My local Frye's electronics has a display running Debian. It's on the endcap of the linux book aisle, quite a proper place. Now we just need it moved to the complete systems shelves.
Frye's service people aren't especially friendly - they usually follow the creed of "don't bother me, and I won't bother you" - but they surpass any local book, or computer, store on Linux texts.
I dont work at Frye's, and generally dislike shopping there. The dusty-warehouse feeling gives me the willies, and they have foregone servicepeople, in leiu of stockers, cashiers, and people who try to avoid eye contact with customers.
IANAL, but here's what I've seen by watching Judge Wapner, LA LAW, and The Practice:
Generally, when (after) individuals are found guilty of criminal law, they are presumed guilty and have to live out their sentence (ie go to prison) until they win appeal.
Is this how it works in Corporate law, orare sentences suspended ultil all appeals are exhausted?
But nothing in this universe, except perhaps the deity, is perfect,
I don't know. I was sitting here, thinking that fireants were perfect.
Fireants:
Sting the hell out of anything that poses a threat. *
Eat anything that tastes sweet. (any creature that knows the value of sugar is fine by me)
Feed and protect their larvae.
Recognize the needs of the community above the needs of any individual - eradicating the concept of greed.
Sacrifice their very lives on order to protect the community.
Recognize one queen, who can reproduce with or without fertilization (although a fertilization is required to create a fertile male) - thus denying the existence of vanity, and lust.
Carry many times their own weight.
*do only one thing, and do it well. And boy do they do it well.
3. An Intel-compatible PC is one designed to function with Intel's 80x86/Pentium families of microprocessors or with compatible microprocessors manufactured by Intel or by other firms.
II. THE RELEVANT MARKET
18. Currently there are no products, nor are there likely to be any in the near future, that a significant percentage of consumers world-wide could substitute for Intel-compatible PC operating systems without incurring substantial costs.
Short and sweet: Personal computers are assumed to be using Intel chips or chips following Intel's lead. Is this our next monopoly?
What's next? Sueing every software manufacturer who has a WIMP interface, since people with no hands can't use a mouse
Actually, there are a number of screen reading programs available to the public. When I worked for an especially "sparky" ISP, one of our regular tech-support customers was a blind gentleman who used a "shark" to read the Windows 3.1 GUI to him. Painful, but it got him to, I'd say, 60% effectiveness, which is a whole lot better than 0%
www.readplease.com
www.speechtech.net
I remember reading, several years ago, about a boy who was born without arms. He picked up a fork with his right foot, and ate supper that way.
There was a girl (friend-of-a-friend) who played baseball with one arm, by catching the ball, -and she did catch the ball, quite often - putting it down, removing the glove with her teeth, and using the same hand to throw again.
She wasn't the greatest player on the team, but she had the most heart. And she played on a "real kid" team (her words) instead of one designed for disabled children.
Many people who do not have fully functioning appendages/senses prove themselves surprisingly resilient and adaptive and their ego survives by reinventing their remaining facilities.
!everybody must have the same abilities. that's obviously not gonna happen. But accomodations should be made for people with physical - and, yes, mental - disabilities.
A friend-of-a-friend lived 42 years as a successful businessman, then had a stroke that paralized him 99%. His only movement is the index finger on his left hand. He is hospitalized. His family does not visit.He has 100% of his mental capacity. He has stared at the wall for five years. 4 months ago, Specialized sw/hw was donated, and he has that finger on a small joystick, surfing the net, 6-8 hours a day. Types 20 wpm, but at least has something to occupy his mind.
This is the same act that leads to us having braile at drive up ATMs (think about that one for a minute...)
I think this may be an economy - of - scale type thing, or, conceiveably a scenario where you drive your blind cousin to the ATM because the banks closed, and the drive-through is accessible from the driver's side back seat.
Now my question, Rombuu: who the hell moderated THAT post up to 2?
"Manufacturing might involve assembling trillions of circuits and then identifying and mapping out the bad ones -- much as faulty sectors are declared off limits in today's disk drives.
"It's a very biological approach. Everyone's brain is the same, but the pathways are all unique."
Actually I interpret these two statements as a very strong connection between mulecular computing and AI (why not?) Imagine "pouring out" a motherboard and allowing it to form itself throughout its productive usage time.
Will bad circuits be isolated only in production, or on a continual basis throughout the circuitmass' service tenure? If the latter, then would this circuit not then gain "experience" in addition to data? I would at first compare this to the TCP/IP system, but on a vastly condensed scale. Does this not, at least, simulate learning process?
