Simple. Transfer the money to the Bank/Account that's on your screen. Actually I don't think it's too hard for a russian to open an account for foreign currency at a Moscow bank using false id and I don't think other than the tax paramilitia they have in russia would really be interested in what they do with it (unless they're running short of Kulaks in the camps).
In order to take care of this matter you would travel in person to Moscow. Since you haven't prepared for such a "mission" and are on your own you would first have to get an firearm or two. The best thing to do would be to run over over russian police officers with a stolen car in a rural setting. This is under the assumption that even when those two police men go missing it will be some time before they're found and before they start in on road blocks. I suppose this sounds hazardous as can be for a start but I don't think purchasing firearms as a foreigner from local crime you don't know is much safer than taking the police firearms. (If they catch you I don't know how many years of harsh labor camps you get for this before they execute you). Armed, you would then start accosting employees of the bank. If threats and intimidation don't give you the information then the next thing to do is to abduct the children of bank employees. Like they say in the songs, "The Russians love their children too" so that will most likely get you the information you need. Now you have the assumed name and a photocopy of the id they used to open the account and you've gotten a pretty unsharp surveillance video tape of the guy who opened the account. You travel to the russian backwater the cash withdrawals are made at. With luck they withdraw money regularily from a certain ATM at a certain time. You don't dare loiter near the ATM machines and hope that the same piece of shit comes by that opened the account because it just might be that the bank people you threatened and abducted the children from warned either them and/or told the russian police. Maybe you will hang on to a child hostage to make sure but that adds complications. If you strike it lucky then you have someone to throw into the back of the van you stole a day ago two hundred miles from X-Gorod and torture him with boiling hot water coming from a portable water boiler plugged into the dashboard. Let's say he breaks when you tell him the next portion of water goes into his eyes and you will blind him. He tells you about Dmitri, Petr, Pavel and Alex. You execute three people that night still not sure whether the guy you have tied up in the van was lying to you. Surely enough Alex's hardrive has an odd file on it under c:\rawodat\virus.asm. You peruse it while Alex is cowering in the corner with two broken thigh bones and one broken elbow parts of the bone have broken through the skin. You take a closer look at the source because Alex in this state is not going to get up and run and yes, this is exactly the piece of crap that encrypted my porn collection. You look at Alex and hear his exhausted faint mewls under the gag and his eyes begs you to let him live. You shoot him point blank into the face.
Basically this is what you would have to go through as an American who doesn't know his way around in Russia to get the encryption key and get "justice served". They know that too which is they do it outright in the open.
In summary: This bill is nothing to worry about (for people who play by the rules:-))
91.14. Prohibited sales of video or computer games to minors
-- whereas we want to protect kids, etc.etc dross omitted --
9 A. An interactive video or computer game shall not be sold, leased, or rented 10 to a minor if the trier of fact determines all of the following: 11 (1) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would 12 find that the video or computer game, taken as a whole, appeals to the minor's 13 morbid interest in violence. 14 (2) The game depicts violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing 15 standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable for minors. 16 (3) The game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or 17 scientific value for minors.
-- the rest of it is just definitions, like what a computer game is etc. etc. --
Let's parse this thing, shall we?
First of all it says that all three conditions must be met at once:
It says in A:... IF the trier of fact determines ***ALL*** of the following: [(1) (2) (3)]. That's a logical AND.
Conditions (1)(2) I wont discuss here because they will usually oscillate between true and false depending on ambient conditions such as experience-points of the lawyers involved, bribes and special phone calls.
Condition (3) is the really interesting condition. Since ALL conditions are true so that a game can be banned any game that does not satisfy this banning conditions can be given to kids even in Lousiana.
Condition (3) reads "The game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or 17 scientific value for minors."
Basically all the game has to have is serious political value and then it can be sold, lent or otherwise given to a minor. I would posit that the US after all the torture, murder and mayhem it enacts on its own citizens and the rest of humanity bringing up a fresh generation of young Abu Ghraib guards with educational software such as Half-life etc. is of sound political value, wouldn't you agree?
After all, it's the Department of Defense itself that makes and distributes such educational software such as America's Army (Get it FREE at http://www.americasarmy.com/) etc.
I think the only games that would really be banned with such a bill would be the games I would like to play like: Point blank: Taxevasion 2006. Ambush Journalist. Question Authority (Lightgun Version). Copkiller I - VII. CFR/Trilateral Commission/IMF Monopoly etc. etc.
Maybe I'm missing something crucial about Rexx here. As a scripting language it sure beats CMS EXEC, that's for sure but stringwise it's simply no match for awk/sed. I doubt it even supported pattern matching back in the days meaning you had to code that yourself. As far as I'm concerned doing that then on the IBM really sounds like processing text today with Winword Macros just because the text was typed on a Windows when you could be using sed, awk and perl etc.
I think the people at OpenBSD have captured the spirit and ubercoolness of UNIX that endures to this day with words such as:
You just can't be the systemagic, ubertragic.
First off, whatever you're going to code with VB will only run on Windows. There might be a way to generate.net code and there might be hope that you could get it to run on Linux using Mono but I'm sure that hope will shatter on the cliffs that a lot of Microsoft specific APIs and facilities will not (ever) be implemented on Linux.
Essentially you're once again committing to use "Microsoft Technologies". These so-called 'Technologies' (mostly rehashes and adaptations of what's been out there shrink-wrapped, repackaged and rehyped by Microsoft ActiveMarketing+ )... these so-called 'Technologies' are not open source. IF you are wondering how Microsoft implemented something (because you can't get it to work) you will be stuck going to their "Knowledgebase" on the Microsoft Developer Network site where they might tell you, or again not. Calls to Microsoft support, your only dependable source of support cost $$$ but I think there are subscription plans for this, you might want to check them out. It's not that support for other software is free. It's just that with the "Technologies" they're the only ones qualified to give support.
