Music can evoke powerful emotional responses. Politics should not be based on emotion; but facts and intellect. I am infuriated each time I hear some song that I love being used by a scumbag politican. Let them use their 60 second spot to say something. Let's ban images as well - images such as the anti Goldwater ad featuring a nuclear explosion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_(advertisement)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExjDzDsgbww have been far more powerful than anything that the candidates are willing or able to say. Free speech is just that free speech; not free media. Unless and until the rules are changed, any political use of media is clearly a commercial use.
If you believe that "Environmentalism is not like Palinism" I suggest you read the link at the end. "The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not." - Eric Hoffer. The same applies to AGW zealots, deniers and the few scientists out there who are more interested in science than self promotion.
Many environmentalists did predict global cooling in the sixties and seventies. The information may not be as available online as more recent claims, but I recall as a child numerous predictions of a coming ice age. More recently, in 1991, Carl Sagan predicted on Nightline that Kuwaiti oil fires would produce a nuclear winter effect, causing a "year without a summer," and endangering crops around the world. Sagan stressed this outcome was so likely that "it should affect the war plans." http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-alienscauseglobalwarming.html
Make a Department level governmental agency in charge of promoting organized gambling - All organized gambling will cease in fifteen years. Look what they have done for education!
The statements do not come from an "advanced thinker" they come from a man promoting a TV show. His sole goal as a promoter is to garner attention for himself and his product. It is scary that you* can't tell the difference.
Once again you are attempting to challenge my credibility by lumping me in with a bunch of idiot zealots. You are a zealot, though somewhat less misguided than those you attempt to associate me with. Zealots are the last people we should be listening to.
Don't be so gullible to believe that you are right because so many idiots disagree with you, that is like concluding the Soviet Union was good because it opposed Nazi Germany.
It is a devious tactic to attempt to discredit people who understand statistics well enough to ask valid and as yet unanswered questions about the data and models used by those who support the anthropogenic climate change theory by lumping them in with people who have their heads up their asses. I believe that some portion of the current climate change is in fact anthropogenic, but I do not believe that any of the current models have established that. Happening to be right and having a proper model are two different things - a clock that is stopped is right twice a day, but I would not rely upon it to tell me the time.
Oh well, just an "unintended consequence" of progress, like with global warming. !
Please don't lump an obvious consequence of man's actions with one which is still in dispute. Anthropogenic global warming has not been established as a credible theory.
You don't understand. - this is SlashDot. The friend is necessarily a similar geek and therefore will happily go to see Mr Spock rather than sit alone in his parents' basement. Then he can go with his friend skiing on Sunday. On Monday he just makes up a new girlfriend to replace the imaginary one he pissed-off.
Good peer reviewed journal articles may determine the right from the wrong on the science.
However, if you are an ordinary citizen, hack journalist, or politician, you don't read those. No, the headlines determine the "truth."
Besides, there were allegations here that went beyond the meat of the science and into workplace ethics. If some rag says you sexually harassed your coworkers or embezzled money, and you didn't get caught, you sue. That is what is happening here.
Whether or not anthropogenic climate change is actually true, it is a scientific theory. It is a-religious and a-political and just generally a-ideological. It's like trying to attach an ideology to hammers or torch wrenches.
A scientific theory is constructed to conform to available empirical data. If you cook the books on the empirical data, you must affect the results. Anthropogenic global warming theory has as much validity as the so-called intelligent creation theory. Sifting out the man-made component of global warming is like separating cockroach turds from black pepper - only those who have a non-scientific motivation claim to be able to do it.
Satellite data suggests that the temperature rise globally (not at weather stations) is less than 0.2 C per decade over the last thirty years - that is no none says it is more, some say less. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_temperature_measurements Far less than the dire numbers the AGW people would have us believe; while I am not willing to dismiss that as insignificant, the rise rate does not exceed that of previous periods and statisically it is impossible to separate the manmade component (if any) from the normal variations.
This seems like such a huge deal when you put it that way, but really... so what?
Let's see how you feel after Sony's monitoring programs see how good you are at Starfighter and recruit you in their real world war against the Ko-Dan Empire. Meanwhile, your android replacement will be sleeping in your parents basement.
One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him, is guilty of theft.
The finder sold the iPhone to Gizmodo knowing that they would publish a story about it and by publicizing the story eventually determine the owner and return it, he took very conscientious steps to see that the item was returned to its owner, and he turned a tidy profit. How was he to know that Gizmodo would tear it apart?
Fairfax County, Va. has one of the best school systems in the country. They didn't rely on computer amateurs thirty-five years ago when I attended school there, and they don't today.
