People from Rhode Island are so honest that this law was just a formality, nobody there would ever lie. I know this is true because someone from Rhode Island told me, and people from Rhode Island are so honest....
a cheap roundup of cat pictures, is quite possibly going to pull in way more views for less money than a nuanced, deeply reported, and expensive dispatch from Syria.
He died a couple of years after the (grossly wrong) conviction/oestrogen injections,
I think I should clarify, "grossly wrong" applies to morality not to a miscarriage of justice. The law of the time was applied and there is no indication that there were any legal errors or that procedures were not followed.
Sounds less like angst, and more like the Apple employee was doing what they should have done. Apple would be liable if they knowingly sold a iPad to someone about to break the export restrictions.
That is your problem right there. If I buy an item, it is MY responsibility. They can arrest me or do whatever they desire, but not the Apple store or any other store.
What part of "Apple would be liable if they knowingly sold a iPad to someone about to break the export restrictions" didn't you understand? People have been imprisoned for facilitating the export of restricted items.
Even if the basis for the law is sound, it's still stupid ( and I'm not picking on Apple).
These devices are widely available all over the world and I don't think proof of citizenship has ever been required to purchase one.
That hasn't stopped them in the past from putting export restrictions on cryptography algorithms that were generally available in the rest of the world, and various computers and consoles
Government just blames us gun owners to take away our rifles. The 2nd amendment will prevail over common sense! America! Fuck Yeah!
Officer: What I want to know is did you camp-fire get out of control or were you shooting guns? If it was your camp-fire you could be in serious trouble.
Don't ban shooting, just make the shooters responsible for any fires they start. I bet they start self-regulating real quick when multi-million dollar fines start getting handed out.
You know that is much too sensible to be implemented. I wouldn't mind betting that if they had taken some fire-beaters and a water bucket with them they could have put the fire out easily before it took hold.
Supply and demand probably puts computers and internet as cheaper than food in Ethopia. After all, you must know something even exists before you can demand it.
Made in the US. Only for the US. The rest of the world can get its own miracle cure.
And now we can't even get our money to buy it. (This also affects a number of smaller building societies and companies that use RBS to process payments)
These people are desperate and without work in their country except for criminal con tricks such as this so the most compassionate thing you could do is ignore them and continue to educate your community about the trap.
How weird. Would you also advocate compassionately letting drug smugglers through but educating people on the harm of drugs, if they come from third-world countries?
The slight difference is that the drug smugglers are, in fact, illegally smuggling drugs, while the scammers aren't doing anything illegal until they take some money off their victims.
I don't believe that's true, in most countries attempted fraud is an offence.
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Good I ain't from Rhode Island anyway.
People from Rhode Island are so honest that this law was just a formality, nobody there would ever lie. I know this is true because someone from Rhode Island told me, and people from Rhode Island are so honest ....
I suspect that it wouldn't have stood up in court anyway. Surely it would be unconstitutional. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to lie.
I've got too many hand movements to beat this.
rapidly moving your hand up and down about an inch doesn't count
That's what he meant by "beat this".
So it cheats.
That's the only way to win a game of chance 100% of the time...
If it really is a game of chance then there is a possibility that someone will win it 100% of the time.
a cheap roundup of cat pictures, is quite possibly going to pull in way more views for less money than a nuanced, deeply reported, and expensive dispatch from Syria.
... I prefer Fuzzies to Muzzies
well, it just wouldn't sound good if you phrase Turings death as a darwin award. so maybe people just don't want to dig it up.
Surely he excluded himself by being homosexual.
Two homosexual friends working at NSA went to Moscow in the 60s
I hope they put them in different hotels, or how could they have kept their minds on their work?
As do I. Just today I've had someone tell me that the mere usage of the words "cunt" and "bitch" as insults is degrading to women.
Who said that? Some Girl's Blouse of a Big Jessie I'm sure.
