Pictures -- I'm pretty sure all the pictures we download are copyrighted. Probably at least half of it being on websites that were not the express permission of the owner.
I'm pretty sure articles too, which some blogs insist on quoting in near entirety to get traffic.
Why should other mediums get special treatment under the law?
Except Lucas has to recognize that the generation of kids who watched the prequels aren't even 1/100 as attached to it as the ones who saw the original movies growing up.
Not that it's all his fault -- internet, Matrix, Harry Potter -- lots of strong competion.
a lifetime income? Can't they make enough profit off of it the first 50 or so ridiculously long years? Works often make the most money in the beginning of their life, not so many years later when it is no longer in synce with the zeitgeist that imbues so many creative products and fads.
I can't get a lifetime income based on most work I did so many years ago. Neither do others.
The purpose of copyright was to give an incentive to produce and publish material -- and have society benefit both by initially recieving it and then getting it in public domain. Enforcement costs money (police, courts, etcetera), so this time-limited monopoly was a fair arrangement.
But by no means was it to guarantee an income for life. That seems a little too much for just any random creative work when others have to make a day to day living. Not that I believe "it's for the poor starving artists!" line anyway.
It would seem truth in advertising should take care of this, if enforced correctly. I would rather like to see Congress set in motion what it needs to, to get high speed internet nationally and available in most areas. We are lagging far behind Japan - even Verizon Fios is much slower.
The Department of Education has only been around since 1978, since Carter. I assume there were school before then? It's a useless and unconstitutional department.
Obama is not change. He's heavily for the welfare state, won't cut spending, has said he could support Real ID but only voted against it because the states lacked federal funding to implement it, voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act, and continues to fund the war.
For what that is worth. I'm sorry, but he sounds a lot like Clinton '92. Vague on specifics, big on "Hope" and "Change" and some call him a "Washington Outsider" (just like the last two president when entering).
but it won't stop the customer base from shrinking.
I don't know any dedicated arcades anymore. In this area. they started closing down mid-90s, and the last one I remember, from the 6-7 that used to be around, closed 2 years back. I think Chuck E. Cheese has been down because of similiar woes, but since I haven't been there since many, many years -- don't take that as an informed opinion.
So that leaves what? The bowling alley, billiard places, theatres, and most other recreational centers usually have some games or maybe many -- but most of them old and shitty with your console two generations back being more powerful. The random bar may have something like Golden Tee of various years.
If you think about it, the biggest, most active "arcades" these days are casinos. And those slot machines draw people for the obvious reasons not remotely related to anything video gamish.
All the reasons disappeared: better graphics? Nope (even if yes, arcade owners have to pay through the nose to keep up, passing cost to customers). Home controls being clumsy for that game? New nope -- most of the time enough to be compelling. And social recreation with peers/friends? Dead too, with the internet joining players -- usually the neighborhood arcade is the more isolating experience now (since they're dead) than sitting at home playing a game.
In recreation, it's like all those (recreational) amusement parks that used to be around but started declining after WW2 and by the 1970s just completely crapped out. With all the modes of transportation and the new interstate highway system being built in the 1950s, people could easily travel to the best amusement parks in the region -- leaving all the local ones feeling quaint and not very worthwhile. The owners of the local joint just couldn't afford (or have the space) for the big rides and eventually all but the biggest parks just died. Today it's the big ones that survived or those travelling ones that need to pack it up after a week.
I know Japan is a different culture and different games like Pachinko Parlors... but I can't help but think this was a long time coming anywhere in the first world.
Schwarzenegger was in Total Recall yet I don't remember that specific reference. I do know that "President Schwarzenegger" was referenced in Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes though.
Then the movie industry is going to come forward and ask for a tax on your internet connection. And book publishers. And then the porn industry.
Soon your average connection will have $50 worth of monthly taxes based on what you might do with it. (I don't listen to music anyway so this kinda ticks me off...)
The title is very misleading, its actual a response to a possible panic
I see that, FTA:
But a lot of these machines didn't work right, and when they registered false alarms, the police had to spend millions of dollars chasing bad leads and throwing the public into a state of raw panic.
OK, none of that has actually happened.
I suscribe to the many eyes philosophy. Open Source -- anybody can look for bad code -- more than most any centralized organization has.
I'd imagine it's the same in the real word -- with reporting crimes rather than relying only on the cop on the beat. Environmental damage (which is a concern here too). Etcetera.
Instead of banning anything, just make a person liable for a false alarm ($500 fine or something) if he reports something in this nature unless he's using equipment certified by some type of standards agency and not some dollar store device.
