"Reading political discourse among most slashdotters is like watching old people fuck."
So is trying to understand the morass of a legal system we have, as a plain citizen, considering its written by lawyers for lawyers.
"It's messy, clumsy, and a little bit revolting."
A little bit revolting???!!!!!!
Maybe every congressmen should be forced to vote publicly on each and every law/decision that is made and none of this committees/combined bill crap. They might actually spend some real time actually working on the congressional floor doing their job for more than a few days a year. That is instead of spending those few days grandstanding on predetermined bills/garbage that's little more than an embarrassment with the crap that's packed in. How can we expect any kind of transparency when no one is directly voting on the laws that are being passed. The sick part is this is just the way they want it.
"After all, driving a car is a privilege, not a right."
Try walking 20 miles to work when it's zero degrees farenheit outside. The privilege aspect is just BS so government can screw with you. If you need it to be able function in society to it's standards then it's not a privilege, it's required. They can call it a privilege when I'm not paying for it, until then it's like everything else I pay for, mine to decide.
I was a tech also. For years, I worked on various consumer electronics including computers and monitors. You're right the residues collect everywhere, and in a concentrated form, all over various components due to years of use. When blowing out the equipment I always made sure I was upwind as breathing in any of that crap would cause several minutes of eye burning and coughing fits. Blowing out anyone's smoke particulate collecting device is like geting years of exposure in a few minutes. Oh, and forget about OSHA, that's for the big companies not small shops.
"If we want to focus on "fair" then homeowners with children who don't go to public school need to be except from public school related taxes."
How about those of us who don't have kids at all also being exempt?
edumacator "Yeah! I'm with you...who needs those little niceties taxes get us, like roads and such?"
Public school related taxes don't get us "roads and such". It's just financial discrimination against the childless. I'm rather tired of my income being held hostage everytime some couple/person decides to have a kid.
MickyTheIdiot "send us your real name and we'll make sure there is no help for you when you get into some catastrophic situation..."
I've been in several catastrophic situations and government services never pulled me out of it. In fact it was their failures that often got me into it. Once in the situation, its often up to you to get out of it, services just clean up the mess when they do even that much. Never mind the complicated shit you have to go through to recover even when the politicians say they will give assistance. The Human created aftermath has always been worse than the initial disaster.
If not school, then they would have traced him to his home and still he would have had to quit because he would have been exposed anyway. Fact is the paper misbehaved by violating their own policy. The guy didn't say anything worse than he hears all day long from "those little angels" of the public.
I just got done reading "After Worlds Collide" and before that "When Worlds Collide" both written in the early 1930's. Wake up people, it's just fiction. We really have a lot more to worry about than a movie that's a remake of a movie from the 1950's that was based on a book from the 1930's. Judging from current reactions, over 80 years, I actually think we've gone backwards some.
"but they can copyright the format and indexes to the content."
Simple fix, just make it illegal to copyright public domain sources or anything derived from those sources, something which should already exist, and the problem goes away.
The fact they can own something derived from sources publicly owned is idiotic anyway.
The alternative for the public sources to create an open format and the government to slap down the private company when they start bitching.
To put it simply the public is paying twice for information that is theirs in the first place.
without the player... I haven't had a dvd-rw player laser head last more than a couple of years with minimal use. Exactly how do they expect dvd discs to last if no reader will be available to read them.
"Sure, if you compare it to the Soviet Union, it had the moral high ground, but that's not much of a comparison, is it?"
Versus the history of europe over the last hundred years the US definitely does have the high moral ground. The Soviets make a good showing as well. Let's see in europe, military uprisings/WWI, hitler/jews/WWII, political massacres by eastern european dictators, the genocides in the balkans, armenian genocides in turkey, fighting in northern Ireland, and europe's obvious indifference to corruption and suffering in its own back yard until the US steps or gets sucked in to stop it. There's more and this is just the last 100 years. Europe is nowhere near a bunch of angels, changing your name to the EU doesn't erase the past or change current attitudes or behavior.
How many people have died in the political games/wars/incursions in europe or because of europe? The US and even the Soviet Union would have had a lot of catching up to do. When it comes to morals the EU is in no position to say anything.
"What part of this is eroding your rights? That it's possible for the DoJ to send out nonsensical subpoenas and then withdraw them? That seems likely to happen in any organization where the people doing the work are humans."
