It's not like they'll have a social security number to differentiate with.
Nonsense, they'll have your social security number.
OK, probably not, but I'd imagine many illegals have bogus SS numbers. (Made up, borrowed, whatever.)
As to the issue of sharing a name with some one who is "legitimately" on the list... well... it's one of the little sacrifices the great American people must make. Ok, I guess technically it's just you and the other innocents with that particular name that are making that sacrifice, but I mean, it's certainly worth it if I can feel good about kicking those unsavory illegals out of our lily white nation, like God intended.
Really. Was that a measured, reasoned, rational response, or just some kneejerk crap?
If GFP has no children and will never have children, why would the state of high schools mean jack crap to him? Maybe they're solely burdens on his tax-paying butt, in which case their mere existence is more than he needs to know about them.
If it's of no personal consequence, shame is not indicated. Altruism isn't altruistic unless it's truly voluntary.
the information transmission equivalent of holography. On one level, it seems sensible and obvious. On another level, it's rather novel (at least, the application of holographic distribution of data to a network architecture). At least, I've never heard of it, either in real-world technology research or even (to my recollection) SF technology.
It still ultimately comes down to your moral and legal responsibility. But for most people, it doesn't take that much rationalizing to find a set of circumstances to justify any "obviously immoral" action.
If Word went ahead and executed arbitrary code, that's one thing. But as it stands, it just crashes out.
You do understand that in many cases, a "crash" is when the software attempted to execute random garbage; and that if you tailored the garbage, you would have an arbitrary code execution vulnerability?
A crash, frankly, is very often an incompletely exploited code execution vulnerability. That may not be so, here; but if the crash is caused by stack or heap corruption, there's a distinct chance the triggering dataset could be made into a shellcode exploit or the like.
I have the problem with criminal action being dismissed as protest.
Yes, dammit. Rosa Parks was a criminal. So was Martin Luther King, Jr. And Martin Luther. And Mohandas Ghandi. Criminals all.
Violent illegal protest is a step beyond; perhaps that's what you meant? (Talk about burning cars and such.)
But there's a very real distinction between property violence (what you were speaking of) and personal violence. I think some of the protest community you're condemning doesn't hold property violence as morally wrong the way you (and I) would. In the continuum of illegal-but-not-immoral, their tipping point is farther towards unlimited violence then ours. But you condemn them, because what you saw them do is not merely illegal, but really illegal because it offends your moral imperative.
As to the "police spying" versus "police watching"... it's largely in the police's expectations and the perceived threat embodied there. If the police watch a community with the expectation of finding illegal activity, they will. Regardless of the intentions of the people being watched.
Not to mention that almost any act can be called illegal at the spur of the moment, generating at least 24 hours of disruption before dismissal of charges (in the least evil outcome).
The analogy points out that American movie audiences would probably lack a proper appreciation for a critical piece of classical history and legend encapsulated in the set phrase "philosopher's stone": that the philosopher's stone was the holy grail of alchemy, the key to transmutation of the elements and the source of an elixir of immortality.
That's the way the phrase "philosopher's stone" is meant in the book. But the benighted masses of 'merka wouldn't recognize the philosopher's stone if I bounced one off their heads. So marketing went "wait wait, they're not philosophers, they're sorcerers!" and renamed the movie.
And yes, I am a proud American. I'm just not proud of the appalling ignorance of classical culture among my fellows.
Let's talk about investor rationality and that "3% correction" you speak of.
What prompted that correction? Was it a well-reasoned analysis of market exposure, followed by an orderly transfer of assets from the stock market to another form of investment?
The dive in the Chinese market prompted a corresponding selloff in the U.S., the large volume of which prompted a technical "glitch" in the NYSE's messaging system. That glitch caused an apparent instant freefall in the DJIA (apparently, backlogged trade messages from over an hour's worth of trading processed suddenly in 3 minutes)--which prompted panic selling.
So, no, I see very little to commend the cool nerves and clear thinking of the investing community.
The markets are fueled, first and foremost, on the tension between greed and fear. Never forget that.
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It's not like they'll have a social security number to differentiate with.
Nonsense, they'll have your social security number.
OK, probably not, but I'd imagine many illegals have bogus SS numbers. (Made up, borrowed, whatever.)
As to the issue of sharing a name with some one who is "legitimately" on the list... well... it's one of the little sacrifices the great American people must make. Ok, I guess technically it's just you and the other innocents with that particular name that are making that sacrifice, but I mean, it's certainly worth it if I can feel good about kicking those unsavory illegals out of our lily white nation, like God intended.
Ooops, forgot the <sarcasm> tags. Sorry folks.
An open prism54 driver which works with WPA would be nice. NDISWrapper, though functional, is such a hack that I feel vaguely dirty using it.
Well, I for one welcome our particle-accelerating blood-sucking overlords.
You should be ashamed.
Why?
Really. Was that a measured, reasoned, rational response, or just some kneejerk crap?
