There are other situations, but the point is that if someone would reasonabbly find it while searching for something else they can take it.
The courts may be allowing it, but it is clearly a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which states that warrants shall only be issued
"particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." If the Bill of Rights meant anything, they'd have to go back and get another warrant for the joint found on the coffee table while they were searching for kiddie pr0n or whatever.
But unless you are a locksmith, slim-jims, lockpicks, etc. are illegal to buy.
No, they aren't. You can get lockpicks from many catalogs. Or make them yourself, it's not hard.
Using the locksmith example
again: the ignition key to your car is hardly a "effective deterrent," but still, if someone steals your car even if it is unlocked, you can prosecute them.
You're prosecuting theft, not access circumvention. Accessing a DVD is not theft. Copying is not theft.
A movie on DVD is not yours. You own a *copy* of someone else's movie.
The DVD is a physical object. It can be owned; you bought it, you own it.
The movie is information. It cannot be owned. An exclusive right to the movie can be awarded to the movie's "author" by the federal government for a limited time, but that is not ownership.
Why do you need to pay a tax on the land, if you own it?!
Why not? Since when does owning something mean you can't be taxed?
Besides, I'm not really being taxed on the land, I'm being taxed on the services the county renders to me by virtue of my land being in the county.
Probably because you don't have allodial title to the land meaning you do NOT own it, the state/government does.
The fact that property can be confiscated to pay a debt doesn't mean that it's not property.
Please read the link before replying.
I tried, but it was impossible when half the text was rendered over the marginal background image and made illegible. What I could make out seemed to be some bizarre anti-Catholic screed about how property taxes are all the fault of whoever was Pope back in 1066.
besides why are you paying for dial-up access anyways?
Everyone who has dial-up access pays for it. Say it with me now: advertising-supported is not free.
You buy the advertised products, and the price is marked up so that part of what you pay goes to the marketing divisions of various companies, who pay NetZero et. al. to infect your mind with the "buy our stuff" meme.
In addition to the price markups you pay, there's also the bandwidth and mindspace pollution caused by ads. TANSTAAFL.
but a large number of people
receive the "long form" questionaire which demands (under threat of legal action if you refuse)
Well, they haven't come to cart me away yet, and odds are pretty good that they won't.
I got sent the long form. I sent it back with the information that two people live here, and declined to answer everythng else.
The Congress is authorized to conduct an enumeration, not an in-depth analysis of citizen's liefstyles. Where demographic data is needed it can be collected voluntarily, and anonymously. Or via statistical means where the respondant combines their answer with random noise so you don't know how any one person answered, but can tell how the group answered.
but how can you find both of these candidates interesting?
Not directed at me, and I don't find Browne particually interesting, but I've voted Libertarian in the past and I'm voting for Nader this year (as I did in '96).
We need to understand that "libertarian" originally was a leftist (i.e., pro-labor, as opposed to pro-capital) term. (For more information, hit Google with "libertarian socialist" and "anarchist"; also try "zenarchy".) Leftists aren't necessarily in favor of big government; some of us want a small government, like the libertarian capitalists of the Libertarian Party, but one that moves in a different direction. We reject the notion that capitalism is somehow a natural state that arises from a smaller government; indeed, capitalism requires a strong state, to define and defend property.
Think of government as a vector quantity; the Libertarians have (at least in theory) a magnitude I like, but the Greens have the direction I prefer.
As a libertarian, I find Nader's positions more horid than even Gore & Bush. For me personally, it comes down to
freedom or not.
Nader's the only one talking about how corporate power and concentrated wealth is threatening individual freedom.
You'll also find that on many practical issues there is agreement: on free speech, ending corporate welfare, ending the "prison industrial complex", decriminalization of victimless crimes, Fourth Amendment rights, and religious freedom, the Libertarians and the Greens are pretty much in alignment.
This people *do* sound dangerous, so I'm wondering if their intent of *payback* has any basis for consideration?
