Is there anything else that laws are being used to change the very nature of to something antiquated like physical media? The idiotic logic seems to be, "well, we've always had limited analog and physical media before, so we should make digital media suffer the same limitations artificially."
It's like making a food that doesn't go bad naturally rot rapidly so as to sell more. And then claim it is in society's best interest to do so.
This isn't about curing defects, it is about selecting which embryo should be born based on a lack of defects. Our time would be better spent on curing diseases than on manipulating nature and deciding we know best who should be born.
It is a matter of should we let Kurt Kobain be born by chance, or should we select one of his brothers who is in someway superior to him to be born instead?
No, it's quite an intelligent one. There have been plenty of people who have genetic defects who have made significant contributions to humanity. They would have never been born if we screened them for defects before their birth.
Your argument is stupid, because you seem to suggest that by not manipulating nature we're doing something strange and unusual. Nature has done fine on its own for 4 billion years, there's no need to start deciding what people should be born and not born now.
My understanding of this process is that multiple eggs are fertilized and then screened and the best is selected. That means multiple human embryos are being discarded. Those are all unique human beings, you know.
Who are we to say the one discarded wouldn't have been the next Beethoven, and the one kept won't grow up to be a drug dealer? I'd rather see such decisions left to nature and chance.
Why not focus our genetic engineering efforts on something much less controversial and useful to those imperfect humans already born and find a cure for cancer, aids, etc?
The democrats and republicans, as much as this makes them cry out in offense, are 99% the same. Both parties are only interested in maintaining power for their party, and staying in office. Both do what whoever bribes them the most wants them to do. The only variance, is in social issues like abortion, gun control, the enviroment, etc. (And those are most likely just based on groups who support those things bribing one party more than the other)
Yeah, I guess I'm a little pessimistic about either parties' altruisim.
Did they consider that if the economy is in the shitter, and they are releasing shitty albums, that perhaps that could somehow lead to shitty sales of said albums?
Of course I just rushed out for all the Britney Spears and Backstreet Boy albums!
Think of all the famous people who made great contributions to humanity who wouldn't have even been born if we do this nonsense widely in the future!
Maybe the reason that if there is intelligent life out there among the stars that they haven't found us is because they all genetically engineer themselves into extinction? Afterall, we couldn't leave something important like reproduction up to natural selection and chance, could we? But I'm undoubtedly a just troll for not jumping on the latest biotech bandwagon.
I used the Transgaming Wine release from CVS a few months back, and it had WMP6.4 working fine. It could to MP3 Audio, but not video. Though I admittedly didn't have any of the video codecs installed 'cause I'm not that l33t:)
Like a liquid that doesn't conduct electricity, isn't caustic, and isn't extremely sticky when dried? It would seem to me that would make for easier repairs in the future and make for a safer investment in an unproven application of cooling technology.
People expect reliability out of their performance laptops, afterall.
So I guess the conversation about old drivers....
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I had with my mom may come true. It went something like this: Me: Stupid fscking old people can't drive worth a damn! Mom: You'll be old someday too you know. Me: Maybe, but I won't drive like that guy. Mom: You may once you're old! Me: People won't drive themselves anymore when I'm old.
Make a Network card driver for the kernel or improve an existing one. Apparently, if you submit a bad fix it isn't a total loss as that will be a catalyst to lots of people working on it where you screwed up.
...but not in Pennsylvania like it used to be available! I was looking at getting a Laptop and using wireless broadband, and that same week Ricochet went under. Now, they're back but not offerring the service.
I don't see how someone who writes a script that adds a spam victim's name to an email's subject or body is going to be stopped by comparing a checksum.
And seeing as ~90% of the spam I get always has some nonsensical letters on the end of the subject, I can't imagine it doing any good. Slightly different content equals a completely different checksum.
From the Preamble (about the goals) of the treaty:
Desiring to develop and maintain the protection of the rights of performers and producers of phonograms in a manner as effective and uniform as possible...
