Everything Jack the Ripper did was illegal. Same goes for Bin Laden.
Um, I'm sure Jack did many legal things in his time, and OBL must have done some things legally -- obeyed a STOP sign while driving, or something like that.
The case of bin Laden is an interesting one, given that he may have been shuttling between Afghanistan and Pakistan for the last several years (and has almost certainly never entered the US), and that the US declines to sign international criminal law agreements because it is afraid its own citizens may be accused of war crimes. OB:'s acts were evil, yes, but illegal how and where?
(Moderators: I've already downmodded myself, and I don't sympathize with the likes of OBL at all. Just querying the above statement.:)
(Yes, I know your UID means you've been here for a while, but it's the traditional sarcastic response when someone complains about a practice that, in one form or another, has been around since... oh... around the time when I signed up.)
I browse in flat mode -- it's pretty small like that.:)
I think my point is that people interested in reading Cringely's opinions on/. already have a way to do so. (Of course, the idea of associating discussions to the Slashboxes is a good one, although I imagine you'd need to rotate them over time (clear at the start of the month, or something like that).
That sounds like a good idea -- the best of both worlds, and it means that you're selecting for those people interested in RXC's opinions in the first place.:)
Wasn't Carmack a big NeXT fan? Does this equate to a quicker release for Doom III on MacOS X? Probably not, for purely financial reasons, but it'd be nice to think so.
i love solaris, but it's not like they've ever made money off the OS--it's the hardware, stupid!
Sun want to be like Microsoft (more money from the sale of cardboard boxes and shiny discs), but Microsoft want to be like IBM (keep bleeding your customers for services). And given the current level of quality of much Microsoft software, maybe they've just been trying to ensure that they have a good future income stream.:/
I'd have thought that resolving the tonal direction of a sound would be pretty easy.
In the abstract, sure, but what about regional variations, with things changing slightly every few kilometres, and cumulatively changing a lot over distance? Call it the dialect problem.
w4r3z and pr0n is capitalism! w00t! BEST COMMANT EVAR!!!
Well, by the socialist viewpoint they are both similar; the gratification of immediate and immoral lusts. (Socialism is definitely an 'ism' in that sense -- religious belief in an antireligious scheme.)
Marx was very perceptive as an economist, insofar as Das Kapital was a very good analysis of the way in which capitalism operated. (Where he went wrong was in his attempted 'solution' to the 'problem'.* )
The level of desire for warez and pr0n was probably one of the reasons that all these telephone companies decided to get into the bandwidth market in the first place... where people are willing to pay more than it costs you to provide a service, that's a capitalist opportunity:)
* Single quotes used to indicate KM's value judgements.:)
All you can do is decrease load and then decrease fuel consumption accordingly. I guess in a way this is "saving electrictiy for later" but it is hard for me to think of a pile of coal or a tank of oil as electricty that is being saved for later.
It's all energy -- that's just potential energy as opposed to realised energy. You're not looking at it with an appropriately rapacious mindset.:)
That's why (Federal) petrol taxes here in Australia account for at least half of the price at the pump. It's a 'use tax' for those who consume more of the funding spent on road maintenance, etc.
Obviously not enough -- they'd want to keep doing so until that 75% of the wealth was owned by the top 75%, not by the top 1%.
At least, according to the socialist ideology that Comcast seem to be introducing. How do they expect to make money when they discourage the "capitalists" (those who accumulate warez and pr0n as quickly as possible) from going about their divinely inspired actions?
I think the idea is that they are trying to get away from the whole 'cannon fodder' stereotype -- where any individual soldier is merely one more target in a wall of human targets, and nothing more.
<REGGAE> Go to your brother Kill him with your gun Leave him lying in his uniform Dying in the sun.... </REGGAE>
Did you ever play Cannon Fodder, or Cannon Fodder 2? Great games by Sensible Software, also authors of the best football (soccer) game ever. I can't recommend these games highly enough.
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Everything Jack the Ripper did was illegal. Same goes for Bin Laden.
:)
Um, I'm sure Jack did many legal things in his time, and OBL must have done some things legally -- obeyed a STOP sign while driving, or something like that.
The case of bin Laden is an interesting one, given that he may have been shuttling between Afghanistan and Pakistan for the last several years (and has almost certainly never entered the US), and that the US declines to sign international criminal law agreements because it is afraid its own citizens may be accused of war crimes. OB:'s acts were evil, yes, but illegal how and where?
(Moderators: I've already downmodded myself, and I don't sympathize with the likes of OBL at all. Just querying the above statement.
Welcome to Slashdot. :)
(Yes, I know your UID means you've been here for a while, but it's the traditional sarcastic response when someone complains about a practice that, in one form or another, has been around since... oh... around the time when I signed up.)
It can't be trespassing if you're invited. However, damage may be a slightly different kettle of fish legally.
