Our legal system is established over TWELVE HUNDRED YEARS and when it works it works well. When it's raped for profit, as this move clearly is a move to make profit, justice suffers. This has been working its way through alternative media for a while now (UKColumn has some great pieces on it), the response has been global damnation.
depends on your definition. I'm for personal freedom, but I'm also for the personal responsibility that comes with it. We're all adults here, I assume, we've generally learned (we claim) to not be offended by language, but the Nanny State would have us believe that innocent use of language causes buildings to topple and firearms to discharge themselves and peoples heads to spontaneously explode. Their solution is to try and choke us while saying its for our own good. I say, the Law is settled in the consequences of language, and it should only come into play if actual, demonstrable physical harm has resulted as a direct result of that language. These days you can throw an insult at an "ethnic monority" and find yourself in a debtors prison for two years. There is no harm done by your use of language except in the eyes of some scumbag piece of shit barrister who sees you as nothing more than a payday. I say it would be justified if you could make somebody's head implode using the Weirding Way, but I'm fairly certain that's nothing more than a plot device in a book.
I was born a few years after slavery was abolished (though you wouldn't think it looking at the state of the minimum wage economy). Your argument is invalid.
Vanessa George was a convicted offender BEFORE she got a job in a nursery and went on to rape babies due to her having "spent" a previous conviction. Tony Blair gave his name as Charles Lynton (his actual first and second middle names) when he picked up a conviction for importuning young boys at Hyde Park public convenience, in 1983 at Bow Street Magistrates - on top of his two previous convictions in the 1970s for the SAME THING. HE went on to become Prime Minister. Shall we go there with child murderer John Venables? He was *given* a new name, it didn't stop him from going to commit further sexual offences against children less than a week after his release.
By the way, I'm neither American nor brainwashed, and I'll thank you not to insult me like that again. I call it as I see it.
I didn't say that. What I will say is that yes, a private chat server is equivalent to my living room. I can remove you if I don't like what you're saying. That's not to say I want to stop you from saying it, you can say what you want till you're blue in the face, but just not in my private living space. It's my house, my rule, and in my house I am God.
If it were a chat space provided by the State, there would be a First Amendment argument because - and this is long established through the public library system as well as through the State position on copyrightable materials such as official reports - the material/space is paid for using public funds hence is owned by the public, kept in trust by the State who do NOT have the right to exclude you because you said something somebody doesn't like but have the option to remove you if as a result of that speech Laws are broken - for which there are established methods to do so (the court system). Speech of itself is not a criminal act.
uh... you CAN shout "fire" in a crowded theatre. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects that right. You CAN "dirty talk" to a minor, the First Amendment protects that right. You CAN lie in court, the First Amendment protects that right.
What the First Amendment DOES NOT DO is protect you from the consequences of that exercise of the FREEDOM to say what you want to if it is a violation of other Laws. The Constitution is Supreme.
I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Such litmus weighting on the Free Speech argument as the Brandenburg test does NOT seek to infringe or abrogate the right to free speech, they instead seek to balance the speech itself against hte immediate and direct consequences of that speech. For example, I could stand in the middle of Times Square and chant "Jihad, Jihad, Jihad", and there is NOTHING that can legally be done to stop me from doing that. If however, an individual hears me and goes off to kill a cafeteria full of people then claims I put him up to it, then that's something I'll have to answer to. Nothing stops me from making the speech, because nothing CAN without violating my Constitutional right to say it, but with rights come responsibilities. IF the Government wants to deprive me of my rights, they are welcome to try but with that abrogation comes a transfer of responsibility, not least of which to balance the beam and make it illegal for anybody(!) else to incite war or hatred in any form on any forum. In other words, if I get called a white trash piece of shit by a Brother, I should be affforded the same State protection that he gets if I call him a chicken munching nigger porch monkey.
would you rather I sourced from the MPAA, the BPI, the New York Chamber of Commerce? Because they would get exactly the same data from exactly the same source - and cherrypick that which suits their agenda.
TPB, as has been proved time and again, do not host infringing files. The FI says that's not true. What they mean is it's not convenient. What is convenient for them is the claim that they do, so that is the lie (as in claim proven to not fit the facts) that they push as truth. TPB host infinging files as much as Google host kiddie porn. Why isn't the FBI going after Google for *linking* to kiddie porn?
Doe lawsuits were massively dismissed by a judge last January. I wrote an article on it and it was buried to make way for Kim Kardashian's latest arse measurement.
