Nice strawman. We have long had effective traffic laws that, in conjunction with training for drivers of emergency vehicles, allows emergency vehicles to violate normal traffic code in a safe manner.
Unless you have some data showing emergency vehicles speeding or running red lights "endanger the lives of countless motorists and pedestrians" in a manner that outweighs the benefits of allowing them to do so, I think you're talking out of your ass.
IIRC that was because the regulation of certain substances was seen as falling under the Interstate Commerce Clause. The Interstate Commerce Clause trumps pretty much every question of states' rights, and is the driving force behind a lot of the growth of federal power. If the actions of this kid were in violation of a federal law, and that federal law was related, however tangentially, to interstate commerce, the outcome may have been very different.
Good analysis, but I was responding to a post that was (I think) asking what would happen if we had the ability to conjure things out of thin air. In that situation, the only things of value are creativity/invention, and maybe energy and land. If we ignore energy (hopefully it's plentiful) and land(it probably will not be), and assume works of creativity and/or invention can be immediately copied and distributed, what else could we base our economy on?
And if you weren't that famous and overused your limited fame would you go bankrupt?
Sort of. Making political comments may not have decreased the fame of actors like Tim Robbins and Bruce Willis, but it may have decreased the respect they get from some people, made them less "powerful", etc. It doesn't matter how famous you are any more, if every time someone sees you, their reaction is negative. You can no longer "barter" your fame as well as you could.
Not that I have a problem with hollywood types saying what they think. Just an example.
It's also worth pointing out that fame will, at least for the foreseeable future, be a scarce resource, and fame can get you all sorts of other cool stuff, like sex, respect, and power, which are all scarce as well.
It's possible money as a motivating factor for artists/engineers/designers/etc has worked out so well only because it gets you all those things, too. Can we just transition to a fame based economy?
I have a feeling it's that no good Dr. Genetic Imperative, up to no good again. Damn you, Dr. Genetic Imperative, and damn your sidekick Mr. Socio-cultural Pressure too! One day, the masses will rebel against you and your hundreds of millions of years of hardwired instinct!
(And in case it sounds like I'm talking about sex drive, I'm not)
you're paying $20 -- but you're still paying the other $80 in taxes. Government money doesn't come from the ether..
Government money doesn't come from the ether, it comes (mostly) from the wealthy. Saying 'you're still paying the other $80' isn't quite correct, since it's more likely you're paying $5 of that $80, and the upper class are paying $75 for you (depending on who 'you' are, of course).
That's a problem to some people, and a decided advantage of government health care to others.
I'm not sure this is really a big deal. The first time I played an mp3 on my Ubuntu installation it just popped up a notice that said something along the lines of "You can't play mp3s yet, do you want to download the software necessary to play mp3s?" and opened Synaptic with libmp3 checked. Is this really any worse than Windows with Xvid codecs needing to be installed?
Besides, no vendor ships with an untouched Windows installation; they install all kinds of (mostly) crap on there, so why can't Dell install libmp3 and other compression libraries?
You can't have light "later into the night." Night is what happens after there's no more light. DST shortens the amount of night (i.e. darkness) we can partake in before we're forced to scurry off to bed so we can get enough sleep before we wake up at some god awful time.
If you're a morning person though, setting the clock an hour forward means you get up closer to (or before!) when the morning actually starts (sunrise), rather than an extra hour into the morning. We all have to experience a little extra morning and a little less night during DST.
Under United States law, 47 U.S.C. 317, a radio station always has had the ability to play a specific song in exchange for money; however, this must be disclosed on the air as being sponsored airtime, and that play of the song should not be reported as a "spin". Some radio stations report spins of the newest and most popular songs to industry publications, which are then published. [...]On influential stations (and particularly on television) payola can become so commonplace that it becomes difficult for artists to get their records/videos played without offering some sort of payment.
There you go. My opinion: if radio stations were allowed to accept money for non-advertising plays of songs, only people who could pay would ever be broadcast, which is an abuse of a government granted monopoly.
Building on the AC's reply, you may have successfully performed a "Grand Jete,"* wherein a ballet dancer appears to float in mid air by using their legs and arms to change their center of mass.
Congratulations, you can now tell everyone you're a surfing ballerina. To me, that's cooler than believing you can defy gravity.:)
I've witnessed many times the average user's tendency to take an obscure acronym and mash it into a actual familiar word.
We should call it ECMAScript not to avoid confusion, but to hear the disturbing support calls related to the user's "eczema".
I'm guessing it's a hum because many scientists have seen it interfering with their data from their super sensitive equipment, whereas your comings and goings have contaminated few, if any, datasets.
What?! Where else am I supposed to post my hilarious photoshopped pictures of cats with taglines like "I'm in ur hospitalz, stealin yur vakseens"?! Massive mortality rates and social chaos be damned, the world needs its repetitive cat jokes!
I never played BG1, but I do remember some text from Imoen at the beginning of BG2 that said, basically, "He took all our stuff, I don't know where it is, so I guess we'll have to make do with whatever we can find." I assumed this was a way to hobble otherwise uber imported characters.
I know it was a joke, but...
Many campuses have their own PD and FD. Why?
10,000 staff.
25,000 students.
A couple square miles
It's basically a small, densely populated town...only with higher rates of rape, assault, drug use, theft, and copyright infringement.
