The so called "laws" you cite are not laws but have to do with free market economics. I worked as a manager for Footlocker and they, like most mega malls don't open until noon on Sundays because there are usually so few people shopping at that time that it is not cost effective to open at that time. If you are so enslaved to alcohol that you just have to have it getting up in the morning after binging the night before you have a serious problem, so I can see why you don't want any morality interjecting itself into your life.
You've demonstrated your own ignorance by claiming that the "free market" is responsible for local laws prohibiting alcohol sales on Sunday. Is there a law that says Foot Locker cannot be open on Sunday due to slow business? Why then do such laws exist in the name of protecting liquor vendors from slow business, if that were truly the reason?
It's a typical pro-religious argument, jumping to personal attacks because the prohibitionist mindset, that brought us indefensible liquor regulations such as the OP pointed out, cannot stand on its own merit. Is it too much to ask that, as a non-Christian, I be able to have a beer after working on the Sabbath?
His argument is not really very well reasoned at all. He fails to acknowledge that Viacom was one of the companies that bought the DMCA in the first place, without which he never would have been threatened; this case was so incredibly weak, Viacom would not have bothered with a lawsuit because they would have seen a summary judgement in the defendant's favor.
A few counter-notifications is the cost of doing business in exchange for the incredible power of the anti-circumvention provisions and criminal sanctions of the DMCA, and the presumption of guilt that most providers assign to a DMCA notification!
However, if you reverse-engineered the DirecTV system to obtain your system, then you are violating their trade secrets, copyrights, and the like.
No. You are not violating their copyright or trade secrets. You are, however, giving them a basis for a claim that you did so.
One team reverse-engineers a product and writes a spec. The spec is reviewed by lawyers and engineers to make sure there's nothing trade secret in there.
You cannot violate trade secrets by reverse engineering.
Clean room reverse engineering has no statutory basis. The only thing clean room reverse engineering buys you is a summary judgement in your favor instead of a preliminary injunction against you.
The important part is that when it's individual or small company versus big company with expensive lawyers, that turns out to be the difference between the case being a win or a loss.
It's not about who's right. It's about who can afford to pay lawyers for as long as a big company is willing to fight. And they will fight even if they don't have a case, because it's worth the chance that you'll run out of money or the will to defend yourself and you'll be shut down. Which is the point... because it's not about rights, as much as it is about control and keeping the competition thin.
It's not the electoral system that's broken. It's the winner-take-all tradition in Presidential elections that is the problem. If electoral votes were cast according to the constituency, we would see shades of grey in Presidential races that would trickle down all the way to local politics. As it is, winner-take-all is what drives us towards a binary party system... and it's completely unnecessary and has no foundation in law, just another aspect of the status quo that needs to be challenged.
It could have something to do with the fact that Hemp grows in the natural climate almost anywhere and is naturally resistant to pests. Hell, we've been on an eradication campaign for the last 75 years and yet it's still growing wild all over states like Oklahoma... demonstrating that it's even resistant to determined pests like human prohibitionists.
How about this, use different virtual memory maps to "view" the data as rows or as columns, so you only need to keep one copy of the data and just update pointers (virt-to-phys mappings) when data is modified.
The argument was that splitting up Microsoft is necessary because otherwise they will tie their product lines and somehow squeeze out competitors that way.
My challenge to you is to demonstrate how they would accomplish that, when under my proposal their file formats, network protocols, and secret APIs would be out in the open.
How do you propagate a monopoly through product tying, when your competitors have everything they need to engineer a drop-in replacement?
Even if you managed to stop them from leveraging ties based upon formats and APIs, they could still leverage bundling (which they already do) and that would still undermine the other markets.
Linux distributions are far more guilty of bundling than Microsoft has ever been.
Now if you want to talk product tying, you'd have to show me a component of Windows that can stand alone as a separate product, yet cannot be removed from Windows and replaced with a competitor's offering.
I did not state that courts didn't exist; rather that realizing immense profit from taking another person to court, when the problem could simply have been resolved amicably, is a phenomenon that only the U.S. tort system has brought us.
Indeed, the better thing to have done would have been to split the damn company up.
