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  1. Not really competition anyway... on FCC Considers Deregulation of DSL · · Score: 1

    In the setup as it's currently implemented. The telco becomes a wholesaler and the companies that lease the lines become retailers. Sounds like a wash to me.

  2. I don't understand. on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    Why is innocence and atonement so valuable... and if you believe that Jesus died in atonement for your sins, why do you believe that anybody must atone. Also, isn't it possible that sometimes granting someone death is merciful?

  3. Re:Great Caesar's Ghost! on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    Whether or not parents see it that way is irrelevant to whether or not they want to have a baby. Whatever the viewpoint on the embryo, it is a necessary step in having a baby.

  4. You do not seem to have a clear concept of life. on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    Nor for that matter quality of life. Say somebody likes to beat me up. My quality of life goes up once he is dead. An energetic person is more alive than a person in a coma. Climbing cliffs can result in death, but a rock climber is very much alive. Also war can result in death, but human soldiers in a war are more alive than automatons.

    A speech exists which reads:

    I do think that fighting in battles can at times be beautiful, but at the same time I'd like to express my regret over the lost souls be appealing to you to recognize how priceless man's life is. I believe what man needs is not absolute victory, but a certain demeanor in fighting, an attitude towards fighting.

  5. U.S. Education on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately this isn't consistent across the U.S. There is pretty much nothing that IS consistent across the U.S., though I don't know how much the "No Child Left Behind" act has changed that, but I'd guess not much.

  6. Re:Here we go again... on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1

    The main problem I see with intelligent design is that we don't have a testable definition of what we mean by intelligence. Matters dealing with intelligence is currently in the realm of philosophy, which has been getting the short end of the stick.

    As for my beliefs, I want them to be as correct as possible. I also feel that it only makes sense for the beliefs of others to be as correct as possible. The way that makes sense to me for achieving this is by everyone sarting on the pretext that their position is right, and promoting it as much as possible, while listening toothers with different beliefs, which would become easier to do if they are also promoting their ideas. Eventually, someone else's ideas will begin to make more sense and that gets adopted and promoted.

  7. The real question is... on NRLB Redefines 'Your Own Time' · · Score: 1

    Where are you looking, so everybody else knows where to look.

  8. Re:Run with this. on CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA · · Score: 1

    An app tracking bills is good...but the problem with voting is that they are all lizards, so most of the bills are bad, containing things like riders even when the main topic the bill addresses may be good.

  9. Whether or not people are that dumb is irrelevant. on CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA · · Score: 1

    Companies are supposed to flood the market with their most valuable goods. The companies that can't make a profit collapse and those resources become free to produce goods in other sectors of the economy. Wash, rinse, repeat.

  10. Waste of time on CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.'"

    'Odd,' said Arthur, 'I thought you said it was a democracy.'

    'I did,' said Ford, 'It is.'

    'So,' said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, 'why don't the people get rid of the lizards?'

    'It honestly doesn't occur to them,' said Ford. 'They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.'

    'You mean they actually vote for the lizards?'

    'Oh yes,' said Ford with a shrug, 'of course.'

    'But,' said Arthur, going for the big one again, 'why?'

    'Because if they didn't vote for a lizard,' said Ford, 'the wrong lizard might get in'"

    -- Douglas Adams

  11. You can't have my four corners. on SymphonyOS Alpha 4 Released · · Score: 1

    The four corners of my screen are already either showing a corner of a window or Showing the Start menu, the clock, and all along the top is a bar for clicking on Application icons. The first one is Firefox and the second one is the Command Prompt. A link to my Media folder is up there too.

  12. The UK anti-bullying website on Bully To Blacken Rockstar's Other Eye? · · Score: 1

    Taking a look at their website, it's a little unclear whether they are there to help the victims of bullying, or to help kids become bullies and to help the parents help their kids become bullies.

    I mean, what do you think when you read "Practical help and advice for parents who are tackling school bullying."

  13. That's why they call it a rebellion. on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    A rebellion is always legal in the first person, such as "our rebellion." Is it only in the third person - "their rebellion" - that it becomes illegal.

  14. Re:A bad thing? on Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between reporting an observation and declaring it an irrefutable fact. Nobody is going to drop dead just because someone announces he found something that may be a cure for AIDS. There's no big loss on reporting novel things without a degree of certainty as long as you don't go around saying you're sure, but reporting unsure things will often make it quicker that it becomes sure one way or the other. I find it likely that too often something goes unreported that is wrong but only slightly wrong and then the person discovers they are wrong and abandons the whole course of investigation, whereas if there had been more eyes on the issue a correction could be made so that the observation becomes repeatable.

  15. Here's a site with challenges on Brain Teasers for Coders? · · Score: 1

    http://www.caesum.com/ I first knew of this site because of it's Borg Disassembler. I wrote a few utilites for Borg in QB and he was nice enough to put them on his site.

  16. Re:A bad thing? on Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find · · Score: 1

    Before telling anybody else about it, yes. Also, how come no one is asking the question why it took 2 years before such analysis was done.

  17. Re:Hey on Original Lightsaber Goes For 3x Expectations · · Score: 1

    Nuclear Power Cell? Don't you know those things are Jedi-powered?

  18. Re:Aeris on Square Enix Event Revelations · · Score: 1

    Well if I was J.K. Rowling's only fan, then you'd be right, and there would be good reason for J.K. Rowling to do so. Why do narratives come into being in the first place. It is because of deep, true feelings. Such feelings, is there ever a time they should be ignored?

  19. Re:VII? What about III/VI? on Square Enix Event Revelations · · Score: 1

    Stop using III, it's been released as VI on the PS1 in the US, with fmv's addded, but otherwise the graphics are the same. I would like to see a fuller remake made too.

  20. Re:Aeris on Square Enix Event Revelations · · Score: 1

    You missed all the expressions for the desire for it to happen. Part of the game was that when people die , they live in another form. In the ending Aeris's hand was reaching for Cloud's from within the life-stream. In Final Fantasy Tactics, Cloud pops up searching for Aeris.

  21. Re:Aeris on Square Enix Event Revelations · · Score: 1

    You must have missed all of this then:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22revive+aeris I don't see how her staying dead is a major plot point. Her sacrificing her life to yield Holy, yes. but staying dead, no.

  22. Re:Notable quote on Ian Clarke and Freenet in the Crosshairs · · Score: 1

    Freedom of speech is irrelevant without the education to wield it properly. The current state of U.S. education kind of makes overt opression kind of irrelevant, too. His post illustrates that nicely. Maybe the Freenet will give dissident a kind of standing off where they can avoid all the static out there.

  23. Aeris on Square Enix Event Revelations · · Score: 0

    But will you be able to revive Aeris?

  24. Re:In Perspective... on Wireless Hijacker Dealt First UK Punishment · · Score: 1

    Only about as accurate as saying your webpage is about demons from hell and that is where you'll rot!

  25. Re:copyrights on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    by protected. I mean like the First Amendment. Congress can't pass laws eliminating First Amendment rights, but it can eliminate copyrights and patents by passing a law. They have the power to give Copyright only for promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts. Eliminating copyrights and patents reqires no such test.