How about instead of H1-Bs, we fast-track green cards for people with needed skills, or is that not enough like indentured servitude?
I like this line of thought. Embrace and extend! Pass the skills test and get citizenship today! For you AND your immediate family to live here in the US. No need for you to attain citizenship and leave your wife and children in the shithole you've left behind, now is there? Ohh, but now you need to pay them a US wage to pay for that US house and US automobile and US taxes and US schools and.... We wouldn't want our new fellow citizens to live like slaves themselves and send the money home to where the wife and kids can live well on it. Nope, better to bring the whole family. That's the most humane thing to do.
Yeah. Great idea. Blot out the sun to stop global warming... and crop production. How retarded do global warming fanatics get? What is it about the global warming religion that makes people so freaking crazy? Here's an idea... rather than pollute, why not remove teh evil CO2s from teh atmoresfear! Well fark, it's already patented. That does it! We're DOOOOOOMED! Call me The Day After Tomorrow when ginormous global warming... um,...freezes(?) New York city.
Think about where all this wonderful hardware is produced... communist China. The US Govt shit square bricks when Lenovo purchased the IBM PC division. Think about what they'll do when they hear about this.
In February 1995, an Apple petition to open up more spectrum was approved. The public now has 10 Mhz for license-free use. Apple does not own it. Everyone must use equipment designed for the band.
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VHR would provide the capacity of moving information at rates exceeding 20 Mbps. These would be primarily in-building networks, but the development of these systems is just in the formative stages.
Look at Rick Boucher's track record on internet legislation and tell me he's a knob again. If all of congress were lined up to be shot by a firing squad, and I were given the opportunity to save just one of them... it'd be Rick Boucher. Patrick Leahy could go to the front of the line though. He is definitely in Hollywood's pocket.
Well, the cameras do take all the sport out of hiding from the police when they're trying to put bullets in your head for no good reason... Just ask Jean Charles de Menezes. Oops, no answer, he's dead. Funny thing too... Those cameras always seem to be out of tape when the murders are wearing badges.
why do the 20-odd hackers that were in the building at the time deserve to be bombed?
Because they are passing responsibility for atrocity to an authority figure rather than accept it themselves? Those 20-odd hackers are the ones directly responsible for PayPal. To say otherwise is just passing the buck. So kids, the moral of this story is that the corporate veil might stop a lawyer, but not a bomber. To fend off bombers, act like a moral and responsible citizen.
Randal: So they build another Death Star, right? Dante: Yeah. Randal: Now the first one they built was completed and fully operational before the Rebels destroyed it. Dante: Luke blew it up. Give credit where it's due. Randal:And the second one was still being built when they blew it up. Dante: Compliments of Lando Calrissian. Randal: Something just never sat right with me the second time they destroyed it. I could never put my finger on it-something just wasn't right. Dante: And you figured it out? Randal: Well, the thing is, the first Death Star was manned by the Imperial army-storm troopers, dignitaries- the only people onboard were Imperials. Dante: Basically. Randal: So when they blew it up, no prob. Evil is punished. Dante: And the second time around...? Randal: The second time around, it wasn't even finished yet. They were still under construction. Dante: So? Randal: A construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer. I'll bet there were independent contractors working on that thing: plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers. Dante: Not just Imperials, is what you're getting at. Randal: Exactly. In order to get it built quickly and quietly they'd hire anybody who could do the job. Do you think the average storm trooper knows how to install a toilet main? All they know is killing and white uniforms. Dante: All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction? Randal: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. (notices Dante's confusion) All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia-this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living. (The Blue-Collar Man (Thomas Burke) joins them.) Blue-Collar Man: Excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt, but what were you talking about? Randal: The ending of Return of the Jedi. Dante: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels. Blue-Collar Man: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs. Randal: Like when? Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was. Dante: Whose house was it? Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's. Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster? Blue-Collar Man: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine. Dante: Based on personal politics. Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling. Randal:
Yeah, I was watching this hour long thing on the Tank Man online at PBS. I was appalled to see the last section, the section that focuses on censorship, censored by American copyright law.
You obviously think everyone here is too stupid to tell the difference between violating copyright law and violating a license agreement. We are subject to law whether we feel that law is just or not. No one is subject to a license agreement unless they *agree* to it in the first place.
However realize when you buy an Ipod, you're agreeing to use it the way Apple says you can. That means no changing it so it suddenly plays videos if it didn't before.
By using the software on the iPod's boot ROM, you are agreeing not to use or distribute the software it in a certain way. You are free to clear the boot ROM, load it with another OS, and use your hardware in any legal way you see fit.
