It's the politics of the owners and editors that determines what gets printed. Care to take a guess at what their politics might be like?
Oh, and I am so sick of the "Yeah, well your guys did it too!" argument. First, the republicans are orders of magnitude worse than the Democrats in the corruption and abuse of power department. Second, and most important, is the fact that just because one's opponents do something illegal or immoral doesn't make it okay for you to do it, and doesn't automatically exempt you from criticism. Trying to point out that others do it too is just trying to divert attention from the real issue.
I used to think all Republicans sucked until I became friends with one who actually thought things through and could discuss his position rationally. The man's a gay native american, so when he told me he was Republican, I figured he had to have some pretty good reasons. The more we talked, the more I found myself agreeing with at least some of his positions. I'm all for a smaller Federal Government and more states rights. In fact, if Republicans carried out real Republican ideals, I might be one.
Not that the Democrats do any better in the 'carrying out ideals' department, but they seem to do less actual harm.
Really, while the idea of live and/or more interesting commercials does have some appeal, in the end I think advertisers will simply resort to more and more product placement. Which could lead to some interesting convolutions of plotlines for shows that don't take place in modern society. I can see sci fi shows placing products with the rationalization that they are so damn good that the companies that make them today are still around in the future. But what about historical shows?
Here we are, talking about a lawsuit between Sony and some musicians, and you bring up Chewbacca. Chewbacca was neither a musician nor a large corporation. Chewbacca was a wookie. That does not make sense.
I actually kind of agree with you. Sometimes criticisms or alternate theories are kept on a wiki page, sometimes given their own. I think it has to do with how much controversy there is on a subject. Generally if there is a lot of controversy or debate, that debate should be chronicled on a seperate page, with a summary in the main article and some links.
Idiot. If a theory exists, it is a FACT that it exists, whether the theory is right or not. They have an entry for Phlogiston and that's not just a theory, but a disproven theory.
Perhaps on the whole, Walmart's contribution to society has been good. But what about the opportunity cost? If I put money in the bank, I may get 2-3% interest. That's good, right? But if I had put that money into a CD I would get more. So perhaps Walmart has done some good. It has also done a lot of bad. And more importantly, if all the money, time and effort that society has put into Walmart had been put into something else, I really think we would be better off. Good doesn't equal best, and it doesn't necessarily excuse evil either.
You are exactly right. I hadn't even considered the timing.
"What, us a monopoly? No way, Your Honor! We're slipping behind even as we speak! Massive layoffs! Unemployement! Economy crippled! Wolves at the door!"
No, because as was explained to me, it's not unreasonable. Look, when these laws were being put into play, it could take a long time to establish identity. It's not unreasonable to hold someone until their identity can be verified, what if they are a murderer or terrorist?
Mostly, these laws are used to harass minorities or homeless folks. Selective enforcement, you know? Look, I'm not arguing that this state of affairs is okay, it sucks. All I'm saying is, this happened to me. And I was super pissed off when it happened, so I looked into it, okay? And there isn't jack shit I could do. Don't try to argue that there is, unless this happened to you and you successfully did something about it. Otherwise you are just saying (in essence) "You, spun, are a weak willed namby pamby who didn't stand up to tyranny when he could have." And that is flat out untrue. Now maybe you will have to revise your estimation of what kind of a state we live in because of that. Tough. I had to.
I mean maybe if I was independently wealthy and had could devote months of time and wads of cash to fighting this I could have some chance of getting some kind of justice. No garauntees. But I'm not, so I can't, m'kay? Unless you are offering to pony up some serious dough.
I mean, yeah, ideally we would all have equal access to justice, the constitution would be upheld and this sort of thing wouldn't happen in the first place. But this is the real world, and here in real world land sometime really crappy things happen to completely innocent people who then have absolutely zero chance of getting justice.
And besides, I've seen worse, right here in the good old US of A. Ever see your friend's head cracked in by a cop's baton for the "crime" of feeding homeless people on the street without a valid license? I have.
