the key in his introduction to getting you to go to his review is:
I don't think this book was intended for me, so keep that in mind when reading my review."
since i am a man, i will go out and review the new tampax smooth style heavy flow tampons, of course i will put the disclaimer that the product wasnt intended for me, and that this should be kept in mind when reading, what the disclaimer makes, a useless review!!!!
said one sighted person when reviewing the kurzeweil reading machine for the blind
"nice machine, but all the buttons and such have no labels, how do they expect the blind to see what they are doing?"
said a double leg amputee in reviewing nikes new air jumpoes...
"nice lines, cool colors.. i cant wear them, but if i had legs, i would"
does anyone see the uselessness of reviewing products that were not intended for the reviewer?
if you dont, then this mans review is perfect for you!
I am and i do shoot with the top pros (fashion and celebrity). I own both digital and film cameras. since most of my shooting is for news, magazines, television and such, i shoot digital.
there are still pros that shoot a mix of digital and film. (dan lecca for one).
film still can offer higher resolutions, and can be stored much longer than digital without a hassle (no compact medium lasts for that long, so you have to constantly recopy everything several times to insure only minor losses).
the key is not whether its film or digital but what kind of image do you want out. digital is more about image reproduction in its most true form. a kind of electronic eye (though what we see really isnt like a camera, what we see is perception and that can change and do all kinds of strange things). while film, was always about creating a great image. the top films do NOT reproduce light in true reproductive form. their color or grey scale curves are not smooth. they have random grain and it varies in size. there are all kinds of effects. depending on film you can have a much wider color range than any digital out there (more stops is sometimes nice). i guess the nearest equivalent would be in camera filter displays. so that you can set the 'view' to only display the image as if it was shot with tri-x, or agfa, or kodachrome 25... until they do this the images will not really look like the film counterparts. film now is expensive. i cant afford to shoot anywhere near as much film as i shoot digital. last year i blew through more than 75,000 images, and it was a slow year! (pro cameras, like the F5 have shutters rated in the millions of actions, not average rating of 10k images. the F5s sensors monitor the shutter and adjust it and exposures if it lacks for some reason. they already have huge backs for large format.
wavelength and such will keep them from being able to shrink the image elements down too much. however, the future is pretty much set. what we eventually will end up with is probably a camera that has one lens, no zoom. it takes a 100 to 300 meg image, and you crop out what you want down to say 10 megs. such a camera doesnt need a telephoto. you just zoom in and crop out the 10 meg image you want. i havent done and calculations but you can pretty much say where they will top out (if they want to remain compatible with past lenses - without exceeding the nyquist density, how many image elements can you put in the area. given that foveon has chips with elements stacked this number would be absolute (till they change lenses))
film probably will die out eventually in all but the largest formats. 35mm will probably go on for a long long time, but will be relegated to artists, the way pinhole cameras are today. i can see that once it gets too tough or too expensive, a resurgence of even tougher and more dangerous methods. like glass etching or degerotypes, and tin types.
there isnt much they can do in digital.. higher memories, faster imaging. fewer lenses. perhaps using two image elements to make cheap stereo 3d cameras. though they would have to be as wide as your eyes or more. they may put in nictating screens to give you various filter and light control, rather than a permanent IR or UV screen. with faster speeds they will actually take more exposures at one time. so they will take a dark level exposure, a standard, and a light level. software (that already exists) will allow integration of these three and a expansion of the range from 8 bit color per channel to 16 bit color per channel or more. coupled with the hugh imaging ability, wide exposure accross the whole image is not a problem. add networking. better, larger screens. faster frame rates... super high definition movies (in which you see stepped down parts in HD). 3d imaging, first with goggles, then later with the electronic equivalent of steroscopic glasses (that put the image on the back of your eye emmersively).
there isnt much more that i can list out.. no i dont work for the camera designers... they would never let someone with my kinds of ideas near em! (other than when they give me a loaner, but then they are only interested in that camera and not what they could do in general).
film is not dead... its good for what its good for... just as any tool is.
Kudo's to you!!!!!!
yay... i have this problem with many people discussing the scientists who barely have a science background... only because they are generally stuck in the science of 50 years ago, with some neat new stuff added on with no connection to the other science. (the femnits didnt help with dumbing us all down to help 'prove' tabula rasa, but thats a whole other discussion as to who has helped screw up our education system).
i am forever trying to show some person at a bar that scientists have a higher iq than them and that the simple and stupid things they think up are not things the scientists missed...
this comes from their view of how much science knowledge is out there... today the newspaper printed that more people (51%) believe in a creation theory than darwin.. why? because they are calling for an arbitrary proof as the only acceptable proof, and dont realize that civilization hasnt been here long enough to even watch geological period type changes.
just this morning i had to explain why (for the hundreth time) that the nazis did not have an antigravity machine, and this mans paper on using einsteins unified feild theory of gravitation (of which he failed to unify it and was done in the last 30 years of his life, and not the early part of his career), to provide torsion and such to be able to oppose "gravitation". they use the word torsion.. but i think they are refering to movement in a lagrange point in a manifold (something used to save feul in space), and frame dragging (the time space wake the earth leaves behind - and thats putting its poorly).
the average population can no longer understand the science on a basic level and like our ancestors are making up myths and such to explain them. making their own modern mosters, and gods, and such, with their own stories and lost secret info and such... all thinking that the principals have changed little...
cant talk to them about 'holes'
or quantum tunneling or entanglement
or really anything in a science way... there is too much they dont know and arent willing to accept (in an effort to win their point), to get anywhere...
whats even funnier is that they dont knwo that we have measured things beyond waht they claim and in some cases can measure them at the levl that they want, and that the measurement doesnt mean a thing towards the conclusions that they are trying to make.
they have been dumbed down and dont know it.
glass is easier to make and such than acrylics and is more durable...
melted soil and such makes a great building material.....
so the difference is only optimized economy. we use acrylic because its lighter and such in our environment... you can make glass a foot thick and relatively easily make it flat (metal float pool)..
you have to be able to make a log cabin in space...
so hollow out a huge room... then hit the inside with encredible heat till you fuse the walls... now you have a chamber... work from there...
same thing for the moon... stick it under the soil and fuse the walls (can use an energy beam powered by the sun... can even use a large magnifying glass since there is little atmosphere..
tech people have a problem coming up with low tech equivalennts... they rely on their tech so much they cant see how an ancient race can build the pyramids. why? because no one told them to build it with nothing or we'll kill you. the ancients had necessity while the techs only have salary.
sigh
ahhh.... mon ami... it DOES make sense...
when you enter the store they know who are carrying gold cards, platinum cards, etc...
its then easy to get sales people to focus on THOSE people first and formost.
technology today is no longer installed for any purpose that its stated its being installed for. from cameras in the subways (who are supposed to spot terrorists), to things like this.
the financial info may not be available openly, but there is no word on whats available off the card. at the very least an ID.. which can tie back to previous purchases in the store. another reason to focus on you.
later, stores will be able to analyse what you are wearing, where its from, when you purchased, it and whether they should hit you up to replace it.
note that integrationg with cell phones and ads, will mean instant ads as you walk past counters or stores.
biometric and radio coupled with visual recognition will build profiles of you based on what clothing you wear. at work AND off the job.
i dont doubt that some company will provide psych profiles of people based on their choices...(ah, yes, third copy of catcher in the rye... just kidding).
dont forget littering... you lose some paper or shit and it will go through a different conveyor that will ping each garbage owners purchases as litter... ping $50 per cigarette butt.
hey... the next thing you will see are some fly by night companies that will make foil lined wallets and carrying cases... put your card in here so it cant be scanned...
now you have to wait in line till the person pulls out their wallet, pulls out the foil lined case, fishes the credit card out, swipes it and then does all that work to put it away...
so no..
its not about faster checkout times...
its about eventually using a air lock type door system, so that you shop... you walk... pause.... and then walk... everything on you already checked and billed (they of course dont think that people are smart enough to block their tags - or screw them up with a tag mimic that answers yes to all radio queries, making communication with any tag impossible!)
now if only someone can fish up the hobby articles from poptronics (or such) that had a mp3 type player as a hobby design!!! i remember the article, but dont remember the source.
