I don't recall ghandi going out of his way to stay anonymous. In fact, he made a big deal out of publicly breaking the law, and accepted the punishment to show how the law was unjust.
I don't recall this woman going out of her way to stay anonymous. I don't recall Dave1.0 mentioning anything about anonymity. In fact, you seem to make a big deal out of some arbitrary fact that isn't particularly applicable because you have a narrative going on in your head that is pretty well disconnected from reality.
Essentially, MediaSentry set up their own P2P client software and recorded the IP addresses of the computers hosting and serving complete copies of whatever material.
However, they never bothered to download the files - all they did is go by file name.
Even though you're gay for linux, you seem to be able to see/. for what it is.
How can you be gay for linux? Does that mean you are a linux too? Or is it simply enough to be any sort of OS? Like Vista? If you are Vista and you want to have sex with Linux, does that make you gay?
when footbinding was first outlawed, it still went on. it only gradually faded away
woooosh, footbinding was simply a societal convention, not the result of societal structure which is what sex selection is in countries like china. So no, you are completely wrong.
Labeling it "barbaric" is just a bunch of hyperbole. Female circumcision is barbaric, waterboarding is barbaric. As for pointless - maybe in the USA where the practice isn't widespread enough to make a difference, but not in the original countries where the entire social structure is set up to favor families with boys. You want to fix the problem of sex selection in china too? Well you won't get it by simply outlawing it, you'll have to turn the entire country on its head first.
Meth production and use was an epidemic in northern Georgia a few years ago. I was a reporter at the time, and saw bulk ephedra for sale in gas stations. Since that law was passed, usage has dropped drastically. Part of the decline may be that the drug is so destructive that it got a bad reputation, but if the law helped, I think it's worth it.
You are a reporter? Go do your research. Even the FBI says that usage hasn't significantly dropped nationwide. What has happened is simply that production consolidated from "mom & pop" "bathtub stills" to highly organized, extremely violent criminal gangs doing the distribution of meth produced in "super labs" south of the border.
Typical war on drugs stupidity - they did not reduce meth consumption, but they set the market conditions for it be become hyper-violent and a hell of a lot more profitable than it once was. Meanwhile the entire country gets to pay for the increased criminal activity with reduced privacy. The first person charged with buying too much pseudofed did so because his kid and himself had a chronic illness and he went over the limit without even realizing there was a limit.
can you ever see humans being so conformist as to have identical children with a low biodiversity such that they're susceptible to something like that?
Yes, at least for significantly large populations of humans.
Little Boxes 1. Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes, little boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same.
2. And the people in the houses All go to the university, And they all get put in boxes, Little boxes, all the same. And there's doctors and there's lawyers And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same.
3. And they all play on the golf-course, And drink their Martini dry, And they all have pretty children, And the children go to school. And the children go to summer camp And then to the university, And they all get put in boxes And they all come out the same.
4. And the boys go into business, And marry, and raise a family, And they all get put in boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same.
and is unfortunately still prevalent in india, china, and korea, and immigrant communities from india, china, and korea
they should outlaw sex selection. an absolutely disgusting practice
Big deal. As long as they aren't using abortion to do it, why not? They'll just end up at a point where girls are ultimately more desirable because of the imbalance.
If all those theories about polygamy causing political instability because there aren't enough wives to go around, then countries like China are in for a big problem anyway.
They didn't know a thing about your warranty. Or your car. The call folks all the time who either have no cars, or ancient cars that haven't had warranties of any kind for years and years and tell them 'your warranty is about to expire'.
These guys yes. Not all of them. I got a postcard with the make and model of my car and they knew exactly what day the manufacturer's warranty was going to expire. I even bought the car second hand, so it wasn't like the dealer ratted me out. I think it must be DMV records correlated by vin with dealer reported original sales, or possibly just DMV records and assumptions that first registration equals a sale on or about the same day,
Not having a standard does not make a given license more difficult to forge
The number of forgers remains constant, with 50 different ids their expertise is divided across all 50, maybe not equally divided but its not like everyone who needs a fake id can use one from any one arbitrary state, there will be demand for forgeries from every state. Thus, at the barest of minimums, the cost of a good forgery is increased by having 50 different types of ids.
It really is the same as your argument, except that forging an id is a lot harder than validating an id - there are books that will get you 90% of the way there for validation, meanwhile a book can only help with the first step (identifying the security features) of forging, everything else is the skill of the forger and the quality of his tools.
