I'm a 7 minute walk from Logan International Airport. 747s do land in what is practically my front yard every day. That doesn't mean I wouldn't be alarmed at the sight of one being tailed by two F-16s when flying low over a major city. Particularly if that same section of downtown was famously attacked by two commercial airliners not even a decade ago.
I remember when they launched this and the story broke on Slashdot. Back then the draw was $0.88 DRM-free WMAs, which now seem to be MP3s. I can't check the site at all on my mac, so I don't know if the price-per-song has changed. In any case, the Amazon store seems to have made Wal-Mart's service obsolete; Amazon delivers cheaper albums in DRM-free MP3s available on all platforms.
All of his Hank Williams recordings are the exact same versions I bought on CD. It's not as if you have to buy the 10-disc box set, either; those songs can be found on any Greatest Hits CD that you can buy just about anywhere.
Keeping in mind the author was digging to find information on job candidates, it's not that surprising. Those words also appear next to sex! and fired; the author was trying to dig dirt on the candidate, and these were simply the non-political concerns.
(That is, people would change to their service when possible because they're half the price of anyone else, and 10 cents for a text message is still a huge profit.)
Why would they change? If they care that much, their preferred carrier's unlimited plan would almost certainly be cheaper than $0.10 per text.
The goal of this price hike isn't necessarily a fatter profit margin (though that is an added bonus), it's a push to bump up unlimited text subscriptions. According to another poster, Verizon's 500-text plan is $10/month. By increasing the price per text, the point at which that plan becomes economical has shrunk from 100 texts to 67 texts to 50 texts per month. Considering you are charged for incoming and outgoing, that's not a whole lot.
It's not really important how many are mono/stereo, but how many should be mono/stereo. I imagine there is a large number of videos that, through some program or another, ended up doubling the mono track on both channels. Even those videos that were recorded in stereo, most either have the effect lost through microphone positioning or just through the subject matter itself (If someone filmed a speech at a rally, for example).
The bottom line for Youtube is that keeping monaural sound is an easy way to cut the audio size of videos in half with results that only 5-10% of users will notice/care about.
Thanks. Someone else linked to their own video of a DOOM hack demo here. The quality is pretty bad but is horrendous without the parameter.
I've also found a video of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals here.
That guy was using a third party downloader, which doesn't account for the high quality video. He unknowingly downloaded the same video twice. While the regular youtube video is indeed 3.4 MB, the high quality one is 9.5 MB. Here's a picture showing the filesize
One other interesting thing is that I haven't been able to find another high-quality video on youtube. I tried the &fmt=6 parameter on several videos, both popular and new. Two of these videos (a Fall Out Boy video and an NBA recap) loaded with the parameter, but didn't look any better. A quick check showed that the same.flv files were being loaded no matter what parameter I set. Does anyone have any examples of high quality videos besides the dog?
Pssh, you still use a computer? I threw my computer out in 1999 and haven't looked back. I have a library filled with great books, and I can borrow the others from the local library for FREE. The internet is such DREK. Makes kids stupid, and adults stupider. Resist your telecom overlords!!
Step One: Go to the iTunes Music Store Step Two: Bend over and pay $2 for a 3 minute 320x240 video with DRM Step Three: Profit! (Well, not for you. But someone.)
So yeah, basically they are available. It's just simply rediculous for what they're charging. While some videos are really good and might be worth buying to own (Hurt by Johnny Cash is an example, though iTunes doesn't even sell that one), the vast majority of them I'd like to see once and then really never watch again. The industry doesn't really get that.
I actually came here (and was reading down the comments and replies) to state that Schools are not in loco parentis. That was part of the argument New Jersey had in New Jersey v. T.L.O., and it was shot down by the Supreme Court. Has something changed since the 80s?
Interesting side note to *that*. Last month, Coke put out Kosher Coke for Passover in the US. Since grains are not Kosher during Passover, corn syrup is not either, so Coke ships out some bottles with cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.
I picked some up, because I had heard of it before and was curious. I had my first glass and.... WOW. That was amazingly sweet. It was sweeter than the HFCS coke. It really didn't make sense to me, since HFCS is a sweeter syrup than cane-sugar-based sucrose. I assume Coke added more sugar to please the Americans.
I may still have the bottle at home. I'm curious to see how much sugar was in there compared to the HFCS coke.
