b) never heard an FM radio that cost more than $5.
Or he can't find anything but top 40, country or hip hop in his area. With signal quality that low, I'd hate to see other bands striving for that qualiry.
No matter what we do, in a couple of years everything will be owned by only a handful of companies...
You're being unamerican. The FCC says that media consolidation is a Good Thing. Among other things, it'll guarantee that when the millions of tons of WMD are found in Iraq, there won't be any stray reporters looking behind the curtain. That would be dangerous for them; WMD can be dangerous to the untrained.
Is that in general, or only lately now that they've fired one guy who repeatedly made up stories and let another resign who put his name on the work of freelancers? I'm just trying to get a clear view of what constitutes good journalism.
...they feared that what you two are discussing would happen: that people would come to believe that *only* those rights specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights were protected.
Amendment IX (The forgotten amendment)
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Remember that the second, more than the first, protects the rest. Oh, but we threw the second out a long time ago. That's why we have the USAPATRIOT Act and TIA. Because no one in Washington thinks they're at all accountable anymore.
And if the answer had been yes, the recount that the democrats were asking for WOULD HAVE MADE BUSH PRESIDENT.
I agree. The only problem is that those votes were and are simply the answer to a trivia question; they never became a part of our electoral process. The votes didn't make him president, the courts did. Well, the courts and Catherine Harris- who acted not as Secretary of the State of Florida, but as co-chair of Bush's Florida campaign.
Okay, so you're a poet. Let's look a little at the legal basis for your power grab.
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
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To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
That's a little different from your
The intent of copyright is to protect the right of a content creator to determine how and when something is copied . Hence the name. Yes, it provides an incentive for other individuals to create their own art, but only because they know that if they create it, they have recourse against those who wish to arrogate to themselves the right to copy the artist's work.
The intent of copyright is to make sure the people have access to writings and arts by making it a paying proposition. It has nothing to do with giving bad poets the ability to take bad poetry away from teenagers who like it.
If you don't want something to be in print, you don't lose anything by someone else printing and selling it. It's not about you, it's about us. The People, not The Companies, despite the current purchase price of the Supreme Court. How they can okay retroactive extensions to copyright because "an extra 20 years is still limited" is beyond me. Walt was happy enough with the current copyright term when he released Steamboat Willie. How can he be encouraged to release it by an extension of that law today? Now I'm not saying that the Supreme Court is corrupt, but theirs were the only votes in 2000 that really got counted.
No, he uses "light water." It's He2O. Two parts Helium, one part Oxygen. Surface tension keeps the water in place in the pools. Water is bubbled up at the "waterfall" part, breaking the surface tension and allowing it to float upward. At the top is a vacuum, which sucks the water into the glass. There is some overflow, but surface tension keeps it on the glass, flowing downhill. It's really an impressive system.
If you live in the U.S. and think that you live in a police state, you have probably never been out of your time zone, let alone your country.
If you think the US isn't getting way too close to being a police state, then you haven't read the document from which the government derives its authority, the Constitution. Call me a snob if you will, but I'm not from some third world shithole with a government that keeps itself in power by force. I'm from a country that kicked out the British Empire and founded a government filled with safeguards to protect themselves from it. Having been raised to believe I have certain rights, I won't apologise for grudging any loss of them, however minor they may seem to someone unlucky enough to have been born somewhere else.
I don't mean to sound like one of those jackasses who wants us to bring "freedom" to the rest of the world. I've never been to the third world, and don't plan on it. I see enough footage on CNN. If they want freedom, they can take it for themselves. I'll limit myself to moral, and maybe financial support. I know I'm lucky to have been born here; I'll freely admit that. Relativism be damned- I'll fight harder against a slighter government intrusion than it seems most of the world is willing to fight against more blatant (what you would call real) intrusions.
Though I think the bullet time was part of what made it suck.
