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by gloob 16y ago
I /think/ the argument for legalisation lowering heroin use is that if it were legal, certain unscrupulous people would not be pushing it on fragile members of society, and getting them hooked for financial gain. Replace "heroin" with "ci
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by gloob 16y ago
Many (read: almost all, I'm willing to bet) web developers will be completely ignorant of trends in embedded programming. Many (read: almost all, I'm willing to bet) embedded programmers will be ignorant of trends in web programming. It i
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by gloob 16y ago
In fairness, many self-identified libertarians seem to have the same issue.
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by gloob 16y ago
If Steve Jobs was selling it, I do think people would fall for it.
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by gloob 16y ago
Phones, like mail, are a special case in a whole bunch of ways, legally, is my (Not A Lawyer) understanding. Using them as a basis for comparison is probably not going to reveal a lot.
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by gloob 16y ago
My point is that Idiocy aims to accomplish change by scaring people and getting media attention. That is the same thing that terrorism does For what it's worth, that's also the same thing that many politicians and lobby groups do.
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by gloob 16y ago
It's like everyone who searches "Why is America so $foo" is Canadian, and everyone who searches "Why is Europe so $foo" is American.
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by gloob 16y ago
The charitable reading of your words, if I didn't misunderstand, is "many people think that people are sometimes justified in ignoring the law, depending on the situation." That's more or less a truism. Edit: Upvoted you back to 1.
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by gloob 16y ago
Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned, but the argument "Companies have the right to ignore the law if doing so increases profits" seems rather...unconventional.
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by gloob 16y ago
Make little applications in the form of websites, and people can use it safely as long as the web browser does not have a security hole. In practice this means: "Make little applications in the form of websites, and people cannot use it s
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by gloob 16y ago
What the heck did we convict Aldrich Ames for? I assume that you convicted him for breaking the law. Moral liability and legal liability are two orthogonal things.
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by gloob 16y ago
Name a civilian whose name was disclosed by Wikileaks who has since been killed by enemy combatants. Surely to god some journalist somewhere has looked this information up and written an article about it.
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by gloob 16y ago
This is the same sort of reasoning used by those who claim that America is responsible for September 11, 2001 because they spent the last 60 years dicking around in the Middle East. The second claim is true, and America bears responsibilit
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by gloob 16y ago
They get your money when you subscribe to their print paper too, you know. It's not like their business model actually requires the death of print.
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by gloob 16y ago
Compare Canada's population to Indonesia's. Now compare their standards of living. High population does not imply or cause high wealth.
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by gloob 16y ago
Also, this has been stated multiple times, but 9/11 wasn't about killing 3,000 people, it was about attacking America as a whole, making people feel that they weren't safe in their own country. They aren't safe in their own country. Huge
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by gloob 16y ago
To be fair, if I thought Twitter was undervalued, I'd probably be interested in investing in Twitter as well.
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by gloob 16y ago
That is a useful habit when dealing with the real world, and an annoying habit when dealing with a purely hypothetical question. In the latter case, it's called "missing the point".
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by gloob 16y ago
I'm straight and I enjoy homosexual innuendo. Like all innuendo, I find it amusing more than I find it titillating.
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by gloob 16y ago
And now for something marginally different: "I have no idea if <bats can fly>. But if I have a model of <flight in biological animals> and <bats> happen not to fit the model, that's nothing like proof that they canno
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by gloob 16y ago
Chaps with guns inconveniencing you is a risk anywhere with law enforcement. Or without it, for that matter. Taxes aren't the root cause of it.
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by gloob 16y ago
Disclaimer: IANAL. Disclaimer: IANAA (I Am Not An American) Assaulting the same person twice would still be two different assaults. Stealing a truck, getting caught and punished, and stealing the same truck again would, to my understanding
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by gloob 16y ago
But ... this wouldn't be double jeopardy. It would be a second instance of him refusing to turn over the passwords. Just as you can be tried twice for murder twice if there are two separate murders, you could be tried twice in this situa
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by gloob 16y ago
So would filing a bug report.
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by gloob 16y ago
True, but completely missing the point of the comment you're responding to.
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by gloob 16y ago
Statements that begin with the phrase "The only rational reason to..." usually are not intended as expressions of opinion, but rather as statements about how there is only one rational rational reason to do such-and-such, and this is it.
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by gloob 16y ago
It is worth noting that, as evidenced by the fact that (e.g.) Toshiba still sells plenty of computers, many customers really don't care that much about design details. No doubt there are many who do, and no doubt there is a third group tha
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by gloob 16y ago
What about shutting down websites I don't like?
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by gloob 16y ago
Your exploiting a security hole in my browser and overriding my explicit wishes to benefit your company is no more ethical than my exploiting a security hole in your website and "fixing" your database.
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by gloob 16y ago
Which is precisely why they are largely discouraged here.

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