Huh? I have no idea what your babbling about. I am more liberal than my family, and more conservative than my friends. My veiws vary from topic to topic but I almost invariably side with Personal and States rights.
In any case, by "abuse of power" I mean using the powers granted by Bush's term in office for political gain. As in, wire tapping competing political party members, journalist, social acquintances, etc. Sure, we can be told "that will never happen", but when the only people reviewing the system are the people who use the system, we have no way of knowing for sure.
The 24 grace period is for the PISA court. The NSA/bush could(can) put a wire tap on anyone in the US. They would then have 24 hours to present evidence to the PISA court to show that the wire tap was warrented, at which time, the PISA court would issue a warrent. Any evidence gathered in the 24 hour grace period could be used in the warrent hearing.
This system, albeit a bit scarey, at least had oversite from the judicial branch, and a review process from the senate. The Bush administraton decided that there was to much of a delay in the process though (???) and so they needed a stream lined process. So Bush decided it would be legal for them to do so. The thing that I fail to see is how Bush's wire tap program improves the response time on wire taps, since they didn't need to wait for a warrent under the PISA system anyway.
The question is, "Is unregulated wire tapping of citizens with out oversight more effective than regulated wire tapping with oversight and a 24 hour grace period?"
I don't think anyone will argue that wiretapping is bad. But many will argue that wiretapping with out oversight will quickly lead to an abuse of power.
I wonder how much of that has to deal with the filming though. I mean, you could take an old silver screen real and "re-master" it into a HD format, but it's still going to have the quality of a crappy old film. For the Fifth Element, did they actually remaster the move from 30mm film? Or did they just take the existing digital format, blow it up, and run some filters over it to make it look a little more crisp?
"Except that the cell providers themesevles could then enter the market themselves and then undercut the service price of the company that developed the software."
Ahh the joys of patents, copyright, and licensing. Sure, they would need one hell of a legal team to squash anyone who may have so much as glanced at their code with the intent in making a competetive package, but again, the money is in the contract, not the software.
Hell, this isn't even about YOUR cell phone. It's about tower traffic. Could it be used by police to locate you? Sure, but it already is! They don't need stripped down traffic information to find out some child molester is heading north bound on hwy 78.
Is it possible for this system to be abused? Sure. Is it likely? Not really. The amount of data the company will be dealing with would make extended storage retarded. Most likely they'll be purging data as soon as the can convert it to summarized information for use in reporting and traffic trend spotting. A small amount of oversight would go a long way. Heck, they could even open source the code, in this case, the code is worthless with out the contracts with the cell providers, but at least the tech sector could take a look and feel more comfy knowing their driving habits are not being recorded.
The other huge boon to this is for the state. Imagine if you could see traffic trends by the minute covering trends over months. You could quickly identify dangerous traffic areas, distractions, traffic quirks, and all sorts of oddities that could be engineered around to reduce injuries, fatalities, and expenses.
I'm not so sure on that, the UW system does a lot of scientific research. Wisconsin is one of the top dairy providers in the US. We have one of the most out spoken democratic senators for individual rights http://feingold.senate.gov/.
Iowa on the other hand... Ever since MST3K wrapped up, what have they done for us?
The problem I see is that GenCon has always been geared towards publishers AND consumers. E3 was always suposed to be for publishers, and become more and more bloated as more and more consumers attended.
I do find it interesting though that there is enough market demand to make someone/anyone host a new E3.
Yes, and I assure you, there is not shortage of pretentiousness in the EU.
"You can pay as little as 15 or 20 US$ for a concert with top performers."
I'm not saying you CAN'T see a great performance for little cash. I'm saying the social group who define highbrow will do so in a way that excludes people from other less elite social circles.
"Where you got the idea the Mozart, the most popular of classical composers, is revered only by rich people, is beyond me."
I don't. I think everyone can enjoy it and revere it. The problem is not people's interaction with the performance, the problem is the social considerations of the word highbrow.
Talk to some opera buffs about which performance of La' Travieta is/was the best. The social elite of the opera world will immediately pick out a small number of stellar performances and define the rest of the performances as amatuer (as is, not highbrow).
Again, this is not my OPINION, this is my OBSERVATIONS. This behavior will happen in all social groups, regardless of the topic, eco-social status, or event. It just so happens in this case that there is a pleasantly veiled word that is used to describe the discrimination.
