Oh, no. The amendments to the FISA bill passed earlier this month. We don't have a Fourth amendment anymore.
I can see where you may have been confused, since a Google search will still turn up some text about "search and seizures" or something. But, if you're looking it up, you're probably a terrorist anyway. America *needs* to be able to go through your files, your hard drives, your iPods and your phone calls, or else more people will die!
The ones that lose out are the kids, who have nothing to do with some national organization's bureaucracy or religious/sexual tolerance.
I assume you're against OLPC, seeing as they're being sent to nations run by way worse than some homophobes or religious nuts. Why don't you tell them to shove it and develop their own laptops and software?
Oh, how I hate to take your hilarious post and make it political, but...
Were you a state or region of another nation, or even a city like Kosovo, then you could declare your independent Alaskanistan through the proper legal channels and popularity. I, for one, welcome our new Alaskanistanian oil overlords.
However, in America we have Texas vs. White, a legally established precedent that basically says states can't secede from the United States. Bummer.
Also, there's that whole Civil War thing. Ask Lincoln. As he said in his inaugural address, "...no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances."
So, no Alaskanistanimania, sorry. That oil and tax money belongs to Uncle Sam forever!
I have met a fair amount of all generations that clearly have no idea how to function in the real world. Emotionally, socially, mentally - there are a lot of damaged goods out there. It's not just the Gen-Ys.
Because underlying every "Ron Paul fanboy debate" is a sizable number of people that don't believe someone should be excluded from this public debate because the media (apparently including Slashdot) decides they're not a real candidate.
Behind Ron Paul is a couple million disenfranchised voters, and through the entire process they've been insulted, ridiculed and marginalized. They've been stereotyped, been called terrorists and spambots, had their shining achievements covered up and any mistakes or failures highlighted. Combine this with the fact that a majority of his supporters are young, even first-time voters, and you see that the media and the status quo commentators have done an excellent job of turning a great deal of people that do not share their opinions away from voting, possibly forever. And then the same pundits wonder why they are disenfranchised.
I personally have seen this roller coaster in action with a few of my friends. From energetic supporters giving their time on weekends to bake cookies to raise money to arguing about whether any of it did any good in less than 6 months. Some of them have already turned to Obama, showing that it really isn't Paul's kooky ideas that get these supporters out of the house, it's this message that what we have isn't working.
Personally, I agree with them on one point: if it's McCain vs. Clinton, we get what we deserve out of this media-driven circus called the primaries.
Yes, but probably not in the sense you are thinking.
A police officer can shoot and kill a civilian and not be charged with murder. Therefore, the law of murder does not apply. However, there are rules about who they can shoot without being charged. The officer is not above those laws (or maybe shouldn't be, officers have been caught planting evidence and lying under oath before.)
You need to understand that there is a difference between law enforcement and a private corporation (or cartel).
Your analogy is incorrect because the societal agreement in America is the police are mandated by the public to enforce laws on our behalf. They can use methods that are above the laws in order to achieve this. A private corporation is not mandated by the public, and therefore not given the ability to break laws to enforce them. This includes the act of accessing my computer without my direct authorization. If a police team drills past my security and finds illegal materials on my computer, with proper authorization (court-ordered warrants) that act is legal. If a MPAA/RIAA funded corporation does it, it is a violation of the law and should be enforced. If a corporation is breaking the law to catch people breaking the law (not to mention that corporation directly profits from catching those criminals), how can we trust that known lawbreaking corporation to be unbiased?
A better analogy would be a private investigator breaking into a house to find out if someone was a criminal.
This only looks like a face if you're actually familiar with turning your head slightly to the left... Otherwise it looks like a randomly placed colon and a close parenthesis.
I think that's a cop out - this "panel of randomly placed LEDs" has distinguishable eyes and eyebrows, a mouth, feet and hands. I don't give a damn if you don't know what it is, it's obviously a characture of some sort.
Also, your understanding of the concept of random is very weak, as there were several of these panels identified and they all had the exact same patterns on the panels. That is the opposite of random: the same exact result every time.
My question is: If it would have been Spongebob, would there have been the same chaos? Most people know that characture.
So buy a PS3. It has "motion sensing combined with next-gen graphics". Then pray that the blue-ray is successful and $ony doesn't try and pull another rootkit fast one on you. Also, hope that the rumors about games being written for the 360 and ported isn't true. And try not to think about what you could have done with the extra 350 bucks. Oh, and hope that they fix all the controller and heat issues with future firmware updates.
Every console this round comes with significant drawbacks. Either figure out which ones you can handle or just buy them all.
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Please don't cry... If you can't have fun without HD don't try to ruin it for the rest of us that couldn't care less.
