No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
In what way is being captured on a battlefield considered arbitrary arrest, detention or exile? Would you rather that the US Army refuse to take prisoners?
They should if we're the ones detaining them, and we truly believe our laws are just. Deport them or charge them, but holding them indefinitely is wrong.
How are we detaining them? Did they get hauled off to jail after traffic stops? Did riot cops grab them for chanting "death to America" in some downtown? I cannot understand why so many people think our civilian judicial system in any way applies here.
The people held in Cuba are not US citizens. They were captured in battle against our forces and their allies, but are not, however, POWs. They were combatants, yes, but what army were they in? What flag did they follow? We could not give them POW status even if we wanted to; what government would we report their status to? We never recognised the Taliban, and Al'Quaeda never even claimed to be a government. There is no one for us to turn them over to.
These people were captured in action by the military. Unlike most of the rest of the world, the US military doesn't arrest people. It is entirely seperate from our criminal justice system. The detainees are not going to be turned over to prosecutors, because that is not why the military detained them. They surrendered rather than be killed, and because our soldiers are really nice guys they agreed to take them into custody. They don't get the protected status of POWs, though. How can they even be released? Whose embassy is the military supposed to drop them off at, for God's sake? They weren't soldiers, but illegal combatants. They aren't prisoners, but detainees. They won't be held until the war's end, but indefinitely.
...they codified the manufacturing and mastering standards for phonograph records that allowed discs released by any label to be played on any turntable... What innovations have they created lately?
Their member companies are now selling CDs that can only be played on approved hardware. The problem, obviously, is that the RIAA is too weak. We need to help them out and cut checks directly to the RIAA, bypassing the artists and labels altogether. With its new strength, the RIAA can rein in those renegade labels and force them to release music that can once again be played on any player!
For the third flick, die hards will see it on IMAX and then just purchase the DVD later... leaving the theaters out of the action. Are they afraid that after people see it in the theater that there will not be enough excitement to pay off the IMAX investment?
I think this is a move to protect the general moviegoing public from having to sit with the diehards. I know the high school crowd at the theatre I went to made me wish for a bag of grenades. Maybe now I can stop scrounging.
I'd dance up and down if we could close all of the coal mines tomorrow , but that doesn't mean I want all coal miners to starve. Let's show a little empathy...
I wouldn't. I like coal; it's important for steel production and we get a lot of electricity from it. I've never had a coal miner interrupt my dinner trying to sell me coal.
I'm not saying we should reverse the rules to save jobs. No way. But that doesn't make it bad to point out a lot of people are going to have to find jobs in an already bad job market.
Your job was to annoy me. There isn't much demand for that. Go find a used car lot to sell from. At least then the people you annoy will have come to you voluntarily.
All I ever wanted was to put a NO SOLICITORS sign next to my phone number. Let's show a little empathy...
If my computer crashes because of a bug I can replace it.
If my car crashes because of a computer bug, me , someone I care about or someone who could sue me could be injured or killed.
We replace a lot of modules, sensors and the like. The customer complaint is either "the check engine light came on" or "it's running/shifting a little rough." Your car will only crash from a faulty computer if you ignore the lights and let it go until the computer falls out of the car. Similarly, you'll only go off the road with slick tires if you've been refusing to replace them, too.
...I'm interested in how you think cheating affects a persons prospects of being successful.
In my opinion cheaters are the best people to work with. They look for the best/easiest solution to the problem. I seriously doubt that there is someone who has never lied or cheated in their lives (the mythical Jesus aside).
What happens when bureaucrats at NASA cheat? Creative problem solving is one thing- they used that to put us on the moon. Cheating leads to not checking whether your calculations should be in english or metric. Creative problem solving in school will help you learn the most with the least time or effort invested. Cheating is just a way of raising your score on a test. If you had bothered to learn the subject, you would have done well on the test anyway.
I love the Uniball, but I can't use it at work. I use a Bic wide body grip there, and couldn't live without it. I need a regular ballpoint to get through carbons, a clip so I can hang it in my hip pocket, a clic to avoid writing around my hip pocket and a wide cylinder to ward off writer's cramp.
That said, the Uniball is the best damn pen I've seen in the "a few bucks" category, which is as high as I feel like going.
That's why we don't like vigilante action, because you never know if you'll be the next victim.
The critical issue vith vigilantes is law enforcement, ot the absence thereof. There is a lot of focus on abortion in the US, and the courts come down pretty clearly saying it's legal. The wing nuts who use violence to deter abortions aren't vigilantes, they're criminals. Domestic terrorists, to be honest. They aren't taking any laws into their own hands, but they're violating laws left and right trying to intimidate prople into stopping what is a lawful activity.
