You've been around slashdot for a while, you should know that commenting on any post that uses a phrase like 'mouth breathers' isn't worth the effort. That sort of arrogance without intelligence isn't going to listen regardless of what you say.
The entire problem is that... he's not ACTUALLY a skeptic, never has been. Has many public quotes (and published books) showing he firmly believes in global warming.
Just because you call him skeptic to support your agenda, doesn't make it true, nor does it mean anyone else is going to believe it.
Use the period between 1980 and 2010 instead of the period between 1970 and 2000. Thats gives you thirty years to average out, which is the claim I keep seeing as long enough. Now is that 1980 to 2010 period cooler than the 1970 to 2000 period?
I'm sorry you don't like the facts but they don't support the theory at this time.
In reality we haven't studied the problem long enough to actually MAKE an educated guess, let alone act on it, and second, 30 still isn't long enough to matter. The Earth experiences 100k year cycles of temp change and you're arguing over 10 years and 30 like you know whats going on? Seriously?
Anyone who thinks they 'know' whats going on is wrong and needs to be thrown out of the discussion for utterly failing to understand how science is supposed to work, I don't care WHICH side you're on.
When you come down to it deniers are always deniers because of conflicts with their political beliefs. It's never really down to science.
And this is a perfect time for the 'The pot is calling the kettle black' meme to fit in...
Yea, its totally just the people who disagree with you that are biased and illogical.
For them, the freedom to make money from selling tobacco in an unrestricted fashion is more important than the fact that it kills lots of people.
For me, its more about letting people live their own lives how than want. We all die, I believe its your choice in how you get to that destination, not mine. If you want to smoke, thats your business. What right do you have to tell someone else who ISN'T BOTHERING YOU how to live their life?
You have no such right, you just want to push YOUR POLITICAL ideals on others.
You're nothing more than an ignorant hypocrite who needs to go look in the mirror.
Now... the denialists on SlashDot are saying "Fine, CC is happening but we don't agree that humans cause it" which just boggles the mind.
Thats pretty much what we 'denialists' have always said, if you'd been paying attention rather than having your head up someones ass saying 'they are right and you are wrong because we're louder!'. Instead, you don't even actually know what the debate is about.
We have scientific proof that CC is happening and we know of the mechanics through which greenhouse gasses (to which human activity significantly contributes) increase heat in atmosphere. So, we *do* know that human contribute to the CC that we know to be happening.
You completely fail to understand the difference between science and politics. Science has SOME theories suggesting what you say, no proof. Politics turn those theories into 'proof' for people like yourself who hasn't actally looked at the research, you've just picked a side.
No intelligent person is claiming that global warming isn't happening. Its been happening for 100k years or so that our planet has been climbing its way out of the last ice age. There is no denying it. And we're now we're into the disputed territory, as to whats going to happen in the future and how big of an impact we have on it.
The only thing left to argue about is how much do we contribute... 80%? 50%? However, I've not once seen a denialist argue "The mainstream claims that we contribute 80% but I think it's only 50% because of this evidence..." but instead it always seems to be "Ok, CC is happening but it's all because of sun spots!" or whatever...
Then you need to have an actual discussion with intelligent people rather than the morons you're talking too. CC is happening because its part of the Earth's cycle and has been for millions of years due to many variations in the planet that existed before humans existed. You're just too ignorant/lazy to bother to learn any actual facts yourself, instead you'd rather repeat what some stooge on TV or elsewhere parroted at you. The fact that you don't know this tells me you must have payed absolutely no attention what so ever during your education, or you didn't get one in America.
which is the reason why I call them "denialists".
No, you call us denialists as an insult and a way to degrade our opinions in the eyes of others. Its basically the same thing as me call you a moron. The difference is, I'm clear that I'm calling you an idiot, you're just a passive aggressive ignorant little lacky for politicians.
I'm a 'denialist' and I can safely say that you have absolutely no fucking clue why we 'denialists' are so.
I believe you would be referred to as a 'follower' for blindly following without understanding, at least I listen and make an attempt to accept both sides of the argument based on evidence. You're clearly basing your entire belief on faith, arrogance and pride. Its like you've joined a cult and are ignoring evidence because you 'know' you're right.
I was going to vote for McCain in the last election because I figured I knew how he was going to fuck me and I liked that better than the idea of Obama who I wasn't sure how he'd fuck me, but I didn't.
