It would be ridiculous to try to made the document apply to people outside of the US as it is just as ridiculous for judges here to apply law outside the US to people inside the US unless otherwise defined by a treaty.
Yeah, but if it slams the Bush administration, why should abstractions such as "jurisdiction" and "sovereignty" apply?
I was just in New York City, and I remember thinking, walking through Times Square, "This is kinda like Vegas without the casinos."
Now I realize: casinos are chump change compared to Wall Street, where the real high-rollers go.
I've read all of the published material in WoT.
I don't blame Jordan so much as the editors.
As with so many series "of size" these days, it would have been twice as good if it was half as long.
And without so many dangling threads--there was a vicious golem running around snuffing people somewhere in the vicinity of book 5. Where did that thing go?
Based on the blog posts, though, there should be one uncut monster of a tome about the size of a small refrigerator to tie things up in a year or two.
Let this be a lesson for George R. R. Martin...
It's not as simple as sheer ignorant un-educated speculation.
In the information age, the propaganda artist knows that the lumpen proletariat can be massaged and managed.
If enough Chicken Littles squawk that the sky is falling, then the sky may indeed fall.
You don't actually need a tumbling sky, you need doubt about the vitality of Atlas supporting the heavens.
Linus himself seems to be against the spirit of the GPL - either version 2 or 3
His summary of GPLv2, "tit for tat", represents an optimized, reductionist, and ultimately simple expression of the license.
Linus Torvalds must be stopped.
Remember The Trial
Before the law, there stands a guard. A man comes from the country, begging admittance to the law. But the guard cannot admit him. May he hope to enter at a later time? That is possible, said the guard. The man tries to peer through the entrance. He'd been taught that the law was to be accessible to every man. "Do not attempt to enter without my permission", says the guard. I am very powerful. Yet I am the least of all the guards. From hall to hall, door after door, each guard is more powerful than the last. By the guard's permission, the man sits by the side of the door, and there he waits. For years, he waits. Everything he has, he gives away in the hope of bribing the guard, who never fails to say to him "I take what you give me only so that you will not feel that you left something undone." Keeping his watch during the long years, the man has come to know even the fleas on the guard's fur collar. Growing childish in old age, he begs the fleas to persuade the guard to change his mind and allow him to enter. His sight has dimmed, but in the darkness he perceives a radiance streaming immortally from the door of the law. And now, before he dies, all he's experienced condenses into one question, a question he's never asked. He beckons the guard. Says the guard, "You are insatiable! What is it now?" Says the man, "Every man strives to attain the law. How is it then that in all these years, no one else has ever come here, seeking admittance?" His hearing has failed, so the guard yells into his ear. "Nobody else but you could ever have obtained admittance. No one else could enter this door! This door was intended only for you! And now, I'm going to close it." This tale is told during the story called "The Trial". It's been said that the logic of this story is the logic of a dream... a nightmare.
No, they are run by zealots with a particular belief system. Society doesn't come apart like a fan on youtube because such zealots and fans, while capable of inspiring "sheer awe" in their lunacy, don't actually represent the "reasonable persons", the silent majority who actually Do Something Useful.
I like "The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory."
Something about ending the sentence on a prepositional phrase, instead of breaking it into two, adds an extra hint of dissonance.
First day, new eyes.;)
This pair o' doxology usages recalls the Steven Wright jape:
"When I was a boy, I had a dog named Stay. I'd say 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay! He would just look at me...and keep on typing. He was an East German Shepherd. Very, very disciplined."
doxology: a hymn or form of words containing an ascription of praise to God
Perhaps you meant: d'enouement: The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.
Because if we're not about st00p3d jokes, we're about pedantry.;)
If we're going to throw around implications of "theft wrapped in a perfectly legal prophylactic", let's also consider the amount of economic value they inject into the economy via their products and services, not to mention jobs they bring to strange places by dropping big data centers in the hinterland.
Google is a an economic driver, not a load.
Gentoo can only trigger explosions if you set -O6 or greater in your make options.
This is because the resulting binaries run so fast that the CPU melts too rapidly for any gas to escape, and then, BAM: yo' junk goes down faster than a Britney Spears/Michael Jackson revival duet, replete with wardrobe malfunctions.
OK, it's late, and even I didn't need that imagery.
So spare yourself the imagery and keep them make options real out there, rokay?
So, the Demmmicans are "mom", and the Republocrats are "dad"?
My challenge with the "one big family" model, for all its attractiveness, is that Governement is incapable of offering peer pressure to moderate behavior. Government can only take action when a law is broken, and then only external measures. I would argue that the community of faith is the proper level of society to enforce concepts like "good parenting".