If it's not that much of a problem -- forget the fine and just set up a task force to respond/investigate these matters. Be thankful that multiple people are looking out for free and leave it at that.
I just hope athletes don't start thinking about replacing their naturla legs to get 'a leg up'!
I'd think you'd have to be pretty damned dedicated (and psycho) to do that. Personally, I think if a competition sport starts asking that much from their athletes that most athletes would just rather move to a new (perhaps related) sport.
Effects of steroids is delayed pain -- a missing leg or two would have immediate downsides.
I used it too a number of times - I probably have an accuracy rate not much better than 99% typing - I'm a clutz. But whereas fixing in middle of typing is pretty smooth and not too time consuming - Dragon makes it a chore over every little mistake.
I won't recommend "Don't use it" because it's really a personal choice - some people love it and some hate it. But I have tried 3 versions so far (including the latest)and it wasn't so much a conscious decision to stop using it as much as I just eventually stopped bothering.
I could see using it to write-up letters which is a chore Dragon is very competent once trained (not necessarily faster or even as fast as typing though) but a task I seldom engage in for extended durations.
But part of the dream of Speech Recognition is telling the computer to do this and that -- even just a simplistic version of what is in some Sci-Fi like in Star Trek -- and the computer just knows what it needs to do and does it. I'm not even talking anything as complicated as AI, just something like "look up slashdot" and it fires up the browser and goes to the site. Or while using Dragon the command won't be "Set my dentist appointment for 4:00pm Wednesday" but more like (open calendar app with mouse, put mouse on correct textbox and click) "Dentist Appointment.... Tab..... tab.... numeral 7...." (bring mouse over AM/PM selector and select PM).
This isn't something that is Dragon's fault -- I think in many years programs and OSes as well will have a number of keywords that will control them built in (if I'm not mistaken Apple has a primitive version of this but the speech recognition is crap). Dragon has great accuracy but the program is hopeless in commands and context (yes, I know it can be trained -- like a dog; a lot of effort for a few piddly tasks) and I think that's a major aspect of what many people would secretly like when they try out the program.
All things considered, Ron Paul has been doing fine in the primaries and it's still very early and he has been conserving his money.
Still, the two predominant parties have stacked things in their favor. While there are other parties, they are more novelties to the average person than anything else. This result, of course, is the fault of the system and those that designed it (the 2 parties) than of those smaller parties.
1) The thing is, the president can't do #1. Don't you think any President, even Bush, would wave a magic wand if they could?
What he can do is do things that promote that. Even then it might not happen (FDRs domestic program didn't really work that well until the economy ramped up for WW2).
2) Agree.
3) This needs more than PR. Pulling out of Iraq would be a concrete step.
2) It will force people to realize that such fraud is possible, and force a solution to be created before the next US Federal Election.
That's the problem here though: even if exposed as such, more people will care about if the American Idol "election" is rigged than the political ones.
Apathy is a hell of a drug.
For more conspiracy fodder, are the Clintons really stupid enough to have a hand in this?
Just because fraud happened for the benefit of a politician does not mean the politician had a hand in it.
FYI, as a fellow RP supporter, Ron Paul has already said a month ago that he does not anticipate the best showings in the early states and his campaign does not revolve around that. So while it could have gone better, don't be disheartened. Michigan we can do well -- lots of independents who know a democratic vote is thrown away because of the situation.
Also, don't wait for a phone call -- go to your meetup group at their next meeting and either help them out or initiate something! Good luck.
I don't know why my parent is rated insightful as he doesn't give any concrete examples. Waving your hands and just saying "Ron Paul does not know what he is talking about" is not insightful, just a random opinion without backing. Ron Paul has already written 8 books, many about the economy.
Also, many economists are Keynesian (taught that way). Ron Paul follows the Austrian (Von Mises) school of thought. There are significant differences between the two and also disagreements. Of course a traditional economist is going to clash with him.
There will be artifacts that will allow "dishonest" voters to game the system. Even the wikipedia page on Range Voting shows how it could be done with the Kentucky Capitol election example -- Memphis Voters artificially score Nashville low so they they are guaranteed to win the election.
I would say the solution would be quite simple in a range system: if there are, say, 7 choices -- instead of letting people vote on each one, give them a set number of points, say 300. They may distribute the points as they wish but at a maximum of 100 points per choice. They would not have to use up their points if they so choose.
I don't see what the innovation is with the entire package/idea. Maybe something in the details, but it seems to be the standard application of new technology (or one going down in price) to an old(er) device.
It would seem to me that the obvious solution is that the RFID tag should only be readable when the user wishes it so. Like put a slim 10 year lithium battery in the thing and a flat button inside that the user presses that activates some logic that allows the RFID to transmit when he wishes to go through a checkpoint.
