Essentially, their idealogy is that the reason your neighbor can't possess depleted uranium magazines or homebrew napalm is that the second ammendment applies within the context of state militias, rather than private persons.
Regarding the fourteenth ammendment, I'm not entirely certian as to what you're getting at. XIV is a broad addition to the constitution, but most notably it is NOT part of the group of original ammendments we refer to as the "Bill of Rights," where a significant value of the ACLU's stances on issues are derived. Regardless, their mission is usually said to encompasses all rights of citizens (and sometimes non-citizens), and if there are any cracks in their actions or philosophy regarding the 14th, I'm ignorant regarding them. Please explain your position better.
What would be ideal would be a solution where spacecraft can lift standard shipping containers (yes, those same ones used all over the world that can be carried around by various methods) into orbit and then to wherever the hell you want them.
And what's the benefit? Shipping containers are practical because frieght trains have regular cars which can carry one or more standardized containers, cargo ships are built around their design, trucks can cart them around easily enough -though more practical solutions exist-, and why? Because they all form the transportation industry. Its not uncommon for frieght to leave a mine, factory, farm, or factory farm (couldn't resist the pun:) ) by truck, get loaded on a train, unload onto a ship, back onto a train, then trucked out to the final destination. It makes sense to have standardized containers because this is all part of one cohesive system. None of the advantages translate to space travel yet, as we are not yet sending goods from the train by the loading dock onto the rocket. Space travel is still immature enough that non-standard technologies are more practical. Until its a trivial act to go into orbit, and practical for moving frieght, standardized shipping containers (which are built for gravity based trucks, trains, and ships) are just an extra few hundred pounds of metal packaging in a field where costs are phrohibitive enough that every OUNCE makes a difference.
For instance, 1,000,000 MS haters buy xboxes with the hopes of making a serious dent in the $60 billion (yes with nine zeros) cash reserve that Microsoft holds. In the mean time, Microsoft is able to report to the software vendors that they have those 1,000,000 extra xboxes out there. Vendors see the large numbers and make more games to support the xbox. In turn, the xbox software library grows and so does its legit customer base. I know the 1,000,000 xboxes for the MS haters is an exaggeration, but hopefully you will get my point.
Other posters have pointed out that an x-box which never goes purchased hurts Microsoft more than one that is. By buying the product, you reimburse Microsoft's cost by $110, or whatever their resellers pay.
An X-Box on the shelf costs M$ more than two in the hand!
Remember when the Feds snatching this guy from Intel was a big deal here at/.? When we all thought that the FBI was overstepping their bounds? When we all thought that they were wrong; that an Intel engineer couldn't possibly be guilty?
...owned.
You're not a lawyer, and niether am I, but I think it should be noted that in the US _justice_ system, regardless of innocence or guilt, a plea bargain is often going to be tempting in proportion to how likely you are to win a case (your legal re$ources vs. theirs). Really, as I recall (I have not RTFA, of course!) he was otherwise facing something like ten times this to life. What would you do, even if innocent?
they decided to print out the article and come have a serious talk, and how I should realize filesharing is wrong.
Some of use are curious to know what happened This is, as best as I can estimate, EXACTLY one of the effects the RIAA is going for. Your anecdotal account has a lot of relevence to this discussion.
Ummm... you do know that there are plenty of standalone DVD players that do the NTSC/PAL conversion just fine, so that you can watch PAL discs on an NTSC television set... right?
Well, I guess I know why I'm not getting modded up:)
John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz invented BASIC in 1964 for use at Dartmouth College. They made it freely available to everyone who wanted to learn how to program computers. It soon became a world standard. -TrueBasic.com
You're probably thinking of this:
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. -http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp
I must say, this site is rather tame. Age, place of birth, religion... its all really only information one might find in an encyclopedia. This is hardly intrusive, though a happy step forward. Perhaps my fellow commenters would care to post some ideas regarding new "features?"
Recent studies reveal that the majority of the users of these systems are unable to tell what files they are sharing and sometimes incorrectly assume they were not sharing any files when in fact they were sharing all files on their hard drive.
From the comment:
I don't know what is considered a strong argument in bill-writing
Hopefully not this. The logic seems to be that P2P apps are both client and server, and the general userbase frequently does not understand how the server functionality is configured or even works.
