You have the same problem, only worse, because your "higher-being" is more complex than the consciousness you were so worried about in the first place.
I think speeches are a little different. They usually print the transcript of the speech prepared before it is given I believe. Can lead to confusion, for example there are five versions of the Gettysburg Address.
You mention people being mad over mangled English being quoted. My wife is a journalist and often times the people most upset are the speakers of that quoted mangled English.:-)
This is the pictorial equivalent of putting quotation marks around a 'touched-up' version of what somebody said. Or leaving elipses out of a quote where part of it has been left out.
It changes reality, perhaps in a trivial way, or perhaps in a more significant way. Either way, it should not be done.
Lets see, $50 minus... mumble, mumble,... carry the naught... scratch, scratch...
Ummm, I may not be a whiz at math, but if the printer (with toner) costs 30$ less than the toner just replace the printer every time it runs out of toner.
There is a bias where I work. Where I work you're not a "developer" unless your code gets compiled. What's worse is they've been using that definition to deny pay raises lately. Well, except for themselves of course.
i figure War Games II would have been the congressional investigation into paying Dr Falcon (or whatever his name was) so much money to write a super-dooper defense program that crashed playing tic-tac-toe.
I disagree. It is the problem of the DMCA. Specifically the "Safe Harbor" provision.
For all practical purposes the "Safe Harbor" provision forces the presumption guilt upon act of the filing the complaint. That means that prior to any court cases, etc., the remedy the company filing the complaint desires already has taken place. The material is squelched.
Couple that with the deep-pockets vs small-operators problem of fighting a court case and the DMCA stiffles just about anything a company wants to stiffle, regardless of the merit of their complaint.
At the very least the "Safe Harbor" mechanism should be reworked. The company/person filing the complaint should have to go to court to get an injuction to get the offending material removed. If they couldn't even get an injunction, it is unlikely they would pursue the matter much farther. I think that would stop a lot of these thugish tactics.
It sounds crazier that it actually is. that's because the whole process of compromise is more complex than a sound bite (or post bite?) makes it out to be.
In American politics proposed Bills first go into committees. A committee chair can easily table a Bill he is opposed to.
These riders to other Bills are a way of getting a Bill out of committee (BTW, if it carries enough votes to get added as an amendment it obviously had backing outside of the committee).
Seems Rube-Goldbergy at first, and I guess it is, but it is simply a way of by-passing an ornery committee chair.
...as with any 'expediant' solutions is when they gets used for unintended purposes. If such databases were widely used, how long before the names on them get checked for other reason?
If these types of databases became widespread one could imagine a number of scenarios where they could easily be abused. Say a kid enlists in the service and goes for a job requiring a security clearance -- better check his/her standing on the "Suspected of Being a Future Suspect" database.
[quote]WHY are there people trying to support themselves with a marginal existence in places where there are not enough resources to support them?[/quote]
'Cause they were born there.
"The concept of expansion itself demands that a boundary be present"
Only if you insist on placing the non-Euclidian universe into a larger Euclidian space.
I've suggested to our management that we freeze our COBOL programmers. When we needed one, we could unthaw them.
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Arghh. I really need to proff read better...
No kidding, when I read his post my jaw about dropped. I pictured some Brit driving from one McDonald to the next on the freeway thinking he had figured out The U.S.
To the cultural comments... I once read a book of letters Vincent Van Gough wrote to his brother. He spent an extensive amount of time discussing the trendy Paris art scene of the day. 95% of the trend setter were people I had never heard of.
When your immersed in a present, whatever that present is, most of it is vapid.
Duchamp said, and he wasn't being insulting, that American art is engineering and bridges. I think in the long view he'll turn out to be right... a lot of the appeal of American culture is how we turned the industrial revolution from sweatshops to comfort.
Never underestimate the appeal of comfort to folks who aren't pompous and self-loathing intellectuals.
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No kidding, when I read his post my jaw about dropped. I pictured some Brit driving from one McDonald to the next on the freeway thinking he had figured out The U.S.,p>
To the cultural comments... I once read a book of letters Vincent Van Gough wrote to his brother. He spent an extensive amount of time discussing the trendy Paris art scene of the day. 95 of the trend setter were people I had never heard of.
when your immersed in a present, whatever that present is, most of it is vapid. Duchamp said, and he wasn't being insulting, that American art is engineering and bridges. I think in the long view he'll turn out to be right... a lot of the appeal of American culture is how we turned the industrial revolution from sweatshops to comfort.
