We are talking about a government that has removed things like nuclear-plant schematics from libraries. There are many plans and censuses and charts which were once freely available, but if you the average slashdotter want them now, then you'd better have made copies before now or know someone else who has.
It's easy to take down a website. I see fanfiction websites (think "derivative works") disappear all the time. The government can't keep satellites from other nations from taking pictures at whatever resolution, but they could make Google take Google Earth down.
To make things worse, it's only the spammers who market things explicitly to adults who are supposed to screen the email addresses of minors out. Any money Unspam doesn't make blocking spammers for "adult" material from minors' email addresses, it can make selling those addresses to people who want to spam minors...
Much of the southern United States is already made up of "uninhabitable hellholes." This does not stop Americans from inhabiting them.
If we worried about the places we live in being habitable, there would be a lot fewer people living in Phoenix and Dallas. Also, we would not be trying so hard to rebuild New Orleans, quaint customs and all.
Melinda Doolittle was a pro background singer before she signed on to American Idol. That makes her talented by definition--all we needed to know was how much.
Two of this year's Top Four on American Idol were pros before they signed on--there's Melinda, and Blake Lewis was with a band. (He still does his own musical arrangements as far as they let him.) They, by slashdotter reasoning, should not need or look for a major-label contract, since it probably won't benefit them financially. When we figure out why people like them try to win AI, then we'll know why we haven't already brought the RIAA labels to their knees.
The fine article in the summary is dated April 29.
The fine article you cite is from May (this month).
So this law has cleared the legal hurdles mentioned in the summary. It could, in theory, make money now that Judge Kimball has made this law legal!
Okay. Suppose someone has a genetic condition that ups the odds of something bad happening. He knows about it, but--since his lifestyle isn't quite as good as yours--he'd rather the insurance company not know. He's afraid that if they know, he won't be able to afford insurance.
If something bad happens involving that genetic condition, the insurance company will treat him worse than if he had told them. They could sue him for not telling.
Insurance companies require their customers to list pre-existing conditions. If you don't tell them about pre-existing conditions, and you're contractually required to do it, then they can sue you and win.
He said it wasn't a constructive option. I think it safe to assume that rude AT&T customer-service reps. aren't trying to do anything constructive.
I think the idea is that if you want AT&T to do something constructive for you, it's more likely to happen if you're not rude to them.
You do realize that many VoIPs go over landlines or cables? The GPSish info and the actual 911 call might not arrive at the same time in those cases--and I imagine people would not want to wait for the GPS to register before the 911 call goes through.
The actual headline read more like this:
"PEORIA: Cable cut affects phones throughout large portions of the state."
That should be friendlier to your mental language processor.
No, cooperation between the US government and Verizon is stifling VoIP development. Verizon thinks that they've patented VoIP; the US government is considering enforcing the patents. AT&T is just getting out before anyone knows if they actually have to get out.
Actually, I think you could.
I've heard of ciphers where which letter encrypts to what depends on some special word: you use ROT+1 with B, ROT+13 with M, ROT+26 with A (do math for rest of possible transitions), and War and Peace as your first one-time pad. I'm sure there'd be some equivalent using the patterns in DVDs for Citizen Kane, 2001, Star Wars I: the Phantom Menace, Rocky IV, or The Care Bears Movie.
This would never have made money for Utah.
Imagine: a database of genuine e-mail addresses belonging to minors. If there wasn't adequate enforcement, we'd get a large-scale equivalent of those "unsubscribe" links that don't.
Of course, enforcing a do-not-spam list for minors would cost something even if there weren't lawsuits against the existence of the list...
Simple. In Vietnam, one of our goals was to win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians, so that they would not go communist. Unfortunately, we thought or pretended that we could do this with conventional dumb bombs, napalm, and Agent Orange: we used tactics that backfired, both in the country we were fighting in and at much of the home front.
One of our goals in Iraq was to win the hearts and minds of that country, or at least maintain their friendliness, so that we could have the new Iraq as an ally. Again, we used tactics that backfired, such as bombing one of their sacred cities and running prison camps that defy the Geneva Conventions; once again, they backfired both in Iraq and at much of the home front.
True. Compared to poor Chinese and poor Indians, even most poor Americans are well off.
