Infospace aquired Millet software in 2000, Millet software had a product called "Privacy Bank" Which did exactly what this article is describing. The only hard part is that it doesn't scale well, because there isn't a text parser on earth good enough to unwrap the intent of the legalese in most EULAs. So either you have to employ an army of well trained EULA readers or get individual sites to submit to a cleanroom EULA with Infospace's language so that the software can know exactly what is allowed/disallowed.
Unfortunaly I'm drawing a total blank about the name of the service, but NPR's programming is provided on AAC by a third party company which works on a subscription basis. I looked into it a while back before the HD in my ipod went south. I wish I could tell you more than that.
I've heard this cited as the reason that none of the newer smaller die proccess chips are certified for space flight. Last I heard they were using 386 and 486 class proccessors that were designed with die features which are much larger and resistant to this kind of interference.
Perhaps nto caring is a philosophy unto it's own, but it doesn't appear to be in contridiction to the philosophy of agnosticism except in that agnosticism requires one to acknowledge their lack knowledge...
I likee wikipedia as much as the next guy, but it seems that providing for two different definitions of the same word just undermines the actual meaning of the word, especially when there already exists in the lexicon two different word which both on their own provide the necessary tools to describe both philosophies.
Generally I'm not one who would make an argument based on a call to tradition, but the definition of atheism as being a philosophy devoid of god has been around since the mid 14th century and even before that there was atheonism in the early 14th century and before that the was the latin atheos. All share an identical definition and root...
Agnostic is a relatively newer word (~1870), which has alkways been defined as a philosophy based in the lack of knowledge or proof to substantiate the existance or lack there of.
IMHO these two words are very clearly defined and the seprate of atheism into two seperate and conflicted meaning does nothing but muddle the waters of linguistic understanding.
an Athiest is someone who doesn't believe in God, and Agnostic is someone who doesn't deny the possibility of God but doesn't subscribe to any particular religious philiosophy or dogmatic tradition.... Note the difference....
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Ya'know you don't have to be a complete ass... I'm sure you could have easily typed a short informative reply that corrected my [possible] misunderstanding.
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If this ever happens to you do not ever attempt to turn the ignition all the way off... In most cases you will lose both your power steering and your power braking. Make sure that you keep it at least on partially as most cars will not lose total power this way.
This is completely incorrect. Power brakes are merely power-assisted by a vaccuum servo and will still work fine without the engine running, they will take a bit more pedal pressure to achieve the same ammount of stopping power. Power steering is also a power-assisted type system and will work fine without the pump turning. Power-steering mostly helps to steer in low speed situations such as a parking lot when the friction of the tires is higher, at a high speed the rolling motion of the wheel negates the effects of the resistance to turning effectively meaning you only have to overcome the self centering affect of the suspensions caster...
I do agree that attempting to put the car in neutral should be the first thing done though, as it will increase the effectiveness of the brakes as well as stop the car from accelerating.
I find that excuse ridiculous. You do not vote for the "option" to go to war. It's always an option. Either you vote for war, or you vote against. What fool would authorize the use of force and think that it will never be used?
When you are talking about the richest, most powerful, and most well armed Nation in the world do not underestimate the power of diplomatic leverage. Having an Ace up your sleeve like the congressionally approved option to bomb another country off the face of the planet could have had the effect of making diplomatic negotiations more fruitful.... Look at Libya as an example, once Bush decided it was his mandate to make pre-emptive war they dropped their Nuke program like a hot rock; it is purely academic to suppose that had congress voted to give the president the option to make war against Libya (had the war in iraq not happened) that Libya would have dropped their nuke program without a shot ever being fired.
If you think the option of pre-emptive attack isn't a powerful form of diplomatic leverage you musta missed that whole coldwar thingy that happened for about 40 years....
