China launches 3 Tychonauts into space, Anti-apartheid activist becomes SAfrica president McCain campaign slows, but doesn't stop Iraq election law marks progress, opens political season, etc. , google news
Profit is not the same as revenue. There are lots of non-profit companies with CEOs pulling in about a million a year. I don't know whether expenses can be designated as negative revenue, so you can send RIAA a bill at the end of the year.
I find it interesting that their new model is that we tithe to them. That says something about who they think they are, and who they think we are.
This minor planet was unoffically called Santa at one time.
This is thought to be why the Haumeans object to being called a dwarf planet, it's an elf planet you insensitive clods.
Once upon a time there was a family of economists. This included Rose Friedman, her brother what's his name, her husband Milton Friedman, their kids David and Susan, and David's kid Patri Freidman.
The general theme of their work is that economies spontaneously organize, instead of being created and managed by governments or god.
Milton won the Nobel Prize, David wrote the groundbreaking "The machinery of freedom",and Patri, well Patri's thing is seasteading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patri_Friedman
Until quite recently, Patri worked for google.
"There is no US constitutional right to freedom of advertising." You are mistaken. You are right that an antispam statute that was limited to commercial speech would be more likely to pass the courts than one not so limited. Generally, the court sees commercial speech as less protected, but not unprotected. Justice Thomas thinks that commercial speech should be fully protected, and he's right.
My earlier post wasn't as informative as I thought - the washpo article had the link to the opinion right there, I just didn't see it. I've now read the case and agree with it. There are various things they could have busted Jaynes for, the stolen email list, the scams that were the content of his spam, but the statute they busted him under was void and not a law.
Spam is bad - personally I use gmail and rarely see spam. But it's hard to write a statute that bans spam and doesn't ban slashdot and the internet in general. Most of the anti-spam statutes out there are unconstitutional. Yay Va. Off to read the opinion.
Can't seem to locate the biography you mention - do you have a title for it? I didn't find it. I do know Spider has written stuff about Heinlein - maybe it was an introduction to something? Settle for a video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DHg2b981tM Spider, David Crosby of CSN&Y, and some interviewer. Don't listen to the last 20 seconds, where Spider sings.
Heinlein got the technology of the cellphone absolutely right but it didn't occur to him that in the future people would just keep chatting away, annoying people around them.
It occurred to him. He, or one of his characters, is well known for the expression "an armed society is a polite society."
Internet privacy policy Expect none Free Speech Slander and libel are illegal Just about covers those two concerns.
^ quibble ^ Slander, at least in the us, is not illegal and libel is almost always not illegal. The term of art you are looking for is "tortious".^/ quibble ^
I'm not sure. Maybe they want to avoid people doing the study and meanwhile sending spam or posting dupes to slashdot or other stuff that might not reflect well on NASA.
Maybe, based on the their experience, a clean credit record is correlated usefully with being able to do the study successfully.
I applied for this study and didn't get in. My blood sugar was a little high they did the blood test. I do studies like this for a living, although none of them pay as well as the NASA one. Info at jalr.org, just another lab rat dot org.
I need a solid and effective routine that will tone all my muscle groups efficiently. Do any Slashdotters have a regular workout routine that can be performed in the privacy of the home to stave off those pounds?"
It's an engineering problem. You can solve it with a technical fix, or by altering behaviors.
1) Get a pedometer. Measure how many steps you take in a day to establish a baseline. Calculate how many more steps you need to burn off x calories. Adjust your routines to accommodate those more steps. I dunno, right shoes stored in attic, left in basement?
2) get a device that lets you pedal power your computer or tv. Buy off shelf at zapworld.com if they still have those or google for it or make your own from an exercise bike, generator and inverter.
3) get a personal trainer or a mistress.
4) a kirby vaccum cleaner weighs about 50 lbs. vaccuum your floors twice daily. This is not the option I would choose. But find tasks that take work, and do them routinely, to fill the gap in your calorie budget. Learning new dance moves counts as work - how's your samba?
