And obviously it's a training video, because there are no microphones in the scene, and it is in stereo: the interviewer is on the left channel, and the interviewee is on the right. What a cheesey way to do things.:)
Passenger pays Airlines for a service. Passenger expects Airlines will not give out sensitive info about themselves. Both agree to terms of employment, and money is exchanged.
How is this very different?
It is different because the government has virtually infinite resources to incarcerate your ass. Terrorism has changed our government such that the bill of rights doesn't exist anymore, if you haven't noticed.
What about the windows and doors? RF goes through them too. I could just see somebody wallpapering their ceiling also. (It's such a lovely print though!)
I really think this is intended for installations such as NSA which have no windows, and are located in the depths of hell.
I have done some coding even down at the assembly level, but I'm not sure about the logistics of this...
What about a distributed server? a GPL'ed chat program without a central server. Seems like a good idea to me... maybe I'm missing something though. use each client to handle server tasks... intelligent load balancing code...
The art or work of a poet. Poems regarded as forming a division of literature. The poetic works of a given author, group, nation, or kind. A piece of literature written in meter; verse. Prose that resembles a poem in some respect, as in form or sound. The essence or characteristic quality of a poem. A quality that suggests poetry, as in grace, beauty, or harmony: the poetry of the dancer's movements.
Poetry needs METER. RHYTHM. This tripe has none of it. It doesn't have to rhyme, but it needs METER.
It has been my experience that if you use a combination of wireless and wired technology (ie, a carrier pigeon tied to a really long string so you can pull it back really fast--the cats really love to chase the carcass, but you'll get your data back without incident).
In a related breaking story, scientists in Bogota have discovered that with an infinite lifespan, people tend to have longer and longer nose and ear hairs, and begin wearing tissue boxes instead of shoes.
Sadly, I wholeheartedly agree with you. If I had the energy I would mod you up. The reason warfare exists is not because of religion, or policy, as most people think. It is because of homophobia. Just let all those men who make "Soldier" status on the ASVAB fuck each other at 6 am instead of doing pushups, and let the rest of us with brains continue to try to eliminate the ENTIRE human race.:)
Does anyone remember going to concerts with a portable cassette recorder even though it was illegal? Same concept here.
These days, at a major concert, the equipment can be discovered at the gate. THUS, preventing the NEEDLESS choking of our legal system with civil-turned-criminal matters. DUH. The more criminal law we create, the more we pay for content, even if EVERYONE adheres to the law.
It has been my finding as well that the cheap foil is what kills them. one pinhole in the label destroys it, and if you WRITE TOO HARD on the surface.. (try it yourself)... that nullifies the CDR.
Posters... Has anyone tried using Scotchguard (tm) or a similar aerosol type resin on the top surface of the CD? The only time my Memorex 700mb blanks fail is when i press too hard with a pen.. I always use a Sharpie to write on them.
The ridiculosity of this is getting out of hand. ISPs should not be responsible for this, any more than common carriers should be responsible for listening in on the voice transmissions on their copper or fiber for potential terrorist threats. This country is lost.
The *issue* here is that if litigation is going to be the order of the day, then small ISPs will be SQUASHED. If the burden lies upon the ISP, then it will loosen competition, so that only the largest ISPs (Verizon, the baby Bells, the common carriers) will be able to defend these ridiculous lawsuits. The ISP should NOT have to worry about its customers' activities. They are providing a SERVICE... nothing else.
Let's use an analogy. Imagine the year 2300.
Imagine a cell phone with close to perfect translation (A/D, with a bandwidth and sampling rate greater than CD). I send a song that I like to Joe Blow, for his opinion. Obvious copyright violation, under current laws.
Imagine now, that the common carrier of the phone service is responsible for the mutiny of the masses. The economic model devised by excessive and frivolous litigation raises prices on technology services in GENERAL.
In short, carriers should not be responsible for investigating the deeds of their customers! It's heresy! This seemed VERY clear 10 years ago. To stifle a technology that is so clearly beneficial is LUDICROUS. Copyright laws exist for a reason... to ensure that the owner makes money. Now that the ability to copy almost anything is ubiquitous, and people have demonstrated time and time again that they have no respect for the law, it would seem that copyright law should be REFORMED. If the majority of people don't agree with the law, change it!
