"Air Force Col. Charles J. Duncan Jr., also a military lawyer, said, "Contrary to popular belief, neither international law nor U.S. domestic law prohibits the killing of those directing armed forces in war." "Nations have the right under international law to use force against terrorists." "
And Bill Gates, computer science lawyer, proves that Windows is not an illegal monopoly.
Seriously. What's the point of mentioning this? Do we care about the (USian) legality of said actions? No, we do not care, first of all because USian lawyers could "prove" anything, we do not care either because we are not all USian, and we do not care because this is not a "legal" matter, but rather, a political one.
Besides Sharon himself called those "assassinations", BTW. Who am I to believe?
"And secondly, the terrorists aim at random targets, usually innocent civilians, while the Israeli assassinations are aimed at specific terrorist threats"
Excuse me one second, did those "assassinated" persons get a chance at a fair trial? Are we sure those who were killed were indeed "terrorists"?
BTW the choice of word is very poor. Assassination is a crime, by definition. Therefore Mr. Sharon IS a criminal. QED.
"Yeah! Of course it's always those darn jewish groups!!! "
(...)
"Do you know why these groups, jews in particular, are so super sensitive? "
Excuse me... do you really think I'm not aware of history? FYI I've met holocaust survivors. I got the story from first hand reports. And well, I should'nt have to justify myself. But anywa. It pains me, knowing these people who have lived through this, and seeing how organization such as UEJF using their legacy to justify their bullshit.
And I see Mr Sharon, spreading hatred, voluntarily causing trouble in Jerusalem to win over Barak at the expense of the fragile peace process. That Sharon who proudly said on TV that he was doing "targetted assassinations". Hmm. Nice person. Who's a "nazi" again?
Oh oh oh! Give me a break. Who killed Rabin? Was it Palestinians? Nope. Rigth wing jewish nuts. Friends of Sharon IMO.
Who triggered the current problems? Ariel Sharon. He went in Jerusalem and deliberately offended the muslims by going there at the most inappropriate time.
He provoked the tension, he used the tension to overthroz Barak...
And now it's palestinians fault...
What exactly do you call hogwash? Or maybe you're one of those fucked up religious bitches who send Rabin's murderer love letters.
It's a jewish organization too that was suing Yahoo in France. You know, "they" can't be wrong, "they" were mass murdered.
You can't say anything about jewish orgs, because then you're accused of antisemitism. In the mean time, Ariel Sharon is *assassinating* -- by his own admission! -- Palestinians.
Do we see B'nai Brith or UEJF asking for the censorship of conservative Israëli newspapers or websites, no I don't think so.
Dont get me wrong, I hate muslim fanatics as much as the next atheist guy, and arabs don't have a monopoly on dangerous loonies.
Ariel Sharon is the biggest threat to peace in the middle east, and maybe in the whole world, after Bin Laden.
This will probably be seen as chauvinistic, but I have to say it: in France, and I guess, in most of Europe, your medical is secret. And a leakage is not taken lightly.
Basically, a doctor leaking your medical record faces being permanently denied the right to practice, and even jail time.
As for requiring AIDS (or drugs or anything, except in specific cases specified in the law, such as airplane pilots) tests, it has to be done by a doctor, who is not allowed (see above) to share the info, and if it's not done by a doctor, then it's illegal practice of medicine, jail etc.
With that in mind, knowing that in the US anyone (cause your employer in "anyone") can know such things about you is disconcerting to say the least.
"The difference is that the US considers itself as a democracy and as world's saviour in moral issues."
I thought they had finally given up on that claim, after being the only country in the world with Somalia (or something) not signing the UN treaty on children's right.
You know, that über-liberal treaty that says that children should not be sentenced to death.
"will fix that, unless they are going to r00t my PC. in which case I'll sue their pants off."
FILM'O MATIC LICENSE
(...)
1434.54 By agreeing to this license, you allow us to modify and copy any file on your computer, to molest your children, to poison your food, and to take your socks, at our sole discretion
Time limited demos and such have always been defeated by the simplest hack possible: turning the clock back in time.
I wrote a little program back in the days, to cheat one such program without actually messing up the clock on a Mac.
