Far too many people don't apply the 90% Bullsh*t Rule of the Internet (nowadays it's probably much higher). And yes there are people who read 140 characters and think what they just read is fact. The lesson to be learned here is go out and corroborate the facts for yourself.
All the more reason for Taser Intl to keep it from becoming part of the lexicon. Taser spends a lot of money dealing with litigation. Last I checked, all but one case were thrown out. If a company comes along selling stun guns that are blatantly lethal and people think they're Tasers, trial lawyers would love to sue Taser Intl. in class-action fashion.
Somehow I think that the Taser legal team doesn't spend a whole lot of time surfing for Second Life stuff. My guess is that it was brought to their attention from outside the company and they're taking the action of not wanting their brand being associated with unflattering uses. Imagine if Xerox were in danger of becoming only known for body part artwork. I'd think they'd sue an entity that was promoting such activity using the Xerox name. In addition to which, if the New York Times was advertising some guy selling ripped DVDs, they'd probably not run it and if they did, they could be made an accessory to criminal activity. The Pirate Bay is experiencing this now and so did Napster a while back. Plus there's the added component of people exchanging money for virtual stuff in Second Life.
This seems pretty cut and dried to me. This is not like Monster Cable suing a mini-golf place. Monster is a word that existed in the English language long before it was ever used to describe cables. Taser on the other hand is an invented word and is therefore trademarkable and should be protected. It no different than somebody trying to pass off a Zune as an iPod, virtual or otherwise.
Who was in charge of Congress last July, who is in charge of the DHS now, and who is in charge at the White House (hint: it ain't the guy who sits in the Oval Office).
Having seen the proposed plan, there is no coast-to-coast high-speed service. Dumb. But for me, the biggest problem isn't lack of high-speed runs. It's Amtrak itself. No competition for passenger service discourages innovation. Guaranteed federal funds results in a laissez faire attitude. They still haven't restored passenger service between New Orleans and Jacksonville which were damaged by Katrina. It's no different that the puddle-jumper airline that offers service to a major city that's within 2-hours driving distance which is serviced by shuttle vans. That airline has on average one passenger per trip. One. Dumb.
This would be really cool if the robots were able to handle the kind of tomatoes that used to be grown before the demands of machinery required breeding thick-skinned varieties.
Donnez-moi un effing break. Technologist? Yeah right. Let's call a spade a spade here. Unless the person is doing something impressive under the hood like programming cloud computing (whatever that means) they're web designers.
Rosa Brooks. This twit worked for George Soros and is now going to be an adviser to Michele Flournoy the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon. She'll have high-level security clearance and will doubtless be feeding radical One World Order elements intel and state secrets.
Classic case of a GIGO system (Garbage In Garbage Out). The fusion center (would that be cold fusion?) decided that any reference to Anonymous is terrorist related because some group calls themselves Anonymous. Okay. Got it. So if Slashdot used "Incognito" instead of "Anonymous" that would be fine and dandy. Yep, that's the ticket. Gee, maybe Slashdot should sue the fusion center citing the Monster Cable precedent.
Any concept can be used for both good and bad. IMHO, listening in on conversations to suspected terrorist contacts outside the US can be useful if the information sheds light on terrorist operations. Listening in on conversations that occur completely within our borders? That's tres KGB or Stasi. The radical left in this country has a paranoia about its own people. Ooo, a Ron Paul bumper sticker. They must be militia members! Better call the FBI. Newsflash: dissent is protected in this country and doesn't just apply to leftist speech.
Here in my area they were considering installing speeding cameras but the city councils all balked once they discovered that they'd only be getting 5 cents on every dollar of ticket revenue. The rest went to the camera company. If proponents are really only worried about safety, what really works is to park an unmanned police car on the highway.
IMHO, the guy isn't too bright when he's speaking off-the-cuff i.e. no teleprompter or prepared speech. That's why I believe he's being fed talking points framed by others who were NOT elected. But beyond that, your second point suggests that he contradicts the 10th Amendment "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Which says that if it isn't written in the Constitution and the Amendments to it, the federal government has no right to such power. What's scary to me is the fact that most people have no idea what's in the Constitution beyond what's written in the First Amendment.
