To be honest, "negotiated" could include more than the stereotypical labor bargaining process between the leadership of the worker bargaining unit ("Union negotiator") and representatives of the hiring organization's management ("Management negotiator"). Public service unions have always had the alternative of negotiating with their Management counterparts' bosses: legislators. Most people would call that "lobbying" but the means and goals are the same as plain-ol' bargaining. And it's probably more effective.
I mean, if you had could persuade, bargain, or bribe access to people who can pre-empt the folks across the table from you, wouldn't you use it? It's almost the ultimate leverage.
The last bastion of that was the Razor and Droid 4 with lapdock.
I have them (Droid 4 and Lapdock 500). Yes, it's pretty awesome. Although the Droid 4 has probably the best slider keyboard on the market, so SSH without the lapdock is actually pretty good too.
But my experiences with the Droid 4 pretty much embody much of what's being said here: Great engineering, crippled by lack of support and upgrades (I'm still running Android 4.0.4, and I don't think I'm gonna catch a sniff of 4.1 or 4.2 before the phone is EOL'd). And the whole issue where apparently I'm not really Motorola's customer; Verizon is Motorola's customer, and I'm the product. The fairly aggressive bootlocking and simlocking approach Moto took pretty much means that Moto is pimping my ass to Verizon, and I'll smile and like it until I care to buy my way out of my contract, and retire my Droid 4 as a phone. (It'd still make a pretty good microtablet, slider keyboard and all, but since I don't imagine it'll ever be unlocked, it'll never be any good as a phone anywhere else ever again.)
Oh, yeah, I know. It's widely debatable, and a lot of fairly intelligent people don't think it's valid. But the people who do think it's valid, and are in a position to act according to that belief, also don't give a rat's ass about the opinions of those who don't think it's valid.
War is war; most justification for it is post-hoc rationalization.
And even when we do, the radiation belt created doesn't last long. Five years in the case of the Starfish Prime artificial belt. Probably because the belt isn't caused by or reinforced by solar particle flux, so the trapped particles leak over time.
If everyone has it, no one has it. The essence of prestige is eliteness... "I'm better than you..." "You can't be one of us..."
It's the same impulse which makes every bloody-handed barbarian who smacks down all the neighboring barbarian call himself a noble. It's what makes a lot of people look up to some fairly terrible examples of Homo Sapiens as celebrities or leaders. It's what makes a lot of people struggle to join organizations pre-populated by horrible people.
Broadly speaking, for 2013 the across-the-board cuts will mean about an 8.4 percent cut in most affected non-defense discretionary programs, a 7.5 percent cut in affected defense programs, an 8.0 percent cut in affected mandatory programs other than Medicare, and a 2.0 percent cut in Medicare provider payments.
An adult human cadaver head cut off around vertebra C3, with no hair, weighs on average somewhere between 4.5 and 5 kg, typically constituting around 8% of the body mass.
How 'bout an ARG where you use micro-transactions to learn WTF Blizz intends to announce, so you don't have to masturbate yourself up to the frenzy of anticipation and excitement their marketing department clearly expects you to have.
Seriously, has Vivendi's ownership of Blizz yielded ONE positive result?
I would be curious what (probably bullshit) legal theory the telecom lobby would use?
Unless it's brown envelopes stuffed with banknotes. That I could easily imagine. But that just transfers the problem to the legislators being lobbied. what legal theory would those fine citizens use to advocate for this kind of restriction to community action?
That's a good point. Unfortunately, even if you could plug an RJ-45 into a tablet, the cable's a damn tripping hazard as you carry the thing around the house.
Sure, but then at least you've forced an elected official instead of a bureaucrat to take an irrelevant position on the matter.
FTFY. Or perhaps you haven't heard of Separation of Powers? The best that could happen is that an Executive-branch bureaucrat politely asks a Legislative-branch ("Library of Congress", get it?) to change his mind. And the Legislative bureaucrat politely declines. End of discussion.
Let's hear it for participatory democratic government!
Reader 9gezegen adds that Monsanto is getting support, oddly, from parts of the software industry.
It's not odd at all.
Monsanto's "innovation" is protected under US Patent law. Traditionally, patents were protected by suing the infriging party. However, the "terminator gene" is a technological self-help measure: Monsanto can enforce their patent on their own, without intervention of the law, by simply making it literally impossible to grow a second generation of crops by planting the first. It's genetic DRM.
That's the BSA's angle. They're arguing to protect DRM. For the purposes of protecting proprietary rights, patent (genetic behaviors) and copyright (copying software) are close enough that a precedent against Monsanto would make software pigopolists nervous about their own out-of-court self-help measures.
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To be honest, "negotiated" could include more than the stereotypical labor bargaining process between the leadership of the worker bargaining unit ("Union negotiator") and representatives of the hiring organization's management ("Management negotiator"). Public service unions have always had the alternative of negotiating with their Management counterparts' bosses: legislators. Most people would call that "lobbying" but the means and goals are the same as plain-ol' bargaining. And it's probably more effective.
I mean, if you had could persuade, bargain, or bribe access to people who can pre-empt the folks across the table from you, wouldn't you use it? It's almost the ultimate leverage.
Shouldn't there be a hyphen in the compound-word adjective "vine-ripened?"
