One possibility is buying "carbon offsets." For every $10 you give to an RIAA label, give another $10 to the EFF or a similar organization that stands up for consumer rights.
I have been listening to Pandora, discovering new artists, and had begun to buy music again
Please consider checking RIAA Radar when buying music that you find through Pandora. When you pay for content published on RIAA labels, you are literally paying people to fight against your interests as a music fan.
If people would simply stop rewarding stupidity, the RIAA would melt like the penny-dreadful movie villains they are.
So why in the name of everything holy are so many people opposed?
Because oil is worth whatever it costs to get it. That means it's dirt cheap right now. That means you buy and burn the other guy's oil first.
When and if we actually do start to run out of oil, and prices actually do rise to unaffordable levels, you will be glad the US still has its oil reserves. Then we can fight defensive wars from a position of strength, rather than offensive ones from a position of weakness.
... but a "walled garden with land mines." Speaking as a developer, with Apple's terms of service, you not only can't see the land mines in the garden, but you can't even see the walls.
Speaking as a developer, it won't be possible to treat the iPhone as a viable platform for building and running a business until Apple comes clean with its real terms of service and requirements. Right now you have no idea if the app you're working on will ever be allowed to see the light of day.
It's reminiscent of what's happened with eBay over the last few years. Literally thousands of people quit their day jobs to build their businesses around eBay, and now they're finding themselves elbowed aside. eBay altered their deal, and all a small-time seller can do is pray that they don't alter it further. Right now, iPhone developers are in the exact same boat: completely at the mercy of a company whose interests are only coincidentally aligned with the "sharecroppers" who bring the real value to the table.
There's certainly nothing in the text of the First Amendment that limits commercial speech. Any "allowance for the limitation of commercial speech," pornography, or anything else, is an invention of later ("activist") courts.
However, spam is not speech. Spam is sending hordes of bums through every neighborhood in town, nailing copies of the Federalist papers to my front door at 3 o'clock in the morning. The merit of the content being nailed to my door is not the least bit germane. The fact that my property is being abused is all that should be needed to put assholes like James away.
Microsoft says "don't put your.INI file in the program files directory. You put it in the program files directory. Microsoft changes permissions so you can't do it anymore. You blame them?
Yes, because there was no reason to do so.
Do you expect them to be compatible with every abomination that hack developers crap out for every release forever? Nobody gives two shits about your 15 year old bad habits. Learn to code properly. RTFM. If the API says "Do not pass null" then you don't. It doesnt matter if it works today, it may not work in future.
You're probably running my code now. You just don't know it.
I wonder if it occurred to the bright bulb who designed this that the magazine will spend most of its time in total darkness on someone's shelf? A cheap photosensor would have saved at least a few of those 6(!) coin cells, I'd bet.
That would also have solved the shipping problem, since presumably it's dark as all hell inside a Chinese cargo container.
I really like Palin because it's quite obvious she can divorce her religious beliefs from her administrative decision making
Really? So when she tried to force the city librarian to withdraw various books from circulation, it was because of her deep and abiding interest in literary criticism?
Nit-pick: you have no legitimate basis to definitively state that there is no god watching over us.
Who are you replying to? Did I make any claims regarding the existence or nonexistence of God(s)?
The people doing the lying are using a very specific characterization of God to influence their followers' political and economic behavior. As such, they must bear the entire burden of proof that God's nature conforms to their description. Like all religious leaders, glitch23's pastor has consistently failed to accept this burden... and like all religious followers, glitch23 couldn't care less.
Unfortunately, his lack of respect for rational thought has severe negative consequences to the rest of us. If he thinks he can come around here spreading woo-woo BS without being called on it, he's sadly mistaken.
I'm not in a position of power to influence others.
When you drag that "morality comes from religion" stupidity into a voting booth with you, that's precisely what you're doing.
You, and your co-religionists, are being played like cheap fiddles. (Or did you think McCain chose Palin because she was the most qualified person for the job?)
Again, this should piss you off, but for some reason, it doesn't. (I'm guessing low IQ is part of the reason, but that's "just a theory.")
Some people like to think that humans are more than mere animals, that they have free will, morals and can realize the difference between right and wrong
So does your dog, and he is a mere animal. Socialization is all that's necessary to evolve a moral framework. It's just selection pressure, working on a different scale. A wolf that went postal on his pack wouldn't have been permitted to breed. Fast forward 100,000 years, and -- lo and behold! you can trust your dog not to eat your wife and child for breakfast if you forget to feed him the night before.
Basically, only someone with a staggering level of ignorance of animal behavior (to say nothing of human behavior) could have written your post.
The world is much bigger than you were taught in church. You've been lied to, probably all your life. You should be pissed about that. Why aren't you?
Sorry. Their "duties" do not include tracking people with GPS transponders. I'm not saying it should be legal to do it to the police... I'm saying it shouldn't be illegal for anyone to do it without a court order.
An easy way to answer your question, and countless others like it:
"What would happen to me, as a private citizen, if I did this to a cop?"
