by law he must notify superiors and if there is a failure to notify the FBI the person to whom it was escalated can be prosecuted with aiding and abetting distribution of child pornography- it always amazes me that people don't know this but being someone that has worked in electronic discovery and with people's personal documents for the last 10 years this is something that was drilled into me years ago by employers because THEY don't want to be involved in a criminal suit. porn- eh, you would be surprised how much porn is in people's company boxes- until the last couple of years when companies started filtering you couldn't really find a company without at least 1 or 2 custodians that have a store of porn, it is extremely common.
nothing irritates me more than "internet copy protection" for 2 reasons:
1. working on a laptop is a pain since I don't usually leave it online and
2. In my work we work with our client data on a network that is offline due to client security measures in order to protect confidential material.
I spend more time at work and have more slowdowns due to stupid copy protection that requires internet access on machines that have the installations where I either need vendors to create an entire new build of the executables or have long assed registrations that have to be entered periodically to keep the software alive- half the time it makes us drop licenses and develop internally or just crack the protection ourselves to be able to even use the software.
in the end I think that the (sony ms)format war will end like the dvd+ and dvd- war- players will be compatible to both and no one will care what the format is because the player will play both- no one wants 2 players and no one wants a restricted library
unfortunately a large screen tv is not anywhere in my future- I live in san francisco and space is a major commodity, so not only don't I have a place for it- I wouldn't be able to physically fit it up my stairwell to my apartment. possibly sometime in a few years I could move and make space for a projector, but that is way off, it'll be DVD for me till then
yes, but if this were out as data disc and burners were affordable it would be awesome, so long as they can keep the media cheap- also I can see this taking off in asia where studio support doesn't matter since vendors don't care so much about copyright- which means that xvid and divx compatible players wouldn't be far behind
And I never said bring "ALL workers pay below poverty level." Just the entry level workers. You gotta start somewhere. you need to realize that the market wage for the middle class is scaled on the lower class, if you are going to pay a janitor $5 an hour you can be expected to pay a clerical person twice that- that would be $10- that is below minimum wage here in san francisco where I currently am lower middle class with just over 60k a year
(guns)Most are bought legally and then sold illegally that is my point- if guns are easily available legally then the get into the hand of people illegally
(health)but you were the one advocating the carrot AND the stick yes, but this is the USA where we don't (or shouldn't) threaten people into behaviors concerning their own bodies, and the fact of the matter is that I had no health insurance for 15 years- did that make me stay healthy? hell no it didn't, it made me fix things on my own that I should have had doctors look at but didn't because I couldn't afford it- for example: once I had a compound fracture in my leg after being hit by a car- the bone was sticking out what did I do? I used duct tape and a piece of wood and set it the best I could- now pretty much for the rest of my life I have a screwed up knot of bone in my leg that hurts periodically- to get it "fixed" now would require expensive surgery that I still can't afford with insurance (and that is one of a number of physical injuries that I fixed on my own that now have long term effects)
it's not semantics- they are 2 completely opposite concepts- enforcement never works as well as incentives concerning domestic policy for one:
Socialized medicine removes some of the incentive to stay healthy is a ridiculous concept, early and preventative medicine and education is a far better way to keep people healthy than the threat of economic problems- all that does is make people put off health care till it is too late
Gun control creates not only a populace unable to defend itself but also a black market for guns. most black market guns are stolen or illegally obtained from legal owners- also in a gunfight 2 people with guns, one who never uses it and 1 that does- the perp has a far better chance of making it out since a gun is NOT a shield it only works when you shoot first
Raising the minimum wage removes the incentive to hire workers below a certain level of productivity so it raises unemployment most among the handicapped and the unskilled/inexperienced. unskilled and inexperienced workers should be trained and educated in order to perform better at a workplace, we shouldn't bring ALL workers pay below poverty level to make up for a hole in our education system and untrained workers- also in most areas you cannot live on minimum wage pay, just like welfare when you lower a person's living standards you increase the probability of crime (violent and not)
actually HMO's take more decisions out of the individual's hands since you are bound to network doctors and facilities in the HMO it's like- what is your favorite color, light blue aqua or teal? we are giving you decisions
actually it is the opposite- you don't understand what incentives are none of the things that you stated are incentives- they are all enforcements- the carrot and stick approach requires a carrot as well as a stick
I keep myself as a democrat, mainly to vote in the primaries.
