I would think that the foreign policy of the country in which the content creator resides would be the biggest threat to you, rather than the laws of the foreign countries themselves.
If you live in a country where the government is happy to let China stamp on your civil rights the way they deal with student uprisings, then you probably want to stick to making Blogs about high school life, but it's all content relevant.
Look at the Yahoo auctions for Nazi memorabilia for example. The US courts knocked down that French injunction eventually.
Unless you're actually violating federal or state/provincial law in the US or Canada, I'm assuming that you're pretty much safe in publishing whatever you want. But step over that line, and you may find that a foreign dictator has some nice pointy bamboo sticks to insert in places you never considered.
Not only that, what's the city's current homeless situation? Or the ratio of students to teachers in the classroom?
Couldn't this money be better spent dealing with real issues? Broadband is *not* a necessity of life. (uh oh, I can hear the mob lining up outside the door now:P )
So if you download Kazaa to pirate music and someone gets info on your machine specs then too damn bad.
That's like a busted drug ring complaining to the judge because they set up a new crackhouse, and an undercover cop happened to work that neighborhood.
Be aware of what you run. If you're going to run software that's intended purpose is to rip people off, don't expect to get off scott free yourself.
(not targeting you specifically Bert, just some of the threads in general)
(and let's not hear another "But we're just taking money from the record companies!" rant please:) )
Lucas is still targeting the same demographic...
KIDS.
Not the generation of 20 years ago who went and saw the first movies as children.
He's targetting TODAYS kids.
And things like Jar Jar and NSYNC are just what little kids like.
Sure there's stuff for the parents to enjoy as well, but this is an action/adventure series for older children / young adolescents.
It's not OUR Star Wars. It never was. It was Lucas's all this time.
It wasn't the fiery balrog that sucked me in, nor any of the really over the top special FX. It was the subtleties, like how the size of the characters just seemed to work. The only reason Frodo or Sam looked a little out of place sometimes is because we've all seen Elijah and Sean in other movies.
It's been 19 years since I read the books, but even I noticed changes here and there. Nothing that kills the spirit of the movie though. The characters, especially Viggo Mortensen's Aragorn are portrayed beautifully.
The ringwraiths get the CG treatment too, but rather than trying to make them in-your-face, almost everything about them seems understated... something which makes them even more menacing. They're just predatory shadows waiting to run you down.
Liv Tyler and Cate Blanchett make me wish I could speak Elvish and that I had an exceptionally large tree under wish Santa would leave them.
It rocks, but it does leave you hungry for more. At first I thought the emptiness I felt was disappointment, but it was just hunger for the next two parts.
This is a definite must see movie for anyone who has ever enjoyed Tolkien or the genre of fantasy in general.
Psst. Sonar is effective at distances far beyond visual range or curvature of the horizon, thanks to thermals in the ocean currents.
Sure you can't pinpoint a ships location exactly, but you'll be able to tell it's there. Admittedly though, this is more applicable to submarines and humpback whales than surface ships, unless the thermals are quite close to the surface.
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For those who haven't figured it out yet, he was being facetious when he posted that. (Hopefully anyway, hehe)
I still think the media could have a field day with a quote like that from a "reputable source". Damn journalists. Kill 'em all. Let the ethics committees sort 'em out.
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I bet you're quoted on CNN and MSNBC before day's end.
But you're no less a troll.
There's no proof that global-warming is anything more than a theory. Climatologists admit that the science of tracking weather and atmosphere is still too young in the overall age of the earth. (Think one quarter in a stack that goes halfway to the moon.) Can you predict how the Earth's atmospheric trends will continue based on a minute fragment of incomplete information? You're a better man than I, Gunga Din. After all, scientists are still trying to figure out why weather patterns in the past have occured, let alone those of the future. Be is solar flares and radiation, farting cows, or hostile alien algae from Alpha Centauri.
