the Coop claims the ISBN identification numbers in books are their intellectual property.
It's a numbre assigned by this group http://www.isbn-international.org/ - to assign what is known as the International Standard Book Number - that identifies a particular edition of a book (hardbound, paperback, audio-book, etc.) from a particular publisher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN
They can no more claim copyright over that than Home Depot can claim copyright over the SKU of a chain saw or a box of nails.
They did, right in the middle of his Skull and Bones question (it's obvious on other videos, not the close-up one where the photographer's camera was picking up well)... and he kept ranting. He had already shrugged off a couple of requests to leave when the cops started to escort him out of the room.
I think they should have just declared the speech over, turned out the lights, and left the building, leaving him ranting into a dead microphone in a dark room.
The guy looks about 190lbs and one of the officers basically carried him up the stairs, but somehow they couldn't handcuff him??
The big cop is "bouncing" him along to the door - you can see him getting behind the screamer then start muscling him to the back where there's room - but all you have to do to bounce someone is have a good torso grip and be big. Getting arms under control is not as easy.
There is an eyewitness account that says the guy came in the building with the cops already after him, barged to the head of the line and interrupted someone who was asking a question.
This video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE&NR=1 taken from near the rear of the auditorium by a Gainesville Sun reporter shows the protestor being bulldozed toward the door by a really big campus cop (that's an effective technique of you have the beef to do it), after he's already refused to leave and broken free of the two who he kept brushing off as he asked his rhetorical questions... and he fights free of the big guy, heads back into the group of cops and keeps yelling.
"Did you notice the police were breathing down his neck while he was speaking? Take a look at the videos again. Not too surpising he was nervous.
One eyewitness (you tube user fozzymandias, who posted his video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAVvlyVbag&mode=related&search= ) states: "this guy basically comes running in with 4 or 5 cops in tow and says he has been running around trying to get in to ask a question and the cops are going to arrest him for it. they almost do it then but Sen. Kerry says he will answer it. he [Kerry] then answers a previous question someone else asked (i cut that part out because it isnt important to this video) then the guy asks his questions and when he is done all hell breaks lose." You can see another person filming next to the mike (hers is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaiWCS10C5s ). It doesn't look like anyone filmed his arrival.
So he wasn't there through the whole speech... he wasn't asking about the speech, he had his own agenda, and it involved the book and Skull and BVones and ___, and ___, etc. Watching that video you can see as Kerry tries to shut his preamble about the book down with "I have a copy" and "I've read it." You can see him turning to talk to the cops, who are probably saying, please come with us. Then you see someone in the back of the room signalling the sound man to cut the mike, which is the usual way to deal with these ranters.
But Tasering a guy who you've already got pinned on the ground? When I took self defense, dropping to the ground was a recommended defensive maneuver in some circumstances... you can do serious damage by kicking and your back is protected.
I agree that the campus security (not regular cops, these are JUST campus security) needs better training in how to get someone under control. Some of the shots from the video show unintentional holds that could have easily done damage to his arms is either he or the cop had moved wrong.
The more you rinse them, the stronger the soap becomes!
WRONG! In homeopathy you cure by using dilutions of substances that cause the same effect. So you have to apply diluted dirt... oh crap, too much blood in the alchhol stream... that IS rinsing, isn't it?
This makes economic sense under some conditions: Instead of cases of bottled water, you have one bottle and filter as needed.
If this can deliver 4,000 liters at under $1 a liter, and is shipped empty, it's cheaper than shipping pallets of bottled water for military and aid organizations. And when mass production hits, I can see this becoming popular with campers, tourists, business travellers and others.
These sites would contain incorrect information on making bombs, but close enough to be mistaken.
Most of the "anarchist handbooks" in circulation contain recipes that either don't work or are too dangerous to attempt without a full explosives lab. Either the authors were really bad chemists or they were deliberately planting bad info. A good chemist would use the widely available "CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety" and the "CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics" to doublecheck any recipe for efficacy and safety.
You would have to eliminate a lot of chemistry instruction, and here's an example:
I was a substitute teacher for a chemistry class. We were discussing reaction rates as part of the class material, and I pointed out that a local flour mill explosion was the result of a flour/air mix that was ignited by a spark or over-heated equipment. The flour particles could oxidize (burn) extremely quickly because they were suspended in air, and being contained in an inflexible building the pressure from all those hot gases shattered the building, as opposed to another local fire in a grain silo that was still smoldering after two weeks because the paticles were large and air supply was limited.
On my return to that school, some days later, I was blamed for teaching the students how to blow up the trash barrels! Extrapolating from my information that flour/air mixes can go KABOOM, they shook flour into a barrel from a large kitchen shaker (the kind used for powdered sugar spreading), jammed on the lid, and gave it a spark from a battery-powered circuit. It was apparently an impressive KABOOM, although maybe not an earth-shattering one, and the trash barrel looked like it had been run over by a large truck.
