And if you want Red Hat without the paid support, just get Cent OS. (http://www.centos.org/) about the only way I know to get Windows for free is with less than legal methods (http://thepiratebay.org/). So if you don't need the support, there are other options.
There are a lot of problems with our current system being adapted for use now. For one it assumes that states are unified, and what works for one group in the state works for them all. When things were less diverse, it made sense. For example, pro-agriculture legislation worked well in the pre-civil war south because about every aspect of life in the south was tied into agriculture. Similarly, pro-industrial legislation worked well in the pre-civil war north. However today everything is diverse. There are high-tech jobs in Kansas, and low-tech jobs in New York. While this is happening the federal government has taken over more and more things, no longer is the federal branch some "far off" place with legislation that only affects a small amount of people, but it is part of everyone's day to day life. It is no longer good enough to assume that everyone in the state has the same needs that need to be represented in the federal government.
It's also worth pointing out that Canada and the various EU member states have their own problems. Sure they have a huge number of parties, but it doesn't magically improve the quality of the legislation or legislators. That takes a lot of work and for the population to be both informed and care.
Yes, but at least people's opinions are represented. That is, if 5% of people believe in a certain political ideal, they may have no representation in the government. To put this in perspective, that is 15 million people (using 300 million as the number of people in the USA) have no representation in the government. That is more than 5 times the population of Chicago! Do all those people deserve not to have any of their voice heard?
We have. Look at the Pirate Party in Europe. The difference is here in the USA we have a flawed system. A system that while it makes since with a small federal government and a small-ish state government, is fundamentally broken. A system that gives you two choices, either A or B, a system that is designed not to give you a third choice.
When you are advocating a third choice in a system designed for only two choices, its very hard to get a third choice accepted.
Exactly. The human brain doesn't want to be ripped off. The same reason why people swear that baseball hotdogs taste so much better, when they are more or less just the same things that you can buy at every grocery store the only difference is that you aren't paying $3+ per hotdog.
Why? It is perfectly legal to carry a gun in Washington. Let me guess, you also would be in favor of alerting police every time someone had something "suspicious" to read. Similarly, you have to realize that even if the thing was real, it would be pretty terrible for any sort of rampage-like shooting. Oh and you have to realize that Bungee is close. So lets see here, even if the thing was real, its still legal to carry it, he wasn't threatening anyone, and made made no motion to threaten. So you have no crime, you have no threat, so why call the police? Its no different than people calling the police because you were reading something they didn't approve of.
Yeah, there are also "Punt Guns" which were used for duck hunting. A single shot could kill 50 or more waterfowl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_gun
Hm, lets see here, an AK-47 refers to a specific gun. Just as a Core i7 refers to a specific CPU. If you say that you have a Core i7 when you really have an Intel Core 2 Quad, its still wrong even though both are still x86 CPUs with 4 cores. If I said "I have a quad-core CPU" that is correct. If you said that guy looks like he has a gun, that is correct. However calling your Core 2 Quad a Core i7 is wrong, just as a sniper rifle is not an AK-47 (and don't look a thing alike)
Sure, but you can't legally enforce a contract that is illegal. Also, its impossible to know what the EULA is before you buy the software in most cases and most of the time its either impossible or a pain to return opened software. So its like this, here you are going to need to give me the money in advance, then read the contract and sign, oh and if you don't like the contract, well you already took the contract so you can't take it back.
Ok, have you ever played an FPS at all or know -anything- about guns? If you were going to gun down civilians you don't pick a huge gun. You sure don't pick a larger than life sniper rifle. Sniper rifles are slow to aim, slow to fire, and have lots of recoil. Theres a reason why our troops aren't all armed with.50 cal rifles, they are impractical for shoulder mounting and firing for anything except for very distant targets. And usually only high priority targets at that. If someone really wanted to cause harm, something like a SMG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hkmp5count-terr-wiki.jpg), or other small-caliber automatic rifle. A simi-auto (it makes no sense to have a shoulder mounted automatic 50-cal sniper rifle) sniper rifle would be terrible for any sort of mass-killing and a whole lot harder to get.
Take a look at the Halo 3 Sniper Rifle (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/09/500x_TotiloRifle.jpg) does that look like an AK-47 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Afghan_AKS-47.jpg)? Heck does that guy look like he could even shoot the Halo sniper rifle if it was real? For one, you don't call it an "AK-47" if it doesn't even remotely look like an AK-47. For another how does that -not- look fake? If someone was going on a rampage why would they choose to take a -huge- sniper rifle with them when there are many other options? Secondly the guy wasn't attempting to conceal it, chances are if he was going to harm someone with it he would have made some effort to conceal it.
