So in your opinion, the ideal juror is one with no knowledge about anything?
No. I mean, it's not my opinion. It's the law.
Doctors do not sit on juries about medicine. Police officers do not sit on juries about crime. Teachers do not sit on juries about teachers. My wife was rejected for jury duty when she said she was an EMT.
It's a slippery slope towards juries which are selected for a lack of knowledge, which is no longer a jury of one's peers. Either the jurors are allowed to use the facts which they know to make decisions or they are restricted to a process of guessing based on intuition. Guessing is going to favor testimony from skilled con-men over the truth every time and would undermine the effectiveness of our entire justice system.
Non-expert juries in fact are one of the pillars of our justice system. If you want a fact or an expert opinion, you have to get it out in the open, on the stand, where the other side can rebut it.
And skilled con-men have to be within the ballpark of reasonability, or they're going to not only be shunned by their profession, but they're going to wind up in prison for giving false testimony. (Do you REALLY think that someone who lies on the stand and causes you to lose your case won't be among your next targets?)
This is exactly why I have a second unsecured access point in my apartment piped to the internet. Plausible denyabilty
You DO realize that, when you have to explain why you have this "plausible deniability", twelve random people grabbed out of a pool screened for experts in computer science*, you'll only look like a theif, right?
*: Yes, having expert knowledge of a case can get you excluded from a jury. Experts should be on the witness stand and on the record, not in the jury box and the back door.
Let's ignore for a moment anything that isn't an aspect of the extant world -- so, no "historial theories" like the discovery of Troy. And we'll let the computers count.
Humors - the idea that our bodies are controlled by four distinct fluids, whose proportions to each other determine our health and general character. Earlier theories about how the heart worked focused around this one. The pre-modern practice of bloodletting was tied directly to this one.
Eugenics - specificially, the sub-theory that pretty white folk are superior to ugly non-white folk.
Columbus's theory on the size of the planet. (No one else wanted to go not because they thought the world was flat, but beause Columbus undershot the estimated size of the world by about 50%)
Life on the Moon: "From the Earth to the Moon" was closer to Science Fiction than Science Fantasy
Hollow Earth: Once a rather well-respected theory, as recently as the 20th century still considered a plausible position.
Infinite Divisibility: There was a time when the concept of both atoms and cells was unheard of in scientific discussion. If you just kept cutting something, you would keep on getting smaller and smaller things of generally the same nature as the larger things.
Bad Air: A theory that disease was caused by the aroma of swamps, graves, illenss, and other forms of decay. Can be considered a variant of Humors.
Atomic Holocaust: Before Truman gave the OK to test the first atomic bomb, there was a scientific theory that such a detonation would ignigte the helium in the atmosphere and destroy all life on Earth.
Spontaneous Genesis: My favorite dead-theory (the debate over Intelligent Design is really between I.D. and S.G., if you go back far enough). Rather than having all creatures under the sun born from like creatures, scientific minds once held that life sprang naturally fron an environment -- a frog would spring from a swamp, for example. (Frogs are actually a good test for this, as if you don't realize that tadpoles are baby frogs you don't have any baby Frogs.)
Merchantilism: A theory about human behavior is still a scientific theory, and the idea that a nation's economic health is best measured by the gold in its coffers took a long time in dying.
Alchemy: The granddaddy of all debunked theories. At the time of the dawn of science, all learning was in the form of Alchemy -- its mystic and purposefully cryptic overtones hid the foundations of what became chemistry, but those foundations were wrapped up in a theory of how things worked that was fundamentally different than even early medieval chemistry.
Homosexuality as a mental illness: Medicine is also a science.
Freud's picture of the Psyche: While Freud was the pioneer of his field, his actual theories have been largely discarded. Even those that still practice Freudian psychoanalysis generally use different theories to guide in their interpretations.
The situation is ofcourse quite different when it comes to micro-breweries et al, but then again, Joe Sixpack can't even pronounce microbrewery, not to mention visiting one and trying to have a beer rather than whatever-it-is-they-put-on-bottles-and-call-beer he normally drink and call beer.
