The last two links in the summary go over some of the censorship that's been in the EU, and it's not even counting the child porn filter that one country put in (it was overzealous and somehow filtered some sites that the government didn't like but weren't child porn).
In this case it's not such a big deal, as the only people who are going to want [HD players] are huge enough geeks (or companies) to support whatever standard they choose Your quote applies equally well to his example as to what you were saying.
just look at IE/Office, those are 'competing' standards...would you call them a good thing? They're not standards at all, that's the problem. IE's supposed to be compatible with the standard and it's not, so your example seems moot. Office has no standard at all, which would seem to be compatible with the discussion, but the big difference is that it's gone well beyond the point where there should have been a standard.
However, I don't think any products should make it to the market before there's a standard developed. Computer equipment has a way of going outdated very quickly when there's no standard attached, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to buy $1000 worth of equipment only to have everyone standardize to a different technology and leave me in the cold. At least your HD-DVD's will still play, if everyone switches to one type when you bought into the other type, your equipment becomes worthless.
Another possibility is that the dark matter is nothing more than massive dyson spheres which surround all the stars that should be seen but can not Makes for a great story and it would be really cool in reality. The problem is that even a dyson sphere would emit some form of radiation and, if there's a civilization or group of civilizations so powerful that they can create dyson spheres around the majority of the matter in the known universe, why haven't we seen them yet?
That being said, I find your idea interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Let's not forget that they have an uphill battle if they want to show intent. It's only been the last few years that global warming's approached a consensus, and that's largely due to the opponents are retiring. There are still credible and good scientists opposing global warming, which is a good thing since opposition helps reveal a theories truth as well as it shows whether it's false. Between the amount of opposition, the number of people involved, and the fact that there's almost no chance that the village doesn't contribute to global warming themselves, I think it's pretty clear they won't win in court.
One suit they might win, however, would be one against the government. The EPA's been slow to react to the science, even under Clinton. There's no way to show that those companies could have prevented global warming, but if the US government had been willing to take a stance a decade ago, real progress could have been made by this point.
Unless I'm mistaken (and I often am), dark matter interacts with itself equally well as it interacts with regular matter, so there's a good chance we'd be able to use what they have and vice versa.
Besides, even if we were just able to trade information that would be a worthwhile endeavor.
should there be 'dark matter organisms' of some kind, they'd be most likely supremely uninterested in the likes of us I disagree. We'd be interested in dark matter organisms for more than just curiosity (although that's what it would look like at first). Establishing trade, etc would all be of supreme interest to us; why wouldn't it be for them?
Everything else aside, earning more money has some serious advantages. Early retirement, better vacations, and being able to ride out a depression with some help from your savings are all things that more money helps. Add a wife and family into the mix and more money's a verifiably good thing. I'm not saying that you should have that same opinion, but for me, I'd take the peace of mind that comes from more money over day-to-day happiness.
. people that think it's more important to judge people by their looks than by what they can contribute to the job...OK, bathing every day is good. But then you're engaging in the same thing they are! The point of the matter is that you dress and act like you want people to see you. If you don't dress like someone who's going to impress the boss, then you're obviously not trying very hard to impress the boss.
Communication is the name of the game when it comes to management, and someone who can't communicate who they are through their clothing are probably going to have problems communicating in other ways. Is this the way it should be? Maybe not. But society is built upon judging people, and if you don't try to be judged favorably, don't bitch when you aren't.
It's not comparable, and saying that the market's so easily undermined is laughable. It took hundreds of man-years for open source to reach the point that it's at today, and it's an amazing achievement. I wouldn't be surprised if people look back at the movement as one of the great achievements of humanity. Saying that the market was easily undermined is an insult to those who worked hard to bring free software to the level it's at today.
However, this is also what makes his comments ultimately pointless. People give to the open source movement with the expectation of getting something back, whether it's more open source apps or just recognition for their achievements. Between training people, being able to make a name for yourself, and the hundreds of high-quality tools that it provides, free software is an overall benefit to the market, and a huge one at that.
Go sequence a mouse. What's the point of sequencing something that we kill? Corn's one of the more useful crops in the world, so sequencing it makes sense. If we understand the genome, we can make new varieties better.
This is not something that everyone should be burdened with. And they're not. The state is providing a service that over 50% of its residents desire or at least approve of. If you don't want to get filtered internet access, then use an ISP that isn't on the list. It's that easy.
why not make the parents aquire their own software for this if they want it? Because then all the kid has to do is acquire a livecd and they're on the unfiltered internet. If you really want to filter things, you have to do it upstream where the kid doesn't have access to it. There have been ISPs providing filtered internet in Utah for over a decade, this is just the state's attempt to make sure that when an ISP says that they're child safe that it's true.
It's a regulation on what is and is not considered a child-safe ISP. There are a few providers in Utah that will use a white-list filter on the connection. This gives the parents some peace of mind while putting the filter in a place where the kids can't mess with it. Since the parents are typically less internet savvy than their kids, this is a good thing for those parents that don't want their children looking at pornography.
Now, please explain to me how this is censorship. They're not limiting it across the board like China or other countries are, they're just certifying certain ISPs as being legitimately child-safe. If you want a connection that allows porn through, just choose a non-filtered provider.
Patent reforms need to start NOW, or else it'd be too late and by then we (the general populace) would be too powerless to stop it. It'll be as easy to change then as it is now. The difference will be that it's an area most people care about. One computer company pulling off a dumb lawsuit against another company is a niche problem. A pharmaceutical company exercising a patent against another pharmaceutical company that's developing new cures for cancer will get people in an uproar. Look at stem cells for what happens when the government ignores what people think is the best way to manage healthcare research.
Change will come, it'll just come when the trolling affects industries that people care about.
