Hmm...last I knew, 9/11 didn't change the actual US Constitution one iota. Last I knew it took 38 states in agreement to do that.
Yes I know that's not being followed in practice, but until such time as the Constitution gets formally amended, I shall continue to assume it's the law of the land, and I'm prepared to face the risks involved.
To be fair, the governor of Minnesota at the time the emails were sent (Tim Pawlenty) is a Republican, and the only sitting senator of Minnesota was Amy Klobuchar (Democrat), as Franken's win was not yet certified in February 2009. This was not partisan, this was simply him hating his neighbor.
"Wiki" simply defines the website template. There are a lot of locked Wiki-powered pages out there. Wikipedia just chooses to open theirs up to anyone, for example.
That's harder for them to do nowadays though. Notice Assange is not being held in any jail yet. It's because there is warranted skepticism about the timing of the charges. Many countries believe the charges are simply there to shut him up.
Thanks to today's net society, any time a "coincidence" like this happens, it drums up a very healthy amount of skepticism.
Not sure....the Tea Party, as far as I've seen, is where the most extreme of the right is. The likes of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann pretty much define them.
The main movers and shakers in the GOP think they are too extreme, and want them, especially Palin, to disappear.
The Tea Party will end up splitting the GOP into 2 distinct parties if they're not careful. If that happens, neither of them will ever have a congressional majority again.
It's also fact that the VAST MAJORITY of people who drive while using cell phones never cause an accident ever.
No one ever seems to invert the statistics. Inversion of statstics puts a face of reality on many of these "nanny laws".
The post you replied to still applies. Not everyone has the same ability level. If someone is too stupid to realize their own ability level, it should not result in punishment for *everyone*.
At one of their "Alive 2007" concerts, they noticed many fans were filming the concert, so they asked fans to send in their concert footage. They paired segments of many different fan videos with the master audio recording of the concert to make the "Alive 2007" video album.
Sadly, the video isn't available in the USA. Only in PAL DVD.
This happened to my ex with her 2000 Toyota Celica.
In her driving experience since 1989, she did a lot of fast driving (120 mph and up), and developed the reflexes needed for such.
QED: she would not have been a victim of this due to "driver error". She says her accelerator raced and her brakes failed. This had been confirmed by the garage that repaired the vehicle.
Also, it happened to her in *2004*, long before the problem was in the media.
I'm a (very) small time comedy musician...basically I only usually end up selling my music to a circle of friends in the comedy music community at large.
Even if it means I remain at this level for the rest of my life, I will never join any outside agency like the RIAA or ASCAP or etc
We need more musicians with that attitude IMHO. Sadly a few of my colleagues have not adopted that attitude, and it pains me whenever I hear of another musician I personally know deciding to join up. -.-
I have always despised the MPAA and RIAA, but the comments on this article have done more to convince me that they may have a point than anything else in 10 years.
Flaw in argument. This is the artist himself requesting the takedowns, and as was revealed in the story, most of the file-sharers complied (as Eleanor described she could no longer get the music, she was obviously the exception among the file-sharers). This is a far different outcome than when the MPAA and RIAA are the ones requesting the takedowns.
The main problem with the MPAA and RIAA is that they do not support the artists as much as they want you to think they do, and many artists have realized that and gone independent (Radiohead, Pearl Jam for examples). In many cases, especially the "recyclable pop act flavor of the year" type, the artists only get pennies on every album sold.
These organizations also want to get a piece of the indies too. How many times have we heard stories of ASCAP shutting down bars that only play indie music?
Basically, the artist himself has a point here, complying with the request directly helps the artist. MPAA and RIAA don't, and complying with them won't make a financial difference at all to the artists at large, only to the nameless faces of the organizations. And that is a huge factor in the rate of compliance.
But some mainstream outlets already use BitTorrent. The Blizzard Downloader (to get updates for WoW, StarCraft, etc) uses BitTorrent protocol for the downloads, for example.
I think they were talking about stuff like FTP or peer-to-peer. I suspect they assume that someone using internet for business is going to have a website for said business. The only port I allow anyone on the outside to talk to is 80. Even I basically have to be home in order to update my site. I'm not taking any risks.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Many companies incorporate a US flag, or an avatar of it, in their logos
For example: America's Best eyewear
It's not the flag itself that's the problem, it's the apparently "copyrighted" number it represents.
Hmm...last I knew, 9/11 didn't change the actual US Constitution one iota. Last I knew it took 38 states in agreement to do that.
Yes I know that's not being followed in practice, but until such time as the Constitution gets formally amended, I shall continue to assume it's the law of the land, and I'm prepared to face the risks involved.
That was how the recent Moscow bombing happened. The terrorist in that case simply got into the security queue and blew *that* up. -.-
There is no way to be 100% safe. People somewhere forgot that freedom means being willing to take the risks associated with it.
