If people like Spiderman, then let them watch Spiderman. If they can't relate to it by virtue of the particulars of it's setting, then write something else - just don't call it Spiderman.
Coming up next, Batman becomes a singapore prostitute who turns tricks by day and fights crime by night...
This ruling doesn't change the fact that police just can't ask to for your name for no reason at all.
If you think that, then you weren't paying attention. 'Reasonable suspicion' consistutes whatever the cops want it to constitute, whereas the fourth and fifth ammendments make it pretty clear that we don't have to give an officer jack shit based on his 'reasonable suspicion'.
It'd be nice if political theory were actually taught in public schools, as opposed to the watered-down liberal crap you obviously learned.
Police officers, almost by definition, assume you guilty until proven innocent...part of this being that they are trained to intimidate people to get them to cough up the truth, the other part being that, in their experience, damn near everyone they run into is guilty of something, and so they tend to view everyone as being guilty until proven innocent. No matter what you do, you're not going to be 'clean' in their eyes.
Even if this were not the case, there's still the matter that this is a clear erosion of our rights. There is no reason that a man should be compelled to give his name for any reason. If an officer has reason to arrest a man, then take him into custody, grab his prints, and find out who he is that way; if a man is not otherwise wanted for an offense, then an officer has no business asking anyone their name for any reason. Officers are not there to compel anyone to give an account of what they saw of a criminal act, nor should they be,
nor are they there to harass people.
Police officers are, and properly should be, there solely for the purpose of arresting individuals who have been accused of a crime,
or are being accused of a crime by a third party, or who are being accused fo a crime by the officer, for which he shall have been a witness thereto, or where he has seen evidence thereof in plain sight or which was discovered if/when the accused allowed them to voluntarily search their person or property. That's it. Finito. End of line.
Anything above and beyond that is beyond their authority and constitutes a clear abuse of power.
Canada isn't faring much better, and they're spiraling down the path of tyranny just like every other nation on Earth. There is, quite simply, nowhere left to hide. This isn't Britain, we're not the Pilgrims, and there's no New World to run to.
HAND.
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And like any other congregation of people, Slashdot attracts a particular demographic, which in this case consists of barely-literate baboons who think that by virtue of being able to admin linux boxen their nuts are elephantine, indeed titanic compared to others.
Everyone likes to think they don't fit into that category. Everyone likes to think they're a beautiful , unique snowflake... but they do, and they're not.
The truth of the matter is that there is such a thing as a stereotypical slashdothead, and the stereotypical slashdork doesn't read the article, nor does he follow useful links.
Instead of sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending that this is a troll, and slashdot is filled with some random sampling of people (only part of which are morons), why not admit to the fact that slashdot _is_ full of morons and try _doing_ something about it? For example:
Stop modding up goatse boys. It's not funny. It never was.
Bring the whole American/European pissing contest in every thread to a screeching halt.
Instead of posting under threads where you have no damn earthly reason to be doing so by virtue of your crass ignorance of the topic at hand, try sticking to topics you _do_ know something about.
When Taco-head posts a dup... don't bother reaming him in the forums... he doesn't read those either.
If the Slashdotties could just follow these simple rules, it'd make the world a better place, with pretty pink flowers and unicorns!
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Of course not. They just saw a link and say, "Ooooh, this guy is helpful"... +1 Informative!
Of course, neither of us should really bother mentioning this, since it's well known that slashdotheads never read the fucking article, so why should they be expected to follow a link? Never think too highly of slashdotters, and you'll never be disappointed.
You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are made of the same decaying organic waste as everything else. We are all part of the same compost heaps.
Tyler's words coming out of my mouth... and I used to be such a nice guy.
Yup. Back in the day, we called this "Lisp". It was about as readable as XML, but a hella lot more fun.
What really got me is that they think merging the functionality of a compiler, linker, debugger, et al. via some sort of component framework is really anything new. Forth and Lisp were producing tightly-integrated development systems _thirty years ago_. Thank you, Mr. Moore and Mr. McCarthy.
Enterprise jumped the shark already. Bringing in Shatner for a guest shot is nothing more than a cheap attempt by Rick Ahab to drop some chum in the water... bring the shark back around for another game of chicken. It won't work.
