> Almonds are not nuts. The correct term for an
> almond is "almond."
Since we're being sarcastically correct, actually, peanuts are not nuts, either. The correct term for "peanut" is "peanut". A peanut does fit the description of a relatively small husk around the seed, but it is technically a legume. So, surprisingly, Charlie Brown and the character played by Rowan Atkinson are of the same kind. Almonds are not, though, being the kernel of a peach-like fruit. However, because they may be used as a nut, they are nutty. QED
However, it is perfectly correct to refer to a nut as a nut, even if the exact kind is known. One need not be specific in written or verbal exposition.
> In Michigan I have the "right" to refuse to take
> a breathalyzer test, but if I refuse any cop can
> and will suspend my drivers license immediately,
> sans due process.
"Right" is correctly in quotes here. You do not have the right to not take a breathalyzer test if you have acted drunk. That is physical evidence (see below) and the government is merely (rightly) choosing not to have physical altercations out in the field. However, by refusing (assuming due process) you are violating laws by preventing the collection of physical evidence.
> Part of that privelage in most states is that
> you MUST consent to a violation of your 5th
> amendment protection against self incrimination
> (AKA breathalyzer) if asked by a law enforcement
> officer."
The government may collect evidence when it thinks a crime has been comitted. If you act drunk in public, especially while driving, you seem to be comitting a crime. The government then may collect evidence, including the physical evidence of your breath alcohol content. The government refrains from this simply to not appear bad when forcing you to do this. It has nothing to do whatsoever with a right against self-incrimination. The government could physically force you if they wanted to.
> You can't be prosecuted for Copyright violation
> since it is illegal to access the contents of
> your system.
Until you start broadcasting what you have on your hard drive over Napster or Gnutella or Scour or whatever theft-of-the-day program is currently popular.
Actually, PC's may be where farming was, and is. So many producers, the price cannot support even the incredibly efficient designs and manufacturing. A few may go out of business, but the price will never go substantially above the price to produce, and competition will reward those who can carve out a few pennies here and there.
Manufacturing industries that have been around for a century or more have long, long since learned the value of saving a penny or two per part.
Asimov never used computers either. Don't know about Heinlein. Arthur C. Clarke, though, definitely yes. He does computerized videoconferencing from Ceylon, sorry, Sri Lanka.
I remember him getting into a hissy-fit war with one of the editors of a magazine called "Amazing Heroes", I think, about 15 years ago. It's a magazine about comic books. I had picked up that issue because a buddy of mine got a job there and had left umich to go to wherever it was to be an assistant editor (not the one in the tiff.)
Napster doesn't have to worry about this -- they're just blocking lists of names submitted by the record industry.
The record industry doesn't have to reverse-engineer anything to legally submit the pig-latin-like names. All they have to do is run their list of names through the pigifier, and then submit both the source and pigified names to Napster. No reverse engineering, and bam, pigified is gone.
> people who voted for Bush...will hamper the
> internet. These people aren't interested in free
> speech, the DMCA or gnutella.
[don]Devil's Advocate Hat[/don]
So the digerati all voted for Gore, believing he invented the Internet? And do the digerati think Gore, who chose to not stand against Internet censorship while VP, on more than one occasion, with his wife, who's called for censorship on more than one occasion, "in the name of the children", do care about free speech?
Well, the problem with making a cell phone user "no-fault fault", as it were, you will breed teams of people looking for cell phone users who will then deliberately cause an accident.
> I think that you will find that Britain was one
> of the first countries in the world to make
> slavery illegal.
Domestically, perhaps, but they enjoyed the fruit of the American South, cotton, big time, all the way through the US Civil War. Lincoln had to internationally embarass England and France halfway through the war by freeing the slaves, hoping that would delay them from attempting to break the North's port blockades on the South, all so that good old no-slaves England could start reimporting cheap slave-made cotton.
> - All bad guys are one-dimensional caricatures...
Most are, but not all. "Romulan Commander" in TOS, Darmok in TNG ("bad guy" presumed at first), Q (after several episodes), Lore, Moriarity (deliberately 1-dimensional at first), Ok, well, I'm starting to run out of examples, and these were spread over, what, someone said 29 seasons?
And, of course, the amount of energy that penetrates the shields and hull, travels along the cables, overrides any spike protectors for whatever passes for energy in the future, and blows up the console is ALWAYS barely enough to do this and is never just a small bit more, smearing everybody against the walls.
Same for the inertial dampers and the ship getting hit -- it's always just enough of a hit to barely overcome the dampers and never just a little bit more, smearing people against the walls.
Slashdot Mirror
Or unorganized, for that matter.
Cult: A religion with no political power. --- Ambrose Bierce
"There should be separation of economics and state just as there is a separation of church and state, and for exactly the same reason." -- Ayn Rand
> A cracker is somebody who cracks warez, and/or a
> pejorative term for a white person. Any other
> meaning is never going to catch on in the media
What about graham crackers?
> Almonds are not nuts. The correct term for an
> almond is "almond."
Since we're being sarcastically correct, actually, peanuts are not nuts, either. The correct term for "peanut" is "peanut". A peanut does fit the description of a relatively small husk around the seed, but it is technically a legume. So, surprisingly, Charlie Brown and the character played by Rowan Atkinson are of the same kind. Almonds are not, though, being the kernel of a peach-like fruit. However, because they may be used as a nut, they are nutty. QED
However, it is perfectly correct to refer to a nut as a nut, even if the exact kind is known. One need not be specific in written or verbal exposition.
> In Michigan I have the "right" to refuse to take
> a breathalyzer test, but if I refuse any cop can
> and will suspend my drivers license immediately,
> sans due process.
