So when the crime rate goes up because of your less government you will remain silent right? When your house burns down because they closed the fire department that was closest to you you won't complain right? When the hurricane hits the east coast next week you won't have a single comment on how the government handles the response right?
The true fault lies with the lazy citizens. They demand every government agency put their stuff online so they don't have to get off their fat asses and actually do something in person. The fault lies in the citizens always screaming "no taxes to pay for the services I demand". The fault lies with the citizens screaming for "less government" yet expecting government to do everything for them. The fault lies with the citizens who demand lowest bids be accepted for contracts allowing inferior products and services.
Two things come to mind...
Be careful what you wish for. You just may get it! and You get what you pay for.
You must sign the Opt-Out Notice for it to be effective.This procedure is the only way you can opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate.
It's interesting that PayPal can change the agreement unilaterally without a signed statement but the user must provide a signed statement to get out of their unilateral change.
So since the courts have already decided that corporations can unilaterally change these agreements does that same reasoning extend to users changing them unilaterally? So if I don't agree to section 1.4 I can simply rewrite it to suit me and send a notice to the company stating they can opt out of this change only in the next month in signed statement. Cool!
It takes years of testing to get a drug approved by the FDA, and that costs big big money to do. You get the drug approved by the FDA and then a chemist comes and makes the exact same thing, and your years of investment into research and development and clinical trials of that drug are going to not be paid off. Somebody would essentially walk the path that you made and they would reap the same benefits just simply by copying what you have done.
That would be true if they were spending their own money on the research. They aren't though. They are spending public funds from the NIH then patenting the results and making obscene profits on it. Want to fix it? Simple. Make NIH funding contingent on royalty free results. After all, it is our money making these companies rich.
The Linux developer who touts the convenience and safety of his distro's repository isn't in a position to complain when other operating systems move in the same direction.
The differences are HUGE. for one, distros with repositories don't limit you to only their repository then charge you every time you use it. Microsoft locking it down has nothing to do with convenience or safety and everything to do with control of who develops for the platform. Sure, you can develop for it but if you don't use their store, probably at a cost, your program never sees the light of day.
It's good that the cheaper, publicly-funded option exists. It is not good for it to be the only option.
It's not good for any organization to be the only option public or private. Lack of competition leads to stagnation and a sense of entitlement (yes, governments and corporations have entitlement issues).
Look, people move to the boonies for a reason. Usually it is to escape the jungle of civilization. I don't buy the argument that a lack of high-speed internet access leads to economic failure. All this talk of bringing technology out to people that want to escape it is silly.
There is a way to get a degree from real world experience. It is called a Regent's Degree. Most if not all universities offer them. You get credits for real life experience that is substituted for school credits in a given field. Of course it is a Bachelor of Arts degree but it is still a degree.
No, it would be more like you are guilty of whatever they are accusing you of BECAUSE you used encryption. Why would you encrypt it in the first place if you didn't have something to hide?
1. Why should one have to block something that they didn't ask for in the first place? This is the same logic as paying for cable channels then having to block those you don't want. It is senseless.
2. Blocking at the hosts file does nothing for the resources that this crap is using to pull the ads. That program is still running wasting processor cycles and ram space. And who knows what other "features" are tied to the ads? Disabling the ads may disable the OS. We just don't know at this point.
3. If they are willing to do this what other nastiness are they willing to pull in the name of making a quick buck off their users? There is an old saying, fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
Nobody spends the money to get a patent to not use it especially against a competitor. It costs way more money to invalidate a patent with the risks far too high with treble damages for the losing end of that suit. Are you willing to test this patent in court when for a fraction of the cost you can simply license it? It is the licensing these companies are after with the threat of suit behind it.
