Your an idiot to think every senator comes and listens with an open mind ready to decide which way to vote based on the arguments presented that day on the floor. Their staff are the ones who have done the leg work and research on the issues who summarize it for the senators who make their decisions well before hand. Everything on the floor is nothing more than procedure and record keeping so whats the problem that he's checking his email while some windbags enter their arguments into public record. Links he receives could be anything from his public appearance schedule for next week to two girls, one cup.
Looks like he's actively working to me. The non work stuff was only open for as long as it took for him to get the cursor over the close button. It's not like he was playing solitaire or actively browsing through porn sites.
Now, you can tell me, what actions does he need to be preforming to be considered working? Staring intently at who ever has the floor and talking? Have some little graphs n charts on opinion polls on his monitor? Shit I'm sure he has already seen dozens of times. Have word open so he can type notes, despite everything already being recorded?
He's already made a decision, possible before he show up to work that day as I'm sure many others in that room already have. No amount of debate will change his mind and he's just waiting for the voting part of the job.
You can't judge how someone works by a 20 second clip of their day.
Don't tell the Government how fun it is to race wheel chairs down a hill. We might not be able to get then when we really get hurt... from racing down hills on wheel chairs.
Yes but are we even talking about addiction here? The study shows symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions but are they not the same symptoms of removing a familiarity from your environment?
One interpretation is that we are becoming addicted to our electronics and are becoming dependent on them.
Another interpretation is that we have integrated cell phones and other communication devices so greatly that they are truly a part of our lives.
I could probably get similar result by changing any constant in a persons environment.
Researchers asked 200 people to give up living in a house and sleeping in a tent for one full day found that after 24 hours many showed signs of withdrawal, craving and anxiety along with an inability to function well without their houses.
Sure there would be be a few exceptions for those that enjoy camping as there are in any study but would you conclude that people are addicted to living in houses or that people get thrown for a loop when constants in every day life and suddenly removed?
Yes you can override it. Seams like every moron believes that they are giving up control of their thermostat and that they just shut it off. What they do is raise the temperature by a few degrees so AC units are not working as hard and as much. It's a small reduction of power but multiply it by a few thousand homes and it's enough to shave off the peaks during high usage. And as far as I'm aware in Ontario, they have only send the signal a few times each year so it's not a daily thing.
The credit on your bill is just a incentive to get the thermostat. The real saving is when you program you stat so your ac isn't cooling the house all day when your not around instead of having your old manual stat set to 15 deg C all day long.
Censor shit and fuck, that is expected and acceptable. What they never done before is censor the word "Muhammed". Muhammed is the most popular given name on Earth and now it is worth censoring? Even one episode before it didn't seem to be a problem and frankly it really ruined the episode. It made it really hard to tell where the joke censoring started and the bullshit censoring ended. I also wasn't 100% sure if the 30 seconds of bleeping at the end were part of the joke or not when I watched it but became really irritating to watch and I'm more irritated now to know Comedy Central were fucking around with the message.
Just because you haven 't seen the movie your self doesn't make a 4 minuet clip the entire movie. It's a 3 hour film.
Also it doesn't matter how much of the original work is used, different subtitles change the entire context of the clip and there for is protected under fair use.
Here is a simple one. Stop using youtube. Youtube has become so shitty it's not worth using anymore. There are tons of video hosting sites that don't cover your videos with ads or randomly take them down.
Someone once said, "Advertising doesn't cost money, it makes money." and it's completely true. Just look at some of the move successful publicly known brand names. When Coca-Cola started out, they took over 90% of it's initial profits and poured it all into advertising and continued to do so until they were huge. They still spend millions on ads to keep the brand in everyone's mind.
This guy is looking at demos and sees it as an expense with no return. He's figuring that instead of paying his staff for a week or a month to create a demo level and paying to distribute it publicly, he can either forgo the expense and achieve the same result or sell demos and be reimbursed for the effort. It's guys like this that think they need to be paid for every action they take and are entailed to profits for every product they make that hurt companies. They need to remember that the public will decide if your work is good enough to be profitable or not and that you need to give something for us to buy. If it's worth it, you'll get it back and more.
