You keep telling yourself that. Good luck. Ill take my rights. You beg autocrats.
Don't imply I'm a coward, you have no fucking idea. You didn't fight for your rights (unless you were a contemporary of Ben Franklin). You inherited them. Fighting a government with a supply line of sailing ships on the other side of the Atlantic is rather different to one with 2 million troops, tanks, not to mention nuclear weapons, a day's train ride away. The world isn't a Tom Clancy fantasy.
I think the sensible strategy is to use a fast, minimalist PDF reader
I use Acrobat 4. It can display and print 99% of the PDF files I need. I can warm up a later version of the reader if I have to, a few times a year. It's much smaller and faster than current versions, and I doubt it is vulnerable to any exploits, at worst it would crash or fail to open a document.
Also Elcomsoft's Advanced eBook Processor to strip away silly print or selection restrictions is useful. Thanks Dmitry.
n. the generic term for all crimes in which a person intentionally and fraudulently takes personal property of another without permission or consent and with the intent to convert it to the taker's use (including potential sale). In many states, if the value of the property taken is low (for example, less than $500) the crime is "petty theft," but it is "grand theft" for larger amounts, designated misdemeanor or felony, respectively. Theft is synonymous with "larceny." Although robbery (taking by force), burglary (taken by entering unlawfully) and embezzlement (stealing from an employer) are all commonly thought of as theft, they are distinguished by the means and methods used and are separately designated as those types of crimes in criminal charges and statutory punishments.
See also: burglary embezzlement larceny robbery
Ha. Florida was cited as an example of a place where letting any idiot have a gun had saved lives. I pointed out that the murder rate there is 22 times higher than Hong Kong.
you are arguing for a totlitarian regime.
There are things about Hong Kong I don't like. It's not terribly democratic, but far frm totalitarian. For one thing, we put a lot fewer of our citizens in jail than the US does.
In any case, that's as irrelevant to the subject as the fact that chopsticks are preferred to knives and forks. Hong Kong is a big modern city, with almost no guns and a minuscule murder rate. I don't know or care who "Kleck" is. America has massively higher murder AND gun ownership rates than any other non-third-world country. These are related and and I don't care how you spin it.
Ah Yes, Hong Kong, the city with a totalitarian communist government.
Your example could easily argue for a totalitarian autocracy.
Youd think after Bush you would learn civil rights (particularly enumerated ones in the US constitution) would be something you would want.
Guns have been restricted here for at least 50 years, long before China took over. There are probably more communists in San Francisco than Hong Kong. Certainly none in the territory government anyway.
As for democracy, having a gun on every bedside table wouldn't help. We have million-man marches here at least once a year in support of democracy; Beijing will eventually bend to that pressure. If hotheads went up against them with guns, that would be an excellent excuse to crack down and institute martial law. Remember Waco? It would end like that, but with thousands dead, not dozens.
I noticed you didn't include a link, so are those homicide rates for all homicides or just those where a firearm was used?
Both pages just said "homicides". In Hong Kong, a city of 7 million, gun homicides are extremely rare, not even one most years, despite what you might see in John Woo movies. Kitchen choppers seem to be the most common murder weapon.
If you use Blogger, everyone interested in your persona knows what you're passionate about. That's the damn point of blogging.
Some people might have passions they'd rather not were public knowledge, so they create an online identity they use when in an online community of like-minded souls. (As I do here, my name is not actually "1u3hr".) Google though knows all your identities, either because you told them directly to sign up for GMail, Blogger, etc, or they can deduce them from the linkages. If you didn't use your real name when signing up, it will soon turn up in your mail or posts somewhere.
If we weren't killed by the radiation* first. The gravity is only 2.2 g; not comfortable, but you could get around; very slowly.
* Jupiter actually gives off more heat than it gets from the Sun. This heat comes from two sources - the slow collapse of the solid core, and the heat of decay from various radioactive trace elements. This energy appears as radiation, and as various radio signals. The radiation from Jupiter at close range is enough to kill an unprotected human within minutes.
Without the CCTV footage, the police wouldn't have had any leads to work with in the James Bulger case
If you spent the same amount of money on putting a few hundred more police on patrol, would you solve, or prevent, more such crimes? And the Bolger kid is dead, the cameras didn't save him. A policeman on the scene might have.
cities with effective gun bans are the worst in crime, see DC and Chicago.)
Or see Hong Kong, effective gun control, low crime. Cities in the US with gun control have a hopeless problem preventing guns coming in from less-restricted parts of the country. Your examples could as easlily argue for national restrictions.
Name three achivements of the UN since it's founding.
(NB: "its", not "it's")
There are 50 listed
here. Some are a bit wishy-washy, but a few highlights:
World Food Programme (WFP): in 2001 distributed 4.2 million tons of food to 77 million people in 82 countries.