You say if you don't like a product then don't buy it. Let's apply that to cell phones... Ever try to use a pay phone these days? They are very far and few between. If you travel without a cell phone you are fucked if you have an emergency. There is no other option but to have a cell these days.
eBooks are intended to replace traditional books. There are already books that you can't get in print and are only available in electronic format. Worse, because of exclusive deals authors make with companies like Amazon, you can only get it from them.
So like the cell phones, an eBook reader will at some point become necessary if you intend to read books. And with the state of copyright these days, you will have fewer and fewer places to purchase those books.
The question isn't if you heard about a particular case but whether or not you are biased by what you heard. Whether you can render a just verdict is a decision the courts make at jury selection.
It's a reckless, amoral organization, that doesn't care who it hurts, doesn't care if it gets blood on its hand, and could care less about the fate of the people who supply its documents. What the world needs, and still has plenty of, are people of good moral character, who will fight for what's right, who will take stands, and who will take risks. I have way more respect for the three young women of Pussy Riot and what they have accomplished than anything Wikileaks has done.
This is rich. In the US we don't have investigative journalism anymore and haven't had it since Iran-Contra for political and Vietnam for war coverage. In both circumstances, the government learned not to allow the media too close. That is why reporters were not allowed to investigate Iraq and Afghanistan on their own without being "imbedded". That is why you have no focus on the trillions spent on these war efforts and no reporting on the corruption of our government by the deep pockets of those who financially gain from fear (read Homeland Security) and war (read military industrial complex). Instead what we get for "news" is spoon fed us by the Pentagon and the White House and taken as gospel. It then gets repeated by every new organization without a single fact verified. In short, what we got for new organizations are merely propaganda machines.
Why don't you get the directions beforehand and memorize the route?
Having had to use a GPS recently just to locate remote destinations I have never traveled, I can answer this one... I do emergency management for the state and had to do damage assessments. This required me to travel to the county and only then get the list of houses to inspect. That list can have 50 or more houses to be looked at. Once done in that county it is off to the next. There is no way to locate these houses in the time required for the assessment and certainly no way to memorize all 50 routes one day and then memorize the next 50.
The key to any technology in a vehicle is to not be an aggressive driver and not use (read program) the tech while driving. Pull over if you need to use it.
They're basically copying what YouTube and Twitter are doing, selling a "featured content" slot.
Which is one reason not to use either of those if you don't want to be profiled and have ads targeting you. From TFS...
the company explained, 'This featured torrent space will be used to offer a variety of different types of content. We are working towards bringing you offers that are relevant to you.'
The only way to do that is to record all of your activity on bittorrent. Once they record that, the next step will be to hand it over to the government / media industry attorneys for later prosecution.
IF they actually have "no shot" at winning, the reason is because idiots like you keep saying so. Ron Paul is an excellent example of this effect.
You just proved his point. Ron Paul has exactly zero chance of winning an election outside of one of the established parties which is why he is running as a republican.
I would like the government to stay out of what I'm choosing to do with my own body unless it's harming someone else.
Which it does when you end up with the very expensive treatments for the cancer this can cause. You are driving up the price of healthcare for us all. I would call that harming someone else.
Actually, just about every job the government does is something the private sector can't or won't do. Everything from building roads and bridges to educating our kids. You bitch about your taxes but in reality if you had to pay private sector prices for those items you would really be bitching. Imagine everyone having to pay tuition for their kids education, paying tolls on every street, paying for someone to test your food to make sure it was safe. You get the picture.
Government procurement is one of the most frustrating processes known to man. This is true of both federal and state level purchasing divisions. That government contractors take advantage of the deep pockets shouldn't surprise anyone. The fault lies on the contract writer for overruns and timeline delays. It means the contract wasn't specific enough or realistic enough. It also means the budget wasn't properly vetted and that benefit cost analysis either wasn't done or was done improperly. Lastly, it means that the oversight was totally missing in the project. Having worked with FEMA in the past and now with the State, I can tell you that had one of my projects gone over budget or over the performance period or outside of the scope of work that project would have been shut down with the federal government sending a collection notice for the recapture of funds. That is what is needed here.
