At least now Youtube will have Google Adsense ads rather than Myspaces "epileptic punch the monkey you win a frigging iPod PS3 viagra sweepstakes" flash banner ads with 400 double click pop ups and unders.
Ads? What are these "ads" you speak of? I don't see those because I use Opera.
I've been looking forward to that whole tabbed-browsing thing they invented
Hey guys, so I'm writing this post from jail. Yesterday was my grandmother's birthday, and I was having a chat with my uncle. We were talking about web browsers, and he said that he preferred IE over FF because, and I quote, "It's just more powerful than Firefox." So I killed him, which brings me back to why I'm writing from jail:(
Because where do you draw the line? Stop racist speech because it offends me! Stop sexist speech because it offends me! (These two demands alone would make researchers cringe at the thought ot studying sociology)
Stop offensive speech because it offends me! Now, what is offensive speech! Stop ageism speech! Jokes that make fun of people in wheelchairs! Stop jokes making fun of women!
Pretty soon, you can't talk about anything, and you're living in 1984.
And, as far as guns go, obviously you're not able to protect yourself from government now, are you? So what are you going to do when the above-mentioned demands are met?
He includes real perl code for a crypto system in the book, you can't get more geek than that.
For fairness's sake, I could write an entire book in Perl, but that doesn't make it good.
The only part I really liked about the book were the scenes involving Turing (one of my idols). I will be honest in admitting that I enjoyed the early passages with Turing and his German "colleague" -- kind of a geeked out fan fiction (isn't all fan fiction geeked out, though?).
In a semi-related vein, I have never read any RAW, but I just cannot get through a Neal Stephenson book. There are so many people who love his work, and I've often wondered if there is something wrong with me. I've read LotR, Gone With the Wind, Anna Karenina, etc., and I'm in law school right now, so obviously it is not the length of the books that bothers me. The pacing just seems off to me.
Does the fact that I love Nerdcore make up for the fact that I cannot enjoy Cryptonomicon? Please advise!
According to a quick Google, the fertility rate of the US is ~2.13. Demographers say that the replacement rate (that is, the fertility rate necessary to maintain a level population) is 2.1. Thus, the US's fertility rate is right on target. Of course, we also have immigration, but immigrants would exist on the earth no matter where they lived, so we should not factor them into worries of hazardous growth. Some more quick Googling of "us fertility rate" reveals links which allege the native USian's fertility rate is at the replacement level only, but that the immigrant fertility rate is at Baby Boom levels. This seems to be the real worry.
Is this another argument in favor of restricting immigration to the US? I don't know, and I'm not going to make that argument at 11:30 in the morning, but it's something to think about (note: I think immigration with favoritism shown towards educated people is acceptable, and don't have a very strong opinion about illegal immigration, so don't think I'm one of those "THEY'RE TAKIN' OUR JOBS" type people).
As I previously said, where is the praise, and where is the sneering disapproval? Note that they have to be directed at the same object, and it seems that in the phrase "same way a speed bump helps ford's growth" the disapproval would be, presumably, for Ford, and the praise, for speed bumps.
The definition of sarcasm: "A form of verbal irony, expressing sneering, personal disapproval in the guise of praise". Now where the hell was sarcasm in that AC's post?
Fuelled MS's growth in the same way a speed bump helps ford's growth.
That analogy makes absolutely no sense. GP was saying that AV software has fueled MS's growth by effectively being the QA dept., providing a much needed service to users of the OS. If your analogy is assumed to be valid, this implies that your analogy states that speedbumps provide a necessary service for users in operation of their vehicle. This is absolutely not the case, and so by reductio ad absurdum, your analogy is not valid. Speedbumps exist to protect those who live in the surrounding neighborhoods and shoppers in parking lots. Now, if GP's statement about AV companies was that they protect users in the same LAN as a Windows box, your analogy would be correct. Sadly (for you), it was not.
So I finally cleared up enough HD space to upgrade to 7.0 (ripping Futurama off my DVDs left no space for a while, and iTunes refused to install w/o clearing up some space); I installed it tonight, and lo and behold!!! 7.0.1 BREAKS MYFAIRTUNES AGAIN! Oh well, it'll be broken again in a couple days, since Igor just has to find the new memory offsets, but just letting everyone know that if you upgrade to the new iTunes, it borks the fair use enabling software.
No one can make them change their license, can they?
