My tax dollars are paying to have sites on gay rights and censorship blocked.
Right. Mine too, and I don't support the law. But that doesn't make it unconstitutional. The question was whether this was an inappropriate limit to adults' First Amendment rights, and the court found that it was not. Though I think the law should be repealed (not that this is likely in Red States dominated America), I agree with the majority that it is constitutional.
Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen Breyer, in separate opinions, said the government's interest in protecting young library users from inappropriate material outweighs the burden on library users having to ask staff to disconnect filters.
I'm for civil liberties as much as the next guy, and I agree that filters generally suck, but how hard is it really for an adult to ask another adult to turn off the filters? They are known to block all sorts of legit sites, so it's not as if you're really asking to look at pr0n.
The folks who get screwed here are the teenagers, but unfortunately that seems to be the way of the world these days. But what would youth be without breaking a few laws? If everything were legal, what would be the fun of being underage?
I see now. It still sucks, though, for any real application besides emailing your friends.
If every time you email a colleague for the first time (or for the first time after 30 days or whatever the timeout is) it takes an hour, that makes many, many types of communication impractical.
Example: Someone gives you his business card and wants to hire you. You send him your resume - it takes an hour. He replies with a job description - it takes an hour. By then you can email instantly, but you've both given up in frustration by that point! Fax or ftp would be faster.
Okay, so is this used to isolate bad relays? My impression was that it was used to capture mail sent from non-whitelisted users, which wouldn't work on dialup at all. If it isolates bad relays, that would help, but a lot of spams would get through.
1 hour is the time proposed. Completely unacceptable unless the whitelist works.
Since most personal users are on dialup or dynamic IPs, unless the mail client can upload the whitelist in a trusted fashion (or the MTA remembers what users the client sent messages to!), this won't work.
Do any mail clients include whitelist-collection? Mail.app for OS X does collect all addresses you've sent to, but I've never seen any tool to upload it somewhere.
You didn't fly SWA if you got a first class seat. SWA is all economy class. Perhaps you flew Northwest (now kickin' it old skool by calling themselves NWA)?
In the US, this would be thrown out so fast it would make your head spin. Under the US Constitution, speech cannot be compelled.
A requirement like this would have a huge chilling effect on any individual who owns a domain name ("company") and wants to make an unpopular comment. Said individual would be forced to publish all the replies! You could easily make it unfeasible to say unpopular things with this regulation, if you were a dirigiste Eurocrat aimed at such a thing.
Remember, the victim isn't you, who knows how to operate a blog or a slash site. It's the guy who wants to publish a rant on geocities about his view that Rumsfeld is right and Chirac and Schroder should be impeached by their respective parliaments. Posting all replies by hand is highly impractical - which is the whole point from the Eurocrat's point of view, as it means that such inconvenient views won't be published.
(BTW: I don't support the Bush administration - just using this as an example of unpopular speech in Europe today.)
Kitten:
It's not the liberals who are avoiding cracking down on China. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (my representative) has been a critic of the PRC for years, and opposed normal trade relations (for example). Conservatives in the US tend to be the ones pushing for normalization with that particular regime -- even as they demand that Castro's similarly repressive (but less prosperous) dictatorship be sealed off from the world.
Microsoft has been trying all along to criple it's "client" machines so that they are dependent on Microshaft "server" machines and all dependent on M$. It does not do what I want it to and never will.
Ah. My bad. Thanks for the clarification (and edit).
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Your history is a bit off. Microsoft Office really became the office leader when Windows 95 shipped - this was mainly because WordPerfect (the leading non-MS word processor before then) was very slow to ship a Windows 95 version. Had PerfectOffice for Win 95 come out on August 24 (it's pathetic that I remember that date), it might well have been a different story.
The key is that AOL Time Warner published this otherwise crap article (admittedly from Reuters, but they could ignore it), because they want people to believe it's inevitable. Yet every fake-CD they sell fails in the market. The latter fact is the relevant one.
All gin but Sapphire is vomit. Sapphire is ambrosia. I find that putting ice cubes in the Martini glass a few minutes in advance, then pouring in then out the vermouth, then shaking the gin with ice cubes in a metal shaker is nice.
I add olives, but a twist is acceptable as well. Use fresh (well, fresh from the jar, or fresh from the fresh-olive-bar at frou-frou supermarkets) olives. If the jar's been in the fridge 6 months since your last party, trash it, buy more, it's worth the $3.95.
All this has fuck-all to do with TV in Bhutan, except that if I were in Bhutan watching TV, you would be damn sure I would want a fucking Martini. So I'll kick your ass if you mod me Offtopic.
But it doesn't. Checking today, a business (or first) class ticket costs approx. 8x a coach ticket for the same (transcontinental) trip. Eight coach seats take up a lot more space than two first-class seats.
AA made money on More Room for the first year or so. The thing that changed was that low-fare airlines like JetBlue have been pulling down both the average fare and the last-minute fare. Sadly, more people buy tickets based on that than comfort.
Maybe United has it right - Economy Plus with 5" more room, but only for loyal customers. It's very rare that I won't get a seat with enough space on United, and so I'm more likely to fly them than (say) Northwest, with severely bad room. At least until the health department forces them all to add room, that's what we're stuck with.
If only the 9-11 attackers had paid for decent seats.
Most if not all of the 9-11 hijackers paid cash for first-class seats. They took advantage of the curtains separating the cabins to subdue the first class flight attendants. It's why the curtains are no longer used.
I had hoped it would be American, but their bean-counters seem to have concluded that people only buy based on price and not based on comfort. It's too bad, as I usually fly AA or UA, precisely because I don't like being smashed into a tiny pulp by the guy in front of me (leaning back) and the kid behind me (kicking my seat). At least UA seems to be keeping Economy Plus.
