Re:It's 2004, North American Needs To Move On.
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To my mind it has less to do with the times than with Mulrooney. The most hated PM of the last half of the twentieth century, and his cynical appointment of the abysmal and inept Kim Clark as his sucessor, single handedly destroyed the Canadian Conservatives. I'll always fondly remember, shortly after the federal election that swept the Liberals to power, having dim sum in Ottawa at the table next to the remains of the federal Conservative Party. And his wife and kids.
Oh well, back to printing, e-mailing, FTP'ing and burning DVD's of that confidential info for me then! (An aside: I full understand the need for restricting external data devices. We do the same but to prevent viruses.)
"Star Trek" is little more than a brand name slapped on anything in which most of the cast wear an upside-down 'V' on their shirts and the rest have bumpy noses. Whatever remained of the original series ended its mission decades ago.
So Microsoft steaming audio that sounds like all the radio stations which sound the same sounds different? Maybe if you reconsider your line of reasoning....
That's a symptom, not an attribute. Denying citizens even the chance of understanding shifts the foundations of democracy in a way so many people here find suprisingly, frighteningly and depressingly acceptable.
No. Proper positional audio is as important for an FPS on-line gamer as anti-aliasing. Scratch that, it's more important unless the goal is to die fast and pretty. 400 frames per second in UT doesn't inform that someone's behind you.
Mastercraft gets no payment when a piece of art is created with its tools. Microsoft doesn't get a cut when Word is used to write a novel. This isn't about the right to make a living, it's about the means. Not withstanding the distinction between "artist" and "performer", everyone has to "eat and feed their families", not everyone demands a body of constrictive legislation and army of domestic snitches to do so in the means they desire.
There are few people in this world who get to become and do all they want, I see no reason those in the arts should get special dispensation in that regard, especially considering how widely the term 'arts' is applied and how much of zero value it covered by it. The market's in a glut and if activities like those I mentioned are necessary to "feed the family" it's time to realign the life goals.
" BMI also licenses non-broadcast general music users, such as nightclubs, discos, hotels, bars, restaurants and other venues. While it is virtually impossible to log and make a separate distribution for such performances, they are accounted for by BMI's basic premise that the material used in such venues reflects the songs currently being performed on commercial broadcasting stations. Therefore, royalties collected from general music users are distributed on the basis of performances on commercial radio and television stations."
They're the same clowns strong arming taxi companies, restaurants, dentists - any commercial venue with a radio on. I'm not sure I'll group them with the 'good guys'.
I thought safe drivers were defined by lack of accidents. This is pure and simple another way to wring money from consumers by "saving the children". Anyone who trusts the executives who manage insurance companies to administrate this fairly truly lives in a fantasy world.
Re:Balmer: Research it yourselves.
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"...the hypocrisy of a website that decries the evils of money-grubbing companies like Microsoft, meanwhile taking money from them to run their advertisements!"
What part of free speech confuses you? Should the editors refuse MS money and not allow them to advertise content directly opposing their views? Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
My problem with Word is preventing it doing things it thinks I should do instead of doing what I tell it too do. I'd pay money for a SFTU MS-Word HowTo.
"Linux can counter with an open-source CODEC that manufacturers can easily support with a minimum of effort..."
Hardware manufacturers dependent on tens of thousands of Microsoft desktop licenses are probably not too keen on pissing off Redmond by supporting alternate and free codecs in their products. At least that's what I was told when I asked the CIO of my large (media) company why we streamed audio in Microsoft formats.
That'll be the day Microsoft points to OSS as a competitive option which saves consumers money. Quite the opposite, the FUD machine for the last couple of years has focused on the claim OSS has a higher TCO.
You're not missing much. Other than a fascinating look at Hitler's early proclamations later made into horrifying reality, it's a mind-numbingly dull read.
The first I already replied to: "Many, many books have been burned before, in North America and abroad." I thought the meaning was fairly obvious as NA is democratic - members of democratic nations have burned books for a very long time. Regarding your second point, the article makes it very clear the paper was pulled by the journal for offensive political speech, not its genetic findings. The author spoke of Israeli "concentration camps" for example. Nothing in the Guardian article suggests the journal had any regret over the paper's genetic conclusions. "In common with earlier studies (italics mine), the team found no data to support the idea that Jewish people were genetically distinct from other people in the region." Sounds more like a case of sloppy peer review than censorship to me. You either read it hastily or misinterpretation was your intent.
So back to: what's so special about these two cases related to Jewish history?
