I doubt it, in your private home I don't believe you have to notify anyone of anything, in fact I'd be pretty pissed to find out they were trying to legislate on my private property.
I never got the whole nanny cam thing in the first place. "Let's set up a hidden camera, and not tell the nanny, so we can see if she is beating our child". Great fucking idea. But here's a better one. Set up the camera, and tell her so SHE DOESN'T BEAT THE FUCKING KID IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Hmmm, I thought it was too, at least as far as bathrooms are concerned. There was a special on 60 minutes or something, about upskirting. Some woman was talking about how some guy behind her was filming up her skirt with a camera, and how she called the authorities. Of course it it legal to do that in a public place, as long as he wasn't moving her clothing aside or anything. Just because the visible angle is straight up, doesn't make it suddenly illegal. But that's beside the point. What they didn't seem to address is the practice of filming people in public restrooms, that would seem to me to be on another level. Yes it is a public place, but ostensibly a place provided for privacy in public. I'd be pretty shocked to hear that it's legal to video someone, without sound or no in a public restroom, dressing room ect. As far as taping an interview goes, I can't see how that's a problem though.
If a certain piece of paper with letters on it is free speach or an illegal encaurae of terrorism is a descission of a court.
If it's a decision of a court whether or not something you've said is free speech or not, you can never trust that ANYTHING you say is free speech.
You're so abolutely wrong it's hard to even begin to tear you to shreds. Free Speech is Free Speech, case closed. If that's really the German version of free speech, they don't have free speech at all. It's such a perversion of the concept that it's entirely useless.
Number one q.e.d is for proofs, wich you rhetoric is not. You don't even have a conclusion, much less something to prove. So why don't you spend a little less time attempting to give the appearance of having something worthwhile to say and a little more on thinking about what you're saying.
No the FBI wouldn't shut them down, they might however pay them a little visit, and keep them under a close eye however. They have the right to post those instructions if they wish. Free speech is not contingent on protecting the current system, IT'S TO PROTECT PEOPLE WHO ARE DISCONTENT WITH THE CURRENT SYSTEM AND WANT TO CHANGE. It doesn't protect your right to say the world is flat, it's so I can say the world is round and not fear persecution. Or that I think the government should be disbanded, or anything else that is seen as subversive enough for the government to want to censor me.
Plus take it to another level, deeper than your knee-jerk thin thought reaction. We're talking about making pubically available these instructions. What's better to have an underground manual floating around that ONLY people who want to cause harm will see, or public instructions that anyone (including the authorities responsible for security and safety) can see? If theres a weakness in the system and it's public, those responsible will have to make it more secure. If the information was not available, not only would Joe Schmoe not have any idea that he was in danger, the authorities would have no idea where likely attacks were to occur.
Ok up till this guidebooks for destroying railroad tracks server no other purpose... . This is wrong. Knowledge in and of itself is worthy of merit. What about the engineer that decides he wants to improve the weaknesses of the railroad system. Then this book does exactly the opposite and helps the systems from being destroyed.
Then you go on to blatantly pervert the concept of free speech. Free Speech does need to be associated with destruction and killing. Free Speech is absolute, it's the implementations that require (out of practicality) some restrictions.
True, there's a reason for stereotypes, they don't come from nowhere. While applying a sterotype to a single person is completely without merit, applying on to a sufficiently large group is. Most sterotypes are insulting, mainly because the truth hurts.
On the other hand I'm sure that there are many sterotypes that exists because the perceptions of one group are used to judge another.
All in all I'd say that sterotypes are a good thing, opposed to how they're generally seen. Insulting or not, there's some truth to them, either because they are strictly true, or that's how certain groups see the stereotyped group. An it gives individual members of that group to look at themselves and ask if it's true, and change if they feel it's bad, or be glad because it's good.
The industry at is at fault for being greedy bastards, and the government is a bastard for allowing them to do it. Becuase work for hire is allowed in this situation the artist (and I use the term loosely for the majority of them) is held over a barrel because nearly any publisher will force this on them. I'm not saying they have a right to get paid to play music, but if they want to try, they shouldn't be held back by sickening corporate practices.
Don't even bother installing Morpheus, it's went into the crapper the past couple of weeks. Even if CDs came down to $10 I wouldn't pay for them unless I knew that I would listen to them over and over. I don't like looking at it as a gamble, $10 to see if I like it. The fact is, for the most part, it's difficult to get a decent quality, entire album from mp3's not without a lot of time invested. Which is why I'll d/l an mp3 of a band that I'm unsure of, or never heard before, just to try them out. If they're good then I'll buy them.
