The thing about Bender's Big Score is that it wasn't made to be successful in the normal sense. It was much more an homage to the fans that have waited the series out. The plot is one essentially that would work really well as a half-hour episode, but instead it's intentionally stretched out to allow for a lot of in-jokes and nods to long time fans. They knew exactly what they were doing when they made BBS. I see the new one being a regular old movie with no ulterior motive other than to entertain. Now I know making a movie that is successful and able to stand on its own is hard, but I have faith that David X. Cohen and the rest of the lot can do it.
I'm no lawyer, but here's the wikipedia article on the act in question. Seems to me new ground is being tread here, so I'm not sure how a court would rule. However, such hubris can't make things easier on Comcast. They'd have to be pretty sure to call out the FCC like this. I personally hope Comcast is wrong, but that is another matter.
You talk about fiscal responsibility. Does that include government regulation that promotes sustainable growth over growth for growth's sake? If so, what would such regulation be? Finally, I think we can all agree that Americans live beyond their means. What role should the government in dealing with the current credit crises? What action should be taken at the microeconomic level? Are you in favor of the Bear Sterns bailout, etc?
You seem to be pretty frank about your policy on the war. How much effect do think you could have on the Democratic platform regarding Iraq? The party has equivocated (eg pulling funding) on whether or not it will go full force at ending the current deployment of troops and on just how it would plan to work with regional players. How do you think you can work to providing a consistent and working policy for Iraq? Your site says that you are amazed at the war can still be sold. What are you going to change about that?
Notice I said "my libertarian friend" not that I'm a libertarian. Regulation is a good thing. Managing frequencies and licensing and such things is different than monitoring indecency. I agree with you, though.
Well sensible parents would take care of their children and regulate what they watch. They would also discuss with their children the things they saw on tv and try to make the children understand the distinctions between the real world and fantasy. They would not rely on the, as my libertarian friend so lovingly calls it, the nanny-state to tell them what is ok for other people put on the air in front of children.
So in a situation that doesn't even have to be perfect, the whole premise of indecency is moot.
Lot's of people complain about neocons, or corporations, or illegal immigrants, or terrorists, or deviants ruining our country. They are so far off. Unfit and downright harmful parents are far worse.
There wasn't anything mentioned about the software beyond what the summary said, so we are left to speculate. Unless someone who works on the software is around here, you're not gonna find an answer other than maybe the stock "NASA sucks these days" that has become so prevalent since the shuttle's problems.
I'm just hoping everything goes right the next time around. It's going to be much closer and we "should" get the data we've been searching for.
As I've pointed out in previous post, you won't be truly secure until you can completely incinerate any non-authorized individual who touches the drive. Even passwords fall short. Encryption, biometrics, etc... pfft... you're not safe unless annihilation is ensured.
Well unlike religion and science, espionage are quite tangled. Ostensibly, in the case of national security, one undertakes espionage as part of a larger effort to preserve a morality. Espionage is a security measure against threats to a certain group's morality. Most would agree that there is at least some consideration due when discussing the morality of espionage "Semantic gymnastics" aside, it's pretty hard to disentangle espionage from morality in any useful way.
Can't you see the obvious advantages of having a large cow-whale reserve. The Japanese wanted to produce an army of cow-whales that would have a superhuman... er... supercow ability to produce milk. With an inflated milk reserve, they could crash the US market... a veritable economic Pearl Harbor. THANK GOD THE INTELLIGENCE DIDN'T FAIL THIS TIME!!
How are folks out there determining when you've backed the wrong horse, and getting back on track?"
That line of thinking is dangerous. The thing to do with horses is to just shoot the horse and breed a new one. I STRONGLY ADVISE YOU NOT TO FIRE BUCKSHOT INTO YOUR SERVERS!! For one thing, electronics do not breed well. Of course there are others, but this is a big one.
Any organized crime syndicate worth their weight is going to understand how to encrypt data and use hidden volumes. With the seven day limit, that only allows for a cursory search and not the kind of in depth forensic combing it would take to actually find actionable data. So in the end, the only people actually harmed of it are ordinary citizens who are having their rights abused by heavy handed searches.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that censorship and shady listings have been put into practice on EBay, which is not something I gathered from the article. EBay has flatly denied any wrongdoing and is sticking to the position that the powersellers are just upset over the policy changes. So we don't even know if EBay is acting immorally or unethically. This still could be an Internet conspiracy (I know, who could imagine such a thing?).
