Well, I guess I was inarticulate -- ISA is internationally reportable "like" mad cow is internationally reportable (not that it is like mad cow). The upshot is that when cattle are suffering from mad cow, you can't export the meat. When farmed salmon are suffering from ISA, you can't export the meat. Protecting exports is why the Canadian government is trying to hide it's ISA problem.
The sad thing is, if you take infected fish home and wash it before cooking, there is a possibility that ISA then ends up in the local waters depending on how (or if, as it is often not in Canada) waste water is treated.
Here's a very interesting movie about farmed salmon in BC and the ISA virus (an internationally reportable virus like mad cow). http://salmonconfidential.ca/
Basically, the Canadian government, despite highly reputable testing, continues to deny that there is ISA and other viruses in the farms, muzzles the scientist who published research on the topic, and almost passed a law making it a felony to report on infections in livestock/farmed fish. All the while, native stocks of salmon plummet due to diseases that fill the narrow passageways in which the farms are located. And no, you can't just replace wild salmon with farmed salmon -- unless you're going to truck them out to the forest and dump them because even the trees get fertilized by dead fish that bears leave around after eating the eggs (and then of course there are Orcas and seals to feed etc. etc). The rivers can provide nutrients to an entire ecosystem including people -- farmed salmon destroy that but provide profit for big business. With most fishermen being small time business people -- guess which wins. http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/fw580/pdf/15.%20MDN%20riparian.pdf
Yes they are -- power has been handed over to the New GOP (AKA Democrats) so that all the Executive branch power grabs and Constitutional abuses of the GWB era can be legitimized as the "New Normal".
Drunk kids having a little fun. Basically... all kids are terrors in one way or another. Too bad we've moved way beyond imposing a fine, a stern talking to, and maybe a few hours picking up garbage on the freeway.
True now, but what if Congress simply required manufactures to include taggants as has been suggested for gunpowders. I don't know if it would be possible to reliably transfer a taggant to a bullet, but I think it is premature to think that such printed guns would be totally untraceable. Assumptions like that are what cause people to get caught.
What about the chemical characteristics of the plastic used for the barrel? I would think that some of that plastic would rub off on the bullet because the barrel material is softer than the bullet. If that is so, it may be possible to identify the particular plastic, even perhaps the batch, and then narrow down the list of possible suspects.
Even easier, the government could just require tracing compounds be incorporated into the plastics and require detailed sales records.
I started life as a dirty hippy. There are quite a few photos, by the instamatic standards of the late 60s, of me crawling around naked in river beds next to the campgrounds we lived in or sitting in mud puddles splashing about. In one photo, I'm sitting in the dry part of a riverbed chewing on a stick I must have picked up, smiling like an idiot smile while some dirt and drool seep out of the corner of my mouth.
Anyway, I almost never get sick and the only thing I have an allergy to is acetaminophen. I do shower almost everyday now though.
Action movies are rather dull to me. I'm not saying they're bad or anything snobby like that, just that they bore me personally. And it's also true that not all the Trek movies, or even every episode of the various TV series, lived up to highest standards of Sci-Fi.
That said, aside from being extremely disappointed with it, all I remember from the first JJAbrams Trek was some part where someone was hanging off something very high up and someone rescues that person -- like a million other hanging by the fingernails from a cliff/balcony/girder/airplane/whatever scenes. Yawn. Anyway, I'm going to wait for it to be on Netflix, because for me, if it is going to be as forgettable as his first try, there is no reason for me to spend money on it.
It is also somewhat informative to me that in the entire review here, I still have no idea what the plot is about. Clearly the plot was not a big part of this movie, which is a big downside for me.
Clearly the light countdown would be superior to using the pedestrian signs. Fortunately, I live in a comparatively small town (about 80k) and all of the pedestrian timers work the same way. But insofar as they are useful to me in my town based on my familiarity with their operation, it is a demonstration that a timer on the light itself would be even more useful.
In my town, the walk/don't walk signs have a display that counts down the seconds left for the "walk" time. Then the red "don't walk" symbol pops up, and shortly after that the light turns yellow.
It's extremely helpful -- if I'm half a block away and the sign says 12 seconds left, I know I'm going to get through the light on green. If I see 2 seconds left, I know it'll be red and there's no point in doing anything other than coasting.
you're getting sued in this case, you don't need to file anything.
You already screwed up. When you get sued you need to file an answer within a certain period following the filing of the complaint. Not filing an answer is like admitting to the complaint and a default judgment will be quickly rendered against you. Granted, you would probably get a chance to file a late answer and have the default judgment vacated, providing a judge decides to allow this, but to make that happen will almost certainly require an attorney and some appeals that would cost as much or more as hiring a lawyer in the first place, and all it will do is put you back to square one so you can start over with an attorney. This little fuck up totally lost the case for you, and if it didn't, it doubled or tripled the legal fees you'll be paying.
lawyers don't change the law for you to conveniently find you not guilty..... and remember prosecutor's....