I didn't know you would start with an ad hominem from the gate. Good going, that's the way to win an argument (though I didn't know we were competing till you tried to draw first blood with your superior grammar). My spelling, grammatical errors, and such, in truth, have no bearing on the validity or the quality of the point I decided to post.
"None of your opinions change the simple fact that in a democracy people *will* get what they feel strongly about."
That may be what the textbook says but I don't think that is what we have. We get a lot of things that we don't want. Beginning in the 19th century the way we looked at companies changed. Something called corporate personhood was created. Prior to that the United States mistrusted corporations. But with the passing of the Fourteenth Amendment (the one intended to make sure slaves and all got equal protection and such), and later interpretations by the supreme court also offered these rights to corporations. In the first 30 or so years after the 14th was in, only 15 cases were brought having to do with African Americans, 135 were brought that involved business entities. From here on in the courts viewed corporations as individuals. Though unlike real human individuals corporations have immortality (and a few advantages that us humans don't). it was almost 1900 when the supreme court officially granted this status of personhood under the constitution (santa clara county v. southern pacific railroad). corporations were first granted protection under the Bill of Rights in 1893. in the new deal era federal regulations started to overpower state regulation. This was the start of the feds extortion of power from the state falsely giving it power over decisions that were guaranteed to the state to be theirs to decide (you don't make x illegal, then you don't get any federal money - good bye sovereignty of states).
to make this long thing shorter (and leave the legal history lesson to you), I will just skip it and give a quick summary.
we move forward to the 60's. laws became more intrusive (Mayer), and the idea of what property is changed. This led to more corporate protections and privileges. Some of these were revoked and then granted back in 1980.
the key here is that corporations have more control over the government than an average citizen. For other than the likes of bill gates and a few, there are a hell of a lot more companies that now are considered mega wealthy persons!! And as such have access and ability to change government for the people and by the people, into for immortal corporate persons for said same.
"The corporation's invocation of the first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights) symbolizes the transformation of our constitutional system from one of individual freedoms to one of organizational prerogatives." -Carl J Hastings, 1990 law journal article
in this new government order that I just all to quickly brought you through, how do those pesky people get what they will feel strongly about, when companies are people too?
Good or bad, that's how it goes. You might as well complain about hurricaine season in Florida (I know I do, but I don't expect anyone to care about those complaints). Heck, in Britain you don't even have a constitution to fall back on to stop a wave of sentiment, just tradition.
first of all.. you spelled hurricane wrong (you're the stickler, not me).
Second of all, I don't care about what the English decide to do in their country. That country wasn't made for me, this one was, as it is for all of us here.
Third... That's not how it goes in a republic. In a republic we make change by doing what I did. And that's post. And the people of a republic have a damn better chance effecting change through a system created for them to effect change.
Here is what you aren't getting. These changes that are being made, that can only be made by an act of congress (as dictated by the articles which IS the representative government
A "body of citizens" may not be the whole population, they can be an upper caste, or special group.
"the people" is all of em...
Perhaps this does make a difference between an order and a government...
though i cant really say... want to flip a coin on that one?
but this is not too important.. what we have is what we have, and in a few decades will be quite something else if we keep trading pieces of our rights away.
look it up... they are not the same... close but no cigar.
A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
the second one is what we talk about and act like we have and want.. the first one is what we have... there is a difference...
climate is what we want, weather is what we get!
you are an idiot for not even having the distrust that the founding fathers had.. they KNEW that governmetn was not friend to liberty... and that it should be curtailed..
yes it means that we are less safe from each other...
but we are more safe from the government! it wasnt citizens that injected black men in the south that had syphilis with plutionium.. that was our government...
the purges of people.. more than 70 million by only 3 systens... and that dwarfs the numbers killed by wars, and individual people...
you dont realize that in the begining hitler was VOTED in.. the jews voted yes like everyone else... but wasnt their government supposed to make them FEEL safe.. oh it did.. it scented cyclon B so it would have a fresh clean smell and not scare the people as they started to be gassed to death.. they sure felt safer!!!
as of august 3rd its our government that says if you sweat, pace, walk fast, walk slow, improperly dressed, that a police officer should cap you BEFORE asking questions and such!!! in other words, if the officer thinks you are a suspect he or she is supposed to shoot you first in the head, THEN figure out if your a terrorist! thats the program... feel safer? that poor guy in the UK wasnt even a saud... he was ASIAN...
and if your defense is that you are lucky enough not to fit the profile.. so you wont be bothered.. well wake up.. the profiles basically list conditions that EVERYONE is a suspect! you are a suspect.. you are guilty BEFORE innocent.. the MAJOR foundation of our legal system is also under attack.. presumption of innocence and due process...
but then again your young and educated here... you dont know how your own country works... they like that, for they have magic beans to sell you!!!
do me s favor... tomorrow when you leave the house... open all the windows.. unlock all the doors.. then when you leave, ONLY lock one of them.. tell me if you feel safe for your belongings.. then why would you feel safe on the subways... oh yeah... its because your belief system says govt is good and its here to help you (thats why duck and cover was such an effective strategy for nuclear holocaust)..
therefore.. in order to accept that this dont work you would have to accept that they are not helping.. your world view is such that they must.. you wont let go since you think your world view IS you. in order for you not to trust your government and watch them and make sure that it does what we want, you would have to let go of your sense of safety... so its you that cultivates false safety in order to feel safe.. and feeling safe is a far cry from being safe.. for one can be safe and feel scared... but one can also feel safe and be in great danger.. the first one is smarter...
so denial of basic rights is how a "democracy works"?
and in case you didnt know...
this is NOT a democracy... this is a republic!
(ok... slowly say the pledg... "and to the republic fo which it stands")
making people FEEL safe is NOT a key role of government!!! its a task that government has no power to accomplish, any more than it can make me feel happy, joyful, etc.
70 years ago millions were willing to die rather than put those papers on hold!!! today, we would rather put the founding principals on hold... but those principals are what we are... if we could put them on hold (you cant, they are not a product of government they are inalianable, then communist russia was just a republic with its rights temporarily on hold till the US was gone..
when do we get them back?
when will we FEEL that it is safe enough to tell our government to stop looking into our personal effects for no reason?
NEVER
because they will find new reasons... even now they are starting to use the fallacious argument that becuase nothing has happened what we are doing is working (what they dont realize is that because i didnt move away from new york that i am the real reason that nothing is happening! the fact that nothing has happend since i stayed is proof that i personally am holding the terorists at bay!)
soon... they will say.. hey, we can kill people if they are suspected... (whoops too late, they already killed one guy inthe UK and now just implemented the same program here in NY)...
meanwhile... it doesnt stop anything!!! we have paid for protection that doesnt work with the price of one of the most important amendments to the constitution!!! a document that defines what governments job is, and no where in that document does it say to make us FEEL safe!!!
in fact the second amendment allows us as citizens to form our own militias to feel safe!!
they "provide for the common defense" and "promote the general welfare" and "SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY" for ourselves and our posterity...
you cant secure liberty by taking it away!!!!!
and if we put it away... when does my posterity get to enjoy it? (i mean they already have to self censor their speech, cant be safe in person from the government as the 4th amendment is trash with these searches, cant own property if someone else can make more money with it, and has lost due process in many aspects of the legal system)
i know.. they dont.. not till the world is "safe again"... well... there is no again, for it was NEVER safe... and nothing they can do can stop terrorism in a FREE country. nothing. if the german police state couldnt stop the french underground in a totalitarian machine willing to murder a whole city to stop it, then do you think that looking in my bag (and not even knowing what a bomb looks like), will stop a determined person?
these are ELEVATED trains... you can park a car under and wait for 2 to go by...
when you sell your life savings and the core of how you live for a solution.. then be sure as hell that your not buying magic beans!!!
benjamin franklin said that those that are willing to trade freedom for safety will get neither.
They are now!!!
