There's one major point most of the "major" media has left out about this ruling. The ruling only applies to the 20 states that have a law which requires persons to produce identification when they're suspected of criminal activity. This ruling does not apply to the other 30 states and the federal government which does not have laws which require identification.
In other words, this isn't going to turn into an East Berlin style state with cops asking for your papers - which hasn't been made legal by this ruling. You can only be thrown in jail or fined for not giving ID in a state that has a law that dictates that, and that's only in the case of being suspected of criminal activity.
According to THOMAS, the DMCA was passed in the Senate in the 105th session of Congress by a 99-0 vote. Kerry, along with every other Senator (except for Gregg, a Republican from New Hampshire), including current attorney general John Ashcroft (who, even as a Republican, I loathe) voted for it.
Someone with mod points needs to give them to MZ6's post. People need to stop blaming this mess on "Dubya", because its the Democrats' fault as much as the Republicans'... I'd like to remind people that the Decency Enforcement Act was passed by the House of Representatives by a margin of 391 to 22. So stop blaming Dubya for all of your problems, gripes, and issues, and start blaming those responsible - soccer moms from the hippie generation that can't take responsibility and expect the government to do it for them.
Well, I'm not a programmer, but I can only imagine how long it would take to convert an entire program that uses psuedo little-endian mode to not use it.
Reportedly, Microsoft did recently demonstrate VPC7 to a European crowd - it was very buggy but it ran considerably faster than VPC6 and included support for using hardware 3D accelerators.
It's wrong for one man to kill another man but somehow right when 2 million kill one.
You can't justify bad behavior with bad behavior. And last time I checked, there were plenty of government programs avaliable for released convicts to use to do something like get a job and change their life. But what happens? Oh yeah, that's right, something like 50%+ of the people that are released commit their crimes AGAIN rather than making something of themselves (I apologize that I don't have the actual statistic on me).
Rather than lock them up and rehabilitate them, we now just write them off entirely and kill them.
Last time I checked, prison wasn't for rehabilitation purposes - it was for punishment for a crime.
I'm sure to get flamed/modded down now, since I don't have a liberal/democrat/socialist point of view.
Saying that Howard Stern is an authority on anything except for women and midgets is absolutely ridicuous.
Anyhow, as someone who works in politics and "the media" (a lovely independent radio station in NYC), I'd like to point out a few things about your comments about liberals and conservatives and the "FCC holy war".
1) HR 3717, also known as the Decency Enforcement Act, was passed by the House by a WIDE margin - 391 to 22. Obviously, this was not a vote down party lines. 2) Most people with a brain would not say that this FCC crackdown for decency is not a conservative led fight. With numbers like 391 to 22, how can you even say that in the first place? Its really a reaction by the soccer moms in the country that were offended when they saw Janet Jackson's nipple on TV. TV and radio have been getting dirtier and dirter in the past couple of years, and well, if you can justify any reason why anyone (including children, who the courts have ruled to be the people that are to be "protected" before anyone else) should be able to turn on their radio and hear a description of an anal sex scene - please, tell me and the world. This goes the same for TV. If you want to talk about that in PUBLIC, that's not cool. But, you still have the right to talk about that sort of thing - just not on the public airwaves. Obscenty is NOT protected by the first amendment.
I sent an email off to LSU's "Office of Communications Services" when they decided to block all traffic on port 25 on campus due to some folks with one of the many windows worms that would send out email and shit thru SMTP. LSU's solution to the problem was that in the ideal world, everybody use's LSU's crappy a$$ Lotus Notes server for their email via the web.
Well - I send email using my own domain and web server, which is located in Houston, TX (some 6 hours away from LSU). I need port 25 to send email on my mrbrown.net email account.
I send off an email to the OCS people telling them they're stupid and they need to open port 25 so I can use SMTP. I get a phone call the following morning at about 7:30 (before I was even awake) from a tech who proceded to bitch me out about running a server. I inform the douche bag that he should've read my email, where I point out the name of my server and my exact problem, I ask him if he can open a port for just one particular MAC address (after he informs me, the "stupid one" that I have a dynamic IP address....), and he doesn't even know what a MAC address is.
I tell him I'll find a solution, he warns me that I'll be referred to the dean if I violate any of the university's regulations, and he informs me that he's closing the report and just hangs up on me.
Comparing the Northern Ireland problem to al-Qaeda is like comparing apples to oranges. They had the sense to compromise. Islamic militants throughout history have been shown to not believe in compromise, they just want their religion to conquer the globe..
...for fear that my Republican point-of-view will be flamed and then modded down as "troll". It seems any article about anything remotely political (even though this is completely political) gets everything and anything blamed on the Bush "regime" (as you left-wing NUTS like to call it).
