By the way, isn't this sort of thing kind of illegal? Shouldn't people be going to jail?
"People" go to jail. CEOs of Big Companies were not made to suffer the indignity of being subject to so vulgar a thing as "the law". The Ascendancy in prison?! What will they think of next?
The tags are indeed being installed in the factories: in the tongues and soles of shoes, in the waistbands of pants and skirts, in the collars of shirts and jackets. Etc.
Only on/. would someone make a point to mention that they put on clean underware before leaving their domicile. I think normal people must take clean underware for granted!
I think most normal people simply don't let their underwear get very dirty.
Five years after 9/11 you'd think that people would be over it so we wouldn't have to see the victims bodies being waved on political poles over and over and over....
Any time civilians are purposefully targeted with the use of violence for political effect it is terrorism.
Why are civilians such an illegitimate target? If a democratic nation bombs my country, why is it so wrong to regard as legitimate targets the voters who ultimately sanctioned it? Bombing the hick jingoing for war is more wrong than shooting the marine who doesn't even really know where Iraq is?
The sad fact is, in the age of democracy, civilians are not only regarded as legitimate targets, they are the primary one. And to be frank, though we might not like to admit it, there is some logic to this. Democractic nations do not go to war without substantial public support. When refugees say that Americans wants to bomb them all, they aren't altogether wide of the mark.
Child molesters are about the worst society has to offer.
I happen to think that murderers are a lot worse, violent or not. In fact, in the scheme of things, you can get a lot worse than a child molestor without going as far as murder. Consider a slave master. Far worse IMHO.
The fact that you think child molesters should have those kind of rights is scary.
The fact that you, and many others, do not is even more frightning. It keeps me up at night. Vigilante mobs incensed on lurid stories of pedophiles, wandering about looking for likely suspects to tear to pieces is an increasingly likely prospect. Indeed it has already happened in some places. From there, it's a small step to move onto someone else. Abortion clinics maybe? Animal researchers? Muslims? Feminists? Or whoever the persona non grata du jour is. The target is not the motive for these people. They're the problem.
My personal opinion is that the current pedophile hysteria is closet facism. Having run out of politically correct targets; races, religions, women, communists, etc, the perpetually angry amoung us need a new target to vent their frustrations at free society on. Pedophiles fit the bill nicely, because "No one could defend such monsters!!!". Screw that. If it's a choice between a few child molestors, and my family and friends being taken off bloody in the middle of the night, I choose the child molestors. I make no apologies, because I'm not the one who needs to apologise.
You can not reform a child molester.
If by "reform" you mean make it so that they never have a sexual attraction to minors again, then you might as well say that you can never "reform" a petty thief or bank robber or violent criminal. These people will likely always have an urge to steal something, hit someone and yes, molest a minor. But I don't believe in thought crime. Everyone has a choice whether they act on their thoughts and desires. From thief to pedophile. Until they act on their thoughts, they can think whatever they like, because it's not a crime. Yet. A few more years of titillating pedophile headlines for the masses and it might be.
Of course, the game manufacturer still owns everything, but an argument could be made based on the value of the labor to you and the fact that they've effectively stolen YOUR time and YOUR labor.
How is this substantially different to salaried labour?
No troll. You really should take a civics class. Sex offenders are still people, despite their crimes, and are still entitled to some rights. When you start creating untermensch classes with no rights, you get problems. As to mandatory life sentences, this has been gone over, and over again. A mandatory life sentance for a crime that isn't as bad as a murder is a sure fire way to get yourself more murders.
Sex Offenders! Monsters!! The CHILDREN!!!.... blah, blah. I see no reason to reevaluate jurisprudence.
I hope ot see this in the courts real soon. I only hope the person getting poped on this and challenging it is actualy inocent.
I don't care if the person is innocent or guilty. I just hope they get their rights to due process and a fair trial. I'll take the risk of sex offenders living in my neighbourhood over living in a police state any day of the week.
