I don't believe in carrying spare wiring. There's no need, when you know how to make a wire out of everyday items like a creamer pouch or the spring from a ball point pen. *starts humming MacGyver theme*
The application for warrant is hilarious. Detective Christopher wants permission to seize any data storage devices, including CPUs and printers. I wonder what data he thinks is stored on the printer. Also, he "jail breaks" cell phones! OMFG he's a cell phone terrorist.
What this boils down to is a stupid cop who suspected this Calixte guy in a laptop burglary a while back, but couldn't find any evidence to back it up. Then the cop finds out that the guys roommate is pissed at the suspect because he put up a fake profile on a gay site, so he convinces the roommate to become a witness. My guess is the cop is really looking for the laptop from the earlier case, and he's just using this idiot/whiny-bitch roommate to get a warrant.
If any of these books include blank forms, I highly recommend making and distributing copies of those forms. I assume they must use some sort of form for things like character generation, but I'm not a gamer, so I really don't know. US copyright law specifically excludes blank forms from protection. It also delineates penalties against people who illegally claim a copyright.
Fractal Geometry of Nature was a mind-opener for me. Thanks for reminding me the title of that book. I read it back in 9th grade, but I couldn't remember it's name. I was so enamored with the Mandelbrot set, I wrote a screen saver (in Pascal =P ) for the following year's computer class.
If these pharmaceutical companies didn't file the patents, how do you think any other drug manufacturer in a "poor country" would manage to figure out how to make a certain drug? If this country doesn't have a welfare system, you can bet they don't have the research infrastructure to develop the cure to AIDS or cancer. So they would have to rely on some company just giving away the magic formula. Or, they'd have to rely on the company just giving away the drug itself.
I would say, rather than filing a patent and waiving their rights to enforce it, they would be better served by just giving away the drugs. They keep their rights, and they get "goodwill" in the country they're helping and worldwide. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some partnerships between groups like the Gates Foundation and companies like Pfizer to do just that.
The idiot who sold a solution of sulpha in ethylene glycol, essentially made that case and proof for them. Somebody had sold a medicine which didn't just sometimes not work, and didn't just sometimes kill its patients. It killed _every_ single person who took it.
This is classic Rush. He's a master at getting people to pay attention to him, while simultaneously spouting utter nonsense. My favorite line is how he claims that "Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice." If he's referring to the current financial crisis, that's downright comical. Even Alan Greenspan has admitted that it was blind faith in free market capitalism that not only got us "close to the precipice," but pushed us over the edge without a bungee cord.
The true irony here, is that the traditional definition of liberalism is political philosophy that favors individual liberties. In this interpretation, the laissez-faire economic policies of the Bush Administration really were liberalism, and they really did get us dangerously close to the brink of financial disaster. Of course, Rush knew that most people would think that by "liberalism" he meant something along the lines of "Democrat." So he is saying something that is technically true, but its interpretation by his audience is likely to be something along the lines of "Our current financial woes are the fault of those damn liberals, and now they've got the White House, and they're going to make it worse." Which makes just about no sense at all.
My wife's a physical therapist, so I'm glad to hear it worked so well for you. This is exactly her complaint about most chiropractors. They are content to treat symptoms week after week, whereas PTs work with your doctor to make sure the actual cause of your pain goes away. They work short term to ease the pain, and give you exercises (and other treatments if needed) to fix the long term problems. If she's out of her depth, she doesn't hesitate to refer back to the physician. To her, a successful treatment plan means that after 4 to 12 weeks (depending on protocol) she never has to see that person for the same problem ever again. To some chiropractors, a successful treatment plan is whatever will bring in the most money from the insurance company.
Unfortunately there are several people with full brains that, even if they know alternative medicine is a scam, don't necessarily recognize alternative medicine when they see it. My wife is very intelligent, with a post-graduate degree in a medical feled, yet she really believes that the "teething tablets" you can buy in the store are actual medicine. After I explained to her what the word "homeopathic" meant on the label, she looked at me incredulously and said, "There's no way they would be allowed to sell something like that, besides everybody swears by them."
