Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
... and then takes away the protection on the contentious speech that might actually need protecting in 10.2:
The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
If she said "Do you know who I am?", the correct answer would surely be:
"You're a Baroness that no-one has ever had the chance to vote for - or against - and you were allegedly vetoed by MI5 for the position of National Security Adviser due to your ill-advised links to dodgy Russian mafia-linked oligarchs, from whom you take sizeable donations to run your office.
UK: Ranked 20th in list of life expectancy by country. US: Ranked 30th.
And to imply that socialized medicine is the reason is disingenuous when you consider that Iceland ranks 3rd and has *no* private healthcare available (which is a very rare situation), and even Cuba beats the US (by one place).
This means that evidence gathered illegally is admissible! Get a confession by torture. No problem. Illegal wire tap? This never was much of a problem in the US. Taking pictures of police engaging in illegal activity where photography is banned. The judge won't throw out the evidence.
Imagine the police apprehend a burglar climbing out of the window of Dr Evil.
He has in his swag bag the Koh-i-Noor diamond, recently stolen from the British Crown Jewels.
Are you suggesting that the police shouldn't investigate the possibility that Dr Evil stole the diamond in the first place?
Should they just say:
"Damn. There's nothing we can do. The evidence was gathered by illegal means."
I didn't buy an iPod until the first one with an FM radio came out about 18 months ago.
I also chose an HTC Desire partly for the FM radio.
There's some great FM programming in the UK and France from the BBC and Radio France.
So if all handheld devices had FM radios, that would be great for me personally, but bugger-all to do with government.
'The height of absurdity' makes it sound just silly, but it's actually quite frightening that industry lobby groups would even think they have a chance of pushing laws like this through.
I certainly agree that some religions do teach hate, but Christ's teachings (for example) have never supported hate nor violence...
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
In the future, if you find thing going on around you which are puzzling or confusing, or even seem pointless or stupid, maybe you could consider whether they might be the result of another person's 'humour'.
The ability to detect humour is not something that everyone possesses, evidently.
And you missed:
Is it legal for a man in Scotland to marry his widow's sister?
No. The dead are forbidden to marry, even in Scotland.
It seems rather hypocritical to me to rail against Blood for Oil while living extremely comfortably in an advanced western society directly reaping the benefits of having that oil...
It is not hypocritical to believe that we should all obtain our oil on the free market. Note that the Iraq war has *not* made oil cheaper: in fact it has got five times more expensive. The Iraq war has not improved the lifestyle for those of us in the belligerent countries.
I guess it's easier to project the guilt onto the big bad rich white men. Kinda like how many junkies blame their dealers for the state of their own lives...
In the four years I spent as a drug counsellor I never heard any drug users blaming their dealers for 'the state of their own lives'.
Almost invariably, a drug users dealers are his friends and his friends are his dealers. Drug 'pushers' are mythical beasts.
Anecdotally, when I lived in London my future wife's flatmate had a sick grandmother that they flew out of country to get treatment because the last time she had the same sort of problem, she nearly died while waiting.
Yeah, riiight.
Because NHS queues for treatment for serious illnesses are *that* long, and cheap and good-quality private healthcare isn't available in London.
I could have done a lot worst than sit In Skid Row drinkin wine
To know that nothing really matters after all To know there's no real difference Between the rich and the poor To know that eternity is neither drunk nor sober, to know it young and to be a poet
Coulda gone into business and ranted And believed that God was concerned
Instead I squatted in lonesome alleys And nobody saw me, just my bottle And what they saw of it was empty
And I did it in cornfields & graveyards
To know that the dead don't make noise To know that the cornstalks talk (among One another with raspy old arms)
Sitting in alleys diggin the neons And watching cathedral custodians Wring out their rags neath the church steps
Sitting and drinking wine And in railyards being divine
To be a millionaire & yet prefer Curlin up with a poorboy of tokay In a warehouse door, facing long sunsets On railroad fields of grass
To know that the sleepers in the river Are dreaming vain dreams, to squat In the night and know it well
To be dark solitary eye-nerve watcher Of the world's whirling diamond
Illegal offshore Internet gambling sites are a criminal enterprise
And of course, they probably aren't criminal enterprises.
I can legally run an online casino in my country (Spain). I can legally take money from clients in the US. You might be breaking the law by playing poker in my online casino, but that doesn't make my casino a criminal enterprise.
I sometimes wonder if there wouldn't be less of those schemes if they were legal. I think people often assume they must be legit just because they'd be shut down if they were illegal, right?
In the UK, these schemes are legal. There are no specific laws against ponzi/pyramid schemes.
My sister and a close friend have both lost a fair chunk of cash to pyramid schemes. I tried and tried to convince them that they would lose their money to no avail. They both told me that they weren't going to 'invest' but then went ahead anyway.
