"Parents are too outraged to worry whether Emoryâ(TM)s rights may be being infringed upon. One parent interviewed said, 'He humiliated my child. Heâ(TM)s humiliated all the parents that are involved in it and something definitely needs to be done.' "
Apparently if people get embarrassed, it makes perfect sense to sue someone else. Bob forbid someone be "humiliated".
Are you asking if someone is revealing too much information? If so, I think you should refer to the other comments that indicate that this has been a standing issue. Some "Internet retards" have probably known about this for some time as well. Also trying to cover up this up, instead of discussing it and possibly coming up with a solution is not an appropriate manner for dealing with such a potential problem.
This is getting off-topic, but this slippery slope of criminalizing independent thinking also applies to environmental causes. Protecting the corporate bottom line is a mentality and policy that is not just negatively impacting freedom to tinker with one's bought and paid for toys and creativity, it's also making it damn hard to save resources like clean water.
Finally, a little optimism. I can understand the comments about poorer nations lacking other more important resources, such as drinkable water, and the discrepancy between supplies and needs. But every other comment and sig on/. talks about information wanting to be free, i.e. information/knowledge being available to anyone who can use it or improve on it, and yet a few here think that people everywhere having access to this information is not going to become useful to those people in poorer nations.
What's probably a more pertinent concern is the dearth of relevant information for those people. What good is all the pr0n and celebrity gossip, or even/., going to be for someone in a small town or village in a place that takes hours or days to drive to? Is there enough useful content for those people?
I know/. has more than 250,000 accounts, but wouldn't it be great if they could do a Mashup of the Facebook accounts and random/.ers? Commander Sarah Palin Taco.
Of course,/. might lose some traffic if some of their members actually start getting out of the basement and dating.
Especially if it's been dressed up to appear systematic and can somehow be equated with science. Does this story mean that people think science is a worthwhile endeavor, but they don't know how to tell science from a ponzi scheme or other such chicanery?
Gadget folks who are too scared go outside unless they had a toy to show them where to go dying because of their gadgets?
I've been lost in the woods without a map or compass. fortunately, it wasn't a very big, @37k acres. But I'm somewhat accustomed to wandering in natural areas. I take my risks with some knowledge of what they entail.
I've been turned around even when i had a Trimble. when I follow the Trimble explicitly, I'm not conscious of my path and surroundings, so take away the Trimble and I don't know how I got there or how to get back until I've wandered for a while. A GPS is fun at times, but one should already be familiar with what it's like being in remote areas and carrying a compass & map.
If you were too scared to venture out before without the assistance, perhaps you should have not bought that gadget and started walking or driving.
"So defense lawyers came up with the following solution: they ask the judges to make the plaintiffs sign a consent form, which is then added to the subpoena sent to the sites in question, who then have no reason not to comply with the request."
So it seems to me, don't sign the consent.
Of course if the judge obliges you to sign, there may be some repercussions, such as contempt. I'd think you should be able to plead the 5th?
The 60's style protests don't work because of the lack of stamina of the protestors. What I mean by that is the people protest for one day and think they've made their point. This guy's blog post makes the point better.
i was thinking of this same, exact situation. some of the ramps to the highway in the middle of Tampa, FL are the same too. although the highway there is often choked up.
it may not be very very very very low, but the usual way to social mobility is some form of popularity, i.e. pro athletes or people who find their way on reality shows. and that works for only a very small percentage of people. people going to college are not going to make 6 figure salaries and at this point, that's almost what it takes to be socially mobile, given the stagnant growth of salaries.
Voluptuous, for athletic builds, women who wore very little for the kind of physical work they did. And Wonder Woman too, I suppose, but I wasn't a DC reader when I was a kid. Being a kid and reading the X titles was as close to walking around with a Playboy in public. There was even a swimsuit issue at some point when I was older. Then I found out about the indie books, not the underground mind you, but stuff like Dirty Pair. Even with the CCA, some of the Marvel titles had enough to keep the juices flowing in a hormonal teen.
Are they gonna resort to nude women now? Kids get enough sex and nudity without them having to see it in comics. Sure comics do handle adult themes and sexuality is just another one, but some prudish throwback in me says to leave explicit sex to the underground books and let the books deal with folks in tights trying to save the world.
I don't read the X titles any more, it's been a long time. From the snippets I've looked at, I don't know who is who and what timestream they belong in anyway. Plus, I don't need to imagine naked women at this stage in the game.
