Laches is the more relevant legal term. Estoppel just means they are prevented from doing something. Laches is a form of estoppel.
In law, laches is an equitable defense accusing an opposing party of having "sat on his rights"; as a result of this delay, the delaying party is undeserving of equitable relief. It is a form of estoppel for delay
Well, the supreme court did rule that the sole basis of child pornography laws is the effect on the victim, thus legalizing all that we speak of, animation, CG, etc.
To ban it would mean banning movies like Kill Bill even, it portrays in animation an 11 year old having sex with a man (and then putting a sword in him, but that's beside the point).
It also remains to be seen whether state and local police will enforce a federal only, criminal, law.
In the past they have been very reluctant, which basically means as long as you don't attract federal attention, you aren't likely to get into trouble, in some places at least.
The bad thing is this precedent basically expands the commerce clause to encompass any arbitrary law the federal government would want to pass. It's been chipped away at, precedent by precedent, for years, and this is what it leads to.
Anything can be shown to have a miniscule effect on interstate commerce: marriage, divorce, car ownership, real estate, zoning laws, etc. And apparently a miniscule effect is enough, even if that effect is to lessen the illegal trade of contraband!
What is the difference whether the government buys a few hundred thousand pounds of cheese to prop up the market, or they give poor people coupons to do the buying for them? It's all a subsidy to prop up markets.
You need to read Locke. Locke thinks you're full of crap when it comes to the roll of government.
Well the law doesn't agree. I guess the law is "full of crap" too.
Warren v. District of Columbia: "[It is a] fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen."
DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services: "The affirmative duty to protect arises not from the State's knowledge of the individual's predicament or from its expressions of intent to help him, but from the limitation which it has imposed on his freedom to act on his own behalf."
Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Department - the Court ruled that the police had no constitutional duty to protect people from crime.
Riss v. New York - [No reason] to carve out an area of tort liability for police protection to members of the public.
Bowers v. DeVito - But the only duties of care that may be enforced in suits under section 1983 are duties founded on the Constitution or laws of the United States; and the duty to protect the public from dangerous madmen is not among them.
Calogrides v. Mobile - The Court recognized the fact that the City's duty was to provide adequate police protection to the public at large rather than to a particular individual, and that to find the City liable would threaten the benefits the public received from police protection.
If we're not talking about fraud cases, we're talking about people who have a legitimate claim to the assistance in question.
My original assertion was that Food Stamps are a farm subsidy, Medicaid/Medicare is a medical industry subsidy.
do we not have the responsibility to see that they are taken care of?
We do not. It may be the right thing to do, and charity is a fine thing, something all men of consience should at least contribute a little to, voluntarily.
If, however, I am responsible (under threat of arrest if I don't comply) for your mistakes and misfortunes, that makes your entire personal life my business. That is not compatible with freedom.
What is a government for but to protect those to weak (financialy, or physicaly) to protect themselves?
The government is not meant to protect you. The police have no obligation to protect you. Their only obligation is to enforce the laws. The laws are passed to protect society, not individuals.
Civil law provides a means for an individual to settle claims of damages against another individual or company, but that is after the fact. Civil proceedings do not directly protect you from being damaged.
No part of law is meant to protect the individual, except the bill of rights. The bill of rights only protects you from the government actions anyway, not other citizens.
If it could be proven that somone who likes to view such images presents a risk to society (in that they might act out the scenes portrayed in the images)
Why? They don't arrest people on their way out of the theather after watching extremely violent movies.
Those who truely believe that it's right and just to steal 50+% of upper/middle class people's income and give it to the poor though highly inefficent farm and medical industry subsidies.
It doesn't matter which ISP you use, some idiots somewhere will have some personal grudge against it.
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Heh cool...
I've only done one mod for my DTV... after the batteries going dead deep into the dungeon of the sword of fargoal, I added a coax jack for a wall wart. It was one with a bypass pin so I can leave the batteries in and it won't try to charge them.
