This is way off topic, but in response to the above...
I've always considered liberal policies to be the more emotionally based. For instance, universe health care on an emotional basis makes a lot of sense. Consider, for example, Keith Olberman's one hour special appealing for the passage of the health care bill. But if you can overlook the immediate emotion of the issue, issues regarding long term fiscal shortages and potential effects on innovation arise.
Really any social program, from affordable housing to corn subsidies to health care typically relies upon an emotional response for support. "The Poor Farmer" "The Middle Class is being left behind..." Etc...
If you have a heart, its sometimes difficult to remain conservative (at least by my definition). Its difficult to tell senior citizens that we're scaling back medicare because we simply don't have the money to pay for it. Its difficult to tell failing banks and their employees that we're not going to bail them out and that thousands will be laid off because the leaders of those companies made terrible decisions bankrupting the company and its not the government's responsibility to save their ass.
Now please keep in mind that I don't judge a government program based upon what party proposed and/or passed the bill, but by its overall effect. I can't think of a conservative thing the federal government has done since Clinton scaled back welfare.
Accordingly, the asshats currently claiming to be conservatives are just as guilty in relying upon emotional response for expansion of government, e.g. "The terrorists, the terrorists, the terrorists."
We've become (are? always have been?) a reactionary society. The politicians take advantage of this fact to gain and retain power. Its works on both sides of the aisle, but each with its own respective heart strings to pull.
I didn't RTFA, but exactly how detailed is this information? Will my facade of sophistication bolstered by my renting/viewing of foreign films remain intact? Or will it be torn asunder when it is revealed I only fast forwarded to the sex scenes?
Yup, same here. The standard def stuff starts pretty quickly. It was the 1080p on demand that DirecTV just recently offered that took ridiculous amounts of time to d/l.
Agree agree and agree. We use netflix streaming for a most things, which is ok picture quality when it jumps to HD.
I have DirecTV for television. Its PPV offerings are downloaded over a broadband connection. Whether the bottleneck is with my connection or their servers, I don't know. It was several hours before the download indicated it was ready to be viewed (which was also prior to it being completely downloaded).
Additionally, my understanding is that only urban areas have fiber right now. Don't forget that about 1/2 the population of the US is in rural areas without all the comforts and luxuries that y'all city folk take for granted.
And let's not forget the instant gratification demanded by many consumers. On typical broadband, a song downloads in less than a minute. The significantly longer time required to download a movie (if purchased and stored in Blue Ray quality) is longer than the time required to drive to Blockbuster or Walmart to buy the physical copy of the same movie.
For instance, a few months ago, I ordered PPV Gran Torino in 1080p for my wife and I to view one evening. Six hours later it was ready to view, but she was already in bed.
And to what extent can higher salaries for teachers counter our societal anti-intellectualism?
The fault lies not with the teachers, but with the parents. Most folks, even "educated" ones, are not particularly intellectual. My father barely graduated from high school, but has always been a "thinker". I learned from him to appreciate "thinking" and eventually figured out that an education supplements my ability to think. Unfortunately, it seems most Americans have learned to replace critical thought with education, instead of supplement it.
That's the point. Forty cents to deliver a letter is a pretty good deal because it is less per letter than the USPS requires to maintain operations. Either prices need to go up or the general federal government will have to further subsidize the post office. Even if it wasn't a statutorily permitted monopoly, UPS and FedEx couldn't compete with the post office because they actually have to try to make a profit.
"Hey, I'm going to kill my wife. Do you got anything I can use?"
"Ok, here's some bullets, that will be $20.00"
Conspiracy begins with "Ok."
Aiding and abetting begins at "here's some bullets."
Compare with:
Prosecutor: "Everyone in the community knew he was going to kill his wife and you sold him bullets."
Second fact pattern is a significantly higher burden on the state.
No, its like a gun store selling bullets and providing you instructions on how to kill your spouse and dispose of the body. Oh, and here's the gun shops email address and forum in case you have any questions during the commission of said murder.
