Again, the DoE's projections indicate zero effect on oil production or prices for the next 9 years, and "insignificant" effect after that.
Your "facts" don't matter. It's much more comforting to believe that drilling like a madman will reduce gas prices to $1.25/gal. We'll believe that instead.
This embarrassment is why we need the grownups back in charge.
The votes of grownups are diluted by ignorants who don't understand the first thing of global markets or oil drilling.
I'm missing the story other than Boehner and gang are trying to make a fuss about nothing.
The motion to adjourn passed, so the Speaker banged the gavel and they went home. Am I supposed to think that the Democrats are somehow disregarding the rules of the House and refusing to let Republicans speak?
I am most motivated when there are expectations of me
See I'm just the opposite. If someone is riding me like Seattle Slew, I'm going to get really bogged down in my work, get pissy, try to take a few extra minutes on lunch, and other petty things.
If I'm given the perks and "me time" I'll probably end up using the "me time" to actually do something work related. It was the same thing when I was in CS classes. I didn't want to do any of my assignments, but when I was on break, I was downloading source like crazy and reading it so I could be a better coder. Truth-in-advertising: it didn't take; I'm an atrocious programmer.
It seems like if an authority figure tells me to do X, I absolutely hate doing X, but if he leaves me to my own devices, I love X, and will also get Y and Z done in record speed.
Not exactly. If the fine for dumping is less than the cost of not dumping, it is still unlikely that you would choose to dump. Consumer backlash from hearing that you were fined for illegal dumping means that consumers choose to purchase product from your competitors.
I'll give you that, but the "lost business" is damn-near negligible. How many people here decided to go back to dial-up after they heard their ISP was throttling their torrents? Every large business does something that their customers don't like, but their customers don't have the fortitude to take their money elsewhere.
I agree with you 100% when there is an actual free market at work, but there almost never is.
Large businesses use the Fight Club methodology:
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
The smaller ones usually have a conscience.
Let's go through your post, which you blindly throw up on message boards (I've seen it here multiple times, and its still misguided)
Let's not. I haven't posted this "blindly", and unless you stalk me, you don't know where else I post. I'll admit I've posted something similar when warranted, but not as much as you'd like to pretend.
Either way your reply looks like it wasted a lot of your time, so it's a net gain for me.
The timing of this indictment means it is far more likely that Stevens will lose the primary next month
Not bloody likely. There are 3 other Republicans running against Stevens. If he stays in the race, the anti-Stevens vote will be split among the other 3, and Stevens will win.
The Alaska Republican Party is in shambles right now. Just about every high-ranking member is under investigation for one thing or another as always happens when one party dominates a government for too long a time. Begich will win and face a tough re-election in 2014 once the Republicans can regroup.
Or what should the federal government do if the states refuse to act on what is arguably a set of legitimate needs?
Not a damn thing.
If the states are derelict in their responsibility then the citizens of those states can vote in a new state government. If they continue to vote in an irresponsible government that doesn't attend to their needs, then I'm not shedding a tear. People tend to get the government they deserve.
The only time the Feds have an obligation to intervene is when the states are abridging the rights of the citizens of the United States. A state's minority not getting what they want is does not give carte blanche to the Feds to "remedy" the situation.
I was reading along and nodding my head. Many companies have pensions that are too generous.
Then I came to this line:
That is why 401k's are better [than pensions]- you know what you are getting.
And if I were drinking something, you'd have owed me a new keyboard.
Pensions are usually defined benefit and are much, much safer than 401(k) plans. The latter is subject to market fluctuation.
Now, obviously if the company administering your pension is insolvent, then you're boned. No doubt about it. The same is true if your 401(k) investments tank. Pensions tend to be minimally insured, while 401(k)s certainly aren't.
You might as well have said "That is why putting all your money stocks is better [than a savings account]- you know what you are getting." Even if your bank is insolvent, you've got insurance to back up your savings. Buying a bunch of Countrywide stock is certainly the riskier don't-know-what-you're-getting investment.
But then again I could be wrong. 401(k) plans are being insured through the back door by government bailouts. By the time us youngsters retire, we may have insured 401(k) plans.
Actually, if this case is like many of the others, and the RIAA has proof that she distributed the song to Media Sentry, then they have proof that she distributed the content to 1 other person, a single copy right violation.
