That won't work because "best for the nation" and "general welfare" are highly subjective. Every time a patent clerk reviewed a patent, he would have to ask himself "is this for the best of the nation?" What would you do in that case, if the patent office were all conservatives? Or all liberals? Or all ?
What the hell are you talking about? Gold has a lot of uses, and unlike oil, it can be recycled. A very important use of gold I can think of is for electronic interconnects/contacts. Without gold most of our electronics would have rather short expiration dates and conductivity would be less efficient.
Gold is also widely used for medicinal purposes because it is very chemically inert (doesn't oxidize.) It is also used as a lubricant where oil doesn't work (e.g. space where it vaporizes due to lack of atmospheric pressure) and unlike other metals it is extremely resilient to the harsh environment of space.
how many secrets do you think are being funneled through our multinational corporations like , i dont know, chrysler? hummer? you know hummer is owned by the Chinese now right? the same hummers that our troops are driving around in Iraq and Afghanistan while they get blown up? Why dont we put the CEO of hummer in fucking prison for corporate espionage... he didn't sell a few email lists, he sold the whole fucking company!
This is bogus.
The military doesn't drive "hummer." The military uses HMMWV, which stands for High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle, not "hummer." The name hummer is what happened when us military folk didn't want to spell out the acronym HMMWV, so instead we just say humm-vee. If you'll also notice, the predecessor to the HMMWV was the GP, for General Purpose, but military folks of that age decided to call it "jeep" rather than spell out GP.
Much like the "jeep" Crystler decided to repeat that with the hummer. One day they said "Gee, such a nice name, I think we'll make a suburban look similar to an HMMWV on the outside, while still being a turd on the inside, and then sell it to the public under the name 'hummer' and people will buy it just for the name." Yeah, I really don't care if china makes "hummers," they're pieces of shit anyways.
In warfare, preventing your enemies from communicating amongst themselves is desirable for a winning strategy. Imagine if it was impossible for al-qaeda to communicate with each other all throughout the 90's. 9/11 would never have happened.
A crude example, I know, but it goes to demonstrate that there is some legitimacy in preventing hostile communication.
It is walking on thin ice though. Recall in 2010 when one Zach Chesser, a muslim extremist, posted to web forums and blogs that South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker should fear becoming the next Theo Van Gogh for their depictions of mohammed. He went so far as to post the addresses of their offices where they worked as well as their home addresses. Never actually made any direct threats, not a single one. But the implication of what he was doing was quite obvious and he was sent to jail for 25 years.
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No thanks. Every single time in history that any country has tried this...every time, without fail, it has blown up in the face of the population. The only ones who win are the leaders of the political party behind the movement, everybody else loses.
I'm sorry but I think you just proved anons point and their methods (while claiming contrary). Anon is using defacing and dos attacks as a form of peaceful protest. I wouldn't condone them going much further at the current time but denial of service and high profile defacing in form of protest seems like the perfect response to freedoms, rights, and liberties being slowly eroded.
That's more along the lines of censorship, because you're impairing their ability to communicate; you're doing the online equivalent of shutting them up.
Protesting in this case would be putting up your own website, explaining your side of the story, and letting everybody else decide for themselves. The common saying doesn't come to mind, but I can paraphrase: If you let everybody speak, and let everybody listen, the truth will be known. You don't get to the truth by shutting the other guy up, that isn't how democracy works.
A DDos attack is hardly attacking a web site, in reality it is no different to temporarily obstructing a corporations main entry point ie. a misdemeanour in line with disturbing the peace. Those add on charges are just abuses of the law by the law. Seriously how fucked up and ludicrous is the idea of conspiracy to commit a misdemeanour as being a serious crime
That isn't a fair comparison. A company who does business solely through its website can't do business if the website is shut down. That would be akin to people protesting wal-mart by walking into the store, forcibly removing every customer from the store, and then forbidding entry. Except even that still isn't a fair comparison either, because wal-marts might have a hundred customers in the store at once, whereas big websites like these on the other hand have a hundred thousand customers at once.
Actually HTC devices are currently locked. HTC has pledged to unlock them in the future, but right now they are currently locked tighter than a virgin pussy.
Motorola on the other hand, has already unlocked their devices. The Atrix specifically has received an update to become unlocked.
Interesting that they mention ISP's would block your ability to use other DNS servers. I don't think that, in the end, there is really anything the ISP could do to completely stop you. The worst they could do is block UDP port 53, but that wouldn't stop you from using any kind of tunneling software, especially if you did that tunneling over a secure socket.