I think most people here would agree that once you buy a CD, or a song from the internet, you should be able to listen to it a BILLION times if you want, and PLAY it for any ONE of your friends that you deem fit to hear it! I sometimes wonder... Does it matter whether I invite a friend over to hear a new album, or whether I stream the audio to him by changing the audio properties in Volume Control (in Windows) to stereo mix, so that rather than selecting microphone, you select WAV out?
I'm totally confounded by the greed in this world. Artists deserve to make a living, and I fully support them, but it ain't gonna happen if they're affiliated with the RIAA. The RIAA is a child molester, pure and simple.
I think you're totally off. It's about the music, sure. But at the same time, it's a music industry or a music business, neither are music philanthropy.
I think you are the one who doesn't understand. Music is most certainly not an industry, and until the last century, it never was. Music is an emotional release for the artist, and hopefully for the listeners. It's not a 'profession' as you put it. It's art. Art is not work. Art flows, and art engulfs those who GET it.
The very fact that you had to go to an art school tells me that you intend to make a business out of whatever talent you might have, rather than focusing on the thing that matters: making GOOD art. Money DESTROYS art. A starving artist will ALWAYS write better stuff than someone who is getting paid (anything.. even if it's just 40k a year).
You have no clue as to what art means. Art is the expression of emotion, and when artists are completely pacified, with tons of money, there is no emotion left. they are PACIFIED, and there is no more art.
Zero monitoring is done for "performance management"--all that is handled through an employee's management chain. The expectation is that employees get all their work done. If they deliver good work on time, who CARES how much they surf?
Couldn't agree more. I have been in almost every sort of job imaginable, been in almost every position imaginable. The most insidious factor in making a bad employee is a bad manager. Every job I've ever taken, I have been faced with at least a few issues with management. Nothing short of Satan will make an employee unhappy faster than management asking them to not to do something that they themselves do relentlessly.
However, I always make sure I do my job. Of course, stupidity angers me, but the smartest way to deal with management on *stupid* issues is to play them like they're a card game. Learn them, play by the rules, and after a while, when you've proven your viability, play a trump card: blackmail them. Everyone has something to hide. Catch them playing solitaire or something... it doesn't matter. just the general idea will keep their claws out of you. That is the KEY to job security:)
Seriously!
This is very shallow reasoning, but unfortunately very common. When the line between animals and humans is blurred, treating humans as animals becomes ethically justifiable.
First of all, I am very loose with my ethics, but I agree with you for different reasons.
Last time I checked, I wasn't a plant. Humans are animals. Believing ourselves to be something greater than an animal is simple hubris. I don't mean to discount your ethics or morality, but it is just a fact of life. We are animals. We have no more right to live than a quark, or a TCP packet.
That being said, I agree with what you say about human commodity. However, the key here is that people are oft-times revolutionary. If bad things happen, long enough, the greater good will prevail. Passivity is the nurturer of corruption, and that's exactly what happened in Nazi Germany. The Jews didn't believe they had the right by God to bring vengeance upon the regime. It wasn't so much ignorance, because everyone knew what was going on; it was simple fear (rightfully so).
Hitler was a scared little man, and it took the world a while to realize the potential danger of his flimsy charisma. But the point here is that he was more scared of revolt. His father, and his father's faith, I think was what he really hated and feared.
THAT being said, I think cloning humans for any purpose is a waste of time and energy. Three scenarios:
1) Harvesting of organs
Absolutely sickening--No one would ever stand for it.
2) For infertile parents who want to have a child.
Again, sickening. There are thousands of children who need homes already. No need to create more.
3) Science.
This is the one that bothers me the least, but I still think every medical revelation possible can be achieved without bringing new lifeforms in this world. Just think how you would feel on your 7th birthday, when instead of learning that Santa Claus doesn't exist, you learned that you were a clone, grown to harvest organs for someone just like you in Canada, or perhaps to be studied for your entire life in captivity.
--
Conclusion: No good uses of cloning can be determined.