"Up in second or third tier seats where NOBODY will care that you're wearing your blue jeans."
The problem is the social considerations of the word highbrow. Those seats are available to lower income members of society, not the eco-social elite. Which means that your experience will be 'lower brow' as you are surrounded by the uneducated masses who could never truely appreciate the true glory of the performance. Yes, it is completely retarded, but the same behavior can be seen in any social circle. A certain distain for people who do not experience the unifying item of the social group in the same way.
Anyway, it's late, I'm to tired to properly express myself. Suffice it to say, IMO highbrow is a loaded word, and should be used with care.
Forget Teh Matrix, if you want Shadowrun in a movie, rent "Johnny Mnemonic." It is everything I would expect a great SR campaign to be (with out the magic).
It prompted discussion, so it must have some value;)
My point is that there have been many musicians who arranged, wrote and performed equally complicated and beautiful musical constructions, but those musician and their work will never be considered "highbrow". Highbrow has some amount of pretensiousness built in, because if a work is not "Highbrow" than it must be "lowbrow" (i.e. lacking of intellectually and/or sophistication). You can't simply state that some piece of work is highbrow with out looking at the work's context in society. The art world in particular there are tons of samples. Pieces of work that are as intellectually stunning, and as sophisticated as any classical artist, but will never be considered highbrow because of the nature of the topic, the political environment, the economic environment, or any other number of social reasons.
So, if you take highbrow, and attach it to the context of the Geek domain, then there are absolutely highbrow video games (Net Hack). If you take highbrow in the context of society at large, then for now the answer is no. The adoption of and pretension has not reached a significant enough market penetration yet.
There are on the other hand, highbrow social circles with-in games./. had a story a few months ago about a CIO guild in WoW.
Yes you are "free" to provide your own domestic defence. "Free" to provide your own medical care. "Free" to support your self when you are unemployed. etc...
I agree that the government (federal government specifically) has way to much control and power, but at the same time I see the value in simple social government programs that can provide (relative) safety, health and human services, and help use to avoid "tragedy of commons" situations. Which is why I see a Libertarian/Democrat 2 party mix as being much more effective than a Democrat/Republican 2 party mix. The Dems to push for tax (not international-loan) funded social programs, and the Libs to ensure that those programs do not overstep the bounds that the spirit of the Constitution set on the government.
What makes Mozart revered is rich pretentious people. Similarly, what makes Net Hack revered is that there are older geeks with status that can gloat about being there when it happened. Mozart's music, in itself is not high brow, any joe-schmoe can buy a CD full of it. Mozart is high brow because in order to attend a show, you need to have money. You need to be able to tell your peers about how you took the limo to the show, and you wife bought new diamond earrings for the evening. You need to be able to enjoy a $500 meal before the show and an expensive bottle of wine after.
Go to your next geek gathering and mention that you have ascended, then listen the recounts of glory that Net Hack was. Among the 'elite' of the video game world, a Net Hack ascension is every bit as revered as a night with some philharmonic orchestra.
Freedom is an encuberance. Unless you mean free in the "nothing left to lose" maner. If we give up some freedoms we can have a government operated police force that can help protect the community. If we keep those freedoms then we are responsible for policing the community. If you live in the hills of Montana, that's all fine and good. But in more densly populated areas, it has some rather nasty implications.
I could never vote 100% libertarian, but I would much rather have the house/senate split 50/50 democrats and libertarians than democrats and republicans. Arguing between "Don't Tax, Don't Spend" and "Tax and spend" results in a much happier comprimize than "Tax and spend" and "borrow and spend". 50/50 libertarians and republicans could be quite scary though as the comprimize becomes "Don't tax us, and spend lots on defence."
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"you too can become rich if you work hard and play by our rules"....bullshit.
I became rich by playing by their rules you insensitive clod!
-Rick (Just kidding!!)
Huh? I have no idea what your babbling about. I am more liberal than my family, and more conservative than my friends. My veiws vary from topic to topic but I almost invariably side with Personal and States rights.
In any case, by "abuse of power" I mean using the powers granted by Bush's term in office for political gain. As in, wire tapping competing political party members, journalist, social acquintances, etc. Sure, we can be told "that will never happen", but when the only people reviewing the system are the people who use the system, we have no way of knowing for sure.
