The GP said "condeming immoral behaviour" and you translated that as "hate homosexuals". (BTW my christian church does not consider homosexuality immoral) It is becoming more and more common that , stating your morals = hate. Unless of course those morals are the same as your morals. Then it's just helping to better society. Everyone likes to talk a good game about appreciating diversity and tolerance, but it's self deluding bullshit and this kind of law proves it. Tolerance is accepting someones right to have a different moral code or lifestyle than you. If it becomes criminal to publicly have a moral code that disagrees with a segment of society, then that law is the opposite of tolerance. Is the public defamtion of heroin addicts a hate crime? What about the legal and social punishment of those who practice beastiality?...OH, we're only applying the new law or people we disagree with. How tolerant.
This law will become the equivelent of the UnAmerican Activites Committee. Welcome to the Witch Hunt.
Deduct your lost bandwidth and cpu cycles and disk space from your taxes. And the lost potential revenue of selling you're consumer info. (sometimes you can get things with material value for filling out a survey)
Is there anywhere left in the world where the government isn't equal parts hilarious and incompetent?
Yes. In some places the government is terrifiying and immoral. Now if the guy goes to prison, particluarly a max security prison(bomb making terrorist), then our government will have taken another step in the direction of terrifying. Getting beated and shanked because you designed an advertisement for a cartoon isn't hilarious, it's awful.
I couldn't quickly find numbers for Intel for all of 2006, but they seem to be doing much better than AMD. Still the chip business is slow right now.
Following layoffs and executive shuffles, Intel Corp. reported a third quarter profit Tuesday of US$1.3 billion, beating analysts' estimates, but still falling far short of its results last year. The company reported revenue of $8.7 billion, thanks in large part to the sale of 6 million of its new Core Microarchitecture chips for notebook PCs and servers. That generated earnings of $0.22 per share, stronger than the prediction of $0.18 per share earnings on revenue of $8.62 billion, according to analysts polled by Thomson Financial. The numbers were down 35 percent compared to Intel's profit in the third quarter of 2005,
When personal or targetted solutions are possible, why do politicians always gravitate towards the most intrusive and broadest legislative solution as the answer?
You seem to suffer from the common delusion that a professional politician actually gives a shit about the actual problem. Here's the breakdown: Broad legislation = more money & power to the politicians. The increased public dependency on having legislation "solve" all their problems is just an added bonus, as it makes it easier to pass more broad legislation.
I wonder, honestly, what the legal status of your download is. You paid for a copy of the movie, you now have a copy of the movie, but an unauthorized format was used when the authorized format failed.
Yes, Phillips did the enforcing on CD encoding standards because of their trademark control. The DVD industry has no internal standards enforcement, so this mihgt be the time to bring in external enforcement, namely the courts. If the box says "DVD" it should play in a DVD player. Sonys product is only DVD-like and as such should not be legal to sell as a DVD. It would be like a gas station selling ethanol but calling it gasoline, sure it still works in some vehicles, but it's not the same product.
If Putin is truely popular because of his faith in Russia, and Kasparov is not, why won't Putin let Kasparov be heard and shouted down by the people? Let Putin's rule stand on it own merit, not propped up by police enforcement.
If one wants to believe in things like justice, one should accept the existence of some global laws.
When I posted about terrorist style warfare, I meant war than doesn't observe laws. Sure we want "clean" war, because we have something to lose. A group that produces suicide bombers doesn't have anything to lose by ignoring the "laws of warfare" but they know they can't win if they obey them. The only way they can win is if they make the war so incredibly horrific that we choose to leave. That is done by hiding in the civilian population making us kill more civilians than we find acceptable; or framing innocents as terrorists making us suspect and interrogate innocent people; or any other attack that degrades our way of life and our view of ourselves, until we can bear no more.
If you want real airline security and faster boarding, fine here it is: All luggage must be checked 24 hours in advance. Upon your luggage check in you will be issued a paper suit to be worn on board. The clothes you wear during the day between luggage check and flight will probably inspire a new type of FedEx box.
It also works because the parameters that it uses to determine a threat are difficult for civilians to replicate. ie: Flying at a Navy ship at 1000+ mph. Handing out "don't shoot me" tags to civilians isn't gonna work so well in urban warfare. I hate to say it, but seeing as "terrorist" style tactics are the only realistic way to take on a more powerful military force, they are now a permenant part of war. As such, the idea of trying to treat the local civilians as "not the enemy" will not last another decade. The current US handling of Iraq will look as over civilized as Napoleanic "march in a straight line" warfare looks to us today. The robots will kill anyone outside after curfew.
