Sorry to disapoint you, but there are reasonable people who believe that abortion is wrong. I wouldn't call myself pro-life, but I will say that I am (for the 1000th time) disgusted with the thoughtlesness with which you have approached the issue.
The question of abortion is really REALLY tough, and I think that anybody who hasn't *struggled* with the question hasn't put enough thought into it.
Having said that, and as much as I'd love to have a flamewar with everyone over it, I don't think/. is the right place to do it....it's just WAY too off topic. So, in summary:
1) Everybody take some time and argue with your friends about abortion from both sides of the issue and thoroughly confuse yourself about what is right and wrong.
2) Kill this thread RIGHT NOW (hopefully by moding that post up;) )
Why don't you ask an Indian if they feel exploited making over 60,000 a year instead of going home and making *much* less than 10.
I agree that companies are inherently going to try to screw people over and pay as little as possible...so fix THAT, don't just do away with it alltogether.
As with any technology, one of the best ways to move it along at a rapid clip is to pit talented people against each other in competition! Case in point:
You're right; a regenerative system in this example would work perfectly. That fact illustrates why this Nitrogen idea is nonsence in the first place. The only place you're ADDING energy to the "equation" is by pressurizing it and storing it....the Nitrogen itself is more of a medium than a fuel. It's equlivalent to mechanical fly-wheels.
(I didn't read the article, so I may be full of shi7, and if so I apologise.)
I don't have a link handy, but according to the RIAA, you aren't allowed to rip audio from a non-"home audio" device. According to the RIAA, it is ILLEGAL to buy a metalica CD and MP3 it for personal use. Whether or not it is actually illegal is a matter for the courts.
I'll bet the average open minded/.er would agree that two consenting entities have a right to draw up almost any sort of contract between the two of them, right? The RIAA claims that it sells people music and conditions along with said music, and if you don't like said conditions, then don't buy said music. They have a point.
I agree with Fair Use, and I hope that it comes to the rescue. But to say that it IS legal to have an mp3 on your HDD is misleading.
If you, Mr Skript Kiddy, are reading this, beware. This is not the end of the story.
I consider it very counter-productive to use threats like this against the "crackers" who are behind this. If they are script kiddies, then that kind of talk is the stimulation they are looking for, so SHADUP.
And if they aren't script kiddies, you won't find them.
I don't agree. The whole POINT of the internet is that geography doesn't matter. I'm not saying that geographical TLD's shouldn't exist, but to say that everybody should segregate themselves based on their country doesn't make sense to me.
What you're saying about the prevalence of teens doing "bad stuff" is very true, but I don't think I agree that it just shouldn't be illegal.
The idea is that before you're 18, your parents get to chose what you pollute your mind with. If you reject that, I think you also have to reject laws about drinking age and smoking age...all kinds of laws that "everybody" thinks are good and apropriate.
You say that a 15 year old should be allowed to look at violence. Should they be allowed to rent dirty movies? Should they be allowed to buy cigarettes?
As geeky as I claim to be, I don't see a difference between a video game and a horror movie just because it's a different medium.
I had a chance to travel through the Northern Territory of Australia, which has the highest concentration of Aborigionals in Australia and also the lowest life expectancy in the modernized world. The decrepit condition of the Aborigionals was very depressing to me, and I thought to myself "if I were an Australian, I'd be ashamed." But then I realized that we Americans have a neglected native population of our very own, and there are probablly a bunch of Australians somewhere who would be ashamed to be Americans upon having seen some of our reservations.
The reason I'm posting this is to support the idea of getting involved in the betterment of native Americans. America owes a lot of its success to the results of their land having been stolen, and the least we can do is give them a chance at a reasonibly prosperous career. If I get the charity bug, I may move out west instead of going to Africa.
I was very glad to read that one of the only things that HavenCo will disallow on its servers is child pornography. In my own net experience, I find myself thinking that all is fair except for kiddy porn. But, once a person starts to take any interest in the content, can they really avoid the problem of getting drawn into a very difficult position of having to gradually expand what isn't allowable? For example, suppose some sick-o wanted to host a web site depicting real-life rapes. Surely just because that is not child pornography does not mean that it is morally justifiable to provide that service. Can you really just draw the line at child pornography?
What if the offspring didn't WANT to sign anything? The point that the offspring are trying to make is better made if the offspring REFUSED to sign anything.
