not necessarily- it said that over 2 dozen people did it- why wouldn't one person just sit and do it the whole time? take a dollar put it in cash it for 10 put the 10 credit back in and cash it for 100 put a hundred cash it for 1000 and on- if 4 people did this 6 times (that can be done in like 15 minutes) that would be the almost all of the lost $ from the casino- but it said dozens of people played the machine so obviously most people were just playing fair- if you put a 10 in the machine and don't look down at your credits if you hit a small jackpot you can easily think that you won more than you did.
for me it is customization- i love my lenovo that I have right now- and it is easily upgradeable so far as memory and hard disc- but when I am at home (unless I am in my living room or such)I would rather use the more robust and customizable desktop since it usually (like now since I just built a new machine) has the better processor, more ram, better video card, better monitor better sound card and when such goes out of date I can replace and upgrade the component and not the machine. as well when you buy a laptop you are stuck with the manufacturer configurations unless you build it from scratch which as opposed to a desktop is usually MORE expensive since for the price of a good screen you can buy a whole stock built system from a name brand vs desktop where I just built a near top of the line machine for about half what I would have paid for a stock built name brand system.
the original idea behind "media taxes" was to recover losses for non-commercial copying after the sony v. betamax case the application of an updated tax on an updated piece of equipment should hold the same measures
In otherwords, it's complete fucking bullshit and you people up north are just getting ass-fucked by greedy shitheads. I would also read this as being that buying a CD is not a license to access the intellectual property, but just a piece of plastic for your use. When a good breaks, it's gone -- but a license to access that information doesn't just break. What are the record companies selling you? A piece of plastic along with the rights to access the information encoded on that plastic? Just a piece of plastic? Or just the rights? by this logic you should be able to request a new cd if it breaks- or a new download if your device is lost or stolen or broken- that rule is a bit broken since it is not realistic for record companies to maintain accurate databases of everyone who has ever bought their product- nor should people's names be in a database like that. the whole thing is broken, but if you are going to use 1980's rules you need to follow 1980's logic
this is the RIGHT direction if they drop the lawsuits- that is what the taxes are supposed to be for on recordable devices- if they are still perusing lawsuits then they have no reason for a tax because they are not getting compensated for losses- I would even be fine if there was a reasonable ISP tax (if it was a few $ a month- not if it doubled ISP costs since I never bought that much music) if it opened up the P2P realm and stopped file filters and such.
this ruling was broken from the start- it basically is saying to smaller retailers that the only way to compete with a large reseller is to be able to negotiate larger contracts- in other words in order to compete with a large reseller as a small reseller you have to be a large reseller. this goes against every concept of competition free markets and- well, the american dream as well.
logistically when it comes down to it how do you expect a small reseller to be able to compete with the customer service and replacement as well as shipping and packaging departments of a larger company/corporation if it can't give a price break? I normally purchase from smaller resellers when I buy things for 2 reasons
1. I feel better about giving the $ to an independent reseller
2. you can usually find products 10-30% cheaper from a small reseller if you search around
in the end, if they take away #2 it is hard to justify #1- especially if the price goes up
The problem with PTSD is that it actually creates a physical difference in the brain and and not just a biochemical imbalance- it means that you can treat the symptoms but not the problem- I was diagnosed with PTSD (due to severe physical abuse when I was a kid- my dad would often beat me half to death and I would be sent from safe house to safe house to keep him from killing me) and treated with EMDR which was actually incredibly effective because it allows hemispheric connections to be bridged in the brain so that responses better match environmental conditions, stopping the "frenzy" and "confusion" responses that I would have with background noise and stressful conditions. The big thing that a lot of people don't understand about PTSD is that it isn't a sense of "fear" or hallucination- it is where your brain cannot differentiate the situation that it is experiencing and reverts the body to a learned "fight or flight" mode changing not only your mental responses but also your biochemical and physiological responses to situations that have resemblance to traumatic ones.
actually I like my zen vision m- you can drag and drop to it as a windows mobile device- and if you use the bundled S/W (not the update)it gives you an explorer extension that seems to be more stable in transferring off of the device- also it supports xvid and divx which is a big plus
not necessarily pretty every fascist has provided for the people while having complete control and disregarding human rights- when they don't- there is an uprising (cuba, phillipines, france etc) republicans are at best poor fascists but more like demigogs of capitalism.
what exactly is it supposed to "enable". if they are going to make a completely false name why don't they just call it "happy fun super powers" or something else that doesn't apply.
