His comments, however, fit some more remote places in the state - but what state isn't like that outside of its metropolitian centers?
Jello's dickheads were probably from Salem (the capital 40
miles to the south), which is not one of the great cultural
centers of the world - in fact it is a hick infested armpit.
I'd never live anywhere else in Oregon again, but Portland is
one of my top ten cities. It's a shame about the people, because
Oregon is a gorgeous state.
I can gaurentee it isn't as important as this by magnatudes! Seriously, I would rather have not one child be sexually abused for losing one of those "inaliable rights" everyone loves.
Then you are in favor of shutting down schools, putting a stop
to youth athletic activities, removing youth participation in
religious ritual, and make child care centers illegal? Better
make gay porn illegal too, popular prejudice states that gays
are pederasts. Might as well get straight porn while you are
at it, it degrades women, and makes men beasts - they might
start slavering over the children if they are allowed to feed
their sick urges.
Trying to make the world a better place is an admirable goal,
but this knee-jerk "it's for the children" approach to restricting
the adult world is dangerous and offensive. It's sad and
disgusting that children are ever sexually abused, but I am not
in favor of preventing it at any cost, and that
seems to be exactly what you are arguing for.
I can allready see the boost in music sales this will bring.
I do wonder how much contempt and abuse customers will
accept from RIAA. I reached my threshold about a year ago
and I've not bought anything from a RIAA company since.
I don't care if this technology will work or not, the idea itself is
the kind of insult only an organization that truly despises
its customers could contemplate.
You will quickly see that most people are not capable of programming (or at least not learning it on their own), and should just not attempt it.
Uhm. I'm not even sure what to say to that. I've met (and
worked with, and maintained code written by) some
incredibly stupid people that have learned to program.
It takes a certain type of person to enjoy it and be good at it,
but most any person of average intelligence with basic math
and logic skills could learn a programming language if they
were motivated.
Seconded. Excellent format, pacing, nice prose without being
overly cute, and made for the solo student.
If you go with this one make sure you are there to set up her
environment and then get out of her way. This book is one
you "grok" before your higher brain gets in the way, and if you
are there to toss computer jargon at her it will just confuse
things.
No such regs exist re e-mail or IM, to my knowledge.
Since laws applying to wirefraud and the phone system are
being applied to bad guys (hackers, crackers, whatever) I would
assume that the privacy regs would apply as well.
Perhaps there _should_ be, but my point in this discussion is that too many people carry on as though their expectations for e-mail and IM _now_ are the same as for the postal service. That's naive, and, depending upon what you are writing in your emails and IM's, can be embarrassing and/or dangerous.
I see your point and I myself act as if my electronic
communications can be read by any mail admin, NOC monkey,
or random bad guy in the world, but I don't think that ease of
interception should give a free pass to law enforcement to
check up on random citizens. At the very least random
searches of network traffic would be viewed as unreasonable
search.
Why is email or IM any different than postal mail as far as privacy
goes? It's regulated and can be intercepted or snooped with a
warrant, but you live day to day with an expectation that those
communications are private and that that privacy will not be
violated at the whim of the cops or your service provider.
Which brings us to this Reality Check: There is no anonymity on the Net, period, full stop, end of story.
But there is an expectation of privacy and we have to be careful
not to allow the separate issues of privacy and anonymity to be
confused. It is in the interest of those who want to limit free
speech to remove the expectation of privacy from
communications over the Internet.
It can also be argued that there are cases where guaranteed
anonymity is essential to privacy, but in mosts cases posts to
a public web board don't qualify.
Reform the prison system. Provide serious attempts at
rehabilitation, break up prison gangs, hire better educated
guards and execute habitual offenders. Someone who makes
their living committing violent crimes needs to die.
I'm not sure about the deterrent value of the death penalty, but
societies cannot continue to cycle people in and out of prison
and many show no willingness to change.
No worries here, under the partiot act the entire case is classified, nobody will even know your fighting until the supreme court makes it decision.
Even if it stays out of the papers the FBI is gonna be blundering
through your life, knocking things over, harassing your family
and co-workers, and making certain that your life is a mess
even if you are found innocent.
His mistake is assuming the supreme court is actually an instrument of justice anymore.
The current SC is packed with conservative hardliners, but at
least they are not neo-cons - there is a chance that they will
choose law over politics, their interpretation of law will be
from the hard right, but at least it is based on the rule of law.
People have no balls. We all know this homeland security BS is totally unconstitutional, its not even a question. Here's what I would have done in the guys situation.
