Do we have to go into this again? Regulated means disciplined.
regulated
adj 1: controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law; "well regulated industries"; "houses with regulated temperature" [ant: unregulated] 2: marked by system or regularity or discipline; "a quiet ordered house"; "an orderly universe"; "a well regulated life" [syn: ordered, orderly]
What we need is real campaign finance reform to effectively, once and for all, shut out the noise produced by corporations...
I wrote something like that for a Government assignment. The premise was that the candidate would select an amount not exceeding $100, and all contributions must be made, anonymously, in this amount. A "Campaing Finance Administration" would be set up to collect and distribute this money and to investigate and prosecute any charges of violating the rules.
Of course, it would never pass committee. But it was an interesting idea.
No matter how bad something is, somebody will buy it. I can assure you that somebody bought tickets to a certain movie that was "so bad, it's good"(I would give a name, but I forgot how to spell it).
We certianly are not talking about PHd's and people with an IQ over 120 here, we are talking about terrorists.
Actually, the men near the top of the chain are generally very intelligent. Remember, these men are recruiting others to detonate themselves in crowded marketplaces. Their PR abilities are second to none(for an example of this, go to a market in Islamabad and check out the posters venerating Osama bin Laden). Many of them do have American degrees, including PHd's. These are the same men who planned attacks in some of the most secure areas in the world. Don't underestimate them.
A site got C&D-ed by Microsoft for tracking a torrent of the XP SP2 patch.
Waitaminnit. You're saying that somebody got a C&D order for tracking a torrent to a peice of software that its creator gives out for FREE? I have a SP2 disc here that Microsoft sent me FOR FREE, and the text on the sleeve it came in ENCOURAGES the user to give it to others! Quote:
Share this CD with a friend! After you have installed Service Pack 2, you can give this CD to a friend or family member using Windows XP.
What I'm saying here is that I find your story hard to swollow.
Thing is, I use the combination to determine sentence endings. Not using capitol letters makes your paragraphs look like run-on sentences to me.
As to the grandparent's "weenie" remark, a message board is NOT a chat room. You have the time to proofread and fact-check your posts before they go to the board. If you don't at least proofread, you look like a lazy slob and/or an AOLer, and people are less likely to take you seriously. And seeing this kind of writing from someone with such a low UID just makes me sad.
Only this time, the culprit is marijuana instead of alcohol.
Not to mention LSD, psilocybin and psilocin (magic mushrooms), mescaline (peyote), and DMT, all of which are illegal and yet completely safe if you know what you're doing. Most of them have applications in psychology (they are supposed to help you discover yourself and aid the process of changing bad habits and fixing problems), but this is not recognized. (Schedule I, anybody?)
The government of the Sixties feared the hippie generation. Hippies had ideas that were radically different than their own, and they thought that drugs might have had something to do with that. In their panic to maintain the status quo, they completely forgot about the disaster that was the Eighteenth Amendment.
Obviously, I think that the enforcing the Controlled Substances Act in its current form is a massive and pointless drain on federal funds. I bet that we could cut the deficit significantly if we modified it to set tax rates on drugs instead. It'd be safer, too, since then the FDA would set standards on purity and dose.
IIRC, the FCC's original goal was to ensure that radio broadcasts stayed within certain boundries. A radio station would not be allowed to broadcast on a CB frequency, for example. If somebody finds out that there are broadcasts where there shouldn't be, the FCC fines the broadcaster. This makes sure that there is very little interference in certain spectrums.
So, how is licensing a radio station a means to this end? How is the broadcast flag a means to this end?
The FCC's other main task is to regulate and enforce telephone communication protocols. However, these protocols are so entrenched now that a telco trying to change them would be commiting suicide. So, I don't even think that this responsibility needs to be beared by anybody.
As for "decensy"(sp?), I can't for the life of me figure out how the FCC arrived at the conclusion that it could regulate that. This is the job of the market, or, at the most, local and state government.
And these discs will have the added advantage of being highly reflective, so not only are they good insulation, but they'll also blind any drivers that happen to pass by. If they crash into your house, you get to collect insurance money!