So... if I can't search for the possible toxic side effects of insecticides, the nasty explosive tendencies of common household chemical mixtures, and the lethal gases emitted by other mixtures... I am SAFER? My household is safer?
Next thing you know, he'll be banning the use of dihydrogen monoxide
I am still licensed to be a medical technologist, I spent a lot of time working in hospital chemistry labs with computerized equipment, and that software fails all kinds of reasonable criteria for calibrating and operating any equipment.
Pournelle's claim that it's a long process is ludicrous. After you have identified an infringing work, the time to submit a DMCA notice is under 10 minutes.
If you find a bunch of them at a single site, you can list them all on a single complaint.
"Let's say the airline makes a bunch of modifications to the GPL software they're using. I understand that they do not need to release those modifications unless they distribute the software. Does making Linux-machines available to their customers count as distribution?"
"Once the two documents are merged, it's easy enough to say that the first voter who signed in is very likely going to be responsible for the first vote cast, and so on."
The authors of TFA have never seen people take longer to vote than others? You know, the ones who are standing in their booth when you walk in and still standing there reading the names on the first page, when you leave? Or the person who comes in with small children and spends half an hour juggling them as she marks the ballot. And then there's the small crowd of folk who have signed in, standing with ballots in hands, waiting for a booth to come free, and the ones who have time to spare let the ones in a hurry go ahead of them.
There's no need to go any higher-tech than that, because you would have to teach her how to use the device instead of using her existing knowledge of how to write.
However, it seems to me that it's likely that there are people who dislike Vista who've never even touched it, nor are informed about it. They dislike it because others, whose opinions they're willing to trust, do.
Tha'ts what viral marketing is all about... trusted people influencing others. But it works both for you and against you.
And you wonder why IT is so short on females. It's because of the condescending... ooooh, look, they can even build computers... attitudes. Try working around that atmosphere for a few weeks and you'll either quit or be arrested for going postal.
The only hard part about building a computer - for females - is having some guy who thinks that his dick is an essential tool for building anything try to take over. It's no harder than, say, sewing up something with 17 pattern pieces. The instructions on recent mobos are easy to follow... easier than the care tags on some clothing.
"Automatix exists to satisfy a genuine need Yes, it certainly does.
"... in its current form Automatix is actively dangerous to systems" So far I've been lucky. But then, I've been working with Windows since Windows 3.1 so maybe I'm just used to having a dangerous system. I just installed iTunes on the Windows system and it's now failing to boot. Anything less hostile than that is an improvement.
"A more reasonable method of integrating Automatix's functionality into Ubuntu would be for the Automatix team to provide deb files to act as
installers for the software currently provided. These could then be installed through the existing package manager interfaces. This would
solve many of the above problems while still providing the same level of functionality." So... do it!
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the Coop claims the ISBN identification numbers in books are their intellectual property.
It's a numbre assigned by this group http://www.isbn-international.org/ - to assign what is known as the International Standard Book Number - that identifies a particular edition of a book (hardbound, paperback, audio-book, etc.) from a particular publisher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN
They can no more claim copyright over that than Home Depot can claim copyright over the SKU of a chain saw or a box of nails.
Unless it can make me purr too, I don't want to be a Neko.
why didn't they just cut off the mic?
They did, right in the middle of his Skull and Bones question (it's obvious on other videos, not the close-up one where the photographer's camera was picking up well) ... and he kept ranting. He had already shrugged off a couple of requests to leave when the cops started to escort him out of the room.
I think they should have just declared the speech over, turned out the lights, and left the building, leaving him ranting into a dead microphone in a dark room.
The guy looks about 190lbs and one of the officers basically carried him up the stairs, but somehow they couldn't handcuff him??
The big cop is "bouncing" him along to the door - you can see him getting behind the screamer then start muscling him to the back where there's room - but all you have to do to bounce someone is have a good torso grip and be big. Getting arms under control is not as easy.
You are absolutely correct. He was already subdued, the taser was used to silence him.
It didn't work ... he keeps yelling all the way out the door.
This video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE&NR=1 taken from near the rear of the auditorium by a Gainesville Sun reporter shows the protestor being bulldozed toward the door by a really big campus cop (that's an effective technique of you have the beef to do it), after he's already refused to leave and broken free of the two who he kept brushing off as he asked his rhetorical questions ... and he fights free of the big guy, heads back into the group of cops and keeps yelling.
One eyewitness (you tube user fozzymandias, who posted his video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAVvlyVbag&mode=related&search= ) states: "this guy basically comes running in with 4 or 5 cops in tow and says he has been running around trying to get in to ask a question and the cops are going to arrest him for it. they almost do it then but Sen. Kerry says he will answer it. he [Kerry] then answers a previous question someone else asked (i cut that part out because it isnt important to this video) then the guy asks his questions and when he is done all hell breaks lose." You can see another person filming next to the mike (hers is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaiWCS10C5s ). It doesn't look like anyone filmed his arrival.
