Some are interested in -- gasp! -- using their power to make human life better. I particularly like McCain, Wyden (D-OR), and Sununu (R-NH)
Wiki refs: 1) John McCain-"In the late 1980s McCain was named in the embarrassing Keating Five scandal in which he and four other Senators provided routine help to Charles Keating, who was secretly manipulating savings and loan banks. The Senate ethics committee's special counsel concluded in 1991 that McCain was not substantially involved in the influence-peddling scheme, but criticized him and three others for "questionable conduct." McCain remained in the Senate and made campaign finance reform a key legislative interest." "A bill including criminal penalties for deliberately withholding POW/MIA records from POW/MIA families in violation of the law unanimously passed the House of Representatives. However, as reported by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sydney Schanberg, such penalties were stripped from the bill in conference due to the efforts of McCain." "He supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq..." "McCain has acknowledged engaging in extramarital affairs upon returning from Vietnam." I also believe that he sold out on the torture ban issue. Particularly sad in light that he was a victim of torture. Evidently torture is ok if you're on the "right end" of the stick.
2) Ron Wyden-"On November 10, 2005, Wyden was one of five Senate Democrats who joined 44 Republicans in voting "yes" on Amendment no. 2516, brought to the floor by Republican senator Lindsay Graham, which ruled that enemy combatants did not have the right to Habeas Corpus." We are NOT officially at war. This is bogus. "On March 2, 2006, he was one of only 10 senators to vote against renewing the Patriot Act[2], citing concerns about privacy protections"- good for him, BUT he did vote for it the first time around. "...has voted against limiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers..." "Wyden has consistently voted against limitations on the use of the death penalty" "...voted in favor of CAFTA"
3) John E. Sununu- From www.issues2000.org/House/John_Sununu.htm "Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar 2001)" "Voted YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)" "Voted NO on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore. (Mar 2005)" "Voted NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)" "Voted YES on prohibiting needle exchange & medical marijuana in DC. (Oct 1999)"-Personally, I'm not sure that needle exchange is really a good idea. "Voted NO on shifting $11B from corporate tax loopholes to education. (Mar 2005)" "Voted NO on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's AMWR. (Nov 2005)" "Voted NO on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). (Jun 2005)" "Voted NO on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)" "Voted NO on removing consideration of drilling ANWR from budget bill. (Mar 2003)" "Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels. (Aug 2001)" "Voted YES on keeping Cuba travel ban until political prisoners released. (Jul 2001)"- We have plenty of our own political prisoners. His attitude is hypocritical. Especially in light of this previous vote, "Voted YES on Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China. (May 2000)" "Voted NO on disallowing FCC approval of larger media conglomerates. (Sep 2003)" "Voted YES on authorizing military force in Iraq. (Oct 2002)" "NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons"
I wouldn't call this "making human life better". To me, it shows just the opposite. It should show that these guys really aren't much different from the rest. Better than some, but not by much. Kucinich(D-OH) is way ahead of the pack in this regard. He's one of the very few with the balls to vote against the patriot act the first time around and against the war in Iraq. Feingold(D-WI) is also up there. I believe he voted against the patriot act and the war a
Maybe I didn't make myself clear. Politicians want money, power, and all the associated perks. For the most part the winners of an election are successful. So my question is, where's the confusion? We believe their lies and then wonder why nothing changes for the better. It seems that the confusion is on our part. Your number 2 reason tells part of the story. And to tell the truth, I don't believe that the voters are as confused as they are as corrupt as the people they elect. Most use their vote as a method to achieve some higher status than their neighbors. This reasoning goes a long way to explain the type of people we have in high office.
I just set the default server manually. Does that help? I can't find any comments to that effect. Also, the D-Link site doesn't show any firmware updates on their site. DI-604 rev E. Google isn't helping me find it either. Here's what I found on the D-Link site ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/di604_revE1/Firmware Anybody have an alternative?
Actually, you do have the right to smoke it anywhere you want. It's just that most people claim the right to kidnap(arrest) and torture(imprison) you if you do in most places.
when enough voters say, "STOP!", and not a minute before. Anybody here think it will become an election issue? I doubt it. Talk about tax cuts and terrorism, and all thoughts of spam go right out the window. Junk faxes are much worse than annoying phone calls. Now they're using up my paper. I use thermal paper, no toner needed. The only solution for me now is to have my modem take the fax (Yay! the modem isn't dead yet). I can always erase it from my hard drive.
