Actually, that's one of the greatest strengths of the internet. True freedom of speech.
Don't confuse freedom of speech with freedom to say anything you want. I am free to state that I disagree with your views. I am not free to state that I saw you rape and murder two nuns last thursday because (hopefully) it is not true. Blogs are usually unmoderated and commonly full of half-truths or outright lies. Even/. lies repeatedly with the phrase "received a patent" when it should read "applied for a patent" or "passed a law" when it should read "submitted a proposal". In my view, blogs are dangerous because the half-truths build up over time and form a national point-of-view that is absolutely wrong. Then, you end up looking like a wacko when you say something like, "Lincoln stated in his first debate with Douglass that blacks are 'not my equal in many respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment.'" Perhaps every blog requires a factcheck.org sidebar.
Part of going to school is also to teach kids how to be social and interact with others. How does/would home schooling deal with this aspect?
When I went to school, we 7 in-between class periods of 5 minutes each. There was one 10 minute break and 20 minutes for lunch. That is a total of 65 minutes. Sending a home-schooled child to the park for an hour after school should easily accomplish the task - unless you are referring to the mistreatment of the smarter children that is a requirement in most (if not all) public schools.
So I guess to conform to the Geneva Convention, the lasers will just require the same stickers that they put on childrens water guns: "Point Away From Face"
To put the Geneva Convention rules on weaponry in context, this is what I was told when I went to classes to use a 40mm fully-automatic grenade launcher: By the Geneva convention, the 40mm grenade is not to be used to attack military personel. It is only to be used to attack military equipment. Valid equipment includes: belt buckles, boot laces, eye glasses, etc...
Unfortunately, common sense does not mean the same thing for the average user, as it does for people on Slashdot.
I learned this when giving a computer security class at an old job. I had over 200 people in the auditorium and I said, "If you came home and there was a box on your front step that said 'Happy Birthday - Please Open Me - Love, Grandma'" and it wasn't your birthday and you normally don't get presents from your grandma, would rush right over and rip it open.
Over half the people said yes and claimed that I was stupid for being suspicious of strange boxes showing up at my door.
Ten years since debut, even something as simple as LAMP is still a PITA to set up and configure. Where is the OSS answer to Exchange??
First, I assume you were not drawing a comparison between Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP and Exchange.
Second, what is the PITA? If you don't want to know how the software works, don't install it manually. Just type: "yum install apache mysql php-mysql" and you'll have a generic semi-secure LAMP system. After you do that, making it secure and customizing it is just as much a PITA as trying to configure IIS, ASP, and MSSQL. It took me weeks to figure out that IIS can't handle "my-sample-domain.com" as a home directory because it sees the ".com" before it notices it is a directory.
I agree with you, but you have to know the source of the quote "I don't believe anything the government says." He is also the source of great quotes such as:
"Now that Bush has ruined the stock market, nobody will ever invest in it again."
"The Bush war in Iraq is an absolute and complete failure."
"The Patriot Act will allow anyone access to your library records without ever telling you."
"Why should I pay taxes when I don't want any of the things that taxes pay for - even the police. I can protect my own property."
"If rich people are so depressed, why won't they just give me their money?"
(after getting a 6% cost-of-living raise) "Great. Now everything is going to cost 10% more."
I could continue, but I think you can see that this person wants to secede his property from the United States as long as he is also given an unlimited supply of cash so he can buy things when he travels into US territory to shop.
Procter said 'virtually everyone could benefit from having a chip inserted.'
Virtually everyone has an allergy of some sort, a medical problem of some sort, or a prescribed medication of some sort. If everyone who ever visited a hospital had a chip implanted with their medical data on it, there is a clear benefit. Assuming the/. crowd is mostly computer geeks, think of it as having the option of fixing a computer with a full history of what has been done to it or fixing a computer with no knowledge of who has used it or what has been installed on it. But, this is the "it is just so damn cool to claim everything the government (or a guy who used to be in the government) says" slashdot. So, there will certainly be plenty of "nobody benefits from this" posts.
