What about lockpicks? you can't own them unless you're a locksmith (or a cop). They're a tool. If I lock myself out of my car, because it's new I can't unbend a coathanger to open it, and I'm not allowed to have lockpicks (ignore the argument that if i have my lockpicks i likely have my keys, rather than the lot of 'em being "safely" inside the car)
I don't know if this applies, is interesting, or whatever. It's possible I'm just offering a stupid piece of trivia but here goes:
Here in canada, we have ho "5th". Instead of having the right to refuse to testify, in a canadian court anything that a witness says can NOT be used as evidence against them. So if someone's on trial for murder, someone could take the stand and say "he didn't kill mr jones, because I did". accused gets off (he's innocent.), the witness can't then be charged on that evidence (though the police can take their investigation in another direction... namely towards the witness, they can't use his testimony for his own trial)
"the typical/. poster sure smells like someone who just wants free music. So much for the moral high ground."
No, I don't want free music. I want reasonably-priced good music.
Last time I bought a CD, it cost me $25 canadian. That's WAY too much for a college student (one of the largest CD consuming groups) to be paying. If the RIAA is trying to price-gouge a group of people who have no money, that's just nuts.
If CD's were $10 CDN, I'd buy much more music, even if I only like 1 or 2 songs on the CD. Since they cost so much, unless I like the whole CD, I'm not buying it.
And that's another thing. If a CD sucks, I can't return it to the store, I'm stuck with a Frisbee/coaster/arrow target/whatever. The CD's that I have bought, I had on MP3 before I bought them. I bought the CD 1) so I can get better mp3 rips and 2) for cover/liner art.
"It never ceases to amaze me how few liberals respect the Bill of Rights, or basic human rights."
Interesting point. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Please explain further.
"Since "sweatshop" is a completely meaningless, derogatory term, Nike is being honest when they say they don't have any-- even if liberals say they do. "
sweatshop:
n.
A shop or factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions.
I'm not going to touch on the "fine quality shoes" "argument". fine, quality, etc are subjective terms. Using sweatshop labor is not.
" the liberals hate sweatshops because they hate the poor. They'd ratehr that someone who makes $5 a day sewing shoes for Nike be reduced to making $1 a day scavaging rusted cans, or whatever. If these "sweatshops" are so bad, then why are they preferred by the people who work in them to the alternatives? What, because there are no alternatives? And you would rather have them, thus be removed from the freedom of the one alternative they have? "
The argument isn't that they should stay out of taiwan/china/whatever. The argument is that Nike should have some sense of north american morals if they are to conduct business in north america. Paying workers $5/day (one of the highest estimates I've seen.) isn't even close to a living wage, even in china/taiwan. The workers can afford a bowl of rice to eat a day. Contrary to what some uber-vegans may have you believe, man cannot live on rice alone. Even if we overlook the pay issue, Factories shouldn't be locking the emergency exit doors so workers can't smoke. Discipline the workers who sneak out for a smoke, sure. Locking fire escapes results in factories burning down with all the workers inside (which HAS happened)
"liberals think that somehow Nike is responsible for there not being lots of better jobs for them to go to. Because Liberals apparently never took economics."
Noone said that nike was responsible for there not being better jobs. Nike is responsible because there are shitty, inhumane jobs. "Liberals" do take economics. It's the whole "know your enemy" thing. My friend Alex is the biggest communist I've ever met (seriously). He's also amazing at predicting the stock market. If he wasn't morally opposed to investing, he'd be rich.
"And when you mod me down, realize you're trying to shut me up, just like liberals always do, because you disagree with what I say. I've brought up cogent points here- but I suspect you guys would rather I be denied that speech."
What? It's the economic (compared with religious) right wing media that silences people of differing opinion by ignoring them (if you're not on tv, some large portion of the population doesn't know your opinion exists)
"Sue me for false advertising, why don't you?:-)"
What exactly have you tried to sell me?
One final point is Why do americans confuse "liberal" with "left wing"?!?! The rest of the world knows that liberal == economic right wing.
By the time you're old enough to immigrate here, Canada'll have the same facist IP laws as the US and UK. There was an open discussion paper... thing a while ago about a Canadian DMCA. As it stands right now, our cost of blank CD's is rediculous. Future Shop (a Canadian electronics retailer) advertizes blank CDR's at $50 for 100 cd's.
