If there's one or two nukes in DC, we're not in a "US defending itself against a serious attack" scenario, we're in an "end of human civilization as we know it" scenario. There's plenty of folks elsewhere in the country who will be around to push the button.
Eh. The opinionated troll ratings are no less prevalent than the "you say what I agree with, and therefore it's insightful," moderation.
I still prefer the troll rating to the overrated rating - that's just someone who want's to downmod and doesn't have the balls to call the post troll or flamebait.
Say what you will about vinyl, but there is a huge difference in the experience of reading on a computer screen that sits a foot in front of you and a paper you can hold in your lap while kicking back on the couch.
I hold my computer on my lap as a kick back on the couch - they call them laptops.
Another interesting example (and one I hadn't thought of). Of course, like you mention, it's the FCC. Also, radio and TV broadcasting is a government licensed monopoly on access to a resource held in common ownership by the state (broadcast spectrum), though I imagine it pertains to cable as well.
Still don't know if it's parallel to the blogging situation; probably the closest thing I can think of is false advertising controls.
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It's true, too - lovely, vivid colors. My Kodachrome slides still look as vivid now as they did when they were first taken.
But the MP4 codec is produced by a company that 1) holds a significant number of patents itself (which both reduces the issues with infringement, and the likelihood of lawsuits, since in that limited domain, a lawsuit war can be dangerous for everyone), and 2) would indemnify the licensing parties against infringement suits.
The license matters a whole lot less than the potential patent encumbrance for the codec.
The developers of Theora state that the codec is not encumbered by patents, but to my knowledge, there's been no legal tests of that and no intensive review of the possible areas of infringement by a patent attorney. That's a serious issue for the uptake of the codec by vendors, since they're potentially on the hook if it later turns out that the codec infringes on people patents and the holders want to be dicks about it.
This is not obvious. It's the case (as another poster notes) for financial commentary because it has implications in the securities markets.
I don't know if it's the case or not for other topics/genres of media that they're subject to the kinds of regulation that are supposedly being proposed here.
Yes, though that's rather specific to the financial industry. The securities market is more (though not nearly enough, apparently) heavily regulated than commerce at large.
Since this is the FTC and not the FEC, it doesn't seem to be as narrowly limited to a particular arena of business. Also, I don't know that similar penalties to the ones that are supposedly to be imposed on bloggers are in place for newspapers, broadcasters, etc.
Fuck you, you goddamn asshole. When you've contributed anything to human society that approaches what Ray Bradbury has, you can feel free to call him an idiot.
American workers are taxed on the dollar value of their earnings - this is typically payment in cash, but if you receive non-monetary compensation as part of your employment, you're still responsible for paying taxes on the dollar value of that compensation. The value of the gold coinage was far higher than the currency face value - which was the whole point of giving it instead of normal greenbacks or a check.
ISP's are nothing more than distributors of content. They don't create or provide content, they just distribute it.
This is correct.
But if content creators want to make money from their content, then they should do so by CHARGING FOR THEIR CONTENT.
If that doesn't work because people don't want to pay, then too fucking bad. Getting my ISP to silently charge me for their content, which I apparently didn't want enough to pay for in the first place, is fuckery and ought to be illegal.
I love it when people who don't know what they're talking about correct me. The -ess morpheme was a productive morpheme for feminine nouns in English, round about the 16th century. There are a number of borrowings into English from French that use -ess(e) which are feminine forms, but was also used to form novel feminine words, such as authoress, giantess, Jewess, patroness, poetess, priestess, quakeress, tailoress, seamstress, and songstress - none of which are borrowings.
the -ess morpheme is used incorrectly in English words like actress to indicate a female noun.
Except that, of course, there's nothing incorrect about it - outmoded perhaps, but an obvious fact in the lexicon.
Consider the cigar and the cigarette. Pirouette and pirouet.
Not sure what your point is; why not also consider: leather and leatherette (a kind of fake leather), or usher and usherette (a female usher).
Or this is just speculation and/or distorted information as the result of a long game of telephone, like the content of most articles you find posted on slashdot these days.
The same govt that plays politics with Schiavo's tubes
Whoa, there! Don't blame that political circus on the Govt as a whole - that was entirely GOP's political overreaching. Special intervention by the Governor of Florida, Bill Frist diagnosing a patient by video from the floor of the Senate, and then all the silly pandering and theatrics - that was all a play to the base.
Don't blame the entire government for the actions of some cynical jackoffs.
There is bankruptcy for municipalities, so they could possibly go bankrupt. I don't think it's ever been contemplated at a state level, though, or if that's even applicable to a whole state.
Notwithstanding any power of the court, unless the debtor consents or the plan so provides, the court may not, by any stay, order, or decree, in the case or otherwise, interfere with-- (1) any of the political or governmental powers of the debtor; (2) any of the property or revenues of the debtor; or (3) the debtor's use or enjoyment of any income-producing property.
I'd be doubtful that the bankruptcy court could do anything but modify terms of debts and contracts, and altering laws - even those pertaining to the tax codes - is probably not possible. Not a lawyer, though.
I do live in the US, and formerly worked in the wireless communications industry. I've seen the soft, shitty underbelly of the national carriers first hand, and it's an awful and very depressing sight indeed.
But once LTE takes off, then there'll finally be an even playing field for competition between carriers and the consumers will reap the benefits.
You're consenting to such monitoring/searches in exchange for use of the university's computing resources. You don't have to consent, but you also don't get to use the network.
