Using dichaotic theory, I have made is so that this message does not in fact exist, and instead everyone only "thinks" they have read something, when in fact nothing exists. Any attempts to verfiy or falsify this will lead to the same effect.
All this was done using an elastic band, stick of gum, and a swiss army knife.
The original post was dumb. No one goes about decoding ASCII anymore.
Here's a search string. "15 year old breasts". You get a warrant. The searcher turns out to be a fifteen year old girl worried about the size of her breasts. Is the search justified.
Another search string. "sexual habits of 14 year old boys". You almost spill your coffee in your rush to obtain a warrant. The searcher turns out to be a 40 year old single mother worried about her sons development.
You return to the office to find another search string. "violent rape toddlers". The arrive at the searchers home with half the force in tow. The searcher turns out to be an adult victim of child rape trying to come to terms with their trauma.
Egg on your face. But the children are safer right? Right?
How does the FDA stop someone who is stupid enough to buy anything from a guy in a trenchcoat?
I don't know. How does the FDA stop someone who's stupid enough to buy a drug which the warning label clearly states "May cause kidney failure, cardiac arrest, and death"? Take away the warning label?
I want to use my cell phone on the subway. I don't care if a terrorist might use it to blow me up. I don't see that terrorism is a significant threat to my person.
However, terrorism will become a threat to my way of life if the fear of it prevents me from using my cell phone on the subway.
Also, I'm not sure I follow you blanket statement on handguns....What threat to your freedoms does my having a gun pose? What about my freedom to own a gun?
This is something gun freedom advocates never, ever understand, or simply fail to acknowladge.
If you go out and buy a gun, you have just increased dramatically, your effective ability to exert control over others by force. You now hold enormous power in your hands which can be used to exert dominion over others, denying them their even more basic fundamental rights. This increase dwarves that supplied by any previous weapons technology.
In a society with lax gun control, it is all too easy for a group of individuals to amass enough guns to become a powerful militia with the ability to harass, intimidate, and even execute those that oppose them. Such groups can grow so powerful as to hinder the effectiveness of law enforcement to oppose them. Entire communities can live under the fear of the gun. Easy access to guns is the lynchpin of this strategy.
This has already happenned in the United States.
In many major US cities, prime example Los Angeles, criminal gangs use gun backed violence to dominate entire communities. This does not happen to anywhere near the same degree in other countries, and when it does, it is as a result of increased availabilty of guns.
Without guns, criminals are simply large gangs of perhaps burly individuals, and can be more easily checked. With guns, they become a much more powerful force in disrupting society.
Why should I face such a threat to my basic freedoms? Why should I live under the rule of the gun? Why should unelected and unaccountable individuals and groups be allowed to have the potential to so grossly undermine my freedoms? This isn't hypothetical. This is happening to hundreds of thousands of people in the US right now. And for what? So people can have a few gun related hobbies? It's a poor excuse.
As the saying goes, "An armed society is a polite society.
An armed society is a violent one. When you buy a gun, you threaten everyone around you. You make it clear to them that you now have greater physical control over them and their persons. In turn, they may also purchace a weapon, leading to an arms buildup. This happens. With countries, and with people.
The United States has a rate of gun crime related deaths that dwarfs other industrialised nations. A lackadaisical attitute towards assault weapon ownership is symptomatic of the underlying cause of this high death rate.
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.
Who the hell is Ted Kennedy? And cars kill about four or five times more people than guns in the US every year. This is tolerated as cars bring innumerable benefits to society and the economy. Guns do neither. They only cause problems. They offer no real solutions.
An expedient and more reasonable policy of approving drugs (if approval should be necessary at all) would save a LOT of lives.
How? How, would reducing safety checks on drugs make them safer? How would decreasing stringency on drug side effects benefit people? This seems counterintuative in the extreme.
Could you please cite a scientific study or something, because it just sounds like male bovine faecal matter to me.
I think the Republic you thought you grew up loving was an illusion. Today, the US government probably has fewer ways of getting away with screwing you, screwing other nations, or restricting your speech than ever before.
