This is the problem with socalism and public funding. It allows the government to force its will upon individuals. Do away with the grants and give people their tax money back. Problem solved.
So, you'd prefer to let the content providers force their will upon individuals?
There've been a handful of attempts to film this Asimov short story (much later extended to novella length by Robert Silverberg). All attempts have been fucking miserable.
"In another news story today, Bush announced he will cut the deficit by cutting domestic programs. Is it safe to assume that, after this story aired, PBS will be one of the programs cut?"
He's been trying to cut PBS since the start of his administration.
I'm still waiting for the supporters of the 2nd Amendment to rise up against the tyranny of the government. After all, they're partly to blame for this administration.
So we m-m-m-might have to wait a little while to get on a plane so they can make sure noone has a BOMB in their SHOE? Or wait at another checkpoint/search to catch the guy planning the train bombing?
History has shown that 'terrorists' will try to bring weapons/explosives/harm to the mass transit system. If the bomber gets on the plane, the headlines scream "THE AIRLINES SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT THE GUY". If they ask for ID and want to look in your bags/pockets/shoes/whatever, the headlines scream "CIVIL LIBERTIES BEING TRAMPLED". Sorry, but we can't have it both ways. It boils down to the fact that we have all become so self-important that we can't be 'inconvenienced' by waiting to make sure people don't try to kill us.
Arrgh, where to begin?
Part of the problem with your scenario is simple: if the would-be shoe bomber's name wasn't on any security list, then checking his ID would do absolutely nothing to prevent him from boarding the plane. No red flags would go up in any search, so he'd be free to board.
Let us also not forget that the 9/11 terrorists had valid papers that were checked at the gates, yet their names didn't show up on any lists (due to the inability of the various agencies to share data). If the terrorists were concerned that their real names were on a terrorist watch-list, they'd get fake credentials, which is easy. The fake names would not be on any watch-list and they'd be on the plane just the same.
What part of this is not clear?
Benjamin Franklin's quote bears repeating: "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
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"won't want to loose my job, crappy as it is."
I'd fire you simply because you don't know how to fucking spell the word "lose," you loser.
What's mind blowing is your inability to actually gather facts. The only calls being monitored are ones coming INTO the USA from a FOREIGN nation that originate from a known or suspected TERRORIST. You remember what a terrorist is, right? It's those people that flew two planes into the WTC. They're generally known as the "enemy". You know what the word "enemy" means right?
There is only one reason that can exist for anyone to be against this, and that is if you are a terrorist or a supporter of terrorism and you recieve phone calls from Al Queda. Care to make an admission here so we can get you picked up and shipped off to Guantanamo? If you don't recieve phone calls from Al Qaida then you have nothing to worry about.
If what you say is true -- and I don't believe it for a nanosecond -- then why does Bush need to do an end run around the Constitution and a law which lets him do what he wants provided he gets a warrant after the fact? Just because Bush says that they're only listening in on calls from known terrorists doesn't mean that it's true.
If Bush said, "The sky is blue," I'd have to go outside and check.
The only reason for going around FISA is that they ARE spying on whomever they want and they don't want anyone to know about it.
Impeach, convict, execute. It's the only way to be sure.
That the intelligence services were already listening to known terrorist "chatter";
The level of "chatter" was extremely high;
The President was notified.
The kicker, of course, is that Bush sat on his ass at his ranch in Crawford and didn't do a fucking thing about an imminent terrorist attack.
And NOW he wants to spy? We were already keeping tabs on the bad guys before 11 Sept 2001, but the guys at the top were not interested. The Clinton administration tried to tell BushCo that Bin Laden was dangerous and it was ignored. FBI field agents were telling their superiors in Washington that people with Middle-Eastern names were taking flying lessons and were not interested in learning how to land!
Bush has an enemies list that makes Nixon's look like the invite list for a child's birthday party. WHO ARE WE KIDDING? The domestic spying has nothing to do with terrorism (nothing the Bush Administration actually does) and everything to do with concentrating power in the hands of the Executive, specifically the President.
Impeach, convict, execute. It's the only way to be sure.
