I don't disagree with you that she should be punished. However, what law would you suggest they use? Is it considered harassment? I would have guessed that would be the first place prosecutors would go if they could use it.
I don't think the law is set up to handle such a weird crime of intent. We are allowed to be cruel with one another in America. We could not build enough prisons if we made being an asshole against the law. The difference here is an adult intending to cause mental distress to a minor. There need to be laws against this, but those laws will necessarily be pretty weak and hard to prove. Here we have a woman who deserves punishment, but I'm not sure that we as a society can easily legislate a punishment for what she has done.
In the end, she has been punished. Our overactive news media has been used to its fullest, distributing her name and her actions to every house in America and many throughout the world. Unfortunately, there are others like her, but those stories don't end as outrageously. At least she will start to understand what it is like to be the subject of another's hate. If there is any justice in the world, it will drive her to the same fate.
The right thing for Drew to do is shut the fuck up, be grateful for a loophole in the law, change her name, and move far away. If I were that girl's parent, I would spend the rest of my life looking for revenge.
You know what? Spam doesn't affect my life. I don't care to sue a spammer any more than I care to sue a homeless man on the subway or the chinese restaurant that slips a menu under my door. It shocks me that this is such a big deal. If everyone ignored it, it would go away.
If you are going to enforce arbitrary criteria for competition, then you can't cry about it when it doesn't go your way. If she was born a woman or even a transsexual that meets the IOC standards to compete as a woman, let her compete as a woman and deal with the consequences of the rules we have made. It isn't fair to her otherwise. Her competition should take their hats off to her as a person with greater talent.
If they were awesome songs, people might pick up the game for the music. That would still result in fewer sales probably, but I'd bet you could do it profitably.
Legislation is a popularity contest. This is a democracy. It is only indirectly our popularity contest, but it certainly is a popularity contest among our elected officials, and people attempt to buy popularity daily. That is why the courts are so important.
Music means different things to different people. You are extremely cynical, ridiculously cynical in fact, to assume the music industry is, has always been, and will always be based on the vanity of the consumer. Sure, some people do select their music for vain reasons. They are called teenagers, and they only do it because the recording industry deliberately markets to their overactive, teenage sense of vanity. Stop the marketing, and the music industry lives on. However, anyone publishing music can no longer be sure what will be "The Next Big Thing" (tm), because they will no longer be in complete control of the content and distribution. Businesses have the right to take measures to reduce their risks, but not at the expense of competition.
The idea that any work in the public domain is unwanted with zero value is completely wrong. Most works will be forgotten, but that happens regardless of copyright status. Most works are completely unavailable long before their copyrights expire. It may have little money making value--though there are many businesses making money off the sale of public domain works right now--but it has much greater value culturally. Artists can make use of public domain works in their own works. Students can learn from public domain works for nearly nothing. A long copyright gives a huge advantage to the wealthy.
A top 100 chart has no bearing on this discussion, because it only gives a biased view of the industry. For every artist on that chart, there are hundreds of artists that are making music profitably. You write as if no one will sell anything without a seven digit marketing budget, but the truth is that most artists never have anything close behind them, and they still survive. In fact, they would probably do a lot better if the industry didn't push them into horrible contracts. With the marketing gone the industry would level out some, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
Copyright law is currently held hostage by the cartels that are making all the money off it. I have no problem with anyone downloading any work that is over 20 years old, maybe even 10 years old. Those works should be in the public domain by any reasonable standard. Unfortunately, we don't have reason. We have monopolies that are allowed to control legislation, fix prices, exploit artists, and escape any prosecution for their own crimes. People talk about justice for content providers. Where is the justice for the consumer?
If everyone is doing it, maybe it should be legal.
Yes, please educate us all! We are the ignorant masses, after all. Tell us again how a netbook that does less than a laptop yet costs more than a laptop failed because of Microsoft. Maybe you could teach a college course and get tenure. Then you could meet with all your intelligent friends and watch each other masturbate.
I didn't really mean to be that harsh, but I was on a roll. ^_^
Listen, doctors have almost killed me twice. Once, by ignoring my mother's insistence on a chest X-ray and giving me Actifed when I went to the emergency room with pneumonia. Ever almost drown on your own phlegm? Fun times. Another time a doctor prescribed me an antibiotic that had a potential crossover with another antibiotic that gave me anaphylaxis. When I told her there was no way in hell I would take it, she prescribed me erithromyacin. I was taking theophylline at the time. When I asked her if there were any interactions, she told me to ask the pharmacist. When I asked the pharmacist, he said there was no problem. That combination can kill you. Fortunately, I didn't trust my doctor after trying to prescribe me a drug I was told not to take, and I did my own research.
