you can fill it with the likes of senator santorum (since voted out) and they can't do that much damage Or you can fill it with the likes of Sonny Bono who dies mid-term almost a decade ago and the damage he did just keeps getting worse.
You aren't free if you are dead. Your patriot rhetoric is vacuous. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
But even if you and Janis don't see eye to eye, it doesn't matter. Because what's really going on is that people are choosing to live as cowards rather than live as free men. Worldwide, and even more so in the USA, more people are killed by bees than by terrorist attacks. Yet you don't see Big Brother calling for people to live in fear of bee stings do you?
So yeah, I would rather die a free man - a very old free man.
What a brilliant idea -- let's give the police the power to arrest people, throw them into jail pending trial, and not tell anybody. Good job on totally misunderstanding the original poster's point.
He was not proposing that the police "not tell anybody" -- only that the decision to release the information about an arrest be up to the accused at least as long as the accused had not been found guilty.
The NCIC, as just one example, is full of partial records that indicate arrest and even indictment but not acquittal.
I am also curious about the MIT girl. Star Simpson got a good lawyer and has chosen a trial without a jury scheduled for December 3rd. The charges against her sound like the same ones against the ATHF guys - something like intentional use of a hoax device.
I believe her lawyer was wise to pick a bench trial as the local press continues to hype the event, constantly referring to her as a prankster and dressing like a suicide bomber and the average joe on the street sure seems to think she should burn at the stake.
My understanding is that the state will need to prove intent on her part and that there was absolutely no intent as she basically wore the same clothes two days in a row. So as long as the judge decides to follow the law, rather than succumb to some inane urge to "send a message" she should come out all right.
PS -- anyone else read ATHF as Alcohol, Tobacco, Humor and Firearms?
Bomb squads don't dismantle suspected bombs in 5 minutes because they are afraid of booby traps, or terrorists setting them off by radio when they arrive, or just setting off the bomb accidentally. Depends on the definition of "suspected bomb" -- there were plenty of pictures and live footage in the press of a cop holding up one of the "suspected bombs" from nearly the very start of that day.
Many of the predecessors to these models were aimed at military applications and contained a really cool feature - instant erase. They could erase themselves very quickly (seconds) to a level believed to be reasonably secure from recovery.
I would like to see that feature incorporated into these consumer level drives. You never know when you might need to ditch that terabyte of pr0n in a hurry...
So while I understand if people what to read George W's email to the Vice-Pres, I have to point out the GW's email to his daughters should be protected to the fullest extent of the law and... to the fullest extent of humanity. Easy peasy. Don't use official systems for personal business. The taxpayers are the owners of the government systems, so if the president doesn't like the rules for using our equipment, he can get another job.
Plus it would eliminates much (but probably not all) the cultural and economic disparity in the ranks. If Johnny Megabucks had to serve next to William Poorhouse, as equals, it just might make the USA a better country. Sounds good in theory, but in practice it isn't so simple. See the ongoing scandals in South Korea regarding the rich and famous coming up with ways to duck out out their service requirements.
Al-Queda doesn't have a navy. These are small, dedicated groups of people who remain hidden. You can't fight people like that with a tank, much less a submarine.
The US can take two roads here. Train a bunch of submariner guys REALLY well, develop technologies to defeat them, basically start another cold war. Of course.. that just might be a slight distraction from that other threat... If only. That other threat is picayune. More people die from bee stings each year than are killed by all terrorist acts, Al-Queda - Tamil Tigers - Basque Sepratists, etc. At least a "war on underwater" might mean the politicians will have less ability to brainwash the masses into giving uo their human rights. Might suck to be Chinese though...
"In the late 1970s researchers at IBM (and similar projects elsewhere) demonstrated that the majority of these "orthogonal" addressing modes were ignored by most programs. This was a side effect of the increasing use of compilers to generate the programs, as opposed to writing them in assembly language."
If you think RISC is for CPU designers and not compiler users/writers, you've got serious revisionist history issues that I'm not going to touch. Gee, they threw out stuff that compilers weren't using in the first place. That benefits compiler writers and/or other software writers precisely how?
