...and to me, the response from the diabetic is cowardly at best. It shows a bitterness and a level of immaturity at accepting the diabetic diagnosis, and necessary lifestyle, for what it is.
Sure, you can take your twinkies and powdered donuts and shove them - I'll have the salad. I'm not happy with that, I'd rather have the sweets.
But the fact is, I'm stuck with this disease, but yet - I can choose to control it. Not perfectly, but surprisingly well with some discipline and strict adherence to medical advice and treatment. Hey, even then, it may just kill me a lot sooner than most, but it is what it is.
But you know what? Right now, in spite of some limits, and self-denial, my quality of life is every bit as good as any other sighted person in good health.
The blind, however, have little control over their condition, or their surroundings, or their interaction with the world. I see a moral imperitive to assist them if it is not overly burdonsome to do so. Web pages can be crafted in such a manner in most cases, except where the material is truly only visual (nekkid ladies)?
So hopefully I've helped to kill off that pathetic and selfish counterargument against access for the truely handicapped.
WTF is your problem? I'll tell you. You never had anything real and violent happen to you that affected you. Maybe perhaps you have had some horrible event affect a alleged "loved one" in your life but for some reason you did not feel it. Or not, maybe you live in a world where parking tickets, RIAA concerns, and SPAM are the worst of your concerns.
I, and anyone sane, know that death is a constant. However, individuals that choose to cause death for the most trivial reasons are abhorrent. You seem to be defending them. How do I go there? Even someone who is "poor" or "disadvantaged" who causes a death to another for minimal profit is DISGUSTING.
You have some stupid temporal opinion about a call to "stop the war 'on terror'" as some justification for your arguments. Just the kind of idiot that would equate having to delete a few hundred spams a month to the horrific circumstances surrounding the death of a loved one.
Perhaps you are loved by no one and can thus have no empathy with a UNTIMELY and UNJUSTIFIED death of another at the hands of another HUMAN being. I guess that was the motivation for your empty, detached post.
OK. So let's say you invent a better widget. Your widget solves all my personal problems, mitigates global warming, whitens my teeth, and provides a better gaming experience than a Wii. But, just as you sit there condescendingly proclaiming in absolutes how capitalism operates to opress creative geniuses in favor of useless wheeler-dealers, I also realise your arguments don't convince me.
See that's because you seem to me like another of a long string of self-proclaimed scions of "creativity" - and therefore I discount you and your claims, and don't buy your product.
But one of these wheeler-dealers come along - someone who knows how to connect to me emotionally and in practical terms - and convinces me to buy your product - you know, someone who can talk to us simple cavemen who don't understand your creative vision. Are you thus saying you have a problem with this?
I don't. The very fact that success in a economic system depends on convincing others to embrace a particular creation shows there is choice, and that a particular creation must earn its way.
Other economic systems mostly imply central planning that provides limited choices - and if you don't like the choices (or choice), tough. You can thus do without; and if you continue to protest your limited choices, eventually we have a gulag for you. Can't have you bucking our system set up by our annointed "creative" types, your own creativity be damned.
Yes, I have heard news stories about that happening every now and then. To clarify, it is (so the stories go) not "almost all" prisoners, very few if any political prisoners , but mainly common criminals. I guess the workers paradise does have their share of common criminals, then, and I suppose that is how they deal with them. Can't have the simple robbers and rapists using up space that could be better used for political prisoners.
Of course, in my last post, I was refering to the previous poster, whose statement, at least to me, seemed like a attempt to broad brush dissidents into the "troublemaker" category, when many simply want a decent life and a right to express the thoughts in their head, without risking the neck it rests on.
Of course the US government would arrest people plotting to overthrow the US government. But generally, the folks targeted by the US government (very few individuals) REALLY ARE trying to harm the US government, and "harm" is not defined by "leaving" or "disagreeing with". Not to say there is no injustice here, but please, the US border is designed to keep people out, not in. Still is, in spite of the begrudging sneers of Chirac worshipping continentals, fanatically trying to portray the US as the fourth reich.
