I've found that foreign western Europeans are welcomed with enthusiasm but foreign Asians with much much resentment.
Western Europeans are coming from an economy just as good as our own, so they aren't willing to work for peanuts and thus don't drive down wages like people from third-world countries do.
Asians from developed countries (e.g. Japan) would be welcomed just as warmly, for the same reason.
Let's say I have a bitstream that is *almost* bit for bit identical to an MP3, an MKV, etc. How bits have to change before it is no longer infringing? Don't start with things like, "Well, it depends how it was created and for what purpose..." Bits are bits.
This is where your post stops making any since whatsoever. The law doesn't give a shit that "bits are bits," and will not accept any technological argument in order to decide a legal issue. It's a non-sequitur, and if you try it you will fail every time.
What actually matters is if you had mens rea for copyright infringement.
What makes things criminal is state or federal statutes. Assuming there is such a statute making violation of the Fourth Amendment a crime, if somebody were convicted under it they would be convicted under the statute, not the amendment.
You're talking semantics about technical details that aren't important. The argument I was rebutting was the idea that Congress was somehow "not allowed" to make such a statute.
Tape decks are good! Cassette line-in adapters work much better than those damn radio transmitter ones you have to use if your head unit only accepts CDs.
This is what it has come to. The cop used to be your friend, right? But now he's not. Well, the cops didn't change, we did. In the old days a copy could say "Stop or I'll shoot" and if you didn't stop, he shot you in the back... Look at "It's a Wonderful Life"
Bullshit. In the old days cops would make a reasonable effort to resolve an incident non-violently (look at the Andy Griffith Show, if you want an equally-old and equally-fictional example).
Now the cop just shoots you without even giving you a chance to react (at least if you're black).
Violations can be tortious and civilly actionable, but not criminal.
Bullshit. Nothing in the Constitution says that violations of the Constitution can't be criminal offenses. It doesn't require them to be criminal offenses, of course, but it certainly allows it.
The only reason violating the Constitution would not be a criminal offense would be that Congress (or a state or local legislative body) did not choose to make it one.
due process = the process that has been enacted and is due to anyone accused of something, whether that be a school's "honor code" or an employer's "employee guidelines". you might not like it but that's how it works.
Wrong. There is no such thing as due process for employment. "Normal" employees are employed "at will" and can be fired at any time, for any reason or no reason at all.
There is no reason whatsofuckingever why police officers should not be treated exactly the same damn way!
It should be a felony for a police officer to do this, because they wield so much more power in this equation. If the police aren't going to bother either learning, or following the law... they have no business being police officers.
Exactly. The police are charged with enforcing the law; because of that they should be held to a higher standard than normal citizens, not a lower one. I think police should automatically receive triple penalties for all criminal offenses, because in addition to committing the crime they also abused their position and violated the public's trust.
in this case: who is this magic person who can say "all of the bad cops are fired" and make it happen? this person can skip the police union? they can skip due process?
Fuck "due process!" Due process is for citizens who have been accused of a crime. Nobody has the "right" to be a government official; officials accused of abusing their authority should be considered guilty until proven innocent!
The issue is that I pretty much only drink coffee at the office, and there's no way I'd be able to convince all my coworkers to switch. (At home, all I own is a cheap french press that I barely use.)
...and bootstrap the whole thing by cross-compiling on several unrelated kinds of hardware (ideally including some old enough that maybe nobody had thought to put backdoors in it yet), and then checking that the resulting binaries are identical. Maybe use a 386, an ARM or PowerPC, and something Chinese, for example.
How flammable is it (considering that it's going to be heated up in the presence of electricity/sparks)? Would it interfere with the connection if you tried to plug things in (e.g. replacing a CPU or PCI card) while "wet," and if so, how easy is it to wash off?
Very unlikely. What comes out of a data center is diffuse, low grade heat. Maybe useful for running a dehydrator or drying system, maybe replacing building heating systems... but not much more as the temperature is too low.
You could run a Stirling engine, perhaps using geothermal (instead of the ambient air) to get a more reasonable temperature differential.
It's common in Scandinavia because of the climate - but not many people live in that cold of a climate. (The equivalent latitudes in the America's are way the hell up in Canada.) Geography matters.
Indeed, geography matters: the equivalent latitudes are way the hell up in Canada, but the equivalent climate is much farther south in the United States because Scandinavia benefits from the Gulf Stream. For example, Oslo, Norway doesn't get as cold as Minneapolis, Minnesota. (The average January low is 19.8F in the former vs 7.5F in the latter.)
Is gitmo still open? Then what makes you think that shit's been shut down? Some fascist politician's word? HA HA HA HA, oh, you poor, naive fuck!
For that matter, it doesn't even matter if gitmo were closed -- it just means the torturers have moved somewhere less publicly known.
Face it: the CIA has lied to us over and over again. Until every single one of the treasonous sociopaths in charge has been gotten rid of, we have to assume torturing is continuing to happen.
It's really quite simple. Militants, unaffiliated with a true nation state, who deliberately kill innocent civilians, with the full intent of targeting and killing innocent civilians
"It's really quite simple," eh? Okay, I'll try it out:
You, cyberchondriac, are a "militant" and therefore a terrorist. You have deliberately killed innocent civilians You fully intend to target and kill more innocent civilians.
"But I'm not a militant or a terrorist," you say, "I'm innocent!" Well, fucker, if you were so goddamn innocent then how did I decide you're a terrorist? What, you want some kind of "due process" to prove your innocence? Ha ha fuck you, you're a goddamn terrorists and terrorists don't get due process!
