Read the DMCA "safe harbor" provisions. It gives these assholes all the privileges of being a common carrier, without any of the responsibilities. It's yet another reason why the DMCA is a fucked up law and should be repealed.
Yes, I understand this comment is probably going to generate dozens of "but I can't get another ISP!" replies, and I preemptively dispute the validity of most of them. I'm living on a Naval installation, and I could drop my current cable provider for a number of DSL providers. Would I have the the same download speeds? Probably not, but the option is still there.
Which is to say Joe Bob with his Master Electrician badge is more fit to wire your house than a guy with a PhD in electrical engineering who has 20 years experience in the field.
Joe Bob is probably more fit to wire your house! Engineering and craftsmanship are not the same thing, and never were. The guy with the PhD could tell you all about how the physics of your electrons work, sure, but he wouldn't be nearly as efficient at cutting a hole in the wall and wiring up a switch box. He also probably wouldn't create a result that would meet building codes, because he didn't know them.
I'm a civil engineering student, but that doesn't necessarily make me a competent carpenter, welder, or mason.
Am I incorrect in thinking that many passports are using RFID, such that the owner can pass through customs uninhibited (or receive other advantages) with the correct credentials?
You are incorrect, but probably not in the way you imagined: the passports do use RFID, but not to confer advantages to the owner. If that were the case, then they'd make it optional and charge extra for it! Instead, RFID in passports confers liabilities to the owner and advantages to the government: it allows the government to surreptitiously track the owner more easily.
Maybe, but they're absolutely retarded when it comes to common sense and practicality. I can't stand to watch the show just because the mere premise of their "experiments" is so damn stupid!
But the fun part of the show is them building shit and blowing shit up, and the "reveal" of the result near the end of the segment.
And yet, somehow the background and whatnot is necessary for the "blowing shit up" to actually be fun: "Smash Lab" is missing it, which is why that show sucks so bad.
...we're still essentially talking about building a NEW residential city to support the remaining port and industrial infrastructure. It would be exorbitantly expensive to pull off, to say the least!
They have to do that anyway! Didn't you see what happened after Katrina? Essentially, the whole fucking city is gone! They're spending the money either way; I (and the guy you replied to) just think they ought to build back on a different spot, rather than on top of the ruins.
Apparently you've never heard of New York or LA. Can't afford to live with an hour of some places.
And yet, people do live within an hour 'some places'. And right in the heart of 'some places'. Or, in other words, why are you comparing chalk to cheese?
Yes, and those that live in the heart paid half a million for an apartment and probably have a second home someplace a little more sane. If they show up at city hall asking for disaster money, very few will have issue with telling them to shove off.
I've never been to NYC or LA, but surely they have low-income neighborhoods (a.k.a. "bad neighborhoods," "ghettos," "high-crime areas," etc.) just like every other city? People could certainly afford to move to those areas if they wanted to have a shorter commute.
That's because the _Port_ of New Orleans is important, as is the off shore oil terminal, the city not so much.
The USA has plenty of other tourist traps.
The "tourist trap" (i.e., historical) part didn't get flooded anyway, because the original inhabitants of the city were smart enough to build on the high ground.
And where is this money for brand new everything coming from? The people in the Lower 9th Ward don't exactly have the money for new condos in the new "riverview" district.
WTF? Everything in the Lower 9th Ward is brand new anyway, whether there's money or not, because everything there was destroyed by Katrina! It would have to be, or there'd be nothing there at all.
These countries do not test 100% of the beef they import from other countries, it's not possible. The tests involve spinal column material, which is removed at the slaughterhouse and not available to these other countries when they import beef (or other meats for that matter).
Fine, I'll be more precise: they insist that the country of origin test 100% of the beef they send. Same difference! Happy now? My point was about the fact that 100% gets tested; who performed the testing is not important.
As mentioned in my other post, apparently other countries who test 100% do have this problem. Japan only produces 1.2M head of cattle a year, and found 9 cases between their own country and yet found 9 cases between 2001 and 2004. Of course, they don't ban their own meat...
Exactly! And if they accept 3 cases per 1.2M head of cattle from their own country, then there's no reason they shouldn't accept at least that rate in beef from ours.
Of the major population and economic centers of the United States the only one that I can think of offhand that is not immediately vulnerable to a devastating natural disaster is Chicago.
Atlanta's pretty good too. Although we can technically get a wide variety of natural disasters, they're generally very infrequent and low in severity (e.g. hurricanes and earthquakes). The only major flood risk is if Buford Dam (the one on the Chattahoochee that contains Lake Lanier) breaks. A tornado went straight through downtown recently, but it certainly wasn't any sort of city-wide catastrophe like a hurricane or earthquake could be.