You will also find and that's aonther angle of the support issue, that people using Microsoft are a pretty much locked in community. I'm sure a lot of people reading here will likely object over this but I'm not talking about you. Slashdot isn't exactly one of the core sites most Microsoft people go to. In general these people lack the scope to look beyond the rims of their plate to see what other ways are out there to tackle a problem which thinking this further is probably why you came here in the first place.
I don't know if I told you anything new but that's my take on the subject. I wish you the best of luck that you and your employer can avoid this particular piece of fly paper.
Re:Maybe you should wipe your mouth after vomiting Monday May 29, @11:51AM 2 0 Dtrace - is often referred to as "error vomit" Monday May 29, @10:37AM 2 0, Redundant
Of course, either this gentle(wo)man happened across Slashdot where he or she saw DTrace on FreeBSD being discussed and feeling strongly about DTrace and how it was purportedly perceived as "error vomit" by one or two individuals at Sun Support in Bullington and immediately signed up over that... or a really envious Troll who just dropped by to upset some (Free|Net|Open|Dying)BSD people either for fun or profit. We'll never know what's the score here but I also doubt we'll hear much more from Plembo.
A couple of years ago I busted a wannabe Monsanto shill who just had three posts to his name. Professional shills take time on a discussion board to build reputable accounts developing rapport with the group and then in time become opinion leaders. On second thought if you work for one of Sun's PR companies and just conned me into attacking and beating the shit out of would-be Solaris 10 deriders, man you did a great job here, more power to you.
I just can't resist. I think you meant to say: If you're using pre-canned scripts that spit out everything IN the sun -- that's your problem, not the tool's.
Hi there, first I don't give a flying fsck whether i get l33t points over this or really whether I get modded down. I hope however that either of our posts get modded up so that people actually take notice of this thread.
That out of the way I don't really care whether droves of Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD etc.etc. users rush and adopt (Open)Solaris. I would definitely switch to Solaris also at home instead of Linux if it supported all of my hardware but I guess the home-user is besides the point I suppose you trying to make. Suffice it to say I can see no rush to AIX on the pseries or to HP-UX either but that has more to do with market saturation than anything else. The more interesting statistic to look into is how many Solaris 2.5-9 users have upgraded to Solaris 10. We admittedly didn't get all excited about DTrace alone, actually it was Solaris Zones that pulled us in. Oh I forgot. Microsoft Windows. Either risking to come off arrogant or preaching to the choir here, I suppose people using that can't be expected to migrate to Solaris either, mainly because of their investment in "Microsoft Technologies" but also from my personal experience due to an (utter) lack of broad technical background on behalf of their staff. These people for the most part don't trace first and see if they can tackle the problem. They consult "Knowledgebases" or call Microsoft.
So the question is, what rush are you expecting that nobody else is (well apart from the marketing/sales depts trying to justify their upkeep) ??
2. Is it definitely going to work wonders for BSD. It made my life on Solaris a hell of a lot easier. It'll make people's lives on (Free)BSD a hell of a lot easier. Soon I'm sure it will do that on Linux and after that on AIX, HP-UX oh and maybe in a few years hence even on more esoteric systems like Stratus VOS etc.
As an administrator it does wonders for me over and over, because now I can trace SCSI cmds/responses from devices, trace NFS problems like the one I just bragged about and the like. I get so much faster and easier clued in where the problem is by looking at what's going on under the hood so yes it is making me vastly more productive as an admin.
3. DTrace is also useful for "regular IT folks" and I guess that's where our real mentality problem kicks in. Firstly, even you who is definitely not an engineer can use DTRACE scripts other people develop. It's easy, at times all you need to do is dtrace -s script.d and there you are. But going back to our mentality problem. You're right. I think DTRACE is not really made for "regular IT folks" that are not fluent in C or don't have a working knowledge of processes/threads/user virtual address space vs. kernel address space etc. etc. I guess "regular IT folks" like that wont get much mileage out of DTRACE but still like I said they can use already developed scripts with maybe someone over the phone helping them. And that brings us to some Level 3 support guys @ SUN in Bulington... their main problem with DTRACE is not that it's of no help or no value. In fact our competition at one site opened a call with Sun on an issue we were already working on and then sent us a DTRACE script Sun support wanted to run. We compared it to our own script we had started on the problem and Sun support was looking exactly at the same cause of the problem we were:-). I guess the real issue some of the Level 3 Support guys @ SUN in Bulington have is that DTRACE gives third parties like us a hell of a lot more clout in diagnosing problems which results in a lot less calls to them and that's making them vomit. To tell you the truth I mulled this aspect of DTRACE over too, that it would give the customer and competitors more insight and transparency into the system, but like you said yourself DTRACE is nothing for "regular IT folks" so on the bottomline it's a definite plus for us.
Last week I had a major problem trying to get Linux nfs4 clients to mount from Solaris 10 servers. Even though on the Linux client the domain uid mapping superficially worked (I saw the correct user/groups displayed) the NFSv4 Server Kernel Module was still using LINUX uid/gid combinations supplied by the linux client to go to the filesystem driver with to ask for permission.
You, sir, obviously don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about.
I know it sounds corny but when you trying to learn something just do it. Right now I am getting into Solaris 10 so what I did today was I debugged a nfs problem using Solaris DTRACE (I traced on fbt:nfssvr:rfs4_op_access and output the uid/gid in the credentials) and played around some with Role Based Access Control. Okay so I do have more than a decade of experience in UNIX-like operating systems, but back in the days I was just playing around with Ultrix-32 on a VAX.
I think "playing" around with stuff is the keyword here. Other people cut themselves minor to semimajor projects do whatever works for you but by all means get physical, get hands on.
