A bank robber clearly has the right to liberty. Allowing the teller to live and identify him to the police clearly conflicts with his right to liberty. The constitution provides no clear guide to whose right should triumph. Seeing there is a moral dilemma where two co-equal rights exist, it is clear that the bank robber should kill the teller.
Juvenal was more than a century after Julius Caesar. It was because of the "empire" that bread and circuses were all the people cared about anymore. For the most part, they had long since lost the right to vote, to earn their own bread, and to seek meaningful goals other than entertainment. The senate *was* corrupted long before Caesar, who arguably was trying to pull a Pinochet, and "reform" the government.
Maybe we hate Castro so much because he went around killing thousands of people, including Americans, both before he was in power (backed by the USA -- we thought Batista was bad) and after he took power. He also stole millions of dollars and confiscated all the US interests (banana farms) in Cuba. And then he threatened us with a nuclear war. And then he starved his own people. And it continues today, embargo or not. Canada does trade with Cuba in the billions of dollars and we don't sanction them. And the USSR depended on Cuban sugar, but they were still starving then. If he's such a great guy then why doesn't anyone from Cuba want to live there?
But all that's just a petty gripe. The real reason must be because he has different philisophical views.
Princess Leah wasn't the deposed queen of the Galaxy. She had an honorary title from her adopted planet of Alderan, which was noted particularly for its neutrality. Kind of like Switzerland. Of course if you carry bombs in ambulances --I mean battlestation plans in counsellor's ships-- you can't expect that neutrality to be honored.
anyone can tell from Yoda's "words of wisdom" in Empire Strikes Back that he was speaking from experience. That's how you get wisdom. Obviously, if Lucas would lay off the pot he might have some shred of internal consistency. But anyway, Yoda's got to be about 870 years old already (that last few decades really caught up with him), so maybe he had already learned his lesson about helping your friends/honoring what they fight for.
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If you've ever used functions in Excel you're three quarters of the way to being a Lisp guru. The other bit mostly involves getting used to a slower runtime than Excel.
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funny, in English the male gender is ALSO the neutral. Except you're wrong about la musica.
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you do know that Java is in the Indian Ocean, right?
um, when a civil engineer signs off on a bridge, he's stating an estimate of cost, materials, time, and impact that it will have. Stuff like how many cars per minute and tons of concrete. Now, a structural engineer has a bit more to do with how it is built, but really, it comes down to the construction laborers and what kind of job they do. And bridges have lots of flaws and fall down or need repairs all the time. Tacoma Narrows anyone?
that's why they call the frequency range it works under "unregulated spectrum." Now, they are trying to take away the freedom of it and sell it to corporate interests, same as CB (which stands for "Citizens Band"), but the Ham radio complainers are way off. The regulated Ham networks are on a much lower frequency. 802.11B networks do not interfere unless there is a broken transmitter.
Actually, unless we're different than most, the Sun Netras (at $1000) was near the top of the heap when I went looking for 1U rack servers. Way ahead of the RAQ4, and anything from any of the major x86 players. Sun's support and Solaris' compatibility with enough Linux apps almost won out. If it shipped with gcc or there were more packages out there for Linux on Sparc, we might have gone with the Netra.
He didn't say that he though someone is stupid just because they are a K-12 teacher. He said "chances are" -- just the same if someone is jailed for possession of drugs "chances are" they are black or latino.
