From http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/clinton/clin826.htm
How impeachment works:
The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the power of impeachment - the constitutional equivalent of an indictment - and gives the Senate the power to try all impeachments. The first step in removing the president is the approval of articles of impeachment by the House Judiciary Committee. A majority vote of the full House is then needed to impeach and send the case to trial in the Senate. The chief justice of the United States presides at the trial, and a two-thirds majority of those senators present is needed to convict. Conviction results in automatic removal from office.
Most of the house and two thirds of the senate are needed, and they have to decise that he has committed a crime. If so, the person being impeached will be removed from office and the next in command takes the post. *shudders at a Cheney presidency*
If nothing else, it will revolutionize the packaging industry. Strong cardboard boxes are a holy grail of packaging.
Other uses? Paper airplanes, coat it with plastic and make a really cheap fishing boat, tape that won't break, temporary floor, single-use knife, non-toxic circuit board for cheap toys... This is a breakthrough in the highest meaning of the word.
Yes, pedophiles should have it drummed into them that their basic sexual nature renders them unspeakable freaks. That will enable them to act more socially acceptable.~
I know you didn't really mean that, but the misconception will rise and must be addressed.
First, No surveilence should exist that changes people's behavior. That is a definition of tyrany. Second, if a drug dealer did modify his communications, it was in the direction of using a more secure way to send information.
Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages.
Not yet, but Google does it with text.
Machines designed to transcribe speech into computer text allow deaf people to understand spoken words.
Yup, we have it.
Exoskeletal, robotic leg prostheses allow the paraplegic to walk.
Yup, we have it.
Telephone calls are routinely screened by intelligent answering machines that ask questions to determine the call's nature and priority.
Almost there. Did you know that 50% of directore assistance is now automated?
"Cybernetic chauffeurs" can drive cars for humans and can be retrofitted into existing cars. They work by communicating with other vehicles and with sensors embedded along the roads.
Not yet, except for a few expiremental streches of road, but thats because of arguments about subsidies, politics, and standards. The technology exists in several forms.
I don't speak of any part of it involving commerce. Please see my journal for more information. I get this all the time, and if you can come up with a more clear, still concise way of saying it, I'll change my sig.
Why is this different from other competitions, like which company can have better software? Am I missing something? With any FOSS the company to sponsor it gets to use it first because they made the specs and were expecting it, but if other users are forbidden it is no longer FOSS. I could, for instance, pay someone to write a new DB search class, add it ot the archives of other such classes, and there I made some FOSS. Even if I have a jump on anyone else stumbling on it.
Terrorists make me sick. The sooner a law is instated that allows us to slaughter the lot of them, the better. Computer generated murders are still murders. Pretending to kill people is still killing people. Its the idea of it, not the act.
We need to kill every actor who has pretended to kill someone immediately! and ban every movie with a murder in it. The bible is right out! none of that simulated murder is fit to print. And that talk of abuse in our laws!
"Massachusetts General Law chapter 265 1: The unlawful k***ing of a human being accomplished in one or more of the following modes: (1) with deliberately premed****** malice aforethought; or (2) with extreme at****ty or cru***y; or (3) in the commission or attempted commission of a felony punishable by d**th or imprisonment for life."
We need to get rid of those laws immediately! No telling what kind of sick bastard might read them!
What good are the scientists to America that is more than the good that would go to the rest of the world? Or are you proposing that US taxpayers should pay for the good of all mankind and expect nothing in return? Surely you realize that research can be as effectively exploited by Hungarians as by Americans... Realize that what you are proposing is a worldwide public works project, and that American politicians work for Americans.
I made no such assertation. I said that these laws are being passed by people who think they will have that effect. And what economic good are all those scientists if all the knowledge they create effectively goes into the public domain?
The baby boomers couldn't wait for their parent's generation to move on and allow them to legalize pot. Logical thinking about copyright won't happen either.
America is moving towards an information economy. Those in power are aware of the transformation and are trying to protect future American interests.
When the manufacturing is all being done in the cheapest places (globalization) America will only have her service economy, IP (If America owns Hollywood, she can buy and sell the world's spare time), and such control over business dealings in foreign lands as her businesses can muster and enforce.
Can you get rich by doing your neighbor's laundry if he is doing your in return? The GDP generated by Americans doing services for Americans is only wealth in terms of employment.