Last login: Sun May 28 05:21:33 2006 from llb014 gd23ka@conco51:~$ ======== Player 1 Press any key to begin
What will she be like, a stunning female in her early twenties wearing a green swimsuit and fly through the air with a bunch of reindeers strapped to her back? Instead of bringing us presents will she go from door to door and demand to be given presents? Will she still enter and exit houses through the chimney or will she dig her way into houses suddenly surfacing in the living room?
Above all, will she say still "Ho!Ho!Hoooooh!" or will she rather say "Oh! Oh! Oooooh!"??
We have plenty of questions here regarding the pole reversal.
"Pugno, however, argues that inevitable defects in the nanotubes mean that such a cable simply wouldn't be strong enough. Even if flawless nanotubes could be made for the space elevator, damage from micrometeorites and even erosion by oxygen atoms would render them weak. It would seem that sci-fi will never be anything other than what it is: a fiction."
So nature cites a study and all of the sudden we can't have the Space Elevator even after a successful test because Pugno says so. Nature also cited studies that condemmed and rehabilitated cholesterol over and over ad nauseum. The word is still out on the space elevator being a viable technology as much as it is on cholesterol's health effects (if any) and nobody is going to scrap eggs, meat and space elevators just because of a bunch of theories and lab experiments (if any).
Oh and if the submitter put in "It would seem that sci-fi will never be anything other than what it is: a fiction" then he or she should get a ride on the space elevator with nothing much more on to wear than a space suit so they can get the "big picture" for once.
Back in the days when I was their age we didn't have blogs. We did have acid however. I wonder how you're going to find me going from this? It's got everything in it:
Here fictious-student-me admits to taking drugs and using stolen credit card numbers and on top of that announces a violent crime and USES INAPPROPIATE, OBSCENE AND FOUL LANGUAGE(!)...
Yesterday evening I dropped an acid. Yes. Those little pieces of paper with Mickey Mouse on them. Only mine didn't have Mickey Mouse on it, it was Goofy:-). I waited half an hour but nothing happened so I did something remarkably stupid: I stuck another on the tip of my tongue, drenched it with my saliva and sucked all the Lisagig Diatelamyte out of it until it was completely try. Half an hour later: still nothing happened. I felt like a little antsy but hey I've been feeling that way all day. So what I do? You guessed it, I took another one. I had three by seven O'clock they were all gone. Had Dinner with Mom & Pop. During the middle of it I almost coughed most of the mashed potatoes back on my plate because I thought what it'd be like if the Acid hit me while I was sitting at the table. I went up into my room after dinner and fired up my spanking new what I got for christmas. I can afford to (With the credit card numbers + cvv numbers I got from #cardz-rus). I was playing I don't remember what when it hit me all of the sudden. Fuck! I MEAN FUCKING SHIT! Hey Motherfuckuh, you shoulda been there! I don't remember a whole lot right now but I can remember seeing geometric forms, colors and all of the sudden I am FREE and I can get undressed and I flopped onto my bed and then did something amazing and when that RUSH! RUSH! of cosmic energy went through me like a FUCKING POWERDRILL through my skull and now brain's pulsating both on the insides and outsides, dammit I could see it!, those shades of red, those geometric figures, those pulsating colors, that music that beat sounding off the fabrics of life, reality and universal intelligence all and then I WAS IN FUCKING TERENCE MCKENNA Land, I kid you not. Not with the DMT elves but pretty much close because I wasn't in Kansas anymore. Tell you what, you're not going to believe me until you've tried it yourselves. This TRIP it LASTED FOR HOURS, LITERALLY. It came on slow, actually I wasn't expecting it at all anymore and it stayed with me until the morning as I am typing this before class. Hey! I've been illuminated by it too, because when I close my eyes I can see this white light and I know everything is alright. Oh and I actually learned something from it too. I'm going to bring a baseball bat and just swing it directly into the face of our principal. Maybe that's what it'll take to illuminate that sick and worthless piece of shit of a bureaucrat. Swing into into his face so he drops to the floor and then bring it down hard on his head to bust his skull wide open. Gonna wear black today.
Oh okay.. let's see what clues we have here:
The "perp" ingested a presumably high dosis of Lysergic Diathelamide or similar substance The "perp" owns a video game console they got for christmas and has access to stolen credit cards. The "perp" has access to a PC where he presumably accesses an irc channel #cardz-rus The "perp" has access to a baseball bat.
Without being able to test all students for LSD, search PC's for irc clients and subpoena internet records you're going to have to wait for that one kid that actually shows up with a baseball bat in your office (unless you're plugged into the DHS K12 Total-Information-Turtles Program)
Okay Larry, I retract and I apologize. Randal Schwartz was the cyberterrorist in this case. But still, you know with all this National Socialist^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hecurity hype going on it's better to finger someone fast and report the first guy who comes to mind.
But still... according to this Larry is not much better than Schwartz and now also definitely an assessory to the crime. I just refreshed my memory on the subject and according to the source I read Schwartz probably got most of his firewall defeating crack running ideology from writing a book on Wall's information system assault scripting language, Protected Entity Reconnaisance Language or what he wants to call it.
While you're at it with the ® symbol, shouldn't it really read Novell's SUSE® Linux(tm) Enterprise products. As far as I know Linus Torvalds owns the Linux(tm) trademark. In case someone complains, I was going to use the & trade; entity but slashcode filters it out for some reason.
you put up to 2GHz of pure Intel Core Duo power, an iSight camera, Front Row, iLife '06, and a 13-inch"...
What you get is (yet another) intel notebook yet one that can't boot into windows without tweaking but is preinstalled with a port of MacOSX to Intel and a set of OSX drivers that match the hardware.
You don't get any of the powersaving magic and literal coolfactor of using a performing PPC notebook.
What you do get however, is what ACER could have whipped up for you for $1000 plus the $99 Intel MacOSX license, so I'd say it's nothing to get excited about but still worth looking into because you do get the MacOSX to check out and play around with thrown in there cheap.
