Indeed it did. In fact, the last time I purchased new CDs was from some bands on mp3.com. Since then its been all used discs or piracy.
However, not all was so great with mp3.com. I ran one of those tools that analyze WAV files for signs of WAV->MP3->WAV conversions and it turns out that all of the CDs I bought from mp3.com were "upconverts" from 128Kbps mp3. And that was long before LAME got awesome - it may even have not existed back then, so I'm now stuck with crummy 128Kbps encodes. But that's better than not having any of that music at all.
Howabout the people elected to look out for the public interest take this opportunity to make sure that the lessons of the last decade or so are applied to any new spectrum licenses?
After all, if these businesses are desperate for what we have, we should use that leverage to negotiate the best possible deal. I'm thinking real net neutrality (not neutered neutrality), better inter-carrier interoperability (like all new spectrum must be used for only one type of signalling, say GSM only) and lets throw in a requirement that all phones which operate on the new spectrum can not be carrier-locked either. And that's in addition to what Google was able to wrangle on the last spectrum auction which required that the wireless telcos must also accept 3rd parrty devices on their networks.
When California passed laws limiting property taxes, local funds for schools decreased. They were never fully replaced with state funds. The problem is, sadly, democracy driven by greed. In California, laws can be made by referendum - direct voting by the people, who voted to keep their money and to hell with the school systems.
Except, that's not quite right. What actually happened was that property taxes were increasing roughly 20% per year. That was outrageous and some opportunists used that too hoodwink the public. The referendum that got passed froze property taxes at their current levels but required that they be re-assessed when the property was sold in order to maintain reasonable tax revenues.
The opportunism comes in when most businesses almost immediately spun-off their real-estate holding into seperate corps. That enabled them to sell the corporation instead of the property held by the corp, thus bypassing the requirement for a tax re-assesment on sale. Regular homeowners actually ended up taking up the slack through much higher re-assessments on sale while most businesses were able to buy and sell property and maintain a late 70s tax bill.
So, while law-by-referendum was a part of the process that screwed the state, what it really came down to was a loophole deliberately inserted into the law by people with too much influence and that, as we should all be well aware of by now, is hardly a unique problem.
Also as far as implementing this goes, there's no need to auto-detect commercials. just pay some mechanical Turk to do it. sounds like an easy job to watch say 8 hours of TV and mark the commercials. It's only 4 or 5 channels so that's like 20 people to pay.
Hell, the commercial breaks on just 4 channels of prime time can be tagged by just one guy if he has a tool that lets him fast-forward and rewind.
But even if there were some were calling them VAXen back then it's still wrong. It's just bad English.
My high-school english teacher, who was awarded state english teacher of the year on more than one occasion, taught his classes that "Language creates environment and environment creates language" - in other words, correct usage is defined by nothing more than whatever enough people say is the correct usage. And we had a cluster of microvaxen at my high-school too.
Now you have doubled the amount of time spent being scanned - remember the machines are intended to speed up the process. You've also doubled the amount of radiation exposure too.
It was sensitive enough to pick up my wallet in my back pocket which contained no metal other than what is found inside of credit cards and my Patco FreedomCard train pass. It also picked up my belt buckle... small and thin... not one of those WWF styles.
Notice that all of those things were on the front or back of your body. Anything on the side - where your body is not a backdrop to provide contrast - is practically invisible to the machine.
if those $90 million machines prevent just one terrorist plot that may not have been picked up by the previous generation of detectors, then it will have paid for itself multiple times over.
What if they don't make any difference at all? You know the TSA has not caught one single terrorist since the creation of the agency. Not one. They have, however, really decimated the dignity of the american traveler.
Pretty much every protester is considered a possible terrorist by the gov't today, and it's likely that most of the OWS protesters went in with the assumption that they were going to get a file opened on them.
And we are back to the 60s again when the FBI used to send people into churchs and other gatherings of non-violent organizations in order to spy on, and sometimes screw with, them. COINTELPRO shit. Pretty sad it only took ~35 years for them to start pulling the same stunts. We have some really short institutional memory.
