So now the summary of the referenced story is also trying to deceive you?
"A group of Canadian and American scientists has modelled the effects of introducing massive amounts of wind farms into North America and have come up with surprising results. While still having only 1/5th the impact of fossil fuels, wind power will still adjust the earth's climate with the equatorial regions warmed while the arctic grows colder."
as my OP said, "there are legitimate unresolved ***questions***": http://science.slashdot.org/art icle.pl?sid=04/11/1 1/0056217&tid=126&tid=14 Gee, that was hard.
I said look it up because it's obvious you hadn't (I'd already read it) and you wouldn't take my word for it.
"you lazy bastard"? How does that advance discourse? Grow up, Nate.
In *my* browser, it says (on the summary page for multiple stories), "Your Rights Online > Censorship, Games" (http://slashdot.org/search.pl?start=0) -- and (on the story's main page) "Censorship | Posted by Zonk on 2004.11.27 16:39 from the you-old-enough-for-mario-yet-kid? dept."
I think it's pretty clear what definition people typically mean (or think of). If your boss blocks you from knowing your co-worker's salary, that's not censorship.
And again, there's a significant diffference between (a) governmental regulation of access for particular groups, and (b) governmental blanket prohibition of publication -- as you say, "suppress or delete".
I think it's pretty clear that your definition isn't what people typically mean (or think of). If your boss blocks you from knowing your co-worker's salary, do you think of that as censorship?
And again, there's a significant diffference between (a) governmental regulation of access for particular groups, and (b) governmental blanket prohibition of publication.
Yes, you're absolutely right about that limited case. I was speaking more generally, regarding (as the article says), "recipients of organ transplants" and "growing entire human organs inside animals".
The kind of communication for which one uses a phone booth tends to be more impromptu, brief, impersonal, and un-needful of the extended immersiveness of visual interaction.
Let me know when I can have this at home and at my office desk.
why is this preferable to optical media (DVD, etc.), using technology which is less vulnerable to the shocks of field-usage?
Recording is a basically sequential activity, and the random-access capability of optical technology is more than adequate for limited use of editing and playback which are done inside a handheld device.
...deck chairs on the Titanic, i.e. pointless measures which deny the inevitable -- namely, the need for conservation, population stabilization, and sustainable versions of the institutions required for supporting human societies.
...(and perhaps by the story, too): bird hazard or not, there are legitimate unresolved questions about how *massive* wind-farms might adversely affect weather.
After all, the games aren't banned from publication, or from purchase by adults.
I take second place to no one on civili liberties issues, but let's not waste our thunder on fighting for "license" in the name of "liberty". This is no more censorship than preventing small children from accessing porn.
A well-off USA-resident Indian sysadmin friend of mine, when back in India briefly two years ago (either ND or Mumbai), had to deal with obtaining proper medical care for her middle-class (or better) India-resident father.
He needed non-emergency corrective surgery related to a broken leg. I can accept that the surgeons insisted on being paid cash, in advance.
But the hospital required that *she* personally make the trips between the hospital and the blood-bank to obtain and transport the (NOT rare) blood needed for his surgery.
...that it wasn't a Patriot Act subpoena: he could be prosecuted merely for revealing that he'd RECEIVED it, even AFTER it became defunct. Welcome to John Ashcroft's post-Constitution USA.
(and why in God's name has he continued preserving logs, after having received even ONE approach from the government?!)
a different problem with wooden housing
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Clusters at Home?
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· Score: 2, Informative
(besides fire)...
Even if you're comfortable about the fire risk, you'll need some VERY good cooling -- essentially, keeping the interior below 75F throughout -- to avoid another problem. Even if the heat doesn't cause warping, eventually the wood joints will start shrinking and/or becoming brittle, causing the desk to fall apart. Even if you don't mind losing the desk (and the work you put into customizing it), collapse of those wooden rails might damage some equipment.
Well, OK, it shouldn't, but I'm hoping that it does, with all of the most absurd and excessive provisions retained.
A deplorably large portion of the public is oblivious to what's been happening in the IP wars. It's about time that something happens to wake them up, to get them to take these issues personally.
