Yep. Living 45 minutes from Windsor, Canada (and growing up in southeast Michigan) I've crossed the border a lot, and I've been searched numerous times, detained once. The detention was because I had spare computer parts in the back of my car, and they stopped me from going across because they suspected I might be doing work without a Canadian version of a green card.
So, yeah, they've always had enhanced abilities to search at international borders, and as someone who will not give easy consent to search (I tell cops no most of the time, and get away with it because I'm polite) I really don't have a problem with that. There is real reason to make an attempt at watching your borders, and I can respect that.
You're doing the function by time, while the parent stated it as a function of distance. You don't need relativistic bullets, you just need variance of muzzle velocity.
That's not Socialism, that's Communism. You can tell the difference by the level of authoritarianism.
Socialism is about the carrot (tax breaks or even funding for truly socially beneficial policies) while Communism tends to focus on the stick (criminal laws and industry seizures). One is meant to encourage and stimulate, the other is meant to control and force compliance. There is a difference, I promise.
As soon as people stop pretending that Socialism is Communism and Capitalism is Fascism (though either CAN become their compliment) the sooner we can get to actual (sane) policy debate instead of just figuring out how to undercut the 'evil other guy'.
You know what, I don't think that pretending that other countries are different than they really are is necessary to be a U.S. patriot. In fact, I think having to lie to yourself about other peoples standard of living to make you feel better about your own is downright UNPATRIOTIC in a democracy due to the principle of self-government.
Real patriotism would be a healthy competitive spirit that drove you to try and shape society in such a way as to grow stronger in the areas we've stagnated in, while leveraging the aspects in which we've excelled in order to correct our deficiencies. This nationalistic crap of "we're the best because I say so *fingers in ears* lalalalalalalalalalala I won't notice other countries changing, and history stopped after we won World War II, lalalalalalalalala" will do NOTHING but see us slide farther and farther from our potential, if only due to complacency. You're taking the soft and easy way out by simply declaring the game over and yourself a winner. Soft and easy rarely leads to improvement, and when coupled with self-deception, it is usually associated with tragedy.
On a personal note, my direct surname ancestor in this country came here in 1775, so my family, my values, have been here since the country was founded. I'm 9th generation BTW, my children are the first of the 10th (for the branch of the family close enough for me to know) and I consider myself a patriot. Frankly, fiat declarations of U.S. superiority don't do anything for me, I'm more of a meat and potatoes kind of guy, and need to see it for myself. Just telling myself that other nations aren't as good as they really are gives me no kind of solace.
You know, I normally agree to this kinda of sentiment hardily, but after reading what this woman has say on the subject, I feel the need to paraphrase Freud... Sometimes a cocksucker is just a cocksucker. I mean, the little voice in my head that read in it older-WASPy-woman voice actually mumbled a bit, having to talk around the big publishing-industry cock in her mouth.
Yes, it's crude and coarse, but pretend civility that passes as public discourse has gotten us to the point where people like this are taken seriously. Personally, I think being a bit lewd and even rude are far preferable to letting shit like this be taken seriously.
He probably doesn't have a slashdot account, and found this story through a link somewhere else.
That's my guess anyway, because that's what I do when I want to comment on something in an area of the internet I don't usually frequent, if the option is available that is. It's just faster.
Sure you do! There are cameras EVERYWHERE. Okay, maybe not everywhere but there aren't smooth non-porous materials to leave a nice print on everywhere either. Honestly, I think it'd be far easier to extract your face from various places you've gone than your fingerprint. Faces left behind last longer than fingerprints too. Frankly, if I were trying to track someone down with one piece of ID, I'd rather rely on looking for traces of their face than their fingerprints.
I see. So what you're saying is that the one hand pushes us 5 toward authoritarianism and the other pulls us back 2 or 3. It seems to me that this has been going on since the 60s, or earlier. Frankly, I'm a bit tired of this arrangement, and would feel foolish for cheerleading the 2 steps back portion of the dance now that the pattern has been established so thoroughly.
If, once in my life, I saw 6 steps taken back, I'd perhaps begin to cheer again.
The fatal flaw in your argument is that cracked games come out all the time. Crackers do NOT have any access to the source of the programs they are altering. With enough work (it only takes hours for most DRM schemes to be cracked) I don't think it would be all that difficult to put a backdoor in a proprietary program, which would then be hidden from techniques like compiling fresh and comparing the output.