Sure the muckity-mucks have more responsibility, but the front-line troops are their of there own free will. Giving them a free pass is to shit on all the people who did choose not to be a part of the TSA's war on dignity.
Yup, but it also means that Microsoft will (indirectly) be paying for that improvement. It's hard to see that as a bad thing.
True as long as the carbon credits are priced in the right ballpark.
The idea is to turn an externality (a cost to society at large) to something the "invisible hand" of the market will take care of fixing. As long as the market for carbon credits is well regulated it does not get any more libertarian than this.
The screener is just a person doing a job. They aren't a tyrant, they aren't a terrorist, and being rude to them personally serves no purpose except to satisfy your urge to be rude.
A person who has sought out a job where they wield authority without responsibility. While it may be futile and even personally inconveniet to reflect the pain they cause back on them, it does not make it unjust.
No, almost nobody thing Rosa Parks was an asshole.... I'm sure plenty thought her an asshole because her actions (or lack thereof) caused an incident, even if her actions in isolation were not asshole-ish.
Lol. Asshole is in the eye of the beholder. Just because you think the social norms being broken are unjust doesn't mean everyone thinks so. In fact, if that were the case, they wouldn't be social norms in the first place.
You didn't qualify "should" and I'm still not sure if your explanation really jibes with my point. Lots of people thought Rosa Parks was an asshole too.
I don't know if it is a real petition or not, but what I do know is it is a real SPAM list. Ever since signing it, they've been bombarding me with shit asking for money and their opt out doesn't seem to want to opt out.
Classic. Its like they want to live up to the stereotypical criticisms of libertarianism. WWARD? (What Would Ayn Rand Do?)
Which is why you should give them the same courtesy you should be giving any other person, even if you hate them.
It's amazing what a little courtesy can do. If money makes the world go 'round, then courtesy is the grease on the axle.
That's bullshit. Sure, it is the way of the world, but it is absolutely an abuse of authority whenever it happens and should never be condoned. This isn't about "hating" someone, it is about people in a position of power and responsibility making a decision on how to use that power in a irresponsible way -- As if a terrorist could never be courteous and polite.
That's like trying to blame medieval armorsmiths for not making chainmail protect against tasers.
At least two others have already said that chainmail probably does make a good defense against tasers. I wanted to say the same thing, but also offer up a modern example in Thor Shield fabric.
Unless I am totally mistaken, the people who view the scanner images aren't even within sight of the screening area, precisely for this reason (so people can't be forced through the scanner to satisfy the prurient interests of creeps.)
to avoid and anti privacy claims to use the car it will probably have clause in what ever you sign when you buy the car that you accept their tracking you.
While likely true, that doesn't immunize google, or anyone else, from criticism for doing it.
I'd pick javascript, which runs in the browser.... The java part of its name is deceptive. It is quite different than java, but the 90s Netscape folks figured that that imprecision would help adoption
It is still a better name than ECMAscript which I swear to god sounds like a skin disease.
It's not nearly powerful enough to do all of what they want to do. In order to achieve their goals they basically need to replace every personal service on the web. That would mean relocating a very large fraction of the processing power in the world to people's homes. You're not going to achieve that by putting a Raspberry Pi in every home.
That's a faulty conclusion. Given that the freedombox is intended as a personal, or at worst, family, system, it really isn't much of a compute load for the average case. Storage space is probably the more likely limiter.
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The original mp3.com site rocked.
Indeed it did. In fact, the last time I purchased new CDs was from some bands on mp3.com. Since then its been all used discs or piracy.
However, not all was so great with mp3.com. I ran one of those tools that analyze WAV files for signs of WAV->MP3->WAV conversions and it turns out that all of the CDs I bought from mp3.com were "upconverts" from 128Kbps mp3. And that was long before LAME got awesome - it may even have not existed back then, so I'm now stuck with crummy 128Kbps encodes. But that's better than not having any of that music at all.
