I mostly agree with you - but who the fuck cares if they waste billions/trillions/pentallions to build a bridge to nowhere - the thing I care about is their abuse of power to do evil things.
As for the stealing is wrong because you morals tell you so and not the law - I salute you for many people (not all of them politicians cannot fantom doing something not because it is easy but because it is the right thing.
So it is pretty much in Denmark too - but dont the goverment know you address in the US too?
And it is not like all the addresses are the correct ones anyway - some may claim to live in another place so they can recieve benefits.
As for the automatic photoboxes - well if they only take a picture when a crime is commited (ie speeding) - well then they are less instrusive than the cameras in, say, London.
As for goverment controlled health care - does it matter if the goverment or you doctor has the files? As long as it is not public, and no one has been punished for beeing ill, what is the problem?
I know parents try to do what's 'best' for their children in their eyes, but it simply is best to leave well enough alone. Most kids realise that being hungry IS NOT GOOD. If they're not eating, take them to the hospital and have them pumped (usually painfully, from what I've heard) full of food, then let them play until their hungry. They GET THE PICTURE after a while.
If you have ever been to a hospital you would know you dont get pumped full of food. You get a drop inserted into you arm - and as painfull as that sounds it really is not that bad.
The pump you may think of is used to suck food out of the patient before and operation - and the most painfull of that is when it is inserted/removed.
no because one does not embed a jpeg in a website source code - one ads a reference to it. An image does not consist of text or other charectors. It consist of a long binary string (technically so does ascii, as it is the viewers software that interpered the string of binary) and therefore does not constitute the websites source
Is being a big guy evil? If what his company sells is a product or service brought/used and therefore paid by people who want it does that make him evil? Sure if it is done trough shaddy tactics then he is evil. But not all rich people are evil.
As for this he is battleing the MPAA - and has the finances to do so, let him and give the MPAA hell. Yes it would be better if the little guy could afford it, but so is unfortunetly not the case, so be happy that somebody is.
I was taught assembler in my second year of school. It's kinda like construction work -- with a toothpick for a tool. So when I made my senior year, I threw my code away, And learned the way to program that I still prefer today.
Now, some folks on the Internet put their faith in C++. They swear that it's so powerful, it's what God used for us. And maybe it lets mortals dredge their objects from the C. But I think that explains why only God can make a tree.
I cannot imagine you cars are that expensive. 6000$ would by a lot of car in Denmark (yeah used but still, less than 10 years old) and we have some of the highest taxes on car on this planet (properly the highest)
As for electric heating - well if you use electricity to heat you apartments you must be nuts.
As hard as it is for me to say, I have to agree. If the markets demand DRM, it's a right of the people to make it to meet demand, and it's the distributor's right to use it. That's how a free-market economy is supposed to work.
The thing is - free markets does not work. I would like a non drm mp3 music download service where I can buy both songs that are popular and Indie artists. I am willing to pay for it, as are others. Jet no one has tried to make such a service.
Laws are needed to prevent companies from harming customers (IE issue food with a new best before date, add dangerous chemicals to clothing).
patient with their less capable peers and how to make intellectual contributions with grace That is an nice way of saying shut up.
I went to public school and yes I learned to keep my mouth shut. The problem with some of the peers is that they are not interested in learning. This could be solved if school started to focus more on those whom they have no or little trouble with.
If you cannot understand the material then sorry you do not belong in the class - no i am not. If you are not interested in learning the material then leave.
As for arrogance - was it simply the arrogance of not hidding what she knew? Or did she belive herself to be supperior?
That may be - but I censor stuff all day - I choose not to browse KKK homepage. I choose to quit watching meet Joe Black because it sucks. Hell I choose not to install MS software. Whenever I choose to pick up a book in the library I choose not to pick the other books up. And today I did not go to the library - so i censored all the books. Horror, Horror. Oh and just now I choose to skip a few songs on the playlist.
If I censor the movies you want to see, then I am evil - if I get somebody else to censor the movies I am evil. If I censor the movies I see well no problem and there should not be a problem getting others to do it for you.
Now if it becomes mandatory - then i will march right next to you to get the law changed. But i will not prevent private people from using thier right to choose what they want to see. If they only want to see politically correct films then so be it. That is their choice. If you want to watch political incorrect movies then that is you choice. What is not okay is to make that choice for others one way or the other.
No freedom of speech does not mean freedom from speech. Since they are incompitable the most important right - freedom of speech - must prevail.
In private you can do as you want and I therefore think this ruling is stupid (as long as people are aware that they are buying a modified product) - but in public freedom of speech must prevail.