"this is just another example of how legitimate protests are squashed by authorities. "
The US is only one or two steps behind in this. I've seen protesters that wanted to be infront of the UN herded into "first amendment zones" six blocks away out of sight of TV cameras and delegates. Things like flash-mobbing don't work because the cops have double agents in most politically active organizations. So how are the common people supposed to be heard, about a specific issue?
" I wonder if Mr Berezovsky will carry out his threat to have a "Russian Revolution"?
What else can people do to actually change a corrupt system? Voting is only an answer when you candidates with a real interest in change, like that will ever happen...
As I mentioned in the dupe... Global Warming is really a problem of too much energy in the atomsphereic system, harnessing some of it might be a good way to mitigate some of the ill effects.
In the States that's the fastest way to bring on an anti-monoploy suit. What are the legal ramifications of a non-government organization that could "cut you off" form a significant section of society? Will the ISP hold a "trial" to allow the customer to deny or defend the charges?
Yah, if everyone in iraq were well... a moron. If they hadn't studied a bit, if nobody paid attention to the past 50 fucking years
What? Are you trying to say that things we (the US) did during the Cold War still count? The Cold War is over. Why are all those people still so upset? More importantly, who is Anna Nicole's baby-daddy?
no wars (except with Klingons and such, of course).
Nothing brings people together like a common enemy, so for us to have no morewars here on Earth, the most likely catalyst would be war with an alien species. Keep in mind that with that competent government, there was complete global control, and we have only ever seen that government through the eyes of it's military officers.
At every tech job I've had there has been a maximum of 2 levels of superiors being knowledgeable and intelligent.
... about tech. That's because it's your job to know about tech, it' their job to run whatever portion of the company they run. They quite possibly think of you as "knowledgable about computers, and nothing else". I think that it normal for everyone to appear unintelligent or ignorant when their area of expertise is far removed from that of the observer.
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The GP said "condeming immoral behaviour" and you translated that as "hate homosexuals". (BTW my christian church does not consider homosexuality immoral) It is becoming more and more common that , stating your morals = hate. Unless of course those morals are the same as your morals. Then it's just helping to better society. Everyone likes to talk a good game about appreciating diversity and tolerance, but it's self deluding bullshit and this kind of law proves it. Tolerance is accepting someones right to have a different moral code or lifestyle than you. If it becomes criminal to publicly have a moral code that disagrees with a segment of society, then that law is the opposite of tolerance. Is the public defamtion of heroin addicts a hate crime? What about the legal and social punishment of those who practice beastiality? ...OH, we're only applying the new law or people we disagree with. How tolerant.
This law will become the equivelent of the UnAmerican Activites Committee. Welcome to the Witch Hunt.
Deduct your lost bandwidth and cpu cycles and disk space from your taxes. And the lost potential revenue of selling you're consumer info. (sometimes you can get things with material value for filling out a survey)
Is there anywhere left in the world where the government isn't equal parts hilarious and incompetent?
Yes. In some places the government is terrifiying and immoral. Now if the guy goes to prison, particluarly a max security prison(bomb making terrorist), then our government will have taken another step in the direction of terrifying. Getting beated and shanked because you designed an advertisement for a cartoon isn't hilarious, it's awful.
FUDJE...
I believe that is "JE FUD" which is french for "I make shit up about the competition."
When personal or targetted solutions are possible, why do politicians always gravitate towards the most intrusive and broadest legislative solution as the answer?
You seem to suffer from the common delusion that a professional politician actually gives a shit about the actual problem. Here's the breakdown: Broad legislation = more money & power to the politicians. The increased public dependency on having legislation "solve" all their problems is just an added bonus, as it makes it easier to pass more broad legislation.
God forbid that the children find internet porn which shows someone with a body part that they don't have! It will destroy them for LIFE!
I think SCO and the "think of the children" crowd have the same basic fear: people givin' it away for free, without signing a contract.
There really needs to be a -1 wrong Mod.
Try useing "Overrated"
When you grow up you'll have to pay school taxes too. Government services != free. Any student missing class is a waste of money.
Had the World Trade Center buildings been finished with asbestos many experts believe they would have survived.
