Don't forget the new line, even if it's in the public domain now, that doesn't mean it always will be. Hitchcock's Rear Window was released in 1954. It wasn't renewed for it's second term of copyright and thus fell into public domain in 1974. Here's the kicker: The movie had secured the rights to the short story it had been based on, and the author of that story agreed to renew that when the 28 year copyright term was up. The author died, and Chase Manhattan ended up being the executor of his estate and they sold the movie rights (14 years after the movie was made) to some publisher. The publisher refuses to renew the firm rights (that had been previously agreed to) and sues when the movie is shown on TV (at this point, the film is long out of copyright). The supreme court finds that since Rear Window is a derivative work, control of the work reverts to the publisher (who is in no way related to the original author). And thus a public domain work no longer is free to use.
It depends on if the AAA affiliated towing company were paid to go out and slash their competitors tires or not. (though that doesn't appear to be what's happening, either for the AAA or Google)
And that all makes sense, but two addendums I'd want for clarity:
1)No data type is prohibited from moving through the network. (I.E. no banning bittorrent, FTP, VPNs, etc)
2)If there's bandwidth left for it even the lowest priority traffic can fill the pipes.
Maybe one more thing I'd add: The relative levels of discrimination should be transparent (before becoming a customer). No surprises where they say "well, we give no priority at all to voice, because we don't want our users to use VoIP and leave our phone system".
So you're worried that they'll need the pictures after the fact as evidence? If the picture show's a weapon, they're right there already and you can check them. If they've got something, then you've got the actual physical weapon. You don't need a picture then. If they don't have something, you don't have a case, so whatever the picture was doesn't matter. If you can't tell if they've got a weapon or not from the picture in the scanner, then the thing is fucking useless anyway and can't provide evidence.
Heck, I have 2 good eyes (well, decent enough that I could walk around with both and not bump into things), but since they've been different strengths my whole life my brain basically gave up on stereo vision. I think all of 3-4 seconds worth of Avatar looked any more 3d than any other movie (one point where a spear is being pointed directly out of the screen and another point where the will-o-the-wisp pollen things were floating waaaaaaaay in the foreground). I don't have to give up on these movies, but if most of them resort to stupid gimmicks all the time, I'd want to.
Killing fewer people than someone else doesn't always make you good. Jack the Ripper didn't kill nearly as many people as Ted Bundy, but they're both evil people. The situation is more complicated than that in Afghanistan, but I have no doubt that some soldiers (probably a very small minority) are not good people. And we should know that and respond to that, instead of covering it up and making excuses.
24% of our population is under 18 (some of them work, but often get most of their income tax back because they don't make much). 13% of our population is over 65 (some of these work, but many don't. These too might have to file, but usually either don't make enough money to have to pay taxes or have structured their investments so that it's tax free anyway). Add in a couple percent for people in college (again, some work, many don't in any significant way). That's probably 40% of our country right there who have a damn good excuse to not work. Add in illegal immigrants, unemployed, stay at home parents, disabled, etc, and you're over half the population, and it's all perfectly reasonable.
It seems silly to think that the upper-brackets are getting the sweetheart deal when nearly half of the working population pays nothing.
The only part of the working population that pays nothing are CEOs who take "$1" official salary and then get every part of their life taken care of as a business write off and get stock options out the wazoo, all without even having to pay social security. Yet the blue collar worker who punches a clock has a 6.2% tax they pay and another 6.2% hidden that their employer pays, plus medicare. Even high level wage earners (as in actual cash) only have to pay social security tax on the first $100,000 of their income (in effect making the two highest level marginal tax rates less than the middle marginal tax rate). Yet somehow republicans bitch that raising their tax rates a few percent will lead to a meltdown of the economy and a mass exodus of these patriotic Americans to other places. Yeah, sure, whatever.
Even taxing different levels of income at different rates wouldn't be so terribly difficult (x% up to X, y% up to Y, etc, is not rocket science). The real difficulty is the huge number of tax credits, write offs, special situations, different filing for single, married filing jointly, and married filing separately. You can think you qualify for a particular write off based on a given phrase of law, but it turns out that it means something else entirely in lawyerspeak and only applied to one very wealthy person who owns a cabin in the woods in Idaho. And making an honest mistake means that the the IRS can and will come after you. Because the presumption is that we all should be aware of all laws. Even when the US government itself, with all it's resources, can't be.
Sassanids
Various Muslim groups
Mongols
Timurids
British (won the Second Anglo-Afghan War)
Sure, all of them later collapsed/went native/got forced out eventually, but in that case you might as well claim that France has never been conquered because it still exists today (after eventually getting out all the large number of invaders/usurpers/occupiers that it's had).
And you won't need to write actual code (with correct syntax) on that napkin. In fact, you'll probably skip a lot of formalities to get the general idea down. Unfortunately some professors want you to have correct and full explanations on a piece of paper.
Though I can understand why that helps to make sure that the students actually do understand the material, it can be a huge pain in the ass to write out a lot of code by hand
Isn't going to your current boss and talking about an offer from another company a bit like going to your girlfriend and telling her that some other girl is offering to put out a lot more, so she should start giving you more sex? Wait... that analogy might have gone over all our heads.
