its less risk and more gain then buying a lottery ticket
Around here lottery tickets cost $1 and someone always wins eventually. How exactly is this "less" risk than the lottery? I'm sure if you could figure out how to scribble in the circles on 10 million lottery cards you could get a much better return on your investment than this.
Plus, I'd like to know how they get into some of these places that are guarded now.. (some of the farmers have put their fields under video surveillance, found no evidence of people wandering around and had a crop circle the next morning..).
I haven't seen the tapes, have you? I assume if they are as well conceived as you believe that they disclose to true origin of the corp circles -- man-made or otherwise. So there are Extra-Terestrials on these tapes right? Or some glowing ball levitating over the field as the grain miraculously folds to its will?
These guys have already demonstrated how they made the circles that the "experts" said could never be man-made. They never said they made all the circles in the world. Since we now they can be man-made it is certainly more likely that there is more than one group making them,using slightly different techniques to fool the "experts", and coordinating their efforts to come in "waves" than aliens are doing it.
Not only that, but the sender will resend all of the unacknowledged packets making the problem even worse. Drop enough acks and you lose your session altogether. The solution? UDP! What, you don't want to use TFTP for all of your ISO's?
Likewise, the government can't excuse its normally illegal actions by common consent.
Utter Bullshit. You have now exposed yourself for the troll that you are. A LEO can indeed search you any time with no cause if you consent. As long as you are not in custody if you consent to a search it is legal. With very, very, very narrow exceptions (like you let them search a house that isn't yours) this does not violate the 4th ammendment. It is very clear to everybody over the age of 5 that when you go to the airport you consent to have your bags searched, you walk through a metal detector, and you have to show ID. If you don't like it you don't have to be there. The court wil see it that way.
If you don't like it you certainly have other options. Take a bus, or a train. Drive your car. Fly on a charter flight, heck learn to fly yourself.
But so then, by that rationale, it IS legal for them to search you when you travel on a government road? Or walk down a government sidewalk?
The Supreme Court says yes. Ever been through a sobriety checkpoint? Ever have a cop stop you on the street for a chat after exiting a bar late at night? All perfectly legal. All tested in court.
Why shouldn't a police officer been entitled to talk to you as you walk down the street? If you don't have anything to say to him, don't. It's your right. It's also within the law for him to pat you down if you are behaving suspiciously.
You should also reread the press release. Gilmore isn't suing because he had to show ID. He is suing because he claims "secret" laws are unconstitutional. He is also concerned that the ID checks will turn into something much worse.
Such regulations are unconstitutional because they are unpublished; require government agents to search and seize citizens who are not suspected of crimes; burden the rights to travel, associate, and petition the government; and discriminate against those who choose anonymity. The case also argues that because the regulations are secret, they violate the Freedom of Information Act.
BTW absent any regulation the airlines would still ask for ID to make sure you are the person named on the ticket. There is certainly nothing unconstitutional about that is there? Aiplanes are after all private propoerty.
This means that now all any government agency needs to do is set up a dummy corporation that's an "affiliate", and my phone company will give them unlimited access to all the data about me.
Yeah, what's your point? The government can tap your phone now without a warrant. They can follow you to high-school and pay the girl who sits behind you to spy on you. They can even knock down your door in the middle of the night and drag you naked through your front yard without so much as probable cause.
Ya gotta admit, it's a neat end run around the laws that restrict government surveillance.
Why would you think that? They don't do these things because it would be completely pointless for them to do so. If they obtain evidence in any of these ways (including buying it) the evidence is useless in court. Since law enforcement agencies purpose is to put away criminals they would simply be wasting energy collecting evidence they could never hope to use. Judges don't apprechiate "end runs" and have thrown out improperly obtained evidence when the agents collecting it "should have known better." Here's a hint: they have to act in good faith.
It isn't "hard" for LEO to get the info they want given the legal authority to do so (and getting warrants has become somewhat easier) but if you believe that the FBI is really interested in doing serious surveilance on you without a warrant you are seriously deluded.
The danger of my "stealing" a song from streaming audio is about the same as my stealing it off the radio.
