That doesn't make any sense - police are charged with enforcing the law, not just the laws that have been enacted by the government that signs their paychecks. That may be a political or economic reality, but not a legal one.
Of course, if I'm wrong, please post some definitive sources to the contrary.
You people need to calm down. China and the US have very little to fight about, militarily speaking. The CCP and the GOP have very compatible global agendas - not that there's anything good about that.
And for the specific point raised about military capacity, China claims that it could take on one or possibly two US carrier groups in battle. The US has 12 of them. But so what? That kind of thing just doesn't matter anymore.
Maybe because nobody wants to be the in the group of early adopters who pay for the software, and everyone wants to be in the group of post-GPL adopters who get the software for free.
... and fuse this duplicate story with the one from yesterday.
I mean, come on, Slashdot editors - if you don't even read your own website, why would you expect anyone else to? At least I don't feel guilty about adblocking ads.odsn.com.
There is rarely such a thing as a bug-free release, and you don't necessarily want to fix every single bug before release. Here's a good explanation on why not.
The original poster - a dewey-eyed Sinophile, judging from his web site - was asserting that the cause of America's "downfall" is "expensive political micromanagement."
I merely provided a counterexample which negates his implicit assertion that expensive political micromanagement is correleted with declines in national power, assuming that China's power is rising. So, indeed, I was addressing the crux of his argument with my point; it's just that it went over your head.
You know, your post was just so rich, I have to address the other "points" as well...
Bullshit! Maybe in Mexico there is a little negativity to the word
So you admit, "gringo" is a pejorative term. Thanks.
Hey, you don't know me, how dare you accuse me of "hatred"? At least I am not afraid to let people know who I am instead of cowardly hiding behind some pseudonym like your chicken-shit ass!
I'm accusing you a hatred because you knowingly use pejorative terms to refer to another people. It's that simple.
Let's compare Slashdot user ID's - I have been here a lot longer than you and I will probably be here when you are long gone. I am quite capable of civil discourse but I will call out IDIOTS when I spot them, and you have proven that you are a first-class idiot!
Wow, a low Slashdot ID is some kind of intellectual or civil qualification? I think most people here would find that concept more than a little amusing.
First of all, those are CHICANO groups, LATINO is a "weasel word" created by the great WHITE fathers in Washington D.C. that is used to lump together different Spanish-speaking groups into one group for statistical purposes. Calling groups as different as Chicanos and Cubanos with the word Latino is like saying that someone from England and someone from Germany are the same because they are both White Europeans.
"Latino" is somehow a disagreeable word for you due to its ethnic generality, yet you feel comfortable using terms like "gringo" and "white." Interesting. And to echo you, "Who made you the Slashdot language police?"
Second, Voz de Aztlan and MEChA are NOT hate groups!
Here's Voz de Aztlan:
Anti-semitism and
embracing terrorism and hate. And here's the MEChA "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán," which among other things claims that the southwestern US "belongs... not to the foreign Europeans," and declares, "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada." Care to translate that for us - and explain how it's not racist?
Find me an official US Government webpage that says they are and that US citizens will be prosecuted for contributing to those groups like they can for contributing to groups like the Irish Republican Army. You can't because that webpage does not exist!
Wow, you mean that if the US Government doesn't have a group listed as a hate group on a web page, it isn't a hate group? Quite a lot of respect you've suddenly gained for the "WHITE fathers" in Washington.
If anything, you are the one that is a racist by denying me and my fellow Chicanos the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If you want to find a bigot all you have to do is look in the mirror, pendejo!
How am I infringing your "right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?" By disagreeing with you?
Maybe if you stopped reading Mein Kampf and Republican Party propaganda long enough to look around and see what is really going on you will quit accusing people of being "bigoted" when in reality they are not...
I've never read "Mein Kampf" nor do I support the Republican Party; nor have I said anything racist here. But I suppose that didn't stop you from tossing out allegations and stereotypes.
To sum up: I suggest you work on your critical thinking skills, as well as your tolerance for other people, and take a good long look in the mirror to see who the real racist and hypocrite is. And, by the way, by mentioning "Mein Kampf," you have triggered Godwin's Law. Buh-bye.
Thanks for proving my point. You've got an emormous blind spot in which you hide your own racism. Voz de Aztlan isn't a hate group? Guess you haven't read all the blatant anti-Semitism on their website... or maybe you just don't care.
