Shill bidding may be a common practice on eBay. In his book Fake: Forgery, Lies, & eBay, Kenneth Walton describes how he and his cohorts placed shill bids on hundreds of eBay auctions over the course of a year. While many sellers consider shill bidding a harmless act, some believe that it may violate federal or state laws. Walton and his associates were charged and convicted of fraud by the United States Attorney for their eBay shill bidding.
The poor kids only 8 years old, but has been receiving 30 hours of special ed assistance for 5 years now and barely graduated 2nd grade. I would not wish that upon the most vile scum of the planet. Death would have been kinder.
Does he laugh? Cry? Feel? Sure, your kid may not match the artificial scholastic benchmarks of some other kids, but do you really believe your kid would be better off dead? If so, ask HIM that question in a way he could understand, but that's not directed at him personally. Bet he disagrees.
One thing the NIA won't let you do is control mouse movements; the software only supports binding inputs to keystrokes. Since the "glance" meter only tracks the X axis to begin with, I doubt the NIA would be a useful mouse replacement even if OCZ implemented such a feature. You'll still have to use a good old mouse to look around in first-person shooters.
Seeing that at the end of the article almost nixed it for me... until I remembered seeing this recently and now wish I had the extra cash to see if it IS possible to use them in conjunction...
Can I get a head count of people who think speeding is morally wrong instead of ill-advised?
Depends. If you're endangering those surrounding you by speeding, then it's morally wrong. If you've a wide-open highway, then it may not even be "speeding", using the Autobahn as an example. Autobahn aside, it's just ill-advised.
What I would have a problem with would be if society forced me to bear the burden of raising a disabled kid on the off chance that society might benefit from a Beethoven.
And there's a big gripe right there:
Everyone assumes that disability == useless.
Betcha Stephen Hawking might argue that... that is, if he was allowed to be born. What guarantee would we've had that his sisters would've brought us the same view of the cosmos? From the summary:
When embryos with those defects are identified, they can be avoided or destroyed.
That doesn't sound like fixing defects. It's discarding a potentially useful human and avoiding the defects.
I'm not arguing just *where* life begins and ends here. I'm just asking people to careful before they get rid of a diamond in the rough.
you'd still have the same skills with or without your disability i think.
Yes and no. Aside from giving you a different perspective, there are things that I can't use/hear easily that are necessary to my job field.... Telephones, hearing BIOS beep codes, and noisy fans come to mind. Let me put it a different way:
If you took your PC to your local computer shop for a noisy fan, and the tech looked you in the eye and asked "What noise?", you might look at him funny. Happens all the time at work, and is why the boss and our front desk are pretty quick to announce to our clients that my hearing's shot... especially since one tried to yell at me for "not listening"...
That being said, if you could choose the genetic make-up of your children and spare them any diseases or malformations I would be hard pressed to form an argument against it. Especially, since I would want the same for my children.
My argument against would be that folks that're "disabled" like me wouldn't have a chance to contribute to society as a whole....
And you wrap it up by talking as if the whole thing melted already. Good job! Funding secure. Now you can go back to wasting taxpayer dollars on your imaginary problem.
One might suggest closing the barn door BEFORE the livestock leaves...
He had two hundred large to blow on this election and he was "frazzled" and you're happy about the outcome?
Yup. He had to spend money to win a political position where he was regularly ridiculed until he left office. A local public access show had a royal mad on with this guy due to his allowing a killer nurse to go loose so his hospital wouldn't look bad. So yeah, making the guy pay 200 grand to get made fun of is just ducky.
Probably because most of us have gone to public schools...
Not all public schools are the indoctrination type. Some of the most fun I had in high school was {with friends, and surprisingly administration support} was forming the "Anarchist Party" during student elections... Worked well enough that they had to start bribing students to vote.;)
...and ended up doing similar to a local mayoral election. We forced a run-off {in a city of around 1,000,000, it only took around 500 votes!} that cost the "evil" candidate around $200,000 of his OWN cash. He made it in, but he was frazzled, and quickly became a laughingstock for insisting his campaign manager was stalking him.
Not all of us buy the "happy, shiny America" line.
Hypothetical question for/. readers: If you had the choice of eternal life with the downside that you had to feed on human blood from time to time, would you?
No, I don't want to be a politician, thanks.;)
Besides, what'd happen when you run out of humans?
OTOH I don't totally disagree with you, but you're gonna need some better examples then a DNC phone-a-thon.
I guess the biggest thing that sticks out is the Rwandan massacre... Hundreds of thousand dead in a bare 100 days, and we didn't do a damn thing. That never sat right with me.
Does it say something different than what I posted? If so, where? Tell ya what, I'll quote it a bit here:
At a March news conference, Gore repeatedly asserted there was "no controlling legal authority" that prohibited him or the president from making solicitations on federal property. At the time, Gore said he made fund-raising calls "on a few occasions" from his West Wing office in December 1995 and the spring of 1996.
The White House subsequently said he made as many as 50 calls to at least 38 different donors.
The new figures include 46 direct fund-raising pitches by Gore between Nov. 28, 1995 and May 2, 1996. In 10 other cases, he tried to reach donors but did not get through.
