We sort of tried this; the problem is that when there's trouble on the line, the phone company blames it on the ISP, and the ISP (probably more correctly) blames it on the phone company, and meanwhile you've got no internet service...
All the government regulation we had failed utterly to prevent this spill. The only thing it's done since the spill is slow down mitigation and recovery - like when the Coast Guard started boarding boom boats to do lifejacket investigations (instead of just throwing a dozen lifejackets on board and sending them on their way), or when we turned down the offer of skimmers from the Dutch on the grounds that they didn't get water clean enough, and then, when we accepted them, didn't temporarily suspend enforcement of the Jones Act to allow their ships (with experienced crew) to come over here.
Don't get so mad at the corporations that you forget that government does bad things too - like capping liability payments.
Or he's athletic. At the thinnest I've ever been - in terms of body fat, not weight - I weighed 205 lb. I was also doing 300 lb squats and benching a little over 200.
The problem, of course, is that not everyone does a hack de novo. Most of the cheaters are going to be the ones who heard about the hack from someone else, or even paid someone else to do the hack for them.
It's entirely possible to add, subtract, multiply, and divide without set theory. Or did I just imagine the Roman Empire? Don't confuse the provable theoretical underpinning with the thing itself.
If you'd care to read your own article, only one of the three was ever held at Gitmo, and he was not taken in the US, but "in the field". Still, more than I was able to come up with.
Not everybody in Gitmo deserved to be there. That doesn't mean that nobody deserved to be there, just that the danger of the precedent is quite a bit less. What the US Government does with people taken overseas who are not US citizens is a great deal less worrying to me than what it does with US citizens on US soil; the Padilla case is the perfect example of something that really is troubling. Your statement,
GITMO, that name ring any bells for you?
was in response to this statement:
For starters, in China, this guy would stand a good chance of being disappeared or shot.
Do you really think that Gitmo is an example of how the US government behaves toward citizens? I don't. Does it mean that the US isn't perfect? Well, yes. Of course it's not. But we don't have desaparecidos, and I think that's a big difference.
Also, to the pussies who modded me troll for my original response to h4rr4r (and whoever modded h4rr4r flamebait, too), I'm pleased to know we pissed you off. Whatever will I do now? This might cost me a tiny fraction of the enormous mountain of karma I've got.
The first access to Thunderbird might have been innocent - you start it up, it does that before you can enter your own information. The other three are malfeasance.
Also note that the person may have purchased your laptop unaware that it was stolen.
Bullshit. Seriously: bullshit. The thing hasn't been wiped, and the user has run Thunderbird multiple times. A legit buyer might have run it once, to set it to their own account. This is a damned thief.
When some dude who looks like Jeff Spicoli offers you a laptop for $200 that has a bunch of papers about quantum physics in the "My Documents" section, you know you bought a stolen machine.
The insurance deductible is probably more than the laptop's worth. And he knows the thief's IP address, which should be enough to track him down to a specific home. (My IP address hasn't changed in several weeks.) It's a trivial thing to do; he needs one letter from the DA to make it happen, and one police report to get the DA to write the letter. But neither of them gives a shit about him, because he doesn't live in their jurisdiction.
You can't force them to do it by yourself, but they can always choose to offer up the information voluntarily. I've known a few small ISPs who would be willing to do this sort of thing.
Your tenacity is impressive, but I'm just not sure what you're looking for here. Libertarians believe in human freedom, and in limiting the powers of the state to run your life. That's frequently mischaracterized as a desire to dismantle all government regulation, because there are a handful of Randroids out there who really believe that everything can be handled by contract. I can't really state it more simply than that, and since your goal seems to be to prove to yourself that you're right, I have no doubt that you'll succeed.
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We sort of tried this; the problem is that when there's trouble on the line, the phone company blames it on the ISP, and the ISP (probably more correctly) blames it on the phone company, and meanwhile you've got no internet service...
It might even be rational, a priori, to take the risk - how risky is it to try to replace a blowout preventer in situ?
All the government regulation we had failed utterly to prevent this spill. The only thing it's done since the spill is slow down mitigation and recovery - like when the Coast Guard started boarding boom boats to do lifejacket investigations (instead of just throwing a dozen lifejackets on board and sending them on their way), or when we turned down the offer of skimmers from the Dutch on the grounds that they didn't get water clean enough, and then, when we accepted them, didn't temporarily suspend enforcement of the Jones Act to allow their ships (with experienced crew) to come over here.
