No, I like the police, but the police do not provide protection, they merely clean up the "mess"(arrest the criminal and hold them for trial) after the damage is done. And that is all they should do. If you want protection, buy a gun.
Many people in the US are strongly opposed to illegal immigration, but despite the efforts of many in the media to portray them as anti immigration, those same people would often support some variant of the program you proposed (if it followed a strong, effective crackdown on illegal immigrants).
They are talking about razing EMPTY buildings. They aren't talking about moving people anywhere. Both of the cities you mentioned (and I believe all of the others on the list) once had much larger populations. Philadelphia had a population of over 2 million. It now has a population of 1.4 million and shrinking. Detroit once had a population of 1.8 million. It now has a population of 900,000 and shrinking.
Eliminating much of the excess housing stock in these cities (as well as the abandoned factories/warehouses) should also help to reduce the crime rates.
Where I live the fire department is a private volunteer organization. Everything I have ever seen indicates that it is a more efficient organization than any government fire department.
The police force does not protect you or your property, they apprehend and hold for trial those who stole/damaged your property. That doesn't do you any good. The damage is already done.
ISPs are still going to charge the same amount for public IPs and people are still going to user routers with NAT to save money on having to pay extra for additional IPs.
That would be quite pointless, given the number of IPs available. Why shouldn't the ISP just hand out a/64? There are plenty of them to go around. The ISPs gave up on the idea of trying to make extra money from multiple devices connected a while ago - and since they know people will just use NAT if they only give out one IP, why bother?
Because there are people who NEED that additional public IT. Those people will pay to get it, since NAT doesn't work for whatever it is they are doing. Additionally, there are a lot of people whose LAN would be screwed up by having all of their machines have a public IP address and who don't know enough to fix it.
Because the point of the summary is that as file sharing technology gets better, it will become progressively less profitable to sell albums. The point of the article is that this is a good thing.
The summary says that as more people use file sharing to get their music, artists will have to find other ways to make money off of their music. You respond by saying, "But what about those people who only want to make money off of making music." The answer is they are SOL, just like most of the people who only wanted to make money off of selling buggy whips. Times change and so do the types of jobs that pay money.
What if you're an artist but only want to create art and not tour all over the place just to make money? I realise that most musicians seem to like doing concerts, but what if that's not what you want to do and just want to record albums?
Then you may no longer be able to make money doing that. You need to figure out how you can get people to pay you. If you record an an album and no one pays you for it, you will need to think about how you can get money to pay your bills. There are no guarantees that anyone can make money doing what they want to do, not even when there used to be money to be made doing it.
The election were not "stolen". Knowing the income distribution in Iran and the overwhelming support given to A. by the poor classes i have no trouble believing that he won.
I am sorry, but there is no way A won by the same percentage in all parts of Iran, which is what the election "results" proclaim. Therefore, since the official election results are clearly rigged, it is a safe assumption that the election was stolen.
no, because I've been keeping up with the information coming out of there for the last week.
The demands of the protestors (who number in the millions):
1. Dismissal of Khamenei for not being a fair leader
2. Dismissal of Ahmadinejad for his illegal acts
3. Temporary appointment of Ayatollah Montazeri as the Supreme Leader
4. Recognition of Mousavi as the President
5. Forming the Cabinet by Mousavi to prepare for revising the Constitution
6. unconditional and immediate release of all political prisoners
7. Dissolution of all organs of repression, public or secret.
6 and 7 aren't going to happen, but 1 through 5 might (with the revised Constitution being only slightly more likely than 6 or 7). If1 through 4 happen, the people will see that they can bring about change. It will only be a matter of time until they hit the streets demanding further change (unless Montazeri and Mousavi are smart enough to gradually move things toward a freer state--always a tricky thing). There have been several times in history where this type of street demonstration led to gradual improvement.
Clinton got into trouble over perjury because he did it in a law suit over sexual harassment. There was a real case against him brought by a former employee of the state of Arkansas. There is certainly reasonable question as to whether Ken Starr (who was appointed to investigate Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater real estate scandal) should have gotten into investigating this case.
