Greenpeace is against building power plants because they are against the idea of humanity being so dominant. To many environmental groups, mankind is often seen as synonymous with a cockroach infestation. To these groups, any given tree or platypus has more of a right to be where it is than we, the humans, have to put in yet another road for our SUVs. We should be a partner with nature, not a overwhelming force dominating it. Nature has inherent value beyond being a resource to be exploited, manipulated or eliminated. The more extreme groups would really like to see mankind return to a agrarian society, thereby "sticking the thumb" at corporations *and* helping the environment.
This is being devil's advocate, of course, but the response to your question about humanity needing to live and thrive is "At what point does humanity say 'enough is enough'?" That is Greenpeace and Co.'s rationalization.
You do realize that not registering for Selective Service, assuming you are a male citizen, is illegal, right? And that you won't be attending any sort of higher education, not even a trade school, if you're not, let alone elimination of eligibility for scholarships. You can have yourself declared a conscientious objector, but you really cannot do much of anything with your life as a male citizen of the United States without at least being registered.
If I agree to be in their database, do I get a little card that can get scanned at military surplus stores, and maybe some handy coupons printed on the back?
These are the kinds of NICs that would be put into a datacenter that is leaning heavily toward VMware GSX or ESX servers. Any bit of offload of the CPU in sharing the NICs is a good thing.
Not a small chunk of it, however, is simply the American lifestyle and worker demands.
In these other parts of the world, you have three generations of family living in an apartment. They don't the expectations of living in a 2500 sq. ft. home on an acre of land with two more cars than people to drive them. And they don't have the financial institutions scrambling to provide the ridiculous levels of debt Americans are willing to assume to have these things. This makes them a lot cheaper.
And when your workers balk and threaten a strike at a 3% increase in the employee-paid portion of health benefits, sure the companies are going to look elsewhere.
It is so frustrating to me to see so many governments getting the intent of copyright and patent completely backwards. The power of these two concepts to drive innovation is in their *expiration* and not in their original issue. The idea behind these concpets is that if the creator wants to continue his nice exclusive income, he darn well better come up with something new and cool before the old income dries up.
You are right that the industry could evolve with this, but I don't see the producers being willing to share that much money from online purchased content with the local broadcasters, as this would amount to basically a massive subsidy. You know as well as I do, they wouldn't want to give up that much of the pie.
You may not shed a tear for the loss of TVLand, but putting together a nationwide cable network is not cheap, and after spending the resources in acquiring rebroadcast rights to programming and getting space on a channel spectrum and all of that, they aren't going to want to just close up shop. Which you and I know wouldn't necessarily be the case, but the suits don't see it that way.
I also think that consumers would balk at included advertising just as they would if the shows currently released on DVD included ads within the content. This is one of the driving reasons for the popularity of purchased or rented telelvision DVDs now - watch the whole episode with no interruptions for ads. Unless the ads were the exact same ones used in original broadcast, for novelty's sake.
Online distribution of content would impact the current market way beyond what iTunes has done for music. This would have the potential to affect the over-the-air broadcasters as well as large investment in cable systems. It took years for the recording industry to even come to terms with what amounts to a relatively small adjustment - media wise, anyway - from traditional distribution methods. They just had to switch from CD to digital file formats. Its a whole different ballgame with film and television.
One can expect the MPAA to fight much longer and harder than the RIAA ever did.
And my sig did make sense, if read correctly. You have to read it as "Light a man a fire..." and "light a man *on* fire..." Its sort of a play on words, of sorts, though not technically a pun. It doesn't work or make sense at all with "Build..." in the position of each relative sentence. I know someone else said something similar, but thats why there are no quotes and no attribution. Its a significant change from the original, and in my opinion, much more witty. Why would one build a man on fire? Though I guess I could take it one step further and make it "Light a man a fire..." and "light a man afire..." Yeah, I think thats even better. Thanks!
The MPAA can't embrace online distribution of content the way the RIAA has moved with iTunes and such. Music has always had a distribution of owned-content (LPs, tapes, CDs) and radio, with the market for owned-content being larger than the broadcast content. However, with the MPAA, particularly television, there is entirely too much invested in broadcast infrastructure.
