I didn't realize the distinction in terminology (attorney vs. lawyer).
[SIGH],Something only a lawyer would think up!;)
Anyway, good luck to your wife on the exam!
Thanks! I think I'll wait until she's actually taken it to "blow her mind" with the Lopez, Mirrosion limitations. Of course, if she turns around and says "well, D'uh!" it just won't have the same effect.
You probably shouldn't call her a lawyer until she passes the test though.... Actually, I can't call her an ATTORNEY until she passes- but A Juris Doctor is a lawyer.
As for the recent tightening of the Commerce Clause: well, remember that I am getting my info second hand, and she is studying BAR-law, which is a different beast than real law (BAR law being a snapshop in time and not necessarily GOOD law anymore).
IANAL, but my wife IS, and is currently studying for her BAR exam. Why is that of interest? The Constitutional law part.
It seems that literally ANY point can be argued as a breach of the commerce clause. As proof I give you Katzenbach v. McClung. (ollie's BBQ)
A tiny, tiny local BBQ joint didn't want to serve blacks (only allowed take-out). Title II of the Civil Rights act claim is made against BBQ joint.
from THis website: Katzenbach v. McClung,44 (Ollie BBQ), held that since 70% of meat served at a restaurant located only 11 blocks from a major interstate highway is subject to interstate commerce, noting a "rational basis" for finding discrimination in restaurants had a direct and adverse effect on free-flow of interstate commerce."
Your paper plates could come from out of state. POWER and Electricity can come from out of state. Telephone service, etc.
Every BAR prep course recommends you trot out the commerce clause to question the constitutionality of anything- because its so damn broad.
A very, very good point. I'm just realizing that I'm slowly recovering from a 'real life' relationship that beat down my sense of self/ego/self esteem/whatever. It's amazing how that affects a person.
I hear it- and it isn't something where you say "here is where I end, here is where you begin, and thats that for the rest of our lives"- its a constant struggle. For example, it took quite a bit for me to say "Wife, I am dropping $300 on some gear." Instead of getting it on the sly and taking the chance that she wouldn't notice (don't laugh- at Homerecording bbs there were a few comments in a thread in a thread about doing JUST that!)
What you and I are talking about now I think is an online supplement to real life socializing,
Yep- that's my "copout", I agree, I don't think its enough by itself. I can't defend the parent-parent-parent post.
you turd. In my online circles, thats a term of affection, bud.;)
True, but it would be difficult for me to misrepresent myself as a curious 14-year-old girl in person,
Shoot- I can't find the link, but last week from obscurestore.com a 28 year old man did JUST THAT- fooled people into thinking he was a confused teenage girl, and they gave him/her a place to stay!;)
But that is not the norm.
Given that potential obfuscation is soo high on-line, I think people are either a little warier because of it, or don't care as much since they assume everyone is lying about something.
So I guess I'm concedeing (sp?) that online personas aren't expected to be "real"- then how can I claim that the "interactions" are a decent substitute for real?
I'll try to build up. First- detatched online personas are a great way of coming to terms with your emotional self and bring out pieces of you in a semi-public forum. In exactly the same way that most good fiction isn't REALLY fiction at all- its events in the writers life with the names slightly changed to protect the writer from libel. So online interactions allow to you express yourself to someone else and get as deep as you want, yet giving you the distance you may need.
Think of it as a confessional, or as group therapy. Having an outlet for free communication of whats going on in your emotional life is a fine achievment in terms of developmental growth (says who? says ME. What are my qualifications? I'm a guy who talks to people. So no, I have no qualifications, this is just a "feeling"). Sometimes being behind a mask allows you to be who you truly are.
To continue the build up- you are probably thinking "well, thats all well and good from a self-centered point of view, and true, people need to get their own issues worked out before they can form deep interpersonal relationships, but what about the interpersonal relationships they form online? How can those be real if there is always a mask?"
I guess to that, I have to come with a semi-copout. 1)- how do you know anyone is ever telling the truth * (to which you have already responded) 2)- how do you know the truth today is the same truth tommorrow? (I am a firm believer in the flexibility of peoples and their emotions. "I love you" last year may have held one meaning, and this year its different. Things change and people change.) 3)- Even if these relationships are a shadow of one in real life, they are close enough to fulfill a void and are controlled enough to allow the individual in it to distance themselves from it when they need to. That allows you to develop your sense of self both in and out of relationships- a VERY important skill (that some people never get).