I don't have an HDTV. I'm not planning on getting an HDTV any time soon. My cable provider still hasn't even rolled HDTV out in my city. Some of us have other real world expenses like car repair and mortgages to shell out thousands for a television that we don't have time to watch anyway.
So far no gaming systems I have ever owned were played in HD. Some may be HD compatible (for like 8% of the games) but they still play just fine without it. And I've played some incredible games in SD. In fact some of the best ones I still find myself playing were on PS1.
Please explain to me why HDTV matters again? Or why I should give twice as much money to M$ or $ony for mostly the same games I've been playing for the last 15 years?
I hope your mommy has fun waiting in line trying to get your PS3, little one.
I guarantee to you that all the optical drives in all PS2s will die by 2009. That's even if you go out and buy one now. That is Sony's ultimate plan to make you buy a PS3 with their fancy new Blue-DRM - so you can play all those games you have on your shelf since your PS2 died.
Also, MS doesn't care about warranties, as the US XBox 360 comes with a whopping 3 month warranty. Many, many complaints on this one, including an internet petition here. By law the warranty in Europe is 2 years and Australia is 1 year, but our government loves businesses rights over personal rights, so we get 3 months...
I think what this dude is forgetting is that I can watch YouTube at 4:30 am Friday or 12:23pm Monday, it doesn't matter to the internet.
NBC wants to revive the show, put it on some usual primetime weeknight time slot, move it around a few times so everyone is completely confused, and expect it to make ratings as good as Friends or My Name is Earl. Then they sue the crap out of people that distribute it over the internet, which is how it got revived in the first place.
Then when it fails they will use that as an excuse as to why they shouldn't be distributing episodes on the internet. Sheesh...
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...dammit.
Oh, no. The amendments to the FISA bill passed earlier this month. We don't have a Fourth amendment anymore.
I can see where you may have been confused, since a Google search will still turn up some text about "search and seizures" or something. But, if you're looking it up, you're probably a terrorist anyway. America *needs* to be able to go through your files, your hard drives, your iPods and your phone calls, or else more people will die!
9/11 Changed Everything! Did you forget?
The ones that lose out are the kids, who have nothing to do with some national organization's bureaucracy or religious/sexual tolerance. I assume you're against OLPC, seeing as they're being sent to nations run by way worse than some homophobes or religious nuts. Why don't you tell them to shove it and develop their own laptops and software?
I wonder if I've been reading Slashdot too long - I can't tell whether this is a troll, a joke, a newbie, or an actual legitimate issue...
Please don't let my wife know about this.
Oh, how I hate to take your hilarious post and make it political, but...
Were you a state or region of another nation, or even a city like Kosovo, then you could declare your independent Alaskanistan through the proper legal channels and popularity. I, for one, welcome our new Alaskanistanian oil overlords.
However, in America we have Texas vs. White, a legally established precedent that basically says states can't secede from the United States. Bummer.
Also, there's that whole Civil War thing. Ask Lincoln. As he said in his inaugural address, "...no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances."
So, no Alaskanistanimania, sorry. That oil and tax money belongs to Uncle Sam forever!
I have met a fair amount of all generations that clearly have no idea how to function in the real world. Emotionally, socially, mentally - there are a lot of damaged goods out there. It's not just the Gen-Ys.
Because underlying every "Ron Paul fanboy debate" is a sizable number of people that don't believe someone should be excluded from this public debate because the media (apparently including Slashdot) decides they're not a real candidate.
Behind Ron Paul is a couple million disenfranchised voters, and through the entire process they've been insulted, ridiculed and marginalized. They've been stereotyped, been called terrorists and spambots, had their shining achievements covered up and any mistakes or failures highlighted. Combine this with the fact that a majority of his supporters are young, even first-time voters, and you see that the media and the status quo commentators have done an excellent job of turning a great deal of people that do not share their opinions away from voting, possibly forever. And then the same pundits wonder why they are disenfranchised.
I personally have seen this roller coaster in action with a few of my friends. From energetic supporters giving their time on weekends to bake cookies to raise money to arguing about whether any of it did any good in less than 6 months. Some of them have already turned to Obama, showing that it really isn't Paul's kooky ideas that get these supporters out of the house, it's this message that what we have isn't working.
Personally, I agree with them on one point: if it's McCain vs. Clinton, we get what we deserve out of this media-driven circus called the primaries.
Yes, but probably not in the sense you are thinking.
A police officer can shoot and kill a civilian and not be charged with murder. Therefore, the law of murder does not apply. However, there are rules about who they can shoot without being charged. The officer is not above those laws (or maybe shouldn't be, officers have been caught planting evidence and lying under oath before.)