Are you ready for the storm of hate they will pour down on you?
Are you ready for anything wrong or embarrassing you've
ever done to become fodder for the press. Have you ever
downloaded porn? Have you ever
cheated on your spouse? Do you have any relatives who are
mentally ill? Are you non-white? Are you non-Christian? Do
you have the money and connections to hire a good lawyer?
Can you afford to take the time off work?
Sure standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, but few
people could stand up to the kind of microscope the
government can put on your entire life, and then deal with
the consequences of having the details broadcast. There is
no moment of truth - no heroic battle, instead there is a
wearing away of your will over a timescale dictated entirely by
your enemy.
The fact that millions of people like something doesn't mean it
isn't crap. To me the short lifespan of music says much more
about its quality than sales numbers.
The majority of consumers don't have the taste to tell good
music from overproduced soft core porn, but they still move
quickly from act to act looking for the quality they don't quite
realize is missing.
Ah, I was include frame rate and stutter in 'looks better', but I
agree that if it is too extreme it affects game play. After a
couple bad experiences I've learned
to read many reviews of any cross platform game for every
platform and avoid those that mention serious stutter on the
PS2.
I find the GC and Xbox controllers about equally bad, but I
mostly just buy the franchise games (zelda, metroid, mario) on
GC anyway so it tends not to bug me as much.
There are great games to play on the system, and cross-platform games usually look, and sometimes play, better than on competing machines.
Crossplatform games often look better on Xbox, but very
seldom play better, often I think the PS2 version plays best.
It probably comes down to what you are used to, but I find
the PS2 version controls better in almost every case. Even
after reducing the Xbox controller to a reasonable size it is
still the worst designed of the current generation console
controllers.
My opinion of console game quality in general is slipping, I own
all three current generation consoles, yet mostly purchase GBA
and PC games.
So is plumbing. Anyone who charges for plumbing work is pure evil, and plain greedy. All plumbing should be done for free.
Couldn't agree more.
The worst thing is all those government health, safety and
reliability regulations that relate to plumbing. Don't even
get me started on national open standards. The fact that a
property owner can go out and choose any old vendor and
installer for their plumbing needs is ludicrous.
There are a lot of people giving Bradbury a free pass who would take the Wachowskis all the way to the Supreme Court if they could.
There are huge differences in the circumstances of Bradbury
and the Wachowskis. "The sound of Thunder" was a well
written short story that was all about its concept, it
did not try to be anything more than what it was, but still
managed to become (along with "All you zombies") one of the
definitive stories of time travel. "The Matrix trilogy" is a
pretentious load of religious fantasy with a sci-fi veneer. Had
the Wachowskis left off after the first Matrix it would have been
given the same sort of free pass that Bradbury received and
remained a minor classic.
Well, I am not sure I blame the Dr. He figured he was doing the right thing, my brother hated the medication (thorazine btw) because of the side effects.
The side effects of Thorazine, Stelazine, Haldol,
and Risperidone are all very bad - but I would
question a doctor who wanted to use Thorzazine
for long term treatment. It can be very effective
in bringing down someone suffering active
hallucination or a violent psychotic episode, but
the long term damage caused by Thorazine is
incredible.
I think you are right to not blame the doctor,
but since mental illness is in your family there
is a higher than average chance of it striking
one of your kids. If that happens I really hope
you are able to afford to get multiple
opinions from good doctors who will explain
exactly why they chose the medication that they
did.
the person owning the higher-level domain has the rights to domains below it.
According to the original DNS design you are correct, but
there are probably quite a few domain holders who let
their registrar manage their DNS. In a situation like that I can
easily see a registrar charging you for sub-domains.
The problem with IP based technology is that it is too simple, it
is too easy for a subscriber to ignore the expensive value
added portions of service offerings and roll their own, expect
service providers to attempt to change this at every chance.
Why not? We have more in common than in difference. Churchill was a strong proponent of such a deal, but instead, the U.S. opted to create NATO.
I think a treaty much stronger and comprehensive
than NATO would be good for both nations, but
trying to create a superstate would be a
nightmare from many perspectives.
Aside from questions of culture, politics,
nationalism, and so on there is a logistical
difficulty in that there is a scaling
problem with the amount of heavily populated area
in a nation. China has been attempting to solve
this problem for a very long time and never come
up with a stable solution. The US has a fair
amount of problems already caused by the tension
between the powers of the federal government and
state's rights, a hypothetical UK/US superstate
would completely overwhelm the current federal
structure.
but how in the world is this going to do anything to prevent a viral attack?
