Other sources seem to put it in a range of 70-72%. I suspect that this is one of those things that really depends on how you count. Either way, it's a bad question.
Because in the second case it caries the transparent threat to the rest of the community: "If you don't start acting the way 'we' want you to, we will do this again." In addition to Bob being dead, you have potentially victimized the entire community.
And often the behavior that they are trying to stop is exercising basic rights, like, participating in government. The effects of hate crimes are real and devastating.
If you don't believe me, look what happened in the US south from around 1873 until the mid 1960s. Especially look at 1873-1877. Notice how quickly Republican governments folded under these threats.
There is another well known exception to free speech rights: assault & other forms of threats against individuals & groups. Hate crime laws are really just a subset of that exception.
Hate crime laws acknowledge that certain crimes also carry an additional threat, and that threat could be even more damaging that the original crime.
Example: Burning two pieces of (your) lumber on someone else's property: relatively minor crime.
Burning a cross erected on the front yard of an African-American family is a threat of physical harm to that family and potentially all members of the community. Context is everything, see?
Also remember that many hate crime laws were enacted at the federal and state level as a way to move trials. In some cases, heinous crimes did not lead to conviction because the jury refused to convict. In other cases the local law enforcement refused to even investigate. Hate crimes allowed federal prosecutors to move the trial out of the local community where most potential jurors were either sympathetic or even co-conspirators to the crime.
Have prosecutors abused hate crime laws? Of course they have. That is what prosecutors do. But there are far worse laws on the books.
It would be trivial for casinos to eliminate card counting as an effective "cheating" tool. All they have to do is close the game after x% of the deck has been played. (I don't know what x is, but I am sure someone could figure it out.) Card counting is only effective once you have played a certain percentage of the deck. If you never get there, card counting will be useless.
I suspect that casinos don't do this because they know that if you screw up the count, you push the game back in their favor. So they make money off of the people who think they can count, but can't. The few people who can count can be asked to leave when they are caught, and the losses are compensated by the gain of everyone else.
It's 10 minutes, regardless of blood or not. It has to be certified by the MD on site as being an actual injury (visable blood automaticly makes it an injury.) I have never seen a director require the 10 minutes to be applied, but if the event was televised, it may have been.
Given that it is a team match, the sub would have been allowed to finish the bout, at the discression of the injured team.
If there was an actual death, the bout would have probably been called off, and no medal would have been awarded.
The box is, in a way, a computational device, yes?
The box belonged to the driver, yes?
Did the police get the owner's full permission to access the computer? Or a court order?
It not, and it were in the US, he could charge the police under the same laws used to prosecute hackers. This strategy will work for about one case till the police get smart and go through the hoops.
Um, no. The law says that the spammer must provide an opt out method, but it does not standardize it. It just says that that they must provide "a functioning return electronic mail address or other Internet-based mechanism".
So your opt out method in the email could be something so arcane and difficult that only a handfull of people could do it. (e.g., a secure corba call via an unpublished IDL. Or clicking on a series of web pages that require you to download more than 10G of advertisements before you get to the opt-out link.) And they can change it 30 days later to something even more assinine.
Most spammers won't do it. But some will. opting out can be more painfull than the spam itself because they didn't standardize it. Thank you congress.
Ok, that is a good first half of the plan. Now that you have been re-sensitized to caffeine, and clean for 6 months, one morning go in and hit the stuff HARD. Drink 4 cups of coffee, 2 sodas, and three energy drinks. Before lunch.
Do you remember adventure construction set? I do. It was cool, and fun to play with, and yes you could make a playable game. But... the game quality just wasn't up to speed with other games of the day. It was buggy, slow, and... wasn't very polished.
The difference is with the modding of current games is the developers are making production quality games with them. They really are construction set games with one fixed game shipped with them. OO, bigger and faster computers means it is possible to make a generic engine _and_ make a cool game. Cool games are what sells, and what pays for the expensive development.
So yes, it isn't the same. But maybe the documentation that comes with the game, and the quality of game that ships with the construction set.
This is so the EFF can plainly show that computer games are speech too, and should be protected under the firest ammendment. Take a look at this older slashdot article: Salon on Video Games and Free Speech.
Well, first of all you fill out those cards with incorrect info. Of course if you ever use a credit card with one of their cards they have you.
Maybe the solution is to get into a card trading scheme, and make it popular. Two people meet, be it in an elevator, a plane, or whatever. If you both have club cards to the same chain, you trade. There are ways for the store to combat this, but it will keep them on their toes.
Is there any site/publication that reviews NAS units? My company is looking at using them heavily in a mixed NT/Solaris setup. We have run into some problems with the windows based units, and it would be nice if someone could tell us ahead of time which units suck, and which, well, don't.