I'd like to remind ALL of ya'll that the USA PATRIOT act passed OVERWHELMINGLY with a majority of both republicans and (shock, horror, awe!) DEMOCRATS.
Nope - it would actually be KIFT - the Knight Industries Four Thousand - the revamped edition of KITT featured in the ultra short-lived series Knight Rider 2000.
Although, KITT did have the ability to drive on water in one episode of the original series.
The police chief has a point, if any of you had bothered to read the article - the cameras are being placed in public areas and are taking pictures of public places - you have no right to privacy in the public.
Dude, note the word "illegal". They're just enforcing the laws that keep capitalism afloat.
Of course, since you seem to be a flaming liberal, you'll just come back at me and blame it on some vast right wing conspiracy. The government is too stupid (no matter who's running it) and too bureaucratic to have ANY sort of conspiracy.
No government in the USA hands out handcapped parking permits to everyone who asks
In the state of Louisiana, you can go into a doctors office, give them any cooky reason, and they'll give you the proper documentation to get a handicap permit.
Yeah, I know its off-topic, but believe me - it happens.;-)
First off, I do not control the ads on my website. I choose what category I would like (low income, middle income, high income), and quite frankly Viagra ads bring in the most income. I'm quite happy with my 7" of endowement and I can get it up quite easily.
Secondly, my "incoherent rambling" was not original material. It was something I found on the Internet, which was relevant to the conversation.
Thirdly, I watch one show on the Fox News Channel - Studio B w/ Shepard Smith, and thats only because I argue college football with the man on a regular basis. I'm a LSU student, he's an Ole Miss grad, we hate each other's team. Simple as that. So before you go calling me an "Uninformed Fox News drone", think before you speak. Political Science is my major and I work in media.
And its laughable when the only thing you really come up with is something about my penis... really. Try something original and exciting!
Actually, the courts have ruled that the folks down in Gitmo aren't entitled to the protections of the U.S. Constitution because they are not on U.S. soil, but Cuban soil. However, this has no real effect on the discussion, since when you get fingerprinted and photo'd you're on U.S. soil.
Of course, I really have no idea where I'm going with this, considering the 14th amendment says "within its jurisdiction", making this whole post essentially useless.
Well, I don't feel like arguing with your liberal lies and mistruths today, so I think I'll just post this...
Top 25 things you have to believe to be a Democrat today: 1. Drug addiction is a disease that should be treated with compassion and understanding...unless the addict is a Conservative radio host.
2. The United States should be subservient to the United Nations. Our highest authority is not God and the U.S. Constitution, but a collective of tinpot dictators (and their appeasers) and the U.N. charter.
3. Government should relax drug laws regardless of the abuse potential, but should pass new anti-gun laws every time a gun is misused by a criminal.
4. Calls for increased security after a terrorist attack are "political opportunism," but calls for more gun control after a criminal's spree killing is "a logical solution."
5. "It Takes a Village" means everything you want it to mean...except creeping socialist government involvement in the nuclear family.
6. Disarming innocent, law-abiding citizens helps protect them from evil, lawless terrorists.
7. Slowly killing an unborn innocent by tearing it apart limb from limb is good. Slowly killing an innocent disabled woman by starving her to death is good. Quickly killing terrorists and convicted murderers & rapists is BAD.
8. Every religion should be respected and promoted in public schools the name of diversity, so long as those religions don't include Christianity.
9. The best way to support our troops is to criticize their every move. This will let them know they're thought of often.
10. Sexual harassment, groping and drug use are degenerate if you're the governor of California, but it's okay if you're the President of the United States.
11. Sex education should be required so that teens can make informed choices about sex, but gun education should be banned because it will turn those same teens into maniacal mass-murderers.
12. Minorities are blameless for the hatred of the racist, but America is entirely at fault for the Jihadist's hatred.
13. Poverty is the cause of all terrorism...which is why the leaders of al Qaeda are almost entirely U.S.-educated and were raised in wealth and luxury.
14. The Patriot Act is a horrific compromise of Constitutional rights, but anti-Second Amendment laws and Franklin Roosevelt's Presidential Order 9066 must be regarded "necessary evils."
15. We should unquestioningly honor the wishes of our age-old allies, even when said allies no longer act like our allies and have vested economic interests in propping up our enemies.
16. Socialized medicine is the ideal. Nevermind all those people who spend every dime they have to get to the United States so they can get quality medical care...that their nation's socialized medical community can't provide.
17. Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Natalie Maines are perfectly qualified to criticize our leadership, but Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlton Heston, and Dennis Miller are just ignorant political hacks.
