Independent of government interests, but not independent of corporate interests.
The U.S. public broadcasters seem to have a similar flavour and freedom as the BBC.
While Fox, CNN MSNBC et. al. exist entirely for profit and they're not judged on the quality of their news, but the palatability of thier content to their advertisers. The correlation between news and the public is a secondary effect of what the networks feel the advertisers feel the public wants to see... curbed by the advertisers' tendency to not want the public to see things which make the public adverse to particular forms of spending.
There are notable exceptions to the rule, but there are a lot of big stories which go ignored on "slow news days"
Hmmm... maybe it could be used to "recharge" thermoses for such things like preserving insulin on an extended camping trip, or a heat-activated system to keep other temperature-sensitve stuff from warming up in the event of refrigerator failure.
I've faced some pretty severe discrimiation in the rental market when searching with my girlfriend. It's impossible to know what other people are thinking, but my hunch was that they were wary of the fact that we were't married. I think they assumed we would break up and stiff them for the rent.
My mother also experienced a fair bit of discrimination when buying a house. Despite significant savings and assets, agents would tell her that she can't afford the house that she and my father were looking at, and that they should look to lesser areas.
I'm white, and I don't for a second doubt that the discrimination is real, but be sure to hesitate before anyone tries to convince you that it is race-related.
BTW, in my local market, it's a bad idea to call a selling agent directly. They'll assume that you don't know what you're doing, and consequently, you're not serious. Unless you're very shrewd, the best that can happen to you is that you'll get ripped off. Call an agent and have them represent you... it won't change the price, and don't let them lock you in to an exclusive agreement. In a normal real-estate transaction, neither the selling agent nor the seller ever need to see your face, your agent and lawyer does it all.
The rude selling agents you were speaking with may have just been fishing to find out if you had a real-estate background. Depending on the market, they might ignore you.
Highly variable stocks are easy to predict... they go up and down. Set your stops to buy low and sell high, and forget about it. Who cares why the stock is yo-yo'ing, it just is. Eventually you'll be holding a dud, but you might make many times the lost value of the stock on the difference over the course of the transactions. If you're particularly good, you might see that the pattern is about to break and pull out, but depending on that is gambling... but depending on continued variability is also gambling.
Corporations provide patent warchests which protect their products from frivilous patents. Non-frivilous patents and/or "patent profiteers" get paid off... since the objective isn't generally to crush the author of the software, but to profit from the software patent.
Linux to my knowledge hasn't needed to deal with any profiteers yet... probably because there would be too many lawsuits to launch.
Large corporate backers like IBM can protect Linux from strategic patents with their own patent warchest. Just as easily as IBM can protect their interests in DB/2, they can protect their interests in Linux.
In cases of "legitimate" patents, like GIF, or MP3, the free/open software community has responded by creating alternatives and generally honouring the patents.
It is the ultimate weakness of FOSS, and it is the only reason I know of that widespread adoption of FOSS is important to its continued existance.
Now if you hear a great song on the radio, so you go out and buy the CD, and despite promises that the CD is great, it sucks, has the record company stolen anything?
Why can't you hear unbiased reviews of music on the radio? has the record company stolen anything?
Why can't you return the CD? You might have made copies? Really? Has the record company stolen anything?
Why can't you play cool CD's in the barber shop while people abscond with their free hair cut? has the record company stolen anything?
Wait a minute, why can't you just produce your own CD's and play them on the public airwaves? Oh yeah, the record companies own the radios and are in colusion with the T.V. networks.
These analogies are just so dumb... Piracy is piracy, copyright violations are copyright violations, payola is a federal antitrust violation, the DMCA violates free speech and the record industry is as obsolete as records.
Not at all. I've spent time around a few in a few different countries, but I certainly don't know anything about the workings of the farm. As I said:
...but going back to "unnatural"... me, city-folk, I think it's awful to feed meat to a herbivoire.
...but I don't know a damned thing about farming, and there's the problem of "what else are you going to do with all the animal remains?"
My point regarding herbivoires is that if we observe cattle are built for eating vegetation and we call them herbivoires, it doesn't mean they can't get the same sustinence from meat. Words like "natural" don't fit into it...
Humans are part of the equation. I'd buy statments like "nontraditional" or "we don't fully understand the consequences", but the animals will eat the meat products, and we fully understand the consequence of not feeding the meat to the animals... there's additional energy and environmental impact from disposing of the waste.
If I were a farmer, I'd probably have no choice but to adhere to the practice. If I were a hobby-farmer, I don't have a clue what I would do... I'd probably pay somebody to haul off my animal remains... where they'll be rendered into feed anyways.
