Some people must have money to burn. These folks are going to lose this case big time and IÄl bet the legal bills assigned to them will be worth as much as the house.
There is no expectation or right to privacy of things in plain sight from the road.
Here is the really disturbing part. That lawyer may have collected a fortune from people seeking to avoid a court hearing. By simply suspending him for six months the court effectively encourages others to do exactly the same thing. This is a case where a staggering fine would have sent a message that no other party dare pull such nonsense.
I can see it giving way too much power to the parents of older students. For example if you see that girl you won be going back to college this year. Then simply charting the girlÅ tracks along side your sons tracks would let you know in a hurry. The catch is that this might be applied to a 23 year old student as easily as to a 13 year old.
Yet even though I can see potential for abuse we can also simply believe in always letting the truth being seen by all people, all the time.
Right now there are so many false accusations abounding in society that having proof of exactly where one was and when could be a real lifesaver. Male teachers are becoming extinct in the lower school grades due to fears of being falsely accused. Having these tags on both students and teachers sounds like a good idea to me.
In the U.S. ISPs are getting off too easily.Instead of worrying about flow controls we need to demand that internet capacity expands to meet demands. After all we pay for high speed connections and therefore have the right to demand high speed service. There is no reason that one cable has to run to a home. If demand is that great then run multi cables to each home and get the price down as well.
I really hope it works but my belief is that any government will clamp down on freedoms whenever corruption starts to be reduced. I have serious doubts that any society or government will ever want information and conversation to actually be free. As long as our freedoms are ineffective we are welcomed to them.
This type of warrant is bitterly unfair and dangerous. In all my years surfing the net I have only stumbled upon one picture of a child in a pornographic situation. That was simply because I do not speak German and I was randomly typing in web addresses just snooping around. I had no idea I was headed for a sex site much less one that displayed a child.
It is time to reign in our government and put a stop to these perpetual witch hunts.
Frankly it shames me that America allows any commerce with China at all. Nations that use slave labor and violate human rights should suffer complete isolation. I don't think we should allow so much as a phone line into or out of China.
It's time to drop the idea of the government being somehow separate from the people and grant all citizens access to all governmental information. We do not need big brother operating with rules and laws that are in any way different than they are for any citizen. Nothing is more basic than the right to know.
Wave fin designs have been around for several years. There have even been tiny craft like canoes that get around lakes where the shifting weight of the occupant causes a swim fin like object to propel the boat.
But these critters have serious limits. For example the Gulf Stream has a faster current than such a system can confront. At 5mph you would effectively be stalled or being pushed backwards unless you chose to go in the same direction as the stream.
It goes without saying that electricity can be generated by similar designs.
I am amazed that anyone is falling for the internet as a criminal nest nonsense. Obviously whenever any very large group of people does anything at all some crime must occur. It's all about proportion. How many people died world wide fighting to keep their bicycle from being stolen last year? How many died because of internet activity? We all know bicycles were far ahead in the crime stats. So should we build an entirely different society to keep bicycles from being stolen? Obviously not. And we don't need a new net either.
In house salesmen are a huge user of electronic maps. Sadly there are a host of products that are much easier to sell to newly built homes yet electronic maps never show the newer streets and developments in an area. What is needed is some way to refresh electronic maps daily as well as an auto link to the building departments when they issue certificates of occupancy for new dwellings and offices. That way the new streets and electronic maps could coordinate themselves automatically.
Justice was not done. The offending company is actually encouraged to continue doing wrong in the future. Companies count on a law of averages for this sort of behavior. They are well aware that very, very few people will fight back, that proofs may be insufficient and that the cost of proper legal representation will destroy most complainants.
The answer is not a 20K judgment. The real answer is a 200 million dollar judgment. That way companies would cower in the dark before stealing from others. Perhaps the worst case example is the fellow who developed the variable speed windshield wiper. A thirty year fight was not enough to cause every offending automaker to comply. The verdicts should have been enough to bankrupt major car companies but they were not.
I think the law and school authorities need to be absent from the net. I can not imagine how flimsy a line of reasoning can be to allow school authorities to regulate students at home. And then after reading the article I find that the idea that a teacher can claim harm over bruised feelings ridiculous. For example the student may have made fun of the teachers fat legs on the net. But the defect is in the teacher not the student. A person who is so locked in to valuing what others think of them is displaying a mental defect and is not suitable to be employed as a teacher. The real answer for the teacher is to develop a personality that is not crippled by a bit of teasing and perhaps taking some lard off of those hams might be a good idea as well.
