Reasonable, yes, but legally workable not really, at least according to Sony. The sony eula says you must destroy any and all fair use copies of the music you possess, if you are no longer in possession of the actual cd. What a concept, your car gets robbed, you get cds stolen and then SONY makes you delete any copies you may have. I'd love to see it in court.
MMales in the US are too self conscious to carry around hand bags, because they resemble womens' purses http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~creswell/manpurse.html I used to carry a fanny/belt pack whenever I was travelling, but my wife finally refused to go places with me if I wore it. The only workable suggestion I can give is some sort of a manly camera bag with lots of pockets and straps, such as something from http://lowepro.com/
I can agree entirely that what is obscene to me is porn to the next guy, but there must be a line somewhere. For example, are actual snuff films porn or obscene? What about porn depicting an adult having sex with a three year old child? Not that I claim to know where we should draw the line, but the definition of obscene can not be entirely relativistic.
I remember many nights where I moved my patterned armies across a world the size of a mac se's screen in my sleep. I remember always waking up when I captured Greenland, Kamchatka, and Central America.
I agree with the sentiment, but there is a correlation between strict gun control regulations and lowered crime. Look at Japan or Great Britain, if you utterly ban all guns with draconian laws, there will be lower gun crime rates. Our mish-mash of laws in the US have made it so that it is easier for criminals to have guns than average citizens. If you trample the Constitution utterly banning all firearms, then there will be less gun crimes. Likewise, if you are concerned about violent videogames, and you think that they are an actually serious issue, you should ban them entirely. This "think if the children" mentality will do nothing to make anyone safer and is only pandering to the public perception that video games are bad.
Great, IBM won't discriminate based on genetic makeup, but they will plaster RFID tags to track you in museums, shopping malls, etc. Big Blue sounds more and more like Big Brother. The very fact that they say they won't discriminate makes me believe that they will indeed be looking at employees genetic makeup.
The grocery store comes close now, I agree. But at least their data snooping is still nominally opt-in. Just pay cash and don't use a grocery savings card, then there is no trace of what you specifically did. Of course you don't get the savings or the double coupons, etc., and you do have to pay cash, but the store deosn't get the data. I look at that as an equal trade off.
Off-road driving is more difficult in that there is no regular terrain pattern to follow. If you were on a paved road, or even a cart path, the task would be much easier. Off-road you have to gauge the depth of ruts and holes, the softness of sand, the grade, random obstacles, etc. I agree that the sensing of these things is probably the number one problem, but it is no easy task to deal with them once they have been sensed.
This has already happened, witness the "Real ID Act". Ostensibly to streamline drivers' licenses, this act is described as "To establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, and to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence.' It was attached to HR 1268, which was a nescessary spending bill to fund troops in Iraq. No one has woke up yet it apears.
In junior high school my best friend and I sat next to each other. We were given weekly spelling tests, and for grading we were supposed to hand them to teh person next to us. We worked out a system where, if both of us got something wrong, we marked it correct, but if one of us made more errors, he got graded down. We thought we were so slick - until we realized that we never got a spelling grade. They counted for nothing.
The corporation involved is Not the UAC, but a joint venture between ACME and OMNI. They hope to mine 20,000 credits of galaxite once they transform their headquarters.
The Federal Government can't mobilize troops until the State requests it AND the President authorises it. It may be fucked up, but if Louisiana never asked and the President didn't authorise it then no dice. Also, New Orleans held up pretty well the first day. The flooding did not come as a direct result of the storm surge. Now the LA National Guard SHOULD have been mobilized.Also, there can't be much of a comparison with a natural disaster of this magnitude and a well funded and intelligent, and even numerous group of people. Yes, the people could do a lot of damage, but the extent and geographic expanse of devastation of Katrina could not be matched. e.g. they could take out New Orleans, but not damage the LOOP, all other oil structures, and the Missippi Guld Coast too
One of the most eloquent explanations I have yet seen. But there is an additional side, expecially with regards to gasoline. Disaster strikes, the station is on allocation and can't get the normal amount that they sell. You raise the price to prevent the unnecessary purchases. This is in effect rationing, which preserves the supply.
What I find even more humorous is commenting on the lack of humour in the Monty Python thread, with a comment that sounds like a Monty Python quote itself!
Sorry for being obtuse, but what I am saying is that even if you "could" easily read right behind the entire scratch off foil, it would be a big waste of time to manually view each image. The return for your time wouldn't be worth it, because there is a low percentage of winners and they are more difficult to read than a simple PIN number. Automating the process with some sort of OCR would be a tough project because the tickets aren't regular. The tickets all have differnt layouts, and unless you had samples of the big winners you wouldn't know what to scan for. I am not saying that this couldn't be done, just saying that I can't see it being feasible.
