The judge, if he hadn't been overturned, would have set a precedent that would be extremely destructive to what is left of free speech on the net.
Should anything on the web be required to be legal anywhere it can be accessed?
Should every website on the whole Internet have to be legal in China, Iran, Singapore, the US, France, Germany and every other country that wants to restrict certain types of speech?
No more Falun Gong sites, mentions of Tiannamen Square massacres or pro-democracy, any references to alcohol, anti-terrorism, Judaism or Christianity, anything that could be seen as seditious or disruptive of public order, anything that could hurt large corporate interests or weaken "intellectual property" and DRM (digital restriction management) schemes, or any German World War 2 memorabilia, anything considered racist, etc, etc. (*)
(*) Yes, I did put the restrictions in the same order of the countries that impose them.
The police could have the felon illegally get evidence that lets them know what the need to investigate, then all the need to do is find the right pretext to get at the data, like perhaps going into a business that the illegal investigation turned up some dirt on, buy something, and check the money you get back as change for drug residues (nearly 100% likely to be positive) and use that as a pretext for a drug investigation, and then "legally" find what you already illegally know and use the "legally" found info in court.
Or just watch those the illegal info points you to like a hawk so closely that you catch them in the act. Tail them and when they do a 36 in a 35, pull them over, say they look nervous, and search the car for example or have it sniffed for drugs possibly (have a K9 unit pull them over - have the dog and the cop go up to the suspects, etc).
Yes, the above isn't ethical, but it is possible.
And law enforcement does "hire" felons, just not on the payroll.
If one maliciously claims you were Jack the Ripper, it is a purported statement of fact, is false, and malicious, but since it isn't believable, and there isn't any financial harm or something that can be put in monetary terms, you'd have trouble collecting a judgement. You might be able to get in injuction, but that is iffy. I doubt you'd get awarded costs and attorney's fees.
I believe that is GROSSLY illegal! (raising rates if you were 0% at fault). You should've contacted your state's insurance board.
State Farm, to my knowledge, will NOT do that, and the surcharge for an accident is painful, but not outragious - I know of a case where someone's bill went from approx $700/6 months to $1000/6 months, but went back to normal after 3 years - this is in Nevada, where people drive like complete nuts.
Is Farmers the company that ran an ad for home insurance showing a house with flames pouring out all the windows and then they made the flames go in reverse and said that they get you back to the way you were?
That ad disturbed me - no amount of money will replace people, pets or even memories of a house, or undo the terror one would feel if one's house caught fire.
In theory it does - but then again when it says "Congress shall make no law" the words "no law" are interpreted to mean "no law except what the Supreme Court thinks is OK".
Perhaps it is a prelude to make such games illegal in general - stigmatize - then ban - eventually get it to where possession is a felony.
I agree it can be used also as a justification for raising the age limits on other things. Luckily the right to vote at 18 would require a Constitutional Amendment to repeal.
The winds and rain of Katrina didn't do most of the damage to New Orleans - the subsequent flooding because the leeves failed (with massive holes opening in them) did.
Katrina was the trigger.
The failure of the leeves was due to a failure to maintain and upgrade them as needed.
It is easier to control the politicians than the weather.
Vote out those that failed the people of New Orleans.
Speaking of racism, the use of the term refugee is offensive, inaccurate, and racist.
If they were mostly white, everyone would be calling them EVACUEES, not refugees, which has negative connotations.
People had and have respect for the September 11 victims, both those who survived and did not.
Many people fail to extend that same respect to the New Orleans evacuees, and I believe a lot of that is because they are mostly Black. Which also figures into why things were done slowly and so little is still being done. They wouldn't warehouse rich white people in a place like the Superdome you can be assured of that.
If NOLA was mostly white, people would be settled in comfortable places around the country within 24 to 48 hours of evacuating the city.
Who am I kidding - if NOLA was mostly white the city would still be dry - the politicians wouldn't have said NO to upgrading the leeves.
They KNEW anything above a Category 3 storm would do severe damage. They KNEW that had Ivan hit NOLA the disaster would have come then - they IGNORED the warning - then Katrina came YEARS later.
