All ramps are legally required to be of a sufficient length for any properly maintained car to reach merging speed. If you are having problems there are 3 possible causes:
There are no legal definitions of ramps nor any uniform standards enforceable across all the states for the length of them. And this doesn't begin to discount the fact that the highways and ramps were generally built generations ago when those antique cars were the normal top of the line transportation. Your possibilities are a bust.
That would be a no.3. You are supposed to accelerate around the curve before you get to the straightaway you life endangering dumbass.
Idiot, you cannot go faster then the car in front of you and when they are slowing down to exist, your entire argument just became fucked. This is not to mention that most Clover loop ramps have a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour until the point it straightens up for the merge.
Are you even an experienced driver? I mean fuck, if you have ever driven in these areas, you certainly wouldn't be posting such obvious dribble unless you were trying to troll. At this point, I think I can accurately guess you are not American and never stepped foot in the US or your driving experience is limited to your mom driving you around outside of sitting on a school bus.
the mpg rating in Europe is using a gallon that is about 20% larger then in the US. A 54 mpg car in England would be equivalent to a 45mpg car in the US.
The US gallon is not the same size as Europe's. A US gallon is equal to 3.785 liters where the imperial gallon is equal to 4.546 liters. So its really an apple to oranges comparison keeping it that way.
The have free speech as long as the government allows it. There is no constitution or anything other the law restricting the government from limiting their speech rights. Unfortunately, with law, it can be changed with another law.
Canada is in a similar boat. They have a constitution protecting their free speech but it allows the government to define a reason to violate free speech and implement laws doing so..
Horse power and torque are not independent of each other. Horse power is derived from torque in that torque is the amount of force at a wheel. Hp is that force over time (torque at rpm). The are in essence a function of each other.
You cannot increase torque without increasing HP or shortening the time it is available and the reverse is somewhat true too. The more HP you have at a given time (2000 rpm) the more torque you will have unless friction steps in and robs you.
Anyone can merge if the ramp is long enough. The problem the op described was the short ramps in which i find new 4 cylinder cars have difficulty getting up to speed. There are a lot of clover loop ramps in the east and mid west. These are particularly problematic because you have to merge on the off ramp of the same lane you are trying to pull into. You are literally trying to get up to speed while dodging people slowing down to exit.
Also, the older 4 and 6 cyl engines were something wanting compared the v8 engines. The automatic transmissions of the time seemed to amplify this lacking of abilities quit a bit. It was still noticeably in standard shift cars but not as drastic. The old lady in question is probably going from experience over the years. I have driven some pretty peppy 4 cylinder cars and some v6 engines that would rival a v8. To this day, I'm still skeptical about small engines and automatic transmissions until I drive them and see it isn't the crap of yesteryear.
Or perhaps having a compliance layer added so people who want to write software for several distros can write to the compliance layer and the the distributions worry about making it work. I'm think something like what DirectX did for games interacting with video, sound and network drivers instead of have to configure a game itself to use the devices on windows. Perhaps this concept could be expanded to other aspects of the operating system and components so it is a write for one run for all scenario?.
Well, when he made comments about US politicians and the complaints rolled in about how it makes Linux appear in the eyes of the public and the future willingness of government to adopt OSS software, Linus was described like an insignificant "has been" that isn't a key player in Linux unlike the CEO of Chik-Fil-A who is actively involved with making your chicken sandwich at every store and donates money to others who do not like gays being married.
Obviously, this is because Linux is such a diverse culture of communities and groups who are not forced to carry the same opinion about everything or everyone. But yes, the memo was sent, whether it was or is accurate or not is another story altogether.
The penalty of perjury applies only to "you are who you say you are" and that you are the owner of the copyright or an agent of the owner. If you are Joe Bloe or Tommy Two-Fingers, and try to pass yourself off as Joe Blow in order to get something taken down, you fall within the scope. However, if you actually are Joe Blow,
Now I can see where needing to be the copyright holder or an agent of the copyright holder could create a problem when the material in question is not the copyrighted materials it is thought to be, but this doesn't seem to be the intent. For instance, if you took the song Angie by the rolling stones and change the name to Mandy, while not identical, the copyright would still hold true. If you change enough of it, the copyright may not apply at all. So the concept is that you own a copyright and who you say you are in regards to that copyright. The concept of the content actually violating or infringing the copyright is another story altogether and doesn't fall within the scope of the DMCA. Also you have issues of fair use which can take an identical copy of something copyrighted and make it a legitimate use not infringing or violating your copyright at all.
The DMCA is not about settling copyright disputes. It's about what network and service operators can do to limit harm and not become liable to any take down or copyright infringment while you are settling the disputes properly through the other laws and remedies..
