You do realise that not everyone is priveldged to have that kind of luxury? Right? In the US, nearly a third of all familes with children are single-parent.
I'm guessing you can say this because you don't have kids to take care of. About 7 years ago my wife got laid off from her office job. The unemployment checks were about 1/2 of her salary, but while we were getting those checks we were better off than we had ever been while she was working.
Why? Dry cleaning, food, gas, but mostly daycare for our three kids. As it was, her job was just netting us a little extra over the costs of sending her to work. Without the job, all that stuff wasn't required, and suddenly we had half the pay with *none* of the expenses.
Under the circumstances, yes any followup job had to be pretty good to be worth putting the kids back in Daycare. Unemployment doesn't last very long though...
I don't suppose it might have had anything to do with the fact that half of the USA's young men spent most of the war stationed there? I bet *USA* crime was way down...
The key of A major is awkward for tenors. Although the middle A is comfortable, the high A is powerfully high, and the low A is below the bottom of their usable range, so you can't safely write music that spans an octave from tonic to tonic. And even for guys with lower voices, the low A just sounds too boomy.
Most guys have lower voices. Baritone is the most common natural male singing voice, and most men are either Baritone or Bass.. It is only in Rock music where it seems like every male voice has to run in the tenor range. A large amount of Rock is even routinely done in falsetto (save some Heavier Metal examples where they just give up on singing altogether and just shout instead). So it seems to me your argument is running into a chicken and egg problem here. I would have guessed the unnaturally high singing is done to match the guitar, not visa-versa.
OK. Now let's see your links for all the people (I'll avoid using government titles) who sprayed occupy protesters for "resisting" by linking arms or going limp or somesuch who have been convicted of assault or of violating anybody's rights. Let's see it.
If the courts never enforce it any more, it is now effectively legal.
The ironic thing is that the only reason Sony got into media at all was to quash crap like this. Back in the 80's they were trying hard to introduce digital audio tapes (which *should* have taken over the audio market). However, the media companies hated the idea of perfect copies (sound familar?) and fought them in court for years. Finally, Sony got frustrated and just *bought* the company suing them. Problem solved.
Well, except for two minor issues. The first was that in the interveneing years CD's were introduced and took over the market rather than Sony's digital audio tapes. The second was that now Sony was also a media company. So the next time a new generation of writable digital technology came down the pike, Sony had completely forgotten how they had got there, and was one of the ones fighting it and working to cripple it.
I'm not sure what the moral of this story is, other than perhaps copyright holding corrupts.
Does a virus spreading itself really count as "distribution" under the GPL? It could be argued that copying itself (sometimes to places it isn't wanted) is just the normal execution of this particular program (which the GPL always allows), not a proper "distribution". It's not like Iran called up the DoD and asked for its latest malicious virus.
Legally you have to hold the party you got your distribution from liable for a GPL violation. That's the way the license is written. Thus to hold the DoD liable, you'd have to be the person who got your copy of the virus direct from them, not from another infected party. In other words, you have to be "patient zero". Who could prove that in court?
The USA has laws against copying classified programs. So its quite possible the DoD could decide to turn around and arrest the litigant for posessing and/or distributing classified material.
Wouldn't a Theoretical Physicist (not under government contract) make a really crappy "sleeper agent"? When you activate him, what is he going to do, change Relativity?
I disagree. There are situations (eg: looking for a library to use with a propretary product) where I sadly cannot use the GPL. In those cases, I'd rather find out before fully installing the sources, so that if I end up needing to reimplement the library myself, I can honestly say I never even unloaded the GPL source code on my machine.
The problem with this is that meerly voting isn't the only thing a congressman has to do. Somebody has to actually write the bills they vote on. Even that is done collaboratively in committees. Somebody has to push the good bills through the process, fight against bad changes to them, and push against or improve the bad ones. Often these changes are brought up on the spur of the moment. How is this poll-congressman supposed to do that?
Occasionally a congressman has to make deals on legislation. Perhaps support something for someone else, in exchange for support on things their contituents care about (eg: improvements to their airport, etc.). It would be impossible to make such deals with your poll-congressman, because he can make no promises whatsoever about how he will vote.
Hanlon's Razor applies here; there isn't likely some grand conspiracy. Most likely, "the (R) fellow" didn't like something somebody said about him in an anon comment. Probably something comparing his IQ to that of a fungus would be my guess.
