When the day comes that the Constitution can no longer protect us in the information age, we have a Congress actually interested and willing to step in on behalf of the people.
Don't forget "able". The legislative branch is being continually weakened, especially during the Bush administration.
Why is José Padilla been in jail for 4 years being tortured, when his case is still pre-trail?..because the 6th (and 8th) Amendment, are meaningless.
I suppose it's an example of the death of the Bill of Rights, but let's not have any sympathy for this man. He's admitted to blowing up a civilian airplane and is a fugitive from Venezuela. He hasn't received a trial because the US refuses to extradite or convict a CIA ally, but cannot politically acquit an admitted terrorist. In other words, he's being sheltered, not mistreated.
Now give me a study of ages 14-18, and see how the most popular activities change when the kiddies discover the appeal of the opposite (or same) gender.
Godwin's law, this thread is officially over and Jack Thompson wins. I don't like it any more than you do, but the slashdot croud can always be counted on to resort to emotional rhetoric ASAP.
Goodwin's law, though amusing, irritates me. GP's comparison was apt. Maybe you should take a look at the way the Third Reich outlawed all "degenerate" art and consider the analogy before you go yelling "hyperbole!"
Forgive me if someone has already made this point, but wouldn't the.xxx TLD, designed to be blocked by uptight people, be the last place a porn site would want to live?
Not really. It's real hard to block a TLD like that effectively... all you need to do is proxy requests to.yyy to go to.xxx for example and the block stops working. If you can make the request to the root nameservers (not necessarily on the same machine or network) you can find the websites.. the rest is just a matter of coding.
I'm sure lots of Slashdotters have storied of how they were programming sentient AIs at age 9, but having to do all that is more than enough to keep little Johny from seeing naked people (naked people on.xxx domains, anyway).
2) a secret cabal of giant corporations is colluding to make sure nobody releases it so they can make more money.
Not taking a side on the issue, but your argument is something of a straw man. It's not like people keep discovering cures and the pharmaceuticals cover them up. It's not hard to hide any cures that may exist from people if you're the only one able to find it.
It's stored and contained by a relatively responsible and sane government with no intention of using it.
I'm really sick of these statements. WE can have horrible weapons because WE are responsible. We DESERVE to have more rights than other nations, because we're more powerful and therefore BETTER. Note that WE are the only nation in history to USE nukes, on a nation that was already ready and in fact TRYING to surrender. Now that WE have them, we should ban their production worldwide.
Please show me where North Korea has used any weapons at all. Please show me when North Korea stopped insisting that their nukes were for deterrent purposed. Please explain to me why we shouldn't believe that claim. Please don't resort to name-calling like "crazy" and "evil".
(As a side note, having the nuclear deterrent will allow them to spend less of their very limited resources on the military. But don't expect them to feel safe enough to do this as we step up our threats, like we did to deal the final economic blow to the Soviet Union. And while we're talking about this, they wouldn't be building these weapons or "starving their people", as we so often condemn them for, if they weren't being subjected to the very cruel "Soviet Treatment" by the US.)
Intelligence reports from the United States and South Korea list anthrax, smallpox, pneumonic plague, cholera and botulism toxins as leading components of North Korea's bioweapons projects.
I can't believe the posts I'm reading in response to this article/summary (wait... they're not the same thing?). Why would any thinking person take the validity of US intelligent reports on "Axis of Evil" countries for granted? Actually, anyone who's been paying any attention to publicly discussed "intelligence reports" since we had "intelligence" agencies should have no reason to take anything said by the US for granted.
Also, has anyone else noticed how the US only started worrying about biological weapons once and where it became politically useful?
'Ain't' is an accepted grammatical form, although the word itself in nonstandard
True (oops... I meant "that is true"). It's type of meaning/use is probably unique.
and should not be used formally.
The concept of "formal" speak is quite elitist and, more importantly, unimportant for any possible practical reason unless speaking otherwise is unclear.
Punctuation goes inside of quotation marks when the punctuation is part of the passage being quoted, and outside the marks if not -- e.g. Malolm X asked, "What did we do, who preceded you?"; Did Churchill really say, "In the morning I'll be sober, but you'll still be ugly"?
Malcolm X? I love that guy! Actually, he liked to insist that blacks should not use Ebonics as it made them seem ignorant. So you've got a friend in Mr. X.
Anyhow, the way you describe the way to punctuate regarding quotation marks certainly seems like the most logical way to me. I think that's the way I used them, too. But I recall hearing that they're "supposed" to be use otherwise. I could always be wrong.