But I agree with you. I think one of the reasons it's so hard to pinpoint alternative medicine are the unanswered questions about mainstream medicine. For that matter, there are people who argue that vitamins, MOAIs, antihistamines, beta-agonists, and several other categories of drugs are bogus. Some of these are prescription only, some are OTC and regulated by the FDA, and some are unregulated. The worst part is that even if everybody had access to all of the double-blind studies, very few non-scientists would know how to interpret them. Who can explain to a layman what a P value is and what it has to do with sample size and experiment validity?
Then, even if they do understand the science, we still have to contend with human nature. People want to trust other people, especially friends. People think that government regulation really will stop scams before they are victimized. People are insecure about their bodies and worried about their future health. If enough people tell them "Body Solutions really worked for me," or "Minoxidil made my hair grow back," or if they see enough "free trial of Enzyte" ads, they'll still give it a shot, because nobody wants to be a fat, bald, tiny-dicked loser.
I was going to get my wife a MBP for Christmas, but this is a deal breaker. If they really want iTunes HD videos to sell well this season, they shouldn't make it dependent on having a HDCP compatible display device. I'm not going to buy it and just hope that my TV will work with it. Actually, it wouldn't matter since I don't have an HDTV, so I wouldn't buy HD iTunes videos. So maybe it's not a deal breaker, but it sure is making me think twice.
I guess the good news is that this gives us all a legitimately legal reason to defeat the latest copy protection schemes on iTunes. Research for interoperability is allowed under the DMCA; however, it appears that exemption only applies to computer programs. Is there a copyright lawyer who knows whether an iTunes video would count in this regard? Alternatively could you use the exemption as it applies to the actual iTunes application, since that surely qualifies as a program?
Sorry for the late reply. I appreciate your point. We have been fortunate that judges have interpreted "speech" broadly. They could have determined that "speech" does not include non-verbal acts of communication such as sign language or flag burning. The founding fathers could easily have included a few "including but not limited to:" type sections in just about everything in the Bill of Rights. But they didn't think they needed to when they wrote the 9th amendment to pretty much guarantee that everything they forgot would be permitted rather than prohibited.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This is a bit off-topic, but you should be aware that going cash-only is not a good thing to do if you are ever going to be interested in buying something on credit like a car or house. One of the worst things you can do to your credit score is fall off the radar altogether. You may argue that you don't care about your score since you don't need credit, but there are other ramifications. Some apartments won't accept your application if you have a bad score, and some employers do credit screenings before hiring.
Absolutely couldn't agree more. When I hear people say "activist judges" I just want to scream. Would they prefer lazy judges who don't take their role in the balance of power seriously?
If people want judges to stop interpreting the law (which is their job), then they need to demand that the legislative branch do a better job of writing laws that don't need interpretation. Just think, if the Bill of Rights had been elaborated just a bit as to the meaning of each phrase and clause, we wouldn't need to have judges and lawyers arguing about 18th century word definitions and grammatical comma placement practices.
But writing better laws would only fix part of the problem. These complainers need to demand that the executive branch do a better job enforcing the laws, too. They could start by kindly asking the President to stop making signing statements for everything that crosses his desk.
If well-written constitutionally valid laws were enforced impartially and regularly, judges would have a lot less to be "activist" about.
One thing I wish I had control over was the "Did you mean:" function. I'd like to be able to answer the question yes or no, rather than having to go into the query and putting quote marks where I want to search for a word it thinks is spelled wrong. It might do Google's algorithm some good, too, if they can get feedback on their suggestions. I would also like the option to ask for additional suggestions, especially on multi-word queries.
Sorry to nit-pick, but you are referring to editions rather than arrangements. They are protected by copyright, but the music itself is not. There actually is some creative effort in making an edition of older music. I have personally done this, and I can attest to the creative effort required. It is not just copying notes. There is plenty of interpretation to be done. The language of music has changed over the centuries, and manuscripts are very difficult to decipher, especially those from the more prolific composers.
Also, I have rarely encountered transpositions like you mention even in the junior high school level.
Titles are not protected by copyright. That's a common misconception. If I write a book and call it Harry Potter and the Copyright Infringement Case that went Nowhere, copyright law doesn't give anybody the right to stop me.
I think the latest Gitmo smackdown by the SCOTUS pretty much rendered that whole "not in US" = "Constitution does not apply" theory invalid. At least if you're a Uighur.
