While student loans are not free money, I doubt most students realize how much money it actually is and the ramifications of taking on such a loan. Most students don't think about student debt until after they graduate.
"There is a certain relief with not having to own music. It is a lot of work,"
Yes, copying an mp3 file to my media partition is just so incredibly labor-intensive. In fact I have to remember to drink lots of water or else I'll pass out from all the exertion. And don't even get me started on Amarok, I mean I just double-click an album and it starts playing, it's terribly hard you know.
Really though, what the hell are they talking about? It's always been easy, and when you're not bound to physical media like CDs it's even easier still.
I think they are talking about the fact that you have to rip your music (and know what format and quality to rip it in), possibly fix the metadata, manage each of your devices manually while they are connected to the computer, backup your music, and if you want to stream your collection, configure streaming software, your router, and for most consumers, configure a dynamic DNS service like DynDns. Also, if you want your collection on multiple computers, you have to restore from your backup on each computer. You could have all your music on a file share but not everyone leaves their computers on 24/7. All in all, that is a lot of knowledge and work that most consumers would like to avoid.
I have been using Rdio for the last six months or so. For $10 a month, I have all-you-can-eat access to a huge collection of music with an offline feature for mobile devices. I can access the web player from any computer with any OS and modify my collection from all my devices. I also don't have to worry about buying music I find out is crap ex post facto. It also allows me to try out new artists and genres that I might have not even considered if I had to buy an album in order to find out if I like them. I also helps me weed out the crap by looking at what is popular for the kind of music I am looking for.
Could I loose my collection tomorrow? Sure, but considering the price, convenience, and the fact that Rdio has competitors that offer similar services for a similar price, it is not a big deal.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't DNS the only thing that the United States controls about the internet as a whole? If the other nations do not like our control over DNS, why don't they come up with their own DNS network? If they don't like the openness of the internet, why don't they just have firewalls around their countries in order to only allow authorized traffic? There is no need for the UN to control the internet.
I know that. I use encryption on private data just like I use an envelope to hide details in the mail I send but that doesn't mean we can't expect and demand the government to treat our network information as private and require a warrant. They also shouldn't be blocking online services and content that are perfectly legitimate like VOIP or political dissent. Can VOIP be used with criminal activity? Yes, but that doesn't mean we should outright make it illegal to use the service.
but if you have a thought, and you put it on a wire that leads to a public network, you have just given up your right to privacy
not legally, but logically
Do you not expect your (snail) mail to be private? Can your privacy be potentially compromised? Yes, but most still expect it to be private. If it is compromised, the trespasser, when found, is be held accountable. Any communication channel can be potentially compromised. The problem is that most nations don't hold their government accountable.
Assuming this is like the heart and bladder procedure, that I heard about, the pool of potential donors is massively increased by this technology since they no longer have to worry about rejection. That means many more of those that do consent are usable.
Ignoring that that's not true--as rape doesn't require sexual intercourse, such ignores that cutting off the penis of a man or sewing up the vagina of a woman is itself a sexual offense, mutilation, etc.
I am not sure what definition of rape you use but the definition I know of requires sexual intercourse. Also, I didn't say it would stop sexual mutilation, just rape.
Does it mean an outright ban? I don't think that's needed. But, I could see the rational behind registration, logging of gun transfers, and things like microstamps to at least try to narrow down the possibilities.
I don't mind registration. I don't see the point to microstamping. As someone else already mentioned, it is basically the gun equivalent of DRM. It is a waste of resources (criminals will just use revolvers), it hinders those who are using guns legitimately (increases cost), and it is ineffective on stopping those that are criminals (filing the pin).
I really question, though, how many law-abiding citizens really need a gun for defense vs it just being an object to fetish away their fears; as the simple truth is that either you're unlikely to have the gun on you and readily usable when the time arises (ie, a criminal already has you at gun point) and odds are good that any attempt to brandish your gun when you do have the time risks escalating a conflict unnecessarily or potentially painting you as a target since it seems way too few people who own guns have sufficient, regular training to actually be necessarily good shots.
Consider how difficult it is to legally carry a gun in a lot of areas, you are right, you will most likely not have a gun around when you need it. But that is not the fault of the gun.
In short, I'd probably feel a lot better about the whole situation if there was more "well regulated" training and more limited ownership as a matter of social expectation instead of treating guns as some sort of defensive panacea.
I have no problem with requiring a reasonable amount of training in order to carry a gun. As long as we don't require ridiculous amounts of time and make it prohibitively expensive. Also, we should not have to be law enforcement in order to carry around a gun without worrying about accidentally breaking an obscure or foolish gun law.