I have though been identifying more and more with libertarianism at it's root, though I have some issues with it...
1. The lack of gun control- I live in san francisco- it is small and there is a very dense population here so we see first hand what the lack of gun control has done over the years. The fact is that ALL gun offenses in a metropolitan area should be dealt with stiffly because it infringes on the right of those living in a metropolitan area to live securely.
2. Ending welfare and eliminating minimum wage- we need to look at economics as a whole rather than in the micromanaged way that the poor is looked at right now. welfare is a piece of crap, especially where I live in california where the amount that is given in a welfare check is small enough to only have those with other incomes or those with mental handicaps and addiction issues on it. Also when it comes to minimum wage and corporatization I believe that handing more blank checks to corporate entities with no reigns is what put us in the economic spot that we are in, mainly because the job of a corporation is to make money above all and the job of the government is to provide a safety net for those that fall through the cracks- more and more people are falling through the cracks putting a larger strain on government as a whole. The solution to this is to put reigns on corporate power increase the minimum wage and promote small and individual businesses as it not only helps citizens but also leads to greater innovation as you have a larger base of r&d in all industries with competition being greater. As well creating a mandatory profit sharing would allow a breakup of unionization while not harming workers' rights since as stockholders they would be allowed to control en mass the direction of company movement.
3. Foreign Aid- Foreign aid needs to be changed, but not abolished. Mainly we should give foreign aid through grants to private organizations that are "on the ground" and would be subject to oversight rather than depending on public contribution for the aid provided.
4. Healthcare- deregulation is not a good idea- I am a much bigger fan of socialized healthcare- the fact is that as I see it- the government's main goal should be the protection of it's citizens rights and ability to function, this means that food, healthcare, shelter, protection from violent offenders, national DEFENSE (not offense), public utilities (including phone and internet) and infrastructure should be a given for every citizen of the country at whatever level of income you are. Companies that profit from denying people these basics are doing a disservice to the country (I am looking at you real estate lenders and investors that purposely drive up markets) as they are reducing the base number of contributing citizens to the economy.
one other major thing that I would add- I would allow states to create state funded companies that could go in direct competition with corporations (e.g. in california we could create computer manufacturing companies, gadget manufacturing, telecom etc) and must sell in-state or via direct mail or internet provided that any budget surpluses must be given to the public tax-free in an annual check. This would gear up competition and allow for state driven industries that attract foreign and out of state dollars to fund things like infrastructure and education that may not be gained otherwise. Also it would allow sister state allegiances for like minded states that could be translated to trade, travel and industry that do not exist right now. As well it gives "Brand loyalty" to citizens of a state.
you need to realize that in any country there are "x" amount of followers and if you bring up those followers to chime "freedom for all" they chime "freedom for all" if you bring them up to chime "go America!" they chime that. Our(America's) followers are just misguided and have been brought up chiming the "go America!" bell- many other countries are not, though there are the bells of religion and society that they follow to the confusion of Americans- some of our followers are catching on but it is pretty slow. The truth is that you can say "when is China going to catch on?" and the media control and rhetoric here is slowly heading in that direction. The same exploited attitude that makes people support the government when they do things that are stupid and illegal is that which was exploited to create support for racism, homophobia, sexism, WWII internment, slughter of native peoples, slavery and the list goes on and on.
The problem is that the same stupid response that leads average citizens into confidence games and schemes and hustles is what the Bush administration has been using on the American public leaving the masses of us that see through the bullshit (like most of where I live, in the bay area) out in the cold as we have little to no voice in our own government, especially since in California, we are the most under voiced, under funded and under represented people in the country.
I don't know- he certainly has made some crap, but postal looks funny and I am curious to see what he does in far cry- also dungeon siege has gotten some decent reviews
it was very interesting- last week I was in maine (I live in california) and I was in a hotel and spent some time talking to the hotel owner of the place that we stayed in- the hotel owner was from california and was talking about how difficult it is to run a hotel in maine because of the lack of immigrants there- that since she is forced to hire non-immigrants her staff has this huge turn over rate (quitting not firing) and it takes her almost twice the staff to run the place versus some of the larger hotels in the area that actually go to places like hati and jamaica and buy immigration status for people to come into the US and give them a place to live in the hotel while they are working (kind of like a high class slave business).
