And I am so sick of this whole "land ownership" thing. Humans evolved from a single place in Africa 2 million years ago and spread out from there. At what point in time did land ownership start?
Based on no personal knowledge whatsoever - I just saw a reference somewhere - take a look at Kodu. It appears to be a programming language for building games that is designed to be accessible to kids. That way you could teach the basics of algorithms without getting to bogged down in syntax. As a bonus you might be able to get some financial support from Microsoft since they'll be interested in building a market for their product.
Pfffeh.... nobody could work in multiple fields these days. I mean, really... sure, Linus Pauling won Nobel Prizes in 2 unrelated areas, and is a giant in both chemestry and biology, wrote textbooks on quantum physics and discovered the molecular cause of sickle cell anemia, built weapons AND was a renowned peace activist - Nobel peace prize and all... but he died like in 1996 or something. Ancient history man...
1. I'm not making any arguments about people. I'm talking about me. 2. I don't want the other songs, I don't care what the cost of the rest is (unless it's $0)
I think his point was that the cost of the rest is $0. The cost of the 4 songs you wanted is $20. Or if you only wanted 1 song, the cost of that one song is $20. The rest comes along for free.
Basically the current pricing structure is that you can choose as many songs as you like from this list of 14 tracks (album) for one flat fee of $20.
He's got a pretty good point. You can't argue that it is not about price if you don't want to pay their flat $20 fee per list on the basis that you only get 1 or 2 songs you like for the $20.
Libertarians are for Liberty. (cute how the names work out like that) Personal Liberty. What goes along with this idea is things like limits on the power and responsibilities of government. Super simplified - your right to swing your fist ends at my nose.
Libertarian visions of government get more complicated, as all ideologies do when they meet reality. They range from ideological anarchists to a wing of the (US) conservative republicans to (US) liberal democrats.
Maybe it is easier to demarcate what they are not. Libertarians are not socialists. They are not Communists. They are not Theocrats (like US republican social conservatives). They are definitely not "Progressives", whatever that means. However, all of these groups have something that they can feel Libertarian about. Conservative Republicans like the small government, hands off ideas. Liberal democrats and Progressives like the social freedoms. They all hate the "let people do stuff that I don't like" part, but that is the foundation of liberty, so Libertarians are relegated to a weird minority (3%) party mostly centered around drug legalization in the minds of the public.
So, to the question at hand... the Libertarian position on copyright. I think you could start a pretty good fight by lobbing that hand grenade in a room full of Libertarians. Libertarians are definitely for property rights and personal property ownership, which would argue for a perpetual copyright - if you created it, you own it. Libertarians are also definitely for freedom of thought and freedom of ideas. Since the only things that can be copyrighted are fundamentally just expressions of ideas, you could never control, own or limit an idea, or therefore copyright a work.
So unfortunately no, you cannot look to Libertarian philosophy to give a concrete, iron-clad position on copyright. You'd have to balance competing interests, just as our current copyright laws attempt to do.
AFAIK the only political philosophy that would lay the matter to rest is communism. Everything belongs to the state, so everything is copyright to the state in perpetuity. Simple.
Prison population rates (per 100,000 citizens): U.S.; 756 Sweden; 74.
I much prefer the concept of the 'anything but the American prison factory' system.
I agree, although I think the numbers bear out that a large portion of this order-of-magnitude difference is due to lengthy mandatory terms, particularly for drug related offences. Perhaps most of the remaining difference would come down to a much different crime rate. I doubt that the jury/not-jury debate has much to do with it.
Anyone want to take bets on the chance of a politician getting elected on a "I'll cut drug penalties" platform? What, no takers? How about flying donkeys as a mode of transport?
Of course not. You should wait until they're at their 10-year peak and then buy them.
Hey, that's my investment strategy! So far it isn't working out so well, but I'm starting a website "ShortMyPortfolio.com". If past performance is any indication, it should be the best investment advice available at any price.
