After that experience, I back up all my truly critical data (if we really think about what's critical most of us don't have that much... no, your House, M.D..AVIs don't count)
I find it interesting that you felt the need to tell me to go and buy guns when I also mentioned the 4th and 5th amendments as being eroded by our political process.
Unless you plan to put it in your car to give the finger to people honking at you in queue
Why give 'em the finger? You could generate messages instead:
"If you are close enough to read this, watch out for brake checks."
"This car protected by Smith & Wesson"
"If I passed you on the right you are in the wrong fucking lane"
"My kid beat up your honor student"
"Bad cop. No donut."
I think you've mistaken this site for another one where your whining would have received a more favorable audience. I quoted Jefferson and you responded with a completely unrelated rant about Jim Crow and the gay rights movement? WTF?
It's an outrage how our freedoms and liberties are being eroded by the liberals and the ACLU and George Soros and Michael Moore and Al Gore!
Where was the word 'liberal' used in my original post and why are you playing the victimization card? I don't limit my blame to the liberals when talking about the Government taking away my liberties. Conservatives are all too happy to erode my 4th and 5th amendment rights. Liberals are all too happy to erode my 2nd amendment rights.
As far as I'm concerned neither side can be trusted. Any illusions I had to the contrary evaporated when Obama reversed himself on FISA.
Huh. Well this is obviously untrue. More Americans enjoy far more liberty today than at any period in American history, perhaps in human history. Yeah, it's not perfect, but we're doing a lot better than our grandparents did, despite the extra government we choose to have.
That whooshing sound was the point flying right over your head.
Just to burst your 'toughguy' bubble, I'll remind you how little artillery you have, how few helicopters you have, the sorry state of your anti-aircraft weaponry and your total and complete lack of tanks.
Yeah, if it comes down to lawless gangwars, you're pretty fucked, dontcha think?
I guess that depends. It's not as though a bunch of people armed with rifles could make trouble for a force armed with helicopters and tanks. It's not like that at all.....
I was a bit disappointed when Enron collapsed and took all of those folks' retirements with them
Those folks had no one to blame for that but themselves. Loading up your retirement accounts with company stock is universally regarded as a very bad idea. If they had bothered to learn what kind of investments they were making and diversify they would have been much better off.
I've seen no proof whatever that copyright infringement has cost anyone a nickle, and in many cases (e.g., Photoshop) has cause programs to become insanely popular and made tons of cash
Windows too. Wonder how much more popular Linux would be in the developing world if Windows wasn't so easy to pirate? Microsoft is locking in a whole generation of consumers and it's costing them zero in marketing. Hard to argue with that isn't it?
Here is a similar quote: "The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
Some other interesting ones on the same page: "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
I blame it on the Supreme Court. In Reynolds v. Sims they ruled that all state legislative districts (even State Senate districts) have to be roughly equal in population. Prior to that ruling most State Senates were configured geographically like the US Senate -- which tended to keep the cities from dominating the countryside. The lower house was then configured for population in the same manner as the House of Representatives.
I'd really like to know why it's permissible for the US Senate to violate "one man, one vote" but not for upper houses in state legislatures to do the same. This is a mini version of what the smaller states feared when the Constitution was first being drafted -- they'd be dominated by the larger states because they would never be able to equal them in population.
In NYS it's particularly offensive. Upstate has 40% of the state's population and 0% of the statewide offices. This whole state is run from New York City and the rest of us are just left behind. I'd love to see the Sims ruling reversed. Hell, it might even be unconstitutional anyway: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government
If you frame the question properly in the US I bet you would get a surprising amount of support for government censorship.
Yeah, but the nice thing about our system is that a surprising amount of support isn't sufficient to deny rights outlined in the Constitution. In theory anyway.
New York City pays $11 billion more in State taxes than it gets back in funding despite being the economic engine of the State.
Speaking as an Upstater let me make you an offer: Find your own water supply and keep your convicted felons in downstate facilities and we'll refund you all of that money. Oh and stop trying to impose your gun control agenda on the rest of the state.
It's as if the don't know how to do what every American family does every day - pinch pennies & cut spending.
Paterson is trying to do that. I commend him for his efforts even though I work for a health care facility that receives >90% of our funding from Albany. We could be in for some hard times if the cuts are aimed at OMH. But I don't care -- New York State has ignored fiscal reality for far too long and it's time to rein in spending.
