Spam is one area where a very aggressive attorney making a career out of class action suits would be doing a public service. Some clever attorney out there ought to get on the ball with this.
"It is not true, for example, that "more than 3500 research studies have examined the association between media violence and violent behavior [and] all but 18 have shown a positive relationship." The source you cite for this assertion, ex-Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman's Teaching Our Kids to Kill, is not a scholarly work, nor does your Statement even transcribe Grossman's claims accurately. In fact, there are probably fewer than 300 empirical studies that try to measure the effects of violent media - with uneven and ambiguous results.
"Even more troubling than the AAP's factual inaccuracies are its overall distortions and its failure to acknowledge many serious questions about the interpretation of media violence studies. For example, correlations between aggressive behavior and preference for violent entertainment do not demonstrate that one causes the other. Laboratory experiments that are designed to test causation rely on substitutes for aggression, some quite far-fetched. Punching Bobo dolls, pushing buzzers, and recognizing "aggressive words" on a computer screen are all a far cry from real-world aggression.
"Some studies have found increased aggressive behavior among children after watching nonviolent programs such as "Sesame Street" and "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." Others have found "null" effects. Many studies that claim "positive" findings actually consisted of multiple subtests with divergent and ambiguous results. The researchers then manipulated the data, subdividing the categories of subjects in various ways until they found at least one "statistically significant" result."
On top of that... the front page doesn't correctly display the number of comments... I've had a story showing no comments for over 5 hours now... That's a bug:)
I'm seeing that, too. That's an annoying one, and it'll cost the site page views as I typically wait for 10-20 3-rated comments to appear before I read comments, unless I'm moderating.
Oh, and what about the networked 16-player Battletech Center that first opened in Chicago in 1990? 3D, 16 players, networked and built on modded consumer hardware (Macs and Amigas).
"There were ray-cast games on the Atari 800: WayOut, Capture the Flag; and the 68000-based Atari ST: MIDI Maze (AKA "Kill a Happy Face"). This last game allowed eight machines to be networked together using MIDI ports, for a full Doom-style "deathmatch" in 1987."
The best selling 32-bit microprocessor family, at least as of 1999, was ARM.
Paul DeMone has a solid article with plenty of historical and technical detail.
The small word part: the cops do not hide the tape recorder.
(Sorry, I know it got polysyllabic at the end.)
The big word part: Your question is based upon a false dichotomy because the two circumstances you are counterposing are not both extant. It is illegal for cops to secretly record you without a court order.
The issue isn't whether you or I put the cops in a different category. The big problem is that many cops see fit to place themselves in a different category.
No, the issue is whether the courts put cops in a different category. The article is about a court decision. All the examples of abuse cited in this thread are arguments for having the courts judge cops by the same standards as you and me.
You guys really don't get the fourteenth amendment. The court's observation is that the law applies to the cops to. I LIKE that idea. LOTS. If you want to place cops in a different category, not held to the same laws as you and me, then your line of reasoning is the way to do it.
And the idea that secrecy increases accountability is absurd. Openness is the source of accountability, while secrecy is it's antithesis.
If you want to be frightened by me, there are much better choices than my alleged stupidity. I still don't think you've grasped the enormous distinction staring you in the face:
SECRET
Do it openly, and it's protected. Do it secretly, and your moving into wiretapping territory. As of now, there is now blanket exception from wiretapping law for the monitoring of public officials engaged in their duties.
But why bother letting the basic facts interfere with your rant. Go ahead, knock yourself out.
The internet is letting me down. Okay, I can find naked pictures of everyone on the planet except Laura Prepon (grr), but NO ONE has bothered to put "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" online in any format? Come on, we've got banned-books weenies in droves, so what is it gonna take for some one to step up to the plate and put this film, by all accounts a banned masterpiece, on the net? It would be everything the internet is supposed to be about: intelectual freedom, sticking it to the man, political commentary, creative expression and resistance to censorship.
There are contemporary descriptions of this 45 minute film here and here, both from the Washington Post.
But if you have a drum, then you don't have platters. It still doesn't make sense. You can have the old disk packs, which have platters, but those are not drums either.
Slashdot Mirror
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/17/1638237.shtm l
Spam is one area where a very aggressive attorney making a career out of class action suits would be doing a public service. Some clever attorney out there ought to get on the ball with this.
"It is not true, for example, that "more than 3500 research studies have examined the association between media violence and violent behavior [and] all but 18 have shown a positive relationship." The source you cite for this assertion, ex-Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman's Teaching Our Kids to Kill, is not a scholarly work, nor does your Statement even transcribe Grossman's claims accurately. In fact, there are probably fewer than 300 empirical studies that try to measure the effects of violent media - with uneven and ambiguous results.
"Even more troubling than the AAP's factual inaccuracies are its overall distortions and its failure to acknowledge many serious questions about the interpretation of media violence studies. For example, correlations between aggressive behavior and preference for violent entertainment do not demonstrate that one causes the other. Laboratory experiments that are designed to test causation rely on substitutes for aggression, some quite far-fetched. Punching Bobo dolls, pushing buzzers, and recognizing "aggressive words" on a computer screen are all a far cry from real-world aggression.