Not a bad price (shitty CD's, but I just found the first ad for them I could find). Factor in the CDR tax, and it ends up costing you over $100 for them.
This tax is funneled straight into the **AA's, in a misguided effort to "compensate artists" for "illegal piracy"
Now, IANAL, but I don't think you can tax an illegal activity, or else Revenue Canada'd be down on East Hastings (drug riddled area) busting every dealer for not reporting income. If they're taxing it, it must be legal now... I'm going to go burn a whole bunch of IP law violations
Eventually, Canadas parliment will cave to corporate money (though I don't know why, the Liberal party doesn't need to campaign, they're going to win anyways) and make a restictive, evil law like the DMCA. When that day comes, I too will emigrate. I don't know where to though...
When you have like, an ounce of each drink left in your liquor cabinet (like the day after a party), you mix stuff like this to get you buzzed just one last time before your student loan runs out
2 Drinks an hour? I'd be sober all night, that'd suck.
Way I see it, is it's got a negative feedback system in it already. The drunker you are, the less likely it is you'll know how to work the machine in the first place.
You could probably make an espresso machine equivalent to this. Some flavour syrup, etc. I'm thinking I'm gonna rip apart my espresso machine tomorrow and start working on it.
You're right. Terrorists chose to be terrorists, right. It's the situations that drive them to these despicable (though I hate to use that word. Americans kill far more of each other each year than 9/11 did) acts that are under question here. You, evidently, are giving too much credit to the idea of 'free will'. Humans do have free will, to a point. Environment and history play a HUGE part in the decision making abilities of people.
Think about it, you live in a country with the death penalty (forget the debate on that one, It doesn't matter at this point). Now, the death penalty is either about 1) revenge 2) removing a menace 3) retribution to the victims. Terrorism by a country that keeps getting bombed is like the death penalty on a mass scale. Non-State terrorists are getting 1) revenge against the country that wronged them. 2) removing a menace (if they do it enough) and 3) retribution to the victims of state terrorism.
I'd wager to bet that the terrorists were *directly* affected by american foreign policy in such a way that they felt that they were personally wronged. Perhaps a family member died in a US/UK blitzkreig, or their mosque was destroyed, etc. Most Americans didn't lose a family member, or someone they knew in a terrorist attack, yet they'd still be willing to kill innocent middle-easterners (and a huge majority of those living in the middle east are innocent bystanders. They may even support the terrorists, but are doing nothing themselves, not unlike american "ra! ra! war! down with saddam!" types)
Now, if America really wanted to be intelligent about stopping terrorism, performing it against Iraq (or wherever... what is it with iraq anyways? there are tons of dictators in the world, most of them not benevolant, but yet US presidents like to focus on iraq.) would not be the way to do it, it's just a way to invite retribution (weather called for or not)
MP3.com is, IMHO, the best resource I've found. there's thousands of bands on there. Find a genre that you like, listen to the charts. That's how I found all my favorite bands. (Check out Franklyn Currie if you like folk-y hippie music)
I know most times when I make a spelling mistake. I know it when the word length is wrong, or there's a letter in there that shouldn't. I see the word, but not exactly. In cases of replacement, like if there's a letter swapped with another one (like a word that has XXaXe, and i'ts XXeXa) i don't notice it.
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What about lockpicks? you can't own them unless you're a locksmith (or a cop). They're a tool. If I lock myself out of my car, because it's new I can't unbend a coathanger to open it, and I'm not allowed to have lockpicks (ignore the argument that if i have my lockpicks i likely have my keys, rather than the lot of 'em being "safely" inside the car)
I don't know if this applies, is interesting, or whatever. It's possible I'm just offering a stupid piece of trivia but here goes:
Here in canada, we have ho "5th". Instead of having the right to refuse to testify, in a canadian court anything that a witness says can NOT be used as evidence against them. So if someone's on trial for murder, someone could take the stand and say "he didn't kill mr jones, because I did". accused gets off (he's innocent.), the witness can't then be charged on that evidence (though the police can take their investigation in another direction... namely towards the witness, they can't use his testimony for his own trial)
eww.. pr0n juice
Everyone who read this is now dumber for hearing you speak.
