No one has ever been raped, beaten or contracted a sexually-transmitted disease on the internet. Are they going to ban sex-offenders from using cell phones? From writing letters? From talking?
And of course, like all of the best in stupid legislation, these laws are essentially unenforceable. On the net, no one knows that you are a dog, or a convict.
when I get to the movie theater I go to the "Fandango Only" line Wow! Fandango must be a really popular movie to still be in theatrical release. Kinda sucks that you have to keep seeing the same movie over and over again though.
There are laws against importing bootlegs. If the bootleg was legal in the country where you purchased it, then you are allowed to import it the USA for personal use (i.e. small quantities) but not for resale.
This rule applies whether the product is 'bootleg' or just licensed differently (as are most movies, music and tv) because there really is no difference between the two as long as both are legal in the country of purchase.
Sounds like she got caught by one of those parties they throw to try and catch criminals on their top 10/20 lists. Right. Because those stings are actual parties with people drinking and all and they always put the poster of wanted fugitives right out there for the fugitives to see themselves on before they nab them. Your theory doesn't add up either.
This is to be used same way as America's Most Wanted and backs of milk cartons. Which are already tools of fear-mongering. You've just internalized the fear so much that you don't realize it. Every day for breakfast, parents wake up to a dose of fear from those milk cartons - that kid on the back of the milk carton could be THEIRS if they aren't fearful enough! Every day for breakfast, kids wake up to a dose of fear - that kid on the back of the milk carton could be THEM if they aren't fearful enough!
What they aren't told is that parental kidnapping is by far the most common form of child abduction. Once you rule out parental kidnapping, voluntary runaways and kids who are kicked out of the home by their own parents, there are less than 300 cases per yer, nationwide.
Same thing with "America's Most Wanted" - look at all the bad guys out there and all the bad things they have done and might do to YOU and your family if you aren't fearful enough. Treat everyone with suspicion, always be on the look out for these evil-doers. Get them, before they strike again! The life you save may be your own!
And now big billboards telling everyone to be afraid. No thank you. I am not afraid and I don't the kind of country where my neighbors are afraid either.
Any recommendations for good (and free, but not necessarily Free) music visualizers for Windows or maybe linux?
This is slashdot, so I'm sure no one will believe me, but I'm looking for something I can put on my projector and will look cool projected onto the bodies of drunk, semi-naked dancing girls. Yes, being semi-naked is not enough, they gotta have cool computer graphics on them to be interesting.
The inhabitants of Easter Island (the one with with those large stone faces) cut down all the trees on the island, destroying their environment and dooming their civilization. It is silly to think that only Western culture can be environmentally reckless--there are many counterexamples. That's one theory about Rapa Nui. A theory that sells well to the general public because it is simple to understand and is almost a parable for stupid humans doing stupid things.
But there are other theories, theories that the anthropology community tend to find more plausible. One of them is that the trees were killed off by western introduced diseases, not the natives cutting them down to move big stone heads around.
Fingerprinting tourists? What on earth were your government thinking? I can tell you EXACTLY what they were thinking -- "Tourists can't vote." Surprisingly, particularly for american politicians, they didn't realize that tourists can vote with their euros.
We've never felt the need to put "ability to withstand 90lb long bow attack" on any of our purchasing forms. Obviously you are not part of the military-medieval complex. If you were, then you would have requirements for MIL-SPEC hardware.
Others might object - but when it comes to the tourist industry, image is everything. Perhaps unfortunately, Arabic and Muslim countries are suffering from a major image problem in the west right now. Ironically, so too is the USA. Despite the dollar hitting record low exchange rates -- which would ordinarily make the USA a very attractive tourist destination -- tourism rates are down at least 17% since 9-11.
So I went and read through the next blog post, the one where he said Apple's lawyers flew out saturday night for a sunday meeting with him. That was enough for me to being to disbelieve.
However, I still say that such a scenario is entirely plausible. Having recently helped a friend lease a car and having seen the way the dealer's finance department works, I know that for less than $200 I could probably pull the same information together on just about anyone. My opinion of lawyers is so great that I have no problem believing that some of them would try to use such tactics.
BTW, I appreciate your apology. You are a bigger man than I.
