I don't think airwaves should be regulated on content.
Boycotting people on the basis of them expressing their opinion is a freedom of speech violation.
Displaying boobs is speech. People choose to watch them. I know you have the children argument. You know what, children know more about boobs than adults. They sucked on them for years in their recent pasts.
Sorry but that's how I feel about it. If you don't want to see boobs, don't look. Very simple. I do respect you feeling differently about this issue but we can just agree to disagree.
- Words like asshole,... are now banned from our airwaves. - Janet Jackson's boobs. - Howard Stern censorship. - Everyone gets outraged and boycotts music groups for expressing themselves about government officials. - My friends get arrested and ticketed on the lake or on the street in Vegas for displaying their breasts. - Many supreme court cases about freedom of speech infringements.
Please feel free to add but these are in my opinion just a few of the problems with Freedom of Speech and Expression in contemporary America.
I agree with you 100% but at the same time I have to stand by my believe that by attacking freedom of speech is the only way for oppressors to retain control. I live in Communist Romania until 1989 and a moved to the US in 1997. I experience oppression first hand. Anne Frank reminded me at the isolation that the communist dictators put my family and me in. Anne Frank basically kept a blog that wasn't allowed to be seen to anyone else so that her family can stay away from the Nazi harm.
I just went to the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam and the strongest things that stood out are:
- The first freedom to go for anyone before total authoritarian dictatorship is the freedom of speech. - Repressing government are usually very very afraid of the spoken word. - Anne Frank's diary and history is one of the strongest evidences of the Nazi oppression and attempt to bring certain races to extinction.
Look at the Mohamed drawings issue. The extremists didn't really care about depictions of Mohamed. What their problem with those depictions is, is the freedom of speech. They are afraid they'll no longer be able to brainwash free people into stupid theocratic thinking. They are afraid that they will no longer be able to engage humans into blowing themselves up in order to fulfill a focus group god'$ prophecies.
Makes me puke that we don't even want to keep the freedom of speech around in the US but it makes sense why it had to be legislated. Everyone who tries to control someone will attempt to take that freedom of speech away.
"could be the beginning of the end of the globally interoperable Internet"
Yes, because everyone can't wait to jump on the Chinese internet or go back to using BBSs. Just imagine having filtered, mis-leading and useless information available. It will be great!
We're not even free-ish. The boundaries of control are just closing in on us. People in power always fight against individual freedoms because that's what maintains their influence.
IT organizations spend a lot of time putting out fires which are always a top priority. Users and developers need to be more sensitive to that. Their processes need to be set up in a way that properly estimates future capacity requirements.
What these companies try to do is keep high prices even if their labor costs go down in low income regions. To maintain their profits high amid lowered costs they lobby for protective rules that inhibit competition.
Both the USA and other countries lose from anti-competition rules.
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I was actually wondering the other day if this thing is modular because it is the same as the Halloween skeleton as it moves the same way and has the same height. The only differences are the look and the sounds.
I wouldn't be surprised to see an Easter bunny on the same frame but I think what is more interesting is what people are going to start modifying their Santa to.
Can the disease be transmitted through eggs? I know a lot of people who like their eggs pretty raw and I understand that if someone with a regular flu gets the avian flu virus, the avian flu might mutate and start to jump from person to person.
I don't understand. Would I have to shine a laser on my new quantum dot light bulbs or could they get activated differently? Using a laser doesn't seem too practical.
Depending on who is observing the light might be off or the light might be on. It's actually really good when you have a hot girl over and you want the light on while she wants the light off.
So if they did something that came naturally to them, they shouldn't get credited with it? Might not translate into dollars but it is something they did. Partner selection is just one of the things they had to work on. Building places and creating an environment to which a specific gene can adapt to is another.
Wake up rulers, your power has slid away over time. Now you are just a symbol some of the weaker need. You have no real power and where you are given power you are continuously fucking up.
OK, here are a few other statements that you might think are stupid.
The Nazi's weren't really bad from the get-go. Hitler was even named the man of the year. They covered themselves in flags and nationalistic paraphernalia. They worked like maniacs to get out of the depression. Working a lot and accomplishing a lot economically while the rest of the world was still struggling made them feel even more above everyone else.
Everyone in the US works like crazy with short vacations, and long hours. Many people consider that just raw work will make them accomplish everything while the rest of the world is nothing but just a bunch of lazy bums.
The invasion of Iraq is a total Nazi-like maneuver. Those people are beneath the people of the US and therefore we need to go there and show them how to be better.
