Umm.....I don't remember reading anywhere that they university knew he was palgerising. If they didn't catch him till near the end, then that's when he gets punished. He's stated that they knew, but I don't know of any university that would not punish him at the first offence. They have too much to lose.
I'm a good cook. I throw dinner parties for my friends every once in a while. But a lot of time, I just don't want to be bothered cooking a meal for one. All the prep work, the cooking time, then the clean up involved. Sometimes I just want to nuke it , eat it, and toss it. So sites like that are kinda useful for me.
Plus, those meals are a great last resort when you screw up the main meal.:)
I'll do this point by point as to why the Guard is a militia...
1. An army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers.
--> The majority of Guard members are ordinary citizens with some military training. Granted, there are some full-time members, but any large organized group would have that.
-->The difference between a professional soldier and a Guard member is what do they spend the majority of their time doing? Guard members have non-military jobs (ie. try finding an army guy on active duty who is also in the Guard) while professional soldiers have their full time job as being soldiers.
2. A military force that is not part of a regular army and is subject to call for service in an emergency.
--> the Guard is not called up on a whim. First active duty goes, then Reservists, then Guard. The Guards primary responsibility is not to fight wars as that is left primarly up to the active Army and reserves. Also, the Guard is not considered part of the regular army until they are called up. Even then, the only way they are considered part of the regular army is their chain-of-command. Their unit reports to the theater commander, and from there up the chain of command is the same as for every military unit there.
3. The whole body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service.
--> This proves nothing. If every civilian who is physically fit is in the militia, then every 18yr old in HighSchool is in the militia. Doesn't matter if they have a gun, or if they do, how to use it. --> A distinction should be made between those who are eligible for military service, and those who are eligible to join the military. I am eligible to join the military, but not eligible for military service. What's the difference? I can go to the military and saw that I want in. The military cannot go to me and say that I'm now going to fight.
I read it, and went "meh". It complains about Universities monitoring your access on their computers. So what? It's their computer. If you place some monitoring software on your computer as a means of creating an access log (just in case your firewall doesn't stop someone), are you then obligated to remove it if your roommate uses your computer? No, it's your computer and you have the right to monitor it any way you please.
I think Stallman is overreacting. My school doesn't use RFID tags, but they do require access cards to get into certain labs. I have no problems with that. If computers go missing, then they should be able to tell who was in the room at about that time. Does it prevent me from holding the door open for a classmate? No it doesn't. If they steal something, then the cops will come talking to me (as I would have been the last one to use an access card), but I can just tell them that I held the door open for someone. I would rather that happen then have a bunch of video cameras recording everything, or a security guard at the door (the only other real alternatives when it comes to security).
Now, if they record what time you opened your office door, or used the bathroom, they yes, I would complain too. I don't recall reading that they were recording anything more then outside door access. Maybe you can enlighten me if I am wrong?
Another benefit of recording outside door access (other then theft prevention) is in the case of an emergency. By maintaining a list of who has accessed the building, and how many times the exit button was pressed, central security can print off an estimated number of people in the building. If your estimate has 100 people in the building, and only 50 people leave it, then I'm sure the fire department would want to know that. Granted it's only an estimate (since the door can be held open from both sides), but every piece of info is useful. If you are recording access to certain labs/rooms, and their card has been read, but no exit button pushed, then that info would help emergency personell know where people "might" be. No guarantees, but if they can focus on where people might be, then lives could be saved. Every minute counts.
Perhaps there are good reasons for this. One agent can ask a question, and both look for body language. Or there could be a safety issue as well. All the agents know is what they have found out. What if they missed that he hates law enforcement and carries a gun? If I was an agent, I would want a second person there on my side.
Or maybe it's to let one agent drive while the other reads the map? Seriously though, there are probably legit safety and procedural concerns for having multiple agents there. Personally I have no problems with it. If someone finds having two agents question them coersize, then the response should be "I want a lawyer. If I am not being held, then I am leaving now, and you may arrange an interview in the presence of my lawyer. Can I leave now?". If they say no, then you are being held and should have access to a lawyer (though SCOTUS has not ruled on US Citizens being held w/o charges and/or lawyers. But, you could probably bluff your way though it. If they hold you like that, and SOCTUS rules it is illegal, then you have a nice lawsuit ready and able. You could call their bluff and remind them that holding people is only quasi-legal, and not yet fully constitutional. phew, enough of that aside).