I mean, if shows such as "Battlestar Galactica" or "Desperate Housewives" were available at a relatively low cost for online distribution and the medium became popular, that would severely impact your local broadcast stations as well as your nationwide cable networks. The actors and production companies would be doing just fine making the stuff, but even your local weatherman would find himself out of a job, as no local affiliate can stay up and running without primetime ad revenue. And if the producers laced their downloadable episodes with commercials, would you buy it? Very few people would, I think.
They could have chosen something like Dearborn. That wouldn't have been too bad. The Ritz or Hyatt at Fairlane across from Ford World Headquarters would have been nice. Then I could just go straight across from work...
I agree. From a young age, I was told "Just like Mom and Dad have to get up in the morning and go to work, you have to get up and go to school. Our job is to go and earn a paycheck. Yours is to go and earn an education." I also got paid for school, through an allowance that varied depending on school performance. My parents made it clear that school was my job. Are jobs often boring? Oh yes. Does that mean the management is to blame? Nope. Its the nature of the beast, and you just deal... or quit.
I didn't read the article, but I hope this doesn't hit Michigan. Here in Wyandotte, a 'burb of Detroit, we have our own power, water and cable TV systems. With the cable comes a competitive internet service, 3Mb/512Kb. The system is open to competition, so I could get Comcast cable internet, if I want, as I understand it. But I like getting my my utilities all on one bill. I just wish the state utilities commission had let them buy the local phone 30 years ago or so. Then I could have everything there.
But individual campaign contributions are already regulated. There are pretty steep restrictions on how much any single contributor can give to a single candidate, candidate committee, party committee, etc. $2000, if I remember correctly for any single candidate per election cycle.
You have to think about the family store down the street that is owned by "Family Grocery, Inc.", with the mom and pop being the sole shareholders. They pay a good chunk of taxes. But exempt them, too. Sure, individual income tax would have to go up a bit to compensate, but the economy would go like gangbusters...
The problem is that coporations pay taxes. As such, this entitles them to those rights. They pay, they gain. However, what they pay in taxes is minimal compared to what the citizenry pay. The solution is not a constitutional amendment. The solution is to eliminate corporate income tax. If they don't pay taxes, they would no longer be "corporate citizens."
This would also go far in eliminating political finance problems. If they don't have that "freedom of speech" ability to make contributions, the parties would have to rely expressly on federal campaign funds and those from individual voters.
This story wasn't about them being the first to make electronic music. It was about them being the first to compose an all electronic movie soundtrack...
I could almost guarantee that worldwide there are more MUD players than MMORPG subscibers. I don't think their popularity has dropped much at all from the early days of the public internet...
Actually, the "sex flush" can often be seen across the back of the shoulders, and not just across the upper chest. So as long as the lights are on, getting some from that direction and still confirming she actually likes it - and isn't merely feeling humiliated or degraded as her head gets buried in the pillow - shouldn't be a problem.
I have a four year old who loves to use the "Jumpstart" software. I think its great stuff.
That being said, I know that there is going to be serious contention in my home as he gets older, because in answer to the question of how to deal with the computers, its pretty much a given that he won't have a computer in his room, nor will he have a TV or telephone. That may be an issue for him as a teenager, but I don't want him staying up late on IM, talking on the phone, or watching bad infomercials at 2:00am. But just in case, I have Squid-guard ready, and he is going to learn his own ID and PW, with Squidguard doing its thing, too. And the firewall in place, blocking both incoming and outgoing. If he's IMing, I will know who he is talking to. If he's file-sharing, I am going to do my best to know what he's sharing. Logs, firewalls, proxy servers.
I don't like the idea of any sort of censorship on the Internet. Its *my* job, not that of any government, to protect my kid from the "bad stuff" out there. Perhaps I am more technically saavy than other parents, but its the parents job to learn. I didn't go to school for this. I was a theatre major! Take the class at your community college or adult ed program.
Is he going to try to circumvent all this? Most certainly. Am I going to try to keep one step ahead? Definitely.
