I decided to go ahead, and I know exactly why I made that choice based on scientific data. If someone else is informed of the scientific data and chooses against circumcision, I fully respect that and have no problem with it.
I am struggling with this decision for my son; can you please provide the scientific data?
Having viewed the circumcision video posted elsethread, right now I'm thinking no.
From what I've read on the subject of machine evolution (mostly articles for the layperson), the end results are often completely baffling. It works, but the reason why isn't very obvious. In a few cases, I recall reading about evolved antenna schematics & shapes that worked REALLY well, but made absolutely no sense, or took advantage of things that engineers normally consider flaws/problems to be overcome in design.
That's simple wrong. I NEVER get "unlimited" connect time- I am limited to 30 x 24 x 60 minutes per month, sometimes 31 x 24 x 60. Heck, a few months ago, I only got 28 x 24 x 60 minutes.
Guess AOL was really on the bleeding edge then with their 31.25 x 24 x 60 service.
Another good idea I've seen posted here is to have an Expires date. Laws that are expiring must be renewed explicitly or they go away. This will take a bit of time, sure, but it will prevent the number of laws from continuing to grow. How many of those assinine "It's illegal to leave dead beavers at the town hall on Suns when it's raining" laws have we seen? Too many.
I also question whether the tax is actually collected on all imported media, since I pay 23 cents per CD-R at a local shop, and the tax is supposed to be 21 cents each, soon to be raised to 29 cents if it hasn't already. I have trouble believing the manufacturing, distributing, and retailing revenues total a mere 2 cents a disc.
It's not. The second link there explicitly says "blank audio recording media". There was an outcry when the levy was introduced on CDs since they were already heavily used for computer data. So there are two distinct-in-name but otherwise completely identical classes of CDs: CD-Audio and CD-R. CD-Audio is marketed for copying music CDs and CD-R is marketed for data. CD-Audio bears the levy, CD-R does not.
Also, blank cassettes bear the levy, but I do not believe that anything else does. Yet.
2: Making a habit out of something is irrelevant. In fact, a person's history of criminality is inadmissible as evidence for or against them (thanks to the Constitution, I think).
Not according to several US crimes shows I've watched on TV! If you have a pattern of behaviour, past related acts are admissible to establish said pattern to the jury.
...Stu, IANAL, but I watch them on TV all the time...
Overselling is not a bad thing. It can just mean that you sell based on statistical maximums rather than theoretical maximums which never happen.
Which is *exactly* the problem. The suits think exactly like that. However, with the internet, usage can be automated by programs, and can and does hit the max. Overselling in that environment is just cheating the customers. And now they want to cheat the customers even more to make up for their mistakes.
It seems to me that the unspoken and perhaps unrecognised idea at the heart of this dual-licensing issue is whether "dual-licensing" means the code is licensed under BDSL AND GPL (seemingly Theo's position) or means the code is licensed under BSDL OR GPL (seemingly Alan's position).
Given that the wording is "alternatively", which isn't explicit but does seem to imply, it would seem that in this case dual-licensed means OR. OR means recipient chooses, and if the GPL is chosen one of the things that is permissible is to remove the BSDL.
I realize that it does indeed violate their copyright, but as a student, wouldn't you want your paper in their catalog so that some lazy student can't make it through school by plagiarizing YOUR work?
No. I find it much easier to simply not let others read my paper.
They don't mention it, but they are probably able to collect tipping fees from the sewage folks and, once this landfill is gone, dumping fees for future garbage.
As a homeowner I'm thinking, *right now*, how can I sell my garbage to these people?
...Stu
Re:Just goes to prove what geeks have always known
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It's best to admire nature from afar... like on TV. People think we're just lazy fat hermits but you don't see us getting ate by bears!
I think that part of the purpose of his shows were to show us that nature/wild animals aren't nearly as dangerous as most of us assume. This brings us closer to nature, which means more empathy, which means more caring and conservation.
Mod parent down as troll/flamebait. They failed to provide any credentials, here's mine:
I live in Kitchener. I graduated from U(W). I am employed in a small tech firm owned by a U(W) grad. None of the U(W) people I know,
including several who work at RIM, have the attitude the parent poster claims we do.
In these last two cases, it isn't exactly a shiny example of quality in a product (if one can look upin slashdot as a product) to see so many dupes. I know that the sheer number of dupes in slashdot would prevent me from subscribing as I see it as a problem of editors being disinterested in checking what they post.
What Slashdot really needs is the ability to mod articles as well as comments. Then dupes would get
(-1, Redundant) and disappear.
You control the access point, the cable modem or
ADSL modem or whatnot. You control the server
attached to that, through which all the network
traffic in your house flows. In this manner you can
block ports for various things, block web traffic,
etc. If this is too complex for you, you can pay
someone to set it up.
I've always figured that once my kids can hack the
control point to get what they want, they can
probably handle whatever they find.
You misunderstood. No matter what kind of disc I buy, I call it a Frisbee, and so do most people.
You misunderstood. The "brand = generic product" perception used to be true for Frisbees, but has been changing for many years. I have attacked the ancillary data in this instance because it no longer supports your argument.
Besides, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to proselytise about Ultimate.
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I decided to go ahead, and I know exactly why I made that choice based on scientific data. If someone else is informed of the scientific data and chooses against circumcision, I fully respect that and have no problem with it.
I am struggling with this decision for my son; can you please provide the scientific data?
Having viewed the circumcision video posted elsethread, right now I'm thinking no.
