>>A torrent has one purpose, and one purpose alone
A cigarette also has only one purpose, which is to be smoked; this introduces known carcinogens to the body (and tobacco smokers have sky high cancer rates compared to non smokers). But tobacco companies are allowed to keep doing business under the "We don't know that, la la la, can't hear you" school of thought.
The point you make is correct, Rei. But I'd like to add that courts are often on the side of money instead of justice.
Disclaimer: I didn't really think about this in depth, I'm just shooting my mouth off. But I previewed!
I don't know if news sites are blocked in China, but I'm guessing that roughly 0.0% of chinese people are going to respond to your question in a "constructive" way. Can you imagine?
How-To (Score 1)
by SumYungGai (1234567890) on Thursday January 27, @29:78AM (#0000000000)
Hi Solo Han,
you ask an interesting question. It's not always easy to break the law here in China, and most people don't try because there is the danger of severe treatment if you get caught. The government takes this kind of thing very seriously, and has been known to make "examples" of people. Or not, if they just want the person gone. But anyway, how I get my porn and anti-communist news is basically that I use a satellite phone to dial into foreign dial-up services. It's not really fast, but as long as the government doesn't know about my sat phone, it works great.
Re:How-To (Score 1)
by SumYungGai (1234567890) on Thursday January 27, @34:81AM (#0000000000)
Hey, Solo Han? I kind of got caught by the Chinese police. They've taken my pants and sent someone to get a car battery. Any chance you could send me a few hundred thousand dollars american by wire, asap? I'd really appreciate it. Talk to you soon (I hope) *gulp*
//end sarcasm
I'm surprised this story even got posted. I mean, come on, even if we were talking about oh say, england instead of china, your asking how to break the law... majorly. Shouldn't this discussion be conducted on IRC in some "dark alley"? More to the point, shouldn't the real topic (if any) have been "W007! China it teh suck! let's laugh at their firewall! h4wh4wh4w... google firewall piercing.." (p.s. I am not 'elite')
>>Prove this, without bullshit speculation and unsupported computer projections.
Oh, so you're one of them, huh? Why should I bother? You'd deny that 1=1 if Ann Coulter blamed the "=" sign on "the liberals". Get real. What do you think rising sea levels will do to low lying inhabited regions? Wash the windows?
>>[my post]PS, someday entropy will increase to a maximum and *nothing* will be alive. That's a fact. [you]Prove it
Since it's already been proved the burden is on you to disprove that one.
>>I mean, the Germans during the holocaust had no idea what they were doing was terrible.
Not true. Some Germans cared, some didn't. To say that no Germans thought that mass murder was wrong is simply wrong.
>>The slaveowners actually thought they were doing a service by beating their slaves and forcing them to labor.
Only those who believed their own lies. Just because you keep up a front doesn't make it the truth.
What I find most ridiculous is that the same group of people who said that a black man is less than a white man and that kidnapping and enslaving africans was the "white man's burden" are the same group who pretend that they are the worlds single moral authority, and claim that as the basis for everything they are for. Infanticide has a longer history than civilization. Longer than our species. As far as opinions go, mine is that the fetus isn't a child until there's brain activity. None of this "potential" tripe that so many people bandy about. Until then it's just a lump of flesh.
You want to rail against "child murder"? How about the foetal deaths caused by pollution? How about all those dead kids in Iraq? Conservatives have no moral authority because they have continuously contradicted themselves.
If murder is murder, why have a death penalty? Why start preemptive wars? Political convenience, that's why. It's all a lie.
from article: "Thomas was stunned that her data was being openly traded online.
"I can't believe that people are allowed to do this kind of thing," she said. "Why can't [the authorities] do anything about this?"
The answer may be that the economics of online fraud -- which has such low start-up costs that luring only a few victims to divulge personal financial data can turn a huge profit for the perpetrator -- are so much in favor of the criminals that, at least for now, a continued increase in phishing activity is all but certain. "
>>I can't believe he's 30 years old in those photos
Amazing what a steady diet of babies can do, huh?
Yes, I'll take the call... Yes, speaking... evicted?.... summons?... Guantanamo?
afk - bbl
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>>Our vehicles are maintaining the "delicate balance" of the cooling and warming cycles.
OMFG! Pollution is keeping the global warming at bay? I'm going to race home right now and burn my garbage and all the gas I can buy! It's saving the future!
