I hate lawyers in general. I don't think that the law should be so obtuse, so esoteric that it can't be fathomed by the common man. There are only a few reasons to make it that way, and none of them are what I would call "good".
If I were on trial (criminal), would I want a lawyer? Well, only a fool represents himself... but my first few choices don't hold license to practice law. What choice do I have then?
First, I don't want this nation managed as if it were a corporation. I'm not a shareholder, I'm a citizen.
It isn't my responsibility to pay taxes. The country did well for more than 100 years with no income tax at all. You are right about one thing though, it is someone's responsibility to spend this money... Congress controls the budget as far as I'm aware.
I've sacrificed far too much already, and I have nothing left to give that can possibly win the "war on terror". The term itself is a dead giveaway, they can't possibly solve the problem unless it is a war... and the only kind of war it can be is unwinnable.
Now, maybe I'm an idiot, but I don't believe my income tax pays for my internet service (even indirectly), radio (you must be kidding, the FCC sold the family cow for magic beans), and federal funding seems to only work for the most bizarre shit. Instead of buying our own fusion research, we're waiting 20 years for ITER to decide where to build the facility?
What we need to do, is simple:
A) Lower all congressional salaries to $75,000 a year. Lower the presidential salary to $95,000 a year. Symbolic, but a good one. And before you yuppies start getting all pissy, $75,000 a year would make my life sooooo nice... if they can't live on it, let them starve.
B) Figure out how much tax revenue we bring in, in any given year. Cut this number in half. Allocate it to all government services, on a priority basis. When this limit is reached, nothing else is bought that year. Anything left over pays principle on the debt.
C) Reduce our military to no more than 100,000 soldiers, total. Re-equip them to defend north america and Hawaii as best possible given the manpower.
D) Dissolve the Dept. of Education.
E) Ban anyone provably associated with either the democratic or republican party from ever holding public office, donating money to political parties, or any other political activity other than voting. Shoot the dissenters.
F) Start coining our own money, rather than allowing the Federal Reserve to do it.
Mr. President, do you believe that the government should decide whether I can marry 3 people simultaneously, or whether one of these "people" can't be a horse or other arbitrary livestock?
Not even a muslim, #3 seems right to me too. #1 seems problematic... how can it be any sort of binding contract when I have to pay for it before I even know what I'm agreeing to? But once I've seen the "contract", I can't get my money back if I disagree.
I mean no disrespect. However, it's clear just from the fact that there are different sects of Islam, that people can interpret the Quran differently, is it not?
While these muslims may have interpreted it that way on their own, given time or chance, I still wonder if they might have interpreted it differently.
I ask you, as you understand it, is IP infringement theft? Your own religion was renowned throughout the world as the foundation for some of the best science ever, while my own ancestors struggled through the dark ages. Those scientists didn't make the great advances they did by setting up an obtuse form of monopolistic protectionism.
Since IP is nothing more than a government granted monopoly (it's only wrong to copy if the government says so), how can this be anything like theft? Wrong maybe, on the level of not obeying your government (supposing that is a sin for muslims), but certainly not theft?
And yet, once out, OSS patches are generally praised, and rarely complained about. Microsoft spends months writing their patches, a week on top of that being stingy with them, and often they're still pieces of shit. So, in the end, all that fancy regression testing does nothing...
Aren't you describing a heap overflow though? And anything that has a proper memory management scheme should just you a segfault and crash gracefully... unless the guys at Microsoft commonly declare space on the stack for big images.
Well, not very bright, and apparently not able to read. Off the shelf VPN software, tardboy. Doesn't even require any specific implementation (though I'd stay away from MS PPTP).
How can this be anonymous then? Routing. You don't send packets to their destination directly, another peer forwards them. You'll only know remote destinations by a 10.x.x.x IP that is meaningless. And if you choose your peers carefully (across an international border), then they can't be forced to snitch on you, useful wiretaps become difficult, search warrants, and all that junk are hindered.
Actually, I believe the most successful prosthetics actually just apply the sensation to the skin of the stump itself. For instance, a heat sensor in the hand will activate something that heats up against the stump, imparting the sensation.
I've read of some that have quite a few pressure sensors in them, that apply some sort of electrical 'tickle' to what's left of the leg... supposedly makes it much easier to walk with them.
Our friend Roland must do nothing but sit around all day submitting articles on slashdot. I've never seen less than 1 per day, and I rarely read section stories. Amazing how he never forgets that link to his own spammy blog, isn't it?
