Is a dual core processor at that speed really better than a single-core at 3.6 MHz? I think I'd rather have the speed, not the parallel processing, especially if I'm watching DVD or better quality video.
>>>refuse to import goods from countries whose labor and human rights laws (and practices) don't meet a minimum standard...
I like this idea. I've proposed it myself, although I'd start with more serious crimes first (example: if China allows workers to work more than 70 hours, or more than 6 days per week, then goods from those factories would be blocked). Trying to enforce that the US and EU and China must tax power companies per kWh is a little ridiculous.
>>>>>The best solution is for government is to simply say, "You must meet these safety regulations," (like the FAA regulates airplane manufacturers) >> >>Well, now we're both talking about shit that will never happen, because the federal government helped to create this situation. In general power plants of all kinds are operating well beyond established margins in emissions and often safety as well. We operate under a kind of system of malign neglect. >>
So you no longer trust the FAA to regulate airplanes? Have you stopped flying? We still need government to regulate.
>>>I have no desire for my tax dollars to go to the author of the Twilight books when I would much rather get my money to a deserving less known author who puts out a much superior work. >>>
+1 insightful. I too would rather send my money to a dying magazine or less-known novelist than the Twilight or Harry Potter writers. By taxing me, the government makes the decision for me. (Or more correctly: The corporations make the decision to "Support us, not independents" and politicians just follow their orders.)
>>>Why would anyone write the books if they didn't receive a benefit? It takes *years*.
Then maybe you and other authors should ask to be paid by the hour, in the same way other creative types (engineers and programmers) get paid.
As for your lost contract - "high piracy rates" sounds like a bogus excuse..... kinda like when my boss terminated my engineering contract because "you eat too much food at lunchtime". Or when TNT terminated JMS because they said Crusade "doesn't have enough wrestling". These are all just made-up excuses. A manager can't say "I changed my mind" else he'd get sued for breach.
>>>It's a compromise, but it's in the direction of more freedom and less forcing.
You live in a strange world if you believe Government taking a vacuum cleaner to my wallet (and handing the cash to strangers) is "more free" than my choice to simply not buy e-books from amazon.
I call the latter maximum freedom, because the choice is in MY hands, where it belongs, not in the hands of some corporate-bribed politician.
>>>I'd like to see copyright changed so that an attempt to copy-protect a work deprives it of copyright
I'd like to see Jefferson's copyright amendment added to the constitution: "Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding ___ years, but for no longer term, and for no other purpose."
He later filled the blank with 19 years, based upon the lifespan of a typical adult (from age 21 to death). Today that length would be ~35 years. An author would be able to keep his copyright until death, plus or minus a few years.
That certainly sounds more reasonable than the current 150, where Mickey Mouse is still copyrighted, even after the original cartoonists have long turned to dust.
"Distributing tax funds to authors based on their popularity" - Isn't that what Canada already does with singers? Well it has not worked. Only the 'approved' singers that are members of RIAA get the tax handouts, while independent non-corporate-owned singers get the shaft.
No I think we need to allow the free market to work. We've already seen the cost of music plummet from $18 a just released CD to $9 at discounters. Or if you prefer singles, instead of spending $3.50 for a cassette-single you just download it for 99 cents.
I fully-expect the same price pressure will drive down the cost of E-books to around 2 or 3 dollars. i.e. Half the paperback cost, since there are no resources wasted on paper, printing, or shipping.
My distrust of government (gee - wonder why) makes me automatically reject that idea. Put the power in the hands of consumers ("Hell no I won't pay $15 for an ebook. Fuck that."), not the politicians that are bought-and-paid-for by Amazon/corporations.
>>>Do they retain the right to act in concert with each other?
Of course. It's called a Club, not a corporation (which is a government-created entity).
Also I find it weird you de-capitalized "people". Are you saying the People of the US are unworthy of being treated any better than a cat or dog or other lower case nouns? I capitalize it for a reason --- same reason it is capitalized in the 51 State and national Constitutions. It is from the citizens that power is derived, not from a king or nobility.
I thought the online affiliates of the major scripted cable TV networks allowed only subscribers to watch. HBO sure does.
That's because HBO costs ~$10 a month, so only subscribers may watch, whereas SyFy is ad-supported and "free" to anyone with a cable connection (or satellite dish). They and most of the cable channels have chosen to put their videos online, and are ad-supported.
>>>my aunt's boyfriend would rather drop broadband Internet access
Dialup is available free from netzero. $7 from netscape. :-)
>>>Perhaps we need a new tax on manufacturing done in the daytime,
You really WANT all the factories to pack-up and move to China or India, don't you? That's what would end-up happening. The best solution is for government is to simply say, "You must meet these safety regulations," like the FAA does with airplane manufacturers. And then let businesses figure out where they will get the cash (i.e. raise prices and cut internal costs).
>>>Damn straight! I don't like any of the cable TV terms of any company so I don't have Cable TV!
Me neither.
I use an antenna to receive 50 stations (~42 if you eliminate duplicates) from the surrounding area. Plus syfy.com to watch my favorite fantasy/science fiction shows. I don't see any reason to throw-away $1000/year on comcast.