Are you sure? Nixon dodged prision by the hair on his whiskers. Do you honestly think that DeepThroat(Grey) would have been able to blow the whistle, or that "WoodStien" would be tolerated in this day and age?
In reality, there is no other solution that waiting for racists to die. That means you've got another 40-50 years to go before the last generation where racism was common and acceptable dies out.
Racism will never die out. There will always be racist people. It's just one of those negative human conditions that is somehow a part of our nature, like theft or murder.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
As a guy who owns a few guns, I'll cite the example of the "assault weapons" ban. Totally pointless, completely ineffective, and not worth the trouble to chase once again through the renewal process. It's gone now. Good riddance.
God, not another one!
Do you realise what an assault weapon is? What it is capable of? Can you give one single reason why such an armament can be bought an owned in the same context as a single shot, breach loading rifle?
Assault weapons are military grade armaments. Handguns are either concealed weapons or cheap toys. Neither should be available for general purchace.
I don't mean to overtly troll, but just coming out and saying that the assault weapons ban was ineffective is really just flamebait. The US has a serious problem with guns. It's all very well to say that in a free society guns should be allowed etc, etc. But to be fair, in a free society, don't I have the right to be free of the enormous threat to my own freedoms posed by such mass gun ownership?
And how is getting a number of perverts searching for "15 year old nude" an unreasonable search, especially if the individuals are never individually identified?
It's unreasonable.
I would wager, that not a few persons enter a search string like that may be:
a) 15 year olds, self conscious about their own physical development. b) 15 year olds, curious about the physical development of their peers. c) Parents entering less explicitly worded strings, who are concerned about their childs physical development. d) Professionals entering a less explicitly worded string over the course oftheir normal duties.
If any of these cannot use the power of the internet to accomplish these things without the Government labeling them a pervert, then it's clear that something is very wrong with the society they live in. Why should everyone suffer needlessly because of the very, very few who have ill intent?
I really don't understand all the hatemongering about games
Games represent change. Some people don't like change. Games also offer a convienient scapegoat fro scoiety's ills, rather than placing the balme on the overall structure of that society.
Also, the game industry doesn't do itself any favours by abusing sterotype to sell its product, but this could be said of any industry.
>>Well, I would assume a Chinese student would have even worse problems understanding an accented Pakistani than you would. >And why would that be? In my experience, that's not true. Don't stereotype people like that.
There's a place, called Donegal. According to official records, people speak english there. I assure you that if you had a conversation with someone from there, barring you are also from Donegal, you will have serious difficulties understanding them.
I can only imagine the true incomprehesible horror of being a non english speaker and being faced with a lecturer speaking in a Donegal accent. I can only just understand them if they speak slowly, but a lot of these guys speak quickly, flambouyantly, and with heavy dosages of colloquialisms too.
In recent years, this has gotten better, with more younger Donegalians picking up a "Mid-Atlantic" accent, from television and radio. Still, it gives one a new appreciation on the evolution and divergence of languages.
I dont think he is racist but i dont think he is doing something that is hurting the community of african americans and americans together.
I think he's just telling it like it is. There's that air of repressed geek angst to the post, but hey, this is Slashdot. Where would we be without our miserable childhoods complete with electronic succor?
I dont understand why african americans are seperating themselves from american in general.
They're not. They started out seperate to begin with and no one has bothered to try integration.
I live in a area where there are just as must black people as white, some times more. I have never seen racism take place in the work place or any other place.
You live in a fantasy world. Racism is real. Universal. It's as universal as theft, murder, alcoholism, bullying in schools, dangerous driving, tax dodgers, politicians, lawyers and obesity.
There will always be people in society who are racist. Societies have to work to reduce the amount of such people and the severity of their cases.
Racism has to be faced up to like any other social problem. You cannot assume that it is a construct of scoiety, though society can promote it. If you ignore it, it will either get worse, or stay the same, but it most likely will never, ever get better.
Having said that, if an employer doesn't want you because you're not white, it's not an employer worth working for.
Time was, this set included virtually every single office-job type employer. I.e., if you were of a certain ancestry, you couldn't get an office job, and you certainly wouldn't rise through the ranks.
