So, they should shut down automakers for facilitating speeding? And knife makers for facilitating murder?
No, they shouldn't, which is why I'm glad they're not going after the makers and programmers of BitTorrent, a perfectly useful and legal technology. Instead they're going after the end sites themselves.
I've used torrents before across suprnova [...] for perfectly legal downloads
Besides, as far as I know, a good many of these problems are because the earth doesn't have enough resources.
We have more than enough food to feed the world. The problem is we have a harder time getting the food to the people who need it, and especially with people who use hunger as a weapon and a political tool.
Neoconservatives often surprise me by their arrogance. They pretend that a few laws on morality (e.g. restricting violent video games, banning abortions, restricting pornography) somehow substitutes for good parenting.
Neoconservatives? Hate to say it, but the left has typically been the pro-censorship-of-violence wing in American politics, and this is another example.
I don't care how many people saw Titanic. I am "boycotting" it until I see every other movie made. I only care what I think and not what a random bunch of other people think.
That reminds me of how my roommate at the time felt about Titanic. He didn't see it, he didn't want to see it. The only reason he had for disliking it was that other people liked it.
I, on the other hand, had a solar systems and astronomy class that actually decreased my interest in solar systems and astronomy.
That has to be the ultimate sin for any professor. The guy should be fired. Then tarred and feathered. Or something.
Yes, some classes are geared towards truly motivating and interesting students towards material in the field. Other classes, however, are designed simply to weed students out, to seperate the wheat from the chaff. Usually the latter type of course has to be passed before you can continue to the former.
but then, when their beloved company turns around and does something anti-competitive and monopolistic, they're suddenly "doing nothing legally, technically, ethically, morally or wrong."
This is what comes from identifying personally with a for-profit corporation, for treating it as more than a vendor but also a moral entity. Too many Apple faithful feel that the actions of Apple are naturally moral. The company and its products are so trendy that the success of Apple and the failure of other companies that threatens Apple becomes a moral imperative. The cult of personality has it positives and its negatives.
Bleeping in southpark is as much a gimmick as the rest of the show. I imagine they'd do it even if they didn't have to.
Well, they did have an episode where they said "shit" over a hundred times, with a little counter in the corner of the screen keeping track of how many times it was said.
ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control.
He is saying the Internet (at least the portion physically located in the US) must be controlled by the US government if the infrastructure doesn't get down to policing and putting in tighter controls itself.
Is the American economy suspect to attack through the Internet? Well, that much should be obvious by now. More companies are making an Internet presence a core part of their sales, and the Net is fairly susceptible to attack (suprnova is under attack? We're still seeing DDoS attacks?) The question that interests me most is how do you prove that you are serious about security? Will you need to run custom software from your provider that proves that you have something similar to Norton Antivirus and Internet Security? The latest service pack? What about other operating systems like Linux that are certainly open to vulnerabilities as well?
Another possibility would be a stricter control of Internet standards. I'm sure the sponsors wouldn't shed a tear if tighter controls broke things like P2P software as well.
The national press... were excluded from yesterday's event, at Mr. Tenet's request, organizers said.
You're missing something. Content providers don't care about consumers, they care about advertisers. It hasn't been about providing content to consumers for a long time.
And they wonder why TV ratings are falling. Why more people would rather play games, see a movie, or even just watch the show on DVD instead of over the air or on cable.
Why is it assumed that homosexuals only ever perform homosexual and not heterosexual acts?
Better yet, why do so many people assume there is only homosexuality and heterosexuality, and that there isn't anything in between? Bisexuality gets completely ignored in our society, and I have the suspicion that some of the successful ex-gays (a rare breed) that have a desire for women.. were really bisexual in the first place. It's not necessarily a switch.. like men OR like women. There are quite a few people who like both.
Allowing gay people to get married doesn't force homosexuality on anyone. It just means that people who are different from you can live their lives the same way you can.
It seems from what I've seen of the religious right, strength of marriage is a zero-sum game. That is, if another group can strengthen its marriage, that weakens 'traditional' marriage. *grumble*
As for morality being derived from religion the problem is we aren't all of the same religion. I would prefer if morality was derived from a national voting consensus where everyone's input is taken into consideration and the bible thumping is left in the church/temple/mosque whatever.
Couldn't you say that's what the result of the last election was? And all the states banning gay marriage in their constitutions?
In the Bay Area (SF CA), there is a futuristic wide gauge rail system called BART that has been sucking up all the regions' transit dollars since the late 60's. It plays a huge role in moving commuters around, but is more expensive than driving and fantasically expensive to operate
It all depends where you would want to drive to. When I took BART, I was saving a huge amount of money and time. Time because traffic going through SF is often terrible, and money because bridge tolls and parking fees often add up to three times the amount of a round-trip BART fare.
And just about NOTHING in transportation sucks more than taking one form of public transportation only to transfer to another. That's a big reason why no one takes AC Transit to BART (AC Transit does visit the bart stations in the East Bay like feeder bus lines). Then again, around where I live, I avoid AC Transit due to the number of.. crazies who pack the buses around here (I stopped taking the bus after hearing one too many times the obnoxious woman loudly arguing with no one about how the Jews were stealing all her money and how she had the legal right to kill anyone who messes with her kids)
the BART heavy-rail odd-format subway is being charted out into far off suburbs where people don't even know how to take transit
What would you rather have those people do? Drive on the freeways and clog 580 or 880 even more?
