I'm alarmed whenever extremists of any religion or political viewpoint start to flex their political muscle. I'll be watching them closely and advocating for my own political positions but beyond that what else can you do? We have freedom of speech and assembly in this country for a reason.
Citation? I don't have an issue with Muslim-based schools (how many Catholic-based schools exist in this country?) but I would take issue with public funds going to them.
How is that any different from an employer that gives Jewish employees a day off for Yum Kippur or arranges for alternative meals for Hindu staff when the cafeteria is serving beef?
I've never worked anywhere where Yom Kippur was a holiday, but most companies give out "diversity days" for this. Aside from that, my jewish coworkers have always had to take vacation time for jewish holidays. And yes, there's a VERY large difference between giving a holiday, and providing state funding for foot baths, or to provide Muslim only housing (here's the link http://www.georgetownvoice.com/2006-04-20/feature/two-identities-two-challenges) for 2% of the school population.
"We are the Transportation Security Administration, formed immediately following the tragedies of Sept. 11. Our agency is a component of the Department of Homeland Security and is responsible for security of the nation's transportation systems."
You miss the larger picture, which is that we taxpayers in the US (facing an '08 deficit of 500 billion USD) are not simply annoyed at the process, we are annoyed that our tax dollars pay for such poorly thought out and even more poorly executed acts of our federal government.
You know, there are much bigger fish to fry in terms of poorly thought out and executed acts of our federal government. Yes, I think DHS is a clusterfuck, I have friends who work there, and have heard plenty of horror stories. All that aside, our government is extremely inefficient and wasteful in almost everything it does.
I dont know about verizon or sprint, but I think time warner just subs it out to someone like giganews and gives you an account with a download limit. I'm pretty sure giganews has all the alt.binaries.* groups.
"I am a senior security xxx in a Fortune 300 company and I am very frustrated at what I see. I see our customers turn a blind eye to blatant security issues, in the name of the application or business requirements. I see our own senior officers reduce the risk ratings of internal findings, and even strong-arm 3rd party auditors/testers to reduce their risk ratings on the threat of losing our business.
How ironic. I work for a fortune something company, and we provide network and application security to our clients. I wonder if you work on my team. I work in the same environment and see the same thing. I usually appease my ethical issues by just doing my best to bring the issues to light, but when push comes to shove, I can't force anyone to acknowledge the vulnerabilities. Fortunately, a significant potion of my team's client base are being held to regulatory compliance, and as such have to fix what we find.
How should people start blowing the whistle on companies like this?"
Do what you feel you must, but be aware that as a whistleblower you're job security will probably be zilch.
doesn't the bible have passages in it that directly advise violence against homosexuals? the problem with the whole hate speech nonsense is that hating something is a natural human thing to do. it's not unhealthy and it's not wrong. expressing that shouldn't be wrong either, it's when you try to cordinate attacks on someone or group that it becomes wrong.
So how does that compare to hizbollah.org? They are a Network Solutions client and have yet to have their website pulled for a ToS violation.
Your knowledge of the application of the 5th amendment is woefully shortsighted.
I won't bother to answer anything as inflammatory as this.
The Constitution protects you from self-incrimination, but it does not protect you from circumstantial evidence presented against you.
I never said it did. My point was Reiser doesn't have to answer that. The burden of proof is on the state to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Reiser comitted the crime. Had you bothered to read my post, you would have rememberd that I said he sounds guilty, but without any concrete evidence, such as her corpse, it's going to be hard to prove he murdered her. He probably should try to explain why he acted the way he did, but he doesn't have to.
And to put the evidence against him in perspective: One-hundred percent of the evidence presented at Scott Peterson's trial was circumstantial. He's now on death row.
To put that in perspective remember that Scott Peterson was tried, and convicted on the National News long before his court case ever got to trial. He had -0- chance for a fair trial. Not to mention that they found the bodies of his wife and unborn child not far from where he had been "fishing".
All that said, I still believe if Reiser has competent counsel, barring some concrete evidence, he will be set free.
There could absolutely be a very innocent reason why he removed the passenger seat of his car, hosed down the upholstery, and had a bunch of heavy duty trash bags. So why won't he tell police? Why won't he come up with where the seat is? That alone makes me think he's probably guilty. His goth buddy is great for raising reasonable doubt, but I knew a bunch of emotionally damaged morons when I was around the goth culture who had only a fleeting hold on reality, and would gladly tell you they'd killed 8 people if it'd make them seem more cool and intense.
There is a very simple answer to this. The 5th amendment to the US constitution states:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
You cannot be compelled to testify for or against yourself in the US. You cannot be forced to produce evidence against yourself. You do not have to answer any questions at all. The evidence that has been put forth, while compelling, does strike me as circumstantial and although I agree that he sounds guilty, I believe he will ultimately be freed.
