Last year I killed a mobo & PSU with a USB-related problem; I had just bought a new powered 4-port USB hub, and made the mistake of plugging it in to the AC before plugging it in to one of my desktop's USB ports. A little bit of misalignment (due to a bent pin in the desktop's port, of which I was unaware), the mobo's circuit shorted out, and the damned thing went up in flames (literally).
A few hundred dollars later, I'd repurchased everything & reinstalled the various components myself. Oh well, easy come, easy go.
(currently calculated to be 13 Jupiter masses for objects of solar metallicity)
Question: Is that the astronomical definition of 'metal' (i.e., anything heavier than hydrogen), or the chemical definition? (i.e., Any of a category of electropositive elements that usually have a shiny surface, are generally good conductors of heat and electricity, and can be melted or fused, hammered into thin sheets, or drawn into wires. Typical metals form salts with nonmetals, basic oxides with oxygen, and alloys with one another (definition courtesy of answers.com))
Um, I said I -don't- run an ISP-side filter. My ISP does make it available, but unfortunately they drop all incoming mail from.ru domain (Russia), and I actually have a need to receive those.
I do run some simple automated rules on my inbox, but on average less than five emails a week go into my 'Junk' folder.
Does anyone on/. actually receive as much spam as Spamhaus reports? According to TFA, they're estimating that as much as 95% of all email will be spam by 2006; I don't know about you, but I don't run an ISP-side spam filter, and I average maybe 2 or 3 a week, out of several hundred emails per week (I belong to several email lists, so my average is fairly high.)
I realize you're trying to be funny, but I can't help being pedantic (since I worked for the Shack when in my late around the time I graduated high school). It's true that they used to ask for name & address for all purchases, for marketing purposes, but the only time they asked for ID was when the customer was writing a check. I hope these days they check ID for credit cards too, since credit card fraud is such a problem, but either way, they don't ask for the address any more on most purchases. That policy was changed a couple of years ago.
Everything you mention is valid, and thanks for the quote from the Magna Carta. I wasn't aware of that particular clause, but that's probably b/c I've never actually read it (which I'll do just as soon as I post this).
I am aware, however, that it wasn't unusual in the middle ages for kings to get so far into debt to the bankers (who were jewish simply because we jews never had laws against charging interest, whereas the catholic church strongly proscribed against it... sort of a default position, you might say... although I do wonder why the zoroastrians never got into it too? Or did they & that's just been forgotten over the years?) that they'd just have a purge (or pogrom, or whatever it was called in the given land), rather than pay back the loans.
This is more or less what caused the expulsion of jews from Spain in 1492-- Ferdinand & Isabella had finished their fighting against the Moors & either converted them or pushed them across the Straight of Gibraltar. They were deeply in debt, so the solution obviously was... blame the bankers.
Incidentally, the thing about not charging interest to a fellow jew... I've heard that before too (not from other members of the community with which I've been associated, just the same way everyone hears these things I guess), but I've never seen it in action. Sure, a friend normally won't charge a friend interest, but I'd imagine it's that way in just about any community. When it comes to normal business transactions, anyone who wants to stay in business is certainly going to charge interest in loans!
Anyway, concerning kibbutzim is very much an attempt at locally run communist societies, you're absolutely correct about that. But... kibbutzim are falling out of favor, and the transactions between kibbutzim were always capitalist in nature. It's only the transactions between people in any given kibbutz that are/were communist in nature.
Again, thanks for your followup post. I found it much more informative & less inflamatory than the original post to which I responded. Insightful even, rather than inciteful.
Being jewish myself, I just have to love all the stereotypes and generalizations that are made about us. First, it's true that Marx was jewish. That's fine, whether or not he was right about communism (and I'm not arguing that point, so if you respond concerning it, don't expect a response from me), he was still a great thinker.
Now, I kind of wonder, though. First we jews get labeled as usurious lenders (all throughout the middle ages in Europe & up to the current day), we get accused of wanting to take over the world (personally I thought that was the Illuminati, but that just goes to show what I know). Ask a New Yorker what professions he thinks of when he thinks of jews, and he'll think 'banker, lawyer, diamond merchant, furrier...' Very capitalist, I'd say.
And now you're saying we're known for our communist ways?! Man, when is this world gonna make up its mind about how to stereotype us? or better yet, just not stereotype us at all, except for things like genetic health risks (Tay-Sachs disease, for instance).
I'm not disagreeing with either you or the parent to your post. I just wonder... on what type of scale is evil measured? Maybe the only reason Torquemada (or the Portuguese inquisition, for that matter, which from what I understand was even nastier) didn't kill as many people as Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, et al, was the difference in levels of technology.
It's possible I'm ignorant of current events, but I hadn't heard that the **AA orgs were asking to have bills drafted that would require all artists to publish through them? And if not, how do you justify your argument?
