Sure, let me explain conspiracy charges to you. Conspiracy is an agreement between two or more parties (i.e. just publishing a manifesto doesn't count) to commit a crime (note that violating civil, regulatory or common law is insufficient by itself) at some point in the future. In almost all jurisdictions (and all of the sane ones), some overt act towards carrying out that crime must have been committed.
So yes, "conspiracy" is considerably more than just someone intending to break a law.
Justice is the judges job to ensure everything proceeds fairly.
That's their job, but the incentive of many judges in the US is to get re-elected by a populace obsessed with vengeance and possessing an ignorant and unrealistic idea of what constitutes "criminal justice". Also true of many prosecutors in the US.
I hope someone pays dearly for this and I hope the public gets wind of this and revolts against these people that are purchase by corporations.
That's good, but it doesn't go far enough. The best case scenario is wholesale reform of the system. Items that should be on your hitlist include:
Elected prosecutors Grand juries Plea bargaining Elected judges For-profit prisons Capital punishment
The last three are part of the overall problem, though are not specifically relevant in Aaron's case AFAIK.
All of these are archaic and barbaric, and only serve to pervert and corrupt the criminal justice system. Almost all of the rest of the world has done away with them. You need to eliminate both the incentives and the opportunity for prosecutorial overreach, bullying, and oppression. Everyone will be better off.
People bringing up charges against you FAR IN EXCESS of the crime committed mean he was more like "pushed" into depression.
It's known that his money had just run out, and he was also legally prevented from raising money for his defence. His parents were on the verge of having to mortgage their house. We don't know exactly what was going through his mind, but it was mostly likely a large number of things, most of them not good.
By "continuing [my] thread of logic", you apparently mean "stretching my thread of logic beyond its breaking point".
I firmly believe that nothing is off topic for humour. I also firmly believe that some topics are so hard to do well that most people should not attempt it.
Louis CK makes rape jokes which are very, very good. His jokes disrespect people who deserve disrespect, or at least being taken down a peg. He is a very talented professional, and he knows what he's doing.
I don't think that the original poster intended to disrespect people who are sent to prison by the dysfunctional and corrupt US "criminal justice" system, often for non-violent offences, and end up being repeatedly sexually assaulted (and often contracting a life sentence in the form of a disease in the process), and being shrugged off by everyone up the chain of responsibility. However, it was a joke that was almost certainly made without that group of people in mind.
The most unfortunate thing about privilege is that most people who have it and exercise it don't even know it's there.
I know! When I read that you can assemble DNA on a desktop computer, my first thought was: Hell, the assembler I wrote did that years ago, and I didn't get a Slashdot writeup!
You're right that the word is never said, but that's irrelevent. The word appears in the original ROTJ credits at least twice, in the script and in the novelisation, in both Caravan of Courage and The Battle for Endor, and is also Word of God.
G-canon is absolute canon; the movies (their most recent release), the scripts, the novelizations of the movies, the radio plays, and any statements by George Lucas himself. G-canon overrides the lower levels of canon when there is a contradiction. Within G-canon, many fans follow an unofficial progression of canonicity where the movies are the highest canon, followed by the scripts, the novelizations, and then the radio plays.
In a perfect world, pervasive rape in jail will not be subject of gleeful jokes (it'd be funny if it weren't a common issue). I would like to see spammers go to jail too, but not like this.
I agree, and furthermore it bugs me that this is one of the few places where rape jokes are still apparently socially acceptable. It's wrong to make jokes about this.
Having said that, I do concede that the temptation to make a joke about typical spam subjects was overwhelming, and I don't hold it against the GP for giving in.
I actually found Abrash's article more useful because it looked at the problem from end to end, from head tracking sensors to display technology. Carmack mostly talked about everything between the game engine and the GPU.
But yeah, I was actually making a point about Slashdot's relationship with Carmack.
Contrary to popular myth, "less" is perfectly acceptable grammar in this context.
"Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less than three great argosies, besides two galliasses [...]" -- William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew "[...] he entertained no less than two apprentices [...]" -- Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge "And I keep this house on less than thirty [...]" -- D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers "You will do with a suit or two less, I fancy [...]" -- George Eliot, Middlemarch "In five little packets which I sent him, he has ascertained no less than sixty-seven different organic forms!" -- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
ECMAScript is a pretty good language for manipulating DOM-like object models and light data processing, but it's terrible for gluing C functions together.
Corporations are associations of people. You can't restrict the free speech of a corporation without infringing on the free speech of the people that make it up.
As the parent pointed out, a corporation is a specific kind of association of people with additional privileges granted to them by law which regular people don't get, such as limited liability. A non-profit is another specific kind of assocation of people, with different privileges. By accessing these privileges, there is (or should be) a quid pro quo.
The trouble is, corporations want it both ways. They don't want people coming after the board or shareholders if the corporation can't pay its debts. They don't want their CEO standing trial for negligent homocide when one of their chemical plants springs a leak and kills a bunch of people in the developing world. But they don't want to give up anything in return.
No. Moreover, this is perfectly consistent with the advice "be careful what you block". I have blocked whole countries from all access on occasion. Sometimes that's a good idea.
I'm saying that just because an obscurity measure is no substitute for a security measure doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
A sysadmin's time is valuable. A simple measure which eliminates 90% of the noise in a log is almost always worth doing, especially if it doesn't significantly inconvenience legitimate users.
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A more likely scenario is "download this virus".
Sure, let me explain conspiracy charges to you. Conspiracy is an agreement between two or more parties (i.e. just publishing a manifesto doesn't count) to commit a crime (note that violating civil, regulatory or common law is insufficient by itself) at some point in the future. In almost all jurisdictions (and all of the sane ones), some overt act towards carrying out that crime must have been committed.
