I don't see anyone changing their tune. I see people pointing out that the US Executive, under direct instruction from G.W. Bush, violated the US Constitution by instituting a new procedure expressly forbidden by the body of law, and that for this and other offenses he needs to be impeached. I also see you claiming that USSID 18 somehow negates that, because it establishes a procedure for the NSA to obtain a warrant from the US AG. That directive (which is not a law - laws are made by the US Congress) is of course irrelevant since it establishes a procedure internal to the US executive. The relevant laws state, in accordance with the constitution, that the executive must obtain judicial warrants for all domestic spying.
What I see is you demonstrating your complete ignorance in matters of the law that governs your own agency (apparently) and the underlying principles of the US government, and also being a haughty dismissive fuckass in the process. I'm sure there are quite a few very competent professionals in the US intelligence community, but you certainly don't look like one of them.
The share of the highway tax that you pay matches fairly well the amount of stress put on the road by your vehicle. I can assure you that bikes put no stress on the road compared to any car. The rest of the road maintenance costs (capital expenditures on roads - most highways and freeways are either off-limits or too fast for bicyclists anyway) - are paid about equally by everyone, in the form of estate tax, various other taxes and the cost propagated by commercial road users (whose trucks stress the roads the most).
The reason you pay insurance is that if you hit someone with your car you're likely to kill them, while it's nearly impossible for a bicyclist to do so. The reason you pay registration and pass smog check is that your car pollutes the environment - a lot.
Bicyclists have equal rights with you on the road. Those who violate road rules should be punished, but recognize that they usually do so because the roads are mis-engineered in a car-exclusive way. But the argument that bicyclists don't deserve to use roads as they like is bullshit.
you can't get a local phone number on an iPhone (or any other AT&T phone) in those locations. Who cares about local numbers? My phonebook contains tons of people whose numbers no longer have anything to do with where they live, myself included.
Sorry to nitpick, but I'd say the cause was more directly negligence on part of the crew, who didn't notice the ballast tanks were out of balance until it was too late. (Not to mention the ship engineers' mistake who didn't put in enough failsafes to prevent capsizing if a pump fails and results in an unbalanced condition.)
That said, it would be interesting to compare the environmental impact of scrapping all those thousands of Mazdas (which were by the way ordered destroyed by Mazda's insurer because they spent a long time tilted nearly on their side and even though most worked fine, they were afraid of lawsuits) to the cumulative impact of all the biosphere disruption caused by ballast dumping had this rule not been in effect.
You're wrong. "0-day" refers exactly to what the original poster described. The term originated in the warez scene where it meant the copy protection of the software in question was cracked 0 days after its release. It was then adopted in the security/exploit scene to mean the exploit was released 0 days after the patch to address it was available.
Of course, that meaning is not very useful, because the vendor will need time to patch the exploit after it's known to it, and because unlike cracked software copy protection, security exploits are much more useful when not known to the general public. So the term has changed to refer to the entire class of vulnerabilities which have not yet been patched, whether or not publicly known. So the original explanation is correct.
I can also recommend Tab Mix Plus instead of Tabs Open Relative. It has a great set of extra features and has been maintained very promptly through the Firefox 3 release cycle.
Well, first of all, you can't live completely without meat. You need certain proteins that you can't get anywhere else. Bullshit.
And secondly, even if you could live without meat, who would want to? To give just a few examples, because a unit of energy/nutrients from meat takes a much higher environmental impact to produce due to loss of energy in the food chain and destructive farming techniques; drug and genetic manipulation of farm animals is far more severe and dangerous for humans than in plants; a lot of farm meat production and fish catch is done in an extremely destructive and unsustainable manner; and the list goes on and on and on.
Carbon sequestration is necessary to scrub the carbon that we have already emitted into the atmosphere (as well as carbon that developing nations will emit due to less strict emissions standards for them in the future).
If lawyers, with countless years of study, notoriously hard examinations, and then countless more years of professional experience, with numerous assistants and paralegals for reference, can make error after error in a courtroom, it might just be a teensy bit harder for the layman to do as well. You drastically overestimate the expertise required to be a successful lawyer.