No I did not miss the point you're trying to make. In fact I carefully went through a text diff to see whether he added or modified any thesis of the 14 points. As far as credentials are concerned... a mild degree of common sense should be sufficient to understand what he wanted to convey.
''I'm curious to see if you find that paragraph to describe the current administration.''
Well, let's see what I can come up with for you here:
"Fascism in many ways seems to have clearly developed as a reaction against Communism and Marxism, both in a philosophic and political sense, although it it can be seen as opposing democratic capitalist economics along with Marxism."
Well, let's see superficially "we" are still opposed to communism, marxism in all of its forms and offshoots and there still is the issue of North Korea awaiting Liberty's Torch to light that country up. Even though the "War on Terror" has superseded the cold war paradigm in the case of North Korea you would undoubtedly be treated to rethorics reminiscent of the yadda yadda they gave us at the height of the cold war. As far as opposition to democratic capitalist economy is conerned, I think anybody can see to what great lengths they go to pamper big business while stomping on small and medium businesses.
"It viewed the state as an organic entity in a positive light rather than as an institution designed to protect collective and individual rights, or as one that should be held in check."
As far as downright worship is concerned, Americans for example defer the Office of the President of the United States (insulting the person who is president instead of insulting the institution of presidency). A much better example of blind worship is the believe in the sancticity of "The Law". I know however what you're driving at and as far as downright Cardassian:-) worship of the state is concerned they do fall short of that (for now).
"It tended to reject the Marxist notion of social classes (and universally dismissed the concept of class conflict), replacing it instead with two more nebulous struggles: conflict between races and the struggle of the youth versus their elders. "
Actually they're busy getting rid of the middle class right now. As far as pseudoclass conflict is concerned, isn't that exactly how they operate today? As of late we have in varying degrees of intensity and bloodshed "Blacks vs. Hispanics", "Whites vs. Blacks", "Hispanics vs. Whites", "Men vs. Women", "Youth vs. Seniority", "Christians vs. Pagans", "Pagans vs. Satanists", "Real Satanists vs. Satanists", "Homophobes vs. Homophiles", "US vs. Terror", "Hard-workin' Joe Sixpack vs. Potheads", "Large People vs. Athletes" etc. etc. etc etc. "Rich vs. Poor" is kind of drowned out by all that noise and distraction isn't it?
"This meant embracing nationalism and mysticism, and advancing ideas of strength and power as means of legitimacy, a might makes right that glorified war as an end in itself and determinant of truth and worthiness. "
Well as far as Mysticism is concerned, you might want to check out the huge stone owl where Georgy Junior and Georgy Senior worship every year at the Bohemian Club in Northern California. This btw is NOT another one of those "crazy" conspiracy theories, this is documented and I recommend you check out the ritual that was taped by Alex Jones. Also checkout the Wikipedia article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation_of_care . I'm not an expert on cult rituals but I've been told this ritual goes back all the way to Babylon.
As to "Might makes Right" they're not into telling that the world straight into its face. Instead they bring on the might and then have public relations firms make it sound "right. Power and military might are advanced considerably in order to make even more things go "right".
An affinity to these ideas can be found in Social Darwinism. These ideas are in direct opposi
First off: Nothing for you here to get really excited here. Please save us your FUD.
I just ran this through a text diff and all I can see is that he condensed some of the prose and shifted it into present tense. No matter what, those 14 points are very valid and nobody needs to be an "expert on fascism" to see that. As far as you're "expert requirement" is concerned, do I need to know everything there is to know about toilet tissue to wipe my self? As far as expertise in the subject matter is concerned, people do really need to know that oh so glorified Cicero was just another slumlord who did his best to advance poverty in Rome just like they do here today. But even without that kind of background knowledge, people can certainly see what is happening in their lives today all too clearly and if anything that makes everbody an "expert" in the subject.
You can't really accuse the original poster of malquoting "Dr. Lawrence", and no matter what it still doesn't even
put the slightest dent into the validity of those 14 points.
I'll leave it up to your imagination as to what obscenities flashed across my mind while reading your post. The richer and more creative your imagination, the better.
You may not like the idea at all, but the right to privacy of billions on this planet is by many magnitudes far more worth than a couple of dozen murdered and raped 4-year olds. It's a ghastly price to pay, but alone through the embargo on Iraq after the first Gulf War we killed a hundred-thousand Iraqi kids for Arco and British Petrol. As far as The "Will Someone Please Think Of the Children"-angle is concerned, that angle was KIA in Falluja.
I certainly will not give up such extremely personal information (as a lot of other people have already pointed out: allergies, genetic disorders, biological weaknesses and strengths etc. etc.) just to track down one of few perverts.
Actually they're not at all interested in "cutting off piracy" (instead they're all interested in cutting off privacy which is what I just accidentally mistyped). They're happy to have another way to criminalize you and send you to jail for a couple of years right along with the kid next door smoking pot because you "pirated" one of their movies or songs. Since prisons have been privatized in the US you could even be sent to Sony Prison.
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Simple. Transfer the money to the Bank/Account that's on your screen. Actually I don't think it's too hard for a russian to open an account for foreign currency at a Moscow bank using false id and I don't think other than the tax paramilitia they have in russia would really be interested in what they do with it (unless they're running short of Kulaks in the camps).
