A) Have a crappy System Administrator who doesn't care B) Are the type of user who writes crappy code and blames the system when it doesn't run, spreads bad rumors about IT when they don't get their 36-inch monitors, and screams at IT enforces policies which no one else has a problem following.
You are right that the Constitution is a living document, open to interpretation by the Supreme Court. However, stilfling free speech no matter how reprehensible, goes against the core tenet upon which the United States was founded. Once you hand over to the Government the power to decide who can say what, democracy will have failed. It becomes a slippery slope, and all it would take is another 9/11 for the Government to expand the definition of hate speech to unforseen things. Pre-9/11 would you ever have thought wire-tapping, secret prisons, and torture would be openly condoned by our Government? The Bill of Rights are not subject to withdrawl, they are Rights, not priviledges. As people like to say, freedom isn't free. And one of the prices you pay for freedom is giving the most vile and evil citizens their voice too. They also say the price for freedom is eternal vigilence, and that too is apropos. Just because you allow hate groups to voice their thoughts, does not mean you don't keep close tabs on them.
And therein will be your answer. Apparently he had mental health issues since childhood. So what did the parents do to make sure he was given every opportunity to develop in to a healthy, happy human being?
Did they socialize him with other children and encourage him to play with others and explore?
Did they teach him to trust others, and to come to them or other adult figures with any problems?
Did they show him affection and make sure he was loved and supported unconditionally?
When they realized he was seriously troubled, did they seek out the best psychiatric help they could afford for him, and ask family/friends to show emotional support?
I am Asian-American and I would be willing to guess those answers would be, no. I would be willing to guess their household was a cold, emotion-less place that taught him to suppress his feelings, get good grades, and that complete and utter isolation was normal. I'm sorry, but that style of raising kids has got to stop. It's not okay to simply work and shelter/feed your offspring anymore. Not when the media is willing to posthumasly turn your son into a celebrity after all those years of suppressed emotions finally boil over because there was never a healthy outlet provided.
Blizzard got out in front of this one by (1) Making gold-buying against their rules and (2) In their EULA stating "Game experience may change during play". In other words... you as a player, do not own your character. You do not own the gold in your backpack, and most certainly do not own that purple mace of +100 virginity that dropped for you in Kaz last week. They are all the property of Blizzard/Vivendi and for a small rental fee you can sit at their controls month after month.
"Secondly as for human rights I can honestly believe that every country out there has at one point been guilty of such things look at Guantanamo Bay or Australia's treatment of the aboriginal people in the 1960's under the "White Australia Policy"."
And Imperial Japan massacred hundreds of thousands at Nanking, what's your point? Do other tragic events in history make the Chinese government right or above reproach? This isn't a court of law, you don't HAVE to stand by precedence if it is shady.
A quote from their blog article regarding google.cn reads... "we have agreed to remove certain sensitive information from our search results."
I'm assuming this sensitive information primarily includes websites, images, and news postings expounding dangerous ideas like freedom, democracy, truth, and human rights. No one should have to explain to Google(which is an American company the last time I checked) that those are good, virtuous ideas. Google, please stop trying to justify your actions. People see through it, and as a Chinese-American, I personally know that you have compromised your moral standing, and American ideals in general to increase your profits. However, in the unlikely event that you launched google.cn because you truly care about getting more information through the PRC's repressive rule, then you are on the wrong track. You are not helping the people of China who yearn for freedom and democracy by doing this. You are only hurting them more by getting into bed with their oppressors. As usual, the ends DO NOT justify the means. Remember, take care who you align yourselves with. Think CIA & Bin Laden.
I venture to say 90+% of office workers drive or take some type of automobile transport, and don't know what a turbocharger is, or how to ensure they have a safe air/fuel ratio.
My God I can't believe the amount of ignorance about geek culture these days. Calling MC Chris just a "rapper" or going as far as saying "What is ATHF/Sealab"?
Why not ask "Who's Matt Groening?" or call Bruce Campbell "just an actor". Get with it people!
The DVD sales and Cartoon network ratings must have spoken! This calls for some music! Oh, oh, oh, wait. Play that "sad walking away music" from the Incredible Hulk.
Skynet became self-aware it had downloaded itself into millions of computers across the globe. It was software in cyberspace. There was no system core...
