What the French did was greatly appreciated, but that was over 200 hundred years ago. Unlike Europe, we don't dwell on deeds from long ago, both good and bad. We operate on how people act today. That means we aren't getting into wars with our neighbors over some perceived slight from 500 years ago as happens in Europe on a regular basis. We are best of friends with Canada and Mexico even though we fought wars against both those countries. Same with the UK. We fought two wars against them, but now we consider them our closest ally.
Yes, we have a few problems with Mexico, but they aren't something we will get into a shooting war over.
You've been watching too many movies. Back in "wild west" days, Civilized Boston had a higher violent crime rate than the wild west. Gun fight at the OK corral was an anomaly. Most towns in the wild west were peaceful as they were populated by farmers and ranchers who wanted a safe environment to raise their families.
The right to own a firearm defines if you are a citizen or a subject. What do you want to be?
In most universities, that "bastion of free speech" only exists for the far left. A conservative student making a statement will typically have a rough time. Free speech MUST include speech you don't necessarily want to hear. You don't have to listen, but you don't have any right to make the speaker shut up -- unless he's disrupting class, then it's ok to beat the crap out of him.:)
This is the same industry that had the balls to say the movie "E.T." didn't make a dime.
And the "root cause" of their error can be attributed to their absolute requirement that they prove huge loses (on their imaginary profits) so they could go to congress and demand "something be done."
As I mentioned previously, just because a country has an election does not make it a democracy.
Your examples of so-called democratic muslim countries in the middle east does not stand up to scrutiny. Algeria isn't in the middle east and doesn't exactly have a stellar record for democracy. Egypt pretends to be a democracy, but in fact, it is ruled by religious law. I suggest you read up on what is happening to the Coptic Christians in Egypt to get an idea of what happens to non-muslims. Turkey is also not in the middle east, it's in Eurasia.
I never said there weren't moderate muslims who support democracy. Unfortunately, in the middle-east, they are few and far between. Plus, unfortunately, anyone who speaks out for democracy (which also means speaking out against religious law) tends to come up with a bad case of dead. There might be a lot of moderates hiding in the woodworks, but they are rightly afraid to draw attention to themselves.
So long as it's democratic That's rather funny. Democratic governments only exist in two countries in the middle east, Israel and Iraq. All the other countries are tightly controlled by despots and religious thugs. Democracy and Islam don't mix. Under the current interpretation of Islam, democracy can't be tolerated. As such, what you suggest is quite impossible.
And to be absolutely clear, just because a country has an election does not make it a democracy. The will of the people has to actually mean something.
That's no excuse for the middle east to export murder. I don't accept excuses based on events from 75 years ago.
It was a world war and we can sit back in our comfy chairs and point out all the mistakes they made when they were fighting for their very existence. On the other hand, you are basically arguing for going in full force to destroy all those shitty little countries we created. After all, it was our mistake - let's fix it.
The middle east has enough money to do whatever they want. They could build world class universities to create the doctors, engineers, and scientists they desperately need. They could build hospitals, factories and technology bases to rival the best of the western world. The golden age of the middle east was a period when education and tolerance ruled supreme. That was not a coincidence. They could have another golden age.
Instead, they create extremist religious schools, which teach hatred of the west and keep the population in ignorance and poverty. Anyone who wants a real education must go to a western university. When their oil money disappears they will have nothing, because they have squandered every penny on luxuries for the rulers and hatred for the poor. They will also lack the one commodity that has allowed them to exist despite the evils they perpetuate upon the rest of the world.
I partially agree with you. The problem is top down. A pencil pusher won't get in any trouble if he refuses to release what should be public documents, but he can catch all kinds of hell if he "goes against the grain" even though he did the right thing.
Some of the oil company profits can be attributed to actual innovation. Chevron developed a very cost efficient system for extracting huge amounts of oils from what were previously dry wells. Lots of oil is trapped in shale, and they developed the means to get it out, cheaply and safely. They deserve their profits for that.
