Yep I just wish the citizens of foreign nations would understand that. Short of a revolt democratic change is slow and uneventful.
And I fear because of our sheer geographic size and population disbursement (in that groups who share the same ideas/ideals are geographically disconnected) we would really never get a good hold on a proper revolt.
I'm not sure what people you mean? Do the majority of voters band together to contribute money to campaigns?
No the majority uses (or fails to use) his/her vote. Don't you think the vote should constitute that? Why should the people have to explicitly pay to elect officials? Shouldn't that be part of how a democratic entity uses its funds?
The ones contributing money (at least the large bulk of it) are rich individuals or corporations which is why we see such large disparities between what people want and what corporations want.
Sometimes I wonder for how horrible it was how true Mutant Chronicles corporate states will become.
We can't elect anyone who is competent until we somehow fix the lobby-centric corporate buyout principal the political environment is built on here.
People (like Obama) seem competent to voters and then turn around and act just like (or worse than) the previous administration due to their corporate entrenchment.
Well I mean the USA was mostly debtors fleeing the UK whereas AUS was mostly prisoners. Not saying one is better than the other but;)
I did notice quite a bit of open racial hostility towards the Aborigines and East Asians (at least from the people I was around which were white UK transplants), which like most of what I saw in Australia was stuck in the 1980s.
Next time I'm hoping to see more than the air terminal in NZ. They def. have the best airlines I've ever flown on, Air New Zealand was a very impressive service.
I stayed in Australia for a summer with some World of Warcraft friends. Wouldn't ever live there: weather is great and it's a beautiful place (Sydney/Manly/Hornsby), but their telecom/internet infrastructure and draconian censorship laws wouldn't make me ever move there.
Granted that's not NZ, but I'd wager they're somewhat similar from what you said.
I'm still a bit hesitant about South America (for living). I think I'm still set on Germany...I can drink openly outdoors and be real close to just about every type of cute European guy and then legally have a same-sex partnership.
It's crazy how progressive a post-nazi country can be!
I agree that simply labeling items that way shouldn't frivolously increase price of those items (but products already label themselves as such and I don't see any crazed pricing that I purchase), however, the fact that people would react to a label with their purchasing power says something powerful in itself.
Carriers ( e.g. http://www.nakedjuice.com/ ) already print this on their label. It's hardly imaginable people go through so much effort as to type a few words on their product label.
Can't I just stick to buying local produce from my farmers market without having to wonder if good ol' Farmer Joe is using GM seeds?
I should have a choice to purchase non-GM produce at a price just as people should have the choice to purchase GM produce for another (perhaps the same) price.
I'd rather they dissolve altogether. Have you tried developing for BB OS (native or web)?
The only people in America that have a BB are 45+ execs at large corporations too slow to catch up with change. And if they're not their friends wonder why they're friends with them.
Except that Gilberto Sanchez wasn't selling anything.
Not sure how anyone can claim the copy uploaded was "'identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from' the genuine trademark.' Even the braindead Wolverine could see that via his horrid car simile.
So the OP is still correct in pointing out the disconnect.
Not sure where the tautology of the first sentence was supposed to go...I simply pointed out that when your field is filled with theories and does not contain any laws (which allow you to make verifiable claims) then your field is not a science.
It's a pseudoscience.
Similar to a pseudo-question, which is a question without an answer or for which any answer serves (e.g. "Where are your thoughts?" Descartes
It looks like a question because it's imperative in form, but it is not a proper question. Just like psychology looks like a science in form, but is not.
Questions have verifiable answers, just like sciences have verifiable postulates (laws).
Your "fact" is utterly incorrect. Psychology isn't a science like math, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science are sciences.
A science has laws with verifiable, reproducible outcomes that can be proven (psychology has theories of behavior, not laws). Look at Jung vs. Freud for a great example of why there are no laws of psychology, neither of them is wrong but neither of them is right doesn't make a science.
Descartes used research and studied according to a scientific method to prove there was such a thing as a "mind", that didn't make him correct or the "science" of the mind an actual science.
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Rights like technology change over time. These aren't the 10 commandments written in stone anymore.
Looks like an article just trying to pose debate for his opinions of what he agrees should be a human right and shouldn't be.
And really comparing the right to having a horse to having the right to access of information? Please.
This: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2605666&cid=38599136
Like I said the vote should constitute our endorsement not our (ever failing) dollar.
Yep I just wish the citizens of foreign nations would understand that. Short of a revolt democratic change is slow and uneventful.
And I fear because of our sheer geographic size and population disbursement (in that groups who share the same ideas/ideals are geographically disconnected) we would really never get a good hold on a proper revolt.
I'm not sure what people you mean? Do the majority of voters band together to contribute money to campaigns?
No the majority uses (or fails to use) his/her vote. Don't you think the vote should constitute that? Why should the people have to explicitly pay to elect officials? Shouldn't that be part of how a democratic entity uses its funds?
The ones contributing money (at least the large bulk of it) are rich individuals or corporations which is why we see such large disparities between what people want and what corporations want.
Sometimes I wonder for how horrible it was how true Mutant Chronicles corporate states will become.
