Agreed, and before that we had many states with "distracted drivers" laws that could (and should) have been enforced. I was being a bit silly, but my point is that of dangers associated with cell phones, this is not even close to the ones I would try to "educate" the public about.
Not really an option for a renter. We get fewer channels now and have used the TV mostly for DVD playing. Reception wasn't even consistent between the converter box and the new HDTV.
Not that it is a big deal to me over all. Really, I was more annoyed with the 3 months or whatever where the deadline was pushed back and having to try to tune the HDTV again because half of the stations used one deadline and half the other.
The emerging multiple layers of filtering that is disturbing to me. An artist has an idea, it is then edited and tweaked by the publisher, it then is edited and tweaked by Walmart/Apple/Whoever. Use a search engine, and you have a nontransparent filter that makes choices for you like Google and Bing that give you press releases from BP/the government and others.
(but, oh, man, tang and microwave ovens made it sooo worth it!).
Tang, like the Fisher space pen, were not made by NASA, they just had great product placement. Kind of like the Olympics didn't develop any of their official drinks, shirts etc. The microwave ovens, I have no idea what your connection is suppose to be.
They look better thought out than the light bulb shaped N100 LED bulbs. The solar panels on the N100 are pointed in such a way that only half of them could be put even approximately facing the sun and are pointed down at a steep angle if hung up to charge. I would rather be able to aim the solar panel. Over all it looks like the N100 looks like it was designed by marketing, those Boglights seem a bit better thought out.
It seems that you can have one or the other. The lack of competition means that as long as they do the absolute minimum, people will pay for the only option available. The FCC, which never should have been allowed outside of the airwaves, seem more concerned about trying to censor things than creating a competitive market. I live in metropolitan area with main population of 479,000. We have the choice of Comcast cable, or high speed over the phone. Because the wiring is so old for phone in my apartment, that means cable only.
We knew that were in a bad reception area when my wife bought her phone and so we asked which ones were known for better signal reception. She decided on the cute one instead. Fashion beat out function.
This is a false dichotomy. Giving away civil liberties does not equal more safety. There is much more that can be done to prevent crime and violence that would be much more productive than wasting time money and effort on wire tapping, and that is just legal wire tapping, not this.
I am still on dial-up, CD and DVD are pretty much the only way I could do this distro. Same with XP service packs. Spent the past two months to try to get DSL but the apartment's wiring is too old.
That was my impression, and a Google search seems to confirm it. If I was a device manufacturer and using this kernel, it would be well worth my time to do a custom build for the device I was making.
At 12 I was biking to work, a carnival type job and legal. Preteen. Really you have to know your child, but I also think you have to prepare them. For some I think those the do the former, would not do the latter. And those that would track their child, wouldn't care to teach them to take care of themselves. I don't know what the cut off should be, but either they should have direct supervision in a safe environment, limited freedom, or full freedom. A lot can happen when you are looking up the child's location on the computer.
It reminds me of dog owners. A leash is less necessary for a well trained dog, than one that hasn't received it.
It seems that the model that is used my apple and M$ is to get people use to their computers in school. After the preferences are in place, people stay with it until there is a reason to change.
I think it would be great that at the time of graduation a person had an entire electronic library of reference material. This could make it possible, if you are in 8th grade and find that you are rusty on some of the information from last year, just run a search.
I will be interested to see if it can hold a charge for 40 miles when it hist -20 in Minnesota. I know Li works well in the cold compared to other batteries, but there is still an effect.
"If I can't remove the propaganda, I won't watch it at all, and I won't let my kid watch it."
You can remove the beginning commercials, but with product placement and other methods, you will still have propaganda. Splitting hairs, I know, either that or you really research your movies.
"DRM and its ilk does persuade citizens to infringe copyright "
Is this infringing on copyright? If what they want to do is covered by fair use, I don't see how it is. What is being done is violating DMCA by cracking DRM. They are separate issues, right?
I wish that there was a Project Gutenberg version of Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson.
Maybe not to the criteria, but for being close to 100 years old, it still helped me learn calculus.
A PDF of the second addition.
http://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf
Pay Phones are becoming rare these days. Many of the ones that were in Minneapolis are now removed due to lack of use. In addition to that many of them will not allow calls during certian times due to the "war on drugs". Not that I think that they need cell phones, when other phones are so abundant. for local calls, I have rarly been turned down when I ask to use a restaurant's or other establishment's phone.
But then I still don't have one of those things at 30+.
You are assuming that facts are what is wanted, not a conviction. Police departments do not like having unsolved cases. I am not saying that they would want to convict an innocent person, just that they want a conviction. Interrogation for information that may save lives, as in a military questioning, is more concerned about the truth. The questioning is different accordingly.
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Agreed, and before that we had many states with "distracted drivers" laws that could (and should) have been enforced. I was being a bit silly, but my point is that of dangers associated with cell phones, this is not even close to the ones I would try to "educate" the public about.
If everything is labeled "warning" including things that have shaky evidence to support it, eventually warnings become less useful and ignored.
