Fuck off, pedant (and learn to recognize context). If you can't stay true to and within the self-contained context of your own messages (and can't take criticism aimed at improving your discourse), you're not worth reading.
And have some class not to exercise your karma bonus for a profane attack. It shows you aren't worthy of it.
Then again, I'm not versed in the law in Japan. Perhaps they have laws preventing the use of the ID in this manner (unlike how the US SSN was only (broken) promised to be used for limited government purposes), and others preventing industry from providing its own IDs for use with their devices (i.e. a card for use in certain brands of cigarette vending machines, a card for use in certain brands of alcohol vending machines, a card for use in certain brands of pornography vending machines, a card for use in certain brands of soiled teenage schoolgirl panties vending machines, etc.).
Carbon sequestered deep in the earth isn't part of the biosphere. Honest if impertinent question: How deep?
How deep do the deepest roots of the tallest trees go? How deep are our deepest natural groundwater sources? I assume we can't just go by a distance straight down from top surface (natural caves in mountains) or sea level (there is life at the bottom of the Mariana Trench).
Read the article again. Read your statement again. The article doesn't make your statement of an absolute non-existence of federal government power to invade privacy not demonstratively false.
Any search, even by legal Warrant, is an invasion of privacy. The government is empowered to invade privacy only so far as defined in the 4th Amendment, but it is so empowered.
The point being made is that rights pre-exist the government and those rights not explicitly spelled out still belong to the people. Their enumeration serves to call attention to the really important ones that have been infringed historically and emphasize that the government and that it can only constrain those rights as spelled out within them. The right to privacy is clearly implicitly enumerated in the 4th Amendment by the restrictive terms under which the Federal Government is permitted to invade it.
Had you pointed out the 4th Amendment, I would not have had to. You blithely ignored it. You weakened your argument accordingly.
Yes, I do call it carbon neutral. The plants take in CO2, H2O and E to create vinegar and cellulose, and due to thermodynamics, plants can't create more H2O and CO2 than they take in; so by definition it's carbon neutral. Except that CO2 is now airborne again instead of locked inside the plants, when they could have carried it deep into the soil and become fossil fuels.
By your logic, the planet as a whole is carbon neutral as nothing from the outside is adding carbon. Indeed, putting stuff into orbit and on interplanetary and interstellar probes is carbon negative (the carbon put into the atmosphere from the combustion during launch was already here).
With that mindset, it sounds like the only solutions for a carbon negative process would be to either perfect alchemy or disperse the planet. "Disperse the Earth" would make a nice bumper sticker.
The Constitution gives the Federal Government no power to intrude on privacy Read the 4th Amendment again: the Federal Government is empowered to conduct reasonable searches and seizures under an issued Warrant, so issued upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
However considering they went for the most popular titles first when deciding what to add for Backward Compatibility Like Drake of the 99 Dragons? (OK, so maybe Drake was compatible only by consequence of making a more popular title compatible.)
IIRC, Psychonauts was not initially XBOX 360 compatible, first appearing on the December 12, 2006 list.
Remember the last time someone tried to get rid of all the stupid people? Everyone else left behind got killed off by a virulent disease contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone.
Maybe Jesus had this in mind what is recorded in Luke 12:3?
"For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor anything hidden that shall not be known. Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light. And that which you have spoken in the ear in secret rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops."
This was written long before mankind had our modern means of eavesdropping. That's Luke 12:2-3. If you add 12:1 you can spin it as a warning against getting drunk on beer (misinterpreting "yeast") lest you reveal too much to your enemies. But this too is against the full context.
A more complete context is Luke 12:1-12, for being open with your faith. And Luke 11:46-53 as a precursor for Christ as a guest for dinner railing against lawyers (and all because someone took offense at him not washing his hands before dinner).
IANA religious scholar. I side with Douglas Adams on the concept.
if it's going to get slashdotted, it's going to happen when it's a newer story. It's still down today. Not a good sign. It may end up being down for the rest of the month, the virtual host pulled for exceeding monthly bandwidth consumption limits.
As long as money has free speech rights, the little people--that's you and me--will suffer without recourse. If money has free speech rights, so should arrows.
Actions speak louder than words. Money speaks louder than actions. Arrows speak louder than money.
I have a problem with this one: "Corporations can't hold copyright, only the individuals that actually created the work."