If you are quick, you can also pull out the wall wart and it will switch to batteries before the DTV resets, and you can take your game with you. I imagine a capacitor to hold up the voltage would make the transistion much easier, it would be more like a laptop then, plug and unplug the wall power whenever you want.
Apple, by selling slower hardware at a premium price, has created a strong following of those who will refuse to believe their product isn't as good.
Through constant attack by those buying cheaper and faster hardware, the movement is galvanized.
If you take some crap, and stick a high price tag on it, some people are bound to think it is better. That is how, paradoxically, raising prices can actually increase sales.
Would anyone go to cirque de soleil if the tickets were $5? Probably not as many. High price carries false prestiege, regardless of quality.
For a while... the orbit won't last forever. All this space station and shuttle crap is barely on the edge of the atmosphere... gravity out there is only about 10% less strong than it is here, if that gives you an idea how close they are.
However brilliant their graphics are, they still can't look that good at 720x480
720 is generous. 704 or less is more commonly cited. And the safe viewable area is more like 640, remember some of the picture goes under the bezel in most TVs, unlike monitors that have an image smaller than the screen.
So it's more like 640X480... interlaced.
I always blast my console loving friends that also always buy the latest video cards for the hypocracy of accepting interlaced 640X480 for console but spending $300 on a the latest video card so they can turn all the res and settings up in the latest PC games.
But that's because I UNDERSTAND the basic CONCEPTS and can APPLY that knowledge in real world situations. And that is something that cannot be found from someone or something providing you with answers
I'm afraid that's called "intelligence", and is not something determined by whether you learned math with a calculator or not.
It's most likely set in stone by the time kids begin grade school too.
Don't mistake your superior intelligence for something else, like different methods that were available to learn with when you were young.
Those things didn't make you intelligent, you already were.
Most likely, they knew it, but didn't think it mattered because the chance of someone figuring it out, it becoming widespread knowledge, and the school making a big deal about it, are pretty slim.
On an $8 per calculator budget, a few corners are going to get cut, especially if it's a small production run for one specific state's schools.
The chip that is used in digital alarm clocks is actually surprisingly standardized, and it's the same one we had as kids. There are even a few more hidden features that are often not accessible by outside buttons. It's all well documented on the web.
It doesn't matter. Just as we no longer teach students blacksmithing, barrel making, or horseback riding, technology marches on. And most educators are far behind the curve, as always.
In this case, math teachers see the end for their profession is near, and are scared. I think that's why you see so many reactionary anti-calculator views.
Technology marches on. Jobs get eliminated and different jobs get created. Everone needs to get over it.
We have a slightly-puritanical mindset that we have to work for everything.
Well fission is "easy". Just pile up a bunch of radioactive stuff, and boil water with the heat it produces.
Except it isn't too easy. We do have to work for it. Maintaining criticality without melting the works is an issue, disposal of waste, getting rid of lots and lots of waste heat, etc.
Energy isn't one of those things likely to ever be particularly easy. If you have a lot of energy available quickly in one place, it's always inherently dangerous. If you distribute energy production/conversion it's usually less efficient.
I don't see a silver bullet in the near future, I do think any solution will only be incrementally better at any one point, with lots of tradeoffs to consider.
nuclear batteries lasting years could come soon if we get over our hangups
How's that? Betavoltaics? Peltier (seebeck) effect? None of those are even approaching practical replacements for batteries. We might be closer if that nanopit betavoltaic thing pans out, but as far as I know, no one has actually seen one of those work, and even the developers didn't see them as a replacement for chemical batteries in general applications.
It's not an irrational fear of radiation here, it's a practical matter.
That points out a major problem that no one seems to be addressing... It's nearly impossible to move large files across the Internet, with a normal client machine doing the sending.
FTP.. sucks, not designed to work with firewalls, and there are many firewalls that choke it.
SSH/SCP/SFTP.. Great! But not many people have GUI clients installed for it. Web browsers don't support users clicking a ssh URL, entering their user and pass, and letting them drag and drop to the directory. Some browsers do support this for FTP, but FTP has problems mentioned above.
