It is less easy to see a difference between murdering someone say to steal their money and murdering someone because they are homosexual.
Is there? Both cases the person is dead...Does someone who just killed a person for $5 in pocket change deserve to get less punishment, just because his motivations were different?
In any event, the whole manslaughter/murder 1st/2nd/3rd provides more than enough granularity for sentencing purposes.
Yeah I always wondered why drug dealers sold things in kilos. I mean, when I go to purchase hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs, I would think that the dealers would have the courtesy to use a unit I am familiar with.
But we all know that's not why they are doing this. There are no real losses.
Actually, the funny thing is there are losses. Think about it, a serious criminal will just steal/hack/forge ID and get another connection. A normal consumer who just got caught torrenting a song, will be offline forever and UNABLE TO CONSUME DIGITAL MEDIA, lol. The media companies are slowly destroying people's ability to purchase digital goods from them...
If by fabrication device, you mean a 3d printer, then you are correct about Brickarms not using one.
However, you are still wrong. There are people that have posted images of Lego compatible parts that they have created using 3d prototyping machines on Brickshelf and flikr. I don't have any URLs handy, but the last one I saw was custom race car parts.
For a minor inconvenience, spammers could be stopped.
...until they just rootkit a few servers that is on someone else's domain. Really, your proposal would just stop criminals from registering throw away domains, and switch to buying/leasing botnets of infected computers.
Aye, Torchlight was a very good game at $20, and torchlight 2 will probably be out before Diablo 3. I'll be skipping d3, because TL2 will be a far better game.
Some things in life are simple, here the lesson is: Don't be a cheating dickwad.
I'm sure everyone can get behind that. I would like to point out that in any sufficiently large group of cheaters, there are going to be people that were misidentified. What about them? "Sorry, but your game has been bricked because we made a slight error when we banned the last 100k accounts that we thought were cheating. But, please go buy a new copy, we value your business."
This is a bad idea for the same reason the death penalty is a bad idea: in all human endeavors, there will be misteakes. (sic)
I understand your feelings on the topic, but are they cheating the system? If the rules are poorly written, they still are rules, and you aren't cheating to follow them. Many of the strange tax loopholes are a result of the government trying to encourage certain types of behavior with tax incentives.
Makes me want to load up a laptop full of shock-pr0n images, just to I can show them all to some unfortunate customs worker, under the guise of 'declaring' them...
Hope the customs workers have therapy coverage on their health care plans....
I doubt that a fabrication machine will ever be able to create parts w/ the precision which Lego demands in their molds (tolerances are just 2 micro-meters, molds are discarded when they wear out, they use _tons_ of pressure to force the ABS plastic into every bit of the molds).
I am a serious Lego collector, and not only are you wrong about it ever being possible to do this, there are people already doing this. Go checkout Brickarms or Brickforge for some examples of high quality third party accessories.
To date, Lego has chosen to ignore them legally, since they have been very respectful of not stepping on Lego's core business or violating their IP. I am sure that they would not be so considerate if you made copies of their unique elements.
Why do we remain in the virtual dark ages, when clearly we have better alternatives readily available?
Because the government is a bureaucracy with inertia. It takes time and effort to change it's course, and unless there is a perceived critical issue, there is very little drive to change things.
It seems sad to have to say this, but it is going to take some serious criminal hacking and blatant manipulation of an election to get a proper open source election system in place in within the next decade. A scandal will need to occur that gets on the radar of the major news orgs, and then people will get pissed off enough to deluge elected officials' offices with calls and letters. Then, and only then, will you see any real movement to change. Extra haste will be applied if the hacker(s) in question have hazy connections to China.
f I hire an employee who does something stupid on behalf of the company, I have to suffer for it. Taxpayers have to suffer for their bad hires, too.
if you hire a stupid employee, you have direct oversight of their activities, or you have someone you hired to oversee them. As a taxpayer, I have almost zero oversight and control over the activities of any representatives I 'hire'. If I vote a politician into office, why should I be held financially responsible for their activities if they decide to burn down a building or something? Shouldn't the people who behaved irresponsibility be the ones impacted?