To a degree the perjury was pursued when other avenues of investigation were unproductive, Everybody involved with Whitewater besides the Clintons were convicted of criminal activity (including his successor as the Arkansas Governor), so the conclusion that they were as well has some justification. So, in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal they were NEVER after Clinton because of his affair, they were after him for things that were genuinely criminal but which no case could be proven.
There is no there there in this ruling. All the court said was that if a newspaper can find out who a blogger is, they can publish that information. This was not the court saying that the blog host had to tell the police who it was. There is some questionable logic used by the judge, but this is not a case of government abuse of power. It is a case of a a reporter doing investigative reporting.
The correct response to this attack (as several posters further down point out indirectly) is to respond that they want to criminalize this type of thing as the first step to converting to an oppressive government. Make the argument that the reason the government is prosecuting you is because they can't monitor your communication and they want to be able to monitor your communication in order to be able to prevent you from coordinating opposition to government programs.
Vista has been out for two years now- people have had plenty opportunity to upgrade- and no reason other than cheapness not to.
What you don't understand is, I don't need a reason NOT to upgrade my software, I need a reason TO upgrade my software. I have Vista on one of my PC's at home. Why? Because I needed a new PC and it came with Vista. I don't have Vista on any machines at work. Why? Because it would be too much hassle to deal with one or two PC's that have a different OS from everyone else (when I started at this job we had a mix of Win 2k and XP machines and that was a hassle, XP and Vista would be worse). I imagine that when we start upgrading our PC hardware next year (or the year after if business doesn't get any better) we will start to migrate to Windows 7. I am not looking forward to it.
It took me the longest time to realize that the oversized icon in the top left corner was actually a button that had a menu. Every other piece of software I have used in Windows has an icon in the top left corner, Office 2007 has what looks like a large icon there that is actually a menu button. I find it very time consuming to accomplish anything in Office 2007 because I have to look for where commands are and it takes much longer to look through the various menu options then it does in older versions. I use Office 2000 at work and O.o on the PC I usually run, but my wife's PC came with Office 2007 and there are times when I want to work on a document there (also, people pay me to help them with their computers and I want to be able to work with Office 2007 because a lot of people have it).
And how do you distinguish them from someone from Athens? The term cretin derives from the statement by Epimenides, "Cretans, always liars" at least partly by way of the New Testament book of Titus (Epimenides was by the way from Crete).
How many of those countries are actually fulfilling their obligations under Kyoto? Based on the last I heard, none of the countries that signed the protocol that the protocol actually called for any action from have come anywhere close to fulfilling their obligations under the treaty.
I dislike the term congress critter, if only because "critter" in my mind conjures up images from Bambi. I think congressional cretins is more appropriate.
Yes, but calling the beings that serve in congress "cretins" is really an unfair assault on those who hale from Crete.
Do we even have a defense budget as a state? But I think the AC meant the nation's defense budget.
Exactly, I knew the AC meant the Federal defense budget, but the roads in question have no business being paid for out of Federal tax dollars. I don't want my tax dollars paying for Michigan's poor financial management.
[privacy advocates warned it would create a de facto national ID]
Ok, so what? I still don't get why Americans are sooo afraid of the big ID Card. All European countries have one, it doesn't make our government track our every move or anything.
Is there a universal one for the EU? European countries are not equivalent to the USA anymore, they are equivalent to New York State (or California, or Rhode Island, or...).
I believe that in Stargate it would be Replicators, an alien race (hence the capitalization just like Vulcans not vulcans). Star Trek had replicators that produced all kinds of things on command (most frequently food stuff). However, Star Trek replicators were based on transporter technology so they were not in any way related to nanotech.
Translation: We know that for the past 8 years this has been pushed to prevent homeland terrorism but you know there hasn't really been any major events without it since 9/11. Also, we've got a lot of other shit to worry about that actually does affect your life more than having to present papers whenever you cross any political boundary inside the United States. You know, like the economy and jobs.
No, translation: The previous Administration wasn't able to get many states on board with this as it exists, so we're going to try watering it down a little. Once everybody's on board with this we can ramp it up to the real deal.
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No, I like the police, but the police do not provide protection, they merely clean up the "mess"(arrest the criminal and hold them for trial) after the damage is done. And that is all they should do.
If you want protection, buy a gun.
