It should also be noted that US censorship of foreign organizations serves little to no public safety concern inside the US.
While it is the general responsibility of citizens inside the country to act with a level of respect towards the government of that country, citizens of other nations are not, and should not, be held to the same standard. When one opens those doors, many Chinese-born US citizens may be dragged through them.
It should further be noted that many individuals, including former US Senators and Congressmen on both sides of the aisle, would argue that the PATRIOT act was the point at which US policies became as sinister as those of the Chinese. I don't think we're that far yet, but you must defend the freedom of your enemies as well as your own.
Holistic and homeopathic medicine is often characterized by a flagrant disregard for the health of the patient. Individuals who choose to eat lots of butter or smoke cigarettes understand the risks (the possibility of cardiovascular disease and cancer, respectively). Individuals who choose to be treated with holistic or homeopathic 'medicines,' however, are regularly fed misinformation about the effectiveness of those treatments.
In addition, the practitioners seldom (though there are a number of ethical practitioners who will) tell patients undergoing such 'treatments' that they should seek out conventional medical treatments, and indeed often indicate that patients should NOT seek out conventional treatment. This causes irreversible damage in many cases - many cancers can be cured, or at least be brought into remission, if treated early enough - since the individuals will frequently have an illness or condition that is easily treated with modern (working) medicine or surgery. These conditions frequently increase in severity, due to lack of treatment, and become much more severe in nature and more difficult to treat - assuming that they remain treatable and that the individual does not die in the interim.
In a number of localities now, it is illegal to allow an individual to drive while intoxicated, and one can be held liable for resulting injuries or death. That is precisely what these people are doing - they are telling people that these ineffectual treatments are "curing" them, and that they need no other help, when they are simply feeding them false information that leads to an often unnecessary death.
I do agree that the actions of Hezbollah et al are frequently reprehensible, but again... this was a question of WHY, and not a question of relative morality.
I'm simply stating facts, not making moral decisions in the matter. Murder is murder, the method is not part of the discussion.
Whether or not one is responsible for greater atrocities than he other wasn't discussed - the question was regarding whether or not Falun Gong was responsible for deaths.
Keep in mind also that Hezbollah and similar organizations, much like drug cartels, have leaders which largely distance themselves from the actual illicit activities of their groups.
In addition, the mere discussion of the violent overthrow of the US government or any statement which might imply an intent to harm the President of the United States is illegal in the US - one can expect to receive FBI or Treasury Department monitoring at the least, with jail time a real possibility even if there was no intention of carrying out such a scenario. China has the same type of laws, but the punishment is far greater. (The ambiguity is greater in China, as well... though individuals have been arrested in the US under similarly ambiguous circumstances.)
Hezbollah and Falun Gong are equally responsible for the actions of their respective members.
By that standard, they have both either:
a) Not "killed" anyone, assuming (as one must in such a situation) that references to "killed" should be read as "murdered." , or
b) Murdered large numbers of individuals, as Falun Gong practitioners regularly engage in holistic/homeopathic medicine, which kills large numbers of people all around the world... in addition to a small number of terroristic events involving branches of Falun Gong, if not directly attributed to Falun Gong en totale.
It should be stated here that I do not approve of the actions undertaken by Hezbollah, Israel, the United States of America, Falun Gong, or China in the related matters.
Looks like you're in Google to me. There are 30 million sites with the exact same subject matter, unless you're google bombing, chances are you won't be the first result.
The razing of cities isn't exactly an inexplicable phenomenon, and neither is the "parting of the red sea," if you accept the "Reed Sea" explanation.
There's little point in producing theories that are impossible to prove. They contribute nothing to a scientific discussion. Nothing wrong with being religious, but if you aren't going to pose valid questions that further the discussion, sod off.
Actually, the current monthly WoW take is ~$6 million.
Releasing the game in Korea may improve that stream, but unless they have plans for cafe usage... not by much.
Aside from all that, someone on Evil Avatar pointed out that WoW has ~85 servers, and FFXI has 33. WoW has all these problems, FFXI doesn't. Yet FFXI has 200,000 more subscribers, not limited to the US. The lag on FFXI is almost nonexistent, only rearing its ugly head when you enter an area with an obscene number of people.
If Sollog is who I think he is, he was banned from the JREF forums quite some time ago for making absurd assertions about various "abilities" he posesses.
The JREF promises a US$1m reward for anyone demonstrating, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any supernatural, paranormal, or occult power or event.
To this date, no one has passed the preliminary testing - Sollog included.