It sounds like you might be trying to get to some kind of point, do you have a better idea as to how to dispose of the animal remains? (aside from the world suddenly changing their mind about meat)
Careful about implying that causing a herbivoire to eat meat is "unnatural".
The real problem seems to be cannibalism of any form. There are a whole class of diseases which are strengthened by canibalism.
Whether or not similar effects are felt among closely related animals, I have no idea. The definition of "species" is really arbitrary when it comes to these diseases. I suppose there are succeptable animals, carriers and unsuceptable animals for any disease.
There's a theory out there that the disease can generate itself randomly and spontaneously, a protein mutation. If it weren't for canibalism, when the animal dies, the disease would normally die. So even with zero transmission, it would still appear in small amounts, but cannibalism amplifies the presence of the disease.
Maybe the short life span of most scavengers in relation to prion-diseases slowly pulls them out of the food chain. I don't know... just speculating.
...but going back to "unnatural"... me, city-folk, I think it's awful to feed meat to a herbivoire.
...but I don't know a damned thing about farming, and there's the problem of "what else are you going to do with all the animal remains?"
...but I need more coffee.
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Well yeah, but this is for when natures's solution fails. Kidneys and bone marrow solve the blood cell damage problem.:-)
I'm wondering about the little one-way valves throughout the body which aid the pulse. Does such a system damage or suffocate those valves?
Aren't there other systems in the body which depend on the pulse? Could the move to a pulseless heart make a later transplant less likely to be successful?
I think trust systems are the best option. Non technical users can have blobs of trust created by their ISP. e.g. MSN trusts that an MSN user is trustworthy, and AOL users are trustworthy, and other trustworthy providers. Technical users can trust friends, trust major service providers, trust friends of friends and revoke trust as abuses occur.
So AOL or MSN or whatever can establish the one account to one owner relationship. Randomly generated emails, even from valid addresses would be ignored since they're not signed by a trusted source (MS or AOL), and we all know the story for the rest of the web of trust.
People who sign up for verified accounts only to send spam must have accounts terminated promptly by providers. It's not futile anymore since the provider controls who gets their signature.
Simplifying the interface to the system without compromising the security of the system is the utterly most important aspect of such a system.
I have to agree that SPF doesn't make a lot of sense.
How are the licenses for PGP and GPG? I have to wonder why web mail environments haven't tried stuff like this. You could completely hide all the complexity within the service and between known PGP/GPG-happy services.
It's a fear of losing one's job by having one's employer tap into a lower-paid workforce.
The standard of living is threatened for all technical workers in the U.S. or similarly situated nations.
The same thing happened in the automotive industry with Japan. It worked out reasonably well, but only after a lot of bickering, regulation and hardship.
If that's true, I imagine it will be like in-line skates. They seemed to explode in popularity 20 years after the patent was filed.
I wonder if a Segway could get by on one wheel... ? run two gyros in opposite directions and straddle the wheel. Alter the position of the gyros relative to the wheel to turn and depend on internal friction in the gyro to induce some angular force.
It's a bad thing to leave your door unlocked and demand that the authortities will prevent people from walking into your house.
If you don't care about people walking into your house, then you shouldn't be surprised when your house is used for a bulk mail operation, brothel or some other unsavoury activity requiring anonymity.
If enough bulk mail operations opened in enough neighbourhoods becauase of unlocked doors, people would begin either 1. locking their neighbour's doors, or 2. burning down the houses with unlocked doors.
There's a minimum before you're delisted, I'm not sure what it is.
Also, if it gets really really low, a penny change begins to show a significant percentage in the value of the share. I've often wondered if you can profit from this rounding error by shifting money around in stable companies with low stock values. I.e. $1.264 rounded to $1.26 is a good buy, and you'll make a penny on a tenth of a cent increase, while you'll lose nothing for up to a 9/10 of a cent decrease.
I know it seems insignificant, but if it is possible, it would be abusing the rounding error by giving you a slight advantage in predicting a rise or drop of a share. I think there's a natural spread of buy/sell which prevents this though:-)
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Independent of government interests, but not independent of corporate interests.
The U.S. public broadcasters seem to have a similar flavour and freedom as the BBC.
While Fox, CNN MSNBC et. al. exist entirely for profit and they're not judged on the quality of their news, but the palatability of thier content to their advertisers. The correlation between news and the public is a secondary effect of what the networks feel the advertisers feel the public wants to see... curbed by the advertisers' tendency to not want the public to see things which make the public adverse to particular forms of spending.
There are notable exceptions to the rule, but there are a lot of big stories which go ignored on "slow news days"
Hmmm... maybe it could be used to "recharge" thermoses for such things like preserving insulin on an extended camping trip, or a heat-activated system to keep other temperature-sensitve stuff from warming up in the event of refrigerator failure.