During the sexual act, the male is violent towards the female. This violence is due to instincts: the male applies his force over the female, conquering her, owning her, while the female accepts this violence because she wants to be owned (and that's the reason many women have rape fantasies).
Wow. You have a pretty twisted outlook on sexual intercourse. I don't know exactly what you've been exposed to that has so warped your understanding and possibly ruined any and all relationships in your life, but I can take a guess....
There is a social issue behind sex crimes, and that issue is also deeply related to violence and killings in schools and in the street, sexual harassment, rise of the porn industry etc.
.... that it was religious indoctrination. You know what's really twisted. Whoever did what they did to the younger you that has warped your thoughts so much, they probably enjoy full legal privilages to do so. Certainly more privilages that possessors of "violent" pornography.
Please do not enter into relationships with that attitude, and if you already are in one, apologise to your partner right now.
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I have an old 386 running fedora and samba on a 120GB drive with no RAID whatsoever. The machine won't fit another drive and an upgrade will involve so much hassle I've been putting it off over and over. Any reasonable upgrade would have to involve a terabyte machine because I don't want to go through the hassle of upgrading too soon after.
CD based backups would be laughable considering that the disk is almost filled with downloaded TV shows and movies. Ditto for DVD's, not to mention the impracticality. USB HDDs; Backups are meant to be _more_ secure. Internet backup; not enough bandwidth. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss tapes.
It's going to give out. I know it, you know it, we all know it. Bloody shows aren't even that good... *grumble*....
You specifically stated Wintel so I assume you have some kind of point you are trying to get across or you are attempting to imply that there is some assumed known and defined power disadvantage to that combination.
Power consumed by computers ultimately comes from burning fossil fuels, in the vast majority of cases. Intel chips use more power on average, and windows systems typically run more power hungry applications like games, media players, etc than linux systems. I'm not sure about macs.
The process used to create the computers might be clean, but what about their efficiency out in the world? The process used to create an SUV might be ecologically friendly, but if the beast still guzzles petrol, where's the benefit? Some might say the software is beyond Dell's control, but with the amount of stuff they bundle in with the OS nowadays, I wouldn't be so sure.
If your doing something illegal, you should be punished if someone other than the police finds out and reports it, regardless of how they get the information.... This man from Turkey broke no laws because he is not bound to our laws. US law is not universal.
So, by your argument, shipping terrorist suspects off to be tortured in foreign countries is fully justified, as is any information so obtained.
Here, tell you what. To make it a little less controvertial, hows about we just say that shipping pedophiles abroad for torture is a-OK.
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I think: "She said: You're goin' to MS High and cuttin' your hair.", would have made a better punchline.
What the hell?! Where did that d/dR come from? "Relativistic swap-out"? And why are those total derivatives? I fear your methods are
Five years after 9/11 you'd think that people would be over it so we wouldn't have to see the victims bodies being waved on political poles over and over and over....
Why are civilians such an illegitimate target? If a democratic nation bombs my country, why is it so wrong to regard as legitimate targets the voters who ultimately sanctioned it? Bombing the hick jingoing for war is more wrong than shooting the marine who doesn't even really know where Iraq is?
The sad fact is, in the age of democracy, civilians are not only regarded as legitimate targets, they are the primary one. And to be frank, though we might not like to admit it, there is some logic to this. Democractic nations do not go to war without substantial public support. When refugees say that Americans wants to bomb them all, they aren't altogether wide of the mark.
I happen to think that murderers are a lot worse, violent or not. In fact, in the scheme of things, you can get a lot worse than a child molestor without going as far as murder. Consider a slave master. Far worse IMHO.
The fact that you, and many others, do not is even more frightning. It keeps me up at night. Vigilante mobs incensed on lurid stories of pedophiles, wandering about looking for likely suspects to tear to pieces is an increasingly likely prospect. Indeed it has already happened in some places. From there, it's a small step to move onto someone else. Abortion clinics maybe? Animal researchers? Muslims? Feminists? Or whoever the persona non grata du jour is. The target is not the motive for these people. They're the problem.
