If I'm Quest or Verizon or somebody, and my router sees a packet coming in that contains the plaintext "Verizon sucks," am I obligated to route that?
Aren't those companies "common carriers"? Wouldn't that be equivalent to the phone company bleeping your calls every time you said "boy I sure hate my phone service!" into your telephone during a conversation? I'm pretty sure THAT'S illegal (I hope).
He was "Red Skull" not "Red" Skull. That makes him sound like a goddam commie instead of a goddam Nazi. Anyway the beauty of him being a Nazi was that Cappy didn't have to pull any punches. To paraphrase, "I love Nazis. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."
"Company blogs" sound like the stupidest quasi-astroturfing lame-o crap to ever hit the Internet. And if an HP employee blogs about the company on the company's servers, does anyone really expect that any negative comments about the company will necessarily be allowed?
I fully support HP's right to delete any comment from HP-hosted blogs at will, and I further support everyone's right not to waste precious minutes of their one and only precious and oh-so-finite lifetime reading such drivel. Why do you care about some Senior Vice President's "podcast"? Go outside or at least read Slashdot instead.
Even as they described their own questioning of evolution as triggered by religious conversion, the experts testifying Thursday avoided mention of a divine creator, instead painting their position as simply one of open-mindedness, arguing that Darwinism had become a dangerous dogma.
"There is no science without criticism," said Charles Thaxton, a chemist and co-author of the 1984 book "The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories."
"Any science that weathers the criticism and survives is a better theory for it," Mr. Thaxton said.
There may be no science without criticism, but by "criticism" we must mean "constructive analysis of the theory in question, based on falsifiable alternate interpretation of the available evidence". The criticism being levelled in places like Kansas is not this kind - it is an assault on scientific rationalism by the forces of dogmatic religion and ignorance, using deceit, subterfuge and manipulation of the political process.
The ultimate goal of the people fighting for "intelligent design" to be taught in schools is nothing less than the extermination of genuine evolutionary science, to be replaced by comforting lies based solely on Christian scripture.
Despite repeated promises from Dorian to get the situation resolved "real soon now", he never did receive a nickel, and it turns out that (according to him) just not paying royalties at all was essentially Dorian's policy. While all their big name recording artists (in the classical music world) were wondering where their royalty checks were, the company principals were busy building & buying million dollar homes in various exotic locations around the world . ..
According to my friend, this sort of treatment is more or less the norm in the recording industry. They give you sales records that you strongly suspect are doctored or just plain wrong (but how do you prove it?), pay you royalties 1/10 or 1/4 what you have good reason to believe you should be getting (again, how do you prove it?), pay you occasionally instead of quarterly (per the contracdt), or just "forget" to pay you altogether until you pester them repeatedly, then pay some small amount to keep you quiet.
A relative of mine is a writer, and she got the same treatment from a publishing company (actually the largest gay publisher in the US, still pretty small though). Basically, one day they just told her they weren't going to give her any more royalties, even though they were going to keep selling her books. Later she found out they were notoriously unprofessional and had done stuff like that to other people. They just relied on screwing a bunch of poor-ass authors (who write for a niche market and don't make much money even on a good day) who they knew couldn't afford to sue them for the money.
Gee, that sounds rather awful. You have to pay a one time nonrefundable $10 fee, and they reserve the right to ban you from future participation for something as trivial as telling an "old" joke? No thanks; I'll spend my money elsewhere. I'm not quite that desperate for community.
I suspect you get several warnings - but if your contribution tends to only consist of "In Soviet Russia all your base are belong to It's A Trap! with Natalie Portman's Grits" they reserve the right to ban you. Mind you, I'm just guessing here.
Why shouldn't municipal governments provide wi-fi? Internet access has become an important service, and is there some part of the US, Canadian or any other Constitution that I'm unaware of which guarantees "profit and unending dividends for all [businesses]"? The economy should serve society, not the other way around. Cities don't just decide to offer these services without a mandate from their residents, and if residents of a city want municipal wi-fi, some telco should certainly not be able to over-rule that just because their profits are at risk!
It's not the "nanny-state", it's democracy. What it damn well shouldn't be is corporatocracy.
The mental image of "anethema" (whom I picture as a strapping yet limber eskimo) having his balls licked by Condoleeza is one I will not sleep well with tonight, methinks.
OK, by "they" I meant a more global "they" - the business elite and their shills who want to perpetuate corporate medical care in the US. No insult meant to your Canadian listserv buddies.