It's misleading to call a young unsuspecting amateur geek "hot"
I agree it won't stop piracy, but I think such fine touches will encourage legitimate demand.
It's hard to do worse than par these days.
"... I would joke with my girlfriend ..."
I've faced some pretty severe discrimiation in the rental market when searching with my girlfriend. It's impossible to know what other people are thinking, but my hunch was that they were wary of the fact that we were't married. I think they assumed we would break up and stiff them for the rent.
My mother also experienced a fair bit of discrimination when buying a house. Despite significant savings and assets, agents would tell her that she can't afford the house that she and my father were looking at, and that they should look to lesser areas.
I'm white, and I don't for a second doubt that the discrimination is real, but be sure to hesitate before anyone tries to convince you that it is race-related.
BTW, in my local market, it's a bad idea to call a selling agent directly. They'll assume that you don't know what you're doing, and consequently, you're not serious. Unless you're very shrewd, the best that can happen to you is that you'll get ripped off. Call an agent and have them represent you... it won't change the price, and don't let them lock you in to an exclusive agreement. In a normal real-estate transaction, neither the selling agent nor the seller ever need to see your face, your agent and lawyer does it all.
The rude selling agents you were speaking with may have just been fishing to find out if you had a real-estate background. Depending on the market, they might ignore you.
Long highway mountain pass?
Most of these will be used as suburban shopping carts.
Quick, somebody publish a book called "agirlslifeonline.com" and sue them!
Highly variable stocks are easy to predict... they go up and down. Set your stops to buy low and sell high, and forget about it. Who cares why the stock is yo-yo'ing, it just is. Eventually you'll be holding a dud, but you might make many times the lost value of the stock on the difference over the course of the transactions. If you're particularly good, you might see that the pattern is about to break and pull out, but depending on that is gambling... but depending on continued variability is also gambling.
Corporations provide patent warchests which protect their products from frivilous patents. Non-frivilous patents and/or "patent profiteers" get paid off... since the objective isn't generally to crush the author of the software, but to profit from the software patent.
Linux to my knowledge hasn't needed to deal with any profiteers yet... probably because there would be too many lawsuits to launch.
Large corporate backers like IBM can protect Linux from strategic patents with their own patent warchest. Just as easily as IBM can protect their interests in DB/2, they can protect their interests in Linux.
In cases of "legitimate" patents, like GIF, or MP3, the free/open software community has responded by creating alternatives and generally honouring the patents.
It is the ultimate weakness of FOSS, and it is the only reason I know of that widespread adoption of FOSS is important to its continued existance.
You've left after wasting the barber's time!
Now if you hear a great song on the radio, so you go out and buy the CD, and despite promises that the CD is great, it sucks, has the record company stolen anything?
Why can't you hear unbiased reviews of music on the radio? has the record company stolen anything?
Why can't you return the CD? You might have made copies? Really? Has the record company stolen anything?
Why can't you play cool CD's in the barber shop while people abscond with their free hair cut? has the record company stolen anything?
Wait a minute, why can't you just produce your own CD's and play them on the public airwaves? Oh yeah, the record companies own the radios and are in colusion with the T.V. networks.
These analogies are just so dumb... Piracy is piracy, copyright violations are copyright violations, payola is a federal antitrust violation, the DMCA violates free speech and the record industry is as obsolete as records.
Not at all. I've spent time around a few in a few different countries, but I certainly don't know anything about the workings of the farm. As I said:
...but I don't know a damned thing about farming, and there's the problem of "what else are you going to do with all the animal remains?"
My point regarding herbivoires is that if we observe cattle are built for eating vegetation and we call them herbivoires, it doesn't mean they can't get the same sustinence from meat. Words like "natural" don't fit into it...
Humans are part of the equation. I'd buy statments like "nontraditional" or "we don't fully understand the consequences", but the animals will eat the meat products, and we fully understand the consequence of not feeding the meat to the animals... there's additional energy and environmental impact from disposing of the waste.
If I were a farmer, I'd probably have no choice but to adhere to the practice. If I were a hobby-farmer, I don't have a clue what I would do... I'd probably pay somebody to haul off my animal remains... where they'll be rendered into feed anyways.
It sounds like you might be trying to get to some kind of point, do you have a better idea as to how to dispose of the animal remains? (aside from the world suddenly changing their mind about meat)
Pens of very fat vultures maybe? :-)
That would only give you more precise information as to how bad your lens is.
I just want a cell phone with cheap service, but I have to subsidize everyone's f-ing full colour camera-phones with games and lovely music.
