Do you seriously think that PR campaigns are all about correcting mistaken ideas more than planting disinformation? If you actually believe that then you would be a failure in the field of marketing or advertising.
I think planting information to try to mislead the US populace is actually right up there among the most serious misdeeds the administration can do. Our entire democratic system relies on well informed people being able to vote for who best represents them. Any misinformation campaign run by the government can only be seen as a deliberate attempt to make the voters vote against their best interests. That's a pretty serious charge in my book.
It seems quite a bit more escapable to me than most sounds in the city. I would love it if I could walk ten feet to avoid hearing the garbage truck in the alley on Tuesday morning or my neighbors loud singing all evening.
But you're right, this is certainly not a privacy issue.
What about file sizes? Wouldn't it be possible to determine that the size of the decrypted files isn't big enough to account for the size of the encrypted file?
I think that's a bit over the top. What the TSA workers do is annoying, not but it's not exactly genocide. I can live with (grudgingly) taking my shoes off and not carrying water at the checkpoints. I can't live with being randomly tortured and executed and you can't make any reasonable argument that the former is a slippery slope to the latter.
I can't speak for most travelers, but I've never had a problem with the TSA folks working the check point. As you say, they're just doing their job. The problem I have is with the assholes who come up with these pointless polices that make travel such a pain.
Actually the grand jury investigation was about Whitewater. It was only later on when Kenneth Starr couldn't find any evidence of wrongdoing related to that scandal that he inappropriately expanded his multi-million dollar witch hunt to include allegations of sexual harassment.
Of course even after changing the target of the investigation Clinton's relationship with Monica was still irrelevant. The questions should not have been answered at all and that was Clinton's only fault.
Holy crap, not only did they censor the pictures of the mating water striders, but they hid their faces to protect their identities too! I'm glad to see some researches take privacy concerns seriously.
I'm in the same boat, but I ripped most of my 600 CD's before I had a portable player. Than I had a Rio Karma for awhile which did support Ogg. These days however I have an iPod my girlfriend got me for my birthday. I love the little thing, but still the bastard doesn't support mp3. Oh well. mp3's don't appeal to my quixotic side, but they appeal to the side of me that wants to hear music out of my earbuds.
(and no, rockbox doesn't support the new nano's. I already went that route)
You're right to be concerned about giving directly to people on the street. Often they will not make the best use of the money. It is much better to contribute to well regarded organizations for helping the homeless, or if you want to give something to the people on the street you can give them coupons or gift certificates for food, something they can't use at the local liquor store.
That being said, the people I care for are people whom I didn't have to enlighten, they helped enlighten me. Helped enlighten you? As in past tense? Does that mean this is as enlightened as you get or did they just quit half way through the job?
I don't see the benefit of making it less random. Most people will generally play in the same environments and so using the environment will mostly limit the variety of game play instead of enhancing it.
In the US there used to be a tradition whereby ex-Presidents did not criticize current Presidents. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have thrown this out the window, repeatedly criticizing President Bush. In the US there also used to be a tradition of Presidents not destroying everything good about America. The only fault I can find with Clinton and Carter's criticism of Bush is that it took far to long.
Are you claiming that some day all these open source implementations of mp3 decoders out there will stop support MP3 while their ogg support will last forever? Why would this be the case?
Anyway, just because the hardware can run the encoder doesn't mean it's not a technical limitation. If the battery life was unacceptably low when decoding ogg's that could be a reason not to support. Of course I'm not saying that's Apples reason for refusing to support it ogg, but it's a reason.
Sure, they could stop publishing tomorrow, but then we'd all have to go back to hobbies that don't involve reading on the computer. Sweet. The sooner the better. I waste more time on this damn thing...
Or maybe this whole thing is an attempt at controlling a problem which undoubtedly exists regardless of how many people try to pretend it doesn't. Maybe, except that the problem doesn't exist. Really. Show me one statistic that shows we now have or ever in the past had a problem with foreign terrorists.