So you want to test 35,000,000 cows a year? If the test is 99.999999% accurate, it'll produce 35 false positives each year. And countries are going to stop importing our beef on those false positives.
The countries in question also test 100% of the beef they import from other countries, and 100% of the beef they produce themselves. Therefore, if testing in the US had this problem, then everywhere else would too and it would all even out. Or conversely, since they apparently don't have that problem, then there's no reason to expect that we would either.
If the disease can't be detected in cows younger than 2 years old (but may still exist), then the correct response should be to prohibit slaughtering the young cows until they've reached an age where they can be conclusively proven not to have the disease!
Except the particular test they want to use is not accurate...
If that's the case, then why the fuck does the USDA mandate it for the 1%? Either the test works, in which case there's absolutely nothing wrong with using it more extensively, or it doesn't work, in which case it shouldn't be used at all!
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Your question presupposes that adding RFID actually would do that, which is not necessarily true.
I'd like to see one with an inline-4 Diesel. Nissan actually used to make such a thing, back in the 80s or early 90s.
That concept is archaic: there should be absolutely no difference between the regulation of telcos, cablecos, and ISPs.
Read the DMCA "safe harbor" provisions. It gives these assholes all the privileges of being a common carrier, without any of the responsibilities. It's yet another reason why the DMCA is a fucked up law and should be repealed.
I don't have a landline, you insensitive clod!
Joe Bob is probably more fit to wire your house! Engineering and craftsmanship are not the same thing, and never were. The guy with the PhD could tell you all about how the physics of your electrons work, sure, but he wouldn't be nearly as efficient at cutting a hole in the wall and wiring up a switch box. He also probably wouldn't create a result that would meet building codes, because he didn't know them.
I'm a civil engineering student, but that doesn't necessarily make me a competent carpenter, welder, or mason.
You are incorrect, but probably not in the way you imagined: the passports do use RFID, but not to confer advantages to the owner. If that were the case, then they'd make it optional and charge extra for it! Instead, RFID in passports confers liabilities to the owner and advantages to the government: it allows the government to surreptitiously track the owner more easily.
Maybe, but they're absolutely retarded when it comes to common sense and practicality. I can't stand to watch the show just because the mere premise of their "experiments" is so damn stupid!
And yet, somehow the background and whatnot is necessary for the "blowing shit up" to actually be fun: "Smash Lab" is missing it, which is why that show sucks so bad.
Which Nissan? I'm confused. ; )
And Arkansas has earthquakes!
It could be something encryption/DRM related.
FYI, the same thing happens to the subway system in New York.
They have to do that anyway! Didn't you see what happened after Katrina? Essentially, the whole fucking city is gone! They're spending the money either way; I (and the guy you replied to) just think they ought to build back on a different spot, rather than on top of the ruins.
I've never been to NYC or LA, but surely they have low-income neighborhoods (a.k.a. "bad neighborhoods," "ghettos," "high-crime areas," etc.) just like every other city? People could certainly afford to move to those areas if they wanted to have a shorter commute.
It wasn't, originally: the French Quarter is built on high ground. It's only the people who came later who were idiots.
The "tourist trap" (i.e., historical) part didn't get flooded anyway, because the original inhabitants of the city were smart enough to build on the high ground.
WTF? Everything in the Lower 9th Ward is brand new anyway, whether there's money or not, because everything there was destroyed by Katrina! It would have to be, or there'd be nothing there at all.
Yes, but I apparently misread it. Sorry.
Fine, I'll be more precise: they insist that the country of origin test 100% of the beef they send. Same difference! Happy now? My point was about the fact that 100% gets tested; who performed the testing is not important.
Exactly! And if they accept 3 cases per 1.2M head of cattle from their own country, then there's no reason they shouldn't accept at least that rate in beef from ours.
Atlanta's pretty good too. Although we can technically get a wide variety of natural disasters, they're generally very infrequent and low in severity (e.g. hurricanes and earthquakes). The only major flood risk is if Buford Dam (the one on the Chattahoochee that contains Lake Lanier) breaks. A tornado went straight through downtown recently, but it certainly wasn't any sort of city-wide catastrophe like a hurricane or earthquake could be.
The countries in question also test 100% of the beef they import from other countries, and 100% of the beef they produce themselves. Therefore, if testing in the US had this problem, then everywhere else would too and it would all even out. Or conversely, since they apparently don't have that problem, then there's no reason to expect that we would either.
If the disease can't be detected in cows younger than 2 years old (but may still exist), then the correct response should be to prohibit slaughtering the young cows until they've reached an age where they can be conclusively proven not to have the disease!
If that's the case, then why the fuck does the USDA mandate it for the 1%? Either the test works, in which case there's absolutely nothing wrong with using it more extensively, or it doesn't work, in which case it shouldn't be used at all!
It does when you count the land used to grow the corn used to feed the cows, too.