I just had this argument with a coworker yesterday. He said, "I don't believe anything the government says." I said, "You're an idiot." He replied, "Oh, you trust everything the government says!?" I replied, "No. It is not a matter of believing. It is a matter of trust. I do not blindly trust everything the government says, but I do believe some things as true, some as partially true, and other things as false. Being able to filter information as such is a sign of intelligence. Claiming everything the government says is false is a sign of ignorance." He replied, "That's what I meant. You misunderstood me."
Why is it that the Admins can't take it upon themselves to keep their software updated with the latest patches?
You are assuming the fix is a patch. I get vulnerability reports for my servers every week. The issues are never patches because I check for new patches every day. I get vulnerabilities that have no patch of any kind, yet I'm expected to somehow rewrite all of the software on the computer to fix the vulnerability. If I could do that, I wouldn't be working here. I assume that I am in the same position as most admins, I have to wait for the patches to come out and hope nothing bad happens while I'm waiting.
I never said it upset me in any way. I just like abusing idiots. It is the same reason that go around the office at night after everyone leaves and mess with their computers if they leave them both turned on and logged in until the next morning. I need to rewrite an old Win95 program that made the icons move away from the mouse, so you have to trap them in the corner to click on them. Replacing desktops with screenshots of their desktop is getting old.
I would like this if it is was more than just cars. I'd like to sit outside WalMart and force audio into all the idiots walking around with their bluetooth cell phone earbuds permanently stuck in their ear.
Think back to WWII when the US imprisoned thousands of US citizens on the belief that they might be terrorists and spies. The "Proof" of these activities? All of them were Japanese. At least that was a real war.
Think back to the beginning of the "Cold War" when McCarthy went on a rampage destroying people's careers and lives. Anyone that didn't share his political beliefs was blacklisted and freedom of speech ceased to exist.
This is where I lose the line of logic used by so many people today. The FBI and CIA could do anything they liked and, in these two cases, they did so. In 1976, FISA was passed to limit the power of the FBI and CIA to repeat offenses such as those. FISA was ammended and because the USA Act. The USA Act was embedded into the USA PATRIOT Act. Suddenly, the laws that put restrictions on the FBI and CIA in 1976 have become condemned for giving too much power to the FBI and CIA. The new argument is to repeal the USA PATRIOT Act (and the USA Act/FISA) and return to the age of McCarthy. As I said, I just fail to grasp that line of logic.
Since you know how to read, would you be so kind as to point how the CONFORMIST COWARD ACT limits the FBI and CIA?
Please correct me as I am more interested in being correct than winning an argument...
According to Wikipedia (which may very well be wrong), the USA PATRIOT Act made very few alterations to the USA Act. The USA Act altered the FISA. So, generalizing, FISA, the USA Act, and the USA PATRIOT Act are very similar and may be discussed as one whole when referring to restrictions on Federal investigations.
So, the argument that I often hear is the the USA PATRIOT Act (USA Act and FISA in tow) gives power to the FBI and CIA. The weird thing is that before FISA, the FBI and CIA has very few restrictions. Pretty much, they could do anything they wanted - and they did do anything they wanted. So, FISA was implemented, not to give power to the FBI and CIA, but to limit their power. the USA Act reduced the restrictions, but did not abolish the restrictions. The USA PATRIOT Act reduced the restrictions further, but did not abolish them.
So, from what I've read, if we were to abolish the USA PATRIOT Act, which would abolish the USA Act and the FISA, we would revert back to an FBI and CIA without any restrictions. Because of that, I claim that the USA PATRIOT Act does restrict the FBI and CIA. I do NOT claim that it restricts to the point that everyone likes, but it dies restrict them.
The task was to find "actual provable examples of the US government abridging Constitutionally protected free speech." You claim that "CNN... can give plenty of examples when teh US government violated privacy."
I'm sorry, but free speech and privacy are two different issues. Can you say that the government sucks? Can you flat out lie and claim that you shot up heroin with Bush last weekend? Can you make a movie in a juvenile attempt to make everyone believe the government is out to get them? Of course. We have free speech.
