"Personal liberty, or the Right to enjoyment of life and liberty, is one of the fundamental or natural Rights, which has been protected by its inclusion as a guarantee in the various constitutions, which is not derived from, or dependent on, the U.S. Constitution, which may not be submitted to a vote and may not depend on the outcome of an election. It is one of the most sacred and valuable Rights, as sacred as the Right to private property...and is regarded as inalienable." 16 C.J.S., Constitutional Law, Sect.202, p.987.
"Personal liberty largely consists of the Right of locomotion -- to go where and when one pleases -- only so far restrained as the Rights of others may make it necessary for the welfare of all other citizens. The Right of the Citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, by horse drawn carriage, wagon, or automobile, is not a mere privilege which may be permitted or prohibited at will, but the common Right which he has under his Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Under this Constitutional guarantee one may, therefore, under normal conditions, travel at his inclination along the public highways or in public places, and while conducting himself in an orderly and decent manner, neither interfering with nor disturbing another's Rights, he will be protected, not only in his person, but in his safe conduct." II Am.Jur. (1st) Constitutional Law, Sect.329, p.1135.
People who claim that driving isn't a right are usually parents or Divers Ed teachers trying to control teenagers. Sorry, those of use who understand what freedom means don't buy your sorry argument.
But seriously, free as in speech... This is not simply a linux phone, it is an OPEN phone you will be free to replace the OS with anything you choose, and programmers will have unprecedented access to the OS and hardware. This is an awesome project.
Tron is the reason I have 100k a year job today with no college. I saw Tron when I was 11 years old. Tron and Wargames are what made me want learn about computers and to this very day I love working with them.
So was it a bad movie? Maybe, but I don't care. It influenced my life in a positive way so greatly that it will alway occupy a place of honor and respect with me.
Why should WiFi access points be different from any other resource on the Internet? Do I have a right to access Google's bandwidth or electricity? They didn't send me a singing telegram asking me to. Or what about peoples blogs? Do I have a right to read it if they didn't ask me to? The Internet has methods for controlling access to resources. If you circumvent security to gain access to resources that is a crime. WiFi routers have methods for controlling access to their resources. As per the rest of the Internet you should legally be allowed to access resource that are configured to allow access. Anything else breaks the Internet.
I have T-Mobile in the CA, bay area with the $29/month data plan. It still works fine. This story is complete BS, the whole reason for buying a smartphone is applications. Just because 3rd party apps don't work with a particular service plan doesn't mean T-Mobile is "banning" 3rd party apps. Who the fuck let the trolls start posting stories?
Ok so they are behind a bit, Their page says that they are shipping this month. Unlikely, but I'll buy one of these before I'd ever buy an iPhone. If they do all the things they say they will do this phone will kick Apple's ass. The phone is called "Neo 1973" what that means I don't know.
Actually at Ft. Bliss TX, you can legally drink on post at 18 because they'd rather you stay there than go to Juarez Mexico where it is also legal to drink at age 18. I'm sure it is the same at US military bases in other countries as well.
Years ago I was calling around to bookstores looking for this book. A few bookstore employees asked me if it had a lot of pictures. They thought is was a book for people who have trouble communicating. Like knowing when to say,'hi' vs. 'hello' or somehting. sheesh. Now granted many people who read this book may be socially challenged, but this book won't help that.
not really, I have a T-mobile pre-paid account, and I can put my SIM in any unlocked GSM phone and it works, and there is no contract. I'm currently using it in a phone I bought when I was living uin the Czech Republic (where pre-paid is much more common and you can buy more minutes at most ATMs).
Of course the pre-paid minutes are a little more expensive, but I prefer the freedom and lack of a monthkly bill. I pay $100.00 for 1000 minutes every 4 months or so. which is cheaper than any contract I could get. And it wasn't a hassle to get either. I went to a kiosk in the mall with my phone, told them what I wanted, pulled out my Czech SIM and put in the new one and it worked. My service may be more expensive per minute, but as you know freedom isn't free.
I've been following the Illiad for a while. It will support non-DRMed formats. It supports.txt and.html The OS is linux and they claim they will make it easy and open for anyone to develop apps for it.
The right to bear arms is an American one, not an intrinsic human right.
There is no such thing as an "American Right"
I disagree completely with any one who says that rights come from society. That is complete and utter BS. Just because a government abridges or abuses a right doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Rights can not be taken away. Freedom to exercize your rights can be taken away but but not the right itself. Simply being born gives you rights. This is what what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote in the Declration of Independence,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
I don't believe that there are "American Rights", I belive that all peoples all over the world have the same rights I do. I do recognize that in some places people are not able to exercize their rights because of oppression, and I recognize that in some places people forgo exercizing their rights by choice. Now you can believe whatever you want, but the moment you start tying to impose those beliefs on me I will resist, with force if necessary.