That all falls apart once you take conspiracy theorists into consideration. People will find any reason to believe that hiding information is for nefarious purposes, no matter what. Case in point, the whole Obama birth certificate mess. The mere fact that he didn't release it earlier raised concern that he was hiding his national origins, when really there was no legitimate concern to begin with. Doesn't matter how trustworthy the government becomes. And that is perfectly healthy - even the most seemingly honest government should be subject to auditing by its citizens.
That doesn't mean however that we go around endangering people's lives because of some bullshit idea that all information should be free. Or even worse, those who want the information leaked just so that they can go out of their way to find fault in what a previous politician did, no matter how many lives it endangers, merely because they happened to hate that politician (vis a vis, Bush)
Has Microsoft created a "fat binary" format, the way Apple did for its migration from PowerPC to Intel?
.EXE files are called Portable Executables. They can already hold more than one program with more than one architecture. Microsoft has been using this since the NT 3.1 days when NT was also available on Alpha architecture, and even today with various server editions of windows running on itanium.
I'm mainly learning.NET because it's a requirement as part of my university degree in management information systems. I wanted to learn regular C++ or Java as those have tons of applications, but.NET, and more specifically C# is required for pretty much any computer related degree these days. Whether this is due to lobbying by MS or due to many businesses using it, I don't have any idea, just it's that the university requires it.
Well western union, moneygram, and other cash wiring services are typically used for all sorts of scams where the victims money can never be recovered. I'd imagine they could demand payment that way.
The thing is that US has now control about the internet (top level domains) and this can be a powerful tool to push its IP laws on other countries.
Except the US doesn't do this. Theoretically we could shut down enemy countries if we wanted to, but we don't even do that.
Simply put I'd rather leave the internet in the hands of those who have a proven track record of non interference no matter the circumstances, than hand it over to those who have made it clear that they want to interfere.
Whereas the status quo does not. In Europe it is common to have bureaucrats who put into place censorship in the form of hate speech laws which don't have any clear cut boundaries (who gets to decide what kind of speech is hateful?) and I'd rather not have them be enforced for "the benefit of humanity." Besides, I don't see such a treaty being signed by countries such as Iran, China, Cuba, etc.
Aren't there already existing medical treatments based on somatic stem cell research, whereas embryonic stem cell research hasn't yielded anything useful yet? Keep in mind this is the whole world were talking about here, not just in the US, so the "because there is no federal funding" argument doesn't apply.
And since somatic stem cells have no issues with donor-host rejection, I'd figure them to be more promising anyways. It may be for the best that taxpayer money goes towards research that is providing actual results, rather than research that isn't.
In a way it kind of did once. Remember the dot-com bubble? Basically a huge clusterfuck of businesses, small and large, who were built upon the idea that the internet can deliver you anything and everything in a completely practical manner. Pets.com is a prime example of what parts of the internet actually were a fad. So were a ton of other businesses that offered random crap for free based entirely on an ad supported revenue, with many of them selling ads to each other, or even paying you to surf the net in exchange for viewing ads.
Depends on the carrier and depends on the phone. I've compared my monthly rate with sprint to t-mobiles monthly rate where there is no subsidy, and my cost is still lower, in spite of having a subsidized phone.
In general I hate the razer business model, especially when it comes to printers and ink, but for cell phones it isn't quite as cut and dry of a loss.
BTW my phone is an HTC Hero, sells for $400 without contracts in europe (I'm not even sure if you can get it that low even,) while I got it for $80 thanks to the sprint subsidies, all while I pay $30 for a plan that costs $45 on t-mobile. It isn't an employee plan either, I don't work for sprint nor do I have any affiliation with them.
I live in Arizona and my bedroom regularly sits between 82 and 88 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer because I'm too cheap to use A/C that heavily. When these guys say 86f is appalling it makes me think they live a very sheltered life.
Android already does this, and has done it for a long time. There are free apps, paid apps, and apps that are ad supported in which the developer gets a cut of the revenue.
BUT WHY? Any user who wants data and voice over copper can already do it. ATT is complaining about costs and your solution is to INCREASE them? And probably reduce the reliability?
I think the reason they're complaining about cost though is because they still have to maintain lines that people no longer want to subscribe to. So, give people more reason to want to subscribe to it.
