Is no-one else staggered by the irony and hypocrisy of Sony using fair usage against Universal, and then it being disallowed when they are the bully? This judge is an idiot, plain and simple.
Didn't you know? Every sperm is sacred. Blame the Catholics and other idiots who continue to promote 'abstinence' as the sole form of birth control, and lie about and demonize other forms of birth control (including being gay)...and the vast majority of those (where I come from) are white, you racist idiot.
I don't think I've ever wished I had mod points as much as I do right now! Well said. They should have just let it die quietly. Reading this just reminded me of the bad memories...the fact that they went backwards in intuitiveness of the GUI, not to mention performance, stability, and HW / SW support. The biggest thing that I like about Windows 7 is that it's NOT VISTA!!!!! The unmitigated audacity of Guggenheimer spouting this crap should get him fired. Nothing worse than a corporate Yes-man in my eyes, especially when it is in public, and it's such obvious horseshit. Windows XP was what Me was supposed to be, and Win7 is what Vista should have been. Maybe if they skipped this trash and concentrated on the real deal they'd actually get some kind of decent reputation back.
They should have just let it die quietly. Reading this just reminded me of the bad memories...the fact that they went backwards in intuitiveness of the GUI, not to mention performance, stability, and HW / SW support. The biggest thing that I like about Windows 7 is that it's NOT VISTA!!!!! The unmitigated audacity of Guggenheimer spouting this crap should get him fired. Nothing worse than a corporate Yes-man in my eyes, especially when it is in public, and it's such obvious horseshit.
Objection! Citation needed, and suspiciously close to empty right wing rhetoric. I think that it is much more likely that exposure of the illegal program would give operational details of legal, necessary programs. This would explain the actions of an obviously thoughtful man. Whatever the reason, he's still WRONG. The 4th amendment is non-negotiable and is VERY clear. I accept FISA as a necessary evil in cases of extreme national security (as defined in the Constitution; threat of invasion or rebellion).
No, I merely think, based largely upon historical facts, that organized religion has killed FAR MORE than it has ever helped. Just the multiple Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition would do that... and if there were no concept of religion then Hitler would not have exterminated millions of Jewish people.
For all that some people act smug about being enlightened and scientific, the fact of the matter is, their beliefs are as faith based as the beliefs of the unsophisticated religious types they are mocking.
I thought about it a few seconds and realized that YES I do 100% and without equivocation believe in hypothesizing, experimenting and observing. No one can live without doing so. On the other hand, MORE people would be alive if there had never been the concept of 'GOD', and people willing to use that concept to make other people do what they want.
One of the major reasons many businesses outsourced their electronics production was because of environmental and workplace safety issues due to the heavy metals and solvents used and left over. If widely adopted, this sort of thing could jump start a mini industrial revolution. I would think that re-usable components would reduce the cost of replacement parts on all electronic devices, especially with widespread adoption. Do you have any idea how many perfectly good resistors and capacitors lie in landfills? And the amount of chemical waste to produce those wasted components... Big business would have to be pretty ignorant to pass this one up if it works half as well as it appeared to on the video. Also, as someone who has worked in most aspects of electronics manufacture (PCB fab, IC fab, IC packaging, and SMD / through hole assembly and test from r&d to mass production scales), I could see this process being more efficient and less costly than current SMD and PCB manufacturing. Hard to say for sure without finding out more, but this looks hopeful!
Logo was great for it's time, and so is this. Anything that makes interfaces and / or programming more intuitive is great in my book. If nothing else it will hopefully get people (including possibly the next generation of programmers and engineers) more cognizant of user interfaces in general. I think usability and quality of interface on both HW and SW has often taken a back seat in many industries to varying degrees (consumer electronics and automobiles come to mind specifically).
Why does he not write it up and get it published then? Certainly if this is such a huge deal, is there NOT ONE climatologist willing to put this into a report and submit it to a journal for peer review? Otherwise it amounts to exactly what it is, rantings by some lunatic on some ex-weatherman's blog.