You bring up some well thought out and accurate in theory points. I don't neccesarily disagree with them but want to add some things.
For Google, while you are correct, is also entwined with copyrights and will rely on the grace of others with copyrights as part of their business model. To this point, I doubt they will be willing to act on the false take down claims unless it's a seriously egregious act that damages their business or business model more then keeping other copyright holders happy helps it. In short, unless copyright holders are pissed enough at the take downs, I doubt Google will risk tipping the cart.
For the DMCA, I actually agree except for the provisions concerning dissemination of content control breaking apparatuses or circumvention technology. I have some old Proprietary software that hasn't even been made within the last 10-15 years. It is locked with dongles that attach to the serial or printer ports and I should be able to purchase an aftermarket USB substitute dongle or find the information to convert the old dongle to a USB format in order to use on modern computers instead of searching endlessly for used equipment in a vein attempt to keep an ancient (by modern computing standard) system usable. I should be able to crack the proprietary controls and export the information on it and bring it into something more usable in a modern age, and I should be able to search the internet to find where others have done this and work from there or even collaborate with others who might be faced with the same issues without running afoul of the law.
I do agree though, that laws will only keep honest people honest and will not stop dishonest people from breaking them. This is why I cringe every time there is a shooting or something and someone wants to make guns illegal as if the would be criminals would automagically obey that law when planning on breaking the other more serious laws about murder.
As for reforms, Most people do not realize this, but the DMCA is the result of two WIPO (world intellectual property organization) treaties. The WCT and WPPT which describe a country's obligations to make laws covering the provisions in the treaties or honor other country's laws when they signed on but failed to take the appropriate steps. This is why the US seems to think it can enforce the DMCA anywhere it wants (deported citizens of other countries who violated the provisions but not a law in the country they resided in) and why the most other countries try to create their own DMCA like law that causes so much public outrage that they drop it for a few years and try it again.
The point being, if any substantial changes are desired to the existing DMCA, then changes to these WIPO treaties will likely need to occur too.
You took your box copy of doom to school with you? The first thing I would do when any software I got on a floppy was diskcopy it to another floppy then put the originals away. It took several years before I could do that with my CDs, but I still do it as much as I can.
ha.. nice to see that old trick wasn't lost. We did it in windows 95/98 and with the "internet wall paper" where you could set a website as your desktop, you could also hide all the icons in the desktop settings. You could do it in windows ME too but I think I grew out of it before trying it on anything newer.
We also used to take the Key mapper and turn the L into a K so people would run around saying there no L on the computer near Christmas time.
If you wrongly claim to own the copyright or be the agent of someone who does, there is a penalty under the perjury clause. If you wrongly claim you are the person who the notice was targeting or an agent of them, the same exists.
However, the validity of the take down notice as in the actual content is what you claim or that the use of it was an actual violation of the copyright does not carry an explicit penalty under the DMCA. This is because the DMCA is not really about the claims, copyright, or fair use, but a way for network and service providers to act on the claims without becoming liable themselves.
Practically speaking, anyone who is the victim of a fraudulent claim can sue the person who made the claim for damages. If they pretend they are in collusion with the service provider and it wasn't a DMCA take , then the service or network provider that disabled access to the service is not shielded from liability either. Unfortunately, often the damages are far less then the cost of suing or the resources someone might have available to push the buttons.
I actually understand a lot about both. Perhaps that angers you because you think you identify with one of the other?
However, I wanna give you props for your well defined and articulated argument. Who would ever know that such intelligence could put forth an enlightened argument that boils down to calling someone racist and avoiding the topic altogether. That's a sign of real intelligence in this day and age.
I understand that holding religious ideals while associating with science is sacrilege to the atheist and all, but if that's all he has done wrong, then you guys need to stop being scared. He has done nothing counter to his position while in the capacity of it... At least no one can seem to point to anything..
He's a sitting member of congress and evidently has been for a while. if he was going to do something stupid over his beliefs (that i thin k was more pandering to a specific group he was in front of then anything), don't you think he would have already started?
The guy can't do too much damage, he isn't the only person on the comity and committees do not make laws. Well, they word them, but it takes the rest of congress plus a senate and usually the president to make a law. The system is designed with fault tolerances.
You do realize that stoning someone is a law in the bible that needs to be not observed right? The bible is divided into covenants or pacts that god man with certain people. Each new covenant brought different requirement of laws.
Stoning was tossed out with Jesus. He commanded that only those without sin can cast the first stone but his entire premise is that no man is without sin which is why he died on the cross and Christians ask for forgiveness by accepting Jesus.
