On the topic of sex offenders ( and hate crimes ), and their retardedness:
First, registering sex offenders is a completely screwd up idea. If you murder someone, you don't have to register, and I think the rape victim is much better off than the murder victim.
Second, what does it matter if you're a neo nazi and assult a jew compared to J Random hacker? In both cases, you assult them, is the jewish guy going to feel a lot better because, phew, my attacker wasn't anti-semetic. This comes dangerously close to thought crimes.
The reason that we have crappy laws like these are because these crimes appeal to peoples emotion, and that has absolutely no place in our legal system.
To TripMaster Monkey, completely offtopic, but I was wondering what sort of cushy job you have that allows you to post so much on slashdot, cause that would be sweet.
The defn. I'm using for metaphysics is: A priori speculation upon questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis, or experiment.
Since it is unsolvable by science, what does it even matter? It seems to me it's just a bunch of intellectual masterbation.
Please clarify and expand upon the sentance "They require the collective mind to expand and admit possibilities which may not have existed before." since to me it just seems to be a verbose way of saying "lots of people thinking"
The question of whether free will exists is only useful to idiot philosophers who have nothing better to do than argue about questions (metaphysics) that by their very nature are unsolvable. It's analogous to asking a computer to solve the halting problem, or prove a programs correctness.
Wow, so instead of actually having an interesting life, I can buy a conversation piece off ebay for $15? Man, I gotta thank you, you've saved me a helluva lotta time doing cool stuff.
Quoting: "A fanboy is someone who blindly loves "their thing" and makes ridiculous attacks at the competition" "I have owned every nintendo system since the NES (haven't picked up a DS yet though), and the video gaming experience from nintendo has never been matched for me by other systems (Genesis might have briefly come close). I grew up on Zelda, Mario and Metroid, and I have loved seeing how these genres and characters have evolved (I swear I have loved 100% of each of these game's evolutions over the last 20+ years - that track record simply can't be beat)."
I'd say that counts as unwavering devotion, AKA fanboyism.
In all seriousness, if you did get your fanboy costume from a kit, can I buy it mail order or ebay?
You see, a vast majority of the people on slashdot, for one reason or another, do not like to pay for information, as information wants to be free and slashdot denizans respect its wishes. So, they naturally migrate towards the PS2 and XBOX, which facilitate the freedom of said information, and Natalie Portman naked and petrified.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess by virutue that chemisty is divided into non-carbon and carbon based molecules, that it's highly unlikely that life isn't based on carbon.
By Microsoft getting away with "forcing" (having people want to) use it, that's pretty much the free market, as the parent said. Like it or not, the free market cares jack shit about elegance or efficiency, all that matters is "is it effective?" The market has seeminly decided that Microsoft is indeed effective, and more so than Linux, so it preferentially chooses it.
This concludes Econ 101, you are free to go to FOSS zealotry 401.
I heartly agree. Windows 3.11 was pretty crappy, and 95/98 weren't that much better, but since switching to an NT core for 2000 and XP I've had absolutely no complaints with their OSs. Even using badly written software that doesn't properly deallocate memory, and generally running far too many programs at one, I consistently get uptimes of over a week, which is more than enough for anyone not running a server or doing some heavy duty computations.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, no offense to the AC, that a robber has a hellva lot more incentive to break into a bank. Just my opinion though.
You are right about him being no safer than his neighbor. Hollywood movies and videogameshave shown me that alarms, even in the CIA ala Mission Impossible, can be easily defeated, guard dogs can be knocked out, ala piranha poodles in Monkey Island, and that bullets can easily be dogded or stopped entirely ala The Matrix.
The answer to that test is obvious. He will be facing forward, then two doors will open on his left and right. Out of his peripheral vision he notices the computer and the girl. Having not posted to slashdot in 23 minutes, and having not been with a girl ever, he thinks. Slashdot... only chance with a girl... slashdot... only chance with a girl... This quickly forces him into an status where he will move towards the computer, but then the force off the girl will keep him from getting to it, and vice versa. After a minute of this, the NSA officer gets bored, shoots him, and uses his secret mind control ray to get Bush to bomb another country.
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Try this for a 50mb Linux USB drive guide http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=171224 3&lastnode_id=124
That would certainly explain why the BBC uses it on their site http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/
Beautiful! Someone got a relevant post in about drugs on 420!
On the topic of sex offenders ( and hate crimes ), and their retardedness:
First, registering sex offenders is a completely screwd up idea. If you murder someone, you don't have to register, and I think the rape victim is much better off than the murder victim.
Second, what does it matter if you're a neo nazi and assult a jew compared to J Random hacker? In both cases, you assult them, is the jewish guy going to feel a lot better because, phew, my attacker wasn't anti-semetic. This comes dangerously close to thought crimes.