Ironically enough though, file trading services are turning into corporate radio little by little. The trendy, unwashed masses type songs are the ones that are readily available online. Just like they're the only songs you hear on the radio. So it's difficult to get an idea of how a whole albumn sounds. For those of you with Morpheus (or anything really), try this experiment. Try searching for an artist who has a song currently on the radio, see if you can get more than just that song from a file trading service. Most likely not. You'll find plenty of hosts that have that "hit single" but barely anyone has any other songs off of the album. It's like MTV is running Morpheus. Which is why I stopped even using the damn thing, I can't make a decision on whether or not the CD is worth my money from that one pre-packaged, homogenized for the masses song.
Hmm I see it as, if authors make less money, there will be less crap books. Those that write who feel they truly have something they have to say will continue to do so. Of course that doesn't mean that some good authors may go that away too.
As far as used books go. I don't buy them myself, not out of any misguided loyalty to the author, but because I prefer a pristine copy of the book, brand new, never been used. If anyone is going to f my books up it'll be me.;)
Christ don't let Ellison know that, that asshole would fly off the handle knowing you're getting his books without him getting any cash out of it. Guy's a complete dick. Don't know if his writing is any good, after hearing abou him from friends that met him and seeing him various places, I have no desire to read his work.
The funny part was that it worked. My method was to blow hot air on the cartride with my mount right up on the end. I was convinced that the humidity of my breath was what was making it work;)
How to get a NES system to play when it's not working. Sheesh don't you know anything, you blow on it. Usually on the game itself, but everyone had their own ritual.;)
Don't forget that it was different. As far as the NES world went (that's where I played it) it wasn't the same old platform game, or top down shooter. It required strategy, and cooperation of the other players. Not only did you want to come in first, you wanted to do so while making the colony as a whole successful.
Nope, the nintendo version could, but today's pc's are just not up to it.;) Of course they can, the NES version allowed you to play up with up to four people using the same controller, no reason pc games can't. Plenty of them did back in the day. I remember games where both players used different sides of the keyboard to play multiplayer.
Yep. incredible game, probably my favorite NES game ever, I never got to play it on any other system, so I don't know how it compares but we used to play the hell out of the NES version. I still play it on Dreamcast now and again, and it's still good. I'm glad to see that it's being re-done, I've wanted to find time to port it to linux for a couple of years now.
Now see you're putting words into my mouth like a typical ignorant kid. I said nothing about not having insurance, the problem is the method that the government allows to be implemented that fucks the drivers, rather than putting a reasonable system in place.
I am aware that certain states have different laws, some better than where I live (MD).
Heard this crap before. Driving is a right. Yes, if reason can be shown that there is a valid purpose for not providing someone with a driver's license it's fair enough to dissallow them one. However, in this, to use a horribly cliche phrase, not haveing a drivers license bars you from participating in a wide variety of activities in this country. The gorvernemt really has no right, IMHO to divvy out drivers licenses. I always here the argument: "The government pays for the roads". Bullshit, I pay for the roads, you pay for the roads, all of us pay for the roads.
Sorry for the rant but the whole driving thing with the government burns me up. Don't even get me started on the government mandated extortion that is mandatory auto insurance.;)
dFuck that, it has nothing to do with being American or not. It's the process of changing any cultural media to fit another culture rather than expecting the audience to learn enough to truly understand it. It happens in every country, and many times isn't intentional. A seemingly benign act of translation can change the flavor of something just by the nature of finding words in a different language to express foreign concepts. Is it a good thing, no. Is it strictly American, no. Are you a pompous ass, who's comment has no business being marked as insightful. Hell yes.
Robertson seems dismayed by the FSF's attempt to enforce the GPL. "No wonder there's virtually no healthy Linux companies. The community seems to attack them when the real focus should be elsewhere."
So what's he trying to say here, we shlould ignore gpl violations because they're on our side? No. That's a good bit of the reason we don't like MS. They bend the rules for those on their side, admittedly they use strongarm tactics to force companies into it, but that's beside the point.