Huh. That's a strange definition of "replaced" you've got. No it's not. The context of the statement was someone declaring that x86 should have been replaced with RISC by now. RISC was not developed to improve the lives of programmers, it was developed improve the lives of CPU designers. So, in that context, no one cares if you can grok x86 or not, what matters is if the design principles of RISC have been implemented in these CPUs and they have.
Now that the dirty deal is uncovered, the first question is: "If this were done in the US, would it be considered illegal?" The next question would be: "If yes, then should Microsoft be prosecuted?" Well, this is gonna be another slashdot bullshit claim with no backup because I am too lazy to go digging...
My understanding is that US law requires that US corps not do things in other countries that would be illegal in the USA. My belief is based on some news articles about a US company that was caught bribing foreign government officials in order to get contracts with them - might have been IBM in Brazil now that I think about it. Apparently what they did in the foreign countries was technically not illegal over there, but was definitely illegal here and they were being prosecuted because of it.
Anyway, maybe that's enough info to convince a studious classdot reader to go research the details and prove me wrong or write.
Sifting through billions of food purchases is not going to find a serious terror threat, not even when combined with any other data. But it does mean the agents get paid. And the supervisors get to have a bunch of agents working for them on a project. And their supervisors get to show that they are spending tax payer money on counter terrorism programs.
And so the DHS empire with all its little fiefdoms gets to justify its enormous budget.
I think sometimes we all forget that everyone else is a person. We lump people who work at companies and government together and they are this entity, with no individuality at all. Someone being a "home consumer" makes us part of this non evil group. The difference between being an employee of the government or of a corporation is that you don't have responsibility for your actions. In fact, corporations exist precisely to diffuse to mitigate responsibility. Thus the argument that because those organizations are made up of people like me and you doesn't hold a drop of water.
I also don't think people would choose to use an insurance company that did this. I suggest you click the link at the end of my post. Choice is not an option.
So, as soon as some insurance company decides it wants to start charging increased rates for buying pepto bismal, then we step up and go, woah, WTF, and do something about it. Yes, because it is soo much easier to undo a system that has become entrenched than it is to stop it from becoming entrenched to begin with. That's why we've thrown out the two party system in American politics with all of the corruption its engendered to put the party's interests ahead of the country's.
What about when you are walking down the sidewalk, and some kid who just bought his first SUV decides to take you out, to increase his homicide score and gets a government bond for lowering the already high population. And now you have fallen off the deep end. Completely and absolutely.
the average well adjusted person can easily tell the difference between the government shifting for terrorists Since when does "shifting for terrorists" trump the constitution?
They care so much that they don't bother to find out whether they are tracked. No, they believe they are not being tracked. Do you bother to make sure that the next day the sun will rise? Presumably you would care a whole helluva lot if it didn't.
I look at porn, I shop online, I've bought a butt plug online before...do you feel more powerful for knowing that? No, but you should feel a whole hell of a lot weaker.
You can never have a career in public politics. When times are tough and you find yourself desperate enough to take any job to feed your children, you won't have a chance at companies run by members of the 'moral majority' who decide to do background checks.
Pray you are lucky enough that neither of those, nor any number of other scenarios ever come about for you personally. But unless the useful idiots like yourself get a clue, its guaranteed to happen to more than enough people to damage our society.
oh my god. some database knows i bought pepto bismol. now it wants to sell me toilet paper. MY PERSONAL IDENTITY HAS BEEN HORRIBLY RAPED. I HAVE BEEN DEHUMANIZED AND DEMEANED. MY SENSE OF SELF-WORTH IS LOWERED. IT'S ORWELL'S 1984 Due to your regular purchasing of Pepto Bismal we have increased your HPPR (Health Problem Probability Rating) for gastrointestinal cancer to the high-risk group. Consquently we are increasing your health insurance premium by $200/month to compensate.
If you are not the normal consumer of your Pepto Dismal purchases, please fill out the attached "Not A Regular Consumer" form to identify said user and your HPPR will be returned to the normal-risk group.
But even if we had intended that Dr. Fred was a cannibal, what's the harm? He would have been one under the influence of the evil purple meteor. The game recognizes that it is bad, and your mission is to rescue him from this unhappy state. Who would be offended? Cannibals.
"Yes, people that beat their wives deserve to live!"
Easily manipulated? You are the one that thinks its ok to beat your wife. When did you stop beating your wife? Fucktard.