Spam hunters are vigilantes. Spamming is illegal for various reasons- everything from a deep seated hatred from end users being barely articulated through their legislatures about time, hardware and bandwidth costs to kiddie porn in childrens' inboxes. It's illegal to posess kiddie porn, yet these folks distribute it. It's illegal to distribute any porn to kids, yet they do it all day long.
The government won't bother, they're too busy trying to convince people that Iraq sponsored terrorism. So some individuals have had to step up to the plate. Hooray for them. Don't compare them to a bunch of thugs because the thugs think their own cause is good. The spam hunters are the good guys here.
Then why did you become a soldier, if not to protect the innocent? Oh, I forgot, you're an AMERICAN soldier (i.e., a racist).
Actually, my oath stuck to supporting and defending the Constitution and bearing faith and allegiance to it. Innocence and skin color weren't mentioned. A cursory reading of the Constitution should be enough to show that our invasion of Iraq was against American law. I'll take that out on Bush next November. The legality of American presence notwithstanding, if my presence were required then my only two goals would be 1) getting out alive and 2) all of my men getting out alive. Any deaths that make either (preferably both) of those goals more achievable are fine with me.
A thousand innocent Iraqis are obviously worth less than one soldier, right? Go thump a bible, ya biggot.
A thousand of just about anyone is worth less to me than one of my soldiers, and bigot has only one g.
Besides all this, if we were able to see the circumstances under which these soldiers are killing civilians (as we've seen only a couple on the news), I think we'd realize that in most cases, the deaths were preventable if the U.S. soldiers weren't so trigger happy (and afraid).
The trigger-happiness comes directly from the fear. As a (non deployed) soldier, I can tell you that while I haven't the slightest thing against any Iraqi civilian, the lives of all Iraqi civilians combined are worth less to me than the life of one of my men. It sickens me that we are there at all, and our guys simply want to live through it. On a positive note, at least they aren't in a country filled with dangerous weapons of mass destruction.
Huh? What does copyright laws have to do with that? Copyright laws doesn't prevent you from selling, say, a book you bought or anything else just becayse there is something that has a copyright "in" it. Copyright laws deals with making copies , doing public performace and such.
What is the issue is contract laws and any special contract you may have done at the same time you purchased something but again, that has nothing to do with copyright laws.
That's a nice used car you just bought, but I don't believe that you have a legitimate license to use the software in the PCM. Just you wait until the traffic cop down the road realizes that he's stopped a pirate.
"We have been talking about a single planet from a single globular cluster," he said. "We ought not to extrapolate from a sample of one, and first look more closely to see if there are planets in other clusters."
This Dr. Richer is not fit to be quoted in an article linked to here. This space is for speculation that
1. There was a civilization on that planet 12.7 billion years ago,
2. There's water or oil on it
3. 20 years from now it'll be a more popular space tourism destination than the moon.
And of course as soon as you said that I remembered it. My previous statement shows just how well Congress has managed to make people think they are the real source of power.
Actually, reading the Constitution would manage to make people think they are the real source of power. It's a pity that not more people read it. I'm sorry, I know what you actually said, but that's the way I read it the first couple of times.
...some Israelis think that anybody who doesn't proclaim that shooting kids for throwing rocks is OK...
To go even further off topic, kids who throw rocks at armed soldiers, especially armed soldiers who are known to shoot back, are simply begging for their Darwin Awards. A more basic look at it asks where their parents are. I would tie my kid to my leg if I had to to keep him from throwing rocks at someone with a gun.
(including more than 30 Free Software orientated projects such as FFII, BSD, KDE and Debian)
I generally ignore spelling errors, as they tend to simply be typos. What we have here is a thinking error. Come on, people, repeat after me: orientate is not a word.
The consequences don't have to be illegal. For example, if I find out that you lied on your resume, and you would lose your job if your employer found out, it's entirely legal for me to write a newspaper article exposing your secret, even if it brings harm to you.
However, if I come to you and tell you, "I am going to publish this information unless you give me $50,000 and an ice cream soda; either way, it's your choice", it's now blackmail, and it's illegal.
These guys don't want money and ice cream; they want you out of your job. They have information that will get you canned, but they're saying "I am going to publish this information unless you resign." You're out of a job either way, but you have more control over the method this way. They can publish and watch you get fired, or allow you to go away on your own and leave the press out of it.
It's really just like finding an ordinary hole in Windows and reporting it to MS with a note that if they don't fix it, you'll release it. MS doesn't need a six months' grace period here, though. They simply need to sign a bootloader, not learn how to spell security.