...Stu
The student violated school policies, but there was no criminal intent, Luque said.
The policies emphasizing technology? Or the policies forbidding technology?
The student will not be prosecuted, but authorities were recommending that he and his parents get counseling, the spokesman said.
It is clear it is not the student that requires counselling.
...Stu
The school, which has about 440 students in grades 6 to 8 and emphasizes technology skills, was initially put on lockdown while authorities responded.
...Stu
From what I've read on the subject of machine evolution (mostly articles for the layperson), the end results are often completely baffling. It works, but the reason why isn't very obvious. In a few cases, I recall reading about evolved antenna schematics & shapes that worked REALLY well, but made absolutely no sense, or took advantage of things that engineers normally consider flaws/problems to be overcome in design.
I think this is the original http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15621085.000-creatures-from-primordial-silicon--let-darwinism-loose-in-an-electronics-lab-and-just-watch-what-it-creates-a-lean-mean-machine-that-nobody-understands-clive-davidson-reports.html. Full text here http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap_detail.cfm?scrap_id=73.
I've wondered if he ever figured out what the useless cells were for.
...Stu
Heh, reminds me of a story I heard about Ellison.
ObPA:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2005/09/26/
...Stu
That's simple wrong. I NEVER get "unlimited" connect time- I am limited to 30 x 24 x 60 minutes per month, sometimes 31 x 24 x 60. Heck, a few months ago, I only got 28 x 24 x 60 minutes.
Guess AOL was really on the bleeding edge then with their 31.25 x 24 x 60 service.
...Stu
It always baffled me how the two genres (at least in my mind they're quite different) were always lumped together in bookstores.
I always though it was because both genres required extensive use of the imagination, a trait none of the other genres had.
...Stu
Another good idea I've seen posted here is to have an Expires date. Laws that are expiring must be renewed explicitly or they go away. This will take a bit of time, sure, but it will prevent the number of laws from continuing to grow. How many of those assinine "It's illegal to leave dead beavers at the town hall on Suns when it's raining" laws have we seen? Too many.
...Stu
I also question whether the tax is actually collected on all imported media, since I pay 23 cents per CD-R at a local shop, and the tax is supposed to be 21 cents each, soon to be raised to 29 cents if it hasn't already. I have trouble believing the manufacturing, distributing, and retailing revenues total a mere 2 cents a disc.
It's not. The second link there explicitly says "blank audio recording media". There was an outcry when the levy was introduced on CDs since they were already heavily used for computer data. So there are two distinct-in-name but otherwise completely identical classes of CDs: CD-Audio and CD-R. CD-Audio is marketed for copying music CDs and CD-R is marketed for data. CD-Audio bears the levy, CD-R does not.
Also, blank cassettes bear the levy, but I do not believe that anything else does. Yet.
...Stu
...Stu
2: Making a habit out of something is irrelevant. In fact, a person's history of criminality is inadmissible as evidence for or against them (thanks to the Constitution, I think).
Not according to several US crimes shows I've watched on TV! If you have a pattern of behaviour, past related acts are admissible to establish said pattern to the jury.
...Stu, IANAL, but I watch them on TV all the time...
Overselling is not a bad thing. It can just mean that you sell based on statistical maximums rather than theoretical maximums which never happen.
Which is *exactly* the problem. The suits think exactly like that. However, with the internet, usage can be automated by programs, and can and does hit the max. Overselling in that environment is just cheating the customers. And now they want to cheat the customers even more to make up for their mistakes....Stu
Quite a fair way to do things
No, it's not. It presumes guilt instead of innocence, which is contrary to Western Society.
I'd happily pay an extra $5/month on my 7mbit cable connection, however, if it got rid of the legal grey areas surroudning file sharing.
In Canada, there are no grey areas. File-sharing is legal, period.
...Stu
It seems to me that the unspoken and perhaps unrecognised idea at the heart of this dual-licensing issue is whether "dual-licensing" means the code is licensed under BDSL AND GPL (seemingly Theo's position) or means the code is licensed under BSDL OR GPL (seemingly Alan's position).
Given that the wording is "alternatively", which isn't explicit but does seem to imply, it would seem that in this case dual-licensed means OR. OR means recipient chooses, and if the GPL is chosen one of the things that is permissible is to remove the BSDL.
...Stu
No. I find it much easier to simply not let others read my paper.
As a homeowner I'm thinking, *right now*, how can I sell my garbage to these people?
I think that part of the purpose of his shows were to show us that nature/wild animals aren't nearly as dangerous as most of us assume. This brings us closer to nature, which means more empathy, which means more caring and conservation.
Here's a Crikey! to you Steve.
The flag of Japan?
Mod parent down as troll/flamebait. They failed to provide any credentials, here's mine:
I live in Kitchener. I graduated from U(W). I am employed in a small tech firm owned by a U(W) grad. None of the U(W) people I know, including several who work at RIM, have the attitude the parent poster claims we do.
...Stu
Meanwhile, linux driver updates go out as soon as they're available.
What Slashdot really needs is the ability to mod articles as well as comments. Then dupes would get (-1, Redundant) and disappear.
I've always figured that once my kids can hack the control point to get what they want, they can probably handle whatever they find.
You misunderstood. The "brand = generic product" perception used to be true for Frisbees, but has been changing for many years. I have attacked the ancillary data in this instance because it no longer supports your argument.
Besides, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to proselytise about Ultimate.