To their credit, they at least attempted to make it clear that the powers granted to the government so Constituted would be enumerated and, hence, tightly limited, so that any fuck-ups in their designs would have limited effects on the States. Such modesty did not last beyond the 1860s.
abortion results in a dead baby
I'm pretty certain abortion ensures that fetus will never develop into a baby.
It was not intended that the President lead government. It was intended that the President, like the military, be under civilian rule.
And, yes, I know this original intent of the Constitution has been violated by virtually every President.
nobody is removing projects or any IP from Github
In this specific instance perhaps, but I wouldn't say nobody. Remember Popcorn Time?
Moving services like ssh to a higher, non-default port is not done for "security".
It won't protect you from in-depth attacks, but will save you from in-breadth ones.
Using a high port can protect even from non-thorough targetted attacks: nmap's default for example is to scan a selection of 1000 ports rather than full 64K.
Seriously, you cannot kill as a Christian, because 1. you can't kill
Uhm, killing is not only condoned but even required (at the pain of death!) in a good number of cases. You're relying on a bad translation, the Hebrew text has "thou shalt not murder".
And Yahveh "himself" ordered genocides of multiple whole tribes.
And in fact the criminals who murdered these 12 people are not followers of Islam though they claim to do it in the name of Islam.
Sorry, but have you read the Koran? Those criminals did exactly what ordered, with the relevant commandment repeated umpteen times. These murders were no less inspired by the word of Muhammed than, say, the murder of Asma bint Marwan.
You're probably mistaking the Koran for the Bible. The latter contains so many contradictions that you can't be a Christian without a steaming pile of doublethink and cherry-picking, which makes most of us think the Koran suffers from the same. It does not: rather than a series of books written over ~700 years, it's the product of careful editing by a small team of scribes overseen by one man. It bears nearly no contradictions, basically just permissibility of alcohol (16:67 vs 2:216), whether angels are the same as jinn, and some literary devices. And even those are governed by an "upgrade clause".
So, while a majority of people with islamic cultural roots are good people, that's not thanks to Koran but despite of it. They are sinners who fail to obey the scripture, while the murderers are true believers.
One religion in recent history has been responsible for the vast vast majority of religious inspired violence. Essentially two mainstream religions feature a scripture that preaches violence against its enemies, the Islamic and Jewish faiths. The latter does not have any prevailing interpretations advocating violence outside a small patch of land.
Holy war is an invention of Christians when they first gained power (albeit Judaism was at some points a precursor to a small degree). Beforehand, everyone was free to worship any gods he wanted, as long as he did not disrespect gods of others. What did Romans do when they prepared to war? They built temples to gods of their enemies, making sacrifices so the gods don't fear losing worship. It's only insulting gods that was forbidden, and in some societies like Rome the perpetrator usually was given a yet another chance, to make a sacrifice as an apology.
Forcing someone to abandon his gods was unheard of. Even other monotheist religions like Zoroastrians or Mithraists did not go that far. It's so-called Abrahamic religions who brought us this evil.
"If it quacks like a duck"... Let's take a look at Communism: prophets, check. Scripture, check. Clergy, check. Portraits of "saints" everywhere, check. Proselytism, check. Future paradise, check (earthly). Religious hymns, check. Hate towards other religions, check. Prosecution of heretics, check. Rituals and ceremonies, check. Just compare 1st May processions to ones Catholics do on Corpus Christi.
Same with Adolf and Mao. Not that different from deification of Roman emperors...
Heck, a good part of modern religiology classifies Juche as a proper religion.
It doesn't matter that adherents claim it's not a religion. It's all about dogma.
I don't think it's realistic at this point to expect much change from the government. Unarmed black men die by cop in the streets and that's all part of the plan it seems. Even the black president appears to do nothing but pay lip service to the problem. Internet freedom seems downright secondary when unarmed kids are being shot by cops regularly.
To the point, I think what we are witnessing is the end of what we currently understand as the internet. Net neutrality wouldn't be an issue if it weren't for the ISP monopolies in the first place. NSA spying and weakening encryption standards leaving the whole system backdoored. DMCA is the icing on the cake, destroying free speech one github repo at a time.
I fully expect wireless mesh networks to be the next generation of internet. People will laugh about the days when we were so stupid to trust Facebook servers with so much as a password. They will of course, use something similar to SSH, where the client holds the key and the password. The idea that one company could have stood as a gatekeeper between you and your pizza order from the shop on the corner will seem like pure stupidity.
It is stupidity. There's absolutely no reason those pizza order packets need to travel thousands of miles from my handset, up to a cloud server, where it's intercepted and inspected by the NSA before it is passed down another wire belonging to another ISP who's going to charge a fee or slow the order down, just to reach a pizza shop a mile or two down the road. (assuming that pizza shop didn't get an illegitimate DMCA takedown over a photo of a cheese pizza). It is simply ridiculous when every square mile of modern civilization is saturated with wireless radios. I'm sitting in range of 16 wifi access points right now. Everyone I know carries a phone with not only wifi, but bluetooth, and LTE too.
This is dumb. And when enough of us developers step back, and think, and see how very dumb it is... we will create a new solution. The dim witted management in the form of government will proceed to try to screw up our new internet as best they can, until they succeed and we start the process all over again.
I thought ASN.1 was just a data representation, not a programming language. Went and googled a bit...um,.... seems to be right; but I only skimmed the Wiki. Of course you could represent code in any good data representation language; but why? I've heard people say that data is passed using ASN.1, but never "I wrote that application in ASN.1". That just sounds wrong.
Given fast turn around reusability with rocket engine restart capabilities claimed by SpaceX the numbers work out for high end passenger fares if you go to a lower suborbital velocity and then bleed off energy while stretching distance by passively skipping off the atmosphere. By "passive" I mean no scramjet (or other propulsive kick). If you really need distance use rocket engine restart and carry extra propellant.
He forgot to mention, probably out of modesty, that the transistor, integrated circuit and the Internet were all invented in Bhrat Gaarjya as well.
Trouble is, a lot of today's appliances aren't worth fixing. I junked a blender recently. Problem? plastic coupling between the motor and the blades. What's that you say? Machine a new one out of metal? OK maybe... if the motor didn't already spark and smell like ozone when making one smoothie. No, crushing ice was not pushing this thing. It was specifically advertised as being OK with that. It was just. A piece. Of crap. Now a BlendTec, that'd be worth servicing... but even the consumer version is $400.00. Many of us can't afford that, or we rationalize the 5-year disposable $40 blender as potentially cheaper even though trashing things is somehow less satisfying. There is no pride in ownership when there's no pride in manufacturing. This is by design. The companies don't want people fixing things. Everybody knows it.
Maybe that's why the younger generation is more interested in making. If companies won't put pride in manufacturing, maybe individuals will.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
