That is a subtle, but important difference. how so? AFAICT, all relevant amendments don't specify that one must be a citizen to possess the rights so enumerated, being as they use the word "person" rather than "citizen", so they're legally identical. i believe the only rights specific to citizens would be those like voting, running in elections, etc.
they are not entitled to the same rights as citizens. how do you figure that? a quick grep of the US constitution doesn't find the word "citizen" in any relevant amendment. i do see many instances of the word "person" though, so i think they'd fit that definition, unless the courts have ruled that "person"=="citizen" and not "person"=="random human being in this country".
Generally, I find fellow citizens are less likely to try to kill us. i thought that the 9/11 guys were American citizens. or were they just here on legitimate visas? i forget and i can't find any info on it through the firewall and filtering here.
as i often say to people, the problem with Christianity is "Christians".
i don't mind Christianity (though their god seems to have some rather sociopathic tendencies), but there are a rather lot of Christians i do not like, usually because they're utter hypocrites.
the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs--and equally compatible with atheism, thus proving that the two great realms of nature's factuality and the source of human morality do not strongly overlap.
with the obvioux exception of when the religion/religious person specificly declares that they are not compatible with each other.
The behavior rewarded in videogames is tactically unsound and will get you killed if you tried to apply those theories in a real firefight.
depends on what game you're talking about. if you're meaning the typical shooter like quake, doom, etc. i'd fully agree with you, though i'd be much less agreeing if the game in question was a good tactical shooter, where the tactics that work in the above games result in miserable failure, though i agree that they have nothing to do with the actual shooting part, unless the gun has zero recoil, a HUD crosshair, never jams/misfires, isn't affected by winds over a distance, uses projectiles that travel at infinite velocity, etc.
For those of us who aren't following this issue very closely, would anyone care to explain why the obvious solution - a player that will play both formats - isn't feasible at the moment?
because they're roughly as expensive as getting a stand-alone player for each, due to the current need to have 2 lasers and 2 sets of decoding circuitry, though this should improve with time. merging the decoding stuff should be simple enough, but reading both types of disc with a single laser might be tricky, and single-type lasers are already expensive, so dual-type lasers will likely be quite expensive if/when they become available.
so i think i'll just sit back and wait for the dust to settle and the prices to drop.
well, here (saskatchewan), 256Kb is $23, 1.5Mb is $35, and 7Mb (currently being rolled to 10Mb) is $70 and no caps or throttling as far as me or anyone else i know has been able to discover.
regulation = good, competition = good, regulation+competition = f****** awesome for the consumer.
main reason is tight regulation and good competition. we got 3 players in here. us (sasktel, who i currently work for), Shaw, and Access. all of us provide phone, TV, and internet, so it's quite feasible to get all 3 from different companies. it's fairly common to have a sasktel landline, shaw TV, and Access DSL, though many opt to get triple-plays and reserve the option to drop a service and go with the other guys.
plus, we need to provide good service as the regulations are stacked against us by the CRTC in order to foster competition.
and AFAIK, we do not practice any kind of caps or limiting. i know people who have deliberately maxed out their connections (up and down) 24x7 for months on end (basically, keep passing random junk from one computer to another through a 3rd person on another connection.) they were wanting to find out what would happen. nothing did.)
though marketing people tend to want to push new stuff in september (large system-wide upgrades last time, along with our HDTV service), when we're already busy enough with everyone and their roommate moving back into the cities for education and wanting TV/internet/phones/plumbing/etc. fortunitly i'll be back in class for september and spared the chaos.
we also work on the rural end, with gradually expanding DSL coverage (we basically repurpose the old gear when we do system upgrades in the major centres. trickle-down in a manner that actually works, though it makes tech support slightly interesting, as we have 3 types of DSLAM currently in use and we'll likely have 4 levels when september ends, as i'm pretty sure we're gonna move the major centres up to VDSL2 on our current 900m loops, giving us ~50Mb for fun)
we also have a nice microwave broadband network. it's a rather neat bit of work using DOCSIS over the air. it's slightly pricey ($60/month for 2MB/256kb and $250 for the equipment, plus more for installation if you can't mount the antenna yourself. a 3Mb/512kb package is available for $300/month, but that is the business-class package and comes with a 4-hour SLA, hence the cost.), but it works damn nice if you have a good line of sight to the tower and it is a far better option than satalite (ping times average around 100ms to most places in north america)
How many high-schools actually teach kids anything about buying a car? How about getting a home loan? What about going over a cell-phone contract? What about filling out tax forms?
