Is this really enough for us to go running scared about yet another airplane hazard? 22 incidents over 10 years is enough to make you think, but when there are hundreds of flights a day I would have to say it's one of the more minor problems that commercial airlines have to face and it seems like it can be solved by properly training crew members how to deal with that sort of fire. You could probably eliminate loads of possible "hazards" off of commercial flights, but not without major inconvenience and making the entire flight experience more miserable than it already is.
Everyone always goes OMGWTF when stuff that happens in real life makes it onto the 'net. There are two people that still see the Internet as magic (whether it is in the sense of not understanding the technology or whether it is seen as a magic money box). It's run by humans like everything else and so it's subject to all the human problems like everything else. Until most people stop seeing it as technology indistinguishable from magic then it's probably more OMGWTF in the newspaper and CNN every day.
Even if his suspension of foreclosures was a stunt to get him publicity, there are still reasonable people (like me) who thought it was the right thing to do.
Why? Because people a huge number of the foreclosures are going forward even though banks themselves can't even produce the mortgage paperwork! Because of all weird financial instruments that helped cause the mortgage crisis (cutting the mortgages up into securities and such) these corporations can't find the original paperwork. I don't know the exact numbers on this, but it's a big percentage.
There are Members of Congress that are saying the same thing: make the companies actually PRODUCE the paperwork! This is how lax the U.S. has become on the financial industry.
So, Dart might be a pompous windbag, but that doesn't necessarily mean he is wrong.
I guess I am showing my bias... but why WOULDN'T the developers know more than the publishers?
I'm sure that they have *some* knowledgeable persons, but aren't they like most overblown corporate organizations that are top heavy with MBA managers that know paperwork more than they know the actual product?
I haven't read the fine article, but that was my thought too... so do they have to delete their torrents for Ubuntu and Fedora which are "copyrighted" too?
Get the popcorn... this is going to be an epic thread. We've already had the "Wish I was there" post, it's time for the feminist wing to turn up. Oh the objectification!
However, music is no less a part of our lives since the recording industry started up. It might be more so even if the recording industry made music a more specialized profession.
I just placed an order for the "Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars" book. I am looking forward to reading it.
I think that we've discussed it before, but there has also been 100 years of systematic indoctrination about copyright in our schools. In grad school I listened to an outside speaker come in and say that the institution of copyright was created to make sure that companies make money. She believed that, too, as that is what "common knowledge" now says copyright is.
The hysteria is very, very deep. Now when you try to explain the Constitutional reasoning behind copyright you only get blank stares and laughs.
Battery disposal is the first thing that comes to mind (as well as the "idiot throwing one into a fire" that come up above these comments), however if you create batteries that last A LOT longer, doesn't disposal become *less* of a problem? It doesn't go away, but if the batteries last as long as advertised doesn't it mean we need a lot less space to store the waste (but the waste might be a heck of a lot more toxic)?
I know this a joke, but it does remind me of something. One of the arguments that people on the far right have tried to use to convince the public that Iran is trying to build bombs and not energy is: "Iran has so much oil, why would they care about nuclear energy?"
Easy, sherlock... they aren't going to have oil forever. Iran might be thinking ahead. They might not want to make the same mistake that the U.S. made it comes to oil dependency.
Having said that, I still think that Iran's program is to make a bomb... but I think that argument is idiotic.
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Is this really enough for us to go running scared about yet another airplane hazard? 22 incidents over 10 years is enough to make you think, but when there are hundreds of flights a day I would have to say it's one of the more minor problems that commercial airlines have to face and it seems like it can be solved by properly training crew members how to deal with that sort of fire. You could probably eliminate loads of possible "hazards" off of commercial flights, but not without major inconvenience and making the entire flight experience more miserable than it already is.
I've met several female geeks I wouldn't mind seeing in a certain type of maid outfit.
