I half agree with your idea but the second half thinks it wont work. What we need is as *many* people as possible to go out and vote... and scratch out both names or put in blank cards. Show the system you refuse to vote. Sitting at home holding a patriotic dinner party of your closest thousand friends who refuse to vote with you on some grand principal or being some drunk covered in their own vomit next to a dumpster look the same otherwise.
Well you could say the RDA version found a reason to live while the KR's version was just looking for a way to die and blowing up a big ol alien seemed like the best way out.
Well MacGuyver's educational value, for me at least. Was showing that there are always a solution to a problem. Every time I think up a non direct solution to a problem because I don't have the proper tools on hand I give a nod to the creators of MacGuyver and RDA specifically.
Although I prefer my leatherman to my swiss army knife, but then I carry both.
Actually, yes I would. The house I'm in will be owned by me and mortgaged for paying my medical bills. I wont be a burden to my kids or society but that doesn't mean they get a paycheck when I keel over. Same thing for my dad right now. Would I ask him to die a year early just so I can get his house? Hell no! Mortgage his house, go as deep into debt as he wants, get every treatment he can so he can kick around another 6 months much less another year or more. No one has the right to put their own values on another person and dictate when they should or shouldn't die. People should live as long, or as short, as they choose to. Yes this isn't a 'green' attitude, bah, me and my loved ones are not compost heaps so the rest of you can feel less guilty.
May I ask *why* they can get more than just an ad on the page? Why oh why does wikipedia have to sell more than they need? They setup a system where ad space is sold on an as needed basis. Something like "we need funding to pay month of Aprils bill, there are X slots available at 10k a piece for May, first come first serve." Now you have people vying for ad spots and anyone trying to exert control is simply dropped from the list of sponsors. Once you make the ad space a rare commodity it becomes a buyers market.
So there you go, you've got a system where they make enough money to survive but not so much that you have to worry about the creators being able to afford mansions for different days of the week. Have wikipedia also make it where the books are open and you wont have to worry about corruption as much. It's only when the facts are hidden that corruption is really a danger afterall.
I say go for it, wikipedia is a great system that helps people globally, why should any one government fund them? Why should it care about funding from any one source? Sell ad space to the entire species on an as needed basis and be self sufficient.
That would work brilliantly in a "I need a scientist's opinion" expert witness. But what about plumbers/electricians/other such jobs? Yes there may be a few industry specific publications where these guys can publish but thats not the norm. An example, a guy with 40+ years of experience in a field who has never published a paper or a guy just out of college who studied it all in a book and some lab work but where he helped publish several papers. Which is the expert witness using your system and which is the *real* expert witness?
You'd have to set up a volunteer force of expert witnesses along with another administrative body to license them as such where they'd pay hefty fees/permanent license loss if found to be fraudulent/jail time. Maybe have them paid specific wages for their testimonials... might work for some fields, give the retired guys something to do.
It's a lot more complex than 4 little words is all I'm saying.
Wow you just gave me a strange insight into conspiracy theories... I've never had one so strong before. You throw in, as a negative, the fact that the automotive insurance people found a way to save lives *and* increase profits by making seat belts mandatory they did a Bad Thing. Forget the fact that it was pushed through by Nader or that it was in cars made by Tucker decades before...
Trahloc
Couple seconds of search brought this up:
http://www.latestpolitics.com/blog/comments/998
This is what they were talking about. Getting off your butt and typing a few things in a search and getting the response. Your 1 of ~303 million people in this country, neither you nor I deserve a personal letter from anyone explaining that they didn't do something. Even if their in a campaign to get your vote. Your on slashdot, you know how to formulate a search, don't pretend you have a higher moral ground when your really just being lazy.
Now it is a blog and a comment to one no less, maybe its made up... go search and double check it, please.