Soooo... what will prevent those movies from permanently living in the same day?
What would prevent me from just copying the file over and over to be able to watch it again? I guess the answer is that hardware copy protection Intel is preparing (what's its name again?)
"Unlike a Real World economy, over time, everyone in the EverQuest economy will gather more money, which leads to a strong, steady drop in the value of platinum, the currency."
That's not completely true. To defeat this inflation problem, the developpers have put money pit. More precisely, you have to spend a LOT of money to acquire components for high level spells.
High level trade skills (tayloring, jewelcraft) require expensive store-bought components.
A lot of quests involve turning in lots of cash as well.
With more and more players gaining high level, and gaining more money from killing NPCs, the market price of player-bought items is relatively stable.
" It is an error to declare a local variable that is never referred to. Dead variables, like anachronistic dead code, is just a source of confusion for maintenance programmers. "
I know the linux kernel is full of unreferenced variable warnings. Most likely, it's due to conditional programming. Without preprocessor, will the problem go away?
I don't know; however I see one case where this is going to be annoying: when debugging, you often comment out chunks of code. Here you'll get an error. Ok, you have to comment out the variable definition, too.
What you're saying here is, a "crime" could be stopped in exchange for a freedom being lost.
Personnally, and you might call me an "extremist", I would'nt trade my freedom for all your investor ca$h.
Re:The Great Microsoft Problem
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Windows in 2020
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· Score: 2, Interesting
"Ahh, but therein lies the rub. There is no one forcing them to do those things, yet they perversely continue to do them anyway. Why should they do it if they aren't forced to? "
You can only speculate at what they would be doing if they HAD real competitors. Of course, Windows 2000 is better than Windows 98 is better than Windows 95 is better than Windows 3.11... because they need people to upgrade. But how much so?
They also need to ship improved products every year to incite people to upgrade and thus generate a revenue flow. But this is going to change with their planned rented-software strategy (pay each year instead of once). When this is implemented, what will drive them to ship anything better? Most likely, nothing.
Re:The Great Microsoft Problem
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Windows in 2020
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· Score: 5, Insightful
"firstly, microsoft does not have a stranglehold on the market. linux exists, mac exists, that is enough to dispell the idea that microsoft will win in the end. there are alternatives - not big ones - and that is all that capitalism can "guarantee". "
This is completely hypothetical competition. Linux only "exists" in the server market, the Mac only "exists" in the DTP market. Everywhere else... there's Microsoft. You can claim as much as you want that a competitor might come up, it's just NOT happening.
By NO competitor, I mean: there is no concurrent product with a non-marginal marketshare, that Microsoft has to compete with, that forces Microsoft to lower prices, or add new features, or improve quality... which is the point of the "free market".
"If we take a look far enough in the past, to the Roman Empired (when the so called Demoracy started), we can see that the people never had a saying in the matters."
"Democracy" is a word of greek, not roman, origin.
"Republic" is the roman word.
Slashdot REALLY needs to learn something: EXPLAIN what the fuck you're talking about. I have no idea what an Audrey is, and I bet thousands of people don't either... it would take ten words to describe it.
Re:Pedophilia's just as wrong as rape or murder
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· Score: 1
"Imo, molesting a child is rape, "
Well IMO killing someone is a murder, or maybe an assassination in some cases.
And, I know I'm taking a dangerous position here, but taking someone's money without their consent is THEFT, except when it's for taxes, of course.
Last, I want to say that war is BAD, I know I will make lots of enemies here, but I will stand up for what I believe, WAR IS BAD! Peace is good, on the other hand. Dying is bad, too, but finding a cure for cancer would be great.
I know people will hate me for saying this, but with all those bad people around here, someone has to say that poor people should be given more money! And hungered masses should eat more. If only the thirsty would drink, there would'nt be so much problems on earth.
Slashdot Mirror
"Air Force Col. Charles J. Duncan Jr., also a military lawyer, said, "Contrary to popular belief, neither international law nor U.S. domestic law prohibits the killing of those directing armed forces in war." "Nations have the right under international law to use force against terrorists." "
And Bill Gates, computer science lawyer, proves that Windows is not an illegal monopoly.