I mean, goddamn. I expect ads, so editors, if he's paying for it, by all means put it up here. Just don't try to sneak it past us as a quasi-article, ok? With as many duplicate submissions as you guys must get, it's just impossible that it's not a covert ad.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt though. Just do us all a favor, and put him in a killfile. Let him post comments, I don't care... but the article submission is starting to grate on my nerves. Tell you what, do it, and I'll subscribe. I'm sure others will too.
Actually, both groups are going after all sorts of religions. For instance, they "lobbied" (no idea what word to use here, bribed?) Sunni Islam into declaring it a sin to infringe intellectual property less than a year ago.
Personally I'd find it hilarious, if it wasn't so serious... how far can they go? 200 years after the death of the author, life in prison for breaking a directv card?
Emphasis on the "historically". I've never heard that spoken once in my life, knowing it best only from historical fiction.
If anyone here had reason to refer to it by it's nationality or ethnicity, I have zero doubt it would be a "american" or perhaps "english" (the name of the language, after all) name. If someone were from russion, with a name indicative of that, spelled in cyrillic letters, it would be a russian name, not an eastern orthodox name.
Haha. Don't get me wrong, no lover of Dubya here. But all Clinton can claim is that he stopped digging as quickly, and maybe a promise to stop digging altogether a few years from now. No one ever mentions this, or even considers climbing out of the hole...
Also, unless all indian names have religious implications, isn't hindi the appropriate term? I mean, I have an english/american name, not a christian one...
Set up some public keys for federal agencies, and let us post our info in encrypted form... they can read it whenever they want, and no worry of it being harvested by spammers.
Slashdot Mirror
I hate lawyers in general. I don't think that the law should be so obtuse, so esoteric that it can't be fathomed by the common man. There are only a few reasons to make it that way, and none of them are what I would call "good".
If I were on trial (criminal), would I want a lawyer? Well, only a fool represents himself... but my first few choices don't hold license to practice law. What choice do I have then?
Yes, but pointing this out is trolling. Prepare to have your karma revoked...
First, I don't want this nation managed as if it were a corporation. I'm not a shareholder, I'm a citizen.
It isn't my responsibility to pay taxes. The country did well for more than 100 years with no income tax at all. You are right about one thing though, it is someone's responsibility to spend this money... Congress controls the budget as far as I'm aware.
I've sacrificed far too much already, and I have nothing left to give that can possibly win the "war on terror". The term itself is a dead giveaway, they can't possibly solve the problem unless it is a war... and the only kind of war it can be is unwinnable.
Now, maybe I'm an idiot, but I don't believe my income tax pays for my internet service (even indirectly), radio (you must be kidding, the FCC sold the family cow for magic beans), and federal funding seems to only work for the most bizarre shit. Instead of buying our own fusion research, we're waiting 20 years for ITER to decide where to build the facility?
What we need to do, is simple:
A) Lower all congressional salaries to $75,000 a year. Lower the presidential salary to $95,000 a year. Symbolic, but a good one. And before you yuppies start getting all pissy, $75,000 a year would make my life sooooo nice... if they can't live on it, let them starve.
B) Figure out how much tax revenue we bring in, in any given year. Cut this number in half. Allocate it to all government services, on a priority basis. When this limit is reached, nothing else is bought that year. Anything left over pays principle on the debt.
C) Reduce our military to no more than 100,000 soldiers, total. Re-equip them to defend north america and Hawaii as best possible given the manpower.
D) Dissolve the Dept. of Education.
E) Ban anyone provably associated with either the democratic or republican party from ever holding public office, donating money to political parties, or any other political activity other than voting. Shoot the dissenters.
F) Start coining our own money, rather than allowing the Federal Reserve to do it.
Mr. President, do you believe that the government should decide whether I can marry 3 people simultaneously, or whether one of these "people" can't be a horse or other arbitrary livestock?
Confucius say "Ack..." *dies*. Because Confucianism is counter-revolutionary superstition!
Not even a muslim, #3 seems right to me too. #1 seems problematic... how can it be any sort of binding contract when I have to pay for it before I even know what I'm agreeing to? But once I've seen the "contract", I can't get my money back if I disagree.
I mean no disrespect. However, it's clear just from the fact that there are different sects of Islam, that people can interpret the Quran differently, is it not?
While these muslims may have interpreted it that way on their own, given time or chance, I still wonder if they might have interpreted it differently.