It's worth noting that I myself don't have a family doctor - none here in my town are accepting new patients. But when it was needed most, socialized medicine came through, my relative got the best care to help her fight cancer for several years, and her family didn't lose their house paying for it.
Just because Einstein was good at math and physics doesn't mean that he would have been good at politics or some other career field.
That's probably why he turned down the presidency of Israel. What he DID recognize was that scientists had a responsibility as citizens to be involved in politics, even if it was at the advisory/cautionary level which he himself chose as a pacifist advocate. Smart guy, that Einstein.
A relative of mine here in Ontario was in the operating room literally within days of her breast cancer diagnosis. Chemo started after she'd recovered from the surgery (I think, at any rate it was not long after).
Don't believe the lies they tell you. They just want to keep you running on the wheel, paying exorbitantly for private insurance that will try and dick you over when it comes to the crunch. Our way IS better, even if like all systems it has its hiccups. Your health is not a good like your stereo or your car; it is a fundamental part of your human existence, and it should not be subject to your ability to pay, or the whims of the "free" market.
Further, all the hand-wringing over the artist's "rights" is a crock. Untalented "artists" try to compensate for lack of talent with sensational special effects, gore, sex, etc. Most of them should study the classics (Citizen Caine, Casablanca, The Magnificant Seven, et al) and get a clue about what real artists do.
Sorry, you don't get to decide what is or isn't art based on what you find distasteful. A lot of us don't agree with your criteria at all - your line between appropriate and "gratuitous" violence or sex is not universal.
Well, the parents should encourage the kids to monitor their own usage time*, since the software will boot them after an hour, the kid should be saving at 55 minutes and quitting themselves if they don't want to "lose their progress". It might have the side-benefit of making the kid better appreciate the time they do have to play.
(P.S., I know that the sexism point is debatable. We have Condi Rice.... but she's from the oil industry. A supertanker is named after her!!! Some people see covert sexism in the policy on birth control, abortions, even the refusal to accept court rulings on Terri Schiavo's desire to avoid a persistent vegetative state.)
Just because a few points don't line up perfectly doesn't mean your point isn't valid. And the US military does get a lot of money, and a lot of use killing foreign people the government blames for its problems. The little guys in the military (regular soldiers) get shafted but that is completely in line with other government policies.
Anyway, most of the Christian fundamentalists who support the current Executive are crypto-sexists at best - they believe the Bible mandates a woman's place below her husband, even if they don't come right out and say it in so many words. And things like restricting access to birth control, sexual health information and abortion are all policies of that administration, and all are more detrimental to women than men.
Sorry, that level of doublethink is only alowed for corporate lawyers. Your lawyer will be smacked down for trying it, since it is not a defense permitted to second-class citizens (see earlier post).
"I really wish they wouldn't fill these things with helium, what with the upcoming helium shortage... Helium should be restricted to uses where there is no practical replacement."
Nonsense. I hear there's lots of helium in Iran. Conservation won't be necessary.
I doubt that even in today's legal climate the coders behind BitTorrent could be prosecuted/sued for how people use it.
They might be offered jobs, on the other hand. Like the "Cancer Man" on the X-Files would do - the best way to defeat your enemy is to get him working for you.
None of those mean anything to the American smart ass who posted the parent comment. "What's a Juno? Is that some kind of award? How do they build an igloo large enough to hold the ceremony?"
In AA, "elite" really just means "lucky with good aim". I stopped playing the game as soon as I got Counter Strike Source. CS is just as realistic (i.e. just as unrealistic) and has voice comms. AA without voice comms is silly. Typing = death and so nobody coordinates an attack, EVER.
Also, I got sick of some ass jumping in front of MY line of fire, and ME losing honor for ROE. At least in CS the "victim" can forgive for friendly fire incidents if it was really their fault. In AA it's ALWAYS your fault no matter what.
You mean "hiding behind something bulletproof", just like most soldiers do in a REAL WAR unless the enemy is chasing them or their officers are ordering them to move? A real firefight between a dozen soldiers can take hours, since getting anyone to "rush" is both stupid and nearly impossible.
That's why "elite units" are elite, because they will actually voluntarily put themselves in harm's way rather than only trying to stay alive. Consequently, they can make short work of conscripts and half-trained farm boys.
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If I'm Quest or Verizon or somebody, and my router sees a packet coming in that contains the plaintext "Verizon sucks," am I obligated to route that?
Aren't those companies "common carriers"? Wouldn't that be equivalent to the phone company bleeping your calls every time you said "boy I sure hate my phone service!" into your telephone during a conversation? I'm pretty sure THAT'S illegal (I hope).
