I remmember a group of more violent guys from my lower classes (12-13 years old). They were blackmailing other people, they accused everybody of being racist, they forced a young girl to have oral sex with them (and went in arrest for minor), some went in prison for drug dealing, most of the rest either dead of OD or AIDS. But the bottom line is NONE of them even tryed to study (prof are racist they give me bad notes) they were thieves (supermarket guard are racist they always ask me to empty my pocket) and were quite violent (all white are racist so we have the right to kick their asses).
I do not even count the number of time I have been targeted because I had a skin a slight bit whiter and blue eyes. I nearly lost my left eyes after such an attack. And I was not a single case (one person I knew nearly lost her arm, another got kicked and punched until she gaves her jacket and shoes, and up to this day the way she reacted after I am really asking if this was the only things which hapenned).
That MINORITY of guys did not ever want to be integrated or whatever. They just wanted to be violent and have their own little local "fiefdome". All the other friend I had (non white) we never even thougth about skin, for us it was normal to have various skin color, or eye color, or hair color or taste. So do not take me on "desperate" banlieu. I was there and a lot of my friend went doctor, technician, teacher, or guardsmen, one is even recently promoted police chief. But there is this freaking minority which was always those which burnt auto, grouped in bands, and mostly raised the violence level around and always placed themselves as victim. Those are the one rioting right now.
I won't deny that some people are racist, but this is not the majority of people and certainly it NEVER justified burning car , or attacking innocent people. All those rioter wanted was an excuse to let their violence and they got it. Aynthing else would have done.
As for the blog being closed, well there is law against incitation to violence. Voice an opinion about France official being racist is OK. Yelkl that youn want the bastard policist burn down and you get it [the censure] coming at you, no shit sherlock.
No leg to stand on except hand waving at being a private citizen instead of being a governement/country. Well though luck, since the US signed that pesky "moon" treaty it also apply to its citizen (something in the US constitution about treaty being recognized as law) be them "private" citizen or representative of their governement.
This hand waving remind me of the infamous tax-protester, misunderstanding on law (in our case treaty & international law).
Furthermore even If the treaty was NOT a problem, then imagine that if in china , germany, russia or even UK , somebody sell the same plot. Well, who own it ? Who declare the sale legal ? Why something sold by Hopes to somebody would be "more" recognized than something sold by Mr X in Russia to me, if I set foot first ? And if the plot on the moon is only recognized to those setting foot first there, then why not use the good ol' first-to-occupy=first to possess ?
Even worst as far as I know you can only sale property you already own. May I see when Hopes got sold that plot ? And whom sold it to him ? On what authority
This sale of Moon plot can only be recognized anyway you see it as either a scam, or a joke. Nothing serious. It would be laughed out of *ANY* court , even in the lawsuit-friendly US.
Quote : "For me, I have faith in the Bible because (by faith) I have chosen to believe it is God's literal word."
You don't even need to skeem between the various bible translation (don't even start me on the night hag/screech owl/Lilith story...). Just ook at the contradiction inside the bible itself !
Which one of the genesis is the gp believing in ? The first one ? The second genesis version ? Does he eats shellfish (Deuteronomy forbid it) does he take slave (OK by bible standard) ?
So how about sex ? Like the two sister (Sraha and ?) having sex with Abrahm one after the other, and then since they were bare, they ask their servant to bear kids. Or the guy having sex with their sister/mother/slave whatnot. And naturally everybody bear sons (because nobody bear girl, hey).
Bible-litteralism people never EVER read either the old or new testament
The old theory still "hold". For example you do not use relativistic physic for description of a moving vehicule, unless specific condition are met (relativistic movement quantity, etc...). In other word newtonian physic was not made "wrong" and abandonned when relativistic theory was found. newtonian physic was still correct within certain assumption because it explained a lot without having to have relativism needed. The same would hold for a new theory having to replace (or rather add on) quantum physic. Unless the new model complatly replace QM,which is doubtfull at that point.
My uni years are far far away in the past, so I might be deadly wrong ehre, but I thougth the uncertaintly principle (generalized) says that conjugated variable of a quantum system will always have an upper limit on the measurement precision made on them.
