I don't think anyone will read a treatise, but could you perhaps give some more details about the harm done to your area?
a small note of caution seems appropriate here.
regional development projects like the TVA were profoundly disruptive.
that was their purpose.
rural poverty and isolation in the thirties didn't have the bright comic touch and adventure of Li'll Abner.
and while it is true that not everyone came out a winner, "the geek in the Ozarks" is most likely not rooted in the culture of a native hill country farmer.
An American citizen working as a contractor for the United States Agency for International Development has been arrested for giving away laptops and cellphones in Cuba. The intent was to enable activists to connect with each other and spread information of what's happening inside Cuba
What I see here is clumsily staged bit of agitprop worthy of Bush and Cheney - and very high risk for any Cuban activist foolish enough to become involved.
Personal phones, rather than employer-supplied ones. That way it would be free from employer snooping, and free to use
and the ever-paranoid geek won't see any problems at all in allowing undocumented use of private phones and messaging services by police officers on duty?
Is "innocent until proven guilty" a tenet of Indian law? I'd imagine it is, but not sure.
"Innocent until proven guilty" is a concept rooted in criminal law.
We can know exactly when the maxim formally entered American law: through a Supreme Court decision of 1894, Coffin vs. U.S. A lower court had refused to instruct the jury that "The law presumes that persons charged with crime are innocent until they are proven by competent evidence to be guilty".
It eventually comes down to property rights, though. The government lacks the legitimate moral authority to confiscate an individual's property to provide that property to someone else. Taxing one person to provide for someone else is theft, pure and simple.
The geek resident in the Ozarks is essentially the product of economic development projects funded by the federal government.
Here is a little bit about what the Wikipedia has to say about the Ozarks:
Ozark-St. Francis National Forest was created by proclamation of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908. In 1939, Congress established Mark Twain National Forest at nine sites in Missouri. In 1976, Congress established Hercules-Glades Wilderness, the first of 13 designated wilderness areas in the Ozarks. In 1986, Congress established the Ozark Plateau National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Oklahoma.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers lakes that were created by damming the White River beginning in 1911 with Lake Taneycomo have provided a large tourist, boating and fishing economy along the Missouri-Arkansas border. Six lakes were created by dams in the White River basin from 1911 through 1960.
The Lake of the Ozarks, Pomme de Terre Lake, and Truman Lake in the northern Ozarks were formed by impounding the Osage River and its tributary the Pomme de Terre River in 1931, 1961 and 1979 respectively. Grand Lake in Northeast Oklahoma was created in 1940.... Most of the dams were built for the dual purpose of flood control and hydropower generation.
The Buffalo National River was created by an Act of Congress in 1972 as the nation's first National River administered by the National Park Service. In Missouri, the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, was established in 1964 along the Current and Jacks Fork River as the first US national park based on a river system. The Eleven Point River is included in the National Wild and Scenic Riverways System established in 1968. These river parks annually draw a combined 1.5 million recreational tourists to the least populated counties in Arkansas and Missouri.
This notion of subsidizing lifestyles is really annoying. If you want cheap fast broadband move to civilization. If you want clean air and open spaces move to the country
While arguably laudable, what really irks me is that these plans were largely sold to users (including pvp users) as non-capped unlimited bandwidth plans.
I'd be very much surprised if your contract for broadband service at the mass market price includes any quaranteed quality of service whatever.
The adds will promise an "always on" connection and speeds up to X - when and as available. Nothing more.
Pretty much the same deal the telephone company was offering in 1886.
I have a feeling that they are gonna have to warn folks at retail or have a lot of these things get returned when folks that don't know about anything but Windows
This is exactly what happened at Walmart.com just before they closed out their Linux inventory.
It had got to the point where every Linux PC was black-flagged by a Crime-Scene Yellow banner in bold type:
So the when the ARM netbooks come out, you will have your choice between Linux and the vast majority of Linux's apps, or Windows and the vast minority of Windows apps.
I wouldn't count out Intel and x86 at the low end. I wouldn't bet on ARM and Chrome making it to retail at $89.99, either.