Blaming Americans for middle east violence, however, is pushing it too far. The blame rests solely on on the saudi princes and theocracies who use their huge profits to export hate and violence to the entire world. Yes, people should be driving more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly cars, but not everyone has the luxury of running out and getting a Prius. A poor family is stuck with what they could get for a few hundred dollars. In the long run they would be saving money with the new car, but they can't come up with the cash and it's tough getting a reasonable car loan on a minimum wage job. And don't even get started with public transportation. In most areas, public transport is all but useless, especially if you don't work a nine to five job, e.g. janitorial work is typically done after normal work hours. Plus, have you ever tried grocery shopping using the local bus service? A more affluent family might actually need something bigger. Picking on the "soccer mom" is a cheap shot. They're called that for a reason. Transporting a soccer team in a big SUV is actually BETTER for the environment than each parent individually driving their kid to the games and practices in an economy car.
Finally, our entire economy is based on the transportation of goods. Oil is considered a national security issue because our economy would collapse without it. Trucks are really the only way to move things around the country. If we suddenly did not have oil, large cities would suffer catastrophic famine within a few days and all that good talk about alternative energy would come up short when a solution is sought.
They hide information for the sake of hiding information. You're reducing pollution, asshole, not hunting down terrorists so there should NEVER be any reason to withhold any information from the public, let alone a court of law.
The law should be: By default all information is public. The government must PROVE there is an overriding security reason to keep something a secret. And not wanting to be embarrassed isn't good enough. Hiding information to save someone's political career is an argument FOR releasing the data.
Yes, I told her exactly what was going on. I wasn't sneaky about it. The snooping wasn't to deter her from dangerous actions, her bipolarism made her believe she was invulnerable. The snooping was to give us, the parents, a chance to prevent her from injuring herself or others.
Everybody seems to be flaming this plan. Look on the positive side. You can download your shopping list. So you get a few ads for this convenience. In my opinion, this is a reasonable exchange. On the other hand, if you don't need this feature, you better be able to turn the damn thing off, because if it's blaring ads at me when I'm not using the service, I will take a stroll down the tool aisle and have some fun. Hey, I'm a geek. I take shit apart.
I had a list of all known proxies on the block list, so she would have had to try very hard to get around it. Not impossible, but I kept an eye on things so if she had done something tricky, I would have known. As it was, she never did figure out how I was blocking things. She kept digging through her Windows PC looking for the program that was blocking stuff. She didn't believe me when I told her it it wasn't on her computer.
What I had put together was similar to what iPrism does. I could set the hours she could be online, which was necessary to avoid the argument that occurred every damn night when I told her to turn off the computer. I got tired of the arguments, so I made it automatic and told her what time it would shut off. It also could block chat, e.g AIM, which she spent way too much time on. I would periodically review the logs to see what she where she was browsing, sometimes resulting in new additions to the block list. I also added a password protected web interface so her mother could enable and disable access remotely (from work, for example). And finally, it would log everything she sent and received via AIM and send it to her mother in the evening so she could review what was going on. This was necessary not because I was an asshole. I did it because she was bipolar and had no self control, resulting in her doing extremely dangerous things. Without this type of special circumstance, I would never have considered "snooping".
I expect to be highly flamed by a bunch of naive teenagers, now.
I had the home network running through a transparent proxy which blocked certain websites. MySpace was on the block list (because the kid broke the rules about posting personal information, such as phone numbers).
She could still get to MySpace if she went to a friend's house, but the inconvenience of doing that made it "not a fun thing."
The blocking by email system is nothing but a feel-good bandaid that does nothing.
Because it's not the federal government's business. The Constitution specifically states that any powers not given to the federal government is denied to the federal government. The "Department of Education" is a clear violation of the Constitution.
For the most part, schools in the U.S. are handled at the city or country level with some oversight at the state level. This can result in some poor towns having extremely shitty educational systems. One of the Department of Education's primary purposes was to deal with this disparity. A noble cause, but as is typical, the feds got side-tracked on other things and have made education WORSE throughout the entire country. I guess they are doing what they said, make the quality of education the same throughout the country --- shitty.
People in other countries are unable to grasp how things work here. To put it simply, we are about as big as Europe and with more countries. Each state should be considered a separate country for most matters. Each of our "countries" has their own educational system, their own mass transportation, their own laws (though there is much in common), etc. Here in one of the richer "countries" of California, the government is flat broke, schools are suffering, and taxes are out of control. The government is simply trying to do too damn much. But I digress.
