There is a difference between self incrimination and cooperating with police.
The right against self incrimination was inacted to stop tortured confessions such as the ones in Stalin's show trials. Self incrimination involves being forced to testify one's guilt. Blowing into a tube has nothing to do with testimony, it is gathering evidence. The police have just as much right to know what is in your lungs if you are a suspected drunk driver as they have to know what is in the boot of your car if you are a suspected murderer or what is in your bank acount if you are a suspected tax fraud.
As for the "have you been drinking" comment, that was not an accusation, that was a question for your sake. By answering no you are legally stating that there is no alcohol in your mouth, so any alcohol vapor detected would be streight from your lungs and therefore your bloodstream. This means the breathalyser would give an accurate result. When you answered yes, you stated that you might still have alcohol in your mouth. This means the brethalyser would give a BAC reading of far higher than what it really is and you were at risk of being incriminated wrongly. The officer therefore gave you your right to a fair analysis that is not effected by mouth alcohol which in this case was a streight line test.
The police can simply not do their job without collecting evidence. They could just rely on their judgments on whether or not you look drunk but that would be prone to mistakes where the innocent are charged for crimes they didn't commit simply because they were a little tired or they were hungry or dehydrated or some other thing that may effect stability or diction. They could simply ignore the problem and let drunk drivers be a problem to themselves and others and simply what the death statistics skyrocket with the clear concience that they are respecting people's privacy.
If you have a problem with walking down the line just politely ask blow through the tube (i.e. don't make dumb cliched "I'm paying your salary" remarks). If you have a problem with blowing through the tube then maybe you should get a little perspective. You are far more at risk of being hit by a drunk driver than having your nation turn totalitarian overnight simply because of breath tests.
A little over two millenia ago Emperor Chin united China as a single nation-state.
Five hundred years earlier King Cyrus II created the nation of Persia (right before he created the Persian Empire around it).
A little over five hundred years before that, the north and south kingoms of Egypt united to become a single nation with a single Pharoh.
Culture, identity, language and government have been tied to nations for thousends of years, it will take more than a century to get rid of nationalism.
And conversely, as long as there are nations, there will allways be language differences.
If you don't like the LGPL you are in a little trouble because all the KDE core libraries are licenced under the LGPL KDE Licencing policy as well. You will find that no KDE library can be anything tighter than LGPL and many of them are far looser
It is QT that is duel licenced under GPL and QPL but that is not part of the KDE project and they are connected very little except of one depending on the other.
Because we're the world experts in free-market capitalism. We're the ones who made it work when everyone else failed. Our economy is by far the most liberal of the industrialized countries. In those respects, at least, everyone in the world wants to be like us.
I am an Australian, and I would rather die than live in a country with an "economy" like yours. I only hope that this madness ends before I have to prove this.
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IANAL however my parents are Australian lawyers (in the states of New South Wales and Victoria, not Queensland) so I aksed them.
Australian law allows a warrant to be issued providing that a Justice of the Peace has been convinced that there is reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is evidence of a crime on the premises.
I don't know how this compares with the US justice system and whether this was only granted by the patriot act (I doubt it). This has been the case for many years.
This is an invetigation of kazaa and it is reasonable that police be able to investigate suspected crimes wherever the evidence may be, otherwise criminals could conceal evidence in their homes and be totally immune to investigation.
This could have well been the first time that scores of nerds would have wanted to copy something _off_ an ipod and onto the internet for their own entertainment.
Ships are prehistoric, but their development has mainly been done for trade purposes. Even modern developments such as steam power have been for civilian purposes namely transport in rivers, a domain into which warships rarely enter. Aeroplanes were developed by scores of civilian enthusiasts, tinkerers and hobbyists most notably the Wright brothers. Internal combustion engines were developed by civilian physicists such as Christian Huygens and engineers such as Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir and Siegfried Marcus.
The first electronic computer may have been created by the British government however it was dismantled and its information was classified so that civilians had little or no benefit from its creation.
Even modern encryption bares little resemblance to the methods developed by the military (except for the system equivalent to RSA created by Clifford Cocks in 1973 that was not declassified until it was redundant). Personally I think you have chosen silly examples.
I am above average weight (100kg), however I wouldn't mind anyone knowing that, because it means that they know I could kick their arses if they lauged about it.
I don't care if what anyone knows about me, the more they know, the more they understand what the score is.
BeOS is half written with poor network support. Apart from that it is completely closed source so we have no more reason to use it than windows.
