For people who currently observe the law and do not download at all (or only download stuff the copyright owner has given away), this is a tax with no return.
I guess you never heard of this whole "Welfare" thing...
Well, I live in PA, so for about 5 months out of the year, it's chilly enough to throw the shit in the trunk for the ride to work, keep it in there frozen all day, and strap it to my exhaust for the ride home:p
I'm fucking 19. I voted last November. I walked in behind THREE OLD LADIES IN WHEELCHAIRS! My precinct uses SIMPLE FUCKING PUNCHCARDS, you know, the OLD FASHIONED BULLSHIT that these computers are supposed to be replacing because the handicapped supposedly can't use? The voting judges just directed them to the booth with the machine on a lower stand that they could reach. SOUNDS ACCESSABLE ENOUGH TO ME! DOES THE JOB, DON'T IT?!
Don't give me the hanging chad bullshit. There were signs right by the machines that clearly said YOUR VOTE WILL NOT COUNT UNLESS THE PUNCH IS COMPLETELY REMOVED FROM THE BALLOT CARD. If you cannot follow this simple instruction, I wonder how you managed to get to the polling place in the first place. And given the trouble everyone's had with what should be a horrifyingly-simple piece of computer equipment, the hanging chad is nothing by comparison.
Blind? Braille. Deaf? Maybe a FUCKING TAPE RECORDER?!
My tax money is being wasted, for a bullshit reason, and with Diebold's decidedly shady business practices, something tells me we're all getting the short straw.
Imagine some random geek gets a copy of the source code, and posts an anonymous reverse-engineered description of the entire NTFS filesystem in his own words.
He may be violating an NDA, BUT he's anonymous. And since it's plain-english, wouldnt others disseminating the description be protected by free speech? Nobody that is spreading the anonymous (but presumably in volation of a NDA) ever agreed to nondisclosure, so they'd all be fine, right? This is what the whole DeCSS thing was about, no?
Yeah, because they're so secure it'll keep people from screwing themselves.
A safe only does good when you REMEMBER TO LOCK IT. On Windows, before an ActiveX or whatever control can install itself, it pops up a window asking you what to do.
But then people sign things with the name "CLICK YES!!!!!!!!! TO CONTINUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111one!!!1 or you cannot use the intarweb!" and of course users click Yes. What's to stop Joe Sixpack from entering the root password when asked for it if the website he visited said he needed this unnamed software to view it? People are stupid. People are not going to set up proper user permissions.
I;m a Human Development & Family Studies major - Social worker major, basically (For me, it's pre law)
The really interesting thing that they're demonstrating is "Object Permenance" - Younger infants do not know that when an object leaves their point of view that it still exists! IIRC, they get that starting around 9 months. When it happens, it's sudden - one week the kid doesn't care, the next minute, "Huh?! Where'd it go?!" Even your attachment to your own mother wasn't there from the very start! You know your parents voices in the womb, but not your attachment to them as your caregiver - that's 1 month.
One thing you don't get until a lot later is conservation. That is, the ability to tell that changing a group of object's shape or size doesn't change its contents. That is, a 4 year old kid would tell you that when you pour water from a short glass into a tall glass, you got more water somehow. However, a 7 year old child will look at you like you're an idiot and tell you they're both the same, water can't come from nowhere!
Human Development is such an interesting subject, but too bad it never leads to much more than $30,000 salary...
It's kind of like me standing in my backyard and asking for someone to make a phone call for me. But before I even get to ask, someone else shouts that they'll even give me my own phone number for people to call me back on!
It's your machine, if you don't want it to behave in its default way (that is, to provide services to anyone), then CONFIGURE IT NOT TO.
Oh, wait a sec. That sounds absolutely fair. DJ's have a TON of music, and they probably make that back in one night. ASCAP/RIAA, you aughta take a look at these guys for a model.
In other news, it was discovered tomorrow that millions of general contractors, some of them convicted criminals, have intricate details of the layout, wiring, and piping to many homes and commercial buildings all over the world! Called blueprints, they allow anyone capable of reading them to invade your privacy by building a home exactly like yours... or something! SUPREME COURT RULING AT 11!
OK, extra drag on the motor to spin a turbine when pumping exhaust gas out, and more air (and therefore more fuel) being crammed in the other end... not more efficient than an n/a motor. More powerful? Sure.
100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".
I dunno if that applies in the USA, but if so, well, screw paying for sheet music anymore too.
Two wrongs don't make a right either, and those on the side of "good" had DAMN well better not lie to get a "bad guy" behind bars no matter how bad they are, or they're not on the side of good, PERIOD.
In a good economy, NO ONE PERSON can effect the market. The reason for this is that when the entire market/economy is free to decide as a whole what is worth what, we get the best distribution of our resources. For individuals, this is pretty easy. It's hard to get a sizeable amount of the demand side of the market to say "I won't pay more than $10 for a CD"
But when there's a few hundred million buyers, and a few dozen suppliers, it's easy for those suppliers to collude to raise their prices beyond what the market would otherwise demand. Then we end up with people who don't buy CD's at all, and some who still buy CDs, and don't realize that they're paying more than everyone else says they're worth.