When he is on the computer, I am going to know what he's doing. Typing papers, doing research. Email, but I will know to whom. When he gets older, and shows maturity and such, we can talk about relaxed access to the computer, just like we can talk about later curfews for his dates. And games will be played when the homework is done.
Welcome to the world of economics. Ten years ago, you could get a card that did just about anything needed for around $100, with chipsets from Nvidia, ATi, S3, Matrox, Intel, 3dfx, the list can go on a good two or three more manufacturers.
Now you have two. Okay, three if you include Matrox.
With the computing population having only really two main providers to go to, prices are going to go through the roof. Its simple economics...
Sometimes they poke fun at the people in the photos. Mostly they poke fun at that people who write the notes that they find, such as the woman who wrote a 40 page or so treatise on why "they" were following her (she had a huge list of license plate numbers) and why she had to leave her job as a teacher in the Chicago public school system. Apparently she "knew too much."
Is Found Magazine illegal also? This is an entire magazine based on publishing stuff that is found on the street, or on cars, or wherever. In their very first issue, they published an entire vacation journal from some woman's trip to Hawaii that the submitter simply found on an airplane, including the "lunch and then sex" sort of entries. They also provide commentary for each note or photo.
In their first issue, they published an entire vacation journal from some woman's trip to Hawaii that was left on an airplane. It was fascinating, yet kind of disturbing.
The other notes and photos they have are kind of interesting and bizarre, too.
I used to work for a Cisco authorized retailer, and so I got a nice Cisco 827 DSL router. It pretty much does everything but make toast. There have even been occasions where there were errors on my DSL line that my ISP couldn't quite figure out until I fed some of the details from my router's communication with the DSLAM. It pretty much tells you everything you want to know about your DSL...
...of it, is that its not the existence of copyright that drives creativity and innovation, but the expiration of them. Disney, for example, would probably work a lot harder to make new, interesting and lovable characters and stories if they knew that their current stable was about to be released. A author who wanted to continue having an income would be more likely to write new stories if he knew that the royalty checks from his twenty-year old best-seller were about to stop...
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Greenpeace is against building power plants because they are against the idea of humanity being so dominant. To many environmental groups, mankind is often seen as synonymous with a cockroach infestation. To these groups, any given tree or platypus has more of a right to be where it is than we, the humans, have to put in yet another road for our SUVs. We should be a partner with nature, not a overwhelming force dominating it. Nature has inherent value beyond being a resource to be exploited, manipulated or eliminated. The more extreme groups would really like to see mankind return to a agrarian society, thereby "sticking the thumb" at corporations *and* helping the environment.
This is being devil's advocate, of course, but the response to your question about humanity needing to live and thrive is "At what point does humanity say 'enough is enough'?" That is Greenpeace and Co.'s rationalization.
You do realize that not registering for Selective Service, assuming you are a male citizen, is illegal, right? And that you won't be attending any sort of higher education, not even a trade school, if you're not, let alone elimination of eligibility for scholarships. You can have yourself declared a conscientious objector, but you really cannot do much of anything with your life as a male citizen of the United States without at least being registered.
If I agree to be in their database, do I get a little card that can get scanned at military surplus stores, and maybe some handy coupons printed on the back?
Virtualization.
These are the kinds of NICs that would be put into a datacenter that is leaning heavily toward VMware GSX or ESX servers. Any bit of offload of the CPU in sharing the NICs is a good thing.
Not a small chunk of it, however, is simply the American lifestyle and worker demands.
In these other parts of the world, you have three generations of family living in an apartment. They don't the expectations of living in a 2500 sq. ft. home on an acre of land with two more cars than people to drive them. And they don't have the financial institutions scrambling to provide the ridiculous levels of debt Americans are willing to assume to have these things. This makes them a lot cheaper.
And when your workers balk and threaten a strike at a 3% increase in the employee-paid portion of health benefits, sure the companies are going to look elsewhere.
Just playing devil's advocate.
It is so frustrating to me to see so many governments getting the intent of copyright and patent completely backwards. The power of these two concepts to drive innovation is in their *expiration* and not in their original issue. The idea behind these concpets is that if the creator wants to continue his nice exclusive income, he darn well better come up with something new and cool before the old income dries up.