So that's $1.00 per square foot to pave a road with an OIL based substance which has to withstand repeated use by vehicles of around 1 1/2 to 20 tons on a regular basis for YEARS.
Yeah, something is off. Googling around I'm seeing numbers that are at least an order of magnitude higher than that ($50/square yard at a minimum). Maybe the $100K is just the labor.
Its been well over a decade, but I recall seeing an episode of NOVA on PBS about road construction in the US and how hopelessly behind the curve we were. Their analysis was that our problems stem from corruption in the industry. That road construction companies are buddies with the various local politicians so that they are able to get contracts that don't require them to modernize. The end result being that our roads deteriorate much faster than they do in places like Europe, requiring much more frequent repair work for higher prices. Maybe things have changed in the intervening decade, but I doubt it.
Eh, why? What's the problem with travel documents? Most* of the EU countries do have them, and neither of them is a police state!
For one thing the right to travel freely is a pretty basic human right. Requiring travel documents is a violation of that right from the get go, even if the state has yet to use them to excessively restrict travel, the mere fact that one must be given the OK by the state in order to travel is a violation.
FYI, the UK instituted internal passports back around WWII but repealed them a few years after the war had ended for precisely that reason.
When did we go from layouts to security features of layouts? Exactly how does the placement of information on the card equal a security feature, other than simply not getting it wrong?
But with 50 (or so) layouts forgers can usually focus on *any* layout, picking one which then ideally is not so well known in the area of intended use. I don't see how that is an advantage.
Lets say you really mean 50 or so different sets of security features and acknowledge that we are now talking about something completely different from what has been spoken about before. If a california bouncer sees 100 licenses and 99 are from cali and 1 from west virgina, he's going to give the west virginia license more scrutiny - they all have books listing the licenses and what to look for to verify authenticity. If he suddenly gets 99 west virginia licenses he's going to become an expert pretty quick anyway.
Without expressed permission of the individual, none of their personally identifiable information can be transmitted/transferred between companies.
The end result will simply be that every business makes you give express permission to do all of that before they will do business with you, which will put us back to square one - either live in the woods and don't do business with anyone or bend over and take it.
Personally, I would rather see a reduction of laws and policies that hurt privacy - like the law that prevents you from purchasing pseudofed over the counter without giving up your personal information to the pharmacist who is pretty much free to do whatever they want with it after they send it in to the feds. Or the policy of the post office to sell lists of everybody who files a change of address form just to get their mail forwarded. Or the policy of a lot of state DMVs to sell lists of people who have driver's licenses along with their photos, addresses and ages.
I haven't argued at all for any notion of "collective responsibility"; there is no such thing.
Yeah, you have. You completely missed it when you assigned "as a group" to "the vast majority of people" and you continued to do so when you completely missed my rewriting of your statement to say "as individuals" and went on to repeat your original point by saying "No. The vast majority of the people have all the power."
He is responsible for the legitimacy of the system, even though his candidate didn't win
Again, what is the point in saying that someone is responsible for the SYSTEM, you've just restated your original claim that merely by voting, people are responsible "for the democratic form of their government". FORM and SYSTEM are just synonyms in your usage.
Interesting also that you have no response for the key point that oil exports have made the Iran of today loaded to the gills with outside influence in support of the current regime. You've got this perfect model of the state with zero outside influence that doesn't even exist anywhere in the world, never mind the problems with assigning such a black and white interpretation of the responsible parties.
Sorry, if the xray scanners can tell that I have a plastic bottle of sunscreen in my backpack, there's NO way they're going to miss your ceramic or obsidian knife,
Interesting graph, that little hook back up starting around 2003 suggests that the drastic increase in oil prices over the last 5 years or so which 'magically' made solar more competitive was enough to actually reduce the rate of efficiency improvements.
I would like to see a graph that also included price per watt for oil too, although I doubt that information (versus watts from the generic "grid" which includes non-oil sources) is easy to get.
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I don't recall ghandi going out of his way to stay anonymous. In fact, he made a big deal out of publicly breaking the law, and accepted the punishment to show how the law was unjust.
I don't recall this woman going out of her way to stay anonymous.
I don't recall Dave1.0 mentioning anything about anonymity.
In fact, you seem to make a big deal out of some arbitrary fact that isn't particularly applicable because you have a narrative going on in your head that is pretty well disconnected from reality.