*** This is my Sig. This is my Glock, this is my Walther, and this is my Beretta. Any questions?
Yes. Why are you showing me your guns?
iMac 23" -- now with new Lead base! :)
it's fairly large
:)
/. already have a way to do so. (Of course, the idea of associating discussions to the Slashboxes is a good one, although I imagine you'd need to rotate them over time (clear at the start of the month, or something like that).
I browse in flat mode -- it's pretty small like that.
I think my point is that people interested in reading Cringely's opinions on
That sounds like a good idea -- the best of both worlds, and it means that you're selecting for those people interested in RXC's opinions in the first place. :)
There's an I, Cringely Slashbox (which I have activated). Doesn't this obviate the need for every column he writes to be submitted as a story to /.?
Wasn't Carmack a big NeXT fan? Does this equate to a quicker release for Doom III on MacOS X? Probably not, for purely financial reasons, but it'd be nice to think so.
It's because they're bloody Telstra budgies.
:(
There are a few other budgies around, but the nasty Telstra budgies always take their birdseed away.
i love solaris, but it's not like they've ever made money off the OS--it's the hardware, stupid!
:/
Sun want to be like Microsoft (more money from the sale of cardboard boxes and shiny discs), but Microsoft want to be like IBM (keep bleeding your customers for services). And given the current level of quality of much Microsoft software, maybe they've just been trying to ensure that they have a good future income stream.
At the moment, they only have codenames:
E MY_3
RESERVED_ENEMY_1
RESERVED_ENEMY_2
RESERVED_EN
... etc.
:/
I'd have thought that resolving the tonal direction of a sound would be pretty easy.
In the abstract, sure, but what about regional variations, with things changing slightly every few kilometres, and cumulatively changing a lot over distance? Call it the dialect problem.
I would have like to have it released under the LGPL license so I could use it w/o GPL'ing my game.
"For those concerned about the 'virality' of the GPL, a suggestion: Write Your Own Damn Code."
w4r3z and pr0n is capitalism! w00t! BEST COMMANT EVAR!!!
:)
:)
Well, by the socialist viewpoint they are both similar; the gratification of immediate and immoral lusts. (Socialism is definitely an 'ism' in that sense -- religious belief in an antireligious scheme.)
Marx was very perceptive as an economist, insofar as Das Kapital was a very good analysis of the way in which capitalism operated. (Where he went wrong was in his attempted 'solution' to the 'problem'.* )
The level of desire for warez and pr0n was probably one of the reasons that all these telephone companies decided to get into the bandwidth market in the first place... where people are willing to pay more than it costs you to provide a service, that's a capitalist opportunity
* Single quotes used to indicate KM's value judgements.
All you can do is decrease load and then decrease fuel consumption accordingly. I guess in a way this is "saving electrictiy for later" but it is hard for me to think of a pile of coal or a tank of oil as electricty that is being saved for later.
:)
It's all energy -- that's just potential energy as opposed to realised energy. You're not looking at it with an appropriately rapacious mindset.
That's why (Federal) petrol taxes here in Australia account for at least half of the price at the pump. It's a 'use tax' for those who consume more of the funding spent on road maintenance, etc.
Obviously not enough -- they'd want to keep doing so until that 75% of the wealth was owned by the top 75%, not by the top 1%.
At least, according to the socialist ideology that Comcast seem to be introducing. How do they expect to make money when they discourage the "capitalists" (those who accumulate warez and pr0n as quickly as possible) from going about their divinely inspired actions?
it seems like /. is rapidly loosing whatever standards it once had.
:)
Yeah, has anyone ever pointed out that the spelling around here is awful?
People can just right-click, copy link address, paste into a new tab or window (all this assumes they're using Mozilla :)
That way Bugzilla won't get a Referer: header...
Well, that, and being a scary-looking bald lesbian.
:)
Her music sounds a little like Sinead O'Connor's. So, you're pretty accurate with that last quip
Sounds a lot like A.P.B. -- except that the chases were the main part of the game. Ah, the late 1980s were a much more innocent time :)
I guess it is just fashionable to spend your late teens and twenties doing drugs and being a bored, sullen, and directionless loser nowadays.
Hey, that's been fashionable since at least the 1950s... ever seen Rebel Without a Cause or The Wild One?
It's easy to criticize and ridicule from the safety of one's Aeron office chair.
:)
... and it's fun, too!
When's the last time you did anything perfectly?
Today. And besides, the last time I fucked up badly, people didn't die because of it.
I think the idea is that they are trying to get away from the whole 'cannon fodder' stereotype -- where any individual soldier is merely one more target in a wall of human targets, and nothing more.
<REGGAE>
Go to your brother
Kill him with your gun
Leave him lying in his uniform
Dying in the sun....
</REGGAE>
Did you ever play Cannon Fodder, or Cannon Fodder 2? Great games by Sensible Software, also authors of the best football (soccer) game ever. I can't recommend these games highly enough.