If the corporations want greater protections for their IP, then what is to be done? I say classify IP derived royalty income as different than tangible product or service sales income, wage income or capital gains. They cannot have it both ways a state of society for the protection of property and a state of nature for the fruit thereof to not be properly taxed.
For Heaven's sake, make that border mean something other than the need to produce a passport! stand up and say "Hey we're Canada. We'll protect your IP but it's going to cost you."
The cruel thing that parents have been doing since the early 1980's is the following.
1. Encourage the lastborn juvenile to take an academic curriculum as opposed to a vocational one in high school. 2. Wait until the juvenile is in the second year of high school. In the last marking period, create a hostile environment (make juvenile do all the chores and practically become property maintenance, limit access to friends and associates, disallow as many privileges as possible, etc). 3. Force the juvenile to get a job and work the maximum hours allowed by law. Make him pay for all the things that juvenile needs, including his own food, clothes, etc. 4. Do whatever one can to make juvenile's grades suffer so college is out of the question. By this time, it would be too late to change to a vocational curriculum. 5. Parents agree to divorce and split the assets when juvenile becomes eighteen. 6. Parents evict no-longer juvenile from home. Former spouses obtain restraining orders against no-longer juvenile.
The benefits of the above are:
1. Tax deductability to the end without worrying about college costs. 2. No boomeranging - no home to which one may return (prevents 'Failure to Launch') 3. Criminal justice system will eventually deal with said individual, especially as a high school dropout. 4. Parents get to live out the rest of their selfish lives the way they wish.
Now, if I were a juror on a criminal case where said individual allegedly murdered his parents because of the abovementioned course of action, I would vote to acquit.
If the name is too long for the namepatch on the uniform; it's too long for the swipecard for the server room.
The problem concerning pursuing the root causes is that eventually it is going to limit the 'pursuit of happiness' for the oligarkhij and such activity these will not tolerate. There is less money to be made in prevention (i.e. tuition tax credits for students who got screwed out of scholarhships for simply 'Learning While Non-Asian'). There is more money to be made in cure (i.e. juicy government contracts to security equipment and manpower corporations and private prisons).
No tech jobs without base security clearance No base security clearance without US citizenship No naturalization without military service No induction without proper identification No birthright citizenship to those holding non-immigrant visas or insufficiently documented AS WITH diplomats and invading enemy militaries.
Here is some food for thought. This is from Eric Meyer's HYDESIM (High Yield Detonation Effects SIMulator) website. Although it does not address the issue of detectors themselves, it shows that at least some people are making self-preservation decisions based on the ability to reliably detect nuclear weapons.
Thu, 2 Aug 2007 0833 Steve Ostertag wrote in to say... This makes people think as to how close to any major city (target) one may feel comfortable to reside. It begs the question: How close can one reside and work to a putative target to benefit from a city's higher wages, yet far enough to be safe from we-all-know-what? The usual situation is the closer one works to a target (higher wages) the farther from the target one can afford to live (more costly housing). The less one earns (by working in a job farther from a target) the closer one must live to that target (lack of affordable housing in more distant locations). My onsite service job involves major real estate franchies; To date, I have never heard anything like this from the lips of real estate agents, but I keep my ears open for anything that hints of it.
Here in northern New Jersey, I have overheard talk from emergency management officials that Interstate 287 (a ring highway surrounding the New York City area) has been regarded as a redline. Everything inside it is to be regarded as expendable (people and property). As an onsite computer technician, it is no surprise to me that the Wall Street has been moving their IT infrastructure out to places in Warren, Hunterdon and western Morris county along interstates 80 and 78. These are distant and upwind from NYC and Philadelphia (assuming the jet stream does not blow contrary to is normal westerly course) yet allows quick access by ground transport (or helicopter if need be). Check it out http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html . It may even influence where you wish to live and work.
New tactic: Downmodding and/or flagging not required since all are carefully instructed to ignore.
Somehow there must be more money to be made in methods more corrosive to personal liberty than in tools like these. If it be not the money, then it becomes a pure political (read: human nature in practice) issue whereby the obscenely wealthy few rule as $DEITY over the less fortunate many.
Human depravity is the most controversial religious doctrine precisely because it is the most empirically provable.
I hate to spoil the party, but if the LEO discovers that the taser does not work, it's only a split second before he uses pepper spray, truncheon, or worse. Justification for escalating force is so easy to manufacture.