Never underestimate the appeal of comfort to folks who aren't pompous and self-loathing intellectuals.
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Calm down grammer Nazis, I am not a copy editor -- the last should read whoever, not however.
However introduces lawsuits to on line games should be tied to a spammer beaten to a pulp.
speaking of Dahmer... he pot pots and pans to nefarious, albeit strangely tastey, uses. Might want to out law them too.
Get caught doing that and see what happens to you.
You have the same problem, only worse, because your "higher-being" is more complex than the consciousness you were so worried about in the first place.
You mean to say Mr. Goatse is hiding behind an alias? I find that hard to believe.
You mention people being mad over mangled English being quoted. My wife is a journalist and often times the people most upset are the speakers of that quoted mangled English. :-)
It changes reality, perhaps in a trivial way, or perhaps in a more significant way. Either way, it should not be done.
Ummm, I may not be a whiz at math, but if the printer (with toner) costs 30$ less than the toner just replace the printer every time it runs out of toner.
I know as a tax-payer I was pissed.
Hmmm... just think of all the passwords he could hand out in a month. The virtual Real Estate bubble would pop for sure.
Well, if nothing else, I guess we have an answer to the age old question... what kind of person is stupid enough to buy something from a spammer?
...don't the penis growers already hold the patent on spam?
For all practical purposes the "Safe Harbor" provision forces the presumption guilt upon act of the filing the complaint. That means that prior to any court cases, etc., the remedy the company filing the complaint desires already has taken place. The material is squelched.
Couple that with the deep-pockets vs small-operators problem of fighting a court case and the DMCA stiffles just about anything a company wants to stiffle, regardless of the merit of their complaint.
At the very least the "Safe Harbor" mechanism should be reworked. The company/person filing the complaint should have to go to court to get an injuction to get the offending material removed. If they couldn't even get an injunction, it is unlikely they would pursue the matter much farther. I think that would stop a lot of these thugish tactics.
Obligatory - IANAL.
Keith Richard sends out Cease and Desist notices to cadavars because folks confuse them for him.
In American politics proposed Bills first go into committees. A committee chair can easily table a Bill he is opposed to.
These riders to other Bills are a way of getting a Bill out of committee (BTW, if it carries enough votes to get added as an amendment it obviously had backing outside of the committee).
Seems Rube-Goldbergy at first, and I guess it is, but it is simply a way of by-passing an ornery committee chair.
If these types of databases became widespread one could imagine a number of scenarios where they could easily be abused. Say a kid enlists in the service and goes for a job requiring a security clearance -- better check his/her standing on the "Suspected of Being a Future Suspect" database.
[quote]WHY are there people trying to support themselves with a marginal existence in places where there are not enough resources to support them?[/quote] 'Cause they were born there.
"The concept of expansion itself demands that a boundary be present" Only if you insist on placing the non-Euclidian universe into a larger Euclidian space.
I've suggested to our management that we freeze our COBOL programmers. When we needed one, we could unthaw them.
No kidding, when I read his post my jaw about dropped. I pictured some Brit driving from one McDonald to the next on the freeway thinking he had figured out The U.S.
To the cultural comments... I once read a book of letters Vincent Van Gough wrote to his brother. He spent an extensive amount of time discussing the trendy Paris art scene of the day. 95% of the trend setter were people I had never heard of.
When your immersed in a present, whatever that present is, most of it is vapid.
Duchamp said, and he wasn't being insulting, that American art is engineering and bridges. I think in the long view he'll turn out to be right... a lot of the appeal of American culture is how we turned the industrial revolution from sweatshops to comfort.
Never underestimate the appeal of comfort to folks who aren't pompous and self-loathing intellectuals.
when your immersed in a present, whatever that present is, most of it is vapid. Duchamp said, and he wasn't being insulting, that American art is engineering and bridges. I think in the long view he'll turn out to be right... a lot of the appeal of American culture is how we turned the industrial revolution from sweatshops to comfort. Never underestimate the appeal of comfort to folks who aren't pompous and self-loathing intellectuals.
Does anybody expect that group to write any thing but a set of rules that favores their profession -- ie, the more litigation the better?
these issues have to be looked at, but technical people, and business people -- not just 300 ambulance chasers -- need to be involved.