It is bad parenting. whether the parent is the biological one or a surrogate is irrelevant. In both cases the child needs to be removed from that environment.
therefore one can assume that they must have received a high dose of [radiation]."
And we all know what happens when you assume...
That is the problem with studies. To quote an old/. meme....
"Correlation != Causation."
It can be any number of things causing the irregularities. Everything from a change in diet (most of the food supply has to be imported because of the larger disaster) to increases in natural radiation sources such as the sun. Without ruling them out, they risk being found very wrong with very real consequences.
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Because their citizens demanded it.
So when the crime rate goes up because of your less government you will remain silent right? When your house burns down because they closed the fire department that was closest to you you won't complain right? When the hurricane hits the east coast next week you won't have a single comment on how the government handles the response right?
Right....
I'll play devil's advocate here...
The true fault lies with the lazy citizens. They demand every government agency put their stuff online so they don't have to get off their fat asses and actually do something in person. The fault lies in the citizens always screaming "no taxes to pay for the services I demand". The fault lies with the citizens screaming for "less government" yet expecting government to do everything for them. The fault lies with the citizens who demand lowest bids be accepted for contracts allowing inferior products and services.
Two things come to mind...
Be careful what you wish for. You just may get it!
and
You get what you pay for.
Good to see you too draeath. :-)
It's interesting that PayPal can change the agreement unilaterally without a signed statement but the user must provide a signed statement to get out of their unilateral change.
So since the courts have already decided that corporations can unilaterally change these agreements does that same reasoning extend to users changing them unilaterally? So if I don't agree to section 1.4 I can simply rewrite it to suit me and send a notice to the company stating they can opt out of this change only in the next month in signed statement. Cool!
That would be true if they were spending their own money on the research. They aren't though. They are spending public funds from the NIH then patenting the results and making obscene profits on it. Want to fix it? Simple. Make NIH funding contingent on royalty free results. After all, it is our money making these companies rich.
The differences are HUGE. for one, distros with repositories don't limit you to only their repository then charge you every time you use it. Microsoft locking it down has nothing to do with convenience or safety and everything to do with control of who develops for the platform. Sure, you can develop for it but if you don't use their store, probably at a cost, your program never sees the light of day.
It's not good for any organization to be the only option public or private. Lack of competition leads to stagnation and a sense of entitlement (yes, governments and corporations have entitlement issues).
Look, people move to the boonies for a reason. Usually it is to escape the jungle of civilization. I don't buy the argument that a lack of high-speed internet access leads to economic failure. All this talk of bringing technology out to people that want to escape it is silly.
There is a way to get a degree from real world experience. It is called a Regent's Degree. Most if not all universities offer them. You get credits for real life experience that is substituted for school credits in a given field. Of course it is a Bachelor of Arts degree but it is still a degree.
No, it would be more like you are guilty of whatever they are accusing you of BECAUSE you used encryption. Why would you encrypt it in the first place if you didn't have something to hide?
Three things with this thought:
1. Why should one have to block something that they didn't ask for in the first place? This is the same logic as paying for cable channels then having to block those you don't want. It is senseless.
2. Blocking at the hosts file does nothing for the resources that this crap is using to pull the ads. That program is still running wasting processor cycles and ram space. And who knows what other "features" are tied to the ads? Disabling the ads may disable the OS. We just don't know at this point.
3. If they are willing to do this what other nastiness are they willing to pull in the name of making a quick buck off their users? There is an old saying, fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
Nobody spends the money to get a patent to not use it especially against a competitor. It costs way more money to invalidate a patent with the risks far too high with treble damages for the losing end of that suit. Are you willing to test this patent in court when for a fraction of the cost you can simply license it? It is the licensing these companies are after with the threat of suit behind it.
Well let's tear this whole thing down...
