This is not the same. The problem is sub-domains not super-domains.
Does going to your local University and registering mail.google.com.myuni.edu mean that you're going to get a lot of phishing? Yes, but only for people searching with myuni.edu as their default search domain. (likely, only on MyUni's internal network, and then only for people who aren't super-seasoned salt-cured security people who automatically type "mail.google.com." every time)
This problem is that in pining for xxxx.google.com you can potentially ADD information that "Hey! I know what mail.google.com is too!" Since the super-domains match up, the DNS servers would go "right then, update my cache."
Doesn't sound that complex to fix - just make the checking for additional records a lot more stringent so you can't poison WWW.DOMAIN.COM within a reply to AAAAA.DOMAIN.COM
Won't work... the problem is that you're setting NS1.VICTIM.COM while searching for WWW.VICTIM.COM
If you implement the fix you fix the bug, but you just threw out the baby with the bathwater... now everyone needs to double their DNS requests to find out what the address for the NS server is.
I drove cars for a long time, and got into GranTurismo, and fantasize about being the next Danica Patrick occasionally... but as much as I try to think about doing motorcycle racing... I just can't imagine ACTUALLY doing it...
It sounds like a good idea for 4 seconds as it rattles around in my brain before my self-preservation instinct kicks in and says, "HEY SHUT UP!"
Anyhow, they said it was just like NASCAR, so I figured the spectators would be rednecks.
Yeah, when I saw "like NASCAR 1000m in the air", I was all, "oh great... ANOTHER NASCAR."
Seriously, anyone who watches real racecar driving on circuits internationally just shivers when you suggest "NASCAR", because it's boring to watch. "Go fast, turn left," I've heard it described as. And then, Indy and Champcar spun off of F1, to go around in ovals...
I remember playing a Indy race car simulator game back on the Apple ][e (yeah, old school racing sim!) and now I'm surprised looking back on it... the tires on the right-side are larger than the ones on the left... why? To help you turn left better... because SURPRISE! They're only going left!
Compared to GT racing, F1 racing, and hell, even freaking Autocross ("put up cones; instant track! can I drive my civic?") are way cooler and more interesting to watch than a bunch of dumb americans chasing their tail all day long.
Maybe when we start having a racially-equal number of crackwhores, violent criminals, terrorists, drug dealers, layabouts, and social misfits; then maybe we can start applying it to other things.
I'm not for political correctness (only fairness). If racial profiling, or gender profiling, or sexual profiling, or any other type of profiling generates positive results, then why aren't we doing it?
In other words -- if girls don't want to study science them please, for the love of science, don't try to make them. I sincerely believe that statistically, men are better at science than women. There are enough objectively identifiable differences between the sexes to justify such a statement. (The same could be said for races, too.)
The key thing to remember, though is that, being good at science doesn't have, or doesn't need to have any particular value or "worth" associated with it. I'm not good at sports, and I don't think that makes me less of a person.
(In case you're wondering, I'm a gay man who considers himself a very liberal Socialist on the political spectrum.)
You really don't get how much of a leg-up "opportunity" is.
Blacks are disproportionately in lesser income locations that are crime-filled, because of that, they have more exposure to crime, and thus *gasp* more likely to get into crime. How many slashdotters here would be into computers if you never had access to them as a child? (Anyone who was around before computers was sufficiently well off to not count for this purpose.) How many of us slashdotters would be able to pull yourself up out of the ghetto 0on a silicon wave of computing? hm?
We're all knowledgeable here, there's no doubt. But that's because we were given opportunity to advance.
The single greatest indicator of how much money a child will make in their life is........ surprise, how much their parents make/made. The more money the family had, the less stressed to get a job the children were, and the more opportunity they had to spend time learning, rather than "thuggin'".