If anything, this will only hasten the demise of a franchise that's been circling the drain for years.
Berman, flush twice on your way out -- it's a long way to the writer's department.
Last I heard, the Greek government was refusing to allow anyone to dive in that area. So, realistically, even if this guy could prove conclusively that he'd found a landmass of disturbed rubble roughly matching the dimensions of the island as described in Plato's Critias, you still couldn't say, "Yes, this is Atlantis!"... unless you want to go diving for artifacts to prove it conclusively... which the Greeks won't let anyone do (I believe).
> Spain is one of the largest economies in Europe and one of the largest tourist venues in the world.
And this impacts me as an individual...how?
> Apart from this, are you preparing to negate the value of communicating with a whole country for the convenience of not having to delete a few emails?
Key word: value. Communicating with spain has no value for me. I imagine that this is true for the vast majority of the world as well. However, for those few people that do need to talk to someone in spain, I would rather that they have some means to contact people therein that doesn't involve making the rest of us suffer emails regarding Paris Hilton sex tapes, penis enlargement pills, and great offers to make money fast. This isn't about convenience... this is about having my bandwidth wasted by this crap (something which wont be resolved by filtering on my end). This is about being _harassed_ with the tacit consent of major countries. I'm sorry, but if takes net.death to make some nations stand up and make it easier to track spammers down and grind them into snail snot, then let's do it.
> For my e-mail server I filter out domains that spammers use. And I get very little spam as a result.
Really? You must not get much spam from.cz. You may not think that spam is a political problem, but it's not like any chinese carrier really gives a damn about what some American thinks about one of their users spamming. "Hah. Come and get me, jerk" - that's what they're thinking. So long as spammers are free to harass people with impunity and the cost of prosecution is insanely high and no one is motivated to stop them, well, banning countries that don't take steps to lower those costs sounds like a great idea... again, with the provision that users be able to bypass such aggressive filtering to receive mail from such domains if they see fit.
How many of you actually receive legitimate mail from spain? Were it up to me, I'd ban all of China while we're at it. Insofar as end-users can exempt themselves from blocking so they can still receive mail from nations-non-grata then I wouldn't have a problem with banning mail from half the planet.
Sadly, though, my ISP doesn't give me that option... but they should.
I wonder if Slashdotters ever read the fucking article.
They're talking about the use of memory alloys for a flexible wing which, in tandem with the segmented skin, will allow the wings to be deformed in-flight to adjust its aerodynamic properties. Think of it like having a wing with hundreds or thousands of flaps which could be raised or lowered in sections to change the profile of the wing to fit any situation.
WORK FOR LESS. Foreigners are working for less and they end up getting the work. What part of that do you fail to grasp? Don't like it? Either make people aware of the harm they're doing (anyone remember BUY AMERICAN?), or maybe try something a bit more constructive - such as finding some people to room with in a co-op so you can lower your cost of living, or organizing a lobby to get some of the absurd laws on our books thrown out so that the cost of doing business over here isn't so damn high (which might give companies a reason to stay in-country).
Now hold your breath... wait for it... here's comes the onslaught of troglodytes who'll lambast me for advocating the simplification of America's legal system. Heaven forbid we don't have the FDA to protect us from those nasty corporations!
It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine). This gives all the more reason not to run proprietary hardware. For those who do, however, I suppose there's always hope that someone will be willing to wrap windows drivers to get the job done. As much as I detest the idea, it's really a shame this isn't done more often, as it would go a long way towards silencing loyalist weenies who look for any little defect in Linux so they can write a cheezy little expose and earn their $1.98.
Several folks have mentioned that they miss that 'sense of community' that BBSs brought - well it's not like you can't get that sort of community anymore. There are still plenty of BBSs out there that _do_ have an active community of users. OSUNY ssh://osuny.co.uk is one of them. BBSs are still your friend.:)
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...as making Jimmy Olson black.
If people like Spiderman, then let them watch Spiderman. If they can't relate to it by virtue of the particulars of it's setting, then write something else - just don't call it Spiderman.
Coming up next, Batman becomes a singapore prostitute who turns tricks by day and fights crime by night...