Wall Street Journal Aug 3 reported that the police now have orders to kill suspects, just like the UK!!
the list of things to suspect is ridiculous and can be exhibeted by many people.
not to mention that none of these people saw "speeed" and have learned what a dead mans trigger is (it goes OFF (ie boom) when the person lets go or dies).
they also dont think terrorists are smart enough to send someone ahead of them into a train station to see if it is one where ober meisters are going through peoples personal effects (meanwhile they can pack a laptop and the cops would let them on through.. or wrap it as a postal package... would you believe they are looking for "wires sticking out), chipping away at our rights to keep a few people safe.
70 years ago a few million people thought those same rights were worth dying for. now only a few understand that what those died for, they just gave away.
shame.
except that you dont have a model for terrorists and for such... which means that they make up behaviors...
recent article in new york asking people to watch for terrorists on the train said to watch for those that are sweating. watch for those looking around (so now the peolpe following the article are suspect), watch for those walking 'too fast' and for those walking 'too slow'.
and no one got that that fit everyone except for the police that were just standing there.. oh, and the terrorists that were waiting...
not only that, but police are considered a better target... whats better than 10 of them around a little table with a bunch of civilans bunched up too? screw the train they cause more trouble by taking out the officers, and then the officers get scared to help people, crime goes up, officer roles go down, etc...
if the politicians are this dumb, do you really want them to be able to track your movements in minutea land? especially when now they consider "taxes" as "revenue streams" and say things like maximizing... these are business terms that go for profits, not terms for people that are trying to tax minimally to provide needed services common to all people.
the item goes back to the function of law...
is it to punish every infraction, or is it to maintain the public peace with the realization that resources are limited (and it would server no purpose to cost everyone lots of money locking up someone that they can deport for free)
this question has only been philosophically asked as we never had enough resources, or things never were cheap enough to attempt the concept of perfect implementation of law.
just think... with rfid tags you can be ticketed for jaywalking (its easy.. each corner has a reader, and reades everything... be on the wrong corner after you were on another one, then you must have crossed the street in the middle, ipso facto, one 200 jaywalking ticket. dont step off the curb with a red light either!)
the number of crimes they can find just poring over the data... as each crimes subroutine gets into play, past data will be gone through (we dont like limitations statutes), and you will suddenly start getting tickets for thigns you did years ago that you didnt even know were crimes...
spent your last dollar on the way home.. wow, you get a ticket for vagrancy from every corner (why not, you didnt stop committing crime between blocks, so its perfectly reasonable that each block be looked at as a separate instance of a crime)
but wait.. a panhandler begs money from you.. suddenly you have a ticket because the money was tracked in your pocket when you entered the train. and was in his pocket when you left. there is no record of prior interactoin between you and that other person and so you contributed to a crime.
wow.. this is fun..
i am good at this kind of thing...
and with what they can do with rfids, it will be so much 'fun' [huge sarcasm] when someone makes a bomb that is programmed to only go off if one of many people on a list walk over (you can collect the ids by getting close to them so its not secret).
the difference is passive vs active. barcodes were passive line of site. so you could control its exposure (and because of this you had limitations otherwise). rfid is active and pervasive.. so now you dont have the line of site problem for companies, but you lost the security of access.
not to mention that its easy to beat the mesh network that lets them talk.. just have a special tool answer yes to every inquiry.. and it all crumbles...
so there will be a black market on devices to hide you. criminals will become adept at covering and uncovering their items to make alibies and to move under the radar, and appear back...
it wont stop kidnapping as the other person said..
all i have to do is scan that girl for her tag. those that are not nice will cut it out rather than send a finger. they will have blocked their licences as well as their bio tags...
they may even use her tag as a false bait (put it on a stray cat and let it run around the city).
well, i have work to do... and no one has hired my think tank to come up with scenarios, and so i have to get going..
sayonara.
ah... so what you approve of is permanently being a person of interest because the man you bought newspapers from was a member of a terrorist cell.
it turns out that because of RFIDs they know that you traded material with this person every day.
given that its now ok to suspect everyone rather than the opposite, your name is now on a list. but you dont know that. you just think its bad luck that you always get pulled out of line at the airlines.
[airlines are privately owned public space, not like trains that are publicly owned public spaces. when they connect searching between the two, they leave out the distinction that a person on private property has less rights than when on government property]
you may find that over time you get audited more to catch tax discrepancies.
perhaps now your car will get pulled over when they run your plates...
why?
because every day you bought a newspaper from a unknown person of interest...
dont think it can happen?
i live in queens and atta and another terrorist were at a store here. we all bought papers from them!!! everyone in the neighborhood knew it when we saw the pictures. the fbi investigated, and the store is under new management.
there are other scenarios. like you pull over to park for a minute while your lady gets out to grab a coffee for both of you. you get a ticket a month later for being parked at an expired meter.
by then the law will be changed to make the car the criminal.. that way they can ticket the owner without having to prove who was driving.
what if some teenagers joy ride with your car and return it without you knowing (something i knew kids did in my neighborhood), and now you have lots of tickets.
RFID will give govts unparalleled ability to track our lives and our transactions only a matter of time before they tag money and start to track how it goes back and forth from person to person.
you may find yourself getting a tax bill for the money you won on sunday nights poker game!
even though our money says that debts can be private...
yeah.. its gonna look like that world in pink floyd the wall.. just looking down and marching... (they are polishing software that can identify you by how you walk, or pick you out based on how you move. the only way to avoid the problem will be people will walk in a proscribed manner to avoid scrutiny, as every mannerism uncontrolled becomes suspect)
hey! personal rfids will make thought police possible map the voice print to the rfid signal and you can now fine them for saying that not all women are perfect. you may get on a suspect list because you dont love the president and everything they are doing.
perhaps bosses will switch and use dock time.. pay you by the minute rather than the hour and have the rfid monitor your presence...
oh.. well now we can deduct for bathroom time.. and if you walked around for a few mins, etc..
the list goes on and on.. i should write a book listing out all ths shit that they will do!!! for there is nothign at all to stop them! they have plenty of people that will say its reasonable, and plenty more that will step up on camera and parrot the party line in propaganda (which is why lots of small stations are much better than a few large companies - but who cares... this is now a republic for the wealthy and their corporations)
yeah... thats why they searched my bag this morning... you see i am a suspected terrorist.. we are all suspected criminals... especially when moving through checkpoints (of which the car was the weak link).
welcome to the 4th reich.
the officer didnt like that i refered to him as ober meister...
Someone of true intelligence will not need to gripe or make claims (true or not) that their IQ defines them as a genius; they will have the intelligence to know how to forge their way forwards/upwards and be happy in the process of doing so.
Highly intelligent people have the same foibles and eccentricities of any other group, and some would say maybe even more.
it is only the less intelligent that think that being smart or having IQ is a panacea that would rationalize peoples behavior.
they may NOT have the intelligence to forge their way upward, and in fact most do not. often those that do succeed are protected by mentors, good bosses, or the educational system.
they often suffer in grand scale when they get caught by someone that needs to use them without reward or just compensation.
often they are naive because they think things out and the premises we hold about people to get through the day dont allow us to easily think ill of everyone around us.
intelligent people often blow the curve, and dont play well socially. this makes any group that has a certaion status quo to want to get rid of this person, or keep them down so that they dont blow the curve at work too. this is natural, and the smart often dont know why they often have this 'bad luck'.
so no.. its not what someone of lesser thought would think it is. being smart is not the boon that makes the clouds open the angels sing and the harps play for your presence. I know, i also have a very high IQ (i went to bronx science a year early and consistently tested in the 99.999th percentile), and what does this mean. it means i usually can get answers faster than other people, and amazingly so in my domains of expertise. it means that i am not liked as much as other people, for i am overly helpful, and it has taken me years to learn to let people struggle and such (though if you do this you also have to create the situation that you couldnt help either, its a damned if you do damned if you dont situation).
in general co-workers think me odd... because after work i work... because my interests are things like high end fashion photography (i am signed and my work has been seen all over the world), and physics and r&d, etc. you see my interests are less limited by ability than most peoples.
am i successful... not at all.. i still get tripped up by all the same foibles (and some special ones).. as an older programmer they dont think i can do the work, though i can run circles around the younger ones. they are VERY shallow in skills, personality, ability, and such.. totally naive, and a product of feelings education over meritocracy... so image has something to do with how well you program.. the bottom line is that i am over 40 and i am rotting on the vine making the salary i was making 12 years ago.. they get 20 years experience for half price...
now if they can figure out how we can purchase the products we make when we dont earn the money any more? i guess i should have learned erdu... as it is i am learning Bahasa Indonesian... so maybe i will not be crushed as hard as someone not as smart, but i will still be stepped on.