What about this statement: "But researchers in molecular electronics are optimistic that they will be able to... 'self-assemble' vast numbers of molecular-scale circuits at infinitesimal cost."
In addition to an evolving system that maps out its own bad sectors, consider self-assembly (I know this is a stretch, but...) A circuit mass that can map out its own bad sectors, self-assemble (reproduce?)
How distant then, would be a self-assembly process that detects the cause of bad circuits, and implements processes to aviod these causal situations?
At which point will have we stopped witnessing product evolution vs. genetic Darwinism?
"Well the thing that local companies still have over internet delivery is service."
Define service. I like ordering a part today and getting it shipped to my house tomorrow. This is a good thing. But I also like going to the store today and getting the part today. That's even better. I lose some of the selection, but local retailers (bitshop down the street, owned by somebody's uncle)have much fewer customers, and take each of them a byte more seriously. Many people still enjoy the semantics of buying locally, and -really- like the idea of complaining to a "real person" "face to face" when something goes wrong with the service.
Summary: The owner of a local bitshop is much more likely to accomodate requests, albeit, on a "favor" or charge basis to gain your trust and patronage.
For example, in a local component store: Customer: I dont like wincomponents. I don't want Intel. I need linux to maintain my sanity.
salesgeek: Ok. Hardware modem costs $x.99 extra, I do/don't personally recommend cyrix/amd because....., and I can dowload Linux for you, but I'll charge you for media and time, or I can get you a commercal disk tomorrow, or....
Customer: I'm not paying for windows Salesgeek:Then don't. I won't have to install it:)
Customer: I don't like you. Let me talk to your managerI'm going somewhere else. Salesgeek: Don't do that. Give me a chance to make it right? Here's one of the Linux CD we burned last night. We're not really selling these until next week, but it's yours. We appreciate your business. Policy is one thing, but you're a customer.
_______ Corporate(big, national) Retal:
money-possessor: I dont like wincomponents. I don't want Intel. I need linux to maintain my sanity.
salesgeek: Sorry. All of our systems come with Wincomponents. It's in the motherboard-thingy so its there forever. You might be able to change that with a jumper. Call Tech support. It's only 2.99/m
money-possessor: I'm not paying for windows Salesgeek: Of course not, seperately. It's built into the cost, with a great discount to us. And we pass that savings on to you!
Money-possessor: I'm not paying $99. or $30. for windows. Salesgeek: We won't remove windows for you. It's policy.
money-possessor: I don't like you.
Salesgeek: Ok don't like us? Dont buy from us! there are many drones who will!
money-possessor:Let me talk to your manager. Salesgeek: The managers are on a seperate line. It's policy. Please call 1(876)xxx-xxxx
Money-possessor: That's a toll call! Salesgeek:We reserver our 800 numbers for paying customers.
If you believe what you're told, for example "God exists" without demanding evidence (and i don't mean the ambiguous and self-contradictory Bible), you're not cool - you're just plain dumb.
...As opposed to the enlightened and infallible wisdom of "If I don't see it, it don't exist"?
Ever had the Flu? Bet your doctor told you that you had a virus. Probably gave you a shot, or at least a pill to lessen the symptoms. Did you believe that the medicine would work, or did you demand to see your "bug's" reaction in real time before you'd take it? How did you trust your doctor not to poison you? Yet you would trust him before you allow yourself to feel the faith and hope that you'd find in a church community?
If a pen required you to adjust the way you work to use it, you wouldn't use a pen. ally, In fact, people WERE required to adjust their work habits to accomodate pens. They had to acquire an ink well, pen tips, and go through some form of training to "write with a pen". This is assuming that they were literate in the first place. There is a common theme in many of my posts: New technology (and each material invention that results) is only SO accomodating. Any adopters (early or late) of any tool must spend time, often a significant portion of their lives, to learn to use that tool, and often must make outstanding sacrifices to do so as well.
As I see it, this can ONLY work for formalised documents,...
You're probably right, at least about ver 1.0, but the translation of subtle cultural / idiosyncratic linguistic tendencies is not what the project seems to be aiming for.
This will not help you translate girlspeak.
The use of this tool will probably be most common in more technically and linguistically savvy circles (again, speaking of ver 1.0) Like any other tool, Flaws will be found, exposed, and accomodations will be made, in the tool itself, the tool's UI, and undoubtedly in the user's understanding and implementation.