A botnet of these things is not a pleasent thought at all. There are good reasons a lot of critical military hardware runs on sysems specced out with redundant hardware running different CPUs and OSes.
Precisely. Rather than being throttled by the slowest link in the internet between you and the server with the file, you effectively become throttled only by the speed of the internet connection your ISP is giving you. In other words, Bittorrent is the closest you can come to truly utilizing the pipe your ISP gives you.
When someone starts talking about "truth" before (or without bothering) going into details, generally they are trying to blow smoke up my nether regions. If this is where you started from, IMHO they were quite right to be suspicous.
I'm not saying you're wrong...just in really really bad company at the moment.
Don't have a dog in this fight myself, and I think you are probably right. However, it could be that something different is going down here.
This is no longer your typical Republican electorate. They seem to have taken the position en-masse that making the existing mechanisim of government operate is far less important than having their own particular viewpoint "win". Why would this phenomenon restrict itself to the US government, and not surface in the party government as well?
To show you an example, here is some video from the recent Oklahoma state Republican Convention.
I'm still with you in thinking that everything will line up all nice and pretty for the cameras at the convention. But I won't be utterly shocked if it doesn't work out that way.
The problem is there is already a monkeywrench in it. Pretty much nothing has gotten done since 2010. They can't even agree on frigging lower court justices. Another four years like this and our entire federal Judicial system is liable to break down. And that's just one example.
If that's really what you want, then the sensible thing to do is vote for Obama and otherwise straight Republican. As long as they have at least 40 senate seats, and/or between 50 and 66% of the House (majority, but not enough to override vetoes) you'll be happy.
How wonderful that our imprisonment of these creatures is causing them mental and emotional problems resulting in behavior that is so useful for scientific study!
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Judgemental much?
You do realise that not everyone is priveldged to have that kind of luxury? Right? In the US, nearly a third of all familes with children are single-parent.
Yup. Loyalty is a two way street. If its entirely one-sided, it is called codependence, and is considered a mental illness.
I'm guessing you can say this because you don't have kids to take care of. About 7 years ago my wife got laid off from her office job. The unemployment checks were about 1/2 of her salary, but while we were getting those checks we were better off than we had ever been while she was working.
Why? Dry cleaning, food, gas, but mostly daycare for our three kids. As it was, her job was just netting us a little extra over the costs of sending her to work. Without the job, all that stuff wasn't required, and suddenly we had half the pay with *none* of the expenses.
Under the circumstances, yes any followup job had to be pretty good to be worth putting the kids back in Daycare. Unemployment doesn't last very long though...
To me the simplest "proof" of this was always to perform the exercise of manually adding one third three times.
.3(repeating) + .3(repeating = .6(repeating)
.6(repeating) + .3(repeating) = .9(repeating)
However, we know 3* 1/3 = 1. Therefore .9(repeating) is the same number as 1.
I don't suppose it might have had anything to do with the fact that half of the USA's young men spent most of the war stationed there? I bet *USA* crime was way down...
That makes sense. AC/DC's one of my faves (don't judge!) and I've tried for decades to emulate his singing, but can't.
Bonn Scott I could make a passable try at, but Brian Johnson's "voice" is hopeless.
The key of A major is awkward for tenors. Although the middle A is comfortable, the high A is powerfully high, and the low A is below the bottom of their usable range, so you can't safely write music that spans an octave from tonic to tonic. And even for guys with lower voices, the low A just sounds too boomy.
Most guys have lower voices. Baritone is the most common natural male singing voice, and most men are either Baritone or Bass.. It is only in Rock music where it seems like every male voice has to run in the tenor range. A large amount of Rock is even routinely done in falsetto (save some Heavier Metal examples where they just give up on singing altogether and just shout instead). So it seems to me your argument is running into a chicken and egg problem here. I would have guessed the unnaturally high singing is done to match the guitar, not visa-versa.
The police, on the other hand, don't get the luxury of using video simply as a PR mouthpiece
Really? Since when?
And how exactly is this weird prohibition enforced today? Do they have rules preventing hiring cops capable of working video editing software?
OK. Now let's see your links for all the people (I'll avoid using government titles) who sprayed occupy protesters for "resisting" by linking arms or going limp or somesuch who have been convicted of assault or of violating anybody's rights. Let's see it.
