Example: A soldier posts something about a family member back home in whatever town they came from. Maybe they were even thoughtless enough to mention where this person works, goes to school, whatever. Now any terrorist that wants to doesn't have to target the soldier, they go to the family's house back home where most people assume it is safe and kill them in the middle of the night.
Bringing terrorists into this discussion like this was just silly. There's plenty more common criminals, and armed force's family members are far more likely to fall victim to them. I completely understand the need to censor information about military actions, but to be concerned that random Iraqi insurgent will be willing (or able) to travel all the way to Tuscaloosa, Alabama? To kill an individual after finding out their workplace? If they had the ability to strike in the US with impunity, they wouldn't be concerned with individuals.
Well, to be fair, he does mention "extortion" enough times that one would not be too far off assuming that he's talking about crime for monetary gain, as opposed to a crime of passion... umm... well, I suppose DDOSing a blogger than made fun of you could be considered passion.
To you, NYCL, I shall be grateful that people stand up to a system that, to me, has no remaining trust whatsoever, so much so to render written law almost useless. However, I will always find it very disturbing to think that we must plead for our lives to people have a gun to our heads, and pray they abide by the written rules that they themselves created for our "benefit". Only by their "mercy" we aren't just farting into the wind with our expensive arguments. They have the weaponry to take it or leave it.
The system can threaten everybody, but it can't actually carry out against everybody. If every person who has traded a file on a P2P network was sent to jail today, there wouldn't be enough of a population in the US to actually run the prisons, farms, and... um... prison-related manufacturing firms.
Yes, I know, this is a civil, not a criminal matter. But remember, they can't take it from everybody - there's not enough cops in the world to arrest all the non-cops in the world.
And in civil trials, it's referred to as the plaintiff. And, actually, in criminal court (where 'prosecution' is the appropriate word) the government is required to share any evidence it collects with the defendant, even if it doesn't plan to use that evidence itself.
But this is all irrelevant, and kind of pedantic of me. What is important here is that Dr. Jacobson, through his own admissions, can't be used as an expert witness. The RIAA should have known this, and found someone with a better (and peer-reviewed) methodology long before now. The problem is they've been lax - too many people, scared by the amount they could be sued for, settle out of court.
but generally in broadband connections the lease times are longer and when one does renew, one usually gets the same number as before.
Meh, I think it may depend on the ISP. When I lived in Maryland, I seem to remember that I had two or three IP addresses that I would end up getting virtually all the time, but the lease terms were also 23 hours & 59 minutes. Now, living near Norfolk, I get 20-day leases, but I've gotten different IP every time I've looked at my firewall.
In any event, to be usable as legal evidence in a trial, I would think you'd want to be more than 'pretty sure' that you got the right IP address & customer. (Unless, of course, you're on the 'I want money & to scare pirates' bandwagon. In which case it doesn't really matter if the person's actually guilty or not.)
The submitter may also want to hold off on TFA-linking world record attempt too. This is Slashdot, we seldom read one linked FA. Asking us to read, like 10 of them, just isn't going to happen.
To be fair, several of them were either links to previous stories in this case on Slashdot, or links to previous stories on this case from other sources... I think the second link was the only new one.
But the British should have seen the example of the Spanish and so on. Expecting people to learn lessons from their neighbor is a stretch, but asking the same of countries is just silly. We're so much more (insert culture's most revered virtue) than they were, it'll work this time!
It actually seems remarkably similar to the kinds of issues that are thought to have led to the emergence of epidemic diseases among humans after the rise of civilization
Which #4 also fits (see smallpox & Native Americans). The varroa mite (another bee parasite) is common on the asian honeybee, but relatively non-damaging. It will live on the european honeybee, however, and usually eliminates the hive if some human intervention isn't forthcoming.
One common theme for societies in general is that they serve to aid individuals in a time of crisis.
The first sentence of the second paragraph from your link.
The respective trial judges held that the police were under no specific legal duty to provide protection to the individual appellants and dismissed the complaints for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.
