So, in other words, you want a president who has the horribly flawed idea that it is the governments responsibility to pay for your retirement. You want a president who thinks that its the United States' job to play the part of world police force. You want a president who supports socialized medicine. Lets me say that again, SOCIALIZED medicine. As in socialism. You
think socialism is a neat idea?
Well, frankly, yes. You can try to scare people with the 's' word all you like, but IMHO socialized medicine is going to be the only humane solution in the long run. As genetic science discovers more and more about who is going to get sick when, you can bet that private industry isn't going to want to cover the people who really need coverage anymore. If I recall correctly, many European countries have socialized medicine, and their citizens get some of the best care in the world. (yes, they pay high taxes too, but TAANSTAAFL, eh?)
As for the US gov't paying for people's retirement, that's a slight overstatement as it won't cover a decent retirement; but essentially, yes, that's what Social Security does. And for some reason, every politician who tries to mess with Social Security sinks like a rock on the polls. It must be that Social Security is what the American people want, no?
Regarding the USA playing 'world policeman', well... who else is going to do it? Being the world's richest and most influential nation brings responsibilities with it, and as long as we 'police' wisely, know our limits, and Do The Right Thing, then I have no real problems with the USA helping keep the world away from anarchy.
So yes, I'll probably be voting for Gore. Feel free to flame me if you don't like it.
then, use a motion-sensitive glove to 'finger' through the topology to get to the object you want to manage.
With this particular display, you really don't want to put your hand into the topology! Don't forget there is a glass pane rotating in there at 600rpm...
The book is a jewel of economic investigation, and sheds much needed light on the entire antitrust process, as well as the actual goals of the DoJ in this case (hint: Their goal isn't helping consumers)
All right, for those of us too lazy to go out and buy the book.... what is the DOJ's goal?
The latter, by the way, has caused a lot of grief from a security point of view, because virus scanners generally come (or came) with default settinga that make them scan.doc, but not.rtf files.
I believe the grief was caused by the writers of the virus scanners, who made the false assumption that a file's three-letter-extension necessarily implies something about the contents of the file.
anyone who acts upon these deep links should be aware that doing so violates [...] You have to be more careful, in this highly litiginous society.
Bullshit. If someone posts a world-readable file on a publicly accessable web server, then that file is legally viewable by the public.
If you want people to go through predefined other pages in order to get to the file, there are many techical methods to ensure that people do so.
Trying to legally intimidate people into following your own set of 'rules' about how they access your web pages is like posting a billboard and demanding that people only look at it from the angles you want them to.
My old beloved-but-now-deceased Amiga 3000's keyboard was full of chewed up wads of paper. This was because the little rubber bands underneath the keys that pressed down to make a contact on the circuit board would loosen with time, making the key very insensitive (i.e. you had to press hard to get it to generate a character). My solution was to pull of the keycap, chew up some paper into a wad, and place the paper wad inside the rubber band's 'loop' so that the band was forced downwards. Unfortunately, the paper wads would eventually fall out the key and into the rest of the keyboard...
I'm only trying to point out that should slashdot ever get sued, this is the kind of thing that the opposition would bring up to "soil" the reputation of slashdot in the public eye.... It's just that there are a lot of sites out there that would be afraid to let something like this get posted.
Ah, here is the "chilling effect" those first amendment guys are always going on about....
These huge firms have tons of money for subpoenas and laywers. What do you have? They can bankrupt you before you can get in a motion to dismiss.
That does seem to be a very large part of the problem right there, doesn't it? Only those with lots of money can afford to play in our legal system anymore. So instead of looking for ways to avoid the legal system, perhaps we should be looking for ways to use the Internet as a cheap source of legal advice--that is, give the lawyers some competition. Perhaps some sort of easy-to-use legal database with up-to-the-moment information on relevant laws and precedents, or a system of discussion groups with the goal of advising people who are under legal attack.
I don't know, perhaps it's unrealistic, but if the Internet can change everything else, maybe it can change the "only those with expensive lawyers can get fair treatment under the law" thing.
However, your professor did not link to your page for the purposes of distributing DeCSS code.
Many slashdot users who link to the DeCSS aren't doing it for purposes of distributing DeCSS either... they're doing it to piss off the MPAA and assert their right to link wherever they want. So are they not liable?
Now, if we could get a case involving THAT kind of violation in front of a court
Just out of curiosity, has this ever been tried? Say the EFF wants to establish a good precendent, so it splits into two organizations, EFF1 and EFF2. EFF1 makes a product and "protects" it with rot13. EFF2 decrypts the product, and EFF1 sues EFF2. They go to court, argue out the case in front of a judge, and get a decent precedent set.
