Exactly. As far as energy-density goes, there isn't anything out there right now that beats fossil fuels, esp. when you figure in transportation and storage costs.
Well, since Presidents are elected by the Legislatures of the respective STATES and NOT the people, all your comment does is show your massive ignorance of how our country is supposed to work. The only reason we have popular votes in the states for electors is because the state legislatures have decided to do it that way, but they can name the electors and d@mn way they please.
That's why this whole Florida thing is such a testament to the massive ignorance of the typical liberal American on how the country works.
There never WAS a "constitutional crisis" or "stealing of the election." The Florida State legislature was about to declare the electors for George Bush outright because of the controversy over the popular vote. That was their right and responsibility under the U.S. Constitution. Debate over.
I agree totally. We should immediately get the NEA, AFL-CIO, NOW, ACLU, Trial Lawyers Assocation, AARP, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, GALA, and Citizens United for the American Way to immediately contribute to the Democrat cause of showing how the Republicans are in the pockets of the special interest groups.
Regulation doesn't always mean restrict. Sometimes it can mean allow. Just because they didn't regulate it the way YOU thought they should doesn't mean it isn't regulated at all.
The author's premise is that an economy is a zero-sum game. If a robot takes a job, that means a human must lose a job.It's the same idea that many liberal politicians have. If one man gets rich, it's because another man has become poor.
The truth is, economies are not zero-sum. If robots do become a large factor in our economy, then people will move to other avenues to provide for themselves. Heck, the economy may even shift again. We used to be a manufacturing based economy. Now we are more a serviced based economy. Who knows, in a 100 years, if robots can do it all, our economies may focus around land (where we can live with all our robot servants), art, and knowledge and other things that are uniquely human.
And then when the case goes to trial, and the court finds I perjured myself on the documents, my a$$ goes to jail for the rest of my life for falisfying evidence, and every penny I own is awarded in a civil suit filed by the accused.
Yeah, forget this will of the people crap. It's darned inconvenient. We'll just let nine men wearing robes tell us what our "rights." are.
BTW, the constitutional amendments ruled unconstitutional (wrap your brain around that concept. It would be like the US supremes ruling that a Constituitonal amendment banning flag burning is unconstitutional.) had to do with English as the official state language and requiring a 2/3rd majority to raise taxes.
So, tell me again, how declaring a CONSTITUTIONAL amendment unconstitutional is NOT tyranny?
Hate to pop your bubble, but there is no violation of the 4th amendment here. The 4th amendment simply requires a warrant, sworn out by a court upon probable cause and that specifically describes the search and seizure to be conducted.
The second branch of the government (you know that pesky branch that is elected by the people), has instructed the courts via legislation, that evidence of illegal downloading is, ipso facto, sufficient evidence and probable cause. Therefore, there is no need for judicial review, and the clerk (who is an official of the court) can simply sign the supboena.)
Personally, I find it a bit refreshing that the representatives elected by the people are defining this instead of a few robed justices on a bench acting like dictators. We have too many judges making law already from the bench. The Arizona state supreme court has even had the temerity to rule on multiple occasions that amendments the state constitution violated the state constitution.
Only one burn? Not at all. I like to mix and match play lists all the time and burn them to CD. I get bored with the same selection of songs after a while, so I remix and burn another CD.
If you read the original post, you'll find that I was asking if Arianne did operate outside of France. It was pointed out, rather rudely, that they do not, which does not invalidate the purpose of the original question.
Now the Chinese can be free to protest their government without getting shot, and Americans can be free to steal music without getting sued. This is a great day, because we all know the RIAA suing theives is more horrible than the Chinese crackdown at Tianemen square.
I was just positing that perhaps Arianne operated outside of France to escape French regulations as an example of how an American company could operate outside of the U.S. to avoid U.S. regulation.
Apparently the point was too subtle for the slashdot crowd. I'll make sure to write in crayola next time.
And thirty years later, we'll find out that the Chinese just planted a camera in the Gobi desert and claimed to have colonized Mars for the People's Republic.
The cold, unpleasant truth here, is that 90% of IT isn't worth its salary.