I doubt it. Lets say there are 3 areas that it passes through, application, NIC, and AP.
The application optimizes the packet size, and passes the packet to the NIC. The NIC looks at the packet and realizes it is at an optimum size, so it does nothing. The packet is then passed onto the AP, and the AP looks at the packet size, again realizing that it is already at optimum size.
Now, lets assume that if the packet was at optimum size without the new software. Lets also assume that each pass though the software loses 10% of it's speed due to processing. If there was no software, you would be running at 100%. First pass through the software, and you are running at 90% full speed. Next pass through the software, and you are now at 81% speed. Last pass through the software, and you drop to 72.9% of full speed. Ok, you've lost 27.1% of your top speed, so it would slow it down some.
Now, lets say that the packet is not at optimum size when it gets to the first pass through the software. The software gives a speed boost to 200%, up from 100% (top speed w/o optimization). 200% - the 10% per each extra pass through the software gives us a speed increase of 162%.
The major speed decrease I can see is if the packet has to be made larger somewhere down the line, requiring the software to buffer packets in order to make a larger packet. The longer a packet has to be buffered while waiting for more packets to come in, leads to some major speed problems. Also, in a busy AP, you might have 100 "links" sending/receiving packets at a time. The amount of storage/processing the AP would need might be pretty damn signifigant.
Now, if that makes sense to anyone, could you please explain it to me? I think I've confused myself.:)
Telephones are the way to communicate right now, but you don't see society paying for it. Yes, there are subsidies in place to the companies, but that doesn't mean everyone has one.
Why should the net be any different? If you can't afford it, go to a cafe, or the library, or a friends house.
how the world operates not on reality, but the perception of reality
Exactly. What many people don't realize is that the basis of the US stock market (hell, any stock market for that matter), is confidence. The strength of a dollar is based on confidence. Interest rates are, partially, based on confidence.
Back to the stock market. Everytime there has been a crash, no real harm has been done. Sure, some people lost their shirts, but NO MONEY EVER LEFT THE SYSTEM. Lets say person A and person B are selling/buying stocks. A buys $5000 worth of stock from B. The stock then plummets in value, and A loses all of his money. B still has that $5000. No money left the system. Potential earnings were lost, but that's it.
Currency. The strength of a currency is based on confidence of other people. Just like the bank example in the parent post, if other countries decide that they don't like another countries currency, they dump it. If other countries worked together to kill a currency, they can. Just sell everything off at a low price, and the currency will plummet.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents.
I don't like spammers anymore then you do, but are you sure you want to make a death threat? That just opens you up to a huge host of problems that you might not want to deal with. If I was Scott Richter, and I read this, then I would not take a death threat lightly. It wouldn't matter how many I got, I would still report it to the cops, just in case. If he died, how would you like the cops knocking on your door the next day?
Think carefully about what you post, this will stay around for a long time.
Ummm.....The parent poster, and the grandparent poster were talking about iTunes, and the iTunes DRM. The physical item you're talking about, is that the 1's and 0's on your harddrive?
For the purpose of this, I'm going to assume that it is...if it is not, and you are instead talking about a physical CD, then I fail to understand why you are posting here. But I'll bit on your troll.
In order to download music from iTunes, you have to press a little button labeled "I Agree", or "Continue" with a checkbox with the words "I Agree" (or something similar). This button showed up before you could download a single full song from iTunes. There is no way this is not agreeing to a license. I could understand your point if you had to pay the money first for the song, you got the song, and then a license popped you, but you were under no obligation to pay a single cent at the time the license showed up.
It's too bad that private property rights are slowly being eroded in Western Civilization. Own a house? Great, now try painting it hot pink with purple spots. Toss in a few random turrents to the roof and find out how fast your home owners association tosses your ass into court. Or maybe you just decide not to pay your owners assiociation fees for a bit. Doesn't matter if you own the house without a mortgage, you'll still get evicted.