I do have to wonder about the "zero factor". (Except for Reagan, since Lincoln every president elected in a year ending in zero has died in office. Reagan literally missed joining that club by an inch. (Of course, one might argue that he was pretty much brain-dead throughout his term anyway...))
It is an interesing coincidence, and I do think (note to my fans in domestic surveillance: I am not, at this time, planning on killing anyone, nor am I inciting or advising, nor am I aware of any plot, I am merely speculating) that there are a significant number of people in the country who would see killing a "President Dubbya" as a great public service, and one might take the "zero factor" as a hint.
To leave computing "open," I don't want government getting into anyone's face
about computers, and that includes Microsoft...I'd rather government stayed out of the computing market all together.
Fine. That does, of course, include no government force preventing me from making copies of software, or telling me that certain types of software are "patented", right?
Oh, and I'm sure it also means getting rid of those government-created "corporation" thingies.
You can't have it both ways. If you're going to get the government involved in terms of "intellectual property" (or indeed, pretty much any sort of property) and corporations, then they're also going have have to intervene when these creations of the state go awry and no longer operate in the public interest.
..., increasing the amount of un-Constitutional laws in the name of the War on Drugs,..."
And those would be what?
For starters, every federal law banning drug possession, and every federal drug law that does not involve interstate sale of drugs; there's nothing in the enumerated powers of the federal government to justify them.
Then there are the Bill of Rights violations. No-knock searches. Conspiracy laws which ban talking about how to grow cannabis. Laws which destroy religious liberty for American Indians, Rastafarians, Coptic Christians, and others, by denying them their sacraments. "Anti-loitering" laws supposedly meant to get dealers off the streets, that restrict citizens free movement and assembly.
Thus 'typesetting' probably began as 'type setting', and then moved to 'type-setting', and finally became 'typesetting.'
The path for 'email' was 'electronic mail', 'electronic-mail', 'e-mail', and finally 'email'.
Except that your "email" path has an extra step where "electronic" is reduced to "e-", thus destroying the parallel. Your argument might be valid if "e" were a word; of course, a lot of marketroids and hype-masters seem to want to move it in that direction.
v-mail - does anyone still own an answering machine?
What, I should trust C & P ^H^H^H^H^HBell Atlantic^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HVerizon with my messages? Yeah, sure.
Re:A remark from Don Knuth on the subject..
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Try typing the word email...
Irrelevant. Questions of spelling, grammar, and usage cannot be resolved by appeal to typing speed! I can just imagine Will Shakespeare considering the words in Hamlet's famous soliloquy as a function of the time to scribe them with an ink quill...
Unless you're a secretary, typing pre-made text, the time to actually think of what to say should dwarf the keyboarding time. Assuming, of course, that you actually have something worthwhile to write.
As much as it pains me to disagree with the Great and Powerful Knuth, "email" just doesn't reflect the pronuciation of the word; anyone who hadn't encountered it before would probably read it as "EM-ale". (Hmm, sounds like a brand of beer. Free free to use it to name your next batch of homebrew or microbrew, just send me a case.) Yes, it's true that spelling often has little to do with pronunciation (which is why I suck at it), but past ambiguities are no excuse for creating new ones. So I'll stick with "e-mail".
You have to move that pinky finger (if you type in standard position, which i don't, but for the sake of argument, lets say i do)
I think strong arguments can be made for abandoning the standard typing position, given the fact that my keyboard has a large set of keys never considered by the inventors of QWERTY.
I wonder if the blades will spin long enough though... A helicopter has rather large blades, which
have enough inertia to keep spinning for quite some time.
It's not about the inertia of the blades. The blades start spinning during a descent the same way that a powered-off window fan will start moving if a gust of wind blows in the window. IIRC, helicopter pilots call it "autorotation".
but I'm not comparing
individuals, but rather species.
Why would you make an ethical decision based on the set of other organisms with which an organism can produce fertile offspring?
I draw the line there. Where do you draw yours?
To speak of a "line" is somewhat misleading. Whatever characteristics we specify as the condition for receiving ethical consideration, organisms will have these characteristics to different degrees.