First of all, those are CHICANO groups, LATINO is a "weasel word" created by the great WHITE fathers in Washington D.C. that is used to lump together different Spanish-speaking groups into one group for statistical purposes. Calling groups as different as Chicanos and Cubanos with the word Latino is like saying that someone from England and someone from Germany are the same because they are both White Europeans.
Seriously, do you actually read your own posts? In one sentence you blast the "WHITE fathers" in Washington, and in the next one, you tell me how using the term Latino is bad, analagous to grouping German and English descendents under the term... white.
I suppose if you're going to carry around as much hate as you do while accusing everyone else of it, you need to cultivate a pretty extreme level of hypocracy to keep a straight face while doing it.
But that wasn't the point of my post. I wanted to point out to USians how racist this whole story is. There was one victim of a crime, who had been stolen the payment for her work. There wasn't much she could do about it, because the criminals were in another country.
Yeaaaah, okay... setting the wayback machine to two posts ago, you said:
The true criminals where the Gringos that outsourced the transcribing job to a Pakistani, knowing that she would have no legal means to demand the just payment for her work. From her point of view, the medical records had been abandoned by their former owners, I suppose, so the laws about abandoned property should apply.
Nice way to (a) cry racism while turning a blind eye to your own, and (b) completely avoid the points I made in my post. The "one victim" you refer to was criminal as well, stealing and threatening to publish the medical info of many people who had done her absolutely no wrong... but I suppose that's okay with you, somehow, because all those people are "the gringos."
I suggest you investigate your own hypocracy before ferreting out everyone else's.
"Gringo" has a pejorative element to it. You know this as well as I do. I'd say you're the one who's using "weasel words" here as a way to veil your hatred. And if you don't feel like you can participate in civil discourse without bigoted terms, then you're the one who should leave - I'm sure Latino-nationalist hate sites like Voz De Aztlan or MEChA would love to hear from you.
First of all, "girngo" is a racist term, and I ask that you refrain from using it here, as with any other racist term.
Second, are you seriously suggesting that a cancer patient in San Francisco had abandoned her medical information and right to privacy because a subcontractor of a subcontracter refused to pay the Pakistani transcriber? That makes no sense.
Announce to the class that they have two options. If they want their paper to be computer-graded, the maximum they can get on the paper is a B. Only hand-graded papers can earn an A - but they will be judged on original thought, well-chosen sources, and total structure. If they don't meet those criteria, they will be penalized (and as such, would score lower than the computer would give). That way, students who aren't confident in their capability for truly excellent writing and novel thought can choose the computer grader for a safe B, while the truly thoughtful and creative students can be justly rewarded.
Wait - what the fuck am I saying? ALL college students should be graded by the non-computer criteria I just listed, and those who can't do (or at least attempt) that kind of work shouldn't be in college.
Thanks, although maybe I'm the one who should apologize: despite my best efforts, my country has allowed an administration to destroy the US reputation and effectively erase much of the good we've done over the last 50. I didn't vote for Bush, and I funded his opponents as much as I legally could, but there are limits to what one person can do.
However, if you ever do visit the United States and are in the San Francisco Bay Area, I invite you to stay with my family and me. At least I'll be showing one person that America isn't all bad...
... maybe the zealots who use Wikipedia as their ideological battleground (e.g. this,this, or this) can host their own wikipediae, with their own versions of The Truth, and thus the revision wars on the original Wikipedia will stop.
Just because a tool is powerful, or its inner workings incomprehensible, does not mean that it cannot be used creatively or towards creative ends. In fact, one might assert the opposite.
SSL, even at 48 bits, may not be "real" protection against 733T haX0rz, but it is "real-world" protection. Even snooping on an unencrypted HTTP transaction takes considerable effort unless it's an inside job (which, admittedly, it usually is).
By the same token (no pun intended), the lock on my front door would be a joke to any professional locksmith of thief, and yet somehoe my stuff is still here every day when I get home from work.
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I'd accept Ohio SB 9 as a good illustration of your point - thanks.
Here in California, there's lots of grousing about unfunded federal mandates, and I suppose many of them have law enforcement implications.
That doesn't make any sense - police are charged with enforcing the law, not just the laws that have been enacted by the government that signs their paychecks. That may be a political or economic reality, but not a legal one.
Of course, if I'm wrong, please post some definitive sources to the contrary.
You people need to calm down. China and the US have very little to fight about, militarily speaking. The CCP and the GOP have very compatible global agendas - not that there's anything good about that.
