Then you've turned to the wrong station. The MIX 2 station I linked doesn't run any commercials. Perhaps the WEBSITE ran an ad, but that's not the same thing (also very rare).
I was making the point that in a court case the Corporation is treated as if it were one single individual, but it can not be punished the way an individual can (i.e. it can't be sent to deathrow). Nor can the actual individuals be touched because they are protected by the Immunity of the corporate license.
Therefore it is illogical to treat a corporation as an individual, since it can not be punished like an individual (nor does it have the individual's right to cast a ballot in November). It is a thing. Nothing more.
>>>So, you'd withhold the protections of freedom of speech from the Washington Post?
If they organized themselves as a corporation, yes They'd have the PRIVILEGE of speech not the right. HOWEVER if they organized themselves under the sole ownership of an individual, said individual can print anything he wishes in his newspaper, as guaranteed by the first and tenth amendments.
You would prefer to treat corporations as "individuals" who can cast votes in the November election? Send lobbyists to the Legislature and block-out the people's voices from being heard? Run ads to elect their paid corporate employee to the Congress?
The Democrat Congress doesn't give a fuck about farmers
They want all of us to quit those jobs, go work in factories or offices, and then depend on Mommy Government to provide us with the necessities of life. How DARE you do something like raise your own food? You must be some kind of Tea Party nutjob. (Just joking of course.) (Or am I?) .
>>>The hardwoods that could otherwise be left uncut?
For what purpose? You worried trees will go extinct? Hahahahaha. Hardly. As Penn & Teller argued in their show, use of wood actually creates MORE trees because then companies start "gardening" trees and planting more.
Put another way: Do we see a shortage of potatoes? Of course not, because people eat lots of chips and fries. Wood (and plants in general) is actually the best fuel you can use:
- it's renewable (unlike oil or coal) - it's solar energy
>>>Maybe it's time to replace that bulb after 20 years
They are brand-new Philips bulbs and therefore have not dimmed at all. They just have a very, very long warm-up cycle (3-4 minutes). As for the "heat death" problem, it doesn't happen with incandescent bulbs. Only CFLs have the flaw where heat causes the capacitors to expand and spill their guts (thus making the CFL burn out). It's a well-known fact CFLs can't be used in enclosed or other heat-trapping fixtures. They literally kill themselves (heat death). .
>>>Do you think your 30-cent incandescents will last as long as a CFL?
All the ones I've used so far have. The Lights of America, GE, and Philips bulbs I've tried died in just 6-12 months... same lifespan as my other incandescent bulbs.
Maybe you ought to try LISTENING to a fellow electrical engineer (note the electric part) instead of assuming I'm some kind of idiot who doesn't know anything about electronics .
Coal plants with modern scrubbers don't emit ANY mercury, so that negates your argument.
Also I am not "freaking out". I am making a calm, rational engineering decision, weighing the pros and cons of each. I determined that the cons of CFL outweight the cons of the Incandescent, and therefore CFL is an inferior tech.
But not cheaper than an electric heat pump, whicvh is between 1/3-to-1/2 cheaper than resistance heating
As for bulbs:
Incandescent bulbs are older but still superior tech to CFLs, since they eliminate mercury poisoning, dim turnons (waiting 3-4 minutes until I can see my book), premature heat-death from enclosed fixtures or upside-down fixtures, and high cost (about ten times more). The old Incandescent bulbs also eliminate the diesel or gasoline emissions from special trucks having to collect the CFLs, in order to recycle them at a central plant that burns even MORE energy.
Incandescent bulbs also are locally built in US or EU factories, whereas CFLs have to be shipped ~10,000 miles from Chinese or Indian factories. It all adds up a lot of reasons to consider CFLs an inferior and *dirtier* technology. . (dons flame-repellent armor)
You're right we could just switch to pieces of plastic, but that's still as bad an idea as our fiat paper money. From 1800 to 1910 the US dollar lost no value. There were some fluctuations but a dollar in 1910 has the same purchasing power as an 1800 dollar.
