To this date, no hard factual science has proven that speed cameras have saved lives or reduces accidents.
Yeah, I've noticed that the Brits found no use at all for their systems - it's not like tracking down the speeders in central London has saved lives. I guess that the Lancet was just not hard or factual enough a source...http://www.thelancet.com/newlancet
Hey, Libertarians don't follow rules, they make them up as needed!
Meanwhile, those of us lucky enough not to be hit by a speeding Libertarian exercising his/her "rights" - unconcerned about the speeds the road was engineered for - get to enjoy the benefits of the progressive fine system that creates an incentive for Libertarians to OBEY SPEED LAWS.
This message brought to you by your local municipal/traffic court.
SOME companies care about the quality of the sound. DMP is a fine company. Sony-Bertelsmann put rootkits on their CDs.
Fuck Steven Tyler with a chainsaw. What he produces, along with the idiots at Metallica is not music. BUT, they have found an audience.
As for you mentioning infringement - it is a term of art and it is not necessary to convey the information that I posted. I know Title XVII of the US Code and I'm licensed to use it against you.
Secretaries of state have corporate registers. You can look it up yourself. You may find several layers of corporations and LLC entities, but eventually you will find the officers and directors or members or partners.
Artists who make a living from their work are few and far between. When an artist does manage to find an audience the income is siphoned off by (now, entirely ancillary) distributors.
I buy all of my music - either as CD / DVD and I still have 5000 vinyl records.
I also use an iPod in the car - radio being in the terrible state that it is.
True fidelity only comes from uncompressed files or original sources and a fairly expensive home reproduction system. I have over $15k invested in my preamp/amp & speakers- and I bought them well over 20 years ago (kind of amusing that my computers and stereo have the same name).
At root, this is a market issue and the RIAA isn't doing anything to help the market. The people who are concerned about the sound of their music and the artists who create it will always pay. Those who don't care about the music aren't part of the market in the first place so there really is no "lost sale" - if anything it is possible that a "pirate" may come into the fold with the sample and the artist gains a new customer.
Moreover, where the media changes (for the better) the music lover will repurchase the same music - to hear more and to enjoy more.
Me? Oh, I've bought quite a few things from iTunes - albeit that I don't like the sound quality of AAC files. I have at least five copies of Dark Side of the Moon - two vinyl copies (one MFSL edition) two CD copies (again, one the MFSL) and it was the first thing I bought on iTunes. I well remember the Hirsch-Houck Labs tests of the first CDs - the "curves" were flat! The first DDD recordings were phenomenal - I have a copy of Jay Leonhart's Salamander Pie that I bought in the early 1980s on the DMP label - it was fantastic. Four years ago a remastered SACD was issued by DMP and it was even more nuanced and incredible.
I don't think that I'm unusual - the majority of my friends and associates have extensive music collections and many are professional musicians - albeit that they have day jobs.
The artist and the quality of the sound are what make me buy music. It is the same as it ever was and when lossless digital files start becoming the primary material "pirated" I'll be shocked and appalled - but, you see - those of us who love music won't steal from our artists.
It appears that, finally, the tables are turning against the RIAA and their counsel. Now, if the counsel are disciplined I'll believe that the system might just work.
Agatha Christie would, no doubt, feel the same way. However, now that she has passed 2 billion book sales (outselling both Shakespeare & the Bible) - those first manuscripts are priceless.
Only 100 years ago we had wax cylinders and player-piano analog rolls. Today the ability to read those resources is very limited - where bills printed in ink on Vellum (sheepskin) & Papyrus or engraved into stone - are viewable (even if the languages are arcane) without technology.
It is a real problem - magnetic domains will fail and even if the Al substrate in an optical disk remains intact - nothing says that the plastic around the data-carrying substrate will remain optically stable...
ALA is correct - data must have a storage upgrade pathway and continuity evaluation as an ongoing part of the archive process.
I'm from Manhattan - grew up at 800 WEA. In the 1960-1970's I was an active member of Hudson Independent Democrats, an FDR club and I have a letter from Congressman Bill Ryan thanking me for assistance on his campaign - signed 3 days before he died of an aggressive head-neck cancer that took him.
