Advances in CPU and architecture were constantly announced by these bit players like Sun and Apple as if they were the best thing since sliced bread. If and when the product comes out, it's often a let-down, or the major CPU manufacturers have already made something to do the same thing, and do it faster and much cheaper.
Quality King Distributors Inc., v. L'anza Research International Inc. (1998, WL 9625)
This decision supports the right to import copyrighted material that you purchased overseas, whether the copyright holder gives you permission to or not.
Allofmp3 is legal and it drives the RIAA crazy. Fuck em.
London is not a role model. They don't give a shit about privacy, what with the cameras. You also might get shot in the back of the head if you look like a terrorist.
That's like saying we should copy the chinese penal system because crime there is so much lower.
If you buy all your gas in Virginia and drive to DC every day, they are taxing your activities in both, effectively.
If I buy a car in VA, I'm a resident of VA, and I park the car all year in Georgia, I still pay the car tax here.
I think a commerce clause objection could be defended against, since they already charge for the mere fact that you own a car. Scaling that tax based on mileage, I don't see how that changes the authority to levy the tax, it's still the same tax.
I think you've summed up the problem well, what the diagnosis was intended for and what's it becoming applied to are two different things.
more of a bizarre confusion regarding what the mental disorder entails.
I agree it's a confusion, but to me it doesn't seem bizarre, I believe the diagnostic criteria are poorly written and overly broad, to the point where way too many people are getting diagnosed (the wikipedia article for aspergers cites numbers like 7 expected cases per 1000, yet diagnosis rates are shooting up, way up).
It's not just aspergers, but that one is close to my heart since my chosen lifestyle and my personality almost just fits into what they are calling diagnostic criteria.
Do you really think half of all americans are mentally ill? Discounting certain election-induced mass delusions, I seriously doubt it.
It's becoming a major industry to create disease where there is none, to make any nonconformity a disease. It's a dangerous cross between commercial interest in pushing designer prescription drugs, and government interest in supressing non-conformity, and removing personal responsibility. Removing responsibility removes freedom.
It also does a disservice to the truely mentally ill like your brother in law. It clouds the issue of what is and isn't a mental disorder. Him being lumped in with millions of kids with normal behavior problems, and thousands of nerdy adults that want an easy cop-out does not do him any good.
The short version is I view aspergers as yet another attack on the intelligent. Just as gay people were treated for their "disease", they seek to call being a geek or nerd a disease now.
Yes, that is my objection to it. The diagnostic criteria, even when correctly applied, are questionably overbroad.
Once you count in all the self-diagnoses, it's a mess. Kuro5hin did a poll and something like 78% of the respondants claimed to have Aspergers. Not scientific but take it for what it's worth.
One has to keep in mind the psychiatrist often has no way to run a test to see if you have something, they go solely on what you tell them your problem is. Sure they can observe your behavior as you meet with them, but if you seem a little quirky or socially awkward they aren't going to second guess your self-diagnosis.
It's the same with parents and kids, the psychiatrist isn't going to often second guess someone that spends at least 8 hours a day, every day, supervising their kids, based on a 1 hour session.
That's why I think nailing down biological causes to these disorders is especially important. That way the people with real disorders get recognized, and the attack on our subculture can end.
It's not wrong to be a geek. We are not sick. Don't buy into their lies.
The closer we get to a biological cause of autism, the sooner we can debunk Aspergers.
I'm kidding myself though, they'll just say it must not have the same cause because the people with so-called Aspergers won't show the biological symptom.
You might know this. Why is MacOS so slow at ping? Try it sometime, ping flood a linux box, and you'll probably clear 20,000 pings/sec on a normal system (though some versions of linux are slow too). Ping -f a mac and you might get a couple hundred packets back.
This is true with OS9 and a lot of OSX boxes it seems.
The ore samples are very safe, that's why it may not be clear where they talk about safety. They do talk about it somewhere.
They basically say "don't keep a pile of hundreds of pounds of high grade ore in a closed room, or radon could build up over time"...
Look at it this way, your average exposure to radiation per year is about 1000-2000 millirem. More if you live in the high elevations of the west.