In contrast the last hundred years have seen the dollar drop to approximately one penny. In other words a dollar today only buys what 1 penny bought in 1910 (a candybar or soda).
That's what happens when you let a private corporation (the central bank) run wild with the printing press. They inflated the money supply 100x and devalued the existing supply (under your mattress or wherever you keep your savings) to 1/100th its previous value in 1910. It almost makes saving money pointless, because it won't be worth the same amount a decade from now.
>>>Try as you revisionists might to paint Thomas Jefferson as your patron saint, I'm pretty sure he would never have put the 9th or 10th Amendment above the 1st or 4th.
Ya know: It only take a minute to google:
"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people' (10th Amendment). To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition." - Thomas Jefferson
>>>10 million minutes at $.10 per minute == $1,000,000
The retail rate on Vonage is only 2 cents, and you would have discovered that if you'd done even minimal research. 10 million *.02 == $200,000 so I still consider the punishment to be excessive.
>>>My wife is my best friend, she's hot, I enjoy her company and the sex is great...
Fast forward 10-20 years and this will become, "My wife used to be my best friend but now she's constantly grumpy, she's no longer hot (she's fat), and we haven't had sex in a year..."
As for sex: (1) it often stops being fun when the wife is demanding it after you just worked a 12 hour day and not in the mood, and (2) single people do have regular sex - remember college?
53 kb/s. No worse than when we watched videos back in the days of dialup (either 28k or 56k). The point is that videos don't have to take up a lot of space if you make them SD quality.
>>>If Assange is getting a bit full of himself, this thing will come apart quickly.
I found the following interview with the Wikileaks founder interesting. In it the host (Judge Andrew Napolitano) says during the Veitnam era the government tried to sue the newspaper for publishing classified info, but the Supreme Court found them to be protected by the "free press" clause of the Constitution. Probably the same is true for Wikileaks, Wikipedia, Google, and other publishers. (shrug) You can make your own judgment.
Yes true but it still gives a bad perception. Imagine if I was the office manager and I just led the way on a major switch from MS Office to OpenOffice.org
Now suddenly it's changed it's name. It makes it appear that I chose an unreliable fly-by-night supplier. Businesses want stability not risk.
>>>try to do anything that Apple didn't account for
You've been modded troll, but you make a good point (IMHO). I still haven't found a player for my Mac (or Linux laptop) that can run songs/movies at double speed without making everyone sound like chipmunks. Also Mac doesn't have any Bittorrent clients approved by Ipodnova/videoseed, so I can't download their wares to my Mac.
Meanwhile on my Windows IBM PC clone, it's as simple as installing "2xAV". It plays double speed and everyone has a normal tone of voice. And it runs the approved client Utorrent. Apple probably never anticipated people wanting to alter the speed of playback, while maintaining normal voice tone, and so it never got developed as part of their tools.
Aside:
Interestingly, Sony anticipated it. Fast playback (1.4x) is included with my DVD player.
On first-order thinking, it appears to be good to screw the RIAA/MPAA with expensive bills but on second-level thinking it's Bad. Rather than protect my data, now my ISP has a motive to sell it to these spying organizations. They'll be looking for opportunities to make profit (and screw me the customer).
The politicians in the UK have fallen victim to the law of unintended consequences - they've created a situation that encourage ISPs to NOT protect citizens' privacy.
d) What if I want to grab a video that nobody is seeding? This happens to me a lot on torrents I grab from isohunt. For example I tried to get "The Odd Couple" but it got stuck at 5% and never went any further. I imagine the problem would be even worse for unpopular encyclopedic videos.
>>>"video is many times more costly to distribute than text and images."
It doesn't have to be "many" times costlier. I routinely share 25-minute episodes of Penn&Teller with friends via email, and they are squeezed down to 10 megabytes... just double the size of some of the giant images I download from art sites... and half the size of the typical 25-minute MP3 or AAC. It all depends how you adjust the compression settings.