Women aren't statistically as capable in science and math because we're not given the opportunity in life to develop math and science skills. It's not just that our interests lie elsewhere, but that we're PUSHED for our interests to lie elsewhere. I was introverted enough at the time that I didn't feel or care about the pressure to not go into math and science, but my older sister told me that she was often instructed, or told, or "suggested" that she take other classes than honors/gifted math.
This is not to say that there are not true biological differences. Women have a stronger connection around the hypothalamus, and are able to associate emotion much more into memories, resulting in increased memory (in general/statistically), while men can... I kid you not, rapidly click a button or pen significantly more often than a woman can. Men are statistically and in general stronger than women, because SURPRISE you guys have more testosterone available than we do. You're literally taking natural steroids that we don't have. As well, if you've taken the ASVAB, you've likely noticed that even the 50th percentile in coding speed for women is 99th percentile for men.
As for opportunity in getting into math and science fields... it's all about stupid idiots like you telling us that we can't do it as well as men that screw things up. Men and women, in equal levels of opportunity, score essentially equal in math.
What about racial equality? Is that one just not cool anymore? What about LGBT equality, I demand an EQUAL number of Lesbians, an equal number of Queers, an equal number of Bi-Sexuals and an EQUAL number of trannys to be a requirement of labs which accept govt. funding!! What about straight people? To hell with them!!
Ahem... let's start with LGBT sensitivity 101... transgendered and transexual individuals are not called "trannys"... that's what the porn industry calls them.
This is like saying "Let's get a bunch of white people, Black people, cunts and Hispanics working here!"
Oh, and as a grammar Nazi note, it's "bisexual" not "Bi-Sexual".
The difference in all of these cases is generally that races and such are expected to match or exceed representation in the population. LGBT are still not as common as just plain women.
Just proving once again that anyone can sue anyone for anything. Needless to say, numerous judges have thrown his cases out, one referred to his case as 'farsical'.
This guy apparently has proven that you can sue anything for anything... I mean, "Mein Kampf"?
Pfff I want to sue "Mein Kampf", I mean, how many times do you get to sue an inanimate object? (To be fair, the Lincoln Memorial probably has a staff..)
They should have forced him to release all admin passwords a long time ago, and performed regular system audits. Any non-compliance on his part would have just helped them fire him faster.
It sounds like they have a management problem in general. Any sizeable company or government body needs to have regular audit and appraisels of their security. The network admin should NOT be in charge of security, there needs to be at least one other person involved.
Duh.
Here's the problem with that "simple" notion. Once you start treating him differently from everyone else, it sets up a pattern of abuse or harassment. Especially, if you start restricting their work so that they cannot perform the duties required by their position. When their performance review rolls around, BOOM, they're hit with a brick wall of "you didn't accomplish anything that was expected of you." I'm not entirely sure about California, but I think at that point, someone can make a case for being fired without reason... and as part of a Union, that answer is usually insufficient to fire someone.
IMO this guy had a personal disagreement with his manager, and was fired because that guy was working full time trying to find a way to fire someone he disliked.. considering he earned an extra 30k as a trouble shooter and was able to pull off a time bomb, i'm sure he knew what he was doing with technology...
Been there, done that... well, without the sabotage. I fought back, and managed to stave off being fired for about a year or so, but once I realized my boss was going to do anything and everything to get me fired? I pretty much worked on Wikipedia the rest of my time there. I tried to do real work, but his restrictions, deadlines, and everything simply made doing real work intractable.
I'm supposing that he and the company I worked for are better off that it never came to my mind to sabotage anything... they treated me like crap, abused me every way possible, blamed me for every mistake. While I had complained about his behavior, the company's investigation came up with, I was told, "absolutely nothing". Then they offered me money in exchange for giving up all my grievances against them.
I think they were most afraid that I could start a suit, then request all my records for disclosure, and it didn't look pretty. I can't imagine a jury in the world, who would listen to my story and not side with me.
This whole experience has shown me the benefits of a union, because when the whole company gets turned against you, there's nothing you can do inside the company to have your concerns actually considered... those "impartial investigators"? Yeah, no... they're being paid by the company. If they tell the employee that the company was liable for something, then that employee goes off and sues the company.
