At birth you will be infected with government approved nanomites to help regulate your body. I'm betting there will be a built in kill switch in case you become disruptive to the common good.
Until someone stages a coup by hacking the "kill switch" of the entire executive and legislative branches.
I have carried a one inch blade with me every time I've flown. It always passes without question, even though I put it in plain view in the X-ray bin.
The rules include a very difficult to parse list that says scissors with up to 4 inch blades are allowed, it is easy for someone to read it as all blades up to 4 inches are allowed.
Description of Prohibited Items
Axes and hatchets; bows and arrows; ice axes/ice picks; knives of any
length, except rounded-blade butter and plastic cutlery; meat cleavers;
razor-type blades, such as box cutters, utility knives, and razor blades not in
a cartridge, but excluding safety razors; sabers; scissors, metal with pointed
tips and a blade length greater than 4 inches as measured from the fulcrum;
swords; throwing stars (martial arts).
A person who votes for the winning Presidential candidate is more responsible than the one who votes for the loser.
You've also argued that someone who is a non-voter and merely born into a country and can't find or afford to immigrate to another country is also responsible for the actions of that government. You pick the easy cases which doesn't help for understanding the hard cases.
But, by the very act of voting, they share equal measures of responsibility for the democratic form of their government.
That's a useless claim and not necessarily true either. Of what point is sharing responsibility for the FORM of a government in assigning responsibility for the actions of a particular set of government employees?
This is exactly wrong. The "vast majority of people", as a group, have all the power, and all the responsibility. Not even the most tyrannical and totalitarian of governments can hold on to power without the acquiesce of the masses.
That is exactly wrong. The "vast majority of people", as individuals, have practically none of the power and thus none of the responsibility. Not even the most democratic and free of governments can represent the will of every individual.
By that rationale, no one--not a civilian, an enemy soldier, nor the leader of the enemy--bears 100% responsibility for the situation. An individual soldier bears only a slightly higher fraction of the responsibility than a civilian, yet killing him is okay?
An individual bears responsibility for what they do as an individual. If the military is not conscripting them, they need not join. If they are conscripted, they can still surrender, go awol, etc. Thus those who continue to fight do bear a significantly greater fraction of responsibility.
each of us bears full responsibility for our own actions. To believe that we do not, is what allows tyranny to exist in the first place.
As if it were so simple. You argue for collective responsibility even when individual responsibility requires different actions - where choosing an extremely small chance of revolution over the almost certain imprisonment, torture and death of your family means endorsement of tyranny. You claim that Iran is "unsupported by external forces" when in fact 3+ million barrels of oil per day brings in enormous amounts of support from external forces.
Careful there, Sparky, you are not as anonymous as you think you are, and as a private citizen, assisting and acting to bring down a government can be considered a criminal act.
If by "Sparky" you are refering to the AC to which you responded - the guy merely advocated he did not assist nor did he act. If simply advocating is all it takes, most of congress would be in jail already.
It's classified information on classified networks. We've been doing this for ages,
Sounds like it is classified information from many different programs on a single classified network, in a single database. We definitely have not been doing THAT for years.
Even if you want to sneaker-net information from one program's classified network to another program's classified network it requires a bunch of "security logistics." You might get lucky and after a year or two get all the security officers involved to come up with a plan to connect the networks of a handful of programs, as long as there was still significant access control (like no cross-program accounts without need to know vetting and specific inter-connect points with limited functionality - like file-drops but no end-to-end tcp/ip).
Which makes the hologram the differentiator in detecting forgeries, not the standardized layout. Unless the OP's goal is not to reduce forgeries but to reduce the time it takes a cop to read a license by a couple of seconds.
Nowhere does he say or even imply equal responsibility. Quite the opposite. For example, he writes "to some degree those civilians were responsible for their actions". and "partial responsibility for your government's actions".
To some degree the people making the bullets not the regular civilians who were killed. And since when does partial mean "a very small amount" - it just as means divide responsibility equally across all citizens, they all share an equal part of the blame.
It's been 27 years since I flew any where with out at least some pot on me. Like it or not. they don't EVER notice.
You are lucky. The only "successes" that the TSA has had have been busting people for drugs. As if you might perhaps light up and give the entire plane a contact high.
Ding! Someone with a clue. That was my entire point!
Except that you fell victim to the same groupthink when you made an issue of keeping the details of your special revelation a secret.