I don't really understand your post. Many, many books have been burned before, in North America and abroad. What's so special about these two cases related to Jewish history that makes them "much more serious and interesting instences (sic) of banning"?
"A serious scholar might pick out the anti-racism message. A young child might not."
The entire history of western literature picked up on the anti-racism, not just scholars, and critical part of a child's education is learning to pick up on those messages too. It can't be done on a constant diet of intellectual cottage cheese and moronic literalism.
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To my mind it has less to do with the times than with Mulrooney. The most hated PM of the last half of the twentieth century, and his cynical appointment of the abysmal and inept Kim Clark as his sucessor, single handedly destroyed the Canadian Conservatives. I'll always fondly remember, shortly after the federal election that swept the Liberals to power, having dim sum in Ottawa at the table next to the remains of the federal Conservative Party. And his wife and kids.
That post deserves a place next to the expositions by Albini and Courtney Love. Mod up.
Oh well, back to printing, e-mailing, FTP'ing and burning DVD's of that confidential info for me then! (An aside: I full understand the need for restricting external data devices. We do the same but to prevent viruses.)
"Star Trek" is little more than a brand name slapped on anything in which most of the cast wear an upside-down 'V' on their shirts and the rest have bumpy noses. Whatever remained of the original series ended its mission decades ago.
One word: Lindows.
So Microsoft steaming audio that sounds like all the radio stations which sound the same sounds different? Maybe if you reconsider your line of reasoning....
Welcome Total Farker!
That's a symptom, not an attribute. Denying citizens even the chance of understanding shifts the foundations of democracy in a way so many people here find suprisingly, frighteningly and depressingly acceptable.
No. Proper positional audio is as important for an FPS on-line gamer as anti-aliasing. Scratch that, it's more important unless the goal is to die fast and pretty. 400 frames per second in UT doesn't inform that someone's behind you.
There are few people in this world who get to become and do all they want, I see no reason those in the arts should get special dispensation in that regard, especially considering how widely the term 'arts' is applied and how much of zero value it covered by it. The market's in a glut and if activities like those I mentioned are necessary to "feed the family" it's time to realign the life goals.
" BMI also licenses non-broadcast general music users, such as nightclubs, discos, hotels, bars, restaurants and other venues. While it is virtually impossible to log and make a separate distribution for such performances, they are accounted for by BMI's basic premise that the material used in such venues reflects the songs currently being performed on commercial broadcasting stations. Therefore, royalties collected from general music users are distributed on the basis of performances on commercial radio and television stations."
They're the same clowns strong arming taxi companies, restaurants, dentists - any commercial venue with a radio on. I'm not sure I'll group them with the 'good guys'.
For a very long time too. I never understood the source of the constant right-click complaints when it's been invalid for ages.
I thought safe drivers were defined by lack of accidents. This is pure and simple another way to wring money from consumers by "saving the children". Anyone who trusts the executives who manage insurance companies to administrate this fairly truly lives in a fantasy world.
This Canadian suggests Redmond.
Your groupthink about groupthink I think.
What part of free speech confuses you? Should the editors refuse MS money and not allow them to advertise content directly opposing their views? Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
My problem with Word is preventing it doing things it thinks I should do instead of doing what I tell it too do. I'd pay money for a SFTU MS-Word HowTo.
Hardware manufacturers dependent on tens of thousands of Microsoft desktop licenses are probably not too keen on pissing off Redmond by supporting alternate and free codecs in their products. At least that's what I was told when I asked the CIO of my large (media) company why we streamed audio in Microsoft formats.
That'll be the day Microsoft points to OSS as a competitive option which saves consumers money. Quite the opposite, the FUD machine for the last couple of years has focused on the claim OSS has a higher TCO.
And if you are thinking about servers (per seat or per server?), don't even think about more than 2 processors or you get dinged again.
You're not missing much. Other than a fascinating look at Hitler's early proclamations later made into horrifying reality, it's a mind-numbingly dull read.
So back to: what's so special about these two cases related to Jewish history?
I don't really understand your post. Many, many books have been burned before, in North America and abroad. What's so special about these two cases related to Jewish history that makes them "much more serious and interesting instences (sic) of banning"?
The entire history of western literature picked up on the anti-racism, not just scholars, and critical part of a child's education is learning to pick up on those messages too. It can't be done on a constant diet of intellectual cottage cheese and moronic literalism.
Because your child isn't the only one using the library and you don't speak for all parents?