The relevant characteristic is the presence of a sophisticated nervous system (or analogous structure) that produces an interal experience. As I said, it's impossible to know for sure whether other beings have such an experience, so we must judge based on the organism's behavior and on our knowledge of neurobiology.
For practical purposes, I do my best to avoid harming other chordates, and I won't deliberately harm invertabrates without good cause.
True, but that does not imply that all "somewheres" are equally justified. Or can I just draw the line at long-haired males under 5'8" of mixed Polish and Irish ancestry?
If another animal is proven to be sentient, then I'll include it.
How can you prove to me that you're sentient? There's only one being I know for sure to be sentient, that's me.
For the rest of you, I have to rely on observed behavior and similarity of physiology. In that respect, the evidence that, say, dogs, are sentient ("capable of sensation and consciousness") is just as strong as the evidence that a pre-verbal child is sentient: both have sophisticted nervous systems, and behave in a way consistent with an internal emotional and (rudimentarily) intellectual experience.
never give out your real email account to anyone but close friends.
Set up a free account with excite mail and use that for everything else. When it gets too spam-ridden, cancel it. Set up a
new one.
I don't see how that helps at all. I get a lot of mail that's not from close friends, but that I'm still interested in (technical recruiters who saw my resume on my website, people who want to give me feedback on a/. or mailing list post, concert announcements from local bands, etcetera). So I'd still have to go thru mail received from Excite and sort the wheat from the spam. Throwing away that address just means that people who want to offer me a job, or at least a kind word, can't find me. Why not just use mail client that sorts the mail from friends into a separate box?
Besides, I enjoy smashing spammers. A little header analysis, a little nslookup, a little traceroute, a little whois, and a note to postmaster@whatever.net, and away goes a spammer's account, even if it is a game of whack-a-mole. Maybe I'll get on one of the "do not spam" lists that I've heard some of these fsckers use; they know who knows enough to track them down and make trouble.
In the case of an e-commerce spammer, I'd start by forwarding each piece, along with a "cut it out!" message, to the domain contacts revealed by whois.
If that didn't work, nslookup and traceroute will reveal their upsteam provider, and pointing out that a customer is using their resources to spam will usually light a fire under someone's ass.
For those of you on the left who are actually thinking of voting Nader... gadzooks, do
you know anything about that person? A gadfly needs personality traits that would
be calamitous in a President.
A vote for Nader is much more a vote for him as gadfly than as President. It's a protest vote against a choice between two rich, born-again Christian, big-corporation-friendly, pro-death penalty, anti-gay-equality, hypocritically pro-war-on-drugs white sons of powerful politicians, a choice that's as appealing as the old childhood conundrum: "Would you rather suck all the snot out of a dog's nose or slide down
a sliding board with barbed wire all over it?"
Since only electoral votes matter, if you live in a state where there's a strong margin between the candidates, a gadly vote can have much more meaning than a vote for Gore or Bush - an extra percent for the Greens (or Libertarians, or Refomers) does much to bring the attention of to major parties to their causes, whereas an extra percent of victory for Gore (a shoo-in in Maryland, unless he's caught sodomizing small dogs in a Satanic ritual by the light of burning Americans flags) won't affect things one bit.
Good points on the inheritance tax; I'm really disappointed that I haven't heard more discussion like this from Democrats. Maybe if we did hear stuff like this from Gore, more of us would be voting for him instead of the gadfly.
For God's sake, if you take your work seriously, have some business cards printed up. They're not that
expensive, and they're essential to being taken seriously. Same with letterhead.
For business cards, you might try iprint.com, I was satisfied with a batch of cards I ordered there.
As far as mailing labels or envelopes, I just stick with plain text. I figured out how many spaces to tab over to line things up and made
template files, which I edit as needed and send to the printer with lpr. If I did more postal mail
I'd make a Perl script to stuff the command line
parameters into the output appropriately.
Maybe I'm an idealist, but I think if we reach the point that you could actually get away with this, it's already too late.
