It might actually be something the RIAA might say, but in this case it wasn't meant that way. Personally I only buy new media when I have the option because even if the publisher is taking the lions share at least the artist is getting something. I also happen to want the artists I like to keep doing their art, and getting paid for it often helps that. If you can find a way to get a portion of used sales money to the original artist/developer that actually did the work then I'm all for it, but currently it's the new media purchases that keep new media coming out.
I'll wait until I can pick 'em up at my local used game store on the cheap You do realize if everyone follows your lead there will be no more used games to buy. If you want to be able to continue buying used media then I would suggest promoting the purchasing of new media so you will eventually have used media to purchase.
You seem to be confusing interface and implementation. Just because a particular implementation of an Interfaces provider or consumer contain bugs does not invalidate the interface.
Searching for breastfeeding books on Amazon nets me 9,314 hits And searching for witchcraft yields 43,303 results, so I would guess that it is not only more real but also more important. Yes, I to, can infer whatever I want from Amazon search results.
You can actually get a job as a certified "Lactation Consultant" and there are nursing degrees up to the goddamn Masters level that specialize in this stuff. you can also get a masters degree in Mysticism but that doesn't make it real.
I'm not saying that no one has ever had issues nursing, only that it is not the norm and when there is a problem it is more likely to be an issue with the mother than the child. My personal opinion (as if it somehow matters) happens to be that lactation consultants are con artists that have convinced many new mothers that they need their services. In reality children were born, and feed, long before lactation consultants existed and there are no studies that have shown that lactation consultants have lead to an increase in child survival rates.
but ask any woman who has breastfed a newborn baby, and she'll tell you that you have to teach them to get it right Wrong. At least partially. The vast majority of infants do not need to be taught how to nurse.
That being said, the nipple is very intuitive, it's all the hidden features, that seem to differ by model, that are difficult to learn.
there has never been a person that had AIDS that didn't had HIV This is misleading at best. Once it was decided that HIV was the sole cause of AIDS many individuals who had previously been diagnosed with AIDS were reclassified since they did not test positive for HIV. So you are true that currently there are no individuals official diagnosed as having AIDS that have not tested positive for HIV, but this is based on definition. If they have all the symptoms of AIDS but test false for HIV then they will not be classified as AIDS infected. The question then would be, are there multiple vectors in which one can acquire immune deficiency, or is AIDS unrelated to HIV?
What researchers can't figure out is why a little minority of HIV infected never get AIDS but serve as carriers for the virus never the less I believe the current consensus around this issue is that certain genetic variations are immune to the effects of HIV. Since HIV is a Retrovirus and there for effects the host by altering it's DNA then variations in the original DNA would certainly effect the resulting ailment. The most common variation which is believed to allow HIV immunity is the CCR5-Delta32 mutation.
might I suggest the article on Koch's postulates instead? Here's the problem with Koch's postulates and AIDS. The first of Koch's Postulates is "The microorganism must be found in all organisms suffering from the disease, but not in healthy organisms." In theory this is a very important postulate, but turns out be useless when the definition of your disease is "has Symptoms x,y,z and contains the specified microorganism." This means those that meet all the criteria other than containing the microorganism in question are taken out of the problem set. The compliment to this is that my definition an organism is not health if it is host to HIV, so you can't possibly have a healthy organism with HIV by definition. Without these definitions AIDS may not meet Koch's postulates, by using examples such as Magic Johnson, who has been diagnosed as HIV positive for years and has continued to be otherwise healthy.
I should have left the Colloidal Silver reference out, but I was asked for some references and wanted to give a bit more information rather than just a wikipedia link and Peter Duesberg's name. This is just another of a number if issues surrounding AIDS/HIV that requires more research. There have been peer reviewed studies that signify there is reason to do further research. But I should have still left it out since it does cause such outrage when mentioned and that there are known negative side effects to large doses of silver compounds.
On the other hand I don't recall stating that treatment of HIV was a waste of time, or that I personally thought that Colloidal Silver was a cure for HIV. If you would go back and actually read what I wrote you would see words like "may" and "might." But even if I did think that HIV was harmless that does not mean that unregulated prostitutes were not a high risk of transmitting other infectious diseases. I'm not wasting my time with prostitutes in my own country let alone those in a foreign country. And before it comes up, I'm also not subjective myself or anyone else, to unnecessary foreign substances, such as HIV virus, just to prove a point, I'll leave that to Duesberg.
