I was referring to the technical merits of the discussion. A gay man and a straight man have the same exact rights, as do a lesbian woman and a straight woman. It's a matter of gender equality, since the choice of a marriage partner is different for men and women.
And back in the 50s, a black man had the right to marry a black woman, and a white man had the right to marry a white woman.
Yeah, thanks for proving my point. Black men and white men had different choices available to them...so it was a racial equality issue. As I was saying, this is a gender equality issue, nothing else.
Anyone notice the rampant hypocrisy here with folks being upset by this?
Since when are Slashdot readers fans of multinational corporations influencing government legislation? Oh, I guess when the bill they're pushing coincides with your personal beliefs, huh?
Well, technically under the law gay people have all the rights of straight people. A gay man has the right to marry a woman and two straight men may not marry. I'm not saying it's right, but equality does exist. What you're talking about is extending the rights of everyone, which is something I have no problem with.
And while were on the subject, why is polygamy a felony in many states? I may not agree with it, but I see it as an equal cause to gay marriage (not to mention the fact that there are religious freedom implications with polygamy).
Could someone please post the text from the U.S. Constitution that guarantees citizens access to unfiltered Internet on public properties?
I agree completely that filtering Internet access is a Bad Thing, but it's not unconstitutional. I'm assuming that the submitter implied that filtering Internet access on public properties would be infringing the Constitution's protection of free speech. Would the government's refusal to provide ANY Internet access constitute a violation of the Free Speech Clause? Of course not. So why would the government providing partial access to the Internet pose a question of Constitutionality?
Well, during my undergrad years at an unnamed university...oh what the hell...The University of West Georgia, I worked in the ITS department on campus which was responsible for all the applications in our internal system called Banner (a big freaking waste of money for an Oracle Forms application..but that's another discussion for another day).
Anyway, my role was to prepare reports for various people around campus. For example, if a student organization required a given GPA for membership, their faculty advisor could request a report of all students meeting the criteria.
The thing that most amazed me when I started working there was the complete lack of respect for people's social security numbers and birthdays. Any professor on campus could get pretty much any information he or she wanted.
Even more brazen than this activity was the infrastructure on campus. Every user ran their applications over a telnet session. Yes....telnet. I demonstrated to my boss how easy it was to run a packet sniffer and catch social security numbers as they went across the wire..but all my concerns fell on deaf ears. I also showed them how SSH could be used as a direct replacement for telnet but again...no one seemed care.
I then wrote a letter to the editor of the University's only newspaper describing the lack of respect for peoples' personal information, but the letter was never published. When I e-mailed the student editor and asked why my letter wasn't published, she said she was asked by the administration not to run it.
I graduated in 99 so I'm not sure if any changes have been made. I would love to know.
Perhaps it's also because the Japanese (and virtually every other nation on Earth) allow *failure* in their system. You don't make grades in a Japanese school...you go to a trade/vocational type school and learn how to weld. It's that simple. I know this is/was the system in Mexico as I went there on a study abroad program in 1995.
Every time something like this is suggested in the US we get to hear about how the self-esteem of children will be destroyed, etc. Our school system seems to value self-esteem more than learning these days.
BTW: This may also be a reason why students in other countries fair better on tests...they aren't testing the one's that are in the trade schools.
I think it would sound a lot like a yawn. Non-indoctrinated people have traditionally been indifferent to other's beliefs, thinking it's none of their business. I am sure a lot of agnostics/atheists even enjoyed "Passion of the Christ" as good (or so I heard) historical fiction, like Troy.
No legitimate historian will deny that Jesus Christ was a real person that was crucified by the Roman empire. Aside from the scenes in the movie where Jesus was being tormented by Satan, I would say that it's probably very close (or as close as movies come) to being historically accurate.
No one...unless of course you work outside or you're a pilot like me. I check the weather all the time because it could save my life...I wouldn't exactly call that 'useless'.
