Actually.... I just moved from Orlando, FL after living there 6 years. I know the exact case you are talking about. I don't have links either. However, my wife and I, and our friends, wanted to puke. That was some bad stuff.
Hey, don't call those two kids "horny and stupid". Horny and stupid go hand-in-hand, both for men and for women. I wish I had the link we both are talking about. When I read it, as an Orlando resident, I almost shite my pants. I couldn't believe it.
Yes, this whole sex offender thing needs to be "re-thinked" by our so-called-representatives. However, I still firmly believe that a violent sex offender should be jailed for life.
I don't think the solution is that hard. If both parties, be it boy/girl, boy/boy or girl/girl both say they consented and there is no evidence of forced coercion, then there should be no charges IMO. Unless, there is a minor involved under the age of 16 and the other "partner" is at least 10 years senior. If that is the case, than maybe, the minor is speaking out of fear. However, if after diligent questioning, the minor insists that it was consensual, then there should be no charges. Period.
I agree with you about the "ugly before better" part. However, does MS really have a good enough hand? MS just cannot attack with their patents, because others will attack back. In the courts, some of those patents will be thrown out, others, sadly IMO, will stand. It would be like the US vs. Soviets going "new-clear" during the Cold War. It would have killed us both.
Yeah, the whole basic freedoms, IP thing are pretty nasty. However, I think more and more customers (or as the big corps like to say "consumers") will slowly catch on and see just how limited they are by all this DRM crap. There was just a story about how MS kicked customers in the @ss with MP 11 WRT the latest MCE.
I think for a while, the sheople will continue to buy the proprietary crap. Bring it home and try to use it. Over time, the will get POed when they go out to eat and see that they came home to an "official" MCE device that didn't record the show they love because of some DRM crap. Other issues will be friend A wants to let friend B borrow a show the loved. With MS and DRM, friend B will quickly find out that they cannot view it. Pretty sad IMO. Since I can go out and rent a DVD, watch it, then give it to a friend to watch and tell him to just return it when they are done. Even better, I can rent a movie from some service like Netflix, rip the DVD on any OS, and then burn a DVD with no CSS, no commercials and no region codes and let my friend "borrow" that.
Damn, all the media companies have to do is get rid of the DRM and keep prices at an affordable level. We Americans love our entertainment and will pay for it. I would NOT get a burned copy of a movie from a friend if I could buy my own for $3-$5. Hell, I would buy just about every movie that comes out on DVD for $3. If I don't like it, so what. The viewing experience is worth at least $3 to me. Image how much more the MPAA would make if they tried something like this. Sure, there would still be some "piracy" (arrrggh), but it would be very limited. It just wouldn't be worth it. I would rather spend $3 and get the real DVD then risk a crappy DVD (and for MS Windows user, the risk would also include spyware/viruses/etc).
Why do you say "sex offender"? Are you suggesting that a sexual offense is not a crime? I personally think sexual offenses should be some of the most punished crimes.
However, with that said, I do think the laws need to be tweaked a little. For example, there shouldn't be some silly age limit like say, I am 18 and my GF is 16. Her daddy finds out we "did it" and gets me nailed-to-the-cross. That is just sick IMO. On the other hand, If I am 34 (which I am) and my GF is 14, then maybe there should be a law against that. What if I were 27 and I had sex with a 12 y/o boy? Should that be cool? Not IMO. Oh, and I am not saying that gay sex should be outlawed or anything. I just think there should be a minimum age for consent (heterosexual and homosexual) with a maximum age of partner, unless you are at least 16, IMO. For example, a 12 y/o girl and 13 y/o boy do some experimenting. So be it. Been there, done that. It was fun. Now, if it is a 12 y/o girl and a 20 y/o guy, well that is just freaking sick IMO. There is a huge maturity difference both physically and emotionally between 12 and 20.
I don't want to see sex offenders to only be rapist (my wife was raped as an adult, it was very nasty). I feel this way because I know a guy who was molested as a boy. Totally screwed him up.