However, and like another poster mentioned, I am not an animal rights freak, but to lambast upon how we're better than sheep is outrageous. We share the world with a multitude of organisms, and we are no more 'special' than they are. If they were not here, we would not be either, because we systematically slaughter most of the edible ones, and eat them. (plants included, for you vegetarians).
Sometimes, I think science should be abolished. In the end, it makes it easier for us to hurt ourselves. Medical technology is just chasing chemistry and physics around with a yardstick, patching the wounds.
so why does livephish think people will pay for what they A) can get free already from Etree or B) will almost certainly end up on Etree anyway?
Because it's coming off the soundboard, you dolt. It's not a microphone recording they're offering. It's a mixed, high quality live recording.
Having said that, I must now rip off my testicles for contributing to this discussion. Phish is the worst band I've ever heard. His lack of vocal range, and the droning melodies are mind numbing.
I'm not a networking expert or anything, but to subvert the ISP/lobbyist's fight against P2P, couldn't the P2P software just use port 80? It seems to me, that unless someone is running a web server on the machine they use for P2P, that using port 80 or 21, or something, would effectively prevent the ISPs from denying service. I understand that an http client or server running simultaneously would disrupt the traffic, but isn't there a way to do filtering or something?
I'm sure I haven't thought this out completely, because I'm sure this would have already been done if it would work. However, I'd like to know why it couldn't.
This steps all over your right to confront your accuser [cornell.edu]. If the company refuses to be identified in public, all the suspect has to do is claim her right to face his accuser at trial. If she is denied and convicted, she has excellent grounds to have the conviction overturned on appeal.
This is true. However:
1) Most people who get slapped with a FEDERAL charge (which is a lot different than a state charge), don't have the money to retain an attorney (on the order of at least $10,000 dollars, and that's not even to go to trial--more like 20,000 if you plead not guilty).
2) The feds won't even press charges unless they KNOW they can convict you, and unless they KNOW you won't win. I was convicted of a federal crime, and it wasn't even a big time thing. However, the mountain of evidence that my public defender showed me was about a FOOT high (paper, mind you), and that's not counting the wiretap evidence.
3) The way the plea bargaining system works in federal court is that the Federal prosecutor ALWAYS tacks on extra charges. This is so that some can be removed if the defendant wants to plea.
4) The stress involved from being charged with a federal crime *almost* always dictates that the defendant will plead guilty, because of [1], and [2]. Federal sentencing guidelines DICTATE that if there is a mountain of evidence against you, and you try to FIGHT it and LOSE, then you will get a HELL of a lot more time in prison than if you just plead guilty in the first place.
I didn't see anyone comment about the typical Microsoft EULA, so pardon me if this is redundant, but it typically [paraphrased] goes something like this:
ANY MICROSOFT APPLICATION CAN ONLY BE RUN ON A MICROSOFT OS.
Do you agree? yes/no/cancel
at least, that's what I've been seeing lately in their EULAs. It's a shame, but at this point, EULAs are completely legally binding.
I don't understand why linux developers are putting so much time into supporting Microsoft APIs, when they COULD be spending their time optimizing software for linux. It's quite ridiculous.
Now, I know the argument about wanting to make it easier to switch to linux for the average joe. However, we all know exactly what Microsoft will do when people start running their software with linux on a grand scale. They won't let it happen.
Let's say Microsoft Office X.XX works on SuSE Linux. The next release, Y.YY will NOT WORK, and it will be intentional. The "average joe" doesn't want to keep upgrading his distro. I consider myself a geek, and *I* don't want to keep fiddling with shit. I just want the GODDAMN thing to work... I've lost my passion for computers.
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And obviously it's a training video, because there are no microphones in the scene, and it is in stereo: the interviewer is on the left channel, and the interviewee is on the right. What a cheesey way to do things. :)
Passenger pays Airlines for a service. Passenger expects Airlines will not give out sensitive info about themselves. Both agree to terms of employment, and money is exchanged.
How is this very different?
It is different because the government has virtually infinite resources to incarcerate your ass. Terrorism has changed our government such that the bill of rights doesn't exist anymore, if you haven't noticed.
