A magnetic tag for people with a license for less than a year is one thing - but to expect somebdoy who's drunk to have the presence of mind to put up a warning first is stupid.
Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought the measure we were talking about was having convicted drunk drivers forced to have a yellow _license plate_, which is more or less permanent. If it is just a magnetic tag, then I agree it's stupid.
In addition to the shame angle, having yellow license plates is helpful in itself, because if other people see yellow plates on the road late at night, you know to give that car extra space. There've been lots of times I was driving behind someone who seemed to be DWI, but couldn't really be sure. Seeing the yellow tag would be one more piece of evidence I could quickly assess to get the big picture.
a scarlet letter law that not only brands the offender, but his or her entire family.
Damn right. Don't drive drunk, or you'll shame your whole family. Works for me. If I go postal and kill a bunch of people at the workplace, my family lives in infamy for the rest of their lives. Jeffrey Dahmer's father and mother are forever known as the father and mother of a monster. And drunk drivers and their families should receive precisely this treatment. Yellow tags sound like a good approach to me.
There's never been a functioning society in which shame attached only to individuals and their actions. Shame always spreads around to affect more people than just the guilty party. And that's a good thing, because human beings are social animals, not atomic individuals. Bad luck can leave good people (like Dahmer's parents) in a shameful position. Dahmer disgraced his parents. Don't you understand what it means to disgrace someone else?
Back when I was growing up, in the mid-70's, records were hugely expensive to make. Popular bands were huge, and the prominent ones took months in the (incredibly expensive) studio to produce records. Band members, hangers-on, pharmacological and handgun needs had to be taken care of. Session artists made tons of money bringing their expertise to the studio. Famous artists earned lots of money making lavish album convers that folded out to two or three panels. Full-size glossy album inserts including lyrics, art, photos and the like were common. The records themselves were produced by a complicated physical process that had a much higher failure rate than today's pressings. And you could go down to your local record store and get it for $5.
Boards of Canada is two guys in their apartment and a few computers. Their label wants $10 to download a few files from them.
I got this album off Emusic last year, and now it has crawled inside my brain and won't get out. I'm not big into electronic music, but I listen to a lot of stuff, so I figured I'd add this. The first few times through it doesn't seem like much of anything, but then it gets hold of you and won't let go.
I got several different Boards of Canada albums and eps from Emusic, as well as music by other Warp artists. (They were available on Emusic back when I had an account, I don't know about now.) So I'm legal. I don't need to buy these albums from the Warp website. But I also know that Emusic paid the artists basically nothing, so I figured I'd head over to the Warp website to pay a second time for some records I've really enjoyed.
Before I got to the website, I decided that the sweet spot was $5. I'm willing to pay -- A SECOND TIME -- $5 for each Boards of Canada album I downloaded from Emusic. (Since Emusic had no download limit back then, everyone on the service, including me, was basically downloading everything they could find -- hey, I found some bands like Boards of Canada!)
But when I got to the Warp website, the price was $10. No way. Vinyl cost $5 when I was growing up, and there's no good reason music should cost any more than that now. It costs less to produce now, and it costs less to distribute. $10/album is too high.
So Boards of Canada has my admiration, and I appreciate what Warp is trying to do, but $5 is the point where my wallet opens up. I guess I'm just not in the "target audience," even though I like the music.
I've used TaxACT the past couple of years. It's web-based, and costs nothing if your taxes are (like mine) really simple (and, like me, you don't have a state income tax). I don't know of any solution that (1) runs on free software, and (2) is itself free software, so that pretty much limits me to using a web-based service.
Can't she just claim the photos were faked with photoshop or chromakeying, etc.?
Yes, and then a jury will get to decide whether that claim creates "reasonable doubt". Apart from some plausible explanation of why she is victim of a fraud, she'll be convicted.
I think the solution would be to make the statue of limitations on public nudity be, say, 2 days.
No way. That would encourage people to engage in risky public nudity, which would, in turn, increase the number of people involuntarily exposed to public nudity.
If the police were actively searching for the public menace who ludely exposed herself in a public bar and came across these pictures, then I'd have no problem with them being used as evidence. But if the police only learned about the crime from the pictures, it seems wrong to use them against her.