My only hope is that this doesn't affect GTA IV. I really had no interest in manhunt 2 since I thought the first one sucked, but I love GTA and I'd hate to see Rockstar dummy it down because of Sony.
This is not about freedom of speech. This is about freedom to choose what you want to sell. Many 'family' companies don't want to sell games that depict this degree of realisitc violence.
Well yes, except what happens when "family" companies stop carrying a book because it has bad language, or god forbid sex in it. As it is I specifically avoid stores like Wal-Mart because as an adult I don't want them making choices about what language I should listen to. I don't need someone foisting their beliefes on me. I *would* buy music there if they gave me the CHOICE of buying the edited or non-edited versions of cd's.
There were some kids that stole cars after playing GTA because they thought it was cool. What kind of things could we expect those kids to do after playing this game?
I would wonder where the parents were and what types of values they were teaching their kids. I'm sick of people demanding that society shelter children to excuse lack of parenting.
If Take-Two makes the smart choice, it will be to sell the game themselves. Otherwise their only option is to tone it down to meet the ratings standards for their larger distributors. Who knows how much change that will take the to 'artwork' of the game? Probably a significant amount.
Good idea, except how do they make sure that 18+ people buy it? I guess the better question is why even publish on the WII. Most of the games I've seen on it, and to be honest I don't own one so I'm basing my opinion on the stupid WII commercials I see on TV, seem to be aimed for children.
Well that's true, but in reality it happens the same way in the workplace. At my job every laptop is a dell. We have some deal with them and that's true for a lot of businesses.
So to be fair I didn't even blink, or notice for that matter, about the vaio's in casino royale, if Sony thinks it's going to make me buy one because a fictional character uses it, they are sadly mistaken.
Yeah the ads at the movie theatre *are* annoying, but they can be avoided if you show up closer to the show time, and it's not like they interrupt the movie to run an ad. At least they haven't started to do that yet.
Picking an arbitrary number like 55 mph actually makes the highway less safe.
I can't argue whether or nor the speed limit makes the highway safer or not, but I would agree with you. However, the original 55 speed limit was set to lower gas consumption in the US during the 1973 oil crisis.
I may be dense but I really don't see the difference between a driver talking on a hands-free cell phone and the same driver having a conversation with a passenger.
You can have just as involved of a conversation and you even have someone you are going to feel compelled to glance at every so often since it's human nature to want to make eye contact for at least parts of a conversation.
Are they going to make it illegal to have conversations in a car altogether?
Honestly I don't see why they don't make eating in your car illegal. While I don't argue that a lot of people yakking on their phone is dangerous, so are all the people who go through drive-thru's and are trying to eat a big mac and fries and merge back on the road.
I'd much rather see them do something about the ridiculous amounts of aggressive/dangerous drivers instead.
Yeah, god forbid an underpaid teacher decides to concentrate on education and makes a hard to swallow decision to promote a little equilibrium.
Isn't education teaching? How is avoiding the Holocaust and the Crusades educating students? I guess we should all avoid difficult topics for equilibrium.
No, but you have installed lots of metal detectors. Go preach somewhere else.
And how is this relevant. Yes, there is a problem with students and violence in the US. At least we haven't dropped subjects to avoid "offending" students who are being taught hate and intolerance at home and in their places of worship.
I guess I'm not the typical slashdot user. Both my wife and I have cell phones and we also have a landline that we have no intention of getting rid of. I don't mind when people call either my cell phone -or- my home phone. Yes we get annoying telemarketers, but that's what caller id is for. I get spotty cell coverage at home and feel that having a 100% working phone is a requirement. Switching isn't an option because to have cell phone coverage at work I am forced to use Sprint/Nextel.
I actually *enjoy* having family and friends call to see how I'm doing, or asking if I want to do something. If I'm busy, or can't be disturbed I turn the ringer off. It's really that easy. I also like the convenience of being able to call when I'm in the store to ask if there's anything else I need to get. It certainly saves the effort of a second trip, which is a lot more annoying to me.
No kidding. None of the sales people at Best Buy know anything, they just run around and ask "can I help you find anything?". I've never been impressed with CompUSA's prices, but at least I know if I need something immediately I can find it there.
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I wouldn't disagree with you on that.
I'm alarmed whenever extremists of any religion or political viewpoint start to flex their political muscle. I'll be watching them closely and advocating for my own political positions but beyond that what else can you do? We have freedom of speech and assembly in this country for a reason.
Not if some groups have their way:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/01/news/UN-GEN-UN-Free-Speech.php
Citation? I don't have an issue with Muslim-based schools (how many Catholic-based schools exist in this country?) but I would take issue with public funds going to them.