I have seen too many people sick, maimed, or dead from negligence. Like my grandfather in the ICU who my family had to monitor 24 hours a day, because we found him gasping for air with his oxygen levels on the floor without any response from anyone in the unit multiple times. It was the fucking ICU. The I.C.U.
Your insurance premiums are high because... wait for it... there are many incompetent doctors! Sure there are frivolous lawsuits, but for every frivolous lawsuit there is a loved one gasping for air in an ICU with no one giving a shit. Incidents that deserve lawsuits, but where disaster is narrowly avoided or the litigation simply not pursued.
By the way, to anyone reading this living near Binghamton, NY, my grandfather was ignored in Lourdes Hospital's ICU. Their hospice is great though. It'd have to be.
That something as powerful as the human brain would be subject to the same drawbacks. Maybe "emotions" would be incorrect, but I'd imagine that the processor would become more turbulent with greater complexity and start to work against itself. To me it is much more likely that intelligence will follow an inverse logarithmic curve than an exponential one.
Monroe College advertises itself as a career oriented university. There are countless ads on Subways promising a better life. Honestly, I don't blame her for being pissed.
With a job market that demands a Bachelors for many decent entry-level jobs, why should we have to go into debt to make a decent living. I have $40,000 of debt from my *state* university, and I was in the honors college. That's ridiculous. People who could throw a football got to go for free. Something needs to be done about it. Some higher education should be free, but I would settle for treating student loans the same as any other in bankruptcy.
Hop aboard the Wii bandwagon. They may have friend codes, but they don't throw ads on your dashboards and in your games. Wii online is a very clean service. You will never be swamped with ads about "Double Pits to Chesty" on the Wii menu.
Remember that such systems would be "recycling" energy by taking speed away from the car. There is always a friction cost for regular driving, but you would always add more when you were charging. Catching energy while braking is a good idea since you want to stop or slow down anyway, and you would lose all that kinetic energy to friction then. But it you are trying to catch energy driving along, you will always lose more total energy to friction than if you just left well enough alone.
I thought this recession was caused by our country's excessive commercialism. How is encouraging the same behavior going to help? $4500 is not going to help a poor family buy a new car, so this amounts to handouts to people who would have been approved for their car loans without it. Why can't I get a free $4500 to put toward my student loans since we are just throwing money around? I don't even own a car. I use public transportation for all my travel. I'm greener than a fucking shamrock. Stop giving my money to people more affluent than I am.
I think that instead of a ridiculously expensive one-off tin can that could produce "awesomely amazingly awesome" science, we should be looking toward, I don't know, the future? Perhaps making bigger and better labs in space. Perhaps building factories that could manufacture things in zero-G. Everyone is saying, "Hey! Lets build a station on the moon!" without even thinking of making it sustainable.
The days of the tin can should have died with the Mir. The "Isn't it cool we're here?" days ended in the 70s and no ISS, moon base, or suicide mission to Mars will bring them back. It is time for NASA to mature and start looking at space travel as more than a scientist's playground.
The ISS is, was, and will continue to be a complete waste of money. As much as I love watching astronauts masturbating in space, we should decommission the station tomorrow and build a new one--a new station that can actually do something for a change. We need a space station that can be used for construction, even if it is only rudimentary, so we can start building the infrastructure necessary to use space travel for more than photo ops.
Grab the bull by the horns. Bonus points if you can teach them the difference between theory and fact. Most scientists seem to get that one wrong these days.
If the Kindle were actually like that, it would be wonderful, but I'm pretty sure you can't email your books around. E-ink is great, but the Kindle is too expensive, its books are too expensive, and I'm not going to deal with a company that puts limits on what I purchase.
I am waiting to see what Google does. I think that they are the only possible company that has the inclination and sheer might to give us an e-book reader and content that is reader friendly.
This isn't like antibiotics. Vaccines train the body to fight illness, and that is exactly what we want. People fight the disease off anyway. Vaccines just give you a head start at what you do naturally. No one sane would suggest that a tetanus or polio vaccine is foolish.
This is an English language site. The poster clearly knows English. The poster is using "Terra" to sound more intelligent. Therefore, the poster is the most pathetic of animals: the geek douchebag.
I have lived amongst these creatures for many years, and I simply can't take it any more. Can you "grok" that?
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And don't expect them to actually restrict your data or inform you when you are over limit.
I don't disagree with you that she should be punished. However, what law would you suggest they use? Is it considered harassment? I would have guessed that would be the first place prosecutors would go if they could use it.
