Content that was once relegated to the fringe, beneath the threshold of commercial viability, is now increasingly able to find a market in distributed audiences, marking a shift towards the previously-neglected Long Tail of the demand curve.
Unless you are the part of the fringe that wants the original unedited Star Wars trilogy released on DVD. In which case you are SOL.
A person who is adept in three areas, as in She's a triple threat on the editorial staffshe can edit, write, and design pages. This term comes from football, where it signifies a player who is good at running, passing, and kicking.
Your Rights Online: Is IP Property? Posted by michael on 11:10 09 September 2004 from the bundle-of-sticks dept.
Lemley's distinction also points to the unusual fact that in IP, traditional liberals are often calling for less and less government, while conservatives demand regulation in order to protect their exclusive right to use their intellectual creations ---------- Did Michael just call conservatives faggots?!?
faggot n. Offensive Slang
1. Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.
fagot also faggot n.
1. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together.
2. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.
Mozilla, Opera and Firefox... seem to load web pages quicker than IE. I can either get to the web quickly with IE, or wait a while with firefox for a minute page load time diffrence.
Pages load faster in M/O/Ff, but they're a minute slower in M/O/Ff? I think what you're getting at is this...
I believe he meant minute[minoot](as in small amout of time). Not minute(as in 60 seconds).
Mozilla, Opera and Firefox... seem to load web pages quicker than IE. I can either get to the web quickly with IE, or wait a while with firefox for a tiny page load time diffrence.
Good news though, is that the current source of Q3F has been given to the ETF team (Enemy Team Fortress) : A free mod, for the (free) game Enemy Territory.
Good to know! I will be stopping by often to check on the progress. Can't wait to get hooked on some TF crack again.
spammy MachSE seems to be the most played map:( Uggghhh MachSpamEdition. Maybe if I stop by you will have one more guy that doesn't want to play it.:)
btw, what's been your nick in Q3F ? Hop around on Railbait for some good ol' reliving the old times;)
It was Jaguar of course;) You might have seen me playing at the same time as my buddy Guardian. We even had a tag for awhile [PD], and I tried out the clan scene joining neg6 [-6]. I did spend a fair amount of time on Railbait. Further back in the beta days I would spend all of my time on Snoot's server. It had mirror damage turned on, and that would really cut down on the spam. I spent most of my time as an Engy, but I still managed to master the fine points of the other classes. I enjoyed joining the losing team and filling a gap in what they needed to see if I could turn things around.
I do recognize your nick though, and not just from seinfeld:) I haven't loaded up gamespy in forever. The last time I checked RB was about the only servers left, and they were empty most of the time:( I didn't even download the last update. What is a good time to catch people playing? Or should I just check out #q3fpickup? I checked out the Q3F main forum, and it was empty. Kinda makes me sad. Makes me wish for a D3F.:)
I would also like to add that my local cable company (Insight) is now offering many options simalar to DirecTivo. They are using a Magnavox unit with only one tuner, but the unit handles HDTV, and records Dolby Digital 5.1, and has an optical digital output.
If they would just stick another tuner in the box it would be everything DirecTivo is, but also have the advantage of On Demand content. Plus all of the HD channels including local are provided so you don't need an antenna.
Very cool, too bad I am moving in a few weeks:(
Re:Gamers, criminals, and subversives.
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I love to be able to play against my console-loving nephews with a mouse-keyboard setup. Maybe I'd finally stop giving them the boundless amusement of slapping around Uncle Jim!
No thanks. I would rather keep the console and PC platform seperate when it comes to online play. I pay for Xbox Live for three reasons. 1) It is extremely hard to cheat using the Xbox + Xbox Live system. 2) High speed connections are required (read: No shooting at a 56K players lagging all over the place) 3) Level playing field (everybody plays with the same graphic settings / options. HDTV being the exception)
If gaming networks mixed PC players with console players I would cancel Xbox Live because I can get the same service for free elsewhere. I'm pretty sure the majority of subscribers feel that way too. Don't get me wrong. I don't think Live is "better" than plain internet multiplayer. I still play that way too. I just enjoy the clean sandbox benefits that Live brings to the table.
I did it because I was short on cash and Dance Dance Revolution wasn't available for any other platform.
Good news! DDR is available for Xbox now, and you can also play against/with other people on Xbox Live as well as download new songs via Xbox Live for the game.