AIDS was a recognised illness prior to the discovery of the causative organism. Only after it was decided that HIV was the single cause of AIDS was the definition of AIDS changed, so that now to be diagnosed as having AIDS you must also test as HIV positive. If you happen to have every other sign and symptom of AIDS you can not actually have AIDS unless you also have HIV. Even if this were to turn out to be true, taking this view point is as near sighted as believing that HPV is the sole cause of Cervical Cancer and will inevitably lead to said cancer. AIDS is a retrofit definition after the discovery of HIV, which seems to be a week way of diagnosing and labeling a illness.
you are clearly either a troll or a denier I am neither an intentional troll, or an AIDS denier. Yes I support AIDS reappraisal, but not actively in anyway. I'm also not saying that HIV is not a potential cause of the symptoms associated with AIDS. What I am saying is that the decision to accept HIV as the sole cause of AIDS was done hastily and is deserving of extensive further research. And simply believing that one particular virus may not be the cause of a severe illness is no reason to go around exposing yourself to undue risk such as unprotected sexual contact or improperly sterilized intravenous needles.
A retrovirus means the virus integrates itself into the host's genetic information. This is NOT harmless. Not only is it often harmless, retrovirus have been known to be beneficial. Retrovirus contain RNA which through reverse transcription modifies the hosts DNA. Large portions of DNA are useless garbage only there as place holders. If the Retrovorus modifies the useless space, introns, without modifying placement of the useful space, exons, then the retrovirus has no effect on the resulting mRNA. This is introductory genetics, and can be easily researched for free.
having something mess with your DNA is never to be desired. My only guess is that the AC who posted this does not believe in evolution, or believes evolution is never beneficial. But then again it's an AC so why should I care.
Again I'm not trying to justify either view of the HIV/AIDS debate, just clarifying some information in the previous comment.
It is possible to have HIV without having full-blown AIDS (the qualification for the disease is to have a certain quota of viral particles in a sample of your blood.) The definition of AIDS is having all the associated symptoms and being HIV positive. This is what I mean by HIV and AIDS being associated only by definition. If someone has all the symptoms of AIDS, CD4+ T Lymphocyte count, but is not HIV positive then they are not labeled as having AIDS. This has only been true since the acceptance of the link between HIV and AIDS.
First I wont say whole heartedly agree with any of this, but that there are some interesting ideas from very knowledgeable individuals that show the link between HIV and AIDS may not be as cut and dry as the public has been lead to believe. Wikipedia, though not a definitive source is a good place to start. The most prominent detractor of the HIV/AIDS view is probably Peter Duesberg, who you can easily look up. As a bit of a side note, Colloidal silver, which has been available for some time, may already be a valid treatment or cure for HIV (but again treating HIV might be on no use at all)
HIV and AIDS are related only by definition and there is still debate if they really have anything to do with each other. HIV is possibly harmless, like most retrovirus. That being said, an HIV vaccine might have no effect on AIDS or the AIDS epidemic.
I haven't seen a single laptop that provides more than 250GB HDD space (not that I've been particularly looking). Just curious what you might be doing on a workstation that requires 250GBs of local HDD space? I'm not saying it's not possible but I can't think of anything. Being one of those that does use a laptop exclusively, I can say it's not hard to live with even a 60GB HDD on the workstation. Anything larger than that sits on servers, or even runs on servers, but you don't need one of those for each person. And yes this is a viable choice even for home personal use.
The home of the future will undoubtedly contain a single server for storage, home management, print serving, and as a media center (among other possibilities). You may be able to utilize this set up with PDAs, but I would bet most people prefer a full size keyboard and at least a moderate sized display.
Personally I couldn't imagine being tied to a desktop ever again, and everyone I know that has purchased laptops have not gone back to touching their desktops except for the occasional video game, which more often than not has actually been replaced with console gaming. Mind you that's jut anecdotal, but from my perspective it does appear that the desktop is on it's way out.
You think that is funny until it's your own seven year old that tells a teacher to fuck off Depends on what the teach did and if they deserved to be told to fuck off (which often times is the case).
or starts cursing in a WalMart If I ever drag my kid through a WalMart I sure as hell hope they start cursing at me, which will hopefully wake me up and make me realize I'm in a WalMart.
All words have an appropriate use, and telling of people for doing stupid shit, like teaching useless crap and holding a smart kid back, or shopping at WalMart, are certainly deserving of a vulgar expletive or two.