I'm all in favor of keeping an eye on the bad guys, but I can't help thinking that they're dodging the law because their evidence is so weak even FISA is calling BS on them.
They want to go around FISA because they don't want anyone to know upon whom they're spying. This point oughta be really obvious, folks.
Lesson: Your fellow Americans don't care about your privacy, and trust the feds to decide whether or not to search you (and them), without court review, warrants, probable cause, or anything else. Where's PGPfone when we need it?
Yeah. I heard that some guys figured this out about 230 years ago. Their solution was something called a "republic." Not sure whatever happened with it though.
Quite simply, selling a backup of any medium on eBay is strictly prohibited. A good example of where this enforced, is when a vinyl is sold with a CD-R copy of the record.
There are a bunch of people on eBay selling CD-Rs of scanned manuals for HP and Tektronix test equipment. Seems to me that this is a blatant copyright violation...
Why should any specific format be mandated? As long as someone can read it, does it matter what the format is?
It matters if a proprietary format is chosen, and this proprietary format requires proprietary software to read it. What happens when said proprietary format/software is abandoned by the vendor?
"If you do electrical design, you will probably need to run OrCAD."
Wrong! If you do electrical design (and I do), then you do your best to avoid OrCAD. PADS, PCAD, Protel DXP, Mentor, Electronics Workbench--anything but OrCAD!
"I say we go en masse to RentACoder, bid cheaply, and write horribly incorrect code. It'll be a nice helping of getting what's coming to ya, and we'll get paid a little to boot!"
Read comp.lang.vhdl or comp.lang.verilog and you'll see posts like "I need the Verilog of the traffic-light program" or something similar. So a bunch of posters figured, "why not just post something that looks vaguely correct and see if the lazy students bite." So, a garbage traffic-light program was posted. Dunno how many Fs were given out that semester.
Well, there was no cash transaction involved, but the point remains.
Is it just me, or does it seem to anyone else like they might be doing this just to combat scalping of tickets?
I don't think the event promoters really give a shit about scalpers--the promoters (and hence the artists or the sports teams or whomever) get paid for the tickets whether or not the scalper can re-sell them.
It does present a problem for people who have legit reasons for re-selling a ticket. For example, say you get sick the night of the show and you want to sell (or give) your $100 ticket to a friend. You can do that with a paper ticket, but I don't see how you can transfer the ticket to your friend's phone. (Maybe the system will allow that?)
BTW: I hate scalpers, and I think people who are willing to overpay $300 for tickets to ANY event are fools.
How does this combat counterfieting, pilfering and repeat usage? Are they saying a txt message is harder to generate than a realistic looking ticket?? Or a cell phone is harder to steal? Or that they're going to rip your cell phone in half once you pass through the gate? I can see some convenience advantages but I really don't understand that statement.
Presumably, the "tickets" are generated uniquely by some mechanism that's "difficult" to hack. And once you go through the turnstile, your "ticket" is scanned and the database to which the scanner is connected marks it as used. This is no different from paper tickets with barcodes that are scanned at the gate.
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So, you'd prefer to let the content providers force their will upon individuals?
There've been a handful of attempts to film this Asimov short story (much later extended to novella length by Robert Silverberg). All attempts have been fucking miserable.
They became rich by forcing all of the hardware vendors to bundle their operating system, and charging said hardware vendors a fee for doing so.
It would be better if I could spell the author's name correctly. Hemingway, of course.
Hemigway defined courage as "grace under pressure."
He's been trying to cut PBS since the start of his administration.
I'm still waiting for the supporters of the 2nd Amendment to rise up against the tyranny of the government. After all, they're partly to blame for this administration.
Arrgh, where to begin?
Part of the problem with your scenario is simple: if the would-be shoe bomber's name wasn't on any security list, then checking his ID would do absolutely nothing to prevent him from boarding the plane. No red flags would go up in any search, so he'd be free to board.
Let us also not forget that the 9/11 terrorists had valid papers that were checked at the gates, yet their names didn't show up on any lists (due to the inability of the various agencies to share data). If the terrorists were concerned that their real names were on a terrorist watch-list, they'd get fake credentials, which is easy. The fake names would not be on any watch-list and they'd be on the plane just the same.
