It's not even 'like' capitalism- it's an essential part of capitalism. Ugly is a personal opinion but Anyone who doesn't want to support 'ugliness' can stop buying pork, beef, sugar, soybeans, heating oil, or anything else sold on the futures market.
In the case of the PS3 where you KNOW it's going to be worth more on the aftermarket, it's called arbitrage.
"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time cretain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. Who, then, will invest the funds to renovate and nourish its future life, when on one owns it? How does the consumer benefit from that scenario? The answer is, there is no benefit."
-Jack Valenti, quoted in "Digital Copyright" by Jessica Litman
Thank god Hollywood has stepped up to save Shakespeare et al.
Interesting. I haven't been in Victoria in > 4 years. In the spring of '02 when the big anti-govt rallies were going on at the Legistlature, I brought my video camera and taped a group of RCMP ushering away a guy with a bandana over his face. I just wanted to document what they were doing in case they did anything beyond get him out of there. They saw me and didn't care- although there were other cameras around, including the news of course.
My only experience with the Victoria cops was trying to get arrested when they put in that 'no sitting on the sidewalks' law. Never did manage it, and I don't even remember what happened with the law. Of course Victoria is also the home of the 'no amplified sound or drumming' law.
I remember some controversey in Canada when they got the US release of "Eyes Wide Shut" rather than the European. Seems the European has Tom and Nicole full frontal, but the American has Nicole only.
Seeing a woman's vagina is one thing, but heaven forbid we should see a man's penis.
I guess my point is that there's a lot of discrimination out there- be it anti-black, anti-gay, anti-women, anti-American, anti-this-or-that-religion. I ask about sports teams, because nobody seems to see any problem with them. If you ask questions about other forms of racism, you usually get PC responses.
If you want to get all semantic about it, racisism doesn't exist because there is only one race when it comes to humans. The differences between 'white', 'black', 'Asian' etc do not constitute 'race' biologically speaking.
I like to ask people what they think of the Washington Redskins or Atlanta Braves. And what would they think of the Washington Blackskins or Atlanta Zulus (with corrasponding 'war whoop' and foam spears).
I read about people with tickets being turned away from venues because their t-shirts had logos from competing sponsors.
At the 2000 Gay Pride in Atlanta, officials were hassling people who had any kind beer company advertising other than Coors. That was in supposedly public Piedmont park.
I once wanted to point out an illegally parked car. I wouldn't normally go to such lengths, but this was a really dumb parking job that was making it particularily dangerous to cyclists.
I went into a school nearby to borrow their phonebook, to look up the police station number. When I called, they said the'd transfer me to "Traffic". The person who picked up said "911, what is the nature of your emergency?"
And when I was interviewing for a 911 position, they said 2/3s of their calls were wacky things, but didn't mention that 911 was 'the' general incoming number. As for the job- I wasn't ready to commit to that job long term.
Seriously, the only reason I didn't lose my job of this exact argument, twice, is that I deferred to pointy headed bosses who were dumber than me. I don't take the 'smarter' claim lightly. But just for example, what would you do if your boss was Jerry Taylor? (Tuttle OK city manager). I haven't been THAT unlucky, but there have been a few.
is the wind and my warmup. I usually have a headwind in the morning, and I'm not warmed up, so it takes about 28-30 min. A good tailwind on the way home and I can make the nine miles in under 26.
I know a college prof who self publishes all his own course texts, and sells them at cost. For many of the subjects he teaches, the material simply isn't out there in a single text. The binding isn't fancy, but the content is great, and the price is right.
Was it usable to blind students? If not, and if your school receives any federal funds (very probably) then you (your school) is subject to Section 504. Include that in your feedback to the publisher.
Another point- does that software work on Mac? Linux? *BSD?
When I started University in '84, I figured CompSci was probably not a great career choice, because so many people were doing it, there would be a glut of graduates on the market by the time I graduated. But it was what I enjoyed.
Since then I've been through the late 90s, when you couldn't beat recruiters off with a stick, to post '01 when I worked half a dozen temp jobs just to pay the bills. And now I'm back to software development, and I'm happy.
