Actually, "aspartame sparkling water" is the best. You get a soda sensation, they come in many fruity flavors, they fill you up like water, they have no calories (or very few), they're inexpensive compared to regular soda, and they're made with _purified_ water. Walmart's Clear American brand is a good choice. I just bring 'em into work, set them on my desk, and drink them unchilled. They actually taste quite good at room temperature.
As for fruit juices, avoid them like the plague. Eat whole fruit instead. Fruit juices, even if "real", are very high in calories and aren't really much healthier than sugared sodas.
I fully agree about the urine color comment... the lighter it is, the healthier you are.
There's also a new group working to ensure a "Voter Verifiable Audit Trail" with the advent of electronic/Internet voting. Many people in the field of computer science (including myself) have endorsed their effort. This has nothing to do with Luddism, but rather a full understanding of the technical issues involved. Nothing short of integrity of our democratic results is at stake.
If you mean classical liberals, then you are correct. Classical liberals promote freedom (I like "individual sovereignty" better), political liberty, free markets, justice and the rule of law.
The better, less confusing term is "individual sovereignty". "Freedom" has so much cognitive baggage today that I'm surprised that people haven't given up on using the word. With "individual sovereignty", you make the vast majority of decisions that affect your own life, with minimal intervention from community/government interests, and this of course comes with the responsibility of not negatively affecting others' individual sovereignty.
This is why Open Source is taking off, and this is why more and more software development entities are going "non-profit." Pressure to "ship" with bugs is all but removed, and adaptability is preserved/enhanced. Bill Gates' software economy is morphing into a software ecosystem before our very eyes. And everyone will benefit.
you write something, and then the government takes it and creates a law utilising all your text
Make that: The government "takes it" after being offered it on a silver platter as an apparent good public deed for the good of the local community.
All law is public domain--that's the American way *and* now, the Law of the Land.
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We probably shouldn't assume that authors who write only for accumulating wealth are the best of the authors. I think society will survive nicely. Especially consider this case only applies to only one genre of publications - the only one that ought to be public domain from the get-go.
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Bravo! [serious]
On top of what you propose, there should also be a way for citizens to comment on law as it develops, using an online markup system and comment area. See the "Asynchronous Collaborative Structured Document Building & Review" links under Real-world Applications at http://www.democracy2.org/?section=library&tab=enh ancing for possible tools (albeit with some enhancements) that could be utilized.
A Big Victory for Democracy!!!
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The Fifth Circuit further observed that laws are not subject to federal copyright law, and "public ownership of the law means that 'the law' is in the 'public domain' for whatever use the citizens choose to make of it."
I haven't felt this good to be an American in many years. You go Veeck! SBCCI can go to hell with their unAmerican attack on democracy and the peoples' right to easily access their own laws!
The US is indeed a democratic republic, and has been from the start... just read the Constitution--it doesn't use the word 'democracy' but still defines the democratic institutions we still have today. And subsequent amendments increased the degree of democracy, via direct election of Senators and universal suffrage. Of course, is the U.S. move to full democracy "complete" yet? Not by a longshot.
And salt really isn't bad for you, unless you consume large quantities or have high blood pressure.
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The quickest fix of all: Create an.htaccess file in your web root directory with a line "php_flag register_globals on". Of course, this should be viewed as a workaround while you rewrite your scripts to work with register_globals off.
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Nope.
If you like big government, vote Democratic. But, if you like big government, vote Republican. And, if you like liberty for conglomerates at the expense of individual sovereignty, vote Libertarian.
Re:Unionize, and I'll move my business elsewhere.
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Of course, the problem is that businesspeople oftentimes think they are better than the people they employ, as if it shouldn't matter if their employees have lives outside of the jobs.
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Dude... glad I'm not you. I put in a hard eight hours a day, and somehow I manage to complete my projects and do that with very high quality.
Here's my little secret: I ban myself from most of the office off-topic jibber-jabber. Not a lot of friends at work (who wants nerds for friends anyway?), but management knows that I'm serious about my work and never harass me about my work hours.
They want everything to be free, and see no reason to pay for any knowledge-based commodity.
That wasn't my argument. I'm only saying that downloading mp3's isn't "greedy". Like it's "greedy" to acquire something that has a real value of 1/50 cents. I don't buy that.
However, I certainly do agree that so-called intellectual property, while not having the intrinsic physical value of material property, still has value, just that it's dispersed very thinly, sometimes to the point of arguably having no value at all.
This is kind of a way of looking at an economy-of-scale. One person can slave over the production of a copyrighted digital work, then reap a tremendous number of very small rewards from its distribution. But of course, the technology that cheapens distribution also makes easier the freeloading. The RIAA wants radically cheaper distribution and simultaneously to squash half its users with lawsuits--and many of these former fans will never ever be their customers.
Any IP can be assigned a price, but in reality this sometimes amounts to a nefarious, arbitrary price-fix. The RIAA wants to uphold this unfree market. And all these awful downloaders want a free one, doing something as illegal as a speeding ticket to make their point.
This is a strange definition of "greedy." Greed involves the acquiring of wealth or material goods, not streams of bits that have no intrinsic physical value. Wanting to listen to some new music isn't "greed."
Is it illegal to suggest that it would be a good thing if someone were to burn down the building the RIAA sits in, with Hillary Rosen tied to her chair inside?
Yes, this is a joke, but it's how I feel right now.
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Heavy metals, dissolved radioactive gases and other such nutritious minerals may be good for you but leave a nasty taste in my mouth.
Yes, like Klingon food for Scotty, too many spring waters leave me with a sour stomach. It's far better to stick to purified waters.