You're mixing in criminal law concepts to a civil case. If you lost this case, you wouldn't be guilty of anything, but you would be responsible for damages. There are no prosecutors involved here.
Here the whole person != IP would've been a very strong argument, if its a criminal case.
It's not a criminal case. The plaintiff has the burden of proving on a more probable than not basis (i.e., a confidence level greater than 50%), that the defendant downloaded a copyrighted flick. Think about that -- the standard of proof involved here leaves room for a massive amount of doubt to exist and still find in favor of the movie producer. If the fact finder feels 50.1% sure you did it, and 49.9% sure your neighbor hijacked your wifi -- you lose.
representing yourself might even show the judge you're not a complete failure and gain you some leniency
The case would probably be heard by a jury, but even so, it is much more likely that your complete lack of knowledge with respect to the rules of procedure and evidence are going to cause huge delays while you are handheld through the process, and will instead piss off the judge or jury much more than garner you any respect.
I voted for Jill Stein and for my cat, because I won't cast a vote in favor of evil. Besides, the difference between Romney and Obama was literally, only skin deep.
Love it -- hope you get a plus 5 insightful. That was a nice reworking of the "calling him an idiot is an insult to the wider idiot community" type quip.
I totally agree that Obama has been worse than GWB but what is even more disturbing is how Democrats don't even want to know about it and have gone totally silent now that it is their guy doing the abuses.
Actually, it is more correct to say that the Obama administration can be as GWB-like as it wants, and its reputation will remain amazingly high with Democrats. It's proof that Democrats didn't hate GWB's policies, they just hated GWB personally.
The Windup Girl is set in 23rd century Thailand.... Biotechnology is dominant and mega corporations like AgriGen, PurCal and RedStar (called calorie companies) control food production through 'genehacked' seeds, and use bioterrorism, private armies and economic hitmen to create markets for their products. Frequent catastrophes, such as deadly and widespread plagues and illness, caused by genetically modified crops and mutant pests, ravage entire populations. The natural genetic seed stock of the world's plants has been almost completely supplanted by those that are genetically engineered to be sterile.
And for people who like audiobooks, Jonathan Davis reads this book. He's the same guy who did an awesome job reading Snow Crash.
Maybe I take a simplistic view of evil, but killing innocent people ranks up there in the evil category for me. So does propping up brutal dictatorships for decades. The US is the most violent and oppressive nation on earth. I count that as evil.
Of course not. Evil people want to be evil as much as possible. There's no reason we should help them though especially when the frequencies could be used for beneficial uses. I say boot them off now. The world would be a better place for it while their ability to create new enemies hell bent on revenge with each drone strike is impaired, and secondly, new public data services would be profitable and useful for the public. It's a win win for humanity. Congress will definitely not go that route.
A LOT of the blame lies in the way the GOP and DNC conspire to control elections and pass power back and forth. I personally always vote third party or if no third party is available, for my cat... but I don't pretend that my vote can ever register as more than a fringe protest vote. Most people take a look at the choice between brain cancer and a stoke, and pick the 'lesser' evil. Couple that with the DNC/GOP stranglehold on elections and the election process, and it doesn't matter if you aren't apathetic -- you're going to get either a Democrat or a Republican, and as Obama has proved with respect to war, civil liberties, and police state issues by being equal to or worse than GWB, it just doesn't matter who wins if the choice is between a Republican or Democrat. Even social issues, like Plan B -- you have Obama playing the exact same political game GWB played.
So, it isn't exactly fair to blame voters -- except for the die hard party loyalists. Those bastards deserve derision. The rest of us are just stuck with this crap.
And the US government is massively corrupt, not at the level of Mexico but there's one for that: "yet"
It may be worth adding "inevitable" as well, because power is always corrupting. That's sort of the point of our (largely ignored) Constitution -- it was designed to shackle government because the greatest threat anyone ever faces, is their own government grown too fat and too powerful.
Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation's population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm -- assaults, robberies and sex crimes -- was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.
And yet, every day when I look at google news, there is another story about some kind of gun violence/accident in some place thousands of miles from me. It's like a constant drumbeat in the media to get people to think things are so bad, something must be done. And politicians of course, are never hesitant to restrict people's rights or acquire yet ever more power. America's problem with guns is a media conspiracy that makes politicians cum in their pants.
Exactly what munitions has Defense Distributed shipped? I could see this law applying to firearms, but how does it apply to a description of a firearm? If I emailed a photo of a gun to someone in Brazil, would I be shipping munitions? I think not. I'd be sending a photo.