Oh and you claim "a lot" of dissendents were actually a real danger to the Cuban government? Well I guess they are - as Cuba defines them. By Fidel's reasoning, and apparently yours, half of southern Florida is composed of nothing but traitors and assasins.
OK smarter guy. Those who leave democracies do not risk death LEAVING their democratic nations. They risk death crossing the US border.
Cuban nationals risk death LEAVING their border. Not to mention putting remaining family members in potential danger. And after that, again, they risk their life getting to the US. I guess it is easy to discount the substantial difference here when adversity is merely theoretical to you.
Its "tough" to leave Cuba? Tough? What a insult to those who have made it; more so to those who have not. Such a gift with words.
For the record, I have been to Cuba, and have plenty of ties with FL. They are most certainly not uneducated hicks - but they don't get to do much with their education because the government tells them what is acceptable to think, read, etc. A lot of good that great universal literacy does. And they are not in constant fear of the Gestapo - they tune that stress out; it is called resignation and practical adaptation. No human can live high strung and in fear for long - you learn from an early age to do what it takes to stay under the radar, and try to live a joyful life in spite of being surrounded by adversity. Once acclimated, it takes a VERY motivated individual to make the leap to even thinking about ESCAPING. More so to actually do it.
Anyway, those normal folks probably do a much better job of living life to the fullest and doing much with so little, probably more so than spoiled Americans or spoiled AND haughty Europeans. Does not mean I would trade my life to live there. Would you?
Uh, brilliant disingenuousness. For the most part, they did not emigrate - THEY ESCAPED. Your gloss over the fact the reason for the hatred is the desire to escape brutality that makes regimes like Pinochet's look like the Holy See, and the desire to live a life other than in subservience to the cult of collectivism. You then fail to extrapolate that for every individual who overcomes their fears, AND THEN manages to make it out, there are many others who dream of doing the same thing, but either cannot overcome their fears, or did not make it 90 miles to a real life.
Is it just me, or did anyone happen to download and extract the patch and notice that it does not seem to contain the webdav.dll but just ntdll.dll? So is it really a patch to WebDav or for something in ntdll.dll that webdav relies on?
"University College" is generally used as a catch-all for courses and programs that don't fit in other colleges/schools/departments/programs in a particular four-year university. For example, at my university there is the fairly traditional group of schools such as the College of Liberal Arts, and so on. We also have a University College which is where all the lower division core courses live. At some schools, the distance education programs are administered by their University College, so I guess that is what they are doing. But I agree the name still sounds cumbersome...
1. Live on campus if at all possible. You get to network with so many more people that way. That is important for the next points. 2. Get to know your (potential) instructors before you register for their class. Meet as many people in your major as you can, preferably who are a year or more advanced than you are. That way you can look at your proposed schedule and ask them what to expect from particular professors - the sad reality is that some instructors just do not care about teaching. Also, put your browser to good use - download the syllabus and read it before you register, compare one professor to another if possible. 3. A 3 hour class means 3 hours a week in class, and probably more than that in preparation. You will be given a warning by someone at some point that for every x hours in a lecture you need to spend y hours preparing. Take this seriously! 4. And when spending the time as noted above - don't just do the manditory problems in a math class, try to do at least some of the optional problems, and for lit/english, Cliff's notes are your friend, but read them AFTER you have read the whole story at least once, NOT as a shortcut. 4. Party when not doing the above, but don't get behind the wheel while you are blasted, and don't knock anyone up/get knocked up/catch an incurable disease. Use latex. 5. Finish the degree and enjoy these years. Once you join us out here in the real world, you will regret it if you did not take the time to enjoy yourself. Youth is wasted on the young - don't let that old cliche apply to you.
