"Nuclear proliferation will never be tolerated. If you sell those bombs on the black market, expect your nuclear reprocessing plants to be obliterated. And if you're lucky, we will spare your regime too."
Yeehaw! Way to tell 'em, buddy!
...Pakistan really dodged the bullet on that one, huh? Not only did we tolerate their proliferation and sale of nuclear systems and technical knowledge, but we spared their regime too.
BTW, what the fuck is a "nuclear reprocessing plant"? Can we please be minimally literate in the subject matter?
"Constructionism" is a fiction of Robert Bork's imagination? This doctor (and at this point I call him one only because it is his name) doesn't know the first thing about anything he's talking about.
Strict constructionism is a viable, time-honored theory of constitutional interpretation, which attempts to adhere to the "plain" meaning of the law (i.e. what is written in the paper). You may wish to review the history of Justice Hugo Black. Alternatives include the living-constitution theory, which asserts that the meaning of the Constitution needs to be discerned with respect to the history of the U.S. Anyone who says these are just partisan gimmicks is a dumbshit who doesn't know what they're talking about. Exactly the kind of person one might occasionally run into on/.
And then this charlatan goes on to say that the Courts, as provisioned in the Constitution, provide justices with the ability to interpret the law and determine its compliance with the Constitution. I suppose the Constitution could be interpreted this way, if you had an extra chromosome. I'm sorry, that's mean to people with Down's Syndrome. Judicial review, as another poster submitted, is a result of Marbury v. Madison. Originally, the Supreme Court was only granted the power to hear controversies which fell into Federal jurisdiction; the ability to review and reject Congressional acts is a power it discovered only later on.
Only a person who used their high school American Government textbook to wipe their ass would think the original post was insightful.
Here is a more faithful reproduction of the Salon piece:
O'Connor and the 5-4 decision
We've already noted the critical role Sandra Day O'Connor has played as a Supreme Court swing voter over the last 24 years. Here's more on that front -- People for the American Way's list and description of notable 5-4 Supreme Court decisions that could have gone the other way if a more conservative justice were sitting in O'Connor's seat:
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) affirmed the right of state colleges and universities to use affirmative action in their admissions policies to increase educational opportunities for minorities and promote racial diversity on campus;
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. EPA (2004) said the Environmental Protection Agency could step in and take action to reduce air pollution under the Clean Air Act when a state conservation agency fails to act;
Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran (2002) upheld state laws giving people the right to a second doctor's opinion if their HMOs tried to deny them treatment;
Hunt v. Cromartie (2001) affirmed the right of state legislators to take race into account to secure minority voting rights in redistricting;
Tennessee v. Lane (2004) upheld the constitutionality of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and required that courtrooms be physically accessible to the disabled;
Hibbs v. Winn (2004) subjected discriminatory and unconstitutional state tax laws to review by the federal judiciary;
Zadvydas v. Davis (2001) told the government it could not indefinitely detain an immigrant who was under final order of removal even if no other country would accept that person;
Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (2001) affirmed that civil rights laws apply to associations regulating interscholastic sports;
Lee v. Weisman (1992) continued the tradition of government neutrality toward religion, finding that government-sponsored prayer is unacceptable at graduations and other public school events;
Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington (2003) maintained a key source of funding for legal assistance for the poor;
Morse v. Republican Party of Virginia (1996) said key anti-discrimination provisions of the Voting Rights Act apply to political conventions that choose party candidates;
Federal Election Commission v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee (2001) upheld laws that limit political party expenditures that are coordinated with a candidate and seek to evade campaign contribution limits;
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003) upheld most of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, including its ban on political parties' use of unlimited soft money contributions;
Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) overturned a state ban on so-called partial birth abortion; and
McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005) upheld the principle of government neutrality towards religion and ruled unconstitutional Ten Commandments displays in several courthouses.
How hard is it to scroll down a couple clicks and see the same story before posting? With a more accurate headline to boot. (the world's first nuclear fusion has already occured, God knows where)
Was that Superman IV where we suddenly discover that all these years, Clark Kent has had the ability to project a beam from his eyes which restores a damaged object to its rightful state? I seem to remember him looking at the rubble of the Great Wall and causing it to reassemble. Then the Communists spit on him and called him "Yankee lap dog." The beams in TFA all have the ability to destroy, but Superman has a beam that heals. And is totally preposterous. (unlike the ones in TFA?)
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False, the option is right in PSPs main menu.