"microbreweries" are, by and large, no better than mass-produced beer. If you don't care for the thin beer that Budweiser et al produce (and many don't), there are darker beers produced by slightly smaller breweries, including Sam Adams but also Saranac, JW Dundee's brews from Genesee, Yengling, and more than a few others. All avaliable in the grocery stores in my area, along with a modest selection of imports and others I didn't mention.
Joe Sixpack, a mythological figure who's about as real as the "silent majority" voter, has a wide selection of domestic and foreign beer right where he buys eggs and milk. America has some very, very good beer--and it's a sign of ignorance to think that even half of the brands are the same as the as-cheap-as-can-be beer we were so famous for.
Spend the day in meditation and in remembrance of all the victims of the United States, be they the virtually genocided original American natives, the enslaved peoples imported to work and build the wealth the US currently wields as it's basis of power, or the various nations of the middle East currently being pirated under false pretenses.
Sheesh.
1: The United States of America treated its conquered prior-settlers better than any country ever had previously. Those who adapted to the new culture were, after a generation at most, taken in with open arms. Those who did not, well, they have legally binding soverign land to hang out on.
2: Most of America's wealth came not from slavery, but from the abundant natural resources. The closest our prosperity comes to slavery is "economic" slavery, but even that had been largely abandoned as the rewards to allowing and rewarding innovation and success became apaprant.
3: The "various nations of the middle east current being pirated" include exactly two -- one who harbored and refused to give up terrorists, and how has a nicely democratic government (although a bit strained by the extant hostilities), and one whose dictator was a tyrant and whose people are getting, if not a perfect government, one better than when we came in.
Of course, if we were "pirating" them we'd be taking more than we are, setting up an imperial colony or giving them a bill for the war. If you must slander them in the name of snobishness, you might want to consider using a better word -- "invade", "conquer", "savange", or "maraud" are much more accurate than "pirate."
4: Kindly remove the hateful words from your own mouth before chastising others about you. Our country isn't perfect, but it's doing the best it can.
What Americans call beer, I call chemical water, tasting like shit. People should be executed for calling that concoction beer!
America's a big place. We have cheap crappy beer, cheap not-crappy beer, and expenisve very-good beer.
Really, though, beer is all just a chemical water that tastes terrible. It just happens to be the most cost-effective and time-expensive way to imbible alcohol, which mnakes for a good fodder for those who prefer to drink for an extended period.
Why does the cynic in me think it might be more energy-efficient to not load the alternator with a hydrogen generator in the first place?
Because you're reading slashdot?
It might very well be more effecient to not draw out the energy for electrolysis. It also might veyr well be more effecient to use this cimmick.
Thankfully, we're talking about a real device with a real principle, a real claim, and a real, easily falsifiable data set. I suspect that this sort of thing does improve fuel effeciency in the trucks; otherwise, it would have been soundly debunked by now. (Just as hybrids are widely seen as NOT a cost-saving measure.)
While I can't point out any real data, I'd be willing to bet that just about every mas has jacked off. Most probably do it at least once a week.
You know, that's a sexist remark. Women masterbate too. And, of course, there is a distinct population that actually has managed to never conciously masterbate.
But upon reaching a socially acceptable age to begin fornication, the practice dies off quickly. Most humans pair off with a sexual partner in a religious/legal relationship, allowing them easy access to sexual satisfaction that is all but univerally preferred to masterbation.
Microsoft is a legally recognized monopoly. Even if we somehow agree with MS and absolve them of all moral and ethical wrongs they may have committeed, they are now a monopoly and are constrained in how they can act in a way that Apple is not.
There is competition for iTunes. There is competition for the iPod. It's entirely possible to use iTunes to buy music that doesn't go to an iPod at all, and it's entirely possible to use an iPod with someoen else's service.
The day that you can't get legal music online save through Apple, or that you can't easily find a portable high-capacity music player that isn't an iPod, is the day that Apple will be held to the same standard of fair play that Microsoft is held to.
The bugs are small and somewhat numerous. None of them are insurmountable, but they will require a modest ammount of effort.
* Yes, there is a lag. It's less noticable when opening programs than it is turning off and on the Palm.
* Several programs that I used on my old Zire 71 caused irritating bugs on the Lifedrive. Some simply cause a crash, while others cause PocketTunes to suddenly turn on despite my having told the screen to turn off.
* For some very strange reason, Versamail doesn't play nice with Gmail. It works fine with my ISP's POP and SMTP servers, but not GMail.