My question is: just how low did they lower the melting point of this "ink"? And wouldn't a relatively low melting point make this technology inapplicable to or problematic for any situation where the components got hot - like, oh, any situation involving transistors or processors, which is probably 90% or more of the circuit boards out there?
Ah, the parent post apparently got the disagree = troll mod. Its a shame, because that was somewhat informative... if I understood it correctly.
I know some people and heard of many others who began stockpiling ammo after the market crash last year and then increased their stockpiling upon Obama's election. Of course, civilization as we know it didn't end and so all this stockpiled ammo didn't get used. Accordingly, they don't need to buy any more ammo for a long time, so the ammo companies aren't going to be increasing production for a while.
Well, lets say Cowboy Neal invested in Take 2 when it was $50/share, then the hot coffee incident broke and was mismanaged by the then acting board, the price dropped to $25/share and Neal sold. He now has the opportunity to sue to try to recoup some of that loss.
So he had $10,000 worth of company, then $5,000 worth of company, then sold and has $4,988.00 in cash (damn commissions). He wants his $5,000 back because he thinks the board negligently mismanaged the incident causing him injury. Yup, that's where we are. I'm surprised I haven't heard of anyone doing this with Freddie/Fannie.
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To the best of my knowledge, breaching a usual contract is not a crime. Well, I guess breaching some hypothetical "contract with society" is the fundamental basis of criminal law. But we're talking about a contract between a person and a company. No laws are broken there.
I do recall some cases though where people "stole" "things" in games like second life and courts found that those actions were tantamount to theft - the wrongful dispossession of property; however, I would distinguish Eve as these types of wild west interactions are sort of the purpose of EVE. From what I understand, and correct me if I'm wrong, its sort of what a lot of the players sign up for and its definitely what intrigues me about the game.
This issue was also raised a few times above. A solution to this would be extremely low powered lasers (nano-lasers, maybe?) that are able to aim themselves in a way to project the image directly onto the back of your eye. Laser = no dispersion = no need to focus the light. Or maybe everything I though about lasers was wrong.
I live in WV now after growing up in MD. It seems to me the kids here know a whole lot more about their states's history than I was ever taught about MD.
Of course, the caveat is that where I grew up in MD was many magnitudes more redneck than where I live now in WV. Weird, eh?
Actually, its Fairmont, WV. One hundred forty miles north of Charleston. And as others have noted, WV succeeded from VA to stay union. A fact that a lot of folks seem to take pride in here.
This may be the closest a slashdot story has ever been to my house. I wondered where that golf ball in my yard came from.
When I moved to West Virginia a few years ago from Colorado, I told the guys out there "I'm moving to west virginia."
They said, "What, near Richmond?"
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't NASA pay the commercial sector to build rockets to its own specifications?
NASA: We need a big rocket to send things into space. But it has to have these 15 compromises so that all the various military branches are happy and these 22 senators get contracts in their distrits.
Private contractors: Ok. Here's 10 different ways of using a big freaking rocket to shoot things into space. None of which are anything revolutionary... mainly because you're still asking us for big freakin' rockets.
I think the idea of going to corporations for transport is thus: NASA says, "Ok, as soon as one of you private companies gives us a reliable and safe means of transport to orbit, we'll use your services and give you a prize check for $x,000,000,000." Then all the individual companies are free to come up with their own ideas of how to do that, whether its Virgin's big plane to rocketship plan or a space elevator or whatever. The patents that company will earn during that R&D will lock them in as potential monopoly for a number of years increasing their incentive to "win".
My history is probably way off here, but it took state incentivized individual entrepreneurship to get us to the new world. It took state incentivized individual entrepreneurship to get the transcontinental railroad laid.
My original 360 lasted about 2 years and failed non-RRoD, so it was out of warranty. I went and bought a new one.
Personal anecdotes aside, do we think that this disregard for reliability is a symptom of our cynical throw away society? I expect electronics to fail. I expect my car to break down. Light bulbs burn out. Etc...