[note that a shmoozer social person can get backing for a product that wont work, but a geek type cant get backing for a product that works real well!]
russian mob is not the same as the italian or other mobs... first of all its top heavy with phd's!!! engineers, programmers, chemists, etc... what the hell do you think happens when you have a disenfranchised highly intelligent group? duh.. its one thign to disenfranchise the poor and stupid.. antoher to do it to the people that are smart...
no they would beat the shit out of him and leave him as a message... no reason to hide it, or anythign... its out in the open.. and the person who was to get the message surely got it..
probably lack of pay off, or threat of cooperation... done deal after that
they also work in reverse...
so you can use peltiers to generate electricity which is also a cooling effect....
now put them in opposition and use all the heat you want from the engine as its free... that in turn makes more elect for the peltiers that will cool the ambient air at the point were the people are.
George Bush is president but feminist organizations have more pull in laws.
lets see VAWA which should be VAPA Violence against persons act - but no - Where in the Constitution does Congress find the authority to enact such legislation, which under our federalist system belongs to the states? not to mention the 14th amendments "Section 1 of the Amendment states, in part, "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Gender specific laws violate equal protection, and many of them create special punishments for one gender over another when there were equal laws that could have been applied. america is not supposed to be about special laws. would you think it ok to make a law that says that when a black man hits a white man there should be a greater sentence? then why would you think it ok (not actually saying you do, since there is no way to read that into your posit), to have a laws that are gender specific?
for instance it is assumed that under VAWA that men could seek help when their wives were the abusers (remember under the law the male cant take any actions to physically defend himself, therefore they are left without any assisance - and women are slightly more likely to assault their mates!! (though they do less damage on average). however a specific clause denies shelters money if they do so.
when laws are not equal for all you make a favored group. a favored group is against what america is about, at least in ideals, if not in practice. And Congress peoples that do this are also violating their oaths of office.
then how about speech control. the country with the first amendment is telling other countries what to say!!! we forget in this country that it is OFFENSIVE speech that is protected (favored speech needs no protection).
then how about changing laws that enable the govermment to step in and take you children in absence of due process. the family court is americas only secret court. you cant read judgements or records or anything else like in every other court (except miitary tribunals with is under other laws, and those cases of national security). many courts make unilateral decisions in favor of mothers when the known father is absent or cant attend! check out whats happening to our troops..
then what about debtors prison. which is only applied to fathers. the number of women that can pay and dont pay child support is higher than the number of men that can pay and dont (40% vs 10%).
rape sheild laws make a special case of special victims. it amounts to not being able to defend yourself (check out what happend to javovich - he had a kinky tryst with a lady who later claimed kidnapping and sexual assault and such. under the sheild laws he was not able to show that she was purguring herself. later the letters written by her claiming to like all that kind of stuff, and her expertise etc. etc. after losing a major portion of his life he finally was released and aquitted of all charges.)
then how about the ruling that a woman can collect full child support from more than one father for one kid (i bet your wondering how they can do that! )
and yes.. just so you dont start belittling me for my opinions.. i did lose my son in all this.. his mom was abusive.. compulsive liar.. and after she robbed a bank and served for 1.5 years in fed, i still couldnt have my son. i have never been convicted of a crime (other than a couple of speeding tickets in 30 years), though she almost had me go away on false murder charges when she disappeared for6 months withouth telling anyone anything! I still pay her chld support even though the boy no longer lives with her!!! cant get it amended... out of juristiction has made illegal judgments in states of non residence (in violation of such laws).
no when the state can come in and take your children and there is no due process, discovery of evidence, etc..
what MS is doing is not needed.
there is no law making them do this at all.
so they are voluntarily stripping your rights and such at the behest of other companies rather than their consumers.. tell me if that is not collusion and the reason why monopolies are not good?
tell you the truth.. i dont care anymore..
the masses are being pinched.. and DVD is a MASS media.. the more that can buy the more you make. except the only peoples incomes that have increased (in real terms) in the past 20 years are the top 10%.. with offshoring and with nafta, and cafta people cant afford it.. its why DVD sales are slumping...
the issue here is that if MS continues to ignore that now there are other operating systems and such, and that doing things against your clients only works when you are a monopoly...
even if these things wont work at all in linux, its still better..
i am getting to the point that i am trying to teach my freinds to go out, lets take pics, lets see a free show in the park, go skating , read under the trees..
the entertainment industry forgets that they ALSO compete with those things too.. and when their price performance is too high given your ROI in satisfaction, you shift to other things that do that. the sad part is that with such shitty movies, and so many crappy remakes, the population may just 'discover' that those things are actually a lot more fun than the movies are now...
the other thing is that this is a money maker in other ways. that DVM will not be robust, despite what it seems like. why? because, when someone cracks it, and beats it, then they will change it and we all will have to buy new monitors and TVs as they are not software upgradable, nor do they want to be! in fact nothing stops them from 'improving' it anyway and doing this every ccouple of years.
i have a 21 inch autocad workstation with hige res and color correction on a cathode flat screen. better color and such for the graphics and what not. i spend more than 3000 when that was new in 1999.. it still runs sweet, has no burn in (i have been a sofware engineer for more than 20 years and other things). i am NOT going to bother with this...
you know what i will do instead.
say fuck it.. wait three months and watch it with my normal cable!!!!!!!
if they think that a blurry version is ok for us to watch they just proved that yuo dont care as much about HD as they stress!!!
screw it.. i will wait.. and if i dont have that i will watch something else. if it really is that good and i want it.. i will pay the 2.99-3.99 pay per view fee..
bottom line is that only really good films are worth $4!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or less... (and the medium of storage is not worth the other $12-$26!)
the drivel they make is not worth more, and certainly not worth 500 a year (amortizing the monitors) extra to see!!!
but to be FAIR, though i dont know why..
MS is probably making the decision based on the recording and movie industry.
if MS does not comply then windows boxes will not be able to play ANY movies and such, becasue the code was a work for hire of the recording industry and movie industry.
MS is making the decision that people wont by the new operating system without this, or fewer will. however DVDs are not the major reason i buy a computer...
basically the recording industry is playing a dangerous game. they are saying "either you comply with us, or you dont get ANY entertainment"
if we take the threat, we lose...
there will always be wealthier people that dont care, so we are already sold out.
screw em though...
I have never thought of buying a street DVD, but may start in purpose. in fact the ONLY dvd i have ever bought was the first lord of the rings movie... but when they decided to screw me i didnt by the rest. how did they screw me, easy, they then came out with richer better editions, and i realized that if i buy the others soon and not wait 5 years i will get less for my money.. and so i dont buy
sorry... there is no law that says you have to not have designed obsolescence.. light bulbs are designed to fail near a certain mark (and you would be surprised how well and close they meet that mark - dad was a light bulb engineer).
whats the difference if you design somethign to fail by not making it robust enough, or you program it in.
the only thing unfair is not telling us what the rated lifetime is so we can make an informed choice.
no need to hack it...
here is what you do...
someone will buy a large digital monitor and all the nice nice stuff...
then they will turn the lights out, sync the a video recorder to that.. and voila...
instant copy...
let me know if you figure out a way to encrypt light on the way from the screen to your eye..
even if they do something to fuck up the image you can do something back to get it if you ahve better equipment...
shoot...
to tell you the truth with I2C 1-wire, 3-wire and stuff for chips to communicate between each other and new great cheap asics are out all the time, you can actually build your own!!!
yeah..
recording industry is dumb (and ms is stuck between them and you)
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the key in his introduction to getting you to go to his review is:
I don't think this book was intended for me, so keep that in mind when reading my review."
since i am a man, i will go out and review the new tampax smooth style heavy flow tampons, of course i will put the disclaimer that the product wasnt intended for me, and that this should be kept in mind when reading, what the disclaimer makes, a useless review!!!! said one sighted person when reviewing the kurzeweil reading machine for the blind "nice machine, but all the buttons and such have no labels, how do they expect the blind to see what they are doing?" said a double leg amputee in reviewing nikes new air jumpoes... "nice lines, cool colors.. i cant wear them, but if i had legs, i would" does anyone see the uselessness of reviewing products that were not intended for the reviewer? if you dont, then this mans review is perfect for you!