Whether or not the legislature actually goes along with it is a different matter altogether. I foresee another late budget and a lot of fighting in Albany in the months ahead. At least they won't be able to blame partisan politics this time -- the Democrats control both chambers now -- it will just be good ole fashioned greed.
Which is probably why there are so few elaborate bank-jobs
And I could actually understand the motivation for an elaborate bank-job. You disable the alarm, tunnel into the bank, break open the vault and walk away with a cool million or so. I could get behind that. A million bucks is worth the chance of going to prison......
What isn't worth the chance of going to prison is the dumbass who holds up the bank with a gun and walks away with a lousy $10,000. Even worse is the dumbass who holds up the gas station with a gun and walks away with less than $100. Clearly they didn't do a proper cost benefit analysis;)
I don't understand why any criminal who, even occasionally, touches a computer, doesn't use a generous amount of encryption. Encryption stymies any attempt at, after the fact, detection.
Because most criminals are idiots to begin with. Seriously. Ask any cop how many criminals they've arrested whom would have gotten away with whatever crime they committed if they had kept their mouths shut. Combine that level of stupidity with the fact that the typical criminal isn't going to be very computer savvy and you can see why few of them use encryption.
and they weren't able to get enough power to make it really worthwhile. They concluded that it was possible but that you'd need a really large rig to get worthwhile amounts of power and that such a rig would be easily detectable.
It's kind of hard to justify a lot of things that the Government does. Why not just do as the GP suggests? Remove the barriers preventing other companies from running their own lines.
Slashdot Mirror
and I'm sure the feeds are going to some hard drive array somewhere.
Nah, they go to my house. You should really be more careful where your pick your nose, btw ;)
After that experience, I back up all my truly critical data (if we really think about what's critical most of us don't have that much ... no, your House, M.D. .AVIs don't count)
What about my porn, xxx .AVIs?
I find it interesting that you felt the need to tell me to go and buy guns when I also mentioned the 4th and 5th amendments as being eroded by our political process.
Never underestimate a technology's capacity to be used for porn.
Rumor has it that man learned to walk upright to free his hands for "other" uses ;)
Unless you plan to put it in your car to give the finger to people honking at you in queue
Why give 'em the finger? You could generate messages instead:
"If you are close enough to read this, watch out for brake checks."
"This car protected by Smith & Wesson"
"If I passed you on the right you are in the wrong fucking lane"
"My kid beat up your honor student"
"Bad cop. No donut."
The possibilities are endless ;)
I think you've mistaken this site for another one where your whining would have received a more favorable audience. I quoted Jefferson and you responded with a completely unrelated rant about Jim Crow and the gay rights movement? WTF?
It's an outrage how our freedoms and liberties are being eroded by the liberals and the ACLU and George Soros and Michael Moore and Al Gore!
Where was the word 'liberal' used in my original post and why are you playing the victimization card? I don't limit my blame to the liberals when talking about the Government taking away my liberties. Conservatives are all too happy to erode my 4th and 5th amendment rights. Liberals are all too happy to erode my 2nd amendment rights.
As far as I'm concerned neither side can be trusted. Any illusions I had to the contrary evaporated when Obama reversed himself on FISA.
Huh. Well this is obviously untrue. More Americans enjoy far more liberty today than at any period in American history, perhaps in human history. Yeah, it's not perfect, but we're doing a lot better than our grandparents did, despite the extra government we choose to have.
That whooshing sound was the point flying right over your head.
Just to burst your 'toughguy' bubble, I'll remind you how little artillery you have, how few helicopters you have, the sorry state of your anti-aircraft weaponry and your total and complete lack of tanks.
Yeah, if it comes down to lawless gangwars, you're pretty fucked, dontcha think?
I guess that depends. It's not as though a bunch of people armed with rifles could make trouble for a force armed with helicopters and tanks. It's not like that at all.....
I was a bit disappointed when Enron collapsed and took all of those folks' retirements with them
Those folks had no one to blame for that but themselves. Loading up your retirement accounts with company stock is universally regarded as a very bad idea. If they had bothered to learn what kind of investments they were making and diversify they would have been much better off.