I have no issue with your first statement though; other than the word "determined" could have been left out.
How can this be 4: Insightful when 1) the author clearly did not read the F'ng article or he (presumably Chas is a male) would know the gender of the asshat in question and 2) taking the fifth will in fact go a long ways to preventing a judge or jury from punishing her.
Companies spend a lot money to avoid being on the wrong end of the gun - it is called advertising. (Virtually) No one goes to buy an iPod and comes out with a Sangong MP3 player. Sony is one of the companies that pays to put its name in front of the consumer, and has not fallen completely into Walmart's trap. You may recall that Sony used to prevent retailers from selling their products below the MSRP, and they still prevent Amazon and others from advertising prices that are significantly below the MSRP. Becoming beholden to your supply chain is a sure way to lose control of your destiny as was proved when Walmart put Rubbermaid out of business.
I suspect that there are way too few people who care about this issue for it to force the issue, and the small stores who must give refunds will take the losses without much recourse. Amazon and Walmart will absorb the small percentage of refunds because they sold the units close the the MSRP which is at a higher margin than most of their products, and they won't go after Sony.
It seems that to big companies the law is a buffet. You take what you need and ignore the rest. And we are letting them get away with it.
And how it this behavior different than that of the average citizen who speeds, fails to come to a complete stop at a controlled intersection, and avoids paying state sales tax by buying mailorder?
Don't for a moment think that I am defending Sony or any other corporation. I simply believe that holding corporations to a different standard, whether higher or lower, than individuals is wrong.
Also, no one in their right mind would ever use a CPU emulator on a mobile platform OS. It's one of the best ways to completely nuke your battery life, not to mention performance. It's a cute theory, but it's so thoroughly impossible it's not even funny.
Maybe you should ask Hewlett-Packard about their programmable calculator line. They use an ARM processor emulating a Saturn processor, and have for a number of years.
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... taking up the time of large numbers of lawyers ...
So there is a silver lining to this cloud!
Music can evoke powerful emotional responses. Politics should not be based on emotion; but facts and intellect. I am infuriated each time I hear some song that I love being used by a scumbag politican. Let them use their 60 second spot to say something. Let's ban images as well - images such as the anti Goldwater ad featuring a nuclear explosion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_(advertisement) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExjDzDsgbww have been far more powerful than anything that the candidates are willing or able to say. Free speech is just that free speech; not free media. Unless and until the rules are changed, any political use of media is clearly a commercial use.
Your asthma medication is the leading cause of global warming. You should be ashamed!
If you believe that "Environmentalism is not like Palinism" I suggest you read the link at the end. "The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not." - Eric Hoffer. The same applies to AGW zealots, deniers and the few scientists out there who are more interested in science than self promotion.
Many environmentalists did predict global cooling in the sixties and seventies. The information may not be as available online as more recent claims, but I recall as a child numerous predictions of a coming ice age. More recently, in 1991, Carl Sagan predicted on Nightline that Kuwaiti oil fires would produce a nuclear winter effect, causing a "year without a summer," and endangering crops around the world. Sagan stressed this outcome was so likely that "it should affect the war plans." http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-alienscauseglobalwarming.html
Make a Department level governmental agency in charge of promoting organized gambling - All organized gambling will cease in fifteen years. Look what they have done for education!
Don't forget that we are moving money from the many to the few. Concentrating wealth is always a good thing!
The statements do not come from an "advanced thinker" they come from a man promoting a TV show. His sole goal as a promoter is to garner attention for himself and his product. It is scary that you* can't tell the difference.
*-apparently.
Once again you are attempting to challenge my credibility by lumping me in with a bunch of idiot zealots. You are a zealot, though somewhat less misguided than those you attempt to associate me with. Zealots are the last people we should be listening to.
Don't be so gullible to believe that you are right because so many idiots disagree with you, that is like concluding the Soviet Union was good because it opposed Nazi Germany.
It is a devious tactic to attempt to discredit people who understand statistics well enough to ask valid and as yet unanswered questions about the data and models used by those who support the anthropogenic climate change theory by lumping them in with people who have their heads up their asses. I believe that some portion of the current climate change is in fact anthropogenic, but I do not believe that any of the current models have established that. Happening to be right and having a proper model are two different things - a clock that is stopped is right twice a day, but I would not rely upon it to tell me the time.
Oh well, just an "unintended consequence" of progress, like with global warming. !
Please don't lump an obvious consequence of man's actions with one which is still in dispute. Anthropogenic global warming has not been established as a credible theory.
