I'm already running for office (3rd time), and I'm the county chair of a political party (not the Republicrats). And now to address your points...
Driver's licenses do not do anything to ensure safe driving. Not wanting to get into an accident ensures safe driving. Not wanting to get cited or hauled to jail ensures safe driving. How does paying a couple of dollars every few years (with no testing) ensure that I drive safer? It doesn't. I would personally feel safer if the truly unsafe drivers (speeding to excess, reckless driving, DUI, etc.) were thrown in jail for extended periods. Maybe it would discourage the bad behaviours.
Marriage licenses were originally meant to prevent inter-racial marriages. I prefer the system of common law marriage as a license is a permit to do something that would otherwise be illegal. When did normal marriage become illegal? I support keeping them around for people that want to quickly bypass waiting periods and such.
Fishing and hunting licenses don't make a dime's worth of difference in population control. It just ends up amounting to another case of "papers, please". Why the heck do most states require an SSN for one of those? It's just another control for the sake of control.
You're wrong on what a license is. See above: a license is a permit to do something that would otherwise be illegal. I'm very suspicious of any attempt to make something illegal and replace its legality with a licensing system.
It follows a disturbing pattern of "licensing for no purpose" that has been firmly established as standard operating procedure in this country for decades. We license driving, marriage, fishing, hunting, and now WORKING? What's next? An oxygen license? I hope plenty of IT workers stand up and say "hell no" in a massive act of civil disobedience. For that matter, let the TV and radio guys do it too!
You don't know it's VoIP data until you sniff the packets. I guess this means they can monitor any and all data traffic to look for VoIP. And, of course, they aren't going to poke around the non-VoIP packets. *ahem*
Maybe, instead of advocating the destruction of the machines, you can do what we did in Nevada and force the Sec. of State to add a paper trail. It's a lot more work and you don't get to smash things, but it does a lot more good.
It's the licensing costs that have me scrambling to find an alternative to our Windows-only call center software. We're standardized on Win2K now, and I like the per-concurrent-connection licensing scheme. It's easy to figure out and cheap to implement. I couldn't figure out how many of which Win2K3 licenses to buy with a team of lawyers and engineers.
The fact remains that this concept had been percolating prior to his employment. The ruling effectively makes any work-in-progress project of yours immediately property of whatever employer you start to work for. I think that sets a dangerous precedent of someone being hired to a company, and then being shaken-down for all of their good ideas that they had before working there.
I personally think the judge made a really bad call and over-extended the original intent of the contract. Could he have protected himself by publishing his thoughts prior to employment? Yes. Would he have risked possible theft of his concept? Oh yeah. Would he have had a need to anticipate that his employer would do this? Probably not. Any way you slice it, it comes down to a case of the company knowing the concept is worth a lot of money, and they wanted it for nothing. I think that they offered him $2M initially and then withdrew it shows they know it's his original idea, but want the price reduces to zero dollars.
Bad judges are the reason we end up with garbage like this going on. Make sure you do your homework when voting in judicial races, and support groups that keep an eye on judges like J.A.I.L.
Now that the entry costs aren't the same as Exchange, I think it will end up being a little more competitive. I settled on Horde because Openexchange was just as much as MS Exchange for our small office.
The energy spent trying to tear down the Republicrats in those manners would be better spent working with a third party such as the Libertarians or Constitution Party. You can go to jail while being a nuisance, or be free AND fix the problem.
Our company bought a 1.37TB NAS unit from Fastora, and I've been quite pleased with it. Easy web-based configuration, simple drive swapping, and RAID 5 goodness with a hot-spare. Ours also came with a Gbit Ethernet adapter, and ran around $7,000.
Excellent point. My TI-82 has been collecting dust since I started using PalmOS devices, but I don't seem to recall anyone seriously damaging one of those things, even when crammed into an abused and overstuffed backpack.
Personally, I like durability in my portable electronics. That's one of the big factors that went into me choosing a Sony PDA. I've heard they do a "drop test" from 3 feet to make sure it'll handle a beating.
All the tablet PCs I've seen strike me as being a bit too delicate for toting around the house like a magazine and still expensive enough for me to consider them impractical.
According to RIAA Radar, the latest album, Nude, was released by 456 Entertainment. The first two albums were Elektra ones. They also have some online-only albums (two at ten tracks a pop, Crimson and Turquoise). I can't direct link the search, but you can do your own typing here.
And as a footnote, I've heard that the latest stuff is as pleasing as their first albums if you haven't had a chance to check it out yet. And their website makes the best use of functional yet artistic Flash I've ever seen.
