You must be a fantastically skilled architect if you can design a greenhouse that is massive enough to drive a turbine yet doesn't disrupt the landscape at all.
Gaaahhh!
Most of the history of life (except for virii, some bacteria and your immune system) Virii would be the plural of virius, if that word existed. It just can't be the plural of virus.
I'm not sure we are quite to that point yet. What we currently call "machine intelligence" is not quite up to the intelligence level of a cockroach. It is more pattern matching and optimization than anything; not much room for ethical standards. No problem, all this means is that it's impossible and nonsensical. When making laws about technology, when has impossible and nonsensical ever stopped a legislator?
He could just sit and watch people go by and see what they do. What on earth are you doing on slashdot? With a plan like that, you can't be living in your mom's basement.
A Swedish guy spent three years there, and then was let out without any restrictions at all, since they had nothing on him. Nothing at all!
When they catch people who really are terrorists they could cut off both their hands and feet for all I care. Terrorists would certainly deserve that. But I do care when countries that appoint themselves to be guardians of freedom and democracy lock up innocent people for years without prosecuting them.
There's a reason democratic countries don't let the police alone lock people up for years without a trial. Finding out whether you got the right guy, who is in fact guilty, isn't just some cute game. It's important. I expect countries like Saddam's Iraq to disdainfully ignore such things. I don't expect the US to show that attitude toward such things.
Furthermore, locking people up without trial is seriously counterproductive, as it plays into the hands of radical islamist leaders who can use it to whip up hatred. Giving some kind of trial would be so easy. Not doing it is an utterly foolish way to hand islamist leaders ammunition on a silver platter.
They literally, really and truly deserve none. Not by law. Not by simple morality. I'm not talking about the terrorists. I don't care about terrorists. I'm talking about the innocent people that they lock up. It's a certainty that many are innocent, otherwise they wouldn't fear giving them trials.
First they came for the Jews. The police tried to stop them, but we protested to protect their freedom to express their feeling towards the Jews. They were poor minorities who needed our protection, whereas the Jews were able to provide for themselves by exploiting the resources of others. We blocked access to the roads that the police needed to get to the area with a classic street sit-in. It took so much time to clear us out that they didn't make it in time to suppress those that were coming for the Jews... What are you talking about? I'm sorry, I can't make sense of this. Maybe you're too angry and can't explain well. Or maybe I'm just too tired.
The rest of your post is a series of rants against other people, so those other people should reply if they find your post. I can't identify with what those people are saying (what little I read, I felt no interest in their rants), so I feel no inclination whatsoever in responding to your comments about their comments. Turn to them if you have issues with them.
Your comparison to driving would be more apt if the cop didn't just ask one question about where you were going, and then soon forgot your answer, but instead very carefully sifted through detailed records of every single trip that you made, carefully looking for visits to suspected people, analyzing your patterns of behavior, recording anything that seemed of interest, and so on. Your comparison would be apt if the cop searched through everything and carefully recorded everything of interest.
The WOT has not changed how I live my life in the least. NOTHING has changed at all Not your life particularly. Nor mine. Nor that of most people.
But tell that to the Guantanamo prisoners who have received no trial. But I suppose you feel that that's totally unimportant, since it doesn't affect you personally.
First they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
except I see a bunch of people bitching about how they have no rights. (obviously their freedom of speech is still in tact!) I don't see any bitching about having no rights. The bitching seems more worried that American ideals should not be thrown by the wayside without good cause.
Turn their country of origin into a smoking wasteland and make it clear that anyone who follows suite will join them. In other words, since the London bombers were British, let's turn Britain into glass. And since Timothy McVeigh was American, let's turn the US into a vast wasteland of radioactive glass.
Something tells me the British would oppose such a plan. The Americans, on the other hand, are much more bloodthirsty, and also much more act-first-and-think-only-later-(if-at-all). But somehow I think even the Americans would oppose a plan that turns the entire US into glass. You can erode their democracy all you want, but I think even they would react adversely to a plan that would kill them all.
The unpatriotic bastards. They don't realize that for the holy cause of fighting terrorism you have to be ready to accept some sacrifices.
Some people also don't believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact. Far, far more people die from traffic accidents than from terrorism. It would make far, far more sense to sacrifice freedom and democracy for the sake of saving traffic lives. The same goes for tobacco, alcohol, and many other causes of death. Terrorism is really tiny. Sacrificing democracy for such a tiny cause makes no sense.
How does monitoring bits over a wire limit your freedom If a CIA officer followed you everywhere, always two steps behind you, registering and reporting every opinion you utter and every person you contact, would you feel that your freedom and your democratic rights were being respected?
Is monitoring on a wire better just because it happens far away where you can't see it?
I suppose you feel that it's tolerable as long as government and law enforcement remain reasonably democratic and every officer of the law remains reasonably uncorrupted. But how long will they remain this way, and not succumb to the temptations inherent in these arrangements? Temptation has a very strong corrupting effect.
or prevent you from voting? Democracy isn't just voting. Lots of countries have voting without being democratic.
How else do you fight terrorism? What would you suggest (other than that warm fuzzy "leave them alone and they'll leave us alone BS)". How would you FIGHT terrorism. Some people feel that respecting and protecting freedom and democracy is more important than fighting terrorism.
Utilizing air pouches -- four on front, four in back -- the vest nudges and jabs gamers at eight different contact points." Air pouches? Nudges and jabs? You call that realism? Tsss! Wake me up when they've got a vest that will kill you for real.
There's a simple solution. Give her a bullhorn and tell her to use it for shouting into the phone, just in case somebody doesn't hear her clearly enough.
Either she gets the hint, or she takes it literally and somebody shoots her. Either way you get blessed silence.