Feel glad when you're on the good side of a company you work for... I've been on the other side, and it was the worst time of my life.
Well, the thing about New Mexico is that it has a much longer Hispanic history than any "American" history. Well before the 13 colonies were being started, New Mexico was being colonized by the Spanish. Mexico at one point was "New Spain", and then in the north, there was "New Mexico", a name that just kind of stuck. When the USA steamrolled across the country, the kind of convinced Mexico to give it over. Not to say that all the hispanics speak Spanish at all... my mother's mother was punished in school physically for speaking Spanish in school, and so she never spoke it around my mom.
There are also a number of "odd" spanish speakers. They know all of the right prepositions, which shows that they have an incredibly high-skill in the language... but then state emphatically that they are unable to speak it. It turns out that they develop a psychological block from speaking it, because it's view so negatively here.
My mother's mother was born into New Mexico before it was a state of the union... she remembers when it became a state even. (less than 100 years ago, in 1912) It's a lot of the reason why Hispanic culture is so strong there... and that it was colonized so early means that the culture is so strongly established... in many ways it's perhaps unique among the United States like that. While California has a lot of Mexican culture in the south, New Mexico has deep Hispanic roots older than California itself.:)
Well, in the US, getting legal permission to stay in the United States is really really hard. And every time you leave the country, when you come back, they treat you like a terrorist.
While Mexico isn't a state (and likely won't be one any time soon) New Mexico is a state. And let me tell you, there are some Hispanics from New Mexico that are more Hispanic than some Mexicans... there are people in New Mexico who cannot speak English, yet their grandparents lived in the USA, or even further back, they were here well before any colonization of the 13 colonies started.
And I agree that we need treat serial killers/rapists differently, but that's what due process is. You are freely given all rights, and we will take them away only in situations where it has been decided by legal process that you do not deserve to have that right anymore.
What do you mean he got the one wrong about light-sensitivity? He was wrong for a few times, as he always is, but ultimately, he diagnosed her with Clinical Rabies, which is what she had. Too bad for her, Rabies is incurable (it just infects REALLY slowly, so you can actually vaccinate against it after being bitten, and avoid development of clinical rabies, cool, no?)
Even if you say the UK is crowded... it's not Japan crowded... Japan is heavily crowded, and low on natural resources... they certainly have a reason to control immigration (as well as parenting)... in my honest opinion, a government shouldn't be allowed to restrict immigration, until it does restrict how many children can be born. If you refuse to control one influx of citizens, you shouldn't control any other influx of citizens.
While you say that this would drive wages down, it's entirely possible... but then cost of living would go down... recession maybe, but a good cycle of inflation/recession is good for an economy. People are likely to move to another country as long as the benefits outweigh leaving their home country behind... if the US/UK stops paying as much for their jobs, they'll have less reason to come here, and will more likely stay in their own country, and develop the economy there.
I think it's kind of stupid that in America, we kind of let in those who are economically well off before anyone else... you end up with a situation where the US is almost bleeding Mexico of skilled workers, India of computer programmers, Canadians of comedians... If you're a successful person, you end up gravitating towards the city-countries not the rural-countries in order to maximize your earning potential. If your potential was the same in New York as it is in Mexico city... Mexico City would economically thrive just as well as New York.
Don't feel too bad... it's only funny because it's playing the meme on the meme itself... Any further jokes of this format will not elicit any humorous response from you...
Protons and electrons are not anti-particles though.
The better example is positronium, where you have a positron (anti-electron) orbited by an electron (also known as a negatron... no seriously).
You end up with a particle-anti-particle interacting in a way that has some form of life time... but positronium even in its most stable form doesn't last more than a few milliseconds.
So, this "bottomonium" would probably be a case where the two quarks are interacting by strong-force to make a Meson, while not annihilating each other... studying this mechanism could help us understand the structure of Mesons better, much like the interaction of electrons and protons/neutrons made it more clear the structure of the atom.
