IMO the studies that try to put a price tag on children are wildly exaggerated. Basically it's food, clothing and medical.
Food and clothing in the US are fairly cheap; medical less so even if you have employer provided health insurance, and much less so if you don't. There's also either daycare or opportunity cost (if one of the parents cares for them instead of working outside the home). A bigger house definitely, even for one or two kids; you _could_ raise kids in a one-bedroom apartment, but you're unlikely to do so. Cost of schooling, either moving to a place where the public schools are decent or paying private schools.
And then there's the non-economic costs. Like all of your time.
When you're old they act as an insurance policy. The more you have (and the more they have) the greater the pool of resources you can draw on if you find yourself in need of support.
Only if they don't turn out to be ungrateful bastards.
It's an invasion of privacy because IT"S MAKING A DECISION FOR YOU (excuse the shouting).
That's not an invasion of privacy. That's a violation of liberty. But no one really considers liberty to be an end or virtue in itself anymore, so that argument tends to fall flat.
You're trying to solve the wrong problem. I don't object to these things on my car because they're inconvenient, or expensive, or likely to leave me stranded. Or rather, I don't object to them primarily for those reasons. I object to these things because I _do not want_ them on my car. I do not want an inanimate object which I own attempting to enforce the law on me (and that goes whether I agree with the law or not).
Furthermore, the existence of devices like these is an attractive nuisance; once they exist, many legislators simply can't help themselves against mandating them. When the devices are seriously inconvenient and impractical, this serves the same effect as a fence around a swimming pool; it keeps all but the most determined lawmaking efforts out. SO STOP TRYING TO MAKE THEM BETTER. BY DOING SO YOU ARE FORGING CHAINS TO BE USED ON US ALL.
I suppose the big difference would be for ISPs and anyone else running DNS servers that redirect failed lookups to their own pages, this would no longer be useful as a test to see if your dns server will actually return NXDOMAIN for anything.
The example.com domain hasn't returned NXDOMAIN for a long time (if ever). It had a valid IP address with a webserver hosting a static page. Now instead of that static page it has a redirect. If you want an NXDOMAIN, try "example.invalid" (or anything else dot invalid).
We saw that during November it is possible to energize a base to kick a bunch of the wankers out of office. Regardless of your stance on the new republican congress, November showed that it is possible to get grassroots movements to actually make a difference.
No. We saw that given two piles of steaming manure to choose from, and a bad economy, people are more likely to choose the steaming pile of manure not currently in power. The 2008 elections showed the same thing. There was no difference in either case.
Uh... it cites the DMCA act and specifically sites the anti-circumvention clause as grounds for removal.
That's how DMCA takedown notices are made.
No. A DMCA takedown notice is a specific type of notice which follows the provisions of 17 USC 512. The anti-circumvention provisions are a completely separate part of the DMCA, codified in 17 USC 1201. And the DMCA does not provided a process for filing a takedown notice for circumvention devices.
Thankfully many of the bomb makers for such groups don't think through the failure modes very thoroughly.
Yep. The standard Slashdot troll of its users by posting articles saying that "terrorists are disproportionately engineers" needs to be changed to "terrorist are disproprotionally lousy engineers."
Check out the difference in pay between a doctorate degree and a "professional" degree. Professional degrees include MBA's, which are incredibly easy to get, so it supports your hypothesis. Professional degree also includes medical doctors, etc., but this suggests we value lawyers, MBA's and medical doctors over people who are actually more educated and expanding the knowledge and abilities of these people.
Sorry, but a "professional" degree does not include an MBA or even a DBA. Professional degrees for the purpose of the cited table are M.D., J.D., D.D.S., or D.V.M -- that is, doctors, lawyers, dentists, and veterinarians. Original source
Presumably GeoHot and his lawyers argued that the information is already out there with many many mirror sites and that the injunction against distributing something that's so widely mirrored is therefore pointless.
Nope. Check it again. GeoHot's and his lawyers were not given a chance to respond. Sony presented the proposed order to the judge, she rubber-stamped it, it's done.
Regardless of how you feel about it, the TRO was proper. There is a chance that Sony could win its case and whatever damages they are alleging would certainly continue during the trial if not constrained. That's all there is to a TRO. It's only "indefinite" in the sense that the trial itself has no predictable end date.
And that is indefinite enough. It's easy to drag out a case. For instance, in patent cases, the fight for the initial "temporary" injunction is usually the most important part -- and certainly not granted rubberstamp-style. A TRO is not as trivial as you make it out.
I have no problem with immigrants who come over through legal channels. Like Dennis Miller once said....I don't care if you want to come over, just sign the fucking guest book on the way in.
The waiting list for a relative of a legal US resident from Mexico to immigrate to the US is ten years long. For many other categories of immigrant it's essentially impossible. Forgive me if I find claims like yours to be more than a little disingenuous.
So Sony sends one of their expensive lawyers to court against an individual, and gets a broad temporary restraining order against him "ex parte"... meaning he didn't even get a _chance_ to fucking respond.