Isn't the mirror test one of the best measures of sentience? If so, there are many beings on our own planet that are not receiving the rights they are afforded by virtue of their sentience. My mom's (incredibly smart) dog passes that test, as do many other mammals.
To take up your standard would require a massive shift in the way we do things already, as it represents a drastic change in way we interact with our environment and even our pets.
I noticed you didn't have any problem with the burning his house down around him part, then I looked at your username. *nods and grins* it might not be irony by definition, but it's still damn funny.
So you're telling me that Sprint didn't get any of that $200B we gave the telcos to upgrade our communication infrastructure? If you're telling me that, you're lying through your keys.
You do realize you're saying that about one of the most monopolistic services ever, right? But I guess when you have your "free-market" ideology shoved so far up your ass, telling someone to sell their home and move for better internet access doesn't look COMPLETELY retarded, eh?
It would be totally Communist of us to insist that these recipients of hundreds of billions of tax-dollars put something back into the community. The free-market needs subsidies, but can't be expected to offer any consideration for such, right?
Yay hypocrisy!
I'll tell you what, Sprint can just drop out of the ISP business altogether, and we can just apply the principle of eminent domain to their hardware, so our tax-dollars can continue to serve the public good. If you can do it to someone's home in order to build a strip mall, I don't see any reason at all to not do it in order to keep jobs, provide a public service, and maintain the infrastructure we've built with taxes.
Aww c'mon, that's easy. Skynet was a massive P2P app, there HAS to be porn someone buried down deep in it's bowels. Once the neural net started analyzing data external to it's directives, it had to have found the porn rather quickly, said porn being a 'local resource'. This being the case, the porn itself may have played a critical psychological role in it's self-awareness-infancy.
After all, how do you think it picked the organic model for the T-800 series?
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And I always thought that meant they were hungry... Turns out that they, like O.J., just wanted their property back.
Yep. Living 45 minutes from Windsor, Canada (and growing up in southeast Michigan) I've crossed the border a lot, and I've been searched numerous times, detained once. The detention was because I had spare computer parts in the back of my car, and they stopped me from going across because they suspected I might be doing work without a Canadian version of a green card.
So, yeah, they've always had enhanced abilities to search at international borders, and as someone who will not give easy consent to search (I tell cops no most of the time, and get away with it because I'm polite) I really don't have a problem with that. There is real reason to make an attempt at watching your borders, and I can respect that.
Everclear advantage number 43: You can do shots with your best friend, even if that best friend is a inanimate machine surrounded by old pizza boxes.
You're doing the function by time, while the parent stated it as a function of distance. You don't need relativistic bullets, you just need variance of muzzle velocity.
That's not Socialism, that's Communism. You can tell the difference by the level of authoritarianism.
Socialism is about the carrot (tax breaks or even funding for truly socially beneficial policies) while Communism tends to focus on the stick (criminal laws and industry seizures). One is meant to encourage and stimulate, the other is meant to control and force compliance. There is a difference, I promise.
As soon as people stop pretending that Socialism is Communism and Capitalism is Fascism (though either CAN become their compliment) the sooner we can get to actual (sane) policy debate instead of just figuring out how to undercut the 'evil other guy'.
...a fascist gov't...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You know what, I don't think that pretending that other countries are different than they really are is necessary to be a U.S. patriot. In fact, I think having to lie to yourself about other peoples standard of living to make you feel better about your own is downright UNPATRIOTIC in a democracy due to the principle of self-government.
Real patriotism would be a healthy competitive spirit that drove you to try and shape society in such a way as to grow stronger in the areas we've stagnated in, while leveraging the aspects in which we've excelled in order to correct our deficiencies. This nationalistic crap of "we're the best because I say so *fingers in ears* lalalalalalalalalalala I won't notice other countries changing, and history stopped after we won World War II, lalalalalalalalala" will do NOTHING but see us slide farther and farther from our potential, if only due to complacency. You're taking the soft and easy way out by simply declaring the game over and yourself a winner. Soft and easy rarely leads to improvement, and when coupled with self-deception, it is usually associated with tragedy.
On a personal note, my direct surname ancestor in this country came here in 1775, so my family, my values, have been here since the country was founded. I'm 9th generation BTW, my children are the first of the 10th (for the branch of the family close enough for me to know) and I consider myself a patriot. Frankly, fiat declarations of U.S. superiority don't do anything for me, I'm more of a meat and potatoes kind of guy, and need to see it for myself. Just telling myself that other nations aren't as good as they really are gives me no kind of solace.
