Socialism is the new Communism. Moderates are the new Socialist. Conservatism is the new Moderate. Fascism is the new Conservatism. Unitarian Executive Theory is the new 3-branch government.
While reading this, a thought occured to me. My great aunt recently compiled a book of letters that my Grandpa and his 6 brothers sent home while they were in the military in WWII. If we applied current law to those letters...
One of the brothers is still alive. He was 18 when he sent some of those letters. Assuming his mailing of the letter to his family and having them share it with friends is enough to be considered publishing it, he could exert a copyright over the letter. So, 67 years after writing the letter, he still has a "temporary" monopoly over it's publication. And he will continue to have a "temporary" monopoly for another 70 years.
I don't know about you, but I would guess that the 1790 Congress that established the first Copy Right law weren't thinking of a nice short time frame like 140 years;)
I have the ability to write. I have the ability to speak. I have the ability to see. More importantly, I have the "god-given" right to do all of these things.
Copyrights, in practicality, are as you describe, protecting the rights of the author. But as the GP correctly stated, it is granting you that right at the direct expense of the basic rights of everyone else. Your right to control the copying of your works is an artificial right created by the government that reduces the "god-given" rights that the rest of society has.
The government is quite literally saying that I, as a citizen of the US, do not have the right to write a series of words so long as someone else has written that same series of words first.
I'm not saying that is a bad thing. Because copyright and other IP laws are designed to promote writing and invention along with rewarding those who can think independently and create. But like many of these issues, it is the weight of society balances between two peoples rights. Any time one side or the other gets too strong, society suffers for it. And society will exert it's own force if the balance is not maintained by the government.
We already have a 45+ MPG Golf;) it's called a turbo diesel. I've heard that the '08 and newer models with common rail injection are doing even better than my older styled '06.
Although, I would venture a guess that the reason for using the Lotus as its base, beyond the desire to develop a sports car, is that it has a curb weight, including the engine of under 2,000 pounds. That's just over half of what most sedans weigh in at (My old Grand Prix tipped the scales at 3800lbs if I recall correctly.) Even the Golf and my tiny Fiero come in close to the 3k mark.
If there was a viable business plan here, plenty of private investors would be lining up. The trouble is, there isn't.
Sure there is. You just need a highly automated assembly line and the ability to network, sell and service vehicles across the US.
Having service stations and trained techs requires you to have enough vehicles on the road to demand it. Getting enough vehicles on the road in this day and age requires a high output production facility. Building a high output production facility costs millions.
So, Tesla, currently with out a high output production facility is pushing out a limited number of high priced cars. Eventually, the proceeds from those high priced cars will offset the cost of building a better production facility. A better production facility will allow them to build more cars for less money. So they will build a more traditional styled car (say like the new sedan) at a still expensive, but more affordable price. Eventually, the proceeds from those expensive sedans will allow them to make further improvements to their production facility. etc.. Until they get to the point that they are making full electric vehicles that are price point competitive with the other options consumers have.
Given the risk in building a multi-million dollar production facility and the current uncertainty in the economy, it is entirely possible that their business model, while sound, will fail. By getting a loan from the government, they are effectively speeding up the process. Spending less time in the building expensive cars phase and trying to get into the price point competitive phase sooner. Which means less risk for them. It's exactly what they would typically be hitting up venture capitalists for, but with the amount of money lost over the last year and the collapse of oil prices, it's not surprising that they are eying up a loan from the Government instead.
And the hybrid small gas engine feeding an electrical motor and batteries is time tested (diesel-electric trains) and makes more (environmental/economic) sense than batteries alone atm.
Interest, the old CEO of GM said something similar, along the lines of:
And the gas engine feeding a trans-axle is time tested and makes more (environmental/economic) sense than hybrids atm.
Funny how a couple of years of innovation can change what makes sense 'ATM'.
The greatest thing about servicing a Tesla... There's barely any!
No oil to change. No spark plugs. No air filter. No oxygen sensors. No timing belts.
Sure, you still have to get the alignment checked, break pads replaced, and batteries recycled. But you have a couple of solid state plug and pull components, a 1-speed manual tranny, and a big honking AC motor. There's not a whole lot in there for the drive train that can break.