You know, the big 5:)
Logically, though, people shouldn't view surgeons differently based on the actions of people who are not surgeons. Likewise, people should not judge the validity of beliefs of one religion based on the action or beliefs of people of another religion. You are right in pointing out that they will, but this is not a thought process we should encourage, and I suspect you are only happy about it because it would be detrimental to something you dislike, i.e. religion. "Guilt by association" type thought processes are almost as dangerous as religion, so please don't hope too hard.:)
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It's called Australia, after the only nation of any importance on it. Sort of like "America", but slightly less kick-ass.
:p
...it's still called shit.
(Actually, I didn't know caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine could exacerbate hearing loss/tinnitus. Thanks for the interesting post.)
Nice strawman. We have long had effective traffic laws that, in conjunction with training for drivers of emergency vehicles, allows emergency vehicles to violate normal traffic code in a safe manner.
Unless you have some data showing emergency vehicles speeding or running red lights "endanger the lives of countless motorists and pedestrians" in a manner that outweighs the benefits of allowing them to do so, I think you're talking out of your ass.
IANAL, so this may not be technically accurate.
IIRC that was because the regulation of certain substances was seen as falling under the Interstate Commerce Clause. The Interstate Commerce Clause trumps pretty much every question of states' rights, and is the driving force behind a lot of the growth of federal power. If the actions of this kid were in violation of a federal law, and that federal law was related, however tangentially, to interstate commerce, the outcome may have been very different.
Not that I have a problem with hollywood types saying what they think. Just an example.
It's also worth pointing out that fame will, at least for the foreseeable future, be a scarce resource, and fame can get you all sorts of other cool stuff, like sex, respect, and power, which are all scarce as well.
It's possible money as a motivating factor for artists/engineers/designers/etc has worked out so well only because it gets you all those things, too. Can we just transition to a fame based economy?
No no, us AB+ prefer "All your blood can belong to me" /obvious
I have a feeling it's that no good Dr. Genetic Imperative, up to no good again. Damn you, Dr. Genetic Imperative, and damn your sidekick Mr. Socio-cultural Pressure too! One day, the masses will rebel against you and your hundreds of millions of years of hardwired instinct!
(And in case it sounds like I'm talking about sex drive, I'm not)
That's a problem to some people, and a decided advantage of government health care to others.
I'm not sure this is really a big deal. The first time I played an mp3 on my Ubuntu installation it just popped up a notice that said something along the lines of "You can't play mp3s yet, do you want to download the software necessary to play mp3s?" and opened Synaptic with libmp3 checked. Is this really any worse than Windows with Xvid codecs needing to be installed?
Besides, no vendor ships with an untouched Windows installation; they install all kinds of (mostly) crap on there, so why can't Dell install libmp3 and other compression libraries?
You can't have light "later into the night." Night is what happens after there's no more light. DST shortens the amount of night (i.e. darkness) we can partake in before we're forced to scurry off to bed so we can get enough sleep before we wake up at some god awful time.
If you're a morning person though, setting the clock an hour forward means you get up closer to (or before!) when the morning actually starts (sunrise), rather than an extra hour into the morning. We all have to experience a little extra morning and a little less night during DST.
Or maybe it does work, with the unfortunate side effect of the computers constantly crashing into Mars.
There you go. My opinion: if radio stations were allowed to accept money for non-advertising plays of songs, only people who could pay would ever be broadcast, which is an abuse of a government granted monopoly.
Building on the AC's reply, you may have successfully performed a "Grand Jete,"* wherein a ballet dancer appears to float in mid air by using their legs and arms to change their center of mass.
:)
Congratulations, you can now tell everyone you're a surfing ballerina. To me, that's cooler than believing you can defy gravity.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet
Wow, a false trichotomy! Logical fallacies have reached new heights on slashdot!
I've witnessed many times the average user's tendency to take an obscure acronym and mash it into a actual familiar word. We should call it ECMAScript not to avoid confusion, but to hear the disturbing support calls related to the user's "eczema".
San Francisco.
I'm guessing it's a hum because many scientists have seen it interfering with their data from their super sensitive equipment, whereas your comings and goings have contaminated few, if any, datasets.
What?! Where else am I supposed to post my hilarious photoshopped pictures of cats with taglines like "I'm in ur hospitalz, stealin yur vakseens"?! Massive mortality rates and social chaos be damned, the world needs its repetitive cat jokes!
I never played BG1, but I do remember some text from Imoen at the beginning of BG2 that said, basically, "He took all our stuff, I don't know where it is, so I guess we'll have to make do with whatever we can find." I assumed this was a way to hobble otherwise uber imported characters.
This division in our ranks is merely imaginary; don't let it keep us from finding the root of the problem.
I know it was a joke, but... :)
Many campuses have their own PD and FD. Why?
10,000 staff.
25,000 students.
A couple square miles
It's basically a small, densely populated town...only with higher rates of rape, assault, drug use, theft, and copyright infringement.
You know, the big 5
Abstinence doesn't prevent unauthorized physical access. Besides, penetration testing is a vital part of security.
Now I need to go take a shower.
Logically, though, people shouldn't view surgeons differently based on the actions of people who are not surgeons. Likewise, people should not judge the validity of beliefs of one religion based on the action or beliefs of people of another religion. You are right in pointing out that they will, but this is not a thought process we should encourage, and I suspect you are only happy about it because it would be detrimental to something you dislike, i.e. religion. "Guilt by association" type thought processes are almost as dangerous as religion, so please don't hope too hard. :)
And for the record, I don't like religion either.