"`(4) IDEOLOGICALLY BASED VIOLENCE- The term `ideologically based violence' means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual's political, religious, or social beliefs."
Well, that's it then. This bill renounces the motivations behind the Revolutionary War.
I want a law banning Independence Day celebrations, any burning of the Gaspee in effigy (Tea in the harbor? Wimps. _We_ burned a British tax ship to the friggin waterline), Bunker Hill battle reconstructions, and anything else related to "violence in the name of ideology"
Yeah, unfortunately I got modded "redundant" and "funny." I also got modded "redundant" for my Beck joke. How is it redundant when I was the only one to come up with that? What...ever. I got more karma than I know what to do with. Go ahead, waste your mod points on me.
If we truely come up with computers that mimic the human brain, we're going to see the same problems that we have "programming" children, maybe even worse, because human children have inherited behaviors that make teaching easier, and electronic neural networks won't unless we build them that way.
It's one thing to build a neural net. It's another to make it "want" to learn.
"It would be very difficult to get something useful out of it. Answers wouldn't always be the same due to the semi-random effect brains have a tendency to produce. You would spend a lifetime putting something in and watching it come back differently than it did a few minutes ago."
"presumabley they're trying the "sue for the world, settle out of court for what they really want" tactic."
It's not that. It's "We never got a dime for this shit when it was popular, but now that we have our own stuff back, we'd like to have our contracts followed, thanks"
They got screwed over by Joel Zuckerman and Arnie Tencer and never saw a dime for "What I like about you" when it was popular. All those Molson and Budweiser commercials? Nothing. Zero, zilch. They had to tour for _7 years_ to finance the lawsuit to recoup _something_, and they eventually won judgments but were unable to collect because Zuckerman and Tencer didn't have any visible assets.
The only important thing they got back was control of the original copyrights, many years after being popular.
Given the history of The Romantics, I'm not surprised they're trying to stick up for themselves.
I used to care about stuff like this about 10 years ago when I was concerned whether or not this "linux thing" was going to last. I don't, anymore. Linux ain't goin' away. As a daily Linux user and abuser, this is the first time I heard about the poll, after 3 years of its existence and I still don't care.
I didn't bother reading the article. Every announcement of Windows is a wishlist. We're all still waiting for Cairo, so if Windows 7 follows any kind of history, we'll be waiting for -2038- when the 32 bit date and time addressing runs out and we're all awaiting Armageddon, buying generators and listening to/watching the latest version of "Everything You Know Is Wrong" (every conspiracy radio show as played by Firesign Theatre) on the webradioipodtvyoutubegooglealibabaAOLmediaplayer.
"I would hope that a civilization that is able to travel faster than light, that is possibly thousands to millions of years ahead of us, has grown beyond the need to eat other living things."
Food (*cough*) for thought:
If I ate merely because I needed to fill my tummy, I'd be a vegan.
Start polluting your system with preservatives and chemicals! If they find you tasty, at least you might give them cancer!
-- BMO
Re:The problem is that SETI is broken.
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Is SETI Worth It?
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"Blanketing an area the size of Rhode Island with a dish array might also work (though it would have to be very, very precisely controlled)."
Instead of Rhode Island, maybe we could use Utah. Indeed, you could still ski if you let it snow a little in the dish. Isn't Orrin Hatch sufficiently despised here? And SCO?
"You just have to look at our own history of contact between various cultures to figure that out. "
I got a +5 funny before for mentioning this, but the only reason why we didn't _eat_ the conquered on a massive scale was that we recognized the conquered as our own species and have taboos about it.
What's to stop a sufficiently advanced civilization, outside of biochemical compatibility, from viewing us as "the other white meat" with fava beans and a nice chianti.
"Look. I tell you what. Those who want to can eat Johnson. And you, sir, can have my leg. And we make some stock from the Captain, and then we'll have Johnson cold for supper."
"The American people overwhelmingly (not just a majority, but up to 80%) support marijuana criminalization."
From where do you get your stats, besides your arse?
"But more than legalization, I support democracy."
Then you should support the ability of states to decide on their own instead of the use of the commerce clause by the federal government to beat up states that don't toe the line, shouldn't you?
