There are multiple types of rights. For example, there are the legal rights that are granted by the political system under which you are governed. If your legal rights are violated, then the government is supposed to enforce your legal rights. I know it doesn't always work that way, which is sad when the right being violated is a good and sensible right.
There are human or moral rights, but unless there's some entity is enforcing them(Wrath of GOD? Or maybe a superhero? ), they're imaginary rights, don't be surprised if those rights are violated. Some, maybe all governments probably violate some human rights. I don't know if everyone agrees what those human rights really are, if they did, then maybe we would see more revolutions?
If you live in anarchy, the only rights you have are the ones you personally have the ability to enforce. We might whine about not having enough freedom, but if we lived in anarchy, I think we might realize that in order to have freedom, we need a government that will stop others(bullies?) from oppressing us, and that in doing so it will have to oppress the oppressors, who in turn will whine about their freedom being taken away. Without oppression, there's anarchy, and anarchy sucks, but hopefully the oppression is only against bad behavior. Arggh! I can't seem to seem to explain this part well! Will some benevolent and articulate person help me on this?
I agree that the infrastructure is already spread thin. I often telecommute and I can tell when schools over and the kids hit the internet. And now we are talking about making it easier to have jobless people stressing the network all day. And to make it worse, those of us paying full price for the same service would be subsidizing others reducing the quality of our service.
It's not a right, it's a service. If you want it, you pay for it. If money is short, then you might have to cut something out of your budget, like alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, etc.
I can telecommute to work from home while my daughter plays in the backyard with her friends. I can't do that at the park. People in sensible countries obviously don't have to work, I wish we had that luxury.
Public parks have their own problems. Since even lowlife scumbags are allowed there you have to deal with litter, dog poop, broken beer bottles. What is with the broken beer bottles? This is the kind of stupidity that will cause glass beer bottles to be banned! Public parks are ruined by the lowlife losers.
Central Park in New York had a serious crime problem until they gave it it's own police department. Maybe sensible countries don't have criminals?
This isn't a suburb, it's Philadelphia, it has one of the highest murder rates in the country.If a parent thinks it's okay for their child to be wondering around Philadelphia at night, they obviously don't care if that child makes it back home.
That is not a fair comparison. We decided how to count and add and such, so we can say that yes, 2+2=4. However, science is not something that we decided to dictate as true. It is something that we have to test and study and try to find explanations for why stuff is the way it is. There is no "truth" in science. Just a series of ever-more precise approximations.
Now, there is another vector which I do not want to entertain even as a thought, a band of female Amazonian like Neanderthals running about Middle East raping Homo Sapiens.
I'm sure there were plenty of Homo Sapiens who fantasized about that!
Maybe Homo Sapiens were breeding like rabbits, while the Neanderthals were disciplined. Except for the ones chasing after the "hot to trot" Homo Sapiens women!
Does that mean that women that have 10+ kids with multiple fathers are genetically superior to women who know how to use birth control? And might even know the name of the men they have sex with?
10,000 years from now, Idiocracy will be real and people will refer to the smart people as being genetically inferior because they were wiped out.
I worked night shift, 00:00-08:30, and I agree, it seems okay at first, especially if you are a bachelor. But sleeping during the day sucks, especially during the summer. People you know can't seem to understand that your sleeping hours are different and are always waking you up.
While I understand there are times when you have to slam the brakes, I wonder how many times an accident is caused by someone hitting the brakes hard when there are no traffic lights or pedestrian crossing. I've been rear-ended twice when someone slammed the brakes, then the next cars slams the brakes, I barely stop in time, then the person behind me doesn't stop in time.
Maybe it would be easier to blink if some drivers didn't test our reflexes so much.
Any technology advancements that can challenge religious beliefs are taboo!
If bringing someone back from cryopreservation was made possible then it would raise serious questions about the state of the human soul while the body was in stasis. Teleportation also challenges the existance of the human soul. In "Star Trek", during dematerialization, is the body considered gone, freeing the soul to pass on, and then during rematerialization does the soul relize it's mistake and comes running back?
