That's the kind of thinking and imagination that doesn't seem to exist with Berman and the gang. They want to protect the franchise they've got instead of really USING the possibilities contained within it.
I actually like Enterprise and am disappointed that it may get cancelled. I absolutely agree that the plots have been done to death and that the aliens are sadly predictable in appearance but I more or less like this crew.
I think Bakula makes a good captain and his play with the Vulcan Sub-Commander is good. That can't carry the show however as much of the other crew hasn't been allowed to breath (except for Hoshi in the Psychic/Alien episode which isn't saying much).
But there is a lot of untested material in the Star Trek universe. There should be more Andorran plots and it would be really nice if the writers remembered the Gorn Empire or the Tholians. The universe was unstable back then (as opposed to TNG Federation/Romulan/Klingon triumvirate) and that instability could make for some good shows.
This season's "Expanse" theme is interesting and I personally like it. However, it can't go on forever, for the very fact that none of it was ever mentioned in any past series.
The show needs to get back to its beginnings. USE the tried plot but lets not forget that space is a new and exciting and unknown place. Everything that the crew seems to encounter has already been encountered before. The original series used that unknown as the backbone of plot. TNG really built up a crew centric aspect. The other two kind of let me down. Enterprise has the potential to do a lot but isn't going anywhere.
They should really let the fans be the writers. Set up a contest or something on the website to submit an episode. Star Trek is a good and proven concept but there needs to be more trekking and more weird discoveries.
Billboards, flyers, guys dressed in a chicken suit to advertise the opening of a KFC - it's all unwanted and all in your face everyday. I don't see how cell phone ads are any different . . . except for the fact that you pay for the cell phone to work so that the advertisers HAVE a new way to bombard you. The least that could be done is for the carrier to offer phone bill discounts to people who allow themselves to be ad targets (and restaurant coupons too).
Seems the easiest thing to do would be to turn the phone off - which I do anyway. It is an option we don't have with other forms of advertisements.
I think the evidence now is that people on Slashdot take privacy issues seriously. The vast majority of people only take it seriously when someone sees them doing something they shouldn't be doing or uses personal information to catch them trying to do something they shouldn't be trying to do.
Northwest, and every other company, is just in the position of not having found a "nice" way of telling people that they are handing over personal information. The S.Ct. roadblock opinion is perfectly on point - if you can catch a criminal and I only have to be momentarily detained that's okay. If the government can use personal information to keep everyone safe, I am sure most everyone would not care.
Yes, your argument can be made, but it really does not apply to manipulations of stocks and it is wrong of you to give people that impression. Legally, this is one of those constitutional right of the citizen to be free from governmental intrusion cases, not a securities case.
On these facts I would say it is prima facie - at first glance - silly. On different facts I think you make a very interesting point that deserves further inspection. It would take some very interesting facts, and be from perhaps a different type of business enterprise.
Perhaps an industry that thrives on secrecy where that would be up there in the primary concerns of stockholders in that industry. Hey, maybe someone who bought 30 year T-Bills has a case. Considering how much President Bush and his administration have lied to the American people, who knows if the US will be around to pay that debt.
In the Basic case the Supreme Court did "adopt" the fraud on the market theory. However, that was a four-two decision with three justices not participating and therefore cannot be considered to have definitively resolved this question.
Two of the four justices of the plurality have departed and the three who did not participate were conservative. The plurality conceded that reliance is an element of a 10b5 cause of action and limited the holding to this question of whether a rebuttable presumption should be established to satisfy that requirement.
I would hardly say this is "settled" Supreme Court jurisprudence (how settled is any S.Ct decision anyway) as a shep shows a full third distinguished and neutrals. Anyway, as applied to "privacy issues" a fraud on the market analysis is n o t g o i n g t o w o r k. I would say a suit based on that behavior borders on frivolous. I mean c'mon.
Um . . . "in connection with the purchase or sale of any security."
10b-5 can't be employed the way you're purporting it can be.
10(b) is a "catchall" anti-fraud provision, but it requires a plaintiff to carry a heavier burden to establish a cause of action. A section 10(b) action can be brought by a purchaser or seller of any security against any person which has used any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance IN CONNECTION with the purchase and sale of a security.