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That won't work because "best for the nation" and "general welfare" are highly subjective. Every time a patent clerk reviewed a patent, he would have to ask himself "is this for the best of the nation?" What would you do in that case, if the patent office were all conservatives? Or all liberals? Or all ?
Laws are only effective when they are codified.
What the hell are you talking about? Gold has a lot of uses, and unlike oil, it can be recycled. A very important use of gold I can think of is for electronic interconnects/contacts. Without gold most of our electronics would have rather short expiration dates and conductivity would be less efficient.
Gold is also widely used for medicinal purposes because it is very chemically inert (doesn't oxidize.) It is also used as a lubricant where oil doesn't work (e.g. space where it vaporizes due to lack of atmospheric pressure) and unlike other metals it is extremely resilient to the harsh environment of space.
how many secrets do you think are being funneled through our multinational corporations like , i dont know, chrysler? hummer? you know hummer is owned by the Chinese now right? the same hummers that our troops are driving around in Iraq and Afghanistan while they get blown up? Why dont we put the CEO of hummer in fucking prison for corporate espionage... he didn't sell a few email lists, he sold the whole fucking company!
This is bogus.
The military doesn't drive "hummer." The military uses HMMWV, which stands for High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle, not "hummer." The name hummer is what happened when us military folk didn't want to spell out the acronym HMMWV, so instead we just say humm-vee. If you'll also notice, the predecessor to the HMMWV was the GP, for General Purpose, but military folks of that age decided to call it "jeep" rather than spell out GP.
Much like the "jeep" Crystler decided to repeat that with the hummer. One day they said "Gee, such a nice name, I think we'll make a suburban look similar to an HMMWV on the outside, while still being a turd on the inside, and then sell it to the public under the name 'hummer' and people will buy it just for the name." Yeah, I really don't care if china makes "hummers," they're pieces of shit anyways.
HMMWV's on the other hand are made in the US.
In warfare, preventing your enemies from communicating amongst themselves is desirable for a winning strategy. Imagine if it was impossible for al-qaeda to communicate with each other all throughout the 90's. 9/11 would never have happened.
A crude example, I know, but it goes to demonstrate that there is some legitimacy in preventing hostile communication.
It is walking on thin ice though. Recall in 2010 when one Zach Chesser, a muslim extremist, posted to web forums and blogs that South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker should fear becoming the next Theo Van Gogh for their depictions of mohammed. He went so far as to post the addresses of their offices where they worked as well as their home addresses. Never actually made any direct threats, not a single one. But the implication of what he was doing was quite obvious and he was sent to jail for 25 years.
No thanks. Every single time in history that any country has tried this...every time, without fail, it has blown up in the face of the population. The only ones who win are the leaders of the political party behind the movement, everybody else loses.
I'm sorry but I think you just proved anons point and their methods (while claiming contrary). Anon is using defacing and dos attacks as a form of peaceful protest. I wouldn't condone them going much further at the current time but denial of service and high profile defacing in form of protest seems like the perfect response to freedoms, rights, and liberties being slowly eroded.
That's more along the lines of censorship, because you're impairing their ability to communicate; you're doing the online equivalent of shutting them up.
Protesting in this case would be putting up your own website, explaining your side of the story, and letting everybody else decide for themselves. The common saying doesn't come to mind, but I can paraphrase: If you let everybody speak, and let everybody listen, the truth will be known. You don't get to the truth by shutting the other guy up, that isn't how democracy works.
A DDos attack is hardly attacking a web site, in reality it is no different to temporarily obstructing a corporations main entry point ie. a misdemeanour in line with disturbing the peace. Those add on charges are just abuses of the law by the law. Seriously how fucked up and ludicrous is the idea of conspiracy to commit a misdemeanour as being a serious crime
That isn't a fair comparison. A company who does business solely through its website can't do business if the website is shut down. That would be akin to people protesting wal-mart by walking into the store, forcibly removing every customer from the store, and then forbidding entry. Except even that still isn't a fair comparison either, because wal-marts might have a hundred customers in the store at once, whereas big websites like these on the other hand have a hundred thousand customers at once.
Actually HTC devices are currently locked. HTC has pledged to unlock them in the future, but right now they are currently locked tighter than a virgin pussy.
Motorola on the other hand, has already unlocked their devices. The Atrix specifically has received an update to become unlocked.
Interesting that they mention ISP's would block your ability to use other DNS servers. I don't think that, in the end, there is really anything the ISP could do to completely stop you. The worst they could do is block UDP port 53, but that wouldn't stop you from using any kind of tunneling software, especially if you did that tunneling over a secure socket.
