Science will never present us with a peer-reviewed study proving once and for all that you should be good to your fellow man, and treat him like a brother. Particle accelerator runs will never hint that we all have it within us to put an end to petty bickering, violence, and even earth-shattering wars.
Poor choice of arguments. Millions have died as a result of religious wars. Perhaps it is time to let science tackle the problem of social injustice, since religion is doing a particularly poor job.
(Incidentally, I am a religious person, but my faith is not incompatible with science.)
There was a blank tape tax pending in Congress. In the era just before the battles of filesharing and the internet, lobbyists for the recording industry were accepting labeling in return for the enactment of a blank media excise tax to be levied on everyone who might purchase any blank media of any type (especially including tape cassettes at that time as they were used to dub CD recordings).
The corporate and Congressional justification for this was allegedly to recoup money that was perhaps to be lost in the age of digital recording where analog "generations of quality" via copying become moot. And the price of blank media would increase exponentially. The RIAA and other industry associations were, as Zappa pointed out "giving away the rights of a third party (the consumer) without their permission." The same corporate welfare arguments found their way into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act legislation.
Also, when you say "darn it all to heck" you mean "damn it all to hell". You haven't changed the concepts, you've just replaced the words, as though it is the words themselves which have some intrinsic ability to hurt, offend, or blaspheme. If you wish to curse, curse, otherwise don't. Euphemism is lame. That is, unless you actually mean "darn" (to mend) and "heck" (door, weaving, rack for feeding cattle).
Yes, you can. Because Kerry conceded the race. Given the fucking armada of legal action ALREADY WRITTEN and pending filing, it is safe to say that it was a legit victory in the minds of the Kerry camp.
Can someone please explain to me how "consumes oxygen and methane gas and produces liquid carbon dioxide" is a SOLUTION to "CO2 levels were up 2ppm"?!? This "solution" apparantly tries to convince us that the CO2 waste is OK because it's in liquid form?
3a. The serial change from yyyymmddnn to Unix epoch time makes perfect senese. And no, it does not suffer the 32-bit problem. Serial numbers can be much more than 32 bits. Heck the yyyymmddnn takes 8 bits per character now, so 80 bits just for that. Dare I guess how far into the future an 80-bit Unix time would go (if it was stored that way)?
You're correct on all counts except this one.
From RFC1035:
SERIAL The unsigned 32 bit version number of the original copy of the zone. Zone transfers preserve this value. This value wraps and should be compared using sequence space arithmetic.
The YYYYMMDDxx way can't be used past 2148, the UTC way can't be used past 2038. (neither way breaks it, because the serial number wraps to 0)
BioWare didn't publish KotOR, Atari did. Atari should be where you aim your vitriol. BioWare is the developer, and are (or at least used to be) opposed to copy protection (which they managed to remove on NWN, before expansions).
Your locks only keep out honest people. Criminals have no objection in defeating them (and the good ones are highly skilled at it). Your argument proves the case that copyright protection schemes such as this not only keep out honest people, but also make criminals of those attempting fair use (if you lose your key, you can call a locksmith, but what happens if you lose your CD-key?). A law that makes criminals of otherwise law-abiding citizens is a bad law that needs review.
*cough* No definitions found for "embarased", perhaps you mean: web1913: Embarrassed wn: embarrassed
By the way, Americans aren't as illiterate as you may have been led to believe.
How literate is the adult population? Very few adults in the US are truly illiterate. Rather, there are many adults with low literacy skills who lack the foundation they need to find and keep decent jobs, support their children's education, and participate actively in civic life. Between 21 and 23 percent of the adult population, or approximately 44 million people, according to the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), scored in Level 1 (see description above). Another 25-28 percent of the adult population, or between 45 and 50 million people, scored in Level 2. Literacy experts believe that adults with skills at Levels 1 and 2 lack a sufficient foundation of basic skills to function successfully in our society.
Many factors help to explain the relatively large number of adults in Level 1. Twenty-five percent of adults in Level 1 were immigrants who may have just been learning to speak English. More than 60 percent didn't complete high school. More than 30 percent were over 65. More than 25 percent had physical or mental conditions that kept them from fully participating in work, school, housework, or other activities, and almost 20 percent had vision problems that affected their ability to read print. For more facts and statistics, visit the NIFL Literacy Facts page.
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/facts/facts_overview.ht ml
This is the part that bothers me:
[...] The mean prose literacy scores of U.S. adults with 1-3 years of college, ranked 15th out of 19 countries; and The mean prose literacy scores of U.S. adults with a bachelor's degree or higher, ranked 5th.
GPL bears no relation to Communism. Communism is the opposite of Capitalism because it espouses state (gov't) ownership of property instead of personal ownership.
libertarianism
n : an ideological belief in freedom of thought and speech
communism
n 1: a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
2: a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless
society
socialism
n 1: a political theory advocating state ownership of industry
2: an economic system based on state ownership of capital [syn:
socialist economy] [ant: capitalism]
GPL has little to do with the state (read: gov't) ownership of property.
While it is my opinion as well that they are a hardware company (in fact, I used to work for a maufacturer of their hardware), it remains that if you ask Cisco, they'll reply that thy are a software company.