As for privacy, I did search CNN. I did find articles where a person claimed that they had their privacy violated. In the end, a judge decided that their privacy was not violated. I'm sure I'll find a real one if I look hard enough, but that doesn't mean that we don't have free speech.
How do you justify your comments? You claim the USA PATRIOT Act abridges Constitutionally protected free speech. Where is the "no free speech" part of the USA PATRIOT Act? Really, where? There are 3 parts to the act:
1) The USA Act - extending on FISA as a set of restictions on Federal investigations.
2) A set of money laundering laws to trap international funds used by terrorists.
3) A set of awards to victims of terrorism.
You claim that saying the wrong thing can have you taken away without a warrant. How? Are you claiming that FISC warrants do not count as warrants? Perhaps you want a phone call with 24 hour notice before any police action is ever taken so that criminals have plenty of time to handle any personal matters before the cops show up.
You claim you may be held indefinitely without trial. I assume you are referring to Guantanamo Bay. Did it ever occur to you that there are no citizens of the United States being held there? Since when does our Constitution apply to citizens of other countries? Since when does it apply to POW's?
Basically, you have painted a completely malformed picture of the United States that may easily be used as fuel for those who hate the United States. You are free to do so. Nobody is going to arrest you. Nobody is going to search your library records. How is that not free speech?
If anyone can give actual provable examples of the US government abridging Constitutionally protected free speech, I'd love to hear it.
Don't be so naive. The USA PATRIOT Act has to abridge our free speech. Why? Because everyone says it does. I know, there are those who have put time into reading it and know that it limits the power of the FBI and CIA, but they don't count. We're in the age of blogs. True or not, I'm believing whatever a nerd with a computer tells me to believe because I want to be a cool nonconformist just like all the other cool nonconformists.
were aware of the flower navigation on georgeharrison.com or if it was just coincidental
It was a coincidence, but I figure there are only a few degrees of separation. Harrison obviously drew his inspiration for the flower design from the Hindu religion. I drew my inspiration for the design from the Sims games, but had no name for it. I study religions extensively, so any arrangement like that reminds me of a Hindu flower - hence, flower buttons.
Thanks. I just bookmarked all the links as it is too late to look at them now. I searched for this thing before writing it, but I didn't know what it was called. So, I just wrote my simplistic half-assed version.
A good example of these menus (where I stole it from) is the Sims games.
As you can see fron the JavaScript, it is actually a rather simple task to position the buttons in a circle or in a simple box as this article's example does.
Take a short course on the history of western religion:
Priest1: Hey Priest2, where's all the loot we're supposed get just for telling all these fools we know who God is?
Priest2: All the fools are across the street at the Priestesses church.
Priest1: Why would a common man want to go to a church with beautiful young women who offer to bring them to a state of bliss for a small tithe?
Priest2: You don't get out much, do you?
Priest1: I've got it - Women are evil. Since women mean sex, sex is evil. Nakedness is evil. Anything that has to do with the natural beauty of a woman is evil. Now, go kill the Priestess and bring the fools over here!
Priest2: Sorry Priest1, but violence is evil.
Priest1: Well, since we're just making up as we go along, we'll ignore violence for now, but sex is still evil.
Because government and the citizens are supposed to be the same thing.
Only in a communist society where all people are of an equal class/caste. In a republic (the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy), there is a class system. Private citizens are not government. Government officials are not private citizens. The military is part of the government. It is very easy to look at the rights of a military member and the rights of a private citizen and see the differences. You can even look at the President. Do you think you'd be threatened with impeachment for screwing around with some office worker?
ou don't like your vendor (Gov't), choose another one!
There's a thing called immigration. If you like another government more, it is YOUR responsibilty to move - that is unless you want to be the guy in Taco Bell complaining that the tacos don't taste like a Big Mac.
I often seem to feel that the US government would be ALOT happier without citizens to get in the way too.
And what business is different? I worked at Burger King and everyone complained that it would be so much easier without the customers. I worked at AMC theater and everyone complained that it would be so much easier without the patrons. I worked for a film company and everyone complained that it would be so much easier if they didn't have to distribute and show the movies. I taught at a university and everyone complained that it would be so much easier without the students. I'm now doing research at a hospital and everyone complains that it would be so much easier without all the patients. Why wouldn't the government find it easier without all the bothersome citizens?
