I dunno, for me the most important thing about my government is productivity - to be able to do the tasks I want it to do. I could migrate to a free country, but I would not benefit if it had fewer services that I find useful. I can't pave my own roads. Nor do the alternatives in a free country meet my needs yet. Of course, freedom is nice, but my fascist government gives me more freedom than I actually use, in addition to great services. If it stopped me from using those services, or removed the freedoms I used, then it would be an issue.
You are right, the UI rules change when the circumstances change. I doubt much research has been done into the UI implications of multiple monitor setups. Most likely they just "get it working" and are happy with that.
The pro-prohibition groups are more guilty of weak science than the lobbies trying to keep them legal.
Did you read about the researcher that "accidentally" mixed up Meth with MDMA? The study talking about how MDMA damages the brain was highly cited by the prohibition establishment, and covered in the media as a "scare old people" story about how even one hit of Ecstasy is so damaging.
Either have a central repo that nearly anyone can put anything in like Debian or BSD has, or create a distributed system that isn't controlled by one entity and lets anyone publish their versions.
It's one of the major reasons I stopped using Red Hat whenever possible. I still use CentOS for business servers sometimes, but if they don't need newer packages I vastly prefer Debian for servers now, and for desktop use I use Ubuntu.
This whole thing was illustrated over and over to me by Red Hat removing major packages I used all the time. Gkrellm, Electric Eyes... Those are two that come to mind offhand.. there were others.
I don't know that the parts would be that hard to find.
The restriction would be pretty silly, since the IC manufacturers would make single-chip radios that could be sold in kit form, just throw a few passives around it. Single chip radio transcievers are pretty damn common, for stuff like GPS/Bluetooth, etc.
What would be hard to find is components necessary to make high power stuff. 10 meters band would still be pretty active, since you can hack up some CB gear to work on 10 meters with very easy mods.
You could have gotten your VHF license without CW. Once they heard you on the local repeater a few times, the clubs would have been all over your ballsack to get the new blood.
You didn't try very hard. Most ham clubs do want new members, but if you can't even be bothers to pass the no-code exam first they probably aren't going to bother with you.
You don't need to know 25wpm CW to send SOS with a welder. I think 95% of the US population would recognize SOS in CW, it's been in a zillion movies.
As for sending position, I'm sure someone could make up some simplistic system to send the numbers (if they even knew their position in such a situation) without knowing the real CW numbers.
There's a word for things that are unquestionable, dogma. Let them question it, the difference between science and relgion is that science can stand up to scrutiny.
That's like telling people "Don't install software unless we say you can"... It's bullshit. What if MS told people, "don't install any non-MS softare or your system will break horribly". No one would tolerate that.
Having the menus at the top of the screen is good from a UI theory standpoint. The 5 easiest places to click are the 4 corners and under your current mouse position. The second most easy places to click are anywhere along the edges of the screen.
Maybe they just hope no one with bother to appeal it until they can get the statutory law changed in 2007.
I don't know what's with these administrative agencies lately. Did you hear the CPSC is now claiming authority over all sales of everything? They are trying to ban sales of raw chemicals to individuals because they are a "dangerous retail product".
Their supposed goal is to stop people from being able to get high grade aluminum powder and potassium perchlorate so that people can't make flash powder, but they are attempting to restrict the sale of a lot more than just those two things. In any case, the ATF has sole authority over the manufacture of explosives, legal or illegal.
Heh yeah, though in terms of entropy, it's probably better than anything that is even pronouncable, even though it is only 4 bits per character.
I guess what I'm saying is that most passwords don't make the 4 bits per character of entropy anyway. His passphrase, for example, really isn't very strong at all, since it's a well formed english sentence, and is short. It's actually harder to crack a few random hex digits than his passphrase.
It was legal to melt, deface, cut up, destroy or do whatever to coins you wanted (except try to defraud someone). That's why this regulation is news, because it was legal for coins.
Paper money, it's always been illegal to deface that in a way that makes it unusable, it was under a different law.