People should be able to transfer copyright--for ready cash, say--to an organization more interested in and better able to deal with licensing issues. You could license a corporation in such a way that they can license it to others on your behalf. Like the author of a book would license the book to a publisher, allowing that publisher to publish the book for you, but the copyright still belongs to the author.
And what if I want to assign my copyright to the FSF? Give them a license to it instead, granting all the rights of copyright you're comfortable with granting but with the possibility that you can take it back. And you'll be able to do whatever you want with the content you created no matter what format you encounter it in, rather than being barred from using it as you want because you gave up your rights.
Serves them right. If you support DRM by buying this shit I don't feel sorry for you when it no longer works. You got what you paid for and everybody told you so beforehand. But what if you bought it knowing that someday it will no longer work so that you'll have standing to sue and drive a nail into the concept of DRM industry-width through the legal system?
The idea is to play them at their own game, and win.
As for the lawyers, they always win, no matter what. (With the possible exception of Pakistan, where right now they are being clubbed) I take it this clubbing does not involve glow-sticks.
An equitable solution would be to either provide the purchasers with DRM-free or reauthorizationless versions of the same clips in equivalent or better quality or tools to permanently unlock the clips they've already downloaded. Give the consumers that and the lawyers can have the entire additional cash award.
An injunction against MLB against doing anything like this again would also be nice, with a nice big automatic penalty in the billions of dollars, with no cuts going to lawyers fees (that's strictly MLB out-of-pocket). But that probably won't happen.
Digital TV and the assault on the VCR/DVR is going to be the telling moment in the fight against DRM. A day doesn't go by when my Series3 TiVo doesn't tell me some HD programming it recorded is not authorized for display over an HDMI connection. (WTF?! Component I could understand, but why the hell would it prevent playing over HDMI?) So far I've managed to get around it by one or more of going back to Now Playing and selecting the recording again, turning the HDTV off and back on, or turning the HDMI switchbox between them off and back on.
Using ingredients usually relegated to the lower half of the list of ingredients on a Twinkies wrapper, some professional chefs are turning themselves into magicians with food. Merlin: Sonny Tufts, Sonny Bono, Lorna Luft, Yoko Ono; Paula Abdul, Chip 'n' Dale, Hillary Clinton, Quinton McHale! Behold! I have made a very nice pie.
(Actual recipe for pie from spell book: Sift one pinch powdered spider nostril, 1 maggot's armpit, 1 smoked tapeworm. Set aside. Blend grumph from a troll's belly button, 2 goat's hoof-jam. Add powdered mixture. Puree until creamy. Add fruit to taste.)
23. Gestural interfaces. Many cultures imbue gestures with supernatural or symbolic power, from Catholics crossing themselves to the mudras of Hindu and Buddhist iconography. "That gesture you make..."
[man reflexively makes the gesture at his neck, shoulder and waist]
"Yes, that's the one. I assume it's meant to ward-off evil. Thing is, it's also the sequence for checking the seals on a Starfall 7 spacesuit; and what makes that particularly interesting is that you don't know what a Starfall 7 spacesuit is, do you?"
Another alternate layout that I love is A[shift]ZX. On the Apple//e and IIgs, I was always most comfortable with vertical controlled by the left hand on A and Z and horizontal with the right hand on the left and right arrow keys, left thumb on the space bar.
On those keyboards the arrow keys were all in a row below the right shift key instead of in their own cluster, and Control, not Caps Lock, was next to the A. The only meta-keys you had on the right side were Shift and Closed-Apple (second joystick/paddle button, called Option on the IIgs).
And back then, quarters had pictures of eagles on them! "Gimme four eagles for a dollar!" we'd say. But the important thing was I had an ear of corn tied to my belt, which was the style at the time! We didn't have yellow corn, 'cause of the drought. Instead we had this colorful Indian maize....
This planet orbits within the 'habitable zone,' where water could presumably exist, but it's probably another gas giant like Saturn, so any liquid water would have to be on a moon. Any chance they plan to name this planet Endor?
You've misunderstood. The surgeon is not performing the surgery while the robot cuts. The surgeon performs the entire surgery. The entire sequence is then uploaded to the robot before surgery even begins. The robot then performs the surgery autonomously.