And another person "goes galt" and escapes the looters.
Meanwhile thousands of people are applying for "investor visas" to acquire US citizenship.
Bunch of dummies those guys, each of them throwing away at least half-a-million on "reverse galts."
Howabout the people elected to look out for the public interest take this opportunity to make sure that the lessons of the last decade or so are applied to any new spectrum licenses?
After all, if these businesses are desperate for what we have, we should use that leverage to negotiate the best possible deal. I'm thinking real net neutrality (not neutered neutrality), better inter-carrier interoperability (like all new spectrum must be used for only one type of signalling, say GSM only) and lets throw in a requirement that all phones which operate on the new spectrum can not be carrier-locked either. And that's in addition to what Google was able to wrangle on the last spectrum auction which required that the wireless telcos must also accept 3rd parrty devices on their networks.
Prop 13 never applied to commercial real estate. But aside from that your post is correct (that would be the white space).
WTF you talkin bout, Willis?"
When California passed laws limiting property taxes, local funds for schools decreased. They were never fully replaced with state funds. The problem is, sadly, democracy driven by greed. In California, laws can be made by referendum - direct voting by the people, who voted to keep their money and to hell with the school systems.
Except, that's not quite right. What actually happened was that property taxes were increasing roughly 20% per year. That was outrageous and some opportunists used that too hoodwink the public. The referendum that got passed froze property taxes at their current levels but required that they be re-assessed when the property was sold in order to maintain reasonable tax revenues.
The opportunism comes in when most businesses almost immediately spun-off their real-estate holding into seperate corps. That enabled them to sell the corporation instead of the property held by the corp, thus bypassing the requirement for a tax re-assesment on sale. Regular homeowners actually ended up taking up the slack through much higher re-assessments on sale while most businesses were able to buy and sell property and maintain a late 70s tax bill.
So, while law-by-referendum was a part of the process that screwed the state, what it really came down to was a loophole deliberately inserted into the law by people with too much influence and that, as we should all be well aware of by now, is hardly a unique problem.
Also as far as implementing this goes, there's no need to auto-detect commercials. just pay some mechanical Turk to do it. sounds like an easy job to watch say 8 hours of TV and mark the commercials. It's only 4 or 5 channels so that's like 20 people to pay.
Hell, the commercial breaks on just 4 channels of prime time can be tagged by just one guy if he has a tool that lets him fast-forward and rewind.
Turn about is fair play
I'll see you one aphorism and raise you another.
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
I also go back that far, and I believe it's an anachronism. We called them VAXes back then, not VANen. They *xen meme smells more 1990s than 1970s
Here are about 25 usenet posts from 1981 that use the term VAXen.
But even if there were some were calling them VAXen back then it's still wrong. It's just bad English.
My high-school english teacher, who was awarded state english teacher of the year on more than one occasion, taught his classes that "Language creates environment and environment creates language" - in other words, correct usage is defined by nothing more than whatever enough people say is the correct usage. And we had a cluster of microvaxen at my high-school too.
"Face left."
Problem solved; give me $90m.
Now you have doubled the amount of time spent being scanned - remember the machines are intended to speed up the process. You've also doubled the amount of radiation exposure too.
Nobody is saying give them a free pass to shit on people.
Right, nobody is saying that. Not even me. Go back and read what I wrote again.
It was sensitive enough to pick up my wallet in my back pocket which contained no metal other than what is found inside of credit cards and my Patco FreedomCard train pass. It also picked up my belt buckle... small and thin... not one of those WWF styles.
Notice that all of those things were on the front or back of your body. Anything on the side - where your body is not a backdrop to provide contrast - is practically invisible to the machine.
if those $90 million machines prevent just one terrorist plot that may not have been picked up by the previous generation of detectors, then it will have paid for itself multiple times over.
What if they don't make any difference at all? You know the TSA has not caught one single terrorist since the creation of the agency. Not one. They have, however, really decimated the dignity of the american traveler.