Genetic engineering is considered playing God by many. While we might not be designing our next generation, we do check for genetic defects, and then potentially aborting when they are detected. Eventually, with in vitro fertilization, we can selectively choose the ones we like best, which is getting close to genetically engineering our kids.
There's still a lot of movies they can do remakes of!
"Gone with the Wind"
"Citizen Kane"
"The Searchers"
"The Godfather"
"Casablanca"
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
"Blade Runner"
"Metropolis"
I think Hollywood should seriously consider doing a remake of these movies in 3D! I'm really hoping someone in Hollywood reads this and starts thinking about it.
I was thinking of the situation where a new vice president comes in and decides that the DB2 databases on AIX need to be migrated to Oracle on Solaris because that's what they were running at his previous company. If you have Oracle running on AIX, a new DBA might come along and insist that it should be migrated to Solaris, because in his experience it would be faster.
New vps also like changing PC vendors to the one they used at their previous company.
HIPAA(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
For some reason I often think "Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act", which seems more appropriate. There is a lot of emphasis on privacy, and yet it's not in the acronym. I must confess that remembering what the acronym stood for was a question I got wrong, but I got the rest right.
If you wan't to start a fun/interesting project that you didn't expect any revenue from, it would make more sense to use free software. MySQL is a popular choice for web applications and there is a lot of freely available documentation and examples available. Many people have been successful doing it, so it's a proven path that works.
Oracle is expensive. It would have cost a fortune to start Facebook with Oracle, and I can't imagine what it would cost them now. But even if they have to hire a ton of experts to convert to Oracle( assuming that is the best thing to do...) They can probably be funded by the money saved by not using Oracle over the past couple of years.
Maybe Oracle would have been a mistake, there are companies migrating from Oracle to DB2/DB2 to Oracle/Oracle to Sybase/Sybase to MySQL/Mainframe to AIX/AIX to Solaris/Solaris to Linux/etc.. It seems like nobody can agree to the best hardware/OS/database solution, but there are plenty of people who swear that the solution they know is the best one.
I work at a health insurance company and everyone in the company was required to take HIPPA training. It was very thorough, and I assume everyone else in the Health Industry had to go through something similar. On top of that, the pharmacy reminds you of it and whenever I see a new doctor I get to read yet more documentation regarding HIPPA and then sign it.
The employees involved should have known they were doing something that was that was not only illegal, but that it would endanger their career.
If you think about it, there is a lot of private data that is ultimately protected by people acting professionally and not disclosing that information to the wrong people. There is no way to proactively stop that, other than hiring the right people, doing background checks, and impressing upon them the importance of following the rules regarding privacy.
Then the United States totally messed up! If this goes to court, it will make it clear to the World that Visa/Mastercard can be used to punish any entity that defies the U.S. or Visa/Mastercard or the banks affiliated with Visa/Mastercard. Considering how much the U.S. is loved by the rest of the World, it will probably help promote a non-U.S. based credit card company that is backed by the E.U. over Visa/Mastercard.
The publicity will probably gain more financial support for Wikileaks than they lost and the U.S. will look even more like fascists trying to take over the world. I'm embarrassed by how stupid our government can be sometimes.
They should settle out of court, ASAP! It's a win/win for Wikileaks. The more they fight it, the more people are going to hate us.
Actually, in my state(New Hampshire), there is no waiting period. You can just walk in and get a gun, if you're a resident. So, I guess it is like any other shop.
I was going to point out that Muammar Gadhafi must have got around this, but then I saw that it was only recently that he was put on the list. I would have thought he was on the list for decades? Was he on and off the list multiple times? How much does that cost?
I have heard something similar said about old dictionaries that are now in the public domain. If someone decides to edit/censor parts of it then they are responsible for the parts they don't censor. That's why it was presented in it's original unedited form.
Visa and Mastercard are payment processors, it's not their place to decide where one can and can't buy things and it's not their place to make moral decisions on behalf of their clients.
And it's not your place to decide who a company can and can't do business with, based on your own moral and political views. If you don't like the policies of the company,or feel that they are preventing you from paying for something you would like to, you have the right and opportunity to go pay through someone else.
