This stems from the "reign of terror" after the French revolution. That didn't mean scaring the population with external threats, it mean scaring the people with: "We'll kill you if you get out of line."
What bugs me is when people accuse the military of "terrorism" when conducting a war. That follows from the old They called me a "terrorist", so I'll call them a "terrorist" back, na na na, na na! preschool logic. In war, it's called war crimes. Like the fire-bombing of Dresden.
The mention of the ACLU had me worried. The "F" word made me sure that this was nonsense. Activist trial lawyers. Ah, the future of your supreme courts. The blurb also advertises "Fascinating details". The linked article has little details, and they are not really that fascinating.
The ACLU's page on the matter, with legal briefs and everything, is here: http://www.aclu.org/nsl That was more informative.
Unchecked search and seizure is a problem, but I can't see the problem with a gag order. If this one-man ISP was identified, the suspect could just cut and run.
I'll read the judge's decission and the EFF amicus brief and forget that slur against the U.S. government.
It depends on your methods. Bill Gates may be breaking the law, but he's not a terrorist.
terrorism: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion, specifically the use of violence by a sub-national group as a means to coerce a population or a government into granting certain demands.
After September 2001, I just say "direct action activism" instead of "terrorism", because people are throwing the term around without having learned what it actually means. They know it's bad though.
OK, you've got the link to the fundraiser. But that post isn't really informative without a link to the pictures that you mention.
Seriously though. I'm not a Kuro5hin user (didn't like the content), but this sort of situation might be explained as something else than, or in addition to, dictatorship. Fatigue. One of my favourite magazines stopped comming because the editor just snapped one day. He had been a real locomotive, but the steam had just run out and the boiler was broken. Last I heard from him, about five years ago, he said he had retired to doing some graphics work on and off.
but if you make people your "friends" you can get messages whenever they update their blogs.
The slashcode could use some more features to bring prominent discussions and journals to the front page. (Like a slashbox with newest journal entries, etc.)
If there's too few topics on the front page, there's the Sections in the left menu, which sometimes carry more stories than reach the front page.
Then there's the Other discussions, some of whom are not related to a story and can function as sub-group blogs.
- Use this one, or change in your pocket, for giving any money to beggars/panhandlers. They may be theives. - Use it as a level 1 cache for paying. Take bills out of your hidden wallet while nobody is watching, and put them in the dummy wallet. Then use the dummy for paying. That way you won't be seen fiddling with your real wallet. - Expired credit cards are a nice, but may give up your game if they actually check the date of the card before leaving you alone. Wear down the expire date. Bonus if a stupid theif actually tries to use it. - Put some family pictures of it. Someone else's family of course. Use stock photos of not famous people.
And don't actually listen to your iPod so that you can hear the muggers approaching behind you. But keep the earplugs in regardless. (Even when switched off or with low volume.) It tells people "I'm minding my own business."
let him keep going until the week of the final exams and then told him there wasn't any point in him taking them, as they wouldn't let him pass anyway, thus letting him build up debts of $15,000+.
Sounds like classic scam baiting to me. P-P-P-Powerbooks, anybody?;-) Getting $2 Nigerian from a 419 scammer is priceless. It would be funny if they went along with it just to punish him. (If they knew.) But it would not be very ethical. If plagiarism was held as something of a sport and never taken seriously before, that would be wrong.
I FAIL IT! Doing a Douglas Adams impression, and managing to mix up the names of the two main characters. Hm. Maybe I would channel better if I logged out of the political web sites and YRO, and took my tin-foil hat off.
Ah, much better. No. No. That's just to -- weird. I'll have to put it back on again.
Unless this man is hired by Mr Adams to be his medium. Or operates his ouija board
You can't register with an Earthly tax office with that kind of occupation, of course, so he is working under cover as a writer, dividing his time vriting for the screen and for the Guide.
Of course, assigning to copy writers to the same planet is not the most effective use of the Guide's finite -- well actually near limitless -- resources; and it would more importantly introduce the chance that Arthur Dent's work was all for nothing. Arthur protected the Guide's twice-deductable expenses and his own revenue stream by distracting the other correspondent, by suggesting to him the possible fame he might get by acting as a medium for dead writers.