This is a very tricky subject. For example. A good friend of mine from HS has an older brother that was about 4 years older than us. I remember being in 8th grade and my buddy's brother was in 12th. He broke up with is demented GF. The night he broke up with her, she called the cops and said he raped her. It was a devastating blow to this guy and his family. He was a very good guy. He had a nasty court fight and eventually was cleared of all charges. However, if you have never gone through something like that, well I can tell you it really hurt him. I haven't seen him or heard from him in years now (I am 34). Last I remember, he didn't go to college. I hope he recovered and got the education he wanted.
Oh, this topic touches so many hard points. For example. Say I am 18 and my GF is 15. To me that is not a significant age difference. However that could be enough for the parents to get you marked as a "sex offender" (the only time I think it is OK to put that term in quotes). What I have a problem with in a situation like this is that at 16 I KNEW I wanted sex! I wasn't "forced" into it. However, it seems that only the guy is the one that gets rap. Why does the chick get off? Because she didn't reach that magical age of 18? I can tell you as an older dude, that at 16 I wanted sex, and at 18, I just wanted MORE sex:-)
Yup. Not all of them though, but enough to help. You see the sleezy child molester/rapist is not your "sharpest tool in the shed"-type. So all that was needed was to check the sex offenders that are registered with their state and compare that to the MySpace database of user info.
For example, you have a sex offender that lives in FL at 1313 Mockinbird Ln. Look for the same state, address and zip (maybe some other stuff like sex or phone, but not needed). If a match, insert that record to table to be exported. While it is not a guarantee that the registration is the real sex offender, it gives some leads to check. If the leads are bad, throw them out. Go down the list to next entry. Even if 10% of the accounts on the list are the real sex offenders, that is still a very good deal. Those dudes are most likely on probation and stalking kids on the net might be a violation. If not, guess what comes next? A nice and simple sting op. Fed's set up a new account on MySpace as say, a 13 yo boy and a 14 yo girl. Send/wait for messages from pervs. Get pervs to do some chat and say what they want to do. Log it all. Tell pervs your parents are out of for the night and you want to see him. Perv arrives, Fed's are waiting to take him down. Pretty cool IMO.
I am not making this up. I watched something similar on AMW a little while ago. Miss America was helping with it.
Are you an MS employee paid to post on sites like this to try to "improve" their image? Seriously? I would like to know. How are the "stakes pretty damned high"? If MS had any real, tangible claims they would have not made this FUD release. Instead we would have heard in the news that MS sues x,y and z.
MS is the lousiest poker player in the world, no bluff what so ever.
Having a monopoly in any business, even charity, or to help the poor, is necessary to ensure that costs are being kept to a minimum.
Whoa there cowboy! Where did you get that idea? Are you telling me that by having a monopoly on a desktop OS and office suite that Microsoft has kept costs to a minimum? Your statement only makes sense in an economy classroom. In the real world, a monopoly usually means "I can charge what ever the hell I want".
A monopoly will never keep costs low. Only a free market without any monopoly can produce what you have described.
Say I give you a book you value. Instead of money, I have you give me about $50 worth of man-hours to help me edit my next book. Would you consider that a "market"? I would. Two items of value were exchanged. That is how OSS works. Granted, not everyone gives back, however many do, or otherwise the thing of value (software) would not exist.
In the case of OSS, the value that is exchanged is almost always man-hours. Which as a programmer I can tell you has a LOT of value.
Another point is that most software is not written for commercial sale. It is in-house development for all the companies out there. So Company A values some OSS software and uses it. In exchange, Company A allows X number of man-hours to help improve that OSS software. Goods/services were just exchanged. However, just not in the typical, give me a TV and I give you cash sense.
The government has access to the data and can spy/watch the sheople. However, are the sheople allowed access to the data to spy/watch the government?
My biggest problem with this stuff is that it only empowers the government and lessens the power of the people. Now if this data was available in the public domain so that a person can spy/watch Tony Blair and other members of the government, then I think it would be fair.
Telephones make the job of law enforcement easier. Should we protest or prohibit their use of telephones?
Not use, but illegal wire-taps without a warrant, yes.
Computers make the job of law enforcement easier. Should we protest or prohibit their use of computers?
Not use, but illegal search and seizure, yes.
