Sadly, we've come to accept most modern corporations as pretty much ammoral...
It's worse than that. We've come around (amazingly) to a position where we actually require corporations to be amoral. If a corporation acts in a way that doesn't attempt to maximize profit within the law, they can be held liable by their shareholders. This systematically ensures that corporations will act in the most amoral fashion possible.
Our constitution is not an attempt to codify laws, but rather an attempt to codify the exact same principles I was talking about. In large part, so that all laws can be evaluated against those nigh-unchanging principles.
At what point will journalists in this country realize that we are a nation of laws?
This is almost completely untrue. We are not, and never have been, a nation of laws. Laws aren't at the top of the hierarchy, and hopefully never will be. We are a nation of principles, and all our laws are subject to adherence to those principles.
When someone breaks a law in pursuance of those principles, they do our country a service. If they have the courage of their convictions, they may even be able to get the law overturned. If, on the other hand, it is determined that those principles do not support their action, the law will be upheld, and they will be held accountable for violating it.
Wired, from their own words, seems to believe that they're not even breaking the law (violating the court order) in this case. But if they are, they are clearly doing so in an attempt to bring matters to public attention that many of us feel require more public scrutiny.
So, at what point will the administration remember that we are a nation of principles? They seem to have convienently forgotten the ones they don't like.
Look, you don't have to lose the indignation. What you felt is exactly what people in China feel everytime they use the internet, and what any kid in the US feels any time they try to access a website on homosexuality from a public school. These are real problems affecting billions. The fact that you had to momentarily share their subjugation should serve to remind you of what they're going through. Use the indignation to speak on their behalf.
Yes, it's possible the video was blocked from US audiences just to make a point. So what? The point is made.
Does this review of yet-another-game-in-a-franchise really belong on the main page of slashdot? I mean, I like gaming news, I'm an avid gamer, but this isn't a new or innovative title. How is this frontline news-for-nerds?
Actually, what I really want is to be able to play modern top-notch portable games like Hot Shots Golf and Wipeout Pure and do various kinds of portable computing without having to carry two devices.
The PSP is great at the games, and offers some of the computing. If Sony didn't keep thwarting the homebrew apps, it would probably be the best solution.
Most PDAs, on the other hand, don't support modern games, and my appetite for emulated older games, while real, is not that big.
Dude, no one is saying that Card's wrong about everything. But it's got to matter how wrong an opinion is. Someone in the flat earth society, for instance, is pretty f**king wrong, and you'd pretty seriously need to question their judgement on any issue of practical physics or history, wouldn't you?
Similarly, in many people's opinion, myself included, Card's feelings on homosexuality are so at odds with reality and morality that they call into judgement his assessment of any other social or political issue.
The man can be as right about as he wants about many other things, but I'm going to have to take a pretty hard look at each and every one, because he can clearly not be regarded as a trusted source. And it's not inappropriate for people to remind others of that.
My company has a product (MediaLandscape) that converts a MediaSite video presentation into a Flash video presentation. We're working on converting the video from this presentation, especially since one of the people quoted in the article is Preston Austin, our chief architect.
Unfortunately, this was not an anticipated urgent need, so we hadn't begun this process yet, and since a lot of the people who will need to be consulted at other companies won't be back until Monday, it will probably need to wait until then, especially since the server that hosts the video is currently kind of overloaded.
But, if you want to watch the presentation, can more easily do so in Flash instead of its current format, and can wait until Monday, we ought to be able to help you out.
If you drop me a line, I'll send you an URL when the new version is posted. With any luck, however, it will be at the same location as the current presentation of the event, http://acceleratemadison.com/webcasts/index.php.
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Sadly, we've come to accept most modern corporations as pretty much ammoral...
It's worse than that. We've come around (amazingly) to a position where we actually require corporations to be amoral. If a corporation acts in a way that doesn't attempt to maximize profit within the law, they can be held liable by their shareholders. This systematically ensures that corporations will act in the most amoral fashion possible.
Our constitution is not an attempt to codify laws, but rather an attempt to codify the exact same principles I was talking about. In large part, so that all laws can be evaluated against those nigh-unchanging principles.
At what point will journalists in this country realize that we are a nation of laws?
This is almost completely untrue. We are not, and never have been, a nation of laws. Laws aren't at the top of the hierarchy, and hopefully never will be. We are a nation of principles, and all our laws are subject to adherence to those principles.
When someone breaks a law in pursuance of those principles, they do our country a service. If they have the courage of their convictions, they may even be able to get the law overturned. If, on the other hand, it is determined that those principles do not support their action, the law will be upheld, and they will be held accountable for violating it.
Wired, from their own words, seems to believe that they're not even breaking the law (violating the court order) in this case. But if they are, they are clearly doing so in an attempt to bring matters to public attention that many of us feel require more public scrutiny.
So, at what point will the administration remember that we are a nation of principles? They seem to have convienently forgotten the ones they don't like.
Look, you don't have to lose the indignation. What you felt is exactly what people in China feel everytime they use the internet, and what any kid in the US feels any time they try to access a website on homosexuality from a public school. These are real problems affecting billions. The fact that you had to momentarily share their subjugation should serve to remind you of what they're going through. Use the indignation to speak on their behalf. Yes, it's possible the video was blocked from US audiences just to make a point. So what? The point is made.
"The trained mind does not need a watch. Watches are a confidence trick invented by the Swiss." -- Chiun
Does this review of yet-another-game-in-a-franchise really belong on the main page of slashdot? I mean, I like gaming news, I'm an avid gamer, but this isn't a new or innovative title. How is this frontline news-for-nerds?
Actually, what I really want is to be able to play modern top-notch portable games like Hot Shots Golf and Wipeout Pure and do various kinds of portable computing without having to carry two devices.
The PSP is great at the games, and offers some of the computing. If Sony didn't keep thwarting the homebrew apps, it would probably be the best solution.
Most PDAs, on the other hand, don't support modern games, and my appetite for emulated older games, while real, is not that big.
Dude, no one is saying that Card's wrong about everything. But it's got to matter how wrong an opinion is. Someone in the flat earth society, for instance, is pretty f**king wrong, and you'd pretty seriously need to question their judgement on any issue of practical physics or history, wouldn't you?
Similarly, in many people's opinion, myself included, Card's feelings on homosexuality are so at odds with reality and morality that they call into judgement his assessment of any other social or political issue.
The man can be as right about as he wants about many other things, but I'm going to have to take a pretty hard look at each and every one, because he can clearly not be regarded as a trusted source. And it's not inappropriate for people to remind others of that.
http://www.wistechnology.com/media/accel_games/vie wer.html
My company has a product (MediaLandscape) that converts a MediaSite video presentation into a Flash video presentation. We're working on converting the video from this presentation, especially since one of the people quoted in the article is Preston Austin, our chief architect.
Unfortunately, this was not an anticipated urgent need, so we hadn't begun this process yet, and since a lot of the people who will need to be consulted at other companies won't be back until Monday, it will probably need to wait until then, especially since the server that hosts the video is currently kind of overloaded.
But, if you want to watch the presentation, can more easily do so in Flash instead of its current format, and can wait until Monday, we ought to be able to help you out.
If you drop me a line, I'll send you an URL when the new version is posted. With any luck, however, it will be at the same location as the current presentation of the event, http://acceleratemadison.com/webcasts/index.php.