What matters is that everyone involved needed to be working with someone who understood the statutory and administrative law of Kansas. No state makes it easy to opt-out of parental obligations and least of all when social services has to pick up the tab.
I hate to be the Grinch who actually read the paper, but its conclusions are less bankable than Dogecoin. Which is to say, about as solid as one might cynically expect from a paper on epidemiology and social networking published online without peer review by a pair of graduate students in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Even in Soviet Russia at the height of the cold war russians had rights. (It's interesting reading the real account of life in russian from people who lived it not the propaganda)
Solzhenitsyn argued that the Soviet government could not govern without the threat of imprisonment, and that the Soviet economy depended on the productivity of the forced labor camps, especially insofar as the development and construction of public works and infrastructure were concerned.
This put into doubt the entire moral standing of the Soviet system. In Western Europe the book eventually contributed strongly to a need for rethinking of the historical role of Lenin. With The Gulag Archipelago, Lenin's political and historical legacy became problematic, and those factions of Western communist parties who still based their economic and political ideology on Lenin were left with a heavy burden of proof against them. George F. Kennan, the influential U.S. diplomat, called The Gulag Archipelago, "the most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever to be levied in modern times".
In an interview with German weekly Die Zeit British historian Orlando Figes asserted that many gulag inmates he interviewed for his research identified so strongly with the book's contents that they became unable to distinguish between their own experiences and what they read: "The Gulag Archipelago spoke for a whole nation and was the voice of all those who suffered".
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the formation of the Russian Federation, The Gulag Archipelago has been officially published, and it is included in the high school program in Russia as mandatory reading in 2009.
a whistleblower releases information to those who it isn't supposed to go in order to improve the security their country and the lives of their fellow countrymen, whereas spies release information to those who it isn't supposed to go in order to undermine the security of said country. While the methods and results may even be the same the intent is different.
The road to hell and all that.
"Good intentions" are not a solid ground on which to build a defense, legal or political.
You are not all-wise and all-knowing and if that is the face you present to the public, you are most likely doomed.
There will some who will want to believe in you --- some who will be desperate to believe in you --- but never quite enough to change the outcome.
Giving microphone access to a complex piece of software that's primarily used to render, interpret and run code fetched from random places on the Internet... what could possibly go wrong?
The world wide web and web browser has been a two-way means of communication for quite some years now.
It really says a lot about our priorities as a nation when burglaries barely interest the local cops but piracy requires the FBI.
It says more about the geek's abysmal understanding of the American federal system.
Burglaries are prosecuted under state law.
Economic and property crimes with an interstate or foreign dimension or with other federal constitutional dimensions are prosecuted under federal law.
The first criminal provision in U.S. copyright law was added in 1897, which established a misdemeanor penalty for ''unlawful performances and representations of copyrighted dramatic and musical compositions'' if the violation had been ''willful and for profit.''
When a small percentage of the population has nothing particularly special to offer the rest of the population, we worry about them becoming marginalized and ignored, possibly even subject to prejudice.
The percentages aren't small and the trend lines are running strongly against an all white male geek elite. If he wants high paying high tech jobs to remain in the states, he has to come to terms with a changing population.
When a small percentage of the population has something that everyone wants, something that most people don't have the capacity to get for themselves, and especially something that others can't take by force - We call them "elites", not "minorities".
This is the technocratic argument that has always haunted the geek elite --- and Heinlein pinned it's pelt to the wall in 1940.
As an industrial civilization expands, its complexities multiply. With each new development the web of interlocking units becomes more tangled. Each small unit grows more important, more susceptible to shock, more liable to halt the entire organism with its own individual breakdown.
--- Introduction to the Modern Library edition.
When an elite becomes too arrogant, too powerful, its power is broken.
Unfortunately, we have become so mired in politically correct bullshit that it's now almost a crime to actually tell the truth about anything. A lack of women or minorities in a particular field is not a "problem" which needs to be fixed.
The US is well on its way to becoming majority Hispanic.
The geek may be well on the way to be as marginalized by a minority and aging white population as the GOP.
Tech is designed and built for markets. If you haven't a clue about what women want from tech, what Hispanics want from tech, you are not going to prosper in a 21st century economy,
Having said that this case seems to have swung the balance between "charging for connections" and "charging for data" too far in the opposite direction.
This is a rural co-op telco with 1,000 low income owner/subscribers --- the geek has no leverage here.