US Patriot Act killed that waiting game... They are able to act and get the court order later
Which USA PATRIOT Act are you referring to, the real one or the one in your imaginary world? FISA allows for delayed notice of the warrant to the person being investigated, but the warrant must be obtained before the search. So, to put it on a third grade level, normal investigations are Warrant, Notification, Search. FISA allows for Warrant, Search, Notification under special circumstances. Nowhere is there a Search, Warrant, Notification clause for regular investigators. The head of the FBI has a little wiggle room when it comes to phone records, but that has nothing to do with 99.99999999% of the FBI's investigations.
I have an easy solution, provided by a friend of mine at a major local university -- Block ALL mail from China.
I work at a university and about 1/3 of my email is between people in China. So, how is this solution supposed to work? Perhaps we need a better solution: Block all email from Earth!
PostgreSQL has always been a better database than MySQL.
"Better" is a matter of opinion. I had two contracts many years ago. One was using PostreSQL, the other MySQL. The day before the PG one went live, the database went down and corrupted itself. I went to the docs to see how to fix a corrupted PostgeSQL database and it had the following quote (as best I can remember):
We would greatly appreciate it if someone would write and document a corruption recovery tool.
This problem actually killed the project. There was no option of rebuilding the database because they had just spent three weeks paying data entry clerks to fill the database and the hardware guy they paid to set up their system never turned on their backup server.
Fearing a similar issue with the MySQL job, I went to their docs and found all the recovery tools I could want and plenty of documentation on how to use it.
After that experience, I felt that while PostgreSQL is superior to MySQL in many ways, it is inferior in many others. Since then, both have been working to the point they are currently at - about equal. Of course, both sides use ignorance and purposeful misinformation to claim their favorite Db is better.
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Actually, that's one of the greatest strengths of the internet. True freedom of speech.
/. lies repeatedly with the phrase "received a patent" when it should read "applied for a patent" or "passed a law" when it should read "submitted a proposal". In my view, blogs are dangerous because the half-truths build up over time and form a national point-of-view that is absolutely wrong. Then, you end up looking like a wacko when you say something like, "Lincoln stated in his first debate with Douglass that blacks are 'not my equal in many respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment.'" Perhaps every blog requires a factcheck.org sidebar.
Don't confuse freedom of speech with freedom to say anything you want. I am free to state that I disagree with your views. I am not free to state that I saw you rape and murder two nuns last thursday because (hopefully) it is not true. Blogs are usually unmoderated and commonly full of half-truths or outright lies. Even
Part of going to school is also to teach kids how to be social and interact with others.
How does/would home schooling deal with this aspect?
When I went to school, we 7 in-between class periods of 5 minutes each. There was one 10 minute break and 20 minutes for lunch. That is a total of 65 minutes. Sending a home-schooled child to the park for an hour after school should easily accomplish the task - unless you are referring to the mistreatment of the smarter children that is a requirement in most (if not all) public schools.
So I guess to conform to the Geneva Convention, the lasers will just require the same stickers that they put on childrens water guns: "Point Away From Face"
To put the Geneva Convention rules on weaponry in context, this is what I was told when I went to classes to use a 40mm fully-automatic grenade launcher: By the Geneva convention, the 40mm grenade is not to be used to attack military personel. It is only to be used to attack military equipment. Valid equipment includes: belt buckles, boot laces, eye glasses, etc...
Unfortunately, common sense does not mean the same thing for the average user, as it does for people on Slashdot.
I learned this when giving a computer security class at an old job. I had over 200 people in the auditorium and I said, "If you came home and there was a box on your front step that said 'Happy Birthday - Please Open Me - Love, Grandma'" and it wasn't your birthday and you normally don't get presents from your grandma, would rush right over and rip it open.
Over half the people said yes and claimed that I was stupid for being suspicious of strange boxes showing up at my door.
Ten years since debut, even something as simple as LAMP is still a PITA to set up and configure. Where is the OSS answer to Exchange??