It appears from the above postings that Godwin's law has been adjudicated invalid, repealed, shredded, torched and the ashes thereof flushed down the proverbial toilet. While we are at it, don't forget the napalm flamethrower with ammonium perchlorate slurry co-injection. Use sarin, tabun, mustard gas, osmium tetroxide, aunt Mary's leftover turkey, and/or the green fuzzy contents of any given college dorm refrigerator! Cremate those subhumans down to food-grade calcium phosphate powder! Use modified wood chippers feeding into concentrated alkali tanks (body processors)! Shock Hitler's conscience!
The problem is that doing what is necessary (i.e. the above may or may not include my ludicrous measures) would cause the following:
1. Oil embargo (certainly a no-brainer) and people think that gasoline is costly now. 2. USA Domestic disturbances. Thanks to Hart-Celler, state/federal hate crime laws and the Suicide Pact Proper (a.k.a the Fourteenth Amendment, civil rights statues and caselaw), there exists a fifth column here with recruitment/training centers in every jobworthy city. What an embarrassment to find that the white supremacists (p.c. term for 'patriots') were right after all! 3. USA Economic depression. That's fine for those who have or can acquire citizenship abroad by reason of jus sanguinis doctrines of their lands of origin. The visible and documentable ethnics can do just that as long as they leave with only their clothes on their backs (a.k.a. the 'runback' option).
Nuernburg doctrine: Conscience MUST trump unjust law and command orders. Following orders hung ten men. I must slam the hammer of truth on the anvil of reality. The more people who 'succeed' (you all know my list of things by now), the less likely that these laws will be changed. Let's hope that the coming 10.5 Richter of the banking system will make enough people understand and act.
What royally boils my potatoes is that there are those who came the the USA to escape tyranny and now their children are gainfully employed in corporations that make technology to continue and upscale tyranny abroad and now here. These kids should bear a special kind of guilt not too dissimilar from those who hung after the abovementioned trial.
One's peers? What does that mean? As with most words in the English language dealing with legal matters, it comes from Old French and ultimately from the Latin par meaning equal. The Latin phrase prima inter pares meaning first among equals. Pair is the same word used when items are grouped on the basis of matching.
The phrase "jury of one's peers" has its roots in a society that had (and to an extent still maintains) multiple levels of citizens based on inheritance of title, namely England (see peerage.). The US of A is a republic. A republic assumes one level of peerage, namely that of citizen in theory. However, there is a back door for having multiple peerages in a republic. Instead of a nobility based on birth, there is a nobility based on achievement. The most obvious form of achivement is the college degree whose origins are from a society with a birth nobility that still lingers in a republic. Another form of multiple peerage is wealth. Face it. Money buys things, including justice or rather the corruption thereof.
These two items, education and wealth combine into what is called class. Karl Marx had the right diagnosis (groan all you want, but truth is on his side). The problem arises in the courtroom where along with the fiction of the presumption of innocence, there is the presumed non-existence of class. If that be so, why do prosecutors like well-to-do college degreed white males? Why are US citizens of foreign origin routinely dismissed from jury service unless they are very well assimilated (prosecutor listens for accent)? The prosecutor is looking for rubber stampers. You know those with 'things to lose' namely cushy jobs, nice homes, SUVs, entertainment systems, boats, RVs, retirement portfolia, vacations, etc.
These are the intended audience when a prosecutor issues a jury pool tainting statement at a news conference when a media worthy case is involved. It is nothing more than a shout out to his boys.
Unless the vast majority of those here are trust fund recipients who care nothing about the value of labor (i.e. scorned as something beneath them), raising taxes on consumption of carbon based fuels eventually is going to make goods and services more costly for all, even those that appeal to trust fund recipients. If the economy is ill-affected to the degree that the income that these trusts pay are affected, said individuals will have their desires bite them in the arse.
The tragedy is not that some think themselves as better than the rest. The tragedy is that the same laws protect them as well as the rest.
NHK developed an analog signal HDTV back in the early 1980's. Whether it was in Popular Science or a trade magazine I don't remember, but it had 'Geisha doll' screenshots that compares NTSC, NHK and 35mm film. The problem was that it did not fit in the 6 MHz channel blocks in use at the time.
I asked a doctor to take your picture so i can look at you from inside as well
Whichever jurisdiction has the harshest punishment for the particular crime. Drugs? Malaysia! Graffiti? Singapore! Political dissent? North Korea! Sodomy? Iran! DIY Cruise Missile? New Zealand! Being poor? United States!