Here's a tribute to some we've lost this Millennia
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You don't have to patch your system fast, just faster than the first cracker to launch an exploit at it.;-)
It really depends on the severity of the exploit however. A patch to update say... nedit, probably isn't as critical as a patch for OpenSSH. In the case of OpenSSH patch it right away. Then again. Then (oh crap, another one?) again...
Really though, patches come out all the time to fix bugs in other patches. If you've had to deal with the Solaris patchwork of patches, you'll see newer patches negating older patches which themselves turned out to break things. So you get the task of hunting down the newest patch that negates the one you need, and sometimes it ends up being a patch from a completely different category than where you originated!
Neither Sun nor Sun resellers really push Solaris x86. This includes during their presentations to customers interested in high performance x86 clusters solutions. Yes, the alternative is always there, showing the Solaris logo along with a RedHat one under available operating systems. Even with clients where Solaris x86 might make sense, Sun salespeople skirt around the issue of O/S and never press their own version. Aside from Sun support (which IMO is really good), would there be any benefit to switching to Solaris? Everyone knows that it's not a core product or moneymaker for Sun, even their own sales associates who definitely know which products to push, and which to let slide. For now, I would leave Solaris x86 as a novelty, at least until Sun itself proves it has feature enhancements outperforming a Linux installation (especially on their own hardware).
They must have performed all their testing on Linux! Windows users have known the annoyances of AutoPlay long enough to know the Shift-key bypass.
This situation boils down to...
Okay, I'm going to leave an unlocked box with all of my money in it on the street. But if you tell anyone "Hey, that box is unlocked!" THen I'm going to sue you. Hmmm... sounds like a first amendment case to me!
I saw an investigative report into why kids as young as 8 or 9 become involved in murders, and the theory is that much of it has to do with peer influence.
I don't think that anyone could argue that with advances in technology the accessibility of random, shoot-em-up violence imagery in games has steadily increased for young people in the last decades. Where my friends and I were raised on "King's Quest" and maybe "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" (the 2D version with stick figures like in "Bezerk"), youths nowdays have been acclamated to darker titles such as "Carmageddon Splat Pack" and "Max Payne".
With this, a certain segment of kids who are troubled can feed from the idea that violence can be cool and rewarding, and most importantly gain the respect from their peers. We all remember how quickly news of something weird of shocking passes through the schoolyard, and if my childhood friends had caught wind of a GTA-type game and subject matter when I was younger, there would be no end to the talk, fascination, and perhaps even play-acting. How out-of-hand the play acting would have been greatly depend on the strength of influence by parents and teachers and their efforts to halt such behavior.
From the program I saw, once the idea of extreme violence becomes part of a group of children without strong positive influences, even the youngest members can be influenced to be crazier and more violent than the friend standing next to them, especially if his violent actions will draw the kind of "oooohs aaah" reactions that kids often give their friends who are being wild. This group mentality and desire to outdo his peers can be very strong among kids.
Perhaps in these sad cases, there are more than one set of prints on the gun. But ultimately it's the parents are who live with their kids day in day out and have the most control over what they learn and do.
Violent influences + Inadequate parental/teach guidance = Bad things happen
As I recall, Bloom County started off with a rich cast of characters all centered around the seemingly normal world of a Boarding House. With the cynical young reporter Milo in charge, along with his war-mongering grandfather, the intelligent and supportive Cutter John, Steve Dalls, each was caracature of someone you might know in real life... Just as Bloom County itself was a small town representation of America itself. Back when Opus was merely the pet of wimpy Binkley, who in wanting to impress his father, bought it thinking he was a German Shepherd. Back when Opus was silent, and even resembled a penguine at one point, only uttering the occasional phrase usually having to do with herrings or walruses. As the strip progressed and characters and situations became more and more wild, the original premise was still there. It was still about characters from a small town dealing with current events, politics, science, religion, and pop culture in America. But by the time Bloom County morphed into Outland, at least in my opinion, the environment became too abstract, and the realism of having characters from a small town being thrust into strange and humorous adventures was not there anymore. Outland was based in a universe I couldn't relate to, resembling the 3D land Homer Simpson found himself in while hiding from Patty and Selma one Halloween. I am hoping another rehash of Outland will not be the basis of the new strip. Breathed's comic timing borders on genius, and the new strip needs a deceptively normal setting which made Bloom County and American culture seem all the more strange and twisted and fun.
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It gives new meaning to "owned in the eye".