So to recap- your best bet for an online relationship is actually a relationship-ette. Kind of a cop-out, I agree, but still it provides something. It's like flirting, the "appetizer" to the main course of a long and deep relationship.
online messaging over the years and met quite a few people that way (BBS parties and some online dating). To me, people are completely different online versus real life. Some people intentionally misrepresent themselves (as in the classic guy-impersonating-a-horny-teenage-girl), but even those who are trying to present their true selves are altered by the sense of anonymity or the lack of body language and other instant feedback. "LOL" just doesn't get the whole message accross.
Same thing in real life, people frquently mis-represent themselves. Its just that due to its prevelance online, most people come to expect it.
The idea of "living in a fantasy world where I/we are more fabulous than we actually are" crosses the keyboard boundary.
I play "real Life" on the "are you insane?!" level with the speed on "fast forward", and its always a blast. Mortgage, wife, career, family, chores, friends, good times, bad times (you know I've had my share*)- any many times you get a lot more than one chance. to give you a metaphor- if you screw up trying to go in through the front door there are all sorts of sneaky ways to still get in, if you know what I mean.
Failure is a learning experience- remember, no one was good at Gran Turismo the first time they played. You had to practice those tracks over and over again, getting the feel for the car and for the conditions. Its the same way with life. Practice, fail, learn from failure, change your strategy, lather, rinse, repeat. That's what makes it so awesome.
GM's Scott issued a strong warning to Microsoft, Sun and the other players in the Web services industry, that enterprises will not tolerate the standards wars of the past. "We have no appetite for it," he said
Exactly, so he and everybody else is sitting back and waiting for a clear winner with mature functionality to materialize. In other words, he's saying "Screw.net, let some other schmuck take the cost of developing it. WE got screwed on ISO networking and Token ring! Twice bitten, 3 times shy!"
Hypercard was like flash for macs in the early 90s. Granted- any time I tried to do something complex in hypercard it NEVER WORKED (Despite an investment in some books...)
Yep- I have CAT5 snaking from the basement up three floors. Oh sure, I've got a WAP, but thats for the laptop (so I can/. while I watch tv, or do, er, something, in the bathroom, while dumping core, uhm) my other machines need WIRES.
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If you robbed a bank, it's a _good_ thing if the police catch you.
Yes, it is, and I'm maintaining that EVEN if they wanted to, RFIDs aren't enough to catch a criminal in that way- what they would be good for is long term surveillance. However I then bring up some (anectdotal) examples of how they are still lacking.
So yes, on the surface, he was fired for drinking a pepsi on the job, but the reality is it goes deeper than that.
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Okay, pretend I just robbed a bank (or people robbed a bank who were associated with the RFIDs on the car I was driving), THEN went driving in the country side, THEN broke down. (your faith in cellphones is disturbing! Or maybe you get better service than I do.;)
So Johnny law is hot to get their hands on me, but RFIDs don't do them any good.
What they CAN do is build up over a long perioud of time a limited account of where I go- if my car passes through a Toll Booth, that is. However if I travel the backroads, the would have to trace my credit card purchases. But what if I use cash? They have RFIDs in the bills. But HOW fine grain can they trace that cash? Some random guy cashes his friday paycheck, then gives a waitress a $5 tip (Cheap bastid!), which she then uses to get into a punk rock show, which is then used to pay back a local heavy for a loan, which is then given to the Church collection plate, which is then used to pay me back for the supplies I got for the church picnic (assuming they'd even want to be associated with me)... So I've got this bill that can't really be traced to me, per se.
From the RFID "trace" that's left, there was some money cashed on a friday, spent next week three states away, and the guy who cashed it never left.
SO my conjecture is that Credit Cards and ATM withdrawls are a far more effective means of tracking someone's habits. I understand my example doesn't mean using RFIDs won't be effective, but I think the privacy concerns are a little out of proportion. I welcome any better examples.
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So those bags that ram and computer chips come in have a secondary use?
Another issue with RFIDs on the privacy department is range- SURE, my tired may be broadcasting their Id's, but if I'm in the countryside, what good does that do me? A satellite can't pick me up, so if I break down, neither can AAA (or insert Euro equivalent).
Man, do I feel bad for that NASA investigation team. Having to spend a large amount of time on the beautiful, garden island of Kaua'i, with its sunny south shore, and lush, tropic north short (with some incredible surfing), not to mention Mt Wai'ale'ale, where it rains 360 days a year and has vegetation that grows no-where else, and the breath-taking Napali cliffs...
well, we have all of that (and the conformance testing to prove it) however all we care about is TP4 connectivity and a lil' bit of CMIS functionality.
just slip the red tape over your mouth and nose and wait till you stop struggling....
One of the big differences between the GOSIP OSI stack (which failed in the market) and IPv6 (which might succeed) was that GOSIP was big, clumsy, generally didn't work, and...
