~Yeah, I take several trips a year on that "steaming pile of shit" called the interstate highway system. Boy, is that thing a piece of crap, being able to get me across 6 states in 8 hours of driving, and enabling commerce to move goods across the country in a matter of days. And when that guy at work broke his back and the company dropped him like a hot potato? God, It just pisses me off that the government stepped in and gave him disability...I mean, the guy could still _blink_ for cripes sake! He could do work that way, we should have just let him starve if he didn't want to show up anymore! And don't get me started on that damn rural electrification project. Those friggin' farmers don't need lights! And if you even mention the Coast Guard...~
Soldiers get paid weather or not they are fighting..
...but Black Water soldier's salaries don't. And not nearly as many bullets are fired during peace, not to mention missiles fires, jet fuel used, food shipped half way around the worlds, aircraft carriers and support ships fueled and equipped, equipment ground to dust in sand that needs to be replaced... I did just look it up, and the cost of continuing health care for veterans is going to run us about 1/3 the total cost of the war.
Oh my, I haven't laughed that hard in weeks, if not months. Ok then, since you're entirely self sufficient, get off our internet, get off our roads, turn off your electricity, give back the gasoline in your vehicle, and for heaven's sake quit your job 'cause all of those things were in part or in total funded by the government either directly or through subsidy. And I'm sure you manufactured the well parts you used for you $5000 well by hand after cutting down the trees on your property to smelt the ore to make the copper to make the pipes for the well, etc. BTW, where do you live? I'd like to buy the land upstream from you and start that bottling plant, I'm sure that your personal police and court system will stop me when your well runs dry.
That's why I said "according to the RIAA". However, if they choose to sue people based on this claim, then it has roughly the equivalent force of law due to the expense of fighting said claim. Nice post though.
No. You purchased the physical media (per the RIAA), and bought a non-transferable license to listen to the music on that media. Hence, selling the disk, which enables someone else to listen to the music, is copyright infringement according to the RIAA. That's why I believe that the system is broken; because it just doesn't make sense to a normal person that it could work that way.
Telcos and businesses begin to care only when people begin to opt-out of a system. I don't have a landline. Haven't for over 6 years now. Now no one, legitimate or not, can reach me to make a phone sale. If I was a telco, I'd care about that if enough people chose to opt-out in that way. If I was a legitimate business I'd care a lot if I wasn't able to contact people I was already doing business with to increase sales (businesses can contact current customer's land-lines to up-sell even if the line is on a do-not-call list, they can't call cell phones for any selling). If the system doesn't work, don't use it anymore.
Miranda instructs you on how to preserve your right against self incrimination (shut up). It then warns you that if you decide to incriminate yourself (not shut up), or not seek further counsel on how not to self incriminate, then that's your problem. The constitution guarantees that you can't be forced to self incriminate. It leaves you the right to choose whether or not to do want to self incriminate. There's no prohibition in the constitution against self incrimination, only against the government forcing self incrimination. There's nothing about waiving your rights, temporarily or permanently, in Miranda, just that the gov't can't force you to talk (unless, of course, you're in GITMO and like to breath when you're hung upside down on a board).
Telling someone that they can still talk, and might incriminate themselves by doing so is as unrelated to the waiving of rights as choosing not to own a gun means that I waive my right to own one. I still have the right to own a gun, I do not (and will not) waive that right, but I chose not to exercise it.
I don't know what you're smoking, but it's not very interesting, and it hasn't helped your reading comprehension (of Miranda) either.
Even if we're talking about Fox News, they love Obama because coverage of him gets their viewers riled up which increases the frequency with which said viewer tune into *drumroll* Fox News. Fox News may be a conservative bastion, but there is one thing that always trumps politics with republican/conservatives, one thing that would make them sell their souls or those of their great great grandchildren; that one thing, my friend, is money, and coverage of Obama brings it to Fox News. An Obama Presidency would be viewed by them as a windfall.