mine for one. that personal finance class was likely the most useful one in the entirety of my high school years. it really ought to be compulsory.
i believe they used to be common carrier, but then got switched to being "information services" fairly recently, which is when the whole net neutrality stuff started becoming an issue, as common carrier provides for that, but information services does not.
well, actually, since i don't deal with phones, just our internet and IPTV service, i'd likely go home, as unless the power outage was localized rather than citywide, all the DSLAM cabinets would go down when the backup batteries died (after about 45 min), so i'd have nothing to do. the 611 guys would keep going like nothing happened.
What, companies send their employees home if the building loses power?
only companies that don't have backup power. my office could go for about 2 weeks without the power grid, longer if we can get diesel delivered. we're the phone company and we have big-ass generators to run the phone systems and all the other office stuff.
i'm not sure if roadrunner qualifies anymore. the majority of roadrunner's parent company (Roadrunner Music Group B.V) was bought by Warner Music Group (one of RIAA's big 4) back in January (source), though i honestly have no idea how involved they are with anything to do with the RIAA, financially or otherwise.
i have a very low opinion of anything that comes out of Symantec these days. it not only has ungodly poor detection, it has a massive tenancy to cause false positives (yes, my raw ASCII text file carries a "generic trojan", riiiigght) and randomly fuck up the internet connection (it detects an "infection" in the winsock configuration and tries to "fix" it, and ends up screwing the internet connection. fortunately it is easy to fix in XP.)
i now take an uninstall first, ask questions later policy with that evil software.
how in the name of something do you figure it would require "new equipment, new procedures, new everything."?
they have the filters and equipment already in place with this law, just change the law so it is mandatory rather than elective and change the settings. there, all done.
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this is the main reason i have a great love for the sleep timer on my TV.
power saving takes a distant second.
In a real police state, speaking "truth to power" earns you a trip to a prison, mental institution, or a ditch in an empty field.
I'm not saying they're there yet. I'm saying they're working on it still. Rome wasn't built (or destroyed) in a day.
as i often say to people, the problem with Christianity is "Christians".
i don't mind Christianity (though their god seems to have some rather sociopathic tendencies), but there are a rather lot of Christians i do not like, usually because they're utter hypocrites.
the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs--and equally compatible with atheism, thus proving that the two great realms of nature's factuality and the source of human morality do not strongly overlap.
with the obvioux exception of when the religion/religious person specificly declares that they are not compatible with each other.
The behavior rewarded in videogames is tactically unsound and will get you killed if you tried to apply those theories in a real firefight.
depends on what game you're talking about. if you're meaning the typical shooter like quake, doom, etc. i'd fully agree with you, though i'd be much less agreeing if the game in question was a good tactical shooter, where the tactics that work in the above games result in miserable failure, though i agree that they have nothing to do with the actual shooting part, unless the gun has zero recoil, a HUD crosshair, never jams/misfires, isn't affected by winds over a distance, uses projectiles that travel at infinite velocity, etc.
did you shave with Hanlon's razor?
though seriously, it doesn't matter if it is malice or incompetence. the end result is more or less identical.
Isn't the duration of the bidding war set when the auction begins?
i'm pretty sure it acts like a regular auction, where the bidding keeps going unless everyone but one bidder gives up.
For those of us who aren't following this issue very closely, would anyone care to explain why the obvious solution - a player that will play both formats - isn't feasible at the moment?
because they're roughly as expensive as getting a stand-alone player for each, due to the current need to have 2 lasers and 2 sets of decoding circuitry, though this should improve with time. merging the decoding stuff should be simple enough, but reading both types of disc with a single laser might be tricky, and single-type lasers are already expensive, so dual-type lasers will likely be quite expensive if/when they become available.
so i think i'll just sit back and wait for the dust to settle and the prices to drop.
well, here (saskatchewan), 256Kb is $23, 1.5Mb is $35, and 7Mb (currently being rolled to 10Mb) is $70 and no caps or throttling as far as me or anyone else i know has been able to discover.
regulation = good, competition = good, regulation+competition = f****** awesome for the consumer.