Everyone keeps mentioning the Janet Jackson Super Bowl fiasco, but this is definately a different case. In the US, you can't be arrested for having a picture of Janet Jackson in your private house, or showing nude breasts on cable (many people don't understand that the FCC's decency bullshit only applies to over-the-air broadcasts). But in Germany, you can be arrested for having historical artifacts from WWI that contain swastikas. I think there is a definate difference here.
Unless of course you're talking about tectonic plates 'rubbing' each other, creating a level 10 earthquake and the resulting tsunamis killing 150,000 people. Yeah...it's just about the speed.;-)
They didn't use cellphones. They used the GTE airphones in the seatbacks. Most of the recorded conversations were between the passengers and the GTE operators, and the operators were patching people through to their family members.
I'm also a private pilot and my lightspeed headset was sending noise back over to the COM radio. I installed an el-cheapo magnetic noise filter I bought at Radio Shack (as recommended by an elecronics guru friend of mine) and it eliminated all noise.
But I agree...I also have to descend very low to get a signal...which I don't like to do while flying my 200mph RV-7A experimental...the trees go by very quickly.
I also flew with my my friend in a Beachjet to New York and with my phone on the entire time I was unable to get a signal the entire flight. We were at FL410 up and FL380 back.
I think the U.S. has to change ONE law very quickly: It was ruled by the supreme court quite a while ago that corporations may exercise the same rights as individuals. THIS has got to go.
Without the individual being protected and valued ABOVE corporate interests, lobbies will always have more resources and weild MORE and MORE power.
I generally don't like to make meaningless replies on Slashdot unless I feel I have something useful to add to the thread...but oh well...
RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy wrote in an e-mail. "The intellectual property industries are one of our leading national exports, and it's approprate for the federal government to have a role in protecting those sectors from rampant piracy."
Ok, so how is cracking down on copyright law within the US going to prevent people from other countries from doing these things? Bunch of blithering idiots, they are.
SAP already does something very similar to this with their headquarters in Germany. I've been there several times. I was a little shocked to see that they are not located in Frankfurt or any other large city, they are located in a small town called Waldorf. As best as I could tell, they were the only thing in town. There really doesn't even seem to be a hotel there as we always stay in Hidelburg, which is just a 10-15 minute drive away.
ersonally, I do not think it is just a few silent christians. I think that it is the majority of America. I see that the fundamentalists are more akin to the 1980's moral majority, 1990's Al Qaeda, the 1930's German nazi party, or the 1900's USSR communist party. That is, just a small group with a very vocal opinion carry a message of their own choosing. The vast majority of people really just want to live and enjoy life. They are not concerned with changing it. These aforementioned groups are all small, but....
Well..your point is well made...but I do have one problem with your assertion that the Nazi's were just a small vocal group. At the height of his bloody reign, Hitler enjoyed approximately 95% approval from the German citizenry.
That's lame, to say the least. There are much more capable homemade rockets capable of reaching a mile or more.
One kilometer is 3280 feet. I've taken my homebuilt airplane (RV-7) to 18,000 ft (5.48 kilometers, the highest allowed in VFR flight) several times still showing 500 fpm climb and other RV builders with setups similar to mine have made it to 25,900 ft. (7.59 kilometers)
This rocket costs 2.1 million Yen is $20,000 US dollars. A finished RV will cost you about twice that but it'll get you a lot higher! And that's the key...it gets you a lot higher.
If they could get these rockets to say, 50,000 ft. or more...then it would get interesting....and don't even get me started on the Flying Tiger (48,000 ft.).
Ok, there is no such thing as a back door draft. I did my four years in the Navy so I know what I'm talking about. When you enlist, the very front page of your enlistment contract has in bold letters that you are actually enlisting for 8 years, with 4 (sometimes 3, sometimes 6 according to the rating/job your gonna be doing) years active service. It states very, very clearly that if the president so orders, you may be required to stay in longer than your four years.