In order to take care of this matter you would travel in person to Moscow. Since you haven't prepared for such a "mission" and are on your own you would first have to get an firearm or two. The best thing to do would be to run over over russian police officers with a stolen car in a rural setting. This is under the assumption that even when those two police men go missing it will be some time before they're found and before they start in on road blocks. I suppose this sounds hazardous as can be for a start but I don't think purchasing firearms as a foreigner from local crime you don't know is much safer than taking the police firearms. (If they catch you I don't know how many years of harsh labor camps you get for this before they execute you). Armed, you would then start accosting employees of the bank. If threats and intimidation don't give you the information then the next thing to do is to abduct the children of bank employees. Like they say in the songs, "The Russians love their children too" so that will most likely get you the information you need. Now you have the assumed name and a photocopy of the id they used to open the account and you've gotten a pretty unsharp surveillance video tape of the guy who opened the account. You travel to the russian backwater the cash withdrawals are made at. With luck they withdraw money regularily from a certain ATM at a certain time. You don't dare loiter near the ATM machines and hope that the same piece of shit comes by that opened the account because it just might be that the bank people you threatened and abducted the children from warned either them and/or told the russian police. Maybe you will hang on to a child hostage to make sure but that adds complications. If you strike it lucky then you have someone to throw into the back of the van you stole a day ago two hundred miles from X-Gorod and torture him with boiling hot water coming from a portable water boiler plugged into the dashboard. Let's say he breaks when you tell him the next portion of water goes into his eyes and you will blind him. He tells you about Dmitri, Petr, Pavel and Alex. You execute three people that night still not sure whether the guy you have tied up in the van was lying to you. Surely enough Alex's hardrive has an odd file on it under c:\rawodat\virus.asm. You peruse it while Alex is cowering in the corner with two broken thigh bones and one broken elbow parts of the bone have broken through the skin. You take a closer look at the source because Alex in this state is not going to get up and run and yes, this is exactly the piece of crap that encrypted my porn collection. You look at Alex and hear his exhausted faint mewls under the gag and his eyes begs you to let him live. You shoot him point blank into the face.
Basically this is what you would have to go through as an American who doesn't know his way around in Russia to get the encryption key and get "justice served". They know that too which is they do it outright in the open.
In summary: This bill is nothing to worry about (for people who play by the rules :-))
... IF the trier of fact determines ***ALL*** of the following: [(1) (2) (3)]. That's a logical AND.
91.14. Prohibited sales of video or computer games to minors
-- whereas we want to protect kids, etc.etc dross omitted --
9 A. An interactive video or computer game shall not be sold, leased, or rented
10 to a minor if the trier of fact determines all of the following:
11 (1) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would
12 find that the video or computer game, taken as a whole, appeals to the minor's
13 morbid interest in violence.
14 (2) The game depicts violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing
15 standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable for minors.
16 (3) The game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or
17 scientific value for minors.
-- the rest of it is just definitions, like what a computer game is etc. etc. --
Let's parse this thing, shall we?
First of all it says that all three conditions must be met at once:
It says in A:
Conditions (1)(2) I wont discuss here because they will usually oscillate between true and false depending on ambient conditions such as experience-points of the lawyers involved, bribes and special phone calls.
Condition (3) is the really interesting condition. Since ALL conditions are true so that a game can be banned any game that does not satisfy this banning conditions can be given to kids even in Lousiana.
Condition (3) reads "The game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or
17 scientific value for minors."
Basically all the game has to have is serious political value and then it can be sold, lent or otherwise given to
a minor. I would posit that the US after all the torture, murder and mayhem it enacts on its own citizens and the
rest of humanity bringing up a fresh generation of young Abu Ghraib guards with educational software such as
Half-life etc. is of sound political value, wouldn't you agree?
After all, it's the Department of Defense itself that makes and distributes such educational software such as America's Army (Get it FREE at http://www.americasarmy.com/) etc.
I think the only games that would really be banned with such a bill would be the games I would like to play like: Point blank: Taxevasion 2006. Ambush Journalist. Question Authority (Lightgun Version). Copkiller I - VII. CFR/Trilateral Commission/IMF Monopoly etc. etc.
Maybe I'm missing something crucial about Rexx here. As a scripting language it sure beats CMS EXEC, that's for sure but stringwise it's simply no match for awk/sed. I doubt it even supported pattern matching back in the days meaning you had to code that yourself. As far as I'm concerned doing that then on the IBM really sounds like processing text today with Winword Macros just because the text was typed on a Windows when you could be using sed, awk and perl etc. I think the people at OpenBSD have captured the spirit and ubercoolness of UNIX that endures to this day with words such as: You just can't be the systemagic, ubertragic.
... to lock itself into Microsoft :-)
.net code and there might be hope that you could get it to run on Linux using Mono but I'm sure that hope will shatter on the cliffs that a lot of Microsoft specific APIs and facilities will not (ever) be implemented on Linux.
Hi,
First off, whatever you're going to code with VB will only run on Windows. There might be a way to generate
Essentially you're once again committing to use "Microsoft Technologies". These so-called 'Technologies' (mostly rehashes and adaptations of what's been out there shrink-wrapped, repackaged and rehyped by Microsoft ActiveMarketing+ )... these so-called 'Technologies' are not open source. IF you are wondering how Microsoft implemented something (because you can't get it to work) you will be stuck going to their "Knowledgebase" on the Microsoft Developer Network site where they might tell you, or again not. Calls to Microsoft support, your only dependable source of support cost $$$ but I think there are subscription plans for this, you might want to check them out. It's not that support for other software is free. It's just that with the "Technologies" they're the only ones qualified to give support.
You will also find and that's aonther angle of the support issue, that people using Microsoft are a pretty much locked in community. I'm sure a lot of people reading here will likely object over this but I'm not talking about you. Slashdot isn't exactly one of the core sites most Microsoft people go to. In general these people lack the scope to look beyond the rims of their plate to see what other ways are out there to tackle a problem which thinking this further is probably why you came here in the first place.
I don't know if I told you anything new but that's my take on the subject. I wish you the best of luck that you and your employer can avoid this particular piece of fly paper.
On an impulse I looked up what other things Plembo has to say on slashdot and I found only today's two posts.
http://slashdot.org/~plembo
Re:Maybe you should wipe your mouth after vomiting Monday May 29, @11:51AM 2 0
Dtrace - is often referred to as "error vomit" Monday May 29, @10:37AM 2 0, Redundant
Of course, either this gentle(wo)man happened across Slashdot where he or she saw DTrace on FreeBSD being discussed
and feeling strongly about DTrace and how it was purportedly perceived as "error vomit" by one or two individuals at Sun Support in Bullington and immediately signed up over that... or a really envious Troll who just dropped by to upset some
(Free|Net|Open|Dying)BSD people either for fun or profit. We'll never know what's the score here but I also doubt we'll hear much more from Plembo.