Look to the oceans. This is where the problem lies. We are killing off its ability to filter the gasses coming from the planet's interior. Of course it's possible the earth's weakening magnetic field could have something to do with it. We still have no clue, but I would start looking into how we can restore oceanic plant life. And our great great grand kids will know if I was right.
I think someone from Microsoft said that their biggest competition comes from old versions of their software. If it was freely available, they believe that very few people would buy the new version. So they felt that they have to lock down the other. From their point of view they are right. And as far as the artists are concerned, they can make contracts to perfom, not just sit on their coatails as they want to do now. They should not receive special priviledges that my line of work does not enjoy.
No. Copyright, like other forms of property encourages hoarding and speculation. It never was about protecting the artist/creator. Some early copyright law left the creator out of the picture entirely. It's about protecting a method of doing business no matter how corrupt or obsolete it might be. Here it's about protecting the distributors/publishers, which has now become obsolete. Artists will now need to look elsewhere to make their contracts. Each work serves as advertisement for the next. Everybody gets paid through their performance, not by sitting their butts collecting rent. I don't get paid that way. Neither should you. You are welcome to sell your work, of course, but you have no right to control what happens afterward, any more than an architect has a right to tell me what color I must paint my house. Yes, we must throw out the bath water. Somebody peed in the tub.
Let's make buying from spammers illegal. When they raid the spam house, they should put out warrants for everyone on their customer list. Yeah, that'll work.
Spam is hugely profitable, because your overhead is nil.
That is only one reason. A much simpler and much bigger reason that spam is hugely profitable, because people buy from spammers. This seems to go way over the heads of the vengeful people looking for blood. Like the old cliche says, it's the same as blaming the spoon for making Rosy O'donald fat".
almost all wired communications go through ATT/SBC, let's hope this encourages more rapid developement of encrypted wireless mesh networks. As long you use their lines, you have no hope for privacy of any kind, and changing providers is meaningless.
The USA does it openly also. They just put a warm, fuzzy spin on to make it down go down nice and easy. The only real difference between the U.S. and China is that it's easier to make a quick buck in the states. Freedom always plays second fiddle to the economy. This is why a corrupt populace always re-elects the same corrupt politicians. As more Chinese acquire middle class status, you will less complaints from them about their government, regardless of how corrupt it may be.
I wonder, how long will it take for our government to realize that most of us take our rights pretty damn seriously, as they are the major reason why so many people like living here?
Our rights are not the reason people like to live here. This is the land of opportunity, not the land of freedom. Most come and live here for the opportunity to get rich, and freedom and rights be damned. Most people will be happy to trash the constitution to put an extra dollar in their pocket. The elections prove it over and over. If it weren't true, we wouldn't have snake oil salesmen running the place. The "freedoms" of America are a fairy tale.
Last time I looked into it the evidence suggested to me that the vote was rather less than fair and clean.
I agree. I believe the last two(at least) elections were rigged, but we are in the minority. Thus no re-count. The majority has spoken, mostly by their silence. That's the way the cookie crumbles. Respect for the law in general suffers as a result. If the law isn't applied to these people, then how can you apply it to anybody?
That's the consesus, yes. If he wasn't, then why is he occupying the office? If enough people speak up, he can be removed. Since hardly anybody did or does, I'll have to accept that he was voted in, fair and square. Most people have decided to ignore any possible evidence of wrongdoing and have accepted the election as legitimate. Democracy at work. Exactly the way it's supposed to. If there's any failure, it's that of majority rule itself, not of any particular individual.
Why? Future Macs will just be Wintel machines with a pretty face. Gamers had their chance to switch. After 2007 there will be no switch, unless Apple finds true enlightenment and moves away from the herd and towards the Alpha chip. Man, what a bunch of cattle. Simply doing something because "everybody else" is doing it. Apple didn't go to Intel because it was better. It was a cost cutting move, with all the implicit degradation. UGH! It doesn't matter how smooth you look when the underlying architecture crumbles under the slightest load.
...the fact he is giving the NOAA extra money for research rather than prevention is quite interesting, global warming is something that is happening.