Duluth is an amazing place. I went fishing on lake superior on July 4th weekend a couple of years ago... it was 80 degrees 30 minutes out of town, but 38 degrees by the lake as we put the boat in the water. Not being from the area I came dressed in shorts and a T-shirt! Who knew? I had to borrow a pullover, but I still froze my tail off. I had a fabulous time though, I caught 3 decent sized walleye (delicious!) and we got to see the northern lights on the way back in. All-in-all a great day. But man, is it cold on the lake. Just imagine what it is like in the dead of winter, if that is the middle of summer!
They actually have a beach on a breakwater in the middle of the city just across from canal park. It is beautiful out there with views of the city and lake all around. The water temperature never gets above 40 degrees though - I have no idea why anyone would go in that water... they seem to have a great time though.
My father-in-law goes ice fishing every year, this year it the wind chill was below -60. I'm sorry, but that's just nuts. I think the actual air temperature was around -30 or -40. Nope, I can't see the fun in that. Parts really will start falling off.
Actually, doesn't that make it a Terran eclipse, from the lunar point of view?
No, that would be a solar eclipse here on earth as viewed from the moon. You'd see the shadow of the moon crawling across the planet. (to match a lunar eclipse in nomenclature)
This is a lunar eclipse (from the earth's point of view) as viewed from the moon, which makes it a solar eclipse from the point of view of the moon.
Or B), the user didn't understand how to check to see which network his wireless broadband card was using..... If it's B, he has no one to blame but himself.
Except that he is sitting in the middle of Miami, Florida - USA. It is not like the dock is even at the edge of the ocean, the port of Miami is probably 2 miles inland - all of Miami Beach and South Beach is between you and the ocean - dozens of high rise buildings obscure your view of the ocean. I cannot imagine anyone who had not heard this story or some similar anecdote deciding to check which international network he was using at that moment. The nearest international network should be somewhere in the Bahamas, probably close to 100 miles away.
And with Vista coming around, and the desire to virtualize Vista desktops, overcommit just doesn't help very much.
Why would this be? I've never looked into the oversubscription feature, but it seems that running 25 virtual desktops on the same machine would allow for the bulk of memory used for the OS to be oversubscribed. Or does it not work that way? If they are all using Word and Excel, can oversubscription share all of the OS DLLs, Word and Excel DLL and exe's, etc in the same ram? In a corporate environment with very similar application utilization patterns across a large user group, it seems like virtualizing desktops would be the perfect use for this memory deduplication feature... or did I miss something?
Then you'd need giant gorillas like King Kong to keep get rid of Godzilla. The beauty of the plan is that once winter sets in, the giant gorillas will simply freeze to death.
Recall that is came out that Nixon was buying weapons in China and sending them through Russia to Afghani "freedom fighters". The same guys we call "insurgants" today. And that was 30 years ago. It didnt stop happening, they just cover it up better these days. Cept for Col. North who got caught.
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!?! Hell no!" - John 'Bluto' Blutarsky
Actually, what I think he means is that by definition any choice made by you is the best choice for you. Even if every other person on the planet thinks you are a flippin' idiot. If you choose to spend your last $100 on Arbor Mist, Dove bars and a copy of "You've Got Mail", well then that was the best choice for you because nobody is better positioned to decide for you.
Or to use my favorite example, if you want to drop out of school at Harvard to camp out in a hotel room with some buddies and write some code to try to start up a development house, more power to you. Just because I think that would be a stupid move, and would advise you to stay in school doesn't mean I'm right. You just might become the wealthiest man in the world because of your stupid choices.
There are places where street lights are strictly controlled for darker skies and it does not negatively impact the utility of the lights. The main island of Hawaii takes it's astronomy seriously and you only see shrouded low pressure lights anywhere on the island. Very effective at reducing light pollution and still quite normal street lighting conditions while walking or driving. It really is a much better living environment and there really isn't any reason not to follow their example.
