On the other hand, in business communications at least, I find myself editing my words FAR more carefully in electronic form than in spoken form or face-to-face. The slightest poor word choice or unfamiliar syntax can inadvertently piss people off in text when the same misstep would go without consequence in person.
But, at base, I couldn't care less if someone has exchanged email with my parents, the President or the Pope -- they're still strangers to me, so this has no value for the stated purpose.
No, it would not be in the public interest until such time as excessive water-drinkers are determined to be a protected class. Barring that, it is FAR more in the public interest to protect the liberty of the right to assembly than to dictate rules of assembly.
Sure, that's pretty asinine, but it is hardly "fascist." By the language going around you'd think it was some branch of the U.N. where rule-breakers would be sent to the International Criminal Court. The governing bodies from AYSO to IOC and their professional counterparts are all little more than private clubs for which membership is utterly voluntary. You want to join the club, you play by their rules, idiotic though they may be.
It isn't as if it is the only organization for international sporting competition, but since the Olympic movement has been so successful in creating an image that could be taken right out of Triumph of the Will, people mistakenly attach their nationalist pride to the organization, losing sight of the fact that it is just a private organization of amateur athletes that exists for the primary purpose of making mountains of money.
Yes, its common misuse is generally for the purpose of hyperbole that basically boils down to "any form of authority I don't like." Just call a spade a spade and say something like "I don't like the rules of the IOC" instead of invoking Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin.
The IOC is a private interest. It has nothing whatever to do with forms of government. You may compete only after agreeing to the terms of the Olympic Charter. Telling that organization it can't draw whatever terms it desires would be closer to fascism than anything it could possibly do. If you want a competition that allows doping, follow in the footsteps of Pierre de Coubertin and start your own.
Sure, BitTorrent is a vaguely interesting concept, but in practice, it provides no visible benefit compared to the more obvious direct route. Sure, theoretically there is a benefit, I just didn't see the need as there is little chance I would get 12Mb/s on the torrent in any case. From other reports, I doesn't appear likely that I'd get much better than the final bottleneck of 680Kb/s.
I tried the BitTorrent connection and got 25Kb/s. I went to a remote server of mine that is connected via OC192 and got 12Mb/s downloading SP2 directly from MS with wget. Downloading from that server with sFTP over a public WiFi connection, I'm now pulling 640Kb/s.
I'm showing a bias against taking human life and the stockpiling of those items that are designed for the purpose of taking human life, many of them for the sole purpose of taking human life.
Are you a non-US citizen, if not, are you a liberal deomcrat, i'm creating profiles of groups of people and the similarities in (wishful) policies:D
Admittedly, a single-party state ruled by your party of choice would be delightful for the members of that party. Just ask any former citizen of the Soviet Union or a current citizen of China.
Suffice it to say favoring the unfettered stockpiling of firearms is not a necessary component of being a non-Democrat, U.S. citizen.
You stand a much better chance of escaping from a knife or sword than a gun and a bow and arrow would be rather conspicuous walking down the street, whereas someone with a gun can snipe people off from inside the trunk of a car.
John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo would have had a slightly more difficult time offing people at gas stations if they were using steak knives and crow-bars with a range of several feet and dubious lethality instead of high-powered rifles with a range of 2400 yards and aboslute lethality.
The fact that someone died is not prima facie evidence of an immoral act - not to put too fine of a point on it, but we all die sooner or later.
That is a philosophical point and there are plenty of philosophical and religious foundations that do state rather unequivocally that taking a life is always immoral -- and yes, in many cases that includes acts of self-defense. Military and police rules of engagement generally respect this distinction as well, despite being utterly abrogated in cases like LaTasha Harland and Amadou Diallo. In those cases, the act was utterly evil yet couched in self-defense.
There rarely, if ever, is a need to shoot to kill. If wounding is sufficient to save your own life or that of another under threat, real or perceived, blowing someone's head off becomes an act of aggression, not defense and that certainly fits the definition of evil. I suggest you look the word up in your dictionary of choice.
Personally, I find life short enough to not want some paranoid looney with a gun, and perhaps a badge, ending it early because they couldn't tell the difference between a bannana and an M16 if they were sucking on it with abandon.
You might as well say that an electric chair is manufactured so that it can kill but not that it will. Killing is the purpose for which the device was created and in the last twenty-five years, guns have killed a number of Americans equal to the present population of San Francisco.
You're right, guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people. It is highly likely that those 750,000 lives would not have been lost if the person that ended each of them didn't have the gun they used to kill them.