Because those cockpit doors can't be opened without the key, combination, whatever, right?
They can't even be opened with "the key" as there is no cabin accessible keyhole. They use dead-bolts and cross bars that are only accessible from within the cockpit. There is a picture of the one in Delta jets in this article - normally it doesn't even have contact with the door, much less a cabin-accessible unlocking mechanism.
On the other hand, I have no great objection to requiring the states to standardize the physical driver's license card so that law enforcement doesn't need to know about the designs of fifty plus different licenses.
Why? Just because the layout of the ID is standardized isn't going to stop forgeries that cost more than ~$20. If anything, standardizing the design will reduce the price of effective forgeries. Since they will all look the same, all of the forgers can focus on that one specific design rather than designs for multiple states.
I myself didn't even realize it was stuck in my usual carry on (I won't say how or why it was missed because that information can be misused)
Lol! Just like the "big boys" - I know something so incredibly dangerous that if I let the secret out, the terrorists will kill everyone! As if any 'terrorist' worth worrying about doesn't know 10x as many ways to smuggle shit on a plane already. Here's one - use an obsidian or a ceramic knife.
The thing is that security is no better now than it was before 9/11.
Actually, it is. The cockpit doors have been reinforced. No one is piloting a plane into a building or anywhere else unless the pilot is tricked into letting them.
But what if I had been a terrorist, fully aware of the knife?
You'd be able to cut a few people, maybe kill them, before everybody else mobbed you and gave you the beatdown of your life. You should be more worried about a bomb in the baggage hold.
this is like the 3rd post where I've had to explain to someone that a photographer is not required to get model releases.. the publisher is required to get model releases.
What you wrote was that the photographer "owns" the photograph. For any reasonable definition of "owning" a creative work, a model release is required.
Ten bucks seems really cheap for something that could significantly increase your productivity. If you are a professional programmer, I imagine an item like that would pay for itself within a week at ten bucks, if it could even be made for that selling price. But if it takes $300 to sell them, it would still pay for itself in a lot less than one year. A decent office chair costs more than that.
It is universally true, even in the most repressive of tyrannies (when unsupported by external forces, unlike the US and the Shah), that the power of the government depends entirely upon the consent of the governed. Iran today is no exception.
You write as if responsibility is shared equally by all. That's far from the case. The vast majority of people do not have an effective say in either case - the common man's responsibility is so small as to be practically non-existent. Which is why your justification of the fire-bombing of Dresden, the nuking of Japan, Sherman's March and pratically every suicide bombing ever is bogus - the people killed in those actions received 100% death in return for sharing something akin to 0.0001% of the responsibility for the situations they found themselves in.
Yes. Voting is not the only sanction you give to your government. If you pay taxes, if some portion of your labor is consumed by the government, if you patronize or support those who do, or if you contribute, in any way, to the legitimacy of the government, you share in some measure, responsibility for the government's actions.
Right. So your choice is to either support the government or lose your liberty. And don't even try to say "move to a country where you do support the government" - that only works if you are permitted to immigrate and can afford to immigrate everytime you disagree with a government's actions.
And not to Godwin this or anything, but your logic is precisely the same logic Osama bin Laden has used in justifying the killing of American civilians.
He types on a normal keyboard by holding a pen between his arms.
Having both hands myself, I am curious why he doesn't use some sort of attachment to hold a "pen" on each stump? Is it too much hassle to strap them on each time he wants to sit down and work?
In Australia there was a case of a heart clinic performing scans on perfectly healthy people because the government was picking up the tab. The thing is they got away with it for a while but they eventually got caught and prosecuted. You can have socialized medicine and scrutinize how the money is spent, its not necessarily a black-hole for public funds.
But who would you personally want scrutinizing the funds for your procedures - you, or someone for whom your death would be just another number?
Of course. Your vote is an implicit approval of the democratic process, and an acceptance of whatever results follow from the election. By voting, you are responsible for sanctioning the system which elected the winning candidate. That's the concept which separates functioning from non-functioning democracies.
And if you don't vote and just merely reside in the country?
Cultures are different. Vietnamese culture and Iranian culture are different. The Iranians bear 100% of the blame for the existence of a tyrannical government in Iran. We should condemn Iranian culture and its people.
