Funny how so much of the web was rolled out by major media entities, only to have it bite the hand that fed it.
Replace "media entities" with "military industrial complex". I think they've had a greater role in creating the internet and have come under a lot more scrutiny than the media because of it.
Yeah, good point, I can't think of any reason why someone would feel uncomfortable presenting an ID at a bar popular with gays.
I don't have the time to research what your culture's attitude toward gays is, so I'll assume you're not trolling and reply to your post. This is in a town/province/country in which (I believe) there are less *literal* gay bashers than people who are friends with gays or can stand to go to the same bar as gays. And not everyone who visits a gay-friendly bar here gets divorced/fired/forced to resign/prosecuted or even teased by their mates.
That's not to say there aren't enough gay-bashers to make some people uncomfortable. As I said, the ID issue may turn off *some* potential customers, but they seem to be doing brisk business.
So for the most part, I agree: I can't think of any reason why many people would feel uncomfortable presenting an ID at a bar popular with gays.
You can ask your customers to present a photo ID before purchasing anything, and if they exercise their right to refuse to provide the identification, then you exercise your right to refuse service. Once you have the photo ID, you can find out you can examine your surveillance videos and if you notice they did anything suspicious, you can forward the information to the police.
Now, you might say that such a tactic is crazy as no one wants to provide an ID just to buy a DVD or a video game.
I know of a bar that does exactly this, in order to keep their customers safe from assault (a bar popular with gays). I expect this turns some people away, but it probably retains more customers who appreciate the safer setting.
a search by a private person (when you are an invitee on to their property) does not violate any substantive rights you have.
It does when they back it up with unlawful arrest. It's been said about ten time in here: it's not illegal to request to search someone, it's illegal to detail them without cause if they refuse.
The obedience you see is a result of very effective social engineering to make people believe they do have the right to search people.
I wonder what it says about demographics when it comes to the performance of social engineering, when slashdot seems to be overwhelming in support of Michael Righi, while the most common fark comment on the same article seems to be "why didn't the douche just show the receipt?"
...On the other hand, stores which are "clubs" can have their own sets of rules which you may unknowingly agree to; Sam's Club being one of them.
IANAL, but I believe this would fall under contract law, which I do have some training in: you'd be breaking the contract, so they could kick you out of the club and demand you leave (as a trespasser), sue you for damages based on the breach of contract, and/or take some other civil action. I doubt that breach of contract allows them to forcibly detain you. Maybe some lawyer can confirm or deny.
...i would very much dare you to prove that even after you did what you describe that after that, there are NO watermarks left.
Yeah, since it is next to impossible to prove that there are *no* watermarks left, maybe their best strategy is to just announce that there are watermarks, but not actually do it. People would spend all their time trying to find the nonexistent watermark (perpetually unsuccessfully) while being afraid to share files.
Similar to how you don't need actually need land or naval mines to have the desired effect, you only need a credible press release.
Even though you post as AC, I totally believe you.
Although I'd expect Firefox users to be more picky about what they buy (and less swayed by advertising), I would expect them to have more income and, therefore, generate more sales.
Maybe you're looking for "The Death of Dynamic Range", which gives plots of a number of samples of music, from Bryan Adams' 1982 album which peaked at 75% of full scale, to Willie Nelson's 1988 disc which had *one* 100% peak, through to Amy Grant's 1992 album which had multiple clipped peaks and The Rembrandts (1995) with its continual hard clipping at 96%(!), finishing with the "audio carnage" of Ricky Martin.
http://www.mindspring.com/~mrichter/dynamics/dynam ics.htm
I've been using Vmware Fusion + Ubuntu for about 2 months and it seems very stable, even with some pretty intensive applications (Matlab number crunching). There was a USB issue, but it was fixed before I even figured out there was a problem. The only thing I haven't been able to get working is getting a folder to sharing folders between OS X and Ubuntu, but I haven't tried very hard.
using taxes to artificially distort markets into what some people in Europe would call socially egalitarian outcomes is generally very bad economic policy since it masks the inefficiencies of particular economic choices from the consumers actually making them resulting in a dead weight loss to the economy
That would be nice in a dream world where all external costs were internalized. You could call it a tax on pollution or you could call it an attempt to internalize some of the costs of pollution.
If you aren't using strong encryption and locked-down systems, it is your own fault anyway. And if you are managing everything like that you are getting probed 100 times a day. Sort of like living in a castle, huh?
Face it, to use the Internet intelligently you have to have a "fortress mentality."
As far as the average user goes, I'd say an analogy for intelligent internet is closer to "don't let strangers into the house, don't give out the house key to everyone you meet, and don't send sensitive documents by postcard". You may call this a "fortress mentality", but I wouldn't.
Moore's law only applies to the number of transistors on a chip at a given price range. I'd imagine that at this price point, the case, screen, keyboard and connectors become a more significant cost than the transistors on the chips.
"god" is increasingly used by atheists and agnostics who wish to use God as a rhetorical device(which is necessary to use many popular idioms) while explicitly showing that they do not intend to express any sort of faith in the Christian God.
Capitalizing "God" doesn't imply respect or belief. It is a proper noun.
Same as if I named my dog "Dog". If you don't believe I have a dog you would type, "I don't believe in Dog," or, "I don't believe in your dog."