[To downmod is Streisand] From the don't-give-them-any-ideas department:
Here's an idea for the tyrants in the federal beaurocracy who may read Slashdot. Diesel vehicles should be presumed for commerical use, requiring commercial registrations and limited road use, insurance, tax ID's etc. No new passenger registrations shall be issued to diesel powered passenger cars. No natural person shall be allowed to posess a diesel powered vehicle except a motor home. States that fail to implement such shall lose federal funding.
As for diesel vehicles, there are always roadblocks and TOW missiles. Posse Comitatus and any other document limiting government power are toilet paper anyway.
Here's another idea for above tyrants. All gasoline powered vehicles manufactured without engine control electronics shall no longer be registerable with standard passenger plates. All such vehicles shall be issued limited use historic plates which would specify the hours and roads for operation. States that do not implement this rule shall lose federal funding. Any such vehicle found operating on public roads not bearing such plates shall be presumed stolen and thus liable for at least a traffic stop.
This is already done in all 50 USA states thanks to the 1990 (Californicated) Clean Air Act:
Vehicle inspection agents shall be authorized to examine the distributor contents upon physical presence (underhood) checking. Upon discovering electromechanical ignition components in a vehicle that for its model year and engine type should be equipped with electronic ignition (electronic ignition and pre-ECM 1972-1980), the vehicle's registration shall be revoked on the grounds of tampering with emission control equipment.
As for civilian posession of such equiment, all 50 USA states have elastic laws restricting such devices to law enforcement (can't you smell the warning odorant?).
Unless and until the maxim of "driving is a privilege" is rejected, the above is guaranteed to occur.
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If the corporations want greater protections for their IP, then what is to be done? I say classify IP derived royalty income as different than tangible product or service sales income, wage income or capital gains. They cannot have it both ways a state of society for the protection of property and a state of nature for the fruit thereof to not be properly taxed.
For Heaven's sake, make that border mean something other than the need to produce a passport! stand up and say "Hey we're Canada. We'll protect your IP but it's going to cost you."
Zeroth rule: Don't downmod, just ignore.
The cruel thing that parents have been doing since the early 1980's is the following.
1. Encourage the lastborn juvenile to take an academic curriculum as opposed to a vocational one in high school.
2. Wait until the juvenile is in the second year of high school. In the last marking period, create a hostile environment (make juvenile do all the chores and practically become property maintenance, limit access to friends and associates, disallow as many privileges as possible, etc).
3. Force the juvenile to get a job and work the maximum hours allowed by law. Make him pay for all the things that juvenile needs, including his own food, clothes, etc.
4. Do whatever one can to make juvenile's grades suffer so college is out of the question. By this time, it would be too late to change to a vocational curriculum.
5. Parents agree to divorce and split the assets when juvenile becomes eighteen.
6. Parents evict no-longer juvenile from home. Former spouses obtain restraining orders against no-longer juvenile.
The benefits of the above are:
1. Tax deductability to the end without worrying about college costs.
2. No boomeranging - no home to which one may return (prevents 'Failure to Launch')
3. Criminal justice system will eventually deal with said individual, especially as a high school dropout.
4. Parents get to live out the rest of their selfish lives the way they wish.
Now, if I were a juror on a criminal case where said individual allegedly murdered his parents because of the abovementioned course of action, I would vote to acquit.
If the name is too long for the namepatch on the uniform; it's too long for the swipecard for the server room.
The problem concerning pursuing the root causes is that eventually it is going to limit the 'pursuit of happiness' for the oligarkhij and such activity these will not tolerate. There is less money to be made in prevention (i.e. tuition tax credits for students who got screwed out of scholarhships for simply 'Learning While Non-Asian'). There is more money to be made in cure (i.e. juicy government contracts to security equipment and manpower corporations and private prisons).
No tech jobs without base security clearance
No base security clearance without US citizenship
No naturalization without military service
No induction without proper identification
No birthright citizenship to those holding non-immigrant visas or insufficiently documented AS WITH diplomats and invading enemy militaries.
The Walam Olum may not be a hoax after all.
0833
Steve Ostertag wrote in to say...
This makes people think as to how close to any major city (target) one may feel comfortable to reside. It begs the question: How close can one reside and work to a putative target to benefit from a city's higher wages, yet far enough to be safe from we-all-know-what? The usual situation is the closer one works to a target (higher wages) the farther from the target one can afford to live (more costly housing). The less one earns (by working in a job farther from a target) the closer one must live to that target (lack of affordable housing in more distant locations). My onsite service job involves major real estate franchies; To date, I have never heard anything like this from the lips of real estate agents, but I keep my ears open for anything that hints of it.