You need to understand that there is a difference between law enforcement and a private corporation (or cartel).
Your analogy is incorrect because the societal agreement in America is the police are mandated by the public to enforce laws on our behalf. They can use methods that are above the laws in order to achieve this. A private corporation is not mandated by the public, and therefore not given the ability to break laws to enforce them. This includes the act of accessing my computer without my direct authorization. If a police team drills past my security and finds illegal materials on my computer, with proper authorization (court-ordered warrants) that act is legal. If a MPAA/RIAA funded corporation does it, it is a violation of the law and should be enforced. If a corporation is breaking the law to catch people breaking the law (not to mention that corporation directly profits from catching those criminals), how can we trust that known lawbreaking corporation to be unbiased?
A better analogy would be a private investigator breaking into a house to find out if someone was a criminal.
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This only looks like a face if you're actually familiar with turning your head slightly to the left... Otherwise it looks like a randomly placed colon and a close parenthesis.
I think that's a cop out - this "panel of randomly placed LEDs" has distinguishable eyes and eyebrows, a mouth, feet and hands. I don't give a damn if you don't know what it is, it's obviously a characture of some sort.
Also, your understanding of the concept of random is very weak, as there were several of these panels identified and they all had the exact same patterns on the panels. That is the opposite of random: the same exact result every time.
My question is: If it would have been Spongebob, would there have been the same chaos? Most people know that characture.
So buy a PS3. It has "motion sensing combined with next-gen graphics". Then pray that the blue-ray is successful and $ony doesn't try and pull another rootkit fast one on you. Also, hope that the rumors about games being written for the 360 and ported isn't true. And try not to think about what you could have done with the extra 350 bucks. Oh, and hope that they fix all the controller and heat issues with future firmware updates.
Every console this round comes with significant drawbacks. Either figure out which ones you can handle or just buy them all.
Yeah. I never beat Battletoads either...
Please don't cry... If you can't have fun without HD don't try to ruin it for the rest of us that couldn't care less.
I don't have an HDTV. I'm not planning on getting an HDTV any time soon. My cable provider still hasn't even rolled HDTV out in my city. Some of us have other real world expenses like car repair and mortgages to shell out thousands for a television that we don't have time to watch anyway.
So far no gaming systems I have ever owned were played in HD. Some may be HD compatible (for like 8% of the games) but they still play just fine without it. And I've played some incredible games in SD. In fact some of the best ones I still find myself playing were on PS1.
Please explain to me why HDTV matters again? Or why I should give twice as much money to M$ or $ony for mostly the same games I've been playing for the last 15 years?
I hope your mommy has fun waiting in line trying to get your PS3, little one.
Don't you know? Al Gore invented space!!!
I have long thought that game is the best. cardio. ever... for nerds. Seriously, how much does one cost? More than a Bowflex or something? I want one.
No.
I guarantee to you that all the optical drives in all PS2s will die by 2009. That's even if you go out and buy one now. That is Sony's ultimate plan to make you buy a PS3 with their fancy new Blue-DRM - so you can play all those games you have on your shelf since your PS2 died.
Any ad, if funny or racy or controversial enough, will spread via the Internet quickly now a days.
I heard about that ad within days through standard gaming blogs.
Also, MS doesn't care about warranties, as the US XBox 360 comes with a whopping 3 month warranty. Many, many complaints on this one, including an internet petition here. By law the warranty in Europe is 2 years and Australia is 1 year, but our government loves businesses rights over personal rights, so we get 3 months...
Wait, your vibrator runs Windows? That's no good.
Ever had it BSOD in the middle of, you know...?
Sorry man. I don't think you deserve it but Sony bashing has jumped the shark on Slashdot...
You are redundant because everyone has already said anything bad that can be said about Sony.
I saved Cid, you insensitive clod!
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Plus, she didn't commit suicide, she took a "leap of faith" to make her feel better...
I think what this dude is forgetting is that I can watch YouTube at 4:30 am Friday or 12:23pm Monday, it doesn't matter to the internet.
NBC wants to revive the show, put it on some usual primetime weeknight time slot, move it around a few times so everyone is completely confused, and expect it to make ratings as good as Friends or My Name is Earl. Then they sue the crap out of people that distribute it over the internet, which is how it got revived in the first place.
Then when it fails they will use that as an excuse as to why they shouldn't be distributing episodes on the internet. Sheesh...
plz mod +5 pwned
Wait, what?
You spread a bunch of FUD about the PS3 and get +1 informative.
Then you correct your FUD, and also get +1 informative.
Gotta love Slashdot...