I am and i do shoot with the top pros (fashion and celebrity). I own both digital and film cameras. since most of my shooting is for news, magazines, television and such, i shoot digital. there are still pros that shoot a mix of digital and film. (dan lecca for one). film still can offer higher resolutions, and can be stored much longer than digital without a hassle (no compact medium lasts for that long, so you have to constantly recopy everything several times to insure only minor losses). the key is not whether its film or digital but what kind of image do you want out. digital is more about image reproduction in its most true form. a kind of electronic eye (though what we see really isnt like a camera, what we see is perception and that can change and do all kinds of strange things). while film, was always about creating a great image. the top films do NOT reproduce light in true reproductive form. their color or grey scale curves are not smooth. they have random grain and it varies in size. there are all kinds of effects. depending on film you can have a much wider color range than any digital out there (more stops is sometimes nice). i guess the nearest equivalent would be in camera filter displays. so that you can set the 'view' to only display the image as if it was shot with tri-x, or agfa, or kodachrome 25... until they do this the images will not really look like the film counterparts. film now is expensive. i cant afford to shoot anywhere near as much film as i shoot digital. last year i blew through more than 75,000 images, and it was a slow year! (pro cameras, like the F5 have shutters rated in the millions of actions, not average rating of 10k images. the F5s sensors monitor the shutter and adjust it and exposures if it lacks for some reason. they already have huge backs for large format. wavelength and such will keep them from being able to shrink the image elements down too much. however, the future is pretty much set. what we eventually will end up with is probably a camera that has one lens, no zoom. it takes a 100 to 300 meg image, and you crop out what you want down to say 10 megs. such a camera doesnt need a telephoto. you just zoom in and crop out the 10 meg image you want. i havent done and calculations but you can pretty much say where they will top out (if they want to remain compatible with past lenses - without exceeding the nyquist density, how many image elements can you put in the area. given that foveon has chips with elements stacked this number would be absolute (till they change lenses)) film probably will die out eventually in all but the largest formats. 35mm will probably go on for a long long time, but will be relegated to artists, the way pinhole cameras are today. i can see that once it gets too tough or too expensive, a resurgence of even tougher and more dangerous methods. like glass etching or degerotypes, and tin types. there isnt much they can do in digital.. higher memories, faster imaging. fewer lenses. perhaps using two image elements to make cheap stereo 3d cameras. though they would have to be as wide as your eyes or more. they may put in nictating screens to give you various filter and light control, rather than a permanent IR or UV screen. with faster speeds they will actually take more exposures at one time. so they will take a dark level exposure, a standard, and a light level. software (that already exists) will allow integration of these three and a expansion of the range from 8 bit color per channel to 16 bit color per channel or more. coupled with the hugh imaging ability, wide exposure accross the whole image is not a problem. add networking. better, larger screens. faster frame rates... super high definition movies (in which you see stepped down parts in HD). 3d imaging, first with goggles, then later with the electronic equivalent of steroscopic glasses (that put the image on the back of your eye emmersively). there isnt much more that i can list out.. no i dont work for the camera designers... they would never let someone with my kinds of ideas near em! (other than when they give me a loaner, but then they are only interested in that camera and not what they could do in general). film is not dead... its good for what its good for... just as any tool is.
no one has made a road and a wheel in which the two are the same? obviously this person has never used a gear and rail... duh...
Kudo's to you!!!!!! yay... i have this problem with many people discussing the scientists who barely have a science background... only because they are generally stuck in the science of 50 years ago, with some neat new stuff added on with no connection to the other science. (the femnits didnt help with dumbing us all down to help 'prove' tabula rasa, but thats a whole other discussion as to who has helped screw up our education system). i am forever trying to show some person at a bar that scientists have a higher iq than them and that the simple and stupid things they think up are not things the scientists missed... this comes from their view of how much science knowledge is out there... today the newspaper printed that more people (51%) believe in a creation theory than darwin.. why? because they are calling for an arbitrary proof as the only acceptable proof, and dont realize that civilization hasnt been here long enough to even watch geological period type changes. just this morning i had to explain why (for the hundreth time) that the nazis did not have an antigravity machine, and this mans paper on using einsteins unified feild theory of gravitation (of which he failed to unify it and was done in the last 30 years of his life, and not the early part of his career), to provide torsion and such to be able to oppose "gravitation". they use the word torsion.. but i think they are refering to movement in a lagrange point in a manifold (something used to save feul in space), and frame dragging (the time space wake the earth leaves behind - and thats putting its poorly). the average population can no longer understand the science on a basic level and like our ancestors are making up myths and such to explain them. making their own modern mosters, and gods, and such, with their own stories and lost secret info and such... all thinking that the principals have changed little... cant talk to them about 'holes' or quantum tunneling or entanglement or really anything in a science way... there is too much they dont know and arent willing to accept (in an effort to win their point), to get anywhere... whats even funnier is that they dont knwo that we have measured things beyond waht they claim and in some cases can measure them at the levl that they want, and that the measurement doesnt mean a thing towards the conclusions that they are trying to make. they have been dumbed down and dont know it.
glass is easier to make and such than acrylics and is more durable... melted soil and such makes a great building material..... so the difference is only optimized economy. we use acrylic because its lighter and such in our environment... you can make glass a foot thick and relatively easily make it flat (metal float pool).. you have to be able to make a log cabin in space... so hollow out a huge room... then hit the inside with encredible heat till you fuse the walls... now you have a chamber... work from there... same thing for the moon... stick it under the soil and fuse the walls (can use an energy beam powered by the sun... can even use a large magnifying glass since there is little atmosphere.. tech people have a problem coming up with low tech equivalennts... they rely on their tech so much they cant see how an ancient race can build the pyramids. why? because no one told them to build it with nothing or we'll kill you. the ancients had necessity while the techs only have salary. sigh
ahhh.... mon ami... it DOES make sense... when you enter the store they know who are carrying gold cards, platinum cards, etc... its then easy to get sales people to focus on THOSE people first and formost. technology today is no longer installed for any purpose that its stated its being installed for. from cameras in the subways (who are supposed to spot terrorists), to things like this. the financial info may not be available openly, but there is no word on whats available off the card. at the very least an ID.. which can tie back to previous purchases in the store. another reason to focus on you. later, stores will be able to analyse what you are wearing, where its from, when you purchased, it and whether they should hit you up to replace it. note that integrationg with cell phones and ads, will mean instant ads as you walk past counters or stores. biometric and radio coupled with visual recognition will build profiles of you based on what clothing you wear. at work AND off the job. i dont doubt that some company will provide psych profiles of people based on their choices...(ah, yes, third copy of catcher in the rye... just kidding). dont forget littering... you lose some paper or shit and it will go through a different conveyor that will ping each garbage owners purchases as litter... ping $50 per cigarette butt. hey... the next thing you will see are some fly by night companies that will make foil lined wallets and carrying cases... put your card in here so it cant be scanned... now you have to wait in line till the person pulls out their wallet, pulls out the foil lined case, fishes the credit card out, swipes it and then does all that work to put it away... so no.. its not about faster checkout times... its about eventually using a air lock type door system, so that you shop... you walk... pause.... and then walk... everything on you already checked and billed (they of course dont think that people are smart enough to block their tags - or screw them up with a tag mimic that answers yes to all radio queries, making communication with any tag impossible!)
now if only someone can fish up the hobby articles from poptronics (or such) that had a mp3 type player as a hobby design!!! i remember the article, but dont remember the source.
