I know Google spiders my mail, just because I'm aware of it doesn't mean they aren't doing it, it just means that I don;t care. I don't know if I'd be comfortable assuming that just because something is open source doesn't mean there isn't some very visible code, neatly commented, that says "We're watching you."
I think there's a problem in the logic though. The strength of IE has always been that it come by default and people never move away from it. It seems to me like the people most likely to try this new browser would be people who long ago made the switch to other browsers and have no issues trying out new products to see what's the best rather than relying on what they're already using. My prediction would be that for every IE user that suddenly switches over there will be just as many users pulled from other non-IE browsers.
For all this talk of "making the US less relevant" I don't really see it happening. We're still the public opinion whipping boy, the team to beat at the olympics, and the political news to watch.
If this article was about shifting traffic around Nigeria due to scam emails would anyone have cared in the slightest? We're more unpopular than ever, but unless you're France you have to be somewhat relevant to draw that hatred.
I'm pretty sure there have been numerous Slashdot articles about a certain Scandinavian country that's home to a large number of pirates that has all of their traffic monitored by government mandate. Just because what they do isn't a crime there doesn't mean there aren't people watching every second of it.
You are aware that there were presidents before bush right? Like Clinton? Other Bush? Reagan? Your theory holds absolutely 0 water. If anything Clinton's presidency didn't move the country more to the left it solidified the conservative base and gave us what we have now. The amazing thing is that the Democrats are still fighting, with all of the problems and scandals caused by the Republican party a moron could have run them out of office.
No thank you, people have been voting for the lessor of two evils for long enough and all it leads to is the exact same problems as the previous slightly less evil guy.
My answer to all your points, as an American who votes for candidates not parties and still weeps for the days when the VP was the candidate who got the second most votes, all I can say to you is:
"Eh, could be worse."
Maybe it's entirely the problem that most people vote for the lessor of two evils year after year but that's how it is. You're welcome to quit being an anonymous internet ranter and try to change it.
If The USA has to deal with reparations talks for slavery every couple of years you guys have to listen to people bemoan your history of lust for power and wealth. Fair is fair.
That's funny, I live in Denver and other than I-25 being shut down during rush hour for a political rally I've going to have to say I was pretty unoppressed. Maybe I missed the jack booted thugs gassing me while I wasn't paying attention.
I don't see this as any different than people who buy collections of letters from famous people. There's no guarantee that there's anything of interest in any of them, but they frequently end up as the basis of the books we read.
What if Thomas Jefferson received a letter about George Washington going to Donkey shows in Tijuana? I don't see anyone complaining about this accepted and socially beneficial practice, why start now?
I think most people would give up the opportunity to always be sitting if it meant they no longer had to wonder if where they were going is ADA compliant.
The exact reasoning, as stated in the case, is that if criminals were allowed to refuse to pay income taxes because it would out them as criminals it would give an advantage to the dishonest and absolutely no benefit to the honest.
You already got to my reply though, which is that the Supreme Court has the authority to determine what is constitutional and what isn't, so regardless of what you or I think, technically what they say is, by definition, constitutional until they say otherwise. I'd also disagree that much of anything in the Constitution is clear as day, if it was they wouldn't have included for the forming of a body to interpret it. The idea that any specific phrase is grounds for automatic violation is certainly open to interpretation, yours being that it is, and unfortunately for you, multiple Supreme Court judgments that feel otherwise.
I won't say anything about your apparent belief that being forced to file income taxes is somehow a disregard for basic human rights because I'm sure anything I'd say would certainly be pigeonholing though I'm not sure it'd be at all inaccurate.
I know what the 5th Amendment is. As it turns out the answer to the question I asked is completely irrelevant.
The supreme court has ruled that the 5th Amendment offers no protection to the act of not filing a tax return, even if doing so would be blatantly incriminating. Furthermore, claiming such a defense is defined as frivolous and can result in further penalties.
Interestingly enough, if he had signed his tax forms he would have been fine. The IRS has a nice little section on their website about how illegal income should still be reported, and that those tax returns can not be used against you for criminal prosecution. Not filing them however...
Really? Almost 2/3rds of the people in the world watched the opening ceremony? I appreciate that the Wikipedia article cites their source, but the article it quotes doesn't give any metric for their estimation.