Cultures are different, but every person within a culture is the same? They all have equal power? When you vote for the losing candidate in a presidential election are you responsible for the actions of the winner? You don't think that the billions of dollars in oil money that goes into the pockets of those in charge doesn't have anything to do with their ability to remain in charge despite popular discontent?
Except with the fact that the Iranians did actually overthrow the brutal despot that the US helped establish, and replaced him with what we see today?
AFAIK, the Iranians already had their chance to end tyranny and establish a democracy... but instead, they chose tyranny by different hands.
Of course that is a VAST over simplification.
If we include a little more detail it becomes far less clear-cut. For example, what happened was that the democratic reformers joined forces with the religious radicals because as separate groups they did not have enough power to overthrow the brutal despot. By now, through our own experiences, we (the US) ought to know that the philosophy of "Mine enemy's enemy is my friend" rarely works out in the long run. The democratic reformers in Iran, those of whom are still left alive, have learned that lesson too.
So after the revolution, the literally cut-throat religious radicals get the better of the democratic reformers and the country ends up trading one brutal regime for another. That's far from the country choosing tyranny in any sort of representation of the people's will.
Now, 5 years later I have a large collection of ogg files that are essentially useless. No one in the mainstream uses ogg, despite the superiority and price.
That's more a function of the "mainstream" being dominated by Apple at ~90% marketshare and their (a) ability to pay the mp3 and aac license fees without even noticing and (b) interest in locking the consumer into the Apple world. If it weren't for mp3's early prevalence making it a pre-requisite for any player, apple probably wouldn't even support that format either.
It seems clear to me that Apple's domination of the market for players is not anywhere near the economically optimal situation. I don't think you can blame the libertarian-leaning slashdot for promoting a world-view that is free-market oriented, especially when, at the time, there was not even a hint that Apple or anyone else would grow to such dominance.
You would probably disagree, but I think it is worth supporting free market standards with as much effort as we can, even if it means we lose sometimes. Because if we don't, we are probably going to lose all the time.
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At birth you will be infected with government approved nanomites to help regulate your body. I'm betting there will be a built in kill switch in case you become disruptive to the common good.
Until someone stages a coup by hacking the "kill switch" of the entire executive and legislative branches.
I have carried a one inch blade with me every time I've flown. It always passes without question, even though I put it in plain view in the X-ray bin.
The rules include a very difficult to parse list that says scissors with up to 4 inch blades are allowed, it is easy for someone to read it as all blades up to 4 inches are allowed.
Here, on Page 5
Description of Prohibited Items
Axes and hatchets; bows and arrows; ice axes/ice picks; knives of any length, except rounded-blade butter and plastic cutlery; meat cleavers; razor-type blades, such as box cutters, utility knives, and razor blades not in a cartridge, but excluding safety razors; sabers; scissors, metal with pointed tips and a blade length greater than 4 inches as measured from the fulcrum; swords; throwing stars (martial arts).
No, it's two different wiki pages in two different classified networks ... it's a website on a network.
Which is it? Different websites on different networks or a website on a network?
If its the former, then what's the improvement and why the reported worry that the first question from "everyone" is how do they control access?
A person who votes for the winning Presidential candidate is more responsible than the one who votes for the loser.
You've also argued that someone who is a non-voter and merely born into a country and can't find or afford to immigrate to another country is also responsible for the actions of that government. You pick the easy cases which doesn't help for understanding the hard cases.
But, by the very act of voting, they share equal measures of responsibility for the democratic form of their government.
That's a useless claim and not necessarily true either. Of what point is sharing responsibility for the FORM of a government in assigning responsibility for the actions of a particular set of government employees?
This is exactly wrong. The "vast majority of people", as a group, have all the power, and all the responsibility. Not even the most tyrannical and totalitarian of governments can hold on to power without the acquiesce of the masses.
That is exactly wrong. The "vast majority of people", as individuals, have practically none of the power and thus none of the responsibility. Not even the most democratic and free of governments can represent the will of every individual.
By that rationale, no one--not a civilian, an enemy soldier, nor the leader of the enemy--bears 100% responsibility for the situation. An individual soldier bears only a slightly higher fraction of the responsibility than a civilian, yet killing him is okay?
An individual bears responsibility for what they do as an individual. If the military is not conscripting them, they need not join. If they are conscripted, they can still surrender, go awol, etc. Thus those who continue to fight do bear a significantly greater fraction of responsibility.
each of us bears full responsibility for our own actions. To believe that we do not, is what allows tyranny to exist in the first place.
