if you look at the number of people killed by terrorists in the last 5 years, a vast majority of those people were killed by islamofascists.
Not if you count Nepal (Maoists), Sri LAnka (Tamil Tigers) or several countries in South America (Shining Path, etc), just to pick a couple off the top of my head. And lots of other "innocent" people (Muslims mostly), have been killed by radical Hindus in India, and Chrisians in various parts of Africa. But if by "people" you mean white Americans, then of course you're right (or Right), if it's not on Fox News it hardly matters.
I guarantee you the Americans espousing freedom and human rights were NOT the same people as those ignorant assholes in Abu Ghraib.
Bush and Rumsfeld both spend a lot of time talking about freedom and human rights. And both are personally responsible for what happened in Abu Ghraib.
Um, the country you're thinking of is the United States. The US government didn't have anything to do with shutting off this website.
Sure it didn't. And when the NYSE revoked al-Jazeera's press credentials, that was also purely a business decision.
Americans put their hands over their hearts and preach to the world about freedom and human rights, and then turn around and torture prisoners, and attack freedom of the press, not to mention.... and then are bewildered that the world doesn't love them.
I thought the "editors" learned their lesson about publishing urban legends.
As well as they've learnt the ones about spellchecking before you upload, seeing if the links are actually valid, or that the story isn't a dupe from that morning. Not to mention the ever-popular never link to a dynamic URL.
Same as they do when anyone puts up illegal content on a website.
The interesting point is that this could create a shining example of "good" P2P, for when they try to legislate all P2P out of existence as inherently evil.
Anybody else have a problem with the fact that this guy did not do any significant jail time for what he did?
No. Basically he did some inappropriate touching, and made some disgusting suggestions with a visual aid. For which he's answerable to a probation officer for the rest of his life, basically he's under house arrest. Seems appropriate to me. One of the points made in the article is the draconian punishments now given to molestors may make the vicitms, often family members of the molestor, less likely to report knowing the punishment is so severe.
Also your title "30 days suspended - NO jail time" is backwards. It was 30 days jail time, 20 years suspended, as you quoted.
Honestly I didn't catch where the FUD was at. The article did not demonize the internet in any way.
Yes. For once it wasn't The Fucking Article; it was The Fucking Editor who gave it the inflammatory title, following the lead of The Fucking Submitter who highlighted a very small part of the story. In fact the molestor interviewed molested his stepdaughter, who he'd known for almost 10 years. I think he would have regardless of spying on her online chat.
hey're going to voice scan your calls and every 5 minutes there will be an interruption by a commercial.
In TFA "a free telephone service that links users via a broadband internet connection using a headset and home computer." So they would surely display ads while you're making the call. Even conceivably targetted from speech recognition, but that's a long shot and likely to spook people.
Think about the markets that Microsoft hasn't entered yet: AutoCAD Desktop Publishing Graphics Design Quark, MacroMedia, Adobe, these guys are still selling program for $700
If you're not an architect or an engineer, why would you want Autocad at any price? If you are, $700 is peanuts for the tools of the trade. As for DTP, MS does make Publisher, very cheap, (but anyone professional will sneer at it) and is making a new photo editing app, not for professional publishing but for home use. But there is already a huge variety of photo editng apps, including from Adobe who've provided cut down versions of PS (PS Elements, PhotoDeluxe) that sell cheap and are often bundled with scanners or cameras. Corel has very cheap and very powerful photoediting and layout apps (I use their Ventura for laying out books). Paintshop Pro is cheap and has a strong following.
remember what the web browser market had before IE. It has a $30-$50 copy of Netscape.
I remember, I was around then, no one I knew paid anything for Netscape. You got a floppy with Netscape, Eudora and some FTP app when you subscribed to an ISP, and updates were free. Maybe big businesses licensed it.
Microsoft lowered the cost of browsing the web from $30 to nothing
Really? ISPs are free? Far more significant than the cost or otherwise of the browser is the cost of Internet access, i.e. dial up and now Broadband; which has been getting cheaper on the whole, but that has little to do with MS.
If you are skilled enough with rapidly toggling the hook, you could even dial numbers (you can try dialing that way on touch-tone phones too).
I used to do that to make long distance calls from a boarding house -- they had a filter to block those, but I realised it was just blocking the initial zero for all non-local calls, so by clicking 10 times I could get a zero, then dial the rest normally.
