Three strikes laws should be thrown out as unconstitutional. If you've done your time for the first two strikes, then you've done your time. Any additional punishment for those crimes falls afoul of double jeopardy.
.3 cents per person is really pretty cheap. Somehow telemarketers stay in business, and they're paying someone $8/hr to make what 20 calls an hour? If it's not worth.3 cents per person to contact them, you probably have no actual business contacting them at all.
It's not me who is disparaging college football, it's those who claim that college football is so devoid of substance that it can be enjoyed satisfactorily over twitter.
I read the rationale, it's still stupid. If you're putting on a show, and the value of that show is compromised by Twitter, there's not much value in that show to begin with. Are people going to avoid seeing Bob Dylan in concert because the music reporter tweets the setlist? Are people going to avoid a production of Shakespeare because the theatre critic tweets "Macduff kills MacBeth"? No, the value of these events is in the performance, an experience that can't be communicated through Twitter.
That's not a strawman, that's an obvious counter example to your assertion. My point is that the words of others can be used as Free Speech. That the words came from someone else is not an important factor.
Now the question is how free speech becomes non-free speech by the simple grant by the government of monopoly powers to that speech, and if that grant of monopoly is consistent with our rights.
And sometimes they switch sides. Just because Jews have been historically persecuted doesn't give them license to commit atrocities today. And there's nothing anti-semetic about calling atrocities what they are, or suggesting that we no longer support the side committing atrocities.
Putting someone elses words through the printing press to distribute them is not Free Speech.
So when I say
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.",
With as many obscenely rich people as there are, why don't we hear more about this type of thing? Is the average hundred millionaire really boring, or are they just better at keeping secrets? If you have a hundred million, why wouldn't you build a sex dungeon?
Portal is Half-Life in the same way that Ultima Underworld is Ultima or Privateer is Wing Commander, or Heroes of Might and Magic is Might and Magic. Loosely related, but not the same at all.
You assume that voting is a reliable method for determining the will of the people. There are many, many, many reasons why it is not. These range from social reasons, like low voter turnout, to systemic mathematical flaws, like winner take all elections.
BTW, I just checked out a sample size calculator. For a 95 percent confidence level with a +- 5% confidence interval, and a population of 400 million, guess what your sample size needs to be.
384.
Now this calculation for a survey is a little different from what the researchers are doing here, but it illustrates my point. You can do a lot with small sample sizes if the differences between groups are large.
And they only found a total of 395 tweets which will lead to appalling precision in any of their findings. Sadly 'information scientists' don't always appear to be the best statisticians.
Doesn't matter, with an effect size this large you don't need that much precision. As bad as 'information scientists' may be at statistics, 'random guy on slashdot' is always worse.
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Three strikes laws should be thrown out as unconstitutional. If you've done your time for the first two strikes, then you've done your time. Any additional punishment for those crimes falls afoul of double jeopardy.
.3 cents per person is really pretty cheap. Somehow telemarketers stay in business, and they're paying someone $8/hr to make what 20 calls an hour? If it's not worth .3 cents per person to contact them, you probably have no actual business contacting them at all.
Yes, try getting your psychotic estrange mistress to use GPG and let us know how that goes.
It's not me who is disparaging college football, it's those who claim that college football is so devoid of substance that it can be enjoyed satisfactorily over twitter.
I read the rationale, it's still stupid. If you're putting on a show, and the value of that show is compromised by Twitter, there's not much value in that show to begin with. Are people going to avoid seeing Bob Dylan in concert because the music reporter tweets the setlist? Are people going to avoid a production of Shakespeare because the theatre critic tweets "Macduff kills MacBeth"? No, the value of these events is in the performance, an experience that can't be communicated through Twitter.
That's not a strawman, that's an obvious counter example to your assertion. My point is that the words of others can be used as Free Speech. That the words came from someone else is not an important factor.
Now the question is how free speech becomes non-free speech by the simple grant by the government of monopoly powers to that speech, and if that grant of monopoly is consistent with our rights.
Sometimes there is an aggressor and a victim.
And sometimes they switch sides. Just because Jews have been historically persecuted doesn't give them license to commit atrocities today. And there's nothing anti-semetic about calling atrocities what they are, or suggesting that we no longer support the side committing atrocities.
I can promise you flash is only as slow and buggy as the flash developer.
If that were the case, the only way to explain the extreme shittiness of flash apps would be that flash attracts shitty developers. Why is that?
Putting someone elses words through the printing press to distribute them is not Free Speech.
So when I say
that's not free speech?
Self-pwned while making cell phones?
Many people survived neither Bush nor Obama.
They did pick an actual conservative. Obama. The guy is to the right on Nixon and Reagan on many issues.
With as many obscenely rich people as there are, why don't we hear more about this type of thing? Is the average hundred millionaire really boring, or are they just better at keeping secrets? If you have a hundred million, why wouldn't you build a sex dungeon?
Portal is Half-Life in the same way that Ultima Underworld is Ultima or Privateer is Wing Commander, or Heroes of Might and Magic is Might and Magic. Loosely related, but not the same at all.
Why is there a seperate category for piracy at all? Piracy is an online rights issue. Copyright is a limitation on free speech.
You assume that voting is a reliable method for determining the will of the people. There are many, many, many reasons why it is not. These range from social reasons, like low voter turnout, to systemic mathematical flaws, like winner take all elections.
The only additional control mechanism PSP users want is a second analog thumb stick. And maybe another set of shoulder buttons for PSX games.
The one where I have a basement full of 30 year old electronics in working order.
BTW, I just checked out a sample size calculator. For a 95 percent confidence level with a +- 5% confidence interval, and a population of 400 million, guess what your sample size needs to be.
384.
Now this calculation for a survey is a little different from what the researchers are doing here, but it illustrates my point. You can do a lot with small sample sizes if the differences between groups are large.
And they only found a total of 395 tweets which will lead to appalling precision in any of their findings. Sadly 'information scientists' don't always appear to be the best statisticians.
Doesn't matter, with an effect size this large you don't need that much precision. As bad as 'information scientists' may be at statistics, 'random guy on slashdot' is always worse.
The expectation should be somewhere between shutting it down right after the warranty ends, and keeping it running forever. Don't know what's fair.
I know what's fair. Opening the firmware so anyone who owns the unit can do anything he wishes with it.
Bullshit. I have electronics that are older than I am, and I still use them frequently. Forced obsolescence is not the same as breakage.
Under no circumstances is it realistic to assign a lifetime warranty of an electronic device to the life of the owner.
Why not? There's no reason electronics can't be made to last, they just aren't.
Smaller transistors can be operated with less current, so Moore's law remains as relevant as ever.
Making the wrong choice for the right reasons is not a fault of intentions, but a fault of awareness.
That is why I try to make people aware of what a reprehensible choice joining the military is.