-Rick
The 24 grace period is for the PISA court. The NSA/bush could(can) put a wire tap on anyone in the US. They would then have 24 hours to present evidence to the PISA court to show that the wire tap was warrented, at which time, the PISA court would issue a warrent. Any evidence gathered in the 24 hour grace period could be used in the warrent hearing.
This system, albeit a bit scarey, at least had oversite from the judicial branch, and a review process from the senate. The Bush administraton decided that there was to much of a delay in the process though (???) and so they needed a stream lined process. So Bush decided it would be legal for them to do so. The thing that I fail to see is how Bush's wire tap program improves the response time on wire taps, since they didn't need to wait for a warrent under the PISA system anyway.
-Rick
The question is, "Is unregulated wire tapping of citizens with out oversight more effective than regulated wire tapping with oversight and a 24 hour grace period?"
I don't think anyone will argue that wiretapping is bad. But many will argue that wiretapping with out oversight will quickly lead to an abuse of power.
-Rick
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The link should be: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/08/11/Let_
but some ass hat probably pasted it into MS Word to spell check the summary, and word resolves -- to it's funky double wide hyphen character.
-Rick
Just goto http://port25.technet.com/ and click the link on the front page.
-Rick
I wonder how much of that has to deal with the filming though. I mean, you could take an old silver screen real and "re-master" it into a HD format, but it's still going to have the quality of a crappy old film. For the Fifth Element, did they actually remaster the move from 30mm film? Or did they just take the existing digital format, blow it up, and run some filters over it to make it look a little more crisp?
-Rick
Correct, for the most part, all recent cell phones will by default send GPS data to dispatch when you call 911.
-Rick
"Except that the cell providers themesevles could then enter the market themselves and then undercut the service price of the company that developed the software."
Ahh the joys of patents, copyright, and licensing. Sure, they would need one hell of a legal team to squash anyone who may have so much as glanced at their code with the intent in making a competetive package, but again, the money is in the contract, not the software.
-Rick
Hell, this isn't even about YOUR cell phone. It's about tower traffic. Could it be used by police to locate you? Sure, but it already is! They don't need stripped down traffic information to find out some child molester is heading north bound on hwy 78.
Is it possible for this system to be abused? Sure. Is it likely? Not really. The amount of data the company will be dealing with would make extended storage retarded. Most likely they'll be purging data as soon as the can convert it to summarized information for use in reporting and traffic trend spotting. A small amount of oversight would go a long way. Heck, they could even open source the code, in this case, the code is worthless with out the contracts with the cell providers, but at least the tech sector could take a look and feel more comfy knowing their driving habits are not being recorded.
The other huge boon to this is for the state. Imagine if you could see traffic trends by the minute covering trends over months. You could quickly identify dangerous traffic areas, distractions, traffic quirks, and all sorts of oddities that could be engineered around to reduce injuries, fatalities, and expenses.
-Rick
Okay, that's a priceless quote!
-Rick
I'm not so sure on that, the UW system does a lot of scientific research. Wisconsin is one of the top dairy providers in the US. We have one of the most out spoken democratic senators for individual rights http://feingold.senate.gov/.
Iowa on the other hand... Ever since MST3K wrapped up, what have they done for us?
-Rick
I was actually more suprised that this is a review on /. that doesn't have a rating of 7 or 8.
-Rick
The problem I see is that GenCon has always been geared towards publishers AND consumers. E3 was always suposed to be for publishers, and become more and more bloated as more and more consumers attended.
I do find it interesting though that there is enough market demand to make someone/anyone host a new E3.
-Rick
"In Europe (have you ever been there?)"
Yes, and I assure you, there is not shortage of pretentiousness in the EU.
"You can pay as little as 15 or 20 US$ for a concert with top performers."
I'm not saying you CAN'T see a great performance for little cash. I'm saying the social group who define highbrow will do so in a way that excludes people from other less elite social circles.
"Where you got the idea the Mozart, the most popular of classical composers, is revered only by rich people, is beyond me."
I don't. I think everyone can enjoy it and revere it. The problem is not people's interaction with the performance, the problem is the social considerations of the word highbrow.
Talk to some opera buffs about which performance of La' Travieta is/was the best. The social elite of the opera world will immediately pick out a small number of stellar performances and define the rest of the performances as amatuer (as is, not highbrow).
Again, this is not my OPINION, this is my OBSERVATIONS. This behavior will happen in all social groups, regardless of the topic, eco-social status, or event. It just so happens in this case that there is a pleasantly veiled word that is used to describe the discrimination.