I would have loved to record to reel-to-reel, but I was a starving student and couldn't afford good equipment. At one point I started recording to cassettes, but the quality of my equipment didn't do justice to the music. Funny, that crappy stereo system would be just fine for the shit being sold as music these days.
Much like a spoiled child, they never look at their own behavior. It's always "some else's fault." I haven't purchased any music CDs in over a year because:
1. It's all crap. 2. I refuse to do business with anyone who considers my fair use as criminal.
Yes, I ripped all my CDs. I do so so I can download tracks onto my digital player. I also have a web interface to access all my music from anywhere I have computer access, but the web page is password protected and I don't give access to anyone. The music industry, however, doesn't want me to do that because they see it as a loss of a dollar for every single track. At the moment I have 1400 tracks on my server. The music industry sees that as over a thousand dollars of lost revenue -- even though I've already paid for every bit of music I possess!
How many times must I buy an album before I can use it as I please? Let's take one example, Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon". I went through three vinyl albums way back before digital music was invented. I also owned a cassette of it (store bought, not copied). I might even have owned an eight-track version of it during a brief period of insanity. At the moment, I own two CD copies, the regular version and a "special remastered" version. That's seven copies of one album I have paid for. And you want to sue me because I ripped the CD onto my computer? FUCK YOU!
I know what the problem is. The music industry is very unhappy with CDs because they never wear out. Back during vinyl days you had to repurchase an album because they wore out, no matter how careful you were. They weren't too pleased with cassettes because you could record an album onto it and greatly extend the life of your music, but even cassettes wore out and pre-recoreded cassettes were purposely made cheaper to shorten their lifespan. These days, CDs don't wear out so replacement revenue is from the rare event of physical damage. And digital music never wears out.
So the music industry has seen their revenue from replacement purchases completely disappear. This leaves only one option to them, make the consumer purchase a different copy for every single device, but we're not going along with their plan, and they're now in panic mode. A panicked animal attacks anything and everything within reach, without thought, the music industry is no different. So they attack what is most convenient, their customers. We just need to stay out of reach until they bleed to death.
What an astoundingly stupid response. Yes, a lot of bad shit is happening in Iraq. So what? It's still terrorist attacks against civilians. These are not attacks against military targets. These are everyday people getting killed. Read the details. Take note of the large number of children being murdered.
But go ahead, ignore the Iraq numbers, you still have a number of terrorist attacks that is more than just disturbing. This is not about Iraq. This is happening throughout the world. You can play games and offer up excuses, but the facts don't lie. I guess you hate the West so much you'll happily be a sock puppet for murderers of babies. Your type makes me sick.
They are immigrants so long as they refuse to become part of French society. They have created their own little country within a country. This is far different from most other immigrants. Here in the U.S., most immigrants move here, learn the language, and become part of our culture, enriching everyone in the process.
So you found one incident from a year ago. Here's what the so-called religion of peace was doing for this month (December, 2007). That's 101 terrorist attacks and the month isn't even over. Why don't you add up the number of innocent people killed and injured and compare that to all the people killed and injured over religion of all other religions combined.