I award you no points and may God have mercy on your souls.
"the typical /. poster sure smells like someone who just wants free music. So much for the moral high ground."
No, I don't want free music. I want reasonably-priced good music.
Last time I bought a CD, it cost me $25 canadian. That's WAY too much for a college student (one of the largest CD consuming groups) to be paying. If the RIAA is trying to price-gouge a group of people who have no money, that's just nuts.
If CD's were $10 CDN, I'd buy much more music, even if I only like 1 or 2 songs on the CD. Since they cost so much, unless I like the whole CD, I'm not buying it.
And that's another thing. If a CD sucks, I can't return it to the store, I'm stuck with a Frisbee/coaster/arrow target/whatever. The CD's that I have bought, I had on MP3 before I bought them. I bought the CD 1) so I can get better mp3 rips and 2) for cover/liner art.
"Then is there a black market for cds?"
It's called Asia.
"there are still wild sexually reproducing bananas out there"
Now you've gone and done it... As if furries weren't bad enough, soon there's gonna be banana porn out there...
"It never ceases to amaze me how few liberals respect the Bill of Rights, or basic human rights."
:-)"
Interesting point. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Please explain further.
"Since "sweatshop" is a completely meaningless, derogatory term, Nike is being honest when they say they don't have any-- even if liberals say they do. "
sweatshop:
n.
A shop or factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions.
I'm not going to touch on the "fine quality shoes" "argument". fine, quality, etc are subjective terms. Using sweatshop labor is not.
" the liberals hate sweatshops because they hate the poor. They'd ratehr that someone who makes $5 a day sewing shoes for Nike be reduced to making $1 a day scavaging rusted cans, or whatever. If these "sweatshops" are so bad, then why are they preferred by the people who work in them to the alternatives? What, because there are no alternatives? And you would rather have them, thus be removed from the freedom of the one alternative they have? "
The argument isn't that they should stay out of taiwan/china/whatever. The argument is that Nike should have some sense of north american morals if they are to conduct business in north america. Paying workers $5/day (one of the highest estimates I've seen.) isn't even close to a living wage, even in china/taiwan. The workers can afford a bowl of rice to eat a day. Contrary to what some uber-vegans may have you believe, man cannot live on rice alone. Even if we overlook the pay issue, Factories shouldn't be locking the emergency exit doors so workers can't smoke. Discipline the workers who sneak out for a smoke, sure. Locking fire escapes results in factories burning down with all the workers inside (which HAS happened)
"liberals think that somehow Nike is responsible for there not being lots of better jobs for them to go to. Because Liberals apparently never took economics."
Noone said that nike was responsible for there not being better jobs. Nike is responsible because there are shitty, inhumane jobs. "Liberals" do take economics. It's the whole "know your enemy" thing. My friend Alex is the biggest communist I've ever met (seriously). He's also amazing at predicting the stock market. If he wasn't morally opposed to investing, he'd be rich.
"And when you mod me down, realize you're trying to shut me up, just like liberals always do, because you disagree with what I say. I've brought up cogent points here- but I suspect you guys would rather I be denied that speech."
What? It's the economic (compared with religious) right wing media that silences people of differing opinion by ignoring them (if you're not on tv, some large portion of the population doesn't know your opinion exists)
"Sue me for false advertising, why don't you?
What exactly have you tried to sell me?
One final point is Why do americans confuse "liberal" with "left wing"?!?! The rest of the world knows that liberal == economic right wing.
By the time you're old enough to immigrate here, Canada'll have the same facist IP laws as the US and UK. There was an open discussion paper... thing a while ago about a Canadian DMCA. As it stands right now, our cost of blank CD's is rediculous. Future Shop (a Canadian electronics retailer) advertizes blank CDR's at $50 for 100 cd's.
Not a bad price (shitty CD's, but I just found the first ad for them I could find). Factor in the CDR tax, and it ends up costing you over $100 for them.
