It's not just proportionately that the USA has the highest number of incarcerations. In absolute terms we simply have more people in jail than any other country. Almost 2,000,000 people are locked in US jails. China with somewhere between 4 to 6 times the US's population has about 1.5 million people incarcerated.
Ebert's solution is simple and correct. Major studios don't need to send out DVD's if they don't want to. Would anyone have had a tough time finding a place to see Gladiator?
If the majors choose not to promote their films via the free distribution of DVDs, fine, but why should all studios be forced to promote their movies in the same way?
I watched Bowling for Columbine, and I just assumed that Canadians were so docile they wouldn't need these kinds of security measures;) That walking up and opening people's door scene amazes me to this day. You'd get yourself shot even in the rural area I live in pulling that stunt (and people would say, "He was doing what!!!? No fricking wonder he got shot.")
I'm sure there are lots of bars and clubs in the US that require the exact same procedure described in the original post. My point was simply that in the middle of nowhere (where I live) we don't have to deal with these kinds of things to go to a bar. I bet rural Canada is the same way.
Good god? Is it really that bad in Canada. Was Michael Moore lying to us? The only time I've ever had to do that in the States was to get on an airplane... or into a courthouse come to think of it.
Never a bar. Of course the bar I usually go to is surrounded by corn fields but...;)
Thank you for making the point that I was going to make. If SCO gets the GPL declared invalid, then SCO loses all rights to distribute the formerly GPL'ed (and now just copyrighted) code.
I also liked your line on M$ and the election. There's a conspiracy theory I haven't heard before.
Wish I could mod you up.
Re:The organization has an obvious slant
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And the Oscars are political? No shit? Robin Williams
Of course the organization has an obvious slant, its stated goals are to protect what it views as the civil liberties of all Americans. When you're defending what you view as freedom you tend to get a little loony... see RMS for another example.
Unfortunately, somewhere along the way they certainly did forget about the second amendment. I read an article by an ACLU member pointing out that a great number of members disagree with the organization on the second amendment. He also pointed out that, while the groups stated position is that "the right to bear arms" is a "group right" (you know to let people keep a well regulated militia), the ACLU is not nearly as active in second amendment law as it is in other areas.
I joined the organization a few years back at the same time I joined the NRA. I figure I'll pay the ACLU to take loony positions on amendments 1 and 3-10, and I'll pay the NRA to take loony positions on number 2. Those loony positions will be shot down in courts and legislatures, but perhaps we will still have some rights a few years down the road.
When the government wants to go right, pull hard from the left. When the government wants to go left (yeah that's gonna happen), pull hard from the right.
Ah but since this is software piracy the entire organization is responsible. As the head of his office Sen. Hatch is ultimately responsible for any piracy that goes on in his organization.
Anyway go here http://www.bsa.org/usa/report/ and report Orrin for piracy.
How does this affect the US? Does it allow Nintendo to go after people who purchased products from Lik Sang? Does it prohibit another Chinese manufacturer from making similar products and selling them here (other than that they too would likely lose a suit in HK)?
BTW -- Thanks to the DMCA production of this device would be patently illegal in the US. It wouldn't take a court to decide that either... Nice to know the Chinese have more "freedom to innovate" (hey that's catchy;) than US citizens do. Makes me think we're gonna do real well in the next 100 or so years.
It's really all a question of "What's a strike?"
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Different umpires have had different strike zones for as long as baseball has been baseball I can think of no other objective sport where an official has as much control over what the interpretation of a rule is as the MLB has traditionally given umps. Maybe soccer refs and fouls?
Now owners are trying to take away that leeway and create a uniform strike zone because they (somehow) think that there isn't enough offense in the game.
What I really like is that not even the MLB follows its own strike zone rule in setting up this system.
Official Baseball Rules, Section 2.00, Definition of Terms:
"The STRIKE ZONE is that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, and the lower level is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap. The Strike Zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball."
Does anyone call a letters high strike anymore? Of course not... it's an unhittable pitch and wouldn't be fair to call. Questec doesn't either according to an "Outside the Lines" report on ESPN a few weeks ago. I'd rather let the umps determine what a strike is than the owners.
Whatever, mcsey
BTW -- Outside the Lines is great! A sports talk show where people don't yell at each other, woohoo!
Good Jazz is easy to find by label. Look for anything on:
Blue Note (anything)
Prestige (50's to 70's)
Verve (60's)
Atlantic (make sure it's jazz;) (50's to 70's)
Savoy (any)
Pacific related jazz labels (50's to 70's)
CTI (any)
Further if Creed Taylor produced it, buy it. If Rudy Van Gelder engineered it, for Chrissake buy it!
