The point is that we are NOT talking about young kids and sexual abuse, we are talking about images, and our sole standard has become the impression those images create in others.
This approach essentially says that images which excite pedophiles are inherently criminal, regardless of how they were produced. If they were created in a computer, that doesn't matter. If they were produced with adult actors, that's not going to matter either. Hell, if a pedophile drools over that picture of your niece in the wading pool, that's close enough and you're a child pornographer, because that's our only yardstick -- the reality behind the image is irrelevant.
Yes, you're right. This nonsense of proving the existence of a crime before convicting the offender should have been halted long ago. No wonder our streets aren't safe, what with the hands of the State being tied this way. Let's put the burden of proof on the defense, where it belongs.
As for crypto, well, it's obvious to me that it will be used to hide kiddie porn and terrorist messages. If we can't open a file, I say convict on both charges, just to be sure.
Actually, this is embarassing. Now that I stop and think about it, it's k5 that gives me trouble on occasion (the "Rate" buttons sort of get stuck and stay put as text scrolls behind them), not SlashDot.
I can't erase mail in ExciteMail, though, and a few other things pop up now and then. Overall, though, I like Opera enough to make it my default here at work (my daughter is back and forth about it at home, so I left that machine defaulting to IE).
(Ironically, I find SlashDot a little dodgy using Opera.)
It does fascinate me, though, this "can't be bothered with 10% stuff". I occasionally send notes to the business people at commercial sites, pointing out this attitude on the part of the technical folks. I've worked retail -- "I ignore 10% of the customers because they're just too hard for me" means a pink slip in any brick-and-morter store, and I see no reason why online should be any different.
It's one thing to try and fail, another not even to try.
If the radii (altitudes) are the same, than the periods will be the same, and if the periods are the same than the radii will be the same -- they're interdependant.
The history is laid out here, but the point about which you're asking would be:
The name "Dobb's" came from
collapsing together (sort of) Allison's and Albrecht's first names. Unfortunately, the pasteup artist titling the original newsletter thinking Allison's name was Don, combined it with Bob to produce Dobb (DOn and BoB).
I'm neither an orbital mechanic nor even a CS PhD, just a high school grad with a line of patter, but I think there's a misconception here, in that the elaborate and lengthy approach that NASA takes to get places has more to do with rocket technology than orbital physics -- since rockets to date have been very bad at sustained thrust, but very good at high initial thrust, all space work has been built around that fact.
It's a little like going from sail to steam. Clippers had to drop south to pick up the Trades, and only a fool would have done otherwise -- until steam ships could just sail in whichever direction they liked, and straight lines to China became practical.
We keep the hell out of your stuff. If you break the law, on your own head be it, we assume no responsibility.
Do you really think it works that way? You can't relieve yourself of liability just by saying so in some sort of Bart Simpson "I'm just waving my arms and walking forward and if my hand happens to hit your face then it's not my fault" kind of deal. Hell, if you could I'd just get a "Look Out -- Scary Driver" sign and drop my car insurance.
Well, I dunno. Apparently a Soyuz lifts off with 279.5 tons of fuel (we'll ignore the fact that much of that is LOX and pretend that it's all kerosene), and a 747 going NY to Tokyo takes off with about 125 tons, of which all certainly is kerosene. Roughly speaking, then, he's making the NY to Yokyo run and back in an empty jumbo jet -- extravagant, but hardly earth-shaking.
The comment to which I was replying compared an increase in the influence of the Church to the conditions in Afghanistan and Iran. I pointed out several examples of contemporary nations in which the Church is prominent that have not slid into savagery.
That Catholic Italy and Spain fell for fascism is undeniable. That Protestant Germany did so, and much harder, is equally undeniable. Orthodox Russia, for that matter, fell under the spell of dictators who made Franco and Mussolini look positively friendly. Holding the Vatican responsible for all this seems a bit unreasonable.
