>>>The right to free speech has never extended to outright defamation
Please show me where in the Union or State Constitutions laws about free speech, where defamation is illegal? It isn't. Only if you can show that financial damage was caused can you sue somebody in *civic* court and recover the lost money, but "he hurt my feelings" or "he lied" is not cause to silence someone. Speech is protected upto and including death threats (see SCOTUS rulings from the turbulent 1960s).
Also FOX News (and MSNBC and CNBC and so on) is a private channel carried across private cables by a private company. The Union Congress and the FCC have zero authority to yank them off the air. I can not lay my hand on a single part of the Constitution which gives them said power. Now maybe at the State level those channels could be yanked, but not at the Union level.
"We have free press and free speech!" - President & Congress
"We must shutdown FOX News and MSNBC." - Congressman Kennedy. "They have no right to abuse our Public airwaves." - FCC. (Note: Cable channels are private airwaves across private cables.) "Citizens must have a license to publish on the internet." And on and on.
>>>(Don't try to pretend that Discover and Amex are -real- credit cards).
Say what? AMEX was one of the earliest credit cards... people actually paid ~$100 a year to get them. As for Discover, your comment might have made sense in the 90s but nowadays I've not seen anybody refuse Discover. Plus it gives money back - 1% off everything and 5% per quarter on various items (right now it's restaurants, clothing, and online shopping). If somebody held a gun to my head and said dump all your cards except one, VISA/Mastercard would get cut-up but I'd hang onto my Discover.
KFC tried to do it when they resurrected the Colonel from the dead using a death mask plus old footage. It looked okay but didn't work on screen. They turned the stately gentleman into a goofball and customers rejected it.
>>>CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW part_glass_part2 AS SELECT
EXACTLY.
Precisely. For the google dipshit to say, "I never use it, so it can go to hell," demonstrates they must have fired all their programmers & engineers. The key was invented almost a century ago for typewriters because it was needed, and for google to not include the key is short-sighted.
C64_love (still looking for a new search engine that's not Google)
It's hard for me to say why exactly but there are certain annoyances, like closing the whole window when I close the last tab, or not having a convenient way to save bookmarks, or inability to arrange the "opera speed dial" clone the way I like, and so on.
I think I'll stick with Mozilla Netscape or Firefox or SeaMonkey for now.
>>>Jobs imposing his limited, socially crippled idea of what an app store should be... on his (Apple's) app store.
I can't speak to EU law but in the US stores are defined as "public facilities" which limits their freedom. They can't discriminate against customers based upon color or sex for example. Neither can they censor free speech unless the content is illegal (such as the obscene goatse.cx), and nudity in a magazine is not illegal. Which is why you'll find Playboy on store shelves (except in Utah).
I work with computer boards and firmware (i.e. VHDL coding) and it's just the same. Like today: 10 hours and all I accomplished was four tests (instead of the planned ~50), because there was a problem in the wiring & finding the "bug" was difficult. Even now I'm not certain what the problem was, but I did eliminate it (removed the part and white-wired).
So yeah - engineering can be just as unpredictable as programming.
Laptops have been selling better than desktops for about 3 years now, but it hasn't killed the desktop usefulness. Likewise I doubt phones or tablets can replace the need for desktops.
Without copyright, artists would be living in gutters like Edgar Allan Poe used to do. HOWEVER the lifespan on the copyright should be no longer than the original act (14 yrs) plus possibility for renewal if the author is still alive.
As for motivation:
I don't usually share, except on Private trackers having restrictions that block you if you do not upload ABOVE 1:1.
It's hard for me to say why exactly but there are certain annoyances, like closing the whole window when I close a tab, or not having a convenient way to access bookmarks, or inability to arrange the "opera speeddial" clone the way I like, and so on.
I think I'll stick with Mozilla Netscape or Firefox or SeaMonkey for now.
Well I for one am glad Congress is passing this valuable law.
It's not as if they have any more important issues like extending Common Carrier status to ISPs, or ending the ridiculous overseas war, or saving the Dollar from losing 30% of its value next year, or auditing the Fed to find out where the ~2000 billion went, or providing poor people with School Choice to get a decent education, or stopping the TSA from sexually assaulting citizens.
Since the Democratic Congress has done all that - then sure - go ahead and fix the volume on my coma-inducing box.
Is the frequency truly unused? In the U.S. both the VHF/UHF bands are still being used (by DTV) and the same is true in the EU (by D-radio and DTV). So did Australia truly free these bands? Or were they merely converted from analog to digital and therefore still occupied.
>>>Programming has always been an art that required skill and a creative mind
plus logical thinking (like the machine you're programming). It always surprised me when my Professor/Director of Engineering said programming should not be considered a "science" or "engineering". He said they were the equivalent of bus drivers - just human beings running a machine.