Life is like that. Work hard, have fun, and try not to get stuck spending 24% of your life doing something that makes you miserable.
p.s. Although my degree helped me get some of the jobs I've had, 95% of what I've done, I've learned on the job.
I thought CALEA simply required telecoms to have the capability of providing required information to law enforcement, not that they give them a constant open pipe of everything. If AT&T is giving everything to the NSA, then there is no oversight regulating what the NSA can see and what they can't. That would seem to be a pretty big runaround the 4th ammendment.
That's great! Some anonymous person worked on the Rock Island Arsenal!
I wonder if any non-anonymous people worked there too...
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Outlook is also superior for auto-installation of help apps. With pine or gmail you have to download and run that attachment or word macro. Outlook does all that for you, although that feature is a little more limitted in recent versions.
That't not a flame- that's exactly right. The publisher doesn't have a fscking clue what 'sysadmin' means. Just because your're using Linux instead of Windows doesn't mean you're a sysadmin.
I give up. That's the most atrocious site I've seen in a long time. I tried for 15 minutes, and hell if there's anything useful on there, or anything that would make me want to buy their crap.
Good catch. I had to watch it six times to see what the heck you were talking about, even though I knew something was there. But you're right. Bart 'jumps' into place.
The POINT is that either someone doesn't want us to see it, or someone REALLY wants us to see it, and is raising awareness by telling us we CAN'T see it.
I'm saying that people who demonize hookers but don't have anything bad to say about Johns are hypocrits.
I feel sorry for hookers more than anything. It's pretty low on the scale of desirable jobs. I don't think prostitution should be encouraged by any means. Accepted, well, anything that makes it safer would probably be a good idea. A lot of times making things illegal just pushes them underground. And no, I don't think 'accepted' equals 'encouraged'. For example: Kids will have sex. Give them condoms, and teach them about the dangers of sex too early.
No, I've never used the services of a prostitute, paid or otherwise.
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It's not even 'like' capitalism- it's an essential part of capitalism. Ugly is a personal opinion but Anyone who doesn't want to support 'ugliness' can stop buying pork, beef, sugar, soybeans, heating oil, or anything else sold on the futures market.
In the case of the PS3 where you KNOW it's going to be worth more on the aftermarket, it's called arbitrage.
"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time cretain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. Who, then, will invest the funds to renovate and nourish its future life, when on one owns it? How does the consumer benefit from that scenario? The answer is, there is no benefit."
-Jack Valenti, quoted in "Digital Copyright" by Jessica Litman
Thank god Hollywood has stepped up to save Shakespeare et al.
Interesting. I haven't been in Victoria in > 4 years. In the spring of '02 when the big anti-govt rallies were going on at the Legistlature, I brought my video camera and taped a group of RCMP ushering away a guy with a bandana over his face. I just wanted to document what they were doing in case they did anything beyond get him out of there. They saw me and didn't care- although there were other cameras around, including the news of course.
My only experience with the Victoria cops was trying to get arrested when they put in that 'no sitting on the sidewalks' law. Never did manage it, and I don't even remember what happened with the law. Of course Victoria is also the home of the 'no amplified sound or drumming' law.
I remember some controversey in Canada when they got the US release of "Eyes Wide Shut" rather than the European. Seems the European has Tom and Nicole full frontal, but the American has Nicole only.
Seeing a woman's vagina is one thing, but heaven forbid we should see a man's penis.
I guess my point is that there's a lot of discrimination out there- be it anti-black, anti-gay, anti-women, anti-American, anti-this-or-that-religion. I ask about sports teams, because nobody seems to see any problem with them. If you ask questions about other forms of racism, you usually get PC responses.
If you want to get all semantic about it, racisism doesn't exist because there is only one race when it comes to humans. The differences between 'white', 'black', 'Asian' etc do not constitute 'race' biologically speaking.
I like to ask people what they think of the Washington Redskins or Atlanta Braves. And what would they think of the Washington Blackskins or Atlanta Zulus (with corrasponding 'war whoop' and foam spears).
I read about people with tickets being turned away from venues because their t-shirts had logos from competing sponsors.
At the 2000 Gay Pride in Atlanta, officials were hassling people who had any kind beer company advertising other than Coors. That was in supposedly public Piedmont park.
