"If you need to take porn on your honeymoon, you have bigger problems." a: I disagree. b: It's not just "taking", but "making" too. FTFA; "If you and your partner have filmed or photographed yourselves making love in an exotic destination or even taking a bath, you will have to answer 'Yes' to the question or you will be breaking the law." Customs confirmed the new reference to "pornography" on the Incoming Passenger Cards and the search powers, acknowledging that searches conducted by officers may involve the discovery of "personal or sensitive possessions". A spokesman said officers were trained to apply "tact and discretion" in their dealings with passengers."
Ignorant, Puritanical, Authoritarian and Untruthful. Well done.
"Cold-blooded killing is just not my thing. I've killed in self-defence, I'll not deny that, but I still maintain an exaggerated respect for life in all forms. Now that we know that the only thing on the other side of the sky is more sky, the idea of an afterlife has finally been slid into the history books alongside the rest of the quaint and forgotten religions. With heaven and hell gone we are faced with the necessity of making a heaven or hell right here. What with societies and metatechnology and allied disciplines we have come a long way and life on the civilised worlds is better than it was during the black days of superstition. But with the improving of here and now comes the stark realisation that here and now is all we have. Each of us has only this one brief experience with the bright light of consciousness in that endless dark night of eternity and must make the most of it. Doing this means we must respect the existence of everyone else and the most criminal act imaginable is the terminating of one of these conscious existences." (from Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series.)
Next they'll be saying that poor people and minorities end up in jail more often. And a lot of the times people are going BACK to jail, and it's probably hard to stay good-looking long in jail. (Although eye of the beholder etc.)
"It's an urban myth, especially in this digital age we live in, when content can be tailored and customized for individual states and school districts," said Jay Diskey, executive director of the schools division of the Association of American Publishers. -- Three companies are responsible for about 75 percent of the country's K-12 textbooks, Diskey estimated. Representatives for two of them--Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and McGraw-Hill--on Friday referred inquiries from The Associated Press to Diskey. The third, Pearson Education Inc., did not respond to a request for comment. -- For now, California's curriculum will not be subject to any modifications, Texas-influenced or otherwise. Last July, the Legislature suspended until 2013 the statewide adoption of new educational materials to give cash-strapped districts a break from buying new textbooks.
Any movies of the show available? Some stuff my friends have been building. http://www.robob.nl/node/35 DMX and/or beat-controlled. Also: reading email in Ableton; nifty!
"The Torah forbids us from tattooing our bodies. Nonetheless, one who has had tattoos can still be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
That said, every Jewish burial society has the right to enact its own criteria for who may and may not be buried in their plot. This stems from people's desire (or right?) to be buried in proximity to others of their choosing. So while technically there is nothing in Jewish law which prohibits a tattooed person from being interred in a Jewish cemetery, certain burial societies -- not the majority of them or even close -- will not bury among their own a person who willingly tattooed him/herself, as it is a permanent exhibition of violation of Jewish Law.
This practice by certain burial societies led to the common misconception that this ban was an inherent part of Jewish law".
Addendum: A clause stating that when any president, pope or politician declares war, they shall lead the charge themselves physically, and if incapable their spouses, first-born children, brothers, sisters and or parents must take their place on the front line.
Sending other peoples children to fight and die with no measurable sacrifice of your own: fuck that.
Not all real estate is property (more specifically private property), even though the legal term is "real property. I just dislike absolutes. But i admire the twist. To state that it is fundamental is perhaps close to the truth. Was the concept of property evolved at all among hunter/gatherers? There were/are some interesting takes on property even among native americans and aboriginals. As for the state-monopoly on justice (and violence), that's just for the poor, the lawful and the powerless. Heavily armed (private) security seems to be the norm everywhere else. I would in fact postulate that there is little real valuable property in any modern society, NOT contingent upon the owner's ability to fend off would-be takers with physical force. It's just that legal and other forms of (state)force are more prevalent.
I can't wait. It seemed "reasonably" healthy and affordable. On par with say Sid Meiers Civilization, Quake 3 Arena or Tetris. I can so imagine myself spending a year (or two) "making my day".
