It wouldn't be half as offensive if what the government did were in some way related to keeping us safe. The TSA is the least convincing theatre troupe I have ever encountered.
I understand the realities of it, I'm just saying that as soon as we took to the skies, we essentially ditched what in today's TSA-riddled travel experiences would be a great alternative if we'd simply hung onto it.
My subtle jab at the inability of the US to build and sustain high speed passenger rail seems to have been lost in the text format. There was nothing this trip accomplished that was cheaper than flying. Even on a fairly plush ticket. Mildly interesting, sure, but this trip was largely just stupid.
It seems like if you can do this with a car, where there are traffic laws and speed limits, there's no good reason why a NY-LA bullet train wouldn't work.
I may not be a cell-phone-in-a-business-meeting guy, but I am firmly of the opinion that the more of someone's time you waste while holding a meeting, the more likely people are to find something else to do while attending.
Most people who hold "meetings" in today's business world confuse meeting with lectures and slideshows.
Watch anything where a meeting takes place from your grandparents' generation. Someone is in charge, someone is taking down the minutes, the presentations are quick, efficient, and unembellished beyond what is effective. There is an agenda, and it is adhered to. If it is not on the agenda, it can wait until another meeting, or be discussed during new business. Everyone is expected to bring something other than their body to the meeting, and everyone gets an opportunity to contribute.
Go to an average meeting today. At almost every job I've had, what is called a meeting is really a "this should have been a brief email" coupled with "your input is only desired if you agree with me".
Businesses are groups of one or more people banded together with a common commercial purposes. At present, grouping together does not waive their rights as citizens.
Maybe nothing groundbreaking, but I am quite confident that they've brought more to the table than one idea over the years. Not of an empire-launching grade, but certainly reasonable, development-worthy ideas.
If properly deployed, it doesn't take much more than a grocery store's stock on hand to really screw a lot of people up and kill some of them, especially in a confined space.
The biggest danger of chemical weapons is not the harm they cause, but the cruel way in which they do it and the simplicity with which one can produce and use them.
The thing is, they're not dealing with existing technology. Most software patents try to patent trivial and obvious processes, not actual invention. Many lack even a working example when granted.
It was also back when patents actually meant putting something into practice rather than simply writing down your idea for how something could be used and filing it with the USPO to later sue people who had the same idea.
The core problem is that patents used to be about taking people's implementations of an inventive idea and copying them, not suing anyone who independently thinks of something that merely does the same thing (even if the implementation may be different, if you had one at all). The patent laws were not written to handle what we are seeing happen today.
The computing world works specifically because some people have ideas and others have the ability to implement those ideas. And the few who can handle both of those are not generally going to be capable businessmen. It is a rare individual who can excel in all three roles.
Any decent defence attorney will find little trouble pointing out that all pre-1997 search engines are prior art, since a search engine has always been an advertising machine. If I typed into Alta Vista, in 1996, a search for "books" and came up with any site related to books, Alta Vista has acted in the role of an advertising machine in directing me to that site.
Additionally, it's not just about what people are playing now. It's about what people are playing next year and the year after. My two-year-old laptop plays a mean game of Half Life or Team Fortress Classic. Put me on a Team Fortress 2 map with 20 players, explosions, and flying missiles? 15ms ping rates can't save me from lag at that point, I've got to drop from the server because it's unplayable. Granted, it's a laptop, but TF2 came out years ago.
This is also the fundamental reason that the 17th Amendment should be repealed. The ability of the several states to check the federal government was reduced to nearly nothing when we abandoned the state appointment of senators in favour of popular election.
Actually, we are in fact a federation of states. The problem is, most of our elected officials have convinced themselves otherwise. 90%+ of our federal government should not exist, constitutionally speaking. Unfortunately, our justices are as bad as our legislators and executives.
Extortion is the bread and butter of most major software companies' security standards. If you think this is bad, you should look into what is involved when updating Oracle.
Oh, on this we certainly agree, I was imply remarking on the potentially libellous nature of referring to file sharing as a whole as if it were illegitimate until proven otherwise. Innocent until proven guilty is the basic premise of criminal law in the United States, even if people have bastardized that over the past 200 or so years.
Be forewarned, I had no musical training or experience at the time. My brother was in percussion at the time in high school. Here it is. My brother is DJ Goyim, I was DJ Intermodal. I really think he and I should do another collaboration now that it has been 12 years. Especially once I get some equipment and can actually record my guitar, and it would be great if he picked his drums up again. Last I saw, the entire kit was sitting in our parents' hall closet.
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It wouldn't be half as offensive if what the government did were in some way related to keeping us safe. The TSA is the least convincing theatre troupe I have ever encountered.
Well, if you need to identify something deplorable, may as well ask the experts.
True, but 120+ won't compete with Boeing and Airbus.
