If you are a selfish enough asshole that you don't give a shit about the rest of society, get the fuck out of it!
I am sure many people would love to "get the fuck out of it"; however, there is nowhere to go that is not claimed by one society or another. Your solution for dealing with an individual's unhappiness with society is therefore unworkable.
Even worse is that when we follow your line of reasoning that the importance of society outweighs individual freedoms, we end up in a very nasty place where whole sections of society can be "eliminated" for the good of the whole. Defining which sections and what is good can turn out to be quite "interesting". If you do not think it can or will happen, you are not very familiar with history.
There's about as much evidence for Jesus healing the sick or raising the dead as there is for Thor causing thunder and lightning.
There is more evidence for Thor causing thunder and lightning: We have never seen anyone raised from the dead but we have seen thunder and lightning. Just sayin'
Even more, I would argue that such a "species" would not want to live in a gravity well anyways. I would suspect that advanced species would place their "habitats" in nebulae and asteroid belts and such where resources are plentiful and movement is easier. Once you are on a planet, it takes insane amounts of energy to move away from it.
I agree. BASIC enforces terrible logic skills. Scripting languages may be useful to teach logic, but ultimately, you need to deal with "the machine". C can be tedious, but it is far less tedious than Assembly... which does not encourage logic in the same way that BASIC does not.
Kudos for you to go against the current on this one.
I found a small lizard in my apartment once. I just looked at him as he stared terrified at me. I politely stepped well away from him and went into the living room and sat down.
I ran across him from time to time over a year or two but I think he finally left or died.
I never had any bug problems while he was there.:)
Religious institutions, such as the Salvation Army and religious hospitals and shelters, fill many gaps that the government would otherwise have to fund.
Why would the government have to fund these "gaps"? The Federal government is for managing relations between the internal States and also for managing relations with external States. There is no requirement for the Federal government to deal with individuals.
State governments can do what they want, limited only by the laws of the federal government granted by the US Constitution. I am not aware of any laws requiring that the State keep people from starving or freezing to death.
I started writing an IRC bot almost 20 years ago. It has been running non-stop now for at least 17 years. It is 1.0 and has never crashed, hiccuped, or shown any anomalous behaviour. The source code was publicly available and some fairly evil hackers tried their best but the only thing they could do was DDOS the server it was running on.
Granted, I do not think the code was pretty or elegant, but it was/is rock fucking solid. I could post the code again if anyone showed any interest in it.
If you have some alternative explanation for where the additional energy being absorbed by higher CO2 concentrations is going, be my guest and provide it.
Clearly, it is going into our bodies. Why do you think there is an obesity epidemic?
Sorry, I thought it was funny and wanted to defuse the volatile situation.;)
Anyway, what I'm taking from the comments on this article is that Mozilla really shouldn't read Slashdot, because most commenters here hold that Mozilla really cannot do anything right.
Any time that there are multiple people commenting about something, you will get mutually exclusive comments. If you read the comments without involving your ego, you can get some extremely useful insight into what is going wrong with your development.
I argue that the Firefox team SHOULD read the comments. Perhaps then they would start giving more control to the end user. Same with Gnome. Open Source software should give all control to the user without the user having to rewrite the source code.
perhaps even to the point of hosting their own addon site as mozilla's addon site goes to hell (err, i mean gets chromified).
Just yesterday, I turned on a computer that I have not used for 4 years. I fired up Firefox and clicked update. It went from version 14 to version 43. I then had to update it again because 43 is not the latest. Needless to say, the really cool theme that I had on it was not compatible and had no update so I went looking for other themes that could work.
Wow, I could not really find any themes like I used to be able to. I did manage to see three themes while scrolling through dozens of pages. It seems like the Firefox folks do not like the idea of us making Firefox look the way we want it to look. WTF?
Someone earlier up mentioned a legitimate use for these types of things: Carrying them with you when you cross the border. Fuck the Nazis who think they can read any piece of private information that they want.
You are otherwise correct... I can't think of any other legitimate use for this kind of thing. Just vandalism.:/
If I recall correctly, in August of 1998, Bill Clinton sent tomahawk cruise missiles to Afghanistan to take out terrorist training camps. He eventually admitted it was done on the basis of spying through satellite phone conversations.
