I propose that we rewrite broadcast laws such that any stream which in no way changes a publicly available stream is illegal.
So for instance if you transmit an HD signal to the public, I can repeat it and repeating doesn't constitute rebroadcast as long you are within range of the original transmission.
This applies to Satellite companies as well. The fact that broadcast companies can extract money out of cable and sat companies is absurd. The cable companies are offering a really really fancy antenna since the broadcast companies are unable to deliver quality service. The broadcast company makes the same amount of money if you have a TCP/IP antenna or a RF antenna.
I know I do....just natural these days, especially when this statement was made by Juan not that long after 9/11. I
If by "A couple years" you mean almost a decade yes, it was right after 9/11.
The real problem with the Juan Williams comment was also that he instead of apologizing doubled down. He might have saved his job if he had said:
"Now that's of course irrational, but it just goes to show how even educated, otherwise open minded Americans such as myself have to challenge our own biases in order to move forward as a country."
Instead he doubled down on his bigotry and decided to defend it as a rational prejudice based on a real danger. In other words he went on to suggest that you *should* be afraid of Muslims because Muslims actually are dangerous.
Unless you are a significant public figure for your business (and even then I'm not so sure), what you believe and what you say should have fuck all to do with your employer.
Except that in this case he's paid to express opinions which taken in aggregate with other authors represent the magazine. An author for a magazine reflects the spectrum of perspectives the magazine wants to express.
Despite what the summary states this article was also published on the magazine's website, not just some blog. So they made the decision that they don't like the perspective of one of their authors and that they don't want their magazine to be a venue for future racist pieces.
I agree that a company shouldn't fire someone just because they post a racist blog. But when your job is to write blog posts about what you believe--and it turns out you believe a lot of really racist stuff then you should expect that what they write for you will also be racist.
In the US we have a political party which doesn't understand that corporations and employers are as great or greater of a threat to your freedom and liberty as the government.
It also destroys the Christian Religion. Since you can spin it around.
"If you can create a world to look 13.8 Billion years old then you can also create a bible and trick people into believing it. So your faith is proof that the Great Deceiver has you just playing into his hands."
"The consequences of burning fossil fuels without any government oversight is climate change which will lead to political instability and large expenses.
Since I believe that the government has no place to regulate business and shouldn't be involved in our lives... this can't be true.
Therefore Climate Change is a hoax."
The problem is that as you say, science is exposing the imperfections of capitalism. Which shouldn't be terribly shocking, the idea that any ideological system in its pure form magically is pragmatically the most efficient is highly improbable. But the conservative mindset isn't one of gradations of gray therefore capitalism is either Good or Bad and there is no middle ground except as a slippery slope to one extreme or the other.
I have an open Wifi setup. My attitude is that connectivity has become basic infrastructure, and all "lock it down" freaks have just bought into the agenda of ISPs who don't want us to share bandwidth to boost their own profits.
Screw the ISP I don't want my cheap-ass neighbors slowing my Netflix down to a crawl while they download 10 seasons of some anime shit.
If we all "had internet" and people stuck to HTTP web traffic I wouldn't care. But I've had roomates before--hell I have myself as a roomate and I know that my internet is not big enough for the both of me from time-to-time let alone neighbors.
If I had a gig-e pipe they could be free to do as they please but I don't pay for my apartment building's electric bill, I pay for mine. And based on the fact that I can't even leave my laundry detergent on my little spot of shelf in my apartment building without it being used up in a couple weeks (and 2 loads of laundry from me) I know if they could secretly plug their water into my tap they would.
If I'm playing TF2 I expect there to be 0 torrenting and streaming on my connection so that my pings stay reasonable. It's bad enough knowing if one of my computers found an 'interesting' RSS feed let alone having two moochie neighbors.
Yeah on this point I have to agree. I wouldn't mind someone calling their pub the "Mos Eisley Cantina" but if you had screenshots out of the films on your website advertising your products... Mmm... that's where you've overstepped "lovable reference" and just gotten into full blown copyright infringement.
I doubt they're going to reconfigure their network topology for a single user.
I harassed the low-level techs at Qwest (Now century link) about my DSL line (and 300ms ping) for weeks until finally I got bumped up to a second tier support who physically had someone plug me into a new switch.
We still have this at least here in Washington State it's called "initiatives". If you get X votes it shows up on the ballot.
Unfortunately it's used by a single person to constantly screech to a halt all governance in the state. Every time we decide to do something he goes around and finds enough votes to freeze it until voters approve/disapprove it.
