Yep. The BSA exists for no reason other than to gather evidence to squeeze you for more money.
I could care less whether Microsoft thinks I should keep a certificate on file - if I buy software, I buy software. It's MINE.
Most companies usually do keep the records, and other companies either don't or overinstall beyond their licenses... doesn't matter. I feel no obligation to keep records to make the BSA's life easier.
The whole, "Prove you're innocent or we'll sue you" bit stinks of shake down, and they can go to hell.
The math is a model of our current (science-derived) understanding of things.
If the math turns up results we have yet to observe (or observe the lack of) then we look. Because there are two possibilities - the math is wrong or it's pointing to something new.
Either way, it's science. Observe, theorize, and test are all in there. The math is just a tool.
I don't know - once one of the selection pressures is an intelligent force that can predict the eventual path of evolution, I'd say words like, 'hurt' can start to apply.
What if the fish evolving to be smaller to avoid human mouths eventually leaves them set to be eliminated by some other force? In other words, what if we're forcing a short term evolutionary advantage that is long term fatal to the species?
Well, he says 200 million gigawatts per second. It sounds like he's saying we get more energy striking the earth in one second than we've harnessed in total since man started using electricity.
The units are not ideal, but the calculation should be fairly simple to test whether he's entirely hyperbolic on this or not.
It's the old 'how many colours are needed to draw a map' issue.
In an apartment you have 3 dimensions to worry about, which means you could have 15 neighbours (two apartments deep by three high, with you on one side and in the middle level). In a house, you have perhaps 8 neighbours to worry about... and still only three good channels with which to work. Luckily, the ones behind are additionlly buffered by your backyard and theirs, and the ones in front have front yards plus road.
In a house, the best pattern (for you...) is:
01/06/01 06/11/06 01/06/01
In an apartment, I'd want to do the same thing in 3D - stagger the 1 & 6 channel for my neighbours and keep the 11 for myself.
In either case, good luck convincing everybody to cooperate!
Better - some group of students once did TCP/IP over drums. Very bad throughput, but use a big enough (low enough frequency) drum and it could travel a long way...
I thought the more exciting announcement was that memristors could be tripled up to create transistors that were (despite being tripled up) still much smaller than a standard transistor.
Then, there were bits about them supporting more than just binary states, which would increase complexity and density yet again.
Denser memory may be the first pratical consumer product, but if the other possiblities work out, I'm pretty sure that memory will also be the least significant.
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Your argument is based on someone magically existing even before conception. It's kind of a wacky argument because the logical conclusion is that all possible sperm should be used to fertilize all possible eggs - after all, each fertilized egg is a potential human and we should allow them all life, right?
I'd never say to someone with a nasty disease that they shouldn't have been born. They're real people, getting as much out of life as they can just like everyone else. If they don't exist yet, I'm certainly OK with the concept of preventing the conception of a human with a nasty disease.
The two positions are NOT mutually exclusive.
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Wow, because you called me illiterate, I'm convinced of your opinion!
Just a suggestion, if you're really trying to convince people, name calling is a pretty good way to get them to tune you out, and thus isn't recommended. Another hint... people participating in a text-based format can probably read and write and are therefore literate by definition.
Family history is a good way to choose what tests to perform, but if the tests are inexpensive enough, you might as well test for everything. And family history can tell you you're at risk for having a specific genetic flaw, but only a DNA test can tell you that you actually inherited it.
Article or not, most of your opinion is just dead wrong in the context of the discussion at hand.
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Yes, because if you have cystic fibrosis, or thalasemia, or huntington's... it's perfectly acceptable to deliberately have children knowing they have a 50% chance of a shortened lifespan with some terrible suffering.
I know people on both sides - one couple that was unaware they were carriers of a nasty resessive gene who both got 'fixed' upon the diagnosis of their firstborn, and another couple where the wife had a 50% chance of being a carrier (she was not old enough to be past the point of the first symptoms) who had the money to get tested but had children WITHOUT getting tested because she didn't want to know she shouldn't have kids. Nice, eh?
I'm not suggesting that kids not get coverage, but that anyone with a nasty genetic disease who has kids get cut off. Insurance isn't for those who deliberately cause their own misfortune, it's for those who get caught unaware.
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Harshly worded, perhaps, but I didn't mean it as a troll.
Why on earth should society deliberately hobble itself supporting people with severe hereditary disease? Never mind the fact that people with these diseases who have children are exceptionally (and unacceptably) selfish.
Just because the dawn of eugenics saw racists trying to justify their views doesn't mean the concept itself is bad.