What this writer failed to realise, was that Earth wasn't going to last long anyway, and that the creatures on this planet would gladly look up to anybody who did something strange, who factualised fiction, made fictition out of fact or generally asked people to notice them. So he could just as well have lived on nothing but beer for a year or droven Q-tips through his arms to acheive the same kind of recognition by the creatures. Some of them were of course so jaded by all this pointless entertainment, that when the last day came, they interpreted everything they saw as yet another marketing gimmick, huffed, and read the stock market updates. What happened next would fail to materialize in the stock figures, but only for the fact that there would be no stock exchange on Earth. In the nearby Betelguse system, however, the sum total of all Earth futures and options fell from 100000000 Altairan Dollars to 0000.1, reflecting the odds that the news wasn't real. A similar fall hadn't been seen since the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's outsourced lawsuit generation department sued the largest company in the galaxy while all the lawyers were out to lunch, and lost the case.
That is exactly what they were doing. No. They were not geocaching. RTFWS (Read the Fine Web Site.)
Clark and Arnu engaged in a
kind of geocaching game with the Men in Black, systematically sniffing out the road sensors with the frequency counter, exhuming them, and opening them up.
Having a vastly superior force means that the fight is "unfair" as in more than 50% chance of winning for one side.
Using civilans as shields, attacking civilians and breaking all treaties and conventions means that the figt is "unfair" as in one side acting immorally, and generally being a sick bastard. But still possibly losing the fight.
They were afraid of a boycott, maybe. By distancing themselves, they have deniability,but they'll still earn money from it (or at least Miramax will). A win-win situation.
the fact in "bowling for columbine" are still fact
A tautology. The facts in "Bowling for Columbine" are facts. The facts in LotR:RotK are facts. But what were facts, and what where non-facts? (Or "goodfacts")
It's highly likely that the lawyers in the production company went through the film checking evaluating the risk of being hit with libel lawsuits. But Michael Moore's fact checkers are about as reliable as SCO's MIT mathematicians.
if there was a single thing in Bowling that could even be remotely picked apart by a lawyer, it would happen. But it hasn't.
It's incredibly hard to win a libel/slander case. Especially in a high-profile case that generates more publicity for the liars, and where judges and some of the jurors might be symphatetic to their cause. Or have this subconsious notion that the 1st amendment actually DOES give you the right to shout "FIRE" in a crowded theatre. Even if the "victims" win the case, the liars or their followers can just go on spreading the same lies. I wish the NRA, Heston or somebody else would sue Moore over this, but they've chosen to pretend the whole thing never happened. So we're stuck with the rule: The best way to counter obnoxious speech is with more speech.
This is a problem if it's a poor individual who is targeted. A large organisation is able to fight back with more speech, but not some poor guy wrongly accused of a crime (for example). He has to look to the goodwill of the press. Or the liars could be judged to pay for air time.
I'd like more countries to be like Poland, actually. They have a funny problem: Their libel and slander laws were held as too strict to enter the EU. Is the ability to lie without fear a requirement for western democracy? Well, it's at least a requirement to earn heaps of money on tabloid press and fiction mockumentaries.
I don't think he can release the movie for free on P2P. I think that would violate his contract with Miramax, and possibly with actors/copyright holders for source material that might have a gross percentage deal on the movie. It won't happen.
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This stems from the "reign of terror" after the French revolution. That didn't mean scaring the population with external threats, it mean scaring the people with: "We'll kill you if you get out of line."
terror
reign of terror
What bugs me is when people accuse the military of "terrorism" when conducting a war. That follows from the old They called me a "terrorist", so I'll call them a "terrorist" back, na na na, na na! preschool logic. In war, it's called war crimes. Like the fire-bombing of Dresden.
The mention of the ACLU had me worried. The "F" word made me sure that this was nonsense. Activist trial lawyers. Ah, the future of your supreme courts.
The blurb also advertises "Fascinating details". The linked article has little details, and they are not really that fascinating.
The ACLU's page on the matter, with legal briefs and everything, is here: http://www.aclu.org/nsl That was more informative.