Vehicles make the job of law enforcement easier. Should we protest or prohibit their use of vehicles?
See above.
I agree that it is not the tools. However, where are the laws that protect their use? These laws are being eroded here in the USA. It seems the more tech. that comes along the more the laws that protect abuse of those tools are being eroded.
Maintaining copyrights and trademarks requires due diligence
No, only trademarks require due diligence to maintain them. I could let one person use a copyrighted work of mine for free while requiring another to pay.
As someone pointed out, this video was "released in conjunction with Stanford Law School". Oh, you should have creators. The end credits had a bunch of names there.
but some people just blatantly abuse it for their own perverse agenda.
So, how does a person "abuse" freedom of speech? Do they do it by saying somthing that you think is "wrong". I believe in _real_ FREEDOM OF SPEECH. That means that if some "idiot" says something I _hate_, well, guess what... I don't get to cry about it and say that it "shouldn't be freedom of speech". That person who says something I "hate" is what FREEDOM OF SPEECH is all about. Freedom of speech is not about just saying what the majority wants to hear.
I grew up in the burbs of Philly. Then moved to the South. I can tell you that here in SC, there is one Baptist "church" every 2 miles or so. I have never lived in a state where people were so robotic about their beliefs. There are laws in the Columbia, SC area that are _very_ unconstitutional. For example. On Sundays', most stores are not _allowed_ to open until 1:30 PM. Why? That is exactly what I was asking when I ran in to this situation. I was told by many "robots" that "Sunday morning, you should be in church". The next thing I found found out was when I wanted to buy a six-pack on Sunday. In our WHOLE county, you cannot buy _ANY_ beer, alcohol, etc. The strange thing is if you go to a restaurant on Sunday (that pays the county taxes) you can buy as much beer/alcohol as you want. Another thing I noticed is that most/all small/medium stores/shops are _forced_ to be closed on Sundays until 1:30 PM. However, the local 24hr WalMart is allowed to be open. Though, Walmart is not allowed to sell alcohol on Sunday. I wish I were a millionaire so that I would have the resources to fight crappy "laws" like this. By the way, I am a Christian. However, I think it is incredibly stupid to try to make someone a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, etc. by passing "laws". It just doesn't work.
I have heard far too many idiots exercise their "freedom of speech". Most of the time I hated what they had to say. However, I still supported their ability to _say_ those things.
I joined the U.S.M.C back in 1991. That was during the Gulf War. I did it because I wanted to be a Marine, I wanted to "serve my country" and I wanted to protect the rights of my fellow Americans. Yeah, I now know that the Gulf War didn't protect or provide any of those ideals. However, I still joined because the last thing I want to see in the USA is some num-nut who is not allowed to worship a piece of cat poo if they wanted to.
I want the USA to allow all kinds of beliefs and all kinds of worship. Period.
IANAL. I do hope what you suggested is even close to how things are. Though sadly, I doubt it. If patent law were good, it would be how you suggested. However, the past 25 years has been the major "boom" era for software patents in the USA. Go back more than 25 years and this software "IP" crap didn't exist.
I doubt things are how you hinted at in your post. For the last 2 decades, big corps have been buying laws left-and-right from our corrupt "representatives". I cannot personally attest to the current state of patent laws. If anyone here that is a patent attorney, please chime in. Especially Eben Moglen!
Damn, I just spent my last mod point, or I would mod you up, this is exactly what I was thinking. How the hell can the management be so dumb as to forget their OWN companies history with Apple? MS really sucks IMO. I wish the US govt. had some spine and had split the company to an OS division and a software division during the anti-trust thing. I guess MS knew what greedy politicians to bribe with money. Oh, but it is PC to call those bribes "campaign contributions".
So who gets to watch the people who are doing the watching? I guess they are perfect? What if a public official is caught doing some type of "anti-social" behavior? I bet the tape would mysteriously get erased.
Who exactly was polled and how many were polled? Claiming 48% of Americans is just stupid. Did someone poll close to 150,000,000 Americans? I doubt it. Hey, I can come up with a "poll" that show that 80%+ of Americans support affirmative action. All I have to do is just poll mostly black communities. Heck, I can even come up with a poll that shows that XX%+ of Americans want the Mexican border open. I just have to poll mostly Hispanic communities.