And then you have 3 separate monopolies in each of desktop, internet, and office applications, since none of them would change their business practices as a result. Great idea.
No, the correct approach would have been to require Microsoft to disclose its secret file formats, network protocols, and APIs. The free market would do the rest of the work in cutting Microsoft down to size.
The message would be clear: You can be a monopolist, OR you can wield the government-granted privileges of trade secrets, copyrights, and patents against the rest of the industry. But you cannot do both!
If the encryption is performed on a block-by-block basis, it would make no difference in terms of recovery. The only time it could possibly make a difference is when a block is only partially read, but no hard drive these days will return a data block that contains an ECC error. You either get a full clean block, which you can then decrypt, or an ATA error, at which point encryption of the data is irrelevant because you get none of it anyway.
Why is pedophilia worse than anything else in the world? Even it were the absolute worst crime that could ever be committed, why would you only cover your bases on this one crime and not all crimes?
Same reason it's okay to watch actors murder one another on public television every evening, but a display of a single female breast on national television provokes a national uproar that hasn't ended.
Imagine if you will the beginning of the free market's existence. Individual companies and groups barter for goods and services. If someone steps on the toes of another, the person who is wronged takes that person to court
Erm, no. In the beginning of the free market's existence, if someone steps on the toes of another, they work the problem out between the two of them like two responsible and mature adults.
Going to court only became the default once people realized they could profit so immensely from having a ridiculous judgement issued in their favor -- and if they lose, well their lawyer's fees were just the price of admission.
We no longer act like responsible, mature adults anymore, because there's simply so much potential profit to be found in running to Mommy anytime a transgression could be perceived.
After a few years I realized that the emotional responses I felt were pretty much tied to a complex patterns in the music itself. Roughly speaking, I can classify the most moving music objectively using the criteria I stated in my post.
I'm glad to hear it, your original post seemed to indicate that emotions and physical feeling were not even a factor in your listening experience, so I felt that you may be reducing the whole of music to formulae and mathematical expressions. I am glad that is not the case because it would have made me sad to hear such a thing.
I see grade inflation and poor recruitment as a problem that should be solved by the higher education institutions, not by the government redistributing other people's money -- unless the money is redistributed away from the far worse things that the government already spends our money on.
I don't think blotter could be laced with PCP because PCP is a crystalline white powder and is active only at much higher doses than LSD; the contaminant would be obvious. Bad blotter typically has LSA and other contaminant ergotamines that are much less pleasant in effect than LSD, but not pharmacologically dangerous.
However, I have heard of PCP as well as many dangerous synthetic amphetamine analogues being sold both as counterfeit "ecstacy" and "acid" in place of pure MDMA and LSD-25. This "acid" is the kind that comes in a pill. Don't touch it!
They should have simply sat both of you down and given you a pop quiz to rewrite the same assignment in pseudocode, without referring to the work you turned in, and with instructions to reproduce your submission as closely as possible. It will become clear from the results of that exercise whether or not one of the individuals copied the work. Not necessarily because they wouldn't be able to remember the variable names and such, but mostly because someone who cheated on the assignment would have no idea how to reimplement the algorithms under pressure.
If both people pass this exercise, then it doesn't really matter if somebody cheated because they're both clearly capable of performing the task. And that's what matters in the end as far as the professor's responsibility goes, that they don't pass someone through the course who in the end is lacking capability and will tarnish the reputation of the school.
Plus these falling numbers come at the peak of a college-age baby boom! More people are going to college now (2003-10) than ever before. And you can't argue that this generation will have as much, if not more need, for scientists, engineers and math/stat guys than possibly ever before.
It doesn't matter what the demand is. All that matters is the number of people who care about engineering to begin with. As long as none of those people are having trouble finding financial aid under the current system, then government intervention could only be a net negative. There is no value in baiting people majoring in home economics over to engineering just because it would take a bite out of their tuition. In the end, they'll either implode, or graduate and not be employable. The world needs janitors too...