At first I thought, 'Well maybe he has a point' but no not really. Driving a machine is a skill that can be learned in a day or two. Programming a machine requires years - the same amount of time needed to learn any engineering discipline.
Thus you've taken their labor w/o paying for it (i.e. not viewing the ads) Uh oh - here come the (-1) mods but I don't care: I speak truth to power. I think people are entitled to get paid for their hours.
The 90s is usually called the "Second Golden Age" of TV. A lot of great programming was produced from approximately 1990 to 2002, mainly on Syndicated local programming (like Star Trek or B5) and cable (like the Sopranos) plus network shows like Seinfeld. You don't really need a TV since these programs are on DVD or online. That's how I caught-up with some of the older 90s classics that I missed first time around.
BTW: This new Volume regulation probably won't solve the problem. It will demonstrate once again how government regulation does not work. If you're watching a quiet movie or show, and then the ad appears turned-up to maximum but still under the legal limit, viewers will not be happy. .
>>>nobody's going to work hard to make their content sound worse.
Why not? They do it with CDs where all dynamic range is eliminated. They'll do the same with TV content too.
That wasn't the first time this guy promised to pay, but did not. Apparently he was careless and fireprone, because he had called the City FD twice before, promising to send $75 if they put out his fire. They did save his house twice before, but he never mailed in the $75*2 == $150. So they put him on a "do not serve" list because of his previous broken promises.
A case of "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice.... no that's not going to happen;no service for you." I would have done exactly the same thing.
Maybe this Questioner should do what Mattel (16-bit Intellivision) did and release "K.C. Munchkin"
- Atari tried to sue Mattel for infringing their Pac-Man Console license. As far as I know, Mattel got away with it since the game was different enough to be considered a separate creation, even though it played close to the arcade. http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&client=seamonkey-a&q=k.c.+munchkin
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>>>The right to free speech has never extended to outright defamation
Please show me where in the Union or State Constitutions laws about free speech, where defamation is illegal? It isn't. Only if you can show that financial damage was caused can you sue somebody in *civic* court and recover the lost money, but "he hurt my feelings" or "he lied" is not cause to silence someone. Speech is protected upto and including death threats (see SCOTUS rulings from the turbulent 1960s).
Also FOX News (and MSNBC and CNBC and so on) is a private channel carried across private cables by a private company. The Union Congress and the FCC have zero authority to yank them off the air. I can not lay my hand on a single part of the Constitution which gives them said power. Now maybe at the State level those channels could be yanked, but not at the Union level.
"We have free press and free speech!" - President & Congress
"We must shutdown FOX News and MSNBC." - Congressman Kennedy. "They have no right to abuse our Public airwaves." - FCC. (Note: Cable channels are private airwaves across private cables.) "Citizens must have a license to publish on the internet." And on and on.
Irony and doublespeak indeed.
No.
>>>(Don't try to pretend that Discover and Amex are -real- credit cards).
Say what? AMEX was one of the earliest credit cards... people actually paid ~$100 a year to get them. As for Discover, your comment might have made sense in the 90s but nowadays I've not seen anybody refuse Discover. Plus it gives money back - 1% off everything and 5% per quarter on various items (right now it's restaurants, clothing, and online shopping). If somebody held a gun to my head and said dump all your cards except one, VISA/Mastercard would get cut-up but I'd hang onto my Discover.
KFC tried to do it when they resurrected the Colonel from the dead using a death mask plus old footage. It looked okay but didn't work on screen. They turned the stately gentleman into a goofball and customers rejected it.
>>>CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW part_glass_part2 AS SELECT
EXACTLY.
Precisely. For the google dipshit to say, "I never use it, so it can go to hell," demonstrates they must have fired all their programmers & engineers. The key was invented almost a century ago for typewriters because it was needed, and for google to not include the key is short-sighted.
C64_love (still looking for a new search engine that's not Google)
commodore64_love@aolnetscape.com (the new cool)
Actually I've had an aol email address ever since AOL was called Quantum Link (80s), but I'm not revealing it here. Too much spam already.
I dislike chrome (actually non-google Chromium).
It's hard for me to say why exactly but there are certain annoyances, like closing the whole window when I close the last tab, or not having a convenient way to save bookmarks, or inability to arrange the "opera speed dial" clone the way I like, and so on.
I think I'll stick with Mozilla Netscape or Firefox or SeaMonkey for now.
>>>Jobs imposing his limited, socially crippled idea of what an app store should be... on his (Apple's) app store.
I can't speak to EU law but in the US stores are defined as "public facilities" which limits their freedom. They can't discriminate against customers based upon color or sex for example. Neither can they censor free speech unless the content is illegal (such as the obscene goatse.cx), and nudity in a magazine is not illegal. Which is why you'll find Playboy on store shelves (except in Utah).
Same with my job - EE.
