The federal government already does have minimum MPG standards for cars manufactured in the US. The proposal is not for additional regulation, but rather for increasing the standard to better reflect what's possible with modern technology (the MPG standard has not changed significantly since the 1970's).
Wrong. There is no minimum MPG. There is the CAFE, but that does not mandate a minimum MPG. All it does is provide economic sanctions for companies whose AVERAGE vehicle MPG falls below a minimum. In practice, this has little effect on the MPG of vehicles that are on the road, since the low-MPG vehicles are simply priced higher to compensate for the penalty.
Well, it's obvious the real purpose of DRM isn't to prevent copying, since it has never succeeded in that, and it seems provable that it cannot succeed as long as the user controls his computer. I believe the purpose of DRM's existence is simply to criminalize users who do copy, since you have to break DRM and thus the DMCA to do so. So you have your presumably fair use copy, but in exchange you could be prosecuted simply for making it. The DRM in combination with the DMCA gives the recording industry an automatic upper hand, should they ever choose to pursue users' nonprofit copying.
Supposedly consumers will be happy to pay double for the "flexibility" of being able to back up their new movie to computer and play them on their computers.
I think the idea is that this scheme will fail in the market, generating little to no sales. However, the MPAA can use this to buttress their argument in court (and before Congress) that consumers have legitimate options for watching commercial movies on their home computers, so flexibility of that sort is no longer an excuse for illegal copying (currently, it's the only option).
I've had 7 friends pass away from heroin, LSD, and they ALL were safe and responsible.
Obviously they were not responsible enough to sample whatever was passed off as LSD before ingesting a lethal dose of it. LSD-25 has no known LD50, and believe me, people have done a LOT of acid and not suffered any permanent harm from it.
Aviel Rubin, Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and Technical Director of the Information Security Institute has analyzed the source code used in these voting machines and reports "this voting system is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts." [1] Following the publication of this paper, the State of Maryland hired Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to perform another analysis of the Diebold voting machines. SAIC concluded [t]he system, as implemented in policy, procedure, and technology, is at high risk of compromise. [2]
Well you know, these stiff penalties are justified because we have a long road ahead of us to turn back the tide, to put the cat back in the bag. So the sooner we teach the public a lesson, the faster we will be able to roll back the clock to 1996.
Oh, and apparently the new school of thought is that the easiest offenses to commit should have the stiffest penalties attached to them, actual harm doesn't matter anymore, only the deterrence... but for some reason nobody notices that deterrence is nearly ZERO no matter what the penalty is as long as the chance of being caught is nearly zero. Which in the case of nonprofit file sharing, it is.
First of all, most OSes these days use a memory page size of 4k.
i386 OSes do, since they hardly have a choice.
Having your IO system page match your CPU page makes it much more efficient to DMA data and the like.
IO system page? Give me a break. The IO hardware has no knowledge of what the system page size is, nor does it need to, because unless you are using something like Virtual DMA, the IO hardware is dealing with physical contiguous blocks of memory. The CPU's paging capabilities are completely irrelevant!
Testing has shown that this is generally a helpful.
I was referring to the SR60 in my post, and no, I didn't realize that there was any other way to separate the can besides by brute force. I could not find the link you were referencing, can you please post it?
Who cares what the reviews say? The reviews are biased because they simply don't wear them long enough for the headband to "learn" your head shape. After about 1 day of wearing them, they will become comfortable. You can also flex them outwards yourself if you need more room to even tolerate them before they have settled in.
Eventually the left speaker got loose, I sent it for repairs, and when I got it back, gave it away to my younger brother.
This is a common problem. I don't know why Grado doesn't anchor the wire on both sides where it enters the "can". Since it is only anchored on the inside, it is possible to push the wire up into the can, and this does happen each time you move around. The result is that the solder joint breaks. I have two pairs of SR60 where I cut out the cover on the left can with a dremel in order to repair the joint. I believe this is a design flaw (though one of very few). I still choose these phones over any other I have ever used.
