Yes, that is the slashdot conventional wisdom, and the fact that it has never been supported outside shifty statistics shouldn't mean anything, right? It's not uncontrovertible fact, it's your opinion.
Yeah, just shifty statistics. Well, shifty statistics and the iTunes Music Store. Wait, that's shifty statistics, the iTunes Music Store, and Baen's eBooks...
The problem with free speech evangelicals is that some people are reluctant take responsibility for thier speech.
Look, if you're opposed to free speech just come out and say it. Don't hedge around with stuff about "responsibility" and "consequences". Any petty dictator can say "My people all have free speech. I expect that they will use it responsibly. If they do not, the consequences will be a bullet to the head".
The problem with this is that it can't be rolled out incrementally. This is a change that needs to occur globally and simultaneously, preceded by years or decades of planning (calculation and certification of global energy costs for every item produced at the time, mandating proper recycling tech so that the basic premise (energy is the only non-renewable resource consumed) is valid, setting up whole new exchange systems to facilitate trade, etc.), so that when the switch occurs, everything falls into place on the first go, because if it doesn't, all hell breaks loose.
Let's institute a totally centrally planned economy with countless variables, worked up over years and rolled out all at once with no possibility of testing. What could possibly go wrong?
Because I've written DRM systems, and understand them better than you ever will. Just pretending I got something wrong fails miserably when you haven't pointed out an actual error.
If you've written DRM systems, you're either a cynic willing to take fools' money, or you don't understand them so well yourself.
This is it in a nutshell for me. I can buy most major books in mass-market paperback form for $7-8 after they've been out a short while, and printing cost is a huge portion of that price.
It turns out that whether printing costs are significant depends. Depends on what? Well, when they're raising prices on paper books, they like to blame it on the rising costs of paper and ink. When they're selling eBooks, they claim printing costs are a miniscule part of the cost of a book.
The thing that makes me actually partially believe them is the remarkable efficiency of department of homeland security's incredible ability to recruit "neighbourhood spies". The numbers may be inflated, but make no mistake - authorities have noted just how efficient it is to essentially make a lot of small people into informants on minimal pay. Stalin would have had a major hard-on if he saw what they did in the States, he tried really hard to make the system in USSR to be similar, but it failed because of lack of ability to process large amounts of data at rapid pace.
The East German Stasi managed it quite well, however.
Until 20-30 years from now when every single software concept has been patented and those patents have all expired. What a wonderful time it will be.
Though I'm probably giving the patent trolls too little credit for adequately reworking existing concepts to "qualify" for fresh patents, and the USPTO too much credit for being able to identify these shenanigans.
Both have pretty much already happened; that's why we see patents for ordinary stuff people have been doing on computers for decades, just "on a mobile phone" or "on a media player".
But if you find the words amusing I think you'll have more fun with "Assistant Government Whip", or "Lords Chief Whip". This is what happens when you're country has had a parliament for approaching 800 years.
Even our mere 200-year-old Congress has a "Minority Whip".
And what do you do when the bond is broken, and they're the ones left holding all the guns, all of the privilege, and all of the power?
There aren't enough of them, and they don't hold all the guns. Were the general population to turn against the police, the police would lose, so long as the military stayed on the sidelines.
This will never happen, of course. The general population is of the opinion that if a cop does something to you, you had it coming. This is true no matter how ridiculous the scenario; if they shoot your dog, break down your door, tear apart your house, and beat the crap out of you and your family and it turns out they had the wrong address, the general view will be you had it coming for living near criminals.
I've been in and out of talk therapy since I got away from that torture, but talk therapy isn't worth a damn.
Of course it isn't. The assumption of therapy -- of all mental health treatment -- is that the problem is within you. If you believe the problem is elsewhere, step 1 of treatment is to change your belief so you accept the problem is within you. If you won't do that, you can go no further.
But in defense of law enforcement they are exposed to an unprecedented level of douche bagery by scum bags on a daily basis. And not people speeding I mean real anti-social dicks who deserve to serve life sentences themselves for the betterment of society.
You will beat the rap but you won't beat the ride.
That's just another version of "might makes right". I'm not sure why it's considered acceptable for cops and their supporters to say stuff like that, when they'd be aghast if some cop-killer at sentencing were to laugh and say "Yeah, you got me, but that pig is still DEAD."
Personally? I'd lay more blame at the generation of people who use the antibacterial handsoaps/wipes/lotions/etc for contributing to this mess than anything. And I'll say it again. I fucking told you, that you'd doom us all.
Triclosan use doesn't promote bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
Look into it, get the full story. He was driving while drunk, refused to pull over (a DUI would violate his robbery parole), gave chase, resisted arrest, and tried to attack the policemen.
That's what the police said. By the testimony of the police he was also doing 110-115mph in a 1988 Hyundai Excel (top speed 95mph). And was a superman high on PCP (drug tests were negative for PCP)
It is in at least the states of Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland.
It's legal to film and record police in Maryland. The case mentioned in your link went to the Maryland Circuit Court for Harford County and was ruled not a violation of the law. "A law enforcement officer has no reasonable expectation of privacy in encounters with citizens in public places"
But they're not yet the Nazis you and other perpetually outraged Slashdotters make them out to be.