Three day transfers are not called wires in the US. They are called ACH transfers. They are free - treated the same as checks, using the same clearing house that checks route through. Wires are instantaneous bank-to-bank transfers - you send the money at 9:47 am and it arrives at 9:47 am, usually costing a ridiculous amount of money, $5-$75 depending on your banking relationships.
Coffee makers do not actually *boil* water, just heat it to the high 80-low 90 Celsius range.
Of course they boil the water. They use the vapor pressure of the steam to push the water up through a tube where it drips over the ground coffee beans. That is where the bubble-bubble sound comes from. You can see and hear the steam as the reservoir runs out of water. The storage carafe doesn't reach boiling (which you can easily see by looking at the coffee in the carafe), but the water that hits the grounds is right at the boiling point (but removed from the heat source).
Suppose you're standing in line, and suddenly a whole line of people just slides into place right next to your line -
I actually saw this happen at a sports fair. There was a really long line for an autograph tent that went about 30 yards away, ran into a fence and folded back on itself all the way to the front. At some point a couple of guys tried to jump the line and in the confusion that ensued the whole end half of the line just turned and made a new line. Those of us who waited for an hour to get near the front were fairly pissed. No fight though.
As to why in the world I was in line for an autograph - it wasn't my idea. It was for my sister-in-law. Worse, it was for the University of Miami. To say I'm not a fan would be an understatement. Just goes to show how far I'll go for love. It did confirm my opinion of fans of the "U" though.
I'm not sure where you're at, but I'm in the US. Here, it's government of, by, and for the people. I may call the government where the job is too big or too specialized for me, but I always start with the assumption that neighborhood problems are for me and my neighbors to solve. Don't you?
Whoa, slow down there cowboy! If you aren't careful you'll have folks thinking that the government actually gets its police power from the consent of the people. Someone might think you have the crazy notion that the individual right of self defence is the root of that police power, and that we cede some of that power to the government to exercise on our behalf. Next thing you know they'll be thinking that the government cannot legitimately have a power or authority that an individual doesn't have in the first place - otherwise how could he have the authority to consent to a government use of the power? Dangerous thoughts you are having there.
As a male white Italian with no involvement.... Black people won't be seen "out of place" in any place from now on.
Thank you for that... it is interesting to see how perception can become reality. As a white american man who spent the 80's and 90's with my (now ex) african-american wife, I can tell you that there have not been many places where black people are seen as out of place in the USA in that time. In fact, during our time together we never once had white people make us feel unwelcome, despite living in and travelling throughout the southern US, frequenting redneck bars and backwoods haunts. The only places we were ever made to feel unwelcome were in the minority community, and that was relatively rare. For the most part white America grew up and moved on during the seventies, put those attitudes behind us in the 80's and long before now became mostly color-blind. Hopefully this election will help those who are still clinging to old prejudices and fears let go and grow up.
The Commission, on the other hand, has warned against alarmist scenarios. It emphasises that ACTA is about tackling large scale criminal activity, not about limiting civil or consumer rights.
I really, really hate stuff like this. Why doesn't anyone call the industry on this? Whenever I hear "but it won't be used against small-scale infringers" I want to shout at them THEN FUCKING PUT IT IN THERE! Put it in writing, in the treaty / law / whatever
Brilliant point. So brilliant that it bears repeating:
If they don't make the legislation read the way they claim it is intended to be used, then you know they are lying. As you point out, it would be trivial to add language to the legislation that limits the scope of the law to "large scale criminal activity". The fact that they have not done so is telling.
Today it's feasible to build yourself a machine with 32 cores using 4-core AMD:s 4-core processors and a Tyan n4250QE with a M4985 daughterboard. This will give you 64 cores to play with.
Thanks for the links! One correction: The board has 4 processor slots and the daughter board has 4 slots : 8 Processors x 4 cores each = 32 cores.
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And I am so sick of this whole "land ownership" thing. Humans evolved from a single place in Africa 2 million years ago and spread out from there. At what point in time did land ownership start?
Quite right.
Now get off my lawn!