Preach it brother. I'd love to get that message to everyone I see rabbiting from light to light in town. If everyone did this I'd have to use my brakes less as 90% of my braking is for the asshats who just ran up to the light ahead of me in order to wear out their brakes stopping quickly for the red and who haven't accelerated back up to speed by the time I've coasted up behind them, therefore making me hit my brakes despite other wise not needing to; forcing me to then waste gas (on top of my wasted brake pads) to once again get back up to speed. Rinse and repeat at the next light.
Bingo. Hulu has hit that sweet spot for me in the balance between advertising and content. I get my content for the price of my internet connection and a few 15 second ads, completely legally. The ads are worth that last bit. I don't want to sit through a ton of commercials, but I also don't want to record for an hour and come back later. On network TV I find that I flip the channel at the first commercial break and never go back to the show I was watching. Hulu keeps there for the whole thing, and their advertisers actually get what they paid for: my eyes on their commercial 'cause I know it'll be over in 3, 2, 1...
As Screw Master pointed out, the free market is one where I pay money and get a good or service in return. I've paid, and I've paid, and I've paid, and now I want my service as promised. If that service changes, I don't want it done in secret; I want to know what my band width caps are and I want that full bandwidth available at all times and for as long as I want it as I've paid for it. I want to know how much data I'm allowed to download, how much extra is going to cost, and I want to be able to pay for that extra data usage (not just get cut off). And I'm angry as I've signed a contract to pay a certain amount, and in return I expect the unlimited data at 5Mb/s which my provider still promises. It would be nice if they invested in improving the product as well. However, I currently get max download speeds at approx. 800Kb/s, and that's even choked off at most hours by network congestion. And guess what? There are NO other broadband providers in my market for me to move to, and no legal recourse to go after the monopoly which continues to break their end of a service contract.
That may be the market, but it isn't the free market.
~Wow, I like soooo totally believe in the market too. Like, and leprechauns. Yeah, leprechauns, with that shiny pot of gold... or would that be fiber/wireless WAN/teleportation. ~
Christ on a pogo-stick buddy, believe all you want, the companys are still going to bend you over just like the rest of us. I had 5Mb/s service in 1999, and today I have, let me check my bill here, oh, wait, 5Mb/s. Max available where I live. Only way the market is going to solve anything is that the telcos are going to jack the prices up to serve data, which will drive the prices of big-bandwidth services like movies through the roof, therefore driving demand (and hence total bandwidth usage) down. The market will stabilize once only the rich can afford the "luxury" of using the 'net like we all do today. Either that or some as-yet-unheard-of competitor will come onto the scene and drive Comcast out of business with their shiny "new tech". Or something. Like I said...~leprechauns.
You really believe that you're being deprived of your liberty? Then vote. Get people to vote with you. Or do you only believe in the kind of liberty that is given to you, not taken; just a whiner who want's "liberty" without working to preserve it?
Hats off to Musk. He's worked for his (and indirectly humanities) great benefit, and is showing wonderful success.
Fundamental research gets done at those institutions... research which would not get done otherwise. Two points: First, the "profitable" research of which you speak is a vanishingly small part of the research that gets done. Ever see that report on how tumbled strings get tied in knots? No idea how to make a profit from that fundamental research, but someone may be able to build on it some day since someone was able to do the research and get it published. Second, the profitable, patentable research which is done is often of great value to society. By spinning off a researcher with a patent that can do something like give a 10x increase in solar panel efficiency then the researcher who can now profit has the incentive to actually get an invention like that developed. If tech like that gets used, then society profits inestimably.
I, too, despise patent trolls, but the baby is still good here. What ever happened to the debate about forcing patents (and maybe copyrights) licensable at government regulated fees? It's the huge hurtles to other people actually using patented tech in their products that makes patents so bad, IMO.
I believe you and you seem knowledgeable, so maybe you can answer this question (or not, heck, it's not like I'm paying you). Why is it that on Sunday mornings, and ONLY Sunday mornings, I get "bleed over" from religious broadcasts onto the two low-on-the-FM-dial stations I listen to? Is it a fluke? God? Are they maybe breaking the law and turning up their signals?
