And people wonder why the US Education system is rolling down hill faster than ever.
If people were not giving evolution 'special treatment' then right wing religious nut jobs would ram 'creationism' and 'intelligent design' down our throats in science class. Neither of which are a Theory (capital T). If the scientific establishment permitted this to occur what would be next? Would we be required to teach prayer as an acceptable form of medicine? etc...
The fact of the matter is that 99+% of the scientific establishment has given the nod to evolution. Now until another hypothesis comes along that does a better job of explaining things then it will remain entrenched. In some scientific fields even the presence of a new hypothesis/theory does not necessarily invalidate previous ones. Newtonian physics is still taught because 99% of the time it is right. The Theory of Relativity amends to it and says 'This is right except under X circumstances'. Therefore most don't need to deal with Relativity in their everyday lives as we're generally not moving at close to the speed of light.
The fact that the child was so used to following authority that she did not say 'fuck you' when told to strip is the third thing that should worry us.
THANK YOU... This is the thing that worries me the most. The fact that kids these days are not growing up with a healthy distrust for authority. Check my locker? sure. Check my bag? I guess. Ask me to strip down over a pill or two of over the counter medication the response should be a healthy 'go fuck yourself' and if they try to do anything to you before your parents arrive physical retaliation is more than authorized.
To me there is not too much difference between a 50 year old guy getting his rocks off to a 14 year old girl and these school administration forcing this girl to strip in order to search her for a few pills of asprin? Geez these are the kids that are going into puberty and getting their periods. Of course they're gonna carry a bit of asprin to help them deal with the cramps and bloating and what not... I mean cant those stupid bitches who strip searched her sympathize with that?
1) School Staff are NOT Law Enforcement Officers and do not have the right to search and seizure at the same levels as a cop. 2) On the flip side the 13 year old girl could have reasonably told them to 'fuck off' and left. If they tried to stop her then they would be dealing with harassment and assault charges. 3) Where are the child molestation, sexual interference, etc... charges? What they subjected the girl was tantamount to rape.
Long story short, even Cops need a fairly high bar in order to require a strip search of a suspect that is a legal adult. What these School Staff had was far less, basically relying on hearsay from another student to basically strip search, humiliate and molest a 13 year old girl. Clearly the Supreme Court should bitchslap these school staff and the school and the school board as a result of this outright stupidity.
You cant pass your rights on to your children by giving up all those rights when you 'Think of the Children'.
The world is a dangerous scary place. Kids need to learn that sooner or later. Preferably sooner so they'll be well armed and prepared to deal with the threats that are out there.
Unfortunately it is a sad reality that while you can determine the priority of your router. EVERY SINGLE ROUTER between you and your destination wont necessarily have the same priority because NEWSFLASH... You dont control them. They need to be prioritized in such a way that it makes the network usable for everyone while not engaging in active throttling or censorship based on protocols.
If prioritizing and other network management tools are done properly. Ideally if these measures were put into place responsibly the end user would not even KNOW they were being used. So what if VOIP goes first, its a very 'latency' sensitive protocol, a few extra milliseconds or dropped packets can destroy the quality of a VOIP connection. You would still get your HTTP(S) traffic in a reasonable time frame and the added milliseconds probably wouldnt even be noticed. Just like putting P2P or other 'bulk' transfers to the back of the line. People wont notice a few extra minutes on a several hours long download as long as the DATA GETS THROUGH. What ISPs like Comcast were trying to do was to prevent the data from getting through at all or effectively 'censorship' as they wanted people to subscribe to their cable TV offerings which means they have a conflict of interest as they have a financial stake in engaging in such 'censorship' of P2P protocols.
Free Market was dead before it got out of the gate. Greed killed it. With greed you need to regulate to keep people from doing stupid things and that kills the free market and without regulation people do stupid things and get EVERYONE in trouble (current crisis) so you cant leave things deregulated either.
If you think any of the money from the CRIA or whatever is just funneling money from them to the RIAA and its labels? I havent heard a story of a single Canadian artist labeled or not getting any money out of this so obviously the money is going somewhere because I dont think they have a furnace they're using to burn it.