Now, on to the non-responsive answers: Hypnosis or medication to address either your exercise goals or social issues. Medication to adjust your metabolism. A tapeworm. Get a dog, take the dog for a walk every day. Mumble a hello back when people say hello - they will. Adjust your caloric intake. Several ways to do this: use chopsticks instead of a fork. become vegan - on average, vegetarians are 20 pounds lighter. use more whole foods that take more time and work to prepare. example, peanuts in the shell instead of peanut butter. veggies grown in your garden - which can even be a hydroponic indoor garden are effectively calorie free because you work to grow them. become more conscious of your eating. keep an inventory of what you ate, why when, etc., at least until you've adjusted to the point you are looking for.
Bike at night? In disguise? Not riding my bike is one of the main reasons my weight has gone from 170 to 195 in the past year.
And almost EVERY industry makes you jump through two annoying hoops to get their product
-You have to signal that you want their product. I'm out of milk. This 2008, can't they tell when I'm out of milk dammit?!?
When i was a kid in the suburbs, circa 1968, Harry the milkman would stop by about once a week and automagically refill the milk. Give it about 20 years and technology will catch up to 1968.
Careful... There might be a few around here that disagree with that:)
I haven't been to the moon. Have you been to the moon? I suspect you are using "we" in a way that is just delusional. (If you mean earthlings have been to the moon, i'm ok with that.)
Slashdot Mirror
obligatory xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/233/
2+2=5, for sufficiently large values of 2.
firetrucks are yellow, for better visibility.
"This is accomplished by growing the solar cell on a gallium arsenide wafer, flipping it over, then removing the wafer."
Reminded me of this for some reason.
http://xkcd.com/153/
as cited in
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/cryptography_ca.html.
I don't know how well slashdot knows xkcd;
can i just call out "/153/" and get a laugh?
Once upon a time, Nicky Tesla had a robot submarine. In fact, that's what he invented radio for - to control his robot submarine.
http://www.rastko.org.yu/rastko/delo/10788
http://nicola-tesla.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-7-most-unusual-inventions.html
The proper term is Tychonaut.
More importantly, because just recently, China announced the exactly same story http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/25/2145209 [slashdot.org] *before* they had even *launched*...
So you are saying the Chinese pulled a dupe?
What a nice day today...RIAA loses, DOJ opposes DOJ Copyright Oversight. What's next? Bush finally gets impeached?
Close, Jack Thompson disbarred.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/25/1822207
China launches 3 Tychonauts into space,
Anti-apartheid activist becomes SAfrica president
McCain campaign slows, but doesn't stop
Iraq election law marks progress, opens political season, etc. , google news
Profit is not the same as revenue.
There are lots of non-profit companies with CEOs pulling in about a million a year.
I don't know whether expenses can be designated as negative revenue, so you can send RIAA a bill at the end of the year.
I find it interesting that their new model is that we tithe to them. That says something about who they think they are, and who they think we are.
+1 sad but true
Don't ask, don't tell, don't think.
+1 sad.
This minor planet was unoffically called Santa at one time.
This is thought to be why the Haumeans object to being called a dwarf planet, it's an elf planet you insensitive clods.
I think the kid has a promising future as a chessboxer.
Once upon a time there was a family of economists.
This included Rose Friedman, her brother what's his name, her husband Milton Friedman, their kids David and Susan, and David's kid Patri Freidman.
The general theme of their work is that economies spontaneously organize, instead of being created and managed by governments or god.
Milton won the Nobel Prize, David wrote the groundbreaking "The machinery of freedom",and Patri, well Patri's thing is seasteading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patri_Friedman
Until quite recently, Patri worked for google.
"There is no US constitutional right to freedom of advertising." You are mistaken.
You are right that an antispam statute that was limited to commercial speech would be more likely to pass the courts than one not so limited.
Generally, the court sees commercial speech as less protected, but not unprotected.
Justice Thomas thinks that commercial speech should be fully protected, and he's right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44_Liquormart,_Inc._v._Rhode_Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_State_Pharmacy_Board_v._Virginia_Citizens_Consumer_Council
My earlier post wasn't as informative as I thought - the washpo article had the link to the opinion right there, I just didn't see it.
I've now read the case and agree with it.
There are various things they could have busted Jaynes for, the stolen email list, the scams that were the content of his spam, but the statute they busted him under was void and not a law.
The court did the right thing.
I submitted an article back in May about this case.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/1910219
The court's decision is here in pdf:
http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opnscvwp/1062388.pdf
Spam is bad - personally I use gmail and rarely see spam. But it's hard to write a statute that bans spam and doesn't ban slashdot and the internet in general.
