So you're OK with everyone on Earth seeing everything you've ever done?
Note: Just in case you were thinking of answering "yes" to obtusely attempt to poke a hole in my point, this is a trick question. Only a person with the shamelessness of a psychopath can honestly say they've never done something they regret doing and would be happy for everyone to scrutinize everything they ever did.
There is no chance of an anti-monarchy revolt. All Thais, without exception, revere the King. The current state was brought about by the educated classes rejecting the current prime minister, as they think he is just a proxy for the old elitist prime minister who fled the country and is now wanted on corruption charges.
They feel that the poor classes were bribed into voting for the current prime minister with cheap election promises, easy to do when 90% of the population are poor, politically naive and cannot comprenend the disgustingly amoral free-for-all that is modern politics. They are still from a generation that comes from the ability to hear what your leader says, and know that it is reliable because if they were a liar, they would not be a leader.
The Thai king, in my opinion, is perhaps the only leader in the modern world with his people's interests genuinely at heart, and the Thai people are one of the few that genuinely look out for each other as a society. They are proof to me that the western conceptoin that self-interest alone drives a society is a total load of bullshit.
The educated classes are fighting for, what they see, the interests of the country as a whole, not just their own secure demographic. Unlike in the western world, bribing land owners with promises of an interest rate cut doesn't work in a Thai election.
Disclaimer: I don't live in Thailand, but I do my scuba dive training there and I'm fairly familiar with Thai society for a farang.
You sir, are making the wrong argument, in the wrong discussion on the wrong web site.
a) This discussion has nothing at all to do with copyright and IP, it's about government censoring anti-government web sites. b) This is Slashdot. Take your anti-piracy sentiments to where someone cares. Like, say, the RIAA offices.
Yea but if you write a virus to kill their viruses, then your virus could mutate into something malicious and then spread. Then you'd need a bigger virus to kill those, and then those. Pretty soon you'd be emailing out blocks of code the size of an operating system.
It's like in Australia. The first farmers imported beetles to kill off the local locusts, then they found that the beetles didnt die and ate crops too. So they imported cane toads, which also ended up eating all the crops. They they tried cats, which ended up just running away and eating local fauna which were much tastier than cane toads, so they brought in foxes to prey on the cats. Then the foxes became a problem so they sent all the criminals there to kill the foxes. But the criminals got bored of that pretty quickly, and that's how we got Australian rules football.
Fingernail file? Jeez, if a fingernail file brandished by a woman can drive terror into the soul of a technician, no wonder those bumbling idiots were able to take over a plane with boxcutters!
Lady: Hold it right there mister. You're not going anywhere. If you even try to leave me with no internet I'll... I'll... I'll give you a manicure!
Tech: No! Please don't! It's taken me weeks to get into this disgusting state of personal hygiene, and if you clean my fingernails, the other geeks in the office will make fun of me again!
In other news, world fears impact of American tourists.
Seriously, this article has the unspoken and absurd implication that the US is a victim of other people's pollution. As if the US isn't the biggest pollution emitter.
Seriously, those scientists need to get off that political high horse of theirs.
Come on now. I'm getting tired of all the "I'm thinking of learning $fooCommonThing and I need Slashdot to spoon feed me Google results." type questions.
I cannot believe this made front page when there are other, rather good questions in the firehose that would result in good dialog and idea exchange, but that get rejected.
Seriously, is there some shortage on Java dicumentation out there or something? Granted, I don't know the language as I never had a need for it, but I can't trip over without falling into a pile of Java tutorials.
Perhaps that could also prove Hawking radiation. Winos get drunk and then eat too much, and then emit Hawking radiation all over the nearest park bench.
we could afford to squeeze more taxes out of our people if we really had to
WTF? You've already got the largest home default rate in the first world, one of the highest tax rates on low income earners and shitty government spending on education and health care per capita even when compared to many third world nations, and you think there's room to take *more* from US citizens? Dude, thank GOD I don't live in a country you're in charge of.