It did happen. Like I said, literacy tests under Jim Crow.
And don't forget the current sentacing dispairities between powder cocaine (primarily used by whites) and "crack" cocaine (primarily used by blacks), and other laws which, while technically colorblind, have resulted in a fantastic number of black persons being convicted of felonies instead of misdemeanors and thus being stripped of the vote.
Maybe it is already too late. Who was it that said that the US is at that awkward stage, too late to work within the system but too early to shoot the bastards?
He attributes it largely to playing hundreds of hours of
Action Quake and Counterstrike.
I had a somewhat similar experience some years ago. When I was in grad school, my advisor (who was the moderator of rec.guns) offered to foot the bill for any of us who want to take the NRA "Personal Protection" course (basic handgun safety, protective strategies, etcetera - good stuff, even though I have many political differences with the NRA) being offered at his gun club.
I had never used a firearm before, not even a BB gun; yet the instructor commented to me, "I can see you're experieced with this." The only thing I can figure is that those hours of playing "Mad Dog McCree" in the campus arcade must have payed off.
Good point on Japan, BTW; also points up the lack of connection between porn and rape.
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The movie is information. It cannot be owned. An exclusive right to the movie can be awarded to the movie's "author" by the federal government for a limited time, but that is not ownership.
Besides, I'm not really being taxed on the land, I'm being taxed on the services the county renders to me by virtue of my land being in the county.
The fact that property can be confiscated to pay a debt doesn't mean that it's not property. I tried, but it was impossible when half the text was rendered over the marginal background image and made illegible. What I could make out seemed to be some bizarre anti-Catholic screed about how property taxes are all the fault of whoever was Pope back in 1066.You buy the advertised products, and the price is marked up so that part of what you pay goes to the marketing divisions of various companies, who pay NetZero et. al. to infect your mind with the "buy our stuff" meme.
In addition to the price markups you pay, there's also the bandwidth and mindspace pollution caused by ads. TANSTAAFL.
I got sent the long form. I sent it back with the information that two people live here, and declined to answer everythng else.
The Congress is authorized to conduct an enumeration, not an in-depth analysis of citizen's liefstyles. Where demographic data is needed it can be collected voluntarily, and anonymously. Or via statistical means where the respondant combines their answer with random noise so you don't know how any one person answered, but can tell how the group answered.
This post has no purpose other than to undo my bad moderation; I meant to mod the above up to "Funny", but I must have hit "Overrated" instead. D'oh.
We need to understand that "libertarian" originally was a leftist (i.e., pro-labor, as opposed to pro-capital) term. (For more information, hit Google with "libertarian socialist" and "anarchist"; also try "zenarchy".) Leftists aren't necessarily in favor of big government; some of us want a small government, like the libertarian capitalists of the Libertarian Party, but one that moves in a different direction. We reject the notion that capitalism is somehow a natural state that arises from a smaller government; indeed, capitalism requires a strong state, to define and defend property.
Think of government as a vector quantity; the Libertarians have (at least in theory) a magnitude I like, but the Greens have the direction I prefer.
Nader's the only one talking about how corporate power and concentrated wealth is threatening individual freedom.You'll also find that on many practical issues there is agreement: on free speech, ending corporate welfare, ending the "prison industrial complex", decriminalization of victimless crimes, Fourth Amendment rights, and religious freedom, the Libertarians and the Greens are pretty much in alignment.
It is an interesing coincidence, and I do think (note to my fans in domestic surveillance: I am not, at this time, planning on killing anyone, nor am I inciting or advising, nor am I aware of any plot, I am merely speculating) that there are a significant number of people in the country who would see killing a "President Dubbya" as a great public service, and one might take the "zero factor" as a hint.
Oh, and I'm sure it also means getting rid of those government-created "corporation" thingies.
You can't have it both ways. If you're going to get the government involved in terms of "intellectual property" (or indeed, pretty much any sort of property) and corporations, then they're also going have have to intervene when these creations of the state go awry and no longer operate in the public interest.
