Well, let's see. In the Federal Republic of Germany they disallow the depiction or trading of "Nazi" paraphernalia and have laid claim on the term "Gmail". In the French Republic, they will take away your Internet privileges if you share your stuff with others. In the United Kingdom, there are a number of behaviors that are listed as "hate speech" and are severely punishable. Each of these conditions would be considered strange or wrong under the American idea of Free Speech. But at the same time, we have severe restrictions on what language or what is "decent" to be viewed or heard on the "public airwaves" in the United States. Rightly or wrongly each country decides for itself what are the bounds of acceptable behavior.
umm, I think you're confusing the Articles of Confederation with our present Constitution. The present Constitution while acknowledging powers reserved to states, is also recognized as enabling a strong central government which was tested by a civil war. The States rights argument is over.
The principal's remedy in a case of a heinous accusation is a defamation suit against the perpetrators and their parents. Activities outside of school grounds should have no bearing on a student's standing in school. The only possible exception would be someone convicted of a violent crime such as rape or physical assault or murder should not be in a regular school but they would likely be incarcerated anyways.
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They're just jealous that the WhiteHouse chose Drupal for their website. Seems to work very fast too.
But, I also happen to think that utilizing PHP for such a large scale site is risky both in coding efficiency and in security risks. Drupal and PHP are constantly being patched for vulnerabilities.
Ah no. You're seriously deluded. Civil Abatement puts the burden of proof on YOU to prove that the material that was confiscated is not an aspect of a criminal operation. No due process, no "Habeas Corpus" no nothing. They can sell YOUR shit after several months even if you can't come up with a competent legal defense to get your stuff back.
A very corrupting thing unfortunately. It motivates police departments to stop people passing through small towns and seize cash or other assets they may possess.
I believe the precedent for this was set in the DVD-Jon case. Since its already settled case law, then RealNetworks should have a walk in the park with this.
Ah no, Constitutional rights are not strictly conditional on citizenship. You need a civics lesson my friend... Only those provisions dealing with citizenship (voting, qualifications for office etc) or immigration might have conditional applicability. Everything else, is applied equally to whomever comes on these shores or is within the control or influence of our Government.
The right of the victims of Bhopal to sue in US courts for the gross negligence of a US company is accommodated by our Constitution. Further, our Constitution encompasses all Treaties we have signed and ratified as to have the same weight as our laws. We are a signatory of the Geneva Conventions. Those conventions which Dick Cheney has called "quaint" are the thin line between civilization and barbarianism.
You complain about "terrorists" but you don't even know who or what we are fighting. Many if not most of the people we have imprisoned have nothing to do with any conflicts the US is involved in and their status should in deed be reviewed by an impartial panel. The history of Habeas Corpus goes back hundreds of years and the reasons for its existence now are every bit as valid as in 17th century England.
Attacks of this kind are usually distributed over a "botnet" so not from one particular geographical location. The amount of traffic needed to affect a large scale property such as CNN would effectively clog the bandwidth for a country like China so they would be affecting hundreds of millions of users just to allow a singular hit. That is why distributed attacks are more common.
Who are you Ted Stevens? The internet as designed works best when optimized as a fully meshed network. If you try to shoe horn it into an interstate highway system with limited on/off ramps, then ya, you'll get the marginal or congestion you're so concerned about.
I am vehemently against giving the ISPs or telcos any ability to restrict my choices in consumption of Internet bandwidth. They get paid simply to deliver bits of my choosing, not to make a buck off which bits they decide get delivered.
The telcos will have to put the billions of dollars we pay them to work by installing more routers and utilizing more of the tens of thousands of miles of dark fiber that got laid down in the 80's. More interconnection points between major networks will have to occur and the prospect of mbone style transmissions to scale real time content needs to realized.
The deal is the deal. All of what you're talking about is really irrelevant. The correct disposition of the deal depends on a proper accounting of the revenues and profits of the films. Not about Mr. Jackson's previous experience or an assessment of his talents.
The studio took a gamble; that is the nature of their business. The gamble has obviously paid off handsomely. How interesting in the case of another blockbuster, Titanic, the studio bosses actually rewarded its director with a huge bonus far beyond the terms of his contract.
I did not watch King Kong because I wasn't interested in the subject to begin with so I can't comment on its quality or lack there of. But, I am convinced that Jackson and his team are singularly qualified to interpret Tolkien's work to the screen. How do you take the dense (and in my opinion dry) words of Tolkien and present them in such a way that their richness and three dimensional qualities show forth? Jackson I believe has done that. Can another director even begin to take this on? I seriously doubt it.
