Great...if we take this logic to it's end point you've pretty much declared that the only photograph anyone is allowed to sell are nude pictures taken in nature. Unless you make all the clothes and any objects in the photo yourself.
- as all the manufacturers of clothing will be able to object and prohibit photographs being sold with their products.
- all the background objects, buildings, props, etc. will likewise be objected too.
Come one everybody, let's enter into the 2nd American Slavery Period. When the mind and thought and idea became enslaved regardless of one's race.
I. Firstly, I promise to fail in some things...but I also promise to honestly do my best. And to endeavor to do my best honestly.
II. In response to when am I going to bring our troops home from Iraq?
As soon as I finish bringing our troops home from Germany, Japan, Korea...and Vietnam. Those wars happened last century. Don't you think our soldiers have been there long enough?
I don't believe in starting or provoking fights. And while I think pacifism is a beautiful concept, the playground in 5th grade taught me - it does not work. Some will tell you fighting never solves anything. But many of us know that the right fight, fought rightly, can solve a great many things. If you have the strength, standing up to a bully...or even standing against the bully to protect others can make the playground a better palce. That said....you better not be the bully.
III. What am I going to do about social security? retirement? etc?
Two things:
1) Not spend our children's future! Balance our budget and work towards a treasury surplus. Right now America has elected itself. We complain that the government is bloated, in debt, uncaring. Meanwhile, the same is said of the average American. We need to change both....we need a healthier government and a healthier us.
2) Second, protect the savings of citizens. Currently, the government overspends. Then prints more money to compensate. Deflating the value of our currency. What many people do not realize is that the government is stealing their savings and retirements. Perhaps this is why so few Americans save...because they know that even with interest their money is worth less down the road - so they might as well spend it now. Returning to the gold standard will ensure that American's savings are secure.
IV. What about the issue of marriage?
Right now, our nation is in contention over the issue of marriage, and the rights associated with marriage. I view this largely as a false issue, one created by the erroneously created by the government. We often talk about the concept of the seperation of church and state, or more accurately the non-establishment and non-interference claus. And I believe this issue is a product of a failing to adhere to that understanding.
Let me ask you this question....why do I need a license from the government to be married? That's just ridiculous...
Some argue that the government is preventing people from loving one another. First off, if you need a piece of paper from the government to love someone...you're in a world of hurt. And just cause two people are married, does not mean they are loving each other - though it should. But millions of children of divorced parents will tell you it often doesn't.
Personally, I believe that marriage is a spiritual sacrament, before me, my wife and our God. Others believe much differently. Our beliefs should neither infringe nor be infringed upon. It is unfair for us to restrict other's in their concept of unions, but it is equally wrong to force others to accept your view of such unions.
That said, we've tied a lot of civil, economic, and goverment factors to marriage. This should not be the case. I apply the axiom "render unto Caesar what is Caesar and to God what is God's." As such, I believe the government should allow the incorporation of common households. Just as business' incorporate as a legal entity. An incorporation of common households would allow for the addressing of such legal issues as taxation, insurance, inheritance, etc. Be it a man and woman, two same sex inhabitants, multiple living partners, or even two elderly sisters living out the remainder of their lives together.
As for marriage, marriage would take place within the understandings of your personal beliefs and would only be recognized by those of like faith and understanding. Marriage would come with no civil benefits, only those spiritual and emotional benefits found within the confines of your spiritual faith or beliefs. If a couple marrie
I. How long until 5th edition, and the need to replace all of our $60 4th edition books?
II. When will D&D be digitized?
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Frankly, D20 is my least favorite RPG system to use. Sadly, it's killed 90% of the limited amount of shelf space RPGs receive in book stores.
The D20 system is really more akin to a pyramid marketing scheme. Where in order to have all the rules, etc. You are forced to spend $20-$90 on numerous supplements. Of course, it's impossible for any average Joe to own every supplement. And rest assured the guy with book A that has the rules for your special character class wont show up and you'll have no copy of the rules you need. (Unless of course you made unauthorized & illegal copies subject to $150,000 fines per violation. Which probably equates to per page in copyright lawyer terms.)