Bella Abzug and Adam Clayton Powell were the representatives for the adjoining districts. Charlie Rangel replaced Powell - for good reason.
In short, I lived through Nixon's Watergate bugging ("a 3rd rate burglary") and the senate hearings: Alfred Baldwin was questioned under oath in congressional hearings about what he had typed up while monitoring the bugs: Senator Ervin: The information you got while you were at the Howard Johnson [across] from the Democratic headquarters, what form was it in when you gave it to Mr. McCord? Alfred Baldwin: The initial day, the first day that I recorded the conversations was on a yellow sheet. On Memorial Day...when he [McCord] returned to the room he brought an electric typewriter. He instructed me in the upper left-hand corner to printâ"or by typewriter...the date, the page, and then proceed down into the body and in chronological order put the time and then the contents of the conversation... . Senator Ervin: And you typed a summary of the conversations you overheard? Alfred Baldwin: Well, they weren't exactly a summary. I would say almost verbatim, Senator.
Wiretapping the DNC was one count in the Articles of Impeachment.
Today, we are all subject to wiretap without a Court Order and the Executive and Legislative branches have foreclosed civil lawsuits (*not that I hold much hope, but the bill does not immunize the telecoms from criminal liability for their illegal wiretaps/internet/cable traffic listening operations*) in total derogation of the checks and balances of the tripartite government we used to have.
One wiretap was an entire charge in the articles of impeachment in 1974 - leading to Nixon's resignation in August 1974. Bush & Cheney have massive computer resources and can "wiretap" all of us - and probably have wiretapped the opposing candidates at every election since 9/11 - but we have a House and Senate willing to let this slide. Impeachment is "off the table."
One wonders if the reason for this isn't what they did to Congressman Max Cleland and Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman -- to name but two. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was known to have tapes of Congressional infidelities / bribes to use to bring the opposition in line - and even had contingency plans that make TSA look tame. What power did/does this administration hold over the legislative branch?
The majority of the Nixon inner circle served time - I can only hope that we have the same, or better, after this administration is out of office and out from under 11th amendment immunity.
All Obama need do is sign an executive Order that the US recognizes the jurisdiction of The International Court of Criminal Justice - and will extradite charged parties for trial - and the whole Bush-Cheney administration gets a trip to the Hague.
The fifth-estate (news) has failed us and where we should be marching in the streets - our precarious financial state precludes most from leaving jobs with healthcare benefits to oppose the current government. Turning our nation into a glorified serfdom has been a major accomplishment of the Reich-wing. They cannot afford a middle class that demands its rights - so they keep us broke, frightened and placated by Faux News.
If they are selling machines advertised to perform X function and X function has been disabled (not a bug) then the FTC (WWW.FTC.GOV) and your state attorneys general have a big-fat deceptive trade practices action.
No, he's going to auction off the drive at a Star Trek Convention - "claiming" it is a "clean drive" - but, what he is selling is the whole ST franchise from TOS to Enterprise and Nemesis thrown in for bad luck.
Ought to be able to suck major bucks out of that crowd.
(1) You take offense when none is intended. Please accept my apology. I never intended to suggest that you saw no difference between the front runners.
(2) A vote for any but the front runners (from a party that would have gone with Obama) dilutes the Dems and advances the placement of McCain. There are a finite number of voters and only a sub-set of that number ever cast a vote - in the us 50% turnout is great. The Republicans are better at getting out their base. A lost Dem vote makes McCain's candidacy stronger.
"the eventual winner" will be either McCain or Obama. John Anderson was the last Third Party Candidate with decent numbers (and, he drew from the Republican base) and then there was America's Back Seat Driver, H. Ross Perot...
I am a lawyer and I agree with you about our civil liberties - in fact, that's my job - fighting for the people who have been denied their rights. Check out www.nela.org
Did George W. Bush and Richard Cheney help this nation or themselves?
It matters who you vote for in the Executive Branch. You are an EXecutive Branch Non-Voter - according to your own posts- even when the FISA act could be one of Obama's first-to-fix problems. You don't know - but now you are a single-issue non-voter. Obama and McCain have a lot more differences than things in common.