Are you discussing the CS degree or the personality of some people you have met in the past? I am referencing the kind of people that are attracted to CS programs, based on personal experience and conversations with many others in the profession. Like I said I have a number of theories about this. For example it appears that CS students are neither self motivated enough to study programming on their own, or able to survive in CE course (since many CS students are ex-CE students). Like I said this isn't cold hard science, just a mater of experience, which anyone in any field will tell you is worth a heck of a lot more than education.
I wouldn't hire a CS grad with less than 4 years of practical experience...
...demanding experience for a position which damned-near by definition does not require experience. I think you missed the point. I was not saying I would require experience for a Junior Developer position, I was saying that I would require a CS grad to have experience. CS grads are mostly useless in real world situations. They require extensive hand holding, are reluctant to change and think they are better than they are. I have a number of theories on why this is, but all I know is what my experience has shown me.
CS, of course. This at least gives you the dream that you will not just be reinventing wheels for company XYZ. Don't waste your time with either CS or IT, or at least don't worry to much about it. IT majors tend to lack free thinking and CS majors tend to lack practical skills (I wouldn't hire a CS grad with less than 4 years of practical experience for a even a Junior Developers position). Instead you can either take the slow rewarding route and get a CE/CSE degree and hopefully get an opportunity to work on embedded systems or semi-conductor design, or the fast a dirty route and enter a Liberal Arts program while doing an internship as a programmer. If 4 years you have both a degree (which you didn't have to work to hard at) and 4 years of experience in programming which is worth more than any degree out there.
Or better yet, skip the idea of programmer completely, as it is a shitty career choice, and work on your MBA so you can make good money while all the CS/IT majors and High School grads (a.k.a. sales) do all the work.
The appropriate jurisdiction was Hong Kong The appropriate jurisdiction is any country which Lik-Sang chose to do business with. Read the decision. Judge Fysh concluded that the acts were perpetrated in the High Court of London's Jurisdiction because the sale was to residents of the EEA. Had Lik-Sang not attempted to violate Sony's legal rights in the EEA they would probably not been prosecuted and certainly not found against. Sony did not have a legal case in Hong Kong and there for did not file a complaint in Hong Kong. When you do business with residents of another country you have to take the legal jurisdiction of that country into account. It's the same thing as selling Cuban goods, or illegal substances to US citizens, it is illegal and you can be found guilty and charge do too agreements between he countries. Countries have these agreements to keep people from fleeing legal responsibility.
Why are you defending [the practice of buying legislation]? I'm not defending it, I'm just trying to place the blame squarely were it belongs, on the corrupt politicians. It's not Sony's fault that the Laws enforced by the High Court of London are in their favor, nor is it, in my opinion, wrong for Sony to attempt to defend the rights they have under the law.
You speak English good! I can always tell when someone has no valid arguments to add to a discussion because they go right to the typos and ignore the content of the message. Good for you for being able to pick out typos and grammatical mistakes.
Phonorecords = Digital Recordings. There is established case law backing me up on this. Anything else pig? Ignoring you obvious attempt at a personal attack, I will address your claim. First of all you made the claim with out any reference to the specific cases which uphold your statement, which makes it difficult to dispute. Baring all of that I will actually agree with you, but it has little if anything to do with my original statement. You state that Digital Recordings are Phonorecords, and there I agree, but what I said was that the fair use clause of the copyright law does not protect the right to create "direct digital replications" which has nothing at all to do with Digital Music Recordings being Phonorecords. What it does mean though is that you would be fully in your rights to make fair use digital phonorecordings and no form of DRM currently available restricts that right.
Regardless there is still nothing in the current copyright law (which I previously linked too) which guarantees your means of fair use replication. As a mater of fact, unless you can find case law to dispute this, it is not legal to create back up copies of audio recordings. As stated in the copyright faq on digital files "Although the precise term used under section 117 is "archival" copy, not "backup" copy, these terms today are used interchangeably. This privilege extends only to computer programs and not to other types of works." and "You are not permitted under section 117 to make a backup copy of other material on a computer's hard drive, such as other copyrighted works that have been downloaded (e.g., music, films)." If you are able to find case law that refutes this then I would be more than happy to read it and adjust my opinion accordingly.