On Saturday, the day before I went over to the Society of Friends, I went to the grocery store in order to get things to make dishes for the potluck lunch. I ended up making two dishes. The vegan dish was a three bean salad, with diced onions. The vegetarian one was more complicated. I boiled shells, and cut up cherry tomatoes, onions, and peppers. When the shells were done, I added mayonnaise, and garlic salt. I tossed the entire thing, and had my second dish. Seeing my two dishes side by side, I decided to eat a large breakfast before leaving for the service.
When I arrived in Worcester for the Society of Friends meeting, Jesse and I had brought food, and yard work supplies. Matt, our contact, met us inside the house. He briefly went over some of the Quaker philosophy and then led us to a room where the service was to take place. This was a traditional unprogrammed worship. Jesse and I were in a room with about 25 other people, and we all bowed our head in silence. The concept of an unprogrammed worship is that when anyone is moved to start a sermon, they can -anyone who is worshipping. Sometimes lots of people will talk, and sometimes they go the entire hour in silence. In this particular example, it was 30 minutes before someone spoke up.
The woman who spoke up talked about the newly translated Chronicles of Judas, and how it conflicts with the gospel. She said that in an article she was reading, Jesus laughs in the Chronicle, and that's when she realized that he never laughs once during the gospel. She explains how she believes that it's important to realize that Jesus had a sense of humor, and that's one of the main stems of his ability to forgive.
After the worship, we all shook hands and introduced ourselves. I introduced myself and explained our project. Coincidently, there was a girl from Clark University there as well, who was there for her Peace Studies class. The potluck was eaten, and everyone was very kind and gentle. I told Jesse I wasn't used to amount of compassion, coming from Nashua High and Elm Street.
After the potluck, Jesse and I went out to the back and started cleaning up the yard. We picked up twigs, sticks, and branches that had fallen over the fall and winter, and we picked up the various pieces of trash that had blown about.
Is archive.org trying to suggest "If you put the entire archive on floppy drives, and layed them out one by one, starting from New York and heading due West, how far would it reach?" is a frequently asked question?
Death Penalty
When discussing topics such as the death penalty, it's important to understand the functions and needs of punishment. Punishment serves many purposes. Prisoners may be rehabilitated into functional members of society, and then let go. Prisoners may be in jail or killed in order to keep them out of the public's way. Punishments such as prisons or the death penalty may deter possible offenders from committing crimes. And finally, prisoners may be punished as a way of "getting even" with them. In terms of the death penalty, it has been shown that in areas where the death penalty is prevalent, there is a much higher rate of death-penalty-worthy crime. With capital crimes, rehabilitation isn't even on the table. Capital crimes also leave the offender away from society with either the death penalty or life in jail. The argument concerning the death penalty boils down to a question of morality. Is it moral to execute someone in response to his or her actions of murder?
The Code of Hammurabi, the rudimentary beginning of all laws, stated, "If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out." While the actual laws varied a bit (just below that, it states that if a man puts out the eye of a freed-man, they only have to pay a small amount of gold), this law set an important precedent in that the punishment must fit the crime. It's more colloquially referred to as "an eye for an eye". In fact, this concept strongly resembles what we were taught about morality in Kindergarten. The Golden Rule tells us to treat others as we would like to be treated. It could be argued that the death penalty is a reflection of this culture. But is the death penalty truly equal to the crime that was committed?
The simple fact is, very few people murder someone for absolutely no reason. People might murder someone for cheating on them. People might murder someone in their self-defense, or in defense of their child. People might murder someone for failing to pay them protection money. People might murder someone for murdering someone else. While it certainly seems that citizens might be more sympathetic to reasons for murder, there is a definite moral line-in-the-sand that's crossed in determining what deserves death.
. Bonded Labour, early and forced marriage, forced labour, slavery by descent, trafficking, worst forms of child labour.
2. Bonded labour is debt bondage. It is used in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. An estimated 20 million people are held in bonded labour.
3. Full time work, dangerous workplaces, excessive working hours, subjection to psychological, verbal, and sexual abuse, obliged to work by circumstances or individuals, limited or no pay, work and life on the streets in bad conditions, and an inability to escape from the poverty cycle; no access to education. 246 million working children between the ages of 5 and 17
4. Trafficking is essentially smuggling people for the purposes of slavery. It's impossible to know, but an estimated 600,000 - 800,000 people are trafficked across borders each year, not counting internal trafficking.
5. Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra, and Harijan. Varnas consist of many communities called Jats. Jats themselves can break up into further communities. Marriage occurs within the Jat. Anyone who broke this rule was outcasted. But it has exceptions, such as when female populations fell low.
