It's all binary logic, just like computers, which are the GP's only friends and thus his only frame of reference, so no human will have a chance to make that choice and see it's silly, and there's obviously no room for case-by-case decisions.
When dealing with decisions decided by bureaucrats or people who deal with lots of red tape, it's often wise to expect them to behave in blind obedience to the letter of the law, even in cases where most humans would feel it was excessive or an exception should be made. We had an example just recently where a woman and her husband were arrested, and their child taken away by protected services, because they forgot to pay for a sandwich which they ate in the store, and we've had past examples in the states (Florida?) where kids were prosecuted for production/distribution of child pornography for texting naked pictures to each other.
Stupid policies have power because the people enforcing them are afraid that defying it would cost them their job, or because they're afraid of being seen as "Soft on ___" (in the case of politicians or DAs).
I fully expect that games involving aspirin would have problems, because here's how a bureaucracy would rate the games. First, someone would play them, and fill out a form with checkboxes for things like "has nudity", "includes drugs", and so on. The person filling this out WOULD check that box for a game where the health kit is a bottle of aspirin, simply because they'll be fired if their supervisor finds out. The ratings agency will then go through each game, look at the review checkboxes, and will not care (or even know) whether the character picks up a bottle of aspirin or injects themselves with a syringe full of Demon Juice -- they'll just see a "drug use" checkbox is checked, and rate accordingly. Heck, that stage of it probably would already be pre-screened by a computer.
While many might feel Jose got the short end of a stick, I don't think that it's at all accurate to imply that his family faced troubles like the OP mentioned. He might have been sent to Gitmo (since released, and actually got a trial -- that's good!), but his family wasn't raped or murdered or disfigured. That's a level of scary where the drug cartels are (from what I've read) far worse than the FBI/CIA are.
The FBI and CIA at least purport to behave in a manner consistent with the law. In the cases where some feel they aren't, they often claim that either they/are/, or that the law doesn't apply in this case -- which is very different from the drug cartels' scorched earth policy, and tendency to leave mass graves. Comparing the FBI/CIA to the drug cartels' tendency to work violence would be like comparing Severus Snape to Pol Pot.
While landing a plane, I'm not sure I like the idea of a pilot needing to remove viewscreens to see out the window behind it. They're already very close to the ground, I don't think that they'd have time to do it safely.
If I recall correctly, parking lots are required to have the closest N spots be handicapped, where N scales with the size of the parking lot (number of spaces). The ADA has a chart for this. So, if his lot needed more than one handicapped spot, he couldn't put the CEO spot closer to the door than any of them. I could be wrong on that, though -- I am not knowledgeable in ADA regs. I only recall what a friend told me when I was in college when he was fighting to get proper amounts/locations of handicapped spots in some of the campus parking lots.
What? Can you link a reference for that? The Wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#Origins ) mentions Agincourt, but nothing about fooling around with peoples' wives.
You realize that you can say 'fuck' on Slashdot, right?:) The rest of us are (for the most part) mature enough that we know exactly what you're redacting, and don't often really see it as a word worthy of special treatment or taboo.
Perhaps he does not want the comparatively walled (though curated?) garden of a mac. I agree, though, almost all of the "just works" aspects that he want sounds like it would fit a macbook.
By "about half the country feeling directly opposite of us" I have to assume you are talking about the more conservative part of the country. I guess I need to remind you that this program is being put in place and run by the liberals.
I try not to wedge myself into the conservative vs liberal shading, since I tend to disagree with a lot from both. I meant more that there's overwhelming popular support for security theater, and things which sound like they make us safer but instead erode our rights. The people who have been most supportive of the TSA and our ever-growing national paranioa often have seemed to be "conservative" - considering that Bush was in power from its beginnings. It's possible that's merely because I live in an area heavily populated by conservatives, so I haven't noticed similar support from liberals. Both sides take blame on supporting the TSA, given the unilateral support everything "patriotic" got at the time, and even if now it's "liberals" holding more of the purse strings.
There are still Many Many people who clamor to have our rights stripped away. Whether they do so out of cowardice and genuine fear of terrorists, or out of some "rah rah hunt them terrorists!" machismo, it doesn't matter: what matters is that we get screwed.
I'm not sure I like the idea of telling the average citizen "you can protect yourself by being/hiring a bigger thug". We already saw how well that worked in the middle ages, and the ability to fly in Highly Paid and Well Armed mercenaries to squish locals makes the potential even worse now.