So far you ahve velocity and movement quantity (the imfamous delta.v*delta p>h bar) you also have delta.E*Delta.t>a (can't remmember this one, wasn't it about diffraction/wave?), delta.n*delta.phi>c0 measurement can only be made on photon intensity or the phase but not both) and so forth.
Any time you have two variable conjugated A and B you have by nature of the equation Delta A*Delta B>C where C is a constant.
It is usually a logarythmic curve, where you reach a "flat" at adulthood. The bottom line being that "flat" part being more or less high, and it is true some people will be smarter than other in adulthood, but I saw very bright kid go very high (for their age) and them not rise again, and other start below as normal kid, but getting slowly brighter and brighter until they rise over the former.
I am a french citizen and live in germany. I pay german income tax not the french one... Heck I would like to pay the french income tax (less than the one in germany). But as far as understood since I have to pay income tax at the place where I live and have my "primary" residence declared.
Intentionnally leave the hole, but log everybody doing it. Wait 3 to 5 week then arrest them for anything else. It can't be that difficult to come up with something. So that way they can catch everybody using the loophole, punish them, *AND* make sure the probability of people searching for another loophole will stay low... Closing that loophole would be shortsighted since you might have more difficulty to find out about the next one.
This argument has been debunked so many time it ain't funny. First if you think we find many fossile , think again : There was billion and billion of creature dying over the course of million of year. But fossilisation is a so lucky process that we do not find even 0.0000001% of the specimen which dyed during that time period. So what the hell make you think we would find every specy neatly fossilised ? Why some specy due to their living environnement would not simply never be found ? Second each time a "gap" between fossile 1 and 2 with fossile 1.5 is filled, the creationist* just say "but what is the gap between fossile 1 and 1.5 , and between 1.5 and 2 ? Creationist will NEVER be statisfied as the only satisfying things would be a CONTINUOUS record of specy but this won't happen due to argument 1 (rate of fossilisation). Finally there is ALREADY many example of transitional form : lizard->byrd, fish->lizard, lizard->whale , preman->man, prehorse->horse and many other Iforgot, those have fossile a plenty, have been studied, and accepted as transitional form. Sigh.
(*) yeah I call ID'er creationism, to see why see argument about recursive designer in wiki
... In moderation. As for everything if you go out of wack *anything* even what is normaly good for you will be bad for you.... Very bad. Think : Sugar/lipid/protein. Good for you, allow you to live , make up hormons and other good stuff , make up protein. Eat too much of it and you get an host of associated illness... Vitamins are the same. Eat too much vitam C and byebye kidney. Each too much A... TV, Internet, Game and so on are the same. Moderation is the key here.
They are "testing the water" to see how far they can go expanding their grasp without anyone reacting. Next time they will go a little less far and nobody will react etc...
Name : God Age : Infinite Adress : Cosmos Contact : Just pray. Maybe I'll hear, who knows.
What were your prior job :
I did the "Let the light be" stuff but later Adam outsourced me for the light bulb, and replaced the imperative-tense with the switch.
Then I used to create life but lately the same Adam started to do its on its own and now I am out of job.
What are your competance: Well I can still do the plague thingy at parties. Or do apocalypse stuff on a 3*8 basis.
How do you see your future: Plumbery seems good. Or electricity. Something you can't outsource and that damn Adam will need me for.
The onus would not be on you to prove that you did not ask the sister, since you would be "defendant" the onus would be on them to prove you asked your sister to do it. As a "defendant", in the civil law of the country I was born at least, you do not have to prove anything, this is to the prosecution/attacker to prove your misdeed. I assume it is the same in the US (at least for criminal law, I dunno for civil law).
If they suddenly got their sentence shifted from 15 monthes, to Death Penalty, or life without parole by the computer (and vice-versa). Just a wild guess...
The one wanting to block the call is SFR a wireless french phone company. Granted I ve been away from France from 10 years or so, but as far as I recall they do not have any landline. Meaning any call made to their wireless network will be expansive, especially if this is skype where they get nothing in exchange. This is why they want to block VOIP. France Telecom (which is now I think partially private ??) is the land carrier with the most traffic if this did not change in the last years and is not mentionned in the article.
