Cell phones are all lower frequency
From 800 MHz to 1.9 GHz
(and something about 450MHz, but that isn't common)
Don't you think they can limit their product to 2.4 GHz +/- 500 MHz? No. That's hard enough to do with a mechanical Faraday type arrangement, much less paint. Don't you think it'd be better to understand the physics of EM radiation before you make silly presumptive comments?
And once they file suit it becomes more difficult for them to just drop the charges as doing so could possibly be construed as extortion if they arbitrarily decide to not persue certain cases. Dropping a case for lack of evidence could be construed as extortion? What the fuck are you talking about?
I'll probably get -1'd just for saying "don't do the crime if you can't do the time." Don't illegally download music without understanding the risks of doing something illegally. No, what you should be modded "-1, stupid" for is your asinine assumption that just because the RIAA filed suit against someone, that means they are automagically guilty (liable).
Actually, I was employing a humor device known as sarcasm to highlight the absurdity of the lawsuit brought by KinderStart. Yeah, I think the problem people are having is that in order for something to be recognized as humor, it actually has to be funny. It wasn't a very good joke.
Don't be ridiculous. It would do no such thing. It would open the floodgates to a slew of additional lawsuits alleging Google isn't "objective". At present Google has no such obligation.
After so many countless Americans have fought and died to protect our freedom, we end up with fascist totalitarianism. It's like they all died in vane. They did not die in vain so long as we still have the means to shoot the bastards in the head and overthrow the government. That day is still quite a long way off, but it's closer ever time some asshat throws out a popular vote because "they didn't understand what they were voting for".
One of the examples I can give you is United flight 232, which was caused by a manufacturing defect that led to the loss of all three hydraulic systems - something the airplane's designers thought would be impossible. That's not exactly true. The hydraulic failure was caused by an uncontained failure of the fan disc in the Number 2 (tail mounted)engine, which essentially exploded and riddled the entire tail section with shrapnel holes--- including all three redundant hydraulic systems. The fan disc failure was caused by a manufacturing defect leading to stress cracking, but the cracking should have been caught by maintenance inspection. It wasn't a simple single point of failure like you imply, it was a chain of smaller oversights, each one of which shouldn't have happened.
I've been saying that off-and-on here on Slashdot for years. The biggest obstacle to obtaining actual reasonable fair use is assholes like the OP (who are in a majority on Slashdot) who define fair use as "mine, mine, mine" - like a petulant four year old. And I've been saying it for years here on slashdot that the real problem is ignorant folk like you who have bought the [RIAA/MPAA/etc] party line and don't realize that these artifacts of our common culture are indeed "ours, ours, ours". The songs and stories, once shared with the public, belong to all of us. It is only an artifice of government that permits them reserve an artificial monopoly on copying, and it's an act of evil that they've extended this supposedly limited time monopoly into effective perpetuity. If you actually look at the long history of artistry and creativity, and the somewhat shorter history of copyright, the way these bastards have twisted what was meant as an incentive to create into a perpetual revenue model becomes a lot clearer. At this point, most copyright is "theft", the unjust fencing off of huge swathes of our culture in order to charge admission.
This is a compelling theory, but for me it doesn't wash because I'm successfully finding lots of new music that I enjoy...most of it is not published by the RIAA, Dude, why don't you actually READ the GP post. That's precisely his point: nothing good is coming out of the mainstream music system that previously brought us Black Sabbath et al.
Do some research, you fucking idiot. Get outside your privileged little bubble and learn something about your fellow citizens. Poverty is indeed a real problem for a large subset of Americans. I never said it wasn't a real problem, only that it's not much of a problem compared to the rest of the world. My main point was that equating lack of internet service at home with poverty is fucking stupid.
Sorry, try reading my post. I was responding to a comment about how there is NO poverty in the USA. Straw man. Please quote where I said there was no poverty.
If one cannot put 2000 calories (on average) in one's belly every day that is poverty. I've met many such people. I can introduce you to them if you think they don't exist. Straw man, fallacy of proof by example. No one said they don't exist.
There are 28 million such people in the USA. Show me where the US Census Bureau measured caloric intake.
But to say there is NO poverty in the USA is just fucking stupid and heartless. To claim that anyone said there was no poverty when no one said any such thing is even fucking stupider.
And yes asshole I have personally witnessed worse poverty in Asia. And yes asshole I do something about it. I have personally donated nearly $100,000 to Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders. My will leaves everything to those two organizations, which I hope will be at least a two or three million dollars when I am done. I am an personal investor and my personal philosophy is to live simply so that I can give that amount of money to organizations that tend to the world's poorest. So go fuck yourself. Your saintly self-righteousness is quite impressive. You are obviously a better person than all the rest of us. Good job.
