"pro hanoi" is quite a charge. Do you honestly think questioning the US's actions in Vietnam automatically means "pro hanoi"? If so, there are very very few voting Americans who would agree with you.
No, but I think that being honored by the communists to the point of having your photo in their museum does qualify as "pro hanoi": See here.
Of course the 95% of the people who are straight don't want the 5% of the people who are gay to have the same rights as they do. Just like the 95% of the people who are white at one time didn't want the 5% of the blacks to have the same rights.
This is not at all the same thing. Gays have the same rights as straight people. Anyone, gay or straight, has the right to marry someone of the opposite sex. Nobody, gay or straight, has the right to marry someone of the same sex. Gays are asking for "extra" rights that are an abomination to the natural order of things.
Actually, when Kerry signed up for the war, the unit he signed up for was not in active combat. Kerry got moved into combat after he had joined. So Kerry was trying to avoid fighting when he signed up. On the other hand, Bush signed up for the Texas Natl Guard, which, at the time he signed up, WAS in active combat in Vietnam. However, by the time Bush finished flight school, that unit had been pulled out of combat. So really Bush was doing the "honorable" thing, not Kerry.
Furthermore, unless they're keeping tabs on your odometer as well as the mileage recorded on this device, couldn't you just unplug the device for any trips you take on the highway and plug it back in later?
...when you see the phrase "connect two $199 cards together" and say to yourself "Hey, that's a good value!".
Connecting two $199 cards together will probably give you 40% more performance than a $398 card, assuming that this new SLI will only have about 10-20% overhead, so yes it is a good value!
"ZDNet are" and "Sun are"??? ZDNet and Sun are singular nouns. It should read as "ZDNet is" and "Sun is". Sheesh. The headline of the linked article is "Sun wants to buy Novell" which correctly uses "Sun" as a singular noun. (Think "he wants" vs "they want"). Saying "ZDNet are" or "Sun are" is like saying "he are". That's just inane. Anyway, can we get some proofreaders on the staff?
I usually handle tailgaters by slowing down to about half the speed limit, and continuing to slow down until they either get the point and back off, or get fed up and blow past me.
Seriously, the danger from tailgating is that they might rear-end you (duh). If you slowly reduce your speed this greatly reduces the risk of a high-speed read end collision while simultaneously giving them a great incentive to stop tailgating. They're doing it because they think it'll get them to their destination faster. I simply make it clear to them that they'll NEVER get there if they insist on tailgating me.
In my experience, most people get the hint and back off.
Your method is fine, so long as you are driving in the driving lane (in the USA, the right-most lane) and not in any of the passing lanes. You should be in the passing lane only to pass. And slowly crawling by a semi by going 0.01 MPH faster is NOT passing!;) Also, on two-lane highways (one lane per direction) you should pull over and let people behind you go by if you're going that slow.
But it'll be much, much cooler when I can snag $10 or $15 or $75 out of the machine. Why do we get only 20s?
It depends on the machine and the bank running it. There's an ATM where I work that will give out 1s, 5s, 10s, and 20s. Nothing like withdrawing $59 to get a little of everything;)
This implies a higher ability to obfuscate in a polysyllabic vein. Sesequepedalianism does not, however, imply 'intelligence'. If it did, Mary Poppins should have been running the bank instead of those old farts who could not say "Supercalafragalisticexpialadocious".
Well geez, at the very least, you could at least spell "Sesquipedalianism" correctly;)
Just to be clear, CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) gets less than 20% of its funding from state, local, and federal government combined. So yes, it is government-funded, but not as much as it is publically-funded (25%).
It's not the funding of CPB/PBS that allows the FCC to regulate, it's the use of the government-licenced airwaves. If PBS was cable-only, they would be out of the jurisdiction of these FCC guidlines.
What about the commuter that wants to take a nap on the train after a hard day's work. Does he now have to st there listening to you tap on the keyboard as you vainly try to finish an Excel speadsheet.
So what train do you ride on that is quieter than the sound of typing on a keyboard? Can this really be heard over the noise of the train itself? I've only ridding trains in Chicago and DC and they we're both really noisy, no way you could hear a keyboard there!