I'm not sure how you got confused, but it put some other things you seem to belive into doubt
lol.. But the bible doe not say the earth is young. Nowhere in it does it say it was created on X day 6000 some years ago nor does it try to. the 6000 figure is some dogma derived from someone counting the age of the major players in the bible.
And if you wanted to counter this guy in a way that would really set him back, instead of arguing from the side he already considers evil or trying to insult him, just say that God created that so man could be the master of his domain. Genesis tells us that mankind has dominion over all the animals and the earth and when presented with a problem, we would need a way to understand it in order to retain dominion over earth. Therefore evolution and the big bang had to be created by god in the creation of man and man's dominion.
What has this guy done that would make him disqualified from the post he serves? The comment isn't enough as it is easily dismissed as pandering to a specific crowd. Even if he did truly believe it with all his intellect and heart, what has he done that is detrimental because of it?
It is not impossible to hold conflicting ideas or beliefs. It is something even children do easily when they play the same games on different devices like the Xbox or Playstation or PC.
Education doesn't need to shield people from religious indoctrination. It needs to give people the tools to understand how the world works so they can be productive and make use of it.
I think his point was more to the system then a school.
The national government wasn't involved in schooling until the national defense education act in 1957 or so. It standardized what schools should be teaching. We even created a national assessment program shortly after that is still around today. Our 17 year old student test about the same as they did in 1978 BTW. Jimmy carter signed the department of education into law the year after with the intent of the usde improving scores and the quality of education but only managing to maintain the status quot for the most part.
The system can be fixed, but i doubt most of us would miss it if it disappeared. I doubt if much would change.
Law enforcement is largely a state and local issue, not a federal government issue. Army is one of those small government ideas that are actually enshrined in the Constitution. Anti-monopoly laws, well we have seen how well those have worked out in the recent past. Congress does have the power to regulate interstate commerce and could extend state laws beyond borders to deal with monopolies though.
AS for the Canadian overlords, didn't something like that already happen when we had almost no standing army once? Or am I think of some Hollywood movie called 1812? If I was, it was a good one, they invaded Washington DC and captured the White House while most people weren't paying attention.
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There are no legal definitions of ramps nor any uniform standards enforceable across all the states for the length of them. And this doesn't begin to discount the fact that the highways and ramps were generally built generations ago when those antique cars were the normal top of the line transportation. Your possibilities are a bust.
Idiot, you cannot go faster then the car in front of you and when they are slowing down to exist, your entire argument just became fucked. This is not to mention that most Clover loop ramps have a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour until the point it straightens up for the merge.
Are you even an experienced driver? I mean fuck, if you have ever driven in these areas, you certainly wouldn't be posting such obvious dribble unless you were trying to troll. At this point, I think I can accurately guess you are not American and never stepped foot in the US or your driving experience is limited to your mom driving you around outside of sitting on a school bus.
the mpg rating in Europe is using a gallon that is about 20% larger then in the US. A 54 mpg car in England would be equivalent to a 45mpg car in the US.
The US gallon is not the same size as Europe's. A US gallon is equal to 3.785 liters where the imperial gallon is equal to 4.546 liters. So its really an apple to oranges comparison keeping it that way.
The have free speech as long as the government allows it. There is no constitution or anything other the law restricting the government from limiting their speech rights. Unfortunately, with law, it can be changed with another law.
Canada is in a similar boat. They have a constitution protecting their free speech but it allows the government to define a reason to violate free speech and implement laws doing so..
Horse power and torque are not independent of each other. Horse power is derived from torque in that torque is the amount of force at a wheel. Hp is that force over time (torque at rpm). The are in essence a function of each other.
You cannot increase torque without increasing HP or shortening the time it is available and the reverse is somewhat true too. The more HP you have at a given time (2000 rpm) the more torque you will have unless friction steps in and robs you.
The SLD looks really interesting. Thanks.. I didn't know it existed.
Perhaps I need to look at it and Linux again.
Anyone can merge if the ramp is long enough. The problem the op described was the short ramps in which i find new 4 cylinder cars have difficulty getting up to speed. There are a lot of clover loop ramps in the east and mid west. These are particularly problematic because you have to merge on the off ramp of the same lane you are trying to pull into. You are literally trying to get up to speed while dodging people slowing down to exit.
Also, the older 4 and 6 cyl engines were something wanting compared the v8 engines. The automatic transmissions of the time seemed to amplify this lacking of abilities quit a bit. It was still noticeably in standard shift cars but not as drastic. The old lady in question is probably going from experience over the years. I have driven some pretty peppy 4 cylinder cars and some v6 engines that would rival a v8. To this day, I'm still skeptical about small engines and automatic transmissions until I drive them and see it isn't the crap of yesteryear.
