"As filtering becomes ever more common in democratic countries such as the US, perhaps Tor (and similar tools such as I2P), will become even more valuable.""
Ok, where and when in the US did filtering become 'common'??
A better question is, when did the U.S. become a democratic country?
The media likes to portray childrearing as nothing but Precious Kodak Moments when any parent with a drop of honesty will tell you that it's anything but. It's nothing but tedious, thankless work.
Oh, and did I mention that children are one of the main tools The Man uses to keep you in line? Can't risk getting fired from your job when Sprogulina needs braces, can you?
They'll just fuck the dog until the disease kills the patient rather than pay for the cure that could turn him/her back into a productive citizen. Otherwise, Wall Street won't like the numbers and the CEO will have to settle for a 140 foot yacht instead of a 150 foot one.
Our legal system needs to recognize that legal persons have a significant advantage over legal persons in court. To level that playing field:
-- Make the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law inapplicable to corporations.
-- After that, you raise the burden of proof, on both liability and damages, when corporations sue individuals. In other words, make the RIAA prove up every last penny of its damages when it sues file sharers. By that I mean, make them produce evidence that every song downloaded equals a lost sale. Hint: There isn't any.
-- By contrast, when individuals sue corporations, you reduce the burden of proof. Upon a finding of liability, damages are presumed.
-- Extend the right to counsel to individuals being sued by corporations.
On another note, the government can use its buying power to significantly (and positively) influence corporate behaviour. In other words:
-- Want to do business with the government? Great. You agree to a long list of "good corporate citizen business practises" (easy union recognition, no outsourcing, a living wage, caps on executive pay and perks, firings only for just cause, a fully funded pension plan, etc.) and we'll THINK about doing business with you.
When people kill other people, we shoot, gas, behead, poison or fry them. When corporations do it, why do they always get by with "mistakes were made"? Why can't their charters be revoked and all of their assets and IP sold, for starters?
we must look outside of America to see the rights of anyone other than huge corporations being protected.
This should have been done back in 2002, but the newly-installed Bush administration's corporate lapdog DoJ folded the royal flush it had against Microsoft. Further proof that America is a country that has run off the rails in each and every conceivable way.
Then again, what did you expect from a country where:
-- 30 per cent of the population thinks the planet is 6,000 years old and that humans lived side by side with dinosaurs?
-- A Vietnam war burnout and his bubble-headed, ultra-Fundamentalist imbecile of a running mate lost the Presidency - and with it the right to authorize the launch of "nukular" weapons against "the evildoers" - by a mere six percentage points?
-- See above, amidst an economy in a nosedive and the largest bank failures in U.S. history?
that nobody is hiring and that we're in the middle of a recession, if not a depression. But it can't be, because John McCain said, "the fundamentals of the economy are strong!"
You need to do some research into Aricept and similar drugs in the UK NHS. This is how it works under socialized medecine.
First the drug gets approved, or not, for safety and efficacy. This means it is legal to use in the UK. But it has not yet got into the NHS. So far its only in private practice.
Then it gets approved, or not, for use in the NHS by the Orwellian named NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence, aka the State Drug Rationing Agency).
Suppose it passes that hurdle (and Aricept did not at first), then you have to persuade your local Strategic Health Authority or maybe your Primary Care Trust, or maybe both, to let you actually have it.
Sort of like how you have to persuade your HMO to let you have it? The difference is, under a universal health care regime, the CEO doesn't get a bigger yacht if he denies you your expensive, but lifesaving, procedure.
Besides, the fact is that a lot of "revolutionary new, lifesaving drugs" aren't. Many of them are very slight reformulations of existing drugs, but enough to get a new patent. See Celexa/Lexapro. And who paid for the research on the drug? Most likely some governmental organization like the NIH, but Big Pharma gets the patent. You can thank Alzheimer's Reagan for that one.
They are operating a defined contribution, discretionary benefit, compulsory membership, HMO. Its called a lot of other fancy names, but this is what it is. What it does not do is treat, still less treat equally, Alzheimers patients. If it can possibly avoid it.
what the Catholic church says about anything? I am at a complete loss why, in the year 2008, anyone takes seriously anything these purveyors of bullshit say. And let's face it, most of the Church's teachings have been soundly rejected by the civilized world. Contraception is evil? Oh, and overpopulation isn't? Divorce is wrong? Well, except for Princess Di and no less than Mother Teresa said so. The civilized world has embraced equal rights for women while the Catholic church remains the leading vanguard of the "barefoot-and-pregnant" school.
I'm sure the Xtian mods will bury this comment. The truth hurts, doesn't it?
Funny you mention Dick Brown. He was one of the CEOs on those NYSE radio spots. You know, "the world puts its stock in us"? They had him and like three other CEOs, all of whom ran their companies into the ground.
Oh, and the whole universal health care thing is nice too. It's good to live up north and have all of the trappings of the civilized world. Would that the same were true of our neighbor to the south.
A lot of end-users use OSS without realizing it. A prime example would be Mac OS X [wikipedia.org]
I'd hesitate to call five per cent of the market "a lot." And Linux's desktop share is even lower, in the tenths of a percent of the market. Granted, servers are a different story.
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"As filtering becomes ever more common in democratic countries such as the US, perhaps Tor (and similar tools such as I2P), will become even more valuable.""
Ok, where and when in the US did filtering become 'common'??
A better question is, when did the U.S. become a democratic country?
Doesn't apply to me. I have better things to do than chase after and cajole the little snotlings.