Only difference is that at Meson level everything is far too small to make much meaningful sense out of with our current measurement techniques. Unfortunately, our current measurement techniques are constrained by the physical universe anymore >_ So don't hope for leaps and bounds on this.
Modern rape is a violent crime assaulting another recognized person... in old times, it was a non-violent crime of property damage.
Rape and promiscuity are two different things. The difference is that one act goes against the consent of an individual while the other is mutual.
Regardless of time periods in human history, rape is often emotionally and/or physically disturbing to the victim.
Of course the emotional harm done to a woman in old and modern times was the same. The difference is, in olden times that didn't legally matter. While rape was a devastating thing to happen to a woman in olden days, just as it is today (I wish I didn't personally know how devastating) the patriarchal society didn't give a s* because it was against a woman.
In much the same way, Nazis justified their death camps because Jews, Retards, and Gypsies were all defined as "sub-human", and thus not afforded the same rights or respect given to another German, and before Americans try to get all high on the horse, that was the exact reason justifying slavery in the United States.
Killing someone's slave in the United States was not a murder, it was property destruction... Nazi concentration camps weren't murderous, because it was vermin control.
It is naturally up to philosophical debate, as to whether these acts were fundamentally any more immoral than destroying someone's chair, (or in fact, killing their dog), or destroying cockroaches and rats that have infested a house... You're free to hold your own beliefs upon which way it was, but I'm talking about legal fact, and attested history... not morality.
*nod nod* you reminded me of a scene from House MD the first Season. After having recalled his experiences in a near death experience, House is questioned, "do you think it meant anything?" he responded, "it was just the random firing of my neurons before I died... nothing special." Response, "do you really believe that?" House: "I choose to believe what comforts me most." Response, "so you're happy to believe that there's nothing else after this life?" House: "I'm more comfortable with the notion that what we do here matters."
I take that notion to heart. I consider no other person better or worse than any other person. We are all the human race, and we're working our way along here in the universe... my genes, my family? They're close in my life, and important to me emotionally, but rationally, they are no more important to me than any other person on this earth. This drives me to crazy ideas like "free immigration", don't restrict it... who are we to say to someone "you're not American, so you can't come here"... if you think about it, the difference in nationality is pretty much exclusively bound to where you were born, and who you were born to... completely random chance. Mexicans have done nothing to deserve being treated like they are here in America... there is no due process in denying them the fundamental rights that we feel are given to all people... life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
While my approach may seem nihilistic at first, "the world is the way it is, and there is nothing more after we die", that's a bit of a naive statement... Einstein is still around despite being dead, even my grandfather who is little known left his mark on the world... everyone has left a mark, and changed the course of history, if only very minutely... I essentially find the selfish pursuit of fame, and fortune at the expense of others to be fundamentally immoral... there's nothing left after this world, there is no karma, or great equalizing life after death, where good deeds are rewarded, and bad deeds are punished... there is simply the impact you have left upon this world, either positive or negative for your fellow humans, who are no more or less important than yourself.
Slashdot Mirror
*GASP!*
It's like on the intartoobs nothing is ever gone once published.
It's true people, and well... be careful with what you post. INFORMATION SHOULD BE FREE (rather than anthropomorphised.)
Only because someone marked it interesting.
This is not the same. The problem is sub-domains not super-domains.
Does going to your local University and registering mail.google.com.myuni.edu mean that you're going to get a lot of phishing? Yes, but only for people searching with myuni.edu as their default search domain. (likely, only on MyUni's internal network, and then only for people who aren't super-seasoned salt-cured security people who automatically type "mail.google.com." every time)
This problem is that in pining for xxxx.google.com you can potentially ADD information that "Hey! I know what mail.google.com is too!" Since the super-domains match up, the DNS servers would go "right then, update my cache."