Well, it worked enough that I now support a 7 layer OSI network stack! (infact, I just ported it to the PowerPC!)
Then I accidentally got sent to Homestarrunner again. Of course I had completely blocked out the first time on account of it being so bad and all, so I got doubly cheated out of my time.
And then something strange happened. I got sent (through a blind link) AGAIN to homestarrunner and then I laughed. I then watched every Strong Bad e-mail and became hooked. I don't know man, it just went from dumb to funny.
Okay- one thing I found TRULY funny was strong bad makes this stupid comic- "Teen Girl Squad"- and it sucks, and not a funny way. But then at the end he mentions "Yeah, I could prolly run off a few crappy xeroxes and sell them at a snooty independent music store"- and when you click on "snooty independent music store" it cuts to a scene with some old vinyl (the Brothers Johnson!), the crappy comic, Sonic Youth playing in the background, and then this HYSTERICAL banter of indie-hipness/cluelessness with a guy coming in and the record store clerk. So after that, I decided it was worth my while.
(Actually, Strong Bad is super dope and very much so worth my while. Dragon has become the next AYBABTU. Wether that is good or not is up to you.)
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Oh, there's a discount plan for education. They only take your first born if you are a student.
(actually, I asked the same question and got a reply that Apple has been pretty consistent with the pricing of their top-o-the-line stuff. How do they do it? Volume! also, they are getting the chips from IBM, not MOTO. )
But once I combined still frames of cuttings from Dickens with the giant robot action of Robotech I found a deeper meaning and a more enjoyable reading/watching experience.
Dewd, can I get a copy of that? That sounds AWESOME!
Think about it, Lynn Minmei and Mincemeat for Convicts!
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I didn't realize the distinction in terminology (attorney vs. lawyer).
;)
[SIGH],Something only a lawyer would think up!
Anyway, good luck to your wife on the exam!
Thanks! I think I'll wait until she's actually taken it to "blow her mind" with the Lopez, Mirrosion limitations. Of course, if she turns around and says "well, D'uh!" it just won't have the same effect.
You probably shouldn't call her a lawyer until she passes the test though....
Actually, I can't call her an ATTORNEY until she passes- but A Juris Doctor is a lawyer.
As for the recent tightening of the Commerce Clause: well, remember that I am getting my info second hand, and she is studying BAR-law, which is a different beast than real law (BAR law being a snapshop in time and not necessarily GOOD law anymore).
Thanks for the updated cases (Lopez & Morrison)!
IANAL, but my wife IS, and is currently studying for her BAR exam. Why is that of interest? The Constitutional law part.
It seems that literally ANY point can be argued as a breach of the commerce clause.
As proof I give you Katzenbach v. McClung. (ollie's BBQ)
A tiny, tiny local BBQ joint didn't want to serve blacks (only allowed take-out). Title II of the Civil Rights act claim is made against BBQ joint.
from THis website: Katzenbach v. McClung,44 (Ollie BBQ), held that since 70% of meat served at a restaurant located only 11 blocks from a major interstate highway is subject to interstate commerce, noting a "rational basis" for finding discrimination in restaurants had a direct and adverse effect on free-flow of interstate commerce."
Your paper plates could come from out of state. POWER and Electricity can come from out of state. Telephone service, etc.
Every BAR prep course recommends you trot out the commerce clause to question the constitutionality of anything- because its so damn broad.
P.S.- when I showed her your post, she giggled.
A very, very good point. I'm just realizing that I'm slowly recovering from a 'real life' relationship that beat down my sense of self/ego/self esteem/whatever. It's amazing how that affects a person.
;)
I hear it- and it isn't something where you say "here is where I end, here is where you begin, and thats that for the rest of our lives"- its a constant struggle. For example, it took quite a bit for me to say "Wife, I am dropping $300 on some gear." Instead of getting it on the sly and taking the chance that she wouldn't notice (don't laugh- at Homerecording bbs there were a few comments in a thread in a thread about doing JUST that!)
What you and I are talking about now I think is an online supplement to real life socializing,
Yep- that's my "copout", I agree, I don't think its enough by itself. I can't defend the parent-parent-parent post.
you turd.
In my online circles, thats a term of affection, bud.
True, but it would be difficult for me to misrepresent myself as a curious 14-year-old girl in person,
;)
Shoot- I can't find the link, but last week from obscurestore.com a 28 year old man did JUST THAT- fooled people into thinking he was a confused teenage girl, and they gave him/her a place to stay!
But that is not the norm.
Given that potential obfuscation is soo high on-line, I think people are either a little warier because of it, or don't care as much since they assume everyone is lying about something.