Date, Country, City, Killed,, Injured,, Details 12/19/2007, Thailand, Narathiwat, 3, 1, Islamic gunmen on motorcycles brutally assault a car carrying bank employees, killing three. 12/19/2007, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 0, A 42-year-old man is shot to death by militant Muslims. 12/18/2007, Thailand, Yala, 4, 0, Four local guards are shot to death by Muslim radicals, who then behead one of the bodies. 12/18/2007, Philippines, Basilan, 2, 5, Abu Sayyaf gunmen kill two Filipino troops in an ambush. 12/18/2007, Iraq, Abbara, 16, 28, Sixteen people sitting in a caf are blown to bits by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 12/18/2007, Iraq, Mosul, 10, 2, Yazidi tribesman are the target of radical Sunnis, who manage to kill ten. 12/18/2007, Iraq, Baquba, 2, 15, Children are among the casualites as a suicide bomber detonates along a city street. 12/18/2007, Iraq, Baghdad, 7, 12, Jihadis take out seven Iraqis in multiple attacks, including a university professor. 12/18/2007, Afghanistan, Farah, 15, 9, Fifteen Afghans guarding a fuel tanker are murdered in cold blood by a Taliban ambush. 12/17/2007, Pakistan, Kohat, 12, 5, A teenage suicide bomber kills twelve off-duty soldiers returning from a soccer game. 12/17/2007, Iraq, Balad Ruz, 7, 24, Children are among seven killed by a suicide bicycle bomber at a marketplace. 12/17/2007, Pakistan, Banda, 2, 6, Two children are killed during a rocket attack by Islamic militants. 12/17/2007, Somalia, Mogadishu, 4, 4, Islamic militants are suspected of firing a mortar shell into a market, killing four civilians. 12/17/2007, Thailand, Yala, 1, 0, A migrant worker is murdered by Islamic terrorists. 12/17/2007, Afghanistan, Uruzgan, 5, 0, A bicycle bomber murders a family of five, including three children. 12/17/2007, Somalia, Mogadishu, 12, 24, Three children in their mother are among a dozen civilians killed when suspected Islamists shell a marketplace. 12/17/2007, Afghanistan, Ghazni, 2, 0, Two local cops are gunned down by religious extremists. 12/16/2007, Pakistan, Bajaur, 1, 3, A local soldier is shot to death by Muslim terrorists. 12/16/2007, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 1, Two teenage boys are shot off their motorcylce by Muslim gunmen, one dies. 12/16/2007, Iraq, Mosul, 4, 0, A woman is among four people murdered by Islamic terrorists. 12/16/2007, Afghanistan, Khost, 2, 0, Two civilians are blasted to Allah by Muslim militants. 12/16/2007, Turkey, Barakli, 0, 1, A 65-year-old priest is stabbed during mass by a young Muslim angered over Christian "proselytising." 12/16/2007, Pakistan, Khar, 1, 0, Religious extremists abduct and behead a local soldier. 12/15/2007, Iraq, Baghdad, 6, 23, Two bombings and a shooting, at least one by al-Qaeda, leave six Iraqis dead. 12/15/2007, Somalia, Mogadishu, 2, 12, Two civilians are killed by Islamic militias, one in a gun battle and the other execution-style. 12/15/2007, Pakistan, Naushehra, 5, 11, Three civilians are among five murdered by a Fedayeen suicide bomber on a bicycle. 12/15/2007, Afghanistan, Kabul, 5, 2, Five civilians are killed by a Taliban car bombing along a city street. 12/14/2007, Algeria, Oum El Drou, 5, 0, Five civil servants are killed by a bomb planted by Islamic fundamentalists. 12/14/2007, Afghanistan, Balkh, 3, 0, Three local soldiers are pulled from their vehicle and mach
France is experiencing riots because Muslim immigrants want to turn France into a shit hole just like the country they left.
When was the last time there was a christian wingnut trying to kill an abortion doctor? When that did happen some time back, religious leaders denounced the actions. I can easily post dozens of muslim terrorist attacks in the last week alone. Please point me to a single religious based attack by any other religion in the past week? Just one. The only thing I can find was an attack by some deranged nut job against christians. This was an anti-religious attack.
"invading the civilized world", "stealing our women and making them convert to islam", and "committing acts of terrorism", as if these were traits inherent to islam and all muslims.
I'll take my off-topic moderation lumps for this. Looking at modern events, I'm not seeing any headlines mentioning Baptists rioting in the streets for perceived insults (Protests, yes. Riots, no). Nor do I see anything within the last 100 years about Catholics enslaving anybody. There's a complete lack of any mention of Buddhists blowing up a market crowded with civilians. There _might_ be incidents along these lines, but they would be extremely rare. Lots of Muslims doing this, though. Last week there were 44 jihad attacks, resulting in over 200 innocents killed, and over 500 injured. Forced marriage and conversion to Islam is an ongoing problem in Egypt. Slavery, while publicly denounced, is still practiced in a number of muslim countries. All this with the blessings of their religious leaders. So I'd say he was dead on.
It was not, however, in any way appropriate for him to rant about this at an internet security workshop.
You obviously haven't been reading anything Glen Reynolds has written. He isn't a Bush cheerleader. Sometimes he agrees with him, sometimes he doesn't. This is because he uses his brain and actually "thinks" about issues. You should try it sometimes.