The Constitution grants the power to make war solely to the legislative branch. The executive branch can undertake military actions without congressional approval, but Congress ultimately oversees the budget. This is all true.... However, congress have never (that I can think of) declined funding for troops in the line of fire. That isn't to say that they support every military action by the executive, it is only that it would be immoral to send troops into a fight without supplies.....
you'll have to forgive me if this isn't as clear as my ealier post, I've had a few drinks since then:)
Bush and Kerry had the same information presented to them before this all started and they both chose to go ahead with military action. If Bush lied, Kerry lied. Period.
Don't get me wrong, I don't support either of these guys for President; but, I was under the impression that Kerry voted in favor of giving Bush the option to make war. Which is different than voting in favor of war. There is some seperation between the branches of government and perhaps Kerry was under the impression that maybe there was more information available to the Executive branch that would put them in a better position to make the decision.
And before you start typing your rebutal to my comment, let me add that I think it was stupid of the legislative branch to vote in favor of providing an option for the executive branch to make war....
I agree with all of your math and it is quite perceptive indeed that the single espresso has less caffiene than a 7 ounce cup fo coffe. However, at least in America, the average cup of coffe is 12-20 ounces, not 7 ounces(which is a wierd measure in itself, because a coffee cup was standardized by the America Military as 6 ounces sometime during WWII, but I digress). So you average American would be comparing a 16 or 20 ounce cup of coffee @ 21mg/oz for a total of 336mg or 420mg respectively. However, The majority of espresso drinks sold here in America have only 1 or 2 shots of espresso delivering a 100-200mg of caffeine.
I also worked as a Barrista for about 18 months in a very heavily trafficed cafe and can personally atest to the fact that the tolerance for caffiene varies wildy from individual to individual. For example, I regularly drink very large Americano's prepared with 6 long pull espresso shots and have no problem with napping afterwards; while my girlfriend cannot sleep a full night if she has even 2 shots of espresso after dinner...
I also know someone who overdosed on caffiene pills and had to have her stomach pumped and get intavenous drugs to suppress her racing pulse and rapid breathing (beta blockers?)...
Blah, I'm rambling now.... maybe I should go geta cup of joe:)
I also have a "modded" xbox, however I simply jumpered the write protect on the onboard bios and reflashed it by utilizing a buffer overflow exploit in an older game.... The xbox is definately the cheapest multi-purpose piece of equipment in my entertainment center, also it's ability to stream video/audio over my lan using several different protocols including samba means that it easily extends both my GF and my music and video collection to the living room from our office. The MAJOR flaw with the XBOX IMHO though is that the fans on it are god awful loud, making it a far cry from an ideal solution for HiFi applications. I often find myself watching movies at ridiculously loud volumes on 5.1 system because the fan tends to drown out the dialogue from the fron 3 channels.....
But, I must say, if that is it's only major flaw then it is definatly the best 149.00 addition to a home entertainment center that I can think of...
Don't you think it should be the parents who have standards to which they expect their children to be educated... And by that same token, wouldn't you agree that it would be reasonable to have a system in which parents could choose a different provider should the current one fall short of their expectations?
I'm not sure where exactly that you are thinking of, but I live in SF Metropolitan area and can tell you the in Oakland there are no areas with speed limits over 40MPH and in Berkeley there is a city wide maximum speed limit of 30 MPH. Once you get into San Francisco you'd be hard pressed to find a street with a speed limit over 30 MPH....
It seems to me that these are exactly the sorts of issues that are relevant in presedential election. Certainly a candidates stance on the issue must be taken into account. Sure it's true that it will take more than just the president to make any sort of sweeping change (which I addressed in another comment on this article) however the president serves as a mouthpiece for the party and as such he's in a great position to bring ideas like this into the hearts and minds of the electorate and the other branches of government....
Your point is well taken, however let's not overlook the fact that the lions share of presidential appointees must be confirmed by the senate... Yet another one of those strong checks I mentioned in the parent post.
I'm not saying that I believe that Badnarik's ideas will be successfull, I'm just saying that it seems foolish to discount the feasability of a proposed change that has the possibility of success in favor of an existing system that has shown time and again that it is unable to produce positive results in relation to it's cost and administrative problems...
