zymhan

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by zymhan 13y ago
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of why the judiciary is the US is setup the way it is. Judges are appointed by the Executive, but they are essentially immune from any political pressure after they're appointed, as they don&#x27
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by zymhan 13y ago
> So basically you're saying the watchers watch themselves? No, because judges don't hear appeals to their decisions. Of course if you think the entire system is broken, then there's not much I can do to convince you.
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by zymhan 13y ago
> Who checks the checkers and balances the balancers? The Appeals Courts, the Supreme Court, the executive (can pardon), and the people's ability to riot in the streets until we get our way. We certainly aren't hopeless, we jus
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by zymhan 13y ago
I never really considered that I would see in my lifetime two people be persecuted so strongly by the government for doing such a beneficial thing. This seems like more "1950's over-zealous anticommunism".
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by zymhan 13y ago
I actually just returned my CPU (Phenom II X4) to AMD, and they've replaced it, but they didn't say exactly why it died. I've asked them for more details, hopefully they can tell me. Overall though, given with how many comput
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by zymhan 13y ago
> but Linux would report that the CPU was throwing some kind of exception Does this mean it didn't boot into Linux?
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by zymhan 13y ago
The Prenda case has made legal experts of us all :)
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by zymhan 13y ago
Because people can still find any maybe fall for this insanity?
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by zymhan 13y ago
It may sound like a contradiction to you, but that certainly doesn't mean that anonymous currency has to be a contradiction.
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by zymhan 13y ago
() Battery issues with digitizing a non-battery product (credit card). Be in no doubt that more than half of users will forget to charge their credit card (as if we don't have enough things to charge). So you'll see people having
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by zymhan 13y ago
Well, there's still the atmosphere between us.
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by zymhan 13y ago
When you live in a society of hundreds of millions of people, all with their own view of how society should be run, you have to accept a certain amount of "take it or leave it," otherwise it will quickly devolve into paralysis or
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by zymhan 13y ago
What contract? Are we going to have a standard contract specifying what you want to happen in every conceivable situation? Just imagine a some medical issues that could come up: kidney failure, liver failure, vegetative state, amputation, D
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by zymhan 13y ago
> Not if you're male - sodomy is illegal in many states (despite a Supreme Court ruling that pretty much shuts them down) in the US, and many other countries entirely [1]. Even if the law is on the books in some states, it cannot be
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by zymhan 13y ago
Interesting, when I roll over it in Firefox I see the large number.
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by zymhan 13y ago
Yeah, if the device is unencrypted, which it likely is, and the key isn't passphrase protected, which also seems unlikely, then it should be trivial to access the private key.