He was "Red Skull" not "Red" Skull. That makes him sound like a goddam commie instead of a goddam Nazi. Anyway the beauty of him being a Nazi was that Cappy didn't have to pull any punches. To paraphrase, "I love Nazis. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."
"Company blogs" sound like the stupidest quasi-astroturfing lame-o crap to ever hit the Internet. And if an HP employee blogs about the company on the company's servers, does anyone really expect that any negative comments about the company will necessarily be allowed?
I fully support HP's right to delete any comment from HP-hosted blogs at will, and I further support everyone's right not to waste precious minutes of their one and only precious and oh-so-finite lifetime reading such drivel. Why do you care about some Senior Vice President's "podcast"? Go outside or at least read Slashdot instead.
Even as they described their own questioning of evolution as triggered by religious conversion, the experts testifying Thursday avoided mention of a divine creator, instead painting their position as simply one of open-mindedness, arguing that Darwinism had become a dangerous dogma.
"There is no science without criticism," said Charles Thaxton, a chemist and co-author of the 1984 book "The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories."
"Any science that weathers the criticism and survives is a better theory for it," Mr. Thaxton said.
There may be no science without criticism, but by "criticism" we must mean "constructive analysis of the theory in question, based on falsifiable alternate interpretation of the available evidence". The criticism being levelled in places like Kansas is not this kind - it is an assault on scientific rationalism by the forces of dogmatic religion and ignorance, using deceit, subterfuge and manipulation of the political process.
The ultimate goal of the people fighting for "intelligent design" to be taught in schools is nothing less than the extermination of genuine evolutionary science, to be replaced by comforting lies based solely on Christian scripture.
Yeah, and he was smart enough to turn it on, make one quick cut, and promptly turn it off. Even being around one should scare any non-jedi. /nerd
Despite repeated promises from Dorian to get the situation resolved "real soon now", he never did receive a nickel, and it turns out that (according to him) just not paying royalties at all was essentially Dorian's policy. While all their big name recording artists (in the classical music world) were wondering where their royalty checks were, the company principals were busy building & buying million dollar homes in various exotic locations around the world . . .
According to my friend, this sort of treatment is more or less the norm in the recording industry. They give you sales records that you strongly suspect are doctored or just plain wrong (but how do you prove it?), pay you royalties 1/10 or 1/4 what you have good reason to believe you should be getting (again, how do you prove it?), pay you occasionally instead of quarterly (per the contracdt), or just "forget" to pay you altogether until you pester them repeatedly, then pay some small amount to keep you quiet.
A relative of mine is a writer, and she got the same treatment from a publishing company (actually the largest gay publisher in the US, still pretty small though). Basically, one day they just told her they weren't going to give her any more royalties, even though they were going to keep selling her books. Later she found out they were notoriously unprofessional and had done stuff like that to other people. They just relied on screwing a bunch of poor-ass authors (who write for a niche market and don't make much money even on a good day) who they knew couldn't afford to sue them for the money.
Gee, that sounds rather awful. You have to pay a one time nonrefundable $10 fee, and they reserve the right to ban you from future participation for something as trivial as telling an "old" joke? No thanks; I'll spend my money elsewhere. I'm not quite that desperate for community.
I suspect you get several warnings - but if your contribution tends to only consist of "In Soviet Russia all your base are belong to It's A Trap! with Natalie Portman's Grits" they reserve the right to ban you. Mind you, I'm just guessing here.
If she doesn't come home from school on time, has she abducted a child?
Why shouldn't municipal governments provide wi-fi? Internet access has become an important service, and is there some part of the US, Canadian or any other Constitution that I'm unaware of which guarantees "profit and unending dividends for all [businesses]"? The economy should serve society, not the other way around. Cities don't just decide to offer these services without a mandate from their residents, and if residents of a city want municipal wi-fi, some telco should certainly not be able to over-rule that just because their profits are at risk!
It's not the "nanny-state", it's democracy. What it damn well shouldn't be is corporatocracy.
The mental image of "anethema" (whom I picture as a strapping yet limber eskimo) having his balls licked by Condoleeza is one I will not sleep well with tonight, methinks.
OK, by "they" I meant a more global "they" - the business elite and their shills who want to perpetuate corporate medical care in the US. No insult meant to your Canadian listserv buddies.
It's worth noting that I myself don't have a family doctor - none here in my town are accepting new patients. But when it was needed most, socialized medicine came through, my relative got the best care to help her fight cancer for several years, and her family didn't lose their house paying for it.