Heh sex is a major part of all forms of life...why paint it in such a light. This is like moral judgement.
Did you know that the military won't take you if you're the sole provider of an infant, and that if you become the sole provider due to divorce or death, you need to arrange for someone to instantly take your child or you're booted out?
Did you know that military officers can be ordered to stop having affairs?
Moral judgements are part of life. The government WILL cast moral judgement upon you when you go to work for them; it's only when you're a private citizen that they have no say at all.
There is validity to both sides (free choice versus disruption of work), but I don't think personal matters should be part of NASA's decisions...it just seems to be outside of their jursidiction, if you will, especially on long-haul missions where astronauts are away from other human beings for long periods of time.
On long-haul missions it becomes especially important for NASA to know the impact of anything that happens ahead of time. Have you ever tried living in an apartment with four other people for four and a half years? Was it easier or harder when you all started f---ing? Did the married couple that woke you up every night make it easier or harder?
Personally, I can't find much worth doing with a PDA that isn't already done better by something else. They have no "killer ap".
Sure they do. You just might not be the sort of person who would use one.
I've used my PDA for the last four years, every day, for the following things that nothing else could do better:
* Reading the news, for free, while taking the bus. * Single-entry writing. (That is, I put it in once and don't have to "type it in later.") * Tracking purchases as I make them, including cash-only transactions. * Tracking dates, contacts, and anniversaries.
This past summer I upgraded to Palm's top-of-the-line 4 GB drive, and I get to do each of the above plus:
* Watch movies * Listen to music or podcasts * Reference material while at work or play.
The PDA is like a Personal Computer that you constantly have with you. It only makes sense in that venue, and in that venue it does its variety of small jobs better than anything else.
It takes more energy to produce biofuel than you get from the biofuel
Yes, when you limit "biofuel" to human-edible corn.
Expand "biofuel" to, oh, the whole plant and various yard waste, and it suddenly becomes almost break-even.
Expand "biofuel" to oil-heavy algae, and you've got an amazing cost-reduction. I'd wager that the wait is partly due to the oil-industry slanted administration, but mostly due to the time and investment necessary--and a desire to wait until we can maximize profit rolling them out.
Palm has a very good reason to keep the Lifedrive expenseive -- it keeps out the "I want to try this" folk, which lets them reduce the number of bugs that crop up. And, oh yes, the lifedrive does have bugs. Not enough to keep my wife from loving it more than she ever loved any PDA I showed her, but enough to keep, say, my friends from picking one up.
But the real falsehood in your reply is economics. Palm's cheap PDAs are where they make their money. Their biggest sellers and most revenue come from the bottom part of their market segment -- the part that really is "just a really good organizer."
And ITMS was created to sell iPods, not the other way around.
It should take more than a act of congress because this rips apart all common sense property rights on which all other rights are based on
So, where exactly are property rights enumerated in the law?
Hell, show me where in the Declaration or the Federalist papers, even, that it's argued that property rights are primary rights (that is, not a right given for the preservation of important rights.)
Go back and read that thing again. See how it notes that small claims courts are ruled largely by "common sense?" Before too long Dell will either (1) have a binding legal precedent sufficient to say "windows refund is $10" or (2) sue you for wrongful prosectution. Which would likely be all of your profit, plus Dell's court costs.
Or, a bit more likely, Dell will just start listing Windows XP seperately on their bills. Possibliy along with an equal-weight discount. That'd be a neat administrative trick that would save them essentially all of their legal bills on this matter.
I'd base it on the fact that numerous essentially charity-ware applications have already adapted OpenDocument. That, and the fairly simple fact that MS has already done a lot of the necessary work, in converting Office to a real XML format for Office 12.
Let's look at it another way; what do YOU base your arugment that it wouldn't be "dead easy" for the world's biggest software company to support a standard?
If anything they're presenting the RIAA with a means of first suing everybody on the network and then suing the sh*t out of LimeWire for allowing their "secure" system to easily be compromised.
psst. Sharing MP3s without the permission of the copyright holder is a tort, and a crime if you do it because you don't want to pay. Encouraging torts and crimes is itself either a tort or a crime, possibly the same tort-or-crime as that being assisted.