Right now my commute is almost all interstate speed, so a Turbo Diesel is my best bet (45mpg in an 06 VW Golf TDI). But if I ever get back into a city commute, I'll be looking hard for a full electric option again.
Uhh, the Roadster is built on a Lotus Elise body and frame. If you are looking at a $50+k road hugging high performance vehicle full of win and awesome, the Lotus Esprit screams it at 8000 RPMs. It is a sexy looking beast that will bruise your kidneys with it's exceptionally stiff and race worthy suspension. To call it an ugly car is purely delusional. It is functional. Exceptionally so. To the extent that the pureness of it's function becomes its beauty.
I'm pretty sure that of the entire market of vehicles on the market today, only a tiny portion of them can be viewed as at all resembling the vehicles from Lotus.
And the new sedan is much more in line with upper market full sized sedan styling. If you don't like it either, wait another 5 years, Tesla will either be unveiling more lines with more traditional appearances, or they will get bought out by a larger manufacturer that will rebuild the modern sedan using their technology.
Because as we all know, every single one of the founding fathers made decisions in unison with an absolute agreement amongst themselves in a sealed off bubble from which they were only exposed to the true will of the people...
The founding fathers were some amazing thinkers, and we should continue to review their work to learn more about our experiment called Democracy. But they were far from infallible and rarely of one mind.
Lumping them all together in a homogenized "they" really whittles away a lot of the intricacies and strife that they dealt with in coming to compromises that lead to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
Yeah, the first replacement I made was my Trouble light out in the garage. I used to replace the incandecent bulb in that thing every time I used it. But with the CFL I've had no problems. It even lit on a cold -30 degree morning while I was trying to start my wife's truck out in the drive way.
The one that died i nthe garage was right next to the garage door motor. And the failure appeared to be a hairline crack in the glass right where it met the base. So I would assume it was a poor unit to start with and the vibration from the garage door opener doomed it early.
My mother inlaw bought 2 CFL to use in her kitchen. They are still going strong and they are probably the most used lights in her house. She paid a fair bit for them back in 94, but I'd say 15 years of consistent power savings has long since balanced out;)
I've replaced all of the lights in my house with CFLs over the last 5 years. The only ones that have a slow light time are the super compact ones I got to fit in a specific light fixture. And the only 2 that have "burnt out" were due to excessive vibration (one in the garage) and another that I caught with a chunk of sheet rock while remodeling.
And most of them are from the elcheapo 5-packs that I paid under $15 for.
I've had no issues with flickering, the color quality is quite warm (I actually have to bring in a colder light when I'm painting, but for room lighting they are great). So even if they are sucking up 28 watts instead of 14, that's still 1/2-1/4 what I would be sucking up using 60-100watt bulbs.
By union, I mean an entity similar to the Associated Press, preferably multiple entities, each of which acts as a way for journalists to get paid for research, and for their articles to get widely syndicated. The AP like entity would, as a copyright holder (or legally enabled negotiating party) would have the power to license access to the reports to news aggregators much as they already do to news papers, radio, and TV.
The AP is in a great place to make such a transition, if their leadership has the vision to push through in that direction. Unfortunately, they are so closely tied to existing news media and news papers specifically, that odds are they are going to crash and burn under the strain.
But that will open the doors to a new series of journalist unions that will be in a great place to capitalize on IP rights and the web.
Is it going to be roses and lollipops? hell no. There is going to be a lot of dramatic changes in the media industry, and those changes are going to have a direct effect on the income of journalists. And while we're going through the changes, because there will always be a demand for journalism, there will be those who do it, to the best of their ability, with little backing. Citizen Journalists as I like to call them. Eventually, business entities will catch up, new business models will evolve, AP like organizations will shed the dead weight of news papers from their leadership or form anew, and journalism will see an exciting period of growth and a (hopefully) more streamlined profit model.
And no one said being an idiot was a good form of journalism.