I neglected to add that when your taxes are lower than those in other states, you're stealing money from us. Our tax money has to go to pave your roads, pay for your schools, and keep your emergency services from completely collapsing.
I'm wondering what you're referring to in regards to CMU... While he appears to be in Clearchannel's pocket with regards to the FCC, all the articles I can find from CMU show McCullah as being AGAINST CMU's newsgroup censorship.
IM? Then you can't have all incoming ports firewalled off. email? Can't have all incoming ports firewalled off. What happens when someone exploits your email application or your IM application? How about the browser?
Just because "it doesn't exist now" doesn't mean that it won't exist.
The WinXP ICF is designed to coexist with other firewalls, first off.
The pop-up blocker also coexists with other popup blockers. I currently have three different ones installed (Earthlink's blocker from months ago, the Google popup blocker which is disabled, and I'm running SP2) and see no problems.
However, the new IE popup blocker still won't block SOME popups, namely popups that occur due specifically to your clicking a link. It will only block "automatic" popups. (i.e. a link you click is scripted to open a popup while at the same time navigating to another page. The popup will still display)
Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap ) at 2004-01-05 21:02 Eastern Standard Time Host 68.166.XXX.XXX appears to be down, skipping it. Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -P0
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 24.395 seconds
Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap ) at 2004-01-05 21:05 Eastern Standard Time Host leshrac (68.166.XXX.XXX) appears to be up... good. Initiating SYN Stealth Scan against leshrac (68.166.XXX.XXX) at 21:05 The SYN Stealth Scan took 36 seconds to scan 1657 ports. Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at lea st 1 open and 1 closed TCP port All 1657 scanned ports on leshrac (68.166.XXX.XXX) are: filtered Too many fingerprints match this host to give specific OS details TCP/IP fingerprint: SInfo(V=3.48%P=i686-pc-windows-windo ws%D=1/5%Time=3FFA180C%O=-1%C=-1) T5(Resp=N) T6( Resp=N) T7(Resp=N) PU(Resp=N)
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 48.961 seconds
This is for those who want to see the actual output. All the XXX.XXX's were added for my protection.;-)
The caffeine will enlarge the blood vessels in your head/brain/whatever you want to say, thus allowing for faster delivery of the drug.
This is also the source of your headaches when quitting caffeine. The blood vessels shrink down to their original size, thus "restricting" blood flow to the area ("restricting" being relative in this case).
One of the secrets to lowering caffeine intake is taking "Extra Strength" pain medication, as they nearly always include the small dose of caffeine, thus allowing for better blood flow and working on the headache even after the caffeine has worn off.
Penalty for buying it and giving it to a "minor" would be "Contributing to the delinquency of a minor" in most jurisdictions, so these lawsuits shouldn't even be saved by a "someone else gave it to him" offense.
Wrong. This goes in line with fax cover pages. If you happen to receive a fax from a law office or business office with sensitive material because someone misdialed a number, your name is not on the coversheet, you use that information for some gain (or arguably ANY reason), and someone discovers this, you WILL be sued. This was originally designed to keep confidential legal documents out of the hands of the opposing council, due to things like a mispressed speed-dial).
Same thing goes for any communication. You aren't allowed to record phone calls without notifying the second party, and you aren't given the legal right to open mail addressed to someone else, whether the mail is sent to your address or is a mistake by the post office.
For the record, Gator IS a mess when it is installed, but uninstalling it is pretty painless. Once you remove all GAIN applications, Gator does a decent job of cleaning up after itself.
I can name a dozen commercial, ad-free applications that don't do as good of a job removing themselves from the registry.
Doesn't do away with the Trust dialog, but adds several useful blockers, as well as adding a few mozilla-ish features without having to wait an hour for Mozilla to load.
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It should also be noted that US censorship of foreign organizations serves little to no public safety concern inside the US.
While it is the general responsibility of citizens inside the country to act with a level of respect towards the government of that country, citizens of other nations are not, and should not, be held to the same standard. When one opens those doors, many Chinese-born US citizens may be dragged through them.
It should further be noted that many individuals, including former US Senators and Congressmen on both sides of the aisle, would argue that the PATRIOT act was the point at which US policies became as sinister as those of the Chinese. I don't think we're that far yet, but you must defend the freedom of your enemies as well as your own.