Unchecked search and seizure is a problem, but I can't see the problem with a gag order. If this one-man ISP was identified, the suspect could just cut and run.
I'll read the judge's decission and the EFF amicus brief and forget that slur against the U.S. government.
It depends on your methods. Bill Gates may be breaking the law, but he's not a terrorist.
terrorism: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion, specifically the use of violence by a sub-national group as a means to coerce a population or a government into granting certain demands.
After September 2001, I just say "direct action activism" instead of "terrorism", because people are throwing the term around without having learned what it actually means. They know it's bad though.
OK, you've got the link to the fundraiser. But that post isn't really informative without a link to the pictures that you mention.
Seriously though. I'm not a Kuro5hin user (didn't like the content), but this sort of situation might be explained as something else than, or in addition to, dictatorship.
Fatigue.
One of my favourite magazines stopped comming because the editor just snapped one day. He had been a real locomotive, but the steam had just run out and the boiler was broken. Last I heard from him, about five years ago, he said he had retired to doing some graphics work on and off.
True,
but if you make people your "friends" you can get messages whenever they update their blogs.
The slashcode could use some more features to bring prominent discussions and journals to the front page. (Like a slashbox with newest journal entries, etc.)
If there's too few topics on the front page, there's the Sections in the left menu, which sometimes carry more stories than reach the front page.
Then there's the
Other discussions, some of whom are not related to a story and can function as sub-group blogs.
Here are some active blogs:
BlackHat
Red Warrior
frankie
I'm sure others can reply with more active blog users.
Tips for dummy wallet:
- Use this one, or change in your pocket, for giving any money to beggars/panhandlers. They may be theives.
- Use it as a level 1 cache for paying. Take bills out of your hidden wallet while nobody is watching, and put them in the dummy wallet. Then use the dummy for paying. That way you won't be seen fiddling with your real wallet.
- Expired credit cards are a nice, but may give up your game if they actually check the date of the card before leaving you alone. Wear down the expire date. Bonus if a stupid theif actually tries to use it.
- Put some family pictures of it. Someone else's family of course. Use stock photos of not famous people.
And don't actually listen to your iPod so that you can hear the muggers approaching behind you.
But keep the earplugs in regardless. (Even when switched off or with low volume.) It tells people "I'm minding my own business."
let him keep going until the week of the final exams and then told him there wasn't any point in him taking them, as they wouldn't let him pass anyway, thus letting him build up debts of $15,000+.
;-) Getting $2 Nigerian from a 419 scammer is priceless.
Sounds like classic scam baiting to me. P-P-P-Powerbooks, anybody?
It would be funny if they went along with it just to punish him. (If they knew.) But it would not be very ethical. If plagiarism was held as something of a sport and never taken seriously before, that would be wrong.
I FAIL IT! Doing a Douglas Adams impression, and managing to mix up the names of the two main characters.
Hm. Maybe I would channel better if I logged out of the political web sites and YRO, and took my tin-foil hat off.
Ah, much better.
No. No. That's just to -- weird.
I'll have to put it back on again.
Unless this man is hired by Mr Adams to be his medium. Or operates his ouija board
You can't register with an Earthly tax office with that kind of occupation, of course, so he is working under cover as a writer, dividing his time vriting for the screen and for the Guide.
Of course, assigning to copy writers to the same planet is not the most effective use of the Guide's finite -- well actually near limitless -- resources; and it would more importantly introduce the chance that Arthur Dent's work was all for nothing. Arthur protected the Guide's twice-deductable expenses and his own revenue stream by distracting the other correspondent, by suggesting to him the possible fame he might get by acting as a medium for dead writers.
What this writer failed to realise, was that Earth wasn't going to last long anyway, and that the creatures on this planet would gladly look up to anybody who did something strange, who factualised fiction, made fictition out of fact or generally asked people to notice them. So he could just as well have lived on nothing but beer for a year or droven Q-tips through his arms to acheive the same kind of recognition by the creatures. Some of them were of course so jaded by all this pointless entertainment, that when the last day came, they interpreted everything they saw as yet another marketing gimmick, huffed, and read the stock market updates.