Besides, once germline genetic engineering is A) possible and B) permitted to fix genetic disease, the problem goes away anyway.
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If we're testing everyone for everything, and covering their health costs...
I don't want my tax dollars supporting the breeding of people who will put an unfair load on the medical system.
It's control. If the majority use IE, then MS can push out their proprietary standards that will force everyone else to buy their development products, and maybe use their server platform.
Do you wear tinfoil on your head, or am I missing something? I skimmed the entirety of the linked pages on recordingindustryvspeople and saw lots of documentation and commentary related to exactly what I expected. I saw nothing that made me feel any urge to grab an e-meter and get my thetans excised.
We will ask the ISPs to cooperate in sending C&D letters to people we identify with our proven-poor methods, THEN, after having said we won't sue* we'll use the C&D letters from the ISP to target lawsuits.
I really have to wonder how their lawyers sleep at night (on beds of $100 bills, I'm sure). The people employing the lawyers I have no doubt sleep peacefully, dreaming of other ways to game the system.
The question isn't a slam on the disabled - it's my understanding (not refreshed with a recent Googling or a Wikipedia visit) that it's extremely unusual to live far into your thirties when you have motor neuron disease.
Of course, those lifespan estimates have probably been climbing due to improved medicine since his original diagnosis regardless of anything unique to Stephen Hawking's particular progression.
According to the article - it's a 'visiting Chair', and he will make regular visits to Waterloo, ON.
In other words, he's getting a big paycheque for attaching his name to the institute and will make the minimal number of personal appearances to make it look legit.
That's a little partisan. The Liberals were no different.
An MP can have his own opinions unless the party whip tells him otherwise, then he better tow the party line or the party will find ways to punish him.
Never mind that, but if every MP went spouting off individually on behalf of the party, you'd never know what the party position is - you'd know how your MP *might* vote if he didn't fear the reprisals, but you wouldn't know what position would be pushed from the PM's office.
I have now received some information regarding Bell Canada and your email about their engagement in anti-competitive behaviour by controlling or "shaping" of traffic of independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that provide service through wholesale access to Bell's digital subscriber line (DSL) network from Industry Canada. I hope that this helps.
As you may be aware, consumer Internet services are not regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), as it has found this market to be sufficiently competitive to protect the interests of users. Indeed, the competition between telephone and cable networks, as well as satellite, wireless, and other players, has ensured Canadians have a variety of choices in terms of both price and quality when selecting an ISP.
The Competition Bureau ensures that prices in all sectors of the economy, except those that are regulated, are set by market forces and are not the result of anti-competitive behaviour. Under the abuse of dominance provisions of the Competition Act, it is illegal for a dominant firm to be engaging in a practice of anti-competitive acts resulting in a substantial lessening of competition, including disciplining or targeting competitors in order to raise prices or reduce customer choice. Since Bell is engaging in traffic "shaping" across its network-in other words, providing the same service to both its own customers and to independent ISPs-it does not appear that Bell is currently engaging in a practice of anti-competitive acts contrary to the Act.
The CRTC does regulate wholesale access by independent ISPs to high-speed Internet access services from both telephone and cable companies. Under the CRTC's regulatory framework for wholesale services, Bell is required to provide access to their DSL network to independent ISPs at regulated rates and terms of service. If the CRTC finds Bell or any other network operator to be in violation of these terms or otherwise engaging in unjust discrimination or undue preference, the CRTC has the power to address these issues under the Telecommunications Act.
Should you believe carriers are engaging in unjust discrimination and undue preference, I encourage you to contact the CRTC at 1-877-249-2782 or by e-mail at info@crtc.gc.ca. Please note that the Canadian Association of Internet Providers has made an application on this basis to the CRTC requesting to resolve this issue.
Sincerely,
Carolyn
Carolyn Brown - Administrator - Constituency Office David Sweet MP - Ancaster Dundas Flamborough Westdale
No. I've already been in contact with the Conservative party, and their position is that Bell isn't violating the CRTC guidelines and that there is plenty of competition - you can always go to satellite.
I wanted to strangle my MP, but at least he bothered to call up party HQ and get a reasoned response.
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Yep. The BSA exists for no reason other than to gather evidence to squeeze you for more money.
I could care less whether Microsoft thinks I should keep a certificate on file - if I buy software, I buy software. It's MINE.
Most companies usually do keep the records, and other companies either don't or overinstall beyond their licenses... doesn't matter. I feel no obligation to keep records to make the BSA's life easier.
