...lawsuit filed earlier this month against Penguin by Marilyn Duckworth, who alleges the publisher forced her out after 27 years of employment to pursue employees that were "faster, stronger and more nimble."
I can't think of anything to write that would be funnier than the mental image this inspires.
If we're talking about countermeasures, I don't think it would cost too much to
1) hire a double to saunter around in a thong for the afternoon,
2) wait until the photos hit the newsstands, then
3) reveal the deception, thereby destroying the reputation (and I use the term loosely) of the tabloid in the tiny minds of the readers who for some reason actually care about this stuff.
I'm not sure how to put this delicately, but this looks like another attempt to stifle online innovation, made by a politician at the behest of the Philippine, uh, traditional, uh, legacy, um... analog industry.
Could you post a few links to prominent Muslim clerics and Islamic organizations across the middle east (and Europe, and the U.S.) denouncing the violence? It would help when people of good will try to argue that Islam does not condone these thugs. (I took a quick look and the best I could find was "let's not use violence when we protest this outrageous film," which really isn't good enough.)
If those authorities spend all their breath denouncing the video and not the murders (as they spent their breath denouncing the Danish cartoons and not the murders), then Islam does tacitly condone the murder of blasphemers.
I've been in a few plays, and there are always little modifications. Lines -- or whole scenes -- are omitted or rearranged; character concepts are altered a little or a lot; stage directions are treated as suggestions at best; with props and costumes, anything goes. Shakespeare is usually performed as written, but just try doing "Julius Caesar" exactly according to script-- some crucial lines make no sense!
I think making the relationship in "Deathtrap" explicitly gay is ham-handed, especially since it's covert in the context of the story, but the Levin estate is being puritanical. It serves them right -- and the rest of us us poorly -- if the play fades further into obscurity.
"If you do not understand the implications of that then you have to go no further than today's world news headlines to see what happens in other parts of the world when such perversions occur."
I absolutely agree; religious bigotry keeps whole societies stuck in the bronze age, foments violence and condones murder all over the "holy land", blights the lives of countless--
Wait... those are the perversions you're talking about, right?
I have never before heard "Jewish" used as a noun to refer to the language.
I like Japanese people and culture too, but "Jap" and "Nip" were the terms we used in WWII, and are (to me) inseparable from the idea of the Japanese as the enemies in that war-- and the more of them you can kill in a day the better. I will use those words in that context, but the idea of using them to refer to anyone or anything today makes me shudder.
I hope that doesn't make me sound like a hypocrite!
I wouldn't like it. But that doesn't mean it should be against the law. I don't like gospel singing. I don't like homeopathy. I don't like the Star Wars prequels. How many times must we have this argument?
"Jew" is not exactly a bad word, but the subject has become so sensitive that many cautious speakers say "Jewish person" or "Jewish people". (Personally I use "Jew" for several reasons, including my belief that people should defend language against such nonsense.)
"Even if it was Blue Toad, what were they doing with all that information in a non-encrypted form, not to mention all the supposed billing information." (emphasis added)
As I understand it, Antisec claimed that the data included "zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc.", while in the NBC story, Apple spokeswoman Trudy Mullter said (or implied) that the Blue Toad data did not include personal information such as account or billing information. So now Antisec can prove its case by revealing the personal information. If Antisec is reluctant to cause so much trouble for so many people, let's have a test. There must be people out there who have found their own devices on the list; maybe some of them are prepared to say, "Antisec, here's my UDID, here's a message encrypted with my phone number, I challenge you to publish the cleartext." (There are probably better protocols, this is just off the top off my head.)
I met one twenty years ago, running for local office in Colorado. I'll never forget that conversation. I didn't agree with him on everything, but his arguments were coherent and principled and he didn't evade questions. I voted for him, and for the first (and so far, only) time in my life, I didn't feel as if I were voting for the lesser of two evils. He lost.
Years later I talked with a politician on a street corner. After a couple of minutes I walked away, knowing only that he was adept at evading questions, a basic skill. I don't remember his name, his platform or his party.
More recently I met a politician running for state office, as he was handing out fliers and talking about his platform. I said that his mandatory-minimum-sentence plank was a terrible idea; he cut short my argument by saying that I was in favor of child molesters. I walked away boiling mad and hating the whole breed.
We are the intelligent voters; they're not going to pander to a tiny minority.