The reason that lawyers sue the city/state/national government is because they have lots of money. The first rule of tort law is never sue a poor person, because when you win, you still lose.
What I'd probably do is act to protect people from their own government (police) which kill & beat innocent citizens every single day via their unconstitutional raids & just general ineptitude.
Why not overthrow the government with your newly found super powers, and create a better and more just government? Why in the words of Dr. Horrible, 'treat the symtom'? Take a page from Dune, and become a benevolent tyrant. Don't bandy about chasing around a few corrupt cops.
I hardly think it's some tin-foil hat conspiracy theory for them to assert that it was a "western power" (most likely Israel or the U.S.) behind this worm.
Possibly. What if they were having problems getting their plant working, and didn't want to look bad. Something like this might be a great way to blame the west, and get sympathy from other countries that might be willing to help out a victim of western aggression.
Or, this might be the work of a western NGO. There are any number of groups that aren't part of the governments of the US or Israel that don't want to see a nuclear Iran. Perhaps this is a uninvolved state that just wants the US and Israel actively engaged and distracted by dealing with Iran.
Just because the Iranian government is full of militaristic and theocratic jerks does not give anyone the right to endanger the lives of any old (or young) person living or working in and around that facility
What about the rights of all the people in Israel? Are they less valuable than the the 'innocent people' living around the nuclear weapon plant? (I say 'innocent' because most people living near a plant will probably be the workers who work at the plant, but whatever)
It would be wonderful if we could all live together singing songs and holding hands, but that isn't whats currently going on. At some point, country leaders have to make some hard choices that could hurt or kill people regardless of which way things go. So, a moral person tries to make the choice that hurts and kills the fewest people possible.
Given that Iran has publicly threatened to wipe Israel out of existence on more than one occasion, do you really think that any responsible leader is going to risk his people's safety on the chance that an oil rich hostile country is building a nuclear plant for peaceful purposes? If Iran gets nuclear technology, there are elements within the country and government that would not hesitate to employ it against Israel. You want to gamble that those elements don't end up calling the shots?
I feel sorry that bystanders have and will be killed because of this issue. However, if a nuclear exchange occurs, hundreds of thousands of Israelite and Iranians will die. What is it worth to prevent that from happening?
by far the largest part are abandoned, half-finished and/or complete garbage.
This seems like a good sign to me. If the project isn't interesting or important enough to warrant being finished, abandon it. You can't really do this if you are writing a commercial product. Usually it just ends up sucking, and clogging up the retail channel with cruddy software. Better to die a deserved early death, then waste people's time and money.
There is a disconnect here. The engineers only appear to be the dominant profession of choice because they are the only ones who can actually build bombs. Actually, vast numbers of knitting enthusiasts are aspiring terrorists. Unfortunately, their background and skill set only allows them to create scratchy scarves and mittens.
Also, I have a theory that terrorists/bakers are responsible for all the Christmas fruitcakes....
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It is less easy to see a difference between murdering someone say to steal their money and murdering someone because they are homosexual.
Is there? Both cases the person is dead...Does someone who just killed a person for $5 in pocket change deserve to get less punishment, just because his motivations were different?
In any event, the whole manslaughter/murder 1st/2nd/3rd provides more than enough granularity for sentencing purposes.
Yeah I always wondered why drug dealers sold things in kilos. I mean, when I go to purchase hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs, I would think that the dealers would have the courtesy to use a unit I am familiar with.
Of course, many people may have thought that the "kill switch" would take down the internet in specific evil places outside the US,
We already have several of these. They are called 'MIRVing ICBMs', but they functionally do the same thing.
But we all know that's not why they are doing this. There are no real losses.
