it's labeled as science if you can't tell from the title on the frontpage. i think the icons can be independently selected. thats how articles about MS/Linux/etc. can have their respective icons. and besides... HOBBITS!!!!
that's not suprising at all. hopefully there are protocols in place to identify this kind of stuff.
and while we're on the subject of child abuse, what of adults brainwashing/indoctrinating their kids? can this be legally prosecuted as a form of child-abuse? a friend of mine showed me clips of a documentary called Jesus Camp recently about some pretty extreme evangelical communities that seriously scared the living shit out of me. I'm much more concerned with the indoctrination of children with fanatical beliefs in their home communities than their exposure to diverse online cultures through social networking sites.
if they wanted to give you $138,000 after taxes then they'd give you $168,293 as they probably have some half-way competent accountants. it's not that hard.
they're a retailer, so they don't have a direct contract with the label most likely. so, no, it's not illegal. but if a distributor was selling to retailers outside of their region, then yes. also, if a label has a distributor in say australia, and then they sell a bunch of CDs to an australian retailer without the knowledge of their australian distributor, then that is also illegal.
it's not really the fault of japanese labels. itunes isn't a distributor, they're a retailer. and in my experience it's often hard for an indie label to get itunes to pick up their content on their own. for instance, i work for an indie metal label. when itunes first came out they invited many labels to sign on, but when we tried, we were rejected. however, our content is on itunes and almost every other major online music store now because we have a distribution contract with megaforce along with a lot of other indie labels and are distributed through sony bmg (treated as just one label group under megaforce). so while we're just a small indie label, we have excellent distribution which we gained sorta through collective bargaining power. now, the japanese labels may not be able to do the same with US distributors. and since they aren't likely to be able to get itunes US to pick up their content by themselves, they can't get their stuff on the virtual shelves of itunes US.
that's not what's going on. what happens is that whoever has rights to the music can sell rights to distribute the music to different distributors. you don't need to buy rights to hear music in different regions, but distributors have to sign contracts so that they are the official distributor of a specified region. this helps a label gain distribution because a large distributor will be more likely to pick up a label if they know that they will be the exclusive distributor for that label in the region they operate in.
so the problem seems like japanese labels just don't have very good distribution in the U.S., or perhaps no distribution at all. this isn't really their fault per se because it might very well be that U.S. distributors aren't willing to pick up japanese labels. it's very easy for U.S. labels to get distribution in other areas like europe, australia, asia, canada, etc. but not so easy vice-versa.
harassment isn't protected under free speach, neither is libel and defamation. allowing students to bully other students psychologically has a negative impact on their social/psychological development (for both parties). this creates sociopathic tendencies which can have very negative consequences on society later on.
this is a much better approach than expelling kids left and right for pointing fishsticks at teachers during lunch. schools often neglect the impact on the psychological health of their students when forming policies. this is why i never understood the punishment handed out at school for fighting. sure, staff have a responsibility to break up fights, but someone defending themselves in a physical conflict shouldn't be punished for not running away to tell a teacher. the course of action recommended by the school often has a much longer lasting negative effect on the child's psyche than just standing his ground and taking the beating.
i think the point that myself and others are making is that even a practically unbreakable DRM is impractical to implement, as the market conditions would never be achievable. i think you underestimate the number of vulnerability points (many of which would be in the manufacturing process not necessarily the specs). there's just too much economic incentive out their for people to try to break DRM despite the amount of work and total cost of breaking the DRM scheme.
please view the award-winning documentary that i linked to which has an irish film crew's footage of the 24-hour coup d'etat to get a better idea of the situation for yourself.
if you want an idea of the type of people opposing chavez, let me just cite this instance: when amnesty canada planned to air the documentary about the coup despite 3rd party protest, amnesty venezuela actually received threats serious enough that they contacted amnesty canada directly and insisted on the film being pulled for fear of their safety. in contrast, chavez has always fought his opposition with dialog and with the populus of venezuela behind him. that is why the coup amounted to a huge embarassment to the conspirator. and if he is such a cold-blooded dictator, then why did he not seek retaliation against the cabal of conspirators who tried to overthrow him through media deceit and threat of violence (chavez gave himself up during the seige on the presidential palace when it became clear that if he did not do so his staff would come under danger of fire)?