I have objective standards by which I judge music. Strong melodic lines (and by "strong" I mean "with consistent application of music theory", attention to the center of pitch, good vocal support, complexity, a large amount of variation in frequency, and novelty are the things I value in music. Basically, I want my music to be made by people incredibly proficient musicians, and no amount of style, feel, or groove is going to replace that.
Music that doesn't make you move, doesn't chill you to your core, give you goosebumps, wake your soul, send you to another level of consciousness... it's not music. It might be music to someone else, but... if you're sitting around "objectively judging" music, that "music" you're listening to isn't doing a thing for you. Keep searching... I sincerely hope you find some piece or artist that truly moves you. I don't know what kind of person I'd be if I hadn't.
LSD safe?? Some people never come back from the trip. Some others keep having recurring flashes and trips, even years after taking it.
Actually, thanks to the drug war, nobody has any idea that what they are sold as "acid" is pure LSD-25, or some other ruinous designer drug instead. Blame prohibition for your anecdotes of destruction... just like we can blame prohibition for methanol and lead in the moonshine. LSD-25 has an incredibly firm safety record in controlled tests.
Finally, my personal hypothesis is that was placement in college affordable for a demanding major, the more incentive for children from poorer sections of society to avidly pursue it.
I think that before you make that claim, you have to first demonstrate that people who would otherwise pursue higher education are not pursuing it because they cannot obtain financial aid or student loans. I don't believe that is true, considering the ease with which an idiot such as myself managed to obtain piles of student loans.
The worst thing this idea will do is create a surplus of jobs in the market, with the surplus composed of people for whom engineering and science would NOT have been their first choice if it hadn't been for the dangling carrot. These people will be unemployable not because they lack capability, but because they were conned into a career that they do not love.
It's hard enough to find your passions when you're at such a young age. We shouldn't be peddling confusion in the form of financial incentives.
"It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do. They even had a Parliament. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats. Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of Canada for last 90 years and maybe you'll see that they weren't any stupider than we are. Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws--that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds--so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much physical effort. All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats. Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said:"The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever. And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat. You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice. Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Bolshevik. Lock him up!" So they put him in jail. But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea!"
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It's a typical pro-religious argument, jumping to personal attacks because the prohibitionist mindset, that brought us indefensible liquor regulations such as the OP pointed out, cannot stand on its own merit. Is it too much to ask that, as a non-Christian, I be able to have a beer after working on the Sabbath?
ALDI has sold computers since 1987.
His argument is not really very well reasoned at all. He fails to acknowledge that Viacom was one of the companies that bought the DMCA in the first place, without which he never would have been threatened; this case was so incredibly weak, Viacom would not have bothered with a lawsuit because they would have seen a summary judgement in the defendant's favor.
A few counter-notifications is the cost of doing business in exchange for the incredible power of the anti-circumvention provisions and criminal sanctions of the DMCA, and the presumption of guilt that most providers assign to a DMCA notification!
Clean room reverse engineering has no statutory basis. The only thing clean room reverse engineering buys you is a summary judgement in your favor instead of a preliminary injunction against you.
The important part is that when it's individual or small company versus big company with expensive lawyers, that turns out to be the difference between the case being a win or a loss.
It's not about who's right. It's about who can afford to pay lawyers for as long as a big company is willing to fight. And they will fight even if they don't have a case, because it's worth the chance that you'll run out of money or the will to defend yourself and you'll be shut down. Which is the point... because it's not about rights, as much as it is about control and keeping the competition thin.
It's not the electoral system that's broken. It's the winner-take-all tradition in Presidential elections that is the problem. If electoral votes were cast according to the constituency, we would see shades of grey in Presidential races that would trickle down all the way to local politics. As it is, winner-take-all is what drives us towards a binary party system... and it's completely unnecessary and has no foundation in law, just another aspect of the status quo that needs to be challenged.
It could have something to do with the fact that Hemp grows in the natural climate almost anywhere and is naturally resistant to pests. Hell, we've been on an eradication campaign for the last 75 years and yet it's still growing wild all over states like Oklahoma... demonstrating that it's even resistant to determined pests like human prohibitionists.
How about this, use different virtual memory maps to "view" the data as rows or as columns, so you only need to keep one copy of the data and just update pointers (virt-to-phys mappings) when data is modified.