The geek has been betting on white knights like OLPC and the Simputer for as far back as I can remember. None of them has gone the distance.
Last April, Microsoft argued that it controlled the netbook OS market for devices sold in certain Microsoft-friendly US retail stores, while ABI Research claims that Linux actually has 32% of the worldwide netbook market, and that its market-share is growing
The Microsoft friendly shop is damn near every office supply house or general merchandise outlet in the states with four walls and a roof.
Walmart carried the flag for Linux in big box retail for ten years.
The ARM netbook like the Google PC is still a phantom - no one quite knows quite when or where it will materialize or how much it will cost.
Chrome's value seems utterly dependent on cheap - reliable - universal - broadband. I am not sure we are there yet.
Of course, one reason why the retailer is Microsoft friendly is the prospect of significant aftermarket sales.
Hardware, software, peripherals. Inks and papers.
That helps keep the price of the Windows PC competitive - and it raises the question of whether retailers will make an all-out push for the next generation network appliance.
The creators of all of these projects have decided to publish completely all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings, and 'board' files to recreate the hardware.
Why must everything be labeled "open source?" Plans and projects for the technically-minded hobbyist are at least as old as Popular Mechanics, first published in 1902.
Watts was, presumably, not under any such effects.
I could find nothing about this story that was more than a quote from Watts' blog. There is no way of knowing - objectively - whether he was drunk or sober.
Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds, or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, when a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection.Recipes
It probably shouldn't be too hard to convince a judge of this since, as far as I know, all border patrol stations are video taped. I would assume they'd also have audio in there... First thing I'd be doing, if I were truly innocent, is requesting the video for the time in question.
The first thing you do is STFU.
Watts can't retreat from anything he posted to his blog without the risk of a jury concluding that he is a cynical, manipulative, liar.
When an unarmed man alone gets into a fight with multiple armed people, it's a rare case where the unarmed man is the aggressor.
I'm not so sure about that:
EL MIRAGE, Ariz. -- Three firefighters were assaulted while responding to a late-night medical call on Dec. 5, according to The Arizona Republic. The crew found a teen -- reportedly suffering from an overdose -- running around. They were able to calm him down to check his vital signs and insert an intravenous needle, but officials told the newspaper that the patient become violent when firefighters tried to place him on a gurney. The 16-year-old began punching, kicking and scratching the first responders. Police were called for assistance and were able to subdue the teen, who was on probation and wore an ankle bracelet monitor. The firefighters suffered only minor injuries. According to the report, a recent survey conducted for the Arizona Fire Chiefs Association show that 55 percent of responders in the state said they had been assaulted at least once while on the job.Ariz. Firefighters Assaulted by Patient
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Daniel A. Noble, of Moscow, Wash., was allegedly driving erratically Monday morning on the Washington State University campus and struck two pedestrians - one in a crosswalk, the other on a sidewalk. The victims were taken to the hospital. At the scene police said that Noble was uncooperative. "He was combative at the start, when we tried to take him into custody," Lt. Steve Hansen of the WSU police told The Spokesman-Review. Police used a Taser to subdue Noble. Mark Moorer, Noble's lawyer, said Tuesday that his client was known to consume large amounts of energy drinks and Starbucks coffee. Moorer said in court that the caffeine could have accounted for Noble's strange behavior. Noble's wife told investigators that he started acting strangely about three days earlier, was not sleeping at night and seemed confused. During Tuesday's hearing, Noble got up and tried to walk away from the defense table, but his lawyer pulled him back to his seat. Following in the footsteps of the "Twinkie defense" , The Oregonian has dubbed this the "The Starbucks Defense."Lawyer: Driver Had 'Caffeine Psychosis'
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industries that donate significant campaign dollars are guaranteed a hearing in Washington.
Fixed that for you :)
(Snarkiness aside I do get and agree with your main point)
Every industry wants to be heard in Washington, but the entertainment industry is uniquely positioned to be effective.
It is important in the big electoral states like California, Florida, New York. It does not make grandiose demands on the treasury.
It can be a potent political force.
