I have a simpler proposal: people in position of power or authority should be held to higher standards. That's it.
That includes more scrutiny and, yes, harsher penalties. For example, no more "administrative discipline" for police officers or government officials. If they do something that a regular citizen would go to jail for, they should always expect to get a harsher sentence.
Once again, we need a revolution. We need to take control. We must take control and save the world.
Revolutions only happen when people feel that they have nothing to lose. The governments of today have learned that lesson. They'd never let the situation escalate that far.
If you encounter a post that is factually wrong, the correct thing to do is to reply, quoting the relevant parts and presenting a well thought out refutation, preferably with links or citations. More often than not, you will be modded up since the system (mostly) works.
Downmodding has the effect of hiding the post from some of the viewers. In effect, you are saying that the post you modded down has no place in the conversation because it only serves to derail it.
Moderation-as-censorship is an old/. tradition but it is still wrong.
've even seen it in books, where an obviously out of context word was substituted. It may have passed the "spell check", but certainly that should be no excuse to avoid proof-reading. It's more than just looking for an absence of little red lines under your text.
I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it, Your sure reel glad two no. Its vary polished in it's weigh. My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing, It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen Eye trussed too bee a joule. The checker pours o'er every word To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's Hour spelling mite decline, And if we're lacks oar have a laps, We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate flare, Their are know fault's with in my cite, Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me, It does knot bring a tier. My pay purrs awl due glad den With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should bee proud, And wee mussed dew the best wee can, Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays Such soft wear four pea seas, And why eye brake in two averse Buy righting want too pleas.
I would auction my left kidney for more stories about Duke Nukem Forever.
OK, here's a bunch of titles: 1. Is DNF dead? (TFA says: yes) 2. Is DNF really dead? (TFA says: yes) 3. Is DNF really really dead? (TFA says: yes) 4. Will DNF be resurrected? (TFA says: no) 5. The status of DNF (TFA says: dead)...
Speeding, that is, exceeding a posted limit set by political forces and not traffic surveys, is an administrative offense with no chance of causing physical harm to anyone. If people are driving at unsafe speeds, then the risk of injury to others may increase, depending on traffic conditions.
Well, that's your opinion. I for one, am inclined to take the word of "trained professionals" over some random/. poster. So instead, let's read Report FHWA-RD-92-084, by the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
From the summary: - Accidents at the 58 experimental sites where speed limits were lowered increased by 5.4 percent. - Accidents at the 41 experimental sites where speed limits were raised decreased by 6.7 percent.
He got access to the chief (delegado) and showed him the photographs from the previous day. The chief made an announcement that he wanted everything restored to that car within an hour or heads would roll. The next time the car's owner saw the car, it was as it had been the previous day.
Let me see if I understand. Policemen are crooks. They will steal your stuff with impunity because the worst thing that will happen to them -- and only if you have extensive photo evidence -- is that they will have to return it.
In a normal country, heads would have rolled regardless. And by "heads rolling" I mean criminal prosecution, jail time and finally getting fired and losing all benefits, not some "suspension with pay" bullshit.
Unfortunately, I do not think that there is such a thing as a "normal country" anymore.
If the post is from Timothy, you can pretty much assume the only correct part is the name of the person that submitted it, and in my experience, he gets that wrong too.
Wait, I was under the impression that the distinction was reserved to kdawson.
Can somebody post the definitive guide to/. editors?
I openly admit to not reading ALL comments prior to posting this, but.... I think the top level posters so far are missing the real issue here. These people are in Jail for a reason. Let's not treat them to things they do not deserve. Jail should be a place to serve a sentance and to hopefully let the the criminals reflect on their crime and hopefully learn a lesson. It SHOULDN'T be a place where criminals get to hang out and play board games. That's just ridiculous. Yes, D&D and any other aformentioned board games are harmless, but enabling someone to have fun in a place of punishment is just downright absurd. I know people who have been to jail, and while they say it was absolutely no fun at all, their behavior after their sentance really didn't change. The system is broken. We can't let people forget the reason they're being punished...
Obama made the promise, Congress is failing to uphold it. I don't see a problem here.
So, if I promise to reverse global warming, accept your donations (or votes or whatever) and rise to power, then mother nature / the environment / the industrialized world fails to uphold, it will be alright with you?
In this case Denon aren't bad guys, they just aren't stupid. They had enough requests and knew these guys would simply go elsewhere to get what they wanted (another product they could sell people who, if they dropped a $100 bill on the ground, would think it a waste of time to stoop over and pick it up).
Let's start making stuff up about it, saying that it will require that every human being on the planet register on a global network and that it gives copyright protection organizations the right to install kill switches in everyone's brain.
They will be so afraid of the pitchforks and torches generated from this that they'll be forced to do what they should have done in the first place: tell us what it actually contains.