Doesn't sound that complex to fix - just make the checking for additional records a lot more stringent so you can't poison WWW.DOMAIN.COM within a reply to AAAAA.DOMAIN.COM
Won't work... the problem is that you're setting NS1.VICTIM.COM while searching for WWW.VICTIM.COM
If you implement the fix you fix the bug, but you just threw out the baby with the bathwater... now everyone needs to double their DNS requests to find out what the address for the NS server is.
Fame? Notorioty? Unstoppable attractiveness to women?
Hey, you all are laughing now, but I tell you, there's a whole throng of us women just waiting for the right guy to secure our DNS!
Yeah, I looked over most of the projects that they commented about... it's like, um... where are the big names? OpenBSD, Linux, X.org, Apache?
Like... oh right, if they reviewed high-profile FOSS projects rather than low-band FOSS projects, they'd come out with different results...
TRASHBIN!
Have you seen Motorcycle circuit racing?
THOSE GUYS ARE INSANE...
I drove cars for a long time, and got into GranTurismo, and fantasize about being the next Danica Patrick occasionally... but as much as I try to think about doing motorcycle racing... I just can't imagine ACTUALLY doing it...
It sounds like a good idea for 4 seconds as it rattles around in my brain before my self-preservation instinct kicks in and says, "HEY SHUT UP!"
Awesome joke :)
NASCAR does suck and if a person can't be a dick on Slashdot then what's the point of Slashdot!
Some of us just prefer to be cunts... :P
Anyhow, they said it was just like NASCAR, so I figured the spectators would be rednecks.
Yeah, when I saw "like NASCAR 1000m in the air", I was all, "oh great... ANOTHER NASCAR."
Seriously, anyone who watches real racecar driving on circuits internationally just shivers when you suggest "NASCAR", because it's boring to watch. "Go fast, turn left," I've heard it described as. And then, Indy and Champcar spun off of F1, to go around in ovals...
I remember playing a Indy race car simulator game back on the Apple ][e (yeah, old school racing sim!) and now I'm surprised looking back on it... the tires on the right-side are larger than the ones on the left... why? To help you turn left better... because SURPRISE! They're only going left!
Compared to GT racing, F1 racing, and hell, even freaking Autocross ("put up cones; instant track! can I drive my civic?") are way cooler and more interesting to watch than a bunch of dumb americans chasing their tail all day long.
Maybe when we start having a racially-equal number of crackwhores, violent criminals, terrorists, drug dealers, layabouts, and social misfits; then maybe we can start applying it to other things.
I'm not for political correctness (only fairness). If racial profiling, or gender profiling, or sexual profiling, or any other type of profiling generates positive results, then why aren't we doing it?
In other words -- if girls don't want to study science them please, for the love of science, don't try to make them. I sincerely believe that statistically, men are better at science than women. There are enough objectively identifiable differences between the sexes to justify such a statement. (The same could be said for races, too.)
The key thing to remember, though is that, being good at science doesn't have, or doesn't need to have any particular value or "worth" associated with it. I'm not good at sports, and I don't think that makes me less of a person.
(In case you're wondering, I'm a gay man who considers himself a very liberal Socialist on the political spectrum.)
You really don't get how much of a leg-up "opportunity" is.
Blacks are disproportionately in lesser income locations that are crime-filled, because of that, they have more exposure to crime, and thus *gasp* more likely to get into crime. How many slashdotters here would be into computers if you never had access to them as a child? (Anyone who was around before computers was sufficiently well off to not count for this purpose.) How many of us slashdotters would be able to pull yourself up out of the ghetto 0on a silicon wave of computing? hm?
We're all knowledgeable here, there's no doubt. But that's because we were given opportunity to advance.
The single greatest indicator of how much money a child will make in their life is........ surprise, how much their parents make/made. The more money the family had, the less stressed to get a job the children were, and the more opportunity they had to spend time learning, rather than "thuggin'".