The possibility of a DMCA violation by taking steps to disable DRM schemes that "phone home" was debated at one of the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conventions a couple of years ago. No one knows if this sort of thing is really a cause of action under DMCA because it has not been tested, if I am wrong, please feel free to cite the case, and I will happily admit the point I raised was paranoid, perhaps "crap" as you so eloquently stated. IANAL either way. Anyway, the gist of the discussion I am referring to was that even the threat of this could have a chilling effect- perhaps not on users, but on those who sell privacy software, and personal firewalls are in that group. If you don't know what I mean by a "chilling effect" to give you an example, I just spent some time trying to find a firmware upgrade for a DVD player only to find out that the manufacturer has quietly stopped releasing firmware upgrades because they can be cracked and modded to remove region codes, Macrovision, etc. The problem I had with this particular model has been widely reported by other owners, and yet, it looks like it is not going to get fixed because the product has been deemed to work "well enough" by the manufacturer, and the small, although annoying types of problems (this is a fairly mature product) will never get fixed by this manufacturer because of fear of the MPAA. Not exactly a threat to my civil rights or liberties, and not very important in the scheme of things, but it's an unintended consequence of a poorly-written law; how much more of this nonsense should we be forced to put up with because a industry with an outdated business model is fighting to keep the status quo and even extend its rights by promoting vigilante justice, and the erosion of traditional fair use exceptions to copyright law? Sounds pretty fscking absurd to me, but welcome to the real world. Perhaps I am being a bit reactionary, but I once spent over 18 months on a Federal grand jury, and I have seen more than one inappropriate application of criminal law simply as a harassment tactic - granted this was all non-IP stuff, but the same club can be used to stifle product innovation, and a host of other evils that we are only starting to see under both the DMCA and the efforts of the large IP owners to influence future laws, WIPO, etc.
And how long will it be before blocking their DRM management server in your personal firewall is considered circumventing the DMCA?
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Thanks Linuxathome - after further thought I wanted to elaborate a bit. To clarify, I don't know if Cherian has a strong enough case to merit a criminal prosecution but the key thing is the invocation "in interstate commerce", I think that even on the civil side it does not take much to prove that. On the criminal side on a grand jury, all it took to get an indictment was two criteria beyond that - one, that the case not be frivilous. Second, it has to be interesting - if it's something that would look good on the evening news, that's perfect. Given those two criteria, which do apply here, it seems grand juries were quite happy to accept even far-fetched connections to interstate commerce. Slightly OT - on the criminal aspect, grand juries are accused as being rubber stamp grand juries, and that is pretty valid because particularly on the federal side, the evidence was often so obvious - a guy gets caught with 1000 crack rocks in his trunk, well, duh, that is more than enough to send him on to a trial court. I only ever recall one case where we no-billed someone - a very green US Atty. brought a case before us (can't get into details) that was basically a instance of something looking criminal but was simply an omission on the defendant's part - but the USa was trying to get an indictment on everything short of treason. It was a load of BS even us bewildered normal citizens could see. We tore her a new hole for that, even complained to the lead attorney. It took a blatant disregard for the letter of the law for us to reject something - all the other cases resulted in indictments, even with skimpy evidence. Anyway the chances of getting something through a grand jury is not all that hard. It may be tossed out of trial court, but by then the damage is done - the defendant has the stigma of indictment forever. That's just something to keep in mind before pursuing the criminal angle; I would not advocate pursing a criminal charge just for an indictment. But then I was not falsely arrested for asserting my rights. Normally you would not get an attorney to back you on a criminal matter but if Cherian can get a refererral to a attorney who is very experienced in federal criminal code, well, all I am saying is in this country pretty much anything you do could be interpreted to violate some federal law somewhere. I mean, we have had federal laws criminalizing the removal of information tags from mattresses...
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Did you say you printed the receipt off the BB site? If so, I wonder if this could be a issue for a federal court - IANAL, blah blah - but if the part of BB that is responsible for the site is in another state, maybe this is something that would be considered to have taken place "in interstate commerce". I once served on a federal grand jury, and the federal prosectors used any link, no matter how tenuous, to haul folks into federal court if the CRIMINAL charges looked like something worthy of federal charges. So you were enticed by something off a out-of-state part of the company(if this is true, and their web site shows a contact address in MN), you try to assert your rights to hold the local representatives of BB to that contract, and you get falsly arrested. While you are shopping for a lawyer, you might want to keep this in mind.
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CLI rules. Youtube loads so much faster on lynx.
