Well, given that Bush wasn't elected by the majority, one could argue that the electorial college system actually promotes a kind of revolution. Once you have Texas and Florida, plus the middle states you can ignore the majority opinion for President. Maybe bloodless coup is a better word.
There are a couple of posts that have mentioned that NASA has looked into using this info in the past, and found it didn't make a lot of sense.
What this says to me, is that there is another reason for doing it. When Kennedy (?) created the Space Program, he wanted it to be separate from the millitary so that its findings/mission could be broader than the security/defense mission of the military.
By using military satellites at all, by making a link, the US begins to blur the distinction between the space program and the military. I'm not trying to bash the military here, but I do wonder at potentially useless collaborations between the military and NASA.
If we can save lives of more astronauts, we should. But we should also be wondering why NASA is pairing up with them more explicitly.
IANAL, but my sense is that the violation of CA law happens in CA by your receiving the spam.
I can't find a copy of the law yet, but it is not a citizen's job to prosecute a crime. You should be able to tell the police or whatever agency has been set up to administrate the problem, and they will find the criminal. If, on the other hand, this is a tort (you can sue the spammer for damages), then you would have to find him/her to serve him/her a summons.
Jin Ro, which I think is translated "The Wolf Brigade." It is beautiful and made by the folks who made Ghost in the Shell. If you haven't seen it, it is great.
Perhaps we should just randomly start shooting people because they might be guilty. Opps! Never mind, we are already doing that. I'm so behind the times.
My university uses Blackboard. What a peace of shit program! The entire platform is built around future "course packs" that the company has contracted with publishers to provide, and the software pretty much wants you to upload content in Micro$oft format (with which Bb has a lucrative contract.) While you can use HTML if you can write it, there is not an editor, so faculty without that knowledge are left with Office.
ANY course software creatd on this model is going to eventually be purely about seling content to students. What's collaborative about that? What's educational about it? Thank goodness some universities (Harvard, MIT) are remembering that education isn't about gauging students for even more money.
Sorry to vent, but I find using Bb to be an incredibly annoying experience.
I've been wondering that too. It makes me question the idea of "brand loyalty" that I grew up with (find a quality brand, and stick to it). But I'm not sure what to replace it with, other than old-fashioned critical thinking.
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This is interesting, that Disney doesn't worry about such things. Proctor and Gamble, makers of "Barbie" etc. have sued people who modify barbie and friends to make S&M Barbie and anatomically correct Barbie. there is a great documentary on these folks described here .
If you want more "real people" running for office, start doing so yourself.
You can find all the information you want on the web--just not on the government sites right now. The best records I've seen are at opensecrets.org. You might also want to look at the webpages of individual politicians. They will usually tell you how they voted on recent issues.
Re you're comment on voter turn--out, I've always favored a tax on people who don't vote.:)
I do not agree. Corporations and copyright holders do have the right to make money for a limited time, and I support that right.
But I do not support the efforts of *whomever of the above* to make outrageous profits at the expense of the artists (who ususally see little profit in exchange for distribution and publicity). A solid system should be fair: both in terms of fair use and in terms of reasonable profits.
I am all for a quick and easy digital distribution system--but only if it is of good quality, fair price, and easier than renting at Bbuster or where ever. And I do not think that will happen if any of the current multimedia companies have their way.
Um...the point of posting on/. was that the piece of the P.A. the ACLU is concerned with allows the police to monitor what websites are being accessed from a given computer. Never hurts to read the post to which you're responding.
The site design does suck--I spent a lot of time there a couple of years ago downloading the Angry Kid shorts (very funny in a sick sort of way). But, while annoying, it was nice to see that whatever money coming in wasn't going to publicity. It would be nice to get to the products faster, but I like to think that they haven't bothered because so many people think W&G, etc. is worth looking for. Why bother to market what's great?
I was about to post your comment! But, there is still the issue of the "unsolicited" part of the spam. I wonder whether a creative trial judge wouldn't issue an injuction for unsolicited e-mail, but not a monetary punishment?