Hans Reiser's defense apparently failed because he chose to directly present a lot of untenable arguments in a painfully awkward, unprofessional, non-rhetorical way. It didn't have anything to do with the complexity of the system and seems to have had little to do with its unfairness.
This case proves only one thing to me, and that is that we'd almost be better off with no system at all. Not quite, but almost. You're mad.
The whole reason there is a movie like this is because of these sorts of dishonest activism. No, the whole reason there is a movie like this is that there are people out there who bring fundamentalist religion into the public discourse and hijack education for their purposes, as well as a massive stratum of anti-intellectual population who are content with the hypocrisies of their organized religion.
You can't stop stupid activists. You can, however, fight the notion that just because someone arguing an idea is an idiot doesn't mean the idea is right.
So, what's your point? Just because a stupid person used stupid tactics to advocate a responsible stance with respect to the environment, that implies something wrong about that stance?
The difference between that idiot and people who use "similar tactics... to silence researchers and/or scientists" is that the former can be objectively blamed for at most hurting the feelings of a few people, while the latter can be blamed for destroying our planet.
Pharmaceutical patents are actually not an unambiguous abuse of the patent system. It's true that there are numerous cases of egregious violations. However, there are also numerous cases where a company was clearly expecting a return on their investment of millions of dollars worth of lab work, FDA trials, etc. by utilizing the patent, and the drug would not have existed for a long time thereafter without that investment.
I think this is a deeply conflicted area of patent use. I think the real solution to the patent problem is not in bitching about how evil they are, but in restrictions such as no enforcement by non-practitioners of the patent, no enforcement against non-profit use, much tighter supervision of prior art to prevent intimidation by litigation, and requirements for fair licensing terms.
Speedstep ondemand scaling does not impact performance whatsoever.
There is no reason a hard disk drive, a memory chip, a CPU or a video card can't be designed to throttle down to minimal power levels when running idle. Just because nobody except Intel, AMD, and to some extent WD has done it yet doesn't mean it's impossible, and you bet your ass it's coming.
Granted, a display panel can't dim itself unless it knows when people are not looking. But that's about the only thing that has an excuse not to throttle itself down.
The WHO reports overall suicide rate in Japan to be 36.5/100000 for males and 14.1 for females, versus 17.6 and 4.1 respectively for United States, which averages out to more than 2.5 times higher average suicide rate.
Kamikazes and seppuku committing samurai have nothing to do with modern suicide rates in Japan. Even comparing the age distributions, Japan leads in suicide rates by a wide margin.
Good job with the jaded cynicism! Have you considered that the widescreen form factor might actually have advantages? Like, I don't know, being able to watch a movie on 90% of your screen instead of 50%? Or reducing one of the laptop's dimensions (depth) considerably while keeping the same screen real estate?
That's exactly the reason I despise Gimp as well. The fact that the Gimp developers refuse to fix this (a simple enough fix) in the face of numerous user complaints is indicative of their hubris.
Actually growth hormones are species-specific - cow hormones won't work on people. Just because a cow growth hormone doesn't cause a human to grow noticeably faster doesn't mean it has no effects on humans.
The reason is to increase yield of meat or milk per animal. Yet it seems that you're bothered by even the possibility that the farmer may benefit... Using slave labor will get higher profit from the farm as well. So will spraying the crops with DDT.
We don't go around giving our kids growth hormones, do we? We do when they don't grow well. That's a therapeutic treatment for situations where the child is seriously sick in the first place. And you're suggesting that it's OK to use that in all circumstances? Do you also want healthy people to undergo chemotherapy?
You've been given citations of ample reason to be wary of the newly introduced use of any hormones. Yet you have ignored those replies and concentrated on attacking the less scientific ones. Do you have a vested interest in the use of rBST?
The idea of rBGH-treated cows, somehow causing cancer in people is preposterous from a biological point of view Why??
How is it preposterous from a biological point of view that a growth hormone accelerating the lifecycle of a mammalian farm animal, in use for under 20 years so long-term effects are uncharacterized, can have a direct or indirect effect on the concentration of carcinogens in those animals and their milk?
No, it is precisely because the government spends way too much money. If our government spent less, there would be less need for taxes. No, the problem being discussed is not the use of tax money but the structure of their collection. In the US, the problem is that the extremely rich and the overly powerful corporation pay comparatively very little while the upper middle class pays most of the nation's budget. The tax is not progressive enough, and there is not enough corporate taxation.
A 5% flat tax would be wonderful for my software company with 95%+ margins, but "unfair" (and lethal) to someone making 1-5% doing manufacturing. Why would a tax on corporations be flat? Of course a tax on corporations should be progressive on net profit.
If you're talking about the tax being discussed in the article, somehow everyone doing business within the state has been able to pay that flat tax, right? For practical purposes, if the state starts really enforcing sales/use tax, it won't matter if the business or the consumer pay it, the expenditures will be identical.
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I don't see anyone changing their tune. I see people pointing out that the US Executive, under direct instruction from G.W. Bush, violated the US Constitution by instituting a new procedure expressly forbidden by the body of law, and that for this and other offenses he needs to be impeached. I also see you claiming that USSID 18 somehow negates that, because it establishes a procedure for the NSA to obtain a warrant from the US AG. That directive (which is not a law - laws are made by the US Congress) is of course irrelevant since it establishes a procedure internal to the US executive. The relevant laws state, in accordance with the constitution, that the executive must obtain judicial warrants for all domestic spying.
What I see is you demonstrating your complete ignorance in matters of the law that governs your own agency (apparently) and the underlying principles of the US government, and also being a haughty dismissive fuckass in the process. I'm sure there are quite a few very competent professionals in the US intelligence community, but you certainly don't look like one of them.
The share of the highway tax that you pay matches fairly well the amount of stress put on the road by your vehicle. I can assure you that bikes put no stress on the road compared to any car. The rest of the road maintenance costs (capital expenditures on roads - most highways and freeways are either off-limits or too fast for bicyclists anyway) - are paid about equally by everyone, in the form of estate tax, various other taxes and the cost propagated by commercial road users (whose trucks stress the roads the most).
The reason you pay insurance is that if you hit someone with your car you're likely to kill them, while it's nearly impossible for a bicyclist to do so. The reason you pay registration and pass smog check is that your car pollutes the environment - a lot.
Bicyclists have equal rights with you on the road. Those who violate road rules should be punished, but recognize that they usually do so because the roads are mis-engineered in a car-exclusive way. But the argument that bicyclists don't deserve to use roads as they like is bullshit.
Sorry to nitpick, but I'd say the cause was more directly negligence on part of the crew, who didn't notice the ballast tanks were out of balance until it was too late. (Not to mention the ship engineers' mistake who didn't put in enough failsafes to prevent capsizing if a pump fails and results in an unbalanced condition.)
That said, it would be interesting to compare the environmental impact of scrapping all those thousands of Mazdas (which were by the way ordered destroyed by Mazda's insurer because they spent a long time tilted nearly on their side and even though most worked fine, they were afraid of lawsuits) to the cumulative impact of all the biosphere disruption caused by ballast dumping had this rule not been in effect.
Use Sumatra PDF, or kpdf/whatever on Linux. Finally, an Adobe-free existence!
Sumatra PDF kicks Foxit's ass. And it's open source. Another piece of shitty bloatware (Adobe Reader) bites the dust.
You're wrong. "0-day" refers exactly to what the original poster described. The term originated in the warez scene where it meant the copy protection of the software in question was cracked 0 days after its release. It was then adopted in the security/exploit scene to mean the exploit was released 0 days after the patch to address it was available.
Of course, that meaning is not very useful, because the vendor will need time to patch the exploit after it's known to it, and because unlike cracked software copy protection, security exploits are much more useful when not known to the general public. So the term has changed to refer to the entire class of vulnerabilities which have not yet been patched, whether or not publicly known. So the original explanation is correct.
I can also recommend Tab Mix Plus instead of Tabs Open Relative. It has a great set of extra features and has been maintained very promptly through the Firefox 3 release cycle.
Carbon sequestration is necessary to scrub the carbon that we have already emitted into the atmosphere (as well as carbon that developing nations will emit due to less strict emissions standards for them in the future).
It's absolutely necessary to do both.
Hans Reiser's defense apparently failed because he chose to directly present a lot of untenable arguments in a painfully awkward, unprofessional, non-rhetorical way. It didn't have anything to do with the complexity of the system and seems to have had little to do with its unfairness. This case proves only one thing to me, and that is that we'd almost be better off with no system at all. Not quite, but almost. You're mad.
You can't stop stupid activists. You can, however, fight the notion that just because someone arguing an idea is an idiot doesn't mean the idea is right.
So, what's your point? Just because a stupid person used stupid tactics to advocate a responsible stance with respect to the environment, that implies something wrong about that stance?
The difference between that idiot and people who use "similar tactics... to silence researchers and/or scientists" is that the former can be objectively blamed for at most hurting the feelings of a few people, while the latter can be blamed for destroying our planet.
Law is not a science
Pharmaceutical patents are actually not an unambiguous abuse of the patent system. It's true that there are numerous cases of egregious violations. However, there are also numerous cases where a company was clearly expecting a return on their investment of millions of dollars worth of lab work, FDA trials, etc. by utilizing the patent, and the drug would not have existed for a long time thereafter without that investment.
I think this is a deeply conflicted area of patent use. I think the real solution to the patent problem is not in bitching about how evil they are, but in restrictions such as no enforcement by non-practitioners of the patent, no enforcement against non-profit use, much tighter supervision of prior art to prevent intimidation by litigation, and requirements for fair licensing terms.
Speedstep ondemand scaling does not impact performance whatsoever.
There is no reason a hard disk drive, a memory chip, a CPU or a video card can't be designed to throttle down to minimal power levels when running idle. Just because nobody except Intel, AMD, and to some extent WD has done it yet doesn't mean it's impossible, and you bet your ass it's coming.
Granted, a display panel can't dim itself unless it knows when people are not looking. But that's about the only thing that has an excuse not to throttle itself down.
Are 5400/7200 RPM HDDs available in that form factor? I think it's using the 1.7" form factor, definitely not the 2.5" standard laptop form factor.
The WHO reports overall suicide rate in Japan to be 36.5/100000 for males and 14.1 for females, versus 17.6 and 4.1 respectively for United States, which averages out to more than 2.5 times higher average suicide rate.
Kamikazes and seppuku committing samurai have nothing to do with modern suicide rates in Japan. Even comparing the age distributions, Japan leads in suicide rates by a wide margin.
Good job with the jaded cynicism! Have you considered that the widescreen form factor might actually have advantages? Like, I don't know, being able to watch a movie on 90% of your screen instead of 50%? Or reducing one of the laptop's dimensions (depth) considerably while keeping the same screen real estate?
That's exactly the reason I despise Gimp as well. The fact that the Gimp developers refuse to fix this (a simple enough fix) in the face of numerous user complaints is indicative of their hubris.
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We do when they don't grow well. That's a therapeutic treatment for situations where the child is seriously sick in the first place. And you're suggesting that it's OK to use that in all circumstances? Do you also want healthy people to undergo chemotherapy?
You've been given citations of ample reason to be wary of the newly introduced use of any hormones. Yet you have ignored those replies and concentrated on attacking the less scientific ones. Do you have a vested interest in the use of rBST?
How is it preposterous from a biological point of view that a growth hormone accelerating the lifecycle of a mammalian farm animal, in use for under 20 years so long-term effects are uncharacterized, can have a direct or indirect effect on the concentration of carcinogens in those animals and their milk?
If you're talking about the tax being discussed in the article, somehow everyone doing business within the state has been able to pay that flat tax, right? For practical purposes, if the state starts really enforcing sales/use tax, it won't matter if the business or the consumer pay it, the expenditures will be identical.