Why is it that various Posters can make jokes about "Faux News" and get +5 insightful, but Other posters who make jokes about "DNC-NBC" get modded -1 troll?
Censorship much?
Bias much?
Apparently one thing is allowed (humor about FOX) but the other thing (humor about MSNBC) is not allowed. Way to suppress people's liberty.
== Tyrant? If true it sounds like he's as bad as the leaders he's trying to expose?
I found the following interview with the Wikileaks founder interesting. In it the host says that while the thieves of classified information can be punished, the publisher of the info can not. For example during the Watergate scandal the government tried to due the reporters and newspaper, but the Supreme Court found them to be protected by the "free press" clause of the Constitution. Probably the same is true for Wikileaks, Wikipedia, Google, and other publishers.
I always thought "activist judge" meant someone who ignores law and/or MAKES law (promotes self to a legislator, not just a judge).
I hate to pick on Sonia Sotomayor, but she's the first example that springs to mind. Some firefighters took a test in order to achieve a higher-level promotion. Some of the white guys passed, but none of the black guys so the black guys sued, claiming the test was racist. Current Law says the test must be demonstrated to have a bias, due to its content. Mrs. Sotomayor decided to ignore that law and made her own determination that "because no black guys passed" that must prove the test is racist, despite no evidence in the written pages.
An activist judge. MAKING the law instead of enforcing what the Legislature actually wrote on paper. Her decision was later overturned.
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Glenn Beck has also ripped into Bush and the current Republicans several times, although not as often as Libertarian Napolitano.
I try to catch his show every week by going here: http://freedomwatchonfox.com/
I'll second this.
I used Opera Link at home to copy-over all my Firefox bookmarks, and now I can access them from work as needed.
If I were entering this competition, I'd just take some old 2K atari or VIC-20 games and modify them. Stuff like Space War, Combat, Breakout, Pitfall
Then you've turned to the wrong station. The MIX 2 station I linked doesn't run any commercials.
Perhaps the WEBSITE ran an ad, but that's not the same thing (also very rare).
Missing.
I was making the point that in a court case the Corporation is treated as if it were one single individual, but it can not be punished the way an individual can (i.e. it can't be sent to deathrow). Nor can the actual individuals be touched because they are protected by the Immunity of the corporate license.
Therefore it is illogical to treat a corporation as an individual, since it can not be punished like an individual (nor does it have the individual's right to cast a ballot in November). It is a thing. Nothing more.
>>>So, you'd withhold the protections of freedom of speech from the Washington Post?
If they organized themselves as a corporation, yes They'd have the PRIVILEGE of speech not the right. HOWEVER if they organized themselves under the sole ownership of an individual, said individual can print anything he wishes in his newspaper, as guaranteed by the first and tenth amendments.
You would prefer to treat corporations as "individuals" who can cast votes in the November election?
Send lobbyists to the Legislature and block-out the people's voices from being heard?
Run ads to elect their paid corporate employee to the Congress?
The Democrat Congress doesn't give a fuck about farmers
They want all of us to quit those jobs, go work in factories or offices, and then depend on Mommy Government to provide us with the necessities of life. How DARE you do something like raise your own food? You must be some kind of Tea Party nutjob. (Just joking of course.) (Or am I?)
.
>>>The hardwoods that could otherwise be left uncut?
For what purpose? You worried trees will go extinct? Hahahahaha. Hardly. As Penn & Teller argued in their show, use of wood actually creates MORE trees because then companies start "gardening" trees and planting more.