I have the same (or similar condition) where I focus with one eye at a time. As a baby the doctor observed I wasn't using one eye at all and it became a "lazy" eye. So they corrected the muscle tissue with surgery, and brought them into near-perfect alignment. But I still faced the threat of going blind in one eye. So the doctor told my mother how to train me to switch dominant eyes regularly and work the muscles that allow me to focus. Thanks to that training I didn't even need glasses in school until junior high.
Things like windshield wipers are a problem though... when they move to the left, my right eye becomes dominant, and vice versa. Imagine switching eyes 2000-3000 times an hour? Serious headache.
But there's a point to this babbling...
During a routine eye checkup last year for new glasses, I saw an optometrist I hadn't seen before. When I was unable to complete one of the tests he gave me that required both eyes in focus at the same time, he got testy while I explained the situation and kept trying to force the issue by adjusting the distance between lenses. Finally he blurted out that my doctor must have been an idiot and it would have been better that I go blind in one eye.
Can you believe the ignorance of some of todays medical/optical practitioners?
Even without "perfect" vision or "perfect" depth perception I could still have put a dart in his eye from across the room.
Different isn't necessarily bad, and if any of you ever have children that possess what one doctor calls a handicap, look for other doctors who may find a way to change it to a minor setback.
A PhD just means that you were willing enough to focus on specifics for one subject.
Would you hire a PhD in Etruscan Art to run your BSD Network? Obviously they're smart enough. But do they KNOW enough?
I buy a rare black pearl, and a safe. I tell no one else I have either. I hide them where no one will find them.
If someone finds the combination to the safe, it doesn't matter, because the safe is nowhere to be found.
Think of it as natural selection at work...
The paranoid will use these paths to avoid the "all seeing eye of Big Brother"...
and the criminal element will use it to cull the paranoid from the herd.
Yes, some people will argue these cameras infringe on privacy, but they don't point into your home. If you've ever bought People magazine, which often infringes on people's right to privacy more than any street camera, then you've no right to complain.:)
This reason is why talk shows have such a ready supply of fodder to foist upon us.
There's a cultural phenomenon that equates television or media with fame... and a lot of people want that 15 minutes. It's kind of like the saying "there's no such thing as bad publicity."
So you see that guy who works at the 7-11 who doesn't have a college education (but he seems bright enough and talks normal) turn up on a talk show speaking in sterotypical patterns and acting completely inverse to his normal character simply because he's in front of a camera, and people he knows will see him on tv!
Personally having found the media doesn't really have any use for the common man unless they're making him look bad, I'd opt to stay the hell away from being in television or print media unless I had just done sometime really positive and was willing to accept the attention.
I had an encyclopedia of submarines when I was 10 or so (19 years ago, i was a weird little kid, but then so were most of us reading this), and the first submarine that actually capable of being being controlled by the pilot was invented by a frenchman.
He drowned on the maiden voyage when he buggered his ballast and sank to the bottom of a lake.
Of course Bill Gates is the father of Open-Source. Apparently he used the same midwife that Al Gore did when he gave birth to the Internet.
Next thing you know Rosie O'Donnell is going to claim that she invented the chubby, annoying talk show host.
What happens when the FBIs little magic lantern grabs the passwords from a users computer outside the United States?
I don't mind a extra security measures applied to the net, but the US has to realize that it is not long the be-all end-all of the net.
On another note, how do I protect my porn passwords from those deviant J Edgar Hoover clones?
Under Canadian copyright law, if I create something, then I have the copyright on it. As long as I can prove I did it before someone else I don't even have to register it.
So any phone number (melody) I might have dialed on my touch tone phone 15 years ago, is already in copyright and therefore these bastards are infringing on my rights as a composer as well!:)
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hasn't Slashdot been posting some advertisements as news recently? :P
:)
at least yahoo had the advertisement header
I would think that the foreign policy of the country in which the content creator resides would be the biggest threat to you, rather than the laws of the foreign countries themselves.
If you live in a country where the government is happy to let China stamp on your civil rights the way they deal with student uprisings, then you probably want to stick to making Blogs about high school life, but it's all content relevant.