In Mr. Jackson's corner are people that control the rights and they have indicated that if Jackson doesn't get to make the Hobbit then no one does. So the studio boss that made Mr. Jackson persona non-gratis may find himself in that very condition.
One thing that is also not dealt into the equation is the cost of maintenance and service. Say someone is digging up the street and "accidently" cuts your fiber run. Who would take care of fixing it? Say there is a problem with routing of packets from your location to some place? Who investigates this? Certainly the ISP you've chosen wouldn't be responsible for this as they are only responsible for things originating on their wires. I'm sure that a customer service layer and a infrastructure layer can be contracted but this will add to the $2/mo cost you're talking about and I would venture to guess that when all is said and done, your montly cost will be about the same or more than what the average person pays for broadband now. So, it that is the case, why switch to a system where I would have to invest more of my time to ensure that it works?
Considering that the Bell Operating Companies (e.g. Verizon, Bell South, SBC-->AT&T) are planning to charge tolls on each side I think having a Google provided service might act as a counterweight to all that.
Not to mention that Qualcomm apparently holds patents in the WCDMA space... Could this be a betamax vs. VHS type of thing where Sony held patents in both technologies?
While Brazil has lots going for it, its a far cry from rich. The Per Capita GDP is only $7,600 (according to CIA) vs a world average of $8200 and contrasting with that of the USA $37,800 and UK $27,700.
The per capita GDP is the total wealth output of the country divded by the number of people.
What on earth makes you think Microsoft pays any significant amount of taxes? Yes it pays some but given the very generous R&D tax credits and abatements, as well as other tax loopholes, it doesn't pay all that much. Certainly not so much that the US Army would notice...
Oh come on. Admit it. It grows on you. It tells a story of getting from there to here and goes beautifully with the progression of images of humankind's progress of exploration. It may be cheesy but if you get the subtext, you just might find yourself humming it to yourself one day...
EEEKKK!!!!
**Disclaimer** while it might have grown on me, full disclosure requires me to say I do have tivo...
ah... EXCUSE ME!!!
The CEO of Diebold is on the public record of actively supporting the Bush "re"-election campaign and is a champion of Republican causes.
His belated recantations can do nothing to alter this fact.
Case closed!@!#@$!$
Oh and what the Q#$Q@#$ does ebonics overtones have to do about anything huh???
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Well, let's see. In the Federal Republic of Germany they disallow the depiction or trading of "Nazi" paraphernalia and have laid claim on the term "Gmail". In the French Republic, they will take away your Internet privileges if you share your stuff with others. In the United Kingdom, there are a number of behaviors that are listed as "hate speech" and are severely punishable. Each of these conditions would be considered strange or wrong under the American idea of Free Speech. But at the same time, we have severe restrictions on what language or what is "decent" to be viewed or heard on the "public airwaves" in the United States. Rightly or wrongly each country decides for itself what are the bounds of acceptable behavior.
umm, I think you're confusing the Articles of Confederation with our present Constitution. The present Constitution while acknowledging powers reserved to states, is also recognized as enabling a strong central government which was tested by a civil war. The States rights argument is over.
The principal's remedy in a case of a heinous accusation is a defamation suit against the perpetrators and their parents. Activities outside of school grounds should have no bearing on a student's standing in school. The only possible exception would be someone convicted of a violent crime such as rape or physical assault or murder should not be in a regular school but they would likely be incarcerated anyways.
They're just jealous that the WhiteHouse chose Drupal for their website. Seems to work very fast too.
But, I also happen to think that utilizing PHP for such a large scale site is risky both in coding efficiency and in security risks. Drupal and PHP are constantly being patched for vulnerabilities.
The Lessig.org site is inaccessible (to me at least) today.
Ah no. You're seriously deluded. Civil Abatement puts the burden of proof on YOU to prove that the material that was confiscated is not an aspect of a criminal operation. No due process, no "Habeas Corpus" no nothing. They can sell YOUR shit after several months even if you can't come up with a competent legal defense to get your stuff back.
A very corrupting thing unfortunately. It motivates police departments to stop people passing through small towns and seize cash or other assets they may possess.
I believe the precedent for this was set in the DVD-Jon case. Since its already settled case law, then RealNetworks should have a walk in the park with this.
Ah no, Constitutional rights are not strictly conditional on citizenship. You need a civics lesson my friend... Only those provisions dealing with citizenship (voting, qualifications for office etc) or immigration might have conditional applicability. Everything else, is applied equally to whomever comes on these shores or is within the control or influence of our Government.
The right of the victims of Bhopal to sue in US courts for the gross negligence of a US company is accommodated by our Constitution. Further, our Constitution encompasses all Treaties we have signed and ratified as to have the same weight as our laws. We are a signatory of the Geneva Conventions. Those conventions which Dick Cheney has called "quaint" are the thin line between civilization and barbarianism.