The fair market price to view the commercials for the feminine hygiene product is zero dollars and zero cents. Therefore, no, you are not a pirate.
Incidentally, I know what you mean about the commercials that are so good you'd like to see them again... in the early 80s, there was a commercial budweiser that was set on a pirate ship & had a very catchy tune to it. I still remember it to this day as being one of the best commercials I've ever seen, and even though I don't drink, I would love to have a copy of it on tape, if for nothing else than to watch the choreography & admire the period costumes.
IANAL, so I have no idea what the copyright issues were that prevented Miller from sending you a copy of the commercial, but if you ever find out, I'd be interested in knowing... something about that just makes me curious:)
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I have a few million less than he.
Yes? And are you giving any portion of your income to the charity of your choice, or just whining that the super-rich have different priorities than you? I'm sorry, but this is too much like people who refuse to vote, but spend every election term complaining about the people in office (assuming that your answer to the above question is 'no'. If it is 'yes, I do give money to the charities of my choice, then I apologize in advance.)
Why not? I'm interested in hearing the logic behind that. Is there some maximum amount of Microsoft dollars the CDC can spend?
The Foundation doesn't give money directly to the CDC. I'm sure the Gates and Allen families do give plenty through their taxes, but the Foundation works through grants and direct distribution of vaccines, etc. Either way, with the billions that Bill & Melinda throw into that effort, surely it's difficult to propose that they're not doing enough?
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So how much of your spare cash have you thrown at education or curing diseases? And speaking of curing diseases, it seems that Mr. Gates already is already heavily involved in that arena (the Bill & Linda Gate Foundation); therefore it wouldn't make sense for Mr. Allen to duplicate his efforts.
You're right: you have a right to say what you believe he should do with the money. Fortunately, he has every right to ignore you.
I disagree. I feel no sympathy for the *AA (especially when found to have their contractors taking actions such as described in TFA), but your definition if a data pirate is sorely lacking. A pirate is one who distributes or receives one or more copies of a commercial, copyrighted work without having paid the owner of the copyright (or their assignee) for the right to do so.
The **AA organizations' tactics are deplorable, but they own the rights. I do, however, wish our congress-critters would go back and read the constitution a few more times, and then go rewrite the DCMA & other pertinent laws.
Figuring a DVD at an average of $20 at WalMart, and you're saying you could have bought 5 copies of it with a 1/2 hour salary... do you really make $200/hr? If so, can I have your job?!
(and yes, this is a deliberate troll... but bear with it for the humor, please!)
Yup, NASA's the only agency that'll have to account for the change. ESA, NASDA, the Israelis, Russians, and Brazilians don't have to worry about it at all;)
There was a Q&A in the LastWord section of New Scientist magazine about this a few months ago. The gist of the answer was that, for each tall building me construct, we also remove just as much matter from beneath the surface (mining activities, etc)... so the net result is zero, or close enough to zero that it's discountable.
And additionally, Ford is also discontinuing the Excursion (or as I like to call it, the Exploitation). Yes, we Americans are far too addicted to large vehicles that blow through gas like there's no tomorrow... so maybe it's a good thing that the gas prices have been so high (by US standards) for so long now. Maybe we'll get broken of the gas-guzzling habit long enough for some truly innovative technologies to come into play.
(Disclaimer: while I am American, I do not drive one of those monstrosities. I'm the proud owner of a 2004 Hyundai Elantra, which gets excellent mileage when I'm not driving like an asshole).
Though I think your post highlights a very important point. Has anybody else noticed a recent increase in the number of Luddites? It's as if some people are proud to be ignorant.
I often find myself in the role of Luddite, but it's not out of a desire to stay ignorant-- I like to be educated, and to be taught by those with more experience in the field under discussion, whatever it may be-- but rather, out of a sense of "do I really need that new technology/game/etc, or am I just finding new ways to blow my savings account & max out my credit cards?"
Because of this way of thinking, I didn't even own a PDA until about 8 months ago... and then I went & got a Blackberry. For that matter, until about a month before the Blackberry purchase, I didn't have a digital watch (yes, Arthur Dent, they really ARE a nifty idea). But around that time, I fell off my bicycle, injuring myself in several places & breaking my old Fossil analog watch at the same time. As a result, I now have a Timex Ironman DataLink watch.
Nifty toy, I kind of enjoy it to be honest. After all, how often do you get to tell someone "hold on, I think I have Joe's number in my watch, let me just look it up"?:)
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Oh, we got more oil after we invaded Iraq. I see. That explains these wonderfully low gasoline costs!
Last year I killed a mobo & PSU with a USB-related problem; I had just bought a new powered 4-port USB hub, and made the mistake of plugging it in to the AC before plugging it in to one of my desktop's USB ports. A little bit of misalignment (due to a bent pin in the desktop's port, of which I was unaware), the mobo's circuit shorted out, and the damned thing went up in flames (literally).