It is a co-op, subscriber owned, that pays dividends. The high end DSL service is almost certainly dominated by commercial and institutional customers. The per capita income here is a bare $20K.
As a customer, I do mind metered internet because it's bullshit.
Do words like "rural co-op telco" ring a bell?
Every cent you pay to East Buchanan during the year, be it for telephone, long distance, Internet, wireless, cable, Talknet or VisionNet, eventually comes back to you in the form of dividends.
In the ten years from 1990 through 1999, East Buchanan paid back over 5.25 million dollars to its customers in patronage dividends. With the average percentage per customer, being 51%.
As of the census of 2010, there were 850 people, 346 households, and 228 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,011.9 inhabitants per square mile (390.7/km2). There were 357 housing units at an average density of 425.0 per square mile (164.1/km2).
The median income for a household in the city was $36,136, and the median income for a family was $42,969. Males had a median income of $31,641 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,183. About 4.3% of families and 5.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.3% of those under age 18 and 7.8% of those age 65 or over.
No Wikipedia entry for this rural Telco co-op. Buchanan County, Iowa (Area 573.35 sq mi, 1,485 km2) has a population of about 21,000. In 2010, males had a median income of $30,212 versus $22,356 for females. The per capita income for the county was $18,405.
The investment opportunity here looks non-existent.
There are a ton of historical reasons American cities are built the way they are. First, because almost all of your cities were built long before the existence of cars, American cities were created after the existence of cars.
Most American cities were built after the invention of the railroad. (ca 1825)
The move to the suburbs was well established before the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. (1883) Streetcar suburb
Before Amazon,com, there was the Sears, Roebuck catalog. "The World's Largest Store." offering convenient and affordable rural and suburban home delivery.
There are many, many forces which resist centralization in the states.
The solution is to create a donor list: if you are on the list you will receive organs before none donors in the event you need one/
Not everyone who would benefit from a donation can be a donor. Those most in need of a donor are unlikely to find a place on your donor list.
if everyone was willing to give their organs, there wouldn't be a supply issue.
This isn't simply a problem of supply and demand but of time and place. Doubling the pool of potential - not actual - donor organs doesn't mean you have doubled the number of successful organ transplants.
Symbolics machines had the key well before Microsoft even talked about ripping off DOS
The serviceable 16 bit CP/M clone was the Holy Grail for every geek in his garage who saw the potential of the 8086. What the geek didn't have was a full suite of programming languages ready to port and the resources to build on the launch of the new IBM micro,
Disney and Warner Brothers ("Maverick") jump-started the infant ABC television network. Disney's move to NBC and color production rocketed sales of color TV sets.
Disney's automated stage shows introduced millions - tens of millions and hundreds of millions --- to the potential of computers and robotics, beginning with the New York World's Fair in 1964.
The geek needs to let go his obsession with pornography in order to see family entertainment as a driving force in technology.
H.265 is already planned to go into 2015 devices (TVs and BD players) in order to support upcoming features like 4k and HDR - but, there is still a chance to get VP9, etc in there.
Netflix and Amazon aren't waiting until 2015 to anchor their position as the leading providers of 4K video.
Netflix says video streaming of its programming in ultra-high definition will work for buyers of new UHD sets from LG, Sony, Samsung, Vizio and others upon purchase.
That's because Ultra HD models from those makers will include the Netflix app and chips that decode signals in the so-called High Efficiency Video Coding standard, or HEVC.
The chip is required to decode signals that Netflix Inc. will compress by more than 100 times and squeeze through the Internet at a speed of 15.6 megabits per second. That's a download speed widely available from Internet providers in the U.S.
Slashdot Mirror
Offers good value for the time and money you spend there.
You wouldn't know it from the idiocies exposed in the Facebook paper.
It doesn't matter that the couple was lesbian.
What matters is that everyone involved needed to be working with someone who understood the statutory and administrative law of Kansas. No state makes it easy to opt-out of parental obligations and least of all when social services has to pick up the tab.
.... if a day passed without another Bitcoin story.
I hate to be the Grinch who actually read the paper, but its conclusions are less bankable than Dogecoin. Which is to say, about as solid as one might cynically expect from a paper on epidemiology and social networking published online without peer review by a pair of graduate students in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Even in Soviet Russia at the height of the cold war russians had rights. (It's interesting reading the real account of life in russian from people who lived it not the propaganda)
Solzhenitsyn argued that the Soviet government could not govern without the threat of imprisonment, and that the Soviet economy depended on the productivity of the forced labor camps, especially insofar as the development and construction of public works and infrastructure were concerned.