I doubt a lot has changed. Biogotry and racism are still very common. A lot of employers simply won't hire someone whom they have a prejudiced view of.
The civil rights movement in the sixties simply surpressed (some of) the symptoms. The root cause of the disease was largely unaddressed.
I've never played Halo. I don't think I have seen it being played either. Could someone please tell me what is so great about Halo?
You see, in Halo, you are Master Chief. The big 8ft tall cybernetically and genetically enhanced super warrior (The Alpha Football Player). Your shield (UnderArmour) makes you all but invincible. You run about for most of the game utterly defeating the smaller and weedier Grunts, Jackels (smaller kids, losers, nerds). The occasional big kid or teacher that stands up to you (Elites, Hunters) are still no match for your God given All-American Superiority. You are accompanied and guided by the naked Ai Cortana (Cheerleader girlfriend), and run around assisting your teammates (Marines), and the coach(Keyes) in kicking loser ass. The flood represent your life after high school when former friend and foe alike reject you(flood conversion) and you become powerless in your new circumstances. Defeating them by destroying Halo(your school), represents your rejection of the harm you caused there, and of the scorn you now face. You escape in the Long Sword fighter(your pickup), with girlfriend in tow.
But it's a good game all the same, but the online play sucks.
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Using dichaotic theory, I have made is so that this message does not in fact exist, and instead everyone only "thinks" they have read something, when in fact nothing exists. Any attempts to verfiy or falsify this will lead to the same effect.
All this was done using an elastic band, stick of gum, and a swiss army knife.
The original post was dumb. No one goes about decoding ASCII anymore.
Did you read the grandparent post?
Here's a search string. "15 year old breasts". You get a warrant. The searcher turns out to be a fifteen year old girl worried about the size of her breasts. Is the search justified.
Another search string. "sexual habits of 14 year old boys". You almost spill your coffee in your rush to obtain a warrant. The searcher turns out to be a 40 year old single mother worried about her sons development.
You return to the office to find another search string. "violent rape toddlers". The arrive at the searchers home with half the force in tow. The searcher turns out to be an adult victim of child rape trying to come to terms with their trauma.
Egg on your face. But the children are safer right? Right?
How does the FDA stop someone who is stupid enough to buy anything from a guy in a trenchcoat?
I don't know. How does the FDA stop someone who's stupid enough to buy a drug which the warning label clearly states "May cause kidney failure, cardiac arrest, and death"? Take away the warning label?
I want to use my cell phone on the subway. I don't care if a terrorist might use it to blow me up. I don't see that terrorism is a significant threat to my person.
However, terrorism will become a threat to my way of life if the fear of it prevents me from using my cell phone on the subway.
Also, I'm not sure I follow you blanket statement on handguns....What threat to your freedoms does my having a gun pose? What about my freedom to own a gun?
This is something gun freedom advocates never, ever understand, or simply fail to acknowladge.
If you go out and buy a gun, you have just increased dramatically, your effective ability to exert control over others by force. You now hold enormous power in your hands which can be used to exert dominion over others, denying them their even more basic fundamental rights. This increase dwarves that supplied by any previous weapons technology.
In a society with lax gun control, it is all too easy for a group of individuals to amass enough guns to become a powerful militia with the ability to harass, intimidate, and even execute those that oppose them. Such groups can grow so powerful as to hinder the effectiveness of law enforcement to oppose them. Entire communities can live under the fear of the gun. Easy access to guns is the lynchpin of this strategy.
This has already happenned in the United States.
In many major US cities, prime example Los Angeles, criminal gangs use gun backed violence to dominate entire communities. This does not happen to anywhere near the same degree in other countries, and when it does, it is as a result of increased availabilty of guns.
Without guns, criminals are simply large gangs of perhaps burly individuals, and can be more easily checked. With guns, they become a much more powerful force in disrupting society.
Why should I face such a threat to my basic freedoms? Why should I live under the rule of the gun? Why should unelected and unaccountable individuals and groups be allowed to have the potential to so grossly undermine my freedoms? This isn't hypothetical. This is happening to hundreds of thousands of people in the US right now. And for what? So people can have a few gun related hobbies? It's a poor excuse.