The future wife and I stumbled across DDR at Best Buy, and decided we are going to pick it up with a dance pad for an easy/fun way to work out at home.
Gamers get games that can play against each other on either platform with the joint networking code.
No thanks. I would rather keep the Xbox and PC platform seperate when it comes to online play. I pay for Xbox Live for three reasons. 1) It is extremely hard to cheat using the Xbox + Xbox Live system. 2) High speed connections are required (read: No shooting at a 56K players lagging all over the place) 3) Level playing field (everybody plays with the same graphic settings / options. HDTV being the exception)
If Microsoft mixed PC players with Xbox players I would cancel Xbox Live because I can get the same service for free elsewhere. I'm pretty sure the majority of Xbox Live subscribers feel that way too. Don't get me wrong. I don't think Live is "better" than plain internet multiplayer. I still play that way too. I just enjoy the clean sandbox benefits that Live brings to the table.
With EDS doing it all, (some) local economies around these bases have been tanking.
I wouldn't say that is entirely true. I was in a company that folded, and after 5 months of looking for a job I was almost out of unemployment funds. I walked into a local employment office on a Friday, and the following Monday they had me at the local naval base (Crane NSWC) working on the NMCI project. Sure, I was doing grunt work building images on Dell pc's and laptops before they went out to the users, but it was decent pay. I was able to work at the job for a few months until I found a better job. The NMCI project added jobs to the local economy, and saved my Christmas too!;)
Founded by Bill Gates in 1989, Corbis is headquartered in Seattle, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, Dusseldorf, Vienna, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Tokyo.
Just throwing out that tidbit of info for the tin foil hat crowd.;)
Re:Even the mirror is Slashdotted.
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Hi Jay, there are plenty of conservatives on slashdot. I do tend to think we are outnumbered a bit though. I try to keep track of the ones I meet by adding them to my friends list. I just added you. If you want to check out my friend list you will probably find quite a few.
Thanks for the history lesson. This is relevent how? It seemed to me that the poster was under the impression that this was in the original constitution, and had always been that way. Sorry for trying to be helpful.
Amendments can be repealed but that is not something CONGRESS can do. That is the entire reason for this discussion.
Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides two ways to propose amendments to the document and two ways to ratify them. Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress, by two-thirds votes of the House and the Senate (of those present and voting, provided a quorum is present), or by a convention called by Congress in response to applications from the legislatures of two-thirds (34) or more of the states. Amendments must be ratified by three-quarters (38) or more of the states. The Congress can choose to refer proposed amendments either to state legislatures, or to special conventions called in the states to consider ratification. Only the 21st Amendment (repeal of Prohibition) has been ratified by conventions held in the states. Source: http://www.house.gov/judiciary/97-922.pdf
Congress proposes the amendment. States ratify. Obviously Congress cannot both propose and ratify the amendment, but the statement "Amendments can be repealed but that is not something CONGRESS can do" is not true. Without Congress an amendment can never be passed or repealed by passing a new amendment.
Yes, the constituion can be changed, and those changes (ammendments) become part of the constitution, however, Congress can't change the constitution (included ammendments) by itself, which is what the OP claimed. Also, article 18? wtf - read it.
The OP claimed "Congress cannot change the constitution." I informed him it can be, and has been changed. I never said Congress could change it alone.
Here is article 18 and 21.
Article [XVIII]. Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section. 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Proposal and Ratification
The eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Sixty-fifth Congress, on the 18th of December, 1917, and was declared, in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated the 29th of January, 1919, to have been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. The dates of ratification were: Mississippi, January 8, 1918; Virginia, January 11, 1918; Kentucky, January 14, 1918; North Dakota, January 25, 1918; South Carolina, January 29, 1918; Maryland, February 13, 1918; Montana, February 19, 1918; Texas, March 4, 1918; Delaware, March 18, 1918; South Dakota, March 20, 1918; Massachusetts, April 2, 1918; Arizona, May 24, 1918; Georgia, June 26, 1918; Louisiana, August 3, 1918; Florida, December 3, 1918; Michigan, January 2, 1919; Ohio, January 7, 1919; Oklahoma, January 7, 1919; Idaho, January 8, 1919; Maine, January 8, 1919; West Virginia, January 9, 1919; California, January 13, 1919; Tennessee, January 13, 1919; Washington, January 13, 1919; Arkansas, January 14, 1919; Kansas, January 14, 1919; Alabama, January 15, 1919; Colorado, January 15, 1919; Iowa, January 15, 1919; New Hampshire, January 15, 1919; Oregon, January 15, 1919; Nebraska, January 16, 1919; North Carolina, January 16, 1919; Utah, January 16, 1919; Missouri, January 16, 1919; Wyoming, January 16, 1919.