News flash: There were no ties to Al-qaeda or 9/11, no weapons of mass destruction, no labs creating weapons of mass destruction, no yellowcake uranium, and thus, ultimately, no imminent threat whatsoever, and the Bush administration said exactly the opposite, many up until they were unceremoniously tossed out for those same lies by the American people. If you have credible proof to the contrary, I'd love to see it, otherwise it is you that is spewing the empty rhetoric.
Comes down to the same BS of: "We told our lawyers to tell us it was legal, and so it was." Will the Bush administration EVER answer for their crimes? I think not at this point.
Yeah, the government could never data mine our e-mail or divert major percentages of our data transactions through the NSA's equipment, and then they could never get the congress to issue blanket immunity to the telcom companies who colluded with the illegal actions... oh wait, they already did! Some people are sheep with blinders on, I swear. Talk about crazy!
I am able to click links just fine. I reject your source. Who is Bob Tisdale? Why should I believe him? The blog is run by a weatherman. The link you gave concerning 'peer review' did not indicate that the refutation has been peer reviewed, so as far as I'm concerned it's just more ranting on some blog. Even if I Bob Tisdale DID have some actual expertise in the field, all I see are graphs of two data sets. Had it ever occurred to anyone that over the last 9 years, NASA and GISS were able to compile more and better data than what's available publicly?
Political opportunism by Graham, and naivete by Schumer. Both companies are in compliance with international law. How can you punish a company when you never even told them it was wrong to begin with? The hardware and software in question is usually marketed for corporate use, where they have every right to use it. Maybe it would be better to outlaw the use of such software by governments?
I mentioned it at that time because the majority of the sites I found that criticized NASA GISS and James Hansen were neoconservative websites. The site you listed is a blog. I see no accreditation other than that the author was a tv weatherman for 25 years... ROFLMAO The only profession where you can be wrong most of the time and still get PAID!!! I guess you think that because it is on the internet, it is true.
I certainly do not see a peer reviewed refutation. I call horseshit.
While I agree 100% with your first paragraph, he was probably modded up for the first part of his statement. Bush never would have never been able to lie the US into Iraq without the knee-jerk sensationalist media beating the drum, and the vast majority of America following.
I did, and found a bunch of right wing sites slandering James Hansen and his work, and one article from a credible news organization saying that some people were questioning his data and / or methods. What I did not find was a peer reviewed article refuting his findings... much less multiple peer reviewed articles refuting his findings.
The page you sited clearly has an axe to grind and is obviously 'fixing the facts' to match what they want to believe is true. Right wingers have been known to do that on many fronts.
And of COURSE NASA and the meteorological stations are SOOO biased. (SARCASM)
Bottom line, Carlin claimed global temperatures remained unchanged since the mid 20th century, the NASA data completely disproves this. There may be some room for argument concerning what caused the rise, but the rise itself is pretty clear in these indexes.
Of course he said they were liars. They are. Prime example: Carlin claims in this "report": "There may be in the future. But global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They're not going up, and if anything they're going down." The truth: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
Yeah, it wasn't the Government that created the internet... oh wait, yes it was. If you can point to this great internet analogue that was squashed by the government, you might have SOME kind of credibility, otherwise it's yet more empty rhetoric. And never mind the transistor, mosfets, LSI, fiber optics, and cell phone technology invented by Bell labs with a majority of funding from the Government (what today's neocons would call 'pork'). The NIH (the major funding organization behind Bell Labs) is responsible for much of the medical breakthroughs in the last 60 years as well. And of course we don't need the CDC (heavy sarcasm). Oh, and of course I'd trust my family's clean drinking water and disease and chemical free food to the corporate sector as well, because you know they police themselves so well, as evidenced by Enron, Global Crossing, Haliburton, Qwest, Tyco, World Com, Bear-Sterns, Citigroup, etc., etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
And on Bush vs Obama on the subject of 'squashing dissent':
Bush: 1. Omitted DATA for 1000 years and mandated the insertion of qualifying words such as "potentially" and "may" that the result would have been to insert "uncertainty... where there is essentially none." 2. Demanded that data from a discredited study funded in part by the American Petroleum Institute be included in climate change reports. 3. Demanded that The elimination of the summary statementâ" noncontroversial within the science community that studies climate change-that "climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment."