kind of a strange situation- but again it shows that it all comes down to $ to bring people in and the benefit outweighs the bad. Following this model it really is better for us to have an influx of immigrants and not just "legal" ones since I for one have never met a poor or even middle class immigrant that is "legal". Our overall economy really does rely on having cheap service, construction, manufacturing and retail labor. without it you can expect inflation and a slowdown of industry.
not necessarily- it is not only a loss in the court system that opens up other cases, but it also means that they wasted court fees and attorney fees on themselves- 210k may not be much for the defense but prosecuting these cases is very expensive- discovery process could bleed a lot of $ out of the RIAA. I know for an average case (working in the industry) that it is not uncommon for a corporation to throw down a few million on a case like this to get it to court on discovery, submissions, depositions and attorney fees.
when I was in high school we had 2 elective classes in the entire 4 years- how are you supposed to decide your career path at that age with so little breathing room for error- when you are in college you can browse around and see where you fit- I went to college as a fine arts major and now work with legal databases and forensics (though I finished as a fine arts major, painting and sculpture with a minor in audio and broadcast engineering)- if I had to pick a major in high school and stick with it I would be in neither of those places-
also this does nothing but hurt the underprivileged since if you are in a public school that offers sub-par or doesn't offer courses at all in the field you want to study- you could end up shoving an einstien into food service or auto repair because that is all that the school offers
not just lucky- a lot of stuff is covered over a standard AV nowadays- do a spyware scan every couple of months and you may find a cookie or 2 but overall the worm/virus/trojan/spyware threat seems to come from more corporate sources and e-mail (I never use outlook at home) nowadays than randomly floating around, it just isn't as big as it was back 7-10 years ago when you really had to batten the hatches down all of the time or you would get something- my major issue with linux is software support for solid multimedia and audio apps- there is somewhere between none and none useful to work with-
no, direct sound is used in most audio applications for windows (ableton live, sony acid, flstudio, pro tools, cakewalk, etc). most of those can us asio drivers instead of directx, but asio is very finicky and often hardware dependant.
Now if we could only find a way to take all the produced ground level O3 (Ozone) and put it in the upper atmosphere. we could always collect all of the ozone at ground level and use a chlorofluorocarbon propellant to pump it back up into the outer atmosphere
no, they are usually held by the record companies- most writers and recording artists turn them over when they sign onto a label- as well as the artist name and any logos or artwork pertaining to the identification of the artist
it doesn't make a whole lot of sense- the same argument could have been applied to double sided 1/8 inch tape (audio cassette) from the initial 2-4 inch master or 33rpm records as compared to 12inch 45 rpm ones- it doesn't matter the media it is always the amount of compression you apply to the content that matters- if all you can get is 96 128kbps mp3's- yeah, you are getting crap- but wouldn't you say the same if you were to make 10 rpm records and squeeze them on a 12 inch disc?
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by law he must notify superiors and if there is a failure to notify the FBI the person to whom it was escalated can be prosecuted with aiding and abetting distribution of child pornography- it always amazes me that people don't know this but being someone that has worked in electronic discovery and with people's personal documents for the last 10 years this is something that was drilled into me years ago by employers because THEY don't want to be involved in a criminal suit.
porn- eh, you would be surprised how much porn is in people's company boxes- until the last couple of years when companies started filtering you couldn't really find a company without at least 1 or 2 custodians that have a store of porn, it is extremely common.
nothing irritates me more than "internet copy protection" for 2 reasons:
1. working on a laptop is a pain since I don't usually leave it online and
2. In my work we work with our client data on a network that is offline due to client security measures in order to protect confidential material.
I spend more time at work and have more slowdowns due to stupid copy protection that requires internet access on machines that have the installations where I either need vendors to create an entire new build of the executables or have long assed registrations that have to be entered periodically to keep the software alive- half the time it makes us drop licenses and develop internally or just crack the protection ourselves to be able to even use the software.
wth is a wally?
