Governmental types simply can not stand the idea of free and open communications. I have always maintained that there would be a point where all governments would seek to stifle the net. I am not an anarchist but I do believe that even when one is lucky enough to have a good government that that same government will seek to expand and control more territory as well as to have more and more control over all people within its domain.
If I were to predict a tipping point where the iron hand becomes really visible it would be when we have easy, ultra secure, encryption. At that point the assumption will be that every communication just might be terrorist or treasonous in nature.
It would be interesting to see what percentage of the run away models had manual transmissions. I suspect that we would be confused by the number of liars who have caused an accident and then tried to blame the car. Making it all worse is the nature of the problem itself. In the runaway incidents there are probably at least three major causes. Two being mechanical in nature while electronic and electrical incidents compose the rest. All in all, I think that Toyota products have been and are now safe.
I want that Ketamine. Sounds like a great way to spend an afternoon. But only some of us get to find out if heaven is real or not. There is a cross involved!
Many people have very valid cases that can not be dealt with simply because the costs are so great that the injured party will never have access to the justice system. And that doesn't even include the lawyer's fees. For example the documentation, research, depositions an typing may well go past $100,000 and then there is the lawyer on top of that.
So just why is it a revelation that justice may be rare when large companies are involved? It is even more rare when Joe Sixpack needs the law.
Frankly the only advantage to a dictatorship or communist regime is the ability to act suddenly. In democratic populations things take much longer times to get done.
And global warming may hit us so hard and cause so much death and destruction that we almost have to take radical actions just to try and stay alive. Worse yet, this problem is so serious that our world may perish despite our unlimited efforts. Global warming may not be a solvable problem at all.
Turn on the Fox channel and watch O'Reilly whine on and on about Obama winning the election. Now picture SCO. The wailing and gnashing of teeth has just begun.
It is so easy to sue if you are disabled and not hired that you may have a better shot than other people if you express yourself as disappointed that they won't hire disabled workers. And if the work place is upstairs and you can not climb stairs you already have them cold.
If you have an inside recommendation from a fellow programmer you are ahead in the game. One way to get to hang around working programmers is to contribute to Linux and open source projects. Many of the people involved are well paid programmers and if they see your abilities and know you are looking you can hook up with their employer. Even after getting a job it pays to keep contributing to the Linux community as your contacts can grow and be kept current.
Could a cure for deafness be immoral? How about congenital blindness? How about epilepsy?
Some people have too much time and money if they sit about worrying about nonsense like the morality of curing color blindness. And why in the world should society get to decide if something is moral or not. Why not let the person who is about to have a color blind child or a color blind person deal with their own issues?
Sure, children are not wired for math theory. That is why it is required in school. We normally do rewire the mind in education. That is what learning is all about.
And think about it a bit. According to this psychologist we might conclude that a child who is very good at math is somehow abnormal. That turns into a messed up, circular pile of goo. High levels of education are not present in the majority of people. In a way that makes educated people a minority or abnormal by definition.
In junior high as well as high school my classes started at 7:20 am.. Since I lived about 12 miles from my school I got up at 5 am. and cooked my breakfast and drove to school. Because I worked until at least 9 Pm after school and at times until midnight by the time I studied and did my homework there were many nights I did not sleep at all.
So if the teens don't want to push their limits we should not wait for them to drop out. Throw them out and save everyone the bother. Education is no different than business, war or sports. If you want to survive you had best be willing to hump it.
I hear you! For musicians, as much as I hate to say it, Microsoft is a better environment than Linux as the Linux music software is simply not at all easy to use. You got me thinking a bit and I wonder if I plug the earphone jack right into the Yamaha silent brass unit and to the microphone jack on my PC if I can listen to it through my sound system and record it to hard drive as well.
I would love to have software that can capture sound in either base or treble clef, convert it to sheet music in the clef of choice and print it out in a full size format. I want to do that with one or two clicks on one program.