That's a very unfair statement, Visa/Mastercard are a duopoly and it's not like there are a glut of other international options. The easier you make it possible to make a money transaction, they more likely it is that it will happen. You can't expect everyone to jump through hoops, some will make it happen, others will say screw it, and then you've lost revenue from that group. Isn't that why some merchants offer multiple cards, to make it more likely that their potential customer can make the transaction.
You can't have companies working to control the market and making everyone think that they are the best option and then when they finally control the market start using their power to control the world. There are anti-trust laws for that.
Visa/Mastercard have already been through multiple anti-trust cases, they're showing serious signs of corruption. They seem to have no problem making transactions on behalf of nearly all porn sites(even the ones that are beyond my limit to handle) and even malware sites. I wouldn't be surprised if high profile scumbags/criminals used them. So, why did they suddenly decide to stop Wikileaks? If it was pressure from the U.S. government, then they shouldn't be used internationally, they should be U.S. only! If they did it because they're controlled by banks and those banks are desperate to stop Wikileaks, obviuosly those banks have something really dirty to hide. Which makes this lawsuit a potentially major win for Wikileaks! I would love to see the rational for what they did.
When I look at PC prices, they come with MS Windows and it doesn't seem like an option. If I was able to buy the PC and have them remove Windows and knock it off the price and still support the PC, I would do it in a millisecond!
Seems to me that the PC manufacturer is paying to install Windows and then they recoup the cost when the PC is purchased. If they got a commission, then that just means they have to recoup less. Unless you meant that the senior executive that worked the deal with MS is getting a secret commission to his Swiss bank account?
When acid rain was a concern there were skeptics who doubted the cause of acid rain or whether it was really a bad thing, and I'm sure many of them were funded by big companies.
When smog was a concern, there were plenty of skeptics who were probably being funded by Oil and Coal companies.
When it was thought that tobacco might be causing lung cancer, there were skeptics funded by the Tobacco companies.
The list is endless, there is no shortage of weasels who will pose as an expert and say anything you want for a sum of money, this is no big surprise.
But, while the weasel has the excuse that they were paid to say nonsense, what excuse do the people who believe the skeptics have? Is there some type of intellectual trait missing from their makeup that prevents them from seeing patterns of repeated lies from big companies? I've know some otherwise fairly intelligent people who believe every lie uttered by a certain political party. Any kind of reasoning was useless, it felt like I was debating religion, and you know haw useless that is!
What makes you think they won't put Hulu and Youtube on it? They already have a NetFlix channel. I don't see the point though, Blu-ray players and TVs are already coming out with the ability to browse the web, use Hulu+/Netflix/Youtube/etc, and even DLNA. I'm sure they'll do it anyway, despite the redundancy.
Nintendo is just competing with the other consoles. Sony and MS finally stopped laughing at the Wii controls and realized they needed to come up with something to compete. In turn, Nintendo is improving the graphics and processor speed to compete with Sony and MS. Adding better graphics and processing speed years after Sony and MS did allows them to do the same for a lower cost and not have to sell the consoles at a loss.
I agree, Red Steel 2 was an awesome game on the Wii!
I lost track of the number of times I played "Resident Evil 4" on the Gamecube and when the Wii version came out it was even better. The aiming was more intuitive and made the game feel more real.
After using the Wii, FPS on other systems where you have to move the reticule via joystick before firing seems archaic. I love being able to move with the analog control in my left hand, while shooting at targets with my right. If I had to use a joystick control for both hands it would destroy the immersion effect and instead turn it into a math problem, which is fun, but not as much fun!
Another effect I like is when some games like "Silent Hill: Shattered Memories" and the Resident Evil shooter-on-rails games use the wiimote as a flashlight! I was totally blown away by how real it felt! You hear a noise, move the flashlight and suddenly there's a zombie in your face and you press the trigger as a reflex response!!
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There are multiple types of rights. For example, there are the legal rights that are granted by the political system under which you are governed. If your legal rights are violated, then the government is supposed to enforce your legal rights. I know it doesn't always work that way, which is sad when the right being violated is a good and sensible right.