In other words, no business can just set their own prices. They know how much their goods cost, how much they pay their employees, and how much profit the market will let them get away with. Competition is when someone else figures out how to do it cheaper or how to make a better product. With a commodity such as CDs, there's not much room to make it cheaper or better, unless they find some better artists.
Ah, but sir, how do we define the requirements for life to form when we cannot define the minimum requirements for something to be living?
Somewhere out there, there could be a lifeform whose genetic code is made of, lets just say for example (i'm no biologist) packets of carefully-cut carbon tubes whose length determines what gene they code for? That they require ice to live?
What does random mutation have to do with any God? And secondly, you're taking his second statement incorrecly. What he is saying is that IF YOU SUBSCRIBE TO CREATIONISM, evolution can fit with it nicely. ex God made life, and it is His hand that creates the variations. The Theory of Evolution is not a microbiological theory in the way that it does not describe how said "random mutations" happen. The theories that explain them in non-religious-kook terms were formed well after Darwin's time. Therefore, Evolution Theory simply states what many have told you before - Some organisms "get lucky", and pass off their genetic luck to their offspring. Sometimes, it doesn't work. Sometimes, it does. There's a lot of "get lucky" instances in 4,000,000,000 years.
Furthermore, ID should NOT be taught in any public classroom. Separation of Church and State. Pick up any history book and look at any country that let the religious kooks tell everyone "God did it" or "God demands that we act this way." and see where it got them.
Well fuck 'em. It's their fault for advertizing an UNLIMITED 5mbps connection for $40 a month and seeing where it gets them, not mine. They had damn well better not throttle any of my ports, or I'm not going to pay $40/mo!
I cannot hit a ball to save my life. My hand-eye coordination sucks. Should I bitch and complain and sue Major League Baseball for making their game inaccessable to me?
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For people who currently observe the law and do not download at all (or only download stuff the copyright owner has given away), this is a tax with no return.
I guess you never heard of this whole "Welfare" thing...
motorway = highway.
dual carriageway = divided highway. i'm guessing not necessarily limited access.
But they're not always written to be clear.
Ask anyone from a state that has speed limits, but a law that only requires drivers drive at speeds that are "reasonable and prudent"!
Well, I live in PA, so for about 5 months out of the year, it's chilly enough to throw the shit in the trunk for the ride to work, keep it in there frozen all day, and strap it to my exhaust for the ride home :p
Ah, but you seem to enjoy getting sarcastic for unlogical reasons, eh? :P
Watch a little harder... they treat him just like any family treats a toddler that just started talking, that is, they hear him selectively.
Now I can flip out.
I'm fucking 19. I voted last November. I walked in behind THREE OLD LADIES IN WHEELCHAIRS! My precinct uses SIMPLE FUCKING PUNCHCARDS, you know, the OLD FASHIONED BULLSHIT that these computers are supposed to be replacing because the handicapped supposedly can't use? The voting judges just directed them to the booth with the machine on a lower stand that they could reach. SOUNDS ACCESSABLE ENOUGH TO ME! DOES THE JOB, DON'T IT?!
Don't give me the hanging chad bullshit. There were signs right by the machines that clearly said YOUR VOTE WILL NOT COUNT UNLESS THE PUNCH IS COMPLETELY REMOVED FROM THE BALLOT CARD. If you cannot follow this simple instruction, I wonder how you managed to get to the polling place in the first place. And given the trouble everyone's had with what should be a horrifyingly-simple piece of computer equipment, the hanging chad is nothing by comparison.
Blind? Braille.
Deaf? Maybe a FUCKING TAPE RECORDER?!
My tax money is being wasted, for a bullshit reason, and with Diebold's decidedly shady business practices, something tells me we're all getting the short straw.
Someone PLEASE tell me if I'm wrong here, but...
Imagine some random geek gets a copy of the source code, and posts an anonymous reverse-engineered description of the entire NTFS filesystem in his own words.
He may be violating an NDA, BUT he's anonymous. And since it's plain-english, wouldnt others disseminating the description be protected by free speech? Nobody that is spreading the anonymous (but presumably in volation of a NDA) ever agreed to nondisclosure, so they'd all be fine, right? This is what the whole DeCSS thing was about, no?
Yeah, because they're so secure it'll keep people from screwing themselves.
A safe only does good when you REMEMBER TO LOCK IT. On Windows, before an ActiveX or whatever control can install itself, it pops up a window asking you what to do.
But then people sign things with the name "CLICK YES!!!!!!!!! TO CONTINUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111one!!!1 or you cannot use the intarweb!" and of course users click Yes. What's to stop Joe Sixpack from entering the root password when asked for it if the website he visited said he needed this unnamed software to view it? People are stupid. People are not going to set up proper user permissions.