His website paints a picture that it technically wasn't his fault, as (a) he wasn't the one doing the hiring (their company had an outside company hire the workers for Sabbath shifts) and (b) they'd already been employed elsewhere so they had no reason not to believe they were legal immigrants. Good grief, what a mess.
The question shouldn't be one with a Yes or a No answer. The petition says, "If not, please explain why you feel that the continued criminalization of cannabis will achieve the results in the future that it has never achieved in the past?". It would be nice (ha ha I dream) to get a decent answer to that.
We say that because it's the ideals that were taught us in grade school, and espoused by the founding fathers. We are roughly as appalled by this as you are, but feel that there's almost nothing we can do about it. Compound this with about half the country feeling directly opposite of us, and clamoring for more paranoia, it's very frustrating. I feel nervous even writing this, and yes I realize that is a bad sign.
They still need to pay for the creation / layout of the content, even if printing/distribution costs are near zero. I wonder how those costs break down.
He went ~13 million (!!!) into debt, declared bankruptcy, eventually spent most of what he'd earned. He then made large changes in his life, and became a minister. Not my chosen profession, but I think it's still pretty interesting.
I think I'd rather have consciousness preservation and transfer technology as described in the Takeshi Kovacs novels. Bodies then become effectively meat puppets, where you can (if you're rich enough) get a new one when necessary, or use a custom-engineered one for hazardous environments. They solved the colonization problem by sending slow seed ships of empty bodies, and then uploading consciousnesses to them once the seed ships got there. I always thought that seemed like a very elegant solution to colonization.
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It's all binary logic, just like computers, which are the GP's only friends and thus his only frame of reference, so no human will have a chance to make that choice and see it's silly, and there's obviously no room for case-by-case decisions.
When dealing with decisions decided by bureaucrats or people who deal with lots of red tape, it's often wise to expect them to behave in blind obedience to the letter of the law, even in cases where most humans would feel it was excessive or an exception should be made. We had an example just recently where a woman and her husband were arrested, and their child taken away by protected services, because they forgot to pay for a sandwich which they ate in the store, and we've had past examples in the states (Florida?) where kids were prosecuted for production/distribution of child pornography for texting naked pictures to each other.
Stupid policies have power because the people enforcing them are afraid that defying it would cost them their job, or because they're afraid of being seen as "Soft on ___" (in the case of politicians or DAs).
I fully expect that games involving aspirin would have problems, because here's how a bureaucracy would rate the games. First, someone would play them, and fill out a form with checkboxes for things like "has nudity", "includes drugs", and so on. The person filling this out WOULD check that box for a game where the health kit is a bottle of aspirin, simply because they'll be fired if their supervisor finds out. The ratings agency will then go through each game, look at the review checkboxes, and will not care (or even know) whether the character picks up a bottle of aspirin or injects themselves with a syringe full of Demon Juice -- they'll just see a "drug use" checkbox is checked, and rate accordingly. Heck, that stage of it probably would already be pre-screened by a computer.
While many might feel Jose got the short end of a stick, I don't think that it's at all accurate to imply that his family faced troubles like the OP mentioned. He might have been sent to Gitmo (since released, and actually got a trial -- that's good!), but his family wasn't raped or murdered or disfigured. That's a level of scary where the drug cartels are (from what I've read) far worse than the FBI/CIA are.
The FBI and CIA at least purport to behave in a manner consistent with the law. In the cases where some feel they aren't, they often claim that either they /are/, or that the law doesn't apply in this case -- which is very different from the drug cartels' scorched earth policy, and tendency to leave mass graves. Comparing the FBI/CIA to the drug cartels' tendency to work violence would be like comparing Severus Snape to Pol Pot.
How the heck do they get new suppliers? Do they have to find ones that haven't heard of their prior behavior?
It's much harder to toothpick someone at a distance, though, unless perhaps you make a toothpick-flechette launcher (or crossbow).
While landing a plane, I'm not sure I like the idea of a pilot needing to remove viewscreens to see out the window behind it. They're already very close to the ground, I don't think that they'd have time to do it safely.
Benchmarks of their chips often seem to put them at rough parity with intel, when you look at price vs performance.
and it's siblings, On the Internet and With a Computer.
