One thing that I've worried about for quite some time is, once we finally legalize marijuana in most states, what will the cops use to frame anyone they want to fuck up? If it's pot, the penalties are fairly limited. If it's kiddie porn on their computer or phone, they could imprison them indefinitely.
On a related note, the Soviet Union used to routinely confine dissidents to psychiatric hospitals if they were too well-known to just disappear in the gulag.
One more in a long line of supreme court failures to uphold the constitution. When a prisoner's sentence is up, holding him in prison is false imprisonment and kidnapping.
If you're thinking of the QSST project, that looked pretty interesting, but i think they might have gone out of business already. Their web site seems to have gone missing.
If a private school graduates an illiterate, they'd go out of business. When a public school does it, they wail for more funding, and generally get it.
>The left has been doing a LOT more social indoctrination crap in the schools over the years than the right, largely because the teacher's unions are fairly hardcore lefties.
The habit of using schools for indoctrination goes back to the time when all of the "progressives", (as they called themselves) were in the Republican party. They saw the schools as a tool for the obnoxious puritan belief that it was a prerogative of the government to rule the people to "improve" them.
It's the same mentality that tried to wipe out Indian culture by forcing them onto reservations and their kids into government boarding schools; that tried to "improve the race" by forced sterilizations and other crimes against humanity under the name of "eugenics"; that thought it was just fine and dandy to impose prohibition of alcohol (and perpetrate an unconstitutional War on Drugs today); and that believes it's the government's responsibility to pass laws to keep people from getting fat!
"left" and "right" is a false dichotomy. The real division is between freedom and tyranny.
When you leave it up to the government to decide what to teach everybody's kids, sometimes the people who get to decide what to teach your kids are going to be wrong.
There is a difference between Apple delivering porn, and Apple attempting to stop everyone else from delivering it.
Sure there'ss a difference, and Apple isn't trying to stop anyone else from delivering it. Try it for yourself: go to any porn site with Mobile Safari. Apple's not going to host porn apps on the App store, and that's a good business decision.
I'm somewhat skeptical that they can continue to execute,
The biggest operational problem I've seen on Apple's part since I went to work there back in '02 was underestimating demand for new products, and of all the problems a business can have, back-orders are one of the best.
Well, sure there's going to be porn on the iPhone too, but Apple's not going to be the company that delivers it. Frankly, I can see where he's coming from on that, because the last thing a company of Apple's size needs is a pretext for puritans and politicians to bash them over.
Want some reality? Take a look at Apple's financial reports for the last couple of years. They're the second-most valuable company on the S&P 500, and their P/E ratio is pretty modest at 21 and a half.
Actually, I hadn't realized it was a Gawker site. I won't be giving them any more page hits.
As much as I enjoyed watching SJ take that clown to school, it probably isn't a good idea for him to do so since there's likely to be litigation against his employer in the near future.
.I'm pretty okay with absolute immunity to civil suits as a policy..Even when the official has committed a criminal fraud? If a cop does the same thing, they'd be facing financial ruin, and justly so. It's dangerous as hell give officials impunity for criminal actions. It's bad enough to have officials who believe they're entitled to it.
I think these sort of crimes are vastly worse than robbery, rape, murder
Victims can sue robbers, rapists and murders for financial damages.
back away from branding anyone who disagrees with you as either evil, or abetting evil-doers
I disagree with Dennis Kucinich on many things, but I don't believe he's evil. Kagan is evil because she does evil. It's the definition of an evil person.
Yes, this one actually is. She argued that prosecutors should be allowed to break the law and suffer no retribution from their victims. You can toss all the sophistry you want at it, but it's still evil.
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One thing that I've worried about for quite some time is, once we finally legalize marijuana in most states, what will the cops use to frame anyone they want to fuck up? If it's pot, the penalties are fairly limited. If it's kiddie porn on their computer or phone, they could imprison them indefinitely.
-jcr
On a related note, the Soviet Union used to routinely confine dissidents to psychiatric hospitals if they were too well-known to just disappear in the gulag.
-jcr
No, if the sheep has a gun, it's a republic.
-jcr
One more in a long line of supreme court failures to uphold the constitution. When a prisoner's sentence is up, holding him in prison is false imprisonment and kidnapping.
-jcr
If you're thinking of the QSST project, that looked pretty interesting, but i think they might have gone out of business already. Their web site seems to have gone missing.
-jcr
Just imagine the outcry if Microsoft banned all other development environments than Visual Studio and .NET from Windows.