I would argue that if you want to move the masses, you don't want Michael Moore at your back. You want Disney and Pixar:
"Victory Through Air Power," "Our Friend The Atom," "Man In Space," "Mars and Beyond," "Wall-E"
Hollywood once again demonstrates its close ties to Washington DC, regardless of who is in power
Industries that generate significant export dollars are guaranteed a hearing in Washington.
Bonus points for cultural exports.
If you are a Brit, ask yourself what the return has been on Sherlock Holmes, The Beatles, James Bond, Harry Potter.
Bonus points for clean industries. Bonus points for tech. Bonus points for skilled labor and labor-intensive industries.
For example, look at the HTC Magic from Vodafone Total: 720 GBP which is obviously more than the cost of the phone
But aren't you also paying for your baseline cell phone service?
Maybe this market is what Google might be aiming for, where people would tolerate ads in return for a smartphone that costs $20.
The $20 cell phone appeals to the poor, elderly and disabled. Not the most promising market for the advertiser.
I don't think anyone will read a treatise, but could you perhaps give some more details about the harm done to your area?
a small note of caution seems appropriate here.
regional development projects like the TVA were profoundly disruptive.
that was their purpose.
rural poverty and isolation in the thirties didn't have the bright comic touch and adventure of Li'll Abner.
and while it is true that not everyone came out a winner, "the geek in the Ozarks" is most likely not rooted in the culture of a native hill country farmer.
An American citizen working as a contractor for the United States Agency for International Development has been arrested for giving away laptops and cellphones in Cuba. The intent was to enable activists to connect with each other and spread information of what's happening inside Cuba
What I see here is clumsily staged bit of agitprop worthy of Bush and Cheney - and very high risk for any Cuban activist foolish enough to become involved.
Personal phones, rather than employer-supplied ones. That way it would be free from employer snooping, and free to use
and the ever-paranoid geek won't see any problems at all in allowing undocumented use of private phones and messaging services by police officers on duty?
Is "innocent until proven guilty" a tenet of Indian law? I'd imagine it is, but not sure.
"Innocent until proven guilty" is a concept rooted in criminal law.
We can know exactly when the maxim formally entered American law: through a Supreme Court decision of 1894, Coffin vs. U.S. A lower court had refused to instruct the jury that "The law presumes that persons charged with crime are innocent until they are proven by competent evidence to be guilty".
Innocent Until Proven Guilty: The Origins of a Legal Maxim
In American civil law, there is no such thing as a verdict of guilt or innocence. There is only a finding a fact for the plaintiff or defendant.
You can, in all innocence, infringe on rights in real or intangible property.
That doesn't mean the infringement can continue or you won't have to compensate the owner.
The "prsumption of innocence" doesn't take you very far when it comes to the cold hard reality of a trial.
There, the admissibility of evidence is what matters.
The burden of proof.
The thing about electricity is that people couldn't see that it would service more than just lights.
It took a long time to get there.
I have reprints of Sears, Roebuck catalogs from the mid-twenties.
The kitchen of your Sears kit house of 1926 was designed for an ice box, not a refrigerator.
AC power for a radio was quite new - along with the loudspeaker. The receivers were not cheap and some ladder work was implied.
You could order an electric fan, a vacuum cleaner, a wringer washer, an iron, a toaster. But that was about it.
The house crammed with [malfunctioning] electrical gadgets still belongs to Buster Keaton and the one-reel silent comedy.
It eventually comes down to property rights, though. The government lacks the legitimate moral authority to confiscate an individual's property to provide that property to someone else. Taxing one person to provide for someone else is theft, pure and simple.
The geek resident in the Ozarks is essentially the product of economic development projects funded by the federal government.
Here is a little bit about what the Wikipedia has to say about the Ozarks:
Ozark-St. Francis National Forest was created by proclamation of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908. In 1939, Congress established Mark Twain National Forest at nine sites in Missouri. In 1976, Congress established Hercules-Glades Wilderness, the first of 13 designated wilderness areas in the Ozarks. In 1986, Congress established the Ozark Plateau National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Oklahoma.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers lakes that were created by damming the White River beginning in 1911 with Lake Taneycomo have provided a large tourist, boating and fishing economy along the Missouri-Arkansas border. Six lakes were created by dams in the White River basin from 1911 through 1960.