Although suits against the gaming industry are truly absurd in my opinion I do wonder just how the courts can do this. For example we have a clear history of abortion being perfectly legal yet numerous suits are always under way to try to nibble away a womans right to control her own body. How can we reject in advance one argument while allowing other arguments to be heard endlessly?
Another disturbing fact is that the real issue is usually avoided in these suits. For example I find it very hard to believe that normal people in reasonable states of mental health are much effected by the use of violent video games. However we really do have a few people who have devastating mental issues who are overly influenced by just about everything that they see or read or even hear rumors about. So the real question lurking behind it all is just how responsible can anyone be for creating material that will set a lunatic on a bad outburst. Frankly I don't think that is a valid consideration for a content creator to make. A comic book about Superman that influences some daffy kid into jumping off the roof of his home with a pretend Superman costume should never be a consideration for a content creator.
Part of the problem rests in parents who fail to harden their children in their early years. In the past we saw 11 year old boys take over the running of the family farm when dad passed in order to be the man of the family and keep the rest of the family from starving. The very young even served in war.
But now instead of a real expectation of an awake and sober adult at the age of 10 or 11 we have passed into an age where some parents don't even consider their offspring as adults at the age of 35. And these types are the ones we see getting slaughtered in droves. They fail to see the danger in drugs, drug dealers, hanging out with ghetto types or associating with people who have chosen a failing path in life. They often die from their lack of training. Worse yet society has crippled parents and disallows the methods our forefathers used in correcting their children. Even a young prince or princess might be whipped raw for a bit of youthful rebellion.
The major point being that it is not the net, computers nor a lack of laws behind our woes. It is a negative shift in our entire way of life. It will not be an easy fix.
There is some logic in your post. After all, one definition of security is to lock down and immobilize. If congress was glued to their seats so that they could not move about they could not get mugged in the parking lot. And if we secured their phones so that they could not be picked up or used in any way maybe we could keep their laws and comments secured so that they have no effect upon society,
I could go along with the notion that mental strain leads to disaster. Frankly it is my opinion that we see so many college students in difficulty simply because education is causing a form of brain damage for which they tend to resist or over compensate. A mind consumed with the finer points of chemistry or mathematics may well be forced into malfunction due to neglect of normal mental processes which remain poorly defined or unrecognized.
One day we may be forced to build a different framework of measurement in which we do not judge the state of learning of a student but simply judge the quality of the student by how much he can absorb in shorter time periods every day. Disallowing extra study and requiring music or athletics to fill most of every day might build a better academic community.
I think background of all individuals should be freely available. If I ran into a female who was a repeat victim of domestic violence I might not want to form a relationship with her as the fact that she was attacked might indicate that she drives mates over the edge, And I wouldn't care to hang out with people who beat their wives either, I see nothing wrong with everyone knowing all about everyone else. Those that have bad histories would suffer a bit but they have earned that suffering.
And I wait the day when we have really great lie detectors such that no person will be able to lie in court or at work. I wonder if society could handle truth or whether the entire system would melt down.
You sound like they got to you. A free market is one in which no money is needed as all goods and services are without charge. So you aren't talking about a free market at all.
Now if you are churning about in the Ayn Rand type of dialogue consider this: That type of "free market" is a market totally without taxes, laws or rules. In other words it is free of all governmental regulations. Obviously no free market of that type has ever existed anywhere at any time. And it never will exist. There is no relative freedom from regulation. It is like being pregnant. It is an absolute, A market is either free or it is regulated.
Isn't it wonderful how people can be propagandized? We have millions of people wandering about with the notion that unregulated markets are wonderful when no nation has ever been fool enough to try such nonsense for even one single hour.
There are several issues involved. Not the least of which is the outrageous costs of medical care. Usually a market limits the height of prices. But not in the medical arena. Efforts to fix the issue are actually causing the problem. As it stands we have three pockets for the medical industry to pillage. First the government pays. Then the insurance company pays. Finally the patient pays. And on top of that we frequently have people with gap insurance or second policies. The first thing to do is to allow only one pocket to pay the entire bill. That will lower prices across the board.
The next issue is who will be that one payer. It must be the government, It can not be the patients as we would have massive deaths for inability to pay. Insurance doesn't cut it as many people have conditions which make insurance impossible.