I'm no Bush fan either, but let's state the facts. It's a volunteer military. People voluntarily sign that contract. I want to bring our kids home too, but they signed the contract! It's no surprise to any of them!
I don't know that that's necessarily a valid leap of logic. In the once example in which the passengers did fight back (i.e., Pennsylvania), everybody still died. I don't think that 9/11 guaranteed that in the future, every hijacking will necessarily be met with resistance.
It's valid logic because the hijackers knew that if they boarded the plane with any sort of weapon at all (come 'on, they used boxcutters!), they would easily have full control of the airplane. All they had to do was read the FAR (federal aviation regulations).
Well, there's always the Moller M400. Top speed of 350 mph, uses regular gasoline, gets 20 mpg (better than an SUV).
This project has been going on for years and the most they've managed is a few feet off the ground. We can talk about fuel economy once the thing is flying.
I also don't think the Moller is that good of a design. Why fly at 350mph and NOT have a wing? The lift is essentially free...the only cost is induced drag...the natural byproduct of lift in an airfoil. I just don't understand why he wants to have these fans pounding the air into submission (and consequently using more energy => burning more fuel). Now, if this thing had retractable wings...that may make more sense to me.
Afterall, we were heavily regulated in the FAA when two people decided to take control over a few airliners and started plunging them into buildings. Regulations didn't stop them either.
As a matter of fact, regulations AIDED the terrorists, since airline pilots have very strict rules (made by the FAA) to follow in a hijacking attempt. The regulation stated that pilots should follow hijackers demands, including giving up the cockpit. This is why I repeatedly say that 9/11 could never happen again with boxcutters. People will fight back. The pilots will resist.
How can giving more weight to the votes of individuals possibly lead to fascism, unless by fascism you mean to imply any governmental system you dislike and which isn't blatantly communist(both fascist and communist have both been way too overused in the last 50 or so years).
Ever heard of Hitler? He was elected by popular vote and at the pinnacle of his government had 95% approval of the citizenry.
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Viagara.
I was referring to the technical merits of the discussion. A gay man and a straight man have the same exact rights, as do a lesbian woman and a straight woman. It's a matter of gender equality, since the choice of a marriage partner is different for men and women.
And back in the 50s, a black man had the right to marry a black woman, and a white man had the right to marry a white woman.
Yeah, thanks for proving my point. Black men and white men had different choices available to them...so it was a racial equality issue. As I was saying, this is a gender equality issue, nothing else.
Anyone notice the rampant hypocrisy here with folks being upset by this?
Since when are Slashdot readers fans of multinational corporations influencing government legislation? Oh, I guess when the bill they're pushing coincides with your personal beliefs, huh?
Well, technically under the law gay people have all the rights of straight people. A gay man has the right to marry a woman and two straight men may not marry. I'm not saying it's right, but equality does exist. What you're talking about is extending the rights of everyone, which is something I have no problem with.
And while were on the subject, why is polygamy a felony in many states? I may not agree with it, but I see it as an equal cause to gay marriage (not to mention the fact that there are religious freedom implications with polygamy).
Great response. Thanks for making that clear.
Could someone please post the text from the U.S. Constitution that guarantees citizens access to unfiltered Internet on public properties?
I agree completely that filtering Internet access is a Bad Thing, but it's not unconstitutional. I'm assuming that the submitter implied that filtering Internet access on public properties would be infringing the Constitution's protection of free speech. Would the government's refusal to provide ANY Internet access constitute a violation of the Free Speech Clause? Of course not. So why would the government providing partial access to the Internet pose a question of Constitutionality?
Well, during my undergrad years at an unnamed university...oh what the hell...The University of West Georgia, I worked in the ITS department on campus which was responsible for all the applications in our internal system called Banner (a big freaking waste of money for an Oracle Forms application..but that's another discussion for another day).
Anyway, my role was to prepare reports for various people around campus. For example, if a student organization required a given GPA for membership, their faculty advisor could request a report of all students meeting the criteria.