As if it were so simple. You argue for collective responsibility even when individual responsibility requires different actions - where choosing an extremely small chance of revolution over the almost certain imprisonment, torture and death of your family means endorsement of tyranny. You claim that Iran is "unsupported by external forces" when in fact 3+ million barrels of oil per day brings in enormous amounts of support from external forces.
Careful there, Sparky, you are not as anonymous as you think you are, and as a private citizen, assisting and acting to bring down a government can be considered a criminal act.
If by "Sparky" you are refering to the AC to which you responded - the guy merely advocated he did not assist nor did he act. If simply advocating is all it takes, most of congress would be in jail already.
It's classified information on classified networks. We've been doing this for ages,
Sounds like it is classified information from many different programs on a single classified network, in a single database. We definitely have not been doing THAT for years.
Even if you want to sneaker-net information from one program's classified network to another program's classified network it requires a bunch of "security logistics." You might get lucky and after a year or two get all the security officers involved to come up with a plan to connect the networks of a handful of programs, as long as there was still significant access control (like no cross-program accounts without need to know vetting and specific inter-connect points with limited functionality - like file-drops but no end-to-end tcp/ip).
Which makes the hologram the differentiator in detecting forgeries, not the standardized layout.
Unless the OP's goal is not to reduce forgeries but to reduce the time it takes a cop to read a license by a couple of seconds.
Nowhere does he say or even imply equal responsibility. Quite the opposite. For example, he writes "to some degree those civilians were responsible for their actions". and "partial responsibility for your government's actions".
To some degree the people making the bullets not the regular civilians who were killed.
And since when does partial mean "a very small amount" - it just as means divide responsibility equally across all citizens, they all share an equal part of the blame.
It's been 27 years since I flew any where with out at least some pot on me. Like it or not. they don't EVER notice.
You are lucky. The only "successes" that the TSA has had have been busting people for drugs. As if you might perhaps light up and give the entire plane a contact high.
Ding! Someone with a clue. That was my entire point!
Except that you fell victim to the same groupthink when you made an issue of keeping the details of your special revelation a secret.
Because those cockpit doors can't be opened without the key, combination, whatever, right?
They can't even be opened with "the key" as there is no cabin accessible keyhole. They use dead-bolts and cross bars that are only accessible from within the cockpit.
There is a picture of the one in Delta jets in this article - normally it doesn't even have contact with the door, much less a cabin-accessible unlocking mechanism.
On the other hand, I have no great objection to requiring the states to standardize the physical driver's license card so that law enforcement doesn't need to know about the designs of fifty plus different licenses.
Why? Just because the layout of the ID is standardized isn't going to stop forgeries that cost more than ~$20. If anything, standardizing the design will reduce the price of effective forgeries. Since they will all look the same, all of the forgers can focus on that one specific design rather than designs for multiple states.
I myself didn't even realize it was stuck in my usual carry on (I won't say how or why it was missed because that information can be misused)
Lol! Just like the "big boys" - I know something so incredibly dangerous that if I let the secret out, the terrorists will kill everyone!
As if any 'terrorist' worth worrying about doesn't know 10x as many ways to smuggle shit on a plane already.
Here's one - use an obsidian or a ceramic knife.
The thing is that security is no better now than it was before 9/11.
Actually, it is. The cockpit doors have been reinforced. No one is piloting a plane into a building or anywhere else unless the pilot is tricked into letting them.
But what if I had been a terrorist, fully aware of the knife?
You'd be able to cut a few people, maybe kill them, before everybody else mobbed you and gave you the beatdown of your life.
You should be more worried about a bomb in the baggage hold.
this is like the 3rd post where I've had to explain to someone that a photographer is not required to get model releases.. the publisher is required to get model releases.
What you wrote was that the photographer "owns" the photograph.
For any reasonable definition of "owning" a creative work, a model release is required.
Ten bucks seems really cheap for something that could significantly increase your productivity.
If you are a professional programmer, I imagine an item like that would pay for itself within a week at ten bucks, if it could even be made for that selling price.
But if it takes $300 to sell them, it would still pay for itself in a lot less than one year. A decent office chair costs more than that.
What "culprit"? He's the photographer.. he owns the shot.
Not unless the subjects signed a model release.
It is universally true, even in the most repressive of tyrannies (when unsupported by external forces, unlike the US and the Shah), that the power of the government depends entirely upon the consent of the governed. Iran today is no exception.