I don't condone commercial piracy but damn I'll stand up for anyones right to 'personal piracy' because as it stands the copyright laws are far too slanted towards the producers and it seems like it will only get worse in the future with ACTA and other bullshit coming as a Made in America solution to their own problems they will try to shove down the world's collective throat so big media can continue to make money off 'Oops I did it Again' for another 300 years.
Well I do not know why peak load is at 5PM when everyone presumably gets off work and goes home. I suppose with smart grid technology it would be possible for a utility to remotely turn off the lights in office buildings when someone forgot to do so thus saving some electricity. As long as there is some sort of manual override so that if someone is working late they can keep their light on.
I agree that things are more difficult to deal with. The fact is solar power is designed to basically reduce the dependency on the electrical grid to make it so that generation can be toned down thus saving energy/fuel.
Making child porn is a result of an illegal act. I would assume that things such as 'rape' would also benefit from such censorship as well. Taping an illegal act and distributing that tape and/or selling it is an illegal act itself because you could not have done such without committing a crime in the first place.
Making a bomb/explosive is generally illegal (usually there are some exceptions which permit making of small harmless amounts for pyrotechnic and fireworks work). However the KNOWLEDGE of how to make an bomb/explosive is NOT illegal in and of itself until you take that knowledge and apply it to cause trouble/destruction. Same goes for things like fraud and identity theft, its illegal to do but not illegal to know about. In fact knowing about it is often the best means to protect yourself against it.
Part of the problem with 'child porn' is that we as a society are increasingly selling 'sex' to younger adolescents (the 12-18 crowd) in the form of advertising and media. As a result they emulate what they are advertised (look at all the teenage girls dressed up as Brittany Spears or Paris Hilton wannabees and look like hookers in training). Partly because of this emulation advertisers and media decide to use younger adolescents in more sexual roles which in turn attracts attention from older men.
So will these 'disconnect/reconnect' fees disappear because all it takes is them pressing a button or two to turn things off/on instead of having to send a tech out to do the same?
I agree though, such things are rather despicable way to punish the poor. Particularly if 'survival levels' are lower than survival requirements and who gets what 'survival level' is? Probably the CEO.
Some people would be happy to set their HVAC controls to the power company to let them adjust them up/down a degree or two from where they set them. There should always be an override at the site too.
Remember sometimes the companies would be using these to prevent blackout/brownout conditions. If your power goes out completely then you have no HVAC or clothes dryer anyways.
Since power generated in a grid cannot be effectively stored, it must be used when generated.
Actually power companies are actually banking on Electric Vehicles with their massive battery packs of storage as being integral portions of the electrical grid so that they will finally be able to store large amounts of electricity.
Decentralized power generation, however, is a completely different type of control problem.
You're right but I don't believe that the problem is that complex. If each house is a power generating station using Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, etc... then such a house would only need to 'import' the shortfall during times when it is in high drain. It is also possible that such a house could 'export' when in times of low drain/high production.
I do not forsee too much 'decentralizing' of the energy network. If they were to do this then individuals would become less dependent on the utilities and the government because they would not be able to just cut their power like they can these days. Giving people independence is not something that corporations or governments are prone to do. Expect to see more 'Smart Grid' stuff put into place but expect the electric company to charge you for using the electricity that you yourself generate.
No but if someone was going 'If you dont give us X dollars then we'll sue you for copyright violations'. By doing this they are circumventing
Actually... It is a RICO racket...
1) Threaten to Sue you 2) Offer opportunity to 'settle' for $X 3) Suggest that going to court would result in paying multiples of $X as well as dealing with legal fees and such. 4) It's designed to make most people cave to their whims by suggesting that the law will side with them.
Offering the opportunity to 'settle' for $X while not granting a contract that prevents them from actually going and suing you later. Also accepting such a 'settlement' even if it is in the interests of saving yourself time and money is giving power to a corrupt organization and may actually be used in a court of law at a later date as proof of 'guilt'.