Look, I understand that you would like to believe this is some kind of anomaly that can be fought successfully in court. I don't like knowing that we already live in a virtual police state, but that's the fact. As I said, I investigated my options. My lawyer laughed at me. I have no case, and this happens far to many times a year for the ACLU to get involved in my particular instance
It really doesn't help matters that a proper HI state ID looks like a bad forgery to begin with...
Interesting. I wonder how common this is? Perhaps the problem with banks not donating code back is exagerated, simply because all banks contribute back anonymously for fear of lawsuits. Come to think of it, I wonder how much supposedly freelance open source contribution is actually funded by some big corporation or other but not attributed to them because of liability?
I think it's an urban legend, but I heard that when "Microsoft" was first translated into Chinese characters, they used the characters for 'small' and 'flacid.'
But that's the law. If you can't be IDd, you could be a child molester, or a terrorist. They have to know. For the children.
I wish I could sue, but I looked into it, and that's the law. They can hold you for three days if you can't prove who you are, no questions, no calling your lawyer, they just hold you. They aren't arresting you, or charging you with anything, or even questioning you. Just waiting to ID you. For up to three days.
America isn't quiet the free country I thought it was.
In America, you can't (yet) be arrested for refusing to identify yourself
Not arrested, but held for up to three days while they try to get an ID on you. I was in LA coming home from a party, getting a ride from a girl who probably shouldn't have been driving (I know, dumb, but she was cute...). She gets pulled over and surprisingly passes the test. They let her go. Me, all I have on me is a Hawaii state ID. The cops can't pull up my ID on their in car computer, so they haul me in. I sit in jail for eight hours waiting for them to ID me. They said I was lucky, they could have kept me for up to three days.
I've read that the US didn't initially respect foreign patents or copyrights at all, but a quick google search turned up nothing. Oddly enough, none of the histories of IP, patent, or copyright I just read mentioned anything about the US's wholesale 'theft' of IP. Wonder why?
Privacy is dead. It was a hack anyway. The real problem is the imbalance of access to information and power to act on it. If everyone had equal access and power, privacy would be a non issue. It's only because some people have more access to information and power to use information to harm others that privacy is necessary. He's just being pragmatic, privacy is dead and we nead to figure out how to address the real issues because the hack isn't working anymore.
Gender neutral, yes. I'm not saying they weren't girl friendly, even. Just not to the same level as Blue Moon's games, where there was no quest or overall goal, just lots of characters to interact and develop relationships with.
Oh, hells yeah. When I was a kid and played her games I always fantasized about marrying a geek chic like her. Roberta was more influential in gaming, but she didn't write particularly girl friendly games. Blue Moon, Brenda's game design company, wrote games (maybe only 'a game,' I can't remember) with a social interactive slant that was aimed at girls. But besides that, Roberta is a fairly talented but mostly self taught game programmer while Brenda is a genius computer scientist who has researched some very deep issues that impact nearly all areas of computing. She wrote a book analyzing computer-human interaction in terms of Aristotle's Poetics that I would consider an absolute must read for any UI designer.
D'oh. That's what I meant, thanks for clarifying. The application has to be LSB compliant to work on LSB systems. You could certainly write a program that works on one LSB system but not others.
The time is finally right for a female-centric game company. Don't know who Brenda Laurel is? You should. The woman is a freakin' genius and a pioneer in the field of human-computer interaction.
Because it has nothing to do with desktops, per se. It is a specification for directory layouts, config files, and required libraries, and its purpose is to make sure that applications that compile on one system that complies with the LSB will compile on all systems that comply with it.
Literary criticism, for instance. Lit. Crit. papers never make sense so only some form of advanced computer algorithm would be able to tell if a paper was written by a human.
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It's the politics of the owners and editors that determines what gets printed. Care to take a guess at what their politics might be like?
