People who make a living off the misfortune of others, like pay-day lenders, also have a fucked-up moral code. And just because they have money to influence legislators to make their practices legal, doesn't make it right.
In a connected world there can be no privacy.
It is still worth it.
And if we follow a more robust exclusion of ill-gotten evidence in the courts, in employment, and in insurance, we will still find fairness.
Free information = No secrets.
Abramoff is a lifelong Republican.
No Democrat got money from Abramoff, only Republicans.
People who hired Abramoff also gave money to Democrats (ie Democrats got money from Abramoff clients). So what. Only Republicans got money from Abramoff. Abramoff is a lifelong Republican. Only Republicans are under investigation and indictment in this scandal.
Are you unaware of the facts, or don't they matter to you?
It doesn't matter what Joe Wilson says about his wife's status at the CIA, he doesn't work there. The CIA requested an ivestigation of Bob Novak's outing of Plame because they thought they had been compromised, and a crime was committed. And Novak admits the CIA told him not to out Plame.
Novak and his informant impeded the ability of the US to find WMD's by outing a CIA front company set up for the purpose.
Sorry is this is a little off topic. Fair trial? A fair trial does NOT depend on having never heard of the case. Jury selection by the lawyers involved skews the panel of jurors so badly that the even OJ will be found innocent.
Johnnie Cochran didn't win the OJ case, the jury consultants OJ's lawyers hired did. I would sooner trust the first 12 jurors that were not involved in the case. leaving the judge to decide, than to jury consultants.
In early American everyone knew everyone in town, and they managed to get reasonable verdicts.
So anything you believe: there is a world that our senses are responding to, that we exist, etc, are unprovable beliefs. I am sure of NONE of it, believe NONE of it, can prove NONE of it, yet...
I believe in beauty.
Except what are the hard drugs?
Deaths in 2002:
Tobacco 400,000
Alcohol 100,000
All illicit drugs combined 20,000
Alcohol and tobacco are the most dangerous, which is why they are legal. The dangerous ones are the ones people want to abuse most, which therefore have the largest constituencies, and therefore immune from banning.
You don't need security.
You need to go out and interact with other students, professors, townies, etc.
You overestimate your risks.
You misunderstand what measures make you safer.
Relax. Enjoy. Learn.
When I was younger, I built a collection of >300 albums on vinyl. Then the industry the RIAA represents made that format obsolete and I replaced this collection buying >500 CD's, including many songs I had previously paid for the right to listen to.
Then I find out that the RIAA's members had stolen from me by price fixing. They offered me $20 in compensation for this theft of thousands of dollars.
Well, as President Bush says: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, won't get fooled again." So now I have put my music on my computer to make it available to me wherever I am. And I have downloaded (legally) songs that I have already paid for (some twice).
Now the RIAA threatens to sue me for having my music online, claiming I am making these songs available to theives. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. This is tantamount to saying that if I watch a DVD on my porch, and the neighbors can look on, I have stolen from the copyright holder because I did not keep their product secure. Bullshit. If the RIAA wants to sue me for downloading music, and keeping it on the internet for my own private use (I don't steal music and don't enourage others to do so), then they have to prove that I have not legally bought these songs.
Now I have the money and inclination to oppose the bandits at the RIAA I say:
Bring it on!
Let the Japanese, and the Chinese, and the Russians, and the French, and the Saudi Arabians tag themselves. Easier for us to track them. Just don't try that crap in America. Live free or die.
We wouldn't be bowing to the French and their European Union of Socialist Republics on barcodes if George W. Bush were still alive.
Today our barcodes, tomorrow our guns.
Federalist government? Like:
1. Spending millions of tax dollars to hire federal employees to strip search granny at the airport.
2. Opposing Oregon's right to die law with federal dollars.
3. Opposing local medical marijuana laws with federal dollars.
4. Having the US Supreme Court overrule the State of Florida's right to choose its own electors in the 2000 election.
Federalism, bullshit. About the only time the conseervatives have favored states' rights is when it was an excuse to support slavery.
Only a third of people infected with smallpox (at most) die. And the vaccine can be effective when given days AFTER exposure. Exactly what was your plan for post-HBomb exposure? Smallpox is a red herring. Waved by fearmongers to impress the uninformed.
I don't expect the nerds on/. to get it, but, most of us buy computers to do some task and ease of use, elegance, and even snob appeal matter. Otherwise we would all be driving Hundyai's.
Why wait for a conviction? Or even a crime? Just take DNA from everyone at birth.
You guys are too quick to give up your privacy. You are ceding too much power to the government. Why couldn't the government just say, target nigge... I mean inner city types by making it a felony to smoke crack, but only a misdemeanor to do powdered cocaine and then differentially enforce the law so that we get a good database of, you know, those kind of people who usually commit crimes.
