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m5c32
Listen. Don't pretend the world could be made into your perfect vision of peacefulness. As if you never got into a disagreement in your whole life.
You take what you can get. There will never be full peace, not with our species. Given that, there are bad sides and there are worse sides. That's all we have. You can in principle and practice be a pacifist, that's fine. The world will survive. What will not survive is a community that would refuse to fight the good fight. And fighting that fight includes a lot of ugliness. There is no way around that.
Let's put it this way. If you were part of a police force and part of your job put you in the path of criminals, psychopaths, etc., there would come a day when you would have to decide to harm someone or be harmed. As a single person, without any other responsibility, you can decide if you want to allow yourself to be sacrificed for principle. On the other hand, if you have a responsibility to a community at large, you would have to use force, to the best of your judgement, faling that, you would not only sacrifice yourself, but you are also potentially sacrificing others who do not share your principle. If people did indeed share your principle ad infinitum, eventually, only the criminal would be left.
Posted in: Russia blasts 'biased' U.S. sentence of arms dealer
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m5c32
So, people care more about whether judicial procedure abides by int'l law than whether someone who injects gasoline onto the fire that is the conflict areas of Africa, over the misery that that would impose on victimized Africans?
It's not as though it's disputed this guy was an illegal arms dealer. That he was. It's not typically disputed by most international observers. So the furore is over how he was detained and by whom. Great. Procedure is way more important than results. I get it. I'll take results over procedure, when the greater good is at stake.
This is not a victim here. He is a victimizer who did this without any overarching strategy except profit and psychopathy.
Posted in: Russia blasts 'biased' U.S. sentence of arms dealer
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m5c32
Do I care it was France that took in Carlos the Jackal? Do I care if they followed the letter of international law? Not at all. That someone took a murderous sociopath out of general circulation is what is important. That's what I find practical.
Posted in: Russia blasts 'biased' U.S. sentence of arms dealer
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m5c32
It's not virus, it's a trojan. Trojans don't self-replicate.
This isn't the first either. This is a variant of something that has been out there for a while. What's different is that they are C&Cing them and they are part of a botnet --whereas before they were not botnetted.
This has several vectors, the most effective, as of now, is the drive by, facilitated by the fact that 4MM webpages out there have the code. There is no way for someone not running AV to avoid those webpages -unless they uninstall their browsers or uninstall Java.
Comparing MOSX to Windows XP, a 10 yo OS is disingenuous. If you were to compare Vista or Windows 7 with MOSX, then that's fair. The newer versions of these OSes are pretty solid. There aren't many gaping holes (compared to before), so hackers being practical, are taking the easy route and that at the moment is third party Software like Adobe and Java RTE and your browser (Chrome just patched again, a second time in two weeks).
They are not striking at the OS, they are striking at third party SW which is not typically updated via the same channels as the OS --meaning there can be significant lag and thus a window of opportunity to attack. Now, if you are really important, they will get you, no matter what. There are tons of zero-days waiting to be exploited.
Posted in: Hackers hitting Macs with virus: industry experts
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m5c32
There are two things. The legality of the basis for extradition and then there is the question of "is this a man who deserves freedom."
What is more important, principle, or the fate of an illegal arms dealer? I suppose that's a personal choice. Personally, I'd rather see him locked up, rather than making money by pumping more arms into conflict areas. There are idealists to whom everything is black or white and there are practical people, who take what they can get. Realpolitik seems to have the upperhand, in life --even in interpersonal relationships.
If 'realpolitik' can be predominant in the smalest of circles where a person has the most influence, why would it be unnatural to see it also rule macro environments?
Posted in: Russia blasts 'biased' U.S. sentence of arms dealer
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m5c32
I can see where a 28yo and an older sibling can commit suicide. I cannot see how a 9yo and 7yo would "commit" suicide. They were murdered.
Posted in: 4 family members found dead in Tokyo apartment
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m5c32
Agreed. Convenience and destruction of mom+pop shops is not what they need. They need an infusion of light industry and assembly operations. Things like dish-making, tool-making (light tools like wrenches, shovels, knives, etc.) putting motorbikes together, mfg bikes and so on. Something to get them jump-started into industrialization and away from subsistence farming and penury.
Posted in: Lawson to expand in Myanmar
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m5c32
Boyfriend probably deserves a bit of Giuliani Time to have him come correct.
Posted in: Man arrested for assaulting girlfriend's 4-year-old son
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m5c32
Alright, well if that's all it takes, good for you.
Well, if everyone is giving you that reaction, maybe the problem _is_ you. (relax, I'm joking)
Posted in: How do you feel about being a ‘gaijin’ in Japan?
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m5c32
Take it easy, it was a freaking joke. Get a sense of humor. I mean, it's so over the top, who would take that as factual edict?
What's funny is they backpedal on a joke.
Posted in: NHK apologizes for April Fool's Day Twitter joke
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m5c32
Hmm, you do realize that the the etymology of story does not necessarily require it to mean "made up" (as some casual usage might imply), quite the contrary, for most meaning of "story", it's a sort of a "telling of events"
Posted in: S Korean activists protest against Japan
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m5c32
Isn't that the same logic people who favor capital punishment use?
