Any private company or citizen can censor all they want. The protections of free speech are toward the government NOT against free citizens or the companies they own.
If Yahoo decides it does not want child nudity on flicker, they can decide such. It is their site, their business. To declare otherwise is "forced speech" which is just as bad as "censorship".
The government should not be able to censor your freedom of speech. But a private entity is not required to allow you the same leeway. If your employer says you cannot discuss the current project if you wish to retain employment - they are within their right to do so.
Some where along the way, we let politics !@#$% everything up. So people get offended if Blockbuster (a private company) decides to censor the property they own. Or if Yahoo decides to limit what content can be posted and hosted on their site. Thinking some constitutional right has been violated - it hasn't. But instead they want to tread the dangerous ground of forcing open speech and acceptance on private companies and citizens. Blind of the dangers such actions lead too.
Considering how few "inventors" actually benefit from patents or the fact when the patent is owned by a small company they get trampled on - those actually responsible seldom get much of anything.
> Nancy Pelosi promised that her congress would reduce gas prices from the outrageous $2.30. It is now more than $4.
Lies, deceit, falsely misleading the public.
> Now we have Democrats in Congress threatening to "take control" of the oil companies. Blaming the high price of oil on oil companies. Yet, they make less money per gallon than the milk companies. An affront to the American system of capitalism (and exactly what Putin did in Russia).
> Almost ALL of congress votes themselves abnormal raises, participate in the most lucrative of retirement programs, spend pork barrel upon barrel. Congress is a 1,000 times worse than any president.
They just happen to sell a gallon of oil for about everything else sold. And of course they're going to have record profits. Oil usage is sky-rocketing. It's called CHINA.
Oh, why are oil prices so high? Three reasons:
1. Foolish environmental protections: Like not drilling in the gulf. While Cuba, China and Venezuela begin drilling there. Except with a lot less safety and environmental protections than we'd have. And the Anwar. Yes, drilling in a tiny pin drop of Alaska 700 miles away from the nearest tree is BAD....
We'd be better off drilling, and offering a special tax, with that tax going to provide tax breaks on solar cells, and plug-in hybrids.
Refinery's we haven't built any in years because of environmental regulations. The result is we don't have the capacity we need. No nuclear plants have been built in the U.S. for decades. And it's been nearly half a century since they were designed. The safety has improved a lot. It's like comparing a Prius to a Ford Model-T.
2. We're not innovating, developing new technologies, and protecting those technologies. (ie: last time new technologies were being developed, OPEC slammed the prices down in order to kill them).
3. Increased demand as more and more nations industrialize. Meanwhile, Congress - yes Congress, not the President, has so mis-allocated the funds and taxes. Spending the next few decades today. No, it's not just the war. We've been in budgetary financial crisis for decades. Money that should have been devoted to weening us off of foreign oil is squandered on pork-barrel projects.
EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS (both Democrat and Republican) SHOULD BE DRAGGED OUT AND "TARRED & FEATHERED"
They're not preventing it from happening. It's increasing it.
First off, the Gulf is being drilled. Just not by us. Cuba & China. And you know those crappy products you get from China. Imagine that sub-par drilling. And guess what. They don't care because if they release a billion gallons of oil into the gulf. It's simply going to destroy Florida's coast. Oh well.
ANWAR, one of the drilling spots is 700 miles from the nearest tree. Drill, even a leak could be easily cleaned by collecting it from the ice. Which would freeze and harden the oil.
The wise thing would be to have the military drill those spots regardless of Congress in order to make the military independent of foreign oil. Then have all the excess sold for profit to fund tax breaks for those who put solar cells on their homes, and buy plug-in hybrids & electrics.
But that's the type of thinking Conservatives have...solutions. Versus Liberals who just want to blame.
I've thought this is where vehicles should be going for a long time. Kind of a retro return to vehicles in cloth (ie: WWI fighters).
Even more interesting is the talk of expanding materials being used as bomb proofing material. These materials actually thicken when stretched due to molecular structure.
Take a strong lightweight titanium frame and overlay it with materials like kevlar and newer fabrics that expand when stretched. And you might have the world's safest vehicles. With the additional caveat of being bomb resistant.