Maybe it was a lie when Northwest said it would not give out "personal information" to the government, but the lie was almost certainly not perpetrated in connection with teh purchase or sale of a security. If a plaintiff made that allegation, I would love to see what kind of portfolio they hold because that is not the type of material information that one usually uses to buy or sell stocks with.
You would have better luck with 14a-9(a) but then you would have a causation/materiality nexus problem in which it would be HIGHLY unlikely that this kind of "omission" would lead to some sort of santion.
Give me a break. This is not such a big atrocious deal. Plagarism is appallingly rampant at colleges and universities today - it's even worse in high school and middle schools these days. People shouldn't steal someone else's work and turn it in as their own without proper citations. MLA is not that hard of a citation format to follow. Mistakes happen, especially in college when one has to write a paper after, during, or right before partying. A mediocre professor can see the difference between honest mistakes and an honest attempt at stealing. People just don't want to get caught doing what they know they shouldn't be doing.
If you are an English, Philosophy, Poly/Sci, and etc. major, this should not be a problem in the least bit. Original work is your goal - I have a feeling that people who really like their majors and the writing it requires of you would not care about having to submit papers to the service. Getting published is your goal anyway and people are going to go over your work closely no matter what. I have a feeling that the "101" people who are just taking a writing class to fulfill a requirement are the one's bitching. In a intro class no one expects genius. You don't need to be original, just don't steal. Is it really so hard to parse a few sentences together that are your own?
Getting back to the service itself, if anything it should be adopted not at universities (where supposedly you are PAYING money to GET an EDUCATION), but instead in public high schools and middle schools. That is the place where this type of plagiarism really needs to be nipped in the bud. A lot of teachers on this level don't have the access or are too over burdened by student load, cash, etc., to have the time to trawl through the net like their students. My Father was a high school english teacher for 25 years and now teaches on the middle school level. He happens to love computers and the internet and is constantly catching students trying to pass off work as their own. It's pathetic. But a lot of teachers don't have that kind of computer savvy, or at least knowledge.
You can do a lot with a computer. I remember back when Prodigy was the main online service and I would use it's encyclopedia & etc. to help me write reports and stuff. I remember thinking how easy it would be to just use the info. Having always had a computer (I'm 26) I was unique back then. (With my Mac Classic I even used scanned images taken with a logitech hand scanner to spice up various reports). Now, any kid can do stiff like that and so much friggen more.
So yes. You are guilty until proven innocent - but who cares. Trust is something that is earned anyway, and if this is the way students toady have to earn it, then so be it.
I am not an antitrust lawyer but it seems to me that Microsoft is setting the foundation for impending litigation if it finds itself unable to innovate itself through Apple and it's music store.
"As most here incredibly well versed in, manufacturers are forbidden by law to compel their customers to purchase an unwanted product as a prerequisite to buying another product. (read operating systems forced upon buyers) This illegal practice is known as "tying."
"Findlaw.com defines tying as "an arrangement or agreement in which a seller will sell a product to a buyer only if the buyer will also buy another product."
Findlaw.com further discusses tying:
"Sellers with more than one product may seek to tie the sale of one (which the customer presumably desires) with that of another (which it presumably does not want). Such tie-ins are governed not only by the general language of the Sherman Act, but the more particular provisions of Section 3 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits such arrangements if the likely result is substantially to lessen competition. Tie-ins are per se unlawful if the seller possesses sufficient market power in the tying product, and coerces the buyer to take the tied product as a condition to obtaining the desired product. (Walt Pennington - desktoplinux.com)
It seems a logical step to say that Microsoft will argue that Apple is tying the sale of it's music (which microsoft will argue is the desired product) with that of its music player (which, Redmond will - perhaps tongue in cheek in front of consumers who LOVE their iPods - say is the unwanted product.)
I think it is an interesting possible move, if one that may be bad for the industry. I think that people should be able to use the players they want for the music they OWN - imagine only being able to use a sony compact disc player for sony signed artists - but the pay to download music infrastructure just isn't ready at this point in time for fracturization. Apple isn't making any money on the music, just the players. Until money can viably be made, pay to download music services will be close to a precipice that can only be avoided by at first solidifying and standardizing the content and the distribution method.