Yeah, the bridge tolls and everything else add up too. But it's still a lot of money. Smartass;) I'd mod you funny or insightful if I hadn't already (obviously) posted.
10.5% off the top of every purchase is enough to run the municipality of NYC (HINT: That's the approximate sales tax in NY. I know, I know, it's not just on music). If that's child's play, then the RIAA is gouging people.
Interesting. On your off topic point, I can't speak for everyone here, but when I say IP I mean patentable or copyrightable material, both of which are a subset of "data".
On your other point about private storage, well, that's exactly the discussion that needs to take place, IMO. You're very correct that it's a thorny issue in which all of the "trust" issues come into play. Perfect discussion for a University! And a great purpose for a becoming-obsolete-data-center-at-a-Uni to put itself to.
Offer what Google doesn't; a protected data repository for the students IP. Make a local hosting source for all of the CS (and other) departments online projects, and educate them about why where you keep stuff on the 'net is as important as any other aspect. I know that all my g-mail is searchable, readable, and essentially the property of Google (if you can believe their TOS). Teach the students about Corporate and Private IP, how to protect it when it needs protecting, when and when not to hand over your rights...start discussions about why your data center is or is not needed.
It's probably even driven a few to suicide. "He drove", "He has driven". Learn to use the language before you try to sell yourself to a company, especially in a language driven field, 'kay? BTW, it's called a 'past participle'.
When I read those stories I actually came to the conclusion that he must have been making fun of himself and other writers of the time. Nobody could suck that hard by accident. Taken in that light, they were wonderfully funny tales, if a tad tedious.
BTW, very amusing expression. I'd mod you funny, but would rather post;)
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~Yeah, I take several trips a year on that "steaming pile of shit" called the interstate highway system. Boy, is that thing a piece of crap, being able to get me across 6 states in 8 hours of driving, and enabling commerce to move goods across the country in a matter of days. And when that guy at work broke his back and the company dropped him like a hot potato? God, It just pisses me off that the government stepped in and gave him disability...I mean, the guy could still _blink_ for cripes sake! He could do work that way, we should have just let him starve if he didn't want to show up anymore! And don't get me started on that damn rural electrification project. Those friggin' farmers don't need lights! And if you even mention the Coast Guard...~
...but Black Water soldier's salaries don't. And not nearly as many bullets are fired during peace, not to mention missiles fires, jet fuel used, food shipped half way around the worlds, aircraft carriers and support ships fueled and equipped, equipment ground to dust in sand that needs to be replaced... I did just look it up, and the cost of continuing health care for veterans is going to run us about 1/3 the total cost of the war.
Oh my, I haven't laughed that hard in weeks, if not months. Ok then, since you're entirely self sufficient, get off our internet, get off our roads, turn off your electricity, give back the gasoline in your vehicle, and for heaven's sake quit your job 'cause all of those things were in part or in total funded by the government either directly or through subsidy. And I'm sure you manufactured the well parts you used for you $5000 well by hand after cutting down the trees on your property to smelt the ore to make the copper to make the pipes for the well, etc. BTW, where do you live? I'd like to buy the land upstream from you and start that bottling plant, I'm sure that your personal police and court system will stop me when your well runs dry.
That's why I said "according to the RIAA". However, if they choose to sue people based on this claim, then it has roughly the equivalent force of law due to the expense of fighting said claim. Nice post though.
No. You purchased the physical media (per the RIAA), and bought a non-transferable license to listen to the music on that media. Hence, selling the disk, which enables someone else to listen to the music, is copyright infringement according to the RIAA. That's why I believe that the system is broken; because it just doesn't make sense to a normal person that it could work that way.
But what about the Minority Report?
