If I knew of anybody even seriously thinking of harming them, I would have absolutely no regrets or second thoughts when--or after--I murdered that person in the most gruesome of ways. And feel free to quote this in the trial...it's not insanity to protect your young.
But, for example, somebody who streaks is NO. DANGER. AT. ALL. It's pointless, a waste of government resources, and a VIOLATION of human RIGHTS to put someone who commits a victimless act on a list designed to protect "victims".
I have DESPISED this man's code since the day I saw it. His BONEHEADED insistence on doing things the Solaris way in Linux, his apparent INABILITY to use a standard build system, and the INSUFFERABLE ARROGANCE he displays through absolutely everything he does are completely INFURIATING.
Think I'm spewing flamebait? Nonsense. Read this bug report about cdrtools. He starts by insisting his misinterpretation of the GPL is correct, goes on to threaten defamation(slander) lawsuits in german courts against Debian, and finishes up calling most the people in the discussion thread "convinced liars". The man is unusable as an open source contributor, and I am ecstatic that more people actually realize this now.
Responding to your first statement. Something you probably don't know is what action they were convicted for. In some cases, yes, the person committed a heinous crime and was duly punished. In many others, the person got drunk and pissed behind a bush at a party, or decided he and his girlfriend should go get frisky in the backyard. To go out on a limb, I'm willing to bet a VAST MAJORITY of the people on the sex offender list are harmless. And that's the very problem. A list such as that should be reserved for those people that, knowing exactly what they did, you don't want to even be on the same planet with them.
Otherwise...well, this new law is just another advance in our state-sponsored witch-hunts. Remember, it's all to protect you against the Turrists.
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Oh please.
I've been run over by a mini and came through it just fine.
One variant, called Q199R, appeared almost immediately, and the bacteria that contained it became the dominant strain of bacteria through 500 generations of breeding. The gene, however, couldn't provide protection after 62 degrees Celsius.
At that point, five new strains of bacteria, all with slightly different versions of Q199R, appeared. Three of the five new strains were driven to extinction in a few days, while the remaining two fought it out for three weeks longer.
The group then conducted the experiment again, and the same mutations developed. Thus, the experiment suggests that evolutionary development can be predicted, the researchers said.
You are not alone...this is exactly how I found the case of my cow-orker's computer after Misguided-Idiot tried to assemble it. This is the guy who claimed to have worked professionally assembling computers, so I made the (now obviously erroneous) assumption that he would know enough to do the simple stuff.
Dapper has been upgraded to libc6, so we have the Firefox issue until the mozilla binaries get an upgrade as well. I can't recall if it was a specifically scim error or a scim-pinyin error that made Breezy unusable, but the software is quite different between the C and J of CJK.
The current Dapper beta has beautiful support for Scim-chinese/pinyin. Of course, Firefox is stuck in the stone ages with libc5 and so won't work with it, but if you type in OOo or (I'd imagine) any other competent editor, it works perfectly.
It is something akin to the violation of privacy and destruction of rights of rape, to have ones personal computer invaded by a virus or other malicious code. (yes I know, the severity level is vastly different, but it's the same type). Afterwords, if this personal computer wanders around the Internet having unprotected HTTP with other servers, any who don't have the vaccination are going to pick up whatever it's got.
But hey, that's only a few orders of margin off. Now open wide, I've got a 40 micrometer tablet for you to swallow.
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Brewskie is a term (infrequently) used by American college students. It is seen primarily in the pot-smoking, permanently drunk sub-genus of this group, and was popularized by our greatest idiot, Pauly Shore.
I recently purchased my domain through GoDaddy, and there was an issue with server configuration. I called them up to get it fixed, and oddly enough, during the call I was asked what I intended to do with the domain.
This is a very bad analogy, and probably exactly how the telcos view the internet.
They're fine with you sending a package(packet) to--just for instance--Google, but when Google wants to send back a packet containing your search results, they think Google should pay for the privilege.
Of course this ignores the fact that Google already pays a presumably huge amount of money for their connectivity from whatever you call an ISP that provides gigabit traffic. Why does Google have to pay more?
Actually, although you're likely right about aircraft GPS needing higher accuracy, on an approach a plane will use the ILS, which tracks a narrow RF beam down. This has far higher accuracy than GPS, and the pilot doesn't need to know he's exactly 33.945921N by 118.442957W, he just needs to know he's "on the beam".
Cell phone hysteria is vastly overblown; you can get a study to say anything you want to say.
Christmas trees in their current form, maybe. But the idea of having a tree in the house to celebrate the yuletide season is older than Christianity itself. That's what happens when the Catholic church imports pagan and natural beliefs in a self-centered attempt to promote their own goals.
I just did the exact same thing, then stepped in. If you can solder worth a darn, even if you screw it up the first time you can still fix it. Read up on JTAG if you're curious as to how. Actually using this method, you can reload a Microsoft MN-700 game router with OpenWRT, and it turns into quite a good wireless router.
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Actually, I have two little girls.
If I knew of anybody even seriously thinking of harming them, I would have absolutely no regrets or second thoughts when--or after--I murdered that person in the most gruesome of ways. And feel free to quote this in the trial...it's not insanity to protect your young.
But, for example, somebody who streaks is NO. DANGER. AT. ALL. It's pointless, a waste of government resources, and a VIOLATION of human RIGHTS to put someone who commits a victimless act on a list designed to protect "victims".
