Check out this web site if you care about the issue. I have no affiliation with them, but they put into words what I have been thinking for a long time about considering corporations "persons" under the U.S. constitution and granting them the rights traditionally associated with individuals such as free speech.
It's thought provoking reading nonetheless. Check it out...
Absolutely... a graphics card is much more than just the hardware. NVidia seems to consistently deliver rock solid and blazingly fast drivers for *all* popular platforms, and ATI is always behind in this regard. They have binary distributions for more Linux/GNU distributions than you can shake a stick at, and if that fails, building from source is pretty easy.
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The right to free speech in the U.S. is granted to "persons" by the constitution. It transcends the law. You are right that the law assumes corporations have this right, but only because somewhere along the line the supreme court decided corporate entities were "persons".. I'm submitting that corporate persons have the same rights as individuals because of supreme court precident and *not* the intent of the framers of the constitution.
As far as this not being a government action, wasn't the DMCA applied? Verio complied under threat of the consequences of the law, which is given power by the government.
I agree with you that false accusation and defamation are not free speech. If they broke the law, then they should be held accountable. I'm just trying to point out how easy it is for corporate entities to steamroller the rights of individuals (in this case, the right to due process and possibly the right to free speech).
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Im talking about the trend these days to value corporate freedom above individual freedom. I mean, when did a *corporation* get the right to free speech? The people that make up and run that corporation certainly have that right, but this trend of treating corporate entities as individuals is getting out of hand.
Forcing a number of (presumably) individuals with something to say off the web with the stroke of a pen doesn't seem totalitarian to you? Due process isn't even an option due to the cost.
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...had foreseen what corporations have become if they wouldn't have put a few special clauses in especially for them.
Thats one of the big shifts of the past few dacades in drug research. They used to start with a chemical compound and figure out if it could be used as a drug. Now they start with genetic data and try to synthesize a compound to do what they want.
With the FORBES greatest breakthroughs of the last century and this, it seems like innovation and discovery is happening much more in the area of biology than anywhere else. I mean, the most notable discoveries according to FORBES in the last 20 years were mostly drugs.
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I think it was at a place called Gilley's... "The mechanical bull" or something like that.
I have adelphia (I'm very happy with the service... 3Mbps downloads most of the time) but I like many others run through a router because I thought the normal operation of cable broadband is that anyone in your "loop" was essentially on the same subnet and could sniff packets, etc. at will. Is this really anything new?
Are there any organizations that provide defense support for these types of things? Maybe the ACLU would be interested since from FatWallets perspective this boils down to a privacy issue (not revealing the source of the prices)
...and beyond that, I think the best sci-fi does not break the laws that govern the fictional "universe". For example, I think the reason Star-Trek (especially TNG) was so good is the writers were more often than not consistent in it's universe. I think the reason people hate episodes I and II of the Star Wars saga is that George Lucas lost his way at some point. I mean, those rockets R2D2 had on his arms sure would have come in handy in the JAWA incident in episode IV.
As Software Development techniques improve, API's, frameworks, etc. the software increases in complexity so they kind of maintain an inverse relationship.
I think this happens because we lose sight of the problems we are trying to address with the software. In many ways, we are developing software for it's own sake (if you don't believe me, just look up some project failure rate statistics)
The problem that I have with this system is not that a single store is keeping track of what I buy... I gave them permission to do that and in return they offer me sales, etc.
What really bothers me is these stores selling this information to third parties. The right to privacy has not dissapeared and I should be able to decide who I reveal information to and who I don't.
In some ways the precident has been set with the credit rating bureaus. It's only a matter of time until TRW starts brokering purchase pattern information.
And on top of it, they have no procedure to submit a dead spot at, say, YOUR HOUSE and have it corrected, or even listened to. Once you've hit that 14 days, you are stuck my friends.
