Many people know lots of things. People who have better knowledge about a thing then others will be able to dominate people with less knowledge since facts are on their side.
Regardless of how tainted onces beliefs are, facts are facts.
Wisdom, ethics, insight, knowing whats best for society, looking at stuff not from onces own field of expertise is not prevalent in crowds.
History is full of people who had knowledge, but lacked wisdom...
Now imagine you have pictures of being a little kid bathing (for extra fun: with your siblings). Showing those to your boy/girlfriend will get you convicted for owning and making available images of naked kids! Who would want to defend you despicable being for having those images around!
And the scary thing: If things continue in the direction they are going now, it is only a matter of time.
Especially Ultima VI, but also Ultima VII had a vast world that can be explored freely. You can even harvest crops and bake bread if you like or drift across the sea in a raft...
I still fondly remember the exploration of Britannia and it took me at least a month to realize there was a storyline I could follow (I only had about 1 year of english at school at that time and game-information was heavily text-driven...)
At least where I live you have to pay to have radio. It is ~10$/month for radio. And the listener will be subject to advertisement, which does not make a service free - it just gets paid "round the corner"...
Unfortunately to get them on this technicality you would have to prove that they planned to import drugs or were part of a terrorist organization at the moment they filled out the form.
Of course this would imply a working justice system... But if the system doesn't care about the law anyway, why bother with the questions in the first place?
Nowadays where everything gets calculated into CO2 - how would the trees calculate in CO2 saved? Could they just sell CO2-certificates and give everyone a kindle2 for free?
(and is it able to light my chimney, as its name suggests?)
At least for germany this is not true. The cop is a witness and witnesses have to state their perceptions. So he will say "I heard..." or "I saw..." - but how this gets interpreted is up to the judge(s) only.
The private individuals looking to make a buck did so - and created the next batch of problems now known under the names of "Respirable Dust", "Smog", "Traffic Jam" and not to forget "Global Warming".
Did it occur to you or anyone else of your school of thought, that individuals looking for a quick buck/might/ be involved in something commonly defined as the 'tragedy of the commons' and thus might give horse manure for long term consequences of their doing as long as they personally make a fortune and do not have to pay for the consequences?
I for one would welcome a committee of busybodies (who are not actually lobbyists trying to make a quick buck by catering to particular interest groups) that actually takes the time to think about possible consequences of their doing before presenting solutions. Just for example, that would have circumvented that whole stupid bio-fuel-from-crop-pseudo-solution.
Admittedly I am a dual national like all EU members are...
Please elaborate... If you are a citizen of one of the member-states of the EU you still only have one nationality. If your country signed the Schengen Agreement (this does not necessarily mean you are a EU citizen, since Iceland, Norway and Switzerland signed it too) then you can travel to the other Schengen-countries without encountering border controls, though you might encounter dragnet-controls in certain areas. National laws about the need to carry an ID (for example) or to identify yourself still apply. While crossing borders into foreign countries is quite normal in europe with all those small countries one can travel very long distances in the US without even coming near a border. So the border controls europeans had to put up with a couple of years ago were addressed at "foreign persons" and an average european encountered a lot more of them then the average US-citizen.
Long story short: Only the Schengen-bordercontrol addressed at "foreign persons" is a suitable parallel to the US-rules - and I suppose no EU-citizen ever had to put up with its rules.
Canada will deny you entry if you've been convicted of drug possession or DWI -- even if said conviction was a misdemeanor/civil affair if your home country. Why don't I see anybody complaining about that?
I am astonished, did you really think this through?
This might be shocking news, for entering Canada it is irrelevant which laws apply in your home country.
200k might look expensive, but if one takes into account that instead of tarmac-roads it would be enough to have "grass-avenues" where todays problems of soil-sealing, rainwater, aquaplaning and the like are unheard off the macroeconomic cost might not be significantly different then today. "We need a beltway!" - "Ok, I get the lawnmower!"
Unfortunately this is an utopian dream, since it would require widespread adoption and tearing up roads already in existence when a sufficient proportion of cars is capable of flying. Nevertheless, I like the thought of it.