So what if they merge? I've noticed a lot of smaller labels starting to come into the market, and one of my favorite bands, Vast, switched to one of them. Let the big guys get bigger. This market is going to be dominated by little guys once again.
Anyone remember their history? As I recall, it was a revolt against ASCAP that lead to the formation of RCA. Or do I have my names wrong?
On-demand media is superb for out-of-print DVDs and CDs as well. I wouldn't doubt that Borders could replace most of its huge stores with a small kiosk.
I like on-demand media because we all win. I get to have a copy of something that would otherwise be hard to get a hold of, the publisher/artist/cartel/whoever gets their money, and we all go home happy.
... and not the last. Anyone remember some little company named Rambus sitting in on industry standard-setting and then running down to the patent office? This seems to be happening more and more often these days, and until we see these IP bullies get their noses bloodied in grand fashion, it's just going to keep on happening.
A friend of mine had her car stolen not too long ago, and she had thankfully made MP3s out of her entire CD collection that had been left in her car. (Yeah, she should have had copies, but she's wiser to that now.) Without being able to make those backups, she'd have to spend several hundred dollars re-buying the use rights for music she'd already bought.
Thank goodness the INDUCE Act is floundering, and HR 107 got introduced.
I've got a better idea. Why not propose a standard abuse@domain way to report abuses? A human has to look over them anyway, and it's gonna be the ISP, so why should we make up some new scheme to capture the complaints? Just give me an abuse address and a responsive abuse department and I'm fine, thanks.
I'll take a human with soft skin over a machine that pretends to be smart.
I think the worst of those RBLs is the Blars one. The guy is a pompous ass who has serious attitude problems. I already had to spend hours getting our newly-assigned IP off of a dozen other lists, and they had fully-automated systems to verify that my system wasn't a spamhouse. He doesn't even accept removal requests without payment! Sounds like a blackmail scheme to me. I basically figured that I shouldn't need to worry about someone like that, but that kind of disregard for the social contracts of the Internet disturbs me greatly.
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I'm already running for office (3rd time), and I'm the county chair of a political party (not the Republicrats). And now to address your points...
Driver's licenses do not do anything to ensure safe driving. Not wanting to get into an accident ensures safe driving. Not wanting to get cited or hauled to jail ensures safe driving. How does paying a couple of dollars every few years (with no testing) ensure that I drive safer? It doesn't. I would personally feel safer if the truly unsafe drivers (speeding to excess, reckless driving, DUI, etc.) were thrown in jail for extended periods. Maybe it would discourage the bad behaviours.
Marriage licenses were originally meant to prevent inter-racial marriages. I prefer the system of common law marriage as a license is a permit to do something that would otherwise be illegal. When did normal marriage become illegal? I support keeping them around for people that want to quickly bypass waiting periods and such.
Fishing and hunting licenses don't make a dime's worth of difference in population control. It just ends up amounting to another case of "papers, please". Why the heck do most states require an SSN for one of those? It's just another control for the sake of control.
You're wrong on what a license is. See above: a license is a permit to do something that would otherwise be illegal. I'm very suspicious of any attempt to make something illegal and replace its legality with a licensing system.
It follows a disturbing pattern of "licensing for no purpose" that has been firmly established as standard operating procedure in this country for decades. We license driving, marriage, fishing, hunting, and now WORKING? What's next? An oxygen license? I hope plenty of IT workers stand up and say "hell no" in a massive act of civil disobedience. For that matter, let the TV and radio guys do it too!
You don't know it's VoIP data until you sniff the packets. I guess this means they can monitor any and all data traffic to look for VoIP. And, of course, they aren't going to poke around the non-VoIP packets. *ahem*
Maybe, instead of advocating the destruction of the machines, you can do what we did in Nevada and force the Sec. of State to add a paper trail. It's a lot more work and you don't get to smash things, but it does a lot more good.
It's the licensing costs that have me scrambling to find an alternative to our Windows-only call center software. We're standardized on Win2K now, and I like the per-concurrent-connection licensing scheme. It's easy to figure out and cheap to implement. I couldn't figure out how many of which Win2K3 licenses to buy with a team of lawyers and engineers.
The fact remains that this concept had been percolating prior to his employment. The ruling effectively makes any work-in-progress project of yours immediately property of whatever employer you start to work for. I think that sets a dangerous precedent of someone being hired to a company, and then being shaken-down for all of their good ideas that they had before working there.