Osama bin Laden's reply was (roughly, not exactly), "We may not be able to afford 5 million dollar cruise missiles but we can use your airplanes against you as guided cruise missiles."
Not being aware of the suicidal nature of those people at the time, I could only think of remote control since parachuting out of passenger jets was made impossible after D B Cooper's famous escape.
It was not until 11 September 2001 that I recalled in horror what was said... and now I can find no trace of it anywhere.
Regardless, it was bin Laden that perpetrated the attacks. The CIA or other government agencies may have suspected and a few individuals may have been certain that it was going to happen, but it certainly was not a US Government plot.
Fuel heats cross-beams, steel loses half its strength at those temperatures and they bend in the center, one floor falls down to the next and cascades.
I saw them fall. It was not a cascade event. They fell in essentially free fall. Watch the videos. Count how long it takes the top floor to reach ground level.
Even if free fall does not convince you, such a structure should not fall completely to its foundation cleanly. Not every single piece of steal will heat and melt at the same rate. The building should have toppled if it were completely natural.
I saw the towers drop live. It appears to be clear that they were intentionally dropped. I would have to guess that they were dropped to prevent more death and destruction, such huge structures falling uncontrollably would cause amazing amounts of damage... but how can you explain a decision like that to the public; ergo, the secrecy around it.
Missiles, duplicate planes, etc all seem crazy, but I can see how such conspiracy theories start: Those buildings did NOT fall naturally. They were intentionally dropped.
The documents they accessed included the sensitive 47-page SF-86 application that Brennan had filled out to obtain his top-secret government security clearance.
An SF86 form is filled out by and "owned" by the individual. It is NOT a secret government document. Yes, it has tons of personal information in it about him and his family.
Sounds pretty bad to me, but I doubt he'll receive the same level of scrutiny as Hillary Clinton has, because it isn't as interesting politically.
Why would it receive scrutiny? There is nothing illegal about a person storing personal information in their own email account. Stupid? Probably. Illegal? Not a chance.
If you report (and provide proof) of government corruption, overreach, and general malfeasance to the legitimate press; and the press sorts thorugh it, verifies it, and determines what is newsworthy and publishable... that is an important function of the press.
This part (government corruption/overreach) of what Snowden did makes him a national hero and a patriot. He deserves a statue and reverence from every American for it.
What this story is covering is NOT about American government corruption and overreach. It is about GCHQ corruption and overreach. Snowden had no business revealing such secrets that he got from the NSA. He is a traitor and a coward for running from the consequences of his actions.
Long story short, every government has the responsibility to spy on every other government. Each State is sovereign and the real world is dangerous. I fully expect GCHQ to spy on me as I am not one of their citizens. I also expect Russia and China to spy on me as I am not a citizen of those countries either.
Snowden released too much information. If he had kept his release of information strictly to what the American government was doing illegally, I would drop to my knees and praise him. As it is, I am torn. The depth of his treachery is almost unfathomable. The height of his courage is almost unfathomable. What to do?
Did you know the photographer that took the picture even regretted how the image was twisted into an anti-war icon because the photo didn't convey the circumstances surrounding the execution.
If I recall correctly, that image was shown at the start of CBS News every 6pm in the very early 70s. I was 3 or 4 years old so some of the details may be wrong. I just remember being shocked by it.
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If you are a selfish enough asshole that you don't give a shit about the rest of society, get the fuck out of it!
I am sure many people would love to "get the fuck out of it"; however, there is nowhere to go that is not claimed by one society or another. Your solution for dealing with an individual's unhappiness with society is therefore unworkable.
Even worse is that when we follow your line of reasoning that the importance of society outweighs individual freedoms, we end up in a very nasty place where whole sections of society can be "eliminated" for the good of the whole. Defining which sections and what is good can turn out to be quite "interesting". If you do not think it can or will happen, you are not very familiar with history.
There's about as much evidence for Jesus healing the sick or raising the dead as there is for Thor causing thunder and lightning.