If GFP has no children and will never have children, why would the state of high schools mean jack crap to him? Maybe they're solely burdens on his tax-paying butt, in which case their mere existence is more than he needs to know about them.
If it's of no personal consequence, shame is not indicated. Altruism isn't altruistic unless it's truly voluntary.
If your victim is running Debian or one of its children, there are always alternatives.
How's that "Terror" thingie going?
the information transmission equivalent of holography. On one level, it seems sensible and obvious. On another level, it's rather novel (at least, the application of holographic distribution of data to a network architecture). At least, I've never heard of it, either in real-world technology research or even (to my recollection) SF technology.
You're just asking for a goatse'ing, aren't you?
What, no Klingon jokes yet?
I wasn't aware that cognitive psychology was a branch of marketing.
That's like saying that automotive engineering is an offshoot of ricer tuning. (To coin a car analogy)
If they wanted you to kill somene as "part of the job"... would you?
Depends on the job, doesn't it?
It still ultimately comes down to your moral and legal responsibility. But for most people, it doesn't take that much rationalizing to find a set of circumstances to justify any "obviously immoral" action.
Yeah, but the Predators don't carry subtly menacing slogans, so they're completely different...
The menace of Predator UAVs armed with Hellfire missiles is anything but subtle.
Of course, I'd never accuse a civilian law-enforcement agency (albeit the one which invented SWAT) with arming their surveillance drones...
And in other news, attempted murder is not really a crime.
Be careful, Brother. That way lies madness, heresy, and sectarian violence between Spaghettists and Discordians.
If Word went ahead and executed arbitrary code, that's one thing. But as it stands, it just crashes out.
You do understand that in many cases, a "crash" is when the software attempted to execute random garbage; and that if you tailored the garbage, you would have an arbitrary code execution vulnerability?
A crash, frankly, is very often an incompletely exploited code execution vulnerability. That may not be so, here; but if the crash is caused by stack or heap corruption, there's a distinct chance the triggering dataset could be made into a shellcode exploit or the like.
Of course not. They've all been chopped off, breaded, and deep-fried.
Yum.
Sitting around worrying whether you're cool or not.
By corollary, sitting around wondering whether someone else is cool or not is also not cool.
I have the problem with criminal action being dismissed as protest.
Yes, dammit. Rosa Parks was a criminal. So was Martin Luther King, Jr. And Martin Luther. And Mohandas Ghandi. Criminals all.
Violent illegal protest is a step beyond; perhaps that's what you meant? (Talk about burning cars and such.)
But there's a very real distinction between property violence (what you were speaking of) and personal violence. I think some of the protest community you're condemning doesn't hold property violence as morally wrong the way you (and I) would. In the continuum of illegal-but-not-immoral, their tipping point is farther towards unlimited violence then ours. But you condemn them, because what you saw them do is not merely illegal, but really illegal because it offends your moral imperative.
As to the "police spying" versus "police watching"... it's largely in the police's expectations and the perceived threat embodied there. If the police watch a community with the expectation of finding illegal activity, they will. Regardless of the intentions of the people being watched.
Not to mention that almost any act can be called illegal at the spur of the moment, generating at least 24 hours of disruption before dismissal of charges (in the least evil outcome).
I could see the first comment he makes after reading his father's notes and story synopsis:
"It could use more cowbell."
Actually, GP's analogy doesn't suck.
The analogy points out that American movie audiences would probably lack a proper appreciation for a critical piece of classical history and legend encapsulated in the set phrase "philosopher's stone": that the philosopher's stone was the holy grail of alchemy, the key to transmutation of the elements and the source of an elixir of immortality.
That's the way the phrase "philosopher's stone" is meant in the book. But the benighted masses of 'merka wouldn't recognize the philosopher's stone if I bounced one off their heads. So marketing went "wait wait, they're not philosophers, they're sorcerers!" and renamed the movie.
And yes, I am a proud American. I'm just not proud of the appalling ignorance of classical culture among my fellows.
By giving 110%!
Naah. The true spirit of the Reality Distortion Field is that even when it doesn't work, It Just Works.
if something is worth saying, then it is worth saying with a lot words.
I like the corollary more: "XML is like violence. If it's not working, you're not using enough of it."
Let's talk about investor rationality and that "3% correction" you speak of.
What prompted that correction? Was it a well-reasoned analysis of market exposure, followed by an orderly transfer of assets from the stock market to another form of investment?
No. The stampede in Shanghai was caused by "a rumor about capital gains tax." Apparently, an unfounded rumor.
The dive in the Chinese market prompted a corresponding selloff in the U.S., the large volume of which prompted a technical "glitch" in the NYSE's messaging system. That glitch caused an apparent instant freefall in the DJIA (apparently, backlogged trade messages from over an hour's worth of trading processed suddenly in 3 minutes)--which prompted panic selling.
So, no, I see very little to commend the cool nerves and clear thinking of the investing community.
The markets are fueled, first and foremost, on the tension between greed and fear. Never forget that.