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The WTC did have asbestos. It all blew off in the big explosion. Ignorance at work indeed.
http://www.asbestos.org/news/wtc_02_newfinding.ht
And you strap these to the roofs of large buildings,
In the interest of accuracy, shouldn't the shaking force come from the base of the building, not the roof? or possibly the buldings center of gravity?
the gf made me download the movie,
I wonder, honestly, what the legal status of your download is. You paid for a copy of the movie, you now have a copy of the movie, but an unauthorized format was used when the authorized format failed.
Yes, Phillips did the enforcing on CD encoding standards because of their trademark control. The DVD industry has no internal standards enforcement, so this mihgt be the time to bring in external enforcement, namely the courts. If the box says "DVD" it should play in a DVD player. Sonys product is only DVD-like and as such should not be legal to sell as a DVD. It would be like a gas station selling ethanol but calling it gasoline, sure it still works in some vehicles, but it's not the same product.
If Putin is truely popular because of his faith in Russia, and Kasparov is not, why won't Putin let Kasparov be heard and shouted down by the people? Let Putin's rule stand on it own merit, not propped up by police enforcement.
If one wants to believe in things like justice, one should accept the existence of some global laws.
When I posted about terrorist style warfare, I meant war than doesn't observe laws. Sure we want "clean" war, because we have something to lose. A group that produces suicide bombers doesn't have anything to lose by ignoring the "laws of warfare" but they know they can't win if they obey them. The only way they can win is if they make the war so incredibly horrific that we choose to leave. That is done by hiding in the civilian population making us kill more civilians than we find acceptable; or framing innocents as terrorists making us suspect and interrogate innocent people; or any other attack that degrades our way of life and our view of ourselves, until we can bear no more.
If you want real airline security and faster boarding, fine here it is: All luggage must be checked 24 hours in advance. Upon your luggage check in you will be issued a paper suit to be worn on board. The clothes you wear during the day between luggage check and flight will probably inspire a new type of FedEx box.
It also works because the parameters that it uses to determine a threat are difficult for civilians to replicate. ie: Flying at a Navy ship at 1000+ mph. Handing out "don't shoot me" tags to civilians isn't gonna work so well in urban warfare. I hate to say it, but seeing as "terrorist" style tactics are the only realistic way to take on a more powerful military force, they are now a permenant part of war. As such, the idea of trying to treat the local civilians as "not the enemy" will not last another decade. The current US handling of Iraq will look as over civilized as Napoleanic "march in a straight line" warfare looks to us today. The robots will kill anyone outside after curfew.
"this is just another example of how legitimate protests are squashed by authorities. "
The US is only one or two steps behind in this. I've seen protesters that wanted to be infront of the UN herded into "first amendment zones" six blocks away out of sight of TV cameras and delegates. Things like flash-mobbing don't work because the cops have double agents in most politically active organizations. So how are the common people supposed to be heard, about a specific issue?
" I wonder if Mr Berezovsky will carry out his threat to have a "Russian Revolution"?
What else can people do to actually change a corrupt system? Voting is only an answer when you candidates with a real interest in change, like that will ever happen...
As I mentioned in the dupe... Global Warming is really a problem of too much energy in the atomsphereic system, harnessing some of it might be a good way to mitigate some of the ill effects.
"If they cut you off, you're done."
In the States that's the fastest way to bring on an anti-monoploy suit. What are the legal ramifications of a non-government organization that could "cut you off" form a significant section of society? Will the ISP hold a "trial" to allow the customer to deny or defend the charges?
Yah, if everyone in iraq were well... a moron. If they hadn't studied a bit, if nobody paid attention to the past 50 fucking years
What? Are you trying to say that things we (the US) did during the Cold War still count? The Cold War is over. Why are all those people still so upset? More importantly, who is Anna Nicole's baby-daddy?
It could have some interesting applications as a road surface. traffic alerts and stop lights being part of the road itself.
no wars (except with Klingons and such, of course).
Nothing brings people together like a common enemy, so for us to have no morewars here on Earth, the most likely catalyst would be war with an alien species. Keep in mind that with that competent government, there was complete global control, and we have only ever seen that government through the eyes of it's military officers.
At every tech job I've had there has been a maximum of 2 levels of superiors being knowledgeable and intelligent.
... about tech. That's because it's your job to know about tech, it' their job to run whatever portion of the company they run. They quite possibly think of you as "knowledgable about computers, and nothing else". I think that it normal for everyone to appear unintelligent or ignorant when their area of expertise is far removed from that of the observer.
So they are less elegant than our own Psyops. But I'm fairly sure every Government has a information control program of one sort or another.