..and then let's clarify "who's" rights we are protecting in the next section of definitions:
(d) "producer of a phonogram" means the person, or the legal entity, who or which takes the initiative and has the responsibility for the first fixation of the sounds of a performance or other sounds, or the representations of sounds;
So, to convery legalese to english, this is intended to make US copyright law the de facto standard throughout the world to protect the interests of corporations (and other "legal entities").
Whew, I'm glad we aren't protecting persons' rights, I'd have been confused by this sudden 180 in Intellectual Property Law!
Suppose we know very accurately what happened over the last quarter million years. Does anyone else think that the other 15999/16000 of the picture might be important?
Earth has changed a lot in its history, and life is stil here. I'd suggest it isn't naive, so much as stupid to attribute a worldwide change to human activity. Then of course, there is a possibility that on a 4 billion year old planet your "disturbing and destructive trend" is only a part of some bigger natural cycle than the two hundred years people have been looking.
Though this will undoubtedly be modded down for suggesting that perhaps nature itself is heartless and can be enormously destructive.
Wave to some dinosaurs on your way home from work.
Dell has dropped their Itanium workstation line because none are selling. Think PIII+i820+Rambus bad.
It doesn't matter how great your CPU is, or how great it will be in the future if there are no applications for it NOW. Will today's Merced Itanium be great when IA64 gains mainstream acceptance? No, it will be as widely accepted as the 80386 is today.
This is the same as people who ran out for a GeForce 3's Vertex and Pixel Shaders. By the time there are enough cards in people's computers that use them the GF3 will be horribly slow compared to the newer cards with them.
Sure we can, you've never seen the i820 PIII chipset with Rambus? It wasn't as fast a the BX with PC100. The PC800 also cost 4x more.
The P4 is a dog. A P4 platform requires: a more expensive CPU, more expensive RDRAM, and the expensive i850 chipset motherboards. And then, it still isn't much faster in apps where it isn't beat by the Athlon.
But, I would recommend it highly to people who use the Lightwave 3d modeling app, and Windows Media Encoder!
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Is there anything else that laws are being used to change the very nature of to something antiquated like physical media? The idiotic logic seems to be, "well, we've always had limited analog and physical media before, so we should make digital media suffer the same limitations artificially."
It's like making a food that doesn't go bad naturally rot rapidly so as to sell more. And then claim it is in society's best interest to do so.
This isn't about curing defects, it is about selecting which embryo should be born based on a lack of defects. Our time would be better spent on curing diseases than on manipulating nature and deciding we know best who should be born.
It is a matter of should we let Kurt Kobain be born by chance, or should we select one of his brothers who is in someway superior to him to be born instead?
No, it's quite an intelligent one. There have been plenty of people who have genetic defects who have made significant contributions to humanity. They would have never been born if we screened them for defects before their birth.
Your argument is stupid, because you seem to suggest that by not manipulating nature we're doing something strange and unusual. Nature has done fine on its own for 4 billion years, there's no need to start deciding what people should be born and not born now.
My understanding of this process is that multiple eggs are fertilized and then screened and the best is selected. That means multiple human embryos are being discarded. Those are all unique human beings, you know.
Who are we to say the one discarded wouldn't have been the next Beethoven, and the one kept won't grow up to be a drug dealer? I'd rather see such decisions left to nature and chance.
Why not focus our genetic engineering efforts on something much less controversial and useful to those imperfect humans already born and find a cure for cancer, aids, etc?
The democrats and republicans, as much as this makes them cry out in offense, are 99% the same. Both parties are only interested in maintaining power for their party, and staying in office. Both do what whoever bribes them the most wants them to do. The only variance, is in social issues like abortion, gun control, the enviroment, etc. (And those are most likely just based on groups who support those things bribing one party more than the other)
Yeah, I guess I'm a little pessimistic about either parties' altruisim.
Did they consider that if the economy is in the shitter, and they are releasing shitty albums, that perhaps that could somehow lead to shitty sales of said albums?
Of course I just rushed out for all the Britney Spears and Backstreet Boy albums!
Think of all the famous people who made great contributions to humanity who wouldn't have even been born if we do this nonsense widely in the future!
Maybe the reason that if there is intelligent life out there among the stars that they haven't found us is because they all genetically engineer themselves into extinction? Afterall, we couldn't leave something important like reproduction up to natural selection and chance, could we? But I'm undoubtedly a just troll for not jumping on the latest biotech bandwagon.