Getting CD reissues of a lot of these labels is not a problem, and you always guaranteed pretty good stuff. Also check out Emusic.com, they've got a pretty good selection of jazz in a hastle free (though sometimes crappy quality) mp3 format.
mcsey
Emusic has 128 Kb joint-stereo mp3s? What is this 1999?
Is there any reason to hope that these sports sims (racing, baseball, football, soccer, and so on) have a real possibility of predicting the outcome of matches, or entire seasons?
I agree as "invest" seems to be the wrong word for what Hummer Winblad (mmm Anne Winblad... rich, a geek, and a redhead) did. They did not invest. They essentially bought Napster.
I would disagree that Napster was "designed to violate the law and specifically exploting the RIAA's IP" for two reasons. One, the RIAA has almost/NO/ intellectual property (and some would say no intellect for that matter). It's members have some intellectualy property but the organization does not -- pendantic but correct. And B: Napster was not "designed to violate the law" any more than FTP or Dual Deck VCR's were designed to violate law. Users violate the law. Programmers write first amendment protected code.
Although the irony is that for being a Microsoft-ique company they use GNOME + some flavor of UNIX on thier desktops (even on the daycare machines).
'Cept if you'll remember NURV is specifically mentioned as not being M$. When the main character first goes to Tim Robbins house, he asks if the electronic wall art is like the system Bill Gates has. Robbins replies, "Bill Gates' is primitive." So while the GNOME+*NIX desktop would be unlikely for a company with NURV's er... philisophical bent, it's not out of the question.
Come to think of it given Robbins' speech on open source to Ryan Phillipe at the beginning of the movie (the one about others taking Phillipe's work and getting rich off of it) it would seem likely that they would use a BSD variant that they could customize and close.
I've seen this approach referred to (without irony) as "permissive filtering". The high school I used to admin for briefly toyed with the idea when a vendor brought it up as a "sure fire" way to reduce our liability with their $5000 piece of software. They dropped the idea when I told them it would perfectly CYA us, and all I'd need was one extra full time employee to check and enter websites requested by teachers and students;)
Slashdot Mirror
All the rudeness, none of the scenery. /me ducks.
It's not just proportionately that the USA has the highest number of incarcerations. In absolute terms we simply have more people in jail than any other country. Almost 2,000,000 people are locked in US jails. China with somewhere between 4 to 6 times the US's population has about 1.5 million people incarcerated.
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http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/world.h
Ebert's solution is simple and correct. Major studios don't need to send out DVD's if they don't want to. Would anyone have had a tough time finding a place to see Gladiator?
If the majors choose not to promote their films via the free distribution of DVDs, fine, but why should all studios be forced to promote their movies in the same way?
Uh... How about the one attached to Windows XP? That product seems to be selling fairly well:)
I watched Bowling for Columbine, and I just assumed that Canadians were so docile they wouldn't need these kinds of security measures;) That walking up and opening people's door scene amazes me to this day. You'd get yourself shot even in the rural area I live in pulling that stunt (and people would say, "He was doing what!!!? No fricking wonder he got shot.")
I'm sure there are lots of bars and clubs in the US that require the exact same procedure described in the original post. My point was simply that in the middle of nowhere (where I live) we don't have to deal with these kinds of things to go to a bar. I bet rural Canada is the same way.
Good god? Is it really that bad in Canada. Was Michael Moore lying to us? The only time I've ever had to do that in the States was to get on an airplane... or into a courthouse come to think of it.
;)
Never a bar. Of course the bar I usually go to is surrounded by corn fields but...
Dairy Queen let alone a nuclear plant...
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Check out http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/nuc
Thank you for making the point that I was going to make. If SCO gets the GPL declared invalid, then SCO loses all rights to distribute the formerly GPL'ed (and now just copyrighted) code.
I also liked your line on M$ and the election. There's a conspiracy theory I haven't heard before.
Wish I could mod you up.
And the Oscars are political? No shit?
Robin Williams
Of course the organization has an obvious slant, its stated goals are to protect what it views as the civil liberties of all Americans. When you're defending what you view as freedom you tend to get a little loony... see RMS for another example.
Unfortunately, somewhere along the way they certainly did forget about the second amendment. I read an article by an ACLU member pointing out that a great number of members disagree with the organization on the second amendment. He also pointed out that, while the groups stated position is that "the right to bear arms" is a "group right" (you know to let people keep a well regulated militia), the ACLU is not nearly as active in second amendment law as it is in other areas.
