Um, no we don't. We have a centrist party and a fascist party. With the centrist party representing liberals by default. Believe me a conservative party and liberal party would be a serious step in the right direction.
And a lot of Democrats are only somewhat close to the center. We have an authoritarian conservative party and an ultra-authoritarian ultra-conservative party. It really sucks for us left-leaning social libertarians, because we have almost nobody representing us.
Ummm, carriers stand to profit from this so why would they?
Maybe I'm not thinking evilly enough, but how would a carrier profit from phones on their network being exploited? If anything, it would start costing them resources when the phones are used to launch DDoS attacks.
Then charge her for that. They basically decided to make up some bullshit about unauthorized access to a computer system and charge her with that.
Absolutely. I was only addressing the part of the post that I quoted. Trying to get her with just the unauthorized access charges was definitely a stupid move.
The difficulty here is that killing oneself is generally considered to be an irrational action, and therefore it defies a typical causal relationship. Should this woman have known that her actions would cause the girl to commit suicide? Personally, I wouldn't think that anything I could do would make anyone else kill themselves. We've all acted cruelly to others, and had others act cruelly towards us, but still, most of us don't kill ourselves (and presumably nobody reading this has killed themselves). And when others do kill themselves, e.g. because a relationship ended, we're all quick to point out that it wasn't the fault of the other person. We acknowledge that the suicide victim had deeper issues and behaved abnormally to normal events.
If I remember correctly, and I may very well be misremembering this, the neighbor was aware that the girl had psychiatric issues and knew that harassing her in this way would cause serious damage, and she did it to intentionally cause the girl harm. Even if the neighbor didn't believe that the girl would commit suicide, she knew that she was purposely causing damage.
Yes, I am aware of how laws about causing emotional damage could be abused, but whether people like it or not, intent is part of the law, and that's why we have judges presiding over the court and not computers.
What happened to all the wankers who hooted and hollered about boycotting them after that?
Assuming Wikipedia is correct (yeah, I know), the bnetd shutdown was in 2002, the same year that Warcraft III was released. All Blizzard has done since then is World of Warcraft. Are those of us who have no desire at all to play World of Warcraft considered to be boycotting Blizzard?
I thought I'd point out that most economics professors would indeed classify a "standard steak" as a luxury good. It's not as much of a luxury good as say... lobster, but it's up there.
You must be from the midwest. I grew up in Maine, where an average steak is a luxury good and lobster is something you can buy for $3 off the back of a truck.
Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, or genetics and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao Tsu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophanes, and all of this, all of this was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.
I am certain that if you film nude children showering themselves (think ~13 girls after school gym) and have a lot of those films you would, and should, be prosecuted for child pornography. (And likely some other charges too, but that is not the point)
Although no one was harmed (according to the list).
A child pornography charge would be somewhat borderline, but recording anyone in the shower without their consent probably violates quite a few other laws anyway.
If these pictures ever get in the wild and someone recognizes the child and tells the child or parents, or worse, doesn't tell them but starts calling the kid a slut without explaination, then someone will get hurt.
I believe there are other laws that deal with things like distributing false assertions and/or altered photographs of people, such as libel and slander. If those laws have been broken, then go right ahead and sue the person that altered the photographs.
That article says "It's better to use concatenation than double-quoted strings." Every legitimate benchmark I've seen has shown that the difference is zero to negligible. In tests that I've run myself, concatenation actually scales worse; a dozen concatenation operations are slower than one double-quoted string.
As for using commas with echo, why aren't you using a template engine?
Yeah, my comment about Somerville was more of a friendly poke. Most of Somerville is pretty much like Cambridge. From what I've heard from a few people, though, it gets a bit sketchy the farther away from Cambridge you get. Obviously nothing like Dorchester and Roxbury, though.
Trust me, though. You're correct about the Red Sox. A more annoying fan base does not exist anywhere, and I'm including Man. U., Arsenal, and Liverpool!
I didn't understand that either. But one thing I'd mention is that Red Sox games make public transportation (green line) grind to a halt. Can't recall that being much of a problem though with our other sports franchises.
The Patriots play at Gillette Stadium, which is quite a ways south of the city. The Celtics and Bruins play at the Garden, which is right above North Station, so it's easier for people from outside the city to just take the commuter rail instead of the subway, and it's also closer to the major intersection of the subway lines than Fenway Park is. I also think there are more parking garages near the Garden. Of course, Fenway Park also gets a lot more people going to the games.
If you're right by the city, you generally want to wander north and west instead of south. South of Boston would be places like Dorchester and Roxbury (not to be confused with West Roxbury, which tends to be one of the wealthiest communities around). West and northwest is areas like Brookline, Brighton (Boston College) Arlington, and Cambridge (MIT, Harvard, Tufts). You do have to be a bit careful that you don't wander too far east from Cambridge, though, or you'll end up in Somerville.
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Um, no we don't. We have a centrist party and a fascist party. With the centrist party representing liberals by default. Believe me a conservative party and liberal party would be a serious step in the right direction.
And a lot of Democrats are only somewhat close to the center. We have an authoritarian conservative party and an ultra-authoritarian ultra-conservative party. It really sucks for us left-leaning social libertarians, because we have almost nobody representing us.
Ummm, carriers stand to profit from this so why would they?
Maybe I'm not thinking evilly enough, but how would a carrier profit from phones on their network being exploited? If anything, it would start costing them resources when the phones are used to launch DDoS attacks.
Then charge her for that. They basically decided to make up some bullshit about unauthorized access to a computer system and charge her with that.
Absolutely. I was only addressing the part of the post that I quoted. Trying to get her with just the unauthorized access charges was definitely a stupid move.
