I'm not really disagreeing with you on the impossibility of achieving "perfection", just pointing out that biasing things toward guilt has other, more indirect costs.
And then you have guys like the one released a few years ago after multiple years in jail for a rape he didn't commit, who then murdered a woman after being released. Some of the innocent aren't *that* innocent.
I dunno.
People who've been unjustly stripped of their freedom don't tend to come out of prison with too great respect for the law. Add that to the financial ruin and social ostracism that being sent to prison entails, and you can get someone with a genuine grievance against society and nothing left to lose but their lives.
Racist jokes aside, could someone tell me why, other than from negligence or corruption, any government would rely on a foreign, closed-source operating system?
A friend of a friend saw them for what they were years ago. They shop at Best Buy et al., but strictly as "insurance". If something breaks, they buy things from these stores, but only keep it for as long as it takes for their real equipment to come back from warranty repair. If the store happens to sell the same model, sometimes they'll just return the broken one directly to them.
As long as you add:
6) No student may be compelled to subscribe to university internet access, or any internet access.
7) The university shall not penalize students in any fashion for observing 6).
8) The university shall provide no unreasonable barriers to private service to their students.
I will happily join your "coalition". As a fellow taxpayer, I feel the same way. If students want to waste time, I say let them do it on their own dime. You with me?
It really depends on the ISP. Me and my mom have different ISPs and neither of us pay for static IPs. I've had the same IP for the last two years, and hers will never stay constant for more than a couple of hours.
You think they're gonna cure AlDS? They're still mad at all the money they lost on polio! Curing AlDS? Shit, that's like Cadillac making a car that lasts for fifty years. And you know they can do it...but they ain't gonna do nothing that fucking dumb.
It also depends on when your family was able to afford / decided to buy their first computer. I'm also 23, but my first computer came with a 3600 MB hard drive.
I always found concerns about that to be overblown. In my program, I've found that:
90% of the people who buy such "advanced" calculators never use as more than a very expensive, bulky scientific calculator, mostly because they never take the time to learn to do anything that made buying it worthwhile.
The 5% who have the initiative to learn to use their calculator's functions tend to be smart enough to know to not rely on them.
The last 5% spend hours before test day typing up cheat sheets through the keypad.
In other words, it's annoying as hell when you're solving a problem on someone's TI-83 Plus that they've owned for four years, only to have them interrupt you with "zOMG HOW DID YOU DO THAT!!!!!111.6" when you store a variable!
For Symantec and McAfee: People finding out that their products suck because they've been largely coasting on the decades-old reputations of the innovators they bought out, and thus going to competitors.
For all AV vendors: People learning that anti-virus products are not the panacea they're marketed to be, and that virus detection in general is in a pretty sorry state, thus totally forgoing "virus protection".
True, and while both may remain highly improbable to happen to the rest of the white parents' children, only the kidnapping causes that right mix of fear and hysteria that allows the media's sponsors (and thus the media themselves) to cash in.
In groups of people who know better, yes. But this isn't the case for the general populace. Some know not to give personal information out to random strangers on chat rooms, but these same people often don't give a second thought to providing it when they need to "register" for something.
In most cases like copyright infringment, I would assume any notices and charges would be against whosever name(s) is on the account. Of course, once someone sics the FBI on you, everything and everyone is fair game.
Maybe he's betting on the (not totally baseless) hope that a new website, especially one operated by keen marketers like Google, will be a decent place to trade for a while--before greed/negligence/global warming turns it into crap and there is an exodus to the next new thing.
Yeah, I don't care who else uses it, I really wished they would've kept Firebird. That, or change Thunderbird and Sunbird to make it consistent again...
Actually, K5's voting system only determines which stories make it to the front page. After it makes it out of the queue, there is no way to discriminate between two different stories other than by category.
Unless of course, I misunderstood what the grandparent was talking about...
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I'm not really disagreeing with you on the impossibility of achieving "perfection", just pointing out that biasing things toward guilt has other, more indirect costs.
I dunno.
People who've been unjustly stripped of their freedom don't tend to come out of prison with too great respect for the law. Add that to the financial ruin and social ostracism that being sent to prison entails, and you can get someone with a genuine grievance against society and nothing left to lose but their lives.
Racist jokes aside, could someone tell me why, other than from negligence or corruption, any government would rely on a foreign, closed-source operating system?
A friend of a friend saw them for what they were years ago. They shop at Best Buy et al., but strictly as "insurance". If something breaks, they buy things from these stores, but only keep it for as long as it takes for their real equipment to come back from warranty repair. If the store happens to sell the same model, sometimes they'll just return the broken one directly to them.
As long as you add: 6) No student may be compelled to subscribe to university internet access, or any internet access. 7) The university shall not penalize students in any fashion for observing 6). 8) The university shall provide no unreasonable barriers to private service to their students. I will happily join your "coalition". As a fellow taxpayer, I feel the same way. If students want to waste time, I say let them do it on their own dime. You with me?
It really depends on the ISP. Me and my mom have different ISPs and neither of us pay for static IPs. I've had the same IP for the last two years, and hers will never stay constant for more than a couple of hours.
It also depends on when your family was able to afford / decided to buy their first computer. I'm also 23, but my first computer came with a 3600 MB hard drive.
I always found concerns about that to be overblown. In my program, I've found that:
In other words, it's annoying as hell when you're solving a problem on someone's TI-83 Plus that they've owned for four years, only to have them interrupt you with "zOMG HOW DID YOU DO THAT!!!!!111.6" when you store a variable!
True, and while both may remain highly improbable to happen to the rest of the white parents' children, only the kidnapping causes that right mix of fear and hysteria that allows the media's sponsors (and thus the media themselves) to cash in.
Even better, Windows users can make them up on the fly.
Funny, I saw nothing of the sort.
In groups of people who know better, yes. But this isn't the case for the general populace. Some know not to give personal information out to random strangers on chat rooms, but these same people often don't give a second thought to providing it when they need to "register" for something.
Fixed it for ya.
Yeah mine too, though the fact that Nintendo Power didn't have any (discrete) ads sorta ruined magazines for me.
Next!
In most cases like copyright infringment, I would assume any notices and charges would be against whosever name(s) is on the account. Of course, once someone sics the FBI on you, everything and everyone is fair game.
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is that his library will probably STILL charge him for a missing book.
Maybe he's betting on the (not totally baseless) hope that a new website, especially one operated by keen marketers like Google, will be a decent place to trade for a while--before greed/negligence/global warming turns it into crap and there is an exodus to the next new thing.
I think a more appropriate date would be February 27. The date that led to the total 0wnage of Weimar Germany.
Yeah, I don't care who else uses it, I really wished they would've kept Firebird. That, or change Thunderbird and Sunbird to make it consistent again...
Actually, K5's voting system only determines which stories make it to the front page. After it makes it out of the queue, there is no way to discriminate between two different stories other than by category. Unless of course, I misunderstood what the grandparent was talking about...
I'm sorry, I couldn't quite read the link, could you xerox me a copy from your end?