I didn't know you would start with an ad hominem from the gate. Good going, that's the way to win an argument (though I didn't know we were competing till you tried to draw first blood with your superior grammar). My spelling, grammatical errors, and such, in truth, have no bearing on the validity or the quality of the point I decided to post.
"None of your opinions change the simple fact that in a democracy people *will* get what they feel strongly about."
That may be what the textbook says but I don't think that is what we have. We get a lot of things that we don't want. Beginning in the 19th century the way we looked at companies changed. Something called corporate personhood was created. Prior to that the United States mistrusted corporations. But with the passing of the Fourteenth Amendment (the one intended to make sure slaves and all got equal protection and such), and later interpretations by the supreme court also offered these rights to corporations. In the first 30 or so years after the 14th was in, only 15 cases were brought having to do with African Americans, 135 were brought that involved business entities. From here on in the courts viewed corporations as individuals. Though unlike real human individuals corporations have immortality (and a few advantages that us humans don't). it was almost 1900 when the supreme court officially granted this status of personhood under the constitution (santa clara county v. southern pacific railroad). corporations were first granted protection under the Bill of Rights in 1893. in the new deal era federal regulations started to overpower state regulation. This was the start of the feds extortion of power from the state falsely giving it power over decisions that were guaranteed to the state to be theirs to decide (you don't make x illegal, then you don't get any federal money - good bye sovereignty of states).
to make this long thing shorter (and leave the legal history lesson to you), I will just skip it and give a quick summary.
we move forward to the 60's. laws became more intrusive (Mayer), and the idea of what property is changed. This led to more corporate protections and privileges. Some of these were revoked and then granted back in 1980.
the key here is that corporations have more control over the government than an average citizen. For other than the likes of bill gates and a few, there are a hell of a lot more companies that now are considered mega wealthy persons!! And as such have access and ability to change government for the people and by the people, into for immortal corporate persons for said same.
"The corporation's invocation of the first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights) symbolizes the transformation of our constitutional system from one of individual freedoms to one of organizational prerogatives." -Carl J Hastings, 1990 law journal article
in this new government order that I just all to quickly brought you through, how do those pesky people get what they will feel strongly about, when companies are people too?
Good or bad, that's how it goes. You might as well complain about hurricaine season in Florida (I know I do, but I don't expect anyone to care about those complaints). Heck, in Britain you don't even have a constitution to fall back on to stop a wave of sentiment, just tradition.
first of all.. you spelled hurricane wrong (you're the stickler, not me).
Second of all, I don't care about what the English decide to do in their country. That country wasn't made for me, this one was, as it is for all of us here.
Third... That's not how it goes in a republic. In a republic we make change by doing what I did. And that's post. And the people of a republic have a damn better chance effecting change through a system created for them to effect change.
Here is what you aren't getting. These changes that are being made, that can only be made by an act of congress (as dictated by the articles which IS the representative government
A "body of citizens" may not be the whole population, they can be an upper caste, or special group. "the people" is all of em... Perhaps this does make a difference between an order and a government... though i cant really say... want to flip a coin on that one? but this is not too important.. what we have is what we have, and in a few decades will be quite something else if we keep trading pieces of our rights away.
look it up... they are not the same... close but no cigar. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections the second one is what we talk about and act like we have and want.. the first one is what we have... there is a difference... climate is what we want, weather is what we get!
forgot to mention...
the founding fathers DID NOT TRUST government...
you are an idiot for not even having the distrust that the founding fathers had.. they KNEW that governmetn was not friend to liberty... and that it should be curtailed..
yes it means that we are less safe from each other...
but we are more safe from the government! it wasnt citizens that injected black men in the south that had syphilis with plutionium.. that was our government...
the purges of people.. more than 70 million by only 3 systens... and that dwarfs the numbers killed by wars, and individual people...
you dont realize that in the begining hitler was VOTED in.. the jews voted yes like everyone else... but wasnt their government supposed to make them FEEL safe.. oh it did.. it scented cyclon B so it would have a fresh clean smell and not scare the people as they started to be gassed to death.. they sure felt safer!!!
as of august 3rd its our government that says if you sweat, pace, walk fast, walk slow, improperly dressed, that a police officer should cap you BEFORE asking questions and such!!! in other words, if the officer thinks you are a suspect he or she is supposed to shoot you first in the head, THEN figure out if your a terrorist! thats the program... feel safer? that poor guy in the UK wasnt even a saud... he was ASIAN...
and if your defense is that you are lucky enough not to fit the profile.. so you wont be bothered.. well wake up.. the profiles basically list conditions that EVERYONE is a suspect! you are a suspect.. you are guilty BEFORE innocent.. the MAJOR foundation of our legal system is also under attack.. presumption of innocence and due process...
but then again your young and educated here... you dont know how your own country works... they like that, for they have magic beans to sell you!!!
do me s favor... tomorrow when you leave the house... open all the windows.. unlock all the doors.. then when you leave, ONLY lock one of them.. tell me if you feel safe for your belongings.. then why would you feel safe on the subways... oh yeah... its because your belief system says govt is good and its here to help you (thats why duck and cover was such an effective strategy for nuclear holocaust)..
therefore.. in order to accept that this dont work you would have to accept that they are not helping.. your world view is such that they must.. you wont let go since you think your world view IS you. in order for you not to trust your government and watch them and make sure that it does what we want, you would have to let go of your sense of safety... so its you that cultivates false safety in order to feel safe.. and feeling safe is a far cry from being safe.. for one can be safe and feel scared... but one can also feel safe and be in great danger.. the first one is smarter...
so denial of basic rights is how a "democracy works"?
and in case you didnt know...
this is NOT a democracy... this is a republic!
(ok... slowly say the pledg... "and to the republic fo which it stands")
making people FEEL safe is NOT a key role of government!!! its a task that government has no power to accomplish, any more than it can make me feel happy, joyful, etc.
70 years ago millions were willing to die rather than put those papers on hold!!! today, we would rather put the founding principals on hold... but those principals are what we are... if we could put them on hold (you cant, they are not a product of government they are inalianable, then communist russia was just a republic with its rights temporarily on hold till the US was gone..
when do we get them back?
when will we FEEL that it is safe enough to tell our government to stop looking into our personal effects for no reason?
NEVER
because they will find new reasons... even now they are starting to use the fallacious argument that becuase nothing has happened what we are doing is working (what they dont realize is that because i didnt move away from new york that i am the real reason that nothing is happening! the fact that nothing has happend since i stayed is proof that i personally am holding the terorists at bay!)
soon... they will say.. hey, we can kill people if they are suspected... (whoops too late, they already killed one guy inthe UK and now just implemented the same program here in NY)...
meanwhile... it doesnt stop anything!!! we have paid for protection that doesnt work with the price of one of the most important amendments to the constitution!!! a document that defines what governments job is, and no where in that document does it say to make us FEEL safe!!! in fact the second amendment allows us as citizens to form our own militias to feel safe!!
they "provide for the common defense" and "promote the general welfare" and "SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY" for ourselves and our posterity...
you cant secure liberty by taking it away!!!!!
and if we put it away... when does my posterity get to enjoy it? (i mean they already have to self censor their speech, cant be safe in person from the government as the 4th amendment is trash with these searches, cant own property if someone else can make more money with it, and has lost due process in many aspects of the legal system)
i know.. they dont.. not till the world is "safe again"... well... there is no again, for it was NEVER safe... and nothing they can do can stop terrorism in a FREE country. nothing. if the german police state couldnt stop the french underground in a totalitarian machine willing to murder a whole city to stop it, then do you think that looking in my bag (and not even knowing what a bomb looks like), will stop a determined person?
these are ELEVATED trains... you can park a car under and wait for 2 to go by...
when you sell your life savings and the core of how you live for a solution.. then be sure as hell that your not buying magic beans!!!
benjamin franklin said that those that are willing to trade freedom for safety will get neither.
he IS right... not WAS right...