There are human or moral rights, but unless there's some entity is enforcing them(Wrath of GOD? Or maybe a superhero? ), they're imaginary rights, don't be surprised if those rights are violated. Some, maybe all governments probably violate some human rights. I don't know if everyone agrees what those human rights really are, if they did, then maybe we would see more revolutions?
If you live in anarchy, the only rights you have are the ones you personally have the ability to enforce. We might whine about not having enough freedom, but if we lived in anarchy, I think we might realize that in order to have freedom, we need a government that will stop others(bullies?) from oppressing us, and that in doing so it will have to oppress the oppressors, who in turn will whine about their freedom being taken away. Without oppression, there's anarchy, and anarchy sucks, but hopefully the oppression is only against bad behavior. Arggh! I can't seem to seem to explain this part well! Will some benevolent and articulate person help me on this?
I agree that the infrastructure is already spread thin. I often telecommute and I can tell when schools over and the kids hit the internet. And now we are talking about making it easier to have jobless people stressing the network all day. And to make it worse, those of us paying full price for the same service would be subsidizing others reducing the quality of our service.
It's not a right, it's a service. If you want it, you pay for it. If money is short, then you might have to cut something out of your budget, like alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, etc.
I can telecommute to work from home while my daughter plays in the backyard with her friends. I can't do that at the park. People in sensible countries obviously don't have to work, I wish we had that luxury.
Public parks have their own problems. Since even lowlife scumbags are allowed there you have to deal with litter, dog poop, broken beer bottles. What is with the broken beer bottles? This is the kind of stupidity that will cause glass beer bottles to be banned! Public parks are ruined by the lowlife losers.
Central Park in New York had a serious crime problem until they gave it it's own police department. Maybe sensible countries don't have criminals?
This isn't a suburb, it's Philadelphia, it has one of the highest murder rates in the country.If a parent thinks it's okay for their child to be wondering around Philadelphia at night, they obviously don't care if that child makes it back home.
That is not a fair comparison. We decided how to count and add and such, so we can say that yes, 2+2=4. However, science is not something that we decided to dictate as true. It is something that we have to test and study and try to find explanations for why stuff is the way it is. There is no "truth" in science. Just a series of ever-more precise approximations.
Are you saying Mathematics is not a science?
Now, there is another vector which I do not want to entertain even as a thought, a band of female Amazonian like Neanderthals running about Middle East raping Homo Sapiens.
I'm sure there were plenty of Homo Sapiens who fantasized about that!
Maybe Homo Sapiens were breeding like rabbits, while the Neanderthals were disciplined. Except for the ones chasing after the "hot to trot" Homo Sapiens women!
Does that mean that women that have 10+ kids with multiple fathers are genetically superior to women who know how to use birth control? And might even know the name of the men they have sex with?
10,000 years from now, Idiocracy will be real and people will refer to the smart people as being genetically inferior because they were wiped out.
I worked night shift, 00:00-08:30, and I agree, it seems okay at first, especially if you are a bachelor. But sleeping during the day sucks, especially during the summer. People you know can't seem to understand that your sleeping hours are different and are always waking you up.
While I understand there are times when you have to slam the brakes, I wonder how many times an accident is caused by someone hitting the brakes hard when there are no traffic lights or pedestrian crossing. I've been rear-ended twice when someone slammed the brakes, then the next cars slams the brakes, I barely stop in time, then the person behind me doesn't stop in time.
Maybe it would be easier to blink if some drivers didn't test our reflexes so much.
Any technology advancements that can challenge religious beliefs are taboo!
If bringing someone back from cryopreservation was made possible then it would raise serious questions about the state of the human soul while the body was in stasis. Teleportation also challenges the existance of the human soul. In "Star Trek", during dematerialization, is the body considered gone, freeing the soul to pass on, and then during rematerialization does the soul relize it's mistake and comes running back?
Genetic engineering is considered playing God by many. While we might not be designing our next generation, we do check for genetic defects, and then potentially aborting when they are detected. Eventually, with in vitro fertilization, we can selectively choose the ones we like best, which is getting close to genetically engineering our kids.