Everyone always goes OMGWTF when stuff that happens in real life makes it onto the 'net. There are two people that still see the Internet as magic (whether it is in the sense of not understanding the technology or whether it is seen as a magic money box). It's run by humans like everything else and so it's subject to all the human problems like everything else. Until most people stop seeing it as technology indistinguishable from magic then it's probably more OMGWTF in the newspaper and CNN every day.
Even if his suspension of foreclosures was a stunt to get him publicity, there are still reasonable people (like me) who thought it was the right thing to do.
Why? Because people a huge number of the foreclosures are going forward even though banks themselves can't even produce the mortgage paperwork! Because of all weird financial instruments that helped cause the mortgage crisis (cutting the mortgages up into securities and such) these corporations can't find the original paperwork. I don't know the exact numbers on this, but it's a big percentage.
There are Members of Congress that are saying the same thing: make the companies actually PRODUCE the paperwork! This is how lax the U.S. has become on the financial industry.
So, Dart might be a pompous windbag, but that doesn't necessarily mean he is wrong.
I guess I am showing my bias... but why WOULDN'T the developers know more than the publishers?
I'm sure that they have *some* knowledgeable persons, but aren't they like most overblown corporate organizations that are top heavy with MBA managers that know paperwork more than they know the actual product?
I haven't read the fine article, but that was my thought too... so do they have to delete their torrents for Ubuntu and Fedora which are "copyrighted" too?
Yeah.. but it's the upper level execs that are offering them in that case. What would you expect from them?
Get the popcorn... this is going to be an epic thread. We've already had the "Wish I was there" post, it's time for the feminist wing to turn up. Oh the objectification!
MPAA sues Disney over new "DVD Killer"
Yes and Yes.
Welcome to Corporate America 101.
Carly then went on to help destroy McCain's political campaign... so at least she has that going for her.
You laugh, but asshattery of the Darl McBride variety has been rewarded more often than not.
I know this is a little off topic Crassic, but did you like that new car I sent you?
-billg
Actually, Hulk turns green right now. So says Peter David.
Might or might not be true...
However, music is no less a part of our lives since the recording industry started up. It might be more so even if the recording industry made music a more specialized profession.
Bob Dylan sounds just as crappy live as recorded!
I just placed an order for the "Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars" book. I am looking forward to reading it.
I think that we've discussed it before, but there has also been 100 years of systematic indoctrination about copyright in our schools. In grad school I listened to an outside speaker come in and say that the institution of copyright was created to make sure that companies make money. She believed that, too, as that is what "common knowledge" now says copyright is.
The hysteria is very, very deep. Now when you try to explain the Constitutional reasoning behind copyright you only get blank stares and laughs.
This isn't exactly new. They did a pictorial a few years back of different female video game characters. One of the pictures was a topless BloodRayne.
Hey! That's a good idea, actually.
Enough nuclear devices in enough pants pockets and you could helps solve the over-population problem! No more sperm to worry about!
Either that, our your children turn out hideously ugly.
He's still real to me, damnit!
Battery disposal is the first thing that comes to mind (as well as the "idiot throwing one into a fire" that come up above these comments), however if you create batteries that last A LOT longer, doesn't disposal become *less* of a problem? It doesn't go away, but if the batteries last as long as advertised doesn't it mean we need a lot less space to store the waste (but the waste might be a heck of a lot more toxic)?
I know this a joke, but it does remind me of something. One of the arguments that people on the far right have tried to use to convince the public that Iran is trying to build bombs and not energy is: "Iran has so much oil, why would they care about nuclear energy?"
Easy, sherlock... they aren't going to have oil forever. Iran might be thinking ahead. They might not want to make the same mistake that the U.S. made it comes to oil dependency.
Having said that, I still think that Iran's program is to make a bomb... but I think that argument is idiotic.
because Lucy never allowed him to kick the football?
wait.. what?
it's like raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain on your wedding day
No. You have to wait for a long guitar solo to finish before you can look at your address book.