So return the product for a refund, with the reason being that you were not permitted to post your review. Enough returns like that and they will change their ways. If you kept the product, you're supporting their policy.
Just turn the requirement for "Intelligent Design" on it's head, and use it to explain how some people believe Aliens and/or Dieties are responsible...
I get a salary from a corporation. I'm also paid from a private corporation in which I am a partner; just a small supplementary thing. In my hometown, most people are either retired on pensions from corporations, or else working for corporations, or else incorporated themselves; mostly farms. I'd like to say I have investment income that could change this, but, that has never panned out.
Fine, drive the creative arts underground. We'll have a renaissance of amazing creative stuff with a jagged edge. It'll make Rock&Roll and HipHop look like kid stuff.
Give a generation something to be rebellious about. I DARE you. It will NOT go the way you planned it.
"It must be kind of nice to be a superpower, I think."
You can invade a sovreign nation, kill scores of thousands of people, replace its government with one of your own choosing, and no other nation on the planet will raise the slightest military opposition to your actions. Even the most perfunctory objections will be muted.
Put pressure on your government not to sign this treaty then. If your leaders do sign it, then your quarrel is not with the US Congress, but with your own countrymen. Take responsibility for once.
You MAY NOT assign blame to the US, if your country signs this treaty, period.
"What will it take for the majority of americans to become outraged enough about this to stop it."
The *majority* of Americans?
You'd need an issue that both takes away their access to food and shelter *and* that enjoins them from seeking ways to get those basic needs back.
I'm serious. You won't see conditions that must prevail in order to engender a revolution until people FAR worse off than they are today. Most people are actually quite content with the status quo. Considering "things need to get a lot worse before people decide they have nothing to lose by laying down their very lives in order to rise up against tyranny", you must realize that things aren't even fully to the "bad" stage yet.
"What the fuck is congress doing making laws that benefit massive coroprations at the expense of the fucking citizens?"
Most of those citizens derive their livelihood directly from corporations. The concept enjoys a great deal of support. There is far more activism at work in support of the status quo than there is opposing it. It's that simple.
"And then trying to inflict them on other countries?"
Are the governments in question operating with the consent of the governed, or aren't they? They are signing treaties with the US, and the people are tolerating this, if not adamantly supporting it.
"I think we're fast approaching the time to switch to the jury box, if not the ammo box.*"
Okay, you want to shoot people as a step to resolving social order. Who would you shoot, and how exactly would that help achieve your goal?
If you're suggesting what I think you are, that is, advocating violent rebellion against the state as a corrective action against tyranny, then would you care to explain exactly what issues you believe are so fundamentally divisive as to be intolerable to so many people that they would consider forfeiting their lives in order to try to bring an end to the tyranny? This is a necessary condition before your notion become appropriate or workable.
I've had several situations where refusing to use IE would have cost me significantly:
1. An expense report application that will only properly format the required output from IE. I would have been exposed to tens of thousands of dollars of liability had I insisted on not using IE.
2. A university exam with javascript controls that more-or-less "worked" in Firefox, but were impossible to use because they depend on the location of a widget to be such that the mouse cursor does not have to leave the parent widget to reach it -- works in IE, not in FF.
3. A mortgage payment/status system that has a problem more or less like #2.
Is your point that you don't like Clinton, or that you think a government agency should be able to pick and choose which laws it will follow and which laws it will break?
"A corporate repudiation of the GPL doesn't qualify as not accepting the terms of the GPL if in fact they make the source and modifications public."
Well spotted. They could make statements about the validity of their building lease, or whether taxes are appropriate too, but if they are complying with the terms of the contract, or if they are paying taxes to the state, what they "say" about it is irrelevant.
"This method of using intrusions to force 'full disclosure' by scientists is interesting, and begs why this information can be kept out of the public eye, where it would benefit the scientific community at large, and is instead held back to bolster the reputations of those who make the initial discovery."
If you release an announcement before you're finished with your research or due diligence, you expose yourself and your institution to controversy.
When you're making a claim as ostentatious as a discovery of a 10th planet, you might not want to put your name on it before you are satisfied that you're ready to stake your career on the paper. Also, you're going to expose yourself to other people usurping your work.
And what if it's a different type of research? What if you're in the process of doing patent searches or negotiating something of that nature?
"Can you blame them for holding back on announcing the discovery?"
No, but what puzzles me is how the "hacker" had the power to make them sacrifice their academic principles and announce anyway. If they were not ready, the hacker didn't magically make them ready.
The light sabers are nothing more than press camera flash handles. Any photographer would recognize Luke's light saber as a Graflex. If I remember right, it was a Speed Graphic flash handle, with the bubble magnifier from a 1970's Rockwell calculator, and later Luke added windscreen wiper blades from an MG.
Graflex cameras may appear quaint, antique, and unsophisticated, but there are photographers who use them every day. They had *really* good lenses available, and the 4x5 negative format is still higher quality than even the 12 megapixel pro-digital cameras today. For detailed close-up work, a Graflex would be a fine choice, especially for macrophotography (you simply mount the lensboard backwards.)
