You know, I've never seen someone defend their (wrong) argument so strongly before on/.. However, this reproduction of the recording is likely MORE accurate than could be made by the original device. The needle that recorded this cylinder is quite likely different than any surviving needle that could be used to replay the cylinder. Indeed, the recording needle itself was likely different, if even just slightly when the recording ended than when it started.
An optical examination, later processed - even digitally - by a computer will have a higher resolution and more data available to it than playback ever could have by any method in the past. They have indeed played the recording. It would be as if a quadrachromat viewed the mona lisa.
Doesn't always work, tho. My (hell, most) school district used Apple computers. I remember taking math lessons on a IIe, and then being the kid who got out of math class to fix the IIe's, followed by LC IIIs, all the way up to some pretty schweet G4 workstations for Final Cut Pro (very good arts program at this school district).
Never bought an Apple computer, never even crossed my mind for a second. I don't want an iPod with my $1500 laptop. I want a $1000 laptop, with a number pad, thank you. Even at PSU, nobody ever used the Mac labs.
Speaking of PSU, we have our own email and student record management systems. We have distributed file servers accessible both via Windows and UNIX shares. What the hell kind of respectable state school drinks the M$ kool-aid? No IT program, Nebraska? Well, I hope you spent enough on your football program this year! *nyuk nyuk nyuk*
That video timothy linked to is pretty cool. I've got two conflicting pieces of anecdotal evidence related to it. First, anyone remember the DC blackout last year? Traffic was FUCKED. Gridlock for miles. On the other hand, in my hometown, there is an 8-way intersection at the top of a motherfucking hill that's basically just a free-for-all. I've been told there has not been a single fatal accident there, ever. People just work it out themselves.
That was in PA, however, where people MUST know how to drive well, or they'll be dead before winter ends. Please don't do this in Arizona, the drivers here are just absolute morons.
IANAL. However, even though Missouri defines law practice as you laid out, they probably also give you the right to represent yourself. You can make your will, even if it's not a good idea.
You could write a program to scour a database of every legal decision, even include some fuzzy logic to handle grey areas - at the very least to bring them to your attention, and above all put it on plain english, not that "Lawyer Speak" you see on legal documents (which I'm quite positive are there to baffle and bamboozle the general public) and you would be driven into the dirt for having the audacity to do it.
lollerskates. I guess you've never heard of WestLaw or LexisNexis? You know, the $5-$10/minute search services that - surprise! - use fuzzy logic to handle grey areas, and then have short headnotes written by attorneys (not computers. Impossible.)? Computer fuzzy logic isn't going to get it because it's not all logic. It's not all laws. The only law that matters? The strongest man in the area can kill you. Dead. He's hired people in funny robes and told them that they can order you killed dead. These are human decisions about human rules and we humans know everyone makes mistakes. Especially the ones on the wrong side of the bell curve, but they deserve justice just the same. These "cyber-persons" don't exist and wouldn't be covered by most law anyway, "natural" person and all.
"Legalese" is frowned upon but sometimes is needed for clarity and efficiency. When the judge has 15 minutes to rule on a case, is he going to want long, drawn out prose that a 6th grader could read, or two dense, succinct pages?
Next time you have a complex legal issue, I invite you to A. handle it yourself, and B. use LegalZoom. See how long you can hack it before you have to quit your job and family in order to keep up with it.
Huh, what? You think just because he's a kid he's going to show up?
What, pray tell, makes you so sure? The parents? Well, they let their kid get into a situation in which he was charged with burglary, what makes you think they'll watch him enough to make sure he goes to court?
I read a case in criminal law about a judge who sentenced a mail thief to an unorthodox sentence. He thought that his crime was a victimless crime, i mean, what in the mail couldn't be replaced? After all, HE never saw the victims. He was sentenced to (and held to perform on appeal) stand outside the post office on a certain number of times with a sandwichboard that said "I am a mail thief. This is my punishment." He was also to shadow the clerk at the lost letter office, in order to meet and understand the victims of lost mail and how it indeed could hurt someone.
He didn't learn his lesson, and was caught red-handed a second time. The same judge sentenced him to jail the 2nd time around.
And Europe's just as full of illegal immigrants. Only they're Roma and Polish. Cotton may still be King (I don't know), but Arizona is full of cotton and illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants work the farms that feed America. They have in fact set up a website to give up their jobs to Americans who complain that these immigrants are taking their jobs, but yet, the illegal immigrants continue to work the farms.
If all the illegal immigrants disappeared tomorrow, you wouldn't be able to feed your family within the week. Period.
