If Apple controls the distribution of music then who does the RIAA represent? Apple becomes the music publisher. As Apple is not a member of the RIAA obviously this would be a problem. They want DRM management with fragmentation between services and without the inclusion of indy music. This creates "competition" and lets the Music Publishers pretend they still have a purpose.
Oh my gosh. I can't believe anyone is ever talking about someone with an opposing view to me. Obviously the fact there are people with opposing views makes me an oppressed minority. Woe is me. Obviously we Republicans just can't win. We've got the house, the senate, the judicary and the presidency and people still talk about Al Gore. How can they be so narcissistic to not focus on our narcissism? This country was founded to talk about Christian Evangelical Protestant Repulican's dammit! And that liberal media keeps giving press to liberals, any damn time those damn fool liberals do anything of note!
Obviously you've never had an internet connection provided by a for-profit company. Time Warner is much like calling the government. They don't care, they know they're the only choice you have. I think after a month or two of no service you might get a refund. Maybe. If you complain enough. I fail to see how a governmental non-profit could do worse. Perhaps just as bad...
You're using the Rush Limbaugh tactic of taking a word and attempting to remove it's meaning because not only do you not like what it connotes but also you don't like what it denotes. You will find similiar problems in the abortion debate. There are many people classified as pro-life who believe in the death penalty, as are there many people who are pro-choice who would never have an abortion nor advocate anyone else do so. But that doesn't mean because it's a complex issue that I can change what the word abortion means.
From the definition of environmentalism you would be an advocate of stopping pollution or the destruction of the natural environment. If you are not an "environmentalist" then you do not advocate these beliefs. That's how the word works. And frankly using simple logic it does mean:
a) you have no opinion on environmental topics b) you prefer not to espose or act upon your environmental views c) you advocate the destruction and/or pollution of our natural environment
Beautiful circular logic. It's like the old, do yo hate women? No, I hate femi-nazis, I like women debate. Rush Limbaugh is a beautiful thing. His mastery of using logic to trick people out of having conversations is amazing. After all, how could I argue with your post? Am I going to say I'm an environmental, not an environmentalist... what does that mean? And why does every Limbaugh inspired argument revolve around political actors who have had no real influence in the recent news. I tell you that Mondale...
Just keep on shifting the taxes from the rich and their H2s and Excursions onto the poor with their 7 year old Geo Metros. We could actually believe this if the fleet fuel efficency was actually subtantially increasing for automobile manufacturers, but it's not. This is yet another ploy to make the poor pay to keep the rich living in style. See also Social Security Reform, Tort Reform, Toll Roads, and Bush's Tax Reform plans.
I thought everyone did. If they're giving away free upgrades you almost always get memory upgrades from the Small Business unit while you get some sort of cheezwhiz music ripping software free from the Home division. Plus the prices are usually cheaper. I doubled my memory and saved $200 by buying from the Small Business division. That's hardly a waste of time.
Is that most people thing about this in terms of the planet vs. man, and that because of our intelligence we can probably come up with something to fix the problem. But the planet doesn't care about us. The planet will keep functioning without us. The question you should be asking is, "How much am I willing to give on the off chance that the environmentalists are right, and that my children will never see sunlight without breaking out into huge radiation burns."
The question is not will we survive (for I have a lot of faith in mankind's ingenuity), but rather will we want to?
Yeah, this was the part of the story I didn't get at all. Most financial aid is need based, and that which is race based is the free market at work. The reason why there is money for races other than white, and for children of freemasons, and bosnian refugees is that someone in the free market has achieved success and decided that they want to encourage these people to go to college. The reason there's no financial aid for white kids who want to study computer science is that no one's created the scholarships or grants. That's the free market's fault. People like Bill Gates apparently don't see any value to setting up foundations to encourage white kids to study computer science. You want the money to be there you should start a campaign to get some of the well heeled slashdot readers to set up foundations.
I really think that getting rid of skin-color bias is a great goal. But caucasian is not really a specific cultural group, so that point is simply ridiculous. If the did Russian folkdancing then perhaps it was legitimate, otherwise no.