The whole, "Prove you're innocent or we'll sue you" bit stinks of shake down, and they can go to hell.
The math is a model of our current (science-derived) understanding of things.
If the math turns up results we have yet to observe (or observe the lack of) then we look. Because there are two possibilities - the math is wrong or it's pointing to something new.
Either way, it's science. Observe, theorize, and test are all in there. The math is just a tool.
Doesn't that just mean that a whole chain of people at Google now know the location is sensitive and could turn around and pass on that information?
If they ask to have it Photoshopped into non-existence then you know you've got really hot property!
I don't know - once one of the selection pressures is an intelligent force that can predict the eventual path of evolution, I'd say words like, 'hurt' can start to apply.
What if the fish evolving to be smaller to avoid human mouths eventually leaves them set to be eliminated by some other force? In other words, what if we're forcing a short term evolutionary advantage that is long term fatal to the species?
Well, he says 200 million gigawatts per second. It sounds like he's saying we get more energy striking the earth in one second than we've harnessed in total since man started using electricity.
The units are not ideal, but the calculation should be fairly simple to test whether he's entirely hyperbolic on this or not.
It's the old 'how many colours are needed to draw a map' issue.
In an apartment you have 3 dimensions to worry about, which means you could have 15 neighbours (two apartments deep by three high, with you on one side and in the middle level). In a house, you have perhaps 8 neighbours to worry about... and still only three good channels with which to work. Luckily, the ones behind are additionlly buffered by your backyard and theirs, and the ones in front have front yards plus road.
In a house, the best pattern (for you...) is:
01/06/01
06/11/06
01/06/01
In an apartment, I'd want to do the same thing in 3D - stagger the 1 & 6 channel for my neighbours and keep the 11 for myself.
In either case, good luck convincing everybody to cooperate!
It's also an improvement for your neighbours.
Better - some group of students once did TCP/IP over drums. Very bad throughput, but use a big enough (low enough frequency) drum and it could travel a long way...
I thought the more exciting announcement was that memristors could be tripled up to create transistors that were (despite being tripled up) still much smaller than a standard transistor.
Then, there were bits about them supporting more than just binary states, which would increase complexity and density yet again.
Denser memory may be the first pratical consumer product, but if the other possiblities work out, I'm pretty sure that memory will also be the least significant.
Your argument is based on someone magically existing even before conception. It's kind of a wacky argument because the logical conclusion is that all possible sperm should be used to fertilize all possible eggs - after all, each fertilized egg is a potential human and we should allow them all life, right?
I'd never say to someone with a nasty disease that they shouldn't have been born. They're real people, getting as much out of life as they can just like everyone else. If they don't exist yet, I'm certainly OK with the concept of preventing the conception of a human with a nasty disease.
The two positions are NOT mutually exclusive.
Wow, because you called me illiterate, I'm convinced of your opinion!
Just a suggestion, if you're really trying to convince people, name calling is a pretty good way to get them to tune you out, and thus isn't recommended. Another hint... people participating in a text-based format can probably read and write and are therefore literate by definition.
Family history is a good way to choose what tests to perform, but if the tests are inexpensive enough, you might as well test for everything. And family history can tell you you're at risk for having a specific genetic flaw, but only a DNA test can tell you that you actually inherited it.
Article or not, most of your opinion is just dead wrong in the context of the discussion at hand.
Yes, because if you have cystic fibrosis, or thalasemia, or huntington's... it's perfectly acceptable to deliberately have children knowing they have a 50% chance of a shortened lifespan with some terrible suffering.
I know people on both sides - one couple that was unaware they were carriers of a nasty resessive gene who both got 'fixed' upon the diagnosis of their firstborn, and another couple where the wife had a 50% chance of being a carrier (she was not old enough to be past the point of the first symptoms) who had the money to get tested but had children WITHOUT getting tested because she didn't want to know she shouldn't have kids. Nice, eh?
I'm not suggesting that kids not get coverage, but that anyone with a nasty genetic disease who has kids get cut off. Insurance isn't for those who deliberately cause their own misfortune, it's for those who get caught unaware.
Harshly worded, perhaps, but I didn't mean it as a troll.
Why on earth should society deliberately hobble itself supporting people with severe hereditary disease? Never mind the fact that people with these diseases who have children are exceptionally (and unacceptably) selfish.
Just because the dawn of eugenics saw racists trying to justify their views doesn't mean the concept itself is bad.
Besides, once germline genetic engineering is A) possible and B) permitted to fix genetic disease, the problem goes away anyway.