Women aren't statistically as capable in science and math because we're not given the opportunity in life to develop math and science skills. It's not just that our interests lie elsewhere, but that we're PUSHED for our interests to lie elsewhere. I was introverted enough at the time that I didn't feel or care about the pressure to not go into math and science, but my older sister told me that she was often instructed, or told, or "suggested" that she take other classes than honors/gifted math.
This is not to say that there are not true biological differences. Women have a stronger connection around the hypothalamus, and are able to associate emotion much more into memories, resulting in increased memory (in general/statistically), while men can... I kid you not, rapidly click a button or pen significantly more often than a woman can. Men are statistically and in general stronger than women, because SURPRISE you guys have more testosterone available than we do. You're literally taking natural steroids that we don't have. As well, if you've taken the ASVAB, you've likely noticed that even the 50th percentile in coding speed for women is 99th percentile for men.
As for opportunity in getting into math and science fields... it's all about stupid idiots like you telling us that we can't do it as well as men that screw things up. Men and women, in equal levels of opportunity, score essentially equal in math.
What about racial equality? Is that one just not cool anymore?
What about LGBT equality, I demand an EQUAL number of Lesbians, an equal number of Queers, an equal number of Bi-Sexuals and an EQUAL number of trannys to be a requirement of labs which accept govt. funding!! What about straight people? To hell with them!!
Ahem... let's start with LGBT sensitivity 101... transgendered and transexual individuals are not called "trannys"... that's what the porn industry calls them.
This is like saying "Let's get a bunch of white people, Black people, cunts and Hispanics working here!"
Oh, and as a grammar Nazi note, it's "bisexual" not "Bi-Sexual".
The difference in all of these cases is generally that races and such are expected to match or exceed representation in the population. LGBT are still not as common as just plain women.
* WARNING: Consuming raw, undercooked food, or food from Denny's may increase your risk of food-borne illness.
"Close the door! What, were you born in a barn?" -- Police chief, "Jesus Christ Supercop"
I just read your sig... that's wow... hilarious, true, and no doubt going to offend someone...
Wow, turns out some one tried to sue themselves for getting arrested. >_
Just proving once again that anyone can sue anyone for anything. Needless to say, numerous judges have thrown his cases out, one referred to his case as 'farsical'.
This guy apparently has proven that you can sue anything for anything... I mean, "Mein Kampf"?
Pfff I want to sue "Mein Kampf", I mean, how many times do you get to sue an inanimate object? (To be fair, the Lincoln Memorial probably has a staff..)
They should have forced him to release all admin passwords a long time ago, and performed regular system audits. Any non-compliance on his part would have just helped them fire him faster.
It sounds like they have a management problem in general. Any sizeable company or government body needs to have regular audit and appraisels of their security. The network admin should NOT be in charge of security, there needs to be at least one other person involved.
Duh.
Here's the problem with that "simple" notion. Once you start treating him differently from everyone else, it sets up a pattern of abuse or harassment. Especially, if you start restricting their work so that they cannot perform the duties required by their position. When their performance review rolls around, BOOM, they're hit with a brick wall of "you didn't accomplish anything that was expected of you." I'm not entirely sure about California, but I think at that point, someone can make a case for being fired without reason... and as part of a Union, that answer is usually insufficient to fire someone.
Wikipedia has an article on Structural Abuse, you might want to consider it.
Longtime harassment and abuse will lead people to irrational behavior.
Just because someone had a bunch of attempts to be fired doesn't mean that the manager was unjustified in his position.
Plus, no evidence of his tampering was available until implemented... as a result you cannot punish someone for acts that they "might" do.
IMO this guy had a personal disagreement with his manager, and was fired because that guy was working full time trying to find a way to fire someone he disliked.. considering he earned an extra 30k as a trouble shooter and was able to pull off a time bomb, i'm sure he knew what he was doing with technology...