(donning asbestos suit and rosary) I've been praying extra hard for the last few months. I don't KNOW WHEN its gonna happen. Maybe not in my lifetime. Maybe not before my 7th-great grandchildren's lifetime, but I'd rather trust in God in such precarious times.
Even if I don my most conservative "government is totally incompetent, unreliable and too expensive" hat and/or attitude, I must disagree with you here.
If the USPS is abolished or sold to private industries, then the price of 1st class letters, and bulk mail will spiral upwards. Why? 5 easy steps:
1) Regional postmasters would disagree on how the "Mail Service Industry" should be run and split into factions who charge other regions more or less depending on relationships and disputes.
2) These new Mail Service Providers would advertize Much Better Service (TM) over the Post office. It would be a lie. People would still have to wait in line at the post office, and there would be an average of 25% of all service counters open for service. Just like in the retail sector. But Average Joe(ann?) USA would believe it, because all Government Services have really bad service (true) and any private industry could easily do better. (somewhattruesometimesmaybe)
3) Mail offices could easily rationalize, falsely, but effectively, that 1st class mail is tremendously underpriced (after all, look at the prices people will pay FedEX) and use this falsehood to increase the price of postage foufold.
4) Average Joe(ann?) USA would put up with it, because "It's really only a dollar and a half, and not worth fighting for."
5) And Everybody would be happy because we got that horrible tax drain of a post office off of Taxpayer Joe's back! (nevermind that USPS is, in fact, fully self-sustaining)
Many states specifically deny criminals the right to collect proceeds from "how/why-I-did-it"types of stories.
The idea is that no convicted criminal should be able to profit from his crime, whether monetarily, or by broadcasting his thoughtcrime.
It's perfectly permissable for the Federal Government to broadcast it's case, though. Justifyable, maybe, but not justice.
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When I returned for my second viewing, the camera stumbles and shakes, and the cursing and the lack of a surprising ending did annoy me, and I left quite disappointed. But I liked it enough the first time to want to see it again.
The first time I saw this, I saw it alone, and it did scare me. I felt a close connection to the chaacters, and I liked them. When you see three characters ONLY through the entire movie, you have the chance to develop them to a much greater extent.
Really, did you feel more when Josh disappeared or when Freddy Krueger's 15th movie victim is sripped and slashed (obvious horny male comments excluded)?
This movie is more like a psycological case study of people when they get lost and start losing it.
This is true. This is WHY it was frightening. I'm not scared by the high-tech boogiemen that haunt Elm Street, Crystal Lake, or other places in other super-slasher films. They're obviously phoney. TBWP is god because it's believable. Granted, I don't believe in vampires, hocus-smokus, the wicked witch of the west, or any of that BS, but I believe that there are homicidal loonies who are insaine/stupid enough to believe that they are a witch or a vampire, to the degree that they collect children for sacrifice, mutilate people and animals, and leave bloody entrails as "gifts" to nonbelievers.
You didn't have to believe in witchcraft to get into this movie. You only had to believe that (a)there was someone who was enough of a loner to take refuge in that house and those woods, however temporarily, who would have used violence to ward off trespassers and (b) there was someone in the woods (human, wierdo would have worked as well as wicked witch) who really didn't want you there.
If this kind of stuff happened to me on a camping trip, it would have scared the fool out of me. Imagine being alone in the woods, without any way to call home, lost, tired, and hungry, with some sicko freak trying to mess with your head. Now imagine one in your party disappearing. Now imagine hearing that person's moans and screams from some ambiguous direction.
I can see this movie being viewed in some crowds as a psychological study. It plays on natural fears: darkness, solitude, persecution, things that jump out from shadows in the night...
And, of course, the Supreme Court can still overturn it as unconstitutional (that bit about disabling software remotely could be construed as illegal search and seizure).
That is true, if the Supreme Court took the time. As it is now, the supreme court is REDUCING the amount of time that it spends hearing cases. The justices are spending LESS time on the bench, and granting fewer cases their audience.
Congress knows this. State and local legislators know this. A supreme court case could take five, ten years, in addition to federal court and appeal court circuts.