Weyrich: âoeNow many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome â" good government. They want everybody to vote. I donâ(TM)t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down
You just joined the "non-voters" because the Libertarian Party has never been able to draw enough supporters to actually elect a candidate above local office.
And, I agree. My wife and I live in a "red" state that hasn't voted for a Dem since FDR. In the 2000 elections we "traded" votes with other Dems in swing states - we voted for Nader - both because we believed that in 2000 he had a good platform and because we wanted to see the Green Party recognized for federal funding;
In the history of the nation there have been other political parties and single party periods. Today I think that the Reagan assault on organized labor had the effect of both driving down the value of labor across the nation (and, increasing corporate profits) but also destroying the only organized body of citizens outside of corporations (As Will Rogers once said: I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.).
There has to be a way to eliminate the advantage that vast sums of money afford the minority - 1/10 of 1% of our nation ownes more than the bottom 50% - or 30,000 people control more assets than 150,000,000 - and if the 30,000 get to tell 150 meg what the rules are, that's an oligarchy - not a Democratic Republic.
Well then, I have to differ with you - a vote for anybody but Obama is a vote for McCain.
Ralph Nader is 75 years old - and does nothing to advance our compromised 4th amendment rights by continuing to run.
Former house member and Impeachment wizard, Bob Barr, is worse than McCain & Bush - impeaching a sitting president for lying about a consensual affair demonstrates judgment as bad as it gets.
Writing in Ron Paul - well, if he's your choice your politics certainly changed.
Consider that Obama is dealing with a nation driven by the scare tactics of Bush-Cheney and that the FISA bill can be amended, revoked or (as Bush did) ignored and an Obama administration may follow the letter of the original FISA act implemented after the Church Commitee hearings.
Frankly, I think that the move was purely a political gesture - but,I could be wrong. Bush may well be listening in on all of the opposition telephone/fax/email/http intel and passing it along to McCain and the other Rethug candidates and Obama may want to use the same power to destroy the opposition once he is in power.
How many hookers did Vitter hire this month? How many liaisons did Larry Craig dance the old soft shoe with?
How much kickback money did Halliburton feed their "representatives?"
You know, power can be intoxicating and Obama may well want to use the FISA ACT to grind his political opponents up and jail them - I don't know. I doubt that he is that mendacious.
Look, you dastardly jerk - politicians come in all kinds. There are many to admire - but, of course, your sig suggests that Lincoln is a hated politician because you promote his murderer.
Politics - we have had it in some form since we aggregated into hunter-gatherer bands (er, unless you are one of those Creationists). Politicians who serve their constituencies are the norm - not the exception. We have had really bad and really good politicians and their actions tend to color the impression of the masses where a more detailed examination of politicians and government would show that in the US we have roads, public health, safe water, police, fire and all of the other infrastructure (INCLUDING,the Internet) produced through the actions of our representatives.
Now, if you think you don't want, need or like politicians and government - then I strongly suggest that you pack your bags and go way far north - Canada's Northwest Terratories would be good - and build your own little world and live free of politicians and the rest of society.
It would be good for you and BETTER for the rest of us.
Frankly, I believe that you are a criminal sociopath - but I could be wrong - perhaps you are just a high-functioning Schitz - or a contrarian 12 year-old. Hard to tell.
Still, your social, political and ethical skills stink, on ice.
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To this date, no hard factual science has proven that speed cameras have saved lives or reduces accidents.
Yeah, I've noticed that the Brits found no use at all for their systems - it's not like tracking down the speeders in central London has saved lives. I guess that the Lancet was just not hard or factual enough a source...http://www.thelancet.com/newlancet
GIGO
Hey, Libertarians don't follow rules, they make them up as needed!
Meanwhile, those of us lucky enough not to be hit by a speeding Libertarian exercising his/her "rights" - unconcerned about the speeds the road was engineered for - get to enjoy the benefits of the progressive fine system that creates an incentive for Libertarians to OBEY SPEED LAWS.
This message brought to you by your local municipal/traffic court.