Now, think about why "capitalistic" corporations are exporting jobs to China and India. Think about why HMOs are willing to send people to Thailand for medical care....
"Free speech" in America means that the government shouldn't prevent you from saying anything. Corporations are permitted to wipe out swear words and pixilate overly sexy photos and unplaced product logos as they see fit--and they run the TV stations.
I suppose a case could be argued that the FCC as currently run violates free speech on televised presses. But when schools try to ban non-religious books, there is usually an outcry.
True. The Australian government can't block the site from homes and cyber-cafes.
That is why they are hoping to convince America to take the site down.
Okay, but which country has a higher rate of miscarriages?
I understand that if a child is alive when it is born in America, it is counted a live birth. This includes extremely premature babies, and babies who die very shortly after birth for reasons not easily fixable.
I hear there are cases that America would call live births and other countries would call miscarriages. Miscarriages don't raise the infant mortality rate for the same reasons intentional abortions don't. Live births that cease living shortly after birth do.
Why don't we see organizations offer new drugs without patents?
Because this might happen:
1. Organization releases new drug with no patents whatsoever.
2. Big Pharma corp. creates similar drug and covers it with broad patent.
3. Big Pharma corp. uses patent to remove unpatented drug from shelves.
4. Profit!!! (for Big Pharma)
Even the non-profit labs have to cover the costs of creating their drugs to keep running.
Government labs help with drug development all the time. It may make the drugs less expensive than they were. I doubt it does: the FDA has other priorities.
You do have some good points here. Just a couple things:
Medicare and Medicaid were 1960s programs--part of Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society program. All this didn't start with Nixon or with the particular vs. of Congress that tried to impeach him.
Are you sure the American Medical Association is a government agency? I thought it was like the National Educators Association--not imposed by The Government, just acting like it is a government in itself. If this isn't so, how do chiropractors, acupuncturists, homeopaths, and AAPS members have legal standing at all?
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So, how many of us plan to launch satellites in the near future?
We are talking about a government that has removed things like nuclear-plant schematics from libraries. There are many plans and censuses and charts which were once freely available, but if you the average slashdotter want them now, then you'd better have made copies before now or know someone else who has.
It's easy to take down a website. I see fanfiction websites (think "derivative works") disappear all the time. The government can't keep satellites from other nations from taking pictures at whatever resolution, but they could make Google take Google Earth down.
To make things worse, it's only the spammers who market things explicitly to adults who are supposed to screen the email addresses of minors out. Any money Unspam doesn't make blocking spammers for "adult" material from minors' email addresses, it can make selling those addresses to people who want to spam minors...
Much of the southern United States is already made up of "uninhabitable hellholes." This does not stop Americans from inhabiting them.
If we worried about the places we live in being habitable, there would be a lot fewer people living in Phoenix and Dallas. Also, we would not be trying so hard to rebuild New Orleans, quaint customs and all.
Melinda Doolittle was a pro background singer before she signed on to American Idol. That makes her talented by definition--all we needed to know was how much.
Two of this year's Top Four on American Idol were pros before they signed on--there's Melinda, and Blake Lewis was with a band. (He still does his own musical arrangements as far as they let him.) They, by slashdotter reasoning, should not need or look for a major-label contract, since it probably won't benefit them financially. When we figure out why people like them try to win AI, then we'll know why we haven't already brought the RIAA labels to their knees.
Of course, who it makes money for is still open.
The fine article in the summary is dated April 29.
The fine article you cite is from May (this month).
So this law has cleared the legal hurdles mentioned in the summary. It could, in theory, make money now that Judge Kimball has made this law legal!
Senator Coburn's complaint was that the original bill had a loophole, and still allowed genetic discrimination against unborn babies/fetuses.
Okay. Suppose someone has a genetic condition that ups the odds of something bad happening. He knows about it, but--since his lifestyle isn't quite as good as yours--he'd rather the insurance company not know. He's afraid that if they know, he won't be able to afford insurance.
If something bad happens involving that genetic condition, the insurance company will treat him worse than if he had told them. They could sue him for not telling.
Insurance companies require their customers to list pre-existing conditions. If you don't tell them about pre-existing conditions, and you're contractually required to do it, then they can sue you and win.
