The canonical warning tale is probably the genius who got the vanity plate NONE.
I used to have the vanity plate LICENSE. At the time, I lived in Morris County, KS, so if I got a ticket, it would have been written as MR LICENSE, at least by a KS cop who knew how such things worked there. Mister License? Too much fun.
Re:"Censorship": You keep using that word....
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So de facto censorship is okay, as long as it's not de jure?
You haven't established that de jure censorship is the result of the practices being contemplated here. You need to do better than that to justify depriving Google of their right to choose how to rank search results.
I mean, minorities are peferectly free to excise their legal right to vote.... And their banker is perfectly free to foreclose on their mortgage after he sees them at the polls and they miss a single payment.
If the terms of the mortgage allow him that discretion, then yes, he can do that. You can't get inside his head and prove why he did what he did, and if he has a shred of intelligence, he'll have documentation to back up his decision.
Sounds like a good reason to do business with a more friendly banker.
Of course, that wasn't something the Good Old Boys would tolerate, so they used the coercive power of government to make it illegal to, for instance, let black train passengers ride in the same car as the whites. The railroads didn't want to have to segregate, because that made it more expensive for them to operate. They only cared what color someone's money was. Insensitive to the cultural peculiarities of a region - damn capitalist bastards!
You don't have to use the law to strip someone of their civil rights
You can have the Sheriff and his deputies conveniently engaged in some activity far removed from the Klan meeting until after the Guest of Honor has expired. But that's still the use of force, and I don't believe that Google has any plans to send in hooded thugs to harass folks who use Yahoo! instead. However, if they do, and the law enforcement officers turn their head the other way, then those officers are guilty of depriving people of their civil rights, you betcha.
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Ah, the old "Freedom of speech as long as no one hears you" chestnut.
You have the right to say whatever you want on your website. That does not impose an obligation on anyone else to link to your website, because that would deny their freedom. My right to free speech does not require that a broadcaster supply me his transmitter, a publisher his printing press, or Webmeister his server.
I really don't understand how these two concepts became conflated in the minds of so many people. "Censorship" is the act of preventing some unpleasant words, sounds, or images from being published. That implies the use or threat of physical force to do the preventing, because there are other publishers who have differing standards. "Editorial discretion" is something entirely different - it's the act of deciding what words, sounds, or images you personally wish to publish. It is, in fact, inherent in freedom of speech itself.
If Google decides that they didn't want to refer any traffic to certain kinds of information, then the people who want that stuff will have to find another search engine. They have to weigh that against the others who will welcome search results that they are looking for. Google's reputation is everything -- if they erode it, they cease to be relevant, and therefore profitable.
Simply put, i did not spell check that, and no, i hardly ever use email, mostly forums.
never ceases to amaze me. You can't be bothered to take a moment to make sure you've expressed yourself coherently. Apparently, holding down the shift key to capitalize the personal pronoun 'I' anywhere other than as the initial letter of a sentence is an imposition. Instead, you expect thousands of people to expend the mental effort to navigate the minefield of your writing. That's what I call 'rude'.
If your ability to use standard English grammar and spelling is predicated on the use of spell-checkers, then consider this:
Watt wood-eyed dew width ought mine ice bell Czech her?
When I was your age, I used a typewriter, and was damned glad it was electric, and had error-correction cartridges so I didn't have to use white-out. A few years later, when I was in college, I couldn't even use a computer myself: I had to punch cards and take them to the Data Processing priests, who would take them into the Inner Temple and add the Holy Job Control Cards that blessed my jobs unto the Almighty Mainframe. Then I'd come back hours later, or the next day, to get my printout and my stack of cards back. If I had a syntax error, I would have to fix that and repeat the process. I had no choice but to proofread my own work before submitting it.
And I walked several miles to school every day, uphill both ways! And I LIKED IT! Damn whippersnappers....
As for the socks thing, I think it just depends on what you think is important enough to put energy into caring about.
