A number of instances clearly innocent people, including computer illiterates without any computer use at all have been attacked by the RIAA. A number of articles have discussed RIAA's lack of proper renumeration to small artists. Knowingly proposing, even getting passed, unconstitutional laws is a usurpation of peoples' rights.
The RIAA is an organization that has repeatedly shown no respect for other persons or property, including the myriad recording artists, the plain intent of the Constitution, or its corpus. It is a usurper and an invader. It is an organization that needs prosecutions under RICO as well as numerous civil suits.
Most of the disputed "gift" expenses concern oilfield promoter-contractor VECO Corp and Bill Allen trying to curry favor and a false image as an efficient, low cost contractor on Stevens' house. VECO's bad planning and futzing around probably doubled VECO/Allen's out of pocket costs for rennovation, where Stevens paid approximately what the result was actually worth.
I am an Anchorage home owner with as much rennovation, a lot of oil suits hate me, and I have repeatedly voted against that old coot but this was a "people's court" lynching.
This experiment solves two problems, the additional acidity added to the ocean as CO2 transfers to water bodies and any potential food shortages possible with the next several decades of global cooling. The global cooling is predicted by independent physicists from Europe and Siberia is based on solar changes and terrestial interactions as the primary factors in climate change and is likely to be demonstrated one way or the other over the next 10 years.
UK was once an important nation. It now intermittently has leaders that suffer from lapses of memory or illusions of grandeur. See also King Canute and the waves.
Sounds like some innumerate marketing hype. Many natural gas companies have shipped their trillionth cubic foot of gas, many oil companies their billionth barrel of oil ($10 - $150 each). The mints, billions of pennies etc, the Fed billions of many denominations of bills. Many consumables, gallons of milk, frozen chickens, toilet paper, reams of paper, pencils etc.
Somethings are still 21, e.g. serving and consuming alcohol, sex in some circumstances, some kinds of guns, and misc other laws and licensing. 16 and 17 year olds are not as rare as you may think in the elite universities and colleges. I knew a fair number and it seems even more common today. Elite private schools can more easily consider accelerated admissions than many state schools that legally require graduation for matriculation whereas a private school can say 4.0, SAT 700s and calculus at 14-16, AP Scholar with some distinction, great extracurriculars and recommnedations etc sound close enough, never mind the HS graduation part. Skipping (multiple) grades has always waxed and waned with different decades in the US. Also part time students may be seen as young as 12-14 y.o. on many local college campuses.
This reminds me how poorly the Duke administration and faculty performed with respect to its students' civil rights in the lacrosse team affair. If I had a child enrolled there, with a $50,750 bill (2008-9), I would expect more careful, more effective support from the administration to fulfill the loco in parentis role.
Many top end colleges are now offering low (under $10,000, 4 year debt total) or no debt financial aid plans. Some high end colleges are debt free for all students. Certain majors many get generous grants. Many private schools offer students, in the top third of matriculants, progressively generous merit aid.
It can take lots of time, effort and preparation for one to develop the skills and track record to be a top flight student. Parents should scout these colleges out no later than the junior year, so junior can personally explore the colleges for a realistic choice. My own experience with the kids is that the middle school years were crucial to their development, success in high school, and beyond. Money spent on a private middle school to get a jump on high school may also be a great investment, both academically and for college scholarships.
Because of Wikipedia's consensus and verifiability policies, information that is emergent, only lightly covered in the news (say only one side covered) or highly politicized may get correct information "suppressed". Wikipedia has some very strong political factions that can be quite biased and dominant that produce articles which are willfully wrong. Reviewing the range of information from the Talk page may include more informed discussions as well as uninformed and crazy ones. Which is which, is sometimes not obvious to the less informed in these situations.
Long ago, one of the superusers at work tried Windows/286 and Windows/386 (nominally 2.11). Ick. Obviously OS so ugly that their own mother couldn't love and prefers to forget. Even more than ME or Vista. From Wikipeida: "Windows 2.0 was supplemented by Windows/286 and Windows/386 in 1988. Windows 2.0, Windows/286 and Windows/386 were superseded by Windows 3.0 in May 1990."
Let's see. Barefoot, dehydrated because no water allowed, can't find a pay phone or internet connection, some ass monkeying with the laptop or sensitive equipment, combative airline employees eager to assert their authority or that sneer over a ticket's class or changes, $100-$400 ticket changes for the unwary, airlines with "customer service" weaseling on their responsibilities for equipment failures, overbooking and delays. Add the normal stresses of work, school, family, traffic, economic reverses. Soon most, if not all airport, passers could be "terrorists".
