Our local gub'ment has paper copies in the regional library, in a special room, for just this purpose. These books may not be checked out, and they're not supposed to be taken out of the special room - the librarian outside the door will yell at you for doing so. The judges and lawyers are quite fond of pointing at this publicly available resource and saying "you had the opportunity to educate yourself."
With the advent of electronic publishing, I expect the books to be moved to a room in the basement, next to the disused toilet, and stored in a locked file cabinet marked "Beware the Librarian."
Unfortunately, an individual's actions are in the noise. In order to be effective, you need what's called a "force multiplier." Your individual actions need to carry the weight of 1000 or more.
Simply cancelling your cable hookup or abstaining from going to the theater doesn't cause a significant impact on the bottom line. However, smashing your TV on the steps of Best Buy in great theatrical fashion will get you noticed (and probably arrested.) If you're lucky, the talking heads will mention you on the evening news, getting your message out to many people (ironically, using the medium you're fighting.)
Folks running the torrents and trackers are the **AA's primary enemy because each individual enables thousands to bypass the media cartels' forced-payment schemes.
The RIAA's lawsuits against college students and grandmas use the same intent. They don't give a crap about the individual. They're looking at the force multiplier where they intimidate thousands with a single out-of-court settlement.
So cancel and abstain all you like. Your actions won't amount to squat until you either engage in theatrics or run for office.
[the Sheriff has said he'll cut out Robin Hood's heart with a spoon] Guy of Gisborne: Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe? Sheriff of Nottingham: Because it's DULL, you twit. It'll hurt more.
Yeah, I have nothing better to do right now than look that up.
My typical response is a sneezing fit followed by watering eyes and gagging. Just about any fragrance causes this reaction, including the "nice" ones. Makes me want to vandalize the scent dispenser.
>Scientists and armed forces from the northern European nation will inspect the crater and conduct an investigation.
Investigator #1: You there, the one with the vodka. Did you find anything?
Scientist #1: [shakes head]
Investigator #1: How about you? [points at soldier smoking a cigarette]
Soldier #8: No.
Investigator #1: What about that group over there [points to Latvians in the distance]
Latvians: "mes nav atrasts sudi"
(surprisingly, Google has a Latvian-to-English translator.)
Honestly, I don't understand the necessity of people to document the minutiae of their lives. Nobody cares that you just ate a cheese and mustard sandwich, and now have gas. I came up with this little gem discussing twitter the other day:
"What's in a name? that which we call a turd
By any other name would smell as tweet."
That about sums it up (with apologies to Willy the Shake, Romeo and his SO.)
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I would expect to find iron as the remaining element at the energy-death of the universe. Fusion of lighter elements releases energy and trends toward production of iron. Fission of heavier elements releases energy and trends toward production of iron. Iron (pronounced "aahrn" by my high school shop teacher) is the universe's waste product.
You can vote electronically, and receive a bar-coded receipt. Trot that slip of paper to a verification station at the polling center, and validate your vote. Surrender the receipt to the verification officials (i.e. drop the paper copy into a ballot box.) There's now a paper trail that can independently verify the electronic results, and your vote remains anonymous. Thuggish enforcer-types don't have access to your receipt. The bar code identifies your votes, not you. (Choose a scan-tron style receipt if bar codes bother you.)
I want universal service, dammit, in exchange for utility right-of-way access through my property. Case and point: Verizon ran a fiber through my yard (on the pole for everyone to see) to service an adjacent community. I tried to get FIOS for years, but nooooooo, they wouldn't give me a drop.
I really wish the state governors would grow a pair and demand that companies using the utility corridors provide access to anyone who asks for it. If that's not economical, they can find a different way to route their toobs.
No, no, no... I'm not talking about the cost benefit of using someone's patented technology. I'm talking about the fundamental contract (and it *is* a contract) between patent/copyright recipients and we-the-people. In exchange for the time-limited monopoly, the subject matter shall fall into the public domain at the end of the monopoly term. How do we-the-people benefit from patents and copyrights that don't expire in a useful amount of time (i.e. my lifetime)?
It's unworkable, agreed. However, I find it unfortunate that we as a society don't value more than a single path to a solution. If I create a Cardboard Transmorgrifier, only to find out that some guy named Calvin beat me to the USPTO by a few hours, our society declares my efforts to be worthless (or worse, infringing where no infringement occurs.)
Given the current copyright and patent shenanigans that are in-play, I'd rather take my chances with no such system in place. How am I supposed to benefit from an inventor's time-limited monopoly if it doesn't expire until after my death? I am supposed to benefit from this deal, right?
Yep, these stats all depend on your definition of "pirated." I'm running a Fedora 11 install on my laptop, with zero "pirated" applications, unless you define "pirated" to mean "software I didn't pay for," in which case 100% of everything running on my machine is "pirated."
