It's not that it's illegal to prosecute it. As far as I know, Congress could easily pass a law to create such a crime, without running afoul of the Constitution (assuming they wrote their law to skirt around 1st-amendment protections at least. which is a big if.)
What the 4th amendment does is create significant legal barriers in evidence-gathering to prosecute such a crime. It doesn't say "congress shall pass no law... ", it simply promises that, if such a law is ever passed, it will remain effectively unenforcible.
"While the plaintiff's story is compelling and her evidence against her attacker incontrovertible, it has come to the attention of this court that web poker is now illegal. I find the defendant not guilty and motions to appeal are hereby dismissed. This hearing is adjourned, get out of my court, you whiny victim. NOW LET'S TRY THESE GAMBLERS."
sometimes those custom UI elements simply are more appropriate than the widgets that come with the OS/widget provider.
but then sometimes they are simply included for no reason in a program in order to make it bigger. When was the last time you bought a printer or scanner (or both) for a Windows machine? I'll bet you anything that the bundled software came with some jinkety-ass homescript "hardware manager" made by HP or Canon or whatever, with a 45MB executable binary, using a statically linked UI toolkit which is both uglier and heavier than the widgets provided by Windows.
You know they type - there's no distinction between the title bar and the rest of the window, so you can just click on *any* part of the window to drag it around. The radio buttons are actually implemented as little clickable images(stored uncompressed in the executable) that look like radio buttons.
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The worst thing about this comment is that it's not even all that much of a caricature.
okay, fine. lsusb over ssh .
easy fix:
http://xkcd.com/294/
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Master Robin!
You've lost your arms in the war! ...But you grew some nice boobs.
We call that a "race condition." It happens on every /. article.
Everyone knows humility dulls your coding instincts.
That's a great point. Humans are exactly like mice.
Hey, you know what would really improve this post about Wikileaks?
Beating the libertarianism drum!
If you understood just how gratuitously censor-happy our document-classifying authorities are, you might revise that position.
It matters what the document is, and why it was classified.
WHY DOES THAT EXIST
WHY
"doesn't end up involved in a homicide"
"responsible"
lol
It's not that it's illegal to prosecute it. As far as I know, Congress could easily pass a law to create such a crime, without running afoul of the Constitution (assuming they wrote their law to skirt around 1st-amendment protections at least. which is a big if.)
What the 4th amendment does is create significant legal barriers in evidence-gathering to prosecute such a crime. It doesn't say "congress shall pass no law ... ", it simply promises that, if such a law is ever passed, it will remain effectively unenforcible.
What's better: a world where the money belongs to naive innumate fools, or to exploitative hucksters?
"While the plaintiff's story is compelling and her evidence against her attacker incontrovertible, it has come to the attention of this court that web poker is now illegal. I find the defendant not guilty and motions to appeal are hereby dismissed. This hearing is adjourned, get out of my court, you whiny victim. NOW LET'S TRY THESE GAMBLERS."
No, but sometimes difficulty in policing something is used for the specific purpose of keeping something from becoming illegal.
For instance, was the 4th amendment maybe designed to make crimes like "sedition" effectively impossible to prosecute? I say yes.
Or even "whose"?
Okay, now where is the statistic which tells us what percentage of them are responsible?
Thank you for your substantive, thoughtful contribution to discourse. Shithead.
sometimes those custom UI elements simply are more appropriate than the widgets that come with the OS/widget provider.
but then sometimes they are simply included for no reason in a program in order to make it bigger. When was the last time you bought a printer or scanner (or both) for a Windows machine? I'll bet you anything that the bundled software came with some jinkety-ass homescript "hardware manager" made by HP or Canon or whatever, with a 45MB executable binary, using a statically linked UI toolkit which is both uglier and heavier than the widgets provided by Windows.
You know they type - there's no distinction between the title bar and the rest of the window, so you can just click on *any* part of the window to drag it around. The radio buttons are actually implemented as little clickable images(stored uncompressed in the executable) that look like radio buttons.
AUGH I HATE THEM SO MUCH
HINT: "Rights" never require action on the part of someone else.
Oh, good. I'll let all the nation's court justices and bailiffs know that they can retire now and due process will carry on without them.
AsI understand the context, he was talking about capital punishment, not the judgment of sin in general.
Jesus said "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
xkcd!?? But you just said "the best webcom-..
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