Fully agree on the drugs thing - though that fact that (in the States, at least) the can keep stuff the seize under the drug laws pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the motivations for it.
My problem with the war on terror is that, especially with suicide bombers, you're arrested people who haven't committed a crime. Yet. Once you can start arresting people who haven't committed a crime - and carting them off the cuba (can't be bothered to spell gitmo. Sue me) to boot, it's quite easy to change from 'war on terror' to 'war on people we don't like'.
There is a slight difference that may merit treating it differently. WWII and the American Civil War had a very definite date at which they ended. With the amount of federal pork flowing to and from the department of homeland security, how long do you think the 'war on terror' will last (bearing in mind you guys haven't finished the 'war on drugs' yet and it's been, what, 20+ years?)
Are you sure that private sector always costs less? That there's not a single instance where public sector has been more cost effective? Remember, the private sector company has to do everything the public sector institution did and then turn a profit on top of that.
At work we have an email address used as a group inbox. Nobody acutally has this account as a personal account. It can't sign up for anything,/but/ it is on our website. Take a guess how much crud it gets.
Mnemonic. Although that spelling was funnier. I always seem to spell BT Internet as BT Inertnet, which is, I think, a political statement by my left hand.
The trick I use is to remember 'belie'. That's obviously spelled 'lie' so you know how believe is supposed to be. Receive (see, tempting fate there!) is spelled 'the other way'.
Only posting this because I remember that rhyme as 'E before I' and it all goes horrendously wrong from there on in.
While I do hope that lessons will be learned, the fact that in afghanistan we are working with the ex-taleban warlords seems to indicate that 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' still appears to be the way things work
They don't break the laws because they make the laws. They are never wrong because they are bigger and have more money than you. When was the last time the word 'fair' came anywhere near a discussion involving the RIAA or any one of it's subsidiaries?
The sad thing is while I believe this is another 'make the tools illegal, not the crime' kind of thing I firmly believe this is where the world is headed these days. This does unfortunately eliminate fair use - the intended use of the tool is of no importantance if the tool itself is banned (I mean banned in the commercial, corporate enforced sense as in you can't buy it, rather than the government regulated sense)
erm, what? If the GPL is not valid you go back to plain, boring old copyright - i.e., you'd need explicit (probably written) permission to copy. If you don't play by GPL rules, you play by the old rules, not no rules at all. At least, that's my understanding of it. (I, ANAL)
No, they just had an election...and closed the polling stations in districts the opposition party were going to win two days early. And arrested opposition patry activists.
Oh, and Mugabe is, apparently, opposing any imports of grain that are not under the control of Zanu-PF (MDC, the opposition, supporters are having food taken from them during the current crisis)
>Organized people can defeat organized money. Corruption, by definition, means that the system is not working as it should. If we demand that the rules be followed, and that officials base their decisions on democratic principles, we can have a huge impact.
*cough* Florida! *cough*
Oh, and have you noticed how much coverage that's been getting? That's right, that story was buried within about two weeks, I think.
Not that I'm particularly casting stones, the Brit system is just as bad and has been since that last Kinnock election (which, apparently, he won - don't tell maggie).
Just because somebody calls themself a socialist does not mean they are one. Socialism means trying to give everybody a fair shot. That's it. There are different ways of trying to do this, some of which (Hello, USSR) are absolutely bloody awful, but that is the basic tenet of socialism. Well, that and 'don't fuck up your neighbour'. Things like state education happen because rich people can afford to pay for fantastic education for their kids, but poor people can't. So the rich are taxed to provide something for the poor, the idea being they'll miss the money less than the poor people. And no, they didn't necessarily get poor because they are lazy\stupid\smelly. Sometimes, people are just poor, especially if the system works to keep them that way.
Yes, I beleive he tried options 1 and 2 but nothing was done. As for three, I'd hesitate to recommend something I'm not sure I could do myself.
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That's very true. My father once had to represent a pedophile for a court case (long and irrelevant story) but it was more sad than sick. The man hated himself for what he was. He'd served in the Falklands and my dad visited the graves of some of his squaddie mates (back here in blighty) and he told my father he wished he'd died out in the falklands. He appeared to genuinely try to keep himself out of the way, but failed occasionally.
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Umm, that would make it VERY difficult for them to be effective soldiers, wouldn't it?
Yes, but buildings are not mobile. Perhaps (no idea) a truck would get thrown about a bit, letting absorb the energy over a greater period of time? I know the cars that get blown up in NI normally frag the car next to it but not much beyond that - they just get thrown around by the blast. The armour plate on one of those things would probably cope with that, no?
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I don't know of anywhere with a free speech *guarantee*. Try shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater to find that out...
Fully agree on the drugs thing - though that fact that (in the States, at least) the can keep stuff the seize under the drug laws pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the motivations for it.
