Well, since I'm training for a triathlon in 10 days, I've been spending a lot of time biking, running and swimming. Biking is somewhat entertaining, but I find running and (especially pool) swimming to be nearly terminally boring. Being able to listen to music while I swim would probably help with that. Or moving someplace where the ocean water temperature is over 40F...
It's been awhile since I looked this up, but I think it was on groklaw. Basically it said the betamax case that gave individuals the right to time-shift television (note, not rental movies, and not as far as I remember PPV, but only broadcast), but not to archive it and create a library of past programs.
It doesn't anger me, it just makes me sad. They complain about how (certain) things are, but are unwilling to participate at all to make them better. "The world is run by those who show up..." I agree with your point that Government is Force, and I'd like to see as little of it as possible, and that it be as local as possible, but the force is going to be exerted whether you choose to have a say or not. Expressing your opinion can be a way to reduce the force that's exerted by government...
No it wouldn't, because I don't tell them that I think they are wrong. I just listen to their opinions and decide not to encourage them to vote. Since I believe that it's not in my (or their!) best interest for them to vote, I don't encourage it. That's all, I don't harp on them for thinking wrong or not voting.
Yeah, my wife and I are friends with a couple who don't vote (never have) and that drives me crazy. I think about trying to convince them to vote, but they'd vote the wrong way, so that stops me...
While you're at it, explain to me how it's right for the Guardian to encourage its UK readers, i.e., not US citizens, to start a letter writing and email campaign to Ohioans encouraging them to vote for John Kerry
Huh? Explain to me how it's wrong for someone who will be affected by someone else's actions to want to converse with them and convince them to modify their actions. Hell, what about money pouring into local/state elections from out of state because that's where the money will go depending on which way the election turns out. It's not like we don't all share the world, even the brits have a vested interest in seeing that Bush doesn't get elected. And don't forget Poland...
I assume you meant that as a joke and a dig at Kerry, but I think that the worst government is a united government. When we have a republican dominated house, senate, and President, they can 'get stuff done'. The trouble is, the stuff they can get done is stuff only they want (in addition to the bipartisan stuff). With a divided government (split presidency/congress, or 3 party congress) there needs to be more of a concensus from all sides on what to do, so only the stuff that benefits more of the population is likely to get passed.
Uhm, isn't that what the original CDs are for? Why archive something you already have a hard copy of?
"Robert, come quick...the house is on fire!"
Um, offsite backup? I've just finished ripping my 300+ CDs losslessly (replacing my 96kbps MP3s) because: a: I wanted to put the CDs in storage and still have "access" to them. b: I wanted to be able to rip to multiple different formats: 96kbps MP3, and 128k AAC, for my iPod (which will carry all my music) and for my cheeze 'diva' mp3 player I use for jogging. c: reripping CDs for the latest and greatest audio format is a pain in the ass. Being able to get _all_ the data via a script is a big win. Even with 3 computers and 4 CDROM drives it took almost a week of feeding the drives with CDs to get it done.
Well, if you left the menu in the upper left corner of the screen, it was sort of a problem. But if you moved it to the bottom left of the screen, with just the application's name showing and used the left mouse button to bring up the menu wherever your mouse happened to be on the screen(s), it was way way way more convenient then either OS-X or Windows. Also, the ability to tear off a sub-menu (say the font menu) and leave it (like a readable tool bar) hovering next to where you were working was an excellent feature. And don't get me started on the fact that scroll bars should be on the left sice of windows since the right side of a large window is the side more likely to be offscreen!
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's President and COO? He gets a lot of flak here on slashdot, but before Sun he started Lighthouse Design, and early 'Productivity Apps for NeXTStep' company that Sun bought for their object and desktop experience. Visio came out of Lighthouse's first product 'Diagram', they even had the order for Diagram from the company that wrote Visio. I believe that Lighthouse was started by a group of friends fresh out of college. So, for Jonathan to go from college, to a successful business to COO of Sun in sequence is pretty impressive. Whether he has the RDF, the design sense, and the ability to deal with failure that Steve has is in question, but he might be a good choice...
No, no federal tax return at all. You buy stuff, the seller charges you the consumption tax. Each year/month/quarter/whatever you get a check from the government for being alive/of voting age/whatever. Not regressive, not complicated. Whether it's 'affordable' (revenue neutral), or 'fair' is another question. I'm not sure I'm in favor of it, but when people say it's regressive, I like to point out ways around that.