If an account is designated "off limits" without my permission and then it posts my copyrighted material, do I not have the right to sue for infringement? [Note to idiots: I am not a copyright maximalist, think before you reply.] Can Google not lose its safe harbor status? This approach requires yet another ugly graft of law and technology, wherein an algorithm specification gets translated into legal language and passed into law so that only a dozen people on Earth can actually figure out what the law says.
'If the stream is authorized by, I don't know, the party of the current President of the United States, maybe, just fucking maybe, everything's "above board."'
'...the Iranian government's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance cited World of Warcraft... [for e.g.] "promotion of superstition and mythology,"...'
Christopher Hitchens would have laughed himself sick at that one.
'..."promotion of violence due to too much violence,"...'
Just try a Google search for "Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance stoning". Go ahead, try it.
'...and "demonstration of inappropriate clothing and slutty outfits for female avatars."'
Mitochondrial Eve was not the "mother of humanity" in any meaningful sense; she was the last female-line ancestor common to all human beings alive today. There were other human females alive in her time, she lived roughly 60,000 years before Y-chromosome Adam, and when enough current-day female lines die out, the title will pass to one of her daughters (she must have had more than one).
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I want a challenge, wak-wak-wak!
I can't think of anything to write that would be funnier than the mental image this inspires.
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counterintelligence
1) hire a double to saunter around in a thong for the afternoon,
2) wait until the photos hit the newsstands, then
3) reveal the deception, thereby destroying the reputation (and I use the term loosely) of the tabloid in the tiny minds of the readers who for some reason actually care about this stuff.
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the oldest lobby
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Re: Re: Re: Dhimmitude
If those authorities spend all their breath denouncing the video and not the murders (as they spent their breath denouncing the Danish cartoons and not the murders), then Islam does tacitly condone the murder of blasphemers.
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Re:
"Hey you zealots! If you kill one of our ambassadors, we'll back down!"
Yes, I think that would hurt us. I think that would hurt us a lot.
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Re: new information
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detente
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Re:
I think making the relationship in "Deathtrap" explicitly gay is ham-handed, especially since it's covert in the context of the story, but the Levin estate is being puritanical. It serves them right -- and the rest of us us poorly -- if the play fades further into obscurity.
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Re:
I absolutely agree; religious bigotry keeps whole societies stuck in the bronze age, foments violence and condones murder all over the "holy land", blights the lives of countless--
Wait... those are the perversions you're talking about, right?
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Re: Re: Re:
I like Japanese people and culture too, but "Jap" and "Nip" were the terms we used in WWII, and are (to me) inseparable from the idea of the Japanese as the enemies in that war-- and the more of them you can kill in a day the better. I will use those words in that context, but the idea of using them to refer to anyone or anything today makes me shudder.
I hope that doesn't make me sound like a hypocrite!
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Re:
As I understand it, Antisec claimed that the data included "zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc.", while in the NBC story, Apple spokeswoman Trudy Mullter said (or implied) that the Blue Toad data did not include personal information such as account or billing information. So now Antisec can prove its case by revealing the personal information. If Antisec is reluctant to cause so much trouble for so many people, let's have a test. There must be people out there who have found their own devices on the list; maybe some of them are prepared to say, "Antisec, here's my UDID, here's a message encrypted with my phone number, I challenge you to publish the cleartext." (There are probably better protocols, this is just off the top off my head.)
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please unring this bell
Oh... Trademark Law now sounds like a pretty good male porn name. Thanks a lot.
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Re: Principled politician?
Years later I talked with a politician on a street corner. After a couple of minutes I walked away, knowing only that he was adept at evading questions, a basic skill. I don't remember his name, his platform or his party.
More recently I met a politician running for state office, as he was handing out fliers and talking about his platform. I said that his mandatory-minimum-sentence plank was a terrible idea; he cut short my argument by saying that I was in favor of child molesters. I walked away boiling mad and hating the whole breed.
We are the intelligent voters; they're not going to pander to a tiny minority.
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the arguments of lawyers and engineers
'If the stream is authorized by, I don't know, the party of the current President of the United States, maybe, just fucking maybe, everything's "above board."'
That is a disgusting suggestion.
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Re: Always more to the story
Christopher Hitchens would have laughed himself sick at that one.
'..."promotion of violence due to too much violence,"...'
Just try a Google search for "Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance stoning". Go ahead, try it.
'...and "demonstration of inappropriate clothing and slutty outfits for female avatars."'
Well, yeah, okay.
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Re: Re: little did she know
I'd try to explain the science, but I don't think it would do any good.
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little did she know
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