You need to catch up on Holmes on Homes so you can see why those 6 week houses take 25 years to pay off.
We can't elect anyone who is competent until we somehow fix the lobby-centric corporate buyout principal the political environment is built on here.
People (like Obama) seem competent to voters and then turn around and act just like (or worse than) the previous administration due to their corporate entrenchment.
Didn't Obama already mandate that all government agencies must digitize their records and develop plans within 4 months? http://www.simplysecurity.com/2011/12/28/obama-administration-pushes-for-digital-records-management-overhaul/
Well I mean the USA was mostly debtors fleeing the UK whereas AUS was mostly prisoners. Not saying one is better than the other but ;)
I did notice quite a bit of open racial hostility towards the Aborigines and East Asians (at least from the people I was around which were white UK transplants), which like most of what I saw in Australia was stuck in the 1980s.
Next time I'm hoping to see more than the air terminal in NZ. They def. have the best airlines I've ever flown on, Air New Zealand was a very impressive service.
I stayed in Australia for a summer with some World of Warcraft friends. Wouldn't ever live there: weather is great and it's a beautiful place (Sydney/Manly/Hornsby), but their telecom/internet infrastructure and draconian censorship laws wouldn't make me ever move there.
Granted that's not NZ, but I'd wager they're somewhat similar from what you said.
I'm still a bit hesitant about South America (for living). I think I'm still set on Germany...I can drink openly outdoors and be real close to just about every type of cute European guy and then legally have a same-sex partnership.
It's crazy how progressive a post-nazi country can be!
Nice to see a positive South American headline.
It must be nice having a small(er) country where you can pass progressive pro-consumer legislation.
I agree that simply labeling items that way shouldn't frivolously increase price of those items (but products already label themselves as such and I don't see any crazed pricing that I purchase), however, the fact that people would react to a label with their purchasing power says something powerful in itself.
Carriers ( e.g. http://www.nakedjuice.com/ ) already print this on their label. It's hardly imaginable people go through so much effort as to type a few words on their product label.
Stop the hysteria!
Can't I just stick to buying local produce from my farmers market without having to wonder if good ol' Farmer Joe is using GM seeds?
I should have a choice to purchase non-GM produce at a price just as people should have the choice to purchase GM produce for another (perhaps the same) price.
I'd rather they dissolve altogether. Have you tried developing for BB OS (native or web)?
The only people in America that have a BB are 45+ execs at large corporations too slow to catch up with change. And if they're not their friends wonder why they're friends with them.
Except that Gilberto Sanchez wasn't selling anything.
Not sure how anyone can claim the copy uploaded was "'identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from' the genuine trademark.' Even the braindead Wolverine could see that via his horrid car simile.
So the OP is still correct in pointing out the disconnect.
I'm not sure if that's an attempt at a clever trolling or not.
When you kick someone do you blame your foot? And when you tell them it was your foot that kicked them and not you, how do they react?
Use simple examples so you don't confuse yourself and it'll become rather clear how misled you are.
Did your brain write that response for you?
People create cultures not their brains, or their feet for that matter.
Your brain, DNA, genes, etc. allow you to function but they don't do anything.
Your brain didn't write that response (or impact our culture) any more than your genes did.
You (a person) wrote it. Just like we (a people) make a culture; not our brains (or feet).
Shame cultures just end up creating martyrs, they're more focused on making you (feel) guilty.
I don't know what "more scientific" is or means.
Theories are like saying "i believe" whereas a law is saying "i know".
If all you can do in your branch of "science" is believe then you are not a science. It's pretty simple, yet a subtle difference.
I could have a theoretical physics class, but that doesn't make physics not a science. So I'm not seeing how that example works.
And by "imperative" I meant "interrogative".
Not sure where the tautology of the first sentence was supposed to go...I simply pointed out that when your field is filled with theories and does not contain any laws (which allow you to make verifiable claims) then your field is not a science.
It's a pseudoscience.
Similar to a pseudo-question, which is a question without an answer or for which any answer serves (e.g. "Where are your thoughts?" Descartes
It looks like a question because it's imperative in form, but it is not a proper question. Just like psychology looks like a science in form, but is not.
Questions have verifiable answers, just like sciences have verifiable postulates (laws).
Your "fact" is utterly incorrect. Psychology isn't a science like math, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science are sciences.
A science has laws with verifiable, reproducible outcomes that can be proven (psychology has theories of behavior, not laws). Look at Jung vs. Freud for a great example of why there are no laws of psychology, neither of them is wrong but neither of them is right doesn't make a science.
Descartes used research and studied according to a scientific method to prove there was such a thing as a "mind", that didn't make him correct or the "science" of the mind an actual science.
Psychology isn't a science. It's a pseudoscience.
You're right no one will make a TV like that, which is why I filed it under the "to be fixed"; or did you miss the question in the thread?
(That also means all TVs btw)
Not sure if you're a bad troll or just an idiot. Or maybe both.
I think you may be misunderstanding the issue.
I own several TVs with USB ports on them, they do not play/recognize video formats (such as AVI files); that needs to be fixed.
And no I shouldn't have to have a separate piece of hardware in order to do that.