>>>Do people stop having rights when they peaceably assemble?
Of course not. The People inside Verizon retain all of their rights to speak, think, publish, but Verizon Itself - the corporation - has no more rights than the building or parking lot in which the people sit.
>>>How would you like someone telling you how to run your business?
I'm a person with innate natural rights, not a Thing like Verizon. Being a thing, it has no more rights to privacy or self-regulation than a tree, a rock, or a building.
For that matter, It doesn't even have a right to exist, and government can revoke its corporate license at any time. (At which point verizon reverts to a private direct-owned entity, rather than a government-created entity.)
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>>>this movie proved to me that, above all else, Kevin Bacon is really good at playing assholes
That was proved to me when I saw Kevin Bacon in the Invisible Man. Dark personality. Very dark. (Also fun to watch him play with that one chick's nipple. There's just not enough breast foddling in 2010 movies.);-)
Yeah, that was when long distance calls were expensive, so BBS owners would try to keep costs down by only connecting to the Usenet at night. Fidonet BBSes operated on the same principle.
Some BBS owners provided real-time access to usenet or fidonet, but they also charged Users for that privilege.
Speeds were slower back then too. 1k or 2 k was standard for the Users, while BBS Owners shared messages across the nation at a "trailblazing" 18 k. Of course it was pure text - no pictures exist on Usenet or Fidonet.
QuantumLink (AOL) was the only service with lo-res graphics.
Now I understand why my teacher posted, "I hate politics" to her facebook page. In any other arena it's not acceptable to insult fellow adults, but when it comes to politics, suddenly it's okay to say (or do) the most awful, disgusting, destructive things. Politics == hate.
Actually it was 199*3* when AOL added Usenet to its service, and thus began the never-ending influx of newbies.
I started posting on Usenet back in 1988 using local BBS feeds. The SYSop would download the messages at midnight, and his users would reply to the posts, and then wait a full day to see the answer.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a Windows TC.
Is a dual core processor at that speed really better than a single-core at 3.6 MHz? I think I'd rather have the speed, not the parallel processing, especially if I'm watching DVD or better quality video.
P.S.
>>>refuse to import goods from countries whose labor and human rights laws (and practices) don't meet a minimum standard...
I like this idea. I've proposed it myself, although I'd start with more serious crimes first (example: if China allows workers to work more than 70 hours, or more than 6 days per week, then goods from those factories would be blocked). Trying to enforce that the US and EU and China must tax power companies per kWh is a little ridiculous.
>>>>>The best solution is for government is to simply say, "You must meet these safety regulations," (like the FAA regulates airplane manufacturers)
>>
>>Well, now we're both talking about shit that will never happen, because the federal government helped to create this situation. In general power plants of all kinds are operating well beyond established margins in emissions and often safety as well. We operate under a kind of system of malign neglect.
>>
So you no longer trust the FAA to regulate airplanes?
Have you stopped flying? We still need government to regulate.
>>>I have no desire for my tax dollars to go to the author of the Twilight books when I would much rather get my money to a deserving less known author who puts out a much superior work.
>>>
+1 insightful.
I too would rather send my money to a dying magazine or less-known novelist than the Twilight or Harry Potter writers. By taxing me, the government makes the decision for me. (Or more correctly: The corporations make the decision to "Support us, not independents" and politicians just follow their orders.)
>>>Why would anyone write the books if they didn't receive a benefit? It takes *years*.
Then maybe you and other authors should ask to be paid by the hour, in the same way other creative types (engineers and programmers) get paid.
As for your lost contract - "high piracy rates" sounds like a bogus excuse..... kinda like when my boss terminated my engineering contract because "you eat too much food at lunchtime". Or when TNT terminated JMS because they said Crusade "doesn't have enough wrestling". These are all just made-up excuses. A manager can't say "I changed my mind" else he'd get sued for breach.
>>>It's a compromise, but it's in the direction of more freedom and less forcing.
You live in a strange world if you believe Government taking a vacuum cleaner to my wallet (and handing the cash to strangers) is "more free" than my choice to simply not buy e-books from amazon.
I call the latter maximum freedom, because the choice is in MY hands, where it belongs, not in the hands of some corporate-bribed politician.
>>>I'd like to see copyright changed so that an attempt to copy-protect a work deprives it of copyright
I'd like to see Jefferson's copyright amendment added to the constitution: "Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding ___ years, but for no longer term, and for no other purpose."
He later filled the blank with 19 years, based upon the lifespan of a typical adult (from age 21 to death). Today that length would be ~35 years. An author would be able to keep his copyright until death, plus or minus a few years.
That certainly sounds more reasonable than the current 150, where Mickey Mouse is still copyrighted, even after the original cartoonists have long turned to dust.
You can also get Sci-Fi short story magazines on your e-reader:
Asimov's
Analog
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Alfred Hitchcock
et cetera
The price is not too bad either: I paid $25/year through a special discount to get Ellery Queen and Asimovs.
I don't agree.
