Not a troll, rights may not be the right word though. I once went through a state funded system to find a job, they had this test of various skills and such that everyone took, despite being in the first few finished on everything, including manual dexterity checks, i was ranked below the halfway mark, didn't make sense so checked and found out the scores were adjusted positively for minorities, a lot for some.
The difference in your example is that evolution is not religion in any way, nor is a science museum a religious institution. The other is about a religious holiday at a church. Evolution has no religious affiliation, christmas does.
A big reason for patents is so new inventions are publicly documented so that when they expire they become part of the public domain so everyone can use them.
If someone skilled in the field can't figure out the patent then it's a bad patent application and should be rejected until it's useable by others once it expires.
I'm guessing you're fairly young as you have it exactly backwards. Except the decade part, media has been abusing the word a bit longer. Since the early eighties at least
A simple Google search will show you quite a few clear references to it's use going back the sixties at least.
Not sure here, but if I recall correctly all Fox would have to do is file a counter notice and then the on demand sites could put it back up and be out of the lawsuit loop. Then he would have to sue and win and get the courts to order it removed. This makes it a question of affording sufficient lawyer to win.
Being right, and obviously so, doesn't guarantee a win, just multiplies your lawyer money.
"It also includes what they can see from the street through an open door. It also includes a closed window without blinds. And today, with cameras that can see through walls, it includes everything in your home through a $300 thermal camera.
By the way, that's also been held up in court multiple times."
Not any more, the supreme court ruled otherwise 11+ years ago:
four car lengths gives you 0.616 seconds to react at 60 mph, needless to say any sudden reduction in the lead cars speed (mechanical fault, animal on road, ANY) results in a collision.
The recommendation is 2 seconds minimum distance, this gives you (assuming average reflexes and good alertness) just enough time to spot the problem get your foot moved to the break and begin breaking.
Sadly trying to give 176' gap for safety usually results in it getting filled.
Haven't seen 'flash to pass' printed on a high beam switch in ages. Old car?
That does NOT mean flash to ask the guy in front of you to speed up or get over.
The rule used to be flash to signal your intent to pass and was for passing on two lane roads where you would be briefly entering the on coming lane to go around a motorist moving under the speed limit.
It's no longer advised as newer lights are bright enough that doing that close enough to signal properly floods the front car with light significantly reducing the drivers night vision. This is why you can get in trouble for doing it, it creates a potentially bad situation.
If your riding up behind someone doing the speed limit or more pulling that idiot crap YOUR the one endangering lives (and the police WILL pull you over for road rage with the blinking lights idiocy around here). And yes a smart person will slow down when being tailgated. I have idiots ride my ass in any lane flashing brights when I'm doing the limit to 5 over.
Yep real good for launching grains and such from the lunar colonies, as long as you have a decent computer to run the whole thing.
Though if you use convict labor things could get interesting.
Technically your number 3 is correct, but the sort of cognitive errors (such as in your number 2) by failure to accept reality, even in a limited fashion, would seem to have to potential to limit them.
Plate tectonics cannot be "put in a lab" either and require significant time scales also. Yet you put macro evolution (the instantiation of new species from previous species) which has been observed and measured also, in a different category.
Simply because it disagrees with an irrational (not based in observed reality with logical and critical thought applied) view you fail to even realize you apply a different thought process to it(or so I read into your post).
The vast amounts of evidence supporting evolution (both micro and macro) makes operating with any other assumption illogical and irrational without equally substantial and solid evidence.
And me without mod points. I would mod up, but here's my thought:
Right principles as he puts it can be derived from likely outcomes statistically.
Yes a specific outcome can be hard to predict, but typical outcomes can be figured out.
Deciding actions based on multiply translated dogma tens of centuries old without any attempt to think them through logically and adapt them to modern culture and society is mental laziness at best. It's akin to driving while staring straight ahead only with one eye closed and the other in a squint.
It's certainly not moral or ethical except by chance.
I think I see what you're trying to say, but I'd like to nitpick a tad.
Having a child does not destroy your life, it transforms it by giving it purpose and validation.
Much more so if thought out and planned.