Look we have a representative democracy for a reason. You have to be willing to make compromises and barter what you want with other representatives. If you only ever get what you want then you demand schools double their hours but never provide the funding.
And yes I do imagine there was some Lightsquared/Obama white house conversations--One of Obama's campaign promises was broadband for all. Lightsquared promised to deliver on that promise for the president. I'm unaware of another company which Lightsquared favoritism would have pushed out of business. By the very nature of their technology it seemed that there *can't* be a competitor since they themselves don't work.;)
I'm not sure that feeding starving people counts as a "bribe" per say.
More likely it's the new leader trying to shower his people with food to associate a good year with his rise to power--and an attempt at good will from the international community who are hoping they can relax.
Or tell them that, while you cannot boycott them any more than you already do, their behaviour just earned The Pirate Bay or EFF another donation.
Supporting organizations who don't believe in copyright such as The Pirate Bay does not help protect copyright holders such as the YouTube video submitter. I don't wan The Pirate Bay profiting from my work any more than I want rumblefish profiting from my work.
In fact I think on principle Rumblefish is doing precisely what we as consumers and content producers have been demanding from the media industry: innovative ways for them to profit from their work.
What Rumblefish does is allow artists to profit from YouTube videos through YouTube ad revenue. Nobody gets sued, people can post their home videos with copyrighted music for free and the artists get paid. That's an excellent solution to the desires of consumers and content producers.
The *PROBLEM* is that Rumblefish is claiming copyright on other people's work. That's completely unacceptable--it's piracy. And that's what needs to be stopped.
The reason we have hate crimes is because a hate-crime isn't a crime against an individual it's a threat against an entire community to restrict their freedom.
If you murder an African American *because of their race* then you are threatening a group with the same. By the way, Christians are protected too. If someone roughed up a Christian for being Christian then they would be subject to a Hate Crime.
Hate crimes are to *PROTECT* freedom of speech. If someone was attacking people of a specific political position because of their political position then you are stifling an entire organization's ability to spread their message.
Standing on the street corner saying God Hates Fags is not a hate-crime. But if they started slashing tires of open gay's cars then they would be intimidating and threatening a community because of their sexual orientation.
In this instance a crime was committed and it was committed for the sole reason that his roommate was gay. And obviously the invasion of privacy was sufficiently damaging that his roommate committed suicide. The fact that you seem to think that what was done is similar to Jesus being compared to a sky fairy shows just how little understanding you have of the persecution many minorities face. I've never heard of a Christian committing suicide because of inflammatory rhetoric against Christianity. It's not because Christians have thicker skin, it's because as a minority group people are far more *vulnerable* to attack. And the effects are far more dangerous as a result. If you threaten someone like me, a straight white upper middle class man because I'm white I can easily find justice and I'm unlikely to let it intimidate me... after all, just about everyone else I come in contact with is a lot like me. If however though you're a minority then the intimidation is very real since you're far more likely to be discriminated against and you have far less support--people like you to help defend your rights. Now it would be great if we lived in a society where none of that mattered and people defended minorities regardless of their own race but by and large that's not how the real world works outside of a libertarian fantasy land. In the real world people tend to look after people like themselves and aren't concerned with the problems of the "others". So if you're a harassed gay citizen then the number of people who are likely to stand up for you is a small minority. And if people threaten your peers with violations of your privacy and expose you to harassment and intimidation by others--you're going to get even more isolated and distrustful.
By the way:
Of the 6,934 identified hate crime offenders, the majority were white (4,317, or 62.3%); 1,286 (18.5%) were black, 61 (0.9%) were American Indian or Alaskan Native, 93 (1.3%) were Asian or Pacific Islander, 741 (10.7%) were of unknown race, and the remaining 436 (6.3%) were of other races or multiple races.
They are very tolerant of just about every fruity religion that has come along, but they are highly intolerant of criticism of any other religion.
India has very strict blasphemy laws. To their credit the blasphemy laws are extremely broad and protect minority and majority religions but by western standards they would be considered an infringement of rights.
Single or paired pulse TMS causes neurons in the neocortex under the site of stimulation to depolarize and discharge an action potential. If used in the primary motor cortex, it produces muscle activity referred to as a motor evoked potential (MEP) which can be recorded on electromyography. If used on the occipital cortex, 'phosphenes' (flashes of light) might be perceived by the subject. In most other areas of the cortex, the participant does not consciously experience any effect, but his or her behaviour may be slightly altered (e.g. slower reaction time on a cognitive task), or changes in brain activity may be detected using sensing equipment.
