Interesting. I appreciate your having discussed this with me civilly. I am not so arrogant as to believe there is no God, but I am not convinced that He is benevolent.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first born among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified
Don't even get me started on Judas Iscariot. And if the answer is "Who are we to question God," that's fine -- but then we shouldn't pretend that God wants a "relationship" with man, but rather acknowlege that He created man for His amusement, and evil as well.
That, and once Joe User does learn about and become able to use SSH tunnels to their home broadband without much know-how, pushing more than a few kB of encrypted traffic is going to become a hanging office.
. . . also known as the "Corporate Eye-Tee Security Empire Builder Full Employment Act of 2006." They'll milk this for departmental budget and fascist network powers just as with SOX, HIPPA, and GLB that came before.
This is an unnecessary law. If you make a contract to trade with a party, put in the agreement that you want your information to be private and you want them to notify you of any breach of that agreement. If the company won't do business with you, don't buy from them -- if you want a cheap price, you might be willing to forgo this contract feature.
That's nice in theory, but one of the reasons we have government regulation is to help mitigate the asymmetry of power that prevents individuals from ever negotiating contract terms at all with companies that hold their data, much less terms about privacy. This legislation flows from the same river as the FCRA, FDCPA, and FACTA -- it addresses abuses of individual customers (a.k.a. "consumers" or "cattle") by the industry when the market has failed.
So He is playing a game with us for his own amusement, then, having created temptation and evil to see who falls so he can toast them in Hell for eternity? Still doesn't sound like someone I'd call "good."
Now this, of course, leads to a much more complicated problem (viz. theodicy, the study of why God allows suffering and evil.) But I'm certainly not going to tackle that in a slashdot post.
That's easy--either there is no omnipotent, omniscient God, or said God is not good, as He allows evil.
What does it matter if the facism is at the federal, state, or local level? It's still Herr Bush that ushered it in with the 9/11 excuse after having falsely assumed office and engineering a phony "re"-election.
I don't think such a worm would stand a chance for very long. I imagine people would be motivated to secure their machines after the first few lawsuits . . . or arrests. The plausible deniability aspect of these filesharing systems is nothing more than wishful thinking, and running one is the electronic equivalent of running a "no-questions-asked" trucking service. That worked well for B.J. McKay, but a real trucker hauling a semi full of contraband is going to go to priso even though he "doesn't ask questions" about what he's carrying. This will become the same in the electronic world.
And for each of those schemes including Gnunet, I2P, Freenet, MUTE, and what have you there has to be a machine in the network the *AA can connect to and get the infringing content. The person running that server gets sued. I'm aware that the architects of these networks hope that the defendants will be able to claim they could have only been forwarding the content to someone else, but this has yet to be tested in court. And I'm not interested in being the test case.
There is no such thing as anonymous file sharing. The guy running the edge machine that the German equivalent of the *AA can access is going to go to jail.
Salve!
Of course odi, odisse is a weird little verb -- but as far as I can see, odi is acting as the first principal part, assuming he means to say "I hate." Concur with the rest. I bet the Vatican has coined a word or phrase for the Internet that could also be used. I wasn't able to find it with a quick Google, but this non-canonical page suggests internetum, -i, n.
Google is said to intentionally NOT collect and store any information that the chinese government would want to acquire, so that they do not have to hand it over.
Sure would be nice if they would extend their countrymen here in the "free world" the same courtesy.
God, 6 represents man, 7 represents perfection. Therefore, a 3-headed beast with the number "666" meant a man pretending to be a god
Aside from the point made by the reply that it might have been 696, also consider that the number systems in use in the day lacked the very idea of place value. In Roman numerals 666 would have been DCLXVI, not three of anything that corresponded to the number 6. A similar problem exists with the Hebrew and Greek systems of representing numbers.
You know, I don't care if it's nonsense or not -- if the beliefs of the religious right and the Book of Revelation can forestall the arrival of the perfect surveillance society, I'm all for it.