I was in German Club in high school. No one questions that as being racist. I performed in German Folkdancing competatively, and that was not considered racist. I know the same thing was true for students at my school studying French. So the problem is not that you cannot have a club to celebrate some of the great cultural legacies of white people. The problem is that you cannot have a club to celebrate the fact that you are white people.
If you really believe this statement:
I however don't think it's fine that preferential treatment be given to any one because of their ethnicity, as is being done.
then I hope you will consider getting a minimum wage job, and turn down any promotions. Then you will be sure that you are not getting preferential treatment because of your race. Until then you're only whining that other people are getting preferential treatment, with blinders to your own treatment. My guess is that if you're living in the bay area, you probably make quite a bit more money than the average American and that you may have in fact profited from racial bias at some point in your past. When you get on the subway does everyone in the car look at you suspiciously?
The thing that worries me the most is that we all are racist. Every last one of us. There are too many people who feel a twinge of racism, and rather than realize that it is racist and try to rework their brain to stop thinking that way, embrace it as perhaps some hidden truth. This is all simply a slippery sloap. There is always going to be racial bias. The ultimate truths is that the reason why Universities have racial quotas is that they need some sort of indicator that they're not going to end up with an entire university made up of the readerbase of slashdot (which I'm guessing is an almost ridiculously homogenouse population). Ultimately that sort of campus would be great for learning something like math. Which would be fine if the only point of an institution was to teach factoids, but ultimately the goal is to teach people to think in new ways. And so we'd end up with lots of people who'd memorized lots of math facts, but no one who was coming up with new advancements in the field. Part of ensuring that there is new knowledge being created requires getting people with different cultural backgrounds to interact with each other. That's why universities have foreign students, and why they have racial quotas. If you can come up with a better way to get a mixture of people from diverse backgrounds, I'm sure that the president of every major university in this country will have a meeting with you. But make no mistake, if you are white and truly think that you have not benefited from your race on a level equal to, or better than African-American students, you are most certainly wrong.
A little collective guilt is a whole lot cheaper than paying reparations isn't it?
My favorite line here is:
It is any resistance by whites to the idea of becoming a minority people.
Either this is a neo-nazi push for establishment of the Catholic church as the national religion or a call for genocide.
I'm always stunned by people who can write a laundry list of conclusions, without once asking themselves why things are that way. Dude, enjoy your life. Some people don't have the opportunity to eat or get healthcare for cancer. You on the other hand can't form an all white club with public-monies. It looks like we've all been dealt a very difficult hand...
that this is caused by President Bush's tax cut for the common man on Dividend Taxes? You think this would have happened without that gift from the President? This has nothing to do with stock price, it has to do with tax rate. It is now cheapest for Bill Gates (and let's not forget all the other Microsoft Billionaires) to receive their pay in dividends. So remember when your kids no longer have band practice in school, and you have no healthcare that it was simply that we needed to provide tax relief for the common man, like Ballmer and Gates.
The easiest way to do this is to run a website on your how server. Slap on SSL and you're pretty much good to go. I have:
Centralized Webmail
Centralized Calendaring that I can share with my wife and theater company
Steaming Music that is granted by music profile, so I only share my music with people whom I would normally loan CDs to.
Centralized bookmarks with a convienant javascript link in my toolbar to add sites at home and at work.
The question is why did I have to develop this myself. I think this is the future. Why not take the idea of one of those router/webserver/firewalls a step further and make an all in one information box. You plug it into the network. You patch it. Why doesn't this exist?
Wow. I love fatalists like you. So you only buy books that you will sell the minute you finish reading them? There are only a small fraction of people who routinely sell their used books. Most of us have these things called "bookselves" upon which we store the books we have purchased. Be they purchased new or used. Let's be honest the problem with the publishing industry is that they try to make too much profit off of new books. Who has the money to routinely buy $30 new books? If they really wanted to compete with used book sales they would try to sell more copies of paperbacks at competitive prices ($5). When you say "destroy the publishing industry" you're really saying destroy their 99% profit margins.
These bastards have got to stop trying to compete. Time Warner/AOL is the one true data monopoly and any attempts to change that should be squashed. Unfair advantage...
which doesn't necessarily mean the encryption is flawed. One of the caveats to encryption is that there is always the chance that you'll get lucky and hit the key on the first try(or within our lifetime).