Don't get so mad at the corporations that you forget that government does bad things too - like capping liability payments.
Or he's athletic. At the thinnest I've ever been - in terms of body fat, not weight - I weighed 205 lb. I was also doing 300 lb squats and benching a little over 200.
I know, but it's more fun to be snarky than to contribute meaningfully to the discussion, and I occasionally fall prey to the temptation to do so.
No, "discreet" = "can keep a secret". "Discrete" = stand-alone.
The problem, of course, is that not everyone does a hack de novo. Most of the cheaters are going to be the ones who heard about the hack from someone else, or even paid someone else to do the hack for them.
Without math you don't have arithmetic.
It's entirely possible to add, subtract, multiply, and divide without set theory. Or did I just imagine the Roman Empire? Don't confuse the provable theoretical underpinning with the thing itself.
Even scarier is the fact that several court decisions have come down in favor
If it makes you feel any better, several are from circuit courts, who aren't supposed to go around reversing the USSC once it has spoken.
If you'd care to read your own article, only one of the three was ever held at Gitmo, and he was not taken in the US, but "in the field". Still, more than I was able to come up with.
GITMO, that name ring any bells for you?
was in response to this statement:
For starters, in China, this guy would stand a good chance of being disappeared or shot.
Do you really think that Gitmo is an example of how the US government behaves toward citizens? I don't. Does it mean that the US isn't perfect? Well, yes. Of course it's not. But we don't have desaparecidos, and I think that's a big difference.
Also, to the pussies who modded me troll for my original response to h4rr4r (and whoever modded h4rr4r flamebait, too), I'm pleased to know we pissed you off. Whatever will I do now? This might cost me a tiny fraction of the enormous mountain of karma I've got.
just put a fucking antenna on the phone
In addition to being ugly, this makes phones larger and harder to carry in a pocket. Nobody wants that.
I'm not aware of any US citizens who are, or were, detained in the camps at Guantanamo Bay. Are you? It would be quite an impressive story.
p3droid is a reasonably well known guy in the Droid world; he's the producer of a lot of popular overclocking kernels for the original Droid.
Meanwhile, billionaires say it's not all about money, and Hollywood stars say it's not all about looks.
You're assuming a bankruptcy judge won't see through that. Possible, but I wouldn't bet a lot of money on it.
Christ on a crutch, man, he obviously means they test everything they write about. Firearms don't fall in that category.
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I would hope they've evolved since 1995.
The first access to Thunderbird might have been innocent - you start it up, it does that before you can enter your own information. The other three are malfeasance.
Also note that the person may have purchased your laptop unaware that it was stolen.
Bullshit. Seriously: bullshit. The thing hasn't been wiped, and the user has run Thunderbird multiple times. A legit buyer might have run it once, to set it to their own account. This is a damned thief.
When some dude who looks like Jeff Spicoli offers you a laptop for $200 that has a bunch of papers about quantum physics in the "My Documents" section, you know you bought a stolen machine.
The insurance deductible is probably more than the laptop's worth. And he knows the thief's IP address, which should be enough to track him down to a specific home. (My IP address hasn't changed in several weeks.) It's a trivial thing to do; he needs one letter from the DA to make it happen, and one police report to get the DA to write the letter. But neither of them gives a shit about him, because he doesn't live in their jurisdiction.
You can't force them to do it by yourself, but they can always choose to offer up the information voluntarily. I've known a few small ISPs who would be willing to do this sort of thing.
Your tenacity is impressive, but I'm just not sure what you're looking for here. Libertarians believe in human freedom, and in limiting the powers of the state to run your life. That's frequently mischaracterized as a desire to dismantle all government regulation, because there are a handful of Randroids out there who really believe that everything can be handled by contract. I can't really state it more simply than that, and since your goal seems to be to prove to yourself that you're right, I have no doubt that you'll succeed.
Your style of argument would make Ignatius Loyola proud, but frankly I'm not interested in how many angels dance on a pinhead. Have a nice week.
Ah, "Troll". More openness to ideas.