This doesn't even address numerous aspect of the D20 system itself I dislike:
(This is one of the rare cases in life where I'd prefer a subscription model.)
I like the new method that my banks been using. Even for counter deposits they still have you swipe your ATM card. You don't have too, but it's an extra check point.
My thoughts...
"There will always be vulnerabilities, the greatest risk will always remain the user."
I remember when my machine got infected with the "I love you" virus. I sat there arguing with two of our network engineers that it was a virus. They were like "No, it came from the owner's son." I kept saying, "Something's wrong...".
They're like "Just click it"...
*boomf*
User error,...my error was finally caving in to two people who had far more degrees, certificates, etc. than I a mere community college intern had...
I've learned the error of my ways. "Degrees, certificates, etc = jack when compared to common sense."
RIAA's business is marketing, not music. This is always made clear when you try to ask a RIAA representative about the actual cost of a CD. They don't want to tell you that it's about 25 cents + $1.50 shipping & handling.
What do they say? They go on about the additional costs of marketing and promotion and used to include over-priced studio time. These are the business models that are defunct.
a) Systems like Napster that showed what songs people were listening too were self-marketing. Good songs in a particular genre or style floated to the top. No longer is RIAA necessary for promoting good music (bad music, yes). What happened is that many independent and pocket labels saw stellar growth via such tools as Napster, online radio, etc.
BTW...music has been free on radio for decades. In fact, it's one of the leading causes of CD sales.
b) More and more bands are recording with personal studios thanks to the advancement of digital technology. So that area in which the labels usually had something to offer and tie a ball and chain to the artists has also diminished.
When you or I are asked to pay $15.98-$22.98 a CD in the name of supporting the artist. And that same artist is received somewhere between 25 cents and maybe two dollars - something is wrong.
Frankly, Limewire should sue RIAA for "slander"...
BULLSHIT #1 - I am sorry, there is no way I am buying the fact that 34% of computers have "Limewire". Why? Because...
- the computers I use at work DO NOT.
- none of my machines have it (so that's several more)
- very few of my friends have Limewire installed
- of those few acquaintances who do download files, none that I know of use Limewire (oh, and if RIAA thinks they're losing billions, those individuals also have little free cash to spend on their merchandise.)
BULLSHIT #2 - $40,000 cost to fill iPod?
- I have not spent anywhere near $40,000 and could easily fill up close to a hundred iPods with music if I chose to do so in lossy format. And several even in much higher compressions.
- Just moving all the seasons of Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis could fill up many iPods. For much much less than $40,000
- During my photography endeavors I can easily fill up a 4gig compact flash card with Canon 20D in a single outing. A few outings and my "photo" iPod is full.
So I've gotten used to Slashdot moving from first delivery of news to a couple of weeks behind. But this is just blithering ridiculous...
Netgear's acquisition of Infrant and sale of ReadyNAS is nearly 6 month old news.
I bought one way back in August. Came with a free Wii, which took 3 months to arrive and which I then turned around and sold for $400 on ebay, and then in turn bought an Xbox360...
Look, posting articles this late as news just makes Slashdot look stupid. Already I am finding more and more of my friends are no longer reading/. Their comment, all the decent news is old and too much politics.
That could be....I never said "Don't question the facts!"
But having been in a number of such situations in my past with poor educators. It doesn't sound implausible. And of course, the final caveat of the school will be a failure on the part of the student to be subservient and cow-tow it the teacher, even if the teacher is wrong. Because it's far more wrong to hurt a teacher's pride...
I thought the reason I paid exuberant municipal and county school taxes was to 'educate the young'.
If our school system exists merely to make children subservient and obedient to authority than something is wrong. Then the system should be done away with and better stop begging for more money.
Yes, and sadly, a common example of why American's are so poorly educated. Anyone smart enough to teach themselves is bashed for it.
"Proving a teacher wrong should NOT equal detention."
I did have a teacher who if you proved them wrong or caught a mistake rewarded you with candy. Now that was a good teacher. Of course, she taught a class for the talented and gifted. She wasn't afraid of smart pupils, it was her desire to encourage them not thwart them.
