I see you have no idea what a "thoughtcrime" is. Maybe you should try reading 1984. You don't even understand the theory of the case, or the effect the case had.
In fact, your post shows a remarkable lack of knowledge of what he was charged with and how the legal system works.
You are just proving yourself to be ignorant and uneducated. If you had any idea how absolutely ignorant your statements are, you would be embarrassed.
I might be inflammatory, but people like this piss me off.
What Powderly is doing might be "rather non-invasive", but the fact is he is using a 500mW green laser to do the projections.
I am sure that someone who accidentally looks directly at the laser will consider it quite invasive. A laser of that power can have a permanent effect on someone eyesight, including total blindness in one or both eyes.
That is what really pisses me off. This jackass is doing something that is dangerous to others and doesn't have the brains to realize it.
Take those "throwies". Wasting batteries and LED, leaving them in public where they will eventually contaminate the soil and be litter, light polluting litter at that. Did anyone stop to think about where those batteries are going to end up? I will give you a clue: They will not be taken to be recycled. Want to bet they will end up in a land fill, or washed down a storm drain? And, where I live, many storm drains go directly to the sea.
Yeah, it is just a nuisance to put up those laser generated images. And, when he blinds someone in the building with his laser generated images, I am sure that someone will consider being blind just a nuisance.
Yes, let's keep things in perspective, because the risk of permanently damaging someone's vision is less important than getting one's message across
Considering they have announced they are getting out of the chip set market, this would seem to be a bad business decision. If they were going to start making their own processors, they should also be making their own chip sets. This would allow them to market "pure nVidia powered" devices. It would allow them to optimize the product lines to work with each other.
He is not helping anyone. He is an attention hound, nothing more. And, I suggest you learn to comprehend what you are reading because you have failed to understand what I wrote.
He is not trying to reclaim public space. He is to claim public space as his own personal canvas which he can deface at will, with no regard for the rest of the public.
I guess you forgot that there are OTHER people in the public, just like he did. Or is it that you believe you somehow have a greater right to public space than anyone else?
You are obviously ignorant because you don't even know the meaning of the word "coward". You, however, are the epitome of "arrogant, self-righteous fool".
I'm sure he knew what might happen when he decided to protest in China about Tibet.
No, I don't think so. I think he thought it would be like the U.S. where he might get a ride to the police station, a ticket, and a fine. That, or he is thinking that the U.S. will come to his aid like it did that idiot in Singapore.
Personally, I hope they toss his ass in prison for a few years so he learns to appreciate his freedom here in the U.S.
The cases referred to involve people who fired lasers into the cockpits of aircraft that were coming in for a landing. When an aircraft is landing, one can fire a laser into the cockpit because of the attitude of the aircraft.
They then proceeded to charge them with terrorism.
Please list the cases where people who tried to blind pilots were tried as terrorists.
Also, please explain what said people should have been charged with after trying to crash commercial aircraft by blinding the pilots? How about 150 counts of attempted murder?
Hopefully this event teaches him, and and others in his home country to appreciate the freedom that they have when they're spewing their typical "baby out with the bathwater" rants about how fascist the US government is.
Don't hold your breath. This idiot and his ilk can't wrap their limited minds around the concept that they are more free than most and this won't even begin to dent their thick skulls with the truth.
And, what is really funny to me is that they espouse and wish to impose here in the U.S.A. the very ideals that created such free and open countries as Cuba, China, and the former USSR.
To protect you from FORCED FALSE testimony, that is why we have the fith ammendment.
Um, no.
The Fifth Amendment protects witnesses from being forced to incriminate themselves. To "plead the Fifth" is a refusal to answer a question because the response could form self-incriminating evidence.
Historically, the legal protection against self-incrimination is directly related to the question of torture for extracting information and confessions.[6][7] The legal shift from widespread use of torture and forced confession dates to turmoil of the late 16th and early 17th centuries in England. Anyone refusing to take the oath ex-officio (confessions or swearing of innocence, usually before hearing any charges) was taken for guilty. Suspected Puritans were pressed to take the oath and then reveal names of other Puritans. Coercion and torture were commonly employed to compel "cooperation." Puritans, who were at the time fleeing to the New World, began a practice of refusing to cooperate with interrogations. In the most famous case John Lilburne refused to take the oath in 1637. His case and his call for "freeborn rights" were rallying points for reforms against forced oaths, forced self-incrimination, and other kinds of coercion. Oliver Cromwell's revolution overturned the practice and incorporated protections, in response to a popular group of English citizens known as the Levellers. The Levellers presented The Humble Petition of Many Thousands to Parliament in 1647 with thirteen demands, of which, the right against self-incrimination (in criminal cases only), was listed at number three. These protections were brought to the American shores by Puritans, and were later incorporated into the United States Constitution through its Bill of Rights.
I did find it frustrating to have to relearn commands that I've been using without thinking for years now (eg ifconfig), and right now I'm not convinced that for me it's worth the mental effort, especially given the relative scarcity of external software available.
Those sound like the same complaints Windows users have of Linux, but which continually get dismissed by the Linux community as irrelevant.
"It's not Linux. I have to learn new commands and doesn't run my programs"
In other words, they are paying you to create the works for them. They own the rights to them. Your feelings are irrelevent. You don't own the rights to it.
If one doesn't think a law is right or just, one works to change the law. One does not act like you: a self-centered, self-important shithead who thinks and acts like the law and common decency applies to himself.
