Copyright law does not require that you enforce it, that's trademark law. Not doing anything about this web site would have no bearing on whether or not they would be able to enforce their copyrights against another individual or company. The DMCA has changed nothing in this regard.
IANAL, but I work with IP lawyers, so I have this on pretty good authority.
Anybody who's followed NASA politics knows that George Abbey runs the manned spaceflight crew rosters with a mixture of cronyism and voodoo. People get dropped from missions without explanation and put into permanent perpetual hold until they figure out what they did to piss Abbey off and either resign or correct their mistakes.
I dunno. Any reading of the Apollo program histories indicates that you could substitute Slayton and/or Sheppard for Abbey in the above sentence and have a true statement about Gemini and Apollo flight crew decisions. Yet we still got to the moon. I think there have to be other, bigger problems. I'd start with an American Public that sees no real value in a space program and work from there.
Then we better start adjusting to a hunter-gatherer economy because all energy generation is evil. CO2 doesn't even have a half-life. Unless it's biologically recycled or trapped in carbonate rocks, it's essentially with us forever. It's environmental effects are far more widespread than any nuclear waste problems, yet we continue to drive our Lincoln Behemoths four blocks to the Quik-E-Mart.
Personally, I think conservation is the only answer, but it's a hard sell, since it requires personal sacrifice: the only two words more frightening to most Americans than nuclear radiation. Me? I don't even own a car, so I'm doing my part, but not everyone wants to live in the city.
The waste problem is hardly "more nasty" IMHO. The stuff is compact and confinable (sometimes even recyclable!) unlike, say CO2. That stuff is a nasty pollutant. It has a massive effect on the environment, and for a longer time than even the long-term effects of Cherynobyl or atmospheric testing. It just lacks the noocleer raydeeayshun buzzwords for the ignorant to get excited about.
All power production has a substantial negative effect on the environment. It strikes me that fission has the smallest effect of all of the working methods of power generation. People just can't put the risks into perspective. Kind of like the person who's afraid of flying, but won't wear a seat belt or have their car's brakes checked regularly.
And the other choice, presumably, is to utter a hearty "fuck you" and never go back to salon.com again?
And wonder why all of the "free" news sites are part of AOL/Time/MSNBC. Content generation isn't free. The people who put Salon together do need to eat. How do you suggest they pay salaries?
You could also try going to Alienware They are not cheap, by a long shot, but I bought my last AMD box from them after I realized that I didn't have the time to put one together from scratch this time around. I've been pleased with the results.
Problem: This person is a known terrorist
Solution: Kill them before they can do it again.
Uhhh, Innocent until proven Guilty? Or are you willing to have death sentences carried out by assassination after trial in absentia? Looks like everyone is willing to sacrifice somebody else's civil rights to fix this problem.
Stick to store-bought mushrooms man. The ones you pick in the forest are messing with your head. The more likely outcome of the conversation above would be a fifteen year mandatory minimum combined with a 5 year sentence for contempt of court. Remember the Supremes found both slavery and the internment of Japanese-Americans to be constitutional. I wouldn't hold out any hope of a courtroom outcome like you have described.
With almost identical results. Of course the only conclusion is that it's safe to say that the same demographic reads both sites. There's also a biting op-ed piece on the Washington Post by John Podesta that basically says that we techies are the ones who "don't get it" when it comes to encryption restrictions. If this is the prevailing mood in the country, then I think we've already lost.
Oh and I wouldn't put too much stock in outside governments not changing their laws to match. Most of them would love to and the current mood is that there are only two sides available in the fight against terrorism.
Look, most of my family farms and I'd love to see them make more money, but the fact of the matter is that these factory farms far out-produce any traditional farm on an acre-by-acre basis. Without the factory farms, this country would either have a far larger amount of acreage dedicated to food production, along with a far higher percentage of people employed in agriculture, or it would be a net importer of food.