When running under linux, how do frame rates and general performance of the games compare to the same game being run in windows? I know from reading Tom's hardware that drivers have a lot to do with this... nvidia does linux drivers, but are they as good as the windows versions?
And for the most part I love it. It makes much better use of the hardware (800Mhz PIII) than windows would and Jbuilder runs great and Ximian can let me read my ms exchange email pretty well. I don't even have a windows partition (yet).
One thing stopping me from giving up Windows completely is VPN access. We use a Microsoft solution and I haven't found a good linux alternative. The other (and probably more important) is games. Not other apps though... although openoffice bugs are a little frustrating, productivity apps are pretty much there on linux.
If I could run Mac OSX on my current hardware, I would definitely consider dropping a hundred bucks or so to run that... it has a lot of the advatages of linux with way more spit and polish than windows.
It had a good run and was at least given a chance... more than one promising sci-fi series have been cancelled prematurely IMHO. "Earth 2" and "Nowhere Man" come to mind.
In the case of Earth 2, they just pre-empted too many shows due to football on Sunday nights and kept moving around the timeslot. I was an avid viewer and couldn't find the show half the time. No wonder the ratings weren't what they wanted. As far as SG-1 goes, I kept Showtime for two years just for that show... and dropped it as soon as it moved over to sci-fi.
My favorite scene in the whole series was when Jack and Teilk (sp?) were driving golf balls from the platform into the operational star gate! Now that was something very unexpected from the writers... I couldn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes.
Just because they cancelled Farscape does not make Stargate SG-1 a bad show. I think they are both great, and Richard Dean Andersen is *much* better in this role than he was in MacGyver... I mean, when the bad guys are chasing you never, I repeat, never toss away a perfectly good gun.
I think SG-1 has more of a "formula" than Farscape... and as another poster mentioned it is great how true to past episodes they are. They never break the "SG-1 Reality".
Farscape on the other hand is much more on the edge. The first couple seasons were pure genius but honestly this season felt more like the writers were making things up as they went. The best series have some kind of continuity. Anyone have any idea what changed?
If you just quit calling me at 8:01 am on Saturday morning telling me that I've been selected to receive a free three day trip to the Bahamas. You see, I like to sleep in so if I've really won a trip, send someone in person to wake me up.
Why not do this in the state's where we already live? Are things so far gone that we just give up on everything our fathers and their fathers fought to create?
The homogenization of america is not a foregone conclusion... yet.
I've been using Debian for a while on an old (circa 1998) Digital alpha workstation and it is rock solid and was not *that* hard to install. The magic that 'apt-get dist-upgrade' does more than makes up for the holes in the installation process. My biggest wish is that debian could keep up with redhat as far as versions go... I had to build my own KDE 3.0 and mozilla 1.0 from source.
I don't think the normal behaviour for autistic people is like the movies... yes, we hear about the rare cases of some extreme abiity, but this isn't the norm at all.
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It's thought provoking reading nonetheless. Check it out...
I'm using their latest drivers for RedHat 8 and they are flawless as far as I can tell. Try rebuilding them from source if you haven't already.
Absolutely... a graphics card is much more than just the hardware. NVidia seems to consistently deliver rock solid and blazingly fast drivers for *all* popular platforms, and ATI is always behind in this regard. They have binary distributions for more Linux/GNU distributions than you can shake a stick at, and if that fails, building from source is pretty easy.
As far as this not being a government action, wasn't the DMCA applied? Verio complied under threat of the consequences of the law, which is given power by the government.
I agree with you that false accusation and defamation are not free speech. If they broke the law, then they should be held accountable. I'm just trying to point out how easy it is for corporate entities to steamroller the rights of individuals (in this case, the right to due process and possibly the right to free speech).
Forcing a number of (presumably) individuals with something to say off the web with the stroke of a pen doesn't seem totalitarian to you? Due process isn't even an option due to the cost.
...had foreseen what corporations have become if they wouldn't have put a few special clauses in especially for them.
