He killed his wife! Just, I'm viscerally disgusted by this guy. I'm viscerally disgusted with you. Making up total bullshit like:
Dicks that abuse their wives are statistically likely to kill them. and Answer the question - do domestic abusers to live.
You are a complete fucktard. All emotion, zero critical thinking skills. YOU don't deserve to live. People like you are so easily manipulated, you are responsible for the deterioration of modern society. Wife-beaters hurt their families, fucktards like you hurt the entire country.
With the shoot first interrogate later mentality of most cops nowadays its probably a good thing. With their "shoot first, interrogate later" mentality, maybe most cops should be armed with squirt guns instead.
Then instead of headlines like:
"Don't Tase Me Bro!" and "Star Simpson - Extremely Lucky Deadly Force Was Not Used"
we would have:
"Don't Wet On Me Bro!" and "Star Simpson - Fugly Art Project Almost Shorted Out By Police!"
As Gandhi put it, "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." I always thought Gandhi got it wrong with that quote.
The idea behind "an eye for an eye" was to stop the "you kill my brother, I kill ten of your brothers as revenge" approach which was (and still is) pretty common.
Oh, forgot one more thing: my friend was assigned to sharpshooters because of his psych profile: he's just psychotic enough to be able to kill someone from far away and not care, which is apparently how our sharpshooters are selected. Versus killing them in person, the way the rest of soldiers have to do it.
This is a cut-n-paste of the parent, which was posted AC.
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I can have a privately listed phone number, why can't I have a privately listed domain? I can speak anonymously by publishing pamphlets, why can't I speak anonymously by publishing to the internet? More importantly, why is your need to 'track down the owners' more important than the owners' privacy?
Try running a non-profit from your home to offer mental health support. Death threats on the internet may be a dime a dozen, but when it comes to mental health issues... well, some of those threats are more genuine than others. Do you think $5 is going to keep someone from calling me on the phone 50 times a day or coming to my house and stalking me?
The registrar has a business relationship with me and needs to know who I am. You don't. If you need to contact me, I have an email and mail forwarding set up with my registrar.
No, not RAM. Anything you _address_. You don't address the 412th cycle in the CPU frequence, you don't address the 1201st byte in transmission speed, etc. You address RAM content, and disk content and ports and hosts on the internet. All such addresses are stored as binary numbers inside the computer, and can thus address two to the power of number of bits in the address numbers of positions (bytes, hosts, bits, whatever). Correction - you do not address disk content that way, you address filesystem content. Filesystems are defined by the host computer, disk sectors are not. Disk sectors exist independently from any host system and disks frequently contain an odd number of sectors, clearly not a power of two.
Furthermore, try finding a modern tape drive system with capacities measured in powers of two. You won't, they are all sized in base-10 units.
I mean I thought a byte was a byte, are you telling me a hard disk follows different conventions? Yes, hard disks follow the same conventions as data transmission like 100mbps ethernet. Fundamentally a hard disk is just a bunch of concentric rings of bits. The bits are divided up into groups, aka 'sectors' that include data payload, servo addressing, ECC and some other misc bits. The sizes of these sectors are almost never a precise power of two.
RAM is pretty much the only hardware that is naturally sized in powers of two.
Only magnetic and optical storage have the luxury of defining units in non-power-of-2 ways, and yet they generally do not, choosing to standardize on 512-byte blocks primarily because if they didn't, the VM system's paging path would be heinously inefficient. Using an OS's handling of RAM as a rationalization for 2^10 = K is a new one.
The fact is that NO modern hard disks have sector sizes of 512 bytes. You heard me, NONE. They commonly have payload sizes of 512 bytes, but the actual sector on a hard disk contains a lot more than just payload - there are the ECC bits and the servo field which holds track, sector and disk head field grey code bits just to name the big ones. When added up, all the bits in a complete disk sector rarely equal a power of two, much less 2^10. Then are disks with 520 byte data payloads which are almost universally used in enterprise level disk arrays from manufacturers like HP, IBM, EMC, etc.
So, what's the point of that? Anyone who says disks naturally have power of 2 data organization as justification for saying 2^10 = 1K is just talking out of their ass.
...is sufficiently confusing to an average layman that it really doesn't work, either. Thus, the only -reasonable- choice is to standardize on base-2 definitions of these units. Life is complicated, especially the technical parts. Unless you also propose to redefine data transmission rates like 100mbps ethernet and 150mbps SATA all your proposal does is rearrange the deck chairs.
Won what? Just who the heck declared fear as the determining factor of if we're whipped? The government did. When they labelled them terrorists.