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What the French did was greatly appreciated, but that was over 200 hundred years ago. Unlike Europe, we don't dwell on deeds from long ago, both good and bad. We operate on how people act today. That means we aren't getting into wars with our neighbors over some perceived slight from 500 years ago as happens in Europe on a regular basis. We are best of friends with Canada and Mexico even though we fought wars against both those countries. Same with the UK. We fought two wars against them, but now we consider them our closest ally.
Yes, we have a few problems with Mexico, but they aren't something we will get into a shooting war over.
You've been watching too many movies. Back in "wild west" days, Civilized Boston had a higher violent crime rate than the wild west. Gun fight at the OK corral was an anomaly. Most towns in the wild west were peaceful as they were populated by farmers and ranchers who wanted a safe environment to raise their families.
The right to own a firearm defines if you are a citizen or a subject. What do you want to be?
In most universities, that "bastion of free speech" only exists for the far left. A conservative student making a statement will typically have a rough time. Free speech MUST include speech you don't necessarily want to hear. You don't have to listen, but you don't have any right to make the speaker shut up -- unless he's disrupting class, then it's ok to beat the crap out of him. :)
This is the same industry that had the balls to say the movie "E.T." didn't make a dime.
And the "root cause" of their error can be attributed to their absolute requirement that they prove huge loses (on their imaginary profits) so they could go to congress and demand "something be done."
As I mentioned previously, just because a country has an election does not make it a democracy.
Your examples of so-called democratic muslim countries in the middle east does not stand up to scrutiny. Algeria isn't in the middle east and doesn't exactly have a stellar record for democracy. Egypt pretends to be a democracy, but in fact, it is ruled by religious law. I suggest you read up on what is happening to the Coptic Christians in Egypt to get an idea of what happens to non-muslims. Turkey is also not in the middle east, it's in Eurasia.
I never said there weren't moderate muslims who support democracy. Unfortunately, in the middle-east, they are few and far between. Plus, unfortunately, anyone who speaks out for democracy (which also means speaking out against religious law) tends to come up with a bad case of dead. There might be a lot of moderates hiding in the woodworks, but they are rightly afraid to draw attention to themselves.
That's no excuse for the middle east to export murder. I don't accept excuses based on events from 75 years ago.
It was a world war and we can sit back in our comfy chairs and point out all the mistakes they made when they were fighting for their very existence. On the other hand, you are basically arguing for going in full force to destroy all those shitty little countries we created. After all, it was our mistake - let's fix it.
The middle east has enough money to do whatever they want. They could build world class universities to create the doctors, engineers, and scientists they desperately need. They could build hospitals, factories and technology bases to rival the best of the western world. The golden age of the middle east was a period when education and tolerance ruled supreme. That was not a coincidence. They could have another golden age.
Instead, they create extremist religious schools, which teach hatred of the west and keep the population in ignorance and poverty. Anyone who wants a real education must go to a western university. When their oil money disappears they will have nothing, because they have squandered every penny on luxuries for the rulers and hatred for the poor. They will also lack the one commodity that has allowed them to exist despite the evils they perpetuate upon the rest of the world.
I partially agree with you. The problem is top down. A pencil pusher won't get in any trouble if he refuses to release what should be public documents, but he can catch all kinds of hell if he "goes against the grain" even though he did the right thing.
Some of the oil company profits can be attributed to actual innovation. Chevron developed a very cost efficient system for extracting huge amounts of oils from what were previously dry wells. Lots of oil is trapped in shale, and they developed the means to get it out, cheaply and safely. They deserve their profits for that.
Blaming Americans for middle east violence, however, is pushing it too far. The blame rests solely on on the saudi princes and theocracies who use their huge profits to export hate and violence to the entire world. Yes, people should be driving more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly cars, but not everyone has the luxury of running out and getting a Prius. A poor family is stuck with what they could get for a few hundred dollars. In the long run they would be saving money with the new car, but they can't come up with the cash and it's tough getting a reasonable car loan on a minimum wage job. And don't even get started with public transportation. In most areas, public transport is all but useless, especially if you don't work a nine to five job, e.g. janitorial work is typically done after normal work hours. Plus, have you ever tried grocery shopping using the local bus service? A more affluent family might actually need something bigger. Picking on the "soccer mom" is a cheap shot. They're called that for a reason. Transporting a soccer team in a big SUV is actually BETTER for the environment than each parent individually driving their kid to the games and practices in an economy car.
