Oddly enough we went over this ground when the bill was announced and "everyone" here was so hep for some sort of antispam legislation of any kind that I got a pretty good reaming for pointing out that this is what the law would lead to.
I'm still waiting to see the true circumvention though, when the charities get in bed with the spammers and offer a bigger penis with a suitable donation, and by law that will not be spam.
The problem with arguments like that is that they are almost always made after an infrastructure is created using government funding in one way or another and using government powers to create monopolies in that infrastructure.
Then the "owners" of that infrastructure start yelling, "It's mine, mine, all mine. I'm a greedy little miser."
If you don't want the government meddling in your infrastructure, don't rely on it to create it in the first place, particularly if you live under a government of, by and for the people who have paid money and sacrificed rights for the supposed benefit that infrastructure will create for them.
Among the wise solitude has ever been the cure for the depression caused by having to deal with people.
As the great philosopher Van Pelt said:
"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
The "dogs" among the apes will never understand the "cats," however, even though they rely on them to keep watch over the tribe through the night, lest they all get eaten by lions while they sleep.
And what the lions are doing eating in their sleep I'll never know.
As long as a contract is well understood by both parties and voluntarilty entered into, it's fine.
I don't suppose you RTFA and discovered that they denied it for months after they'd been doing it and only changed the terms of service after a lawsuit was actually filed, which they offered $2.5 million to settle?
They're no doubt going to file for an extension of discovery because the Pharoah's plainly had adequate time to appear for deposition, but failed to answer the subpeona.
If by "threat" you mean the "lack of an FBI dossier on every man, woman and child who might do something we don't like, which means every man, woman, child and their pets":
Every good manager knows that employees need a bit of time to themselves.
Not every manager is a good one.
I was working as a bicycle mechanic, once upon a time, and was 10 hours into a 12 hour day without a break. Nothing. No coffee, no lunch. Nothing. Completley illegal as it happens. It was spring tune up rush and I was willing to bend to meet the labor demand. I was young and stupid. Ya know, like an EA programmer.
Someone handed me a Pepsi and I opened it up and started to take a drink and the owner walked up to me and said, "You know you can hold that can in one hand and turn a wrench with the other."
Not every manager is a good manager.
He never got the chance to fire me. I was gone before that.
. ..if the [student] reporter said in her own voice that 'this bolsters...', even without the 'think', that would be a reasonable use of inference by a reporter.
I disagree. That would be a statement of fact and it is not a fact. It may bolster. It concords with the hypothesis. It fails to disprove.
If,on the other hand, the scientists said 'we think this conclusively proves. ..
They would be stating an opinion. The opinion of idiots overreaching their evidence,true, which isn't worth much, but opinion and labeled as such.
Show me the data. Then show me some models.
The rhetorical razor must cleave fact from opinion before all else.
And no, I don't care about the details or "validity" of the above patent. Point is that MS promises to protect the user, then rolls over when it looks like it might cost some money to do instead of talk.
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Everyone in the world knows to wash their hands; that has become part of human culture.
Oh, ummmmmmmmm, was I supposed to get a memo?
KFG
Oddly enough we went over this ground when the bill was announced and "everyone" here was so hep for some sort of antispam legislation of any kind that I got a pretty good reaming for pointing out that this is what the law would lead to.
I'm still waiting to see the true circumvention though, when the charities get in bed with the spammers and offer a bigger penis with a suitable donation, and by law that will not be spam.
KFG
Your co-op will not exist without those 51% approving it, which is where I came in to this movie.
KFG
I think a Co-op is needed, basically all ppl that want internet services get together and .
start funding locally controlled metro LAN's
This Co-op has a name:
Government.
KFG
The problem with arguments like that is that they are almost always made after an infrastructure is created using government funding in one way or another and using government powers to create monopolies in that infrastructure.
Then the "owners" of that infrastructure start yelling, "It's mine, mine, all mine. I'm a greedy little miser."
If you don't want the government meddling in your infrastructure, don't rely on it to create it in the first place, particularly if you live under a government of, by and for the people who have paid money and sacrificed rights for the supposed benefit that infrastructure will create for them.
KFG
That would be why they're being mocked.
KFG
No self respecting geek would have biceps!
Dolph Ludgren. Masters in Chemical Engineering.
Go tell him he has no self respect. It should be fun to watch.
KFG
"This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers."
Yeah, I've had that job too.
KFG
Among the wise solitude has ever been the cure for the depression caused by having to deal with people.
As the great philosopher Van Pelt said:
"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
The "dogs" among the apes will never understand the "cats," however, even though they rely on them to keep watch over the tribe through the night, lest they all get eaten by lions while they sleep.
And what the lions are doing eating in their sleep I'll never know.
KFG
The word is "dirty."
KFG
As long as a contract is well understood by both parties and voluntarilty entered into, it's fine.
I don't suppose you RTFA and discovered that they denied it for months after they'd been doing it and only changed the terms of service after a lawsuit was actually filed, which they offered $2.5 million to settle?
KFG
Can we all agree that this guy is lying. Of course he played for more than a few minutes.
No. We cannot all agree to that. Not every manager is a good manager.
KFG
In Soviet Russia they're called "Babushka."
KFG
They're no doubt going to file for an extension of discovery because the Pharoah's plainly had adequate time to appear for deposition, but failed to answer the subpeona.
KFG
Those damn "scientists" with their "thinking"! Where do they get off?
77 Mass. Ave.?
KFG
There is only one dirty word; and that ain't it.
KFG
King Tut died a long time ago... A really, really long time ago...
Yes, I suppose you humans would think of it that way.
KFG
Sounds pretty clear to me.
You need 'training.' Let me take you into the 'classroom' and 'splain it to you. Thwap! Thwap! Thwap!
KFG
If by "threat" you mean the "lack of an FBI dossier on every man, woman and child who might do something we don't like, which means every man, woman, child and their pets":
Yes.
KFG
Every good manager knows that employees need a bit of time to themselves.
Not every manager is a good one.
I was working as a bicycle mechanic, once upon a time, and was 10 hours into a 12 hour day without a break. Nothing. No coffee, no lunch. Nothing. Completley illegal as it happens. It was spring tune up rush and I was willing to bend to meet the labor demand. I was young and stupid. Ya know, like an EA programmer.
Someone handed me a Pepsi and I opened it up and started to take a drink and the owner walked up to me and said, "You know you can hold that can in one hand and turn a wrench with the other."
Not every manager is a good manager.
He never got the chance to fire me. I was gone before that.
KFG
. . .if the [student] reporter said in her own voice that 'this bolsters...', even without the 'think', that would be a reasonable use of inference by a reporter.
.
I disagree. That would be a statement of fact and it is not a fact. It may bolster. It concords with the hypothesis. It fails to disprove.
If,on the other hand, the scientists said 'we think this conclusively proves. .
They would be stating an opinion. The opinion of idiots overreaching their evidence,true, which isn't worth much, but opinion and labeled as such.
Show me the data. Then show me some models.
The rhetorical razor must cleave fact from opinion before all else.
KFG
> From the sounds of it, it doesn't look like it.
>>Sorry... but theres something about that phrase that just isnt right.
It's the brown acid. It'll do that to ya.
KFG
The key word here is 'bolsters'
."
Although that is certainly a keyword, to me the keyword is "think." They are overtly stating opinion with regards to the purported bolstering.
Of course you can be sure the mainstream press will report this as, "Scientists say. .
That's what years of training in journalism school can do for you.
KFG
And no, I don't care about the details or "validity" of the above patent. Point is that MS promises to protect the user, then rolls over when it looks like it might cost some money to do instead of talk.
Ah, but now you can sue them for it.
KFG
. . .amongst those who take a stance against unsolicited email.
Most of the email I wish to recieve is unsolicited. If I wish to solicit email I usually . . . send an unsolicited email.
KFG