It is true that Lobbyists spend a lot more than private citizens getting the attention of Congresspeople, but Lobbyists don't get an inordinate amount of votes. EVERY CITIZEN 18 years and older of the U.S. can vote, and Congresspeople pay a lot of attention to their constituencies. If you post on the website and cc a letter to your representatives, it can make a difference. Particularly if you can organize others to do so as well.
"All the poor guy did was spam!" "What if we arrested multiple mailers to real mailboxes?"
Spam is totally different from mailers. It is free to take the time to empty my snail mailbox, but spamers can send files to my e-mail that I have to pay to download. This is why spam and fax spam is wrong: they both pass on unrequested costs to the receiver, and for stuff I didn't ask for!! I recently got some java-scripted spam that was over 5M! That is totally unacceptable.
Lawsuits working in conjunction with laws banning spam seem like the best legal (as in not illegal, NPI) way to teach folks that spaming is not a money-making business.
Another purpose of GNU radio that piggy-backs signals on top of one another, would be to radically increase the amount of radio stations on the bandwidth available to license them. Right now, the bandwidth limits the number of radio stations, and the bias is toward existing radio stations that are mostly owned by media conglomerates which bring us uninteresting and repetitive music playlists. Anything that encourages radio transmission in this direction is a good thing for people bored by mainstream radio.
You are absolutely right, sllort, that the baby bell service providers are abusing the 1996 Telcom act through this interpretation. There are pieces of the act, though, that have been struck down, such as the strong First Amendment protections given to the internet in the 1997 Reno v. ACLU case decided by the Supreme Court. There is some hope that a different FCC chief would interpret the situation differently, i.e. that access to the internet is as important as phone access to be able to participate in the communication culture of America. Of course, such an interpretation would explicitly assert that access to the internet is a public resourse. Of course,I haven't heard of anything (other than some newly created national parks) being declared public resources lately. Everything seems to be about profit.
Large companies no doubt make hassles for their competitors. This is precisely why deregulation doesn't work. The prophets of deregulation assume a "level playing field" when arguing for deregulation, but then take advantage of the lack of regulation to bully competitors out of the market.
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Well, given that Bush wasn't elected by the majority, one could argue that the electorial college system actually promotes a kind of revolution. Once you have Texas and Florida, plus the middle states you can ignore the majority opinion for President. Maybe bloodless coup is a better word.
There are a couple of posts that have mentioned that NASA has looked into using this info in the past, and found it didn't make a lot of sense.
What this says to me, is that there is another reason for doing it. When Kennedy (?) created the Space Program, he wanted it to be separate from the millitary so that its findings/mission could be broader than the security/defense mission of the military.
By using military satellites at all, by making a link, the US begins to blur the distinction between the space program and the military. I'm not trying to bash the military here, but I do wonder at potentially useless collaborations between the military and NASA.
If we can save lives of more astronauts, we should. But we should also be wondering why NASA is pairing up with them more explicitly.
It's true, but presumably a lawyer will go after someone who spams half of aol, because that would be on the order of millions.
IANAL, but my sense is that the violation of CA law happens in CA by your receiving the spam.
I can't find a copy of the law yet, but it is not a citizen's job to prosecute a crime. You should be able to tell the police or whatever agency has been set up to administrate the problem, and they will find the criminal. If, on the other hand, this is a tort (you can sue the spammer for damages), then you would have to find him/her to serve him/her a summons.
Jin Ro, which I think is translated "The Wolf Brigade." It is beautiful and made by the folks who made Ghost in the Shell. If you haven't seen it, it is great.
Perhaps we should just randomly start shooting people because they might be guilty. Opps! Never mind, we are already doing that. I'm so behind the times.
My university uses Blackboard. What a peace of shit program! The entire platform is built around future "course packs" that the company has contracted with publishers to provide, and the software pretty much wants you to upload content in Micro$oft format (with which Bb has a lucrative contract.) While you can use HTML if you can write it, there is not an editor, so faculty without that knowledge are left with Office.
ANY course software creatd on this model is going to eventually be purely about seling content to students. What's collaborative about that? What's educational about it? Thank goodness some universities (Harvard, MIT) are remembering that education isn't about gauging students for even more money.
Sorry to vent, but I find using Bb to be an incredibly annoying experience.
