Riiight, I'm sure the giant government conspiracy to hide global warming is the main reason that this is being set up.
Things of a "policy-sensitive nature"? Is this the new codespeak for "think of the terrorists!" or are they actually serious about restricting the flow of information regarding stuff that is not a national security issue?
Until someone says otherwise, it's clear that this is specifically referring to things like global warming, which has always been a "policy-sensitive" issue for Bush.
I don't remember that particular movie (I guess I wasn't a kid at the right time) but consider the fact that Touchstone is a division of Disney, so the Touchstone Pictures movies are technically still Disney movies;)
Which is why it is believed that this initiative might help. If you're here legally, you'll have an ID.
Unless this Real ID thing is a giant glowing ball that hovers over our heads, this won't help jack shit. Look up how many drivers there are estimated to be on our roads without licenses (or even with revoked licenses). Just like those people, terrorists without a Real ID card are going to go about their daily lives without a single problem.
But we're going to be out how many billions of dollars paying committees and well-connected companies to study the issue, propose designs, assign some kind of identification and issue these cards?
Model rockets usually use electronic fuses that are basically a resistor that's designed to get hot and ignite when a little electricity goes through it.
You should be able to order a few dozen of them from any model rocketry place before the men in black show up.
This sounds like the kind of wishful-thinking with which most Slashdot readers react to anti-porn news of any kind.
While your wishful thinking is applied to EVERYTHING ELSE. Videogames do not make me go out and kill people. Advertisements do not compel me to go out and buy tampons. Reading Agatha Christie does not force me go out and poison people. Reading Mercedes Lackey is pretty interesting, but the Last-Herald Mage failed to turn me gay.
And porn does not make me go out and rape people.
If, after exposure to any of these, you have a hard time controlling whatever impulses you have, then you have a problem that you will need to solve. Leave me, and the rest of the properly functioning society, out of it.
they are talking about actions in life having a consequence in an afterlife
Is that what they're talking about? So what you're saying is that if I don't believe in God, then I believe God may or may not catch me doing something? After all, that's what the exact quote without the end truncated "theists believe the only consequence to actions in life is if you get caught or at the worst guilt" would be saying if it referred to an afterlife. Do athiests worry about feeling guilty after they've died?
Your defense of atheists should scare atheists.
I think your reading comprehension is rather scary, myself.
I'm against censorship too (actually, I think I'll buy it unless it's buggy, I'm amused by end-of-the-world type games of whatever religious bent, try Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne sometime;) but when it comes down to it, I can't deny that I would feel some (admittedly hypocritical) glee if Wal-Mart dropped the game with the Christians backing it crying "Censorship" when they have certainly been behind Wal-Mart dropping various non-"Family Friendly" things from their stores (but we're not allowed to cry "Censorship" when they do it, after all they are not a government and only governments can censor things!)
You can try this yourself with a glass of water and ice cubes. Mark the water line with the ice cubes floating, then let the ice melt and notice that it hasn't moved. This is elementary school physics.
In general, it looks like you're right. As long as students resist the urge to moon their principal on school grounds, most states wait until the second time they catch you pissing in public to register you for public indecency.
Fortunately it's in alphabetical order, making it easy to find such wonderful things like "obscene bumper stickers" as grounds for registration in Alabama.
What's really needed is the addition of a jog-wheel type interface to deal with the fact that some people might need to locate a particular frame, or perhaps a slider bar that can "zoom in" on the chunk of the slider bar representing +/- 1 minute from it's current position to allow better precision. Otherwise, if you're going to give me a slider bar, it better have an obvious tooltip or something to tell me what time I'm pointing at, with some way of skipping forward or backwards to times that are between pixels on the slider. Xine is a good example of how "just clicking the position bar anywhere" can go horribly wrong, with some of my longer dvds having a precision of about a minute or two to a pixel.
Probably easier than proving intent of kidfuckery.
Good thing everyone on the sex offender list participates in kidfuckery, and not getting drunk and pissing in a bush or mooning your principal, or various other "sexual" offenses.