Because once people stop buying HGH and penis pumps from spam, there will be no reason to send it. Why go through the trouble to send 10 grillion mails if you're not going to have ANY return?
Suggestions, besides hiring Vinny the Enforcer to visit your neighborhood spammer?
Yeah, for starters, how about not giving an unfiltered email account to a fucking 3 year old.
Now that the inflammatory "fur da chilrun" part is gone, you can concentrate on a reasonable anti-spam solution. Perhaps you can make it the next Ask/.
The party responsible for causing the spam problem are the spammers. SPEWS lists netblocks instead of ISPs for the exact same reason that spammers spam: cost shifting. The spammers shift the cost of advertising to the recipient; and SPEWS shifts the cost of the anti-spam battle to the ISP.
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Nothing, if we all stop buying CDs.
Interestingly, 83% is also the exact percentage of statistics that are made up on the spot.
Science will never present us with a peer-reviewed study proving once and for all that you should be good to your fellow man, and treat him like a brother. Particle accelerator runs will never hint that we all have it within us to put an end to petty bickering, violence, and even earth-shattering wars.
Poor choice of arguments. Millions have died as a result of religious wars. Perhaps it is time to let science tackle the problem of social injustice, since religion is doing a particularly poor job.
(Incidentally, I am a religious person, but my faith is not incompatible with science.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resour
Also, when you say "darn it all to heck" you mean "damn it all to hell". You haven't changed the concepts, you've just replaced the words, as though it is the words themselves which have some intrinsic ability to hurt, offend, or blaspheme. If you wish to curse, curse, otherwise don't. Euphemism is lame. That is, unless you actually mean "darn" (to mend) and "heck" (door, weaving, rack for feeding cattle).
In most US states, services are not taxed, only tangible goods are.
You make salient points, but your argument is undermined by a misunderstanding of fact. There is no ban on stem cell research of any kind.
There is, however, a measure in place which restricts which types of research can apply for (and receive) federal research funding.
Yes, you can. Because Kerry conceded the race.
Given the fucking armada of legal action ALREADY WRITTEN and pending filing, it is safe to say that it was a legit victory in the minds of the Kerry camp.
Also, consider switching to decaf.
Can someone please explain to me how "consumes oxygen and methane gas and produces liquid carbon dioxide" is a SOLUTION to "CO2 levels were up 2ppm"?!? This "solution" apparantly tries to convince us that the CO2 waste is OK because it's in liquid form?
Vacuums don't suck. Everything else blows.
You're correct on all counts except this one.
From RFC1035:
The YYYYMMDDxx way can't be used past 2148, the UTC way can't be used past 2038. (neither way breaks it, because the serial number wraps to 0)
Because of the trip up?
An altimeter-based system would have blown the explosives for the 'chute on the trip into space, which I imagine wouldn't have been good.
BioWare didn't publish KotOR, Atari did. Atari should be where you aim your vitriol. BioWare is the developer, and are (or at least used to be) opposed to copy protection (which they managed to remove on NWN, before expansions).
Your locks only keep out honest people. Criminals have no objection in defeating them (and the good ones are highly skilled at it).
Your argument proves the case that copyright protection schemes such as this not only keep out honest people, but also make criminals of those attempting fair use (if you lose your key, you can call a locksmith, but what happens if you lose your CD-key?).
A law that makes criminals of otherwise law-abiding citizens is a bad law that needs review.
No definitions found for "embarased", perhaps you mean:
web1913: Embarrassed
wn: embarrassed
By the way, Americans aren't as illiterate as you may have been led to believe.
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/facts/facts_overview.h
This is the part that bothers me:
GPL bears no relation to Communism. Communism is the opposite of Capitalism because it espouses state (gov't) ownership of property instead of personal ownership.
The word you want is "Libertarian."
GPL has little to do with the state (read: gov't) ownership of property.
You appear to have not read that particular piece of legislation.
HINT: It's not called "CAN"-spam for no reason.
Everyone who was born before 1980, I would guess.
While it is my opinion as well that they are a hardware company (in fact, I used to work for a maufacturer of their hardware), it remains that if you ask Cisco, they'll reply that thy are a software company.
Linksys is a hardware company.
Linksys is now owned by Cisco Systems, who considers themselves to be a software company.
Because once people stop buying HGH and penis pumps from spam, there will be no reason to send it. Why go through the trouble to send 10 grillion mails if you're not going to have ANY return?
Solve this problem and spam goes away like magic.
Suggestions, besides hiring Vinny the Enforcer to visit your neighborhood spammer?
/.
Yeah, for starters, how about not giving an unfiltered email account to a fucking 3 year old.
Now that the inflammatory "fur da chilrun" part is gone, you can concentrate on a reasonable anti-spam solution. Perhaps you can make it the next Ask
The "Collateral Damage" is the main damage spews hopes to cause, to try to get innocent people to fight their battles for them.
Nail. Hammer. Head.
You have a strange notion of responsibility.
The party responsible for causing the spam problem are the spammers. SPEWS lists netblocks instead of ISPs for the exact same reason that spammers spam: cost shifting. The spammers shift the cost of advertising to the recipient; and SPEWS shifts the cost of the anti-spam battle to the ISP.