He said it wasn't a constructive option. I think it safe to assume that rude AT&T customer-service reps. aren't trying to do anything constructive.
I think the idea is that if you want AT&T to do something constructive for you, it's more likely to happen if you're not rude to them.
In most civilized areas, you don't need long-distance to get 911. Hey, even my area has caught on.
You do realize that many VoIPs go over landlines or cables? The GPSish info and the actual 911 call might not arrive at the same time in those cases--and I imagine people would not want to wait for the GPS to register before the 911 call goes through.
The actual headline read more like this:
"PEORIA: Cable cut affects phones throughout large portions of the state."
That should be friendlier to your mental language processor.
No, cooperation between the US government and Verizon is stifling VoIP development. Verizon thinks that they've patented VoIP; the US government is considering enforcing the patents. AT&T is just getting out before anyone knows if they actually have to get out.
Actually, I think you could.
I've heard of ciphers where which letter encrypts to what depends on some special word: you use ROT+1 with B, ROT+13 with M, ROT+26 with A (do math for rest of possible transitions), and War and Peace as your first one-time pad. I'm sure there'd be some equivalent using the patterns in DVDs for Citizen Kane, 2001, Star Wars I: the Phantom Menace, Rocky IV, or The Care Bears Movie.
This would never have made money for Utah.
Imagine: a database of genuine e-mail addresses belonging to minors. If there wasn't adequate enforcement, we'd get a large-scale equivalent of those "unsubscribe" links that don't.
Of course, enforcing a do-not-spam list for minors would cost something even if there weren't lawsuits against the existence of the list...
I think they're already doing the taxes. They were their own ISP, and Europe is into value-added taxing...
Oh, the judge would do his own hanging if there wasn't a jury to help...
Simple. In Vietnam, one of our goals was to win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians, so that they would not go communist. Unfortunately, we thought or pretended that we could do this with conventional dumb bombs, napalm, and Agent Orange: we used tactics that backfired, both in the country we were fighting in and at much of the home front.
One of our goals in Iraq was to win the hearts and minds of that country, or at least maintain their friendliness, so that we could have the new Iraq as an ally. Again, we used tactics that backfired, such as bombing one of their sacred cities and running prison camps that defy the Geneva Conventions; once again, they backfired both in Iraq and at much of the home front.
True. Compared to poor Chinese and poor Indians, even most poor Americans are well off.
Now, think about why "capitalistic" corporations are exporting jobs to China and India. Think about why HMOs are willing to send people to Thailand for medical care....
"Free speech" in America means that the government shouldn't prevent you from saying anything. Corporations are permitted to wipe out swear words and pixilate overly sexy photos and unplaced product logos as they see fit--and they run the TV stations.
I suppose a case could be argued that the FCC as currently run violates free speech on televised presses. But when schools try to ban non-religious books, there is usually an outcry.
True. The Australian government can't block the site from homes and cyber-cafes.
That is why they are hoping to convince America to take the site down.
Okay, but which country has a higher rate of miscarriages?
I understand that if a child is alive when it is born in America, it is counted a live birth. This includes extremely premature babies, and babies who die very shortly after birth for reasons not easily fixable.
I hear there are cases that America would call live births and other countries would call miscarriages. Miscarriages don't raise the infant mortality rate for the same reasons intentional abortions don't. Live births that cease living shortly after birth do.
Why don't we see organizations offer new drugs without patents?
Because this might happen:
1. Organization releases new drug with no patents whatsoever.
2. Big Pharma corp. creates similar drug and covers it with broad patent.
3. Big Pharma corp. uses patent to remove unpatented drug from shelves.
4. Profit!!! (for Big Pharma)
Even the non-profit labs have to cover the costs of creating their drugs to keep running.
Government labs help with drug development all the time. It may make the drugs less expensive than they were. I doubt it does: the FDA has other priorities.
You do have some good points here. Just a couple things:
Medicare and Medicaid were 1960s programs--part of Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society program. All this didn't start with Nixon or with the particular vs. of Congress that tried to impeach him.
Are you sure the American Medical Association is a government agency? I thought it was like the National Educators Association--not imposed by The Government, just acting like it is a government in itself. If this isn't so, how do chiropractors, acupuncturists, homeopaths, and AAPS members have legal standing at all?