The employers who hire illegal immigrants are the 302M people in the United States.
You're part of the problem. What the FUCK are you doing going downhill on a wintry road in NEUTRAL? Low gear, let the engine keep the vehicle running at a constant, controlled speed. Don't use your brakes or FUCKING NEUTRAL (?!?) to do that!
For example, when making a right turn onto a road just after the speed limit sign, how will the computer know what the speed limit is?
You answered your own question in the next sentence. Local laws. For example, Pennsylvania law declares that, unless otherwise marked, the speed limit is 35 in urban areas, 55 in rural. Urban and rural have regular definitions, as well. And, from what I understand, if you can prove you had no way to see the sign, but were going under the statutory default limit, you have a defense. A driverless car would likely know where it was at, hence having a nice record for defense.
That does raise the question of how the car knows when it's being pulled over, however.
False. In fact the most generous group is actually atheists.
He's right. Social worker here, my god? Everyone else. Try and describe yourself, your life, who you are in your own words. You can't. If it wasn't for everyone else in the world, you wouldn't have rational thought. Period.
I hope you're prepared for $10 apples, $25/lb flour, $10/lb strawberries, $10 oranges, all that.
You're an absolute brain-dead moron if you think you'll be able to afford to eat if all the illegal aliens stopped working. Go fucking learn where your food comes from.
I smoke, and I'm certainly not overweight. However, BC/BS has sent both me and my father letters, informing us that we are overweight. We both have a BMI around 25.5, the measure that they use to determine rates and whether or not you are overweight.
We both have under 10% body fat.
Doesn't fuckin' matter if you're healthy or not, they'll figure out a way to gouge ya.
Wait, why is it retarded? Does it run slower than other apps usually do?
I think it's a great idea, people are probably more likely to see an ad of his and download the app than they are to see an ad of his and visit his website.
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Really? Because every model I ever owned was portable, from Sony and Sharp, and they ALL accepted TOSLINK-in.
Took me til I was 25 to get that, and I've lived here my whole life! I work in legal aid, and boy is THAT a lesson.
Why the hell should we care when its celebs? They wanted to be famous, they got it.
You know, I've never seen someone defend their (wrong) argument so strongly before on /.. However, this reproduction of the recording is likely MORE accurate than could be made by the original device. The needle that recorded this cylinder is quite likely different than any surviving needle that could be used to replay the cylinder. Indeed, the recording needle itself was likely different, if even just slightly when the recording ended than when it started.
An optical examination, later processed - even digitally - by a computer will have a higher resolution and more data available to it than playback ever could have by any method in the past. They have indeed played the recording. It would be as if a quadrachromat viewed the mona lisa.
Doesn't always work, tho. My (hell, most) school district used Apple computers. I remember taking math lessons on a IIe, and then being the kid who got out of math class to fix the IIe's, followed by LC IIIs, all the way up to some pretty schweet G4 workstations for Final Cut Pro (very good arts program at this school district).
Never bought an Apple computer, never even crossed my mind for a second. I don't want an iPod with my $1500 laptop. I want a $1000 laptop, with a number pad, thank you. Even at PSU, nobody ever used the Mac labs.
Speaking of PSU, we have our own email and student record management systems. We have distributed file servers accessible both via Windows and UNIX shares. What the hell kind of respectable state school drinks the M$ kool-aid? No IT program, Nebraska? Well, I hope you spent enough on your football program this year! *nyuk nyuk nyuk*
LOL. This guy is great. I like this guy. How does it work? Well, it's a special box. It does special things to other boxes.
That video timothy linked to is pretty cool. I've got two conflicting pieces of anecdotal evidence related to it. First, anyone remember the DC blackout last year? Traffic was FUCKED. Gridlock for miles. On the other hand, in my hometown, there is an 8-way intersection at the top of a motherfucking hill that's basically just a free-for-all. I've been told there has not been a single fatal accident there, ever. People just work it out themselves.
That was in PA, however, where people MUST know how to drive well, or they'll be dead before winter ends. Please don't do this in Arizona, the drivers here are just absolute morons.
WOW, that vehicle is news to me. What the hell happened??
Ooh. The kit is designed with suspension from my favorite teenage car, a T-Bird. The next hobby project may be chosen.
IANAL. However, even though Missouri defines law practice as you laid out, they probably also give you the right to represent yourself. You can make your will, even if it's not a good idea.
