I also wonder if it counts classified ads. These are a major source of income for newspapers and the only reason I use my lame local newspaper (online). This is also a big threat to newspapers, since they really suck at doing clissified ads online. Almost anyone could do a better job, but newspapers have the established customer base.
I like how you quote something without saying whereit is from "...for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States..."
I'll assume that this is some kind of law, so I'll quote something without attribution as well,
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
He's not wrong. Those are future mandates and each time they get close to coming into effect, the FCC moves them out into the future. I'm not convinced they'll ever come into effect.
The CVS product is smaller than an iPod and can easily fit into a woman's purse or a shirt pocket.
I don't think the places you want to film are important to most people. Most people want a quality image and for now you can't do that in a small size. At least not without spending a lot of money. I'm sure the optics in this product are as poor as their still camera.
It seems to me that copyrights are turning from a temporary privilege into an actual property right, despite all indications that only a self-interested minority of our society wants that.
I wish it was only a "self-interested minority", but when I talk to the common man (my family), they think the idea of copyrights expiring is crazy. They think I just want to steal people ideas. They don't even understand why we need a public domain. Yes, I try to explain it, but they feel intellectually property is a human right instead of a government construction. Even my anti-government libertarian relatives think believe that patents and copyright laws are to prevent people from stealing ideas, instead of monopolies granted by government bureaucrats.
theory as in the colloquial definition of "half-assed guess" as opposed to the scientific definition of theory
You forgot "politically motivated", they are saying it's a worse than a guess, it's intentionally wrong. I heard an ID supporter yesterday saying science was trying to disprove God. They refuse to understand that science can't disprove the existance of God. That's why ID isn't a scientific theory.
I've got you beat. My clock rate is 0 Hz. I also know it's perfectly stable; there's no way it can crash! Even though it's passively cooled, it's 0 degree above ambient and totally silent.
It's the "centre" in the same way that the "centre" of an M&M is a peanut.
English is ambiguous, but they are only going through the candy shell to grab a little chocolate. They aren't getting anywhere near the peanut or the center of the earth.
I had some rechargable alkaline AAs like this, only the pack didn't tell me that if I let the totally discharge I'd only get half a dozen cycles out of them.
I purchased Renewals when they first came out and had the same problem. However, it turned out it was a problem with the charger, not the battery. The charger detected the volage of a battery before charging. If the battery was too low, it wasn't detected. Quickly running another battery in parallel was enough to get the charger started and the batteries were fine. Still, renewals only have 50% power after 20 cycles, so they are best for applications that require alkalines. I still use them, but use about twice as many NiMH.
Considering that most of the spam I received before and after CAN-SPAM was clearly illegal under existing laws, it's the lack of enforcement from the executive branch that bothers me more.
The corporation's responsibility is working in the best interest of their shareholders - everything short of breaking the law in order to turn a profit for those who own stock.
Doing everything possible to to turn a profit isn't always in the best interest of the shareholders. Are all SCO shareholders amoral greedy bastards? If so, we should judge them and their corporation accordingly and condem them as the scum they are. A corporation isn't a get out of jail free card for morality.
Any human that does "everything short of breaking the law in order to turn a profit" is a huge jerk should shunned by everyone. Any human that owns stock in a company that does "everything short of breaking the law in order to turn a profit" is either ignorant or just as big a jerk.
You seem very confused. I hate the RIAA. They have held back the music industry for decades.
All I did was state some easy to verify facts. Which statement did I make that was wrong? Telling the true story about the RIAA doesn't make me their friend. They don't want the true story known.
Yes, I pick you out, because of all the people who responded to my comment; you are the biggest (only?) moron.
And leave my sex life out of this, I didn't tell anyone you blew a seal (or is it seel, correct spelling is so hard to look up).
Why the secret? Who is this company and what's the name of the product?
I'd say this was ironic coming from an Anonymous Coward, but I hate listening to debates about the definition of irony.