The Lake of the Ozarks, Pomme de Terre Lake, and Truman Lake in the northern Ozarks were formed by impounding the Osage River and its tributary the Pomme de Terre River in 1931, 1961 and 1979 respectively. Grand Lake in Northeast Oklahoma was created in 1940. ... Most of the dams were built for the dual purpose of flood control and hydropower generation.
The Buffalo National River was created by an Act of Congress in 1972 as the nation's first National River administered by the National Park Service. In Missouri, the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, was established in 1964 along the Current and Jacks Fork River as the first US national park based on a river system. The Eleven Point River is included in the National Wild and Scenic Riverways System established in 1968. These river parks annually draw a combined 1.5 million recreational tourists to the least populated counties in Arkansas and Missouri.
The Ozarks
This notion of subsidizing lifestyles is really annoying. If you want cheap fast broadband move to civilization. If you want clean air and open spaces move to the country
US agricultural exports are worth $98 billion. Imports $77 billion. Adavatage US. Value of U.S. Ag Exports To Rise in FY 2010 vs FY 2009
The US produces 10 billion pounds of apples each year. 1.3 billion in New York state alone. The geek tends to forget how much of the US is still rural. Northwest apple harvest strong, but with some hitches
If you live in a city like New York or Los Angeles, you import everything.
Food. Water. Power. Wood. Metal. Stone. Paper. Leather. Fabrics.
The list is endless.
There is no free lunch. No Wall-E and no Eve. No matter duplicator. No too-cheap-to-meter fusion power.
You need men in the fields. Men in the mines and in the forests.
You need trains. Trucks. Pipelines. The high tension line.
You need to keep the supplies coming in. which means that you have to make it worthwhile for people to continue to live and work "in the sticks."
While arguably laudable, what really irks me is that these plans were largely sold to users (including pvp users) as non-capped unlimited bandwidth plans.
I'd be very much surprised if your contract for broadband service at the mass market price includes any quaranteed quality of service whatever.
The adds will promise an "always on" connection and speeds up to X - when and as available. Nothing more.
Pretty much the same deal the telephone company was offering in 1886.
Hearing loss is bad if it is caused by MP3 players, but it's okay when it's caused by police using crowd control devices against innocent civilians.
It is better than being shot or bludgeoned.
The mob must be broken and dispersed before it becomes a greater danger to itself or others.
The geek knows that as well as anyone.
He also knows that the exposure of any single individual to the sirens is likely to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
While the adolescent will be routinely exposed to the mp3 player for several hours daily.
It is not the same problem and to pretend otherwise is fraudulent.
I have a feeling that they are gonna have to warn folks at retail or have a lot of these things get returned when folks that don't know about anything but Windows
This is exactly what happened at Walmart.com just before they closed out their Linux inventory.
It had got to the point where every Linux PC was black-flagged by a Crime-Scene Yellow banner in bold type:
"This PC will not run your Windows software."
So the when the ARM netbooks come out, you will have your choice between Linux and the vast majority of Linux's apps, or Windows and the vast minority of Windows apps.
I wouldn't count out Intel and x86 at the low end. I wouldn't bet on ARM and Chrome making it to retail at $89.99, either.
The geek has been betting on white knights like OLPC and the Simputer for as far back as I can remember. None of them has gone the distance.
Last April, Microsoft argued that it controlled the netbook OS market for devices sold in certain Microsoft-friendly US retail stores, while ABI Research claims that Linux actually has 32% of the worldwide netbook market, and that its market-share is growing
The Microsoft friendly shop is damn near every office supply house or general merchandise outlet in the states with four walls and a roof.
Walmart carried the flag for Linux in big box retail for ten years.
This holiday season it is all Windows:
Entry level for a full size brand-name 64 bit Win 7 Premium laptop is $350. Acer 15.6" AS5517-5136 Laptop PC
That may come as an eye-opener for the geek.
The ARM netbook like the Google PC is still a phantom - no one quite knows quite when or where it will materialize or how much it will cost.
Chrome's value seems utterly dependent on cheap - reliable - universal - broadband. I am not sure we are there yet.
