No, the pendulum may be beginning its slow swing back the other way. We could eventually see the total abolishion of IP, or ideally mandatory open source, i.e. no copyright or patent for you if you don't publish the source code or schematics. Mandatory open source is the position we should all be pulling for.
He might be wrong if the girl was just seeking attention. Dating sites are a venue of choice for women who just want attention, but arn't tech savvy or honest enough to be a cam whore. If you wanted to design a really effective online dating site, you'd simply make one where women had to initiate communication. It's got lots of advantages for the girls, as it locks guys into fewer choice.. and it helps ensure that the girls are serious for the guys. OTOH, Why bother making a better online dating site? Just get out more.
Peopple shouldn't be encouraged to have more kids. I won't mind seeing all school expences become tax deductible, but I'd like to see the usual dependent deduction cut from income tax. Or better yet, move to a progressive corperate income tax, i.e. big corperations pay a higher precentage than small corperations, and individuals pay nothing. Plus, you've hidden a "don't have too many kids" tax in the increased prices of all the stuff, a very good thing.
Just quit speeding! If people don't speed, cops don't get paid, cameras don't get maintained, etc. Just watch how fast the cameras come down if you can get 95% of the speeders to quit in your city!
Actually, there is some sort of result which shows that quantum computers can invert a function given as a quantum black box faster than any known classical algorithm. I think that like 8 years ago, when I read up on quantum computers, this algorithm was the ONLY speed up which was provable with lowerbounds, i.e. factoring might still be easy on an ordinary computer, but inverting a black box provably isn't. BUT the catch is that this result only provided a polynomial improvment (square root?) where as all the exciting stuff like factoring was exponential.
Clearly one can classify almost everything, but this will have major economic costs eventually. If your society competes with an open society which does not pay secrecy costs, execpt on a few things it does not want you to know about, can your society survive?
It is known that men and women think somewhat diffrently. This is just the old idea that men have a "visual & spacial coprocessor". It is not about intelligence in general. For real information on the issue, check out:
Furthermore, there is an enormous amount of evidence that women suffer from being educated with men. Indeed, most of the best female academics went to all girls schools. Knowing this guys work, he probably didn't bother to control for education. You should really compare women & men educated in mixed & segregated classes. You will find that male preformance is not much effected by segregation, but female proformance is greatly increased by segregation.
Scientifically, an embryo is, strictly speaking "human life"
Total b.s., its a living cell which is genetically human and could grow into a real human if implanted. But you can take the DNA from a skin cell, implant it into an egg to make an embryo, and grow a human too. Who cares?
If it ain't even got nerve cells, it their ain't no moral issues with killing it.
In a "libertarian utopia", if you have a company without limited liability protection, it ideally should be the (voting) stockholders who do the time, but the courts would probably try to be reasonable about puting the executives behind bars when the executives tricked the stockholders.
Today, almost every company has limited liability but there is no good reason for this. Classically limited liability was part of a contract between the king/gov and a company. Often such a contract would give the company a near monopoly on something, like piracy on the high seas (which Britian sponsored for a long time).
Corporations have limited liability, meaning no one is liable for the actions of the corporation. If a corporation goes bankrupt, the stock holders never have to pay off the creditors, or declare bankrupsy themsevles. If a corporation did merely derive its rights from its stockholers, then the stockholders would have to pay off the creditors.
Now there are some types of company, such as sole proprietorships or partnerships, where the owners are *more* liable for the actions of the corperation. These companies should have correspondingly more human rights, but the truth is that they usually have fewer rights.
Like the AC said, the modern states rights movment began with anti-abolitionist and rich guys who wanted to buy more legal favors. It picked up a lot of steam in opposition to the civil rights movment.
Here is a hint: very very very few government officials mean it when they talk about removing red tape, as that would mean reducing their power. They just want to do it locally when doing so is an exercise of their power, usually to aid a constituent, frequently to the detrement of the majority.
Now its interesting to consider real states rights, like the founders did. For example, you would probably remove the "enforcment" power of the FDA, and end the war on drugs, but you might keep the FDA's research and certification part. States laws would usually say "Do what the FDA says or else!" but sometimes states would make exceptions, like making pot or abortion illegal/legal. Now the interstate commerce clause would piss conservatives off bigtime: states would not have the power to regulate people crossing boarders to get abortions/pot (just like in Europe). So almost anything reasonable would be effectively legal if you had the money to travel. Leftists see this as unfair, liberal "right" wingers like myself see it as a chance for evolution. Trust me, New Yorkers would be happy for all the homosexual living in some worthless town in Kansas to move to NYC, as they will be more economically productive than your average citizen of Kansas.