Hey, remember when they made security a top priority and said they were going to put a billion man-hours into it, stopping work on everything else? Remember how we saw a sudden drop in worms and holes and crashes after that? Yeah, I only remember the first part, too.
So, if one of your Co-workers is have a problem (meaning a loss of productivity) and even if you KNOW how to fix the problem wuickly and easily you are going to make them use IT (which usually takes time) or MS Tech. Support. You would CHOOSE to hurt your company, talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
IT chose to hurt the company by deploying Windows. Donating Band-Aid tech support harms the company far worse by hiding from management the true cost of Windows. Should you turn in a completed help ticket so the pay for your time spent doing tech support instead of your real job comes out of IT's budget instead of your own department's?
Doing Windows tech support (unless it is explicitly a part of your job) violates one of Murphy's Laws of combat, too: Don't reinforce failure. Failure tends to reinforce itself. You can use Windows all you want. I'm not going to help you do it, though.
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In what way is being captured on a battlefield considered arbitrary arrest, detention or exile? Would you rather that the US Army refuse to take prisoners?
How are we detaining them? Did they get hauled off to jail after traffic stops? Did riot cops grab them for chanting "death to America" in some downtown? I cannot understand why so many people think our civilian judicial system in any way applies here.
The people held in Cuba are not US citizens. They were captured in battle against our forces and their allies, but are not, however, POWs. They were combatants, yes, but what army were they in? What flag did they follow? We could not give them POW status even if we wanted to; what government would we report their status to? We never recognised the Taliban, and Al'Quaeda never even claimed to be a government. There is no one for us to turn them over to.
These people were captured in action by the military. Unlike most of the rest of the world, the US military doesn't arrest people. It is entirely seperate from our criminal justice system. The detainees are not going to be turned over to prosecutors, because that is not why the military detained them. They surrendered rather than be killed, and because our soldiers are really nice guys they agreed to take them into custody. They don't get the protected status of POWs, though. How can they even be released? Whose embassy is the military supposed to drop them off at, for God's sake? They weren't soldiers, but illegal combatants. They aren't prisoners, but detainees. They won't be held until the war's end, but indefinitely.
Their member companies are now selling CDs that can only be played on approved hardware. The problem, obviously, is that the RIAA is too weak. We need to help them out and cut checks directly to the RIAA, bypassing the artists and labels altogether. With its new strength, the RIAA can rein in those renegade labels and force them to release music that can once again be played on any player!
Don't you mean the "fertilizer" category?
No, he just got tired of fighting with Dr. Strangepork and 1st Mate Piggy.
I think this is a move to protect the general moviegoing public from having to sit with the diehards. I know the high school crowd at the theatre I went to made me wish for a bag of grenades. Maybe now I can stop scrounging.
I wouldn't. I like coal; it's important for steel production and we get a lot of electricity from it. I've never had a coal miner interrupt my dinner trying to sell me coal.
I'm not saying we should reverse the rules to save jobs. No way. But that doesn't make it bad to point out a lot of people are going to have to find jobs in an already bad job market.
Your job was to annoy me. There isn't much demand for that. Go find a used car lot to sell from. At least then the people you annoy will have come to you voluntarily.
All I ever wanted was to put a NO SOLICITORS sign next to my phone number. Let's show a little empathy...
So... Care to tell us who this laptop manufacturer is? It's relevant to the /. crowd.
If my car crashes because of a computer bug, me , someone I care about or someone who could sue me could be injured or killed.
We replace a lot of modules, sensors and the like. The customer complaint is either "the check engine light came on" or "it's running/shifting a little rough." Your car will only crash from a faulty computer if you ignore the lights and let it go until the computer falls out of the car. Similarly, you'll only go off the road with slick tires if you've been refusing to replace them, too.
In my opinion cheaters are the best people to work with. They look for the best/easiest solution to the problem. I seriously doubt that there is someone who has never lied or cheated in their lives (the mythical Jesus aside).
What happens when bureaucrats at NASA cheat? Creative problem solving is one thing- they used that to put us on the moon. Cheating leads to not checking whether your calculations should be in english or metric. Creative problem solving in school will help you learn the most with the least time or effort invested. Cheating is just a way of raising your score on a test. If you had bothered to learn the subject, you would have done well on the test anyway.
That said, the Uniball is the best damn pen I've seen in the "a few bucks" category, which is as high as I feel like going.
It can happen when you move. I only brought about half of my garage cluster with me the last time.
It sure beats the "fair and balanced" news.