If you think that, then you weren't paying attention. 'Reasonable suspicion' consistutes whatever the cops want it to constitute, whereas the fourth and fifth ammendments make it pretty clear that we don't have to give an officer jack shit based on his 'reasonable suspicion'.
It'd be nice if political theory were actually taught in public schools, as opposed to the watered-down liberal crap you obviously learned.
Please, allow me...
Police officers, almost by definition, assume you guilty until proven innocent...part of this being that they are trained to intimidate people to get them to cough up the truth, the other part being that, in their experience, damn near everyone they run into is guilty of something, and so they tend to view everyone as being guilty until proven innocent. No matter what you do, you're not going to be 'clean' in their eyes.
Even if this were not the case, there's still the matter that this is a clear erosion of our rights. There is no reason that a man should be compelled to give his name for any reason. If an officer has reason to arrest a man, then take him into custody, grab his prints, and find out who he is that way; if a man is not otherwise wanted for an offense, then an officer has no business asking anyone their name for any reason. Officers are not there to compel anyone to give an account of what they saw of a criminal act, nor should they be, nor are they there to harass people.
Police officers are, and properly should be, there solely for the purpose of arresting individuals who have been accused of a crime, or are being accused of a crime by a third party, or who are being accused fo a crime by the officer, for which he shall have been a witness thereto, or where he has seen evidence thereof in plain sight or which was discovered if/when the accused allowed them to voluntarily search their person or property. That's it. Finito. End of line. Anything above and beyond that is beyond their authority and constitutes a clear abuse of power.
Canada isn't faring much better, and they're spiraling down the path of tyranny just like every other nation on Earth. There is, quite simply, nowhere left to hide. This isn't Britain, we're not the Pilgrims, and there's no New World to run to. HAND.
And like any other congregation of people, Slashdot attracts a particular demographic, which in this case consists of barely-literate baboons who think that by virtue of being able to admin linux boxen their nuts are elephantine, indeed titanic compared to others.
Everyone likes to think they don't fit into that category. Everyone likes to think they're a beautiful , unique snowflake... but they do, and they're not.
The truth of the matter is that there is such a thing as a stereotypical slashdothead, and the stereotypical slashdork doesn't read the article, nor does he follow useful links.
Instead of sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending that this is a troll, and slashdot is filled with some random sampling of people (only part of which are morons), why not admit to the fact that slashdot _is_ full of morons and try _doing_ something about it? For example:
Stop modding up goatse boys. It's not funny. It never was.
Bring the whole American/European pissing contest in every thread to a screeching halt.
Instead of posting under threads where you have no damn earthly reason to be doing so by virtue of your crass ignorance of the topic at hand, try sticking to topics you _do_ know something about.
When Taco-head posts a dup... don't bother reaming him in the forums... he doesn't read those either.
If the Slashdotties could just follow these simple rules, it'd make the world a better place, with pretty pink flowers and unicorns!
Of course not. They just saw a link and say, "Ooooh, this guy is helpful"... +1 Informative! Of course, neither of us should really bother mentioning this, since it's well known that slashdotheads never read the fucking article, so why should they be expected to follow a link? Never think too highly of slashdotters, and you'll never be disappointed.
You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are made of the same decaying organic waste as everything else. We are all part of the same compost heaps.
Tyler's words coming out of my mouth... and I used to be such a nice guy.
I wonder how many metric shit-tons of spam, bugs, backdoors, and spyware are loaded in this version? I'll stick with WinAMP, thanks.
...I can see it now:
I know this... this is UNIX!
Would you like to play a game>
What really got me is that they think merging the functionality of a compiler, linker, debugger, et al. via some sort of component framework is really anything new. Forth and Lisp were producing tightly-integrated development systems _thirty years ago_. Thank you, Mr. Moore and Mr. McCarthy.
Enterprise jumped the shark already. Bringing in Shatner for a guest shot is nothing more than a cheap attempt by Rick Ahab to drop some chum in the water... bring the shark back around for another game of chicken. It won't work.
If anything, this will only hasten the demise of a franchise that's been circling the drain for years.
Berman, flush twice on your way out -- it's a long way to the writer's department.
REUTERS: Lost City of Michael Delving Discovered in New Zealand!
