I looked into it more and turns out the sentences were for 7 years 3 months, and they lost their pay/retirement/licenses, which means they'll have no way to support themselves if they even survive through their sentences. Not so bad.
There were some horror stories though.. one girl who made fun of her assistant principal on myspace was convicted of harassment and sentenced to 3 months in detention. Apparently over 5000 kids were sent to those facilities for kickbacks
The court official embezzled $70,000 from seized gambling money and he faces 10 years in prison, $250,000 in fines, and $71,000 in restitution.
The judges took $2.6 million to imprison people unfairly, and they face sentences of 7 months and 3 months while they continue to draw a 6 figure salary?
I usually roll with the slashdot crowd on liberty issues but not here.
There's a reason medicine is locked up in pharmacies behind a prescription. People are stupid; very stupid. They don't understand the risks of overdose (people carelessly take too much acetaminophen and die of horrible liver failure). They don't understand the very complex and sometimes fatal interactions between even unrelated drugs. Some drugs like antiepileptics are dangerous even when taken exactly as directed, and patients need to be closely monitored by a doctor. Maybe illegal drug users would be savvy enough to understand the drugs they're taking, but not soccer moms. Heroin isn't any safer than those prescription drugs. Maybe LSD would be OK, that's supposed to be a very safe drug.
Yeah from a liberty perspective you ask "wait, why can't I spend every weekend quivering in bed if I want to, but I definitely see why those responsible for social order (and health insurance:p) would have an interest in keeping people active, buying hamburgers, that sort of thing.
This. If Amazon had any intention of selling these books, they'd be selling these books! They just don't like that Google is getting a slice of their market.
If there are interesting patterns in Pi, it'll be discovered through analytical research, not calculating digits out to some indeterminate end. I mean honestly, do they think the 2.5 trillion and one digit is going to hold the secret to one of the simplest shapes in mathematics?
Anyway as far as I'm concerned Pidgin abandoned its credibility a long time ago. I don't need an IM application anyway; if I need to contact someone I just open Gmail. If they're not online then email is right there.
Despite the exponential growth of technology in the second millennium, many enthusiasts assigned unrealistic upper bounds to the human empire's resources. Only 17 centuries before the conversion of the Clouds of Magellan to secondary storage for the Unified Andromeda Platform, one unnamed pioneer estimated that 640K is enough for anybody...
Does Windows 7 have more DRM or less than Windows XP?
Is that even a sentence? What?
If it supports more DRMed formats than before, is that "having more DRM"? If you mean Windows activation, it's business as usual.. you put in the key and it registers on the activation servers.
Vista got bad press and users think they're being smart by eschewing the upgrade. "Vista, I heard bad things. XP is fine." But this is the same crowd that bought an ipod because all their friends had one. They would upgrade just for the newest thing, if it weren't suddenly hip and edgy and retro to claim to be an XP purist. So when they hear Windows 7, they automatically kick into MUST UPGRADE mode and, lacking any bad press, don't have any reason to adopt the negative position.
If Vista was so awful, Windows 7 isn't all that different. Vista was fine (when heavily reconfigured); Microsoft just needs to shed the bad reputation of the Vista name to get the dumb users back.
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I looked into it more and turns out the sentences were for 7 years 3 months, and they lost their pay/retirement/licenses, which means they'll have no way to support themselves if they even survive through their sentences. Not so bad.
There were some horror stories though.. one girl who made fun of her assistant principal on myspace was convicted of harassment and sentenced to 3 months in detention. Apparently over 5000 kids were sent to those facilities for kickbacks
Wait, what is this story? Looks like some editorial about how Avatar won't be good.
The court official embezzled $70,000 from seized gambling money and he faces 10 years in prison, $250,000 in fines, and $71,000 in restitution.
The judges took $2.6 million to imprison people unfairly, and they face sentences of 7 months and 3 months while they continue to draw a 6 figure salary?
What?
Probably because the real reader was pried out and replaced with a card skimmer :)
Isn't that the whole point of iphone apps?
I usually roll with the slashdot crowd on liberty issues but not here.
There's a reason medicine is locked up in pharmacies behind a prescription. People are stupid; very stupid. They don't understand the risks of overdose (people carelessly take too much acetaminophen and die of horrible liver failure). They don't understand the very complex and sometimes fatal interactions between even unrelated drugs. Some drugs like antiepileptics are dangerous even when taken exactly as directed, and patients need to be closely monitored by a doctor. Maybe illegal drug users would be savvy enough to understand the drugs they're taking, but not soccer moms. Heroin isn't any safer than those prescription drugs. Maybe LSD would be OK, that's supposed to be a very safe drug.
Yeah from a liberty perspective you ask "wait, why can't I spend every weekend quivering in bed if I want to, but I definitely see why those responsible for social order (and health insurance :p) would have an interest in keeping people active, buying hamburgers, that sort of thing.
A mexican one
This. If Amazon had any intention of selling these books, they'd be selling these books! They just don't like that Google is getting a slice of their market.
Yeah, and? That's capitalism yo.
If you're going to go that far you might as well just interpret "1010" as all of the image data
There's really no need; the enemy will scream and cry after detonation, revealing their position. Plus they're dead anyway.
Huh?
If there are interesting patterns in Pi, it'll be discovered through analytical research, not calculating digits out to some indeterminate end. I mean honestly, do they think the 2.5 trillion and one digit is going to hold the secret to one of the simplest shapes in mathematics?
Actually sounds more like a hand grenade.
Server side? No.. it's a client issue.
Anyway as far as I'm concerned Pidgin abandoned its credibility a long time ago. I don't need an IM application anyway; if I need to contact someone I just open Gmail. If they're not online then email is right there.
The question is whether the NIC can go into a power saving mode and be awoken by an even simpler device when a packet comes in.
I saw that on Fringe. Is that what you're thinking of?
Our DirecTV guy pointed the dish to full signal strength by eye. He could find the satellite by memory.
You must reply if you read the story summary in my voice.
Despite the exponential growth of technology in the second millennium, many enthusiasts assigned unrealistic upper bounds to the human empire's resources. Only 17 centuries before the conversion of the Clouds of Magellan to secondary storage for the Unified Andromeda Platform, one unnamed pioneer estimated that 640K is enough for anybody...
-Encyclopedia Galactica
You should check into this new thing called multiple digits. 9 rolls right over into 10!
If you have some ".NET Runtime Optimization service" running, you're doing Windows wrong. If you're going to use Windows you have to trim the fat.
Is that even a sentence? What?
If it supports more DRMed formats than before, is that "having more DRM"? If you mean Windows activation, it's business as usual.. you put in the key and it registers on the activation servers.
Vista got bad press and users think they're being smart by eschewing the upgrade. "Vista, I heard bad things. XP is fine." But this is the same crowd that bought an ipod because all their friends had one. They would upgrade just for the newest thing, if it weren't suddenly hip and edgy and retro to claim to be an XP purist. So when they hear Windows 7, they automatically kick into MUST UPGRADE mode and, lacking any bad press, don't have any reason to adopt the negative position.
If Vista was so awful, Windows 7 isn't all that different. Vista was fine (when heavily reconfigured); Microsoft just needs to shed the bad reputation of the Vista name to get the dumb users back.