It would also be nice if minimum yellow time could be put into federal law
Nah, better to make a law saying that police or politicians aren't allowed to override the engineer, and that the engineer must follow existing AASHTO standards.
TV serves to socialize and aculture peoples into a larger society. It also serves a vital role in the dissemination of potentially life saving information in times of war, natural disaster, or severe weather. If a TV transmitter is struck by an ice storm or bomb or hurricane, one only needs to rebuild the transmitter. If an ice storm takes out miles and miles of cable system lines, the challenge to get viewers back online is much larger. TV serves a vital role during times of local and national emergency. (In other words, we just put Wheel of Fortune on TV until we REALLY need to use it.)
And just in case no-one can see his point, consider that pharmaceutical researchers will be required to purchase a different license to use medical research published under a CC-non-commercial license to actually make drugs that save lives.
But if they're working for a for-profit enterprise, then they can afford to purchase a different license!
No, "graduated response", is right out of the LBJ handbook on how to loose a war. His Rolling Thunder bombing campaign was advertised as a "graduated response" to NVA incursions in the South. From 65 to 69 it never did anything but increase the population of the Hanoi Hilton.
If LBJ was trying to loose a war, he did an excellent job!
(If you really meant "lose" instead, then that changes the entire meaning of your post. Sometimes spelling is actually important!)
ISPs have a virtual monopoly in most areas in which they operate.
Exactly. I live in Atlanta, and I have Comcast cable internet. There are no other cable internet companies. And there is exactly one consumer-priced DSL comany. And you know who that is? AT&T! Fuck!
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!!!
It makes me so mad that I want to go blow up the DSLAM or CMTS or whatever. FUCK!
If they didn't care about it working as a phone, why wouldn't they have just gotten a stand-alone camera instead? They have plain digital cameras that are just as good as the ones on cell phones for less than $50 nowadays, and without a contract or service fee either!
In -principle- he'll have saved back the 500 extra he paid for the TV in 12 years, assuming he keeps it that long...
As long as it's not shoddily built, that's not a bad assumption. TVs aren't computers, you know. They don't go obsolete (except for the B&W->color switch or analog/SD->digital/HD switch, but those only happen every couple of decades). My parents, until recently, were still using their TV from the early '80s (and now I'm using it!). That's a good 25+ years out of the same set. And even bleeding-edge technophiles who do go through sets every few years don't throw them away, they sell them to others who keep using them.
Do you grow your own food, and produce everything you need within walking distance of your domicile? If not then you benefit from good highways.
First of all, shipping food around is much more efficient than shipping people around. Second, it's not his fault the dumbasses in charge back in the '50s decided to hugely subsidize the Interstate system and kill off the railroads (which are much more efficient for cargo transport than trucking is).
On the other hand, if there weren't people with 80-hour commutes, your $400 extra would have been $4000 a month, or you'd live in a very tiny appartment indeed.
No, if we hadn't designed all the infrastructure for automobiles (which is what enables those 80-mile commutes), then we would either have a larger number of smaller cities, making people's jobs distributed rather than centralized, or (more likely) we'd have much better public transit systems like Europe does.
Even if PS3 or Xbox360 added a Wii-type controller, it wouldn't help them because it wouldn't be the standard controller for that platform, and thus third-party developers wouldn't be able to count on the player having it. It would suffer the same fate as every other non-standard controller in history (light guns, mice, dance pads, etc.): only used by one or a few games. Nintendo's brilliance (or luck, if you're a Sony or MS fanboy) with the Wii was not that they made a new type of input device available, but that they forced developers to actually use it.
Even with Foxit Reader viewing PDFs on Windows sucks compared to doing so on Linux or (especially!) Mac OS. You'd think by now that somebody would have come out with a Free-as-in-GPL viewing program that at least rivals Apple's Preview, but no...
(That reminds me, I need to see if Okular is stable and usable on KDE for Windows yet.)
why does a 32 GB SD card cost $25 but a 64 GB SATA hard drive cost $800?
I was wondering that myself. I've got two guesses:
Perhaps the flash 'hard drives' are using really fast flash memory (like the kind professional photographers use, where they need to be able to shoot 10 megapixel photos at 10 FPS).
Perhaps they were just gouging, and prices have now dropped as more have become available (for example, compare: $75, $577).
"Engineer" predates locomotives. The first "engineers" were military engineers, who made siege engines. The second "engineers" were civil engineers (to distinguish them from the military ones); they built buildings. Other sorts of "engineers" came later.
Oh, I'm the dumbass? Read your own fucking sig! You apparently know just as well as I do that those 5th Amendment rights exist regardless of whether the Constitution enumerates them or not; you already AGREED with me before you even began writing your post!
Besides, any and every instance which would be outside of the "jurisdiction" of the 5th Amendment (if we even assumed such a statement made sense) would also be outside of the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal Government entirely! In other words, no agents of the government, including the military, would have authority to act at all.
If I managed to invent a process for producing hydrogen at 1/1000'th of the cost but it required a massive amount of money to actually produce the plant, for example...
If you didn't build a prototype then you didn't know whether your process would actually work. If you didn't know whether it would work then you didn't really invent anything. And if you didn't really invent anything then you didn't deserve a patent anyway!