Fortunately, Obama got elected and turns out he's done FAR less damage than I was afraid of. So far, he's done more of what I expected out of McCain than anything else. No real point to this point, just felt I should share.
You are addicted to any substance that will make you feel abnormal if you stop taking it. Technically you are addicted to food, water and oxygen from birth.
The physical withdrawal symptoms of pot are well documented and anyone who has smoked pot long term and claims they don't exist is either lying to themselves or rather oblivious to what happens when they go with out it suddenly for 2 or 3 days.
The munchies typically go away in people that are 'addicted' to pot. If you still get the munchies, you don't know what addiction to pot is. When you smoke pot just to feel normal, then you're addicted, and you'll most certainly have withdrawal symptoms, you just may not notice them as they are reasonably subtle. Irritability is the big one.
The symptoms don't set in quickly either, usually show up more than 24 hours after intake stops depending on how abruptly its stopped. Next time you run out, pay attention to your mood and how your body feels, you'll notice the withdrawal, and probably at that point on, you'll feel compelled to go get more when you experience those feelings.
Heroin is easier to quit because its harder to come by. Nicotine doesn't have symptoms that are as bad, but its far more difficult to quit because cigarettes are sold everywhere. Neither will kill you, both will make you wish you were dead at times, one will make you feel like it for a while depending on your level of addiction. The measurement in difficulty to quit is how hard it is to stop, not how unpleasant the process is.
I read their claim that marijuana is addictive. You can lie to my face all you want, but don't expect me to vote for you.
So are you ignorant or just lying to yourself?
Anyone who's smoked pot for any length of time is fully aware of its addictive properties and the withdrawal that follows running out. Keep showing people exactly how uninformed you are when trying to get it legalized, that'll surely help. Do you not get bitchy when you run out of pot?
Its withdrawal effects aren't anything compared to nicotine or heroine, they certainly exist.
BCPL only had one data type. Everything in it was a word. It didn't have arrays or structures, just arithmetic on words (which could then be treated as pointer to other words). Try writing C with no data types other than uintptr_t, intptr_t and uintptr_t* - no arrays, no structs, no chars - and see how far you get.
Okay. Its not hard, its tedious, but you're basically describing what happens when I work in assembly. To the computer, its all just numbers. The structures of C are artificial constructs to make it easier on the developer. They are reduced to pure numbers for the computer itself to work with. I would be much slower working that way, but only until I could write a BCPL program to preprocess my source files to turn my structure definitions into BCPL code.
Don't get me wrong, C did change the world (something else probably would have done it if it wasn't C), Dennis Richie deserves our remembrance for his contribution.
the Woz was far more influential and important than Jobs.
Why so? Woz didn't do anything that others at the time weren't doing (neither did Jobs). The company basically fell apart when Jobs left and was restored to health when he returned. When Woz left, well nothing happened.
Also, a much better guy.
I see no evidence to support that, Woz would appear to be an arrogant self absorbed jerk (saying that as a arrogant self absorbed jerk myself). He seems very bitter about not being as widely recognized as Steve Jobs and tries to be snarky about anything related to Apple because it wasn't his idea/work. He reminds me a lot of RMS, except not as well known.
Its an interesting phrase "to run properly"; I'm sure that one day there will be a Windows that "runs properly". The real question is, can Windows 7 run properly?
Well, considering you think bootp does the same thing as RIS, I can completely understand why you don't think Windows runs properly.
You're used to using a protocol thats only a minor part of the package.
You do realize that with bootp alone you don't get very far right? bootp with no tftp (or something filling that roll) is rather fucking useless, isn't it.
Did you know that... Windows Remote Installation Server (RIS) uses bootp to get started, just like EVERY OTHER PXE BOOT system on the planet. PXE kind requires it.
You think Windows doesn't work properly because you don't know what properly is.
You seem to have a basic misunderstanding of who is creating the problem...
No, I don't. Who's creating the problem is irrelevant because its not going to change by me knowing who's doing it. I'm still going to have to deal with Office docs.
Word messes up formatting enough between versions, let alone with documents exported from a competitor's product.
Have you used Word in the last 10 years? I don't think you have if you're seriously claiming that the differences in a anything from office 2k to now are bigger than the differences between office and OpenOffice.
