I'm more interested in what implications this has into dealing with paranoia (as in full-on psychiatric disorder, not the popular usage of the word).
I have seen what paranoid delusions can do to a person, and it ain't pretty.
So their irresponsibilty caused them to lose some of the two powers they care about, money and connections. It will make them think twice before fucking up on this scale ever again, they may not care about the environment or the fishermen, but they care about losing money and connections.
Maybe, but I doubt it'll make a significant long term change.
Also, do you really think that BP's example will have any significant impact on the way other companies operate (except, maybe, to take measures to insulate themselves from repercussions)?
A typical residential line of the type shown in the picture in TFA has 220V between the 2 insulated conductors, and 120V from either insulated conductor to ground (which is conveniently located near the person using this device).
TFA even says the insulation piercing probe is one side of the circuit, and the metal body makes contact with the un-insulated messenger cable, which is typically ground/neutral.
All of this changes in countries that don't use the north american power standard, though.
but will this just lead to more sites putting up 'data walls?'"
And that's a bad thing why?
Is it a good thing that one site can "one click" harvest large amounts of information about a person, and all the people they have ever met online?
That doesn't sound very "opt-in" to me.
For instance: if I'm one of the people in someone else's "collected addresses" address book (say, someone I bought something from on E-bay 2 years ago, and they didn't even realise my e-mail was automatically saved in their address book).
I don't want Facebook Et al. having easy access thank you.
It ain't the CRTC doing this, it's the content producers and their wanting to license their stuff under a separate deal for every country.
That's why Netflix took so long to get here, and why Hulu still isn't (AFAIK) available in Canada.
That's also why we will sometimes see "due to licensing restrictions, this content is not available in your region" on some Youtube/dailymotion, etc videos.
Ad why DVDs have region codes.
It's all the corporations who made the show wanting to maintain control of it after it's out of their hands.
Just maybe a bit of inspiration for your friend. this is a guy I met on a music related board a while ago. He recently played his first solo gig.
Point is: there's always a way, the trick is avoiding discouragement.
I don't know. This could be a GOOD thing. Previously, there seemed to be some stigma attached to high bandwidth users. Anyone who was using a lot of bandwidth was "obviously" doing SOMETHING shady. With the birth of services like this, it's starting to become quite common for regular old users to suck-up lots of bandwidth. I think the ISP's may finally have to pony up some dough and upgrade their infrastructure.
Of course, if they'd had a bit of sense,
Thing is, the ISPs are still pissed off that you are buying a legitimate service from someone other than themselves. So they aren't going to do anything that would make it easier for you to give your money to anyone who isn't them.
You are still "obviously" doing something very wrong in their eyes.
There is no way the ISPs (especially cablecos and telcos) will change their position on this and be customer friendly unless they are forced with a pretty big stick
And after the recent US election, I can't see that happening in the near future. Consumer protection laws seem to be pretty much the opposite of the Tea Party philosophy. Or GOP, for that matter (speaking as a non-american looking in)
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Could be worse. In 1969, the Museum of Modern Art in New York deployed Pulsa, an exhibit which included many strobe lights arranged to flash in sequence. There was a long line of strobes not only on the museum, but extending to adjacent buildings.
Pilots reported runway lighting in midtown Manhattan. The "moving ball of light" strobe system for runways was chosen because, even in cluttered urban areas with many parallel lines of light, there's nothing which looks like that. The FAA made them retime the strobes so that it didn't look like a runway.
I'm sure any epileptics walking down the street weren't amused either.
Bell Canada was given a monopoly on lines in Canada,
Bell Canada does not have a monopoly on lines in all of Canada.
They do not even operate a wireline business in the west. Here they are a reseller only.
However, this ruling probably does cause the same benefit to the ILECs in all provinces.
the only proviso being that the originals must be freely available to researchers and breeders under the terms of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources.
Here's the summary of said treaty (first result in my Google search)
The Treaty aims at:
# recognizing the enormous contribution of farmers to the diversity of crops that feed the world;
# establishing a global system to provide farmers, plant breeders and scientists with access to plant genetic materials;
# ensuring that recipients share benefits they derive from the use of these genetic materials with the countries where they have been originated .
So, I'd say patent encumbered seed stock wouldn't be offered to or accepted by the seed bank.
