Ralph Nader would encourage tax subsidies to develop alternatives to current combustion engines, raise fuel efficiency standards, and stop subsidizing the production of fossil-fuel using engines.
This progressive method does not harm corporations directly, but stops helping those who are harming the commons. Currently, the gov't subsidizes the "bad" kind of fuels, and does not give enough incentives to develop new sources of power for automobiles. He has more information at his website
Look it up, he is talking about specific privatization of prisons, which has many facets. For instance, the government uses a bid process to build prisons. In the past, this process mostly used government agencies. Several states now bid to private companies and have run into huge overruns.
More frightening are prisons actually run by private corporations. There is huge potential for fraud, abuse, and violation of the intent of the prison system, as well as little evidence that these corporations actually save money; most evidence shows that they cost more money through various hidden costs. Texas I believe, along with California, are leaders in this field. Read The Nation article carefully before making any more uninformed posts. As you can see, corporations actually do benefit from the production of more prisons.
These are not personalized replies. Ralph Nader has not said very much in the media to adress the question, so has not answered it here. The same with the question on encryption: these answers are all drawn from previous statements, so of course Nader said nothing about it before, and cannot be quoted here. Really, the political candidates are all quite busy right before election day.
If you look at Ralph's record, you will see that his stance on first amendment issues is pretty strong. It was a very specific question, so unsurprising that there was no answer, but you can bet he would have been in support of rights for everyone, including minority religions.
OT, nader's ideas about IP seem like an open-sourcer's dream - it sounds like he (or staff) wrote them up just for our entertainment. No one else will care what he thinks about IP -what's he going to do, stop getting contributions from Amazon? This is like Gore campaigning in front of minority groups or Bush to the religious right - he's preaching to the choir, after making sure he knows what the choir wants to hear.
Nader does not accept soft money or corporate donations. He is the only candidate actually practicing his campaign finance reform platform. So he doesn't need to reject Amazon's donations specifically; he is not in thrall to special interests of any form. Thus, he can actually do his best to serve the people.
FYI, since these are all drawn from previous statements, he cannot be pandering to Slashdot. These are his real issues and beliefs; look at his website, here. Nader does not pander to anybody; he is extremely popular in Oregon and Washington, yet has spoken out against physician assisted suicide laws, which are fairly popular among his voter base. He has spoken out against the US policy of favoring Israel over Palestine, although his running mate is Jewish. Look at his record, and you will see that here is a person you can really trust. He only says what he means, and is not worried about alienating voters (although he could use every voter he could get). A politician in the best sense.
What surplus? How can people talk about surpluses when they have somewhere on the order of 5 TRILLION dollars in collective debt. IMNSHO, you don't have a surplus until you don't have a debt. Raise the taxes, cut spending, and pay off the debt.
The intelligent way to run any enterprise is not to foolishly refuse any loans-a certain level of debt is acceptable in a corporation or a government. Certainly, the Nation's current level of debt is exceedingly high and should perhaps be reined in-but remember that nobody is arguing that it should be zero. A surplus is a surplus no matter what the level of debt.
The intelligent way to direct the spending is to first use the money in the current budget where it is needed, and then pay down the debt as much as is affordable, keeping some reserves of course. Anything else is foolhardy.
First a note: the article at Salon.com gives far more information about the pieces. Created using Photoshop.
The first comment to make is that the piece is not necessarily making a commentary, political or otherwise. And the actual content of each image seems to be less relevant than the overall piece as a series.
The several strong and defining moments in this persons life all look about the same from one point of view; the point of view of a video game? It makes one think about several things, including how we relate with real life events and how we relate with fictional events in pretty much the same way. The use of color is again consistent with a video game type of palette, yet the actual images are blurred and smooth, not pixelated.
I bet the artist is glad for his work to get exposure, but the tone of the piece as a whole is pretty humble and unassuming-as if to simply say "here I am."
I have to agree; this is the best CG I have ever seen, and I am really into CG. The most important thing is the story, and although I barely know FF, it seems like they have it in place. The first computer animated shorts sucked because they had a bunch of computer people who knew nothing about film making it; film is film no matter what the technology.
2P: contemporaneous recording simply means any recording or translation of a lecture made contemporaneously, or at the same time, as the actual lecture.
This by nature would not ban a derivative work based entirely on recollection of the lecture without a contemporaneous recording; but of course that is dealt with more directly under our copyright laws.
I am sorry. I have no respect for those who feel it is okay to profit from the sale of someone's lecture notes. Companies that sell lecture notes are immoral and commercialize the process of education. This is the real issue. I think CA is taking a great step.