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Interesting. I appreciate your having discussed this with me civilly. I am not so arrogant as to believe there is no God, but I am not convinced that He is benevolent.
Don't even get me started on Judas Iscariot. And if the answer is "Who are we to question God," that's fine -- but then we shouldn't pretend that God wants a "relationship" with man, but rather acknowlege that He created man for His amusement, and evil as well.
That, and once Joe User does learn about and become able to use SSH tunnels to their home broadband without much know-how, pushing more than a few kB of encrypted traffic is going to become a hanging office.
. . . also known as the "Corporate Eye-Tee Security Empire Builder Full Employment Act of 2006." They'll milk this for departmental budget and fascist network powers just as with SOX, HIPPA, and GLB that came before.
That's nice in theory, but one of the reasons we have government regulation is to help mitigate the asymmetry of power that prevents individuals from ever negotiating contract terms at all with companies that hold their data, much less terms about privacy. This legislation flows from the same river as the FCRA, FDCPA, and FACTA -- it addresses abuses of individual customers (a.k.a. "consumers" or "cattle") by the industry when the market has failed.
So He is playing a game with us for his own amusement, then, having created temptation and evil to see who falls so he can toast them in Hell for eternity? Still doesn't sound like someone I'd call "good."
That's easy--either there is no omnipotent, omniscient God, or said God is not good, as He allows evil.
. . . because there's no guarantee the purveyors of this junk will provide a means of playing it on whatever hardware I'm running tomorrow.
Wow, a paid voyeur. Doesn't sound like such a bad gig.
Pure oxygen atmosphere? The astronauts must have been pretty buzzed!
What does it matter if the facism is at the federal, state, or local level? It's still Herr Bush that ushered it in with the 9/11 excuse after having falsely assumed office and engineering a phony "re"-election.
I don't think such a worm would stand a chance for very long. I imagine people would be motivated to secure their machines after the first few lawsuits . . . or arrests. The plausible deniability aspect of these filesharing systems is nothing more than wishful thinking, and running one is the electronic equivalent of running a "no-questions-asked" trucking service. That worked well for B.J. McKay, but a real trucker hauling a semi full of contraband is going to go to priso even though he "doesn't ask questions" about what he's carrying. This will become the same in the electronic world.
Enlighten me. Or are you just full of shit?
And for each of those schemes including Gnunet, I2P, Freenet, MUTE, and what have you there has to be a machine in the network the *AA can connect to and get the infringing content. The person running that server gets sued. I'm aware that the architects of these networks hope that the defendants will be able to claim they could have only been forwarding the content to someone else, but this has yet to be tested in court. And I'm not interested in being the test case.
There is no such thing as anonymous file sharing. The guy running the edge machine that the German equivalent of the *AA can access is going to go to jail.
Does yours work without a monthly payment in perpetuity?
Could you explain why the reflexive wouldn't be allowable in that instance?
Absolutely, because I sure do trust Intuit with all my personal data.
Salve! Of course odi, odisse is a weird little verb -- but as far as I can see, odi is acting as the first principal part, assuming he means to say "I hate." Concur with the rest. I bet the Vatican has coined a word or phrase for the Internet that could also be used. I wasn't able to find it with a quick Google, but this non-canonical page suggests internetum, -i, n.
Sure would be nice if they would extend their countrymen here in the "free world" the same courtesy.
And the very things one deletes can be quite telling, as well.
Aside from the point made by the reply that it might have been 696, also consider that the number systems in use in the day lacked the very idea of place value. In Roman numerals 666 would have been DCLXVI, not three of anything that corresponded to the number 6. A similar problem exists with the Hebrew and Greek systems of representing numbers.
I doubt that many Americans would disappear in the event of the Rapture happening.
You know, I don't care if it's nonsense or not -- if the beliefs of the religious right and the Book of Revelation can forestall the arrival of the perfect surveillance society, I'm all for it.
Probably because of the AT&T logo's resemblance to the Death Star