A while ago I wrote a Perl program to spider through my yahoo mail account and download my email. I had some reason to do it instead of just going to pop3, but mostly because I wanted to play around with it. The code is pretty damn ugly, but mostly because it is the first spider I ever wrote, and I was too lazy to look up nice examples.
The programs can be found here.
Before Yahoo started charging for pop3, the ethics of this were pretty straight forward. Now I will leave this as an exercise for the reader. (I think it is ok because I am still using their web interface for email, and I am just using this because I am an information pack rat. Your millage may vary.)
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It's beta, but if you use Outlook, it seems to do the job very nicely. If you go to the GPG page, there is also a link for another program that is a plug in for outlook express.
> And by the way, why would you want to take a way the MS copyright? They do own it you know.
And I own my car. If someone were to borrow my car without permission (ie, steal), and then caught with large quantities of an illegal substance while driving my car, the state would then deprive me of my property even though I have committed no crime.
I want to take away MS's copyright because they have used their property (the copyright) to repeatedly commit a crime. Seems fair, don't it?
The other question is which metaphor applies to email and IM here? Is email like a phone call or a first class letter? I think in this case it is more like a letter... you need a warrant to intercept or read it in transit, but you don't need one if the recipient gives the letter to the police of her own free will.
Besides, if they say that phone metaphor applies, it would make illegal saving email or IM in PA. I hope the PA Supreme Court finds that it wasn't a wiretap.
The lawsuit looks like it is being done on a contingency basis. IANAL, but I think that means that Be has virtually no liability, except through countersuits.
So Be has found some law firm that thinks it can make some money, and is willing to share the gains with Be. Looks like the only possible strategy left for Be.
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Robocopy? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx
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This government web page puts the number at 80%.
http://www.epa.gov/reg4gmpo/edresources/water_5.html
Other sources seem to put it in a range of 70-72%. I suspect that this is one of those things that really depends on how you count. Either way, it's a bad question.
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Because in the second case it caries the transparent threat to the rest of the community: "If you don't start acting the way 'we' want you to, we will do this again." In addition to Bob being dead, you have potentially victimized the entire community.
And often the behavior that they are trying to stop is exercising basic rights, like, participating in government. The effects of hate crimes are real and devastating.
If you don't believe me, look what happened in the US south from around 1873 until the mid 1960s. Especially look at 1873-1877. Notice how quickly Republican governments folded under these threats.
W
There is another well known exception to free speech rights: assault & other forms of threats against individuals & groups. Hate crime laws are really just a subset of that exception.
Hate crime laws acknowledge that certain crimes also carry an additional threat, and that threat could be even more damaging that the original crime.
Example: Burning two pieces of (your) lumber on someone else's property: relatively minor crime.
Burning a cross erected on the front yard of an African-American family is a threat of physical harm to that family and potentially all members of the community. Context is everything, see?
Also remember that many hate crime laws were enacted at the federal and state level as a way to move trials. In some cases, heinous crimes did not lead to conviction because the jury refused to convict. In other cases the local law enforcement refused to even investigate. Hate crimes allowed federal prosecutors to move the trial out of the local community where most potential jurors were either sympathetic or even co-conspirators to the crime.
Have prosecutors abused hate crime laws? Of course they have. That is what prosecutors do. But there are far worse laws on the books.
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Perhaps you mean the Banqiao Dam?
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I was wondering if they were going to censor the lyrics to YYZ?
Or have DHS ban it for revealing secret radio transmissions of an international airport?
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It would be trivial for casinos to eliminate card counting as an effective "cheating" tool. All they have to do is close the game after x% of the deck has been played. (I don't know what x is, but I am sure someone could figure it out.) Card counting is only effective once you have played a certain percentage of the deck. If you never get there, card counting will be useless.
I suspect that casinos don't do this because they know that if you screw up the count, you push the game back in their favor. So they make money off of the people who think they can count, but can't. The few people who can count can be asked to leave when they are caught, and the losses are compensated by the gain of everyone else.
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It's 10 minutes, regardless of blood or not. It has to be certified by the MD on site as being an actual injury (visable blood automaticly makes it an injury.) I have never seen a director require the 10 minutes to be applied, but if the event was televised, it may have been.
Given that it is a team match, the sub would have been allowed to finish the bout, at the discression of the injured team.
If there was an actual death, the bout would have probably been called off, and no medal would have been awarded.
W
Lets try this from another angle.
The box is, in a way, a computational device, yes?
The box belonged to the driver, yes?
Did the police get the owner's full permission to access the computer? Or a court order?
