LJArchive and LJDump both make backups of your LJ account. LJ-Sec allows you to copy your LJ account from one service to another, as long as both use the LJ software.
There's a difference between child rapists and the people that WfI targets. WfI targets anyone who happens to not fit their definition of a "fine, upstanding citizen" - could be queers, could be pedos, could be them funny brown people, could be people who like drawing funny pictures, they're all the same to WfI.
Of course, the not-so-funny thing is, the vast majority of child rape is perpetrated by NON-pedos. So, by sending people haring off after pedos, they're targeting the wrong people.
For that matter, would it be difficult for LJ to implement a list of sites you're not permitted to link to, and make it publicly available, as well as automatically checking newly submitted links against that list and giving a real-time warning?
That would require LJ to have a firm and reliable policy for what is and is not permitted, and as we found out when we asked them to simply state their criteria for what is an acceptable journal, LJ does not have any such policy.
LJ has been somewhat inconsistent with its definitions...,
Somewhat? How about totally inconsistent! When this whole mess started, you coudn't get a straight answer from them, and when you did get an answer, it was sure to be changed within a few hours (if not less). Add to that, the fact that LJ cherry-picks which journals it chooses to apply its TOS to, and you get an environment where you don't know if your "My Little Pony" post of today will be LJ's "evil child porn" post of tomorrow - even if there's no child porn involved.
The only difficulty I had was in transferring my archived posts. Other than that, it took me all of about ten minutes to find a more agreeable service (Insanejournal, in my case), sign up, and post a message on LiveJournal informing my friends that I was moving.
Your solution may be suitable for urban areas, but America is, despite the best efforts of self-righteous planners, mostly rural. Unless you intend to say that everyone outside the city should live like the Amish, your solution is unworkable outside any urban area.
I love Linux, and I'd be using it right now, if it only had adequate accessibility features. Unfortunately, both Gnome and KDE fail at the accessibility game, and they're the only desktops that even try. Screen magnifier sucks, they don't support screen readers, and they don't support voice input. I can do without the first two, but I NEED the third. OSX manages to do all three to various levels of excellent, and while Windows doesn't do it natively, you can, at least, buy third-party apps like Zoomtext and Jaws that will provide screen magnification and screen reading, and Dragon will give you voice input.
So, right now I'm using XP, until I can save up enough money to buy a Mac. As soon as Linux has functional accessibility software, I'll be back into Linux fast enough to leave a sonic boom behind me, but until then, as much as I love it, I simply can not use it.
Their explanation of suicide bombers alone tripped my BS meter. Last I knew, the Tamil Tigers were not Muslim, and they're the group that invented suicide bombing.
A more rational explanation, as I see it, is that suicide bombing is used by people (regardless of religion or politics) who believe that they are so hopelessly outnumbered by their enemy that even blowing themselves up is worth it, if it will just take a few of their enemy with them. That would make suicide bombing fit into the same mode of thought as the samurai who charged his enemy's castle, knowing he would die in the process, or the fighter pilot who, after being shot down, steered his plane into an enemy ship, knowing that he would die in the explosion.
I am not saying, and DID not say, that it was a TECHNICAL problem. I said that whoever put the concert on CD cut out nearly an hour of music when they did it. NOWHERE did I claim this was a problem in the CD format. In fact, to quote my own comment, "Anyone who has not heard Belafonte on LP is missing nearly an hour of music, because some genius decided that they could make more money releasing PIECES of the concert on two CDs than by making an audio DVD or making a boxed set that would contain the WHOLE concert."
Notice that my comment DID NOT say that there was a technical failure. It said that it was the decision of "some genius" who decided to release pieces of the concert, rather than the whole thing.
Unfortunately, the CD versions of many albums I owned when I was younger are distinctly inferior. For example, Belafonte's Carnegie Hall concert, which maxed out two LPs, is now crammed onto two CDs, by chopping out large parts of the concert - not only the introductions and talks between songs, but even sections of the songs themselves. Anyone who has not heard Belafonte on LP is missing nearly an hour of music, because some genius decided that they could make more money releasing PIECES of the concert on two CDs than by making an audio DVD or making a boxed set that would contain the WHOLE concert.
Thanks to my experience with that, I will NEVER buy a CD remake of a live LP.
I'd say you're overly generalizing. My money goes to groups like The Cruxshadows, Jonathan Coulton, and Leslie Fish - you know, people who aren't part of the RIAA, either because they don't want anything to do with it or it won't have anything to do with them.
The way I figure, the best way to oppose the pirates who run the RIAA and similar organizations is to spend your money on artists who aren't associated with those organizations. The fact that you'll usually end up getting more interesting music can be seen either as the primary reason for doing it, or as a pleasant bonus, depending on your point of view. Either way, independent artists are supported, there's more variety in available music, and you're making your point far more effectively than you would by sitting on Digg and whining about the evil RIAA. The fact that the RIAA IS evil is beside the point. Wouldn't you rather fight them than whine about it?