I'll even give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's a well-intentioned person who's just a bit too optimistic, and that screws things up for him. Honestly, I don't even believe that. The problem is that I don't see anything that he has done that is "well intentioned. Your statement seems like one that applies better to carter who really was too well intentioned and optimistic and ended up in the end being crushed by the wheels of government and became ineffective. Bush on the other hand has ignored rules, laws and the system of checks and balances because he thinks his ideas are better. Bush is effective- but not effective in leading our country, he has been effective in subverting and changing the rules of our country the way he wants them done. That is why it is only a small segment of the country that "approves" of him and even smaller a segment that actually likes him.
actually if all hideously unattractive people were made naked instead it would seem like a treat when you get to see the attractive people naked- otherwise attractive people would be less interesting naked, society's views would change and you would be left with the more clothed people having an allure....
Well, normally, the number of registered voters compared to the turnout that signed in compared to the normal turnout for each precinct compared to the registered votes for that precinct does a decent job of catching fraud. But it really isn't much different then it would be with the punch card ballots or anything else. actually that is incredibly easy to bypass- the documentary that I refer to (I think it is called "hacking democracy")- when he creates the hack, what it does is subtract from column A and add to column B so if 500 people vote, then there are still 500 votes- that is unless there is a huge turnout for one side- that is that if you have 10 people vote in column A and 490 people vote in column B and subtract 250 votes from column A and add them to column B then you have -240 in one and 740 in the other- it still adds up to 500. That is what the error shows could have been done. The fact is that unless you have a way to personally account for your vote AFTER it has been recorded in the system - not just a paper reciept (since the end accounting can be altered) there is no way to tell what happened in the end.
Sit back and think about this for a while. Almost all the irregularities have come from democrat controlled counties or precincts. In most states, the elections officers are either elected or appointed by the county government. Poll workers are NOT appointed or screened- all that you have to do is go in and apply for a position and you pretty much get it. On top of that they are paid pretty close to minimum wage which makes them very bribe-able
the truth is that a paper recount is, with the current system the only way to verify anything as you stated- but the paper ballot recounts vary from county to county in both how and when they are conducted. Also recounts are normally done from a sampling of a county and not not the entire county and the state officials usually have the right to choose the districts that it counts, so they can pretty much hand pick to where they feel it best fits the numbers. On top of that, the officials that run the election are the same ones that run the recount- so if they are corrupt (which we had here in san francisco- official was fired for it a while back) it is in their best interest to manipulate recount numbers as well.
in my old C++ class my teacher at the beginning used to do away with math altogether- he would give us these logic tests, the kind that you see on a lot of IQ tests with things like "which is the next in the pattern" and language like "what is wrong with this phrase" and the truth is that it applies VERY well to programming and optimization of code as well as things like conceptualizing code to achieve a specific goal. the machine as we know it needs a certain level of math, because in the end result we need hardware to use the conglomerates of 0's and 1's to do what we want it to, but the process of creating what we want it to do is less math and more concept. Personally I think that there should be an emphasis on "conceptual math" as opposed to traditional methods.
personally I think that both of these quotes are off since the rational as it is is more like: "let everyone suffer and let those connected with the establishment escape"
I agree with you and i don't at the same time- I think that "hard copy" discs are a good idea to have on hand so long as the can maintain with age as an archival set- the thing about solid state is that as durable as it is and as fast as it is (both which make it ideal for hard disc) the data can be demagnetized and altered. For corporate use the idea of doing 500gigs on a dvd-esque material means that server and e-mail backups can be run incredibly often inexpensively ( as opposed to buying tapes or hard discs) and recalled quickly for purposes like litigation or auditing.
the problem is that that if that can happen and it can be hacked (the "faulty memory" is a standard MMC that can be swapped)- how do we know what happened in the non negative vote results? it could be an isolated incident but it could also be an isolated error in the hacking. working in an environment as I do where technical accountability is paramount (corporate litigation), if an incident like this were to happen our entire process would be called into question both internally and externally.
besides that, there are known incidents of ballots being destroyed, ballot receipts being destroyed, people being turned from polls- and voter registrations being destroyed.