Ratification was completed on January 16, 1919. See Dillon v. Gloss, 256 U.S. 368, 376 (1921).
Article [XXI.] Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Proposal and Ratification
The twenty-first amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the several states by the Seventy-Second Congress, on the 20th day of February, 1933, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated on the 5th day of December, 1933, to have been ratified by 36 of the 48 States. The dates of ratification were: Michigan, April 10, 1933; Wisconsin, April 25, 1933; Rhode Island, May 8, 1933; Wyoming, May 25, 1933; New Jersey, June 1, 1933; Delaware, June 24, 1933; Indiana, June 26, 1933; Massachusetts, June 26, 1933; New York, June 27, 1933; Illinois, July 10, 1933; Iowa, July
I wouldn't be surprised if Bush gets Congress to repeal the limit on Presidents serving more than two terms. Bush seems determined to become King of America. They can't. Congress cannot change the constitution. Read it.
It was never in the constitution to begin with. It was a precedent set by George Washington. In 1951 the 22nd amendment was ratified setting a two term limit.
Also, Article 21 repeals article 18(prohibition) so obviously the constitution can be changed.
When I want to find out the day and date, or check a date a few months ahead, I'm used to clicking on my little KDE clock and having a calendar pop up for me. I can't seem to do this in Windows, even though I've tried. Again, this may be a feature only super-geeks can can use in Windows that is hidden from us ordinary desktop people.
I know this is amazingly difficult to do, but if you move your mouse over the clock and don't move it for a second. Kazaam! The month and date pop-up. Amazing! It know it sounds difficult to master, but with enough practice it should become much easir for you. Also, I don't know if you have heard of this new-fangled thing called double-clicking, but if you click twice on the clock a calender pops up with a whole bunch of other neato options. Once again, with enough practice you too can master the art of double-clicking!
For those of you who didn't read the review I found this portion to be very interesting. Is this a product review or an opinion piece???
It is fair use to record a show off of television for later viewing; it doesn't matter if you use a VCR or a digital video recorder. It is fair use to lend that tape or file to your friend next door so they can watch it. Is it fair use to trade with 4 million "friends" simultaneously on the Internet? In Canada it is, but the US is another story. That's what the RIAA is suing individual music file traders over (the MPAA -- the RIAA's motion picture lobby equivalent -- is waiting before taking the same route, they too might consider the same tactics against file trading.)
Since the Archos allows users to make good quality recordings of TV programs and DVDs, you will start to see more such programming reach the Net as the mediabox niche grows. The Archos player records via analog methods (a cable to a DVD or VCR), so it is unaffected by any Digital Rights management protections added to DVDs. If you can view it on your television, the Archos can record it. This doesn't make the media companies happy.
In our opinion, file trading is not the threat the entertainment conglomerates make it out to be. Yes music sales are down and that allows the record companies to blame it all on file trading, but DVD sales are up. Way up. Every major movie release has made it on the Net, usually well before the DVD comes out. Did DVD sales go down? No. Did they stay the same? No. Did they go up? Yes, by 61 percent.
But our protests and logic mean little if Disney takes you to court. You lose the moment you have to shell out for that first session with the lawyer, so our advice is to be cautious with the files you create and remember, Micky Mouse is not a nice guy in real life.
As many/.'ers know, in 2002 the Library of Congress decided on.07 cents per song (retroactive to '98).
According ot the legal document that was linked to.
In his July 2002 final rule, the Librarian of Congress found, among other things, that the fair market rate for licensing sound recordings was $0.0007 per performance.
The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and others
If you are going to quote something at least quote the whole sentence.
The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and others who are served by shelters and care centers.
Whether you agree with this system or not those eight words make a huge difference.
Slashdot Mirror
Content that was once relegated to the fringe, beneath the threshold of commercial viability, is now increasingly able to find a market in distributed audiences, marking a shift towards the previously-neglected Long Tail of the demand curve.
Unless you are the part of the fringe that wants the original unedited Star Wars trilogy released on DVD. In which case you are SOL.