If a US citizen makes a purchase of Nazi memorabilia by mail from a German company should that US citizen be subject to imprisonment in Germany? This is not applicable. The judgment made by the High Court in London only stated that the shipments too their jurisdiction were in violation of Sony's rights. The London High Court does not have jurisdiction to inforce this ruling on other countries. Lik-Sang chose to shut down because they were no long to sell to locations under the Jurisdiction of the High Court of London, and because they were well aware that other countries and jurisdictions would be likely to make similar rulings. A better analogy would be if a company was selling illegal substances to US citizens that the US would be in their jurisdiction to intercept these shipments and deny them to be delivered to the US citizens (assuming the deliver is to a US city).
Companies bribe lawmakers to pass laws that screw consumers (example, recent credit card legislation), but somehow we should only be angry at the lawmakers? If lawmakers were not corrupt they would not be able to be bribed. Personally I think you statement about bribery is bordering on conspiracy theory at best. If you do not like the legal system in your country then change it, or elect those that can change it, and if you don't have elected officials in your country, move or overthrow them. I'm guessing if you are posting on slashdot you probably live in a democracy.
It's okay to give bribes but not to receive them?
Actually I do believe the acceptance of a bribe is far worse than the offer. It's the same issue that selling illegal products or services is a higher crime than purchasing them. The lawmakers in this case are the ones that allow the system to operate the way it does, the corporations are only working within a defective system.
the original response... was pretty much "finish high school, get an education, and get a real job" The original response was actually saying that it would probably be more productive to spend time improving skills that are useful to the world than playing video games, unless you are in school still, in which case you should just be patient.
I still stand by that original statement since you have neither said what country you are referring to nor given any reason why you should be worrying about the cost of video game consoles when you can't afford one at your current income level.
Counterparts, a template for ProgMetal I certainly never meant to imply that. I think Counterparts is a straight forward metal album. A good one, but not a progressive one. What I said was the "others", being Signals and earlier, where templates for Progressive Metal.
And I don't understand why you hold Signals as being one of their greatest Signals was a turning point, it marked the end of an era, in my opinion the best era of Rush. The albums after Signals, which is a great album marred by poor production, up until counter parts can't really be classified as Metal let alone progressive. I mean how can an album featuring Aimee Mann be considered Metal (i.e. Hold your Fire)? And though I greatly enjoyed Grace under Pressure I could pretty much do without that entire cycle.
I'm also really fond of Perminant Waves too Permanent Waves is arguably the best Prog Metal album ever completed, and is probably the pinnacle of the Rush library. This was when they were at their best, musically, lyrically and so on. At least there we might be able to agree.
Fates Warning... only got good... around Perfect Symmetry. Blasphemy! As much as I continued to purchase their albums and see them when I could in a small club, Fates Warning has been pretty much down hill since No Exit.
prog has really shitty lyrics I disagree, I think Prog Rock and Metal has been full of some of the best lyrics in rock music history. With songs like 2112, which is a dissertation on Objectivism thinly veiled in sci-fi lyrics, I'm not sure how you can say Prog Metal has shitty lyrics (Sorry I have a limited amount of prog metal on me to look up other good references). Of course the lyrics were not specifically about what they appeared to be on the surface, but that is what makes them good lyrics. Anyone can write straight forward lyrics, only a master can hind a deep meaning in a good story.
So, sure, you can make all the fair-use copies you want from any of your copy-protected CDs or DVDs. It's just that, while exercising your fair-use rights, you'd be circumventing DRM, which is illegal under the DMCA. See my other reply to the parent to see that your understand of fair use and the DMCA is not entirely true. You can still make fair use copies of digital media. You can make all the recordings you want of your CDs, and allthe screen shots you would like of your video games, or all the printouts you want of your digital books, as long as they meet the requirements of fair use. You just can't make these copies digitally and can't circumvent the DRM to do it.
Which is why those who support that portion of the DMCA are enemies of freedom. Depends on which "freedom" you are talking about. If your talking about the freedom to maintain reproduction rights of your own artistics works, then those who support that portion of the DMCA are actually supporters of freedom. It's just like the fact that I can't have the freedom to poke you in the eye and you have the freedom to not be poked in the eye. That's the problem with freedom, we can't all have it.
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It might actually be something the RIAA might say, but in this case it wasn't meant that way. Personally I only buy new media when I have the option because even if the publisher is taking the lions share at least the artist is getting something. I also happen to want the artists I like to keep doing their art, and getting paid for it often helps that. If you can find a way to get a portion of used sales money to the original artist/developer that actually did the work then I'm all for it, but currently it's the new media purchases that keep new media coming out.