Copyright infringement attaches to the number of works distributed, not the number of copies made (except when escalating to criminal infringement).
Putting aside criminal infringement for the moment, it does not matter how many copies you distribute. That is to say, if I illegally distributed "Bananaphone" by Raffi 1,000 times I'm on the hook for one count of infringement. If I distribute "Bananaphone" by Raffi and "Stinkfist" by Tool one time each, that's two counts.
Granted, but it would depend on your definition of "Operating System".
I don't consider a window manager or an office suite to be an essential part of the operating system. They are certainly useful programs, but they aren't part of the OS.
Demanding Linux be called GNU/Linux even makes linux users not like the FSF very much.
RMS has a decent point there.
To me the name really isn't that important. What is important is giving credit where credit is due. I've had people tell me straight faced that Linus Torvalds wrote the entire "Linux Operating System" all the way from the kernel to gcc to bash. This is obviously wrong, and such misinformation comes from lazy journalists and editors who play fast and loose with the facts.
Call the operating system whatever you want, but when I read in articles that "Linus Torvalds created the Linux operating system" I cringe a bit. He arguably popularized it more than anyone else, and he created a very important part of it, but he didn't create it any more than Goodyear created my car.
I support the FSF and FOSS as much as the next guy but RMS needs to learn that this is going to take awhile. And even then, not everyone is going to agree with him once they've heard his views.
Granted, but Gizmo5 is only a software program that interfaces with the SIP-based network. You can (and I have) used Ekiga as the software front-end that works with an account.
The only downside is that there isn't any encryption, so it'd be pretty trivial to bug.
When fines get so large that consumers are negatively affected, they often get reduced such that the producer learns the mistake that was made and consumers have a chance to react to the inevitable changes that are coming.
Or the producer figured out that they could make more in profits by flouting a law than the actual penalty.
Let's put it this way, if I can save $1,000,000 by dumping my company's waste byproducts in the local river and the fine for illegal dumping is less than $1,000,000, the smart business decision is to dump in the local river. Better yet, I can just contribute to my local politician's campaign to the tune of a few thousand dollars and buy a law that allows me to dump in the river for free.
Fines for violating laws must be punitive in nature otherwise they're just another cost of doing business.
No, it wouldn't have been $4, but it'd probably be around $3.75.
If we'd have opened up leases offshore and in ANWR at a time that would have made a dent in price, perhaps you may be right about gas prices. The leases would have needed to be issued about 10 years ago, when a barrel of oil was hovering around $20 (inflation-adjusted). The oil companies would have sat on these leases until...around now, which would still give us a good wait of 5 years for these places to come online and start producing oil.
Sir, you need to face the fact that there isn't going to be much more supply no matter how much we drill. Oil has very inelastic demand, so it's going to have to go up quite a bit more in order to balance out the supply-demand equation.
As I'm sure you know, oil is a global market. Adding a few million barrels of oil here and there isn't going to impact the price much at all. I'm more than willing to allow drilling everywhere and anywhere just so I can see the looks on the faces of the "OMG DRILL IN ANWR AND GAS WILL BE $1.25" crowd when prices adjust few percent at best.
Generally speaking snail mail is a bad idea. There are still large delays in getting the mail to your congressmen due to security restrictions.
Faxing is a better way to go, but a simple phone call is also good. The staffers will usually tally the for/against for a particular bill and give that information to your congressman.
Intellectual property legislation introduced in the Senate on Thursday would combine elements of two controversial IP enforcement bills: The PRO-IP Act, which passed the House by a wide margin in May, and the PIRATE Act, which has won Senate approval several times since its first introduction in 2004.
In fact it was the first sentence.
The Senators are trying to tie their PIRATE legislation to the already popular PRO-IP legislation that passed the house.
At this point we're talking about semantics. I don't disagree with anything you just said.
I could even go on and say that the government very rarely restricts speech because prior restraint is generally frowned upon. It all goes to the definitions of "restrict" and "government".
Rules of games aren't copyrightable (well the actual text of the rules are, but not the rules themselves), but they are patentable. I believe Scrabble had been patented (like Monopoly) but the patent has long since expired.
IANAL, and I don't use Scrabulous, so I can't say if they are infringing on board layout or some other copyrightable effect. They probably have a good case on trademark though, Scrabulous is pretty close to Scrabble. I don't think I can get away with a car company called Generalized Motors.