But, even then their site history was really only incidentally linked to their contact info because we never correlated the data together. Why would I?
First your software can pick up on people who are interested in something your selling from your site. Next your high pressure sales people call up to get the guy to buy it, after all "you have a prior business relationship."
Your asking their computer to report on them for you, they don't have to let their computer do it, simple as that. Yes, I also trade supermarket loyalty cards with all my friends on a regular basis, to help get those discounts, and also just to make the data less meaningful.
States rights just means undoing the good stuff the ACLU did, i.e. 1) Being able to persecute minority religions (prior to the ACLU it was actually illegal to be of the wrong religion in many places). 2) Outlawing abortion. 3) Eliminating enviromental legislation. 4) Keeping black people from voting. etc. Of course, few strict constructionist judges ever notice that the war on drugs is clearly unconstitutional too.
It would be cool for a group of developmental psychologists to get together, do a really brilliant job organizing what they already know about the best techniques for raising children and training day care personnel, and then set up a company to patent them all Once their research eventually made it to the front page of nature, people would want to use it, but discover that they could only do it if they made their day care into a franchise. It might help get people's attention, especially if the day care patents are far more legally sound then this garbage, plus it might make some developmental psychologists and their financial backers very rich.
If management is corrupt, just go directly to the cops, period. A corrupt manager will always see it as (1) "be 100% legal and lose money" or (2) "find a way to continue with time honored buisness practice." (2) always means shut the guy who noticed it up. If your company is doing illegal stuff, just find an annonymous way to report it to the cops.
No, the millitary doesn't want low-class crack heads & hippies. They clearly just need to be targeting more patriotic students. By knowing more about their targets they can focus on patriotic students, such as members of the Collage Republicans or high school children whose parents are members of the republican party.
If DoubleClick is to go out of buisness, it should exploit its remaining time by focusing on penis enlargment. I mean someone must be making money of on those ads, and I know double click can do a much better ad: No popup/under, just a big slowly growing penis eventually filling & obscuring the page and inspiring millions of men and women to buy their system.
However, I would not recommend learning French if you are living in the US. Spanish is the most important foreign language to learn at this time.
This is so not true! It depends on what you want to do with your life. You definitely learn spanish if you want to be part of the service sector (clerk, banker, retailer) or write VCR manuals. Guess what, no one sets out wanting to do those things! The only standard "I wanna be an X when I grow up" jobs for which spanish is needed are: politician, doctor, and lawyer.
Those who want to be scientists should skip the spanish, and learn French or German instead. The French are the only academics in the world to still publish in their own langauge, as opposed to English. The German academic system provides a LOT of postdoc opertunities (although not many permenent job oppertunities).
Also, the U.S. is a declining empire, and China is a rising one, so there are plenty of reasons too learn Chinese.
The Germans were forced to invade Belgium, and that sealed their fate. Plus, the French actually were prepared for the Germans to attack through Belgium, and did consentrate their forces there to stop it.. the Germans were just more bad ass.
Now if the French could have gotten the Germans to invade Russia earlier, the U.S. might never have even needed to get involved.
Here is a simple solution: In civil cort, the opposing party gets 30% of your legal fees, including retainers and costs of managment for corperate lawyers, to pay their own lawyers. Anyone who is "right" can afford to pay a lawyer 30% of what the opposition is paying theirs.. and if you ain't putting no money up yourself then you don't got to pay the 30%.
Its a simple tax on lawyers, but its used to pay lawyers, so it could actually pass as law. Its like a driving? segregation disorder in genetics, it can destroy an entire species (evolve to death).. lawyers in this case.
Here is the new system everyone: Post your.torrent files on traditional P2P systems with searches. PLEASE include a date in the filename, so that people can try the most recent ones first (cuz there are going to be tons of dead.torrent files laying about in people's sharing directories).
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No, the pendulum may be beginning its slow swing back the other way. We could eventually see the total abolishion of IP, or ideally mandatory open source, i.e. no copyright or patent for you if you don't publish the source code or schematics. Mandatory open source is the position we should all be pulling for.