Holistic and homeopathic medicine is often characterized by a flagrant disregard for the health of the patient. Individuals who choose to eat lots of butter or smoke cigarettes understand the risks (the possibility of cardiovascular disease and cancer, respectively). Individuals who choose to be treated with holistic or homeopathic 'medicines,' however, are regularly fed misinformation about the effectiveness of those treatments.
In addition, the practitioners seldom (though there are a number of ethical practitioners who will) tell patients undergoing such 'treatments' that they should seek out conventional medical treatments, and indeed often indicate that patients should NOT seek out conventional treatment. This causes irreversible damage in many cases - many cancers can be cured, or at least be brought into remission, if treated early enough - since the individuals will frequently have an illness or condition that is easily treated with modern (working) medicine or surgery. These conditions frequently increase in severity, due to lack of treatment, and become much more severe in nature and more difficult to treat - assuming that they remain treatable and that the individual does not die in the interim.
In a number of localities now, it is illegal to allow an individual to drive while intoxicated, and one can be held liable for resulting injuries or death. That is precisely what these people are doing - they are telling people that these ineffectual treatments are "curing" them, and that they need no other help, when they are simply feeding them false information that leads to an often unnecessary death.
I do agree that the actions of Hezbollah et al are frequently reprehensible, but again... this was a question of WHY, and not a question of relative morality.
I fail to see how either of those was a troll, but meh. I don't mod people down because I disagree with them... maybe I should start?
I'm simply stating facts, not making moral decisions in the matter. Murder is murder, the method is not part of the discussion.
Whether or not one is responsible for greater atrocities than he other wasn't discussed - the question was regarding whether or not Falun Gong was responsible for deaths.
Keep in mind also that Hezbollah and similar organizations, much like drug cartels, have leaders which largely distance themselves from the actual illicit activities of their groups.
In addition, the mere discussion of the violent overthrow of the US government or any statement which might imply an intent to harm the President of the United States is illegal in the US - one can expect to receive FBI or Treasury Department monitoring at the least, with jail time a real possibility even if there was no intention of carrying out such a scenario. China has the same type of laws, but the punishment is far greater. (The ambiguity is greater in China, as well... though individuals have been arrested in the US under similarly ambiguous circumstances.)
Hezbollah and Falun Gong are equally responsible for the actions of their respective members.
By that standard, they have both either:
a) Not "killed" anyone, assuming (as one must in such a situation) that references to "killed" should be read as "murdered." , or
b) Murdered large numbers of individuals, as Falun Gong practitioners regularly engage in holistic/homeopathic medicine, which kills large numbers of people all around the world... in addition to a small number of terroristic events involving branches of Falun Gong, if not directly attributed to Falun Gong en totale.
It should be stated here that I do not approve of the actions undertaken by Hezbollah, Israel, the United States of America, Falun Gong, or China in the related matters.
Looks like you're in Google to me. There are 30 million sites with the exact same subject matter, unless you're google bombing, chances are you won't be the first result.
Not to http://www.passdrugtest.com/ mention that it would http://www.passadrugtest.com/ probably help if you picked a http://www.passyourdrugtest.com/ unique domain.
The razing of cities isn't exactly an inexplicable phenomenon, and neither is the "parting of the red sea," if you accept the "Reed Sea" explanation.
There's little point in producing theories that are impossible to prove. They contribute nothing to a scientific discussion. Nothing wrong with being religious, but if you aren't going to pose valid questions that further the discussion, sod off.
Actually, the current monthly WoW take is ~$6 million.
Releasing the game in Korea may improve that stream, but unless they have plans for cafe usage... not by much.
Aside from all that, someone on Evil Avatar pointed out that WoW has ~85 servers, and FFXI has 33. WoW has all these problems, FFXI doesn't. Yet FFXI has 200,000 more subscribers, not limited to the US. The lag on FFXI is almost nonexistent, only rearing its ugly head when you enter an area with an obscene number of people.
If Sollog is who I think he is, he was banned from the JREF forums quite some time ago for making absurd assertions about various "abilities" he posesses.
http://www.randi.org/
The JREF promises a US$1m reward for anyone demonstrating, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any supernatural, paranormal, or occult power or event.
To this date, no one has passed the preliminary testing - Sollog included.
I neglected to add that when your taxes are lower than those in other states, you're stealing money from us. Our tax money has to go to pave your roads, pay for your schools, and keep your emergency services from completely collapsing.
When Kerry was governor, your taxes were some of the lowest in the entire country, so stop bitching.
I'm wondering what you're referring to in regards to CMU... While he appears to be in Clearchannel's pocket with regards to the FCC, all the articles I can find from CMU show McCullah as being AGAINST CMU's newsgroup censorship.
