Careful, you say shit like your last sentence if this legislation passes, and the Department of Thought Police... err... Department of "Justice" starts fining BeauHD and the other Slashdot editors.
Did you really just break off a "think of the children" ?
This legislation is an abomination, and incredibly short sighted. Anyone who votes for this piece of trash apparently has never even looked back at what was "indecent" 50 years ago and 100% acceptable today and thought about what this law would mean, as the United States Code is much slower to adapt to shifting winds than pretty much any other thing imaginable.
The Universal Code of Military Justice defines "sodomy" as "unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal" - it's essentially a half-assed ban on homosexuality in the Military even after Don't Ask Don't Tell has gone by the wayside, and it can only go away by an Act of Congress. Technically any active-duty or reserve enlisted homosexual could be thrown in jail for 5 years for having completely consensual sex with a partner.
The onset of gay rights and overall public acceptance would show that the law is not exactly in lock-step with what is thought to be "indecent" in today's society. You are absolutely correct that they will never be able to define what is "indecent" but I'm still afraid they might take a crack at it, fucking it up for 50+ years while the First Amendment gets trampled under the guise of "think of the children" and other such horseshit emotional appeals.
The best part is that the media coverage of the trial will greatly expand the audience of the "indecent" material and cause a Streisand Effect like we haven't seen since the DMCA takedown notices of DeCSS keys and such. And then all those media publishers get indicted and fined as conspirators and accomplices to the original defendant!
Now don't go pointing out basic fundamental inconsistencies in rhetoric - that's the kind of thing that makes people actually think instead of just engaging in so-called "whataboutism" and us-versus-them partisan horseshit.
Even better, since his law would go after the publisher and not the person actually posting, we need to start fining the executives of the hosting company that host ronwyden.org, which appears to be Google according to whois.
So let's make that the first defendant. Haul Larry and Sergey on into court behind this shit and see just how far it gets. Then let's do the same for the hosting companies for DNC.org and every other Senator and Congress-person that votes for this thing.
Yeah, but Senator Wyden doesn't like that the meanies get to spew their ignorant crap, so instead of punishing the people that are "editorializing" he's going after the publishers.
Because clearly Mark Zuckerberg needs a few more congressional subpoenas because people are mean on the Internet.
How is this not a clear violation of the First Amendment again? Sure sounds like he's trying to get Congress to make a law abridging free speech, and it won't hold up to the so-called "yelling fire in a theater" test as it's not endangering public safety or willful negligence. In the best case, it's trolling or extreme ignorance - worst case is this is a back door for government abuse of power to go after political enemies and malcontents because you don't like what they're saying.
Who is the arbiter of what's "decent" under this law anyway?
Oh, Senator Wyden. I voted for you once upon a time when you hadn't gone full idiot...
A good lawyer knows when your case is fucked, and still manages to get what they can for the client.
Cohen broke the damn law, and his lawyer is working the system to try to reduce the penalty. What's his lawyer supposed to do, fight a losing battle on purpose, inevitably lose, and watch his client rot in jail for the rest of his years?
You know that funding comes from the Congress, right?
Yes, the President has some sway there, but if Congress doesn't go for it, all the policy statements in the world don't add up to an ounce of rocket fuel.
#3 and #4 already exist. There are nuclear powered satellites, and everything that ever got up there and back again happened on ascent and descent vehicles.
This is the one reason that I feel that any moon landing conspiracy theory is ridiculous and absurd:
1. The USSR had radar capable of tracking the Apollo flights. If we didn't go, they would have been more than happy to let the entire world know in order to reverse the propaganda effect of faking it.
Plus, there's also mountains of physical evidence, including retroreflectors on the lander descent stages that you (for various well equipped values of "you") can bounce a laser off of.
Yeah, except if you want to be a software developer that sells software to iPhone users, you have to use Apple's store with Apple's hosting and pay Apple's tax.
That's the whole fucking point of the article you're posting a comment to.
Usually if there's a middleman, that middleman should add some value somewhere, which justifies them being in the middle. Apple is increasingly failing to do so for their 30% cut.
My point is that you can open an AWS account, put your app on S3, and then distribute it via CloudFront yourself for far fucking less than the 30% that Apple or Google take. The "value" they are offering used to be the marketing, but as the grandparent points out, the "marketing" has only gotten worse with time.
What's funny is that Apple probably isn't even really hosting the bits on the server somewhere, but rather pointing to a cache in someone else's distributed edge network; Akamai or Amazon CloudFront, something like that.
So really they're just paying a bill that you otherwise could from the same service provider, except they've managed to wedge themselves in between you and your user.