My problem with the war on terror is that, especially with suicide bombers, you're arrested people who haven't committed a crime. Yet. Once you can start arresting people who haven't committed a crime - and carting them off the cuba (can't be bothered to spell gitmo. Sue me) to boot, it's quite easy to change from 'war on terror' to 'war on people we don't like'.
There is a slight difference that may merit treating it differently. WWII and the American Civil War had a very definite date at which they ended. With the amount of federal pork flowing to and from the department of homeland security, how long do you think the 'war on terror' will last (bearing in mind you guys haven't finished the 'war on drugs' yet and it's been, what, 20+ years?)
Try meta-modding...worked for me
(Oh, and I think you need >1 karma. I have, I think 2, and that's good enough.)
Are you sure that private sector always costs less? That there's not a single instance where public sector has been more cost effective? Remember, the private sector company has to do everything the public sector institution did and then turn a profit on top of that.
Um, YHBT?
Yeah, but the idea is that the OEM does the video installation. Says that in the article :)
Talk to the boys at eEye - they seem to be getting along OK without the source, just attacking a black box.
At work we have an email address used as a group inbox. Nobody acutally has this account as a personal account. It can't sign up for anything, /but/ it is on our website. Take a guess how much crud it gets.
Mnemonic. Although that spelling was funnier. I always seem to spell BT Internet as BT Inertnet, which is, I think, a political statement by my left hand.
The trick I use is to remember 'belie'. That's obviously spelled 'lie' so you know how believe is supposed to be. Receive (see, tempting fate there!) is spelled 'the other way'.
Only posting this because I remember that rhyme as 'E before I' and it all goes horrendously wrong from there on in.
While I do hope that lessons will be learned, the fact that in afghanistan we are working with the ex-taleban warlords seems to indicate that 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' still appears to be the way things work
They don't break the laws because they make the laws. They are never wrong because they are bigger and have more money than you. When was the last time the word 'fair' came anywhere near a discussion involving the RIAA or any one of it's subsidiaries?
The sad thing is while I believe this is another 'make the tools illegal, not the crime' kind of thing I firmly believe this is where the world is headed these days. This does unfortunately eliminate fair use - the intended use of the tool is of no importantance if the tool itself is banned (I mean banned in the commercial, corporate enforced sense as in you can't buy it, rather than the government regulated sense)
erm, what? If the GPL is not valid you go back to plain, boring old copyright - i.e., you'd need explicit (probably written) permission to copy. If you don't play by GPL rules, you play by the old rules, not no rules at all. At least, that's my understanding of it. (I, ANAL)
No, they just had an election...and closed the polling stations in districts the opposition party were going to win two days early. And arrested opposition patry activists.
Oh, and Mugabe is, apparently, opposing any imports of grain that are not under the control of Zanu-PF (MDC, the opposition, supporters are having food taken from them during the current crisis)
>Organized people can defeat organized money. Corruption, by definition, means that the system is not working as it should. If we demand that the rules be followed, and that officials base their decisions on democratic principles, we can have a huge impact.
*cough* Florida! *cough*
Oh, and have you noticed how much coverage that's been getting? That's right, that story was buried within about two weeks, I think.
Not that I'm particularly casting stones, the Brit system is just as bad and has been since that last Kinnock election (which, apparently, he won - don't tell maggie).
Just because somebody calls themself a socialist does not mean they are one. Socialism means trying to give everybody a fair shot. That's it. There are different ways of trying to do this, some of which (Hello, USSR) are absolutely bloody awful, but that is the basic tenet of socialism. Well, that and 'don't fuck up your neighbour'. Things like state education happen because rich people can afford to pay for fantastic education for their kids, but poor people can't. So the rich are taxed to provide something for the poor, the idea being they'll miss the money less than the poor people. And no, they didn't necessarily get poor because they are lazy\stupid\smelly. Sometimes, people are just poor, especially if the system works to keep them that way.
Try http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/08/keyboard.html
Perhaps somebody should just point to the RFC regarding domain names and tell them to take a hike. If that's not prior art, what is?
Yes, I beleive he tried options 1 and 2 but nothing was done. As for three, I'd hesitate to recommend something I'm not sure I could do myself.
That's very true. My father once had to represent a pedophile for a court case (long and irrelevant story) but it was more sad than sick. The man hated himself for what he was. He'd served in the Falklands and my dad visited the graves of some of his squaddie mates (back here in blighty) and he told my father he wished he'd died out in the falklands. He appeared to genuinely try to keep himself out of the way, but failed occasionally.
Umm, that would make it VERY difficult for them to be effective soldiers, wouldn't it?
And, for Mars exploration, just tell Dubya NASA found oil there...
Yes, but buildings are not mobile. Perhaps (no idea) a truck would get thrown about a bit, letting absorb the energy over a greater period of time? I know the cars that get blown up in NI normally frag the car next to it but not much beyond that - they just get thrown around by the blast. The armour plate on one of those things would probably cope with that, no?