This put into doubt the entire moral standing of the Soviet system. In Western Europe the book eventually contributed strongly to a need for rethinking of the historical role of Lenin. With The Gulag Archipelago, Lenin's political and historical legacy became problematic, and those factions of Western communist parties who still based their economic and political ideology on Lenin were left with a heavy burden of proof against them. George F. Kennan, the influential U.S. diplomat, called The Gulag Archipelago, "the most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever to be levied in modern times".
In an interview with German weekly Die Zeit British historian Orlando Figes asserted that many gulag inmates he interviewed for his research identified so strongly with the book's contents that they became unable to distinguish between their own experiences and what they read: "The Gulag Archipelago spoke for a whole nation and was the voice of all those who suffered".
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the formation of the Russian Federation, The Gulag Archipelago has been officially published, and it is included in the high school program in Russia as mandatory reading in 2009.
The Gulag Archipelago
a whistleblower releases information to those who it isn't supposed to go in order to improve the security their country and the lives of their fellow countrymen, whereas spies release information to those who it isn't supposed to go in order to undermine the security of said country. While the methods and results may even be the same the intent is different.
The road to hell and all that.
"Good intentions" are not a solid ground on which to build a defense, legal or political.
You are not all-wise and all-knowing and if that is the face you present to the public, you are most likely doomed.
There will some who will want to believe in you --- some who will be desperate to believe in you --- but never quite enough to change the outcome.
Got bogged down by the rules.
I remember the rules as favoring human player characters over all others, no matter how well played. When the dice are loaded a game stops being fun.
Giving microphone access to a complex piece of software that's primarily used to render, interpret and run code fetched from random places on the Internet... what could possibly go wrong?
The world wide web and web browser has been a two-way means of communication for quite some years now.
It really says a lot about our priorities as a nation when burglaries barely interest the local cops but piracy requires the FBI.
It says more about the geek's abysmal understanding of the American federal system.
Burglaries are prosecuted under state law.
Economic and property crimes with an interstate or foreign dimension or with other federal constitutional dimensions are prosecuted under federal law.
The first criminal provision in U.S. copyright law was added in 1897, which established a misdemeanor penalty for ''unlawful performances and representations of copyrighted dramatic and musical compositions'' if the violation had been ''willful and for profit.''
Criminal Copyright Law in the United States
No Electronic Theft Act
Our only option is to deal with it.
The geek sees history following one path --- His path --- and not as a constellation of choices that can take the world in a new direction.
Funny thing about "minorities"...
When a small percentage of the population has nothing particularly special to offer the rest of the population, we worry about them becoming marginalized and ignored, possibly even subject to prejudice.
The percentages aren't small and the trend lines are running strongly against an all white male geek elite. If he wants high paying high tech jobs to remain in the states, he has to come to terms with a changing population.
When a small percentage of the population has something that everyone wants, something that most people don't have the capacity to get for themselves, and especially something that others can't take by force - We call them "elites", not "minorities".
The Roads Must Roll
This is the technocratic argument that has always haunted the geek elite --- and Heinlein pinned it's pelt to the wall in 1940.
As an industrial civilization expands, its complexities multiply. With each new development the web of interlocking units becomes more tangled. Each small unit grows more important, more susceptible to shock, more liable to halt the entire organism with its own individual breakdown.
--- Introduction to the Modern Library edition.
When an elite becomes too arrogant, too powerful, its power is broken.
Unfortunately, we have become so mired in politically correct bullshit that it's now almost a crime to actually tell the truth about anything. A lack of women or minorities in a particular field is not a "problem" which needs to be fixed.
The US is well on its way to becoming majority Hispanic.
The geek may be well on the way to be as marginalized by a minority and aging white population as the GOP.
Tech is designed and built for markets. If you haven't a clue about what women want from tech, what Hispanics want from tech, you are not going to prosper in a 21st century economy,
Having said that this case seems to have swung the balance between "charging for connections" and "charging for data" too far in the opposite direction.
This is a rural co-op telco with 1,000 low income owner/subscribers --- the geek has no leverage here.
please have people leave that provider in mass.
It is a co-op, subscriber owned, that pays dividends. The high end DSL service is almost certainly dominated by commercial and institutional customers. The per capita income here is a bare $20K.