On the other hand:
Obama: 1. Despite the fact that Alan Carlin was no part of any group tasked with studying climate control, Obama allowed his unsolicited and unwarranted report to be analyzed and subjected to PEER REVIEW, and was subsequently REJECTED by his PEERS.
Yeah, that's the same exact thing.
The thing that should stand out to anyone is that Carlin claims in this "report": "There may be in the future. But global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They're not going up, and if anything they're going down."
Yeah, it wasn't the Government that created the internet... oh wait, yes it was. If you can point to this great internet analogue that was squashed by the government, you might have SOME kind of credibility, otherwise it's yet more empty rhetoric. And never mind the transistor, mosfets, LSI, and fiber optics, invented by Bell labs with a majority of funding from the Government (what today's neocons would call 'pork'). The NIH (the major funding organization behind Bell Labs) is responsible for much of the medical breakthroughs in the last 60 years as well. And of course we don't need the CDC (heavy sarcasm). Oh, and of course I'd trust my family's clean drinking water and disease and chemical free food to the corporate sector as well, because you know they police themselves so well, as evidenced by Enron, Global Crossing, Haliburton, Qwest, Tyco, World Com, Bear-Sterns, Citigroup, etc., etc. (heavier sarcasm)
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Is no-one else staggered by the irony and hypocrisy of Sony using fair usage against Universal, and then it being disallowed when they are the bully? This judge is an idiot, plain and simple.
Didn't you know? Every sperm is sacred. Blame the Catholics and other idiots who continue to promote 'abstinence' as the sole form of birth control, and lie about and demonize other forms of birth control (including being gay)...and the vast majority of those (where I come from) are white, you racist idiot.
I don't think I've ever wished I had mod points as much as I do right now! Well said. They should have just let it die quietly. Reading this just reminded me of the bad memories...the fact that they went backwards in intuitiveness of the GUI, not to mention performance, stability, and HW / SW support. The biggest thing that I like about Windows 7 is that it's NOT VISTA!!!!! The unmitigated audacity of Guggenheimer spouting this crap should get him fired. Nothing worse than a corporate Yes-man in my eyes, especially when it is in public, and it's such obvious horseshit. Windows XP was what Me was supposed to be, and Win7 is what Vista should have been. Maybe if they skipped this trash and concentrated on the real deal they'd actually get some kind of decent reputation back.
They should have just let it die quietly. Reading this just reminded me of the bad memories...the fact that they went backwards in intuitiveness of the GUI, not to mention performance, stability, and HW / SW support. The biggest thing that I like about Windows 7 is that it's NOT VISTA!!!!! The unmitigated audacity of Guggenheimer spouting this crap should get him fired. Nothing worse than a corporate Yes-man in my eyes, especially when it is in public, and it's such obvious horseshit.
Objection! Citation needed, and suspiciously close to empty right wing rhetoric. I think that it is much more likely that exposure of the illegal program would give operational details of legal, necessary programs. This would explain the actions of an obviously thoughtful man. Whatever the reason, he's still WRONG. The 4th amendment is non-negotiable and is VERY clear. I accept FISA as a necessary evil in cases of extreme national security (as defined in the Constitution; threat of invasion or rebellion).
I hope the mind police don't read your post, you'll give them ideas.
May chance smile upon you. You did not quite cover every single point, but you hit a lot of big ones. I undersign as well.