Funny about your use of the word "democracy" there when you actually support federalism. Troll much?
"It couldn't be related to the fact that we have more criminals than ever cooling their heels in prison?"
TFA says that _violent_ crime is down. If there are fewer violent offenders, then how does that explain why the prisons are overfilled? The prison population exploded because we're putting more _nonviolent_ offenders in jail.
And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the game shop/software dealer wherever you are, just walk in say "Dude, You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant." return the game, and walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's just weird. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they'll refund the money really fast just to get 'em out the door. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant, returnin' a game and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in, returnin' a game, singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Bad-Software Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar.
"Betamax was technically superior to VHS. How much good did that do the people who bought Betamax VCRs?"
And you think Beta went away?
No, it only grew up to become Sony Super Beta. It's comparable to 1 inch tape. For NTSC/PAL, it's broadcast quality. Before HiDef, this was _the_ standard for electronic news gathering(ENG).
Ogg is simply better and generates less weirdness. To compensate for the weirdness with MP3, you have to make the file twice as big as Ogg. It just sucks that the only player out there that has a decent interface doesn't play Ogg, so there I go making 320 bit VBR mp3's.
But to be on topic, and to steal a marketing phrase from Apple, (donning Nomex underwear) Ubuntu is Debian for the rest of us.
Chapter III Acts Permitted in relation to Copyright Works
72 Free public showing or playing of broadcast or cable programme
(1) The showing or playing in public of a broadcast or cable programme to an audience who have not paid for admission to the place where the broadcast or programme is to be seen or heard does not infringe any copyright in
(a) the broadcast or cable programme, or
(b) any sound recording or film included in it.
(2) The audience shall be treated as having paid for admission to a place
(a) if they have paid for admission to a place of which that place forms part; or
(b) if goods or services are supplied at that place (or a place of which it forms part)
(i) at prices which are substantially attributable to the facilities afforded for seeing or hearing the broadcast or programme, or
(ii) at prices exceeding those usually charged there and which are partly attributable to those facilities.
(3) The following shall not be regarded as having paid for admission to a place
(a) persons admitted as residents or inmates of the place;
(b) persons admitted as members of a club or society where the payment is only for membership of the club or society and the provision of facilities for seeing or hearing broadcasts or programmes is only incidental to the main purposes of the club or society.
(4) Where the making of the broadcast or inclusion of the programme in a cable programme service was an infringement of the copyright in a sound recording or film, the fact that it was heard or seen in public by the reception of the broadcast or programme shall be taken into account in assessing the damages for that infringement.
---------
The customers have not paid to hear it. They have not paid extra, and they have not paid admission. It is a "free public performance" and therefore not infringement.
This is similar to the case in the States where you need a license to play music through speakers *installed in the building* but not over portable radios/players owned by the employees. The former constitutes public performance and the latter does not, as playing through permanent overhead speakers and such is a part of the business and portable radios are not.
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"`(4) IDEOLOGICALLY BASED VIOLENCE- The term `ideologically based violence' means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual's political, religious, or social beliefs."
Well, that's it then. This bill renounces the motivations behind the Revolutionary War.
I want a law banning Independence Day celebrations, any burning of the Gaspee in effigy (Tea in the harbor? Wimps. _We_ burned a British tax ship to the friggin waterline), Bunker Hill battle reconstructions, and anything else related to "violence in the name of ideology"
What a fucking joke.
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BMO
Real geeks don't need on-off switches. They just use arrays of abacuses.
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BMO
Yeah, unfortunately I got modded "redundant" and "funny." I also got modded "redundant" for my Beck joke. How is it redundant when I was the only one to come up with that? What...ever. I got more karma than I know what to do with. Go ahead, waste your mod points on me.
If we truely come up with computers that mimic the human brain, we're going to see the same problems that we have "programming" children, maybe even worse, because human children have inherited behaviors that make teaching easier, and electronic neural networks won't unless we build them that way.
It's one thing to build a neural net. It's another to make it "want" to learn.