Fair enough, though I think it is largely irrefutable this "education" campiegn, should it come to pass, will be hostile or at least very will not promote positive uses of P2P (really, do you think any federal money will go to pass out pamphlets explaining how to make certian your shared folder is not your root directory?). There are other things the public should be educated about first and warned of greater ills... it shocks me to see that AmeriDebt is still advertising:)
I think this (along with all of the studies, etc.) is direct proof that exposure to scenes of violence is âoedesensitizingâ. Does it mean that watching TV will eventually turn her into a killer? Of course not. But it does mean that her âoepsycheâ no longer panics at the sight of violence,
Do you think this woman became "desensitized" to violence in general or just TV content? Are you drawing a distinction between "real" violence and TV violence?
Back when I did driver ed, I remember speaking to a paramedic on a similiar topic, who noted he knew a rookie firefighter who threw up the first time he had to cut open a car to retrieve a mess of a corpse and an injured dog. I'll probably miss some little detail, but he explained to his friend, the paramedic, that after a childhood of watching exploding cars and gunfights with exploding cars, never thought of violence as something "real," which he thought left him much more sensitive to having a living tragedy before him. Thoughts?
I've had to explain to people more times than I would like to have had to that opening up a monitor without understanding which parts can hurt you has the potential to hurt you. I'd like to say this is common sense, but it really isn't.
So PLEASE warn visitors on any monitor modding site you build. Its an extra two seconds and might save someone a trip to the emergency room.
And manafacturers, how about a sticker warning "DEATH MAY BE IMMENENT IF OPENED," instead of "No user servicable parts?":)
Look on the bright side, kids; people in my area can, between two stations, watch The Simpsons four times on the average weekday, and soon maybe six or ten!
I for one, am quite pleased with this decision. It is a great day for Sienfeld re-reuns.
I think http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Mystical_Mai n.html puts it best:
The common fault with many of these metaphysical notions is that they are arbitrary, meaning without any basis in reality. Sure, Persephone getting abducted by Hades and then later rescued by her mother Demeter will explain why the seasons take place, but there is no reason to choose this explanation instead of "the legend of the flatulent goat who drastically alters the weather throughout the year".
To apply i to this, yes it is possible that you are only a comic-book-guy wannabe simulated in a vast citidel of computational glory created by malevolent machines nursing our existence for their own perpetuation for which the only purpose is perpetuation by virtue of itself. But this, as a concept, is not functional beyond thinking "hehehe, we might just be high and low voltages shooting around a million trillion transistors" before you have your coffee. No, you live by the status quo; what you can percieve and act on it as though it is absolute truth. I'd suggest, before hurting your head too much over this, that you consider applying the popular interpretation of Occam's Razor and THEN drink your coffee.
I'd produce a slightly different reaction...
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If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd go;)
If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd strangle him with my own severed wind pipe as I flood the assembly room in tears...
The world is really ganging up against Microsoft simply because they're American I think (or perhaps they just act "American"
Sounds like motivation to at least be seen as behaving.
Unfavorable action = unfavorable consequence. Really, this isn't a bad thing; though can't be good for open source here, in the states, when its phrased that way.
there are a million ways around this, though assumingly unbeknownst to most mac users.
Your first statement is irrefutable (except perhaps by "millions,"), however the second misses the point entirely. We're pissed off because Apple removed functionality from an application, not because they deprived us of the one and only means off accomplisihing the fruit of said functionality.
They do in the sense that women do as well. Prior to Women's Suffrage and social movement towards equality between the sexs (I'm speaking rather loosely in the historical sense) "people" referred to males, despite the literal interpreations of the constitution obviating the necessity. Minors are people, yet as there has been no "Minor's Suffrage" (whichas I write this, I realize is rather oxy-moronic), their rights are unclear. To further muddy the waters, I seem to recall a supreme court ruling paraphraseed with the statement "the right to free speech does not end at the school gate," implying the >18 crowd DOES have the same rights.
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missing000, in a previous post, answers the second ammendment issue here: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=75151&cid= 6727549
Essentially, their idealogy is that the reason your neighbor can't possess depleted uranium magazines or homebrew napalm is that the second ammendment applies within the context of state militias, rather than private persons.
Regarding the fourteenth ammendment, I'm not entirely certian as to what you're getting at. XIV is a broad addition to the constitution, but most notably it is NOT part of the group of original ammendments we refer to as the "Bill of Rights," where a significant value of the ACLU's stances on issues are derived. Regardless, their mission is usually said to encompasses all rights of citizens (and sometimes non-citizens), and if there are any cracks in their actions or philosophy regarding the 14th, I'm ignorant regarding them. Please explain your position better.