Outer reaches of suburban sprawl don't need subway systems better suited to dense urban corridors.
In BART's case, the tracks outside inner city areas are above ground except a few exceptions in places like Berkeley, where the residents agreed to pay extra for the cost of keeping it underground.
I'm usually not a fan of public transportation. It's usually very slow and doesn't take me where I need to go. But BART is one of the solutions that has worked great for myself and many other people in the area. I will admit one thing though: The population of the Bay Area will continue to grow, and BART has reached its physical capacity. You can't have a chain longer than 10 cars, and at commute time the trains are as close together as is safe.
I'm planning to visit the Metreon tomorrow. I think I'll bike to the nearby BART station.
More than a technology to move people, we need plans to guide where people chose live and work so that the transportation infrastructure built for them makes sense and is sustainable and priced to work.
Now this requires a little more elaboration. I'm relatively suspicious of such statements because many of them turn into anti-suburban screeds about how people should live in high-density housing in the city like rats.
I moved from a nice small city in California that was about 7-8 miles across. The roads and the downtown area were designed for easy access by bikes. They were used heavily by both cars and bikes.
Davis?
When I went to UC Davis, I didn't have a car.. I couldn't afford a car. I didn't even need a car when everything was within biking distance. Sure the occasional jaunt to Sacromento required a car, but that was simply an exception.
Though carrying 10 full plastic grocery bags home was a bit tricky at times.:)
And the likelihood of Valve going out of business in the next five years is what?
Not that unlikely, considering their shaky history of never delivering games on time. They lost big when they screwed up again, missed their deadline, and Doom3 came out first.
You're not thinking of the future. Windows is simply awful. What happens when you need to reinstall because some screw-up trashed your system? Hell, even easier, say you want to run Half-Life 2 on your brand-new computer. No auth servers means you'll never be able to install the game again (without a crack).
So what you are saying is that when HL3 comes out, you can no longer play HL2, and thus will have a much bigger incentive towards buying HL3, so you can keep getting entertained.
Or when Valve goes out of business, no one will be able to play Half Life 2+.
Didn't Disney help Pixar a little bit at the beginning with getting the big stars for the voice talent?
Yes, a little bit. Tom Hanks though was nabbed when the Pixar animators took a sound clip of Hanks from Turner and Hooch, and animated it as if Woody the Cowboy was saying it. Hanks was quite tickled by that and agreed to join the production.
Wait a second, you're telling me that the one thing that John Kerry has to his name in congress is that he helped write the PATRIOT act?
Why wasn't this brought up by the national media before the election?
John Kerry during the presidential debates:
Now, the three things they try to say I've changed position on are the Patriot Act; I haven't. I support it. I just don't like the way John Ashcroft has applied it
I believe in the Patriot Act. We need the things in it that coordinate the FBI and the CIA. We need to be stronger on terrorism.
He also gave a number of examples where he thought the PATRIOT act was being misapplied and abused.
Except that you're limited to Blockbuster's selection on hand, which doesn't include too many indie films or anything too much out of the mainstream.
Hell, they have a terrible selection of mainstream films too. I got annoyed with them when they didn't carry The Usual Suspects awhile back. Then I quit going completely after they started charging me late fees even when I wasn't late. Bastards.
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No, they shouldn't, which is why I'm glad they're not going after the makers and programmers of BitTorrent, a perfectly useful and legal technology. Instead they're going after the end sites themselves.
I've used torrents before across suprnova [...] for perfectly legal downloads
Congradulations, you're one in a thousand.
Seems a lot of the problem is coders feeling they have to write the same code over and over again.
We have more than enough food to feed the world. The problem is we have a harder time getting the food to the people who need it, and especially with people who use hunger as a weapon and a political tool.
Neoconservatives? Hate to say it, but the left has typically been the pro-censorship-of-violence wing in American politics, and this is another example.
That reminds me of how my roommate at the time felt about Titanic. He didn't see it, he didn't want to see it. The only reason he had for disliking it was that other people liked it.
That has to be the ultimate sin for any professor. The guy should be fired. Then tarred and feathered. Or something.
Yes, some classes are geared towards truly motivating and interesting students towards material in the field. Other classes, however, are designed simply to weed students out, to seperate the wheat from the chaff. Usually the latter type of course has to be passed before you can continue to the former.
This is what comes from identifying personally with a for-profit corporation, for treating it as more than a vendor but also a moral entity. Too many Apple faithful feel that the actions of Apple are naturally moral. The company and its products are so trendy that the success of Apple and the failure of other companies that threatens Apple becomes a moral imperative. The cult of personality has it positives and its negatives.
Well, they did have an episode where they said "shit" over a hundred times, with a little counter in the corner of the screen keeping track of how many times it was said.
ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control.
He is saying the Internet (at least the portion physically located in the US) must be controlled by the US government if the infrastructure doesn't get down to policing and putting in tighter controls itself.