I am not yelling conspiracy, but if we don't know- how do we know it wasn't a conspiracy?
here is the wikipedia
there was a PBS documentary that I can't remember the name of right now that had a programmer do a card swap in one of the machines to demonstrate how it could easily be an alteration and not a mistake- that rather than a vote count the cart does a negative tally on votes. He actually demos the card in a mock vote count with the diebold machines using the source code via ftp that diebold scarily did not protect and was internet accessible for a period of time.
there are 8 notes in any given key, and 2 octaves usually used in a rock song- that gives you 16 notes or 16 to the power of 3 in possibilities of your average rock song right?, that is 4096 possible combinations.... somehow I think that there are more than 4096 songs in the world- there are going to be duplicates
Where's the car fit into all this? Translate this to physical security. Would you be satisfied with a bank that kept your money in jar that was hidden in a large building with no floorplan, no locks, and missing doorknobs and there was a car out front?
it says-
"A squid-like creature, rescued from a Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority deep water pipe filter, swims in a fish tank Wednesday at the facility"
from what I understand from the article there wasn't a lot of "rescuing" going on since they brought it up from the depths and it died a couple of days later, if they were really rescuing it they would have put it back in the water.....
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not necessarily- it said that over 2 dozen people did it- why wouldn't one person just sit and do it the whole time? take a dollar put it in cash it for 10 put the 10 credit back in and cash it for 100 put a hundred cash it for 1000 and on- if 4 people did this 6 times (that can be done in like 15 minutes) that would be the almost all of the lost $ from the casino- but it said dozens of people played the machine so obviously most people were just playing fair- if you put a 10 in the machine and don't look down at your credits if you hit a small jackpot you can easily think that you won more than you did.
for me it is customization- i love my lenovo that I have right now- and it is easily upgradeable so far as memory and hard disc- but when I am at home (unless I am in my living room or such)I would rather use the more robust and customizable desktop since it usually (like now since I just built a new machine) has the better processor, more ram, better video card, better monitor better sound card and when such goes out of date I can replace and upgrade the component and not the machine. as well when you buy a laptop you are stuck with the manufacturer configurations unless you build it from scratch which as opposed to a desktop is usually MORE expensive since for the price of a good screen you can buy a whole stock built system from a name brand vs desktop where I just built a near top of the line machine for about half what I would have paid for a stock built name brand system.
In otherwords, it's complete fucking bullshit and you people up north are just getting ass-fucked by greedy shitheads. I would also read this as being that buying a CD is not a license to access the intellectual property, but just a piece of plastic for your use. When a good breaks, it's gone -- but a license to access that information doesn't just break. What are the record companies selling you? A piece of plastic along with the rights to access the information encoded on that plastic? Just a piece of plastic? Or just the rights? by this logic you should be able to request a new cd if it breaks- or a new download if your device is lost or stolen or broken- that rule is a bit broken since it is not realistic for record companies to maintain accurate databases of everyone who has ever bought their product- nor should people's names be in a database like that. the whole thing is broken, but if you are going to use 1980's rules you need to follow 1980's logic
this is the RIGHT direction if they drop the lawsuits- that is what the taxes are supposed to be for on recordable devices- if they are still perusing lawsuits then they have no reason for a tax because they are not getting compensated for losses- I would even be fine if there was a reasonable ISP tax (if it was a few $ a month- not if it doubled ISP costs since I never bought that much music) if it opened up the P2P realm and stopped file filters and such.
it's a good argument for the solid state drives like in the new umpcs
this ruling was broken from the start- it basically is saying to smaller retailers that the only way to compete with a large reseller is to be able to negotiate larger contracts- in other words in order to compete with a large reseller as a small reseller you have to be a large reseller. this goes against every concept of competition free markets and- well, the american dream as well.
logistically when it comes down to it how do you expect a small reseller to be able to compete with the customer service and replacement as well as shipping and packaging departments of a larger company/corporation if it can't give a price break? I normally purchase from smaller resellers when I buy things for 2 reasons
1. I feel better about giving the $ to an independent reseller
2. you can usually find products 10-30% cheaper from a small reseller if you search around
in the end, if they take away #2 it is hard to justify #1- especially if the price goes up
The problem with PTSD is that it actually creates a physical difference in the brain and and not just a biochemical imbalance- it means that you can treat the symptoms but not the problem- I was diagnosed with PTSD (due to severe physical abuse when I was a kid- my dad would often beat me half to death and I would be sent from safe house to safe house to keep him from killing me) and treated with EMDR which was actually incredibly effective because it allows hemispheric connections to be bridged in the brain so that responses better match environmental conditions, stopping the "frenzy" and "confusion" responses that I would have with background noise and stressful conditions. The big thing that a lot of people don't understand about PTSD is that it isn't a sense of "fear" or hallucination- it is where your brain cannot differentiate the situation that it is experiencing and reverts the body to a learned "fight or flight" mode changing not only your mental responses but also your biochemical and physiological responses to situations that have resemblance to traumatic ones.
