there is no rule of law in the USA. Rule of law stipulates that a legal code is the sole determination on what a person can be arrested and punished for, and what the punishment is, and its entirely consistant.
On paper, we have rule of law. In practice its much more murky.
There is a huge discrepency, and bias in who gets arrested, prosecuted, and even convicted and jail sentances for certain crimes(note same charge), with a sole deciding factor being place in the socio-economic hierarchy.
The example in this thread is how Bitcoing Exchange is being treated far diffrently than HSBC(who got caught doing the same thing in december 2012, and convicted). The sole diffrence is the perception of the two institutions by the government. There was a general unwillingness to prosecute HSBC.
the poster above you was being snark about the realities and general unfairness of the system.
oh, I get it now, your one of those nutcases who never leaves his house and listens to radio all day long, and litterally think that poor people, minorities, and women are out to get you?
I am sure its because ad-blocking software is reporting your every move and building a psychological profile on you, that eventually finds its way into the hands of the government, a government, potentially many governments, terrorists, or whoever manages to hack whoever has the list that day.
what ethical issues are there with ad-blocking software that outweigh the ethical issues behind current advertising?
I'm not. the rest of us, the people who are supporting an otherwise cruel and unsual punishment are part of society. Civilized persons don't condone torture.
>Doesn't the coverage of his slow, painful death serve as even the slightest deterrent?
no.
>Doesn't that help to keep bad people from harming society?
no.
>But at some point the actions of someone are so vile and so beyond the realm of acceptable that we must take action to guarantee that they are never given the opportunity to take those actions again against anyone.
torture doesn't do that. Your 19th century theory on policing/criminal justice belongs with the "eye for an eye" criminal justice in the dustbin of history. Its both barbaric and ineffective,
I am all for this. Shooting, specificly with a high calibre weapon is most likely the most humane way to kill someone. Unlike the firing squads of yore, the rifle is attached to a fixed bench, with a fixed aim point, and the victim is dead before he hits the floor.
But yeah, its messy, and not politically correct enought. Instead we let people squirm around taking 20+ min to die.
Then we have the entire contracition of using medicine to harm. This by itself is rather disgusting on its own
false equivilancy. This man might be a monster, but we are not. We are civilized. We are not going to torture people out of revenge or for any other reason.
The purpose of criminal justice is to keep bad people from harming society. Not to make us feel better, with some feel good violence or torture.
Please keep your biblical eye for and eye type mentality out of my country. Or go move to some country like saudia arabia
>I am not kidding, have you bought an Alienware in the last few years
I've never purchased a brand name desktop PC in my life. I started with borrowed, stolen, donated, machines I'd upgrade, and when I made enough money, I started building them from scratch with all new parts. They started by selling the type of custom machines that people would build, rather than the more OEM ones you'd but in the store, but insanely overpriced, kinda like what custom chopper shops do with motorcycles.(again, build my own too, nother story.)
>Want to reinstall Windows?
no thanks. anyways, they are steam machines. most people aren't going to buy these things and install windows, or even regular linux for that matter. They are just going to play PC games without the fuss of the PC.
>Oh well, at least you can get your money back? Wrong again, dingus! The customer service is awful!
sorry to hear it. Again, I build my own machines, but I sympathize with anyone who has to deal with crappy tech support.
But again, this isn't going to be a machine people play around with. This is going to simply be a dedicated gaming machine for people too slow to figure out how to run a regular computer.
this partisan bitching is the reason most major issues get ignored, because no one focuses on the fucking issues.
Real big issues, that have remained constant under Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, and even Reagan, and even previous.
So when either a democrat or republican brings up and important issue, I grimace, because they are distracting people, and once elected are not going to change.
The net effect is for many major issues, we have a one party system. At this point, if your not voting third party, your wasting your vote.
I am going with the pirates due to my personal affinity for tech related issues.
No, I also don't mean to be alarmist, or tin foil, but when its said by the CEO of a company about his products, you'd have to be really fucking dense not to think its correct, and really play pretty big mind games to say you didn't hear it.
What else is going on that we don't know, and we'll later only hear about durring a slip up?
What vehicles have the GPS, just ones with it in the infotainment system, or does this go back further?
considering my browsing history, and a good chunk of personal information, to include my music collection is not root, someone with access to my non-privliedged user can do a fuckton of damage still.
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thats an entirely unreasonable expectation.
They are just going to get kids or other people who are desperate for work, and have no previous work experiance.
got it, we just need your name, address and phone number...
but I'm paying cash, 33 cent part.
want your transistor or not?
thats why the government wrote SELinux, which is a completely diffrent approach to permissions than Drwxrwxrwt
and yes, there are other permission schemes in various UNIX implementations to include linux, besides traditional POSIX two byte permissions.
well no, they follow political parties like sports teams.
opinions, like facts change every 4 years
>The rule of law is applied in the US every day
there is no rule of law in the USA. Rule of law stipulates that a legal code is the sole determination on what a person can be arrested and punished for, and what the punishment is, and its entirely consistant.
On paper, we have rule of law. In practice its much more murky.
There is a huge discrepency, and bias in who gets arrested, prosecuted, and even convicted and jail sentances for certain crimes(note same charge), with a sole deciding factor being place in the socio-economic hierarchy.
