Why is it when the left says they "hate Bush", or start chanting "Bush lied, 4000 died", it's not an attack; but when the right points out that Dodd got an effective bribe from a mortgage company before authoring a bill favoring that company, it's an attack?
I think you have the start to an interesting book or movie. What would happen if John McClain (the action hero, not the candidate) got locked up for having kiddie porn on his work laptop? And then with him out of the way, some nefarious group was able to take over New York City?
How is hard drive encryption supposed to prevent infection when the drive gets decrypted whenever you log into the machine?
Hard drive encryption ONLY stops people from reading the contents of the drive after you shut the thing down. It provides no other protection beyond that (nor is it supposed to).
Fortunately Hong Kong's Star Sports was accessible through Sopcast P2P. That's awesome. Someone in the US (I assume you're in the US, since you referred to NBC and not some other network) had to watch a US sporting event by bouncing off a server in China.
The best part? It's not really all that impressive nowadays. But the entire concept was unthinkable to most people even 10 years ago.
It is. And it's not like I sit five feet from the person in front of me. I'm considerably further back than most NASCAR drivers are in a race. There's plenty of time to react to anything on the road ahead.
I've been driving this way for decades, and have not once rear ended someone. So to all the detractors who say I'm not driving safely, I stand by my driving record.
Point of clarification: if the person I'm behind is anywhere but the far left lane, I just go around them. And if they're hogging the left lane, I'll go around them if I can. What I'm referring to are the people who sit in the #1 lane with their cruise control set to 64 in a 65 zone. Those are the ones I'll park behind and wait for 'em to move over, like they're supposed to.
According to the beeb [bbc.co.uk] almost 90% of UK drivers have reported incidents of road rage (I don't drive and rarely travel by car so have no idea what the mean streets of Britain are really like). I'm not sure what that really covers though Someone else above pointed this out already, but that's exactly the problem with "road rage". It's a nebulous concept, and people use it as a very broad brush indeed, to tar people they piss off with their horrible driving. I had a woman cut me off once in LA traffic, and we ended up pulling into the same strip mall by coincidence. When I pulled next to her and yelled over the sound of my truck's engine that she needed to learn how to drive, she accused me of road rage.
No, if I had had road rage, I would've slammed the truck (a '72 Chevy heavy pickup) into her little Hyundai. That's "rage". Telling someone they're a horrible driver is a healthy expression of opinion. The fact that she thought it was full of "rage" says more about her perception of the world more than it does my emotional state at the time.
I hate to say it, but in this circumstance the correct thing to do was probably to hit the guy, if you can do it in a controlled manner. It's hard to tell if that would've been possible, from your description of the road, so it might not have been. But if you had hit him, he would've been 100% at fault for driving that way in the first place. And if you were driving any kind of modern car, you and your nephew would've walked away with nothing more than a few bumps and bruises.
That's funny, 'cause I have a bumper sticker on the front of my car that says "I don't brake for brake lights."
Seriously, I avoid my brakes like the plague on the highway. And if I'm stuck driving closely behind someone, I watch the road through their windows (obviously not possible behind trucks and some SUVs). So if the person in front of me hits their brakes, and there's no reason I can see for them to do so, I don't touch mine (I will take my foot off the gas, but that's it). I figure, if you brake suddenly, for no good reason, and I hit you, well, that's what insurance is for. And next time maybe you'll just get out of the way.
(So far I've never hit anybody in this situation, but it's come close a few times. Oh, and if my wife and/or kids are in the car, I don't act this way. I'm willing to risk your life to make a point, but not theirs.)
craigslist is huge I'll use Craig's List for some stuff, but until they allow you to search all of the for sale posts, and not just the ones within a given metro area, they'll never be able to compete with eBay.
And since eBay owns 33% of CL, that ain't ever going to happen.
As for the Wicca thing, that is troubling, and I hope it was based on ignorance of the religion more than anything else. His comments on it sound like he was parroting what he heard in Bible class as a kid. But I still think he would make a better choice than McCain or Obama when it comes to civil liberties and restraining the power of the government.
I agree with most of your post, but had to call attention to this bit:
What isn't acceptable, however, are such obvious propaganda-induced lines of reasoning such as "Tibet has always been a part of China and forever will be a part of China." Not only is that false -- Tibet was its own country until China marched in there 50 years ago and took it, but that's how it works in war; winner takes all. That's not entirely accurate. Tibet was a vassal state of imperial China for much of the time since the 14th century. They declared their independence in 1913 after the empire fell, but the Nationalists never really accepted that. They just had bigger fish to fry (the Communists and Japanese). After Mao secured his hold on China, it didn't take long before Tibet came back under China's rule.
approach to enforcing manners. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea.)
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will improve manners for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (x) Users of electronic devices will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it (x) Apple will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (x) Requires too much cooperation from asshats (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (x) Many electronics users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers (x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority (x) Asshats (x) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes (x) Unpopularity of weird new devices ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (x) Susceptibility of protocols other to attack (x) Willingness of users to install OS patches to their existing devices ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra in the movie theater without being censored (x) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of privately owned devices (x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem (x) I don't want the government controlling my iPhone ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
So what? Next you'll be saying that a judge who smokes some doobage once in awhile shouldn't preside over drug cases. OK, that's a bad example, a stoned judge would have problems with the whole "speedy trial" thing. But I'm sure you get my point.
Your anecdote about talking with people in different continents in the same day raises another area where IM shines more brightly than the phone (at least potentially): it's much easier, faster, and more accurate for written communications to be translated by a machine, than verbal communications. Even if you have to resort to copying-and-pasting from Google, you can effectively have a productive conversation with someone who does not share a common language with you. Try doing that on the phone, in real time.