Most lights here (Missouri, USA) have sensors in the road at or near (sometimes overlapping) the white line, you can them as long rectangular patches in the road that look like they've been cut out and replaced.
If you're not mostly over them the system thinks there is no traffic in that lane and will take much longer to give you (and everyone stuck behind you) a green signal.
This extra distance and time for more cars to pile up behind you really hurts those trying to enter the turn lane if you're in the right most lane contributing to the idiots driving on the shoulder(not that that excuses their stupidity).
Your best bet to stop over these sensors unless it creates a real safety hazard.
That only works when you have more than one to choose from. Where I am at you have the cable monopoly and AT&T who couldn't even keep dial-tone service working 3 days in a row let alone dsl (which caps out at 128 up 768 down!).
I don't what went wrong in your case, but my logitech trackball worked just fine under several of the latest linux distros about a month ago. Unless that ver of ubuntu is from january (Can't recall the numbering scheme) it's not the base install. FWIW I'm using the wireless/bluetooth model with the blue ball.
What's weird about Firewire/1394 is almost every motherboard above bottom 10% or so has it, yet few other devices seem to except some fraction of video cameras.
Display is newer, but finding monitors that support is getting easier (about 1/4 to 1/3 online, though bricks and mortar stores don't have many).
in the us you can only verify that they are old enough for the job (16,18,21, and in some cases at least 15.5) and not hiring based on being over 40 is blatantly illegal.
One could argue that the only reason to not make the distinction is to increase the apparent severity of the crime.
As the topic is largely about appropriate penalties for copyright infringement, being accurate on what it is and is not simply makes logical sense.
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Not a troll, rights may not be the right word though. I once went through a state funded system to find a job, they had this test of various skills and such that everyone took, despite being in the first few finished on everything, including manual dexterity checks, i was ranked below the halfway mark, didn't make sense so checked and found out the scores were adjusted positively for minorities, a lot for some.
Mycroft
The difference in your example is that evolution is not religion in any way, nor is a science museum a religious institution. The other is about a religious holiday at a church. Evolution has no religious affiliation, christmas does.
Mycroft
A big reason for patents is so new inventions are publicly documented so that when they expire they become part of the public domain so everyone can use them.
If someone skilled in the field can't figure out the patent then it's a bad patent application and should be rejected until it's useable by others once it expires.
Mycroft
I'm guessing you're fairly young as you have it exactly backwards. Except the decade part, media has been abusing the word a bit longer. Since the early eighties at least
A simple Google search will show you quite a few clear references to it's use going back the sixties at least.
Mycroft
Looks like a good point on the content networks, leaves just the you tube and like sites where clips are posted.
Mycroft
Not sure here, but if I recall correctly all Fox would have to do is file a counter notice and then the on demand sites could put it back up and be out of the lawsuit loop. Then he would have to sue and win and get the courts to order it removed. This makes it a question of affording sufficient lawyer to win.
Being right, and obviously so, doesn't guarantee a win, just multiplies your lawyer money.
Mcyroft
"It also includes what they can see from the street through an open door. It also includes a closed window without blinds. And today, with cameras that can see through walls, it includes everything in your home through a $300 thermal camera.
By the way, that's also been held up in court multiple times."
Not any more, the supreme court ruled otherwise 11+ years ago:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=99-8508
James Doohan ("Scotty", but hand in your geek card if you didn't know that) Married his wife of 30 years when he was 54 and she was 18.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227753
Though the reviews are not so hot.
Mycroft
four car lengths gives you 0.616 seconds to react at 60 mph, needless to say any sudden reduction in the lead cars speed (mechanical fault, animal on road, ANY) results in a collision.
The recommendation is 2 seconds minimum distance, this gives you (assuming average reflexes and good alertness) just enough time to spot the problem get your foot moved to the break and begin breaking.
Sadly trying to give 176' gap for safety usually results in it getting filled.
Mycroft
Haven't seen 'flash to pass' printed on a high beam switch in ages. Old car?
That does NOT mean flash to ask the guy in front of you to speed up or get over.