Seriously. What's the point of mentioning this? Do we care about the (USian) legality of said actions? No, we do not care, first of all because USian lawyers could "prove" anything, we do not care either because we are not all USian, and we do not care because this is not a "legal" matter, but rather, a political one.
Besides Sharon himself called those "assassinations", BTW. Who am I to believe?
"And secondly, the terrorists aim at random targets, usually innocent civilians, while the Israeli assassinations are aimed at specific terrorist threats"
Excuse me one second, did those "assassinated" persons get a chance at a fair trial? Are we sure those who were killed were indeed "terrorists"?
BTW the choice of word is very poor. Assassination is a crime, by definition. Therefore Mr. Sharon IS a criminal. QED.
"Yeah! Of course it's always those darn jewish groups!!! "
... do you really think I'm not aware of history? FYI I've met holocaust survivors. I got the story from first hand reports. And well, I should'nt have to justify myself. But anywa. It pains me, knowing these people who have lived through this, and seeing how organization such as UEJF using their legacy to justify their bullshit.
(...)
"Do you know why these groups, jews in particular, are so super sensitive? "
Excuse me
And I see Mr Sharon, spreading hatred, voluntarily causing trouble in Jerusalem to win over Barak at the expense of the fragile peace process. That Sharon who proudly said on TV that he was doing "targetted assassinations". Hmm. Nice person. Who's a "nazi" again?
Oh oh oh! Give me a break. Who killed Rabin? Was it Palestinians? Nope. Rigth wing jewish nuts. Friends of Sharon IMO.
...
...
Who triggered the current problems? Ariel Sharon. He went in Jerusalem and deliberately offended the muslims by going there at the most inappropriate time.
He provoked the tension, he used the tension to overthroz Barak
And now it's palestinians fault
What exactly do you call hogwash? Or maybe you're one of those fucked up religious bitches who send Rabin's murderer love letters.
FYI I don't like christians, conservatives, right wing nuts, and pro-gun advocates. You still want me in your club?
Ah ah nice troll, I have to admit it.
It's a jewish organization too that was suing Yahoo in France. You know, "they" can't be wrong, "they" were mass murdered.
You can't say anything about jewish orgs, because then you're accused of antisemitism. In the mean time, Ariel Sharon is *assassinating* -- by his own admission! -- Palestinians.
Do we see B'nai Brith or UEJF asking for the censorship of conservative Israëli newspapers or websites, no I don't think so.
Dont get me wrong, I hate muslim fanatics as much as the next atheist guy, and arabs don't have a monopoly on dangerous loonies.
Ariel Sharon is the biggest threat to peace in the middle east, and maybe in the whole world, after Bin Laden.
"Come back to this when you lose someone dear to you"
If it happened, odds are it would be due to some religious fanatics.
I shiver at the thought of a fanatic terrorist carrying a blowfish in a crowded building.
The difference between guns and crypto:
A clumsy or insane or heinous person can kill many people with a gun.
Such a person can't kill anyone with crypto.
Your fascination for gun is as disgusting and irrational as the muslim fundies suicidal insanity.
Yes, precisely. This attack worked because it was the first of its kind, noone could expect it to happen.
What do you do to "them"?
But who are they? As long as this is not answered, you can speculate all you want.
I remember reading Stallman's science fiction short story where, in a distant future, debuggers would be forbidden by law, etc.
Exxagerated, lunatic you might think when you read it. Except that it's happening right now.
This will probably be seen as chauvinistic, but I have to say it: in France, and I guess, in most of Europe, your medical is secret. And a leakage is not taken lightly.
Basically, a doctor leaking your medical record faces being permanently denied the right to practice, and even jail time.
As for requiring AIDS (or drugs or anything, except in specific cases specified in the law, such as airplane pilots) tests, it has to be done by a doctor, who is not allowed (see above) to share the info, and if it's not done by a doctor, then it's illegal practice of medicine, jail etc.
With that in mind, knowing that in the US anyone (cause your employer in "anyone") can know such things about you is disconcerting to say the least.
"The difference is that the US considers itself as a democracy and as world's saviour in moral issues."
