Or working in a dangerous occupation. I'm a cage fighter, have private insurance, and am opposed to socialized medical care on principle, even though it would clearly benefit me individually.
They should open a Mercy Center in almost every highly populated area that has a large amount of minorities. This would be a much more humane and logical way of dealing with the problem than other posters have come up with.
I concur. China is a beacon of shining light in this otherwise Godless, hopeless, and immoral world we all live in. Their advances in such areas as the arts, sciences, and humanities are light years ahead of anything the uneducated unwashed teeming masses of red-staters could ever come up with./sarcasm
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation only donates a small fraction of its holdings
I honestly don't know enough about it to debate you on the other points you bought up but this one seems questionable. The whole point of an endowment is to finance your activities off the earnings of that money so it's sustainable over the long run. You don't spend the money itself.
Not only do the run their fondation as an endowment, but they actually spend the ENTIRETY of the money that Warren Buffet contributes each year by the same time next year.
Actually, the Stormtrooper armor could be construed as a work for hire. In works for hire, a written memorandum of transfer is not required, but the controlling document in determining ownership will likely be the employment contract. If a work is never defined as for hire, even a commissioned work, the rights remain with the original author.
That having been said, copyright clearly was not central to this case. The question I think was most likely argued over is whether LucasArts actually owns the trademark to the distinctive and unique Stormtrooper armor. From reading the article (heresy, I know) it seems likely there was never a formal assignment of rights, and the key question would have been whether or not LucasArts' unauthorized use of the distinctive Stormtrooper armor is sufficient to establish a valid trademark. California already ruled in LucasArts' favor, and now it's up to the high court in London to enforce California's ruling, or elect not to.
"We know that people are going to use the printer to try to make weapons [and] sex toys and drug paraphernalia," Anyone who's seen Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels knows that weapons and sex toys are not necessarily different things.
For clarity's sake, the Second Amendment:
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The only right enumerated in the Second Amendment is the right of the People to to keep and bear arms. The introductory clause can be viewed as restrictive, in that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is only guaranteed in the service of a well regulated militia. It can also be viewed as explanatory, in that is says why they are reserving a universal right.
Interesting, though often overlooked, is the idea that our government was founded and specifically designed to be limited in scope and power. Thus, we have the 9th and 10th amendments. The language in the constitution never grants any rights to the people, just prevents the government from taking those rights that already belong to all people. Some people would call these rights God-given, others call it natural law (e.g. Hobbes), but whichever way you view it, this country was founded not on positive law, but on the idea that liberty is an inalienable right of all people.
The question of whether the 2nd Amendment guarantees a personal right to keep and bear arms, and what level of regulation is permissible under the constitution, and for what purposes any personal right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed is currently under review by the Supreme Court, in District of Columbia V. Heller. It looks like we may get an answer soon to question of if we get to own phasers after all.
Now, I can understand being irritated at forged packets coming back as a result, but at the same time, isn't it reasonable to expect Comcast to do something to shut down connections coming from this host? Frankly, I'm a little surprised that Comcast didn't shut off the connection altogether.
Am I missing something?
Don't forget that there are legitimate applications and uses for an Internet connection that can generate a ton of outbound connections. Bittorrent is the most common.
When running Bittorrent, my pre-existing WoW connection stays up and running, but I am not able to reach Google, Slashdot, etc... What the article is saying, in a nutshell, is that Comcast stops people from using the Internet at all if they are using Bittorrent.
This is a problem because their protocol neutral throttling is not really protocol neutral, but biased against any protocol that opens a high number of concurrent connections, even if it a low bandwidth, highly latency tolerant protocol.
No wikipedia entry for ORDB, so they never existed.
You realize that by commenting on the fact that there is no Wikipedia entry for ORDB, on Slashdot of all places, you have likely put into motion a chain of events that will cause the creation of just such an entry. It's like the reverse meta-Streisand effect. Wouldn't it have just been easier to use C-x M-c M-Butterfly?
Mariculturists have turned areas of the sea into beds of protein-rich seaweed and algae. This raw material is processed into food that looks and tastes like steak and other meats. It also is cheap; families can have steak-like meals twice a day without feeling a budget pinch.
Don't believe the lies. It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
You seem to forget that in a free and competitive market, all rational actors are free to pursue their own self interest. That means anyone can pursue their rights and is free to seek a competitive advantage. This is, thankfully, still a two way street. If It were a one way street, SCO would still be in business. Competition works for all those who provide value.
The end consequence of insurance companies having access to DNA will be more efficient insurance. Those who are indisputably at a higher risk will be easier to identify. They will share a higher burden of the load they place on the insurer, in accordance with the true risk insuring them represents.
This has been happening through other means for a long time already. Ever been asked if you are a smoker or non-smoker? Ever been asked if you have a family history of heart disease or diabetes? These are crude and easily manipulated attempts to get high risk people to self-identify. The use of DNA to identify risk factors is just another means of achieving the same goal.
Someone very likely to develop sickle cell anemia or diabetes paying more for insurance is fair, and make the system as a whole function more efficiently.
You can't apply Math to Sexual Attraction.
Obligatory: http://www.xkcd.com/55/
What hasn't been thought out is the solution question: Will this complex system result in a resolution to loneliness/compatibility faster? Nutshell: More hookups?
I doubt it.
If you'd bothered to even finish reading the summary (let alone the article), you would have noticed the key word: SHARED. Nobody's talking about hosting this all on one physical computer any more than Gmail is hosted on one physical computer. Both setups are distributed clusters of smaller computers.
