Government is the only entity charged with the legal use of force. Companies cannot compel you, with the threat of jail, incarceration, or otherwise.
You can always find another company to provide services. you can start your own to provide those services. What you can't be expected to do is leave a country because your rights aren't being honored.
While your fears might be somewhat justified, as long as lawmakers are rational, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. the logic goes like this:
we should ban images that necessarily are created during the commission of a henious sexual crime in order to protect the victims's privacy.
since hardcore pornography is indecent, people don't like it. but it doesn't meet the above requirements, so it can't be makde illegal.
i think its important to note that most advocates are not blocking 'child porn' because its indecent, its a matter of victims rights.
there are some images which the government won't allow released into the public. for instance, in the USA, when Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered, the public had no access to the gruesome crime scene photos, in order to protect the victims and their families.
I haven't done my research, so I don't know if British Telecom is a government operation or a private one. If it is private, its not censorship. censorship can only be performed by the government. those who enjoy child pornography could always buy different internet access from a different company.
oh, and to all those people saying that child pornography is fine to distribute but bad to make... that's bullshit. there is no way of making child pornography that doesn't victimize a child. if you make fat stacks of cash from selling drugs, the money is still dirty. if you make a child a victim by using them for sexual gratification, the pictures are still evil.
But Mr Cheney has not severed his links with Halliburton. Last year, he received $178,437 in deferred compensation from the company.
what a shoddy piece of journalism. His deferred compensation was coming no matter what. Cheney left haliburton's board of directors when tapped for vice president. However, in terminating his contract with the board, he was entitled to severance. he chose to take it over four years instead of all at once for tax reasons. to imply that he 'made' $178,000 last year is incorrect. he had already earned it but took the deferred compensation. He would have got it no matter who got that contact.
ten points if you can name another company that does what halliburton does, or another company that would take the work. Government work has half the margins of private sector work, its slum and the companies that take it suck. (raytheon is still a bad investment. and no one else makes the exact same missles they do.)
Nothing created today will give that benefit in my or my children's lifetime
if this standard was applied to all art, or all property ownership in general, it would be impossible or illegal to claim the rights to anything. The reason we have copyright for intellectual property and property rights for physical property are not whether it meets the trumped up standard you just mentioned. We have these rights because a man's labor is his. he is free to perform it without charge, he is free to perform it for charge, he is free not to perform it. this stems from his right to individual liberty, outlined in the declaration of independence. (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness). If he is free to work or not work, charge, bargain or trade for the results of his work, he is free. if the results of his labor are rather a 'community' thing, he is a slave to the opinion and actions of others who wish to dispose of his labor otherwise.
get off your geek ass and learn to play an instrument. Do it for ten years. five hours a day. maybe if your young enough, go to berkley. if not, study from a berkley student for $20/half hour.
then, after bloody lips (in the case of the trumpet, what I play) and tired fingers, play shitty shows that only your friends go to. sell homemade cds with inkjet printed album art. reek of smoke and get booed off stage.
Not every musician has a fairytale RIAA deal. and not every musician goes through the RIAA. and even if they do, its not yours to take. still.
When I was at U-Mass lowell, we had a guest speaker who worked with search and rescue robotics and was trying to start a small company to sell them to fire departments. He used dewalt drill batteries, in 18v configurations.
being in a robotics course ourselves, a lot of our questions focused on them. Being expensive and shortlived, the speaker explained that the newest line of dewalt drills had some sort of mechanism to 'recognize' different batteries. to keep the life long-lasting and decrease wasted charge time, the charger would be able to tell how many charges it had given this battery, would know when to stop, and would know enough not to 'hot charge' a battery that just came off of use.
of course, some other people want to do away with storing potential electricity alltogether, given the large amount of weight/stuff you need to store it. that's where stuff like fuel cells come in. store a fuel that we can easily convert to electricity instead, that might be lighter and take up less space and might hold more potential electricity.
hey, give credit where credit is due. the USPS is suprisingly efficient and actually pays back some money, it recieves very little funding outside of its own revenue stream.
Amtrak, however, is infrequent, and often more expensive than flying. I love trains, what happened with Amtrak is a fucking travesty.
yeah, WIMPs came out of PARC. I don't think that the concept is really the issue. Microsoft dumped a lot of money into marketing their version of WIMP; they called it Windows.