First, I assume you were not drawing a comparison between Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP and Exchange.
Second, what is the PITA? If you don't want to know how the software works, don't install it manually. Just type: "yum install apache mysql php-mysql" and you'll have a generic semi-secure LAMP system. After you do that, making it secure and customizing it is just as much a PITA as trying to configure IIS, ASP, and MSSQL. It took me weeks to figure out that IIS can't handle "my-sample-domain.com" as a home directory because it sees the ".com" before it notices it is a directory.
I agree with you, but you have to know the source of the quote "I don't believe anything the government says." He is also the source of great quotes such as:
"Now that Bush has ruined the stock market, nobody will ever invest in it again."
"The Bush war in Iraq is an absolute and complete failure."
"The Patriot Act will allow anyone access to your library records without ever telling you."
"Why should I pay taxes when I don't want any of the things that taxes pay for - even the police. I can protect my own property."
"If rich people are so depressed, why won't they just give me their money?"
(after getting a 6% cost-of-living raise) "Great. Now everything is going to cost 10% more."
I could continue, but I think you can see that this person wants to secede his property from the United States as long as he is also given an unlimited supply of cash so he can buy things when he travels into US territory to shop.
Procter said 'virtually everyone could benefit from having a chip inserted.'
/. crowd is mostly computer geeks, think of it as having the option of fixing a computer with a full history of what has been done to it or fixing a computer with no knowledge of who has used it or what has been installed on it. But, this is the "it is just so damn cool to claim everything the government (or a guy who used to be in the government) says" slashdot. So, there will certainly be plenty of "nobody benefits from this" posts.
Virtually everyone has an allergy of some sort, a medical problem of some sort, or a prescribed medication of some sort. If everyone who ever visited a hospital had a chip implanted with their medical data on it, there is a clear benefit. Assuming the
I just had this argument with a coworker yesterday. He said, "I don't believe anything the government says." I said, "You're an idiot." He replied, "Oh, you trust everything the government says!?" I replied, "No. It is not a matter of believing. It is a matter of trust. I do not blindly trust everything the government says, but I do believe some things as true, some as partially true, and other things as false. Being able to filter information as such is a sign of intelligence. Claiming everything the government says is false is a sign of ignorance." He replied, "That's what I meant. You misunderstood me."
Why is it that the Admins can't take it upon themselves to keep their software updated with the latest patches?
You are assuming the fix is a patch. I get vulnerability reports for my servers every week. The issues are never patches because I check for new patches every day. I get vulnerabilities that have no patch of any kind, yet I'm expected to somehow rewrite all of the software on the computer to fix the vulnerability. If I could do that, I wouldn't be working here. I assume that I am in the same position as most admins, I have to wait for the patches to come out and hope nothing bad happens while I'm waiting.
But seriously, why does this upset you?
I never said it upset me in any way. I just like abusing idiots. It is the same reason that go around the office at night after everyone leaves and mess with their computers if they leave them both turned on and logged in until the next morning. I need to rewrite an old Win95 program that made the icons move away from the mouse, so you have to trap them in the corner to click on them. Replacing desktops with screenshots of their desktop is getting old.
I would like this if it is was more than just cars. I'd like to sit outside WalMart and force audio into all the idiots walking around with their bluetooth cell phone earbuds permanently stuck in their ear.
Think back to WWII when the US imprisoned thousands of US citizens on the belief that they might be terrorists and spies. The "Proof" of these activities? All of them were Japanese. At least that was a real war.
Think back to the beginning of the "Cold War" when McCarthy went on a rampage destroying people's careers and lives. Anyone that didn't share his political beliefs was blacklisted and freedom of speech ceased to exist.
This is where I lose the line of logic used by so many people today. The FBI and CIA could do anything they liked and, in these two cases, they did so. In 1976, FISA was passed to limit the power of the FBI and CIA to repeat offenses such as those. FISA was ammended and because the USA Act. The USA Act was embedded into the USA PATRIOT Act. Suddenly, the laws that put restrictions on the FBI and CIA in 1976 have become condemned for giving too much power to the FBI and CIA. The new argument is to repeal the USA PATRIOT Act (and the USA Act/FISA) and return to the age of McCarthy. As I said, I just fail to grasp that line of logic.