USAGE NOTE The words ironic, irony, and ironically are sometimes used of events and circumstances that might better be described as simply "coincidental" or "improbable," in that they suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly. Thus 78 percent of the Usage Panel rejects the use of ironically in the sentence In 1969 Susie moved from Ithaca to California where she met her husband-to-be, who, ironically, also came from upstate New York. Some Panelists noted that this particular usage might be acceptable if Susie had in fact moved to California in order to find a husband, in which case the story could be taken as exemplifying the folly of supposing that we can know what fate has in store for us. By contrast, 73 percent accepted the sentence Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market, where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency.
The RIAA doesn't sue downloaders. They sue people who upload music.
Yes I know, some programs upload what you download by default,
but that change what they sue people for.
You can't get the right to upload music for $5 a month.
Even if you could, the RIAA can always sue for statutory damages,
which are a lot higher than $5 a month even for downloading.
I love it, but there is one issue that I have with it. It injects its scripts at the end of the web page.
I use Proxomitron. It is much like greasemonkey, but it uses regular expressions. There are plenty of "scripts" included and many run at the top of the page to disable problem javascript.
Ha ha ha! Too bad that Bill never actually said that, but the myth of ignorance pervades. (Wow, you found it on a webpage? It's GOTTA be true then!)
It's funny, no one seems to have any proof if it is true or not, except that Gates denies it. I think I found some proof. This quote is usually dated "1981", yet doing a Google USENET search, I can't find any mention of it before July 1992, when seems to become popular in people's.sig files.
If this quote really was from 1981, it would have been mentioned on USENET before 1992. Of course it's possible the quote changed in 1992.
Mentioning "video" without the subsequent "torrent link" is asking for trouble.
It's only 60K. I had not trouble downloading it (I didn't even use wget). Sorry, but I can't torrent from work, even at lunch hour. Here's a direct link.
If you liked GEB, you'll like Penrose's older book The Emperor's New Mind. It's a fascinating read, even if you don't accept his final conclusion that human brains are quantum computers.
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I also wonder if it counts classified ads. These are a major source of income for newspapers and the only reason I use my lame local newspaper (online). This is also a big threat to newspapers, since they really suck at doing clissified ads online. Almost anyone could do a better job, but newspapers have the established customer base.
I like how you quote something without saying whereit is from "...for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States..."
I'll assume that this is some kind of law, so I'll quote something without attribution as well,
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Fair enough?
Wrong
He's not wrong. Those are future mandates and each time they get close to coming into effect, the FCC moves them out into the future. I'm not convinced they'll ever come into effect.
Starting sentence with a lower case letter doesn't matter any more? I'd prefer people learned that rule first.
Perhaps "$80bn Google takes top media spot", but I will not admit to reading the article.
The CVS product is smaller than an iPod and can easily fit into a woman's purse or a shirt pocket.
I don't think the places you want to film are important to most people. Most people want a quality image and for now you can't do that in a small size. At least not without spending a lot of money. I'm sure the optics in this product are as poor as their still camera.
I haven't had a digital camera die a natural death yet.
What's a natural death for a man-made artifact?
It seems to me that copyrights are turning from a temporary privilege into an actual property right, despite all indications that only a self-interested minority of our society wants that.
I wish it was only a "self-interested minority", but when I talk to the common man (my family), they think the idea of copyrights expiring is crazy. They think I just want to steal people ideas. They don't even understand why we need a public domain. Yes, I try to explain it, but they feel intellectually property is a human right instead of a government construction. Even my anti-government libertarian relatives think believe that patents and copyright laws are to prevent people from stealing ideas, instead of monopolies granted by government bureaucrats.
theory as in the colloquial definition of "half-assed guess" as opposed to the scientific definition of theory
You forgot "politically motivated", they are saying it's a worse than a guess, it's intentionally wrong. I heard an ID supporter yesterday saying science was trying to disprove God. They refuse to understand that science can't disprove the existance of God. That's why ID isn't a scientific theory.
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All unicorns are white!
I've got you beat. My clock rate is 0 Hz. I also know it's perfectly stable; there's no way it can crash! Even though it's passively cooled, it's 0 degree above ambient and totally silent.
It's the "centre" in the same way that the "centre" of an M&M is a peanut.