I think the main problem is that at any time, the US can have a veto right on what happens. Think whatever you want, but as a country, if a foreign country has that much power on my infrastructure and public service I would quite simply do whatever I can to get out of the situation. That is what is happenning here. The WORLD does not want any country having a veto power over their own service. You think most country want to policy internet you are quite missing the point. They could ALREADY simply do it without DNS control by policing to hell the ISP (if you want to sell internet connection then you have to obey the local law). They do not need control of the DNS server. They only want to make sure that even if the US suddenly want to impose policy change, then their infrastructure won't be criplled overnight or influenced...
Everybody is speaking of reliigious right as a reason science is declining in the US. Well from what I heard there is another far simplier explanation. From the lowest class up to the university, you would be blind not to see that Sport is over-promoted, whereas science/Nerd/Intelligence is decried , laughed at, and even later as adult relegated in a dark corner. How many science chanel is there ? How many Sport channel ? How often Sport "stars" make the headlines ? How often scientifics ?
And even if you go over that, how much do you think a scientific is paid ? How much do you think an average lawyer, or an average MBA does ? I love science (particulary Quantum Physic) this is why I studied that up to PhD. If that passion was not there , I would most certainly not have gone into science but into Law/Buisness to make a killing $$$. I can see the other people in my family/freinds making twice as much as me yearly with not even half the study time (and associated diploms).
With those two argument I think we do not need religion/ID/right wing to show why science is declining in the US. Look at EU , most lands there there isn't such a Sport/Jock/Anti nerd culture.
ID debate and religious right wing are pouring fuel over the "fire" and using the science debacle at their advantage for their own promotion, but the origin of the problem is at school...
But for an 100% US funded company incorporated in panama, would you call it a "panamean" company ? Well I would certainly not. So the comment of the Grand parent poster applies.
I haven't a driving licence and I still broke the law:). A better way would be "show me a pedestrian which never broke the law by crossing outside Zebra (white stripped) line and..." But it does not come as insightful or funny... Potentially we are all law breaker.
But here in EU, they give a cursory glance at the signature. Even if this is for a small amount of 10. Granted it won't stop fraudster which just scrible a similar signature and pass the test, but they certainly check it.
An example of this (an old one albeit) was my first (cough) crack way back in time. I had bought ultima 5 but the disk (5 1/4) stopped working after a while. So I learnt assembly and did use debug to see why my game stopped working. After a short loading phase it went and XOR'd a small subset of instruction with number increasing by 3 (3,6,9 etc...) then if I recall correctly (it was waaaay long ago) it exchanged the interrupt 3 (the trace call interrupt) with a jump instruction and jumped right into the start of the code, which was only loading some waaaay off data into the disk interruption (13h) to read a bad sector on the disk. Depending on the result then it would say it is THE original disk or not. I simply exchanged the JMP with NOP, XOR'd by the correct number , wrote back the.COM programs. Et voila ! I could paly my game again.
The funny things is, this is only waaay later that somebody explained me that I had cracked my game. I just wanted to be able to play with something which had cost me 50$ and being 12 that was a lot of cash...
Nowaday the debugging is a bit more complicated and it all come down to the same : stop calling laserlok/safedisk/whatsoever checking that the CD is here.
If Lexmark give a WRITTEN contract with each cartridge they sell requesting the refill to be made by them and the buyer *sign it* you may have a point. An "undestanding is not enough". If I buy in any shop those cartridge and decide to shoot it with a gun, to refill it with red pen ink or blood, or to use it as a paperweight, door stoper, or even to refill it with my own ink it is MY problem. You can argue what you want for software whether the EULA hold or not, but for physical object once they are sold you are fit to use them as you wish. Once sold they should have no influence whatsoever on the item they sold.
If they have a crappy buisness model which make them lose money whenever people get smart that is their problem.