Interestingly enough, consider this. Fair use is allowed, we know this. The counter argument is that a copyright holder does not have to provide the means. But they are not allowed to prevent it. So DRM gets put on every machine, technically, I think that th copyright holder is not allowed to say the disc is not authorized to be copied for any reason, that inhibits fair use, which CDTPTA (or whatever it actually is) does not take away. The copyright holder is only allowed to prevent un-authorized copying, in which category fair use does not apply. So by trying to leverage the DMCA and CDTPTPTTOTOTPA (or whatever it is) the RIAA is commiting in the legal wrong my now in the wrong legally, by doing everything they can to prevent legal copying. Regardless of whether or not someone breaks the lasw by doing so. So if they are both passed, it's entirely possible to start a class action suit against them because of this, instead of using this as an argument, AFTER you wind up in court.
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I never got the whole nanny cam thing in the first place. "Let's set up a hidden camera, and not tell the nanny, so we can see if she is beating our child". Great fucking idea. But here's a better one. Set up the camera, and tell her so SHE DOESN'T BEAT THE FUCKING KID IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Hmmm, I thought it was too, at least as far as bathrooms are concerned. There was a special on 60 minutes or something, about upskirting. Some woman was talking about how some guy behind her was filming up her skirt with a camera, and how she called the authorities. Of course it it legal to do that in a public place, as long as he wasn't moving her clothing aside or anything. Just because the visible angle is straight up, doesn't make it suddenly illegal. But that's beside the point. What they didn't seem to address is the practice of filming people in public restrooms, that would seem to me to be on another level. Yes it is a public place, but ostensibly a place provided for privacy in public. I'd be pretty shocked to hear that it's legal to video someone, without sound or no in a public restroom, dressing room ect. As far as taping an interview goes, I can't see how that's a problem though.
If a certain piece of paper with letters on it is free speach or an illegal encaurae of terrorism is a descission of a court.
If it's a decision of a court whether or not something you've said is free speech or not, you can never trust that ANYTHING you say is free speech.
You're so abolutely wrong it's hard to even begin to tear you to shreds. Free Speech is Free Speech, case closed. If that's really the German version of free speech, they don't have free speech at all. It's such a perversion of the concept that it's entirely useless.
No the FBI wouldn't shut them down, they might however pay them a little visit, and keep them under a close eye however. They have the right to post those instructions if they wish. Free speech is not contingent on protecting the current system, IT'S TO PROTECT PEOPLE WHO ARE DISCONTENT WITH THE CURRENT SYSTEM AND WANT TO CHANGE. It doesn't protect your right to say the world is flat, it's so I can say the world is round and not fear persecution. Or that I think the government should be disbanded, or anything else that is seen as subversive enough for the government to want to censor me.
Plus take it to another level, deeper than your knee-jerk thin thought reaction. We're talking about making pubically available these instructions. What's better to have an underground manual floating around that ONLY people who want to cause harm will see, or public instructions that anyone (including the authorities responsible for security and safety) can see? If theres a weakness in the system and it's public, those responsible will have to make it more secure. If the information was not available, not only would Joe Schmoe not have any idea that he was in danger, the authorities would have no idea where likely attacks were to occur.
Then you go on to blatantly pervert the concept of free speech. Free Speech does need to be associated with destruction and killing. Free Speech is absolute, it's the implementations that require (out of practicality) some restrictions.
On the other hand I'm sure that there are many sterotypes that exists because the perceptions of one group are used to judge another.
All in all I'd say that sterotypes are a good thing, opposed to how they're generally seen. Insulting or not, there's some truth to them, either because they are strictly true, or that's how certain groups see the stereotyped group. An it gives individual members of that group to look at themselves and ask if it's true, and change if they feel it's bad, or be glad because it's good.
The industry at is at fault for being greedy bastards, and the government is a bastard for allowing them to do it. Becuase work for hire is allowed in this situation the artist (and I use the term loosely for the majority of them) is held over a barrel because nearly any publisher will force this on them. I'm not saying they have a right to get paid to play music, but if they want to try, they shouldn't be held back by sickening corporate practices.
Ironically enough though, file trading services are turning into corporate radio little by little. The trendy, unwashed masses type songs are the ones that are readily available online. Just like they're the only songs you hear on the radio. So it's difficult to get an idea of how a whole albumn sounds. For those of you with Morpheus (or anything really), try this experiment. Try searching for an artist who has a song currently on the radio, see if you can get more than just that song from a file trading service. Most likely not. You'll find plenty of hosts that have that "hit single" but barely anyone has any other songs off of the album. It's like MTV is running Morpheus. Which is why I stopped even using the damn thing, I can't make a decision on whether or not the CD is worth my money from that one pre-packaged, homogenized for the masses song.