Maybe?
...and to me, the response from the diabetic is cowardly at best. It shows a bitterness and a level of immaturity at accepting the diabetic diagnosis, and necessary lifestyle, for what it is.
Sure, you can take your twinkies and powdered donuts and shove them - I'll have the salad. I'm not happy with that, I'd rather have the sweets.
But the fact is, I'm stuck with this disease, but yet - I can choose to control it. Not perfectly, but surprisingly well with some discipline and strict adherence to medical advice and treatment. Hey, even then, it may just kill me a lot sooner than most, but it is what it is.
But you know what? Right now, in spite of some limits, and self-denial, my quality of life is every bit as good as any other sighted person in good health.
The blind, however, have little control over their condition, or their surroundings, or their interaction with the world. I see a moral imperitive to assist them if it is not overly burdonsome to do so. Web pages can be crafted in such a manner in most cases, except where the material is truly only visual (nekkid ladies)?
So hopefully I've helped to kill off that pathetic and selfish counterargument against access for the truely handicapped.
WTF is your problem? I'll tell you. You never had anything real and violent happen to you that affected you. Maybe perhaps you have had some horrible event affect a alleged "loved one" in your life but for some reason you did not feel it. Or not, maybe you live in a world where parking tickets, RIAA concerns, and SPAM are the worst of your concerns.
I, and anyone sane, know that death is a constant. However, individuals that choose to cause death for the most trivial reasons are abhorrent. You seem to be defending them. How do I go there? Even someone who is "poor" or "disadvantaged" who causes a death to another for minimal profit is DISGUSTING.
You have some stupid temporal opinion about a call to "stop the war 'on terror'" as some justification for your arguments. Just the kind of idiot that would equate having to delete a few hundred spams a month to the horrific circumstances surrounding the death of a loved one.
Perhaps you are loved by no one and can thus have no empathy with a UNTIMELY and UNJUSTIFIED death of another at the hands of another HUMAN being. I guess that was the motivation for your empty, detached post.
OK. So let's say you invent a better widget. Your widget solves all my personal problems, mitigates global warming, whitens my teeth, and provides a better gaming experience than a Wii. But, just as you sit there condescendingly proclaiming in absolutes how capitalism operates to opress creative geniuses in favor of useless wheeler-dealers, I also realise your arguments don't convince me.
See that's because you seem to me like another of a long string of self-proclaimed scions of "creativity" - and therefore I discount you and your claims, and don't buy your product.
But one of these wheeler-dealers come along - someone who knows how to connect to me emotionally and in practical terms - and convinces me to buy your product - you know, someone who can talk to us simple cavemen who don't understand your creative vision. Are you thus saying you have a problem with this?
I don't. The very fact that success in a economic system depends on convincing others to embrace a particular creation shows there is choice, and that a particular creation must earn its way.
Other economic systems mostly imply central planning that provides limited choices - and if you don't like the choices (or choice), tough. You can thus do without; and if you continue to protest your limited choices, eventually we have a gulag for you. Can't have you bucking our system set up by our annointed "creative" types, your own creativity be damned.
Yes, I have heard news stories about that happening every now and then. To clarify, it is (so the stories go) not "almost all" prisoners, very few if any political prisoners , but mainly common criminals. I guess the workers paradise does have their share of common criminals, then, and I suppose that is how they deal with them. Can't have the simple robbers and rapists using up space that could be better used for political prisoners.
Of course, in my last post, I was refering to the previous poster, whose statement, at least to me, seemed like a attempt to broad brush dissidents into the "troublemaker" category, when many simply want a decent life and a right to express the thoughts in their head, without risking the neck it rests on.
Of course the US government would arrest people plotting to overthrow the US government. But generally, the folks targeted by the US government (very few individuals) REALLY ARE trying to harm the US government, and "harm" is not defined by "leaving" or "disagreeing with". Not to say there is no injustice here, but please, the US border is designed to keep people out, not in. Still is, in spite of the begrudging sneers of Chirac worshipping continentals, fanatically trying to portray the US as the fourth reich.