Globalization is the great leveler (assuming free markets). It takes time, but eventually, everyone gets paid what they're actually worth as opposed to what they think they're worth.
The secret is to make yourself worth more. Probably a meaningless admonition to most slashdotters who think that the world owes them a living so they can spend all their time downloading files from Kazaa.
*sigh* When you need Mod points, they are nowhere to be found...
This is such a brilliant post, that it is sure to draw shrill shrieks from those trying to salve their seared consciences.
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Exactly. And you face zero legal liability if you listen to a music track and then go home and RECORD YOUR OWN track in your own studio.
But that's not what you did. You went to the furniture store, grabbed a copy of the design plans for the piece of furniture, scanned them into a computer, and distributed them to everyone in the world.
Flawed analogies are the cornerstone of human rationalization.
If people would just put half the effort into a JOB as they do in trying to get music without paying for it, they'd be rich enough not to care what the music costs.
And, please, no righteous rants about the evil RIAA. The adults on this board, esp. those with teenage children, recognize it as childish rationalization.
Not at all. The grantor of a right holds that right. The idea that government holds rights is a dangerous philosophical mindset. It is nothing more than the Divine Right that kings claimed for themselves.
Placing the grantor of rights outside a government, makes the government a servant and not a master of the individual.
It is a significant philosophical difference. That an American citizen and voter cannot see this worries me.
Man, civics education sucks in this country. Government goes not GIVE you the right to free speech. You have that right from God (read the founding documents). Government's job is to PROTECT that right, not GRANT it.
I think it's very sad that you consider you child a time-sink and caring for her a waste of your life. I feel even sadder for your child when she finds out that's how you feel about her.
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Exactly. As far as energy-density goes, there isn't anything out there right now that beats fossil fuels, esp. when you figure in transportation and storage costs.
Well, since Presidents are elected by the Legislatures of the respective STATES and NOT the people, all your comment does is show your massive ignorance of how our country is supposed to work. The only reason we have popular votes in the states for electors is because the state legislatures have decided to do it that way, but they can name the electors and d@mn way they please.
That's why this whole Florida thing is such a testament to the massive ignorance of the typical liberal American on how the country works.
There never WAS a "constitutional crisis" or "stealing of the election." The Florida State legislature was about to declare the electors for George Bush outright because of the controversy over the popular vote. That was their right and responsibility under the U.S. Constitution. Debate over.
Geroge Bush won, your guy lost. Get over it.
I agree totally. We should immediately get the NEA, AFL-CIO, NOW, ACLU, Trial Lawyers Assocation, AARP, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, GALA, and Citizens United for the American Way to immediately contribute to the Democrat cause of showing how the Republicans are in the pockets of the special interest groups.
Regulation doesn't always mean restrict. Sometimes it can mean allow. Just because they didn't regulate it the way YOU thought they should doesn't mean it isn't regulated at all.
The author's premise is that an economy is a zero-sum game. If a robot takes a job, that means a human must lose a job.It's the same idea that many liberal politicians have. If one man gets rich, it's because another man has become poor.
The truth is, economies are not zero-sum. If robots do become a large factor in our economy, then people will move to other avenues to provide for themselves. Heck, the economy may even shift again. We used to be a manufacturing based economy. Now we are more a serviced based economy. Who knows, in a 100 years, if robots can do it all, our economies may focus around land (where we can live with all our robot servants), art, and knowledge and other things that are uniquely human.
And then when the case goes to trial, and the court finds I perjured myself on the documents, my a$$ goes to jail for the rest of my life for falisfying evidence, and every penny I own is awarded in a civil suit filed by the accused.
Puleeze. Get rid of your conspiracy complex.
Yeah, forget this will of the people crap. It's darned inconvenient. We'll just let nine men wearing robes tell us what our "rights." are.
BTW, the constitutional amendments ruled unconstitutional (wrap your brain around that concept. It would be like the US supremes ruling that a Constituitonal amendment banning flag burning is unconstitutional.) had to do with English as the official state language and requiring a 2/3rd majority to raise taxes.