I work with computer boards and firmware (i.e. VHDL coding) and it's just the same. Like today: 10 hours and all I accomplished was four tests (instead of the planned ~50), because there was a problem in the wiring & finding the "bug" was difficult. Even now I'm not certain what the problem was, but I did eliminate it (removed the part and white-wired).
So yeah - engineering can be just as unpredictable as programming.
Waht on earth do US adjacent channels have to do with my originl question about Australia's VHF/UHF bands?
Oh: And you're wrong. The FCC still requires a one channel gap between DTV channels of the same city, same as was true with analog channels.
Hmmm. I switched from KDE to LXDE as part of the Lightweight Ubuntu (lubuntu) distribution. It's more memory-friendly
Yeah, yeah.
Laptops have been selling better than desktops for about 3 years now, but it hasn't killed the desktop usefulness. Likewise I doubt phones or tablets can replace the need for desktops.
Mozilla Netscape is still useful, but will soon be obsolete due to age (two years). SeaMonkey is its closest replacement.
Without copyright, artists would be living in gutters like Edgar Allan Poe used to do. HOWEVER the lifespan on the copyright should be no longer than the original act (14 yrs) plus possibility for renewal if the author is still alive.
As for motivation:
I don't usually share, except on Private trackers having restrictions that block you if you do not upload ABOVE 1:1.
I dislike chrome (actually Chromium).
It's hard for me to say why exactly but there are certain annoyances, like closing the whole window when I close a tab, or not having a convenient way to access bookmarks, or inability to arrange the "opera speeddial" clone the way I like, and so on.
I think I'll stick with Mozilla Netscape or Firefox or SeaMonkey for now.
Well I for one am glad Congress is passing this valuable law.
It's not as if they have any more important issues like extending Common Carrier status to ISPs, or ending the ridiculous overseas war, or saving the Dollar from losing 30% of its value next year, or auditing the Fed to find out where the ~2000 billion went, or providing poor people with School Choice to get a decent education, or stopping the TSA from sexually assaulting citizens.
Since the Democratic Congress has done all that - then sure - go ahead and fix the volume on my coma-inducing box.
>>>you can in no way determine how many sales were lost to getting it for free.
Precisely. I'd go without virus software rather than pay for it, just as I go without Cable TV rather than pay for it.
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Question:
Is the frequency truly unused? In the U.S. both the VHF/UHF bands are still being used (by DTV) and the same is true in the EU (by D-radio and DTV). So did Australia truly free these bands? Or were they merely converted from analog to digital and therefore still occupied.
>>>Programming has always been an art that required skill and a creative mind
plus logical thinking (like the machine you're programming). It always surprised me when my Professor/Director of Engineering said programming should not be considered a "science" or "engineering". He said they were the equivalent of bus drivers - just human beings running a machine.
At first I thought, 'Well maybe he has a point' but no not really. Driving a machine is a skill that can be learned in a day or two. Programming a machine requires years - the same amount of time needed to learn any engineering discipline.
Thus you've taken their labor w/o paying for it (i.e. not viewing the ads)
Uh oh - here come the (-1) mods but I don't care: I speak truth to power.
I think people are entitled to get paid for their hours.
The 90s is usually called the "Second Golden Age" of TV. A lot of great programming was produced from approximately 1990 to 2002, mainly on Syndicated local programming (like Star Trek or B5) and cable (like the Sopranos) plus network shows like Seinfeld. You don't really need a TV since these programs are on DVD or online. That's how I caught-up with some of the older 90s classics that I missed first time around.
BTW: This new Volume regulation probably won't solve the problem. It will demonstrate once again how government regulation does not work. If you're watching a quiet movie or show, and then the ad appears turned-up to maximum but still under the legal limit, viewers will not be happy.
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>>>nobody's going to work hard to make their content sound worse.
Why not? They do it with CDs where all dynamic range is eliminated. They'll do the same with TV content too.
ALSO:
That wasn't the first time this guy promised to pay, but did not. Apparently he was careless and fireprone, because he had called the City FD twice before, promising to send $75 if they put out his fire. They did save his house twice before, but he never mailed in the $75*2 == $150. So they put him on a "do not serve" list because of his previous broken promises.
A case of "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice.... no that's not going to happen;no service for you." I would have done exactly the same thing.
>>>That made me think of the dude who lost a house because he didn't pay a $75 fire department levy.
A computer is a $150 item (at least mine did).
NOT the same thing jackass.
A computer is no great loss if it gets a virus.
Maybe this Questioner should do what Mattel (16-bit Intellivision) did and release "K.C. Munchkin"
- Atari tried to sue Mattel for infringing their Pac-Man Console license. As far as I know, Mattel got away with it since the game was different enough to be considered a separate creation, even though it played close to the arcade. http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&client=seamonkey-a&q=k.c.+munchkin