No, they are not a courtesy, they are advertising. A free demo is no more than a luxury or a freebie than a movie trailer is for a movie. You get a sample and hopefully it will help you to decide if you want to buy something new.
Do you need a demo for every game? Of course not but that's a choice of what advertising to invest in. No different than deciding if you want a billboard with your game on it by the side of the highway or on the side of a bus or an ad on TV. The type of advertising also differs on the name your selling. If you have something completely new, I'll need more convincing to buy it than a name I'm familiar with like the God of War series. Frankly they could have had a 10 second commercial with a guy saying, "God of War III is ready, come buy it." and that would have been good enough for me.
People love learning what they enjoy. Many people on Slashdot probably learned a programing language to some extent because it was fun but how many of them also decided to learn a new form of dance, learned a new recipe for dinner, picked up another spoken language or took an auto repair classes? Probably not many because these things don't interest everyone. If you enjoy cooking your going to love doing new things and learning what you can do but if you don't like to cook, your not going to learn anything about it.
A kid that doesn't like to read might read a bit more just to get $2 for reading a book They might not see the value of learning to read or about what they read but if they see the value of $2, they will complete the task to get that money and learn something as a by product of it.
Heck, if people expected to get paid for learning,
People completely expect to get paid for learning. Why do think people pay to go to college or university. They go to learn thing so they can get paid more money for the things they learned. They go to get better paying jobs, not just because it's fun. I'm not saying that is can't be fun too but for the most part, that is not why they are there.
Do you even know what the word "archiving" means? Hard drives are great for backup and storage but if you want to archive data for a long time, say over a decade, A hard drive is not guaranteed to last, it's life span is only about 5 years. If the technology proves to be reliable and an accepted standard hardware component, there would be many places that would invest in something that allows them to archive their entire database, store it and forget it until needed.
And your vastly underestimating both the size of the planet and what a warning system requires. For a warning system to work you don't need to see it, you need to notice it. There is enough crap in the sky as it is with planes, balloons, meteorites, northern and southern lights, planets and maybe some ufo's. How often do you stop to look at a jumbo jet flying overhead. Sure you can see it but if your busy you probably don't notice it most of the time. A proper warning system needs you to stop in your tracks, drop what your doing and to go to safety.
Machines yes, Robots, no. The machine will be many times more efficient but requires consistent input. For example, the towels will always be the same size, before they get folded, another machine must get them flat, another machine orientates them the correct way, ect ect...
The Robot figures out all those things and while taking much more time to do so, can handle inconsistent input. The towels can be any size, half folded, in a pile or flat, there can be more than one towel, it doesn't matter. That's the difference between machines and robots and why this is an accomplishment.
What type of punishment would you suggest? A financial fine? Any dollar amount you set would likely be covered by the police force. Fines would be payed to the government, who funds the police so regardless of how high you set the amount, police would be willing to pay a "fine" and walk all over your rights. Would you make the punishment jail time? Your going to put cops in jail for protecting the public? They already put their lives on the line to protect you, why would they risk livelihood too? Now you have cops that don't want to protect you.
The idea is that if the police respect my rights as a person and a citizen, they would never have found the evidence being used to arrest or convict me. When evidence is thrown out, it's a reminder that the police have to follow the rules just like the rest of us.
What evidence? The tech saw nothing. Unless the bookmark was labeled "Totally illegal child porn" the tech never saw anything because he never followed any of the links. Even if it was child porn links, it's not like a lot of adult websites automatically add bookmarks for you with Javascript. Oh wait, that's what those hundreds of pop ups do. Plus there were only 2 suspect links among the dozen or so adult bookmarks so who knows if he even knew what was bookmarked. Also on top of that, bookmarks are not child porn.
As for the camera, it was pointed at the kid and connected to a vcr. Holy shit, remind me not to take a camera to my nephews birthday party as I was going to point it at a lot of kids. To think I almost could have gone to jail over that. You don't know what he was doing and to assume the worst is irresponsible. Maybe he was trying to record home movies, maybe he was setting up a nanny cam. Maybe he was arranging the kids toys into a pentagram and calling for the spirit of Satan. The web cam is completely innocent but was painted in a dark image by a tech that was either offended by porn links or was pregistist about a guy that view porn.