Russia is not the same nation as it was in the '70s and '80s. It is nearly broke, and has a disorganised and ill-equipped military.
As opposed to the US which has a highly organized military that is heavily dependent on the drip-feeding of massive quantities of tax dollars that are fast becoming scarcer and scarcer, fed to it by a government that is now so deep in debt that it it unlikely that anyone alive today will ever see it balance.
If you ask me, Russia has a greater capacity to wage war than the US currently, after when you factor in the miserable state of US government financial conditions and the world at large's hostility towards US military adventurism.
Yea, because voting for someone other than democrat or republican is a waste of time, even if you don't agree with the democratic or republican political platforms.
The person, people, or company has the right to do WHATEVER they f*cking want with their systems.
And I will re-iterate that this is not the case. Companies and bodies that perform a public service are held to a higher standard than normal citizens. Your neighbor invites you into his house for a tea party has no duty to deliver that tea, nor do you have a right to sue if it is not delivered as you want it.
Banks, telecommunications carriers, national airlines, national electricity providers etc are all controlled by legislation that binds them to provide a certain level of service to the community. They are *not* allowed to do whatever they want with their systems, even in the absence of a contract, as they are given the right to operate in that business based upon their guarantee to uphold certain rights of their clients. They are, in a way, public utilities.
These special cases of companies are defined in law, and make a huge difference to the way a company can conduct business. The massive regulations placed upon banks is the reason PayPal fought so hard to not be defined as a bank, because they knew that if they were defined as a bank, that they would no longer be able to do "whatever the f*ck they wanted with their systems".
Slashdot Mirror
Open and transparent to the government and / or the powerful elite != open and transparent to you.
So you're OK with everyone on Earth seeing everything you've ever done?
Note: Just in case you were thinking of answering "yes" to obtusely attempt to poke a hole in my point, this is a trick question. Only a person with the shamelessness of a psychopath can honestly say they've never done something they regret doing and would be happy for everyone to scrutinize everything they ever did.
You my friend know nothing of Thai politics.
There is no chance of an anti-monarchy revolt. All Thais, without exception, revere the King. The current state was brought about by the educated classes rejecting the current prime minister, as they think he is just a proxy for the old elitist prime minister who fled the country and is now wanted on corruption charges.
They feel that the poor classes were bribed into voting for the current prime minister with cheap election promises, easy to do when 90% of the population are poor, politically naive and cannot comprenend the disgustingly amoral free-for-all that is modern politics. They are still from a generation that comes from the ability to hear what your leader says, and know that it is reliable because if they were a liar, they would not be a leader.
The Thai king, in my opinion, is perhaps the only leader in the modern world with his people's interests genuinely at heart, and the Thai people are one of the few that genuinely look out for each other as a society. They are proof to me that the western conceptoin that self-interest alone drives a society is a total load of bullshit.
The educated classes are fighting for, what they see, the interests of the country as a whole, not just their own secure demographic. Unlike in the western world, bribing land owners with promises of an interest rate cut doesn't work in a Thai election.
Disclaimer: I don't live in Thailand, but I do my scuba dive training there and I'm fairly familiar with Thai society for a farang.
Clearly he's right. There are no crazy people on the Internet.
You sir, are making the wrong argument, in the wrong discussion on the wrong web site.
a) This discussion has nothing at all to do with copyright and IP, it's about government censoring anti-government web sites.
b) This is Slashdot. Take your anti-piracy sentiments to where someone cares. Like, say, the RIAA offices.
Yea but if you write a virus to kill their viruses, then your virus could mutate into something malicious and then spread. Then you'd need a bigger virus to kill those, and then those. Pretty soon you'd be emailing out blocks of code the size of an operating system.
It's like in Australia. The first farmers imported beetles to kill off the local locusts, then they found that the beetles didnt die and ate crops too. So they imported cane toads, which also ended up eating all the crops. They they tried cats, which ended up just running away and eating local fauna which were much tastier than cane toads, so they brought in foxes to prey on the cats. Then the foxes became a problem so they sent all the criminals there to kill the foxes. But the criminals got bored of that pretty quickly, and that's how we got Australian rules football.