...I don't think that's what he was implying, not least because it is highly unlikely that such an agreement could be met, but regardless, that would still involve the exact same non-compete, non-disclosure, i.p. rights issues as under a W-2 agreement. Yeah, there is nuance here, but the suggested remedy doesn't really eliminate that much of the conflict of interest.
Erm, to "break and enter" you generally must do or clearly intend to do some other offense otherwise it is just trespassing. Walking through an open door for the purpose of handing out a business-card, for instance, is perfectly innocent and would just barely support a tresspassing charge.
This is like telemarketing. Even with strong congressional support for shutting it down, all we got was a system to basically put up "do not enter" signs on the phone.
While I agree in prinicple (I did this myself), there is one not-so-minor problem. If the idea is in any way related to the work you do at your day job, moonlighting for your own corporation will run afoul with the non-compete clause of your employment contract, which could cause your termination. So sure, if you work for Quicken from 9-5 and want to write games at night, go ahead. However, if you want to write bookkeeping software, make sure you have enough money in the bank to live without your paycheck as they might not have grounds to sue you, but they can certainly fire you.
ICANN gets its authority from the US Department of Commerce, and all major decisions regarding the DNS root servers must still be rubber-stamped by the DoC. From ICANN:
"Over eighty governments closely advise the Board of Directors via the Governmental Advisory Committee." http://www.icann.org/general/
Oh, and the too great an influence the US government has on ICANN.
Okay, now you have to make a choice here. Do they have NO accountability or too MUCH accountability? Which is it?!
$15.8M? GOUGING? My ass. Have you seen the rest of the budget that supports ICANN (Hint: it's roughly than twenty times that)?
There is so much baseless urban mythology, much of it parroted by the press, about ICANN it's enough to make your head spin.
...and Apple is marketing to the Thomas Sowells of the world. Mr. Sowell is spouting his usual generalizations that all the problems of the world are because of people who don't think like he does. Maybe he needs to "think different" and buy a Mac. I don't think Apple is intentionally marketing to egotistical editorial blowhards, but hey, if they corner that market too, great, they need computers too.
Taking a cue from Mr. Sowell, perhaps Apple could design an Mac powered by wind, which in his case, would never need to be plugged in.
...I didn't say it had to be Qwerty, just that the A-Z ordering sucked. I've used Fitaly and would use it again if I didn't have to sacrifice screen real estate for it. IIRC, there IS a Fitaly program for PalmOS that uses an overlay on the Graffiti area, but I haven't used it because I didn't find it much faster than just using Graffiti. However, given the choice between this horrible layout and Fitaly, definitely. T9 is ok for short messages, but not as a general purpose input, IMHO. I would _never_ use one of the asinine micro-mini qwerty keyboards though. Although, there was one project out there, can't remember it, so if someone does please post a link, that managed to fit a full keyboard on a telephone pad by using the space between the buttons, so chords of various buttons mapped to other keys, effectively making the "keys" as large as a standard keyboard. That was a very creative way of maximizing the existing interface that worked as quickly as Fitaly, with no more "buttons" than T9 and without the need for prediction. I never saw it in production, just in a demo app, but it definitely had appeal.
...especially given that god-awful A-Z keyboard. UGH. Does it at least have the ability to map into a more friendly layout? That one sucks. Also, part of the appeal of Graffiti was that it took up a tiny portion of the screen realestate. The on-screen keyboard takes up more than half of it.
Besides, I've been using my finger as a stylus for years, so "hey look! you don't need a stylus!" is about as attractive as marketing a soda can as "look! no glass or straw needed!" Erm, yeah, thanks for the 411.
Try listening to an SACD through any of the consumer DSPs out there. Take 1bitx2822.4k and ram it through a 16bitx44.1k DSP and voila, you've just filtered out 75% of your data, ergo why SACDs output only in analog.
The point was simply that it is much easier to lose a lot more money by being stupid, thus a certain amount of caution is advisable. Oops, didn't clip that fan on tight enough, *poof* there goes $500.
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On the other hand, in business communications at least, I find myself editing my words FAR more carefully in electronic form than in spoken form or face-to-face. The slightest poor word choice or unfamiliar syntax can inadvertently piss people off in text when the same misstep would go without consequence in person.
But, at base, I couldn't care less if someone has exchanged email with my parents, the President or the Pope -- they're still strangers to me, so this has no value for the stated purpose.
Tell that to the residents of Bangalore.