Yes, eventually someone WOULD win this case in supreme court, but by the time ONE litigant stood up for $singulargenderpronoun&"self", thousands of others would have been bullied in to submitting to the whims of multibilliondollarleagaltactics or suffering the stigma and expense of "making a Federal case out of it"
I can neither confirm nor deny specifics about Marly or Greatful Dead stickers, but:
There are still a disturbing number of search-and-seizure^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^H^H^H law enforcement assaults against people who are guilty only of DWB / WWB / BBIP**
There are an alarming number of children being sent home on a regular basis for wearing the wrong color shirts (ie gang-related colors)
**Driving While Black / Walking While Black / Being Black In Public
Fuck with a cop today! Hang your License plate upside down!
Because the FCC trusts the source (PBS, not Townshend). While PBS is not always staunchly conservative in what they broadcast, it remains clear that anything (remotely) offensive is recognized as art, as opposed to blatant ploys for ratings and commercial interests.
In fact, I believe that PBS is where I first saw Smother's Brother's episodes* (years after the fact).
Anyone remember the political fury over that show? Funny how things change.
*I may be wrong. It's not unusual, and I don't have to be reminded of my fallabitily. Correct me if you feel compelled to do so.
Agreed. The Beatles may (or may not) be the greatest rock band to ever exist in Human history...after all, We've got a lot of history yet to be written...but they will always be the first Rock Band that was Truly Great. John's genius and Paul's heart and charisma are the stuff legends are made of.
Sgt. Pepper was an absolute masterpiece, from the lack of dead air on the album (one song always led to another, without the typical 2-second "break" to the backwards-whirl of Mr. Kite, to the hundreds of other musical stunts that they pulled. The only thing that I really missed from this album on the first listen (I was 14, and it was the early '90s) was "Yesterday", but I quickly realized why that song never belonged there in the first place.
On an unrelated note: A Classical music appreciation prof I once had, dedicated a weeks worth of lectures to explaining WHY "yesterday" was John's greatest masterpiece. He was well over teenage, even in the '60s and '70s, but he really delved into the instrumentation, key shifts, and rythm changes. Very cool
...and we's all be singing the Russian national Anthem. Our greatest achievement against the Russian Communist/militairistic/totalitarian machine is that THEY went broke FIRST.
the guise of the budget surplus was achieved by mis^H^H^Hreappropriating funds that SHOULD have been used to stabilize social security, thus leaving anyone who would be elegible after 2020, out in the cold. I'm not especially FOR or AGAINST social security persay, but I'm steamed that I will continue to pay this tax when it's common knowledge that no one in born after 1970 will be able to collect a reasonable benefit amount.
If the courts rule in favor of service providers who disclose such informations, people will start forming their own "black-market" networks to avoid these firms.
This argument could be made against any bar/pub/drinking establishment who employs a bouncer/security person/off-duty cop.
The message sent by employing these "enforcement" types is clear enough: you might break the law, but we won't let you do it HERE if we can stop it!
There are, and will be, people who clot into clandestine gatherings for drinking/gambling/fighting* as well as for trading and partaking in illicit things. But limiting access, reporting crimes, etc. removes the legitimacy of these actions and DOES, in fact, deter otherwise-good people who might be tempted to break the law. *standard disclaimer. No diatribe is planned, intended, or insinuated for or against drinking, gambling, fighting, et al, and none should be inferred.
Unless you decide to execute 80% of the population, we have to tamper with nature, or nature will execute those people the slow way.
We are nature, no less, and no more than the mouse I stepped on this morning on the way to work. If I hadn't so carelessly destroyed that rodent, a stray cat might have attacked it for food. Is the cat more or less natural than I am because she doesn't wear loafers?
Even if we do slaughter 80% of the population*, then the impact of several billion bodies that must be buried, burned, shipped off of the planet into the sun / distant part of the galaxy of your choice, is (drummroll, please)NATURAL and will effect change on the planet. There is nothing that we can possibly do to reduce our imact on the world around us. The only difference between our impact and the impact of so much Anthrax, is that humans are aware if their effects, and the microorganisms responsible for Anthrax are (believed) to be unaware.
*(not recommended, I detest hate crimes, don't use this against me,I'm not really a homicial maniac, all thoughts are mine and not my employers, disclaimer, etc)
I wasn't thinking exactly along those lines, but I do see a great potential for false alarms.
The point, obvoiusly, would be to wear this during times of questionable security, say while jogging alone, excercising alone, etc. Excercise > higher heart rate > false alarms ?
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My local Frye's electronics has a display running Debian. It's on the endcap of the linux book aisle, quite a proper place. Now we just need it moved to the complete systems shelves.