A summary of Warren vs. District of Columbia - the primary duty of police is enforcing the law, not protecting lives from crimes currently in progress. So if the "crisis" is an armed, violent person with a gun, and the main duty of the police is cleaning up afterwards, then how does society aid the individuals being shot at? I would argue by allowing adults with clean criminal & mental health records access to firearms.
You're equaiting carrying a gun for personal protection, from an agressor, to carrying a gun for psychological protection, from people who make fun of you for being anti-social?
Yes, I'll agree that people shouldn't make fun of others for being socially inept. But equating Cho's actions with self-defense is asinine.
And the Applalachin Law School shooting. Which, honestly, I had heard nothing about until I read a rebuttal by an NRA member the the usual "gun control ftw!" reply to this shooting.
(The shooter, in 2002, killed his professor who failed him out, the associate dean, and then left their office & started shooting. The school allows people with concealed carry permits to bring their weapons on-campus, and two students shot at the attacker, who surrendered.)
The fact that the gun control advocates don't generally mention this incident irks me to no end.
People who shop at Walmart are just the kind of people who care about looking rich at any cost.
Which means they've convinced themselves they're shopping at some other department store? That whole walmart=looking rich phrase melted part of my brain.
Life has what point you bring to it. Personally, my life is pretty good - better than the world seems to be as a whole. The point of international journalism isn't to make people happy - it's to let us know about Darfur, Virginia Tech, Iran & the Chinese economy. Yes, 'human interest' stories like the 'ghost yacht' in Australia & the multibillionaire feng shui advisor seem to sell papers (and get ratings)... but, really, which is more likely to impact somebody living on the other side of the world?
To be clear, I'm not faulting local journalists for covering local stories. If I watch the Norfolk news, I expect to hear about a fire in an apartment, a local woman winning 10,000 in the lotto, and a lost kid turning up just fine after a few hours. But to mandate that journalists spend half their time covering 'positive' news goes against the idea of a free press. If Putin, and the rest of Russia, wants that, then so it is. But let him come out and say it.
I think 6 million is optimistic. At the current rate, it's looking more like 5... The thing that matters in the "console wars" is the games. The number of titles that are cross-platform in this generation, but PS-exclusive in the previous generation, is much larger than the converse. If 75% of the games end up being the same between the PS3 & the Xbox360, you have $200 on one side, and a built in Blu-ray on the other. And if wally world can sell a HD-DVD player for 200 dollars or less... And if the HD-DVD on one side & DVD on the other starts becoming standard...
So if there's, say, a million examples of "bad" bits of news (Cho, the death of more soldiers & civilians in Iraq, unemployment up) and five "good" bits of news (guy & his parrot rescued by the coast guard out of a small pine forest, two retired folks in one of those "communities" find love, etc.), we should spend equal time on them?
I'm sorry, but that's asinine. A personal triumph (or a personal tragedy) should get no coverage when compared to something that's affecting 300 million lives.
Well, I guess I'm making the assumption that a.) they're violating the constitution & b.) if they are, somebody is around to stop them. Which is not always a good assumption...
the fear of death that generally works as a deterrent to violence.
I mostly agree with your post, but just to point out - all of the recent school shooting have ended in death, often at their own hands, of the attackers. Obviously fear of death isn't working.
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Bringing terrorists into this discussion like this was just silly. There's plenty more common criminals, and armed force's family members are far more likely to fall victim to them. I completely understand the need to censor information about military actions, but to be concerned that random Iraqi insurgent will be willing (or able) to travel all the way to Tuscaloosa, Alabama? To kill an individual after finding out their workplace? If they had the ability to strike in the US with impunity, they wouldn't be concerned with individuals.
Yes, but it's more analogous to suicide by cop using a real gun - it will probably lead to more than just the offender getting killed.
Really lame passion, but so it goes.
(Course, I had been drinking a bit, so I suppose I should watch it sober to be entirely sure....)
The system can threaten everybody, but it can't actually carry out against everybody. If every person who has traded a file on a P2P network was sent to jail today, there wouldn't be enough of a population in the US to actually run the prisons, farms, and... um... prison-related manufacturing firms.
Yes, I know, this is a civil, not a criminal matter. But remember, they can't take it from everybody - there's not enough cops in the world to arrest all the non-cops in the world.