A few hundred dollars later, I'd repurchased everything & reinstalled the various components myself. Oh well, easy come, easy go.
hey, for the $10 bucks a week, I'd pay up for the naked Jolene Blalock portion & ask them to keep the rest to not keep the rest of the cast!
We can't do that, the Martians would retaliate!
Where's the Kaboom? There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!
(currently calculated to be 13 Jupiter masses for objects of solar metallicity)
Question: Is that the astronomical definition of 'metal' (i.e., anything heavier than hydrogen), or the chemical definition? (i.e., Any of a category of electropositive elements that usually have a shiny surface, are generally good conductors of heat and electricity, and can be melted or fused, hammered into thin sheets, or drawn into wires. Typical metals form salts with nonmetals, basic oxides with oxygen, and alloys with one another (definition courtesy of answers.com))
Um, I said I -don't- run an ISP-side filter. My ISP does make it available, but unfortunately they drop all incoming mail from .ru domain (Russia), and I actually have a need to receive those.
I do run some simple automated rules on my inbox, but on average less than five emails a week go into my 'Junk' folder.
Does anyone on /. actually receive as much spam as Spamhaus reports? According to TFA, they're estimating that as much as 95% of all email will be spam by 2006; I don't know about you, but I don't run an ISP-side spam filter, and I average maybe 2 or 3 a week, out of several hundred emails per week (I belong to several email lists, so my average is fairly high.)
I realize you're trying to be funny, but I can't help being pedantic (since I worked for the Shack when in my late around the time I graduated high school). It's true that they used to ask for name & address for all purchases, for marketing purposes, but the only time they asked for ID was when the customer was writing a check. I hope these days they check ID for credit cards too, since credit card fraud is such a problem, but either way, they don't ask for the address any more on most purchases. That policy was changed a couple of years ago.
Oh come now, we all know Al Gore invented the internet!
Everything you mention is valid, and thanks for the quote from the Magna Carta. I wasn't aware of that particular clause, but that's probably b/c I've never actually read it (which I'll do just as soon as I post this).
I am aware, however, that it wasn't unusual in the middle ages for kings to get so far into debt to the bankers (who were jewish simply because we jews never had laws against charging interest, whereas the catholic church strongly proscribed against it... sort of a default position, you might say... although I do wonder why the zoroastrians never got into it too? Or did they & that's just been forgotten over the years?) that they'd just have a purge (or pogrom, or whatever it was called in the given land), rather than pay back the loans.
This is more or less what caused the expulsion of jews from Spain in 1492-- Ferdinand & Isabella had finished their fighting against the Moors & either converted them or pushed them across the Straight of Gibraltar. They were deeply in debt, so the solution obviously was... blame the bankers.
Incidentally, the thing about not charging interest to a fellow jew... I've heard that before too (not from other members of the community with which I've been associated, just the same way everyone hears these things I guess), but I've never seen it in action. Sure, a friend normally won't charge a friend interest, but I'd imagine it's that way in just about any community. When it comes to normal business transactions, anyone who wants to stay in business is certainly going to charge interest in loans!
Anyway, concerning kibbutzim is very much an attempt at locally run communist societies, you're absolutely correct about that. But... kibbutzim are falling out of favor, and the transactions between kibbutzim were always capitalist in nature. It's only the transactions between people in any given kibbutz that are/were communist in nature.
Again, thanks for your followup post. I found it much more informative & less inflamatory than the original post to which I responded. Insightful even, rather than inciteful.
Being jewish myself, I just have to love all the stereotypes and generalizations that are made about us. First, it's true that Marx was jewish. That's fine, whether or not he was right about communism (and I'm not arguing that point, so if you respond concerning it, don't expect a response from me), he was still a great thinker.
Now, I kind of wonder, though. First we jews get labeled as usurious lenders (all throughout the middle ages in Europe & up to the current day), we get accused of wanting to take over the world (personally I thought that was the Illuminati, but that just goes to show what I know). Ask a New Yorker what professions he thinks of when he thinks of jews, and he'll think 'banker, lawyer, diamond merchant, furrier...' Very capitalist, I'd say.
And now you're saying we're known for our communist ways?! Man, when is this world gonna make up its mind about how to stereotype us? or better yet, just not stereotype us at all, except for things like genetic health risks (Tay-Sachs disease, for instance).
Sheesh
I'm not disagreeing with either you or the parent to your post. I just wonder... on what type of scale is evil measured? Maybe the only reason Torquemada (or the Portuguese inquisition, for that matter, which from what I understand was even nastier) didn't kill as many people as Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, et al, was the difference in levels of technology.
It's possible I'm ignorant of current events, but I hadn't heard that the **AA orgs were asking to have bills drafted that would require all artists to publish through them? And if not, how do you justify your argument?
