And worse yet- my laptop last night upgraded itself (thanks again XPSP2 automatic upgrade) to WMP 10- and now it won't play any of my non-DRMd Beyond TV files across the network.
I went ahead and installed TCMP and it works just fine.
The Democrats are hardly moving to the right these days. At least the base of the party isn't.
Bush's administration has proven that the base of the party doesn't count as long as you can lie to them and you're on the correct side of Gay Marriage.
Yes. Due to a significant increase in military technology such a conflict would only last a day or two and will have 0 military casualties and 290 million civilian casualties. And most of the cities afterwards would be composed of Tritium.
Well, if you go back to that point, might as well take it back all the way to the CIA when Bush I was director funding Saddam's original coup- we've been involved in Iraq a hell of a long time, and share some of the blame for anything Saddam did in the last 26 years.
But I was merely comparing to before the current invasion to after; and from that standpoint Iraqis up until a couple of weeks ago had really won out overall (unless, of course, you were in the Sunni Triangle where the fighting was the worst). The Kurds espeicailly have enjoyed a severe lack of casualties in the last couple of years, as the Shia and Sunni battle for control in the South, the North is getting a peace benefit merely by being ignored. I haven't seen any argument about that at all.
Actually, I'm very much against the war in Iraq- and even I have to admit when it comes to comparing daily casulties under Saddam Hussien and under the American Occupation, you end up net plus under the American Occupation. Fewer Iraqis have died per year since 2002 than in any given year in the 26 years previous.
But once again, this is kind of like comparing Cuban standard of living under Castro to that under Battista- if you're rock bottom there ain't anyplace to go but up.
Besides, the average marine has about a high school education, no morals and a low threshold for the sanctity of life. They might as well be robots anyways.:-)
Not at all true- UNFORTUNATELY. The US would be one hell of a lot more secure if this was true- but it isn't. The average high school education includes quite a bit of sanctity of life stuff these days- and from the PTSD suffered by US soldiers, we're pretty bad at turning out soldiers with no morals. If we were turning out such soldiers, matched to our level of technology, Iraq and Afghanistan would be flat lifeless wastelands by now, probably glassed over with Tritium. And so would Mecca and Saudi Arabia.
No, our men have duty and honor and morals, limiting us to the significantly less efficient "conventional warfare" that will probably end up with the War on Terror being a draw at best, and a complete loss at worst. Better start learning your Arabic now.
And yet- many tribal societies punish sexual abnormality with death. Which was my original point. I agree that the alternate point of view you put forth has validity- but it's also a recent, relatively untested point of view. The older, more tested by time point of view is that the nuclear family is the basic building block of civil society- and the fact that Rome Defeated Greece kind of supports that older point of view. Do you have any examples of openly gay cultures defeating closed, duty bound cultures?
My viewpoints are so internally contradictory that I welcome any support in sorting them out that I can get. "Morally repugnant" though is a judgement call that requires a knowledge of a moral system. I try to reference the moral systems- though Tom did cut them out a bit taking it out of the context of the discussion of morality by evolution. My only real point is that Canada isn't exactly the land of free speech either.
Actually, just about any embedded, ROM-based OS, with ROM-based applications, is by definition more secure than a disk based OS for trival use. No matter what, you can always hard reset and be back to start in about 60 seconds. And with my Wince machine, I back it up daily onto a CF card, with three days worth of backups in my pocket at all times. Even if I'm running off of a solar panel on a three week camping trip, I can be back up and running in under 5 minutes. Try doing that with any desktop OS.
It doesn't. You really want this product now? Get some glue and straps and make yourself one out of a PocketPC. In fact, I might just try that. It wouldn't take too much to do so.
Note- EMBEDDED LINUX or WINDOWS CE. These are operating systems designed to work in minimum memory. For instance, unlike Microsoft Word 2003, Pocket Word 2002 is perfectly capable of editing a document IN PLACE on the virutal disk without making a second copy in memory, and executing entirely out of ROM, thus using almost no Program Memory at all.
Charged != Convicted ; AND "criminal attempt to possess instruments of crime." was also required as a separate charge to even get the police to pay attention.
However, you do not have free speech in the United States. Try going up to someone and saying that you're going to kill them. Try sending an email to the white house with a death threat. Try putting a notice in the local paper saying you are looking for people to help you plant bombs and overthrow the government. Try posting kiddie pr0n on the net under the guise of "free speech".
I've done all of this at one time or another. Let's take them in turn.
Try going up to someone and saying that you're going to kill them.
Irrelevant unless you actually do kill them- then after the fact it can be brought up at your trial (also, due to the problem with human evidence, it can be relevant if they died a violent death within a few hours or days of you saying it even if you didn't do it- but I've yet to have that happen).
Try putting a notice in the local paper saying you are looking for people to help you plant bombs and overthrow the government.