I;m a Human Development & Family Studies major - Social worker major, basically (For me, it's pre law)
The really interesting thing that they're demonstrating is "Object Permenance" - Younger infants do not know that when an object leaves their point of view that it still exists! IIRC, they get that starting around 9 months. When it happens, it's sudden - one week the kid doesn't care, the next minute, "Huh?! Where'd it go?!" Even your attachment to your own mother wasn't there from the very start! You know your parents voices in the womb, but not your attachment to them as your caregiver - that's 1 month.
One thing you don't get until a lot later is conservation. That is, the ability to tell that changing a group of object's shape or size doesn't change its contents. That is, a 4 year old kid would tell you that when you pour water from a short glass into a tall glass, you got more water somehow. However, a 7 year old child will look at you like you're an idiot and tell you they're both the same, water can't come from nowhere!
Human Development is such an interesting subject, but too bad it never leads to much more than $30,000 salary...
They're all black?
*scratches head*
So hows that less racist than all white?
Uhh, please tell me how voice communications is better?!?!
Precisely.
It's kind of like me standing in my backyard and asking for someone to make a phone call for me. But before I even get to ask, someone else shouts that they'll even give me my own phone number for people to call me back on!
It's your machine, if you don't want it to behave in its default way (that is, to provide services to anyone), then CONFIGURE IT NOT TO.
WHAT?!
THEY WANT 200 POUNDS TO LET A DJ PLAY HIS MP3S?!
Oh, wait a sec. That sounds absolutely fair. DJ's have a TON of music, and they probably make that back in one night. ASCAP/RIAA, you aughta take a look at these guys for a model.
In other news, it was discovered tomorrow that millions of general contractors, some of them convicted criminals, have intricate details of the layout, wiring, and piping to many homes and commercial buildings all over the world! Called blueprints, they allow anyone capable of reading them to invade your privacy by building a home exactly like yours... or something! SUPREME COURT RULING AT 11!
wait, what? BETTER gas mileage?
OK, extra drag on the motor to spin a turbine when pumping exhaust gas out, and more air (and therefore more fuel) being crammed in the other end... not more efficient than an n/a motor. More powerful? Sure.
100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".
I dunno if that applies in the USA, but if so, well, screw paying for sheet music anymore too.
Two wrongs don't make a right either, and those on the side of "good" had DAMN well better not lie to get a "bad guy" behind bars no matter how bad they are, or they're not on the side of good, PERIOD.
Blank VHS's sold just fine and you can't put anything but video on them...
In a good economy, NO ONE PERSON can effect the market. The reason for this is that when the entire market/economy is free to decide as a whole what is worth what, we get the best distribution of our resources. For individuals, this is pretty easy. It's hard to get a sizeable amount of the demand side of the market to say "I won't pay more than $10 for a CD"
But when there's a few hundred million buyers, and a few dozen suppliers, it's easy for those suppliers to collude to raise their prices beyond what the market would otherwise demand. Then we end up with people who don't buy CD's at all, and some who still buy CDs, and don't realize that they're paying more than everyone else says they're worth.
In other words, no business can just set their own prices. They know how much their goods cost, how much they pay their employees, and how much profit the market will let them get away with. Competition is when someone else figures out how to do it cheaper or how to make a better product. With a commodity such as CDs, there's not much room to make it cheaper or better, unless they find some better artists.
Ah, but sir, how do we define the requirements for life to form when we cannot define the minimum requirements for something to be living?
Somewhere out there, there could be a lifeform whose genetic code is made of, lets just say for example (i'm no biologist) packets of carefully-cut carbon tubes whose length determines what gene they code for? That they require ice to live?
What does random mutation have to do with any God? And secondly, you're taking his second statement incorrecly. What he is saying is that IF YOU SUBSCRIBE TO CREATIONISM, evolution can fit with it nicely. ex God made life, and it is His hand that creates the variations. The Theory of Evolution is not a microbiological theory in the way that it does not describe how said "random mutations" happen. The theories that explain them in non-religious-kook terms were formed well after Darwin's time. Therefore, Evolution Theory simply states what many have told you before - Some organisms "get lucky", and pass off their genetic luck to their offspring. Sometimes, it doesn't work. Sometimes, it does. There's a lot of "get lucky" instances in 4,000,000,000 years.
Furthermore, ID should NOT be taught in any public classroom. Separation of Church and State. Pick up any history book and look at any country that let the religious kooks tell everyone "God did it" or "God demands that we act this way." and see where it got them.
Polychlorinated Byphenyls. Think dioxin.
Well fuck 'em. It's their fault for advertizing an UNLIMITED 5mbps connection for $40 a month and seeing where it gets them, not mine. They had damn well better not throttle any of my ports, or I'm not going to pay $40/mo!
I cannot hit a ball to save my life. My hand-eye coordination sucks. Should I bitch and complain and sue Major League Baseball for making their game inaccessable to me?