The judge could have said this: "He wasn't using the phone -- he was using the nav system. If the legislature wanted to outlaw using nav systems, they would have."
And don't give me this letter of the law vs. intent - legislators regularly discuss intent in published records of debate, and judges ignoring that , dumbly disclaiming "letter of the law only" have been a regular, and unfortunate, way for unintended, or intended consequences or uses of the law not discussed to creep in for hundreds of years.
I reject that argument out of hand, regardless of millions of reams of supporting precedence.
Thank god for freedom of speech. I can't blame companies for trying, but sometimes getting government in as "partners" to stop knowledge and analysis of technical issues gets a little close to the edge.
In the past, things like infrastrucure and wars were seen as benefitting future generations as well as current, so it was seen as ethical to borrow.
Current borrowing is largely to pay for retirement benefits that current retirees did not want to set enough of their own money aside for and another trillion of other spending that has nothing to do with fuure generations that the current generation does not want to pay for.
It is unethical borrowing. Forget the incremental cost of ongoing wars -- you could cancel the entire $700 billion military budget and barely recover half a year's borrowing.
She created the poll tax to force the idiot common yokel voter to see how damned much money they were actually paying to government in taxes.
It backfired and was tremendously unpopular because it successfully forced the common yokel voter to see how much money they were actually paying to government in taxes.
Well, either treat it like NASA if it's so damned important and plow uncounted tens of billions into it, or get out. Trying to be like venture capitalists, but idiot ones, unlike the real ones who won't go near this unlikely technology, just breeds people who will dance the way government wants to attach themselves to the government tit until it runs dry.
If Senator Feinstein, D-California, really wants to save lives, she should get rid of the truth-in-advertising exemptions for herbalism, homeopathy, and other alternative medicines. She'll save more lives than all mass shootings for a hundred years put together, by several orders of magnitude.
Here's my solution: Require all politicians, or those running for office for two years before, to wear recorders that record all audio and vidoeo in their vacinity -- video where they are looking, and audio. All of it, 100% around the clock.
Fuck these secret backroom deals once and for all. You wanna "serve the people"? Get on your god damned knees.
I read a different account 20 years ago -- the event horizon was not some infinite destruction area, it was just a one-way door. For supersized black holes the size of the solar system, the gravity gradient was so small you could easily fall in without being ripped apart.
Even larger ones at galactic cores should be even more gentle, from a gravity point of view anyway.
This is why centers of empire shift slowly over centuries, where the new core forms on the outskirts of the old empire, repeat ad nauseuk.
Fertile crescent -> Greece -> Rome -> Western Europe -> US, and now -> China
It's not resources being used up -- it's sclerosis. The new empire opens, and keeps open, trade routes. Eventually, for one reason or another, they start lording over themselves with increased taxation, or de facto pseudo-taxation of kickbacks. People give up and move to greener pastures with less overhead.
Recursive feedback loop -- the more government interferes, the more things slow down, and the more they interfere to "fix" things, AKA maintain their own power.
Onward shifts center of empire due to what is essentially a meme-driven disease.
I agree. Join Libertarians. You'd have had gay marriage and legal marijuana for 30 years now, and your tax burden would be half what it is and not one damned more person would be dead.
BTW, I like the downmod:
-1: This on-topic statement disagrees with my online tribal society's worldview.
Hacking is wrong. This guy just wants to start nuclear war and kill hundreds of millions of people in the next few days, but two wrongs don't make a right. Let's keep things in a sense of proportion here.
Speaking of Winston Churchill, Ebert is author of the biggest burn since Churchill. Rob Schneider took out an ad about a generic critic ragging on his Deuce Bigalow, or maybe that animal man movie, saying, "Who does his guy think he is, some Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic?"
Ebert then writes, "Well, speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."
Slashdot Mirror
> USS Ponce
"If the tests are successful, the Navy intends to begin rolling out production systems in 2016, starting with the USS Little Lord Fauntleroy."
> of the USS Ponce
USS Ponce: "Come on. Make fun of my name now, jackasses. What's that? 'Nothing.'? God damn right nothing."
The judge could have said this: "He wasn't using the phone -- he was using the nav system. If the legislature wanted to outlaw using nav systems, they would have."
And don't give me this letter of the law vs. intent - legislators regularly discuss intent in published records of debate, and judges ignoring that , dumbly disclaiming "letter of the law only" have been a regular, and unfortunate, way for unintended, or intended consequences or uses of the law not discussed to creep in for hundreds of years.
I reject that argument out of hand, regardless of millions of reams of supporting precedence.
Thank god for freedom of speech. I can't blame companies for trying, but sometimes getting government in as "partners" to stop knowledge and analysis of technical issues gets a little close to the edge.
