorization to drive, say 40% above speed
limit, or something... But this is far too offtopic.
I _hate_ chugging down the highway at highway speed, then suddenly being down to 45 (where the limit is 55) because some paranoiac at the front saw a cop and is now "making up" for going 70 before.
"The only car, that does not slow down at the
sight of a policeman is a parked one". (Don't
remember the source).
The Islamic invasion of Europe was defeated by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours AD 732.
Yes, that's right -- by a Frenchman.
Except he was not really a Frenchman for
France did not really exist back then. Europe
was a patchwork of different states and statelets,
with many parts of today's France being independent or being depending on other suverens (sp?).
Your point was, of course, that French were
quite battle-worthy some time ago. This point
would've better proven by bringing up the Napoleon's name. Much more recent
too:-)
Today's Europe reminds me of ancient Greece during the Roman era. Always complaining about Romans, but too weak to
do much on their own. The way Americans feel
about Europe also seems similar -- respect for
arts and education, laughs at the... well, you know:-)
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Financial companies (in the US, at least) are obligated by law to keep paper trail of every transaction for many years...
Are the governments cutting themselves some slack in the, probably, most important field (like they do in other areas)? Or do the voters get a paper receipt documenting, how they voted -- so a contested election can be manually recounted (even if with a certain margin of error)?
In what SciFi I read, such "robot" would be called the other person's "avatar". Mind you, there is no need for the other person. An avatar can represent a computer or some other (semi-)sentient being...
They already can. And they do if they think they can win a conviction. They don't go after spammers, because spamming is not illegal. Outlawing it in some fashion and charging a law enforcement agency (FBI?) with enforcing the law would be how things were done in this country for years.
It does not need to be "swat", however -- spamming is a "white-collar", mmmm, misdeed (not a crime yet), and it is unlikely the suspects will violentrly resist apprehension.
I'd say, SpamHaus and other vigilantes (or anti-business terrorists :-) provide plenty of leads and evidence already. If the new force is, indeed, created and
successfull, the vigilantes will, probably, dissolve as the spamming subsides. To keep it low, the force, however, will be able to keep the vigilantes' methods -- setting up "honeypot" e-mail addresses on web-pages, etc.
Unless, of course, I am your client... Then you, probably, will consider switching. Which is the point, kind of.
My SpamAssassin is configured to reject the suspicios e-mails with a polite message: 550 This looks too much like spam. Please, contact your intended recipient with a short plain-text message
This way, I don't have to worry much about false positives -- the innocent senders (if any) will immediately know, what happened and will be able to get around the problem.
If it was not obvious from the beginning, it should be obvious now -- the judgement of the UN was impaired by the alarm over American power. The non-American disaproval of the war has very little to do with the actual merits of the US' arguments.
I like that this administration ended up finding enough consistency to, indeed, ditch this poor judgement of the international body.
Ha! A dweller or a (cruel, incompetent, and hated) ruler? Let me assure you, that back, when I was such a dweller, my point a view was much the same as it is now after my status has been upgraded to the citizenship of the empire you loath so much...
Can the people, who have never tasted the true oppression listen to those, who have?
I think, you are confusing the "BUSINESS REPLY MAIL" with the official government envelopes... The warnings on the latter are intended to prevent the government employees from using them for their own correspondence...
The dialing done by rotating the little dial (!) on one of the rings or something. Click the rings together to hangup -- or to answer a call...
When it happens, just remember. You read it here first.
Those were not recent events. Regardless of whether removing Saddam was or was not the US' (primary) objective, it happened. This was a recent development, which we both like, contrary to your earlier statement, that you disklike all of them.
I must point out, that you deliberately dropped my next sentence -- that such unwillingness to rely on skill (not sincerety!) and wisdom of polititians condemns millions to decades of sufferings under brutal dictatorships. I maintain, that in some circumstances, the risk of "slipping" is worth it...
The yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a front page article about this. There is no denying, he went to China (after paying off his mortgage and transfering the house ownership to his Christian wife) in October 2001, while telling friends he was going to Palestine (his family lives there). He said, he went there to search for business opportunities, but made no phone calls to China prior to going there -- FBI has his phone records. His friends he say he was becoming increasingly Muslim in recent years, but rejected violence. His lawyer (yes, unlike the really "disappeared" people, he has a lawyer) explains his sudden mortgage payoff by Islam's prohibition to borrow money at interest. May be. But there are plenty of other unanswered questions.
While the government's behaviour does seem heavy-handed to me, I see no reason to doubt their sincerety (as over-rated as this virtue might be -- the sincerety). He will not be the first innocent person in history to be held -- that's just the unfortunate drawback of the best legal systems currently known. But the evidence against him -- as presented so far to the public -- is not the weakest in the history of such legal systems either.
If you want to fight human rights violations -- consult Amnesty International. They spend time and money researching and fighting some real abuses. Just pick any one instead of charging nearby windmills...