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First let me say you this :
I remmember a group of more violent guys from my lower classes (12-13 years old). They were blackmailing other people, they accused everybody of being racist, they forced a young girl to have oral sex with them (and went in arrest for minor), some went in prison for drug dealing, most of the rest either dead of OD or AIDS. But the bottom line is NONE of them even tryed to study (prof are racist they give me bad notes) they were thieves (supermarket guard are racist they always ask me to empty my pocket) and were quite violent (all white are racist so we have the right to kick their asses).
I do not even count the number of time I have been targeted because I had a skin a slight bit whiter and blue eyes. I nearly lost my left eyes after such an attack. And I was not a single case (one person I knew nearly lost her arm, another got kicked and punched until she gaves her jacket and shoes, and up to this day the way she reacted after I am really asking if this was the only things which hapenned).
That MINORITY of guys did not ever want to be integrated or whatever. They just wanted to be violent and have their own little local "fiefdome". All the other friend I had (non white) we never even thougth about skin, for us it was normal to have various skin color, or eye color, or hair color or taste. So do not take me on "desperate" banlieu. I was there and a lot of my friend went doctor, technician, teacher, or guardsmen, one is even recently promoted police chief. But there is this freaking minority which was always those which burnt auto, grouped in bands, and mostly raised the violence level around and always placed themselves as victim. Those are the one rioting right now.
I won't deny that some people are racist, but this is not the majority of people and certainly it NEVER justified burning car , or attacking innocent people. All those rioter wanted was an excuse to let their violence and they got it. Aynthing else would have done.
As for the blog being closed, well there is law against incitation to violence. Voice an opinion about France official being racist is OK. Yelkl that youn want the bastard policist burn down and you get it [the censure] coming at you, no shit sherlock.
No leg to stand on except hand waving at being a private citizen instead of being a governement/country. Well though luck, since the US signed that pesky "moon" treaty it also apply to its citizen (something in the US constitution about treaty being recognized as law) be them "private" citizen or representative of their governement.
This hand waving remind me of the infamous tax-protester, misunderstanding on law (in our case treaty & international law).
Furthermore even If the treaty was NOT a problem, then imagine that if in china , germany, russia or even UK , somebody sell the same plot. Well, who own it ? Who declare the sale legal ? Why something sold by Hopes to somebody would be "more" recognized than something sold by Mr X in Russia to me, if I set foot first ? And if the plot on the moon is only recognized to those setting foot first there, then why not use the good ol' first-to-occupy=first to possess ?
Even worst as far as I know you can only sale property you already own. May I see when Hopes got sold that plot ? And whom sold it to him ? On what authority
This sale of Moon plot can only be recognized anyway you see it as either a scam, or a joke. Nothing serious. It would be laughed out of *ANY* court , even in the lawsuit-friendly US.
Quote : "For me, I have faith in the Bible because (by faith) I have chosen to believe it is God's literal word."
You don't even need to skeem between the various bible translation (don't even start me on the night hag/screech owl/Lilith story...). Just ook at the contradiction inside the bible itself !
Which one of the genesis is the gp believing in ? The first one ? The second genesis version ? Does he eats shellfish (Deuteronomy forbid it) does he take slave (OK by bible standard) ?
So how about sex ? Like the two sister (Sraha and ?) having sex with Abrahm one after the other, and then since they were bare, they ask their servant to bear kids. Or the guy having sex with their sister/mother/slave whatnot. And naturally everybody bear sons (because nobody bear girl, hey).
Bible-litteralism people never EVER read either the old or new testament
The old theory still "hold". For example you do not use relativistic physic for description of a moving vehicule, unless specific condition are met (relativistic movement quantity, etc...). In other word newtonian physic was not made "wrong" and abandonned when relativistic theory was found. newtonian physic was still correct within certain assumption because it explained a lot without having to have relativism needed. The same would hold for a new theory having to replace (or rather add on) quantum physic. Unless the new model complatly replace QM ,which is doubtfull at that point.
My uni years are far far away in the past, so I might be deadly wrong ehre, but I thougth the uncertaintly principle (generalized) says that conjugated variable of a quantum system will always have an upper limit on the measurement precision made on them.
So far you ahve velocity and movement quantity (the imfamous delta.v*delta p>h bar) you also have delta.E*Delta.t>a (can't remmember this one, wasn't it about diffraction/wave?), delta.n*delta.phi>c0 measurement can only be made on photon intensity or the phase but not both) and so forth.
