I realize I'm posting too late to ever get read, but this another arguement into my head:
If I duplicate Facebook's site and change only the breast policy, do you think that people will switch, even though the new one is better?
If you were to duplicate Facebook's site, you'd be immediately sued into oblivion. IIRC, I've seen a few stories about Facebook's patents get posted over the last couple years. Then there are the trademark and copyright concerns.
In effect, Facebook has a government protected monopoly. As such, they are obligated to open and accessable. If they decide to ban a (protected) class of people based on private proptery rights, they should be obligated to return the public property they have in the forms of patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
I'm posting from work, so I can't check to see if the link is to the same NPR interview I heard yesterday. In that on there was mention that the discoverer has three patents on the fungus.
Do people think that enough univeristy research would have been funded without patenting the fungus? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here that finds the idea of getting a patent on a naturally occurring fungus a little silly.
Not everything needs to be an iPhone killer. Let me use myself as an example. I've thought about getting something I could check my email on, but frankly I'm not sure if I'd ever really bother with it. Now, not only would I have to drop a bit more on a phone I'd find myself paying more for the contract.
So, if something comes out that looks usable, gets some decent reviews, and isn't that much more out of my pocket I'd be likely to get it. Now, I may find that I can no longer live without email on my phone. I may even decide that it would be worth it to drop a bit more for more access.
The only times I've had a need to use BitTorrent in the last several years was do download CD images for Slackware twice and OpenOffice once. In that time my ISP has sent me information stating my available bandwidth has increased significantly. Now, why did my last attempt at BitTorrent take days to complete and my previous ones finished quickly?
It is unacceptable for any organisation to buy a standard...
If the opening statement in a post is insightful enough to cause the supporting arguments to be redundant, will moderators get stuck in an infinate loop?
I think you may be a little optimistic on the power that the US has to control these things. I'm not saying that the US would be against strong arming other nations to get the information they want. I just think the amount of strength in that arm is not what it once was.
Right now it is quite plain that the US cannot strong arm Russia, China, France, Canada, North Korea, or Cuba. Sure, the UK has been a nice whipping boy lately but I doubt even that will last much longer.
The strength had long been:
Military
Economic
Moral Authority
How is the US faring on those three points these days?
I think that it gets too far into one's experience and how they work. When the Mac Mini came out, I dropped the five bills to check it out. I found that if I could not get a binary installer I could not install an application and any time I wanted to modify any settings it was a chore to dig around for them. It turned into a movie/mp3 machine and didn't do much else for the next year. Then it died suddenly and for no appearant reason (with a CD stuck in there, that was a pain).
There was some selector thing that really annoyed the hell out of me.
With a DOS/Windows backgroud, I downladed Slackware in 98 or 99 and threw it on an old machine. It "Just Worked" and I found that a lot more usable than the Mac could ever be.
I'm not so active as I once was, so there may have been a shift in the party. There was a time at least that they were free market with the understanding that some protection has to go on to maintain a market's freedom. A monopoly and a free market are mutually exclusive and the Libertarian party (again, going back some year since I've read the platform) understands that.
They also do not support leaving people out to starve to death, but rather to get the feds completely out of it. Local government likely would pick up a big part of what is done now and private charities would in theory be able to raise more to do more with and could concentrate on providing the aid rather than ensuring they were up on all regulations.
The LP doesn't have all the answers and isn't perfect now and never has been. I try very hard every couple years to find a candiate from the majors that I can support and have not been able to in my adult life. I choose to not thow away my vote, so I vote Libertarian where they are on my ballot and Green where they aren't. The Greens also have a lot of good ideas and should be included in the discussion of where our country is and should be heading.
A true sad day in the US.
Glad I voted for Ron Paul. I'll be using him as a write in come November
And at least in my state (Michigan) the entire ballot is spoiled if you write in a candidate that is not officially a write in candidate.
If you voted for Paul in the primary, vote for Barr in the general. They are the closest fit.
Unless, as I suspect, they went in without doing the required research first and didn't read/understand the contracts they signed.
