you don't have a doge i guess. Such miss.
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Hate speech laws, while may sound like a reasonable thing in theory, on practice naturally allow for very selective enforcement (mostly due to their inherent vagueness - any political speech can be qualified as hate speech if there is a strong will to do so) and thus are used as extremely effective tool for oppression of political opponents by the powers-to-be while people like you (who seems to not understand or know that selective enforcement of laws is a form of tyranny and such enforcement actually voids those laws) are blinded by the fog-screen of declaration of "illegality". For example, nobody was arrested (less sent to prison) for publicly praying to God in support of Putin and his regime which is as much a hate speech toward the Putin's opponents as a public prayer to God to chase Putin away is a hate speech toward Putin and his supporters.
As result, in their application in real life, hate speech laws is mostly very unjust and unfair laws and mostly used as a tool of unjustice. A right and just action like challenging powers-to-be on their unjust actions or statement of facts unpopular with the powers-to-be may very well result in conviction under such laws. And even without actual convictions, such laws result in unjust chilling effects on political opponents of the powers-to-be.
Btw, this is why one of the greatest thing that US have and that sets US so far apart and ahead (as this thing is missing in the rest of the world) is the freedom of speech, the 1st Amendment.
what harm is coming from "eco-terrorists"? Lesser availability of whale meat? I doubt whales would see it as a harm. Or people who worked for decades to restore whales population. Or people who are just disgusted by whale killings.
>What Pussy Riot did would be illegal in pretty much every reasonably civilized country in the world.
i'm wondering what do you think they did? Do you seriously think that tresspassing and non-violent disturbance of peace - the minor crimes in reasonably civilized countries - are the "2 year in prison" crimes in Russia? Or calling upon God to chase away a President is a crime "in pretty much every reasonably civilized country in the world"?
> The point is that you can't arbitrarily allow some types of crime, and disallow others based on the ideology behind it...
You seem to be saying that no illegal behaviour can be justified. Well, you've mentioned swastikas and Judaism before. That reminds about the most known and indisputable today example when illegal behavior was rightly justified - i.e doing right thing toward Jews for example was illegal in Nazi Germany and doing legal thing was terribly wrong.
former promote co-existence while latter - exclusion. How can you even put them together in one sentence?
> The only difference is the social 'acceptability' of each 'belief'. ie. it's ok to insult Christians but not Jews...
Russian Orthodox church going out of its way politically supporting Putin (and immensely benefiting from that financially and politically) isn't a doing of Jesus work, and challenging the church on that isn't an assault on Christianity.
As if there is any other kind of trial in Russia. Quick introduction on Russia trials : http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tribunal_%28episode%29
>Germany is also trying to get Timochenko out of Ukraine
yep, one more "prisoner of conscience" of Khodorkovsky type
>so your question should probably be rephrased from "why him" to "why not also Snowden".
as i already said, there is nothing in common between Khodorkovsky and people like Snowden. Snowden challenged the State, the Order of Things on the right/wrong principles, whereis Khodorkovsky being at the time among largest beneficiaries of the Order of Things challenged a specific person for personal [beneficial] position in that Order of Things.
It has nothing to do with Pussy Riot. You're talking out of your a##.
> Just like people who bomb pipelines and spray paint swastikas on synagogues.
the same - it has nothing to do with Pussy Riot.
Calling him a "prisoner of conscience" is total disrespect and offense to real prisoners of conscience who stand up and suffer for their principles (like Pussy Riot girls for example). He stood up for his wealth and power refusing to accept the reality that the new rising thief at the time - Putin and Co. - become stronger than him. He challenged Putin and lost. Will Putin be called a "prisoner of conscience" when/if some new guy send Putin to a Siberia camp?
following that logic most laws would be unconstitutional.
By the way, "Software is a team sport and does not suffer those who do not play by its rules." I hope his team/company isn't an English speaking one.
KGB was formed in 1954, after Stalin's death. It is historically meaningful because of all the changes that were happening right after Stalin's death when USSR was changing from mass violence oppressive state of Stalin to the totalitarian state with more targeted violence. In particular the role of agency like KGB (while still having the same goal of state security) was shifting to being of less of enforcer/executioner and more of information gatherer and "mind controller" Big Brother style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Soviet_secret_pol...
As for the rest of your post - it is just propaganda blabber.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6757/calxedas-arm-server-teste...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6757/calxedas-arm-server-teste...
while not bad, it doesn't seem to have enough advantage to beat Xeon in real market (especially while being more expensive than Xeon systems). Like with Sun's Niagara processors, being better only in a narrow niche may be not enough for a financial success in pretty general server market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_C...
Why the representatives you sent to DC and state capitols are happily voting for AETA-style bills instead of, say, proposing and voting for anti-AETA bills, for example something like "reaffirming and extending the 1st Amendment rights" bills and/or the bills that would treat as a terrorism any assault on the [at least Constitutional] rights of protesters?
Just kidding :)
Of course the valley is for the reason, yet for some above mentioned people it may look like a business opportunity. Anyway, they raised 2M - peanuts for VC to explore on practice whether it is opportunity or not.
a software engineering abstraction which doesn't have clear performance facet is just a bad software engineering abstraction (while, for example, it may be a really good math abstraction).
>Also, a lot of research is basically infinite trial-and-error until you find something that works; doing this on a scale large enough for humans would kill lots of people, versus lots of mice.
Doing research on humans vs. mice would [these days, though not even 40-60 years ago] force to do the research differently, mindfully and efficiently, instead of meat chopping factory it is now.
CA sounds pretty much like an exception. This is why i live here :)
For illustration, as another poster mentioned Fairchild - with enforceable non-competes you'll never have the "Fairchild Semiconductor of Cleveland"
"The president is a former member of the Tupamaros guerrilla group, which was notorious in the early 1970s for bank robberies, kidnappings and distributing stolen food and money among the poor. He was shot by police six times and spent 14 years in a military prison, much of it in dungeon-like conditions."
Is t-word applicable here ? :)
the same can be said about meth or other ADHD drugs. "Magic comes with a price" :) (i was a smoker of cigarettes for a decade and quit more than a decade ago)
in non-MBA speak it is called "foreman".
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/first-grade-boy-suspend...
"A 6-year-old was suspended from school in Canon City, Colo., after kissing a girl on her hand. School officials said the smooch was sexual harassment"