They ignored the warning. They took forever to act. They took inappropriate actions (Superdome) and they refused and refuse to take command of the situation. They refused to use public transit and school buses to get people out. Etc. Etc.
If the Democrats can find someone reasonable to have run in 2008 they very well may win. Of course, putting up Kerry in 2004 was stupid. They picked the WORST person for that, except maybe Howard Dean.
You likely don't need to have the FCC increase the power of the license - the current legally allowed wattage may very well suffice.
It takes a lot less watts than you think to broadcast from a parking lot into a building.
That close, and the inverse square law of signal power works in your favor.
And there is a heck of a lot less attenuation of FM frequencies (such as 95.3 MHz which is what they were to transmit on) than on cell phone frequencies so if cell phones work, there will likely not be too much attenuation of a 95.3 FM signal.
So if it is legal to broadcast from outside they likely can make do with the power level they are already authorized to use.
Cell towers use about 20 W power output, and they are a high frequency (more attentuation) and they get quite far and reliably when the carrier actually maintains their network.
Agreed but our failures are starting to become an extreme liability in the court of public opinion.
Linux would likely have 15% of the desktop market or at the very least, 50% of what Apple has now if these issues were addressed.
Linux has the geeks as customers. Now with every increase of market share they need to pickup customers who are more and more demanding, and less and less forgiving.
And even geeks get tired of fiddling with stuff just to get it to work. Also, someone interested in TCP/IP, or game writing, etc might not have much tolerance for dealing with X config issues.
We need to get people on the failed projects (or stagnated projects) to come on board the ones that are viable, combine code where possible, write documentation, fix bugs (any bug over 3 months old should take priority over any new feature or newer non-critical bugs), and "polish" their software so it appeals to the "I just want it to work" crowd (which includes geeks outside their specialties).
And if it's not economically viable to use alternatives today, wait until next month when the price of gas goes up another $1/gal, and if it's still not viable, wait another month.:)
Over-engineering is what Open Source is known for.
That, shoddy documentation, unfixed bugs (as long as they only impact unimportant people - see the X servers locks up your system on switch to a text VC and the Adaptec SCSI driver blocks an APM/ACPI sleep attempt and goes into a permanent 100% CPU spin loop for example), abandoned projects, and re-inventing the wheel 1000 times.
Look, Slashdot still hasn't fixed the "It's been x minutes since you last posted" bug. For months!
In contrast to previous storage mechanisms, this method binds hydrogen to a pellet which is completely safe to handle at room temperature. While bound in this medium no hydrogen loss occurs, enabling hydrogen to be stored cheaply for indefinite periods. When needed, the extraction of hydrogen is relatively simple.
I also have a method for binding hydrogen to another substance, it is completely safe to handle at room temperature, there is no hydrogen loss and it can be stored cheaply for indefinite periods. It is furthermore completely non-toxic and even healthy to consume.
I claim:
1. A hydrogen storage system method where 2 hydrogen atoms are covalently bound with an assemblage consisting of eight protons, eight neutrons, and eight electrons, where the enumerated items in the assemblage are nuclearly bound together, and
2. An extraction method consisting of applying a DC potential difference, thereby creating a DC current through the substance and collection of hydrogen gas at the cathode.
Now off to file that patent...
(I'd possibly even get one granted for that, too...)
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Keep in mind, Nevada is the "new Delaware" when it comes to corporations.
Very business friendly laws and NO STATE CORPORATE TAX. (only 4 states can say that).
Why was this moderated flamebait?
The judge, if he hadn't been overturned, would have set a precedent that would be extremely destructive to what is left of free speech on the net.
Should anything on the web be required to be legal anywhere it can be accessed?
Should every website on the whole Internet have to be legal in China, Iran, Singapore, the US, France, Germany and every other country that wants to restrict certain types of speech?
No more Falun Gong sites, mentions of Tiannamen Square massacres or pro-democracy, any references to alcohol, anti-terrorism, Judaism or Christianity, anything that could be seen as seditious or disruptive of public order, anything that could hurt large corporate interests or weaken "intellectual property" and DRM (digital restriction management) schemes, or any German World War 2 memorabilia, anything considered racist, etc, etc. (*)
(*) Yes, I did put the restrictions in the same order of the countries that impose them.
