Then you're reading the wrong press reports; he was, in fact, questioned and released. Then, he was nominated for some prize by a [different] agency of his government. // mlc, user 16290
Hm. I just took one and was thoroughly unimpressed by the results. Sure, they were more or less accurate but they were so vague as to be meaningless. It felt like I was reading a horoscope, silly generalities that might as well impress anyone. I remember once an experiment where a bunch of college students were asked for astrological data and then had horoscopes generated for them. When polled, most felt their horoscope to be reasonably accurate. Then, they handed their paper to the person sitting next to them and discovered that everyone had the same horoscope; only the order of the sentences was changed. It's not quite as genereric with these personality tests, but I don't think it's all that much better. // mlc, user 16290
kevin805 asserted: the majority of monopolies are a product of government regulation, not of the free market
Really? Standard Oil? Everyone's favorite target, Microsoft? Pre-breakup AT&T's monopoly was in some sense preserved by the government, but it was created by the "free" market. Too much economics class and not enough observing the world can color your perspective. // mlc, user 16290
We have the big old machines here in New York (at least City, I'm not sure about the rest of the state), and they are not especially good technology. They're 30+ years old, and they break frequently, leaving frustrated voters to vote on paper ballots -- although many just go home when this happens. One assembly district in which we were expecting a high level of Nader support had a ton of machines break, lowering the vote totals in that area. Grrr...
Also, due to the fact that only one person can use a machine at a time [for obvious reasons], there were incredibly long lines on Tuesday. This may also have caused people to give up and go home. // mlc, user 16290
in generalized IRV, you can vote for as many candidates as there are people running. In some deviant systems whose names I forget, you can vote for your top two favorites. Never before have I heard it suggested that you should vote for the top 3, but it's certainly possible. --
For what it's worth, Sharpton didn't endorse Nader. According to someone who was at Nader's speech today in Harlem, Sharpton gave Nader a "hearty welcome", but that's all.
On another, more related, note, John Hagelin, perennial candidate of the Natural Law Party (answer to all society's ills: Transcendental Meditation), tried to take over the Greens but failed. --
Let's take a minute to analyze just why it is that all those other countries hate us.
Eli argues: Most Americans find it hard or impossible to believe that there are military oganizations and terrorist groups that despise the idea of relative freedom and individual thought.
This is absurd. There are a lot of people out there who are not big fans of political freedom; I don't doubt that for a second. But is it worth bombing a country just because they have free speech? I would argue that it isn't, but if you disagree, I'd appreciate it if you could explain why Canadian and European embassies don't get bombed with anything approaching the frequency with which ours are bombed.
No, it is not because other countries are jealous of our much-loved "free speech;" it's because our government acts as an imperialist military and political power which thinks it ought to be running the entire world. We don't need military bases in foreign countries around the world. It's totally absurd that we have a military base in Cuba, which is, because it refuses to be ruled by us, somehow our worst enemy. Our tendency to dictate international policy makes us hated, not just by your crazy terrorists, but by sensible people all over the world.
[If I were sufficiently bored, I might argue that we actually only have free speech in this country within some very narrow bounds; try to express an opinion out of the mainstream and get it into the corporate media; try to protest the President when the Secret Service is around; etc. But, that's a topic for another day.] --
If you feel like your employer is exploiting you, then you might want to consider forming a union at your workplace. Even if you feel that you're paid sufficiently well, if you're subjected to unreasonable conditions and talking with management isn't fixing things, you may want to get someone to do the talking for you. --
Elizabeth J Keefer, General Counsel
412 Low Library MC 4308 ejk at gc.columbia.edu
Provost Jonathan Cole
205 Low Library MC 4313 jrc5 at columbia.edu
Elaine Sloan, VP for Information Services and University Librarian
517 Butler Library MC 1101
sloan at columbia.edu
Vace Kundakci, Deputy VP, AcIS
612 W 115th St MC 6001 vace at columbia.edu
and possibly any friendly administrators, if there is such a thing. If it looks like they're actually going to do this, there would probably some sympathetic faculty who could be found.
In my favorite such commercial, our hero Philip Morris gives money to a meals on wheels program in which somebody takes meals to an elderly lady and sings her old Italian songs. Every time I see that ad, I can't help thinking I bet her husband died of lung cancer. --
The Times has, in the past, linked to 2600 and even to 2600's list of links. In fact, an editor submitted an affidavit saying so. Nice example of the corporate media doing something right. --
I am quite confident that more and more firms will make there software available via download. No packaging whatsoever.