Of course I only want a cell because I can't find a payphone anymore.
Which means I need the cell about one or two times a month.
Careful about implying that causing a herbivoire to eat meat is "unnatural".
The real problem seems to be cannibalism of any form. There are a whole class of diseases which are strengthened by canibalism.
Whether or not similar effects are felt among closely related animals, I have no idea. The definition of "species" is really arbitrary when it comes to these diseases. I suppose there are succeptable animals, carriers and unsuceptable animals for any disease.
There's a theory out there that the disease can generate itself randomly and spontaneously, a protein mutation. If it weren't for canibalism, when the animal dies, the disease would normally die. So even with zero transmission, it would still appear in small amounts, but cannibalism amplifies the presence of the disease.
Maybe the short life span of most scavengers in relation to prion-diseases slowly pulls them out of the food chain. I don't know... just speculating.
...but going back to "unnatural"... me, city-folk, I think it's awful to feed meat to a herbivoire.
...but I don't know a damned thing about farming, and there's the problem of "what else are you going to do with all the animal remains?"
...but I need more coffee.
Well yeah, but this is for when natures's solution fails. Kidneys and bone marrow solve the blood cell damage problem. :-)
I'm wondering about the little one-way valves throughout the body which aid the pulse. Does such a system damage or suffocate those valves?
Aren't there other systems in the body which depend on the pulse? Could the move to a pulseless heart make a later transplant less likely to be successful?
I think trust systems are the best option. Non technical users can have blobs of trust created by their ISP. e.g. MSN trusts that an MSN user is trustworthy, and AOL users are trustworthy, and other trustworthy providers. Technical users can trust friends, trust major service providers, trust friends of friends and revoke trust as abuses occur.
So AOL or MSN or whatever can establish the one account to one owner relationship. Randomly generated emails, even from valid addresses would be ignored since they're not signed by a trusted source (MS or AOL), and we all know the story for the rest of the web of trust.
People who sign up for verified accounts only to send spam must have accounts terminated promptly by providers. It's not futile anymore since the provider controls who gets their signature.
Simplifying the interface to the system without compromising the security of the system is the utterly most important aspect of such a system.
I have to agree that SPF doesn't make a lot of sense.
How are the licenses for PGP and GPG? I have to wonder why web mail environments haven't tried stuff like this. You could completely hide all the complexity within the service and between known PGP/GPG-happy services.
It's pretty narrow minded to call it racism.
It's a fear of losing one's job by having one's employer tap into a lower-paid workforce.
The standard of living is threatened for all technical workers in the U.S. or similarly situated nations.
The same thing happened in the automotive industry with Japan. It worked out reasonably well, but only after a lot of bickering, regulation and hardship.
If that's true, I imagine it will be like in-line skates. They seemed to explode in popularity 20 years after the patent was filed.
I wonder if a Segway could get by on one wheel... ? run two gyros in opposite directions and straddle the wheel. Alter the position of the gyros relative to the wheel to turn and depend on internal friction in the gyro to induce some angular force.
Hmmm... might be fun to build a model.
So you're saying that they made a mistake, you raised the issue, and they corrected it.
The horror :-)
It's a bad thing to leave your door unlocked and demand that the authortities will prevent people from walking into your house.
If you don't care about people walking into your house, then you shouldn't be surprised when your house is used for a bulk mail operation, brothel or some other unsavoury activity requiring anonymity.
If enough bulk mail operations opened in enough neighbourhoods becauase of unlocked doors, people would begin either 1. locking their neighbour's doors, or 2. burning down the houses with unlocked doors.
Awful analogy really.
There's a minimum before you're delisted, I'm not sure what it is.
Also, if it gets really really low, a penny change begins to show a significant percentage in the value of the share. I've often wondered if you can profit from this rounding error by shifting money around in stable companies with low stock values. I.e. $1.264 rounded to $1.26 is a good buy, and you'll make a penny on a tenth of a cent increase, while you'll lose nothing for up to a 9/10 of a cent decrease.
I know it seems insignificant, but if it is possible, it would be abusing the rounding error by giving you a slight advantage in predicting a rise or drop of a share. I think there's a natural spread of buy/sell which prevents this though :-)
I think you're overstating it. You can go without water for a few days, you can go without food for a few weeks (provided you have water!).
Otherwise people would be dying of dehydration in their sleep :-)
How is the banking industry regulated in the U.S. then? Is it in the power of the state?
BTW, I was just digging a little, when I said "very small percentage", I seem to be incorrect. As of 1994, they don't need anything.
Great, now I'm stuck thinking "Spam Protection Factor" every time I see the acronymn SPF.
Thanks.