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised shows actual footage of the happenings inside the presidential palace during those uncertain hours. The bravery and resolve of both Chavez and his staff is actually quite touching and paints the chavez government in a rather different light than what U.S. media would like americans to believe.
how do we know it was the CIA? because the National Endowment for Democracy (which has a long history of being used by the CIA for covert ops abroad) has been in strong opposition of their incipient grassroot democracy. because chavez is hugely unpopular with washington especially since he's taken back control of the oil in venezuela so that US conglomerates can no longer profit lucratively from stealing one of Venezuela's most valuable natural resources.
secondly, i challenge you to give an example of him censoring the media, as all accounts that i've read have shown the direct opposite. instead of silencing his opposition (the media elite still have a strong foothold in venezuela), he has chosen to simply run his own television show which allows him to respond to allegations brought against him as well as have an open forum with the public. he has shown no signs of being a draconian dictator, and seems very well connected with the popular.
also, for the record. in the US the middleclass which you see most visible in the media is actually a minority. the denses populations in the US live in poor urban neighborhoods. that is why we have the highest poverty level of all 1st world nations. in venezuela the "middle class" is an even small portion. they are the rich upperclass which i refer to. they may have the lifestyle of the average american suburbanite, but they are far from the median socioeconomic class in venezuela (even more relatively privileged than the middle class in the US).
do you know what the GDP is? what good is a high GDP if the income gap continues to increase in a country where over 60% of the people living there are below the poverty line? the number of people living below the poverty line has from 60% to 43% from '97 to '05. yes, he truly is robbing his people and not thinking of the good of the nation.
got sources to back that up? because the populus of venezuela all support him as evident from the failed CIA-engineered coup. it's only the small rich minority who lost power due to the new constitution (established through a mass referendum) and the media elite who oppose him.
by rob its people you mean nationalizing the oil industry from the power elite and actually using their national resources to help the majority of venezuelans who are below the poverty line, such as buying unused land from the rich to create farm co-ops for the poor, then i guess so.
it just seems ridiculous to most of us cuz in this day and age, an 8-year-old is probably more well-versed with internet safety/social practices than their parents.
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have you seen the ad? she was most definitely stoned. even if she had put in clear eyes you'd be able to tell from her demeanor.
just have a server-side script fetch the page from the remote site?
cost benefit analysis probably showed that a human life isn't worth the cost of such a device.
it's labeled as science if you can't tell from the title on the frontpage. i think the icons can be independently selected. thats how articles about MS/Linux/etc. can have their respective icons. and besides... HOBBITS!!!!
that's not suprising at all. hopefully there are protocols in place to identify this kind of stuff.
and while we're on the subject of child abuse, what of adults brainwashing/indoctrinating their kids? can this be legally prosecuted as a form of child-abuse? a friend of mine showed me clips of a documentary called Jesus Camp recently about some pretty extreme evangelical communities that seriously scared the living shit out of me. I'm much more concerned with the indoctrination of children with fanatical beliefs in their home communities than their exposure to diverse online cultures through social networking sites.
if they wanted to give you $138,000 after taxes then they'd give you $168,293 as they probably have some half-way competent accountants. it's not that hard.
and find a remote area with little light pollution. it's not so easy as it used to be to just look up and enjoy the night sky.
they're a retailer, so they don't have a direct contract with the label most likely. so, no, it's not illegal. but if a distributor was selling to retailers outside of their region, then yes. also, if a label has a distributor in say australia, and then they sell a bunch of CDs to an australian retailer without the knowledge of their australian distributor, then that is also illegal.
it's not really the fault of japanese labels. itunes isn't a distributor, they're a retailer. and in my experience it's often hard for an indie label to get itunes to pick up their content on their own. for instance, i work for an indie metal label. when itunes first came out they invited many labels to sign on, but when we tried, we were rejected. however, our content is on itunes and almost every other major online music store now because we have a distribution contract with megaforce along with a lot of other indie labels and are distributed through sony bmg (treated as just one label group under megaforce). so while we're just a small indie label, we have excellent distribution which we gained sorta through collective bargaining power. now, the japanese labels may not be able to do the same with US distributors. and since they aren't likely to be able to get itunes US to pick up their content by themselves, they can't get their stuff on the virtual shelves of itunes US.
that's not what's going on. what happens is that whoever has rights to the music can sell rights to distribute the music to different distributors. you don't need to buy rights to hear music in different regions, but distributors have to sign contracts so that they are the official distributor of a specified region. this helps a label gain distribution because a large distributor will be more likely to pick up a label if they know that they will be the exclusive distributor for that label in the region they operate in.