Yeah, I'll probably switch to Mac and OS X for my main "work" machine sometime in the next year or so, and get a dedicated Windows box for games too, and retire my 660+ GB OS/2 box to be the file/print/ftp/www/etc server only and no longer use it as my main "work" machine.
When I saw this on slashdot, I thought that I had been doing SETI@Home for much longer than that, but apparently I registered May 16th, 1999, early in the UTC. Their news release puts the anniversay as May 17th.
Take a look at the class pages for seti at home. It seems regular signups actually started in April of 1999.
wouldnt it be better to donate cycles to something like folding@home, parkinsons and alzheimers disease protein research?
I can't because, only Seti has a client for my computers running OS/2. I'd like to move, but I won't until those other projects support my OS of choice.
Ummm, why don't you just listen to the CD or rip it to some lossless (FLAC, e.g.) format - should not be much worse than the original AAC. Granted the disk-space usage for FLAC can be a problem, but if disk space and/or convenience is too big a problem and you are willing to take a hit on sound quality, re-rip to 192 kbs OGG/MP3/Whatever.
This forces the user to have a CD burner, what if they don't? Just because someone doesn't own a CD burner doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to exercise their fair use rights.
Apple doesn't decide what fair use is, the law defines fair use. I think the DMCA is shit and I have no qualms about breaking that law, and neither do most people I think.
Not ideal for sure, but far from draconian. If that is the price to have the relatively wide content of iTMS available at $0.99 / song, it REALLY doesn't seem like that big of a deal. More importantly, if you STILL don't like the DRM terms, THEN VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS DON'T BUY ANY FREAKING MUSIC FROM THE ITUNES MUSIC STORE AND STOP WHINING.
I never said apple's DRM was draconian. I don't think it is at all, actually. My only argument is that there are (DMCA not-withstanding) perfectly legal uses of FairPlay for exercising fair use rights.
BTW, I don't have a Mac or iTunes at all. I'm simply arguing the principle of the matter, that I think the DMCA is baloney and that FairPlay can be used for plenty of legal purposes. We shouldn't ban things just because they 'might' be used to commit a crime (like copyright infringement). And for the record, I'm not trying to flame Apple, I think they're great, and as soon as I have the money, I'll be getting a PowerBook.
I'm assuming you have at least one mac or pc. If you bought a mac or pc in the last 3-5 years, it came with a CD burner. I have not seen any major computer manufacturer recently make a pc without a CD burner, or at least offer one as a "free upgrade" or whatever. With a mac you don't have a choice, they just give you one. What you are trying to do is find an extremely unlikely argument that DRM should not be used at all, probably so you can do something illegal in its absence.
I'm not arguing against DRM, I'm just saying that for some people, the iTMS DRM limits their fair use. We could argue all day as to how many people it actually affects negatively, but thats not the point. If there is even one person who wants to play their legally purchased AAC files on a non-Mac or non-Windows device, then they should be able to, as this falls under Fair Use, and PlayFair lets them do that, since they shouldn't need to buy/own a CD burner and transcode and lose quality in order to do that.
Let me ask, how do you make your Linux installation CDs? Do you download it onto each machine you want to install it on? What's that? You have a CD Burner?
This has nothing to do with me. I don't have iTunes or a Mac at all. I'm just arguing the principle of the matter, and not my own personal situation. I'm saying that there are plenty of legal uses of FairPlay. Of course there are illegal uses too, there are illegal uses of almost everything in the world;) I think we shouldn't ban things because they "might" be used illegally. Yes, I think the DMCA is horseshit. And for the record, I'm not trying to flame Apple, I think they're great, and as soon as I have the money, I'll be getting a PowerBook.
If you want to play your purchased music on your Linux or OS/2 machine, then just insert the CD you just burned on your Mac into your PC drive and go. If you then decide you want to keep that music on your Linux hard drive then you can rip it from the CD! Apple's DRM doesn't stop you moving music from system to system, it just makes it a 2 step process. Where exactly is the infraction on my rights again?
That assumes that I have a CD burner and CD-Rs. What if I don't? Do you think I should need to buy them in order to play my music on a machine that I own?