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Your "facts" don't matter. It's much more comforting to believe that drilling like a madman will reduce gas prices to $1.25/gal. We'll believe that instead.
The votes of grownups are diluted by ignorants who don't understand the first thing of global markets or oil drilling.
I'm missing the story other than Boehner and gang are trying to make a fuss about nothing.
The motion to adjourn passed, so the Speaker banged the gavel and they went home. Am I supposed to think that the Democrats are somehow disregarding the rules of the House and refusing to let Republicans speak?
See I'm just the opposite. If someone is riding me like Seattle Slew, I'm going to get really bogged down in my work, get pissy, try to take a few extra minutes on lunch, and other petty things.
If I'm given the perks and "me time" I'll probably end up using the "me time" to actually do something work related. It was the same thing when I was in CS classes. I didn't want to do any of my assignments, but when I was on break, I was downloading source like crazy and reading it so I could be a better coder. Truth-in-advertising: it didn't take; I'm an atrocious programmer.
It seems like if an authority figure tells me to do X, I absolutely hate doing X, but if he leaves me to my own devices, I love X, and will also get Y and Z done in record speed.
I'll give you that, but the "lost business" is damn-near negligible. How many people here decided to go back to dial-up after they heard their ISP was throttling their torrents? Every large business does something that their customers don't like, but their customers don't have the fortitude to take their money elsewhere.
I agree with you 100% when there is an actual free market at work, but there almost never is.
Large businesses use the Fight Club methodology:
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
The smaller ones usually have a conscience.
Let's not. I haven't posted this "blindly", and unless you stalk me, you don't know where else I post. I'll admit I've posted something similar when warranted, but not as much as you'd like to pretend.
Either way your reply looks like it wasted a lot of your time, so it's a net gain for me.
Who's the Alaska Independence Party running? :-)
Not bloody likely. There are 3 other Republicans running against Stevens. If he stays in the race, the anti-Stevens vote will be split among the other 3, and Stevens will win.
The Alaska Republican Party is in shambles right now. Just about every high-ranking member is under investigation for one thing or another as always happens when one party dominates a government for too long a time. Begich will win and face a tough re-election in 2014 once the Republicans can regroup.
Wow, you must have some serious perception skills because I couldn't determine the ideology of Dekortage by his comment.
Not a damn thing.
If the states are derelict in their responsibility then the citizens of those states can vote in a new state government. If they continue to vote in an irresponsible government that doesn't attend to their needs, then I'm not shedding a tear. People tend to get the government they deserve.
The only time the Feds have an obligation to intervene is when the states are abridging the rights of the citizens of the United States. A state's minority not getting what they want is does not give carte blanche to the Feds to "remedy" the situation.
I was reading along and nodding my head. Many companies have pensions that are too generous.
Then I came to this line:
That is why 401k's are better [than pensions]- you know what you are getting.
And if I were drinking something, you'd have owed me a new keyboard.
Pensions are usually defined benefit and are much, much safer than 401(k) plans. The latter is subject to market fluctuation.
Now, obviously if the company administering your pension is insolvent, then you're boned. No doubt about it. The same is true if your 401(k) investments tank. Pensions tend to be minimally insured, while 401(k)s certainly aren't.
You might as well have said "That is why putting all your money stocks is better [than a savings account]- you know what you are getting." Even if your bank is insolvent, you've got insurance to back up your savings. Buying a bunch of Countrywide stock is certainly the riskier don't-know-what-you're-getting investment.
But then again I could be wrong. 401(k) plans are being insured through the back door by government bailouts. By the time us youngsters retire, we may have insured 401(k) plans.
Copyright infringement attaches to the number of works distributed, not the number of copies made (except when escalating to criminal infringement).
Putting aside criminal infringement for the moment, it does not matter how many copies you distribute. That is to say, if I illegally distributed "Bananaphone" by Raffi 1,000 times I'm on the hook for one count of infringement. If I distribute "Bananaphone" by Raffi and "Stinkfist" by Tool one time each, that's two counts.
Granted, but it would depend on your definition of "Operating System".
I don't consider a window manager or an office suite to be an essential part of the operating system. They are certainly useful programs, but they aren't part of the OS.