Oh, and despite this being a "temporary" restraining order, it's actually indefinite.
Fuck Sony and fuck the honorable rubberstamp Susan Yvonne Illston.
OK - but what is the point of this claim if everyone is ignoring the fakes anyway? Just because there are more fakes listed doesn't mean that there will be more fakes downloaded.
It means TPB is useless because there are too many fakes and therefore the MPAA and RIAA need not worry about it.
You are confusing "several orders of magnitude less likely than being struck by lightning" (seriously) with actual class mobility.
This kind of thing did happen in the past, read some historical literature. We only hear about the 1 in a billion now, because of the mass media.
My grandfather was a working-class immigrant with a high school education (he's retired now). His kids range from middle-class to moderately wealthy. And no, he didn't marry into wealth either. This is not an uncommon story in the US. Yes, there's still an advantage to being born at the top. And yes, very few make it all the way from the bottom to the very top; we don't have perfect social mobility. But it's far better than 1 in a billion.
Indeed. That's why Universities are widely known for being bastions of Conservatism...
Conservatism in the political sense, no. Conservatism in the institutional sense of being very set in their ways, yes.
If all you want is a "worker drone", the best place to look is the local McDonalds. Generally those aren't full of "strong leaders" personified by a commitment to "individual excellence".
I'd almost guarantee the McDonald's manager training program uses those words to describe McDonalds managers.
I'm often amazed by Slashdot's anti-intellectual bent - though it is mostly populated by Americans, so I suppose it shouldn't be that surprising.
It's not so much anti-intellectual (though there is some of that) but anti-formal-education. Probably comes from 1) Lots of slashdotters having problems with formal education. 2) Knowing lots of idiots with degrees.
Do these guys actually leave the NSA? Why aren't there quotation marks around the 'EX' part of his title? Sounds to me like a good way for no-such-agency to get a mole in a powerful position to install backdoors in a popular line of consumer communication devices. At a minimum, they could get a direct hotline listing of every vulnerability as soon as Apple is alerted to them, but before patches are released.
If NSA wanted to get a mole in place, his official background would not include the NSA.
Because the government created a legal framework and will protect your right to get a fair wage for your work, it will also take some of your wage as a compensation for its work.
Right, because a self-employed accountant has to worry about his employer totally screwing him on wages.
Nothing's wrong with your scenario. Let's consider if the Internet were not a series of tubes, but more like trucks. Then your trucks to Fox News would get there, load up, and turn around faster because Fox News had a warehouse in your neighborhood. Your trucks to CNN take longer because they've got to get on the highway, head down to Atlanta, and head back to your neighborhood. That's not the proposal here. Suppose both NBC news and CNN were outside your neighborhood. The proposal here is that if NBC paid off your neighborhood association and CNN did not, any trucks coming into your neighborhood from CNN would be made to take the crappy two-lane road with traffic lights and a 25mph speed limit, whereas the NBC trucks would be allowed to use the highway.
Casino Royale gets a PG-13, even with all its James Bond violence, and the sadistic clubbing of the protagonist's testicles while he's tied to a chair.
The earlier poster must be right about the middle-aged white women on the rating board. They were too busy swooning over Daniel Craig to notice the torture.
I don't know about the MPAA or the others, but i know the whole point of the ESRB was that it was a voluntary measure the video game industry took on itself in order to avoid something like the Comic Book Code getting created by an outside group.
The comic book code was exactly the same. Only it ended up being harsher than any sort of external censorship (in the US). You'd think people would learn not to fashion the ropes by which they are bound, but the idea of "let's censor ourselves so outsiders don't censor us" still has a lot of currency.
Anyway, that's the score. I've repeated this I don't know how many times now and it never sticks. STICK, DAMMIT!
As long as you merely repeat some version of the official story -- which people know, from experience, is greatly exaggerated -- it's never going to stick.
The projectile story might make sense... except that if you're sitting there with an iPod or phone or whatever that's turned off, they don't make you put it away. And if it's turned on, they tell you to turn it off. Since it's no less a projectile when turned off, that rationalization is busted.
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Food and clothing in the US are fairly cheap; medical less so even if you have employer provided health insurance, and much less so if you don't. There's also either daycare or opportunity cost (if one of the parents cares for them instead of working outside the home). A bigger house definitely, even for one or two kids; you _could_ raise kids in a one-bedroom apartment, but you're unlikely to do so. Cost of schooling, either moving to a place where the public schools are decent or paying private schools.
And then there's the non-economic costs. Like all of your time.
Only if they don't turn out to be ungrateful bastards.
That's not an invasion of privacy. That's a violation of liberty. But no one really considers liberty to be an end or virtue in itself anymore, so that argument tends to fall flat.
You're trying to solve the wrong problem. I don't object to these things on my car because they're inconvenient, or expensive, or likely to leave me stranded. Or rather, I don't object to them primarily for those reasons. I object to these things because I _do not want_ them on my car. I do not want an inanimate object which I own attempting to enforce the law on me (and that goes whether I agree with the law or not).