<sotto voce>Um. Rats. Cabal rules say I shouldn't comment to correct, only moderate.</sotto voce>
Umm.. and there is no English major cabal!
The idea of online anonymity dates back to the days when September was not the only month online.
+1 Eternal September reference. God damned AOL'ers. I knew it would come to this, back in '93. I just fucking knew it.
The last bastion of that was the Razor and Droid 4 with lapdock.
I have them (Droid 4 and Lapdock 500). Yes, it's pretty awesome. Although the Droid 4 has probably the best slider keyboard on the market, so SSH without the lapdock is actually pretty good too.
But my experiences with the Droid 4 pretty much embody much of what's being said here: Great engineering, crippled by lack of support and upgrades (I'm still running Android 4.0.4, and I don't think I'm gonna catch a sniff of 4.1 or 4.2 before the phone is EOL'd). And the whole issue where apparently I'm not really Motorola's customer; Verizon is Motorola's customer, and I'm the product. The fairly aggressive bootlocking and simlocking approach Moto took pretty much means that Moto is pimping my ass to Verizon, and I'll smile and like it until I care to buy my way out of my contract, and retire my Droid 4 as a phone. (It'd still make a pretty good microtablet, slider keyboard and all, but since I don't imagine it'll ever be unlocked, it'll never be any good as a phone anywhere else ever again.)
This is how.
Oh, yeah, I know. It's widely debatable, and a lot of fairly intelligent people don't think it's valid. But the people who do think it's valid, and are in a position to act according to that belief, also don't give a rat's ass about the opinions of those who don't think it's valid.
War is war; most justification for it is post-hoc rationalization.
Yeah. Those *AA bastards are real bastards.
Wait, what? You're saying that that's what NK does? Huh. I'da sworn that was more like the pigopolists.
and it will still be highly profitable as long as their sales people can convince businesses otherwise.
You make it sound like marketers would have to lie to their potential customers.
<Vizzini>Inconceivable!</Vizzini>
Vehicular armor. More 'burban than hillbilly, I guess.
http://xkcd.com/927/
And even when we do, the radiation belt created doesn't last long. Five years in the case of the Starfish Prime artificial belt. Probably because the belt isn't caused by or reinforced by solar particle flux, so the trapped particles leak over time.
If everyone has it, no one has it. The essence of prestige is eliteness... "I'm better than you..." "You can't be one of us..."
It's the same impulse which makes every bloody-handed barbarian who smacks down all the neighboring barbarian call himself a noble. It's what makes a lot of people look up to some fairly terrible examples of Homo Sapiens as celebrities or leaders. It's what makes a lot of people struggle to join organizations pre-populated by horrible people.
Theodor Geisel did some significant research on this subject.
You're using an inappropriate, non-robotic, definition of help.
Percentage-wise, we're shaving off about 8%:
By an eerie coincidence, you can lose 8% of your body weight by decapitating yourself:
Good point. "Due process" is no process at all if the powers and the courts decide you're not due any process at all. For historical instance...
"Always mount a scratch rat!"
How 'bout an ARG where you use micro-transactions to learn WTF Blizz intends to announce, so you don't have to masturbate yourself up to the frenzy of anticipation and excitement their marketing department clearly expects you to have.
Seriously, has Vivendi's ownership of Blizz yielded ONE positive result?
I don't have to imagine that; I have children.
I would be curious what (probably bullshit) legal theory the telecom lobby would use?
Unless it's brown envelopes stuffed with banknotes. That I could easily imagine. But that just transfers the problem to the legislators being lobbied. what legal theory would those fine citizens use to advocate for this kind of restriction to community action?
Watching evil in action can be fascinating.
If you're going to make a brick-and-mortar analogy, at least try to get the basic facts right.
Walk into a retail store and ask for an Apple computer. The clerk responds "We don't carry Apple... we have HPs, Samsungs, Acers, etc. over there."
And then Apple sues because the store has the audacity to NOT SEND CUSTOMERS OUT THE DOOR.
North American, or Asian?
Or, as said somewhat more eloquently:
--Robert E. Lee
Ironically, the F-15 turned out to be a damn fine fighter-bomber. Good enough, for instance, for a dedicated ground-attack variant.
That's a good point. Unfortunately, even if you could plug an RJ-45 into a tablet, the cable's a damn tripping hazard as you carry the thing around the house.
Sure, but then at least you've forced an elected official instead of a bureaucrat to take an irrelevant position on the matter.
FTFY. Or perhaps you haven't heard of Separation of Powers? The best that could happen is that an Executive-branch bureaucrat politely asks a Legislative-branch ("Library of Congress", get it?) to change his mind. And the Legislative bureaucrat politely declines. End of discussion.
Let's hear it for participatory democratic government!
Reader 9gezegen adds that Monsanto is getting support, oddly, from parts of the software industry.
It's not odd at all.
Monsanto's "innovation" is protected under US Patent law. Traditionally, patents were protected by suing the infriging party. However, the "terminator gene" is a technological self-help measure: Monsanto can enforce their patent on their own, without intervention of the law, by simply making it literally impossible to grow a second generation of crops by planting the first. It's genetic DRM.
That's the BSA's angle. They're arguing to protect DRM. For the purposes of protecting proprietary rights, patent (genetic behaviors) and copyright (copying software) are close enough that a precedent against Monsanto would make software pigopolists nervous about their own out-of-court self-help measures.