And, it is a legal right, regardless of whether or not you believe it is "right".
Now, fuck off and die in a fire, you worthless piece of monkey spittle.
So you admit that it is violating other people's rights. That is good. Now, how about actually doing the right thing and changing the laws instead of violating them.
Or are you such a self-centered, egotisitcal asshole that you feel you should be able to break the law?
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It's not ad hominem. It is the truth. You have proven your stupidity and incompetence.
Blinding a pilot on landing approach is not intending to cause any damage? What exactly do you think will happen if you blind a pilot landing a plane?
I see you have no idea what a "thoughtcrime" is. Maybe you should try reading 1984. You don't even understand the theory of the case, or the effect the case had.
In fact, your post shows a remarkable lack of knowledge of what he was charged with and how the legal system works.
You are just proving yourself to be ignorant and uneducated. If you had any idea how absolutely ignorant your statements are, you would be embarrassed.
I might be inflammatory, but people like this piss me off.
What Powderly is doing might be "rather non-invasive", but the fact is he is using a 500mW green laser to do the projections.
I am sure that someone who accidentally looks directly at the laser will consider it quite invasive. A laser of that power can have a permanent effect on someone eyesight, including total blindness in one or both eyes.
That is what really pisses me off. This jackass is doing something that is dangerous to others and doesn't have the brains to realize it.
Take those "throwies". Wasting batteries and LED, leaving them in public where they will eventually contaminate the soil and be litter, light polluting litter at that. Did anyone stop to think about where those batteries are going to end up? I will give you a clue: They will not be taken to be recycled. Want to bet they will end up in a land fill, or washed down a storm drain? And, where I live, many storm drains go directly to the sea.
I am just saying that it would be a bad business decision considering what they have already announced.
Yeah, it is just a nuisance to put up those laser generated images. And, when he blinds someone in the building with his laser generated images, I am sure that someone will consider being blind just a nuisance.
Yes, let's keep things in perspective, because the risk of permanently damaging someone's vision is less important than getting one's message across
Considering they have announced they are getting out of the chip set market, this would seem to be a bad business decision. If they were going to start making their own processors, they should also be making their own chip sets. This would allow them to market "pure nVidia powered" devices. It would allow them to optimize the product lines to work with each other.
He is not helping anyone. He is an attention hound, nothing more. And, I suggest you learn to comprehend what you are reading because you have failed to understand what I wrote.
He is not trying to reclaim public space. He is to claim public space as his own personal canvas which he can deface at will, with no regard for the rest of the public.
I guess you forgot that there are OTHER people in the public, just like he did. Or is it that you believe you somehow have a greater right to public space than anyone else?
You are obviously ignorant because you don't even know the meaning of the word "coward". You, however, are the epitome of "arrogant, self-righteous fool".
Yeah, he wasn't protesting. He was accused of a crime, arrested, charged, released, and allowed to leave the country to return back to Russian.
And, you kind of left off that he was tried and found not guilt.
Now, please, STFU.
Jingoism: extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.
Please keep your self-righteous idiocy to yourself.
I'm sure he knew what might happen when he decided to protest in China about Tibet.
No, I don't think so. I think he thought it would be like the U.S. where he might get a ride to the police station, a ticket, and a fine. That, or he is thinking that the U.S. will come to his aid like it did that idiot in Singapore.
Personally, I hope they toss his ass in prison for a few years so he learns to appreciate his freedom here in the U.S.
Simple, you don't point the laser straight up.
The cases referred to involve people who fired lasers into the cockpits of aircraft that were coming in for a landing. When an aircraft is landing, one can fire a laser into the cockpit because of the attitude of the aircraft.
Please list the cases where people who tried to blind pilots were tried as terrorists.
Also, please explain what said people should have been charged with after trying to crash commercial aircraft by blinding the pilots? How about 150 counts of attempted murder?
Don't hold your breath. This idiot and his ilk can't wrap their limited minds around the concept that they are more free than most and this won't even begin to dent their thick skulls with the truth.
And, what is really funny to me is that they espouse and wish to impose here in the U.S.A. the very ideals that created such free and open countries as Cuba, China, and the former USSR.
Um, no.
And, there is much more.
In other words, you hear a lot of lies and believe them because you are ignorant and want to believe them.
Why? Simple, he's a zealot.
Those sound like the same complaints Windows users have of Linux, but which continually get dismissed by the Linux community as irrelevant.
"It's not Linux. I have to learn new commands and doesn't run my programs"
This would be trivial with RFID stickers. Oh, but I forgot, the paranoid idiots out there are afraid of technology.
Wow, you are an idiot aren't you? Maybe you should try learning about politics before you spout off.
In other words, they are paying you to create the works for them. They own the rights to them. Your feelings are irrelevent. You don't own the rights to it.
No, dipshit. The Terms of Service is set by the service, not by you stupid, ignorant asshole self.
Go die in a fire, shithead.
If one doesn't think a law is right or just, one works to change the law. One does not act like you: a self-centered, self-important shithead who thinks and acts like the law and common decency applies to himself.
And, it is a legal right, regardless of whether or not you believe it is "right".
Now, fuck off and die in a fire, you worthless piece of monkey spittle.
So you admit that it is violating other people's rights. That is good. Now, how about actually doing the right thing and changing the laws instead of violating them.
Or are you such a self-centered, egotisitcal asshole that you feel you should be able to break the law?
Shut up you little pussy coward. You can talk to me when you have a spine.
Now go off and die in a fire.