Clearly this administration has no regard for the Constitution and the fact that this sort of power-grab is precisely why the branches of government where created the way they were. The fact that this cybersecurity department would report to the executive branch means that it doesn't report to Congress aka The People. Congress could demand transparency all they want and the Office of the President can tell them to go pound sand...once the department is created. Doing things under the guise of FUD and then absolving themselves of any responsibility is the hallmark of this administration. Notice I didn't say Obama. IMHO, he's not savvy enough to pull this stuff off on his own. IMHO, the real power lies behind the throne.
The whole concept of residuals just irritates me. Who the hell decided that people should be rewarded indefinitely for their work? I don't care how good it is. Hell, I'd dearly love to get paid for every time somebody runs one of my commercial programs. Of course, that clearly explains why companies want to shift running apps like an office suite over the net.
In my experience, management can and often does attempt to reign in talented people because they feel their own inferiority and the fact that while they will be stuck where they are for the rest of their career, the talented ones will eventually realize that they are getting the sh*t end of the stick and leave to start their own companies.
How the eff does an album by has-been musicians take "millions of dollars and 17 years to complete"? Seriously, our sense of monetary value for certain things in the world is seriously out of whack. Who decided that musicians, athletes, and actors are worth millions of dollars? Far be it for me to sound Marxist but come on people, this is ludicrous.
Typical reactionary politician. These people know less than nothing about technology and military/police tactics yet they are zealously convinced that only THEY have all the answers. Bollocks. It's these same people who magically endow firearms with the ability to go off against common sense reason and kill an entire school. Any concept can simultaneously be used for both good and bad. Sure, the whack-job and the terrorist can use a gun to kill. But the hero can also use one to stop them. And if you think that job should be left to the police, re-read what I just wrote and think "Brown Shirts".
Whether or not a 13-year old "needs" this equation is irrelevant. The fact that he's being given blatantly erroneous information and believing it (and trying to tell me that I was wrong when I told him that c is the speed of light) is what the problem is. It's a systemic problem. If kids are being given false scientific information, how can we be sure that they are given factual information in history classes instead of opinion tainted by ideology?
My 13-year old nephew was told by his science teacher that the c in E=mc2 is...wait for it..."solar energy". *facepalm* And these are the same people that regurgitate Al Gore's preaching.
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Far too many people don't apply the 90% Bullsh*t Rule of the Internet (nowadays it's probably much higher). And yes there are people who read 140 characters and think what they just read is fact. The lesson to be learned here is go out and corroborate the facts for yourself.
All the more reason for Taser Intl to keep it from becoming part of the lexicon. Taser spends a lot of money dealing with litigation. Last I checked, all but one case were thrown out. If a company comes along selling stun guns that are blatantly lethal and people think they're Tasers, trial lawyers would love to sue Taser Intl. in class-action fashion.
Somehow I think that the Taser legal team doesn't spend a whole lot of time surfing for Second Life stuff. My guess is that it was brought to their attention from outside the company and they're taking the action of not wanting their brand being associated with unflattering uses. Imagine if Xerox were in danger of becoming only known for body part artwork. I'd think they'd sue an entity that was promoting such activity using the Xerox name. In addition to which, if the New York Times was advertising some guy selling ripped DVDs, they'd probably not run it and if they did, they could be made an accessory to criminal activity. The Pirate Bay is experiencing this now and so did Napster a while back. Plus there's the added component of people exchanging money for virtual stuff in Second Life.
This seems pretty cut and dried to me. This is not like Monster Cable suing a mini-golf place. Monster is a word that existed in the English language long before it was ever used to describe cables. Taser on the other hand is an invented word and is therefore trademarkable and should be protected. It no different than somebody trying to pass off a Zune as an iPod, virtual or otherwise.
They plugged it in to the net and let it do it's job.
Who was in charge of Congress last July, who is in charge of the DHS now, and who is in charge at the White House (hint: it ain't the guy who sits in the Oval Office).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078697/
Having seen the proposed plan, there is no coast-to-coast high-speed service. Dumb. But for me, the biggest problem isn't lack of high-speed runs. It's Amtrak itself. No competition for passenger service discourages innovation. Guaranteed federal funds results in a laissez faire attitude. They still haven't restored passenger service between New Orleans and Jacksonville which were damaged by Katrina. It's no different that the puddle-jumper airline that offers service to a major city that's within 2-hours driving distance which is serviced by shuttle vans. That airline has on average one passenger per trip. One. Dumb.
And for once it's something I could really get behind.
This would be really cool if the robots were able to handle the kind of tomatoes that used to be grown before the demands of machinery required breeding thick-skinned varieties.