What would be ideal would be a solution where spacecraft can lift standard shipping containers (yes, those same ones used all over the world that can be carried around by various methods) into orbit and then to wherever the hell you want them.
And what's the benefit? Shipping containers are practical because frieght trains have regular cars which can carry one or more standardized containers, cargo ships are built around their design, trucks can cart them around easily enough -though more practical solutions exist-, and why? Because they all form the transportation industry. Its not uncommon for frieght to leave a mine, factory, farm, or factory farm (couldn't resist the pun :) ) by truck, get loaded on a train, unload onto a ship, back onto a train, then trucked out to the final destination. It makes sense to have standardized containers because this is all part of one cohesive system. None of the advantages translate to space travel yet, as we are not yet sending goods from the train by the loading dock onto the rocket. Space travel is still immature enough that non-standard technologies are more practical. Until its a trivial act to go into orbit, and practical for moving frieght, standardized shipping containers (which are built for gravity based trucks, trains, and ships) are just an extra few hundred pounds of metal packaging in a field where costs are phrohibitive enough that every OUNCE makes a difference.
We need another cold war to make it happen :)
For instance, 1,000,000 MS haters buy xboxes with the hopes of making a serious dent in the $60 billion (yes with nine zeros) cash reserve that Microsoft holds. In the mean time, Microsoft is able to report to the software vendors that they have those 1,000,000 extra xboxes out there. Vendors see the large numbers and make more games to support the xbox. In turn, the xbox software library grows and so does its legit customer base. I know the 1,000,000 xboxes for the MS haters is an exaggeration, but hopefully you will get my point.
Other posters have pointed out that an x-box which never goes purchased hurts Microsoft more than one that is. By buying the product, you reimburse Microsoft's cost by $110, or whatever their resellers pay.
An X-Box on the shelf costs M$ more than two in the hand!
I think I just came up with my new sig...
Remember when the Feds snatching this guy from Intel was a big deal here at /.? When we all thought that the FBI was overstepping their bounds? When we all thought that they were wrong; that an Intel engineer couldn't possibly be guilty?
You're not a lawyer, and niether am I, but I think it should be noted that in the US _justice_ system, regardless of innocence or guilt, a plea bargain is often going to be tempting in proportion to how likely you are to win a case (your legal re$ources vs. theirs). Really, as I recall (I have not RTFA, of course!) he was otherwise facing something like ten times this to life. What would you do, even if innocent?
they decided to print out the article and come have a serious talk, and how I should realize filesharing is wrong.
Some of use are curious to know what happened This is, as best as I can estimate, EXACTLY one of the effects the RIAA is going for. Your anecdotal account has a lot of relevence to this discussion.
Ummm... you do know that there are plenty of standalone DVD players that do the NTSC/PAL conversion just fine, so that you can watch PAL discs on an NTSC television set ... right?
Well, I guess I know why I'm not getting modded up :)
And if you have a PAL compatable TV, you can SEE it!
That's incorrect:
John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz invented BASIC in 1964 for use at Dartmouth College. They made it freely available to everyone who wanted to learn how to program computers. It soon became a world standard. -TrueBasic.com
You're probably thinking of this:
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. -http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp
I must say, this site is rather tame. Age, place of birth, religion... its all really only information one might find in an encyclopedia. This is hardly intrusive, though a happy step forward. Perhaps my fellow commenters would care to post some ideas regarding new "features?"
From the bill:
Recent studies reveal that the majority of the users of these systems are unable to tell what files they are sharing and sometimes incorrectly assume they were not sharing any files when in fact they were sharing all files on their hard drive.
From the comment:
I don't know what is considered a strong argument in bill-writing
Hopefully not this. The logic seems to be that P2P apps are both client and server, and the general userbase frequently does not understand how the server functionality is configured or even works.
Fair enough, though I think it is largely irrefutable this "education" campiegn, should it come to pass, will be hostile or at least very will not promote positive uses of P2P (really, do you think any federal money will go to pass out pamphlets explaining how to make certian your shared folder is not your root directory?). There are other things the public should be educated about first and warned of greater ills... it shocks me to see that AmeriDebt is still advertising :)
But you already knew that, didn't you?
Or just post your email adress as a .jpg?
That's what I've done on websites I've built in the past... or at least that's what I'm saying NOW :D
I'm trying to invent an e-mail address that explodes if anyone tries to use it.