I used the Transgaming Wine release from CVS a few months back, and it had WMP6.4 working fine. It could to MP3 Audio, but not video. Though I admittedly didn't have any of the video codecs installed 'cause I'm not that l33t :)
Like a liquid that doesn't conduct electricity, isn't caustic, and isn't extremely sticky when dried? It would seem to me that would make for easier repairs in the future and make for a safer investment in an unproven application of cooling technology.
People expect reliability out of their performance laptops, afterall.
I had with my mom may come true. It went something like this:
Me: Stupid fscking old people can't drive worth a damn!
Mom: You'll be old someday too you know.
Me: Maybe, but I won't drive like that guy.
Mom: You may once you're old!
Me: People won't drive themselves anymore when I'm old.
Make a Network card driver for the kernel or improve an existing one. Apparently, if you submit a bad fix it isn't a total loss as that will be a catalyst to lots of people working on it where you screwed up.
I mean no one saw it coming with Senator Hollings of SC's SSSCA Legislation!
that they have better things to do in PA than this nonsense.
...but not in Pennsylvania like it used to be available! I was looking at getting a Laptop and using wireless broadband, and that same week Ricochet went under. Now, they're back but not offerring the service.
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I don't see how someone who writes a script that adds a spam victim's name to an email's subject or body is going to be stopped by comparing a checksum.
And seeing as ~90% of the spam I get always has some nonsensical letters on the end of the subject, I can't imagine it doing any good. Slightly different content equals a completely different checksum.
..and how is this not tracking people everywhere they go?
Am I the only person here who's hands are always cold, (even more so outside during the winter)?
Maybe I should send them an email about it? =)
..and then let's clarify "who's" rights we are protecting in the next section of definitions:
So, to convery legalese to english, this is intended to make US copyright law the de facto standard throughout the world to protect the interests of corporations (and other "legal entities").
Whew, I'm glad we aren't protecting persons' rights, I'd have been confused by this sudden 180 in Intellectual Property Law!
...the UN, and all the good it does for the world!
Mod me down, I don't care. God forbid someone questions the saintly United Nations, the ultimate in global fascism.
Would this mean the motion of the hill moving upwards actually make you keep going downhill?
Anyone else thinking of an embedded Linux system to recognized where a skiier is on the hill and adjust the speed accordingly? =)
Suppose we know very accurately what happened over the last quarter million years. Does anyone else think that the other 15999/16000 of the picture might be important?
Earth has changed a lot in its history, and life is stil here. I'd suggest it isn't naive, so much as stupid to attribute a worldwide change to human activity. Then of course, there is a possibility that on a 4 billion year old planet your "disturbing and destructive trend" is only a part of some bigger natural cycle than the two hundred years people have been looking.
Though this will undoubtedly be modded down for suggesting that perhaps nature itself is heartless and can be enormously destructive.
Wave to some dinosaurs on your way home from work.
Dell has dropped their Itanium workstation line because none are selling. Think PIII+i820+Rambus bad.
It doesn't matter how great your CPU is, or how great it will be in the future if there are no applications for it NOW. Will today's Merced Itanium be great when IA64 gains mainstream acceptance? No, it will be as widely accepted as the 80386 is today.
This is the same as people who ran out for a GeForce 3's Vertex and Pixel Shaders. By the time there are enough cards in people's computers that use them the GF3 will be horribly slow compared to the newer cards with them.
I guess maybe my aluminum foil hat may come in handy?
That the security of your wired LAN depends on all the multihomed PCs attached to the Wireless network not having any remote root type exploits.
Sure we can, you've never seen the i820 PIII chipset with Rambus? It wasn't as fast a the BX with PC100. The PC800 also cost 4x more.
The P4 is a dog. A P4 platform requires: a more expensive CPU, more expensive RDRAM, and the expensive i850 chipset motherboards. And then, it still isn't much faster in apps where it isn't beat by the Athlon.
But, I would recommend it highly to people who use the Lightwave 3d modeling app, and Windows Media Encoder!