As the saying goes, "An armed society is a polite society.
An armed society is a violent one. When you buy a gun, you threaten everyone around you. You make it clear to them that you now have greater physical control over them and their persons. In turn, they may also purchace a weapon, leading to an arms buildup. This happens. With countries, and with people.
The United States has a rate of gun crime related deaths that dwarfs other industrialised nations. A lackadaisical attitute towards assault weapon ownership is symptomatic of the underlying cause of this high death rate.
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.
Who the hell is Ted Kennedy? And cars kill about four or five times more people than guns in the US every year. This is tolerated as cars bring innumerable benefits to society and the economy. Guns do neither. They only cause problems. They offer no real solutions.
We need to trade the FDA approval people with the Patent Office approval people.
I think if that happenned, we would very quickly end up with a situation like this.
An expedient and more reasonable policy of approving drugs (if approval should be necessary at all) would save a LOT of lives.
How? How, would reducing safety checks on drugs make them safer? How would decreasing stringency on drug side effects benefit people? This seems counterintuative in the extreme.
Could you please cite a scientific study or something, because it just sounds like male bovine faecal matter to me.
But without the FDA, what exactly would be the difference between drug companies and your local ketamine peddler down the street?
2,000,000 patents were discovered in science last year!
Patents are not discoved! They are a God Given Intellectual Property Right, enshrined in the constitution and one of the fundamental Rights of Man*.
**The fact that corporations are not technically men has no bearing on their applicabilty to corporations. Dissenters will be dealth with.
I think the Republic you thought you grew up loving was an illusion. Today, the US government probably has fewer ways of getting away with screwing you, screwing other nations, or restricting your speech than ever before.
Are you sure? Nixon dodged prision by the hair on his whiskers. Do you honestly think that DeepThroat(Grey) would have been able to blow the whistle, or that "WoodStien" would be tolerated in this day and age?
In reality, there is no other solution that waiting for racists to die. That means you've got another 40-50 years to go before the last generation where racism was common and acceptable dies out.
Racism will never die out. There will always be racist people. It's just one of those negative human conditions that is somehow a part of our nature, like theft or murder.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
As a guy who owns a few guns, I'll cite the example of the "assault weapons" ban. Totally pointless, completely ineffective, and not worth the trouble to chase once again through the renewal process. It's gone now. Good riddance.
God, not another one!
Do you realise what an assault weapon is? What it is capable of? Can you give one single reason why such an armament can be bought an owned in the same context as a single shot, breach loading rifle?
Assault weapons are military grade armaments. Handguns are either concealed weapons or cheap toys. Neither should be available for general purchace.
I don't mean to overtly troll, but just coming out and saying that the assault weapons ban was ineffective is really just flamebait. The US has a serious problem with guns. It's all very well to say that in a free society guns should be allowed etc, etc. But to be fair, in a free society, don't I have the right to be free of the enormous threat to my own freedoms posed by such mass gun ownership?
And how is getting a number of perverts searching for "15 year old nude" an unreasonable search, especially if the individuals are never individually identified?
It's unreasonable.
I would wager, that not a few persons enter a search string like that may be:
a) 15 year olds, self conscious about their own physical development.
b) 15 year olds, curious about the physical development of their peers.
c) Parents entering less explicitly worded strings, who are concerned about their childs physical development.
d) Professionals entering a less explicitly worded string over the course oftheir normal duties.
If any of these cannot use the power of the internet to accomplish these things without the Government labeling them a pervert, then it's clear that something is very wrong with the society they live in. Why should everyone suffer needlessly because of the very, very few who have ill intent?
Yet, at the same time, the 16 year old (hell, 14 year old) is old enough and mature enough to be tried as an adult and sentenced as an adult.
And in some states, executed as an adult too.
Obviously, the puppy was on fire.
I really don't understand all the hatemongering about games
Games represent change. Some people don't like change. Games also offer a convienient scapegoat fro scoiety's ills, rather than placing the balme on the overall structure of that society.
