And all you prohibitionists can think about is getting stoned.
No, they're thinking about their jobs. Fewer people to arrest, fewer people to jail, fewer people to track once out on parole. Hell, the prison guard's union in california consistently lobbies for harsher sentencing for drug offenders. That's repugnant.
I think it needs to be made clear that the two main supporters of prohibition are bad cops and drug dealers. That really tells you all you need to know.
Perhaps we should start allowing doctors and lawyers to violate doctor-patient confidentiality and attorney-client privilege as well, as long as they pseudo-anonymise the blogs where they do it?
Doctors and lawyers and psychologists "violate" this all the time when they publish research or scholarly articles. Usually the subject's name is just removed. I'd imagine that a diligent muck-raker would be able to piece together identities.
It seems like there are two points to consider here...
- Did he reveal information that could have affected a trial
- Was this information identifiable in any way
He'd be guilty only if both of these conditions were met, but it seems to me that if both were not met before the newspaper article that the Times would need to shoulder its share of the blame.
No significant indications of electoral fraud were found.
You mean aside from the bizarre statistical anomalies? I'm starting to get a distinct "la la la I can't hear you" vibe from your posts.
I'm not sure where you're coming from on this issue. You clearly either haven't read the stat breakdown on the official results, don't understand what they mean, or are a lvl 23 Erudite Troll. What, in fact, is your deal?
NOTE: Nothing I have written should be taken to imply that I'm making any assertion that voting fraud did not take place. Rather my point is that in the absence of solid evidence of fraud, and in the light of previous polling we ought not to presume fraud.
Right, and my response was an attempt to point out that the entire premise of your "LOL dumb hicks" argument was suspect.
Of course, it's already been pointed out that the uniformity of the vote results are statistically improbable, so this whole line of reasoning is moot. It was a (badly) rigged election.
Do we really need to be scientific when questioning the credibility of a result we don't like and which (if it isn't the result of manipulation) reflects the views of the under-educated rural religiouly conservative masses?
Juan Cole politely tells you that you're full of shit here. He knows more about this than you do. Go read him.
Somehow I feel like the "spirit of copyright" is used as a red herring by people who'd rather all this just came free to them. And that's fine, but don't pretend there's some righteous cause behind it.
That's like saying the civil rights movement was all about screwing white wimmin.
With the decline of government comes the decline of patents, therefore medicine would be cheaper than ever before and would only be limited by the materials needed to manufacture it.
Those who don't remember history are doomed to buy Dr. Brush's Magic Tonsil Tonic.
For a crowd that is so pro-privacy and civil liberties I do not understand why the slashdot readers are so ready to accept a government which continues to expand faster than population growth + inflation.
We're not pro-government, we're anti-pseudolibertarian bullshit.
I don't quite understand the total abhorrence of transfer capping around here.
It's not abhorred. It's deceptive implementation is abhorred. That's it.
The whole "slashdot/FOSS/etc hates commerce" thing is such a total red herring. Somehow 'not believing your bullshit' became a sign of communist sympathy.
That's a really interesting point. I wonder how many MMO developers have ever thought about ending their game gracefully. A storyline you could whip out once subscriptions fell to a certain level.
Well, A Tale in the Desert has this. They end the game and start another version after a certain period. That game is the exception to a lot of rules, though. If it wasn't so mismanaged it'd be a close second to WoW.
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And all you prohibitionists can think about is getting stoned.
No, they're thinking about their jobs. Fewer people to arrest, fewer people to jail, fewer people to track once out on parole. Hell, the prison guard's union in california consistently lobbies for harsher sentencing for drug offenders. That's repugnant.
I think it needs to be made clear that the two main supporters of prohibition are bad cops and drug dealers. That really tells you all you need to know.
saying "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss," and expect the automatic stamp of +5 insightful on this story can I.
We'll let the market sort that out.
Who says we haven't already?
data acquired in a good manner shows that homeopathic "medicines" have no more effect than a placebo. It most definitely does not work.
Care to reconcile those two statements?
Perhaps we should start allowing doctors and lawyers to violate doctor-patient confidentiality and attorney-client privilege as well, as long as they pseudo-anonymise the blogs where they do it?