He might be wrong if the girl was just seeking attention. Dating sites are a venue of choice for women who just want attention, but arn't tech savvy or honest enough to be a cam whore. If you wanted to design a really effective online dating site, you'd simply make one where women had to initiate communication. It's got lots of advantages for the girls, as it locks guys into fewer choice.. and it helps ensure that the girls are serious for the guys. OTOH, Why bother making a better online dating site? Just get out more.
Peopple shouldn't be encouraged to have more kids. I won't mind seeing all school expences become tax deductible, but I'd like to see the usual dependent deduction cut from income tax. Or better yet, move to a progressive corperate income tax, i.e. big corperations pay a higher precentage than small corperations, and individuals pay nothing. Plus, you've hidden a "don't have too many kids" tax in the increased prices of all the stuff, a very good thing.
Just quit speeding! If people don't speed, cops don't get paid, cameras don't get maintained, etc. Just watch how fast the cameras come down if you can get 95% of the speeders to quit in your city!
Actually, there is some sort of result which shows that quantum computers can invert a function given as a quantum black box faster than any known classical algorithm. I think that like 8 years ago, when I read up on quantum computers, this algorithm was the ONLY speed up which was provable with lowerbounds, i.e. factoring might still be easy on an ordinary computer, but inverting a black box provably isn't. BUT the catch is that this result only provided a polynomial improvment (square root?) where as all the exciting stuff like factoring was exponential.
Clearly one can classify almost everything, but this will have major economic costs eventually. If your society competes with an open society which does not pay secrecy costs, execpt on a few things it does not want you to know about, can your society survive?
It is known that men and women think somewhat diffrently. This is just the old idea that men have a "visual & spacial coprocessor". It is not about intelligence in general. For real information on the issue, check out:
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http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05
Furthermore, there is an enormous amount of evidence that women suffer from being educated with men. Indeed, most of the best female academics went to all girls schools. Knowing this guys work, he probably didn't bother to control for education. You should really compare women & men educated in mixed & segregated classes. You will find that male preformance is not much effected by segregation, but female proformance is greatly increased by segregation.
Scientifically, an embryo is, strictly speaking "human life"
Total b.s., its a living cell which is genetically human and could grow into a real human if implanted. But you can take the DNA from a skin cell, implant it into an egg to make an embryo, and grow a human too. Who cares?
If it ain't even got nerve cells, it their ain't no moral issues with killing it.
In a "libertarian utopia", if you have a company without limited liability protection, it ideally should be the (voting) stockholders who do the time, but the courts would probably try to be reasonable about puting the executives behind bars when the executives tricked the stockholders.
Today, almost every company has limited liability but there is no good reason for this. Classically limited liability was part of a contract between the king/gov and a company. Often such a contract would give the company a near monopoly on something, like piracy on the high seas (which Britian sponsored for a long time).
Corporations have limited liability, meaning no one is liable for the actions of the corporation. If a corporation goes bankrupt, the stock holders never have to pay off the creditors, or declare bankrupsy themsevles. If a corporation did merely derive its rights from its stockholers, then the stockholders would have to pay off the creditors.
Now there are some types of company, such as sole proprietorships or partnerships, where the owners are *more* liable for the actions of the corperation. These companies should have correspondingly more human rights, but the truth is that they usually have fewer rights.
Like the AC said, the modern states rights movment began with anti-abolitionist and rich guys who wanted to buy more legal favors. It picked up a lot of steam in opposition to the civil rights movment.
Here is a hint: very very very few government officials mean it when they talk about removing red tape, as that would mean reducing their power. They just want to do it locally when doing so is an exercise of their power, usually to aid a constituent, frequently to the detrement of the majority.
Now its interesting to consider real states rights, like the founders did. For example, you would probably remove the "enforcment" power of the FDA, and end the war on drugs, but you might keep the FDA's research and certification part. States
laws would usually say "Do what the FDA says or else!" but sometimes states would make exceptions, like making pot or abortion illegal/legal. Now the interstate commerce clause would piss conservatives off bigtime: states would not have the power to regulate people crossing boarders to get abortions/pot (just like in Europe). So almost anything reasonable would be effectively legal if you had the money to travel. Leftists see this as unfair, liberal "right" wingers like myself see it as a chance for evolution. Trust me, New Yorkers would be happy for all the homosexual living in some worthless town in Kansas to move to NYC, as they will be more economically productive than your average citizen of Kansas.