The police could have the felon illegally get evidence that lets them know what the need to investigate, then all the need to do is find the right pretext to get at the data, like perhaps going into a business that the illegal investigation turned up some dirt on, buy something, and check the money you get back as change for drug residues (nearly 100% likely to be positive) and use that as a pretext for a drug investigation, and then "legally" find what you already illegally know and use the "legally" found info in court.
Or just watch those the illegal info points you to like a hawk so closely that you catch them in the act. Tail them and when they do a 36 in a 35, pull them over, say they look nervous, and search the car for example or have it sniffed for drugs possibly (have a K9 unit pull them over - have the dog and the cop go up to the suspects, etc).
Yes, the above isn't ethical, but it is possible.
And law enforcement does "hire" felons, just not on the payroll.
They are called "paid informants", or "rats".
And to collect damages you have to prove harm.
If one maliciously claims you were Jack the Ripper, it is a purported statement of fact, is false, and malicious, but since it isn't believable, and there isn't any financial harm or something that can be put in monetary terms, you'd have trouble collecting a judgement. You might be able to get in injuction, but that is iffy. I doubt you'd get awarded costs and attorney's fees.
Ask a lawyer for real advice.
I believe that is GROSSLY illegal! (raising rates if you were 0% at fault). You should've contacted your state's insurance board.
State Farm, to my knowledge, will NOT do that, and the surcharge for an accident is painful, but not outragious - I know of a case where someone's bill went from approx $700/6 months to $1000/6 months, but went back to normal after 3 years - this is in Nevada, where people drive like complete nuts.
43% increase is much better than 213% increase.
Is Farmers the company that ran an ad for home insurance showing a house with flames pouring out all the windows and then they made the flames go in reverse and said that they get you back to the way you were?
That ad disturbed me - no amount of money will replace people, pets or even memories of a house, or undo the terror one would feel if one's house caught fire.
In theory it does - but then again when it says "Congress shall make no law" the words "no law" are interpreted to mean "no law except what the Supreme Court thinks is OK".
Perhaps it is a prelude to make such games illegal in general - stigmatize - then ban - eventually get it to where possession is a felony.
I agree it can be used also as a justification for raising the age limits on other things. Luckily the right to vote at 18 would require a Constitutional Amendment to repeal.
Isn't using the word email with no hyphens illegal in France (or is it Quebec, Canada, or both) because it is "language corruption"?
In 100 years, there will STILL be many who would not have switched away from GIF. :/
$13K just to be allowed to buy a car?
And I though Nevada's vehicle registration was exorbinant - guess I should quit my whining!
The winds and rain of Katrina didn't do most of the damage to New Orleans - the subsequent flooding because the leeves failed (with massive holes opening in them) did.
Katrina was the trigger.
The failure of the leeves was due to a failure to maintain and upgrade them as needed.
It is easier to control the politicians than the weather.
Vote out those that failed the people of New Orleans.
Barbara Bush, is that you?
a lspecial/07barbara.html for something appalling Barbara Bush said about the Katrina victims in New Orleans - she said they were better off)
(see http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nation
Las Vegas is safe, except for terrorism and nuclear waste. :)
There is a Hell in Michigan too.
Speaking of racism, the use of the term refugee is offensive, inaccurate, and racist.
If they were mostly white, everyone would be calling them EVACUEES, not refugees, which has negative connotations.
People had and have respect for the September 11 victims, both those who survived and did not.
Many people fail to extend that same respect to the New Orleans evacuees, and I believe a lot of that is because they are mostly Black. Which also figures into why things were done slowly and so little is still being done. They wouldn't warehouse rich white people in a place like the Superdome you can be assured of that.
If NOLA was mostly white, people would be settled in comfortable places around the country within 24 to 48 hours of evacuating the city.
Who am I kidding - if NOLA was mostly white the city would still be dry - the politicians wouldn't have said NO to upgrading the leeves.