I thought they had finally given up on that claim, after being the only country in the world with Somalia (or something) not signing the UN treaty on children's right.
You know, that über-liberal treaty that says that children should not be sentenced to death.
"will fix that, unless they are going to r00t my PC. in which case I'll sue their pants off."
FILM'O MATIC LICENSE
(...)
1434.54 By agreeing to this license, you allow us to modify and copy any file on your computer, to molest your children, to poison your food, and to take your socks, at our sole discretion
(...)
Click "I agree" to download the movie.
[I agree]
Time limited demos and such have always been defeated by the simplest hack possible: turning the clock back in time.
... what will prevent those movies from permanently living in the same day?
I wrote a little program back in the days, to cheat one such program without actually messing up the clock on a Mac.
Soooo
What would prevent me from just copying the file over and over to be able to watch it again? I guess the answer is that hardware copy protection Intel is preparing (what's its name again?)
"Unlike a Real World economy, over time, everyone in the EverQuest economy will gather more money, which leads to a strong, steady drop in the value of platinum, the currency."
That's not completely true. To defeat this inflation problem, the developpers have put money pit. More precisely, you have to spend a LOT of money to acquire components for high level spells.
High level trade skills (tayloring, jewelcraft) require expensive store-bought components.
A lot of quests involve turning in lots of cash as well.
With more and more players gaining high level, and gaining more money from killing NPCs, the market price of player-bought items is relatively stable.
" It is an error to declare a local variable that is never referred to. Dead variables, like anachronistic dead code, is just a source of confusion for maintenance programmers. "
I know the linux kernel is full of unreferenced variable warnings. Most likely, it's due to conditional programming. Without preprocessor, will the problem go away?
I don't know; however I see one case where this is going to be annoying: when debugging, you often comment out chunks of code. Here you'll get an error. Ok, you have to comment out the variable definition, too.
What you're saying here is, a "crime" could be stopped in exchange for a freedom being lost.
Personnally, and you might call me an "extremist", I would'nt trade my freedom for all your investor ca$h.
"Ahh, but therein lies the rub. There is no one forcing them to do those things, yet they perversely continue to do them anyway. Why should they do it if they aren't forced to? "
You can only speculate at what they would be doing if they HAD real competitors. Of course, Windows 2000 is better than Windows 98 is better than Windows 95 is better than Windows 3.11
They also need to ship improved products every year to incite people to upgrade and thus generate a revenue flow. But this is going to change with their planned rented-software strategy (pay each year instead of once). When this is implemented, what will drive them to ship anything better? Most likely, nothing.
"firstly, microsoft does not have a stranglehold on the market. linux exists, mac exists, that is enough to dispell the idea that microsoft will win in the end. there are alternatives - not big ones - and that is all that capitalism can "guarantee". "
... there's Microsoft. You can claim as much as you want that a competitor might come up, it's just NOT happening.
... which is the point of the "free market".
This is completely hypothetical competition. Linux only "exists" in the server market, the Mac only "exists" in the DTP market. Everywhere else
By NO competitor, I mean: there is no concurrent product with a non-marginal marketshare, that Microsoft has to compete with, that forces Microsoft to lower prices, or add new features, or improve quality
"If we take a look far enough in the past, to the Roman Empired (when the so called Demoracy started), we can see that the people never had a saying in the matters." "Democracy" is a word of greek, not roman, origin. "Republic" is the roman word.
Slashdot REALLY needs to learn something: EXPLAIN what the fuck you're talking about. I have no idea what an Audrey is, and I bet thousands of people don't either ... it would take ten words to describe it.
"Imo, molesting a child is rape, "
Well IMO killing someone is a murder, or maybe an assassination in some cases.
And, I know I'm taking a dangerous position here, but taking someone's money without their consent is THEFT, except when it's for taxes, of course.
Last, I want to say that war is BAD, I know I will make lots of enemies here, but I will stand up for what I believe, WAR IS BAD! Peace is good, on the other hand. Dying is bad, too, but finding a cure for cancer would be great.
I know people will hate me for saying this, but with all those bad people around here, someone has to say that poor people should be given more money! And hungered masses should eat more. If only the thirsty would drink, there would'nt be so much problems on earth.