"Allowing corporations to control the internet is simply unacceptable" - yeah, about that.... the govt track record is so much better. The US Govt would love nothing more than absolute control
Yes. Network neutrality is a government take-over of the internet in the same way the first amendment is a government takeover of religion.
No. Al Gore was the guy who took the initiative in the creation of the internet. If you're certain that "took the initiative in the creation of" means "invented", then either you're not that bright, or your translator ring works a hell of a lot better than mine.
How does it work when someone wants a clarification about expert witness testimony. If twelve people listen to a witness explain some complicated subject, and some interpret it one way and some interpret it another? I know that you can pass questions to the judge on some subjects, but can your question be "what did witness X mean when he said y? Can he provide a clarification?"
If not, then is there a way before the cases have been rested to say "hey, I missed something, can your witness clarify?"
So long as ebooks are sold at paper prices, they should be treated like paper books. You own them. You can loan them to other people, sell them to a used bookstore, etc. Some of that doesn't necessarily translate well to the digital world (what does it mean to sell a used ebook?)
The zune had an interesting feature. You could make virtual loans. The music would be inaccessible to you for a predefined period, and during that period, someone else of your choosing would have a license to listen to it. Of course, you would need DRM to enforce this, but you could just as easily create a business model whereby someone can "give" a book away, which would involve invalidating the license on my Kindle (if I owned one), and giving a new license to another person with a Kindle.
The problem would come when you want a DRM-free system.
Spun already responded to this, but I wanted to elaborate. In the latter part of the movie, Moore goes to Canada, and portrays them as a people that people have guns everywhere, and never lock their doors. He then goes on to speculate about why guns aren't ruining the country, pointing out that their media does not participate in fear-mongering, and that they have a social safety net that we don't. (I am doing this from memory, so forgive me if I get some details wrong).
The general idea is that, a). Street crime/Columbine shootings aren't as common as we think, and b). if we don't have to worry so much about "what if I get laid off tomorrow/what if I can't find a job by next February/how do I pay my medical bills", then we may not be as likely to commit crimes.
Of course I don't remember it well enough to argue your other points. The only thing that really got me (other than hyperbole) was the way he tried to link the NRA to the KKK. I am assuming he's full of crap, there, because his argument seemed weak.
To say the US is having a hard time keeping up would imply that it is difficult to do that for US companies. It's not. It simply goes against their desire to get money for nothing. They want to put nothing into their infrastructure and so nothing improves. This is in sharp contrast with other businesses in other parts of the world. The difference isn't the technology or the scale of deployment. It is the mindset of the people making decisions.
For the love of GOD won't they please declare that internet service is a "utility" and regulate it as such?
Mod parent up!
It's the countries that have to upgrade their infrastructure on a regular basis who are having a "hard time keeping up". Saying that about the US is like pointing at a fat woman eating Cheetos in a mobility scooter and saying "Boy, she's having a hard time staying thin".
well its bullshit every time an add tried to install something the package manager won't open them. Shit I've tried every distro out there and I still can't open them up. What am I doing wrong can someone please help me. I really want to see all these cool things the rest of the world is experiencing.
don't worry. I hear WINE is adding support for that.
Where is the goalpost? The claim I have been hearing is "correlation!=causation". (In other discussions, I have also heard "models and simulations are meaningless".
We obviously cannot clone the earth for experimentation purposes, so what kind of evidence would be needed to convince you if a course of action is necessary?
Also, correlation is useful as an indicator of what needs to be studied. So, shouldn't the necessary experiments be of crucial importance, given the indicators we have?
I had the 2005 media center and my complaint was that it respects the broadcast flag. It wasn't so bad at first. I couldn't record off HBO, but everything else worked. But then Fox started putting it on all their shows. I don't remember who else did, but I noticed it because my wife and I could no longer watch her favorite show. I don't know if they still have this problem/policy, but MCE became less and less relevant over time, until one day the app stopped working, and I decided that I just didn't care enough to fix it.
When the cheating was occurring, most students didn't know if the next test was going to help or hurt. So, if you had the option to take a "throw-away" test one week and then the real test a couple of weeks later, then I would still consider that a bonus...That is unless he intentionally made the "real test" harder to punish the entire class.
You obviously bought into the BS too. Read up on The Making Work Pay Tax Credit. There is a tax credit, but, because of the withholdings adjustment, two-income families may end up getting that bonus twice, and having to pay one of them back.
On the other hand, he did NOT raise taxes either. Though I expect the Democrats to try to raise taxes (by allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to lapse - yes, that raises taxes) during December, if they can find a way to make it look like the Republicans' fault.