in the end I think that the (sony ms)format war will end like the dvd+ and dvd- war- players will be compatible to both and no one will care what the format is because the player will play both- no one wants 2 players and no one wants a restricted library
unfortunately a large screen tv is not anywhere in my future- I live in san francisco and space is a major commodity, so not only don't I have a place for it- I wouldn't be able to physically fit it up my stairwell to my apartment. possibly sometime in a few years I could move and make space for a projector, but that is way off, it'll be DVD for me till then
I don't think you could make it play hd-dvd and bluray since it uses a red laser
yes, but if this were out as data disc and burners were affordable it would be awesome, so long as they can keep the media cheap- also I can see this taking off in asia where studio support doesn't matter since vendors don't care so much about copyright- which means that xvid and divx compatible players wouldn't be far behind
Socialized medicine removes some of the incentive to stay healthy is a ridiculous concept, early and preventative medicine and education is a far better way to keep people healthy than the threat of economic problems- all that does is make people put off health care till it is too late Gun control creates not only a populace unable to defend itself but also a black market for guns. most black market guns are stolen or illegally obtained from legal owners- also in a gunfight 2 people with guns, one who never uses it and 1 that does- the perp has a far better chance of making it out since a gun is NOT a shield it only works when you shoot first Raising the minimum wage removes the incentive to hire workers below a certain level of productivity so it raises unemployment most among the handicapped and the unskilled/inexperienced. unskilled and inexperienced workers should be trained and educated in order to perform better at a workplace, we shouldn't bring ALL workers pay below poverty level to make up for a hole in our education system and untrained workers- also in most areas you cannot live on minimum wage pay, just like welfare when you lower a person's living standards you increase the probability of crime (violent and not)
actually HMO's take more decisions out of the individual's hands since you are bound to network doctors and facilities in the HMO it's like- what is your favorite color, light blue aqua or teal? we are giving you decisions
actually it is the opposite- you don't understand what incentives are none of the things that you stated are incentives- they are all enforcements- the carrot and stick approach requires a carrot as well as a stick
I keep myself as a democrat, mainly to vote in the primaries.
I have though been identifying more and more with libertarianism at it's root, though I have some issues with it...
1. The lack of gun control- I live in san francisco- it is small and there is a very dense population here so we see first hand what the lack of gun control has done over the years. The fact is that ALL gun offenses in a metropolitan area should be dealt with stiffly because it infringes on the right of those living in a metropolitan area to live securely.
2. Ending welfare and eliminating minimum wage- we need to look at economics as a whole rather than in the micromanaged way that the poor is looked at right now. welfare is a piece of crap, especially where I live in california where the amount that is given in a welfare check is small enough to only have those with other incomes or those with mental handicaps and addiction issues on it. Also when it comes to minimum wage and corporatization I believe that handing more blank checks to corporate entities with no reigns is what put us in the economic spot that we are in, mainly because the job of a corporation is to make money above all and the job of the government is to provide a safety net for those that fall through the cracks- more and more people are falling through the cracks putting a larger strain on government as a whole. The solution to this is to put reigns on corporate power increase the minimum wage and promote small and individual businesses as it not only helps citizens but also leads to greater innovation as you have a larger base of r&d in all industries with competition being greater. As well creating a mandatory profit sharing would allow a breakup of unionization while not harming workers' rights since as stockholders they would be allowed to control en mass the direction of company movement.
3. Foreign Aid- Foreign aid needs to be changed, but not abolished. Mainly we should give foreign aid through grants to private organizations that are "on the ground" and would be subject to oversight rather than depending on public contribution for the aid provided.
4. Healthcare- deregulation is not a good idea- I am a much bigger fan of socialized healthcare- the fact is that as I see it- the government's main goal should be the protection of it's citizens rights and ability to function, this means that food, healthcare, shelter, protection from violent offenders, national DEFENSE (not offense), public utilities (including phone and internet) and infrastructure should be a given for every citizen of the country at whatever level of income you are. Companies that profit from denying people these basics are doing a disservice to the country (I am looking at you real estate lenders and investors that purposely drive up markets) as they are reducing the base number of contributing citizens to the economy.
one other major thing that I would add- I would allow states to create state funded companies that could go in direct competition with corporations (e.g. in california we could create computer manufacturing companies, gadget manufacturing, telecom etc) and must sell in-state or via direct mail or internet provided that any budget surpluses must be given to the public tax-free in an annual check. This would gear up competition and allow for state driven industries that attract foreign and out of state dollars to fund things like infrastructure and education that may not be gained otherwise. Also it would allow sister state allegiances for like minded states that could be translated to trade, travel and industry that do not exist right now. As well it gives "Brand loyalty" to citizens of a state.
you need to realize that in any country there are "x" amount of followers and if you bring up those followers to chime "freedom for all" they chime "freedom for all" if you bring them up to chime "go America!" they chime that. Our(America's) followers are just misguided and have been brought up chiming the "go America!" bell- many other countries are not, though there are the bells of religion and society that they follow to the confusion of Americans- some of our followers are catching on but it is pretty slow. The truth is that you can say "when is China going to catch on?" and the media control and rhetoric here is slowly heading in that direction. The same exploited attitude that makes people support the government when they do things that are stupid and illegal is that which was exploited to create support for racism, homophobia, sexism, WWII internment, slughter of native peoples, slavery and the list goes on and on.
