Alright, my two cents isn't worth even that, but it might be worth a moment of thoughtful consideration. (FTR (for the record), I will be voting Badnarik. Those who don't like that, can find something painful or disgusting to do to themselves.)
Copyright law doesn't ENSURE our ability to make a copy of lawfully acquired works. It affirms it, but anyone is currently free to produce works with whatever copyright protection mechanisms they wish (and DMCA force to prohibit the breaking thereof). If read in that context, Kerry's position seems to imply that he's *thinking* about a law that would require producers to allow consumers their fair-use rights.
Of course, this is all bullshit. He's a pol like the rest, and will lie to his audience, just like every pol before him. Anyone want to start/join the NOTA (None of the Above) party? I've been thinking about running on a platform that says I'll vote NO to everything that crosses my desk. Who's with me?:)
" The Quantum Weather Butterfly (Papilio tempestae) is an undistinguished
yellow colour, although the mandelbrot patterns on the wings are of
considerable interest. Its outstanding feature is its ability to create
weather. This presumably began as a survival trait, since even an
extremely hungry bird would find itself inconvenienced by a nasty
localised tornado. Look at me, the male says, flapping his wings lazily in
the canopy of the rain forest. I may be an undistinguished yellow colour,
but in a fortnight's time, a thousand miles away, Freak Gales Cause Road
Chaos." Terry Pratchett
OK, *even if this IS true*, you flunked. You gave me two references for your first two assertions, but left me blind on the last. Got any links to authoritative info?
Pardon me while I get into grammar-nazi mode.;) An oxymoron is a single unit in a sentence that is self contradictory. Merely using opposing concepts in the same sentence is not necessarily an oxymoron.
Military Intelligence = Oxymoron
Overestimated intelligence of...(insert class here) != Oxymoron.
Damn, I hate when my jackboots won't let me stop walking.
At least in the United States (and this is AFAIK... IANAL so if someone knows better, speak up), anywhere the general public is allowed to go freely, the police are allowed to look freely. You can't hang up a sign that says 'everyone but the cops can come in'. Well, you could, but it would have no legal force.
Bullshit. He ran his mouth, but didn't answer a damned thing. And Nader is no better for his 'nationally important' hot dog. The question specifically, very plainly, asked for an example of a mistaken viewpoint, on a nationally-relevant topic, which had later been changed. None of the three answered. Read it again.
I'd just like to point out that under a Capital-L Libertarian model, corporations would have no incentive to cheat on accounting for tax purposes; Some of us Libs support usage taxes in place of the existing income tax system, which would relieve the filing burden for all individuals and all but retail-sales businesses.
One of the principles of true market freedom is that some company would emerge with a stellar reputation for shareholder-auditing, just double-checking books. These guys, with reputations and high salaries on the line, would likely prove very effective at finding graft, embezzlement, and fraud in other companies. Stock investors would likely shy away from companies who refused such second-glance audits, negatively impacting share prices.
While most people won't check reviews for every product they buy, most investors (well, ideally, I'll admit) do a little homework before purchasing a stock. That ultimately affects the bottom line for everyone who owns stock or options in the company. Ironically, this might provide the incentive to clean up accounting errors and run a more honest business (if such a thing is possible; I'm not so sure that most of the corporate waste and fraud comes down to raw incompetence)../end rant
Oh, great. I firmly cemented my place in the slashdot community, didn't I? Where we're concerned, thingies and, commas in the wrong places are commonplace, right? Must... find... grammar.
"Also if this wasn't a free country this website would be deemed "against party line" and banned, see China."
I think that's what where talking about, dude. See, these server thingys, had documents and stuff. Some of that stuff would be bad if the mainstream press decided to report on it. So now it's just magically not there, anymore. See 1984.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Voltaire: 'I may disagree with what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'
Does my post constitute the feeding of a troll? I wonder.
I always love it when people confuse LiberAL with LiberTARIAN. It must be convenient to ignore the extra letters on the end. FYI - I can't think of a single Libertarian who would vote for Shrub. Not to say they don't exist, but I've not met one.
I'd bet about anything that most of the 'against' votes on Slashdot came from Libertarians, be they Big L or Little L.
Love,
A former conservative, who jumped ship when he realized there was no one at the helm.
Hey, shut the fuck up already. Don't give them any ideas.;) The last thing we need is the FBI deciding that google's servers contain Bad Things(TM) and Must Be Looked At(TM). Maybe MSN's search servers have some crap, but I'm positive;);) that google's don't.
Actually, shipping is part of my job. The best way to ship it would be on a pallet, on an LTL carrier. Second best would be UPS - find a business using them already, and you could take advantage of the Hundredweight program to get LTL-like prices. Probably around $225-250 cross-country.;)
Depends on what you call young - I'm 27 and I've got something like 10-11GB of e-books (pdf, txt, and otherwise). I love having that kind of library available at my fingertips.
I didn't see any reports of any WMD being used when the invasion began or at any point after that...
No trace of any WMD weapons or programs have since been discovered in Iraq so saying that "We found out later they weren't [clean]" is simply wrong since we have found out no such thing.
So you're saying that four (4) years isn't enough time to think it through in detail and begin some kind of beta program (maybe only for slashdot subscribers, limited participation thing)?