Look at the Yahoo auctions for Nazi memorabilia for example. The US courts knocked down that French injunction eventually.
Unless you're actually violating federal or state/provincial law in the US or Canada, I'm assuming that you're pretty much safe in publishing whatever you want. But step over that line, and you may find that a foreign dictator has some nice pointy bamboo sticks to insert in places you never considered.
Not only that, what's the city's current homeless situation? Or the ratio of students to teachers in the classroom? :P )
Couldn't this money be better spent dealing with real issues? Broadband is *not* a necessity of life. (uh oh, I can hear the mob lining up outside the door now
To buy a ticket, just click it.
And you don't even have to go outdoors until the day of the movie! It's like ordering groceries on the web!
If I was sitting in an expensive restaurant and I had to put up with your cell phone ringing all the time, I'd threaten your life too :P
So if you download Kazaa to pirate music and someone gets info on your machine specs then too damn bad.
:) )
That's like a busted drug ring complaining to the judge because they set up a new crackhouse, and an undercover cop happened to work that neighborhood.
Be aware of what you run. If you're going to run software that's intended purpose is to rip people off, don't expect to get off scott free yourself.
(not targeting you specifically Bert, just some of the threads in general)
(and let's not hear another "But we're just taking money from the record companies!" rant please
Lucas is still targeting the same demographic...
KIDS.
Not the generation of 20 years ago who went and saw the first movies as children.
He's targetting TODAYS kids.
And things like Jar Jar and NSYNC are just what little kids like.
Sure there's stuff for the parents to enjoy as well, but this is an action/adventure series for older children / young adolescents.
It's not OUR Star Wars. It never was. It was Lucas's all this time.
It wasn't the fiery balrog that sucked me in, nor any of the really over the top special FX. It was the subtleties, like how the size of the characters just seemed to work. The only reason Frodo or Sam looked a little out of place sometimes is because we've all seen Elijah and Sean in other movies.
It's been 19 years since I read the books, but even I noticed changes here and there. Nothing that kills the spirit of the movie though. The characters, especially Viggo Mortensen's Aragorn are portrayed beautifully.
The ringwraiths get the CG treatment too, but rather than trying to make them in-your-face, almost everything about them seems understated... something which makes them even more menacing. They're just predatory shadows waiting to run you down.
Liv Tyler and Cate Blanchett make me wish I could speak Elvish and that I had an exceptionally large tree under wish Santa would leave them.
It rocks, but it does leave you hungry for more. At first I thought the emptiness I felt was disappointment, but it was just hunger for the next two parts.
This is a definite must see movie for anyone who has ever enjoyed Tolkien or the genre of fantasy in general.
Psst. Sonar is effective at distances far beyond visual range or curvature of the horizon, thanks to thermals in the ocean currents.
Sure you can't pinpoint a ships location exactly, but you'll be able to tell it's there. Admittedly though, this is more applicable to submarines and humpback whales than surface ships, unless the thermals are quite close to the surface.
For those who haven't figured it out yet, he was being facetious when he posted that. (Hopefully anyway, hehe)
I still think the media could have a field day with a quote like that from a "reputable source". Damn journalists. Kill 'em all. Let the ethics committees sort 'em out.
I bet you're quoted on CNN and MSNBC before day's end.
But you're no less a troll.
There's no proof that global-warming is anything more than a theory. Climatologists admit that the science of tracking weather and atmosphere is still too young in the overall age of the earth. (Think one quarter in a stack that goes halfway to the moon.) Can you predict how the Earth's atmospheric trends will continue based on a minute fragment of incomplete information? You're a better man than I, Gunga Din. After all, scientists are still trying to figure out why weather patterns in the past have occured, let alone those of the future. Be is solar flares and radiation, farting cows, or hostile alien algae from Alpha Centauri.
I have the same (or similar condition) where I focus with one eye at a time. As a baby the doctor observed I wasn't using one eye at all and it became a "lazy" eye. So they corrected the muscle tissue with surgery, and brought them into near-perfect alignment. But I still faced the threat of going blind in one eye. So the doctor told my mother how to train me to switch dominant eyes regularly and work the muscles that allow me to focus. Thanks to that training I didn't even need glasses in school until junior high.