"You are free to say whatever you want unless it offends somebody" is the biggest load of fake-libertarianism I've ever heard of. Either you're free to say WHAT you want or YOU'RE NOT. As the Law stands you do NOT have the right not to be offended. The freedom of expression is a constitutionally guaranteed right given by none and therefore to be taken away by none.
when TPB went back up, music didn't even FEATURE in the top downloads. Neither did mainstream or prerelease movies. Any guesses as to what did make the top list? . . . . . . Linux images. Followed by porn.
I don't wear trendy clothes. I wear clothes with matt neutral colours (olive green/oak DPM, brown, black) and lots of pockets. I've always shunned "fashion" because I never wanted to be a sheep. Clothes for me are functional. If it's going to be cold out, I'll wrap up in extra layers. Given changeable local weather conditions I'm always covered anyway (I even wear a functional headpiece. Fedoras rock, not least because you can sew pockets inside the bowls and keep things in them like lighters and an emergency bus fare, and the brim is great at keeping the sun out of your eyes), shorts are out but that's because I don't like my legs (think seven foot sparrow).
We're a free-spirited, generally mechanically very able, friendly bunch.
Unlike the cockheads in cars who think they own the road. I paid my local taxes, I have as much right to use the road as you. Just because you can't ride a bike doesn't give you the right to run me off mine.
I homeschooled my kids. My eldest is now 21 and he now runs his own (very successful) tech company. He does everything from meeting clients to running the books.
For learning by rote and wholesale destruction of the ability to think critically, nothing beats a darkened room with no visual access to anything outside the walls, a few poorly-configured screens (or configured to induce a hypnotic state) arranged in rows with the seating focussed on a larger screen at the back of the room while the workstations themselves are networked via wi-fi and keyboards are Bluetooth, or they're wireless tablets. This isn't about getting helpful technology into classrooms, this is about making it easier to produce DRUDGE WORKERS who will HAPPILY work for MINIMUM WAGE doing such makework activities as shelf stacking and sweeping leaves. I could run a lecture series on how the "Elite" are fucking the rest of us entirely for their own benefit. Notice I didn't call them "Illuminati" or any of that other distraction bullshit.
no, it's pretty much face-on to the approach. Pluto's polar tilt is something like 120 degrees (give or take a couple) to its orbit. Charon's inclination to the Plutonian equator is 0.0 and they're each tidally locked to the other: Pluto presents the same face to Charon and vice versa. The nearside of one will never see the far side of the other. As they're tidally locked and orbit an external barycentre, their common orbits in the Plutonian frame of reference are almost perfectly circular (off by fractions of a percent if that). You could tie their closest points together with a rope and that rope will never stretch or slacken.
what we have from NH is what we had in 2012 from Gemini North, Hawai'i. That's not to say "Oh, how disappointing!", what you've got to consider (and from what I'm reading down this page, not many people are) is that the GN observations will NEVER get any better because OPTICAL PHYSICS and the fact that those observations were made when Pluto was about as close as it's going to get for a good while. NH is getting closer by the day - right now it is closer to Pluto than this planet will EVER get. The images are only going to get BETTER as it approaches - providing the cameras don't fail.
chlorine and fluorine are chemically active and highly corrosive. They will burn mucous membranes on contact as they react with water to form hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acids. Plutonium is very dense and a cumulative poison with similar bioreactivity to lead. Its radioactivity is a relatively minor issue unless ingested or inhaled, at which point it can cause damage to genetic material - any of which that survives can become malignant.
Mainframes are so easy I wonder if it was worth excluding them. Hercules can emulate pretty much all IBM and plug-compatible mainframes - to the point where, providing you have the reader hardware, you can read the OS straight off the old media and load the system on a VM on a Windows 7 host. On a laptop.
(I use Hercules for gits and shiggles to run IBM VMS/370 I found on an archival CDROM).
I still have a dual 3.5 (built in) portable keyboard thing, somewhere. Not a typewriter, it doesn't have a printer. It does have an 8" custom CRT and runs on DOS, though. It sort of resembles a BBC Model A (which I also have), the diskette drives are mounted at the back facing the user - literally on top of the motherboard.
I think it's actually an Olivetti, can't find it to check though, it might be in the loft.