Donnez-moi un effing break. Technologist? Yeah right. Let's call a spade a spade here. Unless the person is doing something impressive under the hood like programming cloud computing (whatever that means) they're web designers.
Rosa Brooks. This twit worked for George Soros and is now going to be an adviser to Michele Flournoy the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon. She'll have high-level security clearance and will doubtless be feeding radical One World Order elements intel and state secrets.
Classic case of a GIGO system (Garbage In Garbage Out). The fusion center (would that be cold fusion?) decided that any reference to Anonymous is terrorist related because some group calls themselves Anonymous. Okay. Got it. So if Slashdot used "Incognito" instead of "Anonymous" that would be fine and dandy. Yep, that's the ticket. Gee, maybe Slashdot should sue the fusion center citing the Monster Cable precedent.
True. And we spy on the UK for them.
IMHO, the left seems to be more overt about it. "Vast right-wing conspiracy"...um yeah...they're called voters.
Any concept can be used for both good and bad. IMHO, listening in on conversations to suspected terrorist contacts outside the US can be useful if the information sheds light on terrorist operations. Listening in on conversations that occur completely within our borders? That's tres KGB or Stasi. The radical left in this country has a paranoia about its own people. Ooo, a Ron Paul bumper sticker. They must be militia members! Better call the FBI. Newsflash: dissent is protected in this country and doesn't just apply to leftist speech.
Yep...low-tech totally works. The Allies used inflatable tanks during WW2.
The replicant test in Blade Runner.
Here in my area they were considering installing speeding cameras but the city councils all balked once they discovered that they'd only be getting 5 cents on every dollar of ticket revenue. The rest went to the camera company. If proponents are really only worried about safety, what really works is to park an unmanned police car on the highway.
IMHO, the guy isn't too bright when he's speaking off-the-cuff i.e. no teleprompter or prepared speech. That's why I believe he's being fed talking points framed by others who were NOT elected. But beyond that, your second point suggests that he contradicts the 10th Amendment "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Which says that if it isn't written in the Constitution and the Amendments to it, the federal government has no right to such power. What's scary to me is the fact that most people have no idea what's in the Constitution beyond what's written in the First Amendment.
Clearly this administration has no regard for the Constitution and the fact that this sort of power-grab is precisely why the branches of government where created the way they were. The fact that this cybersecurity department would report to the executive branch means that it doesn't report to Congress aka The People. Congress could demand transparency all they want and the Office of the President can tell them to go pound sand...once the department is created. Doing things under the guise of FUD and then absolving themselves of any responsibility is the hallmark of this administration. Notice I didn't say Obama. IMHO, he's not savvy enough to pull this stuff off on his own. IMHO, the real power lies behind the throne.
The whole concept of residuals just irritates me. Who the hell decided that people should be rewarded indefinitely for their work? I don't care how good it is. Hell, I'd dearly love to get paid for every time somebody runs one of my commercial programs. Of course, that clearly explains why companies want to shift running apps like an office suite over the net.
In my experience, management can and often does attempt to reign in talented people because they feel their own inferiority and the fact that while they will be stuck where they are for the rest of their career, the talented ones will eventually realize that they are getting the sh*t end of the stick and leave to start their own companies.
How the eff does an album by has-been musicians take "millions of dollars and 17 years to complete"? Seriously, our sense of monetary value for certain things in the world is seriously out of whack. Who decided that musicians, athletes, and actors are worth millions of dollars? Far be it for me to sound Marxist but come on people, this is ludicrous.
Typical reactionary politician. These people know less than nothing about technology and military/police tactics yet they are zealously convinced that only THEY have all the answers. Bollocks. It's these same people who magically endow firearms with the ability to go off against common sense reason and kill an entire school. Any concept can simultaneously be used for both good and bad. Sure, the whack-job and the terrorist can use a gun to kill. But the hero can also use one to stop them. And if you think that job should be left to the police, re-read what I just wrote and think "Brown Shirts".
Whether or not a 13-year old "needs" this equation is irrelevant. The fact that he's being given blatantly erroneous information and believing it (and trying to tell me that I was wrong when I told him that c is the speed of light) is what the problem is. It's a systemic problem. If kids are being given false scientific information, how can we be sure that they are given factual information in history classes instead of opinion tainted by ideology?
My 13-year old nephew was told by his science teacher that the c in E=mc2 is...wait for it..."solar energy". *facepalm* And these are the same people that regurgitate Al Gore's preaching.