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hmmm ... I don't see where it says it goes 40. It does say this:
which is clearly different than going 40mph.
Was it Hard Core History by chance? If not, you'd probably like his work:
http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive
There's a 6 part series about Rome still up free and the 5 part series on Genghis Khan is great.
Also if it was not HCH, please provide a link. I'm always in the market for excellent history podcasts.
Well, I guess I was inarticulate -- ISA is internationally reportable "like" mad cow is internationally reportable (not that it is like mad cow). The upshot is that when cattle are suffering from mad cow, you can't export the meat. When farmed salmon are suffering from ISA, you can't export the meat. Protecting exports is why the Canadian government is trying to hide it's ISA problem.
The sad thing is, if you take infected fish home and wash it before cooking, there is a possibility that ISA then ends up in the local waters depending on how (or if, as it is often not in Canada) waste water is treated.
Here's a very interesting movie about farmed salmon in BC and the ISA virus (an internationally reportable virus like mad cow). http://salmonconfidential.ca/
Basically, the Canadian government, despite highly reputable testing, continues to deny that there is ISA and other viruses in the farms, muzzles the scientist who published research on the topic, and almost passed a law making it a felony to report on infections in livestock/farmed fish. All the while, native stocks of salmon plummet due to diseases that fill the narrow passageways in which the farms are located. And no, you can't just replace wild salmon with farmed salmon -- unless you're going to truck them out to the forest and dump them because even the trees get fertilized by dead fish that bears leave around after eating the eggs (and then of course there are Orcas and seals to feed etc. etc). The rivers can provide nutrients to an entire ecosystem including people -- farmed salmon destroy that but provide profit for big business. With most fishermen being small time business people -- guess which wins. http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/fw580/pdf/15.%20MDN%20riparian.pdf
Yes they are -- power has been handed over to the New GOP (AKA Democrats) so that all the Executive branch power grabs and Constitutional abuses of the GWB era can be legitimized as the "New Normal".
Drunk kids having a little fun. Basically ... all kids are terrors in one way or another. Too bad we've moved way beyond imposing a fine, a stern talking to, and maybe a few hours picking up garbage on the freeway.
karma
True now, but what if Congress simply required manufactures to include taggants as has been suggested for gunpowders. I don't know if it would be possible to reliably transfer a taggant to a bullet, but I think it is premature to think that such printed guns would be totally untraceable. Assumptions like that are what cause people to get caught.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taggant
What about the chemical characteristics of the plastic used for the barrel? I would think that some of that plastic would rub off on the bullet because the barrel material is softer than the bullet. If that is so, it may be possible to identify the particular plastic, even perhaps the batch, and then narrow down the list of possible suspects.
Even easier, the government could just require tracing compounds be incorporated into the plastics and require detailed sales records.
Anecdote:
I started life as a dirty hippy. There are quite a few photos, by the instamatic standards of the late 60s, of me crawling around naked in river beds next to the campgrounds we lived in or sitting in mud puddles splashing about. In one photo, I'm sitting in the dry part of a riverbed chewing on a stick I must have picked up, smiling like an idiot smile while some dirt and drool seep out of the corner of my mouth.
Anyway, I almost never get sick and the only thing I have an allergy to is acetaminophen. I do shower almost everyday now though.
Action movies are rather dull to me. I'm not saying they're bad or anything snobby like that, just that they bore me personally. And it's also true that not all the Trek movies, or even every episode of the various TV series, lived up to highest standards of Sci-Fi.
That said, aside from being extremely disappointed with it, all I remember from the first JJAbrams Trek was some part where someone was hanging off something very high up and someone rescues that person -- like a million other hanging by the fingernails from a cliff/balcony/girder/airplane/whatever scenes. Yawn. Anyway, I'm going to wait for it to be on Netflix, because for me, if it is going to be as forgettable as his first try, there is no reason for me to spend money on it.
It is also somewhat informative to me that in the entire review here, I still have no idea what the plot is about. Clearly the plot was not a big part of this movie, which is a big downside for me.
Clearly the light countdown would be superior to using the pedestrian signs. Fortunately, I live in a comparatively small town (about 80k) and all of the pedestrian timers work the same way. But insofar as they are useful to me in my town based on my familiarity with their operation, it is a demonstration that a timer on the light itself would be even more useful.
In my town, the walk/don't walk signs have a display that counts down the seconds left for the "walk" time. Then the red "don't walk" symbol pops up, and shortly after that the light turns yellow.
It's extremely helpful -- if I'm half a block away and the sign says 12 seconds left, I know I'm going to get through the light on green. If I see 2 seconds left, I know it'll be red and there's no point in doing anything other than coasting.