You complain about "terrorists" but you don't even know who or what we are fighting. Many if not most of the people we have imprisoned have nothing to do with any conflicts the US is involved in and their status should in deed be reviewed by an impartial panel. The history of Habeas Corpus goes back hundreds of years and the reasons for its existence now are every bit as valid as in 17th century England.
Attacks of this kind are usually distributed over a "botnet" so not from one particular geographical location. The amount of traffic needed to affect a large scale property such as CNN would effectively clog the bandwidth for a country like China so they would be affecting hundreds of millions of users just to allow a singular hit. That is why distributed attacks are more common.
How about Patents must be owned by a real person e.g. not a corporate "person".
I think applications will live in a middleware space and not depend on OS features. Think GoogleApps and Google Gears.
I am vehemently against giving the ISPs or telcos any ability to restrict my choices in consumption of Internet bandwidth. They get paid simply to deliver bits of my choosing, not to make a buck off which bits they decide get delivered.
The telcos will have to put the billions of dollars we pay them to work by installing more routers and utilizing more of the tens of thousands of miles of dark fiber that got laid down in the 80's. More interconnection points between major networks will have to occur and the prospect of mbone style transmissions to scale real time content needs to realized.
The deal is the deal. All of what you're talking about is really irrelevant. The correct disposition of the deal depends on a proper accounting of the revenues and profits of the films. Not about Mr. Jackson's previous experience or an assessment of his talents.
The studio took a gamble; that is the nature of their business. The gamble has obviously paid off handsomely. How interesting in the case of another blockbuster, Titanic, the studio bosses actually rewarded its director with a huge bonus far beyond the terms of his contract.
I did not watch King Kong because I wasn't interested in the subject to begin with so I can't comment on its quality or lack there of. But, I am convinced that Jackson and his team are singularly qualified to interpret Tolkien's work to the screen. How do you take the dense (and in my opinion dry) words of Tolkien and present them in such a way that their richness and three dimensional qualities show forth? Jackson I believe has done that. Can another director even begin to take this on? I seriously doubt it.
In Mr. Jackson's corner are people that control the rights and they have indicated that if Jackson doesn't get to make the Hobbit then no one does. So the studio boss that made Mr. Jackson persona non-gratis may find himself in that very condition.
Upwards of $460/hour in Chicago!
One thing that is also not dealt into the equation is the cost of maintenance and service. Say someone is digging up the street and "accidently" cuts your fiber run. Who would take care of fixing it? Say there is a problem with routing of packets from your location to some place? Who investigates this? Certainly the ISP you've chosen wouldn't be responsible for this as they are only responsible for things originating on their wires. I'm sure that a customer service layer and a infrastructure layer can be contracted but this will add to the $2/mo cost you're talking about and I would venture to guess that when all is said and done, your montly cost will be about the same or more than what the average person pays for broadband now. So, it that is the case, why switch to a system where I would have to invest more of my time to ensure that it works?
Considering that the Bell Operating Companies (e.g. Verizon, Bell South, SBC-->AT&T) are planning to charge tolls on each side I think having a Google provided service might act as a counterweight to all that.
Confirmed. Requires Windows Media Player. blech!
Not to mention Rupert Murdoch's investment in XM was the deal killer for me...
Not to mention that Qualcomm apparently holds patents in the WCDMA space... Could this be a betamax vs. VHS type of thing where Sony held patents in both technologies?
It seems it has more to do with who they can sue or deflect blame onto if something goes wrong.
The per capita GDP is the total wealth output of the country divded by the number of people.
What on earth makes you think Microsoft pays any significant amount of taxes? Yes it pays some but given the very generous R&D tax credits and abatements, as well as other tax loopholes, it doesn't pay all that much. Certainly not so much that the US Army would notice...
Oh come on. Admit it. It grows on you. It tells a story of getting from there to here and goes beautifully with the progression of images of humankind's progress of exploration. It may be cheesy but if you get the subtext, you just might find yourself humming it to yourself one day... EEEKKK!!!! **Disclaimer** while it might have grown on me, full disclosure requires me to say I do have tivo ...
ah... EXCUSE ME!!! The CEO of Diebold is on the public record of actively supporting the Bush "re"-election campaign and is a champion of Republican causes. His belated recantations can do nothing to alter this fact. Case closed!@!#@$!$ Oh and what the Q#$Q@#$ does ebonics overtones have to do about anything huh???
So could this be why /. was down for about a 1/2 hour last night and displaying 503 error messages?