It is illegal to solicit a minor for sex, it does not matter if you do it with email, carrier pigeon, or two plastic cups on a string. What makes email, or even electronic correspondence special?
Whilst John Reid is a dickhead for saying that (he's just a dickhead, actually), isn't it true that just copying the card itself isn't enough; you'd need to copy someone's biometric to 'steal' their identity? And copying someone's biometric in a way that can be sensibly used isn't that easy; a glass eye with your iris printed on it? Possible, but tough to do.
How do you pay physical cheques or money into your account? Either you must never pay that in, or use snail mail, both of which sound irritating compared to walking into a bank...
The media then jump into the fray with their desire for "balance" and give these fringe dwellers equal airtime and column space with the mainstream, in doing so manufacturing a series of debates which are not really there.
Desire for balance, or desire to please their readership by feeding them what they want to hear: That it may be possible for us not to have to make (somewhat) difficult changes to our lifestyles, and the planet will still be OK?
The whole 'edgy' pun attempts to make it sound like they had naked women or something, when in fact it's plain old boring splash screens with round letters and glossy effects.
And yet it still looks nicer than the new Firefox 2 theme.
Speaking of Slashdot redesign, perhaps they could remove the bizarre link-style 'hover-disappearing underline' they've implemented for all of the Linux section topic titles recently? It looks very amateurish, like a warez page or something.
I think you're overusing the word 'amateurish'. But whilst I don't think it's amateurish, it's certainly nothing special. That first one looks just like the artwork on a Suse install I saw some years ago, and I don't much like it.
The rats? What about those poor bacteria in the saliva, just being sacrificed so the scientists could make the painkiller? There were probably more bacteria in there, eradicated, than there were humans that ever lived!
Why does the US governmental system allow this bribery? Seriously, I know it would be unpopular in many quarters, but I think it would be a good idea (as part of many other electoral reforms) if political parties were allotted a certain, LIMITED, sum of taxpayers' money to fund their parties. And it would not be much compared to now, maybe a few million. Enough for wages. Then they might actually stop attracting the bribe-accepting dinosaurs they attract today.
In the business world, a false positive is the one potential sale opportunity you missed.
Is it not time for businesses to start considering e-mail as a bad method of receiving new business inquiries? Why not, instead of handing out an e-mail address with your card, or advert, or whatever, hand out a web address leading to a submission form? Except, that form has a CAPTCHA and/or simple logic question that makes it extremely difficult for spambots to penetrate?
In the (non-electronic) business world, do people allow just anyone to talk to them, or do they prioritize? Are they sometimes 'busy', and therefore 'unavailable'? I think it's time businesses were able to start putting some barriers in place for sending electronic messages to them, just as they do for physical mouth-to-mouth contact. Maybe some do already, maybe they don't have the spam problem.
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You should only exercise freedom of speech if you are right. Sheesh, is that so hard to understand?
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Sheesh, you can talk.
And then I had to write it again, and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good.
It is illegal to solicit a minor for sex, it does not matter if you do it with email, carrier pigeon, or two plastic cups on a string. What makes email, or even electronic correspondence special?
You can patent it?
Whilst John Reid is a dickhead for saying that (he's just a dickhead, actually), isn't it true that just copying the card itself isn't enough; you'd need to copy someone's biometric to 'steal' their identity? And copying someone's biometric in a way that can be sensibly used isn't that easy; a glass eye with your iris printed on it? Possible, but tough to do.
How do you pay physical cheques or money into your account? Either you must never pay that in, or use snail mail, both of which sound irritating compared to walking into a bank...
Why not make a legislation tracking system where every addtion or deletion from a bill is digitally signed by the person doing it.
Great idea. You could even give it a catchy name... Subversion or something?
Unfortunately, the majority of people no longer value freedom. This includes both democrats and republicans.
Seriously? All 4 of em?
People haven't experienced (yet), that closing the analogue hole means banning general-purpose recording-devices.
In order to ban brains, people have to have them in the first place...
The media then jump into the fray with their desire for "balance" and give these fringe dwellers equal airtime and column space with the mainstream, in doing so manufacturing a series of debates which are not really there.
Desire for balance, or desire to please their readership by feeding them what they want to hear: That it may be possible for us not to have to make (somewhat) difficult changes to our lifestyles, and the planet will still be OK?
The whole 'edgy' pun attempts to make it sound like they had naked women or something, when in fact it's plain old boring splash screens with round letters and glossy effects.
And yet it still looks nicer than the new Firefox 2 theme.
Speaking of Slashdot redesign, perhaps they could remove the bizarre link-style 'hover-disappearing underline' they've implemented for all of the Linux section topic titles recently? It looks very amateurish, like a warez page or something.
I think you're overusing the word 'amateurish'. But whilst I don't think it's amateurish, it's certainly nothing special. That first one looks just like the artwork on a Suse install I saw some years ago, and I don't much like it.
The rats? What about those poor bacteria in the saliva, just being sacrificed so the scientists could make the painkiller? There were probably more bacteria in there, eradicated, than there were humans that ever lived!
Forgot to mention in the above post; contributions to parties would be illegal, or seriously limited ($500 for any individual, say).
Why does the US governmental system allow this bribery? Seriously, I know it would be unpopular in many quarters, but I think it would be a good idea (as part of many other electoral reforms) if political parties were allotted a certain, LIMITED, sum of taxpayers' money to fund their parties. And it would not be much compared to now, maybe a few million. Enough for wages. Then they might actually stop attracting the bribe-accepting dinosaurs they attract today.
it is impossible to steal IP (you can only copy it)
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You could brain damage or kill someone who knows the thing, then you're stealing it from them.
Perhaps this ability is indeed granted, inside their locked-down DRM media players?
A democracy that needs to rely on its various branches being opposed to each other on _partizan_ lines is badly flawed.
So unless some new laws have been passed making it illegal to do lots of things that are incredibly normal
Like swearing?
Gotta love that. 20 minutes of preaching about freedom and liberty, and then the punchline:
"This film will not be shown to the general public without permission of the War Department"
I know we're not going to win
If you believe it's absolutely impossible for you to win, then it's very stupid to waste your time trying.
I'm guessing you don't live in the UK.
In the business world, a false positive is the one potential sale opportunity you missed.
Is it not time for businesses to start considering e-mail as a bad method of receiving new business inquiries? Why not, instead of handing out an e-mail address with your card, or advert, or whatever, hand out a web address leading to a submission form? Except, that form has a CAPTCHA and/or simple logic question that makes it extremely difficult for spambots to penetrate?
In the (non-electronic) business world, do people allow just anyone to talk to them, or do they prioritize? Are they sometimes 'busy', and therefore 'unavailable'? I think it's time businesses were able to start putting some barriers in place for sending electronic messages to them, just as they do for physical mouth-to-mouth contact. Maybe some do already, maybe they don't have the spam problem.
I think this is pretty conclusive.
until then, beautifying linux is a lot like serving a big mac on a silver platter.
Not really. Apple's OSes usually work a bit more intuatively.