Email.. Not good for large files, many servers reject or choke if you try to shove much more than 20-30 megs down them. Also bloats binaries by having to 7-bit encode them. Spam filters are a problem, as are virus filters. Spam filters more prone to go off if you don't 7 bit encode your attachment, and the client might not know how to handle a nonencoded attachment.
HTTP.. Almost ideal! Except.. browers are TERRIBLE at giving feedback to the user about the upload progress. There's no way to resume the upload. Handling the files securely on the server side is difficult. Squid used to/still does ship with a default configuration that will cause any upload over 10 megs to fail. Other proxies can screw up HTTP uploads too.
WebDAV.. Not bad, but not something most people are familiar with. Client support is OK with recent OS versions. Still might have proxy problems. Not as easy to set up on the server side as other things.
AIM.. Only good for person-to-person transfers, not person-to-server. File transfer not well implemented in some third party clients.
Custom Client.. Good, because you control everything on the client. Bad in that the user has to install something, you have to write something, and maintain it for multiple platforms. Java applet can't be done without paying for a certificate and signing.
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I work in prepress, clients often have to send us large files. The way it goes most of the time is they try one of these, then resort to fedexing us a CD/DVD, because something fucked up.
Please for the love of god someone solve this problem! It can't be that hard, it's what the Internet does at the lowest level, move files around.
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Laches is the more relevant legal term. Estoppel just means they are prevented from doing something. Laches is a form of estoppel.
In law, laches is an equitable defense accusing an opposing party of having "sat on his rights"; as a result of this delay, the delaying party is undeserving of equitable relief. It is a form of estoppel for delay
they believe in Star Trek in the same way that other faithful do.
In the pedophile chat rooms, of course!
Well, the supreme court did rule that the sole basis of child pornography laws is the effect on the victim, thus legalizing all that we speak of, animation, CG, etc.
To ban it would mean banning movies like Kill Bill even, it portrays in animation an 11 year old having sex with a man (and then putting a sword in him, but that's beside the point).
It also remains to be seen whether state and local police will enforce a federal only, criminal, law.
In the past they have been very reluctant, which basically means as long as you don't attract federal attention, you aren't likely to get into trouble, in some places at least.
The bad thing is this precedent basically expands the commerce clause to encompass any arbitrary law the federal government would want to pass. It's been chipped away at, precedent by precedent, for years, and this is what it leads to.
Anything can be shown to have a miniscule effect on interstate commerce: marriage, divorce, car ownership, real estate, zoning laws, etc. And apparently a miniscule effect is enough, even if that effect is to lessen the illegal trade of contraband!
when we fix prices.
What is the difference whether the government buys a few hundred thousand pounds of cheese to prop up the market, or they give poor people coupons to do the buying for them? It's all a subsidy to prop up markets.
You need to read Locke. Locke thinks you're full of crap when it comes to the roll of government.
Well the law doesn't agree. I guess the law is "full of crap" too.
Warren v. District of Columbia: "[It is a] fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen."
DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services: "The affirmative duty to protect arises not from the State's knowledge of the individual's predicament or from its expressions of intent to help him, but from the limitation which it has imposed on his freedom to act on his own behalf."
Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Department - the Court ruled that the police had no constitutional duty to protect people from crime.
Riss v. New York - [No reason] to carve out an area of tort liability for police protection to members of the public.
Bowers v. DeVito - But the only duties of care that may be enforced in suits under section 1983 are duties founded on the Constitution or laws of the United States; and the duty to protect the public from dangerous madmen is not among them.
Calogrides v. Mobile - The Court recognized the fact that the City's duty was to provide adequate police protection to the public at large rather than to a particular individual, and that to find the City liable would threaten the benefits the public received from police protection.
There's more, but I think this is enough.
If we're not talking about fraud cases, we're talking about people who have a legitimate claim to the assistance in question.