Did you catch the photo shots from the G20 summit? There are pictures from both sides of the lines. Sure there are a lot more pictures from the crowd of people, but there are a fair number of shots being taken from behind the officers as well. If you're running around like a hooligan with a camera on your neck, yeah, you're not going to get access to an extremely stressful and tense situation. If you show up looking like a professional, be polite, and stay out of the way, you'll be much more likely to have access.
This is nothing new. It's not like unknown journalists blurt out "CNN" like it's some kind of secret code word that allows them unfretted access to what ever it is they are investigating.
Long term, I wouldn't be surprised to see a system of Journalist Unions that work to negotiate access, payment, ensure professionalism, bring pressure on those organizations that are mistreating their members, etc...
I disagree. I don't care if an article is published by one rag or another. What I care about is that it was well written and edited by someone who is either unbiased, or states their bias up front.
If Google can index/aggregate stories directly from the AP, who cares about the rags?
Even better, if citizen-journalism continues to improve as it has over the last 5 years, who would even care about the AP? So long as Google can index, sort, and link independent journalists' publications. Couple that in with some creative uses of the Google search engine to determine likely bias and trustworthiness, and you'd have one sweet system.
Give it another 5-10 years, Newspapers will become less and less meaningful as citizen journalism increases and new business models and aggregate systems come into play.
Re-try him, and it is as you described, the prosecution has little to gain by behaving as they can always take another bite at the apple.
Don't re-try him, and it sends a direct message to the citizenry that corruption and bribes are acceptable.
The only moral high ground to take would be to re-try Stevens with a fresh team of lawyers AND investigate/prosecute the members of the prosecution that acted inappropriately.
At this point, he's old, out of power, and largely disposed. As a civilian he can do no more damage. So is it worth it to the feds to pay for a second round of trials and go over the whole case just to prove a point?
That said, I would be interested in seeing an impartial 3rd party investigate the prosecution's team and see what the hell lead a group of professional law experts to botch things up so horribly. Hopefully it was just malice, but if there was even a hint of cronyism, some heads will need to role.
The asian sweatshop -- putting kids to work making shoes (not putting day care employees to work, as you've quite deliberately misinterpretted) -- is about as far a cry from day care as calling what The Huffington Post engages in, "journalism."
There was no deliberate misinterpretation, I assure you.
I read your post to be every bit as inflammatory and insulting as you intended it to be.
What the Huffington Post does is not "journalism", no more so than any other politically active news aggregate web site (with a left OR right bias). Trying to assert that Huffington Post does journalism is akin to claiming that/. does journalism. What they are doing in this case though is funding Journalism. Journalism is a profession, something practiced by individuals. It is time consuming and resource intensive, so to see funding from any source is a good thing, IMO. Along with that goes the need for moral and reputable Journalists who will not allow the hand that feeds to become the hand that writes.
Also, while the term "sweat shop" is heavily loaded in the US, it is important to realize that their impact goes far beyond labor laws. While it is deplorable that people have to work in such conditions, it sure beats unemployment, starvation, childhood prostitution, crime, and many of the other lesser jobs that while not classified as sweat shops, lead to a far worse quality of life. I know it might come as a surprise to someone who has lead a privileged and sheltered life having never left the safety of the United States, but there is a whole world out there, across the boarder. Many places where the life you take for granted is a pipe dream.
Heck, you don't even have to leave the US to find people putting in longer hours than most former Nike sweatshop employees were putting in. And odds are, those sweat shop employees are getting paid much better (in relation to COLA) than Joe Schmoe in the US holding down 2 full time jobs trying to keep up with the mortgage.
Are you a Huff Post reader?
No, I am not. Judging by your grammar, verbally abusive nature, and moderate paranoia, I would venture to guess that you are more of a News Busters fan. Maybe even a Savage Nation member?
In any case, I classify them all as bathroom tissue. Some are optimistic, the others are pessimistic, but they are all ass-wipe.
This isn't a trial and nobody needs to prove anything at this stage, since no one has been charged with a crime. If he charged them, and if it went to trial, the pictures would be evidence that the girl's attorneys would be entitled to see at discovery. Just don't get too far ahead of yourself.