This is most likely based on the idea of ipv6 which means that even the smallest block assigned by ARIN equals billions of IP's. To receive an IPV6 allocation from ARIN, as of this month, you need to be able to justify handing out 200/48's minimal. Each of which equals at least 65k IP's... so no, I don't think that your argument on having to go requesting more is really an issue. The small companies will never run out even if they hand one to every employee/device and don't recycle and any company that can even touch a 1/10th of that can justify a larger block without even trying.
Yup, I work for another retailer and nothing makes me more pissed than renters.
Here comes the quesiton: "Why do you care?"
Because, if the store isn't making a profit they put more pressure on us to sell those warrenties you hate so much and just pressure in general. I don't get paid enough to deal with people nagging at me to sell more because some jackass decided he wanted to rent a gps unit while he was in {Insert Red Neck Vacation Spot Here}.
Per that logic anyone who does home theater setup and uses a commerical dvd to test it is also breaking the law. They are using the artists creation in a money making facet without giving compensation to the 'artist'. The fact that I use it for 5 minutes to set color and sound quality doesn't negate the fact that I'm using their product to make money. If your logic holds up then so does mine, even though mine is utter bull, much like your own.
Circuit City (who just became my favorite retailer, I forgive them their DIVX days now) is providing a service, how different is this than if someone comes to your house and does the exact same thing on your equipment? The law doesn't state (to my knowledge) that the equipment used for fairuse backup must be owned by the person who owns the dvd (then you can't go to a buddies house either then!). I also don't believe it said that you can't have someone do it _for_ you. It's just like www.mp3tunes.com and their Oboe service, you provide the material and they provide the service. Before when they just used your cd to verify you owned it they got in trouble, now that they just straight up store it they haven't had issues.
I wanted to look into mp3tunes real quick but my works websense is blocking it and I want to get this out there while its still fresh in my mind.
He's left with 15% of his networth, which will probably be donated at his death or shortly before it. Thats billions of dollars, lets see that in zeros, 37,000,000,000... thats alot of zeros. Just about all of us reading this could probably live the rest of our lives perfectly comfortable with only 10,000,000... thats never working again in our lives and not investing any of the money, even in a savings account.
So when you say someone can't afford to give away 85% of their network when that amount is 37,000,000,000... I think you just don't take the time to grasp how much money that IS... let me put it in perspective again, hope I didn't misplace a zero someplace. thats the equivelent of 48,802 people working a minimum wage job, 40 hours a week, for 50 years... he has 15% left over or 7320 human LIFETIMES of work to live off... so no I'm not going to be as impressed with Buffett giving away the money as I am with that janitor or laundry lady.
It's awesome that he gave it away, and I applaud him for doing so... but don't try to hold him up like some icon of virtue who has sacrificed ANYTHING... his life will be 100% identical, if even more richer now that he has retired from trying to be one of the richest men... which he probably still is...
Trahloc
ps. Numbers based on minimum wage being 6.75 just to keep things simple. Hope I didn't miss a decimal someplace.
1) That he signed a usage agreement.
2) That the agreement specifically states that circumventing the filters is against the agreement.
3) That the agreement, if signed, states that not only can they revoke his right to internet usage (the logical penalty for non-illegal use... myspace isn't illegal, just against policy) but also his right to graduate, something tax payer dollars have been paying for roughly 12 years to occur.
Someone(s) were circumventing the "censorship" (how is filtering boobies, at school, censorship?) software and the school wanted it stopped.
Censorship is the systematic use of group power to broadly control freedom of speech and expression, largely in regard to secretive matters. Sanitization (cleaning or decontamination) and whitewashing (from whitewash) are almost interchangeable terms that refer to particular acts or campaigns of censorship or omission which seek to "clean up" the portrayal of particular issues and facts which are already known, but which may conflict with a presented point of view.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
I think that blocking boobies would be censorship then.;)
Personally I hate filtering software... http://www.imminst.org/ is blocked by WebSense and that just pisses me off.
