The question is whether these laws extend only to professional journalists - that is, those people who report for money, or more specifically as their main occupation - or more widely to the act of journalism itself.
If it is the former, then I agree that the protection of journalists alone is wholly unfair. It would be akin to saying that professional truck drivers have the right to break the speed limit. The latter, on the other hand, seems completely reasonable - it is the protection of free journalism, which is one of the cornerstones of free society.
I don't feel represented by the available parties
I think the elections aren't fair(the system is geared towards certain parties)
I don't want to legitimize these elections(perception of fraud)
I don't want to ligitimize all elections(anti-democrats)
These options are much better represented by a spoiled ballot. Not voting says "I don't care". Spoiling your ballot says "I do care that I cannot represent the change I want by voting," or something along those lines.
TFA says they're a small firm who were simply doing their job, representing a client, and apparently doing it well. Okay, so they fought the case for a questionable cause, but a case is a case, and it's not the legal firm who decides whether the case succeeds. Now TPB is trying to ruin them. I apologise if I don't see the moral high ground here.
TPB's real targets are legislators, big business and the public. Not a small legal firm. I do, however, applaud their ingenuity.
I don't see what could be gained by the public from these photographs - and isn't that what freedom of information is all about? Sure, you could make some tenuous claim that it will enhance road safety, but if you're going to run a campaign like using that image it is only right that the family give permission.
There is no reason behind this leak and the subsequent distribution except sick harassment of a grief-stricken family. And to those of you calling the leak a wake-up call, consider that perhaps the death of your daughter would be a more significant spur than the irresponsibility shown by the dispatchers along with the infantile and extremely disrespectful actions of some anonymous teenager.
There is perhaps no criminal case here but the simple fact is that society should see that the actions of the dispatchers and the people who distributed this image were inappropriate, and a misuse of the guise of freedom of information.
If you are aiming for even a somewhat technical position this programme is not targeted at you.
I ought to rectify this a little; part of the programme does actually involve more advanced knowledge (namely Elevate America for Technical Professionals) but still, the majority of people utilising this programme will be at lower tiers.
But these are without shadow of a doubt not the skills which this programme is trying to teach. What Microsoft and Washington want people to learn is how to use word processors, spreadsheets, presentations, databases and Windows so that they have the basic computer skills required for most office work these days.
Your average office jockey doesn't need to know this stuff. If you are aiming for even a somewhat technical position this programme is not targeted at you.
Except that what it is implying is that the 'glass ceiling' is imaginary, that gender-based discrimination does not exist. Even in our 'enlightened' society, where the role of women has been significantly balanced, it remains ignorant to say that women only get worse pay because they do not work such long hours. In addition, the number of women who do work long hours and do not spend excessive time on childcare is certainly not insignificant, nor (as parent^4 seems to think) worth dismissing.
Also, it seems to me that women are mentioned here purely for comic effect, not because Amazon sees them as more apt to consume.
Recent MP3 players and accessories have included the (fairly recently legalised in the UK) ability to send low-power FM transmissions on certain frequencies. This is good for playing music from your player in your car, or possibly on your stereo at home - although obviously you can expect a loss in quality.
"Many" is a very vague, rather wide qualifier which essentially has the effect of demonising liberals in your sentence. I think you'll find that both sides are equally guilty of this - not just the left - and also that many liberals do not immediately put a blanket of evil over other people whose views are different. Intrinsically this is something I'd more attribute to conservatives (although I would say that this is only the case for a very vocal few).
I have the last round of new hotness the GPX handheld console... It sits in it's packaging looks brand new and does nothing. It's a bitch to program for because the SDK was crap and there was almost no releases for it except for a couple of emulators.
That is an out-and-out lie. The GP2X File Archive contains hundreds of homebrew games and emulators, along with other applications. I myself have used the SDK, and it is very simple provided you know SDL. The major advantage of it is that the SDK is free and open-source; the device runs Linux so cross-compiling is very easy.
That's simply because they don't. They have a small, text-based advertisement for the Google Chrome beta on their front page, something which they are perfectly entitled to have, in my opinion. They do not bundle Chrome with their products; you are not required to have Chrome to use Google Search, Maps, Earth or anything at all. You are not constantly pestered to install Chrome or hampered by User-Agent restrictions.
Microsoft, on the other hand, bundle Internet Explorer with their operating system. You have one, you get the other - and they're inseparable. A number of products, Microsoft and otherwise, have a dependency on IE to function - most of those are built using MS developer tools which utilise that.
No. Non-violent, lawful protest is the best way to go about it. If you start harassing members of the CoS personally, you are no better than they are and, more importantly, you would lose an important defence in court: that you have the right to peaceful protest. If that's all you are doing, legally they can't touch you.
As soon as you start harassing them, you lose that important benefit. This is why the protests were strictly peaceful and calm. If anything, a peaceful protest hurts them more because there's nothing they can do about it, and it looks to the world like the Scientologists are unable to defend their "Church"'s system from a bunch of people from the internet.