Some medical practices are being overhauled by popular demands in the marketplace to re-examine old, off-patent, but not truly obsolete answers. This includes therapeutic nutrition. The jokers in the deck are patent-based marketing influences and gatekeepers within the medical profession.
It always amazes me that MDs usually don't, and often seem unable, to apply basic biochemistry to therapeutic nutrition with common digestive dysfunctions that can have myriad sequalae as different nutrient are malabsorbed and more organs' performances degrade. Some important medical fads simply go in the wrong direction (e.g. common proton pump inhibitor misuse), turning mild dyspepsia problems into perplexing, unrecognized spirals of disaster. 20 - 50 cents of nutrients can potentially change an individual's world but the average doctor seems oblivious or outright misinformed on many aspects of therapeutic nutrition and digestion.
IMHO, PAs, RNs, DOs, MDs need more nutrition and better practical digestive diagnosis and treatment background as well as the licensed 4-5 yrs NDs in some states.
Having read through the John Grisham books' stories of corporate misbehavior and unscrupulous legal predators' abuses, there is certainly a sense of deja vu' here with RIAA.
No doubt we'll be hearing of a PIAA soon. Got to learn the American way, get a government grant, steal or connive the answer or product from someone else, then charge a one time charge again and again....
The lead should emphasize that this is *Carleton University in Canada*, and *not* the elite liberal arts college in Minnesota, Carleton College. No doubt the student and IT administration at the latter would have handled the matter with more sensitivity, humor and aplomb:)
This is more Microsoft refusal to stand behind defective software. Hire a comedian so may be the laughing drowns out the crying. Hire extra sales turkeys, don't shore up the brand by fixing previous mistakes.
My limited experience with Vista on a machine purchased several months after roll out was the worst I've seen since about Windows 2.0 ca 1990. Not even Windows ME hung and BSOD as bad as this did. If Microsoft wants people to quit bitching, ship upgrades that work for the original machines or offer a no-questions-asked downgrade to XP. Anything less is sop for a con artist marketing firm parading as a software company with baloney "certifications".
RIAA is merely whinging about market losses where this is a situation of an industry that has systematically refused to give the customers what is most practical, what intelligent customers want. Experimental computerized music synthesis of the 1970s (e.g. trying to *imitate* Bach or Beethoven as patterns) should have been a wake up call that computers and music could be cohabitating in the near future. The arrival of the music CD (80s) even as an anolog should have been a wakeup call to even the brain dead. The arrival of, say Sound Blaster 16 (1992), was the technology at the gates.
RIAA members have deliberately and directly avoided properly serving their customers for well over a dozen years. They have actively engaged in a campaign of tampering with both the laws and the laws' execution. They actively attack and extort those members of society least able to defend themselves, including total innocents, with ridiculous claims similar to common street thugs. One wonders what RIAA is going to do if avoidance or legal confrontation are replaced by outright vigilantism. I've seen this in other countries and the history books in other situations.
Except for servers, hard core gamers and maybe very HDTV, once you get off MS' latest core consuming software, who cares about the last 20% of performance? At 2.5 watts per processor core, of which 1-2 cores should run most individual PCs just fine (f--- Vista), who cares an extra $200-$400 about "Intel inside"? Chinese business, students and academia should do just fine.
One can hear it already, "we encrypted it, it'll never happen again". Next time, "its okay, we encrypted all the records with 1024 bits" and then have to admit the key was on a sticky note over the screen of the stolen laptop or in an attached thumb drive. Clear's name is now Mudd but the whole "airport security" business is a dangerous hoax (constitutionally and economically, too).
It will be interesting to see the fallout from this episode of "Security Theatre".
Definitely looks like a major crack forming in the **AA DeathStar...
As for the Congress getting more blatantly in bed with **AA, keep it up and I suspect people will stop writing them checks too, ass well as ignoring them generally. That's kind of the way these things seem to work in other countries.
By my reckoning, RIAA has had 20+ yrs to get a consumer usable act *started*, much less its act together, and failed. The model of selling the same tunes 12x to the same person in a digital age, threatening to break people "legally", and indiscriminately sucking off education resources, just doesn't cut it. Time to shape up or ship out, guys.
The benefits of more freely available WiFi from cooperative individuals should benefit the society more and sooner, by far. e.g. mobile persons who prefer their notebooks for some inexpensive communication on trips to $99/mo "unlimited" cell phones or mobile internet accounts. Only rent seeking RIAA-SCO-telecom-corporatists and Nazi-Soviet-statist types are pushing WiFi restrictions and the fear campaign. Also, a society where every ISP connection is registered is one where free speech and privacy is on a very short leash. Having been to work in such countries before, it will be best to be leaving if you are not one of the elite class (top 1-2% incomes) running the show.