I cannot believe how so many/.ers responded to this FUD. I know many Christians that don't believe that 10,000 year old crap. I am one of them. I am a Christian and I believe the earth is very old and... I believe that evolution is a natural part of the world/Universe.
Faith is faith and science is science. Many religious people can keep them separate.
Hey, I have a cool "poll". I asked 10/. users if they have ever had sex. 8 out of 10 said no. So I guess I can say from my "data" that 80% of/. users have never had sex?
I personally hate when people do "polls" to try to push their agenda.
There are Muslims out there that believe if they die a martyr they get to go to "Paradise with 72 black eyed virgins". In Hinduism, people believe that when they die they will be reincarnated. Christians believe in life after death where you live for eternity with God when you accept Jesus as your saviour. Jews believe similar, though with out Jesus and they believe to live by laws passed down by God. There are religions where people think it is wrong to even kill an ant. Atheists believe that when they die, they are gone for ever and will just decompose.
So, my point is that there are many different beliefs in this world. It would be very easy for me to construct a "poll" to make any one of those belief systems look dumb. Get over it. There are billions of people and guess what? We have many different beliefs.
Amen brother/sister. To bad I already posted in this topic or I would mod you up. I cannot stand the "we want to protect you" mentality. I served in the U.S.M.C. I joined because I wanted to help my country and possibly to defend the freedoms of my fellow Americans.
That was back in 1991. I have yet to see anything that has threatened Americans freedoms more than our own government.
So whose encryption do we use? Some closed source, proprietary "solution" from Microsoft that has been "approved" by the government? If governments (USA in my case) can send people to jail for sharing a freaking music file, what do you think they can do to outlaw "unauthorized" encryption?
I personally use GnuPG. However, how hard would it be for a government to outlaw any "non-approved" encryption implementation?
I am not trolling here. I am just trying to point out that if "we the people" come up with some good encryption, the government will try to find a way to stop it to "protect us".
Yeah? And what do you think the quality of life was for a black person in America in 1884? Could they vote? How many could own land and really enjoy the freedoms that a white American had in 1884? Trust me, I am not some Green Party-type dude. I just don't think 1884 was the best year for all Americans if you happened to have darker skin.
Ok, I was born-and-raised in the good old USA. However, from reading many net sites, I seem to have gotten the impression that "liberal" in the USA is _very_ different than other parts of the world. Is this true? Would a liberal government in Canada be similar to one in the USA? How about a liberal government in Sweden? Or a liberal government in...?
Please, my non-American blokes, enlighten us Americans.:-)
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Actually.... I just moved from Orlando, FL after living there 6 years. I know the exact case you are talking about. I don't have links either. However, my wife and I, and our friends, wanted to puke. That was some bad stuff.
Hey, don't call those two kids "horny and stupid". Horny and stupid go hand-in-hand, both for men and for women. I wish I had the link we both are talking about. When I read it, as an Orlando resident, I almost shite my pants. I couldn't believe it.
Yes, this whole sex offender thing needs to be "re-thinked" by our so-called-representatives. However, I still firmly believe that a violent sex offender should be jailed for life.
I don't think the solution is that hard. If both parties, be it boy/girl, boy/boy or girl/girl both say they consented and there is no evidence of forced coercion, then there should be no charges IMO. Unless, there is a minor involved under the age of 16 and the other "partner" is at least 10 years senior. If that is the case, than maybe, the minor is speaking out of fear. However, if after diligent questioning, the minor insists that it was consensual, then there should be no charges. Period.
Hey, I was bored, and Miss America was on the episode I watched. But yeah, the "host" guy (don't know his name and don't care) was very annoying.
:-)
The cops would makes the bust and then the host dude would run in and start talking trash and stuff to the "perp". Pretty funny IMO
I agree with you about the "ugly before better" part. However, does MS really have a good enough hand? MS just cannot attack with their patents, because others will attack back. In the courts, some of those patents will be thrown out, others, sadly IMO, will stand. It would be like the US vs. Soviets going "new-clear" during the Cold War. It would have killed us both.