Should this not read "triple treat"?
triple threat
A person who is adept in three areas, as in She's a triple threat on the editorial staffshe can edit, write, and design pages. This term comes from football, where it signifies a player who is good at running, passing, and kicking.
Your Rights Online: Is IP Property?
Posted by michael on 11:10 09 September 2004
from the bundle-of-sticks dept.
Lemley's distinction also points to the unusual fact that in IP, traditional liberals are often calling for less and less government, while conservatives demand regulation in order to protect their exclusive right to use their intellectual creations
----------
Did Michael just call conservatives faggots?!?
faggot
n. Offensive Slang
1. Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.
fagot also faggot
n.
1. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together.
2. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.
I'm not entirely sure what you're saying here.
... seem to load web pages quicker than IE.
... seem to load web pages quicker than IE.
Mozilla, Opera and Firefox
I can either get to the web quickly with IE, or wait a while with firefox for a minute page load time diffrence.
Pages load faster in M/O/Ff, but they're a minute slower in M/O/Ff? I think what you're getting at is this...
I believe he meant minute[minoot](as in small amout of time). Not minute(as in 60 seconds).
Mozilla, Opera and Firefox
I can either get to the web quickly with IE, or wait a while with firefox for a tiny page load time diffrence.
Good news though, is that the current source of Q3F has been given to the ETF team (Enemy Team Fortress) : A free mod, for the (free) game Enemy Territory.
:( :)
Good to know! I will be stopping by often to check on the progress. Can't wait to get hooked on some TF crack again.
spammy MachSE seems to be the most played map
Uggghhh MachSpamEdition. Maybe if I stop by you will have one more guy that doesn't want to play it.
btw, what's been your nick in Q3F ? Hop around on Railbait for some good ol' reliving the old times ;)
;) You might have seen me playing at the same time as my buddy Guardian. We even had a tag for awhile [PD], and I tried out the clan scene joining neg6 [-6]. I did spend a fair amount of time on Railbait. Further back in the beta days I would spend all of my time on Snoot's server. It had mirror damage turned on, and that would really cut down on the spam. I spent most of my time as an Engy, but I still managed to master the fine points of the other classes. I enjoyed joining the losing team and filling a gap in what they needed to see if I could turn things around.
:) I haven't loaded up gamespy in forever. The last time I checked RB was about the only servers left, and they were empty most of the time :( I didn't even download the last update. What is a good time to catch people playing? Or should I just check out #q3fpickup? I checked out the Q3F main forum, and it was empty. Kinda makes me sad. Makes me wish for a D3F. :)
It was Jaguar of course
I do recognize your nick though, and not just from seinfeld
For more info on this upcoming studio, check out their site, and give Enemy Territory a try, if you haven't allready. www.splashdamage.com
Don't forget they also created the Q3F (Quake 3 Fortress) mod.
I miss playing that mod.
I would also like to add that my local cable company (Insight) is now offering many options simalar to DirecTivo. They are using a Magnavox unit with only one tuner, but the unit handles HDTV, and records Dolby Digital 5.1, and has an optical digital output.
:(
If they would just stick another tuner in the box it would be everything DirecTivo is, but also have the advantage of On Demand content. Plus all of the HD channels including local are provided so you don't need an antenna.
Very cool, too bad I am moving in a few weeks
Can you say organized crime?
Sure...
organized crime.
Any other questions?
I love to be able to play against my console-loving nephews with a mouse-keyboard setup. Maybe I'd finally stop giving them the boundless amusement of slapping around Uncle Jim!
No thanks. I would rather keep the console and PC platform seperate when it comes to online play. I pay for Xbox Live for three reasons.
1) It is extremely hard to cheat using the Xbox + Xbox Live system.
2) High speed connections are required (read: No shooting at a 56K players lagging all over the place)
3) Level playing field (everybody plays with the same graphic settings / options. HDTV being the exception)
If gaming networks mixed PC players with console players I would cancel Xbox Live because I can get the same service for free elsewhere. I'm pretty sure the majority of subscribers feel that way too.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think Live is "better" than plain internet multiplayer. I still play that way too. I just enjoy the clean sandbox benefits that Live brings to the table.
I did it because I was short on cash and Dance Dance Revolution wasn't available for any other platform.
Good news!
DDR is available for Xbox now, and you can also play against/with other people on Xbox Live as well as download new songs via Xbox Live for the game.
The future wife and I stumbled across DDR at Best Buy, and decided we are going to pick it up with a dance pad for an easy/fun way to work out at home.