I agree with the disagreement. I hate having to scroll to the bottom of the message just to read the reply.
Worse is when people respond between the quotes. It doesn't serve much of a purpose, and takes ten times longer to read.
IM? Then you can't have all incoming ports firewalled off. email? Can't have all incoming ports firewalled off. What happens when someone exploits your email application or your IM application? How about the browser?
Just because "it doesn't exist now" doesn't mean that it won't exist.
Stop trolling, damnit.
Its a beta to determine if any new features in the Service Pack conflict with third-party applications.
The WinXP ICF is designed to coexist with other firewalls, first off.
The pop-up blocker also coexists with other popup blockers. I currently have three different ones installed (Earthlink's blocker from months ago, the Google popup blocker which is disabled, and I'm running SP2) and see no problems.
However, the new IE popup blocker still won't block SOME popups, namely popups that occur due specifically to your clicking a link. It will only block "automatic" popups. (i.e. a link you click is scripted to open a popup while at the same time navigating to another page. The popup will still display)
D:\apps\nmap-3.48>nmap -sS -v -v void.XXX.XXX
... good.o ws%D=1/5%Time=3FFA180C%O=-1%C=-1)( Resp=N)
;-)
Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap ) at 2004-01-05 21:02 Eastern
Standard Time
Host 68.166.XXX.XXX appears to be down, skipping it.
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -P0
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 24.395 seconds
D:\apps\nmap-3.48>nmap -sS -v void.XXX.XXX -P0 -sV -O -T Insane
Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap ) at 2004-01-05 21:05 Eastern
Standard Time
Host leshrac (68.166.XXX.XXX) appears to be up
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan against leshrac (68.166.XXX.XXX) at 21:05
The SYN Stealth Scan took 36 seconds to scan 1657 ports.
Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at lea
st 1 open and 1 closed TCP port
All 1657 scanned ports on leshrac (68.166.XXX.XXX) are: filtered
Too many fingerprints match this host to give specific OS details
TCP/IP fingerprint:
SInfo(V=3.48%P=i686-pc-windows-wind
T5(Resp=N)
T6
T7(Resp=N)
PU(Resp=N)
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 48.961 seconds
This is for those who want to see the actual output. All the XXX.XXX's were added for my protection.
All ports sub-1056 are stealthed, assuming you don't disable ICF.
Ports are open from the inside, but RPC no longer accepts remote anonymous connections.
Take note that NO OUTGOING TRAFFIC is filtered unless explicitly configured, with the exception of several ICMP packets.
The caffeine will enlarge the blood vessels in your head/brain/whatever you want to say, thus allowing for faster delivery of the drug.
This is also the source of your headaches when quitting caffeine. The blood vessels shrink down to their original size, thus "restricting" blood flow to the area ("restricting" being relative in this case).
One of the secrets to lowering caffeine intake is taking "Extra Strength" pain medication, as they nearly always include the small dose of caffeine, thus allowing for better blood flow and working on the headache even after the caffeine has worn off.
Pass around the penny-arcade.com/childsplay/ link to those who think like the fool who wrote the article.
Penalty for buying it and giving it to a "minor" would be "Contributing to the delinquency of a minor" in most jurisdictions, so these lawsuits shouldn't even be saved by a "someone else gave it to him" offense.
Wrong.
This goes in line with fax cover pages. If you happen to receive a fax from a law office or business office with sensitive material because someone misdialed a number, your name is not on the coversheet, you use that information for some gain (or arguably ANY reason), and someone discovers this, you WILL be sued.
This was originally designed to keep confidential legal documents out of the hands of the opposing council, due to things like a mispressed speed-dial).
Same thing goes for any communication. You aren't allowed to record phone calls without notifying the second party, and you aren't given the legal right to open mail addressed to someone else, whether the mail is sent to your address or is a mistake by the post office.
Reverese engineering is illegal by patent.
You don't need he DMCA to sue someone for reverse-engineering your product unless you aren't actively protecting your patent.
For the record, Gator IS a mess when it is installed, but uninstalling it is pretty painless. Once you remove all GAIN applications, Gator does a decent job of cleaning up after itself.
I can name a dozen commercial, ad-free applications that don't do as good of a job removing themselves from the registry.
www.avantbrowser.com
Doesn't do away with the Trust dialog, but adds several useful blockers, as well as adding a few mozilla-ish features without having to wait an hour for Mozilla to load.