Of course, if you synthesized excited bromide an an argon matrix, you could probably generate a five megawatt laser. The uses for such a laser would be endless including destroying CCD cameras, cooking popcorn, and killing people from several miles away.
I still don't personally see it rising to the level of troll but without mod points to day, I guess it stands.
A lot of modding here on/. seems overly harsh and random. And a lot of it seems to be a vindictive or more motivated at shutting people up who expressed something unpopular. I guess if he has posted this a couple dozen times tho then folks get tired of it (and I've just missed his other posts). I could see it as a troll then. There are some folks on Rotten Tomatoes like that. The first couple times, the subjects they raise are okay but then they keep raising them for every new movie and it gets old.
As much as I hate the idea of surveillance (mostly because of the point above that the reason laws work now is that they are not all enforced all the time) I think it would allow you to much more easily locate supporters who enabled the terrorists.
With complete surveillance, most crimes that require support of the populace become impossible. I mean- all we need is a camera in every church, mosque, temple and we could head off the radical preachers and imams as they get started. And every library. And every hallway, elevator, street. Inside every car, cubicle, and monitors on every computer for all of your activities.
In fact, you could argue that everyone should have a camera on them 24/7 or else they can be arrested for not allowing themselves to be observed since only people people who commit crimes would resist this.
I know some foo foos would argue against observing during sex and bathrooms but if we allow those exceptions then terrorists and criminals would flock to bathrooms and sex as cover for their illicit activities.
In fact- if any hole is left open in the security web, then the criminals and terrorist will gravitate to it naturally so none could be allowed.
On the good side, once you have complete surveillance perhaps a lot of stupid laws would be overturned because (for example) you wouldn't have a preacher and major supporter of the conservative movement preaching against drug use and homosexual practices for years while he was secretly engaging in just such actions on the side.
If you had to choose between legalizing pot or literally incarcerating 25% of everyone over 40 years old, perhaps the laws would be changed. Right now, they arrest a couple a year but most continue free.
My advice is this: Buy paintball guns. Walk (Do Not Drive) and disable the cameras every chance you get. Make them so impractical and expensive that they do not get a foothold here like they did in London. You might consider a mild etching solution- or vasoline filling- you can't see it from a distance.
These cameras are all fine and dandy until the next time the government turns evil (and all kidding about neo-fascist cheney and bush- they are really scions of democracy compared to what we could have) which is why our founding fathers encouraged us to carry guns in the first place (to stop the government when it turns evil- because they always do eventually).
Understand disabling these cameras will eventually result in the deaths of a few thousand people. The number of deaths and the agony from an evil government typically reaches in the millions. We must suffer a few thousand deaths now and then to remain free.
Okay.. I'm starting to maybe finally see the issue.
The difference is not the underlying signal quality but whether the resolution being fed to your LCD Display is close to its native resolution. LCD's look horrible when not run at their native resolutions.
My point being... most locked containers are trivial to open. By your earlier logic- if I can get in the container, you have no point in being upset that I did so.
You sound very smug- like someone who has never been seriously ripped off.
Let me tell you the worst part about being ripped off-- it just keeps hitting you again and again.
Whether it is one more little bill by those identity thieves or one more thing missing when you go to get it, you get to relieve being robbed again and again for weeks before you realize the full extent.
No one is safe from being ripped off. The more you have- the more likely you are to be targeted. But all it takes is a second of distraction- one little human slip up- and you can be tagged.
I hope you remember how smug you were when it happens to you.
I have never had my identity stolen- I take reasonable precautions just like you. But I don't believe it was the victim's fault for a second that these scum were violating their privacy. When you go to a doctor, you do not expect them to be filming you in the changing room. When you go to a computer fixup person, you do not expect them to be violating your privacy.
Someone posted records here that had a license on them (from the 1890 ish period) saying unless you had bought the record for a dollar, you did not have a license to play the record.
Clinton had bad character in the area of sex. There are many presidents who had worse character in that area (including several of the sainted Kennedys)(who I actually admire most of- it was a different era where presidents had affairs with starlets and got away with it).
We are just better at catching them these days.
Having sex with a 20 year old and lying about it when someone asks you about it is not the same thing as shitting all over the constitution and pardoning anyone that does get caught.
I agree the marc rich and brother on cocaine pardons stunk tho.
Actually... it's more like going in for an oil change and when you get your car, you find out that they opened your trunk, opened your briefcase you had locked in the truck, and copied all your personal documents inside the briefcase. So you return to find your oil changed and your racy picture of your girlfriend up on the wall.
This of course reads differently for american liberals:
Liberals believe in personal liberty (except if you say a bad word in which case you should be silenced)(or unless you defend someone accused of rape)(or unless you were accused of rape), which includes doing what you^H^H^H *they* want with your own money.
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Don't get me wrong. Both liberal and conservative parties are pro-big government / anti personal freedom in the US these days. And owned lock, stock, and barrel by big corporations. We are pretty much screwed here with two party gerrymandering making it impossible to even vote them out any more.
And that is going to make the executive branch ignore the law less how?
And that is going to make corporate executives ignore the law less how?
Hard prison time and fines that represent a significant portion of a person's holdings get their attention.
I think some crimes shouldn't be crimes (tho not in this case).
In the end, I agree that stiff community service punishment (as in 12 months 8 hours a day helping in a soup kitchen and cleaning up trash for someone like Libby) is probably okay. Not the 80 hours they give most of them. Of course, you get at the edge of slavery with community service punishments.
On the other hand- the fight scenes will are equally incomprehensible whether cam'd or on the big screen. Micheal Bay needs to break his habit of zooming in so close that you are not even sure what the hell you are looking at much less having a clue about who is fighting whom.
Columboia is the one where they all wear scruffy rain coats and ask irritating questions that they all know the answers to and relate stories about their missus. Be careful-- they are much smarter than they seem!
knowing this dangerous criminal has been arrested.
Of course from the perfect framing it is clear most of the copies on the internet are probably tripod mounted and taken from the projection booth.
I predict a copy of the movie (hell multiple copies) will be on the torrent networks within the week. It will be about 700mb and have muddy video and sound quality.
While I disagree with his point, I think the moderating on the parent post was chicken-shit.
Digit- we are not all angry americans.
But the corporations are scummy bastards that are using you to prevent paying fair wages while locking americans in to paying inflated prices for their products by having laws passed which limit our ability to get cheaper products.
While reporting record profits and paying their executive officers at twenty times the rate they did in only 1995, they are cutting jobs here so badly that we see no incentive to even enter these fields any more.
The companies hold on to the illusion that they are "american" (or "italian" or "english" or "french") companies only for the benefits that accrue to the corporation and executives (safety- nationalization- stable legal system- living in a country where you are not kidnapped and tortured by the poor (or the government) but they are no longer doing their part to hire citizens. The money in many cases is clearly being extracted from the economy while they maintain legal departments that advise them on how to legally disqualify (via some pretext) qualified candidates.
This is a very temporary situation. Wages in india and china are inflating rapidly. Wages in china are up 50% year to year and increases in india are running up to 40% year to year.
We have another 4 to 6 years and there will no longer be a benefit to using them as cheap labor.
I understand you have a financial incentive to think everything is rosy but really it isn't. The world is flattening and 1st world wages are going to decline. That's okay as soon as we start getting the benefits of cheap products (such as $2.49 CD's and DVD's) (and 50 cent pills instead of $5.25) ($800 for a full development setup vs "free") ($195 for an OS vs $25 for the same OS with english ripped out). Right now the companies are screwing us over- cutting our wages- laying us off for cheaper labor and having laws passed forcing us to pay monopoly prices.
I apologize that someone tried to shut you up by down-modding a reasonable comment even tho I think you are mistaken in some areas. The fix for mistaken opinions (including mine!) is more speech- not censorship.
Slashdot moderating needs to focus on the down-mods. I asked cowboy neal but for some reason he disagreed strongly with that idea. 99.99% of "up" mods are correct. The other 0.01% are usually harmless. However a good 50-60% of "down" mods are chickenshit attempts to shut someone up. I hope someday neal changes the meta moderating software to offer 90% down-modded comments.
Do you really think anyone except you and I are going to pay to install these sensors? Do you think increasing the accuracy of pricing gasoline is going to be free?
Very select groups of immigrants provide a net economic gain.
The vast majority of immigrants impose huge social costs through emergency room visits (no insurance), increased insurance costs (since they don't carry insurance we have to carry more), increased schooling costs & school taxes (each child costs about $6 grand a year to school- uh oh- the immigrant is paying way less than $6k a year in school taxes), increased welfare & retirement costs.
This is why most countries in the world require that your *prove* you are one of the 'good' immigrants who have money or will benefit society. In some countries the bar is extremely high now. You pretty much have to show that you are going to create several jobs (i.e. bringing in a new business and several million dollars) if you want to be allowed to immigrate.
In france and the united states, we can trivially see the cost of allowing large numbers of unskilled immigrants into the country. Riots, burning cars and buses on Tv's, crime areas so bad the police won't go in except in force. But I'm sure canada will be different.
Again-- how naive.
There is no free lunch. You are giving away the store to these corporations.
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Of course, if you synthesized excited bromide an an argon matrix, you could probably generate a five megawatt laser.
The uses for such a laser would be endless including destroying CCD cameras, cooking popcorn, and killing people from several miles away.
Thanks for a well reasoned response.
/. seems overly harsh and random. And a lot of it seems to be a vindictive or more motivated at shutting people up who expressed something unpopular. I guess if he has posted this a couple dozen times tho then folks get tired of it (and I've just missed his other posts). I could see it as a troll then. There are some folks on Rotten Tomatoes like that. The first couple times, the subjects they raise are okay but then they keep raising them for every new movie and it gets old.
I still don't personally see it rising to the level of troll but without mod points to day, I guess it stands.
A lot of modding here on
We burst out loud laughing at the sex scene it was so lame.
I can't see why this was modded troll.
But I have no mod points today.
As much as I hate the idea of surveillance (mostly because of the point above that the reason laws work now is that they are not all enforced all the time) I think it would allow you to much more easily locate supporters who enabled the terrorists.
With complete surveillance, most crimes that require support of the populace become impossible.
I mean- all we need is a camera in every church, mosque, temple and we could head off the radical preachers and imams as they get started. And every library. And every hallway, elevator, street. Inside every car, cubicle, and monitors on every computer for all of your activities.
In fact, you could argue that everyone should have a camera on them 24/7 or else they can be arrested for not allowing themselves to be observed since only people people who commit crimes would resist this.
I know some foo foos would argue against observing during sex and bathrooms but if we allow those exceptions then terrorists and criminals would flock to bathrooms and sex as cover for their illicit activities.
In fact- if any hole is left open in the security web, then the criminals and terrorist will gravitate to it naturally so none could be allowed.
On the good side, once you have complete surveillance perhaps a lot of stupid laws would be overturned because (for example) you wouldn't have a preacher and major supporter of the conservative movement preaching against drug use and homosexual practices for years while he was secretly engaging in just such actions on the side.
If you had to choose between legalizing pot or literally incarcerating 25% of everyone over 40 years old, perhaps the laws would be changed. Right now, they arrest a couple a year but most continue free.
My advice is this:
Buy paintball guns.
Walk (Do Not Drive) and disable the cameras every chance you get. Make them so impractical and expensive that they do not get a foothold here like they did in London. You might consider a mild etching solution- or vasoline filling- you can't see it from a distance.
These cameras are all fine and dandy until the next time the government turns evil (and all kidding about neo-fascist cheney and bush- they are really scions of democracy compared to what we could have) which is why our founding fathers encouraged us to carry guns in the first place (to stop the government when it turns evil- because they always do eventually).
Understand disabling these cameras will eventually result in the deaths of a few thousand people. The number of deaths and the agony from an evil government typically reaches in the millions. We must suffer a few thousand deaths now and then to remain free.
Well, they were planning on announcing this sub at the next chinese new year.
Okay.. I'm starting to maybe finally see the issue.
The difference is not the underlying signal quality but whether the resolution being fed to your LCD Display is close to its native resolution. LCD's look horrible when not run at their native resolutions.
Haven't upgraded since version 6.
Everything still works fine.
My point being... most locked containers are trivial to open. By your earlier logic- if I can get in the container, you have no point in being upset that I did so.
You sound very smug- like someone who has never been seriously ripped off.
Let me tell you the worst part about being ripped off-- it just keeps hitting you again and again.
Whether it is one more little bill by those identity thieves or one more thing missing when you go to get it, you get to relieve being robbed again and again for weeks before you realize the full extent.
No one is safe from being ripped off. The more you have- the more likely you are to be targeted. But all it takes is a second of distraction- one little human slip up- and you can be tagged.
I hope you remember how smug you were when it happens to you.
I have never had my identity stolen- I take reasonable precautions just like you. But I don't believe it was the victim's fault for a second that these scum were violating their privacy. When you go to a doctor, you do not expect them to be filming you in the changing room. When you go to a computer fixup person, you do not expect them to be violating your privacy.
Locked in a secure container.
LOL. Your kidding right?
Not sure that is true generally.
Someone posted records here that had a license on them (from the 1890 ish period) saying unless you had bought the record for a dollar, you did not have a license to play the record.
Cool.
So you don't mind if I search for bank and credit card receipts while I clean your house.
But.. what about those folks who have a dual installation of windows and linux?
And to think I sucked in auto shop back in high-school.
Clinton had bad character in the area of sex.
There are many presidents who had worse character in that area (including several of the sainted Kennedys)(who I actually admire most of- it was a different era where presidents had affairs with starlets and got away with it).
We are just better at catching them these days.
Having sex with a 20 year old and lying about it when someone asks you about it is not the same thing as shitting all over the constitution and pardoning anyone that does get caught.
I agree the marc rich and brother on cocaine pardons stunk tho.
Actually... it's more like going in for an oil change and when you get your car, you find out that they opened your trunk, opened your briefcase you had locked in the truck, and copied all your personal documents inside the briefcase. So you return to find your oil changed and your racy picture of your girlfriend up on the wall.
This of course reads differently for american liberals:
Liberals believe in personal liberty (except if you say a bad word in which case you should be silenced)(or unless you defend someone accused of rape)(or unless you were accused of rape), which includes doing what you^H^H^H *they* want with your own money.
---
Don't get me wrong. Both liberal and conservative parties are pro-big government / anti personal freedom in the US these days. And owned lock, stock, and barrel by big corporations. We are pretty much screwed here with two party gerrymandering making it impossible to even vote them out any more.
And that is going to make the executive branch ignore the law less how?
And that is going to make corporate executives ignore the law less how?
Hard prison time and fines that represent a significant portion of a person's holdings get their attention.
I think some crimes shouldn't be crimes (tho not in this case).
In the end, I agree that stiff community service punishment (as in 12 months 8 hours a day helping in a soup kitchen and cleaning up trash for someone like Libby) is probably okay. Not the 80 hours they give most of them. Of course, you get at the edge of slavery with community service punishments.
On the other hand- the fight scenes will are equally incomprehensible whether cam'd or on the big screen. Micheal Bay needs to break his habit of zooming in so close that you are not even sure what the hell you are looking at much less having a clue about who is fighting whom.
Columboia is the one where they all wear scruffy rain coats and ask irritating questions that they all know the answers to and relate stories about their missus. Be careful-- they are much smarter than they seem!
Fines are so stupid in a world where Halliburton can give you a $250k bonus a few years from now at the behest of one of it's officers.
knowing this dangerous criminal has been arrested.
Of course from the perfect framing it is clear most of the copies on the internet are probably tripod mounted and taken from the projection booth.
I predict a copy of the movie (hell multiple copies) will be on the torrent networks within the week. It will be about 700mb and have muddy video and sound quality.
While I disagree with his point, I think the moderating on the parent post was chicken-shit.
Digit- we are not all angry americans.
But the corporations are scummy bastards that are using you to prevent paying fair wages while locking americans in to paying inflated prices for their products by having laws passed which limit our ability to get cheaper products.
While reporting record profits and paying their executive officers at twenty times the rate they did in only 1995, they are cutting jobs here so badly that we see no incentive to even enter these fields any more.
The companies hold on to the illusion that they are "american" (or "italian" or "english" or "french") companies only for the benefits that accrue to the corporation and executives (safety- nationalization- stable legal system- living in a country where you are not kidnapped and tortured by the poor (or the government) but they are no longer doing their part to hire citizens. The money in many cases is clearly being extracted from the economy while they maintain legal departments that advise them on how to legally disqualify (via some pretext) qualified candidates.
This is a very temporary situation. Wages in india and china are inflating rapidly. Wages in china are up 50% year to year and increases in india are running up to 40% year to year.
We have another 4 to 6 years and there will no longer be a benefit to using them as cheap labor.
I understand you have a financial incentive to think everything is rosy but really it isn't. The world is flattening and 1st world wages are going to decline. That's okay as soon as we start getting the benefits of cheap products (such as $2.49 CD's and DVD's) (and 50 cent pills instead of $5.25) ($800 for a full development setup vs "free") ($195 for an OS vs $25 for the same OS with english ripped out). Right now the companies are screwing us over- cutting our wages- laying us off for cheaper labor and having laws passed forcing us to pay monopoly prices.
I apologize that someone tried to shut you up by down-modding a reasonable comment even tho I think you are mistaken in some areas. The fix for mistaken opinions (including mine!) is more speech- not censorship.
Slashdot moderating needs to focus on the down-mods. I asked cowboy neal but for some reason he disagreed strongly with that idea. 99.99% of "up" mods are correct. The other 0.01% are usually harmless. However a good 50-60% of "down" mods are chickenshit attempts to shut someone up. I hope someday neal changes the meta moderating software to offer 90% down-modded comments.
Do you really think anyone except you and I are going to pay to install these sensors?
Do you think increasing the accuracy of pricing gasoline is going to be free?
Very select groups of immigrants provide a net economic gain.
The vast majority of immigrants impose huge social costs through emergency room visits (no insurance), increased insurance costs (since they don't carry insurance we have to carry more), increased schooling costs & school taxes (each child costs about $6 grand a year to school- uh oh- the immigrant is paying way less than $6k a year in school taxes), increased welfare & retirement costs.
This is why most countries in the world require that your *prove* you are one of the 'good' immigrants who have money or will benefit society. In some countries the bar is extremely high now. You pretty much have to show that you are going to create several jobs (i.e. bringing in a new business and several million dollars) if you want to be allowed to immigrate.
In france and the united states, we can trivially see the cost of allowing large numbers of unskilled immigrants into the country. Riots, burning cars and buses on Tv's, crime areas so bad the police won't go in except in force. But I'm sure canada will be different.
Again-- how naive.
There is no free lunch. You are giving away the store to these corporations.