If the courts never enforce it any more, it is now effectively legal.
The ironic thing is that the only reason Sony got into media at all was to quash crap like this. Back in the 80's they were trying hard to introduce digital audio tapes (which *should* have taken over the audio market). However, the media companies hated the idea of perfect copies (sound familar?) and fought them in court for years. Finally, Sony got frustrated and just *bought* the company suing them. Problem solved.
Well, except for two minor issues. The first was that in the interveneing years CD's were introduced and took over the market rather than Sony's digital audio tapes. The second was that now Sony was also a media company. So the next time a new generation of writable digital technology came down the pike, Sony had completely forgotten how they had got there, and was one of the ones fighting it and working to cripple it.
I'm not sure what the moral of this story is, other than perhaps copyright holding corrupts.
But if he's not working under Government contract, he's going to do that anyway. They call it "publishing".
Wouldn't a Theoretical Physicist (not under government contract) make a really crappy "sleeper agent"? When you activate him, what is he going to do, change Relativity?
I disagree. There are situations (eg: looking for a library to use with a propretary product) where I sadly cannot use the GPL. In those cases, I'd rather find out before fully installing the sources, so that if I end up needing to reimplement the library myself, I can honestly say I never even unloaded the GPL source code on my machine.
Most likely so he could work on it at home. That's why most folks take code from work home.
The problem with this is that meerly voting isn't the only thing a congressman has to do. Somebody has to actually write the bills they vote on. Even that is done collaboratively in committees. Somebody has to push the good bills through the process, fight against bad changes to them, and push against or improve the bad ones. Often these changes are brought up on the spur of the moment. How is this poll-congressman supposed to do that?
Occasionally a congressman has to make deals on legislation. Perhaps support something for someone else, in exchange for support on things their contituents care about (eg: improvements to their airport, etc.). It would be impossible to make such deals with your poll-congressman, because he can make no promises whatsoever about how he will vote.
Umm... HAL-9000 was homicidal. Are we really acking for that?
Our reporter provides this:
Clerk: Question 1: has Oracle proved by preponderance of evidence that Google infringed?
Claim 11: not proven 27: no 29: no 39: no 40: no 41: no
Question 2: not proven 1: no 20: no
Question 3: no answer, no response, not applicable.
Unanimous. The jury is dismissed. There will be no damages phase for them to endure.
Hanlon's Razor applies here; there isn't likely some grand conspiracy. Most likely, "the (R) fellow" didn't like something somebody said about him in an anon comment. Probably something comparing his IQ to that of a fungus would be my guess.
A botnet of these things is not a pleasent thought at all. There are good reasons a lot of critical military hardware runs on sysems specced out with redundant hardware running different CPUs and OSes.
Precisely. Rather than being throttled by the slowest link in the internet between you and the server with the file, you effectively become throttled only by the speed of the internet connection your ISP is giving you. In other words, Bittorrent is the closest you can come to truly utilizing the pipe your ISP gives you.
This is why ISPs hate it. :-)
When someone starts talking about "truth" before (or without bothering) going into details, generally they are trying to blow smoke up my nether regions. If this is where you started from, IMHO they were quite right to be suspicous.
I'm not saying you're wrong...just in really really bad company at the moment.
Don't have a dog in this fight myself, and I think you are probably right. However, it could be that something different is going down here.
This is no longer your typical Republican electorate. They seem to have taken the position en-masse that making the existing mechanisim of government operate is far less important than having their own particular viewpoint "win". Why would this phenomenon restrict itself to the US government, and not surface in the party government as well?
To show you an example, here is some video from the recent Oklahoma state Republican Convention.
I'm still with you in thinking that everything will line up all nice and pretty for the cameras at the convention. But I won't be utterly shocked if it doesn't work out that way.
The problem is there is already a monkeywrench in it. Pretty much nothing has gotten done since 2010. They can't even agree on frigging lower court justices. Another four years like this and our entire federal Judicial system is liable to break down. And that's just one example.
If that's really what you want, then the sensible thing to do is vote for Obama and otherwise straight Republican. As long as they have at least 40 senate seats, and/or between 50 and 66% of the House (majority, but not enough to override vetoes) you'll be happy.
Gridlock 2012!
How wonderful that our imprisonment of these creatures is causing them mental and emotional problems resulting in behavior that is so useful for scientific study!