Until we repair the oceans and bring them back to life, we're not going to prevent anything. Now, as for Bush, he's only doing what he was voted into office to do... to make us all rich through "Reaganomics". Don't blame Bush. He was voted in knowing full well what his intentions were from the get go. If he can fatten our wallets, he's a hero. The voters are corrupt, and he's just reflecting that.
FTA: "A network of conservative and free-market groups has begun warning Congress that Net neutrality regulations are not consistent with Republican laissez-faire principles and protection of private-property rights."
In reality it means: A network of conservative and free-market groups has begun warning Congress that Net neutrality regulations are not consistent with Republican laissez-faire principles and protection of private citizen's rights.
Of ocourse the democrats share the same attitude. (clipper chip, DMCA, expanded death penality, patriot act) Just so you all understand there's no need to single anybody out.
Only if you take it from its rightful owner. Since it is impossible to own an intangible item such as music or an idea, there is no theft. In fact, the distributors attempts to keep it for their exclusive benefit is the real theft here. Although it is enforced with real guns, the concept of intellectual property is a fantasy. No different than those who would force you to believe in their particular god.
At no time does she say that she didn't perform copyright infringement.
Well then It's obvious she's guilty. Case closed, right? Guilty of what? Of anything a corporation with the government(and the voters who make it happen) in its pocket says.
Hopefully it will eliminate all human operated controls. Except the radio, of course. People have no business operating such dangerous machinery. A car should be as simple as pushing an elevator button. Get the human out of the loop, and reduce accidents by 95% or more.
Just because Netflix was first to market and to the patent office, it doesn't mean they were first with the idea, or that it's not an obvious idea. It just wasn't common knowledge. The concept would have come up anyway. Being first shouldn't grant you exclusivity. In fact, nobody should be granted exclusivity to an expressed idea. Don't like it? Fine. Keep it to yourself. It will happen eventually, with or without your input.
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In New York?
No offense, but if history is your guide, we have 20 years to say they can't.
Actually, we have 20 years and 50GD(gigadollars) to say they won't.
Some are interested in -- gasp! -- using their power to make human life better. I particularly like McCain, Wyden (D-OR), and Sununu (R-NH)
Wiki refs:
1) John McCain-"In the late 1980s McCain was named in the embarrassing Keating Five scandal in which he and four other Senators provided routine help to Charles Keating, who was secretly manipulating savings and loan banks. The Senate ethics committee's special counsel concluded in 1991 that McCain was not substantially involved in the influence-peddling scheme, but criticized him and three others for "questionable conduct." McCain remained in the Senate and made campaign finance reform a key legislative interest."
"A bill including criminal penalties for deliberately withholding POW/MIA records from POW/MIA families in violation of the law unanimously passed the House of Representatives. However, as reported by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sydney Schanberg, such penalties were stripped from the bill in conference due to the efforts of McCain."
"He supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq..."
"McCain has acknowledged engaging in extramarital affairs upon returning from Vietnam."
I also believe that he sold out on the torture ban issue. Particularly sad in light that he was a victim of torture. Evidently torture is ok if you're on the "right end" of the stick.
2) Ron Wyden-"On November 10, 2005, Wyden was one of five Senate Democrats who joined 44 Republicans in voting "yes" on Amendment no. 2516, brought to the floor by Republican senator Lindsay Graham, which ruled that enemy combatants did not have the right to Habeas Corpus." We are NOT officially at war. This is bogus.
"On March 2, 2006, he was one of only 10 senators to vote against renewing the Patriot Act[2], citing concerns about privacy protections"- good for him, BUT he did vote for it the first time around.
"...has voted against limiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers..."
"Wyden has consistently voted against limitations on the use of the death penalty"
"...voted in favor of CAFTA"
3) John E. Sununu- From www.issues2000.org/House/John_Sununu.htm
"Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar 2001)"
"Voted YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)"
"Voted NO on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore. (Mar 2005)"
"Voted NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)"
"Voted YES on prohibiting needle exchange & medical marijuana in DC. (Oct 1999)"-Personally, I'm not sure that needle exchange is really a good idea.