Part of it is that they intend to release in October so it's going to be a short dev cycle. The other critical component is that it's a point and click adventure which means they're looking at less than 10 people working on it full time. $400k would be about right for a 6 month project and 5 people.
I doubt they ever intended to only make $400k though. It wouldn't be exclusively available to contributors. You can safely assume for every contributor you would probably get 2 buyers. So more like 1.2 million. Which gets you a decent 10 person team for 8 months or so.
We run into this ALL the time here at work. Since we're working with cutting edge software that even the developers don't entirely understand we can often say "It'll take an hour" and then it winds up taking 2 days. Or we'll say it'll take 2 days and we're done in an hour. Until something has been done for decades and experience is developed you find yourself constantly solving problems you didn't even know could exist.
If Plan A always worked perfectly everything would be done 8x faster. It's only through years of mistakes that I've learned to readjust my pride from "how long it would take if I made no 'mistakes'" to how long it'll take in the real world. I imagine without regulation there is a lot of that in the drilling industry. Pride or economic incentive pushes people to be optimistic about how perfectly any plan can be executed and then in order to meet their plan mistakes go uncorrected.
The advantage of Win8 over iOS too is that you can run the same apps on both if they are metro (which Microsoft is pushing heavily for future consumer applications.)
You can't buy an app for OSX and have it for iOS. Every app you buy for WOA will be available on your x86 pc too.
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I propose that we rewrite broadcast laws such that any stream which in no way changes a publicly available stream is illegal.
So for instance if you transmit an HD signal to the public, I can repeat it and repeating doesn't constitute rebroadcast as long you are within range of the original transmission.
This applies to Satellite companies as well. The fact that broadcast companies can extract money out of cable and sat companies is absurd. The cable companies are offering a really really fancy antenna since the broadcast companies are unable to deliver quality service. The broadcast company makes the same amount of money if you have a TCP/IP antenna or a RF antenna.
I know I do....just natural these days, especially when this statement was made by Juan not that long after 9/11. I
If by "A couple years" you mean almost a decade yes, it was right after 9/11.
The real problem with the Juan Williams comment was also that he instead of apologizing doubled down. He might have saved his job if he had said:
"Now that's of course irrational, but it just goes to show how even educated, otherwise open minded Americans such as myself have to challenge our own biases in order to move forward as a country."
Instead he doubled down on his bigotry and decided to defend it as a rational prejudice based on a real danger. In other words he went on to suggest that you *should* be afraid of Muslims because Muslims actually are dangerous.
Unless you are a significant public figure for your business (and even then I'm not so sure), what you believe and what you say should have fuck all to do with your employer.
Except that in this case he's paid to express opinions which taken in aggregate with other authors represent the magazine. An author for a magazine reflects the spectrum of perspectives the magazine wants to express.
Despite what the summary states this article was also published on the magazine's website, not just some blog. So they made the decision that they don't like the perspective of one of their authors and that they don't want their magazine to be a venue for future racist pieces.
I agree that a company shouldn't fire someone just because they post a racist blog. But when your job is to write blog posts about what you believe--and it turns out you believe a lot of really racist stuff then you should expect that what they write for you will also be racist.
In the US we have a political party which doesn't understand that corporations and employers are as great or greater of a threat to your freedom and liberty as the government.
It also destroys the Christian Religion. Since you can spin it around.
"If you can create a world to look 13.8 Billion years old then you can also create a bible and trick people into believing it. So your faith is proof that the Great Deceiver has you just playing into his hands."
Yep. It's classic Appeal to Consequences.
"The consequences of burning fossil fuels without any government oversight is climate change which will lead to political instability and large expenses.
Since I believe that the government has no place to regulate business and shouldn't be involved in our lives... this can't be true.
Therefore Climate Change is a hoax."
The problem is that as you say, science is exposing the imperfections of capitalism. Which shouldn't be terribly shocking, the idea that any ideological system in its pure form magically is pragmatically the most efficient is highly improbable. But the conservative mindset isn't one of gradations of gray therefore capitalism is either Good or Bad and there is no middle ground except as a slippery slope to one extreme or the other.
I have an open Wifi setup. My attitude is that connectivity has become basic infrastructure, and all "lock it down" freaks have just bought into the agenda of ISPs who don't want us to share bandwidth to boost their own profits.