A couple of years ago I busted a wannabe Monsanto shill who just had three posts to his name. Professional shills take time on a discussion board to build reputable accounts developing rapport with the group and then in time become opinion leaders. On second thought if you work for one of Sun's PR companies and just conned me into attacking and beating the shit out of would-be Solaris 10 deriders, man you did a great job here, more power to you.
I just can't resist. I think you meant to say: If you're using pre-canned scripts that spit out everything IN the sun -- that's your problem, not the tool's.
Hi there, first I don't give a flying fsck whether i get l33t points over this or really whether I get modded down.
:-). I guess the real
I hope however that either of our posts get modded up so that people actually take notice of this thread.
That out of the way I don't really care whether droves of Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD etc.etc. users rush and adopt
(Open)Solaris. I would definitely switch to Solaris also at home instead of Linux if it supported all of my hardware
but I guess the home-user is besides the point I suppose you trying to make. Suffice it to say I can see no rush to
AIX on the pseries or to HP-UX either but that has more to do with market saturation than anything else.
The more interesting statistic to look into is how many Solaris 2.5-9 users have upgraded to Solaris 10. We admittedly
didn't get all excited about DTrace alone, actually it was Solaris Zones that pulled us in.
Oh I forgot. Microsoft Windows. Either risking to come off arrogant or preaching to the choir here, I suppose people
using that can't be expected to migrate to Solaris either, mainly because of their investment in "Microsoft Technologies" but also from my personal experience due to an (utter) lack of broad technical background on behalf of their staff.
These people for the most part don't trace first and see if they can tackle the problem. They consult "Knowledgebases" or call Microsoft.
So the question is, what rush are you expecting that nobody else is (well apart from the marketing/sales depts trying
to justify their upkeep) ??
2. Is it definitely going to work wonders for BSD. It made my life on Solaris a hell of a lot easier. It'll make
people's lives on (Free)BSD a hell of a lot easier. Soon I'm sure it will do that on Linux and after that on AIX,
HP-UX oh and maybe in a few years hence even on more esoteric systems like Stratus VOS etc.
As an administrator it does wonders for me over and over, because now I can trace SCSI cmds/responses from devices,
trace NFS problems like the one I just bragged about and the like. I get so much faster and easier clued in where
the problem is by looking at what's going on under the hood so yes it is making me vastly more productive as an admin.
3. DTrace is also useful for "regular IT folks" and I guess that's where our real mentality problem kicks in. Firstly,
even you who is definitely not an engineer can use DTRACE scripts other people develop. It's easy, at times all you
need to do is dtrace -s script.d and there you are. But going back to our mentality problem. You're right. I think
DTRACE is not really made for "regular IT folks" that are not fluent in C or don't have a working knowledge of processes/threads/user virtual address space vs. kernel address space etc. etc. I guess "regular IT folks" like that wont get much mileage out of DTRACE but still like I said they can use already developed scripts with maybe someone over the phone helping them. And that brings us to some Level 3 support guys @ SUN in Bulington... their main problem with DTRACE is not that it's of no help or no value. In fact our competition at one site opened a call with Sun on an issue we were already working on and then sent us a DTRACE script Sun support wanted to run. We compared it to our own script we had started on the problem and Sun support was looking exactly at the same cause of the problem we were
issue some of the Level 3 Support guys @ SUN in Bulington have is that DTRACE gives third parties like us a hell of a lot more clout in diagnosing problems which results in a lot less calls to them and that's making them vomit.
To tell you the truth I mulled this aspect of DTRACE over too, that it would give the customer and competitors more
insight and transparency into the system, but like you said yourself DTRACE is nothing for "regular IT folks" so
on the bottomline it's a definite plus for us.
Last week I had a major problem trying to get Linux nfs4 clients to mount from Solaris 10 servers. Even though on the Linux client the domain uid mapping superficially worked (I saw the correct user/groups displayed) the NFSv4 Server Kernel Module was still using LINUX uid/gid combinations supplied by the linux client to go to the filesystem driver with to ask for permission.
You, sir, obviously don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about.
Here's my script, btw
#!/usr/sbin/dtrace -Cs
#define ACCESS4_READ 1
#define ACCESS4_LOOKUP 2
#define ACCESS4_MODIFY 4
#define ACCESS4_EXTEND 8
#define ACCESS4_DELETE 16
#define ACCESS4_EXECUTE 32
fbt:nfssrv:rfs4_op_access:entry {
requested_access = ((struct ACCESS4args *) arg0)->access;
cs = (struct compound_state *) arg3;
cr = (struct cred *) cs->cr;
printf ("uid = %d gid = %d\n", cr->cr_uid, cr->cr_gid);
printf ("ACCESS4_READ = %s\n", requested_access & ACCESS4_READ ? "yes" : "no");
printf ("ACCESS4_LOOKUP = %s\n", requested_access & ACCESS4_LOOKUP ? "yes" : "no");
printf ("ACCESS4_MODIFY = %s\n", requested_access & ACCESS4_MODIFY ? "yes" : "no");
printf ("ACCESS4_EXTEND = %s\n", requested_access & ACCESS4_EXTEND ? "yes" : "no");
printf ("ACCESS4_DELETE = %s\n", requested_access & ACCESS4_DELETE ? "yes" : "no");
printf ("ACCESS4_EXECUTE = %s\n", requested_access & ACCESS4_EXECUTE ? "yes" : "no");
}
I know it sounds corny but when you trying to learn something just do it.