Either:
A) Have a crappy System Administrator who doesn't care
B) Are the type of user who writes crappy code and blames the system when it doesn't run, spreads bad rumors about IT when they don't get their 36-inch monitors, and screams at IT enforces policies which no one else has a problem following.
I'm gonna guess... B.
Not black and white. Right and Wrong.
You are right that the Constitution is a living document, open to interpretation by the Supreme Court. However, stilfling free speech no matter how reprehensible, goes against the core tenet upon which the United States was founded. Once you hand over to the Government the power to decide who can say what, democracy will have failed. It becomes a slippery slope, and all it would take is another 9/11 for the Government to expand the definition of hate speech to unforseen things. Pre-9/11 would you ever have thought wire-tapping, secret prisons, and torture would be openly condoned by our Government? The Bill of Rights are not subject to withdrawl, they are Rights, not priviledges. As people like to say, freedom isn't free. And one of the prices you pay for freedom is giving the most vile and evil citizens their voice too. They also say the price for freedom is eternal vigilence, and that too is apropos. Just because you allow hate groups to voice their thoughts, does not mean you don't keep close tabs on them.
And therein will be your answer. Apparently he had mental health issues since childhood. So what did the parents do to make sure he was given every opportunity to develop in to a healthy, happy human being? Did they socialize him with other children and encourage him to play with others and explore? Did they teach him to trust others, and to come to them or other adult figures with any problems? Did they show him affection and make sure he was loved and supported unconditionally? When they realized he was seriously troubled, did they seek out the best psychiatric help they could afford for him, and ask family/friends to show emotional support? I am Asian-American and I would be willing to guess those answers would be, no. I would be willing to guess their household was a cold, emotion-less place that taught him to suppress his feelings, get good grades, and that complete and utter isolation was normal. I'm sorry, but that style of raising kids has got to stop. It's not okay to simply work and shelter/feed your offspring anymore. Not when the media is willing to posthumasly turn your son into a celebrity after all those years of suppressed emotions finally boil over because there was never a healthy outlet provided.
Blizzard got out in front of this one by (1) Making gold-buying against their rules and (2) In their EULA stating "Game experience may change during play". In other words... you as a player, do not own your character. You do not own the gold in your backpack, and most certainly do not own that purple mace of +100 virginity that dropped for you in Kaz last week. They are all the property of Blizzard/Vivendi and for a small rental fee you can sit at their controls month after month.
Mark down the parent to not informative please. This is not a real item in TBC.
"Secondly as for human rights I can honestly believe that every country out there has at one point been guilty of such things look at Guantanamo Bay or Australia's treatment of the aboriginal people in the 1960's under the "White Australia Policy"." And Imperial Japan massacred hundreds of thousands at Nanking, what's your point? Do other tragic events in history make the Chinese government right or above reproach? This isn't a court of law, you don't HAVE to stand by precedence if it is shady.
A quote from their blog article regarding google.cn reads... "we have agreed to remove certain sensitive information from our search results." I'm assuming this sensitive information primarily includes websites, images, and news postings expounding dangerous ideas like freedom, democracy, truth, and human rights. No one should have to explain to Google(which is an American company the last time I checked) that those are good, virtuous ideas. Google, please stop trying to justify your actions. People see through it, and as a Chinese-American, I personally know that you have compromised your moral standing, and American ideals in general to increase your profits. However, in the unlikely event that you launched google.cn because you truly care about getting more information through the PRC's repressive rule, then you are on the wrong track. You are not helping the people of China who yearn for freedom and democracy by doing this. You are only hurting them more by getting into bed with their oppressors. As usual, the ends DO NOT justify the means. Remember, take care who you align yourselves with. Think CIA & Bin Laden.
Do them while you're on our network and no one will come to help you.
I venture to say 90+% of office workers drive or take some type of automobile transport, and don't know what a turbocharger is, or how to ensure they have a safe air/fuel ratio.
Without user created chat rooms, it's nuthin'.
My God I can't believe the amount of ignorance about geek culture these days. Calling MC Chris just a "rapper" or going as far as saying "What is ATHF/Sealab"? Why not ask "Who's Matt Groening?" or call Bruce Campbell "just an actor". Get with it people!
The DVD sales and Cartoon network ratings must have spoken! This calls for some music! Oh, oh, oh, wait. Play that "sad walking away music" from the Incredible Hulk.