The thing that most amazed me when I started working there was the complete lack of respect for people's social security numbers and birthdays. Any professor on campus could get pretty much any information he or she wanted.
Even more brazen than this activity was the infrastructure on campus. Every user ran their applications over a telnet session. Yes....telnet. I demonstrated to my boss how easy it was to run a packet sniffer and catch social security numbers as they went across the wire..but all my concerns fell on deaf ears. I also showed them how SSH could be used as a direct replacement for telnet but again...no one seemed care.
I then wrote a letter to the editor of the University's only newspaper describing the lack of respect for peoples' personal information, but the letter was never published. When I e-mailed the student editor and asked why my letter wasn't published, she said she was asked by the administration not to run it.
I graduated in 99 so I'm not sure if any changes have been made. I would love to know.
Perhaps it's also because the Japanese (and virtually every other nation on Earth) allow *failure* in their system. You don't make grades in a Japanese school...you go to a trade/vocational type school and learn how to weld. It's that simple. I know this is/was the system in Mexico as I went there on a study abroad program in 1995.
Every time something like this is suggested in the US we get to hear about how the self-esteem of children will be destroyed, etc. Our school system seems to value self-esteem more than learning these days.
BTW: This may also be a reason why students in other countries fair better on tests...they aren't testing the one's that are in the trade schools.
I think it would sound a lot like a yawn. Non-indoctrinated people have traditionally been indifferent to other's beliefs, thinking it's none of their business. I am sure a lot of agnostics/atheists even enjoyed "Passion of the Christ" as good (or so I heard) historical fiction, like Troy.
No legitimate historian will deny that Jesus Christ was a real person that was crucified by the Roman empire. Aside from the scenes in the movie where Jesus was being tormented by Satan, I would say that it's probably very close (or as close as movies come) to being historically accurate.
Hmm...
No one...unless of course you work outside or you're a pilot like me. I check the weather all the time because it could save my life...I wouldn't exactly call that 'useless'.
Everyone keeps mentioning the Janet Jackson Super Bowl fiasco, but this is definately a different case. In the US, you can't be arrested for having a picture of Janet Jackson in your private house, or showing nude breasts on cable (many people don't understand that the FCC's decency bullshit only applies to over-the-air broadcasts). But in Germany, you can be arrested for having historical artifacts from WWI that contain swastikas. I think there is a definate difference here.
Unless of course you're talking about tectonic plates 'rubbing' each other, creating a level 10 earthquake and the resulting tsunamis killing 150,000 people. Yeah...it's just about the speed. ;-)
They didn't use cellphones. They used the GTE airphones in the seatbacks. Most of the recorded conversations were between the passengers and the GTE operators, and the operators were patching people through to their family members.
I'm also a private pilot and my lightspeed headset was sending noise back over to the COM radio. I installed an el-cheapo magnetic noise filter I bought at Radio Shack (as recommended by an elecronics guru friend of mine) and it eliminated all noise.
But I agree...I also have to descend very low to get a signal...which I don't like to do while flying my 200mph RV-7A experimental...the trees go by very quickly.
I also flew with my my friend in a Beachjet to New York and with my phone on the entire time I was unable to get a signal the entire flight. We were at FL410 up and FL380 back.
So, I guess you didn't read the news yesterday, huh?
I think the U.S. has to change ONE law very quickly: It was ruled by the supreme court quite a while ago that corporations may exercise the same rights as individuals. THIS has got to go.
Without the individual being protected and valued ABOVE corporate interests, lobbies will always have more resources and weild MORE and MORE power.
I generally don't like to make meaningless replies on Slashdot unless I feel I have something useful to add to the thread...but oh well...
Amen, brother.
From the article:
RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy wrote in an e-mail. "The intellectual property industries are one of our leading national exports, and it's approprate for the federal government to have a role in protecting those sectors from rampant piracy."
Ok, so how is cracking down on copyright law within the US going to prevent people from other countries from doing these things? Bunch of blithering idiots, they are.