I'm pissed off. This story is over a day old, and the article clearly says that it has to be intentional. If it's worth posting on/., it's worth READING THE ARTICLE and maybe even posting it relatively soon after it hits CNN.
When I was in Australia in October, I was horrified to find out that their dew had no caffine either. Strangely, their COKE did have caffine. The labeling on the bottle was very prominent saying "this product contains caffine."
I think it's silly for people to try to clarify the difference between hacker and cracker to people who don't know the differene between a hard drive and a CPU.
Why bother? People have chosen to use hacker to describe computer people who do bad things. Give up people! Who cares? They don't understand the distinction between yahoo and netscape!
I agree that he is a criminal. I don't support that.
What makes his case important to "hackers" is not his guilt or innosence, it is what the government has done to him outside of the bounds of orderly, prescribed punishment.
When you say that he should not be allowed to speak about his experiences, you give up on free speech. If it disgusts you to think that a mass murderer would make money on a book describing the slayings, direct your disgust at the people who buy the book, not at free speech itself.
People should be allowed to write books about killing people in real life, burn american flags, and talk about encryption. It disgusts me that people like you think the solution is to limit the speech, when the sickness is the fact that people want to read the books, people make a big deal out of someone burning a piece of cloth, and people want to not allow completely private correspondance over the 'net.
"deeply criminal purpose"??? Even if Napster and Gnutella are only for the bad guys, I find it laughable that you would call a bunch of kids trading music files "deeply criminal."
You state that these products "deprive artists of...revenue." This is only true if mp3s affect people's buing habbits. While I don't doubt that there are people who will never buy CD's again, I can pretty honestly say that mp3's have not changed my buying habbits; and perhaps have even convinced me to buy CD's from artists that I would never have heard of before.
It's SUCH a basic American concept: don't take away freedoms that COULD be abused, stop only the abuses. Napster is not illegal, nor should it be.
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Representing this story with the Nintendo Joystick is just WRONG :)
Sorry to disapoint you, but there are reasonable people who believe that abortion is wrong. I wouldn't call myself pro-life, but I will say that I am (for the 1000th time) disgusted with the thoughtlesness with which you have approached the issue.
/. is the right place to do it....it's just WAY too off topic. So, in summary:
;) )
The question of abortion is really REALLY tough, and I think that anybody who hasn't *struggled* with the question hasn't put enough thought into it.
Having said that, and as much as I'd love to have a flamewar with everyone over it, I don't think
1) Everybody take some time and argue with your friends about abortion from both sides of the issue and thoroughly confuse yourself about what is right and wrong.
2) Kill this thread RIGHT NOW (hopefully by moding that post up
Sincerely,
Mike
Why don't you ask an Indian if they feel exploited making over 60,000 a year instead of going home and making *much* less than 10.
I agree that companies are inherently going to try to screw people over and pay as little as possible...so fix THAT, don't just do away with it alltogether.
Mike
I completely missed the point of the article :>
Thanks.
What difference does it make if you call printf("%s", string) instead of printf(string)?
not 31337 afterall,
Mike
As with any technology, one of the best ways to move it along at a rapid clip is to pit talented people against each other in competition! Case in point:
Formula Sun
Fun stuff!
Mike
...the biggest losers are the ones who will surely get first place :)
You're right; a regenerative system in this example would work perfectly. That fact illustrates why this Nitrogen idea is nonsence in the first place. The only place you're ADDING energy to the "equation" is by pressurizing it and storing it....the Nitrogen itself is more of a medium than a fuel. It's equlivalent to mechanical fly-wheels.
(I didn't read the article, so I may be full of shi7, and if so I apologise.)
Mike
I don't have a link handy, but according to the RIAA, you aren't allowed to rip audio from a non-"home audio" device. According to the RIAA, it is ILLEGAL to buy a metalica CD and MP3 it for personal use. Whether or not it is actually illegal is a matter for the courts.
/.er would agree that two consenting entities have a right to draw up almost any sort of contract between the two of them, right? The RIAA claims that it sells people music and conditions along with said music, and if you don't like said conditions, then don't buy said music. They have a point.
I'll bet the average open minded
I agree with Fair Use, and I hope that it comes to the rescue. But to say that it IS legal to have an mp3 on your HDD is misleading.
Mike
If you, Mr Skript Kiddy, are reading this, beware. This is not the end of the story.
I consider it very counter-productive to use threats like this against the "crackers" who are behind this. If they are script kiddies, then that kind of talk is the stimulation they are looking for, so SHADUP.