Right now I am getting into Solaris 10 so what I did today was I debugged
a nfs problem using Solaris DTRACE (I traced on fbt:nfssvr:rfs4_op_access
and output the uid/gid in the credentials) and played around some with
Role Based Access Control. Okay so I do have more than a decade of
experience in UNIX-like operating systems, but back in the days I was just
playing around with Ultrix-32 on a VAX.
I think "playing" around with stuff is the keyword here. Other people cut
themselves minor to semimajor projects do whatever works for you but by
all means get physical, get hands on.
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What will she be like, a stunning female in her early twenties wearing a green swimsuit and fly through the air with a bunch of reindeers strapped to her back? Instead of bringing us presents will she go from door to door and demand to be given presents? Will she still enter and exit houses through the chimney or will she dig her way into houses suddenly surfacing in the living room?
Above all, will she say still "Ho!Ho!Hoooooh!" or will she rather say "Oh! Oh! Oooooh!"??
We have plenty of questions here regarding the pole reversal.
"Pugno, however, argues that inevitable defects in the nanotubes mean that such a cable simply wouldn't be strong enough. Even if flawless nanotubes could be made for the space elevator, damage from micrometeorites and even erosion by oxygen atoms would render them weak. It would seem that sci-fi will never be anything other than what it is: a fiction."
So nature cites a study and all of the sudden we can't have the Space Elevator even after a successful test because Pugno says so. Nature also cited studies that condemmed and rehabilitated cholesterol over and over ad nauseum. The word is still out on the space elevator being a viable technology as much as it is on cholesterol's health effects (if any) and nobody is going to scrap eggs, meat and space elevators just because of a bunch of theories and lab experiments (if any).
Oh and if the submitter put in "It would seem that sci-fi will never be anything other than what it is: a fiction" then he or she should get a ride on the space elevator with nothing much more on to wear than a space suit so they can get the "big picture" for once.
Back in the days when I was their age we didn't have blogs. We did have acid however. I wonder how you're going to find me going from this? It's got everything in it:
:-). I waited half an hour but nothing happened so I did something remarkably stupid: I stuck another on the tip of my tongue, drenched it with my saliva and sucked all the Lisagig Diatelamyte out of it until it was completely try. Half an hour later: still nothing happened. I felt like a little antsy but hey I've been feeling that way all day. So what I do? You guessed it, I took another one. I had three by seven O'clock they were all gone. Had Dinner with Mom & Pop. During the middle of it I almost coughed most of the mashed potatoes back on my plate because I thought what it'd be like if the Acid hit me while I was sitting at the table. I went up into my room after dinner and fired up my spanking new what I got for christmas. I can afford to (With the credit card numbers + cvv numbers I got from #cardz-rus). I was playing I don't remember what when it hit me all of the sudden. Fuck! I MEAN FUCKING SHIT! Hey Motherfuckuh, you shoulda been there! I don't remember a whole lot right now but I can remember seeing geometric forms, colors and all of the sudden I am FREE and I can get undressed and I flopped onto my bed and then did something amazing and when that RUSH! RUSH! of cosmic energy went through me like a FUCKING POWERDRILL through my skull and now brain's pulsating both on the insides and outsides, dammit I could see it!, those shades of red, those geometric figures, those pulsating colors, that music that beat sounding off the fabrics of life, reality and universal intelligence all and then I WAS IN FUCKING TERENCE MCKENNA Land, I kid you not. Not with the DMT elves but pretty much close because I wasn't in Kansas anymore. Tell you what, you're not going to believe me until you've tried it yourselves. This TRIP it LASTED FOR HOURS, LITERALLY. It came on slow, actually I wasn't expecting it at all anymore and it stayed with me until the morning as I am typing this before class. Hey! I've been illuminated by it too, because when I close my eyes I can see this white light and I know everything is alright. Oh and I actually learned something from it too. I'm going to bring a baseball bat and just swing it directly into the face of our principal. Maybe that's what it'll take to illuminate that sick and worthless piece of shit of a bureaucrat. Swing into into his face so he drops to the floor and then bring it down hard on his head to bust his skull wide open. Gonna wear black today.
Here fictious-student-me admits to taking drugs and using stolen credit card numbers and on top of that announces a violent crime and USES INAPPROPIATE, OBSCENE AND FOUL LANGUAGE(!)...
Yesterday evening I dropped an acid. Yes. Those little pieces of paper with Mickey Mouse on them. Only mine didn't have Mickey Mouse on it, it was Goofy
Oh okay.. let's see what clues we have here:
The "perp" ingested a presumably high dosis of Lysergic Diathelamide or similar substance
The "perp" owns a video game console they got for christmas and has access to stolen credit cards.
The "perp" has access to a PC where he presumably accesses an irc channel #cardz-rus
The "perp" has access to a baseball bat.
Without being able to test all students for LSD, search PC's for irc clients and subpoena internet
records you're going to have to wait for that one kid that actually shows up with a baseball bat
in your office (unless you're plugged into the DHS K12 Total-Information-Turtles Program)
The x86 - 'accelerator' is closed source.
Take a look at your sig: "I have nothing to hide. So, why are you spying on me?" You're asking questions, that's why!
Okay Larry, I retract and I apologize. Randal Schwartz was the cyberterrorist in this case. But still, you know with all this National Socialist^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hecurity hype going on it's better to finger someone fast and report the first guy who comes to mind. But still... according to this Larry is not much better than Schwartz and now also definitely an assessory to the crime. I just refreshed my memory on the subject and according to the source I read Schwartz probably got most of his firewall defeating crack running ideology from writing a book on Wall's information system assault scripting language, Protected Entity Reconnaisance Language or what he wants to call it.
I guess with the regime over here the way it is they could still throw the book at him for that :-)
While you're at it with the ® symbol, shouldn't it really read Novell's SUSE® Linux(tm) Enterprise products. As far as I know Linus Torvalds owns the Linux(tm) trademark. In case someone complains, I was going to use the & trade; entity but slashcode filters it out for some reason.
you put up to 2GHz of pure Intel Core Duo power, an iSight camera, Front Row, iLife '06, and a 13-inch" ...
