pmccool

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by pmccool 17y ago
Yes, but they aren't meaningless without it.
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by pmccool 17y ago
I disagree with this analogy. Without food, you _die_.
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by pmccool 17y ago
Interesting definition of a fundamental right. All the usual suspects (speech, movement, association, due process, etc) don't depend on technology (and, incidentally infrastructure). I just can't come around to the idea that access to telec
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by pmccool 17y ago
Interesting, related question: when is a creature self-aware enough to be held to a different standard of behaviour than, say, a dog?
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by pmccool 17y ago
Terry Pratchett writes movingly and convincingly that assisted suicide should be allowed. Coming up with some general rule about how and when will be the hard part. I can't see any legal reforms in this area being anything except controvers
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by pmccool 17y ago
Regarding point a): something to bear in mind is that rent payments are more or less guaranteed to keep going up, all things being equal. Mortgage payments are not. You also get some equity out of mortgage payments, whereas you don't out of
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by pmccool 17y ago
Can he appeal, having pleaded guilty? Shouldn't the invalidity of the law have been raised At the trial he elected not to have?
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by pmccool 17y ago
The analogy with a driver's license is completely inane. What's the worst that can happen if you go about blogging the wrong way? Some people get upset, maybe sue for defamation or something? Big deal! Go about driving the wrong way and peo
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by pmccool 17y ago
An excellent example of why measuring performance is vastly preferable to speculating about it. I often find that what I imagine to be the case and what the measurements tell me are two completely different things.
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by pmccool 17y ago
I imagine Conroy was making the point that it was technically possible. I don't think that bringing up Chinese internet censorship was the most politically astute way to make that point, mind you...
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by pmccool 17y ago
I think people will make it a freedom-of-political-communication issue, because that's the obvious way of getting the law declared invalid, or declared not to apply to political speech or what-have-you. There's no absolute freedom of politi
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by pmccool 17y ago
I disagree. The list you mention is part of the definition of "terrorist act". The definition of "terrorist act" starts by saying: terrorist act" means an action or threat of action where: (a) the action falls within subsection (2) and does