Sounds like the problem is not the ADA but your companies hiring and recruitment practices. Laws can't compensate for the cyclic nature of poor HR hiring poor employees.
No you seem to be missing the point. The point of the ADA is to protect those who have say lost the user of their arms and legs from being discriminated against. After all, why would a helpdesk hire someone with no arms and no legs and have to buy special equipment for them, when they could get someone who could pick up a standard handset? The ADA says that if the person can do the work they have to accomidate. So it's not really an issue of being marked as disabled so I can go home and eat bon-bons, it's being marked as disabled so that bozos like you won't tell me I'm unhirable because you don't feel like getting off your lazy ass and accomidating.
Yeah, you're completely correct. By the same token, when you get disabled in a car accident you won't be disabled because you should have known that there were significant risks to getting into an accident.
with any computer. The computer science "gurus" are basically just programmers with some basic troubleshooting or sysadmin skills. If you were truly being taught computer science then it wouldn't matter if you were handed vi, Microsoft Word, or Wordstar, you'd still be able to program. It wouldn't matter if you were on unix, windows, or a mac, you'd still be able to program. You might have to do some research first, but you'd probably know how to accumulate the information you needed.
Let's be honest most CS classes are akin to a wood working vocational class. They teach "real world" skills at the expense of things like "planning", "how to fix mistakes", and "what to do when it doesn't work the way you think it should."
I shouldn't have to give you a basic computer class so that you can find the spot in your code where I've noticed your mistake.
I'm done ranting.
The really big problem with your rating system is that you don't want the mass public rating sites. It's sort of like the concept of majority rules in a democracy. Majority often rules, but there has to be some sort of protection for the miniority or it becomes a totalitarian state.
What would happen to the ACLU? Would people be able to ignore their personal politics? What about the NRA? I believe it's a violent orginization that supports criminals. Do I ratchet up their violence rating? Pretty soon we would be left with only yahoo and msn as accessible sites...
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If Apple controls the distribution of music then who does the RIAA represent? Apple becomes the music publisher. As Apple is not a member of the RIAA obviously this would be a problem. They want DRM management with fragmentation between services and without the inclusion of indy music. This creates "competition" and lets the Music Publishers pretend they still have a purpose.
Oh my gosh. I can't believe anyone is ever talking about someone with an opposing view to me. Obviously the fact there are people with opposing views makes me an oppressed minority. Woe is me. Obviously we Republicans just can't win. We've got the house, the senate, the judicary and the presidency and people still talk about Al Gore. How can they be so narcissistic to not focus on our narcissism? This country was founded to talk about Christian Evangelical Protestant Repulican's dammit! And that liberal media keeps giving press to liberals, any damn time those damn fool liberals do anything of note!
Obviously you've never had an internet connection provided by a for-profit company. Time Warner is much like calling the government. They don't care, they know they're the only choice you have. I think after a month or two of no service you might get a refund. Maybe. If you complain enough. I fail to see how a governmental non-profit could do worse. Perhaps just as bad...
Why would he care? He believes shipping jobs overseas is good for the economy.
You're using the Rush Limbaugh tactic of taking a word and attempting to remove it's meaning because not only do you not like what it connotes but also you don't like what it denotes. You will find similiar problems in the abortion debate. There are many people classified as pro-life who believe in the death penalty, as are there many people who are pro-choice who would never have an abortion nor advocate anyone else do so. But that doesn't mean because it's a complex issue that I can change what the word abortion means.
From the definition of environmentalism you would be an advocate of stopping pollution or the destruction of the natural environment. If you are not an "environmentalist" then you do not advocate these beliefs. That's how the word works. And frankly using simple logic it does mean:
a) you have no opinion on environmental topics
b) you prefer not to espose or act upon your environmental views
c) you advocate the destruction and/or pollution of our natural environment
Beautiful circular logic. It's like the old, do yo hate women? No, I hate femi-nazis, I like women debate. Rush Limbaugh is a beautiful thing. His mastery of using logic to trick people out of having conversations is amazing. After all, how could I argue with your post? Am I going to say I'm an environmental, not an environmentalist... what does that mean? And why does every Limbaugh inspired argument revolve around political actors who have had no real influence in the recent news. I tell you that Mondale...