Telcos and businesses begin to care only when people begin to opt-out of a system. I don't have a landline. Haven't for over 6 years now. Now no one, legitimate or not, can reach me to make a phone sale. If I was a telco, I'd care about that if enough people chose to opt-out in that way. If I was a legitimate business I'd care a lot if I wasn't able to contact people I was already doing business with to increase sales (businesses can contact current customer's land-lines to up-sell even if the line is on a do-not-call list, they can't call cell phones for any selling). If the system doesn't work, don't use it anymore.
Miranda instructs you on how to preserve your right against self incrimination (shut up). It then warns you that if you decide to incriminate yourself (not shut up), or not seek further counsel on how not to self incriminate, then that's your problem. The constitution guarantees that you can't be forced to self incriminate. It leaves you the right to choose whether or not to do want to self incriminate. There's no prohibition in the constitution against self incrimination, only against the government forcing self incrimination. There's nothing about waiving your rights, temporarily or permanently, in Miranda, just that the gov't can't force you to talk (unless, of course, you're in GITMO and like to breath when you're hung upside down on a board).
Telling someone that they can still talk, and might incriminate themselves by doing so is as unrelated to the waiving of rights as choosing not to own a gun means that I waive my right to own one. I still have the right to own a gun, I do not (and will not) waive that right, but I chose not to exercise it.
I don't know what you're smoking, but it's not very interesting, and it hasn't helped your reading comprehension (of Miranda) either.
Even if we're talking about Fox News, they love Obama because coverage of him gets their viewers riled up which increases the frequency with which said viewer tune into *drumroll* Fox News. Fox News may be a conservative bastion, but there is one thing that always trumps politics with republican/conservatives, one thing that would make them sell their souls or those of their great great grandchildren; that one thing, my friend, is money, and coverage of Obama brings it to Fox News. An Obama Presidency would be viewed by them as a windfall.
Preach it brother. I'd love to get that message to everyone I see rabbiting from light to light in town. If everyone did this I'd have to use my brakes less as 90% of my braking is for the asshats who just ran up to the light ahead of me in order to wear out their brakes stopping quickly for the red and who haven't accelerated back up to speed by the time I've coasted up behind them, therefore making me hit my brakes despite other wise not needing to; forcing me to then waste gas (on top of my wasted brake pads) to once again get back up to speed. Rinse and repeat at the next light.
Bingo. Hulu has hit that sweet spot for me in the balance between advertising and content. I get my content for the price of my internet connection and a few 15 second ads, completely legally. The ads are worth that last bit. I don't want to sit through a ton of commercials, but I also don't want to record for an hour and come back later. On network TV I find that I flip the channel at the first commercial break and never go back to the show I was watching. Hulu keeps there for the whole thing, and their advertisers actually get what they paid for: my eyes on their commercial 'cause I know it'll be over in 3, 2, 1...
...or they lack the imagination or foresight to think more than 3 minutes into the future and can't predict that he will have an ultimate demise.
As Screw Master pointed out, the free market is one where I pay money and get a good or service in return. I've paid, and I've paid, and I've paid, and now I want my service as promised. If that service changes, I don't want it done in secret; I want to know what my band width caps are and I want that full bandwidth available at all times and for as long as I want it as I've paid for it. I want to know how much data I'm allowed to download, how much extra is going to cost, and I want to be able to pay for that extra data usage (not just get cut off). And I'm angry as I've signed a contract to pay a certain amount, and in return I expect the unlimited data at 5Mb/s which my provider still promises. It would be nice if they invested in improving the product as well. However, I currently get max download speeds at approx. 800Kb/s, and that's even choked off at most hours by network congestion. And guess what? There are NO other broadband providers in my market for me to move to, and no legal recourse to go after the monopoly which continues to break their end of a service contract.
That may be the market, but it isn't the free market.
