That's true, and making it federal law (it's state law here in Illinois as well, the guy from China got 2 years in Joliet IIRC) instead of state law would help.
But then you've made immigration enforcement the duty of employers. How is an employer supposed to know whether or not someone is a citizen or illegal alien? I think this journal from last year is appropriate here:
"You gonna die!" he yelled.
"Everybody dies" I replied calmly. "Now get the hell out of my house!"
"I not leaving until I get my document!" he repeated. I asked "what document?" Tami said "Documents. I think he's talking about his passport and shit." She turned to her husband. "Look motherfucker, the only documents I have are your goddamned fake social security number papers and god damn it cocksucker I'm using them to send your sorry ass back to Peru!"
But you are entirely correct, the powers that be are not serious about the problem.
MS vs Linux is like RIAA vs indies: it's damned hard to compete with "free". Considering the SCO debacle, it looks like MS and the RIAA are going the same lawyerly route.
Who do you want to sue today? How about your own customers!
Linux, however, needs to be "better enough" to force people to reinstall
It already is "better enough"; at least, the distro I'm using is. Unlike MS It's secure. Unlike MS it's stable. Unlike MS I can have the thing boot in exactly the state I left it in, with all the programs I was running when I shut it off running when I start it back up. Those are just a few things and there are a whole lot more advantages to Linux over Windows.
What Linux needs is for non-Linux users to be shown the advantages.
They're not starving; we're not getting a lot of immigrants from Rwanda, after all. It's just that they can make a hell of a lot more money here than Mexico.
And as to placing the penalty on those who do the hiring, that has its own problems. First, that's the way it's done now. They just sentenced someone from China who ran a local restaraunt for hiring illegals here in Springfield. That tactc isn't keeping illegals out, now is it?
Second, you can't put a corporation in prison, and corporate leaders are almost never jailed. Enron was the exception that proves the rule, and those people were jailed because they stole from the rich and powerful; Sony hacked millions of computers with their rootkit, but did Sony's CEO or board go to prison?
Free the political prisoners who are there on drug charges (I say drug use is a political statement;) and you'll have lots of room for the illegal immigrants.
Thanks for the info, sorry the mods are MS shills. The only missing pice of the puzzle is where to get a legal copy of Apple's OS without buying a mac? I mean, I already smoke pot and hire hookers, I don't want to become even more of a criminal by using illegal software!
Gee, and I thought permanent body modifications should be decided by the individual himself and no one else.
Right, let your five year old get a tattoo. You're still in high school, aren't you, kid?
Imagine if it was on his foot, they would have amputated it!
No, they would have removed the infected skin. They would have no more amputated his foot than they amputated his penis. If they could have cured the rot without removing the foreskin they would have done so.
Only the middle class and poor want to keep illegal aliens out. The rich want the cheap labor. So they make mouth noises like they're upset over illegal immigration while hiring illegal immigrants themselves, because they're cheap.
Catch an illegal and send him back, and that's all. If they really wanted to make the illegal aliens stay away, all they'd have to do would be to make illegal entry in this country a felony with a mandatory five year prison sentense for a first offense, fifteen years for a second offense and thirty for a third offense.
Don't hold your breath. The people who run things want to import cheap labor and they're not about to let anyone stop their gravy train.
Which "sacred human rights" you're talking about that the government is violating (which I presume to mean "is violating unconstitutionally")?
You might want to read this old journal from last month where I chronicle how my fourth amendment rights against unwarranted search were violated TWICE last year. Or would you posit that it's OK for the police to search YOUR garage without a warrant or even your knowlege because a strange woman, who had not been accused of any crime by anyone, had been prowling around the neighborhood and may have been hiding there without your knowlege?
I wrote Liberty? What liberty? three years ago, and things have only gotten worse since then.
-mcgrew (my latest journal mentions the RIAA. I'm sure to garner a few more freaks with it...)
The tide will have turned when older established lawyers hire the newer tech savvy lawyers. They will need to: DNA tests, AI, robotics, and many other new technologies will spawn legal cases that deal with matters unheard of before.
Just like doctors and programmers keep current, so do lawyers. Age doesn't keep one from learning, and it doesn't keep one from being able to understand technology.
So is the Bono Act, but the Supreme Court says it isn't, that "limited" means whatever Congress says it means. That of course means that every word in the Constitution means whatever Congress says it means. Which means that the Constitution is now completely meaningless, and we no longer have rule of law but rule of men.
What interest me most is how this will evolve in the next generation of lawmakers. If these young people are going to step up against RIAA and win, who will be left to watch the RIAA propaganda videos like recently exposed on/.? Seems to me that RIAA with their complete propaganda machinery is no match for educational facilities:-)
Back in the seventies, we young people all smoked pot. Now that my genertation's rich people have taken over from the last generation's rich people, is it legal? Hell no, the assshats running things all deny ever having touched the stuff. Well, one famous asshat former doper claims he tried it once but never inhaled, as if he were talking to a nation of idiots. Well maybe he was.