Here's a good one that I've seen. Part a motor home in front of my parents house, and it will get towed with 48 hours. And that's on a public street. The shitty part is, there is no way to get out of the home owners assiciation, ever. You never really "own" your house.
Just because you "own" something, doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it. It may be government regulation, or a quasi-government group that may have a regulation against it, but chances are, if someone doesn't like what you are doing, they can probably find a way to stop you.
To take your car example. Paint polka dots on it, and park it on your drive way. Someone may complain that it lowers property values, and you probably have a clause in your homeowners association that states you cannot do anything that lowers your neighbors property values. They can force you to re-paint it. AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE. Or the Chia Pet. If it's not secured properly, then the government can say it's not road worthy. You're now shut down. Or they they may have some rule saying that vegitation has to be covered during transportion (though the intent would probably have been for commercial vehicles, they could make it stick for chias). Now you have to add that part of your hood back in.
Now, I'm not saying it's right. Personally I hate the fact that you can never leave a home owners association. I understand the reasoning behind them, but if you piss off some of the powerful people in your neighborhood your life becomes a living hell. What can you do though? You can't get a restraining order though since you live close to them, you can't leave the association since they are tied to your land title.....you have almost no recourse but to move...
Just because you paid money for something does not mean you can have it your way. If you want to pay for my service, I decide the rules. If I decide to be flexible, then that is up to me, but you play by my rules. By your logic, then spammers have every right to spam since they also paid to "build the fucking thing, pay every month to access it, and they bought the fucking domain too". Unless you support spammers, I think you'll call bullshit on that with me. You don't support spammers do you?
Listen, ICANN set up the rules. Play by them, advocate for them to change, do what ever you want. But if you break them, realize that you risk losing your domain. My contact email on my domain goes to an email address that I never give out to anyone. I check it, but it never gets used by me. So what if I get spammed on that email. Use a PO Box if you want. Contact your phone company and see if they can set up a phone number that just goes to a mailbox. If you have a few friends that have domains, get them to pitch in few bucks a year to join in with you on that. It's a great way to people to leave you messages and not have a phone ringing all the time. It also works great if you are a contractor/road warrior and don't want to carry a cell phone/beeper. People leave you voice mail, and you just check it at your leisure.
And by the way, who are the voters? Americans? The world? Exactly who are you talking about?
Since when were domain names a right anyway? Last time I read the constitution, I never read anything about domain names..... Unless you are reading one that I haven't read yet.
And you state that Congress makes the rules. You're right. But what if ICANN was to move to Canada. How much control would Congress have over ICANN then? I think it would have almost none at that point.
You have a point when you say that people should be able to control where their personal information is published. But if I say to you "if you want this, you have to give me permission to do this", then is that not Capitalism at work? You have to abide by the rules *I* set to use a service that *I* (or ICANN in this case) provide. They state you have to provide valid contact information. Provide it, or do not use their service.
actually the wood is very well preserved. I used to live with a carpenter, and he used to use that kind of wood. The cost per board foot is can be 3-4x what it normally would be in a lumber yard if your lucky.
I wish I could explain the biology to you, but I can't. Something about the fact the water doesn't move much at the bottom the lake (as opposed to a river), it's fresh water (as opposed to salt), and the type of wood (cedar works well and oak preserve really well), and you have old growth lumber that is amazingly well preserved.
Oh, and if you used it on a deck, you deserve to be beaten by said deck for wasting such good wood.:)
What if there was a compromise between the two systems? For example, as an author, I automatically got 5 or 10 years of automatic copyright protection of a work upon creation. This gives me time to create something and then decide if it is going to be profitable enough to continue copyrighting. At the end of the grace period, if I want to keep the item copyrighted, I have to register it for a fee with the government. This copyright then lasts for whatever the government says (currently set at 50+ life of the author).
Hell, though this system you could even set different fees for different lengths of copyright (up to a max # of years). You have a piece of software? Set it's copyright for 25 years and save yourself 1/2 the fee. If it is still profitable at the end of the term, you can extend the copyright to the remainder of the term for the remainder of the fee. Granted, the fee may have gone up by then. You have a comicbook character that might be profitable the whole time? Copyright the whole time and pay the full fee.