True, but if a company is know for draking every patent through the entire court system and never negotiate then the patent trolls are more likely to sue somebody else. So even if it cost more a blank "we do not engotiate with terroists" could be cheaper in the long run.
It does - I know because that is what we do in Denmark. About the only thing not covered is water but most everything else you pay a little amount extra that is returned when you return the bottle (in most stores regardless when or where you brought them). Therefore there is very few bottles lying on the streets.
We even have a system for cans (I think they are remelted)
Sure but if some competent guys are trying to decrypt it - but this is a school. A teacher will properly just try a few simple combinations. Hell you could make a selfdestruct combination that the pupil could tell the teacher. It is not exactly the NSA we are talking about.
I know of at least one case - you know the old glass cabinets? A teacher throw a kid through one pretty sure he had some scares.
Anyway if you run your school right, no corporal punishment is needed and you will have kids interested in learning. If you run the school so that you need corpoal punishment you should be sacked.
Well if it is a private school the parents would have a good argument for chancing the schools policy - if the kid no longer goes to the school, the school lose the tution fees.
that is ten lines to many - the answer should be not without your parents expliciet consent. Since they are minors (well most) that cannot deciede to have consesual sex, they are not old enough to agree to beeing searched.
If there are so many drugs on the school it must be becuase it is borring - so make the school more interesting (as opposed to funny) and see what the that does to the drug problem.
Even better - encrypt it and more than 3 wrong passwords and everything gets deleted. Or reencrypted with a extreemly difficult password or locked for 24 hours or what ever.
If I am talking in a cell phone/cordless phone in my own house I expect privacy. If I am talking in a private chat room - not the kind anyone can join and encrypted as well I expect privacy. If i babble in public I should be smacked on the head.
My brother is 16. He has a highspeed connection to his room. Yet I dont consider my parents bad - why? Because they have tought us the common sense not to do something as stupid as this teen.
Surveillance is not substitute for using the inside of your head. This, saddly, seams to be a forgotten art.
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I mostly agree with you - but who the fuck cares if they waste billions/trillions/pentallions to build a bridge to nowhere - the thing I care about is their abuse of power to do evil things.
As for the stealing is wrong because you morals tell you so and not the law - I salute you for many people (not all of them politicians cannot fantom doing something not because it is easy but because it is the right thing.
So it is pretty much in Denmark too - but dont the goverment know you address in the US too?
And it is not like all the addresses are the correct ones anyway - some may claim to live in another place so they can recieve benefits.
As for the automatic photoboxes - well if they only take a picture when a crime is commited (ie speeding) - well then they are less instrusive than the cameras in, say, London.
As for goverment controlled health care - does it matter if the goverment or you doctor has the files? As long as it is not public, and no one has been punished for beeing ill, what is the problem?
I know parents try to do what's 'best' for their children in their eyes, but it simply is best to leave well enough alone. Most kids realise that being hungry IS NOT GOOD. If they're not eating, take them to the hospital and have them pumped (usually painfully, from what I've heard) full of food, then let them play until their hungry. They GET THE PICTURE after a while.
If you have ever been to a hospital you would know you dont get pumped full of food. You get a drop inserted into you arm - and as painfull as that sounds it really is not that bad.
The pump you may think of is used to suck food out of the patient before and operation - and the most painfull of that is when it is inserted/removed.
no because one does not embed a jpeg in a website source code - one ads a reference to it. An image does not consist of text or other charectors. It consist of a long binary string (technically so does ascii, as it is the viewers software that interpered the string of binary) and therefore does not constitute the websites source
Is being a big guy evil? If what his company sells is a product or service brought/used and therefore paid by people who want it does that make him evil? Sure if it is done trough shaddy tactics then he is evil. But not all rich people are evil.
As for this he is battleing the MPAA - and has the finances to do so, let him and give the MPAA hell. Yes it would be better if the little guy could afford it, but so is unfortunetly not the case, so be happy that somebody is.
So he countersue them and win several million dollars as punitive damage. The problem is those who cannot afford to pay.
Not exactly:
I was taught assembler
in my second year of school.
It's kinda like construction work --
with a toothpick for a tool.
So when I made my senior year,
I threw my code away,
And learned the way to program
that I still prefer today.
Now, some folks on the Internet
put their faith in C++.
They swear that it's so powerful,
it's what God used for us.
And maybe it lets mortals dredge
their objects from the C.