Actually, based upon trust of the people who handle the GPL, an enormous amount of software packages are licensed with wording along the lines of "licensed under the GPL, version X or later at the licensee's discretion." Thus, their license does, in fact, change at the FSF's discretion. In fact, a reading of the GPL on GNU's website reveals this piece of text:
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
Copyright (C)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version. [SNIP] So, as you can see, the people who handle the GPL lead developers who are unfamiliar with licenses to the "correct path" -- i.e., that which makes the license GPL version x or later.
They are not valid because California lacks jurisdiction to make these laws since they involve interstate commerce.
Au contraire, California has jurisdiction as it is fairly trivial to demonstrate that the Big Six have minimum sufficient contacts with California. May I direct you to the relevant court cases: International Shoe Co. v Washington and Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of California (note that the ruling would have been in the manner California is arguing for in this case had Asahi been a manufacturer within the US, which the Big Six are). Also note:
Minimum contacts is a term used in the United States law of civil procedure to determine when it is appropriate for a court in one state to assert in personam jurisdiction (i.e. jurisdiction over the person, or personal jurisdiction) over a defendant from another state. The United States Supreme Court has decided a number of cases that have established and refined the principle that it is unfair for a court to assert jurisdiction over a party unless that party's contacts with the state in which that court sits are such that the party "could reasonably expect to be haled[1] into court" in that state. This jurisdiction must "not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice." International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945).
I suggest you read that Wikipedia entry carefully; it demonstrates very clearly that CA has jurisdiction in personam over the auto manufacturers, because they all have franchise presence in CA, as well as business activities (frequent conferences, discussions, panels, advertisements, etc.) which take place within the State.
Congratulations, jackass: you just gave the largest industrial manufacturers in the world every reason to spend billions to convince everyone that global warming doesn't exist.
You mean like when the cigarette companies were sued, they started spending billions to convince everyone that smoking did not cause cancer? In case you forgot, that's why they were held responsible; I would think that if the big six started spending money to convince people that global warming doesn't exist due to auto emissions (as if they aren't using their money through lobbyists to convince everyone of that already -- and this may be the damning evidence that finds them responsible in CA), that it would be easier to find them responsible.
I'm not getting the basis for the suit. Have the auto makers broken any laws?
I'm not saying anything about the merits of the suit, but what you ask is completely irrelevant to lawsuits. Case in point: OJ Simpson was found not guilty of murder, but still lost the lawsuit brought against him by the family of Ron Goldman.
Tort law does not require guilt in order to file suit. Furthermore, tort does not even require a crime to have been allegedly violated. You can sue someone for things that are not violations of statutes. For example, you could sue them for negligence, even though there is no law saying, "Making cars which pollute beyond x is 'negligent'." Of course, this doesn't mean you would win; CA just has to demonstrate to a judge (or a jury if either the plaintiff or defendant(s) request it) that with at least 51% confidence that auto makers are culpable for polluting (or contributing to pollution) negligently.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer yet, but I do play one in law school.
Yeah, I tell you what: ever read the Young Jedi Knights series? Fucking literary masterpiece; makes Ulysses look like it was written by a drunk third-grader.
Indeed, I do. However, I fail to see how this has anything to do with region-encoding...are you trying to rationalize region encoding as a way for the big, strong Nintendo to protect us puny, weak mortals from hurting ourselves by playing an imported game?
As a person who is bilingual in Japanese and English, I'd planned on buying a Wii and getting games from both sides of the Pacific Ocean (primarily English games, but a few Japanese games that would never be translated and brought to the US). If it is true that the Wii will not be region-free, I don't think I'll be buying one: I make it a point not to buy region-locked things unless I can easily get around them (e.g. DVDs which I play with VLC). I guess I'll wait until someone discovers a hack to get around the region problem.
Nintendo, you just lost a sale of console and all incidental game purchases I would have made. Congratulations!
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If you don't catch the joke, then you can FOAD.
Stop offensive speech because it offends me! Now, what is offensive speech!
Stop ageism speech! Jokes that make fun of people in wheelchairs! Stop jokes making fun of women!
Pretty soon, you can't talk about anything, and you're living in 1984.
And, as far as guns go, obviously you're not able to protect yourself from government now, are you? So what are you going to do when the above-mentioned demands are met?
Indeed. Wasn't George Orwell English?
The only part I really liked about the book were the scenes involving Turing (one of my idols). I will be honest in admitting that I enjoyed the early passages with Turing and his German "colleague" -- kind of a geeked out fan fiction (isn't all fan fiction geeked out, though?).