Any farm despoils the landscape and leads to pollution, even the organic ones. Manure based fertilizers are a great source for E. Coli contamination of the foodstuffs and pretty much the entire neighborhood. One of the worst outbreaks was traced back to organically grown sprouts. That's right folks, not hamburgers or waterparks, but plain old Alfalfa, organically grown.
I don't know about you, but having actually worked on a family farm once or twice, I'll stick to my computer job and the local supermarket, even if I do have to settle for the output of the factory farms.
As opposed of course, to starving to death, or spending inordinate amounts of our time growing or acquiring food. Factory farms produce inferior/homogenous produce, but "traditional" farms can't keep us fed.
Yeah, it's real simple. We put our women barefoot and pregnant in burkhas, give up our religions (or lack thereof), grow our beards, etc. That's the only way these fanatics are going to be happy with our conduct, when we are as miserable and medieval as they are.
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The correct quote is those who would trade essential liberty for temporary security will have neither.
I don't think that Franklin was contemplating "inconvieniences" when he talked of essential liberties. If you do not wish to pass through airport security, take the train, or the bus.
I still think the best measure against these types of attacks is to make it impossible to access the cockpit from the passenger compartment. I'm not talking about a locked door, I'm talking about a bulkhead and a separate exterior entrance.
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I see that they need 50 licenses worth of Citrix. Anybody here work for Citrix? If so, you need to tell your management to get their heads out of their asses and ship them the license keys, pronto.
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I'm guessing, but I'd say far less than 1/10th of the lives lost yesterday. it's time for a bulkhead and a separate exterior door for the cockpit.
FDR had days to compose his, since the U.S. had known the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming.
Yeah, and we faked the moon landings, and we have little green men in freezers at Wright-Patterson. C'mon there's zero credible evidence that FDR knew Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked. The general consenus was that the Phillipines stood a good chance of being hit very early on, but nothing for Pearl Harbor. Every intelligence estimate had the carriers in home waters due to an efficient deception operation. The Kido Butai sortied in extreme secrecy and maintained total radio silence on the approach. If the Imperial Navy had maintained such discipline leading up to Midway, their plan might have worked there, too.
In many ways, I find the entire "FDR knew it was coming, but let them come in to drag us into war" thing to be incredibly disrespectful of the Japanese. It seems to say that they were incapable of pulling off a nearly perfect suprise attack, and had to have help from us to do it.
Sad thing is, we'll probably be hearing similar remarks about yesterday's tragedy in the next few years.
I was thinking exactly the same thing last night. If there is zero access to the crew cabin from inside the aircraft, it would be much harder for a lightly armed terrorist to commandeer the aircraft and fly it into something.
You probably would need to emabark some kind of unarmed bouncer to deal with the idiots who drink to much and then try to punch the flight attendants, though.
You'd also need to add a restroom in the crew cabin, just in case. Or I suppose we could make the flight crews wear the undergarment parts of spacesuits...
This was an act of war, plain and simple. When we find out who was responsible and where they live, I suggest the following succint piece of legistlation:
If (Country X) has not remanded individual(s) A, B, C, etc within 24 hours of the encactment of this law, as State of War shall exist between the United States of America and Country X.
If they are so much as 15 seconds late with the handover, we reduce their nation to a pile of glowing embers that aren't safe to stand next to for the next 50 years.
But you might get your neighbor's house if he gave aid and comfort to the arsonist who burned down yours. Check out who the Mufti of Jerusalem at the time of the Holocaust was best friends with. Hint, he planned to ride into Jerusalem in Rommel's baggage car.
Amazingly, I've actually volunteered at a local school district to do this same kind of project. I was told, "Thanks, but we don't take volunteers."
I know it's frustrating, but it does make some sense when you think about it. The criminal background checks alone would be pretty expensive, and I don't think any school system would dare accept anybody without a pretty thorough background investigation. All they would have to do is slip up once and it would be all over the papers. School administrators, being good bureaucrats, loathe bad press. The easiest thing to do is to allow only employees, and perhaps parents, under exceptional cirucumstances, anywhere near the students.
