Sports picks hotlines also claim to predict the future, and they have to publish well before the results so their customers can place their bets. It's just too bad that every week half of their free picks for first timers are wrong.
So you're saying housewives and teenagers across America are alerted to calls by the sound of Free Bird, and not Ke$sha? There's hope for this country yet.
Eliminating the choice for companies to include DRM isn't right if a society values and enforces copyright. Though, the value of copyright is questionable, so I would not oppose eliminating that instead.
Many people like music they can dance (or nod their head) to, and the waltz isn't exactly in.
Enjoying math isn't a requirement for enjoying classical or any other music, because our brains are wired to do the math automatically. Anyone who isn't tone deaf unconsciously does mathematical analysis of sound wave frequency, recognizing various relationships between melody and harmony or lack thereof.
When we cut our hair and nails we toss them into the garbage along with our feces because they're basically worthless. What little value they may have is not worth the time or effort to seek out. Let's say hair or nail clippings suddenly became more valuable than gold, would you discard them then?
If there's a need for a patient's biological material for research purposes, patients should have the option of selling or donating it. There's no need to beg or plead; if the material is precious enough, then there should be a willing price for exchange, while the benevolent among us still have the option to donate.
Something else to consider is that the ability to sell biological material helps to satisfy the demand for organ transplants. Instead of immediately burying or cremating the body, people would have an incentive to sell their organs upon their death for the financial benefit of any family they left behind. Being paid is greater incentive than the good feelings you get when you donate. Though I suppose you can just legislate all organs to be donated upon death, that is the greatest benefit to society after all.
Essentially you're saying you want taxpayers to subsidize Linux development for enterprise use. Supposedly, Linux's security model is already better than Windows, yet corporations are not adopting it as per your scenario. Unless part of your proposition is to force everyone in the US to adopt Linux, which goes against the pro-freedom attitude of the open source community.
Is the boogie monster that is a cyber war a real threat? If you are able to identify the plausible attack vectors, you attempt to secure them at that point, not just blindly throw money at Linux. Though the exercise in the article was meant to do this, it failed miserably and is more of a joke than a simulation.
A bevy of former top US officials were given various roles to play... The entire scenario was thought up by Michael Hayden, the former CIA Director, and the faux attack began with malware masquerading as a free March Madness application for smartphones. Once activated, it spread fast and first incapacitated cellphone networks, then landlines, the Internet, and finally - aided by mock bombs exploding in a couple of gas pipelines and power stations and a hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast - brought the entire East Coast electrical power grid to its knees. Air traffic was thrown into disorder and commerce came to a standstill.
This exercise was just a huge piece of FUD by CNN and a bunch of retired government officials all touting the need for more government in our lives.
IIRC, FFXI doesn't have a true auto translate feature. It has a list of common terms and phrases that you can select or enter in a tab-complete fashion that would display in the native language for each player.
It's useful to think of freedom as "freedom from force." As long as you're not forcing anyone to suffer the consequences of your actions, you're free to do whatever you like. So saying that freedom means hacking your neighbor with a machete is incorrect with this definition, since freedom that allows you to kill is really anarchy.
But I agree with you that the US is not a completely free country, especially considering the topic on hand regarding patents for intellectual property.
The Libertarian party did not invent the concept of a free market, and I certainly did not mention that ideology in my post. A free market in economics terms does not have any government granted monopolies, which means no IP laws. A political party saying otherwise does not change the true meaning of the term. It's unfortunate that the concept of a free market not only gets confused with libertarian views, it also gets the blame when government regulations are responsible for enforcing bad behavior by corporations.
If you want to prevent hijacking, a locked cockpit is all that's needed.
Aside from 9/11, how many deaths have resulted from hijacked European or US flights? Can you even name more than five in the past 50 years? I'm guessing an insignificant fraction of all passengers have died from terrorist attacks on airplanes, certainly not enough to justify ever increasing security theater provisions.
And if FoxNews or MSNBC didn't receive contributions from other high-paying corporations, they themselves would still have incredible influence on elections due to their position in the media. Unless you believe the media is unbiased...
The solution is to educate the masses. As long as we continue to consume media and political rhetoric without critical thinking, no amount of restrictions on corporate spending will change the status quo; money will find a way.
The electoral college may increase the weight of an individual vote in less populous states at the cost of larger ones. And forget about the popular vote, especially in states where a candidate who wins a state election with ~40% of the vote gets 100% of the electoral votes.
What else do you wish for from Santa Claus? That when copyright on a book expires, all of the author's original notes, manuscripts and sketches become public? Or when copyright on a movie expires, that the script become public? That when the protection expires on an article of music, the original multitrack recordings, sheet music, MIDI files, samples, and DAW scripts used in the creation of that work also become public domain?
A couple of these things can be transcribed for distribution after copyright expires, but it's a shame most of that information is lost or tucked away from the public. Of course it's up to the creators whether to release their "source code," but after the money is made, I hope that people warm to the idea of sharing with others.
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Sports picks hotlines also claim to predict the future, and they have to publish well before the results so their customers can place their bets. It's just too bad that every week half of their free picks for first timers are wrong.
So you're saying housewives and teenagers across America are alerted to calls by the sound of Free Bird, and not Ke$sha? There's hope for this country yet.
we can't really do that much about sexual urgers
Legalize prostitution.
Eliminating the choice for companies to include DRM isn't right if a society values and enforces copyright. Though, the value of copyright is questionable, so I would not oppose eliminating that instead.
Many people like music they can dance (or nod their head) to, and the waltz isn't exactly in.
Enjoying math isn't a requirement for enjoying classical or any other music, because our brains are wired to do the math automatically. Anyone who isn't tone deaf unconsciously does mathematical analysis of sound wave frequency, recognizing various relationships between melody and harmony or lack thereof.