Thats one of the big shifts of the past few dacades in drug research. They used to start with a chemical compound and figure out if it could be used as a drug. Now they start with genetic data and try to synthesize a compound to do what they want.
With the FORBES greatest breakthroughs of the last century and this, it seems like innovation and discovery is happening much more in the area of biology than anywhere else. I mean, the most notable discoveries according to FORBES in the last 20 years were mostly drugs.
I think it was at a place called Gilley's... "The mechanical bull" or something like that.
I have adelphia (I'm very happy with the service... 3Mbps downloads most of the time) but I like many others run through a router because I thought the normal operation of cable broadband is that anyone in your "loop" was essentially on the same subnet and could sniff packets, etc. at will. Is this really anything new?
Are there any organizations that provide defense support for these types of things? Maybe the ACLU would be interested since from FatWallets perspective this boils down to a privacy issue (not revealing the source of the prices)
...and beyond that, I think the best sci-fi does not break the laws that govern the fictional "universe". For example, I think the reason Star-Trek (especially TNG) was so good is the writers were more often than not consistent in it's universe. I think the reason people hate episodes I and II of the Star Wars saga is that George Lucas lost his way at some point. I mean, those rockets R2D2 had on his arms sure would have come in handy in the JAWA incident in episode IV.
I think this happens because we lose sight of the problems we are trying to address with the software. In many ways, we are developing software for it's own sake (if you don't believe me, just look up some project failure rate statistics)
What really bothers me is these stores selling this information to third parties. The right to privacy has not dissapeared and I should be able to decide who I reveal information to and who I don't.
In some ways the precident has been set with the credit rating bureaus. It's only a matter of time until TRW starts brokering purchase pattern information.
And on top of it, they have no procedure to submit a dead spot at, say, YOUR HOUSE and have it corrected, or even listened to. Once you've hit that 14 days, you are stuck my friends.
When running under linux, how do frame rates and general performance of the games compare to the same game being run in windows? I know from reading Tom's hardware that drivers have a lot to do with this... nvidia does linux drivers, but are they as good as the windows versions?
One thing stopping me from giving up Windows completely is VPN access. We use a Microsoft solution and I haven't found a good linux alternative. The other (and probably more important) is games. Not other apps though... although openoffice bugs are a little frustrating, productivity apps are pretty much there on linux.
If I could run Mac OSX on my current hardware, I would definitely consider dropping a hundred bucks or so to run that... it has a lot of the advatages of linux with way more spit and polish than windows.
My two cents :)
I'd hate to be behind him at an airport security checkpoint.
In the case of Earth 2, they just pre-empted too many shows due to football on Sunday nights and kept moving around the timeslot. I was an avid viewer and couldn't find the show half the time. No wonder the ratings weren't what they wanted. As far as SG-1 goes, I kept Showtime for two years just for that show... and dropped it as soon as it moved over to sci-fi.
My favorite scene in the whole series was when Jack and Teilk (sp?) were driving golf balls from the platform into the operational star gate! Now that was something very unexpected from the writers... I couldn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes.
I think SG-1 has more of a "formula" than Farscape... and as another poster mentioned it is great how true to past episodes they are. They never break the "SG-1 Reality".
Farscape on the other hand is much more on the edge. The first couple seasons were pure genius but honestly this season felt more like the writers were making things up as they went. The best series have some kind of continuity. Anyone have any idea what changed?
...Like a supermodel.
...With a 6 pack of Keystone beer.
The homogenization of america is not a foregone conclusion... yet.
I've been using Debian for a while on an old (circa 1998) Digital alpha workstation and it is rock solid and was not *that* hard to install. The magic that 'apt-get dist-upgrade' does more than makes up for the holes in the installation process. My biggest wish is that debian could keep up with redhat as far as versions go... I had to build my own KDE 3.0 and mozilla 1.0 from source.
Don't confuse the movies for reality.