>>Just like science can't explain the pre-big bang universe
s/can't/hasn't/
If you want to quibble about missing data points even when the curve is clearly visible, maybe you'd like to explain to me where God is when kittens are run over by cars? Having his omnibenevolence washed and waxed? Please.
>>Of course there are facts in science. For example the way apples fall from trees or the way planets revolve around the Sun are all facts.
You're missing the point of what Ted Williams' Frozen said.
That an apple falls from a tree at time t is a fact. The WAY (or process by which) the apple falls from the tree would fall under theory - as in theory of gravity. Likewise for planetary orbits - That planets orbit the sun is a fact. WHY planets orbit the sun, falls under theory.
The issue with the stickers is that they use the word "theory" in an ambiguous way to imply that evolution is not credible on the grounds that it is a theory. Ted Williams' Frozen used gravity to point out that this implication is intellectually dishonest.
When Ted W Frozen said "nothing in science is a fact" I'm pretty sure he was expressing that in science, assertions are not elevated to the level of unquestionable dogma. I am pretty sure he was pointing out the fallacy of the sticker people - they want to have the schools teach that evolution is "one of many" explanations on the grounds that it is not irrefutably known to the last decimal, with every branch explored and every question answered fully.
Finally,
1)There's two parts to the "is evolution true" discussion: That species change over time, which is immutable fact. It's in the fossil record. Species change into other species. This is not a theory. The "theory" of evolution is about HOW species change over time.
2) I'm really glad the court was able to cut through the crap in this case. I was afraid that the court might be mislead on #1, or that their impartiallity might be compromised. After all, this would be a huge coup for the neocons.
You know the scene where Tron is on that boat-like thing that rides the laser? if you watch the landscape you can see a GIANT mickey mouse head outlined. It's bigger than the screen; it moves from right to left and it's a lighter blue than the ground. It's just a big circle with two smaller circles but it's definitely mickey's profile.
You know, a person who looks at a catastrophe like this and says "So much devastation.. but, I'll spend $40M on balloons and streamers anyway" probably doesn't give two shits about human suffering.
Oh wait, we're talking about president "geneva-what?" bush.
I'm surprised that using steel instead of aluminum would cut $130 off the price. Aluminum only costs about $0.83/lb. Does it cost a lot to shape or something? I'd expect the harder steel to cost more to work.
Steel is stronger so maybe they could use less, and not add too much weight. Of course every ounce they add will cost someone in shipping.
Anyone know why switching to steel saves so much $?
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A cigarette also has only one purpose, which is to be smoked; this introduces known carcinogens to the body (and tobacco smokers have sky high cancer rates compared to non smokers). But tobacco companies are allowed to keep doing business under the "We don't know that, la la la, can't hear you" school of thought.
The point you make is correct, Rei. But I'd like to add that courts are often on the side of money instead of justice.
Disclaimer: I didn't really think about this in depth, I'm just shooting my mouth off. But I previewed!
but meesa wait for the broadcast.
How-To (Score 1)
by SumYungGai (1234567890) on Thursday January 27, @29:78AM (#0000000000)
Hi Solo Han,
you ask an interesting question. It's not always easy to break the law here in China, and most people don't try because there is the danger of severe treatment if you get caught. The government takes this kind of thing very seriously, and has been known to make "examples" of people. Or not, if they just want the person gone. But anyway, how I get my porn and anti-communist news is basically that I use a satellite phone to dial into foreign dial-up services. It's not really fast, but as long as the government doesn't know about my sat phone, it works great.
//end sarcasm
I'm surprised this story even got posted. I mean, come on, even if we were talking about oh say, england instead of china, your asking how to break the law... majorly. Shouldn't this discussion be conducted on IRC in some "dark alley"? More to the point, shouldn't the real topic (if any) have been "W007! China it teh suck! let's laugh at their firewall! h4wh4wh4w... google firewall piercing.." (p.s. I am not 'elite')
Yet somehow, today that man is the president of the united states.
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-1, flamebait
-1, troll
-1, overratted
ow, ow, ow ow.. :)
you can destroy my karma, but you can never wipe the smile off my face.
No one does, despite claims to by some.
Oh, so you're one of them, huh? Why should I bother? You'd deny that 1=1 if Ann Coulter blamed the "=" sign on "the liberals". Get real. What do you think rising sea levels will do to low lying inhabited regions? Wash the windows?
>>[my post]PS, someday entropy will increase to a maximum and *nothing* will be alive. That's a fact. [you]Prove it
Since it's already been proved the burden is on you to disprove that one.