But if the author does not think the work is worth taking the time to do a few hours of research over a period of 5 or 10 years, the work becomes public domain. And don't tell me that 10 hours of research, plus 1 hour to fill out forms for each piece of work is excessive. This is spread over a few years after all. How many people are going to create nothing but profitable works?
I don't know if it was the language at first, or if it was something as simple as the IDE that first turned me, but after having played with both Java and C#, I like C# better. If Mono is able to pull of a full port to Linux, I will be there cheering them on. Everyone knows that competition is almost always a good thing, and this will only make java work harder to improve itself. This will also give companies another reason to look at Linux.
"yes, all of you.NET applications will run on linux" Guess what? A lot of windows applications are starting to be written in.NET now, and as more and more people move away from 95/98/ME, and to newer OS's, they will require.NET applications (we all saw how well legacay apps run on the new windows OS's).
This is a good thing, and I think people should support the MONO project as much as possible.
Now if you'll excuse me, I haven't slept in 2 days and I have to get back tZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz...........
Umm.....if the PM cannot be removed or impeached without collapsing the government, why is Paul Martin the PM, and not Chretains deputy PM now the PM when JC stepped down? Granted I've never really understood all the little details so I'm really just asking for some clairification here, not so much an accusation. The way I thought it went was as follows:
A vote of no confidence by the government = a new general election.
A vote for a new party leader = a new PM, but no general election.
We got a new party leader, hence no general election.
Ok I will. Granted I'm not in the medical profession, so I can't use the fancy terms, but I'll give you an example to the best of my ability.
I'm rushed to the hospital after suffering a car accident. My neck is broken, but I still have feeling in my legs (the neck is broken, but not the spinal cord). I start choking on my own blood (don't ask why, It just starts to happen). The doctor makes a mistake and moves to fast, snapping the spinal cord. If he had moved slower, if might not have happened.
Sometimes shit happens, and people get hurt. Does it suck? Yes it does. To me that is an example of a screw up that would be ok because "people just make mistakes". The doc was just trying to save your life in an extreme situation.
If you were to place a windows based OS on it, could you get away with flying it over a classified area? You could always claim there was a programming glitch, and since it was a classified area, you didn't have a phone number to call them, so you decided to just watch the video instead.
I mean, we all know how error prone programs are when they are still in alpha stage anyway, right? It's not like you can be faulted for testing your prototype to find all the bugs in it and having it "accidently" go where it's not supposed to, right?
The PATRIOT act allows taps of people versus devices. The wiretap is only one component of tapping a person. In other words, the one warrant would cover your computer's data too.
That's true, and I was talking about just a phone wiretap. I should have been more specific though. With any luck though, the PATRIOT Act will, IIRC, expire in 2005, and not have too much of it allowed to continue. Too bad I'm too much of a skeptic to believe that.
20lbs? Damn....I wish my pack was that light... I spent a week up in the BC Rockies, and my pack was pushing 60lbs. I was carrying: -The Tent (the poles were carried by someone else) -Water filter -10 days worth of food for a 6 day trip -1 change of clothes (shirt/pants/underwear) -3 pairs of socks -1 pot -first aid kit (still not sure how I got stuck with it) -sleeping bag that went to -10 -various other survival gear in case I got seperated from the group. -I think I had a few other things too, but nothing major.
Granted, where we were hiking was a 3 hr. drive from the nearest town to the trail head, and then 6 days across to then end, which was a 4 hr drive to the closest town. If there was an injury, we were on our own. The only way we could get help was to send some to power hike to the end of the trail and hope to meet someone on the highway. That or wait till we were considered missing. Partway though, two of my team members did come down with the beginning of hypothermia, which got scary for a while. Good thing we were packing an extra 2 days worth of fuel, b/c we burned though most of that boiling water to help heat them up.
Ok, I'll stop now as I realize I'm rambing. The point of this? Don't complain about 20lbs.
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UCC? what's this, and where can I find more info on it?
Umm.....I don't remember reading anywhere that they university knew he was palgerising. If they didn't catch him till near the end, then that's when he gets punished. He's stated that they knew, but I don't know of any university that would not punish him at the first offence. They have too much to lose.
