Who said anything about legalizing businesses owned by crime syndicates? This will allow gambling casinos here (like Harrahs, and various Indian casinos) to open up their own websites, and people will naturally flock to those.
Strawman? I'm not the one who put up the scarecrow.
Which is why it should be legalized so that it can be regulated, and the sites that are cheating their customers can be taken down, and customers have a chance to use legit sites that don't cheat their customers (any more than regular gambling, that is).
Oh, and how is that campaign on alcohol prohibition going?
Unfortunately alcohol effects everyone the person knows. It affects the families of alcoholics as they resort to lying, stealing, and other means of getting money so they can continue to drink. It interferes with work.
Yes, there are those who aren't alcoholics and can put it aside any time they want. But for those who can't, this is a bad thing.
Are you really making that argument? History tells us that the best way to mitigate the consequences of such behavior is not to ban it completely (and thus creating unregulated black markets), but rather to legalize it, and regulate it so that it's under the purview of the law.
When the one-world utopia happens, I'm all for it.
Know what is the best hope for the "one-world utopia" is? It's economic interdependence.
If I like the widgets you make, and buy them frequently, I'm less likely to hold a grudge against you if you do something stupid, and you probably don't want to bite the had that feeds you, so to speak.
At a former job of mine, I had to deal with customers over the phone (a customer service representative). The company actually had some anti-fraud policies that were slightly better than average, but a lot of representatives would ignore them, mostly because many customers were just ignorant (or perhaps they were the fraudsters themselves).
When I would try to enforce those policies strictly, I would get yelled at a lot by customers. Occasionally, I would get a thank you for enforcing those policies in such a strict manner, but often times those few people had been stung by id theft, and so already understood the reasons for the company's policies.
I'm not opposed to a voucher system, but I'll be damn pissed if my tax dollars go to religious schools. If there were a voucher system, then the schools accepting those vouchers should be required to adhere to the same secular laws governing public schools now.
Well, it's a good thing that you have such great discipline regarding your sexuality.
Is there anything in yourlife that you consume even though you know it's bad for you? Smoking? Any particular food? Or are you just the model of perfection with no vices whatsoever? Or do instead lead the most boring life ever, and so never have to worry about these things?
This isn't about what should or what could be. This is about the reality of things. Nobody advocating sex ed will deny that abstinence is the only 100% prevention for abstinence, but the reality is that some people will have sex in spite of the consequences, and so they are entitled to the most medically accurate info about it, and how things like condoms will mitigate the risks.
Not to mention that there is a significant number of people that still don't have their own computers, and instead use someone else's (friend, family, etc.), a school's, or even the public library, and so they're not paying for anything.
More trade, which then possibly leads to more stability. History has shown that economic interdependence helps to foster peaceful, albeit sometimes tense, negotiations. It's the only reasonable hope we humans have to world peace. It's not the lovey-dovey ideal peace, but it's something.
The only thing we need to worry about in this equation is religious nutbags that won't listen to reason.
Hmm, yes, privacy for people that don't have any within the borders of their own government. While I don't trust our government that much, I trust it more than Iran, Sudan, or Cuba, and I think that if we know more about what it happening within their borders we might possibly be able to help them out in the future.
They're pulling people away from Flash because they want to be the gateway to Internet content, via the sweet deal with MPEG LA (who owns the H.264 patent) that will keep other players--especially open source software--out of the market.
This is so wrong it's not even funny. MPEG LA doesn't own the H.264 patents. MPEG LA is a firm that licenses the patent pool to H.264 and numerous other technologies.
You're right about this.
If Apple really had our best interests at heart, they would be either 1) pushing Ogg Theora as a baseline video standard, or 2) working to release H.264 into the public domain so that everyone can use the arguably "better" codec.
Since Apple owns patents to H.264 I doubt you are going to see them doing either.
In fact, speaking of an unencumbered codec, have you noticed that Safari, by deliberate choice, does not support Ogg Theora?
Why are you surprised by this? Apple is a patent holder to H.264. Why would they want to support a video codec that is a rival to a technology in which they hold patents?
These things only prove the point that Apple does not have our best interests at heart.
Sony is welcome to run with this patent. I don't think anybody else in their right mind would implement this.
It's like going into a car dealership, and the salesperson is all happy when you first meet him, but then when you take a test drive, he has you drive a beaten up version of the car. "Yeah, I'd show you how the car stereo works, but it's broken in this one, but trust me, it's awesome. Oh, by the way, I know it's like 100 F right now, but don't turn on the AC."
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How much lower can it go? They already discriminate (and still get funds from various governments).
Really? This? Are you going to have a merit badge for going to the movies?
How about you work on some of those long standing issues like your discrimination against gays, and non-Christians?
US citizens can also be stopped and asked for their papers too, and can be arrested, and held until they can prove their citizenship.
Who said anything about legalizing businesses owned by crime syndicates? This will allow gambling casinos here (like Harrahs, and various Indian casinos) to open up their own websites, and people will naturally flock to those.
Strawman? I'm not the one who put up the scarecrow.
Which is why it should be legalized so that it can be regulated, and the sites that are cheating their customers can be taken down, and customers have a chance to use legit sites that don't cheat their customers (any more than regular gambling, that is).