The likelyhood, or the dificulty may be the same, but the danger certainly is not. If you record the song from a digital stream you have a same generation copy that you can distribute ad infinitum with no loss of quality.
Nobody really cares if you tape the radio and share the tapes with your friends. They do care if you make perfect copies and share them with the world on the Internet.
in a rocket you certainly hope you can get out before those 3GS of falling back to earth hopelessly pin you inside.
Do you want to reconsider that statement? If you are "falling back to earth" you will be weightless (as in 0g). If the rocket was pointing down and thrusting at the earth on the other hand you might feel -3g's.
Aircraft are safe, because your trained to fly them safely. People don't jump from leerjets or 747's, they jump from aircraft with a proven track record.
That's the funniesst thing I've read all day. Clearly you have never flown out of a big GA airport. And last time I checked the track record fot 747's and Lears were MUCH better than the POS most skydivers jump out of. So obviously you aren't a skydiver either.
If anything large gliders, towed behind a piloted aircraft would be the safest.
And only a moron would use a glider as a skydiving platform since you still have to be towed aloft, and it could take you hours to get to a decent altitude climbing on thermals. Gliders are nice because you can soar around for hours without power. Not really any benefit for this application though.
It really doesn't bite as much as you'd expect. Use of the foregrip however is mandatory if you don't want a split lip. I've only shot 00 buck through it, but supposedly it's pretty accurate with slugs.
The Hague convention did ban the use of shotguns, so they just started calling them "trench rifles"
The "Shorty" isn't really a pistol, it is just a *very* short pump action shotgun, with a pistol grip stock and a fold down forgrip. Since it never had a shoulder stock it isn't a shirt barreled rifle or shotgun, it's an AOW legal to make and own. In Texas you can even carry it around with you no permit required.
Why would they have to "puzzle it out"? I assume that someone is recording atmospheric C-14 levels currently so there is no reason why future scientists would have to use tree rings. If you assume future scientists will still be using C-14 data, why not assume they will have (current level of knowledge) + X instead of (current level of knowledge) - X?
Do you think at some point all of humanity will forget that we did nuclear tests? This is like the people worrying about putting up monoliths around the nuclear waste dump. In 500 years will English be a dead language? There are people around today translating 5000 year old writtings and 500 years from now linguists will have a much larger "rossetta stone" (think Library of Congress).
Wasn't it just a tax issue anyway? I mean you can own any length shotgun you want as long as you have your $5 NFA stamp (subject to the unconstitutional laws of some of the more socialist states) Of course most people (cops included) don't realize that a shotgun with a pistol grip and a 6" barrel is legal (and quite a lot of fun) if you pay the tax.
I agree that anti-gun people using Miller to defend their position is stupid, since the Court basically said that the 2nd Ammendment *only* protects the right to own military grade hardware.
IPv6 Addresses are written in HEX. Two bytes seperated by colons, but you can leave out leading and adjacent zeros. FE80::2AA:FF9A:44DD isn't so hard to remember is it?
You are either a troll or a fool. The site you linked to is obviously one of those that these less than scrupulous registrars scoop up when the registration lapses and then tries to sell back to the owner.
Either you never owned this name, or you owned it and let it lapse long enough to become available again. It doesn't really matter though, at the bottom of the page it states that the name is for sale. Have you contacted them to see how much they want for it? Can't be much since a Google for "moerobotics" returns that site and exactly one other hit.
If you actually have a legitamate claim to the name you will have no problem yanking it away from those squatters based on the fact that tehy are obviously trying to sell it. Have you tried filing a dispute yet?
BTW only the.org domain is taken. Not.com or.net. Is there some reason that you haven't just moved to moerobotics.com?
I don't agreed with the DMCA. It is probably unconstitutional and at some point it will be overturned. I also fully support 2600's decision, but this statement frm their website:
The MPAA and their cronies went out of their way to choose a defendant (us) that the court system would be prejudiced against.
Is complete bullshit. 2600 goes out of their way to get sued and make test cases. I would venture to say that being in court is the best publicilty 2600 ever gets. A lot of people got cease and decist letters over DeCSS. Some decided not to fight, 2600 decided to thumb their noses at the MPAA and Judge Kaplan, and they felt the consequences.