Can't we get some DOD/DARPA funding for development of a prototype?
It's simply waiting for more ingenuity. People keep saying that cars will get smaller and SUVs will cease to exist.
First off, SUVs are usually purchased for one of three reasons:
1. Job requires it for towing, cargo, etc. (Qualified vehicles include: Truck, Van, SUV)
2. Large family (Qualified vehicles include: Van, Mini-van, SUV, and the no longer made full sized station wagon.)
3. Luxury / Status symbol.
Of the first two requirements, only two vehicles meet the need. A van or an SUV, with SUVs being the predominant choice for many.
The third class tend to either buy large Cadillacs and crossover SUVs. The latter, are probably the most useless vehicles on the planet. While they get better mileage than your work-horses. Few get mileage comparable to a sedan. Yet, the passenger seating is very similar in most case. FYI, the Toyota Highlander Hybrid is NOT a true SUV. It has very little rear-axle towing capability. It is really more a SUV-stylized mini-van.
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So where will the future lead? I believe it will lead to both smaller commuter vehicles and much larger vehicles.
Eventually, the fuel hurdle will be resolved. Probably with a combination of technologies, electric drive trains, and algae based bio-fuel generators & fuel cells. We will see quick, light , efficient commuter vehicles. But we will also see much larger vehicles.
However, the bigger trigger for these larger vehicles are technological advances yet to come.
a) alternative fuel methods
b) self-driving vehicles.
The latter will be the big driving factor in larger vehicles. In 15-25 yrs you will see mobile living rooms. If your vehicle can drive for you. Then that trip to visit the relatives over the weekend becomes easier. Instead of driving 5 hours each way and having a day and 1/2 to spend with family. You now let your car drive Friday night. Wake up an enjoy your Saturday & Sunday. Then go to bed and your vehicle drives you home over Sunday night. And you wake up Monday morning for work.
That is the future...
Smaller commuter vehicles, and much larger mobile living rooms.
You missed the several thousand articles about Iran declaring their intent to wipe Israel and every Jew off the face of the planet.
And the fact that they are actively engaged in weapons development programs toward the accomplishment of that fact.
Or the fact that this will be one of a number of times the world has silently thanked Israel. You see, the chicken powers (U.S., U.K., Russia, France, etc) sit back going "We REALLY do not want this nutcase to have nukes. But we'll cause an international incident if we act. Let's just wait and see - knowing Israel will have to act since they're the target."
And then Israel does a surgical strike. The world condemns them publicly and thanks them behind closed doors for doing what none of us western nations have the balls to do.
But I have this to say... you're a blatant biased pig.
I mean, you're getting on the case of a sovereign nation Israel threatening military surgical strikes against a nuclear weapons program at a neighboring sovereign nation that keeps expressing the intent to destroy their neighbor Israel.
You are the same sort of idiot as some of my elementary school teachers were who believed that the kid being picked on by bullies was just as much to blame as the bully and therefore should be suspended.
No, you'll raise your voice to decry Israel for their statements, but sit back and blindly ignore Iran's statements.
Sorry, you're thinking is just great for college classrooms. But gets people killed in the real world. Why don't you go put a "Free Tibet" bumper sticker on your car. Cause we all know that's going to help free Tibet.
They could have had a single tile component, clicking could enlarge. Oh yes, and if they coded their app right, it could work with the back button and provide accessibility functions.
How many pedophiles and child porn addicts are there in the USA?
Okay, let's say there 10,000. We could simply off $100,000 and amnesty (only for viewing not creating or abusing children) for them to turn themselves in to receive help.
Okay, so maybe there are more than 10,000 in the USA. Let's say there are a 100,000. In which case we could offer them all $10,000.
Heck, even if there were 1,000,000 we could offer them a $1,000 each. Of course, realize if there are that many in the USA we have a problem because that means 1 in 250 of us are the targets of this.
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War on Drugs War on Terror War on Transfats War on Child Porn
Not saying child porn is not insidiously evil. But it seems to be an extremely high ticket price. I'd really like to know how thought out this is.
Now if this is supposed to be against global child porn. Are we ready to invade Thailand and the rest of Asia in order to stop the child porn industries over there?