And if they aren't script kiddies, you won't find them.
Mike
I don't agree. The whole POINT of the internet is that geography doesn't matter. I'm not saying that geographical TLD's shouldn't exist, but to say that everybody should segregate themselves based on their country doesn't make sense to me.
What you're saying about the prevalence of teens doing "bad stuff" is very true, but I don't think I agree that it just shouldn't be illegal.
The idea is that before you're 18, your parents get to chose what you pollute your mind with. If you reject that, I think you also have to reject laws about drinking age and smoking age...all kinds of laws that "everybody" thinks are good and apropriate.
You say that a 15 year old should be allowed to look at violence. Should they be allowed to rent dirty movies? Should they be allowed to buy cigarettes?
As geeky as I claim to be, I don't see a difference between a video game and a horror movie just because it's a different medium.
No, SAS stands for something like Statistical AnalySis, or something.
I used it in school to do some pretty neat math stuff. It's not Free, it's not pretty, but it can really crunch some numbers.
Mike
I had a chance to travel through the Northern Territory of Australia, which has the highest concentration of Aborigionals in Australia and also the lowest life expectancy in the modernized world. The decrepit condition of the Aborigionals was very depressing to me, and I thought to myself "if I were an Australian, I'd be ashamed." But then I realized that we Americans have a neglected native population of our very own, and there are probablly a bunch of Australians somewhere who would be ashamed to be Americans upon having seen some of our reservations.
The reason I'm posting this is to support the idea of getting involved in the betterment of native Americans. America owes a lot of its success to the results of their land having been stolen, and the least we can do is give them a chance at a reasonibly prosperous career. If I get the charity bug, I may move out west instead of going to Africa.
I was very glad to read that one of the only things that HavenCo will disallow on its servers is child pornography. In my own net experience, I find myself thinking that all is fair except for kiddy porn. But, once a person starts to take any interest in the content, can they really avoid the problem of getting drawn into a very difficult position of having to gradually expand what isn't allowable? For example, suppose some sick-o wanted to host a web site depicting real-life rapes. Surely just because that is not child pornography does not mean that it is morally justifiable to provide that service. Can you really just draw the line at child pornography?
What if the offspring didn't WANT to sign anything? The point that the offspring are trying to make is better made if the offspring REFUSED to sign anything.
Mike
I'm pissed off. This story is over a day old, and the article clearly says that it has to be intentional. If it's worth posting on /., it's worth READING THE ARTICLE and maybe even posting it relatively soon after it hits CNN.
*grrr*
Mike
When I was in Australia in October, I was horrified to find out that their dew had no caffine either. Strangely, their COKE did have caffine. The labeling on the bottle was very prominent saying "this product contains caffine."
no worries,
Mike
I agree.
I think it's silly for people to try to clarify the difference between hacker and cracker to people who don't know the differene between a hard drive and a CPU.
Why bother? People have chosen to use hacker to describe computer people who do bad things. Give up people! Who cares? They don't understand the distinction between yahoo and netscape!
Mike
I agree that he is a criminal. I don't support that.
What makes his case important to "hackers" is not his guilt or innosence, it is what the government has done to him outside of the bounds of orderly, prescribed punishment.
When you say that he should not be allowed to speak about his experiences, you give up on free speech. If it disgusts you to think that a mass murderer would make money on a book describing the slayings, direct your disgust at the people who buy the book, not at free speech itself.
People should be allowed to write books about killing people in real life, burn american flags, and talk about encryption. It disgusts me that people like you think the solution is to limit the speech, when the sickness is the fact that people want to read the books, people make a big deal out of someone burning a piece of cloth, and people want to not allow completely private correspondance over the 'net.
"You are not everybody."
That's the point. Neither are the people who use napster illegally.
Mike
"deeply criminal purpose"??? Even if Napster and Gnutella are only for the bad guys, I find it laughable that you would call a bunch of kids trading music files "deeply criminal."
You state that these products "deprive artists of...revenue." This is only true if mp3s affect people's buing habbits. While I don't doubt that there are people who will never buy CD's again, I can pretty honestly say that mp3's have not changed my buying habbits; and perhaps have even convinced me to buy CD's from artists that I would never have heard of before.
It's SUCH a basic American concept: don't take away freedoms that COULD be abused, stop only the abuses. Napster is not illegal, nor should it be.
Mike
Thank you for the proper grammar ("were Open-Source?")
Some people....:)