Since you know how to read, would you be so kind as to point how the CONFORMIST COWARD ACT limits the FBI and CIA?
Please correct me as I am more interested in being correct than winning an argument...
According to Wikipedia (which may very well be wrong), the USA PATRIOT Act made very few alterations to the USA Act. The USA Act altered the FISA. So, generalizing, FISA, the USA Act, and the USA PATRIOT Act are very similar and may be discussed as one whole when referring to restrictions on Federal investigations.
So, the argument that I often hear is the the USA PATRIOT Act (USA Act and FISA in tow) gives power to the FBI and CIA. The weird thing is that before FISA, the FBI and CIA has very few restrictions. Pretty much, they could do anything they wanted - and they did do anything they wanted. So, FISA was implemented, not to give power to the FBI and CIA, but to limit their power. the USA Act reduced the restrictions, but did not abolish the restrictions. The USA PATRIOT Act reduced the restrictions further, but did not abolish them.
So, from what I've read, if we were to abolish the USA PATRIOT Act, which would abolish the USA Act and the FISA, we would revert back to an FBI and CIA without any restrictions. Because of that, I claim that the USA PATRIOT Act does restrict the FBI and CIA. I do NOT claim that it restricts to the point that everyone likes, but it dies restrict them.
The task was to find "actual provable examples of the US government abridging Constitutionally protected free speech." You claim that "CNN... can give plenty of examples when teh US government violated privacy."
I'm sorry, but free speech and privacy are two different issues. Can you say that the government sucks? Can you flat out lie and claim that you shot up heroin with Bush last weekend? Can you make a movie in a juvenile attempt to make everyone believe the government is out to get them? Of course. We have free speech.
As for privacy, I did search CNN. I did find articles where a person claimed that they had their privacy violated. In the end, a judge decided that their privacy was not violated. I'm sure I'll find a real one if I look hard enough, but that doesn't mean that we don't have free speech.
How do you justify your comments? You claim the USA PATRIOT Act abridges Constitutionally protected free speech. Where is the "no free speech" part of the USA PATRIOT Act? Really, where? There are 3 parts to the act:
1) The USA Act - extending on FISA as a set of restictions on Federal investigations.
2) A set of money laundering laws to trap international funds used by terrorists.
3) A set of awards to victims of terrorism.
You claim that saying the wrong thing can have you taken away without a warrant. How? Are you claiming that FISC warrants do not count as warrants? Perhaps you want a phone call with 24 hour notice before any police action is ever taken so that criminals have plenty of time to handle any personal matters before the cops show up.
You claim you may be held indefinitely without trial. I assume you are referring to Guantanamo Bay. Did it ever occur to you that there are no citizens of the United States being held there? Since when does our Constitution apply to citizens of other countries? Since when does it apply to POW's?
Basically, you have painted a completely malformed picture of the United States that may easily be used as fuel for those who hate the United States. You are free to do so. Nobody is going to arrest you. Nobody is going to search your library records. How is that not free speech?
If anyone can give actual provable examples of the US government abridging Constitutionally protected free speech, I'd love to hear it.
Don't be so naive. The USA PATRIOT Act has to abridge our free speech. Why? Because everyone says it does. I know, there are those who have put time into reading it and know that it limits the power of the FBI and CIA, but they don't count. We're in the age of blogs. True or not, I'm believing whatever a nerd with a computer tells me to believe because I want to be a cool nonconformist just like all the other cool nonconformists.
were aware of the flower navigation on georgeharrison.com or if it was just coincidental
It was a coincidence, but I figure there are only a few degrees of separation. Harrison obviously drew his inspiration for the flower design from the Hindu religion. I drew my inspiration for the design from the Sims games, but had no name for it. I study religions extensively, so any arrangement like that reminds me of a Hindu flower - hence, flower buttons.