Compare it, perhaps, to cars. Some brands have better reliability ratings than others. But for unquantifiable esoteric reasons, consumers still purchase the unreliable car despite its issues.
There's a lot of MS hate out there, and I certainly understand it to a degree. Their products have problems - lots of problems, but when Windows or my Xbox works properly, they are nice and I like them. I will continue to buy MS products. *shrug*
I, and I suspect many others like me, have been conditioned to accept the fact that certain products that I like will eventually break. That's part of the product cycle. When my XBox broke, I thought, well, it was only a matter of time. I promptly went out and bought a new one.
I'm not trying to defend this mentality. Its generally bad for consumers. But from a theoretical economics point of view, consumers have decided that ( an unreliable xbox 360 + unquantifiable considerations )/price > ( reliable ps3 + unquantifiable considerations )/price.
My wife had an AOL account when we met and her parents somehow still have one? (Is that even possible?) I would always mock her for her AOL email address. She could never understand why. I just forwarded her a copy of the parent post. I hope that clears things up.
The gamepad vs. mouse is moot because console players don't compete against PC users. Its like folks trying to say that Indy car drivers are better than NASCAR drivers. The tools are too dissimilar to make any reasonable comparison, but because all competitors in either situation use similar tools within their own respective environment, they are all at the same relative advantage/disadvantage. Admittedly, if all players (console and PC) played on the same servers, the console players would typically get pwned (with all respect given to statistical anomalies).
Back to TFA, I have played video games for 20 years now on both PCs and consoles. I played DOOM, CIV 4, Medieval 2 and the Half-Life series (among others) on PC. I own an XBOX 360. For whatever reason, I never downloaded any DLC for those PC games. On the other hand, I have downloaded DLC for Halo, Fight Night 4, Tomb Raider and others for my XBox. Weird, I know. (This may change though, if Santa brings me my new gaming rig.)
Additionally, aren't some PC games now requiring you to pay for DLC? For instance, WOW? Or am I not understanding things correctly?
I knew a circle one time. He told me about a dream he had where a sphere visited him and tried to explain volume. He also had a dream where he visited a point and a line. Sadly, the circle was later committed.
Model Rules of Professional Conduct 1.6, section a states that "A lawyer shall not reveal information relating to the representation of a client unless the client gives informed consent, the disclosure is impliedly authorized in order to carry out the representation or the disclosure is permitted by paragraph (b)."
Hence, the attorney's restriction on discussing or distributing information relating to his client is NOT limited to what would otherwise be commonly referred to as "confidential" information. Even if the information in question, including the content of public filings, is already within the public consciousness, the lawyer is still prohibited from furthering the spread of that information. For instance, a lawyer should not take a copy of the complaint he just filed at court and put it up on a billboard (unless otherwise required by the applicable rules).
As an attorney who has used PACER, I have logged onto PACER to download copies of judicial noticies, orders, pleadings from the other parties involved in the case, etc... Those orders, pleadings, notices are arguably information relating to my client and accordingly, I am prohibited from distributing that information.
You mention lawyers studying other cases. While it is true that lawyers "study other cases", it may not be what you think. I suppose the occasional lawyer will look through cases to see how a particularly skilled lawyer drafted his pleadings. Or, for instance, I have personally sat in on hearings in which skilled lawyers were participating. But this is not what is meant by "studying cases".
"Studying cases" almost ubiquitously refers to the study of higher court opinions, such as US Supreme Court opinions or opinions from the highest courts of each state. Those opinions are published into typically free archives available at each respective court's website. Searching those opinions, however, is not as easy and is typically a "pay-for" service, but not through PACER.
Again, my own experience and the experience of my associates tells me that lawyers most often access PACER to access pleadings in their own current cases, not for academic review. Accordingly, the information they view at PACER falls within "client information", the spread of which by the attorney is frowned upon by the ABA.
The government (the judicial branch) provides the written opinion. That is the end of their obligation. Private companies than take that opinion, read, analyze, summarize, cross reference, "shepardize", and index it. Said private companies deserve to get paid for their effort.