Kind of reminds me of when in 1st grade I asked the teacher what happens if you subtract a larger number from a smaller number.
Here I was, in first grade ready to stumble upon the concept of negative numbers. Rather than encourage insightful self-learning, I was told:
"You just can't do that!"
Only to be shown a few years later when 'authorities' figured I was now old enough to understand the concept.
Is it any wonder American math scores are so low. I'd say they suck, but you'd have to double America's math scores before they even qualified as 'sucking'.
Well of course it's been altered. The names have been blocked out in Photoshop.
Note, they do not state what has been altered. And of course, the issue will always be one of 'discipline' and failure to heed a 'teacher's directive'. Because they always have that caveat to fall back on.
Whenever a student tries to correct a prideful teacher it will become and issue of 'teacher's directive' and then everyone tows the line. It shouldn't be...we destroy our best student's that way. Arrogant teachers scar kids for years to come.
Okay why is everyone on Slashdot posting comments regarding installation of software, not using the proper software, etc.
None of the evidence we have states that to have been the issue. The issue at hand as stated by the detention slip is a failure of said student to be doing his work. Which has been stated as a task requiring a browser.
No evidence has as of yet been provided to any of these other claims. Only a failure of the student to do his work.
So let's assume that Firefox was already present on the machine. Let's also assume that the assignment merely stated that the work be done in a browser and no brand was specified. In which case, the only claim we are left was a failure on the part of the student to in fact be doing his work.
Which would then be an invalid claim, and the detention an unjust punishment.
***
What we have here is the typical situation of a teacher/professor who feels threatened by a lack of knowledge. A very common problem within the scope of the public school system (and education systems in general). Where teacher's egos feel threatened when a gifted youngster demonstrates a working knowledge beyond their own.
What a failure....that we even call such a system "education".
I was a computer science major. Working as a lab tech/shipping clerk for a company that pretty much used Macs and FileMakerPro back when...well, NO ONE USED MACS for non-design business. *lol* They were Mac before PPC processor Macs were around.
Anyways, we had numerous issues with properly labelling our products. I had given my notice to the company. The last week was kind of slow. So I hacked out a really crappily-coded app that would let you enter a lot #. And then allow you to select the brand. The program would automatically select the proper label types for printing.
Vwaala!!!
It worked. This had been a request of the shipping department for a couple of years. IT said it'd be weeks and weeks of work. I was done in 3 days. Sure the program was crap (I used stacked IF/ELSE IF statements because I did not know how to create a case/switch statement in FileMaker Pro's coding environment.)
That said, it wound up being a God-send for my old supervisor. Greatly improved the shipping time and greatly reduced the shipping errors. So the end result - crappy code created in 3-days saved thousands of dollars for the company.
How do you deal with the situation where fairly complex modifications are needed within 1-2 days.
Yeah...welcome to the world of many programmers...
(ie: where entire workflows are left out of the design model and not even mention by the customer, the customer then exclaims that they are of the utmost necessity and refuses to use or pay for the software until implemented, your boss asks you how long it would take to get it done. You say a week or so. He asks if you can please have something done by Friday. It's of course 4pm Tuesday.)
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My mom would put trailmix and candies on all the places. So when you landed you got to eat yummy treats!
Been hooked ever since...
Great...if we take this logic to it's end point you've pretty much declared that the only photograph anyone is allowed to sell are nude pictures taken in nature. Unless you make all the clothes and any objects in the photo yourself.
- as all the manufacturers of clothing will be able to object and prohibit photographs being sold with their products.
- all the background objects, buildings, props, etc. will likewise be objected too.
Come one everybody, let's enter into the 2nd American Slavery Period. When the mind and thought and idea became enslaved regardless of one's race.
I. Firstly, I promise to fail in some things...but I also promise to honestly do my best. And to endeavor to do my best honestly.
II. In response to when am I going to bring our troops home from Iraq?
As soon as I finish bringing our troops home from Germany, Japan, Korea...and Vietnam. Those wars happened last century. Don't you think our soldiers have been there long enough?