In order for the government to be the payer we need a set fee for every procedure. We also need to assign a full time accountant to work elbow to elbow with each doctor to keep track of real time spent on each patient. Those accountants or verifiers should be rotated every few days so that no undue influence could ever be exerted upon them.
The next issue involves opening enough quality medical schools and training enough doctors such that their time is worth a similar amount as workers in all other trades.
Money must never be an issue in health care. As it stands at this time many disabled people must make certain that they remain disabled otherwise they could be cast out of the Medicare system and actually die from lack of medical care. I have a neighbor in that exact predicament. She has suffered from severe manic depression for decades. It is severe enough that she has spent long periods in mental hospitals. Yet if she takes the best medications she gets on the verge of being an able person but not quite at a level where she can work for long or really hope to support herself. Consequently it actually pays her to skip her meds a bit. And that is a common problem with people in her condition as many of them dislike their medications intently due to the shocking mental changes that the better meds bring about. As long as she has a current history proving mental illness she will receive a pay check as well as qualify for tax payer provided medical care.
I've lived in Florida for 53 years. There are times when this state is embarrassing and this is one of them. Some high schools in Florida are actually first rate but it is hit and miss. Once one gets into the rural counties the schools usually are a bad joke. We seriously need a national rating system that covers every public and private school.
The whole announcement strikes me as fud. For example heat is a huge issue on ships in many areas. Getting rid of heat is a major challenge on ships. For example in Florida might hit 140 degrees at dock without active cooling.
The other issues include docking fees. Port Everglades charges several thousand dollars per hour to dock and the Port of Miami is likely similar in policies. In essence berth space is precious for large vessels in the US.
It would seem to me that if one wanted to build a data center of large size it would make sense to build it in a very cold climate where the excess heat produced is a valuable commodity.
Obviously this law will be used against little people exclusively with the odd small company punished as a mock demonstration of fairness. We are at the point of a collision with the reality that big business has far too much control over government and it is high time for the people to retake control of the system by whatever means needed.
Make no mistake. We can not negotiate in the usual ways. To quote a Frenchman "Our grandfathers negotiated with the bosses and we were poor. Our fathers negotiated with the bosses and we remained poor. We will never negotiate with the bosses. There will be no bosses."
In essence geeks have control of technology and somebody is about to dance to a very different tune.
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Some people must have money to burn. These folks are going to lose this case big time and IÄl bet the legal bills assigned to them will be worth as much as the house.
There is no expectation or right to privacy of things in plain sight from the road.
And you can bet that the very day that a judge strikes out and causes the RIAA to loose its financial life it will stop.
Here is the really disturbing part. That lawyer may have collected a fortune from people seeking to avoid a court hearing. By simply suspending him for six months the court effectively encourages others to do exactly the same thing. This is a case where a staggering fine would have sent a message that no other party dare pull such nonsense.
I can see it giving way too much power to the parents of older students. For example if you see that girl you won be going back to college this year. Then simply charting the girlÅ tracks along side your sons tracks would let you know in a hurry. The catch is that this might be applied to a 23 year old student as easily as to a 13 year old.
Yet even though I can see potential for abuse we can also simply believe in always letting the truth being seen by all people, all the time.
Right now there are so many false accusations abounding in society that having proof of exactly where one was and when could be a real lifesaver. Male teachers are becoming extinct in the lower school grades due to fears of being falsely accused. Having these tags on both students and teachers sounds like a good idea to me.
In the U.S. ISPs are getting off too easily.Instead of worrying about flow controls we need to demand that internet capacity expands to meet demands. After all we pay for high speed connections and therefore have the right to demand high speed service. There is no reason that one cable has to run to a home. If demand is that great then run multi cables to each home and get the price down as well.
I really hope it works but my belief is that any government will clamp down on freedoms whenever corruption starts to be reduced. I have serious doubts that any society or government will ever want information and conversation to actually be free. As long as our freedoms are ineffective we are welcomed to them.
This type of warrant is bitterly unfair and dangerous. In all my years surfing the net I have only stumbled upon one picture of a child in a pornographic situation. That was simply because I do not speak German and I was randomly typing in web addresses just snooping around. I had no idea I was headed for a sex site much less one that displayed a child.
It is time to reign in our government and put a stop to these perpetual witch hunts.
Frankly it shames me that America allows any commerce with China at all. Nations that use slave labor and violate human rights should suffer complete isolation. I don't think we should allow so much as a phone line into or out of China.
It's time to drop the idea of the government being somehow separate from the people and grant all citizens access to all governmental information. We do not need big brother operating with rules and laws that are in any way different than they are for any citizen. Nothing is more basic than the right to know.
