Actually, conservatives, not necessarily "Republicans" simply want the federal government to follow the Constitution, limited by the 10th Amendment. That means less government when dealing with stuff like farm subsidies and corporate bailouts, and could mean more government with things specifically spelled out in the Constitution, like national security.
Anything not spelled out in the Constitution as a federal government power is a power belonging to the states... period!
As long as they, themselves, don't have to follow it.
The problem is that *both* parties view the Constitution as applying to the people, not to government itself.
If someone advocated absolute adherence to the Constitution for *all* involved parties, then he or she might be worth following. No more "police actions" - either Congress declares war or you don't participate, etc. (that's a big one for me).
I would also accept higher civil and criminal penalties against government and civil officials than the people for all offenses, seeing as government officials are viewed to have greater duty and responsibility.
The bad news: If you use nukes, then coders will get even more lazy and feel they don't have to use asserts and end up being so off that the drones nuke New Jersey instead of Afghanistan.
Are we still talking about a bug or a feature here?
The argument for most laws is public safety. That is the reason for speed limits.
If this gets passed then speeding is purely a money grabbing effort by the government and a differentiation between those with money and those without. A good lawyer should be able to defeat any traffic ticket if this gets passed, doubly so if the argument is in front of a jury.
It will be interesting to see how a traffic court judge handles the issue of discrimination against lower income classes of people.
Some roads are only reserved for the rich and yet everyone will have to pay for them?
I would imagine that it's not so much the roads that are the problem, its the *drivers*.
So, great if Nevada can implement high-speed driving tests, but there are 49 other states worth of drivers who would potentially be on those roads as well.
This pretty much only works if the State of Nevada takes on the full liability for an accident, since I cannot see insurance companies allowing this for their drivers. At that point, the first lawsuit will pretty much shut down the program.
This is an idiotic suggestion on the basis of how much the state could wind up owing.
It kind of makes me wish I had the time and motivation to become a PLEX hunter - flying around and killing players who were stupid enough to leave the station with it.
Depends. I'm competent in the LAMP stack, but don't know the hardware it runs on, since that's usually under the people in charge of production servers.
Go ask them, maybe, instead of bugging a programmer?
IE9 will support WebM if it's installed, but not Theora.
I somewhat support this. Codecs should be system libraries and provide support equally to all requestion applications, rather than an application specific library.
Every single one of those people are carefully selected/monitored by the government. You might as well be convincing a fencepost that freedom is a good idea. The only way they can achieve independence of thought is to get the hell out.
I would much rather have lots of small companies each contributing toward the industry, as a whole, making a billion dollars a year, as opposed to one company making a billion dollars a year.
If one company out of a thousand fails, burns, gets trampled by elephants, etc., it is a minor thing in the larger scheme. If only a few companies are propping up the industry and one goes down, gets trampled by elephants, doused in acid, etc., it's a freaking disaster.
We should never again hear the words "too big to fail" applied to any company.
Fuck PETA. I feel my money and time would be better spent supporting the ASPCA. At least they don't make me want to cringe every time I hear or read about them.
I've pretty much reached the point where I equate PETA to Scientology. They're both a bunch of loonies with more money than sense.
The point of the selection screen is not to provide a lab-testing box - it's to fulfill a requirement by the EU that they offer alternative browsers to non-professional consumers.
One thing that would be great is if Apple would customize their computers for their corporate and government clients, since all of our Macs have to be modified to remove cameras, WiFi, etc.
And that customization would cost more money and create more headaches for Apple, which they apparently want to avoid.
I can't say I blame them - if I had my own business, I think I'd avoid the red tape involved in selling to the government.
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...nation states should be able to act against technologies in countries being used as a platform for attack...
So, nuke Redmond?
Don't let them escape beforehand, either.
That's great.
Doesn't mean I want the two services married to one another.
In fact, I don't really want them touching each other with a 10K foot pole.
3D won't improve the movies as they weren't designed for it in the first place.
Actually, conservatives, not necessarily "Republicans" simply want the federal government to follow the Constitution, limited by the 10th Amendment. That means less government when dealing with stuff like farm subsidies and corporate bailouts, and could mean more government with things specifically spelled out in the Constitution, like national security.
Anything not spelled out in the Constitution as a federal government power is a power belonging to the states... period!
As long as they, themselves, don't have to follow it.
The problem is that *both* parties view the Constitution as applying to the people, not to government itself.
If someone advocated absolute adherence to the Constitution for *all* involved parties, then he or she might be worth following. No more "police actions" - either Congress declares war or you don't participate, etc. (that's a big one for me).