I don't believe in starting or provoking fights. And while I think pacifism is a beautiful concept, the playground in 5th grade taught me - it does not work. Some will tell you fighting never solves anything. But many of us know that the right fight, fought rightly, can solve a great many things. If you have the strength, standing up to a bully...or even standing against the bully to protect others can make the playground a better palce. That said....you better not be the bully.
III. What am I going to do about social security? retirement? etc?
Two things:
1) Not spend our children's future! Balance our budget and work towards a treasury surplus. Right now America has elected itself. We complain that the government is bloated, in debt, uncaring. Meanwhile, the same is said of the average American. We need to change both....we need a healthier government and a healthier us.
2) Second, protect the savings of citizens. Currently, the government overspends. Then prints more money to compensate. Deflating the value of our currency. What many people do not realize is that the government is stealing their savings and retirements. Perhaps this is why so few Americans save...because they know that even with interest their money is worth less down the road - so they might as well spend it now. Returning to the gold standard will ensure that American's savings are secure.
IV. What about the issue of marriage?
Right now, our nation is in contention over the issue of marriage, and the rights associated with marriage. I view this largely as a false issue, one created by the erroneously created by the government. We often talk about the concept of the seperation of church and state, or more accurately the non-establishment and non-interference claus. And I believe this issue is a product of a failing to adhere to that understanding.
Let me ask you this question....why do I need a license from the government to be married? That's just ridiculous...
Some argue that the government is preventing people from loving one another. First off, if you need a piece of paper from the government to love someone...you're in a world of hurt. And just cause two people are married, does not mean they are loving each other - though it should. But millions of children of divorced parents will tell you it often doesn't.
Personally, I believe that marriage is a spiritual sacrament, before me, my wife and our God. Others believe much differently. Our beliefs should neither infringe nor be infringed upon. It is unfair for us to restrict other's in their concept of unions, but it is equally wrong to force others to accept your view of such unions.
That said, we've tied a lot of civil, economic, and goverment factors to marriage. This should not be the case. I apply the axiom "render unto Caesar what is Caesar and to God what is God's." As such, I believe the government should allow the incorporation of common households. Just as business' incorporate as a legal entity. An incorporation of common households would allow for the addressing of such legal issues as taxation, insurance, inheritance, etc. Be it a man and woman, two same sex inhabitants, multiple living partners, or even two elderly sisters living out the remainder of their lives together.
As for marriage, marriage would take place within the understandings of your personal beliefs and would only be recognized by those of like faith and understanding. Marriage would come with no civil benefits, only those spiritual and emotional benefits found within the confines of your spiritual faith or beliefs. If a couple marrie
Recession equals increase in unemployed programmers...
:P
Increase in unemployed programmers lead to an increase in free time available to programmers to work on open-source projects.
Thus recessions are a boon for open-source software. The bane of open source software is a good economy.
I. How long until 5th edition, and the need to replace all of our $60 4th edition books?
II. When will D&D be digitized?
***
Frankly, D20 is my least favorite RPG system to use. Sadly, it's killed 90% of the limited amount of shelf space RPGs receive in book stores.
The D20 system is really more akin to a pyramid marketing scheme. Where in order to have all the rules, etc. You are forced to spend $20-$90 on numerous supplements. Of course, it's impossible for any average Joe to own every supplement. And rest assured the guy with book A that has the rules for your special character class wont show up and you'll have no copy of the rules you need. (Unless of course you made unauthorized & illegal copies subject to $150,000 fines per violation. Which probably equates to per page in copyright lawyer terms.)
This doesn't even address numerous aspect of the D20 system itself I dislike:
(This is one of the rare cases in life where I'd prefer a subscription model.)
I like the new method that my banks been using. Even for counter deposits they still have you swipe your ATM card. You don't have too, but it's an extra check point.
My thoughts...
"There will always be vulnerabilities, the greatest risk will always remain the user."
I remember when my machine got infected with the "I love you" virus. I sat there arguing with two of our network engineers that it was a virus. They were like "No, it came from the owner's son." I kept saying, "Something's wrong...".
They're like "Just click it"...