The highest level samples they sell might be 100,000 cpm, converting that to millirem using some very rough estimates, that gives about 0.25 mrem/hour at about 1cm distance, with a very localized exposure (not whole body like your normal background sources are).
So yeah, even if you kept it in your pocket all year, right next to the boys, it would only be about double background radiation levels.
Not exactly sterilizing, and most people don't carry high grade ore samples on their person 24 hours a day for a year anyway.
It's more like the chairman of the physics department holding a class making fun of zero-point energy and free energy crackpots.
It's not like ID is some accepted scientific theory, it's just some shit creationists made up because they needed to improve their marketing. In the past it was easier because everyone was brainwashed as a child about creationism. Now that people are better educated, and generally do not attend religious schools, they needed something they could plausibly sell to people weak on science.
No university is really private anymore, they all leech government money through the guise of "financial aid" and "grants", which amount to a voucher system of public education.
And I could shoot my potato cannon through my neighbors window. Or my neighbor could shoot a rifle through mine, he's got guns too.
I've never been formally trained in weapons handling, and I doubt he has either.
Life is full of uncontrolled risks. You just have to take responsibility for your actions, which means learning about the potentially dangerous thing you plan to play with, and taking proper precautions.
There's thousands of other legal things this guy could do that are plenty more dangerous to his neighbors if mishandled. People just see the word nuclear and freak out. I've had people over that will not even come near my uranium doped glass marbles after they see them glow under blacklight. The Ralph Nader/concerned scientists helped cause this FUD around all things nuclear, through blatently false propaganda.
A. You can use advertising points to watch it. Advertising points are "earned" by watching targeted ads that are pre-downloaded to your Tivo/MCE. These are communicated back to the producer. Maybe a small questionnaire at the end will earn you more points.
People aren't going to play games like that.
"Hey lets go watch some TV. Oh wait I need to watch 10 minutes of ads and answer a quiz, hold on"
People use stuff like Tivo because they don't want to be forced to watch ads. Any scheme to force people to watch ads is going to fail. Make people want to watch ads. I know even though I have a Tivo I still wind up seeing each commercial at least once. I just don't have to watch it 300 times just to watch a single 2 hour movie.
HTML and CSS are not the (perceived) problem. Just slap a GPL on those files and you're fine
A separate license for just the HTML and CSS? If you are implying the original author of the GPL app should slap a GPL on it, that implies even more strongly that someone who used a modified GPL server-side app would be bound to distribute source, even if it's only running on their server.
Here's an example. Imagine someone took GIMP (which is under the GPL), stuck it on their server, then dished out an HTML front end to let people fiddle with their images online. GIMP itself is not being distributed in any form, only an HTML file and the finished images are. Should the server owner be required to distribute the GIMP source code? Is it "unfair" if he doesn't?
The GPL could never apply in a situation like that (assuming the output doesn't contain large parts of the program itself), because the GPL only regulates activities not allowed already under copyright law. It would not be copyright infringement to put up an interface to a proprietary application, that simply feeds it input and output, even if that input and output are from the network. This is true even if the app were "All Rights Reserved", they can't claim to own your input or output under copyright law.
The way MS works is they call you and say "We want to audit you for compliance, can you produce records for licenses for every piece of MS software on every system? If not we will charge you $large for each system out of compliance."
Most companies can't, things get thrown away, or OEM copies came with systems, or maybe someone used an OEM copy without buying a new system, etc. So MS offers you to pay $20,000+ a year for "software assurance" which is what they call their protection racket program. They warn you that if you don't buy software assurance, they have the right to inspect every one of your systems and charge you out the ass for any noncompliance.
So basically they use scare tactics to get protection money.
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Advances in CPU and architecture were constantly announced by these bit players like Sun and Apple as if they were the best thing since sliced bread. If and when the product comes out, it's often a let-down, or the major CPU manufacturers have already made something to do the same thing, and do it faster and much cheaper.
I wouldn't get too excited over it.
What laws on importing?
Quality King Distributors Inc., v. L'anza Research International Inc. (1998, WL 9625)
This decision supports the right to import copyrighted material that you purchased overseas, whether the copyright holder gives you permission to or not.
Allofmp3 is legal and it drives the RIAA crazy. Fuck em.