I'm not saying they deserved what they got, but they are acting like the MPAA came after them with no warning or provocation. When you poke a bear you shouldn't be suprised if it chases you up a tree.
I wish him luck. VC's don't like cheap. I have no idea how much of their money he took, but investors don't expect you to sit on the cash they give you earning interest in your savings account while you only buy what you *need*. The VC's are giving you money to spend, and if you're stockpiling it they'll complain that you aren't growing fast enough. If you don't have an immediate need for a bunch of cash, you probably shouldn't take it. No, companies don't *need* $1,000 chairs, but they also don't necesarrily *need* VC dollars.
In the US "'Home publishing', games, music, movies etc." are submitted to the LoC if you want to resgister a copyright. I don't know about other countries, but I ASSUME that in every country you must submit a copy of any work to register the copyright -- otherwise how do they know what the copyright is on?
It sounds like you are arguing people should be required to submit copies of even unpublished works to the "national library". If that's what you are saying, it sounds a lot like mandatory copyright registrations, and we could get into a long conversation about how bad that is for free speech.
It is ony 50 years in the future, and Spielberg uses a few advances to make it both close to home and alien.
I've seen Speilberg on all the shows talking about how he consulted with futurists and that the movie really paints an accurate picture of the future, blah, blah, blah.
I can't get on the highway without seeing ten year old cars all around me. Everyday I see a few 20, even 50 year old cars. When they start buiding all the highways sidways will I have to get my car modified so I can drive sideways? When are they going to start building the vertical roads? I hope it's soon if they are going to replace all the traditional roads by 2050. Where do I get my Dodge modified to drive up the side of my apartment building and park outside my window?
I almost forgot about the jet packs. Ha! They looked more like anti-gravity packs than jet packs. Hover, translate sideways, shoot up and stop on a dime. Why was it that no one other than Cruise could get theirs to work right?
And they still have to use the sneakernet for everything!
I'll agree with the reviewer on one point though, some of the stuff made me yearn for a new Indiana Jones movie -- eyeballs anyone?
If (say) Disney publishes something, and 70 years later their Copyright expires but no copies can be found in the hands of the public, Disney should be forced to provide the work as published, at least to a couple of public institutions.
As I stated in reply to your earlier post Disney would have provided 2 copies of that work to the LOC when they first registered the copyright. If those copies are missing, you have an issue with the LOC, not Disney.
My point was not that it does not become public domain, but that there is no explicit legal requirement for the release of the material to the public.
Except that your point is wrong. In the US to be able to claim certain damages in a copyright suit you must have registered your copyright and sent 2 copies to the US Copyright Office.
That is to say, when (if) Disney's Copyright on Micky Mouse expires, there is no legal requirement that they hand over their Micky Mouse archives (or a copy thereof) to some sort of public institution.
Do you consider the Library of Congress to be "Some sort of public institution?" There is no requirement that any creative works be published, but if they are and the author has a registered copyright there are two copies of the work at the LOC.
You are misinformed. McVeigh was only charged with 8 counts of murder even though he killed 168 people. He was charged with the murder of the 8 federal officers, this was sufficient when convicted to get him the death penalty.
In the case of multiple homicides especially prosecuters will hold back counts if they would not increase the penalty and leaving them out do not affect the case. For example, if a mother drowns her 5 children you first carge and try her for 2 counts of murder. If for some reason she is aquitted you can charge her with the other counts. There is no double jeopardy in this case.
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its less risk and more gain then buying a lottery ticket
Around here lottery tickets cost $1 and someone always wins eventually. How exactly is this "less" risk than the lottery? I'm sure if you could figure out how to scribble in the circles on 10 million lottery cards you could get a much better return on your investment than this.
But fish block water. What's your point?
I didn't think the answers corresponded to the questions in any kind of way. I also don't think this man has a very strong grasp on "reality".
Plus, I'd like to know how they get into some of these places that are guarded now.. (some of the farmers have put their fields under video surveillance, found no evidence of people wandering around and had a crop circle the next morning..).