Actually, the funny thing is there are losses. Think about it, a serious criminal will just steal/hack/forge ID and get another connection. A normal consumer who just got caught torrenting a song, will be offline forever and UNABLE TO CONSUME DIGITAL MEDIA, lol. The media companies are slowly destroying people's ability to purchase digital goods from them...
Wait a tic, Tribes was multiplayer? Here I thought it was a post apoc game, where everybody else in the world was dead... *sigh*
If by fabrication device, you mean a 3d printer, then you are correct about Brickarms not using one.
However, you are still wrong. There are people that have posted images of Lego compatible parts that they have created using 3d prototyping machines on Brickshelf and flikr. I don't have any URLs handy, but the last one I saw was custom race car parts.
For a minor inconvenience, spammers could be stopped.
...until they just rootkit a few servers that is on someone else's domain. Really, your proposal would just stop criminals from registering throw away domains, and switch to buying/leasing botnets of infected computers.
Aye, Torchlight was a very good game at $20, and torchlight 2 will probably be out before Diablo 3. I'll be skipping d3, because TL2 will be a far better game.
Some things in life are simple, here the lesson is: Don't be a cheating dickwad.
I'm sure everyone can get behind that. I would like to point out that in any sufficiently large group of cheaters, there are going to be people that were misidentified. What about them? "Sorry, but your game has been bricked because we made a slight error when we banned the last 100k accounts that we thought were cheating. But, please go buy a new copy, we value your business."
This is a bad idea for the same reason the death penalty is a bad idea: in all human endeavors, there will be misteakes. (sic)
What I don't like are people cheating the system
I understand your feelings on the topic, but are they cheating the system? If the rules are poorly written, they still are rules, and you aren't cheating to follow them. Many of the strange tax loopholes are a result of the government trying to encourage certain types of behavior with tax incentives.
Makes me want to load up a laptop full of shock-pr0n images, just to I can show them all to some unfortunate customs worker, under the guise of 'declaring' them...
Hope the customs workers have therapy coverage on their health care plans....
I doubt that a fabrication machine will ever be able to create parts w/ the precision which Lego demands in their molds (tolerances are just 2 micro-meters, molds are discarded when they wear out, they use _tons_ of pressure to force the ABS plastic into every bit of the molds).
I am a serious Lego collector, and not only are you wrong about it ever being possible to do this, there are people already doing this. Go checkout Brickarms or Brickforge for some examples of high quality third party accessories.
To date, Lego has chosen to ignore them legally, since they have been very respectful of not stepping on Lego's core business or violating their IP. I am sure that they would not be so considerate if you made copies of their unique elements.
Legislation could make it a felony to access the information in an unauthorized way
It already does. Go look up the laws that cover hacking. I believe it is worded as 'altering or accessing data without permission'.
Why do we remain in the virtual dark ages, when clearly we have better alternatives readily available?
Because the government is a bureaucracy with inertia. It takes time and effort to change it's course, and unless there is a perceived critical issue, there is very little drive to change things.
It seems sad to have to say this, but it is going to take some serious criminal hacking and blatant manipulation of an election to get a proper open source election system in place in within the next decade. A scandal will need to occur that gets on the radar of the major news orgs, and then people will get pissed off enough to deluge elected officials' offices with calls and letters. Then, and only then, will you see any real movement to change. Extra haste will be applied if the hacker(s) in question have hazy connections to China.
I really am regretting ever creating a Facebook account. If things carry on in this direction, I shall delete the thing soon.
I just want to say that I hated Facebookbefore it was cool to hate Facebook. All the rest of you are just 'Johnny come hate-lys'.....
You argued that if God knows the outcome that we don't have free will. I argued it is not. What is your counterargument?