LimeWire, in attempting to add in checks for licenses, is doing exactly what they should be doing. P2P is a great technology and a cultural phenomonon, but it's still bound by the extant rules. If it's an "adapt or die" situation for the music industry, then they should "adapt or die" based on the rules, not on how easily they're broken. (I.e., if your favorite band doesn't share their music on P2P, find a new favorite band or just pay up.)
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So in your opinion, the ideal juror is one with no knowledge about anything?
No. I mean, it's not my opinion. It's the law.
Doctors do not sit on juries about medicine. Police officers do not sit on juries about crime. Teachers do not sit on juries about teachers. My wife was rejected for jury duty when she said she was an EMT.
It's a slippery slope towards juries which are selected for a lack of knowledge, which is no longer a jury of one's peers. Either the jurors are allowed to use the facts which they know to make decisions or they are restricted to a process of guessing based on intuition. Guessing is going to favor testimony from skilled con-men over the truth every time and would undermine the effectiveness of our entire justice system.
Non-expert juries in fact are one of the pillars of our justice system. If you want a fact or an expert opinion, you have to get it out in the open, on the stand, where the other side can rebut it.
And skilled con-men have to be within the ballpark of reasonability, or they're going to not only be shunned by their profession, but they're going to wind up in prison for giving false testimony. (Do you REALLY think that someone who lies on the stand and causes you to lose your case won't be among your next targets?)
This is exactly why I have a second unsecured access point in my apartment piped to the internet. Plausible denyabilty
You DO realize that, when you have to explain why you have this "plausible deniability", twelve random people grabbed out of a pool screened for experts in computer science*, you'll only look like a theif, right?
*: Yes, having expert knowledge of a case can get you excluded from a jury. Experts should be on the witness stand and on the record, not in the jury box and the back door.
Ah, no. None of the points I made were a failure of science -- in fact, they were the SUCCESS of science.
science is not about facts. it's about hypotheses.
Science is not about truth. It's all about facts, and creating theories or forming laws that fit all available and verifiable facts.
The existance of God is a Truth, not a Fact; it can neither be tested nor verified in an objective manner.
Let's ignore for a moment anything that isn't an aspect of the extant world -- so, no "historial theories" like the discovery of Troy. And we'll let the computers count.
The situation is ofcourse quite different when it comes to micro-breweries et al, but then again, Joe Sixpack can't even pronounce microbrewery, not to mention visiting one and trying to have a beer rather than whatever-it-is-they-put-on-bottles-and-call-beer he normally drink and call beer.
"microbreweries" are, by and large, no better than mass-produced beer. If you don't care for the thin beer that Budweiser et al produce (and many don't), there are darker beers produced by slightly smaller breweries, including Sam Adams but also Saranac, JW Dundee's brews from Genesee, Yengling, and more than a few others. All avaliable in the grocery stores in my area, along with a modest selection of imports and others I didn't mention.
Joe Sixpack, a mythological figure who's about as real as the "silent majority" voter, has a wide selection of domestic and foreign beer right where he buys eggs and milk. America has some very, very good beer--and it's a sign of ignorance to think that even half of the brands are the same as the as-cheap-as-can-be beer we were so famous for.
Spend the day in meditation and in remembrance of all the victims of the United States, be they the virtually genocided original American natives, the enslaved peoples imported to work and build the wealth the US currently wields as it's basis of power, or the various nations of the middle East currently being pirated under false pretenses.
Sheesh.
1: The United States of America treated its conquered prior-settlers better than any country ever had previously. Those who adapted to the new culture were, after a generation at most, taken in with open arms. Those who did not, well, they have legally binding soverign land to hang out on.
2: Most of America's wealth came not from slavery, but from the abundant natural resources. The closest our prosperity comes to slavery is "economic" slavery, but even that had been largely abandoned as the rewards to allowing and rewarding innovation and success became apaprant.
3: The "various nations of the middle east current being pirated" include exactly two -- one who harbored and refused to give up terrorists, and how has a nicely democratic government (although a bit strained by the extant hostilities), and one whose dictator was a tyrant and whose people are getting, if not a perfect government, one better than when we came in.