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You may be in luck. A forked project has already been started on Sourceforge. Unfortunatly, it's probably dead - there's no homepage, and the CVS doesn't seem to have been updated since the initial import. Several people on the Open Disscussion Forum have complained that the firmware is very buggy, and doesn't even work on the Version 1.0 router. But at least you can get the source.;)
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After reading your journal and following This link, I have found that TheIndividual has managed to remove the binary tags. (If you were already aware of this, I apoligise...)
And to everybody else reading this... READ THAT JOURNAL! Read it several times. Follow every link. Post links in your own journals, in your blogs, and anywhere else that you care to. Just get informed, and get the word out!
Why don't you try this Google Groups search and see how one of Sony's most popular products is fatally flawed - and how Sony refuses to even recognize the problem.
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record the programming, charge admission specifically for the purpose of listening to the programming, or distribute play lists of the programming.
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Draft beer?
Of course, it would never pass committee. But it was an interesting idea.
No matter how bad something is, somebody will buy it. I can assure you that somebody bought tickets to a certain movie that was "so bad, it's good"(I would give a name, but I forgot how to spell it).
Oh. That makes sense. I guess it would be bad to have a security patch be compromised.
Of course, they could have just grabbed a copy and compared it to their own version before trying to kill the torrent.
Thing is, I use the combination to determine sentence endings. Not using capitol letters makes your paragraphs look like run-on sentences to me.
As to the grandparent's "weenie" remark, a message board is NOT a chat room. You have the time to proofread and fact-check your posts before they go to the board. If you don't at least proofread, you look like a lazy slob and/or an AOLer, and people are less likely to take you seriously. And seeing this kind of writing from someone with such a low UID just makes me sad.
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The government of the Sixties feared the hippie generation. Hippies had ideas that were radically different than their own, and they thought that drugs might have had something to do with that. In their panic to maintain the status quo, they completely forgot about the disaster that was the Eighteenth Amendment.
Obviously, I think that the enforcing the Controlled Substances Act in its current form is a massive and pointless drain on federal funds. I bet that we could cut the deficit significantly if we modified it to set tax rates on drugs instead. It'd be safer, too, since then the FDA would set standards on purity and dose.
I hope they fix this. It's just pitiful that they ignored it.
Yeah, they do. But you still see the ads. Comment 10884314 by Realistic Dragon gives more info.
We'll still have burning Libraries of Alexandria...
IIRC, the FCC's original goal was to ensure that radio broadcasts stayed within certain boundries. A radio station would not be allowed to broadcast on a CB frequency, for example. If somebody finds out that there are broadcasts where there shouldn't be, the FCC fines the broadcaster. This makes sure that there is very little interference in certain spectrums.
So, how is licensing a radio station a means to this end? How is the broadcast flag a means to this end?
The FCC's other main task is to regulate and enforce telephone communication protocols. However, these protocols are so entrenched now that a telco trying to change them would be commiting suicide. So, I don't even think that this responsibility needs to be beared by anybody.
As for "decensy"(sp?), I can't for the life of me figure out how the FCC arrived at the conclusion that it could regulate that. This is the job of the market, or, at the most, local and state government.
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This got modded up?
How the hell did that happen?
And these discs will have the added advantage of being highly reflective, so not only are they good insulation, but they'll also blind any drivers that happen to pass by. If they crash into your house, you get to collect insurance money!
You may be in luck. A forked project has already been started on Sourceforge. Unfortunatly, it's probably dead - there's no homepage, and the CVS doesn't seem to have been updated since the initial import. Several people on the Open Disscussion Forum have complained that the firmware is very buggy, and doesn't even work on the Version 1.0 router. But at least you can get the source. ;)
After reading your journal and following This link, I have found that TheIndividual has managed to remove the binary tags. (If you were already aware of this, I apoligise...)
And to everybody else reading this... READ THAT JOURNAL! Read it several times. Follow every link. Post links in your own journals, in your blogs, and anywhere else that you care to. Just get informed, and get the word out!
...so that I can't read it.
Seriously. Yahoo's web filter blocks EFF.org. And a slate of others that it shouldn't block(such as the Libertarian Party's website).
Why don't you try this Google Groups search and see how one of Sony's most popular products is fatally flawed - and how Sony refuses to even recognize the problem.
That has to be the most well-written piece I have ever read, on any subject. I don't know how Why pulled it off, but he should be rewarded handsomely.
May I suggest giving him a private island in the South Pacific?
So there.