The ability to execute data on the memory stick, i.e. allow that data to be copied into memory, then allow the CPU's program counter to point to that data, is definitely not enabled on consumer models.
You are thinking about accessing the data on the stick and feeding it to some media viewer. Not the same thing.
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I was at the Game Developer's Conference a few weeks ago, and the guys at the Sony booth were showing off the PSP. One of the things they had there was the dev-kit, which appears to be a regular VAIO desktop with a UMD drive. It also comes with a special PSP which has an umbilical to the desktop and subsequently, has no UMD drive.
I asked one of the guys if the unit can execute code off a memory stick and he confirmed that this is possible. He then went on to add that this functionality is disabled in the consumer unit. Fascinating.
...other theaters told him they could not book the movie "for religious reasons," because it had "evolutionary overtones" or "would not go well with the Christian community" or because "the evolution stuff is a problem."
<sarcasm>Well somebody give Ripley a call, because I can't believe that a fundamentalist just went and entered a debate with more rhetoric than fact.</sarcasm>
Why do you fundamentalists insist on fighting the use of reason and rational, empirical processes whenever and wherever possible? If you cannot countenance the fact that mankind's one and only method for obtaining emprical answers to his questions is actually bearing fruit, feel free to patronize your own Creationism museum. Watch out for the T-Rex, who was apparently a contemporary of man!
Disregarding any Oil For Food simiplifications you made, I'm not suggesting that America or anyone else eliminate Pakistan. The problem is that America comes in and throws money at the first guy it thinks is in their corner.
American support of Pakistan foments an environment wherein Pervez Musharraf becomes even less popular, and unlike in a semi-democracy like India, he will necessarily be removed by force from office in a regime change. Probably by somebody worse, maybe an Islamic radical. Who then has access to nuclear weapons and American dollars. And depending on future arms acquisitions, American F-16s. Interestingly enough, the same thing happened in Iran, when the US sold a squad of F-14 Tomcats to the Shah pretty much the same month that he was ousted. (Thanks, History Channel!)
The nation of India hereby thanks your President and his glorious War on Terror, for giving rise to such short sighted policies as the promotion of Pakistan to MNNA status (Major Non-NATO Ally). And by Pakistan, I mean a nuclear armed country which has demonstrated its willingness to proliferate WMD technology, whose intelligence services and military are thoroughly penetrated by Islamic radicals, whose President's life is under constant threat, and whose feigned ignorance of anti-India terror cells is tantamount to tacit support.
The point is that someone gives you a very large prime number, and they stand behind the claim that it's not some string of digits they pulled out of their ass. If VeriSign certs are breakable, you have some sort of guarantee/insurance (or at least you should, which is a different issue), but who cares if the guy who gave you a "certificate" turns out to have been an asshat?
Gosh. How profound. You've motivated me to shrug off my shiftless habit and turn a new leaf. As of now, from myself, everyting; from the outside, nothing!
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Actually, it's not a fallacy. It would be fallacious if I said that your argument was weaker because you are a dumbass. Instead, I was merely stating a fact, irrespective of your argument.
Even if it takes inside of five seconds to encode a DVD, how does that make a damned bit of difference? If it took a guy all his might and intellectual effort would that make it okay in your book? What if, instead of copying a DVD, some guy made you crayon drawings of every scene in the movie? How about thirty of them for every second of the movie's length; would that be okay, by you, to share? What if he was a really good artist and drew them all to be as near as possible to the original material? And then he included some first-class voice acting by him and his friends, in an accompanying.wav?
What they want is to be the sole source for all your entertainment needs, to have a monopoly on mainstream culture and all creativity in the western hemisphere. Anytime someone somewhere does something creative, they want to make a dollar off of it by being an increasingly useless middleman. And seriously, fuck them and the shitty business model they rode in on.
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In order of importance:
1. You're a dumbass.
2. As a direct consequence of (1), you missed the entire fucking point, which is that he's resisting the likes of gigantic corporations wanting to dictate to you which ones and zeroes you may and may not transmit.
3. Today, it might seem reasonable to you that the RI/MPAA can control who downloads their music and movies; tomorrow their request may be less reasonable.
The situation is really analagous to that old adage...something like first they came for this group and I didn't say anything, then that group and I didn't speak up, so on, and then they came for me, and nobody was left to speak for me.