A terrible idea.
Once you get people afraid of "kill switches in everyone's brain", they will be happy to "compromise" on remote kill switches in everyone's computer.
and now you show me another free mail service of any significance that has IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS and now HTTPS (yes, all with *S, because Gmail requires you to use SSL for SMTP, POP3 and IMAP, and has been doing so since the very beginning, HTTPS was available for use for a while, though not required or offered by default).
Gmail is not free, it just uses a different currency. You pay for it with (some of) your privacy and the actual price can be between zero and infinity, depending on how much you value it.
If you are willing to consider paid services, fastmail.fm has been doing *S for quite a while.
Boobies are actually large seabirds of the genus Sula. Young man, you will surely have big problems in life if you go around making such fundamental errors.
Sure, just as tits are small birds of the genus Parus and pussies are small carnivorous mammals of the genus Felis. Just stick to your biology texts and you'll be all right.
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Are you willing to set a personal example?
Are you ready to be a martyr for your cause?
If not:
Do you expect somebody else to do that in your stead?
Do you really believe anything will change?
I have a simpler proposal: people in position of power or authority should be held to higher standards .
That's it.
That includes more scrutiny and, yes, harsher penalties.
For example, no more "administrative discipline" for police officers or government officials. If they do something that a regular citizen would go to jail for, they should always expect to get a harsher sentence.
This, of course, will never happen.
Revolutions only happen when people feel that they have nothing to lose.
The governments of today have learned that lesson. They'd never let the situation escalate that far.
wrong != troll.
If you encounter a post that is factually wrong, the correct thing to do is to reply, quoting the relevant parts and presenting a well thought out refutation, preferably with links or citations. More often than not, you will be modded up since the system (mostly) works.
Downmodding has the effect of hiding the post from some of the viewers. In effect, you are saying that the post you modded down has no place in the conversation because it only serves to derail it.
Moderation-as-censorship is an old /. tradition but it is still wrong.
That is an obvious lie.
Everybody knows that in Soviet Russia the States move to you!
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.
-- Dr. Jerrold H. Zar
Either stop overclocking her or invest in decent cooling.
Not to mention having a unique fashion sense and an affinity to phone booths.
So you didn't elect a lying politician, you elected an incompetent one.
How exactly does it makes things better?
OK, here's a bunch of titles: ...
1. Is DNF dead? (TFA says: yes)
2. Is DNF really dead? (TFA says: yes)
3. Is DNF really really dead? (TFA says: yes)
4. Will DNF be resurrected? (TFA says: no)
5. The status of DNF (TFA says: dead)
Well, that's your opinion. I for one, am inclined to take the word of "trained professionals" over some random /. poster.
So instead, let's read Report FHWA-RD-92-084, by the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel/index.html
From the summary:
- Accidents at the 58 experimental sites where speed limits were lowered increased by 5.4 percent.
- Accidents at the 41 experimental sites where speed limits were raised decreased by 6.7 percent.
Oh dear, they seem to agree with you...
Let me see if I understand.
Policemen are crooks. They will steal your stuff with impunity because the worst thing that will happen to them -- and only if you have extensive photo evidence -- is that they will have to return it.
In a normal country, heads would have rolled regardless. And by "heads rolling" I mean criminal prosecution, jail time and finally getting fired and losing all benefits, not some "suspension with pay" bullshit.
Unfortunately, I do not think that there is such a thing as a "normal country" anymore.
You can take society out of the middle ages
but you cannot take the middle ages out of society.
Wait, I was under the impression that the distinction was reserved to kdawson.
Can somebody post the definitive guide to /. editors?
If you are a Canadian, contact your MP and tell them that if their party does not go all out against ACTA, they can forget about your vote forever.
Hopefully someone more fluent in English than myself can draft an example letter.
Ouch...
Just hope that no one in your family is sent to jail because the judge wanted a kickback.
So, if I promise to reverse global warming, accept your donations (or votes or whatever) and rise to power, then mother nature / the environment / the industrialized world fails to uphold, it will be alright with you?
Where big (especially multinational) corporations are involved, there are no good guys.
[citation needed]
Mod up please. The transcript is hilarious!
ObXKCD.
A terrible idea.
Once you get people afraid of "kill switches in everyone's brain", they will be happy to "compromise" on remote kill switches in everyone's computer.
Gmail is not free, it just uses a different currency. You pay for it with (some of) your privacy and the actual price can be between zero and infinity, depending on how much you value it.
If you are willing to consider paid services, fastmail.fm has been doing *S for quite a while.
Sure, just as tits are small birds of the genus Parus and pussies are small carnivorous mammals of the genus Felis.
Just stick to your biology texts and you'll be all right.