SOME companies care about the quality of the sound. DMP is a fine company. Sony-Bertelsmann put rootkits on their CDs.
Fuck Steven Tyler with a chainsaw. What he produces, along with the idiots at Metallica is not music. BUT, they have found an audience.
As for you mentioning infringement - it is a term of art and it is not necessary to convey the information that I posted. I know Title XVII of the US Code and I'm licensed to use it against you.
Secretaries of state have corporate registers. You can look it up yourself. You may find several layers of corporations and LLC entities, but eventually you will find the officers and directors or members or partners.
The "system" is as flawed as everything is. I can name hundreds of wrong decisions.
My lie is caught in the mill wheels of the legal system - I'm an attorney.
Artists who make a living from their work are few and far between. When an artist does manage to find an audience the income is siphoned off by (now, entirely ancillary) distributors.
I buy all of my music - either as CD / DVD and I still have 5000 vinyl records.
I also use an iPod in the car - radio being in the terrible state that it is.
True fidelity only comes from uncompressed files or original sources and a fairly expensive home reproduction system. I have over $15k invested in my preamp/amp & speakers- and I bought them well over 20 years ago (kind of amusing that my computers and stereo have the same name).
At root, this is a market issue and the RIAA isn't doing anything to help the market. The people who are concerned about the sound of their music and the artists who create it will always pay. Those who don't care about the music aren't part of the market in the first place so there really is no "lost sale" - if anything it is possible that a "pirate" may come into the fold with the sample and the artist gains a new customer.
Moreover, where the media changes (for the better) the music lover will repurchase the same music - to hear more and to enjoy more.
Me? Oh, I've bought quite a few things from iTunes - albeit that I don't like the sound quality of AAC files. I have at least five copies of Dark Side of the Moon - two vinyl copies (one MFSL edition) two CD copies (again, one the MFSL) and it was the first thing I bought on iTunes. I well remember the Hirsch-Houck Labs tests of the first CDs - the "curves" were flat! The first DDD recordings were phenomenal - I have a copy of Jay Leonhart's Salamander Pie that I bought in the early 1980s on the DMP label - it was fantastic. Four years ago a remastered SACD was issued by DMP and it was even more nuanced and incredible.
I don't think that I'm unusual - the majority of my friends and associates have extensive music collections and many are professional musicians - albeit that they have day jobs.
The artist and the quality of the sound are what make me buy music. It is the same as it ever was and when lossless digital files start becoming the primary material "pirated" I'll be shocked and appalled - but, you see - those of us who love music won't steal from our artists.
It appears that, finally, the tables are turning against the RIAA and their counsel. Now, if the counsel are disciplined I'll believe that the system might just work.
Agatha Christie would, no doubt, feel the same way. However, now that she has passed 2 billion book sales (outselling both Shakespeare & the Bible) - those first manuscripts are priceless.
If written on an Otrona Attache - well, those manuscripts might well be lost forever. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1227
Only 100 years ago we had wax cylinders and player-piano analog rolls. Today the ability to read those resources is very limited - where bills printed in ink on Vellum (sheepskin) & Papyrus or engraved into stone - are viewable (even if the languages are arcane) without technology.
It is a real problem - magnetic domains will fail and even if the Al substrate in an optical disk remains intact - nothing says that the plastic around the data-carrying substrate will remain optically stable...
ALA is correct - data must have a storage upgrade pathway and continuity evaluation as an ongoing part of the archive process.
I'm from Manhattan - grew up at 800 WEA. In the 1960-1970's I was an active member of Hudson Independent Democrats, an FDR club and I have a letter from Congressman Bill Ryan thanking me for assistance on his campaign - signed 3 days before he died of an aggressive head-neck cancer that took him.
Bella Abzug and Adam Clayton Powell were the representatives for the adjoining districts. Charlie Rangel replaced Powell - for good reason.
In short, I lived through Nixon's Watergate bugging ("a 3rd rate burglary") and the senate hearings:
Alfred Baldwin was questioned under oath in congressional hearings about what he had typed up while monitoring the bugs:
Senator Ervin: The information you got while you were at the Howard Johnson [across] from the Democratic headquarters, what form was it in when you gave it to Mr. McCord?
