that senators need to write and ask an OUTSOURCING COMPANY if they are using the US visas they applied for to outsource US jobs. It seems the brain drain has already happened in the senate.
If he'd have tried to argue that Vista is better than Linux or whatever he might have had a small chance to get the least technically knowledgeable people to believe him, but arguing that 'Linux is dead' just shouts that he's so badly-informed or so strongly biassed that no-one could take him seriously.
I agree with dismissal of the teachers because it was such a bad example to the kids. But lets keep it in perspective here, it was incredibly stupid and irresponsible thing to do but it was just a terrribly badly conceived prank. There was no actual attack. Why this made national news is beyond me.
>> I fully believe in and approve of the notion that people should be prepared to defend themselves, and that people should realize that the world is inherently an unsafe place.
Ahh more US-specific paranoia. I'm not saying there aren't bad neighborhoods but in general it really isn't as dangerous a world as you eveidently think. Look at Europe. Nobody carries or even owns guns (in some countries just owning a handgun is illegal). Result? safer neighbourhoods and much less gun shot wounds than the USA.
One of the major reasons for US citizens generally believing the US is more dangerous than it really is, is down to the fear mentality that people get from endless sensationalist TV journalism combined with a law system where barely-trained people are allowed to own and walk around with concealed guns. Thats an accident waiting to happen right there.
Do you know that more than 50% of all gunshot wounds in the US are from gun owners own guns? That alone is conclusive proof that if you don't own a gun you're less like to get shot.
>> Any kid that really *did* believe this was real (and that he was going to die) might end up with the same long-term psychological effects
Exactly my point. I mean the US is breeding a country full of pussies now that just feel the need for healtchare and rehab if they break a nail. What happened to the pioneering spirit of the old west? I bet the kids of those days didn't get or need psychotherapy every time someone frightened them no matter how scary it was.
I'm not condoning it but I think everyone has totally overreacted. It was only a prank and its made national news. America is breeding a country full of paranoid parents and kids that need psychotherapy if someone says boo to them.
>> Geez. Now that you have me thinking, we may well have more pressing problems than "Global Warming" (tm).
The points you make are good ones but I think the world population is still increasing as a whole. One thing this world doesn't need more of and can do with some thinning out of is humans. The real problem is that humans have weapons so don't have any significant losses to natural predators any more. That also means our gene pool is going to shit because there's no natural selection.
>> A better approach, rather than banning an activity outright, would be to test an individual's competence to perform the activity
You can't drive as well if you're also trying to do anything else no matter how good you think you are. There are plenty of studies that show that young drivers have more accidents than older drivers because massively overstimate their own abilities.
Did it not occur to you to pull over somewhere safe or wait until you'd finished driving to respond? If you are one of the many that can't say no to being on an electronic leash, then turn it off when you're driving.
You're only posting a link (i.e. saying where to get illegal content) you've got no control over or responsibility for the content itself. Is it illegal in Hong Kong just to tell someone where illegal goods are sold? It amounts to the same thing...
This stupid verdict sets the precedent that anyone sharing a link accepts legal responsibility for all the content. This itself is unworkable. Imagine what happens if you publish a link on a forum to a foreign website that only contains content that is legally acceptable at the time, but unknowingly to you, the criteria for legal acceptability changes or the website itself adds some 'illegal' content? Are you guilty by proxy? You might not even know but even if you did, forums don't usually allow you to erase your own old posts.
the fact that global warming is causing the gulf stream to change direction which in turn will condemn Scotland and parts of Northern England to dissapear under pack-ice is all OK then is it?
It wouldn't even be an issue if Americans like you didn't keep denying reality just so they can carry on feeling good about driving their SUV's.
IMHO, any law that removes peoples 'rights' to be totally ignorant, greedy and self-centred at the cost of the environment (and therefore everyone else) is a good thing.
the cost of manufacture of these disks is more, which no doubt will be passed onto the consumer, even though it is of no benefit ( and may even be a disadvantage ) to the consumer.
>> I've personally seen people doing 150kph on the 407 [close to 100mph].
There's nothing dangerous in driving fast if every one else is too. Go to Germany and drive on the Autobahn. Everyone is driving around 90mph + with many doing 130+. They have MUCH less accident rate than I saw driving to work every day in Atlanta GA where the freeway speed limit is a stupidly low 55Mph. The excuse for the low speed limit there was for safety but it seemed that the lower speed limit was actually causing more accidents. It was obviously increasing speeding ticket revenues though which I suspect was the real reason. There are already speed cops like every 100 yards in Atlanta, and I heard on the radio they were recruiting 350 more.
The problem is when because of low speed limits people don't ever get experience of driving fast, they have no clue how to behave when they or someone else does, so are much more likely to have or cause accidents.
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They don't care if you actually use it or not. They've already got your money.
>> Finally, it's trivial to reconstruct a dtd from sample documents.
But it won't be the same DTD as the one used to create the documents, which is probably the 'standard' one.
The internet is such a central aspect of life these days the judge is remiss in not having informed himself of at least the basics.
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that senators need to write and ask an OUTSOURCING COMPANY if they are using the US visas they applied for to outsource US jobs.
It seems the brain drain has already happened in the senate.
