So, you know that your survey is already limited to mouth-breathers who still use POTS and talk to survey people.
Am I going out on a limb to say that that class of people has markedly different charasteristics than those outside of it, especially on Linux?
Nope.
They are the men and women who will be electing the next President of the United States while the Geek stands by and whines about the way things were meant to be.
So long as the Linux elitist shows such contempt for the masses, it is a perfectly safe bet that he will never win the masses.
"Well, that's all fine and dandy, but I'm never going to bother learning that...". So I pointed to the Dish DVR under his TV and the Linksys router next to his Windows PC, and indicated that he was already using it more than he was using Windows!
He may have been using Linux but he sure as heck wasn't learning Linux.
The desktop is losing its dominant position.
To what, a Router? You could say with equal sense - and nonsense - that the desktop PC was losing ground to the Microwave Oven.
After all, they'd have to STEAL someone else's plate and put it on their vehicle! Or make up their own plate. Why, either way, it's next to impossible!
Because your hand-stamped shop work plate will never attract the wrong sort of attention?
The Geek invents foolishly complex and dangerous scenarios that a real spy, criminal, or terrorist would dismiss out of hand.
Nothing is safer than carrying real - legit - ID. Keep it simple, stupid.
They are only encouraging the creation of cp if they pay for it or trade. Pedophiles have a horrible problem that's a huge burden for them, and child porn is a harmless victimless way to deal with their feelings. Pedophilia should be treated more like cancer or autism, not murder!
Tell the parent of an infant that has been raped on the Internet that child porn is a harmless, victimless, crime. Police Smash Global Pedophile Ring
Last month a Texas Ranger fired a taser at a guy who had just poured gasoline all over himself. The spark set off the gas and fried the guy. The ranger is is trouble because he should have known better.
What are your options here? The guy can ignite himself in a heartbeat. Close with him and you risk being caught in the fire.
Asimov's laws are really nice, but I don't see law enforcement agencies or authorities turning to a sci-fi novel for guidance
Heinlein did a quick - merciless - dissection of the three Laws in Friday.
In I, Robot the Laws were fairly simple-minded safety mechanisms introduced to encourage human acceptance of the machine.
Probably feasible if all want you want to do is to prevent ordinary industrial accidents. Probably not if you are trying to bind a machine to a moral code that requires complex value judgments and an awareness of long-term consequences.
You'd think that buying the CD would be enough to cover the royalty, but no.
Why would you think that the purchase of a $20 CD gives you unlimited performance rights for commercial purposes?
If a coffehouse owner tells you he can't pay you because ASCAP is eating his "entertainment budget," he is not being quite truthful. ASCAP licenses are based on the number of seats, the number of days-of-the-week they have entertainment, and the number of musicians who perform. In a typical coffeehouse, I can assure you that the annual ASCAP license fee amounts to less than the cost of one latte per day. The annual ASCAP fees for Madison Square Garden are a bit more.ascap fees and small venues
This last Christmas I joined my family for service and noticed a copyright notice at the bottom of the page, for one of the songs.
Turns out they pay a yearly fee for the right to sing hymnals.
You got to love it.
Not every hymn is is in the public domain. Not every arrangement of every hymn is in the public domain.
In every generation, when it comes time to replace the hymnal you can expect fierce debate over what should come in - Morning Has Broken - in the Cat Stevens arrangement - and what should go out - Onward, Christian Soldiers.
Meanwhile, the music director is trying to balance the demands of the organist and choir for something new and more challenging and the demands of the congregation for something more familiar, and, not incidentally, easier to sing.
Bands which, when they were just starting, also blatantly abused THEIR predecessors...
Did they now?
The Quarrymen covered Lonnie Donegan and Elvis at a now legendary dance at St. Peter's Church in Liverpool in 1957. Is that proof the band or the venues they played ignored performance rights? Not really.
In the U.S., ASCAP has been collecting performance rights since 1914. It becomes a little difficult to feign ignorance of the rules, when ASCAP or BMI comes a-calling, as they have for almost 100 years.
ASCAP's earliest members included the era's most active songwriters - Irving Berlin, James Weldon Johnson, Jerome Kern and John Philip Sousa. Not long after, prominent songwriters such as W.C. Handy, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and George and Ira Gershwin became members. In 1919, ASCAP and the Performing Right Society of Great Britain signed the first reciprocal agreement for the representation of each other's members' works in their respective territories.ASCAP
The definition of sovereignty usually include such things as:
The right to define citizenship and the fundamental rights of citizens.