It doesn't relate at all. US doesn't give a shit what Canada does when enforcing their own laws. The US will shout, complain and threaten Canada and other countries to be more like them but Canadian and American laws have nothing to do with each other. In fact there are several areas where laws differ greatly such as copyright, medical marijuana, banking laws and gay rights.
That's right. It's just like when prohibition was introduced and how wrong it was for people to go out and drink at a speakeasy. Those criminals justified their actions on some moral ground but with massive government enforcement they soon found out how wrong they were. Now thanks to prohibition we live in a much safer alcohol free world.
How about the fact that the government has decided to kill people in order to conform to some arbitrary moral ground. If it was allowed to continue, it's only a matter of time before you go to the next step. Skip the poison and shoot people. Cheaper and faster and more persuasive to get people to conform. Justify it any way you want. Tell your self that people are already slowly killing them selves or breaking the law but that kind of power creeps out into other areas. Now your killing people because they are protesting any of your ideals and you might as well call the country a communist one.
Because in your poor analogy you are placing thing as you see them to fit your position in the argument. Basically we need to scrap this analogy and start a new.
Lets say you own a building downtown which as a large blank wall that faces the main street. Now lets say you had a mural painted on it like a city heritage or your company logo or anything to make it nicer. What it is is not important but what is important is that you have something there that you intend for people to look at. Now one night I come along and spray paint a giant penis on your wall. The next day people see it and eventually someone lets you know that it is there and you have it removed.
Now what your arguing is that you need to be charged for owning a wall that displayed a offensive image and that you need to hire a guard to patrol your wall to prevent anyone from doing that again. That seems like an excessive amount of responsibility on one person to control the actions of another but that is what your arguing here.
Hell, while your at it you can pump out a script that makes a computer self aware, a medical script that cures all ailments giving eternal life and maybe something to help men understand women.
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Not the exact same photo and from the same shoot. http://img157.imagevenue.com/aAfkjfp01fo1i-30648/loc939/00376_0460_ff2009-darksand1-3001_123_939lo.jpg
Nipples are exposed and lips are flapping in the wind but there is a big overreaction. Nude != Porn, Porn = Sex.
Your an idiot to think every senator comes and listens with an open mind ready to decide which way to vote based on the arguments presented that day on the floor. Their staff are the ones who have done the leg work and research on the issues who summarize it for the senators who make their decisions well before hand. Everything on the floor is nothing more than procedure and record keeping so whats the problem that he's checking his email while some windbags enter their arguments into public record. Links he receives could be anything from his public appearance schedule for next week to two girls, one cup.
Looks like he's actively working to me. The non work stuff was only open for as long as it took for him to get the cursor over the close button. It's not like he was playing solitaire or actively browsing through porn sites.
Now, you can tell me, what actions does he need to be preforming to be considered working? Staring intently at who ever has the floor and talking? Have some little graphs n charts on opinion polls on his monitor? Shit I'm sure he has already seen dozens of times. Have word open so he can type notes, despite everything already being recorded?
I'll let you know when some actually gets through.
He's already made a decision, possible before he show up to work that day as I'm sure many others in that room already have. No amount of debate will change his mind and he's just waiting for the voting part of the job. You can't judge how someone works by a 20 second clip of their day.
Don't tell the Government how fun it is to race wheel chairs down a hill. We might not be able to get then when we really get hurt... from racing down hills on wheel chairs.
One interpretation is that we are becoming addicted to our electronics and are becoming dependent on them.
Another interpretation is that we have integrated cell phones and other communication devices so greatly that they are truly a part of our lives.
I could probably get similar result by changing any constant in a persons environment.
Researchers asked 200 people to give up living in a house and sleeping in a tent for one full day found that after 24 hours many showed signs of withdrawal, craving and anxiety along with an inability to function well without their houses.
Sure there would be be a few exceptions for those that enjoy camping as there are in any study but would you conclude that people are addicted to living in houses or that people get thrown for a loop when constants in every day life and suddenly removed?
