A great deal of money and research time has been spent studying how human and animal physiology react to low- or micro-gravity, but I am not aware of any long-term studies of higher G's, such as raising monkeys in a giant centrifuge or somesuch. Sure, this would take a lot of money...
I totally read that as "Sure, this would take a lot of monkey..."
Please. The transcoding and posting are completely automated, it's not like they have 1,000 people sitting at computers running ffmpeg who get excited each time someone uploads a Daily Show clip. Holding YouTube accountable just because the end-user doesn't perform every single step needed to get the damned video up would be like arresting a mail carrier for delivering somebody else's letterbomb.
Exactly, and that's why the next time around (DMCA II, Son of DMCA?), the content cartels will try to do away with safe harbor provisions, and put the onus of finding and removing copyrighted material on service providers and not content owners.
There are plenty of reasons for people, even aged 35+, to interact with other people in a real or virtual community, that _don't_ involve looking for 13 year olds to fuck. Like, you know, interacting with other 35+ people.
I'm just going to assume that by "interacting," you really mean "fucking."
I guess I fall under the "poweruser" category. I've had the slashboxes that I want over on the right for years now, and I'll admit that having the mini stories between full stories looks a little cluttered to me (but I've already turned it off, so no big deal).
I did notice, though, that after changing that setting, my top-most slashbox got moved all the way to the bottom. Is there an easy way to get it back to the top without clicking that "up" widget about 15 times? (I haven't done any searching for it, so this may be a RTFM situation.) Being able to order those on a preference page, a la my Netflix queue, would be excellent.
Personally, I want companies to start thinking about the free publicity of doing what's good for the consumer. I want companies to start thinking about the value of all the publicity they can get from altruistic acts. I want the leadership of companies to see altruistic acts as having positive economic affects.
I'm don't know if this is the best example, but I was in New Orleans for a bachelor party the weekend before Katrina hit. By Saturday morning we knew we had to leave as early as possible the next day. We were all flying American Airlines, so we called to change our flight from late afternoon to early afternoon or morning. They had added a flight at 1:00 pm, and we all got reservations on that.
By Sunday morning (when the manditory evacuation was announced), almost every major airline had already cancelled all their flights or soon did. We freaked out and thought American would do the same, but they didn't. Now if I have a choice of airline, I fly American.
P.S. Southwest and a few of the discount airlines we're still flying, too.
"Thinking is skilled work. It is not true that we are naturally endowed with the ability to think clearly and logically - without learning how, or without practicing. People with untrained minds should no more expect to think clearly and logically than people who have never learned and never practiced can expect to find themselves good carpenters, golfers, bridge players, or pianists."
- Alfred Mander, Logic For The Millions
Not everyone wants this, of course, but believe it or not, thousands and thousands of people look forward to working extremely long hours to make video games. Let those people apply and work the jobs.
Sorry, but just because people some people might want to be abused and exploited doesn't make it ok, and it certainly doesn't exempt their employers from labor laws.
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You can be "quiet, calm, collected, well spoken, and brilliant" and still be a crazy, evil asshole. Cheney is lawful evil, not chaotic evil. ;-)
Please. The transcoding and posting are completely automated, it's not like they have 1,000 people sitting at computers running ffmpeg who get excited each time someone uploads a Daily Show clip. Holding YouTube accountable just because the end-user doesn't perform every single step needed to get the damned video up would be like arresting a mail carrier for delivering somebody else's letterbomb.
Exactly, and that's why the next time around (DMCA II, Son of DMCA?), the content cartels will try to do away with safe harbor provisions, and put the onus of finding and removing copyrighted material on service providers and not content owners.
but what's the point if we can't find out what it tastes like? Huh?
I keeed, I keeed.
Didn't Cain kill Abel over a game of Pong or something? "I am not my brother's goalkeeper" sounds really familiar.
This is totally off topic, I know, but Warren Ellis rocks my world.
Edison Hate Future.
I guess I fall under the "poweruser" category. I've had the slashboxes that I want over on the right for years now, and I'll admit that having the mini stories between full stories looks a little cluttered to me (but I've already turned it off, so no big deal).
I did notice, though, that after changing that setting, my top-most slashbox got moved all the way to the bottom. Is there an easy way to get it back to the top without clicking that "up" widget about 15 times? (I haven't done any searching for it, so this may be a RTFM situation.) Being able to order those on a preference page, a la my Netflix queue, would be excellent.
Personally, I want companies to start thinking about the free publicity of doing what's good for the consumer. I want companies to start thinking about the value of all the publicity they can get from altruistic acts. I want the leadership of companies to see altruistic acts as having positive economic affects.
I'm don't know if this is the best example, but I was in New Orleans for a bachelor party the weekend before Katrina hit. By Saturday morning we knew we had to leave as early as possible the next day. We were all flying American Airlines, so we called to change our flight from late afternoon to early afternoon or morning. They had added a flight at 1:00 pm, and we all got reservations on that.
By Sunday morning (when the manditory evacuation was announced), almost every major airline had already cancelled all their flights or soon did. We freaked out and thought American would do the same, but they didn't. Now if I have a choice of airline, I fly American.
P.S. Southwest and a few of the discount airlines we're still flying, too.
http://despair.com/pretension.html =)
I like this one, too:
"Thinking is skilled work. It is not true that we are naturally endowed with the ability to think clearly and logically - without learning how, or without practicing. People with untrained minds should no more expect to think clearly and logically than people who have never learned and never practiced can expect to find themselves good carpenters, golfers, bridge players, or pianists."
- Alfred Mander, Logic For The Millions
Token lesbian scene was a bit lame, too.
Nevertheless, I'll be in my bunk.
"Finally, there's the issue of mood lighting. Nothing looks sexier than a man in boxer shorts illuminated only by a 15-inch SVGA monitor."
[pinky to mouth]Mwahahahahahahaha! Mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha![/pinky to mouth]
Valenti has said a bunch of crappy things to be sure, but not that.
It was Turner Broadcasting CEO Jamie Kellner who assured us that "there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom".
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Sorry, but just because people some people might want to be abused and exploited doesn't make it ok, and it certainly doesn't exempt their employers from labor laws.
I'm no mensa member, but I can spot a pattern here.
Maybe, but if the pattern for Star Wars trilogies is the same as Star Trek movies, the next one will be awesome.
I can dream, right? Please?
If you want to get good and mad about the current state of media policy in the United States, read Robert W. McChesney's Rich Media, Poor Democracy and The Problem of the Media.
He's the go-to guy for media policy criticism, and covers the same problems Turner mentions and more in much greater detail. Highly recommended.
Ted: This is a dude who, 700 years ago, totally ravaged China, and who we were told, 2 hours ago, totally ravaged Ashman's Sporting Goods.
Yes, so your grandkids playing Duke Nukem Forever on a Phantom console while living on Mars will have nothing to worry about. ;)
I kid because I love.
Based on those keywords, I imagine that got forwarded on to wclinton@alumni.whitehouse.gov.
"There are no laws that can stop this form of spam so the government is power- less to stop it."
I bet the nice folks over at the FTC had a good chuckle when they read that. "Oh, is that so?"
What? I'm bored, leave me alone.