So people in the poorest countries will keep getting better and higher paying jobs
Will they? When the jobs left America, those with "overinflated" salaries didn't get to keep their overinflated salaries, why will Indians be able to keep theirs?
We'll see in a couple of years whether or not India will be able to maintain what they've got now. I wonder whether the companies looking for workers in China now gave their Indian employees/contractors a chance to take a pay cut and remain employed, since most of those companies didn't extend that option to the American employees they replaced.
Ever heard of anybody being "bonded out" these days? Hell no, they stopped doing that 150 years ago.
No, now people hire men, and when they show up to work and then they're held and forced to work without pay. It's a shame that Bloomberg didn't publish their article online, but google shows that it's all the rage on them there blogotubes. Slavery is alive and kicking, and some companies continue to use force to enforce their belief that the market value of labor is $0, thereby dragging down the cost of labor everywhere else as companies with some semblance of humanity try to compete without crossing that line.
I'd be surprised if they are still doing it in 12 months.
And in a year we'll see Fox advertising NBC shows? The New York Times with a full page ad for the Washington Post? Maybe I'll buy a new car from Honda and the license plate frame will read "Have you driven a Ford lately?" Let's go all out: preachers extolling the virtues of Zen Buddhism!
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Riiight, I'm sure the giant government conspiracy to hide global warming is the main reason that this is being set up.
Things of a "policy-sensitive nature"? Is this the new codespeak for "think of the terrorists!" or are they actually serious about restricting the flow of information regarding stuff that is not a national security issue?
Until someone says otherwise, it's clear that this is specifically referring to things like global warming, which has always been a "policy-sensitive" issue for Bush.
but in a Disney movie?
;)
I don't remember that particular movie (I guess I wasn't a kid at the right time) but consider the fact that Touchstone is a division of Disney, so the Touchstone Pictures movies are technically still Disney movies
If the world did everything by your standards nothing would ever be done as nothing is every 100%.
It's one thing to say "nothing is ever 100%" but to say so in defense of something that solves roughly 0% doesn't help anyone.
and push enter
Coming from windows or linux, I'd never have thought to try this.
If Enter renames files, how do you open a file without the mouse?
Which is why it is believed that this initiative might help. If you're here legally, you'll have an ID.
Unless this Real ID thing is a giant glowing ball that hovers over our heads, this won't help jack shit. Look up how many drivers there are estimated to be on our roads without licenses (or even with revoked licenses). Just like those people, terrorists without a Real ID card are going to go about their daily lives without a single problem.
But we're going to be out how many billions of dollars paying committees and well-connected companies to study the issue, propose designs, assign some kind of identification and issue these cards?
Well, ideally they'd do both: combat inflation while saving money.
But this is government we're talking about, when has a government actually done either?
Model rockets usually use electronic fuses that are basically a resistor that's designed to get hot and ignite when a little electricity goes through it.
You should be able to order a few dozen of them from any model rocketry place before the men in black show up.
This sounds like the kind of wishful-thinking with which most Slashdot readers react to anti-porn news of any kind.
While your wishful thinking is applied to EVERYTHING ELSE. Videogames do not make me go out and kill people. Advertisements do not compel me to go out and buy tampons. Reading Agatha Christie does not force me go out and poison people. Reading Mercedes Lackey is pretty interesting, but the Last-Herald Mage failed to turn me gay.
And porn does not make me go out and rape people.
If, after exposure to any of these, you have a hard time controlling whatever impulses you have, then you have a problem that you will need to solve. Leave me, and the rest of the properly functioning society, out of it.
they are talking about actions in life having a consequence in an afterlife
Is that what they're talking about? So what you're saying is that if I don't believe in God, then I believe God may or may not catch me doing something? After all, that's what the exact quote without the end truncated "theists believe the only consequence to actions in life is if you get caught or at the worst guilt" would be saying if it referred to an afterlife. Do athiests worry about feeling guilty after they've died?
Your defense of atheists should scare atheists.
I think your reading comprehension is rather scary, myself.