So he wasn't there through the whole speech ... he wasn't asking about the speech, he had his own agenda, and it involved the book and Skull and BVones and ___, and ___, etc. Watching that video you can see as Kerry tries to shut his preamble about the book down with "I have a copy" and "I've read it." You can see him turning to talk to the cops, who are probably saying, please come with us. Then you see someone in the back of the room signalling the sound man to cut the mike, which is the usual way to deal with these ranters.
I agree that the campus security (not regular cops, these are JUST campus security) needs better training in how to get someone under control. Some of the shots from the video show unintentional holds that could have easily done damage to his arms is either he or the cop had moved wrong.
WRONG! In homeopathy you cure by using dilutions of substances that cause the same effect. So you have to apply diluted dirt ... oh crap, too much blood in the alchhol stream ... that IS rinsing, isn't it?
Damned metric system!
If this can deliver 4,000 liters at under $1 a liter, and is shipped empty, it's cheaper than shipping pallets of bottled water for military and aid organizations. And when mass production hits, I can see this becoming popular with campers, tourists, business travellers and others.
I scolded them severely, of course, and told them that blowing up school property was vandalism. But yes, they were paying attention in class.
These sites would contain incorrect information on making bombs, but close enough to be mistaken.
Most of the "anarchist handbooks" in circulation contain recipes that either don't work or are too dangerous to attempt without a full explosives lab. Either the authors were really bad chemists or they were deliberately planting bad info. A good chemist would use the widely available "CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety" and the "CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics" to doublecheck any recipe for efficacy and safety.
I was a substitute teacher for a chemistry class. We were discussing reaction rates as part of the class material, and I pointed out that a local flour mill explosion was the result of a flour/air mix that was ignited by a spark or over-heated equipment. The flour particles could oxidize (burn) extremely quickly because they were suspended in air, and being contained in an inflexible building the pressure from all those hot gases shattered the building, as opposed to another local fire in a grain silo that was still smoldering after two weeks because the paticles were large and air supply was limited.
On my return to that school, some days later, I was blamed for teaching the students how to blow up the trash barrels! Extrapolating from my information that flour/air mixes can go KABOOM, they shook flour into a barrel from a large kitchen shaker (the kind used for powdered sugar spreading), jammed on the lid, and gave it a spark from a battery-powered circuit. It was apparently an impressive KABOOM, although maybe not an earth-shattering one, and the trash barrel looked like it had been run over by a large truck.
Next thing you know, he'll be banning the use of dihydrogen monoxide
I am still licensed to be a medical technologist, I spent a lot of time working in hospital chemistry labs with computerized equipment, and that software fails all kinds of reasonable criteria for calibrating and operating any equipment.
If you find a bunch of them at a single site, you can list them all on a single complaint.
No.
We're not that anal-retentive in this state.
"Once the two documents are merged, it's easy enough to say that the first voter who signed in is very likely going to be responsible for the first vote cast, and so on."
The authors of TFA have never seen people take longer to vote than others? You know, the ones who are standing in their booth when you walk in and still standing there reading the names on the first page, when you leave? Or the person who comes in with small children and spends half an hour juggling them as she marks the ballot. And then there's the small crowd of folk who have signed in, standing with ballots in hands, waiting for a booth to come free, and the ones who have time to spare let the ones in a hurry go ahead of them.
It's not a FIFO buffer in this precinct.
A small whiteboard and marker pen
Pen and paper
There's no need to go any higher-tech than that, because you would have to teach her how to use the device instead of using her existing knowledge of how to write.
However, it seems to me that it's likely that there are people who dislike Vista who've never even touched it, nor are informed about it. They dislike it because others, whose opinions they're willing to trust, do.
Tha'ts what viral marketing is all about ... trusted people influencing others. But it works both for you and against you.
And you wonder why IT is so short on females. It's because of the condescending ... ooooh, look, they can even build computers ... attitudes. Try working around that atmosphere for a few weeks and you'll either quit or be arrested for going postal.
The only hard part about building a computer - for females - is having some guy who thinks that his dick is an essential tool for building anything try to take over. It's no harder than, say, sewing up something with 17 pattern pieces. The instructions on recent mobos are easy to follow ... easier than the care tags on some clothing.
"Automatix exists to satisfy a genuine need Yes, it certainly does.
"... in its current form Automatix is actively dangerous to systems" So far I've been lucky. But then, I've been working with Windows since Windows 3.1 so maybe I'm just used to having a dangerous system. I just installed iTunes on the Windows system and it's now failing to boot. Anything less hostile than that is an improvement.
"A more reasonable method of integrating Automatix's functionality into Ubuntu would be for the Automatix team to provide deb files to act as installers for the software currently provided. These could then be installed through the existing package manager interfaces. This would solve many of the above problems while still providing the same level of functionality." So ... do it!
I've been using hot mail for a long time (since 1998?) and have not observed this problem.