What happened next would fail to materialize in the stock figures, but only for the fact that there would be no stock exchange on Earth. In the nearby Betelguse system, however, the sum total of all Earth futures and options fell from 100000000 Altairan Dollars to 0000.1, reflecting the odds that the news wasn't real. A similar fall hadn't been seen since the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's outsourced lawsuit generation department sued the largest company in the galaxy while all the lawyers were out to lunch, and lost the case.
No. They were not geocaching. RTFWS (Read the Fine Web Site.)
It's "barratry",
not "battery", unless they come and beat you up or pour pancake batter over you and your computer.
Having a vastly superior force means that the fight is "unfair" as in more than 50% chance of winning for one side.
Using civilans as shields, attacking civilians and breaking all treaties and conventions means that the figt is "unfair" as in one side acting immorally, and generally being a sick bastard. But still possibly losing the fight.
They were afraid of a boycott, maybe. By distancing themselves, they have deniability ,but they'll still earn money from it (or at least Miramax will).
A win-win situation.
the fact in "bowling for columbine" are still fact
A tautology. The facts in "Bowling for Columbine" are facts. The facts in LotR:RotK are facts. But what were facts, and what where non-facts? (Or "goodfacts")
It's highly likely that the lawyers in the production company went through the film checking evaluating the risk of being hit with libel lawsuits. But Michael Moore's fact checkers are about as reliable as SCO's MIT mathematicians.
if there was a single thing in Bowling that could even be remotely picked apart by a lawyer, it would happen. But it hasn't.
It's incredibly hard to win a libel/slander case. Especially in a high-profile case that generates more publicity for the liars, and where judges and some of the jurors might be symphatetic to their cause. Or have this subconsious notion that the 1st amendment actually DOES give you the right to shout "FIRE" in a crowded theatre.
Even if the "victims" win the case, the liars or their followers can just go on spreading the same lies.
I wish the NRA, Heston or somebody else would sue Moore over this, but they've chosen to pretend the whole thing never happened.
So we're stuck with the rule: The best way to counter obnoxious speech is with more speech.
This is a problem if it's a poor individual who is targeted. A large organisation is able to fight back with more speech, but not some poor guy wrongly accused of a crime (for example). He has to look to the goodwill of the press. Or the liars could be judged to pay for air time.
I'd like more countries to be like Poland, actually. They have a funny problem: Their libel and slander laws were held as too strict to enter the EU. Is the ability to lie without fear a requirement for western democracy? Well, it's at least a requirement to earn heaps of money on tabloid press and fiction mockumentaries.
Release the movie: a campaign by a Moore "fan".
I don't think he can release the movie for free on P2P. I think that would violate his contract with Miramax, and possibly with actors/copyright holders for source material that might have a gross percentage deal on the movie. It won't happen.
While all answers are replies, not all replies are answers.
He doesn't really debunk anything, now does he?
Wacko Attacko's??
> > > Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today
> > PROTEECT? Can't they at least spell properly?
> Okay, I'm all for speling korrectlee butt neether:
> "Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to Exploit Children Today"
> nor
> "Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End Children Today"
> would get much support during an election year.
You'd be surprised. It would at least get out a new voter demographic.
D'oh! Aargh!
You're right, of course. My brain must have throttled down when I posted.
Open mouth. Insert foot.
I created an email alias called "optinbig@*********.com" and instructed optinbig.com to unsubscribe me from all.
You just posted that address to slashdot.
Try the experiment with a new address, this time not posting it to an email harvest field.
And, by the way: You could still get spam from address guessing spam programs.
You do realize that large mammals, including endangered species, are killed and maimed by mines?
Excellent point. Animal testing sometimes also benefits other animals.
Humans don't develop this ability until 1 or 2 years of age. So maybe we should use infants for mine detection? ;)
I have a clear position on this. If the adults of a species is sentient, I will afford the infants the same protection as the adults.
(Not commenting self-realization.)
Next question.
What about if it were my dog and some random person. I'd probably save my dog.
There, you answered the hypothetical. You would save your dog rather than another person.
But you still have a point.
More like the Satan Clause Operation
Ho! Ho! Ho! Bow before me!
Eeep! IBM lawyers! Run, Saddam!