That argument assumes jammers would be used responsibly. If cell phones aren't being used responsibly, what are the odds that jammers would be? Social Darwinism in action.
It's not illegal to use a cellphone, responsibly or not. But it is illegal to use a jammer, and irresponsible use makes it 1000x easier to get caught. Ergo irresponsible jammers go to jail and are removed from society, responsible users are the only ones left.
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But even if you and Janis don't see eye to eye, it doesn't matter. Because what's really going on is that people are choosing to live as cowards rather than live as free men. Worldwide, and even more so in the USA, more people are killed by bees than by terrorist attacks. Yet you don't see Big Brother calling for people to live in fear of bee stings do you?
So yeah, I would rather die a free man - a very old free man.
He was not proposing that the police "not tell anybody" -- only that the decision to release the information about an arrest be up to the accused at least as long as the accused had not been found guilty.
The NCIC, as just one example, is full of partial records that indicate arrest and even indictment but not acquittal.
I believe her lawyer was wise to pick a bench trial as the local press continues to hype the event, constantly referring to her as a prankster and dressing like a suicide bomber and the average joe on the street sure seems to think she should burn at the stake.
My understanding is that the state will need to prove intent on her part and that there was absolutely no intent as she basically wore the same clothes two days in a row. So as long as the judge decides to follow the law, rather than succumb to some inane urge to "send a message" she should come out all right.
PS -- anyone else read ATHF as Alcohol, Tobacco, Humor and Firearms?
Many of the predecessors to these models were aimed at military applications and contained a really cool feature - instant erase. They could erase themselves very quickly (seconds) to a level believed to be reasonably secure from recovery.
I would like to see that feature incorporated into these consumer level drives. You never know when you might need to ditch that terabyte of pr0n in a hurry...
The US can take two roads here. Train a bunch of submariner guys REALLY well, develop technologies to defeat them, basically start another cold war. Of course.. that just might be a slight distraction from that other threat... If only. That other threat is picayune. More people die from bee stings each year than are killed by all terrorist acts, Al-Queda - Tamil Tigers - Basque Sepratists, etc. At least a "war on underwater" might mean the politicians will have less ability to brainwash the masses into giving uo their human rights. Might suck to be Chinese though...
If you think RISC is for CPU designers and not compiler users/writers, you've got serious revisionist history issues that I'm not going to touch. Gee, they threw out stuff that compilers weren't using in the first place.
That benefits compiler writers and/or other software writers precisely how?
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"If this were done in the US, would it be considered illegal?"
The next question would be:
"If yes, then should Microsoft be prosecuted?" Well, this is gonna be another slashdot bullshit claim with no backup because I am too lazy to go digging...
My understanding is that US law requires that US corps not do things in other countries that would be illegal in the USA. My belief is based on some news articles about a US company that was caught bribing foreign government officials in order to get contracts with them - might have been IBM in Brazil now that I think about it. Apparently what they did in the foreign countries was technically not illegal over there, but was definitely illegal here and they were being prosecuted because of it.
Anyway, maybe that's enough info to convince a studious classdot reader to go research the details and prove me wrong or write.
And the supervisors get to have a bunch of agents working for them on a project.
And their supervisors get to show that they are spending tax payer money on counter terrorism programs.
And so the DHS empire with all its little fiefdoms gets to justify its enormous budget.
How the hell did you not think that equating "shifting for terrorists" in the context you used it was in any way not a violation of 4th amendment?
You can never have a career in public politics.
When times are tough and you find yourself desperate enough to take any job to feed your children, you won't have a chance at companies run by members of the 'moral majority' who decide to do background checks.
Pray you are lucky enough that neither of those, nor any number of other scenarios ever come about for you personally. But unless the useful idiots like yourself get a clue, its guaranteed to happen to more than enough people to damage our society.
If you are not the normal consumer of your Pepto Dismal purchases, please fill out the attached "Not A Regular Consumer" form to identify said user and your HPPR will be returned to the normal-risk group.
Sincerely,
Your Health Insurance Extortionist
It's not illegal to use a cellphone, responsibly or not.
But it is illegal to use a jammer, and irresponsible use makes it 1000x easier to get caught.
Ergo irresponsible jammers go to jail and are removed from society, responsible users are the only ones left.