No, most of those things are done with plugins. When was the last time you watched a video only in JavaScript? Most of the time you either use Flash or a media player plugin to play the videos.
No, this is why we need critical thinking. People don't learn how to separate fact from BS. Because of this, we have people who will believe something with no fact and insist that it is fact. Look at North Korea, that is where the US will be heading if people think they can believe anything they read in textbooks, the internet, what random people say when they use "big words". Some of the most fun I had in high school is telling people total lies but using words that they didn't understand so they believed me.
I buy an SUV though. It is -mine- that is I can do whatever the heck I want with it. If I want to destroy it, I can go ahead. If I feel like smashing my old hard drives into little tiny bits, I can do that. However, the SUVs weren't ELF's, neither were the AM towers. Then there is the fact of destroying them, lets see here, if they were to drive normally they would use some gas and then be recycled. When they are torched they create pollutants, then all the paperwork cuts down on trees, require more people to travel, etc. ELF does nothing but terrorism and vandalism with a thin guise of "protecting the earth".
I think another part of the problem is it turns the rest of education into "college preparation" instead of real education. Right now, I'm almost inclined to say we want everyone to go to college, but the reason for that being that education all the way up through high school isn't much of an education. We've lowered our standards so far that we consider the ideal high school kid one who behaves himself, and we don't give any kind of vocational training or responsibility until after college. And then we can't seem to decide whether college is vocational training or real education.
Exactly, they don't teach more than the fundamentals. While without a doubt most kids learn more in school most of it is useless to their lives. I've noticed it especially with the decline of shop and industrial classes vs "academic" classes, when I was in high school you pretty much had two choices, either take all lower classes and go to shop and industrial classes or take "academic" classes that were strongly suggested if you were to ever go to college. In general the shop classes were scheduled during college-level classes so people couldn't take both. However aside from college English lowering my tuition so I had less debt (it was a lot cheaper per credit hour to take it in high school), the shop class would have helped me far more in my life. And no, I don't really work with my hands much, but still, the instruction would have been very valuable simply to live my life.
Not everyone needs to go to college, but we're better off if everyone has a decent education. Ignorance isn't good for anyone.
Which is why we need to have more critical thinking. A well-informed citizen doesn't know everything, but they know where to get it if they do.
Sure, but similarly I think I find out way more interesting information on the internet than in classes. How many of us have spent hours on Wikipedia finding out random things they never would have looked at before? Last night I spent a few hours looking at Norse mythology and it was pretty interesting.
Your argument is correct if there wasn't the internet, but since there is, most people don't need college to learn more about the world, its just as easy to hop on Google and find out more interesting information in a few hours than in a semester of lectures by a professor. All for free.
Amazon shouldn't have had an ability to remotely pull books in the first place. Would I want a book with a small lighter attached to it that could be remotely activated and the book would burn? Amazon should have simply paid the publisher the rights, or gave them another "legal" copy of 1984 that is virtually the same. Not only was the book erased but also the notes. So heres what should have happened:
-Amazon removes the offending books from sale
-Amazon offers to allow each customer to download a non-offending book but allows them to keep the offending book already on their Kindle
-Everyone is happy
The main problem I see with the Iliad reader is the price. $700 is -way- too much for new technology that will quickly go obsolete, especially when there are cheaper alternatives. Myself I'd take a Kindle minus whispernet and a cheaper price.
To be perfectly honest, most people don't really need a college eduction. The thing is, our society seems to make more and more people take college classes. When people have no real use for the classes, the natural outcome is degree mills and cheaper education. A 2 month on the job training would do better than college for 65% of most jobs.
Sure, but some of us have the annoying relative who don't know how to text or use the internet to talk and end up talking on the phone for hours on end. Yeah, you might be able to hack together a VoIP app for that, but sometimes its just as easy to get a 200 minute plan per month for those sort of people.
Because in this economy a lot of us simply don't have the cash due to increased savings in case your job is the next to go or slumping sales of your product. Also some of us also have short-term investments that we expected to liquidate without much trouble but in the current economy either they lost value (stocks), didn't lose value but are now hard to sell (real estate), or items that weren't investments but hard to sell luxury items (such as a third car). Plus seriously, $20 a month for a plan? Someone tell me the network that has A) unlimited data B) A decent speed on their data C) in the USA and D) also has enough text messages or minutes so you can actually use your phone.