DVT? Just increase the fucking legroom.
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Damn airlines [1] do everything they can to avoid the simple fact that their seats are too small, and too close together. What will it take, a class action lawsuit? Just give passengers enough room (36" pitch is reasonable, not the appalling 30" on some flights) and the whole DVT thing will go away.
[1] Except United in "economy plus" and most American planes, though AA is reducing room again on some flights. Fuckers.
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Right. Mine too, and I don't support the law. But that doesn't make it unconstitutional. The question was whether this was an inappropriate limit to adults' First Amendment rights, and the court found that it was not. Though I think the law should be repealed (not that this is likely in Red States dominated America), I agree with the majority that it is constitutional.
By the CIPA!
I'm for civil liberties as much as the next guy, and I agree that filters generally suck, but how hard is it really for an adult to ask another adult to turn off the filters? They are known to block all sorts of legit sites, so it's not as if you're really asking to look at pr0n.
The folks who get screwed here are the teenagers, but unfortunately that seems to be the way of the world these days. But what would youth be without breaking a few laws? If everything were legal, what would be the fun of being underage?
If every time you email a colleague for the first time (or for the first time after 30 days or whatever the timeout is) it takes an hour, that makes many, many types of communication impractical.
Example: Someone gives you his business card and wants to hire you. You send him your resume - it takes an hour. He replies with a job description - it takes an hour. By then you can email instantly, but you've both given up in frustration by that point! Fax or ftp would be faster.
Okay, so is this used to isolate bad relays? My impression was that it was used to capture mail sent from non-whitelisted users, which wouldn't work on dialup at all. If it isolates bad relays, that would help, but a lot of spams would get through.
Since most personal users are on dialup or dynamic IPs, unless the mail client can upload the whitelist in a trusted fashion (or the MTA remembers what users the client sent messages to!), this won't work.
Do any mail clients include whitelist-collection? Mail.app for OS X does collect all addresses you've sent to, but I've never seen any tool to upload it somewhere.
It worked for fyodor!
You didn't fly SWA if you got a first class seat. SWA is all economy class. Perhaps you flew Northwest (now kickin' it old skool by calling themselves NWA)?
A requirement like this would have a huge chilling effect on any individual who owns a domain name ("company") and wants to make an unpopular comment. Said individual would be forced to publish all the replies! You could easily make it unfeasible to say unpopular things with this regulation, if you were a dirigiste Eurocrat aimed at such a thing.
Remember, the victim isn't you, who knows how to operate a blog or a slash site. It's the guy who wants to publish a rant on geocities about his view that Rumsfeld is right and Chirac and Schroder should be impeached by their respective parliaments. Posting all replies by hand is highly impractical - which is the whole point from the Eurocrat's point of view, as it means that such inconvenient views won't be published.
(BTW: I don't support the Bush administration - just using this as an example of unpopular speech in Europe today.)
Kitten: It's not the liberals who are avoiding cracking down on China. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (my representative) has been a critic of the PRC for years, and opposed normal trade relations (for example). Conservatives in the US tend to be the ones pushing for normalization with that particular regime -- even as they demand that Castro's similarly repressive (but less prosperous) dictatorship be sealed off from the world.
And this has about as much chance of success as that.
so don't buy microsoft products then. duh.
Yes, it's all supposedly "opt-in," but the bcentral spams I have received tell me otherwise.
Ah. My bad. Thanks for the clarification (and edit).
Your history is a bit off. Microsoft Office really became the office leader when Windows 95 shipped - this was mainly because WordPerfect (the leading non-MS word processor before then) was very slow to ship a Windows 95 version. Had PerfectOffice for Win 95 come out on August 24 (it's pathetic that I remember that date), it might well have been a different story.
[PS. Someone, I don't know who, nominated me for a Board seat, but I wrote in to say I did not wish to be considered.]
The key is that AOL Time Warner published this otherwise crap article (admittedly from Reuters, but they could ignore it), because they want people to believe it's inevitable. Yet every fake-CD they sell fails in the market. The latter fact is the relevant one.
(I agree with Jobs, btw.)
Catching up with, but not improving over, Airbus.
I add olives, but a twist is acceptable as well. Use fresh (well, fresh from the jar, or fresh from the fresh-olive-bar at frou-frou supermarkets) olives. If the jar's been in the fridge 6 months since your last party, trash it, buy more, it's worth the $3.95.
All this has fuck-all to do with TV in Bhutan, except that if I were in Bhutan watching TV, you would be damn sure I would want a fucking Martini. So I'll kick your ass if you mod me Offtopic.
AA made money on More Room for the first year or so. The thing that changed was that low-fare airlines like JetBlue have been pulling down both the average fare and the last-minute fare. Sadly, more people buy tickets based on that than comfort.
Maybe United has it right - Economy Plus with 5" more room, but only for loyal customers. It's very rare that I won't get a seat with enough space on United, and so I'm more likely to fly them than (say) Northwest, with severely bad room. At least until the health department forces them all to add room, that's what we're stuck with.
Most if not all of the 9-11 hijackers paid cash for first-class seats. They took advantage of the curtains separating the cabins to subdue the first class flight attendants. It's why the curtains are no longer used.
I had hoped it would be American, but their bean-counters seem to have concluded that people only buy based on price and not based on comfort. It's too bad, as I usually fly AA or UA, precisely because I don't like being smashed into a tiny pulp by the guy in front of me (leaning back) and the kid behind me (kicking my seat). At least UA seems to be keeping Economy Plus.
[1] Except United in "economy plus" and most American planes, though AA is reducing room again on some flights. Fuckers.
Here is a mirror!