Any time you have two variable conjugated A and B you have by nature of the equation Delta A*Delta B>C where C is a constant.
It is usually a logarythmic curve, where you reach a "flat" at adulthood. The bottom line being that "flat" part being more or less high, and it is true some people will be smarter than other in adulthood, but I saw very bright kid go very high (for their age) and them not rise again, and other start below as normal kid, but getting slowly brighter and brighter until they rise over the former.
I am a french citizen and live in germany. I pay german income tax not the french one... Heck I would like to pay the french income tax (less than the one in germany). But as far as understood since I have to pay income tax at the place where I live and have my "primary" residence declared.
Intentionnally leave the hole, but log everybody doing it. Wait 3 to 5 week then arrest them for anything else. It can't be that difficult to come up with something. So that way they can catch everybody using the loophole, punish them, *AND* make sure the probability of people searching for another loophole will stay low... Closing that loophole would be shortsighted since you might have more difficulty to find out about the next one.
This argument has been debunked so many time it ain't funny.
First if you think we find many fossile , think again : There was billion and billion of creature dying over the course of million of year. But fossilisation is a so lucky process that we do not find even 0.0000001% of the specimen which dyed during that time period. So what the hell make you think we would find every specy neatly fossilised ? Why some specy due to their living environnement would not simply never be found ?
Second each time a "gap" between fossile 1 and 2 with fossile 1.5 is filled, the creationist* just say "but what is the gap between fossile 1 and 1.5 , and between 1.5 and 2 ? Creationist will NEVER be statisfied as the only satisfying things would be a CONTINUOUS record of specy but this won't happen due to argument 1 (rate of fossilisation).
Finally there is ALREADY many example of transitional form : lizard->byrd, fish->lizard, lizard->whale , preman->man, prehorse->horse and many other Iforgot, those have fossile a plenty, have been studied, and accepted as transitional form. Sigh.
(*) yeah I call ID'er creationism, to see why see argument about recursive designer in wiki
... In moderation. As for everything if you go out of wack *anything* even what is normaly good for you will be bad for you.... Very bad. Think : Sugar /lipid /protein. Good for you, allow you to live , make up hormons and other good stuff , make up protein. Eat too much of it and you get an host of associated illness... Vitamins are the same. Eat too much vitam C and byebye kidney. Each too much A... TV, Internet, Game and so on are the same. Moderation is the key here.
They are "testing the water" to see how far they can go expanding their grasp without anyone reacting. Next time they will go a little less far and nobody will react etc...
Name : God
: Well I can still do the plague thingy at parties. Or do apocalypse stuff on a 3*8 basis.
How do you see your future : Plumbery seems good. Or electricity. Something you can't outsource and that damn Adam will need me for.
Age : Infinite
Adress : Cosmos
Contact : Just pray. Maybe I'll hear, who knows.
What were your prior job :
I did the "Let the light be" stuff but later Adam outsourced me for the light bulb, and replaced the imperative-tense with the switch.
Then I used to create life but lately the same Adam started to do its on its own and now I am out of job.
What are your competance
The onus would not be on you to prove that you did not ask the sister, since you would be "defendant" the onus would be on them to prove you asked your sister to do it. As a "defendant", in the civil law of the country I was born at least, you do not have to prove anything, this is to the prosecution/attacker to prove your misdeed. I assume it is the same in the US (at least for criminal law, I dunno for civil law).
If they suddenly got their sentence shifted from 15 monthes, to Death Penalty, or life without parole by the computer (and vice-versa). Just a wild guess...
They are elected to give as much support/control as they can to their country/citizen.
Now a senator NOT supporting that the control of DNS server remain in the US hand, now that would be newsworthy.
The one wanting to block the call is SFR a wireless french phone company. Granted I ve been away from France from 10 years or so, but as far as I recall they do not have any landline. Meaning any call made to their wireless network will be expansive, especially if this is skype where they get nothing in exchange. This is why they want to block VOIP. France Telecom (which is now I think partially private ??) is the land carrier with the most traffic if this did not change in the last years and is not mentionned in the article.
