it seems strange to me that he should be able to tell at-a-glance what they lead to (unless they were patently advertising what they linked to, which strikes me as unlikely).
It doesn't seem all that unlikely. I've seen countless links that blatantly advertise that they're kiddie porn, especially on P2P networks. (Of course, who knows if they're actually kiddie porn, or some kind of honeypot.) Conversely, in fifteen years of downloading vast amounts of porn, I've only accidentally downloaded kiddie porn maybe three or four times. Purveyors of kiddie porn are either completely up front about what they're dealing in, or they have some really sophisticated and secretive networks... and I'm inclined to doubt the latter.
Also, DDT was undone by its low cost. Farmers were using tens or even hundreds of times the effective amount because it cost next to nothing. If used as directed, the environmental cost/benefit is even higher. I've read that some scientists are promoting its reintroduction to combat malaria in Africa.
a) Genuine democracy does not scale with current population levels. As someone else here said, the American Constitution was originally written for a population of 3 million, which is 1/100th of the population's current size.
I disagree with this. What doesn't scale is federalism. A more republican system would work much better. Local governments should tax at the level the Federal government currently does, and vice versa.
This brings up an interesting point. Seems there's a head-on collision between a mainstream culture that's more and more in tune with the vast amount of information available to them, and a judiciary culture that's more and more likely to lie to jurors, withhold crucial facts (like the right of nullification) and basically make a joke out of the entire judicial process.
"Men, on the other hand, rarely use anything but a map. If I changed a street sign outside my apartment, my male friends probably wouldn't be able to find the place anymore."
Maybe I'm an exception, but I don't think that's true at all. I navigate entirely by landmarks. I don't even know the names of half the streets I travel on regularly. Furthermore, my mental map of the city is framed by our light rail system, major bus lines, and bike throughfares, not by the major roads carrying automobile traffic.
I took a touch-typing class in high school in 1992. It was utterly pointless. Touch-typing is learned naturally and quickly by people who use computers regularly, and useless to everyone else. High schools need to focus on the essentials - reading, math, history, logic - and leave specialized skills to the trade schools.
My brothers and I made up a game called "civilian" within one of the old Tom Clancy games. Players could choose to control a civilian in the combat zone, so one of us would be the unarmed civilian and the other two would try to find and kill him before he could cross the map. Lacking camouflage, the civilian was easy to spot, but he had the advantage of being able to hear us coming and hide, since we usually used vehicles to try to find him. Sometimes one of the hunters would take a jeep or helicopter while the other would go as a sniper and try to guess where the civilian would go. It was tense and often hilarious.
"Getting closer - that is, using a longer lens - is problematic, for several reasons. First, as lenses get longer in the same approximate price range, they get slower, so I'd lose my f/2.8 option pretty quickly, or else end up spending a *lot* more for the lens. Secondly, exposure time is limited, as the stars move, or else again, I end up spending more money on a tracking mount (or time building a barnyard door or other homebrew tracker.)"
The flip side is that higher resolution means smaller sensels with lower sensitivity and higher noise. I guess it depends on whether resolution is the primary metric of the quality of your images, or whether accurate color and low noise are paramount.
Or even going back to Mythic's earlier title, Dark Age of Camelot. Warhammer was designed to combine WoW's questing and broadly-appealing side-games with DAoC's large-scale world PvP, and it failed on both counts.
Exactly. For years I've amused myself by putting common file extensions like "doc" and "pdf" into the search fields of P2P clients. It's amazing, some of the sensitive private stuff that turns up.
The problem with your entire argument is that before Iran was a fundamentalist theocracy, it was one of the most socially progressive countries in the Middle East. Then the United States invaded them for some stupid reason I can't recall, and installed a puppet government which turned into a brutal dictatorship. Resistance to this government took on a religious flavor when mosques became the only place where dissidents could meet and speak freely. In essence, the United States *created* Iranian Islamic fundamentalism through their meddling. And in light of recent history, I don't trust the United States to right its mistakes without making things ten times worse.
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It doesn't seem all that unlikely. I've seen countless links that blatantly advertise that they're kiddie porn, especially on P2P networks. (Of course, who knows if they're actually kiddie porn, or some kind of honeypot.) Conversely, in fifteen years of downloading vast amounts of porn, I've only accidentally downloaded kiddie porn maybe three or four times. Purveyors of kiddie porn are either completely up front about what they're dealing in, or they have some really sophisticated and secretive networks... and I'm inclined to doubt the latter.