This tax is funneled straight into the **AA's, in a misguided effort to "compensate artists" for "illegal piracy"
Now, IANAL, but I don't think you can tax an illegal activity, or else Revenue Canada'd be down on East Hastings (drug riddled area) busting every dealer for not reporting income. If they're taxing it, it must be legal now... I'm going to go burn a whole bunch of IP law violations
Eventually, Canadas parliment will cave to corporate money (though I don't know why, the Liberal party doesn't need to campaign, they're going to win anyways) and make a restictive, evil law like the DMCA. When that day comes, I too will emigrate. I don't know where to though...
(either that, or bloody revolution. YAY!)
Is a pimpin' window kit... and watercooling... and overclock it.
And a cold cathode or 8.
Probably tried it.
When you have like, an ounce of each drink left in your liquor cabinet (like the day after a party), you mix stuff like this to get you buzzed just one last time before your student loan runs out
2 Drinks an hour? I'd be sober all night, that'd suck.
Way I see it, is it's got a negative feedback system in it already. The drunker you are, the less likely it is you'll know how to work the machine in the first place.
You'd probably use different timing data for that.
Like, X ms for vodka, 3X ms for khalua, 10X ms for my moms' coffee...
You Know...
You could probably make an espresso machine equivalent to this. Some flavour syrup, etc. I'm thinking I'm gonna rip apart my espresso machine tomorrow and start working on it.
I think that you'd need to have the proprietary (?) hardware for the code to work at all.
You're right. Terrorists chose to be terrorists, right. It's the situations that drive them to these despicable (though I hate to use that word. Americans kill far more of each other each year than 9/11 did) acts that are under question here. You, evidently, are giving too much credit to the idea of 'free will'. Humans do have free will, to a point. Environment and history play a HUGE part in the decision making abilities of people.
Think about it, you live in a country with the death penalty (forget the debate on that one, It doesn't matter at this point). Now, the death penalty is either about 1) revenge 2) removing a menace 3) retribution to the victims. Terrorism by a country that keeps getting bombed is like the death penalty on a mass scale. Non-State terrorists are getting 1) revenge against the country that wronged them. 2) removing a menace (if they do it enough) and 3) retribution to the victims of state terrorism.
I'd wager to bet that the terrorists were *directly* affected by american foreign policy in such a way that they felt that they were personally wronged. Perhaps a family member died in a US/UK blitzkreig, or their mosque was destroyed, etc. Most Americans didn't lose a family member, or someone they knew in a terrorist attack, yet they'd still be willing to kill innocent middle-easterners (and a huge majority of those living in the middle east are innocent bystanders. They may even support the terrorists, but are doing nothing themselves, not unlike american "ra! ra! war! down with saddam!" types)
Now, if America really wanted to be intelligent about stopping terrorism, performing it against Iraq (or wherever... what is it with iraq anyways? there are tons of dictators in the world, most of them not benevolant, but yet US presidents like to focus on iraq.) would not be the way to do it, it's just a way to invite retribution (weather called for or not)
Mount McRushmore.
4 Dead presidents and a set of golden arches.
Damn. I KNEW my major was useless
Lousy philosophy...
MP3.com is, IMHO, the best resource I've found. there's thousands of bands on there. Find a genre that you like, listen to the charts. That's how I found all my favorite bands. (Check out Franklyn Currie if you like folk-y hippie music)
I wonder how things would have worked out if Og & Zog decided that they didn't know enough about fire to even experiment with it
I don't know... Have you looked outside lately? I think we might've been better off if we hadn't bothered with all that fire stuff.
One nice thing I've found about T2 is that it works nearly as well on 56k as it does on a LAN connected to a T1.
That's not a good thing at all! How am I supposed to get any frags without LPB advantage?
Not neccisarily (sp?)
I know most times when I make a spelling mistake. I know it when the word length is wrong, or there's a letter in there that shouldn't. I see the word, but not exactly. In cases of replacement, like if there's a letter swapped with another one (like a word that has XXaXe, and i'ts XXeXa) i don't notice it.
Imagine if you spent all your time and $12.95 on something else just a fraction less useless...
Yeah, like cable TV.
I play DAoC. I play it about as much as I *used* to watch TV. Now, I have since cancelled my cable, and use my TV to watch movies now and again.
Unless they start checking "Referrer=".
Then it doesn't work.
Is this yet another ploy by the RIAA to eliminate mp3?
"Don't steal music. Or you'll go deaf. Then die."