so the problem seems like japanese labels just don't have very good distribution in the U.S., or perhaps no distribution at all. this isn't really their fault per se because it might very well be that U.S. distributors aren't willing to pick up japanese labels. it's very easy for U.S. labels to get distribution in other areas like europe, australia, asia, canada, etc. but not so easy vice-versa.
harassment isn't protected under free speach, neither is libel and defamation. allowing students to bully other students psychologically has a negative impact on their social/psychological development (for both parties). this creates sociopathic tendencies which can have very negative consequences on society later on.
public humiliation is not a good way to teach kids how not to humiliate others online.
this is a much better approach than expelling kids left and right for pointing fishsticks at teachers during lunch. schools often neglect the impact on the psychological health of their students when forming policies. this is why i never understood the punishment handed out at school for fighting. sure, staff have a responsibility to break up fights, but someone defending themselves in a physical conflict shouldn't be punished for not running away to tell a teacher. the course of action recommended by the school often has a much longer lasting negative effect on the child's psyche than just standing his ground and taking the beating.
1-dimensional space would be a line wouldn't it?
i think the point that myself and others are making is that even a practically unbreakable DRM is impractical to implement, as the market conditions would never be achievable. i think you underestimate the number of vulnerability points (many of which would be in the manufacturing process not necessarily the specs). there's just too much economic incentive out their for people to try to break DRM despite the amount of work and total cost of breaking the DRM scheme.
please view the award-winning documentary that i linked to which has an irish film crew's footage of the 24-hour coup d'etat to get a better idea of the situation for yourself.
if you want an idea of the type of people opposing chavez, let me just cite this instance: when amnesty canada planned to air the documentary about the coup despite 3rd party protest, amnesty venezuela actually received threats serious enough that they contacted amnesty canada directly and insisted on the film being pulled for fear of their safety. in contrast, chavez has always fought his opposition with dialog and with the populus of venezuela behind him. that is why the coup amounted to a huge embarassment to the conspirator. and if he is such a cold-blooded dictator, then why did he not seek retaliation against the cabal of conspirators who tried to overthrow him through media deceit and threat of violence (chavez gave himself up during the seige on the presidential palace when it became clear that if he did not do so his staff would come under danger of fire)?
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised shows actual footage of the happenings inside the presidential palace during those uncertain hours. The bravery and resolve of both Chavez and his staff is actually quite touching and paints the chavez government in a rather different light than what U.S. media would like americans to believe.
how do we know it was the CIA? because the National Endowment for Democracy (which has a long history of being used by the CIA for covert ops abroad) has been in strong opposition of their incipient grassroot democracy. because chavez is hugely unpopular with washington especially since he's taken back control of the oil in venezuela so that US conglomerates can no longer profit lucratively from stealing one of Venezuela's most valuable natural resources.
secondly, i challenge you to give an example of him censoring the media, as all accounts that i've read have shown the direct opposite. instead of silencing his opposition (the media elite still have a strong foothold in venezuela), he has chosen to simply run his own television show which allows him to respond to allegations brought against him as well as have an open forum with the public. he has shown no signs of being a draconian dictator, and seems very well connected with the popular.
also, for the record. in the US the middleclass which you see most visible in the media is actually a minority. the denses populations in the US live in poor urban neighborhoods. that is why we have the highest poverty level of all 1st world nations. in venezuela the "middle class" is an even small portion. they are the rich upperclass which i refer to. they may have the lifestyle of the average american suburbanite, but they are far from the median socioeconomic class in venezuela (even more relatively privileged than the middle class in the US).
do you know what the GDP is? what good is a high GDP if the income gap continues to increase in a country where over 60% of the people living there are below the poverty line? the number of people living below the poverty line has from 60% to 43% from '97 to '05. yes, he truly is robbing his people and not thinking of the good of the nation.
got sources to back that up? because the populus of venezuela all support him as evident from the failed CIA-engineered coup. it's only the small rich minority who lost power due to the new constitution (established through a mass referendum) and the media elite who oppose him.
Please educate yourself.
by rob its people you mean nationalizing the oil industry from the power elite and actually using their national resources to help the majority of venezuelans who are below the poverty line, such as buying unused land from the rich to create farm co-ops for the poor, then i guess so.
so are these players gonna be like $5000 each or what?
it just seems ridiculous to most of us cuz in this day and age, an 8-year-old is probably more well-versed with internet safety/social practices than their parents.
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