Actually, "aspartame sparkling water" is the best. You get a soda sensation, they come in many fruity flavors, they fill you up like water, they have no calories (or very few), they're inexpensive compared to regular soda, and they're made with _purified_ water. Walmart's Clear American brand is a good choice. I just bring 'em into work, set them on my desk, and drink them unchilled. They actually taste quite good at room temperature.
As for fruit juices, avoid them like the plague. Eat whole fruit instead. Fruit juices, even if "real", are very high in calories and aren't really much healthier than sugared sodas.
I fully agree about the urine color comment... the lighter it is, the healthier you are.
Use meetup.com (or an equivalent) to host local CD-ripping parties on a monthly basis. Let's see the RIAA stop that.
Here's an open-source equivalent that does pretty much the same thing.
There's also a new group working to ensure a "Voter Verifiable Audit Trail" with the advent of electronic/Internet voting. Many people in the field of computer science (including myself) have endorsed their effort. This has nothing to do with Luddism, but rather a full understanding of the technical issues involved. Nothing short of integrity of our democratic results is at stake.
Liberals promote freedom (think "liberty").
If you mean classical liberals, then you are correct. Classical liberals promote freedom (I like "individual sovereignty" better), political liberty, free markets, justice and the rule of law.
But many AOL users aren't very confused by AOL's unlimited billing after the user has cancelled their account.
that Slashdot also considers its users to find that the term "blog" is confusing. hehe
Why waste your time with niceties when people aren't paying for it.
Ummm... because you and/or your company's name is on it? Reputation is gold.
The better, less confusing term is "individual sovereignty". "Freedom" has so much cognitive baggage today that I'm surprised that people haven't given up on using the word. With "individual sovereignty", you make the vast majority of decisions that affect your own life, with minimal intervention from community/government interests, and this of course comes with the responsibility of not negatively affecting others' individual sovereignty.
This is why Open Source is taking off, and this is why more and more software development entities are going "non-profit." Pressure to "ship" with bugs is all but removed, and adaptability is preserved/enhanced. Bill Gates' software economy is morphing into a software ecosystem before our very eyes. And everyone will benefit.
you write something, and then the government takes it and creates a law utilising all your text
Make that: The government "takes it" after being offered it on a silver platter as an apparent good public deed for the good of the local community.
All law is public domain--that's the American way *and* now, the Law of the Land.
We probably shouldn't assume that authors who write only for accumulating wealth are the best of the authors. I think society will survive nicely. Especially consider this case only applies to only one genre of publications - the only one that ought to be public domain from the get-go.
Bravo! [serious]
On top of what you propose, there should also be a way for citizens to comment on law as it develops, using an online markup system and comment area. See the "Asynchronous Collaborative Structured Document Building & Review" links under Real-world Applications at http://www.democracy2.org/?section=library&tab=enh ancing for possible tools (albeit with some enhancements) that could be utilized.
The Fifth Circuit further observed that laws are not subject to federal copyright law, and "public ownership of the law means that 'the law' is in the 'public domain' for whatever use the citizens choose to make of it."
I haven't felt this good to be an American in many years. You go Veeck! SBCCI can go to hell with their unAmerican attack on democracy and the peoples' right to easily access their own laws!
The US is indeed a democratic republic, and has been from the start... just read the Constitution--it doesn't use the word 'democracy' but still defines the democratic institutions we still have today. And subsequent amendments increased the degree of democracy, via direct election of Senators and universal suffrage. Of course, is the U.S. move to full democracy "complete" yet? Not by a longshot.
And salt really isn't bad for you, unless you consume large quantities or have high blood pressure.
The quickest fix of all: Create an .htaccess file in your web root directory with a line "php_flag register_globals on". Of course, this should be viewed as a workaround while you rewrite your scripts to work with register_globals off.
Nope.
If you like big government, vote Democratic. But, if you like big government, vote Republican. And, if you like liberty for conglomerates at the expense of individual sovereignty, vote Libertarian.
Of course, the problem is that businesspeople oftentimes think they are better than the people they employ, as if it shouldn't matter if their employees have lives outside of the jobs.
Dude... glad I'm not you. I put in a hard eight hours a day, and somehow I manage to complete my projects and do that with very high quality.
Here's my little secret: I ban myself from most of the office off-topic jibber-jabber. Not a lot of friends at work (who wants nerds for friends anyway?), but management knows that I'm serious about my work and never harass me about my work hours.
Windows NT 4 is almost 10 years old now
It's around 7 years old, to be exact. Where did "10" come from?
They want everything to be free, and see no reason to pay for any knowledge-based commodity.
That wasn't my argument. I'm only saying that downloading mp3's isn't "greedy". Like it's "greedy" to acquire something that has a real value of 1/50 cents. I don't buy that.
However, I certainly do agree that so-called intellectual property, while not having the intrinsic physical value of material property, still has value, just that it's dispersed very thinly, sometimes to the point of arguably having no value at all.
This is kind of a way of looking at an economy-of-scale. One person can slave over the production of a copyrighted digital work, then reap a tremendous number of very small rewards from its distribution. But of course, the technology that cheapens distribution also makes easier the freeloading. The RIAA wants radically cheaper distribution and simultaneously to squash half its users with lawsuits--and many of these former fans will never ever be their customers.
Any IP can be assigned a price, but in reality this sometimes amounts to a nefarious, arbitrary price-fix. The RIAA wants to uphold this unfree market. And all these awful downloaders want a free one, doing something as illegal as a speeding ticket to make their point.
That's Just Plain Silly (TM).
It was because I was cheap and greedy.
This is a strange definition of "greedy." Greed involves the acquiring of wealth or material goods, not streams of bits that have no intrinsic physical value. Wanting to listen to some new music isn't "greed."
Is it illegal to suggest that it would be a good thing if someone were to burn down the building the RIAA sits in, with Hillary Rosen tied to her chair inside?
Yes, this is a joke, but it's how I feel right now.