They KNEW anything above a Category 3 storm would do severe damage. They KNEW that had Ivan hit NOLA the disaster would have come then - they IGNORED the warning - then Katrina came YEARS later.
They ignored the warning. They took forever to act. They took inappropriate actions (Superdome) and they refused and refuse to take command of the situation. They refused to use public transit and school buses to get people out. Etc. Etc.
If the Democrats can find someone reasonable to have run in 2008 they very well may win. Of course, putting up Kerry in 2004 was stupid. They picked the WORST person for that, except maybe Howard Dean.
Sam Nunn would be a good choice.
You likely don't need to have the FCC increase the power of the license - the current legally allowed wattage may very well suffice.
It takes a lot less watts than you think to broadcast from a parking lot into a building.
That close, and the inverse square law of signal power works in your favor.
And there is a heck of a lot less attenuation of FM frequencies (such as 95.3 MHz which is what they were to transmit on) than on cell phone frequencies so if cell phones work, there will likely not be too much attenuation of a 95.3 FM signal.
So if it is legal to broadcast from outside they likely can make do with the power level they are already authorized to use.
Cell towers use about 20 W power output, and they are a high frequency (more attentuation) and they get quite far and reliably when the carrier actually maintains their network.
20 W should be WELL more than enough.
The Iraq constitution was to impose Sharia law.
Be glad its gone.
I'd rather us put Saddam back than have that.
And I don't say the lightly.
Agreed but our failures are starting to become an extreme liability in the court of public opinion.
Linux would likely have 15% of the desktop market or at the very least, 50% of what Apple has now if these issues were addressed.
Linux has the geeks as customers.
Now with every increase of market share they need to pickup customers who are more and more demanding, and less and less forgiving.
And even geeks get tired of fiddling with stuff just to get it to work. Also, someone interested in TCP/IP, or game writing, etc might not have much tolerance for dealing with X config issues.
We need to get people on the failed projects (or stagnated projects) to come on board the ones that are viable, combine code where possible, write documentation, fix bugs (any bug over 3 months old should take priority over any new feature or newer non-critical bugs), and "polish" their software so it appeals to the "I just want it to work" crowd (which includes geeks outside their specialties).
And GIMP needs to be renamed badly.
US citizens are protected by the Constitution.
Illegal enemy combatants aren't even covered by the Geneva convention.
Big difference.
That's about all the gov't will allow you to use with the Food Pyramid.
And if it's not economically viable to use alternatives today, wait until next month when the price of gas goes up another $1/gal, and if it's still not viable, wait another month. :)
These people might:
:)
http://www.rense.com/earthchanges/emfmind.htm
Google search for HAARP and weather modification.
Never mind that if we had that kind of power available to us, we wouldn't have an energy crisis.
Over-engineering is what Open Source is known for.
That, shoddy documentation, unfixed bugs (as long as they only impact unimportant people - see the X servers locks up your system on switch to a text VC and the Adaptec SCSI driver blocks an APM/ACPI sleep attempt and goes into a permanent 100% CPU spin loop for example), abandoned projects, and re-inventing the wheel 1000 times.
Look, Slashdot still hasn't fixed the "It's been x minutes since you last posted" bug. For months!
From the summary:
In contrast to previous storage mechanisms, this method binds hydrogen to a pellet which is completely safe to handle at room temperature. While bound in this medium no hydrogen loss occurs, enabling hydrogen to be stored cheaply for indefinite periods. When needed, the extraction of hydrogen is relatively simple.
I also have a method for binding hydrogen to another substance, it is completely safe to handle at room temperature, there is no hydrogen loss and it can be stored cheaply for indefinite periods. It is furthermore completely non-toxic and even healthy to consume.
I claim:
1. A hydrogen storage system method where 2 hydrogen atoms are covalently bound with an assemblage consisting of eight protons, eight neutrons, and eight electrons, where the enumerated items in the assemblage are nuclearly bound together, and
2. An extraction method consisting of applying a DC potential difference, thereby creating a DC current through the substance and collection of hydrogen gas at the cathode.
Now off to file that patent...
(I'd possibly even get one granted for that, too...)