There is a community of large-format photographers who are quite upset that so many Graflex flashes are being destroyed to turn into Star Wars props. Thanks, George.
Laugh if you want to, but the guide number of a GE#5 flashbulb is about 200 at 1/100sec ISO100, which is significantly better than your average handheld strobe flash today.
Fortunately, HAL's Fairchild-Curtis lens still sells for over $150,000...
"I don't know why people (in general) don't like to comment code."
I always put a boilerplate header in every source file with a copyright and proprietary notice (required by my company's policy), and I also comment everything that's not and extremely obvious implementation of the design as already documented, and certainly, anywhere the implementation diverges from the design. Also, anything that's incomplete, or not implemented as well as I'd like it to be, gets a "TODO" or "FIXME" comment.
But local variables don't get explained in the comments, and neither do member functions that are already spec'd in the design docs (which they all are.)
To go any further, I'd need to add 10-30% more time on every source file, which is not an option given the production pace in my environment. However, I already know from substantial experience that maintenance folks consider my code to be a pleasure to work with. I'm quite proud of that, and it's not just about "comments" or "style".
"Ok, last night Braniac rerun had an electric fence test, you have got to get your inspiration from somewhere:-("
Haha! Once, I was involved in putting together a haunted house, and for my part, I took a piece of plywood, painted outlines of two hands, and put big round copper brads right where the palms would go, and hooked the thing up to the electrodes of a hot-shot. Then I put a sign that said "DANGER, DO NOT TOUCH".
But the day-glo orange hand outlines were too much to resist for at least one dumbass in almost every group that came through, and one actually did the hand thing and got jolted -- and some other dumbnuts who saw it happen DID IT TOO!
Now, this haunted house also featured a naked chick in a bathtup filled with (fake) blood with a (real) cow tongue, an abortion scene (fake) followed by a kitchen scene (also fake), and other really horrible, tasteless, distrubing things.
Yeah, we were total punks, back in the day. But we had a reputation to uphold!
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>I love the free wifi service at PDX.
Seconded! I had a long layover there, and it was quite pleasant.
"The FCC is the only one that can say who can or can't do something"
If the terminal is private property, you lose this fight.
"Why don't you go do the calculation to see how far your roof covered in solar panels will drive a car."
Heats my water, and heats my home too until it gets so cold I need the fireplace. Of course, I live in a place with 300 days of sunshine a year.
Most of them get a paycheck from a corporation too. Few are serious enough about this "anti-corporate" attitude that they don't cash the paycheck.
So return the product for a refund, with the reason being that you were not permitted to post your review. Enough returns like that and they will change their ways. If you kept the product, you're supporting their policy.
Just turn the requirement for "Intelligent Design" on it's head, and use it to explain how some people believe Aliens and/or Dieties are responsible...
"All those guys are dead or retired. The next big spacecraft will have to be designed by people who haven't done it before."
They left copious documentation. We're not in some kind of dark age where knowledge has been lost. "Necessity is the mother of invention."
"As most of us know, $1 tends to equal £1 when it comes to anything pricing anything tech related."
Does the market bear this conformation, or does it not?
"BS."
Ok, so let's have a spot check.
I get a salary from a corporation. I'm also paid from a private corporation in which I am a partner; just a small supplementary thing. In my hometown, most people are either retired on pensions from corporations, or else working for corporations, or else incorporated themselves; mostly farms. I'd like to say I have investment income that could change this, but, that has never panned out.
Your turn.
"You."
That will be difficult. I'm one of those heavily armed liberals.
"I just hope the gap filler didn;t leave a gap where hot gasses can unseat the tiles...
"
It needs the gap because the tiles expand.
>Say goodbye to public domain.
Fine, drive the creative arts underground. We'll have a renaissance of amazing creative stuff with a jagged edge. It'll make Rock&Roll and HipHop look like kid stuff.
Give a generation something to be rebellious about. I DARE you. It will NOT go the way you planned it.
"It must be kind of nice to be a superpower, I think."
You can invade a sovreign nation, kill scores of thousands of people, replace its government with one of your own choosing, and no other nation on the planet will raise the slightest military opposition to your actions. Even the most perfunctory objections will be muted.
THAT, my friend, is POWER.
Put pressure on your government not to sign this treaty then. If your leaders do sign it, then your quarrel is not with the US Congress, but with your own countrymen. Take responsibility for once.
You MAY NOT assign blame to the US, if your country signs this treaty, period.
"What will it take for the majority of americans to become outraged enough about this to stop it."
The *majority* of Americans?
You'd need an issue that both takes away their access to food and shelter *and* that enjoins them from seeking ways to get those basic needs back.
I'm serious. You won't see conditions that must prevail in order to engender a revolution until people FAR worse off than they are today. Most people are actually quite content with the status quo. Considering "things need to get a lot worse before people decide they have nothing to lose by laying down their very lives in order to rise up against tyranny", you must realize that things aren't even fully to the "bad" stage yet.
"What the fuck is congress doing making laws that benefit massive coroprations at the expense of the fucking citizens?"
Most of those citizens derive their livelihood directly from corporations. The concept enjoys a great deal of support. There is far more activism at work in support of the status quo than there is opposing it. It's that simple.