Just out of curiosity do you have any particular techniques that you use to try and limit this? I also foudn I make many errors and then never catch them...probably as you suggest because when I re-read them I know what I wanted to say.
Best solution: get someone else to read it, preferably who hasn't seen it in an earlier form. Otherwise, wait at least a few days after writing it before checking it yourself. (Aside from errors, repetitiveness is the most common bug.) And for God's sake, use the spellcheck. I am a book editor, and I now just expect every file to be full of simple stupid spelling mistakes, 95% of which any spellchecker would detect. Maybe people spellcheck once, but then go back and change something, and don't bother to check. If you do it as a routine once a day when working on a long work, it's pretty painless -- just 10 choose the correct "language" (generally UK or US), and make a new custom dictionary for each project. It's good to review the custom dictionary towards the end to see if you've accidentally added wrong words, or variant spellings of the same word (especially names).
with the free trade agreement youll lose farming to australia
As an Australian, I wish. Unfortunately, American products, particularly wheat, will continue to unfairly take markets due to the massive subsidies that will continue in one guise or another.
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In addition to the parents arguments, when a 5mb binary is sent across the lines...
The "99.9%" figure doesn't refer to bandwidth, but the percentage of "conversations" involving some key words (Norton, Microsoft,...) that were, in his judgement, illegal. However, I think most of these "conversations" are from robots, and also the mere choice of such words precludes discussions that aren't illegal but are on other subjects -- it may be true that most of the time the word "Microsoft" comes up it's someone offering or asking for a download. If he'd searched for, say, "Iraq", the answer would have been different. Basically, he just collected text on a few dozen channels for a few hours, grepped for a few words and that was it.
Doesn't even have to be public. One time an lying, scumbag asshole I worked for one time threatened to sue me for libel because when he demanded I work for him again, I told him he was a lying, scumbag asshole in a private email.
As long as it was a private email, between you and him, it's not libel. It has to be seen by at least one third party. If he could show it was seen by his staff, say, in the normal course of work, it might then be libellous, but not if he was the one who deliberately spread it around.
Robert Patrick did a good job of portraying him and didn't half-ass it like almost everything else was half-assed in the later seasons.
Just watching him in a rerun of the last series. An amusing scene where an agent thanks Doggett because his "total lack of imagination" saved them from this kid who could make dreams seem real.
I think the only nude scene Scully ever did (Gillain Anderson may have done some as other characters, of course) was in the very first episode where she has a wholly gratuitous shower scene. Anything to sell the show I suppose.
only wonder what my fate is. I typically call and pester a company if their products happen to arrive via spam email.
Back in the distant past, when spam was a novelty, a local compnay kept spamming me (several copies at a time as my address was the default for unknown addresses at our domain). I called them up and got brushed off by a receptionist. So I called them up one more time for each spam I received, said why I was doing it, and hung up. Then they must have got my number from caller ID as I started to get fax machine calls on my phone. I called them up again and threatened to go to the police if they continued to harass me, they stopped the fax calls but spam continued.
All quite pointless, but illustrates the obliviousness of spammers to how their messages are received and the annoyance they cause.
No, they negotiated to break the law that says you're not allowed to crack copy protection. If I give you the permission to break into my house its still a criminal act if you do so.
Of course it's not illegal. What if I've lost my key, or the door is jammed, etc, etc... and I ask someone, say a locksmith, to break in to my house. Just about any act short of murder is not illegal if the person you're doing it to has and is capable of giving permission. Sorry, but a silly analogy proves nothing (not that a more sound one does much either, analogies serve mainly as illustrations, not as proofs).
I guess the submitter is of Commonwealth origin, as all his comments use "re", while the quoted (American) ad uses "er". Just one of those little details editors are supposed to notice.
Jessica Alba may be a fine piece of ass, but she is totally wrong for this film, as is the rest of the cast.
There're some stills here. Mr Fantastic at least looks too young, he should be mid 30s at least, he was a patriarchal figure. And I never recognised Jessica as a blonde....
A good author produces his or her books from thorough, accurate research. This is especially true of someone writing techno-thrillers like Chrichton--he has to get things pretty much right or his fans will rip the book apart.