Despit your claim that "everyone has the same rights, whether they are citizens of the U.S. or not." appearing NOWHERE in the Constitution.
Of course it doesn't; it doesn't need to! The 5th Amendment says that "no person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property...." It doesn't say "citizen," it says "person!" That means it applies to every person! Period! How much more fucking clear does it have to be?!
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I blame KDE. They shouldn't have called it "4.0" until it was ready. 4.0 should have been "4.0 beta", and 4.1 should have been "4.0 RC".
Nah, better to make a law saying that police or politicians aren't allowed to override the engineer, and that the engineer must follow existing AASHTO standards.
Haven't you ever heard of a RADIO?!
Ah, but this article is about a driver for Windows. Are OpenGL 3.0 drivers available for OS X yet?
Right, but he succeeded in loosing (not "losing") the war, because it escalated due to his policies.
But if they're working for a for-profit enterprise, then they can afford to purchase a different license!
No, I didn't. I said that I want to blow up a CMTS, not that I'd actually do it.
Of course, if anybody has a solution to the fucking Comcast monopoly other than sabotaging its infrastructure, I'd love to hear it!
WHAT other ISPs? Name one cable or DSL ISP that serves Atlanta and has rates less than twice the cost of AT&T or Comcast. Just one. Please!
I'd love to switch ISPs (I have Comcast and hate it; AT&T is no better). But I can't, because the alternatives don't exist!
If LBJ was trying to loose a war, he did an excellent job!
(If you really meant "lose" instead, then that changes the entire meaning of your post. Sometimes spelling is actually important!)
Incidentally, ISPs are not Common Carriers. Their protection comes from the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions instead.
Exactly. I live in Atlanta, and I have Comcast cable internet. There are no other cable internet companies. And there is exactly one consumer-priced DSL comany. And you know who that is? AT&T! Fuck!
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!!!
It makes me so mad that I want to go blow up the DSLAM or CMTS or whatever. FUCK!
No, see, that's exactly the wrong strategy, because the classroom door is a natural choke point.
Instead, the students should ambush the teacher as he walks to class!
If they didn't care about it working as a phone, why wouldn't they have just gotten a stand-alone camera instead? They have plain digital cameras that are just as good as the ones on cell phones for less than $50 nowadays, and without a contract or service fee either!
As long as it's not shoddily built, that's not a bad assumption. TVs aren't computers, you know. They don't go obsolete (except for the B&W->color switch or analog/SD->digital/HD switch, but those only happen every couple of decades). My parents, until recently, were still using their TV from the early '80s (and now I'm using it!). That's a good 25+ years out of the same set. And even bleeding-edge technophiles who do go through sets every few years don't throw them away, they sell them to others who keep using them.
First of all, shipping food around is much more efficient than shipping people around. Second, it's not his fault the dumbasses in charge back in the '50s decided to hugely subsidize the Interstate system and kill off the railroads (which are much more efficient for cargo transport than trucking is).
No, if we hadn't designed all the infrastructure for automobiles (which is what enables those 80-mile commutes), then we would either have a larger number of smaller cities, making people's jobs distributed rather than centralized, or (more likely) we'd have much better public transit systems like Europe does.
Even if PS3 or Xbox360 added a Wii-type controller, it wouldn't help them because it wouldn't be the standard controller for that platform, and thus third-party developers wouldn't be able to count on the player having it. It would suffer the same fate as every other non-standard controller in history (light guns, mice, dance pads, etc.): only used by one or a few games. Nintendo's brilliance (or luck, if you're a Sony or MS fanboy) with the Wii was not that they made a new type of input device available, but that they forced developers to actually use it.
Even with Foxit Reader viewing PDFs on Windows sucks compared to doing so on Linux or (especially!) Mac OS. You'd think by now that somebody would have come out with a Free-as-in-GPL viewing program that at least rivals Apple's Preview, but no...
(That reminds me, I need to see if Okular is stable and usable on KDE for Windows yet.)
Even if that were the case, he was still a dumbass -- if you don't care, then don't give an interview!
I was wondering that myself. I've got two guesses:
Or "worse," what about breastfeeding?!
"Engineer" predates locomotives. The first "engineers" were military engineers, who made siege engines. The second "engineers" were civil engineers (to distinguish them from the military ones); they built buildings. Other sorts of "engineers" came later.
Oh, I'm the dumbass? Read your own fucking sig! You apparently know just as well as I do that those 5th Amendment rights exist regardless of whether the Constitution enumerates them or not; you already AGREED with me before you even began writing your post!
Besides, any and every instance which would be outside of the "jurisdiction" of the 5th Amendment (if we even assumed such a statement made sense) would also be outside of the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal Government entirely! In other words, no agents of the government, including the military, would have authority to act at all.
If you didn't build a prototype then you didn't know whether your process would actually work. If you didn't know whether it would work then you didn't really invent anything. And if you didn't really invent anything then you didn't deserve a patent anyway!
Of course it doesn't; it doesn't need to! The 5th Amendment says that "no person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property...." It doesn't say "citizen," it says "person!" That means it applies to every person! Period! How much more fucking clear does it have to be?!