But at any rate, I think when you in your twenties now are my age, your generation's rich people that become lawmakers are no more going to restore copyright to reasonable terms and legalize noncommercial copying than my generation's rich people that became lawmakers legalized the marijuana that nearly every single one of them broke the law smoking in the seventies.
They represent the Big Four music producers, and are only answerable to them....
That is the problem - They have no Copyright (of their own) to defend, they have no customers to care about....
The big four that they represent own the copyrights. The Corporate Owned Congress made musical recordings "works for hire" granting copyright to the record company, not the people who actualkly perform the music.
As Lynard Skynard said,
Want you to sign the contract Want you to sign today Gonna make lots of money Workin' for MCA
The MCA record company owns copyright to that song, not the band.
I'm surprised there is no "cease and desist" from EMI, who hold copyright (IINM) to Pink Floyd's Lunatic and Eclipse, the lyrics of which are in my latest journal, along with a little minirant about the RIAA:
I went out in the beer garden with Mary, she to smoke and me to look at the moon. It had gone from full to crescent. When we went back in I decided to waste some money and contribute to the evil RIAA, just this once, because there was an RIAA album that fit the situation perfectly.
I hate those damned internet jukeboxes. I'm no fan of jukeboxes anyway, and always let some other fool put money in them. But the new internet jukeboxes cost twice as much as a normal old fashioned CD jukebox, and if it has to download a song it takes a whole dollar, and it doesn't sound as good as a CD jukebox. But at least I should be able to hear a song from an album that was in the top 100 for twenty years.
I put my dollar in and searched for Dark Side of the Moon. The only song from the album was "Money". Fitting.
Fucking dickweeds. One more reason to hate the RIAA! And congress; that album should have been in the public domain long ago. So I played the old Patti Page song "Crazy" which should have been in the public domain when "Dark Side of the Moon" was recorded, and "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". As the second song started, Linda broke and put the yellow ball in. "I should have played Big Balls" I said.
And if slashdot were against people keeping journals and submitting them as stories, why do you think "Slashdot journal entries can be automatically submitted as stories"?
Slashdot Mirror
That's true, and making it federal law (it's state law here in Illinois as well, the guy from China got 2 years in Joliet IIRC) instead of state law would help.
But then you've made immigration enforcement the duty of employers. How is an employer supposed to know whether or not someone is a citizen or illegal alien? I think this journal from last year is appropriate here:But you are entirely correct, the powers that be are not serious about the problem.
I'm sorry officer; I was experiencing a velocity anomaly.
That's too bad, son, I'm still writing you a ticket. From now on keep it under 299,792,458 meters per second. The law is the law!
Ewe muss bee knew hear! If you cross unsymmetrical with asymmetrical do you get analsymetrical?
At least he didn't mention two "looser asymmetrical's". Then he'd have had me Godwining on his ass.
This is ALIENS messing with us as a cosmic joke....
As a cyborg who knows at least one alien I can tell you with near certainty that it's not the aliens. However, it is almost certainly dork matter.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot- RESISTANCE IS FUTILE! YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!
Could this anomaly possibly be explained by dark matter [blogspot.com]?
Maybe, but I think it's more easily explained by dork matter.
There is no dork side of the moon. As a matter of fact it's all dork.
Hamsters? What hamsters? It's the mice and the dolphins.
Wooosh.
;)
Ironically and comically, that applies to your post as well. Or should I say "apply's"?
MS vs Linux is like RIAA vs indies: it's damned hard to compete with "free". Considering the SCO debacle, it looks like MS and the RIAA are going the same lawyerly route.
Who do you want to sue today? How about your own customers!
And a slightly larger number divided by zero will still crash your program!
Linux, however, needs to be "better enough" to force people to reinstall
It already is "better enough"; at least, the distro I'm using is. Unlike MS It's secure. Unlike MS it's stable. Unlike MS I can have the thing boot in exactly the state I left it in, with all the programs I was running when I shut it off running when I start it back up. Those are just a few things and there are a whole lot more advantages to Linux over Windows.
What Linux needs is for non-Linux users to be shown the advantages.
(offtopic, checking "no karma bonus" box)
No fair, you added two more people to your "foes" list making me not the only guy on it any more.
Now my feelings are hurt!
They're not starving; we're not getting a lot of immigrants from Rwanda, after all. It's just that they can make a hell of a lot more money here than Mexico.
And as to placing the penalty on those who do the hiring, that has its own problems. First, that's the way it's done now. They just sentenced someone from China who ran a local restaraunt for hiring illegals here in Springfield. That tactc isn't keeping illegals out, now is it?