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I half agree with your idea but the second half thinks it wont work. What we need is as *many* people as possible to go out and vote... and scratch out both names or put in blank cards. Show the system you refuse to vote. Sitting at home holding a patriotic dinner party of your closest thousand friends who refuse to vote with you on some grand principal or being some drunk covered in their own vomit next to a dumpster look the same otherwise.
He wouldn't have to think his way out of a problem, just flex a bit.
Well you could say the RDA version found a reason to live while the KR's version was just looking for a way to die and blowing up a big ol alien seemed like the best way out.
Well MacGuyver's educational value, for me at least. Was showing that there are always a solution to a problem. Every time I think up a non direct solution to a problem because I don't have the proper tools on hand I give a nod to the creators of MacGuyver and RDA specifically. Although I prefer my leatherman to my swiss army knife, but then I carry both.
Actually, yes I would. The house I'm in will be owned by me and mortgaged for paying my medical bills. I wont be a burden to my kids or society but that doesn't mean they get a paycheck when I keel over. Same thing for my dad right now. Would I ask him to die a year early just so I can get his house? Hell no! Mortgage his house, go as deep into debt as he wants, get every treatment he can so he can kick around another 6 months much less another year or more. No one has the right to put their own values on another person and dictate when they should or shouldn't die. People should live as long, or as short, as they choose to. Yes this isn't a 'green' attitude, bah, me and my loved ones are not compost heaps so the rest of you can feel less guilty.
May I ask *why* they can get more than just an ad on the page? Why oh why does wikipedia have to sell more than they need? They setup a system where ad space is sold on an as needed basis. Something like "we need funding to pay month of Aprils bill, there are X slots available at 10k a piece for May, first come first serve." Now you have people vying for ad spots and anyone trying to exert control is simply dropped from the list of sponsors. Once you make the ad space a rare commodity it becomes a buyers market.
So there you go, you've got a system where they make enough money to survive but not so much that you have to worry about the creators being able to afford mansions for different days of the week. Have wikipedia also make it where the books are open and you wont have to worry about corruption as much. It's only when the facts are hidden that corruption is really a danger afterall.
I say go for it, wikipedia is a great system that helps people globally, why should any one government fund them? Why should it care about funding from any one source? Sell ad space to the entire species on an as needed basis and be self sufficient.
Trahloc
That would work brilliantly in a "I need a scientist's opinion" expert witness. But what about plumbers/electricians/other such jobs? Yes there may be a few industry specific publications where these guys can publish but thats not the norm. An example, a guy with 40+ years of experience in a field who has never published a paper or a guy just out of college who studied it all in a book and some lab work but where he helped publish several papers. Which is the expert witness using your system and which is the *real* expert witness?
... might work for some fields, give the retired guys something to do.
You'd have to set up a volunteer force of expert witnesses along with another administrative body to license them as such where they'd pay hefty fees/permanent license loss if found to be fraudulent/jail time. Maybe have them paid specific wages for their testimonials
It's a lot more complex than 4 little words is all I'm saying.
I dunno that just strikes me like an economic version of Original Sin. We need a economic messiah to wash away our debts...
Wow you just gave me a strange insight into conspiracy theories ... I've never had one so strong before. You throw in, as a negative, the fact that the automotive insurance people found a way to save lives *and* increase profits by making seat belts mandatory they did a Bad Thing. Forget the fact that it was pushed through by Nader or that it was in cars made by Tucker decades before...
Trahloc
Couple seconds of search brought this up: http://www.latestpolitics.com/blog/comments/998 This is what they were talking about. Getting off your butt and typing a few things in a search and getting the response. Your 1 of ~303 million people in this country, neither you nor I deserve a personal letter from anyone explaining that they didn't do something. Even if their in a campaign to get your vote. Your on slashdot, you know how to formulate a search, don't pretend you have a higher moral ground when your really just being lazy. Now it is a blog and a comment to one no less, maybe its made up ... go search and double check it, please.