Oh and you claim "a lot" of dissendents were actually a real danger to the Cuban government? Well I guess they are - as Cuba defines them. By Fidel's reasoning, and apparently yours, half of southern Florida is composed of nothing but traitors and assasins.
OK smarter guy. Those who leave democracies do not risk death LEAVING their democratic nations. They risk death crossing the US border.
Cuban nationals risk death LEAVING their border. Not to mention putting remaining family members in potential danger. And after that, again, they risk their life getting to the US. I guess it is easy to discount the substantial difference here when adversity is merely theoretical to you.
Its "tough" to leave Cuba? Tough? What a insult to those who have made it; more so to those who have not. Such a gift with words.
For the record, I have been to Cuba, and have plenty of ties with FL. They are most certainly not uneducated hicks - but they don't get to do much with their education because the government tells them what is acceptable to think, read, etc. A lot of good that great universal literacy does. And they are not in constant fear of the Gestapo - they tune that stress out; it is called resignation and practical adaptation. No human can live high strung and in fear for long - you learn from an early age to do what it takes to stay under the radar, and try to live a joyful life in spite of being surrounded by adversity. Once acclimated, it takes a VERY motivated individual to make the leap to even thinking about ESCAPING. More so to actually do it.
Anyway, those normal folks probably do a much better job of living life to the fullest and doing much with so little, probably more so than spoiled Americans or spoiled AND haughty Europeans. Does not mean I would trade my life to live there. Would you?
Uh, brilliant disingenuousness. For the most part, they did not emigrate - THEY ESCAPED. Your gloss over the fact the reason for the hatred is the desire to escape brutality that makes regimes like Pinochet's look like the Holy See, and the desire to live a life other than in subservience to the cult of collectivism.
You then fail to extrapolate that for every individual who overcomes their fears, AND THEN manages to make it out, there are many others who dream of doing the same thing, but either cannot overcome their fears, or did not make it 90 miles to a real life.
Is it just me, or did anyone happen to download and extract the patch and notice that it does not seem to contain the webdav .dll but just ntdll.dll? So is it really a patch to WebDav or for something in ntdll.dll that webdav relies on?
"University College" is generally used as a catch-all for courses and programs that don't fit in other colleges/schools/departments/programs in a particular four-year university. For example, at my university there is the fairly traditional group of schools such as the College of Liberal Arts, and so on. We also have a University College which is where all the lower division core courses live. At some schools, the distance education programs are administered by their University College, so I guess that is what they are doing. But I agree the name still sounds cumbersome...
By that I mean:
1. Live on campus if at all possible. You get to network with so many more people that way. That is important for the next points.
2. Get to know your (potential) instructors before you register for their class. Meet as many people in your major as you can, preferably who are a year or more advanced than you are. That way you can look at your proposed schedule and ask them what to expect from particular professors - the sad reality is that some instructors just do not care about teaching. Also, put your browser to good use - download the syllabus and read it before you register, compare one professor to another if possible.
3. A 3 hour class means 3 hours a week in class, and probably more than that in preparation. You will be given a warning by someone at some point that for every x hours in a lecture you need to spend y hours preparing. Take this seriously!
4. And when spending the time as noted above - don't just do the manditory problems in a math class, try to do at least some of the optional problems, and for lit/english, Cliff's notes are your friend, but read them AFTER you have read the whole story at least once, NOT as a shortcut.
4. Party when not doing the above, but don't get behind the wheel while you are blasted, and don't knock anyone up/get knocked up/catch an incurable disease. Use latex.
5. Finish the degree and enjoy these years. Once you join us out here in the real world, you will regret it if you did not take the time to enjoy yourself. Youth is wasted on the young - don't let that old cliche apply to you.
The possibility of a DMCA violation by taking steps to disable DRM schemes that "phone home" was debated at one of the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conventions a couple of years ago. No one knows if this sort of thing is really a cause of action under DMCA because it has not been tested, if I am wrong, please feel free to cite the case, and I will happily admit the point I raised was paranoid, perhaps "crap" as you so eloquently stated. IANAL either way. Anyway, the gist of the discussion I am referring to was that even the threat of this could have a chilling effect- perhaps not on users, but on those who sell privacy software, and personal firewalls are in that group.
