When you vote for the candidate (Dem or Rep), you vote for the party. So what? You seriously believe that the current democratic party platform is most aptly described as "socialist"?
On the one side is Fascism, on the other Socialism. Socialism?!? No current candidate is even remotely close to being a socialist. They won't even support having a single-payer universal healthcare system!
And I have no idea what all that encrypted traffic to the Tor routers is. I sincerely hope you're not clogging up the tor tubes with your p2p traffic. It's not nice.
people will come up with a new "freenet" to lay on top of this new freedom restricting internet. My sarcasm detector was on, but it wasn't registering. Perhaps it's broken.
The future is now (but hopefully in that scenario, it would become much more popular and usable): http://freenetproject.org/
I see this now in almost every arena of law enforcement... and for good reason. It *is* getting harder to do low enforcement. I disagree. With the advent of dna and blood testing, the goldmine of personal information available in suspect's computers, cell-phones, and IP logs, and the near ubiquity of surveillance cameras, law enforcement has been getting progressively easier.
However, as history has proven again and again, law enforcement agencies are notoriously power-hungry organizations that always clamor for more resources, more funding, and more ways to make their jobs even easier (often at the expense of freedom for citizens).
While I agree with you about the attitude towards drugs, but in defense of the TSA I think they're looking more for the *smugglers* rather than the *users*. You think but you do not know. Do you really think TSA is going to let people with small amounts of drugs pass through security? They certainly don't currently. People caught with small bags of marijuana at airports are not allowed to go on their way.
Besides, selective enforcement is no better. The parent poster is correct. It's absurd to be using expensive ion-analyzers to search for trace amounts of drugs.
The only difference between a defense attourney and a prosecuting attourney is which one fell asleep during the bar exam. If only that made a difference. Bar exams are pass/fail. Your joke fails.
Seriously, the only way you can teach these fucking politicians is by hitting them in the nose. So, to follow the war on drugs analogy, we should... keep voting for them?
One more attack by the Lawyers on the rest of society. It's them against us and they write all the law and sit in judgment on those laws. The end result is less and less liberty and justice. If you even speak out against them you are branded a terrorist by their filthy guild. Filthy lawyers. Too bad there isn't a group of people, knowledgeable about law, who would defend you against these evil scum lawyers... you know, some sort of protectors who would present a defense against these bloodthirsty prosecuting attorneys and the corrupt legal system.
I don't know about quickbooks, but I have never had any trouble using Gimpshop and OpenOffice in lieu of MS or Adobe offerings... and neither has anyone else I've exposed to it. In a work environment? Gimp and Openoffice are great for home use, but they just don't cut it in the workforce. Perhaps it's a critical mass problem, but they're a bit rough around the edges as well.
One can come up with all sorts of complicated theories on why linux hasn't gained significant ground on windows, but it's very simple. Applications, applications, applications. If linux was running word, photoshop, quickbooks, and a host of other business software (not to mention games), we wouldn't be reading these endless pontifications about why linux hasn't been overtaken windows on the desktop.
...that mention is made of [full] integration with GTK but no mention of KDE! My be it's time folks at KDE tuned Firefox to look at a native KDE application or make lots of noise while Firefox development is going on. You insensitive clod! Firefox 3 is still in beta. Save your criticism for it's final release*.
*note:The Firefox 3 release is not intended for everyday use. Firefox 3 is not the same thing as Firefox 3.0, although it will be somewhat similar to what should be expected in Firefox 3.0.0
Starbucks coffee is indeed consistant. It's consistantly a huge jug of muddy piss, which contains next to no actual coffee. I have a hard time believing you have ever been to a Starbucks. Their coffee may not be the best, but it's certainly not weak.
Make the pedophile a person with a plight you can sympathized with and those against him are all evil. In today's current climate of sex-crime fear? Good luck with that.
I agree that pedophilia, as defined as "a disorder involving sexual attration to children" is not (and should not be) a crime. My point was that if you define pedophilia as an act of possesing or viewing children being abused, then it is (and should be) a crime. Um... yes, and if you define pedophilia as an act of intentional murder or grand larceny, then it should also be a crime. What are you talking about?
Huh? Why should they be punished, exactly? Because I can understand the argument that a 13 year-old is not considered emotionally mature enough by society to consent to a sexual act with an adult. However, by no means would I advocate the draconian punishments now meted out by many governments for such an offense.
The man-boy love association has already been formed, and I guarantee that over the next ten years, we'll see this sexual aberration (along with beastiality and multiple-partner marriage) normalized. I'll take you up on that bet, considering that in the past ten years pedophilia has been progressively more demonized rather than being normalized in any way.
As a Christian, I simply blame the natural depravity of man. I agree. It's god's fault!
This trend of classifying anyone attracted to teenagers as a "pedophile" or "sex predator" isn't helping.
Someone sexually attracted to 5 year-olds and someone attracted to 15 year-olds is not the same thing. Not the same thing at all. Yet the "sex predator" hysteria in western countries has all but eliminated this distinction. Throughout most of human history, it would be perfectly natural for a someone to be attracted to a post-pubescent teenage male or female, but today many people arrested for sex offenses involving teenagers are mistakenly classified as pedophiles by the media, the public, and often even the arresting officers and the court system.