Hence it is a racket intended to waste your time and money while they have nigh infinite resources to drag a lawsuit through the court system for years.
To issue a notice you dont have to swear anything under penalty of perjury. In order to issue a counter-DMCA notice you MUST swear under penalty of perjury. Therefore the person on the receiving end has more to risk than the person shooting off the request.
They should be able to self-sign subdomains with their verisign approved one. Thus the chain of trust would follow to capitalone.com and to verisign.com. After all if they have authority over capitalone.com they would have authority over idiots.capitalone.com too.
Star Trek ofcourse... it jumped the shark during DS9/Voyager seasons when Roddenberry kicked the bucket and corporate PHB's got in charge of 'The Vision'.
Easy way would be to get two vehicles same model an everything for a female in the house insured by the same company and a male then take them to court for discrimination based on gender.
Or you can get yourself the female rate by indicating an intent to undergo gender reassignment surgery and taking estrogen pills. Technically they cant discriminate against you just because you havent had the snip snip done yet.
Civil Disobedience... Spray paint the enclosure's window with black paint so it doesn't get any pictures and costs the company $$$ to fix. Theres probably no laws against it except maybe mischief or minor vandalism. Just make sure you do it on foot and not in your vehicle.
You cant control your kids 100%. If kids want to they'll just evade your filters by going to one of their friends houses who don't have filters installed.
This is trying to find a technical solution to a social problem. The solution is to put the computer in a public room in your house. Not in their bedroom where they can go wherever with the door closed all day long. Educate your children and let them know you dont approve of them browsing for porn.
I *HIGHLY* doubt that if Intel dissolves the agreement that they'd be permitted to continue using AMD's patents. I'm sure any agreement would include something along the lines of 'if we are unable to use your patents then you are unable to use ours'
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This only applies if the person ratting the company out is not the one in charge of licensing which being the one in charge of IT he would be.
And people wonder why the US Education system is rolling down hill faster than ever.
If people were not giving evolution 'special treatment' then right wing religious nut jobs would ram 'creationism' and 'intelligent design' down our throats in science class. Neither of which are a Theory (capital T). If the scientific establishment permitted this to occur what would be next? Would we be required to teach prayer as an acceptable form of medicine? etc...
The fact of the matter is that 99+% of the scientific establishment has given the nod to evolution. Now until another hypothesis comes along that does a better job of explaining things then it will remain entrenched. In some scientific fields even the presence of a new hypothesis/theory does not necessarily invalidate previous ones. Newtonian physics is still taught because 99% of the time it is right. The Theory of Relativity amends to it and says 'This is right except under X circumstances'. Therefore most don't need to deal with Relativity in their everyday lives as we're generally not moving at close to the speed of light.
The fact that the child was so used to following authority that she did not say 'fuck you' when told to strip is the third thing that should worry us.
THANK YOU... This is the thing that worries me the most. The fact that kids these days are not growing up with a healthy distrust for authority. Check my locker? sure. Check my bag? I guess. Ask me to strip down over a pill or two of over the counter medication the response should be a healthy 'go fuck yourself' and if they try to do anything to you before your parents arrive physical retaliation is more than authorized.
To me there is not too much difference between a 50 year old guy getting his rocks off to a 14 year old girl and these school administration forcing this girl to strip in order to search her for a few pills of asprin? Geez these are the kids that are going into puberty and getting their periods. Of course they're gonna carry a bit of asprin to help them deal with the cramps and bloating and what not... I mean cant those stupid bitches who strip searched her sympathize with that?
I say sue the bastards into the ground...
1) School Staff are NOT Law Enforcement Officers and do not have the right to search and seizure at the same levels as a cop.
2) On the flip side the 13 year old girl could have reasonably told them to 'fuck off' and left. If they tried to stop her then they would be dealing with harassment and assault charges.
3) Where are the child molestation, sexual interference, etc... charges? What they subjected the girl was tantamount to rape.
Long story short, even Cops need a fairly high bar in order to require a strip search of a suspect that is a legal adult. What these School Staff had was far less, basically relying on hearsay from another student to basically strip search, humiliate and molest a 13 year old girl. Clearly the Supreme Court should bitchslap these school staff and the school and the school board as a result of this outright stupidity.