I am curious. There are two Hershey companies. One sells chocolate the other ice cream. Oh, but the first's products are often used in ice cream as well.
I believe the ice cream company is actually the older of the two. So they should really take their court before this judge. They could be granted to actually force the famous Hershey chocolate to buy negative keywords.
***
The real question in this case, is whether the two companies founded independently or not. (ie: Both founded in separate regions and at one point did not compete directly with each other) If this is the case, then this judgment is bogus.
It's like having "Cold Springs Financial" & "Cold Springs Loans & Mortgages". If both companies arose out of two towns named Cold Springs. And yes, both are in the same business but until the internet or large growth didn't compete directly.
If such is the case, both companies should be allowed to use the term Orion. As it is NOT a created term.
Now, on the flip side if one company founded itself with said name deliberately so as to take advantage of confusion. Then that's a significant difference.
The point is to super-saturate all the markets (from the already soaked personal computers with 95%-98% saturation, to phones, PDAs, game consoles, etc).
And to endeavor to have the mass amount of content in Flash format. Then people will demand it from Apple and they'll have to get over themselves.
I don't think Silverlight scares Adobe all that much. Microsoft has a habit of railroading themselves into their microplatforms (IIS, ASP,.NET, etc)
But Apple likes to lock down their platforms and control them. The iPhone is a good example. And mobile is the future for many things. So by doing this, it will be hard for Apple (or anyone else) to keep Flash from being in it's future.
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Recommend the following:
"Time for the Stars"
&
"The Red Planet"
Also, the shorts "Green Hills of Earth" are pretty good and I think they're mostly decent for kids.
Any private company or citizen can censor all they want. The protections of free speech are toward the government NOT against free citizens or the companies they own.
If Yahoo decides it does not want child nudity on flicker, they can decide such. It is their site, their business. To declare otherwise is "forced speech" which is just as bad as "censorship".
The government should not be able to censor your freedom of speech. But a private entity is not required to allow you the same leeway. If your employer says you cannot discuss the current project if you wish to retain employment - they are within their right to do so.
Some where along the way, we let politics !@#$% everything up. So people get offended if Blockbuster (a private company) decides to censor the property they own. Or if Yahoo decides to limit what content can be posted and hosted on their site. Thinking some constitutional right has been violated - it hasn't. But instead they want to tread the dangerous ground of forcing open speech and acceptance on private companies and citizens. Blind of the dangers such actions lead too.
Considering how few "inventors" actually benefit from patents or the fact when the patent is owned by a small company they get trampled on - those actually responsible seldom get much of anything.
Signal sent that automatically turns cell phones on to silent/vibrate when in say movie theatres, hospitals, etc.
The exception being that you could register your phone as an emergency response phone if you're a fireman, law enforcement, doctor, and so on.
We so need to disband patents.
> Nancy Pelosi promised that her congress would reduce gas prices from the outrageous $2.30. It is now more than $4.
Lies, deceit, falsely misleading the public.
> Now we have Democrats in Congress threatening to "take control" of the oil companies. Blaming the high price of oil on oil companies. Yet, they make less money per gallon than the milk companies. An affront to the American system of capitalism (and exactly what Putin did in Russia).
> Almost ALL of congress votes themselves abnormal raises, participate in the most lucrative of retirement programs, spend pork barrel upon barrel. Congress is a 1,000 times worse than any president.
They just happen to sell a gallon of oil for about everything else sold. And of course they're going to have record profits. Oil usage is sky-rocketing. It's called CHINA.
Oh, why are oil prices so high? Three reasons:
1. Foolish environmental protections: Like not drilling in the gulf. While Cuba, China and Venezuela begin drilling there. Except with a lot less safety and environmental protections than we'd have. And the Anwar. Yes, drilling in a tiny pin drop of Alaska 700 miles away from the nearest tree is BAD....
We'd be better off drilling, and offering a special tax, with that tax going to provide tax breaks on solar cells, and plug-in hybrids.
Refinery's we haven't built any in years because of environmental regulations. The result is we don't have the capacity we need. No nuclear plants have been built in the U.S. for decades. And it's been nearly half a century since they were designed. The safety has improved a lot. It's like comparing a Prius to a Ford Model-T.