Alfred Baldwin: The initial day, the first day that I recorded the conversations was on a yellow sheet. On Memorial Day...when he [McCord] returned to the room he brought an electric typewriter. He instructed me in the upper left-hand corner to printâ"or by typewriter...the date, the page, and then proceed down into the body and in chronological order put the time and then the contents of the conversation... .
Senator Ervin: And you typed a summary of the conversations you overheard?
Alfred Baldwin: Well, they weren't exactly a summary. I would say almost verbatim, Senator.
Wiretapping the DNC was one count in the Articles of Impeachment.
Today, we are all subject to wiretap without a Court Order and the Executive and Legislative branches have foreclosed civil lawsuits (*not that I hold much hope, but the bill does not immunize the telecoms from criminal liability for their illegal wiretaps/internet/cable traffic listening operations*) in total derogation of the checks and balances of the tripartite government we used to have.
One wiretap was an entire charge in the articles of impeachment in 1974 - leading to Nixon's resignation in August 1974. Bush & Cheney have massive computer resources and can "wiretap" all of us - and probably have wiretapped the opposing candidates at every election since 9/11 - but we have a House and Senate willing to let this slide. Impeachment is "off the table."
One wonders if the reason for this isn't what they did to Congressman Max Cleland and Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman -- to name but two. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was known to have tapes of Congressional infidelities / bribes to use to bring the opposition in line - and even had contingency plans that make TSA look tame. What power did/does this administration hold over the legislative branch?
The majority of the Nixon inner circle served time - I can only hope that we have the same, or better, after this administration is out of office and out from under 11th amendment immunity.
All Obama need do is sign an executive Order that the US recognizes the jurisdiction of The International Court of Criminal Justice - and will extradite charged parties for trial - and the whole Bush-Cheney administration gets a trip to the Hague.
The fifth-estate (news) has failed us and where we should be marching in the streets - our precarious financial state precludes most from leaving jobs with healthcare benefits to oppose the current government. Turning our nation into a glorified serfdom has been a major accomplishment of the Reich-wing. They cannot afford a middle class that demands its rights - so they keep us broke, frightened and placated by Faux News.
If they are selling machines advertised to perform X function and X function has been disabled (not a bug) then the FTC (WWW.FTC.GOV) and your state attorneys general have a big-fat deceptive trade practices action.
Got that 8" floppy? How about the Jaz drive?
The American Library Association estimates that we will lose most of our data without a media updating protocol in place....
EMP - it might.
Drive standards in 10 years - No WAY.
You will have perfect backups and no way to access the data.
Got any 9-track tape drives hanging around? A 5 meg Winchester?
Hell, a 5 1/4 floppy drive, even?
No, he's going to auction off the drive at a Star Trek Convention - "claiming" it is a "clean drive" - but, what he is selling is the whole ST franchise from TOS to Enterprise and Nemesis thrown in for bad luck.
Ought to be able to suck major bucks out of that crowd.
You simply paid. The performers did all of the "work" (well, the performers and Viagra).
My view of your product is that sex is not a spectator sport.
(1) You take offense when none is intended. Please accept my apology. I never intended to suggest that you saw no difference between the front runners.
(2) A vote for any but the front runners (from a party that would have gone with Obama) dilutes the Dems and advances the placement of McCain. There are a finite number of voters and only a sub-set of that number ever cast a vote - in the us 50% turnout is great. The Republicans are better at getting out their base. A lost Dem vote makes McCain's candidacy stronger.
"the eventual winner" will be either McCain or Obama. John Anderson was the last Third Party Candidate with decent numbers (and, he drew from the Republican base) and then there was America's Back Seat Driver, H. Ross Perot...
I am a lawyer and I agree with you about our civil liberties - in fact, that's my job - fighting for the people who have been denied their rights. Check out www.nela.org
Did George W. Bush and Richard Cheney help this nation or themselves?
It matters who you vote for in the Executive Branch. You are an EXecutive Branch Non-Voter - according to your own posts- even when the FISA act could be one of Obama's first-to-fix problems. You don't know - but now you are a single-issue non-voter. Obama and McCain have a lot more differences than things in common.
