You bet. I just hired a personal lawyer to follow me around and educated me on every law there is, just so I can't be ignorant of any of them (and be labelled a terrorist). I made sure he's a young lawyer, so that he can finish the job before he's dead.
I've also got lawyers doing patent and lexis/nexis and google searches, to make sure all my thoughts are OK. And that I'm a True Patriot, and not violating the DMCA and thus secretly hoping that bin Laden triumphs.
I've seen it when traffic lights go dead mid-city, and the amazing thing is that no one gets mashed. Cars still behave and the like cause people stop being compliant and start being courteous. It's a lovely thing.
Yes, but dead lights are _obviously_ defective, and most of us know better than to blow through the intersection. If you see a green light, you think you're OK. If everyone sees green, they all think they're OK. Has _that_ ever happened?
This is one thing that has always got me with the digital fridge.
The fridge itself is amazing. Now you can preserve foods for long times, and keep bacteria at bay, whereas before you couldn't. It was life-changing. My problem with the digital fridge is that it's just so much feature hype. The idea that my fridge will tell me it's failing (or summon a repairman)--how useful is it really? Once every 10 or so years? Wow! Now I'm tingling with excitement. Like the headlight-wipers I see on some cars. Very Cool!
Heck, when I go to the super-market I pick my items depending on how I feel
I gave my son a laptop to learn on when he turned six.. because I wanted him to have the edge as he grows up and be experienced and not afraid of computers..
I don't think I touched a computer until I was 18 (well, it was card punch really), and I'm hardly afraid and inexperienced. I think getting kids started on computers early is way overrated. If the kid is smart and technically inclined, he'll figure it out pretty quickly. How hard really is any given application? Unless you mean "figuring out how to keep a Windows box running" in which case the earlier the better.
His visions might be true, but he seems to forget the fact that traffic lights, pacemakers and the like are _not_ going to be controlled over internet in any near future.
Can someone please explain how traffic lights really work? I remember reading about how they are built so it's physically impossible for current to run through multiple "green" lines.
Generally we are run through much FUD about traffic lights, but I can't say I've ever heard of a case where all the lights were green and cars were crashing into each other. Any cases, anyone?
This just in... US Government provides patches to Windows users that will disable their Windows operating system and replace it with Linux, in an effort to clean up insecure Windows installations.
If it's the gov't doing it, more like this: "President Bush announces Department of Computing Security, focused mainly on securing windows computers" and yet another bloated bureacracy crops up. Worse than a Social Security office are the offices of Computing Security, un-airconditioned and full of computer illiterates with their hardware, waiting for a loser (aka "Government worker/bureaucrat") to install all the relevant patches. All computer security failures are now attributed to "a lack of funding" and Congress, when allocating funds for DCS, adds stuff like "Research for bee-keeping in Arctic climes" and some highway funding.
Key word here being the gov is talking about a Windows program. On linux source is pretty well audited, but on Windows even if they provide the source how many users at home are going to read it - and understand it?
Absolutely right. I myself am only about 65% of the way through the Linux kernel. When I'm done with version 1.2.4 I'm not sure what to do next. Any ideas?
It was funny. Once. Now in every damn story it's gotten insanely old. Maybe the reason that geeks are socially awkward is because they laugh at the same jokes every day.
When we're old, and sitting in rocking chairs, we'll have had plenty of practice in telling the same old jokes and stories every day, and laughing at them, too. We'll be ready, as long as we drank enough caffeine...
I understand that maybe it is not always the Government that is gaining these powers, but possibly big corporations instead, but does it really matter?
I don't really care if Big Brother is the government, or big business, the point is people are watching what we do, and how we do it. Maybe their intentions are not as malicious as those in 1984, but Big Brother is watching
It's both together. Note how the Democrats are the party of Big Government, and the Republicans the party of Big Business. And note how they're mostly indistinguishable now.
Maybe then the government could make good on those promises they made so frequently during war, "when the war is over, you'll never be taxed again!" Then again, who believes such BS?
If you think there's a lack of opportunities here in the United States, I strongly reccomend you try out one of the "better" countries to verify your position. Isn't it about time we (meaning intelligent americans) put together a liberties and freedoms checklist, comparing the US and other countries, to put an end to this mindless liberal blathering?
Not only that, but we've NEVER been at war with the Taliban, or mabey I've missed the official declaration of war passed by both houses and signed by the president.
The Congress making a declaration is just a formality anyway. The edicts of our Great and Glorious Ultimate God-like Leader (aka Caesar, aka Tsar) are what count.
Peace: A situation where there hasn't been any overt terrorist activities, and the government decides it cannot afford to sustain the high-level of alert because of budget deficits and the coming elections.