If you don't know what I mean by a "chilling effect" to give you an example, I just spent some time trying to find a firmware upgrade for a DVD player only to find out that the manufacturer has quietly stopped releasing firmware upgrades because they can be cracked and modded to remove region codes, Macrovision, etc. The problem I had with this particular model has been widely reported by other owners, and yet, it looks like it is not going to get fixed because the product has been deemed to work "well enough" by the manufacturer, and the small, although annoying types of problems (this is a fairly mature product) will never get fixed by this manufacturer because of fear of the MPAA.
Not exactly a threat to my civil rights or liberties, and not very important in the scheme of things, but it's an unintended consequence of a poorly-written law; how much more of this nonsense should we be forced to put up with because a industry with an outdated business model is fighting to keep the status quo and even extend its rights by promoting vigilante justice, and the erosion of traditional fair use exceptions to copyright law?
Sounds pretty fscking absurd to me, but welcome to the real world.
Perhaps I am being a bit reactionary, but I once spent over 18 months on a Federal grand jury, and I have seen more than one inappropriate application of criminal law simply as a harassment tactic - granted this was all non-IP stuff, but the same club can be used to stifle product innovation, and a host of other evils that we are only starting to see under both the DMCA and the efforts of the large IP owners to influence future laws, WIPO, etc.
And how long will it be before blocking their DRM management server in your personal firewall is considered circumventing the DMCA?
Thanks Linuxathome - after further thought I wanted to elaborate a bit. To clarify, I don't know if Cherian has a strong enough case to merit a criminal prosecution but the key thing is the invocation "in interstate commerce", I think that even on the civil side it does not take much to prove that. On the criminal side on a grand jury, all it took to get an indictment was two criteria beyond that - one, that the case not be frivilous. Second, it has to be interesting - if it's something that would look good on the evening news, that's perfect. Given those two criteria, which do apply here, it seems grand juries were quite happy to accept even far-fetched connections to interstate commerce.
Slightly OT - on the criminal aspect, grand juries are accused as being rubber stamp grand juries, and that is pretty valid because particularly on the federal side, the evidence was often so obvious - a guy gets caught with 1000 crack rocks in his trunk, well, duh, that is more than enough to send him on to a trial court. I only ever recall one case where we no-billed someone - a very green US Atty. brought a case before us (can't get into details) that was basically a instance of something looking criminal but was simply an omission on the defendant's part - but the USa was trying to get an indictment on everything short of treason. It was a load of BS even us bewildered normal citizens could see. We tore her a new hole for that, even complained to the lead attorney. It took a blatant disregard for the letter of the law for us to reject something - all the other cases resulted in indictments, even with skimpy evidence. Anyway the chances of getting something through a grand jury is not all that hard. It may be tossed out of trial court, but by then the damage is done - the defendant has the stigma of indictment forever. That's just something to keep in mind before pursuing the criminal angle; I would not advocate pursing a criminal charge just for an indictment. But then I was not falsely arrested for asserting my rights.
Normally you would not get an attorney to back you on a criminal matter but if Cherian can get a refererral to a attorney who is very experienced in federal criminal code, well, all I am saying is in this country pretty much anything you do could be interpreted to violate some federal law somewhere. I mean, we have had federal laws criminalizing the removal of information tags from mattresses...
Did you say you printed the receipt off the BB site? If so, I wonder if this could be a issue for a federal court - IANAL, blah blah - but if the part of BB that is responsible for the site is in another state, maybe this is something that would be considered to have taken place "in interstate commerce". I once served on a federal grand jury, and the federal prosectors used any link, no matter how tenuous, to haul folks into federal court if the CRIMINAL charges looked like something worthy of federal charges. So you were enticed by something off a out-of-state part of the company(if this is true, and their web site shows a contact address in MN), you try to assert your rights to hold the local representatives of BB to that contract, and you get falsly arrested. While you are shopping for a lawyer, you might want to keep this in mind.