My lawyer friend explained to me that the government here had passed laws similar to that quoted above. If it is in the city's best interest to keep a log book of all people who suffer allergies, then it's perfectly legal, despite the violation of my constitutional rights.
We need to make some big changes to the way the law works in this country. Since when is it okay to violate constitutional rights for the government's best interest?
I think _you_ need to make some big changes to the way _you understand_ how the law works in this country. If your local government did something you think unconstitutional, well nobody else but _you_ are going to have to stand up. Nobody is going to take care of your constitutional rights but yourself. The Supreme Court can decide something to be unconstitutional only when that something is brought in front of them by _someone_.
What led you to believe Hong Kong's government is less corrupt than Mainland China's? Or that the government is "mostly corrupt"??? China is ranked 71st out of 146 nations in corruption (the US is 17th) which isn't anything to brag about but doesn't quite jibe with your characterization, either
In that very report you quoted, Hong Kong ranks 16. So I guess that's what's leading us to believe the Hong Kong government is (far) less corrupted?
OK, I'm sure you have something that I don't have (an iPod? a nice car?), so I'm going to just take it, because I believe in "sharing", and think that any laws protecting private property are unjust. And according to you, I'm obviously right in doing so.
How is this different from the United States where any suggested attempt to overthrow the government, assassinate the leadership, or other movements to change the political system are met with charges of treason?
First of all, do you understand the difference between "attempts", being actual actions, and "speech", being, well, just words coming out of a mouth? Secondly, I see a lot of people proposing and actually attempting (e.g. by trying to get elected to some office) changes to various aspects of the political system in the US, but I DON'T see them getting shut up or thrown into jail. Now, in case your mind is still under the illusion from those 2 months vacation in China, let me tell you the reality you didn't see while you were there - some Chinese people did get punished for doing things like that in China.
during McCarthy era, the government felt that certain people posed a credible threat to the political system and acted upon it.
Credible threat? People were harassed with endless hearings and questioning, and had their reputation/jobs/careers ruined just because a couple dacades ago they expressed some interest in communism? You call that credible threat?
Having said that, the government is trying to mix capitalism with an authoritarian government, and it's been working well so far. The quality of life is rising in China, and as long as that continues, I'm sure most people in China value socioeconomic freedom over political freedom anyday. That includes most people in the world.
The quality of life is indeed rising in China - for probably only 10% of the total population! And at the price of the rest 90%! Did you know that people got raided in the middle of the night, literally kicked out of their homes, and wactching their homes bulldozed for new development that will "increase the quality of life" of somebody else (read, government officials and developers)? And do you know why things like that keep happening? Because the media is not allowed to report it, and even when the rest of the country hear stories from rumors, they can't publicly voice their resentment because, again, they are not allowed to. It's utterly naive to assume that anybody can actually have sustainable "socialeconomic freedom" without the corresponding "political freedom".
None of those justifies _any_ of these - raping, beating fellow victims, firing at people who are trying to bring in aid or their vehicles, looting jewels.
Weird results from genetic algorithms are even more likely in small-population scenarios like games. You can only send so many 'test' enemies at the player before he gets bored. Particularly considering that in most games, either the player surives or the computer survives, I'm not seeing at what point you can reward the AI by letting it reproduce except when the player loses (at least in an FPS setting.)
I don't think that's how genetic algorithms would be used in games. It's more likely that they would be used to train the AI *before* the game is released. For example, a poker game developer can build a server farm, create an arbitrarily large population, and keep having them playing each other for long enough to converge to a good AI (or a number of them with different styles).
So, let's imagine some terrorist group hack into www.google.com, and change the home page to be "a detailed plan to build a dirty bomb and detonate it on US soil".
How would you like to be held responsible for your possession of that? Or better yet, how would you like your 70 yr old mom who has no idea about the cache to be held responsible for that?
We don't have any of those things laying around and the people, facilities, and processes involved in engineering them are dead, retired, or demolished.
Hey if you are talking about Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner, I happen to know where to find them...
How would Microsoft pulling out of the Chinese market help Chinese people?
It's not about providing any material help to the Chinese people. It's about a company/individual's moral standards. And while pulling out of the Chinese market may not help Chinese people, accomplicing the Chinese government in imposing its thought-control agenda would actually hurt them - don't you think?
You must be new here, on slashdot everything is Bush's/the Republican's fault. You obviously must not be drinking the Slashbot Group Think Kool-Aid(TM)!
I call BULLSHIT! Only half of everything is Bush's/the Republican's fault - the other half is Bill Gates'/Microsoft's.
The mindset of China spans thousands of years. The culture of the chinese could give a damn about modern day politics. Rather, it's all about the dogma (and yes, it is dogma) of "reunification"....at *ALL* cost. Even if nuclear war breaks out, it's ok. It's for the "greater cause" in reunification
I'm Chinese and I came from Mainland, but the culture as I recall myself coming from is not one that would self-righteously impose nuclear war on other fellow Chinese. If that "greater cause" is part of the culture, it must be the most shameful part.
Yea, but nobody can tell your hairdrier usage by reading through the current running through your house, right?
I agree with your sewer usage point - although only to the extent that I would only feel embarassed if I actually see somebody setting up a station right outside my door and picking through my "embarassment" before it flows into the street sewer and becomes anybody's embarassment.;-)
Boy, do I wish my packets would stop carrying my IP as soon as it goes out of my cable modem...
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I think _you_ need to make some big changes to the way _you understand_ how the law works in this country. If your local government did something you think unconstitutional, well nobody else but _you_ are going to have to stand up. Nobody is going to take care of your constitutional rights but yourself. The Supreme Court can decide something to be unconstitutional only when that something is brought in front of them by _someone_.
Don't you realize that that is the difference?
OK, I'm sure you have something that I don't have (an iPod? a nice car?), so I'm going to just take it, because I believe in "sharing", and think that any laws protecting private property are unjust. And according to you, I'm obviously right in doing so.
I'm not a moderator, but you get my +1 and "Insightful".
None of those justifies _any_ of these - raping, beating fellow victims, firing at people who are trying to bring in aid or their vehicles, looting jewels.
So, let's imagine some terrorist group hack into www.google.com, and change the home page to be "a detailed plan to build a dirty bomb and detonate it on US soil". How would you like to be held responsible for your possession of that? Or better yet, how would you like your 70 yr old mom who has no idea about the cache to be held responsible for that?
It's not about providing any material help to the Chinese people. It's about a company/individual's moral standards. And while pulling out of the Chinese market may not help Chinese people, accomplicing the Chinese government in imposing its thought-control agenda would actually hurt them - don't you think?
I came up with my sig long before this story.
hahahaha, you jump high, dumb ass, wait'l you fall from 21 feet high!!
I agree with your sewer usage point - although only to the extent that I would only feel embarassed if I actually see somebody setting up a station right outside my door and picking through my "embarassment" before it flows into the street sewer and becomes anybody's embarassment. ;-)
Boy, do I wish my packets would stop carrying my IP as soon as it goes out of my cable modem...
the stupid one in which a private company runs "San Angeles", where Taco Bell is the only approved restaurant?
then we'd have been in a better mood because DST would have just given us an EXTRA hour!
I bet it missed those who decided never to use a computer any more.
From "usually" I take it that your subsequent installation(s) of Linux also crashed except the current one?
One of these days we would still like to know who on earth killed JFK, you know.
Since when admin unix boxes became non-depressing (even for a dot com, that is) ;-)