So you see, there is no propagation delay. The only problems are the patient could be positioned incorrectly (resulting in deeper, shallower, or misplaced cuts), there could be complications, or there could be a hardware/software failure. No problem! That's all well and good so long as the machine is only performing an autopsy! Living patients tend to veer from the static model over time, regardless of how detailed your initial scan was. Surgery is an exercise in responding to minor complications.
So unless you plan to kill the patient first and resurrect him after the surgery, I'd rather spend the money on giving an actual surgical team astronaut training.
If you're crafting an argument for public consumption, you could even have HIT workers build up your argument for you -- start with a position and have them come up with reasons supporting that position -- although to me that feels like a cheapening of the debate process that crosses the line, because you're not even trying to reason your way to a conclusion, instead starting with the conclusion you want and then working backwards (not that this isn't what a lot of debaters do anyway!). Douglas Adams had a take on that, from "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency":
"Well," he said, "it's to do with the project which first made the software incarnation of the company profitable. It was called Reason, and in its own way it was sensational."
"What was it?"
"Well, it was a kind of back-to-front program. It's funny how many of the best ideas are just an old idea back-to-front. You see there have already been several programs written that help you to arrive at decisions by properly ordering and analysing all the relevant facts so that they then point naturally towards the right deeision. The clrawback with these is that the decision which all the properly ordered and analysed facts point to is not necessarily the one you want."
"Yeeeess..." said Reg's voice from the kitchen.
"Well, Gordon's great insight was to design a program which allowed you to specify in advance what decision you wished it to reach, and only then to give it all the facts. The program's task, which it was able to accomplish with consummate ease, was simply to construct a plausible series of logical-sounding steps to connect the premises with the conclusion.
"And I have to say that it worked brilliantly. Gordon was able to buy himself a Porsche almost immediately despite being completely broke and a hopeless driver. Even his bank manager was unable to find fault with his reasoning. Even when Gordon wrote it off three weeks later."
"Heavens. And did the program sell very well?"
"No. We never sold a single copy."
"You astonish me. It sounds like a real winner to me."
"It was," said Richard hesitantly. "The entire project was bought up, lock, stock and barrel, by the Pentagon. The deal put WayForward on a very sound financial foundation. Its moral foundation, on the other hand, is not something I would want to trust my weight to. I've recently been analysing a lot of the arguments put forward in favour of the Star Wars project, and if you know what you're looking for, the pattern of the algorithms is very clear.
"So much so, in fact, that looking at Pentagon policies over the last couple of years I think I can be fairly sure that the US Navy is using version 2.00 of the program, while the Air Force for some reason only has the beta-test version of 1.5. Odd, that."
"Do you have a copy?"
"Certainly not," said Richard, "I wouldn't have anything to do with it. Anyway, when the Pentagon bought everything, they bought everything. Every scrap of code, every disk, every notebook. I was glad to see the back of it. If indeed we have. I just busy myself with my own projects."
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And have some class not to exercise your karma bonus for a profane attack. It shows you aren't worthy of it.
Mod points to parent of this.
Then again, I'm not versed in the law in Japan. Perhaps they have laws preventing the use of the ID in this manner (unlike how the US SSN was only (broken) promised to be used for limited government purposes), and others preventing industry from providing its own IDs for use with their devices (i.e. a card for use in certain brands of cigarette vending machines, a card for use in certain brands of alcohol vending machines, a card for use in certain brands of pornography vending machines, a card for use in certain brands of soiled teenage schoolgirl panties vending machines, etc.).
How deep do the deepest roots of the tallest trees go? How deep are our deepest natural groundwater sources? I assume we can't just go by a distance straight down from top surface (natural caves in mountains) or sea level (there is life at the bottom of the Mariana Trench).
Any search, even by legal Warrant, is an invasion of privacy. The government is empowered to invade privacy only so far as defined in the 4th Amendment, but it is so empowered.
The point being made is that rights pre-exist the government and those rights not explicitly spelled out still belong to the people. Their enumeration serves to call attention to the really important ones that have been infringed historically and emphasize that the government and that it can only constrain those rights as spelled out within them. The right to privacy is clearly implicitly enumerated in the 4th Amendment by the restrictive terms under which the Federal Government is permitted to invade it.
Had you pointed out the 4th Amendment, I would not have had to. You blithely ignored it. You weakened your argument accordingly.
By your logic, the planet as a whole is carbon neutral as nothing from the outside is adding carbon. Indeed, putting stuff into orbit and on interplanetary and interstellar probes is carbon negative (the carbon put into the atmosphere from the combustion during launch was already here).