Second, you can't put a corporation in prison, and corporate leaders are almost never jailed. Enron was the exception that proves the rule, and those people were jailed because they stole from the rich and powerful; Sony hacked millions of computers with their rootkit, but did Sony's CEO or board go to prison?
Free the political prisoners who are there on drug charges (I say drug use is a political statement;) and you'll have lots of room for the illegal immigrants.
I can't believe I'm agreeing with someone with the name " Fulcrum of Evil". Say... you're not my ex wife, are you?
Thanks for the info, sorry the mods are MS shills. The only missing pice of the puzzle is where to get a legal copy of Apple's OS without buying a mac? I mean, I already smoke pot and hire hookers, I don't want to become even more of a criminal by using illegal software!
you're not taking very good care of your computers
No, I'm not. They're less trouble to build and repair than to maintain.
If you don't believe me that your RAM is going that's fine, just trying to offer some helpful advice
And I thank you for it, as well as the link.
Gee, and I thought permanent body modifications should be decided by the individual himself and no one else.
Right, let your five year old get a tattoo. You're still in high school, aren't you, kid?
Imagine if it was on his foot, they would have amputated it!
No, they would have removed the infected skin. They would have no more amputated his foot than they amputated his penis. If they could have cured the rot without removing the foreskin they would have done so.
Only the middle class and poor want to keep illegal aliens out. The rich want the cheap labor. So they make mouth noises like they're upset over illegal immigration while hiring illegal immigrants themselves, because they're cheap.
Catch an illegal and send him back, and that's all. If they really wanted to make the illegal aliens stay away, all they'd have to do would be to make illegal entry in this country a felony with a mandatory five year prison sentense for a first offense, fifteen years for a second offense and thirty for a third offense.
Don't hold your breath. The people who run things want to import cheap labor and they're not about to let anyone stop their gravy train.
Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries/i?
Blue-ray is like Viagra?
1: Fuck the RIAA
2: Fuck the MPAA
and while I am at it,
3: Fuck Microsoft.
Trust me, they're all lousy in bed.
Which "sacred human rights" you're talking about that the government is violating (which I presume to mean "is violating unconstitutionally")?
You might want to read this old journal from last month where I chronicle how my fourth amendment rights against unwarranted search were violated TWICE last year. Or would you posit that it's OK for the police to search YOUR garage without a warrant or even your knowlege because a strange woman, who had not been accused of any crime by anyone, had been prowling around the neighborhood and may have been hiding there without your knowlege?
I wrote Liberty? What liberty? three years ago, and things have only gotten worse since then.
-mcgrew
(my latest journal mentions the RIAA. I'm sure to garner a few more freaks with it...)
The tide will have turned when older established lawyers hire the newer tech savvy lawyers. They will need to: DNA tests, AI, robotics, and many other new technologies will spawn legal cases that deal with matters unheard of before.
Just like doctors and programmers keep current, so do lawyers. Age doesn't keep one from learning, and it doesn't keep one from being able to understand technology.
Now get off my lawn!
-mcgrew
The DMCA is unConstitutional on its face.
So is the Bono Act, but the Supreme Court says it isn't, that "limited" means whatever Congress says it means. That of course means that every word in the Constitution means whatever Congress says it means. Which means that the Constitution is now completely meaningless, and we no longer have rule of law but rule of men.
What interest me most is how this will evolve in the next generation of lawmakers. If these young people are going to step up against RIAA and win, who will be left to watch the RIAA propaganda videos like recently exposed on /.? Seems to me that RIAA with their complete propaganda machinery is no match for educational facilities :-)
Back in the seventies, we young people all smoked pot. Now that my genertation's rich people have taken over from the last generation's rich people, is it legal? Hell no, the assshats running things all deny ever having touched the stuff. Well, one famous asshat former doper claims he tried it once but never inhaled, as if he were talking to a nation of idiots. Well maybe he was.
But at any rate, I think when you in your twenties now are my age, your generation's rich people that become lawmakers are no more going to restore copyright to reasonable terms and legalize noncommercial copying than my generation's rich people that became lawmakers legalized the marijuana that nearly every single one of them broke the law smoking in the seventies.
That is the problem - They have no Copyright (of their own) to defend, they have no customers to care about....
The big four that they represent own the copyrights. The Corporate Owned Congress made musical recordings "works for hire" granting copyright to the record company, not the people who actualkly perform the music.
As Lynard Skynard said,
Want you to sign the contract
Want you to sign today
Gonna make lots of money
Workin' for MCA
The MCA record company owns copyright to that song, not the band.
I'm surprised there is no "cease and desist" from EMI, who hold copyright (IINM) to Pink Floyd's Lunatic and Eclipse, the lyrics of which are in my latest journal, along with a little minirant about the RIAA:
And if slashdot were against people keeping journals and submitting them as stories, why do you think "Slashdot journal entries can be automatically submitted as stories"?
I dunno, just to piss off kaos07?