If your writing has to be explained, then you're doing it wrong.
He was only explaining it to someone who lacked either the insight, the brainpower, or the imagination to understand it himself. "If I don't get your art, then you suck" really isn't the way to go through life.
Fortunately, we don't measure literature by the ability of the least of us to understand it. If we did, James Joyce, William Burroughs, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Coover, Baudelaire, Thomas Pynchon and many others would be unknown.
Explaining literature was my profession for 25 years. You explain it until the light goes on. Sometimes it never goes on, you know? For people like that, they make reality TV.
I suspect that the NSA and the FBI already have the dirt on the field of candidates.
If they had any dirt on Bernie Sanders, I'm thinking they would have used it on him sometime before this. I mean, the guy's been in public life for longer than a lot of NSA and FBI agents have been alive.
But I do believe we can do that without violating the constitutional and privacy rights of the American people.
What a horrible thing to say. The guy is obviously a monster and doesn't realize that violating the constitutional and privacy rights of the American people is a feature, not a bug.
Apple has a point in not wanting to do this wholesale, but law enforcement has an actual warrant, and that how the Fourth Amendment is supposed to work.
I don't know how much you know about warrants and the Fourth Amendment, but they can't compel anyone to actually work for the government. Apple is being told that the warrant requires them to develop software on the government's behalf.
The Fourth Amendment is about search and seizure. The warrant in question doesn't apply to either. The government can't force you to search my house for evidence, for example.
What the government is looking for in this court case is a legal precedent to force companies to do this for them and make the data recovery admissible in court.
This FCC vote broke down according to party lines, with the two Republicans voting against increased competition in regard to cable boxes and the three Democrats voting in favor.
Swiping a little piece of plastic to get my big gulp and bag of funyums is just too difficult and time-consuming for me. Thank god these benevolent companies have given me a way I can save 0.8 seconds in my important, busy day. Because you know, all those little 0.8 seconds whenever I want to buy something in my day add up and drain my life away. Why, if you add up all the time I waste by having to swipe my card, it could add up to as much as maybe three or four seconds a day.
Now excuse me while I go check my Twitter account for three hours and watch The Bachelor.
but if you think this is a 'republican' thing or 'right wing' thing,
Of course not, but since the Republicans on the Right are crowing about how they're the party of "small government", the hypocrisy is especially galling with them.
If someone comes out and says that they want bigger government, and mean it, I can deal with that and make an informed decision. If someone comes out and claims to want to have government small enough to drown in a bathtub and at the same time approves of ubiquitous surveillance, infinite military spending, militarized police departments, laws covering women's reproductive organs, the death penalty and the prison-industrial complex, then they're not only complicit in evil but they're bullshitting about it.
This opinion is all great until someone hurts someone in your family. Then lets see how much you want to honor their privacy...
Oh, that's such happy horseshit. The government already has all the evidence they need in this San Bernadino case. They're trying to get their hands on a technology and set a precedent. Fuck them.
I get that you're trolling, but I just came in from walking the dog and was listening to some Right Wing talk radio in between periods of the Blackhawks-Rangers game. All the Right-Wing jackoffs are going on about how Tim Cook should be jailed for contempt or treason or something or other and how a corporation giving up encryption keys and backdoors is the same as if the local cops come to your door with a warrant and we should trust the NSA and FBI and all the three-letter agencies to make sure it's only the information on one phone that is decrypted.
It just shows they don't mean a bit of it when they say how they hate Big Government. They just want Big Government on their own terms.
Does it also fix the ridiculously overblown 6000000 figure that is still quoted even though the number of people killed at each death camp has been reduced by orders of magnitude?
Note to new Slashdot management: Can you put out the roach motels again? There appears to be another infestation.
Sometimes you just need to accept that things sucked back then and move on (ie, don't do it again).
Unfortunately, it does not appear that Poland learned its lesson, as we see by the rise of the authoritarian far-Right in Poland PiS party and the Nazi-like National Rebirth of Poland (Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski) Party. It is no accident that the criminalization of the phrase "Polish death camps" has come at this time. It's because there is a concerted effort in Poland to erase these camps from history.
The German government at the time was very scientifically advanced, had a similar structure to what the US has today, and allowed a fair and open election that elected the megalomaniac into office. From there, they passed a law that allowed the "president" to override the congress in times of need. From there, the congress was disbanded, the constitution suspended, and within a month Dachau was opened. The Third Reich had risen. And to learn the passivity of the local population was shocking. People simply didn't care.