MacOSX is more similar to linux in the way it functions so even that would be a more viable replacement for linux than BeOS. MacOS is also activly maintained which is more than I could say for BeOS.
As for OpenBeOS: it is hardly even started, it can barely boot, let alone be used. We would be better off writing a successor for linux from scratch that jump abord that band wagon at this point in time.
I don't know about in America, but I know in a lot of countries people's tax goes towards feeding the poor, providing education and health care to everyone, stopping violence etc. Once again, I don't know that much about America but I assume that if he payed his taxes instead of dodging them then the money might go somewhere good anyway.
Anyway, I think paying one's taxes is the most patriotic thing that one can do, far greater than waving a stupid flag around etc.
The majority of the population doesn't give a shit about linux either, why should we sacrifice our own intrests for those who will just stick to their existing system?
Currently only people who like dicking around with computers really use linux, not mainly because linux is hard to use but because Lawyers accountants, pharmacists etc. 1. like to stick to what they have, and 2. like to use what everyone else uses.
Surely we should try and make linux as easy to use for everyone as possible, we want to spread our blessing to the world, however what we need to do that is more developers, and the only way to get them is to make the system focus on those who are potentially a developer. If we make our system bug smart young computer-oriented people, then those people who are each worth more than hundreds of chemists and biologists as far as building the system will become dissalusioned and apathetic.
If we focus on those who can help us, then the system will eventually become good enough for everyone. If however we focus on the others then we shall be the last generation of developers and nomatter how widely used the system is, it will be dead.
In Australia there are far fewer prisoners but roughly the same amount of prisons for its population. This allows inmates to have bigger cells, more room and dramatically reduces instances of such negative experiances such as shower rape etc. This is usually seen as a good thing in a correctional system, however not in all cases.
I think I speak for all Australian SCO haters when I suggest that McBride shouldn't be locked up in one of our 3-star resort minimum security white-colar gaols but he should be locked up in one of those overcrowded, underfunded stinkholes that they have in the US.
Better yet, we do imprison him here, however we lock him up in one of our little "detention centers" in the middle of the desert that the UN keeps complaining about... use those things to lock up someone who actually deserves it for once.... that or extradite him to Russia!
I use multihead displays and personally, I have never seen anything as efficient as the gimp interface to use.
Also, 1.3 and 2.0 have tabbed control boxes making the UI compact, intuitive and flexible, one can even shove all one's little boxes into a single window vertically with the new interface and it will be the same aweful interface that you seem to like with photoshop.
You must remember that the Japaneese attacked you guys during world war 2. It would seem that war mongering jerks detest people who protest against their invasion of other countries more than those who actually invade them.
I also don't see how the French are spineless. I come from Australia and my government is spineless, they sent troops to a war that they know is wrong against the wishes of their people in order to impress America. The French had the guts to tell the big superpower what they thought of them both in Libya and Iraq, I admire that.
Yes, it would be more appropriate to commit seppuku opposed to having the child commit the many traffic violations that are possible with a non-paper motorbike.
One can make sure the child does not commit either if one makes sure that the child unwraps his "motorbike" before he unwraps his new katana.
Remember, the fist manned spaceflights was orbital (Gagarin made a whole lap).
The legitimacy of the American efforts is questionable. I think the Americans were planning on waiting until they had the technology to blast a man into orbit before doing anything but were forced to carry out their plans early to avoid totally loosing face.
The question is that is there any point having a sub -orbital flight? Gravity is still strong for all but the crest of the flight making it pointless for space tourism and research, and objects dropped out will not stay up making it pointless for satilite deployment.
The length of data types are chosen by the compiler, not the chip. An int can be 256 bits on a 16 bit computer as long as it is no smaller than a char and no bigger than a long
And while we are on the topic of "serious mistakes, which I think any educated mathematician can easily see", I would like to point out that the logic of your sig is flawed.
For private usage, as a general rule, duplication does not have the same finatntial ramifications as theft of property. Even publicly facilitating such duplication doesn't have the same ramifications, although it has similar effects, but to a smaller scale.
Of course if one does something illegal one should be punished according to the wrongful damage they have done, however many home users (the ones who would use the tool in question) would cause very minor amounts of damage to the indusry both individually and collectivly.