Those little ads at the bottom of your emails from Yahoo (and msn) users are rather annoying. Recently hotmail has been putting this line on outgoing messages:
i'm is proud to present Cause Effect, a series about real people making a difference. Learn more
Apparently "i'm" is some sort of charity-sounding thing. But to the average reader, it looks like the sender just typoed "I'm proud to present..."
Personally, I hate the CF lights. They ALWAYS give me big pounding headaches. Presumably you have tried the bulbs with high-frequency ballasts? Regular ballasts oscillate at 1x or 2x mains frequency (60Hz or 120Hz in the USA), which causes flicker and headaches in some people. High-frequency ballasts oscillate faster than 20KHz which should be imperceptible to humans.
If you have been in any well-lit large public area recently, chances are it was lit with CFLs. I don't think I have seen one with regular incandescents for over two years. But, if you don't know what to look for, you probably won't even notice the difference (wear sunglasses so you can look at the bulbs directly and see if they are curly or not).
The practice of a more educated person would be: 'rank and prioritize. keep what is important. but KNOW what is important.' And of course, mainstream culture like 'Friends' is not important, despite being a shared experience of hundreds of millions of people world-wide, according to the previous poster. No one in charge of 'ranking' would ever make a biased decision now would they?
We can't just dedicate an ever-increasing amount of our resources to stockpiling more and more and ever more collected detris and information so that some day a century from now some Scientist will have 'raw data' to root through and justify his grant funding by sorting through. Actually, we can. The cost of 'stockpiling collected detritus and information' gets cheaper every day. And of course that useless scientist rooting through raw data to justify grant funding wouldn't be an attempt on your part to minimize the importance of a historical record. After all, the human race should just live in the now, forget anything unworthy of 'ranking' right?
In the biggest limitation was the cost of and access to publication. No, in the past the biggest limitation was the ability to recover any records at all. Ask any archaeologist about just how little of previous civilizations has survived through the centuries.
I'm not convinced we need to keep 90+% of youtube or Friends and similar crap for people to watch 100 years from now. We've already lost way more than 10x what we've kept of the web so far. It's easy to dismiss it as meaningless crap when you have no personal experience as a historian, but arguments from ignorance rarely hold any water.
Well mosty of it is crap anyway... so who cares? Crap or not, it is modern mainstream culture and thus needs to be preserved for historical purposes if nothing else.
My take on this is that Chuck isn't so much looking for a cut of the proceeds, but objects to the idea of somebody taking an Internet meme and attempting to sell it.
If that is the case, I'm behind him 100%. So, would you be against Leno doing a few Chuck Norris jokes in one of his opening monologues too?
You know how all those douchebags that like to say, "If you haven't done anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide?"
This is a perfect example of just how wrong-headed that approach is to privacy. None of the information that the lawyer dug up on Lyons is embarrassing or evidence of illegal activities. But the implied threat that a MegaCorp of essentially unlimited resources knows where you live and who is dear to you and wants you to know that they know is enough to convince many people to just give the MegaCorp whatever they want and be done with it.
That's bad on an individual level when it happens to regular joes. It's 1000x worse for society when it happens to people like journalists, whistle-blowers and politicians.
I do find your comment mightily amusing Good thing yer a know it all. Else the first hit in a google search for "Retention bonus" might have made you laugh yer ass off.
Retention bonuses are common in situations involving sick companies.
The idea behind them is that without the institutional knowledge that these people have, the company would die even quicker. Few people, including upper management want to stick around on a sinking ship, so in order to keep potentially valuable people from moving to a healthier company, they offer retention bonuses.
Obviously the hard part is sorting the wheat from chaff and only giving the bonuses to the useful people, at least the marginally useful. Seems to be that they just hand them out to everyone in upper management "just to be safe" which in the end may not be all that safe...
This article is almost identical to one from 1977, except that one said:
"More than twice as many Americans xeroxed themselves in 1976 than five years previous -- and many are xeroxing their friends and romantic interests as well, according to a report released recently by the Pew Copyrigh and American Life Project.
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Could they be any more ridiculous?
No one has ever been raped, beaten or contracted a sexually-transmitted disease on the internet.
Are they going to ban sex-offenders from using cell phones? From writing letters? From talking?
And of course, like all of the best in stupid legislation, these laws are essentially unenforceable. On the net, no one knows that you are a dog, or a convict.