The right to maintain an independent military force.
The right to coin money and define its value.
The right to control trade and commerce with other states.
The right to forge alliances and make treaties with foreign powers.
The right to issue passports for foreign travel.
No, it's not. Each state decided separately to join the Union or to stay out. Just because they all did in fact join, doesn't change that they joined voluntarily, and as a discrete state
Ratification - like the Convention itself - was a arbritrary exercise of power.
Ratification was accomplished through unique "conventions" held in each state - and a majority of nine bound all. This was a fundamental departure from the Articles of Confederation.
Even remote-controlled robots with stun guns would worry me. Anything that would make it easier for a cop to hurt someone without looking into the whites of their eyes would worry me.
The cop is wearing a face plate and body armor. The cop doesn't see the whites of your eyes.
So you would rather be taken out - permenently - by the S.W.A.T. team sniper or emerge from a hostage-taking with a "non-lethal" shock from a taser?
Because that is the real-world choice when it comes time to bring you down.
Niemöller had the courage to take a stand against the Nazi.
The Pirate Bay is nothing but fan service for the cheap-ass Geek who wants his media fix at a discount. No different fundamentally than buying the stereo that fell off the back of a truck.
Contradictory fact - Japanese Kamikazes.
You left out the first sentence of that section which frames the rest of the argument:
Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim.
You miss grandparents point. The Feds will not issue a Federal ID, your alternative.
The feds may issue an ID --- which will immediately become the standard for proof of age, ID and citizenship. The next best thing to carrying a U.S. Passport.
Open your wallet. How many cards and badges are you carrying now? How many could you shred if you were carrying a single card meeting the federal standard?
All this legislation does is lower the value of any ID issued by New Hampshire.
technically speaking, prior to the Thirteenth Amendment, the slave states were not technically abusing their powers at all, but were, in fact, exercising those powers as had been granted them when they had agreed to be bound by the Constitution
what the slave states won in the Constitution was 3/5 representation in Congress for its slave population.
what would prove disastrous to the south in the Dred Scott case was the explosive dictum from the Supreme Court that slavery itself could never be touched.
I think most constitutional experts will agree that just about everything Lincoln did once the Civil War started, including the Emancipation Proclamation, was in fact in technical violation of both word and spirit of the Constitution.
Lincoln justified his actions as necessary to the suppression of an armed rebellion. It has never been easy - it will never be easy - to frame a constitutional argument against Executive action in wartime.
That is also limited by the fact that the money all comes from the citizens of the states to begin with. If a state would enact a law that withholds all taxes of every kind collected from its citizens, especially income tax, there is nothing the Feds could do short of taking over that state's government by military force or other draconian measures
The most far-reaching agreement made at the Constitutional Convention was that the federal government must have the power to collect taxes - direct taxes on individuals.
That is the fundamental root of Lincoln's belief that the federal union is not a voluntary union of states but a bond between between its people as a whole.
The federal government made it abundantly clear in the Whisky Rebellion of 1791 that it would use force to establish maintain its authority --- by a short rope and a long drop if necessary..
It would do so again in 1860.
When directly challenged, Eisenhower did not hesitate to send troops into Little Rock in 1957.
___
The feds can bring enormous financial leverage against a state. Social Security. Medicaid. Transfer payments of every sort. It could freeze assets and credits. It could with a single executive order bankrupt every Californian city over-night.
I have read every published work of Heinlein and I have loved his stuff since I was a kid. I was wondering what authors who are still writing are most beloved by Heinlein fans?
But which Heinlein are we talking about?
The aging Grokster or the Heinlein whose early stories can be read as a plausible alternative history?
The interaction of technology - and very interesting tech it is too, even after fifty years - society and individuals with a very important role to play: the entrepreneurial capitalist like Harriman, for example.
The co-op minded Geek may rebel against the idea, but our world is recognizably Harriman's world.
Heinlein's arguments for incest are bound to the sixties.
"Dangerous Visions," indeed. Ignoring the problems of coercion, undue influence, etc., "Inbred" has a psychological and cultural as well as a genetic dimension. We don't reject incest simply out of fear of disease and defects, we reject it because it because it corrupts the relationship between parent and child and isolates a man from his neighbors.p
I mean to say, what power does a state legislation have against a federal one? (honest question. I'm not American and don't know how the power hierarchy works)
If the question is physical access to a federal office building or federally-regulated facilities like a nuclear power plant or a commercial airline in interstate commerce, the answer is "no power at all."