Gamers get games that can play against each other on either platform with the joint networking code.
No thanks. I would rather keep the Xbox and PC platform seperate when it comes to online play. I pay for Xbox Live for three reasons.
1) It is extremely hard to cheat using the Xbox + Xbox Live system.
2) High speed connections are required (read: No shooting at a 56K players lagging all over the place)
3) Level playing field (everybody plays with the same graphic settings / options. HDTV being the exception)
If Microsoft mixed PC players with Xbox players I would cancel Xbox Live because I can get the same service for free elsewhere. I'm pretty sure the majority of Xbox Live subscribers feel that way too.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think Live is "better" than plain internet multiplayer. I still play that way too. I just enjoy the clean sandbox benefits that Live brings to the table.
With EDS doing it all, (some) local economies around these bases have been tanking.
;)
I wouldn't say that is entirely true. I was in a company that folded, and after 5 months of looking for a job I was almost out of unemployment funds. I walked into a local employment office on a Friday, and the following Monday they had me at the local naval base (Crane NSWC) working on the NMCI project. Sure, I was doing grunt work building images on Dell pc's and laptops before they went out to the users, but it was decent pay. I was able to work at the job for a few months until I found a better job. The NMCI project added jobs to the local economy, and saved my Christmas too!
Posted by pudge on 13:39 09 March 2004
from the i-smell-a-lawsuit dept.
Shouldn't that be the iSmell-a-lawsuit dept.?
From the overview page at Corbis.
;)
Founded by Bill Gates in 1989, Corbis is headquartered in Seattle, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, Dusseldorf, Vienna, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Tokyo.
Just throwing out that tidbit of info for the tin foil hat crowd.
Hi Jay, there are plenty of conservatives on slashdot. I do tend to think we are outnumbered a bit though. I try to keep track of the ones I meet by adding them to my friends list. I just added you. If you want to check out my friend list you will probably find quite a few.
Thanks for the history lesson. This is relevent how?
It seemed to me that the poster was under the impression that this was in the original constitution, and had always been that way. Sorry for trying to be helpful.
Amendments can be repealed but that is not something CONGRESS can do. That is the entire reason for this discussion.
Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides two ways to propose amendments to
the document and two ways to ratify them. Amendments may be proposed either by the
Congress, by two-thirds votes of the House and the Senate (of those present and voting,
provided a quorum is present), or by a convention called by Congress in response to
applications from the legislatures of two-thirds (34) or more of the states.
Amendments must be ratified by three-quarters (38) or more of the states. The
Congress can choose to refer proposed amendments either to state legislatures, or to
special conventions called in the states to consider ratification. Only the 21st
Amendment (repeal of Prohibition) has been ratified by conventions held in the states.
Source: http://www.house.gov/judiciary/97-922.pdf
Congress proposes the amendment. States ratify. Obviously Congress cannot both propose and ratify the amendment, but the statement "Amendments can be repealed but that is not something CONGRESS can do" is not true. Without Congress an amendment can never be passed or repealed by passing a new amendment.
Yes, the constituion can be changed, and those changes (ammendments) become part of the constitution, however, Congress can't change the constitution (included ammendments) by itself, which is what the OP claimed.
Also, article 18? wtf - read it.
The OP claimed "Congress cannot change the constitution."
I informed him it can be, and has been changed. I never said Congress could change it alone.
Here is article 18 and 21.
Article [XVIII].
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section. 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Proposal and Ratification
The eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Sixty-fifth Congress, on the 18th of December, 1917, and was declared, in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated the 29th of January, 1919, to have been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of the 48 States. The dates of ratification were: Mississippi, January 8, 1918; Virginia, January 11, 1918; Kentucky, January 14, 1918; North Dakota, January 25, 1918; South Carolina, January 29, 1918; Maryland, February 13, 1918; Montana, February 19, 1918; Texas, March 4, 1918; Delaware, March 18, 1918; South Dakota, March 20, 1918; Massachusetts, April 2, 1918; Arizona, May 24, 1918; Georgia, June 26, 1918; Louisiana, August 3, 1918; Florida, December 3, 1918; Michigan, January 2, 1919; Ohio, January 7, 1919; Oklahoma, January 7, 1919; Idaho, January 8, 1919; Maine, January 8, 1919; West Virginia, January 9, 1919; California, January 13, 1919; Tennessee, January 13, 1919; Washington, January 13, 1919; Arkansas, January 14, 1919; Kansas, January 14, 1919; Alabama, January 15, 1919; Colorado, January 15, 1919; Iowa, January 15, 1919; New Hampshire, January 15, 1919; Oregon, January 15, 1919; Nebraska, January 16, 1919; North Carolina, January 16, 1919; Utah, January 16, 1919; Missouri, January 16, 1919; Wyoming, January 16, 1919.