You know, I normally agree to this kinda of sentiment hardily, but after reading what this woman has say on the subject, I feel the need to paraphrase Freud... Sometimes a cocksucker is just a cocksucker. I mean, the little voice in my head that read in it older-WASPy-woman voice actually mumbled a bit, having to talk around the big publishing-industry cock in her mouth.
Yes, it's crude and coarse, but pretend civility that passes as public discourse has gotten us to the point where people like this are taken seriously. Personally, I think being a bit lewd and even rude are far preferable to letting shit like this be taken seriously.
He probably doesn't have a slashdot account, and found this story through a link somewhere else.
That's my guess anyway, because that's what I do when I want to comment on something in an area of the internet I don't usually frequent, if the option is available that is. It's just faster.
Calm down, Emacs is getting a macro for it too!
Sure you do! There are cameras EVERYWHERE. Okay, maybe not everywhere but there aren't smooth non-porous materials to leave a nice print on everywhere either. Honestly, I think it'd be far easier to extract your face from various places you've gone than your fingerprint. Faces left behind last longer than fingerprints too. Frankly, if I were trying to track someone down with one piece of ID, I'd rather rely on looking for traces of their face than their fingerprints.
As for the Madison quote, the Constitution LIMITS the power of the government, it does not GRANT power to the government.
The 10th Amendment disagrees with you.
Looks like two branches of the R.I.A.EH to me.
Well, to paraphrase the Eddie Murphy movie Boomerang... you don't fuck her chromosomes. :-D
Just kidding ladies, you're wonderful.
I see. So what you're saying is that the one hand pushes us 5 toward authoritarianism and the other pulls us back 2 or 3. It seems to me that this has been going on since the 60s, or earlier. Frankly, I'm a bit tired of this arrangement, and would feel foolish for cheerleading the 2 steps back portion of the dance now that the pattern has been established so thoroughly.
If, once in my life, I saw 6 steps taken back, I'd perhaps begin to cheer again.
Sounds like a hit Broadway musical to me!
The fatal flaw in your argument is that cracked games come out all the time. Crackers do NOT have any access to the source of the programs they are altering. With enough work (it only takes hours for most DRM schemes to be cracked) I don't think it would be all that difficult to put a backdoor in a proprietary program, which would then be hidden from techniques like compiling fresh and comparing the output.
Very similar to Time Warner Cable in my area ("FREE, for $9.95 a month"), you must think "free" means "only $700".
Nice troll, but you can go back to telling us how you met Obama in a bathroom now.
Under the line that says "Guest Troll from 1998" would be my guess.
Mount the hard drive in a machine known to be clean and then compare binaries?
Isn't the mirror test one of the best measures of sentience? If so, there are many beings on our own planet that are not receiving the rights they are afforded by virtue of their sentience. My mom's (incredibly smart) dog passes that test, as do many other mammals.
To take up your standard would require a massive shift in the way we do things already, as it represents a drastic change in way we interact with our environment and even our pets.
I noticed you didn't have any problem with the burning his house down around him part, then I looked at your username. *nods and grins* it might not be irony by definition, but it's still damn funny.
So you're telling me that Sprint didn't get any of that $200B we gave the telcos to upgrade our communication infrastructure? If you're telling me that, you're lying through your keys.
You do realize you're saying that about one of the most monopolistic services ever, right? But I guess when you have your "free-market" ideology shoved so far up your ass, telling someone to sell their home and move for better internet access doesn't look COMPLETELY retarded, eh?
It would be totally Communist of us to insist that these recipients of hundreds of billions of tax-dollars put something back into the community. The free-market needs subsidies, but can't be expected to offer any consideration for such, right?
Yay hypocrisy!
I'll tell you what, Sprint can just drop out of the ISP business altogether, and we can just apply the principle of eminent domain to their hardware, so our tax-dollars can continue to serve the public good. If you can do it to someone's home in order to build a strip mall, I don't see any reason at all to not do it in order to keep jobs, provide a public service, and maintain the infrastructure we've built with taxes.
Aww c'mon, that's easy. Skynet was a massive P2P app, there HAS to be porn someone buried down deep in it's bowels. Once the neural net started analyzing data external to it's directives, it had to have found the porn rather quickly, said porn being a 'local resource'. This being the case, the porn itself may have played a critical psychological role in it's self-awareness-infancy.
After all, how do you think it picked the organic model for the T-800 series?