Actually, I thought the movie was terrific, but you're dead on about the fight scenes. The fighting was less an unavoidable distraction from what the characters were trying to accomplish than they were about the CG staff jacking off. Plot-wise, Neo seems to shrug and say "I guess I'll fight for the next 10 minutes," forgetting all about whatever he was actually doing at the moment Smith(s), an agent or a renegade program showed up.
I don't see why this is such a big problem... one site creates competitive prices based upon other sites' prices.
You don't understand the fundamental use of law under the Corporate Administration. Data mining is legal when it involves Admiral Poindexter, your grocery store, your viewing habits or your medical data. Data minig is illegal when it benefits you the consumer at all, much less at the expense of a needy company's profits.
With a Bill of Rights. The Constitution protects our rights to freedom of speech, free assembly, to keep and bear arms, privacy, a speedy trial, legal counsel and not to be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process.
Wow. Watching the news for the last year and a half made me forget all that. Hey, Bush- remember this? "I, George W. Bush, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Try reading it instead of wiping your ass with it.
It's not fair. We're the ones with these rights guaranteed, and Canadians are the ones getting them. It's not my fault; I voted for the other loser machine politician.
Fried the computer? Did he say it was because of his mechanic or did you assume it was because he had a remote starter installed? All a remote starter does is jumper around the key for various positions (Acc1, Acc2, Start, and Run), for some it can bypass the alarm or disable a factory alarm so the car can start.
There're a lot of computers in the car. The one that fried was the body control module, one of the more important ones. It controls, among other things, the aforementioned alarm. Someone we don't know played with it and attatched something we've never seen. We replace BCMs very rarely. If the unknown mechanic and third party equipment aren't what killed it, then he's just unlucky as hell. Remember, though, that planning is a huge part of luck, and this guy knew he was doing. He was saving $150 or so by having someone else fuck with his electrics. If you've got black boxes that can fail mysteriously, don't tinker with them and expect the factory to subsidise you. My company offers a remote starter that we guarantee. AMD offers a cooling solution that they guarantee. Neither one of us is going to pay you for having gone with someone else's product.
State Law mandates a 1 year parts and manufacturing warranty irregardless of OEM status or not.
Riiight. Had a guy come into the shop in January. He'd had some mechanic install a third party remote starter. Guess what? It fried the car's computer. Then he had the balls to come in and demand a replacement under warranty. I didn't laugh to his face, as such, but I did bait him a bit by being a but slow on the uptake. "I'm sorry sir, but I still don't get the part where we're responsible for your mechanic installing somebody else's part improperly. Tell me again."
Size doesn't really matter in dropping a sugar cube into my coffee cup. It's not THAT hard to imagine an Apache helicopter dropping a sugar cube into my cup:-)
You've never been under a hovering helicopter before, have you? A Pixel has the advantage of not blowing your cup across the field (or room) before it gets into cube dropping position.
Because to him, he has the choice between believing what he READ from some anonymous user on Slashdot, and what he READ in Consumer Reports.
Now which is more credible?
YOUR personal experiences may be more credible to YOU, but they're likely not very credible to complete strangers.
And that's why you're reading Ask Slashdot?
My beef with Consumer Reports is their wierd form of objectivity. An air filter can't be rated by the contaminants it removes, because the test is set up to measure volume of air moved. What's up with that? I also don't rate cars based on their number of cupholders.
"The check's in the mail. It's probably still on the launch pad. I mailed it in plenty of time, though."
I shudder to think of the kind of bills you'd need to have a $20-$30K stamp be a cost effective stalling method. I doubt they'd launch your letter before their check clears, at least.
...actually believed that smart boms are accurate today to hit a window with one try.
Of course, that's the really telegenic part of these bombs. If you're going to miss the window you're aiming at, something's probably gone wrong enough that you're going to miss the entire building. The video of you actually hitting it won't show previous hits. They are accurate enough to hit everything on the first try, but in the real world, though, something always manages to go wrong. Lasers don't guide well through smoke, and GPS doesn't guide well through interference.
