Hebrews put the date even lower at a ridiculously low three years and a day.
Umm, no, that's the age for betrothal - a binding agreement to marry at a later time. "Of age" for marriage (and sex) was 12, which is a more typical age for puberty.
You are equating getting a ticket for indecent exposure with being arrested by religious police who are allowed to beat people with sticks in public - especially misbehaving women. There are differences.
There are newspapers that represent the Orthodox Jewish viewpoint, both in Israel and the US. They *do* remove women from pictures. Remember the photo of President Obama and the Cabinet in the Situation Room watching the Bin Laden raid? Those newspapers printed that image modified to remove Secretary of State Clinton and another female in the back of the room. Something about "preserving their modesty".
Elastic buffering. My colleagues in other time zones can send emails whenever they are working, and I'll read them when I am working. And if I happen to have an idea in the evening, I can send an email while it's fresh in my mind, and colleagues can read it when they are working again. The problem is requiring immediate attention. If the company needs that, they should be using immediate communication (phone, text, pager), and it should be in the job description, and they should be paying for it.
Parking is prohibited within 15 feet of a fire hydrant. (1) The edge of the sidewalk is usually painted yellow, BUT IT MAY NOT BE 15 FEET! It's up to YOU to figure it out. (2) Except it's really up to the police or traffic wardens. You can be 25 feet away and get a ticket. When you complain, with a photo, they'll simply point out that you could have taken the photo after moving your car.
Sure, let's decentralize everything. No need for our railroad tracks to connect to yours, or the roads to conform to the same standards across state/local boundaries, or the electricity to be at the same voltage or frequency. (In fact, one could point to European E1 telephone standards as an EXACT example of taking this to excess - the standards were identical but the SEMANTICS were just different enough to prevent interconnection. Helped maintain control.)
Or, more simply, by Terry Pratchett:
"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote."
"Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari."
While I respect your principles, I feel the need to point out that a third-party vote usually winds up being wasted - or, worse, splits the vote for the more sensible candidate(s) allowing the least desirable one to win.
It's not a SEMANTIC use, it's a GRAPHICAL use. Apple uses iPhone. The Chinese are using IPHONE. In English, we think that these are related, because we have a concept of upper and lower case letters. However, if you think of the graphical nature of Chinese writing, or of something utilitarian like circuit board traces, it becomes obvious that these two collections of shapes are TOTALLY different. If you had both of these on your keyring, the IPHONE probably wouldn't even go into the lock for the iPhone. If your circuit board had parts in the same places, but the traces underneath were that different, you might well be shorting power to ground.
I seem to remember a (then) science-fiction story, a long time ago, about people bumping the "auto/manual" switch while performing non-driving activities.
SS7 was an improvement because it was out-of-band. All SS7 interaction came from The Phone Company, because there was only one in each country. There was not Another System (see "Colossus"); there were no other companies sending SS7 messages over insecure links, because there weren't any of either.
My experience is the opposite. I'm the oldest here, with the primary problem that I'm the only computer science degree in a field of EEs. Everything requires software now, and none of these people seem to have heard of things that I learned in school long before they were born. They certainly don't read up on anything new. We have to maintain legacy products that were created by people who reinvented the wheel not just once, but differently for each product (they never understood "libraries" or 'shared code", partly because they didn't use any source or configuration management). (I got Subversion up and running within my first months; nobody here had ever heard of anything like it.) Some of the products interoperate with a proprietary protocol that was invented from scratch, with weaknesses that anyone who had ever worked with or read about comm would have known to avoid. it's not about age, it's about knowledge and attitude.
That attitude is why we still have war and violence in the world.
No. The criminal's attitude that individuals who never harmed him (or anyone else) are fair targets is why we have war and violence. The reaction that, by killing wantonly, the criminal has demonstrated a reason to be removed from society - permanently - is like the reaction to discovering bedbugs.
dude most of the people around you can commit the same crime he did.