The Real ID law...requires that all state driver's licenses and other identification cards include a digital photograph and a bar code that can be scanned by electronic readers. Such a federally approved ID card or document would be required for people entering a federal building, nuclear power plant and commercial airplane.
These are the complaints I see coming:
"Dad needs help in applying for Social Security and Medicare. My wife has plans to visit her mother in New York. I have contracts to service federal agencies, appearances scheduled in the federal courts.
We are not anchored in the New Hampshire bedrock. There are places we need to go, things we need to do, that will increasingly demand a standardized photo ID."
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This is as meaningless a stat as a Fox News call-in poll.
Am I going out on a limb to say that that class of people has markedly different charasteristics than those outside of it, especially on Linux?
Nope.
They are the men and women who will be electing the next President of the United States while the Geek stands by and whines about the way things were meant to be.
So long as the Linux elitist shows such contempt for the masses, it is a perfectly safe bet that he will never win the masses.
He may have been using Linux but he sure as heck wasn't learning Linux.
The desktop is losing its dominant position.
To what, a Router? You could say with equal sense - and nonsense - that the desktop PC was losing ground to the Microwave Oven.
It is ironic, it is plain common sense.
Because your hand-stamped shop work plate will never attract the wrong sort of attention?
The Geek invents foolishly complex and dangerous scenarios that a real spy, criminal, or terrorist would dismiss out of hand.
Nothing is safer than carrying real - legit - ID. Keep it simple, stupid.
Tell the parent of an infant that has been raped on the Internet that child porn is a harmless, victimless, crime. Police Smash Global Pedophile Ring
What are your options here? The guy can ignite himself in a heartbeat. Close with him and you risk being caught in the fire.
Heinlein did a quick - merciless - dissection of the three Laws in Friday.
In I, Robot the Laws were fairly simple-minded safety mechanisms introduced to encourage human acceptance of the machine.
Probably feasible if all want you want to do is to prevent ordinary industrial accidents. Probably not if you are trying to bind a machine to a moral code that requires complex value judgments and an awareness of long-term consequences.
Why would you think that the purchase of a $20 CD gives you unlimited performance rights for commercial purposes?
If a coffehouse owner tells you he can't pay you because ASCAP is eating his "entertainment budget," he is not being quite truthful. ASCAP licenses are based on the number of seats, the number of days-of-the-week they have entertainment, and the number of musicians who perform. In a typical coffeehouse, I can assure you that the annual ASCAP license fee amounts to less than the cost of one latte per day. The annual ASCAP fees for Madison Square Garden are a bit more. ascap fees and small venues
Turns out they pay a yearly fee for the right to sing hymnals. You got to love it.
Not every hymn is is in the public domain. Not every arrangement of every hymn is in the public domain.
In every generation, when it comes time to replace the hymnal you can expect fierce debate over what should come in - Morning Has Broken - in the Cat Stevens arrangement - and what should go out - Onward, Christian Soldiers.
Meanwhile, the music director is trying to balance the demands of the organist and choir for something new and more challenging and the demands of the congregation for something more familiar, and, not incidentally, easier to sing.
News Flash:
Performance of protected works for commercial purposes is not free.
ASCAP has been collecting performance rights from restaurants, bars, taverns, etc., for ninety-three years.
Did they now?
The Quarrymen covered Lonnie Donegan and Elvis at a now legendary dance at St. Peter's Church in Liverpool in 1957. Is that proof the band or the venues they played ignored performance rights? Not really.
In the U.S., ASCAP has been collecting performance rights since 1914. It becomes a little difficult to feign ignorance of the rules, when ASCAP or BMI comes a-calling, as they have for almost 100 years.
ASCAP's earliest members included the era's most active songwriters - Irving Berlin, James Weldon Johnson, Jerome Kern and John Philip Sousa. Not long after, prominent songwriters such as W.C. Handy, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and George and Ira Gershwin became members. In 1919, ASCAP and the Performing Right Society of Great Britain signed the first reciprocal agreement for the representation of each other's members' works in their respective territories. ASCAP
The definition of sovereignty usually include such things as:
The right to define citizenship and the fundamental rights of citizens.