I can't believe that between people who couldn't watch it, people who didn't want to watch it, and people who just didn't despite urge and ability, that 4 billion people still caught it.
I would hope he got modded flamebait because of his tone not because of his content, and not by anyone in the U.S.
I'm following the Olympics online because I have a good friend who was a fencer and I have a lot of national pride. I have to say though, when I'm talking to people on a day to day basis they spend a lot more time talking about the upcoming NFL season and the baseball division standings than anything involving Micheal Phelps or the gymnastics teams. I think it's incredible what he's accomplished, but I haven't watched a single one of his races, nor did I see more than five minutes of any of the games in the past.
The U.S. pays attention to the Olympics because we usually do very well and Americans love to win. It's big for month a year but other than that unless you're actually involved in one of the sports, it's completely off the radar for the vast majority of people.
why don't they just use whatever software is used by the crackers to bombard us with spam email to go through all of these books are whatever speed they're capable of. If compromised PCs can send tens of thousands of fake emails, why not just set a few up to figure out these words/
How much worse is this than trusting users to correctly identify the text? I ask because I honestly don't know the succcess rate of the automated system.
I heard about it on a news program about just this sort of revenue scam. Apparently there were a single stop sign in Detroit that one officer was writing thousands of tickets at by himself. Enough people complained that a TV news crew staked it out and found most of the vehicles that weren't stopping were police cruisers from a nearby station.
And my point, for the third time, to use your analogy, is that if you spent half your life producing cutting edge art that really advances the entire industry, and the other half drawing dirty stick figures that sell really well, I'm not going to look upon the later years as your claim to fame or the highlight of your career. I'd probably just not talk about it. I think Miyamoto has done much better work in his career and all of these recent mass-market successes are really the low point of his work.
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I know Google spiders my mail, just because I'm aware of it doesn't mean they aren't doing it, it just means that I don;t care. I don't know if I'd be comfortable assuming that just because something is open source doesn't mean there isn't some very visible code, neatly commented, that says "We're watching you."
I think there's a problem in the logic though. The strength of IE has always been that it come by default and people never move away from it. It seems to me like the people most likely to try this new browser would be people who long ago made the switch to other browsers and have no issues trying out new products to see what's the best rather than relying on what they're already using. My prediction would be that for every IE user that suddenly switches over there will be just as many users pulled from other non-IE browsers.
"Your current government, sure -- but much of the rest of the world is currently suffering all sorts of horrors because the past policies of GB."
"because former British colonials drew a map that was convenient for them"
Not the one I was replying to, or the one he was replying to.
For all this talk of "making the US less relevant" I don't really see it happening. We're still the public opinion whipping boy, the team to beat at the olympics, and the political news to watch.
If this article was about shifting traffic around Nigeria due to scam emails would anyone have cared in the slightest? We're more unpopular than ever, but unless you're France you have to be somewhat relevant to draw that hatred.
I'm pretty sure there have been numerous Slashdot articles about a certain Scandinavian country that's home to a large number of pirates that has all of their traffic monitored by government mandate. Just because what they do isn't a crime there doesn't mean there aren't people watching every second of it.
You are aware that there were presidents before bush right? Like Clinton? Other Bush? Reagan? Your theory holds absolutely 0 water. If anything Clinton's presidency didn't move the country more to the left it solidified the conservative base and gave us what we have now. The amazing thing is that the Democrats are still fighting, with all of the problems and scandals caused by the Republican party a moron could have run them out of office.
No thank you, people have been voting for the lessor of two evils for long enough and all it leads to is the exact same problems as the previous slightly less evil guy.
My answer to all your points, as an American who votes for candidates not parties and still weeps for the days when the VP was the candidate who got the second most votes, all I can say to you is:
"Eh, could be worse."
Maybe it's entirely the problem that most people vote for the lessor of two evils year after year but that's how it is. You're welcome to quit being an anonymous internet ranter and try to change it.
Party foul!
If The USA has to deal with reparations talks for slavery every couple of years you guys have to listen to people bemoan your history of lust for power and wealth. Fair is fair.
That's funny, I live in Denver and other than I-25 being shut down during rush hour for a political rally I've going to have to say I was pretty unoppressed. Maybe I missed the jack booted thugs gassing me while I wasn't paying attention.
Just because I can type in 13375p34k doesn't mean I shouldn't be told it makes me look like an ass.
