On the other hand, if you phone is stolen, the phone company will go mute. No amount of convincing will get the location information out of them. There have been cases where people were kidnapped, but the telco wouldn't give the police location information for the phone.
You could also clone their phone before the crime. Then you only have to jam their original phone.
Anyway, people have been convicted and executed on shakier evidence than phone records. All the prosecutor has to do is convince the jury that you had the phone on you, and you'll be convicted. Remember, the DA just has to convince, he doesn't have to prove.
People who are closer to neurologically normal are able to decide what things *are just wrong*.
There's difference between being "normal" and "correct". Just because you hold a normal view doesn't mean you are correct. See the history of slavery and woman's suffrage in the US.
Birth mothers and baby daddies don't parents make. You can be a parent without ever participating in the creation of a person, and you can work with someone to create a person without being a parent.
I think it's safe to say that many in the pron industry didn't have proper parents while growing up.
True. When I was called for Federal Jury duty, the paperwork specifically said that the Judge would tell the jury what the law was. We weren't supposed to use our own knowledge of the law.
It was a boring trial that would have devolved into "he said", "she said", so I wasn't sad when I was released from jury duty. I'd really like to sit on an important case, because I believe in jury nullification. i.e. one of the principles that this country was founded on.
The problem is that there are products that people want, but they don't know they want it. Art is the classic example. Do you want a painting by Joe Shablotnic? Joe has to give away some of his art before anyone will buy it.
A problem with the internet, is there are thousands of Joe Shablotnics out there, and they all are giving away their art. A consumer can simple move from one Joe to another as each starts to charge for his work. Soon, no-one can make any money.
As far as the free companies failing, 4/5 of all companies fail in the first five years, so this isn't surprising.
I can get almost every movie I want (older titles) borrowed, used, or from the library. VHS tapes wear out much faster than DVDs, and even when a DVD gets scratched, a little polishing compound will bring it back. I saw some DVDs at Staples that would self destruct after 48 hours. For $0.25 - $0.99 I might have tried one, but the titles were terrible and they wanted $5.00 each. No thank you.
A lot of the online content was never available on DVD because it didn't have enough audience to justify a pressing. Online will take over because it offers relatively instant gratification, a big feature that DVD and Blu-ray can't match. People like getting what they want.
This shuts down any business that's too small to hire the service bureau. They exist. I know a guy who did $50 worth of photography business in one year. He claimed it to the IRS, and when he was audited, the auditor said, "You don't make much money on photography, do you?" (no sh*t)
The solution is to exempt really small businesses, but they don't want people to try to run 1000 small businesses that make less than $1000 each.
The founding fathers knew this, as many of them were inventors and artists, so when the crafted the Constitution the put in this clause:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Under the "Powers of Congress" section. The key here is "limited Times"
Lawrence Lessig took a case all the way to the Supreme Court, Eldred v. Ashcroft, but the court decided that 70 + lifetime with infinite extensions was "Limited", even though the founding fathers thought 14 years was limited.
Things move faster now than in colonial times. Copyright and Patents shouldn't be longer, they should be shorter than then.
The tune for the Happy Birthday song was composed in 1893, and the lyrics have been around since 1912. But since the copyright was registered in 1935, we've all been paying royalties, on it, and will forever...
Ben Bova had this same idea in "The Winds of Altair", a kids book where they go to a planet around Altair because the Earth is getting too polluted to live on. The plan to convert it's methane atmosphere to regular air, but they find inhabitants, prove they are intelligent, and decide that the methane to oxygen transmuters could convert Earth's polluted air to clean air, so they go back.
Once we can sustain a colony outside earth, we can use the same technology to live here. The real reason to leave would be political, to keep the population from being killed off by war.
Um, we can turn sunlight into hydrogen and oxygen and use that for rocket fuel. I don't see resources as being a problem even in the long term.
Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical war is another thing. Those could kill us all in a heartbeat. (Chemical is a bit a a stretch for global decimation, but the other two are in the realm of possibility)
Many terms that used to be derogatory are not anymore, some even a badge of honor. Once Bill G. became the richest person in the world, nerds became more accepted.
You have more people incarcerated in your borders than any nation in history. Why? It's good for business.
Not really, it's just good for *some* businesses. It's a prisoner's dilemma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma We'd all be somewhat better off if fewer people were in prison, but a few people can stay rich keeping the system the same as it is.
When some guy tried to pay a debt (ex-wife I think) with a barrel of pennies covered in molasses, the court decreed that you could only use so many coins. I don't know that they've said anything about one dollar bills in honey, but hey I'm sure that's not ok either.
Here's a similar case: http://www.uslaw.com/library/Family_Law/Husband_pays_alimony_pennies.php?item=246976
So, despite the legislation, only some amount of coins are legal for some part of a debt.
Don Lancaster is the guru of self publishing. He's been a traditional writer but realized that other people were making a lot of money from his creativity. (The lion's share in fact)
The book itself is a little dated, but the concepts are good, and he's translated them to the web well. By writing magazine columns, he's basically been blogging since the 70's.
The secret is to find something that you are good a creating, and make that your job in a self employed sort of way. You'll be a lot happier that way vs. the standard get a job working for someone else.
Anyway, I realize now that people thought this was an advert and took it the wrong way.
If you're going to make money, it'd be best to have product to sell, and use the blog to get information to people who might want your product. Read Don Lancaster's, "Incredible Secret Money Machine", available at http://www.tinaja.com/
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On the other hand, if you phone is stolen, the phone company will go mute. No amount of convincing will get the location information out of them. There have been cases where people were kidnapped, but the telco wouldn't give the police location information for the phone.
You could also clone their phone before the crime. Then you only have to jam their original phone.
Anyway, people have been convicted and executed on shakier evidence than phone records. All the prosecutor has to do is convince the jury that you had the phone on you, and you'll be convicted. Remember, the DA just has to convince, he doesn't have to prove.
The most important things in life are honesty and sincerity. Once you can fake those, you've got it made.
People who are closer to neurologically normal are able to decide what things *are just wrong*.
There's difference between being "normal" and "correct". Just because you hold a normal view doesn't mean you are correct. See the history of slavery and woman's suffrage in the US.
Birth mothers and baby daddies don't parents make. You can be a parent without ever participating in the creation of a person, and you can work with someone to create a person without being a parent.
I think it's safe to say that many in the pron industry didn't have proper parents while growing up.
True. When I was called for Federal Jury duty, the paperwork specifically said that the Judge would tell the jury what the law was. We weren't supposed to use our own knowledge of the law.
It was a boring trial that would have devolved into "he said", "she said", so I wasn't sad when I was released from jury duty. I'd really like to sit on an important case, because I believe in jury nullification. i.e. one of the principles that this country was founded on.
The problem is that there are products that people want, but they don't know they want it. Art is the classic example. Do you want a painting by Joe Shablotnic? Joe has to give away some of his art before anyone will buy it.
A problem with the internet, is there are thousands of Joe Shablotnics out there, and they all are giving away their art. A consumer can simple move from one Joe to another as each starts to charge for his work. Soon, no-one can make any money.
As far as the free companies failing, 4/5 of all companies fail in the first five years, so this isn't surprising.
why are DVD sales dramatically declining?
Market saturation?
I can get almost every movie I want (older titles) borrowed, used, or from the library. VHS tapes wear out much faster than DVDs, and even when a DVD gets scratched, a little polishing compound will bring it back. I saw some DVDs at Staples that would self destruct after 48 hours. For $0.25 - $0.99 I might have tried one, but the titles were terrible and they wanted $5.00 each. No thank you.
A lot of the online content was never available on DVD because it didn't have enough audience to justify a pressing. Online will take over because it offers relatively instant gratification, a big feature that DVD and Blu-ray can't match. People like getting what they want.