The quote:
Weyrich: âoeNow many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome â" good government. They want everybody to vote. I donâ(TM)t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down
You just joined the "non-voters" because the Libertarian Party has never been able to draw enough supporters to actually elect a candidate above local office.
" I honestly don't care if he wins the election now or not."
You get the government that you deserve.
Paul Weyrich has you by the short and curlies:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/07/paul-weyrich-goo-goo-syndrome/
And, I agree. My wife and I live in a "red" state that hasn't voted for a Dem since FDR. In the 2000 elections we "traded" votes with other Dems in swing states - we voted for Nader - both because we believed that in 2000 he had a good platform and because we wanted to see the Green Party recognized for federal funding;
In the history of the nation there have been other political parties and single party periods. Today I think that the Reagan assault on organized labor had the effect of both driving down the value of labor across the nation (and, increasing corporate profits) but also destroying the only organized body of citizens outside of corporations (As Will Rogers once said: I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.).
Money drives politics today. Ever since the SCT ruled in Buckley v. Valeo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo The Court held that MONEY=SPEECH.
There has to be a way to eliminate the advantage that vast sums of money afford the minority - 1/10 of 1% of our nation ownes more than the bottom 50% - or 30,000 people control more assets than 150,000,000 - and if the 30,000 get to tell 150 meg what the rules are, that's an oligarchy - not a Democratic Republic.
Most American Citizens are unaware of their legal rights.
We do have good, knowledgeable, legislators. I supported Edwards.
There is a difference between the parties - albeit that the Supreme Court has made MONEY the single most important factor in any political race.
You have to be pragmatic and understand that politics is the art of compromise - unless you are King Ronnie and King George.
Voting for anybody but Obama advances the position of McCain- it is that simple.
Well then, I have to differ with you - a vote for anybody but Obama is a vote for McCain.
Ralph Nader is 75 years old - and does nothing to advance our compromised 4th amendment rights by continuing to run.
Former house member and Impeachment wizard, Bob Barr, is worse than McCain & Bush - impeaching a sitting president for lying about a consensual affair demonstrates judgment as bad as it gets.
Writing in Ron Paul - well, if he's your choice your politics certainly changed.
Consider that Obama is dealing with a nation driven by the scare tactics of Bush-Cheney and that the FISA bill can be amended, revoked or (as Bush did) ignored and an Obama administration may follow the letter of the original FISA act implemented after the Church Commitee hearings.
Frankly, I think that the move was purely a political gesture - but,I could be wrong. Bush may well be listening in on all of the opposition telephone/fax/email/http intel and passing it along to McCain and the other Rethug candidates and Obama may want to use the same power to destroy the opposition once he is in power.
How many hookers did Vitter hire this month? How many liaisons did Larry Craig dance the old soft shoe with?
How much kickback money did Halliburton feed their "representatives?"
You know, power can be intoxicating and Obama may well want to use the FISA ACT to grind his political opponents up and jail them - I don't know. I doubt that he is that mendacious.
He has lost your vote? Is McCain - Bush III better?
Look, you dastardly jerk - politicians come in all kinds. There are many to admire - but, of course, your sig suggests that Lincoln is a hated politician because you promote his murderer.
Politics - we have had it in some form since we aggregated into hunter-gatherer bands (er, unless you are one of those Creationists). Politicians who serve their constituencies are the norm - not the exception. We have had really bad and really good politicians and their actions tend to color the impression of the masses where a more detailed examination of politicians and government would show that in the US we have roads, public health, safe water, police, fire and all of the other infrastructure (INCLUDING,the Internet) produced through the actions of our representatives.
Now, if you think you don't want, need or like politicians and government - then I strongly suggest that you pack your bags and go way far north - Canada's Northwest Terratories would be good - and build your own little world and live free of politicians and the rest of society.
It would be good for you and BETTER for the rest of us.
Frankly, I believe that you are a criminal sociopath - but I could be wrong - perhaps you are just a high-functioning Schitz - or a contrarian 12 year-old. Hard to tell.
Still, your social, political and ethical skills stink, on ice.