In most cases, you are completely correct. But run with that thought process.
A DA claims he has found pictures on your camera/PC of a nude child. He is publicly threatening to charge you with possession of child porn.
He hasn't pressed charges yet, so you don't have to defend yourself.
But how would your family react? Your friends? Your employer? Your neighbors? Your school?
Even the slightest hint of being a sexual predator will destroy your life. An unfounded allegation of possession of child porn is enough to cripple any grown man's ability to function in society.
Second, the teens had no reasonable expectations that these pictures would never be shown to a third party, whether by accident or because of bragging rights because they are young and naive.
The kids claimed that they thought they had an expectation of privacy.
The state decided that they could not have an expectation of privacy because they were naive...
So if you don't have a complete understanding of social norms, statistics on average teenage activity, privacy and security of cell networks, email, image sharing sites, and social networks, you are incapable of having a reasonable expectation of privacy?!?
And some how, magically, you gain all of that knowledge on your 18th birthday?
Anyone know of a remote desktop solution for Ubuntu that can connect to a Windows 2k or newer box? I've been thinking about making the jump, all of the other tool I need to do my standard work at home I know where to get. But I need to be able to remote into work over a VPN to Windows servers.
The experiment was a success. It proved that their theory was invalid within the constraints and parameters that were defined.
Had the experiment failed to show a definitive determination as to the validity of the theory or if some external force altered the parameters beyond the theory's limits, then you could say that the experiment failed.
Just because the results of the experiment were not what you expected, does not mean that the experiment failed.
Think of it as the difference between searching for a theory that is back up by data, and searching for data that backs up your theory. One is scientific, the other is pharmaceutical.
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Socialism is the new Communism.
Moderates are the new Socialist.
Conservatism is the new Moderate.
Fascism is the new Conservatism.
Unitarian Executive Theory is the new 3-branch government.
-Rick
While reading this, a thought occured to me. My great aunt recently compiled a book of letters that my Grandpa and his 6 brothers sent home while they were in the military in WWII. If we applied current law to those letters...
One of the brothers is still alive. He was 18 when he sent some of those letters. Assuming his mailing of the letter to his family and having them share it with friends is enough to be considered publishing it, he could exert a copyright over the letter. So, 67 years after writing the letter, he still has a "temporary" monopoly over it's publication. And he will continue to have a "temporary" monopoly for another 70 years.
I don't know about you, but I would guess that the 1790 Congress that established the first Copy Right law weren't thinking of a nice short time frame like 140 years ;)
-Rick
I think you're swimming up stream here.
I have the ability to write. I have the ability to speak. I have the ability to see. More importantly, I have the "god-given" right to do all of these things.
Copyrights, in practicality, are as you describe, protecting the rights of the author. But as the GP correctly stated, it is granting you that right at the direct expense of the basic rights of everyone else. Your right to control the copying of your works is an artificial right created by the government that reduces the "god-given" rights that the rest of society has.
The government is quite literally saying that I, as a citizen of the US, do not have the right to write a series of words so long as someone else has written that same series of words first.
I'm not saying that is a bad thing. Because copyright and other IP laws are designed to promote writing and invention along with rewarding those who can think independently and create. But like many of these issues, it is the weight of society balances between two peoples rights. Any time one side or the other gets too strong, society suffers for it. And society will exert it's own force if the balance is not maintained by the government.
-Rick
We already have a 45+ MPG Golf ;) it's called a turbo diesel. I've heard that the '08 and newer models with common rail injection are doing even better than my older styled '06.
Although, I would venture a guess that the reason for using the Lotus as its base, beyond the desire to develop a sports car, is that it has a curb weight, including the engine of under 2,000 pounds. That's just over half of what most sedans weigh in at (My old Grand Prix tipped the scales at 3800lbs if I recall correctly.) Even the Golf and my tiny Fiero come in close to the 3k mark.
-Rick
If there was a viable business plan here, plenty of private investors would be lining up. The trouble is, there isn't.
Sure there is. You just need a highly automated assembly line and the ability to network, sell and service vehicles across the US.
Having service stations and trained techs requires you to have enough vehicles on the road to demand it.