You say if you don't like a product then don't buy it. Let's apply that to cell phones... Ever try to use a pay phone these days? They are very far and few between. If you travel without a cell phone you are fucked if you have an emergency. There is no other option but to have a cell these days.
eBooks are intended to replace traditional books. There are already books that you can't get in print and are only available in electronic format. Worse, because of exclusive deals authors make with companies like Amazon, you can only get it from them.
So like the cell phones, an eBook reader will at some point become necessary if you intend to read books. And with the state of copyright these days, you will have fewer and fewer places to purchase those books.
The question isn't if you heard about a particular case but whether or not you are biased by what you heard. Whether you can render a just verdict is a decision the courts make at jury selection.
This is rich. In the US we don't have investigative journalism anymore and haven't had it since Iran-Contra for political and Vietnam for war coverage. In both circumstances, the government learned not to allow the media too close. That is why reporters were not allowed to investigate Iraq and Afghanistan on their own without being "imbedded". That is why you have no focus on the trillions spent on these war efforts and no reporting on the corruption of our government by the deep pockets of those who financially gain from fear (read Homeland Security) and war (read military industrial complex). Instead what we get for "news" is spoon fed us by the Pentagon and the White House and taken as gospel. It then gets repeated by every new organization without a single fact verified. In short, what we got for new organizations are merely propaganda machines.
Having had to use a GPS recently just to locate remote destinations I have never traveled, I can answer this one... I do emergency management for the state and had to do damage assessments. This required me to travel to the county and only then get the list of houses to inspect. That list can have 50 or more houses to be looked at. Once done in that county it is off to the next. There is no way to locate these houses in the time required for the assessment and certainly no way to memorize all 50 routes one day and then memorize the next 50.
The key to any technology in a vehicle is to not be an aggressive driver and not use (read program) the tech while driving. Pull over if you need to use it.
Which is one reason not to use either of those if you don't want to be profiled and have ads targeting you. From TFS...
The only way to do that is to record all of your activity on bittorrent. Once they record that, the next step will be to hand it over to the government / media industry attorneys for later prosecution.
You just proved his point. Ron Paul has exactly zero chance of winning an election outside of one of the established parties which is why he is running as a republican.
Which it does when you end up with the very expensive treatments for the cancer this can cause. You are driving up the price of healthcare for us all. I would call that harming someone else.
Actually, just about every job the government does is something the private sector can't or won't do. Everything from building roads and bridges to educating our kids. You bitch about your taxes but in reality if you had to pay private sector prices for those items you would really be bitching. Imagine everyone having to pay tuition for their kids education, paying tolls on every street, paying for someone to test your food to make sure it was safe. You get the picture.
Government procurement is one of the most frustrating processes known to man. This is true of both federal and state level purchasing divisions. That government contractors take advantage of the deep pockets shouldn't surprise anyone. The fault lies on the contract writer for overruns and timeline delays. It means the contract wasn't specific enough or realistic enough. It also means the budget wasn't properly vetted and that benefit cost analysis either wasn't done or was done improperly. Lastly, it means that the oversight was totally missing in the project. Having worked with FEMA in the past and now with the State, I can tell you that had one of my projects gone over budget or over the performance period or outside of the scope of work that project would have been shut down with the federal government sending a collection notice for the recapture of funds. That is what is needed here.
It is bad parenting. whether the parent is the biological one or a surrogate is irrelevant. In both cases the child needs to be removed from that environment.
My thoughts exactly... Well played sir!
And we all know what happens when you assume...
That is the problem with studies. To quote an old /. meme....
"Correlation != Causation."
It can be any number of things causing the irregularities. Everything from a change in diet (most of the food supply has to be imported because of the larger disaster) to increases in natural radiation sources such as the sun. Without ruling them out, they risk being found very wrong with very real consequences.
You missed one:
c) release to the public domain so the work is not lost when you die.
After all, the public domain is the entire reason for copyright's existence.