Slight correction: Peace:when the military-industrial complex is livin' large.
The day the government has the ability to arrest anyone and hide them away and do what they will to them without public knowledge is the day we become like Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, etc. That day has come.
From what I understand, people are being arrested and held for extended periods of time without being charged with anything. Trials and prisoner treatment are not observable by the public, in at least some cases.
Or like "The Northern States During the War of Northern Agression".
Our Great Ultimate God Leader "Honest" Abe Lincoln did this with impunity. He was our greatest violator and destroyer of the constitution (or maybe Franklinstein Roosevelt was). You go visit the Lincoln Memorial, and it's really a temple to a God.
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Trying to get rich for doing nothin'. It's everywhere. Most people want a shot at doing that. So we're all suckers _and_ hucksters.
Who's the last president you could trust? It's a politician's job to lie....
I've also got lawyers doing patent and lexis/nexis and google searches, to make sure all my thoughts are OK. And that I'm a True Patriot, and not violating the DMCA and thus secretly hoping that bin Laden triumphs.
Yes, but dead lights are _obviously_ defective, and most of us know better than to blow through the intersection. If you see a green light, you think you're OK. If everyone sees green, they all think they're OK. Has _that_ ever happened?
The fridge itself is amazing. Now you can preserve foods for long times, and keep bacteria at bay, whereas before you couldn't. It was life-changing. My problem with the digital fridge is that it's just so much feature hype. The idea that my fridge will tell me it's failing (or summon a repairman)--how useful is it really? Once every 10 or so years? Wow! Now I'm tingling with excitement. Like the headlight-wipers I see on some cars. Very Cool!
Heck, when I go to the super-market I pick my items depending on how I feel
Don't shop hungry!
I gave my son a laptop to learn on when he turned six.. because I wanted him to have the edge as he grows up and be experienced and not afraid of computers..
I don't think I touched a computer until I was 18 (well, it was card punch really), and I'm hardly afraid and inexperienced. I think getting kids started on computers early is way overrated. If the kid is smart and technically inclined, he'll figure it out pretty quickly. How hard really is any given application? Unless you mean "figuring out how to keep a Windows box running" in which case the earlier the better.
Offtopic, but what is a republic of free citizens doing with a Czar in its midst?
Can someone please explain how traffic lights really work? I remember reading about how they are built so it's physically impossible for current to run through multiple "green" lines.
Generally we are run through much FUD about traffic lights, but I can't say I've ever heard of a case where all the lights were green and cars were crashing into each other. Any cases, anyone?
Been tried here before. You're likely to get invaded and pillaged, at least.
Because it's true?
Love your country, keep your powder dry.
If it's the gov't doing it, more like this: "President Bush announces Department of Computing Security, focused mainly on securing windows computers" and yet another bloated bureacracy crops up. Worse than a Social Security office are the offices of Computing Security, un-airconditioned and full of computer illiterates with their hardware, waiting for a loser (aka "Government worker/bureaucrat") to install all the relevant patches. All computer security failures are now attributed to "a lack of funding" and Congress, when allocating funds for DCS, adds stuff like "Research for bee-keeping in Arctic climes" and some highway funding.
Absolutely right. I myself am only about 65% of the way through the Linux kernel. When I'm done with version 1.2.4 I'm not sure what to do next. Any ideas?
At least Microsoft doesn't have an air force to bomb you.
None of us here is a lawyer, but we play one on /.
When we're old, and sitting in rocking chairs, we'll have had plenty of practice in telling the same old jokes and stories every day, and laughing at them, too. We'll be ready, as long as we drank enough caffeine...
It's both together. Note how the Democrats are the party of Big Government, and the Republicans the party of Big Business. And note how they're mostly indistinguishable now.
Well, just about everybody, it seems.
There is an index of economic freedom here.
I am sure Osama bin Laden's elite hacking squads are now _very_ scared.
The Congress making a declaration is just a formality anyway. The edicts of our Great and Glorious Ultimate God-like Leader (aka Caesar, aka Tsar) are what count.
Is there any evidence yet?
Slight correction: Peace:when the military-industrial complex is livin' large.
From what I understand, people are being arrested and held for extended periods of time without being charged with anything. Trials and prisoner treatment are not observable by the public, in at least some cases.
Or like "The Northern States During the War of Northern Agression".
Our Great Ultimate God Leader "Honest" Abe Lincoln did this with impunity. He was our greatest violator and destroyer of the constitution (or maybe Franklinstein Roosevelt was). You go visit the Lincoln Memorial, and it's really a temple to a God.
You work for Oracle, right?