But I think that explains
why only God can make a tree.
the rest or sung
I cannot imagine you cars are that expensive. 6000$ would by a lot of car in Denmark (yeah used but still, less than 10 years old) and we have some of the highest taxes on car on this planet (properly the highest)
As for electric heating - well if you use electricity to heat you apartments you must be nuts.
As hard as it is for me to say, I have to agree. If the markets demand DRM, it's a right of the people to make it to meet demand, and it's the distributor's right to use it. That's how a free-market economy is supposed to work.
The thing is - free markets does not work. I would like a non drm mp3 music download service where I can buy both songs that are popular and Indie artists. I am willing to pay for it, as are others. Jet no one has tried to make such a service.
Laws are needed to prevent companies from harming customers (IE issue food with a new best before date, add dangerous chemicals to clothing).
I am not the tomjen you remember. Sorry.
patient with their less capable peers and how to make intellectual contributions with grace
That is an nice way of saying shut up.
I went to public school and yes I learned to keep my mouth shut. The problem with some of the peers is that they are not interested in learning. This could be solved if school started to focus more on those whom they have no or little trouble with.
If you cannot understand the material then sorry you do not belong in the class - no i am not. If you are not interested in learning the material then leave.
As for arrogance - was it simply the arrogance of not hidding what she knew? Or did she belive herself to be supperior?
That may be - but I censor stuff all day - I choose not to browse KKK homepage. I choose to quit watching meet Joe Black because it sucks. Hell I choose not to install MS software. Whenever I choose to pick up a book in the library I choose not to pick the other books up. And today I did not go to the library - so i censored all the books. Horror, Horror. Oh and just now I choose to skip a few songs on the playlist.
If I censor the movies you want to see, then I am evil - if I get somebody else to censor the movies I am evil. If I censor the movies I see well no problem and there should not be a problem getting others to do it for you.
Now if it becomes mandatory - then i will march right next to you to get the law changed. But i will not prevent private people from using thier right to choose what they want to see. If they only want to see politically correct films then so be it. That is their choice. If you want to watch political incorrect movies then that is you choice. What is not okay is to make that choice for others one way or the other.
No freedom of speech does not mean freedom from speech. Since they are incompitable the most important right - freedom of speech - must prevail.
In private you can do as you want and I therefore think this ruling is stupid (as long as people are aware that they are buying a modified product) - but in public freedom of speech must prevail.
True, but if a company is know for draking every patent through the entire court system and never negotiate then the patent trolls are more likely to sue somebody else. So even if it cost more a blank "we do not engotiate with terroists" could be cheaper in the long run.
It does - I know because that is what we do in Denmark. About the only thing not covered is water but most everything else you pay a little amount extra that is returned when you return the bottle (in most stores regardless when or where you brought them). Therefore there is very few bottles lying on the streets.
We even have a system for cans (I think they are remelted)
Sure but if some competent guys are trying to decrypt it - but this is a school. A teacher will properly just try a few simple combinations. Hell you could make a selfdestruct combination that the pupil could tell the teacher. It is not exactly the NSA we are talking about.
If you stap me with a lead pencil I will kick you and then claim temporary insanity.
I know of at least one case - you know the old glass cabinets? A teacher throw a kid through one pretty sure he had some scares.
Anyway if you run your school right, no corporal punishment is needed and you will have kids interested in learning. If you run the school so that you need corpoal punishment you should be sacked.
Well if it is a private school the parents would have a good argument for chancing the schools policy - if the kid no longer goes to the school, the school lose the tution fees.
that is ten lines to many - the answer should be not without your parents expliciet consent.
Since they are minors (well most) that cannot deciede to have consesual sex, they are not old enough to agree to beeing searched.
If there are so many drugs on the school it must be becuase it is borring - so make the school more interesting (as opposed to funny) and see what the that does to the drug problem.
Or just walk out of the class (with the cell phone) then demand a layer if they try to stop you (and if it is a principal sue him/her)
Even better - encrypt it and more than 3 wrong passwords and everything gets deleted. Or reencrypted with a extreemly difficult password or locked for 24 hours or what ever.
If I am talking in a cell phone/cordless phone in my own house I expect privacy. If I am talking in a private chat room - not the kind anyone can join and encrypted as well I expect privacy.
If i babble in public I should be smacked on the head.
Sure, but getting help from the devil is cheating
My brother is 16. He has a highspeed connection to his room. Yet I dont consider my parents bad - why? Because they have tought us the common sense not to do something as stupid as this teen.
Surveillance is not substitute for using the inside of your head. This, saddly, seams to be a forgotten art.