So I guess I'm concedeing (sp?) that online personas aren't expected to be "real"- then how can I claim that the "interactions" are a decent substitute for real?
I'll try to build up. First- detatched online personas are a great way of coming to terms with your emotional self and bring out pieces of you in a semi-public forum. In exactly the same way that most good fiction isn't REALLY fiction at all- its events in the writers life with the names slightly changed to protect the writer from libel. So online interactions allow to you express yourself to someone else and get as deep as you want, yet giving you the distance you may need.
Think of it as a confessional, or as group therapy. Having an outlet for free communication of whats going on in your emotional life is a fine achievment in terms of developmental growth (says who? says ME. What are my qualifications? I'm a guy who talks to people. So no, I have no qualifications, this is just a "feeling").
Sometimes being behind a mask allows you to be who you truly are.
To continue the build up- you are probably thinking "well, thats all well and good from a self-centered point of view, and true, people need to get their own issues worked out before they can form deep interpersonal relationships, but what about the interpersonal relationships they form online? How can those be real if there is always a mask?"
I guess to that, I have to come with a semi-copout. 1)- how do you know anyone is ever telling the truth * (to which you have already responded) 2)- how do you know the truth today is the same truth tommorrow? (I am a firm believer in the flexibility of peoples and their emotions. "I love you" last year may have held one meaning, and this year its different. Things change and people change.)
3)- Even if these relationships are a shadow of one in real life, they are close enough to fulfill a void and are controlled enough to allow the individual in it to distance themselves from it when they need to. That allows you to develop your sense of self both in and out of relationships- a VERY important skill (that some people never get).
So to recap- your best bet for an online relationship is actually a relationship-ette. Kind of a cop-out, I agree, but still it provides something. It's like flirting, the "appetizer" to the main course of a long and deep relationship.
online messaging over the years and met quite a few people that way (BBS parties and some online dating). To me, people are completely different online versus real life. Some people intentionally misrepresent themselves (as in the classic guy-impersonating-a-horny-teenage-girl), but even those who are trying to present their true selves are altered by the sense of anonymity or the lack of body language and other instant feedback. "LOL" just doesn't get the whole message accross.
Same thing in real life, people frquently mis-represent themselves. Its just that due to its prevelance online, most people come to expect it.
The idea of "living in a fantasy world where I/we are more fabulous than we actually are" crosses the keyboard boundary.
I play "real Life" on the "are you insane?!" level with the speed on "fast forward", and its always a blast. Mortgage, wife, career, family, chores, friends, good times, bad times (you know I've had my share*)- any many times you get a lot more than one chance. to give you a metaphor- if you screw up trying to go in through the front door there are all sorts of sneaky ways to still get in, if you know what I mean.
Failure is a learning experience- remember, no one was good at Gran Turismo the first time they played. You had to practice those tracks over and over again, getting the feel for the car and for the conditions. Its the same way with life. Practice, fail, learn from failure, change your strategy, lather, rinse, repeat. That's what makes it so awesome.
Yeah, life is a game. I play it to the hilt.
*With apologies to zepplin
Excellent analysis...
Such obfuscated code could only be the prodcut of
A: a paranoid mind
B: someone on a mission to prevent their code from being exploited
C: both.
THanks, I meant ISO's OSI networking! ;)
GM's Scott issued a strong warning to Microsoft, Sun and the other players in the Web services industry, that enterprises will not tolerate the standards wars of the past. "We have no appetite for it," he said
.net, let some other schmuck take the cost of developing it. WE got screwed on ISO networking and Token ring! Twice bitten, 3 times shy!"
Exactly, so he and everybody else is sitting back and waiting for a clear winner with mature functionality to materialize.
In other words, he's saying "Screw
talk about an idea before its time...
Hypercard was like flash for macs in the early 90s. Granted- any time I tried to do something complex in hypercard it NEVER WORKED (Despite an investment in some books...)
Gotcha!
(P.S.- the email address is the website- mekkab is the name, apl.jhu.edu is the machine, and you just stick an at-sign in between)
Please turn on comments in your journal (unless you really don't want to hear what the rabble have to say! In that case, keep on doing what yr doing!)
Yep- I have CAT5 snaking from the basement up three floors. Oh sure, I've got a WAP, but thats for the laptop (so I can /. while I watch tv, or do, er, something, in the bathroom, while dumping core, uhm) my other machines need WIRES.
If you robbed a bank, it's a _good_ thing if the police catch you.