Of course it doesn't help that since the schools in poor areas don't do as well, No Child Left Behind mandates that they get less funding as "punishment", and these are the school that don't have the local tax base in the first place to support themselves well. So you end up getting even more disparity between schools in richer areas with state of the art computer labs, well maintained buildings, and all the newest everything, vs poorer areas with decaying buildings, ancient computers, and textbooks that are years behind the times. And somehow we still get talking heads saying that poor people can just as easily pull themselves up by the bootstraps.
Because you could just as easily do DVI and get video just as well.
(the only difference between the two standards is that HDMI carries audio, remote control, and the HDCP DRM shit. The first two are irrelevant and the third I can get around by not buying anything using that)
So they can take your money, and the moment you resist (or ignore their letters), they can arrest you and throw you in jail (with the only evidence needed being that you didn't pay your fine)? Nevermind that the original offense wouldn't have passed muster in the first place? Crazy fucking world.
I remember something similar at my high school. Something about not being able to get below some cutoff (60%, iirc) as a grade for the whole quarter for the first 3 quarters in a school year. I guess it was so shitty students wouldn't get halfway through the year and give up completely. Nevermind that if you're below that level, you either need to be in a special class or just plain don't want to learn (and if you don't want to learn, you probably should just fuck off)
I'd rather have a press that reports on the seedy underbelly of governments/corporations/society, even if they can't always get an "inside source", than a press that has all the information but refuses to publish because it might ruffle feathers. It's better to do some hard work and actually show us something important than it is to regurgitate PR soundbites.
We might be alone at the moment, but why would we think we're the first? Life here went through quite a few dead ends (stagnation as well as catastrophic events), so compared against some "lucky" evolution on a particular planet, we're a few hundred million years behind, at least. Depending on the availability of elements at particular times, we might be a few billion years late to the party. Given that even a few hundred years difference in technology, even within our own species, leads to massive differences in everything from recreation to warfare, I'd be inclined to think that anything with even just a million year head start on us could purposefully make themselves invisible to "lesser" beings who aren't ready to be contacted (would you really want to deal with a species that still can't cooperate with itself, let alone with the rest of the planet?).
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Don't forget the new line, even if it's in the public domain now, that doesn't mean it always will be. Hitchcock's Rear Window was released in 1954. It wasn't renewed for it's second term of copyright and thus fell into public domain in 1974. Here's the kicker: The movie had secured the rights to the short story it had been based on, and the author of that story agreed to renew that when the 28 year copyright term was up. The author died, and Chase Manhattan ended up being the executor of his estate and they sold the movie rights (14 years after the movie was made) to some publisher. The publisher refuses to renew the firm rights (that had been previously agreed to) and sues when the movie is shown on TV (at this point, the film is long out of copyright). The supreme court finds that since Rear Window is a derivative work, control of the work reverts to the publisher (who is in no way related to the original author). And thus a public domain work no longer is free to use.
It depends on if the AAA affiliated towing company were paid to go out and slash their competitors tires or not. (though that doesn't appear to be what's happening, either for the AAA or Google)
And that all makes sense, but two addendums I'd want for clarity:
1)No data type is prohibited from moving through the network. (I.E. no banning bittorrent, FTP, VPNs, etc)
2)If there's bandwidth left for it even the lowest priority traffic can fill the pipes.
Maybe one more thing I'd add: The relative levels of discrimination should be transparent (before becoming a customer). No surprises where they say "well, we give no priority at all to voice, because we don't want our users to use VoIP and leave our phone system".
So any word on if Foldit players now have a finite Erdos number?
But at least they've got security through obscurity!
So you're worried that they'll need the pictures after the fact as evidence? If the picture show's a weapon, they're right there already and you can check them. If they've got something, then you've got the actual physical weapon. You don't need a picture then. If they don't have something, you don't have a case, so whatever the picture was doesn't matter. If you can't tell if they've got a weapon or not from the picture in the scanner, then the thing is fucking useless anyway and can't provide evidence.
Heck, I have 2 good eyes (well, decent enough that I could walk around with both and not bump into things), but since they've been different strengths my whole life my brain basically gave up on stereo vision. I think all of 3-4 seconds worth of Avatar looked any more 3d than any other movie (one point where a spear is being pointed directly out of the screen and another point where the will-o-the-wisp pollen things were floating waaaaaaaay in the foreground). I don't have to give up on these movies, but if most of them resort to stupid gimmicks all the time, I'd want to.
One moooooove, can change the world! (sadly for SIU3D, that move has nothing to do with shitty movies filmed being filmed 3d)
Because business is war, only restrained by law or ability to bribe, and free of morals.
FTFY
Killing fewer people than someone else doesn't always make you good. Jack the Ripper didn't kill nearly as many people as Ted Bundy, but they're both evil people. The situation is more complicated than that in Afghanistan, but I have no doubt that some soldiers (probably a very small minority) are not good people. And we should know that and respond to that, instead of covering it up and making excuses.
The drug dealer who buys the $80K Escalade would actually contribute to the tax base for a change.
Because there's no such thing as a black market or bartering.