Although I live overseas: "No thanks, I'll walk". Need to feed those short positions on airline stocks anyway. However, DHS might give these a try as headbands at the Christmas party.
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A number of instances clearly innocent people, including computer illiterates without any computer use at all have been attacked by the RIAA. A number of articles have discussed RIAA's lack of proper renumeration to small artists. Knowingly proposing, even getting passed, unconstitutional laws is a usurpation of peoples' rights.
The RIAA is an organization that has repeatedly shown no respect for other persons or property, including the myriad recording artists, the plain intent of the Constitution, or its corpus. It is a usurper and an invader. It is an organization that needs prosecutions under RICO as well as numerous civil suits.
Most of the disputed "gift" expenses concern oilfield promoter-contractor VECO Corp and Bill Allen trying to curry favor and a false image as an efficient, low cost contractor on Stevens' house. VECO's bad planning and futzing around probably doubled VECO/Allen's out of pocket costs for rennovation, where Stevens paid approximately what the result was actually worth.
I am an Anchorage home owner with as much rennovation, a lot of oil suits hate me, and I have repeatedly voted against that old coot but this was a "people's court" lynching.
Please mod this guy up. Seems to actually have a grasp of the issues.
This experiment solves two problems, the additional acidity added to the ocean as CO2 transfers to water bodies and any potential food shortages possible with the next several decades of global cooling. The global cooling is predicted by independent physicists from Europe and Siberia is based on solar changes and terrestial interactions as the primary factors in climate change and is likely to be demonstrated one way or the other over the next 10 years.
UK was once an important nation. It now intermittently has leaders that suffer from lapses of memory or illusions of grandeur. See also King Canute and the waves.
Sounds like some innumerate marketing hype. Many natural gas companies have shipped their trillionth cubic foot of gas, many oil companies their billionth barrel of oil ($10 - $150 each). The mints, billions of pennies etc, the Fed billions of many denominations of bills. Many consumables, gallons of milk, frozen chickens, toilet paper, reams of paper, pencils etc.
Somethings are still 21, e.g. serving and consuming alcohol, sex in some circumstances, some kinds of guns, and misc other laws and licensing. 16 and 17 year olds are not as rare as you may think in the elite universities and colleges. I knew a fair number and it seems even more common today. Elite private schools can more easily consider accelerated admissions than many state schools that legally require graduation for matriculation whereas a private school can say 4.0, SAT 700s and calculus at 14-16, AP Scholar with some distinction, great extracurriculars and recommnedations etc sound close enough, never mind the HS graduation part. Skipping (multiple) grades has always waxed and waned with different decades in the US. Also part time students may be seen as young as 12-14 y.o. on many local college campuses.
This reminds me how poorly the Duke administration and faculty performed with respect to its students' civil rights in the lacrosse team affair. If I had a child enrolled there, with a $50,750 bill (2008-9), I would expect more careful, more effective support from the administration to fulfill the loco in parentis role.
Many top end colleges are now offering low (under $10,000, 4 year debt total) or no debt financial aid plans. Some high end colleges are debt free for all students. Certain majors many get generous grants. Many private schools offer students, in the top third of matriculants, progressively generous merit aid.
It can take lots of time, effort and preparation for one to develop the skills and track record to be a top flight student. Parents should scout these colleges out no later than the junior year, so junior can personally explore the colleges for a realistic choice. My own experience with the kids is that the middle school years were crucial to their development, success in high school, and beyond. Money spent on a private middle school to get a jump on high school may also be a great investment, both academically and for college scholarships.
Calling Magnus, Robot Fighter http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/magrbt.htm or his dad....
Because of Wikipedia's consensus and verifiability policies, information that is emergent, only lightly covered in the news (say only one side covered) or highly politicized may get correct information "suppressed". Wikipedia has some very strong political factions that can be quite biased and dominant that produce articles which are willfully wrong. Reviewing the range of information from the Talk page may include more informed discussions as well as uninformed and crazy ones. Which is which, is sometimes not obvious to the less informed in these situations.
Long ago, one of the superusers at work tried Windows/286 and Windows/386 (nominally 2.11). Ick. Obviously OS so ugly that their own mother couldn't love and prefers to forget. Even more than ME or Vista. From Wikipeida: "Windows 2.0 was supplemented by Windows/286 and Windows/386 in 1988. Windows 2.0, Windows/286 and Windows/386 were superseded by Windows 3.0 in May 1990."
Let's see. Barefoot, dehydrated because no water allowed, can't find a pay phone or internet connection, some ass monkeying with the laptop or sensitive equipment, combative airline employees eager to assert their authority or that sneer over a ticket's class or changes, $100-$400 ticket changes for the unwary, airlines with "customer service" weaseling on their responsibilities for equipment failures, overbooking and delays. Add the normal stresses of work, school, family, traffic, economic reverses. Soon most, if not all airport, passers could be "terrorists".