70-100k+ are dead and you are talking not about what can be done to help (indeed, on a site like Slashdot there might be some good conversation on that topic after the first wave of trolling) but instead you're talking about "what if it happens here?" Are you people insane!?
How about "I drowned because I tried to pick up some of the fish that washed up after the first wave, so I won't be around for that mega-tsunami you're talking about, you insensitive clod."
Perhaps it is because they are annoyed by the very silly way Slashdot posters decide which words shall correspond to which links, or how to distribute 12 links over 3 sentences.
I use Bazooka Spyware and Adware Scanner. It's quick, simple, and free.
All it does is identify what crap is on your box and then link you to the encyclopedia on the bazooka website, where there are instructions on how to remove it, mainly using regedit. I've had to disinfect the computers of neighbors, family friends, etc. Most of the time, somebody told them to install Ad-Aware already, and 100% of the time it wasn't doing shit, except increasing boot time.
With the DIY approach, you know it's gone because you removed it. Usually took under 10 minutes to clean even the dirtiest of boxes (that I've come across.)
Removing the web browser from the blogging equation, or at least extending the "blogosphere" to go beyond the usual web browser and RSS formats sounds cool. I don't use Messenger, but incorporating IM'ing with blogging just sounds like a really good idea. It seems like one of those "why didn't anyone think of this before" ideas.
I wonder if it would be hard to incorporate RSS into Kopete or Gaim and then have it interface with blogspot (or whatever) so that you could submit entries and manage your blog, and blog buddy (blogs which are friends of your blog, or whatever) network from your IM client. You could also tie a person's blog to their IM entry, opening up more possibilities.
That way you could have similar functionality as this new MS toy, but without the need to be tied to any particular blog host. You could then, conceivably, have plugins that go to blogspot, Google's blog thing, some other blog host, etc. (Yeah, actually I don't do blogs too much, I can't think of the names of too many blog hosting sites)
That is not even close to being true. I go to Berkeley and have met several state university students (transfers and current students) studying CS. To produce just one example, of many: there is a class here called "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," based off of a class taught at MIT (our class uses a Scheme interpreter modified to include support for objects.)
This class uses Scheme (a LISP dialect) to examine the structure of a LISP interpreter and characteristics of a computer program. I've seen the class at state uni which is supposed to fill in this part of the curriculum; it is nowhere close to being comparable, and it shows in the quality of code students leaving this class produce. I've seen people who've taken the "comparable" class end up doing totally ass-backwards things like trying to use globals where it would be more appropriate to do something more portable (perhaps use pointers in C) or they try to hard-code things into their code which should OBVIOUSLY be modifiable or part of some modular, easily replaced code (miniscule details of the UI, like whether a picture should go on the left or the right.) In short, they don't grok well-structured programming.
For what it's worth, I've noticed that there is a *huge* discrepancy in the quality of the curriculae. But, of course, I've seen plenty of dumbasses here too! (myself, sometimes)
...(and maybe other versions) would suggest you to buy Leisure Suit Larry (another Sierra title) whenever you suggested the Princess Rosetta do something naughty.
.LMP replayable demos in Doom are as far back as I remember, though those were first person. Also, there was Need For Speed (Special Edition?) which was the first game I remember that had Gran Turismo style replays. Then, didn't Flashback have some sort of 3rd person camera?
MobyGames has a chronological list of games, alot with screenshorts.
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I would have guessed blindness.
"Nuclear proliferation will never be tolerated. If you sell those bombs on the black market, expect your nuclear reprocessing plants to be obliterated. And if you're lucky, we will spare your regime too."
Yeehaw! Way to tell 'em, buddy!
...Pakistan really dodged the bullet on that one, huh? Not only did we tolerate their proliferation and sale of nuclear systems and technical knowledge, but we spared their regime too.
BTW, what the fuck is a "nuclear reprocessing plant"? Can we please be minimally literate in the subject matter?
"Constructionism" is a fiction of Robert Bork's imagination? This doctor (and at this point I call him one only because it is his name) doesn't know the first thing about anything he's talking about.
Strict constructionism is a viable, time-honored theory of constitutional interpretation, which attempts to adhere to the "plain" meaning of the law (i.e. what is written in the paper). You may wish to review the history of Justice Hugo Black. Alternatives include the living-constitution theory, which asserts that the meaning of the Constitution needs to be discerned with respect to the history of the U.S. Anyone who says these are just partisan gimmicks is a dumbshit who doesn't know what they're talking about. Exactly the kind of person one might occasionally run into on /.