These cops are just as brutal as the Nazi on the street circa 1938. What they lack that the Nazis had is a Hitler to organize their brutality in pursuit of a single purpose. Without that, they just act like an out-of-control street gang.
Seriously, think before you go castrating the public's protective services just because you want to be a dick to a cop and not get punched. Because if you actually make it impossible for him to punch you, you also make it really easy for the crook he's unable to chase to punch you.
In my adult life, I've never been robbed or punched by anyone without a police badge.
If you can't trust the police, how can you trust the cloud? Back it up to your own computer, which should ideally create a torrent automatically...
I think the cloud is safer, actually. In a case like this it doesn't matter, but if you're recording police misconduct occurring at your own home, they're likely to destroy and/or confiscate all your electronic equipment. They can't take extrajudicial action to get at information held by large multinational companies; this is the police we're talking about, not the NSA.
The obvious answer is that airlines should bring in strict cabin baggage limits and enforce them. If your bag is larger than a certain size, tough, either check it in or it wont go on the airplane.
Doesn't help if your bag is not larger than that size, but the overhead space is full (because everyone else brought their limit or over). Then you're faced with checking it (and saying goodbye to any high value items, as the TSA turns a blind eye to their employees pilfering checked baggage) or not flying and eating the ticket cost.
By the time our porcine "protectors" figure out that smashing up the instrument rarely destroys the recording, we'll all have real-time internet-connected video cameras.
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Yeah, just shifty statistics. Well, shifty statistics and the iTunes Music Store. Wait, that's shifty statistics, the iTunes Music Store, and Baen's eBooks...
Look, if you're opposed to free speech just come out and say it. Don't hedge around with stuff about "responsibility" and "consequences". Any petty dictator can say "My people all have free speech. I expect that they will use it responsibly. If they do not, the consequences will be a bullet to the head".
Let's institute a totally centrally planned economy with countless variables, worked up over years and rolled out all at once with no possibility of testing. What could possibly go wrong?
If you've written DRM systems, you're either a cynic willing to take fools' money, or you don't understand them so well yourself.
It turns out that whether printing costs are significant depends. Depends on what? Well, when they're raising prices on paper books, they like to blame it on the rising costs of paper and ink. When they're selling eBooks, they claim printing costs are a miniscule part of the cost of a book.
The East German Stasi managed it quite well, however.
Both have pretty much already happened; that's why we see patents for ordinary stuff people have been doing on computers for decades, just "on a mobile phone" or "on a media player".
Even our mere 200-year-old Congress has a "Minority Whip".
There aren't enough of them, and they don't hold all the guns. Were the general population to turn against the police, the police would lose, so long as the military stayed on the sidelines.
This will never happen, of course. The general population is of the opinion that if a cop does something to you, you had it coming. This is true no matter how ridiculous the scenario; if they shoot your dog, break down your door, tear apart your house, and beat the crap out of you and your family and it turns out they had the wrong address, the general view will be you had it coming for living near criminals.
Yes
Of course it isn't. The assumption of therapy -- of all mental health treatment -- is that the problem is within you. If you believe the problem is elsewhere, step 1 of treatment is to change your belief so you accept the problem is within you. If you won't do that, you can go no further.
It only takes a few Sumit's to screw it up for not only Vipil, but all the 75% set-asides there.
Yeah, and that's just during roll-call.
That's just another version of "might makes right". I'm not sure why it's considered acceptable for cops and their supporters to say stuff like that, when they'd be aghast if some cop-killer at sentencing were to laugh and say "Yeah, you got me, but that pig is still DEAD."
Ahh, goatse. It never gets old, does it. Do you have that username because you're the goatse guy, or just a fan?
That's utter bullshit.
Triclosan use doesn't promote bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
That's what the police said. By the testimony of the police he was also doing 110-115mph in a 1988 Hyundai Excel (top speed 95mph). And was a superman high on PCP (drug tests were negative for PCP)
It's legal to film and record police in Maryland. The case mentioned in your link went to the Maryland Circuit Court for Harford County and was ruled not a violation of the law. "A law enforcement officer has no reasonable expectation of privacy in encounters with citizens in public places"
These cops are just as brutal as the Nazi on the street circa 1938. What they lack that the Nazis had is a Hitler to organize their brutality in pursuit of a single purpose. Without that, they just act like an out-of-control street gang.
In my adult life, I've never been robbed or punched by anyone without a police badge.
I think the cloud is safer, actually. In a case like this it doesn't matter, but if you're recording police misconduct occurring at your own home, they're likely to destroy and/or confiscate all your electronic equipment. They can't take extrajudicial action to get at information held by large multinational companies; this is the police we're talking about, not the NSA.
Doesn't help if your bag is not larger than that size, but the overhead space is full (because everyone else brought their limit or over). Then you're faced with checking it (and saying goodbye to any high value items, as the TSA turns a blind eye to their employees pilfering checked baggage) or not flying and eating the ticket cost.
By the time our porcine "protectors" figure out that smashing up the instrument rarely destroys the recording, we'll all have real-time internet-connected video cameras.
No, they really swapped them. That's British humor for you.