perhaps proceeding with the case would put methods or secret police at risk
FTFY, call a spade a spade. If you have secret police, whatever the name, you live in a police state. Of course, without sex laws and gambling laws and drug laws, you would need no secret police. Which is the real reason those laws are on the books.
Decriminalization is NOT the answer. If we'd simply decriminalized alcohol in 1933 rather than outright legalizing it, we'd still have the bar bombings etc we had when it was completely illegal.
Legalize it and the gangs and gang violence goes away, the prices drop drastically so maybe that crackhead doesn't have to burglarize your house for his crack, etc.
If someone wants to shoot heroin, let him shoot heroin. Your drug use is not my business. If you have to steal to support your habit, it's your theivery that's my business when you rob me, not your drug habit.
However, there is one class of drugs I would keep illegal -- antibiotics. Your illicit use of heroin doesn't affect me, but your use of antibiotics breeds supergerms which DO affect me.
Don't decriminalize it -- legalize it, regulate it, and tax it. I have a acquaintence who is a crack addict, she was surprised to find when she checked into rehab that there was not only cocaine in her system, but meth as well. Back in the '70s they used to dust pot with PCP. Regulation will keep adulterants out of dope, the dope they're doing is bad enough.
Lagalizing alcohol worked well. Yes, we still have alcoholics, but a lot lower percentage of teenagers are drinking now than in 1925.
Hmmm. this may be what I'm looking for, except for the "middle" part. I want to run an XP box on my network headless, and use the Linux box to view its output. Will Teamviewer work on a private network?
1962, lets see... I was 10 and practicing magic, so yes, hacking handcuffs for 50 years (although I haven't since I was 16 and demonstrated to a cop that I could. He was impressed).
And here I didn't think I was a hacker until I started repurposing hardware as a teenager!
AND, the continent isn't called America, it's NORTH America. And there are two "Unites States" right next door to each other, the United States of America and the United States of Mexico.
OT, but I think you're needed "a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/08/20/1323250/blood-cells-converted-into-chemical-sensors">here.
I was going to post a simialar "ask skashdot". In my case, though, my needs are a little different. I have a kubuntu tower that uses tha TV as a monitor, a Win 7 notebook, and just added an old Dell XP that I intend to use headless. I'll be using the Dell mostly to sample LPs, cassettes, and radio streams (often from the Linux tower on Sunday nights when KSHE plays 7 full albums). I'd like to be able to access the XP machine from either the kubuntu machine or the Win 7 machine, or the kubuntu machine from the W7 notebook. There are no Win 7 pro machines on the network, so MS's solution probably won't work.
Europe's gasoline is a lot higher than ours for two reasons, one is that the crude they use is slightly more expensive, but mostly because the taxes on their gasoline are a LOT higher than ours. All of Europe has universal, government-paid health care, which of course comes from taxes.
I have some ability to control how much fuel I use, I have no control whatever over health care costs.
Government gives the companies green light to pollute on these so called 'public properties', which shouldn't exist in the first place, and if they do exist, no business can be allowed to do anything there.
So barges should be banned from rivers? Do you have any idea how much more everything would cost, especially food, if barges weren't allowed on the Mississippi or the Great lakes? Rivers were America's first highways, and for a long time its only highways.
How is anyone supposed to know who to sue when their well water winds up with some nasty chemical? How are you going to find out who caused the pollution, let alone prove they did it?
I'm afraid reality trumps your ideology, kid. It just doesn't work in the real world.
We still want our freedom from religion as well as being able to practice or not without the government telling us otherwise
Not "we". You and I, yeah, but there are a lot of atheists who would like to see religion outlawed, and a lot of Christians who would like religion mandatory. The Constitution protects us from both groups.
It depends on what the people want, since this is a democracy.
It isn't a democracy, it's a constitutional republic. If it were a democracy, no law would be passed unless voted on by the populace.