Education has always been a largely state/local issue. The increasing federal beucracy has added a shitload of cost to the system of education and hasn't provided any sort of measurable benefit on a national level. Furthermore the split jurisdiction of a federal/state/local administered educational system has shown that the federal government will time and again use it's budget to create bueracracy to develop mandates for the state/local educational system while not providing the necessary resources to fullfil those mandates.
While I don't blindly follow the libertarian party line, I do consider it a viable (and in my eyes preferable) option to the current muck of government and think that it at least has a chance of solving many of the current problems.
There will always be a divide between what the rich can afford and what the rest of us can afford, but that same gap in services that you cite already exists... The rich are already sending there children to privates schools and using the power of the market to get school to compete for there dollars. These same schools are forced to provide results in the form of an educated student body to ensure that parents will continue to enroll their children. The poor are not currently afforded this option as their choice is being made for them, the government is providing a framework for schools using public funds and basically granting a no bid contract for them to provide education to everyone who can't afford private school.
My solution would involve moving the bulk of the educational beurcracy back to a local level where a pool of local tax funds could be used to pay for an educational system provided by a qualified NGO that would then be forced to provide a competitve education lest they be ditched in favor of the next NGO able to provide a better cost/benefit ratio.
As it stands everyone complains that public education is under funded, but everytime they get more funds we just see them get more and more mismanaged. Effectively throwing money away on a broken system. More money is not the solution if the problem is beuracratic bloat, mismanagment, and poor product...
While the Libertarian ideal may be a skeleton government with little beuracratic entaglements, the reality is that politics will alwys be a compromise between opposing forces.... a Libertarian President != a libertarian government....
I'd rather have him in office (especially given that our current Congress could act as a break on his crazier ideas) than either Bush or Kerry.
This is one of the best comments that I've read so far in this thread, the real problems is getting the rest of the electorate to realize that the Government is not run by the President, but rather has three branches with strong (at least by original intent) check against the dominance of any one branch... A progressive executive branch can only effect as much change as the Legislative branch will allow, ergo... people need to focus on electing legislators that support their ideological philosophy as much or more than the President that they elect.
This is strongly influenced by the media's lack of attention to legislative elections and overwhelming coverage of presidential elections. IIRC it was Bill Moyer who recently stated that the quality of journalism is directly correlated to the quality of democracy...
Has it ever occured to you that the federal beuracracy isn't doing it's current job of ensuring an education for every child in this country... It seems like a straw man argument to say that Badnarik's untested proposal wouldn't work when you are arguing for a system which has been proven not to work.....
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Infospace aquired Millet software in 2000, Millet software had a product called "Privacy Bank" Which did exactly what this article is describing. The only hard part is that it doesn't scale well, because there isn't a text parser on earth good enough to unwrap the intent of the legalese in most EULAs. So either you have to employ an army of well trained EULA readers or get individual sites to submit to a cleanroom EULA with Infospace's language so that the software can know exactly what is allowed/disallowed.
I've heard it called a transitional solid or a transitional fluid before. I guess both terms refer to it being borderline fluid or solid....
Unfortunaly I'm drawing a total blank about the name of the service, but NPR's programming is provided on AAC by a third party company which works on a subscription basis. I looked into it a while back before the HD in my ipod went south. I wish I could tell you more than that.
I've heard this cited as the reason that none of the newer smaller die proccess chips are certified for space flight. Last I heard they were using 386 and 486 class proccessors that were designed with die features which are much larger and resistant to this kind of interference.
I'm pretty sure that the lion's share of them are available in AAC format which can be played on Ipods and possibly other mp3 portables...
Perhaps nto caring is a philosophy unto it's own, but it doesn't appear to be in contridiction to the philosophy of agnosticism except in that agnosticism requires one to acknowledge their lack knowledge...
I likee wikipedia as much as the next guy, but it seems that providing for two different definitions of the same word just undermines the actual meaning of the word, especially when there already exists in the lexicon two different word which both on their own provide the necessary tools to describe both philosophies.