Getting enough vehicles on the road in this day and age requires a high output production facility.
Building a high output production facility costs millions.
So, Tesla, currently with out a high output production facility is pushing out a limited number of high priced cars.
Eventually, the proceeds from those high priced cars will offset the cost of building a better production facility.
A better production facility will allow them to build more cars for less money.
So they will build a more traditional styled car (say like the new sedan) at a still expensive, but more affordable price.
Eventually, the proceeds from those expensive sedans will allow them to make further improvements to their production facility.
etc..
Until they get to the point that they are making full electric vehicles that are price point competitive with the other options consumers have.
Given the risk in building a multi-million dollar production facility and the current uncertainty in the economy, it is entirely possible that their business model, while sound, will fail. By getting a loan from the government, they are effectively speeding up the process. Spending less time in the building expensive cars phase and trying to get into the price point competitive phase sooner. Which means less risk for them. It's exactly what they would typically be hitting up venture capitalists for, but with the amount of money lost over the last year and the collapse of oil prices, it's not surprising that they are eying up a loan from the Government instead.
-Rick
And the hybrid small gas engine feeding an electrical motor and batteries is time tested (diesel-electric trains) and makes more (environmental/economic) sense than batteries alone atm.
Interest, the old CEO of GM said something similar, along the lines of:
And the gas engine feeding a trans-axle is time tested and makes more (environmental/economic) sense than hybrids atm.
Funny how a couple of years of innovation can change what makes sense 'ATM'.
-Rick
The greatest thing about servicing a Tesla... There's barely any!
No oil to change. No spark plugs. No air filter. No oxygen sensors. No timing belts.
Sure, you still have to get the alignment checked, break pads replaced, and batteries recycled. But you have a couple of solid state plug and pull components, a 1-speed manual tranny, and a big honking AC motor. There's not a whole lot in there for the drive train that can break.
Right now my commute is almost all interstate speed, so a Turbo Diesel is my best bet (45mpg in an 06 VW Golf TDI). But if I ever get back into a city commute, I'll be looking hard for a full electric option again.
-Rick
Uhh, the Roadster is built on a Lotus Elise body and frame. If you are looking at a $50+k road hugging high performance vehicle full of win and awesome, the Lotus Esprit screams it at 8000 RPMs. It is a sexy looking beast that will bruise your kidneys with it's exceptionally stiff and race worthy suspension. To call it an ugly car is purely delusional. It is functional. Exceptionally so. To the extent that the pureness of it's function becomes its beauty.
I'm pretty sure that of the entire market of vehicles on the market today, only a tiny portion of them can be viewed as at all resembling the vehicles from Lotus.
And the new sedan is much more in line with upper market full sized sedan styling. If you don't like it either, wait another 5 years, Tesla will either be unveiling more lines with more traditional appearances, or they will get bought out by a larger manufacturer that will rebuild the modern sedan using their technology.
-Rick
Because as we all know, every single one of the founding fathers made decisions in unison with an absolute agreement amongst themselves in a sealed off bubble from which they were only exposed to the true will of the people...
The founding fathers were some amazing thinkers, and we should continue to review their work to learn more about our experiment called Democracy. But they were far from infallible and rarely of one mind.
Lumping them all together in a homogenized "they" really whittles away a lot of the intricacies and strife that they dealt with in coming to compromises that lead to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
-Rick
Yeah, the first replacement I made was my Trouble light out in the garage. I used to replace the incandecent bulb in that thing every time I used it. But with the CFL I've had no problems. It even lit on a cold -30 degree morning while I was trying to start my wife's truck out in the drive way.
The one that died i nthe garage was right next to the garage door motor. And the failure appeared to be a hairline crack in the glass right where it met the base. So I would assume it was a poor unit to start with and the vibration from the garage door opener doomed it early.
-Rick
My mother inlaw bought 2 CFL to use in her kitchen. They are still going strong and they are probably the most used lights in her house. She paid a fair bit for them back in 94, but I'd say 15 years of consistent power savings has long since balanced out ;)
I've replaced all of the lights in my house with CFLs over the last 5 years. The only ones that have a slow light time are the super compact ones I got to fit in a specific light fixture. And the only 2 that have "burnt out" were due to excessive vibration (one in the garage) and another that I caught with a chunk of sheet rock while remodeling.