18. John Lott's research on how gun ownership reduces crime is junk science, but Michael Bellesiles is still an authority on why gun control is good (even though he was forced to resign from Emory due to research misconduct over his book "Arming America").
19. Bush's toppling the Saddam regime was a "diversion," but Clinton's lobbing a couple of cruise missiles at Iraq in the thick of the Lewinsky sex scandal was "sending a message."
20. A president who lies under oath is okay, but a president who references sixteen words from an allies' intelligence report should be dragged through the streets naked.
21. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning Second Amendment rights and shopping the courts for judges sympathetic to causes that wouldn't pass in any legislature.
22. "The People" in the First Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Fourth Amendment means The
Yup, I know the feeling. I got modded as "redundent" and "offtopic" today for posting almost the exact same thing (pointing out the blatant left-slant/. has been taking). This isn't the fucking drudge report, this is/. and if they keep using it to promote a political agenda, I'll be the first to boycott it.
Is it just me, or has slashdot in the past couple of days revealed its true colors? In the last twenty four hours, I've seen at least 2 front page articles blasting the Bush administration... almost as bad as CBS. I guarentee if Howard Dean or John Kerry were proposing broadband, it would be hearlded as the greatest advancement of all time here, or if they were proposing using popups to advertise, it wouldn't have even made the news here. This whole slashdot political attitude makes me sick. Its NEWS FOR NERDS not NEWS FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJORS LIKE MR. BROWN.
Pop-ups are bad, but I guarentee the democratic party will use them as well. Most Americans don't have browsers that block pop-ups, and well, its still one of the most effective ways to advertise to the public, even if us/. folks find it to be one of the most annoying.
Just figured I'd let you know, your poll is unscientific as its a voluntary response poll - they're most likely biased because people with strong opinions, both positive and negative, are most likely to respond.
Besides, every American knows that Jimmy Carter was the worst President ever.
Dude, take a political theory class. ALL laws have a religious basis. Almost all of our basic laws are based on the Ten Commandments, and the 12 Roman Tables (unless, of course, you're in the state of Louisiana).
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There's one major point most of the "major" media has left out about this ruling. The ruling only applies to the 20 states that have a law which requires persons to produce identification when they're suspected of criminal activity. This ruling does not apply to the other 30 states and the federal government which does not have laws which require identification.
In other words, this isn't going to turn into an East Berlin style state with cops asking for your papers - which hasn't been made legal by this ruling. You can only be thrown in jail or fined for not giving ID in a state that has a law that dictates that, and that's only in the case of being suspected of criminal activity.
According to THOMAS, the DMCA was passed in the Senate in the 105th session of Congress by a 99-0 vote. Kerry, along with every other Senator (except for Gregg, a Republican from New Hampshire), including current attorney general John Ashcroft (who, even as a Republican, I loathe) voted for it.
Someone with mod points needs to give them to MZ6's post. People need to stop blaming this mess on "Dubya", because its the Democrats' fault as much as the Republicans'... I'd like to remind people that the Decency Enforcement Act was passed by the House of Representatives by a margin of 391 to 22. So stop blaming Dubya for all of your problems, gripes, and issues, and start blaming those responsible - soccer moms from the hippie generation that can't take responsibility and expect the government to do it for them.
Well, I'm not a programmer, but I can only imagine how long it would take to convert an entire program that uses psuedo little-endian mode to not use it.
Reportedly, Microsoft did recently demonstrate VPC7 to a European crowd - it was very buggy but it ran considerably faster than VPC6 and included support for using hardware 3D accelerators.
It's wrong for one man to kill another man but somehow right when 2 million kill one.
You can't justify bad behavior with bad behavior. And last time I checked, there were plenty of government programs avaliable for released convicts to use to do something like get a job and change their life. But what happens? Oh yeah, that's right, something like 50%+ of the people that are released commit their crimes AGAIN rather than making something of themselves (I apologize that I don't have the actual statistic on me).
Rather than lock them up and rehabilitate them, we now just write them off entirely and kill them.
Last time I checked, prison wasn't for rehabilitation purposes - it was for punishment for a crime.
I'm sure to get flamed/modded down now, since I don't have a liberal/democrat/socialist point of view.
Saying that Howard Stern is an authority on anything except for women and midgets is absolutely ridicuous.
Anyhow, as someone who works in politics and "the media" (a lovely independent radio station in NYC), I'd like to point out a few things about your comments about liberals and conservatives and the "FCC holy war".
1) HR 3717, also known as the Decency Enforcement Act, was passed by the House by a WIDE margin - 391 to 22. Obviously, this was not a vote down party lines.