The statements you're making just show your ignorance. Stop being a fanboy it makes you look like a douche.
You say that like you could even trust Office to get it all right even between versions...
And you sound like a meme from Office 95. If you think compatibility between Office versions is anything like LO to MSO compatibility than you have clearly never used either one or both of those pieces of software.
It wont win anything, it will just annihilate Shuttleworths money and then die off in an epic fail manner.
The existing UIs are certainly NOT winning over normal users and are unlikely to do so, Shuttleworth is just trying to figure out how to go from one group to the other, he's not failing, he's experimenting and learning. If nothing else we'll have a good idea of what not to do that we wouldn't have had before. It'll only be an epic fail for those who repeat his mistakes again in the future.
Ubuntu was supposed to win over Windows/Mac users, not to scare away its current user base.
Those two things are almost certainly mutually exclusive.
The current user base is a bunch of technical geeks who want every tweak on the planet and dont' mind having to wade through them to get anything accomplished.
The average windows/mac user just wants a few options that are basically requirements and can live with less tweak-ability in exchange for not being overwhelmed by options they don't fully understand or get in the way.
The people who like Linux currently are a niche market, they will never like using/want to use what normal people are using. One group is using the tool to its fullest potential because its a big part of their life, the other group is using the tool just enough to satisfy other parts of their lives.
Linux people need to understand that there is NO hammer on the market made for EVERYONE. There are hammers designed to be used by roofers, masonry, carpentry, and general lightweight work around the home. All of those have different shapes, sizes and weights to suit their use and their intended users.
Why is it people think Linux can solve every problem when no where else on the planet is there really any other tool that is a 'one size fits all' sort of thing.
You're phone was broken, Sorry. At work we have an iPhone user, a blackberry user and a couple of Android users, and a WinMo user, the blackberry guy has problems due to blackberry (as you've heard in the news) the rest of us have no sync issues with Google at all.
Awe, aren't you cute. Trying to insult the trendy apple guy with your trendy insult.
Seriously? You'd look like far less of a douche if you knew anything about what you were talking about. Using an iPhone, and indeed many android devices like it is fairly trivial with proper gloves/mittens. You do the same thing people with large fingers do, you learn to roll for accuracy. The size issue doesn't change the fact that the device always focuses on 'the center of touch', the center is now just in the middle of a larger area.
1995 called, they want your 'The internet is going to hell' statements back.
The internet will be what we (as a planet) want it to be, nothing more, nothing less. You probably won't get your way because there are more people who think and operate rationally than there are people like this particular thread who think that because they can't use the internet to hide and steal shit that its ruined.
Because some people OR(speed, drive dangerously, fall asleep at the wheel, road rage, drive without insurance, drive without license).
You do realize that WE DO TRY TO BLOCK ALL OF THOSE THINGS. RIGHT?
Shame on your for failing to understand the basics of reality. Perhaps you should as your local police office WHAT they do, then come back and try again.
You are fucking retarded. The most certainly CAN AND WILL, and that will be the last day that vhost has any customers other than newzbin, because they'll all leave the instant they found out some fuckwad was trying to use them as a human shield.
You really have no fucking clue what so ever how the real world works, do you? Are you even in highschool yet?
No, they are selling a map to places that sell stolen cars, intentionally.
Its not an accident or just ignorance that allowed one or two places on the map that happen to also have chopshops in the back. It is intentionally selling maps to known car thieves impound yards along with a number on how to get those stolen cars out at your leisure, and its INTENTIONAL.
You're analogy is misleading and in fact 100% false. You're trying to slide it in and convince people its true by manipulating the comparison to something its not.
Its not JUST a map to all car dealers in the country, its a map to all car dealers in the country with big red marks saying 'GO HERE FOR CHEAP STOLEN CARS!'.
In which case, the mapmaker is part of the problem.
Its not really hard to understand that when you intentionally facilitate criminal activity, you are in fact committing crimes yourself.
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You've been around slashdot for a while, you should know that commenting on any post that uses a phrase like 'mouth breathers' isn't worth the effort. That sort of arrogance without intelligence isn't going to listen regardless of what you say.
The entire problem is that ... he's not ACTUALLY a skeptic, never has been. Has many public quotes (and published books) showing he firmly believes in global warming.
Just because you call him skeptic to support your agenda, doesn't make it true, nor does it mean anyone else is going to believe it.