Generally I'm not one who would make an argument based on a call to tradition, but the definition of atheism as being a philosophy devoid of god has been around since the mid 14th century and even before that there was atheonism in the early 14th century and before that the was the latin atheos. All share an identical definition and root...
Agnostic is a relatively newer word (~1870), which has alkways been defined as a philosophy based in the lack of knowledge or proof to substantiate the existance or lack there of.
IMHO these two words are very clearly defined and the seprate of atheism into two seperate and conflicted meaning does nothing but muddle the waters of linguistic understanding.
an Athiest is someone who doesn't believe in God, and Agnostic is someone who doesn't deny the possibility of God but doesn't subscribe to any particular religious philiosophy or dogmatic tradition.... Note the difference....
Ya'know you don't have to be a complete ass... I'm sure you could have easily typed a short informative reply that corrected my [possible] misunderstanding.
If it reports IE, then Gmail will likely try to utilize active-X as it would in IE. However with non-IE browsers it will not try and use active-X....
I do agree that attempting to put the car in neutral should be the first thing done though, as it will increase the effectiveness of the brakes as well as stop the car from accelerating.
When you are talking about the richest, most powerful, and most well armed Nation in the world do not underestimate the power of diplomatic leverage. Having an Ace up your sleeve like the congressionally approved option to bomb another country off the face of the planet could have had the effect of making diplomatic negotiations more fruitful.... Look at Libya as an example, once Bush decided it was his mandate to make pre-emptive war they dropped their Nuke program like a hot rock; it is purely academic to suppose that had congress voted to give the president the option to make war against Libya (had the war in iraq not happened) that Libya would have dropped their nuke program without a shot ever being fired.
If you think the option of pre-emptive attack isn't a powerful form of diplomatic leverage you musta missed that whole coldwar thingy that happened for about 40 years....
The Constitution grants the power to make war solely to the legislative branch. The executive branch can undertake military actions without congressional approval, but Congress ultimately oversees the budget. This is all true.... However, congress have never (that I can think of) declined funding for troops in the line of fire. That isn't to say that they support every military action by the executive, it is only that it would be immoral to send troops into a fight without supplies..... :)
you'll have to forgive me if this isn't as clear as my ealier post, I've had a few drinks since then
here's the first sentence from the article:
Now this is in comparison to a "Declaration of War" which is a vote by the Legislature to actually conduct a war action...
And before you start typing your rebutal to my comment, let me add that I think it was stupid of the legislative branch to vote in favor of providing an option for the executive branch to make war....
I agree with all of your math and it is quite perceptive indeed that the single espresso has less caffiene than a 7 ounce cup fo coffe. However, at least in America, the average cup of coffe is 12-20 ounces, not 7 ounces(which is a wierd measure in itself, because a coffee cup was standardized by the America Military as 6 ounces sometime during WWII, but I digress). So you average American would be comparing a 16 or 20 ounce cup of coffee @ 21mg/oz for a total of 336mg or 420mg respectively. However, The majority of espresso drinks sold here in America have only 1 or 2 shots of espresso delivering a 100-200mg of caffeine. :)
I also worked as a Barrista for about 18 months in a very heavily trafficed cafe and can personally atest to the fact that the tolerance for caffiene varies wildy from individual to individual. For example, I regularly drink very large Americano's prepared with 6 long pull espresso shots and have no problem with napping afterwards; while my girlfriend cannot sleep a full night if she has even 2 shots of espresso after dinner...
I also know someone who overdosed on caffiene pills and had to have her stomach pumped and get intavenous drugs to suppress her racing pulse and rapid breathing (beta blockers?)...
Blah, I'm rambling now.... maybe I should go geta cup of joe
I also have a "modded" xbox, however I simply jumpered the write protect on the onboard bios and reflashed it by utilizing a buffer overflow exploit in an older game.... The xbox is definately the cheapest multi-purpose piece of equipment in my entertainment center, also it's ability to stream video/audio over my lan using several different protocols including samba means that it easily extends both my GF and my music and video collection to the living room from our office. The MAJOR flaw with the XBOX IMHO though is that the fans on it are god awful loud, making it a far cry from an ideal solution for HiFi applications. I often find myself watching movies at ridiculously loud volumes on 5.1 system because the fan tends to drown out the dialogue from the fron 3 channels..... But, I must say, if that is it's only major flaw then it is definatly the best 149.00 addition to a home entertainment center that I can think of...