Or perhaps having a compliance layer added so people who want to write software for several distros can write to the compliance layer and the the distributions worry about making it work. I'm think something like what DirectX did for games interacting with video, sound and network drivers instead of have to configure a game itself to use the devices on windows. Perhaps this concept could be expanded to other aspects of the operating system and components so it is a write for one run for all scenario?.
Well, when he made comments about US politicians and the complaints rolled in about how it makes Linux appear in the eyes of the public and the future willingness of government to adopt OSS software, Linus was described like an insignificant "has been" that isn't a key player in Linux unlike the CEO of Chik-Fil-A who is actively involved with making your chicken sandwich at every store and donates money to others who do not like gays being married.
Obviously, this is because Linux is such a diverse culture of communities and groups who are not forced to carry the same opinion about everything or everyone. But yes, the memo was sent, whether it was or is accurate or not is another story altogether.
The penalty of perjury applies only to "you are who you say you are" and that you are the owner of the copyright or an agent of the owner. If you are Joe Bloe or Tommy Two-Fingers, and try to pass yourself off as Joe Blow in order to get something taken down, you fall within the scope. However, if you actually are Joe Blow,
Now I can see where needing to be the copyright holder or an agent of the copyright holder could create a problem when the material in question is not the copyrighted materials it is thought to be, but this doesn't seem to be the intent. For instance, if you took the song Angie by the rolling stones and change the name to Mandy, while not identical, the copyright would still hold true. If you change enough of it, the copyright may not apply at all. So the concept is that you own a copyright and who you say you are in regards to that copyright. The concept of the content actually violating or infringing the copyright is another story altogether and doesn't fall within the scope of the DMCA. Also you have issues of fair use which can take an identical copy of something copyrighted and make it a legitimate use not infringing or violating your copyright at all.
The DMCA is not about settling copyright disputes. It's about what network and service operators can do to limit harm and not become liable to any take down or copyright infringment while you are settling the disputes properly through the other laws and remedies..
You bring up some well thought out and accurate in theory points. I don't neccesarily disagree with them but want to add some things.
For Google, while you are correct, is also entwined with copyrights and will rely on the grace of others with copyrights as part of their business model. To this point, I doubt they will be willing to act on the false take down claims unless it's a seriously egregious act that damages their business or business model more then keeping other copyright holders happy helps it. In short, unless copyright holders are pissed enough at the take downs, I doubt Google will risk tipping the cart.
For the DMCA, I actually agree except for the provisions concerning dissemination of content control breaking apparatuses or circumvention technology. I have some old Proprietary software that hasn't even been made within the last 10-15 years. It is locked with dongles that attach to the serial or printer ports and I should be able to purchase an aftermarket USB substitute dongle or find the information to convert the old dongle to a USB format in order to use on modern computers instead of searching endlessly for used equipment in a vein attempt to keep an ancient (by modern computing standard) system usable. I should be able to crack the proprietary controls and export the information on it and bring it into something more usable in a modern age, and I should be able to search the internet to find where others have done this and work from there or even collaborate with others who might be faced with the same issues without running afoul of the law.
I do agree though, that laws will only keep honest people honest and will not stop dishonest people from breaking them. This is why I cringe every time there is a shooting or something and someone wants to make guns illegal as if the would be criminals would automagically obey that law when planning on breaking the other more serious laws about murder.
As for reforms, Most people do not realize this, but the DMCA is the result of two WIPO (world intellectual property organization) treaties. The WCT and WPPT which describe a country's obligations to make laws covering the provisions in the treaties or honor other country's laws when they signed on but failed to take the appropriate steps. This is why the US seems to think it can enforce the DMCA anywhere it wants (deported citizens of other countries who violated the provisions but not a law in the country they resided in) and why the most other countries try to create their own DMCA like law that causes so much public outrage that they drop it for a few years and try it again.
The point being, if any substantial changes are desired to the existing DMCA, then changes to these WIPO treaties will likely need to occur too.
You took your box copy of doom to school with you? The first thing I would do when any software I got on a floppy was diskcopy it to another floppy then put the originals away. It took several years before I could do that with my CDs, but I still do it as much as I can.
ha.. nice to see that old trick wasn't lost. We did it in windows 95/98 and with the "internet wall paper" where you could set a website as your desktop, you could also hide all the icons in the desktop settings. You could do it in windows ME too but I think I grew out of it before trying it on anything newer.