If we're testing everyone for everything, and covering their health costs...
I don't want my tax dollars supporting the breeding of people who will put an unfair load on the medical system.
It's control. If the majority use IE, then MS can push out their proprietary standards that will force everyone else to buy their development products, and maybe use their server platform.
And dolphins... they can find things under sand with a quick chirp or two.
I won't disagree that it's fake, but I expect the sonar return is qualitatively affected by the type of surface it hits.
Even my human ears can tell the difference between some types of wall coverings based on ambient sound reflections.
In short, I'd want an expert in sonar to call bullshit on this one before I definitively choose sides.
HAH! I run Firefox with Adblock/Flashblock/NoScript. I could refresh all day and I never would have caught that.
Do you wear tinfoil on your head, or am I missing something? I skimmed the entirety of the linked pages on recordingindustryvspeople and saw lots of documentation and commentary related to exactly what I expected. I saw nothing that made me feel any urge to grab an e-meter and get my thetans excised.
We will ask the ISPs to cooperate in sending C&D letters to people we identify with our proven-poor methods, THEN, after having said we won't sue* we'll use the C&D letters from the ISP to target lawsuits.
I really have to wonder how their lawyers sleep at night (on beds of $100 bills, I'm sure). The people employing the lawyers I have no doubt sleep peacefully, dreaming of other ways to game the system.
The question isn't a slam on the disabled - it's my understanding (not refreshed with a recent Googling or a Wikipedia visit) that it's extremely unusual to live far into your thirties when you have motor neuron disease.
Of course, those lifespan estimates have probably been climbing due to improved medicine since his original diagnosis regardless of anything unique to Stephen Hawking's particular progression.
According to the article - it's a 'visiting Chair', and he will make regular visits to Waterloo, ON.
In other words, he's getting a big paycheque for attaching his name to the institute and will make the minimal number of personal appearances to make it look legit.
That's a little partisan. The Liberals were no different.
An MP can have his own opinions unless the party whip tells him otherwise, then he better tow the party line or the party will find ways to punish him.
Never mind that, but if every MP went spouting off individually on behalf of the party, you'd never know what the party position is - you'd know how your MP *might* vote if he didn't fear the reprisals, but you wouldn't know what position would be pushed from the PM's office.
I have now received some information regarding Bell Canada and your email about their engagement in anti-competitive behaviour by controlling or "shaping" of traffic of independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that provide service through wholesale access to Bell's digital subscriber line (DSL) network from Industry Canada. I hope that this helps.
As you may be aware, consumer Internet services are not regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), as it has found this market to be sufficiently competitive to protect the interests of users. Indeed, the competition between telephone and cable networks, as well as satellite, wireless, and other players, has ensured Canadians have a variety of choices in terms of both price and quality when selecting an ISP.
The Competition Bureau ensures that prices in all sectors of the economy, except those that are regulated, are set by market forces and are not the result of anti-competitive behaviour. Under the abuse of dominance provisions of the Competition Act, it is illegal for a dominant firm to be engaging in a practice of anti-competitive acts resulting in a substantial lessening of competition, including disciplining or targeting competitors in order to raise prices or reduce customer choice. Since Bell is engaging in traffic "shaping" across its network-in other words, providing the same service to both its own customers and to independent ISPs-it does not appear that Bell is currently engaging in a practice of anti-competitive acts contrary to the Act.
The CRTC does regulate wholesale access by independent ISPs to high-speed Internet access services from both telephone and cable companies. Under the CRTC's regulatory framework for wholesale services, Bell is required to provide access to their DSL network to independent ISPs at regulated rates and terms of service. If the CRTC finds Bell or any other network operator to be in violation of these terms or otherwise engaging in unjust discrimination or undue preference, the CRTC has the power to address these issues under the Telecommunications Act.
Should you believe carriers are engaging in unjust discrimination and undue preference, I encourage you to contact the CRTC at 1-877-249-2782 or by e-mail at info@crtc.gc.ca. Please note that the Canadian Association of Internet Providers has made an application on this basis to the CRTC requesting to resolve this issue.
Sincerely,
Carolyn
Carolyn Brown - Administrator - Constituency Office
David Sweet MP - Ancaster Dundas Flamborough Westdale
No. I've already been in contact with the Conservative party, and their position is that Bell isn't violating the CRTC guidelines and that there is plenty of competition - you can always go to satellite.
I wanted to strangle my MP, but at least he bothered to call up party HQ and get a reasoned response.
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