What data? You can't draw any kind of a general conclusion while there is enough stigma to motivate "straight" illegal drug users to misreport or deny their use altogether. Any data you have collected is immediately biased towards those drug users who aren't concerned about society's expectations, for example. A collection of anecdotes is NOT data, data requires analysis for bias and sample size significance among other things, but drug warrior research isn't really concerned with details like that.
...zero-tolerance drug policy... While you may choose what companies to support, I find a strictly drug-free workplace a necessity.
Unfortunately, "zero-tolerance drug policy" goes far beyond "drug-free workplace" and attempts to regulate areas of employees' lives that employers should have no influence over. Coming to work wasted is one thing, being a productive employee and tagged/fired/blacklisted due to failing a metabolite test is quite another.
Of course, you wouldn't be one to judge them if they were living a happy and fulfilling life while working at such a job, would you? What if someone didn't smoke pot and worked at such a job, would you find something else to blame it on? Surely nobody rational would want to work at a job with minimal responsibility and minimal commitment... or would they?
Contrary to popular belief, the coca leaf extract cocaine was never added to Coca-Cola, per se. Because cocaine is naturally present in untreated coca leaves, small amounts of cocaine were also present in the beverage. Today's Coca-Cola uses "spent" coca leaves, those that have been through a cocaine extraction process, to flavor the beverage. Since this process cannot extract the cocaine alkaloids at a molecular level, the drink still contains trace amounts of the stimulant[5]. The United States DEA oversees the importation of coca for Coca-Cola, and later sale of the extracted cocaine to the drug industry where it is used in the creation of many of the common drugs whose names end in "-aine" (such as Novacaine).[6]
I haven't forgotten the claim you made that started this conversation
You mean you have? So hit 'Parent' until you get there and re-read it.
Please list the drugs that dealers give away for free
Alcohol (*during prohibition), marijuana, heroin, prescription opiates, cocaine, speed. Being addictive is not a prerequisite to being given away. But hardly anyone gives away a non-addictive psychedelic since the risk is high and repeat customers are infrequent. Weed is a special case, since it is a commodity and commonplace, and seen as a gesture of camaraderie and respect.
due to their highly addictive, one hit and you're fucked nature?
False dichotomy. For example, corporate cigarettes are recognized as highly addictive by smokers and nonsmokers alike, yet it takes far more than one hit before "you are fucked". But at the same time, the (psychological) use patterns within which the physical dependence will take hold form within the first weeks of use.
Some evidence to back your answers would be nice.
Go read Erowid. "My boyfriend came home with..." "I went to go get weed and my dealer was out, but he had this other..."
Personally, I've been offered all kinds of shit for free at shows. I say no thanks to anything that could kill me.
But the bigger picture as I've claimed is still intact. The price of addictive drugs does not matter, because a non addicted user will most likely encounter them for free, and an addicted user has an inelastic demand. Therefore the WOD claims that "drug prices are higher than ever" is a garbage metric when it comes to gauging success in the WOD. All it means is that 9-to-5 addicts are being gouged on the demand side (leading to more petty crime and family issues) and the black market incentives on the supply side are higher; not only the violence of turf wars, but incentives to cut drugs with poisons further harming the user. High drug prices only means that the harms of the drug war are at their highest, not that the drug war is succeeding in deterring drug abuse or even use.
There is nothing to "fix" since the majority of users prefer the default behavior. For those who don't, they'll have to change WM settings. You can't have a default that suits everyone, so those whose preferences are not in the majority should understand that they will have to tweak things.
Your sysadmin apparently didn't know what he was doing. You can use either udev+usbmount, udev+autofs, or udev+hal/dbus to accomplish what you want. Gnome and KDE use the latter, the first two are solutions that are desktop environment agnostic. All are as reliable as udev is in my experience (which obviously depends on how reliable your distributor has chosen to make it - no problems with Debian). The core "Linux" technology is there and is nothing new or cutting edge.
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Well, it's obvious the real purpose of DRM isn't to prevent copying, since it has never succeeded in that, and it seems provable that it cannot succeed as long as the user controls his computer. I believe the purpose of DRM's existence is simply to criminalize users who do copy, since you have to break DRM and thus the DMCA to do so. So you have your presumably fair use copy, but in exchange you could be prosecuted simply for making it. The DRM in combination with the DMCA gives the recording industry an automatic upper hand, should they ever choose to pursue users' nonprofit copying.