The real bullshit is people who say they want something better but are too lazy to make it happen. No, the real bullshit is our fucktarded election system where it is effectively impossible for the voice of the people to be heard in any situation with more than two candidates (read: every primary and most general elections). Until that changes informed voters will still vote against the worst candidate instead of for the best candidate, and don't you dare blame them they're just playing the hand they're dealt best they can
He was probably talking about the recent event where a women died mysteriously while being detained by airport police. He may also have in mind the taser happy airport security although they've only killed people in Canada, no casualties in the US as of yet.
Sure he's exaggerating, but he's wrong by degree not by kind.
3. they're barely enforcing it because US citizens aren't cooperating and turning people in enough because they think it's mean Or because they aren't assholes out to ruin someones life who isn't doing anyone any harm.
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Do you seriously think that PR campaigns are all about correcting mistaken ideas more than planting disinformation? If you actually believe that then you would be a failure in the field of marketing or advertising.
I think planting information to try to mislead the US populace is actually right up there among the most serious misdeeds the administration can do. Our entire democratic system relies on well informed people being able to vote for who best represents them. Any misinformation campaign run by the government can only be seen as a deliberate attempt to make the voters vote against their best interests. That's a pretty serious charge in my book.
It seems quite a bit more escapable to me than most sounds in the city. I would love it if I could walk ten feet to avoid hearing the garbage truck in the alley on Tuesday morning or my neighbors loud singing all evening.
But you're right, this is certainly not a privacy issue.
What about file sizes? Wouldn't it be possible to determine that the size of the decrypted files isn't big enough to account for the size of the encrypted file?
I think that's a bit over the top. What the TSA workers do is annoying, not but it's not exactly genocide. I can live with (grudgingly) taking my shoes off and not carrying water at the checkpoints. I can't live with being randomly tortured and executed and you can't make any reasonable argument that the former is a slippery slope to the latter.
Bah! That's what screen is for.
I can't speak for most travelers, but I've never had a problem with the TSA folks working the check point. As you say, they're just doing their job. The problem I have is with the assholes who come up with these pointless polices that make travel such a pain.
Actually the grand jury investigation was about Whitewater. It was only later on when Kenneth Starr couldn't find any evidence of wrongdoing related to that scandal that he inappropriately expanded his multi-million dollar witch hunt to include allegations of sexual harassment.
Of course even after changing the target of the investigation Clinton's relationship with Monica was still irrelevant. The questions should not have been answered at all and that was Clinton's only fault.
How about you run a browser in a VM and live a little?
Yes, sorry about that!
Holy crap, not only did they censor the pictures of the mating water striders, but they hid their faces to protect their identities too! I'm glad to see some researches take privacy concerns seriously.
I'm in the same boat, but I ripped most of my 600 CD's before I had a portable player. Than I had a Rio Karma for awhile which did support Ogg. These days however I have an iPod my girlfriend got me for my birthday. I love the little thing, but still the bastard doesn't support mp3. Oh well. mp3's don't appeal to my quixotic side, but they appeal to the side of me that wants to hear music out of my earbuds.
(and no, rockbox doesn't support the new nano's. I already went that route)
You're right to be concerned about giving directly to people on the street. Often they will not make the best use of the money. It is much better to contribute to well regarded organizations for helping the homeless, or if you want to give something to the people on the street you can give them coupons or gift certificates for food, something they can't use at the local liquor store.
Hawaii has a lot of surfers and they are more than a few miles off my shore.
I don't see the benefit of making it less random. Most people will generally play in the same environments and so using the environment will mostly limit the variety of game play instead of enhancing it.
Are you claiming that some day all these open source implementations of mp3 decoders out there will stop support MP3 while their ogg support will last forever? Why would this be the case?
Not mine. No sign of any Nano G2 support.
Anyway, just because the hardware can run the encoder doesn't mean it's not a technical limitation. If the battery life was unacceptably low when decoding ogg's that could be a reason not to support. Of course I'm not saying that's Apples reason for refusing to support it ogg, but it's a reason.
He was probably talking about the recent event where a women died mysteriously while being detained by airport police. He may also have in mind the taser happy airport security although they've only killed people in Canada, no casualties in the US as of yet.
Sure he's exaggerating, but he's wrong by degree not by kind.