Blockquoth the poster":
lollerskates. I guess you've never heard of WestLaw or LexisNexis? You know, the $5-$10/minute search services that - surprise! - use fuzzy logic to handle grey areas, and then have short headnotes written by attorneys (not computers. Impossible.)? Computer fuzzy logic isn't going to get it because it's not all logic. It's not all laws. The only law that matters? The strongest man in the area can kill you. Dead. He's hired people in funny robes and told them that they can order you killed dead. These are human decisions about human rules and we humans know everyone makes mistakes. Especially the ones on the wrong side of the bell curve, but they deserve justice just the same. These "cyber-persons" don't exist and wouldn't be covered by most law anyway, "natural" person and all.
"Legalese" is frowned upon but sometimes is needed for clarity and efficiency. When the judge has 15 minutes to rule on a case, is he going to want long, drawn out prose that a 6th grader could read, or two dense, succinct pages?
Next time you have a complex legal issue, I invite you to A. handle it yourself, and B. use LegalZoom. See how long you can hack it before you have to quit your job and family in order to keep up with it.
Airwave Networks, the ISP for my apartment complex when I was in college, did the same in 2005-2010.
Huh, what? You think just because he's a kid he's going to show up?
What, pray tell, makes you so sure? The parents? Well, they let their kid get into a situation in which he was charged with burglary, what makes you think they'll watch him enough to make sure he goes to court?
Doesn't mean it'll work any better.
I read a case in criminal law about a judge who sentenced a mail thief to an unorthodox sentence. He thought that his crime was a victimless crime, i mean, what in the mail couldn't be replaced? After all, HE never saw the victims. He was sentenced to (and held to perform on appeal) stand outside the post office on a certain number of times with a sandwichboard that said "I am a mail thief. This is my punishment." He was also to shadow the clerk at the lost letter office, in order to meet and understand the victims of lost mail and how it indeed could hurt someone.
He didn't learn his lesson, and was caught red-handed a second time. The same judge sentenced him to jail the 2nd time around.
Wow, good point. I would assume the auto would have no idea where to go at ALL without the GPS.
And Europe's just as full of illegal immigrants. Only they're Roma and Polish. Cotton may still be King (I don't know), but Arizona is full of cotton and illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants work the farms that feed America. They have in fact set up a website to give up their jobs to Americans who complain that these immigrants are taking their jobs, but yet, the illegal immigrants continue to work the farms.
If all the illegal immigrants disappeared tomorrow, you wouldn't be able to feed your family within the week. Period.
The employers who hire illegal immigrants are the 302M people in the United States.
You're part of the problem. What the FUCK are you doing going downhill on a wintry road in NEUTRAL? Low gear, let the engine keep the vehicle running at a constant, controlled speed. Don't use your brakes or FUCKING NEUTRAL (?!?) to do that!
For example, when making a right turn onto a road just after the speed limit sign, how will the computer know what the speed limit is?
You answered your own question in the next sentence. Local laws. For example, Pennsylvania law declares that, unless otherwise marked, the speed limit is 35 in urban areas, 55 in rural. Urban and rural have regular definitions, as well. And, from what I understand, if you can prove you had no way to see the sign, but were going under the statutory default limit, you have a defense. A driverless car would likely know where it was at, hence having a nice record for defense.
That does raise the question of how the car knows when it's being pulled over, however.
False. In fact the most generous group is actually atheists.
He's right. Social worker here, my god? Everyone else. Try and describe yourself, your life, who you are in your own words. You can't. If it wasn't for everyone else in the world, you wouldn't have rational thought. Period.
I hope you're prepared for $10 apples, $25/lb flour, $10/lb strawberries, $10 oranges, all that.
You're an absolute brain-dead moron if you think you'll be able to afford to eat if all the illegal aliens stopped working. Go fucking learn where your food comes from.
We need a resident IP lawyer again. IANALIAALSWHIPL (I am not a lawyer, I am a law student who hates intellectual property law), so I vote not me.
Agreed. I don't know what else to say to get the same point across, tho.
So, where's NYCL been?
it's been a common occurrence on /. since I've been around here, starting in 1998.
I smoke, and I'm certainly not overweight. However, BC/BS has sent both me and my father letters, informing us that we are overweight. We both have a BMI around 25.5, the measure that they use to determine rates and whether or not you are overweight.
We both have under 10% body fat.
Doesn't fuckin' matter if you're healthy or not, they'll figure out a way to gouge ya.
Wait, why is it retarded? Does it run slower than other apps usually do?
I think it's a great idea, people are probably more likely to see an ad of his and download the app than they are to see an ad of his and visit his website.