The media likes to portray childrearing as nothing but Precious Kodak Moments when any parent with a drop of honesty will tell you that it's anything but. It's nothing but tedious, thankless work.
Oh, and did I mention that children are one of the main tools The Man uses to keep you in line? Can't risk getting fired from your job when Sprogulina needs braces, can you?
Parenthood: Just Say No.
They'll just fuck the dog until the disease kills the patient rather than pay for the cure that could turn him/her back into a productive citizen. Otherwise, Wall Street won't like the numbers and the CEO will have to settle for a 140 foot yacht instead of a 150 foot one.
and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the USPTO's decision to give this asinine application the smackdown.
Read all about it on Groklaw.
The level of legal illiteracy on /. never ceases to amaze me . . .
Our legal system needs to recognize that legal persons have a significant advantage over legal persons in court.
Legal persons have a significant advantage over natural persons in court.
'Course, /. could add post revision functionality like every other web board has had for nearly a decade . . .
Our legal system needs to recognize that legal persons have a significant advantage over legal persons in court. To level that playing field:
-- Make the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law inapplicable to corporations.
-- After that, you raise the burden of proof, on both liability and damages, when corporations sue individuals. In other words, make the RIAA prove up every last penny of its damages when it sues file sharers. By that I mean, make them produce evidence that every song downloaded equals a lost sale. Hint: There isn't any.
-- By contrast, when individuals sue corporations, you reduce the burden of proof. Upon a finding of liability, damages are presumed.
-- Extend the right to counsel to individuals being sued by corporations.
On another note, the government can use its buying power to significantly (and positively) influence corporate behaviour. In other words:
-- Want to do business with the government? Great. You agree to a long list of "good corporate citizen business practises" (easy union recognition, no outsourcing, a living wage, caps on executive pay and perks, firings only for just cause, a fully funded pension plan, etc.) and we'll THINK about doing business with you.
When people kill other people, we shoot, gas, behead, poison or fry them. When corporations do it, why do they always get by with "mistakes were made"? Why can't their charters be revoked and all of their assets and IP sold, for starters?
we must look outside of America to see the rights of anyone other than huge corporations being protected.
This should have been done back in 2002, but the newly-installed Bush administration's corporate lapdog DoJ folded the royal flush it had against Microsoft. Further proof that America is a country that has run off the rails in each and every conceivable way.
Then again, what did you expect from a country where:
-- 30 per cent of the population thinks the planet is 6,000 years old and that humans lived side by side with dinosaurs?
-- A Vietnam war burnout and his bubble-headed, ultra-Fundamentalist imbecile of a running mate lost the Presidency - and with it the right to authorize the launch of "nukular" weapons against "the evildoers" - by a mere six percentage points?
-- See above, amidst an economy in a nosedive and the largest bank failures in U.S. history?
I could go on . . . and on . . . and on . . .
Mod me to hell, I still have karma to burn.
By living in this country, you hereby have been co-operating with the government, and have therefore waived all your rights.
All the more reason I'm happy I don't live in the U.S. anymore.
Good luck getting your HMO to pay for that.
I keep a 12 gauge by my bed, and NRA stickers on the windows.
So you have a bunch of "steal my guns when I'm not at home" stickers on your house.
Redneck idiot.
the crack spider's bitch?
that nobody is hiring and that we're in the middle of a recession, if not a depression. But it can't be, because John McCain said, "the fundamentals of the economy are strong!"
Along with dinosaur ones?
'Cuz Sarah Palin told me the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
But that wouldn't do for the usual marginally accurate, hyperbolic crap that passes for "Stuff that Matters," eh?
The forests grew just a few million years apart some 300 million years ago; and are now stacked one on top of another.
This can't be - Sarah Palin told me the Earth is only 6,000 years old!
Sort of like how you have to persuade your HMO to let you have it? The difference is, under a universal health care regime, the CEO doesn't get a bigger yacht if he denies you your expensive, but lifesaving, procedure.
Besides, the fact is that a lot of "revolutionary new, lifesaving drugs" aren't. Many of them are very slight reformulations of existing drugs, but enough to get a new patent. See Celexa/Lexapro. And who paid for the research on the drug? Most likely some governmental organization like the NIH, but Big Pharma gets the patent. You can thank Alzheimer's Reagan for that one.
Well, if Wikipedia is to be believed, the evidence of Aricept's effectiveness was somewhat shaky.
Those days are already here.
Hear, hear! The parent is a typical jingoistic American moron.
what the Catholic church says about anything? I am at a complete loss why, in the year 2008, anyone takes seriously anything these purveyors of bullshit say. And let's face it, most of the Church's teachings have been soundly rejected by the civilized world. Contraception is evil? Oh, and overpopulation isn't? Divorce is wrong? Well, except for Princess Di and no less than Mother Teresa said so. The civilized world has embraced equal rights for women while the Catholic church remains the leading vanguard of the "barefoot-and-pregnant" school.
I'm sure the Xtian mods will bury this comment. The truth hurts, doesn't it?
Funny you mention Dick Brown. He was one of the CEOs on those NYSE radio spots. You know, "the world puts its stock in us"? They had him and like three other CEOs, all of whom ran their companies into the ground.
eat your MRE in the barcalounger.
Ahh yes, MREs.
Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.
Meals Refusing to Exit.
You forgot poutine and back bacon.
Oh, and the whole universal health care thing is nice too. It's good to live up north and have all of the trappings of the civilized world. Would that the same were true of our neighbor to the south.
I'd hesitate to call five per cent of the market "a lot." And Linux's desktop share is even lower, in the tenths of a percent of the market. Granted, servers are a different story.