As a customer, I do mind metered internet because it's bullshit.
Do words like "rural co-op telco" ring a bell?
Every cent you pay to East Buchanan during the year, be it for telephone, long distance, Internet, wireless, cable, Talknet or VisionNet, eventually comes back to you in the form of dividends.
In the ten years from 1990 through 1999, East Buchanan paid back over 5.25 million dollars to its customers in patronage dividends. With the average percentage per customer, being 51%.
About East Buchanan Telephone
As of the census of 2010, there were 850 people, 346 households, and 228 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,011.9 inhabitants per square mile (390.7 /km2). There were 357 housing units at an average density of 425.0 per square mile (164.1 /km2).
The median income for a household in the city was $36,136, and the median income for a family was $42,969. Males had a median income of $31,641 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,183. About 4.3% of families and 5.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.3% of those under age 18 and 7.8% of those age 65 or over.
Winthrop, Iowa
No Wikipedia entry for this rural Telco co-op. Buchanan County, Iowa (Area 573.35 sq mi, 1,485 km2) has a population of about 21,000. In 2010, males had a median income of $30,212 versus $22,356 for females. The per capita income for the county was $18,405.
The investment opportunity here looks non-existent.
Work product on a shared home PC? Multiple users? The most brain-dead idea ever posted to Slashdot.
So lets put some bulky, heavy things in our shopping carts and on our wish lists and really mess with Bezos for a few weeks.
The joke comes across all the better after you've around Slashdot long enough to haven seen worse ideas taken up seriously.
There are a ton of historical reasons American cities are built the way they are. First, because almost all of your cities were built long before the existence of cars, American cities were created after the existence of cars.
Most American cities were built after the invention of the railroad. (ca 1825)
The move to the suburbs was well established before the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. (1883) Streetcar suburb
Before Amazon,com, there was the Sears, Roebuck catalog. "The World's Largest Store." offering convenient and affordable rural and suburban home delivery.
There are many, many forces which resist centralization in the states.
The solution is to create a donor list: if you are on the list you will receive organs before none donors in the event you need one/
Not everyone who would benefit from a donation can be a donor. Those most in need of a donor are unlikely to find a place on your donor list.
if everyone was willing to give their organs, there wouldn't be a supply issue.
This isn't simply a problem of supply and demand but of time and place. Doubling the pool of potential - not actual - donor organs doesn't mean you have doubled the number of successful organ transplants.
Symbolics machines had the key well before Microsoft even talked about ripping off DOS
The serviceable 16 bit CP/M clone was the Holy Grail for every geek in his garage who saw the potential of the 8086. What the geek didn't have was a full suite of programming languages ready to port and the resources to build on the launch of the new IBM micro,
Porn is what made VHS win the format war.
Disney won the format war.
Disney and Warner Brothers ("Maverick") jump-started the infant ABC television network. Disney's move to NBC and color production rocketed sales of color TV sets.
Disney's automated stage shows introduced millions - tens of millions and hundreds of millions --- to the potential of computers and robotics, beginning with the New York World's Fair in 1964.
The geek needs to let go his obsession with pornography in order to see family entertainment as a driving force in technology.
H.265 is already planned to go into 2015 devices (TVs and BD players) in order to support upcoming features like 4k and HDR - but, there is still a chance to get VP9, etc in there.
Netflix and Amazon aren't waiting until 2015 to anchor their position as the leading providers of 4K video.
Netflix says video streaming of its programming in ultra-high definition will work for buyers of new UHD sets from LG, Sony, Samsung, Vizio and others upon purchase.
That's because Ultra HD models from those makers will include the Netflix app and chips that decode signals in the so-called High Efficiency Video Coding standard, or HEVC.
The chip is required to decode signals that Netflix Inc. will compress by more than 100 times and squeeze through the Internet at a speed of 15.6 megabits per second. That's a download speed widely available from Internet providers in the U.S.
Netflix app to stream "Ultra HD" 4K video on new TVs
Actually, that doesn't worry me nearly as much as Windows for Warships.
The USS Yorktown (CG-48) was decommissioned in 2004.
Life goes on.
Yeah, there must be, oh, thousands of ATMs out there.
2.2 million.
Average amount of time a new ATM machine is installed --- 5 minutes ATM Machine Statistics [2012]
Automated teller machines (ATMs) (per 100,000 adults) [2009]
US 173
Canada 205