Although I am almost rabid about the freedom of the public to know all things I wonder if anyone has estimated the costs involved in making all of the mentioned material available in digital form. It might eat up an awful lot of tax dollars.
A fall down the stairs is sort of one stair at a time. In a way people only fall about ten inches but do it over and over again until they hit bottom. I can see why defining a category for falls could be quite confusing as far as writing response software is concerned. A lot of us have fallen down stairs quite a distance and not been injured at all.
Here, I believe that any ambulance call involves a high speed response. It may be that certain areas are simply not keeping enough response teams at the ready.
So driving costs up for these companies as well as the entire general public is OK? If it is fine for others to suffer loss of money why should content creators resent it? Gravy for the goose is gravy for the gander.
This is more of an issue than it appears to be. In the US there is a distinct problem with different ethnic groups behavior when they are given a command. Very few people demonstrate total, docile compliance and some groups tend to talk with their hands or walk about while expressing anger. To some extent we do have the right to expect all people to respond in very limited ways to authorities. But having said that we end up arresting and charging certain races a lot more than others when only the moment of the interview is at issue.
The sick part is the remedy is a disease. When someone is arrested and convicted society almost always suffers a great loss of tax dollars. I wonder how many people we can afford to convict.
My God, if we were allowed free expression we all know that perverts would attack us and poke holes in our panties. And then we would lose everything playing online poker and women could never marry as the men would all be renting whores from the net. And worse yet we would know the lies being told us by those above us little people.
Now look at our courts. Freedom of information is real good but only when it is stale and less useful! Our darling government in its infinite wisdom now decides that its feeble minded citizens must not know any information that might cause excitement or rapid action. Or is this supposedly done to help the banks, so dear to us all, for their recent sensitivities.
A sterilised insect is actually a foreign entity. I do recognise that feeding the population involves killing insects but a surplus of these insects might be good for the environment when it occurs. It seems that we are trying to micro manage an environment that we really do not understand. My area is loaded with pythons, monitor lizards, iguanas, a three foot long exotic rat, many species of parrots and more plants than I can name all of which are foreign to Florida. The funny thing is I enjoy most of the invaders that our government makes war upon. I particularly like fishing for huge talapia as well as rainbow and peacock bass. All three of those fish are foreign species.
The Health Care Reform Act is a door opener. Apparently in order to overcome fears or resistance from the right wing this bill simply gets the ball rolling for better and cheaper health care for Americans.
Obviously the bill will be altered as time passes so that areas that need more attention can be taken care of. Getting everything just right in one draft is next to impossible. And the only reason it is so convoluted is right wing resistance. For example simply extending the Federal Employee Health Care Insurance to every American would have been better and a far,far, shorter bill. But the right wing wants more protection for big businesses such as hospitals and wealthy doctors.
But even more important than saving countless lives and preventing needless suffering this bill may keep America from total collapse as the current medical system is bankrupting America. That truth is blatantly conspicuous. As an example our returning soldiers who are severely wounded in combat often get poor medical treatment because the government can not afford to repiar these people. And then because they get poor medical care they often are doomed to stay on military disability forever at several thousand dollars a month for decade after decade.
Thank God there is a Pirate Party and people trying to keep the flow of information free.
To me most artists surrender their work to middle men and thus really lose all hope of control. And sadly those rats in the middle take the money and throw scraps at the artists as a rule. These very men in the middle are the ones tossing cash around and trying to buy laws that offer them unusual and immoral levels of protection.
I think we need to define real commercial distribution and protect a recording artist from someone who sets up to actually directly sell copies of their work. But not file sharing among friends where money does not change hands. And none of this nonsense about indirectly profiting from file sharing should be heard by any court either.Books fall into the same slot. Software should be protected for a very short time. Two years ought to do it.
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It is time to take power away from corporations.
Maybe we should teach the kids that too fast is just too damn dangerous and there are better things to do.