Yeah, the whole basic freedoms, IP thing are pretty nasty. However, I think more and more customers (or as the big corps like to say "consumers") will slowly catch on and see just how limited they are by all this DRM crap. There was just a story about how MS kicked customers in the @ss with MP 11 WRT the latest MCE.
I think for a while, the sheople will continue to buy the proprietary crap. Bring it home and try to use it. Over time, the will get POed when they go out to eat and see that they came home to an "official" MCE device that didn't record the show they love because of some DRM crap. Other issues will be friend A wants to let friend B borrow a show the loved. With MS and DRM, friend B will quickly find out that they cannot view it. Pretty sad IMO. Since I can go out and rent a DVD, watch it, then give it to a friend to watch and tell him to just return it when they are done. Even better, I can rent a movie from some service like Netflix, rip the DVD on any OS, and then burn a DVD with no CSS, no commercials and no region codes and let my friend "borrow" that.
Damn, all the media companies have to do is get rid of the DRM and keep prices at an affordable level. We Americans love our entertainment and will pay for it. I would NOT get a burned copy of a movie from a friend if I could buy my own for $3-$5. Hell, I would buy just about every movie that comes out on DVD for $3. If I don't like it, so what. The viewing experience is worth at least $3 to me. Image how much more the MPAA would make if they tried something like this. Sure, there would still be some "piracy" (arrrggh), but it would be very limited. It just wouldn't be worth it. I would rather spend $3 and get the real DVD then risk a crappy DVD (and for MS Windows user, the risk would also include spyware/viruses/etc).
Why do you say "sex offender"? Are you suggesting that a sexual offense is not a crime? I personally think sexual offenses should be some of the most punished crimes.
:-)
However, with that said, I do think the laws need to be tweaked a little. For example, there shouldn't be some silly age limit like say, I am 18 and my GF is 16. Her daddy finds out we "did it" and gets me nailed-to-the-cross. That is just sick IMO. On the other hand, If I am 34 (which I am) and my GF is 14, then maybe there should be a law against that. What if I were 27 and I had sex with a 12 y/o boy? Should that be cool? Not IMO. Oh, and I am not saying that gay sex should be outlawed or anything. I just think there should be a minimum age for consent (heterosexual and homosexual) with a maximum age of partner, unless you are at least 16, IMO. For example, a 12 y/o girl and 13 y/o boy do some experimenting. So be it. Been there, done that. It was fun. Now, if it is a 12 y/o girl and a 20 y/o guy, well that is just freaking sick IMO. There is a huge maturity difference both physically and emotionally between 12 and 20.
I don't want to see sex offenders to only be rapist (my wife was raped as an adult, it was very nasty). I feel this way because I know a guy who was molested as a boy. Totally screwed him up.
This is a very tricky subject. For example. A good friend of mine from HS has an older brother that was about 4 years older than us. I remember being in 8th grade and my buddy's brother was in 12th. He broke up with is demented GF. The night he broke up with her, she called the cops and said he raped her. It was a devastating blow to this guy and his family. He was a very good guy. He had a nasty court fight and eventually was cleared of all charges. However, if you have never gone through something like that, well I can tell you it really hurt him. I haven't seen him or heard from him in years now (I am 34). Last I remember, he didn't go to college. I hope he recovered and got the education he wanted.
Oh, this topic touches so many hard points. For example. Say I am 18 and my GF is 15. To me that is not a significant age difference. However that could be enough for the parents to get you marked as a "sex offender" (the only time I think it is OK to put that term in quotes). What I have a problem with in a situation like this is that at 16 I KNEW I wanted sex! I wasn't "forced" into it. However, it seems that only the guy is the one that gets rap. Why does the chick get off? Because she didn't reach that magical age of 18? I can tell you as an older dude, that at 16 I wanted sex, and at 18, I just wanted MORE sex
For example, you have a sex offender that lives in FL at 1313 Mockinbird Ln. Look for the same state, address and zip (maybe some other stuff like sex or phone, but not needed). If a match, insert that record to table to be exported. While it is not a guarantee that the registration is the real sex offender, it gives some leads to check. If the leads are bad, throw them out. Go down the list to next entry. Even if 10% of the accounts on the list are the real sex offenders, that is still a very good deal. Those dudes are most likely on probation and stalking kids on the net might be a violation. If not, guess what comes next? A nice and simple sting op. Fed's set up a new account on MySpace as say, a 13 yo boy and a 14 yo girl. Send/wait for messages from pervs. Get pervs to do some chat and say what they want to do. Log it all. Tell pervs your parents are out of for the night and you want to see him. Perv arrives, Fed's are waiting to take him down. Pretty cool IMO.