Soundex really sucks. Don't use it. The whole "first letter stuck on the front" negates much of its value. Korn will never match Corn.
Metaphone is better.
London is not a role model. They don't give a shit about privacy, what with the cameras. You also might get shot in the back of the head if you look like a terrorist.
That's like saying we should copy the chinese penal system because crime there is so much lower.
If you buy all your gas in Virginia and drive to DC every day, they are taxing your activities in both, effectively.
If I buy a car in VA, I'm a resident of VA, and I park the car all year in Georgia, I still pay the car tax here.
I think a commerce clause objection could be defended against, since they already charge for the mere fact that you own a car. Scaling that tax based on mileage, I don't see how that changes the authority to levy the tax, it's still the same tax.
I think you've summed up the problem well, what the diagnosis was intended for and what's it becoming applied to are two different things.
more of a bizarre confusion regarding what the mental disorder entails.
I agree it's a confusion, but to me it doesn't seem bizarre, I believe the diagnostic criteria are poorly written and overly broad, to the point where way too many people are getting diagnosed (the wikipedia article for aspergers cites numbers like 7 expected cases per 1000, yet diagnosis rates are shooting up, way up).
It's not just aspergers, but that one is close to my heart since my chosen lifestyle and my personality almost just fits into what they are calling diagnostic criteria.
Mental Disorders Strike Nearly Half of All Americans
Do you really think half of all americans are mentally ill? Discounting certain election-induced mass delusions, I seriously doubt it.
It's becoming a major industry to create disease where there is none, to make any nonconformity a disease. It's a dangerous cross between commercial interest in pushing designer prescription drugs, and government interest in supressing non-conformity, and removing personal responsibility. Removing responsibility removes freedom.
It also does a disservice to the truely mentally ill like your brother in law. It clouds the issue of what is and isn't a mental disorder. Him being lumped in with millions of kids with normal behavior problems, and thousands of nerdy adults that want an easy cop-out does not do him any good.
We already have mileage based tracking without GPS. It's called an odometer.
In states with annual inspections, it's trivial to record odometer readings too, and tax based on that.
Yes, see my other post in this same thread.
The short version is I view aspergers as yet another attack on the intelligent. Just as gay people were treated for their "disease", they seek to call being a geek or nerd a disease now.
Yes, that is my objection to it. The diagnostic criteria, even when correctly applied, are questionably overbroad.
Once you count in all the self-diagnoses, it's a mess. Kuro5hin did a poll and something like 78% of the respondants claimed to have Aspergers. Not scientific but take it for what it's worth.
One has to keep in mind the psychiatrist often has no way to run a test to see if you have something, they go solely on what you tell them your problem is. Sure they can observe your behavior as you meet with them, but if you seem a little quirky or socially awkward they aren't going to second guess your self-diagnosis.
It's the same with parents and kids, the psychiatrist isn't going to often second guess someone that spends at least 8 hours a day, every day, supervising their kids, based on a 1 hour session.
That's why I think nailing down biological causes to these disorders is especially important. That way the people with real disorders get recognized, and the attack on our subculture can end.
It's not wrong to be a geek. We are not sick. Don't buy into their lies.
What? I fail to see what this has to do with bandwidth delay product.
Thanks for the tip on the icmp_ratelimit though, that's probably the culprit.
The closer we get to a biological cause of autism, the sooner we can debunk Aspergers.
I'm kidding myself though, they'll just say it must not have the same cause because the people with so-called Aspergers won't show the biological symptom.
You might know this. Why is MacOS so slow at ping? Try it sometime, ping flood a linux box, and you'll probably clear 20,000 pings/sec on a normal system (though some versions of linux are slow too). Ping -f a mac and you might get a couple hundred packets back.
This is true with OS9 and a lot of OSX boxes it seems.
A rock?
The ore samples are very safe, that's why it may not be clear where they talk about safety. They do talk about it somewhere.
They basically say "don't keep a pile of hundreds of pounds of high grade ore in a closed room, or radon could build up over time"...
Look at it this way, your average exposure to radiation per year is about 1000-2000 millirem. More if you live in the high elevations of the west.
The highest level samples they sell might be 100,000 cpm, converting that to millirem using some very rough estimates, that gives about 0.25 mrem/hour at about 1cm distance, with a very localized exposure (not whole body like your normal background sources are).