Oh, you mean like this year's game that says "Requires a Pentium >1.2ghz, 256MB RAM, 4GB HD Space", when next year's game says "Requires a Pentium > 2.4ghz, 512MB RAM, 8GB HD"???
Slashdot Mirror
Copyright law doesn't ENSURE our ability to make a copy of lawfully acquired works. It affirms it, but anyone is currently free to produce works with whatever copyright protection mechanisms they wish (and DMCA force to prohibit the breaking thereof). If read in that context, Kerry's position seems to imply that he's *thinking* about a law that would require producers to allow consumers their fair-use rights.
Of course, this is all bullshit. He's a pol like the rest, and will lie to his audience, just like every pol before him. Anyone want to start/join the NOTA (None of the Above) party? I've been thinking about running on a platform that says I'll vote NO to everything that crosses my desk. Who's with me? :)
" The Quantum Weather Butterfly (Papilio tempestae) is an undistinguished yellow colour, although the mandelbrot patterns on the wings are of considerable interest. Its outstanding feature is its ability to create weather. This presumably began as a survival trait, since even an extremely hungry bird would find itself inconvenienced by a nasty localised tornado. Look at me, the male says, flapping his wings lazily in the canopy of the rain forest. I may be an undistinguished yellow colour, but in a fortnight's time, a thousand miles away, Freak Gales Cause Road Chaos." Terry Pratchett
OK, *even if this IS true*, you flunked. You gave me two references for your first two assertions, but left me blind on the last. Got any links to authoritative info?
Like I'd worry... ;) it happens to the best of us, even me. :D I guess the Slashdot mentality drove me to do it. Is that a legitimate excuse? :)
Military Intelligence = Oxymoron
Overestimated intelligence of ...(insert class here) != Oxymoron.
Damn, I hate when my jackboots won't let me stop walking.
At least in the United States (and this is AFAIK... IANAL so if someone knows better, speak up), anywhere the general public is allowed to go freely, the police are allowed to look freely. You can't hang up a sign that says 'everyone but the cops can come in'. Well, you could, but it would have no legal force.
Bullshit. He ran his mouth, but didn't answer a damned thing. And Nader is no better for his 'nationally important' hot dog. The question specifically, very plainly, asked for an example of a mistaken viewpoint, on a nationally-relevant topic, which had later been changed. None of the three answered. Read it again.
You might notice that none of the three answered the question. Two of them gave us noise, none of the three gave us signal.
Late breaking news flash: We All Die. Every last one of us, every time. Get used to it, it's inevitable. ;)
One of the principles of true market freedom is that some company would emerge with a stellar reputation for shareholder-auditing, just double-checking books. These guys, with reputations and high salaries on the line, would likely prove very effective at finding graft, embezzlement, and fraud in other companies. Stock investors would likely shy away from companies who refused such second-glance audits, negatively impacting share prices.
While most people won't check reviews for every product they buy, most investors (well, ideally, I'll admit) do a little homework before purchasing a stock. That ultimately affects the bottom line for everyone who owns stock or options in the company. Ironically, this might provide the incentive to clean up accounting errors and run a more honest business (if such a thing is possible; I'm not so sure that most of the corporate waste and fraud comes down to raw incompetence). ./end rant
No, no, no... Alternating Current.
Oh, great. I firmly cemented my place in the slashdot community, didn't I? Where we're concerned, thingies and, commas in the wrong places are commonplace, right? Must... find... grammar.
I think that's what where talking about, dude. See, these server thingys, had documents and stuff. Some of that stuff would be bad if the mainstream press decided to report on it. So now it's just magically not there, anymore. See 1984.
Voltaire: 'I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'
Does my post constitute the feeding of a troll? I wonder.
I'd bet about anything that most of the 'against' votes on Slashdot came from Libertarians, be they Big L or Little L.
Love,
A former conservative, who jumped ship when he realized there was no one at the helm.
Hey, shut the fuck up already. Don't give them any ideas. ;) The last thing we need is the FBI deciding that google's servers contain Bad Things(TM) and Must Be Looked At(TM). Maybe MSN's search servers have some crap, but I'm positive ;) ;) that google's don't.
Actually, shipping is part of my job. The best way to ship it would be on a pallet, on an LTL carrier. Second best would be UPS - find a business using them already, and you could take advantage of the Hundredweight program to get LTL-like prices. Probably around $225-250 cross-country. ;)
No trace of any WMD weapons or programs have since been discovered in Iraq so saying that "We found out later they weren't [clean]" is simply wrong since we have found out no such thing.
So we never found Sarin Gas in Iraq?
zb
Factcheck.org says your 200 Billion 'so far' number is wrong. zb
So you're saying that four (4) years isn't enough time to think it through in detail and begin some kind of beta program (maybe only for slashdot subscribers, limited participation thing)?
Irony (n), 1. Learning about a Google competitor from a screen-scraping bot called Google News.
Only on slashdot will we hear someone questioning his stamina as regards a day-long movie marathon.
I'd love to see the reference for this.
Oh, you mean like this year's game that says "Requires a Pentium >1.2ghz, 256MB RAM, 4GB HD Space", when next year's game says "Requires a Pentium > 2.4ghz, 512MB RAM, 8GB HD"???