Done that- again it doesn't matter unless a government building blows up soon afterwards.
Try sending an email to the white house with a death threat.
And all you'll get back is the standard White House AutoResponder message promising to look into your issue- as your actual e-mail is directed to/dev/null.
Try posting kiddie pr0n on the net under the guise of "free speech".
This is harder- but the authorities actually have to prove that the kiddie porn involved real kids, as opposed to clever simulations thereof.
None of these are "protected speech" in either country. We're all in this together, no matter which side of the border we're on.
The difference being in the United States, all of this garners a "so what" from authorities until somebody is actually killed- where I've yet to recieve a notice of a fine in Canada against my American e-mail server, you seem to think I'm in danger of recieving one.
On the bath- something we figured out with X10 remotes early on is that for any device with a hardware button user interface, a simple ziplock bag will make it waterproof.
I've got a very nice e-book reader on my PDA, actually potentially three of them, but two are so crippled as to be esentially useless.
1. It's a WinCE PDA, so of course it's a surprise that Microsoft Reader is one of those rare "Microsoft did it right" applications. Unfortuneately, nice as the UI is, they fscked it up with their DRM'd.LIT format- it's damned hard to find free or even cheap e-books in that format (I personally see no reason why any e-book should cost more than the paperback equivalent- and preferably a lot less).
2. I also have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed- unfortuneately the version I have has no "reformat to fit screen" option, and most PDFs are designed to be read or printed to 8.5x11 paper- not exactly a format readable when zoomed down to fit on a 240x320 screen. I'm stuck with either side scrolling (not something you want to do with an e-book) or trying to read 4x4 pixel characters on the screen (also not possible, though quite entertaining seeing what happens to certain fonts when shrunk to that size).
3. I also of course have Pocket IE installed- but that's the same problem as Adobe Acrobat, minus the zoom feature. Good for reading smartly designed HTML 1.0 files that don't have any tags more complex than paragraph and line break, horrible for anything else.
Worse yet, the only.txt reader I've got is Pocket Word and Pocket Notepad, neither of which designed for anything close to the task and both have horrible page scrolling controls that have a tendency to change the text.
So that's my list- not horribly useful, though I do carry around the standard set of Microsoft Rights-Free books.
And actually, is the browser the best place to combat Phishing? I'd rather see "Mouseover to see real URL" capability built into Outlook and Thunderbird- I want to know it's a phishing attempt *before* I even click on the link.
Your use of terminology just gets crazier and crazier.
And what is truly amazing is that you haven't figured out the point of that yet.
Augustine of Hippo uses the same cultural context in talking about miracles as a 20th century science fiction writer? Clarke's "law" doesn't claim that all miracles are the product of advanced technology.
There's no appreciable difference between a miracle and magic- and all magic is just technology that you don't understand.
Are you taking the position that continued scientific discovery could (or will) reveal that Christ's resurrection was simply advanced medical technology? That's quite an unusual theology you have there.
Actually, the Dead Sea Scrolls made EXACTLY the same claim- that the death and resurrection of Yeshua Ben Iosef was a proof of concept of advanced medical technology. But besides that- it's just obvious, once you get through the code of terminology.
What about those people who don't believe in God, or don't believe they are acting according to the will of God? Are there inventions not technological? Or you disbelieve in free will?
Free will exists- but it's an illusion. But that's fine because contradictions are an illusion also, as is the line between objective and subjective evidence.
You might say I disbelieve everything- but in reality all I know for sure is that knowledge doesn't exist- and even that is a suspicion. My real enemy isn't science or religion- it's fundamentalism, people who are certain about their position.
A series of anonymous e-mails, one a week, to the controlling manager. The first should be just a warning that the camera may be illegal. The second should contain the relevant portion of the law. The third should be a threat of potential legal action. The fourth should be the relevant portion of the law, cc'd to the authorities. The fifth should be the relevant portion of the law, cc'd to the supervisor of the authorities. The sixth should be the relevant portion of the law, cc'd to the appropriate Member of Parliment and the supervisor of the authorities. If six weeks go by without any action, then the anonymous and safe portion of being a whistle blower is at an end- and your friend should consult an attorney in defense of civil rights.
Of course, it goes without saying that if at any point, a change in workplace behavior with respect to the use of CCTV cameras is noticed, you have to start the whole sequence over.
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And worse yet- my laptop last night upgraded itself (thanks again XPSP2 automatic upgrade) to WMP 10- and now it won't play any of my non-DRMd Beyond TV files across the network.
I went ahead and installed TCMP and it works just fine.
The Democrats are hardly moving to the right these days. At least the base of the party isn't.
Bush's administration has proven that the base of the party doesn't count as long as you can lie to them and you're on the correct side of Gay Marriage.