Some users don't run an account with admin privileges
full time, this NX bit helps prevent a trojan or virus from
using IPC to the local machine to escalate its privs.
Users do not think of worms and viruses as being different
things. Since this NX bit removes remote buffer overflows as
an attack vector for worms that qualifies as an anti-virus
feature as far as marketing is concerned.
Consider if we *did* become the 51st state. The real problem would be that the US people would never accept it - we have 56 million people, the US has 260 million. If the Uk became a state, it would represent 1/6 the population of the USA, never mind the influence the commonwealth brings in... The Whitehouse would have to be relocated to 10 Downing St.
Culturally I think the 'Kingdom' part of things might be harder to
deal with. Americans would not accept even a nominal monarch.
If the US and UK were to merge I think we'd wind up with two
capitals rather than moving the Whitehouse from DC. I can't
see it happening though, maybe a closer set of alliances
between the US and UK, but not becoming a single nation.
You are right, I spaced Montana and Delaware. Alaska might
not have an actual sales tax - but they provide
enough Use Fees or the like (and sometimes allow
municipalities and counties to collect a sales tax) that I would
say they have a sales tax in reality.
As far as hard numbers, here is a
previous post earlier in the thread.
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Jello's dickheads were probably from Salem (the capital 40 miles to the south), which is not one of the great cultural centers of the world - in fact it is a hick infested armpit.
I'd never live anywhere else in Oregon again, but Portland is one of my top ten cities. It's a shame about the people, because Oregon is a gorgeous state.
Then you are in favor of shutting down schools, putting a stop to youth athletic activities, removing youth participation in religious ritual, and make child care centers illegal? Better make gay porn illegal too, popular prejudice states that gays are pederasts. Might as well get straight porn while you are at it, it degrades women, and makes men beasts - they might start slavering over the children if they are allowed to feed their sick urges.
Trying to make the world a better place is an admirable goal, but this knee-jerk "it's for the children" approach to restricting the adult world is dangerous and offensive. It's sad and disgusting that children are ever sexually abused, but I am not in favor of preventing it at any cost, and that seems to be exactly what you are arguing for.
I do wonder how much contempt and abuse customers will accept from RIAA. I reached my threshold about a year ago and I've not bought anything from a RIAA company since. I don't care if this technology will work or not, the idea itself is the kind of insult only an organization that truly despises its customers could contemplate.
Heh, it does read a bit like an advert for Evidence-Be-Gone[TM].
Uhm. I'm not even sure what to say to that. I've met (and worked with, and maintained code written by) some incredibly stupid people that have learned to program. It takes a certain type of person to enjoy it and be good at it, but most any person of average intelligence with basic math and logic skills could learn a programming language if they were motivated.
If you go with this one make sure you are there to set up her environment and then get out of her way. This book is one you "grok" before your higher brain gets in the way, and if you are there to toss computer jargon at her it will just confuse things.
Since laws applying to wirefraud and the phone system are being applied to bad guys (hackers, crackers, whatever) I would assume that the privacy regs would apply as well.
Perhaps there _should_ be, but my point in this discussion is that too many people carry on as though their expectations for e-mail and IM _now_ are the same as for the postal service. That's naive, and, depending upon what you are writing in your emails and IM's, can be embarrassing and/or dangerous.
I see your point and I myself act as if my electronic communications can be read by any mail admin, NOC monkey, or random bad guy in the world, but I don't think that ease of interception should give a free pass to law enforcement to check up on random citizens. At the very least random searches of network traffic would be viewed as unreasonable search.
Why is email or IM any different than postal mail as far as privacy goes? It's regulated and can be intercepted or snooped with a warrant, but you live day to day with an expectation that those communications are private and that that privacy will not be violated at the whim of the cops or your service provider.
But there is an expectation of privacy and we have to be careful not to allow the separate issues of privacy and anonymity to be confused. It is in the interest of those who want to limit free speech to remove the expectation of privacy from communications over the Internet.
It can also be argued that there are cases where guaranteed anonymity is essential to privacy, but in mosts cases posts to a public web board don't qualify.
Reform the prison system. Provide serious attempts at rehabilitation, break up prison gangs, hire better educated guards and execute habitual offenders. Someone who makes their living committing violent crimes needs to die.
I'm not sure about the deterrent value of the death penalty, but societies cannot continue to cycle people in and out of prison and many show no willingness to change.