The part of the ticket covered in scratch off material doesn't really tell you too much. You would have to scan the entire ticket and know exactly what you are looking for, e.g. ten horse shoe shapes or numbers that match other numbers in a set area or winning poker hands. Some hardcore lottery players only scratch a small which has a three letter code. This three letter code is placed in a different spot on each "brand" of ticket, and will tell the player if they are a winner. It might be possible to view that, but for winners over $500.00 the code is a "losing" combination. The lottery also bills you for the tickets when 3/4 of the winners for that book have been cashed. Since the books return more to teh state than they pay out - the store would be paying out more money immediately, until they sold teh rest of the book. It would seem that this would be about as valuable as making counterfiet $1.00 bills.
Not in Massachusetts at least - it is the barcode on teh back of the ticket that determines whether the ticket is a winner. The authorization machine at teh store scans the ticket. If teh machine scans more than two losing tickets in a 24 hour period it automatically shuts off until a lottery employee turns it back on.
As you decrease presure you can get water to boil, now the fun part happens if this reaction occurs in a vaccuum. As the water is boiling, it will start to freeze. You reach the triple point where the water is a gas, a liquid, and a solid all at the same time.
Antibiotics aren't addictive, but they are abused. There is credible evidence that the overuse in antibiotics has led to an increase in aggresive ear infections in children. I agree that an intelligent person can and should be able to treat themselves. But come on, can anyone call a person who responds to spam intelligent?
Back in the day, when I could finally get another ISP, I called up AOL and said that I was getting pornographic email and that someone had stolen my screen name to send child pornography. I think I said something about moral outrage and that I was going to pray for all the people who work at AOL because they were minions of the devil. That story worked and I was never billed again.
In 1994, when I left grad school I wanted email. I used my powerbook to dial up to Apple's online service. The service was absobed into AOL, so that's where I ended up. I agree that AOL's exorbitant fee kept their service civil, but the exorbitant fee that cut out the crap was $4.95 per hour. When you had to pay that much, you took things seriously. At the time I knew people who had $300.00 a month AOL habits. Ironically, what casued the "internet" to become popular was AOL's unlimited plan. But with popularity comes crap.
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Reasonable, yes, but legally workable not really, at least according to Sony. The sony eula says you must destroy any and all fair use copies of the music you possess, if you are no longer in possession of the actual cd. What a concept, your car gets robbed, you get cds stolen and then SONY makes you delete any copies you may have. I'd love to see it in court.
MMales in the US are too self conscious to carry around hand bags, because they resemble womens' purses http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~creswell/manpurse.html I used to carry a fanny/belt pack whenever I was travelling, but my wife finally refused to go places with me if I wore it. The only workable suggestion I can give is some sort of a manly camera bag with lots of pockets and straps, such as something from http://lowepro.com/
I can agree entirely that what is obscene to me is porn to the next guy, but there must be a line somewhere. For example, are actual snuff films porn or obscene? What about porn depicting an adult having sex with a three year old child? Not that I claim to know where we should draw the line, but the definition of obscene can not be entirely relativistic.
I remember many nights where I moved my patterned armies across a world the size of a mac se's screen in my sleep. I remember always waking up when I captured Greenland, Kamchatka, and Central America.
I agree with the sentiment, but there is a correlation between strict gun control regulations and lowered crime. Look at Japan or Great Britain, if you utterly ban all guns with draconian laws, there will be lower gun crime rates. Our mish-mash of laws in the US have made it so that it is easier for criminals to have guns than average citizens. If you trample the Constitution utterly banning all firearms, then there will be less gun crimes. Likewise, if you are concerned about violent videogames, and you think that they are an actually serious issue, you should ban them entirely. This "think if the children" mentality will do nothing to make anyone safer and is only pandering to the public perception that video games are bad.
Great, IBM won't discriminate based on genetic makeup, but they will plaster RFID tags to track you in museums, shopping malls, etc. Big Blue sounds more and more like Big Brother. The very fact that they say they won't discriminate makes me believe that they will indeed be looking at employees genetic makeup.
The grocery store comes close now, I agree. But at least their data snooping is still nominally opt-in. Just pay cash and don't use a grocery savings card, then there is no trace of what you specifically did. Of course you don't get the savings or the double coupons, etc., and you do have to pay cash, but the store deosn't get the data. I look at that as an equal trade off.
Off-road driving is more difficult in that there is no regular terrain pattern to follow. If you were on a paved road, or even a cart path, the task would be much easier. Off-road you have to gauge the depth of ruts and holes, the softness of sand, the grade, random obstacles, etc. I agree that the sensing of these things is probably the number one problem, but it is no easy task to deal with them once they have been sensed.
