I wish we had some to spare. Sadly the Liberals (kind like your Democrats) are performing just like your Democrat controlled congress. They have decided that their party politics and political strategy is more important than any of the actual issues that have come to a vote.
China has the money and skills to build the Great Firewall. They are clearly capable. I think we all agree that they are more than capable but I'm just not seeing the connection to the great wall...
I mean it's a wall dude... not even a modern wall... it is built with stones and mortar by peasants over many decades...
Still, i may just try putting that on my next resume when I apply for a programming position... "my grandfather built a really long wall!" I'll put it right after my "making snarky comments on slashdot" credentials.
That is an asshole thing to say, first of all + SouthPark? Imo, @ least, is a show for small minded idiots, period... Are you saying that a person's value is measured by the size of their penis? You seem to be saying that having a comparatively small penis means that you are not a as good a person.
Your outrage makes no sense unless you think that having a big penis makes you good and having a small penis makes you worthless.
If you can cut off the buyer from the seller, you can make a dent in the problem. maybe. This assumes that the profit motive is a significant driver and that the non-commercial supply is limited or non-existent.
I have heard stories of people paying for porn on the Internet and I would assume that the same thing might happen with child porn. The fact remains that the vast majority of Internet porn (of all sorts) is exchanged free of charge.
hyperbole like "carpet bombing" and "killing and torturing them"?... Is all intervention "torture" and "carpet bombing"? That is not hyperbole. Only carpet bombing is carpet bombing. Only torture is torture. I meant nothing beyond the dictionary definitions of those terms.
Intervention, or invasion does not need to involve either of those things. My understanding is that the US refrained from carpet bombing in Iraq(not sure about this) but did not refrain from torturing people. We did however carpet bomb Kosovo. 'We'(Israel) also carpet bombed Lebanon recently.
Also, you are justifying the removal of Saddam by indicating your abhorrence to his installment. So, what is it? Can we only do nothing? Just to be clear, I made no comment on the invasion of Iraq. I honestly do not know how best to deal with nasty dictators. It is an unsupported leap to suggest that I condone or condemn the invasion of Iraq based on my statement that we should not have supported him earlier.
When "pissing someone off" is done by butchering his family, installing and supporting sick-fucks like the Shah and Sadaam and carpet bombing his country then yes, you can expect a violent reaction.
I'm sorry, but we'll ALWAYS piss someone off just by existing. It's not an excuse for terrorism. That is what we call a 'straw-man' argument. You are not pissing them off by existing. You are pissing them off by killing and torturing them.
Mcain's words are anti-torture. his actions are pro-torture. The worst part is that I honestly believe that he IS strongly opposed to torture. This means that he is willing to compromise his values for political gain.
You have a point. However, the MPs won't be there to see the rally on the weeked. Also, this is a largely government town and the main government union CUPE is supporting the rally so you can be sure that lots and lots of government workers (who are in the surrounding buildings) will be able to attend on their lunch breaks.
but free speech is an unalienable human right. While this type of action should be considered morally reprehensible, the deceased girls parents do not have a claim against the defendant. Yes, but... We make plenty of exceptions to that rule. For example, grown men are not allowed to walk up to groups of 13 year old girls and tell them all about their penis and the things they like to do in bed.
I think that in this sort of situation, when we have an adult vs child interaction, that there is a reasonable argument to be made that we should make an exception to the free speech rule.
Your view of sovereign authority is a fairly narrow one, basically conforming to the "United States Ideal World" Ya, you're right. But surely my personal perspective is the only one that really matters right?;)
Now, often, proponents of a Republican form of government will insist vociferously that all other forms of government are false, and that those peoples who are subject to them are "oppressed", because their "natural rights" are being violated. haha, ya, I'm probably guilty of that from time to time. As an aside: I'm actually more fond of the constitutional monarchy thing we've got going here in Canada (and a bunch of other commonwealth countries). On paper it seems like a terrible setup but in practice it works quite well. Separating the King/Queen position from the government and reducing it to a ceremonial position helps to divert some of the 'reverence for our leader' sentiment away from the actual government. I've always thought the US could use a ceremonial grand-poobah of some sort to reduce the unhealthy reverence for the president.