Based on no personal knowledge whatsoever - I just saw a reference somewhere - take a look at Kodu. It appears to be a programming language for building games that is designed to be accessible to kids. That way you could teach the basics of algorithms without getting to bogged down in syntax. As a bonus you might be able to get some financial support from Microsoft since they'll be interested in building a market for their product.
Pfffeh.... nobody could work in multiple fields these days. I mean, really... sure, Linus Pauling won Nobel Prizes in 2 unrelated areas, and is a giant in both chemestry and biology, wrote textbooks on quantum physics and discovered the molecular cause of sickle cell anemia, built weapons AND was a renowned peace activist - Nobel peace prize and all ... but he died like in 1996 or something. Ancient history man...
* the 'man' in 'congressman' refers to 'human' -- its definitely not 'congressperson'
Quite right.... huperson it is then.
1. I'm not making any arguments about people. I'm talking about me.
2. I don't want the other songs, I don't care what the cost of the rest is (unless it's $0)
I think his point was that the cost of the rest is $0. The cost of the 4 songs you wanted is $20. Or if you only wanted 1 song, the cost of that one song is $20. The rest comes along for free.
Basically the current pricing structure is that you can choose as many songs as you like from this list of 14 tracks (album) for one flat fee of $20.
He's got a pretty good point. You can't argue that it is not about price if you don't want to pay their flat $20 fee per list on the basis that you only get 1 or 2 songs you like for the $20.
Libertarians are for Liberty. (cute how the names work out like that) Personal Liberty. What goes along with this idea is things like limits on the power and responsibilities of government. Super simplified - your right to swing your fist ends at my nose.
Libertarian visions of government get more complicated, as all ideologies do when they meet reality. They range from ideological anarchists to a wing of the (US) conservative republicans to (US) liberal democrats.
Maybe it is easier to demarcate what they are not. Libertarians are not socialists. They are not Communists. They are not Theocrats (like US republican social conservatives). They are definitely not "Progressives", whatever that means. However, all of these groups have something that they can feel Libertarian about. Conservative Republicans like the small government, hands off ideas. Liberal democrats and Progressives like the social freedoms. They all hate the "let people do stuff that I don't like" part, but that is the foundation of liberty, so Libertarians are relegated to a weird minority (3%) party mostly centered around drug legalization in the minds of the public.
So, to the question at hand... the Libertarian position on copyright. I think you could start a pretty good fight by lobbing that hand grenade in a room full of Libertarians. Libertarians are definitely for property rights and personal property ownership, which would argue for a perpetual copyright - if you created it, you own it. Libertarians are also definitely for freedom of thought and freedom of ideas. Since the only things that can be copyrighted are fundamentally just expressions of ideas, you could never control, own or limit an idea, or therefore copyright a work.
So unfortunately no, you cannot look to Libertarian philosophy to give a concrete, iron-clad position on copyright. You'd have to balance competing interests, just as our current copyright laws attempt to do.
AFAIK the only political philosophy that would lay the matter to rest is communism. Everything belongs to the state, so everything is copyright to the state in perpetuity. Simple.
Prison population rates (per 100,000 citizens):
U.S.; 756
Sweden; 74.
I much prefer the concept of the 'anything but the American prison factory' system.
I agree, although I think the numbers bear out that a large portion of this order-of-magnitude difference is due to lengthy mandatory terms, particularly for drug related offences. Perhaps most of the remaining difference would come down to a much different crime rate. I doubt that the jury/not-jury debate has much to do with it.
Anyone want to take bets on the chance of a politician getting elected on a "I'll cut drug penalties" platform? What, no takers? How about flying donkeys as a mode of transport?
Of course not. You should wait until they're at their 10-year peak and then buy them.
Hey, that's my investment strategy! So far it isn't working out so well, but I'm starting a website "ShortMyPortfolio.com". If past performance is any indication, it should be the best investment advice available at any price.