If the people are a bunch of religious nuts, then the education standard needs to include religion (whichever flavor the majority wants)
Teaching of religion in public schools is unconstitutional, unless you include all religions, no religions, and antireligions. And none of these belong in a science class, that's just stupid. Religion isn't science, and science isn't religion. If you want religion in philosophy class, that makes sense. If you want religion in school, go to a private school, the Catholics have lots of them.
If tons of people in your country are a bunch of backwards religious nuts and you don't like that, the answer is simple: you need to break the country up into smaller units
I realize you're not American, and am sorry I don't have the time to teach you our history or how our government is set up. Wikipedia would help.
Of course the founding fathers were fallable. So am I and so are you, and they were at least wise enough to realize that they were fallable. That's whay they made it changeable.
Halfway down these 155 comments and all I've seen is lame jokes, every one of which should have been modded -1, not stale, obvious, not funny, OVERRATED.
Please, slashdot, change it back so trying for a +1 funny is dangerous to your karma again. Since changing funny from karma-neutral to gaining karma, it seems that way too many threads are like this one.
See you guys in the next thread, I'm done with this one.
Torrent users also spend more on legal content than non-torrent users; not sure where you're getting your FUD.
I never believe those claims. When I look at the biggest pirates I know, and they say things like "why are you paying for stuff you can get for free on the internet?" it's just a little hard to believe that they pay for anything.
You do realize that the few pirates you know are only a tiny subset of pirates, right? There have been a lot of studies done, and they all say pirates spend more than non-pirates. Your friends are outliers.
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perhaps proceeding with the case would put methods or secret police at risk
FTFY, call a spade a spade. If you have secret police, whatever the name, you live in a police state. Of course, without sex laws and gambling laws and drug laws, you would need no secret police. Which is the real reason those laws are on the books.
Decriminalization is NOT the answer. If we'd simply decriminalized alcohol in 1933 rather than outright legalizing it, we'd still have the bar bombings etc we had when it was completely illegal.
Legalize it and the gangs and gang violence goes away, the prices drop drastically so maybe that crackhead doesn't have to burglarize your house for his crack, etc.
If someone wants to shoot heroin, let him shoot heroin. Your drug use is not my business. If you have to steal to support your habit, it's your theivery that's my business when you rob me, not your drug habit.
However, there is one class of drugs I would keep illegal -- antibiotics. Your illicit use of heroin doesn't affect me, but your use of antibiotics breeds supergerms which DO affect me.
Don't decriminalize it -- legalize it, regulate it, and tax it. I have a acquaintence who is a crack addict, she was surprised to find when she checked into rehab that there was not only cocaine in her system, but meth as well. Back in the '70s they used to dust pot with PCP. Regulation will keep adulterants out of dope, the dope they're doing is bad enough.
Lagalizing alcohol worked well. Yes, we still have alcoholics, but a lot lower percentage of teenagers are drinking now than in 1925.
Hmmm. this may be what I'm looking for, except for the "middle" part. I want to run an XP box on my network headless, and use the Linux box to view its output. Will Teamviewer work on a private network?
Regulations on ISP's take away rights.
Sorry, but I want the regulations to take away an ISP's right to fuck me over.
You seriously cannot see how Net Neutrality is the enforcement arm for SOPA?
Not without some strong mind-altering drugs.
...use a key.
Or a paper clip. Which of course IS a key once you finish bending it.
1962, lets see... I was 10 and practicing magic, so yes, hacking handcuffs for 50 years (although I haven't since I was 16 and demonstrated to a cop that I could. He was impressed).
And here I didn't think I was a hacker until I started repurposing hardware as a teenager!
A lot of slashdotters love to rubbish media coverage of science.
That's because 99% of the time they get it 99% wrong.
Yeah, but it was self-defense; we were breaking all her eggs.
And your unnecessary apostrophe makes you look uneducated.
AND, the continent isn't called America, it's NORTH America. And there are two "Unites States" right next door to each other, the United States of America and the United States of Mexico.
OT, but I think you're needed "a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/08/20/1323250/blood-cells-converted-into-chemical-sensors">here.