Put another way: Do we see a shortage of potatoes? Of course not, because people eat lots of chips and fries. Wood (and plants in general) is actually the best fuel you can use:
- it's renewable (unlike oil or coal)
- it's solar energy
>>>Maybe it's time to replace that bulb after 20 years
They are brand-new Philips bulbs and therefore have not dimmed at all. They just have a very, very long warm-up cycle (3-4 minutes). As for the "heat death" problem, it doesn't happen with incandescent bulbs. Only CFLs have the flaw where heat causes the capacitors to expand and spill their guts (thus making the CFL burn out). It's a well-known fact CFLs can't be used in enclosed or other heat-trapping fixtures. They literally kill themselves (heat death).
.
>>>Do you think your 30-cent incandescents will last as long as a CFL?
All the ones I've used so far have. The Lights of America, GE, and Philips bulbs I've tried died in just 6-12 months... same lifespan as my other incandescent bulbs.
Maybe you ought to try LISTENING to a fellow electrical engineer (note the electric part) instead of assuming I'm some kind of idiot who doesn't know anything about electronics
.
>>>(because of reduced coal power plants).
Coal plants with modern scrubbers don't emit ANY mercury, so that negates your argument.
Also I am not "freaking out". I am making a calm, rational engineering decision, weighing the pros and cons of each. I determined that the cons of CFL outweight the cons of the Incandescent, and therefore CFL is an inferior tech.
But not cheaper than an electric heat pump, whicvh is between 1/3-to-1/2 cheaper than resistance heating
As for bulbs:
Incandescent bulbs are older but still superior tech to CFLs, since they eliminate mercury poisoning, dim turnons (waiting 3-4 minutes until I can see my book), premature heat-death from enclosed fixtures or upside-down fixtures, and high cost (about ten times more). The old Incandescent bulbs also eliminate the diesel or gasoline emissions from special trucks having to collect the CFLs, in order to recycle them at a central plant that burns even MORE energy.
Incandescent bulbs also are locally built in US or EU factories, whereas CFLs have to be shipped ~10,000 miles from Chinese or Indian factories. It all adds up a lot of reasons to consider CFLs an inferior and *dirtier* technology.
.
(dons flame-repellent armor)
You're right we could just switch to pieces of plastic, but that's still as bad an idea as our fiat paper money. From 1800 to 1910 the US dollar lost no value. There were some fluctuations but a dollar in 1910 has the same purchasing power as an 1800 dollar.
In contrast the last hundred years have seen the dollar drop to approximately one penny. In other words a dollar today only buys what 1 penny bought in 1910 (a candybar or soda).
That's what happens when you let a private corporation (the central bank) run wild with the printing press. They inflated the money supply 100x and devalued the existing supply (under your mattress or wherever you keep your savings) to 1/100th its previous value in 1910. It almost makes saving money pointless, because it won't be worth the same amount a decade from now.
>>>Try as you revisionists might to paint Thomas Jefferson as your patron saint, I'm pretty sure he would never have put the 9th or 10th Amendment above the 1st or 4th.
Ya know: It only take a minute to google:
"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people' (10th Amendment). To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition." - Thomas Jefferson
>>>10 million minutes at $.10 per minute == $1,000,000
The retail rate on Vonage is only 2 cents, and you would have discovered that if you'd done even minimal research. 10 million * .02 == $200,000 so I still consider the punishment to be excessive.
>>>My wife is my best friend, she's hot, I enjoy her company and the sex is great...
Fast forward 10-20 years and this will become, "My wife used to be my best friend but now she's constantly grumpy, she's no longer hot (she's fat), and we haven't had sex in a year..."
As for sex: (1) it often stops being fun when the wife is demanding it after you just worked a 12 hour day and not in the mood, and (2) single people do have regular sex - remember college?
>>>I wouldn't want to watch that.
53 kb/s. No worse than when we watched videos back in the days of dialup (either 28k or 56k). The point is that videos don't have to take up a lot of space if you make them SD quality.
>>>If Assange is getting a bit full of himself, this thing will come apart quickly.