I suspect all forms of power structures are vulnerable to corruption. Companies, religion, unions, and governments all have corruption problems.
If I look at the "Corruption Perceptions Index" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index , it looks like democratic governments have less issues with corruption?
I do agree that Capitalism has serious issues. http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Einstein.htm
There's still a lot of movies they can do remakes of!
I think Hollywood should seriously consider doing a remake of these movies in 3D! I'm really hoping someone in Hollywood reads this and starts thinking about it.
I was thinking of the situation where a new vice president comes in and decides that the DB2 databases on AIX need to be migrated to Oracle on Solaris because that's what they were running at his previous company. If you have Oracle running on AIX, a new DBA might come along and insist that it should be migrated to Solaris, because in his experience it would be faster.
New vps also like changing PC vendors to the one they used at their previous company.
Argghhh!
My apologies, you are correct.
HIPAA(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
For some reason I often think "Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act", which seems more appropriate. There is a lot of emphasis on privacy, and yet it's not in the acronym. I must confess that remembering what the acronym stood for was a question I got wrong, but I got the rest right.
If you wan't to start a fun/interesting project that you didn't expect any revenue from, it would make more sense to use free software. MySQL is a popular choice for web applications and there is a lot of freely available documentation and examples available. Many people have been successful doing it, so it's a proven path that works.
Oracle is expensive. It would have cost a fortune to start Facebook with Oracle, and I can't imagine what it would cost them now. But even if they have to hire a ton of experts to convert to Oracle( assuming that is the best thing to do...) They can probably be funded by the money saved by not using Oracle over the past couple of years.
Maybe Oracle would have been a mistake, there are companies migrating from Oracle to DB2/DB2 to Oracle/Oracle to Sybase/Sybase to MySQL/Mainframe to AIX/AIX to Solaris/Solaris to Linux/etc.. It seems like nobody can agree to the best hardware/OS/database solution, but there are plenty of people who swear that the solution they know is the best one.
I agree!
I work at a health insurance company and everyone in the company was required to take HIPPA training. It was very thorough, and I assume everyone else in the Health Industry had to go through something similar. On top of that, the pharmacy reminds you of it and whenever I see a new doctor I get to read yet more documentation regarding HIPPA and then sign it.
The employees involved should have known they were doing something that was that was not only illegal, but that it would endanger their career.
If you think about it, there is a lot of private data that is ultimately protected by people acting professionally and not disclosing that information to the wrong people. There is no way to proactively stop that, other than hiring the right people, doing background checks, and impressing upon them the importance of following the rules regarding privacy.
Then the United States totally messed up! If this goes to court, it will make it clear to the World that Visa/Mastercard can be used to punish any entity that defies the U.S. or Visa/Mastercard or the banks affiliated with Visa/Mastercard. Considering how much the U.S. is loved by the rest of the World, it will probably help promote a non-U.S. based credit card company that is backed by the E.U. over Visa/Mastercard.
The publicity will probably gain more financial support for Wikileaks than they lost and the U.S. will look even more like fascists trying to take over the world. I'm embarrassed by how stupid our government can be sometimes.
They should settle out of court, ASAP! It's a win/win for Wikileaks. The more they fight it, the more people are going to hate us.
Actually, in my state(New Hampshire), there is no waiting period. You can just walk in and get a gun, if you're a resident. So, I guess it is like any other shop.
I was going to point out that Muammar Gadhafi must have got around this, but then I saw that it was only recently that he was put on the list. I would have thought he was on the list for decades? Was he on and off the list multiple times? How much does that cost?
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20110311.aspx
Visa/Mastercard is considered a duopoly.
And I don't think it will be that hard, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.#Legal_proceedings , notice the usage of "Visa and Mastercard".
I agree with you! I never thought of that.
I have heard something similar said about old dictionaries that are now in the public domain. If someone decides to edit/censor parts of it then they are responsible for the parts they don't censor. That's why it was presented in it's original unedited form.
Visa and Mastercard are payment processors, it's not their place to decide where one can and can't buy things and it's not their place to make moral decisions on behalf of their clients.