As far as used books go. I don't buy them myself, not out of any misguided loyalty to the author, but because I prefer a pristine copy of the book, brand new, never been used. If anyone is going to f my books up it'll be me.
Christ don't let Ellison know that, that asshole would fly off the handle knowing you're getting his books without him getting any cash out of it. Guy's a complete dick. Don't know if his writing is any good, after hearing abou him from friends that met him and seeing him various places, I have no desire to read his work.
The funny part was that it worked. My method was to blow hot air on the cartride with my mount right up on the end. I was convinced that the humidity of my breath was what was making it work ;)
How to get a NES system to play when it's not working. Sheesh don't you know anything, you blow on it. Usually on the game itself, but everyone had their own ritual. ;)
Don't forget that it was different. As far as the NES world went (that's where I played it) it wasn't the same old platform game, or top down shooter. It required strategy, and cooperation of the other players. Not only did you want to come in first, you wanted to do so while making the colony as a whole successful.
I've been trying to imagine for the last couple of hours how on earth you could add weapons to this game...
Nope, the nintendo version could, but today's pc's are just not up to it. ;) Of course they can, the NES version allowed you to play up with up to four people using the same controller, no reason pc games can't. Plenty of them did back in the day. I remember games where both players used different sides of the keyboard to play multiplayer.
Yep. incredible game, probably my favorite NES game ever, I never got to play it on any other system, so I don't know how it compares but we used to play the hell out of the NES version. I still play it on Dreamcast now and again, and it's still good. I'm glad to see that it's being re-done, I've wanted to find time to port it to linux for a couple of years now.
I am aware that certain states have different laws, some better than where I live (MD).
Heard this crap before. Driving is a right. Yes, if reason can be shown that there is a valid purpose for not providing someone with a driver's license it's fair enough to dissallow them one. However, in this, to use a horribly cliche phrase, not haveing a drivers license bars you from participating in a wide variety of activities in this country. The gorvernemt really has no right, IMHO to divvy out drivers licenses. I always here the argument: "The government pays for the roads". Bullshit, I pay for the roads, you pay for the roads, all of us pay for the roads.
Sorry for the rant but the whole driving thing with the government burns me up. Don't even get me started on the government mandated extortion that is mandatory auto insurance.
dFuck that, it has nothing to do with being American or not. It's the process of changing any cultural media to fit another culture rather than expecting the audience to learn enough to truly understand it. It happens in every country, and many times isn't intentional. A seemingly benign act of translation can change the flavor of something just by the nature of finding words in a different language to express foreign concepts.
Is it a good thing, no. Is it strictly American, no. Are you a pompous ass, who's comment has no business being marked as insightful. Hell yes.
Robertson seems dismayed by the FSF's attempt to enforce the GPL. "No wonder there's virtually no healthy Linux companies. The community seems to attack them when the real focus should be elsewhere."
So what's he trying to say here, we shlould ignore gpl violations because they're on our side? No. That's a good bit of the reason we don't like MS. They bend the rules for those on their side, admittedly they use strongarm tactics to force companies into it, but that's beside the point.
Heh, too bad I ran out of mod points yesterday. ROFL though. "That is not dead which can
eternal lie,and with strange eons even death may die"
No you don't. In fact if you DON'T make money you can write the loss of as well.
Of course not MUCH less, right
I believe most of those "Summer Jobs" signs are for student painters, at least around my area.
Interestingly enough, consider this. Fair use is allowed, we know this. The counter argument is that a copyright holder does not have to provide the means. But they are not allowed to prevent it. So DRM gets put on every machine, technically, I think that th copyright holder is not allowed to say the disc is not authorized to be copied for any reason, that inhibits fair use, which CDTPTA (or whatever it actually is) does not take away. The copyright holder is only allowed to prevent un-authorized copying, in which category fair use does not apply. So by trying to leverage the DMCA and CDTPTPTTOTOTPA (or whatever it is) the RIAA is commiting in the legal wrong my now in the wrong legally, by doing everything they can to prevent legal copying. Regardless of whether or not someone breaks the lasw by doing so. So if they are both passed, it's entirely possible to start a class action suit against them because of this, instead of using this as an argument, AFTER you wind up in court.