I'm a good cook. I throw dinner parties for my friends every once in a while. But a lot of time, I just don't want to be bothered cooking a meal for one. All the prep work, the cooking time, then the clean up involved. Sometimes I just want to nuke it , eat it, and toss it. So sites like that are kinda useful for me.
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Plus, those meals are a great last resort when you screw up the main meal.
Wouldn't that just add spice to your sex life?
I'll do this point by point as to why the Guard is a militia...
1. An army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers.
--> The majority of Guard members are ordinary citizens with some military training. Granted, there are some full-time members, but any large organized group would have that.
-->The difference between a professional soldier and a Guard member is what do they spend the majority of their time doing? Guard members have non-military jobs (ie. try finding an army guy on active duty who is also in the Guard) while professional soldiers have their full time job as being soldiers.
2. A military force that is not part of a regular army and is subject to call for service in an emergency.
--> the Guard is not called up on a whim. First active duty goes, then Reservists, then Guard. The Guards primary responsibility is not to fight wars as that is left primarly up to the active Army and reserves. Also, the Guard is not considered part of the regular army until they are called up. Even then, the only way they are considered part of the regular army is their chain-of-command. Their unit reports to the theater commander, and from there up the chain of command is the same as for every military unit there.
3. The whole body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service.
--> This proves nothing. If every civilian who is physically fit is in the militia, then every 18yr old in HighSchool is in the militia. Doesn't matter if they have a gun, or if they do, how to use it.
--> A distinction should be made between those who are eligible for military service, and those who are eligible to join the military. I am eligible to join the military, but not eligible for military service. What's the difference? I can go to the military and saw that I want in. The military cannot go to me and say that I'm now going to fight.
I read it, and went "meh". It complains about Universities monitoring your access on their computers. So what? It's their computer. If you place some monitoring software on your computer as a means of creating an access log (just in case your firewall doesn't stop someone), are you then obligated to remove it if your roommate uses your computer? No, it's your computer and you have the right to monitor it any way you please.
I think Stallman is overreacting. My school doesn't use RFID tags, but they do require access cards to get into certain labs. I have no problems with that. If computers go missing, then they should be able to tell who was in the room at about that time. Does it prevent me from holding the door open for a classmate? No it doesn't. If they steal something, then the cops will come talking to me (as I would have been the last one to use an access card), but I can just tell them that I held the door open for someone. I would rather that happen then have a bunch of video cameras recording everything, or a security guard at the door (the only other real alternatives when it comes to security).
Now, if they record what time you opened your office door, or used the bathroom, they yes, I would complain too. I don't recall reading that they were recording anything more then outside door access. Maybe you can enlighten me if I am wrong?
Another benefit of recording outside door access (other then theft prevention) is in the case of an emergency. By maintaining a list of who has accessed the building, and how many times the exit button was pressed, central security can print off an estimated number of people in the building. If your estimate has 100 people in the building, and only 50 people leave it, then I'm sure the fire department would want to know that. Granted it's only an estimate (since the door can be held open from both sides), but every piece of info is useful. If you are recording access to certain labs/rooms, and their card has been read, but no exit button pushed, then that info would help emergency personell know where people "might" be. No guarantees, but if they can focus on where people might be, then lives could be saved. Every minute counts.
That's just my 2 cents.
Perhaps there are good reasons for this. One agent can ask a question, and both look for body language. Or there could be a safety issue as well. All the agents know is what they have found out. What if they missed that he hates law enforcement and carries a gun? If I was an agent, I would want a second person there on my side.
Or maybe it's to let one agent drive while the other reads the map? Seriously though, there are probably legit safety and procedural concerns for having multiple agents there. Personally I have no problems with it. If someone finds having two agents question them coersize, then the response should be "I want a lawyer. If I am not being held, then I am leaving now, and you may arrange an interview in the presence of my lawyer. Can I leave now?". If they say no, then you are being held and should have access to a lawyer (though SCOTUS has not ruled on US Citizens being held w/o charges and/or lawyers. But, you could probably bluff your way though it. If they hold you like that, and SOCTUS rules it is illegal, then you have a nice lawsuit ready and able. You could call their bluff and remind them that holding people is only quasi-legal, and not yet fully constitutional. phew, enough of that aside).