For an adult male/female to have sexual contact with a teenage girl/boy demonstrates a bad sense of judgment, yes, and very likely they should be punished. However, classifying them as some sort of mentally-deranged freak isn't helping anything. It is natural for a male to be attracted to a fertile teenage girl with wide hips and large breasts. No amount of legislation or public hysteria will change that.
The summary has a definite pro-pedophilia slant. I'm not entirely sure I like that. I'm not sure what you would consider pro-pedophile about the summary, but it is unusual to see the word "pedophile" without it being followed by expressions of rage and violence such as, "cut his nuts off with a rusty knife," or, "I hope they are raped in prison."
That case is rather wierd, but in the general case you don't know what's on the computer you request access to. It's one thing to say child pornography isn't protected under the first amendment, it's quite another to give police blanket permission to demand all your passwords because it might, without any form of suspicion, contain child pornography. Yet a similar scenario might come up quite a bit. The police suspect child pornography was sent/received by a particular IP address. They go to the house, seize all the computers, discover some encrypted drives and demand all the passwords.
If the SCOTUS decides that it is not a violation of the 5th Amendment to force a child porn suspect to give up her passwords (or face severe criminal penalties), then everyone who doesn't give up their passwords, in any situation, will be immediately deemed highly suspicious, if not outright declared a child pornography/terrorism suspect.
It's not a stretch to think this will happen in America. It has already happened in the UK.
She shouldda waited for that Supreme Court case that said divulging your password was a violation of your 5th amendment right. Don't get ahead of yourself. It was a federal magistrate in Vermont that gave that ruling, not the Supreme Court. We have no idea what the SCOTUS would do in such a situation... especially if it involves child pornography. They've been known to make exceptions to the Constitution when it comes to child pornography.
For me peronally, I know the situation is pretty similar to Windows, it's an old rant that still is not solved, but...
1) No 64 bit Skype.
2) No 64 bit Java (with web browser plugin that is).
3) No 64 bit Flash. I use 64-bit Gutsy, and routinely make use of java and flash while browsing. I don't remembering doing anything special to get the functionality. I've never used Skype.
And what exactly are they looking for? Do they really think their going to look at somebody's calender app and find something like "Tuesday: Destroy America"? From the arrests which have occurred so far, it looks like they are searching for child pornography.
Maybe I spend too much time on the interwebs, but does anyone else think that 5 GB per month is a miserly small amount for the "standard" tier? Restricting customers to such a tiny limit is like moving the internet back to 1999.
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The future is now (but hopefully in that scenario, it would become much more popular and usable): http://freenetproject.org/
However, as history has proven again and again, law enforcement agencies are notoriously power-hungry organizations that always clamor for more resources, more funding, and more ways to make their jobs even easier (often at the expense of freedom for citizens).
Besides, selective enforcement is no better. The parent poster is correct. It's absurd to be using expensive ion-analyzers to search for trace amounts of drugs.
One can come up with all sorts of complicated theories on why linux hasn't gained significant ground on windows, but it's very simple. Applications, applications, applications. If linux was running word, photoshop, quickbooks, and a host of other business software (not to mention games), we wouldn't be reading these endless pontifications about why linux hasn't been overtaken windows on the desktop.
...that mention is made of [full] integration with GTK but no mention of KDE! My be it's time folks at KDE tuned Firefox to look at a native KDE application or make lots of noise while Firefox development is going on. You insensitive clod! Firefox 3 is still in beta. Save your criticism for it's final release*.*note:The Firefox 3 release is not intended for everyday use. Firefox 3 is not the same thing as Firefox 3.0, although it will be somewhat similar to what should be expected in Firefox 3.0.0
This trend of classifying anyone attracted to teenagers as a "pedophile" or "sex predator" isn't helping.
Someone sexually attracted to 5 year-olds and someone attracted to 15 year-olds is not the same thing. Not the same thing at all. Yet the "sex predator" hysteria in western countries has all but eliminated this distinction. Throughout most of human history, it would be perfectly natural for a someone to be attracted to a post-pubescent teenage male or female, but today many people arrested for sex offenses involving teenagers are mistakenly classified as pedophiles by the media, the public, and often even the arresting officers and the court system.
For an adult male/female to have sexual contact with a teenage girl/boy demonstrates a bad sense of judgment, yes, and very likely they should be punished. However, classifying them as some sort of mentally-deranged freak isn't helping anything. It is natural for a male to be attracted to a fertile teenage girl with wide hips and large breasts. No amount of legislation or public hysteria will change that.
If the SCOTUS decides that it is not a violation of the 5th Amendment to force a child porn suspect to give up her passwords (or face severe criminal penalties), then everyone who doesn't give up their passwords, in any situation, will be immediately deemed highly suspicious, if not outright declared a child pornography/terrorism suspect.
It's not a stretch to think this will happen in America. It has already happened in the UK.
Maybe I spend too much time on the interwebs, but does anyone else think that 5 GB per month is a miserly small amount for the "standard" tier? Restricting customers to such a tiny limit is like moving the internet back to 1999.