I found the following interview with the Wikileaks founder interesting. In it the host (Judge Andrew Napolitano) says during the Veitnam era the government tried to sue the newspaper for publishing classified info, but the Supreme Court found them to be protected by the "free press" clause of the Constitution. Probably the same is true for Wikileaks, Wikipedia, Google, and other publishers. (shrug) You can make your own judgment.
Interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FkRHSaQ4aI
Yes true but it still gives a bad perception. Imagine if I was the office manager and I just led the way on a major switch from MS Office to OpenOffice.org
Now suddenly it's changed it's name. It makes it appear that I chose an unreliable fly-by-night supplier. Businesses want stability not risk.
>>>try to do anything that Apple didn't account for
You've been modded troll, but you make a good point (IMHO). I still haven't found a player for my Mac (or Linux laptop) that can run songs/movies at double speed without making everyone sound like chipmunks. Also Mac doesn't have any Bittorrent clients approved by Ipodnova/videoseed, so I can't download their wares to my Mac.
Meanwhile on my Windows IBM PC clone, it's as simple as installing "2xAV". It plays double speed and everyone has a normal tone of voice. And it runs the approved client Utorrent. Apple probably never anticipated people wanting to alter the speed of playback, while maintaining normal voice tone, and so it never got developed as part of their tools.
Aside:
Interestingly, Sony anticipated it. Fast playback (1.4x) is included with my DVD player.
-1 Overrated? Really? Why? I thought it was informative myself, especially with the link to an Interview with the Wikileaks founder.
>>>But this is a good thing
On first-order thinking, it appears to be good to screw the RIAA/MPAA with expensive bills but on second-level thinking it's Bad. Rather than protect my data, now my ISP has a motive to sell it to these spying organizations. They'll be looking for opportunities to make profit (and screw me the customer).
The politicians in the UK have fallen victim to the law of unintended consequences - they've created a situation that encourage ISPs to NOT protect citizens' privacy.
d) What if I want to grab a video that nobody is seeding? This happens to me a lot on torrents I grab from isohunt. For example I tried to get "The Odd Couple" but it got stuck at 5% and never went any further. I imagine the problem would be even worse for unpopular encyclopedic videos.
>>>"video is many times more costly to distribute than text and images."
It doesn't have to be "many" times costlier. I routinely share 25-minute episodes of Penn&Teller with friends via email, and they are squeezed down to 10 megabytes... just double the size of some of the giant images I download from art sites... and half the size of the typical 25-minute MP3 or AAC. It all depends how you adjust the compression settings.
Why is it that various Posters can make jokes about "Faux News" and get +5 insightful, but Other posters who make jokes about "DNC-NBC" get modded -1 troll?
Censorship much?
Bias much?
Apparently one thing is allowed (humor about FOX) but the other thing (humor about MSNBC) is not allowed. Way to suppress people's liberty.
== Tyrant? If true it sounds like he's as bad as the leaders he's trying to expose?
I found the following interview with the Wikileaks founder interesting. In it the host says that while the thieves of classified information can be punished, the publisher of the info can not. For example during the Watergate scandal the government tried to due the reporters and newspaper, but the Supreme Court found them to be protected by the "free press" clause of the Constitution. Probably the same is true for Wikileaks, Wikipedia, Google, and other publishers.
Interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FkRHSaQ4aI
I always thought "activist judge" meant someone who ignores law and/or MAKES law (promotes self to a legislator, not just a judge).
I hate to pick on Sonia Sotomayor, but she's the first example that springs to mind. Some firefighters took a test in order to achieve a higher-level promotion. Some of the white guys passed, but none of the black guys so the black guys sued, claiming the test was racist. Current Law says the test must be demonstrated to have a bias, due to its content. Mrs. Sotomayor decided to ignore that law and made her own determination that "because no black guys passed" that must prove the test is racist, despite no evidence in the written pages.
An activist judge. MAKING the law instead of enforcing what the Legislature actually wrote on paper. Her decision was later overturned.