They are now!!! Wall Street Journal Aug 3 reported that the police now have orders to kill suspects, just like the UK!! the list of things to suspect is ridiculous and can be exhibeted by many people. not to mention that none of these people saw "speeed" and have learned what a dead mans trigger is (it goes OFF (ie boom) when the person lets go or dies). they also dont think terrorists are smart enough to send someone ahead of them into a train station to see if it is one where ober meisters are going through peoples personal effects (meanwhile they can pack a laptop and the cops would let them on through.. or wrap it as a postal package... would you believe they are looking for "wires sticking out), chipping away at our rights to keep a few people safe. 70 years ago a few million people thought those same rights were worth dying for. now only a few understand that what those died for, they just gave away. shame.
except that you dont have a model for terrorists and for such... which means that they make up behaviors...
recent article in new york asking people to watch for terrorists on the train said to watch for those that are sweating. watch for those looking around (so now the peolpe following the article are suspect), watch for those walking 'too fast' and for those walking 'too slow'.
and no one got that that fit everyone except for the police that were just standing there.. oh, and the terrorists that were waiting...
not only that, but police are considered a better target... whats better than 10 of them around a little table with a bunch of civilans bunched up too? screw the train they cause more trouble by taking out the officers, and then the officers get scared to help people, crime goes up, officer roles go down, etc...
if the politicians are this dumb, do you really want them to be able to track your movements in minutea land? especially when now they consider "taxes" as "revenue streams" and say things like maximizing... these are business terms that go for profits, not terms for people that are trying to tax minimally to provide needed services common to all people.
then again.. i am probably just on the fringe.
the item goes back to the function of law... is it to punish every infraction, or is it to maintain the public peace with the realization that resources are limited (and it would server no purpose to cost everyone lots of money locking up someone that they can deport for free) this question has only been philosophically asked as we never had enough resources, or things never were cheap enough to attempt the concept of perfect implementation of law. just think... with rfid tags you can be ticketed for jaywalking (its easy.. each corner has a reader, and reades everything... be on the wrong corner after you were on another one, then you must have crossed the street in the middle, ipso facto, one 200 jaywalking ticket. dont step off the curb with a red light either!) the number of crimes they can find just poring over the data... as each crimes subroutine gets into play, past data will be gone through (we dont like limitations statutes), and you will suddenly start getting tickets for thigns you did years ago that you didnt even know were crimes... spent your last dollar on the way home.. wow, you get a ticket for vagrancy from every corner (why not, you didnt stop committing crime between blocks, so its perfectly reasonable that each block be looked at as a separate instance of a crime) but wait.. a panhandler begs money from you.. suddenly you have a ticket because the money was tracked in your pocket when you entered the train. and was in his pocket when you left. there is no record of prior interactoin between you and that other person and so you contributed to a crime. wow.. this is fun.. i am good at this kind of thing... and with what they can do with rfids, it will be so much 'fun' [huge sarcasm] when someone makes a bomb that is programmed to only go off if one of many people on a list walk over (you can collect the ids by getting close to them so its not secret). the difference is passive vs active. barcodes were passive line of site. so you could control its exposure (and because of this you had limitations otherwise). rfid is active and pervasive.. so now you dont have the line of site problem for companies, but you lost the security of access. not to mention that its easy to beat the mesh network that lets them talk.. just have a special tool answer yes to every inquiry.. and it all crumbles... so there will be a black market on devices to hide you. criminals will become adept at covering and uncovering their items to make alibies and to move under the radar, and appear back... it wont stop kidnapping as the other person said.. all i have to do is scan that girl for her tag. those that are not nice will cut it out rather than send a finger. they will have blocked their licences as well as their bio tags... they may even use her tag as a false bait (put it on a stray cat and let it run around the city). well, i have work to do... and no one has hired my think tank to come up with scenarios, and so i have to get going.. sayonara.
ah... so what you approve of is permanently being a person of interest because the man you bought newspapers from was a member of a terrorist cell. it turns out that because of RFIDs they know that you traded material with this person every day. given that its now ok to suspect everyone rather than the opposite, your name is now on a list. but you dont know that. you just think its bad luck that you always get pulled out of line at the airlines. [airlines are privately owned public space, not like trains that are publicly owned public spaces. when they connect searching between the two, they leave out the distinction that a person on private property has less rights than when on government property] you may find that over time you get audited more to catch tax discrepancies. perhaps now your car will get pulled over when they run your plates... why? because every day you bought a newspaper from a unknown person of interest... dont think it can happen? i live in queens and atta and another terrorist were at a store here. we all bought papers from them!!! everyone in the neighborhood knew it when we saw the pictures. the fbi investigated, and the store is under new management. there are other scenarios. like you pull over to park for a minute while your lady gets out to grab a coffee for both of you. you get a ticket a month later for being parked at an expired meter. by then the law will be changed to make the car the criminal.. that way they can ticket the owner without having to prove who was driving. what if some teenagers joy ride with your car and return it without you knowing (something i knew kids did in my neighborhood), and now you have lots of tickets. RFID will give govts unparalleled ability to track our lives and our transactions only a matter of time before they tag money and start to track how it goes back and forth from person to person. you may find yourself getting a tax bill for the money you won on sunday nights poker game! even though our money says that debts can be private... yeah.. its gonna look like that world in pink floyd the wall.. just looking down and marching... (they are polishing software that can identify you by how you walk, or pick you out based on how you move. the only way to avoid the problem will be people will walk in a proscribed manner to avoid scrutiny, as every mannerism uncontrolled becomes suspect) hey! personal rfids will make thought police possible map the voice print to the rfid signal and you can now fine them for saying that not all women are perfect. you may get on a suspect list because you dont love the president and everything they are doing. perhaps bosses will switch and use dock time.. pay you by the minute rather than the hour and have the rfid monitor your presence... oh.. well now we can deduct for bathroom time.. and if you walked around for a few mins, etc.. the list goes on and on.. i should write a book listing out all ths shit that they will do!!! for there is nothign at all to stop them! they have plenty of people that will say its reasonable, and plenty more that will step up on camera and parrot the party line in propaganda (which is why lots of small stations are much better than a few large companies - but who cares... this is now a republic for the wealthy and their corporations)
yeah... thats why they searched my bag this morning... you see i am a suspected terrorist.. we are all suspected criminals... especially when moving through checkpoints (of which the car was the weak link). welcome to the 4th reich. the officer didnt like that i refered to him as ober meister...
Someone of true intelligence will not need to gripe or make claims (true or not) that their IQ defines them as a genius; they will have the intelligence to know how to forge their way forwards/upwards and be happy in the process of doing so.
Highly intelligent people have the same foibles and eccentricities of any other group, and some would say maybe even more.
it is only the less intelligent that think that being smart or having IQ is a panacea that would rationalize peoples behavior.
they may NOT have the intelligence to forge their way upward, and in fact most do not. often those that do succeed are protected by mentors, good bosses, or the educational system.
they often suffer in grand scale when they get caught by someone that needs to use them without reward or just compensation.
often they are naive because they think things out and the premises we hold about people to get through the day dont allow us to easily think ill of everyone around us.
intelligent people often blow the curve, and dont play well socially. this makes any group that has a certaion status quo to want to get rid of this person, or keep them down so that they dont blow the curve at work too. this is natural, and the smart often dont know why they often have this 'bad luck'.
so no.. its not what someone of lesser thought would think it is. being smart is not the boon that makes the clouds open the angels sing and the harps play for your presence. I know, i also have a very high IQ (i went to bronx science a year early and consistently tested in the 99.999th percentile), and what does this mean. it means i usually can get answers faster than other people, and amazingly so in my domains of expertise. it means that i am not liked as much as other people, for i am overly helpful, and it has taken me years to learn to let people struggle and such (though if you do this you also have to create the situation that you couldnt help either, its a damned if you do damned if you dont situation).
in general co-workers think me odd... because after work i work... because my interests are things like high end fashion photography (i am signed and my work has been seen all over the world), and physics and r&d, etc. you see my interests are less limited by ability than most peoples.
am i successful... not at all.. i still get tripped up by all the same foibles (and some special ones).. as an older programmer they dont think i can do the work, though i can run circles around the younger ones. they are VERY shallow in skills, personality, ability, and such.. totally naive, and a product of feelings education over meritocracy... so image has something to do with how well you program.. the bottom line is that i am over 40 and i am rotting on the vine making the salary i was making 12 years ago.. they get 20 years experience for half price...
now if they can figure out how we can purchase the products we make when we dont earn the money any more? i guess i should have learned erdu... as it is i am learning Bahasa Indonesian... so maybe i will not be crushed as hard as someone not as smart, but i will still be stepped on.