In the past, things like infrastrucure and wars were seen as benefitting future generations as well as current, so it was seen as ethical to borrow.
Current borrowing is largely to pay for retirement benefits that current retirees did not want to set enough of their own money aside for and another trillion of other spending that has nothing to do with fuure generations that the current generation does not want to pay for.
It is unethical borrowing. Forget the incremental cost of ongoing wars -- you could cancel the entire $700 billion military budget and barely recover half a year's borrowing.
Linux is security through obscurity.
When it has 600 million installs and attracts the attention of thousands of hackers hoping to install mallware, get back to me.
By your measurement, my Coleco Adam running CPM is over sevin million times more secure than Linux.
She created the poll tax to force the idiot common yokel voter to see how damned much money they were actually paying to government in taxes.
It backfired and was tremendously unpopular because it successfully forced the common yokel voter to see how much money they were actually paying to government in taxes.
Those bastards!
They just gave me a patent on clearing backlogs by relaxing standards, and they're not paying me to use it!
> Is the DEA Lying About iMessage Security?
The government made a similar statement about TOR last year, and I wondered the same thing, that maybe it was disinformation.
> Why bother? Linux does not run anything that a 'gamer' or most modern people would want.
Unfortunately, the past year, neither does Windows :(
> "The French domestic intelligence agency DCRI"
I wonder if there is any publicly-verifiable information about the state of this agency's leader's wife's underpants thru a window.
Well, either treat it like NASA if it's so damned important and plow uncounted tens of billions into it, or get out. Trying to be like venture capitalists, but idiot ones, unlike the real ones who won't go near this unlikely technology, just breeds people who will dance the way government wants to attach themselves to the government tit until it runs dry.
If Senator Feinstein, D-California, really wants to save lives, she should get rid of the truth-in-advertising exemptions for herbalism, homeopathy, and other alternative medicines. She'll save more lives than all mass shootings for a hundred years put together, by several orders of magnitude.
Seriously. Go run the numbers.
Here's my solution: Require all politicians, or those running for office for two years before, to wear recorders that record all audio and vidoeo in their vacinity -- video where they are looking, and audio. All of it, 100% around the clock.
Fuck these secret backroom deals once and for all. You wanna "serve the people"? Get on your god damned knees.
Well, not exactly nobody...
The machine is the virtual machine with pretty windows and Play Store and touch screen and Chrome browser.
Linux is command-line stuff. Had this been some other Unix child or grandchild, or CPM for that matter, who cares?
They aren't buying Linux -- they're buying all that other stuff, like it or not.
I read a different account 20 years ago -- the event horizon was not some infinite destruction area, it was just a one-way door. For supersized black holes the size of the solar system, the gravity gradient was so small you could easily fall in without being ripped apart.
Even larger ones at galactic cores should be even more gentle, from a gravity point of view anyway.
This is why centers of empire shift slowly over centuries, where the new core forms on the outskirts of the old empire, repeat ad nauseuk.
Fertile crescent -> Greece -> Rome -> Western Europe -> US, and now -> China
It's not resources being used up -- it's sclerosis. The new empire opens, and keeps open, trade routes. Eventually, for one reason or another, they start lording over themselves with increased taxation, or de facto pseudo-taxation of kickbacks. People give up and move to greener pastures with less overhead.
Recursive feedback loop -- the more government interferes, the more things slow down, and the more they interfere to "fix" things, AKA maintain their own power.
Onward shifts center of empire due to what is essentially a meme-driven disease.
"It's like a million Dancing With The Stars, when all you want is Doctor Who..."
I agree. Join Libertarians. You'd have had gay marriage and legal marijuana for 30 years now, and your tax burden would be half what it is and not one damned more person would be dead.
BTW, I like the downmod:
-1: This on-topic statement disagrees with my online tribal society's worldview.
Living as a slave under murderous dictators may be "peace" in your view, but give me liberty, or give dictators death.
Hacking is wrong. This guy just wants to start nuclear war and kill hundreds of millions of people in the next few days, but two wrongs don't make a right. Let's keep things in a sense of proportion here.
I hate that Sheldon guy, who the hell wants to hear his voice better?
Speaking of Winston Churchill, Ebert is author of the biggest burn since Churchill. Rob Schneider took out an ad about a generic critic ragging on his Deuce Bigalow, or maybe that animal man movie, saying, "Who does his guy think he is, some Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic?"
Ebert then writes, "Well, speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."
There are maybe 5 or 6 modern writers whose ability to think and penetrate issues I am in awe of, since Mark Twain, and he is one of them.
Winston Churchill, George Will, and former radio talk host David Newman from WJR in Detroit.
I guess that's just 4. :(
All other reviewers are, to borrow one of Ebert's phrases, like little kids banging pots and pans on the floor of the kitchen.