Just keep on shifting the taxes from the rich and their H2s and Excursions onto the poor with their 7 year old Geo Metros. We could actually believe this if the fleet fuel efficency was actually subtantially increasing for automobile manufacturers, but it's not. This is yet another ploy to make the poor pay to keep the rich living in style. See also Social Security Reform, Tort Reform, Toll Roads, and Bush's Tax Reform plans.
I thought everyone did. If they're giving away free upgrades you almost always get memory upgrades from the Small Business unit while you get some sort of cheezwhiz music ripping software free from the Home division. Plus the prices are usually cheaper. I doubled my memory and saved $200 by buying from the Small Business division. That's hardly a waste of time.
How do you get funding for man-made climate change from a congress that doesn't believe in man-made climate change?
Is that most people thing about this in terms of the planet vs. man, and that because of our intelligence we can probably come up with something to fix the problem. But the planet doesn't care about us. The planet will keep functioning without us. The question you should be asking is, "How much am I willing to give on the off chance that the environmentalists are right, and that my children will never see sunlight without breaking out into huge radiation burns."
The question is not will we survive (for I have a lot of faith in mankind's ingenuity), but rather will we want to?
Yeah, this was the part of the story I didn't get at all. Most financial aid is need based, and that which is race based is the free market at work. The reason why there is money for races other than white, and for children of freemasons, and bosnian refugees is that someone in the free market has achieved success and decided that they want to encourage these people to go to college. The reason there's no financial aid for white kids who want to study computer science is that no one's created the scholarships or grants. That's the free market's fault. People like Bill Gates apparently don't see any value to setting up foundations to encourage white kids to study computer science. You want the money to be there you should start a campaign to get some of the well heeled slashdot readers to set up foundations.
I really think that getting rid of skin-color bias is a great goal. But caucasian is not really a specific cultural group, so that point is simply ridiculous. If the did Russian folkdancing then perhaps it was legitimate, otherwise no.
I was in German Club in high school. No one questions that as being racist. I performed in German Folkdancing competatively, and that was not considered racist. I know the same thing was true for students at my school studying French. So the problem is not that you cannot have a club to celebrate some of the great cultural legacies of white people. The problem is that you cannot have a club to celebrate the fact that you are white people.
If you really believe this statement:
then I hope you will consider getting a minimum wage job, and turn down any promotions. Then you will be sure that you are not getting preferential treatment because of your race. Until then you're only whining that other people are getting preferential treatment, with blinders to your own treatment. My guess is that if you're living in the bay area, you probably make quite a bit more money than the average American and that you may have in fact profited from racial bias at some point in your past. When you get on the subway does everyone in the car look at you suspiciously?
The thing that worries me the most is that we all are racist. Every last one of us. There are too many people who feel a twinge of racism, and rather than realize that it is racist and try to rework their brain to stop thinking that way, embrace it as perhaps some hidden truth. This is all simply a slippery sloap. There is always going to be racial bias. The ultimate truths is that the reason why Universities have racial quotas is that they need some sort of indicator that they're not going to end up with an entire university made up of the readerbase of slashdot (which I'm guessing is an almost ridiculously homogenouse population). Ultimately that sort of campus would be great for learning something like math. Which would be fine if the only point of an institution was to teach factoids, but ultimately the goal is to teach people to think in new ways. And so we'd end up with lots of people who'd memorized lots of math facts, but no one who was coming up with new advancements in the field. Part of ensuring that there is new knowledge being created requires getting people with different cultural backgrounds to interact with each other. That's why universities have foreign students, and why they have racial quotas. If you can come up with a better way to get a mixture of people from diverse backgrounds, I'm sure that the president of every major university in this country will have a meeting with you. But make no mistake, if you are white and truly think that you have not benefited from your race on a level equal to, or better than African-American students, you are most certainly wrong.
My favorite line here is:
Either this is a neo-nazi push for establishment of the Catholic church as the national religion or a call for genocide.