6. 90% of the population was peasants. There were free peasants, and indentured servants. The unpaid lived on the land without paying any money, but worked for the Lord, earning their stay. Farmers were given a plot of land. They had the right to form their own courts, called halimotes. They made bylaws that governed the villager's actoins. The court was overseen by a representative of the lord. The lord had immense power over the peasants. He had economic as well as political control. The feudal system is similar to the caste system in that there are specific, strict roles for the citizens. It has less levels than the caste does though.
7. There is a definite poor area of town, and the surrounding areas are slightly less poor as well. There are definitive areas of wealth, and definitive areas of poverty.
8. The wealth seems to be concentrated in the Northeast, and Southern inland states are among the poorest. New Hampshire is among the wealthiest states in the Union. This could possibly be from the amount of taxes we have as a state.
9. The data the census presents seems to say that poverty in the united states is centralized mostly in the southern United States. What's interesting is that Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma have rather high poverty, but Utah, Colorado, and Kansas have almost no poverty.
10. Stratification is promoted through the caste, class, feudal system and slavery. These systems and ideals separate people into certain sections, and as such, they are inherently
Actually, the 7th Amendment only applies to Federal Courts, or rather any courts controlled and opperated by the United States Government. It does not apply to courts controlled and operated by the States, according to the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution. To wit:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
I believe that covers the 7th Amendment. The Judiciary Act of 1789 touches upon this also, I believe. Although, it's probable that the RIAA case would be taken in the Federal Court system, not handled at the State Level.
Ask for a damned jury trial. No jury in the world is going to make you pay such exorbitant sums for downloading a movie here or there. People get that downloading "Ice Age" from TBP isn't worth $150,000.
Not sure how it works in Massachusetts, but in New Hampshire jury trials aren't awarded for civil cases unless the damage is $25,000 or greater. And it's not $150,000, they've agreed to "settle" for around $3,000.
And just because you're not rich doesn't mean you automatically get a public defender in a criminal case. The state is paying for these defenders, and they're going to make sure there is absolutely no way you could afford a lawyer otherwise before handing them over. It's kind of sad, but the state would suggest to her exactly what the RIAA did: Drop out of college.
Slashdot Mirror
For reference, here's some video taken by someone in the area. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMoy8JprKI0&fmt=18
I'm a 7 minute walk from Logan International Airport. 747s do land in what is practically my front yard every day. That doesn't mean I wouldn't be alarmed at the sight of one being tailed by two F-16s when flying low over a major city. Particularly if that same section of downtown was famously attacked by two commercial airliners not even a decade ago.
If you were in Manhattan and saw a low-flying commercial airliner tailed by two F-16s, you wouldn't blink an eyelash?
I remember when they launched this and the story broke on Slashdot. Back then the draw was $0.88 DRM-free WMAs, which now seem to be MP3s. I can't check the site at all on my mac, so I don't know if the price-per-song has changed. In any case, the Amazon store seems to have made Wal-Mart's service obsolete; Amazon delivers cheaper albums in DRM-free MP3s available on all platforms.
All of his Hank Williams recordings are the exact same versions I bought on CD. It's not as if you have to buy the 10-disc box set, either; those songs can be found on any Greatest Hits CD that you can buy just about anywhere.
"He wasn't an astronaut! He was a TV comedian. And he was just using space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife."
Keeping in mind the author was digging to find information on job candidates, it's not that surprising. Those words also appear next to sex! and fired; the author was trying to dig dirt on the candidate, and these were simply the non-political concerns.
(That is, people would change to their service when possible because they're half the price of anyone else, and 10 cents for a text message is still a huge profit.)
Why would they change? If they care that much, their preferred carrier's unlimited plan would almost certainly be cheaper than $0.10 per text.
The goal of this price hike isn't necessarily a fatter profit margin (though that is an added bonus), it's a push to bump up unlimited text subscriptions. According to another poster, Verizon's 500-text plan is $10/month. By increasing the price per text, the point at which that plan becomes economical has shrunk from 100 texts to 67 texts to 50 texts per month. Considering you are charged for incoming and outgoing, that's not a whole lot.
It's not really important how many are mono/stereo, but how many should be mono/stereo. I imagine there is a large number of videos that, through some program or another, ended up doubling the mono track on both channels. Even those videos that were recorded in stereo, most either have the effect lost through microphone positioning or just through the subject matter itself (If someone filmed a speech at a rally, for example).