Yes. Due to a significant increase in military technology such a conflict would only last a day or two and will have 0 military casualties and 290 million civilian casualties. And most of the cities afterwards would be composed of Tritium.
Really? We've now got FEWER GUNS than PEOPLE? Maybe gun control really does work- either that or illegal immigration is what is really working.
Well, if you go back to that point, might as well take it back all the way to the CIA when Bush I was director funding Saddam's original coup- we've been involved in Iraq a hell of a long time, and share some of the blame for anything Saddam did in the last 26 years.
But I was merely comparing to before the current invasion to after; and from that standpoint Iraqis up until a couple of weeks ago had really won out overall (unless, of course, you were in the Sunni Triangle where the fighting was the worst). The Kurds espeicailly have enjoyed a severe lack of casualties in the last couple of years, as the Shia and Sunni battle for control in the South, the North is getting a peace benefit merely by being ignored. I haven't seen any argument about that at all.
You mean, "if you don't count Iraqis."
Actually, I'm very much against the war in Iraq- and even I have to admit when it comes to comparing daily casulties under Saddam Hussien and under the American Occupation, you end up net plus under the American Occupation. Fewer Iraqis have died per year since 2002 than in any given year in the 26 years previous.
But once again, this is kind of like comparing Cuban standard of living under Castro to that under Battista- if you're rock bottom there ain't anyplace to go but up.
Besides, the average marine has about a high school education, no morals and a low threshold for the sanctity of life. They might as well be robots anyways. :-)
Not at all true- UNFORTUNATELY. The US would be one hell of a lot more secure if this was true- but it isn't. The average high school education includes quite a bit of sanctity of life stuff these days- and from the PTSD suffered by US soldiers, we're pretty bad at turning out soldiers with no morals. If we were turning out such soldiers, matched to our level of technology, Iraq and Afghanistan would be flat lifeless wastelands by now, probably glassed over with Tritium. And so would Mecca and Saudi Arabia.
No, our men have duty and honor and morals, limiting us to the significantly less efficient "conventional warfare" that will probably end up with the War on Terror being a draw at best, and a complete loss at worst. Better start learning your Arabic now.
And yet- many tribal societies punish sexual abnormality with death. Which was my original point. I agree that the alternate point of view you put forth has validity- but it's also a recent, relatively untested point of view. The older, more tested by time point of view is that the nuclear family is the basic building block of civil society- and the fact that Rome Defeated Greece kind of supports that older point of view. Do you have any examples of openly gay cultures defeating closed, duty bound cultures?
My viewpoints are so internally contradictory that I welcome any support in sorting them out that I can get. "Morally repugnant" though is a judgement call that requires a knowledge of a moral system. I try to reference the moral systems- though Tom did cut them out a bit taking it out of the context of the discussion of morality by evolution. My only real point is that Canada isn't exactly the land of free speech either.
Actually, just about any embedded, ROM-based OS, with ROM-based applications, is by definition more secure than a disk based OS for trival use. No matter what, you can always hard reset and be back to start in about 60 seconds. And with my Wince machine, I back it up daily onto a CF card, with three days worth of backups in my pocket at all times. Even if I'm running off of a solar panel on a three week camping trip, I can be back up and running in under 5 minutes. Try doing that with any desktop OS.
It's justified because a certain group of fascists have hijacked that party's name for their own purposes.
That's what I thought, until one of your fellow countrymen pulled this out of his hat.
The one possibility you missed- they publicised it to change people's behavior- to now use other search engines.
It doesn't. You really want this product now? Get some glue and straps and make yourself one out of a PocketPC. In fact, I might just try that. It wouldn't take too much to do so.
Note- EMBEDDED LINUX or WINDOWS CE. These are operating systems designed to work in minimum memory. For instance, unlike Microsoft Word 2003, Pocket Word 2002 is perfectly capable of editing a document IN PLACE on the virutal disk without making a second copy in memory, and executing entirely out of ROM, thus using almost no Program Memory at all.
Charged != Convicted ; AND "criminal attempt to possess instruments of crime." was also required as a separate charge to even get the police to pay attention.
However, you do not have free speech in the United States. Try going up to someone and saying that you're going to kill them. Try sending an email to the white house with a death threat. Try putting a notice in the local paper saying you are looking for people to help you plant bombs and overthrow the government. Try posting kiddie pr0n on the net under the guise of "free speech".
/dev/null.
I've done all of this at one time or another. Let's take them in turn.
Try going up to someone and saying that you're going to kill them.
Irrelevant unless you actually do kill them- then after the fact it can be brought up at your trial (also, due to the problem with human evidence, it can be relevant if they died a violent death within a few hours or days of you saying it even if you didn't do it- but I've yet to have that happen).
Try putting a notice in the local paper saying you are looking for people to help you plant bombs and overthrow the government.