Have your read a contract lately? We require some serious legal reform in this country before the average person can be expected to understand contracts. You need someone that you trust and has been trained in contract law to review most contracts out there.
You may take that as a given and bring any documents to your lawyer before signing. Most people don't have lawyers. Most people trust their lenders and real estate agents. Most people have an expectation that these people understand the contracts and are explaining the truthfully.
This is what got the ball rolling on foreclosures.
I did the responsible thing when I bought my house. I bought before the house was listed, hired a lawyer to write a simple contract, and put 20% down when I took out my mortgage from a bank with a reputation on not selling loads. When the bank representative told me I could buy a house that cost 2.5 times what I was asking for, I told her "No, I cannot afford that."
I would estimate 10% of the houses in my neighborhood are now under foreclosure. At least as many are up for sale. This affects me a lot. Although my house may appraise for what I paid for it six years ago I don't have a hope of selling it at 80% of that price due to a flooded market. This means I can't start looking for work outside a very narrow radius, one which has very few opportunities right now.
Now, I'm lucky that my company is only indirectly affected by the mortgage bust/credit crunch so it isn'g likely to be failing and putting me out of work. Most of my neighbors aren't that lucky. Several are in manufacturing and right now things aren't selling, shifts are being cut and facilities are being closed. The closest place that this type of job is being created is two states away.
I can't blame them for picking bad careers 20 or 30 years ago, this couldn't be guessed at that time. It would be like blaming an IT worker whose job was shipped to India.
Instead of having your car impounded when you find yourself driving down Sunset Boulevard late one Saturday evening looking for blackjack and hookers and meeting up with an undercover officer, you get your car impounded for what's playing on your iPod.
That's ridiculous. They'd never impound your car just because you're looking for blackjack and hookers.
After seeing several law cases through, some famous and some not, for personal interest, my faith in the legal system 'getting the right guy' is almost null. I often wonder how they get any one at all...
If the standard is to "get any one at all" then it's pretty easy to get someone.
I also know you can use the control, alt, and shift keys to control what it is doing, but Joe Users isn't likely to guess any of that. Couple that with the fact that drag/drop from one destination to another is not consistant and I'd say that pop up box is quite useful.
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I realize I'm posting too late to ever get read, but this another arguement into my head:
If you were to duplicate Facebook's site, you'd be immediately sued into oblivion. IIRC, I've seen a few stories about Facebook's patents get posted over the last couple years. Then there are the trademark and copyright concerns.
In effect, Facebook has a government protected monopoly. As such, they are obligated to open and accessable. If they decide to ban a (protected) class of people based on private proptery rights, they should be obligated to return the public property they have in the forms of patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Was_a_Man
"Better dead than red"
I'm posting from work, so I can't check to see if the link is to the same NPR interview I heard yesterday. In that on there was mention that the discoverer has three patents on the fungus.
Do people think that enough univeristy research would have been funded without patenting the fungus? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here that finds the idea of getting a patent on a naturally occurring fungus a little silly.
You need to be spineles for this to work? What did they do, use senators for test subjects?
PJ has, as usual, her own thoughtful analysis on the announcemnt at Groklaw.
Not everything needs to be an iPhone killer. Let me use myself as an example. I've thought about getting something I could check my email on, but frankly I'm not sure if I'd ever really bother with it. Now, not only would I have to drop a bit more on a phone I'd find myself paying more for the contract.
So, if something comes out that looks usable, gets some decent reviews, and isn't that much more out of my pocket I'd be likely to get it. Now, I may find that I can no longer live without email on my phone. I may even decide that it would be worth it to drop a bit more for more access.
In short, it's a way to build a market.
For those with a different music taste, that's a take on the Dead Kennedy's classic "TV Party"
The only times I've had a need to use BitTorrent in the last several years was do download CD images for Slackware twice and OpenOffice once. In that time my ISP has sent me information stating my available bandwidth has increased significantly. Now, why did my last attempt at BitTorrent take days to complete and my previous ones finished quickly?
If the opening statement in a post is insightful enough to cause the supporting arguments to be redundant, will moderators get stuck in an infinate loop?
