I dunno about you but www.eff.org just got another donation.
Seriously if you don't like this kind of thing happening then:
1. SPEAK OUT
>Not only to those around you but to
a. Your Congressmen and Senators - Letter writing, and phone calls are simple, fairly cheap and CAN make a difference but only if you do it.
b. Signing Petitions - Online petitions are good ways of building support for causes you like and are quick and easy to do
c. Talk to those around you. Let your views be known you might help someone else realize how important this is.
2. Donate and Support good causes
Unfortunately our legal system is a pay for service setup where lawyers cost money. You can send a few bucks to places like the EFF or ACLU to help support your rights online and off. Their websites are easy to find and often have good information on what else you can do to support civil liberties. If you are not a US citizen then the organizations may be different but the idea is the same.
3. VOTE
It is your right and it may be a drop in the bucket, but that bucket will never fill if you don't put it in. If you don't like either of the two-party candidates vote for a third party. Even if they don't win, a third party getting a higher percentage of the vote DOES help them and other parties in the next cycle.
Voting is not just a right it is a duty. Yes YOU by living in a representative democracy have a duty to vote, and that doesn't mean just showing up at the polls on election day. You also have a duty to do what you can to RESEARCH and LEARN about the candidates and to THINK about who will be getting YOUR vote.
Democracy is hard and demands the most of its citizens compared to any form of previously tried government. ALL citizens have to work in government because all citizens ARE PART of the government.
Market Satisfaction at a price does not mean there is a just and fair situation.
And while true there is no such thing as coercive monopoly absent government. Government SHOULD be a coercive monopoly in fact it should be the ONE AND ONLY coercive monopoly, as in its ascents another would surely take root.
1. Requires time and effort by developers which is not trivial at all and most that really care will just pay for the higher teir. And that time and effort will be countered and overwrought by the ISPs themselves.
2. With what money? Forming an ISP costs money, quite a lot of it if you want to do a big one. They will probably cost as much or more to their customers as the higher tiers and the average customer won't care about the difference.
3. The smaller players who are protected by Net Neutrality lose out as they are unable to work with option 1 or 2.
Yeah except there are no nannystaters. Practically, no one believes that the government should just be obeyed and never questioned, at least in the US.
There are people who believe that a robust government can encourage and even enhance the general welfare, rights and pursuit of happiness of its citizens if managed reasonably well.
There are also people who believe that large private entities with drastically reduced legal liabilities should not have the same rights or to the same degree as living citizens.
Neither is having a good fire escape strictly relevant to manufacturing shirt-waists, but it is still necessary for a good reason.
You have to look at why the compliance regulations are there and not if the regulations themselves have anything to do with the business.
The process is part of the goal in order to make sure things get done and done correctly. While yes many can indeed do things correctly outside of the process and many more might be able to muddle through the process is a form of insurance paid in extra time and labor to make sure things get done right.
No. It isn't piracy as much as cost of production for a major feature film or video game.
The piracy DOES add to the equation however, but it is not the root cause. Take the piracy away and you'd still have very high cost games with extremely conservative development oversight going for what has been proven before.
It is difficult to say one way or the other as there is no way to see what things would be like WITHOUT said treaties.
Wars are more localized to fewer parts of the world in the past 50 years than they were before. Global Trade while it does have several substantial drawbacks comes with many undeniable benefits.
Humanity has reached a point where it can influence and change the global environment, thus it may well become, if it is not already, necessary and vital to our survival for a means of regulation and control of our effects on the enviroment. If a civilization doesn't control that they can kill themselves.
Your average total boot time is more than 30s, more like a minute in my experience with slightly faster shutdown times. Still it isn't much for security.
Uhm...You do know that the paper was being put into a computer already and the government always had access to the information on the paper right? From the looks of it no new information is going into the computers or into government hands it is just being centralized and access is being given to the citizens directly.
There are plenty of real threats of government overstepping its power please try not to make up false ones.
I've actually thought of this and my idea would be for major secrets (passwords and other specific types of secrets would be excluded) would have to be run by a supreme court justice, add a few more justices and put them into rotation. Though my idea would be to have the justices only review secrets that specifically pertain to legal cases.
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I dunno about you but www.eff.org just got another donation.
Seriously if you don't like this kind of thing happening then:
1. SPEAK OUT
>Not only to those around you but to
a. Your Congressmen and Senators - Letter writing, and phone calls are simple, fairly cheap and CAN make a difference but only if you do it.
b. Signing Petitions - Online petitions are good ways of building support for causes you like and are quick and easy to do
c. Talk to those around you. Let your views be known you might help someone else realize how important this is.