He died a couple of years after the (grossly wrong) conviction/oestrogen injections,
I think I should clarify, "grossly wrong" applies to morality not to a miscarriage of justice. The law of the time was applied and there is no indication that there were any legal errors or that procedures were not followed.
That is your problem right there. If I buy an item, it is MY responsibility. They can arrest me or do whatever they desire, but not the Apple store or any other store.
What part of "Apple would be liable if they knowingly sold a iPad to someone about to break the export restrictions" didn't you understand? People have been imprisoned for facilitating the export of restricted items.
Even if the basis for the law is sound, it's still stupid ( and I'm not picking on Apple). These devices are widely available all over the world and I don't think proof of citizenship has ever been required to purchase one.
That hasn't stopped them in the past from putting export restrictions on cryptography algorithms that were generally available in the rest of the world, and various computers and consoles
Government just blames us gun owners to take away our rifles. The 2nd amendment will prevail over common sense! America! Fuck Yeah!
Officer: What I want to know is did you camp-fire get out of control or were you shooting guns? If it was your camp-fire you could be in serious trouble.
Don't ban shooting, just make the shooters responsible for any fires they start. I bet they start self-regulating real quick when multi-million dollar fines start getting handed out.
You know that is much too sensible to be implemented. I wouldn't mind betting that if they had taken some fire-beaters and a water bucket with them they could have put the fire out easily before it took hold.
By what means will they prevent "illegal use of internet phone"? By making it illegal?
Logically making something illegal causes its illegal use, not prevents it. If we had no laws we would have no crime!
Supply and demand probably puts computers and internet as cheaper than food in Ethopia. After all, you must know something even exists before you can demand it.
I demand my own personal invisible pink Unicorn.
I can think of one asteroid they should aim them all at. On the right day with a half-mile spread.
Actually you over estimate the intelligence of the GDP, generally dumb public. .
That explains why they say that the USA has a higher GPT per capita than Europe.
Damn keyboadr!
Actually you over estimate the intelligence of the GDP, generally dumb public. .
That explains why they say that the USA has a higher GPT per capita than Europe.
Made in the US. Only for the US. The rest of the world can get its own miracle cure.
And now we can't even get our money to buy it. (This also affects a number of smaller building societies and companies that use RBS to process payments)
A computer can't have rights any more than a hammer can. Not unless it's sentient, it's a tool that does what you tell it to.
If Moore's law continues, by 2030, computers will have exceeded the capacity of the human brain
I'll only be impressed when they can select really hot porn
Quite. You never hear freedom of the press framed as "does wood pulp have a right to free speech?"
... About that call last night .... it wasn't me it was my telephone.
King of the world? Seriously? Must have an extremely small set of tackle between the legs :-)
He does. And its not his either.
Crypted details about our next Hollywood celebrity victim:
Unp2Z25qY3Z4Znp5b3Z0Z2ptZ3Zwb2l6bW56aHZkZ3Z4eGpwaW9odml0ZGlvem16bm9kaWJ oem5udmJ6bmFtamhidnRodmd6YW1kaXlzcmNqaGN6bXpicGd2bWd0aHp6eW5ham14dm5 wdnFuenNyZGdnbXpnenZuenl2b3Zndm96bQ==
Props to the one who decrypts it first!
Spaces added by me to get past slashdot filter. Any takers?
Yeah, that'll end well.
According to the pattern, he will buy the thing, and then go behind those who support and use it, and sue them.
Then sue everyone else who lives on an island because the docks look the same - one end in deep water and the other on the island.
These people are desperate and without work in their country except for criminal con tricks such as this so the most compassionate thing you could do is ignore them and continue to educate your community about the trap.
How weird. Would you also advocate compassionately letting drug smugglers through but educating people on the harm of drugs, if they come from third-world countries?
The slight difference is that the drug smugglers are, in fact, illegally smuggling drugs, while the scammers aren't doing anything illegal until they take some money off their victims.
I don't believe that's true, in most countries attempted fraud is an offence.