Many people in the US are strongly opposed to illegal immigration, but despite the efforts of many in the media to portray them as anti immigration, those same people would often support some variant of the program you proposed (if it followed a strong, effective crackdown on illegal immigrants).
They are talking about razing EMPTY buildings. They aren't talking about moving people anywhere. Both of the cities you mentioned (and I believe all of the others on the list) once had much larger populations. Philadelphia had a population of over 2 million. It now has a population of 1.4 million and shrinking. Detroit once had a population of 1.8 million. It now has a population of 900,000 and shrinking.
Eliminating much of the excess housing stock in these cities (as well as the abandoned factories/warehouses) should also help to reduce the crime rates.
Where I live the fire department is a private volunteer organization. Everything I have ever seen indicates that it is a more efficient organization than any government fire department.
The police force does not protect you or your property, they apprehend and hold for trial those who stole/damaged your property. That doesn't do you any good. The damage is already done.
If you record an an album and no one pays you for it,
then it means your album sucked. Hard.
So, what exactly was your original point?
If the only people who don't get paid for recording albums are people who make lousy albums, who cares?
ISPs are still going to charge the same amount for public IPs and people are still going to user routers with NAT to save money on having to pay extra for additional IPs.
That would be quite pointless, given the number of IPs available. Why shouldn't the ISP just hand out a /64? There are plenty of them to go around. The ISPs gave up on the idea of trying to make extra money from multiple devices connected a while ago - and since they know people will just use NAT if they only give out one IP, why bother?
Because there are people who NEED that additional public IT. Those people will pay to get it, since NAT doesn't work for whatever it is they are doing. Additionally, there are a lot of people whose LAN would be screwed up by having all of their machines have a public IP address and who don't know enough to fix it.
Because the point of the summary is that as file sharing technology gets better, it will become progressively less profitable to sell albums. The point of the article is that this is a good thing.
The summary says that as more people use file sharing to get their music, artists will have to find other ways to make money off of their music. You respond by saying, "But what about those people who only want to make money off of making music." The answer is they are SOL, just like most of the people who only wanted to make money off of selling buggy whips. Times change and so do the types of jobs that pay money.
What if you're an artist but only want to create art and not tour all over the place just to make money? I realise that most musicians seem to like doing concerts, but what if that's not what you want to do and just want to record albums?
Then you may no longer be able to make money doing that. You need to figure out how you can get people to pay you. If you record an an album and no one pays you for it, you will need to think about how you can get money to pay your bills. There are no guarantees that anyone can make money doing what they want to do, not even when there used to be money to be made doing it.
The election were not "stolen". Knowing the income distribution in Iran and the overwhelming support given to A. by the poor classes i have no trouble believing that he won.
I am sorry, but there is no way A won by the same percentage in all parts of Iran, which is what the election "results" proclaim. Therefore, since the official election results are clearly rigged, it is a safe assumption that the election was stolen.
no, because I've been keeping up with the information coming out of there for the last week.
The demands of the protestors (who number in the millions):
1. Dismissal of Khamenei for not being a fair leader 2. Dismissal of Ahmadinejad for his illegal acts 3. Temporary appointment of Ayatollah Montazeri as the Supreme Leader 4. Recognition of Mousavi as the President 5. Forming the Cabinet by Mousavi to prepare for revising the Constitution 6. unconditional and immediate release of all political prisoners 7. Dissolution of all organs of repression, public or secret.
6 and 7 aren't going to happen, but 1 through 5 might (with the revised Constitution being only slightly more likely than 6 or 7). If1 through 4 happen, the people will see that they can bring about change. It will only be a matter of time until they hit the streets demanding further change (unless Montazeri and Mousavi are smart enough to gradually move things toward a freer state--always a tricky thing). There have been several times in history where this type of street demonstration led to gradual improvement.
Clinton got into trouble over perjury because he did it in a law suit over sexual harassment. There was a real case against him brought by a former employee of the state of Arkansas. There is certainly reasonable question as to whether Ken Starr (who was appointed to investigate Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater real estate scandal) should have gotten into investigating this case.