1. Not necessarily, because this case hinges on an enumerated freedom specifically guaranteed by the constitution, free speech. Laws that infringe on freedom of expression have a pretty high bar, higher than most laws.
2. Material that deals with child porn but doesn't actually involve children is an exercise in thought. Banning them would be an attempt to control what people can talk and think about.
Hate crimes: Yes, You are probably right. A crime is a crime, but a crime due to some political position is probably protected speech, in so far that it involves the political position. Adding extra punishment because of the political motivation of the criminal is likely a violation of the first amendment.
Terrorism falls under the same thing, although you could probably argue that the intent is a sort of mass extortion or blackmail, and extortion and blackmail aren't protected speech.
Not in the US. The supreme court was very clear on this point. The child porn laws only exist to protect the immediate victims. If there are no immediate victims, there is no crime. They flat out rejected the idea that the laws exist to remove "temptations" or anything of that sort, they said such a law would be unconstitutional and violate the first amendment.
So it really doesn't matter if there is a link, not in the US. The supreme court has rejected the idea of thoughtcrime, thankfully.
You'd have to contact every person that has ever submitted even 1 line to the linux kernel. The ones that have since died, you'll have to contact whoever dealt with their estate, who will probably wonder what the hell a "lin-ucks" is. The ones that have moved to the African desert to discover themselves, you'll have to contact them too.
In other words, it's not going to happen, not without a nearly complete rewrite of the kernel.
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You can rationalize giving up freedoms you don't use all you like. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
I dunno, for me the most important thing about my government is productivity - to be able to do the tasks I want it to do. I could migrate to a free country, but I would not benefit if it had fewer services that I find useful. I can't pave my own roads. Nor do the alternatives in a free country meet my needs yet. Of course, freedom is nice, but my fascist government gives me more freedom than I actually use, in addition to great services. If it stopped me from using those services, or removed the freedoms I used, then it would be an issue.
You are right, the UI rules change when the circumstances change. I doubt much research has been done into the UI implications of multiple monitor setups. Most likely they just "get it working" and are happy with that.
The pro-prohibition groups are more guilty of weak science than the lobbies trying to keep them legal.
Did you read about the researcher that "accidentally" mixed up Meth with MDMA? The study talking about how MDMA damages the brain was highly cited by the prohibition establishment, and covered in the media as a "scare old people" story about how even one hit of Ecstasy is so damaging.
The whole idea of that is BS.
Either have a central repo that nearly anyone can put anything in like Debian or BSD has, or create a distributed system that isn't controlled by one entity and lets anyone publish their versions.
It's one of the major reasons I stopped using Red Hat whenever possible. I still use CentOS for business servers sometimes, but if they don't need newer packages I vastly prefer Debian for servers now, and for desktop use I use Ubuntu.
This whole thing was illustrated over and over to me by Red Hat removing major packages I used all the time. Gkrellm, Electric Eyes... Those are two that come to mind offhand.. there were others.
I don't even use Windows for anything important. I speak from experience of using Linux as my main system for the last 6 years or so.
I don't know that the parts would be that hard to find.
The restriction would be pretty silly, since the IC manufacturers would make single-chip radios that could be sold in kit form, just throw a few passives around it. Single chip radio transcievers are pretty damn common, for stuff like GPS/Bluetooth, etc.
What would be hard to find is components necessary to make high power stuff. 10 meters band would still be pretty active, since you can hack up some CB gear to work on 10 meters with very easy mods.
Yes. You can even use a computer to send and copy CW at speeds most hams can't keep up with.
You could have gotten your VHF license without CW. Once they heard you on the local repeater a few times, the clubs would have been all over your ballsack to get the new blood.
You didn't try very hard. Most ham clubs do want new members, but if you can't even be bothers to pass the no-code exam first they probably aren't going to bother with you.
You don't need to know 25wpm CW to send SOS with a welder. I think 95% of the US population would recognize SOS in CW, it's been in a zillion movies.
As for sending position, I'm sure someone could make up some simplistic system to send the numbers (if they even knew their position in such a situation) without knowing the real CW numbers.