actually I like my zen vision m- you can drag and drop to it as a windows mobile device- and if you use the bundled S/W (not the update)it gives you an explorer extension that seems to be more stable in transferring off of the device- also it supports xvid and divx which is a big plus
not necessarily pretty every fascist has provided for the people while having complete control and disregarding human rights- when they don't- there is an uprising (cuba, phillipines, france etc) republicans are at best poor fascists but more like demigogs of capitalism.
what exactly is it supposed to "enable". if they are going to make a completely false name why don't they just call it "happy fun super powers" or something else that doesn't apply.
That is why it is only a small segment of the country that "approves" of him and even smaller a segment that actually likes him.
actually according to current polls- he is in the minority
actually if all hideously unattractive people were made naked instead it would seem like a treat when you get to see the attractive people naked- otherwise attractive people would be less interesting naked, society's views would change and you would be left with the more clothed people having an allure....
the truth is that a paper recount is, with the current system the only way to verify anything as you stated- but the paper ballot recounts vary from county to county in both how and when they are conducted. Also recounts are normally done from a sampling of a county and not not the entire county and the state officials usually have the right to choose the districts that it counts, so they can pretty much hand pick to where they feel it best fits the numbers. On top of that, the officials that run the election are the same ones that run the recount- so if they are corrupt (which we had here in san francisco- official was fired for it a while back) it is in their best interest to manipulate recount numbers as well.
in my old C++ class my teacher at the beginning used to do away with math altogether- he would give us these logic tests, the kind that you see on a lot of IQ tests with things like "which is the next in the pattern" and language like "what is wrong with this phrase" and the truth is that it applies VERY well to programming and optimization of code as well as things like conceptualizing code to achieve a specific goal. the machine as we know it needs a certain level of math, because in the end result we need hardware to use the conglomerates of 0's and 1's to do what we want it to, but the process of creating what we want it to do is less math and more concept. Personally I think that there should be an emphasis on "conceptual math" as opposed to traditional methods.
personally I think that both of these quotes are off since the rational as it is is more like:
"let everyone suffer and let those connected with the establishment escape"
I hadn't seen the Dvdisaster project, but it is really cool- kind of like making a single raid dvd
I agree with you and i don't at the same time- I think that "hard copy" discs are a good idea to have on hand so long as the can maintain with age as an archival set- the thing about solid state is that as durable as it is and as fast as it is (both which make it ideal for hard disc) the data can be demagnetized and altered. For corporate use the idea of doing 500gigs on a dvd-esque material means that server and e-mail backups can be run incredibly often inexpensively ( as opposed to buying tapes or hard discs) and recalled quickly for purposes like litigation or auditing.
the problem is that that if that can happen and it can be hacked (the "faulty memory" is a standard MMC that can be swapped)- how do we know what happened in the non negative vote results? it could be an isolated incident but it could also be an isolated error in the hacking. working in an environment as I do where technical accountability is paramount (corporate litigation), if an incident like this were to happen our entire process would be called into question both internally and externally.
besides that, there are known incidents of ballots being destroyed, ballot receipts being destroyed, people being turned from polls- and voter registrations being destroyed.
I am not yelling conspiracy, but if we don't know- how do we know it wasn't a conspiracy?
here is the wikipedia there was a PBS documentary that I can't remember the name of right now that had a programmer do a card swap in one of the machines to demonstrate how it could easily be an alteration and not a mistake- that rather than a vote count the cart does a negative tally on votes. He actually demos the card in a mock vote count with the diebold machines using the source code via ftp that diebold scarily did not protect and was internet accessible for a period of time.
does this address the negative vote counts in a number of counted during the last presidential election?
there are 8 notes in any given key, and 2 octaves usually used in a rock song- that gives you 16 notes or 16 to the power of 3 in possibilities of your average rock song right?, that is 4096 possible combinations.... somehow I think that there are more than 4096 songs in the world- there are going to be duplicates
it says-
"A squid-like creature, rescued from a Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority deep water pipe filter, swims in a fish tank Wednesday at the facility"
from what I understand from the article there wasn't a lot of "rescuing" going on since they brought it up from the depths and it died a couple of days later, if they were really rescuing it they would have put it back in the water.....