Such a law effectively says "We don't trust you to raise your children yourself. We'll decide which things children are and are not allowed access to by default, you'll need to specifically intervene to change those decisions.
Well a lot of people CAN'T be trusted to raise their children. These kids grow up and their actions as adults affect the rest of us, too, so I have no problem with the government stepping in.
Slashdot poster: You, sirs, have soiled the UNIX world with your money grubbing!
SCO: one million, one million one hundred, one million two hundred, oh sorry did you say something?
Slashdot poster: I SAID--
SCO: One second. Bob! You want to bring those bags over here, the ones with the dollar signs on the front? Alright, go on.
Slashdot poster: Your business will suffer because of the bad will in the open source community!
SCO: Are you a SCO user?
Slashdot poster: Well, no, I use linux.
SCO: So the court decision means you won't buy an operating system that you weren't going to buy in the first place?
Slashdot poster: But previously I would never buy SCO. After your court action, however, I'l never EVER buy SCO.
SCO: Riiight. I hope you'll excuse me, I have to stop at the Mercedes dealership before they close. That nice security guard over there will show you out.
Nobody was expecting the same memories; they were, however, expecting the same behavior patterns.
I admit I was surprised. More and more behavioral aspects of an organism are being defined by genetics these days. Look at how identical twins raised in different environments exhibit similar behavioral patterns, down to the occupations they choose. Nature vs. nurture's an ongoing battle, but over the past few years it's seemed that nature would win.
Isn't it time we called our Congressmen/women and demanded, on pain of our voting for third parties, that they put the tax law genie back in the bottle?
It's also the corporations' fault. Every time they try to levy a standard tax the lobbyists come out and beg, wheedle, and bribe to get loopholes in the law. They should just set a standard import/export tax, no exceptions.
It may have been modded down into oblivion, but I was responding to a poster who used that exact same demand ("move to North Korea") regarding people who criticized this company for changing the convention rules. I was simply pointing out that criticizing a company's actions demonstrates free speech, not totalitarianism.
And the press is free to call attention to it, and we're free to criticize it. You don't like it, move to North Korea.
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My point was not that cell phones cause cancer; in fact, I think they probably don't.
I was simply pointing out that the blanket attack against ANY insinuation that they do probably isn't a good idea. Science I don't agree with does not necessarily equal junk science.
Actually, I suspect it has nothing to do with either of them. All it takes is for one less big name act to spring up, and total sales are affected.
It's like the movie business; one blockbuster more or less per year can affect how the industry itself is seen to do as a whole.
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OK, I'm a physical chemist, and this junk drives me up the wall.
I'm sure you're a good physical chemist, but if neurooncologists and biophysicists haven't pinned down everything that causes brain cancer, can you really say that you can?
To give you a baseline, cancer due to radiation occurs because photons of succicient energy actually break chemical bonds in your DNA.
That's one of the causes. There could be others. For example, this article states that:
The paper, published in the June issue of the science journal Differentiation, says that repeated exposure to mobile phone radiation acts as a repetitive stress, leading to continuous manufacture of heat shock proteins within cells.
Heat shock proteins are always present in cells at a low level, but are manufactured in larger amounts when the cell is stressed by heat or other environmental factors. They repair other proteins that are adversely affected by the conditions, and are part of the cell's normal reaction to stress. However, if they are produced too often or for too long, they are known to initiate cancer and increase resistance to anti-cancer drugs.
Just because the radiation produced by cell phones is itself not powerful enough to directly affect the DNA doesn't mean that it will thusly have no effect whatsoever.
States are already slashing budgets by large amounts. It's not enough.
Of course there are people who are utterly convinced that the government is just so big and bloated that it should be easy to streamline, but it's just not the case. After enough fat-cutting you eventually hit muscle.
You have two sides; one are the comics editors and midwestern housewives who like their comics family-oriented, bland, and predictable.
The other side are the edgy l33t comic crowd who think that a comic is only good if it's an incomprehensible mishmash of bad art, pop culture references, and unfunny punchlines.
PGP encryption has a security hole that prevents that from being useful. They can be dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and forced at gunpoint to reveal exactly what they were hiding.
They didn't kill it; they got creamed in the marketplace despite consistently releasing better hardware. I mean, look at the Sega Master System; it was a generation ahead of the NES, but still it tanked.
Considering how deep into debt Sega went in prolonging the Dreamcast's life, I think they're completely blameless here.
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great pool of OSS talent.
Getting a little full of ourselves, aren't we...
Such a law effectively says "We don't trust you to raise your children yourself. We'll decide which things children are and are not allowed access to by default, you'll need to specifically intervene to change those decisions.
Well a lot of people CAN'T be trusted to raise their children. These kids grow up and their actions as adults affect the rest of us, too, so I have no problem with the government stepping in.
They managed to do all of this without any laws enforcing it. Instead they relied on the tried and true method of actually being parents
Only this law isn't aimed at parents. It's aimed at the kids. Nobody is mandating or prohibiting what adults buy for their children.