My original assertion was that Food Stamps are a farm subsidy, Medicaid/Medicare is a medical industry subsidy.
do we not have the responsibility to see that they are taken care of?
We do not. It may be the right thing to do, and charity is a fine thing, something all men of consience should at least contribute a little to, voluntarily.
If, however, I am responsible (under threat of arrest if I don't comply) for your mistakes and misfortunes, that makes your entire personal life my business. That is not compatible with freedom.
What is a government for but to protect those to weak (financialy, or physicaly) to protect themselves?
The government is not meant to protect you. The police have no obligation to protect you. Their only obligation is to enforce the laws. The laws are passed to protect society, not individuals.
Civil law provides a means for an individual to settle claims of damages against another individual or company, but that is after the fact. Civil proceedings do not directly protect you from being damaged.
No part of law is meant to protect the individual, except the bill of rights. The bill of rights only protects you from the government actions anyway, not other citizens.
Who's talking about fraud?
If it could be proven that somone who likes to view such images presents a risk to society (in that they might act out the scenes portrayed in the images)
Why? They don't arrest people on their way out of the theather after watching extremely violent movies.
Medical Marijuana is legal in 10 states. In Alaska, recreational use is legal too.
That's not something that came from a nutjob, the majority of people in most states support medical marijuana.
There's a third category:
Those who truely believe that it's right and just to steal 50+% of upper/middle class people's income and give it to the poor though highly inefficent farm and medical industry subsidies.
It doesn't matter which ISP you use, some idiots somewhere will have some personal grudge against it.
Heh cool...
I've only done one mod for my DTV... after the batteries going dead deep into the dungeon of the sword of fargoal, I added a coax jack for a wall wart. It was one with a bypass pin so I can leave the batteries in and it won't try to charge them.
If you are quick, you can also pull out the wall wart and it will switch to batteries before the DTV resets, and you can take your game with you. I imagine a capacitor to hold up the voltage would make the transistion much easier, it would be more like a laptop then, plug and unplug the wall power whenever you want.
No, because the emperor wears no clothes.
Apple, by selling slower hardware at a premium price, has created a strong following of those who will refuse to believe their product isn't as good.
Through constant attack by those buying cheaper and faster hardware, the movement is galvanized.
If you take some crap, and stick a high price tag on it, some people are bound to think it is better. That is how, paradoxically, raising prices can actually increase sales.
Would anyone go to cirque de soleil if the tickets were $5? Probably not as many. High price carries false prestiege, regardless of quality.
For a while... the orbit won't last forever. All this space station and shuttle crap is barely on the edge of the atmosphere... gravity out there is only about 10% less strong than it is here, if that gives you an idea how close they are.
Actually it means "shapeless penis" if you deconstruct it.
A - without
morph - shape
phallus - penis
I guess they should look into some of those viagra or cialis spams.
Maybe your engine has to be tighter because you have to pump out effectively twice the FPS?
Just a wild guess, I'm not a game programmer.
However brilliant their graphics are, they still can't look that good at 720x480
720 is generous. 704 or less is more commonly cited. And the safe viewable area is more like 640, remember some of the picture goes under the bezel in most TVs, unlike monitors that have an image smaller than the screen.
So it's more like 640X480... interlaced.
I always blast my console loving friends that also always buy the latest video cards for the hypocracy of accepting interlaced 640X480 for console but spending $300 on a the latest video card so they can turn all the res and settings up in the latest PC games.
It sounds like you are agreeing with me, but you started your post with "Bull". :)
But that's because I UNDERSTAND the basic CONCEPTS and can APPLY that knowledge in real world situations. And that is something that cannot be found from someone or something providing you with answers
I'm afraid that's called "intelligence", and is not something determined by whether you learned math with a calculator or not.
It's most likely set in stone by the time kids begin grade school too.
Don't mistake your superior intelligence for something else, like different methods that were available to learn with when you were young.
Those things didn't make you intelligent, you already were.