I'm against censorship too (actually, I think I'll buy it unless it's buggy, I'm amused by end-of-the-world type games of whatever religious bent, try Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne sometime ;) but when it comes down to it, I can't deny that I would feel some (admittedly hypocritical) glee if Wal-Mart dropped the game with the Christians backing it crying "Censorship" when they have certainly been behind Wal-Mart dropping various non-"Family Friendly" things from their stores (but we're not allowed to cry "Censorship" when they do it, after all they are not a government and only governments can censor things!)
or will they suddenly include Anime?
At least Pretty Sammy/Magical Project S is safe, after all, in the original story, Sasami is 700 years old!
Now if only there was such an excuse for Nanoha...
I they/we just have a different idea of how to solve it.
Which is?
You can try this yourself with a glass of water and ice cubes. Mark the water line with the ice cubes floating, then let the ice melt and notice that it hasn't moved. This is elementary school physics.
And by the time you get to college, you should have learned that the experiment does not work with saltwater.
But I don't see what Dutch investment in the US has to do with anything in this article.
It doesn't, he's just bragging that he personally owns the entire state you live in.
Ahh google comes through with the goods. A nice PDF of all of the registrable offenses in the various states.
In general, it looks like you're right. As long as students resist the urge to moon their principal on school grounds, most states wait until the second time they catch you pissing in public to register you for public indecency.
Fortunately it's in alphabetical order, making it easy to find such wonderful things like "obscene bumper stickers" as grounds for registration in Alabama.
just click the positin bar anywhere.
What's really needed is the addition of a jog-wheel type interface to deal with the fact that some people might need to locate a particular frame, or perhaps a slider bar that can "zoom in" on the chunk of the slider bar representing +/- 1 minute from it's current position to allow better precision. Otherwise, if you're going to give me a slider bar, it better have an obvious tooltip or something to tell me what time I'm pointing at, with some way of skipping forward or backwards to times that are between pixels on the slider. Xine is a good example of how "just clicking the position bar anywhere" can go horribly wrong, with some of my longer dvds having a precision of about a minute or two to a pixel.
Probably easier than proving intent of kidfuckery.
Good thing everyone on the sex offender list participates in kidfuckery, and not getting drunk and pissing in a bush or mooning your principal, or various other "sexual" offenses.
So people in the poorest countries will keep getting better and higher paying jobs
Will they? When the jobs left America, those with "overinflated" salaries didn't get to keep their overinflated salaries, why will Indians be able to keep theirs?
We'll see in a couple of years whether or not India will be able to maintain what they've got now. I wonder whether the companies looking for workers in China now gave their Indian employees/contractors a chance to take a pay cut and remain employed, since most of those companies didn't extend that option to the American employees they replaced.
Ever heard of anybody being "bonded out" these days? Hell no, they stopped doing that 150 years ago.
No, now people hire men, and when they show up to work and then they're held and forced to work without pay. It's a shame that Bloomberg didn't publish their article online, but google shows that it's all the rage on them there blogotubes. Slavery is alive and kicking, and some companies continue to use force to enforce their belief that the market value of labor is $0, thereby dragging down the cost of labor everywhere else as companies with some semblance of humanity try to compete without crossing that line.
We would if the alternative was starving.
How low does it go before the going rate for labor is unable to save the laborers from starving? What then?
navigate traffic circles.
No American is going to win this one...
I'd be surprised if they are still doing it in 12 months.
And in a year we'll see Fox advertising NBC shows? The New York Times with a full page ad for the Washington Post? Maybe I'll buy a new car from Honda and the license plate frame will read "Have you driven a Ford lately?" Let's go all out: preachers extolling the virtues of Zen Buddhism!
A brave new world indeed.
(They are culpable if they hire an ax-murderer just released from prison and he axifies some people.)
Why?
Wouldn't be better to use lawyers?
They tried that, no matter how hard they trained, the lawyers weren't able to detect anything but ambulance exhaust.
dissent is unpatriotic and unamerican.
Dissent is what founded our country.