Why is it so hard for people to understand that a monopoly can not exist without government support? If the government did not create artificial barriers to market entry, the first entrepreneur to come along with a better price or better product would break the monopoly. This is the way the market has worked throughout human history, and remains the way it works today.
This is why corporations work so hard at subverting government. As long as they have enough control of government to set the rules their competitors must operate under, they can use the power of government to maintain their monopoly.
Whether he's a publicist or a scientist (and if he held a professorship in climatology, I'd vote for scientist), if the death threats he claims are real, then they certainly count.
I haven't heard of any death threats over "Global Warming", but I have seen reports of skeptics having threats made against their careers if they express their skepticism. In fact, the only death threats I've heard about levied against a scientist for publishing the actual data on a controversial subject were levied against Dr. Suzanne Steinmetz, on an entirely different subject.
OK. You tell me: How many calories are in a pack of ramen?
Eat one pack of ramen a day. Nothing else. Gain 35 pounds over 6 months. It happened in real life.
You might also want to check out a disease called "Cushing's Syndrome". The people suffering from that condition don't eat such extremely anorexic diets, but they DO gain weight despite consuming very small amounts of calories. In fact, that's one of the defining traits of Cushing's Syndrome.
You are being needlessly inflammatory, and posting from a position of ignorance. Her calorie intake was documented EXACTLY as I stated.
Over a period of six months, she gained roughly 35 pounds, while eating approximately 300 calories per day. Those are the facts. The fact that you do not like those facts does not change reality.
Body fat isn't magic. It comes from food you eat. If you are exercising more and still have more weight, it means you are eating too much. People need to stop looking for excuses.
For most people, this is true. However, there are medical conditions that are known to cause the body to store fat, no matter how little you eat. I've seen someone eat as little as 300 calories a day (over a period of several months) and gain weight, because she has one of those medical conditions.
It would work if they were thinking rationally. However, the response has always, in my experience, been "that's what we have HR for" - as if the HR people were experts in every job in the company, and thus the best choice to select staff no matter what department or what job the new hire is intended to fill.
Instead of bitching, why not offer to sit on interview panels?
The places I've worked, if you make an offer like that, the managers start asking you why you have TIME to make an offer like that. Don't you have enough work to do to keep you busy? Why are we getting such a bad output if you have time to waste on interview panels? And so on. If you want to keep your job, you learn REAL fast that volunteering - for ANYTHING - gets that kind of management response, so you DO NOT volunteer.
I'm wondering what you would think about another example. Should I be allowed to have military weapons as long as I haven't actually used them illegally? Anti-personnel mines, machine guns (not automatic rifles, machine guns), grenades, tanks, rocket launchers... I just collect them because I think they're neat. No problem?
Absolutely no problem. If anything, you should be allowed to play with them BEFORE the military is. If it's not legitimate for private citizens to do it, then it's not legitimate for their proxy (AKA: government) to do it.
They're also using dictionary attacks against registered domains. I'm getting a whole lot of their crap to @macmanusnet.net, despite the fact that I have not issued ANY accounts to ANYONE. That tells me that the spammers are just generating a whole lot of @ spam.
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If you have Mono or .Net, there's http://www.mp3vcr.com/ljsec/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/
If you use Python, there's http://hewgill.com/software/ljdump/
LJArchive and LJDump both make backups of your LJ account. LJ-Sec allows you to copy your LJ account from one service to another, as long as both use the LJ software.
There's a difference between child rapists and the people that WfI targets. WfI targets anyone who happens to not fit their definition of a "fine, upstanding citizen" - could be queers, could be pedos, could be them funny brown people, could be people who like drawing funny pictures, they're all the same to WfI.
Of course, the not-so-funny thing is, the vast majority of child rape is perpetrated by NON-pedos. So, by sending people haring off after pedos, they're targeting the wrong people.
...assuming there is an actual document, that is.
IF it is applied that way, yes. However, past history with LJ demonstrates that WE CAN NOT TRUST THEM to apply it this reasonably.
The only difficulty I had was in transferring my archived posts. Other than that, it took me all of about ten minutes to find a more agreeable service (Insanejournal, in my case), sign up, and post a message on LiveJournal informing my friends that I was moving.
Your solution may be suitable for urban areas, but America is, despite the best efforts of self-righteous planners, mostly rural. Unless you intend to say that everyone outside the city should live like the Amish, your solution is unworkable outside any urban area.
I definitely agree with your point.
I love Linux, and I'd be using it right now, if it only had adequate accessibility features. Unfortunately, both Gnome and KDE fail at the accessibility game, and they're the only desktops that even try. Screen magnifier sucks, they don't support screen readers, and they don't support voice input. I can do without the first two, but I NEED the third. OSX manages to do all three to various levels of excellent, and while Windows doesn't do it natively, you can, at least, buy third-party apps like Zoomtext and Jaws that will provide screen magnification and screen reading, and Dragon will give you voice input.