You write as if responsibility is shared equally by all. That's far from the case. The vast majority of people do not have an effective say in either case - the common man's responsibility is so small as to be practically non-existent. Which is why your justification of the fire-bombing of Dresden, the nuking of Japan, Sherman's March and pratically every suicide bombing ever is bogus - the people killed in those actions received 100% death in return for sharing something akin to 0.0001% of the responsibility for the situations they found themselves in.
I agree with your post except -- iPod doesn't have a 90% market share in most place. In fact, it's quite rare in Asia, as far as I can tell.
Its my understanding that just about every portable audio player in asia can also play ogg vorbis too.
Yes. Voting is not the only sanction you give to your government. If you pay taxes, if some portion of your labor is consumed by the government, if you patronize or support those who do, or if you contribute, in any way, to the legitimacy of the government, you share in some measure, responsibility for the government's actions.
Right. So your choice is to either support the government or lose your liberty. And don't even try to say "move to a country where you do support the government" - that only works if you are permitted to immigrate and can afford to immigrate everytime you disagree with a government's actions.
And not to Godwin this or anything, but your logic is precisely the same logic Osama bin Laden has used in justifying the killing of American civilians.
He types on a normal keyboard by holding a pen between his arms.
Having both hands myself, I am curious why he doesn't use some sort of attachment to hold a "pen" on each stump? Is it too much hassle to strap them on each time he wants to sit down and work?
In Australia there was a case of a heart clinic performing scans on perfectly healthy people because the government was picking up the tab. The thing is they got away with it for a while but they eventually got caught and prosecuted. You can have socialized medicine and scrutinize how the money is spent, its not necessarily a black-hole for public funds.
But who would you personally want scrutinizing the funds for your procedures - you, or someone for whom your death would be just another number?
Of course. Your vote is an implicit approval of the democratic process, and an acceptance of whatever results follow from the election. By voting, you are responsible for sanctioning the system which elected the winning candidate. That's the concept which separates functioning from non-functioning democracies.
And if you don't vote and just merely reside in the country?
Cultures are different. Vietnamese culture and Iranian culture are different. The Iranians bear 100% of the blame for the existence of a tyrannical government in Iran. We should condemn Iranian culture and its people.
Cultures are different, but every person within a culture is the same? They all have equal power? When you vote for the losing candidate in a presidential election are you responsible for the actions of the winner? You don't think that the billions of dollars in oil money that goes into the pockets of those in charge doesn't have anything to do with their ability to remain in charge despite popular discontent?
Except with the fact that the Iranians did actually overthrow the brutal despot that the US helped establish, and replaced him with what we see today?
AFAIK, the Iranians already had their chance to end tyranny and establish a democracy... but instead, they chose tyranny by different hands.
Of course that is a VAST over simplification.
If we include a little more detail it becomes far less clear-cut. For example, what happened was that the democratic reformers joined forces with the religious radicals because as separate groups they did not have enough power to overthrow the brutal despot. By now, through our own experiences, we (the US) ought to know that the philosophy of "Mine enemy's enemy is my friend" rarely works out in the long run. The democratic reformers in Iran, those of whom are still left alive, have learned that lesson too.
So after the revolution, the literally cut-throat religious radicals get the better of the democratic reformers and the country ends up trading one brutal regime for another. That's far from the country choosing tyranny in any sort of representation of the people's will.
Now, 5 years later I have a large collection of ogg files that are essentially useless. No one in the mainstream uses ogg, despite the superiority and price.
That's more a function of the "mainstream" being dominated by Apple at ~90% marketshare and their (a) ability to pay the mp3 and aac license fees without even noticing and (b) interest in locking the consumer into the Apple world. If it weren't for mp3's early prevalence making it a pre-requisite for any player, apple probably wouldn't even support that format either.
It seems clear to me that Apple's domination of the market for players is not anywhere near the economically optimal situation. I don't think you can blame the libertarian-leaning slashdot for promoting a world-view that is free-market oriented, especially when, at the time, there was not even a hint that Apple or anyone else would grow to such dominance.
You would probably disagree, but I think it is worth supporting free market standards with as much effort as we can, even if it means we lose sometimes. Because if we don't, we are probably going to lose all the time.
Perhaps they helped attract mates?
Naturally ribbed, err... fingers, for her pleasure?