We've got a Brother HL-4070CDW at the office, and I have a Brother HL-2170W at home. Both are wonderful machines. Consumables are inexpensive and are carried by the local stores. Both machines work well with Windows and Linux machines (Ubuntu 10 and Fedora 11 have been used on both.) From full idle, the 2170 is ready to print in under 10 seconds. I would recommend both machines without hesitation.
You, I, and the lasers are inside the three-space being acted upon by the gravitational wave. How the hell are we supposed to measure this phenomenon from the "inside?"
I haven't looked at it in a while, but the payload integrator's manual for the Taurus launch vehicle specifies a thrust-axis acceleration of 14G plus a random-vibration acceleration of about 4G. For us ugly-bags-of-mostly-water, exposure to a launch environment such as this will kill us pretty quick. The acoustic environment is pretty harsh as well.
The "man rating" isn't so much about safety records as it is about having a launch design profile that won't kill human passengers.
Right here under my hat,
I keep Little Kid D,
Along with Little Kid E, Kid F, and Kid G.
I keep them about,
And when I need help
I just doff my headpiece
And let them right out.
The first time the electrons kick you hard (like when messing inside of an old cabinet TV,) you learn respect. Yes, there is occasional collateral damage, but that is an unfortunate necessity. The world isn't a safe place. Why should you expect that you can behave like it is?
I managed to set the street on fire when I was a yoot. I didn't know the street wasn't a hard impermeable object. My best friend got upset and tried to put out the fire by stamping on it. Set his shoe on fire as well. We learned many lessons that day, including just how irate and irrational the neighbors could be.
If the party is on a Tuesday, then in the middle of their festivities they need to sit still for half and hour while ADP comes in and upgrades the security system.
You're having your payroll processor upgrade your security system? I s'pose that only makes sense in a Microsoft world.
So lemme get this straight. The MPAA and their handlers want the general population to live on their knees, justified by the possible "benefit" to consumers (god I hate that word) like "parents who can't afford a babysitter." If they can't afford a babysitter, why would they be paying good money to watch pre-release movies? Shouldn't that money go toward food and rent? (yeah, I know, that's a completely different rant.)
The MPAA and their ilk would love the consumer population to live on their knees and just fork over money on command. But they've got a plan! Pursuant to implementation of CRAHP (Content Repositioning to Appropriate Height Placement,) all video rental stores will be required to install media shelving no taller than 3ft/1m tall. Think of how much more convenient that will be for people in wheelchairs!
Video standards are there to promote interoperability, not to guarantee a revenue model.
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Our local gub'ment has paper copies in the regional library, in a special room, for just this purpose. These books may not be checked out, and they're not supposed to be taken out of the special room - the librarian outside the door will yell at you for doing so. The judges and lawyers are quite fond of pointing at this publicly available resource and saying "you had the opportunity to educate yourself."
With the advent of electronic publishing, I expect the books to be moved to a room in the basement, next to the disused toilet, and stored in a locked file cabinet marked "Beware the Librarian."
Unfortunately, an individual's actions are in the noise. In order to be effective, you need what's called a "force multiplier." Your individual actions need to carry the weight of 1000 or more.
Simply cancelling your cable hookup or abstaining from going to the theater doesn't cause a significant impact on the bottom line. However, smashing your TV on the steps of Best Buy in great theatrical fashion will get you noticed (and probably arrested.) If you're lucky, the talking heads will mention you on the evening news, getting your message out to many people (ironically, using the medium you're fighting.)
Folks running the torrents and trackers are the **AA's primary enemy because each individual enables thousands to bypass the media cartels' forced-payment schemes.
The RIAA's lawsuits against college students and grandmas use the same intent. They don't give a crap about the individual. They're looking at the force multiplier where they intimidate thousands with a single out-of-court settlement.
So cancel and abstain all you like. Your actions won't amount to squat until you either engage in theatrics or run for office.
Yeah, I have nothing better to do right now than look that up.
"The American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) was founded on December 12, 1914. Its name was changed to American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials on November 13, 1973" ... after members became fed-up with the acronym.
Mutated plants with wheels ... I swear I've seen this somewhere before, but I thought it came out of France.
I believe so. He may also have been substantially non-caucasian. (Thanks much for not criticizing my google-translator grammar.)
My typical response is a sneezing fit followed by watering eyes and gagging. Just about any fragrance causes this reaction, including the "nice" ones. Makes me want to vandalize the scent dispenser.
>Scientists and armed forces from the northern European nation will inspect the crater and conduct an investigation.
Investigator #1: You there, the one with the vodka. Did you find anything?
Scientist #1: [shakes head]
Investigator #1: How about you? [points at soldier smoking a cigarette]
Soldier #8: No.
Investigator #1: What about that group over there [points to Latvians in the distance]
Latvians: "mes nav atrasts sudi"
(surprisingly, Google has a Latvian-to-English translator.)
Honestly, I don't understand the necessity of people to document the minutiae of their lives. Nobody cares that you just ate a cheese and mustard sandwich, and now have gas. I came up with this little gem discussing twitter the other day:
"What's in a name? that which we call a turd
By any other name would smell as tweet."