Things like windshield wipers are a problem though... when they move to the left, my right eye becomes dominant, and vice versa. Imagine switching eyes 2000-3000 times an hour? Serious headache.
But there's a point to this babbling...
During a routine eye checkup last year for new glasses, I saw an optometrist I hadn't seen before. When I was unable to complete one of the tests he gave me that required both eyes in focus at the same time, he got testy while I explained the situation and kept trying to force the issue by adjusting the distance between lenses. Finally he blurted out that my doctor must have been an idiot and it would have been better that I go blind in one eye.
Can you believe the ignorance of some of todays medical/optical practitioners?
Even without "perfect" vision or "perfect" depth perception I could still have put a dart in his eye from across the room.
Different isn't necessarily bad, and if any of you ever have children that possess what one doctor calls a handicap, look for other doctors who may find a way to change it to a minor setback.
It's that information travels at the speed of light, but ignorance bends time and space.
The enlightened net user will remain a myth as long as Britney Spears and her ilk remain the most sought after subjects of search engines.
A PhD just means that you were willing enough to focus on specifics for one subject.
Would you hire a PhD in Etruscan Art to run your BSD Network? Obviously they're smart enough. But do they KNOW enough?
I think of security through obscurity this way...
I buy a rare black pearl, and a safe. I tell no one else I have either. I hide them where no one will find them.
If someone finds the combination to the safe, it doesn't matter, because the safe is nowhere to be found.
Think of it as natural selection at work...
:)
The paranoid will use these paths to avoid the "all seeing eye of Big Brother"...
and the criminal element will use it to cull the paranoid from the herd.
Yes, some people will argue these cameras infringe on privacy, but they don't point into your home. If you've ever bought People magazine, which often infringes on people's right to privacy more than any street camera, then you've no right to complain.
ah crap. I meant the italics to end at "tv!".
This reason is why talk shows have such a ready supply of fodder to foist upon us.
There's a cultural phenomenon that equates television or media with fame... and a lot of people want that 15 minutes. It's kind of like the saying "there's no such thing as bad publicity."
So you see that guy who works at the 7-11 who doesn't have a college education (but he seems bright enough and talks normal) turn up on a talk show speaking in sterotypical patterns and acting completely inverse to his normal character simply because he's in front of a camera, and people he knows will see him on tv!
Personally having found the media doesn't really have any use for the common man unless they're making him look bad, I'd opt to stay the hell away from being in television or print media unless I had just done sometime really positive and was willing to accept the attention.
The sub worked... he just didn't do so well as a pilot :)
The first american sub.
I had an encyclopedia of submarines when I was 10 or so (19 years ago, i was a weird little kid, but then so were most of us reading this), and the first submarine that actually capable of being being controlled by the pilot was invented by a frenchman.
He drowned on the maiden voyage when he buggered his ballast and sank to the bottom of a lake.
If, according to some of the posts, an inaccurate translation is the safest way to go, then they should have used Babelfish.
"You have discovered the wheel."
"You have discovered metal employment."
"You have discovered waffle pigeon."
Of course Bill Gates is the father of Open-Source. Apparently he used the same midwife that Al Gore did when he gave birth to the Internet.
Next thing you know Rosie O'Donnell is going to claim that she invented the chubby, annoying talk show host.
What happens when the FBIs little magic lantern grabs the passwords from a users computer outside the United States?
I don't mind a extra security measures applied to the net, but the US has to realize that it is not long the be-all end-all of the net.
On another note, how do I protect my porn passwords from those deviant J Edgar Hoover clones?
Under Canadian copyright law, if I create something, then I have the copyright on it. As long as I can prove I did it before someone else I don't even have to register it. :)
So any phone number (melody) I might have dialed on my touch tone phone 15 years ago, is already in copyright and therefore these bastards are infringing on my rights as a composer as well!