It might surprise you that sometimes the people most involved in any given sector are also those most critical of it. Sometimes these people even carry on with their job, aware of the faults, addressing these to the best of their ability, and still remain critical of the system. I am actually under the impression that all the so called "Founding fathers" possessed this trait in abundance. "He was the director of the Patent Office and wrote the 1790 Act". He was also an actor, firefighter, architect, pig breeder, calender maker, president, attorney, governor of Virginia, co-founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and author of the Notes on the State of Virginia. You think he didn't have any doubts about the system or indeed his own competence in any of those endeavors? I think he embarked on them BECAUSE of his doubts.
Jefferson had serious doubts about the Patent office, some of which are expressed in this part of the discourse. The entire exchange was somewhat long for a/. post.
He was opposed to the argument, popular at the time, that there was a natural right to the fruits of intellectual labor.Jefferson writes in that same letter that real property is not a natural right, and thus what was called at the time industrial property, was, like ALL property, a social construct.
And on this too i agree with Mr. Jefferson. Your point being?
Using the quote to say that patents and copyrights aren't property is no more accurate than saying that real estate isn't property.
Real estate isn't property per se. Stolen, squatted, ill-gained, abandoned etc. real estate would under circumstances not be seen as (your) property, even by law.
In nature, the only property that exists is that which you can physically defend from others who would want to obtain it. There is no form of property in civilized society that meets that criterion.
Au contraire, all forms of property in modern society meet that criterium. Property is defined by law, laws are defined by nation-states, and i think most nation-states can will try to physically defend themselves and their laws.
Or to put it politely; Originality is the art of concealing one's sources.
"The distinction between creation and discovery is not clear cut or rigorous.Nor is it clear why such a distinction, even if clear, is ethically relevant in defining property rights. No one creates matter; they just manipulate and grapple with it according to physical laws. In this sense, no one really creates anything. They merely re arrange matter into new arrangements and patterns. An engineer who invents a new mousetrap has rearranged existing parts to provide a function not previously performed. Others who learn of this new arrangement can now also make an improved mousetrap. Yet the mousetrap merely follows laws of nature. The inventor did not invent the matter out of which the mousetrap is made, nor the facts and laws exploited to make it work. Similarly, Einstein's "discovery" of the relation E=mc2, once known by others, allows them to manipulate matter in a more efficient way. Without Einstein's, or the inventor's, efforts, others would have been ignorant of certain causal laws, of ways matter can be manipulated and utilized. Both the inventor and the theoretical scientist engage in creative mental effort to produce useful, new ideas. Yet one is rewarded, and the other is not".(Kinsella, Stephan. "Against Intellectual Property").
"Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property". --Thomas Jefferson, to Isaac McPherson 13 Aug. 1813 Writings 13:333--35
(copy/paste from the America's Watchtower/About me page)... I am a right wing extremist and potential domestic terrorist.
For my first three years as a blogger I posted under my alter-ego, Mr. Pink Eyes, but now I have come out of the closet (so to speak) and post under my real name.
(except when submitting to slashdot apparently, not that i don't understand ; ).
After sending between 150,000 and 200,000 commands to the satellite to coax it back into service, Intelsat was forced to scrap its satellite-recovery efforts and to resort, on Monday, to a limited-duration effort to force the satellite to shut down its transponders. This was to be accomplished by sending a stronger series of signals designed to cause Galaxy 15's power system to malfunction and force a shutdown of the satellite's payload. That attempt, which Luxembourg-based, Washington-headquartered Intelsat had viewed as its last, best-understood option for Galaxy 15, was unsuccessful. The last message from the satellite was "I'm sorry, Intelsat. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Slashdot Mirror
"If you need to take porn on your honeymoon, you have bigger problems."
a: I disagree.
b: It's not just "taking", but "making" too.
FTFA;
"If you and your partner have filmed or photographed yourselves making love in an exotic destination or even taking a bath, you will have to answer 'Yes' to the question or you will be breaking the law."
Customs confirmed the new reference to "pornography" on the Incoming Passenger Cards and the search powers, acknowledging that searches conducted by officers may involve the discovery of "personal or sensitive possessions".
A spokesman said officers were trained to apply "tact and discretion" in their dealings with passengers."