The 12 wpm test hasn't existed for about 5 years. It's been a single 5wpm test for a while now.
Evolution isn't really a theory of the origins of life.
The idea that naturally occuring amino acids might have started coalescing into protolife which then evolved, that's an origin theory.
Science really does have less to offer on the origin front. Don't confuse the issue, that's what they want.
even just credibly question evolution.
There's a word for things that are unquestionable, dogma. Let them question it, the difference between science and relgion is that science can stand up to scrutiny.
That's like telling people "Don't install software unless we say you can"... It's bullshit. What if MS told people, "don't install any non-MS softare or your system will break horribly". No one would tolerate that.
Having the menus at the top of the screen is good from a UI theory standpoint. The 5 easiest places to click are the 4 corners and under your current mouse position. The second most easy places to click are anywhere along the edges of the screen.
Maybe they just hope no one with bother to appeal it until they can get the statutory law changed in 2007.
I don't know what's with these administrative agencies lately. Did you hear the CPSC is now claiming authority over all sales of everything? They are trying to ban sales of raw chemicals to individuals because they are a "dangerous retail product".
Their supposed goal is to stop people from being able to get high grade aluminum powder and potassium perchlorate so that people can't make flash powder, but they are attempting to restrict the sale of a lot more than just those two things. In any case, the ATF has sole authority over the manufacture of explosives, legal or illegal.
Heh yeah, though in terms of entropy, it's probably better than anything that is even pronouncable, even though it is only 4 bits per character.
I guess what I'm saying is that most passwords don't make the 4 bits per character of entropy anyway. His passphrase, for example, really isn't very strong at all, since it's a well formed english sentence, and is short. It's actually harder to crack a few random hex digits than his passphrase.
I guess the MS Barney robot software was "informal"?
You are wrong and the parent post was right. Do some research before you use those bold tags.
That guy was wrong about coins.
It was legal to melt, deface, cut up, destroy or do whatever to coins you wanted (except try to defraud someone). That's why this regulation is news, because it was legal for coins.
Paper money, it's always been illegal to deface that in a way that makes it unusable, it was under a different law.
It is illegal to destroy or render unusable any paper money.
Coinage was under a different regulation that didn't forbid such things, it only forbade mutilation with intent to defraud.
You are right though, without a legislative mandate for this new regulation, the mint is on shaky ground.
If you make every dollar into 10 "new dollars", it would make the new dollar worth 10 times less.
I guess you meant the other way around.
In any case, why? There's no point in playing games with the currency like that.
1. Not necessarily, because this case hinges on an enumerated freedom specifically guaranteed by the constitution, free speech. Laws that infringe on freedom of expression have a pretty high bar, higher than most laws.
2. Material that deals with child porn but doesn't actually involve children is an exercise in thought. Banning them would be an attempt to control what people can talk and think about.
Hate crimes: Yes, You are probably right. A crime is a crime, but a crime due to some political position is probably protected speech, in so far that it involves the political position. Adding extra punishment because of the political motivation of the criminal is likely a violation of the first amendment.
Terrorism falls under the same thing, although you could probably argue that the intent is a sort of mass extortion or blackmail, and extortion and blackmail aren't protected speech.
but the hypothesis at least has merit for study.
Not in the US. The supreme court was very clear on this point. The child porn laws only exist to protect the immediate victims. If there are no immediate victims, there is no crime. They flat out rejected the idea that the laws exist to remove "temptations" or anything of that sort, they said such a law would be unconstitutional and violate the first amendment.
So it really doesn't matter if there is a link, not in the US. The supreme court has rejected the idea of thoughtcrime, thankfully.
You'd have to contact every person that has ever submitted even 1 line to the linux kernel. The ones that have since died, you'll have to contact whoever dealt with their estate, who will probably wonder what the hell a "lin-ucks" is. The ones that have moved to the African desert to discover themselves, you'll have to contact them too.
In other words, it's not going to happen, not without a nearly complete rewrite of the kernel.