The bottom line for Youtube is that keeping monaural sound is an easy way to cut the audio size of videos in half with results that only 5-10% of users will notice/care about.
Thanks. Someone else linked to their own video of a DOOM hack demo here. The quality is pretty bad but is horrendous without the parameter. I've also found a video of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals here.
That guy was using a third party downloader, which doesn't account for the high quality video. He unknowingly downloaded the same video twice. While the regular youtube video is indeed 3.4 MB, the high quality one is 9.5 MB. Here's a picture showing the filesize
.flv files were being loaded no matter what parameter I set. Does anyone have any examples of high quality videos besides the dog?
One other interesting thing is that I haven't been able to find another high-quality video on youtube. I tried the &fmt=6 parameter on several videos, both popular and new. Two of these videos (a Fall Out Boy video and an NBA recap) loaded with the parameter, but didn't look any better. A quick check showed that the same
Pssh, you still use a computer? I threw my computer out in 1999 and haven't looked back. I have a library filled with great books, and I can borrow the others from the local library for FREE. The internet is such DREK. Makes kids stupid, and adults stupider. Resist your telecom overlords!!
Cheers,
Someone-holier-than-thou
Step One: Go to the iTunes Music Store
Step Two: Bend over and pay $2 for a 3 minute 320x240 video with DRM
Step Three: Profit! (Well, not for you. But someone.)
So yeah, basically they are available. It's just simply rediculous for what they're charging. While some videos are really good and might be worth buying to own (Hurt by Johnny Cash is an example, though iTunes doesn't even sell that one), the vast majority of them I'd like to see once and then really never watch again. The industry doesn't really get that.
I actually came here (and was reading down the comments and replies) to state that Schools are not in loco parentis. That was part of the argument New Jersey had in New Jersey v. T.L.O., and it was shot down by the Supreme Court. Has something changed since the 80s?
Interesting side note to *that*. Last month, Coke put out Kosher Coke for Passover in the US. Since grains are not Kosher during Passover, corn syrup is not either, so Coke ships out some bottles with cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.
I picked some up, because I had heard of it before and was curious. I had my first glass and.... WOW. That was amazingly sweet. It was sweeter than the HFCS coke. It really didn't make sense to me, since HFCS is a sweeter syrup than cane-sugar-based sucrose. I assume Coke added more sugar to please the Americans.
I may still have the bottle at home. I'm curious to see how much sugar was in there compared to the HFCS coke.
...but game movie games are by far the worst.
Journal 1
Society of Friends: 2 hours
On Saturday, the day before I went over to the Society of Friends, I went to the grocery store in order to get things to make dishes for the potluck lunch. I ended up making two dishes. The vegan dish was a three bean salad, with diced onions. The vegetarian one was more complicated. I boiled shells, and cut up cherry tomatoes, onions, and peppers. When the shells were done, I added mayonnaise, and garlic salt. I tossed the entire thing, and had my second dish. Seeing my two dishes side by side, I decided to eat a large breakfast before leaving for the service.
When I arrived in Worcester for the Society of Friends meeting, Jesse and I had brought food, and yard work supplies. Matt, our contact, met us inside the house. He briefly went over some of the Quaker philosophy and then led us to a room where the service was to take place. This was a traditional unprogrammed worship. Jesse and I were in a room with about 25 other people, and we all bowed our head in silence. The concept of an unprogrammed worship is that when anyone is moved to start a sermon, they can -anyone who is worshipping. Sometimes lots of people will talk, and sometimes they go the entire hour in silence. In this particular example, it was 30 minutes before someone spoke up.
The woman who spoke up talked about the newly translated Chronicles of Judas, and how it conflicts with the gospel. She said that in an article she was reading, Jesus laughs in the Chronicle, and that's when she realized that he never laughs once during the gospel. She explains how she believes that it's important to realize that Jesus had a sense of humor, and that's one of the main stems of his ability to forgive.
After the worship, we all shook hands and introduced ourselves. I introduced myself and explained our project. Coincidently, there was a girl from Clark University there as well, who was there for her Peace Studies class. The potluck was eaten, and everyone was very kind and gentle. I told Jesse I wasn't used to amount of compassion, coming from Nashua High and Elm Street.
After the potluck, Jesse and I went out to the back and started cleaning up the yard. We picked up twigs, sticks, and branches that had fallen over the fall and winter, and we picked up the various pieces of trash that had blown about.