I doubt it. Lets say there are 3 areas that it passes through, application, NIC, and AP.
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The application optimizes the packet size, and passes the packet to the NIC. The NIC looks at the packet and realizes it is at an optimum size, so it does nothing. The packet is then passed onto the AP, and the AP looks at the packet size, again realizing that it is already at optimum size.
Now, lets assume that if the packet was at optimum size without the new software. Lets also assume that each pass though the software loses 10% of it's speed due to processing. If there was no software, you would be running at 100%. First pass through the software, and you are running at 90% full speed. Next pass through the software, and you are now at 81% speed. Last pass through the software, and you drop to 72.9% of full speed. Ok, you've lost 27.1% of your top speed, so it would slow it down some.
Now, lets say that the packet is not at optimum size when it gets to the first pass through the software. The software gives a speed boost to 200%, up from 100% (top speed w/o optimization). 200% - the 10% per each extra pass through the software gives us a speed increase of 162%.
The major speed decrease I can see is if the packet has to be made larger somewhere down the line, requiring the software to buffer packets in order to make a larger packet. The longer a packet has to be buffered while waiting for more packets to come in, leads to some major speed problems. Also, in a busy AP, you might have 100 "links" sending/receiving packets at a time. The amount of storage/processing the AP would need might be pretty damn signifigant.
Now, if that makes sense to anyone, could you please explain it to me? I think I've confused myself.
Telephones are the way to communicate right now, but you don't see society paying for it. Yes, there are subsidies in place to the companies, but that doesn't mean everyone has one.
Why should the net be any different? If you can't afford it, go to a cafe, or the library, or a friends house.
how the world operates not on reality, but the perception of reality
Exactly. What many people don't realize is that the basis of the US stock market (hell, any stock market for that matter), is confidence. The strength of a dollar is based on confidence. Interest rates are, partially, based on confidence.
Back to the stock market. Everytime there has been a crash, no real harm has been done. Sure, some people lost their shirts, but NO MONEY EVER LEFT THE SYSTEM. Lets say person A and person B are selling/buying stocks. A buys $5000 worth of stock from B. The stock then plummets in value, and A loses all of his money. B still has that $5000. No money left the system. Potential earnings were lost, but that's it.
Currency. The strength of a currency is based on confidence of other people. Just like the bank example in the parent post, if other countries decide that they don't like another countries currency, they dump it. If other countries worked together to kill a currency, they can. Just sell everything off at a low price, and the currency will plummet.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents.
I don't like spammers anymore then you do, but are you sure you want to make a death threat? That just opens you up to a huge host of problems that you might not want to deal with. If I was Scott Richter, and I read this, then I would not take a death threat lightly. It wouldn't matter how many I got, I would still report it to the cops, just in case. If he died, how would you like the cops knocking on your door the next day?
Think carefully about what you post, this will stay around for a long time.
IIRC, that was only for licenses that you saw AFTER purchase/installation, like a EULA. Other then that, I have no idea.
Ummm.....The parent poster, and the grandparent poster were talking about iTunes, and the iTunes DRM. The physical item you're talking about, is that the 1's and 0's on your harddrive?
For the purpose of this, I'm going to assume that it is...if it is not, and you are instead talking about a physical CD, then I fail to understand why you are posting here. But I'll bit on your troll.
In order to download music from iTunes, you have to press a little button labeled "I Agree", or "Continue" with a checkbox with the words "I Agree" (or something similar). This button showed up before you could download a single full song from iTunes. There is no way this is not agreeing to a license. I could understand your point if you had to pay the money first for the song, you got the song, and then a license popped you, but you were under no obligation to pay a single cent at the time the license showed up.
It's too bad that private property rights are slowly being eroded in Western Civilization. Own a house? Great, now try painting it hot pink with purple spots. Toss in a few random turrents to the roof and find out how fast your home owners association tosses your ass into court. Or maybe you just decide not to pay your owners assiociation fees for a bit. Doesn't matter if you own the house without a mortgage, you'll still get evicted.