Nepotism.
I've been wondering that too. It makes me question the idea of "brand loyalty" that I grew up with (find a quality brand, and stick to it). But I'm not sure what to replace it with, other than old-fashioned critical thinking.
This is interesting, that Disney doesn't worry about such things. Proctor and Gamble, makers of "Barbie" etc. have sued people who modify barbie and friends to make S&M Barbie and anatomically correct Barbie. there is a great documentary on these folks described here
.
If you want more "real people" running for office, start doing so yourself.
:)
You can find all the information you want on the web--just not on the government sites right now. The best records I've seen are at opensecrets.org. You might also want to look at the webpages of individual politicians. They will usually tell you how they voted on recent issues.
Re you're comment on voter turn--out, I've always favored a tax on people who don't vote.
I do not agree. Corporations and copyright holders do have the right to make money for a limited time, and I support that right.
But I do not support the efforts of *whomever of the above* to make outrageous profits at the expense of the artists (who ususally see little profit in exchange for distribution and publicity). A solid system should be fair: both in terms of fair use and in terms of reasonable profits.
I am all for a quick and easy digital distribution system--but only if it is of good quality, fair price, and easier than renting at Bbuster or where ever. And I do not think that will happen if any of the current multimedia companies have their way.
Um...the point of posting on /. was that the piece of the P.A. the ACLU is concerned with allows the police to monitor what websites are being accessed from a given computer. Never hurts to read the post to which you're responding.
The site design does suck--I spent a lot of time there a couple of years ago downloading the Angry Kid shorts (very funny in a sick sort of way). But, while annoying, it was nice to see that whatever money coming in wasn't going to publicity. It would be nice to get to the products faster, but I like to think that they haven't bothered because so many people think W&G, etc. is worth looking for. Why bother to market what's great?
I was about to post your comment! But, there is still the issue of the "unsolicited" part of the spam. I wonder whether a creative trial judge wouldn't issue an injuction for unsolicited e-mail, but not a monetary punishment?
It is true that Lobbyists spend a lot more than private citizens getting the attention of Congresspeople, but Lobbyists don't get an inordinate amount of votes. EVERY CITIZEN 18 years and older of the U.S. can vote, and Congresspeople pay a lot of attention to their constituencies. If you post on the website and cc a letter to your representatives, it can make a difference. Particularly if you can organize others to do so as well.
"All the poor guy did was spam!"
"What if we arrested multiple mailers to real mailboxes?"
Spam is totally different from mailers. It is free to take the time to empty my snail mailbox, but spamers can send files to my e-mail that I have to pay to download. This is why spam and fax spam is wrong: they both pass on unrequested costs to the receiver, and for stuff I didn't ask for!! I recently got some java-scripted spam that was over 5M! That is totally unacceptable.
Lawsuits working in conjunction with laws banning spam seem like the best legal (as in not illegal, NPI) way to teach folks that spaming is not a money-making business.
Another purpose of GNU radio that piggy-backs signals on top of one another, would be to radically increase the amount of radio stations on the bandwidth available to license them. Right now, the bandwidth limits the number of radio stations, and the bias is toward existing radio stations that are mostly owned by media conglomerates which bring us uninteresting and repetitive music playlists. Anything that encourages radio transmission in this direction is a good thing for people bored by mainstream radio.
You are absolutely right, sllort, that the baby bell service providers are abusing the 1996 Telcom act through this interpretation. There are pieces of the act, though, that have been struck down, such as the strong First Amendment protections given to the internet in the 1997 Reno v. ACLU case decided by the Supreme Court. There is some hope that a different FCC chief would interpret the situation differently, i.e. that access to the internet is as important as phone access to be able to participate in the communication culture of America. Of course, such an interpretation would explicitly assert that access to the internet is a public resourse. Of course,I haven't heard of anything (other than some newly created national parks) being declared public resources lately. Everything seems to be about profit.
Large companies no doubt make hassles for their competitors. This is precisely why deregulation doesn't work. The prophets of deregulation assume a "level playing field" when arguing for deregulation, but then take advantage of the lack of regulation to bully competitors out of the market.