Also, the game industry doesn't do itself any favours by abusing sterotype to sell its product, but this could be said of any industry.
>>Well, I would assume a Chinese student would have even worse problems understanding an accented Pakistani than you would.
>And why would that be? In my experience, that's not true. Don't stereotype people like that.
There's a place, called Donegal. According to official records, people speak english there. I assure you that if you had a conversation with someone from there, barring you are also from Donegal, you will have serious difficulties understanding them.
I can only imagine the true incomprehesible horror of being a non english speaker and being faced with a lecturer speaking in a Donegal accent. I can only just understand them if they speak slowly, but a lot of these guys speak quickly, flambouyantly, and with heavy dosages of colloquialisms too.
In recent years, this has gotten better, with more younger Donegalians picking up a "Mid-Atlantic" accent, from television and radio. Still, it gives one a new appreciation on the evolution and divergence of languages.
I was hired by a dot-com...no experience...My boss later told me [ridiculous reason for employment]
Pieces... beginning to fit...
Let me guess. The company went broke.
I put your current IQ at about 110 - a typical pissed-off BOFH.
110 eh? About the size of your disk apace allotment in kilo-, no, just regular bytes.
>clickity clickity<
I've posted such a story to Slashdot twice with no success, so I'll take this oppertunity to beg.
What length ssh keys should I use? 256? 512? 1024? 2048?
At what point is the line between secure, and paranoid crossed? How will key length impact performance?
White, black, green, orange, it doesn't matter.
I have never met a green or orange person. I'm worried that they might be offended by my surprise when I do.
Welcome to Slashdot.
I dont think he is racist but i dont think he is doing something that is hurting the community of african americans and americans together.
I think he's just telling it like it is. There's that air of repressed geek angst to the post, but hey, this is Slashdot. Where would we be without our miserable childhoods complete with electronic succor?
I dont understand why african americans are seperating themselves from american in general.
They're not. They started out seperate to begin with and no one has bothered to try integration.
I live in a area where there are just as must black people as white, some times more. I have never seen racism take place in the work place or any other place.
You live in a fantasy world. Racism is real. Universal. It's as universal as theft, murder, alcoholism, bullying in schools, dangerous driving, tax dodgers, politicians, lawyers and obesity.
There will always be people in society who are racist. Societies have to work to reduce the amount of such people and the severity of their cases.
Racism has to be faced up to like any other social problem. You cannot assume that it is a construct of scoiety, though society can promote it. If you ignore it, it will either get worse, or stay the same, but it most likely will never, ever get better.
Having said that, if an employer doesn't want you because you're not white, it's not an employer worth working for.
Time was, this set included virtually every single office-job type employer. I.e., if you were of a certain ancestry, you couldn't get an office job, and you certainly wouldn't rise through the ranks.
I doubt a lot has changed. Biogotry and racism are still very common. A lot of employers simply won't hire someone whom they have a prejudiced view of.
The civil rights movement in the sixties simply surpressed (some of) the symptoms. The root cause of the disease was largely unaddressed.
I've never played Halo. I don't think I have seen it being played either. Could someone please tell me what is so great about Halo?
You see, in Halo, you are Master Chief. The big 8ft tall cybernetically and genetically enhanced super warrior (The Alpha Football Player). Your shield (UnderArmour) makes you all but invincible. You run about for most of the game utterly defeating the smaller and weedier Grunts, Jackels (smaller kids, losers, nerds). The occasional big kid or teacher that stands up to you (Elites, Hunters) are still no match for your God given All-American Superiority. You are accompanied and guided by the naked Ai Cortana (Cheerleader girlfriend), and run around assisting your teammates (Marines), and the coach(Keyes) in kicking loser ass. The flood represent your life after high school when former friend and foe alike reject you(flood conversion) and you become powerless in your new circumstances. Defeating them by destroying Halo(your school), represents your rejection of the harm you caused there, and of the scorn you now face. You escape in the Long Sword fighter(your pickup), with girlfriend in tow.
But it's a good game all the same, but the online play sucks.