Hey, you brats! Get off my la-- Damnit! Now look at me!
after perusing the list, i'd say it's not hard for me to avoid buying from those companies. i already avoid a few of them already. i haven't bought Nike anything for over a decade. on purpose. Hastings is the only new bookstore in my town and i've purchased from them before. now that i know about this list though, i'll avoid them. however, just not buying from them isn't as effective. it'd help if you emailed them and said that you're not buying from them because you don't support their stance on censorship or something similar.
those psych "tests" are pretty easy to game. i wouldn't be much worried about the tests. someone else mentioned the question of whether or not they're going to go down the road of thought police, starting with looking at your party affiliation. that's a little more worrisome to me.
i don't use Facebook. don't want to use Facebook. there is no reason i should be compelled to use a site i have no need for so that i can use the sites on the Internet i do want to use or need access to.
that thought crossed my mind also. what if half the country were on the watch list? would the feds really suspect so many people? especially if the bulk of those tips came from a concentrated, frenzied effort of several hundred "tipsters"? (i don't know if they'd be able to tell apart sources.) or would they come to their senses and realize what an asinine system they have in place?
is it that difficult? most people seem to not care about their privacy or spreading details about themselves all over the web or in shopping (when cashiers ask for phone numbers or when they sign up to be contests). given the amount of data mining that exists by retailers already, the feds accumulating that info would probably be trivial.
i'm a grad student in a natural resources program. there are recycling bins within view of the garbage cans, yet, i still see cans and plastic bottles from the other nat. res. students in the garbage cans. if those "ooh, i'm a scientist, i'm so smart" lazy-ass people can't realize the impact of their actions, i think it's safe to say that the trashed recycling items issues is fucked.
You wrote "So you are full of shit." to spun, who wrote about potentially being sued for a health claim about a product. In other words, 'no, there is no risk of lawsuit for making a health claim such as that'. But then you point out that a similar health claim is being followed up with a disclaimer which I point is to avoid a lawsuit. It seems to me that spun is not the person making the spurious claim.
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"Parents are too outraged to worry whether Emoryâ(TM)s rights may be being infringed upon. One parent interviewed said, 'He humiliated my child. Heâ(TM)s humiliated all the parents that are involved in it and something definitely needs to be done.' "
Apparently if people get embarrassed, it makes perfect sense to sue someone else. Bob forbid someone be "humiliated".
Are you asking if someone is revealing too much information? If so, I think you should refer to the other comments that indicate that this has been a standing issue. Some "Internet retards" have probably known about this for some time as well. Also trying to cover up this up, instead of discussing it and possibly coming up with a solution is not an appropriate manner for dealing with such a potential problem.
This is getting off-topic, but this slippery slope of criminalizing independent thinking also applies to environmental causes. Protecting the corporate bottom line is a mentality and policy that is not just negatively impacting freedom to tinker with one's bought and paid for toys and creativity, it's also making it damn hard to save resources like clean water.
Finally, a little optimism. I can understand the comments about poorer nations lacking other more important resources, such as drinkable water, and the discrepancy between supplies and needs. But every other comment and sig on /. talks about information wanting to be free, i.e. information/knowledge being available to anyone who can use it or improve on it, and yet a few here think that people everywhere having access to this information is not going to become useful to those people in poorer nations.
What's probably a more pertinent concern is the dearth of relevant information for those people. What good is all the pr0n and celebrity gossip, or even /., going to be for someone in a small town or village in a place that takes hours or days to drive to? Is there enough useful content for those people?
"We want robots to be able to get their own energy from the environment."
so The Matrix was started by furniture designers?
I know /. has more than 250,000 accounts, but wouldn't it be great if they could do a Mashup of the Facebook accounts and random /.ers? Commander Sarah Palin Taco.
Of course, /. might lose some traffic if some of their members actually start getting out of the basement and dating.
Work in a government agency could entail both political and social issues.
I can see it not covering libel, but the other two? I don't see how KKK rallies are in the public interest.
You can fool some of the people all of the time.
Especially if it's been dressed up to appear systematic and can somehow be equated with science. Does this story mean that people think science is a worthwhile endeavor, but they don't know how to tell science from a ponzi scheme or other such chicanery?
Gadget folks who are too scared go outside unless they had a toy to show them where to go dying because of their gadgets?
I've been lost in the woods without a map or compass. fortunately, it wasn't a very big, @37k acres. But I'm somewhat accustomed to wandering in natural areas. I take my risks with some knowledge of what they entail.