Doctors and lawyers and psychologists "violate" this all the time when they publish research or scholarly articles. Usually the subject's name is just removed. I'd imagine that a diligent muck-raker would be able to piece together identities.
It seems like there are two points to consider here...
- Did he reveal information that could have affected a trial
- Was this information identifiable in any way
He'd be guilty only if both of these conditions were met, but it seems to me that if both were not met before the newspaper article that the Times would need to shoulder its share of the blame.
No significant indications of electoral fraud were found.
You mean aside from the bizarre statistical anomalies? I'm starting to get a distinct "la la la I can't hear you" vibe from your posts.
I'm not sure where you're coming from on this issue. You clearly either haven't read the stat breakdown on the official results, don't understand what they mean, or are a lvl 23 Erudite Troll. What, in fact, is your deal?
Can I just get a cell card for my laptop then, please?
NOTE: Nothing I have written should be taken to imply that I'm making any assertion that voting fraud did not take place. Rather my point is that in the absence of solid evidence of fraud, and in the light of previous polling we ought not to presume fraud.
Right, and my response was an attempt to point out that the entire premise of your "LOL dumb hicks" argument was suspect.
Of course, it's already been pointed out that the uniformity of the vote results are statistically improbable, so this whole line of reasoning is moot. It was a (badly) rigged election.
Do we really need to be scientific when questioning the credibility of a result we don't like and which (if it isn't the result of manipulation) reflects the views of the under-educated rural religiouly conservative masses?
Juan Cole politely tells you that you're full of shit here. He knows more about this than you do. Go read him.
Maybe not directly, but carriers do dictate and direct a lot of handset development.
"You know those phones they have in Japan? Make me a shitty version."
Yeah yeah... This has already been hashed out by a brighter mind.
Go read Rainbows End by Vernor VInge. He does the heavy thinking for you.
If you want to see the current state of the art go check out ARToolworks and maybe pull down the open version of their toolkit.
If you don't like their choice, you have the option to complain to them or switch.
If there were choices in broadband providers net neutrality would be a non-issue.
You'll conveniently forget these points the next time a "tough on crime" politician comes up for reelection.
Your doctor should have an easily searchable database containing every drug combination and potential effect known to man.
We're almost to 2010 here, people. Get with the program.
Somehow I feel like the "spirit of copyright" is used as a red herring by people who'd rather all this just came free to them. And that's fine, but don't pretend there's some righteous cause behind it.
That's like saying the civil rights movement was all about screwing white wimmin.
it's not private data when the user transmits it to any third party who asks.
Unless it's the SSID of a wireless router that you can't be bothered to password protect. Then it's way private.
So basically we've set the precedent that data is private if you're an idiot, but public if you're assumed to know what you're doing.
With the decline of government comes the decline of patents, therefore medicine would be cheaper than ever before and would only be limited by the materials needed to manufacture it.
Those who don't remember history are doomed to buy Dr. Brush's Magic Tonsil Tonic.
For a crowd that is so pro-privacy and civil liberties I do not understand why the slashdot readers are so ready to accept a government which continues to expand faster than population growth + inflation.
We're not pro-government, we're anti-pseudolibertarian bullshit.
Starving? No. I think china has enough man power to sustain itself...
You're assuming that Chinese leadership gives a damn about the peasants. They don't. They never have.
No matter how big you are, you will always be out-gunned by the courts.
Oblig. Raker Act scandal mention.
I don't quite understand the total abhorrence of transfer capping around here.
It's not abhorred. It's deceptive implementation is abhorred. That's it.
The whole "slashdot/FOSS/etc hates commerce" thing is such a total red herring. Somehow 'not believing your bullshit' became a sign of communist sympathy.
Thanks, that answers a few questions.
How the hell does a company with that much money consistently fail so hard with their advertising?
That's a really interesting point. I wonder how many MMO developers have ever thought about ending their game gracefully. A storyline you could whip out once subscriptions fell to a certain level.
Well, A Tale in the Desert has this. They end the game and start another version after a certain period. That game is the exception to a lot of rules, though. If it wasn't so mismanaged it'd be a close second to WoW.
Ahh, but does this separation occur on the internet?