Yeah, and my 'cash' isn't a bunch of paper in my mattress (which in an of itself is worthless), it's a bunch of 0's and 1's in a bank account somewhere. Since I had a margin account, when those 0's and 1's were in my stock account, I could write a check and buy stuff. That's wealth. My house is less 'cash' than that, but are you claiming it's not wealth?
So, 'provisional votes' aren't anonymous then? What's to keep your boss from your new job that you just moved to (new residency, new registration) from telling you that you have to vote a certain way, and to ensure that's the case, you have to register on election day so his buddy who volunteers down at the precinct can check it out?
A federal sales tax (consumption tax) can be made non-regressive by granting a rebate of a given amount to everyone. So, if I buy nothing at all all year, I get (say) $10k from the govt. and I'm up $10k. But if I spend 2mil, get taxed 10% and give 200k to the govt, I still get 10k back.
I disagree. Just because you didn't sell the stock at the high, then reinvest doesn't mean that your net worth wasn't up 1Mil, then back down 1Mil. "Paper gains" are real, and can easily be converted to cash, so "paper losses" are just as real. My net worth really is over 2 million less than it was a couple/few years ago... (sigh...)
Well, being a detail oriented geek, I notice it says you can't subject a student to diciplinary action, but it doesn't say you can't stop a peaceful assembly on campus... I'd like to read the law the way you do, but I'm not sure that's what is intended...
Well my main point was that if all you had was gold when civilization fell you'd have it taken from you quite quickly unless you had the weapons to defend yourself or enough respect from your friends and neighbors to help you keep it.
Not sure if Stanford gets state or federal funds, and whether that would make the Leonard law apply or not, but it seems to me that since they are a private university they can make the policy they were trying to enforce on you.
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Well, since I'm training for a triathlon in 10 days, I've been spending a lot of time biking, running and swimming. Biking is somewhat entertaining, but I find running and (especially pool) swimming to be nearly terminally boring. Being able to listen to music while I swim would probably help with that. Or moving someplace where the ocean water temperature is over 40F...
It's been awhile since I looked this up, but I think it was on groklaw. Basically it said the betamax case that gave individuals the right to time-shift television (note, not rental movies, and not as far as I remember PPV, but only broadcast), but not to archive it and create a library of past programs.
It doesn't anger me, it just makes me sad. They complain about how (certain) things are, but are unwilling to participate at all to make them better. "The world is run by those who show up..."
I agree with your point that Government is Force, and I'd like to see as little of it as possible, and that it be as local as possible, but the force is going to be exerted whether you choose to have a say or not. Expressing your opinion can be a way to reduce the force that's exerted by government...
No it wouldn't, because I don't tell them that I think they are wrong. I just listen to their opinions and decide not to encourage them to vote. Since I believe that it's not in my (or their!) best interest for them to vote, I don't encourage it. That's all, I don't harp on them for thinking wrong or not voting.
Yeah, but the nice thing is every 4 years we get to second-guess the guy making the decisions...
Yeah, my wife and I are friends with a couple who don't vote (never have) and that drives me crazy. I think about trying to convince them to vote, but they'd vote the wrong way, so that stops me...
While you're at it, explain to me how it's right for the Guardian to encourage its UK readers, i.e., not US citizens, to start a letter writing and email campaign to Ohioans encouraging them to vote for John Kerry
Huh? Explain to me how it's wrong for someone who will be affected by someone else's actions to want to converse with them and convince them to modify their actions. Hell, what about money pouring into local/state elections from out of state because that's where the money will go depending on which way the election turns out. It's not like we don't all share the world, even the brits have a vested interest in seeing that Bush doesn't get elected. And don't forget Poland...
I assume you meant that as a joke and a dig at Kerry, but I think that the worst government is a united government. When we have a republican dominated house, senate, and President, they can 'get stuff done'. The trouble is, the stuff they can get done is stuff only they want (in addition to the bipartisan stuff). With a divided government (split presidency/congress, or 3 party congress) there needs to be more of a concensus from all sides on what to do, so only the stuff that benefits more of the population is likely to get passed.
Uhm, isn't that what the original CDs are for? Why archive something you already have a hard copy of?
"Robert, come quick...the house is on fire!"