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Someone who's never heard of tritone substitutions.
Schoenberg, Webern, Penderecki and Verese just called to say that you're a knucklehead. They were partying over at John Coltrane's house.
He was only explaining it to someone who lacked either the insight, the brainpower, or the imagination to understand it himself. "If I don't get your art, then you suck" really isn't the way to go through life.
Fortunately, we don't measure literature by the ability of the least of us to understand it. If we did, James Joyce, William Burroughs, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Coover, Baudelaire, Thomas Pynchon and many others would be unknown.
Explaining literature was my profession for 25 years. You explain it until the light goes on. Sometimes it never goes on, you know? For people like that, they make reality TV.
If they had any dirt on Bernie Sanders, I'm thinking they would have used it on him sometime before this. I mean, the guy's been in public life for longer than a lot of NSA and FBI agents have been alive.
What a horrible thing to say. The guy is obviously a monster and doesn't realize that violating the constitutional and privacy rights of the American people is a feature, not a bug.
I don't know how much you know about warrants and the Fourth Amendment, but they can't compel anyone to actually work for the government. Apple is being told that the warrant requires them to develop software on the government's behalf.
The Fourth Amendment is about search and seizure. The warrant in question doesn't apply to either. The government can't force you to search my house for evidence, for example.
They think encryption is what happens after you die.
And I bet they're SO scared. Look, they're like totally shaking. They're willing to pay a fine paid for by price hikes on the consumer.
That's it in a nutshell.
I really want some of what John McAfee is smoking.
This FCC vote broke down according to party lines, with the two Republicans voting against increased competition in regard to cable boxes and the three Democrats voting in favor.
I have too much respect for you and for my own trolling abilities to ever stoop to a goatse troll.
They keep believing that there's a technological solution to terrorism, when it's obvious the only real solution is human.
I knew that by the second paragraph.
Swiping a little piece of plastic to get my big gulp and bag of funyums is just too difficult and time-consuming for me. Thank god these benevolent companies have given me a way I can save 0.8 seconds in my important, busy day. Because you know, all those little 0.8 seconds whenever I want to buy something in my day add up and drain my life away. Why, if you add up all the time I waste by having to swipe my card, it could add up to as much as maybe three or four seconds a day.
Now excuse me while I go check my Twitter account for three hours and watch The Bachelor.
Of course not, but since the Republicans on the Right are crowing about how they're the party of "small government", the hypocrisy is especially galling with them.
If someone comes out and says that they want bigger government, and mean it, I can deal with that and make an informed decision. If someone comes out and claims to want to have government small enough to drown in a bathtub and at the same time approves of ubiquitous surveillance, infinite military spending, militarized police departments, laws covering women's reproductive organs, the death penalty and the prison-industrial complex, then they're not only complicit in evil but they're bullshitting about it.
Now, have we cleared that up?
Oh, that's such happy horseshit. The government already has all the evidence they need in this San Bernadino case. They're trying to get their hands on a technology and set a precedent. Fuck them.
I get that you're trolling, but I just came in from walking the dog and was listening to some Right Wing talk radio in between periods of the Blackhawks-Rangers game. All the Right-Wing jackoffs are going on about how Tim Cook should be jailed for contempt or treason or something or other and how a corporation giving up encryption keys and backdoors is the same as if the local cops come to your door with a warrant and we should trust the NSA and FBI and all the three-letter agencies to make sure it's only the information on one phone that is decrypted.
It just shows they don't mean a bit of it when they say how they hate Big Government. They just want Big Government on their own terms.
Sounds like the world's worst New Wave band. They had a single in the '90s, "Watch Us Fuck All These People Over, Pt 2".
Yes. At least Riefenstahl knew how to make a decent film.
Where's your sense of adventure?
I for one am really excited about this new feature:
https://i.imgur.com/P82GvlT.gi...
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...
Note to new Slashdot management: Can you put out the roach motels again? There appears to be another infestation.
Unfortunately, it does not appear that Poland learned its lesson, as we see by the rise of the authoritarian far-Right in Poland PiS party and the Nazi-like National Rebirth of Poland (Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski) Party. It is no accident that the criminalization of the phrase "Polish death camps" has come at this time. It's because there is a concerted effort in Poland to erase these camps from history.
https://www.thejournal.ie/pola...
Trump 2016
I guess I'm still hoping the Grammys will repeat that one time they were cool:
https://youtu.be/W-z5sqt1QK4
https://youtu.be/qeX8Usqx3hA
https://youtu.be/3FY4MRdQOdE