Grrr...
You are right that the industry could evolve with this, but I don't see the producers being willing to share that much money from online purchased content with the local broadcasters, as this would amount to basically a massive subsidy. You know as well as I do, they wouldn't want to give up that much of the pie.
You may not shed a tear for the loss of TVLand, but putting together a nationwide cable network is not cheap, and after spending the resources in acquiring rebroadcast rights to programming and getting space on a channel spectrum and all of that, they aren't going to want to just close up shop. Which you and I know wouldn't necessarily be the case, but the suits don't see it that way.
I also think that consumers would balk at included advertising just as they would if the shows currently released on DVD included ads within the content. This is one of the driving reasons for the popularity of purchased or rented telelvision DVDs now - watch the whole episode with no interruptions for ads. Unless the ads were the exact same ones used in original broadcast, for novelty's sake.
Online distribution of content would impact the current market way beyond what iTunes has done for music. This would have the potential to affect the over-the-air broadcasters as well as large investment in cable systems. It took years for the recording industry to even come to terms with what amounts to a relatively small adjustment - media wise, anyway - from traditional distribution methods. They just had to switch from CD to digital file formats. Its a whole different ballgame with film and television.
One can expect the MPAA to fight much longer and harder than the RIAA ever did.
And my sig did make sense, if read correctly. You have to read it as "Light a man a fire..." and "light a man *on* fire..." Its sort of a play on words, of sorts, though not technically a pun. It doesn't work or make sense at all with "Build..." in the position of each relative sentence. I know someone else said something similar, but thats why there are no quotes and no attribution. Its a significant change from the original, and in my opinion, much more witty. Why would one build a man on fire? Though I guess I could take it one step further and make it "Light a man a fire..." and "light a man afire..." Yeah, I think thats even better. Thanks!
The MPAA can't embrace online distribution of content the way the RIAA has moved with iTunes and such. Music has always had a distribution of owned-content (LPs, tapes, CDs) and radio, with the market for owned-content being larger than the broadcast content. However, with the MPAA, particularly television, there is entirely too much invested in broadcast infrastructure.
I mean, if shows such as "Battlestar Galactica" or "Desperate Housewives" were available at a relatively low cost for online distribution and the medium became popular, that would severely impact your local broadcast stations as well as your nationwide cable networks. The actors and production companies would be doing just fine making the stuff, but even your local weatherman would find himself out of a job, as no local affiliate can stay up and running without primetime ad revenue. And if the producers laced their downloadable episodes with commercials, would you buy it? Very few people would, I think.
They could have chosen something like Dearborn. That wouldn't have been too bad. The Ritz or Hyatt at Fairlane across from Ford World Headquarters would have been nice. Then I could just go straight across from work...
I agree. From a young age, I was told "Just like Mom and Dad have to get up in the morning and go to work, you have to get up and go to school. Our job is to go and earn a paycheck. Yours is to go and earn an education." I also got paid for school, through an allowance that varied depending on school performance. My parents made it clear that school was my job. Are jobs often boring? Oh yes. Does that mean the management is to blame? Nope. Its the nature of the beast, and you just deal... or quit.
I didn't read the article, but I hope this doesn't hit Michigan. Here in Wyandotte, a 'burb of Detroit, we have our own power, water and cable TV systems. With the cable comes a competitive internet service, 3Mb/512Kb. The system is open to competition, so I could get Comcast cable internet, if I want, as I understand it. But I like getting my my utilities all on one bill. I just wish the state utilities commission had let them buy the local phone 30 years ago or so. Then I could have everything there.
But individual campaign contributions are already regulated. There are pretty steep restrictions on how much any single contributor can give to a single candidate, candidate committee, party committee, etc. $2000, if I remember correctly for any single candidate per election cycle.
You have to think about the family store down the street that is owned by "Family Grocery, Inc.", with the mom and pop being the sole shareholders. They pay a good chunk of taxes. But exempt them, too. Sure, individual income tax would have to go up a bit to compensate, but the economy would go like gangbusters...