You're right. My definition left out fair use, which made it just plain wrong.
Your modification to my definition fits well afaik.
The fair market price to view the commercials for the feminine hygiene product is zero dollars and zero cents. Therefore, no, you are not a pirate.
:)
Incidentally, I know what you mean about the commercials that are so good you'd like to see them again... in the early 80s, there was a commercial budweiser that was set on a pirate ship & had a very catchy tune to it. I still remember it to this day as being one of the best commercials I've ever seen, and even though I don't drink, I would love to have a copy of it on tape, if for nothing else than to watch the choreography & admire the period costumes.
IANAL, so I have no idea what the copyright issues were that prevented Miller from sending you a copy of the commercial, but if you ever find out, I'd be interested in knowing... something about that just makes me curious
I have a few million less than he.
Yes? And are you giving any portion of your income to the charity of your choice, or just whining that the super-rich have different priorities than you? I'm sorry, but this is too much like people who refuse to vote, but spend every election term complaining about the people in office (assuming that your answer to the above question is 'no'. If it is 'yes, I do give money to the charities of my choice, then I apologize in advance.)
Why not? I'm interested in hearing the logic behind that. Is there some maximum amount of Microsoft dollars the CDC can spend?
The Foundation doesn't give money directly to the CDC. I'm sure the Gates and Allen families do give plenty through their taxes, but the Foundation works through grants and direct distribution of vaccines, etc. Either way, with the billions that Bill & Melinda throw into that effort, surely it's difficult to propose that they're not doing enough?
So how much of your spare cash have you thrown at education or curing diseases? And speaking of curing diseases, it seems that Mr. Gates already is already heavily involved in that arena (the Bill & Linda Gate Foundation); therefore it wouldn't make sense for Mr. Allen to duplicate his efforts.
You're right: you have a right to say what you believe he should do with the money. Fortunately, he has every right to ignore you.
I disagree. I feel no sympathy for the *AA (especially when found to have their contractors taking actions such as described in TFA), but your definition if a data pirate is sorely lacking. A pirate is one who distributes or receives one or more copies of a commercial, copyrighted work without having paid the owner of the copyright (or their assignee) for the right to do so.
The **AA organizations' tactics are deplorable, but they own the rights. I do, however, wish our congress-critters would go back and read the constitution a few more times, and then go rewrite the DCMA & other pertinent laws.
We need a new acronym around here, for posters to remind people like me to "RTFP" (where "P" stands for "Post").
You're absolutely right-- and $25/hr really isn't all that much for a decent IT hack.
Figuring a DVD at an average of $20 at WalMart, and you're saying you could have bought 5 copies of it with a 1/2 hour salary... do you really make $200/hr? If so, can I have your job?!
(and yes, this is a deliberate troll... but bear with it for the humor, please!)
;)
Yup, NASA's the only agency that'll have to account for the change. ESA, NASDA, the Israelis, Russians, and Brazilians don't have to worry about it at all
heh, good catch... guess my chances of being modded up on that post went down a little ;)
There was a Q&A in the LastWord section of New Scientist magazine about this a few months ago. The gist of the answer was that, for each tall building me construct, we also remove just as much matter from beneath the surface (mining activities, etc)... so the net result is zero, or close enough to zero that it's discountable.
And additionally, Ford is also discontinuing the Excursion (or as I like to call it, the Exploitation). Yes, we Americans are far too addicted to large vehicles that blow through gas like there's no tomorrow... so maybe it's a good thing that the gas prices have been so high (by US standards) for so long now. Maybe we'll get broken of the gas-guzzling habit long enough for some truly innovative technologies to come into play.
(Disclaimer: while I am American, I do not drive one of those monstrosities. I'm the proud owner of a 2004 Hyundai Elantra, which gets excellent mileage when I'm not driving like an asshole).
Though I think your post highlights a very important point. Has anybody else noticed a recent increase in the number of Luddites? It's as if some people are proud to be ignorant.
:)
I often find myself in the role of Luddite, but it's not out of a desire to stay ignorant-- I like to be educated, and to be taught by those with more experience in the field under discussion, whatever it may be-- but rather, out of a sense of "do I really need that new technology/game/etc, or am I just finding new ways to blow my savings account & max out my credit cards?"
Because of this way of thinking, I didn't even own a PDA until about 8 months ago... and then I went & got a Blackberry. For that matter, until about a month before the Blackberry purchase, I didn't have a digital watch (yes, Arthur Dent, they really ARE a nifty idea). But around that time, I fell off my bicycle, injuring myself in several places & breaking my old Fossil analog watch at the same time. As a result, I now have a Timex Ironman DataLink watch.
Nifty toy, I kind of enjoy it to be honest. After all, how often do you get to tell someone "hold on, I think I have Joe's number in my watch, let me just look it up"?