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It ranks among the worst-written, most useless documents I've read in a long time. You haven't read any of the numerous court orders my ex-wife feels free to continue ignoring.
I predict that within 500 years humanity will have spread throughout the solar system. But we won't live on a single planet or planetoid. Except maybe Venus..9G is close enough to 1G that there shouldn't be any serious health defects, and at 50km above the surface the ambient temperature, atmospheric pressure, and gas mixture are surprisingly earth-like. There's even a potential industry there, in creating carbon nano-tubes from the CO2 in the atmosphere.
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As soon as he adds in the language saying that first born children will be required as collateral, I'll believe you.
Why is it when the left says they "hate Bush", or start chanting "Bush lied, 4000 died", it's not an attack; but when the right points out that Dodd got an effective bribe from a mortgage company before authoring a bill favoring that company, it's an attack?
I think you have the start to an interesting book or movie. What would happen if John McClain (the action hero, not the candidate) got locked up for having kiddie porn on his work laptop? And then with him out of the way, some nefarious group was able to take over New York City?
How is hard drive encryption supposed to prevent infection when the drive gets decrypted whenever you log into the machine?
Hard drive encryption ONLY stops people from reading the contents of the drive after you shut the thing down. It provides no other protection beyond that (nor is it supposed to).
Fortunately Hong Kong's Star Sports was accessible through Sopcast P2P. That's awesome. Someone in the US (I assume you're in the US, since you referred to NBC and not some other network) had to watch a US sporting event by bouncing off a server in China.
The best part? It's not really all that impressive nowadays. But the entire concept was unthinkable to most people even 10 years ago.
It is. And it's not like I sit five feet from the person in front of me. I'm considerably further back than most NASCAR drivers are in a race. There's plenty of time to react to anything on the road ahead.
I've been driving this way for decades, and have not once rear ended someone. So to all the detractors who say I'm not driving safely, I stand by my driving record.
Calling someone a "platitude-dealing pollyanna" is not an ad hominem when it's true.
Asking a person how their espoused philosophy would deal with thugs and tyrants in the real world is not a strawman.
And so forth and so on.
Oh, and you should look up ad logicam sometime.
Point of clarification: if the person I'm behind is anywhere but the far left lane, I just go around them. And if they're hogging the left lane, I'll go around them if I can. What I'm referring to are the people who sit in the #1 lane with their cruise control set to 64 in a 65 zone. Those are the ones I'll park behind and wait for 'em to move over, like they're supposed to.
No, if I had had road rage, I would've slammed the truck (a '72 Chevy heavy pickup) into her little Hyundai. That's "rage". Telling someone they're a horrible driver is a healthy expression of opinion. The fact that she thought it was full of "rage" says more about her perception of the world more than it does my emotional state at the time.
I hate to say it, but in this circumstance the correct thing to do was probably to hit the guy, if you can do it in a controlled manner. It's hard to tell if that would've been possible, from your description of the road, so it might not have been. But if you had hit him, he would've been 100% at fault for driving that way in the first place. And if you were driving any kind of modern car, you and your nephew would've walked away with nothing more than a few bumps and bruises.
That's funny, 'cause I have a bumper sticker on the front of my car that says "I don't brake for brake lights."
Seriously, I avoid my brakes like the plague on the highway. And if I'm stuck driving closely behind someone, I watch the road through their windows (obviously not possible behind trucks and some SUVs). So if the person in front of me hits their brakes, and there's no reason I can see for them to do so, I don't touch mine (I will take my foot off the gas, but that's it). I figure, if you brake suddenly, for no good reason, and I hit you, well, that's what insurance is for. And next time maybe you'll just get out of the way.
(So far I've never hit anybody in this situation, but it's come close a few times. Oh, and if my wife and/or kids are in the car, I don't act this way. I'm willing to risk your life to make a point, but not theirs.)
You know who else wanted to take Darwinism to its logical extreme?
Then store that stuff on a server, and only keep your OS and the applications needed to read those files installed on your laptop. How hard is that?
And since eBay owns 33% of CL, that ain't ever going to happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barr#Terrorism
So yes, he voted for the Patriot Act, but ensured that it had sunset provisions, and has publicly stated it was a mistake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barr#War_in_Iraq
Again, he's reversed his position due to changing information.
There's an in depth interview with him at Reason that goes into these questions in more detail: http://www.reason.com/news/show/28960.html
As for the Wicca thing, that is troubling, and I hope it was based on ignorance of the religion more than anything else. His comments on it sound like he was parroting what he heard in Bible class as a kid. But I still think he would make a better choice than McCain or Obama when it comes to civil liberties and restraining the power of the government.
Sure you do.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_during_the_Ming_Dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tibet
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This patent advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to enforcing manners. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea.)
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will improve manners for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Users of electronic devices will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(x) Apple will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(x) Requires too much cooperation from asshats
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many electronics users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority
(x) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
(x) Unpopularity of weird new devices
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(x) Susceptibility of protocols other to attack
(x) Willingness of users to install OS patches to their existing devices
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra in the movie theater without being censored
(x) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of privately owned devices
(x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
(x) I don't want the government controlling my iPhone
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
So what? Next you'll be saying that a judge who smokes some doobage once in awhile shouldn't preside over drug cases. OK, that's a bad example, a stoned judge would have problems with the whole "speedy trial" thing. But I'm sure you get my point.
Your anecdote about talking with people in different continents in the same day raises another area where IM shines more brightly than the phone (at least potentially): it's much easier, faster, and more accurate for written communications to be translated by a machine, than verbal communications. Even if you have to resort to copying-and-pasting from Google, you can effectively have a productive conversation with someone who does not share a common language with you. Try doing that on the phone, in real time.
Guess you've never heard of plenary indulgences.