So, tell me again, how declaring a CONSTITUTIONAL amendment unconstitutional is NOT tyranny?
It's only counterintuitive because of the false stereotypes applied to Republicans and Conservatives in general.
No, your PhD simply says you're an EDUCATED idiot.
Hate to pop your bubble, but there is no violation of the 4th amendment here. The 4th amendment simply requires a warrant, sworn out by a court upon probable cause and that specifically describes the search and seizure to be conducted.
The second branch of the government (you know that pesky branch that is elected by the people), has instructed the courts via legislation, that evidence of illegal downloading is, ipso facto, sufficient evidence and probable cause. Therefore, there is no need for judicial review, and the clerk (who is an official of the court) can simply sign the supboena.)
Personally, I find it a bit refreshing that the representatives elected by the people are defining this instead of a few robed justices on a bench acting like dictators. We have too many judges making law already from the bench. The Arizona state supreme court has even had the temerity to rule on multiple occasions that amendments the state constitution violated the state constitution.
That, my friends, is tyranny.
Only one burn? Not at all. I like to mix and match play lists all the time and burn them to CD. I get bored with the same selection of songs after a while, so I remix and burn another CD.
I'll stick with iTMS
MPEG-4 is non-standard?
iTunes lets you transcode into MP3. Does WMP?
iTunes is out for Windows later this year. Is MS porting full WMP to MacOS?
Does the fact you were modded up as insightful prove that slashdotters are idiots?
Folks, this story is from the NY Times. Better check out what snopes.com has to say about it.
If you read the original post, you'll find that I was asking if Arianne did operate outside of France. It was pointed out, rather rudely, that they do not, which does not invalidate the purpose of the original question.
Now the Chinese can be free to protest their government without getting shot, and Americans can be free to steal music without getting sued. This is a great day, because we all know the RIAA suing theives is more horrible than the Chinese crackdown at Tianemen square.
I was just positing that perhaps Arianne operated outside of France to escape French regulations as an example of how an American company could operate outside of the U.S. to avoid U.S. regulation.
Apparently the point was too subtle for the slashdot crowd. I'll make sure to write in crayola next time.
Doesn't Arianne operate out of some nowhere place in Central America for that very reason?
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Slashdot minimum post times. Celebrating slow readers and slow typists for years.
And thirty years later, we'll find out that the Chinese just planted a camera in the Gobi desert and claimed to have colonized Mars for the People's Republic.
The cold, unpleasant truth here, is that 90% of IT isn't worth its salary.
Globalization is the great leveler (assuming free markets). It takes time, but eventually, everyone gets paid what they're actually worth as opposed to what they think they're worth.
The secret is to make yourself worth more. Probably a meaningless admonition to most slashdotters who think that the world owes them a living so they can spend all their time downloading files from Kazaa.
*sigh* When you need Mod points, they are nowhere to be found...
This is such a brilliant post, that it is sure to draw shrill shrieks from those trying to salve their seared consciences.
Exactly. And you face zero legal liability if you listen to a music track and then go home and RECORD YOUR OWN track in your own studio.
But that's not what you did. You went to the furniture store, grabbed a copy of the design plans for the piece of furniture, scanned them into a computer, and distributed them to everyone in the world.
Flawed analogies are the cornerstone of human rationalization.
If people would just put half the effort into a JOB as they do in trying to get music without paying for it, they'd be rich enough not to care what the music costs.
And, please, no righteous rants about the evil RIAA. The adults on this board, esp. those with teenage children, recognize it as childish rationalization.
Not at all. The grantor of a right holds that right. The idea that government holds rights is a dangerous philosophical mindset. It is nothing more than the Divine Right that kings claimed for themselves.
Placing the grantor of rights outside a government, makes the government a servant and not a master of the individual.
It is a significant philosophical difference. That an American citizen and voter cannot see this worries me.
Man, civics education sucks in this country. Government goes not GIVE you the right to free speech. You have that right from God (read the founding documents). Government's job is to PROTECT that right, not GRANT it.
I think it's very sad that you consider you child a time-sink and caring for her a waste of your life. I feel even sadder for your child when she finds out that's how you feel about her.