So if I embezzled a lot of money, and no one yet knew about it, I could post information about my crime without that information being used against me? R-i-i-g-h-t.
She's doing something that's illegal where she lives, and she's posting to the Internet photos of herself doing it. She's providing them with the EVIDENCE they need to convict her.
I'll celebrate as much as anyone on that day, but until then the honours system is the only way to formally recognise people's acheivements.
And yet hundreds of great men and women have the strength of character to tell the Queen to shove it when "She" comes around peddling her wares. To bad Mr. Berners-Lee couldn't have been among them.
Fuck Tim Berners-Lee for accepting an honor from the "Queen" of England. Hundreds of great men and women have sensibly refused to accept such honors from one of the last remaining "divine right" monarchies on the earth. Why wasn't Tim Berners-Lee among them?
Upon learning of this news, my estimation of Mr. Berners-Lee has dropped quite a bit. Who you will accept honors from says a lot about you. I would have been so much prouder had I heard that he told the Queen to stuff it.
Sorry, but the connection you're making has very little base in reality.
Um, the editorial linked to in this post is real. It's part of the "real world". As I said above, in a comment marked as flamebait, this is how the real world sees you.
We'll toss our violent video games right after "the adult world" tosses it's violent movies. And sensationalistic journalism exploitative of ACTUAL violence and tragedy. And tabloid TV. And Springer-esque talk shows.
I hope keeping those video games makes up for continuing to be cut out of the loop in places where actual power is exercised. Sure, the adult world won't listen to you when you explain why drm is evil, but at least you geeks still have your precious video games! Rock on!
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe we will be lucky and this will be the last time anyone on Slashdot writes "wait...for...it...".
Sadly I'm stuck with Nvidia video cards in order to play games such as Quake 3 in linux... I wish this wasn't the case...
Either stop whining or quit playing those games.
A magnetic tag for people with a license for less than a year is one thing - but to expect somebdoy who's drunk to have the presence of mind to put up a warning first is stupid.
Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought the measure we were talking about was having convicted drunk drivers forced to have a yellow _license plate_, which is more or less permanent. If it is just a magnetic tag, then I agree it's stupid.
In addition to the shame angle, having yellow license plates is helpful in itself, because if other people see yellow plates on the road late at night, you know to give that car extra space. There've been lots of times I was driving behind someone who seemed to be DWI, but couldn't really be sure. Seeing the yellow tag would be one more piece of evidence I could quickly assess to get the big picture.
a scarlet letter law that not only brands the offender, but his or her entire family.
Damn right. Don't drive drunk, or you'll shame your whole family. Works for me. If I go postal and kill a bunch of people at the workplace, my family lives in infamy for the rest of their lives. Jeffrey Dahmer's father and mother are forever known as the father and mother of a monster. And drunk drivers and their families should receive precisely this treatment. Yellow tags sound like a good approach to me.
There's never been a functioning society in which shame attached only to individuals and their actions. Shame always spreads around to affect more people than just the guilty party. And that's a good thing, because human beings are social animals, not atomic individuals. Bad luck can leave good people (like Dahmer's parents) in a shameful position. Dahmer disgraced his parents. Don't you understand what it means to disgrace someone else?
I'm the project's one and only paid employee.
/.? Get back to work, man!
So WTF are you doing reading
Ghetto Pop Life is a good album. Dangermouse comes up with some great hooks. Track 06, "The Only One," is awesome.
Could we please get rid of this "wait for it, wait for it" meme?
YES!!!! I haven't thought about good ole Bernie in a long time!
Funny, it also looks like it's in part about the poor getting richer.
Monkeys failed to fly out of your butt? That sounds really, really painful.
Ratpoison
What makes you think that?
Back when I was growing up, in the mid-70's, records were hugely expensive to make. Popular bands were huge, and the prominent ones took months in the (incredibly expensive) studio to produce records. Band members, hangers-on, pharmacological and handgun needs had to be taken care of. Session artists made tons of money bringing their expertise to the studio. Famous artists earned lots of money making lavish album convers that folded out to two or three panels. Full-size glossy album inserts including lyrics, art, photos and the like were common. The records themselves were produced by a complicated physical process that had a much higher failure rate than today's pressings. And you could go down to your local record store and get it for $5.