I don't see why it has to be readable all the type as if it were a store tag that prevents merchandise from being stolen.
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Pictures -- I'm pretty sure all the pictures we download are copyrighted. Probably at least half of it being on websites that were not the express permission of the owner.
I'm pretty sure articles too, which some blogs insist on quoting in near entirety to get traffic.
Why should other mediums get special treatment under the law?
Figured it came from Southpark or something but it didn't...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Except Lucas has to recognize that the generation of kids who watched the prequels aren't even 1/100 as attached to it as the ones who saw the original movies growing up.
Not that it's all his fault -- internet, Matrix, Harry Potter -- lots of strong competion.
a lifetime income? Can't they make enough profit off of it the first 50 or so ridiculously long years? Works often make the most money in the beginning of their life, not so many years later when it is no longer in synce with the zeitgeist that imbues so many creative products and fads.
I can't get a lifetime income based on most work I did so many years ago. Neither do others.
The purpose of copyright was to give an incentive to produce and publish material -- and have society benefit both by initially recieving it and then getting it in public domain. Enforcement costs money (police, courts, etcetera), so this time-limited monopoly was a fair arrangement.
But by no means was it to guarantee an income for life. That seems a little too much for just any random creative work when others have to make a day to day living. Not that I believe "it's for the poor starving artists!" line anyway.
It would seem truth in advertising should take care of this, if enforced correctly. I would rather like to see Congress set in motion what it needs to, to get high speed internet nationally and available in most areas. We are lagging far behind Japan - even Verizon Fios is much slower.
So I guess you have no real argument.
And this affects the DoE how? Again, public education, colleges, univerisities, and community colleges all there before the DoE.
I'm not very sure how the DoE added to the general welfare.
The Department of Education has only been around since 1978, since Carter. I assume there were school before then? It's a useless and unconstitutional department.
WTF?
Obama is not change. He's heavily for the welfare state, won't cut spending, has said he could support Real ID but only voted against it because the states lacked federal funding to implement it, voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act, and continues to fund the war.
He is not a Ron Paul replacement by any measure. He's even #8 on this list:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007
For what that is worth. I'm sorry, but he sounds a lot like Clinton '92. Vague on specifics, big on "Hope" and "Change" and some call him a "Washington Outsider" (just like the last two president when entering).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKSfwfy0h8
but it won't stop the customer base from shrinking.
I don't know any dedicated arcades anymore. In this area. they started closing down mid-90s, and the last one I remember, from the 6-7 that used to be around, closed 2 years back. I think Chuck E. Cheese has been down because of similiar woes, but since I haven't been there since many, many years -- don't take that as an informed opinion.
So that leaves what? The bowling alley, billiard places, theatres, and most other recreational centers usually have some games or maybe many -- but most of them old and shitty with your console two generations back being more powerful. The random bar may have something like Golden Tee of various years.
If you think about it, the biggest, most active "arcades" these days are casinos. And those slot machines draw people for the obvious reasons not remotely related to anything video gamish.
All the reasons disappeared: better graphics? Nope (even if yes, arcade owners have to pay through the nose to keep up, passing cost to customers). Home controls being clumsy for that game? New nope -- most of the time enough to be compelling. And social recreation with peers/friends? Dead too, with the internet joining players -- usually the neighborhood arcade is the more isolating experience now (since they're dead) than sitting at home playing a game.
In recreation, it's like all those (recreational) amusement parks that used to be around but started declining after WW2 and by the 1970s just completely crapped out. With all the modes of transportation and the new interstate highway system being built in the 1950s, people could easily travel to the best amusement parks in the region -- leaving all the local ones feeling quaint and not very worthwhile. The owners of the local joint just couldn't afford (or have the space) for the big rides and eventually all but the biggest parks just died. Today it's the big ones that survived or those travelling ones that need to pack it up after a week.
I know Japan is a different culture and different games like Pachinko Parlors... but I can't help but think this was a long time coming anywhere in the first world.
Schwarzenegger was in Total Recall yet I don't remember that specific reference. I do know that "President Schwarzenegger" was referenced in Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes though.
Then the movie industry is going to come forward and ask for a tax on your internet connection. And book publishers. And then the porn industry.
Soon your average connection will have $50 worth of monthly taxes based on what you might do with it. (I don't listen to music anyway so this kinda ticks me off...)
I see that, FTA:
I suscribe to the many eyes philosophy. Open Source -- anybody can look for bad code -- more than most any centralized organization has.