At Carnegie Mellon, I am glad that notes for most lectures are put on the web for free. But I don't think that this ruling is intended to stop students from sharing notes among each other. This is clearly protected under the fair-use provisions of US copyright law, which as far as I know are as strong as ever. Any educational purpose is sufficient to provide fair use. This ban can only stop an industry that aims at the pocketbooks of college student, not their minds.
Get a life. Go to class. That's what you pay (34,000!) dollars a year for; the library is free. You can always read somebody's book, but a lecture is something else. A professor should absolutely have the right to commercial profit made from their work. Nobody else should.
I can't believe that the Slashdot community is opposed to this bill; this is the very essence of a corporate whorism taking over our educational system.
Their images conveniently don't show one of the major drawbacks of this type of display: You can see right through the objects...The device doesn't know where your head is so it can't do hidden surface removal. Surfaces behind the frontmost just shine through.
This is actually wrong. See below. The only see-through problem I can think of is seeing all the way to the other side of an object; with the way it seems to be constructed, it looks like the mirrors being in the center may fix this problem? IANAE, but that is what I understand from the white paper.
Also, keep in mind that they don't really have any working prototype yet, so they couldn't demonstrate it.
3. Proprietary algorithms and interface software
Actuality Systems places considerable effort into inventing, testing, and optimizing high-speed and high-precision algorithms for fundamental tasks, such as:
The entire anti-trust trial has been drawing sympathy to Microsoft. MS has certainly been in a position where they abused their power in the past; but a trial now would probably go in MS's favor. It is unfortunate that the trial would have been much more useful about 5 years ago.
Linux and free OSes will gain a huge user base in coming years regardless of MSs position in the market. Adding Windows binary compatibility is probably not even a desirable thing any more: let M$ and Winblowz die in peace, not linger on.
The truth is, nothing M$ does anymore will matter; there is enough momentum in the anti-ms movement.
Well, in fact, the DOJ has pursued an anti-trust suit against Intel, it has merely not gotten as much ink as the trial against Microsoft, and I believe that the suit was eventually dropped due to insufficient evidence, and Intel citing competitors' survival: such as the now-defunct Cyrix and thriving AMD.
In fact, however, being a monopoly is not in itself illegal. Intel is probably not even a monopoly now, and the DOJ would also have to demonstrate and abuse of that monopoly power that harmed consumer interest-producing a bad product that nobody buys is not against consumer interest-it decreases the monopoly.:-)
Similarly, Cisco may have a monopoly in router technology, but a harm to consumer interest would need to be demonstrated for the DOJ to prosecute under the Sherman Anti-Trust act.
----------------------------------- A poor mind is a terrible thing to use.
Most BeOS programs are highly multi-threaded due to the architecture of the OS and therefore the APIs. But in the real world, your local bus is going to be much faster than the network. ANd if it isn't, then you are gaining no speed advantage. The only possible advantage I see might be in creating a computer that could never crash-say if it mirrored information across multiple computers. Cool thought!
The main causative elements of a starving country have tended to be issues of distribution. Poorer countries are usually more agrarian, but all of the paying jobs are in cities-so everyone moves to cities-where there is no food. The technology level of most such so-called 3rd world countries makes it hard to get food to these cities (with rampant unemployment) in time before it is uneatable.
In the particular case of Somalia, its distribution issues have the most to do with its engaging in a long and destructive war with Eritrea, combined with drought conditions. All of the resources of Somalia are being destroyed to use for purposes of war.
Unless these deep-seated problems of too much development, too fast are resolved for poorer economies, there will always be starvation no matter how much food is sent in. Growing globalization is not helping these issues. Cheerio.
------------ An uneducated mind is as useful as an educated cabbage.
AFAIK, current DVD disks fit only 4.6 GB. The space saving is achieved through MPEG compression. An older technology allowed entire movies to be stored in 640 MB, or a CD. The difference is the quality of the compression and eventual image quality. Right now, anybody who wants can make their own movies on CD and play them in any DVD player at VHS quality.
WP worth a Second Look. After carefully reviewing the post on this article, I have determined that nobody here likes WordPerfect. Why? Before you answer, read this. * WP is the most compatible worprocessor with MS Word files around (more so than MS itself in most cases).:) * Lets face it, WP is the only alternative word processor for most folks. * It is very inexpensive for any platform. Corel is even distributing it for free for Linux, for crissake. * Corel has markedly improved the acceptance of Linux for the average user, both with WP and with Corel Linux. * It works. * It's relatively fast. * It doesn't crash. * It's small. * It has excellent capabilities for publishing and maintaining long files such as novels, and is regularly recognized as better than any other word processors for those functions in particular.