On a side note: although the Republicans had a good and legitimate cause deserving of support from decent people everywhere, they were also, in the event, backed by the USSR in a proxy war with Germany (neither of whom cared very much who won -- the Spanish people were a sort of horrible war game to them). It's fashionable now to forget that Soviet Communism really was a threat to Europe (well, I suppose the Czechs, Poles, Bulgarians, etc, haven't forgotten), but at the time the threat loomed very large to a lot of people, and sometimes they over-reacted to it.
The Catholic Church is heavily influential in Spain, Italy, and the Republic of Ireland (to pull three off the top of my head -- there are many more), and they manage to maintain something very like a civilized society. Granted there are abortion issues in all three countries that some would view as repressive, but outside of that I'd hardly compare them with Afghanistan.
As for Iran, they got their "rogue" status for sponsoring terrorists and assaulting embassies, not their internal policies.
Elimination of used book sales and libraries would probably be to the guild's benefit.
Actually, I doubt it. Scratch a writer and you'll find a reader. Ask most writers where they spent their time as kids and "the library" will be high on the list. Ask them if they could have purchased all the books they read, all the books that taught them their craft, and you won't get too many positive responses.
Taking that away might benefit this generation of writers, but they might be the last.
Ah, but LTA objects are, pretty much by definition, bulky and therefore possessed of largish surface areas (what's the term for that? If you have bulk, you're bulky, if you have mass, your massive, if you have surface area, you're...surfacal? areaive?) and remain extremely subject to wind, which is why airships used to crash in bad weather, not to mention dragging away ground crew. I think that's why the only real lifting application I've seen for LTA craft was logs -- being fairly high-density, they gave the lifter needed stability.
Personally, though, all I want to see is a dirigible moored to the Empire State Building.
What would be "massy, yet light"? Here in my world, "weight" and "mass" are pretty well interchangeable, unless you're proposing an airship for orbital use.
That's my point -- English common law is indeed fundamental to our (US) system as well as theirs, but their government exists, AFAIK, at the whim of Parliament.
The US Congress cannot alter the Constitution, because their authority flows from the document, rather than the reverse. INAL, but all English law, by contrast, is a creation of Parliament, and can be changed by Parliament.
Constitution? When did the UK get a Constitution? Maybe I missed it, but the closest thing I recall is Magna Carta, and that's mostly about hunting griffons on Sundays and whether you must shave serfs.
For that matter, phones don't generally "ring" anymore either.
I remember a Calvin & Hobbes strip in which (I think) Calvin's father is bemoaning his age, that he's so far behind the times that he "doesn't know whether to sit down or wind his watch".
After consoling him, his child asks, "By the way, what's it mean, to 'wind a watch'?"
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This approach essentially says that images which excite pedophiles are inherently criminal, regardless of how they were produced. If they were created in a computer, that doesn't matter. If they were produced with adult actors, that's not going to matter either. Hell, if a pedophile drools over that picture of your niece in the wading pool, that's close enough and you're a child pornographer, because that's our only yardstick -- the reality behind the image is irrelevant.
What's grey about it? No kids involved in sexual acts means no kids involved in sexual acts.
As for crypto, well, it's obvious to me that it will be used to hide kiddie porn and terrorist messages. If we can't open a file, I say convict on both charges, just to be sure.
Remember, a crime-free America comes first!
Yup, I get that too, although not all the time. It looks more like a checkbox than an input form ("Why yes, I would like a search for something!")
I can't erase mail in ExciteMail, though, and a few other things pop up now and then. Overall, though, I like Opera enough to make it my default here at work (my daughter is back and forth about it at home, so I left that machine defaulting to IE).
Sounds like an opportunity to me! Quick, somebody go make a bunch of money while making the world a better place for our children. :)
It does fascinate me, though, this "can't be bothered with 10% stuff". I occasionally send notes to the business people at commercial sites, pointing out this attitude on the part of the technical folks. I've worked retail -- "I ignore 10% of the customers because they're just too hard for me" means a pink slip in any brick-and-morter store, and I see no reason why online should be any different.