I think that many of us remember using Print Shop programs back in the late eighties early nineties. There really was only one Print Shop program/brand name, even though the concept of a Print Shop was duplicated by a lot. I think that Microsoft and others that brand a certain item with a certain term and then invest a lot in that marketing and product have a reasonable right to keep the rights to that name.
Microsoft had a windows copyright before Lindows was started. I think that might be the pertinent date. Lindows was derived from the success of the Windows program. There are plenty of original names/acronyms/etc that they could have picked that wouldn't have ridden the coattails of microsoft's money.
threat right away. After all, wasn't taking control of the means of production, nationalizing businesses, and launching major work programs all done in Nazi Germany? (and coincidentially, tenets of most major leftist organizations?). Don't forget, Nazi meant National Socialism. They took great care of their poor (the ones they didn't send to the ovens, that is).
I don't think that Buena Vista has tax breaks to lose. Rather, it doesn't want to alienate half the audience that sees Buena Vista films.
You see, even though I am not a fan of conservative christian politics, they are indeed a market force. The Passion of the Christ was an example of it. Simply put, Buena Vista does not want its name on something that could hurt future viewership of its films. Its a business decision, not a political one. Actually, the same thing happened with 'passion'. People felt that the draw on a film like that would be poor, and they felt that people would protest its literal interpretation of events, and they felt that most of America had become secularist (i wish) enough to pass on a film like that. I guess they were wrong.
Moore will find a distribution house, because there's probably a legitimate marketshare for his films (columbine did incredibly well for a film of its type.) However, businesses are enterprises that are to make money over what they spend in order to exist. Given that, they have to make choices about how to make that money; namely how to keep audiences and sell tickets. They don't have some 'community obligation' to go out of business because people boycott their films, as Moore as said. Its a free market, and Moore has done well. I hardly believe that he minds the major film studios snubbing him; it has created a lot of free publicity.
You are more right than you can imagine. the Internet is a self-regulated 'industry'... in the days that regulation began on phone networks, it was first in order to make order out of supposedly cutthroat businesses that government demanded was a 'public necessity'. Then it was in order to 'safeguard the public with 911 services'. Now there's no legitimate reason other than revenue stream to fund the states.
the internet and other architectures may have been borne out of government research, but they evolved without regulation from the government, hence its rapid growth and success. over the internet you can exchange thousands of times more data than a standard copper phone wire, yet somehow without a 'government standards board' (a la the fcc) things like IP addresses and industry communication standards were born.
slashdot user wants slashdot users to do his work for him!
do what I do when consulting: say anything is possible, but estimate something that can't possibily be affordable.
PS - Most campgrounds have one residential unit on the lot; its usually where the owners live and it usually can get cable. Contact the local cable company to see if they can provide high speed internet service to the residence, then base your wireless out of the residency (something on the roof, then repeaters)
statistics: world pop ~ 6 billion. land area of texas: 268,601 sq miles pop density of Paris: 86,670 people per sq mile. http://www.demographia.com/db-paris-history .htm (as of 1999 census)
6 billion divided by 268,601 is 22,337 people per sq mile. Less than paris. Of course, Texas is the 9th wettest state, so some of that sq mile is lake/river. so i fudged the numbers a bit. I still say it would be less dense than paris.
As far as the space numbers, its pure conjecture. Measuring the universe is tricky, but I have a funny feeling that the universe is so big that we're more likely to die trying to measure it rather than just populating. I hardly doubt that we could ever fill it up.
The universe is so practically infinite, your silly concerns are of no value. We could populate every planetary system in the milky way, create Trillions of humans, maybe even 10^100 humans, and take up MAYBE.005 % of the available planetary sytems in the universe. Probably not even that much.
Even now, on earth, you could have every human, now alive, live in the state of texas, with the population density of, say, paris.
While I hardly think that Powell and others are 'in the pocket' of the presidential administration, there are valid criticisms of Mr. Powell. What was a rational and forgiving approach to indeceny placed on TV (when Bono from U2 accidentally swore, FCC chose not to fine him, recognizing that it was a mistake) has now become a witchhunt on the subjective term 'indecency'.
I think the FCC's role was minimalized and trivialized as of late. They have a smaller role since the Internet is currently unregulated by the FCC largely, unlike phone or other companies. So now that they're twiddling thumbs, they feel they have to jump all over any minor outrage.
The assumption that open sourced software will destroy an industry is false. I believe the industry instead will destroy open source software.