I don't think the law is set up to handle such a weird crime of intent. We are allowed to be cruel with one another in America. We could not build enough prisons if we made being an asshole against the law. The difference here is an adult intending to cause mental distress to a minor. There need to be laws against this, but those laws will necessarily be pretty weak and hard to prove. Here we have a woman who deserves punishment, but I'm not sure that we as a society can easily legislate a punishment for what she has done.
In the end, she has been punished. Our overactive news media has been used to its fullest, distributing her name and her actions to every house in America and many throughout the world. Unfortunately, there are others like her, but those stories don't end as outrageously. At least she will start to understand what it is like to be the subject of another's hate. If there is any justice in the world, it will drive her to the same fate.
The right thing for Drew to do is shut the fuck up, be grateful for a loophole in the law, change her name, and move far away. If I were that girl's parent, I would spend the rest of my life looking for revenge.
That is illegal without a CAN SPAM act. Try again.
Now they can die together.
You know what? Spam doesn't affect my life. I don't care to sue a spammer any more than I care to sue a homeless man on the subway or the chinese restaurant that slips a menu under my door. It shocks me that this is such a big deal. If everyone ignored it, it would go away.
If you are going to enforce arbitrary criteria for competition, then you can't cry about it when it doesn't go your way. If she was born a woman or even a transsexual that meets the IOC standards to compete as a woman, let her compete as a woman and deal with the consequences of the rules we have made. It isn't fair to her otherwise. Her competition should take their hats off to her as a person with greater talent.
That is not "openly hostile." That is "You have to show us that you are able to be professional before we are going to let you see our secrets."
If they were awesome songs, people might pick up the game for the music. That would still result in fewer sales probably, but I'd bet you could do it profitably.
What?
Legislation is a popularity contest. This is a democracy. It is only indirectly our popularity contest, but it certainly is a popularity contest among our elected officials, and people attempt to buy popularity daily. That is why the courts are so important.
Music means different things to different people. You are extremely cynical, ridiculously cynical in fact, to assume the music industry is, has always been, and will always be based on the vanity of the consumer. Sure, some people do select their music for vain reasons. They are called teenagers, and they only do it because the recording industry deliberately markets to their overactive, teenage sense of vanity. Stop the marketing, and the music industry lives on. However, anyone publishing music can no longer be sure what will be "The Next Big Thing" (tm), because they will no longer be in complete control of the content and distribution. Businesses have the right to take measures to reduce their risks, but not at the expense of competition.
The idea that any work in the public domain is unwanted with zero value is completely wrong. Most works will be forgotten, but that happens regardless of copyright status. Most works are completely unavailable long before their copyrights expire. It may have little money making value--though there are many businesses making money off the sale of public domain works right now--but it has much greater value culturally. Artists can make use of public domain works in their own works. Students can learn from public domain works for nearly nothing. A long copyright gives a huge advantage to the wealthy.
A top 100 chart has no bearing on this discussion, because it only gives a biased view of the industry. For every artist on that chart, there are hundreds of artists that are making music profitably. You write as if no one will sell anything without a seven digit marketing budget, but the truth is that most artists never have anything close behind them, and they still survive. In fact, they would probably do a lot better if the industry didn't push them into horrible contracts. With the marketing gone the industry would level out some, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
Copyright law is currently held hostage by the cartels that are making all the money off it. I have no problem with anyone downloading any work that is over 20 years old, maybe even 10 years old. Those works should be in the public domain by any reasonable standard. Unfortunately, we don't have reason. We have monopolies that are allowed to control legislation, fix prices, exploit artists, and escape any prosecution for their own crimes. People talk about justice for content providers. Where is the justice for the consumer?
If everyone is doing it, maybe it should be legal.
Yes, please educate us all! We are the ignorant masses, after all. Tell us again how a netbook that does less than a laptop yet costs more than a laptop failed because of Microsoft. Maybe you could teach a college course and get tenure. Then you could meet with all your intelligent friends and watch each other masturbate.
I didn't really mean to be that harsh, but I was on a roll. ^_^
Listen, doctors have almost killed me twice. Once, by ignoring my mother's insistence on a chest X-ray and giving me Actifed when I went to the emergency room with pneumonia. Ever almost drown on your own phlegm? Fun times. Another time a doctor prescribed me an antibiotic that had a potential crossover with another antibiotic that gave me anaphylaxis. When I told her there was no way in hell I would take it, she prescribed me erithromyacin. I was taking theophylline at the time. When I asked her if there were any interactions, she told me to ask the pharmacist. When I asked the pharmacist, he said there was no problem. That combination can kill you. Fortunately, I didn't trust my doctor after trying to prescribe me a drug I was told not to take, and I did my own research.