Screw the ISP I don't want my cheap-ass neighbors slowing my Netflix down to a crawl while they download 10 seasons of some anime shit.
If we all "had internet" and people stuck to HTTP web traffic I wouldn't care. But I've had roomates before--hell I have myself as a roomate and I know that my internet is not big enough for the both of me from time-to-time let alone neighbors.
If I had a gig-e pipe they could be free to do as they please but I don't pay for my apartment building's electric bill, I pay for mine. And based on the fact that I can't even leave my laundry detergent on my little spot of shelf in my apartment building without it being used up in a couple weeks (and 2 loads of laundry from me) I know if they could secretly plug their water into my tap they would.
If I'm playing TF2 I expect there to be 0 torrenting and streaming on my connection so that my pings stay reasonable. It's bad enough knowing if one of my computers found an 'interesting' RSS feed let alone having two moochie neighbors.
Yeah on this point I have to agree. I wouldn't mind someone calling their pub the "Mos Eisley Cantina" but if you had screenshots out of the films on your website advertising your products... Mmm... that's where you've overstepped "lovable reference" and just gotten into full blown copyright infringement.
it probably costs them little more than an email to get sample equipment from any given manufacturer
Haha, good luck with that. No seriously, try it and report back how long you were willing to wait before giving up on ever hearing back.
I doubt they're going to reconfigure their network topology for a single user.
I harassed the low-level techs at Qwest (Now century link) about my DSL line (and 300ms ping) for weeks until finally I got bumped up to a second tier support who physically had someone plug me into a new switch.
Everything was peachy after that.
We still have this at least here in Washington State it's called "initiatives". If you get X votes it shows up on the ballot.
Unfortunately it's used by a single person to constantly screech to a halt all governance in the state. Every time we decide to do something he goes around and finds enough votes to freeze it until voters approve/disapprove it.
Look we have a representative democracy for a reason. You have to be willing to make compromises and barter what you want with other representatives. If you only ever get what you want then you demand schools double their hours but never provide the funding.
To be specific Microsoft said about 2.8% of customers lost storage/hosting.
I don't buy the "Bribery" angle that's just more anti-obama birther nonsense.
It's true that the Democratic party received about $20k from Falcone in 2010. But the Republican Party received nearly $50k in 2008.
If you go through his political contributions he tended to shotgun across party lines. And none of the money in 08 was for Obama. It was almost exclusively for Senatorial candidates and Giuliani and Chris Dodd.
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/philip-falcone.asp?cycle=08
And yes I do imagine there was some Lightsquared/Obama white house conversations--One of Obama's campaign promises was broadband for all. Lightsquared promised to deliver on that promise for the president. I'm unaware of another company which Lightsquared favoritism would have pushed out of business. By the very nature of their technology it seemed that there *can't* be a competitor since they themselves don't work. ;)
I'm not sure that feeding starving people counts as a "bribe" per say.
More likely it's the new leader trying to shower his people with food to associate a good year with his rise to power--and an attempt at good will from the international community who are hoping they can relax.
Considering I can buy a camera, computer and wireless transmitter in a small DC powered package for $100 it had better not cost several grand.
Or tell them that, while you cannot boycott them any more than you already do, their behaviour just earned The Pirate Bay or EFF another donation.
Supporting organizations who don't believe in copyright such as The Pirate Bay does not help protect copyright holders such as the YouTube video submitter. I don't wan The Pirate Bay profiting from my work any more than I want rumblefish profiting from my work.
In fact I think on principle Rumblefish is doing precisely what we as consumers and content producers have been demanding from the media industry: innovative ways for them to profit from their work.
What Rumblefish does is allow artists to profit from YouTube videos through YouTube ad revenue. Nobody gets sued, people can post their home videos with copyrighted music for free and the artists get paid. That's an excellent solution to the desires of consumers and content producers.
The *PROBLEM* is that Rumblefish is claiming copyright on other people's work. That's completely unacceptable--it's piracy. And that's what needs to be stopped.
Clueless.
The reason we have hate crimes is because a hate-crime isn't a crime against an individual it's a threat against an entire community to restrict their freedom.
If you murder an African American *because of their race* then you are threatening a group with the same. By the way, Christians are protected too. If someone roughed up a Christian for being Christian then they would be subject to a Hate Crime.
Hate crimes are to *PROTECT* freedom of speech. If someone was attacking people of a specific political position because of their political position then you are stifling an entire organization's ability to spread their message.