I haven't seen the tapes, have you? I assume if they are as well conceived as you believe that they disclose to true origin of the corp circles -- man-made or otherwise. So there are Extra-Terestrials on these tapes right? Or some glowing ball levitating over the field as the grain miraculously folds to its will?
These guys have already demonstrated how they made the circles that the "experts" said could never be man-made. They never said they made all the circles in the world. Since we now they can be man-made it is certainly more likely that there is more than one group making them,using slightly different techniques to fool the "experts", and coordinating their efforts to come in "waves" than aliens are doing it.
Not only that, but the sender will resend all of the unacknowledged packets making the problem even worse. Drop enough acks and you lose your session altogether. The solution? UDP! What, you don't want to use TFTP for all of your ISO's?
I really have no idea what you are trying to say.
happens all the time doesn't mean widespread?
If you say so.
just because a lot of people believe that these searches are ok does not mean that they are ok.
If the "a lot of people" are the majority of the Supreme Court them it does mean exactly that.
Likewise, the government can't excuse its normally illegal actions by common consent.
Utter Bullshit. You have now exposed yourself for the troll that you are. A LEO can indeed search you any time with no cause if you consent. As long as you are not in custody if you consent to a search it is legal. With very, very, very narrow exceptions (like you let them search a house that isn't yours) this does not violate the 4th ammendment. It is very clear to everybody over the age of 5 that when you go to the airport you consent to have your bags searched, you walk through a metal detector, and you have to show ID. If you don't like it you don't have to be there. The court wil see it that way.
If you don't like it you certainly have other options. Take a bus, or a train. Drive your car. Fly on a charter flight, heck learn to fly yourself.
But so then, by that rationale, it IS legal for them to search you when you travel on a government road? Or walk down a government sidewalk?
The Supreme Court says yes. Ever been through a sobriety checkpoint? Ever have a cop stop you on the street for a chat after exiting a bar late at night? All perfectly legal. All tested in court.
Why shouldn't a police officer been entitled to talk to you as you walk down the street? If you don't have anything to say to him, don't. It's your right. It's also within the law for him to pat you down if you are behaving suspiciously.
You should also reread the press release. Gilmore isn't suing because he had to show ID. He is suing because he claims "secret" laws are unconstitutional. He is also concerned that the ID checks will turn into something much worse.
Such regulations are unconstitutional because they are unpublished; require government agents to search and seize citizens who are not suspected of crimes; burden the rights to travel, associate, and petition the government; and discriminate against those who choose anonymity. The case also argues that because the regulations are secret, they violate the Freedom of Information Act.
BTW absent any regulation the airlines would still ask for ID to make sure you are the person named on the ticket. There is certainly nothing unconstitutional about that is there? Aiplanes are after all private propoerty.
This means that now all any government agency needs to do is set up a dummy corporation that's an "affiliate", and my phone company will give them unlimited access to all the data about me.
Yeah, what's your point? The government can tap your phone now without a warrant. They can follow you to high-school and pay the girl who sits behind you to spy on you. They can even knock down your door in the middle of the night and drag you naked through your front yard without so much as probable cause.
Ya gotta admit, it's a neat end run around the laws that restrict government surveillance.
Why would you think that? They don't do these things because it would be completely pointless for them to do so. If they obtain evidence in any of these ways (including buying it) the evidence is useless in court. Since law enforcement agencies purpose is to put away criminals they would simply be wasting energy collecting evidence they could never hope to use. Judges don't apprechiate "end runs" and have thrown out improperly obtained evidence when the agents collecting it "should have known better." Here's a hint: they have to act in good faith.
It isn't "hard" for LEO to get the info they want given the legal authority to do so (and getting warrants has become somewhat easier) but if you believe that the FBI is really interested in doing serious surveilance on you without a warrant you are seriously deluded.
The danger of my "stealing" a song from streaming audio is about the same as my stealing it off the radio.
The likelyhood, or the dificulty may be the same, but the danger certainly is not. If you record the song from a digital stream you have a same generation copy that you can distribute ad infinitum with no loss of quality.