You don't understand. - this is SlashDot. The friend is necessarily a similar geek and therefore will happily go to see Mr Spock rather than sit alone in his parents' basement. Then he can go with his friend skiing on Sunday. On Monday he just makes up a new girlfriend to replace the imaginary one he pissed-off.
Good peer reviewed journal articles may determine the right from the wrong on the science.
However, if you are an ordinary citizen, hack journalist, or politician, you don't read those. No, the headlines determine the "truth."
Besides, there were allegations here that went beyond the meat of the science and into workplace ethics. If some rag says you sexually harassed your coworkers or embezzled money, and you didn't get caught, you sue. That is what is happening here.
I fixed that for you.
Whether or not anthropogenic climate change is actually true, it is a scientific theory. It is a-religious and a-political and just generally a-ideological. It's like trying to attach an ideology to hammers or torch wrenches.
A scientific theory is constructed to conform to available empirical data. If you cook the books on the empirical data, you must affect the results. Anthropogenic global warming theory has as much validity as the so-called intelligent creation theory. Sifting out the man-made component of global warming is like separating cockroach turds from black pepper - only those who have a non-scientific motivation claim to be able to do it.
Satellite data suggests that the temperature rise globally (not at weather stations) is less than 0.2 C per decade over the last thirty years - that is no none says it is more, some say less. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_temperature_measurements Far less than the dire numbers the AGW people would have us believe; while I am not willing to dismiss that as insignificant, the rise rate does not exceed that of previous periods and statisically it is impossible to separate the manmade component (if any) from the normal variations.
This seems like such a huge deal when you put it that way, but really... so what?
Let's see how you feel after Sony's monitoring programs see how good you are at Starfighter and recruit you in their real world war against the Ko-Dan Empire. Meanwhile, your android replacement will be sleeping in your parents basement.
I fixed that for you. This is /. after all.
My grandma is dead you insensitive clod!
One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him, is guilty of theft.
The finder sold the iPhone to Gizmodo knowing that they would publish a story about it and by publicizing the story eventually determine the owner and return it, he took very conscientious steps to see that the item was returned to its owner, and he turned a tidy profit. How was he to know that Gizmodo would tear it apart?
In chicago we have paved roads. Sometimes three or four times a year. So clearly there is no corruption up here.
I'd like to think I bicycle faster than cows.
How do they keep those little hooves on the pedals?
Great! So all we have to do is keep government out of our energy policy? I'll get right on that!
Fairfax County, Va. has one of the best school systems in the country. They didn't rely on computer amateurs thirty-five years ago when I attended school there, and they don't today.
I have no issue with your first statement though; other than the word "determined" could have been left out.
"We were looking for terrorists." Cue the band - it just became a Federal case and the students are obviously guilty.
How can this be 4: Insightful when 1) the author clearly did not read the F'ng article or he (presumably Chas is a male) would know the gender of the asshat in question and 2) taking the fifth will in fact go a long ways to preventing a judge or jury from punishing her.
Companies spend a lot money to avoid being on the wrong end of the gun - it is called advertising. (Virtually) No one goes to buy an iPod and comes out with a Sangong MP3 player. Sony is one of the companies that pays to put its name in front of the consumer, and has not fallen completely into Walmart's trap. You may recall that Sony used to prevent retailers from selling their products below the MSRP, and they still prevent Amazon and others from advertising prices that are significantly below the MSRP. Becoming beholden to your supply chain is a sure way to lose control of your destiny as was proved when Walmart put Rubbermaid out of business.
I suspect that there are way too few people who care about this issue for it to force the issue, and the small stores who must give refunds will take the losses without much recourse. Amazon and Walmart will absorb the small percentage of refunds because they sold the units close the the MSRP which is at a higher margin than most of their products, and they won't go after Sony.
It seems that to big companies the law is a buffet. You take what you need and ignore the rest. And we are letting them get away with it.
And how it this behavior different than that of the average citizen who speeds, fails to come to a complete stop at a controlled intersection, and avoids paying state sales tax by buying mailorder?
Don't for a moment think that I am defending Sony or any other corporation. I simply believe that holding corporations to a different standard, whether higher or lower, than individuals is wrong.
Also, no one in their right mind would ever use a CPU emulator on a mobile platform OS. It's one of the best ways to completely nuke your battery life, not to mention performance. It's a cute theory, but it's so thoroughly impossible it's not even funny.
Maybe you should ask Hewlett-Packard about their programmable calculator line. They use an ARM processor emulating a Saturn processor, and have for a number of years.