Exactly, and assumes you can get a "perfect" plan. Good luck getting a plan on A) A high-speed network B) Has "unlimited" data C) And has enough text messages/minutes for you to actually -use- your phone. Getting all this for $20? I'd really like to see which network they used...
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So? That doesn't stop it from being all over TPB. Just because WGA isn't cracked yet doesn't mean that you can't still pirate Windows.
And if you want Red Hat without the paid support, just get Cent OS. (http://www.centos.org/) about the only way I know to get Windows for free is with less than legal methods (http://thepiratebay.org/). So if you don't need the support, there are other options.
It's also worth pointing out that Canada and the various EU member states have their own problems. Sure they have a huge number of parties, but it doesn't magically improve the quality of the legislation or legislators. That takes a lot of work and for the population to be both informed and care.
Yes, but at least people's opinions are represented. That is, if 5% of people believe in a certain political ideal, they may have no representation in the government. To put this in perspective, that is 15 million people (using 300 million as the number of people in the USA) have no representation in the government. That is more than 5 times the population of Chicago! Do all those people deserve not to have any of their voice heard?
We have. Look at the Pirate Party in Europe. The difference is here in the USA we have a flawed system. A system that while it makes since with a small federal government and a small-ish state government, is fundamentally broken. A system that gives you two choices, either A or B, a system that is designed not to give you a third choice.
When you are advocating a third choice in a system designed for only two choices, its very hard to get a third choice accepted.
Exactly. The human brain doesn't want to be ripped off. The same reason why people swear that baseball hotdogs taste so much better, when they are more or less just the same things that you can buy at every grocery store the only difference is that you aren't paying $3+ per hotdog.
Why? It is perfectly legal to carry a gun in Washington. Let me guess, you also would be in favor of alerting police every time someone had something "suspicious" to read. Similarly, you have to realize that even if the thing was real, it would be pretty terrible for any sort of rampage-like shooting. Oh and you have to realize that Bungee is close. So lets see here, even if the thing was real, its still legal to carry it, he wasn't threatening anyone, and made made no motion to threaten. So you have no crime, you have no threat, so why call the police? Its no different than people calling the police because you were reading something they didn't approve of.
Yeah, there are also "Punt Guns" which were used for duck hunting. A single shot could kill 50 or more waterfowl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_gun
They should have told the caller its perfectly legal to open carry in Washington. Told the caller to have a good day and then hang up.
Hm, lets see here, an AK-47 refers to a specific gun. Just as a Core i7 refers to a specific CPU. If you say that you have a Core i7 when you really have an Intel Core 2 Quad, its still wrong even though both are still x86 CPUs with 4 cores. If I said "I have a quad-core CPU" that is correct. If you said that guy looks like he has a gun, that is correct. However calling your Core 2 Quad a Core i7 is wrong, just as a sniper rifle is not an AK-47 (and don't look a thing alike)
Sure, but you can't legally enforce a contract that is illegal. Also, its impossible to know what the EULA is before you buy the software in most cases and most of the time its either impossible or a pain to return opened software. So its like this, here you are going to need to give me the money in advance, then read the contract and sign, oh and if you don't like the contract, well you already took the contract so you can't take it back.
Ok, have you ever played an FPS at all or know -anything- about guns? If you were going to gun down civilians you don't pick a huge gun. You sure don't pick a larger than life sniper rifle. Sniper rifles are slow to aim, slow to fire, and have lots of recoil. Theres a reason why our troops aren't all armed with .50 cal rifles, they are impractical for shoulder mounting and firing for anything except for very distant targets. And usually only high priority targets at that. If someone really wanted to cause harm, something like a SMG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hkmp5count-terr-wiki.jpg), or other small-caliber automatic rifle. A simi-auto (it makes no sense to have a shoulder mounted automatic 50-cal sniper rifle) sniper rifle would be terrible for any sort of mass-killing and a whole lot harder to get.
Take a look at the Halo 3 Sniper Rifle (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/09/500x_TotiloRifle.jpg) does that look like an AK-47 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Afghan_AKS-47.jpg)? Heck does that guy look like he could even shoot the Halo sniper rifle if it was real? For one, you don't call it an "AK-47" if it doesn't even remotely look like an AK-47. For another how does that -not- look fake? If someone was going on a rampage why would they choose to take a -huge- sniper rifle with them when there are many other options? Secondly the guy wasn't attempting to conceal it, chances are if he was going to harm someone with it he would have made some effort to conceal it.
No, most of those things are done with plugins. When was the last time you watched a video only in JavaScript? Most of the time you either use Flash or a media player plugin to play the videos.