'Alot' is not a word (unless you're speaking of Adaptive Large Optics Technologies), nor is it a contraction.
Please do explain to me how "alot" is not a contraction for "a lot".
Famicom is not a contraction. It was a brand name for the NES in Japan. It is a trande name and a proper noun; that's why it's capitalized.
Why can't a proper noun be/come from a contraction? What about the meaning of the word "contraction" says it can't be? (And don't quote a dictionary definition of the word. I said "meaning" instead of "definition" for a reason.)
Bad grammar usage makes the writer look ignorant.
This is totally separate from a discussion on if good grammar is important. It isn't and arguing that it is makes the writer look like a fool, IMHO.
If something is worth saying, it is worth saying correctly.
"Correct" when it comes to language is imaginary. If something is worth saying, it's worth saying in a manner that can be as clearly and totally understood as possible. The only other consideration should be the likelihood that the listener(s) will understand the way in which you express what you're trying to.
but then you prolly dont cair about you're grammer cuz their always corecting them and besides who rilly needs all theese rediculous rules any way ha ha ha LMAO
See above what I said about the importance of clarity. The ones that are irritating are ones that take more effort (however small) to understand. I hate it and consider the author (possibly) stupid (at least a little) if they can't use periods as much as anybody. If you think I'm contradicting myself, you need to reread my previous answer.
There is no such word as "alot," and if there is, there shouldn't be. It's "a lot." Two words, not one.
Do you also hate words like "cannot"? Do you also hate how my question mark was outside of my quotation marks? What about contractions? Is "can't" evil and wrong? Heck, what about the word "ain't"? It's not only a contraction, but it stands for all sorts of contractions that don't even begin with "ain"! And God! What about Japanese-style contractions? "Famicom"? What they hell is wrong with them? Are they too lazy to say or type out "family computer"?
$50,000?? That's alot of money to spend in the hope that you'll be given the code promised. I think there may be another possibility. Maybe the seller of this is hoping for just one customer: Microsoft. They don't want these things to be used, and what's $50,000 them anyway?
We here all know* that there is no ID in the experiment part of the statement, it is more a euphamism for some random mutation that may or may not stick.
My only real worry here is that PC game makers will start trying to make their PC games with the "console-player" in mind. See Deus Ex versus Deus Ex 2. I still cry when I think about the second one.
I just bought a Core 2 Duo board and processor. I immediately installed the native 64-bit Gentoo on it, but after two months, I decided to go back to running the x86 distribution./blockquote"
Why is that? I'm currently in the process of installing amd64 Gentoo, so I'd like to know.
Obviously the proposed law is stupid. Everyone can tell that. But...
"A blind person can shoot a rifle by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and help them sight it, but the blind person can pull the trigger."
Here's my question: is there actually a public demand for this? Are there really blind people out there who want to be led to the wild, have a gun held for them, and pull the trigger so they can kill still something, like normal people?
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Don't forget "able". The legislative branch is being continually weakened, especially during the Bush administration.
I suppose it's an example of the death of the Bill of Rights, but let's not have any sympathy for this man. He's admitted to blowing up a civilian airplane and is a fugitive from Venezuela. He hasn't received a trial because the US refuses to extradite or convict a CIA ally, but cannot politically acquit an admitted terrorist. In other words, he's being sheltered, not mistreated.
"At that point, the Constitution may fail us, and we will have to turn to Congress to create rules that are better adapted for the information age."
ROFL
I'm thinking you really don't belong on Slashdot.
I'm surprised no one else is interested in knowing how the authorities discovered this child porn.
"Person does something, dies." darwinaward!!!
Slashdotters are fucking assholes.
(Slashtotter points out that other Slashdotters are fucking assholes, get's modded Troll)
Goodwin's law, though amusing, irritates me. GP's comparison was apt. Maybe you should take a look at the way the Third Reich outlawed all "degenerate" art and consider the analogy before you go yelling "hyperbole!"
Forgive me if someone has already made this point, but wouldn't the .xxx TLD, designed to be blocked by uptight people, be the last place a porn site would want to live?
Not really. It's real hard to block a TLD like that effectively... all you need to do is proxy requests to .yyy to go to .xxx for example and the block stops working. If you can make the request to the root nameservers (not necessarily on the same machine or network) you can find the websites.. the rest is just a matter of coding.
.xxx domains, anyway).