*boomf*
User error,...my error was finally caving in to two people who had far more degrees, certificates, etc. than I a mere community college intern had...
I've learned the error of my ways. "Degrees, certificates, etc = jack when compared to common sense."
Pen & Paper all the way!!!
;-)
The best RPGs were ALWAYS "pen & paper" (well, pencil actually)
OMG...
What's this mean for all those who's answer to vulnerability was to block Flash and use Firefox!!!
Oh blinded one...
RIAA's business is marketing, not music. This is always made clear when you try to ask a RIAA representative about the actual cost of a CD. They don't want to tell you that it's about 25 cents + $1.50 shipping & handling.
What do they say? They go on about the additional costs of marketing and promotion and used to include over-priced studio time. These are the business models that are defunct.
a) Systems like Napster that showed what songs people were listening too were self-marketing. Good songs in a particular genre or style floated to the top. No longer is RIAA necessary for promoting good music (bad music, yes). What happened is that many independent and pocket labels saw stellar growth via such tools as Napster, online radio, etc.
BTW...music has been free on radio for decades. In fact, it's one of the leading causes of CD sales.
b) More and more bands are recording with personal studios thanks to the advancement of digital technology. So that area in which the labels usually had something to offer and tie a ball and chain to the artists has also diminished.
When you or I are asked to pay $15.98-$22.98 a CD in the name of supporting the artist. And that same artist is received somewhere between 25 cents and maybe two dollars - something is wrong.
So there you have it...enlightenment!
Frankly, Limewire should sue RIAA for "slander"...
BULLSHIT #1 - I am sorry, there is no way I am buying the fact that 34% of computers have "Limewire". Why? Because...
- the computers I use at work DO NOT.
- none of my machines have it (so that's several more)
- very few of my friends have Limewire installed
- of those few acquaintances who do download files, none that I know of use Limewire (oh, and if RIAA thinks they're losing billions, those individuals also have little free cash to spend on their merchandise.)
BULLSHIT #2 - $40,000 cost to fill iPod?
- I have not spent anywhere near $40,000 and could easily fill up close to a hundred iPods with music if I chose to do so in lossy format. And several even in much higher compressions.
- Just moving all the seasons of Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis could fill up many iPods. For much much less than $40,000
- During my photography endeavors I can easily fill up a 4gig compact flash card with Canon 20D in a single outing. A few outings and my "photo" iPod is full.
The truth....
RIAA's business model is outdated and needless.
Okay, is Slashdot THIS desperate for news?
/. Their comment, all the decent news is old and too much politics.
:-(
So I've gotten used to Slashdot moving from first delivery of news to a couple of weeks behind. But this is just blithering ridiculous...
Netgear's acquisition of Infrant and sale of ReadyNAS is nearly 6 month old news.
I bought one way back in August. Came with a free Wii, which took 3 months to arrive and which I then turned around and sold for $400 on ebay, and then in turn bought an Xbox360...
Look, posting articles this late as news just makes Slashdot look stupid. Already I am finding more and more of my friends are no longer reading
I think I might be joining them soon...
That could be....I never said "Don't question the facts!"
But having been in a number of such situations in my past with poor educators. It doesn't sound implausible. And of course, the final caveat of the school will be a failure on the part of the student to be subservient and cow-tow it the teacher, even if the teacher is wrong. Because it's far more wrong to hurt a teacher's pride...
And if the teacher is a jerk to you...you get...detention.
Really?
I thought the reason I paid exuberant municipal and county school taxes was to 'educate the young'.
If our school system exists merely to make children subservient and obedient to authority than something is wrong. Then the system should be done away with and better stop begging for more money.
Applied to the global scale...
Good reasons why we must always maintain our first and second ammendment rights.
Yes, and sadly, a common example of why American's are so poorly educated. Anyone smart enough to teach themselves is bashed for it.
"Proving a teacher wrong should NOT equal detention."
I did have a teacher who if you proved them wrong or caught a mistake rewarded you with candy. Now that was a good teacher. Of course, she taught a class for the talented and gifted. She wasn't afraid of smart pupils, it was her desire to encourage them not thwart them.