Don't you mean Hanukkah?
Also, DDT was undone by its low cost. Farmers were using tens or even hundreds of times the effective amount because it cost next to nothing. If used as directed, the environmental cost/benefit is even higher. I've read that some scientists are promoting its reintroduction to combat malaria in Africa.
Of course not. Why the hell would you ever think that?
Yep. You should be fucking grateful that they've allowed you to use their code in the first place, under any terms.
My ZVUE player crashed once, and I swear I saw a Linux console before the screen went blank. I want the firmware code!
I disagree with this. What doesn't scale is federalism. A more republican system would work much better. Local governments should tax at the level the Federal government currently does, and vice versa.
This brings up an interesting point. Seems there's a head-on collision between a mainstream culture that's more and more in tune with the vast amount of information available to them, and a judiciary culture that's more and more likely to lie to jurors, withhold crucial facts (like the right of nullification) and basically make a joke out of the entire judicial process.
"Men, on the other hand, rarely use anything but a map. If I changed a street sign outside my apartment, my male friends probably wouldn't be able to find the place anymore."
Maybe I'm an exception, but I don't think that's true at all. I navigate entirely by landmarks. I don't even know the names of half the streets I travel on regularly. Furthermore, my mental map of the city is framed by our light rail system, major bus lines, and bike throughfares, not by the major roads carrying automobile traffic.
I took a touch-typing class in high school in 1992. It was utterly pointless. Touch-typing is learned naturally and quickly by people who use computers regularly, and useless to everyone else. High schools need to focus on the essentials - reading, math, history, logic - and leave specialized skills to the trade schools.
I knew a guy who had a VW station wagon with a tweaked Audi turbo diesel engine and Quattro AWD. I've never since thought of diesels as gutless...
The BSA sues corporations. The RIAA sues ordinary people. There's your reason.
You're a moron. Or an American. (Probably both.)
Rehabilitation works, punishment doesn't, end of. Try taking a look at some actual civilized countries, like those in Europe...
My brothers and I made up a game called "civilian" within one of the old Tom Clancy games. Players could choose to control a civilian in the combat zone, so one of us would be the unarmed civilian and the other two would try to find and kill him before he could cross the map. Lacking camouflage, the civilian was easy to spot, but he had the advantage of being able to hear us coming and hide, since we usually used vehicles to try to find him. Sometimes one of the hunters would take a jeep or helicopter while the other would go as a sniper and try to guess where the civilian would go. It was tense and often hilarious.
Maybe somebody already did it, a long time ago. Maybe we should be looking for secret messages from space aliens in our own DNA. Maybe...
The flip side is that higher resolution means smaller sensels with lower sensitivity and higher noise. I guess it depends on whether resolution is the primary metric of the quality of your images, or whether accurate color and low noise are paramount.
Or even going back to Mythic's earlier title, Dark Age of Camelot. Warhammer was designed to combine WoW's questing and broadly-appealing side-games with DAoC's large-scale world PvP, and it failed on both counts.
Only in reverse, with the computer asking the questions and the researchers answering?
...doesn't mean it's enforceable, or even legal. Clauses that violate a person's civil rights are never binding, even if accepted willingly.
What are the chances this P2P source was installed by malware? Is there anything active in the wild that does that?
...when you hire somebody to develop a business plan for a product, then lay them off and forget to adapt the plan to a changing market.
Exactly. For years I've amused myself by putting common file extensions like "doc" and "pdf" into the search fields of P2P clients. It's amazing, some of the sensitive private stuff that turns up.
The problem with your entire argument is that before Iran was a fundamentalist theocracy, it was one of the most socially progressive countries in the Middle East. Then the United States invaded them for some stupid reason I can't recall, and installed a puppet government which turned into a brutal dictatorship. Resistance to this government took on a religious flavor when mosques became the only place where dissidents could meet and speak freely. In essence, the United States *created* Iranian Islamic fundamentalism through their meddling. And in light of recent history, I don't trust the United States to right its mistakes without making things ten times worse.
Straight people aren't offended by someone saying they're gay. Small-minded fuckwits are.
I think a symbolic death sentence commuted to life without parole would be more fitting.