Gun and x-ray machine. The judicious use of each can save lives. The irresponsible use of each can take lives.
Both are designed to affect a controlled transfer of energy into the human body.
But back to the point.
I gotta fire this right back at you. If you want to PROTECT civil liberties, do NOT simply attack every form of progress that
could be used in such a manor. DO make sure that when the technologies are adopted your concerns are addressed.
I can't speak for the GP, but I'm not trying to stop any form of progress. I'm all for the availability of black boxes. I'm against governmental coercion to use them. I think that allowing the coercion to occur and then hoping to remediate any abuse is a losing strategy. I also think that this opinion is supported by history.
That's funny, the stupidest thing I ever heard was, "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." but I can't remember who said it.
It implies the question, "Should the government do everything that is in our national interest?" which, in turn, implies "Who decides what is in our national interest?"
My answers are "no" and "an overwhelming majority" (or at least 2/3 of the states via the legislature or a special convention) respectively.
Amazing the way the Constitution still applies in the face of radical technological progress. Too bad we have decided to turn our backs on it.
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I've never been more greatful to be a . . . less than petit man.
Or did you catch the error in my usage of the French?
-Peter
What could be more evil than empowering a petit woman to fend off a burly rapist?
-Peter
But if the game precluded cannons, and one player decided to break the rule, wouldn't it ruin the game for everyone?
Or as I say on my site, One aspiring tyrant is all that is required to destroy a utopia.
-Peter
(Responding to a sig. Bad Pete!)
Windows doesn't have any native bzip2 support, but it is available from cygwin.
Cygwin bzip2.
-Peter
I think the answer is clear. Katie Jones can make a mint by turning katie.com into a porn site.
(Now, I might get modded insightful if I can just resist making a joke about "Tarbox.")
-Peter
Both are designed to affect a controlled transfer of energy into the human body.
But back to the point.
I can't speak for the GP, but I'm not trying to stop any form of progress. I'm all for the availability of black boxes. I'm against governmental coercion to use them. I think that allowing the coercion to occur and then hoping to remediate any abuse is a losing strategy. I also think that this opinion is supported by history.
-Peter
That's "twisted and ev-e-il."
-Peter
You (sort of) stole my reply.
If you try to help your wife, and all she does is bitch, it is time to consider divorce.
-Peter
Kinda.
Wait, this isn't Fark!
-Peter
Which is why it is obviously impossible to fall down a hole.
I don't think that OP was talking about, for instance, LA to San Fransico. More like LA to London.
-Peter
The biggest problem is that there's hardly any metal to 'poon on today's cars.
-Peter
Moderation -1
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It would also help us determine which child has the ideal balance of fierceness and empathy to fight an alien threat.
-Peter
Well, as long as you get him to Miracle Max while he's still only mostly dead you should be ok.
-Peter
I don't like the sound of them apples, Will. What are we gonna do?
Interesting, in the US tomatoes are legally vegetables!
(http://www.vegparadise.com/highestperch8.html)
That's funny, the stupidest thing I ever heard was, "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." but I can't remember who said it.
-Peter
Job security.
Now ask me a hard one.
-Peter
Yeah, except in Latin. How the fuck do I look up error MMMDCCCXLVII?
-Peter
Number 1 isn't the only question.
It implies the question, "Should the government do everything that is in our national interest?" which, in turn, implies "Who decides what is in our national interest?"
My answers are "no" and "an overwhelming majority" (or at least 2/3 of the states via the legislature or a special convention) respectively.
Amazing the way the Constitution still applies in the face of radical technological progress. Too bad we have decided to turn our backs on it.
-Peter
Since this is a GNU project it is an example of Apple helping out the Free Software community.
This may seem pedantic, lumping a project in with a community that is expressly disclaimed by the people doing the work is rather rude.
-Peter
He was a Philologist.
Linguists lean more toward the spoken word, Philologist focus more on literature and even the forms of writing (i.e. the shapes of letters).
-Peter
It supports a new sequence brace expansion which should make snarfing porn easier and more efficent.
Does it get more exciting then that?
-Peter
It has totally lived up the hype! Don't you remember when Steve Jobs said it would change the way polo mallets are designed?
Kamen promised to revolutionize polo, and segway has delivered on that promise!
-Peter
An excellent point!
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See section 8 clause 1 of the Constitution.
That's not to say that I support each and every policy decision he made, but military spending, in general, has a Constitutional basis.
In any case, I'd rather put a former Libertarian president on the $20 . .
-Peter