When we cut our hair and nails we toss them into the garbage along with our feces because they're basically worthless. What little value they may have is not worth the time or effort to seek out. Let's say hair or nail clippings suddenly became more valuable than gold, would you discard them then?
If there's a need for a patient's biological material for research purposes, patients should have the option of selling or donating it. There's no need to beg or plead; if the material is precious enough, then there should be a willing price for exchange, while the benevolent among us still have the option to donate.
Something else to consider is that the ability to sell biological material helps to satisfy the demand for organ transplants. Instead of immediately burying or cremating the body, people would have an incentive to sell their organs upon their death for the financial benefit of any family they left behind. Being paid is greater incentive than the good feelings you get when you donate. Though I suppose you can just legislate all organs to be donated upon death, that is the greatest benefit to society after all.
One actually ends up as more angry than trying to keep it under control. Similar remarks apply to screaming or other aggressive acts.
SERENITY NOW!
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
It can't even be used as a proper web browsing machine given that amount of sites that are to a greater or lesser extent powered by flash.
You must be new here. That's considered a feature around these parts.
Essentially you're saying you want taxpayers to subsidize Linux development for enterprise use. Supposedly, Linux's security model is already better than Windows, yet corporations are not adopting it as per your scenario. Unless part of your proposition is to force everyone in the US to adopt Linux, which goes against the pro-freedom attitude of the open source community.
Is the boogie monster that is a cyber war a real threat? If you are able to identify the plausible attack vectors, you attempt to secure them at that point, not just blindly throw money at Linux. Though the exercise in the article was meant to do this, it failed miserably and is more of a joke than a simulation.
The other link is probably meant to be this article. Video
A bevy of former top US officials were given various roles to play... The entire scenario was thought up by Michael Hayden, the former CIA Director, and the faux attack began with malware masquerading as a free March Madness application for smartphones. Once activated, it spread fast and first incapacitated cellphone networks, then landlines, the Internet, and finally - aided by mock bombs exploding in a couple of gas pipelines and power stations and a hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast - brought the entire East Coast electrical power grid to its knees. Air traffic was thrown into disorder and commerce came to a standstill.
This exercise was just a huge piece of FUD by CNN and a bunch of retired government officials all touting the need for more government in our lives.
"Life is half random, and half under our control."
and with planning you can attempt to minimize the random events that come your way.
I'm sure with proper planning anyone can avoid being born in a war-torn or impoverished nation.
IIRC, FFXI doesn't have a true auto translate feature. It has a list of common terms and phrases that you can select or enter in a tab-complete fashion that would display in the native language for each player.
It's useful to think of freedom as "freedom from force." As long as you're not forcing anyone to suffer the consequences of your actions, you're free to do whatever you like. So saying that freedom means hacking your neighbor with a machete is incorrect with this definition, since freedom that allows you to kill is really anarchy.
But I agree with you that the US is not a completely free country, especially considering the topic on hand regarding patents for intellectual property.
The Libertarian party did not invent the concept of a free market, and I certainly did not mention that ideology in my post. A free market in economics terms does not have any government granted monopolies, which means no IP laws. A political party saying otherwise does not change the true meaning of the term. It's unfortunate that the concept of a free market not only gets confused with libertarian views, it also gets the blame when government regulations are responsible for enforcing bad behavior by corporations.
If you're the type who worships at the altar of the free market, you've got to admire their ruthlessly perfect exploitation of it.
Because, of course, one of the main tenets of any free market is draconian intellectual property law.
If you have a problem with H1B, fix that. There is nothing evil about Google or any other company looking for the best value when hiring workers.
It's too bad that technology will never take off NSFW
If you want to prevent hijacking, a locked cockpit is all that's needed.
Aside from 9/11, how many deaths have resulted from hijacked European or US flights? Can you even name more than five in the past 50 years? I'm guessing an insignificant fraction of all passengers have died from terrorist attacks on airplanes, certainly not enough to justify ever increasing security theater provisions.
The great thing about robbing a fat guy is it's an easy getaway. You know, they can't really chase you!
Lack of morality aside, another real head-scratcher is this nugget.
Current law requires witnesses to report violent crimes when the victim is younger than 14.
I suppose CA legislators (or perhaps it was a prop) asked us to, please, think of the children, but not anyone else.
Wouldn't the vast sum of money required be better spent preserving the rainforests here on earth?
Hell no. You don't need to spend money just to leave something alone.
Unless someone else owns the land you think should be left alone.
And if FoxNews or MSNBC didn't receive contributions from other high-paying corporations, they themselves would still have incredible influence on elections due to their position in the media. Unless you believe the media is unbiased... The solution is to educate the masses. As long as we continue to consume media and political rhetoric without critical thinking, no amount of restrictions on corporate spending will change the status quo; money will find a way.
The electoral college may increase the weight of an individual vote in less populous states at the cost of larger ones. And forget about the popular vote, especially in states where a candidate who wins a state election with ~40% of the vote gets 100% of the electoral votes.
Individuals should also have the freedom of assembly. But I guess in your view it's only kosher so long as they don't actually do anything as a group.
What else do you wish for from Santa Claus? That when copyright on a book expires, all of the author's original notes, manuscripts and sketches become public? Or when copyright on a movie expires, that the script become public? That when the protection expires on an article of music, the original multitrack recordings, sheet music, MIDI files, samples, and DAW scripts used in the creation of that work also become public domain?
A couple of these things can be transcribed for distribution after copyright expires, but it's a shame most of that information is lost or tucked away from the public. Of course it's up to the creators whether to release their "source code," but after the money is made, I hope that people warm to the idea of sharing with others.
One can dream.