No, I merely think, based largely upon historical facts, that organized religion has killed FAR MORE than it has ever helped. Just the multiple Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition would do that... and if there were no concept of religion then Hitler would not have exterminated millions of Jewish people.
Your quote gave me an epiphany:
For all that some people act smug about being enlightened and scientific, the fact of the matter is, their beliefs are as faith based as the beliefs of the unsophisticated religious types they are mocking.
I thought about it a few seconds and realized that YES I do 100% and without equivocation believe in hypothesizing, experimenting and observing. No one can live without doing so. On the other hand, MORE people would be alive if there had never been the concept of 'GOD', and people willing to use that concept to make other people do what they want.
One of the major reasons many businesses outsourced their electronics production was because of environmental and workplace safety issues due to the heavy metals and solvents used and left over. If widely adopted, this sort of thing could jump start a mini industrial revolution. I would think that re-usable components would reduce the cost of replacement parts on all electronic devices, especially with widespread adoption. Do you have any idea how many perfectly good resistors and capacitors lie in landfills? And the amount of chemical waste to produce those wasted components... Big business would have to be pretty ignorant to pass this one up if it works half as well as it appeared to on the video. Also, as someone who has worked in most aspects of electronics manufacture (PCB fab, IC fab, IC packaging, and SMD / through hole assembly and test from r&d to mass production scales), I could see this process being more efficient and less costly than current SMD and PCB manufacturing. Hard to say for sure without finding out more, but this looks hopeful!
Logo was great for it's time, and so is this. Anything that makes interfaces and / or programming more intuitive is great in my book. If nothing else it will hopefully get people (including possibly the next generation of programmers and engineers) more cognizant of user interfaces in general. I think usability and quality of interface on both HW and SW has often taken a back seat in many industries to varying degrees (consumer electronics and automobiles come to mind specifically).
Why does he not write it up and get it published then? Certainly if this is such a huge deal, is there NOT ONE climatologist willing to put this into a report and submit it to a journal for peer review? Otherwise it amounts to exactly what it is, rantings by some lunatic on some ex-weatherman's blog.
News flash: There were no ties to Al-qaeda or 9/11, no weapons of mass destruction, no labs creating weapons of mass destruction, no yellowcake uranium, and thus, ultimately, no imminent threat whatsoever, and the Bush administration said exactly the opposite, many up until they were unceremoniously tossed out for those same lies by the American people. If you have credible proof to the contrary, I'd love to see it, otherwise it is you that is spewing the empty rhetoric.
Comes down to the same BS of: "We told our lawyers to tell us it was legal, and so it was." Will the Bush administration EVER answer for their crimes? I think not at this point.
Yeah, the government could never data mine our e-mail or divert major percentages of our data transactions through the NSA's equipment, and then they could never get the congress to issue blanket immunity to the telcom companies who colluded with the illegal actions ... oh wait, they already did! Some people are sheep with blinders on, I swear. Talk about crazy!
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I am able to click links just fine. I reject your source. Who is Bob Tisdale? Why should I believe him? The blog is run by a weatherman. The link you gave concerning 'peer review' did not indicate that the refutation has been peer reviewed, so as far as I'm concerned it's just more ranting on some blog. Even if I Bob Tisdale DID have some actual expertise in the field, all I see are graphs of two data sets. Had it ever occurred to anyone that over the last 9 years, NASA and GISS were able to compile more and better data than what's available publicly?
Maybe it would be better to outlaw the use of this kind of technology by ALL governments. It should be perfectly legal for corporate use.
Political opportunism by Graham, and naivete by Schumer. Both companies are in compliance with international law. How can you punish a company when you never even told them it was wrong to begin with? The hardware and software in question is usually marketed for corporate use, where they have every right to use it. Maybe it would be better to outlaw the use of such software by governments?
I mentioned it at that time because the majority of the sites I found that criticized NASA GISS and James Hansen were neoconservative websites. The site you listed is a blog. I see no accreditation other than that the author was a tv weatherman for 25 years... ROFLMAO The only profession where you can be wrong most of the time and still get PAID!!!