For any given right, it is meaningless to affirm that right if the tools or necessities of effecting that right are prohibited. The right to be armed is simply the right to be prepared to defend yourself.
Position sensors, battery charge monitors, etc are all designed to let a robot know about itself in relation to the world.
This is wrong is a very small but critial way. Most of today's robot sensors are designed to let a robot know about itself in realtion to other, very specific things; not the world in general. For instance the robot in the article didn't have sensors to detect the presence of a person in its operational space. This robot didn't need them because there was a very specific procedure that was supposed to be followed to protect people when the needed to be in it workspace. Sensor technilogy is getting better all the time, but I think we are very far from the point where a sensor can give enough data to a computer inorder for that computer to generate information useful enough to allow a robot to act like a person.
In factories with heavy machinery there are things called "lock-outs". Many time these are actually padlocks that you put on the controls to keep them from being turned on when some one is working on a machine. What happened in this story is exactly the situation these lock-outs are suppoesed to prevent, but they only work if they are used. Adding sensors (even in addition to lock-outs) would induce people to be even more careless around this heavy machinery.
Presently the company I work for is moving to a terminal services infrastructure. I used to think that the Mainframe/Terminal architecture had had its day. In the process of deciding which way to go I built a small linux terminal server based system. The whole server/client terminology juxtaposition is wierd. The reason we decided on a windows terminal server solution instead was becasue we need a particular app that is windows based. I tried to convice them to have our own application developed on linux, but that seemed more risky to them than buying some one elses product (never mind that this product is less than 5 years old and was developed by some on in our exact position). The good thing about linux terminal services, is that you can connect to it with practically anything and with the NX cleint from nomachine.net it is pretty damn fast even over a remote VPN.
"This is as close as you can get to a real fight, even though I've never been in one," the soft-spoken Siou said.
My second job is bouncing at a dive bar. Unlike those meat heads you saw in that documentary on HBO, real bouncers try to prevent fights, and when that is not possible stop them once they've started. Because the parties involved are usually drunk, it can take a fair amount of 'convincing' (read: put in headlock and drag outside). So I think you can get a bit closer to a real fight. Infact it's not all that hard to achieve in actuallity.
So what happens to all the bits of glass and palladium after it releases its hydrogen load? I guess ideally, it would get saved somewhere for recycling - but presuming that doesn't happ en - is it going to be OK to breath microsopic bits of that stuff?
It only makes sense that the medium is handled at the filling station. The process of emptying and filling happen simutaneously. Maybe the raw hydrogen is stored at the filling station and the medium infusion process happens there. I guess it depends on how much precessing is involved in getting the hydrogen into the medium, but it seems like the gas station would be the best place to leave spent medium.
Just as an aside, methanol is what model airplanes use for fuel, and it is also used in the process of turning waste vegetable oil into biodiesel. As for safety, how hard can it be to come up with a safe way to transfer 6 oz of liquid from one container to another?
When buying methanol, like most things, the more you buy the cheaper it is. Keeping a 5 gallon container around and then filling your phone or a small syringe from that doesn't seem too difficult a proposition.
It seems that a lot of people find it difficult to get multimedia apps working on their Linux systems. Last week I installed FC5 on my PIII Thinkpad. Out-of-the-box multimedia support was pretty bad. I didsome searching on Google and found several sites about upgrading. They involved adding new repositories and then installing with YUM. What I did was add the repository and then use the graphical interface to select the packages and click install. it was pretty painless. Now I can even view WMV and ASF files.
Disclaimer: Even though I've never run a Linux desktop until last week, I administrate several linux servers, so I guess I'm not an "ordinary" PC user.
What we need is an electric version of Nascar. So many innovations come out of racing.
Some basic Electric Nascar rules. 1) Car must have electric based drive (how that electricity is stored/generated is optional) 2) Race is 400 miles. 3) One refuel/battery change. 4) Must carry 800lbs minus drivers weight in additions to everything required for the car to run.
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Driving is a Right, not a privilege.
"Personal liberty, or the Right to enjoyment of life and liberty, is one of the fundamental or natural Rights, which has been protected by its inclusion as a guarantee in the various constitutions, which is not derived from, or dependent on, the U.S. Constitution, which may not be submitted to a vote and may not depend on the outcome of an election. It is one of the most sacred and valuable Rights, as sacred as the Right to private property...and is regarded as inalienable." 16 C.J.S., Constitutional Law, Sect.202, p.987.