Here's a cloth for your froth.
fleigende kindersheisse!
Not true. Some Germans cared, some didn't. To say that no Germans thought that mass murder was wrong is simply wrong.
>>The slaveowners actually thought they were doing a service by beating their slaves and forcing them to labor.
Only those who believed their own lies. Just because you keep up a front doesn't make it the truth.
What I find most ridiculous is that the same group of people who said that a black man is less than a white man and that kidnapping and enslaving africans was the "white man's burden" are the same group who pretend that they are the worlds single moral authority, and claim that as the basis for everything they are for. Infanticide has a longer history than civilization. Longer than our species. As far as opinions go, mine is that the fetus isn't a child until there's brain activity. None of this "potential" tripe that so many people bandy about. Until then it's just a lump of flesh.
You want to rail against "child murder"? How about the foetal deaths caused by pollution? How about all those dead kids in Iraq? Conservatives have no moral authority because they have continuously contradicted themselves.
If murder is murder, why have a death penalty? Why start preemptive wars? Political convenience, that's why. It's all a lie.
The sun will burn out.. in roughly 4 billion years. Billion ... as in, a thousand thousand thousand.
Global warming could cause major havoc within *this century*.
Hey, terrorists might kill us, but we only live around 60-80 years anyway, so analogously, who cares, right?
Just because you won't live forever is a real stupid reason to walk into traffic.
PS, someday entropy will increase to a maximum and *nothing* will be alive. That's a fact. It doesn't mean we lay down and stop breathing.
"I can't believe that people are allowed to do this kind of thing," she said. "Why can't [the authorities] do anything about this?"
The answer may be that the economics of online fraud -- which has such low start-up costs that luring only a few victims to divulge personal financial data can turn a huge profit for the perpetrator -- are so much in favor of the criminals that, at least for now, a continued increase in phishing activity is all but certain. "
Crime pays. News at 11. </cynicism>
Yeah, not my best work. :-/
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(I got a 7/10)
Amazing what a steady diet of babies can do, huh?
Yes, I'll take the call... Yes, speaking... evicted? .... summons? ... Guantanamo?
afk - bbl
OMFG! Pollution is keeping the global warming at bay? I'm going to race home right now and burn my garbage and all the gas I can buy! It's saving the future!
Haven't you heard?
>>Just like science can't explain the pre-big bang universe
s/can't/hasn't/
If you want to quibble about missing data points even when the curve is clearly visible, maybe you'd like to explain to me where God is when kittens are run over by cars? Having his omnibenevolence washed and waxed? Please.
You're missing the point of what Ted Williams' Frozen said.
That an apple falls from a tree at time t is a fact. The WAY (or process by which) the apple falls from the tree would fall under theory - as in theory of gravity. Likewise for planetary orbits - That planets orbit the sun is a fact. WHY planets orbit the sun, falls under theory.
The issue with the stickers is that they use the word "theory" in an ambiguous way to imply that evolution is not credible on the grounds that it is a theory. Ted Williams' Frozen used gravity to point out that this implication is intellectually dishonest.
When Ted W Frozen said "nothing in science is a fact" I'm pretty sure he was expressing that in science, assertions are not elevated to the level of unquestionable dogma. I am pretty sure he was pointing out the fallacy of the sticker people - they want to have the schools teach that evolution is "one of many" explanations on the grounds that it is not irrefutably known to the last decimal, with every branch explored and every question answered fully.
Finally,
1)There's two parts to the "is evolution true" discussion: That species change over time, which is immutable fact. It's in the fossil record. Species change into other species. This is not a theory. The "theory" of evolution is about HOW species change over time.
2) I'm really glad the court was able to cut through the crap in this case. I was afraid that the court might be mislead on #1, or that their impartiallity might be compromised. After all, this would be a huge coup for the neocons.
You know the scene where Tron is on that boat-like thing that rides the laser? if you watch the landscape you can see a GIANT mickey mouse head outlined. It's bigger than the screen; it moves from right to left and it's a lighter blue than the ground. It's just a big circle with two smaller circles but it's definitely mickey's profile.
Oh wait, we're talking about president "geneva-what?" bush.
Insurance fraud, eh..?
:}
Damn, and I'm already 1.37 microseconds late to work every day!
Steel is stronger so maybe they could use less, and not add too much weight. Of course every ounce they add will cost someone in shipping.
Anyone know why switching to steel saves so much $?
thanks :)
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