"Right" is correctly in quotes here. You do not have the right to not take a breathalyzer test if you have acted drunk. That is physical evidence (see below) and the government is merely (rightly) choosing not to have physical altercations out in the field. However, by refusing (assuming due process) you are violating laws by preventing the collection of physical evidence.
> Part of that privelage in most states is that
> you MUST consent to a violation of your 5th
> amendment protection against self incrimination
> (AKA breathalyzer) if asked by a law enforcement
> officer."
The government may collect evidence when it thinks a crime has been comitted. If you act drunk in public, especially while driving, you seem to be comitting a crime. The government then may collect evidence, including the physical evidence of your breath alcohol content. The government refrains from this simply to not appear bad when forcing you to do this. It has nothing to do whatsoever with a right against self-incrimination. The government could physically force you if they wanted to.
> You can't be prosecuted for Copyright violation
> since it is illegal to access the contents of
> your system.
Until you start broadcasting what you have on your hard drive over Napster or Gnutella or Scour or whatever theft-of-the-day program is currently popular.
> 10 years ago, people were using PC's for text
> editing, programming and a few simple games.
I'd hardly call Castle Wolfenstein 3D a "simple game"! My top-end 20 MHz 386 played it quite nicely, thank you very much.
> People are prepared to pay premiums to get
> Macrovision removers
A VANISHINGLY-SMALL HANDFUL of people, perhaps. Nothing a large corporation would detect above random noise in their sales.
Actually, PC's may be where farming was, and is. So many producers, the price cannot support even the incredibly efficient designs and manufacturing. A few may go out of business, but the price will never go substantially above the price to produce, and competition will reward those who can carve out a few pennies here and there.
Manufacturing industries that have been around for a century or more have long, long since learned the value of saving a penny or two per part.
> I AM NOT SHOUTING AT YOU! I'M JUST TYPING WITH
> MY LITTLE FINGER ON THE SHIFT KEY. If thy eye
> offends thee, cut it out.
If thy little finger offends others, cut it off.
Asimov never used computers either. Don't know about Heinlein. Arthur C. Clarke, though, definitely yes. He does computerized videoconferencing from Ceylon, sorry, Sri Lanka.
I remember Isaac Asimov's death. I was quite saddened by the trio of deaths at that time, all of whose work I loved.
Isaac Asimov: April 6, 1992
Sam Kinison: April 10, 1992
Benny Hill: April 20, 1992
I remember him getting into a hissy-fit war with one of the editors of a magazine called "Amazing Heroes", I think, about 15 years ago. It's a magazine about comic books. I had picked up that issue because a buddy of mine got a job there and had left umich to go to wherever it was to be an assistant editor (not the one in the tiff.)
Napster doesn't have to worry about this -- they're just blocking lists of names submitted by the record industry.
The record industry doesn't have to reverse-engineer anything to legally submit the pig-latin-like names. All they have to do is run their list of names through the pigifier, and then submit both the source and pigified names to Napster. No reverse engineering, and bam, pigified is gone.
> people who voted for Bush...will hamper the
> internet. These people aren't interested in free
> speech, the DMCA or gnutella.
[don]Devil's Advocate Hat[/don]
So the digerati all voted for Gore, believing he invented the Internet? And do the digerati think Gore, who chose to not stand against Internet censorship while VP, on more than one occasion, with his wife, who's called for censorship on more than one occasion, "in the name of the children", do care about free speech?
Memustamissed sumptin' dere.
[doff]hat[/doff]
q.v. "gib".
Well, the problem with making a cell phone user "no-fault fault", as it were, you will breed teams of people looking for cell phone users who will then deliberately cause an accident.
> I think that you will find that Britain was one
> of the first countries in the world to make
> slavery illegal.
Domestically, perhaps, but they enjoyed the fruit of the American South, cotton, big time, all the way through the US Civil War. Lincoln had to internationally embarass England and France halfway through the war by freeing the slaves, hoping that would delay them from attempting to break the North's port blockades on the South, all so that good old no-slaves England could start reimporting cheap slave-made cotton.
> Those feet are probably bigger than the contact
> patches of a truck's tires, so it can go
> anywhere a truck could.
I.e. cement roads, tar roads, and roads of hard-packed, dry dirt, on all of which it can carefully step over the boulders all over such roads.
> How's the British version different?
Apparently, in the British version, the robot makers actually practice with their robots for more than 15 minutes before the show.
> - All bad guys are one-dimensional caricatures...
Most are, but not all. "Romulan Commander" in TOS, Darmok in TNG ("bad guy" presumed at first), Q (after several episodes), Lore, Moriarity (deliberately 1-dimensional at first), Ok, well, I'm starting to run out of examples, and these were spread over, what, someone said 29 seasons?
And, of course, the amount of energy that penetrates the shields and hull, travels along the cables, overrides any spike protectors for whatever passes for energy in the future, and blows up the console is ALWAYS barely enough to do this and is never just a small bit more, smearing everybody against the walls.
Same for the inertial dampers and the ship getting hit -- it's always just enough of a hit to barely overcome the dampers and never just a little bit more, smearing people against the walls.
"Stupid new Dax"?!?!?!? She's gotta be the cutest thing I've ever seen!
It's too bad they didn't replace Dax a few seasons sooner. On the other hand, it's good to see Dax kept up her lesbian french kissing...
THANK YOU! You are my hero! Let's see more of Jeri Lynn Ryan!
I knew there hadda be a way.
"Possibly?"
Yeah, wasn't T'Pau played by Dame Ican'tbelieveI'minastartrektvshow?