Been there, done that... well, without the sabotage. I fought back, and managed to stave off being fired for about a year or so, but once I realized my boss was going to do anything and everything to get me fired? I pretty much worked on Wikipedia the rest of my time there. I tried to do real work, but his restrictions, deadlines, and everything simply made doing real work intractable.
I'm supposing that he and the company I worked for are better off that it never came to my mind to sabotage anything... they treated me like crap, abused me every way possible, blamed me for every mistake. While I had complained about his behavior, the company's investigation came up with, I was told, "absolutely nothing". Then they offered me money in exchange for giving up all my grievances against them.
I think they were most afraid that I could start a suit, then request all my records for disclosure, and it didn't look pretty. I can't imagine a jury in the world, who would listen to my story and not side with me.
This whole experience has shown me the benefits of a union, because when the whole company gets turned against you, there's nothing you can do inside the company to have your concerns actually considered... those "impartial investigators"? Yeah, no... they're being paid by the company. If they tell the employee that the company was liable for something, then that employee goes off and sues the company.
Feel glad when you're on the good side of a company you work for... I've been on the other side, and it was the worst time of my life.
Well, the thing about New Mexico is that it has a much longer Hispanic history than any "American" history. Well before the 13 colonies were being started, New Mexico was being colonized by the Spanish. Mexico at one point was "New Spain", and then in the north, there was "New Mexico", a name that just kind of stuck. When the USA steamrolled across the country, the kind of convinced Mexico to give it over. Not to say that all the hispanics speak Spanish at all... my mother's mother was punished in school physically for speaking Spanish in school, and so she never spoke it around my mom.
There are also a number of "odd" spanish speakers. They know all of the right prepositions, which shows that they have an incredibly high-skill in the language... but then state emphatically that they are unable to speak it. It turns out that they develop a psychological block from speaking it, because it's view so negatively here.
My mother's mother was born into New Mexico before it was a state of the union... she remembers when it became a state even. (less than 100 years ago, in 1912) It's a lot of the reason why Hispanic culture is so strong there... and that it was colonized so early means that the culture is so strongly established... in many ways it's perhaps unique among the United States like that. While California has a lot of Mexican culture in the south, New Mexico has deep Hispanic roots older than California itself. :)
Well, in the US, getting legal permission to stay in the United States is really really hard. And every time you leave the country, when you come back, they treat you like a terrorist.
While Mexico isn't a state (and likely won't be one any time soon) New Mexico is a state. And let me tell you, there are some Hispanics from New Mexico that are more Hispanic than some Mexicans... there are people in New Mexico who cannot speak English, yet their grandparents lived in the USA, or even further back, they were here well before any colonization of the 13 colonies started.
And I agree that we need treat serial killers/rapists differently, but that's what due process is. You are freely given all rights, and we will take them away only in situations where it has been decided by legal process that you do not deserve to have that right anymore.
What do you mean he got the one wrong about light-sensitivity? He was wrong for a few times, as he always is, but ultimately, he diagnosed her with Clinical Rabies, which is what she had. Too bad for her, Rabies is incurable (it just infects REALLY slowly, so you can actually vaccinate against it after being bitten, and avoid development of clinical rabies, cool, no?)
Even if you say the UK is crowded... it's not Japan crowded... Japan is heavily crowded, and low on natural resources... they certainly have a reason to control immigration (as well as parenting)... in my honest opinion, a government shouldn't be allowed to restrict immigration, until it does restrict how many children can be born. If you refuse to control one influx of citizens, you shouldn't control any other influx of citizens.
While you say that this would drive wages down, it's entirely possible... but then cost of living would go down... recession maybe, but a good cycle of inflation/recession is good for an economy. People are likely to move to another country as long as the benefits outweigh leaving their home country behind... if the US/UK stops paying as much for their jobs, they'll have less reason to come here, and will more likely stay in their own country, and develop the economy there.