Most people still have only a 56k connection to the Net, if that. A 200MB game at 50kbps would take almost 12hrs to download, assuming the connection didn't die somewhere in the middle. Clearly, until the widespread availiblity of cheap broadband, this ain't happening, especially for consumer products. --
Yes, but a good problem to solve is "I work in the software industry (or whatever) and think that we should behave responsibly and not consume resources beyond those required to do our work." Because it's a comparitively small issue, the hard-core environmental types are not likely to focus so much on computer-software packaging, so the responsibility falls to us, as those who see these things every day. You've heard the cliché "Think globally, act locally" -- not all of us need to spend our lives chaining ourselves to oil tankers. If everyone focused on cleaning up er particular industry, the world would quickly become a lot cleaner. --
Re:Bullshit press != News For Nerds. Sorry, Mikey.
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Terraserver is completely different from GPS. Terraserver has satellite images and arieal photography. GPS tells you where you are, now with great precision. As far as I can tell, they are not competing services. What is the connection? --
In all seriousness, I had no idea that RMS was so ideologically aligned with the far-left in this country.
If putting people and their rights over corporate profit makes you "far-left", then RMS certainly seems to qualify.
The same drug policies have continued for eight years under Clinton's administration -- does that make them ok?
No, of course not. Unless we the people (the ones who are supposed to have the power, remember?) start to demand change, neither George W. Gore nor Al Bush will provide it.
Parts of our collective culture have given up the Golden Rule.
Agreed. However, I suspect we disagree on which parts. Aside from crazed murderers, most individuals I meet under any circumstance tend to be nice enough (I live in New York, so rude aplenty, but not generally wanting to kill me). Big businesses, however, usually do not have the public interest at heart. Phil Knight, head of Nike, does not do unto his Salvadorean workers as he would presumably like done unto him. Our friend M$ is doing unto others what they wouldn't like done unto them, and RMS critcizes it. Who is violating the "golden rule" here?
[RMS] simply doesn't see the big picture with regard to social issues.
Just because you don't agree doesn't mean he doesn't see the big picture. He simply interprets it differently. [In fact, you seem to be urging us to look at the small picture -- the evil man on the street you seem to presume is doing all kinds of horrible things. IMO, RMS's picture is bigger than yours.] --
The NY Times, while sometimes better than other papers, is still a creation of the corporate media. Their coverage of the IMF/WB protests in DC, for example, was totally biased against the demonstrators. Even Time magazine (part of the AOL-Time-Warner ultraConglomerate) had decent coverage.
Yes! They're the ones I'm thinking of. They exist in the US too. They think their presidential candidate actually is going to win the election. Now, I'm a registered Green and like third-party candidates as much as anybody, but a president elected on a meditation platform? Hm. Interestingly, though, they seem to be playing down the meditation thing -- it's hard to find it mentioned on their site. Perhaps they realized what a bizarre idea it is.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Shoot first, ask questions later. I thought that the NRA line was that people need guns for hunting, not shooting people. Guns may not kill people, but people with guns who don't have time think do.
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Then you're reading the wrong press reports; he was, in fact, questioned and released. Then, he was nominated for some prize by a [different] agency of his government.
// mlc, user 16290
Hm. I just took one and was thoroughly unimpressed by the results. Sure, they were more or less accurate but they were so vague as to be meaningless. It felt like I was reading a horoscope, silly generalities that might as well impress anyone. I remember once an experiment where a bunch of college students were asked for astrological data and then had horoscopes generated for them. When polled, most felt their horoscope to be reasonably accurate. Then, they handed their paper to the person sitting next to them and discovered that everyone had the same horoscope; only the order of the sentences was changed. It's not quite as genereric with these personality tests, but I don't think it's all that much better.
// mlc, user 16290
Really? Standard Oil? Everyone's favorite target, Microsoft? Pre-breakup AT&T's monopoly was in some sense preserved by the government, but it was created by the "free" market. Too much economics class and not enough observing the world can color your perspective.
// mlc, user 16290
Also, due to the fact that only one person can use a machine at a time [for obvious reasons], there were incredibly long lines on Tuesday. This may also have caused people to give up and go home.
// mlc, user 16290
in generalized IRV, you can vote for as many candidates as there are people running. In some deviant systems whose names I forget, you can vote for your top two favorites. Never before have I heard it suggested that you should vote for the top 3, but it's certainly possible.
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On another, more related, note, John Hagelin, perennial candidate of the Natural Law Party (answer to all society's ills: Transcendental Meditation), tried to take over the Greens but failed.