Most likely, they knew it, but didn't think it mattered because the chance of someone figuring it out, it becoming widespread knowledge, and the school making a big deal about it, are pretty slim.
On an $8 per calculator budget, a few corners are going to get cut, especially if it's a small production run for one specific state's schools.
Yep, I found those same things when I was young.
The chip that is used in digital alarm clocks is actually surprisingly standardized, and it's the same one we had as kids. There are even a few more hidden features that are often not accessible by outside buttons. It's all well documented on the web.
It doesn't matter. Just as we no longer teach students blacksmithing, barrel making, or horseback riding, technology marches on. And most educators are far behind the curve, as always.
In this case, math teachers see the end for their profession is near, and are scared. I think that's why you see so many reactionary anti-calculator views.
Technology marches on. Jobs get eliminated and different jobs get created. Everone needs to get over it.
Aopen tried to make an x86 mac-mini competitor-- it was $100 more
It would be difficult to find a processor as slow as a mac mini in the x86 world that was still in production.
What processor did AOpen use? To really emulate a mac mini, you'd have to have Intel still producing Pentium II class chips, which they don't.
We have a slightly-puritanical mindset that we have to work for everything.
Well fission is "easy". Just pile up a bunch of radioactive stuff, and boil water with the heat it produces.
Except it isn't too easy. We do have to work for it. Maintaining criticality without melting the works is an issue, disposal of waste, getting rid of lots and lots of waste heat, etc.
Energy isn't one of those things likely to ever be particularly easy. If you have a lot of energy available quickly in one place, it's always inherently dangerous. If you distribute energy production/conversion it's usually less efficient.
I don't see a silver bullet in the near future, I do think any solution will only be incrementally better at any one point, with lots of tradeoffs to consider.
nuclear batteries lasting years could come soon if we get over our hangups
How's that? Betavoltaics? Peltier (seebeck) effect? None of those are even approaching practical replacements for batteries. We might be closer if that nanopit betavoltaic thing pans out, but as far as I know, no one has actually seen one of those work, and even the developers didn't see them as a replacement for chemical batteries in general applications.
It's not an irrational fear of radiation here, it's a practical matter.
That points out a major problem that no one seems to be addressing... It's nearly impossible to move large files across the Internet, with a normal client machine doing the sending.
FTP.. sucks, not designed to work with firewalls, and there are many firewalls that choke it.
SSH/SCP/SFTP.. Great! But not many people have GUI clients installed for it. Web browsers don't support users clicking a ssh URL, entering their user and pass, and letting them drag and drop to the directory. Some browsers do support this for FTP, but FTP has problems mentioned above.
Email.. Not good for large files, many servers reject or choke if you try to shove much more than 20-30 megs down them. Also bloats binaries by having to 7-bit encode them. Spam filters are a problem, as are virus filters. Spam filters more prone to go off if you don't 7 bit encode your attachment, and the client might not know how to handle a nonencoded attachment.
HTTP.. Almost ideal! Except.. browers are TERRIBLE at giving feedback to the user about the upload progress. There's no way to resume the upload. Handling the files securely on the server side is difficult. Squid used to/still does ship with a default configuration that will cause any upload over 10 megs to fail. Other proxies can screw up HTTP uploads too.
WebDAV.. Not bad, but not something most people are familiar with. Client support is OK with recent OS versions. Still might have proxy problems. Not as easy to set up on the server side as other things.
AIM.. Only good for person-to-person transfers, not person-to-server. File transfer not well implemented in some third party clients.
Custom Client.. Good, because you control everything on the client. Bad in that the user has to install something, you have to write something, and maintain it for multiple platforms. Java applet can't be done without paying for a certificate and signing.
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I work in prepress, clients often have to send us large files. The way it goes most of the time is they try one of these, then resort to fedexing us a CD/DVD, because something fucked up.
Please for the love of god someone solve this problem! It can't be that hard, it's what the Internet does at the lowest level, move files around.