I think that passage of this law would have the beneficial effect of causing wide-spread public disregard and contempt of such laws (and their promoters), as happened with the 1920s Prohibition-era attempt to ban alcoholic beverages.
For a quite a while, I've harbored a fantasy of organizing a mass demonstration in Washington, during which the participants stand in front of the Capitol and Justice buildings (and IP lobbyists' offices), collectively engaging in open violation of IP laws which are enforceable only by massive and embarassing government over-reaction -- e.g., playing hand-held PVRs and skipping the commercials, using encrypted WiFi to exchange files bearing names of copyrighted works, etc. -- i.e., massive civil disobedience.
I'm hopeful that this law would also have the effect of opening the eyes of the masses to corporatist corruption of the legislators who support such bills.
1. "vertical mouse" -- the difference in the required finger motions might help.
2. "foot mouse" -- self-explanatory
3. "mouse keys" -- is the msft-win-specific name for a facility for replicating mouse functions via numpad keys.
4. touchpad -- either outboard, or integrated in keyboard. Mouse clicks are accomplished by tapping instead of pressing. Can even be used in *addition* to other mice, so clicking (tapping) could be shifted to the other hand. Some ergonomic keyboards (including those shaped similar to msft "natural" kbd) have a center-mounted touchpad, which could be used either one- or two-handed.
"But he also is severely limited in other ways, like not being able to find the silverware drawer at home or dressing himself."
So, apparently he has exceptional abilities ONLY in things which are interesting. And everything else, someone else has to do it for him. How conveeeeeeeenient...
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So now the summary of the referenced story is also trying to deceive you?
"A group of Canadian and American scientists has modelled the effects of introducing massive amounts of wind farms into North America and have come up with surprising results. While still having only 1/5th the impact of fossil fuels, wind power will still adjust the earth's climate with the equatorial regions warmed while the arctic grows colder."
as my OP said, "there are legitimate unresolved ***questions***":t icle.pl?sid=04/11/1 1/0056217&tid=126&tid=14
http://science.slashdot.org/ar
Gee, that was hard.
I said look it up because it's obvious you hadn't (I'd already read it) and you wouldn't take my word for it.
"you lazy bastard"?
How does that advance discourse? Grow up, Nate.
it was just two weeks ago, "Missouri":p l?sid=04/11/1 1/0056217&tid=126&tid=14
http://science.slashdot.org/article.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/1 1/0056217&tid=126&tid=14
maybe it depends on your /. profile settings.
In *my* browser, it says (on the summary page for multiple stories),
"Your Rights Online > Censorship, Games" (http://slashdot.org/search.pl?start=0)
-- and (on the story's main page)
"Censorship | Posted by Zonk on 2004.11.27 16:39
from the you-old-enough-for-mario-yet-kid? dept."
I think it's pretty clear what definition people typically mean (or think of).
If your boss blocks you from knowing your co-worker's salary, that's not censorship.
And again, there's a significant diffference between (a) governmental regulation of access for particular groups, and (b) governmental blanket prohibition of publication -- as you say, "suppress or delete".
I think it's pretty clear that your definition isn't what people typically mean (or think of).
If your boss blocks you from knowing your co-worker's salary, do you think of that as censorship?
And again, there's a significant diffference between (a) governmental regulation of access for particular groups, and (b) governmental blanket prohibition of publication.
Sorry, but you're factually incorrect. It affects more than merely the downfield decrease of wind. Look it up.
Yes, you're absolutely right about that limited case.
I was speaking more generally, regarding (as the article says), "recipients of organ transplants" and "growing entire human organs inside animals".
The kind of communication for which one uses a phone booth tends to be more impromptu, brief, impersonal, and un-needful of the extended immersiveness of visual interaction.
Let me know when I can have this at home and at my office desk.
Q: "At what level is a chimera 'too' human?"
A: when it can pass the Turing test.
Q: "Where do you draw the line between human and animal?"
A: see above
Q: "How will this affect evolution?"
A: Not at all. Look up "Lysenko".
why is this preferable to optical media (DVD, etc.), using technology which is less vulnerable to the shocks of field-usage?