As for your space-oriented theory for the liberal/democrat divide, I'd like to know what you do with the Amish, according to this model.
I can't for the life of me believe that you got a Troll rating.
Great question. Grew up in areas without much presence of Judaism. Seems amusing to me in retrospect, but that's more of a personal observation.
People can grow up without being literate.
I was sitting in a seventh grade math class and the girl sitting next to me revealed she had just learned to tell time on an analogue clock.
Go figure.
It's really about perspective. Were not the classical european liberals, e.g. Gladstone indeed to the 'left' of those conservative monarchists?
I would argue that people in cities are *less* likely to be comfortable with the idea of shifting authority to government.
Just look at the current political situation - on which side of the political spectrum is this administration, which has done more to grab government authority than almost any other administration in history? Can you imagine a liberal president saying he/she has the right to lock someone up indefinitely just because they say so? Can you think of anything that is more "government authority" than that level of autocratic control over someone's personal liberty?
Isn't this the paradox of contemporary US politics? Mabye I'm missing something, but isn't Universal Health Care an example of "shifting authority to government"? Now, I'm sure that it's all couched in terms of fairness and "do it for the kids", because, like, what kind of heartless monster could argue with that?
And they're certainly right, and much good will come of it.
Too, maybe I'm completely tinfoil-hattish for worrying as much about the government compiling lots of medical information as I am having the government "lock someone up indefinitely just because they say so"[1].
I just don't understand how giving the government lots of authority WRT security is bad, and giving the government lots of authority to WRT shaping society is good, and libertarianism seems increasingly attractive.
[1]I'm thinking there may have been more going on than pure whim, but I'm un-researched on the topic, and the legal criticism is indeed a Good Thing, for all reasons cited.
When you look at the Christian religious landscape in the US, you can differentiate between houses of worship/denominations that could be characterized as more collectivist vs. individual, in terms of their organizational structure. (Treading carefully here, as I really don't want to flamebait. My own church is rather stubbornly independent in its outlook.)
However, even the more collectivist groups can be quite conservative.
Thus, I'd draw a 2X2 grid for analysis.
I have no idea, beyond Conservative/Orthodox/Reform, how Judaism is organized as far as bureaucratic structure goes, and I'm even less informed on Islam, other than the Sunni/Shia division.
That is quite an interesting point. You seem to imply that homogeneity implies some amount of xenophobia.
OTOH, I've been to various places Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America.
Something about wandering around a city where one is a) significantly challenged to communicate at all, b) confronted with strange foods, and c) not organized the way you're used to makes you realize that, while the US system isn't bad overall, TMTOWTDI definitely applies to societal systems.
In other words, considering where I grew up (largely San Diego and the Pacific Northwest) I should have probably ended up a liberal/progressive.
Interestingly, and topical to this thread, I was always aware of Judaism in a historical and ethnic context, but until I left Idaho and joined the military, I didn't realize that Judaism as a religion was still practiced. Guess I hadn't seen a rabbi or a synagogue. So that was sort of a fun thing to explore.
So, returning to your point, there are always going to be a few stubborn, obnoxious ones in every crowd. OTOH, have you taken a look at which states in the US send the most foreign missionaries? The answer may challenge you.
I could throw out some flamebait, but it's more constructive to point out that my opinion is purely subjective. Haven't ever attended a service in a mosque, but I think I've tapped the rest of this particular list. Original assertion stands.
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I was just in New York City, and I remember thinking, walking through Times Square, "This is kinda like Vegas without the casinos."
Now I realize: casinos are chump change compared to Wall Street, where the real high-rollers go.
The big question is, when the virus hacks the mind/machine interface and reprograms a bunch of people, do they vote conservative or liberal?
I've read all of the published material in WoT.
I don't blame Jordan so much as the editors.
As with so many series "of size" these days, it would have been twice as good if it was half as long.
And without so many dangling threads--there was a vicious golem running around snuffing people somewhere in the vicinity of book 5. Where did that thing go?
Based on the blog posts, though, there should be one uncut monster of a tome about the size of a small refrigerator to tie things up in a year or two.
Let this be a lesson for George R. R. Martin...
It's not as simple as sheer ignorant un-educated speculation.
In the information age, the propaganda artist knows that the lumpen proletariat can be massaged and managed.
If enough Chicken Littles squawk that the sky is falling, then the sky may indeed fall.
You don't actually need a tumbling sky, you need doubt about the vitality of Atlas supporting the heavens.
Linus Torvalds must be stopped.
Remember The Trial
I like "The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory."
Something about ending the sentence on a prepositional phrase, instead of breaking it into two, adds an extra hint of dissonance.