I understand that Einstein had his closet filled with identical shirts and slacks, and his sock drawer with identical socks, so as to be able to avoid thinking further about what he was wearing any given day (or perhaps not thinking, and having socks that don't match, or a shirt or socks that horribly clashed with the slacks).
Since he might have been preoccupied with the Fundamental Nature of the Universe, it's a wonder he remembered to dress at all.
except they really haven't found a safe place for it yet,
If you can't think of anything better, how about encasing the waste in bricks (I'm thinking ceramic would be good) and dumping it in a deep ocean subduction location like the Marianas Trench, whence it will slowly be pushed into the mantle and melted down, and in the meantime is so deep beneath the surface of the ocean that if anything did leak out it would be diluted to background level before it got far enough to make a difference to surface life?
I happen to work for a company that has .com (where most people who have heard of us would go looking for us) but my email address is @.net I always make a point of stressing that last part because otherwise my email would never get to me. On the gripping hand, maybe that would be a good thing....
The fact of the matter is that signatures are not required to have binding contracts.
IANAL (But I watched The Paper Chase and learned this from Prof. Kingsfield))
The elements of contract are:
Offer
Acceptance
Consideration
So, if I walk into a retailer and they offer OS X under terms that I am willing to accept, and I give them the amount of money (consideration) they asked for, when we have a contract. Any additional terms or conditions that the seller wishes to assert after I've agreed to the stated terms of the sale are completely unenforceable.
So if you want to get on the "EULAs are not binding" kick, go for it.
Suppose someone were to purchase a Chevy floormat from a dealer, then when they go to add Calvin urinating on the logo and put it in their Ford pickup, they find a GM EULA that says they can't use it that way. I can't imagine an attorney that would prosecute that one.
until P2P networks are ruled to be legal by the courts, they would not allow them on campus
At a university, where people are supposed to be learning how to do experiments that result in new science and technology, this attitude is unacceptable. By this logic, every new invention that the university produces would have to be banned, because no court had ruled it legal yet. The Internet itself could never have been created at institutions that presumed anything not explicitly permitted is implicitly forbidden.
Also this does not infringe anyone's first amendment rights, because it is voluntary.
If it weren't for the mandatory rating, I'd agree with you.
His suggestion was a separate
domain designator for porn. Something like.xxx
That's backwards. The internet was invented by the US military and its parters in academia and private-sector research. It's designed by and for adults. Everything was fine until people like Al Gore reinvented the Internet as an educational device. It's like a nun at a parochial school took a busload of kids down to a topless bar and proclaimed how SHOCKED she was that there weren't any safeguards to Protect The Precious Children<TM>!
Let's put it this way. If I don't bother to 'rate' my site, you may safely assume it's X by default, and anyone who wants can keep their kids away from it.
So, Mr. Bill could be Sir Bill if he can get Congress to pass a bill giving him permnission to receive it. As it is, he can only receive the "honorary" honour, so to speak.
And Congress must have passed some measure(s) allowing US citizens to receive this hono(u)r. (Shouldn't that be 'honourary honour', or 'honorary honor'?)
Trimming search input in the hopes of curbing "hate crimes" . . . is a dangerous precedent
The supreme irony is that in suppressing (neo)Nazi Propaganda (one of the things the German government suppresses), they are engaged in a fascist activity.
Maybe they could make hate criminals wear some distinctive badge so everyone knows who they are, or have 're-education centers' for them. The haters could redeem themselves through work.
Despite that the US the has not signed the Kyoto treaty
and for good reason. Kyoto does nothing about contolling greenhouse gas emissions from certain countries, putting US manufacturers at a competitive disadvantage against 'outsourced' emissions. It's as if the C0<sub>2</sub> from those countries somehow magically doesn't cause global warming at all. Fascinating how that works.
Can't their web server just reject or redirect any page requests that don't have a referrer field of their own web site?
Of course they can. But how in hell will they ever see another new customer via the internet again?
Not to put words in the grandparent's mouth, but I think 'or redirect' might just mean that if you want to connect to orbitz.com/very/deep/link from outside of orbitz.com, you get something else, like the orbitz.com front page instead.