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Our legal system is established over TWELVE HUNDRED YEARS and when it works it works well. When it's raped for profit, as this move clearly is a move to make profit, justice suffers. This has been working its way through alternative media for a while now (UKColumn has some great pieces on it), the response has been global damnation.
depends on your definition. I'm for personal freedom, but I'm also for the personal responsibility that comes with it. We're all adults here, I assume, we've generally learned (we claim) to not be offended by language, but the Nanny State would have us believe that innocent use of language causes buildings to topple and firearms to discharge themselves and peoples heads to spontaneously explode. Their solution is to try and choke us while saying its for our own good. I say, the Law is settled in the consequences of language, and it should only come into play if actual, demonstrable physical harm has resulted as a direct result of that language. These days you can throw an insult at an "ethnic monority" and find yourself in a debtors prison for two years. There is no harm done by your use of language except in the eyes of some scumbag piece of shit barrister who sees you as nothing more than a payday. I say it would be justified if you could make somebody's head implode using the Weirding Way, but I'm fairly certain that's nothing more than a plot device in a book.
I was born a few years after slavery was abolished (though you wouldn't think it looking at the state of the minimum wage economy). Your argument is invalid.
Vanessa George was a convicted offender BEFORE she got a job in a nursery and went on to rape babies due to her having "spent" a previous conviction. Tony Blair gave his name as Charles Lynton (his actual first and second middle names) when he picked up a conviction for importuning young boys at Hyde Park public convenience, in 1983 at Bow Street Magistrates - on top of his two previous convictions in the 1970s for the SAME THING. HE went on to become Prime Minister. Shall we go there with child murderer John Venables? He was *given* a new name, it didn't stop him from going to commit further sexual offences against children less than a week after his release.
By the way, I'm neither American nor brainwashed, and I'll thank you not to insult me like that again. I call it as I see it.
I didn't say that. What I will say is that yes, a private chat server is equivalent to my living room. I can remove you if I don't like what you're saying. That's not to say I want to stop you from saying it, you can say what you want till you're blue in the face, but just not in my private living space. It's my house, my rule, and in my house I am God.
If it were a chat space provided by the State, there would be a First Amendment argument because - and this is long established through the public library system as well as through the State position on copyrightable materials such as official reports - the material/space is paid for using public funds hence is owned by the public, kept in trust by the State who do NOT have the right to exclude you because you said something somebody doesn't like but have the option to remove you if as a result of that speech Laws are broken - for which there are established methods to do so (the court system). Speech of itself is not a criminal act.
uh... you CAN shout "fire" in a crowded theatre. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects that right.
You CAN "dirty talk" to a minor, the First Amendment protects that right.
You CAN lie in court, the First Amendment protects that right.
What the First Amendment DOES NOT DO is protect you from the consequences of that exercise of the FREEDOM to say what you want to if it is a violation of other Laws. The Constitution is Supreme.
I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Such litmus weighting on the Free Speech argument as the Brandenburg test does NOT seek to infringe or abrogate the right to free speech, they instead seek to balance the speech itself against hte immediate and direct consequences of that speech. For example, I could stand in the middle of Times Square and chant "Jihad, Jihad, Jihad", and there is NOTHING that can legally be done to stop me from doing that. If however, an individual hears me and goes off to kill a cafeteria full of people then claims I put him up to it, then that's something I'll have to answer to. Nothing stops me from making the speech, because nothing CAN without violating my Constitutional right to say it, but with rights come responsibilities. IF the Government wants to deprive me of my rights, they are welcome to try but with that abrogation comes a transfer of responsibility, not least of which to balance the beam and make it illegal for anybody(!) else to incite war or hatred in any form on any forum. In other words, if I get called a white trash piece of shit by a Brother, I should be affforded the same State protection that he gets if I call him a chicken munching nigger porch monkey.
would you rather I sourced from the MPAA, the BPI, the New York Chamber of Commerce? Because they would get exactly the same data from exactly the same source - and cherrypick that which suits their agenda.
TPB, as has been proved time and again, do not host infringing files. The FI says that's not true. What they mean is it's not convenient. What is convenient for them is the claim that they do, so that is the lie (as in claim proven to not fit the facts) that they push as truth. TPB host infinging files as much as Google host kiddie porn. Why isn't the FBI going after Google for *linking* to kiddie porn?
uh... they have stats pages on the website?
Doe lawsuits were massively dismissed by a judge last January. I wrote an article on it and it was buried to make way for Kim Kardashian's latest arse measurement.
"You are free to say whatever you want unless it offends somebody" is the biggest load of fake-libertarianism I've ever heard of. Either you're free to say WHAT you want or YOU'RE NOT. As the Law stands you do NOT have the right not to be offended. The freedom of expression is a constitutionally guaranteed right given by none and therefore to be taken away by none.
when TPB went back up, music didn't even FEATURE in the top downloads. Neither did mainstream or prerelease movies. Any guesses as to what did make the top list?