I was going to post a simialar "ask skashdot". In my case, though, my needs are a little different. I have a kubuntu tower that uses tha TV as a monitor, a Win 7 notebook, and just added an old Dell XP that I intend to use headless. I'll be using the Dell mostly to sample LPs, cassettes, and radio streams (often from the Linux tower on Sunday nights when KSHE plays 7 full albums). I'd like to be able to access the XP machine from either the kubuntu machine or the Win 7 machine, or the kubuntu machine from the W7 notebook. There are no Win 7 pro machines on the network, so MS's solution probably won't work.
I prefer FOSS. What's you favorite RAT, and why?
I'm glad they didn't name Curiosity "Shark," imagine how polluted this threads would have been with tired old jokes. Bad enough as it is...
Europe's gasoline is a lot higher than ours for two reasons, one is that the crude they use is slightly more expensive, but mostly because the taxes on their gasoline are a LOT higher than ours. All of Europe has universal, government-paid health care, which of course comes from taxes.
I have some ability to control how much fuel I use, I have no control whatever over health care costs.
If you live to work, the answer is yeas and I feel sorry for you. If all that's important is your work, you have no life.
If you work to live, the answer is no. The less work, the better.
Mike never hurts for business, especially since he also owns a construction company and all his employees drink there.
Some kid was murdered at the bar down the street from there over the weekend.
Government gives the companies green light to pollute on these so called 'public properties', which shouldn't exist in the first place, and if they do exist, no business can be allowed to do anything there.
So barges should be banned from rivers? Do you have any idea how much more everything would cost, especially food, if barges weren't allowed on the Mississippi or the Great lakes? Rivers were America's first highways, and for a long time its only highways.
How is anyone supposed to know who to sue when their well water winds up with some nasty chemical? How are you going to find out who caused the pollution, let alone prove they did it?
I'm afraid reality trumps your ideology, kid. It just doesn't work in the real world.
I'm a fiend for humor as well, but some of the lamest stuff is getting modded funny.
He's making fun of the people at slashdot who blame Obama for anything bad whether or not he had anything to do with it.
Pink Floyd said it best: "Oh, how I woooooosh you were, hear?"
We still want our freedom from religion as well as being able to practice or not without the government telling us otherwise
Not "we". You and I, yeah, but there are a lot of atheists who would like to see religion outlawed, and a lot of Christians who would like religion mandatory. The Constitution protects us from both groups.
It depends on what the people want, since this is a democracy.
It isn't a democracy, it's a constitutional republic. If it were a democracy, no law would be passed unless voted on by the populace.
If the people are a bunch of religious nuts, then the education standard needs to include religion (whichever flavor the majority wants)
Teaching of religion in public schools is unconstitutional, unless you include all religions, no religions, and antireligions. And none of these belong in a science class, that's just stupid. Religion isn't science, and science isn't religion. If you want religion in philosophy class, that makes sense. If you want religion in school, go to a private school, the Catholics have lots of them.
If tons of people in your country are a bunch of backwards religious nuts and you don't like that, the answer is simple: you need to break the country up into smaller units
I realize you're not American, and am sorry I don't have the time to teach you our history or how our government is set up. Wikipedia would help.
Of course the founding fathers were fallable. So am I and so are you, and they were at least wise enough to realize that they were fallable. That's whay they made it changeable.
Halfway down these 155 comments and all I've seen is lame jokes, every one of which should have been modded -1, not stale, obvious, not funny, OVERRATED.
Please, slashdot, change it back so trying for a +1 funny is dangerous to your karma again. Since changing funny from karma-neutral to gaining karma, it seems that way too many threads are like this one.
See you guys in the next thread, I'm done with this one.
With a huge tablet and a well designed menu, it's quite possible to get an overview at just a glance
Which is still more dangerous than finding a knob by feel.
You do realize that the few pirates you know are only a tiny subset of pirates, right? There have been a lot of studies done, and they all say pirates spend more than non-pirates. Your friends are outliers.
Why do I get images of Trinity blowing up a power station in that Matrix movie that sucked so bad?