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Eli argues: Most Americans find it hard or impossible to believe that there are military oganizations and terrorist groups that despise the idea of relative freedom and individual thought.
This is absurd. There are a lot of people out there who are not big fans of political freedom; I don't doubt that for a second. But is it worth bombing a country just because they have free speech? I would argue that it isn't, but if you disagree, I'd appreciate it if you could explain why Canadian and European embassies don't get bombed with anything approaching the frequency with which ours are bombed.
No, it is not because other countries are jealous of our much-loved "free speech;" it's because our government acts as an imperialist military and political power which thinks it ought to be running the entire world. We don't need military bases in foreign countries around the world. It's totally absurd that we have a military base in Cuba, which is, because it refuses to be ruled by us, somehow our worst enemy. Our tendency to dictate international policy makes us hated, not just by your crazy terrorists, but by sensible people all over the world.
[If I were sufficiently bored, I might argue that we actually only have free speech in this country within some very narrow bounds; try to express an opinion out of the mainstream and get it into the corporate media; try to protest the President when the Secret Service is around; etc. But, that's a topic for another day.]
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Caller ID block doesn't work when you call toll-free numbers.
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If you feel like your employer is exploiting you, then you might want to consider forming a union at your workplace. Even if you feel that you're paid sufficiently well, if you're subjected to unreasonable conditions and talking with management isn't fixing things, you may want to get someone to do the talking for you.
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Columbia has also declined to ban Napster. The campus press published a story about it. The staff editorial of the day was in favor of not banning Napster, but there was a dissenting piece also.
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Hmm, copies should also probably go to:
- Elizabeth J Keefer, General Counsel
- Provost Jonathan Cole
- Elaine Sloan, VP for Information Services and University Librarian
- Vace Kundakci, Deputy VP, AcIS
- and possibly any friendly administrators, if there is such a thing. If it looks like they're actually going to do this, there would probably some sympathetic faculty who could be found.
mike castleman412 Low Library MC 4308
ejk at gc.columbia.edu
205 Low Library MC 4313
jrc5 at columbia.edu
517 Butler Library MC 1101
sloan at columbia.edu
612 W 115th St MC 6001
vace at columbia.edu
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Yay! Large angry protests!
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In my favorite such commercial, our hero Philip Morris gives money to a meals on wheels program in which somebody takes meals to an elderly lady and sings her old Italian songs. Every time I see that ad, I can't help thinking I bet her husband died of lung cancer.
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The Times has, in the past, linked to 2600 and even to 2600's list of links. In fact, an editor submitted an affidavit saying so. Nice example of the corporate media doing something right.
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Quicktime? Never! We must have an open format!
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Unfortunately, under US law at least, corporations ARE people. Lovely society we live in, ain't it?
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Most people still have only a 56k connection to the Net, if that. A 200MB game at 50kbps would take almost 12hrs to download, assuming the connection didn't die somewhere in the middle. Clearly, until the widespread availiblity of cheap broadband, this ain't happening, especially for consumer products.
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Yes, but a good problem to solve is "I work in the software industry (or whatever) and think that we should behave responsibly and not consume resources beyond those required to do our work." Because it's a comparitively small issue, the hard-core environmental types are not likely to focus so much on computer-software packaging, so the responsibility falls to us, as those who see these things every day. You've heard the cliché "Think globally, act locally" -- not all of us need to spend our lives chaining ourselves to oil tankers. If everyone focused on cleaning up er particular industry, the world would quickly become a lot cleaner.
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Yes, ignore information you don't like. That'll make it go away.
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Terraserver is completely different from GPS. Terraserver has satellite images and arieal photography. GPS tells you where you are, now with great precision. As far as I can tell, they are not competing services. What is the connection?
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The NY Times, while sometimes better than other papers, is still a creation of the corporate media. Their coverage of the IMF/WB protests in DC, for example, was totally biased against the demonstrators. Even Time magazine (part of the AOL-Time-Warner ultraConglomerate) had decent coverage.
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Yes! They're the ones I'm thinking of. They exist in the US too. They think their presidential candidate actually is going to win the election. Now, I'm a registered Green and like third-party candidates as much as anybody, but a president elected on a meditation platform? Hm. Interestingly, though, they seem to be playing down the meditation thing -- it's hard to find it mentioned on their site. Perhaps they realized what a bizarre idea it is.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Shoot first, ask questions later. I thought that the NRA line was that people need guns for hunting, not shooting people. Guns may not kill people, but people with guns who don't have time think do.