Frye's service people aren't especially friendly - they usually follow the creed of "don't bother me, and I won't bother you" - but they surpass any local book, or computer, store on Linux texts.
I dont work at Frye's, and generally dislike shopping there. The dusty-warehouse feeling gives me the willies, and they have foregone servicepeople, in leiu of stockers, cashiers, and people who try to avoid eye contact with customers.
IANAL, but here's what I've seen by watching Judge Wapner, LA LAW, and The Practice:
Generally, when (after) individuals are found guilty of criminal law, they are presumed guilty and have to live out their sentence (ie go to prison) until they win appeal.
Is this how it works in Corporate law, orare sentences suspended ultil all appeals are exhausted?
But nothing in this universe, except perhaps the deity, is perfect,
I don't know. I was sitting here, thinking that fireants were perfect.
Fireants:
Sting the hell out of anything that poses a threat. *
Eat anything that tastes sweet. (any creature that knows the value of sugar is fine by me)
Feed and protect their larvae.
Recognize the needs of the community above the needs of any individual - eradicating the concept of greed.
Sacrifice their very lives on order to protect the community.
Recognize one queen, who can reproduce with or without fertilization (although a fertilization is required to create a fertile male) - thus denying the existence of vanity, and lust.
Carry many times their own weight.
*do only one thing, and do it well. And boy do they do it well.
3. An Intel-compatible PC is one designed to function with Intel's 80x86/Pentium families of microprocessors or with compatible microprocessors manufactured by Intel or by other firms.
II. THE RELEVANT MARKET
18. Currently there are no products, nor are there likely to be any in the near future, that a significant percentage of consumers world-wide could substitute for Intel-compatible PC operating systems without incurring substantial costs.
Short and sweet: Personal computers are assumed to be using Intel chips or chips following Intel's lead. Is this our next monopoly?
What's next? Sueing every software manufacturer who has a WIMP interface, since people with no hands can't use a mouse
Actually, there are a number of screen reading programs available to the public. When I worked for an especially "sparky" ISP, one of our regular tech-support customers was a blind gentleman who used a "shark" to read the Windows 3.1 GUI to him. Painful, but it got him to, I'd say, 60% effectiveness, which is a whole lot better than 0%
www.readplease.com
www.speechtech.net
I remember reading, several years ago, about a boy who was born without arms. He picked up a fork with his right foot, and ate supper that way.
There was a girl (friend-of-a-friend) who played baseball with one arm, by catching the ball, -and she did catch the ball, quite often - putting it down, removing the glove with her teeth, and using the same hand to throw again.
She wasn't the greatest player on the team, but she had the most heart. And she played on a "real kid" team (her words) instead of one designed for disabled children.
Many people who do not have fully functioning appendages/senses prove themselves surprisingly resilient and adaptive and their ego survives by reinventing their remaining facilities.
!everybody must have the same abilities. that's obviously not gonna happen. But accomodations should be made for people with physical - and, yes, mental - disabilities.
A friend-of-a-friend lived 42 years as a successful businessman, then had a stroke that paralized him 99%. His only movement is the index finger on his left hand. He is hospitalized. His family does not visit.He has 100% of his mental capacity. He has stared at the wall for five years. 4 months ago, Specialized sw/hw was donated, and he has that finger on a small joystick, surfing the net, 6-8 hours a day. Types 20 wpm, but at least has something to occupy his mind.
This is the same act that leads to us having braile at drive up ATMs (think about that one for a minute...)
I think this may be an economy - of - scale type thing, or, conceiveably a scenario where you drive your blind cousin to the ATM because the banks closed, and the drive-through is accessible from the driver's side back seat.
Now my question, Rombuu: who the hell moderated THAT post up to 2?
"Manufacturing might involve assembling trillions of circuits and then identifying and mapping out the bad ones -- much as faulty sectors are declared off limits in today's disk drives.
"It's a very biological approach. Everyone's brain is the same, but the pathways are all unique."
Actually I interpret these two statements as a very strong connection between mulecular computing and AI (why not?) Imagine "pouring out" a motherboard and allowing it to form itself throughout its productive usage time.
Will bad circuits be isolated only in production, or on a continual basis throughout the circuitmass' service tenure? If the latter, then would this circuit not then gain "experience" in addition to data? I would at first compare this to the TCP/IP system, but on a vastly condensed scale. Does this not, at least, simulate learning process?