Oh, and apparently the new school of thought is that the easiest offenses to commit should have the stiffest penalties attached to them, actual harm doesn't matter anymore, only the deterrence... but for some reason nobody notices that deterrence is nearly ZERO no matter what the penalty is as long as the chance of being caught is nearly zero. Which in the case of nonprofit file sharing, it is.
Can you cite the ruling that established this precedent? I am very interested.
Well, I really hope you're verifying those ISOs against the distro MD5 hash, otherwise you're just asking for trouble.
They work if you set your referer to http://www.crooksandliars.com/ i.e. with wget --referer
Awesome link, thanks!
I was referring to the SR60 in my post, and no, I didn't realize that there was any other way to separate the can besides by brute force. I could not find the link you were referencing, can you please post it?
Who cares what the reviews say? The reviews are biased because they simply don't wear them long enough for the headband to "learn" your head shape. After about 1 day of wearing them, they will become comfortable. You can also flex them outwards yourself if you need more room to even tolerate them before they have settled in.
What data? You can't draw any kind of a general conclusion while there is enough stigma to motivate "straight" illegal drug users to misreport or deny their use altogether. Any data you have collected is immediately biased towards those drug users who aren't concerned about society's expectations, for example. A collection of anecdotes is NOT data, data requires analysis for bias and sample size significance among other things, but drug warrior research isn't really concerned with details like that.
I know plenty of people who hate their jobs and settle for less than they are capable of. Drug abuse is not a prerequisite.
Yeah, as long as it can be changed without having to jump through hoops, I agree that it is not a problem what the default behavior is chosen to be.
Of course, you wouldn't be one to judge them if they were living a happy and fulfilling life while working at such a job, would you? What if someone didn't smoke pot and worked at such a job, would you find something else to blame it on? Surely nobody rational would want to work at a job with minimal responsibility and minimal commitment... or would they?
Contrary to popular belief, the coca leaf extract cocaine was never added to Coca-Cola, per se. Because cocaine is naturally present in untreated coca leaves, small amounts of cocaine were also present in the beverage. Today's Coca-Cola uses "spent" coca leaves, those that have been through a cocaine extraction process, to flavor the beverage. Since this process cannot extract the cocaine alkaloids at a molecular level, the drink still contains trace amounts of the stimulant[5]. The United States DEA oversees the importation of coca for Coca-Cola, and later sale of the extracted cocaine to the drug industry where it is used in the creation of many of the common drugs whose names end in "-aine" (such as Novacaine).[6]
Personally, I've been offered all kinds of shit for free at shows. I say no thanks to anything that could kill me.
But the bigger picture as I've claimed is still intact. The price of addictive drugs does not matter, because a non addicted user will most likely encounter them for free, and an addicted user has an inelastic demand. Therefore the WOD claims that "drug prices are higher than ever" is a garbage metric when it comes to gauging success in the WOD. All it means is that 9-to-5 addicts are being gouged on the demand side (leading to more petty crime and family issues) and the black market incentives on the supply side are higher; not only the violence of turf wars, but incentives to cut drugs with poisons further harming the user. High drug prices only means that the harms of the drug war are at their highest, not that the drug war is succeeding in deterring drug abuse or even use.
There is nothing to "fix" since the majority of users prefer the default behavior. For those who don't, they'll have to change WM settings. You can't have a default that suits everyone, so those whose preferences are not in the majority should understand that they will have to tweak things.
Your sysadmin apparently didn't know what he was doing. You can use either udev+usbmount, udev+autofs, or udev+hal/dbus to accomplish what you want. Gnome and KDE use the latter, the first two are solutions that are desktop environment agnostic. All are as reliable as udev is in my experience (which obviously depends on how reliable your distributor has chosen to make it - no problems with Debian). The core "Linux" technology is there and is nothing new or cutting edge.
This has nothing to do with "Linux" and everything to do with your window manager's design and current configuration.