Here in northern New Jersey, I have overheard talk from emergency management officials that Interstate 287 (a ring highway surrounding the New York City area) has been regarded as a redline. Everything inside it is to be regarded as expendable (people and property). As an onsite computer technician, it is no surprise to me that the Wall Street has been moving their IT infrastructure out to places in Warren, Hunterdon and western Morris county along interstates 80 and 78. These are distant and upwind from NYC and Philadelphia (assuming the jet stream does not blow contrary to is normal westerly course) yet allows quick access by ground transport (or helicopter if need be). Check it out http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html . It may even influence where you wish to live and work.
New tactic: Downmodding and/or flagging not required since all are carefully instructed to ignore.
My post was in respose to the one that mentioned 'dating ourselves'. There is a man page on sex().
It's a California mindset. It is called the New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice. This resides in Title 2C. The cite would be NJS 2C:XX-XX.
#! /bin/sh /home/medcabinet/sanitizer > /dev/lefthand /home/dvdcase/porn* > /dev/brain
#
# pleasure w/o STD i/o,
#
cat
cat
while $TESTES !==0
do
sex -1
done
Somehow there must be more money to be made in methods more corrosive to personal liberty than in tools like these. If it be not the money, then it becomes a pure political (read: human nature in practice) issue whereby the obscenely wealthy few rule as $DEITY over the less fortunate many.
Human depravity is the most controversial religious doctrine precisely because it is the most empirically provable.
Maybe these fellows will RICO the RIAA.
I confess. I have been inhaling IdiotGas(tm). Professional courtesy.
Sounds like the usual list: cushy job, nice home, car, entertainment system, vacation, etc.
Nothing is more obnoxious than an unpleasant truth.
I hate to spoil the party, but if the LEO discovers that the taser does not work, it's only a split second before he uses pepper spray, truncheon, or worse. Justification for escalating force is so easy to manufacture.
Everyone is a criminal, everything is a weapon. Classic LEO mentality.
Bruce Simpson.
Hold on to your seats,
It appears from the above postings that Godwin's law has been adjudicated invalid, repealed, shredded, torched and the ashes thereof flushed down the proverbial toilet. While we are at it, don't forget the napalm flamethrower with ammonium perchlorate slurry co-injection. Use sarin, tabun, mustard gas, osmium tetroxide, aunt Mary's leftover turkey, and/or the green fuzzy contents of any given college dorm refrigerator! Cremate those subhumans down to food-grade calcium phosphate powder! Use modified wood chippers feeding into concentrated alkali tanks (body processors)! Shock Hitler's conscience!
The problem is that doing what is necessary (i.e. the above may or may not include my ludicrous measures) would cause the following:
1. Oil embargo (certainly a no-brainer) and people think that gasoline is costly now.
2. USA Domestic disturbances. Thanks to Hart-Celler, state/federal hate crime laws and the Suicide Pact Proper (a.k.a the Fourteenth Amendment, civil rights statues and caselaw), there exists a fifth column here with recruitment/training centers in every jobworthy city. What an embarrassment to find that the white supremacists (p.c. term for 'patriots') were right after all!
3. USA Economic depression. That's fine for those who have or can acquire citizenship abroad by reason of jus sanguinis doctrines of their lands of origin. The visible and documentable ethnics can do just that as long as they leave with only their clothes on their backs (a.k.a. the 'runback' option).
Nuernburg doctrine: Conscience MUST trump unjust law and command orders. Following orders hung ten men. I must slam the hammer of truth on the anvil of reality. The more people who 'succeed' (you all know my list of things by now), the less likely that these laws will be changed. Let's hope that the coming 10.5 Richter of the banking system will make enough people understand and act.
What royally boils my potatoes is that there are those who came the the USA to escape tyranny and now their children are gainfully employed in corporations that make technology to continue and upscale tyranny abroad and now here. These kids should bear a special kind of guilt not too dissimilar from those who hung after the abovementioned trial.
[sarcasm]
How dare he challenge the oligarkhij! Deesappeer khim!
In Amerika, intellectual property owns YOU!
[/sarcasm]
Pls upmod above.
It's OK to be generous with other people's money, but when it comes to their own bottm line...Gee...they are no different than Rush Limbaugh.
Please pardon the pedantry.