Oh, and I am so sick of the "Yeah, well your guys did it too!" argument. First, the republicans are orders of magnitude worse than the Democrats in the corruption and abuse of power department. Second, and most important, is the fact that just because one's opponents do something illegal or immoral doesn't make it okay for you to do it, and doesn't automatically exempt you from criticism. Trying to point out that others do it too is just trying to divert attention from the real issue.
Stop touching me there! That's my danger zone!
I used to think all Republicans sucked until I became friends with one who actually thought things through and could discuss his position rationally. The man's a gay native american, so when he told me he was Republican, I figured he had to have some pretty good reasons. The more we talked, the more I found myself agreeing with at least some of his positions. I'm all for a smaller Federal Government and more states rights. In fact, if Republicans carried out real Republican ideals, I might be one.
Not that the Democrats do any better in the 'carrying out ideals' department, but they seem to do less actual harm.
Really, while the idea of live and/or more interesting commercials does have some appeal, in the end I think advertisers will simply resort to more and more product placement. Which could lead to some interesting convolutions of plotlines for shows that don't take place in modern society. I can see sci fi shows placing products with the rationalization that they are so damn good that the companies that make them today are still around in the future. But what about historical shows?
I predict more time travel and dream sequences.
Here we are, talking about a lawsuit between Sony and some musicians, and you bring up Chewbacca. Chewbacca was neither a musician nor a large corporation. Chewbacca was a wookie. That does not make sense.
And Ballmer shouting, "I love the smell of Vista in the morning. It smells like victory."
I actually kind of agree with you. Sometimes criticisms or alternate theories are kept on a wiki page, sometimes given their own. I think it has to do with how much controversy there is on a subject. Generally if there is a lot of controversy or debate, that debate should be chronicled on a seperate page, with a summary in the main article and some links.
Idiot. If a theory exists, it is a FACT that it exists, whether the theory is right or not. They have an entry for Phlogiston and that's not just a theory, but a disproven theory.
Perhaps on the whole, Walmart's contribution to society has been good. But what about the opportunity cost? If I put money in the bank, I may get 2-3% interest. That's good, right? But if I had put that money into a CD I would get more. So perhaps Walmart has done some good. It has also done a lot of bad. And more importantly, if all the money, time and effort that society has put into Walmart had been put into something else, I really think we would be better off. Good doesn't equal best, and it doesn't necessarily excuse evil either.
You are exactly right. I hadn't even considered the timing.
"What, us a monopoly? No way, Your Honor! We're slipping behind even as we speak! Massive layoffs! Unemployement! Economy crippled! Wolves at the door!"
No, because as was explained to me, it's not unreasonable. Look, when these laws were being put into play, it could take a long time to establish identity. It's not unreasonable to hold someone until their identity can be verified, what if they are a murderer or terrorist?
Mostly, these laws are used to harass minorities or homeless folks. Selective enforcement, you know? Look, I'm not arguing that this state of affairs is okay, it sucks. All I'm saying is, this happened to me. And I was super pissed off when it happened, so I looked into it, okay? And there isn't jack shit I could do. Don't try to argue that there is, unless this happened to you and you successfully did something about it. Otherwise you are just saying (in essence) "You, spun, are a weak willed namby pamby who didn't stand up to tyranny when he could have." And that is flat out untrue. Now maybe you will have to revise your estimation of what kind of a state we live in because of that. Tough. I had to.
I mean maybe if I was independently wealthy and had could devote months of time and wads of cash to fighting this I could have some chance of getting some kind of justice. No garauntees. But I'm not, so I can't, m'kay? Unless you are offering to pony up some serious dough.
I mean, yeah, ideally we would all have equal access to justice, the constitution would be upheld and this sort of thing wouldn't happen in the first place. But this is the real world, and here in real world land sometime really crappy things happen to completely innocent people who then have absolutely zero chance of getting justice.
And besides, I've seen worse, right here in the good old US of A. Ever see your friend's head cracked in by a cop's baton for the "crime" of feeding homeless people on the street without a valid license? I have.
