The way you have writtin your dialog really isn't all that analogous to the situiation with Dimitry. Let's change it a little so that it doesn't sound quite so absurd.
Let's say that the car wasn't reported stolen at all. Let's say it was just loaned (or sold) to someone that later used it to commit a crime. Is the owner culpable? Did he loan the car knowing it was going to be used in a robbery? Did he only suspect that the car might be used in the commission of a crime? Was he completely oblivious as to how the car was to be used?
The degree of responsability that the owner of that car bears really isn't cut and dried. There are a crap load of situiational details that will determine his culpability.
I disagree, I think the analogy holds just fine. Growing opium producing popies is not in and of itself illegal. There are legal pharmacutical uses for Opiates they produce. It's what is done with the opium that makes it illegal. Sell it to Phiser and you're in the clear. Sell it to Bob on the corner and you're a criminal. Dimitry was paid to produce a product that was illegal in America, and was sold in America. The fact that the DMCA is a royally screwed up law is immaterial in this case.
If what Dimitry did was illegal in Russia, the American government could have applied for extradition through normal diplomatic channels.
Whether or not Dimitry knew what he was doing was illegal is really not relavent.
Whether or not opium is illegal in many countries is really not relavent.
There is another similar case moving through the American judiciary right now. Phillip Morris company is being charged under RICO statues for selling cigarettes to an organised crime syndicate. The syndicate smuggled the cigarettes nito Europe to aviod paying duties. I'm not to sure about the details of the case, but that would be an example of an individual being held responsible for laws that they did not break, but whose actions caused laws to be broken.
OK, so he was just growing the poppies that that produced the opium that was made into the heroin that was sold im America. That makes him part of the organization that is breaking the law. He can be arrested under the organized crime laws. I'm not saying that he will be convicted, just that there is sufficient evidence against him to sustain an inditment.
EIKATLILOLAW. (Everything I know about the law I learned on Law and Order.)
I don't think it takes an appeals court to toss a bad law. I believe any court can do it.
Of course IANAL, but I did attend a bachelor party once where there was a law student there. Man! that guy was a dick. He openly and freely admited that the main reason he was becomming a lawyer was because he, "liked to fuck with people".
It's not a waste of time to the guy that got hired to update the project after all of the original developers quit.
If a project has been properly refactored in step with requirement changes, odds are it will be easier to read and understand than it was when it was first deployed.
This is a story that a wisened old timer told me at a convention (the guy had a whit bushy beard so you know it has to be true).
Back in the day there were two schools of thought: the 8 bit byte and the 9 bit byte. The 9 bit byte school represented the same data as the 8 bit byte school (0 to ff), and used the extra bit for parity.
8 bit bytes led to 16 bit words etc... 9 bit bytes led to 18 bit words etc...
My reaction to the old time was to ask WTH would anyone do this?
His response was to go into a discussion of 36 bit computing. "Ya see son. When you have 32 bits you can divide those bits evenly 6 ways:
32 single bits,
16 2-bit groups,
8 4-bit groups,
4 8-bit groups,
2 16-bit groups,
1 32-bit group.
With a 36 bit system you can divide those bits evenly 9 ways
36 single bits
18 2-bit groups
12 3-bit groups
9 4-bit groups
6 6-bit groups
4 9-bit groups
3 12-bit groups
2 18-bit groups
1 36 bit group
using 36 bits give you more flexibility in addressing."
He went on to tell be stories about how they explioted the advantages of 36 bit computing back when he had worked at Compuserve and how sad he was that 36 bit systems had died.
It could very well be that 3 12-bit bytes are used to make up a 36 bit word......or it could be that that old timer was full of crap or off his meds or something. The world may never know (Much like the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop).
I'd make some joke about slashdotting the root server, but if they withstood last weeks attack I doubt slashdot would resister as a blip on their radar.
JDeveloper == crap. It's slow. It's a memory hog. Its project management blows.
Try Eclipse. It's fast, Its got a small memory footprint. Managing your code has never been easier. Did I mention that it's FREE? Try it for one day. It will open your eyes to the utter crap that is JDeveloper.