I've seen no proof whatever that copyright infringement has cost anyone a nickle, and in many cases (e.g., Photoshop) has cause programs to become insanely popular and made tons of cash
Windows too. Wonder how much more popular Linux would be in the developing world if Windows wasn't so easy to pirate? Microsoft is locking in a whole generation of consumers and it's costing them zero in marketing. Hard to argue with that isn't it?
Here is a similar quote: "The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
Some other interesting ones on the same page: "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
I blame it on the Supreme Court. In Reynolds v. Sims they ruled that all state legislative districts (even State Senate districts) have to be roughly equal in population. Prior to that ruling most State Senates were configured geographically like the US Senate -- which tended to keep the cities from dominating the countryside. The lower house was then configured for population in the same manner as the House of Representatives.
I'd really like to know why it's permissible for the US Senate to violate "one man, one vote" but not for upper houses in state legislatures to do the same. This is a mini version of what the smaller states feared when the Constitution was first being drafted -- they'd be dominated by the larger states because they would never be able to equal them in population.
In NYS it's particularly offensive. Upstate has 40% of the state's population and 0% of the statewide offices. This whole state is run from New York City and the rest of us are just left behind. I'd love to see the Sims ruling reversed. Hell, it might even be unconstitutional anyway: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government
If you frame the question properly in the US I bet you would get a surprising amount of support for government censorship.
Yeah, but the nice thing about our system is that a surprising amount of support isn't sufficient to deny rights outlined in the Constitution. In theory anyway.
New York City pays $11 billion more in State taxes than it gets back in funding despite being the economic engine of the State.
Speaking as an Upstater let me make you an offer: Find your own water supply and keep your convicted felons in downstate facilities and we'll refund you all of that money. Oh and stop trying to impose your gun control agenda on the rest of the state.
New York is welcome to send the police to Southern Pennsylvania to try to arrest me
They'll do worse than that. They'll send lawyers ;)
It's as if the don't know how to do what every American family does every day - pinch pennies & cut spending.
Paterson is trying to do that. I commend him for his efforts even though I work for a health care facility that receives >90% of our funding from Albany. We could be in for some hard times if the cuts are aimed at OMH. But I don't care -- New York State has ignored fiscal reality for far too long and it's time to rein in spending.
Whether or not the legislature actually goes along with it is a different matter altogether. I foresee another late budget and a lot of fighting in Albany in the months ahead. At least they won't be able to blame partisan politics this time -- the Democrats control both chambers now -- it will just be good ole fashioned greed.
Which is probably why there are so few elaborate bank-jobs
And I could actually understand the motivation for an elaborate bank-job. You disable the alarm, tunnel into the bank, break open the vault and walk away with a cool million or so. I could get behind that. A million bucks is worth the chance of going to prison......
What isn't worth the chance of going to prison is the dumbass who holds up the bank with a gun and walks away with a lousy $10,000. Even worse is the dumbass who holds up the gas station with a gun and walks away with less than $100. Clearly they didn't do a proper cost benefit analysis ;)
I don't understand why any criminal who, even occasionally, touches a computer, doesn't use a generous amount of encryption. Encryption stymies any attempt at, after the fact, detection.
Because most criminals are idiots to begin with. Seriously. Ask any cop how many criminals they've arrested whom would have gotten away with whatever crime they committed if they had kept their mouths shut. Combine that level of stupidity with the fact that the typical criminal isn't going to be very computer savvy and you can see why few of them use encryption.
and they weren't able to get enough power to make it really worthwhile. They concluded that it was possible but that you'd need a really large rig to get worthwhile amounts of power and that such a rig would be easily detectable.
How many atoms would it require to construct silicon chips to simulate every atom on the earth? In the universe?
42
the Matrix
I hope they find a way to power it that doesn't violate thermodynamics ;)
Any idea about the stance of her probable replacement?
Depends on if that replacement is appointed before or after January 20th ;)
(didn't know you could get addicted to guns)
You've clearly never been to Northeast Pennsylvania ;)
It's kind of hard to justify a lot of things that the Government does. Why not just do as the GP suggests? Remove the barriers preventing other companies from running their own lines.
Oh, and we should start flunking kids that get to their senior year of high school and can't read.
They should have been flunked a long time before high school if they can't read......