2. We're not innovating, developing new technologies, and protecting those technologies. (ie: last time new technologies were being developed, OPEC slammed the prices down in order to kill them).
3. Increased demand as more and more nations industrialize. Meanwhile, Congress - yes Congress, not the President, has so mis-allocated the funds and taxes. Spending the next few decades today. No, it's not just the war. We've been in budgetary financial crisis for decades. Money that should have been devoted to weening us off of foreign oil is squandered on pork-barrel projects.
EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS (both Democrat and Republican) SHOULD BE DRAGGED OUT AND "TARRED & FEATHERED"
They're not preventing it from happening. It's increasing it.
First off, the Gulf is being drilled. Just not by us. Cuba & China. And you know those crappy products you get from China. Imagine that sub-par drilling. And guess what. They don't care because if they release a billion gallons of oil into the gulf. It's simply going to destroy Florida's coast. Oh well.
ANWAR, one of the drilling spots is 700 miles from the nearest tree. Drill, even a leak could be easily cleaned by collecting it from the ice. Which would freeze and harden the oil.
The wise thing would be to have the military drill those spots regardless of Congress in order to make the military independent of foreign oil. Then have all the excess sold for profit to fund tax breaks for those who put solar cells on their homes, and buy plug-in hybrids & electrics.
But that's the type of thinking Conservatives have...solutions. Versus Liberals who just want to blame.
I've thought this is where vehicles should be going for a long time. Kind of a retro return to vehicles in cloth (ie: WWI fighters).
Even more interesting is the talk of expanding materials being used as bomb proofing material. These materials actually thicken when stretched due to molecular structure.
Take a strong lightweight titanium frame and overlay it with materials like kevlar and newer fabrics that expand when stretched. And you might have the world's safest vehicles. With the additional caveat of being bomb resistant.
Can't we get some DOD/DARPA funding for development of a prototype?
In which case, if atheists were smart. They would create the "Order of the Spaghetti Monster" award.
It's simply waiting for more ingenuity. People keep saying that cars will get smaller and SUVs will cease to exist.
First off, SUVs are usually purchased for one of three reasons:
1. Job requires it for towing, cargo, etc. (Qualified vehicles include: Truck, Van, SUV)
2. Large family (Qualified vehicles include: Van, Mini-van, SUV, and the no longer made full sized station wagon.)
3. Luxury / Status symbol.
Of the first two requirements, only two vehicles meet the need. A van or an SUV, with SUVs being the predominant choice for many.
The third class tend to either buy large Cadillacs and crossover SUVs. The latter, are probably the most useless vehicles on the planet. While they get better mileage than your work-horses. Few get mileage comparable to a sedan. Yet, the passenger seating is very similar in most case. FYI, the Toyota Highlander Hybrid is NOT a true SUV. It has very little rear-axle towing capability. It is really more a SUV-stylized mini-van.
***
So where will the future lead? I believe it will lead to both smaller commuter vehicles and much larger vehicles.
Eventually, the fuel hurdle will be resolved. Probably with a combination of technologies, electric drive trains, and algae based bio-fuel generators & fuel cells. We will see quick, light , efficient commuter vehicles. But we will also see much larger vehicles.
However, the bigger trigger for these larger vehicles are technological advances yet to come.
a) alternative fuel methods
b) self-driving vehicles.
The latter will be the big driving factor in larger vehicles. In 15-25 yrs you will see mobile living rooms. If your vehicle can drive for you. Then that trip to visit the relatives over the weekend becomes easier. Instead of driving 5 hours each way and having a day and 1/2 to spend with family. You now let your car drive Friday night. Wake up an enjoy your Saturday & Sunday. Then go to bed and your vehicle drives you home over Sunday night. And you wake up Monday morning for work.
That is the future...
Smaller commuter vehicles, and much larger mobile living rooms.
You missed the several thousand articles about Iran declaring their intent to wipe Israel and every Jew off the face of the planet.
And the fact that they are actively engaged in weapons development programs toward the accomplishment of that fact.