Nobody really cares if you tape the radio and share the tapes with your friends. They do care if you make perfect copies and share them with the world on the Internet.
Clipped from the AC:
"Name me 50 companies that have predatory buisness practices and I will name you 50,000 that dont.
How do you know that the companies you'll name are not *also* performing illegal business or accounting practices?
Around this time last year, nobody outside of Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Tyco, Merrill Lynch, etc. etc. knew anything was wrong.
Yet you indirectly claim knowledge of 50,000 companies' business practices and their legality..."
I'm like to hear your answer, and I'm not an AC, so what is it?
You actually had me going until you said:
in a rocket you certainly hope you can get out before those 3GS of falling back to earth hopelessly pin you inside.
Do you want to reconsider that statement? If you are "falling back to earth" you will be weightless (as in 0g). If the rocket was pointing down and thrusting at the earth on the other hand you might feel -3g's.
Aircraft are safe, because your trained to fly them safely. People don't jump from leerjets or 747's, they jump from aircraft with a proven track record.
That's the funniesst thing I've read all day. Clearly you have never flown out of a big GA airport. And last time I checked the track record fot 747's and Lears were MUCH better than the POS most skydivers jump out of. So obviously you aren't a skydiver either.
If anything large gliders, towed behind a piloted aircraft would be the safest.
And only a moron would use a glider as a skydiving platform since you still have to be towed aloft, and it could take you hours to get to a decent altitude climbing on thermals. Gliders are nice because you can soar around for hours without power. Not really any benefit for this application though.
It really doesn't bite as much as you'd expect. Use of the foregrip however is mandatory if you don't want a split lip. I've only shot 00 buck through it, but supposedly it's pretty accurate with slugs.
The Hague convention did ban the use of shotguns, so they just started calling them "trench rifles"
The "Shorty" isn't really a pistol, it is just a *very* short pump action shotgun, with a pistol grip stock and a fold down forgrip. Since it never had a shoulder stock it isn't a shirt barreled rifle or shotgun, it's an AOW legal to make and own. In Texas you can even carry it around with you no permit required.
Why would they have to "puzzle it out"? I assume that someone is recording atmospheric C-14 levels currently so there is no reason why future scientists would have to use tree rings. If you assume future scientists will still be using C-14 data, why not assume they will have (current level of knowledge) + X instead of (current level of knowledge) - X?
Do you think at some point all of humanity will forget that we did nuclear tests? This is like the people worrying about putting up monoliths around the nuclear waste dump. In 500 years will English be a dead language? There are people around today translating 5000 year old writtings and 500 years from now linguists will have a much larger "rossetta stone" (think Library of Congress).
Wasn't it just a tax issue anyway? I mean you can own any length shotgun you want as long as you have your $5 NFA stamp (subject to the unconstitutional laws of some of the more socialist states) Of course most people (cops included) don't realize that a shotgun with a pistol grip and a 6" barrel is legal (and quite a lot of fun) if you pay the tax.
I agree that anti-gun people using Miller to defend their position is stupid, since the Court basically said that the 2nd Ammendment *only* protects the right to own military grade hardware.
IPv6 Addresses are written in HEX. Two bytes seperated by colons, but you can leave out leading and adjacent zeros. FE80::2AA:FF9A:44DD isn't so hard to remember is it?
You are either a troll or a fool. The site you linked to is obviously one of those that these less than scrupulous registrars scoop up when the registration lapses and then tries to sell back to the owner.
.org domain is taken. Not .com or .net. Is there some reason that you haven't just moved to moerobotics.com?
Either you never owned this name, or you owned it and let it lapse long enough to become available again. It doesn't really matter though, at the bottom of the page it states that the name is for sale. Have you contacted them to see how much they want for it? Can't be much since a Google for "moerobotics" returns that site and exactly one other hit.
If you actually have a legitamate claim to the name you will have no problem yanking it away from those squatters based on the fact that tehy are obviously trying to sell it. Have you tried filing a dispute yet?