It's not really difficult to go beyond this simple binary rule, and have a list of domains from which linking is allowed to any particular page other than the home page.
But by their own rules, they wouldn't even get the chance to redirect the evil links. To paraphrase Barbara Billingsley in Airplane:
Chump don't want no traffic?
Chump don't get no traffic!
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I didn't see the Byzantine team at the last Olympics. Did their Emperor make it to the Pope's funeral? What's his Imperial Highness' name, anyway?
Of course, that wasn't something the Good Old Boys would tolerate, so they used the coercive power of government to make it illegal to, for instance, let black train passengers ride in the same car as the whites. The railroads didn't want to have to segregate, because that made it more expensive for them to operate. They only cared what color someone's money was. Insensitive to the cultural peculiarities of a region - damn capitalist bastards!
You can have the Sheriff and his deputies conveniently engaged in some activity far removed from the Klan meeting until after the Guest of Honor has expired. But that's still the use of force, and I don't believe that Google has any plans to send in hooded thugs to harass folks who use Yahoo! instead. However, if they do, and the law enforcement officers turn their head the other way, then those officers are guilty of depriving people of their civil rights, you betcha.I really don't understand how these two concepts became conflated in the minds of so many people. "Censorship" is the act of preventing some unpleasant words, sounds, or images from being published. That implies the use or threat of physical force to do the preventing, because there are other publishers who have differing standards. "Editorial discretion" is something entirely different - it's the act of deciding what words, sounds, or images you personally wish to publish. It is, in fact, inherent in freedom of speech itself.
If Google decides that they didn't want to refer any traffic to certain kinds of information, then the people who want that stuff will have to find another search engine. They have to weigh that against the others who will welcome search results that they are looking for. Google's reputation is everything -- if they erode it, they cease to be relevant, and therefore profitable.
If your ability to use standard English grammar and spelling is predicated on the use of spell-checkers, then consider this:
When I was your age, I used a typewriter, and was damned glad it was electric, and had error-correction cartridges so I didn't have to use white-out. A few years later, when I was in college, I couldn't even use a computer myself: I had to punch cards and take them to the Data Processing priests, who would take them into the Inner Temple and add the Holy Job Control Cards that blessed my jobs unto the Almighty Mainframe. Then I'd come back hours later, or the next day, to get my printout and my stack of cards back. If I had a syntax error, I would have to fix that and repeat the process. I had no choice but to proofread my own work before submitting it.And I walked several miles to school every day, uphill both ways! And I LIKED IT! Damn whippersnappers....
An interface to what, if not a computer?
I keed, I keed!
I happen to work for a company that has .com (where most people who have heard of us would go looking for us) but my email address is @.net
I always make a point of stressing that last part because otherwise my email would never get to me. On the gripping hand, maybe that would be a good thing....
The elements of contract are:
- Offer
- Acceptance
- Consideration
So, if I walk into a retailer and they offer OS X under terms that I am willing to accept, and I give them the amount of money (consideration) they asked for, when we have a contract. Any additional terms or conditions that the seller wishes to assert after I've agreed to the stated terms of the sale are completely unenforceable. Suppose someone were to purchase a Chevy floormat from a dealer, then when they go to add Calvin urinating on the logo and put it in their Ford pickup, they find a GM EULA that says they can't use it that way. I can't imagine an attorney that would prosecute that one.Let's put it this way. If I don't bother to 'rate' my site, you may safely assume it's X by default, and anyone who wants can keep their kids away from it.
Should have sent back an .sxc (.ods in v2) to the bastids, along with http://openoffice.org in the message body.
Maybe they could make hate criminals wear some distinctive badge so everyone knows who they are, or have 're-education centers' for them. The haters could redeem themselves through work.
It's not really difficult to go beyond this simple binary rule, and have a list of domains from which linking is allowed to any particular page other than the home page.
But by their own rules, they wouldn't even get the chance to redirect the evil links. To paraphrase Barbara Billingsley in Airplane: