True, but when you have market share like walmart does, particularly in the small towns and rural areas, it amounts to de facto censorship. It has become such that Walmart can dictate your range of cultural outlets by what it chooses to carry.
Additionally, I don't see why the libraries don't just all band together and make their own filtering solution, rather than giving a blank check to companies?
See the thing is, the SCOTUS didn't say that libraries had to have the filters, they said that Congress could require filters as a condition of federal funding. This is the case with all or most federal coersion of state and local governments. See the 55 speed limit as an example. Coming to the point, the federal funding is often written in such a way that only X vendor can provide the service. The disparate libraries have very little say in the matter. What an enterprising young developer with a nose for pr0n might do is develop a binary filter such as the one you discussed and pitch it to the libraries through the federal govt. A lot of hoops to jump through, but there you go.
If you're going to attack Monsanto because of the dangers of new, more efficient ways to genetically-engineer life, at least realize that we've been doing this for a long, long time.
What is disturbing is that Monsanto has the ability to make a much greater mutation between generations, like orders of magnitude greater than a traditional breeder. Even more discomforting is that Monsanto does not research for the public good. It has first and foremost the profit motive in mind. So thirty year studies to find long term and unintended consequences? Forget those. By then, you and your kids will have ingested tons of their GM corn, soybeans, etc.
It's not that I'm against GM as a principle, I'm just worried that a for-profit company is not the best institution to be entrusted with this.
Also in the interview, he mentions that Bruce Sterling is not his real name. With talk of "coups inside the Republican Party" and the KGB, I think that Bruce Sterling is Tom Clancy's pseudonym.
FWIW, Tom Clancy lives in the DC area, not in Austin, TX as the article notes. Unless he misled about that too in order to keep up his nom de plume.
Once a consumer discovers an RFID tag, is there an easy and convenient way for this tag be destroyed without damaging the product in any way?
The easiest way is to hop in the back seat of a car with a woman with a penchant for skin tight latex who will straddle you with a H.R. Giger like device which will display the RFID tag on a sonogram monitor, target it, then suck it out in to a test tube.
I don't know whether you meant this as a joke or not, but my father is a foaming-at-the-mouth libertarian and refused to go through the normal paperwork when I was born. My birth certificate read for many years "Unnamed Male [LastNameWitheld]" I did not have a Social Security Number until I needed it for education related financial aid years later.
I can always waste the telemarketer's time (let them go thru their entire pitch and then say something like "What's that? Could you speak up a little?") and cost the telemarketing company money.
As much as I would enjoy that remember that the person doing the talking isn't actually the 'telemarketer or survey reader' The person actually talking to you is just some poor schmuck in Arizona or Delaware making $6.50/hr so he can pay the rent while he goes to Community College. He hates his job as much as you hate listening to him.
We need to direct our ire at those who are profiting from this, not the working man who is unfortunately the public face of telemarketing.
In my pleasure reading, I try to vary between fiction and non-fiction. Right now I'm reading The Seekers by Daniel Boorstin. I highly recommend it as well as The Discoverers by the same author. These books are narrative historical surveys of search for meaning in the former, and science and technology in the latter. A little non-fiction does the mind great. I can't tell you how many jeopardy answers I get because of this non-fiction reading or that.
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Whereas I've dedicated my genius to my dick, and I've never been happier!
oh and it's a damn shame your local best buy doesn't carry german sheisse porn. You really ought to write them a letter..
True, but when you have market share like walmart does, particularly in the small towns and rural areas, it amounts to de facto censorship. It has become such that Walmart can dictate your range of cultural outlets by what it chooses to carry.
Can you tell me why 56? I understand 32, 64, and 128 being powers of 2..but 56? Am I just especially dumb today?
I wouldn't blow off all soundtracks like that. Two off the top of my head that were very good were the Singles Soundtrack and that of The Crow.
It might be interesting to note that the word gymnasium is derived from the greek work for naked, as in a place you go to excercise naked.
The navy is the worst offender when it comes to truncated words, offices and departments in particular.
Consider / Compare:
OPNAVINST - Naval Operations Instruction
DESRON - Destroyer Squadron
COMSURFLANT - Commander, Suface Forces Atlantic.
See the thing is, the SCOTUS didn't say that libraries had to have the filters, they said that Congress could require filters as a condition of federal funding. This is the case with all or most federal coersion of state and local governments. See the 55 speed limit as an example. Coming to the point, the federal funding is often written in such a way that only X vendor can provide the service. The disparate libraries have very little say in the matter. What an enterprising young developer with a nose for pr0n might do is develop a binary filter such as the one you discussed and pitch it to the libraries through the federal govt. A lot of hoops to jump through, but there you go.
What is disturbing is that Monsanto has the ability to make a much greater mutation between generations, like orders of magnitude greater than a traditional breeder. Even more discomforting is that Monsanto does not research for the public good. It has first and foremost the profit motive in mind. So thirty year studies to find long term and unintended consequences? Forget those. By then, you and your kids will have ingested tons of their GM corn, soybeans, etc.
It's not that I'm against GM as a principle, I'm just worried that a for-profit company is not the best institution to be entrusted with this.
That's what I'm worried about. How many times have my battleships been sunk by friggen musketeers? sheesh...
FWIW, Tom Clancy lives in the DC area, not in Austin, TX as the article notes. Unless he misled about that too in order to keep up his nom de plume.
The easiest way is to hop in the back seat of a car with a woman with a penchant for skin tight latex who will straddle you with a H.R. Giger like device which will display the RFID tag on a sonogram monitor, target it, then suck it out in to a test tube.
I don't know whether you meant this as a joke or not, but my father is a foaming-at-the-mouth libertarian and refused to go through the normal paperwork when I was born. My birth certificate read for many years "Unnamed Male [LastNameWitheld]" I did not have a Social Security Number until I needed it for education related financial aid years later.
Thank you Captain Literal.
Do you really think the guy working the phones for $6.50 is profiting? Is the fry cook the one profiting at Macdonalds?
As much as I would enjoy that remember that the person doing the talking isn't actually the 'telemarketer or survey reader' The person actually talking to you is just some poor schmuck in Arizona or Delaware making $6.50/hr so he can pay the rent while he goes to Community College. He hates his job as much as you hate listening to him.
We need to direct our ire at those who are profiting from this, not the working man who is unfortunately the public face of telemarketing.
What school is this since you mention it?
Considering Ayn Rand herself wrote them, is it really possible that they could demonstrate a dogmatic obession? Isn't that sort of intrinsic?
In my pleasure reading, I try to vary between fiction and non-fiction. Right now I'm reading The Seekers by Daniel Boorstin. I highly recommend it as well as The Discoverers by the same author. These books are narrative historical surveys of search for meaning in the former, and science and technology in the latter. A little non-fiction does the mind great. I can't tell you how many jeopardy answers I get because of this non-fiction reading or that.
Isn't that what the restrooms are there for?
I think you got your bureaucrats mixed up. Ashcroft was the one who lost an election (to a dead guy) and was then appointed to the cabinet.
I'll get there eventually. I'm smoking all I can! Don't rush me!
Couple them with a Cue Cat to scan any debris that happens to float by, and I think you've got a winner of an idea!
No Brits, but Canadians make fine stand-ins. bonus for taking their beer afterward.
You mention that those are the prices for your school. Is the discount different depending on the school?