Okay, fine, you want to try to play silly games.
Use the period between 1980 and 2010 instead of the period between 1970 and 2000. Thats gives you thirty years to average out, which is the claim I keep seeing as long enough. Now is that 1980 to 2010 period cooler than the 1970 to 2000 period?
I'm sorry you don't like the facts but they don't support the theory at this time.
In reality we haven't studied the problem long enough to actually MAKE an educated guess, let alone act on it, and second, 30 still isn't long enough to matter. The Earth experiences 100k year cycles of temp change and you're arguing over 10 years and 30 like you know whats going on? Seriously?
Anyone who thinks they 'know' whats going on is wrong and needs to be thrown out of the discussion for utterly failing to understand how science is supposed to work, I don't care WHICH side you're on.
When you come down to it deniers are always deniers because of conflicts with their political beliefs. It's never really down to science.
And this is a perfect time for the 'The pot is calling the kettle black' meme to fit in ...
Yea, its totally just the people who disagree with you that are biased and illogical.
For them, the freedom to make money from selling tobacco in an unrestricted fashion is more important than the fact that it kills lots of people.
For me, its more about letting people live their own lives how than want. We all die, I believe its your choice in how you get to that destination, not mine. If you want to smoke, thats your business. What right do you have to tell someone else who ISN'T BOTHERING YOU how to live their life?
You have no such right, you just want to push YOUR POLITICAL ideals on others.
You're nothing more than an ignorant hypocrite who needs to go look in the mirror.
God you're one ignorant fuck, you know that?
Now... the denialists on SlashDot are saying "Fine, CC is happening but we don't agree that humans cause it" which just boggles the mind.
Thats pretty much what we 'denialists' have always said, if you'd been paying attention rather than having your head up someones ass saying 'they are right and you are wrong because we're louder!'. Instead, you don't even actually know what the debate is about.
We have scientific proof that CC is happening and we know of the mechanics through which greenhouse gasses (to which human activity significantly contributes) increase heat in atmosphere. So, we *do* know that human contribute to the CC that we know to be happening.
You completely fail to understand the difference between science and politics. Science has SOME theories suggesting what you say, no proof. Politics turn those theories into 'proof' for people like yourself who hasn't actally looked at the research, you've just picked a side.
No intelligent person is claiming that global warming isn't happening. Its been happening for 100k years or so that our planet has been climbing its way out of the last ice age. There is no denying it. And we're now we're into the disputed territory, as to whats going to happen in the future and how big of an impact we have on it.
The only thing left to argue about is how much do we contribute... 80%? 50%? However, I've not once seen a denialist argue "The mainstream claims that we contribute 80% but I think it's only 50% because of this evidence..." but instead it always seems to be "Ok, CC is happening but it's all because of sun spots!" or whatever...
Then you need to have an actual discussion with intelligent people rather than the morons you're talking too. CC is happening because its part of the Earth's cycle and has been for millions of years due to many variations in the planet that existed before humans existed. You're just too ignorant/lazy to bother to learn any actual facts yourself, instead you'd rather repeat what some stooge on TV or elsewhere parroted at you. The fact that you don't know this tells me you must have payed absolutely no attention what so ever during your education, or you didn't get one in America.
which is the reason why I call them "denialists".
No, you call us denialists as an insult and a way to degrade our opinions in the eyes of others. Its basically the same thing as me call you a moron. The difference is, I'm clear that I'm calling you an idiot, you're just a passive aggressive ignorant little lacky for politicians.
I'm a 'denialist' and I can safely say that you have absolutely no fucking clue why we 'denialists' are so.
I believe you would be referred to as a 'follower' for blindly following without understanding, at least I listen and make an attempt to accept both sides of the argument based on evidence. You're clearly basing your entire belief on faith, arrogance and pride. Its like you've joined a cult and are ignoring evidence because you 'know' you're right.
I was going to vote for McCain in the last election because I figured I knew how he was going to fuck me and I liked that better than the idea of Obama who I wasn't sure how he'd fuck me, but I didn't.
Fortunately, Obama got elected and turns out he's done FAR less damage than I was afraid of. So far, he's done more of what I expected out of McCain than anything else. No real point to this point, just felt I should share.
Addiction doesn't mean what you think it means.