Of course, one reason why the retailer is Microsoft friendly is the prospect of significant aftermarket sales.
Hardware, software, peripherals. Inks and papers.
That helps keep the price of the Windows PC competitive - and it raises the question of whether retailers will make an all-out push for the next generation network appliance.
Clark Gable drove a custom built 1936 Duesenberg Speedster that likely cost him nothing more than the price of a fill-up.
The promotional price to the influential buyer is as old as dirt.
The creators of all of these projects have decided to publish completely all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings, and 'board' files to recreate the hardware.
Why must everything be labeled "open source?"
Plans and projects for the technically-minded hobbyist are at least as old as Popular Mechanics, first published in 1902.
Watts was, presumably, not under any such effects.
I could find nothing about this story that was more than a quote from Watts' blog. There is no way of knowing - objectively - whether he was drunk or sober.
You can't copyright recipes
Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds, or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, when a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection. Recipes
My best guess is that other employees have complained about the privilege of the programmers (listening to music while working).
I'd be very much surprised if programmer's perks haven't been a long-standing source of friction.
The geek's sense of entitlement, the notion that the rules apply to others, but never to him, can really piss people off.
It probably shouldn't be too hard to convince a judge of this since, as far as I know, all border patrol stations are video taped. I would assume they'd also have audio in there... First thing I'd be doing, if I were truly innocent, is requesting the video for the time in question.
The first thing you do is STFU.
Watts can't retreat from anything he posted to his blog without the risk of a jury concluding that he is a cynical, manipulative, liar.
apparently you haven't seen the video of a bart police officer shooting in the back a man who was being held face down on the ground by other officers
In 1999 1.5 million vehicles crossed the Blue Water Bridge at Port Huron Michigan. Blue Water Bridge Canada
The US has a population of 300 million people and employs about 700,000 police officers. Q: How many police officers are employed in the United States
It is easy to find an incident but it is much harder to prove a pattern.
When an unarmed man alone gets into a fight with multiple armed people, it's a rare case where the unarmed man is the aggressor.
I'm not so sure about that:
EL MIRAGE, Ariz. -- Three firefighters were assaulted while responding to a late-night medical call on Dec. 5, according to The Arizona Republic.
The crew found a teen -- reportedly suffering from an overdose -- running around. They were able to calm him down to check his vital signs and insert an intravenous needle, but officials told the newspaper that the patient become violent when firefighters tried to place him on a gurney.
The 16-year-old began punching, kicking and scratching the first responders.
Police were called for assistance and were able to subdue the teen, who was on probation and wore an ankle bracelet monitor.
The firefighters suffered only minor injuries.
According to the report, a recent survey conducted for the Arizona Fire Chiefs Association show that 55 percent of responders in the state said they had been assaulted at least once while on the job. Ariz. Firefighters Assaulted by Patient
____
Daniel A. Noble, of Moscow, Wash., was allegedly driving erratically Monday morning on the Washington State University campus and struck two pedestrians - one in a crosswalk, the other on a sidewalk. The victims were taken to the hospital.
At the scene police said that Noble was uncooperative. "He was combative at the start, when we tried to take him into custody," Lt. Steve Hansen of the WSU police told The Spokesman-Review. Police used a Taser to subdue Noble.
Mark Moorer, Noble's lawyer, said Tuesday that his client was known to consume large amounts of energy drinks and Starbucks coffee. Moorer said in court that the caffeine could have accounted for Noble's strange behavior.
Noble's wife told investigators that he started acting strangely about three days earlier, was not sleeping at night and seemed confused. During Tuesday's hearing, Noble got up and tried to walk away from the defense table, but his lawyer pulled him back to his seat.
Following in the footsteps of the "Twinkie defense" , The Oregonian has dubbed this the "The Starbucks Defense." Lawyer: Driver Had 'Caffeine Psychosis'
You would think that most people here would have grown out of the "M$" phase.
Not so long as the Slashdot editor thinks their is money to made in tagging every Microsoft story with a Borg icon and stained glass window.
Personally I think it's past time to reboot the Slashdot franchise.