Yea but I have a lower UID than you, so ner.
Fingernail file? Jeez, if a fingernail file brandished by a woman can drive terror into the soul of a technician, no wonder those bumbling idiots were able to take over a plane with boxcutters!
Lady: Hold it right there mister. You're not going anywhere. If you even try to leave me with no internet I'll... I'll... I'll give you a manicure!
Tech: No! Please don't! It's taken me weeks to get into this disgusting state of personal hygiene, and if you clean my fingernails, the other geeks in the office will make fun of me again!
#4 can get you shot. You can't claim they started it if you're dead with a pair of scissors in your cold dead fingers.
In other news, world fears impact of American tourists.
Seriously, this article has the unspoken and absurd implication that the US is a victim of other people's pollution. As if the US isn't the biggest pollution emitter.
Seriously, those scientists need to get off that political high horse of theirs.
Come on now. I'm getting tired of all the "I'm thinking of learning $fooCommonThing and I need Slashdot to spoon feed me Google results." type questions.
I cannot believe this made front page when there are other, rather good questions in the firehose that would result in good dialog and idea exchange, but that get rejected.
Seriously, is there some shortage on Java dicumentation out there or something? Granted, I don't know the language as I never had a need for it, but I can't trip over without falling into a pile of Java tutorials.
Here's my answer to this particular Ask Slashdot.
Perhaps that could also prove Hawking radiation. Winos get drunk and then eat too much, and then emit Hawking radiation all over the nearest park bench.
WTF? You've already got the largest home default rate in the first world, one of the highest tax rates on low income earners and shitty government spending on education and health care per capita even when compared to many third world nations, and you think there's room to take *more* from US citizens? Dude, thank GOD I don't live in a country you're in charge of.
As opposed to the US which has a highly organized military that is heavily dependent on the drip-feeding of massive quantities of tax dollars that are fast becoming scarcer and scarcer, fed to it by a government that is now so deep in debt that it it unlikely that anyone alive today will ever see it balance.
If you ask me, Russia has a greater capacity to wage war than the US currently, after when you factor in the miserable state of US government financial conditions and the world at large's hostility towards US military adventurism.
That's assuming, of course, that the one million people who oppose the US government should be considered the "bad guys".
Can you say "protected by government that fabricates need a for security and claims it is more important than the long term health of a free society"?
Optimist.
"the idea of having a back up ring is pure genius."
No it's not. Every time I tell people I've got problems due to not having a backup they call me an idiot, so it seems it's just common sense.
Unlikely. You forget where you are.
Yea, because voting for someone other than democrat or republican is a waste of time, even if you don't agree with the democratic or republican political platforms.
There's a joke in here somewhere about nanowires being phallic and nanotubes, but I'm far to mature to make it.
More to the point, does this have ramifications for non-optical atomic clocks?
That's no vibrator...
Hmm... I see. So you're saying "companies can do whatever they want, except when they can't".
In other words, you were saying nothing useful at all.
And I will re-iterate that this is not the case. Companies and bodies that perform a public service are held to a higher standard than normal citizens. Your neighbor invites you into his house for a tea party has no duty to deliver that tea, nor do you have a right to sue if it is not delivered as you want it.
Banks, telecommunications carriers, national airlines, national electricity providers etc are all controlled by legislation that binds them to provide a certain level of service to the community. They are *not* allowed to do whatever they want with their systems, even in the absence of a contract, as they are given the right to operate in that business based upon their guarantee to uphold certain rights of their clients. They are, in a way, public utilities.
These special cases of companies are defined in law, and make a huge difference to the way a company can conduct business. The massive regulations placed upon banks is the reason PayPal fought so hard to not be defined as a bank, because they knew that if they were defined as a bank, that they would no longer be able to do "whatever the f*ck they wanted with their systems".