I don't care what's legal and illegal.
The argument was that splitting up Microsoft is necessary because otherwise they will tie their product lines and somehow squeeze out competitors that way.
My challenge to you is to demonstrate how they would accomplish that, when under my proposal their file formats, network protocols, and secret APIs would be out in the open.
How do you propagate a monopoly through product tying, when your competitors have everything they need to engineer a drop-in replacement?
Now if you want to talk product tying, you'd have to show me a component of Windows that can stand alone as a separate product, yet cannot be removed from Windows and replaced with a competitor's offering.
I did not state that courts didn't exist; rather that realizing immense profit from taking another person to court, when the problem could simply have been resolved amicably, is a phenomenon that only the U.S. tort system has brought us.
No, the correct approach would have been to require Microsoft to disclose its secret file formats, network protocols, and APIs. The free market would do the rest of the work in cutting Microsoft down to size.
The message would be clear: You can be a monopolist, OR you can wield the government-granted privileges of trade secrets, copyrights, and patents against the rest of the industry. But you cannot do both!
If the encryption is performed on a block-by-block basis, it would make no difference in terms of recovery. The only time it could possibly make a difference is when a block is only partially read, but no hard drive these days will return a data block that contains an ECC error. You either get a full clean block, which you can then decrypt, or an ATA error, at which point encryption of the data is irrelevant because you get none of it anyway.
Going to court only became the default once people realized they could profit so immensely from having a ridiculous judgement issued in their favor -- and if they lose, well their lawyer's fees were just the price of admission.
We no longer act like responsible, mature adults anymore, because there's simply so much potential profit to be found in running to Mommy anytime a transgression could be perceived.
I'm glad to hear it, your original post seemed to indicate that emotions and physical feeling were not even a factor in your listening experience, so I felt that you may be reducing the whole of music to formulae and mathematical expressions. I am glad that is not the case because it would have made me sad to hear such a thing.
I see grade inflation and poor recruitment as a problem that should be solved by the higher education institutions, not by the government redistributing other people's money -- unless the money is redistributed away from the far worse things that the government already spends our money on.
However, I have heard of PCP as well as many dangerous synthetic amphetamine analogues being sold both as counterfeit "ecstacy" and "acid" in place of pure MDMA and LSD-25. This "acid" is the kind that comes in a pill. Don't touch it!
They want it because the price is unbeatable.
It's just that it has an annoying license that they have to work around, in order to be able to sufficiently hamstring their users.
If both people pass this exercise, then it doesn't really matter if somebody cheated because they're both clearly capable of performing the task. And that's what matters in the end as far as the professor's responsibility goes, that they don't pass someone through the course who in the end is lacking capability and will tarnish the reputation of the school.
Music that doesn't make you move, doesn't chill you to your core, give you goosebumps, wake your soul, send you to another level of consciousness... it's not music. It might be music to someone else, but... if you're sitting around "objectively judging" music, that "music" you're listening to isn't doing a thing for you. Keep searching... I sincerely hope you find some piece or artist that truly moves you. I don't know what kind of person I'd be if I hadn't.
I think that before you make that claim, you have to first demonstrate that people who would otherwise pursue higher education are not pursuing it because they cannot obtain financial aid or student loans. I don't believe that is true, considering the ease with which an idiot such as myself managed to obtain piles of student loans.
The worst thing this idea will do is create a surplus of jobs in the market, with the surplus composed of people for whom engineering and science would NOT have been their first choice if it hadn't been for the dangling carrot. These people will be unemployable not because they lack capability, but because they were conned into a career that they do not love.
It's hard enough to find your passions when you're at such a young age. We shouldn't be peddling confusion in the form of financial incentives.
Attributed to Tommy Douglas
"It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do. They even had a Parliament. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats. Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of Canada for last 90 years and maybe you'll see that they weren't any stupider than we are. Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws--that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds--so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much physical effort. All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats. Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said:"The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever. And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat. You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice. Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Bolshevik. Lock him up!" So they put him in jail. But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea!"
Can it be downloaded or is only the small segment re: fish available?