Sigh... please try to pay attention.
What about the windows and doors? RF goes through them too. I could just see somebody wallpapering their ceiling also. (It's such a lovely print though!)
I really think this is intended for installations such as NSA which have no windows, and are located in the depths of hell.
Do you realize how much more taxes we'd all be paying if your plan went into effect?
I have done some coding even down at the assembly level, but I'm not sure about the logistics of this...
What about a distributed server? a GPL'ed chat program without a central server. Seems like a good idea to me... maybe I'm missing something though. use each client to handle server tasks... intelligent load balancing code...
Poetry:
The art or work of a poet.
Poems regarded as forming a division of literature.
The poetic works of a given author, group, nation, or kind.
A piece of literature written in meter; verse.
Prose that resembles a poem in some respect, as in form or sound.
The essence or characteristic quality of a poem.
A quality that suggests poetry, as in grace, beauty, or harmony: the poetry of the dancer's movements.
Poetry needs METER. RHYTHM. This tripe has none of it. It doesn't have to rhyme, but it needs METER.
It has been my experience that if you use a combination of wireless and wired technology (ie, a carrier pigeon tied to a really long string so you can pull it back really fast--the cats really love to chase the carcass, but you'll get your data back without incident).
In a related breaking story, scientists in Bogota have discovered that with an infinite lifespan, people tend to have longer and longer nose and ear hairs, and begin wearing tissue boxes instead of shoes.
My mood was chipper. Too chipper.
The simple lexicography of these redundant statements begs a different tale.
and using one of the 8-conductor wires Wow.
Sadly, I wholeheartedly agree with you. If I had the energy I would mod you up. The reason warfare exists is not because of religion, or policy, as most people think. It is because of homophobia. Just let all those men who make "Soldier" status on the ASVAB fuck each other at 6 am instead of doing pushups, and let the rest of us with brains continue to try to eliminate the ENTIRE human race. :)
Cheers
Does anyone remember going to concerts with a portable cassette recorder even though it was illegal? Same concept here.
These days, at a major concert, the equipment can be discovered at the gate. THUS, preventing the NEEDLESS choking of our legal system with civil-turned-criminal matters. DUH. The more criminal law we create, the more we pay for content, even if EVERYONE adheres to the law.
In "real" terms, it's impossible to remedy.
Then you say,
In practical terms, there are no technical solutions, but there are solutions nonetheless.
My guess is this poster is just listening to himself talk, kinda like me.
It has been my finding as well that the cheap foil is what kills them. one pinhole in the label destroys it, and if you WRITE TOO HARD on the surface.. (try it yourself)... that nullifies the CDR.
Posters... Has anyone tried using Scotchguard (tm) or a similar aerosol type resin on the top surface of the CD? The only time my Memorex 700mb blanks fail is when i press too hard with a pen.. I always use a Sharpie to write on them.
The ridiculosity of this is getting out of hand. ISPs should not be responsible for this, any more than common carriers should be responsible for listening in on the voice transmissions on their copper or fiber for potential terrorist threats. This country is lost.
The *issue* here is that if litigation is going to be the order of the day, then small ISPs will be SQUASHED. If the burden lies upon the ISP, then it will loosen competition, so that only the largest ISPs (Verizon, the baby Bells, the common carriers) will be able to defend these ridiculous lawsuits. The ISP should NOT have to worry about its customers' activities. They are providing a SERVICE... nothing else.
Let's use an analogy. Imagine the year 2300.
Imagine a cell phone with close to perfect translation (A/D, with a bandwidth and sampling rate greater than CD). I send a song that I like to Joe Blow, for his opinion. Obvious copyright violation, under current laws.
Imagine now, that the common carrier of the phone service is responsible for the mutiny of the masses. The economic model devised by excessive and frivolous litigation raises prices on technology services in GENERAL.
In short, carriers should not be responsible for investigating the deeds of their customers! It's heresy! This seemed VERY clear 10 years ago. To stifle a technology that is so clearly beneficial is LUDICROUS. Copyright laws exist for a reason... to ensure that the owner makes money. Now that the ability to copy almost anything is ubiquitous, and people have demonstrated time and time again that they have no respect for the law, it would seem that copyright law should be REFORMED. If the majority of people don't agree with the law, change it!