Economies drive work and products produced. Software is a product, even if it is easily mass produced. If free software abounds, it means that companies can afford to run cheaper, making their bottom lines increase, and doing wonders for the economy.
As far as software is concerned, as long as developers take a salary, I highly doubt there will be a problem. If, all of the sudden, people writing open sourced software became slaves and refused to be paid, then, the software industry would be wrecked. But, since they require payment, (to feed themselves), then software won't necessarily always be free as in beer. and so the software industry will continue.
The inconvienece is that Magnetic card readers wear quickly and everyone gets mad at a multiple swipe purchases, or when it doesn't even work at all. At gas stations, where credit card is self-serve, its really convienent. Thats why mobil invented speedpass. so this is a speedpass for 'everywhere else'. I like it. anything that takes the cashier out of the equation so i can get on with my life instead of dealing with a snotty underpaid teen is a good thing.
arg, I hate pop culture. I bet this guy is a 'metrosexual' too. Let it die! techno-activism is a made up word. You're a fruit on a bike! There are tons of wireless hotspots out there anyways, the chances that you're doing the world even a minute's worth of good are slim to none. If you really want ubiquitous wireless net access, try, oh , say, setting up a hotspot in your house. Or donating to a cause or group or company who would set up these spots. The idea that your bike provides wifi is hardly useful. get a life, and this is coming from a computer geek.
two things, you're wrong about 'too expensive'... hair replacement surgery is cosmetic, and not limited by stupid insurance rules. simply put, there's a huge motivation for men and women to look good.
"In general, most of our patients invest anywhere between four thousand to twelve thousand dollars more or less per procedure"
From google answers: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=31 8929
Total national expenditure for hair transplants was $51,306,382 in 2003.
now, considering that the number would increase based on the fact that drugs like propecia and rogaine are merely symptom treaters, and don't work so well, we could see that number go up. I'd say its a booming industry.
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i believe the wright brothers were the first to trademark / copyright the word 'airport'. Apple will be hearing from my lawyers.
Government is the only entity charged with the legal use of force. Companies cannot compel you, with the threat of jail, incarceration, or otherwise.
You can always find another company to provide services. you can start your own to provide those services. What you can't be expected to do is leave a country because your rights aren't being honored.
While your fears might be somewhat justified, as long as lawmakers are rational, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. the logic goes like this:
we should ban images that necessarily are created during the commission of a henious sexual crime in order to protect the victims's privacy.
since hardcore pornography is indecent, people don't like it. but it doesn't meet the above requirements, so it can't be makde illegal.
i think its important to note that most advocates are not blocking 'child porn' because its indecent, its a matter of victims rights.
there are some images which the government won't allow released into the public. for instance, in the USA, when Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered, the public had no access to the gruesome crime scene photos, in order to protect the victims and their families.
I haven't done my research, so I don't know if British Telecom is a government operation or a private one. If it is private, its not censorship. censorship can only be performed by the government. those who enjoy child pornography could always buy different internet access from a different company.
oh, and to all those people saying that child pornography is fine to distribute but bad to make... that's bullshit. there is no way of making child pornography that doesn't victimize a child. if you make fat stacks of cash from selling drugs, the money is still dirty. if you make a child a victim by using them for sexual gratification, the pictures are still evil.
you have just been issued a challenge.
geeks are a group that hate to be told they 'can't'.
But Mr Cheney has not severed his links with Halliburton. Last year, he received $178,437 in deferred compensation from the company.
what a shoddy piece of journalism. His deferred compensation was coming no matter what.
Cheney left haliburton's board of directors when tapped for vice president. However, in terminating his contract with the board, he was entitled to severance. he chose to take it over four years instead of all at once for tax reasons. to imply that he 'made' $178,000 last year is incorrect. he had already earned it but took the deferred compensation. He would have got it no matter who got that contact.
ten points if you can name another company that does what halliburton does, or another company that would take the work. Government work has half the margins of private sector work, its slum and the companies that take it suck. (raytheon is still a bad investment. and no one else makes the exact same missles they do.)