2. Donate and Support good causes
Unfortunately our legal system is a pay for service setup where lawyers cost money. You can send a few bucks to places like the EFF or ACLU to help support your rights online and off. Their websites are easy to find and often have good information on what else you can do to support civil liberties. If you are not a US citizen then the organizations may be different but the idea is the same.
3. VOTE
It is your right and it may be a drop in the bucket, but that bucket will never fill if you don't put it in. If you don't like either of the two-party candidates vote for a third party. Even if they don't win, a third party getting a higher percentage of the vote DOES help them and other parties in the next cycle.
Voting is not just a right it is a duty. Yes YOU by living in a representative democracy have a duty to vote, and that doesn't mean just showing up at the polls on election day. You also have a duty to do what you can to RESEARCH and LEARN about the candidates and to THINK about who will be getting YOUR vote.
Democracy is hard and demands the most of its citizens compared to any form of previously tried government. ALL citizens have to work in government because all citizens ARE PART of the government.
Market Satisfaction at a price does not mean there is a just and fair situation.
And while true there is no such thing as coercive monopoly absent government. Government SHOULD be a coercive monopoly in fact it should be the ONE AND ONLY coercive monopoly, as in its ascents another would surely take root.
They said that when I got into computers nearly almost two decades ago.
Nice theory except.
1. Requires time and effort by developers which is not trivial at all and most that really care will just pay for the higher teir. And that time and effort will be countered and overwrought by the ISPs themselves.
2. With what money? Forming an ISP costs money, quite a lot of it if you want to do a big one. They will probably cost as much or more to their customers as the higher tiers and the average customer won't care about the difference.
3. The smaller players who are protected by Net Neutrality lose out as they are unable to work with option 1 or 2.
Yeah except there are no nannystaters. Practically, no one believes that the government should just be obeyed and never questioned, at least in the US.
There are people who believe that a robust government can encourage and even enhance the general welfare, rights and pursuit of happiness of its citizens if managed reasonably well.
There are also people who believe that large private entities with drastically reduced legal liabilities should not have the same rights or to the same degree as living citizens.
It didn't Network Neutrality is a fairly old concept going back before the internet and is not micromanaging at all.
Go back in time? Many companies don't care now. In general the larger the company the less they care.
Neither is having a good fire escape strictly relevant to manufacturing shirt-waists, but it is still necessary for a good reason.
You have to look at why the compliance regulations are there and not if the regulations themselves have anything to do with the business.
The process is part of the goal in order to make sure things get done and done correctly. While yes many can indeed do things correctly outside of the process and many more might be able to muddle through the process is a form of insurance paid in extra time and labor to make sure things get done right.
Yeah DARPA what have they ever come up with that's panned out?
Now if you excuse me I'm gonna go surf the net a bit more.
No it isn't there have been others. I'd have to look back but I am sure there are others.
Oh no that would be carefully cleaned off. The smegma costs extra and will mostly be imported to Japan.
No. The Right-Wingnuts are correct in that distributing condoms causes teen pregnancy. It works across species too.
Indeed. Though it does look legit. I still have a niggling bit of doubt in the back of my mind.
It smells like sandalwood up here!
No. It isn't piracy as much as cost of production for a major feature film or video game.
The piracy DOES add to the equation however, but it is not the root cause. Take the piracy away and you'd still have very high cost games with extremely conservative development oversight going for what has been proven before.
It is difficult to say one way or the other as there is no way to see what things would be like WITHOUT said treaties.
Wars are more localized to fewer parts of the world in the past 50 years than they were before. Global Trade while it does have several substantial drawbacks comes with many undeniable benefits.
Humanity has reached a point where it can influence and change the global environment, thus it may well become, if it is not already, necessary and vital to our survival for a means of regulation and control of our effects on the enviroment. If a civilization doesn't control that they can kill themselves.
Mine's broken! All I'm getting is Romanian Gymnasts.
Exactly, except here in this example the books are subsidized and tied to a contract with a bank.
DVDs are cheap enough that just putting up a message "Please pick up a new DVD." would work.
Your average total boot time is more than 30s, more like a minute in my experience with slightly faster shutdown times. Still it isn't much for security.
Nor the other way round. In fact accurate information has always been secondary to ideal information.
Uhm...You do know that the paper was being put into a computer already and the government always had access to the information on the paper right? From the looks of it no new information is going into the computers or into government hands it is just being centralized and access is being given to the citizens directly.
There are plenty of real threats of government overstepping its power please try not to make up false ones.
Depends on their position, missionary, doggy, or liberal.
How so?
The government does indeed have some things that should be kept secret, such as military plans.
I've actually thought of this and my idea would be for major secrets (passwords and other specific types of secrets would be excluded) would have to be run by a supreme court justice, add a few more justices and put them into rotation. Though my idea would be to have the justices only review secrets that specifically pertain to legal cases.