To a degree the perjury was pursued when other avenues of investigation were unproductive, Everybody involved with Whitewater besides the Clintons were convicted of criminal activity (including his successor as the Arkansas Governor), so the conclusion that they were as well has some justification. So, in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal they were NEVER after Clinton because of his affair, they were after him for things that were genuinely criminal but which no case could be proven.
There is no there there in this ruling. All the court said was that if a newspaper can find out who a blogger is, they can publish that information. This was not the court saying that the blog host had to tell the police who it was. There is some questionable logic used by the judge, but this is not a case of government abuse of power. It is a case of a a reporter doing investigative reporting.
The correct response to this attack (as several posters further down point out indirectly) is to respond that they want to criminalize this type of thing as the first step to converting to an oppressive government. Make the argument that the reason the government is prosecuting you is because they can't monitor your communication and they want to be able to monitor your communication in order to be able to prevent you from coordinating opposition to government programs.
Vista has been out for two years now- people have had plenty opportunity to upgrade- and no reason other than cheapness not to.
What you don't understand is, I don't need a reason NOT to upgrade my software, I need a reason TO upgrade my software. I have Vista on one of my PC's at home. Why? Because I needed a new PC and it came with Vista. I don't have Vista on any machines at work. Why? Because it would be too much hassle to deal with one or two PC's that have a different OS from everyone else (when I started at this job we had a mix of Win 2k and XP machines and that was a hassle, XP and Vista would be worse). I imagine that when we start upgrading our PC hardware next year (or the year after if business doesn't get any better) we will start to migrate to Windows 7. I am not looking forward to it.
It took me the longest time to realize that the oversized icon in the top left corner was actually a button that had a menu. Every other piece of software I have used in Windows has an icon in the top left corner, Office 2007 has what looks like a large icon there that is actually a menu button. I find it very time consuming to accomplish anything in Office 2007 because I have to look for where commands are and it takes much longer to look through the various menu options then it does in older versions. I use Office 2000 at work and O.o on the PC I usually run, but my wife's PC came with Office 2007 and there are times when I want to work on a document there (also, people pay me to help them with their computers and I want to be able to work with Office 2007 because a lot of people have it).
And how do you distinguish them from someone from Athens? The term cretin derives from the statement by Epimenides, "Cretans, always liars" at least partly by way of the New Testament book of Titus (Epimenides was by the way from Crete).
When you decided to live in/visit Vietnam.
How many of those countries are actually fulfilling their obligations under Kyoto? Based on the last I heard, none of the countries that signed the protocol that the protocol actually called for any action from have come anywhere close to fulfilling their obligations under the treaty.
I dislike the term congress critter, if only because "critter" in my mind conjures up images from Bambi. I think congressional cretins is more appropriate.
Yes, but calling the beings that serve in congress "cretins" is really an unfair assault on those who hale from Crete.
Do we even have a defense budget as a state? But I think the AC meant the nation's defense budget.
Exactly, I knew the AC meant the Federal defense budget, but the roads in question have no business being paid for out of Federal tax dollars. I don't want my tax dollars paying for Michigan's poor financial management.
I'm pretty sure that 1% of the defense budget of the state of Michigan would not be large enough to do any good.
Plenty of luxury car owners wont drive on gravel roads.
And this would be a downside?
[privacy advocates warned it would create a de facto national ID]
Ok, so what? I still don't get why Americans are sooo afraid of the big ID Card. All European countries have one, it doesn't make our government track our every move or anything.
Is there a universal one for the EU? European countries are not equivalent to the USA anymore, they are equivalent to New York State (or California, or Rhode Island, or ...).
I believe that in Stargate it would be Replicators, an alien race (hence the capitalization just like Vulcans not vulcans). Star Trek had replicators that produced all kinds of things on command (most frequently food stuff). However, Star Trek replicators were based on transporter technology so they were not in any way related to nanotech.
Translation: We know that for the past 8 years this has been pushed to prevent homeland terrorism but you know there hasn't really been any major events without it since 9/11. Also, we've got a lot of other shit to worry about that actually does affect your life more than having to present papers whenever you cross any political boundary inside the United States. You know, like the economy and jobs.
No, translation: The previous Administration wasn't able to get many states on board with this as it exists, so we're going to try watering it down a little. Once everybody's on board with this we can ramp it up to the real deal.