Ratification was completed on January 16, 1919. See Dillon v. Gloss, 256 U.S. 368, 376 (1921).
Article [XXI.]
Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Proposal and Ratification
The twenty-first amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the several states by the Seventy-Second Congress, on the 20th day of February, 1933, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated on the 5th day of December, 1933, to have been ratified by 36 of the 48 States. The dates of ratification were: Michigan, April 10, 1933; Wisconsin, April 25, 1933; Rhode Island, May 8, 1933; Wyoming, May 25, 1933; New Jersey, June 1, 1933; Delaware, June 24, 1933; Indiana, June 26, 1933; Massachusetts, June 26, 1933; New York, June 27, 1933; Illinois, July 10, 1933; Iowa, July
Source: http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html
I wouldn't be surprised if Bush gets Congress to repeal the limit on Presidents serving more than two terms. Bush seems determined to become King of America.
:P
They can't. Congress cannot change the constitution. Read it.
It was never in the constitution to begin with. It was a precedent set by George Washington. In 1951 the 22nd amendment was ratified setting a two term limit.
Also, Article 21 repeals article 18(prohibition) so obviously the constitution can be changed.
Read it.
When I want to find out the day and date, or check a date a few months ahead, I'm used to clicking on my little KDE clock and having a calendar pop up for me. I can't seem to do this in Windows, even though I've tried. Again, this may be a feature only super-geeks can can use in Windows that is hidden from us ordinary desktop people.
I know this is amazingly difficult to do, but if you move your mouse over the clock and don't move it for a second. Kazaam! The month and date pop-up. Amazing! It know it sounds difficult to master, but with enough practice it should become much easir for you. Also, I don't know if you have heard of this new-fangled thing called double-clicking, but if you click twice on the clock a calender pops up with a whole bunch of other neato options. Once again, with enough practice you too can master the art of double-clicking!
For those of you who didn't read the review I found this portion to be very interesting.
Is this a product review or an opinion piece???
It is fair use to record a show off of television for later viewing; it doesn't matter if you use a VCR or a digital video recorder. It is fair use to lend that tape or file to your friend next door so they can watch it. Is it fair use to trade with 4 million "friends" simultaneously on the Internet? In Canada it is, but the US is another story. That's what the RIAA is suing individual music file traders over (the MPAA -- the RIAA's motion picture lobby equivalent -- is waiting before taking the same route, they too might consider the same tactics against file trading.)
Since the Archos allows users to make good quality recordings of TV programs and DVDs, you will start to see more such programming reach the Net as the mediabox niche grows. The Archos player records via analog methods (a cable to a DVD or VCR), so it is unaffected by any Digital Rights management protections added to DVDs. If you can view it on your television, the Archos can record it. This doesn't make the media companies happy.
In our opinion, file trading is not the threat the entertainment conglomerates make it out to be. Yes music sales are down and that allows the record companies to blame it all on file trading, but DVD sales are up. Way up. Every major movie release has made it on the Net, usually well before the DVD comes out. Did DVD sales go down? No. Did they stay the same? No. Did they go up? Yes, by 61 percent.
But our protests and logic mean little if Disney takes you to court. You lose the moment you have to shell out for that first session with the lawyer, so our advice is to be cautious with the files you create and remember, Micky Mouse is not a nice guy in real life.
Ok ok :)
:)
I just read ".07 cents per song" as "seven cents per song" in my head.
At least give me some credit for reading the complaint before I posted
As many /.'ers know, in 2002 the Library of Congress decided on .07 cents per song (retroactive to '98).
.07 or .0007?
According ot the legal document that was linked to.
In his July 2002 final rule, the Librarian of Congress found, among other things, that the fair market rate for licensing sound recordings was $0.0007 per performance.
So is it
They don't have to be exposed to the internet. All it takes is one employee with a laptop that is used at work and at home.
The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and others
If you are going to quote something at least quote the whole sentence.
The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and others who are served by shelters and care centers.
Whether you agree with this system or not those eight words make a huge difference.