All that being said, EBay understands that powersellers bring in the cash for the company. I couldn't see them doing such stupid things as censoring the forums and posting fake listings. That would be suicide. They've been on the Internet for a long time. They know how people act on the Internet. I would be highly surprised if this wasn't just a reaction by the powersellers to the feedback changes.
As long as there was actual dissenting science being taught, I wouldn't care. However, I realize this is probably just an attempt to teach Christianity as science. People are just so insecure and downright anti-intellectual. Science has no purpose related to teleology or ontology for that matter. It used to be outrageous, now it's just depressing and I feel sorry for the people that push this stuff.
... as much as the next guy, but it's been done here many times. Slow news day I guess, but nobody is surprised by this. It's pretty much common sense.
See when you put cars in the article, that immediately takes away the ability to use a car analogy. No car analogies = no lively discussion, or something like that. It's an approximation. Adding Natalie Portman or something involving Ron Paul changes the equation slightly, but car analogies are where it's at.
However, as long as we are on the topic of symbiotic relationships, I've always felt that training domesticated zombies to home in on cancer cells as a delicacy would be pretty effective. Remissions wouldn't be a problem, cause zombies have pretty big appetites.
On a tangent, it upsets me when people talk about how the government shortchanges the field of stem cells, when practically nobody is talking about zombie-centric methods of treatment. I swear, you have all these good ideas and can back them up with sound science, and it is as if no one is listening.
Oh well, maybe one day we can grow up in a world where somebody can truthfully say, "... if it wasn't for the walking dead, I wouldn't be here!"
... and not a single one of them is secure enough for me. I simply want a USB drive that whenever somebody, not authorized by me, touches it, heats their body to like a million kelvins and melt them. A few hundred thousand won't cut it. Until then, Lexar ain't impressing me with their little math based schemes. Unless it causes total vaporization, it's just not secure.
A girl committing suicide because of something she thinks a "cute boy" boy says to her is not a symptom of communication on the internet being harmful, it's the symptom of a girl that needed help. You can ban all the speech you want, but that's not the real problem. People unable to cope with the insensitivity and general rudeness of others is a problem. We should be moving toward a society were free speech is just the natural order because people are able to deal with trolls and jerks.
I don't say all this to demean or mock the girl in question, I personally know little about her. The loss of human life is always tragic, and thus is natural fodder for bleeding heart politicians. The thing they miss though is the simple definition of the problem. The problem is not that people are generally rude and insensitive. It is that people are growing up in a sanitized world where they lack the opportunity to gain real maturity.
This sounds like that time the guy down on the street corner gave me some "candy" for free. Next thing I know, I can stay up for for days straight and I'm paying the guy big bucks for more "candy" that I can't now live without.
People in China are going to satisfy their demand for iphones one way or another. Not to bother with the ethics of the situation, but much like any other type of piracy, this is just a market at work. We truly live in a global economy now. Regional releases and other such nonsense just don't make sense any more. If you release a product with global demand, make sure you can supply it globally or it will be pirated, smuggled, etc. If Apple cares at all about the Chinese market, then they need to ink a deal fast, because someone will supply iphones in their stead if they don't get something done.
I don't know. I'm a bit skeptical. I remember a story about how the RIAA is afraid to take on Harvard and the like, you know entities that could actually litigate and fight back. For a defendant to be able to countersue they would have to understand what legal recourse was available and be able to act on it. So, this doesn't alleviate the practice of railroading, where the RIAA sues someone who a) doesn't know how to fight back, b) doesn't have the economic means to fight back, or c) both.
It seems a no-brainer that someone would be able to sue back for damages from a punishment dealt out unjustly, but I still don't thank that's going to change things.
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The thing about Bender's Big Score is that it wasn't made to be successful in the normal sense. It was much more an homage to the fans that have waited the series out. The plot is one essentially that would work really well as a half-hour episode, but instead it's intentionally stretched out to allow for a lot of in-jokes and nods to long time fans. They knew exactly what they were doing when they made BBS. I see the new one being a regular old movie with no ulterior motive other than to entertain. Now I know making a movie that is successful and able to stand on its own is hard, but I have faith that David X. Cohen and the rest of the lot can do it.