There's only one "religion" (and yes, I use that term loosely) that I can think of that uses trade secrets. Remember them?
The critical issue vith vigilantes is law enforcement, ot the absence thereof. There is a lot of focus on abortion in the US, and the courts come down pretty clearly saying it's legal. The wing nuts who use violence to deter abortions aren't vigilantes, they're criminals. Domestic terrorists, to be honest. They aren't taking any laws into their own hands, but they're violating laws left and right trying to intimidate prople into stopping what is a lawful activity.
Spam hunters are vigilantes. Spamming is illegal for various reasons- everything from a deep seated hatred from end users being barely articulated through their legislatures about time, hardware and bandwidth costs to kiddie porn in childrens' inboxes. It's illegal to posess kiddie porn, yet these folks distribute it. It's illegal to distribute any porn to kids, yet they do it all day long.
The government won't bother, they're too busy trying to convince people that Iraq sponsored terrorism. So some individuals have had to step up to the plate. Hooray for them. Don't compare them to a bunch of thugs because the thugs think their own cause is good. The spam hunters are the good guys here.
Actually, my oath stuck to supporting and defending the Constitution and bearing faith and allegiance to it. Innocence and skin color weren't mentioned. A cursory reading of the Constitution should be enough to show that our invasion of Iraq was against American law. I'll take that out on Bush next November. The legality of American presence notwithstanding, if my presence were required then my only two goals would be 1) getting out alive and 2) all of my men getting out alive. Any deaths that make either (preferably both) of those goals more achievable are fine with me.
A thousand innocent Iraqis are obviously worth less than one soldier, right? Go thump a bible, ya biggot.
A thousand of just about anyone is worth less to me than one of my soldiers, and bigot has only one g.
The trigger-happiness comes directly from the fear. As a (non deployed) soldier, I can tell you that while I haven't the slightest thing against any Iraqi civilian, the lives of all Iraqi civilians combined are worth less to me than the life of one of my men. It sickens me that we are there at all, and our guys simply want to live through it. On a positive note, at least they aren't in a country filled with dangerous weapons of mass destruction.
What is the issue is contract laws and any special contract you may have done at the same time you purchased something but again, that has nothing to do with copyright laws.
That's a nice used car you just bought, but I don't believe that you have a legitimate license to use the software in the PCM. Just you wait until the traffic cop down the road realizes that he's stopped a pirate.
I'm Irish, you insensitive clod!
This Dr. Richer is not fit to be quoted in an article linked to here. This space is for speculation that
1. There was a civilization on that planet 12.7 billion years ago,
2. There's water or oil on it
3. 20 years from now it'll be a more popular space tourism destination than the moon.
Actually, reading the Constitution would manage to make people think they are the real source of power. It's a pity that not more people read it. I'm sorry, I know what you actually said, but that's the way I read it the first couple of times.
To go even further off topic, kids who throw rocks at armed soldiers, especially armed soldiers who are known to shoot back, are simply begging for their Darwin Awards. A more basic look at it asks where their parents are. I would tie my kid to my leg if I had to to keep him from throwing rocks at someone with a gun.
I generally ignore spelling errors, as they tend to simply be typos. What we have here is a thinking error. Come on, people, repeat after me: orientate is not a word.
However, if I come to you and tell you, "I am going to publish this information unless you give me $50,000 and an ice cream soda; either way, it's your choice", it's now blackmail, and it's illegal.
These guys don't want money and ice cream; they want you out of your job. They have information that will get you canned, but they're saying "I am going to publish this information unless you resign." You're out of a job either way, but you have more control over the method this way. They can publish and watch you get fired, or allow you to go away on your own and leave the press out of it.
It's really just like finding an ordinary hole in Windows and reporting it to MS with a note that if they don't fix it, you'll release it. MS doesn't need a six months' grace period here, though. They simply need to sign a bootloader, not learn how to spell security.
Hey, remember when they made security a top priority and said they were going to put a billion man-hours into it, stopping work on everything else? Remember how we saw a sudden drop in worms and holes and crashes after that? Yeah, I only remember the first part, too.
IT chose to hurt the company by deploying Windows. Donating Band-Aid tech support harms the company far worse by hiding from management the true cost of Windows. Should you turn in a completed help ticket so the pay for your time spent doing tech support instead of your real job comes out of IT's budget instead of your own department's?
Doing Windows tech support (unless it is explicitly a part of your job) violates one of Murphy's Laws of combat, too: Don't reinforce failure. Failure tends to reinforce itself. You can use Windows all you want. I'm not going to help you do it, though.