And most of them are from the elcheapo 5-packs that I paid under $15 for.
I've had no issues with flickering, the color quality is quite warm (I actually have to bring in a colder light when I'm painting, but for room lighting they are great). So even if they are sucking up 28 watts instead of 14, that's still 1/2-1/4 what I would be sucking up using 60-100watt bulbs.
-Rick
By union, I mean an entity similar to the Associated Press, preferably multiple entities, each of which acts as a way for journalists to get paid for research, and for their articles to get widely syndicated. The AP like entity would, as a copyright holder (or legally enabled negotiating party) would have the power to license access to the reports to news aggregators much as they already do to news papers, radio, and TV.
The AP is in a great place to make such a transition, if their leadership has the vision to push through in that direction. Unfortunately, they are so closely tied to existing news media and news papers specifically, that odds are they are going to crash and burn under the strain.
But that will open the doors to a new series of journalist unions that will be in a great place to capitalize on IP rights and the web.
Is it going to be roses and lollipops? hell no. There is going to be a lot of dramatic changes in the media industry, and those changes are going to have a direct effect on the income of journalists. And while we're going through the changes, because there will always be a demand for journalism, there will be those who do it, to the best of their ability, with little backing. Citizen Journalists as I like to call them. Eventually, business entities will catch up, new business models will evolve, AP like organizations will shed the dead weight of news papers from their leadership or form anew, and journalism will see an exciting period of growth and a (hopefully) more streamlined profit model.
-Rick
No one said Journalism was easy.
And no one said being an idiot was a good form of journalism.
Did you catch the photo shots from the G20 summit? There are pictures from both sides of the lines. Sure there are a lot more pictures from the crowd of people, but there are a fair number of shots being taken from behind the officers as well. If you're running around like a hooligan with a camera on your neck, yeah, you're not going to get access to an extremely stressful and tense situation. If you show up looking like a professional, be polite, and stay out of the way, you'll be much more likely to have access.
This is nothing new. It's not like unknown journalists blurt out "CNN" like it's some kind of secret code word that allows them unfretted access to what ever it is they are investigating.
Long term, I wouldn't be surprised to see a system of Journalist Unions that work to negotiate access, payment, ensure professionalism, bring pressure on those organizations that are mistreating their members, etc...
-Rick
I disagree. I don't care if an article is published by one rag or another. What I care about is that it was well written and edited by someone who is either unbiased, or states their bias up front.
If Google can index/aggregate stories directly from the AP, who cares about the rags?
Even better, if citizen-journalism continues to improve as it has over the last 5 years, who would even care about the AP? So long as Google can index, sort, and link independent journalists' publications. Couple that in with some creative uses of the Google search engine to determine likely bias and trustworthiness, and you'd have one sweet system.
Give it another 5-10 years, Newspapers will become less and less meaningful as citizen journalism increases and new business models and aggregate systems come into play.
-Rick
Either way it is.
Re-try him, and it is as you described, the prosecution has little to gain by behaving as they can always take another bite at the apple.
Don't re-try him, and it sends a direct message to the citizenry that corruption and bribes are acceptable.
The only moral high ground to take would be to re-try Stevens with a fresh team of lawyers AND investigate/prosecute the members of the prosecution that acted inappropriately.
-Rick
At this point, he's old, out of power, and largely disposed. As a civilian he can do no more damage. So is it worth it to the feds to pay for a second round of trials and go over the whole case just to prove a point?
That said, I would be interested in seeing an impartial 3rd party investigate the prosecution's team and see what the hell lead a group of professional law experts to botch things up so horribly. Hopefully it was just malice, but if there was even a hint of cronyism, some heads will need to role.
-Rick
Welcome to the Colburt Space Saetion!
-Rick
I WANT A PONY TOO!