I've seen commercial accounting software that used enforced-unique signed int transaction IDs for their general ledger database tables. This ensures that any organization of sufficient size will run out of addressing space in their ledger a little after 2 billion transactions, and will do it twice as fast as necessary because they are wasting half of their address space on "negative" row IDs that will never be used.
That's probably fine if you're a small business, but if you ever grow into a large business you are guaranteeing yourself a fucking accounting disaster at some point down the line.
Yeah, I can't see how that would run into problems at all. Hey, can I buy that food with this cryptocurrency I just whipped up last night? Sure, I'm the only one that has any of it, but you can totally try to sell it to someone else after I've unloaded my fake bullshit onto you for real goods!
You've just suggested that everyone starts printing their own money and claim it has more value than the heat you can get from burning the paper it's on, which it doesn't.
How is a speculator coming in and buying your cryptocurrency because they think the value of those electrons will rise further not part of the "greater fool" thinking? Dollar cost averaging only works if the value goes up again at some future point, otherwise it's just widening your losing position. Go ahead and ask investors in Lehman Brothers how dollar cost averaging worked out for them in 2008 - LEH is down by over 30% in one day? Sweet, I can double down on my investment and double my profits when it goes back up!
LEH: $0.00...
Part of the "greater fool" model is that the greatest fool doesn't realize they are the greatest fool, and ends up eating the losers that all the lesser fools unloaded onto them.
And don't forget that if you are pre-fueling before crew ingress, you've got all kinds of ground crew crawling around on the tower and such, that's far more people next to a big hazardous device. If you fuel when the astronauts are in the capsule belted in and buttoned up, and everyone else has a chance to GTFO before the fuel pumps turn on, the maximum risk to life would be the flight crew and they have far better chances due to the launch escape system.
Obviously no one wants anyone to die, but in the proposed scenario the only people around would be the astronauts, one with their hand on an abort handle capable of getting them out of there with extreme rapidity with a twist of the wrist. That seems like a better scenario to me.
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You know nothing about me so don't even try, son. Go play in the back yard, grown-ups are talking.
For a lot of people, I think that guy has been elected.
How many people have a much more favorable view of George W. now than they did three years ago?
Careful, you say shit like your last sentence if this legislation passes, and the Department of Thought Police... err... Department of "Justice" starts fining BeauHD and the other Slashdot editors.
Hey wait, you might be on to something...
Did you really just break off a "think of the children" ?
This legislation is an abomination, and incredibly short sighted. Anyone who votes for this piece of trash apparently has never even looked back at what was "indecent" 50 years ago and 100% acceptable today and thought about what this law would mean, as the United States Code is much slower to adapt to shifting winds than pretty much any other thing imaginable.
The Universal Code of Military Justice defines "sodomy" as "unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal" - it's essentially a half-assed ban on homosexuality in the Military even after Don't Ask Don't Tell has gone by the wayside, and it can only go away by an Act of Congress. Technically any active-duty or reserve enlisted homosexual could be thrown in jail for 5 years for having completely consensual sex with a partner.
The onset of gay rights and overall public acceptance would show that the law is not exactly in lock-step with what is thought to be "indecent" in today's society. You are absolutely correct that they will never be able to define what is "indecent" but I'm still afraid they might take a crack at it, fucking it up for 50+ years while the First Amendment gets trampled under the guise of "think of the children" and other such horseshit emotional appeals.
The best part is that the media coverage of the trial will greatly expand the audience of the "indecent" material and cause a Streisand Effect like we haven't seen since the DMCA takedown notices of DeCSS keys and such. And then all those media publishers get indicted and fined as conspirators and accomplices to the original defendant!
What could possibly go wrong with this...
Now don't go pointing out basic fundamental inconsistencies in rhetoric - that's the kind of thing that makes people actually think instead of just engaging in so-called "whataboutism" and us-versus-them partisan horseshit.
Even better, since his law would go after the publisher and not the person actually posting, we need to start fining the executives of the hosting company that host ronwyden.org, which appears to be Google according to whois.
So let's make that the first defendant. Haul Larry and Sergey on into court behind this shit and see just how far it gets. Then let's do the same for the hosting companies for DNC.org and every other Senator and Congress-person that votes for this thing.
What's good for the goose...
Yeah, but Senator Wyden doesn't like that the meanies get to spew their ignorant crap, so instead of punishing the people that are "editorializing" he's going after the publishers.
Because clearly Mark Zuckerberg needs a few more congressional subpoenas because people are mean on the Internet.
How is this not a clear violation of the First Amendment again? Sure sounds like he's trying to get Congress to make a law abridging free speech, and it won't hold up to the so-called "yelling fire in a theater" test as it's not endangering public safety or willful negligence. In the best case, it's trolling or extreme ignorance - worst case is this is a back door for government abuse of power to go after political enemies and malcontents because you don't like what they're saying.