Yeah, the biggest problem I see with this is that pre-order people have already committed themselves to contract *before* this news came out.
Tell that to the people who have already pre-ordered....
Didn't the NW tollway (I-39/90) just finish going through a major refit to increase traffic flow? I'd say that's toll money well spent.
Addendum: How much legal headache did his neighbor go through before Ardolf was suspected? The article doesn't say
To be fair, the governor of Minnesota at the time the emails were sent (Tim Pawlenty) is a Republican, and the only sitting senator of Minnesota was Amy Klobuchar (Democrat), as Franken's win was not yet certified in February 2009. This was not partisan, this was simply him hating his neighbor.
This.
"Wiki" simply defines the website template. There are a lot of locked Wiki-powered pages out there. Wikipedia just chooses to open theirs up to anyone, for example.
That's harder for them to do nowadays though. Notice Assange is not being held in any jail yet. It's because there is warranted skepticism about the timing of the charges. Many countries believe the charges are simply there to shut him up. Thanks to today's net society, any time a "coincidence" like this happens, it drums up a very healthy amount of skepticism.
Not sure....the Tea Party, as far as I've seen, is where the most extreme of the right is. The likes of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann pretty much define them.
The main movers and shakers in the GOP think they are too extreme, and want them, especially Palin, to disappear.
The Tea Party will end up splitting the GOP into 2 distinct parties if they're not careful. If that happens, neither of them will ever have a congressional majority again.
It's also fact that the VAST MAJORITY of people who drive while using cell phones never cause an accident ever. No one ever seems to invert the statistics. Inversion of statstics puts a face of reality on many of these "nanny laws".
The post you replied to still applies. Not everyone has the same ability level. If someone is too stupid to realize their own ability level, it should not result in punishment for *everyone*.
That's why I got Comcast Business Class. I'm allowed to run a webserver for my side hobby, and I have a 12TB/month bandwidth cap.
And since I didn't want TV or phone service with them, it turned out to be the same price as a home-user connection with 1/48th the cap.
The quote was "fifty sovereign states", btw....
Except they hadn't intended to.
At one of their "Alive 2007" concerts, they noticed many fans were filming the concert, so they asked fans to send in their concert footage. They paired segments of many different fan videos with the master audio recording of the concert to make the "Alive 2007" video album.
Sadly, the video isn't available in the USA. Only in PAL DVD.
This happened to my ex with her 2000 Toyota Celica.
In her driving experience since 1989, she did a lot of fast driving (120 mph and up), and developed the reflexes needed for such.
QED: she would not have been a victim of this due to "driver error". She says her accelerator raced and her brakes failed. This had been confirmed by the garage that repaired the vehicle.
Also, it happened to her in *2004*, long before the problem was in the media.
I have said my peace.
It doesn't purge them, just makes them unavailable for search.
The moment that "robots.txt" is removed, the results become searchable again.
I know this from experience with my previous domain.
I'm a (very) small time comedy musician...basically I only usually end up selling my music to a circle of friends in the comedy music community at large. Even if it means I remain at this level for the rest of my life, I will never join any outside agency like the RIAA or ASCAP or etc We need more musicians with that attitude IMHO. Sadly a few of my colleagues have not adopted that attitude, and it pains me whenever I hear of another musician I personally know deciding to join up. -.-
I have always despised the MPAA and RIAA, but the comments on this article have done more to convince me that they may have a point than anything else in 10 years.
Flaw in argument. This is the artist himself requesting the takedowns, and as was revealed in the story, most of the file-sharers complied (as Eleanor described she could no longer get the music, she was obviously the exception among the file-sharers). This is a far different outcome than when the MPAA and RIAA are the ones requesting the takedowns.
The main problem with the MPAA and RIAA is that they do not support the artists as much as they want you to think they do, and many artists have realized that and gone independent (Radiohead, Pearl Jam for examples). In many cases, especially the "recyclable pop act flavor of the year" type, the artists only get pennies on every album sold.
These organizations also want to get a piece of the indies too. How many times have we heard stories of ASCAP shutting down bars that only play indie music?
Basically, the artist himself has a point here, complying with the request directly helps the artist. MPAA and RIAA don't, and complying with them won't make a financial difference at all to the artists at large, only to the nameless faces of the organizations. And that is a huge factor in the rate of compliance.
Don't CDMA iPhones exist outside the USA already?
I didn't say it wasn't slimy, I just said they were using it.
But some mainstream outlets already use BitTorrent. The Blizzard Downloader (to get updates for WoW, StarCraft, etc) uses BitTorrent protocol for the downloads, for example.
I think they were talking about stuff like FTP or peer-to-peer. I suspect they assume that someone using internet for business is going to have a website for said business. The only port I allow anyone on the outside to talk to is 80. Even I basically have to be home in order to update my site. I'm not taking any risks. :)