I understand the realities of it, I'm just saying that as soon as we took to the skies, we essentially ditched what in today's TSA-riddled travel experiences would be a great alternative if we'd simply hung onto it.
My subtle jab at the inability of the US to build and sustain high speed passenger rail seems to have been lost in the text format. There was nothing this trip accomplished that was cheaper than flying. Even on a fairly plush ticket. Mildly interesting, sure, but this trip was largely just stupid.
It seems like if you can do this with a car, where there are traffic laws and speed limits, there's no good reason why a NY-LA bullet train wouldn't work.
I may not be a cell-phone-in-a-business-meeting guy, but I am firmly of the opinion that the more of someone's time you waste while holding a meeting, the more likely people are to find something else to do while attending.
Most people who hold "meetings" in today's business world confuse meeting with lectures and slideshows.
Watch anything where a meeting takes place from your grandparents' generation. Someone is in charge, someone is taking down the minutes, the presentations are quick, efficient, and unembellished beyond what is effective. There is an agenda, and it is adhered to. If it is not on the agenda, it can wait until another meeting, or be discussed during new business. Everyone is expected to bring something other than their body to the meeting, and everyone gets an opportunity to contribute.
Go to an average meeting today. At almost every job I've had, what is called a meeting is really a "this should have been a brief email" coupled with "your input is only desired if you agree with me".
I don't know, but I've been having a hell of a time updating my Geocities site.
Businesses are groups of one or more people banded together with a common commercial purposes. At present, grouping together does not waive their rights as citizens.
Maybe nothing groundbreaking, but I am quite confident that they've brought more to the table than one idea over the years. Not of an empire-launching grade, but certainly reasonable, development-worthy ideas.
If properly deployed, it doesn't take much more than a grocery store's stock on hand to really screw a lot of people up and kill some of them, especially in a confined space.
The biggest danger of chemical weapons is not the harm they cause, but the cruel way in which they do it and the simplicity with which one can produce and use them.
The thing is, they're not dealing with existing technology. Most software patents try to patent trivial and obvious processes, not actual invention. Many lack even a working example when granted.
It was also back when patents actually meant putting something into practice rather than simply writing down your idea for how something could be used and filing it with the USPO to later sue people who had the same idea.
The core problem is that patents used to be about taking people's implementations of an inventive idea and copying them, not suing anyone who independently thinks of something that merely does the same thing (even if the implementation may be different, if you had one at all). The patent laws were not written to handle what we are seeing happen today.
The computing world works specifically because some people have ideas and others have the ability to implement those ideas. And the few who can handle both of those are not generally going to be capable businessmen. It is a rare individual who can excel in all three roles.
Any decent defence attorney will find little trouble pointing out that all pre-1997 search engines are prior art, since a search engine has always been an advertising machine. If I typed into Alta Vista, in 1996, a search for "books" and came up with any site related to books, Alta Vista has acted in the role of an advertising machine in directing me to that site.
Additionally, it's not just about what people are playing now. It's about what people are playing next year and the year after. My two-year-old laptop plays a mean game of Half Life or Team Fortress Classic. Put me on a Team Fortress 2 map with 20 players, explosions, and flying missiles? 15ms ping rates can't save me from lag at that point, I've got to drop from the server because it's unplayable. Granted, it's a laptop, but TF2 came out years ago.
This is also the fundamental reason that the 17th Amendment should be repealed. The ability of the several states to check the federal government was reduced to nearly nothing when we abandoned the state appointment of senators in favour of popular election.
Actually, we are in fact a federation of states. The problem is, most of our elected officials have convinced themselves otherwise. 90%+ of our federal government should not exist, constitutionally speaking. Unfortunately, our justices are as bad as our legislators and executives.
Extortion is the bread and butter of most major software companies' security standards. If you think this is bad, you should look into what is involved when updating Oracle.
No, that would be too easy. My solution is even easier: It's a video, therefore, I no longer care.
Not everyone. Those guys who got their iPhone 4S's warranty-replaced with iPhone 5's saw it as more of a Payday.
I found myself wondering, which website? Pravda or Izvestia?
Oh, on this we certainly agree, I was imply remarking on the potentially libellous nature of referring to file sharing as a whole as if it were illegitimate until proven otherwise. Innocent until proven guilty is the basic premise of criminal law in the United States, even if people have bastardized that over the past 200 or so years.
Be forewarned, I had no musical training or experience at the time. My brother was in percussion at the time in high school. Here it is. My brother is DJ Goyim, I was DJ Intermodal. I really think he and I should do another collaboration now that it has been 12 years. Especially once I get some equipment and can actually record my guitar, and it would be great if he picked his drums up again. Last I saw, the entire kit was sitting in our parents' hall closet.
This I agree on as well. But single-engine is still more stupid than multiple for a combat aircraft.