That all falls apart once you take conspiracy theorists into consideration. People will find any reason to believe that hiding information is for nefarious purposes, no matter what. Case in point, the whole Obama birth certificate mess. The mere fact that he didn't release it earlier raised concern that he was hiding his national origins, when really there was no legitimate concern to begin with. Doesn't matter how trustworthy the government becomes. And that is perfectly healthy - even the most seemingly honest government should be subject to auditing by its citizens.
That doesn't mean however that we go around endangering people's lives because of some bullshit idea that all information should be free. Or even worse, those who want the information leaked just so that they can go out of their way to find fault in what a previous politician did, no matter how many lives it endangers, merely because they happened to hate that politician (vis a vis, Bush)
Has Microsoft created a "fat binary" format, the way Apple did for its migration from PowerPC to Intel?
I'm mainly learning .NET because it's a requirement as part of my university degree in management information systems. I wanted to learn regular C++ or Java as those have tons of applications, but .NET, and more specifically C# is required for pretty much any computer related degree these days. Whether this is due to lobbying by MS or due to many businesses using it, I don't have any idea, just it's that the university requires it.
I found a rather informative article about Ben Schumin
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Ben_Schumin
Well western union, moneygram, and other cash wiring services are typically used for all sorts of scams where the victims money can never be recovered. I'd imagine they could demand payment that way.
The thing is that US has now control about the internet (top level domains) and this can be a powerful tool to push its IP laws on other countries.
Except the US doesn't do this. Theoretically we could shut down enemy countries if we wanted to, but we don't even do that.
Simply put I'd rather leave the internet in the hands of those who have a proven track record of non interference no matter the circumstances, than hand it over to those who have made it clear that they want to interfere.
Whereas the status quo does not. In Europe it is common to have bureaucrats who put into place censorship in the form of hate speech laws which don't have any clear cut boundaries (who gets to decide what kind of speech is hateful?) and I'd rather not have them be enforced for "the benefit of humanity." Besides, I don't see such a treaty being signed by countries such as Iran, China, Cuba, etc.
In other words, this sounds like a bad idea.
Aren't there already existing medical treatments based on somatic stem cell research, whereas embryonic stem cell research hasn't yielded anything useful yet? Keep in mind this is the whole world were talking about here, not just in the US, so the "because there is no federal funding" argument doesn't apply.
And since somatic stem cells have no issues with donor-host rejection, I'd figure them to be more promising anyways. It may be for the best that taxpayer money goes towards research that is providing actual results, rather than research that isn't.
The internet sure has fucked up our economy.
In a way it kind of did once. Remember the dot-com bubble? Basically a huge clusterfuck of businesses, small and large, who were built upon the idea that the internet can deliver you anything and everything in a completely practical manner. Pets.com is a prime example of what parts of the internet actually were a fad. So were a ton of other businesses that offered random crap for free based entirely on an ad supported revenue, with many of them selling ads to each other, or even paying you to surf the net in exchange for viewing ads.
But unless they can fully simulate boob physics proper, it's all for nothing.
Depends on the carrier and depends on the phone. I've compared my monthly rate with sprint to t-mobiles monthly rate where there is no subsidy, and my cost is still lower, in spite of having a subsidized phone.
In general I hate the razer business model, especially when it comes to printers and ink, but for cell phones it isn't quite as cut and dry of a loss.
BTW my phone is an HTC Hero, sells for $400 without contracts in europe (I'm not even sure if you can get it that low even,) while I got it for $80 thanks to the sprint subsidies, all while I pay $30 for a plan that costs $45 on t-mobile. It isn't an employee plan either, I don't work for sprint nor do I have any affiliation with them.
And in the UK, he would have paid higher taxes and received inferior care.
I live in Arizona and my bedroom regularly sits between 82 and 88 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer because I'm too cheap to use A/C that heavily. When these guys say 86f is appalling it makes me think they live a very sheltered life.
Android already does this, and has done it for a long time. There are free apps, paid apps, and apps that are ad supported in which the developer gets a cut of the revenue.
BUT WHY? Any user who wants data and voice over copper can already do it. ATT is complaining about costs and your solution is to INCREASE them? And probably reduce the reliability?
I think the reason they're complaining about cost though is because they still have to maintain lines that people no longer want to subscribe to. So, give people more reason to want to subscribe to it.