Look, I understand that you would like to believe this is some kind of anomaly that can be fought successfully in court. I don't like knowing that we already live in a virtual police state, but that's the fact. As I said, I investigated my options. My lawyer laughed at me. I have no case, and this happens far to many times a year for the ACLU to get involved in my particular instance
It really doesn't help matters that a proper HI state ID looks like a bad forgery to begin with...
Interesting. I wonder how common this is? Perhaps the problem with banks not donating code back is exagerated, simply because all banks contribute back anonymously for fear of lawsuits. Come to think of it, I wonder how much supposedly freelance open source contribution is actually funded by some big corporation or other but not attributed to them because of liability?
I think it's an urban legend, but I heard that when "Microsoft" was first translated into Chinese characters, they used the characters for 'small' and 'flacid.'
But that's the law. If you can't be IDd, you could be a child molester, or a terrorist. They have to know. For the children.
I wish I could sue, but I looked into it, and that's the law. They can hold you for three days if you can't prove who you are, no questions, no calling your lawyer, they just hold you. They aren't arresting you, or charging you with anything, or even questioning you. Just waiting to ID you. For up to three days.
America isn't quiet the free country I thought it was.
In America, you can't (yet) be arrested for refusing to identify yourself
Not arrested, but held for up to three days while they try to get an ID on you. I was in LA coming home from a party, getting a ride from a girl who probably shouldn't have been driving (I know, dumb, but she was cute...). She gets pulled over and surprisingly passes the test. They let her go. Me, all I have on me is a Hawaii state ID. The cops can't pull up my ID on their in car computer, so they haul me in. I sit in jail for eight hours waiting for them to ID me. They said I was lucky, they could have kept me for up to three days.
I've read that the US didn't initially respect foreign patents or copyrights at all, but a quick google search turned up nothing. Oddly enough, none of the histories of IP, patent, or copyright I just read mentioned anything about the US's wholesale 'theft' of IP. Wonder why?
Privacy is dead. It was a hack anyway. The real problem is the imbalance of access to information and power to act on it. If everyone had equal access and power, privacy would be a non issue. It's only because some people have more access to information and power to use information to harm others that privacy is necessary. He's just being pragmatic, privacy is dead and we nead to figure out how to address the real issues because the hack isn't working anymore.
Gender neutral, yes. I'm not saying they weren't girl friendly, even. Just not to the same level as Blue Moon's games, where there was no quest or overall goal, just lots of characters to interact and develop relationships with.
Oh, hells yeah. When I was a kid and played her games I always fantasized about marrying a geek chic like her. Roberta was more influential in gaming, but she didn't write particularly girl friendly games. Blue Moon, Brenda's game design company, wrote games (maybe only 'a game,' I can't remember) with a social interactive slant that was aimed at girls. But besides that, Roberta is a fairly talented but mostly self taught game programmer while Brenda is a genius computer scientist who has researched some very deep issues that impact nearly all areas of computing. She wrote a book analyzing computer-human interaction in terms of Aristotle's Poetics that I would consider an absolute must read for any UI designer.
D'oh. That's what I meant, thanks for clarifying. The application has to be LSB compliant to work on LSB systems. You could certainly write a program that works on one LSB system but not others.
Yeah, I've seen the same thing. This is the whole purpose of the LSB. If application developers won't support it, the whole project is pointless.
The time is finally right for a female-centric game company. Don't know who Brenda Laurel is? You should. The woman is a freakin' genius and a pioneer in the field of human-computer interaction.
Because it has nothing to do with desktops, per se. It is a specification for directory layouts, config files, and required libraries, and its purpose is to make sure that applications that compile on one system that complies with the LSB will compile on all systems that comply with it.
Literary criticism, for instance. Lit. Crit. papers never make sense so only some form of advanced computer algorithm would be able to tell if a paper was written by a human.