What about this statement:
"But researchers in molecular electronics are optimistic that they will be able to
In addition to an evolving system that maps out its own bad sectors, consider self-assembly (I know this is a stretch, but...) A circuit mass that can map out its own bad sectors, self-assemble (reproduce?)
How distant then, would be a self-assembly process that detects the cause of bad circuits, and implements processes to aviod these causal situations?
At which point will have we stopped witnessing product evolution vs. genetic Darwinism?
"Well the thing that local companies still have over internet delivery is service."
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:)
Define service. I like ordering a part today and getting it shipped to my house tomorrow. This is a good thing.
But I also like going to the store today and getting the part today. That's even better. I lose some of the selection, but local retailers (bitshop down the street, owned by somebody's uncle)have much fewer customers, and take each of them a byte more seriously. Many people still enjoy the semantics of buying locally, and -really- like the idea of complaining to a "real person" "face to face" when something goes wrong with the service.
Summary: The owner of a local bitshop is much more likely to accomodate requests, albeit, on a "favor" or charge basis to gain your trust and patronage.
For example, in a local component store:
Customer: I dont like wincomponents. I don't want Intel. I need linux to maintain my sanity.
salesgeek: Ok. Hardware modem costs $x.99 extra, I do/don't personally recommend cyrix/amd because....., and I can dowload Linux for you, but I'll charge you for media and time, or I can get you a commercal disk tomorrow, or
Customer: I'm not paying for windows
Salesgeek:Then don't. I won't have to install it
Customer: I don't like you. Let me talk to your managerI'm going somewhere else.
Salesgeek: Don't do that. Give me a chance to make it right? Here's one of the Linux CD we burned last night. We're not really selling these until next week, but it's yours. We appreciate your business. Policy is one thing, but you're a customer.
_______
Corporate(big, national) Retal:
money-possessor: I dont like wincomponents. I don't want Intel. I need linux to maintain my sanity.
salesgeek: Sorry. All of our systems come with Wincomponents. It's in the motherboard-thingy so its there forever. You might be able to change that with a jumper. Call Tech support. It's only 2.99/m
money-possessor: I'm not paying for windows
Salesgeek: Of course not, seperately. It's built into the cost, with a great discount to us. And we pass that savings on to you!
Money-possessor: I'm not paying $99. or $30. for windows.
Salesgeek: We won't remove windows for you. It's policy.
money-possessor: I don't like you.
Salesgeek: Ok don't like us? Dont buy from us! there are many drones who will!
money-possessor:Let me talk to your manager.
Salesgeek: The managers are on a seperate line. It's policy. Please call 1(876)xxx-xxxx
Money-possessor: That's a toll call!
Salesgeek:We reserver our 800 numbers for paying customers.
If you believe what you're told, for example "God exists" without demanding evidence (and i don't mean the ambiguous and self-contradictory Bible), you're not cool - you're just plain dumb.
...As opposed to the enlightened and infallible wisdom of "If I don't see it, it don't exist"?
Ever had the Flu? Bet your doctor told you that you had a virus. Probably gave you a shot, or at least a pill to lessen the symptoms. Did you believe that the medicine would work, or did you demand to see your "bug's" reaction in real time before you'd take it? How did you trust your doctor not to poison you? Yet you would trust him before you allow yourself to feel the faith and hope that you'd find in a church community?
If a pen required you to adjust the way you work to use it, you wouldn't use a pen. ally, In fact, people WERE required to adjust their work habits to accomodate pens. They had to acquire an ink well, pen tips, and go through some form of training to "write with a pen". This is assuming that they were literate in the first place. There is a common theme in many of my posts: New technology (and each material invention that results) is only SO accomodating. Any adopters (early or late) of any tool must spend time, often a significant portion of their lives, to learn to use that tool, and often must make outstanding sacrifices to do so as well.
The only thing I am lacking in Linux is a mail client that is MS Exchange server compliant
Try this:
Set POP, IMAP, and LDAP server names to the IP address of your Exchange Server.
As I see it, this can ONLY work for formalised documents,...
You're probably right, at least about ver 1.0, but the translation of subtle cultural / idiosyncratic linguistic tendencies is not what the project seems to be aiming for.
This will not help you translate girlspeak.
The use of this tool will probably be most common in more technically and linguistically savvy circles (again, speaking of ver 1.0) Like any other tool, Flaws will be found, exposed, and accomodations will be made, in the tool itself, the tool's UI, and undoubtedly in the user's understanding and implementation.