I think PD's more right on this. It doesn't matter that our systems aren't as godlike as the Pentagon wants us to think. What matters is that we don't have to vaporise half of a city to get one target. We can drop a thousand pound bomb and get it cleanly. Who cares if it's not on the first try every time (well, aside from the pilots that have to go back)? we still don't need to turn an entire city into a parking lot to get one target. The next time we use a nuke it will be to send a message, not because it is the most efficient, or only, way we have of destroying the target. Kind of like the last time.
It's a big part of the military's job, keeping outsiders from knowing exactly what their stuff can do. Smart bombs not hitting as often as they ideally could isn't something I'd worry about.
...as low as 41%. The Pentagon had claimed an accuracy rate of 80%!! According to the same report, on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991, the "F-117 missed 40% of their air defence targets".
The report also overturns the Pentagon's famous "one target, one bomb..."
You've got to understand that this is incredible accuracy. We've come from repeatedly sending squadrons at a bridge to likely having to send a second or third plane to destroy a SAM sire. I'll take that any day. Because the single bomb is more likely than not to destroy its target, it doesn't make sense to send three or four planes out the first time. Yes, it pisses them off when they have to go back, but it beats bringing bombs back home that could have gone to different targets that night. Things go wrong every day, and every bullet isn't going to hit. Wah. It's simpler to re-target the misses than to have them circle the first target until it's gone before moving on to target number two.
The biggest problem isn't propaganda so much as marketing. As long as "journalism" includes video clips of smart bombs and "look at how neat this tank/boat/plane/MRE is" type specials, the Pentagon is going to have to play to that. Anyone who blindly swallows what you get on TV deserves whatever they get.
I'm the parts guy. My dealership used to sell Daewoos. There's nothing wrong with the cars except that the company fell out from under them. They aren't as back ordered as they used to be, but it's not a scene you want to get involved in.
I know what you mean. My 96 Suzuki Esteem always got around 40. My best tank was 42.2 MPG. Underpowered, but underweight, too. Peppy little car, and I got the mileage while driving its tiny little wheels off. It taught me to resent getting less than 400 miles per tank.
The key is that the only parts readily available are oil filters, and nobody's ever going to stock more. You need new brake pads? It'll be about three weeks. Something actually broke? Maybe a month. You should be able to pick one up for less than than 4k.
What you are advocating is like claiming that you should pay the phone compnany for every time someone calls your phone, even if you don't answer it, even if you leave it off the hook, even if you leave it unplugged.
No. You've got a cell phone that gets billed by the minute. In order to cut down on incoming calls you set up an answering machine, or "firewall" to screen out the junk. Okay, so you ignore the unwanted calls...
...but our firewall kept reporting that those requests were still coming in. We couldn't stop them - the most we could do is give them the silent treatment.
Your firewall is inside your account, just as your answering machine has to answer the call before it can decide if it's a wanted call. Your ISP is selling you access, not protection. It'll probably sell you its own firewalling service, too, and that's the only way you're going to keep from recieving those unwanted packets. Using your own answering machine uses your own connection time.
Your cell phone is still getting billed by the minute, and your ISP is billing you by the packet. There is injustice here, and yes, you are the victim. You're just not the ISP's victim, you're a victim of the virus/worm/MS feature.
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Or he can't find anything but top 40, country or hip hop in his area. With signal quality that low, I'd hate to see other bands striving for that qualiry.
You're being unamerican. The FCC says that media consolidation is a Good Thing. Among other things, it'll guarantee that when the millions of tons of WMD are found in Iraq, there won't be any stray reporters looking behind the curtain. That would be dangerous for them; WMD can be dangerous to the untrained.
Is that in general, or only lately now that they've fired one guy who repeatedly made up stories and let another resign who put his name on the work of freelancers? I'm just trying to get a clear view of what constitutes good journalism.
Amendment IX (The forgotten amendment)
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Remember that the second, more than the first, protects the rest. Oh, but we threw the second out a long time ago. That's why we have the USAPATRIOT Act and TIA. Because no one in Washington thinks they're at all accountable anymore.