Of course large scale bootlegging is far worse, because if someone buys a bootlegged copy of something, it proves that they would have been a customer of the deprived party and the damages are far more concrete and can be measured as the price payed for the bootleged things. However this decryption tool is not used by bootleggers, how many bootlegers would want to spend time hacking quicktime when they could be stamping out low quality cds of entire albums taken right from the original cd.
I never tried hacking while dead, perhaps it could work
Post humous software contribution is not as hard as it seems, you see, you need to have a child or a puppy dog jump over your corpse or get a nip from a friendly member of the coding dead. It allows one to code quite well for as long as one likes, possibly until HURD is usable.
There are a few drawbacks, you must work on evil projects of the night (gnome is actually a good example of this ever since they scrapped sawfish). You also may never see sunlight again, which for a hacker wouldn't make as much difference as it sounds like it should. You also no longer may eat italian food, which makes all but the least authentic varieties of pizza unavailable for lan parties. Diet is also a positive though as sucking the blood from a beautiful virgin's neck is the closest 50% of hackers get to a meaningful relationship.
If you are interested, just let one of the friendly members of our organisation give you a peck. You can find us in star-wars forums under the name "nerds for R-2", it is quite a broadening experience, I assure you.
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The right against self incrimination was inacted to stop tortured confessions such as the ones in Stalin's show trials. Self incrimination involves being forced to testify one's guilt. Blowing into a tube has nothing to do with testimony, it is gathering evidence. The police have just as much right to know what is in your lungs if you are a suspected drunk driver as they have to know what is in the boot of your car if you are a suspected murderer or what is in your bank acount if you are a suspected tax fraud.
As for the "have you been drinking" comment, that was not an accusation, that was a question for your sake. By answering no you are legally stating that there is no alcohol in your mouth, so any alcohol vapor detected would be streight from your lungs and therefore your bloodstream. This means the breathalyser would give an accurate result. When you answered yes, you stated that you might still have alcohol in your mouth. This means the brethalyser would give a BAC reading of far higher than what it really is and you were at risk of being incriminated wrongly. The officer therefore gave you your right to a fair analysis that is not effected by mouth alcohol which in this case was a streight line test.
The police can simply not do their job without collecting evidence. They could just rely on their judgments on whether or not you look drunk but that would be prone to mistakes where the innocent are charged for crimes they didn't commit simply because they were a little tired or they were hungry or dehydrated or some other thing that may effect stability or diction. They could simply ignore the problem and let drunk drivers be a problem to themselves and others and simply what the death statistics skyrocket with the clear concience that they are respecting people's privacy.
If you have a problem with walking down the line just politely ask blow through the tube (i.e. don't make dumb cliched "I'm paying your salary" remarks). If you have a problem with blowing through the tube then maybe you should get a little perspective. You are far more at risk of being hit by a drunk driver than having your nation turn totalitarian overnight simply because of breath tests.
Five hundred years earlier King Cyrus II created the nation of Persia (right before he created the Persian Empire around it).
A little over five hundred years before that, the north and south kingoms of Egypt united to become a single nation with a single Pharoh.
Culture, identity, language and government have been tied to nations for thousends of years, it will take more than a century to get rid of nationalism.
And conversely, as long as there are nations, there will allways be language differences.
It is QT that is duel licenced under GPL and QPL but that is not part of the KDE project and they are connected very little except of one depending on the other.
Nah, cricket joke.
I am an Australian, and I would rather die than live in a country with an "economy" like yours. I only hope that this madness ends before I have to prove this.
Australian law allows a warrant to be issued providing that a Justice of the Peace has been convinced that there is reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is evidence of a crime on the premises.
I don't know how this compares with the US justice system and whether this was only granted by the patriot act (I doubt it). This has been the case for many years.
This is an invetigation of kazaa and it is reasonable that police be able to investigate suspected crimes wherever the evidence may be, otherwise criminals could conceal evidence in their homes and be totally immune to investigation.
This could have well been the first time that scores of nerds would have wanted to copy something _off_ an ipod and onto the internet for their own entertainment.
The first electronic computer may have been created by the British government however it was dismantled and its information was classified so that civilians had little or no benefit from its creation.
Even modern encryption bares little resemblance to the methods developed by the military (except for the system equivalent to RSA created by Clifford Cocks in 1973 that was not declassified until it was redundant). Personally I think you have chosen silly examples.
OS/2's problem is that it was overpriced, which is in my opinion why Itanium is failing.
I don't care if what anyone knows about me, the more they know, the more they understand what the score is.
Look ye mortals an dispare!!