In American States that allow the carrying of handguns staticics have shown a decrease in violent crime and a rise in propery crime. They theory is that when criminals know that there is a high potential that their target is armed they switch to other forms of crime. The crime rate doesn't really drop, it just shifts from one form of crime to another (less dangerous) one.
Perhaps you should read the links associated with the story before bitching. If you do you'll find that you really aren't screwed over and that the bill isn't what you've been lead to believe.
Here's the difference between deductions and credits: deductions reduce your gross adjusted income. credits reduce your taxes paid.
Lets say I make $100 and the tax rate is 50%. I should owe the govt $50. If I give $20 to charity I reduce my income to $80, so I would only owe the govt $40. I am still out $10 (I spent $20 on charity, but paid $10 less in taxes).
If charitable deductions were tax-credits the math would work out a little differently. That $20 contribution would reduce my taxes owed from $50 to $30.
In both of these cases I still spent money, so the idea that donating to charity is saving me money really doesn't work out. Aside from sheer altruism, the only benefit to giving money to charity is that you get to decide how more of your money is spent.
some day I will learn to use the preview button right....
continuing... But I see your point. Restrictions on nail clippers are just plain stupid. If there were to remove all dangerous items from the plane, the people on boar would have to be naked and sedated.
You can kill with just about anything. It's a question of applying the proper force to the prope area.
G. Gordon Liddy made a similar statement on the Dick Cavet show. Cavet scoffed at him until Liddy described how he could kill him with a soda straw. Then Cavet shut up.
I have a buddy that tried to do this 15 years ago. His system used serial connections and a modem, but it was the same basic idea. His system would allow people to punch in PINs to gain access to their laundry accounts and would send alert messages when machines broke down.
He had a few customers for a while, but it just wasn't cost effective for the laundry mat owners. The problem was that a laundry mat is simple enough to operate that rather than ease the work load of the owner, the technology made things more complicated. It didn't take long for the owners to see that they really weren't getting enough value from their new system and discontinue the service.
It will be interesting to see if IBM can add enough value to a washing machine to make it worth the while of a launrdy mat owner to upgrade.
If its the personality test that I'm thinking of (the Myers-Briggs test). Then it is being used in absolutely the wrong way.
The test works like this. You answer a series of question and are scored in 4 catigories: Introverted/Extroverted, Sensing/iNtuitive, Thinking/Feeling, Perceiving/Judging.
The idea is that these categories will help to answer the following questions: Where, primarily, do you direct your energy? How do you prefer to process information? How do you prefer to make decisions? How do you prefer to organise your life?
The test makes ZERO value judgements. To use the test for anything other than such a classification is pure voodoo. The test won't tell if a person is suited for a particular job. It won't tell you if a person is going to come to work on time or if they will work diligently on a problem. It won't tell you if a person if honest or not. It won't say how smart the person is.
The test is also subject to factors like mood and fatuige. Try taking the test as soon as you get up in the morning. Wait a week and try taking it right after lunch. Try taking it on an empty stomache, and right after working out. Odds are you will receive different a classification at least one of those times.
Does this sound like the type of test that you want to base an employment decision on?
I hate spam just as much as the next guy, but your arguement is specius.
Email costs time: So does normal mail. You have to go to the mail box, look at the envelope, and throw it in the trash.
Email costs the receiver money: So does normal mail. The post office is federally subsidised; Every taxpayer chips in a bit for every piece of mail. The amount of subsidy on a per capita basis is pretty small, but so is the cost of the email.
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The way you have writtin your dialog really isn't all that analogous to the situiation with Dimitry. Let's change it a little so that it doesn't sound quite so absurd.
Let's say that the car wasn't reported stolen at all. Let's say it was just loaned (or sold) to someone that later used it to commit a crime. Is the owner culpable? Did he loan the car knowing it was going to be used in a robbery? Did he only suspect that the car might be used in the commission of a crime? Was he completely oblivious as to how the car was to be used?