So, right now I'm using XP, until I can save up enough money to buy a Mac. As soon as Linux has functional accessibility software, I'll be back into Linux fast enough to leave a sonic boom behind me, but until then, as much as I love it, I simply can not use it.
Their explanation of suicide bombers alone tripped my BS meter. Last I knew, the Tamil Tigers were not Muslim, and they're the group that invented suicide bombing. A more rational explanation, as I see it, is that suicide bombing is used by people (regardless of religion or politics) who believe that they are so hopelessly outnumbered by their enemy that even blowing themselves up is worth it, if it will just take a few of their enemy with them. That would make suicide bombing fit into the same mode of thought as the samurai who charged his enemy's castle, knowing he would die in the process, or the fighter pilot who, after being shot down, steered his plane into an enemy ship, knowing that he would die in the explosion.
I am not saying, and DID not say, that it was a TECHNICAL problem. I said that whoever put the concert on CD cut out nearly an hour of music when they did it. NOWHERE did I claim this was a problem in the CD format. In fact, to quote my own comment, "Anyone who has not heard Belafonte on LP is missing nearly an hour of music, because some genius decided that they could make more money releasing PIECES of the concert on two CDs than by making an audio DVD or making a boxed set that would contain the WHOLE concert." Notice that my comment DID NOT say that there was a technical failure. It said that it was the decision of "some genius" who decided to release pieces of the concert, rather than the whole thing.
Unfortunately, the CD versions of many albums I owned when I was younger are distinctly inferior. For example, Belafonte's Carnegie Hall concert, which maxed out two LPs, is now crammed onto two CDs, by chopping out large parts of the concert - not only the introductions and talks between songs, but even sections of the songs themselves. Anyone who has not heard Belafonte on LP is missing nearly an hour of music, because some genius decided that they could make more money releasing PIECES of the concert on two CDs than by making an audio DVD or making a boxed set that would contain the WHOLE concert.
Thanks to my experience with that, I will NEVER buy a CD remake of a live LP.
I'd say you're overly generalizing. My money goes to groups like The Cruxshadows, Jonathan Coulton, and Leslie Fish - you know, people who aren't part of the RIAA, either because they don't want anything to do with it or it won't have anything to do with them.
The way I figure, the best way to oppose the pirates who run the RIAA and similar organizations is to spend your money on artists who aren't associated with those organizations. The fact that you'll usually end up getting more interesting music can be seen either as the primary reason for doing it, or as a pleasant bonus, depending on your point of view. Either way, independent artists are supported, there's more variety in available music, and you're making your point far more effectively than you would by sitting on Digg and whining about the evil RIAA. The fact that the RIAA IS evil is beside the point. Wouldn't you rather fight them than whine about it?
Why is it so hard for people to understand that a monopoly can not exist without government support? If the government did not create artificial barriers to market entry, the first entrepreneur to come along with a better price or better product would break the monopoly. This is the way the market has worked throughout human history, and remains the way it works today.
This is why corporations work so hard at subverting government. As long as they have enough control of government to set the rules their competitors must operate under, they can use the power of government to maintain their monopoly.
Whether he's a publicist or a scientist (and if he held a professorship in climatology, I'd vote for scientist), if the death threats he claims are real, then they certainly count.
I haven't heard of any death threats over "Global Warming", but I have seen reports of skeptics having threats made against their careers if they express their skepticism. In fact, the only death threats I've heard about levied against a scientist for publishing the actual data on a controversial subject were levied against Dr. Suzanne Steinmetz, on an entirely different subject.
OK. You tell me: How many calories are in a pack of ramen? Eat one pack of ramen a day. Nothing else. Gain 35 pounds over 6 months. It happened in real life. You might also want to check out a disease called "Cushing's Syndrome". The people suffering from that condition don't eat such extremely anorexic diets, but they DO gain weight despite consuming very small amounts of calories. In fact, that's one of the defining traits of Cushing's Syndrome.
You are being needlessly inflammatory, and posting from a position of ignorance. Her calorie intake was documented EXACTLY as I stated. Over a period of six months, she gained roughly 35 pounds, while eating approximately 300 calories per day. Those are the facts. The fact that you do not like those facts does not change reality.
It would work if they were thinking rationally. However, the response has always, in my experience, been "that's what we have HR for" - as if the HR people were experts in every job in the company, and thus the best choice to select staff no matter what department or what job the new hire is intended to fill.
They're also using dictionary attacks against registered domains. I'm getting a whole lot of their crap to @macmanusnet.net, despite the fact that I have not issued ANY accounts to ANYONE. That tells me that the spammers are just generating a whole lot of @ spam.
Because most people realized that Kerry was just Bush with better hair.
Would that be a Sahara-bit?