"Voted NO on shifting $11B from corporate tax loopholes to education. (Mar 2005)"
"Voted NO on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's AMWR. (Nov 2005)"
"Voted NO on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). (Jun 2005)"
"Voted NO on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)"
"Voted NO on removing consideration of drilling ANWR from budget bill. (Mar 2003)"
"Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels. (Aug 2001)"
"Voted YES on keeping Cuba travel ban until political prisoners released. (Jul 2001)"- We have plenty of our own political prisoners. His attitude is hypocritical. Especially in light of this previous vote, "Voted YES on Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China. (May 2000)"
"Voted NO on disallowing FCC approval of larger media conglomerates. (Sep 2003)"
"Voted YES on authorizing military force in Iraq. (Oct 2002)"
"NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons"
I wouldn't call this "making human life better". To me, it shows just the opposite. It should show that these guys really aren't much different from the rest. Better than some, but not by much. Kucinich(D-OH) is way ahead of the pack in this regard. He's one of the very few with the balls to vote against the patriot act the first time around and against the war in Iraq. Feingold(D-WI) is also up there. I believe he voted against the patriot act and the war a
Maybe I didn't make myself clear. Politicians want money, power, and all the associated perks. For the most part the winners of an election are successful. So my question is, where's the confusion? We believe their lies and then wonder why nothing changes for the better. It seems that the confusion is on our part. Your number 2 reason tells part of the story. And to tell the truth, I don't believe that the voters are as confused as they are as corrupt as the people they elect. Most use their vote as a method to achieve some higher status than their neighbors. This reasoning goes a long way to explain the type of people we have in high office.
I just set the default server manually. Does that help? I can't find any comments to that effect. Also, the D-Link site doesn't show any firmware updates on their site. DI-604 rev E. Google isn't helping me find it either. Here's what I found on the D-Link site ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/di604_revE1/Firmware
Anybody have an alternative?
The senators are confused.
And what should that tell you about the people that elect them?
Actually, you do have the right to smoke it anywhere you want. It's just that most people claim the right to kidnap(arrest) and torture(imprison) you if you do in most places.
when enough voters say, "STOP!", and not a minute before. Anybody here think it will become an election issue? I doubt it. Talk about tax cuts and terrorism, and all thoughts of spam go right out the window. Junk faxes are much worse than annoying phone calls. Now they're using up my paper. I use thermal paper, no toner needed. The only solution for me now is to have my modem take the fax (Yay! the modem isn't dead yet). I can always erase it from my hard drive.
Look to the oceans. This is where the problem lies. We are killing off its ability to filter the gasses coming from the planet's interior. Of course it's possible the earth's weakening magnetic field could have something to do with it. We still have no clue, but I would start looking into how we can restore oceanic plant life. And our great great grand kids will know if I was right.
I think someone from Microsoft said that their biggest competition comes from old versions of their software. If it was freely available, they believe that very few people would buy the new version. So they felt that they have to lock down the other. From their point of view they are right. And as far as the artists are concerned, they can make contracts to perfom, not just sit on their coatails as they want to do now. They should not receive special priviledges that my line of work does not enjoy.
No. Copyright, like other forms of property encourages hoarding and speculation. It never was about protecting the artist/creator. Some early copyright law left the creator out of the picture entirely. It's about protecting a method of doing business no matter how corrupt or obsolete it might be. Here it's about protecting the distributors/publishers, which has now become obsolete. Artists will now need to look elsewhere to make their contracts. Each work serves as advertisement for the next. Everybody gets paid through their performance, not by sitting their butts collecting rent. I don't get paid that way. Neither should you. You are welcome to sell your work, of course, but you have no right to control what happens afterward, any more than an architect has a right to tell me what color I must paint my house. Yes, we must throw out the bath water. Somebody peed in the tub.
Let's make buying from spammers illegal. When they raid the spam house, they should put out warrants for everyone on their customer list. Yeah, that'll work.
Spam is hugely profitable, because your overhead is nil.
That is only one reason. A much simpler and much bigger reason that spam is hugely profitable, because people buy from spammers. This seems to go way over the heads of the vengeful people looking for blood. Like the old cliche says, it's the same as blaming the spoon for making Rosy O'donald fat".
almost all wired communications go through ATT/SBC, let's hope this encourages more rapid developement of encrypted wireless mesh networks. As long you use their lines, you have no hope for privacy of any kind, and changing providers is meaningless.