"And then trying to inflict them on other countries?"
Are the governments in question operating with the consent of the governed, or aren't they? They are signing treaties with the US, and the people are tolerating this, if not adamantly supporting it.
"I think we're fast approaching the time to switch to the jury box, if not the ammo box.*"
Okay, you want to shoot people as a step to resolving social order. Who would you shoot, and how exactly would that help achieve your goal?
If you're suggesting what I think you are, that is, advocating violent rebellion against the state as a corrective action against tyranny, then would you care to explain exactly what issues you believe are so fundamentally divisive as to be intolerable to so many people that they would consider forfeiting their lives in order to try to bring an end to the tyranny? This is a necessary condition before your notion become appropriate or workable.
I've had several situations where refusing to use IE would have cost me significantly:
1. An expense report application that will only properly format the required output from IE. I would have been exposed to tens of thousands of dollars of liability had I insisted on not using IE.
2. A university exam with javascript controls that more-or-less "worked" in Firefox, but were impossible to use because they depend on the location of a widget to be such that the mouse cursor does not have to leave the parent widget to reach it -- works in IE, not in FF.
3. A mortgage payment/status system that has a problem more or less like #2.
Is your point that you don't like Clinton, or that you think a government agency should be able to pick and choose which laws it will follow and which laws it will break?
"A corporate repudiation of the GPL doesn't qualify as not accepting the terms of the GPL if in fact they make the source and modifications public."
Well spotted. They could make statements about the validity of their building lease, or whether taxes are appropriate too, but if they are complying with the terms of the contract, or if they are paying taxes to the state, what they "say" about it is irrelevant.
"This method of using intrusions to force 'full disclosure' by scientists is interesting, and begs why this information can be kept out of the public eye, where it would benefit the scientific community at large, and is instead held back to bolster the reputations of those who make the initial discovery."
If you release an announcement before you're finished with your research or due diligence, you expose yourself and your institution to controversy.
When you're making a claim as ostentatious as a discovery of a 10th planet, you might not want to put your name on it before you are satisfied that you're ready to stake your career on the paper.
Also, you're going to expose yourself to other people usurping your work.
And what if it's a different type of research? What if you're in the process of doing patent searches or negotiating something of that nature?
"Can you blame them for holding back on announcing the discovery?"
No, but what puzzles me is how the "hacker" had the power to make them sacrifice their academic principles and announce anyway. If they were not ready, the hacker didn't magically make them ready.
The light sabers are nothing more than press camera flash handles. Any photographer would recognize Luke's light saber as a Graflex. If I remember right, it was a Speed Graphic flash handle, with the bubble magnifier from a 1970's Rockwell calculator, and later Luke added windscreen wiper blades from an MG.
Graflex cameras may appear quaint, antique, and unsophisticated, but there are photographers who use them every day. They had *really* good lenses available, and the 4x5 negative format is still higher quality than even the 12 megapixel pro-digital cameras today. For detailed close-up work, a Graflex would be a fine choice, especially for macrophotography (you simply mount the lensboard backwards.)
There is a community of large-format photographers who are quite upset that so many Graflex flashes are being destroyed to turn into Star Wars props. Thanks, George.
Laugh if you want to, but the guide number of a GE#5 flashbulb is about 200 at 1/100sec ISO100, which is significantly better than your average handheld strobe flash today.
Fortunately, HAL's Fairchild-Curtis lens still sells for over $150,000...
"I don't know why people (in general) don't like to comment code."
I always put a boilerplate header in every source file with a copyright and proprietary notice (required by my company's policy), and I also comment everything that's not and extremely obvious implementation of the design as already documented, and certainly, anywhere the implementation diverges from the design. Also, anything that's incomplete, or not implemented as well as I'd like it to be, gets a "TODO" or "FIXME" comment.
But local variables don't get explained in the comments, and neither do member functions that are already spec'd in the design docs (which they all are.)
To go any further, I'd need to add 10-30% more time on every source file, which is not an option given the production pace in my environment. However, I already know from substantial experience that maintenance folks consider my code to be a pleasure to work with. I'm quite proud of that, and it's not just about "comments" or "style".
"So anyone have any anecdotal examples of were Freenet has actually helped any Dissidents?"
That's a tough one, since the absence of evidence is the entire point of the system.
"Ok, last night Braniac rerun had an electric fence test, you have got to get your inspiration from somewhere
Haha! Once, I was involved in putting together a haunted house, and for my part, I took a piece of plywood, painted outlines of two hands, and put big round copper brads right where the palms would go, and hooked the thing up to the electrodes of a hot-shot. Then I put a sign that said "DANGER, DO NOT TOUCH".
But the day-glo orange hand outlines were too much to resist for at least one dumbass in almost every group that came through, and one actually did the hand thing and got jolted -- and some other dumbnuts who saw it happen DID IT TOO!
Now, this haunted house also featured a naked chick in a bathtup filled with (fake) blood with a (real) cow tongue, an abortion scene (fake) followed by a kitchen scene (also fake), and other really horrible, tasteless, distrubing things.
Yeah, we were total punks, back in the day. But we had a reputation to uphold!