So yeah, even if you kept it in your pocket all year, right next to the boys, it would only be about double background radiation levels.
Not exactly sterilizing, and most people don't carry high grade ore samples on their person 24 hours a day for a year anyway.
In other words, they are completely safe.
Yeah, it's just used as an excuse for the prohibitionist-type busibodies to try to tell you what you can and can't do on your own land.
Yes, there's nothing illegal about rock collecting, or even getting low level stuff like U-238 spent fuel pellets.
Everything they sell is very low level, not very dangerous at all and well below any legal threshold for regulation.
It's more like the chairman of the physics department holding a class making fun of zero-point energy and free energy crackpots.
It's not like ID is some accepted scientific theory, it's just some shit creationists made up because they needed to improve their marketing. In the past it was easier because everyone was brainwashed as a child about creationism. Now that people are better educated, and generally do not attend religious schools, they needed something they could plausibly sell to people weak on science.
No university is really private anymore, they all leech government money through the guise of "financial aid" and "grants", which amount to a voucher system of public education.
I sense a business opportunity for lead lined garden housing
You are too slow.
And I could shoot my potato cannon through my neighbors window. Or my neighbor could shoot a rifle through mine, he's got guns too.
I've never been formally trained in weapons handling, and I doubt he has either.
Life is full of uncontrolled risks. You just have to take responsibility for your actions, which means learning about the potentially dangerous thing you plan to play with, and taking proper precautions.
There's thousands of other legal things this guy could do that are plenty more dangerous to his neighbors if mishandled. People just see the word nuclear and freak out. I've had people over that will not even come near my uranium doped glass marbles after they see them glow under blacklight. The Ralph Nader/concerned scientists helped cause this FUD around all things nuclear, through blatently false propaganda.
Better cancel every philosophy department in every public university then. Philosophy's primary goal is to teach people how stupid religion is.
That's what a press release is, a prewritten story that the media can use verbatim. That's the whole goal of putting out a press release!
Spyware must have corrupted your HUMOR.DLL.
A. You can use advertising points to watch it. Advertising points are "earned" by watching targeted ads that are pre-downloaded to your Tivo/MCE. These are communicated back to the producer. Maybe a small questionnaire at the end will earn you more points.
People aren't going to play games like that.
"Hey lets go watch some TV. Oh wait I need to watch 10 minutes of ads and answer a quiz, hold on"
People use stuff like Tivo because they don't want to be forced to watch ads. Any scheme to force people to watch ads is going to fail. Make people want to watch ads. I know even though I have a Tivo I still wind up seeing each commercial at least once. I just don't have to watch it 300 times just to watch a single 2 hour movie.
HTML and CSS are not the (perceived) problem. Just slap a GPL on those files and you're fine
A separate license for just the HTML and CSS? If you are implying the original author of the GPL app should slap a GPL on it, that implies even more strongly that someone who used a modified GPL server-side app would be bound to distribute source, even if it's only running on their server.
Here's an example. Imagine someone took GIMP (which is under the GPL), stuck it on their server, then dished out an HTML front end to let people fiddle with their images online. GIMP itself is not being distributed in any form, only an HTML file and the finished images are. Should the server owner be required to distribute the GIMP source code? Is it "unfair" if he doesn't?
The GPL could never apply in a situation like that (assuming the output doesn't contain large parts of the program itself), because the GPL only regulates activities not allowed already under copyright law. It would not be copyright infringement to put up an interface to a proprietary application, that simply feeds it input and output, even if that input and output are from the network. This is true even if the app were "All Rights Reserved", they can't claim to own your input or output under copyright law.
The way MS works is they call you and say "We want to audit you for compliance, can you produce records for licenses for every piece of MS software on every system? If not we will charge you $large for each system out of compliance."
Most companies can't, things get thrown away, or OEM copies came with systems, or maybe someone used an OEM copy without buying a new system, etc. So MS offers you to pay $20,000+ a year for "software assurance" which is what they call their protection racket program. They warn you that if you don't buy software assurance, they have the right to inspect every one of your systems and charge you out the ass for any noncompliance.
So basically they use scare tactics to get protection money.