Nothing created today will give that benefit in my or my children's lifetime
if this standard was applied to all art, or all property ownership in general, it would be impossible or illegal to claim the rights to anything. The reason we have copyright for intellectual property and property rights for physical property are not whether it meets the trumped up standard you just mentioned. We have these rights because a man's labor is his. he is free to perform it without charge, he is free to perform it for charge, he is free not to perform it. this stems from his right to individual liberty, outlined in the declaration of independence. (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness). If he is free to work or not work, charge, bargain or trade for the results of his work, he is free. if the results of his labor are rather a 'community' thing, he is a slave to the opinion and actions of others who wish to dispose of his labor otherwise.
I have a better idea.
get off your geek ass and learn to play an instrument. Do it for ten years. five hours a day. maybe if your young enough, go to berkley. if not, study from a berkley student for $20/half hour.
then, after bloody lips (in the case of the trumpet, what I play) and tired fingers, play shitty shows that only your friends go to.
sell homemade cds with inkjet printed album art. reek of smoke and get booed off stage.
Not every musician has a fairytale RIAA deal. and not every musician goes through the RIAA. and even if they do, its not yours to take. still.
not by smart batteries, but by smart chargers.
When I was at U-Mass lowell, we had a guest speaker who worked with search and rescue robotics and was trying to start a small company to sell them to fire departments. He used dewalt drill batteries, in 18v configurations.
being in a robotics course ourselves, a lot of our questions focused on them. Being expensive and shortlived, the speaker explained that the newest line of dewalt drills had some sort of mechanism to 'recognize' different batteries. to keep the life long-lasting and decrease wasted charge time, the charger would be able to tell how many charges it had given this battery, would know when to stop, and would know enough not to 'hot charge' a battery that just came off of use.
of course, some other people want to do away with storing potential electricity alltogether, given the large amount of weight/stuff you need to store it. that's where stuff like fuel cells come in. store a fuel that we can easily convert to electricity instead, that might be lighter and take up less space and might hold more potential electricity.
hey, give credit where credit is due. the USPS is suprisingly efficient and actually pays back some money, it recieves very little funding outside of its own revenue stream.
Amtrak, however, is infrequent, and often more expensive than flying. I love trains, what happened with Amtrak is a fucking travesty.
this means the US gets an automatic bonus in any war
automatic bonus? +1 to hit, or is it a +1 bonus against undead, europeans, and werecreatures?
yeah, WIMPs came out of PARC. I don't think that the concept is really the issue. Microsoft dumped a lot of money into marketing their version of WIMP; they called it Windows.
I think that many of us remember using Print Shop programs back in the late eighties early nineties. There really was only one Print Shop program/brand name, even though the concept of a Print Shop was duplicated by a lot. I think that Microsoft and others that brand a certain item with a certain term and then invest a lot in that marketing and product have a reasonable right to keep the rights to that name.
Microsoft had a windows copyright before Lindows was started. I think that might be the pertinent date. Lindows was derived from the success of the Windows program. There are plenty of original names/acronyms/etc that they could have picked that wouldn't have ridden the coattails of microsoft's money.
threat right away. After all, wasn't taking control of the means of production, nationalizing businesses, and launching major work programs all done in Nazi Germany? (and coincidentially, tenets of most major leftist organizations?). Don't forget, Nazi meant National Socialism. They took great care of their poor (the ones they didn't send to the ovens, that is).
I don't think that Buena Vista has tax breaks to lose. Rather, it doesn't want to alienate half the audience that sees Buena Vista films.
You see, even though I am not a fan of conservative christian politics, they are indeed a market force. The Passion of the Christ was an example of it. Simply put, Buena Vista does not want its name on something that could hurt future viewership of its films. Its a business decision, not a political one. Actually, the same thing happened with 'passion'. People felt that the draw on a film like that would be poor, and they felt that people would protest its literal interpretation of events, and they felt that most of America had become secularist (i wish) enough to pass on a film like that. I guess they were wrong.
Moore will find a distribution house, because there's probably a legitimate marketshare for his films (columbine did incredibly well for a film of its type.) However, businesses are enterprises that are to make money over what they spend in order to exist. Given that, they have to make choices about how to make that money; namely how to keep audiences and sell tickets. They don't have some 'community obligation' to go out of business because people boycott their films, as Moore as said. Its a free market, and Moore has done well. I hardly believe that he minds the major film studios snubbing him; it has created a lot of free publicity.
