No, because the individual doing that is screwing himself down the road. Whether it's logical to sell out the future depends on the necessity of the particular commons in question. If raiding the commons today means that next week there won't be any more surplus American cheese, oh well, good thing you got all that cheese while the getting was good. But if it means that next week there won't be any more oxygen...
"sneak them through the back door?" Agreed, the Quicktime/iTunes update dialog ought not to have "install Safari "checked by default, but it is right there in front of you to uncheck. In front of you. Like the front door.
That's a sorry excuse for just about any bad behavior you care to engage in. Hey, rapists exist, so rape is okay -- if it weren't me it'd be someone else raping you.
Lions and tigers don't have a choice; they need to kill to survive, and the ones they cull tend to be the weakest because they're easier to catch. Over time, this increases the overall fitness of both the prey and the predator. Carl Icahn, on the other hand, does what he does by choice. His targets are not the least valuable or least productive or even necessarily the most "poorly run." Remember, he's not trying to buy Yahoo himself, he's trying to sabotage it in order to facilitate its takeover by Microsoft. His kills do nothing to make the corporate ecosystem (as if that were even an appropriate analogy, and as if we didn't develop civilization in order to transcend the law of the jungle rather than rationalize it) better. He's not a lion, he's a parasite.
What defines shareholders' interests? Suppose every investor decides he wants a pony, RIGHT NOW! Is Yahoo obligated to liquidate all its assets to provide ponies to its shareholders? Perhaps so, but I'd call that a market failure.
Maybe I'm being idealistic, but it seems to me that a board of directors ought to act primarily in the company's best interests, and shareholder value will follow. Day-trading and speculation are probably uncurable diseases, but that's no reason to encourage them.
Aside from the fact that "But everyone else is doing it!" isn't really a great excuse for anyone over the age of five:
Monopoly abuse (what other players can you use with iTunes?)
Microsoft has been found guilty of abusing its monopoly position in a court of law. Apple hasn't even been indicted.
Running competitors into the ground (what happened to the Apple clone vendors?)
What happened is their contracts expired and Apple declined to renew them. Equating that to the myriad dirty tricks Microsoft has employed is disingenuous at best.
Raw hypocrisy ("Intel is evil!")
Now you're just making shit up. Hey, that's fun! "Hitler is my personal hero." -rtechie
Flat-out fraud ("iTunes will only work on MacOS!")
Again, citation needed.
Even if we accept your premise that MS has been unfairly lambasted for actions that go unremarked upon when performed by other companies, the correct answer is to extend criticisms to those other companies as well, not to give MS a free pass. People get away with murder all the time, but we don't use that as a justification for murder.
That's not what nonprofit means. They can have positive balances all they want, but the "profit" must stay in the company's accounts instead of being distributed to investors. Not all nonprofits are charities, but all (legitimate) charities are nonprofits.
The AT&T card he tested, a Sierra 881U, does have a GPS receiver in it, but AT&T's connection utility doesn't provide access to it. Don't hold your breath, but it's possible a future software update would add GPS functionality. Sprint's GPS features were unavailable to Macs until very recently.
Most modern email clients let you achieve this functionality with "smart folders" or "saved searches" or whatever nomenclature the particular client uses. These are basically dynamic search results in the guise of a folder. So you might have one smart folder that "contains" all email from mom@aol.com, wherever the actual messages reside in in the real folder hierarchy. Tagging lets you extend this by adding arbitrary criteria that don't exist in the original message, e.g. "StuffThatCanWait," "ProjectMayhem," whatever.
That's a pretty dumb assertion, and one seen far too often around here. "Congress [and per the 14th Amendment, States] shall make no law..." means there aren't any legitimate ordinances and laws that would result in such consequences.
Of course, courts have found reasonable (and sometimes unreasonable) exceptions -- yelling fire in a theater and such -- but what you're saying would make the Bill of Rights entirely meaningless. "You have the freedom to say whatever you want, but the government can punish you for it" is exactly the same as "You don't have the freedom to say whatever you want."
Then why is the owner doling out valid IP addresses via DHCP?
My computer: "Hello, I see you are broadcasting your presence as a wireless access point. May I have an IP address to utilize your services?"
Owner's wireless AP: "Why certainly! Here you go, and enjoy your pornography!"
The owner of the AP is advertising its availibility and, by proxy, authorizing all and sundry to use the resource. The analogy is not "a house with an unlocked front door" but rather "a public restroom with a large blinking neon sign." If you don't want people sharing your connection, turn off the sign.
Around here all the encrypted-by-default APs the cable company (or whoever) doles out shit all over channels 1, 6, & 11 and interfere with my neighbors' intentionally open APs. I'm sure most of these people don't even know they have wireless. So much for that.