I'd imagine it's the same in the real word -- with reporting crimes rather than relying only on the cop on the beat. Environmental damage (which is a concern here too). Etcetera.
Instead of banning anything, just make a person liable for a false alarm ($500 fine or something) if he reports something in this nature unless he's using equipment certified by some type of standards agency and not some dollar store device.
If it's not that much of a problem -- forget the fine and just set up a task force to respond/investigate these matters. Be thankful that multiple people are looking out for free and leave it at that.
I'd think you'd have to be pretty damned dedicated (and psycho) to do that. Personally, I think if a competition sport starts asking that much from their athletes that most athletes would just rather move to a new (perhaps related) sport.
Effects of steroids is delayed pain -- a missing leg or two would have immediate downsides.
I used it too a number of times - I probably have an accuracy rate not much better than 99% typing - I'm a clutz. But whereas fixing in middle of typing is pretty smooth and not too time consuming - Dragon makes it a chore over every little mistake.
I won't recommend "Don't use it" because it's really a personal choice - some people love it and some hate it. But I have tried 3 versions so far (including the latest)and it wasn't so much a conscious decision to stop using it as much as I just eventually stopped bothering.
I could see using it to write-up letters which is a chore Dragon is very competent once trained (not necessarily faster or even as fast as typing though) but a task I seldom engage in for extended durations.
But part of the dream of Speech Recognition is telling the computer to do this and that -- even just a simplistic version of what is in some Sci-Fi like in Star Trek -- and the computer just knows what it needs to do and does it. I'm not even talking anything as complicated as AI, just something like "look up slashdot" and it fires up the browser and goes to the site. Or while using Dragon the command won't be "Set my dentist appointment for 4:00pm Wednesday" but more like (open calendar app with mouse, put mouse on correct textbox and click) "Dentist Appointment.... Tab..... tab.... numeral 7...." (bring mouse over AM/PM selector and select PM).
This isn't something that is Dragon's fault -- I think in many years programs and OSes as well will have a number of keywords that will control them built in (if I'm not mistaken Apple has a primitive version of this but the speech recognition is crap). Dragon has great accuracy but the program is hopeless in commands and context (yes, I know it can be trained -- like a dog; a lot of effort for a few piddly tasks) and I think that's a major aspect of what many people would secretly like when they try out the program.
All things considered, Ron Paul has been doing fine in the primaries and it's still very early and he has been conserving his money.
Still, the two predominant parties have stacked things in their favor. While there are other parties, they are more novelties to the average person than anything else. This result, of course, is the fault of the system and those that designed it (the 2 parties) than of those smaller parties.
The party will come to an end, in our lifetime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-16u9x3tfE
1) The thing is, the president can't do #1. Don't you think any President, even Bush, would wave a magic wand if they could?
What he can do is do things that promote that. Even then it might not happen (FDRs domestic program didn't really work that well until the economy ramped up for WW2).
2) Agree.
3) This needs more than PR. Pulling out of Iraq would be a concrete step.
the phone companies are making helping the government spy on us?
Just asking.
Apathy is a hell of a drug.Just because fraud happened for the benefit of a politician does not mean the politician had a hand in it.
FYI, as a fellow RP supporter, Ron Paul has already said a month ago that he does not anticipate the best showings in the early states and his campaign does not revolve around that. So while it could have gone better, don't be disheartened. Michigan we can do well -- lots of independents who know a democratic vote is thrown away because of the situation.
Also, don't wait for a phone call -- go to your meetup group at their next meeting and either help them out or initiate something! Good luck.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/
I don't know why my parent is rated insightful as he doesn't give any concrete examples. Waving your hands and just saying "Ron Paul does not know what he is talking about" is not insightful, just a random opinion without backing. Ron Paul has already written 8 books, many about the economy.
Also, many economists are Keynesian (taught that way). Ron Paul follows the Austrian (Von Mises) school of thought. There are significant differences between the two and also disagreements. Of course a traditional economist is going to clash with him.
I would say the solution would be quite simple in a range system: if there are, say, 7 choices -- instead of letting people vote on each one, give them a set number of points, say 300. They may distribute the points as they wish but at a maximum of 100 points per choice. They would not have to use up their points if they so choose.
I don't see what the innovation is with the entire package/idea. Maybe something in the details, but it seems to be the standard application of new technology (or one going down in price) to an old(er) device.
It would seem to me that the obvious solution is that the RFID tag should only be readable when the user wishes it so. Like put a slim 10 year lithium battery in the thing and a flat button inside that the user presses that activates some logic that allows the RFID to transmit when he wishes to go through a checkpoint.
I don't see why it has to be readable all the type as if it were a store tag that prevents merchandise from being stolen.