I say fuck trying to be the leaders of the world. There is no such thing. Different cultures have different values. Leave the rest of the world alone and continue on your own path. Imposing a western culture in the middle east is like trying to get the Brazilians to stop playing football (soccer) and get started on Baseball so they can be in the "world" series.
When strangers take pictures they always don't get the idea that they don't just press but have to hold the button all the way down. In that department the SD400 (IXUS 50 in Europe) is pretty fast but I'm using a fast memory card also. For example there's a fast picture option that I use for sports that goes off one after the other while holding the button and I get about 10 pictures at full resolution per bowling ball throw. I think that is pretty fast. I would have gotten the SD450 which just got released and has a bigger screen, and is supposedly even faster. It is the upgrade of the SD400 but I needed it for my Europe trip and the SD450 would have been released the month I was on my trip so I couldn't wait.
The camera has all kind of cool features. For example you can take pitch black night pictures which end up looking pretty bright and colorful after just 15 seconds of exposure. I really recommend that you should RTFM after getting the camera.
Shop around online for the model since there are a few places online where you can get the camera about 25% cheaper than in any local stores. The memory I got was 2 GB and the transfer rate is ~ 140 MB/sec.
When I just recently bought my camera from Amazon, I read reviews on a few of the Canon cameras which were explicitly mentioning that some of the models were very sensitive to high temperature and after failures you couldn't get them fixed because the warranty specifies that it won't cover any damage due to Arizona-like temperatures and high temperature fluctuations. I followed the reviewer's advise and finally decided on the SD400 which doesn't have that problem. It's a good thing that they are now admitting to be at fault. They probably noticed the sales on those models taking a big dip and this is the only way to eliminate the cameras which are stuck in inventory.
RFIDs will generate a lot of mostly useless data that needs to be stored, backed up, analyzed, and transmitted. From my point of view I don't see how that's bad for all the geeks here on Slashdot.
All those lawyers are really needed! How else can someone make money from the work others did? Stop being so un-American and let others around the world do the work.
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I don't think airwaves should be regulated on content.
Boycotting people on the basis of them expressing their opinion is a freedom of speech violation.
Displaying boobs is speech. People choose to watch them. I know you have the children argument. You know what, children know more about boobs than adults. They sucked on them for years in their recent pasts.
Sorry but that's how I feel about it. If you don't want to see boobs, don't look. Very simple. I do respect you feeling differently about this issue but we can just agree to disagree.
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- Words like asshole, ... are now banned from our airwaves.
- Janet Jackson's boobs.
- Howard Stern censorship.
- Everyone gets outraged and boycotts music groups for expressing themselves about government officials.
- My friends get arrested and ticketed on the lake or on the street in Vegas for displaying their breasts.
- Many supreme court cases about freedom of speech infringements.
Please feel free to add but these are in my opinion just a few of the problems with Freedom of Speech and Expression in contemporary America.
I agree with you 100% but at the same time I have to stand by my believe that by attacking freedom of speech is the only way for oppressors to retain control. I live in Communist Romania until 1989 and a moved to the US in 1997. I experience oppression first hand. Anne Frank reminded me at the isolation that the communist dictators put my family and me in. Anne Frank basically kept a blog that wasn't allowed to be seen to anyone else so that her family can stay away from the Nazi harm.
I just went to the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam and the strongest things that stood out are:
- The first freedom to go for anyone before total authoritarian dictatorship is the freedom of speech.
- Repressing government are usually very very afraid of the spoken word.
- Anne Frank's diary and history is one of the strongest evidences of the Nazi oppression and attempt to bring certain races to extinction.
Look at the Mohamed drawings issue. The extremists didn't really care about depictions of Mohamed. What their problem with those depictions is, is the freedom of speech. They are afraid they'll no longer be able to brainwash free people into stupid theocratic thinking. They are afraid that they will no longer be able to engage humans into blowing themselves up in order to fulfill a focus group god'$ prophecies.
Makes me puke that we don't even want to keep the freedom of speech around in the US but it makes sense why it had to be legislated. Everyone who tries to control someone will attempt to take that freedom of speech away.
"could be the beginning of the end of the globally interoperable Internet"
Yes, because everyone can't wait to jump on the Chinese internet or go back to using BBSs. Just imagine having filtered, mis-leading and useless information available. It will be great!
We're not even free-ish. The boundaries of control are just closing in on us. People in power always fight against individual freedoms because that's what maintains their influence.