I am not making this up. I watched something similar on AMW a little while ago. Miss America was helping with it.
Are you an MS employee paid to post on sites like this to try to "improve" their image? Seriously? I would like to know. How are the "stakes pretty damned high"? If MS had any real, tangible claims they would have not made this FUD release. Instead we would have heard in the news that MS sues x,y and z.
MS is the lousiest poker player in the world, no bluff what so ever.
A monopoly will never keep costs low. Only a free market without any monopoly can produce what you have described.
Say I give you a book you value. Instead of money, I have you give me about $50 worth of man-hours to help me edit my next book. Would you consider that a "market"? I would. Two items of value were exchanged. That is how OSS works. Granted, not everyone gives back, however many do, or otherwise the thing of value (software) would not exist.
In the case of OSS, the value that is exchanged is almost always man-hours. Which as a programmer I can tell you has a LOT of value.
Another point is that most software is not written for commercial sale. It is in-house development for all the companies out there. So Company A values some OSS software and uses it. In exchange, Company A allows X number of man-hours to help improve that OSS software. Goods/services were just exchanged. However, just not in the typical, give me a TV and I give you cash sense.
The government has access to the data and can spy/watch the sheople. However, are the sheople allowed access to the data to spy/watch the government?
My biggest problem with this stuff is that it only empowers the government and lessens the power of the people. Now if this data was available in the public domain so that a person can spy/watch Tony Blair and other members of the government, then I think it would be fair.
I agree that it is not the tools. However, where are the laws that protect their use? These laws are being eroded here in the USA. It seems the more tech. that comes along the more the laws that protect abuse of those tools are being eroded.
Have you tried KnoppMyth? It was made to make installation much easier.
As someone pointed out, this video was "released in conjunction with Stanford Law School". Oh, you should have creators. The end credits had a bunch of names there.
I grew up in the burbs of Philly. Then moved to the South. I can tell you that here in SC, there is one Baptist "church" every 2 miles or so. I have never lived in a state where people were so robotic about their beliefs. There are laws in the Columbia, SC area that are _very_ unconstitutional. For example. On Sundays', most stores are not _allowed_ to open until 1:30 PM. Why? That is exactly what I was asking when I ran in to this situation. I was told by many "robots" that "Sunday morning, you should be in church". The next thing I found found out was when I wanted to buy a six-pack on Sunday. In our WHOLE county, you cannot buy _ANY_ beer, alcohol, etc. The strange thing is if you go to a restaurant on Sunday (that pays the county taxes) you can buy as much beer/alcohol as you want. Another thing I noticed is that most/all small/medium stores/shops are _forced_ to be closed on Sundays until 1:30 PM. However, the local 24hr WalMart is allowed to be open. Though, Walmart is not allowed to sell alcohol on Sunday. I wish I were a millionaire so that I would have the resources to fight crappy "laws" like this. By the way, I am a Christian. However, I think it is incredibly stupid to try to make someone a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, etc. by passing "laws". It just doesn't work.
I have heard far too many idiots exercise their "freedom of speech". Most of the time I hated what they had to say. However, I still supported their ability to _say_ those things.
I joined the U.S.M.C back in 1991. That was during the Gulf War. I did it because I wanted to be a Marine, I wanted to "serve my country" and I wanted to protect the rights of my fellow Americans. Yeah, I now know that the Gulf War didn't protect or provide any of those ideals. However, I still joined because the last thing I want to see in the USA is some num-nut who is not allowed to worship a piece of cat poo if they wanted to.
I want the USA to allow all kinds of beliefs and all kinds of worship. Period.