No, it would not be in the public interest until such time as excessive water-drinkers are determined to be a protected class. Barring that, it is FAR more in the public interest to protect the liberty of the right to assembly than to dictate rules of assembly.
See: Civics 101
Sure, that's pretty asinine, but it is hardly "fascist." By the language going around you'd think it was some branch of the U.N. where rule-breakers would be sent to the International Criminal Court. The governing bodies from AYSO to IOC and their professional counterparts are all little more than private clubs for which membership is utterly voluntary. You want to join the club, you play by their rules, idiotic though they may be.
It isn't as if it is the only organization for international sporting competition, but since the Olympic movement has been so successful in creating an image that could be taken right out of Triumph of the Will, people mistakenly attach their nationalist pride to the organization, losing sight of the fact that it is just a private organization of amateur athletes that exists for the primary purpose of making mountains of money.
Yes, its common misuse is generally for the purpose of hyperbole that basically boils down to "any form of authority I don't like." Just call a spade a spade and say something like "I don't like the rules of the IOC" instead of invoking Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin.
The IOC is a private interest. It has nothing whatever to do with forms of government. You may compete only after agreeing to the terms of the Olympic Charter. Telling that organization it can't draw whatever terms it desires would be closer to fascism than anything it could possibly do. If you want a competition that allows doping, follow in the footsteps of Pierre de Coubertin and start your own.
the "final bottleneck" is the WiFi connection I'm on right now that simply will not exceed the speed referenced.
I "get it" with BitTorrent, just not for this purpose.
Sure, BitTorrent is a vaguely interesting concept, but in practice, it provides no visible benefit compared to the more obvious direct route. Sure, theoretically there is a benefit, I just didn't see the need as there is little chance I would get 12Mb/s on the torrent in any case. From other reports, I doesn't appear likely that I'd get much better than the final bottleneck of 680Kb/s.
Why yes, I did run wget from a windows machine running SSH into a *nix box 3000 miles away.
In a word: DUH.
Being at a coffeehouse with DSL on WiFi is "mad bandwidth?"
Yowza, what are you on (literally and figuratively)?
I tried the BitTorrent connection and got 25Kb/s. I went to a remote server of mine that is connected via OC192 and got 12Mb/s downloading SP2 directly from MS with wget. Downloading from that server with sFTP over a public WiFi connection, I'm now pulling 640Kb/s.
I should use BitTorrent WHY?
I'm showing a bias against taking human life and the stockpiling of those items that are designed for the purpose of taking human life, many of them for the sole purpose of taking human life.
:D
Are you a non-US citizen, if not, are you a liberal deomcrat, i'm creating profiles of groups of people and the similarities in (wishful) policies
Admittedly, a single-party state ruled by your party of choice would be delightful for the members of that party. Just ask any former citizen of the Soviet Union or a current citizen of China.
Suffice it to say favoring the unfettered stockpiling of firearms is not a necessary component of being a non-Democrat, U.S. citizen.
You stand a much better chance of escaping from a knife or sword than a gun and a bow and arrow would be rather conspicuous walking down the street, whereas someone with a gun can snipe people off from inside the trunk of a car.
John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo would have had a slightly more difficult time offing people at gas stations if they were using steak knives and crow-bars with a range of several feet and dubious lethality instead of high-powered rifles with a range of 2400 yards and aboslute lethality.
The fact that someone died is not prima facie evidence of an immoral act - not to put too fine of a point on it, but we all die sooner or later.
That is a philosophical point and there are plenty of philosophical and religious foundations that do state rather unequivocally that taking a life is always immoral -- and yes, in many cases that includes acts of self-defense. Military and police rules of engagement generally respect this distinction as well, despite being utterly abrogated in cases like LaTasha Harland and Amadou Diallo. In those cases, the act was utterly evil yet couched in self-defense.
There rarely, if ever, is a need to shoot to kill. If wounding is sufficient to save your own life or that of another under threat, real or perceived, blowing someone's head off becomes an act of aggression, not defense and that certainly fits the definition of evil. I suggest you look the word up in your dictionary of choice.
Personally, I find life short enough to not want some paranoid looney with a gun, and perhaps a badge, ending it early because they couldn't tell the difference between a bannana and an M16 if they were sucking on it with abandon.
You might as well say that an electric chair is manufactured so that it can kill but not that it will. Killing is the purpose for which the device was created and in the last twenty-five years, guns have killed a number of Americans equal to the present population of San Francisco.