Governmental types simply can not stand the idea of free and open communications. I have always maintained that there would be a point where all governments would seek to stifle the net. I am not an anarchist but I do believe that even when one is lucky enough to have a good government that that same government will seek to expand and control more territory as well as to have more and more control over all people within its domain.
If I were to predict a tipping point where the iron hand becomes really visible it would be when we have easy, ultra secure, encryption. At that point the assumption will be that every communication just might be terrorist or treasonous in nature.
It would be interesting to see what percentage of the run away models had manual transmissions. I suspect that we would be confused by the number of liars who have caused an accident and then tried to blame the car. Making it all worse is the nature of the problem itself. In the runaway incidents there are probably at least three major causes. Two being mechanical in nature while electronic and electrical incidents compose the rest. All in all, I think that Toyota products have been and are now safe.
I want that Ketamine. Sounds like a great way to spend an afternoon. But only some of us get to find out if heaven is real or not. There is a cross involved!
I want one like that girl back in high school. And I want a really submissive one. Does it have a tongue?
Many people have very valid cases that can not be dealt with simply because the costs are so great that the injured party will never have access to the justice system. And that doesn't even include the lawyer's fees. For example the documentation, research, depositions an typing may well go past $100,000 and then there is the lawyer on top of that.
So just why is it a revelation that justice may be rare when large companies are involved? It is even more rare when Joe Sixpack needs the law.
Frankly the only advantage to a dictatorship or communist regime is the ability to act suddenly. In democratic populations things take much longer times to get done.
And global warming may hit us so hard and cause so much death and destruction that we almost have to take radical actions
just to try and stay alive. Worse yet, this problem is so serious that our world may perish despite our unlimited efforts. Global warming may not be a solvable problem at all.
Turn on the Fox channel and watch O'Reilly whine on and on about Obama winning the election. Now picture SCO. The wailing and gnashing of teeth has just begun.
It is so easy to sue if you are disabled and not hired that you may have a better shot than other people if you express yourself as disappointed that they won't hire disabled workers. And if the work place is upstairs and you can not climb stairs you already have them cold.
If you have an inside recommendation from a fellow programmer you are ahead in the game. One way to get to hang around working programmers is to contribute to Linux and open source projects. Many of the people involved are well paid programmers and if they see your abilities and know you are looking you can hook up with their employer. Even after getting a job it pays to keep contributing to the Linux community as your contacts can grow and be kept current.
Could a cure for deafness be immoral? How about congenital blindness? How about epilepsy?
Some people have too much time and money if they sit about worrying about nonsense like the morality of curing color blindness. And why in the world should society get to decide if something is moral or not. Why not let the person who is about to have a color blind child or a color blind person deal with their own issues?
Sure, children are not wired for math theory. That is why it is required in school. We normally do rewire the mind in education. That is what learning is all about.
And think about it a bit. According to this psychologist we might conclude that a child who is very good at math is somehow abnormal. That turns into a messed up, circular pile of goo. High levels of education are not present in the majority of people. In a way that makes educated people a minority or abnormal by definition.
I like hard drives. I'm used to them. To me electronic memory storage seems best suited for very small, portable units.
In junior high as well as high school my classes started at 7:20 am.. Since I lived about 12 miles from my school I got up at 5 am. and cooked my breakfast and drove to school. Because I worked until at least 9 Pm after school and at times until midnight by the time I studied and did my homework there were many nights I did not sleep at all.
So if the teens don't want to push their limits we should not wait for them to drop out. Throw them out and save everyone the bother. Education is no different than business, war or sports. If you want to survive you had best be willing to hump it.
I hear you! For musicians, as much as I hate to say it, Microsoft is a better environment than Linux as the Linux music software is simply not at all easy to use. You got me thinking a bit and I wonder if I plug the earphone jack right into the Yamaha silent brass unit and to the microphone jack on my PC if I can listen to it through my sound system and record it to hard drive as well.