Seems that there was a law against it, and he said it didn't apply. Riiiiiiiiiight.
And a few thank-you calls made from an office phone is hardly on the same level as thousands of American deaths and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths.
Being a lip-reader, I can assure you this: "fundraising" and "thank you" 'read' differently....
...and no one, even with the current CiC believing otherwise, should be above the law... not even Congresscritters 'n' misdemeanors.
...the Bush admins just flat out break law after law and absolutely nothing happens.
Happens with every administration. Best example in the Clinton days:
Al Gore and those fund-raising calls made from his office. Illegal, to be sure, and when that was pointed out, he said that basically he was above the law. So he admitted it, denied that he was subject to "no controlling legal authority", and what'd Reno do? Nada.
Not that Bush's excuses are any better, but still.... this is politics as usual.
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Why are bus routes on time more often than planes?
I'm betting you've never ridden Greyhound...
On time, my rear... and the drivers and staff are hostile to those with disabilites to boot.
I, for one, am somewhat uncomfortable with any precedent that allows the state to claim eminent domain over any of my internal organs whilst I'm still alive and using them.
Does that include laws banning suicide? Jus' curious...
As an aside, I see a lot of people that're pro-life and pro-death-penalty. It never seemed to make sense.
The fetus isn't a person, any more then your skin cells are.
And the usual $64,000 question:
While the skin cells have around 0% chance of growing into a functioning human, the fetus stands a better one. Precisely at which point does it become a "person"? Birth? Age 2? 4?
Frankly, I can relate much better to your friends. I would far prefer to have interesting experiences and the resultant memories they bring tucked under my belt, such as travel or outings to concerts, amusement parks, etc. than to have a stockpile of possessions that may have resale value but rapidly depreciate and incur maintenance costs in many cases. Experiences are far more formative to me as a person than, say, car or personal entertainment system ownership.
Agreed wholeheartedly.
I may not have made much cash, but working in the local music scene brought some moments that most people read about in magazines and/or dream of doing. As a military brat, too, I'd not trade my experiences in Europe for a cool million dollars.
While accumulating possessions might satisfy some, I've been happier accumulating "moments."
Two quotes keep coming to mind here:
"The meaning in life isn't in the destination, it's in the journey itself."
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Unethical, but not the slightest bit illegal.
You sure about that? From Wikipedia, on Shills in Auctions:
Shill bidding may be a common practice on eBay. In his book Fake: Forgery, Lies, & eBay, Kenneth Walton describes how he and his cohorts placed shill bids on hundreds of eBay auctions over the course of a year. While many sellers consider shill bidding a harmless act, some believe that it may violate federal or state laws. Walton and his associates were charged and convicted of fraud by the United States Attorney for their eBay shill bidding.
Yup. Sounds pretty illegal so far.
'All the way down... to what?'
To the turtles, silly.... ;)
The poor kids only 8 years old, but has been receiving 30 hours of special ed assistance for 5 years now and barely graduated 2nd grade. I would not wish that upon the most vile scum of the planet. Death would have been kinder.
Does he laugh? Cry? Feel? Sure, your kid may not match the artificial scholastic benchmarks of some other kids, but do you really believe your kid would be better off dead? If so, ask HIM that question in a way he could understand, but that's not directed at him personally. Bet he disagrees.
One thing the NIA won't let you do is control mouse movements; the software only supports binding inputs to keystrokes. Since the "glance" meter only tracks the X axis to begin with, I doubt the NIA would be a useful mouse replacement even if OCZ implemented such a feature. You'll still have to use a good old mouse to look around in first-person shooters.
Seeing that at the end of the article almost nixed it for me... until I remembered seeing this recently and now wish I had the extra cash to see if it IS possible to use them in conjunction...
Can I get a head count of people who think speeding is morally wrong instead of ill-advised?
Depends. If you're endangering those surrounding you by speeding, then it's morally wrong. If you've a wide-open highway, then it may not even be "speeding", using the Autobahn as an example. Autobahn aside, it's just ill-advised.
Easy...when it hits the atmosphere and can survive.
If by "survive" you mean "survive under your own means", I know people in their 30s living with Mom and Dad that wouldn't qualify...
...but for clarity, what IS your definition of survive?
A discussion about potential people is useless.
I'm approaching it from the angle that it's a guaranteed loss of talent and genetic diversity.
Which is better, a defect baby with 0.00001% chance of becoming a great person, or a healthy baby with 0.00001% chance of becoming a great person?
If you'll allow me to rephrase that 'n' turn that on its ear:
Wouldn't destruction of all "defective" embryos will result in a guaranteed 100% loss of geniuses from that subset...?
That, sir, is deplorable.
What I would have a problem with would be if society forced me to bear the burden of raising a disabled kid on the off chance that society might benefit from a Beethoven.
And there's a big gripe right there:
Everyone assumes that disability == useless.
Betcha Stephen Hawking might argue that... that is, if he was allowed to be born. What guarantee would we've had that his sisters would've brought us the same view of the cosmos? From the summary:
When embryos with those defects are identified, they can be avoided or destroyed.