That about sums it up (with apologies to Willy the Shake, Romeo and his SO.)
I would expect to find iron as the remaining element at the energy-death of the universe. Fusion of lighter elements releases energy and trends toward production of iron. Fission of heavier elements releases energy and trends toward production of iron. Iron (pronounced "aahrn" by my high school shop teacher) is the universe's waste product.
You can vote electronically, and receive a bar-coded receipt. Trot that slip of paper to a verification station at the polling center, and validate your vote. Surrender the receipt to the verification officials (i.e. drop the paper copy into a ballot box.) There's now a paper trail that can independently verify the electronic results, and your vote remains anonymous. Thuggish enforcer-types don't have access to your receipt. The bar code identifies your votes, not you. (Choose a scan-tron style receipt if bar codes bother you.)
I am Spartacus.
I want universal service, dammit, in exchange for utility right-of-way access through my property. Case and point: Verizon ran a fiber through my yard (on the pole for everyone to see) to service an adjacent community. I tried to get FIOS for years, but nooooooo, they wouldn't give me a drop.
I really wish the state governors would grow a pair and demand that companies using the utility corridors provide access to anyone who asks for it. If that's not economical, they can find a different way to route their toobs.
No, no, no ... I'm not talking about the cost benefit of using someone's patented technology. I'm talking about the fundamental contract (and it *is* a contract) between patent/copyright recipients and we-the-people. In exchange for the time-limited monopoly, the subject matter shall fall into the public domain at the end of the monopoly term. How do we-the-people benefit from patents and copyrights that don't expire in a useful amount of time (i.e. my lifetime)?
It's unworkable, agreed. However, I find it unfortunate that we as a society don't value more than a single path to a solution. If I create a Cardboard Transmorgrifier, only to find out that some guy named Calvin beat me to the USPTO by a few hours, our society declares my efforts to be worthless (or worse, infringing where no infringement occurs.)
Given the current copyright and patent shenanigans that are in-play, I'd rather take my chances with no such system in place. How am I supposed to benefit from an inventor's time-limited monopoly if it doesn't expire until after my death? I am supposed to benefit from this deal, right?
Yep, these stats all depend on your definition of "pirated." I'm running a Fedora 11 install on my laptop, with zero "pirated" applications, unless you define "pirated" to mean "software I didn't pay for," in which case 100% of everything running on my machine is "pirated."
We've got a Brother HL-4070CDW at the office, and I have a Brother HL-2170W at home. Both are wonderful machines. Consumables are inexpensive and are carried by the local stores. Both machines work well with Windows and Linux machines (Ubuntu 10 and Fedora 11 have been used on both.) From full idle, the 2170 is ready to print in under 10 seconds. I would recommend both machines without hesitation.
Doesn't that require a reference that's outside the space-time reference frame we occupy? I'm not aware of us having that capability yet.
But ... isn't RVing about getting away from it all (while still taking it all with you?)
You, I, and the lasers are inside the three-space being acted upon by the gravitational wave. How the hell are we supposed to measure this phenomenon from the "inside?"
I haven't looked at it in a while, but the payload integrator's manual for the Taurus launch vehicle specifies a thrust-axis acceleration of 14G plus a random-vibration acceleration of about 4G. For us ugly-bags-of-mostly-water, exposure to a launch environment such as this will kill us pretty quick. The acoustic environment is pretty harsh as well.
The "man rating" isn't so much about safety records as it is about having a launch design profile that won't kill human passengers.
Right here under my hat,
I keep Little Kid D,
Along with Little Kid E, Kid F, and Kid G.
I keep them about,
And when I need help
I just doff my headpiece
And let them right out.
The first time the electrons kick you hard (like when messing inside of an old cabinet TV,) you learn respect. Yes, there is occasional collateral damage, but that is an unfortunate necessity. The world isn't a safe place. Why should you expect that you can behave like it is?
I managed to set the street on fire when I was a yoot. I didn't know the street wasn't a hard impermeable object. My best friend got upset and tried to put out the fire by stamping on it. Set his shoe on fire as well. We learned many lessons that day, including just how irate and irrational the neighbors could be.
You're having your payroll processor upgrade your security system? I s'pose that only makes sense in a Microsoft world.
So lemme get this straight. The MPAA and their handlers want the general population to live on their knees, justified by the possible "benefit" to consumers (god I hate that word) like "parents who can't afford a babysitter." If they can't afford a babysitter, why would they be paying good money to watch pre-release movies? Shouldn't that money go toward food and rent? (yeah, I know, that's a completely different rant.)
The MPAA and their ilk would love the consumer population to live on their knees and just fork over money on command. But they've got a plan! Pursuant to implementation of CRAHP (Content Repositioning to Appropriate Height Placement,) all video rental stores will be required to install media shelving no taller than 3ft/1m tall. Think of how much more convenient that will be for people in wheelchairs!
Video standards are there to promote interoperability, not to guarantee a revenue model.