SAP already does something very similar to this with their headquarters in Germany. I've been there several times. I was a little shocked to see that they are not located in Frankfurt or any other large city, they are located in a small town called Waldorf. As best as I could tell, they were the only thing in town. There really doesn't even seem to be a hotel there as we always stay in Hidelburg, which is just a 10-15 minute drive away.
ersonally, I do not think it is just a few silent christians. I think that it is the majority of America. I see that the fundamentalists are more akin to the 1980's moral majority, 1990's Al Qaeda, the 1930's German nazi party, or the 1900's USSR communist party. That is, just a small group with a very vocal opinion carry a message of their own choosing. The vast majority of people really just want to live and enjoy life. They are not concerned with changing it. These aforementioned groups are all small, but ....
Well..your point is well made...but I do have one problem with your assertion that the Nazi's were just a small vocal group. At the height of his bloody reign, Hitler enjoyed approximately 95% approval from the German citizenry.
That's lame, to say the least. There are much more capable homemade rockets capable of reaching a mile or more.
...and don't even get me started on the Flying Tiger (48,000 ft.).
One kilometer is 3280 feet. I've taken my homebuilt airplane (RV-7) to 18,000 ft (5.48 kilometers, the highest allowed in VFR flight) several times still showing 500 fpm climb and other RV builders with setups similar to mine have made it to 25,900 ft. (7.59 kilometers)
This rocket costs 2.1 million Yen is $20,000 US dollars. A finished RV will cost you about twice that but it'll get you a lot higher! And that's the key...it gets you a lot higher.
If they could get these rockets to say, 50,000 ft. or more...then it would get interesting.
Ok, there is no such thing as a back door draft. I did my four years in the Navy so I know what I'm talking about. When you enlist, the very front page of your enlistment contract has in bold letters that you are actually enlisting for 8 years, with 4 (sometimes 3, sometimes 6 according to the rating/job your gonna be doing) years active service. It states very, very clearly that if the president so orders, you may be required to stay in longer than your four years.
I'm no Bush fan either, but let's state the facts. It's a volunteer military. People voluntarily sign that contract. I want to bring our kids home too, but they signed the contract! It's no surprise to any of them!
I don't know that that's necessarily a valid leap of logic. In the once example in which the passengers did fight back (i.e., Pennsylvania), everybody still died. I don't think that 9/11 guaranteed that in the future, every hijacking will necessarily be met with resistance.
It's valid logic because the hijackers knew that if they boarded the plane with any sort of weapon at all (come 'on, they used boxcutters!), they would easily have full control of the airplane. All they had to do was read the FAR (federal aviation regulations).
Well, there's always the Moller M400. Top speed of 350 mph, uses regular gasoline, gets 20 mpg (better than an SUV).
This project has been going on for years and the most they've managed is a few feet off the ground. We can talk about fuel economy once the thing is flying.
I also don't think the Moller is that good of a design. Why fly at 350mph and NOT have a wing? The lift is essentially free...the only cost is induced drag...the natural byproduct of lift in an airfoil. I just don't understand why he wants to have these fans pounding the air into submission (and consequently using more energy => burning more fuel). Now, if this thing had retractable wings...that may make more sense to me.
Afterall, we were heavily regulated in the FAA when two people decided to take control over a few airliners and started plunging them into buildings. Regulations didn't stop them either.
As a matter of fact, regulations AIDED the terrorists, since airline pilots have very strict rules (made by the FAA) to follow in a hijacking attempt. The regulation stated that pilots should follow hijackers demands, including giving up the cockpit. This is why I repeatedly say that 9/11 could never happen again with boxcutters. People will fight back. The pilots will resist.
How can giving more weight to the votes of individuals possibly lead to fascism, unless by fascism you mean to imply any governmental system you dislike and which isn't blatantly communist(both fascist and communist have both been way too overused in the last 50 or so years).
Ever heard of Hitler? He was elected by popular vote and at the pinnacle of his government had 95% approval of the citizenry.