I see the title as being a blatant hole left open for a sequel to fill:
Anti-Matter- the sequel to the smash hit, Matter. Taken together, they are quite an explosive read...
I'm no lawyer, but here's the wikipedia article on the act in question. Seems to me new ground is being tread here, so I'm not sure how a court would rule. However, such hubris can't make things easier on Comcast. They'd have to be pretty sure to call out the FCC like this. I personally hope Comcast is wrong, but that is another matter.
You talk about fiscal responsibility. Does that include government regulation that promotes sustainable growth over growth for growth's sake? If so, what would such regulation be? Finally, I think we can all agree that Americans live beyond their means. What role should the government in dealing with the current credit crises? What action should be taken at the microeconomic level? Are you in favor of the Bear Sterns bailout, etc?
Adding to that, would you be in favor of tougher sunset clauses on appropriations? What about the much maligned practice of earmarking?
You seem to be pretty frank about your policy on the war. How much effect do think you could have on the Democratic platform regarding Iraq? The party has equivocated (eg pulling funding) on whether or not it will go full force at ending the current deployment of troops and on just how it would plan to work with regional players. How do you think you can work to providing a consistent and working policy for Iraq? Your site says that you are amazed at the war can still be sold. What are you going to change about that?
Notice I said "my libertarian friend" not that I'm a libertarian. Regulation is a good thing. Managing frequencies and licensing and such things is different than monitoring indecency. I agree with you, though.
Well sensible parents would take care of their children and regulate what they watch. They would also discuss with their children the things they saw on tv and try to make the children understand the distinctions between the real world and fantasy. They would not rely on the, as my libertarian friend so lovingly calls it, the nanny-state to tell them what is ok for other people put on the air in front of children.
So in a situation that doesn't even have to be perfect, the whole premise of indecency is moot.
Lot's of people complain about neocons, or corporations, or illegal immigrants, or terrorists, or deviants ruining our country. They are so far off. Unfit and downright harmful parents are far worse.
There wasn't anything mentioned about the software beyond what the summary said, so we are left to speculate. Unless someone who works on the software is around here, you're not gonna find an answer other than maybe the stock "NASA sucks these days" that has become so prevalent since the shuttle's problems.
I'm just hoping everything goes right the next time around. It's going to be much closer and we "should" get the data we've been searching for.
As I've pointed out in previous post, you won't be truly secure until you can completely incinerate any non-authorized individual who touches the drive. Even passwords fall short. Encryption, biometrics, etc... pfft... you're not safe unless annihilation is ensured.
Well unlike religion and science, espionage are quite tangled. Ostensibly, in the case of national security, one undertakes espionage as part of a larger effort to preserve a morality. Espionage is a security measure against threats to a certain group's morality. Most would agree that there is at least some consideration due when discussing the morality of espionage "Semantic gymnastics" aside, it's pretty hard to disentangle espionage from morality in any useful way.
Can't you see the obvious advantages of having a large cow-whale reserve. The Japanese wanted to produce an army of cow-whales that would have a superhuman... er... supercow ability to produce milk. With an inflated milk reserve, they could crash the US market... a veritable economic Pearl Harbor. THANK GOD THE INTELLIGENCE DIDN'T FAIL THIS TIME!!
How are folks out there determining when you've backed the wrong horse, and getting back on track?"
That line of thinking is dangerous. The thing to do with horses is to just shoot the horse and breed a new one. I STRONGLY ADVISE YOU NOT TO FIRE BUCKSHOT INTO YOUR SERVERS!! For one thing, electronics do not breed well. Of course there are others, but this is a big one.
Not to mention that it's underground, and therefore it is subject to raiding by the devil, cave trolls, gremlins, etc.
Any organized crime syndicate worth their weight is going to understand how to encrypt data and use hidden volumes. With the seven day limit, that only allows for a cursory search and not the kind of in depth forensic combing it would take to actually find actionable data. So in the end, the only people actually harmed of it are ordinary citizens who are having their rights abused by heavy handed searches.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that censorship and shady listings have been put into practice on EBay, which is not something I gathered from the article. EBay has flatly denied any wrongdoing and is sticking to the position that the powersellers are just upset over the policy changes. So we don't even know if EBay is acting immorally or unethically. This still could be an Internet conspiracy (I know, who could imagine such a thing?).