BTW only the
I don't agreed with the DMCA. It is probably unconstitutional and at some point it will be overturned. I also fully support 2600's decision, but this statement frm their website:
The MPAA and their cronies went out of their way to choose a defendant (us) that the court system would be prejudiced against.
Is complete bullshit. 2600 goes out of their way to get sued and make test cases. I would venture to say that being in court is the best publicilty 2600 ever gets. A lot of people got cease and decist letters over DeCSS. Some decided not to fight, 2600 decided to thumb their noses at the MPAA and Judge Kaplan, and they felt the consequences.
I'm not saying they deserved what they got, but they are acting like the MPAA came after them with no warning or provocation. When you poke a bear you shouldn't be suprised if it chases you up a tree.
The US is somewhere in the 30's if you sort the list by BTU/GNP$ which is a much more meaningful measure.
I wish him luck. VC's don't like cheap. I have no idea how much of their money he took, but investors don't expect you to sit on the cash they give you earning interest in your savings account while you only buy what you *need*. The VC's are giving you money to spend, and if you're stockpiling it they'll complain that you aren't growing fast enough. If you don't have an immediate need for a bunch of cash, you probably shouldn't take it. No, companies don't *need* $1,000 chairs, but they also don't necesarrily *need* VC dollars.
In the US "'Home publishing', games, music, movies etc." are submitted to the LoC if you want to resgister a copyright. I don't know about other countries, but I ASSUME that in every country you must submit a copy of any work to register the copyright -- otherwise how do they know what the copyright is on?
It sounds like you are arguing people should be required to submit copies of even unpublished works to the "national library". If that's what you are saying, it sounds a lot like mandatory copyright registrations, and we could get into a long conversation about how bad that is for free speech.
It is ony 50 years in the future, and Spielberg uses a few advances to make it both close to home and alien.
I've seen Speilberg on all the shows talking about how he consulted with futurists and that the movie really paints an accurate picture of the future, blah, blah, blah.
I can't get on the highway without seeing ten year old cars all around me. Everyday I see a few 20, even 50 year old cars. When they start buiding all the highways sidways will I have to get my car modified so I can drive sideways? When are they going to start building the vertical roads? I hope it's soon if they are going to replace all the traditional roads by 2050. Where do I get my Dodge modified to drive up the side of my apartment building and park outside my window?
I almost forgot about the jet packs. Ha! They looked more like anti-gravity packs than jet packs. Hover, translate sideways, shoot up and stop on a dime. Why was it that no one other than Cruise could get theirs to work right?
And they still have to use the sneakernet for everything!
I'll agree with the reviewer on one point though, some of the stuff made me yearn for a new Indiana Jones movie -- eyeballs anyone?
Only those with registered copyrights.
If (say) Disney publishes something, and 70 years later their Copyright expires but no copies can be found in the hands of the public, Disney should be forced to provide the work as published, at least to a couple of public institutions.
As I stated in reply to your earlier post Disney would have provided 2 copies of that work to the LOC when they first registered the copyright. If those copies are missing, you have an issue with the LOC, not Disney.
My point was not that it does not become public domain, but that there is no explicit legal requirement for the release of the material to the public.
Except that your point is wrong. In the US to be able to claim certain damages in a copyright suit you must have registered your copyright and sent 2 copies to the US Copyright Office.
That is to say, when (if) Disney's Copyright on Micky Mouse expires, there is no legal requirement that they hand over their Micky Mouse archives (or a copy thereof) to some sort of public institution.
Do you consider the Library of Congress to be "Some sort of public institution?" There is no requirement that any creative works be published, but if they are and the author has a registered copyright there are two copies of the work at the LOC.
You are misinformed. McVeigh was only charged with 8 counts of murder even though he killed 168 people. He was charged with the murder of the 8 federal officers, this was sufficient when convicted to get him the death penalty.
In the case of multiple homicides especially prosecuters will hold back counts if they would not increase the penalty and leaving them out do not affect the case. For example, if a mother drowns her 5 children you first carge and try her for 2 counts of murder. If for some reason she is aquitted you can charge her with the other counts. There is no double jeopardy in this case.