The problem is that the same stupid response that leads average citizens into confidence games and schemes and hustles is what the Bush administration has been using on the American public leaving the masses of us that see through the bullshit (like most of where I live, in the bay area) out in the cold as we have little to no voice in our own government, especially since in California, we are the most under voiced, under funded and under represented people in the country.
doesn't vista require online authentication? it should be up to microsoft to then take care of this since their product just doesn't work in the town.
I don't know- he certainly has made some crap, but postal looks funny and I am curious to see what he does in far cry- also dungeon siege has gotten some decent reviews
it was very interesting- last week I was in maine (I live in california) and I was in a hotel and spent some time talking to the hotel owner of the place that we stayed in- the hotel owner was from california and was talking about how difficult it is to run a hotel in maine because of the lack of immigrants there- that since she is forced to hire non-immigrants her staff has this huge turn over rate (quitting not firing) and it takes her almost twice the staff to run the place versus some of the larger hotels in the area that actually go to places like hati and jamaica and buy immigration status for people to come into the US and give them a place to live in the hotel while they are working (kind of like a high class slave business).
kind of a strange situation- but again it shows that it all comes down to $ to bring people in and the benefit outweighs the bad. Following this model it really is better for us to have an influx of immigrants and not just "legal" ones since I for one have never met a poor or even middle class immigrant that is "legal". Our overall economy really does rely on having cheap service, construction, manufacturing and retail labor. without it you can expect inflation and a slowdown of industry.
but so far as the MPAA stuff I agree with you
I don't know what the guys politics are, but he has a lightsaber in his commercial so he gets my vote
not necessarily- it is not only a loss in the court system that opens up other cases, but it also means that they wasted court fees and attorney fees on themselves- 210k may not be much for the defense but prosecuting these cases is very expensive- discovery process could bleed a lot of $ out of the RIAA. I know for an average case (working in the industry) that it is not uncommon for a corporation to throw down a few million on a case like this to get it to court on discovery, submissions, depositions and attorney fees.
when I was in high school we had 2 elective classes in the entire 4 years- how are you supposed to decide your career path at that age with so little breathing room for error- when you are in college you can browse around and see where you fit- I went to college as a fine arts major and now work with legal databases and forensics (though I finished as a fine arts major, painting and sculpture with a minor in audio and broadcast engineering)- if I had to pick a major in high school and stick with it I would be in neither of those places-
also this does nothing but hurt the underprivileged since if you are in a public school that offers sub-par or doesn't offer courses at all in the field you want to study- you could end up shoving an einstien into food service or auto repair because that is all that the school offers
not just lucky- a lot of stuff is covered over a standard AV nowadays- do a spyware scan every couple of months and you may find a cookie or 2 but overall the worm/virus/trojan/spyware threat seems to come from more corporate sources and e-mail (I never use outlook at home) nowadays than randomly floating around, it just isn't as big as it was back 7-10 years ago when you really had to batten the hatches down all of the time or you would get something- my major issue with linux is software support for solid multimedia and audio apps- there is somewhere between none and none useful to work with-
no, direct sound is used in most audio applications for windows (ableton live, sony acid, flstudio, pro tools, cakewalk, etc). most of those can us asio drivers instead of directx, but asio is very finicky and often hardware dependant.
no, they are usually held by the record companies- most writers and recording artists turn them over when they sign onto a label- as well as the artist name and any logos or artwork pertaining to the identification of the artist
it doesn't make a whole lot of sense- the same argument could have been applied to double sided 1/8 inch tape (audio cassette) from the initial 2-4 inch master or 33rpm records as compared to 12inch 45 rpm ones- it doesn't matter the media it is always the amount of compression you apply to the content that matters- if all you can get is 96 128kbps mp3's- yeah, you are getting crap- but wouldn't you say the same if you were to make 10 rpm records and squeeze them on a 12 inch disc?
I am one- I searched like mad to find my recent laptop- got a lenovo with xp pro install and support