The problems are when agencies think they can get away with this shit. Their people are too highly educated and well paid for this shit to happen. Maybe a severe penalty(a physical one) on the top shithead and affecting more of the department every time it happens would correct it. Alot of this is just shit throwing to see what sticks and alot of companies just knuckle under immediately. Better to nail the agencies doing this as well as the companies to prevent it from happening again.
It'll pass, once it's watered down to be almost useless to the public. There so much corporate money/influence manipulating the thing as well as the manipulating the public that it will pass and give the corporate and political swine plenty of ways to fuck the public some more.
Ok, then let's stop paying our taxes so other peoples kids(maybe yours) can go to school. Parents take responsibility for your kids instead of unloading the costs(all of them) on the rest of us. If you think government shouldn't provide basic public services, healthcare is easily as important a national security issue as education.
Doesn't anyone remember that during the nineties(and later) the federal government gave these infrastructure companies lots of money to expand their networks and they didn't. Why aren't these bastards in prison with the largest sodomizer we can find for defrauding the public? Oh yea, this is the USA. The same question could asked about last years economic debacle and Obama's top two financial advisors part in creating it, let alone banks and congress. I know OT.
"access to the Internet is not any of elementary human rights or constitution-granted freedoms."
The air is an information medium with no legal rights attached to it as well. When do they start telling us we can't speak, see, or breathe. When internet becomes defacto standard of communication then it becomes part of "human rights or constitution-granted freedom" by definition change. Otherwise laws couldn't be used other than for what they are stated for.
Slashdot Mirror
"like when Reagan cleared out the air traffic controllers."
And had air disasters for years following.
"Reading political discourse among most slashdotters is like watching old people fuck."
So is trying to understand the morass of a legal system we have, as a plain citizen, considering its written by lawyers for lawyers.
"It's messy, clumsy, and a little bit revolting."
A little bit revolting???!!!!!!
Maybe every congressmen should be forced to vote publicly on each and every law/decision that is made and none of this committees/combined bill crap. They might actually spend some real time actually working on the congressional floor doing their job for more than a few days a year. That is instead of spending those few days grandstanding on predetermined bills/garbage that's little more than an embarrassment with the crap that's packed in. How can we expect any kind of transparency when no one is directly voting on the laws that are being passed.
The sick part is this is just the way they want it.
"After all, driving a car is a privilege, not a right."
Try walking 20 miles to work when it's zero degrees farenheit outside. The privilege aspect is just BS so government can screw with you. If you need it to be able function in society to it's standards then it's not a privilege, it's required. They can call it a privilege when I'm not paying for it, until then it's like everything else I pay for, mine to decide.
I was a tech also. For years, I worked on various consumer electronics including computers and monitors. You're right the residues collect everywhere, and in a concentrated form, all over various components due to years of use. When blowing out the equipment I always made sure I was upwind as breathing in any of that crap would cause several minutes of eye burning and coughing fits. Blowing out anyone's smoke particulate collecting device is like geting years of exposure in a few minutes. Oh, and forget about OSHA, that's for the big companies not small shops.
"If we want to focus on "fair" then homeowners with children who don't go to public school need to be except from public school related taxes."
How about those of us who don't have kids at all also being exempt?
edumacator
"Yeah! I'm with you...who needs those little niceties taxes get us, like roads and such?"
Public school related taxes don't get us "roads and such". It's just financial discrimination against the childless. I'm rather tired of my income being held hostage everytime some couple/person decides to have a kid.
MickyTheIdiot
"send us your real name and we'll make sure there is no help for you when you get into some catastrophic situation..."
I've been in several catastrophic situations and government services never pulled me out of it. In fact it was their failures that often got me into it. Once in the situation, its often up to you to get out of it, services just clean up the mess when they do even that much. Never mind the complicated shit you have to go through to recover even when the politicians say they will give assistance. The Human created aftermath has always been worse than the initial disaster.
It's amazing there still are teachers isn't it?
If not school, then they would have traced him to his home and still he would have had to quit because he would have been exposed anyway. Fact is the paper misbehaved by violating their own policy. The guy didn't say anything worse than he hears all day long from "those little angels" of the public.
"What Greenbaum did was against the privacy policy of the site:
We will not share individual user information with third parties unless the user has specifically approved the release of that information."
Maybe he should sue and get Greenbaum fired.