You're right, guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people. It is highly likely that those 750,000 lives would not have been lost if the person that ended each of them didn't have the gun they used to kill them.
...I don't think that's what he was implying, not least because it is highly unlikely that such an agreement could be met, but regardless, that would still involve the exact same non-compete, non-disclosure, i.p. rights issues as under a W-2 agreement. Yeah, there is nuance here, but the suggested remedy doesn't really eliminate that much of the conflict of interest.
Erm, to "break and enter" you generally must do or clearly intend to do some other offense otherwise it is just trespassing. Walking through an open door for the purpose of handing out a business-card, for instance, is perfectly innocent and would just barely support a tresspassing charge.
This is like telemarketing. Even with strong congressional support for shutting it down, all we got was a system to basically put up "do not enter" signs on the phone.
While I agree in prinicple (I did this myself), there is one not-so-minor problem. If the idea is in any way related to the work you do at your day job, moonlighting for your own corporation will run afoul with the non-compete clause of your employment contract, which could cause your termination. So sure, if you work for Quicken from 9-5 and want to write games at night, go ahead. However, if you want to write bookkeeping software, make sure you have enough money in the bank to live without your paycheck as they might not have grounds to sue you, but they can certainly fire you.
They have no accountability
From your own source:
ICANN gets its authority from the US Department of Commerce, and all major decisions regarding the DNS root servers must still be rubber-stamped by the DoC.
From ICANN:
"Over eighty governments closely advise the Board of Directors via the Governmental Advisory Committee."
http://www.icann.org/general/
Oh, and the too great an influence the US government has on ICANN.
Okay, now you have to make a choice here. Do they have NO accountability or too MUCH accountability? Which is it?!
$15.8M? GOUGING? My ass. Have you seen the rest of the budget that supports ICANN (Hint: it's roughly than twenty times that)?
There is so much baseless urban mythology, much of it parroted by the press, about ICANN it's enough to make your head spin.
...and Apple is marketing to the Thomas Sowells of the world. Mr. Sowell is spouting his usual generalizations that all the problems of the world are because of people who don't think like he does. Maybe he needs to "think different" and buy a Mac. I don't think Apple is intentionally marketing to egotistical editorial blowhards, but hey, if they corner that market too, great, they need computers too.
Taking a cue from Mr. Sowell, perhaps Apple could design an Mac powered by wind, which in his case, would never need to be plugged in.
...I didn't say it had to be Qwerty, just that the A-Z ordering sucked. I've used Fitaly and would use it again if I didn't have to sacrifice screen real estate for it. IIRC, there IS a Fitaly program for PalmOS that uses an overlay on the Graffiti area, but I haven't used it because I didn't find it much faster than just using Graffiti. However, given the choice between this horrible layout and Fitaly, definitely. T9 is ok for short messages, but not as a general purpose input, IMHO. I would _never_ use one of the asinine micro-mini qwerty keyboards though. Although, there was one project out there, can't remember it, so if someone does please post a link, that managed to fit a full keyboard on a telephone pad by using the space between the buttons, so chords of various buttons mapped to other keys, effectively making the "keys" as large as a standard keyboard. That was a very creative way of maximizing the existing interface that worked as quickly as Fitaly, with no more "buttons" than T9 and without the need for prediction. I never saw it in production, just in a demo app, but it definitely had appeal.
...especially given that god-awful A-Z keyboard. UGH. Does it at least have the ability to map into a more friendly layout? That one sucks. Also, part of the appeal of Graffiti was that it took up a tiny portion of the screen realestate. The on-screen keyboard takes up more than half of it.
Besides, I've been using my finger as a stylus for years, so "hey look! you don't need a stylus!" is about as attractive as marketing a soda can as "look! no glass or straw needed!" Erm, yeah, thanks for the 411.
http://www.superaudio-cd.com/technology_explained/ detailed_information/whitepaper.pdf
Find me that 48khz 20-bit DAC you're so proud of...
Sure, they don't want to give you the equivalent of a studio master tape for $25.
When you buy a $15 DVD, do you complain because they don't give you a 65mm interpositive?
Try listening to an SACD through any of the consumer DSPs out there. Take 1bitx2822.4k and ram it through a 16bitx44.1k DSP and voila, you've just filtered out 75% of your data, ergo why SACDs output only in analog.
www.superaudio-cd.com
The point was simply that it is much easier to lose a lot more money by being stupid, thus a certain amount of caution is advisable. Oops, didn't clip that fan on tight enough, *poof* there goes $500.