24% of our population is under 18 (some of them work, but often get most of their income tax back because they don't make much). 13% of our population is over 65 (some of these work, but many don't. These too might have to file, but usually either don't make enough money to have to pay taxes or have structured their investments so that it's tax free anyway). Add in a couple percent for people in college (again, some work, many don't in any significant way). That's probably 40% of our country right there who have a damn good excuse to not work. Add in illegal immigrants, unemployed, stay at home parents, disabled, etc, and you're over half the population, and it's all perfectly reasonable.
It seems silly to think that the upper-brackets are getting the sweetheart deal when nearly half of the working population pays nothing.
The only part of the working population that pays nothing are CEOs who take "$1" official salary and then get every part of their life taken care of as a business write off and get stock options out the wazoo, all without even having to pay social security. Yet the blue collar worker who punches a clock has a 6.2% tax they pay and another 6.2% hidden that their employer pays, plus medicare. Even high level wage earners (as in actual cash) only have to pay social security tax on the first $100,000 of their income (in effect making the two highest level marginal tax rates less than the middle marginal tax rate). Yet somehow republicans bitch that raising their tax rates a few percent will lead to a meltdown of the economy and a mass exodus of these patriotic Americans to other places. Yeah, sure, whatever.
Even taxing different levels of income at different rates wouldn't be so terribly difficult (x% up to X, y% up to Y, etc, is not rocket science). The real difficulty is the huge number of tax credits, write offs, special situations, different filing for single, married filing jointly, and married filing separately. You can think you qualify for a particular write off based on a given phrase of law, but it turns out that it means something else entirely in lawyerspeak and only applied to one very wealthy person who owns a cabin in the woods in Idaho. And making an honest mistake means that the the IRS can and will come after you. Because the presumption is that we all should be aware of all laws. Even when the US government itself, with all it's resources, can't be.
Here's a few who show up as having won:
Sassanids
Various Muslim groups
Mongols
Timurids
British (won the Second Anglo-Afghan War)
Sure, all of them later collapsed/went native/got forced out eventually, but in that case you might as well claim that France has never been conquered because it still exists today (after eventually getting out all the large number of invaders/usurpers/occupiers that it's had).
And you won't need to write actual code (with correct syntax) on that napkin. In fact, you'll probably skip a lot of formalities to get the general idea down. Unfortunately some professors want you to have correct and full explanations on a piece of paper.
Though I can understand why that helps to make sure that the students actually do understand the material, it can be a huge pain in the ass to write out a lot of code by hand
I've never seen a robot who was so wooden, unless you count Keanu Reeves.
Isn't going to your current boss and talking about an offer from another company a bit like going to your girlfriend and telling her that some other girl is offering to put out a lot more, so she should start giving you more sex? Wait... that analogy might have gone over all our heads.
Of course it doesn't help that since the schools in poor areas don't do as well, No Child Left Behind mandates that they get less funding as "punishment", and these are the school that don't have the local tax base in the first place to support themselves well. So you end up getting even more disparity between schools in richer areas with state of the art computer labs, well maintained buildings, and all the newest everything, vs poorer areas with decaying buildings, ancient computers, and textbooks that are years behind the times. And somehow we still get talking heads saying that poor people can just as easily pull themselves up by the bootstraps.
Because you could just as easily do DVI and get video just as well.
(the only difference between the two standards is that HDMI carries audio, remote control, and the HDCP DRM shit. The first two are irrelevant and the third I can get around by not buying anything using that)
So they can take your money, and the moment you resist (or ignore their letters), they can arrest you and throw you in jail (with the only evidence needed being that you didn't pay your fine)? Nevermind that the original offense wouldn't have passed muster in the first place? Crazy fucking world.
I remember something similar at my high school. Something about not being able to get below some cutoff (60%, iirc) as a grade for the whole quarter for the first 3 quarters in a school year. I guess it was so shitty students wouldn't get halfway through the year and give up completely. Nevermind that if you're below that level, you either need to be in a special class or just plain don't want to learn (and if you don't want to learn, you probably should just fuck off)
Wait, they were going to carjack her, but they left their car their? I sure hope they weren't dumb enough to use a car registered to them.
I'd rather have a press that reports on the seedy underbelly of governments/corporations/society, even if they can't always get an "inside source", than a press that has all the information but refuses to publish because it might ruffle feathers. It's better to do some hard work and actually show us something important than it is to regurgitate PR soundbites.
If you're on Chatroulette, can you claim to have a reasonable expectation that you won't be exposed to?
We might be alone at the moment, but why would we think we're the first? Life here went through quite a few dead ends (stagnation as well as catastrophic events), so compared against some "lucky" evolution on a particular planet, we're a few hundred million years behind, at least. Depending on the availability of elements at particular times, we might be a few billion years late to the party. Given that even a few hundred years difference in technology, even within our own species, leads to massive differences in everything from recreation to warfare, I'd be inclined to think that anything with even just a million year head start on us could purposefully make themselves invisible to "lesser" beings who aren't ready to be contacted (would you really want to deal with a species that still can't cooperate with itself, let alone with the rest of the planet?).