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by Samuel Gammidge
Last I heard, the Greek government was refusing to allow anyone to dive in that area. So, realistically, even if this guy could prove conclusively that he'd found a landmass of disturbed rubble roughly matching the dimensions of the island as described in Plato's Critias, you still couldn't say, "Yes, this is Atlantis!"... unless you want to go diving for artifacts to prove it conclusively... which the Greeks won't let anyone do (I believe).
I still say it was a Minoan colony.
> I do not see Americans blacklisting their major ISPs.
Then you obviously didn't look very hard: try here. SPEWS did it, and they're not alone. I'll let you google for the rest.
It's amazing how trolls can take a simple issue and try to turn it into an 'us vs them' situation.
> Are you drunk, crazy or both?
Pat, I'd like to buy a vowel.
> Spain is one of the largest economies in Europe and one of the largest tourist venues in the world.
And this impacts me as an individual...how?
> Apart from this, are you preparing to negate the value of communicating with a whole country for the convenience of not having to delete a few emails?
Key word: value. Communicating with spain has no value for me. I imagine that this is true for the vast majority of the world as well. However, for those few people that do need to talk to someone in spain, I would rather that they have some means to contact people therein that doesn't involve making the rest of us suffer emails regarding Paris Hilton sex tapes, penis enlargement pills, and great offers to make money fast. This isn't about convenience... this is about having my bandwidth wasted by this crap (something which wont be resolved by filtering on my end). This is about being _harassed_ with the tacit consent of major countries. I'm sorry, but if takes net.death to make some nations stand up and make it easier to track spammers down and grind them into snail snot, then let's do it.
> For my e-mail server I filter out domains that spammers use. And I get very little spam as a result.
Really? You must not get much spam from .cz. You may not think that spam is a political problem, but it's not like any chinese carrier really gives a damn about what some American thinks about one of their users spamming. "Hah. Come and get me, jerk" - that's what they're thinking. So long as spammers are free to harass people with impunity and the cost of prosecution is insanely high and no one is motivated to stop them, well, banning countries that don't take steps to lower those costs sounds like a great idea... again, with the provision that users be able to bypass such aggressive filtering to receive mail from such domains if they see fit.
How many of you actually receive legitimate mail from spain? Were it up to me, I'd ban all of China while we're at it. Insofar as end-users can exempt themselves from blocking so they can still receive mail from nations-non-grata then I wouldn't have a problem with banning mail from half the planet.
Sadly, though, my ISP doesn't give me that option... but they should.
I wonder if Slashdotters ever read the fucking article.
They're talking about the use of memory alloys for a flexible wing which, in tandem with the segmented skin, will allow the wings to be deformed in-flight to adjust its aerodynamic properties. Think of it like having a wing with hundreds or thousands of flaps which could be raised or lowered in sections to change the profile of the wing to fit any situation.
Oh, remind me: where'd you study aeronautics?
WORK FOR LESS. Foreigners are working for less and they end up getting the work. What part of that do you fail to grasp? Don't like it? Either make people aware of the harm they're doing (anyone remember BUY AMERICAN?), or maybe try something a bit more constructive - such as finding some people to room with in a co-op so you can lower your cost of living, or organizing a lobby to get some of the absurd laws on our books thrown out so that the cost of doing business over here isn't so damn high (which might give companies a reason to stay in-country).
Now hold your breath... wait for it... here's comes the onslaught of troglodytes who'll lambast me for advocating the simplification of America's legal system. Heaven forbid we don't have the FDA to protect us from those nasty corporations!
It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine). This gives all the more reason not to run proprietary hardware. For those who do, however, I suppose there's always hope that someone will be willing to wrap windows drivers to get the job done. As much as I detest the idea, it's really a shame this isn't done more often, as it would go a long way towards silencing loyalist weenies who look for any little defect in Linux so they can write a cheezy little expose and earn their $1.98.
Several folks have mentioned that they miss that 'sense of community' that BBSs brought - well it's not like you can't get that sort of community anymore. There are still plenty of BBSs out there that _do_ have an active community of users. OSUNY ssh://osuny.co.uk is one of them. BBSs are still your friend. :)
It's the wrong pants, Grommit!!%&^%$&!$%&!