The USA does it openly also. They just put a warm, fuzzy spin on to make it down go down nice and easy. The only real difference between the U.S. and China is that it's easier to make a quick buck in the states. Freedom always plays second fiddle to the economy. This is why a corrupt populace always re-elects the same corrupt politicians. As more Chinese acquire middle class status, you will less complaints from them about their government, regardless of how corrupt it may be.
I wonder, how long will it take for our government to realize that most of us take our rights pretty damn seriously, as they are the major reason why so many people like living here?
Our rights are not the reason people like to live here. This is the land of opportunity, not the land of freedom. Most come and live here for the opportunity to get rich, and freedom and rights be damned. Most people will be happy to trash the constitution to put an extra dollar in their pocket. The elections prove it over and over. If it weren't true, we wouldn't have snake oil salesmen running the place. The "freedoms" of America are a fairy tale.
Last time I looked into it the evidence suggested to me that the vote was rather less than fair and clean.
I agree. I believe the last two(at least) elections were rigged, but we are in the minority. Thus no re-count. The majority has spoken, mostly by their silence. That's the way the cookie crumbles. Respect for the law in general suffers as a result. If the law isn't applied to these people, then how can you apply it to anybody?
Without a rational voting system...
We just need to vote one in...
That's the consesus, yes. If he wasn't, then why is he occupying the office? If enough people speak up, he can be removed. Since hardly anybody did or does, I'll have to accept that he was voted in, fair and square. Most people have decided to ignore any possible evidence of wrongdoing and have accepted the election as legitimate. Democracy at work. Exactly the way it's supposed to. If there's any failure, it's that of majority rule itself, not of any particular individual.
Why? Future Macs will just be Wintel machines with a pretty face. Gamers had their chance to switch. After 2007 there will be no switch, unless Apple finds true enlightenment and moves away from the herd and towards the Alpha chip. Man, what a bunch of cattle. Simply doing something because "everybody else" is doing it. Apple didn't go to Intel because it was better. It was a cost cutting move, with all the implicit degradation. UGH! It doesn't matter how smooth you look when the underlying architecture crumbles under the slightest load.
...the fact he is giving the NOAA extra money for research rather than prevention is quite interesting, global warming is something that is happening.
Until we repair the oceans and bring them back to life, we're not going to prevent anything. Now, as for Bush, he's only doing what he was voted into office to do... to make us all rich through "Reaganomics". Don't blame Bush. He was voted in knowing full well what his intentions were from the get go. If he can fatten our wallets, he's a hero. The voters are corrupt, and he's just reflecting that.
FTA: "A network of conservative and free-market groups has begun warning Congress that Net neutrality regulations are not consistent with Republican laissez-faire principles and protection of private-property rights."
In reality it means: A network of conservative and free-market groups has begun warning Congress that Net neutrality regulations are not consistent with Republican laissez-faire principles and protection of private citizen's rights.
Of ocourse the democrats share the same attitude. (clipper chip, DMCA, expanded death penality, patriot act) Just so you all understand there's no need to single anybody out.
Theft is taking something without paying.
Only if you take it from its rightful owner. Since it is impossible to own an intangible item such as music or an idea, there is no theft. In fact, the distributors attempts to keep it for their exclusive benefit is the real theft here. Although it is enforced with real guns, the concept of intellectual property is a fantasy. No different than those who would force you to believe in their particular god.
At no time does she say that she didn't perform copyright infringement.
Well then It's obvious she's guilty. Case closed, right? Guilty of what? Of anything a corporation with the government(and the voters who make it happen) in its pocket says.
That's why they call it punishment.
That's why I call it extortion.
Hopefully it will eliminate all human operated controls. Except the radio, of course. People have no business operating such dangerous machinery. A car should be as simple as pushing an elevator button. Get the human out of the loop, and reduce accidents by 95% or more.
Just because Netflix was first to market and to the patent office, it doesn't mean they were first with the idea, or that it's not an obvious idea. It just wasn't common knowledge. The concept would have come up anyway. Being first shouldn't grant you exclusivity. In fact, nobody should be granted exclusivity to an expressed idea. Don't like it? Fine. Keep it to yourself. It will happen eventually, with or without your input.