-Rick
"Up in second or third tier seats where NOBODY will care that you're wearing your blue jeans."
The problem is the social considerations of the word highbrow. Those seats are available to lower income members of society, not the eco-social elite. Which means that your experience will be 'lower brow' as you are surrounded by the uneducated masses who could never truely appreciate the true glory of the performance. Yes, it is completely retarded, but the same behavior can be seen in any social circle. A certain distain for people who do not experience the unifying item of the social group in the same way.
Anyway, it's late, I'm to tired to properly express myself. Suffice it to say, IMO highbrow is a loaded word, and should be used with care.
-Rick
Forget Teh Matrix, if you want Shadowrun in a movie, rent "Johnny Mnemonic." It is everything I would expect a great SR campaign to be (with out the magic).
-Rick
"I'm sorry but this struck me as pretty silly."
;)
/. had a story a few months ago about a CIO guild in WoW.
It prompted discussion, so it must have some value
My point is that there have been many musicians who arranged, wrote and performed equally complicated and beautiful musical constructions, but those musician and their work will never be considered "highbrow". Highbrow has some amount of pretensiousness built in, because if a work is not "Highbrow" than it must be "lowbrow" (i.e. lacking of intellectually and/or sophistication). You can't simply state that some piece of work is highbrow with out looking at the work's context in society. The art world in particular there are tons of samples. Pieces of work that are as intellectually stunning, and as sophisticated as any classical artist, but will never be considered highbrow because of the nature of the topic, the political environment, the economic environment, or any other number of social reasons.
So, if you take highbrow, and attach it to the context of the Geek domain, then there are absolutely highbrow video games (Net Hack). If you take highbrow in the context of society at large, then for now the answer is no. The adoption of and pretension has not reached a significant enough market penetration yet.
There are on the other hand, highbrow social circles with-in games.
-Rick
Yes you are "free" to provide your own domestic defence. "Free" to provide your own medical care. "Free" to support your self when you are unemployed. etc...
I agree that the government (federal government specifically) has way to much control and power, but at the same time I see the value in simple social government programs that can provide (relative) safety, health and human services, and help use to avoid "tragedy of commons" situations. Which is why I see a Libertarian/Democrat 2 party mix as being much more effective than a Democrat/Republican 2 party mix. The Dems to push for tax (not international-loan) funded social programs, and the Libs to ensure that those programs do not overstep the bounds that the spirit of the Constitution set on the government.
-Rick
Wow, that was a poor post. It was Net Hack, not Dungeon Hack and High Brow, not High Brown.
Let's here it for human editing!
-Rick
I hate to repeat myself also, but....
"Spoken like someone who has never ascended."
What makes Mozart revered is rich pretentious people. Similarly, what makes Net Hack revered is that there are older geeks with status that can gloat about being there when it happened. Mozart's music, in itself is not high brow, any joe-schmoe can buy a CD full of it. Mozart is high brow because in order to attend a show, you need to have money. You need to be able to tell your peers about how you took the limo to the show, and you wife bought new diamond earrings for the evening. You need to be able to enjoy a $500 meal before the show and an expensive bottle of wine after.
Go to your next geek gathering and mention that you have ascended, then listen the recounts of glory that Net Hack was. Among the 'elite' of the video game world, a Net Hack ascension is every bit as revered as a night with some philharmonic orchestra.
-Rick
Troll? For a Dungeon Hack reference in a High Brown video game discusion? Someone missed the humour in the pretentiousness of that comment.
-Rick
Spoken like a man who has never ascended.
-Rick
Freedom is an encuberance. Unless you mean free in the "nothing left to lose" maner. If we give up some freedoms we can have a government operated police force that can help protect the community. If we keep those freedoms then we are responsible for policing the community. If you live in the hills of Montana, that's all fine and good. But in more densly populated areas, it has some rather nasty implications.
I could never vote 100% libertarian, but I would much rather have the house/senate split 50/50 democrats and libertarians than democrats and republicans. Arguing between "Don't Tax, Don't Spend" and "Tax and spend" results in a much happier comprimize than "Tax and spend" and "borrow and spend". 50/50 libertarians and republicans could be quite scary though as the comprimize becomes "Don't tax us, and spend lots on defence."
-Rick
I'll agree with you on the Self sufficient part, but isn't being a libertarian by definition encumbering oneself with responsibility?
-Rick