Oh, and how is that campaign on alcohol prohibition going?
Unfortunately alcohol effects everyone the person knows. It affects the families of alcoholics as they resort to lying, stealing, and other means of getting money so they can continue to drink. It interferes with work.
Yes, there are those who aren't alcoholics and can put it aside any time they want. But for those who can't, this is a bad thing.
Are you really making that argument? History tells us that the best way to mitigate the consequences of such behavior is not to ban it completely (and thus creating unregulated black markets), but rather to legalize it, and regulate it so that it's under the purview of the law.
When the one-world utopia happens, I'm all for it.
Know what is the best hope for the "one-world utopia" is? It's economic interdependence.
If I like the widgets you make, and buy them frequently, I'm less likely to hold a grudge against you if you do something stupid, and you probably don't want to bite the had that feeds you, so to speak.
If it were possible to avail the sociability of this syndrome, and moderate or even eliminate the problems, then it would be evolution.
I really like MonoDevelop. I'm not certain about its Java support, but it does pretty well with C/C++.
At a former job of mine, I had to deal with customers over the phone (a customer service representative). The company actually had some anti-fraud policies that were slightly better than average, but a lot of representatives would ignore them, mostly because many customers were just ignorant (or perhaps they were the fraudsters themselves).
When I would try to enforce those policies strictly, I would get yelled at a lot by customers. Occasionally, I would get a thank you for enforcing those policies in such a strict manner, but often times those few people had been stung by id theft, and so already understood the reasons for the company's policies.
It happens on Slashdot more often than you may realize.
I think Slashdot has some sort of "SUDDEN UNINTENDED DISCONNECTION" algorithm running to pick up on&*(*($&&^...NO CARRIER
I'm not opposed to a voucher system, but I'll be damn pissed if my tax dollars go to religious schools. If there were a voucher system, then the schools accepting those vouchers should be required to adhere to the same secular laws governing public schools now.
Well, it's a good thing that you have such great discipline regarding your sexuality.
Is there anything in yourlife that you consume even though you know it's bad for you? Smoking? Any particular food? Or are you just the model of perfection with no vices whatsoever? Or do instead lead the most boring life ever, and so never have to worry about these things?
This isn't about what should or what could be. This is about the reality of things. Nobody advocating sex ed will deny that abstinence is the only 100% prevention for abstinence, but the reality is that some people will have sex in spite of the consequences, and so they are entitled to the most medically accurate info about it, and how things like condoms will mitigate the risks.
You misspelled her name. How completely Morissette Ironic!
Not to mention that there is a significant number of people that still don't have their own computers, and instead use someone else's (friend, family, etc.), a school's, or even the public library, and so they're not paying for anything.
More trade, which then possibly leads to more stability. History has shown that economic interdependence helps to foster peaceful, albeit sometimes tense, negotiations. It's the only reasonable hope we humans have to world peace. It's not the lovey-dovey ideal peace, but it's something.
The only thing we need to worry about in this equation is religious nutbags that won't listen to reason.
Oh, crap, I just got a message saying I wasn't actually supposed to leak that to world.
Well, maybe we can install RMS as dictator.
Now I'm giggling at the thought of a country run by RMS.
"That's GNU/Australia to you!"
Now we get to control the Oz elections, and install Linus Torvalds as dictator (benevolent, that is) for life!!!
Mwahahahaha!!
Hmm, yes, privacy for people that don't have any within the borders of their own government. While I don't trust our government that much, I trust it more than Iran, Sudan, or Cuba, and I think that if we know more about what it happening within their borders we might possibly be able to help them out in the future.
They're pulling people away from Flash because they want to be the gateway to Internet content, via the sweet deal with MPEG LA (who owns the H.264 patent) that will keep other players--especially open source software--out of the market.
This is so wrong it's not even funny. MPEG LA doesn't own the H.264 patents. MPEG LA is a firm that licenses the patent pool to H.264 and numerous other technologies.
You're right about this.
If Apple really had our best interests at heart, they would be either 1) pushing Ogg Theora as a baseline video standard, or 2) working to release H.264 into the public domain so that everyone can use the arguably "better" codec.
Since Apple owns patents to H.264 I doubt you are going to see them doing either.
In fact, speaking of an unencumbered codec, have you noticed that Safari, by deliberate choice, does not support Ogg Theora?
Why are you surprised by this? Apple is a patent holder to H.264. Why would they want to support a video codec that is a rival to a technology in which they hold patents?
These things only prove the point that Apple does not have our best interests at heart.
Mod makes the point...
Well, what kind of point? Insightful? Funny? Interesting?
Sony is welcome to run with this patent. I don't think anybody else in their right mind would implement this.
It's like going into a car dealership, and the salesperson is all happy when you first meet him, but then when you take a test drive, he has you drive a beaten up version of the car. "Yeah, I'd show you how the car stereo works, but it's broken in this one, but trust me, it's awesome. Oh, by the way, I know it's like 100 F right now, but don't turn on the AC."
And in this case, Penn calls these guys "baby twisting motherfuckers."
I don't think I could have come up with a better phrase than that.
Sure, and a part of science is all about confirming those things that seem "obvious."
Who has milk delivered to them any more?