I certianly wouldn't want to be near my mail server when a spammer strikes...
Though, suddently, I can't help but think a certian Utah congrescritter might be able to help you :)
I think this (along with all of the studies, etc.) is direct proof that exposure to scenes of violence is âoedesensitizingâ. Does it mean that watching TV will eventually turn her into a killer? Of course not. But it does mean that her âoepsycheâ no longer panics at the sight of violence,
Do you think this woman became "desensitized" to violence in general or just TV content? Are you drawing a distinction between "real" violence and TV violence?
Back when I did driver ed, I remember speaking to a paramedic on a similiar topic, who noted he knew a rookie firefighter who threw up the first time he had to cut open a car to retrieve a mess of a corpse and an injured dog. I'll probably miss some little detail, but he explained to his friend, the paramedic, that after a childhood of watching exploding cars and gunfights with exploding cars, never thought of violence as something "real," which he thought left him much more sensitive to having a living tragedy before him. Thoughts?
...and the dog was fine :)
So soon after I posted this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66851&cid=6141 274
I think I'm just gonna be sick.
So if the kids are stuck in a power outage and need to leave a message for someone, how exactly do you propose they do it?
Use a mechanical typewriter?
If you want kids to be able to write by hand, you just have to force them to do it in school. If you let them type everything, they will.
A good point if it were plainly beneficial, but really, we'd only be teaching kids to handwrite for the sake of handwriting.
I've had to explain to people more times than I would like to have had to that opening up a monitor without understanding which parts can hurt you has the potential to hurt you. I'd like to say this is common sense, but it really isn't.
So PLEASE warn visitors on any monitor modding site you build. Its an extra two seconds and might save someone a trip to the emergency room.
And manafacturers, how about a sticker warning "DEATH MAY BE IMMENENT IF OPENED," instead of "No user servicable parts?" :)
I don't think its hit a single person within 250 miles of me and im smack in the center of the damn US.
I think I found your problem...
Look on the bright side, kids; people in my area can, between two stations, watch The Simpsons four times on the average weekday, and soon maybe six or ten!
I for one, am quite pleased with this decision. It is a great day for Sienfeld re-reuns.
I think http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Mystical_Mai n.html puts it best:
The common fault with many of these metaphysical notions is that they are arbitrary, meaning without any basis in reality. Sure, Persephone getting abducted by Hades and then later rescued by her mother Demeter will explain why the seasons take place, but there is no reason to choose this explanation instead of "the legend of the flatulent goat who drastically alters the weather throughout the year".
To apply i to this, yes it is possible that you are only a comic-book-guy wannabe simulated in a vast citidel of computational glory created by malevolent machines nursing our existence for their own perpetuation for which the only purpose is perpetuation by virtue of itself. But this, as a concept, is not functional beyond thinking "hehehe, we might just be high and low voltages shooting around a million trillion transistors" before you have your coffee. No, you live by the status quo; what you can percieve and act on it as though it is absolute truth. I'd suggest, before hurting your head too much over this, that you consider applying the popular interpretation of Occam's Razor and THEN drink your coffee.
If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd go ;)
If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd strangle him with my own severed wind pipe as I flood the assembly room in tears...
The world is really ganging up against Microsoft simply because they're American I think (or perhaps they just act "American"
Sounds like motivation to at least be seen as behaving.
Unfavorable action = unfavorable consequence. Really, this isn't a bad thing; though can't be good for open source here, in the states, when its phrased that way.
there are a million ways around this, though assumingly unbeknownst to most mac users.
Your first statement is irrefutable (except perhaps by "millions,"), however the second misses the point entirely. We're pissed off because Apple removed functionality from an application, not because they deprived us of the one and only means off accomplisihing the fruit of said functionality.
I finally finished documenting my $4 home made electrocardiograph (heart monitor).
From the website:
Here you will find information how how to build one with less than $10 in parts.
Lies damned lies!
Minors do not have a bill of rights.
They do in the sense that women do as well. Prior to Women's Suffrage and social movement towards equality between the sexs (I'm speaking rather loosely in the historical sense) "people" referred to males, despite the literal interpreations of the constitution obviating the necessity. Minors are people, yet as there has been no "Minor's Suffrage" (whichas I write this, I realize is rather oxy-moronic), their rights are unclear. To further muddy the waters, I seem to recall a supreme court ruling paraphraseed with the statement "the right to free speech does not end at the school gate," implying the >18 crowd DOES have the same rights.