This shuts down any business that's too small to hire the service bureau. They exist. I know a guy who did $50 worth of photography business in one year. He claimed it to the IRS, and when he was audited, the auditor said, "You don't make much money on photography, do you?" (no sh*t)
The solution is to exempt really small businesses, but they don't want people to try to run 1000 small businesses that make less than $1000 each.
Here's a more direct link to the "Happy Birthday" song. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
"Happy Birthday" is the most famous, it was even mentioned during Eldred vs. Ashcroft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_birthday
Sometimes it takes a specific law to get "The Powers that Be" off their collective arses and take action.
That would be a "Gift Economy".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy
Examples include university professors sharing research information for the benefit of everyone.
The founding fathers knew this, as many of them were inventors and artists, so when the crafted the Constitution the put in this clause:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Under the "Powers of Congress" section. The key here is "limited Times"
Lawrence Lessig took a case all the way to the Supreme Court, Eldred v. Ashcroft, but the court decided that 70 + lifetime with infinite extensions was "Limited", even though the founding fathers thought 14 years was limited.
Things move faster now than in colonial times. Copyright and Patents shouldn't be longer, they should be shorter than then.
The tune for the Happy Birthday song was composed in 1893, and the lyrics have been around since 1912. But since the copyright was registered in 1935, we've all been paying royalties, on it, and will forever...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
This is copyright fraud, but it's so small that noone will take the time and money to the courts to fix it.
Ben Bova had this same idea in "The Winds of Altair", a kids book where they go to a planet around Altair because the Earth is getting too polluted to live on. The plan to convert it's methane atmosphere to regular air, but they find inhabitants, prove they are intelligent, and decide that the methane to oxygen transmuters could convert Earth's polluted air to clean air, so they go back.
Once we can sustain a colony outside earth, we can use the same technology to live here. The real reason to leave would be political, to keep the population from being killed off by war.
Um, we can turn sunlight into hydrogen and oxygen and use that for rocket fuel. I don't see resources as being a problem even in the long term.
Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical war is another thing. Those could kill us all in a heartbeat. (Chemical is a bit a a stretch for global decimation, but the other two are in the realm of possibility)
When did all of this disrespect for the position of our President start?
Dick Nixon?
Many terms that used to be derogatory are not anymore, some even a badge of honor. Once Bill G. became the richest person in the world, nerds became more accepted.
You have more people incarcerated in your borders than any nation in history. Why? It's good for business.
Not really, it's just good for *some* businesses. It's a prisoner's dilemma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma We'd all be somewhat better off if fewer people were in prison, but a few people can stay rich keeping the system the same as it is.
So if you're a dog that relies on sniffing out cargo containers, you have about five years to look for other work.
So the "John Henry" story of the 21st century will be between a dog and a robot ferret?
When some guy tried to pay a debt (ex-wife I think) with a barrel of pennies covered in molasses, the court decreed that you could only use so many coins. I don't know that they've said anything about one dollar bills in honey, but hey I'm sure that's not ok either.
Here's a similar case: http://www.uslaw.com/library/Family_Law/Husband_pays_alimony_pennies.php?item=246976
So, despite the legislation, only some amount of coins are legal for some part of a debt.
Don Lancaster is the guru of self publishing. He's been a traditional writer but realized that other people were making a lot of money from his creativity. (The lion's share in fact)
The book itself is a little dated, but the concepts are good, and he's translated them to the web well. By writing magazine columns, he's basically been blogging since the 70's.
The secret is to find something that you are good a creating, and make that your job in a self employed sort of way. You'll be a lot happier that way vs. the standard get a job working for someone else.
Anyway, I realize now that people thought this was an advert and took it the wrong way.
If you're going to make money, it'd be best to have product to sell, and use the blog to get information to people who might want your product. Read Don Lancaster's, "Incredible Secret Money Machine", available at http://www.tinaja.com/
So, she needs the Ronald Reagan defense. 2004? 2005? Who can remember back that far anyway? I didn't lie, I misspoke.