Furthermore, the existence of devices like these is an attractive nuisance; once they exist, many legislators simply can't help themselves against mandating them. When the devices are seriously inconvenient and impractical, this serves the same effect as a fence around a swimming pool; it keeps all but the most determined lawmaking efforts out. SO STOP TRYING TO MAKE THEM BETTER. BY DOING SO YOU ARE FORGING CHAINS TO BE USED ON US ALL.
The example.com domain hasn't returned NXDOMAIN for a long time (if ever). It had a valid IP address with a webserver hosting a static page. Now instead of that static page it has a redirect. If you want an NXDOMAIN, try "example.invalid" (or anything else dot invalid).
No. We saw that given two piles of steaming manure to choose from, and a bad economy, people are more likely to choose the steaming pile of manure not currently in power. The 2008 elections showed the same thing. There was no difference in either case.
No. A DMCA takedown notice is a specific type of notice which follows the provisions of 17 USC 512. The anti-circumvention provisions are a completely separate part of the DMCA, codified in 17 USC 1201. And the DMCA does not provided a process for filing a takedown notice for circumvention devices.
Yep. The standard Slashdot troll of its users by posting articles saying that "terrorists are disproportionately engineers" needs to be changed to "terrorist are disproprotionally lousy engineers."
Sorry, but a "professional" degree does not include an MBA or even a DBA. Professional degrees for the purpose of the cited table are M.D., J.D., D.D.S., or D.V.M -- that is, doctors, lawyers, dentists, and veterinarians. Original source
Nope. Check it again. GeoHot's and his lawyers were not given a chance to respond. Sony presented the proposed order to the judge, she rubber-stamped it, it's done.
And that is indefinite enough. It's easy to drag out a case. For instance, in patent cases, the fight for the initial "temporary" injunction is usually the most important part -- and certainly not granted rubberstamp-style. A TRO is not as trivial as you make it out.
The waiting list for a relative of a legal US resident from Mexico to immigrate to the US is ten years long. For many other categories of immigrant it's essentially impossible. Forgive me if I find claims like yours to be more than a little disingenuous.
There was. The 2600 case. It got to the appeals court level, 2600 lost, and 2600 and the EFF conceded.
So Sony sends one of their expensive lawyers to court against an individual, and gets a broad temporary restraining order against him "ex parte"... meaning he didn't even get a _chance_ to fucking respond.
Oh, and despite this being a "temporary" restraining order, it's actually indefinite.
Fuck Sony and fuck the honorable rubberstamp Susan Yvonne Illston.
It means TPB is useless because there are too many fakes and therefore the MPAA and RIAA need not worry about it.
Crossley asserts: "The lurkers support us in email".
My grandfather was a working-class immigrant with a high school education (he's retired now). His kids range from middle-class to moderately wealthy. And no, he didn't marry into wealth either. This is not an uncommon story in the US. Yes, there's still an advantage to being born at the top. And yes, very few make it all the way from the bottom to the very top; we don't have perfect social mobility. But it's far better than 1 in a billion.
Heh. Because no one uses Cold Fusion anymore.
Conservatism in the political sense, no. Conservatism in the institutional sense of being very set in their ways, yes.
I'd almost guarantee the McDonald's manager training program uses those words to describe McDonalds managers.
It's not so much anti-intellectual (though there is some of that) but anti-formal-education. Probably comes from
1) Lots of slashdotters having problems with formal education.
2) Knowing lots of idiots with degrees.
If NSA wanted to get a mole in place, his official background would not include the NSA.
Right, because a self-employed accountant has to worry about his employer totally screwing him on wages.
Nothing's wrong with your scenario. Let's consider if the Internet were not a series of tubes, but more like trucks. Then your trucks to Fox News would get there, load up, and turn around faster because Fox News had a warehouse in your neighborhood. Your trucks to CNN take longer because they've got to get on the highway, head down to Atlanta, and head back to your neighborhood. That's not the proposal here. Suppose both NBC news and CNN were outside your neighborhood. The proposal here is that if NBC paid off your neighborhood association and CNN did not, any trucks coming into your neighborhood from CNN would be made to take the crappy two-lane road with traffic lights and a 25mph speed limit, whereas the NBC trucks would be allowed to use the highway.
The earlier poster must be right about the middle-aged white women on the rating board. They were too busy swooning over Daniel Craig to notice the torture.
The comic book code was exactly the same. Only it ended up being harsher than any sort of external censorship (in the US). You'd think people would learn not to fashion the ropes by which they are bound, but the idea of "let's censor ourselves so outsiders don't censor us" still has a lot of currency.
Wow, you're good. I just searched for "CD 22khz limit" and result #6 now mentions Nyquist on the results page!
As long as you merely repeat some version of the official story -- which people know, from experience, is greatly exaggerated -- it's never going to stick.
The projectile story might make sense... except that if you're sitting there with an iPod or phone or whatever that's turned off, they don't make you put it away. And if it's turned on, they tell you to turn it off. Since it's no less a projectile when turned off, that rationalization is busted.