Ask the google, it will tell all: http://www.tizacademy.com/Our_School.html http://washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jul/24/war-of-ideas-homefront-92353311/ I used to live in NYC, and yes there were hebrew schools, but they were privately funded. So were all the catholic schools.
How is that any different from an employer that gives Jewish employees a day off for Yum Kippur or arranges for alternative meals for Hindu staff when the cafeteria is serving beef?
I've never worked anywhere where Yom Kippur was a holiday, but most companies give out "diversity days" for this. Aside from that, my jewish coworkers have always had to take vacation time for jewish holidays. And yes, there's a VERY large difference between giving a holiday, and providing state funding for foot baths, or to provide Muslim only housing (here's the link http://www.georgetownvoice.com/2006-04-20/feature/two-identities-two-challenges) for 2% of the school population.
Wrong.
http://www.tsa.gov/who_we_are/what_is_tsa.shtm
"We are the Transportation Security Administration, formed immediately following the tragedies of Sept. 11. Our agency is a component of the Department of Homeland Security and is responsible for security of the nation's transportation systems."
You miss the larger picture, which is that we taxpayers in the US (facing an '08 deficit of 500 billion USD) are not simply annoyed at the process, we are annoyed that our tax dollars pay for such poorly thought out and even more poorly executed acts of our federal government.
You know, there are much bigger fish to fry in terms of poorly thought out and executed acts of our federal government. Yes, I think DHS is a clusterfuck, I have friends who work there, and have heard plenty of horror stories. All that aside, our government is extremely inefficient and wasteful in almost everything it does.
Not true, I had a 6 digit ICQ number, 438xxx
I dont know about verizon or sprint, but I think time warner just subs it out to someone like giganews and gives you an account with a download limit. I'm pretty sure giganews has all the alt.binaries.* groups.
"I am a senior security xxx in a Fortune 300 company and I am very frustrated at what I see. I see our customers turn a blind eye to blatant security issues, in the name of the application or business requirements. I see our own senior officers reduce the risk ratings of internal findings, and even strong-arm 3rd party auditors/testers to reduce their risk ratings on the threat of losing our business.
How ironic. I work for a fortune something company, and we provide network and application security to our clients. I wonder if you work on my team. I work in the same environment and see the same thing. I usually appease my ethical issues by just doing my best to bring the issues to light, but when push comes to shove, I can't force anyone to acknowledge the vulnerabilities. Fortunately, a significant potion of my team's client base are being held to regulatory compliance, and as such have to fix what we find.
How should people start blowing the whistle on companies like this?"
Do what you feel you must, but be aware that as a whistleblower you're job security will probably be zilch.
doesn't the bible have passages in it that directly advise violence against homosexuals? the problem with the whole hate speech nonsense is that hating something is a natural human thing to do. it's not unhealthy and it's not wrong. expressing that shouldn't be wrong either, it's when you try to cordinate attacks on someone or group that it becomes wrong.
So how does that compare to hizbollah.org? They are a Network Solutions client and have yet to have their website pulled for a ToS violation.
Me too. I don't gamble because I think I'm going to win money, I gamble because it's fun, and craps is a crazy fun game.
Whatever I take into the casino I expect to lose.
Lets look at your simplistic reply shall we?
Your knowledge of the application of the 5th amendment is woefully shortsighted.
I won't bother to answer anything as inflammatory as this.
The Constitution protects you from self-incrimination, but it does not protect you from circumstantial evidence presented against you.
I never said it did. My point was Reiser doesn't have to answer that. The burden of proof is on the state to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Reiser comitted the crime. Had you bothered to read my post, you would have rememberd that I said he sounds guilty, but without any concrete evidence, such as her corpse, it's going to be hard to prove he murdered her. He probably should try to explain why he acted the way he did, but he doesn't have to.
And to put the evidence against him in perspective: One-hundred percent of the evidence presented at Scott Peterson's trial was circumstantial. He's now on death row.
To put that in perspective remember that Scott Peterson was tried, and convicted on the National News long before his court case ever got to trial. He had -0- chance for a fair trial. Not to mention that they found the bodies of his wife and unborn child not far from where he had been "fishing".
All that said, I still believe if Reiser has competent counsel, barring some concrete evidence, he will be set free.
There could absolutely be a very innocent reason why he removed the passenger seat of his car, hosed down the upholstery, and had a bunch of heavy duty trash bags. So why won't he tell police? Why won't he come up with where the seat is? That alone makes me think he's probably guilty. His goth buddy is great for raising reasonable doubt, but I knew a bunch of emotionally damaged morons when I was around the goth culture who had only a fleeting hold on reality, and would gladly tell you they'd killed 8 people if it'd make them seem more cool and intense.