I seem to recall that the Chicago cameras are in that livery due to a court decision to the effect of traffic tickets only being valid if written by a uniformed officer. Hence the cameras are "in uniform" so the tickets they "write" can be valid. Something like that.
You are mostly correct, but fluorescent lights' green tinge is due to the sensitivity of film to the "green spike" in their output spectra. It's not so much a case of human eyes/brains adjusting our white balance to filter it out, as when viewing a 5500K source in a 3200K environment.
What I am not fine with is the plurality taking away my fundamental rights. Do you deny that we have such rights?
I'm not the poster you're responding to, but as for myself: No, I don't deny that we have those rights. Do you deny that we have corresponding obligations to the society at large that ensures those rights as best as it is able, which ironically necessitates to some degree the curtailment of said rights?
You don't like paying taxes, fine, find some place with a social contract that either allows you to freeload or doesn't provide any services. You won't find one in any functional society. Go figure.
Justice holds a balance for a reason, and it's not just because the ancient Greeks hadn't invented the digital scale yet.
According to wiki life expectancy in the US is one of the highest. Out of 191 countries the USA is listed at 29. According to WHO in 2000 the US ranked 24th. While not as high as say Japan, the US has a higher life span than most nations.
Great. Now factor in dollars per capita spent on health care. Go ahead, I'll wait. While we're at it, just to be fair, let's omit all these third-world hellholes from the survey altogether. Or were you thinking of using Ugandan healthcare standards as a yardstick? "Hey, at least we're better than... Bangladesh!"
Being 29th out of, what, maybe 50 industrialized modern countries is nothing to brag about.
It's commendable that you personally are egalitarian enough to pitch in at co-ops and tutor disabled kids, honestly. But relying on the caprices of charitable fellow-feeling is hardly a viable large-scale social policy.
The pilots certainly do need access to some of the cabin systems, for the seatbelt sign, for example.
Why should cabin systems be the pilot's responsibility at all? Let the flight attendants attend to seatbelts and lighting and climate control, and let the pilot keep his attention on flying the plane.
BMI isn't a record label, it's a rights clearinghouse. Prince has used both BMI and ASCAP for that purpose. Dirty Mind and s/t were published by "Ecnirp BMI" ("Prince" backwards in association with BMI) but released by Warner Bros.
In the music industry, it's typical for the record label to own the rights to the specific recordings while another entity (ASCAP, BMI) administers rights to performances, sheet music, lyrics, etc., usually in conjunction with a shell company set up by the artist.
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No, because the individual doing that is screwing himself down the road. Whether it's logical to sell out the future depends on the necessity of the particular commons in question. If raiding the commons today means that next week there won't be any more surplus American cheese, oh well, good thing you got all that cheese while the getting was good. But if it means that next week there won't be any more oxygen...
What's the problem with Punkbuster? I ask out of sincere ignorance, as I've never heard it referred to as spyware before.
"sneak them through the back door?" Agreed, the Quicktime/iTunes update dialog ought not to have "install Safari "checked by default, but it is right there in front of you to uncheck. In front of you. Like the front door.
That's a pretty big assumption. Even if I did, I'd be worried about it achieving sentience and throwing me out an airlock.
Lions and tigers don't have a choice; they need to kill to survive, and the ones they cull tend to be the weakest because they're easier to catch. Over time, this increases the overall fitness of both the prey and the predator. Carl Icahn, on the other hand, does what he does by choice. His targets are not the least valuable or least productive or even necessarily the most "poorly run." Remember, he's not trying to buy Yahoo himself, he's trying to sabotage it in order to facilitate its takeover by Microsoft. His kills do nothing to make the corporate ecosystem (as if that were even an appropriate analogy, and as if we didn't develop civilization in order to transcend the law of the jungle rather than rationalize it) better. He's not a lion, he's a parasite.
Maybe I'm being idealistic, but it seems to me that a board of directors ought to act primarily in the company's best interests, and shareholder value will follow. Day-trading and speculation are probably uncurable diseases, but that's no reason to encourage them.
Monopoly abuse (what other players can you use with iTunes?)
Microsoft has been found guilty of abusing its monopoly position in a court of law. Apple hasn't even been indicted.
Running competitors into the ground (what happened to the Apple clone vendors?)
What happened is their contracts expired and Apple declined to renew them. Equating that to the myriad dirty tricks Microsoft has employed is disingenuous at best.
Raw hypocrisy ("Intel is evil!")
Now you're just making shit up. Hey, that's fun! "Hitler is my personal hero." -rtechie
Flat-out fraud ("iTunes will only work on MacOS!")