Sorry, but this just doesn't work. The physics of a nuclear bomb explosion is several orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude less complex than simulation of animal physiology. There have been countless drugs that worked great in simulation or in a petri dish and were found to be totally useless or even harmful during animal or first-stage human trials.
We simply don't know enough to create a simulation that can replace or even significantly reduce the use of animal testing, particularly for safety concerns. As it is, testing groups are kept small enough that some liver toxicity issues don't crop up until the product hits the market (Baycol anyone?). Abandonment of animal and clinical trials would only make this worse.
Computer simulation is very useful, however, in finding drugs at the molecular level and in reducing the early-stage trials where the drug is tested in a petri dish against the pathogen. Far more research into basic animal physiology will be necessary before we can throw a Beowolf cluster at the problem.
I dunno. My VAIO Z-505 is on the supported hardware list, but the Mandrake 8.0 installer hard-locks at "Configuring PCMCIA". I think the problem is with the 2.4.x PCMCIA support in the kernel, since I've seen some odd PCMCIA problems on this laptop with any 2.4 distribution, but Mandrake is the first one to refuse to even install.
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Copyright law does not require that you enforce it, that's trademark law. Not doing anything about this web site would have no bearing on whether or not they would be able to enforce their copyrights against another individual or company. The DMCA has changed nothing in this regard.
IANAL, but I work with IP lawyers, so I have this on pretty good authority.
Just not Pool of Radiance 2, if you have anti-aliasing turned on!
I dunno. Any reading of the Apollo program histories indicates that you could substitute Slayton and/or Sheppard for Abbey in the above sentence and have a true statement about Gemini and Apollo flight crew decisions. Yet we still got to the moon. I think there have to be other, bigger problems. I'd start with an American Public that sees no real value in a space program and work from there.
Personally, I think conservation is the only answer, but it's a hard sell, since it requires personal sacrifice: the only two words more frightening to most Americans than nuclear radiation. Me? I don't even own a car, so I'm doing my part, but not everyone wants to live in the city.
All power production has a substantial negative effect on the environment. It strikes me that fission has the smallest effect of all of the working methods of power generation. People just can't put the risks into perspective. Kind of like the person who's afraid of flying, but won't wear a seat belt or have their car's brakes checked regularly.
And wonder why all of the "free" news sites are part of AOL/Time/MSNBC. Content generation isn't free. The people who put Salon together do need to eat. How do you suggest they pay salaries?
You could also try going to Alienware They are not cheap, by a long shot, but I bought my last AMD box from them after I realized that I didn't have the time to put one together from scratch this time around. I've been pleased with the results.
Solution: Kill them before they can do it again.
Uhhh, Innocent until proven Guilty? Or are you willing to have death sentences carried out by assassination after trial in absentia? Looks like everyone is willing to sacrifice somebody else's civil rights to fix this problem.
Stick to store-bought mushrooms man. The ones you pick in the forest are messing with your head. The more likely outcome of the conversation above would be a fifteen year mandatory minimum combined with a 5 year sentence for contempt of court. Remember the Supremes found both slavery and the internment of Japanese-Americans to be constitutional. I wouldn't hold out any hope of a courtroom outcome like you have described.
Oh and I wouldn't put too much stock in outside governments not changing their laws to match. Most of them would love to and the current mood is that there are only two sides available in the fight against terrorism.
Any farm despoils the landscape and leads to pollution, even the organic ones. Manure based fertilizers are a great source for E. Coli contamination of the foodstuffs and pretty much the entire neighborhood. One of the worst outbreaks was traced back to organically grown sprouts. That's right folks, not hamburgers or waterparks, but plain old Alfalfa, organically grown.
I don't know about you, but having actually worked on a family farm once or twice, I'll stick to my computer job and the local supermarket, even if I do have to settle for the output of the factory farms.
As opposed of course, to starving to death, or spending inordinate amounts of our time growing or acquiring food. Factory farms produce inferior/homogenous produce, but "traditional" farms can't keep us fed.
