GMO agriculture by a fascist system (Monsanto and govt) HFCS in one form or another is in almost everything, now this (lab grown meat), i seen enough of this planet and i want off
The upside is that you're still going to be able to have burgers without having to figure out how to herd cattle in space.
Reason I bring this up is, my Arizona driver's license was issued over 10 years ago when I moved back home, and isn't due for renewal for another 8 years. Typically, you get your 'permenant' license at 21 here and it expires when you hit 65. Address changes are printed on a little sticker they put on the back. They reissue them for women who get married and take their husband's name at a prorated cost. 40+ years of wear on a piece of plastic kept in a wallet? Serious fade even after 10 years.
They actually want you to replace your license every 10-15 years, or something like that -- they sent me a letter recently saying that I needed to get my license updated with a more recent picture. Not sure why they don't just call that an "expiration date" -- maybe because you don't have to do anything to prove that you can still drive when getting your picture updated.
I think there are some very good reasons for pirating, opposing current copyright law, etc. I do not think the fact that the artist who produced something you enjoyed is one of those reasons.
In that case, I suppose it's a good thing that there are a number of Slashdotters who will assure me that none of the money that I would spend on media ever goes to the creators, right?
Good grief... I certainly hope that Coverity's analyzer strips out comments before it starts evaluating code. Even the dimmest pointy-haired manager would see right through that scam.
I'm pretty sure that you're underestimating how dim managers can be.
sure..until they compress it for you or change formats or..... and screw it up.
This isn't steganography. As long as you create your video such that the artifacts of compression won't make your codes unreadable, it doesn't matter if Youtube does something like that.
You're comparing apples and oranges there -- that 27% is the number of subscriptions of home broadband connections, not the number of people who live where broadband is available. The number of households where broadband is available is significantly higher (a little googling says 60-80%, depending on the source -- it's going to depend a lot on what qualifies as "broadband.")
I've been crabbing in the Chesapeake and New Jersey for the past ~5 years once or twice a year using both pots and hand lines and haven't noticed any steady size increase to match the increase in carbon emissions. Not a lot of variance anyway when I hear the "daily biggest crab" winners at the outfit we go through (7.5" to 8.5"). You would think we would start hearing about 9" or 10" crabs if their size is increasing with carbon emissions. Anecdotal, I know but what I've seen first hand doesn't really line up with this.
1-2 data points a year for five years isn't exactly a lot of data when you're talking about CO2 levels.
Gamers have just as much right to whine about a company's pricing policy as the industry insiders have a right to whine about their customers' dislike of their policy. So the industry's getting sick of the complaining? Presumably, they're worried that if there's too much publicity of the issue, customers actually will start voting with their dollars.
He's right, it's a business. A business that ignores its customers doesn't usually last too long.
Well, family should respect the wishes of their deceased.
This is by no means a universally held belief. I tend to think that the wishes of someone who is dead are irrelevant -- because once they're dead, they're not in any position to care about it anyway.
Sure, I'd probably hang on to grandpa's Nobel Prize too -- but I don't think that their family has some moral obligation to do so. Maybe they feel that the knowledge that their ancestor won the prize is of more importance than the physical artifact.
What I will often do when I have some downtime is proofread some pages at http://www.pgdp.net/. It's essentially a project to take OCR'd out-of-copyright books and proofread and format them for Project Gutenberg. You only have to do one page at a time, so (depending on the type of book you choose to work on), it can take anywhere from just a minute or two on up, and the result is something useful.
And while I've been doing it, every once in a while something will catch my interest that I would normally have never read.
If you speak out against something then partake of it, you're still undermining your own credibility unless you have a damn good reason why you're forced to.
The fact that they took the money that you could have otherwise been diverting to pay for retirement (or other purpose, depending on which program you're talking about) yourself is a pretty good reason. If when you reach retirement age, you can't afford to live without the government handout -- well, things could very well have been different if they hadn't been taking 12 percent of your wages to cover it your entire working life.
Well, that includes all coastal cites, New York, L.A., Miami.
Look at a map of the original United States, and then imagine a 100-mile zone inside those borders. It looks to me like virtually the entire country would have been within 100 miles of a border. Somehow, I doubt that those who wrote the Bill of Rights would have agreed that they didn't intend it to apply to 90% of their country.
And it kills me that such a good product has such a ridiculous name. It's a complete embarassment to say out loud./rant
Hey, I didn't realize that they finally renamed OpenOffice, getting rid of the idiotic ".org" at the end of the name. Naming a piece of software after a website made it sound far stupider than "LibreOffice" ever did.
All political BS aside, without saturday delivery wont a lot of people just go over to FedEX or UPS?
Well, yes, if you need Saturday delivery then you'll have to use a different carrier.
It's worth noting that very few shippers will deliver on Sunday, and the world hasn't come to an end. I would think that if getting things delivered on a particular non-business day was that important, somebody would have started offering Sunday delivery to keep ahead of the competition.
Couldn't they charge extra for weekend delivery to make it economical?
The same people who scream when they lose their Saturday delivery would throw an even bigger fit if you raised the postal rates enough to make up the difference.
But not on the license plate. And that's the point: the fact that you have other avenues to express yourself doesn't mean you're not being restricted. For free speech zones, you must go to the free speech zones, and for the license plate issue, you must find another way to express the same thing on your car.
There is no difference in expression of your ideas if you put it on a license plate or on a bumper sticker. It reaches the same audience, it's in the same place.
The whole reason why "free speech zones" are bad (and why they're created) is because they are intended to actually restrict your expression of your ideas, generally by changing the audience you can reach. That simply doesn't apply to the license plate debate.
Sure it is. You can't express it on a license plate.
Using this logic (the part where it isn't a suppression of speech as long as you're technically still able to express that speech is some way), free speech zones are a-okay. After all, you can express anything you want. Just... do it over there!
No, it's not the same thing. Because you still have the right to paste whatever expression you want on your car. Whether or not you can put it on the license plate makes no difference to your ability to express yourself.
Note that so-called "free speech zones" have another crucial difference: in this case, you're trying to force the government to provide the forum for your "expression." That alone makes the scenarios completely dissimilar.
How is that not irrelevant? You might not think it's a violation of the first amendment, but are you saying that the mere fact that you're capable of expressing the idea in other ways automatically means they're not suppressing your speech/expression? If so, I can think of a number of things they could do; what a huge loophole.
You probably weren't saying that, but in that case, why say it's irrelevant? I'm not sure it's a first amendment violation, but I consider it as suppressing speech/expression.
If you have the option to express the same idea, in the same way, in the same forum, then it should be obvious that your freedom of expression is not being suppressed.
But they're restricting your ability to place it on the license plate. The fact that you can express the same thing in other ways is irrelevant.
No. It really isn't. The government is not suppressing your right of speech or expression in any way. The whole point of the First Amendment is to guarantee your right to speak and express your ideas. That is completely unaffected by whether or not the government is forced to provide you with a piece of metal with your favorite "offensive" acronym on it.
If the government is restricting your ability to communicate an idea, I'd say it's a First Amendment issue.
But it doesn't restrict your ability to communicate an idea. If you really must paste "ROFLMAO" on your car, you can always put it on a bumper sticker.
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GMO agriculture by a fascist system (Monsanto and govt) HFCS in one form or another is in almost everything, now this (lab grown meat), i seen enough of this planet and i want off
The upside is that you're still going to be able to have burgers without having to figure out how to herd cattle in space.
Reason I bring this up is, my Arizona driver's license was issued over 10 years ago when I moved back home, and isn't due for renewal for another 8 years. Typically, you get your 'permenant' license at 21 here and it expires when you hit 65. Address changes are printed on a little sticker they put on the back. They reissue them for women who get married and take their husband's name at a prorated cost. 40+ years of wear on a piece of plastic kept in a wallet? Serious fade even after 10 years.
They actually want you to replace your license every 10-15 years, or something like that -- they sent me a letter recently saying that I needed to get my license updated with a more recent picture. Not sure why they don't just call that an "expiration date" -- maybe because you don't have to do anything to prove that you can still drive when getting your picture updated.
How would the Onion look then?
Prescient?
I think there are some very good reasons for pirating, opposing current copyright law, etc. I do not think the fact that the artist who produced something you enjoyed is one of those reasons.
In that case, I suppose it's a good thing that there are a number of Slashdotters who will assure me that none of the money that I would spend on media ever goes to the creators, right?
Good grief... I certainly hope that Coverity's analyzer strips out comments before it starts evaluating code. Even the dimmest pointy-haired manager would see right through that scam.
I'm pretty sure that you're underestimating how dim managers can be.
sure..until they compress it for you or change formats or ..... and screw it up.
This isn't steganography. As long as you create your video such that the artifacts of compression won't make your codes unreadable, it doesn't matter if Youtube does something like that.
It is also fair to introduce some bias...
Are you reading what you're typing?
You're comparing apples and oranges there -- that 27% is the number of subscriptions of home broadband connections, not the number of people who live where broadband is available. The number of households where broadband is available is significantly higher (a little googling says 60-80%, depending on the source -- it's going to depend a lot on what qualifies as "broadband.")
I've been crabbing in the Chesapeake and New Jersey for the past ~5 years once or twice a year using both pots and hand lines and haven't noticed any steady size increase to match the increase in carbon emissions. Not a lot of variance anyway when I hear the "daily biggest crab" winners at the outfit we go through (7.5" to 8.5"). You would think we would start hearing about 9" or 10" crabs if their size is increasing with carbon emissions. Anecdotal, I know but what I've seen first hand doesn't really line up with this.
1-2 data points a year for five years isn't exactly a lot of data when you're talking about CO2 levels.
Free Software Foundation's founder Richard Stallman's description of de Icaza as a 'traitor to the free software community,'
Well, if I wasn't before, I'm firmly on de Icaza's side now.
Gamers have just as much right to whine about a company's pricing policy as the industry insiders have a right to whine about their customers' dislike of their policy. So the industry's getting sick of the complaining? Presumably, they're worried that if there's too much publicity of the issue, customers actually will start voting with their dollars.
He's right, it's a business. A business that ignores its customers doesn't usually last too long.
Well, family should respect the wishes of their deceased.
This is by no means a universally held belief. I tend to think that the wishes of someone who is dead are irrelevant -- because once they're dead, they're not in any position to care about it anyway.
Sure, I'd probably hang on to grandpa's Nobel Prize too -- but I don't think that their family has some moral obligation to do so. Maybe they feel that the knowledge that their ancestor won the prize is of more importance than the physical artifact.
The Android-derived tablet he got is horrible! The battery is the least of its problems.
I think it's pretty obvious that timothy got trolled. The "top-notch security and monitoring" line should have been a giveaway.
What I will often do when I have some downtime is proofread some pages at http://www.pgdp.net/. It's essentially a project to take OCR'd out-of-copyright books and proofread and format them for Project Gutenberg. You only have to do one page at a time, so (depending on the type of book you choose to work on), it can take anywhere from just a minute or two on up, and the result is something useful.
And while I've been doing it, every once in a while something will catch my interest that I would normally have never read.
CmdrTaco knew his audience; /.'s new masters at Dice.com don't seem to have figured it out quite yet.
Slashvertisements were certainly common at certain points during CmdrTaco's reign of terror.
Just add dice.com to your hosts file (/adblocker/whatever) and be done with it.
If you speak out against something then partake of it, you're still undermining your own credibility unless you have a damn good reason why you're forced to.
The fact that they took the money that you could have otherwise been diverting to pay for retirement (or other purpose, depending on which program you're talking about) yourself is a pretty good reason. If when you reach retirement age, you can't afford to live without the government handout -- well, things could very well have been different if they hadn't been taking 12 percent of your wages to cover it your entire working life.
Well, that includes all coastal cites, New York, L.A., Miami.
Look at a map of the original United States, and then imagine a 100-mile zone inside those borders. It looks to me like virtually the entire country would have been within 100 miles of a border. Somehow, I doubt that those who wrote the Bill of Rights would have agreed that they didn't intend it to apply to 90% of their country.
And it kills me that such a good product has such a ridiculous name. It's a complete embarassment to say out loud. /rant
Hey, I didn't realize that they finally renamed OpenOffice, getting rid of the idiotic ".org" at the end of the name. Naming a piece of software after a website made it sound far stupider than "LibreOffice" ever did.
All political BS aside, without saturday delivery wont a lot of people just go over to FedEX or UPS?
Well, yes, if you need Saturday delivery then you'll have to use a different carrier.
It's worth noting that very few shippers will deliver on Sunday, and the world hasn't come to an end. I would think that if getting things delivered on a particular non-business day was that important, somebody would have started offering Sunday delivery to keep ahead of the competition.
Couldn't they charge extra for weekend delivery to make it economical?
The same people who scream when they lose their Saturday delivery would throw an even bigger fit if you raised the postal rates enough to make up the difference.
But not on the license plate. And that's the point: the fact that you have other avenues to express yourself doesn't mean you're not being restricted. For free speech zones, you must go to the free speech zones, and for the license plate issue, you must find another way to express the same thing on your car.
There is no difference in expression of your ideas if you put it on a license plate or on a bumper sticker. It reaches the same audience, it's in the same place.
The whole reason why "free speech zones" are bad (and why they're created) is because they are intended to actually restrict your expression of your ideas, generally by changing the audience you can reach. That simply doesn't apply to the license plate debate.
Sure it is. You can't express it on a license plate.
Using this logic (the part where it isn't a suppression of speech as long as you're technically still able to express that speech is some way), free speech zones are a-okay. After all, you can express anything you want. Just... do it over there!
No, it's not the same thing. Because you still have the right to paste whatever expression you want on your car. Whether or not you can put it on the license plate makes no difference to your ability to express yourself.
Note that so-called "free speech zones" have another crucial difference: in this case, you're trying to force the government to provide the forum for your "expression." That alone makes the scenarios completely dissimilar.
How is that not irrelevant? You might not think it's a violation of the first amendment, but are you saying that the mere fact that you're capable of expressing the idea in other ways automatically means they're not suppressing your speech/expression? If so, I can think of a number of things they could do; what a huge loophole.
You probably weren't saying that, but in that case, why say it's irrelevant? I'm not sure it's a first amendment violation, but I consider it as suppressing speech/expression.
If you have the option to express the same idea, in the same way, in the same forum, then it should be obvious that your freedom of expression is not being suppressed.
But they're restricting your ability to place it on the license plate. The fact that you can express the same thing in other ways is irrelevant.
No. It really isn't. The government is not suppressing your right of speech or expression in any way. The whole point of the First Amendment is to guarantee your right to speak and express your ideas. That is completely unaffected by whether or not the government is forced to provide you with a piece of metal with your favorite "offensive" acronym on it.
If the government is restricting your ability to communicate an idea, I'd say it's a First Amendment issue.
But it doesn't restrict your ability to communicate an idea. If you really must paste "ROFLMAO" on your car, you can always put it on a bumper sticker.
I was going to ask, what about the First Amendment to the United States Constitution?
In my book, First Amendment protections of free speech don't extend to forcing the government to issue you a particular license plate.