Finally, our entire economy is based on the transportation of goods. Oil is considered a national security issue because our economy would collapse without it. Trucks are really the only way to move things around the country. If we suddenly did not have oil, large cities would suffer catastrophic famine within a few days and all that good talk about alternative energy would come up short when a solution is sought.
They hide information for the sake of hiding information. You're reducing pollution, asshole, not hunting down terrorists so there should NEVER be any reason to withhold any information from the public, let alone a court of law.
The law should be: By default all information is public. The government must PROVE there is an overriding security reason to keep something a secret. And not wanting to be embarrassed isn't good enough. Hiding information to save someone's political career is an argument FOR releasing the data.
Yes, I told her exactly what was going on. I wasn't sneaky about it. The snooping wasn't to deter her from dangerous actions, her bipolarism made her believe she was invulnerable. The snooping was to give us, the parents, a chance to prevent her from injuring herself or others.
Everybody seems to be flaming this plan. Look on the positive side. You can download your shopping list. So you get a few ads for this convenience. In my opinion, this is a reasonable exchange. On the other hand, if you don't need this feature, you better be able to turn the damn thing off, because if it's blaring ads at me when I'm not using the service, I will take a stroll down the tool aisle and have some fun. Hey, I'm a geek. I take shit apart.
I had a list of all known proxies on the block list, so she would have had to try very hard to get around it. Not impossible, but I kept an eye on things so if she had done something tricky, I would have known. As it was, she never did figure out how I was blocking things. She kept digging through her Windows PC looking for the program that was blocking stuff. She didn't believe me when I told her it it wasn't on her computer.
What I had put together was similar to what iPrism does. I could set the hours she could be online, which was necessary to avoid the argument that occurred every damn night when I told her to turn off the computer. I got tired of the arguments, so I made it automatic and told her what time it would shut off. It also could block chat, e.g AIM, which she spent way too much time on. I would periodically review the logs to see what she where she was browsing, sometimes resulting in new additions to the block list. I also added a password protected web interface so her mother could enable and disable access remotely (from work, for example). And finally, it would log everything she sent and received via AIM and send it to her mother in the evening so she could review what was going on. This was necessary not because I was an asshole. I did it because she was bipolar and had no self control, resulting in her doing extremely dangerous things. Without this type of special circumstance, I would never have considered "snooping".
I expect to be highly flamed by a bunch of naive teenagers, now.
I had the home network running through a transparent proxy which blocked certain websites. MySpace was on the block list (because the kid broke the rules about posting personal information, such as phone numbers).
She could still get to MySpace if she went to a friend's house, but the inconvenience of doing that made it "not a fun thing."
The blocking by email system is nothing but a feel-good bandaid that does nothing.
Because it's not the federal government's business. The Constitution specifically states that any powers not given to the federal government is denied to the federal government. The "Department of Education" is a clear violation of the Constitution.
For the most part, schools in the U.S. are handled at the city or country level with some oversight at the state level. This can result in some poor towns having extremely shitty educational systems. One of the Department of Education's primary purposes was to deal with this disparity. A noble cause, but as is typical, the feds got side-tracked on other things and have made education WORSE throughout the entire country. I guess they are doing what they said, make the quality of education the same throughout the country --- shitty.
People in other countries are unable to grasp how things work here. To put it simply, we are about as big as Europe and with more countries. Each state should be considered a separate country for most matters. Each of our "countries" has their own educational system, their own mass transportation, their own laws (though there is much in common), etc. Here in one of the richer "countries" of California, the government is flat broke, schools are suffering, and taxes are out of control. The government is simply trying to do too damn much. But I digress.
The sad thing is, I think most of the anti-Americanism is from citizens of the U.S.
Off topic, but best damn tag-line I've ever seen on slashdot.