I don't see this as any different than people who buy collections of letters from famous people. There's no guarantee that there's anything of interest in any of them, but they frequently end up as the basis of the books we read. What if Thomas Jefferson received a letter about George Washington going to Donkey shows in Tijuana? I don't see anyone complaining about this accepted and socially beneficial practice, why start now?
And coma patients get to sleep all they want!
I think most people would give up the opportunity to always be sitting if it meant they no longer had to wonder if where they were going is ADA compliant.
The exact reasoning, as stated in the case, is that if criminals were allowed to refuse to pay income taxes because it would out them as criminals it would give an advantage to the dishonest and absolutely no benefit to the honest.
You already got to my reply though, which is that the Supreme Court has the authority to determine what is constitutional and what isn't, so regardless of what you or I think, technically what they say is, by definition, constitutional until they say otherwise. I'd also disagree that much of anything in the Constitution is clear as day, if it was they wouldn't have included for the forming of a body to interpret it. The idea that any specific phrase is grounds for automatic violation is certainly open to interpretation, yours being that it is, and unfortunately for you, multiple Supreme Court judgments that feel otherwise.
I won't say anything about your apparent belief that being forced to file income taxes is somehow a disregard for basic human rights because I'm sure anything I'd say would certainly be pigeonholing though I'm not sure it'd be at all inaccurate.
Nevermind that bit about not being used against you, I misread part of the Volountary Disclosure section.
I know what the 5th Amendment is. As it turns out the answer to the question I asked is completely irrelevant.
The supreme court has ruled that the 5th Amendment offers no protection to the act of not filing a tax return, even if doing so would be blatantly incriminating. Furthermore, claiming such a defense is defined as frivolous and can result in further penalties.
Interestingly enough, if he had signed his tax forms he would have been fine. The IRS has a nice little section on their website about how illegal income should still be reported, and that those tax returns can not be used against you for criminal prosecution. Not filing them however...
How, pray tell, is signing your tax form incriminating?
If you really want to get into a park acreage contest, THIS is a park: Chugach Park.
Really? Almost 2/3rds of the people in the world watched the opening ceremony? I appreciate that the Wikipedia article cites their source, but the article it quotes doesn't give any metric for their estimation.
I can't believe that between people who couldn't watch it, people who didn't want to watch it, and people who just didn't despite urge and ability, that 4 billion people still caught it.
I would hope he got modded flamebait because of his tone not because of his content, and not by anyone in the U.S.
I'm following the Olympics online because I have a good friend who was a fencer and I have a lot of national pride. I have to say though, when I'm talking to people on a day to day basis they spend a lot more time talking about the upcoming NFL season and the baseball division standings than anything involving Micheal Phelps or the gymnastics teams. I think it's incredible what he's accomplished, but I haven't watched a single one of his races, nor did I see more than five minutes of any of the games in the past.
The U.S. pays attention to the Olympics because we usually do very well and Americans love to win. It's big for month a year but other than that unless you're actually involved in one of the sports, it's completely off the radar for the vast majority of people.
why don't they just use whatever software is used by the crackers to bombard us with spam email to go through all of these books are whatever speed they're capable of. If compromised PCs can send tens of thousands of fake emails, why not just set a few up to figure out these words/
How much worse is this than trusting users to correctly identify the text? I ask because I honestly don't know the succcess rate of the automated system.
I heard about it on a news program about just this sort of revenue scam. Apparently there were a single stop sign in Detroit that one officer was writing thousands of tickets at by himself. Enough people complained that a TV news crew staked it out and found most of the vehicles that weren't stopping were police cruisers from a nearby station.
And my point, for the third time, to use your analogy, is that if you spent half your life producing cutting edge art that really advances the entire industry, and the other half drawing dirty stick figures that sell really well, I'm not going to look upon the later years as your claim to fame or the highlight of your career. I'd probably just not talk about it. I think Miyamoto has done much better work in his career and all of these recent mass-market successes are really the low point of his work.
Well then you at least have to give football players, their legal trouble aside, credit for being smarter than baseball players.
Small victories.
So what's your theory about New Rome, Ohio?
60 residents, 14 police officers, almost 3000 tickets issued a year.
So many in fact that AAA put up a billboard outside of town warning drivers about it.
Granted, an extreme example, but don't pretend it doesn't happen.