I am the victim of "big tobacco", so why am I being punished for it? It now costs twice as much as it did three years ago to engage a a legal habit that I enjoy.
Punished? You're being rewarded for it! When you come down with emphysema, lung cancer, and all the other goodies your habit causes, that extra money will go to paying for your medical care.
You may not like tobacco, but I have every right to use it. If you can breathe, just STFU
Do you have a right to use my tax money to pay for your heart-lung machine? Do you have a right to make me breathe your second hand smoke, and compromise my own health? Do you have a right to force me out of public places with your smoke, in order to protect my own lungs? Why don't you look at the facts objectively, instead of only thinking about yourself?
So, to make sure the lawyers get their pound of tasty flesh, all companies that choose to sell tobbacco (even a brand new company which has never done anything wrong) must pay into the settlement escrow. [...] All this money comes out of the pockets of the smokers... mostly working-class chumps who got addicted when they were 12 or 13.
Stop, you're breaking my heart! Those "companies who choose to sell tobacco" and "chumps who got addicted" have it so rough, what with the having to deal with the consequences of their actions and all...
Combine www.tuneprint.com and www.fairtunes.com, and you have a way for anyone to securely renumerate the artist of any song, without giving the recording industry a cut. I like it!
What it comes down to is this: when you buy something, do you expect it to act in your best interests, or in somebody else's? Most people will not (knowingly) buy software or hardware that doesn't serve them.
I can just imagine Vital Source Technologies' boardroom meetings: "Let's take the amazingly popular DIVX business model and apply it to the university setting! Students will love pay-per-read!"
It is a common misunderstanding to call electric cars clean. They just produce the polution in another place.
No, it is exactly correct to say they are clean, because they do not produce pollutants during operation. If pollutants are being produced at a power plant, then it is the power plant that is "dirty", and not the car.
If we use your logic, then hydrogen powered cars aren't "clean" either, as producing hydrogen isn't necessarily a zero-emissions process.
If you want to see more reduced emission vehicles, vote for Ralph Nader
I'd really like to see Nader president, but I'm afraid if all us lefties vote for Nader, we'll simply split Gore's votes, and Bush will end up winning the election. Then I'd have to emigrate to Canada...
Is it me, or is the whole 2-party system just a big "good-cop/bad-cop" scam?:^P
The government in Germany recently increased fuel taxes to the point that fuel costs 2 DM per liter (slightly less than $4/gal).
The effect is that everyone is complaining about the tremendous fuel prices, while nobody can do anything about it.
Even in many of the bigger cities, there are no facilities to refill alternate fuel-cars.
So what is the German government doing with all the extra tax money they are raising? The obvious thing would be to use it to subsidize alternative fuel cars and refueling stations...
It's even worse than windpower, otherwise known as "avian quisinart".
Maybe I'm just naive, but surely the birds-flying-into-windmills problem isn't that hard to solve? I mean, when they had a similar problem with desk fans 100 years ago, they slapped an aluminum guard around the fan blades, and few people have lost fingers since. If a bird guard isn't the solution for some reason, they could paint the blades red, or move the windmills to a higher altitude (more wind up there anyway), or put an ultrasonic bird repellent siren on it, or any of a number of other things.
Really, the whole bird issue sounds like nothing more than a red herring for people who enjoy the status quo to point to.
This includes the gargantuan Alaskan pipeline that consumes massive resources to keep it active, it includes the large refineries that work twenty-four hours a day to provide refined fuel
Heh, you forgot to include the large and expensive standing army we (i.e. the US) need to maintain to keep our oil-producing neighbors "cooperative"....
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Well, frankly, yes. You can try to scare people with the 's' word all you like, but IMHO socialized medicine is going to be the only humane solution in the long run. As genetic science discovers more and more about who is going to get sick when, you can bet that private industry isn't going to want to cover the people who really need coverage anymore. If I recall correctly, many European countries have socialized medicine, and their citizens get some of the best care in the world. (yes, they pay high taxes too, but TAANSTAAFL, eh?)
As for the US gov't paying for people's retirement, that's a slight overstatement as it won't cover a decent retirement; but essentially, yes, that's what Social Security does. And for some reason, every politician who tries to mess with Social Security sinks like a rock on the polls. It must be that Social Security is what the American people want, no?
Regarding the USA playing 'world policeman', well... who else is going to do it? Being the world's richest and most influential nation brings responsibilities with it, and as long as we 'police' wisely, know our limits, and Do The Right Thing, then I have no real problems with the USA helping keep the world away from anarchy.