I agree that Obama's policy would enact a tax increase on people in the highest tax bracket. The GOP has been threatening to raise everyone's taxes, if the richest Americans don't get theirs.
That is how the DEMs will make it look like the GOP's fault. They will push to keep the tax cuts for everyone but the rich and the GOP will have a tough choice; filibuster a tax cut, or enact a policy that benefits the middle class at the expense of the wealthy.
I'm curious if the committee recommendation, that recently advocated cutting social security, military spending, all funding for NPR and PBS, and many other items, (and coincidentally would save exactly what the Bush tax is costing us) wasn't partly motivated by the need to show people that they are going to have to choose between fiscal responsibility and the three non-negotiables in American politics (military spending, social security, and tax cuts).
Please - I know US Citizens don't have a whole lot of power when it comes to running your country, and that most of the time it's run by powers far beyond your control - but if there's ANYTHING I could ask from you guys, it's to create enough of an outcry over issues such as this that BOTH parties take a negative stance to it - like how it was important for the US to have a "Pull out of Iraq" plan for the last election
I think the phrase you are looking for is "third rail", and the American view on taxes and cuts to social security, medicare, and military spending are good examples of those. Obama got hit pretty hard in part because, although he cut taxes, he wasn't conspicuous enough about it, and so people just assumed they had gone up. Where I work, the right wing media had people convinced that the tax cut wasn't really happening, so much so that our HR person sent out an email reminding people that they could have their with holdings adjusted so that they wouldn't end up having to repay it on April 15th.
If we cared half as much about "strangers touching our junk" as we do about the possibility that we may have to send $500 to the government, then the TSA would have been dismantled by now. (Ok, that may not be an improvement, but we don't handle nuance very well).
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You don't need to split the screen to play Contra!
But you do have to turn your monitor sideways!
"Allowing corporations to control the internet is simply unacceptable" - yeah, about that.... the govt track record is so much better. The US Govt would love nothing more than absolute control
Yes. Network neutrality is a government take-over of the internet in the same way the first amendment is a government takeover of religion.
No. Al Gore was the guy who took the initiative in the creation of the internet. If you're certain that "took the initiative in the creation of" means "invented", then either you're not that bright, or your translator ring works a hell of a lot better than mine.
How does it work when someone wants a clarification about expert witness testimony. If twelve people listen to a witness explain some complicated subject, and some interpret it one way and some interpret it another? I know that you can pass questions to the judge on some subjects, but can your question be "what did witness X mean when he said y? Can he provide a clarification?"
If not, then is there a way before the cases have been rested to say "hey, I missed something, can your witness clarify?"
I never thought I would live to see the day when the military would be learning something useful from Barbara Streisand.
So long as ebooks are sold at paper prices, they should be treated like paper books. You own them. You can loan them to other people, sell them to a used bookstore, etc. Some of that doesn't necessarily translate well to the digital world (what does it mean to sell a used ebook?)
The zune had an interesting feature. You could make virtual loans. The music would be inaccessible to you for a predefined period, and during that period, someone else of your choosing would have a license to listen to it. Of course, you would need DRM to enforce this, but you could just as easily create a business model whereby someone can "give" a book away, which would involve invalidating the license on my Kindle (if I owned one), and giving a new license to another person with a Kindle.
The problem would come when you want a DRM-free system.
Spun already responded to this, but I wanted to elaborate. In the latter part of the movie, Moore goes to Canada, and portrays them as a people that people have guns everywhere, and never lock their doors. He then goes on to speculate about why guns aren't ruining the country, pointing out that their media does not participate in fear-mongering, and that they have a social safety net that we don't. (I am doing this from memory, so forgive me if I get some details wrong).
The general idea is that, a). Street crime/Columbine shootings aren't as common as we think, and b). if we don't have to worry so much about "what if I get laid off tomorrow/what if I can't find a job by next February/how do I pay my medical bills", then we may not be as likely to commit crimes.
Of course I don't remember it well enough to argue your other points. The only thing that really got me (other than hyperbole) was the way he tried to link the NRA to the KKK. I am assuming he's full of crap, there, because his argument seemed weak.
And if the authorities let Assange go, I'm sure the free market will find a cheaper and better way to silence him.
What? A Slasdot article that says government=good, private industry=bad. This is so out of character. /sarcasm-off
I think the meme is more like:
government=easily bribed
industry=willing to bribe
While Google has made it clear that Cr-48 is nothing more than a test prototype...
I'm waiting for the final version, which I presume will be called the C-64. I hope my old "Little Computer People" disk is still viable...
I thought the final version was going to be Cr-48 beta.