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At least you could wipe the thing and get a thumb drive out of it.
If there's one or two nukes in DC, we're not in a "US defending itself against a serious attack" scenario, we're in an "end of human civilization as we know it" scenario. There's plenty of folks elsewhere in the country who will be around to push the button.
Eh. The opinionated troll ratings are no less prevalent than the "you say what I agree with, and therefore it's insightful," moderation.
I still prefer the troll rating to the overrated rating - that's just someone who want's to downmod and doesn't have the balls to call the post troll or flamebait.
I hold my computer on my lap as a kick back on the couch - they call them laptops.
Another interesting example (and one I hadn't thought of). Of course, like you mention, it's the FCC. Also, radio and TV broadcasting is a government licensed monopoly on access to a resource held in common ownership by the state (broadcast spectrum), though I imagine it pertains to cable as well.
Still don't know if it's parallel to the blogging situation; probably the closest thing I can think of is false advertising controls.
It's true, too - lovely, vivid colors. My Kodachrome slides still look as vivid now as they did when they were first taken.
Typically, yes, and in a case like this, you're a fool to not ask for it.
But the MP4 codec is produced by a company that 1) holds a significant number of patents itself (which both reduces the issues with infringement, and the likelihood of lawsuits, since in that limited domain, a lawsuit war can be dangerous for everyone), and 2) would indemnify the licensing parties against infringement suits.
The license matters a whole lot less than the potential patent encumbrance for the codec.
The developers of Theora state that the codec is not encumbered by patents, but to my knowledge, there's been no legal tests of that and no intensive review of the possible areas of infringement by a patent attorney. That's a serious issue for the uptake of the codec by vendors, since they're potentially on the hook if it later turns out that the codec infringes on people patents and the holders want to be dicks about it.
This is not obvious. It's the case (as another poster notes) for financial commentary because it has implications in the securities markets.
I don't know if it's the case or not for other topics/genres of media that they're subject to the kinds of regulation that are supposedly being proposed here.
Yes, though that's rather specific to the financial industry. The securities market is more (though not nearly enough, apparently) heavily regulated than commerce at large.
Since this is the FTC and not the FEC, it doesn't seem to be as narrowly limited to a particular arena of business. Also, I don't know that similar penalties to the ones that are supposedly to be imposed on bloggers are in place for newspapers, broadcasters, etc.
Ok, do members of the old media have to disclose all their potential conflicts of interest? Do they face penalties if they don't?
Fuck you, you goddamn asshole. When you've contributed anything to human society that approaches what Ray Bradbury has, you can feel free to call him an idiot.
Till then, you're still fucking worthless.
Not really much of an improvement.
American workers are taxed on the dollar value of their earnings - this is typically payment in cash, but if you receive non-monetary compensation as part of your employment, you're still responsible for paying taxes on the dollar value of that compensation. The value of the gold coinage was far higher than the currency face value - which was the whole point of giving it instead of normal greenbacks or a check.
This is correct.
But if content creators want to make money from their content, then they should do so by CHARGING FOR THEIR CONTENT.
If that doesn't work because people don't want to pay, then too fucking bad. Getting my ISP to silently charge me for their content, which I apparently didn't want enough to pay for in the first place, is fuckery and ought to be illegal.
Yep.
I love it when people who don't know what they're talking about correct me. The -ess morpheme was a productive morpheme for feminine nouns in English, round about the 16th century. There are a number of borrowings into English from French that use -ess(e) which are feminine forms, but was also used to form novel feminine words, such as authoress, giantess, Jewess, patroness, poetess, priestess, quakeress, tailoress, seamstress, and songstress - none of which are borrowings.
Except that, of course, there's nothing incorrect about it - outmoded perhaps, but an obvious fact in the lexicon.
Not sure what your point is; why not also consider:
leather and leatherette (a kind of fake leather), or
usher and usherette (a female usher).
Why exactly? Although not productive anymore, the -ess morpheme is used in English words like actress to indicate a female noun.
Why does her choice of neologism mean she's a "sub geek?"
And sequels are safer bets.
Or this is just speculation and/or distorted information as the result of a long game of telephone, like the content of most articles you find posted on slashdot these days.
Whoa, there! Don't blame that political circus on the Govt as a whole - that was entirely GOP's political overreaching. Special intervention by the Governor of Florida, Bill Frist diagnosing a patient by video from the floor of the Senate, and then all the silly pandering and theatrics - that was all a play to the base.
Don't blame the entire government for the actions of some cynical jackoffs.
There is bankruptcy for municipalities, so they could possibly go bankrupt. I don't think it's ever been contemplated at a state level, though, or if that's even applicable to a whole state.
But then there's this:
I'd be doubtful that the bankruptcy court could do anything but modify terms of debts and contracts, and altering laws - even those pertaining to the tax codes - is probably not possible. Not a lawyer, though.
I do live in the US, and formerly worked in the wireless communications industry. I've seen the soft, shitty underbelly of the national carriers first hand, and it's an awful and very depressing sight indeed.
But once LTE takes off, then there'll finally be an even playing field for competition between carriers and the consumers will reap the benefits.
*chortle*
This is totally out of left field. It's a good thing the US is chock-a-block with better wireless carriers and the iPhone is portable between them.
You're consenting to such monitoring/searches in exchange for use of the university's computing resources. You don't have to consent, but you also don't get to use the network.
Really, that's a terrible analogy.