28 million Americans live below the poverty level. That means they cannot meet their basic needs; food, clothing, shelter. Incorrect. You are mistakenly assuming that the federal definition of poverty is the same as the logical definition of poverty. The Federal Poverty Level (from which your 28 million number is derived) is an aggregate statistical calculation based solely on annual income, adjusted for local cost of living and size of the family that income supports. They do not measure how often children go to bed hungry, nor how often a family's caloric intake is insufficient, nor how many pairs of decent trousers they have, nor how many people live in the house vs. how many people "should" live in the house. The feds themselves admit the system is still too generalized. It's better than it was in 1964, when they set the poverty line at $3,000 regardless of local differences, but it's still highly abstracted.
THAT IS POVERTY. No, its not as bad as many places in the world, but IT IS BAD. I didn't say no one lived in poverty, nor that it wasn't bad. I said that the way they calculate whether someone is poor is flawed and includes too many people who are merely "low-income".
Besides, a huge amount of Americans believe in creationism, alien abductions, that the moon landing was faked and that global warming is a scam, though lesbians cause hurricanes. The fewer of those that we push to the internet, the better. I seem to recall there being plenty of those nutters on USENET "back in the day" as well, and a half dozen of them are no less shrill than a few thousand, as far as I can tell. Besides, their greater numbers makes them more entertaining.
Or it could be that fact that the US has a poverty problem. Not that most people even recognize that fact. They just assume that people without internet don't want it, not that they can't afford it.
Rock on with your priviledged self. You're kidding, right? The US really doesn't have much of a poverty problem. The number of truly poor people is actually quite low. What the US Government chooses to call poverty, in many third world countries would be considered the lap of luxury. Of course, their inflation of the numbers makes it that much harder to help the folks who really need it, as they're lost amidst a sea of "poor" people who can't afford to pay college tuition for their kids. Not being able to afford food or adequate housing, that's poverty. Not being able to afford an internet connection? Give me a fucking break. That's a fucking luxury.
I'm not sure I disagree with you, but to play devil's advocate for a moment one *could* say the sale *does* take place in WA. No, you actually can't say that. The law is very clear on this, and predates the internet, having been settled long ago on the issue of mail-order. The sale happens where the money changes hands in exchange for the goods. That location is the business office where they process the credit card transaction, deposit the check, or receive the cash. It doesn't matter if your ass is in a chair on the beach in waikiki or in a barcolounger in cleveland, if you're buying from a guy in Texas, the sale is in Texas.
I don't think this is legal under the constitution. The sales are made outside WA and therefore cannot be taxed by the WA government. A lot of governors have tried this crap, I don't think any have succeeded though. Hence the wording of the law, which "encourages" rather than "mandates" out of state retailers to collect the tax. Yeah, I agree, it's pretty stupid.
You also have to consider how resilient such a system could be to tampering. If it relies on GPS (and I don't see how it wouldn't), then what will it do if I jam the GPS signal? Will the car know how to get off the road safely with the GPS data jammed? Can it still get to safety if I jam the signal near a busy highway and there are hundreds of cars trying to pull over at the same time? Don't be daft. You're overthinking it. It certainly wouldn't use GPS for anything more than coarse navigation, as even an optimistic 2 meter accuracy is insufficient to keep you in your own lane. Maneuver will likely be managed with optical sensors. Is there a problem with people shining spotlights in each others eyes on the road today? Unlikely it will be a problem when it's robots driving either.
Something which most people don't think about is: if the front end crumples too much, the engine has to go somewhere. It certainly doesn't jump out from under the hood and clear itself from the car. It's not going to deflate into a small piece of rubber. Nor does it necessarily have to move straight back into the passenger compartment. BMW has made it a selling point to illustrate how their cars are designed such that the forward drive train (engine + transmission) breaks free of the body and is deflected down, so that the passenger compartment rides up over the top of it. Many other high end luxury cars are similarly designed.
Company: a corporation - or, less commonly, an association, partnership or union - that carries on industrial enterprise.
-Black's Law Dictionary
The RIAA is a company. It's even a corporation. Just because a bunch of people on slashdot have a different vague notion* of what constitutes a "company" doesn't mean it isn't.
* the fact that no one has articulated exactly why they think they don't constitute a company pretty well indicates that they don't know exactly what a company is.
The RIAA isn't a company. It's a trade association. An arbitrary distinction. They are incorporated in New York, so they are as much a corporation as any other. The fact that their entire customer base consists of a small clique of recording industry companies is wholly irrelevant. They are merely the non-profit* collective "beard" of their members, allowing them to pawn off their dirty work on a faceless third party.