I guess you think that because it is on the internet, it is true.
I certainly do not see a peer reviewed refutation. I call horseshit.
While I agree 100% with your first paragraph, he was probably modded up for the first part of his statement. Bush never would have never been able to lie the US into Iraq without the knee-jerk sensationalist media beating the drum, and the vast majority of America following.
I did, and found a bunch of right wing sites slandering James Hansen and his work, and one article from a credible news organization saying that some people were questioning his data and / or methods. What I did not find was a peer reviewed article refuting his findings... much less multiple peer reviewed articles refuting his findings.
The page you sited clearly has an axe to grind and is obviously 'fixing the facts' to match what they want to believe is true. Right wingers have been known to do that on many fronts.
And of COURSE NASA and the meteorological stations are SOOO biased. (SARCASM)
Bottom line, Carlin claimed global temperatures remained unchanged since the mid 20th century, the NASA data completely disproves this. There may be some room for argument concerning what caused the rise, but the rise itself is pretty clear in these indexes.
Of course he said they were liars. They are. Prime example: Carlin claims in this "report": "There may be in the future. But global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They're not going up, and if anything they're going down."
The truth:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
I REALLY expect more from the /. crowd.
Yeah, it wasn't the Government that created the internet... oh wait, yes it was. If you can point to this great internet analogue that was squashed by the government, you might have SOME kind of credibility, otherwise it's yet more empty rhetoric. And never mind the transistor, mosfets, LSI, fiber optics, and cell phone technology invented by Bell labs with a majority of funding from the Government (what today's neocons would call 'pork'). The NIH (the major funding organization behind Bell Labs) is responsible for much of the medical breakthroughs in the last 60 years as well. And of course we don't need the CDC (heavy sarcasm). Oh, and of course I'd trust my family's clean drinking water and disease and chemical free food to the corporate sector as well, because you know they police themselves so well, as evidenced by Enron, Global Crossing, Haliburton, Qwest, Tyco, World Com, Bear-Sterns, Citigroup, etc., etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
And on Bush vs Obama on the subject of 'squashing dissent':
Bush:
1. Omitted DATA for 1000 years and mandated the insertion of qualifying words such as "potentially" and "may" that the result would have been to insert "uncertainty... where there is essentially none."
2. Demanded that data from a discredited study funded in part by the American Petroleum Institute be included in climate change reports.
3. Demanded that The elimination of the summary statementâ" noncontroversial within the science community that studies climate change-that "climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment."
On the other hand:
Obama:
1. Despite the fact that Alan Carlin was no part of any group tasked with studying climate control, Obama allowed his unsolicited and unwarranted report to be analyzed and subjected to PEER REVIEW, and was subsequently REJECTED by his PEERS.
Yeah, that's the same exact thing.
The thing that should stand out to anyone is that Carlin claims in this "report": "There may be in the future. But global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They're not going up, and if anything they're going down."
This is complete and utter HORSESHIT.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
I REALLY expect more from the /. crowd.
Yeah, it wasn't the Government that created the internet... oh wait, yes it was. If you can point to this great internet analogue that was squashed by the government, you might have SOME kind of credibility, otherwise it's yet more empty rhetoric. And never mind the transistor, mosfets, LSI, and fiber optics, invented by Bell labs with a majority of funding from the Government (what today's neocons would call 'pork'). The NIH (the major funding organization behind Bell Labs) is responsible for much of the medical breakthroughs in the last 60 years as well. And of course we don't need the CDC (heavy sarcasm). Oh, and of course I'd trust my family's clean drinking water and disease and chemical free food to the corporate sector as well, because you know they police themselves so well, as evidenced by Enron, Global Crossing, Haliburton, Qwest, Tyco, World Com, Bear-Sterns, Citigroup, etc., etc. (heavier sarcasm)