Kind of reminds me of when in 1st grade I asked the teacher what happens if you subtract a larger number from a smaller number.
Here I was, in first grade ready to stumble upon the concept of negative numbers. Rather than encourage insightful self-learning, I was told:
"You just can't do that!"
Only to be shown a few years later when 'authorities' figured I was now old enough to understand the concept.
Is it any wonder American math scores are so low. I'd say they suck, but you'd have to double America's math scores before they even qualified as 'sucking'.
Well of course it's been altered. The names have been blocked out in Photoshop.
Note, they do not state what has been altered. And of course, the issue will always be one of 'discipline' and failure to heed a 'teacher's directive'. Because they always have that caveat to fall back on.
Whenever a student tries to correct a prideful teacher it will become and issue of 'teacher's directive' and then everyone tows the line. It shouldn't be...we destroy our best student's that way. Arrogant teachers scar kids for years to come.
Okay why is everyone on Slashdot posting comments regarding installation of software, not using the proper software, etc.
None of the evidence we have states that to have been the issue. The issue at hand as stated by the detention slip is a failure of said student to be doing his work. Which has been stated as a task requiring a browser.
No evidence has as of yet been provided to any of these other claims. Only a failure of the student to do his work.
So let's assume that Firefox was already present on the machine. Let's also assume that the assignment merely stated that the work be done in a browser and no brand was specified. In which case, the only claim we are left was a failure on the part of the student to in fact be doing his work.
Which would then be an invalid claim, and the detention an unjust punishment.
***
What we have here is the typical situation of a teacher/professor who feels threatened by a lack of knowledge. A very common problem within the scope of the public school system (and education systems in general). Where teacher's egos feel threatened when a gifted youngster demonstrates a working knowledge beyond their own.
What a failure....that we even call such a system "education".
The Real Argument is:
a) the fear-mongering YouTube videographers are morons
b) those who dismiss all concerns related to vaccinations like you are equally as moronic
And this is a concern when places like NJ the home state of Merck USA decide to pass laws making vaccines mandatory.
Nope...no valid concerns what-so-ever...everyone can move along.
Please ignore the recall of 1 million doses of childhood vaccines.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/12/news/companies/merck_vaccine.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes
Nope...no valid concerns what-so-ever...everyone can move along.
Please ignore the recall of 1 million doses of childhood vaccines.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/12/news/companies/merck_vaccine.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes
I was a computer science major. Working as a lab tech/shipping clerk for a company that pretty much used Macs and FileMakerPro back when...well, NO ONE USED MACS for non-design business. *lol* They were Mac before PPC processor Macs were around.
Anyways, we had numerous issues with properly labelling our products. I had given my notice to the company. The last week was kind of slow. So I hacked out a really crappily-coded app that would let you enter a lot #. And then allow you to select the brand. The program would automatically select the proper label types for printing.
Vwaala!!!
It worked. This had been a request of the shipping department for a couple of years. IT said it'd be weeks and weeks of work. I was done in 3 days. Sure the program was crap (I used stacked IF/ELSE IF statements because I did not know how to create a case/switch statement in FileMaker Pro's coding environment.)
That said, it wound up being a God-send for my old supervisor. Greatly improved the shipping time and greatly reduced the shipping errors. So the end result - crappy code created in 3-days saved thousands of dollars for the company.
"Compare to building a skyscraper on the foundations of a cottage. Management wants to speed up a project by senselessly adding more people?"
Goodness gracious, I wish my old job did that. We lost one of the other lead developers. Did they rehire anyone? Nope...
So it was down to one full time programmer (me). I found a new job and continued working part time (1/4 developer). Now I am gone... *shrug*
At first I felt bad, but it'd been 6 months. Some action should have been taken.
How do you deal with the situation where fairly complex modifications are needed within 1-2 days.
Yeah...welcome to the world of many programmers...
(ie: where entire workflows are left out of the design model and not even mention by the customer, the customer then exclaims that they are of the utmost necessity and refuses to use or pay for the software until implemented, your boss asks you how long it would take to get it done. You say a week or so. He asks if you can please have something done by Friday. It's of course 4pm Tuesday.)