No. So why is the RIAA able to pursue this crap in the first place? *sigh*
Because of David LaMacchia.
Worked for Gandhi.
Worked for Prohibition.
Worked for national speed limit of 55 mph.
Seems to be working for pot.
If you can incur legal fees in the vicinity of your life savings, at least the dough goes to the court and not the RIAA.
You mean to the lawyers. The RIAA are basically an organization of lawyers.
Essentially, MediaSentry set up their own P2P client software and recorded the IP addresses of the computers hosting and serving complete copies of whatever material.
However, they never bothered to download the files - all they did is go by file name.
You're kidding right?
A x.509 certificate will only slow the NSA down a few seconds (if that).
That's all it takes to essentially opt out of these trolling expeditions.
If they decide to focus on you specifically, then you've got other problems.
Even though you're gay for linux, you seem to be able to see /. for what it is.
How can you be gay for linux? Does that mean you are a linux too? Or is it simply enough to be any sort of OS? Like Vista?
If you are Vista and you want to have sex with Linux, does that make you gay?
Ironically, his site is blocked by the child porn list by our Keskusrikospoliisi (federal police).
Dude, that's not ironic, that's inevitable.
"Bucky Balls create Pearl Necklace"
Who would have guessed?
take footbinding
when footbinding was first outlawed, it still went on. it only gradually faded away
woooosh, footbinding was simply a societal convention, not the result of societal structure which is what sex selection is in countries like china.
So no, you are completely wrong.
So, science is an ever-growing anime blob monster straight out of Akira?
Labeling it "barbaric" is just a bunch of hyperbole. Female circumcision is barbaric, waterboarding is barbaric. As for pointless - maybe in the USA where the practice isn't widespread enough to make a difference, but not in the original countries where the entire social structure is set up to favor families with boys. You want to fix the problem of sex selection in china too? Well you won't get it by simply outlawing it, you'll have to turn the entire country on its head first.
Meth production and use was an epidemic in northern Georgia a few years ago. I was a reporter at the time, and saw bulk ephedra for sale in gas stations. Since that law was passed, usage has dropped drastically. Part of the decline may be that the drug is so destructive that it got a bad reputation, but if the law helped, I think it's worth it.
You are a reporter? Go do your research. Even the FBI says that usage hasn't significantly dropped nationwide. What has happened is simply that production consolidated from "mom & pop" "bathtub stills" to highly organized, extremely violent criminal gangs doing the distribution of meth produced in "super labs" south of the border.
Typical war on drugs stupidity - they did not reduce meth consumption, but they set the market conditions for it be become hyper-violent and a hell of a lot more profitable than it once was. Meanwhile the entire country gets to pay for the increased criminal activity with reduced privacy. The first person charged with buying too much pseudofed did so because his kid and himself had a chronic illness and he went over the limit without even realizing there was a limit.
can you ever see humans being so conformist as to have identical children with a low biodiversity such that they're susceptible to something like that?
Yes, at least for significantly large populations of humans.
Little Boxes
1. Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
2. And the people in the houses
All go to the university,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
3. And they all play on the golf-course,
And drink their Martini dry,
And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
And they all get put in boxes
And they all come out the same.
4. And the boys go into business,
And marry, and raise a family,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
and is unfortunately still prevalent in india, china, and korea, and immigrant communities from india, china, and korea
they should outlaw sex selection. an absolutely disgusting practice
Big deal. As long as they aren't using abortion to do it, why not? They'll just end up at a point where girls are ultimately more desirable because of the imbalance.
If all those theories about polygamy causing political instability because there aren't enough wives to go around, then countries like China are in for a big problem anyway.
They didn't know a thing about your warranty. Or your car. The call folks all the time who either have no cars, or ancient cars that haven't had warranties of any kind for years and years and tell them 'your warranty is about to expire'.
These guys yes. Not all of them. I got a postcard with the make and model of my car and they knew exactly what day the manufacturer's warranty was going to expire. I even bought the car second hand, so it wasn't like the dealer ratted me out. I think it must be DMV records correlated by vin with dealer reported original sales, or possibly just DMV records and assumptions that first registration equals a sale on or about the same day,
Not having a standard does not make a given license more difficult to forge
The number of forgers remains constant, with 50 different ids their expertise is divided across all 50, maybe not equally divided but its not like everyone who needs a fake id can use one from any one arbitrary state, there will be demand for forgeries from every state. Thus, at the barest of minimums, the cost of a good forgery is increased by having 50 different types of ids.
