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by sandworm 12y ago
Yes. Drugs, at least the illegal ones, can/do/will land you in jail and eventually prison. Marijuana possession alone is enough, depending on how much you have and/or how it is packages (ie "with intent to distribute&q
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by sandworm 12y ago
The vast majority of psychopaths are not criminals. A total disregard for the thoughts of others, a lack of empathy, can be an advantage. Bankers, lawyers, politicians, even some doctors display aspects of psychopathy. When you are in hos
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by sandworm 12y ago
Prisons are the symptom, not the disease. They are the visible end result of social policies. Those policies are dictated by an elected government. It far easier to criticize prisons than to address the beliefs that create them. America
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by sandworm 12y ago
Has anyone looked at the effects not on particles, but on changes to reactivity in the presence of magnetic fields? You don't need to rip apart molecules to kill us. Make certain reactions a little more or less likely to occur and we
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by sandworm 12y ago
Ignorant? I think not. I do not want to trust a mechanical system to see me, identify me, and stop a vehicle doing 100+ kph in time not to kill me. The car in the OP is not one that supplements a driver's vision and reaction time.
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by sandworm 12y ago
As a motorcyclist I am split about these things. I don't want to share the road, to put my life in the hands of robots. On the other hand these things will make for great fun on a mountain highway such as, my favorite, BC's sea-
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by sandworm 12y ago
I wish people would put half the effort into prevention that this article puts into mitigation. Work beside a machine humming at a particular frequency and you will loose that frequency even if the sound doesn't seem loud at the time.
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by sandworm 12y ago
"Cursory Google results show surveys and polls where 67% of parents approve of corporal punishment and half of parents spank their children regularly." Polls of parents as people with children, or people who have had children? Mo
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by sandworm 12y ago
Bundle of sticks = Tree computing? There is another, less-PC, name for a bundle of sticks but I don't think they would go that way.
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by sandworm 12y ago
But these are writers speaking as writers, not members of the general public. Their criticisms of state-backed surveillance should therefore be different than the generalized chilling of expression felt by the public at large. Writers hav
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by sandworm 12y ago
I don't see the clear link. A writer expects that his writing will be viewed by countless others. For instance I have no fear of the NSA reading this message. Surveillance or not, this is a public forum. They don't need taps.
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by sandworm 12y ago
Yes. And Canadians still cannot watch the new Archer trailers on youtube. Is it piracy to duplicate something that has no value? If the copyright owner decides not to sell an item in a particular country, it cannot be argued that a pirate
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by sandworm 12y ago
This entire fiasco reminds me of 'The Yes Men' and their reality hacks. Claim something loud enough and it becomes the story. The story is then repeated by the media, eventually forcing a change in government policy. The claim
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by sandworm 12y ago
Apple Sales International, Apple Operations International, Apple Distribution International, and Apple Operations are all headquartered in Ireland, not California. Only a tiny tiny number of specialist Apple people work and pay taxes in th
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by sandworm 12y ago
Those were not shutdown for "enabling" criminal activity. They were shut down for actually doing criminal activity. With megaupload it was failure to abide by the DMCA, with silk road it was handling money for/from drug dea
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by sandworm 12y ago
Aside from the physical takedowns, expect a financial crackdown. Tor project assets would be seized, Paypal accounts locked, and CC services withdrawn.
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by sandworm 12y ago
That's really not how it's used around here (west coast canada). They aren't associated with special needs kids. When I rode motorcycles at university the term was used for any silly-looking vehicle. A Jeep TJ with a lift
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by sandworm 12y ago
Really? I didn't realize it had anything to do with that. I thought it was simply about how the "short bus" looks like a normal bus from one angle, but disproportionately small from another. As in, DPRK threats look scary
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by sandworm 12y ago
If this turns out to be (1) real and (2) linked to the Sony fiasco, then North Korea has triumphed. They have taken down two enemies in a single hack: a film and an internet technology. That puts them ahead of the MPAA and the NSA combine
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by sandworm 12y ago
Relax, it's North Korea, the nation-state equivalent of the short bus. -Archer