Providing safe drinking water - UN agencies have worked to make safe drinking water available to 1.3 billion people in rural areas during the last decade.
Clearing land mines - The United Nations is leading an international effort to clear land mines from former battlefields in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, El Salvador, Mozambique, Rwanda and Somalia.
Improving global communications - The Universal Postal Union (UPU) has maintained and regulated international mail delivery. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has coordinated use of the radio spectrum
My favorites:
No world wars. That was and is the main reason for the UN. Better for bureaucrats to waste time and money papershuffling than let machismo rule.
if you don't like the terms of the product, do not buy it
"Terms of a product"? Trying to prevent the owners of a product from using it however they want is no concern of the manufacturer. They can withdraw warranties if they feel justified, the rest is bullshit.
Apple is an American-based company, Slashdot is an American-based site and, last I heard, the majority of users were in America. Being American-centric makes sense in this case.
That ignores the fact that "foreigners" could legally sell and/or publish iPhone hacks on "foreign" websites, which of course would be accessible to you isolationist Americans if you dared to click on a link. Remember, WWW = World-Wide Web.
I'm sure they're must be some security software that uses whitlists already. Does anyone know of any free ones?
Many firewalls use the whitelist principle. Eg, Zonealarm. When you install it, nothing is approved. As any program tries to access hte network, you get a popup asking you to approve one-time-only, or to put the program on the trusted list. Seems to work quite well, 5 years, and none of the PCs I or my family use have had any security issues.
But it does require some judgement. The stereotypical Joe User will just approve anything, making the alerts moot. (My daughter has a non-admin account and can't do that.)
I would be curious to know, however, on what basis you disagree
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I'm sure you're sincere. But I've been online in various ways for about 15 years, and one thing I've learnt is that gun debates never end and no one ever changes their mind. They just throw "facts" and ultimately insults at each other till one or the other gets exhausted. Same as Creationism debates. I've indulged in it a few times and it's just a waste of time all around.
I've often wondered if we should legalize prostitution and have laws regarding involuntary celibacy (i.e. government sponsored sex, to keep men from turning into rapists / pedophiles)
Rape isn't just about finding a hole to ejaculate into, it's an act to assert power. While prostitution is not legal in most countries, it's widely tolerated. And one might argue that it contributes to reducing the rape rate, in no case has having cheap sex available stopped rape from occurring. Those that way inclined just use it an excuse "They're all prostitutes". Rapes between acquaintances and family members will not be reduced.
To be fair, the idea is that gun control makes it harder for the bad guy, willing to be bad though be may be, to actually obtain a gun.
I think we agree that this idea happens to be very incorrect,
Actually, no, "we" don't agree. DO NOT claim that everyone, even a majority, agrees with you. But rather than spawn yet another 400-post 2nd Amendment flame war, I'll leave it at that.
They're NOT Mp3. TFA doesn't say they are, though it says "plays on MP3 players". If you read on you see they're DRM WMA. This "IPOd-resiatant music" headlne is just idiotic, especially for a site like Slashdot where the audience as a whole understands that MP3 is not a synonym for "music file".
Slashdot Mirror
Don't imply I'm a coward, you have no fucking idea. You didn't fight for your rights (unless you were a contemporary of Ben Franklin). You inherited them. Fighting a government with a supply line of sailing ships on the other side of the Atlantic is rather different to one with 2 million troops, tanks, not to mention nuclear weapons, a day's train ride away. The world isn't a Tom Clancy fantasy.
I use Acrobat 4. It can display and print 99% of the PDF files I need. I can warm up a later version of the reader if I have to, a few times a year. It's much smaller and faster than current versions, and I doubt it is vulnerable to any exploits, at worst it would crash or fail to open a document.
Also Elcomsoft's Advanced eBook Processor to strip away silly print or selection restrictions is useful. Thanks Dmitry.
Perhaps that would be attempted theft, the act isn't complete till you've taken it away.
theft
n. the generic term for all crimes in which a person intentionally and fraudulently takes personal property of another without permission or consent and with the intent to convert it to the taker's use (including potential sale). In many states, if the value of the property taken is low (for example, less than $500) the crime is "petty theft," but it is "grand theft" for larger amounts, designated misdemeanor or felony, respectively. Theft is synonymous with "larceny." Although robbery (taking by force), burglary (taken by entering unlawfully) and embezzlement (stealing from an employer) are all commonly thought of as theft, they are distinguished by the means and methods used and are separately designated as those types of crimes in criminal charges and statutory punishments.
See also: burglary embezzlement larceny robbery
Ha. Florida was cited as an example of a place where letting any idiot have a gun had saved lives. I pointed out that the murder rate there is 22 times higher than Hong Kong. you are arguing for a totlitarian regime.
There are things about Hong Kong I don't like. It's not terribly democratic, but far frm totalitarian. For one thing, we put a lot fewer of our citizens in jail than the US does.