I once wanted to point out an illegally parked car. I wouldn't normally go to such lengths, but this was a really dumb parking job that was making it particularily dangerous to cyclists.
I went into a school nearby to borrow their phonebook, to look up the police station number. When I called, they said the'd transfer me to "Traffic". The person who picked up said "911, what is the nature of your emergency?"
And when I was interviewing for a 911 position, they said 2/3s of their calls were wacky things, but didn't mention that 911 was 'the' general incoming number. As for the job- I wasn't ready to commit to that job long term.
Let me guess, you got an F in his class?
Seriously, the only reason I didn't lose my job of this exact argument, twice, is that I deferred to pointy headed bosses who were dumber than me. I don't take the 'smarter' claim lightly. But just for example, what would you do if your boss was Jerry Taylor? (Tuttle OK city manager). I haven't been THAT unlucky, but there have been a few.
is the wind and my warmup. I usually have a headwind in the morning, and I'm not warmed up, so it takes about 28-30 min. A good tailwind on the way home and I can make the nine miles in under 26.
I know a college prof who self publishes all his own course texts, and sells them at cost. For many of the subjects he teaches, the material simply isn't out there in a single text. The binding isn't fancy, but the content is great, and the price is right.
Was it usable to blind students? If not, and if your school receives any federal funds (very probably) then you (your school) is subject to Section 504. Include that in your feedback to the publisher.
Another point- does that software work on Mac? Linux? *BSD?
When I started University in '84, I figured CompSci was probably not a great career choice, because so many people were doing it, there would be a glut of graduates on the market by the time I graduated. But it was what I enjoyed.
Since then I've been through the late 90s, when you couldn't beat recruiters off with a stick, to post '01 when I worked half a dozen temp jobs just to pay the bills. And now I'm back to software development, and I'm happy.
Life is like that. Work hard, have fun, and try not to get stuck spending 24% of your life doing something that makes you miserable.
p.s. Although my degree helped me get some of the jobs I've had, 95% of what I've done, I've learned on the job.
I don't see how it's anti-Homeland Defense. I mean, IBM did put in the backdoor, didn't they?
Never forget, the Clipper chip was on Clinton's watch.
I thought CALEA simply required telecoms to have the capability of providing required information to law enforcement, not that they give them a constant open pipe of everything. If AT&T is giving everything to the NSA, then there is no oversight regulating what the NSA can see and what they can't. That would seem to be a pretty big runaround the 4th ammendment.
That's great! Some anonymous person worked on the Rock Island Arsenal!
I wonder if any non-anonymous people worked there too...
Outlook is also superior for auto-installation of help apps. With pine or gmail you have to download and run that attachment or word macro. Outlook does all that for you, although that feature is a little more limitted in recent versions.
That't not a flame- that's exactly right. The publisher doesn't have a fscking clue what 'sysadmin' means. Just because your're using Linux instead of Windows doesn't mean you're a sysadmin.
I give up. That's the most atrocious site I've seen in a long time. I tried for 15 minutes, and hell if there's anything useful on there, or anything that would make me want to buy their crap.
And section 504, which applies to anyone getting federal money. http://www.webaim.org/coordination/law/us/504/
Good catch. I had to watch it six times to see what the heck you were talking about, even though I knew something was there. But you're right. Bart 'jumps' into place.
The POINT is that either someone doesn't want us to see it, or someone REALLY wants us to see it, and is raising awareness by telling us we CAN'T see it.
Remember the Oscar acceptance speech for "If you Love this Planet" ?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084118/
The film was banned in the US, so the filmakers thanked the US government for promoting it.
Yah, I'd say. I didn't see 'Auther' until the auto-email from slashdot.
No, I think he really meant "grammar".
I'm saying that people who demonize hookers but don't have anything bad to say about Johns are hypocrits.
I feel sorry for hookers more than anything. It's pretty low on the scale of desirable jobs. I don't think prostitution should be encouraged by any means. Accepted, well, anything that makes it safer would probably be a good idea. A lot of times making things illegal just pushes them underground. And no, I don't think 'accepted' equals 'encouraged'. For example: Kids will have sex. Give them condoms, and teach them about the dangers of sex too early.
No, I've never used the services of a prostitute, paid or otherwise.