The asian sweatshop -- putting kids to work making shoes (not putting day care employees to work, as you've quite deliberately misinterpretted) -- is about as far a cry from day care as calling what The Huffington Post engages in, "journalism."
There was no deliberate misinterpretation, I assure you.
I read your post to be every bit as inflammatory and insulting as you intended it to be.
What the Huffington Post does is not "journalism", no more so than any other politically active news aggregate web site (with a left OR right bias). Trying to assert that Huffington Post does journalism is akin to claiming that /. does journalism. What they are doing in this case though is funding Journalism. Journalism is a profession, something practiced by individuals. It is time consuming and resource intensive, so to see funding from any source is a good thing, IMO. Along with that goes the need for moral and reputable Journalists who will not allow the hand that feeds to become the hand that writes.
Also, while the term "sweat shop" is heavily loaded in the US, it is important to realize that their impact goes far beyond labor laws. While it is deplorable that people have to work in such conditions, it sure beats unemployment, starvation, childhood prostitution, crime, and many of the other lesser jobs that while not classified as sweat shops, lead to a far worse quality of life. I know it might come as a surprise to someone who has lead a privileged and sheltered life having never left the safety of the United States, but there is a whole world out there, across the boarder. Many places where the life you take for granted is a pipe dream.
Heck, you don't even have to leave the US to find people putting in longer hours than most former Nike sweatshop employees were putting in. And odds are, those sweat shop employees are getting paid much better (in relation to COLA) than Joe Schmoe in the US holding down 2 full time jobs trying to keep up with the mortgage.
Are you a Huff Post reader?
No, I am not. Judging by your grammar, verbally abusive nature, and moderate paranoia, I would venture to guess that you are more of a News Busters fan. Maybe even a Savage Nation member?
In any case, I classify them all as bathroom tissue. Some are optimistic, the others are pessimistic, but they are all ass-wipe.
-Rick
Albeit inflammatory, it's really not as insulting as you think.
Huffington Post is putting Journalists to work.
Asian Nike sweatshops put day care employees to work.
So your analogy is spot on accurate, but the inflammatory choice of subject mater leads me to believe that you have a bias.
-Rick
This isn't a trial and nobody needs to prove anything at this stage, since no one has been charged with a crime. If he charged them, and if it went to trial, the pictures would be evidence that the girl's attorneys would be entitled to see at discovery. Just don't get too far ahead of yourself.
In most cases, you are completely correct. But run with that thought process.
A DA claims he has found pictures on your camera/PC of a nude child. He is publicly threatening to charge you with possession of child porn.
He hasn't pressed charges yet, so you don't have to defend yourself.
But how would your family react? Your friends? Your employer? Your neighbors? Your school?
Even the slightest hint of being a sexual predator will destroy your life. An unfounded allegation of possession of child porn is enough to cripple any grown man's ability to function in society.
-Rick
The most retarded part of the ruling:
Second, the teens had no reasonable expectations that these pictures would never be shown to a third party, whether by accident or because of bragging rights because they are young and naive.
The kids claimed that they thought they had an expectation of privacy.
The state decided that they could not have an expectation of privacy because they were naive...
So if you don't have a complete understanding of social norms, statistics on average teenage activity, privacy and security of cell networks, email, image sharing sites, and social networks, you are incapable of having a reasonable expectation of privacy?!?
And some how, magically, you gain all of that knowledge on your 18th birthday?
-Rick
Anyone know of a remote desktop solution for Ubuntu that can connect to a Windows 2k or newer box? I've been thinking about making the jump, all of the other tool I need to do my standard work at home I know where to get. But I need to be able to remote into work over a VPN to Windows servers.
-Rick
Wow, I had never heard of this before. Thanks for the link.
-Rick
The experiment was a success. It proved that their theory was invalid within the constraints and parameters that were defined.
Had the experiment failed to show a definitive determination as to the validity of the theory or if some external force altered the parameters beyond the theory's limits, then you could say that the experiment failed.
Just because the results of the experiment were not what you expected, does not mean that the experiment failed.
Think of it as the difference between searching for a theory that is back up by data, and searching for data that backs up your theory. One is scientific, the other is pharmaceutical.
-Rick