Thanks to alternate OSes, iPods were playing video well before the video iPod was released by Apple.
However, what if some third-party radio station starts recording the music that other stations are playing, organizing it, then playing it over the air without the original radio station's ads, but with it's own ads.
Your analogy makes no sense at all. No one would ever do it. Why not compare the use of RSS to something like a TIVO. It gathers content from different stations, allows you to remove ads from the original content, and could be used to deliver ads itself to make the producers of the TIVO money. As far as I know, all of that is perfectly legal, and TIVO is still in business. But I don't own one and could really care less about TV and radio programming anyway... so, whatever.
Now, the standard of living in China is rising rapidly
For the upper 20%. The bottom 80% remain dirt poor with little hope of ever changing that. A great documentary regarding that issue and a number of others in China is located at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/vi ew/
Actually, there is, but only if you run classic in OS X. It's called Autostart in QuickTime. If you have Classic installed *and* running, it will still work. This page mentions it, and there used to be a test exploit page located at http://www.u-struct.com/diary/img/20020131_OSissue _E/ but it seems that link is no longer active. It's an exploit that has been known about for years, but it's very low risk now. You're only at risk if you run the Classic environment, and then it can be disabled in your classic QuickTime preferences. More information about disabling QuickTime's autostart can be found here.
Then our primary disagreement would be that proponents of global warming are considered intellectuals... I don't think that is the case. I think the global warming camp tries to paint themselves as intellectuals. In doing so, anyone that dares disagree with them automatically becomes an ignoramus. Yet, in general, most of the proponents of global warming, at least here on Slashdot, come armed with lots of attitude and no facts to back it up.
BTW, I read your journal. You may as well go ahead and add me to your foes list.
Um, why?
Because of your statement...
I use my "Foes" list to manage the people who've established a pattern of saying things far beyond my threshold of tolerable stupidity.
It has generally been my experience here at Slashdot, that by simply disagreeing with the proponents of global warming, you far exceed said proponents' "threshold of tolerable stupidity." Perhaps I've assumed too much about you.
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Climate models are not tricks. The physics goes in. The climate comes out. It's not a trivial curve-fitting exercise the way you seem to think.
Really? Because last time I heard, random data goes in and hockey stick graphs come out. Yeah, it seems the climate models produce hockey sticks regardless of what you put in them, physics or otherwise.
How about instead of H1-Bs, we fast-track green cards for people with needed skills, or is that not enough like indentured servitude?
I like this line of thought. Embrace and extend! Pass the skills test and get citizenship today! For you AND your immediate family to live here in the US. No need for you to attain citizenship and leave your wife and children in the shithole you've left behind, now is there? Ohh, but now you need to pay them a US wage to pay for that US house and US automobile and US taxes and US schools and .... We wouldn't want our new fellow citizens to live like slaves themselves and send the money home to where the wife and kids can live well on it. Nope, better to bring the whole family. That's the most humane thing to do.
Yeah. Great idea. Blot out the sun to stop global warming... and crop production. How retarded do global warming fanatics get? What is it about the global warming religion that makes people so freaking crazy? Here's an idea... rather than pollute, why not remove teh evil CO2s from teh atmoresfear! Well fark, it's already patented. That does it! We're DOOOOOOMED! Call me The Day After Tomorrow when ginormous global warming... um, ...freezes(?) New York city.
Think about where all this wonderful hardware is produced... communist China. The US Govt shit square bricks when Lenovo purchased the IBM PC division. Think about what they'll do when they hear about this.
pwned
I'd love to see them try to sue Apple.
In February 1995, an Apple petition to open up more spectrum was approved. The public now has 10 Mhz for license-free use. Apple does not own it. Everyone must use equipment designed for the band.
...
VHR would provide the capacity of moving information at rates exceeding 20 Mbps. These would be primarily in-building networks, but the development of these systems is just in the formative stages.
Perhaps casual acceptance of blatant bribery won't be so commonplace in the US someday.
Look at Rick Boucher's track record on internet legislation and tell me he's a knob again. If all of congress were lined up to be shot by a firing squad, and I were given the opportunity to save just one of them... it'd be Rick Boucher. Patrick Leahy could go to the front of the line though. He is definitely in Hollywood's pocket.
Wait just a second... by definition, to be a different species, interbreeding must be impossible. If the big brain theory is true, that pretty much settles the argument between closely related sub-species of modern humans vs. collateral line of late Homo erectus.