I think you may be a little optimistic on the power that the US has to control these things. I'm not saying that the US would be against strong arming other nations to get the information they want. I just think the amount of strength in that arm is not what it once was.
Right now it is quite plain that the US cannot strong arm Russia, China, France, Canada, North Korea, or Cuba. Sure, the UK has been a nice whipping boy lately but I doubt even that will last much longer.
The strength had long been:
How is the US faring on those three points these days?
I think you're missing a reference to 1984.
The quote:"Oceania was at war with Eastasia : Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."
I think that it gets too far into one's experience and how they work. When the Mac Mini came out, I dropped the five bills to check it out. I found that if I could not get a binary installer I could not install an application and any time I wanted to modify any settings it was a chore to dig around for them. It turned into a movie/mp3 machine and didn't do much else for the next year. Then it died suddenly and for no appearant reason (with a CD stuck in there, that was a pain).
There was some selector thing that really annoyed the hell out of me.
With a DOS/Windows backgroud, I downladed Slackware in 98 or 99 and threw it on an old machine. It "Just Worked" and I found that a lot more usable than the Mac could ever be.
It seems that more and more often it's a valid reference.
They also do not support leaving people out to starve to death, but rather to get the feds completely out of it. Local government likely would pick up a big part of what is done now and private charities would in theory be able to raise more to do more with and could concentrate on providing the aid rather than ensuring they were up on all regulations.
The LP doesn't have all the answers and isn't perfect now and never has been. I try very hard every couple years to find a candiate from the majors that I can support and have not been able to in my adult life. I choose to not thow away my vote, so I vote Libertarian where they are on my ballot and Green where they aren't. The Greens also have a lot of good ideas and should be included in the discussion of where our country is and should be heading.
And at least in my state (Michigan) the entire ballot is spoiled if you write in a candidate that is not officially a write in candidate.
If you voted for Paul in the primary, vote for Barr in the general. They are the closest fit.
It could be argued that these actions are not allowed in a civilized society.
Have your read a contract lately? We require some serious legal reform in this country before the average person can be expected to understand contracts. You need someone that you trust and has been trained in contract law to review most contracts out there.
You may take that as a given and bring any documents to your lawyer before signing. Most people don't have lawyers. Most people trust their lenders and real estate agents. Most people have an expectation that these people understand the contracts and are explaining the truthfully.
This is what got the ball rolling on foreclosures.
I did the responsible thing when I bought my house. I bought before the house was listed, hired a lawyer to write a simple contract, and put 20% down when I took out my mortgage from a bank with a reputation on not selling loads. When the bank representative told me I could buy a house that cost 2.5 times what I was asking for, I told her "No, I cannot afford that."
I would estimate 10% of the houses in my neighborhood are now under foreclosure. At least as many are up for sale. This affects me a lot. Although my house may appraise for what I paid for it six years ago I don't have a hope of selling it at 80% of that price due to a flooded market. This means I can't start looking for work outside a very narrow radius, one which has very few opportunities right now.
Now, I'm lucky that my company is only indirectly affected by the mortgage bust/credit crunch so it isn'g likely to be failing and putting me out of work. Most of my neighbors aren't that lucky. Several are in manufacturing and right now things aren't selling, shifts are being cut and facilities are being closed. The closest place that this type of job is being created is two states away.
I can't blame them for picking bad careers 20 or 30 years ago, this couldn't be guessed at that time. It would be like blaming an IT worker whose job was shipped to India.
How so?
It may be a generational thing, but I feel all Jim Morrison references ought to be modded up...
That's ridiculous. They'd never impound your car just because you're looking for blackjack and hookers.
So, this means Flash is no longer evil?
If the standard is to "get any one at all" then it's pretty easy to get someone.
I'm guessing the poster was expecting "Funny" not "Insightful" from the moderators.
The word "intuitive" comes to mind.
I also know you can use the control, alt, and shift keys to control what it is doing, but Joe Users isn't likely to guess any of that. Couple that with the fact that drag/drop from one destination to another is not consistant and I'd say that pop up box is quite useful.