The degree of responsability that the owner of that car bears really isn't cut and dried. There are a crap load of situiational details that will determine his culpability.
I disagree, I think the analogy holds just fine. Growing opium producing popies is not in and of itself illegal. There are legal pharmacutical uses for Opiates they produce. It's what is done with the opium that makes it illegal. Sell it to Phiser and you're in the clear. Sell it to Bob on the corner and you're a criminal. Dimitry was paid to produce a product that was illegal in America, and was sold in America. The fact that the DMCA is a royally screwed up law is immaterial in this case.
If what Dimitry did was illegal in Russia, the American government could have applied for extradition through normal diplomatic channels.
Whether or not Dimitry knew what he was doing was illegal is really not relavent.
Whether or not opium is illegal in many countries is really not relavent.
There is another similar case moving through the American judiciary right now. Phillip Morris company is being charged under RICO statues for selling cigarettes to an organised crime syndicate. The syndicate smuggled the cigarettes nito Europe to aviod paying duties. I'm not to sure about the details of the case, but that would be an example of an individual being held responsible for laws that they did not break, but whose actions caused laws to be broken.
but, as I said before, EIKATLILOLAO.
OK, so he was just growing the poppies that that produced the opium that was made into the heroin that was sold im America. That makes him part of the organization that is breaking the law. He can be arrested under the organized crime laws. I'm not saying that he will be convicted, just that there is sufficient evidence against him to sustain an inditment.
EIKATLILOLAW. (Everything I know about the law I learned on Law and Order.)
I don't think it takes an appeals court to toss a bad law. I believe any court can do it.
Of course IANAL, but I did attend a bachelor party once where there was a law student there. Man! that guy was a dick. He openly and freely admited that the main reason he was becomming a lawyer was because he, "liked to fuck with people".
It's not a waste of time to the guy that got hired to update the project after all of the original developers quit.
If a project has been properly refactored in step with requirement changes, odds are it will be easier to read and understand than it was when it was first deployed.
Then he's going to patent the process and we're all going to say, "You can't patent that! It's too obvious."
This is a story that a wisened old timer told me at a convention (the guy had a whit bushy beard so you know it has to be true).
...or it could be that that old timer was full of crap or off his meds or something. The world may never know (Much like the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop).
Back in the day there were two schools of thought: the 8 bit byte and the 9 bit byte. The 9 bit byte school represented the same data as the 8 bit byte school (0 to ff), and used the extra bit for parity.
8 bit bytes led to 16 bit words etc...
9 bit bytes led to 18 bit words etc...
My reaction to the old time was to ask WTH would anyone do this?
His response was to go into a discussion of 36 bit computing. "Ya see son. When you have 32 bits you can divide those bits evenly 6 ways:
32 single bits,
16 2-bit groups,
8 4-bit groups,
4 8-bit groups,
2 16-bit groups,
1 32-bit group.
With a 36 bit system you can divide those bits evenly 9 ways
36 single bits
18 2-bit groups
12 3-bit groups
9 4-bit groups
6 6-bit groups
4 9-bit groups
3 12-bit groups
2 18-bit groups
1 36 bit group
using 36 bits give you more flexibility in addressing."
He went on to tell be stories about how they explioted the advantages of 36 bit computing back when he had worked at Compuserve and how sad he was that 36 bit systems had died.
It could very well be that 3 12-bit bytes are used to make up a 36 bit word...
> But then, imagine: Cause of death: crushed by Beowulf cluster. That's a geek's dream come true!
Ummm no. Unless they all have custom case mods...
...and since objects ar rest tend to remain at rest that is the end of the story.
That was, perhaps, the most insightful and entertaining comment I have ever read on slashdot.
ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/
I'd make some joke about slashdotting the root server, but if they withstood last weeks attack I doubt slashdot would resister as a blip on their radar.
dude, I think you're wearing that tie wrong.
> Have you tried JDeveloper?
JDeveloper == crap. It's slow. It's a memory hog. Its project management blows.