--
BMO
"It would be very difficult to get something useful out of it. Answers wouldn't always be the same due to the semi-random effect brains have a tendency to produce. You would spend a lifetime putting something in and watching it come back differently than it did a few minutes ago."
We call this "raising children"
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BMO
"'Repeat this [process] thousands of times, and you can make your way through maybe the whole fly brain,'"
As Beck sings...
"Where it's at! I got two dead fruit flies and a microtome"
--
BMO
"presumabley they're trying the "sue for the world, settle out of court for what they really want" tactic."
It's not that. It's "We never got a dime for this shit when it was popular, but now that we have our own stuff back, we'd like to have our contracts followed, thanks"
They got screwed over by Joel Zuckerman and Arnie Tencer and never saw a dime for "What I like about you" when it was popular. All those Molson and Budweiser commercials? Nothing. Zero, zilch. They had to tour for _7 years_ to finance the lawsuit to recoup _something_, and they eventually won judgments but were unable to collect because Zuckerman and Tencer didn't have any visible assets.
The only important thing they got back was control of the original copyrights, many years after being popular.
Given the history of The Romantics, I'm not surprised they're trying to stick up for themselves.
A history lesson:
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=5363
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BMO
I used to care about stuff like this about 10 years ago when I was concerned whether or not this "linux thing" was going to last. I don't, anymore. Linux ain't goin' away. As a daily Linux user and abuser, this is the first time I heard about the poll, after 3 years of its existence and I still don't care.
That's a good thing.
--
BMO
Just because I have karma to burn and I don't care...
Performant is not a word.
Efficient is a word.
Making up jargon to sound erudite actually makes you sound stupid.
Thank you and have a nice day.
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BMO
I didn't bother reading the article. Every announcement of Windows is a wishlist. We're all still waiting for Cairo, so if Windows 7 follows any kind of history, we'll be waiting for -2038- when the 32 bit date and time addressing runs out and we're all awaiting Armageddon, buying generators and listening to/watching the latest version of "Everything You Know Is Wrong" (every conspiracy radio show as played by Firesign Theatre) on the webradioipodtvyoutubegooglealibabaAOLmediaplayer.
Here's a wish: an end to Windows wishlists.
--
BMO
There are two kinds of seagoing vessels: submarines and targets.
--
BMO
"i, for one, welcome our new extra terrestrial plant based overlords.
so i can eat them, silly."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/
Cue theremin music...
--
BMO
"I would hope that a civilization that is able to travel faster than light, that is possibly thousands to millions of years ahead of us, has grown beyond the need to eat other living things."
Food (*cough*) for thought:
If I ate merely because I needed to fill my tummy, I'd be a vegan.
http://italianfood.about.com/od/beefbracioleetc/r/blr0228.htm
"If I'm wrong, I hope that I'm not very tasty!"
Start polluting your system with preservatives and chemicals! If they find you tasty, at least you might give them cancer!
--
BMO
"Blanketing an area the size of Rhode Island with a dish array might also work (though it would have to be very, very precisely controlled)."
Instead of Rhode Island, maybe we could use Utah. Indeed, you could still ski if you let it snow a little in the dish. Isn't Orrin Hatch sufficiently despised here? And SCO?
--
BMO
"You just have to look at our own history of contact between various cultures to figure that out. "
I got a +5 funny before for mentioning this, but the only reason why we didn't _eat_ the conquered on a massive scale was that we recognized the conquered as our own species and have taboos about it.
What's to stop a sufficiently advanced civilization, outside of biochemical compatibility, from viewing us as "the other white meat" with fava beans and a nice chianti.
"Look. I tell you what. Those who want to can eat Johnson. And you, sir, can have my leg. And we make some stock from the Captain, and then we'll have Johnson cold for supper."
--
BMO
"Responsible parenting is one thing, but kids will stick anything in their mouth, and nose."
And anywhere else, for that matter. A Gummi Bear is just the right size to be shoved straight into an ethernet jack.
--
BMO
"Would pronouncing it 'give-a-byte' help?"
SEDAGIVE!?!?
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/4159/sedagive.wav
--
BMO
"The American people overwhelmingly (not just a majority, but up to 80%) support marijuana criminalization."
From where do you get your stats, besides your arse?