If I recall correctly, parking lots are required to have the closest N spots be handicapped, where N scales with the size of the parking lot (number of spaces). The ADA has a chart for this. So, if his lot needed more than one handicapped spot, he couldn't put the CEO spot closer to the door than any of them. I could be wrong on that, though -- I am not knowledgeable in ADA regs. I only recall what a friend told me when I was in college when he was fighting to get proper amounts/locations of handicapped spots in some of the campus parking lots.
Fortunately, your "This" was followed by a space and not a period, so you're safe. :D
What? Can you link a reference for that? The Wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#Origins ) mentions Agincourt, but nothing about fooling around with peoples' wives.
You realize that you can say 'fuck' on Slashdot, right? :) The rest of us are (for the most part) mature enough that we know exactly what you're redacting, and don't often really see it as a word worthy of special treatment or taboo.
"The 2 PM EST broadcast time will minimize disruption during rush hours,"
In CST and MST it will be lunchtime rush hours.. But I don't suppose FEMA give a sh!t about the middle of the country.
Neither do natural disasters. A rush hour test of the EAS would likely be pretty useful.
Perhaps he does not want the comparatively walled (though curated?) garden of a mac. I agree, though, almost all of the "just works" aspects that he want sounds like it would fit a macbook.
By "about half the country feeling directly opposite of us" I have to assume you are talking about the more conservative part of the country. I guess I need to remind you that this program is being put in place and run by the liberals.
I try not to wedge myself into the conservative vs liberal shading, since I tend to disagree with a lot from both. I meant more that there's overwhelming popular support for security theater, and things which sound like they make us safer but instead erode our rights. The people who have been most supportive of the TSA and our ever-growing national paranioa often have seemed to be "conservative" - considering that Bush was in power from its beginnings. It's possible that's merely because I live in an area heavily populated by conservatives, so I haven't noticed similar support from liberals. Both sides take blame on supporting the TSA, given the unilateral support everything "patriotic" got at the time, and even if now it's "liberals" holding more of the purse strings.
There are still Many Many people who clamor to have our rights stripped away. Whether they do so out of cowardice and genuine fear of terrorists, or out of some "rah rah hunt them terrorists!" machismo, it doesn't matter: what matters is that we get screwed.
I'm not sure I like the idea of telling the average citizen "you can protect yourself by being/hiring a bigger thug". We already saw how well that worked in the middle ages, and the ability to fly in Highly Paid and Well Armed mercenaries to squish locals makes the potential even worse now.
you can find safe harbor somewhere to post just about anything, and with a little effort you can probably even find someone else to pay for it.
You can? It seems like TPB's had a relatively hard time finding a safe harbor. I'm amazed that Wikileaks has been able to maintain a net connection.
His website paints a picture that it technically wasn't his fault, as (a) he wasn't the one doing the hiring (their company had an outside company hire the workers for Sabbath shifts) and (b) they'd already been employed elsewhere so they had no reason not to believe they were legal immigrants. Good grief, what a mess.
The question shouldn't be one with a Yes or a No answer. The petition says, "If not, please explain why you feel that the continued criminalization of cannabis will achieve the results in the future that it has never achieved in the past?". It would be nice (ha ha I dream) to get a decent answer to that.
Has that ever been done? Ever abused?
It doesn't have to be popular to be prior art.
We say that because it's the ideals that were taught us in grade school, and espoused by the founding fathers. We are roughly as appalled by this as you are, but feel that there's almost nothing we can do about it. Compound this with about half the country feeling directly opposite of us, and clamoring for more paranoia, it's very frustrating. I feel nervous even writing this, and yes I realize that is a bad sign.
They still need to pay for the creation / layout of the content, even if printing/distribution costs are near zero. I wonder how those costs break down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Hammer#Bankruptcy.2C_lawsuits_and_media_reaction
He went ~13 million (!!!) into debt, declared bankruptcy, eventually spent most of what he'd earned. He then made large changes in his life, and became a minister. Not my chosen profession, but I think it's still pretty interesting.
They'd just get around it by contracting their IT and net connection out to a shell company with zero strikes, I bet.
I think I'd rather have consciousness preservation and transfer technology as described in the Takeshi Kovacs novels. Bodies then become effectively meat puppets, where you can (if you're rich enough) get a new one when necessary, or use a custom-engineered one for hazardous environments. They solved the colonization problem by sending slow seed ships of empty bodies, and then uploading consciousnesses to them once the seed ships got there. I always thought that seemed like a very elegant solution to colonization.