Of course, if we were "pirating" them we'd be taking more than we are, setting up an imperial colony or giving them a bill for the war. If you must slander them in the name of snobishness, you might want to consider using a better word -- "invade", "conquer", "savange", or "maraud" are much more accurate than "pirate."
4: Kindly remove the hateful words from your own mouth before chastising others about you. Our country isn't perfect, but it's doing the best it can.
What Americans call beer, I call chemical water, tasting like shit. People should be executed for calling that concoction beer!
America's a big place. We have cheap crappy beer, cheap not-crappy beer, and expenisve very-good beer.
Really, though, beer is all just a chemical water that tastes terrible. It just happens to be the most cost-effective and time-expensive way to imbible alcohol, which mnakes for a good fodder for those who prefer to drink for an extended period.
Why does the cynic in me think it might be more energy-efficient to not load the alternator with a hydrogen generator in the first place?
Because you're reading slashdot?
It might very well be more effecient to not draw out the energy for electrolysis. It also might veyr well be more effecient to use this cimmick.
Thankfully, we're talking about a real device with a real principle, a real claim, and a real, easily falsifiable data set. I suspect that this sort of thing does improve fuel effeciency in the trucks; otherwise, it would have been soundly debunked by now. (Just as hybrids are widely seen as NOT a cost-saving measure.)
which is called dumping, which is normally illegal
No, it's called investing. No one else makes X-Boxes, so dumping doesn't apply here.
AHahhahahahahaha! You've obviously never been married.
1/3/98. 6:30 pm. And every minute of every hour of every day since.
You obviously married the wrong person.
While I can't point out any real data, I'd be willing to bet that just about every mas has jacked off. Most probably do it at least once a week.
You know, that's a sexist remark. Women masterbate too. And, of course, there is a distinct population that actually has managed to never conciously masterbate.
But upon reaching a socially acceptable age to begin fornication, the practice dies off quickly. Most humans pair off with a sexual partner in a religious/legal relationship, allowing them easy access to sexual satisfaction that is all but univerally preferred to masterbation.
Try the Kinsey study if you're really interested.
Close. Very close. But wrong.
Microsoft is a legally recognized monopoly. Even if we somehow agree with MS and absolve them of all moral and ethical wrongs they may have committeed, they are now a monopoly and are constrained in how they can act in a way that Apple is not.
There is competition for iTunes. There is competition for the iPod. It's entirely possible to use iTunes to buy music that doesn't go to an iPod at all, and it's entirely possible to use an iPod with someoen else's service.
The day that you can't get legal music online save through Apple, or that you can't easily find a portable high-capacity music player that isn't an iPod, is the day that Apple will be held to the same standard of fair play that Microsoft is held to.
The bugs are small and somewhat numerous. None of them are insurmountable, but they will require a modest ammount of effort.
* Yes, there is a lag. It's less noticable when opening programs than it is turning off and on the Palm.
* Several programs that I used on my old Zire 71 caused irritating bugs on the Lifedrive. Some simply cause a crash, while others cause PocketTunes to suddenly turn on despite my having told the screen to turn off.
* For some very strange reason, Versamail doesn't play nice with Gmail. It works fine with my ISP's POP and SMTP servers, but not GMail.
Palm wants to keep the Lifedrive expensive because they don't want to fix the bugs in it.
Wrong.
Palm wants to keep the lifedrive expensive so that the folk who get the LD, and the bugs, really wanted the LD and will live with the bugs.
They will fix the bugs as they can.
Heh sex is a major part of all forms of life...why paint it in such a light. This is like moral judgement.
Did you know that the military won't take you if you're the sole provider of an infant, and that if you become the sole provider due to divorce or death, you need to arrange for someone to instantly take your child or you're booted out?
Did you know that military officers can be ordered to stop having affairs?
Moral judgements are part of life. The government WILL cast moral judgement upon you when you go to work for them; it's only when you're a private citizen that they have no say at all.
There is validity to both sides (free choice versus disruption of work), but I don't think personal matters should be part of NASA's decisions...it just seems to be outside of their jursidiction, if you will, especially on long-haul missions where astronauts are away from other human beings for long periods of time.
On long-haul missions it becomes especially important for NASA to know the impact of anything that happens ahead of time. Have you ever tried living in an apartment with four other people for four and a half years? Was it easier or harder when you all started f---ing? Did the married couple that woke you up every night make it easier or harder?