It's one thing to try and fail, another not even to try.
Hell, if it didn't fail sometimes then they'd be done and all the astronomers would just be practicing a hobby, not unlike birdwatching.
If the radii (altitudes) are the same, than the periods will be the same, and if the periods are the same than the radii will be the same -- they're interdependant.
It's a little like going from sail to steam. Clippers had to drop south to pick up the Trades, and only a fool would have done otherwise -- until steam ships could just sail in whichever direction they liked, and straight lines to China became practical.
But hey, ask your dad.
Do you really think it works that way? You can't relieve yourself of liability just by saying so in some sort of Bart Simpson "I'm just waving my arms and walking forward and if my hand happens to hit your face then it's not my fault" kind of deal. Hell, if you could I'd just get a "Look Out -- Scary Driver" sign and drop my car insurance.
But yes, the fuel for a roundtrip to Japan pretty much is a drop in the bucket. Delta alone flies that route several hundred times a year.
Well, I dunno. Apparently a Soyuz lifts off with 279.5 tons of fuel (we'll ignore the fact that much of that is LOX and pretend that it's all kerosene), and a 747 going NY to Tokyo takes off with about 125 tons, of which all certainly is kerosene. Roughly speaking, then, he's making the NY to Yokyo run and back in an empty jumbo jet -- extravagant, but hardly earth-shaking.
Because Ananova is a British site. In Los Angeles courtrooms, actual fines are generally levied in cocaine and / or film options.
That Catholic Italy and Spain fell for fascism is undeniable. That Protestant Germany did so, and much harder, is equally undeniable. Orthodox Russia, for that matter, fell under the spell of dictators who made Franco and Mussolini look positively friendly. Holding the Vatican responsible for all this seems a bit unreasonable.
On a side note: although the Republicans had a good and legitimate cause deserving of support from decent people everywhere, they were also, in the event, backed by the USSR in a proxy war with Germany (neither of whom cared very much who won -- the Spanish people were a sort of horrible war game to them). It's fashionable now to forget that Soviet Communism really was a threat to Europe (well, I suppose the Czechs, Poles, Bulgarians, etc, haven't forgotten), but at the time the threat loomed very large to a lot of people, and sometimes they over-reacted to it.
Oh, and kudos for the use of the term "sect".
The Catholic Church is heavily influential in Spain, Italy, and the Republic of Ireland (to pull three off the top of my head -- there are many more), and they manage to maintain something very like a civilized society. Granted there are abortion issues in all three countries that some would view as repressive, but outside of that I'd hardly compare them with Afghanistan.
As for Iran, they got their "rogue" status for sponsoring terrorists and assaulting embassies, not their internal policies.
Help me out here: was it Wilde who was urged to read something or other and replied, "If I wanted to read a good book I would write one!"?
Actually, I doubt it. Scratch a writer and you'll find a reader. Ask most writers where they spent their time as kids and "the library" will be high on the list. Ask them if they could have purchased all the books they read, all the books that taught them their craft, and you won't get too many positive responses.
Taking that away might benefit this generation of writers, but they might be the last.
Personally, though, all I want to see is a dirigible moored to the Empire State Building.
Do you mean "bulky, but light"?
Dead.
The US Congress cannot alter the Constitution, because their authority flows from the document, rather than the reverse. INAL, but all English law, by contrast, is a creation of Parliament, and can be changed by Parliament.
Constitution? When did the UK get a Constitution? Maybe I missed it, but the closest thing I recall is Magna Carta, and that's mostly about hunting griffons on Sundays and whether you must shave serfs.
I remember a Calvin & Hobbes strip in which (I think) Calvin's father is bemoaning his age, that he's so far behind the times that he "doesn't know whether to sit down or wind his watch".
After consoling him, his child asks, "By the way, what's it mean, to 'wind a watch'?"