That doesn't sound like fixing defects. It's discarding a potentially useful human and avoiding the defects.
I'm not arguing just *where* life begins and ends here. I'm just asking people to careful before they get rid of a diamond in the rough.
you'd still have the same skills with or without your disability i think.
Yes and no. Aside from giving you a different perspective, there are things that I can't use/hear easily that are necessary to my job field.... Telephones, hearing BIOS beep codes, and noisy fans come to mind. Let me put it a different way:
If you took your PC to your local computer shop for a noisy fan, and the tech looked you in the eye and asked "What noise?", you might look at him funny. Happens all the time at work, and is why the boss and our front desk are pretty quick to announce to our clients that my hearing's shot... especially since one tried to yell at me for "not listening"...
The I didn't read anything showing that people with defects would not be allowed to contribute to society.
...aside from keeping them from being born?
That being said, if you could choose the genetic make-up of your children and spare them any diseases or malformations I would be hard pressed to form an argument against it. Especially, since I would want the same for my children.
My argument against would be that folks that're "disabled" like me wouldn't have a chance to contribute to society as a whole....
In short, Beethoven. ;)
And you wrap it up by talking as if the whole thing melted already. Good job! Funding secure. Now you can go back to wasting taxpayer dollars on your imaginary problem.
One might suggest closing the barn door BEFORE the livestock leaves...
He had two hundred large to blow on this election and he was "frazzled" and you're happy about the outcome?
Yup. He had to spend money to win a political position where he was regularly ridiculed until he left office. A local public access show had a royal mad on with this guy due to his allowing a killer nurse to go loose so his hospital wouldn't look bad. So yeah, making the guy pay 200 grand to get made fun of is just ducky.
Probably because most of us have gone to public schools...
Not all public schools are the indoctrination type. Some of the most fun I had in high school was {with friends, and surprisingly administration support} was forming the "Anarchist Party" during student elections... Worked well enough that they had to start bribing students to vote. ;)
...and ended up doing similar to a local mayoral election. We forced a run-off {in a city of around 1,000,000, it only took around 500 votes!} that cost the "evil" candidate around $200,000 of his OWN cash. He made it in, but he was frazzled, and quickly became a laughingstock for insisting his campaign manager was stalking him.
Not all of us buy the "happy, shiny America" line.
Hypothetical question for /. readers: If you had the choice of eternal life with the downside that you had to feed on human blood from time to time, would you?
No, I don't want to be a politician, thanks. ;)
Besides, what'd happen when you run out of humans?
You looking for something like this?
I guess the biggest thing that sticks out is the Rwandan massacre... Hundreds of thousand dead in a bare 100 days, and we didn't do a damn thing. That never sat right with me.
Does it say something different than what I posted? If so, where? Tell ya what, I'll quote it a bit here:
At a March news conference, Gore repeatedly asserted there was "no controlling legal authority" that prohibited him or the president from making solicitations on federal property. At the time, Gore said he made fund-raising calls "on a few occasions" from his West Wing office in December 1995 and the spring of 1996. The White House subsequently said he made as many as 50 calls to at least 38 different donors. The new figures include 46 direct fund-raising pitches by Gore between Nov. 28, 1995 and May 2, 1996. In 10 other cases, he tried to reach donors but did not get through.Seems that there was a law against it, and he said it didn't apply. Riiiiiiiiiight.
And a few thank-you calls made from an office phone is hardly on the same level as thousands of American deaths and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths.Being a lip-reader, I can assure you this: "fundraising" and "thank you" 'read' differently....
...and no one, even with the current CiC believing otherwise, should be above the law... not even Congresscritters 'n' misdemeanors.
...the Bush admins just flat out break law after law and absolutely nothing happens.Happens with every administration. Best example in the Clinton days:
Al Gore and those fund-raising calls made from his office. Illegal, to be sure, and when that was pointed out, he said that basically he was above the law. So he admitted it, denied that he was subject to "no controlling legal authority", and what'd Reno do? Nada.
Not that Bush's excuses are any better, but still.... this is politics as usual.
I'm betting you've never ridden Greyhound...
On time, my rear... and the drivers and staff are hostile to those with disabilites to boot.
Actually, I'd find it more disturbing if the snails ate the pigeons....
Does that include laws banning suicide? Jus' curious...
As an aside, I see a lot of people that're pro-life and pro-death-penalty. It never seemed to make sense.
And the usual $64,000 question:
While the skin cells have around 0% chance of growing into a functioning human, the fetus stands a better one. Precisely at which point does it become a "person"? Birth? Age 2? 4?
Jus' sayin'....
Agreed wholeheartedly.
I may not have made much cash, but working in the local music scene brought some moments that most people read about in magazines and/or dream of doing. As a military brat, too, I'd not trade my experiences in Europe for a cool million dollars.
While accumulating possessions might satisfy some, I've been happier accumulating "moments."
Two quotes keep coming to mind here:
"The meaning in life isn't in the destination, it's in the journey itself."...and...
"He who dies with the most toys....still dies.