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This is way off topic, but in response to the above...
I've always considered liberal policies to be the more emotionally based. For instance, universe health care on an emotional basis makes a lot of sense. Consider, for example, Keith Olberman's one hour special appealing for the passage of the health care bill. But if you can overlook the immediate emotion of the issue, issues regarding long term fiscal shortages and potential effects on innovation arise.
Really any social program, from affordable housing to corn subsidies to health care typically relies upon an emotional response for support. "The Poor Farmer" "The Middle Class is being left behind..." Etc...
If you have a heart, its sometimes difficult to remain conservative (at least by my definition). Its difficult to tell senior citizens that we're scaling back medicare because we simply don't have the money to pay for it. Its difficult to tell failing banks and their employees that we're not going to bail them out and that thousands will be laid off because the leaders of those companies made terrible decisions bankrupting the company and its not the government's responsibility to save their ass.
Now please keep in mind that I don't judge a government program based upon what party proposed and/or passed the bill, but by its overall effect. I can't think of a conservative thing the federal government has done since Clinton scaled back welfare.
Accordingly, the asshats currently claiming to be conservatives are just as guilty in relying upon emotional response for expansion of government, e.g. "The terrorists, the terrorists, the terrorists."
We've become (are? always have been?) a reactionary society. The politicians take advantage of this fact to gain and retain power. Its works on both sides of the aisle, but each with its own respective heart strings to pull.
I didn't RTFA, but exactly how detailed is this information? Will my facade of sophistication bolstered by my renting/viewing of foreign films remain intact? Or will it be torn asunder when it is revealed I only fast forwarded to the sex scenes?
Yup, same here. The standard def stuff starts pretty quickly. It was the 1080p on demand that DirecTV just recently offered that took ridiculous amounts of time to d/l.
Agree agree and agree. We use netflix streaming for a most things, which is ok picture quality when it jumps to HD.
I have DirecTV for television. Its PPV offerings are downloaded over a broadband connection. Whether the bottleneck is with my connection or their servers, I don't know. It was several hours before the download indicated it was ready to be viewed (which was also prior to it being completely downloaded).
Additionally, my understanding is that only urban areas have fiber right now. Don't forget that about 1/2 the population of the US is in rural areas without all the comforts and luxuries that y'all city folk take for granted.
And let's not forget the instant gratification demanded by many consumers. On typical broadband, a song downloads in less than a minute. The significantly longer time required to download a movie (if purchased and stored in Blue Ray quality) is longer than the time required to drive to Blockbuster or Walmart to buy the physical copy of the same movie.
For instance, a few months ago, I ordered PPV Gran Torino in 1080p for my wife and I to view one evening. Six hours later it was ready to view, but she was already in bed.
And to what extent can higher salaries for teachers counter our societal anti-intellectualism?
The fault lies not with the teachers, but with the parents. Most folks, even "educated" ones, are not particularly intellectual. My father barely graduated from high school, but has always been a "thinker". I learned from him to appreciate "thinking" and eventually figured out that an education supplements my ability to think. Unfortunately, it seems most Americans have learned to replace critical thought with education, instead of supplement it.
That's the point. Forty cents to deliver a letter is a pretty good deal because it is less per letter than the USPS requires to maintain operations. Either prices need to go up or the general federal government will have to further subsidize the post office. Even if it wasn't a statutorily permitted monopoly, UPS and FedEx couldn't compete with the post office because they actually have to try to make a profit.
"Hey, I'm going to kill my wife. Do you got anything I can use?"
"Ok, here's some bullets, that will be $20.00"
Conspiracy begins with "Ok."
Aiding and abetting begins at "here's some bullets."
Compare with: Prosecutor: "Everyone in the community knew he was going to kill his wife and you sold him bullets."
Second fact pattern is a significantly higher burden on the state.
No, its like a gun store selling bullets and providing you instructions on how to kill your spouse and dispose of the body. Oh, and here's the gun shops email address and forum in case you have any questions during the commission of said murder.