I just got done reading "After Worlds Collide" and before that "When Worlds Collide" both written in the early 1930's. Wake up people, it's just fiction. We really have a lot more to worry about than a movie that's a remake of a movie from the 1950's that was based on a book from the 1930's. Judging from current reactions, over 80 years, I actually think we've gone backwards some.
"...people are saying "I hate where GNOME is going with GNOME 3, I'm switching to KDE!"."
I've actually dumped them both and gone back to twm.
"but they can copyright the format and indexes to the content."
Simple fix, just make it illegal to copyright public domain sources or anything derived from those sources, something which should already exist, and the problem goes away.
The fact they can own something derived from sources publicly owned is idiotic anyway.
The alternative for the public sources to create an open format and the government to slap down the private company when they start bitching.
To put it simply the public is paying twice for information that is theirs in the first place.
without the player... I haven't had a dvd-rw player laser head last more than a couple of years with minimal use. Exactly how do they expect dvd discs to last if no reader will be available to read them.
"Considering Apple's litigious nature and the fact that it once sued Microsoft for allegedly infringing on the MacOS "look and feel""
Apple lost as the court said you can't sue over 'look and feel', so what's all this whining about lawyers again?
"Sure, if you compare it to the Soviet Union, it had the moral high ground, but that's not much of a comparison, is it?"
Versus the history of europe over the last hundred years the US definitely does have the high moral ground. The Soviets make a good showing as well. Let's see in europe, military uprisings/WWI, hitler/jews/WWII, political massacres by eastern european dictators, the genocides in the balkans, armenian genocides in turkey, fighting in northern Ireland, and europe's obvious indifference to corruption and suffering in its own back yard until the US steps or gets sucked in to stop it. There's more and this is just the last 100 years. Europe is nowhere near a bunch of angels, changing your name to the EU doesn't erase the past or change current attitudes or behavior.
How many people have died in the political games/wars/incursions in europe or because of europe? The US and even the Soviet Union would have had a lot of catching up to do. When it comes to morals the EU is in no position to say anything.
"What part of this is eroding your rights? That it's possible for the DoJ to send out nonsensical subpoenas and then withdraw them? That seems likely to happen in any organization where the people doing the work are humans."
The problems are when agencies think they can get away with this shit. Their people are too highly educated and well paid for this shit to happen. Maybe a severe penalty(a physical one) on the top shithead and affecting more of the department every time it happens would correct it. Alot of this is just shit throwing to see what sticks and alot of companies just knuckle under immediately. Better to nail the agencies doing this as well as the companies to prevent it from happening again.
It'll pass, once it's watered down to be almost useless to the public. There so much corporate money/influence manipulating the thing as well as the manipulating the public that it will pass and give the corporate and political swine plenty of ways to fuck the public some more.
Ok, then let's stop paying our taxes so other peoples kids(maybe yours) can go to school. Parents take responsibility for your kids instead of unloading the costs(all of them) on the rest of us. If you think government shouldn't provide basic public services, healthcare is easily as important a national security issue as education.
"Blood was coming out of the ear and i couldn't hear anymore."
Could you still hear after they removed it?
"Heck even the remoting does not scale well enough that it is usable without tricks for modern UIs out of the box."
Maybe the problem is with the "modern UIs" don't you think?
Doesn't anyone remember that during the nineties(and later) the federal government gave these infrastructure companies lots of money to expand their networks and they didn't. Why aren't these bastards in prison with the largest sodomizer we can find for defrauding the public? Oh yea, this is the USA. The same question could asked about last years economic debacle and Obama's top two financial advisors part in creating it, let alone banks and congress. I know OT.
"Unless the wife isn't home. Then I burn a hole in my wall downloading porn."
I thought that's what the wife was for.
70k is piss for the risk and responsibility involved.
What is it with you guys and Natalie Portman? Pick a good looking postergirl will ya.
"access to the Internet is not any of elementary human rights or constitution-granted freedoms."
The air is an information medium with no legal rights attached to it as well. When do they start telling us we can't speak, see, or breathe. When internet becomes defacto standard of communication then it becomes part of "human rights or constitution-granted freedom" by definition change. Otherwise laws couldn't be used other than for what they are stated for.
"human herpes simplex viruses, which apparently kill off some of the important organisms responsible for helping to build and maintain coral."
I didn't know there were people that perverted. Or human organs that tough. Of course we often do worse to each other.