You seem to be confusing interface and implementation. Just because a particular implementation of an Interfaces provider or consumer contain bugs does not invalidate the interface.
I'm not saying that no one has ever had issues nursing, only that it is not the norm and when there is a problem it is more likely to be an issue with the mother than the child. My personal opinion (as if it somehow matters) happens to be that lactation consultants are con artists that have convinced many new mothers that they need their services. In reality children were born, and feed, long before lactation consultants existed and there are no studies that have shown that lactation consultants have lead to an increase in child survival rates.
That being said, the nipple is very intuitive, it's all the hidden features, that seem to differ by model, that are difficult to learn.
I should have left the Colloidal Silver reference out, but I was asked for some references and wanted to give a bit more information rather than just a wikipedia link and Peter Duesberg's name. This is just another of a number if issues surrounding AIDS/HIV that requires more research. There have been peer reviewed studies that signify there is reason to do further research. But I should have still left it out since it does cause such outrage when mentioned and that there are known negative side effects to large doses of silver compounds.
On the other hand I don't recall stating that treatment of HIV was a waste of time, or that I personally thought that Colloidal Silver was a cure for HIV. If you would go back and actually read what I wrote you would see words like "may" and "might." But even if I did think that HIV was harmless that does not mean that unregulated prostitutes were not a high risk of transmitting other infectious diseases. I'm not wasting my time with prostitutes in my own country let alone those in a foreign country. And before it comes up, I'm also not subjective myself or anyone else, to unnecessary foreign substances, such as HIV virus, just to prove a point, I'll leave that to Duesberg.
Again I'm not trying to justify either view of the HIV/AIDS debate, just clarifying some information in the previous comment.
First I wont say whole heartedly agree with any of this, but that there are some interesting ideas from very knowledgeable individuals that show the link between HIV and AIDS may not be as cut and dry as the public has been lead to believe. Wikipedia, though not a definitive source is a good place to start. The most prominent detractor of the HIV/AIDS view is probably Peter Duesberg, who you can easily look up. As a bit of a side note, Colloidal silver, which has been available for some time, may already be a valid treatment or cure for HIV (but again treating HIV might be on no use at all)
HIV and AIDS are related only by definition and there is still debate if they really have anything to do with each other. HIV is possibly harmless, like most retrovirus. That being said, an HIV vaccine might have no effect on AIDS or the AIDS epidemic.
The home of the future will undoubtedly contain a single server for storage, home management, print serving, and as a media center (among other possibilities). You may be able to utilize this set up with PDAs, but I would bet most people prefer a full size keyboard and at least a moderate sized display.
Personally I couldn't imagine being tied to a desktop ever again, and everyone I know that has purchased laptops have not gone back to touching their desktops except for the occasional video game, which more often than not has actually been replaced with console gaming. Mind you that's jut anecdotal, but from my perspective it does appear that the desktop is on it's way out.
All words have an appropriate use, and telling of people for doing stupid shit, like teaching useless crap and holding a smart kid back, or shopping at WalMart, are certainly deserving of a vulgar expletive or two.
...demanding experience for a position which damned-near by definition does not require experience. I think you missed the point. I was not saying I would require experience for a Junior Developer position, I was saying that I would require a CS grad to have experience. CS grads are mostly useless in real world situations. They require extensive hand holding, are reluctant to change and think they are better than they are. I have a number of theories on why this is, but all I know is what my experience has shown me.Or better yet, skip the idea of programmer completely, as it is a shitty career choice, and work on your MBA so you can make good money while all the CS/IT majors and High School grads (a.k.a. sales) do all the work.
Regardless there is still nothing in the current copyright law (which I previously linked too) which guarantees your means of fair use replication. As a mater of fact, unless you can find case law to dispute this, it is not legal to create back up copies of audio recordings. As stated in the copyright faq on digital files "Although the precise term used under section 117 is "archival" copy, not "backup" copy, these terms today are used interchangeably. This privilege extends only to computer programs and not to other types of works." and "You are not permitted under section 117 to make a backup copy of other material on a computer's hard drive, such as other copyrighted works that have been downloaded (e.g., music, films)." If you are able to find case law that refutes this then I would be more than happy to read it and adjust my opinion accordingly.
I still stand by that original statement since you have neither said what country you are referring to nor given any reason why you should be worrying about the cost of video game consoles when you can't afford one at your current income level.