The signs we have look sort of like this (but without the glasses looking symbol on top): http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/tools_solve/ped_scdproj/webinar052809/las_vegas/images/image081.jpg
You already screwed up. When you get sued you need to file an answer within a certain period following the filing of the complaint. Not filing an answer is like admitting to the complaint and a default judgment will be quickly rendered against you. Granted, you would probably get a chance to file a late answer and have the default judgment vacated, providing a judge decides to allow this, but to make that happen will almost certainly require an attorney and some appeals that would cost as much or more as hiring a lawyer in the first place, and all it will do is put you back to square one so you can start over with an attorney. This little fuck up totally lost the case for you, and if it didn't, it doubled or tripled the legal fees you'll be paying.
You're mixing in criminal law concepts to a civil case. If you lost this case, you wouldn't be guilty of anything, but you would be responsible for damages. There are no prosecutors involved here.
It's not a criminal case. The plaintiff has the burden of proving on a more probable than not basis (i.e., a confidence level greater than 50%), that the defendant downloaded a copyrighted flick. Think about that -- the standard of proof involved here leaves room for a massive amount of doubt to exist and still find in favor of the movie producer. If the fact finder feels 50.1% sure you did it, and 49.9% sure your neighbor hijacked your wifi -- you lose.
The case would probably be heard by a jury, but even so, it is much more likely that your complete lack of knowledge with respect to the rules of procedure and evidence are going to cause huge delays while you are handheld through the process, and will instead piss off the judge or jury much more than garner you any respect.
I voted for Jill Stein and for my cat, because I won't cast a vote in favor of evil. Besides, the difference between Romney and Obama was literally, only skin deep.
Love it -- hope you get a plus 5 insightful. That was a nice reworking of the "calling him an idiot is an insult to the wider idiot community" type quip.
I totally agree that Obama has been worse than GWB but what is even more disturbing is how Democrats don't even want to know about it and have gone totally silent now that it is their guy doing the abuses.
Actually, it is more correct to say that the Obama administration can be as GWB-like as it wants, and its reputation will remain amazingly high with Democrats. It's proof that Democrats didn't hate GWB's policies, they just hated GWB personally.
A good recent Sci-Fi book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl
And for people who like audiobooks, Jonathan Davis reads this book. He's the same guy who did an awesome job reading Snow Crash.
Maybe I take a simplistic view of evil, but killing innocent people ranks up there in the evil category for me. So does propping up brutal dictatorships for decades. The US is the most violent and oppressive nation on earth. I count that as evil.
Of course not. Evil people want to be evil as much as possible. There's no reason we should help them though especially when the frequencies could be used for beneficial uses. I say boot them off now. The world would be a better place for it while their ability to create new enemies hell bent on revenge with each drone strike is impaired, and secondly, new public data services would be profitable and useful for the public. It's a win win for humanity. Congress will definitely not go that route.
You're probably thinking I'm some Republican who thinks Obama is a Marxist. You'd be wrong. I'm a liberal who thinks Obama is a Republican.
A LOT of the blame lies in the way the GOP and DNC conspire to control elections and pass power back and forth. I personally always vote third party or if no third party is available, for my cat ... but I don't pretend that my vote can ever register as more than a fringe protest vote. Most people take a look at the choice between brain cancer and a stoke, and pick the 'lesser' evil. Couple that with the DNC/GOP stranglehold on elections and the election process, and it doesn't matter if you aren't apathetic -- you're going to get either a Democrat or a Republican, and as Obama has proved with respect to war, civil liberties, and police state issues by being equal to or worse than GWB, it just doesn't matter who wins if the choice is between a Republican or Democrat. Even social issues, like Plan B -- you have Obama playing the exact same political game GWB played.
So, it isn't exactly fair to blame voters -- except for the die hard party loyalists. Those bastards deserve derision. The rest of us are just stuck with this crap.
And the US government is massively corrupt, not at the level of Mexico but there's one for that: "yet"
It may be worth adding "inevitable" as well, because power is always corrupting. That's sort of the point of our (largely ignored) Constitution -- it was designed to shackle government because the greatest threat anyone ever faces, is their own government grown too fat and too powerful.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/
And yet, every day when I look at google news, there is another story about some kind of gun violence/accident in some place thousands of miles from me. It's like a constant drumbeat in the media to get people to think things are so bad, something must be done. And politicians of course, are never hesitant to restrict people's rights or acquire yet ever more power. America's problem with guns is a media conspiracy that makes politicians cum in their pants.
Exactly what munitions has Defense Distributed shipped? I could see this law applying to firearms, but how does it apply to a description of a firearm? If I emailed a photo of a gun to someone in Brazil, would I be shipping munitions? I think not. I'd be sending a photo.
If a company publishes schematics for a gun on the internet, is it sending munitions? For example: http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Manufacturers/Ruger-33474/Revolvers-40405/VaqueroSA-38354.htm