Try Eclipse. It's fast, Its got a small memory footprint. Managing your code has never been easier. Did I mention that it's FREE? Try it for one day. It will open your eyes to the utter crap that is JDeveloper.
It works like this.
In American States that allow the carrying of handguns staticics have shown a decrease in violent crime and a rise in propery crime. They theory is that when criminals know that there is a high potential that their target is armed they switch to other forms of crime. The crime rate doesn't really drop, it just shifts from one form of crime to another (less dangerous) one.
I may be completely off, but doesn't ice take up more volume than an equivalent mass of water.
So if the polar caps melted, wouldn't the sea levels drop?
Perhaps you should read the links associated with the story before bitching. If you do you'll find that you really aren't screwed over and that the bill isn't what you've been lead to believe.
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Here's the difference between deductions and credits: deductions reduce your gross adjusted income. credits reduce your taxes paid.
Lets say I make $100 and the tax rate is 50%. I should owe the govt $50. If I give $20 to charity I reduce my income to $80, so I would only owe the govt $40. I am still out $10 (I spent $20 on charity, but paid $10 less in taxes).
If charitable deductions were tax-credits the math would work out a little differently. That $20 contribution would reduce my taxes owed from $50 to $30.
In both of these cases I still spent money, so the idea that donating to charity is saving me money really doesn't work out. Aside from sheer altruism, the only benefit to giving money to charity is that you get to decide how more of your money is spent.
To make me Moon Base. Hell! If they can lauch to geostationary orbit for a mere $15 million they can surely make a moon base for $1 billion.
actually, that isn't irony.
That's wisdom.
some day I will learn to use the preview button right....
continuing...
But I see your point. Restrictions on nail clippers are just plain stupid. If there were to remove all dangerous items from the plane, the people on boar would have to be naked and sedated.
You can kill with just about anything. It's a question of applying the proper force to the prope area.
G. Gordon Liddy made a similar statement on the Dick Cavet show. Cavet scoffed at him until Liddy described how he could kill him with a soda straw. Then Cavet shut up.
I have a buddy that tried to do this 15 years ago. His system used serial connections and a modem, but it was the same basic idea. His system would allow people to punch in PINs to gain access to their laundry accounts and would send alert messages when machines broke down.
He had a few customers for a while, but it just wasn't cost effective for the laundry mat owners. The problem was that a laundry mat is simple enough to operate that rather than ease the work load of the owner, the technology made things more complicated. It didn't take long for the owners to see that they really weren't getting enough value from their new system and discontinue the service.
It will be interesting to see if IBM can add enough value to a washing machine to make it worth the while of a launrdy mat owner to upgrade.
If its the personality test that I'm thinking of (the Myers-Briggs test). Then it is being used in absolutely the wrong way.
The test works like this. You answer a series of question and are scored in 4 catigories: Introverted/Extroverted, Sensing/iNtuitive, Thinking/Feeling, Perceiving/Judging.
The idea is that these categories will help to answer the following questions:
Where, primarily, do you direct your energy?
How do you prefer to process information?
How do you prefer to make decisions?
How do you prefer to organise your life?
The test makes ZERO value judgements. To use the test for anything other than such a classification is pure voodoo. The test won't tell if a person is suited for a particular job. It won't tell you if a person is going to come to work on time or if they will work diligently on a problem. It won't tell you if a person if honest or not. It won't say how smart the person is.
The test is also subject to factors like mood and fatuige. Try taking the test as soon as you get up in the morning. Wait a week and try taking it right after lunch. Try taking it on an empty stomache, and right after working out. Odds are you will receive different a classification at least one of those times.
Does this sound like the type of test that you want to base an employment decision on?
I hate spam just as much as the next guy, but your arguement is specius.
Email costs time: So does normal mail. You have to go to the mail box, look at the envelope, and throw it in the trash.
Email costs the receiver money: So does normal mail. The post office is federally subsidised; Every taxpayer chips in a bit for every piece of mail. The amount of subsidy on a per capita basis is pretty small, but so is the cost of the email.