There is no god.
f I hire an employee who does something stupid on behalf of the company, I have to suffer for it. Taxpayers have to suffer for their bad hires, too.
if you hire a stupid employee, you have direct oversight of their activities, or you have someone you hired to oversee them. As a taxpayer, I have almost zero oversight and control over the activities of any representatives I 'hire'. If I vote a politician into office, why should I be held financially responsible for their activities if they decide to burn down a building or something? Shouldn't the people who behaved irresponsibility be the ones impacted?
The reason that lawyers sue the city/state/national government is because they have lots of money. The first rule of tort law is never sue a poor person, because when you win, you still lose.
What I'd probably do is act to protect people from their own government (police) which kill & beat innocent citizens every single day via their unconstitutional raids & just general ineptitude.
Why not overthrow the government with your newly found super powers, and create a better and more just government? Why in the words of Dr. Horrible, 'treat the symtom'? Take a page from Dune, and become a benevolent tyrant. Don't bandy about chasing around a few corrupt cops.
I hardly think it's some tin-foil hat conspiracy theory for them to assert that it was a "western power" (most likely Israel or the U.S.) behind this worm.
Possibly. What if they were having problems getting their plant working, and didn't want to look bad. Something like this might be a great way to blame the west, and get sympathy from other countries that might be willing to help out a victim of western aggression.
Or, this might be the work of a western NGO. There are any number of groups that aren't part of the governments of the US or Israel that don't want to see a nuclear Iran. Perhaps this is a uninvolved state that just wants the US and Israel actively engaged and distracted by dealing with Iran.
Do you even know what socialism is? Because it isn't this.
Socialism - Anything political that is disliked by a conservative.
Fascism - Anything political that is disliked by a liberal.
I've always had a thing for girls that are 5'4 or below. I think it's because the short ones are usually zesty packets of spunk
/shudder
if...
girls that are 5'4 or below == short ones
and
short ones == zesty packets of spunk
That would mean that you just said:
I've always had a thing for zesty packets of spunk.
on Slashdot.
This could be an interesting topic, but unfortunately, it is turned into a pointless article spewing wild guesses.
yeah, the writer should have called up the Mossad, and asked to talk to the author so he could get some solid facts...
Really, what do you expect from a story about what is obviously a covert operation?
Just because the Iranian government is full of militaristic and theocratic jerks does not give anyone the right to endanger the lives of any old (or young) person living or working in and around that facility
What about the rights of all the people in Israel? Are they less valuable than the the 'innocent people' living around the nuclear weapon plant? (I say 'innocent' because most people living near a plant will probably be the workers who work at the plant, but whatever)
It would be wonderful if we could all live together singing songs and holding hands, but that isn't whats currently going on. At some point, country leaders have to make some hard choices that could hurt or kill people regardless of which way things go. So, a moral person tries to make the choice that hurts and kills the fewest people possible.
Given that Iran has publicly threatened to wipe Israel out of existence on more than one occasion, do you really think that any responsible leader is going to risk his people's safety on the chance that an oil rich hostile country is building a nuclear plant for peaceful purposes? If Iran gets nuclear technology, there are elements within the country and government that would not hesitate to employ it against Israel. You want to gamble that those elements don't end up calling the shots?
I feel sorry that bystanders have and will be killed because of this issue. However, if a nuclear exchange occurs, hundreds of thousands of Israelite and Iranians will die. What is it worth to prevent that from happening?
by far the largest part are abandoned, half-finished and/or complete garbage.
This seems like a good sign to me. If the project isn't interesting or important enough to warrant being finished, abandon it. You can't really do this if you are writing a commercial product. Usually it just ends up sucking, and clogging up the retail channel with cruddy software. Better to die a deserved early death, then waste people's time and money.
There is a disconnect here. The engineers only appear to be the dominant profession of choice because they are the only ones who can actually build bombs. Actually, vast numbers of knitting enthusiasts are aspiring terrorists. Unfortunately, their background and skill set only allows them to create scratchy scarves and mittens.
Also, I have a theory that terrorists/bakers are responsible for all the Christmas fruitcakes....