What part of this is not clear?
Benjamin Franklin's quote bears repeating: "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
I'd fire you simply because you don't know how to fucking spell the word "lose," you loser.
If what you say is true -- and I don't believe it for a nanosecond -- then why does Bush need to do an end run around the Constitution and a law which lets him do what he wants provided he gets a warrant after the fact? Just because Bush says that they're only listening in on calls from known terrorists doesn't mean that it's true.
If Bush said, "The sky is blue," I'd have to go outside and check.
The only reason for going around FISA is that they ARE spying on whomever they want and they don't want anyone to know about it.
Impeach, convict, execute. It's the only way to be sure.
FISA == "FOREIGN Intelligence Surveillance Act."
"Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US."
What does this tell us?
That the intelligence services were already listening to known terrorist "chatter";
The level of "chatter" was extremely high;
The President was notified.
The kicker, of course, is that Bush sat on his ass at his ranch in Crawford and didn't do a fucking thing about an imminent terrorist attack.
And NOW he wants to spy? We were already keeping tabs on the bad guys before 11 Sept 2001, but the guys at the top were not interested. The Clinton administration tried to tell BushCo that Bin Laden was dangerous and it was ignored. FBI field agents were telling their superiors in Washington that people with Middle-Eastern names were taking flying lessons and were not interested in learning how to land!
Bush has an enemies list that makes Nixon's look like the invite list for a child's birthday party. WHO ARE WE KIDDING? The domestic spying has nothing to do with terrorism (nothing the Bush Administration actually does) and everything to do with concentrating power in the hands of the Executive, specifically the President.
Impeach, convict, execute. It's the only way to be sure.
They want to go around FISA because they don't want anyone to know upon whom they're spying. This point oughta be really obvious, folks.
Yeah. I heard that some guys figured this out about 230 years ago. Their solution was something called a "republic." Not sure whatever happened with it though.
It was taken over by big-r Republicans.
secede from the US. Good fuckin' riddance. Maybe they can move Austin to Arizona.
Dude, YOU'RE the idiot.
"No uterus, no vote" means if you don't have a uterus, you don't get to decide what the person with the uterus can do with her body.
There are a bunch of people on eBay selling CD-Rs of scanned manuals for HP and Tektronix test equipment. Seems to me that this is a blatant copyright violation ...
That's not true; the record industry forced through legislation requiring that you pay a tax on every blank cassette you purchase.
It matters if a proprietary format is chosen, and this proprietary format requires proprietary software to read it. What happens when said proprietary format/software is abandoned by the vendor?
Wrong! If you do electrical design (and I do), then you do your best to avoid OrCAD. PADS, PCAD, Protel DXP, Mentor, Electronics Workbench--anything but OrCAD!
It's not a bug ... it's a feature.
Read comp.lang.vhdl or comp.lang.verilog and you'll see posts like "I need the Verilog of the traffic-light program" or something similar. So a bunch of posters figured, "why not just post something that looks vaguely correct and see if the lazy students bite." So, a garbage traffic-light program was posted. Dunno how many Fs were given out that semester.
Well, there was no cash transaction involved, but the point remains.
Have you ever tried to reuse a paper ticket once it's been scanned?
I don't think the event promoters really give a shit about scalpers--the promoters (and hence the artists or the sports teams or whomever) get paid for the tickets whether or not the scalper can re-sell them.
It does present a problem for people who have legit reasons for re-selling a ticket. For example, say you get sick the night of the show and you want to sell (or give) your $100 ticket to a friend. You can do that with a paper ticket, but I don't see how you can transfer the ticket to your friend's phone. (Maybe the system will allow that?)
BTW: I hate scalpers, and I think people who are willing to overpay $300 for tickets to ANY event are fools.
Presumably, the "tickets" are generated uniquely by some mechanism that's "difficult" to hack. And once you go through the turnstile, your "ticket" is scanned and the database to which the scanner is connected marks it as used. This is no different from paper tickets with barcodes that are scanned at the gate.
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