My sister lost some close friends that she recruited so it was a personal tragedy as well as financial one.
The simple fact is that people are gullible and greedy, and they need laws to protect them.
So there should be no laws against fraud? Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, Madoff... all that should be completely legal, because it's the victim's fault?
Interestingly, France does *not* have laws against Ponzi/pyramid schemes. Neither does the UK.
When sites ask these retarded questions, I just generate a long random alphanumeric string (using a little perl script), and save it in my gpg file. This file is heavily backed up. I cannot imagine a scenario where I would lose a password, or the answers to "secret questions".
So why bother saving the answers to secret questions? If you're not going to lose the password, surely you won't need the answers to the secret questions. And if you lose access to the password file, you've also lost the answers to the secret questions.
The truth is that a Mac is less likely to be targetted because it's a minority operating system.
I hear this all the time, but in the bad old days of Systems 6 and 7 there were many Mac viruses.
I used to do tech support for macs and we had very real problems with viruses. Particularly WDEF, nVir, SevenDust, and the Autostart worm. WDEF in particular: there was a time (just before System 7 came out) when I was 80% sure to find this on any given customer's mac.
No Mac tech support bod was without their copy of Disinfectant.
Macs had a lower market share at the time.
I not trying to explain it, just pointing out that this is how it was.
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The Human Rights Act 1998 guarantees freedom of expression in article 10.1:
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
... and then takes away the protection on the contentious speech that might actually need protecting in 10.2:
The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
If she said "Do you know who I am?", the correct answer would surely be:
"You're a Baroness that no-one has ever had the chance to vote for - or against - and you were allegedly vetoed by MI5 for the position of National Security Adviser due to your ill-advised links to dodgy Russian mafia-linked oligarchs, from whom you take sizeable donations to run your office.
Next question please."
Indeed.
UK: Ranked 20th in list of life expectancy by country.
US: Ranked 30th.
And to imply that socialized medicine is the reason is disingenuous when you consider that Iceland ranks 3rd and has *no* private healthcare available (which is a very rare situation), and even Cuba beats the US (by one place).
Source.
The police didn't commit a crime to cause the information to come out, a 3rd party did.
Exactly the same case as in the FA.
This means that evidence gathered illegally is admissible!
Get a confession by torture. No problem.
Illegal wire tap? This never was much of a problem in the US.
Taking pictures of police engaging in illegal activity where photography is banned. The judge won't throw out the evidence.
Imagine the police apprehend a burglar climbing out of the window of Dr Evil.
He has in his swag bag the Koh-i-Noor diamond, recently stolen from the British Crown Jewels.
Are you suggesting that the police shouldn't investigate the possibility that Dr Evil stole the diamond in the first place?
Should they just say:
"Damn. There's nothing we can do. The evidence was gathered by illegal means."
I think not.
And good lord god almighty, what 12 year old wrote this code, that they think having function names like put_your_hands_up_hooker() makes them cool?
This is copied directly from Ac1db1tch3z's exploit.
So the answer is Ac1db1tch3z thinks function names like put_your_hands_up_hooker() makes him cool.
keep looking. follow the money.
the reason the US keeps having 'big wars' is because of co's like halliburton and the rest that profit EXTENSIVELY from war and foreign aggression.
Absolutely. I look back with fondness at how naive I was when the Iraq war started -- I thought the real motive was to steal money from Iraq!
What a fool I was. It's now evident that the plan was -- and always was -- to steal money from the United States.
7 Thousand Billion for the Iraq war so far...
I didn't buy an iPod until the first one with an FM radio came out about 18 months ago.
I also chose an HTC Desire partly for the FM radio.
There's some great FM programming in the UK and France from the BBC and Radio France.
So if all handheld devices had FM radios, that would be great for me personally, but bugger-all to do with government.
'The height of absurdity' makes it sound just silly, but it's actually quite frightening that industry lobby groups would even think they have a chance of pushing laws like this through.
Similarity ends.
Zuckerberg is also a funny-looking ginger who likes to make free with other people's data. ;-)
Aren't there some simple mechanism (like allowing limited number of failures per a time period) to prevent "brute force attacks"?
No, the attack is against the encrypted data in the packets that you collected and stored.
Compare with Matthew 10:37
Yes and Matthew 10:36 provides a counter-example to your assertion that Christ never supported violence.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword."
Ignoring context is never a safe thing to do.
Confirmation bias.
I've quite clearly disproved your assertion by counter-example.
I certainly agree that some religions do teach hate, but Christ's teachings (for example) have never supported hate nor violence...
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:26
Yup, Rosa Parks should have just gone straight to the back of the bus and taken out a small ad in the Montgomery Advertiser instead.