If he'd have tried to argue that Vista is better than Linux or whatever he might have had a small chance to get the least technically knowledgeable people to believe him, but arguing that 'Linux is dead' just shouts that he's so badly-informed or so strongly biassed that no-one could take him seriously.
Trust me... its not worth it...
That approach allows hackers to exploit known-about but unreported (and therefore unfixed) loopholes potentially for ages.
Please give me the name of this guy's company so I can avoid all their products.
I agree with dismissal of the teachers because it was such a bad example to the kids.
But lets keep it in perspective here, it was incredibly stupid and irresponsible thing to do but it was just a terrribly badly conceived prank. There was no actual attack. Why this made national news is beyond me.
Oh and BTW I'm a parent too.
>> I fully believe in and approve of the notion that people should be prepared to defend themselves, and that people should realize that the world is inherently an unsafe place.
Ahh more US-specific paranoia. I'm not saying there aren't bad neighborhoods but in general it really isn't as dangerous a world as you eveidently think. Look at Europe. Nobody carries or even owns guns (in some countries just owning a handgun is illegal). Result? safer neighbourhoods and much less gun shot wounds than the USA.
One of the major reasons for US citizens generally believing the US is more dangerous than it really is, is down to the fear mentality that people get from endless sensationalist TV journalism combined with a law system where barely-trained people are allowed to own and walk around with concealed guns. Thats an accident waiting to happen right there.
Do you know that more than 50% of all gunshot wounds in the US are from gun owners own guns? That alone is conclusive proof that if you don't own a gun you're less like to get shot.
I read this as.. Bungle vs Miamoto.
I hope Zippy and George get to kick some ass too.
Any Brits will know what I'm talking about.
>> Any kid that really *did* believe this was real (and that he was going to die) might end up with the same long-term psychological effects
Exactly my point. I mean the US is breeding a country full of pussies now that just feel the need for healtchare and rehab if they break a nail. What happened to the pioneering spirit of the old west? I bet the kids of those days didn't get or need psychotherapy every time someone frightened them no matter how scary it was.
I'm not condoning it but I think everyone has totally overreacted. It was only a prank and its made national news.
America is breeding a country full of paranoid parents and kids that need psychotherapy if someone says boo to them.
>> Geez. Now that you have me thinking, we may well have more pressing problems than "Global Warming" (tm).
The points you make are good ones but I think the world population is still increasing as a whole.
One thing this world doesn't need more of and can do with some thinning out of is humans. The real problem is that humans have weapons so don't have any significant losses to natural predators any more. That also means our gene pool is going to shit because there's no natural selection.
>> A better approach, rather than banning an activity outright, would be to test an individual's competence to perform the activity
You can't drive as well if you're also trying to do anything else no matter how good you think you are.
There are plenty of studies that show that young drivers have more accidents than older drivers because massively overstimate their own abilities.
Did it not occur to you to pull over somewhere safe or wait until you'd finished driving to respond?
If you are one of the many that can't say no to being on an electronic leash, then turn it off when you're driving.
You're only posting a link (i.e. saying where to get illegal content) you've got no control over or responsibility for the content itself.
Is it illegal in Hong Kong just to tell someone where illegal goods are sold? It amounts to the same thing...
This stupid verdict sets the precedent that anyone sharing a link accepts legal responsibility for all the content. This itself is unworkable. Imagine what happens if you publish a link on a forum to a foreign website that only contains content that is legally acceptable at the time, but unknowingly to you, the criteria for legal acceptability changes or the website itself adds some 'illegal' content? Are you guilty by proxy? You might not even know but even if you did, forums don't usually allow you to erase your own old posts.
Yeah but Africa, China, India, Pakistan, etc etc are all making up for it and more.
Otherwise he'd just reproduce the experiement and results in front of the judge and prove his innocence.
Spoken like a true self-centred denier.
the fact that global warming is causing the gulf stream to change direction which in turn will condemn Scotland and parts of Northern England to dissapear under pack-ice is all OK then is it?
It wouldn't even be an issue if Americans like you didn't keep denying reality just so they can carry on feeling good about driving their SUV's.
IMHO, any law that removes peoples 'rights' to be totally ignorant, greedy and self-centred at the cost of the environment (and therefore everyone else) is a good thing.
A turd by any other name is still a turd.
the cost of manufacture of these disks is more, which no doubt will be passed onto the consumer, even though it is of no benefit ( and may even be a disadvantage ) to the consumer.
>> I've personally seen people doing 150kph on the 407 [close to 100mph].
There's nothing dangerous in driving fast if every one else is too.
Go to Germany and drive on the Autobahn. Everyone is driving around 90mph + with many doing 130+.
They have MUCH less accident rate than I saw driving to work every day in Atlanta GA where the freeway speed limit is a stupidly low 55Mph.
The excuse for the low speed limit there was for safety but it seemed that the lower speed limit was actually causing more accidents. It was obviously increasing speeding ticket revenues though which I suspect was the real reason. There are already speed cops like every 100 yards in Atlanta, and I heard on the radio they were recruiting 350 more.
The problem is when because of low speed limits people don't ever get experience of driving fast, they have no clue how to behave when they or someone else does, so are much more likely to have or cause accidents.