ABOUT!!!
EFFFING!!!
TIME!!!
I have DESPISED this man's code since the day I saw it. His BONEHEADED insistence on doing things the Solaris way in Linux, his apparent INABILITY to use a standard build system, and the INSUFFERABLE ARROGANCE he displays through absolutely everything he does are completely INFURIATING.
Think I'm spewing flamebait? Nonsense. Read this bug report about cdrtools. He starts by insisting his misinterpretation of the GPL is correct, goes on to threaten defamation(slander) lawsuits in german courts against Debian, and finishes up calling most the people in the discussion thread "convinced liars". The man is unusable as an open source contributor, and I am ecstatic that more people actually realize this now.
Responding to your first statement.
Something you probably don't know is what action they were convicted for.
In some cases, yes, the person committed a heinous crime and was duly punished. In many others, the person got drunk and pissed behind a bush at a party, or decided he and his girlfriend should go get frisky in the backyard.
To go out on a limb, I'm willing to bet a VAST MAJORITY of the people on the sex offender list are harmless. And that's the very problem. A list such as that should be reserved for those people that, knowing exactly what they did, you don't want to even be on the same planet with them.
Otherwise...well, this new law is just another advance in our state-sponsored witch-hunts. Remember, it's all to protect you against the Turrists.
Oh please.
I've been run over by a mini and came through it just fine.
Try running one over with a real car.
Hey moron, can you READ?!?
You are not alone...this is exactly how I found the case of my cow-orker's computer after Misguided-Idiot tried to assemble it. This is the guy who claimed to have worked professionally assembling computers, so I made the (now obviously erroneous) assumption that he would know enough to do the simple stuff.
What a retard.
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-1, Obvious
Dapper has been upgraded to libc6, so we have the Firefox issue until the mozilla binaries get an upgrade as well.
I can't recall if it was a specifically scim error or a scim-pinyin error that made Breezy unusable, but the software is quite different between the C and J of CJK.
The current Dapper beta has beautiful support for Scim-chinese/pinyin. Of course, Firefox is stuck in the stone ages with libc5 and so won't work with it, but if you type in OOo or (I'd imagine) any other competent editor, it works perfectly.
Actually, that is a marvelously apt analogy.
It is something akin to the violation of privacy and destruction of rights of rape, to have ones personal computer invaded by a virus or other malicious code. (yes I know, the severity level is vastly different, but it's the same type). Afterwords, if this personal computer wanders around the Internet having unprotected HTTP with other servers, any who don't have the vaccination are going to pick up whatever it's got.
Um.
.001 millimeters
Let me be the first to call IDIOT.
1 decimeter = 0.1 meters
1 centimeter = 0.1 decimeters
1 millimeter = 0.1 centimeters
1 micrometer =
0.00001 meters = 1 micrometer
But hey, that's only a few orders of margin off.
Now open wide, I've got a 40 micrometer tablet for you to swallow.
Brewskie is a term (infrequently) used by American college students. It is seen primarily in the pot-smoking, permanently drunk sub-genus of this group, and was popularized by our greatest idiot, Pauly Shore.
It means, roughly, "Me idiot. Want beer."
I recently purchased my domain through GoDaddy, and there was an issue with server configuration. I called them up to get it fixed, and oddly enough, during the call I was asked what I intended to do with the domain.
So nyah!
Communist China, perhaps?
That doesn't, btw, count Xianggang or Shanghai; those cities are excessively westernized.
Wish I had mod-points, 'cause you sir, need a +5 on that.
This is a very bad analogy, and probably exactly how the telcos view the internet.
They're fine with you sending a package(packet) to--just for instance--Google, but when Google wants to send back a packet containing your search results, they think Google should pay for the privilege.
Of course this ignores the fact that Google already pays a presumably huge amount of money for their connectivity from whatever you call an ISP that provides gigabit traffic. Why does Google have to pay more?
'cause they're rich and can be squeezed.
Actually, although you're likely right about aircraft GPS needing higher accuracy, on an approach a plane will use the ILS, which tracks a narrow RF beam down. This has far higher accuracy than GPS, and the pilot doesn't need to know he's exactly 33.945921N by 118.442957W, he just needs to know he's "on the beam".
Cell phone hysteria is vastly overblown; you can get a study to say anything you want to say.
Kinky!
"-1, Idiot".
Come on Slashdot, I know it's possible. Gimme more choices for moderating!!
Christmas trees in their current form, maybe.
But the idea of having a tree in the house to celebrate the yuletide season is older than Christianity itself. That's what happens when the Catholic church imports pagan and natural beliefs in a self-centered attempt to promote their own goals.
Ahh, that's actually $399.75 and your dignity.
You have to buy the string to fix the power supply, and for the love of god, man! You bought the CORE system? Have you no shame?!
No mod-points, but welcome to my blacklist.
Idiot.
"You're downloading Debian?! That's not allowed! *bleep* *bleep* illegal operation *passing details to NSA*!"
Yeah, everybody knows NSA uses Gentoo.
http://www.aixmarseille.com/OpenWRT
You're welcome.
I just did the exact same thing, then stepped in. If you can solder worth a darn, even if you screw it up the first time you can still fix it. Read up on JTAG if you're curious as to how.
Actually using this method, you can reload a Microsoft MN-700 game router with OpenWRT, and it turns into quite a good wireless router.
Just my $0.02.