And in civil trials, it's referred to as the plaintiff. And, actually, in criminal court (where 'prosecution' is the appropriate word) the government is required to share any evidence it collects with the defendant, even if it doesn't plan to use that evidence itself.
But this is all irrelevant, and kind of pedantic of me. What is important here is that Dr. Jacobson, through his own admissions, can't be used as an expert witness. The RIAA should have known this, and found someone with a better (and peer-reviewed) methodology long before now. The problem is they've been lax - too many people, scared by the amount they could be sued for, settle out of court.
/pedantic
Meh, I think it may depend on the ISP. When I lived in Maryland, I seem to remember that I had two or three IP addresses that I would end up getting virtually all the time, but the lease terms were also 23 hours & 59 minutes. Now, living near Norfolk, I get 20-day leases, but I've gotten different IP every time I've looked at my firewall.
In any event, to be usable as legal evidence in a trial, I would think you'd want to be more than 'pretty sure' that you got the right IP address & customer. (Unless, of course, you're on the 'I want money & to scare pirates' bandwagon. In which case it doesn't really matter if the person's actually guilty or not.)
To be fair, several of them were either links to previous stories in this case on Slashdot, or links to previous stories on this case from other sources... I think the second link was the only new one.
But the British should have seen the example of the Spanish and so on. Expecting people to learn lessons from their neighbor is a stretch, but asking the same of countries is just silly. We're so much more (insert culture's most revered virtue) than they were, it'll work this time!
Which #4 also fits (see smallpox & Native Americans). The varroa mite (another bee parasite) is common on the asian honeybee, but relatively non-damaging. It will live on the european honeybee, however, and usually eliminates the hive if some human intervention isn't forthcoming.
If the US is still acting like this in 2400, you might have a point.
That will only be particularly true when mods get the power to delete GNAA posts instead of just modding them down.
The first sentence of the second paragraph from your link.
A summary of Warren vs. District of Columbia - the primary duty of police is enforcing the law, not protecting lives from crimes currently in progress. So if the "crisis" is an armed, violent person with a gun, and the main duty of the police is cleaning up afterwards, then how does society aid the individuals being shot at? I would argue by allowing adults with clean criminal & mental health records access to firearms.Yes, I'll agree that people shouldn't make fun of others for being socially inept. But equating Cho's actions with self-defense is asinine.
(The shooter, in 2002, killed his professor who failed him out, the associate dean, and then left their office & started shooting. The school allows people with concealed carry permits to bring their weapons on-campus, and two students shot at the attacker, who surrendered.)
The fact that the gun control advocates don't generally mention this incident irks me to no end.
Which means they've convinced themselves they're shopping at some other department store? That whole walmart=looking rich phrase melted part of my brain.
To be clear, I'm not faulting local journalists for covering local stories. If I watch the Norfolk news, I expect to hear about a fire in an apartment, a local woman winning 10,000 in the lotto, and a lost kid turning up just fine after a few hours. But to mandate that journalists spend half their time covering 'positive' news goes against the idea of a free press. If Putin, and the rest of Russia, wants that, then so it is. But let him come out and say it.
I think 6 million is optimistic. At the current rate, it's looking more like 5... The thing that matters in the "console wars" is the games. The number of titles that are cross-platform in this generation, but PS-exclusive in the previous generation, is much larger than the converse. If 75% of the games end up being the same between the PS3 & the Xbox360, you have $200 on one side, and a built in Blu-ray on the other. And if wally world can sell a HD-DVD player for 200 dollars or less... And if the HD-DVD on one side & DVD on the other starts becoming standard...
I'm sorry, but that's asinine. A personal triumph (or a personal tragedy) should get no coverage when compared to something that's affecting 300 million lives.
they're = they aren't
Well, I guess I'm making the assumption that a.) they're violating the constitution & b.) if they are, somebody is around to stop them. Which is not always a good assumption...
Well, if that's what the average voter wants, then, such is the will of democracy. The problem comes when they promise A & deliver B.
I mostly agree with your post, but just to point out - all of the recent school shooting have ended in death, often at their own hands, of the attackers. Obviously fear of death isn't working.