Boards of Canada is two guys in their apartment and a few computers. Their label wants $10 to download a few files from them.
I got this album off Emusic last year, and now it has crawled inside my brain and won't get out. I'm not big into electronic music, but I listen to a lot of stuff, so I figured I'd add this. The first few times through it doesn't seem like much of anything, but then it gets hold of you and won't let go.
I got several different Boards of Canada albums and eps from Emusic, as well as music by other Warp artists. (They were available on Emusic back when I had an account, I don't know about now.) So I'm legal. I don't need to buy these albums from the Warp website. But I also know that Emusic paid the artists basically nothing, so I figured I'd head over to the Warp website to pay a second time for some records I've really enjoyed.
Before I got to the website, I decided that the sweet spot was $5. I'm willing to pay -- A SECOND TIME -- $5 for each Boards of Canada album I downloaded from Emusic. (Since Emusic had no download limit back then, everyone on the service, including me, was basically downloading everything they could find -- hey, I found some bands like Boards of Canada!)
But when I got to the Warp website, the price was $10. No way. Vinyl cost $5 when I was growing up, and there's no good reason music should cost any more than that now. It costs less to produce now, and it costs less to distribute. $10/album is too high.
So Boards of Canada has my admiration, and I appreciate what Warp is trying to do, but $5 is the point where my wallet opens up. I guess I'm just not in the "target audience," even though I like the music.
I've used TaxACT the past couple of years. It's web-based, and costs nothing if your taxes are (like mine) really simple (and, like me, you don't have a state income tax). I don't know of any solution that (1) runs on free software, and (2) is itself free software, so that pretty much limits me to using a web-based service.
Can't she just claim the photos were faked with photoshop or chromakeying, etc.?
Yes, and then a jury will get to decide whether that claim creates "reasonable doubt". Apart from some plausible explanation of why she is victim of a fraud, she'll be convicted.
I think the solution would be to make the statue of limitations on public nudity be, say, 2 days.
No way. That would encourage people to engage in risky public nudity, which would, in turn, increase the number of people involuntarily exposed to public nudity.
If the police were actively searching for the public menace who ludely exposed herself in a public bar and came across these pictures, then I'd have no problem with them being used as evidence. But if the police only learned about the crime from the pictures, it seems wrong to use them against her.
So if I embezzled a lot of money, and no one yet knew about it, I could post information about my crime without that information being used against me? R-i-i-g-h-t.
I thought that under certain articles of the constitution you weren't allowed to incriminate yourself?
You're not required to incriminate yourself. They couldn't have forced her to post those photos. But she did, and she's busted.
Prediction: she'll either move to a place where it's legal, or she'll stop posting incriminating photos.
She's doing something that's illegal where she lives, and she's posting to the
Internet photos of herself doing it. She's providing them with the EVIDENCE
they need to convict her.
This is a no-brainer.
Hundreds of other great men and women have been able to resist the kow-towing to the monarchy. I which he had joined them.
I'll celebrate as much as anyone on that day, but until then the honours system is the only way to formally recognise people's acheivements.
And yet hundreds of great men and women have the strength of character to tell the Queen to shove it when "She" comes around peddling her wares. To bad Mr. Berners-Lee couldn't have been among them.
Fuck Tim Berners-Lee for accepting an honor from the "Queen" of England. Hundreds
of great men and women have sensibly refused to accept such honors from one
of the last remaining "divine right" monarchies on the earth. Why wasn't Tim
Berners-Lee among them?
Upon learning of this news, my estimation of Mr. Berners-Lee has dropped quite
a bit. Who you will accept honors from says a lot about you. I would have
been so much prouder had I heard that he told the Queen to stuff it.
Sorry, but the connection you're making has very little base in reality.
Um, the editorial linked to in this post is real. It's part of the "real world". As I said above, in a comment marked as flamebait, this is how the real world sees you.
We'll toss our violent video games right after "the adult world" tosses it's violent movies. And sensationalistic journalism exploitative of ACTUAL violence and tragedy. And tabloid TV. And Springer-esque talk shows.
I hope keeping those video games makes up for continuing to be cut out of the loop in places where actual power is exercised. Sure, the adult world won't listen to you when you explain why drm is evil, but at least you geeks still have your precious video games! Rock on!