If these scientists really want attention they will have to release their predictions using vague and eery language.
For Mojave: "Beneath the sands in the month of Labor a great movement will startle those not of the slashed dot"
Even better if they did this on television wearing period clothing and staring into a crystal ball or caldron of some sort. It could be quite dramatic.
Besides stealing from many other sci fi films, does anyone see the BLATANT similarities between NEO's "condition" and that of the ONE major charater in Dune?
I am a die hard mac user. I love itunes and my ipod. But, it does seem from a certain perspective that apple is falling into their same old song and dance routine despite all the hype that it generates about innovation.
Face it, Apple is a HARDWARE company. It always has been, maybe it always will be. By allowing only iPods to take full advantage of iTunes Apple is again trying to force the sale of hardware, while the service seems almost incidental to the whole concept.
This is not to say that the whole shebang isn't worth it. Like Apple always does by controlling the hardware, software, and now service, it has put to market a product that is superior to every single other legal music concept out there, period. You really can't argue about that.
But it is true. There is no real choice. It is simply Apple saying what is best for you and if you want it you have to take it their way or take the highway.
So the Microsoft guy IS right. What apple is doing is not new. It is a tried and true formula. It may not have always worked perfectly in the past but Apple is still here because of that basic formula. Ask coke about changing formulas, but what a deal with pepsi.
I agree with this poster that the retractable fountain pen is the way to go. I had the namiki plastic one and loved it. When they discontinued that line when pilot purchased namiki I was saddened when they changed the design of the pen.
However, I did but the new Pilot retractable and I love it even more. It has a nice heft and the quality of the parts is actually better than when the open was produced by namiki.
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This sounds kind of similar to the swartzenegger movie that came out a few years ago - the 6th day. I think that is what it is called, either way, a person's "personality" was stored in some media and then could be re-inserted into a cloned body if something happened to the "original" body.
It wasn't a bad movie actually, Arnold just didn't have a good sidekick that he seems to require in all of his money films. Anyway, the book sounds interesting and I enjoyed your review.
I think that Palm is doing to its product line what automobile companies have been doing for years - putting distinctive badges on brands in the division that evoke or call certain constituencies.
Palm has recently been trying to enter the upscale business market with its new flashier models. Handspring, has a solid general user base that wants a PDA but not for 500-700 dollars.
Isn't this the type of attitude that doome imperial backwardness? You can't just "stop" scientific progress and in order for science to progess information needs to be shared.
I find the idea that a james Bond "S.P.E.C.T.R.E" type organization will pose a threat to humanity like this article implies.
While it may be true to cite the American auto industry as a parallel case in point, the fact is that business just isn't run the way it was 30 years ago. Today one really can't point to a particular company and say that it is German or American or Japanese. (Look under the hood of your "American" car and see where the various parts are made).
The truth is that multi national companies spread R&D over all of their divisions worldwide and in turn spread the manufacture of those R&D concepts to a place with a better comparative advantage in terms of production. Is code being created in India for Microsoft software? Yes, but that is because coders get paid less over there. Are japanese cars any better than American? Maybe, but where do the vast majority of Japanese cars get manufactured - in the United States for the United States market.
The solutions of yesteryear no longer work now - especially when the types of innovations we are talking about now are more Int. Prop. based. No matter how wonderful the concept of a product is, the real thing to look for is where it will be easier to produce that product, not who innovates.
The article is just way to conclusory to really say anything worth while. Yes, money needs to be spent on innovation, but no matter what, production will always go to where it is cheaper, no matter what nationality the company is.
" . . . making him, he says, the neighborhood geek in a black culture where adolescents rewarded only athletes and tough guys."
I don't know how to respond from this observation in the article. On one hand being a "geek" in middle/high school really sucks. On the other hand, is it "black culture" that doesn't like geeks, or "white" culture that has traditionally railroaded blacks into those two categories? I definitely don't want to play the race card here. I just thought the observation in the article was interesting.