I've been turned around even when i had a Trimble. when I follow the Trimble explicitly, I'm not conscious of my path and surroundings, so take away the Trimble and I don't know how I got there or how to get back until I've wandered for a while. A GPS is fun at times, but one should already be familiar with what it's like being in remote areas and carrying a compass & map.
If you were too scared to venture out before without the assistance, perhaps you should have not bought that gadget and started walking or driving.
FTA:
"So defense lawyers came up with the following solution: they ask the judges to make the plaintiffs sign a consent form, which is then added to the subpoena sent to the sites in question, who then have no reason not to comply with the request."
So it seems to me, don't sign the consent.
Of course if the judge obliges you to sign, there may be some repercussions, such as contempt. I'd think you should be able to plead the 5th?
The 60's style protests don't work because of the lack of stamina of the protestors. What I mean by that is the people protest for one day and think they've made their point. This guy's blog post makes the point better.
i was thinking of this same, exact situation. some of the ramps to the highway in the middle of Tampa, FL are the same too. although the highway there is often choked up.
it may not be very very very very low, but the usual way to social mobility is some form of popularity, i.e. pro athletes or people who find their way on reality shows. and that works for only a very small percentage of people. people going to college are not going to make 6 figure salaries and at this point, that's almost what it takes to be socially mobile, given the stagnant growth of salaries.
This is part of Obama's plan to reach out to business. Because he hasn't done enough to support the corporations.
totally on board with that sentiment. plus 3D? come-the-fuck-on. like chemicaldave said, this should just stop at "No".
Voluptuous, for athletic builds, women who wore very little for the kind of physical work they did. And Wonder Woman too, I suppose, but I wasn't a DC reader when I was a kid. Being a kid and reading the X titles was as close to walking around with a Playboy in public. There was even a swimsuit issue at some point when I was older. Then I found out about the indie books, not the underground mind you, but stuff like Dirty Pair. Even with the CCA, some of the Marvel titles had enough to keep the juices flowing in a hormonal teen.
Are they gonna resort to nude women now? Kids get enough sex and nudity without them having to see it in comics. Sure comics do handle adult themes and sexuality is just another one, but some prudish throwback in me says to leave explicit sex to the underground books and let the books deal with folks in tights trying to save the world.
I don't read the X titles any more, it's been a long time. From the snippets I've looked at, I don't know who is who and what timestream they belong in anyway. Plus, I don't need to imagine naked women at this stage in the game.
Hey, you brats! Get off my la-- Damnit! Now look at me!
after perusing the list, i'd say it's not hard for me to avoid buying from those companies. i already avoid a few of them already. i haven't bought Nike anything for over a decade. on purpose. Hastings is the only new bookstore in my town and i've purchased from them before. now that i know about this list though, i'll avoid them.
however, just not buying from them isn't as effective. it'd help if you emailed them and said that you're not buying from them because you don't support their stance on censorship or something similar.
"angry birds"
that's awesome!
those psych "tests" are pretty easy to game. i wouldn't be much worried about the tests. someone else mentioned the question of whether or not they're going to go down the road of thought police, starting with looking at your party affiliation. that's a little more worrisome to me.
i don't use Facebook. don't want to use Facebook. there is no reason i should be compelled to use a site i have no need for so that i can use the sites on the Internet i do want to use or need access to.
that thought crossed my mind also. what if half the country were on the watch list? would the feds really suspect so many people? especially if the bulk of those tips came from a concentrated, frenzied effort of several hundred "tipsters"? (i don't know if they'd be able to tell apart sources.) or would they come to their senses and realize what an asinine system they have in place?
is it that difficult? most people seem to not care about their privacy or spreading details about themselves all over the web or in shopping (when cashiers ask for phone numbers or when they sign up to be contests). given the amount of data mining that exists by retailers already, the feds accumulating that info would probably be trivial.
i'm a grad student in a natural resources program. there are recycling bins within view of the garbage cans, yet, i still see cans and plastic bottles from the other nat. res. students in the garbage cans. if those "ooh, i'm a scientist, i'm so smart" lazy-ass people can't realize the impact of their actions, i think it's safe to say that the trashed recycling items issues is fucked.
You wrote "So you are full of shit." to spun, who wrote about potentially being sued for a health claim about a product. In other words, 'no, there is no risk of lawsuit for making a health claim such as that'. But then you point out that a similar health claim is being followed up with a disclaimer which I point is to avoid a lawsuit. It seems to me that spun is not the person making the spurious claim.