On a more serious note, she may be somewhat hard of hearing. Many people will shout as a reflex when they can't hear clearly. Their own feeling of lack of clarity in sounds makes them doubt that they are making themselves heard. In that case a special phone with unusually high volume and a volume control may do the trick. Hearing both herself and the other person painfully loud through the earpiece should neutralize her shouting reflex.
So what do you think is the best way to handle some irrational jackass on that horribly enclosed space that is a commercial passenger airliner? The best solution is to allow cellphone usage in the seats at the back of the plane and forbid it in the seats at the front. You choose where to sit depending on your needs and preferences.
When the failure happened, the Russians pointed the finger everywhere but themselves. The Russians showed jingoism by pointing fingers at NASA, and the article author does the same kind of jingoistic finger-pointing in return. Childish on both sides.
Nobody is perfect. No need to point fingers. Just learn and move on. Like grown-ups.
Judging from the comments, the Slashdot crowd seems more mature than these people. That's rather surprising considering the trolls and other children we have here.
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A fucking commie? On Slashdot? Unlikely. How would a slashdotter get to fuck?
Which was extremely undemocratic despite its name. One of the most extreme dictatorships of the Warsaw pact.
Most countries with "democratic" in their names have been dictatorships.
The Americans, however, can.
You must be a fantastically skilled architect if you can design a greenhouse that is massive enough to drive a turbine yet doesn't disrupt the landscape at all.
Why is it that every single Slashdot discussion sooner or later brings forth a reference to the Goatse?
It's a slashdot meme. Where do you get this strange notion that slashdot memes somehow make sense?
Who modded the parent down? It's on-topic for chrissakes! It's a perfect example of complete and total stupidity in desperate need of filtering.
When they catch people who really are terrorists they could cut off both their hands and feet for all I care. Terrorists would certainly deserve that. But I do care when countries that appoint themselves to be guardians of freedom and democracy lock up innocent people for years without prosecuting them.
There's a reason democratic countries don't let the police alone lock people up for years without a trial. Finding out whether you got the right guy, who is in fact guilty, isn't just some cute game. It's important. I expect countries like Saddam's Iraq to disdainfully ignore such things. I don't expect the US to show that attitude toward such things.
Furthermore, locking people up without trial is seriously counterproductive, as it plays into the hands of radical islamist leaders who can use it to whip up hatred. Giving some kind of trial would be so easy. Not doing it is an utterly foolish way to hand islamist leaders ammunition on a silver platter. They literally, really and truly deserve none. Not by law. Not by simple morality. I'm not talking about the terrorists. I don't care about terrorists. I'm talking about the innocent people that they lock up. It's a certainty that many are innocent, otherwise they wouldn't fear giving them trials. First they came for the Jews. The police tried to stop them, but we protested to protect their freedom to express their feeling towards the Jews. They were poor minorities who needed our protection, whereas the Jews were able to provide for themselves by exploiting the resources of others. We blocked access to the roads that the police needed to get to the area with a classic street sit-in. It took so much time to clear us out that they didn't make it in time to suppress those that were coming for the Jews... What are you talking about? I'm sorry, I can't make sense of this. Maybe you're too angry and can't explain well. Or maybe I'm just too tired.
The rest of your post is a series of rants against other people, so those other people should reply if they find your post. I can't identify with what those people are saying (what little I read, I felt no interest in their rants), so I feel no inclination whatsoever in responding to your comments about their comments. Turn to them if you have issues with them.
But tell that to the Guantanamo prisoners who have received no trial. But I suppose you feel that that's totally unimportant, since it doesn't affect you personally.
First they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. except I see a bunch of people bitching about how they have no rights. (obviously their freedom of speech is still in tact!) I don't see any bitching about having no rights. The bitching seems more worried that American ideals should not be thrown by the wayside without good cause.
Something tells me the British would oppose such a plan. The Americans, on the other hand, are much more bloodthirsty, and also much more act-first-and-think-only-later-(if-at-all). But somehow I think even the Americans would oppose a plan that turns the entire US into glass. You can erode their democracy all you want, but I think even they would react adversely to a plan that would kill them all.
The unpatriotic bastards. They don't realize that for the holy cause of fighting terrorism you have to be ready to accept some sacrifices.
Is monitoring on a wire better just because it happens far away where you can't see it?
I suppose you feel that it's tolerable as long as government and law enforcement remain reasonably democratic and every officer of the law remains reasonably uncorrupted. But how long will they remain this way, and not succumb to the temptations inherent in these arrangements? Temptation has a very strong corrupting effect. or prevent you from voting? Democracy isn't just voting. Lots of countries have voting without being democratic.
There's a simple solution. Give her a bullhorn and tell her to use it for shouting into the phone, just in case somebody doesn't hear her clearly enough.
Either she gets the hint, or she takes it literally and somebody shoots her. Either way you get blessed silence.
On a more serious note, she may be somewhat hard of hearing. Many people will shout as a reflex when they can't hear clearly. Their own feeling of lack of clarity in sounds makes them doubt that they are making themselves heard. In that case a special phone with unusually high volume and a volume control may do the trick. Hearing both herself and the other person painfully loud through the earpiece should neutralize her shouting reflex.
When you book your ticket they'd ask you which kind of seating you want, with or without cellphone conversations allowed.
My cellphone can be set to emit horribly shrill bleeps at every single keypress. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
Your link is broken. At least when surfing from here in Sweden.
Nobody is perfect. No need to point fingers. Just learn and move on. Like grown-ups.
Judging from the comments, the Slashdot crowd seems more mature than these people. That's rather surprising considering the trolls and other children we have here.