Once upon a time, social engineering was a valuable part of a hacker's skillset. I suggest buying (and reading) a copy of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" -- or just going directly to the teachers. Tell them you're the new guy working on the networks and you're trying to analyze and optimize and [insert other techincal sounding word here] the network. Ask them if you can schedule 5 minutes of their time, say next Thursday just before lunch? Explain the bandwidth problem, tell them that programs such as Kazaa and Back Orifice are not allowed on the school network. You can even type up a list of what's inappropriate yourself (and put a graphic border around it) and title it "Official District Network Acceptable Use Policy." Explain that you've been given the job to set up a firewall and set up bandwidth caps to prevent viruses and potential access to porn and pirated MP3s. Express your sympathy for their inconvenience (at this point they will admit it is hardly any inconvenience at all to have to wait to get home and download porn), and ask if there is anything you can do to help them out. You can show them a couple cool sites, teach them to defrag, dust out the chalkboard erasers, and leave an apple on their desk. Let them know that all traffic is being logged, and that your superviser receives a weekly summary, so they shouldn't feel any need to narc on their fellow teachers. Tell them if they have any questions, don't hesitate to call you or your superviser.
you know, from the article, it sounds more like that the "investors" were more interested in keeping his invention out of production. Particularly Blockbuster and Qwest had tremendenous motivation to supress the idea, whether legitimate or not. I seriously doubt Blockbuster was interested in obsoleting their own business model. And Qwest owns of the more miles of wire than anyone in the world. Whether they knew it was a hoax or not is kind of irrelevant, since the principle investors never intended the product to be developed anyway.
they've had these for a while. You used to could get a sun workstation with an x86 (k6II or Cyrix I think) processor on a PCI slot designed for running apps like office, etc. Now the big fad in server farms are "blade" servers where you stick like 6 pc-on-a-pci-slot together inside one case. You can get them from HP and Terasoft, the parent co. of Yellow Dog Linux, I think.
Visa doesn't give a shit about your credit rating, and they make a profit on every chargeback, so lets go to using one time pad encryption? The problem was solved a long time ago. What we need to do is make the credit card companies liable for lack of security.
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When you kill a baby it just doesn't say, "oh well, I'll catch the next available womb."
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The fetus didn't get her pregnant
A bank robber clearly has the right to liberty. Allowing the teller to live and identify him to the police clearly conflicts with his right to liberty. The constitution provides no clear guide to whose right should triumph. Seeing there is a moral dilemma where two co-equal rights exist, it is clear that the bank robber should kill the teller.
oral sex isn't sodomy.
Okay, so the pro-choice camp also advocates:
Inequality between men and women
Prostitution
Marijuana use
Not killing rapists
ignoring the Declaration of Independence
Are there any disagreements or other things to add?
"that's what happens when you support the losing side in ANY war"
except one.
Juvenal was more than a century after Julius Caesar. It was because of the "empire" that bread and circuses were all the people cared about anymore. For the most part, they had long since lost the right to vote, to earn their own bread, and to seek meaningful goals other than entertainment. The senate *was* corrupted long before Caesar, who arguably was trying to pull a Pinochet, and "reform" the government.
Lots of people die in the US because they can't pay a cancer treatment.
Not that a cancer treatment would save them.
Hey, um, you do realize that the *only* reason Castro is in power is because the USA backed him instead of Batista?
Maybe we hate Castro so much because he went around killing thousands of people, including Americans, both before he was in power (backed by the USA -- we thought Batista was bad) and after he took power. He also stole millions of dollars and confiscated all the US interests (banana farms) in Cuba. And then he threatened us with a nuclear war. And then he starved his own people. And it continues today, embargo or not. Canada does trade with Cuba in the billions of dollars and we don't sanction them. And the USSR depended on Cuban sugar, but they were still starving then. If he's such a great guy then why doesn't anyone from Cuba want to live there?
But all that's just a petty gripe. The real reason must be because he has different philisophical views.
Princess Leah wasn't the deposed queen of the Galaxy. She had an honorary title from her adopted planet of Alderan, which was noted particularly for its neutrality. Kind of like Switzerland. Of course if you carry bombs in ambulances --I mean battlestation plans in counsellor's ships-- you can't expect that neutrality to be honored.
anyone can tell from Yoda's "words of wisdom" in Empire Strikes Back that he was speaking from experience. That's how you get wisdom. Obviously, if Lucas would lay off the pot he might have some shred of internal consistency. But anyway, Yoda's got to be about 870 years old already (that last few decades really caught up with him), so maybe he had already learned his lesson about helping your friends/honoring what they fight for.
