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Re:Are there any meteorologist nerds here?
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If all the icecaps melted, sea levels would rise about 90 meters. In the worst case that is remotely plausible (the Greenland and other Arctic island icecaps melt; the Antarctic ice cap shrinks a bit), sea levels would rise 5-10 meters.
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America as a nation has always consisted on immigrants, be they from Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France, and lands further out.
Yes, and the same sort of stereotypes (e.g. of the Irish as drunken bums) were commonplace at the time.
Ultimately, the problem is not with ethnicity per se but of the breakdown of the social institutions that encourage new arrivals* to join in America's overall success**.
*While African-Americans are not new arrivals in the literal sense of the word, the removal of barriers to middle-class and better status is relatively recent.
Which word of the phrase "to scan people walking in the streets" produced the "404: Not Found Within My Vocabulary" error?
Nobody has a right to enter my private property unless I say so. Everybody has a right to walk the public streets unless they have specifically forfeited that right by committing a crime which is punished by incarceration. Conditions (e.g. having a picture taken) may therefore be imposed arbitrarily for the former, but not for the latter.
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The real flaw in your logic is that taking a ride in a jet is disruptive to normal ongoing operations. Making source code available is not disruptive to normal ongoing operations.
The point of the GPL is to prevent someone from modifying GPL code and releasing the modified version as closed-source executables only. I trust that I needn't bore the/. crowd with a detailed explanation of how the release of a similar but not-quite-compatible version of an existing standard can be "disruptive to normal ongoing operations". /.
It's no good to have a cryptic password unless it makes some sort of sense to the user. If it's too complicated, the user has to write it down, thereby breaching security.
There are mnemonic tricks to help (e.g. first letters of the words of an easily-remembered phrase, perhaps with a few complications thrown in along the lines of "capitalize the letter if the word is a noun; take the number of letters in the word if the word is a verb"). For instance, "Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm off from an anointed king" keyes the reasonably cryptic "natWitrrS34tBofaaK" -- which can be keyed in at close to normal typing speed with a bit of practice. /.
This simple fact is that driving 55 mph when the surrounding traffic is moving at 70-75 mph is more, not less, dangerous -- to other drivers as well as to one's self.
ACME had better have itself some damn good lawyers.... /.
Re:There is no reasonable expectation of privacy
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Where is the "-1, Kook" option? "Troll" doesn't really cover this one.... /.
OK, this time you made it 944 words without using the term "Corporate Republic". C'mon, Jon -- a few brain workouts, a few pep talks, and you can make it to 1000. I believe in you! /.
There is already a legal doctrine of "hot pursuit", allowing the police to go where necessary when chasing down a fugitive.
As for emergency situations in general, the best policy (for police or anyone else) is to do what you have to, but be prepared to explain yourself to a court of law afterward and go to jail if they don't buy your explanation.
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This is done so as to not rob the movie of any money to be made in its theatrical run.
This language implies that the studios have some sort of natural right to continue making profits using their existing business models, forever and ever, amen. They don't.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
--Robert A. Heinlein, "Life-Line"
Inasmuch that the whole cartel arrangement depends upon novel notions of copyright law (extending it to cover restrictions on content access as well as content copying) enacted at the behest of industry lobbying, it is government price-fixing. /.
I don't know how much the Village Voice pays its writers, but I rather suspect that Dibbell feels that some geeks have symbolically cast his bank account in a bad light. /.
Having artists get paid for their music deserves a "Yikes"?
The recording industry has cried wolf too many times, and cloaked new restrictions (e.g. technical interference with legal backup copies and fair-use excerpting, DVD region cartelization) under the color of established copyright protection too many times. It has reached a point where belief that they are sincerely attempting to protect the artists' legitimate interests is as naive as belief in Santa Claus. /.
You've got is bass ackwards -- the corrpution causes the poverty, because there's no point in building wealth if El Presidente's second cousin can put the squeeze on you (er, "require some additional permit fees") or just plain steal (er, "confiscate") your business.
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Hypothetical question: If you knew that the information gathered would never be used against you per se (unless you were doing something illegal), would you still be opposed to Echelon?
Yes.
1. Keeping the government itself within the bounds of the law is necessary if "law" is to be anything other than a cynical excuse for the powerful to do whatever they want. This remains true even if the particular abuses committed by lawless government agents are set aside for the sake of argument.
At this point, I suppose that someone will raise some variation of the "the Constitution is not a suicide pact" argument. The answer to this argument is simple: if a government agent really believes that he has to do something illegal to prevent a catastrophe, then he should do it and take his chances of going to prison for it (a la G. Gordon Liddy, who at least deserves respect for taking his lumps and not whining about it).