Is archive.org trying to suggest "If you put the entire archive on floppy drives, and layed them out one by one, starting from New York and heading due West, how far would it reach?" is a frequently asked question?
Death Penalty
When discussing topics such as the death penalty, it's important to understand the functions and needs of punishment. Punishment serves many purposes. Prisoners may be rehabilitated into functional members of society, and then let go. Prisoners may be in jail or killed in order to keep them out of the public's way. Punishments such as prisons or the death penalty may deter possible offenders from committing crimes. And finally, prisoners may be punished as a way of "getting even" with them. In terms of the death penalty, it has been shown that in areas where the death penalty is prevalent, there is a much higher rate of death-penalty-worthy crime. With capital crimes, rehabilitation isn't even on the table. Capital crimes also leave the offender away from society with either the death penalty or life in jail. The argument concerning the death penalty boils down to a question of morality. Is it moral to execute someone in response to his or her actions of murder?
The Code of Hammurabi, the rudimentary beginning of all laws, stated, "If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out." While the actual laws varied a bit (just below that, it states that if a man puts out the eye of a freed-man, they only have to pay a small amount of gold), this law set an important precedent in that the punishment must fit the crime. It's more colloquially referred to as "an eye for an eye". In fact, this concept strongly resembles what we were taught about morality in Kindergarten. The Golden Rule tells us to treat others as we would like to be treated. It could be argued that the death penalty is a reflection of this culture. But is the death penalty truly equal to the crime that was committed?
The simple fact is, very few people murder someone for absolutely no reason. People might murder someone for cheating on them. People might murder someone in their self-defense, or in defense of their child. People might murder someone for failing to pay them protection money. People might murder someone for murdering someone else. While it certainly seems that citizens might be more sympathetic to reasons for murder, there is a definite moral line-in-the-sand that's crossed in determining what deserves death.
. Bonded Labour, early and forced marriage, forced labour, slavery by descent, trafficking, worst forms of child labour.
2. Bonded labour is debt bondage. It is used in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. An estimated 20 million people are held in bonded labour.
3. Full time work, dangerous workplaces, excessive working hours, subjection to psychological, verbal, and sexual abuse, obliged to work by circumstances or individuals, limited or no pay, work and life on the streets in bad conditions, and an inability to escape from the poverty cycle; no access to education. 246 million working children between the ages of 5 and 17
4. Trafficking is essentially smuggling people for the purposes of slavery. It's impossible to know, but an estimated 600,000 - 800,000 people are trafficked across borders each year, not counting internal trafficking.
5. Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra, and Harijan. Varnas consist of many communities called Jats. Jats themselves can break up into further communities. Marriage occurs within the Jat. Anyone who broke this rule was outcasted. But it has exceptions, such as when female populations fell low.
6. 90% of the population was peasants. There were free peasants, and indentured servants. The unpaid lived on the land without paying any money, but worked for the Lord, earning their stay. Farmers were given a plot of land. They had the right to form their own courts, called halimotes. They made bylaws that governed the villager's actoins. The court was overseen by a representative of the lord. The lord had immense power over the peasants. He had economic as well as political control. The feudal system is similar to the caste system in that there are specific, strict roles for the citizens. It has less levels than the caste does though.
7. There is a definite poor area of town, and the surrounding areas are slightly less poor as well. There are definitive areas of wealth, and definitive areas of poverty.
8. The wealth seems to be concentrated in the Northeast, and Southern inland states are among the poorest. New Hampshire is among the wealthiest states in the Union. This could possibly be from the amount of taxes we have as a state.
9. The data the census presents seems to say that poverty in the united states is centralized mostly in the southern United States. What's interesting is that Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma have rather high poverty, but Utah, Colorado, and Kansas have almost no poverty.
10. Stratification is promoted through the caste, class, feudal system and slavery. These systems and ideals separate people into certain sections, and as such, they are inherently
And just because you're not rich doesn't mean you automatically get a public defender in a criminal case. The state is paying for these defenders, and they're going to make sure there is absolutely no way you could afford a lawyer otherwise before handing them over. It's kind of sad, but the state would suggest to her exactly what the RIAA did: Drop out of college.
You need an original CD to rip into Apple Lossless. And if you rip anything from an original CD, there's no DRM whatsoever.
Wow, easy. I have no idea why everyone doesn't think of that!
*Police Chief Wiggum pulls out a cassette tape*
Lisa: Hootie and the Blowfish?
Wiggum: It's cheaper than blank tape.