Done that- again it doesn't matter unless a government building blows up soon afterwards.
Try sending an email to the white house with a death threat.
And all you'll get back is the standard White House AutoResponder message promising to look into your issue- as your actual e-mail is directed to
Try posting kiddie pr0n on the net under the guise of "free speech".
This is harder- but the authorities actually have to prove that the kiddie porn involved real kids, as opposed to clever simulations thereof.
None of these are "protected speech" in either country. We're all in this together, no matter which side of the border we're on.
The difference being in the United States, all of this garners a "so what" from authorities until somebody is actually killed- where I've yet to recieve a notice of a fine in Canada against my American e-mail server, you seem to think I'm in danger of recieving one.
On the bath- something we figured out with X10 remotes early on is that for any device with a hardware button user interface, a simple ziplock bag will make it waterproof.
I've got a very nice e-book reader on my PDA, actually potentially three of them, but two are so crippled as to be esentially useless.
.LIT format- it's damned hard to find free or even cheap e-books in that format (I personally see no reason why any e-book should cost more than the paperback equivalent- and preferably a lot less).
.txt reader I've got is Pocket Word and Pocket Notepad, neither of which designed for anything close to the task and both have horrible page scrolling controls that have a tendency to change the text.
1. It's a WinCE PDA, so of course it's a surprise that Microsoft Reader is one of those rare "Microsoft did it right" applications. Unfortuneately, nice as the UI is, they fscked it up with their DRM'd
2. I also have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed- unfortuneately the version I have has no "reformat to fit screen" option, and most PDFs are designed to be read or printed to 8.5x11 paper- not exactly a format readable when zoomed down to fit on a 240x320 screen. I'm stuck with either side scrolling (not something you want to do with an e-book) or trying to read 4x4 pixel characters on the screen (also not possible, though quite entertaining seeing what happens to certain fonts when shrunk to that size).
3. I also of course have Pocket IE installed- but that's the same problem as Adobe Acrobat, minus the zoom feature. Good for reading smartly designed HTML 1.0 files that don't have any tags more complex than paragraph and line break, horrible for anything else.
Worse yet, the only
So that's my list- not horribly useful, though I do carry around the standard set of Microsoft Rights-Free books.
What it would have to include for news for me would be a comparison in the curves between the Redmond, Bangalore, and Hydrabad campuses.
And actually, is the browser the best place to combat Phishing? I'd rather see "Mouseover to see real URL" capability built into Outlook and Thunderbird- I want to know it's a phishing attempt *before* I even click on the link.
I'd agree with that idea- in fact such e-mails should probably be short and to the point. Dispassionate without emotion.
Your use of terminology just gets crazier and crazier.
And what is truly amazing is that you haven't figured out the point of that yet.
Augustine of Hippo uses the same cultural context in talking about miracles as a 20th century science fiction writer? Clarke's "law" doesn't claim that all miracles are the product of advanced technology.
There's no appreciable difference between a miracle and magic- and all magic is just technology that you don't understand.
Are you taking the position that continued scientific discovery could (or will) reveal that Christ's resurrection was simply advanced medical technology? That's quite an unusual theology you have there.
Actually, the Dead Sea Scrolls made EXACTLY the same claim- that the death and resurrection of Yeshua Ben Iosef was a proof of concept of advanced medical technology. But besides that- it's just obvious, once you get through the code of terminology.
What about those people who don't believe in God, or don't believe they are acting according to the will of God? Are there inventions not technological? Or you disbelieve in free will?
Free will exists- but it's an illusion. But that's fine because contradictions are an illusion also, as is the line between objective and subjective evidence.
You might say I disbelieve everything- but in reality all I know for sure is that knowledge doesn't exist- and even that is a suspicion. My real enemy isn't science or religion- it's fundamentalism, people who are certain about their position.
Actually, in the environment where:
the idiot who thought of installing the CCTV sans employee permission is -allowed- to keep their job.
then the complainer about the policy is FAR more likely to
be afraid of losing their job or having it noted on a file.
Because the company has already proven that it doesn't look at workers as people- but only as resources to be managed.
A series of anonymous e-mails, one a week, to the controlling manager. The first should be just a warning that the camera may be illegal. The second should contain the relevant portion of the law. The third should be a threat of potential legal action. The fourth should be the relevant portion of the law, cc'd to the authorities. The fifth should be the relevant portion of the law, cc'd to the supervisor of the authorities. The sixth should be the relevant portion of the law, cc'd to the appropriate Member of Parliment and the supervisor of the authorities. If six weeks go by without any action, then the anonymous and safe portion of being a whistle blower is at an end- and your friend should consult an attorney in defense of civil rights.
Of course, it goes without saying that if at any point, a change in workplace behavior with respect to the use of CCTV cameras is noticed, you have to start the whole sequence over.