If IP is not protected, the only remaining wealth in America will be foreign businesses. Foreign businesses can be nationalized as soon as America's military isn't a major threat.* So suppose these events happened:
1: Rampant piracy makes ownership of IP moot 2: Japanese, Saudi, or Chinese businesses dump their bonds.
That's it! Those two things would bring America crashing to her knees, and destroy the cultural, economic, and military might of the greatest nation on earth. There really is a 3: profit for many powerful people. This is what America's leaders are doing about the situation:
Hiding the extent of the danger Misguidedly passing draconian IP protection laws Maintaining a large, secret technological lead (black tech: its real. No, I don't believe in UFOs)
That's what they're doing. I pass no judgment here, I'm just saying, that is the cause of these actions.
*Did you know that 50% of American businesses overseas (overseas divisions)are owned by the Chinese and theoretically controlled by the Chinese government? Did you know that the Saudis can take controll of foreign firms with the flick of a pen?
Possession and enforcement, just as you say, but only for entities that only care about their off-planet claims. A big Terran company would have too much at stake at home to just ignore the system. Only those with nothing on earth to lose would do it that way...
Well, the first thing you need is physical security. I would reccommend Blackwater for their premium quality goons. You'll need at least two platoons and a morter squad. Then you'll want to hand-deliver a one time pad to their secure vault, with a completely off-network computer to do the decryption. You can solder off all the connections except a secure thumb drive for the OS and the DVD containing the OTP. You'll have to keep your own copy of the OTP in your own vault. And I highly recommend Windows ME on a Dell for the encryption routine.
Your solution is ineffective because it would remove the most provable aspect of such commerce: the pictures or films. Money can be transferred and laundered many ways.
So someone could, for instance, sell books on e-bay with user names and password written in the margin. This would be somewhat tracable, but many times the headache to a prosecuter who has to prove that money changed hands as opposed to the prosecuter who has to prove that illegal pictures were found.
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From http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/clinton/clin826.htm How impeachment works: The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the power of impeachment - the constitutional equivalent of an indictment - and gives the Senate the power to try all impeachments. The first step in removing the president is the approval of articles of impeachment by the House Judiciary Committee. A majority vote of the full House is then needed to impeach and send the case to trial in the Senate. The chief justice of the United States presides at the trial, and a two-thirds majority of those senators present is needed to convict. Conviction results in automatic removal from office. Most of the house and two thirds of the senate are needed, and they have to decise that he has committed a crime. If so, the person being impeached will be removed from office and the next in command takes the post. *shudders at a Cheney presidency*
You're missing the fact the recycling uses numerous harsh and dangerous chemicals, while putting it in a landfill sequesters carbon!
If nothing else, it will revolutionize the packaging industry. Strong cardboard boxes are a holy grail of packaging.
Other uses? Paper airplanes, coat it with plastic and make a really cheap fishing boat, tape that won't break, temporary floor, single-use knife, non-toxic circuit board for cheap toys... This is a breakthrough in the highest meaning of the word.
Yes, pedophiles should have it drummed into them that their basic sexual nature renders them unspeakable freaks. That will enable them to act more socially acceptable.~
Still scrolling for those pictures?
I know you didn't really mean that, but the misconception will rise and must be addressed.
First, No surveilence should exist that changes people's behavior. That is a definition of tyrany.
Second, if a drug dealer did modify his communications, it was in the direction of using a more secure way to send information.
To what extent have studies like this modified governments' behavior?
Can anyone address the legality of an oath taken too long after the judge started practice?
Your laughter is drowned out by billions of people who previously could not communicate at all but now can, communicating.
Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages.
Not yet, but Google does it with text.
Machines designed to transcribe speech into computer text allow deaf people to understand spoken words.
Yup, we have it.
Exoskeletal, robotic leg prostheses allow the paraplegic to walk.
Yup, we have it.
Telephone calls are routinely screened by intelligent answering machines that ask questions to determine the call's nature and priority.
Almost there. Did you know that 50% of directore assistance is now automated?
"Cybernetic chauffeurs" can drive cars for humans and can be retrofitted into existing cars. They work by communicating with other vehicles and with sensors embedded along the roads.
Not yet, except for a few expiremental streches of road, but thats because of arguments about subsidies, politics, and standards. The technology exists in several forms.
I would say they're damn accurate...
upload. upload. upload. Will you people PLEASE stop saying that word?
If I made a program that could react like you in every way, would you happily shoot yourself knowing that in the program you live on?
I don't understand that. Can you tell me how many hundred hundred hundreds?