This is why a loser pay system is far better. Oh yes, and if you cannot drop a suit you initiate unless you poay the defense cost.
I think the main problem is that at any time, the US can have a veto right on what happens. Think whatever you want, but as a country, if a foreign country has that much power on my infrastructure and public service I would quite simply do whatever I can to get out of the situation. That is what is happenning here. The WORLD does not want any country having a veto power over their own service. You think most country want to policy internet you are quite missing the point. They could ALREADY simply do it without DNS control by policing to hell the ISP (if you want to sell internet connection then you have to obey the local law). They do not need control of the DNS server. They only want to make sure that even if the US suddenly want to impose policy change, then their infrastructure won't be criplled overnight or influenced...
Everybody is speaking of reliigious right as a reason science is declining in the US. Well from what I heard there is another far simplier explanation. From the lowest class up to the university, you would be blind not to see that Sport is over-promoted, whereas science/Nerd/Intelligence is decried , laughed at, and even later as adult relegated in a dark corner. How many science chanel is there ? How many Sport channel ? How often Sport "stars" make the headlines ? How often scientifics ?
And even if you go over that, how much do you think a scientific is paid ? How much do you think an average lawyer, or an average MBA does ? I love science (particulary Quantum Physic) this is why I studied that up to PhD. If that passion was not there , I would most certainly not have gone into science but into Law/Buisness to make a killing $$$. I can see the other people in my family/freinds making twice as much as me yearly with not even half the study time (and associated diploms).
With those two argument I think we do not need religion/ID/right wing to show why science is declining in the US. Look at EU , most lands there there isn't such a Sport/Jock/Anti nerd culture.
ID debate and religious right wing are pouring fuel over the "fire" and using the science debacle at their advantage for their own promotion, but the origin of the problem is at school...
But for an 100% US funded company incorporated in panama, would you call it a "panamean" company ? Well I would certainly not. So the comment of the Grand parent poster applies.
I haven't a driving licence and I still broke the law :). ... Potentially we are all law breaker.
A better way would be "show me a pedestrian which never broke the law by crossing outside Zebra (white stripped) line and..." But it does not come as insightful or funny
But here in EU, they give a cursory glance at the signature. Even if this is for a small amount of 10. Granted it won't stop fraudster which just scrible a similar signature and pass the test, but they certainly check it.
I do not want to sound sarcastic, but that means a LOT of costal cities and estuaries city will need a bit more than a simple leve...
An example of this (an old one albeit) was my first (cough) crack way back in time. I had bought ultima 5 but the disk (5 1/4) stopped working after a while. So I learnt assembly and did use debug to see why my game stopped working. After a short loading phase it went and XOR'd a small subset of instruction with number increasing by 3 (3,6,9 etc...) then if I recall correctly (it was waaaay long ago) it exchanged the interrupt 3 (the trace call interrupt) with a jump instruction and jumped right into the start of the code, which was only loading some waaaay off data into the disk interruption (13h) to read a bad sector on the disk. Depending on the result then it would say it is THE original disk or not. I simply exchanged the JMP with NOP, XOR'd by the correct number , wrote back the .COM programs. Et voila ! I could paly my game again.
The funny things is, this is only waaay later that somebody explained me that I had cracked my game. I just wanted to be able to play with something which had cost me 50$ and being 12 that was a lot of cash...
Nowaday the debugging is a bit more complicated and it all come down to the same : stop calling laserlok/safedisk/whatsoever checking that the CD is here.
If Lexmark give a WRITTEN contract with each cartridge they sell requesting the refill to be made by them and the buyer *sign it* you may have a point. An "undestanding is not enough". If I buy in any shop those cartridge and decide to shoot it with a gun, to refill it with red pen ink or blood, or to use it as a paperweight, door stoper, or even to refill it with my own ink it is MY problem. You can argue what you want for software whether the EULA hold or not, but for physical object once they are sold you are fit to use them as you wish. Once sold they should have no influence whatsoever on the item they sold.
If they have a crappy buisness model which make them lose money whenever people get smart that is their problem.