IT organizations spend a lot of time putting out fires which are always a top priority. Users and developers need to be more sensitive to that. Their processes need to be set up in a way that properly estimates future capacity requirements.
Great, there's at least something in my life that will continue to keep my immune system going!
What these companies try to do is keep high prices even if their labor costs go down in low income regions. To maintain their profits high amid lowered costs they lobby for protective rules that inhibit competition.
Both the USA and other countries lose from anti-competition rules.
I was actually wondering the other day if this thing is modular because it is the same as the Halloween skeleton as it moves the same way and has the same height. The only differences are the look and the sounds.
I wouldn't be surprised to see an Easter bunny on the same frame but I think what is more interesting is what people are going to start modifying their Santa to.
The probe's shadow looks like the Canadian flag.
Can the disease be transmitted through eggs? I know a lot of people who like their eggs pretty raw and I understand that if someone with a regular flu gets the avian flu virus, the avian flu might mutate and start to jump from person to person.
Because he had the balls to stand by what he believed in! It might seem like nothing for you now but it is people like him that got us to this point.
I don't understand. Would I have to shine a laser on my new quantum dot light bulbs or could they get activated differently? Using a laser doesn't seem too practical.
Depending on who is observing the light might be off or the light might be on.
It's actually really good when you have a hot girl over and you want the light on while she wants the light off.
Who should I credit this quote to?
So if they did something that came naturally to them, they shouldn't get credited with it? Might not translate into dollars but it is something they did. Partner selection is just one of the things they had to work on. Building places and creating an environment to which a specific gene can adapt to is another.
No, this is almost like asking SPAM to solve the food shortage in Africa.
Let me guess, you still think the stork brought you from god's people factory?
What about giving our ancestors and parents some credit on the prior art?
Wake up rulers, your power has slid away over time. Now you are just a symbol some of the weaker need. You have no real power and where you are given power you are continuously fucking up.
Greetings from a free world.
OK, here are a few other statements that you might think are stupid.
The Nazi's weren't really bad from the get-go. Hitler was even named the man of the year. They covered themselves in flags and nationalistic paraphernalia. They worked like maniacs to get out of the depression. Working a lot and accomplishing a lot economically while the rest of the world was still struggling made them feel even more above everyone else.
Everyone in the US works like crazy with short vacations, and long hours. Many people consider that just raw work will make them accomplish everything while the rest of the world is nothing but just a bunch of lazy bums.
The invasion of Iraq is a total Nazi-like maneuver. Those people are beneath the people of the US and therefore we need to go there and show them how to be better.
I say fuck trying to be the leaders of the world. There is no such thing. Different cultures have different values. Leave the rest of the world alone and continue on your own path. Imposing a western culture in the middle east is like trying to get the Brazilians to stop playing football (soccer) and get started on Baseball so they can be in the "world" series.
When strangers take pictures they always don't get the idea that they don't just press but have to hold the button all the way down. In that department the SD400 (IXUS 50 in Europe) is pretty fast but I'm using a fast memory card also. For example there's a fast picture option that I use for sports that goes off one after the other while holding the button and I get about 10 pictures at full resolution per bowling ball throw. I think that is pretty fast. I would have gotten the SD450 which just got released and has a bigger screen, and is supposedly even faster. It is the upgrade of the SD400 but I needed it for my Europe trip and the SD450 would have been released the month I was on my trip so I couldn't wait.
The camera has all kind of cool features. For example you can take pitch black night pictures which end up looking pretty bright and colorful after just 15 seconds of exposure. I really recommend that you should RTFM after getting the camera.
Shop around online for the model since there are a few places online where you can get the camera about 25% cheaper than in any local stores. The memory I got was 2 GB and the transfer rate is ~ 140 MB/sec.
When I just recently bought my camera from Amazon, I read reviews on a few of the Canon cameras which were explicitly mentioning that some of the models were very sensitive to high temperature and after failures you couldn't get them fixed because the warranty specifies that it won't cover any damage due to Arizona-like temperatures and high temperature fluctuations. I followed the reviewer's advise and finally decided on the SD400 which doesn't have that problem. It's a good thing that they are now admitting to be at fault. They probably noticed the sales on those models taking a big dip and this is the only way to eliminate the cameras which are stuck in inventory.
RFIDs will generate a lot of mostly useless data that needs to be stored, backed up, analyzed, and transmitted. From my point of view I don't see how that's bad for all the geeks here on Slashdot.
All those lawyers are really needed! How else can someone make money from the work others did? Stop being so un-American and let others around the world do the work.