The example in this thread is how Bitcoing Exchange is being treated far diffrently than HSBC(who got caught doing the same thing in december 2012, and convicted). The sole diffrence is the perception of the two institutions by the government. There was a general unwillingness to prosecute HSBC.
the poster above you was being snark about the realities and general unfairness of the system.
No one got arrested in HSBC for doing just this.
People scoff and say there is no legitimate use for bitcoin.
on the same measure, there is no legitimate use for mainstream banking and financial instituions.
think about that one seriously for a second, the latter had the same reputation as bitcoin for centuries.,
well shit, I'm moving to kentucky.
oh, I get it now, your one of those nutcases who never leaves his house and listens to radio all day long, and litterally think that poor people, minorities, and women are out to get you?
thats more than all the people who've been shot by "crazy" spree shooters in the past 3 decades.
I wonder if congress is going to make a big campaign about this like they do banning guns.
whats a tough, is that like hair.
I am sure its because ad-blocking software is reporting your every move and building a psychological profile on you, that eventually finds its way into the hands of the government, a government, potentially many governments, terrorists, or whoever manages to hack whoever has the list that day.
what ethical issues are there with ad-blocking software that outweigh the ethical issues behind current advertising?
>Don't lump him into civilized society
I'm not. the rest of us, the people who are supporting an otherwise cruel and unsual punishment are part of society. Civilized persons don't condone torture.
>Doesn't the coverage of his slow, painful death serve as even the slightest deterrent?
no.
>Doesn't that help to keep bad people from harming society?
no.
>But at some point the actions of someone are so vile and so beyond the realm of acceptable that we must take action to guarantee that they are never given the opportunity to take those actions again against anyone.
torture doesn't do that. Your 19th century theory on policing/criminal justice belongs with the "eye for an eye" criminal justice in the dustbin of history. Its both barbaric and ineffective,
moonbats?
if you like your biblical justice so much, go move to saudi arabia
I am all for this. Shooting, specificly with a high calibre weapon is most likely the most humane way to kill someone. Unlike the firing squads of yore, the rifle is attached to a fixed bench, with a fixed aim point, and the victim is dead before he hits the floor.
But yeah, its messy, and not politically correct enought. Instead we let people squirm around taking 20+ min to die.
Then we have the entire contracition of using medicine to harm. This by itself is rather disgusting on its own
false equivilancy. This man might be a monster, but we are not. We are civilized. We are not going to torture people out of revenge or for any other reason.
The purpose of criminal justice is to keep bad people from harming society. Not to make us feel better, with some feel good violence or torture.
Please keep your biblical eye for and eye type mentality out of my country. Or go move to some country like saudia arabia
>I am not kidding, have you bought an Alienware in the last few years
I've never purchased a brand name desktop PC in my life. I started with borrowed, stolen, donated, machines I'd upgrade, and when I made enough money, I started building them from scratch with all new parts. They started by selling the type of custom machines that people would build, rather than the more OEM ones you'd but in the store, but insanely overpriced, kinda like what custom chopper shops do with motorcycles.(again, build my own too, nother story.)
>Want to reinstall Windows?
no thanks. anyways, they are steam machines. most people aren't going to buy these things and install windows, or even regular linux for that matter. They are just going to play PC games without the fuss of the PC.
>Oh well, at least you can get your money back? Wrong again, dingus! The customer service is awful!
sorry to hear it. Again, I build my own machines, but I sympathize with anyone who has to deal with crappy tech support.
But again, this isn't going to be a machine people play around with. This is going to simply be a dedicated gaming machine for people too slow to figure out how to run a regular computer.
no. and it shouldn't.
this partisan bitching is the reason most major issues get ignored, because no one focuses on the fucking issues.
Real big issues, that have remained constant under Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, and even Reagan, and even previous.
So when either a democrat or republican brings up and important issue, I grimace, because they are distracting people, and once elected are not going to change.
The net effect is for many major issues, we have a one party system. At this point, if your not voting third party, your wasting your vote.
I am going with the pirates due to my personal affinity for tech related issues.
well from that perspective, so is a mac, and original xbox
only diffrence they are locked down more and don't distribute OS installers.
otherwise, exact same as a PC, but you have to hack the firmware before installing normal PC oses.
they are replacing that all with levels 1,2,3,4,5.
each level will speciy video card, ram, cpu, etc..., like kind windows 7 does. lowest rating is overall rating.
So if you have a level 3 game, you need a level 3 or better machine. fucking simple.
no, your getting an alienware PC, a top end PC brand.
so your going to get the ease of a console, with the performance of a PC.
>octocore PS4
any performance benchmark figures to match up with marketing terms.
every intel PC has twice as many cores as stated, because of hyperthreading(AMD simply counts them as seperate cores)
on what, servers?
most dell servers I see run some form of linux, as they are one of the premier linux server distributors
source: I do this for a living kid.
No really, this is some scary big brother shit.
No, I also don't mean to be alarmist, or tin foil, but when its said by the CEO of a company about his products, you'd have to be really fucking dense not to think its correct, and really play pretty big mind games to say you didn't hear it.
What else is going on that we don't know, and we'll later only hear about durring a slip up?
What vehicles have the GPS, just ones with it in the infotainment system, or does this go back further?
How do I take the GPS out of my new ford?
>The Internet doesn't kill jobs, bosses, paper owners, and capitalists, kill jobs. (TM)
ftfy
considering my browsing history, and a good chunk of personal information, to include my music collection is not root, someone with access to my non-privliedged user can do a fuckton of damage still.