I joined the organization a few years back at the same time I joined the NRA. I figure I'll pay the ACLU to take loony positions on amendments 1 and 3-10, and I'll pay the NRA to take loony positions on number 2. Those loony positions will be shot down in courts and legislatures, but perhaps we will still have some rights a few years down the road.
When the government wants to go right, pull hard from the left. When the government wants to go left (yeah that's gonna happen), pull hard from the right.
Hundreds of jpegs of 1-woods.
puTTY, drivers, winzip, and more drivers
Go to http://www.bsa.org/usa/report/ and report Orrin for piracy
Ah but since this is software piracy the entire organization is responsible. As the head of his office Sen. Hatch is ultimately responsible for any piracy that goes on in his organization.
Anyway go here http://www.bsa.org/usa/report/ and report Orrin for piracy.
How does this affect the US? Does it allow Nintendo to go after people who purchased products from Lik Sang? Does it prohibit another Chinese manufacturer from making similar products and selling them here (other than that they too would likely lose a suit in HK)?
BTW -- Thanks to the DMCA production of this device would be patently illegal in the US. It wouldn't take a court to decide that either... Nice to know the Chinese have more "freedom to innovate" (hey that's catchy;) than US citizens do. Makes me think we're gonna do real well in the next 100 or so years.
Now owners are trying to take away that leeway and create a uniform strike zone because they (somehow) think that there isn't enough offense in the game.
What I really like is that not even the MLB follows its own strike zone rule in setting up this system.
Does anyone call a letters high strike anymore? Of course not... it's an unhittable pitch and wouldn't be fair to call. Questec doesn't either according to an "Outside the Lines" report on ESPN a few weeks ago. I'd rather let the umps determine what a strike is than the owners.
Whatever,
mcsey
BTW -- Outside the Lines is great! A sports talk show where people don't yell at each other, woohoo!
Further if Creed Taylor produced it, buy it. If Rudy Van Gelder engineered it, for Chrissake buy it!
Getting CD reissues of a lot of these labels is not a problem, and you always guaranteed pretty good stuff. Also check out Emusic.com, they've got a pretty good selection of jazz in a hastle free (though sometimes crappy quality) mp3 format.
mcsey
Emusic has 128 Kb joint-stereo mp3s? What is this 1999?
Is there any reason to hope that these sports sims (racing, baseball, football, soccer, and so on) have a real possibility of predicting the outcome of matches, or entire seasons?
No.
Every once in a while I remember why /. is more of an addiction than a website. This story and the threads that follow is one of those times.
Of course we love to learn. We're geeks. We learn these skills because we can. We do it because it's there.
Can be had on Ebay for $100-200. This is the solution that I went with for a WiFi subnote to test our network.
I agree as "invest" seems to be the wrong word for what Hummer Winblad (mmm Anne Winblad... rich, a geek, and a redhead) did. They did not invest. They essentially bought Napster.
/NO/ intellectual property (and some would say no intellect for that matter). It's members have some intellectualy property but the organization does not -- pendantic but correct. And B: Napster was not "designed to violate the law" any more than FTP or Dual Deck VCR's were designed to violate law. Users violate the law. Programmers write first amendment protected code.
I would disagree that Napster was "designed to violate the law and specifically exploting the RIAA's IP" for two reasons. One, the RIAA has almost
BIOS -- Basic Intergrated Operating System?
'Cept if you'll remember NURV is specifically mentioned as not being M$. When the main character first goes to Tim Robbins house, he asks if the electronic wall art is like the system Bill Gates has. Robbins replies, "Bill Gates' is primitive." So while the GNOME+*NIX desktop would be unlikely for a company with NURV's er... philisophical bent, it's not out of the question.
Come to think of it given Robbins' speech on open source to Ryan Phillipe at the beginning of the movie (the one about others taking Phillipe's work and getting rich off of it) it would seem likely that they would use a BSD variant that they could customize and close.
'VCR is [to the movie industry]...as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.' quote, he responds, 'I wasn't opposed to the VCR.'
From that quote then we can also infer he wasn't opposed to the Boston Strangler. Maybe he is the "Prince of Darkness".
I've seen this approach referred to (without irony) as "permissive filtering". The high school I used to admin for briefly toyed with the idea when a vendor brought it up as a "sure fire" way to reduce our liability with their $5000 piece of software. They dropped the idea when I told them it would perfectly CYA us, and all I'd need was one extra full time employee to check and enter websites requested by teachers and students;)
Very true the majors went down, but slashdot stayed up. I followed 9/11 via stuff reposted on slashdot.
So I guess at least one major stayed up:)