The problem is that coporations pay taxes. As such, this entitles them to those rights. They pay, they gain. However, what they pay in taxes is minimal compared to what the citizenry pay. The solution is not a constitutional amendment. The solution is to eliminate corporate income tax. If they don't pay taxes, they would no longer be "corporate citizens."
This would also go far in eliminating political finance problems. If they don't have that "freedom of speech" ability to make contributions, the parties would have to rely expressly on federal campaign funds and those from individual voters.
This story wasn't about them being the first to make electronic music. It was about them being the first to compose an all electronic movie soundtrack...
I could almost guarantee that worldwide there are more MUD players than MMORPG subscibers. I don't think their popularity has dropped much at all from the early days of the public internet...
Actually, the "sex flush" can often be seen across the back of the shoulders, and not just across the upper chest. So as long as the lights are on, getting some from that direction and still confirming she actually likes it - and isn't merely feeling humiliated or degraded as her head gets buried in the pillow - shouldn't be a problem.
Perhaps no one else has beaten the odds?
I have a four year old who loves to use the "Jumpstart" software. I think its great stuff.
That being said, I know that there is going to be serious contention in my home as he gets older, because in answer to the question of how to deal with the computers, its pretty much a given that he won't have a computer in his room, nor will he have a TV or telephone. That may be an issue for him as a teenager, but I don't want him staying up late on IM, talking on the phone, or watching bad infomercials at 2:00am. But just in case, I have Squid-guard ready, and he is going to learn his own ID and PW, with Squidguard doing its thing, too. And the firewall in place, blocking both incoming and outgoing. If he's IMing, I will know who he is talking to. If he's file-sharing, I am going to do my best to know what he's sharing. Logs, firewalls, proxy servers.
I don't like the idea of any sort of censorship on the Internet. Its *my* job, not that of any government, to protect my kid from the "bad stuff" out there. Perhaps I am more technically saavy than other parents, but its the parents job to learn. I didn't go to school for this. I was a theatre major! Take the class at your community college or adult ed program.
Is he going to try to circumvent all this? Most certainly. Am I going to try to keep one step ahead? Definitely.
When he is on the computer, I am going to know what he's doing. Typing papers, doing research. Email, but I will know to whom. When he gets older, and shows maturity and such, we can talk about relaxed access to the computer, just like we can talk about later curfews for his dates. And games will be played when the homework is done.
Welcome to the world of economics. Ten years ago, you could get a card that did just about anything needed for around $100, with chipsets from Nvidia, ATi, S3, Matrox, Intel, 3dfx, the list can go on a good two or three more manufacturers.
Now you have two. Okay, three if you include Matrox.
With the computing population having only really two main providers to go to, prices are going to go through the roof. Its simple economics...
Sometimes they poke fun at the people in the photos. Mostly they poke fun at that people who write the notes that they find, such as the woman who wrote a 40 page or so treatise on why "they" were following her (she had a huge list of license plate numbers) and why she had to leave her job as a teacher in the Chicago public school system. Apparently she "knew too much."
Is Found Magazine illegal also? This is an entire magazine based on publishing stuff that is found on the street, or on cars, or wherever. In their very first issue, they published an entire vacation journal from some woman's trip to Hawaii that the submitter simply found on an airplane, including the "lunch and then sex" sort of entries. They also provide commentary for each note or photo.
Wouldn't this blog be essentially the same thing?
...Found Magazine.
In their first issue, they published an entire vacation journal from some woman's trip to Hawaii that was left on an airplane. It was fascinating, yet kind of disturbing.
The other notes and photos they have are kind of interesting and bizarre, too.
I used to work for a Cisco authorized retailer, and so I got a nice Cisco 827 DSL router. It pretty much does everything but make toast. There have even been occasions where there were errors on my DSL line that my ISP couldn't quite figure out until I fed some of the details from my router's communication with the DSLAM. It pretty much tells you everything you want to know about your DSL...
...of it, is that its not the existence of copyright that drives creativity and innovation, but the expiration of them. Disney, for example, would probably work a lot harder to make new, interesting and lovable characters and stories if they knew that their current stable was about to be released. A author who wanted to continue having an income would be more likely to write new stories if he knew that the royalty checks from his twenty-year old best-seller were about to stop...