Here's a good one that I've seen. Part a motor home in front of my parents house, and it will get towed with 48 hours. And that's on a public street. The shitty part is, there is no way to get out of the home owners assiciation, ever. You never really "own" your house.
Just because you "own" something, doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it. It may be government regulation, or a quasi-government group that may have a regulation against it, but chances are, if someone doesn't like what you are doing, they can probably find a way to stop you.
To take your car example. Paint polka dots on it, and park it on your drive way. Someone may complain that it lowers property values, and you probably have a clause in your homeowners association that states you cannot do anything that lowers your neighbors property values. They can force you to re-paint it. AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE. Or the Chia Pet. If it's not secured properly, then the government can say it's not road worthy. You're now shut down. Or they they may have some rule saying that vegitation has to be covered during transportion (though the intent would probably have been for commercial vehicles, they could make it stick for chias). Now you have to add that part of your hood back in.
Now, I'm not saying it's right. Personally I hate the fact that you can never leave a home owners association. I understand the reasoning behind them, but if you piss off some of the powerful people in your neighborhood your life becomes a living hell. What can you do though? You can't get a restraining order though since you live close to them, you can't leave the association since they are tied to your land title.....you have almost no recourse but to move...
I've lost my point...:)
Well, not anymore it doesn't. :)
Just because you paid money for something does not mean you can have it your way. If you want to pay for my service, I decide the rules. If I decide to be flexible, then that is up to me, but you play by my rules. By your logic, then spammers have every right to spam since they also paid to "build the fucking thing, pay every month to access it, and they bought the fucking domain too". Unless you support spammers, I think you'll call bullshit on that with me. You don't support spammers do you?
Listen, ICANN set up the rules. Play by them, advocate for them to change, do what ever you want. But if you break them, realize that you risk losing your domain. My contact email on my domain goes to an email address that I never give out to anyone. I check it, but it never gets used by me. So what if I get spammed on that email. Use a PO Box if you want. Contact your phone company and see if they can set up a phone number that just goes to a mailbox. If you have a few friends that have domains, get them to pitch in few bucks a year to join in with you on that. It's a great way to people to leave you messages and not have a phone ringing all the time. It also works great if you are a contractor/road warrior and don't want to carry a cell phone/beeper. People leave you voice mail, and you just check it at your leisure.
And by the way, who are the voters? Americans? The world? Exactly who are you talking about?
Since when were domain names a right anyway? Last time I read the constitution, I never read anything about domain names..... Unless you are reading one that I haven't read yet.
And you state that Congress makes the rules. You're right. But what if ICANN was to move to Canada. How much control would Congress have over ICANN then? I think it would have almost none at that point.
You have a point when you say that people should be able to control where their personal information is published. But if I say to you "if you want this, you have to give me permission to do this", then is that not Capitalism at work? You have to abide by the rules *I* set to use a service that *I* (or ICANN in this case) provide. They state you have to provide valid contact information. Provide it, or do not use their service.
actually the wood is very well preserved. I used to live with a carpenter, and he used to use that kind of wood. The cost per board foot is can be 3-4x what it normally would be in a lumber yard if your lucky.
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I wish I could explain the biology to you, but I can't. Something about the fact the water doesn't move much at the bottom the lake (as opposed to a river), it's fresh water (as opposed to salt), and the type of wood (cedar works well and oak preserve really well), and you have old growth lumber that is amazingly well preserved.
Oh, and if you used it on a deck, you deserve to be beaten by said deck for wasting such good wood.
What if there was a compromise between the two systems? For example, as an author, I automatically got 5 or 10 years of automatic copyright protection of a work upon creation. This gives me time to create something and then decide if it is going to be profitable enough to continue copyrighting. At the end of the grace period, if I want to keep the item copyrighted, I have to register it for a fee with the government. This copyright then lasts for whatever the government says (currently set at 50+ life of the author).
Hell, though this system you could even set different fees for different lengths of copyright (up to a max # of years). You have a piece of software? Set it's copyright for 25 years and save yourself 1/2 the fee. If it is still profitable at the end of the term, you can extend the copyright to the remainder of the term for the remainder of the fee. Granted, the fee may have gone up by then. You have a comicbook character that might be profitable the whole time? Copyright the whole time and pay the full fee.