However, I don't think the same follows for capitalizing "Him" and "He" when referring to God. If anyone can enlighten me as to the grammatical grounds for this, I'd like to know.
Lazarus Long is consistently wrong. He claims that peace and freedom are mutually exclusive but if you took a graph of our freedom you'd find that the greatest drops are during wartime.
Peace and freedom AND freedom and war can both be mutually exclusive.
Wow. In one sentence you deride the grandparent for proposing biodiesel as being "incompatible", which will run in hundreds of commonly available vehicles and is available at the pumps in a number of locatons. Then you suggest "hydrogen...fully electric battery/capacitor/flywheel vehicles". I think you have some explaining to do.
Right now the best Ultracaps store 5-10 Wh/kg, which means they could only store enough energy to power a car for a few miles.
This may be an impediment if you're thinking about plug-ins, but if you're talking about hybrids the story changes. The major improvements from hybrid powerplants are load balancing by allowing the engine to run at the optimum operating point and by regenerative braking. Neither of these have large storage requirements: all you need to get the regenerative braking benefits is to be able to store enough energy to accelerate back to the speed you were at when you hit the brakes.
How come does it seem like all the summaries lately have to have a cliffhanger? I'm all for reading the articles, but give us the results. This is a news site, not a murder-mystery.
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Can you please post a list of the remaining 1% and their hashes?
I don't have the time to research what your culture's attitude toward gays is, so I'll assume you're not trolling and reply to your post. This is in a town/province/country in which (I believe) there are less *literal* gay bashers than people who are friends with gays or can stand to go to the same bar as gays. And not everyone who visits a gay-friendly bar here gets divorced/fired/forced to resign/prosecuted or even teased by their mates.
That's not to say there aren't enough gay-bashers to make some people uncomfortable. As I said, the ID issue may turn off *some* potential customers, but they seem to be doing brisk business.
So for the most part, I agree: I can't think of any reason why many people would feel uncomfortable presenting an ID at a bar popular with gays.
I know of a bar that does exactly this, in order to keep their customers safe from assault (a bar popular with gays). I expect this turns some people away, but it probably retains more customers who appreciate the safer setting.
Wow, an everyday, practical example of "Schrodinger's cat".
IANAL, but I believe this would fall under contract law, which I do have some training in: you'd be breaking the contract, so they could kick you out of the club and demand you leave (as a trespasser), sue you for damages based on the breach of contract, and/or take some other civil action. I doubt that breach of contract allows them to forcibly detain you. Maybe some lawyer can confirm or deny.
Try to throw your tapes in a pile *without the cartridge* and see what kind of condition they come out in.
Yeah, since it is next to impossible to prove that there are *no* watermarks left, maybe their best strategy is to just announce that there are watermarks, but not actually do it. People would spend all their time trying to find the nonexistent watermark (perpetually unsuccessfully) while being afraid to share files.
Similar to how you don't need actually need land or naval mines to have the desired effect, you only need a credible press release.
Although I'd expect Firefox users to be more picky about what they buy (and less swayed by advertising), I would expect them to have more income and, therefore, generate more sales.
I don't know how it is where you live, but none of the Wal-marts near me have public sidewalks anywhere near them.
Maybe you're looking for "The Death of Dynamic Range", which gives plots of a number of samples of music, from Bryan Adams' 1982 album which peaked at 75% of full scale, to Willie Nelson's 1988 disc which had *one* 100% peak, through to Amy Grant's 1992 album which had multiple clipped peaks and The Rembrandts (1995) with its continual hard clipping at 96%(!), finishing with the "audio carnage" of Ricky Martin. http://www.mindspring.com/~mrichter/dynamics/dynam ics.htm
I've been using Vmware Fusion + Ubuntu for about 2 months and it seems very stable, even with some pretty intensive applications (Matlab number crunching). There was a USB issue, but it was fixed before I even figured out there was a problem. The only thing I haven't been able to get working is getting a folder to sharing folders between OS X and Ubuntu, but I haven't tried very hard.
Carl: Yeah, but what about Johnny Mathis versus diet pepsi?
Moe: Oh, I cannot listen to this again!
Copyrights are an incentive that societies use to promote creative work, not an inalienable human right.
Moore's law only applies to the number of transistors on a chip at a given price range. I'd imagine that at this price point, the case, screen, keyboard and connectors become a more significant cost than the transistors on the chips.
Capitalizing "God" doesn't imply respect or belief. It is a proper noun.
Same as if I named my dog "Dog". If you don't believe I have a dog you would type, "I don't believe in Dog," or, "I don't believe in your dog."
However, I don't think the same follows for capitalizing "Him" and "He" when referring to God. If anyone can enlighten me as to the grammatical grounds for this, I'd like to know.
Peace and freedom AND freedom and war can both be mutually exclusive.
Wow. In one sentence you deride the grandparent for proposing biodiesel as being "incompatible", which will run in hundreds of commonly available vehicles and is available at the pumps in a number of locatons. Then you suggest "hydrogen...fully electric battery/capacitor/flywheel vehicles". I think you have some explaining to do.
Who polices the police? The police police police the police. But who polices the police police? The police police police...