Until they end up on every countries 'child porn' list... You know for your own protection.
Agreed...
You cant pass your rights on to your children by giving up all those rights when you 'Think of the Children'.
The world is a dangerous scary place. Kids need to learn that sooner or later. Preferably sooner so they'll be well armed and prepared to deal with the threats that are out there.
Unfortunately it is a sad reality that while you can determine the priority of your router. EVERY SINGLE ROUTER between you and your destination wont necessarily have the same priority because NEWSFLASH... You dont control them. They need to be prioritized in such a way that it makes the network usable for everyone while not engaging in active throttling or censorship based on protocols.
If prioritizing and other network management tools are done properly. Ideally if these measures were put into place responsibly the end user would not even KNOW they were being used. So what if VOIP goes first, its a very 'latency' sensitive protocol, a few extra milliseconds or dropped packets can destroy the quality of a VOIP connection. You would still get your HTTP(S) traffic in a reasonable time frame and the added milliseconds probably wouldnt even be noticed. Just like putting P2P or other 'bulk' transfers to the back of the line. People wont notice a few extra minutes on a several hours long download as long as the DATA GETS THROUGH. What ISPs like Comcast were trying to do was to prevent the data from getting through at all or effectively 'censorship' as they wanted people to subscribe to their cable TV offerings which means they have a conflict of interest as they have a financial stake in engaging in such 'censorship' of P2P protocols.
Free Market was dead before it got out of the gate. Greed killed it. With greed you need to regulate to keep people from doing stupid things and that kills the free market and without regulation people do stupid things and get EVERYONE in trouble (current crisis) so you cant leave things deregulated either.
If you think any of the money from the CRIA or whatever is just funneling money from them to the RIAA and its labels? I havent heard a story of a single Canadian artist labeled or not getting any money out of this so obviously the money is going somewhere because I dont think they have a furnace they're using to burn it.
I don't condone commercial piracy but damn I'll stand up for anyones right to 'personal piracy' because as it stands the copyright laws are far too slanted towards the producers and it seems like it will only get worse in the future with ACTA and other bullshit coming as a Made in America solution to their own problems they will try to shove down the world's collective throat so big media can continue to make money off 'Oops I did it Again' for another 300 years.
Well I do not know why peak load is at 5PM when everyone presumably gets off work and goes home. I suppose with smart grid technology it would be possible for a utility to remotely turn off the lights in office buildings when someone forgot to do so thus saving some electricity. As long as there is some sort of manual override so that if someone is working late they can keep their light on.
I agree that things are more difficult to deal with. The fact is solar power is designed to basically reduce the dependency on the electrical grid to make it so that generation can be toned down thus saving energy/fuel.
Well if you want to get into technicalities...
Making child porn is a result of an illegal act. I would assume that things such as 'rape' would also benefit from such censorship as well. Taping an illegal act and distributing that tape and/or selling it is an illegal act itself because you could not have done such without committing a crime in the first place.
Making a bomb/explosive is generally illegal (usually there are some exceptions which permit making of small harmless amounts for pyrotechnic and fireworks work). However the KNOWLEDGE of how to make an bomb/explosive is NOT illegal in and of itself until you take that knowledge and apply it to cause trouble/destruction. Same goes for things like fraud and identity theft, its illegal to do but not illegal to know about. In fact knowing about it is often the best means to protect yourself against it.
Part of the problem with 'child porn' is that we as a society are increasingly selling 'sex' to younger adolescents (the 12-18 crowd) in the form of advertising and media. As a result they emulate what they are advertised (look at all the teenage girls dressed up as Brittany Spears or Paris Hilton wannabees and look like hookers in training). Partly because of this emulation advertisers and media decide to use younger adolescents in more sexual roles which in turn attracts attention from older men.
So will these 'disconnect/reconnect' fees disappear because all it takes is them pressing a button or two to turn things off/on instead of having to send a tech out to do the same?