Truly morbid question:
Could these be the next Darwin Award winners?
(donning asbestos suit and rosary)
I've been praying extra hard for the last few months. I don't KNOW WHEN its gonna happen. Maybe not in my lifetime. Maybe not before my 7th-great grandchildren's lifetime, but I'd rather trust in God in such precarious times.
Even if I don my most conservative "government is totally incompetent, unreliable and too expensive" hat and/or attitude, I must disagree with you here.
If the USPS is abolished or sold to private industries, then the price of 1st class letters, and bulk mail will spiral upwards. Why? 5 easy steps:
1) Regional postmasters would disagree on how the "Mail Service Industry" should be run and split into factions who charge other regions more or less depending on relationships and disputes.
2) These new Mail Service Providers would advertize Much Better Service (TM) over the Post office. It would be a lie. People would still have to wait in line at the post office, and there would be an average of 25% of all service counters open for service. Just like in the retail sector. But Average Joe(ann?) USA would believe it, because all Government Services have really bad service (true) and any private industry could easily do better. (somewhattruesometimesmaybe)
3) Mail offices could easily rationalize, falsely, but effectively, that 1st class mail is tremendously underpriced (after all, look at the prices people will pay FedEX) and use this falsehood to increase the price of postage foufold.
4) Average Joe(ann?) USA would put up with it, because "It's really only a dollar and a half, and not worth fighting for."
5) And Everybody would be happy because we got that horrible tax drain of a post office off of Taxpayer Joe's back! (nevermind that USPS is, in fact, fully self-sustaining)
Nope.
Many states specifically deny criminals the right to collect proceeds from "how/why-I-did-it"types of stories.
The idea is that no convicted criminal should be able to profit from his crime, whether monetarily, or by broadcasting his thoughtcrime.
It's perfectly permissable for the Federal Government to broadcast it's case, though. Justifyable, maybe, but not justice.
When I returned for my second viewing, the camera stumbles and shakes, and the cursing and the lack of a surprising ending did annoy me, and I left quite disappointed. But I liked it enough the first time to want to see it again.
The first time I saw this, I saw it alone, and it did scare me. I felt a close connection to the chaacters, and I liked them. When you see three characters ONLY through the entire movie, you have the chance to develop them to a much greater extent.
Really, did you feel more when Josh disappeared or when Freddy Krueger's 15th movie victim is sripped and slashed (obvious horny male comments excluded)?
This movie is more like a psycological case study of people when they get lost and start losing it.
This is true. This is WHY it was frightening. I'm not scared by the high-tech boogiemen that haunt Elm Street, Crystal Lake, or other places in other super-slasher films. They're obviously phoney. TBWP is god because it's believable. Granted, I don't believe in vampires, hocus-smokus, the wicked witch of the west, or any of that BS, but I believe that there are homicidal loonies who are insaine/stupid enough to believe that they are a witch or a vampire, to the degree that they collect children for sacrifice, mutilate people and animals, and leave bloody entrails as "gifts" to nonbelievers.
You didn't have to believe in witchcraft to get into this movie. You only had to believe that (a)there was someone who was enough of a loner to take refuge in that house and those woods, however temporarily, who would have used violence to ward off trespassers and (b) there was someone in the woods (human, wierdo would have worked as well as wicked witch) who really didn't want you there.
If this kind of stuff happened to me on a camping trip, it would have scared the fool out of me. Imagine being alone in the woods, without any way to call home, lost, tired, and hungry, with some sicko freak trying to mess with your head. Now imagine one in your party disappearing. Now imagine hearing that person's moans and screams from some ambiguous direction.
I can see this movie being viewed in some crowds as a psychological study. It plays on natural fears: darkness, solitude, persecution, things that jump out from shadows in the night...
And, of course, the Supreme Court can still overturn it as unconstitutional (that bit about disabling software remotely could be construed as illegal search and seizure).
That is true, if the Supreme Court took the time. As it is now, the supreme court is REDUCING the amount of time that it spends hearing cases. The justices are spending LESS time on the bench, and granting fewer cases their audience.
Congress knows this. State and local legislators know this. A supreme court case could take five, ten years, in addition to federal court and appeal court circuts.