Most of the anti-spam statutes out there are unconstitutional. Yay Va. Off to read the opinion.
above post is informative, flamebait.
Can't seem to locate the biography you mention - do you have a title for it?
I didn't find it. I do know Spider has written stuff about Heinlein - maybe it was an introduction to something?
Settle for a video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DHg2b981tM
Spider, David Crosby of CSN&Y, and some interviewer.
Don't listen to the last 20 seconds, where Spider sings.
Heinlein got the technology of the cellphone absolutely right but it didn't occur to him that in the future people would just keep chatting away, annoying people around them.
It occurred to him. He, or one of his characters, is well known for the expression "an armed society is a polite society."
--
So that explains it!
- arbitrary aardvark.
+3 funny, sad.
when i blogged about this yesterday
http://vark.blogspot.com/2008/08/mini-mass-spectrometer-from-small.html
i put in a link to the company that makes the gadget.
http://www.prosolia.com/
Prosolia, Inc.
351 West 10th Street
Suite 316
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Hmm, I know right where that is, just down the street from me.
I haven't been through their dumpster yet.
above post is infomrative, insightful, indiscreet
/runs off to trademark Prowl, Vowl, SCowl, Trowl, Meowl.
Internet privacy policy
Expect none
Free Speech
Slander and libel are illegal
Just about covers those two concerns.
^ quibble ^ Slander, at least in the us, is not illegal and libel is almost always not illegal.
The term of art you are looking for is "tortious".^/ quibble ^
Why the hell do they need to do a credit check?
I'm not sure. Maybe they want to avoid people doing the study and meanwhile sending spam or posting dupes to slashdot or other stuff that might not reflect well on NASA.
Maybe, based on the their experience, a clean credit record is correlated usefully with being able to do the study successfully.
I applied for this study and didn't get in. My blood sugar was a little high they did the blood test. I do studies like this for a living, although none of them pay as well as the NASA one. Info at jalr.org, just another lab rat dot org.
I need a solid and effective routine that will tone all my muscle groups efficiently. Do any Slashdotters have a regular workout routine that can be performed in the privacy of the home to stave off those pounds?"
It's an engineering problem. You can solve it with a technical fix, or by altering behaviors.
1) Get a pedometer. Measure how many steps you take in a day to establish a baseline. Calculate how many more steps you need to burn off x calories. Adjust your routines to accommodate those more steps. I dunno, right shoes stored in attic, left in basement?
2) get a device that lets you pedal power your computer or tv. Buy off shelf at zapworld.com if they still have those or google for it or make your own from an exercise bike, generator and inverter.
3) get a personal trainer or a mistress.
4) a kirby vaccum cleaner weighs about 50 lbs. vaccuum your floors twice daily. This is not the option I would choose. But find tasks that take work, and do them routinely, to fill the gap in your calorie budget. Learning new dance moves counts as work - how's your samba?
Now, on to the non-responsive answers:
Hypnosis or medication to address either your exercise goals or social issues. Medication to adjust your metabolism. A tapeworm.
Get a dog, take the dog for a walk every day.
Mumble a hello back when people say hello - they will.
Adjust your caloric intake. Several ways to do this:
use chopsticks instead of a fork.
become vegan - on average, vegetarians are 20 pounds lighter.
use more whole foods that take more time and work to prepare. example, peanuts in the shell instead of peanut butter. veggies grown in your garden - which can even be a hydroponic indoor garden are effectively calorie free because you work to grow them.
become more conscious of your eating. keep an inventory of what you ate, why when, etc., at least until you've adjusted to the point you are looking for.
Bike at night? In disguise? Not riding my bike is one of the main reasons my weight has gone from 170 to 195 in the past year.
And almost EVERY industry makes you jump through two annoying hoops to get their product
-You have to signal that you want their product. I'm out of milk. This 2008, can't they tell when I'm out of milk dammit?!?
When i was a kid in the suburbs, circa 1968, Harry the milkman would stop by about once a week and automagically refill the milk. Give it about 20 years and technology will catch up to 1968.
NASA uses spacebars.
I thought it said "Onion".
We've already been to the moon.
Careful... There might be a few around here that disagree with that :)
I haven't been to the moon.
Have you been to the moon?
I suspect you are using "we" in a way that is just delusional. (If you mean earthlings have been to the moon, i'm ok with that.)