~Wow, I like soooo totally believe in the market too. Like, and leprechauns. Yeah, leprechauns, with that shiny pot of gold... or would that be fiber/wireless WAN/teleportation. ~
Christ on a pogo-stick buddy, believe all you want, the companys are still going to bend you over just like the rest of us. I had 5Mb/s service in 1999, and today I have, let me check my bill here, oh, wait, 5Mb/s. Max available where I live. Only way the market is going to solve anything is that the telcos are going to jack the prices up to serve data, which will drive the prices of big-bandwidth services like movies through the roof, therefore driving demand (and hence total bandwidth usage) down. The market will stabilize once only the rich can afford the "luxury" of using the 'net like we all do today. Either that or some as-yet-unheard-of competitor will come onto the scene and drive Comcast out of business with their shiny "new tech". Or something. Like I said...~leprechauns.
You really believe that you're being deprived of your liberty? Then vote. Get people to vote with you. Or do you only believe in the kind of liberty that is given to you, not taken; just a whiner who want's "liberty" without working to preserve it?
Hats off to Musk. He's worked for his (and indirectly humanities) great benefit, and is showing wonderful success.
Fundamental research gets done at those institutions... research which would not get done otherwise. Two points: First, the "profitable" research of which you speak is a vanishingly small part of the research that gets done. Ever see that report on how tumbled strings get tied in knots? No idea how to make a profit from that fundamental research, but someone may be able to build on it some day since someone was able to do the research and get it published. Second, the profitable, patentable research which is done is often of great value to society. By spinning off a researcher with a patent that can do something like give a 10x increase in solar panel efficiency then the researcher who can now profit has the incentive to actually get an invention like that developed. If tech like that gets used, then society profits inestimably.
I, too, despise patent trolls, but the baby is still good here. What ever happened to the debate about forcing patents (and maybe copyrights) licensable at government regulated fees? It's the huge hurtles to other people actually using patented tech in their products that makes patents so bad, IMO.
I believe you and you seem knowledgeable, so maybe you can answer this question (or not, heck, it's not like I'm paying you). Why is it that on Sunday mornings, and ONLY Sunday mornings, I get "bleed over" from religious broadcasts onto the two low-on-the-FM-dial stations I listen to? Is it a fluke? God? Are they maybe breaking the law and turning up their signals?
Yeah, the bridge tolls and everything else add up too. But it's still a lot of money. Smartass ;) I'd mod you funny or insightful if I hadn't already (obviously) posted.
10.5% off the top of every purchase is enough to run the municipality of NYC (HINT: That's the approximate sales tax in NY. I know, I know, it's not just on music). If that's child's play, then the RIAA is gouging people.
Interesting. On your off topic point, I can't speak for everyone here, but when I say IP I mean patentable or copyrightable material, both of which are a subset of "data".
On your other point about private storage, well, that's exactly the discussion that needs to take place, IMO. You're very correct that it's a thorny issue in which all of the "trust" issues come into play. Perfect discussion for a University! And a great purpose for a becoming-obsolete-data-center-at-a-Uni to put itself to.
Offer what Google doesn't; a protected data repository for the students IP. Make a local hosting source for all of the CS (and other) departments online projects, and educate them about why where you keep stuff on the 'net is as important as any other aspect. I know that all my g-mail is searchable, readable, and essentially the property of Google (if you can believe their TOS). Teach the students about Corporate and Private IP, how to protect it when it needs protecting, when and when not to hand over your rights...start discussions about why your data center is or is not needed.
It's probably even driven a few to suicide. "He drove", "He has driven". Learn to use the language before you try to sell yourself to a company, especially in a language driven field, 'kay? BTW, it's called a 'past participle'.
Insightful? All this proves is that the sensors have a minimum weight limit to trip them. Nothing more, nothing less.
If that was sarcasm, please use a "~" or something. 1773 was the start of the American revolution. Boston Tea party and all that? Ring a bell?
When I read those stories I actually came to the conclusion that he must have been making fun of himself and other writers of the time. Nobody could suck that hard by accident. Taken in that light, they were wonderfully funny tales, if a tad tedious.
BTW, very amusing expression. I'd mod you funny, but would rather post ;)