The difficulty here is that killing oneself is generally considered to be an irrational action, and therefore it defies a typical causal relationship. Should this woman have known that her actions would cause the girl to commit suicide? Personally, I wouldn't think that anything I could do would make anyone else kill themselves. We've all acted cruelly to others, and had others act cruelly towards us, but still, most of us don't kill ourselves (and presumably nobody reading this has killed themselves). And when others do kill themselves, e.g. because a relationship ended, we're all quick to point out that it wasn't the fault of the other person. We acknowledge that the suicide victim had deeper issues and behaved abnormally to normal events.
If I remember correctly, and I may very well be misremembering this, the neighbor was aware that the girl had psychiatric issues and knew that harassing her in this way would cause serious damage, and she did it to intentionally cause the girl harm. Even if the neighbor didn't believe that the girl would commit suicide, she knew that she was purposely causing damage.
Yes, I am aware of how laws about causing emotional damage could be abused, but whether people like it or not, intent is part of the law, and that's why we have judges presiding over the court and not computers.
If we decide she can be imprisoned based simply on her speech, it's is not just her but we who will face the consequences.
That's already been decided. To take the classic example, if you yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, you are responsible for the consequences.
What are we going to do when we go to war with those french speaking queen loving northerners?!
French speaking? If we ever go to war with Canada, Quebec would probably take the opportunity to secede and fight against the rest of Canada.
Does that mean we'll have a single point of failure? Loss of heterogeneity might come at a price...
Only if you consider things like TCP, HTTP, and SMTP single points of failure.
Don't you mean Ornithopter?
What happened to all the wankers who hooted and hollered about boycotting them after that?
Assuming Wikipedia is correct (yeah, I know), the bnetd shutdown was in 2002, the same year that Warcraft III was released. All Blizzard has done since then is World of Warcraft. Are those of us who have no desire at all to play World of Warcraft considered to be boycotting Blizzard?
I thought I'd point out that most economics professors would indeed classify a "standard steak" as a luxury good. It's not as much of a luxury good as say... lobster, but it's up there.
You must be from the midwest. I grew up in Maine, where an average steak is a luxury good and lobster is something you can buy for $3 off the back of a truck.
What does Al Gore have a degree in?
Inventing the Internet.
Holy shit. And I thought I had a tendency to over-complicate things.
Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, or genetics and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao Tsu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophanes, and all of this, all of this was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.
Jeffery Sinclair, Babylon 5
So what *are* your reasons for filming (pre-)teens and storing them on your personal computer? :)
The video files are a good source of entropy for my random number generator? Yeah, that's the ticket.
Did I claim to have some other reason for doing it?
I am certain that if you film nude children showering themselves (think ~13 girls after school gym) and have a lot of those films you would, and should, be prosecuted for child pornography. (And likely some other charges too, but that is not the point)
Although no one was harmed (according to the list).
A child pornography charge would be somewhat borderline, but recording anyone in the shower without their consent probably violates quite a few other laws anyway.
If these pictures ever get in the wild and someone recognizes the child and tells the child or parents, or worse, doesn't tell them but starts calling the kid a slut without explaination, then someone will get hurt.
I believe there are other laws that deal with things like distributing false assertions and/or altered photographs of people, such as libel and slander. If those laws have been broken, then go right ahead and sue the person that altered the photographs.
Is that why prostitutes are locked up? There are plenty of victimless crimes around here.
No, we still have the notion of not locking up people that haven't harmed anyone, we just aren't very good at sticking to it.
or should we be cherishing them and making sure they don't see Janet Jackson's nipple?
...more important that they don't see Michael Jackson's nipple.
Unless you're the coroner doing the autopsy, I don't think that's a problem anymore.
In fact, how can pointing out good qualities [of Windows] be a troll at all?
You must be new here.
That article says "It's better to use concatenation than double-quoted strings." Every legitimate benchmark I've seen has shown that the difference is zero to negligible. In tests that I've run myself, concatenation actually scales worse; a dozen concatenation operations are slower than one double-quoted string.
As for using commas with echo, why aren't you using a template engine?
"Pirate-hunters" -- you are speaking of course about their age-old enemies, the ninjas?
Samus Aran is a ninja? That does explain a lot, I guess.
Yeah, my comment about Somerville was more of a friendly poke. Most of Somerville is pretty much like Cambridge. From what I've heard from a few people, though, it gets a bit sketchy the farther away from Cambridge you get. Obviously nothing like Dorchester and Roxbury, though.
Trust me, though. You're correct about the Red Sox. A more annoying fan base does not exist anywhere, and I'm including Man. U., Arsenal, and Liverpool!
You clearly don't know much about college sports.
I didn't understand that either. But one thing I'd mention is that Red Sox games make public transportation (green line) grind to a halt. Can't recall that being much of a problem though with our other sports franchises.
The Patriots play at Gillette Stadium, which is quite a ways south of the city. The Celtics and Bruins play at the Garden, which is right above North Station, so it's easier for people from outside the city to just take the commuter rail instead of the subway, and it's also closer to the major intersection of the subway lines than Fenway Park is. I also think there are more parking garages near the Garden. Of course, Fenway Park also gets a lot more people going to the games.
If you're right by the city, you generally want to wander north and west instead of south. South of Boston would be places like Dorchester and Roxbury (not to be confused with West Roxbury, which tends to be one of the wealthiest communities around). West and northwest is areas like Brookline, Brighton (Boston College) Arlington, and Cambridge (MIT, Harvard, Tufts). You do have to be a bit careful that you don't wander too far east from Cambridge, though, or you'll end up in Somerville.