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Linux images. Followed by porn.
I don't wear trendy clothes. I wear clothes with matt neutral colours (olive green/oak DPM, brown, black) and lots of pockets. I've always shunned "fashion" because I never wanted to be a sheep. Clothes for me are functional. If it's going to be cold out, I'll wrap up in extra layers. Given changeable local weather conditions I'm always covered anyway (I even wear a functional headpiece. Fedoras rock, not least because you can sew pockets inside the bowls and keep things in them like lighters and an emergency bus fare, and the brim is great at keeping the sun out of your eyes), shorts are out but that's because I don't like my legs (think seven foot sparrow).
and what's wrong with being a biker?
We're a free-spirited, generally mechanically very able, friendly bunch.
Unlike the cockheads in cars who think they own the road. I paid my local taxes, I have as much right to use the road as you. Just because you can't ride a bike doesn't give you the right to run me off mine.
latex sleeves cost next to nothing, and you can match it to your skin tone.
background checks don't mean shit for one reason: it is easy to assume a new name.
This is how convicted child sex offenders get jobs as school teachers and social workers.
Gates didn't get rich by writing checks.
I homeschooled my kids. My eldest is now 21 and he now runs his own (very successful) tech company. He does everything from meeting clients to running the books.
For learning by rote and wholesale destruction of the ability to think critically, nothing beats a darkened room with no visual access to anything outside the walls, a few poorly-configured screens (or configured to induce a hypnotic state) arranged in rows with the seating focussed on a larger screen at the back of the room while the workstations themselves are networked via wi-fi and keyboards are Bluetooth, or they're wireless tablets. This isn't about getting helpful technology into classrooms, this is about making it easier to produce DRUDGE WORKERS who will HAPPILY work for MINIMUM WAGE doing such makework activities as shelf stacking and sweeping leaves. I could run a lecture series on how the "Elite" are fucking the rest of us entirely for their own benefit. Notice I didn't call them "Illuminati" or any of that other distraction bullshit.
not to trust needles?
fact: Internet access is a Human Right.
fact: Access to clean, safe, FREE drinking water is not a Human right.
Fucked up, yes. Sounds wrong, yes. But that does not diminish that both statements are 100% absolutely true.
no, it's pretty much face-on to the approach. Pluto's polar tilt is something like 120 degrees (give or take a couple) to its orbit. Charon's inclination to the Plutonian equator is 0.0 and they're each tidally locked to the other: Pluto presents the same face to Charon and vice versa. The nearside of one will never see the far side of the other. As they're tidally locked and orbit an external barycentre, their common orbits in the Plutonian frame of reference are almost perfectly circular (off by fractions of a percent if that). You could tie their closest points together with a rope and that rope will never stretch or slacken.
what we have from NH is what we had in 2012 from Gemini North, Hawai'i. That's not to say "Oh, how disappointing!", what you've got to consider (and from what I'm reading down this page, not many people are) is that the GN observations will NEVER get any better because OPTICAL PHYSICS and the fact that those observations were made when Pluto was about as close as it's going to get for a good while. NH is getting closer by the day - right now it is closer to Pluto than this planet will EVER get. The images are only going to get BETTER as it approaches - providing the cameras don't fail.
chlorine and fluorine are chemically active and highly corrosive. They will burn mucous membranes on contact as they react with water to form hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acids. Plutonium is very dense and a cumulative poison with similar bioreactivity to lead. Its radioactivity is a relatively minor issue unless ingested or inhaled, at which point it can cause damage to genetic material - any of which that survives can become malignant.
Mainframes are so easy I wonder if it was worth excluding them. Hercules can emulate pretty much all IBM and plug-compatible mainframes - to the point where, providing you have the reader hardware, you can read the OS straight off the old media and load the system on a VM on a Windows 7 host. On a laptop.
(I use Hercules for gits and shiggles to run IBM VMS/370 I found on an archival CDROM).
I still have a dual 3.5 (built in) portable keyboard thing, somewhere. Not a typewriter, it doesn't have a printer. It does have an 8" custom CRT and runs on DOS, though. It sort of resembles a BBC Model A (which I also have), the diskette drives are mounted at the back facing the user - literally on top of the motherboard.
I think it's actually an Olivetti, can't find it to check though, it might be in the loft.