If guns are illegal, then anyone who has a gun is a criminal, and you can prevent crime by just arresting everyone who has guns.
You can also prevent rape by cutting off the penis of every male and sewing up the vagina of every female. Just because something can be used for a crime it doesn't mean we should make it a criminal offense to own one. Guns are a tools. How you use a tool makes all the difference. Law-abiding citizens use guns for fun, hunting, and most importantly defense. Criminals use guns to murder, rape, steal, and destroy.
The best thing, of course, is to just ban guns from the country.
Do you have a magical box or something? How do you keep guns out of the hands of criminals? There would be a black market. The criminals are the ones you need to worry about having guns not law-abiding citizens. Also, why is banning guns from the country "the best thing"?
Same here. The most I have ever used in a month was between 6 and 8GB. I usually use around 2 to 4GB in a month. I want unlimited because it is simple and I like to know it is there is I need it. I would accept limited if it was metered (no ridiculously priced overages) and reasonably priced. They really should just have one low price for unlimited phone and texting and then charge $2 to $5 per GB used for data. Data would cheap enough to be reasonable but high enough that most people would not go and burn 100+GB. Eventually, they could move the voice and texting to VOIP and use the newly release airwaves for data. Right now, at $10 - $60 does per GB, it would be cheaper to drive to the store and buy a DVD/Bluray and drive back then it would be to buy a high-quality digital download.
Who do they have a trust with? If you meant monopoly, Microsoft has no real share in the tablet market. If Google or Apple did it maybe but most likely not.
The college told you that you wouldn't get a grade if everyone in the class didn't buy a text book written by the teacher? It sounds like you should have gotten a lawyer.
When I was in college, I bought all my books online with most of them being brand new at half the price the college bookstore was charging for used. That said, most of the books were still ridiculously expensive. The reason colleges get away with their high book prices is because many of the students are getting their books paid for by the government or parents.
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While student loans are not free money, I doubt most students realize how much money it actually is and the ramifications of taking on such a loan. Most students don't think about student debt until after they graduate.
"There is a certain relief with not having to own music. It is a lot of work,"
Yes, copying an mp3 file to my media partition is just so incredibly labor-intensive. In fact I have to remember to drink lots of water or else I'll pass out from all the exertion. And don't even get me started on Amarok, I mean I just double-click an album and it starts playing, it's terribly hard you know. Really though, what the hell are they talking about? It's always been easy, and when you're not bound to physical media like CDs it's even easier still.
I think they are talking about the fact that you have to rip your music (and know what format and quality to rip it in), possibly fix the metadata, manage each of your devices manually while they are connected to the computer, backup your music, and if you want to stream your collection, configure streaming software, your router, and for most consumers, configure a dynamic DNS service like DynDns. Also, if you want your collection on multiple computers, you have to restore from your backup on each computer. You could have all your music on a file share but not everyone leaves their computers on 24/7. All in all, that is a lot of knowledge and work that most consumers would like to avoid.
I have been using Rdio for the last six months or so. For $10 a month, I have all-you-can-eat access to a huge collection of music with an offline feature for mobile devices. I can access the web player from any computer with any OS and modify my collection from all my devices. I also don't have to worry about buying music I find out is crap ex post facto. It also allows me to try out new artists and genres that I might have not even considered if I had to buy an album in order to find out if I like them. I also helps me weed out the crap by looking at what is popular for the kind of music I am looking for.
Could I loose my collection tomorrow? Sure, but considering the price, convenience, and the fact that Rdio has competitors that offer similar services for a similar price, it is not a big deal.
I am not sure what you mean by bottom half.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't DNS the only thing that the United States controls about the internet as a whole? If the other nations do not like our control over DNS, why don't they come up with their own DNS network? If they don't like the openness of the internet, why don't they just have firewalls around their countries in order to only allow authorized traffic? There is no need for the UN to control the internet.
I know that. I use encryption on private data just like I use an envelope to hide details in the mail I send but that doesn't mean we can't expect and demand the government to treat our network information as private and require a warrant. They also shouldn't be blocking online services and content that are perfectly legitimate like VOIP or political dissent. Can VOIP be used with criminal activity? Yes, but that doesn't mean we should outright make it illegal to use the service.
but if you have a thought, and you put it on a wire that leads to a public network, you have just given up your right to privacy
not legally, but logically
Do you not expect your (snail) mail to be private? Can your privacy be potentially compromised? Yes, but most still expect it to be private. If it is compromised, the trespasser, when found, is be held accountable. Any communication channel can be potentially compromised. The problem is that most nations don't hold their government accountable.