[note that a shmoozer social person can get backing for a product that wont work, but a geek type cant get backing for a product that works real well!]
russian mob is not the same as the italian or other mobs... first of all its top heavy with phd's!!! engineers, programmers, chemists, etc... what the hell do you think happens when you have a disenfranchised highly intelligent group? duh.. its one thign to disenfranchise the poor and stupid.. antoher to do it to the people that are smart... no they would beat the shit out of him and leave him as a message... no reason to hide it, or anythign... its out in the open.. and the person who was to get the message surely got it.. probably lack of pay off, or threat of cooperation... done deal after that
they also work in reverse... so you can use peltiers to generate electricity which is also a cooling effect.... now put them in opposition and use all the heat you want from the engine as its free... that in turn makes more elect for the peltiers that will cool the ambient air at the point were the people are.
George Bush is president but feminist organizations have more pull in laws.
lets see VAWA which should be VAPA Violence against persons act - but no - Where in the Constitution does Congress find the authority to enact such legislation, which under our federalist system belongs to the states? not to mention the 14th amendments "Section 1 of the Amendment states, in part, "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Gender specific laws violate equal protection, and many of them create special punishments for one gender over another when there were equal laws that could have been applied. america is not supposed to be about special laws. would you think it ok to make a law that says that when a black man hits a white man there should be a greater sentence? then why would you think it ok (not actually saying you do, since there is no way to read that into your posit), to have a laws that are gender specific? for instance it is assumed that under VAWA that men could seek help when their wives were the abusers (remember under the law the male cant take any actions to physically defend himself, therefore they are left without any assisance - and women are slightly more likely to assault their mates!! (though they do less damage on average). however a specific clause denies shelters money if they do so.
when laws are not equal for all you make a favored group. a favored group is against what america is about, at least in ideals, if not in practice. And Congress peoples that do this are also violating their oaths of office.
then how about speech control. the country with the first amendment is telling other countries what to say!!! we forget in this country that it is OFFENSIVE speech that is protected (favored speech needs no protection).
then how about changing laws that enable the govermment to step in and take you children in absence of due process. the family court is americas only secret court. you cant read judgements or records or anything else like in every other court (except miitary tribunals with is under other laws, and those cases of national security). many courts make unilateral decisions in favor of mothers when the known father is absent or cant attend! check out whats happening to our troops..
then what about debtors prison. which is only applied to fathers. the number of women that can pay and dont pay child support is higher than the number of men that can pay and dont (40% vs 10%).
rape sheild laws make a special case of special victims. it amounts to not being able to defend yourself (check out what happend to javovich - he had a kinky tryst with a lady who later claimed kidnapping and sexual assault and such. under the sheild laws he was not able to show that she was purguring herself. later the letters written by her claiming to like all that kind of stuff, and her expertise etc. etc. after losing a major portion of his life he finally was released and aquitted of all charges.)
then how about the ruling that a woman can collect full child support from more than one father for one kid (i bet your wondering how they can do that! )
and yes.. just so you dont start belittling me for my opinions.. i did lose my son in all this.. his mom was abusive.. compulsive liar.. and after she robbed a bank and served for 1.5 years in fed, i still couldnt have my son. i have never been convicted of a crime (other than a couple of speeding tickets in 30 years), though she almost had me go away on false murder charges when she disappeared for6 months withouth telling anyone anything! I still pay her chld support even though the boy no longer lives with her!!! cant get it amended... out of juristiction has made illegal judgments in states of non residence (in violation of such laws).
no when the state can come in and take your children and there is no due process, discovery of evidence, etc..
what MS is doing is not needed. there is no law making them do this at all.
so they are voluntarily stripping your rights and such at the behest of other companies rather than their consumers.. tell me if that is not collusion and the reason why monopolies are not good?
tell you the truth.. i dont care anymore..
the masses are being pinched.. and DVD is a MASS media.. the more that can buy the more you make. except the only peoples incomes that have increased (in real terms) in the past 20 years are the top 10%.. with offshoring and with nafta, and cafta people cant afford it.. its why DVD sales are slumping...
the issue here is that if MS continues to ignore that now there are other operating systems and such, and that doing things against your clients only works when you are a monopoly...
even if these things wont work at all in linux, its still better..
i am getting to the point that i am trying to teach my freinds to go out, lets take pics, lets see a free show in the park, go skating , read under the trees..
the entertainment industry forgets that they ALSO compete with those things too.. and when their price performance is too high given your ROI in satisfaction, you shift to other things that do that. the sad part is that with such shitty movies, and so many crappy remakes, the population may just 'discover' that those things are actually a lot more fun than the movies are now...
the other thing is that this is a money maker in other ways. that DVM will not be robust, despite what it seems like. why? because, when someone cracks it, and beats it, then they will change it and we all will have to buy new monitors and TVs as they are not software upgradable, nor do they want to be! in fact nothing stops them from 'improving' it anyway and doing this every ccouple of years.
i have a 21 inch autocad workstation with hige res and color correction on a cathode flat screen. better color and such for the graphics and what not. i spend more than 3000 when that was new in 1999.. it still runs sweet, has no burn in (i have been a sofware engineer for more than 20 years and other things). i am NOT going to bother with this...
you know what i will do instead. say fuck it.. wait three months and watch it with my normal cable!!!!!!!
if they think that a blurry version is ok for us to watch they just proved that yuo dont care as much about HD as they stress!!!
screw it.. i will wait.. and if i dont have that i will watch something else. if it really is that good and i want it.. i will pay the 2.99-3.99 pay per view fee..
bottom line is that only really good films are worth $4!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or less... (and the medium of storage is not worth the other $12-$26!) the drivel they make is not worth more, and certainly not worth 500 a year (amortizing the monitors) extra to see!!!
but to be FAIR, though i dont know why.. MS is probably making the decision based on the recording and movie industry. if MS does not comply then windows boxes will not be able to play ANY movies and such, becasue the code was a work for hire of the recording industry and movie industry.
MS is making the decision that people wont by the new operating system without this, or fewer will. however DVDs are not the major reason i buy a computer...
basically the recording industry is playing a dangerous game. they are saying "either you comply with us, or you dont get ANY entertainment"
if we take the threat, we lose... there will always be wealthier people that dont care, so we are already sold out.
screw em though...
I have never thought of buying a street DVD, but may start in purpose. in fact the ONLY dvd i have ever bought was the first lord of the rings movie... but when they decided to screw me i didnt by the rest. how did they screw me, easy, they then came out with richer better editions, and i realized that if i buy the others soon and not wait 5 years i will get less for my money.. and so i dont buy
sorry... there is no law that says you have to not have designed obsolescence.. light bulbs are designed to fail near a certain mark (and you would be surprised how well and close they meet that mark - dad was a light bulb engineer). whats the difference if you design somethign to fail by not making it robust enough, or you program it in. the only thing unfair is not telling us what the rated lifetime is so we can make an informed choice.
no need to hack it... here is what you do... someone will buy a large digital monitor and all the nice nice stuff... then they will turn the lights out, sync the a video recorder to that.. and voila... instant copy... let me know if you figure out a way to encrypt light on the way from the screen to your eye.. even if they do something to fuck up the image you can do something back to get it if you ahve better equipment... shoot... to tell you the truth with I2C 1-wire, 3-wire and stuff for chips to communicate between each other and new great cheap asics are out all the time, you can actually build your own!!! yeah.. recording industry is dumb (and ms is stuck between them and you)
yes, however today you can turn off that feature and still use the game and such...