If the answer is "Nothing," then it's probably a reasonable thing for the cops to do to you. If the answer is "Waal, I believe that there'd be a tasin', boy," then it is not.
So, you tell me. What do you think would happen if you were caught placing tracking devices on police cars?
And as for the courts permitting this kind of crap to occur: remember the most important lesson of the Gulag Archipelago. The judicial system is your last defense. When they fail to protect your rights, the time for peaceful reckoning is past.
This is the best news Phoenix could possibly have delivered.
Perchlorate does mean there's all the oxygen we'll ever need on Mars. I'd rather they found perchlorate than fucking oil. It means that humans can live and work there, and it strongly suggests that there is probably no life that we'd have to worry about preserving and protecting, at least in this region of the planet.
Strong oxidizers are just what you want to find when you're 100 million miles from home and low on gas.
You're hitting ESC after swapping the disk, right? Think of the disk prompt as a prereq to the rest of the game. I almost failed it myself, the first time I played a (borrowed) copy of Ultima II on a real Apple II.
As usual, 'creative capitalism' is only going to deepen inequalities
In the course of making it possible for a billion ordinary people to own and use multi-gigaflop computers, Microsoft made about 10,000 millionaires in the Seattle area alone.
I'm sure we're all eager to hear how that figure compares to your life's work.
There are two schools of thought in drug research. One is to throw lots of stuff at the wall to see what sticks, and the other is "intelligent design," using extensive modelling and simulation to build molecules on spec. So far, the former school is ahead about ten thousand to one.
If you had syphilis in the early 1900s, would you balk at taking Salvarsan just because it contained arsenic, and because the guy who came up with it was on his 606th try? Well, we're in exactly the same boat now with respect to Alzheimer's.
4) "... the trial was funded by a pharmaceutical company..." according to the BBC article.
And they're getting results. What do you value more, your money or your sanity? If you get this particular disease, you (and your family) are going to be damned glad somebody came along and offered you the choice.
If you have a better process in mind, we're all ears. So far, the more-socialized European approach has given us, well, LSD.
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Which would you suggest?
One possibility is buying "carbon offsets." For every $10 you give to an RIAA label, give another $10 to the EFF or a similar organization that stands up for consumer rights.
I have been listening to Pandora, discovering new artists, and had begun to buy music again
Please consider checking RIAA Radar when buying music that you find through Pandora. When you pay for content published on RIAA labels, you are literally paying people to fight against your interests as a music fan.
If people would simply stop rewarding stupidity, the RIAA would melt like the penny-dreadful movie villains they are.
So why in the name of everything holy are so many people opposed?
Because oil is worth whatever it costs to get it. That means it's dirt cheap right now. That means you buy and burn the other guy's oil first.
When and if we actually do start to run out of oil, and prices actually do rise to unaffordable levels, you will be glad the US still has its oil reserves. Then we can fight defensive wars from a position of strength, rather than offensive ones from a position of weakness.
... but a "walled garden with land mines." Speaking as a developer, with Apple's terms of service, you not only can't see the land mines in the garden, but you can't even see the walls.
Speaking as a developer, it won't be possible to treat the iPhone as a viable platform for building and running a business until Apple comes clean with its real terms of service and requirements. Right now you have no idea if the app you're working on will ever be allowed to see the light of day.
It's reminiscent of what's happened with eBay over the last few years. Literally thousands of people quit their day jobs to build their businesses around eBay, and now they're finding themselves elbowed aside. eBay altered their deal, and all a small-time seller can do is pray that they don't alter it further. Right now, iPhone developers are in the exact same boat: completely at the mercy of a company whose interests are only coincidentally aligned with the "sharecroppers" who bring the real value to the table.
There's certainly nothing in the text of the First Amendment that limits commercial speech. Any "allowance for the limitation of commercial speech," pornography, or anything else, is an invention of later ("activist") courts.
However, spam is not speech. Spam is sending hordes of bums through every neighborhood in town, nailing copies of the Federalist papers to my front door at 3 o'clock in the morning. The merit of the content being nailed to my door is not the least bit germane. The fact that my property is being abused is all that should be needed to put assholes like James away.
If people are talking about your ad on Slashdot, you've already won.
In other news, Windows is not Unix. Ric Romero has more at 11.
That's funny, those apps have worked just fine up to (and yes, including) Windows Vista.
So I'd be forced to conclude that you're talking out of your ass.
Also please post your software product. I like to avoid anything written by a programmer who is too dumb to understand file permissions.
Heh. Yeah, right.
Microsoft says "don't put your .INI file in the program files directory. You put it in the program files directory. Microsoft changes permissions so you can't do it anymore. You blame them?
Yes, because there was no reason to do so.
Do you expect them to be compatible with every abomination that hack developers crap out for every release forever? Nobody gives two shits about your 15 year old bad habits. Learn to code properly. RTFM. If the API says "Do not pass null" then you don't. It doesnt matter if it works today, it may not work in future.
You're probably running my code now. You just don't know it.
Exactly what security risks are present in, in your words, "spewing crap all over the C: drive"?