I think it's kind of stupid that in America, we kind of let in those who are economically well off before anyone else... you end up with a situation where the US is almost bleeding Mexico of skilled workers, India of computer programmers, Canadians of comedians... If you're a successful person, you end up gravitating towards the city-countries not the rural-countries in order to maximize your earning potential. If your potential was the same in New York as it is in Mexico city... Mexico City would economically thrive just as well as New York.
Don't feel too bad... it's only funny because it's playing the meme on the meme itself... Any further jokes of this format will not elicit any humorous response from you...
Protons and electrons are not anti-particles though.
The better example is positronium, where you have a positron (anti-electron) orbited by an electron (also known as a negatron... no seriously).
You end up with a particle-anti-particle interacting in a way that has some form of life time... but positronium even in its most stable form doesn't last more than a few milliseconds.
So, this "bottomonium" would probably be a case where the two quarks are interacting by strong-force to make a Meson, while not annihilating each other... studying this mechanism could help us understand the structure of Mesons better, much like the interaction of electrons and protons/neutrons made it more clear the structure of the atom.
Only difference is that at Meson level everything is far too small to make much meaningful sense out of with our current measurement techniques. Unfortunately, our current measurement techniques are constrained by the physical universe anymore >_ So don't hope for leaps and bounds on this.
Modern rape is a violent crime assaulting another recognized person... in old times, it was a non-violent crime of property damage.
Rape and promiscuity are two different things. The difference is that one act goes against the consent of an individual while the other is mutual.
Regardless of time periods in human history, rape is often emotionally and/or physically disturbing to the victim.
Of course the emotional harm done to a woman in old and modern times was the same. The difference is, in olden times that didn't legally matter. While rape was a devastating thing to happen to a woman in olden days, just as it is today (I wish I didn't personally know how devastating) the patriarchal society didn't give a s* because it was against a woman.
In much the same way, Nazis justified their death camps because Jews, Retards, and Gypsies were all defined as "sub-human", and thus not afforded the same rights or respect given to another German, and before Americans try to get all high on the horse, that was the exact reason justifying slavery in the United States.
Killing someone's slave in the United States was not a murder, it was property destruction... Nazi concentration camps weren't murderous, because it was vermin control.
It is naturally up to philosophical debate, as to whether these acts were fundamentally any more immoral than destroying someone's chair, (or in fact, killing their dog), or destroying cockroaches and rats that have infested a house... You're free to hold your own beliefs upon which way it was, but I'm talking about legal fact, and attested history... not morality.
*nod nod* you reminded me of a scene from House MD the first Season. After having recalled his experiences in a near death experience, House is questioned, "do you think it meant anything?" he responded, "it was just the random firing of my neurons before I died... nothing special." Response, "do you really believe that?" House: "I choose to believe what comforts me most." Response, "so you're happy to believe that there's nothing else after this life?" House: "I'm more comfortable with the notion that what we do here matters."
I take that notion to heart. I consider no other person better or worse than any other person. We are all the human race, and we're working our way along here in the universe... my genes, my family? They're close in my life, and important to me emotionally, but rationally, they are no more important to me than any other person on this earth. This drives me to crazy ideas like "free immigration", don't restrict it... who are we to say to someone "you're not American, so you can't come here"... if you think about it, the difference in nationality is pretty much exclusively bound to where you were born, and who you were born to... completely random chance. Mexicans have done nothing to deserve being treated like they are here in America... there is no due process in denying them the fundamental rights that we feel are given to all people... life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
While my approach may seem nihilistic at first, "the world is the way it is, and there is nothing more after we die", that's a bit of a naive statement... Einstein is still around despite being dead, even my grandfather who is little known left his mark on the world... everyone has left a mark, and changed the course of history, if only very minutely... I essentially find the selfish pursuit of fame, and fortune at the expense of others to be fundamentally immoral... there's nothing left after this world, there is no karma, or great equalizing life after death, where good deeds are rewarded, and bad deeds are punished... there is simply the impact you have left upon this world, either positive or negative for your fellow humans, who are no more or less important than yourself.