There is a very simple answer to this. The 5th amendment to the US constitution states:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
You cannot be compelled to testify for or against yourself in the US. You cannot be forced to produce evidence against yourself. You do not have to answer any questions at all. The evidence that has been put forth, while compelling, does strike me as circumstantial and although I agree that he sounds guilty, I believe he will ultimately be freed.
My only hope is that this doesn't affect GTA IV. I really had no interest in manhunt 2 since I thought the first one sucked, but I love GTA and I'd hate to see Rockstar dummy it down because of Sony.
This is not about freedom of speech. This is about freedom to choose what you want to sell. Many 'family' companies don't want to sell games that depict this degree of realisitc violence.
Well yes, except what happens when "family" companies stop carrying a book because it has bad language, or god forbid sex in it. As it is I specifically avoid stores like Wal-Mart because as an adult I don't want them making choices about what language I should listen to. I don't need someone foisting their beliefes on me. I *would* buy music there if they gave me the CHOICE of buying the edited or non-edited versions of cd's.
There were some kids that stole cars after playing GTA because they thought it was cool. What kind of things could we expect those kids to do after playing this game?
I would wonder where the parents were and what types of values they were teaching their kids. I'm sick of people demanding that society shelter children to excuse lack of parenting.
If Take-Two makes the smart choice, it will be to sell the game themselves. Otherwise their only option is to tone it down to meet the ratings standards for their larger distributors. Who knows how much change that will take the to 'artwork' of the game? Probably a significant amount.
Good idea, except how do they make sure that 18+ people buy it? I guess the better question is why even publish on the WII. Most of the games I've seen on it, and to be honest I don't own one so I'm basing my opinion on the stupid WII commercials I see on TV, seem to be aimed for children.
Well that's true, but in reality it happens the same way in the workplace. At my job every laptop is a dell. We have some deal with them and that's true for a lot of businesses.
So to be fair I didn't even blink, or notice for that matter, about the vaio's in casino royale, if Sony thinks it's going to make me buy one because a fictional character uses it, they are sadly mistaken.
I was thinking the same thing when I wrote it.
Yeah the ads at the movie theatre *are* annoying, but they can be avoided if you show up closer to the show time, and it's not like they interrupt the movie to run an ad. At least they haven't started to do that yet.
And hey greg, long time!
Picking an arbitrary number like 55 mph actually makes the highway less safe.
I can't argue whether or nor the speed limit makes the highway safer or not, but I would agree with you. However, the original 55 speed limit was set to lower gas consumption in the US during the 1973 oil crisis.
I may be dense but I really don't see the difference between a driver talking on a hands-free cell phone and the same driver having a conversation with a passenger.
You can have just as involved of a conversation and you even have someone you are going to feel compelled to glance at every so often since it's human nature to want to make eye contact for at least parts of a conversation.
Are they going to make it illegal to have conversations in a car altogether?
Honestly I don't see why they don't make eating in your car illegal. While I don't argue that a lot of people yakking on their phone is dangerous, so are all the people who go through drive-thru's and are trying to eat a big mac and fries and merge back on the road.
I'd much rather see them do something about the ridiculous amounts of aggressive/dangerous drivers instead.
Yeah, god forbid an underpaid teacher decides to concentrate on education and makes a hard to swallow decision to promote a little equilibrium.
Isn't education teaching? How is avoiding the Holocaust and the Crusades educating students? I guess we should all avoid difficult topics for equilibrium.
No, but you have installed lots of metal detectors. Go preach somewhere else.
And how is this relevant. Yes, there is a problem with students and violence in the US. At least we haven't dropped subjects to avoid "offending" students who are being taught hate and intolerance at home and in their places of worship.
Could the holocaust happen again? It already has:
Cambodia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
Rwanda: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1288230.stm
Darfur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict
I guess I'm not the typical slashdot user. Both my wife and I have cell phones and we also have a landline that we have no intention of getting rid of. I don't mind when people call either my cell phone -or- my home phone. Yes we get annoying telemarketers, but that's what caller id is for. I get spotty cell coverage at home and feel that having a 100% working phone is a requirement. Switching isn't an option because to have cell phone coverage at work I am forced to use Sprint/Nextel.
I actually *enjoy* having family and friends call to see how I'm doing, or asking if I want to do something. If I'm busy, or can't be disturbed I turn the ringer off. It's really that easy. I also like the convenience of being able to call when I'm in the store to ask if there's anything else I need to get. It certainly saves the effort of a second trip, which is a lot more annoying to me.
Get caller id. If it's not a real phone number don't answer the call.
Perhaps these things happen more often in the states because we have about 10 times the population of Canada?
No kidding. None of the sales people at Best Buy know anything, they just run around and ask "can I help you find anything?". I've never been impressed with CompUSA's prices, but at least I know if I need something immediately I can find it there.