The reason that we have crappy laws like these are because these crimes appeal to peoples emotion, and that has absolutely no place in our legal system.
You're forgetting the point that this whole discussion is about file sharing, something that anyone with an internet connection and a computer can do.
To TripMaster Monkey, completely offtopic, but I was wondering what sort of cushy job you have that allows you to post so much on slashdot, cause that would be sweet.
The defn. I'm using for metaphysics is: A priori speculation upon questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis, or experiment.
Since it is unsolvable by science, what does it even matter? It seems to me it's just a bunch of intellectual masterbation.
Please clarify and expand upon the sentance "They require the collective mind to expand and admit possibilities which may not have existed before." since to me it just seems to be a verbose way of saying "lots of people thinking"
The question of whether free will exists is only useful to idiot philosophers who have nothing better to do than argue about questions (metaphysics) that by their very nature are unsolvable. It's analogous to asking a computer to solve the halting problem, or prove a programs correctness.
Here in Illinois, we learn algebra 2 in 9th grade. As for my mathematical abilities, I think this speaks for itself http://www.lths.net/About/LTNews/2001/05_18_01Math letes.htm
If by testicular fortitude you mean complete stupidity, then I agree, considering according to this http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/reviews/c hi-040424games,1,6537657.story?coll=chi-technology reviews-utl&ctrack=1&cset=true US videogame sales account for more than those in japan.
Wow, so instead of actually having an interesting life, I can buy a conversation piece off ebay for $15? Man, I gotta thank you, you've saved me a helluva lotta time doing cool stuff.
Quoting: "A fanboy is someone who blindly loves "their thing" and makes ridiculous attacks at the competition"
"I have owned every nintendo system since the NES (haven't picked up a DS yet though), and the video gaming experience from nintendo has never been matched for me by other systems (Genesis might have briefly come close). I grew up on Zelda, Mario and Metroid, and I have loved seeing how these genres and characters have evolved (I swear I have loved 100% of each of these game's evolutions over the last 20+ years - that track record simply can't be beat)."
I'd say that counts as unwavering devotion, AKA fanboyism.
In all seriousness, if you did get your fanboy costume from a kit, can I buy it mail order or ebay?
Did you get enough to implicate them?
You must be new here...
You see, a vast majority of the people on slashdot, for one reason or another, do not like to pay for information, as information wants to be free and slashdot denizans respect its wishes. So, they naturally migrate towards the PS2 and XBOX, which facilitate the freedom of said information, and Natalie Portman naked and petrified.
You mean no more dangerous than this http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/LA/Ph oto-Pages-2/LAP-217.htm
I keed, I keed.
You must be new here.
This of course, begs the fundamental question we've been grasping at all these years: could God microwave a burrito even he couldn't eat it?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess by virutue that chemisty is divided into non-carbon and carbon based molecules, that it's highly unlikely that life isn't based on carbon.
Future Crew 4ever!
The people in charge of the sacking of the slacked have been replaced at the last minute and at great expense.
By Microsoft getting away with "forcing" (having people want to) use it, that's pretty much the free market, as the parent said. Like it or not, the free market cares jack shit about elegance or efficiency, all that matters is "is it effective?" The market has seeminly decided that Microsoft is indeed effective, and more so than Linux, so it preferentially chooses it.
This concludes Econ 101, you are free to go to FOSS zealotry 401.
I heartly agree. Windows 3.11 was pretty crappy, and 95/98 weren't that much better, but since switching to an NT core for 2000 and XP I've had absolutely no complaints with their OSs. Even using badly written software that doesn't properly deallocate memory, and generally running far too many programs at one, I consistently get uptimes of over a week, which is more than enough for anyone not running a server or doing some heavy duty computations.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, no offense to the AC, that a robber has a hellva lot more incentive to break into a bank. Just my opinion though.
You are right about him being no safer than his neighbor. Hollywood movies and videogameshave shown me that alarms, even in the CIA ala Mission Impossible, can be easily defeated, guard dogs can be knocked out, ala piranha poodles in Monkey Island, and that bullets can easily be dogded or stopped entirely ala The Matrix.
The answer to that test is obvious. He will be facing forward, then two doors will open on his left and right. Out of his peripheral vision he notices the computer and the girl. Having not posted to slashdot in 23 minutes, and having not been with a girl ever, he thinks. Slashdot... only chance with a girl... slashdot... only chance with a girl... This quickly forces him into an status where he will move towards the computer, but then the force off the girl will keep him from getting to it, and vice versa. After a minute of this, the NSA officer gets bored, shoots him, and uses his secret mind control ray to get Bush to bomb another country.
That should be: Command Line Infanty Team. I would know, I'm the commander.