Skynet became self-aware it had downloaded itself into millions of computers across the globe. It was software in cyberspace. There was no system core...
Leonardo da Vinci..
Joan of Arc..
Norman Fell
It really depends on the severity of the exploit however. A patch to update say... nedit, probably isn't as critical as a patch for OpenSSH. In the case of OpenSSH patch it right away. Then again. Then (oh crap, another one?) again...
Really though, patches come out all the time to fix bugs in other patches. If you've had to deal with the Solaris patchwork of patches, you'll see newer patches negating older patches which themselves turned out to break things. So you get the task of hunting down the newest patch that negates the one you need, and sometimes it ends up being a patch from a completely different category than where you originated!
Neither Sun nor Sun resellers really push Solaris x86. This includes during their presentations to customers interested in high performance x86 clusters solutions. Yes, the alternative is always there, showing the Solaris logo along with a RedHat one under available operating systems. Even with clients where Solaris x86 might make sense, Sun salespeople skirt around the issue of O/S and never press their own version. Aside from Sun support (which IMO is really good), would there be any benefit to switching to Solaris? Everyone knows that it's not a core product or moneymaker for Sun, even their own sales associates who definitely know which products to push, and which to let slide. For now, I would leave Solaris x86 as a novelty, at least until Sun itself proves it has feature enhancements outperforming a Linux installation (especially on their own hardware).
This situation boils down to... Okay, I'm going to leave an unlocked box with all of my money in it on the street. But if you tell anyone "Hey, that box is unlocked!" THen I'm going to sue you. Hmmm... sounds like a first amendment case to me!
I saw an investigative report into why kids as young as 8 or 9 become involved in murders, and the theory is that much of it has to do with peer influence.
I don't think that anyone could argue that with advances in technology the accessibility of random, shoot-em-up violence imagery in games has steadily increased for young people in the last decades. Where my friends and I were raised on "King's Quest" and maybe "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" (the 2D version with stick figures like in "Bezerk"), youths nowdays have been acclamated to darker titles such as "Carmageddon Splat Pack" and "Max Payne".
With this, a certain segment of kids who are troubled can feed from the idea that violence can be cool and rewarding, and most importantly gain the respect from their peers. We all remember how quickly news of something weird of shocking passes through the schoolyard, and if my childhood friends had caught wind of a GTA-type game and subject matter when I was younger, there would be no end to the talk, fascination, and perhaps even play-acting. How out-of-hand the play acting would have been greatly depend on the strength of influence by parents and teachers and their efforts to halt such behavior.
From the program I saw, once the idea of extreme violence becomes part of a group of children without strong positive influences, even the youngest members can be influenced to be crazier and more violent than the friend standing next to them, especially if his violent actions will draw the kind of "oooohs aaah" reactions that kids often give their friends who are being wild. This group mentality and desire to outdo his peers can be very strong among kids.
Perhaps in these sad cases, there are more than one set of prints on the gun. But ultimately it's the parents are who live with their kids day in day out and have the most control over what they learn and do.
Violent influences + Inadequate parental/teach guidance = Bad things happen
As I recall, Bloom County started off with a rich cast of characters all centered around the seemingly normal world of a Boarding House. With the cynical young reporter Milo in charge, along with his war-mongering grandfather, the intelligent and supportive Cutter John, Steve Dalls, each was caracature of someone you might know in real life... Just as Bloom County itself was a small town representation of America itself. Back when Opus was merely the pet of wimpy Binkley, who in wanting to impress his father, bought it thinking he was a German Shepherd. Back when Opus was silent, and even resembled a penguine at one point, only uttering the occasional phrase usually having to do with herrings or walruses. As the strip progressed and characters and situations became more and more wild, the original premise was still there. It was still about characters from a small town dealing with current events, politics, science, religion, and pop culture in America. But by the time Bloom County morphed into Outland, at least in my opinion, the environment became too abstract, and the realism of having characters from a small town being thrust into strange and humorous adventures was not there anymore. Outland was based in a universe I couldn't relate to, resembling the 3D land Homer Simpson found himself in while hiding from Patty and Selma one Halloween. I am hoping another rehash of Outland will not be the basis of the new strip. Breathed's comic timing borders on genius, and the new strip needs a deceptively normal setting which made Bloom County and American culture seem all the more strange and twisted and fun.