This is most likely based on the idea of ipv6 which means that even the smallest block assigned by ARIN equals billions of IP's. To receive an IPV6 allocation from ARIN, as of this month, you need to be able to justify handing out 200 /48's minimal. Each of which equals at least 65k IP's ... so no, I don't think that your argument on having to go requesting more is really an issue. The small companies will never run out even if they hand one to every employee/device and don't recycle and any company that can even touch a 1/10th of that can justify a larger block without even trying.
Yup, I work for another retailer and nothing makes me more pissed than renters.
Here comes the quesiton: "Why do you care?"
Because, if the store isn't making a profit they put more pressure on us to sell those warrenties you hate so much and just pressure in general. I don't get paid enough to deal with people nagging at me to sell more because some jackass decided he wanted to rent a gps unit while he was in {Insert Red Neck Vacation Spot Here}.
Trahloc
Per that logic anyone who does home theater setup and uses a commerical dvd to test it is also breaking the law. They are using the artists creation in a money making facet without giving compensation to the 'artist'. The fact that I use it for 5 minutes to set color and sound quality doesn't negate the fact that I'm using their product to make money. If your logic holds up then so does mine, even though mine is utter bull, much like your own.
Circuit City (who just became my favorite retailer, I forgive them their DIVX days now) is providing a service, how different is this than if someone comes to your house and does the exact same thing on your equipment? The law doesn't state (to my knowledge) that the equipment used for fairuse backup must be owned by the person who owns the dvd (then you can't go to a buddies house either then!). I also don't believe it said that you can't have someone do it _for_ you. It's just like www.mp3tunes.com and their Oboe service, you provide the material and they provide the service. Before when they just used your cd to verify you owned it they got in trouble, now that they just straight up store it they haven't had issues.
I wanted to look into mp3tunes real quick but my works websense is blocking it and I want to get this out there while its still fresh in my mind.
Trahloc
He's left with 15% of his networth, which will probably be donated at his death or shortly before it. Thats billions of dollars, lets see that in zeros, 37,000,000,000 ... thats alot of zeros. Just about all of us reading this could probably live the rest of our lives perfectly comfortable with only 10,000,000 ... thats never working again in our lives and not investing any of the money, even in a savings account.
... I think you just don't take the time to grasp how much money that IS ... let me put it in perspective again, hope I didn't misplace a zero someplace. thats the equivelent of 48,802 people working a minimum wage job, 40 hours a week, for 50 years... he has 15% left over or 7320 human LIFETIMES of work to live off ... so no I'm not going to be as impressed with Buffett giving away the money as I am with that janitor or laundry lady.
... but don't try to hold him up like some icon of virtue who has sacrificed ANYTHING ... his life will be 100% identical, if even more richer now that he has retired from trying to be one of the richest men... which he probably still is...
So when you say someone can't afford to give away 85% of their network when that amount is 37,000,000,000
It's awesome that he gave it away, and I applaud him for doing so
Trahloc
ps. Numbers based on minimum wage being 6.75 just to keep things simple. Hope I didn't miss a decimal someplace.
Doh, pie in my face, he used the word Infer you used assume, ah well. ;) Close enough meanings.
2) That the agreement specifically states that circumventing the filters is against the agreement.
3) That the agreement, if signed, states that not only can they revoke his right to internet usage (the logical penalty for non-illegal use
None of those were stated in the article, which is why he said you "assumed" them. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Assume first definition.
Censorship is the systematic use of group power to broadly control freedom of speech and expression, largely in regard to secretive matters. Sanitization (cleaning or decontamination) and whitewashing (from whitewash) are almost interchangeable terms that refer to particular acts or campaigns of censorship or omission which seek to "clean up" the portrayal of particular issues and facts which are already known, but which may conflict with a presented point of view. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
I think that blocking boobies would be censorship then.
Personally I hate filtering software