We also used to take the Key mapper and turn the L into a K so people would run around saying there no L on the computer near Christmas time.
If you wrongly claim to own the copyright or be the agent of someone who does, there is a penalty under the perjury clause. If you wrongly claim you are the person who the notice was targeting or an agent of them, the same exists.
However, the validity of the take down notice as in the actual content is what you claim or that the use of it was an actual violation of the copyright does not carry an explicit penalty under the DMCA. This is because the DMCA is not really about the claims, copyright, or fair use, but a way for network and service providers to act on the claims without becoming liable themselves.
Practically speaking, anyone who is the victim of a fraudulent claim can sue the person who made the claim for damages. If they pretend they are in collusion with the service provider and it wasn't a DMCA take , then the service or network provider that disabled access to the service is not shielded from liability either. Unfortunately, often the damages are far less then the cost of suing or the resources someone might have available to push the buttons.
what is a "lamar smith"?
I actually understand a lot about both. Perhaps that angers you because you think you identify with one of the other?
However, I wanna give you props for your well defined and articulated argument. Who would ever know that such intelligence could put forth an enlightened argument that boils down to calling someone racist and avoiding the topic altogether. That's a sign of real intelligence in this day and age.
I understand that holding religious ideals while associating with science is sacrilege to the atheist and all, but if that's all he has done wrong, then you guys need to stop being scared. He has done nothing counter to his position while in the capacity of it... At least no one can seem to point to anything..
He's a sitting member of congress and evidently has been for a while. if he was going to do something stupid over his beliefs (that i thin k was more pandering to a specific group he was in front of then anything), don't you think he would have already started?
The guy can't do too much damage, he isn't the only person on the comity and committees do not make laws. Well, they word them, but it takes the rest of congress plus a senate and usually the president to make a law. The system is designed with fault tolerances.
anyone know if it can be turned off? I got some crap that gets broken with new versions of reader.
Maybe i'll just have to switch browsers.
That's what I'm asking, what was done? What has happened to make it enforced on others? Surely just stating the opinion is not enough.
condone or condemn? Either way, it is not supported by the bible. Do not confuse what people do with a law in the bible.
You do realize that stoning someone is a law in the bible that needs to be not observed right? The bible is divided into covenants or pacts that god man with certain people. Each new covenant brought different requirement of laws.
Stoning was tossed out with Jesus. He commanded that only those without sin can cast the first stone but his entire premise is that no man is without sin which is why he died on the cross and Christians ask for forgiveness by accepting Jesus.
I'm not sure how you got confused, but it put some other things you seem to belive into doubt
lol.. But the bible doe not say the earth is young. Nowhere in it does it say it was created on X day 6000 some years ago nor does it try to. the 6000 figure is some dogma derived from someone counting the age of the major players in the bible.
And if you wanted to counter this guy in a way that would really set him back, instead of arguing from the side he already considers evil or trying to insult him, just say that God created that so man could be the master of his domain. Genesis tells us that mankind has dominion over all the animals and the earth and when presented with a problem, we would need a way to understand it in order to retain dominion over earth. Therefore evolution and the big bang had to be created by god in the creation of man and man's dominion.
What has this guy done that would make him disqualified from the post he serves? The comment isn't enough as it is easily dismissed as pandering to a specific crowd. Even if he did truly believe it with all his intellect and heart, what has he done that is detrimental because of it?
It is not impossible to hold conflicting ideas or beliefs. It is something even children do easily when they play the same games on different devices like the Xbox or Playstation or PC.
Education doesn't need to shield people from religious indoctrination. It needs to give people the tools to understand how the world works so they can be productive and make use of it.
I think his point was more to the system then a school.
The national government wasn't involved in schooling until the national defense education act in 1957 or so. It standardized what schools should be teaching. We even created a national assessment program shortly after that is still around today. Our 17 year old student test about the same as they did in 1978 BTW. Jimmy carter signed the department of education into law the year after with the intent of the usde improving scores and the quality of education but only managing to maintain the status quot for the most part.
The system can be fixed, but i doubt most of us would miss it if it disappeared. I doubt if much would change.
Law enforcement is largely a state and local issue, not a federal government issue. Army is one of those small government ideas that are actually enshrined in the Constitution. Anti-monopoly laws, well we have seen how well those have worked out in the recent past. Congress does have the power to regulate interstate commerce and could extend state laws beyond borders to deal with monopolies though.
AS for the Canadian overlords, didn't something like that already happen when we had almost no standing army once? Or am I think of some Hollywood movie called 1812? If I was, it was a good one, they invaded Washington DC and captured the White House while most people weren't paying attention.