If you called it cracktivism, it would appeal to a completely different crowd.
To say the US is having a hard time keeping up would imply that it is difficult to do that for US companies. It's not. It simply goes against their desire to get money for nothing. They want to put nothing into their infrastructure and so nothing improves. This is in sharp contrast with other businesses in other parts of the world. The difference isn't the technology or the scale of deployment. It is the mindset of the people making decisions.
For the love of GOD won't they please declare that internet service is a "utility" and regulate it as such?
Mod parent up!
It's the countries that have to upgrade their infrastructure on a regular basis who are having a "hard time keeping up". Saying that about the US is like pointing at a fat woman eating Cheetos in a mobility scooter and saying "Boy, she's having a hard time staying thin".
well its bullshit every time an add tried to install something the package manager won't open them. Shit I've tried every distro out there and I still can't open them up. What am I doing wrong can someone please help me. I really want to see all these cool things the rest of the world is experiencing.
don't worry. I hear WINE is adding support for that.
Kid Icarus flashbacks....ugh!
Where is the goalpost? The claim I have been hearing is "correlation!=causation". (In other discussions, I have also heard "models and simulations are meaningless".
We obviously cannot clone the earth for experimentation purposes, so what kind of evidence would be needed to convince you if a course of action is necessary?
Also, correlation is useful as an indicator of what needs to be studied. So, shouldn't the necessary experiments be of crucial importance, given the indicators we have?
Obligatory XKCD
Agent: I record all purchases for quality purposes; is that ok?
Store Owner: Get the hell out of my store.
And the Democrats will be cloning... um... gimme a minute... nope, guess they'll be stuck with Obama.
We could clone Clinton, but I figure he can take care of that part himself.
I had the 2005 media center and my complaint was that it respects the broadcast flag. It wasn't so bad at first. I couldn't record off HBO, but everything else worked. But then Fox started putting it on all their shows. I don't remember who else did, but I noticed it because my wife and I could no longer watch her favorite show. I don't know if they still have this problem/policy, but MCE became less and less relevant over time, until one day the app stopped working, and I decided that I just didn't care enough to fix it.
When the cheating was occurring, most students didn't know if the next test was going to help or hurt. So, if you had the option to take a "throw-away" test one week and then the real test a couple of weeks later, then I would still consider that a bonus...That is unless he intentionally made the "real test" harder to punish the entire class.
Oops...My mistake.
Oh. Sorry about that last comment. I didn't know it was a movie reference.
You obviously bought into the BS too. Read up on The Making Work Pay Tax Credit. There is a tax credit, but, because of the withholdings adjustment, two-income families may end up getting that bonus twice, and having to pay one of them back.
On the other hand, he did NOT raise taxes either. Though I expect the Democrats to try to raise taxes (by allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to lapse - yes, that raises taxes) during December, if they can find a way to make it look like the Republicans' fault.
I agree that Obama's policy would enact a tax increase on people in the highest tax bracket. The GOP has been threatening to raise everyone's taxes, if the richest Americans don't get theirs.
That is how the DEMs will make it look like the GOP's fault. They will push to keep the tax cuts for everyone but the rich and the GOP will have a tough choice; filibuster a tax cut, or enact a policy that benefits the middle class at the expense of the wealthy.
I'm curious if the committee recommendation, that recently advocated cutting social security, military spending, all funding for NPR and PBS, and many other items, (and coincidentally would save exactly what the Bush tax is costing us) wasn't partly motivated by the need to show people that they are going to have to choose between fiscal responsibility and the three non-negotiables in American politics (military spending, social security, and tax cuts).
Woosh!
Please - I know US Citizens don't have a whole lot of power when it comes to running your country, and that most of the time it's run by powers far beyond your control - but if there's ANYTHING I could ask from you guys, it's to create enough of an outcry over issues such as this that BOTH parties take a negative stance to it - like how it was important for the US to have a "Pull out of Iraq" plan for the last election
I think the phrase you are looking for is "third rail", and the American view on taxes and cuts to social security, medicare, and military spending are good examples of those. Obama got hit pretty hard in part because, although he cut taxes, he wasn't conspicuous enough about it, and so people just assumed they had gone up. Where I work, the right wing media had people convinced that the tax cut wasn't really happening, so much so that our HR person sent out an email reminding people that they could have their with holdings adjusted so that they wouldn't end up having to repay it on April 15th.
If we cared half as much about "strangers touching our junk" as we do about the possibility that we may have to send $500 to the government, then the TSA would have been dismantled by now. (Ok, that may not be an improvement, but we don't handle nuance very well).