"Distributing tax funds to authors based on their popularity" - Isn't that what Canada already does with singers? Well it has not worked. Only the 'approved' singers that are members of RIAA get the tax handouts, while independent non-corporate-owned singers get the shaft.
No I think we need to allow the free market to work. We've already seen the cost of music plummet from $18 a just released CD to $9 at discounters. Or if you prefer singles, instead of spending $3.50 for a cassette-single you just download it for 99 cents.
I fully-expect the same price pressure will drive down the cost of E-books to around 2 or 3 dollars. i.e. Half the paperback cost, since there are no resources wasted on paper, printing, or shipping.
My distrust of government (gee - wonder why) makes me automatically reject that idea. Put the power in the hands of consumers ("Hell no I won't pay $15 for an ebook. Fuck that."), not the politicians that are bought-and-paid-for by Amazon/corporations.
>>>Do they retain the right to act in concert with each other?
Of course.
It's called a Club, not a corporation (which is a government-created entity).
Also I find it weird you de-capitalized "people". Are you saying the People of the US are unworthy of being treated any better than a cat or dog or other lower case nouns? I capitalize it for a reason --- same reason it is capitalized in the 51 State and national Constitutions. It is from the citizens that power is derived, not from a king or nobility.
>>>Plus syfy.com
I thought the online affiliates of the major scripted cable TV networks allowed only subscribers to watch. HBO sure does.
That's because HBO costs ~$10 a month, so only subscribers may watch, whereas SyFy is ad-supported and "free" to anyone with a cable connection (or satellite dish). They and most of the cable channels have chosen to put their videos online, and are ad-supported.
>>>my aunt's boyfriend would rather drop broadband Internet access
Dialup is available free from netzero.
:-)
$7 from netscape.
>>>Perhaps we need a new tax on manufacturing done in the daytime,
You really WANT all the factories to pack-up and move to China or India, don't you? That's what would end-up happening. The best solution is for government is to simply say, "You must meet these safety regulations," like the FAA does with airplane manufacturers. And then let businesses figure out where they will get the cash (i.e. raise prices and cut internal costs).
>>>we respected the self-taught coder more than one who spent four years in school being spoon fed how to code.
BAH! If you didn't learn to code before becoming a teenager, then you're already behind. Oh..... and get off my lawn! j/k ;-)
I don't understand why people hate N64 controllers so much. I played Turok, Banjo-kazooie, Mario 64, and Zelda on it, and it felt just fine to me.
>>>According to the law, Corporations have all the same rights as a natural person.
Please quote which "law" you are referring.
Thank you.
(Hint: No such law exists so no point wasting your time.)
>>>Damn straight! I don't like any of the cable TV terms of any company so I don't have Cable TV!
Me neither.
I use an antenna to receive 50 stations (~42 if you eliminate duplicates) from the surrounding area. Plus syfy.com to watch my favorite fantasy/science fiction shows. I don't see any reason to throw-away $1000/year on comcast.
>>>Do people stop having rights when they peaceably assemble?
Of course not. The People inside Verizon retain all of their rights to speak, think, publish, but Verizon Itself - the corporation - has no more rights than the building or parking lot in which the people sit.
>>>How would you like someone telling you how to run your business?
I'm a person with innate natural rights, not a Thing like Verizon. Being a thing, it has no more rights to privacy or self-regulation than a tree, a rock, or a building.
For that matter, It doesn't even have a right to exist, and government can revoke its corporate license at any time. (At which point verizon reverts to a private direct-owned entity, rather than a government-created entity.)
>>>this movie proved to me that, above all else, Kevin Bacon is really good at playing assholes
That was proved to me when I saw Kevin Bacon in the Invisible Man. Dark personality. Very dark. (Also fun to watch him play with that one chick's nipple. There's just not enough breast foddling in 2010 movies.) ;-)
news://olduse.net works in Mozilla SeaMonkey (probably works in thunderbird too, or netscape, or opera)
Yeah, that was when long distance calls were expensive, so BBS owners would try to keep costs down by only connecting to the Usenet at night. Fidonet BBSes operated on the same principle.
Some BBS owners provided real-time access to usenet or fidonet, but they also charged Users for that privilege.
Speeds were slower back then too. 1k or 2 k was standard for the Users, while BBS Owners shared messages across the nation at a "trailblazing" 18 k. Of course it was pure text - no pictures exist on Usenet or Fidonet.
QuantumLink (AOL) was the only service with lo-res graphics.
>>>likely they got confused and gave up.
Now I understand why my teacher posted, "I hate politics" to her facebook page. In any other arena it's not acceptable to insult fellow adults, but when it comes to politics, suddenly it's okay to say (or do) the most awful, disgusting, destructive things. Politics == hate.
Actually it was 199*3* when AOL added Usenet to its service, and thus began the never-ending influx of newbies.
I started posting on Usenet back in 1988 using local BBS feeds. The SYSop would download the messages at midnight, and his users would reply to the posts, and then wait a full day to see the answer.
IMAP?
does anyone know if this work with Mozilla SeaMonkey too?