And for the specific point raised about military capacity, China claims that it could take on one or possibly two US carrier groups in battle. The US has 12 of them. But so what? That kind of thing just doesn't matter anymore.
Maybe because nobody wants to be the in the group of early adopters who pay for the software, and everyone wants to be in the group of post-GPL adopters who get the software for free.
... and fuse this duplicate story with the one from yesterday.
I mean, come on, Slashdot editors - if you don't even read your own website, why would you expect anyone else to? At least I don't feel guilty about adblocking ads.odsn.com.
There is rarely such a thing as a bug-free release, and you don't necessarily want to fix every single bug before release. Here's a
good explanation on why not.
Not necessarily.
Ugly stuff, to be sure, but have you looked at S.I.T.E's site? It's yet another Israeli-sponsored PR hack job about how scary Muslims are.
The original poster - a dewey-eyed Sinophile, judging from his web site - was asserting that the cause of America's "downfall" is "expensive political micromanagement."
I merely provided a counterexample which negates his implicit assertion that expensive political micromanagement is correleted with declines in national power, assuming that China's power is rising. So, indeed, I was addressing the crux of his argument with my point; it's just that it went over your head.
But thanks for playing.
Quite right. The US should emulate China, where internet access is wide open for everyone and no filtering is done at all.
You know, your post was just so rich, I have to address the other "points" as well...
Bullshit! Maybe in Mexico there is a little negativity to the word
So you admit, "gringo" is a pejorative term. Thanks.
Hey, you don't know me, how dare you accuse me of "hatred"? At least I am not afraid to let people know who I am instead of cowardly hiding behind some pseudonym like your chicken-shit ass!
I'm accusing you a hatred because you knowingly use pejorative terms to refer to another people. It's that simple.
Let's compare Slashdot user ID's - I have been here a lot longer than you and I will probably be here when you are long gone. I am quite capable of civil discourse but I will call out IDIOTS when I spot them, and you have proven that you are a first-class idiot!
Wow, a low Slashdot ID is some kind of intellectual or civil qualification? I think most people here would find that concept more than a little amusing.
First of all, those are CHICANO groups, LATINO is a "weasel word" created by the great WHITE fathers in Washington D.C. that is used to lump together different Spanish-speaking groups into one group for statistical purposes. Calling groups as different as Chicanos and Cubanos with the word Latino is like saying that someone from England and someone from Germany are the same because they are both White Europeans.
"Latino" is somehow a disagreeable word for you due to its ethnic generality, yet you feel comfortable using terms like "gringo" and "white." Interesting. And to echo you, "Who made you the Slashdot language police?"
Second, Voz de Aztlan and MEChA are NOT hate groups!
Here's Voz de Aztlan: Anti-semitism and embracing terrorism and hate. And here's the MEChA "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán," which among other things claims that the southwestern US "belongs... not to the foreign Europeans," and declares, "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada." Care to translate that for us - and explain how it's not racist?
Find me an official US Government webpage that says they are and that US citizens will be prosecuted for contributing to those groups like they can for contributing to groups like the Irish Republican Army. You can't because that webpage does not exist!
Wow, you mean that if the US Government doesn't have a group listed as a hate group on a web page, it isn't a hate group? Quite a lot of respect you've suddenly gained for the "WHITE fathers" in Washington.
If anything, you are the one that is a racist by denying me and my fellow Chicanos the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If you want to find a bigot all you have to do is look in the mirror, pendejo!
How am I infringing your "right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?" By disagreeing with you?
Maybe if you stopped reading Mein Kampf and Republican Party propaganda long enough to look around and see what is really going on you will quit accusing people of being "bigoted" when in reality they are not...
I've never read "Mein Kampf" nor do I support the Republican Party; nor have I said anything racist here. But I suppose that didn't stop you from tossing out allegations and stereotypes.
To sum up: I suggest you work on your critical thinking skills, as well as your tolerance for other people, and take a good long look in the mirror to see who the real racist and hypocrite is. And, by the way, by mentioning "Mein Kampf," you have triggered Godwin's Law. Buh-bye.
Thanks for proving my point. You've got an emormous blind spot in which you hide your own racism. Voz de Aztlan isn't a hate group? Guess you haven't read all the blatant anti-Semitism on their website... or maybe you just don't care.