Yes you can override it. Seams like every moron believes that they are giving up control of their thermostat and that they just shut it off. What they do is raise the temperature by a few degrees so AC units are not working as hard and as much. It's a small reduction of power but multiply it by a few thousand homes and it's enough to shave off the peaks during high usage. And as far as I'm aware in Ontario, they have only send the signal a few times each year so it's not a daily thing.
The credit on your bill is just a incentive to get the thermostat. The real saving is when you program you stat so your ac isn't cooling the house all day when your not around instead of having your old manual stat set to 15 deg C all day long.
Censor shit and fuck, that is expected and acceptable. What they never done before is censor the word "Muhammed". Muhammed is the most popular given name on Earth and now it is worth censoring? Even one episode before it didn't seem to be a problem and frankly it really ruined the episode. It made it really hard to tell where the joke censoring started and the bullshit censoring ended. I also wasn't 100% sure if the 30 seconds of bleeping at the end were part of the joke or not when I watched it but became really irritating to watch and I'm more irritated now to know Comedy Central were fucking around with the message.
Just because you haven 't seen the movie your self doesn't make a 4 minuet clip the entire movie. It's a 3 hour film.
Also it doesn't matter how much of the original work is used, different subtitles change the entire context of the clip and there for is protected under fair use.
Here is a simple one. Stop using youtube. Youtube has become so shitty it's not worth using anymore. There are tons of video hosting sites that don't cover your videos with ads or randomly take them down.
Someone once said, "Advertising doesn't cost money, it makes money." and it's completely true. Just look at some of the move successful publicly known brand names. When Coca-Cola started out, they took over 90% of it's initial profits and poured it all into advertising and continued to do so until they were huge. They still spend millions on ads to keep the brand in everyone's mind.
This guy is looking at demos and sees it as an expense with no return. He's figuring that instead of paying his staff for a week or a month to create a demo level and paying to distribute it publicly, he can either forgo the expense and achieve the same result or sell demos and be reimbursed for the effort. It's guys like this that think they need to be paid for every action they take and are entailed to profits for every product they make that hurt companies. They need to remember that the public will decide if your work is good enough to be profitable or not and that you need to give something for us to buy. If it's worth it, you'll get it back and more.
No, they are not a courtesy, they are advertising. A free demo is no more than a luxury or a freebie than a movie trailer is for a movie. You get a sample and hopefully it will help you to decide if you want to buy something new.
Do you need a demo for every game? Of course not but that's a choice of what advertising to invest in. No different than deciding if you want a billboard with your game on it by the side of the highway or on the side of a bus or an ad on TV. The type of advertising also differs on the name your selling. If you have something completely new, I'll need more convincing to buy it than a name I'm familiar with like the God of War series. Frankly they could have had a 10 second commercial with a guy saying, "God of War III is ready, come buy it." and that would have been good enough for me.
A kid that doesn't like to read might read a bit more just to get $2 for reading a book They might not see the value of learning to read or about what they read but if they see the value of $2, they will complete the task to get that money and learn something as a by product of it.
Heck, if people expected to get paid for learning,
People completely expect to get paid for learning. Why do think people pay to go to college or university. They go to learn thing so they can get paid more money for the things they learned. They go to get better paying jobs, not just because it's fun. I'm not saying that is can't be fun too but for the most part, that is not why they are there.
Do you even know what the word "archiving" means? Hard drives are great for backup and storage but if you want to archive data for a long time, say over a decade, A hard drive is not guaranteed to last, it's life span is only about 5 years. If the technology proves to be reliable and an accepted standard hardware component, there would be many places that would invest in something that allows them to archive their entire database, store it and forget it until needed.
And your vastly underestimating both the size of the planet and what a warning system requires. For a warning system to work you don't need to see it, you need to notice it. There is enough crap in the sky as it is with planes, balloons, meteorites, northern and southern lights, planets and maybe some ufo's. How often do you stop to look at a jumbo jet flying overhead. Sure you can see it but if your busy you probably don't notice it most of the time. A proper warning system needs you to stop in your tracks, drop what your doing and to go to safety.