If I want, I can burn my songs to a CD. And play them in my car. Or in my house. Or at work. Or in a portable CD player.
If I want, I can put these songs on my iPod and listen to them wherever I go.
If I want, I can listen to these songs on my computer using iTunes.
I've yet to find a gross infraction upon my rights to do with the music as I wish.
Thats good that you can do all the things you want to do. But there are other examples of legal fair use. Like playing your purchased music on a Linux or OS/2 machine. Or suppose you have 5 macs in your house, iTunes only lets you play them on three machines! So if someone thinks that the DMCA is a bad law and doesn't care about breaking it, they could use PlayFair to simply exercise their Fair Use Rights. Yes, iTunes gives you some Fair Use, but not enough for many people.
Wasn't discovered a few years ago that there was a prevailing low Bb (lots of octaves below the tuba range) sounding through the universe?
Many electronic appliances and lights give off a very low db B-flat hum (at least in the US) because of the 60hz frequency in the electricity here (60hz = Bb). I suppose in Europe it's a different pitch (50hz).
Anyway, because of this constant Bb that we're all subconsciously bombarded with, most people, when asked to hum ANY pitch, will hum a Bb!! (Learned this in a music class at college)
If only a government had the balls to resist the pressure of car manufacturers groups and impose an engine throttle limitation for common vehicles...
Hello. Nearly every car these days DOES have an engine throttle limitation. It's called a "governor". On most cars they're set between 100 and 150mph. The 1997 Aurora I had was set to 118mph and the Volvo S60 T5 I have is limited to 130mph. This is done usually to prevent the car from being driven dangerously fast, and causing tires to blow (tires can only handle up to certain speeds) and sometimes also to prevent the engine from revving to high.
True, these governors aren't there by government regulation, the car makers but them there for their own good, and the good of the consumer, but isn't that the way it SHOULD be anyhow?
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Sure I'll run it. I'll also setup a firewall so that this program can't send any actual data. After all, you're getting paid per CPU hour and not per email actually sent. Who cares if the program sits there and spins the cpu trying to send and resend it's first email message? Sounds like easy money to me!;)
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No, but I think that being honored by the communists to the point of having your photo in their museum does qualify as "pro hanoi":
See here.
This is not at all the same thing. Gays have the same rights as straight people. Anyone, gay or straight, has the right to marry someone of the opposite sex. Nobody, gay or straight, has the right to marry someone of the same sex. Gays are asking for "extra" rights that are an abomination to the natural order of things.
There is no "unfairness" going on here at all.
Actually, when Kerry signed up for the war, the unit he signed up for was not in active combat. Kerry got moved into combat after he had joined. So Kerry was trying to avoid fighting when he signed up. On the other hand, Bush signed up for the Texas Natl Guard, which, at the time he signed up, WAS in active combat in Vietnam. However, by the time Bush finished flight school, that unit had been pulled out of combat. So really Bush was doing the "honorable" thing, not Kerry.
Furthermore, unless they're keeping tabs on your odometer as well as the mileage recorded on this device, couldn't you just unplug the device for any trips you take on the highway and plug it back in later?
Connecting two $199 cards together will probably give you 40% more performance than a $398 card, assuming that this new SLI will only have about 10-20% overhead, so yes it is a good value!
"ZDNet are" and "Sun are"??? ZDNet and Sun are singular nouns. It should read as "ZDNet is" and "Sun is". Sheesh. The headline of the linked article is "Sun wants to buy Novell" which correctly uses "Sun" as a singular noun. (Think "he wants" vs "they want"). Saying "ZDNet are" or "Sun are" is like saying "he are". That's just inane. Anyway, can we get some proofreaders on the staff?
A rather funny coincidence that these stories should appear next to each other on google news.
Your method is fine, so long as you are driving in the driving lane (in the USA, the right-most lane) and not in any of the passing lanes. You should be in the passing lane only to pass. And slowly crawling by a semi by going 0.01 MPH faster is NOT passing!
I can't do any searches, and I tried both of the ones you referred to, and they both give this error message.
I'm getting a google error page whenever I do any search right now... anyone else getting this?