It really is the same as your argument, except that forging an id is a lot harder than validating an id - there are books that will get you 90% of the way there for validation, meanwhile a book can only help with the first step (identifying the security features) of forging, everything else is the skill of the forger and the quality of his tools.
So that's $1.00 per square foot to pave a road with an OIL based substance which has to withstand repeated use by vehicles of around 1 1/2 to 20 tons on a regular basis for YEARS.
Yeah, something is off. Googling around I'm seeing numbers that are at least an order of magnitude higher than that ($50/square yard at a minimum).
Maybe the $100K is just the labor.
Its been well over a decade, but I recall seeing an episode of NOVA on PBS about road construction in the US and how hopelessly behind the curve we were. Their analysis was that our problems stem from corruption in the industry. That road construction companies are buddies with the various local politicians so that they are able to get contracts that don't require them to modernize. The end result being that our roads deteriorate much faster than they do in places like Europe, requiring much more frequent repair work for higher prices. Maybe things have changed in the intervening decade, but I doubt it.
Eh, why? What's the problem with travel documents? Most* of the EU countries do have them, and neither of them is a police state!
For one thing the right to travel freely is a pretty basic human right. Requiring travel documents is a violation of that right from the get go, even if the state has yet to use them to excessively restrict travel, the mere fact that one must be given the OK by the state in order to travel is a violation.
FYI, the UK instituted internal passports back around WWII but repealed them a few years after the war had ended for precisely that reason.
When did we go from layouts to security features of layouts? Exactly how does the placement of information on the card equal a security feature, other than simply not getting it wrong?
But with 50 (or so) layouts forgers can usually focus on *any* layout, picking one which then ideally is not so well known in the area of intended use. I don't see how that is an advantage.
Lets say you really mean 50 or so different sets of security features and acknowledge that we are now talking about something completely different from what has been spoken about before. If a california bouncer sees 100 licenses and 99 are from cali and 1 from west virgina, he's going to give the west virginia license more scrutiny - they all have books listing the licenses and what to look for to verify authenticity. If he suddenly gets 99 west virginia licenses he's going to become an expert pretty quick anyway.
Without expressed permission of the individual, none of their personally identifiable information can be transmitted/transferred between companies.
The end result will simply be that every business makes you give express permission to do all of that before they will do business with you, which will put us back to square one - either live in the woods and don't do business with anyone or bend over and take it.
Personally, I would rather see a reduction of laws and policies that hurt privacy - like the law that prevents you from purchasing pseudofed over the counter without giving up your personal information to the pharmacist who is pretty much free to do whatever they want with it after they send it in to the feds. Or the policy of the post office to sell lists of everybody who files a change of address form just to get their mail forwarded. Or the policy of a lot of state DMVs to sell lists of people who have driver's licenses along with their photos, addresses and ages.
I haven't argued at all for any notion of "collective responsibility"; there is no such thing.
Yeah, you have. You completely missed it when you assigned "as a group" to "the vast majority of people" and you continued to do so when you completely missed my rewriting of your statement to say "as individuals" and went on to repeat your original point by saying "No. The vast majority of the people have all the power."
He is responsible for the legitimacy of the system, even though his candidate didn't win
Again, what is the point in saying that someone is responsible for the SYSTEM, you've just restated your original claim that merely by voting, people are responsible "for the democratic form of their government". FORM and SYSTEM are just synonyms in your usage.
Interesting also that you have no response for the key point that oil exports have made the Iran of today loaded to the gills with outside influence in support of the current regime. You've got this perfect model of the state with zero outside influence that doesn't even exist anywhere in the world, never mind the problems with assigning such a black and white interpretation of the responsible parties.
Sorry, if the xray scanners can tell that I have a plastic bottle of sunscreen in my backpack, there's NO way they're going to miss your ceramic or obsidian knife,
What, have they started x-raying the people now?
Maybe you should take a look at these graphs: http://www.frozennorth.org/C197109377/E20080427143258/index.html
Interesting graph, that little hook back up starting around 2003 suggests that the drastic increase in oil prices over the last 5 years or so which 'magically' made solar more competitive was enough to actually reduce the rate of efficiency improvements.
I would like to see a graph that also included price per watt for oil too, although I doubt that information (versus watts from the generic "grid" which includes non-oil sources) is easy to get.