I have seen too many people sick, maimed, or dead from negligence. Like my grandfather in the ICU who my family had to monitor 24 hours a day, because we found him gasping for air with his oxygen levels on the floor without any response from anyone in the unit multiple times. It was the fucking ICU. The I.C.U.
Your insurance premiums are high because... wait for it... there are many incompetent doctors! Sure there are frivolous lawsuits, but for every frivolous lawsuit there is a loved one gasping for air in an ICU with no one giving a shit. Incidents that deserve lawsuits, but where disaster is narrowly avoided or the litigation simply not pursued.
By the way, to anyone reading this living near Binghamton, NY, my grandfather was ignored in Lourdes Hospital's ICU. Their hospice is great though. It'd have to be.
That something as powerful as the human brain would be subject to the same drawbacks. Maybe "emotions" would be incorrect, but I'd imagine that the processor would become more turbulent with greater complexity and start to work against itself. To me it is much more likely that intelligence will follow an inverse logarithmic curve than an exponential one.
Monroe College advertises itself as a career oriented university. There are countless ads on Subways promising a better life. Honestly, I don't blame her for being pissed.
With a job market that demands a Bachelors for many decent entry-level jobs, why should we have to go into debt to make a decent living. I have $40,000 of debt from my *state* university, and I was in the honors college. That's ridiculous. People who could throw a football got to go for free. Something needs to be done about it. Some higher education should be free, but I would settle for treating student loans the same as any other in bankruptcy.
Hop aboard the Wii bandwagon. They may have friend codes, but they don't throw ads on your dashboards and in your games. Wii online is a very clean service. You will never be swamped with ads about "Double Pits to Chesty" on the Wii menu.
Remember that such systems would be "recycling" energy by taking speed away from the car. There is always a friction cost for regular driving, but you would always add more when you were charging. Catching energy while braking is a good idea since you want to stop or slow down anyway, and you would lose all that kinetic energy to friction then. But it you are trying to catch energy driving along, you will always lose more total energy to friction than if you just left well enough alone.
I thought this recession was caused by our country's excessive commercialism. How is encouraging the same behavior going to help? $4500 is not going to help a poor family buy a new car, so this amounts to handouts to people who would have been approved for their car loans without it. Why can't I get a free $4500 to put toward my student loans since we are just throwing money around? I don't even own a car. I use public transportation for all my travel. I'm greener than a fucking shamrock. Stop giving my money to people more affluent than I am.
I think that instead of a ridiculously expensive one-off tin can that could produce "awesomely amazingly awesome" science, we should be looking toward, I don't know, the future? Perhaps making bigger and better labs in space. Perhaps building factories that could manufacture things in zero-G. Everyone is saying, "Hey! Lets build a station on the moon!" without even thinking of making it sustainable.
The days of the tin can should have died with the Mir. The "Isn't it cool we're here?" days ended in the 70s and no ISS, moon base, or suicide mission to Mars will bring them back. It is time for NASA to mature and start looking at space travel as more than a scientist's playground.
The ISS is, was, and will continue to be a complete waste of money. As much as I love watching astronauts masturbating in space, we should decommission the station tomorrow and build a new one--a new station that can actually do something for a change. We need a space station that can be used for construction, even if it is only rudimentary, so we can start building the infrastructure necessary to use space travel for more than photo ops.
Some customers will sneak in at night and have their birthday parties for free. Eye patches will be mandatory.
Grab the bull by the horns. Bonus points if you can teach them the difference between theory and fact. Most scientists seem to get that one wrong these days.
If the Kindle were actually like that, it would be wonderful, but I'm pretty sure you can't email your books around. E-ink is great, but the Kindle is too expensive, its books are too expensive, and I'm not going to deal with a company that puts limits on what I purchase.
I am waiting to see what Google does. I think that they are the only possible company that has the inclination and sheer might to give us an e-book reader and content that is reader friendly.
Some of us have chronic illnesses.
This isn't like antibiotics. Vaccines train the body to fight illness, and that is exactly what we want. People fight the disease off anyway. Vaccines just give you a head start at what you do naturally. No one sane would suggest that a tetanus or polio vaccine is foolish.
This is an English language site. The poster clearly knows English. The poster is using "Terra" to sound more intelligent. Therefore, the poster is the most pathetic of animals: the geek douchebag.
I have lived amongst these creatures for many years, and I simply can't take it any more. Can you "grok" that?