The business-model of ISPs is to sell internet-access to people. So if someone wants them to disconnect someone there will be a price-tag on this customer including the money spent on acquiring a customer in the first place and the amount of money the ISP expects to earn with this customer.
As it is a network industry there will be almost nil cost-reduction due to having a customer less (it ought to only effect peering-fees that can be attributed to this specific customer). If a customer is not profitable due to exceeding the calculated traffic (extremely heavy users) the ISP will try to get out of the contract in some way anyhow, as is known from the discussions regarding "flat rates".
Disconnecting a handful of customers will not be a problem for a big ISP, but as soon as this gets an automated process regarding a significant part of the customer-base the ISPs will demand compensation.
Some Corps won't switch because they have applications built with MS-infrastructure (sharepoint, exchange-webmail, etc.) that only works correctly with IE.
approach to fighting crime. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Criminals do not care about laws (X) Carrying a gun does not teach you how to behave correctly under attack (X) Identifying people with guns in plain clothes shooting at each other gets difficult for the police (X) Untrained cilivians shooting at trained criminals will get the civilians killed (X) Untrained cilivians shooting at trained criminals will get other civilians killed (X) It will increase the availability of guns, leading to more gunfights ( ) It will stop crime for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Courts will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from criminals ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) People cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
--- snip ---
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
(X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome (X) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (X) This is a stupid idea. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
I mean, all you'd have to do is go to international waters and you could do all you wanted, to any country you wanted, to any server you wanted, and there would be no retribution.
Pirates in international waters? You gotta be kidding...
Corruption is normal where humans have the power to spend money that is not their own. It might not be so obvious as in Nigeria, but surely not even Halliburton has received all those Iraq contracts by being the best bidder.
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Con-Fu:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=608
"Stay Alert! Trust No One! Keep Your Laser Handy!"
How about if we rename the French Fries to freedom fries in honor of this courts achievements in defending the freedom of its citizens?
Many people know lots of things. People who have better knowledge about a thing then others will be able to dominate people with less knowledge since facts are on their side.
Regardless of how tainted onces beliefs are, facts are facts.
Wisdom, ethics, insight, knowing whats best for society, looking at stuff not from onces own field of expertise is not prevalent in crowds.
History is full of people who had knowledge, but lacked wisdom...
Now imagine you have pictures of being a little kid bathing (for extra fun: with your siblings). Showing those to your boy/girlfriend will get you convicted for owning and making available images of naked kids! Who would want to defend you despicable being for having those images around!
And the scary thing: If things continue in the direction they are going now, it is only a matter of time.
Oh, I do so wish that next election will let me mod the government "funny"...
Sign in, sneak out, wreak havoc - and prove you were at school when it happened. priceless!
Especially Ultima VI, but also Ultima VII had a vast world that can be explored freely. You can even harvest crops and bake bread if you like or drift across the sea in a raft...
I still fondly remember the exploration of Britannia and it took me at least a month to realize there was a storyline I could follow (I only had about 1 year of english at school at that time and game-information was heavily text-driven...)
At least where I live you have to pay to have radio. It is ~10$/month for radio. And the listener will be subject to advertisement, which does not make a service free - it just gets paid "round the corner"...
Unfortunately to get them on this technicality you would have to prove that they planned to import drugs or were part of a terrorist organization at the moment they filled out the form.
Of course this would imply a working justice system... But if the system doesn't care about the law anyway, why bother with the questions in the first place?
Nowadays where everything gets calculated into CO2 - how would the trees calculate in CO2 saved? Could they just sell CO2-certificates and give everyone a kindle2 for free?
(and is it able to light my chimney, as its name suggests?)
At least for germany this is not true. The cop is a witness and witnesses have to state their perceptions. So he will say "I heard ..." or "I saw ..." - but how this gets interpreted is up to the judge(s) only.
...that the new store will entertain a "plays for sure, no really!"-logo.
The private individuals looking to make a buck did so - and created the next batch of problems now known under the names of "Respirable Dust", "Smog", "Traffic Jam" and not to forget "Global Warming".
Did it occur to you or anyone else of your school of thought, that individuals looking for a quick buck /might/ be involved in something commonly defined as the 'tragedy of the commons' and thus might give horse manure for long term consequences of their doing as long as they personally make a fortune and do not have to pay for the consequences?