Even if it stays out of the papers the FBI is gonna be blundering through your life, knocking things over, harassing your family and co-workers, and making certain that your life is a mess even if you are found innocent.
His mistake is assuming the supreme court is actually an instrument of justice anymore.
The current SC is packed with conservative hardliners, but at least they are not neo-cons - there is a chance that they will choose law over politics, their interpretation of law will be from the hard right, but at least it is based on the rule of law.
Are you ready for the storm of hate they will pour down on you?
Are you ready for anything wrong or embarrassing you've ever done to become fodder for the press. Have you ever downloaded porn? Have you ever cheated on your spouse? Do you have any relatives who are mentally ill? Are you non-white? Are you non-Christian? Do you have the money and connections to hire a good lawyer? Can you afford to take the time off work?
Sure standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, but few people could stand up to the kind of microscope the government can put on your entire life, and then deal with the consequences of having the details broadcast. There is no moment of truth - no heroic battle, instead there is a wearing away of your will over a timescale dictated entirely by your enemy.
The majority of consumers don't have the taste to tell good music from overproduced soft core porn, but they still move quickly from act to act looking for the quality they don't quite realize is missing.
I find the GC and Xbox controllers about equally bad, but I mostly just buy the franchise games (zelda, metroid, mario) on GC anyway so it tends not to bug me as much.
Nope. A DRM nightmare more likely. I'll stick to real PCs for my PC needs.
Crossplatform games often look better on Xbox, but very seldom play better, often I think the PS2 version plays best. It probably comes down to what you are used to, but I find the PS2 version controls better in almost every case. Even after reducing the Xbox controller to a reasonable size it is still the worst designed of the current generation console controllers.
My opinion of console game quality in general is slipping, I own all three current generation consoles, yet mostly purchase GBA and PC games.
Couldn't agree more.
The worst thing is all those government health, safety and reliability regulations that relate to plumbing. Don't even get me started on national open standards. The fact that a property owner can go out and choose any old vendor and installer for their plumbing needs is ludicrous.
There are huge differences in the circumstances of Bradbury and the Wachowskis. "The sound of Thunder" was a well written short story that was all about its concept, it did not try to be anything more than what it was, but still managed to become (along with "All you zombies") one of the definitive stories of time travel. "The Matrix trilogy" is a pretentious load of religious fantasy with a sci-fi veneer. Had the Wachowskis left off after the first Matrix it would have been given the same sort of free pass that Bradbury received and remained a minor classic.
The side effects of Thorazine, Stelazine, Haldol, and Risperidone are all very bad - but I would question a doctor who wanted to use Thorzazine for long term treatment. It can be very effective in bringing down someone suffering active hallucination or a violent psychotic episode, but the long term damage caused by Thorazine is incredible.
I think you are right to not blame the doctor, but since mental illness is in your family there is a higher than average chance of it striking one of your kids. If that happens I really hope you are able to afford to get multiple opinions from good doctors who will explain exactly why they chose the medication that they did.
According to the original DNS design you are correct, but there are probably quite a few domain holders who let their registrar manage their DNS. In a situation like that I can easily see a registrar charging you for sub-domains.
The problem with IP based technology is that it is too simple, it is too easy for a subscriber to ignore the expensive value added portions of service offerings and roll their own, expect service providers to attempt to change this at every chance.
I think a treaty much stronger and comprehensive than NATO would be good for both nations, but trying to create a superstate would be a nightmare from many perspectives.
Aside from questions of culture, politics, nationalism, and so on there is a logistical difficulty in that there is a scaling problem with the amount of heavily populated area in a nation. China has been attempting to solve this problem for a very long time and never come up with a stable solution. The US has a fair amount of problems already caused by the tension between the powers of the federal government and state's rights, a hypothetical UK/US superstate would completely overwhelm the current federal structure.
Some users don't run an account with admin privileges full time, this NX bit helps prevent a trojan or virus from using IPC to the local machine to escalate its privs.
Users do not think of worms and viruses as being different things. Since this NX bit removes remote buffer overflows as an attack vector for worms that qualifies as an anti-virus feature as far as marketing is concerned.
Culturally I think the 'Kingdom' part of things might be harder to deal with. Americans would not accept even a nominal monarch.
If the US and UK were to merge I think we'd wind up with two capitals rather than moving the Whitehouse from DC. I can't see it happening though, maybe a closer set of alliances between the US and UK, but not becoming a single nation.
Shit, am I going to spend all eternity voting Carter/Mondale?
As far as hard numbers, here is a previous post earlier in the thread.