IANAL. I do hope what you suggested is even close to how things are. Though sadly, I doubt it. If patent law were good, it would be how you suggested. However, the past 25 years has been the major "boom" era for software patents in the USA. Go back more than 25 years and this software "IP" crap didn't exist.
I doubt things are how you hinted at in your post. For the last 2 decades, big corps have been buying laws left-and-right from our corrupt "representatives". I cannot personally attest to the current state of patent laws. If anyone here that is a patent attorney, please chime in. Especially Eben Moglen!
Damn, I just spent my last mod point, or I would mod you up, this is exactly what I was thinking. How the hell can the management be so dumb as to forget their OWN companies history with Apple? MS really sucks IMO. I wish the US govt. had some spine and had split the company to an OS division and a software division during the anti-trust thing. I guess MS knew what greedy politicians to bribe with money. Oh, but it is PC to call those bribes "campaign contributions".
Your problem is because of piss-poor admins. If they did their jobs, there would not have been a lapse in the certs. Certs do work.
Dear "OurBank", I use Mac OSX and Linux, your "ourBank.exe" did not work. Please send me either a .deb file or an .dmg. That should help me a lot.
Huh? You are an idiot. Seriously. How in the world did you come up with your "opinions"? Jeez, you are not even close.
So who gets to watch the people who are doing the watching? I guess they are perfect? What if a public official is caught doing some type of "anti-social" behavior? I bet the tape would mysteriously get erased.
Who exactly was polled and how many were polled? Claiming 48% of Americans is just stupid. Did someone poll close to 150,000,000 Americans? I doubt it. Hey, I can come up with a "poll" that show that 80%+ of Americans support affirmative action. All I have to do is just poll mostly black communities. Heck, I can even come up with a poll that shows that XX%+ of Americans want the Mexican border open. I just have to poll mostly Hispanic communities.
/.ers responded to this FUD. I know many Christians that don't believe that 10,000 year old crap. I am one of them. I am a Christian and I believe the earth is very old and ... I believe that evolution is a natural part of the world/Universe.
/. users if they have ever had sex. 8 out of 10 said no. So I guess I can say from my "data" that 80% of /. users have never had sex?
I cannot believe how so many
Faith is faith and science is science. Many religious people can keep them separate.
Hey, I have a cool "poll". I asked 10
I personally hate when people do "polls" to try to push their agenda.
There are Muslims out there that believe if they die a martyr they get to go to "Paradise with 72 black eyed virgins". In Hinduism, people believe that when they die they will be reincarnated. Christians believe in life after death where you live for eternity with God when you accept Jesus as your saviour. Jews believe similar, though with out Jesus and they believe to live by laws passed down by God. There are religions where people think it is wrong to even kill an ant. Atheists believe that when they die, they are gone for ever and will just decompose.
So, my point is that there are many different beliefs in this world. It would be very easy for me to construct a "poll" to make any one of those belief systems look dumb. Get over it. There are billions of people and guess what? We have many different beliefs.
Amen brother/sister. To bad I already posted in this topic or I would mod you up. I cannot stand the "we want to protect you" mentality. I served in the U.S.M.C. I joined because I wanted to help my country and possibly to defend the freedoms of my fellow Americans.
That was back in 1991. I have yet to see anything that has threatened Americans freedoms more than our own government.
So whose encryption do we use? Some closed source, proprietary "solution" from Microsoft that has been "approved" by the government? If governments (USA in my case) can send people to jail for sharing a freaking music file, what do you think they can do to outlaw "unauthorized" encryption?
I personally use GnuPG. However, how hard would it be for a government to outlaw any "non-approved" encryption implementation?
I am not trolling here. I am just trying to point out that if "we the people" come up with some good encryption, the government will try to find a way to stop it to "protect us".
Ok, I was born-and-raised in the good old USA. However, from reading many net sites, I seem to have gotten the impression that "liberal" in the USA is _very_ different than other parts of the world. Is this true? Would a liberal government in Canada be similar to one in the USA? How about a liberal government in Sweden? Or a liberal government in ...?
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Please, my non-American blokes, enlighten us Americans.