* their lobbying efforts alone make their non-profit status pretty hard to justify under 501(c)(3)
if you think about it, the riaa is just trying to protect its intellectual property. See, the problem here is that it isn't their "property". Songs, stories, movies--- once they're publicly released, they belong to all of us. Copyright is an artificial, government created, temporary, limited monopoly on the right to copy these artifacts of our common culture. The fact that the thieving bastards have greased the collective palm of congress to obtain perpetual extensions to the temporary monopoly on copying doesn't change the fact that all that stuff is ours. If you actually educate yourself on the long history of artistic creation and the short history of copyright, you'd understand what an absolute evil is being perpetrated upon us by the bastards claiming ownership of this stuff--- and you'd likely no longer parrot the their "intellectual property" fallacy.
Unfortunately, I think you probably wouldn't like to. It's fucking awful. It's done with a neat flashy comic book style, but the pacing is War and Peace slow, so every show leaves you saying "did anything happen in this episode?" The style demands action and energy, but the execution is totally inept. In hindsight, there's clear movement to the story, but it's about 1/3 of a season's worth of story stretched boringly out to a full season. Simply terrible writing.
Now look at the modern porn... On the positive side, modern porn stars are so shaved, plucked, tattooed, bleached, and pumped up with silicone that (given their wooden acting and uninspired vocabulary) it's really hard to view them as anything more that some sort of semi-sentient sex toy anyway. I'd certainly have no fear of children getting the wrong idea about women from watching the gyrations of those plastic monsters.
Slashdot Mirror
From 800 MHz to 1.9 GHz
(and something about 450MHz, but that isn't common)
Don't you think they can limit their product to 2.4 GHz +/- 500 MHz? No. That's hard enough to do with a mechanical Faraday type arrangement, much less paint. Don't you think it'd be better to understand the physics of EM radiation before you make silly presumptive comments?
No. What makes you think a contract has to have all clauses apply to both sides equally? Any "morals clause" would only apply to the artist.
Don't be ridiculous. It would do no such thing. It would open the floodgates to a slew of additional lawsuits alleging Google isn't "objective". At present Google has no such obligation.
perhaps a mod mistakenly assumed "neener" was a slang term for penis?
If one cannot put 2000 calories (on average) in one's belly every day that is poverty. I've met many such people. I can introduce you to them if you think they don't exist. Straw man, fallacy of proof by example. No one said they don't exist.
There are 28 million such people in the USA. Show me where the US Census Bureau measured caloric intake.
But to say there is NO poverty in the USA is just fucking stupid and heartless. To claim that anyone said there was no poverty when no one said any such thing is even fucking stupider.
And yes asshole I have personally witnessed worse poverty in Asia. And yes asshole I do something about it. I have personally donated nearly $100,000 to Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders. My will leaves everything to those two organizations, which I hope will be at least a two or three million dollars when I am done. I am an personal investor and my personal philosophy is to live simply so that I can give that amount of money to organizations that tend to the world's poorest. So go fuck yourself. Your saintly self-righteousness is quite impressive. You are obviously a better person than all the rest of us. Good job.
THAT IS POVERTY. No, its not as bad as many places in the world, but IT IS BAD. I didn't say no one lived in poverty, nor that it wasn't bad. I said that the way they calculate whether someone is poor is flawed and includes too many people who are merely "low-income".
Rock on with your priviledged self. You're kidding, right? The US really doesn't have much of a poverty problem. The number of truly poor people is actually quite low. What the US Government chooses to call poverty, in many third world countries would be considered the lap of luxury. Of course, their inflation of the numbers makes it that much harder to help the folks who really need it, as they're lost amidst a sea of "poor" people who can't afford to pay college tuition for their kids. Not being able to afford food or adequate housing, that's poverty. Not being able to afford an internet connection? Give me a fucking break. That's a fucking luxury.
Company: a corporation - or, less commonly, an association, partnership or union - that carries on industrial enterprise.
-Black's Law Dictionary
The RIAA is a company. It's even a corporation. Just because a bunch of people on slashdot have a different vague notion* of what constitutes a "company" doesn't mean it isn't.
* the fact that no one has articulated exactly why they think they don't constitute a company pretty well indicates that they don't know exactly what a company is.
* their lobbying efforts alone make their non-profit status pretty hard to justify under 501(c)(3)
Wow, I'd like to see that!
Unfortunately, I think you probably wouldn't like to. It's fucking awful. It's done with a neat flashy comic book style, but the pacing is War and Peace slow, so every show leaves you saying "did anything happen in this episode?" The style demands action and energy, but the execution is totally inept. In hindsight, there's clear movement to the story, but it's about 1/3 of a season's worth of story stretched boringly out to a full season. Simply terrible writing.