If they win:
Slashdot poster: You, sirs, have soiled the UNIX world with your money grubbing!
SCO: one million, one million one hundred, one million two hundred, oh sorry did you say something?
Slashdot poster: I SAID--
SCO: One second. Bob! You want to bring those bags over here, the ones with the dollar signs on the front? Alright, go on.
Slashdot poster: Your business will suffer because of the bad will in the open source community!
SCO: Are you a SCO user?
Slashdot poster: Well, no, I use linux.
SCO: So the court decision means you won't buy an operating system that you weren't going to buy in the first place?
Slashdot poster: But previously I would never buy SCO. After your court action, however, I'l never EVER buy SCO.
SCO: Riiight. I hope you'll excuse me, I have to stop at the Mercedes dealership before they close. That nice security guard over there will show you out.
Nobody was expecting the same memories; they were, however, expecting the same behavior patterns.
I admit I was surprised. More and more behavioral aspects of an organism are being defined by genetics these days. Look at how identical twins raised in different environments exhibit similar behavioral patterns, down to the occupations they choose. Nature vs. nurture's an ongoing battle, but over the past few years it's seemed that nature would win.
Huh? He said worldwide marketshare is 1.93, you try to counter that by bringing up US marketshare.
I bet I can get it to go at least 150 mph. What is the terminal velocity of a falling segway, anyway?
Bleh, fucking lame ass government stifling innovation because of imagined phantoms.
F=MA wasn't invented by the government.
Isn't it time we called our Congressmen/women and demanded, on pain of our voting for third parties, that they put the tax law genie back in the bottle?
It's also the corporations' fault. Every time they try to levy a standard tax the lobbyists come out and beg, wheedle, and bribe to get loopholes in the law. They should just set a standard import/export tax, no exceptions.
It may have been modded down into oblivion, but I was responding to a poster who used that exact same demand ("move to North Korea") regarding people who criticized this company for changing the convention rules. I was simply pointing out that criticizing a company's actions demonstrates free speech, not totalitarianism.
And the press is free to call attention to it, and we're free to criticize it. You don't like it, move to North Korea.
My point was not that cell phones cause cancer; in fact, I think they probably don't.
I was simply pointing out that the blanket attack against ANY insinuation that they do probably isn't a good idea. Science I don't agree with does not necessarily equal junk science.
The "lameness" in "lameness filter" apparently refers to the filter, rather than the text that it's supposed to filter.
Actually, I suspect it has nothing to do with either of them. All it takes is for one less big name act to spring up, and total sales are affected.
It's like the movie business; one blockbuster more or less per year can affect how the industry itself is seen to do as a whole.
I'm sure you're a good physical chemist, but if neurooncologists and biophysicists haven't pinned down everything that causes brain cancer, can you really say that you can?
To give you a baseline, cancer due to radiation occurs because photons of succicient energy actually break chemical bonds in your DNA.
That's one of the causes. There could be others. For example, this article states that:
Just because the radiation produced by cell phones is itself not powerful enough to directly affect the DNA doesn't mean that it will thusly have no effect whatsoever.
Plug in the back of your neck = matrix Programming yourself = Nano's from AO MIB's and Gmen in the black mesa desert = half life.
All of them together=Deus Ex
It's a well known practice in Political arenas to never kill programs that bring in votes.
What? The will of the voters affects budget decisions? That democracy sure is insidious...
States are already slashing budgets by large amounts. It's not enough.
Of course there are people who are utterly convinced that the government is just so big and bloated that it should be easy to streamline, but it's just not the case. After enough fat-cutting you eventually hit muscle.
Awfully ambiguous on SCO's part; I'd feel better about a straight denial.
And I'd like SCO to give me a million dollars and a new Aston-Martin, but I don't see either happening.
Obviously they don't want to publicly cast off their IP rights simply because it would make some people more comfortable.
You have two sides; one are the comics editors and midwestern housewives who like their comics family-oriented, bland, and predictable.
The other side are the edgy l33t comic crowd who think that a comic is only good if it's an incomprehensible mishmash of bad art, pop culture references, and unfunny punchlines.
It's a lose-lose situation.
Not being good at math doesn't mean you don't have analystical skills.
True. I sucked at the math portion of the GRE, but aced the analytical.
PGP encryption has a security hole that prevents that from being useful. They can be dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and forced at gunpoint to reveal exactly what they were hiding.
Unfortunately, there are no patches for that.
They didn't kill it; they got creamed in the marketplace despite consistently releasing better hardware. I mean, look at the Sega Master System; it was a generation ahead of the NES, but still it tanked.
Considering how deep into debt Sega went in prolonging the Dreamcast's life, I think they're completely blameless here.
They're losing virtually nothing in this and it is a complete failure of the political system to prosecute them.
Why are you assuming anyone who took advantage of this would choose software?
Think X-Boxes. Think mice, keyboards, and joysticks.
Actually a better analogy would be to refuse to pay for some food because you claim it's awful, but still stuff your face full of it.