Yeah, it's real simple. We put our women barefoot and pregnant in burkhas, give up our religions (or lack thereof), grow our beards, etc. That's the only way these fanatics are going to be happy with our conduct, when we are as miserable and medieval as they are.
I don't think that Franklin was contemplating "inconvieniences" when he talked of essential liberties. If you do not wish to pass through airport security, take the train, or the bus.
I still think the best measure against these types of attacks is to make it impossible to access the cockpit from the passenger compartment. I'm not talking about a locked door, I'm talking about a bulkhead and a separate exterior entrance.
I see that they need 50 licenses worth of Citrix. Anybody here work for Citrix? If so, you need to tell your management to get their heads out of their asses and ship them the license keys, pronto.
I'm guessing, but I'd say far less than 1/10th of the lives lost yesterday. it's time for a bulkhead and a separate exterior door for the cockpit.
Yeah, and we faked the moon landings, and we have little green men in freezers at Wright-Patterson. C'mon there's zero credible evidence that FDR knew Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked. The general consenus was that the Phillipines stood a good chance of being hit very early on, but nothing for Pearl Harbor. Every intelligence estimate had the carriers in home waters due to an efficient deception operation. The Kido Butai sortied in extreme secrecy and maintained total radio silence on the approach. If the Imperial Navy had maintained such discipline leading up to Midway, their plan might have worked there, too.
In many ways, I find the entire "FDR knew it was coming, but let them come in to drag us into war" thing to be incredibly disrespectful of the Japanese. It seems to say that they were incapable of pulling off a nearly perfect suprise attack, and had to have help from us to do it.
Sad thing is, we'll probably be hearing similar remarks about yesterday's tragedy in the next few years.
You probably would need to emabark some kind of unarmed bouncer to deal with the idiots who drink to much and then try to punch the flight attendants, though.
You'd also need to add a restroom in the crew cabin, just in case. Or I suppose we could make the flight crews wear the undergarment parts of spacesuits...
This was an act of war, plain and simple. When we find out who was responsible and where they live, I suggest the following succint piece of legistlation: If (Country X) has not remanded individual(s) A, B, C, etc within 24 hours of the encactment of this law, as State of War shall exist between the United States of America and Country X. If they are so much as 15 seconds late with the handover, we reduce their nation to a pile of glowing embers that aren't safe to stand next to for the next 50 years.
But you might get your neighbor's house if he gave aid and comfort to the arsonist who burned down yours. Check out who the Mufti of Jerusalem at the time of the Holocaust was best friends with. Hint, he planned to ride into Jerusalem in Rommel's baggage car.
I know it's frustrating, but it does make some sense when you think about it. The criminal background checks alone would be pretty expensive, and I don't think any school system would dare accept anybody without a pretty thorough background investigation. All they would have to do is slip up once and it would be all over the papers. School administrators, being good bureaucrats, loathe bad press. The easiest thing to do is to allow only employees, and perhaps parents, under exceptional cirucumstances, anywhere near the students.
Actually, at 10 milliamperes and up, were talking centiamperes, aren't we? </PEDANTIC>
Considering our average lifespan in our hunter/gather days (which was about 18 years, if I recall.) I'd say yes.
We simply don't know enough to create a simulation that can replace or even significantly reduce the use of animal testing, particularly for safety concerns. As it is, testing groups are kept small enough that some liver toxicity issues don't crop up until the product hits the market (Baycol anyone?). Abandonment of animal and clinical trials would only make this worse.
Computer simulation is very useful, however, in finding drugs at the molecular level and in reducing the early-stage trials where the drug is tested in a petri dish against the pathogen. Far more research into basic animal physiology will be necessary before we can throw a Beowolf cluster at the problem.
I dunno. My VAIO Z-505 is on the supported hardware list, but the Mandrake 8.0 installer hard-locks at "Configuring PCMCIA". I think the problem is with the 2.4.x PCMCIA support in the kernel, since I've seen some odd PCMCIA problems on this laptop with any 2.4 distribution, but Mandrake is the first one to refuse to even install.