I would also accept higher civil and criminal penalties against government and civil officials than the people for all offenses, seeing as government officials are viewed to have greater duty and responsibility.
The bad news: If you use nukes, then coders will get even more lazy and feel they don't have to use asserts and end up being so off that the drones nuke New Jersey instead of Afghanistan.
Are we still talking about a bug or a feature here?
The argument for most laws is public safety. That is the reason for speed limits.
If this gets passed then speeding is purely a money grabbing effort by the government and a differentiation between those with money and those without. A good lawyer should be able to defeat any traffic ticket if this gets passed, doubly so if the argument is in front of a jury.
It will be interesting to see how a traffic court judge handles the issue of discrimination against lower income classes of people.
Some roads are only reserved for the rich and yet everyone will have to pay for them?
I would imagine that it's not so much the roads that are the problem, its the *drivers*.
So, great if Nevada can implement high-speed driving tests, but there are 49 other states worth of drivers who would potentially be on those roads as well.
This pretty much only works if the State of Nevada takes on the full liability for an accident, since I cannot see insurance companies allowing this for their drivers. At that point, the first lawsuit will pretty much shut down the program.
This is an idiotic suggestion on the basis of how much the state could wind up owing.
NO governmental authority should have access to a private citizen private data or communications (encrypted or otherwise) without a court order.
When you play with the big boys, you're going to get burned.
It kind of makes me wish I had the time and motivation to become a PLEX hunter - flying around and killing players who were stupid enough to leave the station with it.
This is a game where being a PK has rewards.
Personally, I think we should just pull out of that region completely for 50 years and let the chips fall where they may.
Evolve or die, assholes. Evolve or die.
Depends. I'm competent in the LAMP stack, but don't know the hardware it runs on, since that's usually under the people in charge of production servers.
Go ask them, maybe, instead of bugging a programmer?
We wait around while the W3C tries to pull it's thumb out of it's ass.
How hard is it to decide on a new standard? Do the members not check their email more than once a year?
IE9 will support WebM if it's installed, but not Theora.
I somewhat support this. Codecs should be system libraries and provide support equally to all requestion applications, rather than an application specific library.
It surprises me how many people here on slashdot are poor at predicting what technologies will become commonplace the future.
That is because they're more engaged in wishful thinking, rather than actually thinking.
Yes, clearly anyone who does not share your exact values must be stupid.
that idea right there sums up the reason for 80% of the bad feelings on the internet.
another 10% comes from people who actually are stupid.
and the final 10% from made-up percentages.
Every single one of those people are carefully selected/monitored by the government. You might as well be convincing a fencepost that freedom is a good idea. The only way they can achieve independence of thought is to get the hell out.
I would much rather have lots of small companies each contributing toward the industry, as a whole, making a billion dollars a year, as opposed to one company making a billion dollars a year.
If one company out of a thousand fails, burns, gets trampled by elephants, etc., it is a minor thing in the larger scheme. If only a few companies are propping up the industry and one goes down, gets trampled by elephants, doused in acid, etc., it's a freaking disaster.
We should never again hear the words "too big to fail" applied to any company.
You sir, loose:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
YOU, sir, lose. You misspelled 'lose'.
You still have the option to set the background image. What was scrapped was Google setting an image for you when you had not previously selected one.
Honestly, I rather like it. The pictures in their gallery are not offensive in the least and provide a nice bit of somewhat blandish eye-candy.
You'd have to talk to Schroedinger's lawyers about that.
But they're only half-right.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-06-23/opinion/17379611_1_peta-s-web-animal-cruelty-dead-animals
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
http://www.newsweek.com/id/134549
and so on and so forth.
Fuck PETA. I feel my money and time would be better spent supporting the ASPCA. At least they don't make me want to cringe every time I hear or read about them.
I've pretty much reached the point where I equate PETA to Scientology. They're both a bunch of loonies with more money than sense.
The point of the selection screen is not to provide a lab-testing box - it's to fulfill a requirement by the EU that they offer alternative browsers to non-professional consumers.
One thing that would be great is if Apple would customize their computers for their corporate and government clients, since all of our Macs have to be modified to remove cameras, WiFi, etc.
And that customization would cost more money and create more headaches for Apple, which they apparently want to avoid.
I can't say I blame them - if I had my own business, I think I'd avoid the red tape involved in selling to the government.
Didn't say it would be pleasant or fun. They might not even win.
But eventually, they might.