Personally, I can't find much worth doing with a PDA that isn't already done better by something else. They have no "killer ap".
Sure they do. You just might not be the sort of person who would use one.
I've used my PDA for the last four years, every day, for the following things that nothing else could do better:
* Reading the news, for free, while taking the bus.
* Single-entry writing. (That is, I put it in once and don't have to "type it in later.")
* Tracking purchases as I make them, including cash-only transactions.
* Tracking dates, contacts, and anniversaries.
This past summer I upgraded to Palm's top-of-the-line 4 GB drive, and I get to do each of the above plus:
* Watch movies
* Listen to music or podcasts
* Reference material while at work or play.
The PDA is like a Personal Computer that you constantly have with you. It only makes sense in that venue, and in that venue it does its variety of small jobs better than anything else.
It takes more energy to produce biofuel than you get from the biofuel
Yes, when you limit "biofuel" to human-edible corn.
Expand "biofuel" to, oh, the whole plant and various yard waste, and it suddenly becomes almost break-even.
Expand "biofuel" to oil-heavy algae, and you've got an amazing cost-reduction. I'd wager that the wait is partly due to the oil-industry slanted administration, but mostly due to the time and investment necessary--and a desire to wait until we can maximize profit rolling them out.
Actually...
Palm has a very good reason to keep the Lifedrive expenseive -- it keeps out the "I want to try this" folk, which lets them reduce the number of bugs that crop up. And, oh yes, the lifedrive does have bugs. Not enough to keep my wife from loving it more than she ever loved any PDA I showed her, but enough to keep, say, my friends from picking one up.
But the real falsehood in your reply is economics. Palm's cheap PDAs are where they make their money. Their biggest sellers and most revenue come from the bottom part of their market segment -- the part that really is "just a really good organizer."
And ITMS was created to sell iPods, not the other way around.
It should take more than a act of congress because this rips apart all common sense property rights on which all other rights are based on
So, where exactly are property rights enumerated in the law?
Hell, show me where in the Declaration or the Federalist papers, even, that it's argued that property rights are primary rights (that is, not a right given for the preservation of important rights.)
Go ahead, I'll wait.
So... making a backup copy for when my kids destroy the CD/DVD (or when my hard drive crashes) isn't fair use?
Sure it is. You just need to figure out how to include DVD's CSS.
Heh.
Go back and read that thing again. See how it notes that small claims courts are ruled largely by "common sense?" Before too long Dell will either (1) have a binding legal precedent sufficient to say "windows refund is $10" or (2) sue you for wrongful prosectution. Which would likely be all of your profit, plus Dell's court costs.
Or, a bit more likely, Dell will just start listing Windows XP seperately on their bills. Possibliy along with an equal-weight discount. That'd be a neat administrative trick that would save them essentially all of their legal bills on this matter.
Just... why?
Because a gameboy SP cannot be easily fit into a 20-something professional's work clothes.
Because a smaller gameboy can be carried around for casual gaming, like while waiting in line, without being a brick in your pocket.
Because some folk just buy everything that Nintendo sells.
Because Nintendo can do it at a profit.
What do you base your "dead easy" analysis on?
I'd base it on the fact that numerous essentially charity-ware applications have already adapted OpenDocument. That, and the fairly simple fact that MS has already done a lot of the necessary work, in converting Office to a real XML format for Office 12.
Let's look at it another way; what do YOU base your arugment that it wouldn't be "dead easy" for the world's biggest software company to support a standard?
If anything they're presenting the RIAA with a means of first suing everybody on the network and then suing the sh*t out of LimeWire for allowing their "secure" system to easily be compromised.
psst. Sharing MP3s without the permission of the copyright holder is a tort, and a crime if you do it because you don't want to pay. Encouraging torts and crimes is itself either a tort or a crime, possibly the same tort-or-crime as that being assisted.
LimeWire, in attempting to add in checks for licenses, is doing exactly what they should be doing. P2P is a great technology and a cultural phenomonon, but it's still bound by the extant rules. If it's an "adapt or die" situation for the music industry, then they should "adapt or die" based on the rules, not on how easily they're broken. (I.e., if your favorite band doesn't share their music on P2P, find a new favorite band or just pay up.)