And then this charlatan goes on to say that the Courts, as provisioned in the Constitution, provide justices with the ability to interpret the law and determine its compliance with the Constitution. I suppose the Constitution could be interpreted this way, if you had an extra chromosome. I'm sorry, that's mean to people with Down's Syndrome. Judicial review, as another poster submitted, is a result of Marbury v. Madison. Originally, the Supreme Court was only granted the power to hear controversies which fell into Federal jurisdiction; the ability to review and reject Congressional acts is a power it discovered only later on.
Only a person who used their high school American Government textbook to wipe their ass would think the original post was insightful.
O'Connor and the 5-4 decision
We've already noted the critical role Sandra Day O'Connor has played as a Supreme Court swing voter over the last 24 years. Here's more on that front -- People for the American Way's list and description of notable 5-4 Supreme Court decisions that could have gone the other way if a more conservative justice were sitting in O'Connor's seat:
-- Tim Grieve
How hard is it to scroll down a couple clicks and see the same story before posting? With a more accurate headline to boot. (the world's first nuclear fusion has already occured, God knows where)
Was that Superman IV where we suddenly discover that all these years, Clark Kent has had the ability to project a beam from his eyes which restores a damaged object to its rightful state? I seem to remember him looking at the rubble of the Great Wall and causing it to reassemble. Then the Communists spit on him and called him "Yankee lap dog."
The beams in TFA all have the ability to destroy, but Superman has a beam that heals. And is totally preposterous. (unlike the ones in TFA?)
Video shot before the robot was finsihed, but still has some good stuff, like the death of the mentioned first robot. http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/45548/It_ Swims_With_Sharks.html
The ability to execute data on the memory stick, i.e. allow that data to be copied into memory, then allow the CPU's program counter to point to that data, is definitely not enabled on consumer models.
You are thinking about accessing the data on the stick and feeding it to some media viewer. Not the same thing.
I was at the Game Developer's Conference a few weeks ago, and the guys at the Sony booth were showing off the PSP. One of the things they had there was the dev-kit, which appears to be a regular VAIO desktop with a UMD drive. It also comes with a special PSP which has an umbilical to the desktop and subsequently, has no UMD drive.
I asked one of the guys if the unit can execute code off a memory stick and he confirmed that this is possible. He then went on to add that this functionality is disabled in the consumer unit. Fascinating.
<sarcasm>Well somebody give Ripley a call, because I can't believe that a fundamentalist just went and entered a debate with more rhetoric than fact.</sarcasm>
Why do you fundamentalists insist on fighting the use of reason and rational, empirical processes whenever and wherever possible? If you cannot countenance the fact that mankind's one and only method for obtaining emprical answers to his questions is actually bearing fruit, feel free to patronize your own Creationism museum. Watch out for the T-Rex, who was apparently a contemporary of man!
BTW, which assclowns gave you 4 points!?
I suppose you could say the same thing about Zip...we all have Zip drives now thanks to Apple, right?
American support of Pakistan foments an environment wherein Pervez Musharraf becomes even less popular, and unlike in a semi-democracy like India, he will necessarily be removed by force from office in a regime change. Probably by somebody worse, maybe an Islamic radical. Who then has access to nuclear weapons and American dollars. And depending on future arms acquisitions, American F-16s. Interestingly enough, the same thing happened in Iran, when the US sold a squad of F-14 Tomcats to the Shah pretty much the same month that he was ousted. (Thanks, History Channel!)
The nation of India hereby thanks your President and his glorious War on Terror, for giving rise to such short sighted policies as the promotion of Pakistan to MNNA status (Major Non-NATO Ally).
And by Pakistan, I mean a nuclear armed country which has demonstrated its willingness to proliferate WMD technology, whose intelligence services and military are thoroughly penetrated by Islamic radicals, whose President's life is under constant threat, and whose feigned ignorance of anti-India terror cells is tantamount to tacit support.
The point is that someone gives you a very large prime number, and they stand behind the claim that it's not some string of digits they pulled out of their ass.
If VeriSign certs are breakable, you have some sort of guarantee/insurance (or at least you should, which is a different issue), but who cares if the guy who gave you a "certificate" turns out to have been an asshat?
Gosh. How profound. You've motivated me to shrug off my shiftless habit and turn a new leaf. As of now, from myself, everyting; from the outside, nothing!