Wave fin designs have been around for several years. There have even been tiny craft like canoes that get around lakes where the shifting weight of the occupant causes a swim fin like object to propel the boat.
But these critters have serious limits. For example the Gulf Stream has a faster current than such a system can confront. At 5mph you would effectively be stalled or being pushed backwards unless you chose to go in the same direction as the stream.
It goes without saying that electricity can be generated by similar designs.
I am amazed that anyone is falling for the internet as a criminal nest nonsense. Obviously whenever any very large group of people does anything at all some crime must occur. It's all about proportion. How many people died world wide fighting to keep their bicycle from being stolen last year? How many died because of internet activity? We all know bicycles were far ahead in the crime stats. So should we build an entirely different society to keep bicycles from being stolen? Obviously not. And we don't need a new net either.
In house salesmen are a huge user of electronic maps. Sadly there are a host of products that are much easier to sell to newly built homes yet electronic maps never show the newer streets and developments in an area. What is needed is some way to refresh electronic maps daily as well as an auto link to the building departments when they issue certificates of occupancy for new dwellings and offices. That way the new streets and electronic maps could coordinate themselves automatically.
Justice was not done. The offending company is actually encouraged to continue doing wrong in the future. Companies count on a law of averages for this sort of behavior. They are well aware that very, very few people will fight back, that proofs may be insufficient and that the cost of proper legal representation will destroy most complainants.
The answer is not a 20K judgment. The real answer is a 200 million dollar judgment. That way companies would cower in the dark before stealing from others. Perhaps the worst case example is the fellow who developed the variable speed windshield wiper. A thirty year fight was not enough to cause every offending automaker to comply. The verdicts should have been enough to bankrupt major car companies but they were not.
I think the law and school authorities need to be absent from the net. I can not imagine how flimsy a line of reasoning can be to allow school authorities to regulate students at home. And then after reading the article I find that the idea that a teacher can claim harm over bruised feelings ridiculous. For example the student may have made fun of the teachers fat legs on the net. But the defect is in the teacher not the student. A person who is so locked in to valuing what others think of them is displaying a mental defect and is not suitable to be employed as a teacher. The real answer for the teacher is to develop a personality that is not crippled by a bit of teasing and perhaps taking some lard off of those hams might be a good idea as well.
Although suits against the gaming industry are truly absurd in my opinion I do wonder just how the courts can do this. For example we have a clear history of abortion being perfectly legal yet numerous suits are always under way to try to nibble away a womans right to control her own body. How can we reject in advance one argument while allowing other arguments to be heard endlessly?
Another disturbing fact is that the real issue is usually avoided in these suits. For example I find it very hard to believe that normal people in reasonable states of mental health are much effected by the use of violent video games. However we really do have a few people who have devastating mental issues who are overly influenced by just about everything that they see or read or even hear rumors about. So the real question lurking behind it all is just how responsible can anyone be for creating material that will set a lunatic on a bad outburst. Frankly I don't think that is a valid consideration for a content creator to make. A comic book about Superman that influences some daffy kid into jumping off the roof of his home with a pretend Superman costume should never be a consideration for a content creator.
Part of the problem rests in parents who fail to harden their children in their early years. In the past we saw 11 year old boys take over the running of the family farm when dad passed in order to be the man of the family and keep the rest of the family from starving. The very young even served in war.
But now instead of a real expectation of an awake and sober adult at the age of 10 or 11 we have passed into an age where some parents don't even consider their offspring as adults at the age of 35. And these types are the ones we see getting slaughtered in droves. They fail to see the danger in drugs, drug dealers, hanging out with ghetto types or associating with people who have chosen a failing path in life. They often die from their lack of training. Worse yet society has crippled parents and disallows the methods our forefathers used in correcting their children. Even a young prince or princess might be whipped raw for a bit of youthful rebellion.
The major point being that it is not the net, computers nor a lack of laws behind our woes. It is a negative shift in our entire way of life. It will not be an easy fix.
There is some logic in your post. After all, one definition of security is to lock down and immobilize. If congress was glued to their seats so that they could not move about they could not get mugged in the parking lot. And if we secured their phones so that they could not be picked up or used in any way maybe we could keep their laws and comments secured so that they have no effect upon society,
I could go along with the notion that mental strain leads to disaster. Frankly it is my opinion that we see so many college students in difficulty simply because education is causing a form of brain damage for which they tend to resist or over compensate. A mind consumed with the finer points of chemistry or mathematics may well be forced into malfunction due to neglect of normal mental processes which remain poorly defined or unrecognized.