Thanks. I just bookmarked all the links as it is too late to look at them now. I searched for this thing before writing it, but I didn't know what it was called. So, I just wrote my simplistic half-assed version.
A good example of these menus (where I stole it from) is the Sims games.
While this is cute, I wrote a highly similar script in JavaScript. It takes one button and expands it out (like flower petals) into multiple buttons. http://shaunwagner.com/projects/js/flowerButton.ht ml
As you can see fron the JavaScript, it is actually a rather simple task to position the buttons in a circle or in a simple box as this article's example does.
How can sex be more offensive than violence?
Take a short course on the history of western religion:
Priest1: Hey Priest2, where's all the loot we're supposed get just for telling all these fools we know who God is?
Priest2: All the fools are across the street at the Priestesses church.
Priest1: Why would a common man want to go to a church with beautiful young women who offer to bring them to a state of bliss for a small tithe?
Priest2: You don't get out much, do you?
Priest1: I've got it - Women are evil. Since women mean sex, sex is evil. Nakedness is evil. Anything that has to do with the natural beauty of a woman is evil. Now, go kill the Priestess and bring the fools over here!
Priest2: Sorry Priest1, but violence is evil.
Priest1: Well, since we're just making up as we go along, we'll ignore violence for now, but sex is still evil.
Because government and the citizens are supposed to be the same thing.
Only in a communist society where all people are of an equal class/caste. In a republic (the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy), there is a class system. Private citizens are not government. Government officials are not private citizens. The military is part of the government. It is very easy to look at the rights of a military member and the rights of a private citizen and see the differences. You can even look at the President. Do you think you'd be threatened with impeachment for screwing around with some office worker?
ou don't like your vendor (Gov't), choose another one!
There's a thing called immigration. If you like another government more, it is YOUR responsibilty to move - that is unless you want to be the guy in Taco Bell complaining that the tacos don't taste like a Big Mac.
I often seem to feel that the US government would be ALOT happier without citizens to get in the way too.
And what business is different? I worked at Burger King and everyone complained that it would be so much easier without the customers. I worked at AMC theater and everyone complained that it would be so much easier without the patrons. I worked for a film company and everyone complained that it would be so much easier if they didn't have to distribute and show the movies. I taught at a university and everyone complained that it would be so much easier without the students. I'm now doing research at a hospital and everyone complains that it would be so much easier without all the patients. Why wouldn't the government find it easier without all the bothersome citizens?
US Patriot Act killed that waiting game... They are able to act and get the court order later
Which USA PATRIOT Act are you referring to, the real one or the one in your imaginary world? FISA allows for delayed notice of the warrant to the person being investigated, but the warrant must be obtained before the search. So, to put it on a third grade level, normal investigations are Warrant, Notification, Search. FISA allows for Warrant, Search, Notification under special circumstances. Nowhere is there a Search, Warrant, Notification clause for regular investigators. The head of the FBI has a little wiggle room when it comes to phone records, but that has nothing to do with 99.99999999% of the FBI's investigations.
I have an easy solution, provided by a friend of mine at a major local university -- Block ALL mail from China.
I work at a university and about 1/3 of my email is between people in China. So, how is this solution supposed to work? Perhaps we need a better solution: Block all email from Earth!
PostgreSQL has always been a better database than MySQL.
"Better" is a matter of opinion. I had two contracts many years ago. One was using PostreSQL, the other MySQL. The day before the PG one went live, the database went down and corrupted itself. I went to the docs to see how to fix a corrupted PostgeSQL database and it had the following quote (as best I can remember):
We would greatly appreciate it if someone would write and document a corruption recovery tool.
This problem actually killed the project. There was no option of rebuilding the database because they had just spent three weeks paying data entry clerks to fill the database and the hardware guy they paid to set up their system never turned on their backup server.
Fearing a similar issue with the MySQL job, I went to their docs and found all the recovery tools I could want and plenty of documentation on how to use it.
After that experience, I felt that while PostgreSQL is superior to MySQL in many ways, it is inferior in many others. Since then, both have been working to the point they are currently at - about equal. Of course, both sides use ignorance and purposeful misinformation to claim their favorite Db is better.