It not, and it were in the US, he could charge the police under the same laws used to prosecute hackers. This strategy will work for about one case till the police get smart and go through the hoops.
W
Um, no. The law says that the spammer must provide an opt out method, but it does not standardize it. It just says that that they must provide "a functioning return electronic mail address or other Internet-based mechanism".
So your opt out method in the email could be something so arcane and difficult that only a handfull of people could do it. (e.g., a secure corba call via an unpublished IDL. Or clicking on a series of web pages that require you to download more than 10G of advertisements before you get to the opt-out link.) And they can change it 30 days later to something even more assinine.
Most spammers won't do it. But some will. opting out can be more painfull than the spam itself because they didn't standardize it. Thank you congress.
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The lawsuit would have been unnecessary under the UCITA. It requires retailers to allow for returns if users don't like the terms.
Not that any MD retailers pay any attention to the law...
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Ok, that is a good first half of the plan. Now that you have been re-sensitized to caffeine, and clean for 6 months, one morning go in and hit the stuff HARD. Drink 4 cups of coffee, 2 sodas, and three energy drinks. Before lunch.
:)
Now quit again for 6 months, repeat.
Do you remember adventure construction set? I do. It was cool, and fun to play with, and yes you could make a playable game. But... the game quality just wasn't up to speed with other games of the day. It was buggy, slow, and... wasn't very polished.
The difference is with the modding of current games is the developers are making production quality games with them. They really are construction set games with one fixed game shipped with them. OO, bigger and faster computers means it is possible to make a generic engine _and_ make a cool game. Cool games are what sells, and what pays for the expensive development.
So yes, it isn't the same. But maybe the documentation that comes with the game, and the quality of game that ships with the construction set.
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Well, first of all you fill out those cards with
incorrect info. Of course if you ever use a credit card with one of their cards they have you.
Maybe the solution is to get into a card trading scheme, and make it popular. Two people meet, be it in an elevator, a plane, or whatever. If you both have club cards to the same chain, you trade. There are ways for the store to combat this, but it will keep them on their toes.
W
They rock. She rocks. A baltimore band. Check them out.
(oh... I like The Dismemberment Plan too. Not what you would think from their name.)W
Is there any site/publication that reviews NAS units? My company is looking at using them heavily in a mixed NT/Solaris setup. We have run into some problems with the windows based units, and it would be nice if someone could tell us ahead of time which units suck, and which, well, don't.
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I just used it last night... It still worked. Are you behind a firewall. Email me and I will help you.
A while ago I wrote a Perl program to spider through my yahoo mail account and download my email. I had some reason to do it instead of just going to pop3, but mostly because I wanted to play around with it. The code is pretty damn ugly, but mostly because it is the first spider I ever wrote, and I was too lazy to look up nice examples. The programs can be found here. Before Yahoo started charging for pop3, the ethics of this were pretty straight forward. Now I will leave this as an exercise for the reader. (I think it is ok because I am still using their web interface for email, and I am just using this because I am an information pack rat. Your millage may vary.) W
It's beta, but if you use Outlook, it seems to do the job very nicely. If you go to the GPG page, there is also a link for another program that is a plug in for outlook express.
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> And by the way, why would you want to take a way the MS copyright? They do own it you know.
And I own my car. If someone were to borrow my car without permission (ie, steal), and then caught with large quantities of an illegal substance while driving my car, the state would then deprive me of my property even though I have committed no crime.
I want to take away MS's copyright because they have used their property (the copyright) to repeatedly commit a crime. Seems fair, don't it?
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I agree with you.
The other question is which metaphor applies to email and IM here? Is email like a phone call or a first class letter? I think in this case it is more like a letter... you need a warrant to intercept or read it in transit, but you don't need one if the recipient gives the letter to the police of her own free will.
Besides, if they say that phone metaphor applies, it would make illegal saving email or IM in PA. I hope the PA Supreme Court finds that it wasn't a wiretap.
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The lawsuit looks like it is being done on a contingency basis. IANAL, but I think that means that Be has virtually no liability, except through countersuits.
So Be has found some law firm that thinks it can make some money, and is willing to share the gains with Be. Looks like the only possible strategy left for Be.
It took some digging, but they refer to oil wells, and I think it has to do with the bidding process. This google cache was the most informative: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:hk27grUQmPYC: www.ira-wg.com/library/foia2.html+FOIA+oil+Wells+& hl=en
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Plutonium releases alphas. ( http://www2.bnl.gov/CoN/nuc/P/Pu239.shtml)
The kind of instrument described, I believe, is for deep tissue dose, or, gamma rays (http://www.netechnology.co.uk/bicdrm.html)
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