They didn't call them "regime-changists" or "WTC demolitionists" or "radical publicists" or even "stealing-candy-from-babyists" they called them terrorists and terror is what they have successfully infected our country, the former home of the free and the brave, with.
Considering we're supposed to be a civil society based on justice, torturing people for no reason and later saying "Oops, sorry. Our bad." just doesn't cut it. Hell, in that case we didn't even say, "Sorry, our bad."
"It Just Don't Look Right" is a time-tested law enforcement mantra. It isn't something George W. Bush cooked up after 9/11 -- it's around because so many crimes, and so many terrorist plots have been busted up by investigating the unusual and unexpected. That's only half of the story - "It Just Don't Look Right -- To Someone Who Should Know" - that's the time-tested law enforcement mantra. The problem with the way things are running today is that everybody is doing like you did - leaving off the important second half. Whenever there is a high-profile crime the police regularly get thousands of "tips" that they immediately shit-can because most people are idiots. Terrorism hysteria is no reason to stop that practice, for one thing we don't have the resources to treat every idiot seriously and if we did, then we would get more cases of stuff like these:
It's weird to me that no-one seems to have realised yet that you could mass-murder much more people, and in a much easier fashion, just coordinating directly in an airport, in the checkin queues. It's not weird at all. The reason no has "realised" it yet is because the number of people who actually want to kill hundreds in an airplane, or an airport or anywhere else, is diminishingly small.
If we were really facing the kind of dedicated, wide-spread super-terrorist organization that most politicians preach about, there would be hundreds of thousands of dead across the country.
What's weird is that so few people have yet to see through the fear-mongering. It's almost as if having the threat of a super-al-queada boogeyman that our politicians are 'protecting' us from is a sort of security blanket.
That was an over-hyped case of a mechanical malfunction with a 1950's era cannon system. The casualties were caused by lax range safety procedures. It was not a robot any more than an MLRS or a Patriot missile battery is a robot. And yet the risks are similar -- "lax range safety procedures" and "lax safety programming" both fall into the same category of poor implementation.
By keeping the source closed, he is in fact assuming all responsibility for the actions of his code. If his code allows something bad to happen, we can say with certainty that it's all his fault. Right! Because when the Russian mob uses Excel to keep track of their extortion payments, it is all Bill Gates's fault!
And I realized it's a tremendous waste of money and space for discs that, for the most part, are watched once and done. You are right - movies that sit on the shelf are useless. So lend them out to your friends and acquaintances. People often balk at this because sometimes the lendees don't treat the DVDs very well. Still, just exercise some caution in who you lend too and make sure to never land any of those paper cases like digipaks or fancy boxsets, use generic hard-plastic cases for lending those discs. Even if a few discs do get beat up, it isn't the end of the world. And in the meantime, each lent movie is one less dollar going to the MAFIAA and its minions like BlockBuster or Circuit City.
new releases are $13-15, and 2-3 year old releases are typically under $10. I can't believe anybody copies for that price, particularly when you only watch once. Yeah... I think that's a major flaw in your logic. $10 for a single viewing versus a day or less of download time on a broadband connection, about $1.50. I'm pretty sure lots of people go for the $1.50 choice. The Pirate Bay is gaining popularity, not losing it.
Even more ironic that someone so focused on the rights in the Constitution would mistake it for the Declaration of Independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all documents are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creators with certain identical Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
Sorry, I read "honestly admit the same" as meaning 'admit that science is a guess,' not 'admit that Christianity is a guess' -- probably because when you said "either way" it makes it sound as if you believe empiricism and faith are equally valid basis for 'guessing.' If you admit that your religious beliefs are 'just' guesses, then by definition you don't have faith.
While science has some really interesting guesses about the origins of the universe, as does religion, the simple fact remains that they're BOTH guesses. They are both guesses, but one group expects their guesses to be disproven while the other group can't stand the thought that their guesses might be wrong.
I have read that in Australia, "region coding" (ala DVDs) has been ruled illegal. Some people have gone so far as to claim that is illegal to sell a region-locked DVD-player there. Since this is slashdot, I'll let someone else actually dig up a citation for or against that claim. Should only be a few more minutes...
You misunderstand. Just because there is free content doesn't mean that anyone is lobbying for the rights of people publishing and using it.
If the MAFIAA get their way, linux will be verboten and only systems with inherent copyright enforcement mechanisms will be considered legally acceptable. It isn't about the content, it's about 100% deployment of the "filter" aka DRM systems that will be a drag on us all.
Neither has Osama bin Laden. Forgive me if I continue to be skeptical of RMS's extremism... So, you think Bill Gates is some kind of George Bush, and Redmond is a Gitmo for programmers?
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Dicks that abuse their wives are statistically likely to kill them.