Which is a good thing, IMHO
But running around is what 4 year old children do. I think pretty much everybody has noticed that young children have some problems with fine motor control and are ocassionally running into people while playing. They're children, they haven't completely figured it yet. What are the parents supposed to do, keep them on a leash?
I In the old testament God drowned the world except for those on Noah's Ark. He obliterated entire cities like Sodom and Gomorrah for their sins. The argument that it is right because it is popular is quite well contradicted in scripture.
That assumes you trust that what's in the bible you have contains the actual words that the original writers put down all those centuries ago.
Some scholars claim that there are more than 30,000 changes in the text of the New Testament between the currently published versions and the earliest known manuscripts.
While many are simple spelling errors, or word order transposition, several are wholesale additions or removals of verses.
Given that the Old Testament is, well, older, how much more has it varied from what was originally written (whether or not you accept that the original text was dictated to the original scribe directly from God)?
Putting aside indolence and being "scared" of technology it seems to me that the charities and community outlets should be doing this. Don't they have some sort of implied responsibility to not waste (i.e. sell off too cheaply) any donations or communal property they own or are given?
I thought the idea of thrift stores was to dell stuff inexpensively so people with limited means could afford to get them?
Apart from anything else, they are in the ideal position to do this - since they could scan the books at their leisure before pitting them on sale. if I gave books to a charity shop, I'd like to feel that they were getting the most benefit from my gifts - and if that entails checking their value before slapping a generic $2 price tag on each one, so be it.
They have a hard enough time getting enough volunteers, and you want to add work to the process. And work that takes more training?
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the Lego advent calendar
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
That's not the star trek reference that jumped into my mind.
I was thinking of these.
you -could- just compost it yourself. But you won't cause it's more work than you would like and smells bad.
Except that it's trivially easy, and doesn't smell bad (or at all) if you do it right.
And doing it right is not very difficult.
Plus you get excellent free fertilizer (organic, even!) for your garden, trees or lawn.
Something like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio#Amateur_Packet_Radio_and_the_AMPRNet
If you've ever played Tetris for any amount of time, you'll know that for hours afterward you'll have flashbacks of falling shapes.
I know. I see things like this all the time these days.
No, I think he meant:
Next stop: Insubordination.
As spoken by a bus driver or train conductor
I'm more interested in what implications this has into dealing with paranoia (as in full-on psychiatric disorder, not the popular usage of the word) .
I have seen what paranoid delusions can do to a person, and it ain't pretty.
So their irresponsibilty caused them to lose some of the two powers they care about, money and connections. It will make them think twice before fucking up on this scale ever again, they may not care about the environment or the fishermen, but they care about losing money and connections.
Maybe, but I doubt it'll make a significant long term change.
Also, do you really think that BP's example will have any significant impact on the way other companies operate (except, maybe, to take measures to insulate themselves from repercussions)?
A typical residential line of the type shown in the picture in TFA has 220V between the 2 insulated conductors, and 120V from either insulated conductor to ground (which is conveniently located near the person using this device).
TFA even says the insulation piercing probe is one side of the circuit, and the metal body makes contact with the un-insulated messenger cable, which is typically ground/neutral.
All of this changes in countries that don't use the north american power standard, though.
but will this just lead to more sites putting up 'data walls?'"
And that's a bad thing why?
Is it a good thing that one site can "one click" harvest large amounts of information about a person, and all the people they have ever met online?
That doesn't sound very "opt-in" to me.
For instance: if I'm one of the people in someone else's "collected addresses" address book (say, someone I bought something from on E-bay 2 years ago, and they didn't even realise my e-mail was automatically saved in their address book).
I don't want Facebook Et al. having easy access thank you.
It ain't the CRTC doing this, it's the content producers and their wanting to license their stuff under a separate deal for every country.
That's why Netflix took so long to get here, and why Hulu still isn't (AFAIK) available in Canada.
That's also why we will sometimes see "due to licensing restrictions, this content is not available in your region" on some Youtube/dailymotion, etc videos.
Ad why DVDs have region codes.
It's all the corporations who made the show wanting to maintain control of it after it's out of their hands.
No need to rotate the whole thing, just the non-lab areas.
Just maybe a bit of inspiration for your friend.
this is a guy I met on a music related board a while ago. He recently played his first solo gig.
Point is: there's always a way, the trick is avoiding discouragement.