Pretty much every protester is considered a possible terrorist by the gov't today, and it's likely that most of the OWS protesters went in with the assumption that they were going to get a file opened on them.
And we are back to the 60s again when the FBI used to send people into churchs and other gatherings of non-violent organizations in order to spy on, and sometimes screw with, them. COINTELPRO shit. Pretty sad it only took ~35 years for them to start pulling the same stunts. We have some really short institutional memory.
Sure the muckity-mucks have more responsibility, but the front-line troops are their of there own free will. Giving them a free pass is to shit on all the people who did choose not to be a part of the TSA's war on dignity.
Yup, but it also means that Microsoft will (indirectly) be paying for that improvement. It's hard to see that as a bad thing.
True as long as the carbon credits are priced in the right ballpark.
The idea is to turn an externality (a cost to society at large) to something the "invisible hand" of the market will take care of fixing. As long as the market for carbon credits is well regulated it does not get any more libertarian than this.
The screener is just a person doing a job. They aren't a tyrant, they aren't a terrorist, and being rude to them personally serves no purpose except to satisfy your urge to be rude.
A person who has sought out a job where they wield authority without responsibility. While it may be futile and even personally inconveniet to reflect the pain they cause back on them, it does not make it unjust.
No, almost nobody thing Rosa Parks was an asshole. ... I'm sure plenty thought her an asshole because her actions (or lack thereof) caused an incident, even if her actions in isolation were not asshole-ish.
Lol. Asshole is in the eye of the beholder. Just because you think the social norms being broken are unjust doesn't mean everyone thinks so. In fact, if that were the case, they wouldn't be social norms in the first place.
You didn't qualify "should" and I'm still not sure if your explanation really jibes with my point. Lots of people thought Rosa Parks was an asshole too.
I don't know if it is a real petition or not, but what I do know is it is a real SPAM list. Ever since signing it, they've been bombarding me with shit asking for money and their opt out doesn't seem to want to opt out.
Classic. Its like they want to live up to the stereotypical criticisms of libertarianism. WWARD? (What Would Ayn Rand Do?)
Which is why you should give them the same courtesy you should be giving any other person, even if you hate them.
It's amazing what a little courtesy can do. If money makes the world go 'round, then courtesy is the grease on the axle.
That's bullshit. Sure, it is the way of the world, but it is absolutely an abuse of authority whenever it happens and should never be condoned. This isn't about "hating" someone, it is about people in a position of power and responsibility making a decision on how to use that power in a irresponsible way -- As if a terrorist could never be courteous and polite.
That's like trying to blame medieval armorsmiths for not making chainmail protect against tasers.
At least two others have already said that chainmail probably does make a good defense against tasers.
I wanted to say the same thing, but also offer up a modern example in Thor Shield fabric.
Unless I am totally mistaken, the people who view the scanner images aren't even within sight of the screening area, precisely for this reason (so people can't be forced through the scanner to satisfy the prurient interests of creeps.)
Indeed. However the easiest way around it is for people in the booth to have friends that pick who to scan, rescan and rescan again.
She is a teenager. I bet they bullied her into "voluntarily" going through the scanner.
to avoid and anti privacy claims to use the car it will probably have clause in what ever you sign when you buy the car that you accept their tracking you.
While likely true, that doesn't immunize google, or anyone else, from criticism for doing it.
I'd pick javascript, which runs in the browser. ... The java part of its name is deceptive. It is quite different than java, but the 90s Netscape folks figured that that imprecision would help adoption
It is still a better name than ECMAscript which I swear to god sounds like a skin disease.
It's not nearly powerful enough to do all of what they want to do. In order to achieve their goals they basically need to replace every personal service on the web. That would mean relocating a very large fraction of the processing power in the world to people's homes. You're not going to achieve that by putting a Raspberry Pi in every home.
That's a faulty conclusion. Given that the freedombox is intended as a personal, or at worst, family, system, it really isn't much of a compute load for the average case. Storage space is probably the more likely limiter.