Just because Einstein was good at math and physics doesn't mean that he would have been good at politics or some other career field.
That's probably why he turned down the presidency of Israel. What he DID recognize was that scientists had a responsibility as citizens to be involved in politics, even if it was at the advisory/cautionary level which he himself chose as a pacifist advocate. Smart guy, that Einstein.
A relative of mine here in Ontario was in the operating room literally within days of her breast cancer diagnosis. Chemo started after she'd recovered from the surgery (I think, at any rate it was not long after).
Don't believe the lies they tell you. They just want to keep you running on the wheel, paying exorbitantly for private insurance that will try and dick you over when it comes to the crunch. Our way IS better, even if like all systems it has its hiccups. Your health is not a good like your stereo or your car; it is a fundamental part of your human existence, and it should not be subject to your ability to pay, or the whims of the "free" market.
Further, all the hand-wringing over the artist's "rights" is a crock. Untalented "artists" try to compensate for lack of talent with sensational special effects, gore, sex, etc. Most of them should study the classics (Citizen Caine, Casablanca, The Magnificant Seven, et al) and get a clue about what real artists do.
Sorry, you don't get to decide what is or isn't art based on what you find distasteful. A lot of us don't agree with your criteria at all - your line between appropriate and "gratuitous" violence or sex is not universal.
Well, the parents should encourage the kids to monitor their own usage time*, since the software will boot them after an hour, the kid should be saving at 55 minutes and quitting themselves if they don't want to "lose their progress". It might have the side-benefit of making the kid better appreciate the time they do have to play.
* with the help of a $5 kitchen timer if need be
(P.S., I know that the sexism point is debatable. We have Condi Rice.... but she's from the oil industry. A supertanker is named after her!!! Some people see covert sexism in the policy on birth control, abortions, even the refusal to accept court rulings on Terri Schiavo's desire to avoid a persistent vegetative state.)
Just because a few points don't line up perfectly doesn't mean your point isn't valid. And the US military does get a lot of money, and a lot of use killing foreign people the government blames for its problems. The little guys in the military (regular soldiers) get shafted but that is completely in line with other government policies.
Anyway, most of the Christian fundamentalists who support the current Executive are crypto-sexists at best - they believe the Bible mandates a woman's place below her husband, even if they don't come right out and say it in so many words. And things like restricting access to birth control, sexual health information and abortion are all policies of that administration, and all are more detrimental to women than men.
Of course you can't INSTALL it without Admin, that's the whole point of Admin! You can still USE Firefox on a user account.
We are after all a government agency.
Sorry, that level of doublethink is only alowed for corporate lawyers. Your lawyer will be smacked down for trying it, since it is not a defense permitted to second-class citizens (see earlier post).
"I really wish they wouldn't fill these things with helium, what with the upcoming helium shortage... Helium should be restricted to uses where there is no practical replacement."
Nonsense. I hear there's lots of helium in Iran. Conservation won't be necessary.
I doubt that even in today's legal climate the coders behind BitTorrent could be prosecuted/sued for how people use it.
They might be offered jobs, on the other hand. Like the "Cancer Man" on the X-Files would do - the best way to defeat your enemy is to get him working for you.
None of those mean anything to the American smart ass who posted the parent comment. "What's a Juno? Is that some kind of award? How do they build an igloo large enough to hold the ceremony?"
So that's what honor 25 does to you?
In AA, "elite" really just means "lucky with good aim". I stopped playing the game as soon as I got Counter Strike Source. CS is just as realistic (i.e. just as unrealistic) and has voice comms. AA without voice comms is silly. Typing = death and so nobody coordinates an attack, EVER.
Also, I got sick of some ass jumping in front of MY line of fire, and ME losing honor for ROE. At least in CS the "victim" can forgive for friendly fire incidents if it was really their fault. In AA it's ALWAYS your fault no matter what.
Yeah, true. "Is the 2LT still saying 'Charge!'? Somebody shoot him."
I'll bet everyone will be camping all the time.
You mean "hiding behind something bulletproof", just like most soldiers do in a REAL WAR unless the enemy is chasing them or their officers are ordering them to move? A real firefight between a dozen soldiers can take hours, since getting anyone to "rush" is both stupid and nearly impossible.
That's why "elite units" are elite, because they will actually voluntarily put themselves in harm's way rather than only trying to stay alive. Consequently, they can make short work of conscripts and half-trained farm boys.