You are addicted to any substance that will make you feel abnormal if you stop taking it. Technically you are addicted to food, water and oxygen from birth.
The physical withdrawal symptoms of pot are well documented and anyone who has smoked pot long term and claims they don't exist is either lying to themselves or rather oblivious to what happens when they go with out it suddenly for 2 or 3 days.
The munchies typically go away in people that are 'addicted' to pot. If you still get the munchies, you don't know what addiction to pot is. When you smoke pot just to feel normal, then you're addicted, and you'll most certainly have withdrawal symptoms, you just may not notice them as they are reasonably subtle. Irritability is the big one.
The symptoms don't set in quickly either, usually show up more than 24 hours after intake stops depending on how abruptly its stopped. Next time you run out, pay attention to your mood and how your body feels, you'll notice the withdrawal, and probably at that point on, you'll feel compelled to go get more when you experience those feelings.
Heroin is easier to quit because its harder to come by. Nicotine doesn't have symptoms that are as bad, but its far more difficult to quit because cigarettes are sold everywhere. Neither will kill you, both will make you wish you were dead at times, one will make you feel like it for a while depending on your level of addiction. The measurement in difficulty to quit is how hard it is to stop, not how unpleasant the process is.
I read their claim that marijuana is addictive. You can lie to my face all you want, but don't expect me to vote for you.
So are you ignorant or just lying to yourself?
Anyone who's smoked pot for any length of time is fully aware of its addictive properties and the withdrawal that follows running out. Keep showing people exactly how uninformed you are when trying to get it legalized, that'll surely help. Do you not get bitchy when you run out of pot?
Its withdrawal effects aren't anything compared to nicotine or heroine, they certainly exist.
Except that Red Hat does provide services people value, they're they top contributor [cnet.com] to the Linux kernel.
They're the leading contributor because the people paying for support need those features/bugfixes they are contributing.
Support contracts aren't just for helping clueless admins do their job because they're too lazy to Google.
BCPL only had one data type. Everything in it was a word. It didn't have arrays or structures, just arithmetic on words (which could then be treated as pointer to other words). Try writing C with no data types other than uintptr_t, intptr_t and uintptr_t* - no arrays, no structs, no chars - and see how far you get.
Okay. Its not hard, its tedious, but you're basically describing what happens when I work in assembly. To the computer, its all just numbers. The structures of C are artificial constructs to make it easier on the developer. They are reduced to pure numbers for the computer itself to work with. I would be much slower working that way, but only until I could write a BCPL program to preprocess my source files to turn my structure definitions into BCPL code.
Don't get me wrong, C did change the world (something else probably would have done it if it wasn't C), Dennis Richie deserves our remembrance for his contribution.
the Woz was far more influential and important than Jobs.
Why so? Woz didn't do anything that others at the time weren't doing (neither did Jobs). The company basically fell apart when Jobs left and was restored to health when he returned. When Woz left, well nothing happened.
Also, a much better guy.
I see no evidence to support that, Woz would appear to be an arrogant self absorbed jerk (saying that as a arrogant self absorbed jerk myself). He seems very bitter about not being as widely recognized as Steve Jobs and tries to be snarky about anything related to Apple because it wasn't his idea/work. He reminds me a lot of RMS, except not as well known.
uh, yeah, think bootp circa 1989.
Its an interesting phrase "to run properly"; I'm sure that one day there will be a Windows that "runs properly". The real question is, can Windows 7 run properly?
Well, considering you think bootp does the same thing as RIS, I can completely understand why you don't think Windows runs properly.
You're used to using a protocol thats only a minor part of the package.
You do realize that with bootp alone you don't get very far right? bootp with no tftp (or something filling that roll) is rather fucking useless, isn't it.
Did you know that ... Windows Remote Installation Server (RIS) uses bootp to get started, just like EVERY OTHER PXE BOOT system on the planet. PXE kind requires it.
You think Windows doesn't work properly because you don't know what properly is.
You seem to have a basic misunderstanding of who is creating the problem...
No, I don't. Who's creating the problem is irrelevant because its not going to change by me knowing who's doing it. I'm still going to have to deal with Office docs.
Word messes up formatting enough between versions, let alone with documents exported from a competitor's product.
Have you used Word in the last 10 years? I don't think you have if you're seriously claiming that the differences in a anything from office 2k to now are bigger than the differences between office and OpenOffice.