Or the fact that this will be one of a number of times the world has silently thanked Israel. You see, the chicken powers (U.S., U.K., Russia, France, etc) sit back going "We REALLY do not want this nutcase to have nukes. But we'll cause an international incident if we act. Let's just wait and see - knowing Israel will have to act since they're the target."
And then Israel does a surgical strike. The world condemns them publicly and thanks them behind closed doors for doing what none of us western nations have the balls to do.
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But I have this to say... you're a blatant biased pig.
I mean, you're getting on the case of a sovereign nation Israel threatening military surgical strikes against a nuclear weapons program at a neighboring sovereign nation that keeps expressing the intent to destroy their neighbor Israel.
You are the same sort of idiot as some of my elementary school teachers were who believed that the kid being picked on by bullies was just as much to blame as the bully and therefore should be suspended.
No, you'll raise your voice to decry Israel for their statements, but sit back and blindly ignore Iran's statements.
Sorry, you're thinking is just great for college classrooms. But gets people killed in the real world. Why don't you go put a "Free Tibet" bumper sticker on your car. Cause we all know that's going to help free Tibet.
How do I shop it around while at the same time protecting my idea.
I know my idea is good. I know it's marketable. And $200 million dollar movie idea if done right.
Where to begin? And how much info should I provide and to whom and when?
How is this different than all the CCTV cameras on every new stoplight post?
Or carnivore checking emails. Or all of our cell phones being monitored?
China's just trying to catch up to the U.S.A. & U.K.
Google is the biggest threat to Microsoft.
They could have had a single tile component, clicking could enlarge. Oh yes, and if they coded their app right, it could work with the back button and provide accessibility functions.
How many pedophiles and child porn addicts are there in the USA?
Okay, let's say there 10,000. We could simply off $100,000 and amnesty (only for viewing not creating or abusing children) for them to turn themselves in to receive help.
Okay, so maybe there are more than 10,000 in the USA. Let's say there are a 100,000. In which case we could offer them all $10,000.
Heck, even if there were 1,000,000 we could offer them a $1,000 each. Of course, realize if there are that many in the USA we have a problem because that means 1 in 250 of us are the targets of this.
***
War on Drugs
War on Terror
War on Transfats
War on Child Porn
Not saying child porn is not insidiously evil. But it seems to be an extremely high ticket price. I'd really like to know how thought out this is.
Now if this is supposed to be against global child porn. Are we ready to invade Thailand and the rest of Asia in order to stop the child porn industries over there?
I am curious. There are two Hershey companies. One sells chocolate the other ice cream. Oh, but the first's products are often used in ice cream as well.
I believe the ice cream company is actually the older of the two. So they should really take their court before this judge. They could be granted to actually force the famous Hershey chocolate to buy negative keywords.
***
The real question in this case, is whether the two companies founded independently or not. (ie: Both founded in separate regions and at one point did not compete directly with each other) If this is the case, then this judgment is bogus.
It's like having "Cold Springs Financial" & "Cold Springs Loans & Mortgages". If both companies arose out of two towns named Cold Springs. And yes, both are in the same business but until the internet or large growth didn't compete directly.
If such is the case, both companies should be allowed to use the term Orion. As it is NOT a created term.
Now, on the flip side if one company founded itself with said name deliberately so as to take advantage of confusion. Then that's a significant difference.
The point is to super-saturate all the markets (from the already soaked personal computers with 95%-98% saturation, to phones, PDAs, game consoles, etc).
And to endeavor to have the mass amount of content in Flash format. Then people will demand it from Apple and they'll have to get over themselves.
The U.S. government taxes all property. If you don't pay, you lose your property.
This shows the true ownership belongs to the government. We are merely "leasing" the land from the government.
Or did they simply off-shore their slavery like Great Britain?
Now you can have "Silent but deadly" ring tones!
I don't think Silverlight scares Adobe all that much. Microsoft has a habit of railroading themselves into their microplatforms (IIS, ASP, .NET, etc)
But Apple likes to lock down their platforms and control them. The iPhone is a good example. And mobile is the future for many things. So by doing this, it will be hard for Apple (or anyone else) to keep Flash from being in it's future.
So rather moot point
Never said I believe the military shot down TWA 800.