So yes, "conspiracy" is considerably more than just someone intending to break a law.
Justice is the judges job to ensure everything proceeds fairly.
That's their job, but the incentive of many judges in the US is to get re-elected by a populace obsessed with vengeance and possessing an ignorant and unrealistic idea of what constitutes "criminal justice". Also true of many prosecutors in the US.
It's important to remember that there are two ways to make the world a better place:
1. Reduce the suck.
2. Increase the awesome.
Suck gets reported more than awesome in the MSM.
I hope someone pays dearly for this and I hope the public gets wind of this and revolts against these people that are purchase by corporations.
That's good, but it doesn't go far enough. The best case scenario is wholesale reform of the system. Items that should be on your hitlist include:
Elected prosecutors
Grand juries
Plea bargaining
Elected judges
For-profit prisons
Capital punishment
The last three are part of the overall problem, though are not specifically relevant in Aaron's case AFAIK.
All of these are archaic and barbaric, and only serve to pervert and corrupt the criminal justice system. Almost all of the rest of the world has done away with them. You need to eliminate both the incentives and the opportunity for prosecutorial overreach, bullying, and oppression. Everyone will be better off.
People bringing up charges against you FAR IN EXCESS of the crime committed mean he was more like "pushed" into depression.
It's known that his money had just run out, and he was also legally prevented from raising money for his defence. His parents were on the verge of having to mortgage their house. We don't know exactly what was going through his mind, but it was mostly likely a large number of things, most of them not good.
By "continuing [my] thread of logic", you apparently mean "stretching my thread of logic beyond its breaking point".
I firmly believe that nothing is off topic for humour. I also firmly believe that some topics are so hard to do well that most people should not attempt it.
Louis CK makes rape jokes which are very, very good. His jokes disrespect people who deserve disrespect, or at least being taken down a peg. He is a very talented professional, and he knows what he's doing.
I don't think that the original poster intended to disrespect people who are sent to prison by the dysfunctional and corrupt US "criminal justice" system, often for non-violent offences, and end up being repeatedly sexually assaulted (and often contracting a life sentence in the form of a disease in the process), and being shrugged off by everyone up the chain of responsibility. However, it was a joke that was almost certainly made without that group of people in mind.
The most unfortunate thing about privilege is that most people who have it and exercise it don't even know it's there.
I know! When I read that you can assemble DNA on a desktop computer, my first thought was: Hell, the assembler I wrote did that years ago, and I didn't get a Slashdot writeup!
You're right that the word is never said, but that's irrelevent. The word appears in the original ROTJ credits at least twice, in the script and in the novelisation, in both Caravan of Courage and The Battle for Endor, and is also Word of God.
From the relevant Wikipedia page:
Yes, the word "Ewok" is canon.
In a perfect world, pervasive rape in jail will not be subject of gleeful jokes (it'd be funny if it weren't a common issue). I would like to see spammers go to jail too, but not like this.
I agree, and furthermore it bugs me that this is one of the few places where rape jokes are still apparently socially acceptable. It's wrong to make jokes about this.
Having said that, I do concede that the temptation to make a joke about typical spam subjects was overwhelming, and I don't hold it against the GP for giving in.
I actually found Abrash's article more useful because it looked at the problem from end to end, from head tracking sensors to display technology. Carmack mostly talked about everything between the game engine and the GPU.
But yeah, I was actually making a point about Slashdot's relationship with Carmack.
Oh, yeah. Michael Abrash did this two months ago.
Intergalactic.
Planetary.
Planetary.
Intergalactic.
Much like communism or libertarianism, it can work for small communities if everyone agrees to buy into it.
Often I wonder what engineers really qualify as.
Meritocratic.
Cameras don't deal well with rain, snow, and fog.
LIDAR doesn't deal well with other LIDAR units in the same area.
The thing is, if you want to be swamped with women, you'll need to shave.
Surely that depends which women. I'm under strict orders not to shave.
Contrary to popular myth, "less" is perfectly acceptable grammar in this context.
"Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less than three great argosies, besides two galliasses [...]" -- William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
"[...] he entertained no less than two apprentices [...]" -- Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
"And I keep this house on less than thirty [...]" -- D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
"You will do with a suit or two less, I fancy [...]" -- George Eliot, Middlemarch
"In five little packets which I sent him, he has ascertained no less than sixty-seven different organic forms!" -- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
Tell that to everyone currently enjoying a free stay in Guantanamo Bay.
ECMAScript is a pretty good language for manipulating DOM-like object models and light data processing, but it's terrible for gluing C functions together.
Corporations are associations of people. You can't restrict the free speech of a corporation without infringing on the free speech of the people that make it up.
As the parent pointed out, a corporation is a specific kind of association of people with additional privileges granted to them by law which regular people don't get, such as limited liability. A non-profit is another specific kind of assocation of people, with different privileges. By accessing these privileges, there is (or should be) a quid pro quo.
The trouble is, corporations want it both ways. They don't want people coming after the board or shareholders if the corporation can't pay its debts. They don't want their CEO standing trial for negligent homocide when one of their chemical plants springs a leak and kills a bunch of people in the developing world. But they don't want to give up anything in return.
Actually, no. Blocking whole ISPs and/or whole countries from any access to your machines is sometimes a very good idea.
No. Moreover, this is perfectly consistent with the advice "be careful what you block". I have blocked whole countries from all access on occasion. Sometimes that's a good idea.
I'm saying that just because an obscurity measure is no substitute for a security measure doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
A sysadmin's time is valuable. A simple measure which eliminates 90% of the noise in a log is almost always worth doing, especially if it doesn't significantly inconvenience legitimate users.
That's why you should have been using Perl: operating system and text editor. As an added bonus, it also subsumes your criticism format.