Of course it was. I mean, say I wanted to know the number of pennies in £3457. For 100 pence to the pound, it's 345700p. For 240 pence to the pound, it's 829680p. Simple.
Elton John is going to be taking down the internet.
I have far more music right now than I would have without the internet - and not all of it is pirated. There are plenty of artists who distribute their music through digital channels and can do so for very little cost, and these artists, unlike Sir Elton, are not writing to sell or writing to the masses. They are writing about whatever they like, and often this comes out for the better. Not only that, but a wide range of genres appear - the constant onslaught of "R&B", rap and music which sounds the same as everything else becomes much more diluted when you venture to sites like http://www.jamendo.com/ and http://www.garageband.com/. Artists like Josh Woodward and Kray Van Kirk offer a refreshing change from what the mass market is doing, and they offer it for nothing - for the love of music. The internet has breathed new life into a dusty old motive beyond the record labels and the lawsuits, and if Elton John can't see this then he knows nothing about the internet.
And has Elton John looked at his download sales figures recently?
Looking at the latest RSS feed, I see two interesting stories:
"Firefox and IE Still Not Getting Along" and "Humans Can Still Out-Bluff Machines".
Has/. reached a point where there is no new news at all? I can see the headlines now. "Time Still Moving At Rate of 1 Second Per Second", "Iran Still Located In Middle East", "Sun Still Rising In The East".
So the post isn't just off-topic, consider the disadvantage the human player is put to when faced with a computer, especially one well-versed in reading physical indicators of psychological factors. Surely they would have no hints whatsoever at what the computer is attempting to do? If there's a kind of one-on-one poker, would that make any difference? Would both sides be at equal disadvantages, would the computer still lose?
I'd like to completely ignore the fact that you've dismissed the hard work hundreds of volunteers do each day helping people use and get the most out of Ubuntu and all other community-supported distributions based most likely on a single personal bad experience which certainly does not reflect the attitude of the user base as a whole and instead point out your other false assumption.
Commercial support is in fact available for Ubuntu through Canonical and, like with Microsoft, you pay for what you get.
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borrowing wife is not [...] costless.
Oh, she's that sort, is she? On second thoughts, I don't really want her.
The question is whether these laws extend only to professional journalists - that is, those people who report for money, or more specifically as their main occupation - or more widely to the act of journalism itself.
If it is the former, then I agree that the protection of journalists alone is wholly unfair. It would be akin to saying that professional truck drivers have the right to break the speed limit. The latter, on the other hand, seems completely reasonable - it is the protection of free journalism, which is one of the cornerstones of free society.
I don't feel represented by the available parties I think the elections aren't fair(the system is geared towards certain parties) I don't want to legitimize these elections(perception of fraud) I don't want to ligitimize all elections(anti-democrats)
These options are much better represented by a spoiled ballot. Not voting says "I don't care". Spoiling your ballot says "I do care that I cannot represent the change I want by voting," or something along those lines.
TFA says they're a small firm who were simply doing their job, representing a client, and apparently doing it well. Okay, so they fought the case for a questionable cause, but a case is a case, and it's not the legal firm who decides whether the case succeeds. Now TPB is trying to ruin them. I apologise if I don't see the moral high ground here.
TPB's real targets are legislators, big business and the public. Not a small legal firm. I do, however, applaud their ingenuity.
I don't see what could be gained by the public from these photographs - and isn't that what freedom of information is all about? Sure, you could make some tenuous claim that it will enhance road safety, but if you're going to run a campaign like using that image it is only right that the family give permission.
There is no reason behind this leak and the subsequent distribution except sick harassment of a grief-stricken family. And to those of you calling the leak a wake-up call, consider that perhaps the death of your daughter would be a more significant spur than the irresponsibility shown by the dispatchers along with the infantile and extremely disrespectful actions of some anonymous teenager.
There is perhaps no criminal case here but the simple fact is that society should see that the actions of the dispatchers and the people who distributed this image were inappropriate, and a misuse of the guise of freedom of information.
If you are aiming for even a somewhat technical position this programme is not targeted at you.
I ought to rectify this a little; part of the programme does actually involve more advanced knowledge (namely Elevate America for Technical Professionals) but still, the majority of people utilising this programme will be at lower tiers.
But these are without shadow of a doubt not the skills which this programme is trying to teach. What Microsoft and Washington want people to learn is how to use word processors, spreadsheets, presentations, databases and Windows so that they have the basic computer skills required for most office work these days.
Your average office jockey doesn't need to know this stuff. If you are aiming for even a somewhat technical position this programme is not targeted at you.
Sounds like the post is just factually true.
Except that what it is implying is that the 'glass ceiling' is imaginary, that gender-based discrimination does not exist. Even in our 'enlightened' society, where the role of women has been significantly balanced, it remains ignorant to say that women only get worse pay because they do not work such long hours. In addition, the number of women who do work long hours and do not spend excessive time on childcare is certainly not insignificant, nor (as parent^4 seems to think) worth dismissing.