I think most people here would agree that once you buy a CD, or a song from the internet, you should be able to listen to it a BILLION times if you want, and PLAY it for any ONE of your friends that you deem fit to hear it! I sometimes wonder... Does it matter whether I invite a friend over to hear a new album, or whether I stream the audio to him by changing the audio properties in Volume Control (in Windows) to stereo mix, so that rather than selecting microphone, you select WAV out?
I'm totally confounded by the greed in this world. Artists deserve to make a living, and I fully support them, but it ain't gonna happen if they're affiliated with the RIAA. The RIAA is a child molester, pure and simple.
I think you're totally off. It's about the music, sure. But at the same time, it's a music industry or a music business, neither are music philanthropy.
I think you are the one who doesn't understand. Music is most certainly not an industry, and until the last century, it never was. Music is an emotional release for the artist, and hopefully for the listeners. It's not a 'profession' as you put it. It's art. Art is not work. Art flows, and art engulfs those who GET it.
The very fact that you had to go to an art school tells me that you intend to make a business out of whatever talent you might have, rather than focusing on the thing that matters: making GOOD art. Money DESTROYS art. A starving artist will ALWAYS write better stuff than someone who is getting paid (anything.. even if it's just 40k a year).
You have no clue as to what art means. Art is the expression of emotion, and when artists are completely pacified, with tons of money, there is no emotion left. they are PACIFIED, and there is no more art.
Make no mistake about it. It is your ex's soul, and all of us other poor saps' ex-girlfriends souls.
NASA really needs to come clean on this cover-up.
Anyone who enjoys drinking would realize that the volume of a washing machine would not do well for waste control. Party foul!
Zero monitoring is done for "performance management"--all that is handled through an employee's management chain. The expectation is that employees get all their work done. If they deliver good work on time, who CARES how much they surf? Couldn't agree more. I have been in almost every sort of job imaginable, been in almost every position imaginable. The most insidious factor in making a bad employee is a bad manager. Every job I've ever taken, I have been faced with at least a few issues with management. Nothing short of Satan will make an employee unhappy faster than management asking them to not to do something that they themselves do relentlessly. However, I always make sure I do my job. Of course, stupidity angers me, but the smartest way to deal with management on *stupid* issues is to play them like they're a card game. Learn them, play by the rules, and after a while, when you've proven your viability, play a trump card: blackmail them. Everyone has something to hide. Catch them playing solitaire or something... it doesn't matter. just the general idea will keep their claws out of you. That is the KEY to job security :)
Seriously!
This is very shallow reasoning, but unfortunately very common. When the line between animals and humans is blurred, treating humans as animals becomes ethically justifiable.
First of all, I am very loose with my ethics, but I agree with you for different reasons.
Last time I checked, I wasn't a plant. Humans are animals. Believing ourselves to be something greater than an animal is simple hubris. I don't mean to discount your ethics or morality, but it is just a fact of life. We are animals. We have no more right to live than a quark, or a TCP packet.
That being said, I agree with what you say about human commodity. However, the key here is that people are oft-times revolutionary. If bad things happen, long enough, the greater good will prevail. Passivity is the nurturer of corruption, and that's exactly what happened in Nazi Germany. The Jews didn't believe they had the right by God to bring vengeance upon the regime. It wasn't so much ignorance, because everyone knew what was going on; it was simple fear (rightfully so).
Hitler was a scared little man, and it took the world a while to realize the potential danger of his flimsy charisma. But the point here is that he was more scared of revolt. His father, and his father's faith, I think was what he really hated and feared.
THAT being said, I think cloning humans for any purpose is a waste of time and energy. Three scenarios:
1) Harvesting of organs
Absolutely sickening--No one would ever stand for it.
2) For infertile parents who want to have a child.
Again, sickening. There are thousands of children who need homes already. No need to create more.
3) Science.