There is more evidence for Thor causing thunder and lightning: We have never seen anyone raised from the dead but we have seen thunder and lightning. Just sayin'
Even more, I would argue that such a "species" would not want to live in a gravity well anyways. I would suspect that advanced species would place their "habitats" in nebulae and asteroid belts and such where resources are plentiful and movement is easier. Once you are on a planet, it takes insane amounts of energy to move away from it.
The person had to go through some pretty heroic lengths http://imgur.com/a/ox4Ey to unlock it.
Now THAT was hacking. This is the EXACT definition of hacking. Thank you for linking that.
Actually, Vanity Fair has a long history of this kind of article. It is why they have stayed in business so long.
Rolling Stone is similar in that they write a lot of entertainment articles but occasionally have some truly hard hitting articles.
You heard me. C.
I agree. BASIC enforces terrible logic skills. Scripting languages may be useful to teach logic, but ultimately, you need to deal with "the machine". C can be tedious, but it is far less tedious than Assembly... which does not encourage logic in the same way that BASIC does not.
Kudos for you to go against the current on this one.
I found a small lizard in my apartment once. I just looked at him as he stared terrified at me. I politely stepped well away from him and went into the living room and sat down.
I ran across him from time to time over a year or two but I think he finally left or died.
I never had any bug problems while he was there. :)
I moved out shortly thereafter.
Religious institutions, such as the Salvation Army and religious hospitals and shelters, fill many gaps that the government would otherwise have to fund.
Why would the government have to fund these "gaps"? The Federal government is for managing relations between the internal States and also for managing relations with external States. There is no requirement for the Federal government to deal with individuals.
State governments can do what they want, limited only by the laws of the federal government granted by the US Constitution. I am not aware of any laws requiring that the State keep people from starving or freezing to death.
The war (and the atrocities) doesn't happen without US imperialism.
Are you forgetting to mention the Chinese imperialism for a reason?
I started writing an IRC bot almost 20 years ago. It has been running non-stop now for at least 17 years. It is 1.0 and has never crashed, hiccuped, or shown any anomalous behaviour. The source code was publicly available and some fairly evil hackers tried their best but the only thing they could do was DDOS the server it was running on.
Granted, I do not think the code was pretty or elegant, but it was/is rock fucking solid. I could post the code again if anyone showed any interest in it.
If you have some alternative explanation for where the additional energy being absorbed by higher CO2 concentrations is going, be my guest and provide it.
Clearly, it is going into our bodies. Why do you think there is an obesity epidemic?
Sorry, I thought it was funny and wanted to defuse the volatile situation. ;)
The global demands for revenue will keep Apple from finding another tax haven it can use...
Eh? They can use the same one Microsoft uses. Bahamas? Panama? Nevada? I forget.
Anyway, what I'm taking from the comments on this article is that Mozilla really shouldn't read Slashdot, because most commenters here hold that Mozilla really cannot do anything right.
Any time that there are multiple people commenting about something, you will get mutually exclusive comments. If you read the comments without involving your ego, you can get some extremely useful insight into what is going wrong with your development.
I argue that the Firefox team SHOULD read the comments. Perhaps then they would start giving more control to the end user. Same with Gnome. Open Source software should give all control to the user without the user having to rewrite the source code.
perhaps even to the point of hosting their own addon site as mozilla's addon site goes to hell (err, i mean gets chromified).
Just yesterday, I turned on a computer that I have not used for 4 years. I fired up Firefox and clicked update. It went from version 14 to version 43. I then had to update it again because 43 is not the latest. Needless to say, the really cool theme that I had on it was not compatible and had no update so I went looking for other themes that could work.
Wow, I could not really find any themes like I used to be able to. I did manage to see three themes while scrolling through dozens of pages. It seems like the Firefox folks do not like the idea of us making Firefox look the way we want it to look. WTF?
what if my USB port detects kill sticks and sprays you with pepper spray and calls the police?
Use Zyklon B and there will be no need to call the police afterwards. ;)
BTW, thanks for re-enabling rm-f
Someone earlier up mentioned a legitimate use for these types of things: Carrying them with you when you cross the border. Fuck the Nazis who think they can read any piece of private information that they want.