Is the American economy suspect to attack through the Internet? Well, that much should be obvious by now. More companies are making an Internet presence a core part of their sales, and the Net is fairly susceptible to attack (suprnova is under attack? We're still seeing DDoS attacks?) The question that interests me most is how do you prove that you are serious about security? Will you need to run custom software from your provider that proves that you have something similar to Norton Antivirus and Internet Security? The latest service pack? What about other operating systems like Linux that are certainly open to vulnerabilities as well?
Another possibility would be a stricter control of Internet standards. I'm sure the sponsors wouldn't shed a tear if tighter controls broke things like P2P software as well.
The national press... were excluded from yesterday's event, at Mr. Tenet's request, organizers said.
How very telling.
And they wonder why TV ratings are falling. Why more people would rather play games, see a movie, or even just watch the show on DVD instead of over the air or on cable.
Better yet, why do so many people assume there is only homosexuality and heterosexuality, and that there isn't anything in between? Bisexuality gets completely ignored in our society, and I have the suspicion that some of the successful ex-gays (a rare breed) that have a desire for women.. were really bisexual in the first place. It's not necessarily a switch.. like men OR like women. There are quite a few people who like both.
It seems from what I've seen of the religious right, strength of marriage is a zero-sum game. That is, if another group can strengthen its marriage, that weakens 'traditional' marriage. *grumble*
As for morality being derived from religion the problem is we aren't all of the same religion. I would prefer if morality was derived from a national voting consensus where everyone's input is taken into consideration and the bible thumping is left in the church/temple/mosque whatever.
Couldn't you say that's what the result of the last election was? And all the states banning gay marriage in their constitutions?
They shouldn't. It undercuts their entire arguement and no one takes them seriously.
It all depends where you would want to drive to. When I took BART, I was saving a huge amount of money and time. Time because traffic going through SF is often terrible, and money because bridge tolls and parking fees often add up to three times the amount of a round-trip BART fare.
And just about NOTHING in transportation sucks more than taking one form of public transportation only to transfer to another. That's a big reason why no one takes AC Transit to BART (AC Transit does visit the bart stations in the East Bay like feeder bus lines). Then again, around where I live, I avoid AC Transit due to the number of.. crazies who pack the buses around here (I stopped taking the bus after hearing one too many times the obnoxious woman loudly arguing with no one about how the Jews were stealing all her money and how she had the legal right to kill anyone who messes with her kids)
the BART heavy-rail odd-format subway is being charted out into far off suburbs where people don't even know how to take transit
What would you rather have those people do? Drive on the freeways and clog 580 or 880 even more?
Outer reaches of suburban sprawl don't need subway systems better suited to dense urban corridors.
In BART's case, the tracks outside inner city areas are above ground except a few exceptions in places like Berkeley, where the residents agreed to pay extra for the cost of keeping it underground.
I'm usually not a fan of public transportation. It's usually very slow and doesn't take me where I need to go. But BART is one of the solutions that has worked great for myself and many other people in the area. I will admit one thing though: The population of the Bay Area will continue to grow, and BART has reached its physical capacity. You can't have a chain longer than 10 cars, and at commute time the trains are as close together as is safe.
I'm planning to visit the Metreon tomorrow. I think I'll bike to the nearby BART station.
More than a technology to move people, we need plans to guide where people chose live and work so that the transportation infrastructure built for them makes sense and is sustainable and priced to work.
Now this requires a little more elaboration. I'm relatively suspicious of such statements because many of them turn into anti-suburban screeds about how people should live in high-density housing in the city like rats.
From my experiences taking BART in San Francisco... the presense of a camera is absolutely no disincentive to many of these people...
That's right! Everyone should have a Segway! Oh wait.. they're extremely expensive, making them an option for only a few.
Davis?
When I went to UC Davis, I didn't have a car.. I couldn't afford a car. I didn't even need a car when everything was within biking distance. Sure the occasional jaunt to Sacromento required a car, but that was simply an exception.
Though carrying 10 full plastic grocery bags home was a bit tricky at times. :)
Not that unlikely, considering their shaky history of never delivering games on time. They lost big when they screwed up again, missed their deadline, and Doom3 came out first.
Or when Valve goes out of business, no one will be able to play Half Life 2+.
Yes, a little bit. Tom Hanks though was nabbed when the Pixar animators took a sound clip of Hanks from Turner and Hooch, and animated it as if Woody the Cowboy was saying it. Hanks was quite tickled by that and agreed to join the production.
Why wasn't this brought up by the national media before the election?
John Kerry during the presidential debates:
Now, the three things they try to say I've changed position on are the Patriot Act; I haven't. I support it. I just don't like the way John Ashcroft has applied it
I believe in the Patriot Act. We need the things in it that coordinate the FBI and the CIA. We need to be stronger on terrorism.
He also gave a number of examples where he thought the PATRIOT act was being misapplied and abused.
Hell, they have a terrible selection of mainstream films too. I got annoyed with them when they didn't carry The Usual Suspects awhile back. Then I quit going completely after they started charging me late fees even when I wasn't late. Bastards.