But, even then their site history was really only incidentally linked to their contact info because we never correlated the data together. Why would I? First your software can pick up on people who are interested in something your selling from your site. Next your high pressure sales people call up to get the guy to buy it, after all "you have a prior business relationship." Your asking their computer to report on them for you, they don't have to let their computer do it, simple as that. Yes, I also trade supermarket loyalty cards with all my friends on a regular basis, to help get those discounts, and also just to make the data less meaningful.
States rights just means undoing the good stuff the ACLU did, i.e.
1) Being able to persecute minority religions (prior to the ACLU it was actually illegal to be of the wrong religion in many places).
2) Outlawing abortion.
3) Eliminating enviromental legislation.
4) Keeping black people from voting.
etc.
Of course, few strict constructionist judges ever notice that the war on drugs is clearly unconstitutional too.
See if it was Japan doing it, we'd all know what would be enstore for the stuff when it got back.
You can fight this. Call the company and complain. Call higher ups in the classical music world and ask them to refuse to work with these companies.
It would be cool for a group of developmental psychologists to get together, do a really brilliant job organizing what they already know about the best techniques for raising children and training day care personnel, and then set up a company to patent them all Once their research eventually made it to the front page of nature, people would want to use it, but discover that they could only do it if they made their day care into a franchise. It might help get people's attention, especially if the day care patents are far more legally sound then this garbage, plus it might make some developmental psychologists and their financial backers very rich.
If management is corrupt, just go directly to the cops, period. A corrupt manager will always see it as (1) "be 100% legal and lose money" or (2) "find a way to continue with time honored buisness practice." (2) always means shut the guy who noticed it up. If your company is doing illegal stuff, just find an annonymous way to report it to the cops.
No, the millitary doesn't want low-class crack heads & hippies. They clearly just need to be targeting more patriotic students. By knowing more about their targets they can focus on patriotic students, such as members of the Collage Republicans or high school children whose parents are members of the republican party.
If DoubleClick is to go out of buisness, it should exploit its remaining time by focusing on penis enlargment. I mean someone must be making money of on those ads, and I know double click can do a much better ad: No popup/under, just a big slowly growing penis eventually filling & obscuring the page and inspiring millions of men and women to buy their system.
That is perhaps the funniest investment related quote I've seen on /. :)
The pr0n industry is successful because guys like tits.
Funny, the last time I saw a major motion picture, it was also because of the actrice's tits.
This is so not true! It depends on what you want to do with your life. You definitely learn spanish if you want to be part of the service sector (clerk, banker, retailer) or write VCR manuals. Guess what, no one sets out wanting to do those things! The only standard "I wanna be an X when I grow up" jobs for which spanish is needed are: politician, doctor, and lawyer.
Those who want to be scientists should skip the spanish, and learn French or German instead. The French are the only academics in the world to still publish in their own langauge, as opposed to English. The German academic system provides a LOT of postdoc opertunities (although not many permenent job oppertunities).
Also, the U.S. is a declining empire, and China is a rising one, so there are plenty of reasons too learn Chinese.
The Germans were forced to invade Belgium, and that sealed their fate. Plus, the French actually were prepared for the Germans to attack through Belgium, and did consentrate their forces there to stop it.. the Germans were just more bad ass.
Now if the French could have gotten the Germans to invade Russia earlier, the U.S. might never have even needed to get involved.
Here is a simple solution: In civil cort, the opposing party gets 30% of your legal fees, including retainers and costs of managment for corperate lawyers, to pay their own lawyers. Anyone who is "right" can afford to pay a lawyer 30% of what the opposition is paying theirs.. and if you ain't putting no money up yourself then you don't got to pay the 30%.
Its a simple tax on lawyers, but its used to pay lawyers, so it could actually pass as law. Its like a driving? segregation disorder in genetics, it can destroy an entire species (evolve to death).. lawyers in this case.
Jeff
Here is the new system everyone: Post your .torrent files on traditional P2P systems with searches. PLEASE include a date in the filename, so that people can try the most recent ones first (cuz there are going to be tons of dead .torrent files laying about in people's sharing directories).