main reason is tight regulation and good competition. we got 3 players in here. us (sasktel, who i currently work for), Shaw, and Access. all of us provide phone, TV, and internet, so it's quite feasible to get all 3 from different companies. it's fairly common to have a sasktel landline, shaw TV, and Access DSL, though many opt to get triple-plays and reserve the option to drop a service and go with the other guys.
plus, we need to provide good service as the regulations are stacked against us by the CRTC in order to foster competition.
and AFAIK, we do not practice any kind of caps or limiting. i know people who have deliberately maxed out their connections (up and down) 24x7 for months on end (basically, keep passing random junk from one computer to another through a 3rd person on another connection.) they were wanting to find out what would happen. nothing did.)
though marketing people tend to want to push new stuff in september (large system-wide upgrades last time, along with our HDTV service), when we're already busy enough with everyone and their roommate moving back into the cities for education and wanting TV/internet/phones/plumbing/etc. fortunitly i'll be back in class for september and spared the chaos.
we also work on the rural end, with gradually expanding DSL coverage (we basically repurpose the old gear when we do system upgrades in the major centres. trickle-down in a manner that actually works, though it makes tech support slightly interesting, as we have 3 types of DSLAM currently in use and we'll likely have 4 levels when september ends, as i'm pretty sure we're gonna move the major centres up to VDSL2 on our current 900m loops, giving us ~50Mb for fun)
we also have a nice microwave broadband network. it's a rather neat bit of work using DOCSIS over the air. it's slightly pricey ($60/month for 2MB/256kb and $250 for the equipment, plus more for installation if you can't mount the antenna yourself. a 3Mb/512kb package is available for $300/month, but that is the business-class package and comes with a 4-hour SLA, hence the cost.), but it works damn nice if you have a good line of sight to the tower and it is a far better option than satalite (ping times average around 100ms to most places in north america)
It's like an IT support professional being dumbed down to below the peers he's helping by answering too many support calls.
i dunno, some of these calls seem like they make me lose a few IQ points.
How many high-schools actually teach kids anything about buying a car? How about getting a home loan? What about going over a cell-phone contract? What about filling out tax forms?
mine for one. that personal finance class was likely the most useful one in the entirety of my high school years. it really ought to be compulsory.
and later, if ideas pan out, a good source of heat for hydrogen production.
i believe they used to be common carrier, but then got switched to being "information services" fairly recently, which is when the whole net neutrality stuff started becoming an issue, as common carrier provides for that, but information services does not.
well, actually, since i don't deal with phones, just our internet and IPTV service, i'd likely go home, as unless the power outage was localized rather than citywide, all the DSLAM cabinets would go down when the backup batteries died (after about 45 min), so i'd have nothing to do. the 611 guys would keep going like nothing happened.
Why? If they are playing copyrighted music, why should they not follow the same rules as the commercial stations?
and if they aren't playing copyrighted music?
What, companies send their employees home if the building loses power?
only companies that don't have backup power. my office could go for about 2 weeks without the power grid, longer if we can get diesel delivered. we're the phone company and we have big-ass generators to run the phone systems and all the other office stuff.
i'm not sure if roadrunner qualifies anymore. the majority of roadrunner's parent company (Roadrunner Music Group B.V) was bought by Warner Music Group (one of RIAA's big 4) back in January (source), though i honestly have no idea how involved they are with anything to do with the RIAA, financially or otherwise.
or eating it.
several people do eat it on the advise of their doctor. (warfarin). at the proper dosage, it is quite useful for preventing blood clots.
judging by this post further up, i don't think they're dead yet. they're grasping at straws, but they're still hanging on for the time being.
i have a very low opinion of anything that comes out of Symantec these days. it not only has ungodly poor detection, it has a massive tenancy to cause false positives (yes, my raw ASCII text file carries a "generic trojan", riiiigght) and randomly fuck up the internet connection (it detects an "infection" in the winsock configuration and tries to "fix" it, and ends up screwing the internet connection. fortunately it is easy to fix in XP.)
i now take an uninstall first, ask questions later policy with that evil software.
how in the name of something do you figure it would require "new equipment, new procedures, new everything."?
they have the filters and equipment already in place with this law, just change the law so it is mandatory rather than elective and change the settings. there, all done.