At which point you start to see were IBM's idea actually make sense--they are talking about building a worldwide, distributed, networked collection of cooperating computers... HEY, that sounds an awful lot like the Internet!!
(I swear, the comment quality on Slashdot gets more and more like YouTube every day.)
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Or working in a dangerous occupation. I'm a cage fighter, have private insurance, and am opposed to socialized medical care on principle, even though it would clearly benefit me individually.
In Korea, only old people use the Power architecture.
Climate change in the house that Jack built, after giving a mouse a cookie.
They should open a Mercy Center in almost every highly populated area that has a large amount of minorities. This would be a much more humane and logical way of dealing with the problem than other posters have come up with.
I concur. China is a beacon of shining light in this otherwise Godless, hopeless, and immoral world we all live in. Their advances in such areas as the arts, sciences, and humanities are light years ahead of anything the uneducated unwashed teeming masses of red-staters could ever come up with. /sarcasm
I honestly don't know enough about it to debate you on the other points you bought up but this one seems questionable. The whole point of an endowment is to finance your activities off the earnings of that money so it's sustainable over the long run. You don't spend the money itself.
Not only do the run their fondation as an endowment, but they actually spend the ENTIRETY of the money that Warren Buffet contributes each year by the same time next year.Actually, the Stormtrooper armor could be construed as a work for hire. In works for hire, a written memorandum of transfer is not required, but the controlling document in determining ownership will likely be the employment contract. If a work is never defined as for hire, even a commissioned work, the rights remain with the original author.
That having been said, copyright clearly was not central to this case. The question I think was most likely argued over is whether LucasArts actually owns the trademark to the distinctive and unique Stormtrooper armor. From reading the article (heresy, I know) it seems likely there was never a formal assignment of rights, and the key question would have been whether or not LucasArts' unauthorized use of the distinctive Stormtrooper armor is sufficient to establish a valid trademark. California already ruled in LucasArts' favor, and now it's up to the high court in London to enforce California's ruling, or elect not to.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The only right enumerated in the Second Amendment is the right of the People to to keep and bear arms. The introductory clause can be viewed as restrictive, in that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is only guaranteed in the service of a well regulated militia. It can also be viewed as explanatory, in that is says why they are reserving a universal right.
Interesting, though often overlooked, is the idea that our government was founded and specifically designed to be limited in scope and power. Thus, we have the 9th and 10th amendments. The language in the constitution never grants any rights to the people, just prevents the government from taking those rights that already belong to all people. Some people would call these rights God-given, others call it natural law (e.g. Hobbes), but whichever way you view it, this country was founded not on positive law, but on the idea that liberty is an inalienable right of all people.
The question of whether the 2nd Amendment guarantees a personal right to keep and bear arms, and what level of regulation is permissible under the constitution, and for what purposes any personal right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed is currently under review by the Supreme Court, in District of Columbia V. Heller. It looks like we may get an answer soon to question of if we get to own phasers after all.
Now, I can understand being irritated at forged packets coming back as a result, but at the same time, isn't it reasonable to expect Comcast to do something to shut down connections coming from this host? Frankly, I'm a little surprised that Comcast didn't shut off the connection altogether.
Am I missing something?
Don't forget that there are legitimate applications and uses for an Internet connection that can generate a ton of outbound connections. Bittorrent is the most common.When running Bittorrent, my pre-existing WoW connection stays up and running, but I am not able to reach Google, Slashdot, etc... What the article is saying, in a nutshell, is that Comcast stops people from using the Internet at all if they are using Bittorrent.
This is a problem because their protocol neutral throttling is not really protocol neutral, but biased against any protocol that opens a high number of concurrent connections, even if it a low bandwidth, highly latency tolerant protocol.
You posted this on Slashdot? Which is a drumroll please.....
Your post is modded insightful, not funny. I hope I'm not having a whoosh moment here.
Daniel K resides in Brazil.
You realize that by commenting on the fact that there is no Wikipedia entry for ORDB, on Slashdot of all places, you have likely put into motion a chain of events that will cause the creation of just such an entry. It's like the reverse meta-Streisand effect. Wouldn't it have just been easier to use C-x M-c M-Butterfly?
Don't believe the lies. It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
What ARE electrolytes?
You seem to forget that in a free and competitive market, all rational actors are free to pursue their own self interest. That means anyone can pursue their rights and is free to seek a competitive advantage. This is, thankfully, still a two way street. If It were a one way street, SCO would still be in business. Competition works for all those who provide value.
TAANSTFL from TANSTAAFL? I hereby declare a new acronym dubbing day. Please note that IANAL.
The end consequence of insurance companies having access to DNA will be more efficient insurance. Those who are indisputably at a higher risk will be easier to identify. They will share a higher burden of the load they place on the insurer, in accordance with the true risk insuring them represents.
This has been happening through other means for a long time already. Ever been asked if you are a smoker or non-smoker? Ever been asked if you have a family history of heart disease or diabetes? These are crude and easily manipulated attempts to get high risk people to self-identify. The use of DNA to identify risk factors is just another means of achieving the same goal.
Someone very likely to develop sickle cell anemia or diabetes paying more for insurance is fair, and make the system as a whole function more efficiently.
Who's an Abbot and Costello fan?
DRAINAGE!!!
Nobody makes jokes in base 13.
http://xkcd.com/314/
The good news is that somewhere at the edge of the bell curve is the girl for me.
Americans r Fuken sheep.
Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!!!
I hear the nuclear reactor has a power level that is OVER 9000!