In a semi-related vein, I have never read any RAW, but I just cannot get through a Neal Stephenson book. There are so many people who love his work, and I've often wondered if there is something wrong with me. I've read LotR, Gone With the Wind, Anna Karenina, etc., and I'm in law school right now, so obviously it is not the length of the books that bothers me. The pacing just seems off to me.
Does the fact that I love Nerdcore make up for the fact that I cannot enjoy Cryptonomicon? Please advise!
You do realize that you are arguing that food-importing nations have an obligation to pay more for food, right?
According to a quick Google, the fertility rate of the US is ~2.13. Demographers say that the replacement rate (that is, the fertility rate necessary to maintain a level population) is 2.1. Thus, the US's fertility rate is right on target. Of course, we also have immigration, but immigrants would exist on the earth no matter where they lived, so we should not factor them into worries of hazardous growth. Some more quick Googling of "us fertility rate" reveals links which allege the native USian's fertility rate is at the replacement level only, but that the immigrant fertility rate is at Baby Boom levels. This seems to be the real worry.
Is this another argument in favor of restricting immigration to the US? I don't know, and I'm not going to make that argument at 11:30 in the morning, but it's something to think about (note: I think immigration with favoritism shown towards educated people is acceptable, and don't have a very strong opinion about illegal immigration, so don't think I'm one of those "THEY'RE TAKIN' OUR JOBS" type people).
As I previously said, where is the praise, and where is the sneering disapproval? Note that they have to be directed at the same object, and it seems that in the phrase "same way a speed bump helps ford's growth" the disapproval would be, presumably, for Ford, and the praise, for speed bumps.
The definition of sarcasm: "A form of verbal irony, expressing sneering, personal disapproval in the guise of praise". Now where the hell was sarcasm in that AC's post?
Speedbumps exist to protect those who live in the surrounding neighborhoods and shoppers in parking lots. Now, if GP's statement about AV companies was that they protect users in the same LAN as a Windows box, your analogy would be correct. Sadly (for you), it was not.
Generation 5, it marries into the Kennedy family.
Generation 6, it becomes governor.
So I finally cleared up enough HD space to upgrade to 7.0 (ripping Futurama off my DVDs left no space for a while, and iTunes refused to install w/o clearing up some space); I installed it tonight, and lo and behold!!! 7.0.1 BREAKS MYFAIRTUNES AGAIN! Oh well, it'll be broken again in a couple days, since Igor just has to find the new memory offsets, but just letting everyone know that if you upgrade to the new iTunes, it borks the fair use enabling software.
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
Copyright (C)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
[SNIP]
So, as you can see, the people who handle the GPL lead developers who are unfamiliar with licenses to the "correct path" -- i.e., that which makes the license GPL version x or later.
I suggest you read that Wikipedia entry carefully; it demonstrates very clearly that CA has jurisdiction in personam over the auto manufacturers, because they all have franchise presence in CA, as well as business activities (frequent conferences, discussions, panels, advertisements, etc.) which take place within the State.
Tort law does not require guilt in order to file suit. Furthermore, tort does not even require a crime to have been allegedly violated. You can sue someone for things that are not violations of statutes. For example, you could sue them for negligence, even though there is no law saying, "Making cars which pollute beyond x is 'negligent'." Of course, this doesn't mean you would win; CA just has to demonstrate to a judge (or a jury if either the plaintiff or defendant(s) request it) that with at least 51% confidence that auto makers are culpable for polluting (or contributing to pollution) negligently.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer yet, but I do play one in law school.
*sigh* I walked right into that one, didn't I?
Yeah, I tell you what: ever read the Young Jedi Knights series? Fucking literary masterpiece; makes Ulysses look like it was written by a drunk third-grader.
Indeed, I do. However, I fail to see how this has anything to do with region-encoding...are you trying to rationalize region encoding as a way for the big, strong Nintendo to protect us puny, weak mortals from hurting ourselves by playing an imported game?
As a person who is bilingual in Japanese and English, I'd planned on buying a Wii and getting games from both sides of the Pacific Ocean (primarily English games, but a few Japanese games that would never be translated and brought to the US). If it is true that the Wii will not be region-free, I don't think I'll be buying one: I make it a point not to buy region-locked things unless I can easily get around them (e.g. DVDs which I play with VLC). I guess I'll wait until someone discovers a hack to get around the region problem.
Nintendo, you just lost a sale of console and all incidental game purchases I would have made. Congratulations!