And it's not your place to decide who a company can and can't do business with, based on your own moral and political views. If you don't like the policies of the company,or feel that they are preventing you from paying for something you would like to, you have the right and opportunity to go pay through someone else.
That's a very unfair statement, Visa/Mastercard are a duopoly and it's not like there are a glut of other international options. The easier you make it possible to make a money transaction, they more likely it is that it will happen. You can't expect everyone to jump through hoops, some will make it happen, others will say screw it, and then you've lost revenue from that group. Isn't that why some merchants offer multiple cards, to make it more likely that their potential customer can make the transaction.
You can't have companies working to control the market and making everyone think that they are the best option and then when they finally control the market start using their power to control the world. There are anti-trust laws for that.
Visa/Mastercard have already been through multiple anti-trust cases, they're showing serious signs of corruption. They seem to have no problem making transactions on behalf of nearly all porn sites(even the ones that are beyond my limit to handle) and even malware sites. I wouldn't be surprised if high profile scumbags/criminals used them. So, why did they suddenly decide to stop Wikileaks? If it was pressure from the U.S. government, then they shouldn't be used internationally, they should be U.S. only! If they did it because they're controlled by banks and those banks are desperate to stop Wikileaks, obviuosly those banks have something really dirty to hide. Which makes this lawsuit a potentially major win for Wikileaks! I would love to see the rational for what they did.
When I look at PC prices, they come with MS Windows and it doesn't seem like an option. If I was able to buy the PC and have them remove Windows and knock it off the price and still support the PC, I would do it in a millisecond!
Seems to me that the PC manufacturer is paying to install Windows and then they recoup the cost when the PC is purchased. If they got a commission, then that just means they have to recoup less. Unless you meant that the senior executive that worked the deal with MS is getting a secret commission to his Swiss bank account?
When acid rain was a concern there were skeptics who doubted the cause of acid rain or whether it was really a bad thing, and I'm sure many of them were funded by big companies. When smog was a concern, there were plenty of skeptics who were probably being funded by Oil and Coal companies. When it was thought that tobacco might be causing lung cancer, there were skeptics funded by the Tobacco companies.
The list is endless, there is no shortage of weasels who will pose as an expert and say anything you want for a sum of money, this is no big surprise.
But, while the weasel has the excuse that they were paid to say nonsense, what excuse do the people who believe the skeptics have? Is there some type of intellectual trait missing from their makeup that prevents them from seeing patterns of repeated lies from big companies? I've know some otherwise fairly intelligent people who believe every lie uttered by a certain political party. Any kind of reasoning was useless, it felt like I was debating religion, and you know haw useless that is!
What makes you think they won't put Hulu and Youtube on it? They already have a NetFlix channel. I don't see the point though, Blu-ray players and TVs are already coming out with the ability to browse the web, use Hulu+/Netflix/Youtube/etc, and even DLNA. I'm sure they'll do it anyway, despite the redundancy.
Nintendo is just competing with the other consoles. Sony and MS finally stopped laughing at the Wii controls and realized they needed to come up with something to compete. In turn, Nintendo is improving the graphics and processor speed to compete with Sony and MS. Adding better graphics and processing speed years after Sony and MS did allows them to do the same for a lower cost and not have to sell the consoles at a loss.
I agree, Red Steel 2 was an awesome game on the Wii!
I lost track of the number of times I played "Resident Evil 4" on the Gamecube and when the Wii version came out it was even better. The aiming was more intuitive and made the game feel more real.
After using the Wii, FPS on other systems where you have to move the reticule via joystick before firing seems archaic. I love being able to move with the analog control in my left hand, while shooting at targets with my right. If I had to use a joystick control for both hands it would destroy the immersion effect and instead turn it into a math problem, which is fun, but not as much fun!
Another effect I like is when some games like "Silent Hill: Shattered Memories" and the Resident Evil shooter-on-rails games use the wiimote as a flashlight! I was totally blown away by how real it felt! You hear a noise, move the flashlight and suddenly there's a zombie in your face and you press the trigger as a reflex response!!