So yes, I'll probably be voting for Gore. Feel free to flame me if you don't like it.
With this particular display, you really don't want to put your hand into the topology! Don't forget there is a glass pane rotating in there at 600rpm...
I have, and it will. See my .sig.
Finally I'll be able to get a nice Menger sponge for the bath!
All right, for those of us too lazy to go out and buy the book.... what is the DOJ's goal?
I believe the grief was caused by the writers of the virus scanners, who made the false assumption that a file's three-letter-extension necessarily implies something about the contents of the file.
Bullshit. If someone posts a world-readable file on a publicly accessable web server, then that file is legally viewable by the public.
If you want people to go through predefined other pages in order to get to the file, there are many techical methods to ensure that people do so.
Trying to legally intimidate people into following your own set of 'rules' about how they access your web pages is like posting a billboard and demanding that people only look at it from the angles you want them to.
Point of order: BeNews != Be, Inc.
You said it yourself. And so here we see Ms. Love is trying to recover her slice of the profits.
Professional, eh?
Ah, here is the "chilling effect" those first amendment guys are always going on about....
That does seem to be a very large part of the problem right there, doesn't it? Only those with lots of money can afford to play in our legal system anymore. So instead of looking for ways to avoid the legal system, perhaps we should be looking for ways to use the Internet as a cheap source of legal advice--that is, give the lawyers some competition. Perhaps some sort of easy-to-use legal database with up-to-the-moment information on relevant laws and precedents, or a system of discussion groups with the goal of advising people who are under legal attack.
I don't know, perhaps it's unrealistic, but if the Internet can change everything else, maybe it can change the "only those with expensive lawyers can get fair treatment under the law" thing.
Many slashdot users who link to the DeCSS aren't doing it for purposes of distributing DeCSS either... they're doing it to piss off the MPAA and assert their right to link wherever they want. So are they not liable?
Just out of curiosity, has this ever been tried? Say the EFF wants to establish a good precendent, so it splits into two organizations, EFF1 and EFF2. EFF1 makes a product and "protects" it with rot13. EFF2 decrypts the product, and EFF1 sues EFF2. They go to court, argue out the case in front of a judge, and get a decent precedent set.
Or is that just stupid?
Punished? You're being rewarded for it! When you come down with emphysema, lung cancer, and all the other goodies your habit causes, that extra money will go to paying for your medical care. You may not like tobacco, but I have every right to use it. If you can breathe, just STFU
Do you have a right to use my tax money to pay for your heart-lung machine? Do you have a right to make me breathe your second hand smoke, and compromise my own health? Do you have a right to force me out of public places with your smoke, in order to protect my own lungs? Why don't you look at the facts objectively, instead of only thinking about yourself?
Stop, you're breaking my heart! Those "companies who choose to sell tobacco" and "chumps who got addicted" have it so rough, what with the having to deal with the consequences of their actions and all...
It'll probably come in handy when they start needing more than 640k for whatever reason...
Combine www.tuneprint.com and www.fairtunes.com, and you have a way for anyone to securely renumerate the artist of any song, without giving the recording industry a cut. I like it!
I can just imagine Vital Source Technologies' boardroom meetings: "Let's take the amazingly popular DIVX business model and apply it to the university setting! Students will love pay-per-read!"
Duh.
No, it is exactly correct to say they are clean, because they do not produce pollutants during operation. If pollutants are being produced at a power plant, then it is the power plant that is "dirty", and not the car.
If we use your logic, then hydrogen powered cars aren't "clean" either, as producing hydrogen isn't necessarily a zero-emissions process.
I'd really like to see Nader president, but I'm afraid if all us lefties vote for Nader, we'll simply split Gore's votes, and Bush will end up winning the election. Then I'd have to emigrate to Canada...
Is it me, or is the whole 2-party system just a big "good-cop/bad-cop" scam? :^P
So what is the German government doing with all the extra tax money they are raising? The obvious thing would be to use it to subsidize alternative fuel cars and refueling stations...
Not necessarily.
Maybe I'm just naive, but surely the birds-flying-into-windmills problem isn't that hard to solve? I mean, when they had a similar problem with desk fans 100 years ago, they slapped an aluminum guard around the fan blades, and few people have lost fingers since. If a bird guard isn't the solution for some reason, they could paint the blades red, or move the windmills to a higher altitude (more wind up there anyway), or put an ultrasonic bird repellent siren on it, or any of a number of other things.
Really, the whole bird issue sounds like nothing more than a red herring for people who enjoy the status quo to point to.
Heh, you forgot to include the large and expensive standing army we (i.e. the US) need to maintain to keep our oil-producing neighbors "cooperative"....