My mother is, though, and I typed a lot of her papers during law school, and one thing I noticed is: as stupid as our legal system is, stupidity is really not a design goal. The current US legal system is based on precedent; well-intentioned people following precepts handed down from previous cases, trying to use common sense to apply these principles to new cases. Look where it gets us.
I'm not sure if scrapping the jury system is the answer, or scrapping the adversarial system, or re-instating the Trough of Truth, but it's for damn sure something needs to change....
These lawsuits show how unsufficient the jury system is for cases like this where the jury is likely to be clueless.
The jury is clueless by design. In fact, showing some knowledge of the subject at hand is usually enough cause for one of the attorneys to bounce you off the jury. Rationale being, I suppose, that if the jury knows nothing of the subject, you avoid having cliques of clueful geeks tieing up the legal process with irrelevantly useful arguments.
Plus, an OS has a much harder learning curve than a game does. You spend a lot of time learning how to rock ass in Quake: if id Software dies and Quake is henceforth unsupported, oh well. You're good at a dead game. You spend much more time learning to be an OS guru: if the OS company dies and no one uses that OS anymore, you basically have to start your career from scratch. I'd like Linux for that reason alone.
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The sensitivity of the Mac crowd rears its ugly head.... He wasn't complaining about the MacOS or the iBook hardware. He was saying that no notebook really needs the functions provided by an OS like Linux (or GNU/Linux), like insanely long uptimes, great security, yadda yadda yadda.
Maybe it's just a case of differing viewpoints, but it seems to me that most cyberpunk works describe futures where centralized control is diminished or non-existant, not all-pervasive and authoritarian.
Oh, man, I knew it! This is what Klinton and his New World Order thugs were after all this time! Soon, we'll all just be processing nodes in a big Commie cluster!
Of course, you've had quite a while to grow accustomed to having a few kilos of red meat around, connected to you. This computer would grow up without that encumberance.
Hey, your logic is of the same quality as your writing! That's so useful! Anyway, using your logic, I could walk about the Grand Canyon, marvel at the many awe-inspiring vistas presented, and think, "There must be a Designer! The action of water on rock could never have produced this beauty!" Oh, and it wouldn't matter if the entire U.S. and the rest of the world believed that the Christian God created the Universe; that doesn't make it true.
No, you're right, the CSM is affiliated with the famed crank Christian Science movement. Amazingly, however, they keep the newspaper clean of their nonsense, and surprisingly secular. Good news source, actually. Strange but true.
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My mother is, though, and I typed a lot of her papers during law school, and one thing I noticed is: as stupid as our legal system is, stupidity is really not a design goal. The current US legal system is based on precedent; well-intentioned people following precepts handed down from previous cases, trying to use common sense to apply these principles to new cases. Look where it gets us.
I'm not sure if scrapping the jury system is the answer, or scrapping the adversarial system, or re-instating the Trough of Truth, but it's for damn sure something needs to change....
These lawsuits show how unsufficient the jury system is for cases like this where the jury is likely to be clueless.
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The jury is clueless by design. In fact, showing some knowledge of the subject at hand is usually enough cause for one of the attorneys to bounce you off the jury. Rationale being, I suppose, that if the jury knows nothing of the subject, you avoid having cliques of clueful geeks tieing up the legal process with irrelevantly useful arguments.
"Throw her in the Trough of Truth!"
Pretty good. Better than what I would reply, which would be:
1) Blow me.
2) OK, I'll make sure I never say "...for Dummies" again.
Plus, an OS has a much harder learning curve than a game does. You spend a lot of time learning how to rock ass in Quake: if id Software dies and Quake is henceforth unsupported, oh well. You're good at a dead game. You spend much more time learning to be an OS guru: if the OS company dies and no one uses that OS anymore, you basically have to start your career from scratch. I'd like Linux for that reason alone.
The sensitivity of the Mac crowd rears its ugly head.... He wasn't complaining about the MacOS or the iBook hardware. He was saying that no notebook really needs the functions provided by an OS like Linux (or GNU/Linux), like insanely long uptimes, great security, yadda yadda yadda.
Actually, yes it does. That game was over in the first quarter. Shouldn't you be doing your Java instead?
Romero's head-on-a-stick screams....
Certainly, I am dying of laugh! "...hardy cocktails present", indeed....
Maybe it's just a case of differing viewpoints, but it seems to me that most cyberpunk works describe futures where centralized control is diminished or non-existant, not all-pervasive and authoritarian.
I'll bet we can work a "D13, Mikro$quish, D13!" theme into it somehow. Then it will belong here on Slapdash!
Better off paying a lot less. And who cares what they were meant for? :)
Uhhh... next time you can't say "no" to the crack pipe, why not spout your screed to your own website, where it'll be (at least marginally) on-topic?
Half-Life has been released; Daikatana hasn't.
Oh, man, I knew it! This is what Klinton and his New World Order thugs were after all this time! Soon, we'll all just be processing nodes in a big Commie cluster!
*bong hit*
These are the End Times, bros.
Isn't perl written in perl, currently?
Well, I just went from "would like to go to COMDEX" to "would sell plasma to go to COMDEX"....
Can I sell you an official HGTTG(tm) Hitchhiker's Towel to go with that?
Of course, you've had quite a while to grow accustomed to having a few kilos of red meat around, connected to you. This computer would grow up without that encumberance.
Hey, your logic is of the same quality as your writing! That's so useful!
Anyway, using your logic, I could walk about the Grand Canyon, marvel at the many awe-inspiring vistas presented, and think, "There must be a Designer! The action of water on rock could never have produced this beauty!"
Oh, and it wouldn't matter if the entire U.S. and the rest of the world believed that the Christian God created the Universe; that doesn't make it true.
No, you're right, the CSM is affiliated with the famed crank Christian Science movement. Amazingly, however, they keep the newspaper clean of their nonsense, and surprisingly secular. Good news source, actually. Strange but true.
You sounded serious... and it really didn't seem any stupider than a lot of the drivel here on (the newly Quiet) slashdot....
That was hardly "froth."
*sigh* not everywhere, it's not.... There are a lot of "womyn" out there.
Sure. We'd just hang out somewhere else, and it would be a lot more pleasant, at least until the Unwashed Clueless Eleet masses found us.
AFAIK Wine uses its own DLLs if you don't have the native Windows DLLs present, or don't want to use them....