I would have loved to record to reel-to-reel, but I was a starving student and couldn't afford good equipment. At one point I started recording to cassettes, but the quality of my equipment didn't do justice to the music. Funny, that crappy stereo system would be just fine for the shit being sold as music these days.
Much like a spoiled child, they never look at their own behavior. It's always "some else's fault." I haven't purchased any music CDs in over a year because:
1. It's all crap.
2. I refuse to do business with anyone who considers my fair use as criminal.
Yes, I ripped all my CDs. I do so so I can download tracks onto my digital player. I also have a web interface to access all my music from anywhere I have computer access, but the web page is password protected and I don't give access to anyone. The music industry, however, doesn't want me to do that because they see it as a loss of a dollar for every single track. At the moment I have 1400 tracks on my server. The music industry sees that as over a thousand dollars of lost revenue -- even though I've already paid for every bit of music I possess!
How many times must I buy an album before I can use it as I please? Let's take one example, Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon". I went through three vinyl albums way back before digital music was invented. I also owned a cassette of it (store bought, not copied). I might even have owned an eight-track version of it during a brief period of insanity. At the moment, I own two CD copies, the regular version and a "special remastered" version. That's seven copies of one album I have paid for. And you want to sue me because I ripped the CD onto my computer? FUCK YOU!
I know what the problem is. The music industry is very unhappy with CDs because they never wear out. Back during vinyl days you had to repurchase an album because they wore out, no matter how careful you were. They weren't too pleased with cassettes because you could record an album onto it and greatly extend the life of your music, but even cassettes wore out and pre-recoreded cassettes were purposely made cheaper to shorten their lifespan. These days, CDs don't wear out so replacement revenue is from the rare event of physical damage. And digital music never wears out.
So the music industry has seen their revenue from replacement purchases completely disappear. This leaves only one option to them, make the consumer purchase a different copy for every single device, but we're not going along with their plan, and they're now in panic mode. A panicked animal attacks anything and everything within reach, without thought, the music industry is no different. So they attack what is most convenient, their customers. We just need to stay out of reach until they bleed to death.
What an astoundingly stupid response. Yes, a lot of bad shit is happening in Iraq. So what? It's still terrorist attacks against civilians. These are not attacks against military targets. These are everyday people getting killed. Read the details. Take note of the large number of children being murdered.
But go ahead, ignore the Iraq numbers, you still have a number of terrorist attacks that is more than just disturbing. This is not about Iraq. This is happening throughout the world. You can play games and offer up excuses, but the facts don't lie. I guess you hate the West so much you'll happily be a sock puppet for murderers of babies. Your type makes me sick.
They are immigrants so long as they refuse to become part of French society. They have created their own little country within a country. This is far different from most other immigrants. Here in the U.S., most immigrants move here, learn the language, and become part of our culture, enriching everyone in the process.
So you found one incident from a year ago. Here's what the so-called religion of peace was doing for this month (December, 2007). That's 101 terrorist attacks and the month isn't even over. Why don't you add up the number of innocent people killed and injured and compare that to all the people killed and injured over religion of all other religions combined.
Date, Country, City, Killed,, Injured,, Details
12/19/2007, Thailand, Narathiwat, 3, 1, Islamic gunmen on motorcycles brutally assault a car carrying bank employees, killing three.
12/19/2007, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 0, A 42-year-old man is shot to death by militant Muslims.
12/18/2007, Thailand, Yala, 4, 0, Four local guards are shot to death by Muslim radicals, who then behead one of the bodies.
12/18/2007, Philippines, Basilan, 2, 5, Abu Sayyaf gunmen kill two Filipino troops in an ambush.
12/18/2007, Iraq, Abbara, 16, 28, Sixteen people sitting in a caf are blown to bits by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
12/18/2007, Iraq, Mosul, 10, 2, Yazidi tribesman are the target of radical Sunnis, who manage to kill ten.
12/18/2007, Iraq, Baquba, 2, 15, Children are among the casualites as a suicide bomber detonates along a city street.
12/18/2007, Iraq, Baghdad, 7, 12, Jihadis take out seven Iraqis in multiple attacks, including a university professor.
12/18/2007, Afghanistan, Farah, 15, 9, Fifteen Afghans guarding a fuel tanker are murdered in cold blood by a Taliban ambush.