On paper we have all our rights granted to us by Her Majesty the Queen. That's all just a matter of tradition and ceremony these days. It was barely a few decades ago that we actually got around to writing up our own list of what we considered our rights and politely asked Her Majesty to give it her royal assent.
National governments have a duty to protect their citizens. This duty is the correlative of the people's right to protection.
The authority to control borders flows from this duty and thus from the rights of the people.
The power to control borders is not a right held by a government, it is a manifestation of the government's duty to protect the rights of the people. Governments have no rights whatsoever. Governments are instituted for the purpose of protecting the rights of people.
If you can point me to any online info that refers to governments having rights I would be interested in seeing it.
We appear to be in conflict over the definition of the word "right". A nation-state claiming authority to do something does not make it a right. (nor does it make it Right)
border crossings are poorly defined legal zones. You are not in the USA and you are not in any other country. This ambiguity continues to be cynically exploited by your government to circumvent the basic protections your founding fathers intended to afford to all people.
It is kinda like (but not as bad as) the guantanamo bay detention centre and the recently discovered secret over-seas CIA interrogation centres. The government claims that no laws apply there. That they are not required to follow any rules within that zone.
You are correct. my bad. I must admit I was kinda ignoring the article and concentrating on Hawkings own goals which he has spoken about a number of times.
sooo, British physicists should go to Africa and teach farming?.... or just stay put and shut up?
We can all contribute with our own skills.
The idea here is not to create an economic effect. That is secondary.
The point of the project is to find and empower the brilliant potential mathematicians and physicists in this poorly served region. The purpose of finding and empowering these people is to empower the human race and to advance our knowledge and understanding of the universe.
What are you, a programmer from 20 years ago? buffer overruns parsing untrusted data are blindingly simple to avoid. Anyone who writes a jpeg parser that overruns in this day and age is incompetent and should look for a new job.
Obviously a sufficiently incompetent programmer can make anything dangerous.
Pr0n is multimedia... audio and video. There is no reason at all for such things to carry viruses. AVI files people. If your porno video is in wmv for exe format throw it out.
If your pictures contain executable code you are doing it wrong.
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I wish we had some to spare.
Sadly the Liberals (kind like your Democrats) are performing just like your Democrat controlled congress.
They have decided that their party politics and political strategy is more important than any of the actual issues that have come to a vote.
I mean it's a wall dude... not even a modern wall... it is built with stones and mortar by peasants over many decades...
Still, i may just try putting that on my next resume when I apply for a programming position... "my grandfather built a really long wall!"
I'll put it right after my "making snarky comments on slashdot" credentials.
You seem to be saying that having a comparatively small penis means that you are not a as good a person.
Your outrage makes no sense unless you think that having a big penis makes you good and having a small penis makes you worthless.
This assumes that the profit motive is a significant driver and that the non-commercial supply is limited or non-existent.
I have heard stories of people paying for porn on the Internet and I would assume that the same thing might happen with child porn.
The fact remains that the vast majority of Internet porn (of all sorts) is exchanged free of charge.
Only carpet bombing is carpet bombing.
Only torture is torture.
I meant nothing beyond the dictionary definitions of those terms.
Intervention, or invasion does not need to involve either of those things.
My understanding is that the US refrained from carpet bombing in Iraq(not sure about this) but did not refrain from torturing people.
We did however carpet bomb Kosovo.
'We'(Israel) also carpet bombed Lebanon recently. Also, you are justifying the removal of Saddam by indicating your abhorrence to his installment. So, what is it? Can we only do nothing? Just to be clear, I made no comment on the invasion of Iraq.
I honestly do not know how best to deal with nasty dictators. It is an unsupported leap to suggest that I condone or condemn the invasion of Iraq based on my statement that we should not have supported him earlier.
I said that violence begets violence. That was my only point.
The anon poster seemed to be unaware of our side of this horrible cycle of violence.