Don't you think it should be the parents who have standards to which they expect their children to be educated... And by that same token, wouldn't you agree that it would be reasonable to have a system in which parents could choose a different provider should the current one fall short of their expectations?
I'm not sure where exactly that you are thinking of, but I live in SF Metropolitan area and can tell you the in Oakland there are no areas with speed limits over 40MPH and in Berkeley there is a city wide maximum speed limit of 30 MPH. Once you get into San Francisco you'd be hard pressed to find a street with a speed limit over 30 MPH....
It seems to me that these are exactly the sorts of issues that are relevant in presedential election. Certainly a candidates stance on the issue must be taken into account. Sure it's true that it will take more than just the president to make any sort of sweeping change (which I addressed in another comment on this article) however the president serves as a mouthpiece for the party and as such he's in a great position to bring ideas like this into the hearts and minds of the electorate and the other branches of government....
Your point is well taken, however let's not overlook the fact that the lions share of presidential appointees must be confirmed by the senate... Yet another one of those strong checks I mentioned in the parent post.
I'm not saying that I believe that Badnarik's ideas will be successfull, I'm just saying that it seems foolish to discount the feasability of a proposed change that has the possibility of success in favor of an existing system that has shown time and again that it is unable to produce positive results in relation to it's cost and administrative problems...
Education has always been a largely state/local issue. The increasing federal beucracy has added a shitload of cost to the system of education and hasn't provided any sort of measurable benefit on a national level. Furthermore the split jurisdiction of a federal/state/local administered educational system has shown that the federal government will time and again use it's budget to create bueracracy to develop mandates for the state/local educational system while not providing the necessary resources to fullfil those mandates.
While I don't blindly follow the libertarian party line, I do consider it a viable (and in my eyes preferable) option to the current muck of government and think that it at least has a chance of solving many of the current problems.
There will always be a divide between what the rich can afford and what the rest of us can afford, but that same gap in services that you cite already exists... The rich are already sending there children to privates schools and using the power of the market to get school to compete for there dollars. These same schools are forced to provide results in the form of an educated student body to ensure that parents will continue to enroll their children. The poor are not currently afforded this option as their choice is being made for them, the government is providing a framework for schools using public funds and basically granting a no bid contract for them to provide education to everyone who can't afford private school.
My solution would involve moving the bulk of the educational beurcracy back to a local level where a pool of local tax funds could be used to pay for an educational system provided by a qualified NGO that would then be forced to provide a competitve education lest they be ditched in favor of the next NGO able to provide a better cost/benefit ratio.
As it stands everyone complains that public education is under funded, but everytime they get more funds we just see them get more and more mismanaged. Effectively throwing money away on a broken system. More money is not the solution if the problem is beuracratic bloat, mismanagment, and poor product...
While the Libertarian ideal may be a skeleton government with little beuracratic entaglements, the reality is that politics will alwys be a compromise between opposing forces.... a Libertarian President != a libertarian government....
This is one of the best comments that I've read so far in this thread, the real problems is getting the rest of the electorate to realize that the Government is not run by the President, but rather has three branches with strong (at least by original intent) check against the dominance of any one branch... A progressive executive branch can only effect as much change as the Legislative branch will allow, ergo... people need to focus on electing legislators that support their ideological philosophy as much or more than the President that they elect.
This is strongly influenced by the media's lack of attention to legislative elections and overwhelming coverage of presidential elections. IIRC it was Bill Moyer who recently stated that the quality of journalism is directly correlated to the quality of democracy...
Has it ever occured to you that the federal beuracracy isn't doing it's current job of ensuring an education for every child in this country... It seems like a straw man argument to say that Badnarik's untested proposal wouldn't work when you are arguing for a system which has been proven not to work.....