The right to maintain an independent military force.
The right to coin money and define its value.
The right to control trade and commerce with other states.
The right to forge alliances and make treaties with foreign powers.
The right to issue passports for foreign travel.
Ratification - like the Convention itself - was a arbritrary exercise of power.
Ratification was accomplished through unique "conventions" held in each state - and a majority of nine bound all. This was a fundamental departure from the Articles of Confederation.
Where does it say that these robots are autonomous?
Computerworld describes them as remote cotrolled.
Even remote-controlled robots with stun guns would worry me. Anything that would make it easier for a cop to hurt someone without looking into the whites of their eyes would worry me.
The cop is wearing a face plate and body armor. The cop doesn't see the whites of your eyes.
So you would rather be taken out - permenently - by the S.W.A.T. team sniper or emerge from a hostage-taking with a "non-lethal" shock from a taser?
Because that is the real-world choice when it comes time to bring you down.
Niemöller had the courage to take a stand against the Nazi.
The Pirate Bay is nothing but fan service for the cheap-ass Geek who wants his media fix at a discount. No different fundamentally than buying the stereo that fell off the back of a truck.
That is not how the commitment is framed. The decision belongs to "we, the people," of these United States as a whole.
You left out the first sentence of that section which frames the rest of the argument:
Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim.
But religion was - profoundly - a part of the Kamikaze experience. The "Divine Wind." The Last Notes of the Kamikaze Pilots and the Japanese View of Death and Afterlife
The feds may issue an ID --- which will immediately become the standard for proof of age, ID and citizenship. The next best thing to carrying a U.S. Passport.
Open your wallet. How many cards and badges are you carrying now? How many could you shred if you were carrying a single card meeting the federal standard? All this legislation does is lower the value of any ID issued by New Hampshire.
what the slave states won in the Constitution was 3/5 representation in Congress for its slave population.
what would prove disastrous to the south in the Dred Scott case was the explosive dictum from the Supreme Court that slavery itself could never be touched.
I think most constitutional experts will agree that just about everything Lincoln did once the Civil War started, including the Emancipation Proclamation, was in fact in technical violation of both word and spirit of the Constitution.
Lincoln justified his actions as necessary to the suppression of an armed rebellion. It has never been easy - it will never be easy - to frame a constitutional argument against Executive action in wartime.
The most far-reaching agreement made at the Constitutional Convention was that the federal government must have the power to collect taxes - direct taxes on individuals.
That is the fundamental root of Lincoln's belief that the federal union is not a voluntary union of states but a bond between between its people as a whole.
The federal government made it abundantly clear in the Whisky Rebellion of 1791 that it would use force to establish maintain its authority --- by a short rope and a long drop if necessary..
It would do so again in 1860.
When directly challenged, Eisenhower did not hesitate to send troops into Little Rock in 1957.
___ The feds can bring enormous financial leverage against a state. Social Security. Medicaid. Transfer payments of every sort. It could freeze assets and credits. It could with a single executive order bankrupt every Californian city over-night.
But which Heinlein are we talking about?
The aging Grokster or the Heinlein whose early stories can be read as a plausible alternative history?
The interaction of technology - and very interesting tech it is too, even after fifty years - society and individuals with a very important role to play: the entrepreneurial capitalist like Harriman, for example.
The co-op minded Geek may rebel against the idea, but our world is recognizably Harriman's world.
Heinlein's arguments for incest are bound to the sixties.
"Dangerous Visions," indeed. Ignoring the problems of coercion, undue influence, etc., "Inbred" has a psychological and cultural as well as a genetic dimension. We don't reject incest simply out of fear of disease and defects, we reject it because it because it corrupts the relationship between parent and child and isolates a man from his neighbors.p
When standards become entrenched their efficiency and origins no longer matter. You might as well re-open the debate over QWERTY vs. DVORAK.
If the question is physical access to a federal office building or federally-regulated facilities like a nuclear power plant or a commercial airline in interstate commerce, the answer is "no power at all."
These are the complaints I see coming:
"Dad needs help in applying for Social Security and Medicare. My wife has plans to visit her mother in New York. I have contracts to service federal agencies, appearances scheduled in the federal courts.
We are not anchored in the New Hampshire bedrock. There are places we need to go, things we need to do, that will increasingly demand a standardized photo ID."