BeOS is half written with poor network support. Apart from that it is completely closed source so we have no more reason to use it than windows.
MacOSX is more similar to linux in the way it functions so even that would be a more viable replacement for linux than BeOS. MacOS is also activly maintained which is more than I could say for BeOS.
As for OpenBeOS: it is hardly even started, it can barely boot, let alone be used. We would be better off writing a successor for linux from scratch that jump abord that band wagon at this point in time.
Anyway, I think paying one's taxes is the most patriotic thing that one can do, far greater than waving a stupid flag around etc.
Currently only people who like dicking around with computers really use linux, not mainly because linux is hard to use but because Lawyers accountants, pharmacists etc. 1. like to stick to what they have, and 2. like to use what everyone else uses.
Surely we should try and make linux as easy to use for everyone as possible, we want to spread our blessing to the world, however what we need to do that is more developers, and the only way to get them is to make the system focus on those who are potentially a developer. If we make our system bug smart young computer-oriented people, then those people who are each worth more than hundreds of chemists and biologists as far as building the system will become dissalusioned and apathetic.
If we focus on those who can help us, then the system will eventually become good enough for everyone. If however we focus on the others then we shall be the last generation of developers and nomatter how widely used the system is, it will be dead.
I think I speak for all Australian SCO haters when I suggest that McBride shouldn't be locked up in one of our 3-star resort minimum security white-colar gaols but he should be locked up in one of those overcrowded, underfunded stinkholes that they have in the US.
Better yet, we do imprison him here, however we lock him up in one of our little "detention centers" in the middle of the desert that the UN keeps complaining about... use those things to lock up someone who actually deserves it for once.... that or extradite him to Russia!
Also, 1.3 and 2.0 have tabbed control boxes making the UI compact, intuitive and flexible, one can even shove all one's little boxes into a single window vertically with the new interface and it will be the same aweful interface that you seem to like with photoshop.
I hope the same doesn't happen with linux.
I also don't see how the French are spineless. I come from Australia and my government is spineless, they sent troops to a war that they know is wrong against the wishes of their people in order to impress America. The French had the guts to tell the big superpower what they thought of them both in Libya and Iraq, I admire that.
One can make sure the child does not commit either if one makes sure that the child unwraps his "motorbike" before he unwraps his new katana.
The legitimacy of the American efforts is questionable. I think the Americans were planning on waiting until they had the technology to blast a man into orbit before doing anything but were forced to carry out their plans early to avoid totally loosing face.
The question is that is there any point having a sub -orbital flight? Gravity is still strong for all but the crest of the flight making it pointless for space tourism and research, and objects dropped out will not stay up making it pointless for satilite deployment.
And while we are on the topic of "serious mistakes, which I think any educated mathematician can easily see", I would like to point out that the logic of your sig is flawed.
It's called a "strap on"
I realise that I run the risk of being modded (-1, Obscene) but I just had to say it.
This means that I would have no problem moving to L.A. But I think my hard drives would feel more at home in San Francisco.
Of course if one does something illegal one should be punished according to the wrongful damage they have done, however many home users (the ones who would use the tool in question) would cause very minor amounts of damage to the indusry both individually and collectivly.
Of course large scale bootlegging is far worse, because if someone buys a bootlegged copy of something, it proves that they would have been a customer of the deprived party and the damages are far more concrete and can be measured as the price payed for the bootleged things. However this decryption tool is not used by bootleggers, how many bootlegers would want to spend time hacking quicktime when they could be stamping out low quality cds of entire albums taken right from the original cd.
Post humous software contribution is not as hard as it seems, you see, you need to have a child or a puppy dog jump over your corpse or get a nip from a friendly member of the coding dead. It allows one to code quite well for as long as one likes, possibly until HURD is usable.
There are a few drawbacks, you must work on evil projects of the night (gnome is actually a good example of this ever since they scrapped sawfish). You also may never see sunlight again, which for a hacker wouldn't make as much difference as it sounds like it should. You also no longer may eat italian food, which makes all but the least authentic varieties of pizza unavailable for lan parties. Diet is also a positive though as sucking the blood from a beautiful virgin's neck is the closest 50% of hackers get to a meaningful relationship.
If you are interested, just let one of the friendly members of our organisation give you a peck. You can find us in star-wars forums under the name "nerds for R-2", it is quite a broadening experience, I assure you.
Good point, centralisation of data is always the best idea. But if I saw one more K in that last post I think I would have flipped out.