Make a secure operating system that works!! Think of the money you'd make!! No more than they're making now? Honestly, what's the cost of their insecurities? The people who go to Mac go there because of the programs, the community, the "cool" factor, and the UI. Security is a minor factor to most of those people, and Linux gets the marketshare by being open source. Even then, Microsoft controls the vast majority of the market.
Because there's an interesting study of psychology here, and finding out how the brain works is one of the most important things that we can do this next century. It's an interesting result because death is usually considered bad in these games, so why would gamers enjoy them? Is it to get a respite from the action? Is it because they feel they've achieved something by their death? Is it because that segment of action is done and they feel the fulfillment of everything that happened that life? There are applications beyond gaming and, honestly, even if it didn't, it's pretty damn interesting.
But there's been teachers that have left the profession or lost their jobs because of lies that have been told about them I know people who have had that done to them (not on the internet, in real life), and it's a pretty serious thing. When an allegation of molestation or child abuse comes out, there's no going back, even if the person was innocent. There's always going to be a group of people that will believe the allegations no matter what. There's also the factor that people only spread the bad news, so twice as many people will hear about the accusations than will hear about the innocence. If they're lucky, they can get a pretty good start by selling their house and moving to another city where people haven't heard the gossip yet.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that, when child abuse is involved, the authorities take the "guilty until proven innocent, and then only sometimes" approach exemplified by Law and Order: SVU. People have babies taken away for a year because child services doesn't take 15 minutes to see if the parents' story checks out.
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But it was done from within the music industry, so it was fair use. It's only stealing if someone without enough money for lawyers does it.
The last two links in the summary go over some of the censorship that's been in the EU, and it's not even counting the child porn filter that one country put in (it was overzealous and somehow filtered some sites that the government didn't like but weren't child porn).
However, I don't think any products should make it to the market before there's a standard developed. Computer equipment has a way of going outdated very quickly when there's no standard attached, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to buy $1000 worth of equipment only to have everyone standardize to a different technology and leave me in the cold. At least your HD-DVD's will still play, if everyone switches to one type when you bought into the other type, your equipment becomes worthless.
Either way we're fucked.
That being said, I find your idea interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Let's not forget that they have an uphill battle if they want to show intent. It's only been the last few years that global warming's approached a consensus, and that's largely due to the opponents are retiring. There are still credible and good scientists opposing global warming, which is a good thing since opposition helps reveal a theories truth as well as it shows whether it's false. Between the amount of opposition, the number of people involved, and the fact that there's almost no chance that the village doesn't contribute to global warming themselves, I think it's pretty clear they won't win in court.
One suit they might win, however, would be one against the government. The EPA's been slow to react to the science, even under Clinton. There's no way to show that those companies could have prevented global warming, but if the US government had been willing to take a stance a decade ago, real progress could have been made by this point.
Unless I'm mistaken (and I often am), dark matter interacts with itself equally well as it interacts with regular matter, so there's a good chance we'd be able to use what they have and vice versa.
Besides, even if we were just able to trade information that would be a worthwhile endeavor.
Everything else aside, earning more money has some serious advantages. Early retirement, better vacations, and being able to ride out a depression with some help from your savings are all things that more money helps. Add a wife and family into the mix and more money's a verifiably good thing. I'm not saying that you should have that same opinion, but for me, I'd take the peace of mind that comes from more money over day-to-day happiness.
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Jackpot.
Communication is the name of the game when it comes to management, and someone who can't communicate who they are through their clothing are probably going to have problems communicating in other ways. Is this the way it should be? Maybe not. But society is built upon judging people, and if you don't try to be judged favorably, don't bitch when you aren't.
But what if we don't want Richard Nixon with a new, shiny body as president?
I heard somewhere that it was dead. They seemed to have some reputable source backing them up...
It's not comparable, and saying that the market's so easily undermined is laughable. It took hundreds of man-years for open source to reach the point that it's at today, and it's an amazing achievement. I wouldn't be surprised if people look back at the movement as one of the great achievements of humanity. Saying that the market was easily undermined is an insult to those who worked hard to bring free software to the level it's at today.
However, this is also what makes his comments ultimately pointless. People give to the open source movement with the expectation of getting something back, whether it's more open source apps or just recognition for their achievements. Between training people, being able to make a name for yourself, and the hundreds of high-quality tools that it provides, free software is an overall benefit to the market, and a huge one at that.
Also, corn is where we first noticed jumping genes.
That's what I tell all the girls at the club.
It's a regulation on what is and is not considered a child-safe ISP. There are a few providers in Utah that will use a white-list filter on the connection. This gives the parents some peace of mind while putting the filter in a place where the kids can't mess with it. Since the parents are typically less internet savvy than their kids, this is a good thing for those parents that don't want their children looking at pornography.
Now, please explain to me how this is censorship. They're not limiting it across the board like China or other countries are, they're just certifying certain ISPs as being legitimately child-safe. If you want a connection that allows porn through, just choose a non-filtered provider.
Let's not forget the .cum TLD; that kind of typo can kill productivity for hours.
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Change will come, it'll just come when the trolling affects industries that people care about.
Because there's an interesting study of psychology here, and finding out how the brain works is one of the most important things that we can do this next century. It's an interesting result because death is usually considered bad in these games, so why would gamers enjoy them? Is it to get a respite from the action? Is it because they feel they've achieved something by their death? Is it because that segment of action is done and they feel the fulfillment of everything that happened that life? There are applications beyond gaming and, honestly, even if it didn't, it's pretty damn interesting.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that, when child abuse is involved, the authorities take the "guilty until proven innocent, and then only sometimes" approach exemplified by Law and Order: SVU. People have babies taken away for a year because child services doesn't take 15 minutes to see if the parents' story checks out.