Now. The only thing that I can think of to explain why so many on/. are opposed to WP is that it isn't opensource. Uhmm...lame excuse. It is worth paying $90 USD for a product that works. Similarly, people with a conscience use Opera rather than IE or Netscape, or even Mozilla, even though it is not free. But it works! Rather than trying to kill of Corel, a small Canadian software company with good products, instead support its linux efforts by paying for its software, both open and closed source. That way, you can assure that in the future, even if SO doesn't pan out, you know there is one good wordprocessor out there. BTW, what's the obsession with free software? Yes, its fun to play with, and sometimes its very useful. But it shouldn't be a religion. You pay for hardware, don't you? Sunlight is free, but most of us don't build a forge to make solar panels to power our computers so we don't have to rely on the evil power/utility companies. Lets not talk about 'oh we can't rely on Corel, lets destroy their market share.' Because they haven't done anything wrong, and they've done a lot to help the Linux community. Star Office is OK, but nowhere near as mature as WordPerfect, and with nowhere near the transparent ease of use. And by the way, you would have to be a psycho to use Vi for general wordprocessing. Maybe if you really needed the precise formatting control it would be worth it. Otherwise, not.
PS: for another example of a product worth paying for that isn't Free with a capital 'F,' check out http://free.beos.com.
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This progressive method does not harm corporations directly, but stops helping those who are harming the commons. Currently, the gov't subsidizes the "bad" kind of fuels, and does not give enough incentives to develop new sources of power for automobiles. He has more information at his website
More frightening are prisons actually run by private corporations. There is huge potential for fraud, abuse, and violation of the intent of the prison system, as well as little evidence that these corporations actually save money; most evidence shows that they cost more money through various hidden costs. Texas I believe, along with California, are leaders in this field. Read The Nation article carefully before making any more uninformed posts. As you can see, corporations actually do benefit from the production of more prisons.
If you look at Ralph's record, you will see that his stance on first amendment issues is pretty strong. It was a very specific question, so unsurprising that there was no answer, but you can bet he would have been in support of rights for everyone, including minority religions.
Nader does not accept soft money or corporate donations. He is the only candidate actually practicing his campaign finance reform platform. So he doesn't need to reject Amazon's donations specifically; he is not in thrall to special interests of any form. Thus, he can actually do his best to serve the people.
FYI, since these are all drawn from previous statements, he cannot be pandering to Slashdot. These are his real issues and beliefs; look at his website, here. Nader does not pander to anybody; he is extremely popular in Oregon and Washington, yet has spoken out against physician assisted suicide laws, which are fairly popular among his voter base. He has spoken out against the US policy of favoring Israel over Palestine, although his running mate is Jewish. Look at his record, and you will see that here is a person you can really trust. He only says what he means, and is not worried about alienating voters (although he could use every voter he could get). A politician in the best sense.
I would have gone to this symposium, but I was at work :-(
I hope so though, because the specs sound pretty interesting.
"If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you."
Never have truer words been spoken.
The intelligent way to direct the spending is to first use the money in the current budget where it is needed, and then pay down the debt as much as is affordable, keeping some reserves of course. Anything else is foolhardy.
The first comment to make is that the piece is not necessarily making a commentary, political or otherwise. And the actual content of each image seems to be less relevant than the overall piece as a series.
The several strong and defining moments in this persons life all look about the same from one point of view; the point of view of a video game? It makes one think about several things, including how we relate with real life events and how we relate with fictional events in pretty much the same way. The use of color is again consistent with a video game type of palette, yet the actual images are blurred and smooth, not pixelated.
I bet the artist is glad for his work to get exposure, but the tone of the piece as a whole is pretty humble and unassuming-as if to simply say "here I am."
I really quite like it!
I have to agree; this is the best CG I have ever seen, and I am really into CG. The most important thing is the story, and although I barely know FF, it seems like they have it in place. The first computer animated shorts sucked because they had a bunch of computer people who knew nothing about film making it; film is film no matter what the technology.
This by nature would not ban a derivative work based entirely on recollection of the lecture without a contemporaneous recording; but of course that is dealt with more directly under our copyright laws.
Cheers
At Carnegie Mellon, I am glad that notes for most lectures are put on the web for free. But I don't think that this ruling is intended to stop students from sharing notes among each other. This is clearly protected under the fair-use provisions of US copyright law, which as far as I know are as strong as ever. Any educational purpose is sufficient to provide fair use. This ban can only stop an industry that aims at the pocketbooks of college student, not their minds.
Get a life. Go to class. That's what you pay (34,000!) dollars a year for; the library is free. You can always read somebody's book, but a lecture is something else. A professor should absolutely have the right to commercial profit made from their work. Nobody else should.
I can't believe that the Slashdot community is opposed to this bill; this is the very essence of a corporate whorism taking over our educational system.