Who is the arbiter of what's "decent" under this law anyway?
Oh, Senator Wyden. I voted for you once upon a time when you hadn't gone full idiot...
A good lawyer knows when your case is fucked, and still manages to get what they can for the client.
Cohen broke the damn law, and his lawyer is working the system to try to reduce the penalty. What's his lawyer supposed to do, fight a losing battle on purpose, inevitably lose, and watch his client rot in jail for the rest of his years?
That would be a shitty lawyer.
You know that funding comes from the Congress, right?
Yes, the President has some sway there, but if Congress doesn't go for it, all the policy statements in the world don't add up to an ounce of rocket fuel.
He's been a pretty big orifice for quite some time now...
#3 and #4 already exist. There are nuclear powered satellites, and everything that ever got up there and back again happened on ascent and descent vehicles.
I blame Obama for a hangnail I got today. It stings!
This is the one reason that I feel that any moon landing conspiracy theory is ridiculous and absurd:
1. The USSR had radar capable of tracking the Apollo flights. If we didn't go, they would have been more than happy to let the entire world know in order to reverse the propaganda effect of faking it.
Plus, there's also mountains of physical evidence, including retroreflectors on the lander descent stages that you (for various well equipped values of "you") can bounce a laser off of.
Yeah, except if you want to be a software developer that sells software to iPhone users, you have to use Apple's store with Apple's hosting and pay Apple's tax.
That's the whole fucking point of the article you're posting a comment to.
Usually if there's a middleman, that middleman should add some value somewhere, which justifies them being in the middle. Apple is increasingly failing to do so for their 30% cut.
Please try to keep up.
My point is that you can open an AWS account, put your app on S3, and then distribute it via CloudFront yourself for far fucking less than the 30% that Apple or Google take. The "value" they are offering used to be the marketing, but as the grandparent points out, the "marketing" has only gotten worse with time.
I'm guessing intended grammar irony for the lulz?
Looks like AMD is getting government business, or a FOIA request will be causing a legal showdown.
What's funny is that Apple probably isn't even really hosting the bits on the server somewhere, but rather pointing to a cache in someone else's distributed edge network; Akamai or Amazon CloudFront, something like that.
So really they're just paying a bill that you otherwise could from the same service provider, except they've managed to wedge themselves in between you and your user.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
I've seen commercial accounting software that used enforced-unique signed int transaction IDs for their general ledger database tables. This ensures that any organization of sufficient size will run out of addressing space in their ledger a little after 2 billion transactions, and will do it twice as fast as necessary because they are wasting half of their address space on "negative" row IDs that will never be used.
That's probably fine if you're a small business, but if you ever grow into a large business you are guaranteeing yourself a fucking accounting disaster at some point down the line.
Sounds like a safe place to keep already attained wealth to me - indexed nicely to inflation over long periods of time.
What savings bond or certificate of deposit can say the same?
Yeah, I can't see how that would run into problems at all. Hey, can I buy that food with this cryptocurrency I just whipped up last night? Sure, I'm the only one that has any of it, but you can totally try to sell it to someone else after I've unloaded my fake bullshit onto you for real goods!
You've just suggested that everyone starts printing their own money and claim it has more value than the heat you can get from burning the paper it's on, which it doesn't.
How is a speculator coming in and buying your cryptocurrency because they think the value of those electrons will rise further not part of the "greater fool" thinking? Dollar cost averaging only works if the value goes up again at some future point, otherwise it's just widening your losing position. Go ahead and ask investors in Lehman Brothers how dollar cost averaging worked out for them in 2008 - LEH is down by over 30% in one day? Sweet, I can double down on my investment and double my profits when it goes back up!
LEH: $0.00...
Part of the "greater fool" model is that the greatest fool doesn't realize they are the greatest fool, and ends up eating the losers that all the lesser fools unloaded onto them.
And don't forget that if you are pre-fueling before crew ingress, you've got all kinds of ground crew crawling around on the tower and such, that's far more people next to a big hazardous device. If you fuel when the astronauts are in the capsule belted in and buttoned up, and everyone else has a chance to GTFO before the fuel pumps turn on, the maximum risk to life would be the flight crew and they have far better chances due to the launch escape system.
Obviously no one wants anyone to die, but in the proposed scenario the only people around would be the astronauts, one with their hand on an abort handle capable of getting them out of there with extreme rapidity with a twist of the wrist. That seems like a better scenario to me.
So "fueling mishap causing rapid unplanned disassembly of the launch vehicle" doesn't qualify as "something goes wrong" ?