All that being said, EBay understands that powersellers bring in the cash for the company. I couldn't see them doing such stupid things as censoring the forums and posting fake listings. That would be suicide. They've been on the Internet for a long time. They know how people act on the Internet. I would be highly surprised if this wasn't just a reaction by the powersellers to the feedback changes.
Yeah, we can just take the routine "nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure" actions. Whew!!! Problem solved!!
Wait! What do you mean stars are basically just big long continuous nuclear reactions and nuking it only makes it worse?!
I agree with that guy earlier... we're doomed.
As long as there was actual dissenting science being taught, I wouldn't care. However, I realize this is probably just an attempt to teach Christianity as science. People are just so insecure and downright anti-intellectual. Science has no purpose related to teleology or ontology for that matter. It used to be outrageous, now it's just depressing and I feel sorry for the people that push this stuff.
... as much as the next guy, but it's been done here many times. Slow news day I guess, but nobody is surprised by this. It's pretty much common sense.
See when you put cars in the article, that immediately takes away the ability to use a car analogy. No car analogies = no lively discussion, or something like that. It's an approximation. Adding Natalie Portman or something involving Ron Paul changes the equation slightly, but car analogies are where it's at.
However, as long as we are on the topic of symbiotic relationships, I've always felt that training domesticated zombies to home in on cancer cells as a delicacy would be pretty effective. Remissions wouldn't be a problem, cause zombies have pretty big appetites.
On a tangent, it upsets me when people talk about how the government shortchanges the field of stem cells, when practically nobody is talking about zombie-centric methods of treatment. I swear, you have all these good ideas and can back them up with sound science, and it is as if no one is listening.
Oh well, maybe one day we can grow up in a world where somebody can truthfully say, "... if it wasn't for the walking dead, I wouldn't be here!"
... and not a single one of them is secure enough for me. I simply want a USB drive that whenever somebody, not authorized by me, touches it, heats their body to like a million kelvins and melt them. A few hundred thousand won't cut it. Until then, Lexar ain't impressing me with their little math based schemes. Unless it causes total vaporization, it's just not secure.
A girl committing suicide because of something she thinks a "cute boy" boy says to her is not a symptom of communication on the internet being harmful, it's the symptom of a girl that needed help. You can ban all the speech you want, but that's not the real problem. People unable to cope with the insensitivity and general rudeness of others is a problem. We should be moving toward a society were free speech is just the natural order because people are able to deal with trolls and jerks.
I don't say all this to demean or mock the girl in question, I personally know little about her. The loss of human life is always tragic, and thus is natural fodder for bleeding heart politicians. The thing they miss though is the simple definition of the problem. The problem is not that people are generally rude and insensitive. It is that people are growing up in a sanitized world where they lack the opportunity to gain real maturity.
This sounds like that time the guy down on the street corner gave me some "candy" for free. Next thing I know, I can stay up for for days straight and I'm paying the guy big bucks for more "candy" that I can't now live without.
People in China are going to satisfy their demand for iphones one way or another. Not to bother with the ethics of the situation, but much like any other type of piracy, this is just a market at work. We truly live in a global economy now. Regional releases and other such nonsense just don't make sense any more. If you release a product with global demand, make sure you can supply it globally or it will be pirated, smuggled, etc. If Apple cares at all about the Chinese market, then they need to ink a deal fast, because someone will supply iphones in their stead if they don't get something done.
I don't know. I'm a bit skeptical. I remember a story about how the RIAA is afraid to take on Harvard and the like, you know entities that could actually litigate and fight back. For a defendant to be able to countersue they would have to understand what legal recourse was available and be able to act on it. So, this doesn't alleviate the practice of railroading, where the RIAA sues someone who a) doesn't know how to fight back, b) doesn't have the economic means to fight back, or c) both.
It seems a no-brainer that someone would be able to sue back for damages from a punishment dealt out unjustly, but I still don't thank that's going to change things.