I personally think the judge made a really bad call and over-extended the original intent of the contract. Could he have protected himself by publishing his thoughts prior to employment? Yes. Would he have risked possible theft of his concept? Oh yeah. Would he have had a need to anticipate that his employer would do this? Probably not. Any way you slice it, it comes down to a case of the company knowing the concept is worth a lot of money, and they wanted it for nothing. I think that they offered him $2M initially and then withdrew it shows they know it's his original idea, but want the price reduces to zero dollars.
IANAL, but I do read law.
Bad judges are the reason we end up with garbage like this going on. Make sure you do your homework when voting in judicial races, and support groups that keep an eye on judges like J.A.I.L.
I saw an ad for this in an airline magazine, and have entertained the thought of getting one. I have no idea how well it works.
Some crazy fans are doing a 3D remake of the game.
Now that the entry costs aren't the same as Exchange, I think it will end up being a little more competitive. I settled on Horde because Openexchange was just as much as MS Exchange for our small office.
It's worth noting that 802.11a has a significantly shorter theoretical maximum range when compared to the 2.4GHz (802.11b/g) solutions.
The energy spent trying to tear down the Republicrats in those manners would be better spent working with a third party such as the Libertarians or Constitution Party. You can go to jail while being a nuisance, or be free AND fix the problem.
Our company bought a 1.37TB NAS unit from Fastora, and I've been quite pleased with it. Easy web-based configuration, simple drive swapping, and RAID 5 goodness with a hot-spare. Ours also came with a Gbit Ethernet adapter, and ran around $7,000.
Geez, I couldn't have said it better myself. AND you managed to smack around licenses. Good show!
I'll add another link to the pile.
Excellent point. My TI-82 has been collecting dust since I started using PalmOS devices, but I don't seem to recall anyone seriously damaging one of those things, even when crammed into an abused and overstuffed backpack.
Personally, I like durability in my portable electronics. That's one of the big factors that went into me choosing a Sony PDA. I've heard they do a "drop test" from 3 feet to make sure it'll handle a beating.
All the tablet PCs I've seen strike me as being a bit too delicate for toting around the house like a magazine and still expensive enough for me to consider them impractical.
According to RIAA Radar, the latest album, Nude, was released by 456 Entertainment. The first two albums were Elektra ones. They also have some online-only albums (two at ten tracks a pop, Crimson and Turquoise). I can't direct link the search, but you can do your own typing here.
And as a footnote, I've heard that the latest stuff is as pleasing as their first albums if you haven't had a chance to check it out yet. And their website makes the best use of functional yet artistic Flash I've ever seen.
Thanks! I was pretty sure I had the name wrong. I had just recalled reading about it in a book about Jimmy Buffett.
So what if they merge? I've noticed a lot of smaller labels starting to come into the market, and one of my favorite bands, Vast, switched to one of them. Let the big guys get bigger. This market is going to be dominated by little guys once again.
Anyone remember their history? As I recall, it was a revolt against ASCAP that lead to the formation of RCA. Or do I have my names wrong?
On-demand media is superb for out-of-print DVDs and CDs as well. I wouldn't doubt that Borders could replace most of its huge stores with a small kiosk.
I like on-demand media because we all win. I get to have a copy of something that would otherwise be hard to get a hold of, the publisher/artist/cartel/whoever gets their money, and we all go home happy.
... and not the last. Anyone remember some little company named Rambus sitting in on industry standard-setting and then running down to the patent office? This seems to be happening more and more often these days, and until we see these IP bullies get their noses bloodied in grand fashion, it's just going to keep on happening.
A friend of mine had her car stolen not too long ago, and she had thankfully made MP3s out of her entire CD collection that had been left in her car. (Yeah, she should have had copies, but she's wiser to that now.) Without being able to make those backups, she'd have to spend several hundred dollars re-buying the use rights for music she'd already bought.
Thank goodness the INDUCE Act is floundering, and HR 107 got introduced.
I've got a better idea. Why not propose a standard abuse@domain way to report abuses? A human has to look over them anyway, and it's gonna be the ISP, so why should we make up some new scheme to capture the complaints? Just give me an abuse address and a responsive abuse department and I'm fine, thanks.
I'll take a human with soft skin over a machine that pretends to be smart.
I think the worst of those RBLs is the Blars one. The guy is a pompous ass who has serious attitude problems. I already had to spend hours getting our newly-assigned IP off of a dozen other lists, and they had fully-automated systems to verify that my system wasn't a spamhouse. He doesn't even accept removal requests without payment! Sounds like a blackmail scheme to me. I basically figured that I shouldn't need to worry about someone like that, but that kind of disregard for the social contracts of the Internet disturbs me greatly.