Exactly what benefits do I get, as a Windows developer, from being forced to change a 15-year-old habit?
If your OS is insecure because my application stores .INI files in its own Program Files directory, I really don't see how that's my problem.
I wonder if it occurred to the bright bulb who designed this that the magazine will spend most of its time in total darkness on someone's shelf? A cheap photosensor would have saved at least a few of those 6(!) coin cells, I'd bet.
That would also have solved the shipping problem, since presumably it's dark as all hell inside a Chinese cargo container.
I really like Palin because it's quite obvious she can divorce her religious beliefs from her administrative decision making
Really? So when she tried to force the city librarian to withdraw various books from circulation, it was because of her deep and abiding interest in literary criticism?
Nit-pick: you have no legitimate basis to definitively state that there is no god watching over us.
Who are you replying to? Did I make any claims regarding the existence or nonexistence of God(s)?
The people doing the lying are using a very specific characterization of God to influence their followers' political and economic behavior. As such, they must bear the entire burden of proof that God's nature conforms to their description. Like all religious leaders, glitch23's pastor has consistently failed to accept this burden... and like all religious followers, glitch23 couldn't care less.
Unfortunately, his lack of respect for rational thought has severe negative consequences to the rest of us. If he thinks he can come around here spreading woo-woo BS without being called on it, he's sadly mistaken.
I'm not in a position of power to influence others.
When you drag that "morality comes from religion" stupidity into a voting booth with you, that's precisely what you're doing.
You, and your co-religionists, are being played like cheap fiddles. (Or did you think McCain chose Palin because she was the most qualified person for the job?)
Again, this should piss you off, but for some reason, it doesn't. (I'm guessing low IQ is part of the reason, but that's "just a theory.")
"I see evidence"
You see evidence, other people see Elvis. Why do you trust your judgment so greatly?
Some people like to think that humans are more than mere animals, that they have free will, morals and can realize the difference between right and wrong
So does your dog, and he is a mere animal. Socialization is all that's necessary to evolve a moral framework. It's just selection pressure, working on a different scale. A wolf that went postal on his pack wouldn't have been permitted to breed. Fast forward 100,000 years, and -- lo and behold! you can trust your dog not to eat your wife and child for breakfast if you forget to feed him the night before.
Basically, only someone with a staggering level of ignorance of animal behavior (to say nothing of human behavior) could have written your post.
The world is much bigger than you were taught in church. You've been lied to, probably all your life. You should be pissed about that. Why aren't you?
Sorry, I hosed that pretty badly: it shouldn't be legal for anyone to do it without a court order.
Sorry. Their "duties" do not include tracking people with GPS transponders. I'm not saying it should be legal to do it to the police... I'm saying it shouldn't be illegal for anyone to do it without a court order.
An easy way to answer your question, and countless others like it:
"What would happen to me, as a private citizen, if I did this to a cop?"
If the answer is "Nothing," then it's probably a reasonable thing for the cops to do to you. If the answer is "Waal, I believe that there'd be a tasin', boy," then it is not.
So, you tell me. What do you think would happen if you were caught placing tracking devices on police cars?
And as for the courts permitting this kind of crap to occur: remember the most important lesson of the Gulag Archipelago. The judicial system is your last defense. When they fail to protect your rights, the time for peaceful reckoning is past.
YouTube is. Somebody put LSD in the water supply in their programming department, is all I can figure.
This is the best news Phoenix could possibly have delivered.
Perchlorate does mean there's all the oxygen we'll ever need on Mars. I'd rather they found perchlorate than fucking oil. It means that humans can live and work there, and it strongly suggests that there is probably no life that we'd have to worry about preserving and protecting, at least in this region of the planet.
Strong oxidizers are just what you want to find when you're 100 million miles from home and low on gas.
You're hitting ESC after swapping the disk, right? Think of the disk prompt as a prereq to the rest of the game. I almost failed it myself, the first time I played a (borrowed) copy of Ultima II on a real Apple II.
As usual, 'creative capitalism' is only going to deepen inequalities
In the course of making it possible for a billion ordinary people to own and use multi-gigaflop computers, Microsoft made about 10,000 millionaires in the Seattle area alone.
I'm sure we're all eager to hear how that figure compares to your life's work.
There are two schools of thought in drug research. One is to throw lots of stuff at the wall to see what sticks, and the other is "intelligent design," using extensive modelling and simulation to build molecules on spec. So far, the former school is ahead about ten thousand to one.
If you had syphilis in the early 1900s, would you balk at taking Salvarsan just because it contained arsenic, and because the guy who came up with it was on his 606th try? Well, we're in exactly the same boat now with respect to Alzheimer's.
4) "... the trial was funded by a pharmaceutical company..." according to the BBC article.
And they're getting results. What do you value more, your money or your sanity? If you get this particular disease, you (and your family) are going to be damned glad somebody came along and offered you the choice.
If you have a better process in mind, we're all ears. So far, the more-socialized European approach has given us, well, LSD.
M-O-O-N, that spells Pepsi®!