Standing on the street corner saying God Hates Fags is not a hate-crime. But if they started slashing tires of open gay's cars then they would be intimidating and threatening a community because of their sexual orientation.
In this instance a crime was committed and it was committed for the sole reason that his roommate was gay. And obviously the invasion of privacy was sufficiently damaging that his roommate committed suicide. The fact that you seem to think that what was done is similar to Jesus being compared to a sky fairy shows just how little understanding you have of the persecution many minorities face. I've never heard of a Christian committing suicide because of inflammatory rhetoric against Christianity. It's not because Christians have thicker skin, it's because as a minority group people are far more *vulnerable* to attack. And the effects are far more dangerous as a result. If you threaten someone like me, a straight white upper middle class man because I'm white I can easily find justice and I'm unlikely to let it intimidate me... after all, just about everyone else I come in contact with is a lot like me. If however though you're a minority then the intimidation is very real since you're far more likely to be discriminated against and you have far less support--people like you to help defend your rights. Now it would be great if we lived in a society where none of that mattered and people defended minorities regardless of their own race but by and large that's not how the real world works outside of a libertarian fantasy land. In the real world people tend to look after people like themselves and aren't concerned with the problems of the "others". So if you're a harassed gay citizen then the number of people who are likely to stand up for you is a small minority. And if people threaten your peers with violations of your privacy and expose you to harassment and intimidation by others--you're going to get even more isolated and distrustful.
By the way:
Of the 6,934 identified hate crime offenders, the majority were white (4,317, or 62.3%); 1,286 (18.5%) were black, 61 (0.9%) were American Indian or Alaskan Native, 93 (1.3%) were Asian or Pacific Islander, 741 (10.7%) were of unknown race, and the remaining 436 (6.3%) were of other races or multiple races.
Note that this isn't "minorities vs whites".
http://www.partnersagainsthate.org/about_hate_crimes/faq-html.html
They are very tolerant of just about every fruity religion that has come along, but they are highly intolerant of criticism of any other religion.
India has very strict blasphemy laws. To their credit the blasphemy laws are extremely broad and protect minority and majority religions but by western standards they would be considered an infringement of rights.
Which is why we should go to the company directly:
http://rumblefish.com/about-us.php
Email them and let them know that as a potential customer and citizen you find their behavior unacceptable.
Well in all fairness there is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation
Single or paired pulse TMS causes neurons in the neocortex under the site of stimulation to depolarize and discharge an action potential. If used in the primary motor cortex, it produces muscle activity referred to as a motor evoked potential (MEP) which can be recorded on electromyography. If used on the occipital cortex, 'phosphenes' (flashes of light) might be perceived by the subject. In most other areas of the cortex, the participant does not consciously experience any effect, but his or her behaviour may be slightly altered (e.g. slower reaction time on a cognitive task), or changes in brain activity may be detected using sensing equipment.
It's also really really hard to shake the idea that microsoft really doesn't care about HTML5 or any other emerging web standards.
You mean making HTML5 a first class layout option for native Windows 8 apps isn't persuasive?
Part of it is that they intend to release in October so it's going to be a short dev cycle. The other critical component is that it's a point and click adventure which means they're looking at less than 10 people working on it full time. $400k would be about right for a 6 month project and 5 people.
I doubt they ever intended to only make $400k though. It wouldn't be exclusively available to contributors. You can safely assume for every contributor you would probably get 2 buyers. So more like 1.2 million. Which gets you a decent 10 person team for 8 months or so.
We run into this ALL the time here at work. Since we're working with cutting edge software that even the developers don't entirely understand we can often say "It'll take an hour" and then it winds up taking 2 days. Or we'll say it'll take 2 days and we're done in an hour. Until something has been done for decades and experience is developed you find yourself constantly solving problems you didn't even know could exist.
If Plan A always worked perfectly everything would be done 8x faster. It's only through years of mistakes that I've learned to readjust my pride from "how long it would take if I made no 'mistakes'" to how long it'll take in the real world. I imagine without regulation there is a lot of that in the drilling industry. Pride or economic incentive pushes people to be optimistic about how perfectly any plan can be executed and then in order to meet their plan mistakes go uncorrected.
The advantage of Win8 over iOS too is that you can run the same apps on both if they are metro (which Microsoft is pushing heavily for future consumer applications.)
You can't buy an app for OSX and have it for iOS. Every app you buy for WOA will be available on your x86 pc too.
They probably assume the public can vet a candidate better than the FBI. Steve Jobs was being considered to be *appointed* aka not voted into office.