"Can" (mere physical ability)? or "Could" (might actually consider doing it)? What really matters is, they don't. Whether it's the positive reason that they hold the impulse at bay, or the negative reason that they fear punishment more than they want to commit the crime, they don't do it. This guy didn't have the self-control, and is therefore an active ongoing danger, much like a vial of active plague virus or an outdated nuclear reactor.
How can execution EVER be more expensive than imprisonment? The legal process, maybe; the execution, very simple. For what the state is spending on incarcerating and guarding and caring for this mass murderer, it could probably house an entire family in an apartment. Certainly there is some deserving veteran's-survivor family or charity case more worthy of support than this guy.
The "accidentally killing the wrong person" argument is legitimate, and is dealt with by including fuzzy-logic scoring for degrees of certainty in the decision of incarceration vs. execution. In this case, involving killing many people over multiple instances (not all killed in one single action), with complete certainty that this is the correct guilty party, the decision seems straightforward.
It's not about "the white man saves the day", it's about "the invader switches sides and uses inside knowledge against his former team". In this case, "going native" isn't just about falling for a native and liking their food and lifestyle, it's about switching race entirely. OTOH Sully has an additional stake in switching BODIES (not so much RACE) since his body is damaged, so it's in his own self-interest to switch sides. It's not all altruism; it's not simplistic sex and/or insubordination; it's just business (in the "Godfather" sense). (And without the high-tech to create that new body and use it as a remote in the first place, the low-tech "natural" transfer wouldn't have worked at all, so it's certainly not anti-tech.)
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Hebrews put the date even lower at a ridiculously low three years and a day.
Umm, no, that's the age for betrothal - a binding agreement to marry at a later time. "Of age" for marriage (and sex) was 12, which is a more typical age for puberty.
You are equating getting a ticket for indecent exposure with being arrested by religious police who are allowed to beat people with sticks in public - especially misbehaving women. There are differences.
Just bear in mind that this would be exposing those random people to retribution from the religious crazies. It would be like swatting.
There are newspapers that represent the Orthodox Jewish viewpoint, both in Israel and the US. They *do* remove women from pictures. Remember the photo of President Obama and the Cabinet in the Situation Room watching the Bin Laden raid? Those newspapers printed that image modified to remove Secretary of State Clinton and another female in the back of the room. Something about "preserving their modesty".
Elastic buffering. My colleagues in other time zones can send emails whenever they are working, and I'll read them when I am working. And if I happen to have an idea in the evening, I can send an email while it's fresh in my mind, and colleagues can read it when they are working again. The problem is requiring immediate attention. If the company needs that, they should be using immediate communication (phone, text, pager), and it should be in the job description, and they should be paying for it.
Parking is prohibited within 15 feet of a fire hydrant. (1) The edge of the sidewalk is usually painted yellow, BUT IT MAY NOT BE 15 FEET! It's up to YOU to figure it out. (2) Except it's really up to the police or traffic wardens. You can be 25 feet away and get a ticket. When you complain, with a photo, they'll simply point out that you could have taken the photo after moving your car.
Sure, let's decentralize everything. No need for our railroad tracks to connect to yours, or the roads to conform to the same standards across state/local boundaries, or the electricity to be at the same voltage or frequency. (In fact, one could point to European E1 telephone standards as an EXACT example of taking this to excess - the standards were identical but the SEMANTICS were just different enough to prevent interconnection. Helped maintain control.)
By remembering and disseminating dramatizations of non-conforming viewpoints, you are committing thought-crime, citizen. Report for reprogramming.
Or, more simply, by Terry Pratchett:
"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote."
"Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari."
Voldemort. "I find it refreshing that there's finally a candidate without a hidden agenda." - courtesy of Jon Rosenberg's "goats" webcomic
While I respect your principles, I feel the need to point out that a third-party vote usually winds up being wasted - or, worse, splits the vote for the more sensible candidate(s) allowing the least desirable one to win.
Voldemort. It's nice to have someone without a hidden agenda. (Sorry, I can't find the original Goats comic from 2003.)