Yes, eventually someone WOULD win this case in supreme court, but by the time ONE litigant stood up for $singulargenderpronoun&"self", thousands of others would have been bullied in to submitting to the whims of multibilliondollarleagaltactics or suffering the stigma and expense of "making a Federal case out of it"
I can neither confirm nor deny specifics about Marly or Greatful Dead stickers, but:
H ^H^H^H law enforcement assaults against people who are guilty only of DWB / WWB / BBIP**
There are still a disturbing number of search-and-seizure^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^
There are an alarming number of children being sent home on a regular basis for wearing the wrong color shirts (ie gang-related colors)
**Driving While Black / Walking While Black / Being Black In Public
Fuck with a cop today! Hang your License plate upside down!
Because the FCC trusts the source (PBS, not Townshend). While PBS is not always staunchly conservative in what they broadcast, it remains clear that anything (remotely) offensive is recognized as art, as opposed to blatant ploys for ratings and commercial interests.
In fact, I believe that PBS is where I first saw Smother's Brother's episodes* (years after the fact).
Anyone remember the political fury over that show? Funny how things change.
*I may be wrong. It's not unusual, and I don't have to be reminded of my fallabitily. Correct me if you feel compelled to do so.
Agreed. The Beatles may (or may not) be the greatest rock band to ever exist in Human history...after all, We've got a lot of history yet to be written...but they will always be the first Rock Band that was Truly Great. John's genius and Paul's heart and charisma are the stuff legends are made of.
Sgt. Pepper was an absolute masterpiece, from the lack of dead air on the album (one song always led to another, without the typical 2-second "break" to the backwards-whirl of Mr. Kite, to the hundreds of other musical stunts that they pulled. The only thing that I really missed from this album on the first listen (I was 14, and it was the early '90s) was "Yesterday", but I quickly realized why that song never belonged there in the first place.
On an unrelated note: A Classical music appreciation prof I once had, dedicated a weeks worth of lectures to explaining WHY "yesterday" was John's greatest masterpiece. He was well over teenage, even in the '60s and '70s, but he really delved into the instrumentation, key shifts, and rythm changes. Very cool
...and we's all be singing the Russian national Anthem. Our greatest achievement against the Russian Communist/militairistic/totalitarian machine is that THEY went broke FIRST.
the guise of the budget surplus was achieved by mis^H^H^Hreappropriating funds that SHOULD have been used to stabilize social security, thus leaving anyone who would be elegible after 2020, out in the cold. I'm not especially FOR or AGAINST social security persay, but I'm steamed that I will continue to pay this tax when it's common knowledge that no one in born after 1970 will be able to collect a reasonable benefit amount.
Same old BS. Congress lies to us. Surprise!
If the courts rule in favor of service providers who disclose such informations, people will start forming their own "black-market" networks to avoid these firms.
This argument could be made against any bar/pub/drinking establishment who employs a bouncer/security person/off-duty cop.
The message sent by employing these "enforcement" types is clear enough: you might break the law, but we won't let you do it HERE if we can stop it!
There are, and will be, people who clot into clandestine gatherings for drinking/gambling/fighting* as well as for trading and partaking in illicit things. But limiting access, reporting crimes, etc. removes the legitimacy of these actions and DOES, in fact, deter otherwise-good people who might be tempted to break the law. *standard disclaimer. No diatribe is planned, intended, or insinuated for or against drinking, gambling, fighting, et al, and none should be inferred.
Unless you decide to execute 80% of the population, we have to tamper with nature, or nature will execute those people the slow way.
We are nature, no less, and no more than the mouse I stepped on this morning on the way to work. If I hadn't so carelessly destroyed that rodent, a stray cat might have attacked it for food. Is the cat more or less natural than I am because she doesn't wear loafers?
Even if we do slaughter 80% of the population*, then the impact of several billion bodies that must be buried, burned, shipped off of the planet into the sun / distant part of the galaxy of your choice, is (drummroll, please)NATURAL and will effect change on the planet. There is nothing that we can possibly do to reduce our imact on the world around us. The only difference between our impact and the impact of so much Anthrax, is that humans are aware if their effects, and the microorganisms responsible for Anthrax are (believed) to be unaware.
*(not recommended, I detest hate crimes, don't use this against me,I'm not really a homicial maniac, all thoughts are mine and not my employers, disclaimer, etc)
I wasn't thinking exactly along those lines, but I do see a great potential for false alarms.
The point, obvoiusly, would be to wear this during times of questionable security, say while jogging alone, excercising alone, etc. Excercise > higher heart rate > false alarms ?