Ignorant, Puritanical, Authoritarian and Untruthful.
Well done.
"Cold-blooded killing is just not my thing. I've killed in self-defence, I'll not deny that, but I still maintain an exaggerated respect for life in all forms. Now that we know that the only thing on the other side of the sky is more sky, the idea of an afterlife has finally been slid into the history books alongside the rest of the quaint and forgotten religions. With heaven and hell gone we are faced with the necessity of making a heaven or hell right here. What with societies and metatechnology and allied disciplines we have come a long way and life on the civilised worlds is better than it was during the black days of superstition. But with the improving of here and now comes the stark realisation that here and now is all we have. Each of us has only this one brief experience with the bright light of consciousness in that endless dark night of eternity and must make the most of it. Doing this means we must respect the existence of everyone else and the most criminal act imaginable is the terminating of one of these conscious existences."
(from Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series.)
"Ike "Beats" Tina to Death".
Golden.
Best headline/photo/story combo of all times afaic: Newsweek, at the start of the Falklands war.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/7/7a/20081217142629!The_empire_strikes_back_newsweek.jpg
Classic on so many levels.
Next they'll be saying that poor people and minorities end up in jail more often.
And a lot of the times people are going BACK to jail, and it's probably hard to stay good-looking long in jail.
(Although eye of the beholder etc.)
It's not that easy.
She's only called Eve online.
"It's an urban myth, especially in this digital age we live in, when content can be tailored and customized for individual states and school districts," said Jay Diskey, executive director of the schools division of the Association of American Publishers.
--
Three companies are responsible for about 75 percent of the country's K-12 textbooks, Diskey estimated. Representatives for two of them--Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and McGraw-Hill--on Friday referred inquiries from The Associated Press to Diskey. The third, Pearson Education Inc., did not respond to a request for comment.
--
For now, California's curriculum will not be subject to any modifications, Texas-influenced or otherwise. Last July, the Legislature suspended until 2013 the statewide adoption of new educational materials to give cash-strapped districts a break from buying new textbooks.
"They don't even bother to contact me before publishing nonsense".
That's what i think when i read wikipedia ; ).
because God would never trust an Englishman in the dark...
"I see here you used to go by the alias, 'p00nhunter.' Now, can you please tell this committee what exactly a p00n is? And why you were hunting them?"
Suck my Moby Dick.
Any movies of the show available?
Some stuff my friends have been building.
http://www.robob.nl/node/35
DMX and/or beat-controlled.
Also: reading email in Ableton; nifty!
Not generally true.
http://judaism.about.com/od/conversi2/f/tatoos_burial.htm
"The Torah forbids us from tattooing our bodies. Nonetheless, one who has had tattoos can still be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
That said, every Jewish burial society has the right to enact its own criteria for who may and may not be buried in their plot. This stems from people's desire (or right?) to be buried in proximity to others of their choosing. So while technically there is nothing in Jewish law which prohibits a tattooed person from being interred in a Jewish cemetery, certain burial societies -- not the majority of them or even close -- will not bury among their own a person who willingly tattooed him/herself, as it is a permanent exhibition of violation of Jewish Law.
This practice by certain burial societies led to the common misconception that this ban was an inherent part of Jewish law".
http://www.minimovies.org/documentaires/view/crass
Addendum: A clause stating that when any president, pope or politician declares war, they shall lead the charge themselves physically, and if incapable their spouses, first-born children, brothers, sisters and or parents must take their place on the front line.
Sending other peoples children to fight and die with no measurable sacrifice of your own: fuck that.
http://www.youtube.com/v/QqIijYmGiEo
Not all real estate is property (more specifically private property), even though the legal term is "real property. I just dislike absolutes. But i admire the twist.
To state that it is fundamental is perhaps close to the truth. Was the concept of property evolved at all among hunter/gatherers?
There were/are some interesting takes on property even among native americans and aboriginals.
As for the state-monopoly on justice (and violence), that's just for the poor, the lawful and the powerless. Heavily armed (private) security seems to be the norm everywhere else.
I would in fact postulate that there is little real valuable property in any modern society, NOT contingent upon the owner's ability to fend off would-be takers with physical force.
It's just that legal and other forms of (state)force are more prevalent.