12/17/2007, Pakistan, Kohat, 12, 5, A teenage suicide bomber kills twelve off-duty soldiers returning from a soccer game.
12/17/2007, Iraq, Balad Ruz, 7, 24, Children are among seven killed by a suicide bicycle bomber at a marketplace.
12/17/2007, Pakistan, Banda, 2, 6, Two children are killed during a rocket attack by Islamic militants.
12/17/2007, Somalia, Mogadishu, 4, 4, Islamic militants are suspected of firing a mortar shell into a market, killing four civilians.
12/17/2007, Thailand, Yala, 1, 0, A migrant worker is murdered by Islamic terrorists.
12/17/2007, Afghanistan, Uruzgan, 5, 0, A bicycle bomber murders a family of five, including three children.
12/17/2007, Somalia, Mogadishu, 12, 24, Three children in their mother are among a dozen civilians killed when suspected Islamists shell a marketplace.
12/17/2007, Afghanistan, Ghazni, 2, 0, Two local cops are gunned down by religious extremists.
12/16/2007, Pakistan, Bajaur, 1, 3, A local soldier is shot to death by Muslim terrorists.
12/16/2007, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 1, Two teenage boys are shot off their motorcylce by Muslim gunmen, one dies.
12/16/2007, Iraq, Mosul, 4, 0, A woman is among four people murdered by Islamic terrorists.
12/16/2007, Afghanistan, Khost, 2, 0, Two civilians are blasted to Allah by Muslim militants.
12/16/2007, Turkey, Barakli, 0, 1, A 65-year-old priest is stabbed during mass by a young Muslim angered over Christian "proselytising."
12/16/2007, Pakistan, Khar, 1, 0, Religious extremists abduct and behead a local soldier.
12/15/2007, Iraq, Baghdad, 6, 23, Two bombings and a shooting, at least one by al-Qaeda, leave six Iraqis dead.
12/15/2007, Somalia, Mogadishu, 2, 12, Two civilians are killed by Islamic militias, one in a gun battle and the other execution-style.
12/15/2007, Pakistan, Naushehra, 5, 11, Three civilians are among five murdered by a Fedayeen suicide bomber on a bicycle.
12/15/2007, Afghanistan, Kabul, 5, 2, Five civilians are killed by a Taliban car bombing along a city street.
12/14/2007, Algeria, Oum El Drou, 5, 0, Five civil servants are killed by a bomb planted by Islamic fundamentalists.
12/14/2007, Afghanistan, Balkh, 3, 0, Three local soldiers are pulled from their vehicle and mach
France is experiencing riots because Muslim immigrants want to turn France into a shit hole just like the country they left.
When was the last time there was a christian wingnut trying to kill an abortion doctor? When that did happen some time back, religious leaders denounced the actions. I can easily post dozens of muslim terrorist attacks in the last week alone. Please point me to a single religious based attack by any other religion in the past week? Just one. The only thing I can find was an attack by some deranged nut job against christians. This was an anti-religious attack.
And fyi, I am not a christian.
I'll take my off-topic moderation lumps for this. Looking at modern events, I'm not seeing any headlines mentioning Baptists rioting in the streets for perceived insults (Protests, yes. Riots, no). Nor do I see anything within the last 100 years about Catholics enslaving anybody. There's a complete lack of any mention of Buddhists blowing up a market crowded with civilians. There _might_ be incidents along these lines, but they would be extremely rare. Lots of Muslims doing this, though. Last week there were 44 jihad attacks, resulting in over 200 innocents killed, and over 500 injured. Forced marriage and conversion to Islam is an ongoing problem in Egypt. Slavery, while publicly denounced, is still practiced in a number of muslim countries. All this with the blessings of their religious leaders. So I'd say he was dead on.
It was not, however, in any way appropriate for him to rant about this at an internet security workshop.
You obviously haven't been reading anything Glen Reynolds has written. He isn't a Bush cheerleader. Sometimes he agrees with him, sometimes he doesn't. This is because he uses his brain and actually "thinks" about issues. You should try it sometimes.
I did.
I always ask about any new law, "how can this law be abused?". It's not a question of if the law will be abused. It's a question of when.
Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings. Ratified 12/15/1791.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.