I don't know. This could be a GOOD thing. Previously, there seemed to be some stigma attached to high bandwidth users. Anyone who was using a lot of bandwidth was "obviously" doing SOMETHING shady. With the birth of services like this, it's starting to become quite common for regular old users to suck-up lots of bandwidth. I think the ISP's may finally have to pony up some dough and upgrade their infrastructure.
Of course, if they'd had a bit of sense,
Thing is, the ISPs are still pissed off that you are buying a legitimate service from someone other than themselves. So they aren't going to do anything that would make it easier for you to give your money to anyone who isn't them.
You are still "obviously" doing something very wrong in their eyes.
There is no way the ISPs (especially cablecos and telcos) will change their position on this and be customer friendly unless they are forced with a pretty big stick
And after the recent US election, I can't see that happening in the near future. Consumer protection laws seem to be pretty much the opposite of the Tea Party philosophy. Or GOP, for that matter (speaking as a non-american looking in)
Why are induction cooktops so expensive .
Because people will pay it.
Could be worse. In 1969, the Museum of Modern Art in New York deployed Pulsa, an exhibit which included many strobe lights arranged to flash in sequence. There was a long line of strobes not only on the museum, but extending to adjacent buildings.
Pilots reported runway lighting in midtown Manhattan. The "moving ball of light" strobe system for runways was chosen because, even in cluttered urban areas with many parallel lines of light, there's nothing which looks like that. The FAA made them retime the strobes so that it didn't look like a runway.
I'm sure any epileptics walking down the street weren't amused either.
Bell Canada was given a monopoly on lines in Canada,
Bell Canada does not have a monopoly on lines in all of Canada.
They do not even operate a wireline business in the west. Here they are a reseller only.
However, this ruling probably does cause the same benefit to the ILECs in all provinces.
the only proviso being that the originals must be freely available to researchers and breeders under the terms of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources.
Here's the summary of said treaty (first result in my Google search)
The Treaty aims at:
# recognizing the enormous contribution of farmers to the diversity of crops that feed the world;
# establishing a global system to provide farmers, plant breeders and scientists with access to plant genetic materials;
# ensuring that recipients share benefits they derive from the use of these genetic materials with the countries where they have been originated
.
So, I'd say patent encumbered seed stock wouldn't be offered to or accepted by the seed bank.
Which is a good thing, IMHO
But running around is what 4 year old children do. I think pretty much everybody has noticed that young children have some problems with fine motor control and are ocassionally running into people while playing. They're children, they haven't completely figured it yet. What are the parents supposed to do, keep them on a leash?
Mod +5 : common fucking sense
why no just get that same person to call out names and record on a register?
*Ding*Ding*ding*
We have a winner!!!
Sometimes the simplest solution is the most effective.
Who has the mine rights? The us? USSR? China? NASA it self? Neil Armstrong?
Delos David Harriman
I've been wondering why we don't use an oxy-helium combination, actually. Does anyone know?
Might have something to do with this
If nothing else, it certainly will be entertaining to see how long both sides can keep this pissing match going.
Not much more to say, really.
I In the old testament God drowned the world except for those on Noah's Ark. He obliterated entire cities like Sodom and Gomorrah for their sins. The argument that it is right because it is popular is quite well contradicted in scripture.
That assumes you trust that what's in the bible you have contains the actual words that the original writers put down all those centuries ago.
Some scholars claim that there are more than 30,000 changes in the text of the New Testament between the currently published versions and the earliest known manuscripts.
While many are simple spelling errors, or word order transposition, several are wholesale additions or removals of verses.
Given that the Old Testament is, well, older, how much more has it varied from what was originally written (whether or not you accept that the original text was dictated to the original scribe directly from God)?
Putting aside indolence and being "scared" of technology it seems to me that the charities and community outlets should be doing this. Don't they have some sort of implied responsibility to not waste (i.e. sell off too cheaply) any donations or communal property they own or are given?
I thought the idea of thrift stores was to dell stuff inexpensively so people with limited means could afford to get them?
Apart from anything else, they are in the ideal position to do this - since they could scan the books at their leisure before pitting them on sale. if I gave books to a charity shop, I'd like to feel that they were getting the most benefit from my gifts - and if that entails checking their value before slapping a generic $2 price tag on each one, so be it.
They have a hard enough time getting enough volunteers, and you want to add work to the process. And work that takes more training?