Duluth is an amazing place. I went fishing on lake superior on July 4th weekend a couple of years ago... it was 80 degrees 30 minutes out of town, but 38 degrees by the lake as we put the boat in the water. Not being from the area I came dressed in shorts and a T-shirt! Who knew? I had to borrow a pullover, but I still froze my tail off. I had a fabulous time though, I caught 3 decent sized walleye (delicious!) and we got to see the northern lights on the way back in. All-in-all a great day. But man, is it cold on the lake. Just imagine what it is like in the dead of winter, if that is the middle of summer!
They actually have a beach on a breakwater in the middle of the city just across from canal park. It is beautiful out there with views of the city and lake all around. The water temperature never gets above 40 degrees though - I have no idea why anyone would go in that water... they seem to have a great time though.
My father-in-law goes ice fishing every year, this year it the wind chill was below -60. I'm sorry, but that's just nuts. I think the actual air temperature was around -30 or -40. Nope, I can't see the fun in that. Parts really will start falling off.
Actually, doesn't that make it a Terran eclipse, from the lunar point of view?
No, that would be a solar eclipse here on earth as viewed from the moon. You'd see the shadow of the moon crawling across the planet. (to match a lunar eclipse in nomenclature)
This is a lunar eclipse (from the earth's point of view) as viewed from the moon, which makes it a solar eclipse from the point of view of the moon.
There you go... clear as mud?
I'd say my four favorites are
office space
princess bride
moulin rouge
silverado
(Dark City is barely off the list tho)
Moulin Rouge?? Huh?
"One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong..."
Or B), the user didn't understand how to check to see which network his wireless broadband card was using. .... If it's B, he has no one to blame but himself.
Except that he is sitting in the middle of Miami, Florida - USA. It is not like the dock is even at the edge of the ocean, the port of Miami is probably 2 miles inland - all of Miami Beach and South Beach is between you and the ocean - dozens of high rise buildings obscure your view of the ocean. I cannot imagine anyone who had not heard this story or some similar anecdote deciding to check which international network he was using at that moment. The nearest international network should be somewhere in the Bahamas, probably close to 100 miles away.
And with Vista coming around, and the desire to virtualize Vista desktops, overcommit just doesn't help very much.
Why would this be? I've never looked into the oversubscription feature, but it seems that running 25 virtual desktops on the same machine would allow for the bulk of memory used for the OS to be oversubscribed. Or does it not work that way? If they are all using Word and Excel, can oversubscription share all of the OS DLLs, Word and Excel DLL and exe's, etc in the same ram? In a corporate environment with very similar application utilization patterns across a large user group, it seems like virtualizing desktops would be the perfect use for this memory deduplication feature... or did I miss something?
Then you'd need giant gorillas like King Kong to keep get rid of Godzilla. The beauty of the plan is that once winter sets in, the giant gorillas will simply freeze to death.
Simpsons did it.
Recall that is came out that Nixon was buying weapons in China and sending them through Russia to Afghani "freedom fighters". The same guys we call "insurgants" today. And that was 30 years ago. It didnt stop happening, they just cover it up better these days. Cept for Col. North who got caught.
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!?! Hell no!" - John 'Bluto' Blutarsky
Actually, what I think he means is that by definition any choice made by you is the best choice for you. Even if every other person on the planet thinks you are a flippin' idiot. If you choose to spend your last $100 on Arbor Mist, Dove bars and a copy of "You've Got Mail", well then that was the best choice for you because nobody is better positioned to decide for you.
Or to use my favorite example, if you want to drop out of school at Harvard to camp out in a hotel room with some buddies and write some code to try to start up a development house, more power to you. Just because I think that would be a stupid move, and would advise you to stay in school doesn't mean I'm right. You just might become the wealthiest man in the world because of your stupid choices.
With apologies to Joey, the word is Moo. As in "the point is moo." You know, like what a cow says: "moo". It doesn't mean anything. It's moo.