2) Most people with a brain would not say that this FCC crackdown for decency is not a conservative led fight. With numbers like 391 to 22, how can you even say that in the first place? Its really a reaction by the soccer moms in the country that were offended when they saw Janet Jackson's nipple on TV. TV and radio have been getting dirtier and dirter in the past couple of years, and well, if you can justify any reason why anyone (including children, who the courts have ruled to be the people that are to be "protected" before anyone else) should be able to turn on their radio and hear a description of an anal sex scene - please, tell me and the world. This goes the same for TV. If you want to talk about that in PUBLIC, that's not cool. But, you still have the right to talk about that sort of thing - just not on the public airwaves. Obscenty is NOT protected by the first amendment.
I sent an email off to LSU's "Office of Communications Services" when they decided to block all traffic on port 25 on campus due to some folks with one of the many windows worms that would send out email and shit thru SMTP. LSU's solution to the problem was that in the ideal world, everybody use's LSU's crappy a$$ Lotus Notes server for their email via the web.
Well - I send email using my own domain and web server, which is located in Houston, TX (some 6 hours away from LSU). I need port 25 to send email on my mrbrown.net email account.
I send off an email to the OCS people telling them they're stupid and they need to open port 25 so I can use SMTP. I get a phone call the following morning at about 7:30 (before I was even awake) from a tech who proceded to bitch me out about running a server. I inform the douche bag that he should've read my email, where I point out the name of my server and my exact problem, I ask him if he can open a port for just one particular MAC address (after he informs me, the "stupid one" that I have a dynamic IP address....), and he doesn't even know what a MAC address is.
I tell him I'll find a solution, he warns me that I'll be referred to the dean if I violate any of the university's regulations, and he informs me that he's closing the report and just hangs up on me.
Don't ever wake me up before noon, sucka.
Comparing the Northern Ireland problem to al-Qaeda is like comparing apples to oranges. They had the sense to compromise. Islamic militants throughout history have been shown to not believe in compromise, they just want their religion to conquer the globe..
Or... overrated. Yeah, that works too.
...for fear that my Republican point-of-view will be flamed and then modded down as "troll". It seems any article about anything remotely political (even though this is completely political) gets everything and anything blamed on the Bush "regime" (as you left-wing NUTS like to call it).
I'd like to remind ALL of ya'll that the USA PATRIOT act passed OVERWHELMINGLY with a majority of both republicans and (shock, horror, awe!) DEMOCRATS.
WRONG! Knight Rider 2000 was the pilot for a new series that never developed.
Nope - it would actually be KIFT - the Knight Industries Four Thousand - the revamped edition of KITT featured in the ultra short-lived series Knight Rider 2000.
Although, KITT did have the ability to drive on water in one episode of the original series.
The police chief has a point, if any of you had bothered to read the article - the cameras are being placed in public areas and are taking pictures of public places - you have no right to privacy in the public.
Dude, note the word "illegal". They're just enforcing the laws that keep capitalism afloat.
Of course, since you seem to be a flaming liberal, you'll just come back at me and blame it on some vast right wing conspiracy. The government is too stupid (no matter who's running it) and too bureaucratic to have ANY sort of conspiracy.
No government in the USA hands out handcapped parking permits to everyone who asks
In the state of Louisiana, you can go into a doctors office, give them any cooky reason, and they'll give you the proper documentation to get a handicap permit.
Yeah, I know its off-topic, but believe me - it happens. ;-)
Well I think one would have to say they really didn't get to be creative artists until they were all doped up. ;-)
Now I may not know what the hell you're talking about - but something about magnets and a CF-sized 4GB hard drive don't sound too spiffy to me.
First off, I do not control the ads on my website. I choose what category I would like (low income, middle income, high income), and quite frankly Viagra ads bring in the most income. I'm quite happy with my 7" of endowement and I can get it up quite easily.
Secondly, my "incoherent rambling" was not original material. It was something I found on the Internet, which was relevant to the conversation.
Thirdly, I watch one show on the Fox News Channel - Studio B w/ Shepard Smith, and thats only because I argue college football with the man on a regular basis. I'm a LSU student, he's an Ole Miss grad, we hate each other's team. Simple as that. So before you go calling me an "Uninformed Fox News drone", think before you speak. Political Science is my major and I work in media.
And its laughable when the only thing you really come up with is something about my penis... really. Try something original and exciting!
Pitiful fuck.
Actually, the courts have ruled that the folks down in Gitmo aren't entitled to the protections of the U.S. Constitution because they are not on U.S. soil, but Cuban soil. However, this has no real effect on the discussion, since when you get fingerprinted and photo'd you're on U.S. soil.