I'm going to come in the dead of night with a military-style raid and "render" you to some third-world shithole where you can get tortured until my sadistic cronies get bored, then you can rot until you die. Or fuck it, maybe I'll just blow you up with a missile. Same difference, terrorist.
I know I'm right because I've decided so, and that's all that matters. It doesn't matter what you say because you're a terrorist, and terrorists lie. And there's nothing you can do about it, because I've declared you to be a terrorist.
Now, you little fascist shit, do you begin to see the goddamn problem with that logic?!?!
If the prevailing attitude is "we as Americans will accept anything done to you to protect us", then in some people's minds, it may well be okay.
You mean in treasonous chickenshit fascist morons' minds, I assume? Because anyone who thinks this kind of totalitarian sociopathic fuckery is okay is indeed a treasonous chickenshit fascist moron. They should all be first up against the wall (without even waiting for a revolution).
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Western Europeans are coming from an economy just as good as our own, so they aren't willing to work for peanuts and thus don't drive down wages like people from third-world countries do.
Asians from developed countries (e.g. Japan) would be welcomed just as warmly, for the same reason.
This is where your post stops making any since whatsoever. The law doesn't give a shit that "bits are bits," and will not accept any technological argument in order to decide a legal issue. It's a non-sequitur, and if you try it you will fail every time.
What actually matters is if you had mens rea for copyright infringement.
This is obviously false, since, if your previous statements are to believed, nobody else in "society" can afford to do that either.
I was replying to a post about firing cops, not criminally prosecuting them. And you damn well knew it. Now fuck off.
You're talking semantics about technical details that aren't important. The argument I was rebutting was the idea that Congress was somehow "not allowed" to make such a statute.
Tape decks are good! Cassette line-in adapters work much better than those damn radio transmitter ones you have to use if your head unit only accepts CDs.
Bullshit. In the old days cops would make a reasonable effort to resolve an incident non-violently (look at the Andy Griffith Show, if you want an equally-old and equally-fictional example).
Now the cop just shoots you without even giving you a chance to react (at least if you're black).
Any cop who can't do his damn job just because he's "annoyed" is incompetent and does not deserve to remain a cop.
It is never valid for a citizen exercising his constitutional rights to ever count as "interfering" with anything.
Bullshit. Nothing in the Constitution says that violations of the Constitution can't be criminal offenses. It doesn't require them to be criminal offenses, of course, but it certainly allows it.
The only reason violating the Constitution would not be a criminal offense would be that Congress (or a state or local legislative body) did not choose to make it one.
Wrong. There is no such thing as due process for employment. "Normal" employees are employed "at will" and can be fired at any time, for any reason or no reason at all.
There is no reason whatsofuckingever why police officers should not be treated exactly the same damn way!
Exactly. The police are charged with enforcing the law; because of that they should be held to a higher standard than normal citizens, not a lower one. I think police should automatically receive triple penalties for all criminal offenses, because in addition to committing the crime they also abused their position and violated the public's trust.
Fuck "due process!" Due process is for citizens who have been accused of a crime. Nobody has the "right" to be a government official; officials accused of abusing their authority should be considered guilty until proven innocent!
Was that a joke, or are you a fascist?
The best part is the scene later, when they're escaping the hospital:
The issue is that I pretty much only drink coffee at the office, and there's no way I'd be able to convince all my coworkers to switch. (At home, all I own is a cheap french press that I barely use.)
Too bad you can't easily use the coffee grounds when they're encased in dozens of stupid little plastic cups.
The problem is that if you have two monitors, Windows won't let you snap against the "middle" bezel.
At my previous job, I used 3 monitors, all in portrait mode. It's effectively 3240x1920.
(A single 4k monitor would be better, of course.)
...and bootstrap the whole thing by cross-compiling on several unrelated kinds of hardware (ideally including some old enough that maybe nobody had thought to put backdoors in it yet), and then checking that the resulting binaries are identical. Maybe use a 386, an ARM or PowerPC, and something Chinese, for example.
How flammable is it (considering that it's going to be heated up in the presence of electricity/sparks)? Would it interfere with the connection if you tried to plug things in (e.g. replacing a CPU or PCI card) while "wet," and if so, how easy is it to wash off?
You could run a Stirling engine, perhaps using geothermal (instead of the ambient air) to get a more reasonable temperature differential.
Indeed, geography matters: the equivalent latitudes are way the hell up in Canada, but the equivalent climate is much farther south in the United States because Scandinavia benefits from the Gulf Stream. For example, Oslo, Norway doesn't get as cold as Minneapolis, Minnesota. (The average January low is 19.8F in the former vs 7.5F in the latter.)
I'm looking forward to next week's headline: "Massive PS4 Botnet Discovered."
Is gitmo still open? Then what makes you think that shit's been shut down? Some fascist politician's word? HA HA HA HA, oh, you poor, naive fuck!
For that matter, it doesn't even matter if gitmo were closed -- it just means the torturers have moved somewhere less publicly known.
Face it: the CIA has lied to us over and over again. Until every single one of the treasonous sociopaths in charge has been gotten rid of, we have to assume torturing is continuing to happen.
"It's really quite simple," eh? Okay, I'll try it out:
Now, you little fascist shit, do you begin to see the goddamn problem with that logic?!?!
You mean in treasonous chickenshit fascist morons' minds, I assume? Because anyone who thinks this kind of totalitarian sociopathic fuckery is okay is indeed a treasonous chickenshit fascist moron. They should all be first up against the wall (without even waiting for a revolution).