The problem is that no one gains anything when it comes to Congress, except for the preferred few.
Uhhhh... voting rights act of 64'? Americans with disabilities act? Freedom of information act?
Or, like, ALL of the amendments to the Constitution that guarantee personal liberty? I cite numbers 13, 14, 15 and 19 as personal favorites, but it applies to all of them. They ALL start in Congress, dude.
The one thing that I do agree with is that you should not vote. It's nothing personal, I'd rather everyone was a part of the process, but if you don't see the capacity of Congress to do good (despite its obvious and frequent shortcomings) it's probably best that you sit this out and leave it to those of us who want to keep expanding the sphere of personal liberty, through, well, proven methods.
I find this argument troublesome. Of course soldiers accept limitations on their freedoms when they enlist, but they are still citizens, after all. They still vote. If there's a class of voters to whom the government can restrict access to information, they could "farm" a political constituency that only got spoon-fed versions of the news, all in the name of "morale".
It would be more internally consistent to just take away their right to vote, and I hope no one would advocate that.
I think it's because of the look and feel. Yahoo and hotmail pages look just like you'd expect corporate America to respond to a new medium/location/arctic refuge: fill it with ads!!!
I think the fact that google looks like it was designed by someone who understood the web, and designed it for the web, makes it feel friendlier, or at least more appropriate.
Ads, to me, are almost always the ugliest thing in any environment. I hate looking at my teenage relatives decked out in the logos of their favorite brands, thinking that they paid for the privilidge to be a Nike or an Old Navy billboard.
We had a great one once where a user called us and said she couldn't get her document to print. My collegue was walking her through printing through the Mac OS9 Finder.
"Okay, click on the printer and then go up to the 'Printing'" menu."
"There is no printing menu."
"Is the printer highlighted?"
"Yes."
"Hmm. Okay, read to me the menus you have on the screen."
"Okay... File, Edit, View, Special, Printing, Help. Nope, there's no Printing menu."
For instance, a whole lot of sci-fi storys could be done extremely well in this medium.
And I don't doubt they will. What qualified as high end commercial animation is now possible on a workstation. I look forward to someday seeing all the scifi novels of my youth turned into long, detailed tv movies. Dragonflight: The Miniseries anyone?
I don't know if I can agree with the "celbration of beauty of animals" bit, but I agree that the thing that matters is whether or not a critter died to make the coat.
On a practical level, lots of people are going to want to wear animal skins. (most) people WANT to bite into that fat juicy steak. I'm looking forward to the day when the vegetable-based faux meat is indistinguishable from the real thing- I think even most hardcore carnivores would agree that all things being equal, wouldn't it be a better thing if all those steakhouses really weren't responsible for animal deaths?
It's the same thing with faux fur. I'm no animal suffragist, but, Jesus, man, it's a step in the right direction. Lay off the faux fur & "pleather" buyers.
Exactly. The logic of this idea is empirically disproven by the snail mail system. Sending junk snail mail costs more than a penny a piece, and yet we still get tons of junk in our physical mailboxes every day. To make it really prohibitive, you'd have to price it more expensively than physical mail. Bulk mail is cheaper than firstclass postage, but it's far from free.
Do you really want to spend 29+ cents to send an email?
Slashdot Mirror
The problem is that no one gains anything when it comes to Congress, except for the preferred few.
Uhhhh... voting rights act of 64'? Americans with disabilities act? Freedom of information act?
Or, like, ALL of the amendments to the Constitution that guarantee personal liberty? I cite numbers 13, 14, 15 and 19 as personal favorites, but it applies to all of them. They ALL start in Congress, dude.
The one thing that I do agree with is that you should not vote. It's nothing personal, I'd rather everyone was a part of the process, but if you don't see the capacity of Congress to do good (despite its obvious and frequent shortcomings) it's probably best that you sit this out and leave it to those of us who want to keep expanding the sphere of personal liberty, through, well, proven methods.
(shrug)
You don't own it, but companies expect the same loyalty as if you owned it.
See the contradiction? Why should an employee care about something they don't own?
Because of a phenomenon known in scientific circles as the paycheck.
I find this argument troublesome. Of course soldiers accept limitations on their freedoms when they enlist, but they are still citizens, after all. They still vote. If there's a class of voters to whom the government can restrict access to information, they could "farm" a political constituency that only got spoon-fed versions of the news, all in the name of "morale".
It would be more internally consistent to just take away their right to vote, and I hope no one would advocate that.
"I'm very interested to see what uses the Slashdot community can conceive for a household controlled through voice commands issued to a robot dog."
/Onion story from yesterday?
I'm sorry- wasnt this part of the "slashdot in 2056"
You're right- monkeygrabbing should be done in a more sober and deliberate fashion, otherwise... uh....
Worst... Simpsons Reference... Ever! (J/k)
I think it's because of the look and feel. Yahoo and hotmail pages look just like you'd expect corporate America to respond to a new medium/location/arctic refuge: fill it with ads!!!
I think the fact that google looks like it was designed by someone who understood the web, and designed it for the web, makes it feel friendlier, or at least more appropriate.
Ads, to me, are almost always the ugliest thing in any environment. I hate looking at my teenage relatives decked out in the logos of their favorite brands, thinking that they paid for the privilidge to be a Nike or an Old Navy billboard.
We had a great one once where a user called us and said she couldn't get her document to print. My collegue was walking her through printing through the Mac OS9 Finder.
"Okay, click on the printer and then go up to the 'Printing'" menu."
"There is no printing menu."
"Is the printer highlighted?"
"Yes."
"Hmm. Okay, read to me the menus you have on the screen."
"Okay... File, Edit, View, Special, Printing, Help. Nope, there's no Printing menu."
For instance, a whole lot of sci-fi storys could be done extremely well in this medium.
And I don't doubt they will. What qualified as high end commercial animation is now possible on a workstation. I look forward to someday seeing all the scifi novels of my youth turned into long, detailed tv movies. Dragonflight: The Miniseries anyone?
On a practical level, lots of people are going to want to wear animal skins. (most) people WANT to bite into that fat juicy steak. I'm looking forward to the day when the vegetable-based faux meat is indistinguishable from the real thing- I think even most hardcore carnivores would agree that all things being equal, wouldn't it be a better thing if all those steakhouses really weren't responsible for animal deaths?
It's the same thing with faux fur. I'm no animal suffragist, but, Jesus, man, it's a step in the right direction. Lay off the faux fur & "pleather" buyers.
Exactly. The logic of this idea is empirically disproven by the snail mail system. Sending junk snail mail costs more than a penny a piece, and yet we still get tons of junk in our physical mailboxes every day. To make it really prohibitive, you'd have to price it more expensively than physical mail. Bulk mail is cheaper than firstclass postage, but it's far from free. Do you really want to spend 29+ cents to send an email?
Course, ambient noise itself is readily available... everywhere, waiting for you to record it.