I'm always stunned by people who can write a laundry list of conclusions, without once asking themselves why things are that way. Dude, enjoy your life. Some people don't have the opportunity to eat or get healthcare for cancer. You on the other hand can't form an all white club with public-monies. It looks like we've all been dealt a very difficult hand...
that this is caused by President Bush's tax cut for the common man on Dividend Taxes? You think this would have happened without that gift from the President? This has nothing to do with stock price, it has to do with tax rate. It is now cheapest for Bill Gates (and let's not forget all the other Microsoft Billionaires) to receive their pay in dividends. So remember when your kids no longer have band practice in school, and you have no healthcare that it was simply that we needed to provide tax relief for the common man, like Ballmer and Gates.
The easiest way to do this is to run a website on your how server. Slap on SSL and you're pretty much good to go. I have:
Centralized Webmail
Centralized Calendaring that I can share with my wife and theater company
Steaming Music that is granted by music profile, so I only share my music with people whom I would normally loan CDs to.
Centralized bookmarks with a convienant javascript link in my toolbar to add sites at home and at work.
The question is why did I have to develop this myself. I think this is the future. Why not take the idea of one of those router/webserver/firewalls a step further and make an all in one information box. You plug it into the network. You patch it. Why doesn't this exist?
Yup, Columbine and September 11th pretty much did that. Too much fear of school hijackings and slaughter via compass.
Wow. I love fatalists like you. So you only buy books that you will sell the minute you finish reading them? There are only a small fraction of people who routinely sell their used books. Most of us have these things called "bookselves" upon which we store the books we have purchased. Be they purchased new or used. Let's be honest the problem with the publishing industry is that they try to make too much profit off of new books. Who has the money to routinely buy $30 new books? If they really wanted to compete with used book sales they would try to sell more copies of paperbacks at competitive prices ($5). When you say "destroy the publishing industry" you're really saying destroy their 99% profit margins.
These bastards have got to stop trying to compete. Time Warner/AOL is the one true data monopoly and any attempts to change that should be squashed. Unfair advantage...
which doesn't necessarily mean the encryption is flawed. One of the caveats to encryption is that there is always the chance that you'll get lucky and hit the key on the first try(or within our lifetime).
Do they teach this response when pursuing a Computer Science degree? "Obivously you can't do it, because I can't think of how to do it." Sheesh.
Sounds like the problem is not the ADA but your companies hiring and recruitment practices. Laws can't compensate for the cyclic nature of poor HR hiring poor employees.
No you seem to be missing the point. The point of the ADA is to protect those who have say lost the user of their arms and legs from being discriminated against. After all, why would a helpdesk hire someone with no arms and no legs and have to buy special equipment for them, when they could get someone who could pick up a standard handset? The ADA says that if the person can do the work they have to accomidate. So it's not really an issue of being marked as disabled so I can go home and eat bon-bons, it's being marked as disabled so that bozos like you won't tell me I'm unhirable because you don't feel like getting off your lazy ass and accomidating.
Yeah, you're completely correct. By the same token, when you get disabled in a car accident you won't be disabled because you should have known that there were significant risks to getting into an accident.
with any computer. The computer science "gurus" are basically just programmers with some basic troubleshooting or sysadmin skills. If you were truly being taught computer science then it wouldn't matter if you were handed vi, Microsoft Word, or Wordstar, you'd still be able to program. It wouldn't matter if you were on unix, windows, or a mac, you'd still be able to program. You might have to do some research first, but you'd probably know how to accumulate the information you needed.
Let's be honest most CS classes are akin to a wood working vocational class. They teach "real world" skills at the expense of things like "planning", "how to fix mistakes", and "what to do when it doesn't work the way you think it should."
I shouldn't have to give you a basic computer class so that you can find the spot in your code where I've noticed your mistake.
I'm done ranting.
The really big problem with your rating system is that you don't want the mass public rating sites. It's sort of like the concept of majority rules in a democracy. Majority often rules, but there has to be some sort of protection for the miniority or it becomes a totalitarian state.
What would happen to the ACLU? Would people be able to ignore their personal politics? What about the NRA? I believe it's a violent orginization that supports criminals. Do I ratchet up their violence rating? Pretty soon we would be left with only yahoo and msn as accessible sites...