This cycle did not start with the invasion of Iraq or the WTC bombings.
You are not pissing them off by existing.
You are pissing them off by killing and torturing them.
oh please.
If you butcher people's families you can bloody well expect them to come and try to kill you right back.
Mcain's words are anti-torture. his actions are pro-torture.
The worst part is that I honestly believe that he IS strongly opposed to torture. This means that he is willing to compromise his values for political gain.
You are correct. I agree.
And thus he lost all my respect when he compromised on this important issue in order to secure the support of the neo-cons.
Particularly galling was the way he did it by passing an 'anti-torture' bill that quietly, with legal mumbo jumbo authorized torture.
You have a point. However, the MPs won't be there to see the rally on the weeked.
Also, this is a largely government town and the main government union CUPE is supporting the rally so you can be sure that lots and lots of government workers (who are in the surrounding buildings) will be able to attend on their lunch breaks.
...3. its done amongst a group of equally aged and emotionally mature people
We make plenty of exceptions to that rule.
For example, grown men are not allowed to walk up to groups of 13 year old girls and tell them all about their penis and the things they like to do in bed.
I think that in this sort of situation, when we have an adult vs child interaction, that there is a reasonable argument to be made that we should make an exception to the free speech rule.
But surely my personal perspective is the only one that really matters right?
As an aside: I'm actually more fond of the constitutional monarchy thing we've got going here in Canada (and a bunch of other commonwealth countries). On paper it seems like a terrible setup but in practice it works quite well. Separating the King/Queen position from the government and reducing it to a ceremonial position helps to divert some of the 'reverence for our leader' sentiment away from the actual government.
I've always thought the US could use a ceremonial grand-poobah of some sort to reduce the unhealthy reverence for the president.
On paper we have all our rights granted to us by Her Majesty the Queen. That's all just a matter of tradition and ceremony these days.
It was barely a few decades ago that we actually got around to writing up our own list of what we considered our rights and politely asked Her Majesty to give it her royal assent.
National governments have a duty to protect their citizens. This duty is the correlative of the people's right to protection.
The authority to control borders flows from this duty and thus from the rights of the people.
The power to control borders is not a right held by a government, it is a manifestation of the government's duty to protect the rights of the people.
Governments have no rights whatsoever. Governments are instituted for the purpose of protecting the rights of people.
If you can point me to any online info that refers to governments having rights I would be interested in seeing it.
We appear to be in conflict over the definition of the word "right".
A nation-state claiming authority to do something does not make it a right. (nor does it make it Right)
border crossings are poorly defined legal zones. You are not in the USA and you are not in any other country. This ambiguity continues to be cynically exploited by your government to circumvent the basic protections your founding fathers intended to afford to all people.
It is kinda like (but not as bad as) the guantanamo bay detention centre and the recently discovered secret over-seas CIA interrogation centres. The government claims that no laws apply there. That they are not required to follow any rules within that zone.
I would say that most sovereign nations have the power, not the right, to control who and what enters the country.
You are correct. my bad. I must admit I was kinda ignoring the article and concentrating on Hawkings own goals which he has spoken about a number of times.
sooo, British physicists should go to Africa and teach farming? .... or just stay put and shut up?
We can all contribute with our own skills.
The idea here is not to create an economic effect. That is secondary.
The point of the project is to find and empower the brilliant potential mathematicians and physicists in this poorly served region. The purpose of finding and empowering these people is to empower the human race and to advance our knowledge and understanding of the universe.
What are you, a programmer from 20 years ago? buffer overruns parsing untrusted data are blindingly simple to avoid. Anyone who writes a jpeg parser that overruns in this day and age is incompetent and should look for a new job.
Obviously a sufficiently incompetent programmer can make anything dangerous.
Seriously.
Spend the money on a couple more 40Gb fiber lines instead.
Pr0n is multimedia... audio and video.
There is no reason at all for such things to carry viruses.
AVI files people. If your porno video is in wmv for exe format throw it out.
If your pictures contain executable code you are doing it wrong.
suspect is hatless! repeat hatless!