My question is: just how low did they lower the melting point of this "ink"? And wouldn't a relatively low melting point make this technology inapplicable to or problematic for any situation where the components got hot - like, oh, any situation involving transistors or processors, which is probably 90% or more of the circuit boards out there?
Ah, the parent post apparently got the disagree = troll mod. Its a shame, because that was somewhat informative... if I understood it correctly.
I know some people and heard of many others who began stockpiling ammo after the market crash last year and then increased their stockpiling upon Obama's election. Of course, civilization as we know it didn't end and so all this stockpiled ammo didn't get used. Accordingly, they don't need to buy any more ammo for a long time, so the ammo companies aren't going to be increasing production for a while.
Well, lets say Cowboy Neal invested in Take 2 when it was $50/share, then the hot coffee incident broke and was mismanaged by the then acting board, the price dropped to $25/share and Neal sold. He now has the opportunity to sue to try to recoup some of that loss.
So he had $10,000 worth of company, then $5,000 worth of company, then sold and has $4,988.00 in cash (damn commissions). He wants his $5,000 back because he thinks the board negligently mismanaged the incident causing him injury. Yup, that's where we are. I'm surprised I haven't heard of anyone doing this with Freddie/Fannie.
To the best of my knowledge, breaching a usual contract is not a crime. Well, I guess breaching some hypothetical "contract with society" is the fundamental basis of criminal law. But we're talking about a contract between a person and a company. No laws are broken there.
I do recall some cases though where people "stole" "things" in games like second life and courts found that those actions were tantamount to theft - the wrongful dispossession of property; however, I would distinguish Eve as these types of wild west interactions are sort of the purpose of EVE. From what I understand, and correct me if I'm wrong, its sort of what a lot of the players sign up for and its definitely what intrigues me about the game.
This issue was also raised a few times above. A solution to this would be extremely low powered lasers (nano-lasers, maybe?) that are able to aim themselves in a way to project the image directly onto the back of your eye. Laser = no dispersion = no need to focus the light. Or maybe everything I though about lasers was wrong.
I live in WV now after growing up in MD. It seems to me the kids here know a whole lot more about their states's history than I was ever taught about MD.
Of course, the caveat is that where I grew up in MD was many magnitudes more redneck than where I live now in WV. Weird, eh?
Actually, its Fairmont, WV. One hundred forty miles north of Charleston. And as others have noted, WV succeeded from VA to stay union. A fact that a lot of folks seem to take pride in here.
This may be the closest a slashdot story has ever been to my house. I wondered where that golf ball in my yard came from.
When I moved to West Virginia a few years ago from Colorado, I told the guys out there "I'm moving to west virginia."
They said, "What, near Richmond?"
Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't NASA pay the commercial sector to build rockets to its own specifications?
NASA: We need a big rocket to send things into space. But it has to have these 15 compromises so that all the various military branches are happy and these 22 senators get contracts in their distrits.
Private contractors: Ok. Here's 10 different ways of using a big freaking rocket to shoot things into space. None of which are anything revolutionary... mainly because you're still asking us for big freakin' rockets.
I think the idea of going to corporations for transport is thus: NASA says, "Ok, as soon as one of you private companies gives us a reliable and safe means of transport to orbit, we'll use your services and give you a prize check for $x,000,000,000." Then all the individual companies are free to come up with their own ideas of how to do that, whether its Virgin's big plane to rocketship plan or a space elevator or whatever. The patents that company will earn during that R&D will lock them in as potential monopoly for a number of years increasing their incentive to "win".
My history is probably way off here, but it took state incentivized individual entrepreneurship to get us to the new world. It took state incentivized individual entrepreneurship to get the transcontinental railroad laid.
My original 360 lasted about 2 years and failed non-RRoD, so it was out of warranty. I went and bought a new one.
Personal anecdotes aside, do we think that this disregard for reliability is a symptom of our cynical throw away society? I expect electronics to fail. I expect my car to break down. Light bulbs burn out. Etc...