I ask you, as you understand it, is IP infringement theft? Your own religion was renowned throughout the world as the foundation for some of the best science ever, while my own ancestors struggled through the dark ages. Those scientists didn't make the great advances they did by setting up an obtuse form of monopolistic protectionism.
Since IP is nothing more than a government granted monopoly (it's only wrong to copy if the government says so), how can this be anything like theft? Wrong maybe, on the level of not obeying your government (supposing that is a sin for muslims), but certainly not theft?
And yet, once out, OSS patches are generally praised, and rarely complained about. Microsoft spends months writing their patches, a week on top of that being stingy with them, and often they're still pieces of shit. So, in the end, all that fancy regression testing does nothing...
Aren't you describing a heap overflow though? And anything that has a proper memory management scheme should just you a segfault and crash gracefully... unless the guys at Microsoft commonly declare space on the stack for big images.
Heh. What would the -1s be?
-1, Duplicate.
-1, JonKatz
-1, Spam
Well, not very bright, and apparently not able to read. Off the shelf VPN software, tardboy. Doesn't even require any specific implementation (though I'd stay away from MS PPTP).
How can this be anonymous then? Routing. You don't send packets to their destination directly, another peer forwards them. You'll only know remote destinations by a 10.x.x.x IP that is meaningless. And if you choose your peers carefully (across an international border), then they can't be forced to snitch on you, useful wiretaps become difficult, search warrants, and all that junk are hindered.
Well, at least we agree it's a problem. Don't know that moderation can fix it, or we'd have too many ijits voting Roland's story in.
Yeh, as an article. The sig generally only causes tolerable traffic.
Actually, I believe the most successful prosthetics actually just apply the sensation to the skin of the stump itself. For instance, a heat sensor in the hand will activate something that heats up against the stump, imparting the sensation.
I've read of some that have quite a few pressure sensors in them, that apply some sort of electrical 'tickle' to what's left of the leg... supposedly makes it much easier to walk with them.
Our friend Roland must do nothing but sit around all day submitting articles on slashdot. I've never seen less than 1 per day, and I rarely read section stories. Amazing how he never forgets that link to his own spammy blog, isn't it?
I mean, goddamn. I expect ads, so editors, if he's paying for it, by all means put it up here. Just don't try to sneak it past us as a quasi-article, ok? With as many duplicate submissions as you guys must get, it's just impossible that it's not a covert ad.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt though. Just do us all a favor, and put him in a killfile. Let him post comments, I don't care... but the article submission is starting to grate on my nerves. Tell you what, do it, and I'll subscribe. I'm sure others will too.
Actually, both groups are going after all sorts of religions. For instance, they "lobbied" (no idea what word to use here, bribed?) Sunni Islam into declaring it a sin to infringe intellectual property less than a year ago.
Personally I'd find it hilarious, if it wasn't so serious... how far can they go? 200 years after the death of the author, life in prison for breaking a directv card?
the Motion Picture Association of America, which says it loses $3.5 billion annually to piracy
Hollywood accounting, ya gotta love it, babe.
Yeh, my favorite was that Forest Gump made no profit whatsoever. At least for the purposes of royalties to the original author. Haha.
Wonder what this means for my own anonymous network... we're finally starting to see some geometric growth. Figures, eh?
Ok, I'll buy that. Sanskrit they are, as far as I'm concerned. Does make sense now that you've said it...
Emphasis on the "historically". I've never heard that spoken once in my life, knowing it best only from historical fiction.
If anyone here had reason to refer to it by it's nationality or ethnicity, I have zero doubt it would be a "american" or perhaps "english" (the name of the language, after all) name. If someone were from russion, with a name indicative of that, spelled in cyrillic letters, it would be a russian name, not an eastern orthodox name.
Haha. Don't get me wrong, no lover of Dubya here. But all Clinton can claim is that he stopped digging as quickly, and maybe a promise to stop digging altogether a few years from now. No one ever mentions this, or even considers climbing out of the hole...
Who said I had a point?
Also, unless all indian names have religious implications, isn't hindi the appropriate term? I mean, I have an english/american name, not a christian one...
Isn't that a sikh rather than typical hindi name? You should have used one like:
Bavhagamanuptraveninah
Set up some public keys for federal agencies, and let us post our info in encrypted form... they can read it whenever they want, and no worry of it being harvested by spammers.
Too bad this isn't on fark, I have a hell of a photoshop idea for this...
IBM Detects and Changes Spin of Single Election.
Damn you Taco, and your politics section, it's corrupted my mind!