This is actually wrong. See below. The only see-through problem I can think of is seeing all the way to the other side of an object; with the way it seems to be constructed, it looks like the mirrors being in the center may fix this problem? IANAE, but that is what I understand from the white paper.
Also, keep in mind that they don't really have any working prototype yet, so they couldn't demonstrate it.
3. Proprietary algorithms and interface software Actuality Systems places considerable effort into inventing, testing, and optimizing high-speed and high-precision algorithms for fundamental tasks, such as:
(http://www.actuality-sys tem s.com/product_howitworks.htm)
What does that mean? Any ideas?
Linux and free OSes will gain a huge user base in coming years regardless of MSs position in the market. Adding Windows binary compatibility is probably not even a desirable thing any more: let M$ and Winblowz die in peace, not linger on.
The truth is, nothing M$ does anymore will matter; there is enough momentum in the anti-ms movement.
In fact, however, being a monopoly is not in itself illegal. Intel is probably not even a monopoly now, and the DOJ would also have to demonstrate and abuse of that monopoly power that harmed consumer interest-producing a bad product that nobody buys is not against consumer interest-it decreases the monopoly. :-)
Similarly, Cisco may have a monopoly in router technology, but a harm to consumer interest would need to be demonstrated for the DOJ to prosecute under the Sherman Anti-Trust act.
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A poor mind is a terrible thing to use.
moron.
Most BeOS programs are highly multi-threaded due to the architecture of the OS and therefore the APIs. But in the real world, your local bus is going to be much faster than the network. ANd if it isn't, then you are gaining no speed advantage. The only possible advantage I see might be in creating a computer that could never crash-say if it mirrored information across multiple computers. Cool thought!
The main causative elements of a starving country have tended to be issues of distribution. Poorer countries are usually more agrarian, but all of the paying jobs are in cities-so everyone moves to cities-where there is no food. The technology level of most such so-called 3rd world countries makes it hard to get food to these cities (with rampant unemployment) in time before it is uneatable.
In the particular case of Somalia, its distribution issues have the most to do with its engaging in a long and destructive war with Eritrea, combined with drought conditions. All of the resources of Somalia are being destroyed to use for purposes of war.
Unless these deep-seated problems of too much development, too fast are resolved for poorer economies, there will always be starvation no matter how much food is sent in. Growing globalization is not helping these issues.
Cheerio.
------------ An uneducated mind is as useful as an educated cabbage.
AFAIK, current DVD disks fit only 4.6 GB. The space saving is achieved through MPEG compression. An older technology allowed entire movies to be stored in 640 MB, or a CD. The difference is the quality of the compression and eventual image quality. Right now, anybody who wants can make their own movies on CD and play them in any DVD player at VHS quality.
WP worth a Second Look. :)
/. are opposed to WP is that it isn't opensource. Uhmm...lame excuse. It is worth paying $90 USD for a product that works.
After carefully reviewing the post on this article, I have determined that nobody here likes WordPerfect. Why? Before you answer, read this.
* WP is the most compatible worprocessor with MS Word files around (more so than MS itself in most cases).
* Lets face it, WP is the only alternative word processor for most folks.
* It is very inexpensive for any platform. Corel is even distributing it for free for Linux, for crissake.
* Corel has markedly improved the acceptance of Linux for the average user, both with WP and with Corel Linux.
* It works.
* It's relatively fast.
* It doesn't crash.
* It's small.
* It has excellent capabilities for publishing and maintaining long files such as novels, and is regularly recognized as better than any other word processors for those functions in particular.
Now. The only thing that I can think of to explain why so many on
Similarly, people with a conscience use Opera rather than IE or Netscape, or even Mozilla, even though it is not free. But it works!
Rather than trying to kill of Corel, a small Canadian software company with good products, instead support its linux efforts by paying for its software, both open and closed source. That way, you can assure that in the future, even if SO doesn't pan out, you know there is one good wordprocessor out there.
BTW, what's the obsession with free software? Yes, its fun to play with, and sometimes its very useful. But it shouldn't be a religion. You pay for hardware, don't you? Sunlight is free, but most of us don't build a forge to make solar panels to power our computers so we don't have to rely on the evil power/utility companies.
Lets not talk about 'oh we can't rely on Corel, lets destroy their market share.' Because they haven't done anything wrong, and they've done a lot to help the Linux community. Star Office is OK, but nowhere near as mature as WordPerfect, and with nowhere near the transparent ease of use. And by the way, you would have to be a psycho to use Vi for general wordprocessing. Maybe if you really needed the precise formatting control it would be worth it. Otherwise, not.
PS: for another example of a product worth paying for that isn't Free with a capital 'F,' check out http://free.beos.com.