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If the right kind of scientists figure out a way to genetically alter what people like, we could get rid of all those people who like velvet paintings, garden gnomes, and NASCAR racing!
In Safari, the snap-back feature teamed with actually using the menubar as a makeshift clip board you can do exactly what you say what you want to do. With Safari's intuitive bookmark interface removing those temporary bookmarks is a breeze. I do this all the time when I am researching.
One problem I admit, say when I am using westlaw, which doesn't automatically log you back in (seeing that it is a pay service) this procedure has major drawbacks. I would be nice if there was a research bar that snapped a picture or downloaded the page to your cache so that it really would be a wonderful research tool.
I completly emphasise with you. Reading your post was like reading a journal describing my experiences as well. Sometimes I really love dreaming the way I do, but I get worried over the prospect of being next to someone and acting out, one of the things that lead to the disintigration of my marriage.
Why can't a desktop look, well, different? Why can't there be a desktop for graphic designers that lkek to shove stuff all over the place but still be in order? Why can't . . . wait, everyone else thrive on order so the desktops of today suffice.
What I want is a a mac os x environment with 2 docks. The normoarl dock, and a second to the right (for those frelancers without second moniters) to shove shit into. Is this so hard to ask for? I want a literal DESKTOP!
And screw you, I am trying to figure out how to do it so don;t flame me for whining,
Super Streetfighter dragged me, or rather my father, into purchasing this system, It was wonderful . . . for this game. So must potential, so little games.
But I did like fighting with people on how to pronounce 3 deee oh, 3 do oh.
In Moore v. Regents of The Univeristy of California (793 P.2d 479) the Supreme Court of California ruled that it was okay for scientists to do genetic study on excised human tissues because the patient would have had no reasonable intention to hold on to such tissues. I believe suit was brought under a conversion action but as the Court decided the tissue in question was not property per se, the cause of action was invalid. There was some dicta in the decision reccomending that in the future, doctors get consent first before any genetic tests were done.
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Ha ha ha! You are so right! I do like Archer but he does seem like a 90's politically correct guy shoved back into the 50's or something.
That's the kind of thinking and imagination that doesn't seem to exist with Berman and the gang. They want to protect the franchise they've got instead of really USING the possibilities contained within it.
I completely agree with you.
I actually like Enterprise and am disappointed that it may get cancelled. I absolutely agree that the plots have been done to death and that the aliens are sadly predictable in appearance but I more or less like this crew.
I think Bakula makes a good captain and his play with the Vulcan Sub-Commander is good. That can't carry the show however as much of the other crew hasn't been allowed to breath (except for Hoshi in the Psychic/Alien episode which isn't saying much).
But there is a lot of untested material in the Star Trek universe. There should be more Andorran plots and it would be really nice if the writers remembered the Gorn Empire or the Tholians. The universe was unstable back then (as opposed to TNG Federation/Romulan/Klingon triumvirate) and that instability could make for some good shows.
This season's "Expanse" theme is interesting and I personally like it. However, it can't go on forever, for the very fact that none of it was ever mentioned in any past series.
The show needs to get back to its beginnings. USE the tried plot but lets not forget that space is a new and exciting and unknown place. Everything that the crew seems to encounter has already been encountered before. The original series used that unknown as the backbone of plot. TNG really built up a crew centric aspect. The other two kind of let me down. Enterprise has the potential to do a lot but isn't going anywhere.
They should really let the fans be the writers. Set up a contest or something on the website to submit an episode. Star Trek is a good and proven concept but there needs to be more trekking and more weird discoveries.
Billboards, flyers, guys dressed in a chicken suit to advertise the opening of a KFC - it's all unwanted and all in your face everyday. I don't see how cell phone ads are any different . . . except for the fact that you pay for the cell phone to work so that the advertisers HAVE a new way to bombard you. The least that could be done is for the carrier to offer phone bill discounts to people who allow themselves to be ad targets (and restaurant coupons too).
Seems the easiest thing to do would be to turn the phone off - which I do anyway. It is an option we don't have with other forms of advertisements.
They will probably remove the off button though.
I think the evidence now is that people on Slashdot take privacy issues seriously. The vast majority of people only take it seriously when someone sees them doing something they shouldn't be doing or uses personal information to catch them trying to do something they shouldn't be trying to do.