Um, offsite backup? I've just finished ripping my 300+ CDs losslessly (replacing my 96kbps MP3s) because:
a: I wanted to put the CDs in storage and still have "access" to them.
b: I wanted to be able to rip to multiple different formats: 96kbps MP3, and 128k AAC, for my iPod (which will carry all my music) and for my cheeze 'diva' mp3 player I use for jogging.
c: reripping CDs for the latest and greatest audio format is a pain in the ass. Being able to get _all_ the data via a script is a big win. Even with 3 computers and 4 CDROM drives it took almost a week of feeding the drives with CDs to get it done.
Ah, so the real advantage to the Uglymenu is you can get rid of it completely and treat it as a context menu. :)
:-)
Well, the real advantage is that it's up to the user where it goes.
Well, if you left the menu in the upper left corner of the screen, it was sort of a problem. But if you moved it to the bottom left of the screen, with just the application's name showing and used the left mouse button to bring up the menu wherever your mouse happened to be on the screen(s), it was way way way more convenient then either OS-X or Windows.
Also, the ability to tear off a sub-menu (say the font menu) and leave it (like a readable tool bar) hovering next to where you were working was an excellent feature.
And don't get me started on the fact that scroll bars should be on the left sice of windows since the right side of a large window is the side more likely to be offscreen!
Oooo, that's evil...
:-)
I like it
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's President and COO?
He gets a lot of flak here on slashdot, but before Sun he started Lighthouse Design, and early 'Productivity Apps for NeXTStep' company that Sun bought for their object and desktop experience. Visio came out of Lighthouse's first product 'Diagram', they even had the order for Diagram from the company that wrote Visio.
I believe that Lighthouse was started by a group of friends fresh out of college. So, for Jonathan to go from college, to a successful business to COO of Sun in sequence is pretty impressive. Whether he has the RDF, the design sense, and the ability to deal with failure that Steve has is in question, but he might be a good choice...
No, no federal tax return at all. You buy stuff, the seller charges you the consumption tax. Each year/month/quarter/whatever you get a check from the government for being alive/of voting age/whatever. Not regressive, not complicated. Whether it's 'affordable' (revenue neutral), or 'fair' is another question.
I'm not sure I'm in favor of it, but when people say it's regressive, I like to point out ways around that.
Yeah, and my 'cash' isn't a bunch of paper in my mattress (which in an of itself is worthless), it's a bunch of 0's and 1's in a bank account somewhere. Since I had a margin account, when those 0's and 1's were in my stock account, I could write a check and buy stuff. That's wealth. My house is less 'cash' than that, but are you claiming it's not wealth?
Ranier has more ice than Denali? I find that hard to believe. Any references?
So, 'provisional votes' aren't anonymous then? What's to keep your boss from your new job that you just moved to (new residency, new registration) from telling you that you have to vote a certain way, and to ensure that's the case, you have to register on election day so his buddy who volunteers down at the precinct can check it out?
A federal sales tax (consumption tax) can be made non-regressive by granting a rebate of a given amount to everyone. So, if I buy nothing at all all year, I get (say) $10k from the govt. and I'm up $10k. But if I spend 2mil, get taxed 10% and give 200k to the govt, I still get 10k back.
I disagree. Just because you didn't sell the stock at the high, then reinvest doesn't mean that your net worth wasn't up 1Mil, then back down 1Mil. "Paper gains" are real, and can easily be converted to cash, so "paper losses" are just as real. My net worth really is over 2 million less than it was a couple/few years ago... (sigh...)
Well, being a detail oriented geek, I notice it says you can't subject a student to diciplinary action, but it doesn't say you can't stop a peaceful assembly on campus...
I'd like to read the law the way you do, but I'm not sure that's what is intended...
And someone with guns or respect (friends) would take it from you :-(
Well my main point was that if all you had was gold when civilization fell you'd have it taken from you quite quickly unless you had the weapons to defend yourself or enough respect from your friends and neighbors to help you keep it.
Not sure if Stanford gets state or federal funds, and whether that would make the Leonard law apply or not, but it seems to me that since they are a private university they can make the policy they were trying to enforce on you.
In the case of a crash of civilization, I think that rather than gold or silver, you'd be better off with respect or weapons than gold.
Yeah, does doing 'tar -tvf /dev/nrst0 > ~/Backups/mylastbackup.txt' count? If so, I've got prior art going back quite a ways...