I don't speak of any part of it involving commerce. Please see my journal for more information. I get this all the time, and if you can come up with a more clear, still concise way of saying it, I'll change my sig.
Why is this different from other competitions, like which company can have better software? Am I missing something?
With any FOSS the company to sponsor it gets to use it first because they made the specs and were expecting it, but if other users are forbidden it is no longer FOSS. I could, for instance, pay someone to write a new DB search class, add it ot the archives of other such classes, and there I made some FOSS. Even if I have a jump on anyone else stumbling on it.
I am not posting as anonymous, and I agree with everything you just said and stand behind it.
Terrorists make me sick. The sooner a law is instated that allows us to slaughter the lot of them, the better. Computer generated murders are still murders. Pretending to kill people is still killing people. Its the idea of it, not the act.
We need to kill every actor who has pretended to kill someone immediately! and ban every movie with a murder in it. The bible is right out! none of that simulated murder is fit to print. And that talk of abuse in our laws!
"Massachusetts General Law chapter 265 1:
The unlawful k***ing of a human being accomplished in one or more of the following modes:
(1) with deliberately premed****** malice aforethought; or
(2) with extreme at****ty or cru***y; or
(3) in the commission or attempted commission of a felony punishable by d**th or imprisonment for life."
We need to get rid of those laws immediately! No telling what kind of sick bastard might read them!
I, for one believe in this, and welcome my new artifically intelligent overlord.
MOM??
-America
Allow me to rephrase:
What good are the scientists to America that is more than the good that would go to the rest of the world? Or are you proposing that US taxpayers should pay for the good of all mankind and expect nothing in return? Surely you realize that research can be as effectively exploited by Hungarians as by Americans... Realize that what you are proposing is a worldwide public works project, and that American politicians work for Americans.
I made no such assertation. I said that these laws are being passed by people who think they will have that effect. And what economic good are all those scientists if all the knowledge they create effectively goes into the public domain?
The baby boomers couldn't wait for their parent's generation to move on and allow them to legalize pot. Logical thinking about copyright won't happen either.
America is moving towards an information economy. Those in power are aware of the transformation and are trying to protect future American interests.
When the manufacturing is all being done in the cheapest places (globalization) America will only have her service economy, IP (If America owns Hollywood, she can buy and sell the world's spare time), and such control over business dealings in foreign lands as her businesses can muster and enforce.
Can you get rich by doing your neighbor's laundry if he is doing your in return? The GDP generated by Americans doing services for Americans is only wealth in terms of employment.
If IP is not protected, the only remaining wealth in America will be foreign businesses. Foreign businesses can be nationalized as soon as America's military isn't a major threat.* So suppose these events happened:
1: Rampant piracy makes ownership of IP moot
2: Japanese, Saudi, or Chinese businesses dump their bonds.
That's it! Those two things would bring America crashing to her knees, and destroy the cultural, economic, and military might of the greatest nation on earth. There really is a 3: profit for many powerful people. This is what America's leaders are doing about the situation:
Hiding the extent of the danger
Misguidedly passing draconian IP protection laws
Maintaining a large, secret technological lead (black tech: its real. No, I don't believe in UFOs)
That's what they're doing. I pass no judgment here, I'm just saying, that is the cause of these actions.
*Did you know that 50% of American businesses overseas (overseas divisions)are owned by the Chinese and theoretically controlled by the Chinese government? Did you know that the Saudis can take controll of foreign firms with the flick of a pen?
Yes, yes it is. If physical level access is available, the only real security is having an encrypted drive with the passphrase elsewhere.
Possession and enforcement, just as you say, but only for entities that only care about their off-planet claims. A big Terran company would have too much at stake at home to just ignore the system. Only those with nothing on earth to lose would do it that way...
Well, the first thing you need is physical security. I would reccommend Blackwater for their premium quality goons. You'll need at least two platoons and a morter squad. Then you'll want to hand-deliver a one time pad to their secure vault, with a completely off-network computer to do the decryption. You can solder off all the connections except a secure thumb drive for the OS and the DVD containing the OTP. You'll have to keep your own copy of the OTP in your own vault. And I highly recommend Windows ME on a Dell for the encryption routine.
Your solution is ineffective because it would remove the most provable aspect of such commerce: the pictures or films. Money can be transferred and laundered many ways.
So someone could, for instance, sell books on e-bay with user names and password written in the margin. This would be somewhat tracable, but many times the headache to a prosecuter who has to prove that money changed hands as opposed to the prosecuter who has to prove that illegal pictures were found.