Northwest, and every other company, is just in the position of not having found a "nice" way of telling people that they are handing over personal information. The S.Ct. roadblock opinion is perfectly on point - if you can catch a criminal and I only have to be momentarily detained that's okay. If the government can use personal information to keep everyone safe, I am sure most everyone would not care.
Yes, your argument can be made, but it really does not apply to manipulations of stocks and it is wrong of you to give people that impression. Legally, this is one of those constitutional right of the citizen to be free from governmental intrusion cases, not a securities case.
On these facts I would say it is prima facie - at first glance - silly. On different facts I think you make a very interesting point that deserves further inspection. It would take some very interesting facts, and be from perhaps a different type of business enterprise.
Perhaps an industry that thrives on secrecy where that would be up there in the primary concerns of stockholders in that industry. Hey, maybe someone who bought 30 year T-Bills has a case. Considering how much President Bush and his administration have lied to the American people, who knows if the US will be around to pay that debt.
That's some major fraud on the market.
In the Basic case the Supreme Court did "adopt" the fraud on the market theory. However, that was a four-two decision with three justices not participating and therefore cannot be considered to have definitively resolved this question.
Two of the four justices of the plurality have departed and the three who did not participate were conservative. The plurality conceded that reliance is an element of a 10b5 cause of action and limited the holding to this question of whether a rebuttable presumption should be established to satisfy that requirement.
I would hardly say this is "settled" Supreme Court jurisprudence (how settled is any S.Ct decision anyway) as a shep shows a full third distinguished and neutrals. Anyway, as applied to "privacy issues" a fraud on the market analysis is n o t g o i n g t o w o r k. I would say a suit based on that behavior borders on frivolous. I mean c'mon.
Um . . . "in connection with the purchase or sale of any security."
10b-5 can't be employed the way you're purporting it can be.
10(b) is a "catchall" anti-fraud provision, but it requires a plaintiff to carry a heavier burden to establish a cause of action. A section 10(b) action can be brought by a purchaser or seller of any security against any person which has used any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance IN CONNECTION with the purchase and sale of a security.
Maybe it was a lie when Northwest said it would not give out "personal information" to the government, but the lie was almost certainly not perpetrated in connection with teh purchase or sale of a security. If a plaintiff made that allegation, I would love to see what kind of portfolio they hold because that is not the type of material information that one usually uses to buy or sell stocks with.
You would have better luck with 14a-9(a) but then you would have a causation/materiality nexus problem in which it would be HIGHLY unlikely that this kind of "omission" would lead to some sort of santion.
Give me a break. This is not such a big atrocious deal. Plagarism is appallingly rampant at colleges and universities today - it's even worse in high school and middle schools these days. People shouldn't steal someone else's work and turn it in as their own without proper citations. MLA is not that hard of a citation format to follow. Mistakes happen, especially in college when one has to write a paper after, during, or right before partying. A mediocre professor can see the difference between honest mistakes and an honest attempt at stealing. People just don't want to get caught doing what they know they shouldn't be doing.
If you are an English, Philosophy, Poly/Sci, and etc. major, this should not be a problem in the least bit. Original work is your goal - I have a feeling that people who really like their majors and the writing it requires of you would not care about having to submit papers to the service. Getting published is your goal anyway and people are going to go over your work closely no matter what. I have a feeling that the "101" people who are just taking a writing class to fulfill a requirement are the one's bitching. In a intro class no one expects genius. You don't need to be original, just don't steal. Is it really so hard to parse a few sentences together that are your own?
Getting back to the service itself, if anything it should be adopted not at universities (where supposedly you are PAYING money to GET an EDUCATION), but instead in public high schools and middle schools. That is the place where this type of plagiarism really needs to be nipped in the bud. A lot of teachers on this level don't have the access or are too over burdened by student load, cash, etc., to have the time to trawl through the net like their students. My Father was a high school english teacher for 25 years and now teaches on the middle school level. He happens to love computers and the internet and is constantly catching students trying to pass off work as their own. It's pathetic. But a lot of teachers don't have that kind of computer savvy, or at least knowledge.
