To add to this, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled (decades ago) that the power of the Constition stops at the border. Not the sea-boundary, but at the shore. This is why the Coast Guard doesn't need any warrant to search a boat.
That doesn't make any sense. So, conversely, you could sit out even further away on a raft and blow up the coast guard ships with rockets as they pass by. After all, they relinquish the constitutitional protection of their life when they shove off, right?
We don't have a legal right to stop them, here, in America.
Oh yes we do.
Remember that DVDA... erm... DMCA case where some guy went to Europe, cracked a dvd protection scheme, and got arrested when he returned to the US?
A better example is anyone going to thailand for sex tourism. They can (and will, if caught) be prosecuted in the US for stuff that was not illegal in the other country, but is here.
Not too hard. Just ask a few computer repair centers to run scans before working on the machines and report their findings for a modest fee.
Of course, the results would be slightly skewed. Not from a pool of all computer users, but from all users that encounter severe problems && lack the skill to fix it themselves
A single spyware application (ex. Gator) will have several files and registry keys that need to be cleaned. An anti-spyware program will need to highlight each of these for deletion. This is not the same as 20 individual processes on average for machines.
Then you can't call it free speech. The whole point is that the words themselves do not injure. Shout "fire" in a crowded theater? The words cause panic, panic causes the stampede, and its the stampede that kills you.
Unfortunately, the US Bill of Rights makes it impossible for the 1st amendmentment to even be restricted (theoretically), since the 9th amendment states that no later amendment can infringe on basic human rights (including the 9th).
The fact that this happens anyway is another problem, however.
I thought the theory of relativity already proved that objects moving closer to the speed of light age less compared to others outside their frame of reference. So if we use warp engines to travel instantly to Pluto and back, about 40 years will have passed on Earth. Isn't this pretty much time travel? (albeit one-directional)
Pretty sure I remember an experiment where they took an atomic clock on a plane and tested it against one on Earth, finding a few hundreths of a second difference after the trip.
I was throwing one example out from one city in one country. The biggest, yes, but there's been reports for the last two weeks about Afghan civilians throwing themselves in front of machine gun turrets at a military base, marches in Pakistan, and Hezbollah demanding that the situation would not be resolved until the West limits free speech to protect the prophet.
There are alot more than 500k people marching, though. And alot more who beleive in their cause without actually getting up off the couch. That's all okay -- it's one of the edges freedom of speech has. But you eventually have to realize that these are not rational or evolved people in the slightest bit.
How many WASPs would say the same thing about, say, burning the US flag?
A whole lot, probably. It's just that crazy muslims are in the forefront news at the present moment. There's nothing wrong with saying whatever you want -- even if you say that people shouldn't be able to say what they want. I was flabbergasted when England just threw that pirate guy in jail for merely saying Bad Things.
Now, there's a crazy religiofacist group I wouldn't mind serving under. Sure, they're batshit crazy, but you get as many wives as you can afford, and don't even have to wait 'till they're 18!
What everyone is overlooking is that Bin Laden owns W, and is doing his bidding
That makes a very amusing image indeed. Osama in his cave, taking off his turban and entering a spherical life-support pod. A hologram of Emperor Bush appearing, and Bin Laden says "What is thy bidding, my master?"
Well, the American news being biased is really a whole other issue, in which you are probably a good deal right. But, again, it's all we got, really.
The 6:00 news shows have been doing alot of interviews with "Muslims on the street" (I'm from New York, lots of 'em in Jersey and Brooklyn) And it's very hard to look at how angry they are and not think that they would sound just like Imam Al-Halal Al-Salami Al-Muhammed if the cameras were off. Saying blatantly hypocritical things like "Yes, there should be free speech, but not for blasphemy."
It doesn't. All magic sky dieties are bad news. But Christians already had their heyday. Crusades, Inquisitions. Islam is yet a young lad. Give it time to get some steam going.
-1st amendment (freedom of speech) - "freedom-of-speech zones" during Bush's inauguration
-4th amendment (unreasonable search and siezure) - wiretaps without a warrant
-5th amendment (self-incrimination) - waterboarding of suspected ter'ists
-6th amendment (speedy and public trial) - Jose Padilla
Well, yeah, it's a bit inaccurate. Weren't they the ones saving all the books when the Europeans were burning down the library of Alexandria in the Dark Ages? What happened?
If there's anything that this is proving, it's that the crazies are not in the minority here. 500,000 people chanting "death to america, death to israel?"
Granted, while most Muslims will not actively torch embassies and behead infidels, they genuinely beleive the entire world should be forcibly conquered by their religion.
"You know what we think of you? We think, one hundred years ago, you were living in tents and chopping each other's heads off and we think that's where you'll be in another hundred years"
I can't wait to see history books in about 100 years or so. Bin Laden's going to be up there with Sun Tzu and General Meade for the title of "greatest strategist ever."
Singlehandedly causing the West to self-destruct is no small potatoes.
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To add to this, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled (decades ago) that the power of the Constition stops at the border. Not the sea-boundary, but at the shore. This is why the Coast Guard doesn't need any warrant to search a boat.
That doesn't make any sense. So, conversely, you could sit out even further away on a raft and blow up the coast guard ships with rockets as they pass by. After all, they relinquish the constitutitional protection of their life when they shove off, right?