This is the one that bothers me the least, but I still think every medical revelation possible can be achieved without bringing new lifeforms in this world. Just think how you would feel on your 7th birthday, when instead of learning that Santa Claus doesn't exist, you learned that you were a clone, grown to harvest organs for someone just like you in Canada, or perhaps to be studied for your entire life in captivity.
--
Conclusion: No good uses of cloning can be determined.
However, and like another poster mentioned, I am not an animal rights freak, but to lambast upon how we're better than sheep is outrageous. We share the world with a multitude of organisms, and we are no more 'special' than they are. If they were not here, we would not be either, because we systematically slaughter most of the edible ones, and eat them. (plants included, for you vegetarians).
Sometimes, I think science should be abolished. In the end, it makes it easier for us to hurt ourselves. Medical technology is just chasing chemistry and physics around with a yardstick, patching the wounds.
so why does livephish think people will pay for what they A) can get free already from Etree or B) will almost certainly end up on Etree anyway?
Because it's coming off the soundboard, you dolt. It's not a microphone recording they're offering. It's a mixed, high quality live recording.
Having said that, I must now rip off my testicles for contributing to this discussion. Phish is the worst band I've ever heard. His lack of vocal range, and the droning melodies are mind numbing.
I'm not a networking expert or anything, but to subvert the ISP/lobbyist's fight against P2P, couldn't the P2P software just use port 80? It seems to me, that unless someone is running a web server on the machine they use for P2P, that using port 80 or 21, or something, would effectively prevent the ISPs from denying service.
I understand that an http client or server running simultaneously would disrupt the traffic, but isn't there a way to do filtering or something?
I'm sure I haven't thought this out completely, because I'm sure this would have already been done if it would work. However, I'd like to know why it couldn't.
Not trying to be an idiot. I just am.
on an ashtray or a hammer for Buzz Aldrin.
This steps all over your right to confront your accuser [cornell.edu]. If the company refuses to be identified in public, all the suspect has to do is claim her right to face his accuser at trial. If she is denied and convicted, she has excellent grounds to have the conviction overturned on appeal.
This is true. However:
1) Most people who get slapped with a FEDERAL charge (which is a lot different than a state charge), don't have the money to retain an attorney (on the order of at least $10,000 dollars, and that's not even to go to trial--more like 20,000 if you plead not guilty).
2) The feds won't even press charges unless they KNOW they can convict you, and unless they KNOW you won't win. I was convicted of a federal crime, and it wasn't even a big time thing. However, the mountain of evidence that my public defender showed me was about a FOOT high (paper, mind you), and that's not counting the wiretap evidence.
3) The way the plea bargaining system works in federal court is that the Federal prosecutor ALWAYS tacks on extra charges. This is so that some can be removed if the defendant wants to plea.
4) The stress involved from being charged with a federal crime *almost* always dictates that the defendant will plead guilty, because of [1], and [2]. Federal sentencing guidelines DICTATE that if there is a mountain of evidence against you, and you try to FIGHT it and LOSE, then you will get a HELL of a lot more time in prison than if you just plead guilty in the first place.
Just my experience.
I didn't see anyone comment about the typical Microsoft EULA, so pardon me if this is redundant, but it typically [paraphrased] goes something like this:
:)
ANY MICROSOFT APPLICATION CAN ONLY BE RUN ON A MICROSOFT OS.
Do you agree? yes/no/cancel
at least, that's what I've been seeing lately in their EULAs. It's a shame, but at this point, EULAs are completely legally binding.
I don't understand why linux developers are putting so much time into supporting Microsoft APIs, when they COULD be spending their time optimizing software for linux. It's quite ridiculous.
Now, I know the argument about wanting to make it easier to switch to linux for the average joe. However, we all know exactly what Microsoft will do when people start running their software with linux on a grand scale. They won't let it happen.
Let's say Microsoft Office X.XX works on SuSE Linux. The next release, Y.YY will NOT WORK, and it will be intentional. The "average joe" doesn't want to keep upgrading his distro. I consider myself a geek, and *I* don't want to keep fiddling with shit. I just want the GODDAMN thing to work... I've lost my passion for computers.
It all seems so pointless now
I'm so bitter.