Some medical practices are being overhauled by popular demands in the marketplace to re-examine old, off-patent, but not truly obsolete answers. This includes therapeutic nutrition. The jokers in the deck are patent-based marketing influences and gatekeepers within the medical profession.
It always amazes me that MDs usually don't, and often seem unable, to apply basic biochemistry to therapeutic nutrition with common digestive dysfunctions that can have myriad sequalae as different nutrient are malabsorbed and more organs' performances degrade. Some important medical fads simply go in the wrong direction (e.g. common proton pump inhibitor misuse), turning mild dyspepsia problems into perplexing, unrecognized spirals of disaster. 20 - 50 cents of nutrients can potentially change an individual's world but the average doctor seems oblivious or outright misinformed on many aspects of therapeutic nutrition and digestion.
IMHO, PAs, RNs, DOs, MDs need more nutrition and better practical digestive diagnosis and treatment background as well as the licensed 4-5 yrs NDs in some states.
Having read through the John Grisham books' stories of corporate misbehavior and unscrupulous legal predators' abuses, there is certainly a sense of deja vu' here with RIAA.
No doubt we'll be hearing of a PIAA soon. Got to learn the American way, get a government grant, steal or connive the answer or product from someone else, then charge a one time charge again and again....
The lead should emphasize that this is *Carleton University in Canada*, and *not* the elite liberal arts college in Minnesota, Carleton College. No doubt the student and IT administration at the latter would have handled the matter with more sensitivity, humor and aplomb :)
This is more Microsoft refusal to stand behind defective software. Hire a comedian so may be the laughing drowns out the crying. Hire extra sales turkeys, don't shore up the brand by fixing previous mistakes.
My limited experience with Vista on a machine purchased several months after roll out was the worst I've seen since about Windows 2.0 ca 1990. Not even Windows ME hung and BSOD as bad as this did. If Microsoft wants people to quit bitching, ship upgrades that work for the original machines or offer a no-questions-asked downgrade to XP. Anything less is sop for a con artist marketing firm parading as a software company with baloney "certifications".
RIAA is merely whinging about market losses where this is a situation of an industry that has systematically refused to give the customers what is most practical, what intelligent customers want. Experimental computerized music synthesis of the 1970s (e.g. trying to *imitate* Bach or Beethoven as patterns) should have been a wake up call that computers and music could be cohabitating in the near future. The arrival of the music CD (80s) even as an anolog should have been a wakeup call to even the brain dead. The arrival of, say Sound Blaster 16 (1992), was the technology at the gates.
RIAA members have deliberately and directly avoided properly serving their customers for well over a dozen years. They have actively engaged in a campaign of tampering with both the laws and the laws' execution. They actively attack and extort those members of society least able to defend themselves, including total innocents, with ridiculous claims similar to common street thugs. One wonders what RIAA is going to do if avoidance or legal confrontation are replaced by outright vigilantism. I've seen this in other countries and the history books in other situations.
Except for servers, hard core gamers and maybe very HDTV, once you get off MS' latest core consuming software, who cares about the last 20% of performance? At 2.5 watts per processor core, of which 1-2 cores should run most individual PCs just fine (f--- Vista), who cares an extra $200-$400 about "Intel inside"? Chinese business, students and academia should do just fine.
It will be interesting to see the fallout from this episode of "Security Theatre".
As for the Congress getting more blatantly in bed with **AA, keep it up and I suspect people will stop writing them checks too, ass well as ignoring them generally. That's kind of the way these things seem to work in other countries.
By my reckoning, RIAA has had 20+ yrs to get a consumer usable act *started*, much less its act together, and failed. The model of selling the same tunes 12x to the same person in a digital age, threatening to break people "legally", and indiscriminately sucking off education resources, just doesn't cut it. Time to shape up or ship out, guys.
The benefits of more freely available WiFi from cooperative individuals should benefit the society more and sooner, by far. e.g. mobile persons who prefer their notebooks for some inexpensive communication on trips to $99/mo "unlimited" cell phones or mobile internet accounts. Only rent seeking RIAA-SCO-telecom-corporatists and Nazi-Soviet-statist types are pushing WiFi restrictions and the fear campaign. Also, a society where every ISP connection is registered is one where free speech and privacy is on a very short leash. Having been to work in such countries before, it will be best to be leaving if you are not one of the elite class (top 1-2% incomes) running the show.
Although I live overseas: "No thanks, I'll walk". Need to feed those short positions on airline stocks anyway. However, DHS might give these a try as headbands at the Christmas party.