We don't have a legal right to stop them, here, in America.
Oh yes we do.
Remember that DVDA... erm... DMCA case where some guy went to Europe, cracked a dvd protection scheme, and got arrested when he returned to the US?
A better example is anyone going to thailand for sex tourism. They can (and will, if caught) be prosecuted in the US for stuff that was not illegal in the other country, but is here.
We are now locking down the desktop for our users to cut back on this crap.
That's just going to make them try a little hard to find away around the block, and make you work a big hard to keep patching things.
Never underestimate the combination of a fool with too much free time on his hands.
Not too hard. Just ask a few computer repair centers to run scans before working on the machines and report their findings for a modest fee.
Of course, the results would be slightly skewed. Not from a pool of all computer users, but from all users that encounter severe problems && lack the skill to fix it themselves
What kind of half-assed shit is this?
A single spyware application (ex. Gator) will have several files and registry keys that need to be cleaned. An anti-spyware program will need to highlight each of these for deletion. This is not the same as 20 individual processes on average for machines.
Then you can't call it free speech. The whole point is that the words themselves do not injure. Shout "fire" in a crowded theater? The words cause panic, panic causes the stampede, and its the stampede that kills you.
Unfortunately, the US Bill of Rights makes it impossible for the 1st amendmentment to even be restricted (theoretically), since the 9th amendment states that no later amendment can infringe on basic human rights (including the 9th).
The fact that this happens anyway is another problem, however.
heh, that took a while to figure out, but I got it :)
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I'd mod you up, but I've been here for 2 or 3 months and never seen any mod points
I thought the theory of relativity already proved that objects moving closer to the speed of light age less compared to others outside their frame of reference. So if we use warp engines to travel instantly to Pluto and back, about 40 years will have passed on Earth. Isn't this pretty much time travel? (albeit one-directional)
Pretty sure I remember an experiment where they took an atomic clock on a plane and tested it against one on Earth, finding a few hundreths of a second difference after the trip.
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Fuzzy math
I was throwing one example out from one city in one country. The biggest, yes, but there's been reports for the last two weeks about Afghan civilians throwing themselves in front of machine gun turrets at a military base, marches in Pakistan, and Hezbollah demanding that the situation would not be resolved until the West limits free speech to protect the prophet.
There are alot more than 500k people marching, though. And alot more who beleive in their cause without actually getting up off the couch. That's all okay -- it's one of the edges freedom of speech has. But you eventually have to realize that these are not rational or evolved people in the slightest bit.
How many WASPs would say the same thing about, say, burning the US flag?
A whole lot, probably. It's just that crazy muslims are in the forefront news at the present moment. There's nothing wrong with saying whatever you want -- even if you say that people shouldn't be able to say what they want. I was flabbergasted when England just threw that pirate guy in jail for merely saying Bad Things.
Now, there's a crazy religiofacist group I wouldn't mind serving under. Sure, they're batshit crazy, but you get as many wives as you can afford, and don't even have to wait 'till they're 18!
//ducks
What everyone is overlooking is that Bin Laden owns W, and is doing his bidding
That makes a very amusing image indeed. Osama in his cave, taking off his turban and entering a spherical life-support pod. A hologram of Emperor Bush appearing, and Bin Laden says "What is thy bidding, my master?"
Well, the American news being biased is really a whole other issue, in which you are probably a good deal right. But, again, it's all we got, really.
The 6:00 news shows have been doing alot of interviews with "Muslims on the street" (I'm from New York, lots of 'em in Jersey and Brooklyn) And it's very hard to look at how angry they are and not think that they would sound just like Imam Al-Halal Al-Salami Al-Muhammed if the cameras were off. Saying blatantly hypocritical things like "Yes, there should be free speech, but not for blasphemy."
It doesn't. All magic sky dieties are bad news. But Christians already had their heyday. Crusades, Inquisitions. Islam is yet a young lad. Give it time to get some steam going.
-1st amendment (freedom of speech) - "freedom-of-speech zones" during Bush's inauguration
-4th amendment (unreasonable search and siezure) - wiretaps without a warrant
-5th amendment (self-incrimination) - waterboarding of suspected ter'ists
-6th amendment (speedy and public trial) - Jose Padilla
Just off the top of my head...
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Well, yeah, it's a bit inaccurate. Weren't they the ones saving all the books when the Europeans were burning down the library of Alexandria in the Dark Ages? What happened?
I realise that (a) it is a minority of Muslims
If there's anything that this is proving, it's that the crazies are not in the minority here. 500,000 people chanting "death to america, death to israel?"
Granted, while most Muslims will not actively torch embassies and behead infidels, they genuinely beleive the entire world should be forcibly conquered by their religion.
I liked Syriana...
"You know what we think of you? We think, one hundred years ago, you were living in tents and chopping each other's heads off and we think that's where you'll be in another hundred years"
I guess the rest of us don't need Windows Update anymore, right?
I can't wait to see history books in about 100 years or so. Bin Laden's going to be up there with Sun Tzu and General Meade for the title of "greatest strategist ever."
Singlehandedly causing the West to self-destruct is no small potatoes.
As soon as I buy one they come out with a better version.
.torrent file comes out.
I'll just wait until the
Kenya?
No thanks, I don't want to have the learn the rules for vocal clicks as well.
No kidding, I read this as Large Hardon Collider...