"Some studies have found increased aggressive behavior among children after watching nonviolent programs such as "Sesame Street" and "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." Others have found "null" effects. Many studies that claim "positive" findings actually consisted of multiple subtests with divergent and ambiguous results. The researchers then manipulated the data, subdividing the categories of subjects in various ways until they found at least one "statistically significant" result."
Quoted from http://www.ncac.org/issues/aapviolenceltr.html
That's a contraction due to length constaints of RMS's actually sig in a letter to The Register.
Sincerely,
Richard Stallman
Principal developer of the operating system often inaccurately called "Linux"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18291.html
No, no glory grabbing at all, nothing to see here, move along...
That link has old info. The Panasonic CF-72 is out, and it's nice. The ones I've played with are P3 700's with 384 MB RAM. Good shiznit.
1 a_s7.htm for the current model specs. They are available with faster CPU's than the models I get to beat on.
See http://www.panasonic.com/computer/notebook/html/0
On top of that... the front page doesn't correctly display the number of comments... I've had a story showing no comments for over 5 hours now... That's a bug :)
I'm seeing that, too. That's an annoying one, and it'll cost the site page views as I typically wait for 10-20 3-rated comments to appear before I read comments, unless I'm moderating.
Oh, and what about the networked 16-player Battletech Center that first opened in Chicago in 1990? 3D, 16 players, networked and built on modded consumer hardware (Macs and Amigas).
"There were ray-cast games on the Atari 800: WayOut, Capture the Flag; and the 68000-based Atari ST: MIDI Maze (AKA "Kill a Happy Face"). This last game allowed eight machines to be networked together using MIDI ports, for a full Doom-style "deathmatch" in 1987."
Google's cache of the Siggraph article.
The best selling 32-bit microprocessor family, at least as of 1999, was ARM. Paul DeMone has a solid article with plenty of historical and technical detail.
What I wouldn't give for the ability to have a separate threshold for comments marked as funny...
Apologies to FASA and New World Computing.
The small word part: the cops do not hide the tape recorder.
(Sorry, I know it got polysyllabic at the end.)
The big word part: Your question is based upon a false dichotomy because the two circumstances you are counterposing are not both extant. It is illegal for cops to secretly record you without a court order.
The issue isn't whether you or I put the cops in a different category. The big problem is that many cops see fit to place themselves in a different category.
No, the issue is whether the courts put cops in a different category. The article is about a court decision. All the examples of abuse cited in this thread are arguments for having the courts judge cops by the same standards as you and me.
You guys really don't get the fourteenth amendment. The court's observation is that the law applies to the cops to. I LIKE that idea. LOTS. If you want to place cops in a different category, not held to the same laws as you and me, then your line of reasoning is the way to do it.
And the idea that secrecy increases accountability is absurd. Openness is the source of accountability, while secrecy is it's antithesis.
"is no" rather than "is now" Fear my typing.
If you want to be frightened by me, there are much better choices than my alleged stupidity. I still don't think you've grasped the enormous distinction staring you in the face:
SECRET
Do it openly, and it's protected. Do it secretly, and your moving into wiretapping territory. As of now, there is now blanket exception from wiretapping law for the monitoring of public officials engaged in their duties.
But why bother letting the basic facts interfere with your rant. Go ahead, knock yourself out.
SECRETLY recording police misconduct is illegal. Read it, ok?
The holodeck was in the cartoon series, which was set in about the same time frame as TOS.
And allegedly TOS was supposed to have a holodeck, but effects/budget wouldn't allow.
From what I've been told, Virginia's ban on radar detectors has NEVER been tested in court.
Getting caught with one isn't the end of the world, anyway. No points, and they can't even confiscate it.
"LAPD - We treat you like a King."
Really? So why is it that Spain has the highest incidence of psychiatric disorders in Europe?
"Smart companies save money by deploying MySQL instead of Oracle. They can invest that money in smart Linux developers and the NASDAQ."
That's the funniest thing I've seen all day. Someone's simply GOT to tag that as funny.
The internet is letting me down. Okay, I can find naked pictures of everyone on the planet except Laura Prepon (grr), but NO ONE has bothered to put "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" online in any format? Come on, we've got banned-books weenies in droves, so what is it gonna take for some one to step up to the plate and put this film, by all accounts a banned masterpiece, on the net? It would be everything the internet is supposed to be about: intelectual freedom, sticking it to the man, political commentary, creative expression and resistance to censorship.
There are contemporary descriptions of this 45 minute film here and here, both from the Washington Post.
But if you have a drum, then you don't have platters. It still doesn't make sense. You can have the old disk packs, which have platters, but those are not drums either.
You're confusing me. When you say drum, I think of the spinning cylinder jobbies (think sewer pipe). How do "platters" come into play with that?