I agree though, such things are rather despicable way to punish the poor. Particularly if 'survival levels' are lower than survival requirements and who gets what 'survival level' is? Probably the CEO.
As long as this is voluntary...
Some people would be happy to set their HVAC controls to the power company to let them adjust them up/down a degree or two from where they set them. There should always be an override at the site too.
Remember sometimes the companies would be using these to prevent blackout/brownout conditions. If your power goes out completely then you have no HVAC or clothes dryer anyways.
Or do what Apple did and use BSD as the base so you can avoid the GPL entirely.
Since power generated in a grid cannot be effectively stored, it must be used when generated.
Actually power companies are actually banking on Electric Vehicles with their massive battery packs of storage as being integral portions of the electrical grid so that they will finally be able to store large amounts of electricity.
Decentralized power generation, however, is a completely different type of control problem.
You're right but I don't believe that the problem is that complex. If each house is a power generating station using Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, etc... then such a house would only need to 'import' the shortfall during times when it is in high drain. It is also possible that such a house could 'export' when in times of low drain/high production.
I do not forsee too much 'decentralizing' of the energy network. If they were to do this then individuals would become less dependent on the utilities and the government because they would not be able to just cut their power like they can these days. Giving people independence is not something that corporations or governments are prone to do. Expect to see more 'Smart Grid' stuff put into place but expect the electric company to charge you for using the electricity that you yourself generate.
No but if someone was going 'If you dont give us X dollars then we'll sue you for copyright violations'. By doing this they are circumventing
Actually... It is a RICO racket...
1) Threaten to Sue you
2) Offer opportunity to 'settle' for $X
3) Suggest that going to court would result in paying multiples of $X as well as dealing with legal fees and such.
4) It's designed to make most people cave to their whims by suggesting that the law will side with them.
Offering the opportunity to 'settle' for $X while not granting a contract that prevents them from actually going and suing you later. Also accepting such a 'settlement' even if it is in the interests of saving yourself time and money is giving power to a corrupt organization and may actually be used in a court of law at a later date as proof of 'guilt'.
Hence it is a racket intended to waste your time and money while they have nigh infinite resources to drag a lawsuit through the court system for years.
That is the one sidedness of the law...
To issue a notice you dont have to swear anything under penalty of perjury. In order to issue a counter-DMCA notice you MUST swear under penalty of perjury. Therefore the person on the receiving end has more to risk than the person shooting off the request.
They should be able to self-sign subdomains with their verisign approved one. Thus the chain of trust would follow to capitalone.com and to verisign.com. After all if they have authority over capitalone.com they would have authority over idiots.capitalone.com too.
Star Trek ofcourse... it jumped the shark during DS9/Voyager seasons when Roddenberry kicked the bucket and corporate PHB's got in charge of 'The Vision'.
Yet another reason copyright should be limited to like 7 years like it originally was intended to be.
Easy way would be to get two vehicles same model an everything for a female in the house insured by the same company and a male then take them to court for discrimination based on gender.
Or you can get yourself the female rate by indicating an intent to undergo gender reassignment surgery and taking estrogen pills. Technically they cant discriminate against you just because you havent had the snip snip done yet.
Civil Disobedience... Spray paint the enclosure's window with black paint so it doesn't get any pictures and costs the company $$$ to fix. Theres probably no laws against it except maybe mischief or minor vandalism. Just make sure you do it on foot and not in your vehicle.
You cant control your kids 100%. If kids want to they'll just evade your filters by going to one of their friends houses who don't have filters installed.
This is trying to find a technical solution to a social problem. The solution is to put the computer in a public room in your house. Not in their bedroom where they can go wherever with the door closed all day long. Educate your children and let them know you dont approve of them browsing for porn.
I *HIGHLY* doubt that if Intel dissolves the agreement that they'd be permitted to continue using AMD's patents. I'm sure any agreement would include something along the lines of 'if we are unable to use your patents then you are unable to use ours'
Too bad the TV station is probably owned by someone on the tip-top secret ACTA list and will probably squash the story like a bug.