My personal opinion is that the current pedophile hysteria is closet facism. Having run out of politically correct targets; races, religions, women, communists, etc, the perpetually angry amoung us need a new target to vent their frustrations at free society on. Pedophiles fit the bill nicely, because "No one could defend such monsters!!!". Screw that. If it's a choice between a few child molestors, and my family and friends being taken off bloody in the middle of the night, I choose the child molestors. I make no apologies, because I'm not the one who needs to apologise.
If by "reform" you mean make it so that they never have a sexual attraction to minors again, then you might as well say that you can never "reform" a petty thief or bank robber or violent criminal. These people will likely always have an urge to steal something, hit someone and yes, molest a minor. But I don't believe in thought crime. Everyone has a choice whether they act on their thoughts and desires. From thief to pedophile. Until they act on their thoughts, they can think whatever they like, because it's not a crime. Yet. A few more years of titillating pedophile headlines for the masses and it might be.
How is this substantially different to salaried labour?
No troll. You really should take a civics class. Sex offenders are still people, despite their crimes, and are still entitled to some rights. When you start creating untermensch classes with no rights, you get problems. As to mandatory life sentences, this has been gone over, and over again. A mandatory life sentance for a crime that isn't as bad as a murder is a sure fire way to get yourself more murders.
Sex Offenders! Monsters!! The CHILDREN!!!.... blah, blah. I see no reason to reevaluate jurisprudence.
I'd support mandatory civics classes for blockheads like yourself.
I don't care if the person is innocent or guilty. I just hope they get their rights to due process and a fair trial. I'll take the risk of sex offenders living in my neighbourhood over living in a police state any day of the week.
Like a religion?!
Yes, in the same way that some people are going to have a tendancy to spontaneously combust into bright orange flame.
While you engaged in "geek bonding" via anecdotal posting on Slashdot. Vive la Difference!
Wow. You have a pretty twisted outlook on sexual intercourse. I don't know exactly what you've been exposed to that has so warped your understanding and possibly ruined any and all relationships in your life, but I can take a guess....
Please do not enter into relationships with that attitude, and if you already are in one, apologise to your partner right now.
The fourth estate! Protecting the interests of the firs^H^H^Hsecon^H^H^Hthir^H^H^Hfourth estate since 1780 BC!
Remember, Our Privilege Helps Secure Your Freedom*.
*May not actually help, assist or otherwise aid securing freedom. The fourth estate is distributed in the hope that it will aid freedom but WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEE; without even the implied guarantee of USEFULNESS IN AIDING FREEDOM or FITNESS FOR CONSUMPTION. Any freedom inducing effects are purely coincidental. May induce totalitarianism in excessive doses.
I have an old 386 running fedora and samba on a 120GB drive with no RAID whatsoever. The machine won't fit another drive and an upgrade will involve so much hassle I've been putting it off over and over. Any reasonable upgrade would have to involve a terabyte machine because I don't want to go through the hassle of upgrading too soon after.
CD based backups would be laughable considering that the disk is almost filled with downloaded TV shows and movies. Ditto for DVD's, not to mention the impracticality. USB HDDs; Backups are meant to be _more_ secure. Internet backup; not enough bandwidth. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss tapes.
It's going to give out. I know it, you know it, we all know it. Bloody shows aren't even that good... *grumble*....
Power consumed by computers ultimately comes from burning fossil fuels, in the vast majority of cases. Intel chips use more power on average, and windows systems typically run more power hungry applications like games, media players, etc than linux systems. I'm not sure about macs.
The process used to create the computers might be clean, but what about their efficiency out in the world? The process used to create an SUV might be ecologically friendly, but if the beast still guzzles petrol, where's the benefit? Some might say the software is beyond Dell's control, but with the amount of stuff they bundle in with the OS nowadays, I wouldn't be so sure.
Did they take the power consumption of Wintell machines into account here?
Here, tell you what. To make it a little less controvertial, hows about we just say that shipping pedophiles abroad for torture is a-OK.