The statements you're making just show your ignorance. Stop being a fanboy it makes you look like a douche.
You say that like you could even trust Office to get it all right even between versions...
And you sound like a meme from Office 95. If you think compatibility between Office versions is anything like LO to MSO compatibility than you have clearly never used either one or both of those pieces of software.
It wont win anything, it will just annihilate Shuttleworths money and then die off in an epic fail manner.
The existing UIs are certainly NOT winning over normal users and are unlikely to do so, Shuttleworth is just trying to figure out how to go from one group to the other, he's not failing, he's experimenting and learning. If nothing else we'll have a good idea of what not to do that we wouldn't have had before. It'll only be an epic fail for those who repeat his mistakes again in the future.
Ubuntu was supposed to win over Windows/Mac users, not to scare away its current user base.
Those two things are almost certainly mutually exclusive.
The current user base is a bunch of technical geeks who want every tweak on the planet and dont' mind having to wade through them to get anything accomplished.
The average windows/mac user just wants a few options that are basically requirements and can live with less tweak-ability in exchange for not being overwhelmed by options they don't fully understand or get in the way.
The people who like Linux currently are a niche market, they will never like using/want to use what normal people are using. One group is using the tool to its fullest potential because its a big part of their life, the other group is using the tool just enough to satisfy other parts of their lives.
Linux people need to understand that there is NO hammer on the market made for EVERYONE. There are hammers designed to be used by roofers, masonry, carpentry, and general lightweight work around the home. All of those have different shapes, sizes and weights to suit their use and their intended users.
Why is it people think Linux can solve every problem when no where else on the planet is there really any other tool that is a 'one size fits all' sort of thing.
Interestingly, your signature and your post seem pretty contradictory.
You're phone was broken, Sorry. At work we have an iPhone user, a blackberry user and a couple of Android users, and a WinMo user, the blackberry guy has problems due to blackberry (as you've heard in the news) the rest of us have no sync issues with Google at all.
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Awe, aren't you cute. Trying to insult the trendy apple guy with your trendy insult.
Seriously? You'd look like far less of a douche if you knew anything about what you were talking about. Using an iPhone, and indeed many android devices like it is fairly trivial with proper gloves/mittens. You do the same thing people with large fingers do, you learn to roll for accuracy. The size issue doesn't change the fact that the device always focuses on 'the center of touch', the center is now just in the middle of a larger area.
Let me guess, you're a douche in general?
You do realize that only about half the oil we consume goes to energy production, right?
Oil is used to make everything, from aspirin to plastics. Energy production is really not why we have to find replacements for oil.
1995 called, they want your 'The internet is going to hell' statements back.
The internet will be what we (as a planet) want it to be, nothing more, nothing less. You probably won't get your way because there are more people who think and operate rationally than there are people like this particular thread who think that because they can't use the internet to hide and steal shit that its ruined.
Because some people OR(speed, drive dangerously, fall asleep at the wheel, road rage, drive without insurance, drive without license).
You do realize that WE DO TRY TO BLOCK ALL OF THOSE THINGS. RIGHT?
Shame on your for failing to understand the basics of reality. Perhaps you should as your local police office WHAT they do, then come back and try again.
Explain exactly how the hosts file fixes a firewalled IP address.
Oh wait, IT DOESN'T
... can't block that by IP
You are fucking retarded. The most certainly CAN AND WILL, and that will be the last day that vhost has any customers other than newzbin, because they'll all leave the instant they found out some fuckwad was trying to use them as a human shield.
You really have no fucking clue what so ever how the real world works, do you? Are you even in highschool yet?
No, they are selling a map to places that sell stolen cars, intentionally.
Its not an accident or just ignorance that allowed one or two places on the map that happen to also have chopshops in the back. It is intentionally selling maps to known car thieves impound yards along with a number on how to get those stolen cars out at your leisure, and its INTENTIONAL.
You're analogy is misleading and in fact 100% false. You're trying to slide it in and convince people its true by manipulating the comparison to something its not.
Its not JUST a map to all car dealers in the country, its a map to all car dealers in the country with big red marks saying 'GO HERE FOR CHEAP STOLEN CARS!'.
In which case, the mapmaker is part of the problem.
Its not really hard to understand that when you intentionally facilitate criminal activity, you are in fact committing crimes yourself.