I would love to have software that can capture sound in either base or treble clef, convert it to sheet music in the clef of choice and print it out in a full size format. I want to do that with one or two clicks on one program.
Although I am almost rabid about the freedom of the public to know all things I wonder if anyone has estimated the costs involved in making all of the mentioned material available in digital form. It might eat up an awful lot of tax dollars.
A fall down the stairs is sort of one stair at a time. In a way people only fall about ten inches but do it over and over again until they hit bottom. I can see why defining a category for falls could be quite confusing as far as writing response software is concerned. A lot of us have fallen down stairs quite a distance and not been injured at all.
Here, I believe that any ambulance call involves a high speed response. It may be that certain areas are simply not keeping enough response teams at the ready.
So driving costs up for these companies as well as the entire general public is OK? If it is fine for others to suffer loss of money why should content creators resent it? Gravy for the goose is gravy for the gander.
This is more of an issue than it appears to be. In the US there is a distinct problem with different ethnic groups behavior when they are given a command. Very few people demonstrate total, docile compliance and some groups tend to talk with their hands or walk about while expressing anger. To some extent we do have the right to expect all people to respond in very limited ways to authorities. But having said that we end up arresting and charging certain races a lot more than others when only the moment of the interview is at issue.
The sick part is the remedy is a disease. When someone is arrested and convicted society almost always suffers a great loss of tax dollars. I wonder how many people we can afford to convict.
My God, if we were allowed free expression we all know that perverts would attack us and poke holes in our panties. And then we would lose everything playing online poker and women could never marry as the men would all be renting whores from the net. And worse yet we would know the lies being told us by those above us little people.
Now look at our courts. Freedom of information is real good but only when it is stale and less useful! Our darling government in its infinite wisdom now decides that its feeble minded citizens must not know any information that might cause excitement or rapid action. Or is this supposedly done to help the banks, so dear to us all, for their recent sensitivities.
A sterilised insect is actually a foreign entity. I do recognise that feeding the population involves killing insects but a surplus of these insects might be good for the environment when it occurs. It seems that we are trying to micro manage an environment that we really do not understand. My area is loaded with pythons, monitor lizards, iguanas, a three foot long exotic rat, many species of parrots and more plants than I can name all of which are foreign to Florida. The funny thing is I enjoy most of the invaders that our government makes war upon. I particularly like fishing for huge talapia as well as rainbow and peacock bass. All three of those fish are foreign species.
The Health Care Reform Act is a door opener. Apparently in order to overcome fears or resistance from the right wing this bill simply gets the ball rolling for better and cheaper health care for Americans.
Obviously the bill will be altered as time passes so that areas that need more attention can be taken care of. Getting everything just right in one draft is next to impossible. And the only reason it is so convoluted is right wing resistance. For example simply extending the Federal Employee Health Care Insurance to every American would have been better and a far,far, shorter bill. But the right wing wants more protection for big businesses such as hospitals and wealthy doctors.
But even more important than saving countless lives and preventing needless suffering this bill may keep America from total collapse as the current medical system is bankrupting America. That truth is blatantly conspicuous. As an example our returning soldiers who are severely wounded in combat often get poor medical treatment because the government can not afford to repiar these people. And then because they get poor medical care they often are doomed to stay on military disability forever at several thousand dollars a month for decade after decade.
Thank God there is a Pirate Party and people trying to keep the flow of information free.
To me most artists surrender their work to middle men and thus really lose all hope of control. And sadly those rats in the middle take the money and throw scraps at the artists as a rule. These very men in the middle are the ones tossing cash around and trying to buy laws that offer them unusual and immoral levels of protection.
I think we need to define real commercial distribution and protect a recording artist from someone who sets up to actually directly sell copies of their work. But not file sharing among friends where money does not change hands. And none of this nonsense about indirectly profiting from file sharing should be heard by any court either.Books fall into the same slot. Software should be protected for a very short time. Two years ought to do it.