I'm sure there's a downside to this technology
Well, the cameras do take all the sport out of hiding from the police when they're trying to put bullets in your head for no good reason... Just ask Jean Charles de Menezes. Oops, no answer, he's dead. Funny thing too... Those cameras always seem to be out of tape when the murders are wearing badges.
why do the 20-odd hackers that were in the building at the time deserve to be bombed?
Because they are passing responsibility for atrocity to an authority figure rather than accept it themselves? Those 20-odd hackers are the ones directly responsible for PayPal. To say otherwise is just passing the buck. So kids, the moral of this story is that the corporate veil might stop a lawyer, but not a bomber. To fend off bombers, act like a moral and responsible citizen.
Yeah, I was watching this hour long thing on the Tank Man online at PBS. I was appalled to see the last section, the section that focuses on censorship, censored by American copyright law.
Hello Pot! My name is Kettle...
Are you saying that the U.S. has forced abortions, political executions (with the executee's family being billed for the fucking bullet), wholesale cultural genocide (Do you know the chinese are hauling ethnic chinese by the trainload into tibet to overrun the place? Look up "tibetan spaniel" sometime to see how the fucking chinese have clubbed to death the entire population of tibet's beautiful native dogs), wholesale censorship of the press and Internet, massive "reeducation" (read: concentration) camps, support for mass-murderer dictators (Pol Pot, "Our Dear Leader", etc.).
Yeah, America is so much better.
You obviously think everyone here is too stupid to tell the difference between violating copyright law and violating a license agreement. We are subject to law whether we feel that law is just or not. No one is subject to a license agreement unless they *agree* to it in the first place.
Oracle support Linux? Embrace, extend, extinguish...
However realize when you buy an Ipod, you're agreeing to use it the way Apple says you can. That means no changing it so it suddenly plays videos if it didn't before.
By using the software on the iPod's boot ROM, you are agreeing not to use or distribute the software it in a certain way. You are free to clear the boot ROM, load it with another OS, and use your hardware in any legal way you see fit.
Thanks to alternate OSes, iPods were playing video well before the video iPod was released by Apple.
However, what if some third-party radio station starts recording the music that other stations are playing, organizing it, then playing it over the air without the original radio station's ads, but with it's own ads.
Your analogy makes no sense at all. No one would ever do it. Why not compare the use of RSS to something like a TIVO. It gathers content from different stations, allows you to remove ads from the original content, and could be used to deliver ads itself to make the producers of the TIVO money. As far as I know, all of that is perfectly legal, and TIVO is still in business. But I don't own one and could really care less about TV and radio programming anyway... so, whatever.
Now, the standard of living in China is rising rapidly
For the upper 20%. The bottom 80% remain dirt poor with little hope of ever changing that. A great documentary regarding that issue and a number of others in China is located at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/vi ew/
Imagine the scenario: an unscrupulous individual
Yeah? What about an unscrupulous communist government? They might actually design a backdoor in your network card. Imagine Sony's XCP... China style.
There is no such thing as autorun on OS X
Actually, there is, but only if you run classic in OS X. It's called Autostart in QuickTime. If you have Classic installed *and* running, it will still work. This page mentions it, and there used to be a test exploit page located at http://www.u-struct.com/diary/img/20020131_OSissue _E/ but it seems that link is no longer active. It's an exploit that has been known about for years, but it's very low risk now. You're only at risk if you run the Classic environment, and then it can be disabled in your classic QuickTime preferences. More information about disabling QuickTime's autostart can be found here.
Simply because MS can't do anything like this back to Apple.
Ahhh, I remember a time when trying to uninstall MS Office 98 would nuke your system folder... Damn I'm gettin' old!
He was misquoted. He clearly said "Al Gore Rhythms" and thus he is a liar (Duh! Politician...) Everyone knows Al Gore has no rhythm whatsoever. ;-)
But when will it hit my doorstep at a reasonable rate?
When the phone companies get the word that Brand X applies to them as well as cable companies.
American unemployment peaked during the Great Depression at about 25%. 17.4% certainly sounds like decimation to me.
Then our primary disagreement would be that proponents of global warming are considered intellectuals... I don't think that is the case. I think the global warming camp tries to paint themselves as intellectuals. In doing so, anyone that dares disagree with them automatically becomes an ignoramus. Yet, in general, most of the proponents of global warming, at least here on Slashdot, come armed with lots of attitude and no facts to back it up.
Um, why?
Because of your statement...
I use my "Foes" list to manage the people who've established a pattern of saying things far beyond my threshold of tolerable stupidity.
It has generally been my experience here at Slashdot, that by simply disagreeing with the proponents of global warming, you far exceed said proponents' "threshold of tolerable stupidity." Perhaps I've assumed too much about you.