One day we may be forced to build a different framework of measurement in which we do not judge the state of learning of a student but simply judge the quality of the student by how much he can absorb in shorter time periods every day. Disallowing extra study and requiring music or athletics to fill most of every day might build a better academic community.
I think background of all individuals should be freely available. If I ran into a female who was a repeat victim of domestic violence I might not want to form a relationship with her as the fact that she was attacked might indicate that she drives mates over the edge, And I wouldn't care to hang out with people who beat their wives either, I see nothing wrong with everyone knowing all about everyone else. Those that have bad histories would suffer a bit but they have earned that suffering.
And I wait the day when we have really great lie detectors such that no person will be able to lie in court or at work. I wonder if society could handle truth or whether the entire system would melt down.
You sound like they got to you. A free market is one in which no money is needed as all goods and services are without charge. So you aren't talking about a free market at all.
Now if you are churning about in the Ayn Rand type of dialogue consider this: That type of "free market" is a market totally without taxes, laws or rules. In other words it is free of all governmental regulations. Obviously no free market of that type has ever existed anywhere at any time. And it never will exist. There is no relative freedom from regulation. It is like being pregnant. It is an absolute, A market is either free or it is regulated.
Isn't it wonderful how people can be propagandized? We have millions of people wandering about with the notion that unregulated markets are wonderful when no nation has ever been fool enough to try such nonsense for even one single hour.
There are several issues involved. Not the least of which is the outrageous costs of medical care. Usually a market limits the height of prices. But not in the medical arena. Efforts to fix the issue are actually causing the problem. As it stands we have three pockets for the medical industry to pillage. First the government pays. Then the insurance company pays. Finally the patient pays. And on top of that we frequently have people with gap insurance or second policies. The first thing to do is to allow only one pocket to pay the entire bill. That will lower prices across the board.
The next issue is who will be that one payer. It must be the government, It can not be the patients as we would have massive deaths for inability to pay. Insurance doesn't cut it as many people have conditions which make insurance impossible.
In order for the government to be the payer we need a set fee for every procedure. We also need to assign a full time accountant to work elbow to elbow with each doctor to keep track of real time spent on each patient. Those accountants or verifiers should be rotated every few days so that no undue influence could ever be exerted upon them.
The next issue involves opening enough quality medical schools and training enough doctors such that their time is worth a similar amount as workers in all other trades.
Money must never be an issue in health care. As it stands at this time many disabled people must make certain that they remain disabled otherwise they could be cast out of the Medicare system and actually die from lack of medical care. I have a neighbor in that exact predicament. She has suffered from severe manic depression for decades. It is severe enough that she has spent long periods in mental hospitals. Yet if she takes the best medications she gets on the verge of being an able person but not quite at a level where she can work for long or really hope to support herself. Consequently it actually pays her to skip her meds a bit. And that is a common problem with people in her condition as many of them dislike their medications intently due to the shocking mental changes that the better meds bring about. As long as she has a current history proving mental illness she will receive a pay check as well as qualify for tax payer provided medical care.
I've lived in Florida for 53 years. There are times when this state is embarrassing and this is one of them. Some high schools in Florida are actually first rate but it is hit and miss. Once one gets into the rural counties the schools usually are a bad joke. We seriously need a national rating system that covers every public and private school.
The whole announcement strikes me as fud. For example heat is a huge issue on ships in many areas. Getting rid of heat is a major challenge on ships. For example in Florida might hit 140 degrees at dock without active cooling.
The other issues include docking fees. Port Everglades charges several thousand dollars per hour to dock and the Port of Miami is likely similar in policies. In essence berth space is precious for large vessels in the US.
It would seem to me that if one wanted to build a data center of large size it would make sense to build it in a very cold climate where the excess heat produced is a valuable commodity.
Obviously this law will be used against little people exclusively with the odd small company punished as a mock demonstration of fairness. We are at the point of a collision with the reality that big business has far too much control over government and it is high time for the people to retake control of the system by whatever means needed.
Make no mistake. We can not negotiate in the usual ways. To quote a Frenchman "Our grandfathers negotiated with the bosses and we were poor. Our fathers negotiated with the bosses and we remained poor. We will never negotiate with the bosses. There will be no bosses."
In essence geeks have control of technology and somebody is about to dance to a very different tune.