Are you serious? 1) His "fans" by definition won't "rip the book apart". Pleanty of critics have though. 2) Techno-thrillers have a veneer of scintific versmilitude -- part of the fun is seeing where the author starts making stuff up. You might as well try to learn medicine from ER (Crichton originated that, btw).
Besides, what makes you think the oil company-sponsored studies are any less accurate than the environmentalist-sponsored ones?
"Environmentalist-sponsored!" How much money do you think environmentalists have? Research is paid for by either governments or large corporations.
And scientists are perfectly aware of who is paying for their funding
As above, funding is not coming from environmentalist groups. The adminstration has desperately tried to find scientists who will support their wish for the problem to disappear, but have found few who will prostitute themselves, and none with any credibility.
So you can't install software - but you get virus protection? From what?
It comes with email filtering against spam and viruses. Obviously Windows viruses aren't going to do any harm on this, but the owners are still going to worry about them. Even if harmless, just deleting dozens of them every day is a pain.
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Not if you count Nepal (Maoists), Sri LAnka (Tamil Tigers) or several countries in South America (Shining Path, etc), just to pick a couple off the top of my head. And lots of other "innocent" people (Muslims mostly), have been killed by radical Hindus in India, and Chrisians in various parts of Africa. But if by "people" you mean white Americans, then of course you're right (or Right), if it's not on Fox News it hardly matters.
Bush and Rumsfeld both spend a lot of time talking about freedom and human rights. And both are personally responsible for what happened in Abu Ghraib.
Sure it didn't. And when the NYSE revoked al-Jazeera's press credentials, that was also purely a business decision.
Americans put their hands over their hearts and preach to the world about freedom and human rights, and then turn around and torture prisoners, and attack freedom of the press, not to mention .... and then are bewildered that the world doesn't love them.
As well as they've learnt the ones about spellchecking before you upload, seeing if the links are actually valid, or that the story isn't a dupe from that morning. Not to mention the ever-popular never link to a dynamic URL.
The interesting point is that this could create a shining example of "good" P2P, for when they try to legislate all P2P out of existence as inherently evil.
No. Basically he did some inappropriate touching, and made some disgusting suggestions with a visual aid. For which he's answerable to a probation officer for the rest of his life, basically he's under house arrest. Seems appropriate to me. One of the points made in the article is the draconian punishments now given to molestors may make the vicitms, often family members of the molestor, less likely to report knowing the punishment is so severe.
Also your title "30 days suspended - NO jail time" is backwards. It was 30 days jail time, 20 years suspended, as you quoted.
Yes. For once it wasn't The Fucking Article; it was The Fucking Editor who gave it the inflammatory title, following the lead of The Fucking Submitter who highlighted a very small part of the story. In fact the molestor interviewed molested his stepdaughter, who he'd known for almost 10 years. I think he would have regardless of spying on her online chat.
In TFA "a free telephone service that links users via a broadband internet connection using a headset and home computer." So they would surely display ads while you're making the call. Even conceivably targetted from speech recognition, but that's a long shot and likely to spook people.
Think about the markets that Microsoft hasn't entered yet:
AutoCAD
Desktop Publishing
Graphics Design
Quark, MacroMedia, Adobe, these guys are still selling program for $700
If you're not an architect or an engineer, why would you want Autocad at any price? If you are, $700 is peanuts for the tools of the trade. As for DTP, MS does make Publisher, very cheap, (but anyone professional will sneer at it) and is making a new photo editing app, not for professional publishing but for home use. But there is already a huge variety of photo editng apps, including from Adobe who've provided cut down versions of PS (PS Elements, PhotoDeluxe) that sell cheap and are often bundled with scanners or cameras. Corel has very cheap and very powerful photoediting and layout apps (I use their Ventura for laying out books). Paintshop Pro is cheap and has a strong following.
I remember, I was around then, no one I knew paid anything for Netscape. You got a floppy with Netscape, Eudora and some FTP app when you subscribed to an ISP, and updates were free. Maybe big businesses licensed it.
Microsoft lowered the cost of browsing the web from $30 to nothing
Really? ISPs are free? Far more significant than the cost or otherwise of the browser is the cost of Internet access, i.e. dial up and now Broadband; which has been getting cheaper on the whole, but that has little to do with MS.
I used to do that to make long distance calls from a boarding house -- they had a filter to block those, but I realised it was just blocking the initial zero for all non-local calls, so by clicking 10 times I could get a zero, then dial the rest normally.