And this is what the terrorists are really thinking.
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Kinda sucks that you have to keep seeing the same movie over and over again though.
This rule applies whether the product is 'bootleg' or just licensed differently (as are most movies, music and tv) because there really is no difference between the two as long as both are legal in the country of purchase.
What they aren't told is that parental kidnapping is by far the most common form of child abduction. Once you rule out parental kidnapping, voluntary runaways and kids who are kicked out of the home by their own parents, there are less than 300 cases per yer, nationwide.
Same thing with "America's Most Wanted" - look at all the bad guys out there and all the bad things they have done and might do to YOU and your family if you aren't fearful enough. Treat everyone with suspicion, always be on the look out for these evil-doers. Get them, before they strike again! The life you save may be your own!
And now big billboards telling everyone to be afraid. No thank you.
I am not afraid and I don't the kind of country where my neighbors are afraid either.
Any recommendations for good (and free, but not necessarily Free) music visualizers for Windows or maybe linux?
This is slashdot, so I'm sure no one will believe me, but I'm looking for something I can put on my projector and will look cool projected onto the bodies of drunk, semi-naked dancing girls. Yes, being semi-naked is not enough, they gotta have cool computer graphics on them to be interesting.
But there are other theories, theories that the anthropology community tend to find more plausible. One of them is that the trees were killed off by western introduced diseases, not the natives cutting them down to move big stone heads around.
Surprisingly, particularly for american politicians, they didn't realize that tourists can vote with their euros.
If you were, then you would have requirements for MIL-SPEC hardware.
So I went and read through the next blog post, the one where he said Apple's lawyers flew out saturday night for a sunday meeting with him. That was enough for me to being to disbelieve.
However, I still say that such a scenario is entirely plausible. Having recently helped a friend lease a car and having seen the way the dealer's finance department works, I know that for less than $200 I could probably pull the same information together on just about anyone. My opinion of lawyers is so great that I have no problem believing that some of them would try to use such tactics.
BTW, I appreciate your apology. You are a bigger man than I.
i'm is proud to present Cause Effect, a series about real people making a difference. Learn more
Apparently "i'm" is some sort of charity-sounding thing. But to the average reader, it looks like the sender just typoed "I'm proud to present..."
If you have been in any well-lit large public area recently, chances are it was lit with CFLs. I don't think I have seen one with regular incandescents for over two years. But, if you don't know what to look for, you probably won't even notice the difference (wear sunglasses so you can look at the bulbs directly and see if they are curly or not).
Perhaps you could cite where Lyons has said that Apple's lawyers did not really send him a list of his assets and close family?
I await the prick of your tack.
Doesn't Evangelos know that Wolfram is the Chuck Norris of Math?
Nobody disproves Chuck Norris and lives to publish about it!
If that is the case, I'm behind him 100%. So, would you be against Leno doing a few Chuck Norris jokes in one of his opening monologues too?
You know how all those douchebags that like to say, "If you haven't done anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide?"
This is a perfect example of just how wrong-headed that approach is to privacy. None of the information that the lawyer dug up on Lyons is embarrassing or evidence of illegal activities. But the implied threat that a MegaCorp of essentially unlimited resources knows where you live and who is dear to you and wants you to know that they know is enough to convince many people to just give the MegaCorp whatever they want and be done with it.
That's bad on an individual level when it happens to regular joes. It's 1000x worse for society when it happens to people like journalists, whistle-blowers and politicians.
Retention bonuses prove effective for companies in transition
Retention bonuses are common in situations involving sick companies.
The idea behind them is that without the institutional knowledge that these people have, the company would die even quicker. Few people, including upper management want to stick around on a sinking ship, so in order to keep potentially valuable people from moving to a healthier company, they offer retention bonuses.
Obviously the hard part is sorting the wheat from chaff and only giving the bonuses to the useful people, at least the marginally useful. Seems to be that they just hand them out to everyone in upper management "just to be safe" which in the end may not be all that safe...
This article is almost identical to one from 1977, except that one said:
"More than twice as many Americans xeroxed themselves in 1976 than five years previous -- and many are xeroxing their friends and romantic interests as well, according to a report released recently by the Pew Copyrigh and American Life Project.