First day, new eyes. ;)
This pair o' doxology usages recalls the Steven Wright jape:
"When I was a boy, I had a dog named Stay. I'd say 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay! He would just look at me...and keep on typing. He was an East German Shepherd. Very, very disciplined."
Meant more as a rejection of materialism than an embrace of fatalism. See Ecclesiastes.
doxology: a hymn or form of words containing an ascription of praise to God ;)
Perhaps you meant:
d'enouement: The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.
Because if we're not about st00p3d jokes, we're about pedantry.
We're never more than a heartbeat from our demise, any of us.
Remind me again, the point of this coveting?
If we're going to throw around implications of "theft wrapped in a perfectly legal prophylactic", let's also consider the amount of economic value they inject into the economy via their products and services, not to mention jobs they bring to strange places by dropping big data centers in the hinterland.
Google is a an economic driver, not a load.
+1 Spinal Tap reference.
Gentoo can only trigger explosions if you set -O6 or greater in your make options.
This is because the resulting binaries run so fast that the CPU melts too rapidly for any gas to escape, and then, BAM: yo' junk goes down faster than a Britney Spears/Michael Jackson revival duet, replete with wardrobe malfunctions.
OK, it's late, and even I didn't need that imagery.
So spare yourself the imagery and keep them make options real out there, rokay?
Rhymed with 'knave' and 'shave', nice bit of assonance with 'shaving', dash of absurdity in the image of shaving with a broadsword.
It had to be done.
Black Screen of Darkness Assails the knave
Defend yourself
With your shaving glaive
And the white foam of truth:
Burma Shave
Stated without any nuance at all, I think the point was that conservative==xenophobic.
My challenge with the "one big family" model, for all its attractiveness, is that Governement is incapable of offering peer pressure to moderate behavior. Government can only take action when a law is broken, and then only external measures. I would argue that the community of faith is the proper level of society to enforce concepts like "good parenting".
As for your space-oriented theory for the liberal/democrat divide, I'd like to know what you do with the Amish, according to this model. Aw, c'mon: your userid is lower than mine.
Great question. Grew up in areas without much presence of Judaism. Seems amusing to me in retrospect, but that's more of a personal observation.
People can grow up without being literate.
I was sitting in a seventh grade math class and the girl sitting next to me revealed she had just learned to tell time on an analogue clock.
Go figure.
And they're certainly right, and much good will come of it.
Too, maybe I'm completely tinfoil-hattish for worrying as much about the government compiling lots of medical information as I am having the government "lock someone up indefinitely just because they say so"[1].
I just don't understand how giving the government lots of authority WRT security is bad, and giving the government lots of authority to WRT shaping society is good, and libertarianism seems increasingly attractive. [1]I'm thinking there may have been more going on than pure whim, but I'm un-researched on the topic, and the legal criticism is indeed a Good Thing, for all reasons cited.
I haven't had any SuSe exposure. I do mostly MS and a dash of RHEL at work, but, at home, I mostly run Gentoo with some OpenBSD flirting.
When you look at the Christian religious landscape in the US, you can differentiate between houses of worship/denominations that could be characterized as more collectivist vs. individual, in terms of their organizational structure. (Treading carefully here, as I really don't want to flamebait. My own church is rather stubbornly independent in its outlook.)
However, even the more collectivist groups can be quite conservative.
Thus, I'd draw a 2X2 grid for analysis.
I have no idea, beyond Conservative/Orthodox/Reform, how Judaism is organized as far as bureaucratic structure goes, and I'm even less informed on Islam, other than the Sunni/Shia division.
That is quite an interesting point. You seem to imply that homogeneity implies some amount of xenophobia.
OTOH, I've been to various places Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America.
Something about wandering around a city where one is a) significantly challenged to communicate at all, b) confronted with strange foods, and c) not organized the way you're used to makes you realize that, while the US system isn't bad overall, TMTOWTDI definitely applies to societal systems.
In other words, considering where I grew up (largely San Diego and the Pacific Northwest) I should have probably ended up a liberal/progressive.
Interestingly, and topical to this thread, I was always aware of Judaism in a historical and ethnic context, but until I left Idaho and joined the military, I didn't realize that Judaism as a religion was still practiced. Guess I hadn't seen a rabbi or a synagogue. So that was sort of a fun thing to explore.
So, returning to your point, there are always going to be a few stubborn, obnoxious ones in every crowd. OTOH, have you taken a look at which states in the US send the most foreign missionaries? The answer may challenge you.
I could throw out some flamebait, but it's more constructive to point out that my opinion is purely subjective. Haven't ever attended a service in a mosque, but I think I've tapped the rest of this particular list. Original assertion stands.