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Answer the question - do domestic abusers to live.
You are a complete fucktard.
All emotion, zero critical thinking skills.
YOU don't deserve to live. People like you are so easily manipulated, you are responsible for the deterioration of modern society.
Wife-beaters hurt their families, fucktards like you hurt the entire country.
Then instead of headlines like:
"Don't Tase Me Bro!"
and
"Star Simpson - Extremely Lucky Deadly Force Was Not Used"
we would have:
"Don't Wet On Me Bro!"
and
"Star Simpson - Fugly Art Project Almost Shorted Out By Police!"
The idea behind "an eye for an eye" was to stop the "you kill my brother, I kill ten of your brothers as revenge" approach which was (and still is) pretty common.
This is a cut-n-paste of the parent, which was posted AC.
I don't have mod points, so I am doing this to give it an artificial +2 mod. If you want to mod it up, mod up the parent. If you want to mod it down, go ahead and do it to my post.
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I can have a privately listed phone number, why can't I have a privately listed domain? I can speak anonymously by publishing pamphlets, why can't I speak anonymously by publishing to the internet? More importantly, why is your need to 'track down the owners' more important than the owners' privacy?
Try running a non-profit from your home to offer mental health support. Death threats on the internet may be a dime a dozen, but when it comes to mental health issues... well, some of those threats are more genuine than others. Do you think $5 is going to keep someone from calling me on the phone 50 times a day or coming to my house and stalking me?
The registrar has a business relationship with me and needs to know who I am. You don't. If you need to contact me, I have an email and mail forwarding set up with my registrar.
Furthermore, try finding a modern tape drive system with capacities measured in powers of two. You won't, they are all sized in base-10 units.
RAM is pretty much the only hardware that is naturally sized in powers of two.
The fact is that NO modern hard disks have sector sizes of 512 bytes. You heard me, NONE. They commonly have payload sizes of 512 bytes, but the actual sector on a hard disk contains a lot more than just payload - there are the ECC bits and the servo field which holds track, sector and disk head field grey code bits just to name the big ones. When added up, all the bits in a complete disk sector rarely equal a power of two, much less 2^10. Then are disks with 520 byte data payloads which are almost universally used in enterprise level disk arrays from manufacturers like HP, IBM, EMC, etc.
So, what's the point of that? Anyone who says disks naturally have power of 2 data organization as justification for saying 2^10 = 1K is just talking out of their ass.
...is sufficiently confusing to an average layman that it really doesn't work, either. Thus, the only -reasonable- choice is to standardize on base-2 definitions of these units. Life is complicated, especially the technical parts. Unless you also propose to redefine data transmission rates like 100mbps ethernet and 150mbps SATA all your proposal does is rearrange the deck chairs.They didn't call them "regime-changists" or "WTC demolitionists" or "radical publicists" or even "stealing-candy-from-babyists" they called them terrorists and terror is what they have successfully infected our country, the former home of the free and the brave, with.
A man being detained for speaking a foreign language in an INTERNATIONAL airport. Or people who think bombs are made of wires and blinky lights because they watch too much 24 and have a clue what a real bomb looks like.
If we were really facing the kind of dedicated, wide-spread super-terrorist organization that most politicians preach about, there would be hundreds of thousands of dead across the country.
What's weird is that so few people have yet to see through the fear-mongering. It's almost as if having the threat of a super-al-queada boogeyman that our politicians are 'protecting' us from is a sort of security blanket.
Faith is the belief in the unprovable (or alternatively non-falsifiable).
If you don't believe in "the answers" then you don't have faith.
Sorry, I read "honestly admit the same" as meaning 'admit that science is a guess,' not 'admit that Christianity is a guess' -- probably because when you said "either way" it makes it sound as if you believe empiricism and faith are equally valid basis for 'guessing.' If you admit that your religious beliefs are 'just' guesses, then by definition you don't have faith.
I have read that in Australia, "region coding" (ala DVDs) has been ruled illegal. Some people have gone so far as to claim that is illegal to sell a region-locked DVD-player there. Since this is slashdot, I'll let someone else actually dig up a citation for or against that claim. Should only be a few more minutes...
You misunderstand. Just because there is free content doesn't mean that anyone is lobbying for the rights of people publishing and using it.
If the MAFIAA get their way, linux will be verboten and only systems with inherent copyright enforcement mechanisms will be considered legally acceptable. It isn't about the content, it's about 100% deployment of the "filter" aka DRM systems that will be a drag on us all.
Forgive me if I continue to be skeptical of RMS's extremism... So, you think Bill Gates is some kind of George Bush, and Redmond is a Gitmo for programmers?
Get fucking sense of proportion already.