I agree. The only problem is that those votes were and are simply the answer to a trivia question; they never became a part of our electoral process. The votes didn't make him president, the courts did. Well, the courts and Catherine Harris- who acted not as Secretary of the State of Florida, but as co-chair of Bush's Florida campaign.
Don't worry. My online auction site is going to be up and running as soon as I perfect the background music for the site.
So the new cards are very secure, unless you know the way to crack them. How is that any more secure than the old cards?
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
That's a little different from your
The intent of copyright is to protect the right of a content creator to determine how and when something is copied . Hence the name. Yes, it provides an incentive for other individuals to create their own art, but only because they know that if they create it, they have recourse against those who wish to arrogate to themselves the right to copy the artist's work.
The intent of copyright is to make sure the people have access to writings and arts by making it a paying proposition. It has nothing to do with giving bad poets the ability to take bad poetry away from teenagers who like it.
If you don't want something to be in print, you don't lose anything by someone else printing and selling it. It's not about you, it's about us. The People, not The Companies, despite the current purchase price of the Supreme Court. How they can okay retroactive extensions to copyright because "an extra 20 years is still limited" is beyond me. Walt was happy enough with the current copyright term when he released Steamboat Willie. How can he be encouraged to release it by an extension of that law today? Now I'm not saying that the Supreme Court is corrupt, but theirs were the only votes in 2000 that really got counted.
If you think the US isn't getting way too close to being a police state, then you haven't read the document from which the government derives its authority, the Constitution. Call me a snob if you will, but I'm not from some third world shithole with a government that keeps itself in power by force. I'm from a country that kicked out the British Empire and founded a government filled with safeguards to protect themselves from it. Having been raised to believe I have certain rights, I won't apologise for grudging any loss of them, however minor they may seem to someone unlucky enough to have been born somewhere else.
I don't mean to sound like one of those jackasses who wants us to bring "freedom" to the rest of the world. I've never been to the third world, and don't plan on it. I see enough footage on CNN. If they want freedom, they can take it for themselves. I'll limit myself to moral, and maybe financial support. I know I'm lucky to have been born here; I'll freely admit that. Relativism be damned- I'll fight harder against a slighter government intrusion than it seems most of the world is willing to fight against more blatant (what you would call real) intrusions.
Actually, I thought the movie was terrific, but you're dead on about the fight scenes. The fighting was less an unavoidable distraction from what the characters were trying to accomplish than they were about the CG staff jacking off. Plot-wise, Neo seems to shrug and say "I guess I'll fight for the next 10 minutes," forgetting all about whatever he was actually doing at the moment Smith(s), an agent or a renegade program showed up.
You don't understand the fundamental use of law under the Corporate Administration. Data mining is legal when it involves Admiral Poindexter, your grocery store, your viewing habits or your medical data. Data minig is illegal when it benefits you the consumer at all, much less at the expense of a needy company's profits.
Wow. Watching the news for the last year and a half made me forget all that. Hey, Bush- remember this? "I, George W. Bush, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Try reading it instead of wiping your ass with it.
It's not fair. We're the ones with these rights guaranteed, and Canadians are the ones getting them. It's not my fault; I voted for the other loser machine politician.
There're a lot of computers in the car. The one that fried was the body control module, one of the more important ones. It controls, among other things, the aforementioned alarm. Someone we don't know played with it and attatched something we've never seen. We replace BCMs very rarely. If the unknown mechanic and third party equipment aren't what killed it, then he's just unlucky as hell. Remember, though, that planning is a huge part of luck, and this guy knew he was doing. He was saving $150 or so by having someone else fuck with his electrics. If you've got black boxes that can fail mysteriously, don't tinker with them and expect the factory to subsidise you. My company offers a remote starter that we guarantee. AMD offers a cooling solution that they guarantee. Neither one of us is going to pay you for having gone with someone else's product.