One's peers? What does that mean? As with most words in the English language dealing with legal matters, it comes from Old French and ultimately from the Latin par meaning equal. The Latin phrase prima inter pares meaning first among equals. Pair is the same word used when items are grouped on the basis of matching.
The phrase "jury of one's peers" has its roots in a society that had (and to an extent still maintains) multiple levels of citizens based on inheritance of title, namely England (see peerage.). The US of A is a republic. A republic assumes one level of peerage, namely that of citizen in theory. However, there is a back door for having multiple peerages in a republic. Instead of a nobility based on birth, there is a nobility based on achievement. The most obvious form of achivement is the college degree whose origins are from a society with a birth nobility that still lingers in a republic. Another form of multiple peerage is wealth. Face it. Money buys things, including justice or rather the corruption thereof.
These two items, education and wealth combine into what is called class. Karl Marx had the right diagnosis (groan all you want, but truth is on his side). The problem arises in the courtroom where along with the fiction of the presumption of innocence, there is the presumed non-existence of class. If that be so, why do prosecutors like well-to-do college degreed white males? Why are US citizens of foreign origin routinely dismissed from jury service unless they are very well assimilated (prosecutor listens for accent)? The prosecutor is looking for rubber stampers. You know those with 'things to lose' namely cushy jobs, nice homes, SUVs, entertainment systems, boats, RVs, retirement portfolia, vacations, etc.
These are the intended audience when a prosecutor issues a jury pool tainting statement at a news conference when a media worthy case is involved. It is nothing more than a shout out to his boys.
There will be a whole lot of laughing as we watch reruns of the Flintstones where the vacuum dinosaur is employed
by either Wilma or Betty.
How about (I'm going to get into trouble with the DEC fans here, but this is a UK thing) Nothing sucks like a VAXOSAURUS!
Unless the vast majority of those here are trust fund recipients who care nothing about the value of labor (i.e. scorned as something beneath them), raising taxes on consumption of carbon based fuels eventually is going to make goods and services more costly for all, even those that appeal to trust fund recipients. If the economy is ill-affected to the degree that the income that these trusts pay are affected, said individuals will have their desires bite them in the arse.
NHK developed an analog signal HDTV back in the early 1980's. Whether it was in Popular Science or a trade magazine I don't remember, but it had 'Geisha doll' screenshots that compares NTSC, NHK and 35mm film. The problem was that it did not fit in the 6 MHz channel blocks in use at the time.
I asked a doctor
to take your picture
so i can look at you from inside as well
What happens there shall become a handbook for what happens here.
In Amerika, property owns YOU!
Whichever jurisdiction has the harshest punishment for the particular crime. Drugs? Malaysia! Graffiti? Singapore! Political dissent? North Korea! Sodomy? Iran! DIY Cruise Missile? New Zealand! Being poor? United States!
[obnoxious statement not available at this time]
[To downmod is Streisand]
From the don't-give-them-any-ideas department:
Here's an idea for the tyrants in the federal beaurocracy who may read Slashdot. Diesel vehicles should be presumed for commerical use, requiring commercial registrations and limited road use, insurance, tax ID's etc. No new passenger registrations shall be issued to diesel powered passenger cars. No natural person shall be allowed to posess a diesel powered vehicle except a motor home. States that fail to implement such shall lose federal funding.
As for diesel vehicles, there are always roadblocks and TOW missiles. Posse Comitatus and any other document limiting government power are toilet paper anyway.
Here's another idea for above tyrants. All gasoline powered vehicles manufactured without engine control electronics shall no longer be registerable with standard passenger plates. All such vehicles shall be issued limited use historic plates which would specify the hours and roads for operation. States that do not implement this rule shall lose federal funding. Any such vehicle found operating on public roads not bearing such plates shall be presumed stolen and thus liable for at least a traffic stop.
This is already done in all 50 USA states thanks to the 1990 (Californicated) Clean Air Act:
Vehicle inspection agents shall be authorized to examine the distributor contents upon physical presence (underhood) checking. Upon discovering electromechanical ignition components in a vehicle that for its model year and engine type should be equipped with electronic ignition (electronic ignition and pre-ECM 1972-1980), the vehicle's registration shall be revoked on the grounds of tampering with emission control equipment.
As for civilian posession of such equiment, all 50 USA states have elastic laws restricting such devices to law enforcement (can't you smell the warning odorant?).
Unless and until the maxim of "driving is a privilege" is rejected, the above is guaranteed to occur.