Without DNA they wouldn't even have a suspect. In the old days this would have just been another unsolved crime.
Machines yes, Robots, no. The machine will be many times more efficient but requires consistent input. For example, the towels will always be the same size, before they get folded, another machine must get them flat, another machine orientates them the correct way, ect ect...
The Robot figures out all those things and while taking much more time to do so, can handle inconsistent input. The towels can be any size, half folded, in a pile or flat, there can be more than one towel, it doesn't matter. That's the difference between machines and robots and why this is an accomplishment.
What type of punishment would you suggest? A financial fine? Any dollar amount you set would likely be covered by the police force. Fines would be payed to the government, who funds the police so regardless of how high you set the amount, police would be willing to pay a "fine" and walk all over your rights. Would you make the punishment jail time? Your going to put cops in jail for protecting the public? They already put their lives on the line to protect you, why would they risk livelihood too? Now you have cops that don't want to protect you.
The idea is that if the police respect my rights as a person and a citizen, they would never have found the evidence being used to arrest or convict me. When evidence is thrown out, it's a reminder that the police have to follow the rules just like the rest of us.
What evidence? The tech saw nothing. Unless the bookmark was labeled "Totally illegal child porn" the tech never saw anything because he never followed any of the links. Even if it was child porn links, it's not like a lot of adult websites automatically add bookmarks for you with Javascript. Oh wait, that's what those hundreds of pop ups do. Plus there were only 2 suspect links among the dozen or so adult bookmarks so who knows if he even knew what was bookmarked. Also on top of that, bookmarks are not child porn.
As for the camera, it was pointed at the kid and connected to a vcr. Holy shit, remind me not to take a camera to my nephews birthday party as I was going to point it at a lot of kids. To think I almost could have gone to jail over that. You don't know what he was doing and to assume the worst is irresponsible. Maybe he was trying to record home movies, maybe he was setting up a nanny cam. Maybe he was arranging the kids toys into a pentagram and calling for the spirit of Satan. The web cam is completely innocent but was painted in a dark image by a tech that was either offended by porn links or was pregistist about a guy that view porn.
It doesn't relate at all. US doesn't give a shit what Canada does when enforcing their own laws. The US will shout, complain and threaten Canada and other countries to be more like them but Canadian and American laws have nothing to do with each other. In fact there are several areas where laws differ greatly such as copyright, medical marijuana, banking laws and gay rights.
That's right. It's just like when prohibition was introduced and how wrong it was for people to go out and drink at a speakeasy. Those criminals justified their actions on some moral ground but with massive government enforcement they soon found out how wrong they were. Now thanks to prohibition we live in a much safer alcohol free world.
I think someone was watching Demolition Man and thought, shit, that's a good idea. I'm gonna take credit for that.
How about the fact that the government has decided to kill people in order to conform to some arbitrary moral ground. If it was allowed to continue, it's only a matter of time before you go to the next step. Skip the poison and shoot people. Cheaper and faster and more persuasive to get people to conform. Justify it any way you want. Tell your self that people are already slowly killing them selves or breaking the law but that kind of power creeps out into other areas. Now your killing people because they are protesting any of your ideals and you might as well call the country a communist one.
Because in your poor analogy you are placing thing as you see them to fit your position in the argument. Basically we need to scrap this analogy and start a new.
Lets say you own a building downtown which as a large blank wall that faces the main street. Now lets say you had a mural painted on it like a city heritage or your company logo or anything to make it nicer. What it is is not important but what is important is that you have something there that you intend for people to look at. Now one night I come along and spray paint a giant penis on your wall. The next day people see it and eventually someone lets you know that it is there and you have it removed.
Now what your arguing is that you need to be charged for owning a wall that displayed a offensive image and that you need to hire a guard to patrol your wall to prevent anyone from doing that again. That seems like an excessive amount of responsibility on one person to control the actions of another but that is what your arguing here.
Hell, while your at it you can pump out a script that makes a computer self aware, a medical script that cures all ailments giving eternal life and maybe something to help men understand women.
I knew perl was good but I didn't know it was that good.