A friend of mine made a very poignant comment on Apple's marketing tactics.
"Apple doesn't sell computers, they sell a way of life."
That's exactly right. Apple doesn't sell technology, they sell popular culture.
RMS has a decent point there.
To me the name really isn't that important. What is important is giving credit where credit is due. I've had people tell me straight faced that Linus Torvalds wrote the entire "Linux Operating System" all the way from the kernel to gcc to bash. This is obviously wrong, and such misinformation comes from lazy journalists and editors who play fast and loose with the facts.
Call the operating system whatever you want, but when I read in articles that "Linus Torvalds created the Linux operating system" I cringe a bit. He arguably popularized it more than anyone else, and he created a very important part of it, but he didn't create it any more than Goodyear created my car.
No shit.
I support the FSF and FOSS as much as the next guy but RMS needs to learn that this is going to take awhile. And even then, not everyone is going to agree with him once they've heard his views.
Baby steps, Richard, baby steps.
Granted, but Gizmo5 is only a software program that interfaces with the SIP-based network. You can (and I have) used Ekiga as the software front-end that works with an account.
The only downside is that there isn't any encryption, so it'd be pretty trivial to bug.
Or the producer figured out that they could make more in profits by flouting a law than the actual penalty.
Let's put it this way, if I can save $1,000,000 by dumping my company's waste byproducts in the local river and the fine for illegal dumping is less than $1,000,000, the smart business decision is to dump in the local river. Better yet, I can just contribute to my local politician's campaign to the tune of a few thousand dollars and buy a law that allows me to dump in the river for free.
Fines for violating laws must be punitive in nature otherwise they're just another cost of doing business.
No, it wouldn't have been $4, but it'd probably be around $3.75.
If we'd have opened up leases offshore and in ANWR at a time that would have made a dent in price, perhaps you may be right about gas prices. The leases would have needed to be issued about 10 years ago, when a barrel of oil was hovering around $20 (inflation-adjusted). The oil companies would have sat on these leases until...around now, which would still give us a good wait of 5 years for these places to come online and start producing oil.
Sir, you need to face the fact that there isn't going to be much more supply no matter how much we drill. Oil has very inelastic demand, so it's going to have to go up quite a bit more in order to balance out the supply-demand equation.
As I'm sure you know, oil is a global market. Adding a few million barrels of oil here and there isn't going to impact the price much at all. I'm more than willing to allow drilling everywhere and anywhere just so I can see the looks on the faces of the "OMG DRILL IN ANWR AND GAS WILL BE $1.25" crowd when prices adjust few percent at best.
Generally speaking snail mail is a bad idea. There are still large delays in getting the mail to your congressmen due to security restrictions.
Faxing is a better way to go, but a simple phone call is also good. The staffers will usually tally the for/against for a particular bill and give that information to your congressman.
From TFA:
Intellectual property legislation introduced in the Senate on Thursday would combine elements of two controversial IP enforcement bills: The PRO-IP Act, which passed the House by a wide margin in May, and the PIRATE Act, which has won Senate approval several times since its first introduction in 2004.
In fact it was the first sentence.
The Senators are trying to tie their PIRATE legislation to the already popular PRO-IP legislation that passed the house.
At this point we're talking about semantics. I don't disagree with anything you just said.
I could even go on and say that the government very rarely restricts speech because prior restraint is generally frowned upon. It all goes to the definitions of "restrict" and "government".
Actually, I do.
What was the bet?
Beat me to it.
I always say when certain undesirable people kick the bucket, I wish there was a hell so people like them could go to it.
Actually the government isn't doing much restricting at all since libel is a civil action rather than a criminal one.
You can say pretty much whatever you want about someone and never see the inside of a jail cell.
If you'd have RTFA, you'd have noticed they are suing for copyright and trademark infringement.
Apparently, Scrabulous is infringing on something copyrightable such as a board design.
Rules of games aren't copyrightable (well the actual text of the rules are, but not the rules themselves), but they are patentable. I believe Scrabble had been patented (like Monopoly) but the patent has long since expired.
IANAL, and I don't use Scrabulous, so I can't say if they are infringing on board layout or some other copyrightable effect. They probably have a good case on trademark though, Scrabulous is pretty close to Scrabble. I don't think I can get away with a car company called Generalized Motors.