With that mindset, it sounds like the only solutions for a carbon negative process would be to either perfect alchemy or disperse the planet. "Disperse the Earth" would make a nice bumper sticker.
IIRC, Psychonauts was not initially XBOX 360 compatible, first appearing on the December 12, 2006 list.
Remember the last time someone tried to get rid of all the stupid people? Everyone else left behind got killed off by a virulent disease contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone.
"For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor anything hidden that shall not be known. Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light. And that which you have spoken in the ear in secret rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops."
This was written long before mankind had our modern means of eavesdropping. That's Luke 12:2-3. If you add 12:1 you can spin it as a warning against getting drunk on beer (misinterpreting "yeast") lest you reveal too much to your enemies. But this too is against the full context.
A more complete context is Luke 12:1-12, for being open with your faith. And Luke 11:46-53 as a precursor for Christ as a guest for dinner railing against lawyers (and all because someone took offense at him not washing his hands before dinner).
IANA religious scholar. I side with Douglas Adams on the concept.
Thinking of the children too much, especially keeping children away from adults and vice versa, leads to things like Kid Nation and Lord of the Flies.
All these problems will lose any meaning with
Actions speak louder than words.
Money speaks louder than actions.
Arrows speak louder than money.
People should be able to transfer copyright--for ready cash, say--to an organization more interested in and better able to deal with licensing issues. You could license a corporation in such a way that they can license it to others on your behalf. Like the author of a book would license the book to a publisher, allowing that publisher to publish the book for you, but the copyright still belongs to the author. And what if I want to assign my copyright to the FSF? Give them a license to it instead, granting all the rights of copyright you're comfortable with granting but with the possibility that you can take it back. And you'll be able to do whatever you want with the content you created no matter what format you encounter it in, rather than being barred from using it as you want because you gave up your rights.
So, do unto others before they can do unto you?
You got what you paid for and everybody told you so beforehand. But what if you bought it knowing that someday it will no longer work so that you'll have standing to sue and drive a nail into the concept of DRM industry-width through the legal system?
The idea is to play them at their own game, and win.
(With the possible exception of Pakistan, where right now they are being clubbed) I take it this clubbing does not involve glow-sticks.
An equitable solution would be to either provide the purchasers with DRM-free or reauthorizationless versions of the same clips in equivalent or better quality or tools to permanently unlock the clips they've already downloaded. Give the consumers that and the lawyers can have the entire additional cash award.
An injunction against MLB against doing anything like this again would also be nice, with a nice big automatic penalty in the billions of dollars, with no cuts going to lawyers fees (that's strictly MLB out-of-pocket). But that probably won't happen.
(Actual recipe for pie from spell book: Sift one pinch powdered spider nostril, 1 maggot's armpit, 1 smoked tapeworm. Set aside. Blend grumph from a troll's belly button, 2 goat's hoof-jam. Add powdered mixture. Puree until creamy. Add fruit to taste.)
[man reflexively makes the gesture at his neck, shoulder and waist]
"Yes, that's the one. I assume it's meant to ward-off evil. Thing is, it's also the sequence for checking the seals on a Starfall 7 spacesuit; and what makes that particularly interesting is that you don't know what a Starfall 7 spacesuit is, do you?"
On those keyboards the arrow keys were all in a row below the right shift key instead of in their own cluster, and Control, not Caps Lock, was next to the A. The only meta-keys you had on the right side were Shift and Closed-Apple (second joystick/paddle button, called Option on the IIgs).
And back then, quarters had pictures of eagles on them! "Gimme four eagles for a dollar!" we'd say. But the important thing was I had an ear of corn tied to my belt, which was the style at the time! We didn't have yellow corn, 'cause of the drought. Instead we had this colorful Indian maize....
So you see, there is no propagation delay. The only problems are the patient could be positioned incorrectly (resulting in deeper, shallower, or misplaced cuts), there could be complications, or there could be a hardware/software failure. No problem! That's all well and good so long as the machine is only performing an autopsy! Living patients tend to veer from the static model over time, regardless of how detailed your initial scan was. Surgery is an exercise in responding to minor complications.
So unless you plan to kill the patient first and resurrect him after the surgery, I'd rather spend the money on giving an actual surgical team astronaut training.