Compare it, perhaps, to cars. Some brands have better reliability ratings than others. But for unquantifiable esoteric reasons, consumers still purchase the unreliable car despite its issues.
There's a lot of MS hate out there, and I certainly understand it to a degree. Their products have problems - lots of problems, but when Windows or my Xbox works properly, they are nice and I like them. I will continue to buy MS products. *shrug*
I, and I suspect many others like me, have been conditioned to accept the fact that certain products that I like will eventually break. That's part of the product cycle. When my XBox broke, I thought, well, it was only a matter of time. I promptly went out and bought a new one.
I'm not trying to defend this mentality. Its generally bad for consumers. But from a theoretical economics point of view, consumers have decided that ( an unreliable xbox 360 + unquantifiable considerations )/price > ( reliable ps3 + unquantifiable considerations )/price.
My wife had an AOL account when we met and her parents somehow still have one? (Is that even possible?) I would always mock her for her AOL email address. She could never understand why. I just forwarded her a copy of the parent post. I hope that clears things up.
The gamepad vs. mouse is moot because console players don't compete against PC users. Its like folks trying to say that Indy car drivers are better than NASCAR drivers. The tools are too dissimilar to make any reasonable comparison, but because all competitors in either situation use similar tools within their own respective environment, they are all at the same relative advantage/disadvantage. Admittedly, if all players (console and PC) played on the same servers, the console players would typically get pwned (with all respect given to statistical anomalies).
Back to TFA, I have played video games for 20 years now on both PCs and consoles. I played DOOM, CIV 4, Medieval 2 and the Half-Life series (among others) on PC. I own an XBOX 360. For whatever reason, I never downloaded any DLC for those PC games. On the other hand, I have downloaded DLC for Halo, Fight Night 4, Tomb Raider and others for my XBox. Weird, I know. (This may change though, if Santa brings me my new gaming rig.)
Additionally, aren't some PC games now requiring you to pay for DLC? For instance, WOW? Or am I not understanding things correctly?
I knew a circle one time. He told me about a dream he had where a sphere visited him and tried to explain volume. He also had a dream where he visited a point and a line. Sadly, the circle was later committed.
Model Rules of Professional Conduct 1.6, section a states that "A lawyer shall not reveal information relating to the representation of a client unless the client gives informed consent, the disclosure is impliedly authorized in order to carry out the representation or the disclosure is permitted by paragraph (b)." Hence, the attorney's restriction on discussing or distributing information relating to his client is NOT limited to what would otherwise be commonly referred to as "confidential" information. Even if the information in question, including the content of public filings, is already within the public consciousness, the lawyer is still prohibited from furthering the spread of that information. For instance, a lawyer should not take a copy of the complaint he just filed at court and put it up on a billboard (unless otherwise required by the applicable rules).
As an attorney who has used PACER, I have logged onto PACER to download copies of judicial noticies, orders, pleadings from the other parties involved in the case, etc... Those orders, pleadings, notices are arguably information relating to my client and accordingly, I am prohibited from distributing that information.
You mention lawyers studying other cases. While it is true that lawyers "study other cases", it may not be what you think. I suppose the occasional lawyer will look through cases to see how a particularly skilled lawyer drafted his pleadings. Or, for instance, I have personally sat in on hearings in which skilled lawyers were participating. But this is not what is meant by "studying cases".
"Studying cases" almost ubiquitously refers to the study of higher court opinions, such as US Supreme Court opinions or opinions from the highest courts of each state. Those opinions are published into typically free archives available at each respective court's website. Searching those opinions, however, is not as easy and is typically a "pay-for" service, but not through PACER.
Again, my own experience and the experience of my associates tells me that lawyers most often access PACER to access pleadings in their own current cases, not for academic review. Accordingly, the information they view at PACER falls within "client information", the spread of which by the attorney is frowned upon by the ABA.
The government (the judicial branch) provides the written opinion. That is the end of their obligation. Private companies than take that opinion, read, analyze, summarize, cross reference, "shepardize", and index it. Said private companies deserve to get paid for their effort.