English is ambiguous, but they are only going through the candy shell to grab a little chocolate. They aren't getting anywhere near the peanut or the center of the earth.
I had some rechargable alkaline AAs like this, only the pack didn't tell me that if I let the totally discharge I'd only get half a dozen cycles out of them.
I purchased Renewals when they first came out and had the same problem. However, it turned out it was a problem with the charger, not the battery. The charger detected the volage of a battery before charging. If the battery was too low, it wasn't detected. Quickly running another battery in parallel was enough to get the charger started and the batteries were fine. Still, renewals only have 50% power after 20 cycles, so they are best for applications that require alkalines. I still use them, but use about twice as many NiMH.
Considering that most of the spam I received before and after CAN-SPAM was clearly illegal under existing laws, it's the lack of enforcement from the executive branch that bothers me more.
Mediator: Do you have proof that DaGoodBoy agreed to be solicited?
Spammer: Yes! I have a receipt from Joe Blow's Low-Cost Opt-In Lists.
Mediator: And everyone on this list opts-in for e-mail advertising, even quack pills?
Spamer: That what Joe told me.
Mediator: Case dismissed.
The corporation's responsibility is working in the best interest of their shareholders - everything short of breaking the law in order to turn a profit for those who own stock.
Doing everything possible to to turn a profit isn't always in the best interest of the shareholders. Are all SCO shareholders amoral greedy bastards? If so, we should judge them and their corporation accordingly and condem them as the scum they are. A corporation isn't a get out of jail free card for morality.
Any human that does "everything short of breaking the law in order to turn a profit" is a huge jerk should shunned by everyone. Any human that owns stock in a company that does "everything short of breaking the law in order to turn a profit" is either ignorant or just as big a jerk.
You seem very confused. I hate the RIAA. They have held back the music industry for decades.
All I did was state some easy to verify facts. Which statement did I make that was wrong? Telling the true story about the RIAA doesn't make me their friend. They don't want the true story known.
Yes, I pick you out, because of all the people who responded to my comment; you are the biggest (only?) moron.
And leave my sex life out of this, I didn't tell anyone you blew a seal (or is it seel, correct spelling is so hard to look up).
I'd say this was ironic coming from an Anonymous Coward, but I hate listening to debates about the definition of irony.
The RIAA doesn't sue downloaders. They sue people who upload music. Yes I know, some programs upload what you download by default, but that change what they sue people for. You can't get the right to upload music for $5 a month. Even if you could, the RIAA can always sue for statutory damages, which are a lot higher than $5 a month even for downloading.
I use Proxomitron. It is much like greasemonkey, but it uses regular expressions. There are plenty of "scripts" included and many run at the top of the page to disable problem javascript.
They covered the porn industry in your high school economics class?
Wow.
>640k Should be enough for anybody
.sig files.
Ha ha ha! Too bad that Bill never actually said that, but the myth of ignorance pervades. (Wow, you found it on a webpage? It's GOTTA be true then!)
It's funny, no one seems to have any proof if it is true or not, except that Gates denies it. I think I found some proof. This quote is usually dated "1981", yet doing a Google USENET search, I can't find any mention of it before July 1992, when seems to become popular in people's
If this quote really was from 1981, it would have been mentioned on USENET before 1992. Of course it's possible the quote changed in 1992.
Sorry, I didn't reallize there are two more videos.
Mentioning "video" without the subsequent "torrent link" is asking for trouble.
It's only 60K. I had not trouble downloading it (I didn't even use wget). Sorry, but I can't torrent from work, even at lunch hour. Here's a direct link.
You might already know this, but only the fairly rare "adobe ebook" format even requires the Elecomsoft un-rot13 thing.
Yea, I wasn't sure how to make it clear that I was talking about another product, but the same copyright issue and company.
If it's a normal "protected" PDF, you can output it in ghostscript, and in most versions of xpdf that ignore the "protection flags".
I tried ghostscript, but it didn't work for some reason. It was too long ago for me to remember exactly why.
If you liked GEB, you'll like Penrose's older book The Emperor's New Mind. It's a fascinating read, even if you don't accept his final conclusion that human brains are quantum computers.