This has already happened, witness the "Real ID Act". Ostensibly to streamline drivers' licenses, this act is described as "To establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, and to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence.' It was attached to HR 1268, which was a nescessary spending bill to fund troops in Iraq. No one has woke up yet it apears.
In junior high school my best friend and I sat next to each other. We were given weekly spelling tests, and for grading we were supposed to hand them to teh person next to us. We worked out a system where, if both of us got something wrong, we marked it correct, but if one of us made more errors, he got graded down. We thought we were so slick - until we realized that we never got a spelling grade. They counted for nothing.
The corporation involved is Not the UAC, but a joint venture between ACME and OMNI. They hope to mine 20,000 credits of galaxite once they transform their headquarters.
damn those pesky links try http://www.computeraddiction.com/
Maclean Hospital in Boston, affliated with Harvard Med School, has a department devoted to computer addiction http://computeraddiction.com/
The Federal Government can't mobilize troops until the State requests it AND the President authorises it. It may be fucked up, but if Louisiana never asked and the President didn't authorise it then no dice. Also, New Orleans held up pretty well the first day. The flooding did not come as a direct result of the storm surge. Now the LA National Guard SHOULD have been mobilized.Also, there can't be much of a comparison with a natural disaster of this magnitude and a well funded and intelligent, and even numerous group of people. Yes, the people could do a lot of damage, but the extent and geographic expanse of devastation of Katrina could not be matched. e.g. they could take out New Orleans, but not damage the LOOP, all other oil structures, and the Missippi Guld Coast too
One of the most eloquent explanations I have yet seen. But there is an additional side, expecially with regards to gasoline. Disaster strikes, the station is on allocation and can't get the normal amount that they sell. You raise the price to prevent the unnecessary purchases. This is in effect rationing, which preserves the supply.
What I find even more humorous is commenting on the lack of humour in the Monty Python thread, with a comment that sounds like a Monty Python quote itself!
But she has HUGE ... tracts of land
Sorry for being obtuse, but what I am saying is that even if you "could" easily read right behind the entire scratch off foil, it would be a big waste of time to manually view each image. The return for your time wouldn't be worth it, because there is a low percentage of winners and they are more difficult to read than a simple PIN number. Automating the process with some sort of OCR would be a tough project because the tickets aren't regular. The tickets all have differnt layouts, and unless you had samples of the big winners you wouldn't know what to scan for. I am not saying that this couldn't be done, just saying that I can't see it being feasible.
The part of the ticket covered in scratch off material doesn't really tell you too much. You would have to scan the entire ticket and know exactly what you are looking for, e.g. ten horse shoe shapes or numbers that match other numbers in a set area or winning poker hands. Some hardcore lottery players only scratch a small which has a three letter code. This three letter code is placed in a different spot on each "brand" of ticket, and will tell the player if they are a winner. It might be possible to view that, but for winners over $500.00 the code is a "losing" combination. The lottery also bills you for the tickets when 3/4 of the winners for that book have been cashed. Since the books return more to teh state than they pay out - the store would be paying out more money immediately, until they sold teh rest of the book. It would seem that this would be about as valuable as making counterfiet $1.00 bills.
Not in Massachusetts at least - it is the barcode on teh back of the ticket that determines whether the ticket is a winner. The authorization machine at teh store scans the ticket. If teh machine scans more than two losing tickets in a 24 hour period it automatically shuts off until a lottery employee turns it back on.
As you decrease presure you can get water to boil, now the fun part happens if this reaction occurs in a vaccuum. As the water is boiling, it will start to freeze. You reach the triple point where the water is a gas, a liquid, and a solid all at the same time.
Antibiotics aren't addictive, but they are abused. There is credible evidence that the overuse in antibiotics has led to an increase in aggresive ear infections in children. I agree that an intelligent person can and should be able to treat themselves. But come on, can anyone call a person who responds to spam intelligent?
The scripts were all for use at the spammers own pharmacy
Back in the day, when I could finally get another ISP, I called up AOL and said that I was getting pornographic email and that someone had stolen my screen name to send child pornography. I think I said something about moral outrage and that I was going to pray for all the people who work at AOL because they were minions of the devil. That story worked and I was never billed again.
In 1994, when I left grad school I wanted email. I used my powerbook to dial up to Apple's online service. The service was absobed into AOL, so that's where I ended up. I agree that AOL's exorbitant fee kept their service civil, but the exorbitant fee that cut out the crap was $4.95 per hour. When you had to pay that much, you took things seriously. At the time I knew people who had $300.00 a month AOL habits. Ironically, what casued the "internet" to become popular was AOL's unlimited plan. But with popularity comes crap.