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in his 1999 comment: "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." --Thomas Jefferson
Not to mention: HITLER
People who make a living off the misfortune of others, like pay-day lenders, also have a fucked-up moral code. And just because they have money to influence legislators to make their practices legal, doesn't make it right.
Not to feed a troll, but your sigs a lie.
In a connected world there can be no privacy. It is still worth it. And if we follow a more robust exclusion of ill-gotten evidence in the courts, in employment, and in insurance, we will still find fairness. Free information = No secrets.
goes unrewarded.
Abramoff is a lifelong Republican. No Democrat got money from Abramoff, only Republicans. People who hired Abramoff also gave money to Democrats (ie Democrats got money from Abramoff clients). So what. Only Republicans got money from Abramoff. Abramoff is a lifelong Republican. Only Republicans are under investigation and indictment in this scandal. Are you unaware of the facts, or don't they matter to you?
It doesn't matter what Joe Wilson says about his wife's status at the CIA, he doesn't work there. The CIA requested an ivestigation of Bob Novak's outing of Plame because they thought they had been compromised, and a crime was committed. And Novak admits the CIA told him not to out Plame.
Novak and his informant impeded the ability of the US to find WMD's by outing a CIA front company set up for the purpose.
Johnnie Cochran didn't win the OJ case, the jury consultants OJ's lawyers hired did. I would sooner trust the first 12 jurors that were not involved in the case. leaving the judge to decide, than to jury consultants. In early American everyone knew everyone in town, and they managed to get reasonable verdicts.
When we were as old as Communist China we were enslaving Africans and slaughtering Native Americans to the point of extinction.
So anything you believe: there is a world that our senses are responding to, that we exist, etc, are unprovable beliefs. I am sure of NONE of it, believe NONE of it, can prove NONE of it, yet... I believe in beauty.
Except what are the hard drugs? Deaths in 2002: Tobacco 400,000 Alcohol 100,000 All illicit drugs combined 20,000 Alcohol and tobacco are the most dangerous, which is why they are legal. The dangerous ones are the ones people want to abuse most, which therefore have the largest constituencies, and therefore immune from banning.
Perhaps you would enlighten us with the eternal, non-relativistic, truths of morality.
Doesn't del.icio.us do what furl does, but without saving content? Does anyone know both these services?
You don't need security. You need to go out and interact with other students, professors, townies, etc. You overestimate your risks. You misunderstand what measures make you safer. Relax. Enjoy. Learn.
Then I find out that the RIAA's members had stolen from me by price fixing. They offered me $20 in compensation for this theft of thousands of dollars.
Well, as President Bush says: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, won't get fooled again." So now I have put my music on my computer to make it available to me wherever I am. And I have downloaded (legally) songs that I have already paid for (some twice).
Now the RIAA threatens to sue me for having my music online, claiming I am making these songs available to theives. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. This is tantamount to saying that if I watch a DVD on my porch, and the neighbors can look on, I have stolen from the copyright holder because I did not keep their product secure. Bullshit. If the RIAA wants to sue me for downloading music, and keeping it on the internet for my own private use (I don't steal music and don't enourage others to do so), then they have to prove that I have not legally bought these songs.
Now I have the money and inclination to oppose the bandits at the RIAA I say: Bring it on!
Price fixing is stealing!
Let the Japanese, and the Chinese, and the Russians, and the French, and the Saudi Arabians tag themselves. Easier for us to track them. Just don't try that crap in America. Live free or die.
We wouldn't be bowing to the French and their European Union of Socialist Republics on barcodes if George W. Bush were still alive. Today our barcodes, tomorrow our guns.
So, as you note in your post, it would be a "utopia" if we had less censorship. At least you grant the desirability of such.
Subcorollary: Bush will eventually defend himself by blaming Clinton.
Federalist government? Like: 1. Spending millions of tax dollars to hire federal employees to strip search granny at the airport. 2. Opposing Oregon's right to die law with federal dollars. 3. Opposing local medical marijuana laws with federal dollars. 4. Having the US Supreme Court overrule the State of Florida's right to choose its own electors in the 2000 election. Federalism, bullshit. About the only time the conseervatives have favored states' rights is when it was an excuse to support slavery.
Only a third of people infected with smallpox (at most) die. And the vaccine can be effective when given days AFTER exposure. Exactly what was your plan for post-HBomb exposure? Smallpox is a red herring. Waved by fearmongers to impress the uninformed.
I don't expect the nerds on /. to get it, but, most of us buy computers to do some task and ease of use, elegance, and even snob appeal matter. Otherwise we would all be driving Hundyai's.
Agreed. I, too, look down my nose at elitists.
Why wait for a conviction? Or even a crime? Just take DNA from everyone at birth. You guys are too quick to give up your privacy. You are ceding too much power to the government. Why couldn't the government just say, target nigge... I mean inner city types by making it a felony to smoke crack, but only a misdemeanor to do powdered cocaine and then differentially enforce the law so that we get a good database of, you know, those kind of people who usually commit crimes.