To be perfectly honest, ELF is simply a terrorist group using environmentalism as an excuse.
No, this is why we need critical thinking. People don't learn how to separate fact from BS. Because of this, we have people who will believe something with no fact and insist that it is fact. Look at North Korea, that is where the US will be heading if people think they can believe anything they read in textbooks, the internet, what random people say when they use "big words". Some of the most fun I had in high school is telling people total lies but using words that they didn't understand so they believed me.
I buy an SUV though. It is -mine- that is I can do whatever the heck I want with it. If I want to destroy it, I can go ahead. If I feel like smashing my old hard drives into little tiny bits, I can do that. However, the SUVs weren't ELF's, neither were the AM towers. Then there is the fact of destroying them, lets see here, if they were to drive normally they would use some gas and then be recycled. When they are torched they create pollutants, then all the paperwork cuts down on trees, require more people to travel, etc. ELF does nothing but terrorism and vandalism with a thin guise of "protecting the earth".
Yes there actually is http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1350401&cid=29244185
I think another part of the problem is it turns the rest of education into "college preparation" instead of real education. Right now, I'm almost inclined to say we want everyone to go to college, but the reason for that being that education all the way up through high school isn't much of an education. We've lowered our standards so far that we consider the ideal high school kid one who behaves himself, and we don't give any kind of vocational training or responsibility until after college. And then we can't seem to decide whether college is vocational training or real education.
Exactly, they don't teach more than the fundamentals. While without a doubt most kids learn more in school most of it is useless to their lives. I've noticed it especially with the decline of shop and industrial classes vs "academic" classes, when I was in high school you pretty much had two choices, either take all lower classes and go to shop and industrial classes or take "academic" classes that were strongly suggested if you were to ever go to college. In general the shop classes were scheduled during college-level classes so people couldn't take both. However aside from college English lowering my tuition so I had less debt (it was a lot cheaper per credit hour to take it in high school), the shop class would have helped me far more in my life. And no, I don't really work with my hands much, but still, the instruction would have been very valuable simply to live my life.
Not everyone needs to go to college, but we're better off if everyone has a decent education. Ignorance isn't good for anyone.
Which is why we need to have more critical thinking. A well-informed citizen doesn't know everything, but they know where to get it if they do.
Sure, but similarly I think I find out way more interesting information on the internet than in classes. How many of us have spent hours on Wikipedia finding out random things they never would have looked at before? Last night I spent a few hours looking at Norse mythology and it was pretty interesting.
Your argument is correct if there wasn't the internet, but since there is, most people don't need college to learn more about the world, its just as easy to hop on Google and find out more interesting information in a few hours than in a semester of lectures by a professor. All for free.
Amazon shouldn't have had an ability to remotely pull books in the first place. Would I want a book with a small lighter attached to it that could be remotely activated and the book would burn? Amazon should have simply paid the publisher the rights, or gave them another "legal" copy of 1984 that is virtually the same. Not only was the book erased but also the notes. So heres what should have happened:
-Amazon removes the offending books from sale
-Amazon offers to allow each customer to download a non-offending book but allows them to keep the offending book already on their Kindle
-Everyone is happy
The main problem I see with the Iliad reader is the price. $700 is -way- too much for new technology that will quickly go obsolete, especially when there are cheaper alternatives. Myself I'd take a Kindle minus whispernet and a cheaper price.
To be perfectly honest, most people don't really need a college eduction. The thing is, our society seems to make more and more people take college classes. When people have no real use for the classes, the natural outcome is degree mills and cheaper education. A 2 month on the job training would do better than college for 65% of most jobs.
Sure, but some of us have the annoying relative who don't know how to text or use the internet to talk and end up talking on the phone for hours on end. Yeah, you might be able to hack together a VoIP app for that, but sometimes its just as easy to get a 200 minute plan per month for those sort of people.
Because in this economy a lot of us simply don't have the cash due to increased savings in case your job is the next to go or slumping sales of your product. Also some of us also have short-term investments that we expected to liquidate without much trouble but in the current economy either they lost value (stocks), didn't lose value but are now hard to sell (real estate), or items that weren't investments but hard to sell luxury items (such as a third car). Plus seriously, $20 a month for a plan? Someone tell me the network that has A) unlimited data B) A decent speed on their data C) in the USA and D) also has enough text messages or minutes so you can actually use your phone.
Exactly, and assumes you can get a "perfect" plan. Good luck getting a plan on A) A high-speed network B) Has "unlimited" data C) And has enough text messages/minutes for you to actually -use- your phone. Getting all this for $20? I'd really like to see which network they used...