What you get is (yet another) intel notebook yet one that can't boot into windows without tweaking but is preinstalled with a port of MacOSX to Intel and a set of OSX drivers that match the hardware.
You don't get any of the powersaving magic and literal coolfactor of using a performing PPC notebook.
What you do get however, is what ACER could have whipped up for you for $1000 plus the $99 Intel MacOSX license, so I'd say it's nothing to get excited about but still worth looking into because you do get the MacOSX to check out and play around with thrown in there cheap.
No I did not miss the point you're trying to make. In fact I carefully went through a text diff to see whether he added or modified any thesis of the 14 points. As far as credentials are concerned... a mild degree of common sense should be sufficient to understand what he wanted to convey.
:-) worship of the state is concerned they do fall short of that (for now).
''I'm curious to see if you find that paragraph to describe the current administration.''
Well, let's see what I can come up with for you here:
"Fascism in many ways seems to have clearly developed as a reaction against Communism and Marxism, both in a philosophic and political sense, although it it can be seen as opposing democratic capitalist economics along with Marxism."
Well, let's see superficially "we" are still opposed to communism, marxism in all of its forms and offshoots and there still is the issue of North Korea awaiting Liberty's Torch to light that country up. Even though the "War on Terror" has superseded the cold war paradigm in the case of North Korea you would undoubtedly be treated to rethorics reminiscent
of the yadda yadda they gave us at the height of the cold war. As far as opposition to democratic capitalist economy is conerned, I think anybody can see to what great lengths they go to pamper big business while stomping on small and medium businesses.
"It viewed the state as an organic entity in a positive light rather than as an institution designed to protect collective and individual rights, or as one that should be held in check."
As far as downright worship is concerned, Americans for example defer the Office of the President of the United
States (insulting the person who is president instead of insulting the institution of presidency). A much better
example of blind worship is the believe in the sancticity of "The Law". I know however what you're driving at and
as far as downright Cardassian
"It tended to reject the Marxist notion of social classes (and universally dismissed the concept of class conflict), replacing it instead with two more nebulous struggles: conflict between races and the struggle of the youth versus their elders. "
Actually they're busy getting rid of the middle class right now. As far as pseudoclass conflict is concerned, isn't that exactly how they operate today? As of late we have in varying degrees of intensity and bloodshed "Blacks vs. Hispanics", "Whites vs. Blacks", "Hispanics vs. Whites", "Men vs. Women", "Youth vs. Seniority", "Christians vs. Pagans", "Pagans vs. Satanists", "Real Satanists vs. Satanists", "Homophobes vs. Homophiles", "US vs. Terror", "Hard-workin' Joe Sixpack vs. Potheads", "Large People vs. Athletes" etc. etc. etc etc. "Rich vs. Poor" is kind of drowned out by all that noise and distraction isn't it?
"This meant embracing nationalism and mysticism, and advancing ideas of strength and power as means of legitimacy, a might makes right that glorified war as an end in itself and determinant of truth and worthiness. "
Well as far as Mysticism is concerned, you might want to check out the huge stone owl where Georgy Junior and Georgy Senior worship every year at the Bohemian Club in Northern California. This btw is NOT another one of those "crazy" conspiracy theories, this is documented and I recommend you check out the ritual that was taped by Alex Jones. Also checkout the Wikipedia article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation_of_care . I'm not an expert on cult rituals but I've been told this ritual goes back all the way to Babylon.
As to "Might makes Right" they're not into telling that the world straight into its face. Instead they bring on the might and then have public relations firms make it sound "right. Power and military might are advanced considerably in order to make even more things go "right".
An affinity to these ideas can be found in Social Darwinism. These ideas are in direct opposi
It's standard industry procedure, AC.
First off: Nothing for you here to get really excited here. Please save us your FUD.
I just ran this through a text diff and all I can see is that he condensed some of the prose and shifted it into present tense. No matter what, those 14 points are very valid and nobody needs to be an "expert on fascism" to see that. As far as you're "expert requirement" is concerned, do I need to know everything there is to know about toilet tissue to wipe my self? As far as expertise in the subject matter is concerned, people do really need to know that oh so glorified Cicero was just another slumlord who did his best to advance poverty in Rome just like they do here today. But even without that kind of background knowledge, people can certainly see what is happening in their lives today all too clearly and if anything that makes everbody an "expert" in the subject.
You can't really accuse the original poster of malquoting "Dr. Lawrence", and no matter what it still doesn't even put the slightest dent into the validity of those 14 points.
... like "Attention! This person is WANTED. If possible, DETAIN this person!"
I'll leave it up to your imagination as to what obscenities flashed across my mind while reading your post.
The richer and more creative your imagination, the better.
You may not like the idea at all, but the right to privacy of billions on this planet is by many magnitudes
far more worth than a couple of dozen murdered and raped 4-year olds. It's a ghastly price to pay, but alone through
the embargo on Iraq after the first Gulf War we killed a hundred-thousand Iraqi kids for Arco and British Petrol.
As far as The "Will Someone Please Think Of the Children"-angle is concerned, that angle was KIA in Falluja.
I certainly will not give up such extremely personal information (as a lot of other people have already pointed
out: allergies, genetic disorders, biological weaknesses and strengths etc. etc.) just to track down one of
few perverts.
I would do it myself and I even have mod points but for obvious reasons I can't. Sony Prison: Face the Music :-)
Actually they're not at all interested in "cutting off piracy" (instead they're all interested in cutting off privacy which is what I just accidentally mistyped). They're happy to have another way to criminalize you and send you to jail for a couple of years right along with the kid next door smoking pot because you "pirated" one of their movies or songs. Since prisons have been privatized in the US you could even be sent to Sony Prison.