You are more right than you can imagine. the Internet is a self-regulated 'industry'... in the days that regulation began on phone networks, it was first in order to make order out of supposedly cutthroat businesses that government demanded was a 'public necessity'. Then it was in order to 'safeguard the public with 911 services'. Now there's no legitimate reason other than revenue stream to fund the states.
the internet and other architectures may have been borne out of government research, but they evolved without regulation from the government, hence its rapid growth and success. over the internet you can exchange thousands of times more data than a standard copper phone wire, yet somehow without a 'government standards board' (a la the fcc) things like IP addresses and industry communication standards were born.
slashdot user wants slashdot users to do his work for him!
do what I do when consulting: say anything is possible, but estimate something that can't possibily be affordable.
PS - Most campgrounds have one residential unit on the lot; its usually where the owners live and it usually can get cable. Contact the local cable company to see if they can provide high speed internet service to the residence, then base your wireless out of the residency (something on the roof, then repeaters)
statistics:y .htm
world pop ~ 6 billion.
land area of texas: 268,601 sq miles
pop density of Paris: 86,670 people per sq mile.
http://www.demographia.com/db-paris-histor
(as of 1999 census)
6 billion divided by 268,601 is 22,337 people per sq mile. Less than paris. Of course, Texas is the 9th wettest state, so some of that sq mile is lake/river. so i fudged the numbers a bit. I still say it would be less dense than paris.
As far as the space numbers, its pure conjecture. Measuring the universe is tricky, but I have a funny feeling that the universe is so big that we're more likely to die trying to measure it rather than just populating. I hardly doubt that we could ever fill it up.
The universe is so practically infinite, your silly concerns are of no value. We could populate every planetary system in the milky way, create Trillions of humans, maybe even 10^100 humans, and take up MAYBE .005 % of the available planetary sytems in the universe.
Probably not even that much.
Even now, on earth, you could have every human, now alive, live in the state of texas, with the population density of, say, paris.
While I hardly think that Powell and others are 'in the pocket' of the presidential administration, there are valid criticisms of Mr. Powell. What was a rational and forgiving approach to indeceny placed on TV (when Bono from U2 accidentally swore, FCC chose not to fine him, recognizing that it was a mistake) has now become a witchhunt on the subjective term 'indecency'.
I think the FCC's role was minimalized and trivialized as of late. They have a smaller role since the Internet is currently unregulated by the FCC largely, unlike phone or other companies. So now that they're twiddling thumbs, they feel they have to jump all over any minor outrage.
and the fact that you got modded up for saying so proves your point, people are acting like idiots.
The assumption that open sourced software will destroy an industry is false. I believe the industry instead will destroy open source software.
Economies drive work and products produced. Software is a product, even if it is easily mass produced. If free software abounds, it means that companies can afford to run cheaper, making their bottom lines increase, and doing wonders for the economy.
As far as software is concerned, as long as developers take a salary, I highly doubt there will be a problem. If, all of the sudden, people writing open sourced software became slaves and refused to be paid, then, the software industry would be wrecked. But, since they require payment, (to feed themselves), then software won't necessarily always be free as in beer. and so the software industry will continue.
Please translate this into Nvidia. Not all of us speak ATI-ese.
The inconvienece is that Magnetic card readers wear quickly and everyone gets mad at a multiple swipe purchases, or when it doesn't even work at all. At gas stations, where credit card is self-serve, its really convienent. Thats why mobil invented speedpass. so this is a speedpass for 'everywhere else'. I like it. anything that takes the cashier out of the equation so i can get on with my life instead of dealing with a snotty underpaid teen is a good thing.
Mixing public art with techno-activism
arg, I hate pop culture. I bet this guy is a 'metrosexual' too. Let it die! techno-activism is a made up word. You're a fruit on a bike! There are tons of wireless hotspots out there anyways, the chances that you're doing the world even a minute's worth of good are slim to none. If you really want ubiquitous wireless net access, try, oh , say, setting up a hotspot in your house. Or donating to a cause or group or company who would set up these spots. The idea that your bike provides wifi is hardly useful. get a life, and this is coming from a computer geek.
two things, you're wrong about 'too expensive'... hair replacement surgery is cosmetic, and not limited by stupid insurance rules. simply put, there's a huge motivation for men and women to look good.
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"In general, most of our patients invest anywhere between four thousand to twelve thousand dollars more or less per procedure"
From google answers: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=3
Total national expenditure for hair transplants was $51,306,382 in 2003.
now, considering that the number would increase based on the fact that drugs like propecia and rogaine are merely symptom treaters, and don't work so well, we could see that number go up. I'd say its a booming industry.