In the future, if you find thing going on around you which are puzzling or confusing, or even seem pointless or stupid, maybe you could consider whether they might be the result of another person's 'humour'.
The ability to detect humour is not something that everyone possesses, evidently.
And you missed:
Is it legal for a man in Scotland to marry his widow's sister?
No. The dead are forbidden to marry, even in Scotland.
It seems rather hypocritical to me to rail against Blood for Oil while living extremely comfortably in an advanced western society directly reaping the benefits of having that oil...
It is not hypocritical to believe that we should all obtain our oil on the free market. Note that the Iraq war has *not* made oil cheaper: in fact it has got five times more expensive. The Iraq war has not improved the lifestyle for those of us in the belligerent countries.
I guess it's easier to project the guilt onto the big bad rich white men. Kinda like how many junkies blame their dealers for the state of their own lives...
In the four years I spent as a drug counsellor I never heard any drug users blaming their dealers for 'the state of their own lives'.
Almost invariably, a drug users dealers are his friends and his friends are his dealers. Drug 'pushers' are mythical beasts.
'..nor am I a merkin' => '...nor am I american'
In S3 terms, an object is effectively a file.
It's an atomic blob of data up to 5GB in size, with up to 2KB of metadata.
Anecdotally, when I lived in London my future wife's flatmate had a sick grandmother that they flew out of country to get treatment because the last time she had the same sort of problem, she nearly died while waiting.
Yeah, riiight.
Because NHS queues for treatment for serious illnesses are *that* long, and cheap and good-quality private healthcare isn't available in London.
I could have done a lot worst than sit
In Skid Row drinkin wine
To know that nothing really matters after all
To know there's no real difference
Between the rich and the poor
To know that eternity is neither drunk
nor sober, to know it young
and to be a poet
Coulda gone into business and ranted
And believed that God was concerned
Instead I squatted in lonesome alleys
And nobody saw me, just my bottle
And what they saw of it was empty
And I did it in cornfields & graveyards
To know that the dead don't make noise
To know that the cornstalks talk (among
One another with raspy old arms)
Sitting in alleys diggin the neons
And watching cathedral custodians
Wring out their rags neath the church steps
Sitting and drinking wine
And in railyards being divine
To be a millionaire & yet prefer
Curlin up with a poorboy of tokay
In a warehouse door, facing long sunsets
On railroad fields of grass
To know that the sleepers in the river
Are dreaming vain dreams, to squat
In the night and know it well
To be dark solitary eye-nerve watcher
Of the world's whirling diamond
-- Skid Row Wine, Jack Kerouac
Illegal offshore Internet gambling sites are a criminal enterprise
And of course, they probably aren't criminal enterprises.
I can legally run an online casino in my country (Spain). I can legally take money from clients in the US. You might be breaking the law by playing poker in my online casino, but that doesn't make my casino a criminal enterprise.
I sometimes wonder if there wouldn't be less of those schemes if they were legal. I think people often assume they must be legit just because they'd be shut down if they were illegal, right?
In the UK, these schemes are legal. There are no specific laws against ponzi/pyramid schemes.
My sister and a close friend have both lost a fair chunk of cash to pyramid schemes. I tried and tried to convince them that they would lose their money to no avail. They both told me that they weren't going to 'invest' but then went ahead anyway.
My sister lost some close friends that she recruited so it was a personal tragedy as well as financial one.
The simple fact is that people are gullible and greedy, and they need laws to protect them.
So there should be no laws against fraud? Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, Madoff ... all that should be completely legal, because it's the victim's fault?
Interestingly, France does *not* have laws against Ponzi/pyramid schemes. Neither does the UK.
When sites ask these retarded questions, I just generate a long random alphanumeric string (using a little perl script), and save it in my gpg file. This file is heavily backed up. I cannot imagine a scenario where I would lose a password, or the answers to "secret questions".
So why bother saving the answers to secret questions? If you're not going to lose the password, surely you won't need the answers to the secret questions. And if you lose access to the password file, you've also lost the answers to the secret questions.
A preposition is not a good word to end a secret question with.
This is the sort of thing up with which we should not put!
(not © Churchill)
The truth is that a Mac is less likely to be targetted because it's a minority operating system.
I hear this all the time, but in the bad old days of Systems 6 and 7 there were many Mac viruses.
I used to do tech support for macs and we had very real problems with viruses. Particularly WDEF, nVir, SevenDust, and the Autostart worm. WDEF in particular: there was a time (just before System 7 came out) when I was 80% sure to find this on any given customer's mac.
No Mac tech support bod was without their copy of Disinfectant.
Macs had a lower market share at the time.
I not trying to explain it, just pointing out that this is how it was.