It's not a SEMANTIC use, it's a GRAPHICAL use. Apple uses iPhone. The Chinese are using IPHONE. In English, we think that these are related, because we have a concept of upper and lower case letters. However, if you think of the graphical nature of Chinese writing, or of something utilitarian like circuit board traces, it becomes obvious that these two collections of shapes are TOTALLY different. If you had both of these on your keyring, the IPHONE probably wouldn't even go into the lock for the iPhone. If your circuit board had parts in the same places, but the traces underneath were that different, you might well be shorting power to ground.
tip of . . . . what?
You only think it's an uncomfortable place because you're too young to remember big wide cars with a back seat you could sleep on.
I seem to remember a (then) science-fiction story, a long time ago, about people bumping the "auto/manual" switch while performing non-driving activities.
SS7 was an improvement because it was out-of-band. All SS7 interaction came from The Phone Company, because there was only one in each country. There was not Another System (see "Colossus"); there were no other companies sending SS7 messages over insecure links, because there weren't any of either.
My experience is the opposite. I'm the oldest here, with the primary problem that I'm the only computer science degree in a field of EEs. Everything requires software now, and none of these people seem to have heard of things that I learned in school long before they were born. They certainly don't read up on anything new. We have to maintain legacy products that were created by people who reinvented the wheel not just once, but differently for each product (they never understood "libraries" or 'shared code", partly because they didn't use any source or configuration management). (I got Subversion up and running within my first months; nobody here had ever heard of anything like it.) Some of the products interoperate with a proprietary protocol that was invented from scratch, with weaknesses that anyone who had ever worked with or read about comm would have known to avoid. it's not about age, it's about knowledge and attitude.
Removing all human interaction is one of the worst things you can do to a human
You haven't watched any good movies or TV shows lately, I guess. There are significantly more creative things to be done.
That attitude is why we still have war and violence in the world.
No. The criminal's attitude that individuals who never harmed him (or anyone else) are fair targets is why we have war and violence. The reaction that, by killing wantonly, the criminal has demonstrated a reason to be removed from society - permanently - is like the reaction to discovering bedbugs.
I don't want him treated badly; that WOULD be inhumane. I want him excised neatly and skillfully, as a surgeon excises a cancer.
dude most of the people around you can commit the same crime he did.
"Can" (mere physical ability)? or "Could" (might actually consider doing it)? What really matters is, they don't. Whether it's the positive reason that they hold the impulse at bay, or the negative reason that they fear punishment more than they want to commit the crime, they don't do it. This guy didn't have the self-control, and is therefore an active ongoing danger, much like a vial of active plague virus or an outdated nuclear reactor.
How can execution EVER be more expensive than imprisonment? The legal process, maybe; the execution, very simple. For what the state is spending on incarcerating and guarding and caring for this mass murderer, it could probably house an entire family in an apartment. Certainly there is some deserving veteran's-survivor family or charity case more worthy of support than this guy.
The "accidentally killing the wrong person" argument is legitimate, and is dealt with by including fuzzy-logic scoring for degrees of certainty in the decision of incarceration vs. execution. In this case, involving killing many people over multiple instances (not all killed in one single action), with complete certainty that this is the correct guilty party, the decision seems straightforward.
It's not about "the white man saves the day", it's about "the invader switches sides and uses inside knowledge against his former team". In this case, "going native" isn't just about falling for a native and liking their food and lifestyle, it's about switching race entirely. OTOH Sully has an additional stake in switching BODIES (not so much RACE) since his body is damaged, so it's in his own self-interest to switch sides. It's not all altruism; it's not simplistic sex and/or insubordination; it's just business (in the "Godfather" sense). (And without the high-tech to create that new body and use it as a remote in the first place, the low-tech "natural" transfer wouldn't have worked at all, so it's certainly not anti-tech.)
That would be a real problem. SSDs don't typically provide low level access or documentation
Maybe not to you, but to the NSA or people with a court order - and the SSD removed from the system and cracked open - many things are possible.