Also, it seems to me that women are mentioned here purely for comic effect, not because Amazon sees them as more apt to consume.
Irrelevant Linux bashing on Slashdot? What's going on?
Very good points - also, how do you "loan" a kindle book to a buddy that stopped by? You can't!
Well, you can - by lending them your Kindle. It's analogous to gluing all your books to your bookshelf (but not quite so impractical).
What are the Clangers saying?
Recent MP3 players and accessories have included the (fairly recently legalised in the UK) ability to send low-power FM transmissions on certain frequencies. This is good for playing music from your player in your car, or possibly on your stereo at home - although obviously you can expect a loss in quality.
Dear ACTRA and SOCAN,
We think you're silly.
Love, Slashdot.
"Many" is a very vague, rather wide qualifier which essentially has the effect of demonising liberals in your sentence. I think you'll find that both sides are equally guilty of this - not just the left - and also that many liberals do not immediately put a blanket of evil over other people whose views are different. Intrinsically this is something I'd more attribute to conservatives (although I would say that this is only the case for a very vocal few).
the wide net many liberals cast to demonize people with ideological differences is so wide it's literally scary..
Am I the only person who sees the hypocrisy here?
I have the last round of new hotness the GPX handheld console... It sits in it's packaging looks brand new and does nothing. It's a bitch to program for because the SDK was crap and there was almost no releases for it except for a couple of emulators.
That is an out-and-out lie. The GP2X File Archive contains hundreds of homebrew games and emulators, along with other applications. I myself have used the SDK, and it is very simple provided you know SDL. The major advantage of it is that the SDK is free and open-source; the device runs Linux so cross-compiling is very easy.
Do some research before making ridiculous claims.
That's simply because they don't. They have a small, text-based advertisement for the Google Chrome beta on their front page, something which they are perfectly entitled to have, in my opinion. They do not bundle Chrome with their products; you are not required to have Chrome to use Google Search, Maps, Earth or anything at all. You are not constantly pestered to install Chrome or hampered by User-Agent restrictions.
Microsoft, on the other hand, bundle Internet Explorer with their operating system. You have one, you get the other - and they're inseparable. A number of products, Microsoft and otherwise, have a dependency on IE to function - most of those are built using MS developer tools which utilise that.
There is simply no comparison to draw.
No. Non-violent, lawful protest is the best way to go about it. If you start harassing members of the CoS personally, you are no better than they are and, more importantly, you would lose an important defence in court: that you have the right to peaceful protest. If that's all you are doing, legally they can't touch you.
As soon as you start harassing them, you lose that important benefit. This is why the protests were strictly peaceful and calm. If anything, a peaceful protest hurts them more because there's nothing they can do about it, and it looks to the world like the Scientologists are unable to defend their "Church"'s system from a bunch of people from the internet.
I consider having a thousand naked virgins at my beck and call a very real threat.
Of course it was. I mean, say I wanted to know the number of pennies in £3457. For 100 pence to the pound, it's 345700p. For 240 pence to the pound, it's 829680p. Simple.
No system is perfect, I'm afraid.
Elton John is going to be taking down the internet.
I have far more music right now than I would have without the internet - and not all of it is pirated. There are plenty of artists who distribute their music through digital channels and can do so for very little cost, and these artists, unlike Sir Elton, are not writing to sell or writing to the masses. They are writing about whatever they like, and often this comes out for the better. Not only that, but a wide range of genres appear - the constant onslaught of "R&B", rap and music which sounds the same as everything else becomes much more diluted when you venture to sites like http://www.jamendo.com/ and http://www.garageband.com/. Artists like Josh Woodward and Kray Van Kirk offer a refreshing change from what the mass market is doing, and they offer it for nothing - for the love of music. The internet has breathed new life into a dusty old motive beyond the record labels and the lawsuits, and if Elton John can't see this then he knows nothing about the internet.
And has Elton John looked at his download sales figures recently?
Looking at the latest RSS feed, I see two interesting stories:
"Firefox and IE Still Not Getting Along" and "Humans Can Still Out-Bluff Machines".
Has /. reached a point where there is no new news at all? I can see the headlines now. "Time Still Moving At Rate of 1 Second Per Second", "Iran Still Located In Middle East", "Sun Still Rising In The East".
So the post isn't just off-topic, consider the disadvantage the human player is put to when faced with a computer, especially one well-versed in reading physical indicators of psychological factors. Surely they would have no hints whatsoever at what the computer is attempting to do? If there's a kind of one-on-one poker, would that make any difference? Would both sides be at equal disadvantages, would the computer still lose?
I'd like to completely ignore the fact that you've dismissed the hard work hundreds of volunteers do each day helping people use and get the most out of Ubuntu and all other community-supported distributions based most likely on a single personal bad experience which certainly does not reflect the attitude of the user base as a whole and instead point out your other false assumption.
Commercial support is in fact available for Ubuntu through Canonical and, like with Microsoft, you pay for what you get.
Well, [i]duh[/i].
Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again...