I for one would welcome a committee of busybodies (who are not actually lobbyists trying to make a quick buck by catering to particular interest groups) that actually takes the time to think about possible consequences of their doing before presenting solutions. Just for example, that would have circumvented that whole stupid bio-fuel-from-crop-pseudo-solution.
... or usenet or wherever todays kids get their moviez from...
Admittedly I am a dual national like all EU members are...
Please elaborate...
If you are a citizen of one of the member-states of the EU you still only have one nationality. If your country signed the Schengen Agreement (this does not necessarily mean you are a EU citizen, since Iceland, Norway and Switzerland signed it too) then you can travel to the other Schengen-countries without encountering border controls, though you might encounter dragnet-controls in certain areas.
National laws about the need to carry an ID (for example) or to identify yourself still apply. While crossing borders into foreign countries is quite normal in europe with all those small countries one can travel very long distances in the US without even coming near a border. So the border controls europeans had to put up with a couple of years ago were addressed at "foreign persons" and an average european encountered a lot more of them then the average US-citizen.
Long story short: Only the Schengen-bordercontrol addressed at "foreign persons" is a suitable parallel to the US-rules - and I suppose no EU-citizen ever had to put up with its rules.
Canada will deny you entry if you've been convicted of drug possession or DWI -- even if said conviction was a misdemeanor/civil affair if your home country. Why don't I see anybody complaining about that?
I am astonished, did you really think this through?
This might be shocking news, for entering Canada it is irrelevant which laws apply in your home country.
200k might look expensive, but if one takes into account that instead of tarmac-roads it would be enough to have "grass-avenues" where todays problems of soil-sealing, rainwater, aquaplaning and the like are unheard off the macroeconomic cost might not be significantly different then today.
"We need a beltway!" - "Ok, I get the lawnmower!"
Unfortunately this is an utopian dream, since it would require widespread adoption and tearing up roads already in existence when a sufficient proportion of cars is capable of flying. Nevertheless, I like the thought of it.
The business-model of ISPs is to sell internet-access to people. So if someone wants them to disconnect someone there will be a price-tag on this customer including the money spent on acquiring a customer in the first place and the amount of money the ISP expects to earn with this customer.
As it is a network industry there will be almost nil cost-reduction due to having a customer less (it ought to only effect peering-fees that can be attributed to this specific customer).
If a customer is not profitable due to exceeding the calculated traffic (extremely heavy users) the ISP will try to get out of the contract in some way anyhow, as is known from the discussions regarding "flat rates".
Disconnecting a handful of customers will not be a problem for a big ISP, but as soon as this gets an automated process regarding a significant part of the customer-base the ISPs will demand compensation.
Microsoft on the other hand has been known to leave 0-day exploits unpatched for months.
just being curious: do 0-day-exploits evolve to several-month-old-bugs over time?
Some Corps won't switch because they have applications built with MS-infrastructure (sharepoint, exchange-webmail, etc.) that only works correctly with IE.
the spammers CAN SPAM.
You advocate a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (X) vigilante
approach to fighting crime. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Criminals do not care about laws
(X) Carrying a gun does not teach you how to behave correctly under attack
(X) Identifying people with guns in plain clothes shooting at each other gets difficult for the police
(X) Untrained cilivians shooting at trained criminals will get the civilians killed
(X) Untrained cilivians shooting at trained criminals will get other civilians killed
(X) It will increase the availability of guns, leading to more gunfights
( ) It will stop crime for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Courts will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from criminals
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) People cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
--- snip ---
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
(X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
(X) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(X) This is a stupid idea.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
11. - ???
12. - PROFIT!
it's google after all.
I mean, all you'd have to do is go to international waters and you could do all you wanted, to any country you wanted, to any server you wanted, and there would be no retribution.
Pirates in international waters? You gotta be kidding...
It's as if Matt Groening saw into the future...
http://snpp.com/episodes/BABF08.html
Corruption is normal where humans have the power to spend money that is not their own. It might not be so obvious as in Nigeria, but surely not even Halliburton has received all those Iraq contracts by being the best bidder.