I refuse to accept being blown up. I have lived in my country for 24 years without any fear of a terrorist attack. I very much prefer it to stay that way. If you think otherwise, it's your business, but don't push your surrender onto others.
I'm trolling, but... people who complain at every time some civil liberties are being curtailed in order to fight terrorism do not offer any other methods of fighting it. The bombings in London, Madrit and 9/11 all prove that 'the old ways' are not working anymore. The system must be changed, and those who criticize their governments practically over everything they do in this situation seldom offer any propositions of their own.
You pick a handful of your people that you trust to be sane and clever, and ask them to watch out for troublemakers. At least that's the way it is done in my place with any big demonstration, esp. when the trade unions do it.
And what if "a guy goes to a rally and starts making obviously outrageous statements for the intent of inciting peaceful protesters to riot" and gets "beaten up by the coppers"? I'm somehow sure he'd be called a martyr.
I don't quite get the logic. When a man gets beaten up by the police, he's a martyr. When he gets beaten up by a punch of dope-smoking civilians, he's a wanker.
When you organize a big demonstration, one of your responsibilities is protecting the peaceful demonstrators from some aggressive people who might join the crowd and start trouble. You do it with the cooperation with the police. If there is sufficient organization, some idiot throwing bottles will not be a problem.
Your right to peacefully assemble is not unlimited, it is limited by other people's rights, like the right to protect their property.
I'd say it has more to do with the way all large bureaucracies run. Using free (as in beer) software would means reducing the budget, as you spend less. Surely you wouldn't want it to happen to you?
It's not the point. There are no bogus pseudo-sciences aimed at making firefighters love the sight of fire. That's the difference. I have lots of respect for old-fashioned soldiers, who killed because they had to, for higher reasons. I have zero respect for brain-washed killing machines. I just pity them -- the suicide rate they have after the war is quite telling, in fact.
My mother never controlled what I read and what games I play. Only sometimes did she turn off the TV when it showed some disgusting violence. But also talked to me a lot about violence, about life and how we should behave to other people. That's why she could trust me that I won't kill my pals at school just because I played 'Doom' at home.
I remember reading a Newsweek (it's mainstream, not liberal) piece about soldiers in Iraq. When they saw an Iraq guy running away from their guns, they literally begged their leader for permission to kill. It's shocking, but being a soldier now means being trained to love to kill. Google 'killology'.
Look -- I don't give a shit whether you play it safe or not. Most civilized countries have police units dealing with online crime. If for some reason of yours you prefer to take it personal, it's your choice and you body which may be found some day, some place. Just consider yourself warned.
The principle that only a women should have a say about abortion rights is strikingly similar to a principle that only a man should have any say about prison rape. Both of them are bullshit.
I'm sorry, but you're very wrong. Scammers usually have links in YOUR country as well. I remember reading an article about how Nigerian scammers target people in Poland. At some step in the game, they give a contact to a local person, not in Nigeria but in Poland. This person is simply some local gangster or a con-man. At this point at the latest, the game is decidedly not safe.
One man, who got cheated for some money by the scammers, tried to go after them and get the money back. He simply disappeared. His family is still looking for him.
They're criminals, who will jump at the opportunity to rob you if you're careless enough to, for example, give them some details about you (like your phone number). Playing with them is NOT SAFE. Leave it to the police.
Slashdot Mirror
Why don't you say it in the open, that you think that London bombings are a provocation?
I refuse to accept being blown up. I have lived in my country for 24 years without any fear of a terrorist attack. I very much prefer it to stay that way. If you think otherwise, it's your business, but don't push your surrender onto others.
s/trolling/not trolling/
Why can't we edit our posts on slashdot?
I'm trolling, but... people who complain at every time some civil liberties are being curtailed in order to fight terrorism do not offer any other methods of fighting it. The bombings in London, Madrit and 9/11 all prove that 'the old ways' are not working anymore. The system must be changed, and those who criticize their governments practically over everything they do in this situation seldom offer any propositions of their own.
You pick a handful of your people that you trust to be sane and clever, and ask them to watch out for troublemakers. At least that's the way it is done in my place with any big demonstration, esp. when the trade unions do it.
And what if "a guy goes to a rally and starts making obviously outrageous statements for the intent of inciting peaceful protesters to riot" and gets "beaten up by the coppers"? I'm somehow sure he'd be called a martyr.
Because shotguns weren't developed for crowd 'control'.
They bloody were.
I don't quite get the logic. When a man gets beaten up by the police, he's a martyr. When he gets beaten up by a punch of dope-smoking civilians, he's a wanker.
When you organize a big demonstration, one of your responsibilities is protecting the peaceful demonstrators from some aggressive people who might join the crowd and start trouble. You do it with the cooperation with the police. If there is sufficient organization, some idiot throwing bottles will not be a problem.
Your right to peacefully assemble is not unlimited, it is limited by other people's rights, like the right to protect their property.
You could say the same about shotguns. Why not get paranoid about shotguns?
Plus, Segway has this problem with breaking and stopping.
2. Don't import 3rd world wage workers into the USA and expect the same quality you get from USA workers
Why not, given the fact those 3rd world wage workers are perfectly capable of delivering the said quality?
I'd say it has more to do with the way all large bureaucracies run. Using free (as in beer) software would means reducing the budget, as you spend less. Surely you wouldn't want it to happen to you?
How is this supposed to add any value?
What is the responsibility of a raped woman, or of a 12-year old girl?
It's not the point. There are no bogus pseudo-sciences aimed at making firefighters love the sight of fire. That's the difference. I have lots of respect for old-fashioned soldiers, who killed because they had to, for higher reasons. I have zero respect for brain-washed killing machines. I just pity them -- the suicide rate they have after the war is quite telling, in fact.
It's not. I remember reading many articles in "Newsweek" which were very appraising about Bush.
My mother never controlled what I read and what games I play. Only sometimes did she turn off the TV when it showed some disgusting violence. But also talked to me a lot about violence, about life and how we should behave to other people. That's why she could trust me that I won't kill my pals at school just because I played 'Doom' at home.
I remember reading a Newsweek (it's mainstream, not liberal) piece about soldiers in Iraq. When they saw an Iraq guy running away from their guns, they literally begged their leader for permission to kill. It's shocking, but being a soldier now means being trained to love to kill. Google 'killology'.
Look -- I don't give a shit whether you play it safe or not. Most civilized countries have police units dealing with online crime. If for some reason of yours you prefer to take it personal, it's your choice and you body which may be found some day, some place. Just consider yourself warned.
The principle that only a women should have a say about abortion rights is strikingly similar to a principle that only a man should have any say about prison rape. Both of them are bullshit.
I'm sorry, but you're very wrong. Scammers usually have links in YOUR country as well. I remember reading an article about how Nigerian scammers target people in Poland. At some step in the game, they give a contact to a local person, not in Nigeria but in Poland. This person is simply some local gangster or a con-man. At this point at the latest, the game is decidedly not safe. One man, who got cheated for some money by the scammers, tried to go after them and get the money back. He simply disappeared. His family is still looking for him. They're criminals, who will jump at the opportunity to rob you if you're careless enough to, for example, give them some details about you (like your phone number). Playing with them is NOT SAFE. Leave it to the police.
I don't think that school cafeteria staff is as busy as supermarket clerks.
But the message of TFA was that 9-year olds printing bank notes on an inkjet printer are a real threat.
So debian folk is moving to X.Org? Yawn... I had it on my machine for a year already. Glad you crawled from under that rock of yours.