It's not so much capital punishment that's the problem with those countries cited, the greater problem is due process is not robust. Apprehension, trial and execution can happen within a month's time --that would appear rushed. That would be the issue.
If economics were the main motivation, then due process would be the first thing to eliminate. Economics, in justice, cannot be the primary concern, tho it should be a concern, none the less. Still, don't think that's a good argument. Some people might be swayed by the economics. People should be swayed by prevailing morality. Is it unusual? If only a handful of countries consider capital punishment justice, arguably, it would appear to be unusual.
On the other hand, despite the gruesome nature of CP, is it more or less humane to submit someone to CP or to commit them to life imprisonment. It's probably a personal choice as to which one might consider more difficult, on a personal level. On the third hand, dragging out the process decades kind of double whammies it. They get near life imprisonment with the added capital punishment.
Posted in: Amnesty: U.S. ranks 5th on global execution scale
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m5c32
WTF, this is ridiculous. A year on and no semblance there was any contingency planning (plan A, plan B Plan C) no modelling, no scenario formulations, etc. The Ukranians might not have been good at finesse, but when they had to do something they did it. even it it was crudely encasing the whole thing in concrete.
This thing was not spewing the same levels of radiation as Chernobyl, they have had a year to try and do some whatiff scenarios, etc. and all they can say is that it looks like there is less water than anticipated and that there appears to be some leak?
WTF, is this amateur hour or something? I wouldn't expect them to have a solution the week or month after, but a year out and still look like a one legged man putting out a brushfire. That's serious disaster mismanagement. It's the worst kind of incompetence. It's not treason, but it should be.
Posted in: Very high radiation, little water in Fukushima No. 2 reactor
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m5c32
True.
That's unrelated to the first statement. It's a matter of studies whether or not what is left is enhanced by the media. Surely copycat action is media-enhanced. Otherwise it would not be copycat*.
*Copycat can be real-life imitation (bank robber copies previous day's bank robbers MO) or it can be life imitating art (bank robber copied method used in movie or TV.)
If media had no impact, then advertising would cease to exist. It exists, profitably, therefore we know media exert some power on people. You might claim, "oh, but that's different" One is selling something obviously and the other is outright fictional portrayal of violence. I think it would be dishonest to claim we knew that such division is quite black and white in the minds of psychopaths.
Posted in: Does violence in movies contribute to violence in society?
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m5c32
Keeping the cores cool is one of the most crucial things --to keep them cool they must have a given level of water --how is it that this measurement must be done manually. How can it be possible that it cannot be monitored remotely with sensors --double and triple sensors which are calibrated periodically as necessary.
Posted in: TEPCO says Fukushima No. 2 reactor water level only 60 cms from bottom
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m5c32
This would not happen --but not for the reasons you imply. Chevrolet has the budget to pay people to do good SEO and make sure their name is not dragged down by some blogger(s). This guy could do the same, except he does not have the money to do that (or does not know how to address this issue outside of courts).
Technically, this is not GOOg's fault. If there is any fault, it's the people who write/wrote about this guy online making the (injurious) claims. GOOG gets all sorts of signals and obviously the ones maligning him are of enough weightiness that [autocomplete] finds [to him] undesirable results.
Posted in: Google reviews Japan court order to tweak auto-complete
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m5c32
There seems to be a dissonance.
If TV had no impact on people, we would not care about stereotypes on TV. People wouldn't complain that all the good people roles are (ethnicity) and all baddies in [hollywood|bollywood|hongkong] movies are (ethnicity), for example.
Whenever the subject comes up, it's claimed that TV and Movies provide role models. If TV and Movies had zero impact we would not care about who portrayed what.
One or the other is wrong. They can't both be true.
Posted in: Does violence in movies contribute to violence in society?
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m5c32
There is always India, who, by accident of history, also have an educated class well versed in English.
Posted in: Rising Chinese wages a headache for U.S. firms
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m5c32
Why?
Because the frequency and prominence would suggest it's of high import, whereas it's really fluff and inconsequential. It's non-serious news, of the most vacuous kind. That's what's off-putting. Get some real news. Follow up on the scandals and deal brokers and kingmakers--stuff that matters. A little entertainment is ok --but this is overboard.
Posted in: Why does the existence of AKB48 bother so many readers of Japan Today (judging from the comments on the discussion board)?
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m5c32
The thing is old media was slow to learn about personalization --if they have even begun.
News media make their money from advertising. The old medium of newspapers never learned how to personalize and serve that up to their visitors. Their idea of making money is to offer subscriptions. They never made money from subscriptions (exceptions like The Economist and so on, but even they depend on advertising). But now that's how they want to recoup their money.
That's not how it works --now with all the Ebays, Craigslists and all sorts of other localized "classifieds" eating Newspapers' lunch, that ship sailed.
Now, this has not settled --and it may be another 10 years before the dust starts to settle and the smart organizations figure a way to be profitable --but someone will figure a way, even if it's not the old organizations. It may be new reconstituted and unrecognized madia that takes over. time will tell.
Posted in: News outlets losing ground to tech rivals