"Personal liberty largely consists of the Right of locomotion -- to go where and when one pleases -- only so far restrained as the Rights of others may make it necessary for the welfare of all other citizens. The Right of the Citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, by horse drawn carriage, wagon, or automobile, is not a mere privilege which may be permitted or prohibited at will, but the common Right which he has under his Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Under this Constitutional guarantee one may, therefore, under normal conditions, travel at his inclination along the public highways or in public places, and while conducting himself in an orderly and decent manner, neither interfering with nor disturbing another's Rights, he will be protected, not only in his person, but in his safe conduct." II Am.Jur. (1st) Constitutional Law, Sect.329, p.1135.
http://teamliberty.net/id18.html
People who claim that driving isn't a right are usually parents or Divers Ed teachers trying to control teenagers. Sorry, those of use who understand what freedom means don't buy your sorry argument.
What is the difference between "Terrorist Crime" and "Ordinary Crime".
(Hint: there isn't one)
But seriously, free as in speech... This is not simply a linux phone, it is an OPEN phone you will be free to replace the OS with anything you choose, and programmers will have unprecedented access to the OS and hardware. This is an awesome project.
www.openmoko.org
Tron is the reason I have 100k a year job today with no college. I saw Tron when I was 11 years old. Tron and Wargames are what made me want learn about computers and to this very day I love working with them.
So was it a bad movie? Maybe, but I don't care. It influenced my life in a positive way so greatly that it will alway occupy a place of honor and respect with me.
Why should WiFi access points be different from any other resource on the Internet? Do I have a right to access Google's bandwidth or electricity? They didn't send me a singing telegram asking me to. Or what about peoples blogs? Do I have a right to read it if they didn't ask me to? The Internet has methods for controlling access to resources. If you circumvent security to gain access to resources that is a crime. WiFi routers have methods for controlling access to their resources. As per the rest of the Internet you should legally be allowed to access resource that are configured to allow access. Anything else breaks the Internet.
Have you looked at Hyperic? http://www.hyperic.com/ I'm using the open source version and I like it alot.
Yeah he was a nutcase, but whatever. If I had cash to burn I'd buy the place and turn it into a video arcade called "Flynn's"
I have T-Mobile in the CA, bay area with the $29/month data plan. It still works fine. This story is complete BS, the whole reason for buying a smartphone is applications. Just because 3rd party apps don't work with a particular service plan doesn't mean T-Mobile is "banning" 3rd party apps. Who the fuck let the trolls start posting stories?
Pal Pal..... duh?
Ok so they are behind a bit, Their page says that they are shipping this month. Unlikely, but I'll buy one of these before I'd ever buy an iPhone. If they do all the things they say they will do this phone will kick Apple's ass. The phone is called "Neo 1973" what that means I don't know.
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This presentation isn't as flashy as Steve Jobs' but is has me way more interested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRvtAAXTIlg
Linux Devices has a good writeup.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2986976174.htm
The Company Web Site
http://www.openmoko.com/
Actually at Ft. Bliss TX, you can legally drink on post at 18 because they'd rather you stay there than go to Juarez Mexico where it is also legal to drink at age 18. I'm sure it is the same at US military bases in other countries as well.
Years ago I was calling around to bookstores looking for this book. A few bookstore employees asked me if it had a lot of pictures. They thought is was a book for people who have trouble communicating. Like knowing when to say,'hi' vs. 'hello' or somehting. sheesh. Now granted many people who read this book may be socially challenged, but this book won't help that.
not really, I have a T-mobile pre-paid account, and I can put my SIM in any unlocked GSM phone and it works, and there is no contract. I'm currently using it in a phone I bought when I was living uin the Czech Republic (where pre-paid is much more common and you can buy more minutes at most ATMs).
Of course the pre-paid minutes are a little more expensive, but I prefer the freedom and lack of a monthkly bill. I pay $100.00 for 1000 minutes every 4 months or so. which is cheaper than any contract I could get. And it wasn't a hassle to get either. I went to a kiosk in the mall with my phone, told them what I wanted, pulled out my Czech SIM and put in the new one and it worked. My service may be more expensive per minute, but as you know freedom isn't free.
I've been following the Illiad for a while. It will support non-DRMed formats. It supports .txt and .html The OS is linux and they claim they will make it easy and open for anyone to develop apps for it.