You are otherwise correct... I can't think of any other legitimate use for this kind of thing. Just vandalism. :/
If I recall correctly, in August of 1998, Bill Clinton sent tomahawk cruise missiles to Afghanistan to take out terrorist training camps. He eventually admitted it was done on the basis of spying through satellite phone conversations.
Osama bin Laden's reply was (roughly, not exactly), "We may not be able to afford 5 million dollar cruise missiles but we can use your airplanes against you as guided cruise missiles."
Not being aware of the suicidal nature of those people at the time, I could only think of remote control since parachuting out of passenger jets was made impossible after D B Cooper's famous escape.
It was not until 11 September 2001 that I recalled in horror what was said... and now I can find no trace of it anywhere.
Regardless, it was bin Laden that perpetrated the attacks. The CIA or other government agencies may have suspected and a few individuals may have been certain that it was going to happen, but it certainly was not a US Government plot.
Fuel heats cross-beams, steel loses half its strength at those temperatures and they bend in the center, one floor falls down to the next and cascades.
I saw them fall. It was not a cascade event. They fell in essentially free fall. Watch the videos. Count how long it takes the top floor to reach ground level.
Even if free fall does not convince you, such a structure should not fall completely to its foundation cleanly. Not every single piece of steal will heat and melt at the same rate. The building should have toppled if it were completely natural.
I saw the towers drop live. It appears to be clear that they were intentionally dropped. I would have to guess that they were dropped to prevent more death and destruction, such huge structures falling uncontrollably would cause amazing amounts of damage... but how can you explain a decision like that to the public; ergo, the secrecy around it.
Missiles, duplicate planes, etc all seem crazy, but I can see how such conspiracy theories start: Those buildings did NOT fall naturally. They were intentionally dropped.
But I helped design and build the Space Station...
Thank you. This makes you somewhat of a hero in my eyes.
The documents they accessed included the sensitive 47-page SF-86 application that Brennan had filled out to obtain his top-secret government security clearance.
An SF86 form is filled out by and "owned" by the individual. It is NOT a secret government document. Yes, it has tons of personal information in it about him and his family.
Sounds pretty bad to me, but I doubt he'll receive the same level of scrutiny as Hillary Clinton has, because it isn't as interesting politically.
Why would it receive scrutiny? There is nothing illegal about a person storing personal information in their own email account. Stupid? Probably. Illegal? Not a chance.
I am kind of a Snowden supporter here...
If you report (and provide proof) of government corruption, overreach, and general malfeasance to the legitimate press; and the press sorts thorugh it, verifies it, and determines what is newsworthy and publishable... that is an important function of the press.
This part (government corruption/overreach) of what Snowden did makes him a national hero and a patriot. He deserves a statue and reverence from every American for it.
What this story is covering is NOT about American government corruption and overreach. It is about GCHQ corruption and overreach. Snowden had no business revealing such secrets that he got from the NSA. He is a traitor and a coward for running from the consequences of his actions.
Long story short, every government has the responsibility to spy on every other government. Each State is sovereign and the real world is dangerous. I fully expect GCHQ to spy on me as I am not one of their citizens. I also expect Russia and China to spy on me as I am not a citizen of those countries either.
Snowden released too much information. If he had kept his release of information strictly to what the American government was doing illegally, I would drop to my knees and praise him. As it is, I am torn. The depth of his treachery is almost unfathomable. The height of his courage is almost unfathomable. What to do?
Almost any tire seller has nitrogen to fill your tires with. Breathing pure nitrogen is a surefire painless way to die.
BAN NITROGEN NOW!
(yes, my eyes are rolling)
Did you know the photographer that took the picture even regretted how the image was twisted into an anti-war icon because the photo didn't convey the circumstances surrounding the execution.
If I recall correctly, that image was shown at the start of CBS News every 6pm in the very early 70s. I was 3 or 4 years old so some of the details may be wrong. I just remember being shocked by it.
You're assuming they've even heard of the vietnam war.
Well, it is clear nobody remembers World War 2, much less World War 1. Vietnam was just a small skirmish compared to those.
What a sad world we live in where some people think we should forget about all of that so we can do it all again. :(