That being said, I really do not see what "information" is being provided.
They are at greater risk driving while on the phone of dieing. Perhaps that should be on the warning.
"DO NOT USE WHILE OPERATING HEAVY MACHINERY" or something like that.
Not really an option for a renter. We get fewer channels now and have used the TV mostly for DVD playing. Reception wasn't even consistent between the converter box and the new HDTV.
Not that it is a big deal to me over all. Really, I was more annoyed with the 3 months or whatever where the deadline was pushed back and having to try to tune the HDTV again because half of the stations used one deadline and half the other.
The emerging multiple layers of filtering that is disturbing to me. An artist has an idea, it is then edited and tweaked by the publisher, it then is edited and tweaked by Walmart/Apple/Whoever. Use a search engine, and you have a nontransparent filter that makes choices for you like Google and Bing that give you press releases from BP/the government and others.
(but, oh, man, tang and microwave ovens made it sooo worth it!).
Tang, like the Fisher space pen, were not made by NASA, they just had great product placement. Kind of like the Olympics didn't develop any of their official drinks, shirts etc. The microwave ovens, I have no idea what your connection is suppose to be.
They look better thought out than the light bulb shaped N100 LED bulbs. The solar panels on the N100 are pointed in such a way that only half of them could be put even approximately facing the sun and are pointed down at a steep angle if hung up to charge. I would rather be able to aim the solar panel. Over all it looks like the N100 looks like it was designed by marketing, those Boglights seem a bit better thought out.
Mod parent up.
It seems that you can have one or the other. The lack of competition means that as long as they do the absolute minimum, people will pay for the only option available. The FCC, which never should have been allowed outside of the airwaves, seem more concerned about trying to censor things than creating a competitive market. I live in metropolitan area with main population of 479,000. We have the choice of Comcast cable, or high speed over the phone. Because the wiring is so old for phone in my apartment, that means cable only.
We knew that were in a bad reception area when my wife bought her phone and so we asked which ones were known for better signal reception. She decided on the cute one instead. Fashion beat out function.
This is a false dichotomy. Giving away civil liberties does not equal more safety. There is much more that can be done to prevent crime and violence that would be much more productive than wasting time money and effort on wire tapping, and that is just legal wire tapping, not this.
I am still on dial-up, CD and DVD are pretty much the only way I could do this distro. Same with XP service packs. Spent the past two months to try to get DSL but the apartment's wiring is too old.
That was my impression, and a Google search seems to confirm it. If I was a device manufacturer and using this kernel, it would be well worth my time to do a custom build for the device I was making.
At 12 I was biking to work, a carnival type job and legal. Preteen. Really you have to know your child, but I also think you have to prepare them. For some I think those the do the former, would not do the latter. And those that would track their child, wouldn't care to teach them to take care of themselves. I don't know what the cut off should be, but either they should have direct supervision in a safe environment, limited freedom, or full freedom. A lot can happen when you are looking up the child's location on the computer.
It reminds me of dog owners. A leash is less necessary for a well trained dog, than one that hasn't received it.
It seems that the model that is used my apple and M$ is to get people use to their computers in school. After the preferences are in place, people stay with it until there is a reason to change.
I think it would be great that at the time of graduation a person had an entire electronic library of reference material. This could make it possible, if you are in 8th grade and find that you are rusty on some of the information from last year, just run a search.
Then fork it.
I will be interested to see if it can hold a charge for 40 miles when it hist -20 in Minnesota. I know Li works well in the cold compared to other batteries, but there is still an effect.
People really should learn more about the immune system if they are calling this an allergy.
"If I can't remove the propaganda, I won't watch it at all, and I won't let my kid watch it."
You can remove the beginning commercials, but with product placement and other methods, you will still have propaganda. Splitting hairs, I know, either that or you really research your movies.
"DRM and its ilk does persuade citizens to infringe copyright "
Is this infringing on copyright? If what they want to do is covered by fair use, I don't see how it is. What is being done is violating DMCA by cracking DRM. They are separate issues, right?
I wish that there was a Project Gutenberg version of Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson. Maybe not to the criteria, but for being close to 100 years old, it still helped me learn calculus. A PDF of the second addition. http://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf
Minnesota does not allow this to happen after problems in the 2004 election. https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/statutes/?id=208.08&year=2008 http://web.archive.org/web/20041217034158/http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5134791.html
Perhaps these will be of interest http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ and a write up. http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ar s
Pay Phones are becoming rare these days. Many of the ones that were in Minneapolis are now removed due to lack of use. In addition to that many of them will not allow calls during certian times due to the "war on drugs". Not that I think that they need cell phones, when other phones are so abundant. for local calls, I have rarly been turned down when I ask to use a restaurant's or other establishment's phone.
But then I still don't have one of those things at 30+.
You are assuming that facts are what is wanted, not a conviction. Police departments do not like having unsolved cases. I am not saying that they would want to convict an innocent person, just that they want a conviction. Interrogation for information that may save lives, as in a military questioning, is more concerned about the truth. The questioning is different accordingly.