The rule used to be flash to signal your intent to pass and was for passing on two lane roads where you would be briefly entering the on coming lane to go around a motorist moving under the speed limit.
It's no longer advised as newer lights are bright enough that doing that close enough to signal properly floods the front car with light significantly reducing the drivers night vision. This is why you can get in trouble for doing it, it creates a potentially bad situation.
Mycroft
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp
If your riding up behind someone doing the speed limit or more pulling that idiot crap YOUR the one endangering lives (and the police WILL pull you over for road rage with the blinking lights idiocy around here). And yes a smart person will slow down when being tailgated. I have idiots ride my ass in any lane flashing brights when I'm doing the limit to 5 over.
Mycroft
Yep real good for launching grains and such from the lunar colonies, as long as you have a decent computer to run the whole thing.
Though if you use convict labor things could get interesting.
Mycroft
Technically your number 3 is correct, but the sort of cognitive errors (such as in your number 2) by failure to accept reality, even in a limited fashion, would seem to have to potential to limit them.
Plate tectonics cannot be "put in a lab" either and require significant time scales also. Yet you put macro evolution (the instantiation of new species from previous species) which has been observed and measured also, in a different category.
Simply because it disagrees with an irrational (not based in observed reality with logical and critical thought applied) view you fail to even realize you apply a different thought process to it(or so I read into your post).
The vast amounts of evidence supporting evolution (both micro and macro) makes operating with any other assumption illogical and irrational without equally substantial and solid evidence.
Mcyroft
And me without mod points.
I would mod up, but here's my thought:
Right principles as he puts it can be derived from likely outcomes statistically.
Yes a specific outcome can be hard to predict, but typical outcomes can be figured out.
Deciding actions based on multiply translated dogma tens of centuries old without any attempt to think them through logically and adapt them to modern culture and society is mental laziness at best.
It's akin to driving while staring straight ahead only with one eye closed and the other in a squint.
It's certainly not moral or ethical except by chance.
Mycroft
I think I see what you're trying to say, but I'd like to nitpick a tad.
Having a child does not destroy your life, it transforms it by giving it purpose and validation.
Much more so if thought out and planned.
Just my opinion.
Mycroft
Most lights here (Missouri, USA) have sensors in the road at or near (sometimes overlapping) the white line, you can them as long rectangular patches in the road that look like they've been cut out and replaced.
If you're not mostly over them the system thinks there is no traffic in that lane and will take much longer to give you (and everyone stuck behind you) a green signal.
This extra distance and time for more cars to pile up behind you really hurts those trying to enter the turn lane if you're in the right most lane contributing to the idiots driving on the shoulder(not that that excuses their stupidity).
Your best bet to stop over these sensors unless it creates a real safety hazard.
Mycroft
That only works when you have more than one to choose from. Where I am at you have the cable monopoly and AT&T who couldn't even keep dial-tone service working 3 days in a row let alone dsl (which caps out at 128 up 768 down!).
Mycroft
I don't what went wrong in your case, but my logitech trackball worked just fine under several of the latest linux distros about a month ago. Unless that ver of ubuntu is from january (Can't recall the numbering scheme) it's not the base install. FWIW I'm using the wireless/bluetooth model with the blue ball.
Mycroft
What's weird about Firewire/1394 is almost every motherboard above bottom 10% or so has it, yet few other devices seem to except some fraction of video cameras.
Display is newer, but finding monitors that support is getting easier (about 1/4 to 1/3 online, though bricks and mortar stores don't have many).
Mycroft
Yep I lost nearly 30% when I moved from a 30 minute commute to 10 minutes.
And the bigger the engine the worse it can be.
Mycroft
in the us you can only verify that they are old enough for the job (16,18,21, and in some cases at least 15.5) and not hiring based on being over 40 is blatantly illegal.
Kasey
One could argue that the only reason to not make the distinction is to increase the apparent severity of the crime.
As the topic is largely about appropriate penalties for copyright infringement, being accurate on what it is and is not simply makes logical sense.
Mycroft
I retract the not thinking accusation. It takes deliberate trolling to come up with that nonsense.
My apologies to everyone else for feeding the troll.
Mycroft