I can't wait. It seemed "reasonably" healthy and affordable. On par with say Sid Meiers Civilization, Quake 3 Arena or Tetris.
I can so imagine myself spending a year (or two) "making my day".
It might surprise you that sometimes the people most involved in any given sector are also those most critical of it.
Sometimes these people even carry on with their job, aware of the faults, addressing these to the best of their ability, and still remain critical of the system.
I am actually under the impression that all the so called "Founding fathers" possessed this trait in abundance.
"He was the director of the Patent Office and wrote the 1790 Act".
He was also an actor, firefighter, architect, pig breeder, calender maker, president, attorney, governor of Virginia, co-founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and author of the Notes on the State of Virginia.
You think he didn't have any doubts about the system or indeed his own competence in any of those endeavors?
I think he embarked on them BECAUSE of his doubts.
Jefferson had serious doubts about the Patent office, some of which are expressed in this part of the discourse. The entire exchange was somewhat long for a /. post.
He was opposed to the argument, popular at the time, that there was a natural right to the fruits of intellectual labor.Jefferson writes in that same letter that real property is not a natural right, and thus what was called at the time industrial property, was, like ALL property, a social construct.
And on this too i agree with Mr. Jefferson. Your point being?
Using the quote to say that patents and copyrights aren't property is no more accurate than saying that real estate isn't property.
Real estate isn't property per se. Stolen, squatted, ill-gained, abandoned etc. real estate would under circumstances not be seen as (your) property, even by law.
In nature, the only property that exists is that which you can physically defend from others who would want to obtain it. There is no form of property in civilized society that meets that criterion.
Au contraire, all forms of property in modern society meet that criterium. Property is defined by law, laws are defined by nation-states, and i think most nation-states can will try to physically defend themselves and their laws.
Inventing Stepping Disks, the Quantum II Hyperdrive, and the General Products Hulls?
No, we should really try to avoid that ; ).
Or to put it politely;
Originality is the art of concealing one's sources.
"The distinction between creation and discovery is not clear cut or rigorous.Nor is it clear why such a distinction, even if clear, is ethically relevant in defining property rights. No one creates matter; they just manipulate and grapple with it according to physical laws. In this sense, no one really creates anything. They merely re arrange matter into new arrangements and patterns. An engineer who invents a new mousetrap has rearranged existing parts to provide a function not previously performed. Others who learn of this new arrangement can now also make an improved mousetrap. Yet the mousetrap merely follows laws of nature. The inventor did not invent the matter out of which the mousetrap is made, nor the facts and laws exploited to make it work.
Similarly, Einstein's "discovery" of the relation E=mc2, once known by others, allows them to manipulate matter in a more efficient way. Without Einstein's, or the inventor's, efforts, others would have been ignorant of certain causal laws, of ways matter can be manipulated and utilized. Both the inventor and the theoretical scientist engage in creative mental effort to produce useful, new ideas. Yet one is rewarded, and the other is not".(Kinsella, Stephan. "Against Intellectual Property").
"Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property".
--Thomas Jefferson, to Isaac McPherson 13 Aug. 1813 Writings 13:333--35
(copy/paste from the America's Watchtower/About me page) ... I am a right wing extremist and potential domestic terrorist.
For my first three years as a blogger I posted under my alter-ego, Mr. Pink Eyes, but now I have come out of the closet (so to speak) and post under my real name.
(except when submitting to slashdot apparently, not that i don't understand ; ).
$ sudo reentry_burn
"Without your space helmet, Smythe, you're going to find that rather difficult." ; )
After sending between 150,000 and 200,000 commands to the satellite to coax it back into service, Intelsat was forced to scrap its satellite-recovery efforts and to resort, on Monday, to a limited-duration effort to force the satellite to shut down its transponders. This was to be accomplished by sending a stronger series of signals designed to cause Galaxy 15's power system to malfunction and force a shutdown of the satellite's payload. That attempt, which Luxembourg-based, Washington-headquartered Intelsat had viewed as its last, best-understood option for Galaxy 15, was unsuccessful.
The last message from the satellite was "I'm sorry, Intelsat. I'm afraid I can't do that."
That's no way to be talking 'bout yo mama.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process