You can do a lot with a computer. I remember back when Prodigy was the main online service and I would use it's encyclopedia & etc. to help me write reports and stuff. I remember thinking how easy it would be to just use the info. Having always had a computer (I'm 26) I was unique back then. (With my Mac Classic I even used scanned images taken with a logitech hand scanner to spice up various reports). Now, any kid can do stiff like that and so much friggen more.
So yes. You are guilty until proven innocent - but who cares. Trust is something that is earned anyway, and if this is the way students toady have to earn it, then so be it.
I am not an antitrust lawyer but it seems to me that Microsoft is setting the foundation for impending litigation if it finds itself unable to innovate itself through Apple and it's music store.
"As most here incredibly well versed in, manufacturers are forbidden by law to compel their customers to purchase an unwanted product as a prerequisite to buying another product. (read operating systems forced upon buyers) This illegal practice is known as "tying."
"Findlaw.com defines tying as "an arrangement or agreement in which a seller will sell a product to a buyer only if the buyer will also buy another product."
Findlaw.com further discusses tying:
"Sellers with more than one product may seek to tie the sale of one (which the customer presumably desires) with that of another (which it presumably does not want). Such tie-ins are governed not only by the general language of the Sherman Act, but the more particular provisions of Section 3 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits such arrangements if the likely result is substantially to lessen competition. Tie-ins are per se unlawful if the seller possesses sufficient market power in the tying product, and coerces the buyer to take the tied product as a condition to obtaining the desired product.
(Walt Pennington - desktoplinux.com)
It seems a logical step to say that Microsoft will argue that Apple is tying the sale of it's music (which microsoft will argue is the desired product) with that of its music player (which, Redmond will - perhaps tongue in cheek in front of consumers who LOVE their iPods - say is the unwanted product.)
I think it is an interesting possible move, if one that may be bad for the industry. I think that people should be able to use the players they want for the music they OWN - imagine only being able to use a sony compact disc player for sony signed artists - but the pay to download music infrastructure just isn't ready at this point in time for fracturization. Apple isn't making any money on the music, just the players. Until money can viably be made, pay to download music services will be close to a precipice that can only be avoided by at first solidifying and standardizing the content and the distribution method.
If these scientists really want attention they will have to release their predictions using vague and eery language.
For Mojave: "Beneath the sands in the month of Labor a great movement will startle those not of the slashed dot"
Even better if they did this on television wearing period clothing and staring into a crystal ball or caldron of some sort. It could be quite dramatic.
Besides stealing from many other sci fi films, does anyone see the BLATANT similarities between NEO's "condition" and that of the ONE major charater in Dune?
I am a die hard mac user. I love itunes and my ipod. But, it does seem from a certain perspective that apple is falling into their same old song and dance routine despite all the hype that it generates about innovation.
Face it, Apple is a HARDWARE company. It always has been, maybe it always will be. By allowing only iPods to take full advantage of iTunes Apple is again trying to force the sale of hardware, while the service seems almost incidental to the whole concept.
This is not to say that the whole shebang isn't worth it. Like Apple always does by controlling the hardware, software, and now service, it has put to market a product that is superior to every single other legal music concept out there, period. You really can't argue about that.
But it is true. There is no real choice. It is simply Apple saying what is best for you and if you want it you have to take it their way or take the highway.
So the Microsoft guy IS right. What apple is doing is not new. It is a tried and true formula. It may not have always worked perfectly in the past but Apple is still here because of that basic formula. Ask coke about changing formulas, but what a deal with pepsi.
I agree with this poster that the retractable fountain pen is the way to go. I had the namiki plastic one and loved it. When they discontinued that line when pilot purchased namiki I was saddened when they changed the design of the pen.
However, I did but the new Pilot retractable and I love it even more. It has a nice heft and the quality of the parts is actually better than when the open was produced by namiki.
This sounds kind of similar to the swartzenegger movie that came out a few years ago - the 6th day. I think that is what it is called, either way, a person's "personality" was stored in some media and then could be re-inserted into a cloned body if something happened to the "original" body.