"since I was in the presence of my own master"
what was that from? I can't seem to remember.
If you've ever used functions in Excel you're three quarters of the way to being a Lisp guru. The other bit mostly involves getting used to a slower runtime than Excel.
funny, in English the male gender is ALSO the neutral. Except you're wrong about la musica.
you do know that Java is in the Indian Ocean, right?
um, when a civil engineer signs off on a bridge, he's stating an estimate of cost, materials, time, and impact that it will have. Stuff like how many cars per minute and tons of concrete. Now, a structural engineer has a bit more to do with how it is built, but really, it comes down to the construction laborers and what kind of job they do. And bridges have lots of flaws and fall down or need repairs all the time. Tacoma Narrows anyone?
that's why they call the frequency range it works under "unregulated spectrum." Now, they are trying to take away the freedom of it and sell it to corporate interests, same as CB (which stands for "Citizens Band"), but the Ham radio complainers are way off. The regulated Ham networks are on a much lower frequency. 802.11B networks do not interfere unless there is a broken transmitter.
Actually, unless we're different than most, the Sun Netras (at $1000) was near the top of the heap when I went looking for 1U rack servers. Way ahead of the RAQ4, and anything from any of the major x86 players. Sun's support and Solaris' compatibility with enough Linux apps almost won out. If it shipped with gcc or there were more packages out there for Linux on Sparc, we might have gone with the Netra.
He didn't say that he though someone is stupid just because they are a K-12 teacher. He said "chances are" -- just the same if someone is jailed for possession of drugs "chances are" they are black or latino.
Once upon a time, social engineering was a valuable part of a hacker's skillset. I suggest buying (and reading) a copy of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" -- or just going directly to the teachers. Tell them you're the new guy working on the networks and you're trying to analyze and optimize and [insert other techincal sounding word here] the network. Ask them if you can schedule 5 minutes of their time, say next Thursday just before lunch? Explain the bandwidth problem, tell them that programs such as Kazaa and Back Orifice are not allowed on the school network. You can even type up a list of what's inappropriate yourself (and put a graphic border around it) and title it "Official District Network Acceptable Use Policy." Explain that you've been given the job to set up a firewall and set up bandwidth caps to prevent viruses and potential access to porn and pirated MP3s. Express your sympathy for their inconvenience (at this point they will admit it is hardly any inconvenience at all to have to wait to get home and download porn), and ask if there is anything you can do to help them out. You can show them a couple cool sites, teach them to defrag, dust out the chalkboard erasers, and leave an apple on their desk. Let them know that all traffic is being logged, and that your superviser receives a weekly summary, so they shouldn't feel any need to narc on their fellow teachers. Tell them if they have any questions, don't hesitate to call you or your superviser.
you know, from the article, it sounds more like that the "investors" were more interested in keeping his invention out of production. Particularly Blockbuster and Qwest had tremendenous motivation to supress the idea, whether legitimate or not. I seriously doubt Blockbuster was interested in obsoleting their own business model. And Qwest owns of the more miles of wire than anyone in the world. Whether they knew it was a hoax or not is kind of irrelevant, since the principle investors never intended the product to be developed anyway.
they've had these for a while. You used to could get a sun workstation with an x86 (k6II or Cyrix I think) processor on a PCI slot designed for running apps like office, etc. Now the big fad in server farms are "blade" servers where you stick like 6 pc-on-a-pci-slot together inside one case. You can get them from HP and Terasoft, the parent co. of Yellow Dog Linux, I think.
Visa doesn't give a shit about your credit rating, and they make a profit on every chargeback, so lets go to using one time pad encryption? The problem was solved a long time ago. What we need to do is make the credit card companies liable for lack of security.