Yes, it is, and I'm maintaining that EVEN if they wanted to, RFIDs aren't enough to catch a criminal in that way- what they would be good for is long term surveillance. However I then bring up some (anectdotal) examples of how they are still lacking.
It was what he was saying, doing, and Organizing.
He was pro-union and organized Coke merchandizers, so they sacked him.
So yes, on the surface, he was fired for drinking a pepsi on the job, but the reality is it goes deeper than that.
Okay, pretend I just robbed a bank (or people robbed a bank who were associated with the RFIDs on the car I was driving), THEN went driving in the country side, THEN broke down. ;)
(your faith in cellphones is disturbing! Or maybe you get better service than I do.
So Johnny law is hot to get their hands on me, but RFIDs don't do them any good.
What they CAN do is build up over a long perioud of time a limited account of where I go- if my car passes through a Toll Booth, that is. However if I travel the backroads, the would have to trace my credit card purchases. But what if I use cash? They have RFIDs in the bills. But HOW fine grain can they trace that cash? Some random guy cashes his friday paycheck, then gives a waitress a $5 tip (Cheap bastid!), which she then uses to get into a punk rock show, which is then used to pay back a local heavy for a loan, which is then given to the Church collection plate, which is then used to pay me back for the supplies I got for the church picnic (assuming they'd even want to be associated with me)... So I've got this bill that can't really be traced to me, per se.
From the RFID "trace" that's left, there was some money cashed on a friday, spent next week three states away, and the guy who cashed it never left.
SO my conjecture is that Credit Cards and ATM withdrawls are a far more effective means of tracking someone's habits. I understand my example doesn't mean using RFIDs won't be effective, but I think the privacy concerns are a little out of proportion. I welcome any better examples.
So those bags that ram and computer chips come in have a secondary use?
Another issue with RFIDs on the privacy department is range- SURE, my tired may be broadcasting their Id's, but if I'm in the countryside, what good does that do me? A satellite can't pick me up, so if I break down, neither can AAA (or insert Euro equivalent).
Man, do I feel bad for that NASA investigation team. Having to spend a large amount of time on the beautiful, garden island of Kaua'i, with its sunny south shore, and lush, tropic north short (with some incredible surfing), not to mention Mt Wai'ale'ale, where it rains 360 days a year and has vegetation that grows no-where else, and the breath-taking Napali cliffs...
I don't envy them.
Wait, yes I do!
well, we have all of that (and the conformance testing to prove it) however all we care about is TP4 connectivity and a lil' bit of CMIS functionality.
just slip the red tape over your mouth and nose and wait till you stop struggling....
Ahhh, come, sweet release, come!
One of the big differences between the GOSIP OSI stack (which failed in the market) and IPv6 (which might succeed) was that GOSIP was big, clumsy, generally didn't work, and ...
Well, it worked enough that I now support a 7 layer OSI network stack! (infact, I just ported it to the PowerPC!)
Shoot me now? Please?
Dude- I was just like you.
Then I accidentally got sent to Homestarrunner again. Of course I had completely blocked out the first time on account of it being so bad and all, so I got doubly cheated out of my time.
And then something strange happened. I got sent (through a blind link) AGAIN to homestarrunner and then I laughed. I then watched every Strong Bad e-mail and became hooked. I don't know man, it just went from dumb to funny.
Okay- one thing I found TRULY funny was strong bad makes this stupid comic- "Teen Girl Squad"- and it sucks, and not a funny way. But then at the end he mentions "Yeah, I could prolly run off a few crappy xeroxes and sell them at a snooty independent music store"-
and when you click on "snooty independent music store" it cuts to a scene with some old vinyl (the Brothers Johnson!), the crappy comic, Sonic Youth playing in the background, and then this HYSTERICAL banter of indie-hipness/cluelessness with a guy coming in and the record store clerk.
So after that, I decided it was worth my while.
Does this mean I should see a doctor?!
if you amalgamate the whole 'net I'm not totally convinced it's worth the $50 DSL fee....
Oh, nonsense.
What about Tape leg?!?!?
(Actually, Strong Bad is super dope and very much so worth my while. Dragon has become the next AYBABTU. Wether that is good or not is up to you.)
Oh, there's a discount plan for education. They only take your first born if you are a student.
(actually, I asked the same question and got a reply that Apple has been pretty consistent with the pricing of their top-o-the-line stuff. How do they do it? Volume! also, they are getting the chips from IBM, not MOTO. )
But once I combined still frames of cuttings from Dickens with the giant robot action of Robotech I found a deeper meaning and a more enjoyable reading/watching experience.
Dewd, can I get a copy of that? That sounds AWESOME!
Think about it, Lynn Minmei and Mincemeat for Convicts!