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If all the icecaps melted, sea levels would rise about 90 meters. In the worst case that is remotely plausible (the Greenland and other Arctic island icecaps melt; the Antarctic ice cap shrinks a bit), sea levels would rise 5-10 meters.
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Yes, and the same sort of stereotypes (e.g. of the Irish as drunken bums) were commonplace at the time.
Ultimately, the problem is not with ethnicity per se but of the breakdown of the social institutions that encourage new arrivals* to join in America's overall success**.
*While African-Americans are not new arrivals in the literal sense of the word, the removal of barriers to middle-class and better status is relatively recent.
**Obviously "overall success" != "perfection"
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Nobody has a right to enter my private property unless I say so. Everybody has a right to walk the public streets unless they have specifically forfeited that right by committing a crime which is punished by incarceration. Conditions (e.g. having a picture taken) may therefore be imposed arbitrarily for the former, but not for the latter.
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The point of the GPL is to prevent someone from modifying GPL code and releasing the modified version as closed-source executables only. I trust that I needn't bore the /. crowd with a detailed explanation of how the release of a similar but not-quite-compatible version of an existing standard can be "disruptive to normal ongoing operations".
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There are mnemonic tricks to help (e.g. first letters of the words of an easily-remembered phrase, perhaps with a few complications thrown in along the lines of "capitalize the letter if the word is a noun; take the number of letters in the word if the word is a verb"). For instance, "Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm off from an anointed king" keyes the reasonably cryptic "natWitrrS34tBofaaK" -- which can be keyed in at close to normal typing speed with a bit of practice.
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If that argument were sufficient, I would be drop in at Andrews Air Force Base and demand a ride on one of the planes of which I am a "co-owner".
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Establishing a special case where it is true will no doubt be used to support FUD assertions that it is true in general.
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ACME had better have itself some damn good lawyers....
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Where is the "-1, Kook" option? "Troll" doesn't really cover this one....
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Given the FBI's record (*cough*COINTELPRO*cough*), that is the prudent assumption.
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OK, this time you made it 944 words without using the term "Corporate Republic". C'mon, Jon -- a few brain workouts, a few pep talks, and you can make it to 1000. I believe in you!
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As for emergency situations in general, the best policy (for police or anyone else) is to do what you have to, but be prepared to explain yourself to a court of law afterward and go to jail if they don't buy your explanation.
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This language implies that the studios have some sort of natural right to continue making profits using their existing business models, forever and ever, amen. They don't.
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Inasmuch that the whole cartel arrangement depends upon novel notions of copyright law (extending it to cover restrictions on content access as well as content copying) enacted at the behest of industry lobbying, it is government price-fixing.
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Well, then, they have two and only two legitimate options: get it into the cinema earlier or release the DVD later.
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I don't know how much the Village Voice pays its writers, but I rather suspect that Dibbell feels that some geeks have symbolically cast his bank account in a bad light.
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Bill Clinton has already stated in public that he did not have sex with Monica Lewinsky.
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***BBZZZTTT!!*** Thank you for playing.
From the original message in the thread:
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Well, then, don't include that crap in your design. Duh.
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The recording industry has cried wolf too many times, and cloaked new restrictions (e.g. technical interference with legal backup copies and fair-use excerpting, DVD region cartelization) under the color of established copyright protection too many times. It has reached a point where belief that they are sincerely attempting to protect the artists' legitimate interests is as naive as belief in Santa Claus.
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You've got is bass ackwards -- the corrpution causes the poverty, because there's no point in building wealth if El Presidente's second cousin can put the squeeze on you (er, "require some additional permit fees") or just plain steal (er, "confiscate") your business.
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OK.... so, where's the "-1: Can't Distinguish Between Quoted Text and Author's Comments" option?
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At the rate he's going, it's only a matter of time before he starts talking about Henry Kissenger and the Queen of England.
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Yes.
1. Keeping the government itself within the bounds of the law is necessary if "law" is to be anything other than a cynical excuse for the powerful to do whatever they want. This remains true even if the particular abuses committed by lawless government agents are set aside for the sake of argument.
At this point, I suppose that someone will raise some variation of the "the Constitution is not a suicide pact" argument. The answer to this argument is simple: if a government agent really believes that he has to do something illegal to prevent a catastrophe, then he should do it and take his chances of going to prison for it (a la G. Gordon Liddy, who at least deserves respect for taking his lumps and not whining about it).
2. "Doing something illegal" != "Doing something wrong".
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