But if the author does not think the work is worth taking the time to do a few hours of research over a period of 5 or 10 years, the work becomes public domain. And don't tell me that 10 hours of research, plus 1 hour to fill out forms for each piece of work is excessive. This is spread over a few years after all. How many people are going to create nothing but profitable works?
Just my 2 cents.
I don't know if it was the language at first, or if it was something as simple as the IDE that first turned me, but after having played with both Java and C#, I like C# better. If Mono is able to pull of a full port to Linux, I will be there cheering them on. Everyone knows that competition is almost always a good thing, and this will only make java work harder to improve itself. This will also give companies another reason to look at Linux.
.NET applications will run on linux" Guess what? A lot of windows applications are starting to be written in .NET now, and as more and more people move away from 95/98/ME, and to newer OS's, they will require .NET applications (we all saw how well legacay apps run on the new windows OS's).
"yes, all of you
This is a good thing, and I think people should support the MONO project as much as possible.
Now if you'll excuse me, I haven't slept in 2 days and I have to get back tZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz...........
Umm.....if the PM cannot be removed or impeached without collapsing the government, why is Paul Martin the PM, and not Chretains deputy PM now the PM when JC stepped down? Granted I've never really understood all the little details so I'm really just asking for some clairification here, not so much an accusation. The way I thought it went was as follows:
A vote of no confidence by the government = a new general election.
A vote for a new party leader = a new PM, but no general election.
We got a new party leader, hence no general election.
Ok I will. Granted I'm not in the medical profession, so I can't use the fancy terms, but I'll give you an example to the best of my ability.
I'm rushed to the hospital after suffering a car accident. My neck is broken, but I still have feeling in my legs (the neck is broken, but not the spinal cord). I start choking on my own blood (don't ask why, It just starts to happen). The doctor makes a mistake and moves to fast, snapping the spinal cord. If he had moved slower, if might not have happened.
Sometimes shit happens, and people get hurt. Does it suck? Yes it does. To me that is an example of a screw up that would be ok because "people just make mistakes". The doc was just trying to save your life in an extreme situation.
If you were to place a windows based OS on it, could you get away with flying it over a classified area? You could always claim there was a programming glitch, and since it was a classified area, you didn't have a phone number to call them, so you decided to just watch the video instead.
I mean, we all know how error prone programs are when they are still in alpha stage anyway, right? It's not like you can be faulted for testing your prototype to find all the bugs in it and having it "accidently" go where it's not supposed to, right?
>:)
The PATRIOT act allows taps of people versus devices. The wiretap is only one component of tapping a person. In other words, the one warrant would cover your computer's data too.
That's true, and I was talking about just a phone wiretap. I should have been more specific though. With any luck though, the PATRIOT Act will, IIRC, expire in 2005, and not have too much of it allowed to continue. Too bad I'm too much of a skeptic to believe that.
20lbs? Damn....I wish my pack was that light... I spent a week up in the BC Rockies, and my pack was pushing 60lbs. I was carrying:
-The Tent (the poles were carried by someone else)
-Water filter
-10 days worth of food for a 6 day trip
-1 change of clothes (shirt/pants/underwear)
-3 pairs of socks
-1 pot
-first aid kit (still not sure how I got stuck with it)
-sleeping bag that went to -10
-various other survival gear in case I got seperated from the group.
-I think I had a few other things too, but nothing major.
Granted, where we were hiking was a 3 hr. drive from the nearest town to the trail head, and then 6 days across to then end, which was a 4 hr drive to the closest town. If there was an injury, we were on our own. The only way we could get help was to send some to power hike to the end of the trail and hope to meet someone on the highway. That or wait till we were considered missing. Partway though, two of my team members did come down with the beginning of hypothermia, which got scary for a while. Good thing we were packing an extra 2 days worth of fuel, b/c we burned though most of that boiling water to help heat them up.
Ok, I'll stop now as I realize I'm rambing. The point of this? Don't complain about 20lbs.