First of all, those are CHICANO groups, LATINO is a "weasel word" created by the great WHITE fathers in Washington D.C. that is used to lump together different Spanish-speaking groups into one group for statistical purposes. Calling groups as different as Chicanos and Cubanos with the word Latino is like saying that someone from England and someone from Germany are the same because they are both White Europeans. Seriously, do you actually read your own posts? In one sentence you blast the "WHITE fathers" in Washington, and in the next one, you tell me how using the term Latino is bad, analagous to grouping German and English descendents under the term... white.
I suppose if you're going to carry around as much hate as you do while accusing everyone else of it, you need to cultivate a pretty extreme level of hypocracy to keep a straight face while doing it.
But that wasn't the point of my post. I wanted to point out to USians how racist this whole story is. There was one victim of a crime, who had been stolen the payment for her work. There wasn't much she could do about it, because the criminals were in another country.
Yeaaaah, okay... setting the wayback machine to two posts ago, you said:
The true criminals where the Gringos that outsourced the transcribing job to a Pakistani, knowing that she would have no legal means to demand the just payment for her work. From her point of view, the medical records had been abandoned by their former owners, I suppose, so the laws about abandoned property should apply.
Nice way to (a) cry racism while turning a blind eye to your own, and (b) completely avoid the points I made in my post. The "one victim" you refer to was criminal as well, stealing and threatening to publish the medical info of many people who had done her absolutely no wrong... but I suppose that's okay with you, somehow, because all those people are "the gringos."
I suggest you investigate your own hypocracy before ferreting out everyone else's.
"Gringo" has a pejorative element to it. You know this as well as I do. I'd say you're the one who's using "weasel words" here as a way to veil your hatred. And if you don't feel like you can participate in civil discourse without bigoted terms, then you're the one who should leave - I'm sure Latino-nationalist hate sites like Voz De Aztlan or MEChA would love to hear from you.
First of all, "girngo" is a racist term, and I ask that you refrain from using it here, as with any other racist term.
Second, are you seriously suggesting that a cancer patient in San Francisco had abandoned her medical information and right to privacy because a subcontractor of a subcontracter refused to pay the Pakistani transcriber? That makes no sense.
Nice to see your nationalistic bigotry on parade, coward.
The Americans are already using armed robots to kill, er, I mean, free Iraqis.
Announce to the class that they have two options. If they want their paper to be computer-graded, the maximum they can get on the paper is a B. Only hand-graded papers can earn an A - but they will be judged on original thought, well-chosen sources, and total structure. If they don't meet those criteria, they will be penalized (and as such, would score lower than the computer would give). That way, students who aren't confident in their capability for truly excellent writing and novel thought can choose the computer grader for a safe B, while the truly thoughtful and creative students can be justly rewarded.
Wait - what the fuck am I saying? ALL college students should be graded by the non-computer criteria I just listed, and those who can't do (or at least attempt) that kind of work shouldn't be in college.
Thanks, although maybe I'm the one who should apologize: despite my best efforts, my country has allowed an administration to destroy the US reputation and effectively erase much of the good we've done over the last 50. I didn't vote for Bush, and I funded his opponents as much as I legally could, but there are limits to what one person can do.
However, if you ever do visit the United States and are in the San Francisco Bay Area, I invite you to stay with my family and me. At least I'll be showing one person that America isn't all bad...
... maybe the zealots who use Wikipedia as their ideological battleground (e.g. this, this, or this) can host their own wikipediae, with their own versions of The Truth, and thus the revision wars on the original Wikipedia will stop.
Or not.
Just because a tool is powerful, or its inner workings incomprehensible, does not mean that it cannot be used creatively or towards creative ends. In fact, one might assert the opposite.
(and Uruguay is a lot better educated than the US, and better in many regards, we're just poorer)
Nice to see your jingoistic bigotry shining through.
Obviously. I was referring to the parent poster's objection to 48-bit encryption.
Have a think about that for a moment and you'll realise what I'm saying.
Private donations collected to keep Star Trek: Enterprise versus private donations collected to keep Hubble in orbit.
SSL, even at 48 bits, may not be "real" protection against 733T haX0rz, but it is "real-world" protection. Even snooping on an unencrypted HTTP transaction takes considerable effort unless it's an inside job (which, admittedly, it usually is).
By the same token (no pun intended), the lock on my front door would be a joke to any professional locksmith of thief, and yet somehoe my stuff is still here every day when I get home from work.