Then there are the Bill of Rights violations. No-knock searches. Conspiracy laws which ban talking about how to grow cannabis. Laws which destroy religious liberty for American Indians, Rastafarians, Coptic Christians, and others, by denying them their sacraments. "Anti-loitering" laws supposedly meant to get dealers off the streets, that restrict citizens free movement and assembly.
Unless you're a secretary, typing pre-made text, the time to actually think of what to say should dwarf the keyboarding time. Assuming, of course, that you actually have something worthwhile to write.
As much as it pains me to disagree with the Great and Powerful Knuth, "email" just doesn't reflect the pronuciation of the word; anyone who hadn't encountered it before would probably read it as "EM-ale". (Hmm, sounds like a brand of beer. Free free to use it to name your next batch of homebrew or microbrew, just send me a case.) Yes, it's true that spelling often has little to do with pronunciation (which is why I suck at it), but past ambiguities are no excuse for creating new ones. So I'll stick with "e-mail".
I think strong arguments can be made for abandoning the standard typing position, given the fact that my keyboard has a large set of keys never considered by the inventors of QWERTY.The relevant characteristic is the presence of a sophisticated nervous system (or analogous structure) that produces an interal experience. As I said, it's impossible to know for sure whether other beings have such an experience, so we must judge based on the organism's behavior and on our knowledge of neurobiology.
For practical purposes, I do my best to avoid harming other chordates, and I won't deliberately harm invertabrates without good cause.
For the rest of you, I have to rely on observed behavior and similarity of physiology. In that respect, the evidence that, say, dogs, are sentient ("capable of sensation and consciousness") is just as strong as the evidence that a pre-verbal child is sentient: both have sophisticted nervous systems, and behave in a way consistent with an internal emotional and (rudimentarily) intellectual experience.
Besides, I enjoy smashing spammers. A little header analysis, a little nslookup, a little traceroute, a little whois, and a note to postmaster@whatever.net, and away goes a spammer's account, even if it is a game of whack-a-mole. Maybe I'll get on one of the "do not spam" lists that I've heard some of these fsckers use; they know who knows enough to track them down and make trouble.
In the case of an e-commerce spammer, I'd start by forwarding each piece, along with a "cut it out!" message, to the domain contacts revealed by whois. If that didn't work, nslookup and traceroute will reveal their upsteam provider, and pointing out that a customer is using their resources to spam will usually light a fire under someone's ass.
Since only electoral votes matter, if you live in a state where there's a strong margin between the candidates, a gadly vote can have much more meaning than a vote for Gore or Bush - an extra percent for the Greens (or Libertarians, or Refomers) does much to bring the attention of to major parties to their causes, whereas an extra percent of victory for Gore (a shoo-in in Maryland, unless he's caught sodomizing small dogs in a Satanic ritual by the light of burning Americans flags) won't affect things one bit.
Good points on the inheritance tax; I'm really disappointed that I haven't heard more discussion like this from Democrats. Maybe if we did hear stuff like this from Gore, more of us would be voting for him instead of the gadfly.
As far as mailing labels or envelopes, I just stick with plain text. I figured out how many spaces to tab over to line things up and made template files, which I edit as needed and send to the printer with lpr. If I did more postal mail I'd make a Perl script to stuff the command line parameters into the output appropriately.
And don't forget the current sentacing dispairities between powder cocaine (primarily used by whites) and "crack" cocaine (primarily used by blacks), and other laws which, while technically colorblind, have resulted in a fantastic number of black persons being convicted of felonies instead of misdemeanors and thus being stripped of the vote.
Maybe it is already too late. Who was it that said that the US is at that awkward stage, too late to work within the system but too early to shoot the bastards?
I had never used a firearm before, not even a BB gun; yet the instructor commented to me, "I can see you're experieced with this." The only thing I can figure is that those hours of playing "Mad Dog McCree" in the campus arcade must have payed off.
Good point on Japan, BTW; also points up the lack of connection between porn and rape.