You are changing the subject. I was referring to your complaint about "recent developments". It was not a "charity", of course, but I still like it.
Sounds insightful, but is not. Remember, there was no single example in human history, when a person that started using, mmm, toilet paper, ceased such practice voluntarily.
In any case, I'd rather see more examples of US using its force, than of Saddam's Iraq using its. I do not accept the "any agression is bad" argument.
Yes, it is a dangerous slope and will require skill and wisdom not to slip down. But not venturing there at all condemns too many people to the misery of living under murderous dictatorships, which was the whole point of my very fist participation in this discussion.
Are you saying, Saddam is an American citizen? :-) I know, he was rather well treated here in the past, but
I doubt he ever took the Pledge...
I do. A blody dictator was ousted with remarkably little "collateral damage". 15K bombs and missiles -- less than 2 thousands civilian victims -- the dictator killed (and would've continued killing) more.
I sympathize. But this is a wrong kind of argument. I can counter in a similar vain: "Last time Germany and Russia agreed on something, Poland disappeared".
The US currently has tremendously overwhelming advantage on the battlefield. Like a great scalpel, it -- coupled with the other modern surgery equipment, and the advanced post-surgery rehabilitation -- can be used to operate on things, which were traditionally only treated with drugs. Surgery is not always the best option, of course, but neither is the drug therapy.
Once the sources are downloaded -- and it is Sun's stupidity, that requires you to click-through the license before downloading, it is as simple as:
To install on multiple machines, you can follow up with After which, it only a matter of on each of your systems...BTW, I'm using the 1.4.1 -- it is certainly quite stable.
That's true, unfortunately. What I was saying is, that the current situation is still flawed in a major way, and we should continue to look for better policies.
Did you ever consider, why the Lynch law emerged in the first place? Depending on the number of the subjects and the level of the society's development, the governing principles (should) wary widely...
There are millions of people in a typical country today. Yet there are less than 200 countries in the world. Even if we assume, that we should be looking for inter-sovereign principles in the domain of the inter-individual ones, we should not be blindly trying to pick the same solutions for both. Plainly, what is not good for millions may be the best for hundreds. And the other way around.
Although similar persecutions continue in some countries to these days, the public opinion in many democracies would not tolerate any outside action against the oppressing governments.
Living your life under Stalin, Kim of North Korea, Castro, Saddam Hussein is worse than war... Trade sanctions -- a modern democracies' usual "civilized" weapon against each other -- don't work against these scumbags. They pass the suffering onto their people...
I don't think, race had much to do with the Monster's decision. They "filtered" based on the address. Black or yellow -- the resumes don't say. So, don't get too worked up. This is not the cause -- yet...
What about KDE getting sponsored by the German government?
No... I asked this when UFS2 was checked in and the developer responded, that the original UFS was/is already almost as good as it is going to get, providing "almost" the speed of the raw diks. UFS2 provides new features -- the the extended attribute support, better ACL handling, etc.
You had a model in your room, and she was working?
What's so special about (g)zip? Would not any good archiver (or, rather, any good archiving algorithm) do?
Rhetorical questions, of course -- what good is an article if it does not mention GNU and/or Linux...
There might be something to his explanation, but the real reason, as I stated, was that the "reasonable and prudent" (I misquoted originally) was considered too vague.
All I ask for, is being able to go at 90 on a multi-line limited access highway legally in my recent issue Jetta. This would cut down my regular Boston-NYC commute by an hour each way... But nooo...
Show me? I never disputed this...
Not neccessarily. The energy harvested is ultimately that of the Sun. Just as the systems using the tides, wind, or the explicitly named "solar power" stations. So, the laws of thermodynamics are safe :-)
This would've been a great solution, but the speed limits are much too low where I live. AFAIK, they are also too indiscriminate in most of the world -- they don't take into account the quality of the car (its suspension, breaks, and tires) nor the quality of the driver (a NASCAR participant at 85 mph is a safer driver than an 80-year old at 50 -- especially, with a turn-light blinking for the last 10 miles).
Montana's law, that allowed any "reasonable and proper" speed was recently struck down as too vague :-\ I'd love a system, where someone
could run through (and pay for) a higher classification for her/his car and him/herself to
get authorization to drive, say 40% above speed
limit, or something... But this is far too offtopic.
"The only car, that does not slow down at the sight of a policeman is a parked one". (Don't remember the source).
Except he was not really a Frenchman for France did not really exist back then. Europe was a patchwork of different states and statelets, with many parts of today's France being independent or being depending on other suverens (sp?).
Your point was, of course, that French were quite battle-worthy some time ago. This point would've better proven by bringing up the Napoleon's name. Much more recent too :-)
Today's Europe reminds me of ancient Greece during the Roman era. Always complaining about Romans, but too weak to do much on their own. The way Americans feel about Europe also seems similar -- respect for arts and education, laughs at the ... well, you know :-)