There is no such thing as an "American Right"
I disagree completely with any one who says that rights come from society. That is complete and utter BS. Just because a government abridges or abuses a right doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Rights can not be taken away. Freedom to exercize your rights can be taken away but but not the right itself. Simply being born gives you rights. This is what what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote in the Declration of Independence,
I don't believe that there are "American Rights", I belive that all peoples all over the world have the same rights I do. I do recognize that in some places people are not able to exercize their rights because of oppression, and I recognize that in some places people forgo exercizing their rights by choice. Now you can believe whatever you want, but the moment you start tying to impose those beliefs on me I will resist, with force if necessary.
For any given right, it is meaningless to affirm that right if the tools or necessities of effecting that right are prohibited. The right to be armed is simply the right to be prepared to defend yourself.
Position sensors, battery charge monitors, etc are all designed to let a robot know about itself in relation to the world.
This is wrong is a very small but critial way. Most of today's robot sensors are designed to let a robot know about itself in realtion to other, very specific things; not the world in general. For instance the robot in the article didn't have sensors to detect the presence of a person in its operational space. This robot didn't need them because there was a very specific procedure that was supposed to be followed to protect people when the needed to be in it workspace. Sensor technilogy is getting better all the time, but I think we are very far from the point where a sensor can give enough data to a computer inorder for that computer to generate information useful enough to allow a robot to act like a person.
In factories with heavy machinery there are things called "lock-outs". Many time these are actually padlocks that you put on the controls to keep them from being turned on when some one is working on a machine. What happened in this story is exactly the situation these lock-outs are suppoesed to prevent, but they only work if they are used. Adding sensors (even in addition to lock-outs) would induce people to be even more careless around this heavy machinery.
That research by Stanford is interesting, but I'd like to understand why a $4000 gadget is preferable to sticking you hand is a bucket of ice water.
And Michael Jackson was cool!
Presently the company I work for is moving to a terminal services infrastructure. I used to think that the Mainframe/Terminal architecture had had its day. In the process of deciding which way to go I built a small linux terminal server based system. The whole server/client terminology juxtaposition is wierd. The reason we decided on a windows terminal server solution instead was becasue we need a particular app that is windows based. I tried to convice them to have our own application developed on linux, but that seemed more risky to them than buying some one elses product (never mind that this product is less than 5 years old and was developed by some on in our exact position). The good thing about linux terminal services, is that you can connect to it with practically anything and with the NX cleint from nomachine.net it is pretty damn fast even over a remote VPN.
"This is as close as you can get to a real fight, even though I've never been in one," the soft-spoken Siou said.
My second job is bouncing at a dive bar. Unlike those meat heads you saw in that documentary on HBO, real bouncers try to prevent fights, and when that is not possible stop them once they've started. Because the parties involved are usually drunk, it can take a fair amount of 'convincing' (read: put in headlock and drag outside). So I think you can get a bit closer to a real fight. Infact it's not all that hard to achieve in actuallity.
So what happens to all the bits of glass and palladium after it releases its hydrogen load?
I guess ideally, it would get saved somewhere for recycling - but presuming that doesn't happ
en - is it going to be OK to breath microsopic bits of that stuff?
It only makes sense that the medium is handled at the filling station. The process of emptying and filling happen simutaneously. Maybe the raw hydrogen is stored at the filling station and the medium infusion process happens there. I guess it depends on how much precessing is involved in getting the hydrogen into the medium, but it seems like the gas station would be the best place to leave spent medium.
...or about the speed of a parking lot fender bender. So if both craft had bumbers they wouldn't be spening so much at the body shop.
Just as an aside, methanol is what model airplanes use for fuel, and it is also used in the process of turning waste vegetable oil into biodiesel. As for safety, how hard can it be to come up with a safe way to transfer 6 oz of liquid from one container to another?
When buying methanol, like most things, the more you buy the cheaper it is. Keeping a 5 gallon container around and then filling your phone or a small syringe from that doesn't seem too difficult a proposition.
It seems that a lot of people find it difficult to get multimedia apps working on their Linux systems. Last week I installed FC5 on my PIII Thinkpad. Out-of-the-box multimedia support was pretty bad. I didsome searching on Google and found several sites about upgrading. They involved adding new repositories and then installing with YUM. What I did was add the repository and then use the graphical interface to select the packages and click install. it was pretty painless. Now I can even view WMV and ASF files.
Disclaimer: Even though I've never run a Linux desktop until last week, I administrate several linux servers, so I guess I'm not an "ordinary" PC user.
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What we need is an electric version of Nascar. So many innovations come out of racing.
Some basic Electric Nascar rules.
1) Car must have electric based drive (how that electricity is stored/generated is optional)
2) Race is 400 miles.
3) One refuel/battery change.
4) Must carry 800lbs minus drivers weight in additions to everything required for the car to run.