"But more than legalization, I support democracy."
Then you should support the ability of states to decide on their own instead of the use of the commerce clause by the federal government to beat up states that don't toe the line, shouldn't you?
Funny about your use of the word "democracy" there when you actually support federalism. Troll much?
--
BMO
"It couldn't be related to the fact that we have more criminals than ever cooling their heels in prison?"
TFA says that _violent_ crime is down. If there are fewer violent offenders, then how does that explain why the prisons are overfilled? The prison population exploded because we're putting more _nonviolent_ offenders in jail.
Bad troll, no cookie. Try better next time.
--
BMO
And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the game shop/software dealer wherever you are, just walk in say "Dude, You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant." return the game, and walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's just weird. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they'll refund the money really fast just to get 'em out the door. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant, returnin' a game and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in, returnin' a game, singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Bad-Software Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar.
--
BMO
"Betamax was technically superior to VHS. How much good did that do the people who bought Betamax VCRs?"
And you think Beta went away?
No, it only grew up to become Sony Super Beta. It's comparable to 1 inch tape. For NTSC/PAL, it's broadcast quality. Before HiDef, this was _the_ standard for electronic news gathering(ENG).
Ogg is simply better and generates less weirdness. To compensate for the weirdness with MP3, you have to make the file twice as big as Ogg. It just sucks that the only player out there that has a decent interface doesn't play Ogg, so there I go making 320 bit VBR mp3's.
But to be on topic, and to steal a marketing phrase from Apple, (donning Nomex underwear) Ubuntu is Debian for the rest of us.
--
BMO
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/ukpga_19880048_en_4
Chapter III
Acts Permitted in relation to Copyright Works
72 Free public showing or playing of broadcast or cable programme
(1) The showing or playing in public of a broadcast or cable programme to an audience who have not paid for admission to the place where the broadcast or programme is to be seen or heard does not infringe any copyright in
(a) the broadcast or cable programme, or
(b) any sound recording or film included in it.
(2) The audience shall be treated as having paid for admission to a place
(a) if they have paid for admission to a place of which that place forms part; or
(b) if goods or services are supplied at that place (or a place of which it forms part)
(i) at prices which are substantially attributable to the facilities afforded for seeing or hearing the broadcast or programme, or
(ii) at prices exceeding those usually charged there and which are partly attributable to those facilities.
(3) The following shall not be regarded as having paid for admission to a place
(a) persons admitted as residents or inmates of the place;
(b) persons admitted as members of a club or society where the payment is only for membership of the club or society and the provision of facilities for seeing or hearing broadcasts or programmes is only incidental to the main purposes of the club or society.
(4) Where the making of the broadcast or inclusion of the programme in a cable programme service was an infringement of the copyright in a sound recording or film, the fact that it was heard or seen in public by the reception of the broadcast or programme shall be taken into account in assessing the damages for that infringement.
---------
The customers have not paid to hear it. They have not paid extra, and they have not paid admission. It is a "free public performance" and therefore not infringement.
This is similar to the case in the States where you need a license to play music through speakers *installed in the building* but not over portable radios/players owned by the employees. The former constitutes public performance and the latter does not, as playing through permanent overhead speakers and such is a part of the business and portable radios are not.
--
BMO
"Sex: M/F
Real-life sex: M/F"
Better:
Sex: Y/N
--
BMO
And not only is it a troll, it's tinfoil haberdashery and skating _really close_ to Libel.
Actually RTFA Matt's reasoning gives the opposite impression of the summary. Fork the submitter and Kdawson for greenlighting this.
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BMO
"cause the chances of having a number evaluate to 65,535 via multiplication is extremely common."
"No it doesn't really affect anything. "
Oh, it's only the largest unsigned 16 bit number and comes up in a crapload of places. Enough times that you should have _memorized_ it by now.
Jeez. Please turn in your geek card NOW.
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BMO
Asstunnels.
FTFA: "Dearest little asstunnels"
Is it a tunnel within an ass or is it a tunnel made of asses?
"You are in a series of twisty little asstunnels, all alike. It is dark in here. You might be eaten by a gerbil"
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BMO