Riiight. Had a guy come into the shop in January. He'd had some mechanic install a third party remote starter. Guess what? It fried the car's computer. Then he had the balls to come in and demand a replacement under warranty. I didn't laugh to his face, as such, but I did bait him a bit by being a but slow on the uptake. "I'm sorry sir, but I still don't get the part where we're responsible for your mechanic installing somebody else's part improperly. Tell me again."
You've never been under a hovering helicopter before, have you? A Pixel has the advantage of not blowing your cup across the field (or room) before it gets into cube dropping position.
Now which is more credible?
YOUR personal experiences may be more credible to YOU, but they're likely not very credible to complete strangers.
And that's why you're reading Ask Slashdot?
My beef with Consumer Reports is their wierd form of objectivity. An air filter can't be rated by the contaminants it removes, because the test is set up to measure volume of air moved. What's up with that? I also don't rate cars based on their number of cupholders.
I shudder to think of the kind of bills you'd need to have a $20-$30K stamp be a cost effective stalling method. I doubt they'd launch your letter before their check clears, at least.
Of course, that's the really telegenic part of these bombs. If you're going to miss the window you're aiming at, something's probably gone wrong enough that you're going to miss the entire building. The video of you actually hitting it won't show previous hits. They are accurate enough to hit everything on the first try, but in the real world, though, something always manages to go wrong. Lasers don't guide well through smoke, and GPS doesn't guide well through interference.
I think PD's more right on this. It doesn't matter that our systems aren't as godlike as the Pentagon wants us to think. What matters is that we don't have to vaporise half of a city to get one target. We can drop a thousand pound bomb and get it cleanly. Who cares if it's not on the first try every time (well, aside from the pilots that have to go back)? we still don't need to turn an entire city into a parking lot to get one target. The next time we use a nuke it will be to send a message, not because it is the most efficient, or only, way we have of destroying the target. Kind of like the last time.
It's a big part of the military's job, keeping outsiders from knowing exactly what their stuff can do. Smart bombs not hitting as often as they ideally could isn't something I'd worry about.
The report also overturns the Pentagon's famous "one target, one bomb..."
You've got to understand that this is incredible accuracy. We've come from repeatedly sending squadrons at a bridge to likely having to send a second or third plane to destroy a SAM sire. I'll take that any day. Because the single bomb is more likely than not to destroy its target, it doesn't make sense to send three or four planes out the first time. Yes, it pisses them off when they have to go back, but it beats bringing bombs back home that could have gone to different targets that night. Things go wrong every day, and every bullet isn't going to hit. Wah. It's simpler to re-target the misses than to have them circle the first target until it's gone before moving on to target number two.
The biggest problem isn't propaganda so much as marketing. As long as "journalism" includes video clips of smart bombs and "look at how neat this tank/boat/plane/MRE is" type specials, the Pentagon is going to have to play to that. Anyone who blindly swallows what you get on TV deserves whatever they get.
No. Excercising the rights that generations have fought and died to protect is unpatriotic. John Ashcroft says so.
I'm the parts guy. My dealership used to sell Daewoos. There's nothing wrong with the cars except that the company fell out from under them. They aren't as back ordered as they used to be, but it's not a scene you want to get involved in.
The key is that the only parts readily available are oil filters, and nobody's ever going to stock more. You need new brake pads? It'll be about three weeks. Something actually broke? Maybe a month. You should be able to pick one up for less than than 4k.
No. You've got a cell phone that gets billed by the minute. In order to cut down on incoming calls you set up an answering machine, or "firewall" to screen out the junk. Okay, so you ignore the unwanted calls...
Your firewall is inside your account, just as your answering machine has to answer the call before it can decide if it's a wanted call. Your ISP is selling you access, not protection. It'll probably sell you its own firewalling service, too, and that's the only way you're going to keep from recieving those unwanted packets. Using your own answering machine uses your own connection time.
Your cell phone is still getting billed by the minute, and your ISP is billing you by the packet. There is injustice here, and yes, you are the victim. You're just not the ISP's victim, you're a victim of the virus/worm/MS feature.