I'm sure lots of Slashdotters have storied of how they were programming sentient AIs at age 9, but having to do all that is more than enough to keep little Johny from seeing naked people (naked people on
What if, instead of this, the car gives you a nice big warning if it detects that you're too drunk? I think that might be a very good idea.
Ah, ADA. It's got the coolest possible name a programming language could have. Too bad it's almost as dead as its namesake.
Not taking a side on the issue, but your argument is something of a straw man. It's not like people keep discovering cures and the pharmaceuticals cover them up. It's not hard to hide any cures that may exist from people if you're the only one able to find it.
I'm really sick of these statements. WE can have horrible weapons because WE are responsible. We DESERVE to have more rights than other nations, because we're more powerful and therefore BETTER. Note that WE are the only nation in history to USE nukes, on a nation that was already ready and in fact TRYING to surrender. Now that WE have them, we should ban their production worldwide.
Please show me where North Korea has used any weapons at all. Please show me when North Korea stopped insisting that their nukes were for deterrent purposed. Please explain to me why we shouldn't believe that claim. Please don't resort to name-calling like "crazy" and "evil".
(As a side note, having the nuclear deterrent will allow them to spend less of their very limited resources on the military. But don't expect them to feel safe enough to do this as we step up our threats, like we did to deal the final economic blow to the Soviet Union. And while we're talking about this, they wouldn't be building these weapons or "starving their people", as we so often condemn them for, if they weren't being subjected to the very cruel "Soviet Treatment" by the US.)
I can't believe the posts I'm reading in response to this article/summary (wait... they're not the same thing?). Why would any thinking person take the validity of US intelligent reports on "Axis of Evil" countries for granted? Actually, anyone who's been paying any attention to publicly discussed "intelligence reports" since we had "intelligence" agencies should have no reason to take anything said by the US for granted.
Also, has anyone else noticed how the US only started worrying about biological weapons once and where it became politically useful?
True (oops... I meant "that is true"). It's type of meaning/use is probably unique.
The concept of "formal" speak is quite elitist and, more importantly, unimportant for any possible practical reason unless speaking otherwise is unclear.
Malcolm X? I love that guy! Actually, he liked to insist that blacks should not use Ebonics as it made them seem ignorant. So you've got a friend in Mr. X.
Anyhow, the way you describe the way to punctuate regarding quotation marks certainly seems like the most logical way to me. I think that's the way I used them, too. But I recall hearing that they're "supposed" to be use otherwise. I could always be wrong.
Please do explain to me how "alot" is not a contraction for "a lot".
Why can't a proper noun be/come from a contraction? What about the meaning of the word "contraction" says it can't be? (And don't quote a dictionary definition of the word. I said "meaning" instead of "definition" for a reason.)
This is totally separate from a discussion on if good grammar is important. It isn't and arguing that it is makes the writer look like a fool, IMHO.
"Correct" when it comes to language is imaginary. If something is worth saying, it's worth saying in a manner that can be as clearly and totally understood as possible. The only other consideration should be the likelihood that the listener(s) will understand the way in which you express what you're trying to.
See above what I said about the importance of clarity. The ones that are irritating are ones that take more effort (however small) to understand. I hate it and consider the author (possibly) stupid (at least a little) if they can't use periods as much as anybody. If you think I'm contradicting myself, you need to reread my previous answer.
Do you also hate words like "cannot"? Do you also hate how my question mark was outside of my quotation marks? What about contractions? Is "can't" evil and wrong? Heck, what about the word "ain't"? It's not only a contraction, but it stands for all sorts of contractions that don't even begin with "ain"! And God! What about Japanese-style contractions? "Famicom"? What they hell is wrong with them? Are they too lazy to say or type out "family computer"?
$50,000?? That's alot of money to spend in the hope that you'll be given the code promised. I think there may be another possibility. Maybe the seller of this is hoping for just one customer: Microsoft. They don't want these things to be used, and what's $50,000 them anyway?
My sides are splitting.
What?! Thats news to me!
Love,
Troll
My only real worry here is that PC game makers will start trying to make their PC games with the "console-player" in mind. See Deus Ex versus Deus Ex 2. I still cry when I think about the second one.
You lie. Prove it.
You mean he's not a black nationalist muslim???
Walking On Sunshine?
Here's my question: is there actually a public demand for this? Are there really blind people out there who want to be led to the wild, have a gun held for them, and pull the trigger so they can kill still something, like normal people?