It wasn't a bad movie actually, Arnold just didn't have a good sidekick that he seems to require in all of his money films. Anyway, the book sounds interesting and I enjoyed your review.
I think that Palm is doing to its product line what automobile companies have been doing for years - putting distinctive badges on brands in the division that evoke or call certain constituencies.
Palm has recently been trying to enter the upscale business market with its new flashier models. Handspring, has a solid general user base that wants a PDA but not for 500-700 dollars.
Handspring = chevy
Palm = Caddillac
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Isn't this the type of attitude that doome imperial backwardness? You can't just "stop" scientific progress and in order for science to progess information needs to be shared.
I find the idea that a james Bond "S.P.E.C.T.R.E" type organization will pose a threat to humanity like this article implies.
While it may be true to cite the American auto industry as a parallel case in point, the fact is that business just isn't run the way it was 30 years ago. Today one really can't point to a particular company and say that it is German or American or Japanese. (Look under the hood of your "American" car and see where the various parts are made).
The truth is that multi national companies spread R&D over all of their divisions worldwide and in turn spread the manufacture of those R&D concepts to a place with a better comparative advantage in terms of production. Is code being created in India for Microsoft software? Yes, but that is because coders get paid less over there. Are japanese cars any better than American? Maybe, but where do the vast majority of Japanese cars get manufactured - in the United States for the United States market.
The solutions of yesteryear no longer work now - especially when the types of innovations we are talking about now are more Int. Prop. based. No matter how wonderful the concept of a product is, the real thing to look for is where it will be easier to produce that product, not who innovates.
The article is just way to conclusory to really say anything worth while. Yes, money needs to be spent on innovation, but no matter what, production will always go to where it is cheaper, no matter what nationality the company is.
" . . . making him, he says, the neighborhood geek in a black culture where adolescents rewarded only athletes and tough guys."
I don't know how to respond from this observation in the article. On one hand being a "geek" in middle/high school really sucks. On the other hand, is it "black culture" that doesn't like geeks, or "white" culture that has traditionally railroaded blacks into those two categories? I definitely don't want to play the race card here. I just thought the observation in the article was interesting.
If the right kind of scientists figure out a way to genetically alter what people like, we could get rid of all those people who like velvet paintings, garden gnomes, and NASCAR racing!
Of course there is the darker side . . .
In Safari, the snap-back feature teamed with actually using the menubar as a makeshift clip board you can do exactly what you say what you want to do. With Safari's intuitive bookmark interface removing those temporary bookmarks is a breeze. I do this all the time when I am researching.
One problem I admit, say when I am using westlaw, which doesn't automatically log you back in (seeing that it is a pay service) this procedure has major drawbacks. I would be nice if there was a research bar that snapped a picture or downloaded the page to your cache so that it really would be a wonderful research tool.
I completly emphasise with you. Reading your post was like reading a journal describing my experiences as well. Sometimes I really love dreaming the way I do, but I get worried over the prospect of being next to someone and acting out, one of the things that lead to the disintigration of my marriage.
Thank you for your insightful post.
While my spelling will be rather poor, I ask . . .
Why can't a desktop look, well, different? Why can't there be a desktop for graphic designers that lkek to shove stuff all over the place but still be in order? Why can't . . . wait, everyone else thrive on order so the desktops of today suffice.
What I want is a a mac os x environment with 2 docks. The normoarl dock, and a second to the right (for those frelancers without second moniters) to shove shit into. Is this so hard to ask for? I want a literal DESKTOP!
And screw you, I am trying to figure out how to do it so don;t flame me for whining,
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Super Streetfighter dragged me, or rather my father, into purchasing this system, It was wonderful . . . for this game. So must potential, so little games.
But I did like fighting with people on how to pronounce 3 deee oh, 3 do oh.
In Moore v. Regents of The Univeristy of California (793 P.2d 479) the Supreme Court of California ruled that it was okay for scientists to do genetic study on excised human tissues because the patient would have had no reasonable intention to hold on to such tissues. I believe suit was brought under a conversion action but as the Court decided the tissue in question was not property per se, the cause of action was invalid. There was some dicta in the decision reccomending that in the future, doctors get consent first before any genetic tests were done.