It would probably be similar to the outcry if Apple banned other development environments from the Mac.
Now, imagine if Microsoft had such a ban for WINCE or Windows Mobile development. The reaction would be about the same as Apple's getting.
-jcr
3G drained the battery
It did. Apple added 3G to the iPhone when lower-power transceivers became available.
-jcr
If a private school graduates an illiterate, they'd go out of business. When a public school does it, they wail for more funding, and generally get it.
-jcr
So, you support school choice, except for those people to whom you feel superior?
Get bent.
-jcr
But what is good for Apple isn't necessarily good for the world.
So, want to tell me how the world is improved if Apple abandons quality control? Knock yourself out.
-jcr
>The left has been doing a LOT more social indoctrination crap in the schools over the years than the right, largely because the teacher's unions are fairly hardcore lefties.
The habit of using schools for indoctrination goes back to the time when all of the "progressives", (as they called themselves) were in the Republican party. They saw the schools as a tool for the obnoxious puritan belief that it was a prerogative of the government to rule the people to "improve" them.
It's the same mentality that tried to wipe out Indian culture by forcing them onto reservations and their kids into government boarding schools; that tried to "improve the race" by forced sterilizations and other crimes against humanity under the name of "eugenics"; that thought it was just fine and dandy to impose prohibition of alcohol (and perpetrate an unconstitutional War on Drugs today); and that believes it's the government's responsibility to pass laws to keep people from getting fat!
"left" and "right" is a false dichotomy. The real division is between freedom and tyranny.
-jcr
When you leave it up to the government to decide what to teach everybody's kids, sometimes the people who get to decide what to teach your kids are going to be wrong.
-jcr
There is a difference between Apple delivering porn, and Apple attempting to stop everyone else from delivering it.
Sure there'ss a difference, and Apple isn't trying to stop anyone else from delivering it. Try it for yourself: go to any porn site with Mobile Safari. Apple's not going to host porn apps on the App store, and that's a good business decision.
-jcr
I'm somewhat skeptical that they can continue to execute,
The biggest operational problem I've seen on Apple's part since I went to work there back in '02 was underestimating demand for new products, and of all the problems a business can have, back-orders are one of the best.
-jcr
Didn't we despise Microsoft because of how successful they were?
Maybe you did, but my objection to them was for the multiple crimes they committed, and the dismal quality of their products.
-jcr
Well, sure there's going to be porn on the iPhone too, but Apple's not going to be the company that delivers it. Frankly, I can see where he's coming from on that, because the last thing a company of Apple's size needs is a pretext for puritans and politicians to bash them over.
-jcr
Jobs' empire is falling down around him.
AAPL: $253.82 Market Cap: $230.96B P/E: 21.54.
How can I get an empire to fall down around me like that?
-jcr
Reality...
Want some reality? Take a look at Apple's financial reports for the last couple of years. They're the second-most valuable company on the S&P 500, and their P/E ratio is pretty modest at 21 and a half.
-jcr
Actually, I hadn't realized it was a Gawker site. I won't be giving them any more page hits.
As much as I enjoyed watching SJ take that clown to school, it probably isn't a good idea for him to do so since there's likely to be litigation against his employer in the near future.
-jcr
.I'm pretty okay with absolute immunity to civil suits as a policy. .Even when the official has committed a criminal fraud? If a cop does the same thing, they'd be facing financial ruin, and justly so. It's dangerous as hell give officials impunity for criminal actions. It's bad enough to have officials who believe they're entitled to it.
I think these sort of crimes are vastly worse than robbery, rape, murder
Victims can sue robbers, rapists and murders for financial damages.
-jcr
That is an exceptionally shallow, polarized conclusion to a complex question.
Oh, tell it to a judge at Nuremburg.
Before you jump to such conclusions, talk to your friends who are lawyers.
I didn't "jump" to this conclusion. I read the brief, and concluded that she is bereft of morality.
-jcr
back away from branding anyone who disagrees with you as either evil, or abetting evil-doers
I disagree with Dennis Kucinich on many things, but I don't believe he's evil. Kagan is evil because she does evil. It's the definition of an evil person.
-jcr
> this case is not a matter of good vs. evil.
Yes, this one actually is. She argued that prosecutors should be allowed to break the law and suffer no retribution from their victims. You can toss all the sophistry you want at it, but it's still evil.
-jcr
I don't know if that idiot at Gizmodo thought he was being funny or what, but that jazz about "real rocket launched vertically" was a waste of space.
-jcr
Didn't they claim to have cured cancer at some point, too?
-jcr