There are places where street lights are strictly controlled for darker skies and it does not negatively impact the utility of the lights. The main island of Hawaii takes it's astronomy seriously and you only see shrouded low pressure lights anywhere on the island. Very effective at reducing light pollution and still quite normal street lighting conditions while walking or driving. It really is a much better living environment and there really isn't any reason not to follow their example.
Three day transfers are not called wires in the US. They are called ACH transfers. They are free - treated the same as checks, using the same clearing house that checks route through. Wires are instantaneous bank-to-bank transfers - you send the money at 9:47 am and it arrives at 9:47 am, usually costing a ridiculous amount of money, $5-$75 depending on your banking relationships.
Coffee makers do not actually *boil* water, just heat it to the high 80-low 90 Celsius range.
Of course they boil the water. They use the vapor pressure of the steam to push the water up through a tube where it drips over the ground coffee beans. That is where the bubble-bubble sound comes from. You can see and hear the steam as the reservoir runs out of water. The storage carafe doesn't reach boiling (which you can easily see by looking at the coffee in the carafe), but the water that hits the grounds is right at the boiling point (but removed from the heat source).
Suppose you're standing in line, and suddenly a whole line of people just slides into place right next to your line -
I actually saw this happen at a sports fair. There was a really long line for an autograph tent that went about 30 yards away, ran into a fence and folded back on itself all the way to the front. At some point a couple of guys tried to jump the line and in the confusion that ensued the whole end half of the line just turned and made a new line. Those of us who waited for an hour to get near the front were fairly pissed. No fight though.
As to why in the world I was in line for an autograph - it wasn't my idea. It was for my sister-in-law. Worse, it was for the University of Miami. To say I'm not a fan would be an understatement. Just goes to show how far I'll go for love. It did confirm my opinion of fans of the "U" though.
I'm not sure where you're at, but I'm in the US. Here, it's government of, by, and for the people. I may call the government where the job is too big or too specialized for me, but I always start with the assumption that neighborhood problems are for me and my neighbors to solve. Don't you?
Whoa, slow down there cowboy! If you aren't careful you'll have folks thinking that the government actually gets its police power from the consent of the people. Someone might think you have the crazy notion that the individual right of self defence is the root of that police power, and that we cede some of that power to the government to exercise on our behalf. Next thing you know they'll be thinking that the government cannot legitimately have a power or authority that an individual doesn't have in the first place - otherwise how could he have the authority to consent to a government use of the power? Dangerous thoughts you are having there.
As a male white Italian with no involvement .... Black people won't be seen "out of place" in any place from now on.
Thank you for that... it is interesting to see how perception can become reality. As a white american man who spent the 80's and 90's with my (now ex) african-american wife, I can tell you that there have not been many places where black people are seen as out of place in the USA in that time. In fact, during our time together we never once had white people make us feel unwelcome, despite living in and travelling throughout the southern US, frequenting redneck bars and backwoods haunts. The only places we were ever made to feel unwelcome were in the minority community, and that was relatively rare. For the most part white America grew up and moved on during the seventies, put those attitudes behind us in the 80's and long before now became mostly color-blind. Hopefully this election will help those who are still clinging to old prejudices and fears let go and grow up.
I really, really hate stuff like this. Why doesn't anyone call the industry on this? Whenever I hear "but it won't be used against small-scale infringers" I want to shout at them THEN FUCKING PUT IT IN THERE! Put it in writing, in the treaty / law / whatever
Brilliant point. So brilliant that it bears repeating:
If they don't make the legislation read the way they claim it is intended to be used, then you know they are lying. As you point out, it would be trivial to add language to the legislation that limits the scope of the law to "large scale criminal activity". The fact that they have not done so is telling.
Today it's feasible to build yourself a machine with 32 cores using 4-core AMD:s 4-core processors and a Tyan n4250QE with a M4985 daughterboard. This will give you 64 cores to play with.
Thanks for the links! One correction: The board has 4 processor slots and the daughter board has 4 slots : 8 Processors x 4 cores each = 32 cores.