That's one of the most disturbing things I've read in a long time. That was over ten years ago, too. I'm sure matters have only gotten worse. Nowadays they could have just called her an enemy combatant, locked her up somewhere offshore, and we would never have known her story.
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I don't believe in carrying spare wiring. There's no need, when you know how to make a wire out of everyday items like a creamer pouch or the spring from a ball point pen. *starts humming MacGyver theme*
The application for warrant is hilarious. Detective Christopher wants permission to seize any data storage devices, including CPUs and printers. I wonder what data he thinks is stored on the printer. Also, he "jail breaks" cell phones! OMFG he's a cell phone terrorist.
What this boils down to is a stupid cop who suspected this Calixte guy in a laptop burglary a while back, but couldn't find any evidence to back it up. Then the cop finds out that the guys roommate is pissed at the suspect because he put up a fake profile on a gay site, so he convinces the roommate to become a witness. My guess is the cop is really looking for the laptop from the earlier case, and he's just using this idiot/whiny-bitch roommate to get a warrant.
If any of these books include blank forms, I highly recommend making and distributing copies of those forms. I assume they must use some sort of form for things like character generation, but I'm not a gamer, so I really don't know. US copyright law specifically excludes blank forms from protection. It also delineates penalties against people who illegally claim a copyright.
The SI unit for elitist asshole admins is the jimbo (Ji).
Fractal Geometry of Nature was a mind-opener for me. Thanks for reminding me the title of that book. I read it back in 9th grade, but I couldn't remember it's name. I was so enamored with the Mandelbrot set, I wrote a screen saver (in Pascal =P ) for the following year's computer class.
If these pharmaceutical companies didn't file the patents, how do you think any other drug manufacturer in a "poor country" would manage to figure out how to make a certain drug? If this country doesn't have a welfare system, you can bet they don't have the research infrastructure to develop the cure to AIDS or cancer. So they would have to rely on some company just giving away the magic formula. Or, they'd have to rely on the company just giving away the drug itself.
I would say, rather than filing a patent and waiving their rights to enforce it, they would be better served by just giving away the drugs. They keep their rights, and they get "goodwill" in the country they're helping and worldwide. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some partnerships between groups like the Gates Foundation and companies like Pfizer to do just that.
Have you ever heard of pronouns?
What pronoun do you use for a corporation? It? They? She? He? In this case, probably "we."
The idiot who sold a solution of sulpha in ethylene glycol, essentially made that case and proof for them. Somebody had sold a medicine which didn't just sometimes not work, and didn't just sometimes kill its patients. It killed _every_ single person who took it.
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This is classic Rush. He's a master at getting people to pay attention to him, while simultaneously spouting utter nonsense. My favorite line is how he claims that "Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice." If he's referring to the current financial crisis, that's downright comical. Even Alan Greenspan has admitted that it was blind faith in free market capitalism that not only got us "close to the precipice," but pushed us over the edge without a bungee cord.
The true irony here, is that the traditional definition of liberalism is political philosophy that favors individual liberties. In this interpretation, the laissez-faire economic policies of the Bush Administration really were liberalism, and they really did get us dangerously close to the brink of financial disaster. Of course, Rush knew that most people would think that by "liberalism" he meant something along the lines of "Democrat." So he is saying something that is technically true, but its interpretation by his audience is likely to be something along the lines of "Our current financial woes are the fault of those damn liberals, and now they've got the White House, and they're going to make it worse." Which makes just about no sense at all.
Too bad the Germans outlawed grammar Nazis after WWII. They would have been all over this post.
My wife's a physical therapist, so I'm glad to hear it worked so well for you. This is exactly her complaint about most chiropractors. They are content to treat symptoms week after week, whereas PTs work with your doctor to make sure the actual cause of your pain goes away. They work short term to ease the pain, and give you exercises (and other treatments if needed) to fix the long term problems. If she's out of her depth, she doesn't hesitate to refer back to the physician. To her, a successful treatment plan means that after 4 to 12 weeks (depending on protocol) she never has to see that person for the same problem ever again. To some chiropractors, a successful treatment plan is whatever will bring in the most money from the insurance company.