Sounds like it is the best time to get the law repealed.
Ah! Infinite recursion!
According to TFA, this procedure removes the problem of rejection since the organ is made from the patients own cells.
Agreed, but not all of them consent to donate.
Assuming this is like the heart and bladder procedure, that I heard about, the pool of potential donors is massively increased by this technology since they no longer have to worry about rejection. That means many more of those that do consent are usable.
What does it matter? There are plenty of dead people around.
Ignoring that that's not true--as rape doesn't require sexual intercourse, such ignores that cutting off the penis of a man or sewing up the vagina of a woman is itself a sexual offense, mutilation, etc.
I am not sure what definition of rape you use but the definition I know of requires sexual intercourse. Also, I didn't say it would stop sexual mutilation, just rape.
Does it mean an outright ban? I don't think that's needed. But, I could see the rational behind registration, logging of gun transfers, and things like microstamps to at least try to narrow down the possibilities.
I don't mind registration. I don't see the point to microstamping. As someone else already mentioned, it is basically the gun equivalent of DRM. It is a waste of resources (criminals will just use revolvers), it hinders those who are using guns legitimately (increases cost), and it is ineffective on stopping those that are criminals (filing the pin).
I really question, though, how many law-abiding citizens really need a gun for defense vs it just being an object to fetish away their fears; as the simple truth is that either you're unlikely to have the gun on you and readily usable when the time arises (ie, a criminal already has you at gun point) and odds are good that any attempt to brandish your gun when you do have the time risks escalating a conflict unnecessarily or potentially painting you as a target since it seems way too few people who own guns have sufficient, regular training to actually be necessarily good shots.
Consider how difficult it is to legally carry a gun in a lot of areas, you are right, you will most likely not have a gun around when you need it. But that is not the fault of the gun.
In short, I'd probably feel a lot better about the whole situation if there was more "well regulated" training and more limited ownership as a matter of social expectation instead of treating guns as some sort of defensive panacea.
I have no problem with requiring a reasonable amount of training in order to carry a gun. As long as we don't require ridiculous amounts of time and make it prohibitively expensive. Also, we should not have to be law enforcement in order to carry around a gun without worrying about accidentally breaking an obscure or foolish gun law.
If guns are illegal, then anyone who has a gun is a criminal, and you can prevent crime by just arresting everyone who has guns.
You can also prevent rape by cutting off the penis of every male and sewing up the vagina of every female. Just because something can be used for a crime it doesn't mean we should make it a criminal offense to own one. Guns are a tools. How you use a tool makes all the difference. Law-abiding citizens use guns for fun, hunting, and most importantly defense. Criminals use guns to murder, rape, steal, and destroy.
The base case can be cleaned, refilled, re-primed, and a new bullet head put in.
The criminals that don't plan things out would probably get caught anyway.
The best thing, of course, is to just ban guns from the country.
Do you have a magical box or something? How do you keep guns out of the hands of criminals? There would be a black market. The criminals are the ones you need to worry about having guns not law-abiding citizens. Also, why is banning guns from the country "the best thing"?
Same here. The most I have ever used in a month was between 6 and 8GB. I usually use around 2 to 4GB in a month. I want unlimited because it is simple and I like to know it is there is I need it. I would accept limited if it was metered (no ridiculously priced overages) and reasonably priced. They really should just have one low price for unlimited phone and texting and then charge $2 to $5 per GB used for data. Data would cheap enough to be reasonable but high enough that most people would not go and burn 100+GB. Eventually, they could move the voice and texting to VOIP and use the newly release airwaves for data. Right now, at $10 - $60 does per GB, it would be cheaper to drive to the store and buy a DVD/Bluray and drive back then it would be to buy a high-quality digital download.
Who do they have a trust with? If you meant monopoly, Microsoft has no real share in the tablet market. If Google or Apple did it maybe but most likely not.
Just because someone can pirate something, it doesn't mean they will.
Agreed. It should be a legal requirement.
i guess police are people, too...
... that must be held to a higher standard.
Wouldn't it be easier to just create an image using Clonezila?
The college told you that you wouldn't get a grade if everyone in the class didn't buy a text book written by the teacher? It sounds like you should have gotten a lawyer.
When I was in college, I bought all my books online with most of them being brand new at half the price the college bookstore was charging for used. That said, most of the books were still ridiculously expensive. The reason colleges get away with their high book prices is because many of the students are getting their books paid for by the government or parents.