Screenshot here
It depends on the machine and the bank running it. There's an ATM where I work that will give out 1s, 5s, 10s, and 20s. Nothing like withdrawing $59 to get a little of everything
Well geez, at the very least, you could at least spell "Sesquipedalianism" correctly
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It's not the funding of CPB/PBS that allows the FCC to regulate, it's the use of the government-licenced airwaves. If PBS was cable-only, they would be out of the jurisdiction of these FCC guidlines.
So what train do you ride on that is quieter than the sound of typing on a keyboard? Can this really be heard over the noise of the train itself? I've only ridding trains in Chicago and DC and they we're both really noisy, no way you could hear a keyboard there!
Yeah, I'll probably switch to Mac and OS X for my main "work" machine sometime in the next year or so, and get a dedicated Windows box for games too, and retire my 660+ GB OS/2 box to be the file/print/ftp/www/etc server only and no longer use it as my main "work" machine.
Also, for finding releases, try ircspy.com and isohunt.com
This forces the user to have a CD burner, what if they don't? Just because someone doesn't own a CD burner doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to exercise their fair use rights.
Apple doesn't decide what fair use is, the law defines fair use. I think the DMCA is shit and I have no qualms about breaking that law, and neither do most people I think.
I never said apple's DRM was draconian. I don't think it is at all, actually. My only argument is that there are (DMCA not-withstanding) perfectly legal uses of FairPlay for exercising fair use rights.
BTW, I don't have a Mac or iTunes at all. I'm simply arguing the principle of the matter, that I think the DMCA is baloney and that FairPlay can be used for plenty of legal purposes. We shouldn't ban things just because they 'might' be used to commit a crime (like copyright infringement). And for the record, I'm not trying to flame Apple, I think they're great, and as soon as I have the money, I'll be getting a PowerBook.
So settle down
I'm not arguing against DRM, I'm just saying that for some people, the iTMS DRM limits their fair use. We could argue all day as to how many people it actually affects negatively, but thats not the point. If there is even one person who wants to play their legally purchased AAC files on a non-Mac or non-Windows device, then they should be able to, as this falls under Fair Use, and PlayFair lets them do that, since they shouldn't need to buy/own a CD burner and transcode and lose quality in order to do that.
This has nothing to do with me. I don't have iTunes or a Mac at all. I'm just arguing the principle of the matter, and not my own personal situation. I'm saying that there are plenty of legal uses of FairPlay. Of course there are illegal uses too, there are illegal uses of almost everything in the world
That assumes that I have a CD burner and CD-Rs. What if I don't? Do you think I should need to buy them in order to play my music on a machine that I own?
Thats good that you can do all the things you want to do. But there are other examples of legal fair use. Like playing your purchased music on a Linux or OS/2 machine. Or suppose you have 5 macs in your house, iTunes only lets you play them on three machines! So if someone thinks that the DMCA is a bad law and doesn't care about breaking it, they could use PlayFair to simply exercise their Fair Use Rights. Yes, iTunes gives you some Fair Use, but not enough for many people.
Many electronic appliances and lights give off a very low db B-flat hum (at least in the US) because of the 60hz frequency in the electricity here (60hz = Bb). I suppose in Europe it's a different pitch (50hz).
Anyway, because of this constant Bb that we're all subconsciously bombarded with, most people, when asked to hum ANY pitch, will hum a Bb!! (Learned this in a music class at college)
Hello. Nearly every car these days DOES have an engine throttle limitation. It's called a "governor". On most cars they're set between 100 and 150mph. The 1997 Aurora I had was set to 118mph and the Volvo S60 T5 I have is limited to 130mph. This is done usually to prevent the car from being driven dangerously fast, and causing tires to blow (tires can only handle up to certain speeds) and sometimes also to prevent the engine from revving to high.
True, these governors aren't there by government regulation, the car makers but them there for their own good, and the good of the consumer, but isn't that the way it SHOULD be anyhow?
Sure I'll run it. I'll also setup a firewall so that this program can't send any actual data. After all, you're getting paid per CPU hour and not per email actually sent. Who cares if the program sits there and spins the cpu trying to send and resend it's first email message? Sounds like easy money to me! ;)