Recording is a basically sequential activity, and the random-access capability of optical technology is more than adequate for limited use of editing and playback which are done inside a handheld device.
...deck chairs on the Titanic, i.e. pointless measures which deny the inevitable -- namely, the need for conservation, population stabilization, and sustainable versions of the institutions required for supporting human societies.
...(and perhaps by the story, too):
bird hazard or not, there are legitimate unresolved questions about how *massive* wind-farms might adversely affect weather.
...being put in the /. category of "Censorship"?
After all, the games aren't banned from publication, or from purchase by adults.
I take second place to no one on civili liberties issues, but let's not waste our thunder on fighting for "license" in the name of "liberty".
This is no more censorship than preventing small children from accessing porn.
A well-off USA-resident Indian sysadmin friend of mine, when back in India briefly two years ago (either ND or Mumbai), had to deal with obtaining proper medical care for her middle-class (or better) India-resident father.
He needed non-emergency corrective surgery related to a broken leg.
I can accept that the surgeons insisted on being paid cash, in advance.
But the hospital required that *she* personally make the trips between the hospital and the blood-bank to obtain and transport the (NOT rare) blood needed for his surgery.
I'll pass, thank you.
...that it wasn't a Patriot Act subpoena:
he could be prosecuted merely for revealing that he'd RECEIVED it, even AFTER it became defunct.
Welcome to John Ashcroft's post-Constitution USA.
(and why in God's name has he continued preserving logs, after having received even ONE approach from the government?!)
(besides fire)...
Even if you're comfortable about the fire risk, you'll need some VERY good cooling -- essentially, keeping the interior below 75F throughout -- to avoid another problem.
Even if the heat doesn't cause warping, eventually the wood joints will start shrinking and/or becoming brittle, causing the desk to fall apart.
Even if you don't mind losing the desk (and the work you put into customizing it), collapse of those wooden rails might damage some equipment.
Well, OK, it shouldn't, but I'm hoping that it does, with all of the most absurd and excessive provisions retained.
A deplorably large portion of the public is oblivious to what's been happening in the IP wars.
It's about time that something happens to wake them up, to get them to take these issues personally.
I think that passage of this law would have the beneficial effect of causing wide-spread public disregard and contempt of such laws (and their promoters), as happened with the 1920s Prohibition-era attempt to ban alcoholic beverages.
For a quite a while, I've harbored a fantasy of organizing a mass demonstration in Washington, during which the participants stand in front of the Capitol and Justice buildings (and IP lobbyists' offices), collectively engaging in open violation of IP laws which are enforceable only by massive and embarassing government over-reaction --
e.g., playing hand-held PVRs and skipping the commercials, using encrypted WiFi to exchange files bearing names of copyrighted works, etc. --
i.e., massive civil disobedience.
I'm hopeful that this law would also have the effect of opening the eyes of the masses to corporatist corruption of the legislators who support such bills.
what's "Hemogony"?
something that one eats with "grits"?
This story has approximately ten times as many responses as the story (five hours older) titled "Airlines Ordered To Turn Over Passenger Data".
Shame on us.
search for...
1. "vertical mouse" -- the difference in the required finger motions might help.
2. "foot mouse" -- self-explanatory
3. "mouse keys" -- is the msft-win-specific name for a facility for replicating mouse functions via numpad keys.
4. touchpad -- either outboard, or integrated in keyboard. Mouse clicks are accomplished by tapping instead of pressing. Can even be used in *addition* to other mice, so clicking (tapping) could be shifted to the other hand. Some ergonomic keyboards (including those shaped similar to msft "natural" kbd) have a center-mounted touchpad, which could be used either one- or two-handed.
"But he also is severely limited in other ways, like not being able to find the silverware drawer at home or dressing himself."
So, apparently he has exceptional abilities ONLY in things which are interesting.
And everything else, someone else has to do it for him.
How conveeeeeeeenient...
Slickest scam I've ever seen.
"If this goes ahead, it will be in violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which forbids the militarization of space."
I'm not sure this is accurate, but regardless:
"Treaties? We don't need no stinkin' treaties!"
"We have this little thing called the Constitution"
1. that didn't obstruct HAVA.
2. misses the point.