Really? Not that I've heard. There are viruses, but they don't get much distribution, and I've never heard of any OSX spyware at all.
Best solution: get someone else to read it, preferably who hasn't seen it in an earlier form. Otherwise, wait at least a few days after writing it before checking it yourself. (Aside from errors, repetitiveness is the most common bug.) And for God's sake, use the spellcheck. I am a book editor, and I now just expect every file to be full of simple stupid spelling mistakes, 95% of which any spellchecker would detect. Maybe people spellcheck once, but then go back and change something, and don't bother to check. If you do it as a routine once a day when working on a long work, it's pretty painless -- just 10 choose the correct "language" (generally UK or US), and make a new custom dictionary for each project. It's good to review the custom dictionary towards the end to see if you've accidentally added wrong words, or variant spellings of the same word (especially names).
As an Australian, I wish. Unfortunately, American products, particularly wheat, will continue to unfairly take markets due to the massive subsidies that will continue in one guise or another.
The "99.9%" figure doesn't refer to bandwidth, but the percentage of "conversations" involving some key words (Norton, Microsoft, ...) that were, in his judgement, illegal. However, I think most of these "conversations" are from robots, and also the mere choice of such words precludes discussions that aren't illegal but are on other subjects -- it may be true that most of the time the word "Microsoft" comes up it's someone offering or asking for a download. If he'd searched for, say, "Iraq", the answer would have been different. Basically, he just collected text on a few dozen channels for a few hours, grepped for a few words and that was it.
As long as it was a private email, between you and him, it's not libel. It has to be seen by at least one third party. If he could show it was seen by his staff, say, in the normal course of work, it might then be libellous, but not if he was the one who deliberately spread it around.
Read the summary: They "pled guilty". So they had a plea bargain --reduction of charges in return for doing so.
Just watching him in a rerun of the last series. An amusing scene where an agent thanks Doggett because his "total lack of imagination" saved them from this kid who could make dreams seem real.
I think the only nude scene Scully ever did (Gillain Anderson may have done some as other characters, of course) was in the very first episode where she has a wholly gratuitous shower scene. Anything to sell the show I suppose.
Back in the distant past, when spam was a novelty, a local compnay kept spamming me (several copies at a time as my address was the default for unknown addresses at our domain). I called them up and got brushed off by a receptionist. So I called them up one more time for each spam I received, said why I was doing it, and hung up. Then they must have got my number from caller ID as I started to get fax machine calls on my phone. I called them up again and threatened to go to the police if they continued to harass me, they stopped the fax calls but spam continued.
All quite pointless, but illustrates the obliviousness of spammers to how their messages are received and the annoyance they cause.
Of course it's not illegal. What if I've lost my key, or the door is jammed, etc, etc... and I ask someone, say a locksmith, to break in to my house. Just about any act short of murder is not illegal if the person you're doing it to has and is capable of giving permission. Sorry, but a silly analogy proves nothing (not that a more sound one does much either, analogies serve mainly as illustrations, not as proofs).
I guess the submitter is of Commonwealth origin, as all his comments use "re", while the quoted (American) ad uses "er". Just one of those little details editors are supposed to notice.
There're some stills here. Mr Fantastic at least looks too young, he should be mid 30s at least, he was a patriarchal figure. And I never recognised Jessica as a blonde....
Are you serious? 1) His "fans" by definition won't "rip the book apart". Pleanty of critics have though. 2) Techno-thrillers have a veneer of scintific versmilitude -- part of the fun is seeing where the author starts making stuff up. You might as well try to learn medicine from ER (Crichton originated that, btw).
Besides, what makes you think the oil company-sponsored studies are any less accurate than the environmentalist-sponsored ones?
"Environmentalist-sponsored!" How much money do you think environmentalists have? Research is paid for by either governments or large corporations.
And scientists are perfectly aware of who is paying for their funding
As above, funding is not coming from environmentalist groups. The adminstration has desperately tried to find scientists who will support their wish for the problem to disappear, but have found few who will prostitute themselves, and none with any credibility.
It comes with email filtering against spam and viruses. Obviously Windows viruses aren't going to do any harm on this, but the owners are still going to worry about them. Even if harmless, just deleting dozens of them every day is a pain.