Even if it takes inside of five seconds to encode a DVD, how does that make a damned bit of difference? If it took a guy all his might and intellectual effort would that make it okay in your book? What if, instead of copying a DVD, some guy made you crayon drawings of every scene in the movie? How about thirty of them for every second of the movie's length; would that be okay, by you, to share? What if he was a really good artist and drew them all to be as near as possible to the original material? And then he included some first-class voice acting by him and his friends, in an accompanying .wav?
What they want is to be the sole source for all your entertainment needs, to have a monopoly on mainstream culture and all creativity in the western hemisphere. Anytime someone somewhere does something creative, they want to make a dollar off of it by being an increasingly useless middleman. And seriously, fuck them and the shitty business model they rode in on.
1. You're a dumbass.
2. As a direct consequence of (1), you missed the entire fucking point, which is that he's resisting the likes of gigantic corporations wanting to dictate to you which ones and zeroes you may and may not transmit.
3. Today, it might seem reasonable to you that the RI/MPAA can control who downloads their music and movies; tomorrow their request may be less reasonable.
The situation is really analagous to that old adage...something like first they came for this group and I didn't say anything, then that group and I didn't speak up, so on, and then they came for me, and nobody was left to speak for me.
70-100k+ are dead and you are talking not about what can be done to help (indeed, on a site like Slashdot there might be some good conversation on that topic after the first wave of trolling) but instead you're talking about "what if it happens here?" Are you people insane!?
How about "I drowned because I tried to pick up some of the fish that washed up after the first wave, so I won't be around for that mega-tsunami you're talking about, you insensitive clod."
Perhaps it is because they are annoyed by the very silly way Slashdot posters decide which words shall correspond to which links, or how to distribute 12 links over 3 sentences.
I use Bazooka Spyware and Adware Scanner. It's quick, simple, and free.
All it does is identify what crap is on your box and then link you to the encyclopedia on the bazooka website, where there are instructions on how to remove it, mainly using regedit. I've had to disinfect the computers of neighbors, family friends, etc. Most of the time, somebody told them to install Ad-Aware already, and 100% of the time it wasn't doing shit, except increasing boot time.
With the DIY approach, you know it's gone because you removed it. Usually took under 10 minutes to clean even the dirtiest of boxes (that I've come across.)
Removing the web browser from the blogging equation, or at least extending the "blogosphere" to go beyond the usual web browser and RSS formats sounds cool. I don't use Messenger, but incorporating IM'ing with blogging just sounds like a really good idea. It seems like one of those "why didn't anyone think of this before" ideas.
I wonder if it would be hard to incorporate RSS into Kopete or Gaim and then have it interface with blogspot (or whatever) so that you could submit entries and manage your blog, and blog buddy (blogs which are friends of your blog, or whatever) network from your IM client. You could also tie a person's blog to their IM entry, opening up more possibilities.
That way you could have similar functionality as this new MS toy, but without the need to be tied to any particular blog host. You could then, conceivably, have plugins that go to blogspot, Google's blog thing, some other blog host, etc. (Yeah, actually I don't do blogs too much, I can't think of the names of too many blog hosting sites)
To me, this sounds like the Right way to go.
That is not even close to being true. I go to Berkeley and have met several state university students (transfers and current students) studying CS. To produce just one example, of many: there is a class here called "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," based off of a class taught at MIT (our class uses a Scheme interpreter modified to include support for objects.)
This class uses Scheme (a LISP dialect) to examine the structure of a LISP interpreter and characteristics of a computer program. I've seen the class at state uni which is supposed to fill in this part of the curriculum; it is nowhere close to being comparable, and it shows in the quality of code students leaving this class produce. I've seen people who've taken the "comparable" class end up doing totally ass-backwards things like trying to use globals where it would be more appropriate to do something more portable (perhaps use pointers in C) or they try to hard-code things into their code which should OBVIOUSLY be modifiable or part of some modular, easily replaced code (miniscule details of the UI, like whether a picture should go on the left or the right.) In short, they don't grok well-structured programming.
For what it's worth, I've noticed that there is a *huge* discrepancy in the quality of the curriculae. But, of course, I've seen plenty of dumbasses here too! (myself, sometimes)
...(and maybe other versions) would suggest you to buy Leisure Suit Larry (another Sierra title) whenever you suggested the Princess Rosetta do something naughty.
Perhaps he was referring to the upcoming MGS card game for PSP.
MobyGames has a chronological list of games, alot with screenshorts.