Unfortunately there are several people with full brains that, even if they know alternative medicine is a scam, don't necessarily recognize alternative medicine when they see it. My wife is very intelligent, with a post-graduate degree in a medical feled, yet she really believes that the "teething tablets" you can buy in the store are actual medicine. After I explained to her what the word "homeopathic" meant on the label, she looked at me incredulously and said, "There's no way they would be allowed to sell something like that, besides everybody swears by them."
But I agree with you. I think one of the reasons it's so hard to pinpoint alternative medicine are the unanswered questions about mainstream medicine. For that matter, there are people who argue that vitamins, MOAIs, antihistamines, beta-agonists, and several other categories of drugs are bogus. Some of these are prescription only, some are OTC and regulated by the FDA, and some are unregulated. The worst part is that even if everybody had access to all of the double-blind studies, very few non-scientists would know how to interpret them. Who can explain to a layman what a P value is and what it has to do with sample size and experiment validity?
Then, even if they do understand the science, we still have to contend with human nature. People want to trust other people, especially friends. People think that government regulation really will stop scams before they are victimized. People are insecure about their bodies and worried about their future health. If enough people tell them "Body Solutions really worked for me," or "Minoxidil made my hair grow back," or if they see enough "free trial of Enzyte" ads, they'll still give it a shot, because nobody wants to be a fat, bald, tiny-dicked loser.
I was going to get my wife a MBP for Christmas, but this is a deal breaker. If they really want iTunes HD videos to sell well this season, they shouldn't make it dependent on having a HDCP compatible display device. I'm not going to buy it and just hope that my TV will work with it. Actually, it wouldn't matter since I don't have an HDTV, so I wouldn't buy HD iTunes videos. So maybe it's not a deal breaker, but it sure is making me think twice.
I guess the good news is that this gives us all a legitimately legal reason to defeat the latest copy protection schemes on iTunes. Research for interoperability is allowed under the DMCA; however, it appears that exemption only applies to computer programs. Is there a copyright lawyer who knows whether an iTunes video would count in this regard? Alternatively could you use the exemption as it applies to the actual iTunes application, since that surely qualifies as a program?
No clue. I live in the Republic of Texas, so all you foreigners are a mystery to me. ;-)
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
I think you just failed the Turing Test.
This is a bit off-topic, but you should be aware that going cash-only is not a good thing to do if you are ever going to be interested in buying something on credit like a car or house. One of the worst things you can do to your credit score is fall off the radar altogether. You may argue that you don't care about your score since you don't need credit, but there are other ramifications. Some apartments won't accept your application if you have a bad score, and some employers do credit screenings before hiring.
I think you mean Commonwealth of Virginia.
If people want judges to stop interpreting the law (which is their job), then they need to demand that the legislative branch do a better job of writing laws that don't need interpretation. Just think, if the Bill of Rights had been elaborated just a bit as to the meaning of each phrase and clause, we wouldn't need to have judges and lawyers arguing about 18th century word definitions and grammatical comma placement practices.
But writing better laws would only fix part of the problem. These complainers need to demand that the executive branch do a better job enforcing the laws, too. They could start by kindly asking the President to stop making signing statements for everything that crosses his desk.
If well-written constitutionally valid laws were enforced impartially and regularly, judges would have a lot less to be "activist" about.
Google meets Digg. Giggle?
One thing I wish I had control over was the "Did you mean:" function. I'd like to be able to answer the question yes or no, rather than having to go into the query and putting quote marks where I want to search for a word it thinks is spelled wrong. It might do Google's algorithm some good, too, if they can get feedback on their suggestions. I would also like the option to ask for additional suggestions, especially on multi-word queries.
Also, I have rarely encountered transpositions like you mention even in the junior high school level.
Titles are not protected by copyright. That's a common misconception. If I write a book and call it Harry Potter and the Copyright Infringement Case that went Nowhere, copyright law doesn't give anybody the right to stop me.
I think the latest Gitmo smackdown by the SCOTUS pretty much rendered that whole "not in US" = "Constitution does not apply" theory invalid. At least if you're a Uighur.
That's one of the most disturbing things I've read in a long time. That was over ten years ago, too. I'm sure matters have only gotten worse. Nowadays they could have just called her an enemy combatant, locked her up somewhere offshore, and we would never have known her story.