In any case, that's as irrelevant to the subject as the fact that chopsticks are preferred to knives and forks. Hong Kong is a big modern city, with almost no guns and a minuscule murder rate. I don't know or care who "Kleck" is. America has massively higher murder AND gun ownership rates than any other non-third-world country. These are related and and I don't care how you spin it.
Guns have been restricted here for at least 50 years, long before China took over. There are probably more communists in San Francisco than Hong Kong. Certainly none in the territory government anyway.
As for democracy, having a gun on every bedside table wouldn't help. We have million-man marches here at least once a year in support of democracy; Beijing will eventually bend to that pressure. If hotheads went up against them with guns, that would be an excellent excuse to crack down and institute martial law. Remember Waco? It would end like that, but with thousands dead, not dozens.
Both pages just said "homicides". In Hong Kong, a city of 7 million, gun homicides are extremely rare, not even one most years, despite what you might see in John Woo movies. Kitchen choppers seem to be the most common murder weapon.
Some people might have passions they'd rather not were public knowledge, so they create an online identity they use when in an online community of like-minded souls. (As I do here, my name is not actually "1u3hr".) Google though knows all your identities, either because you told them directly to sign up for GMail, Blogger, etc, or they can deduce them from the linkages. If you didn't use your real name when signing up, it will soon turn up in your mail or posts somewhere.
Homicide rates: per 100,000 pop. (Wikipedia)
Florida (concealed carry): 13.9
Hong Kong (strict gun control): 0.63
"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping a human face... forever."
If you spent the same amount of money on putting a few hundred more police on patrol, would you solve, or prevent, more such crimes? And the Bolger kid is dead, the cameras didn't save him. A policeman on the scene might have.
Or see Hong Kong, effective gun control, low crime. Cities in the US with gun control have a hopeless problem preventing guns coming in from less-restricted parts of the country. Your examples could as easlily argue for national restrictions.
the mother of World Wars it will mostly the the UN to blame for allowing it. Ok, them and the Democrat Party here in the US.
Okay, you're a wingnut.
(NB: "its", not "it's")
There are 50 listed here. Some are a bit wishy-washy, but a few highlights:
My favorites:
- No world wars. That was and is the main reason for the UN. Better for bureaucrats to waste time and money papershuffling than let machismo rule.
- Eradication of smallpox
Either easily justify the UN all by themself.Anyway, I watch TV on my TV, not my PC. If I can't move it to my TV easily, no thanks.
"Terms of a product"? Trying to prevent the owners of a product from using it however they want is no concern of the manufacturer. They can withdraw warranties if they feel justified, the rest is bullshit.
That ignores the fact that "foreigners" could legally sell and/or publish iPhone hacks on "foreign" websites, which of course would be accessible to you isolationist Americans if you dared to click on a link. Remember, WWW = World-Wide Web.
Many firewalls use the whitelist principle. Eg, Zonealarm. When you install it, nothing is approved. As any program tries to access hte network, you get a popup asking you to approve one-time-only, or to put the program on the trusted list. Seems to work quite well, 5 years, and none of the PCs I or my family use have had any security issues.
But it does require some judgement. The stereotypical Joe User will just approve anything, making the alerts moot. (My daughter has a non-admin account and can't do that.)
| I'm sure you're sincere. But I've been online in various ways for about 15 years, and one thing I've learnt is that gun debates never end and no one ever changes their mind. They just throw "facts" and ultimately insults at each other till one or the other gets exhausted. Same as Creationism debates. I've indulged in it a few times and it's just a waste of time all around.
Where did the submitter or editor get the idea that Michael Dirda is a "Sci-Fi Writer"?
He's a journalist. He writes book reviews. His only other publication I can find is an autobiography.
You can't blame the Washington Post, there is no description of Dirda as "sci-fi writer".
The GAME is described as sci-fi. That's all.
Get a fucking clue, "editors".
Rape isn't just about finding a hole to ejaculate into, it's an act to assert power. While prostitution is not legal in most countries, it's widely tolerated. And one might argue that it contributes to reducing the rape rate, in no case has having cheap sex available stopped rape from occurring. Those that way inclined just use it an excuse "They're all prostitutes". Rapes between acquaintances and family members will not be reduced.
Actually, no, "we" don't agree. DO NOT claim that everyone, even a majority, agrees with you. But rather than spawn yet another 400-post 2nd Amendment flame war, I'll leave it at that.
They're NOT Mp3. TFA doesn't say they are, though it says "plays on MP3 players". If you read on you see they're DRM WMA. This "IPOd-resiatant music" headlne is just idiotic, especially for a site like Slashdot where the audience as a whole understands that MP3 is not a synonym for "music file".
Sorry, I read LoTR three times as a teenager. Never could get into Jordan. Maybe it depends on whihc you read first.
Unless you prefer to measure quality, not kilograms.