Of course, I really have no idea where I'm going with this, considering the 14th amendment says "within its jurisdiction", making this whole post essentially useless.
Well, I don't feel like arguing with your liberal lies and mistruths today, so I think I'll just post this...
Top 25 things you have to believe to be a Democrat today:
1. Drug addiction is a disease that should be treated with compassion and understanding...unless the addict is a Conservative radio host.
2. The United States should be subservient to the United Nations. Our highest authority is not God and the U.S. Constitution, but a collective of tinpot dictators (and their appeasers) and the U.N. charter.
3. Government should relax drug laws regardless of the abuse potential, but should pass new anti-gun laws every time a gun is misused by a criminal.
4. Calls for increased security after a terrorist attack are "political opportunism," but calls for more gun control after a criminal's spree killing is "a logical solution."
5. "It Takes a Village" means everything you want it to mean...except creeping socialist government involvement in the nuclear family.
6. Disarming innocent, law-abiding citizens helps protect them from evil, lawless terrorists.
7. Slowly killing an unborn innocent by tearing it apart limb from limb is good. Slowly killing an innocent disabled woman by starving her to death is good. Quickly killing terrorists and convicted murderers & rapists is BAD.
8. Every religion should be respected and promoted in public schools the name of diversity, so long as those religions don't include Christianity.
9. The best way to support our troops is to criticize their every move. This will let them know they're thought of often.
10. Sexual harassment, groping and drug use are degenerate if you're the governor of California, but it's okay if you're the President of the United States.
11. Sex education should be required so that teens can make informed choices about sex, but gun education should be banned because it will turn those same teens into maniacal mass-murderers.
12. Minorities are blameless for the hatred of the racist, but America is entirely at fault for the Jihadist's hatred.
13. Poverty is the cause of all terrorism...which is why the leaders of al Qaeda are almost entirely U.S.-educated and were raised in wealth and luxury.
14. The Patriot Act is a horrific compromise of Constitutional rights, but anti-Second Amendment laws and Franklin Roosevelt's Presidential Order 9066 must be regarded "necessary evils."
15. We should unquestioningly honor the wishes of our age-old allies, even when said allies no longer act like our allies and have vested economic interests in propping up our enemies.
16. Socialized medicine is the ideal. Nevermind all those people who spend every dime they have to get to the United States so they can get quality medical care...that their nation's socialized medical community can't provide.
17. Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Natalie Maines are perfectly qualified to criticize our leadership, but Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlton Heston, and Dennis Miller are just ignorant political hacks.
18. John Lott's research on how gun ownership reduces crime is junk science, but Michael Bellesiles is still an authority on why gun control is good (even though he was forced to resign from Emory due to research misconduct over his book "Arming America").
19. Bush's toppling the Saddam regime was a "diversion," but Clinton's lobbing a couple of cruise missiles at Iraq in the thick of the Lewinsky sex scandal was "sending a message."
20. A president who lies under oath is okay, but a president who references sixteen words from an allies' intelligence report should be dragged through the streets naked.
21. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning Second Amendment rights and shopping the courts for judges sympathetic to causes that wouldn't pass in any legislature.
22. "The People" in the First Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Fourth Amendment means The
Yup, I know the feeling. I got modded as "redundent" and "offtopic" today for posting almost the exact same thing (pointing out the blatant left-slant /. has been taking). This isn't the fucking drudge report, this is /. and if they keep using it to promote a political agenda, I'll be the first to boycott it.
Is it just me, or has slashdot in the past couple of days revealed its true colors? In the last twenty four hours, I've seen at least 2 front page articles blasting the Bush administration... almost as bad as CBS. I guarentee if Howard Dean or John Kerry were proposing broadband, it would be hearlded as the greatest advancement of all time here, or if they were proposing using popups to advertise, it wouldn't have even made the news here. This whole slashdot political attitude makes me sick. Its NEWS FOR NERDS not NEWS FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJORS LIKE MR. BROWN.
Pop-ups are bad, but I guarentee the democratic party will use them as well. Most Americans don't have browsers that block pop-ups, and well, its still one of the most effective ways to advertise to the public, even if us /. folks find it to be one of the most annoying.
Uh... its always been a matter of public record on who donates to which campaigns. This is nothing new.
Just figured I'd let you know, your poll is unscientific as its a voluntary response poll - they're most likely biased because people with strong opinions, both positive and negative, are most likely to respond. Besides, every American knows that Jimmy Carter was the worst President ever.
Dude, take a political theory class. ALL laws have a religious basis. Almost all of our basic laws are based on the Ten Commandments, and the 12 Roman Tables (unless, of course, you're in the state of Louisiana).