Again, citation needed.
Even if we accept your premise that MS has been unfairly lambasted for actions that go unremarked upon when performed by other companies, the correct answer is to extend criticisms to those other companies as well, not to give MS a free pass. People get away with murder all the time, but we don't use that as a justification for murder.
That's not what nonprofit means. They can have positive balances all they want, but the "profit" must stay in the company's accounts instead of being distributed to investors. Not all nonprofits are charities, but all (legitimate) charities are nonprofits.
The AT&T card he tested, a Sierra 881U, does have a GPS receiver in it, but AT&T's connection utility doesn't provide access to it. Don't hold your breath, but it's possible a future software update would add GPS functionality. Sprint's GPS features were unavailable to Macs until very recently.
You can with dynamic saved search "folders," which are pretty much a prerequisite to making any use of tags to begin with.
Most modern email clients let you achieve this functionality with "smart folders" or "saved searches" or whatever nomenclature the particular client uses. These are basically dynamic search results in the guise of a folder. So you might have one smart folder that "contains" all email from mom@aol.com, wherever the actual messages reside in in the real folder hierarchy. Tagging lets you extend this by adding arbitrary criteria that don't exist in the original message, e.g. "StuffThatCanWait," "ProjectMayhem," whatever.
Your physical mailbox may be "publically accessible," does that mean it's okay to stuff a load of dogshit in it?
Of course, courts have found reasonable (and sometimes unreasonable) exceptions -- yelling fire in a theater and such -- but what you're saying would make the Bill of Rights entirely meaningless. "You have the freedom to say whatever you want, but the government can punish you for it" is exactly the same as "You don't have the freedom to say whatever you want."
Then why is the owner doling out valid IP addresses via DHCP? My computer: "Hello, I see you are broadcasting your presence as a wireless access point. May I have an IP address to utilize your services?" Owner's wireless AP: "Why certainly! Here you go, and enjoy your pornography!" The owner of the AP is advertising its availibility and, by proxy, authorizing all and sundry to use the resource. The analogy is not "a house with an unlocked front door" but rather "a public restroom with a large blinking neon sign." If you don't want people sharing your connection, turn off the sign.
Around here all the encrypted-by-default APs the cable company (or whoever) doles out shit all over channels 1, 6, & 11 and interfere with my neighbors' intentionally open APs. I'm sure most of these people don't even know they have wireless. So much for that.
I seem to recall that the Chicago cameras are in that livery due to a court decision to the effect of traffic tickets only being valid if written by a uniformed officer. Hence the cameras are "in uniform" so the tickets they "write" can be valid. Something like that.
He scratches their backs, they scratch his. Frat boys look out for their "brothers," but that doesn't necessarily make them laudable specimens.
You are mostly correct, but fluorescent lights' green tinge is due to the sensitivity of film to the "green spike" in their output spectra. It's not so much a case of human eyes/brains adjusting our white balance to filter it out, as when viewing a 5500K source in a 3200K environment.
I'm not the poster you're responding to, but as for myself: No, I don't deny that we have those rights. Do you deny that we have corresponding obligations to the society at large that ensures those rights as best as it is able, which ironically necessitates to some degree the curtailment of said rights?
You don't like paying taxes, fine, find some place with a social contract that either allows you to freeload or doesn't provide any services. You won't find one in any functional society. Go figure.
Justice holds a balance for a reason, and it's not just because the ancient Greeks hadn't invented the digital scale yet.
Calm down, you're both on the same side.
Great. Now factor in dollars per capita spent on health care. Go ahead, I'll wait. While we're at it, just to be fair, let's omit all these third-world hellholes from the survey altogether. Or were you thinking of using Ugandan healthcare standards as a yardstick? "Hey, at least we're better than... Bangladesh!"
Being 29th out of, what, maybe 50 industrialized modern countries is nothing to brag about.
It's commendable that you personally are egalitarian enough to pitch in at co-ops and tutor disabled kids, honestly. But relying on the caprices of charitable fellow-feeling is hardly a viable large-scale social policy.
Why should cabin systems be the pilot's responsibility at all? Let the flight attendants attend to seatbelts and lighting and climate control, and let the pilot keep his attention on flying the plane.
Pursuing self-interest at the absolute expense of all other considerations is pretty much the definition of evil.
In the music industry, it's typical for the record label to own the rights to the specific recordings while another entity (ASCAP, BMI) administers rights to performances, sheet music, lyrics, etc., usually in conjunction with a shell company set up by the artist.
Considering the military budget comes out of the pockets of us commercial and civilian users, it's hardly a "free ride."