derleth

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by derleth 13y ago
> the law does not specifically mention Islam and it does not prohibit, as you have misrepresented, "dressing up as a Muslim" Ah, but it bans something that it just so happens only Muslims would wear. Suspicious, no? > Als
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by derleth 13y ago
None of this is relevant. You can't argue the actual points, so you descend to irrelevancies.
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by derleth 13y ago
> BULL and SHIT. In Australia, there is no routine pixellation of middle fingers, likewise pixellating the mouth of someone swearing. We don't ban whole works. Australia does. > Hell, even movie ratings are a form of censorship,
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by derleth 13y ago
> The argument for this law is not grounded in any religious objection, as I understand it Wow. This is monumentally dishonest, especially given how the law came to be and how it's been applied. http://www.independent.co.
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by derleth 13y ago
OK, to begin with, Australia still bans things. This is something the USA grew out of decades ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia It's insane. Also, there are the defamation laws: https:&#x2
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by derleth 13y ago
I note you didn't respond to the fact it's illegal to dress as a Muslim in some places in Europe but it's legal everywhere in the USA.
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by derleth 13y ago
Robust free speech protections, ability to rough it in a country that's still in the first world, and the ability to enter industries that don't exist to the same extent elsewhere. We're also much less racist than Europe, for
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by derleth 13y ago
Right, because a whole country is TexaFlorida and all the inhabitants are Duck Dynasty Honey Boo Boo.
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by derleth 13y ago
The categorical imperative is strictly weaker: It's possible to use the veil of ignorance to argue against positions nobody is insisting must be made universal. For example, "In this house, you always clean up": The categor
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by derleth 13y ago
> Vim did win the war; there's still nothing better. GNU Emacs is much better. It's easier to use and easier to extend.
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by derleth 13y ago
Predicting food shortages, particularly of meat, was commonplace then, and increasingly common through the 1970s. Housing shortages were another theme, as was endless billowing torrents of acid rain. Turns out, the EPA actually did its job
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by derleth 13y ago
How often do the programmers around here need binary arithmetic? Not very often, I'd wager. Even the people who do low-level programming use logic and decimal arithmetic more than actual binary arithmetic. It's almost as funny as
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by derleth 13y ago
> for most of the 90's the concern was underpopulation Heh. When the birth rate is much above replacement, we worry about overpopulation. AND THAT'S TERRIBLE. When the birth rate is near or below replacement, we worry about und
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by derleth 13y ago
> x86 is a modern architecture It's a modern ISA, implemented by modern microarchitectures.
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by derleth 13y ago
And what do you think caused the social change? Did you notice that it came about after the laws were put in place? The laws didn't come from nowhere, but they certainly had an impact on the majority's way of thinking. Why else wo
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by derleth 13y ago
> These days kids barely know who Donald Duck or Mickey are. Ignoring the fact this is likely false, this has nothing to do with copyright. It's a matter of trademark law, and Disney would in no way lose the trademark over any of it
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by derleth 13y ago
We don't need your sexism and racism.
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by derleth 13y ago
You can brow-beat, I asked nicely.
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by derleth 13y ago
The government doesn't care about your rifles. Not even your semi-automatic ones with sights and stocks and lasers and so on. They barely even care about a well-trained militia full of people who are angry with them: The US Armed Force
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by derleth 13y ago
Does anyone here know how big the relevant database actually is?
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by derleth 13y ago
This long predates Bitcoin, although BTC gives it a new immediacy. Assassination prediction markets like this were a topic of discussion on cypherpunk mailing lists back in the 1990s. It's one way to give anonymity (or strong pseudonym
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by derleth 13y ago
> the ideas that copyright is a granted right So is ownership of land, when you come down to it. We like to pretend, in most countries, that land tenure is absolute and that it's the foundation of society, but it isn't. Only a
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by derleth 13y ago
Also because surgeons were manual laborers, and therefore not accorded the same respect as gentleman physicians.
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by derleth 13y ago
Also, Cisco routers and Sysco restaurant supplies, even though a company that sold network hardware wouldn't be able to call itself Sysco for long. This is because the standard is confusion, not an exact string match. As per 15 USC § 1
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by derleth 13y ago
You have to design with the user in mind. Always.
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by derleth 13y ago
We don't need your sexism and racism.
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by derleth 13y ago
The rule: A message encrypted with a private key can only be decrypted using the corresponding public key. A message encrypted with a public key can only be decrypted using the corresponding private key. If the poster wanted all of us t
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by derleth 13y ago
RMS doesn't care about reverse-engineering binaries from disassembly dumps as far as I know; he'd be more apt to promote a complete re-write based on observed behavior. The GPL does mandate that the source code must be in the pref
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by derleth 13y ago
In a crazy way, this reminds me of a policy at a grade school I went to: Fight-free schools, where "It takes two to fight" was the mantra. Anyone caught fighting was in trouble; it didn't matter why , even if it was self-def
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by derleth 13y ago
> rufie Roofie? Or something else?

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