No, but is does have the need to teach them how to behave there. Education should be about a lot more than the three 'R's, it's where you learn social skills as well.
Public schools are about as good a place to learn social skills as a prison.
No, but is does have the need to teach them how to behave there. Education should be about a lot more than the three 'R's, it's where you learn social skills as well.
Public schools are about as good a place to learn social schools as a prison.
Come on -- if worse came to worse, people would play the music on the stereos and record it using digital recorders then run it through their favorite piece of audio manipulating software and have just about the same quality recording.
Yeah, I've done this myself even with non DRM music. It doesn't even take that much extra effort as long as you have access to the equipment. I wonder, though, if they would ever be able to create hardware to block this sort of thing and also force that on us. Something like what HDMI has done. Of course if that were the case, we could always just get an older analog player. I guess some people like the analog sound better anyway.
English overloads words all the time.
Am I blue when singing the blues in a blue room?
Piracy as a synonym for copyright infringement is well known and has a history decades deep.
Besides... english is also like alice in wonderland. English words mean exactly what we want them to mean- no more and no less.
The point isn't that english overloads work. It's what people think of most when they hear the term pirate, despite other uses of the word that may exist. The raping, pillaging, treasure hunting people that sailed the carribean is probably the most used meaning of the word in today's English. I'd bet if there was a poll it would agree. Perhaps it's unfortunate that the term used for copyright infringement is the same one as the one used to describe these people. No doubt a successful association technique used by wealthy copyright holders.
India launches them. China shoots them down. And NASA spends several years and several $billion contracting with Boeing to develop a missle-proof satellite system to be ready "sometime in 2022."
Well hey, we have to keep all the scientists in the US busy somehow. Otherwise, they might actually end up building something useful with their time and our money! We definitely wouldn't want that to happen.
the term "piracy" was first used by John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, circa 1675, to describe certain pernicious practices of early printers and booksellers
That may be the true, but since 1675 pirates have been known mostly as said people described above. I know that personally, the first thoughts that come to mind when I hear the word 'pirate' is not ol' Bishop Fell.
For once I find myself actually rooting for a cop! Next thing you know, Microsoft will be giving away Windows, and Wal-Mart will go bankrupt... Someone pinch me before I wake up.
Cops are still agents of an abusive State, even this one. I wouldn't go so far as to root for this guy. Especially since his source code makes ticketing more efficient. Which is bad for the rest of us.
Such comments are really nothing but an insult to people who actually did live in Communist Russia. I know some of them, myself, and likening the United States to Soviet Russia is such a laughable comparison that you should be ashamed. Many of these people used basically all the money they had to move to countries like the US.
I think the point is that, sadly enough, people in America really aren't as free as they are led to believe. I tend to agree. This is not an insult to anyone who sacrificed to come here. They wanted to be in a more relatively free country. But unfortunately, the US is becoming more and more like the situation they tried to leave. Having the right to oppose the government, though it might be an improvement, still doesn't mean too much if you are forced to fund them.
Can you show me any specific examples of a free market monopoly that raises and lowers their prices to discorage competition? I would love to see one if you have it.
1. Company A is the only utilities provider for the Towns, and is charging exorbitant prices.
2. Company B sees the opportunity to compete in the market with Company A, and invests billions of dollars in infrastructure necessary to compete as a utilities company, laying lines to the entire town and creating their power plant.
3. Company A recognizes what company B is doing and lowers its rates in each area that Company B services to sell utilities at a loss, relying on their dominant market position and the capital that they have accrued while being the only shop in town.
4. Company B tries to compete for customers with Company A, but with the new low rates company A is charging, Company B finds itself short of customers and with angry investors who would like to see a return on their investment this decade breathing down its neck.
5. Company B files for bankruptcy after it is unable to recoup its massive intitial investment in laying down infrastructure to the town. Unfortunatley, as their assets are liquidated, they find that there are very few people willing to buy a backup power plant and backup power grid for an entire town, and their investors really take it in the shorts.
6. Company A resumes charging its exorbitant rates.
7. Repeat as often as there are investors dumb enough to try to get into the market.
Historically, the scenario you describe hasn't ever happened. For example, in the case of Standard Oil, the poster child for antitrust laws, oil prices had been falling steadily for a good couple of decades when they were the only game in town. This is when people got upset because they could not compete, due to the constant low prices. So what do they do? Start building up anti trust fervor. By the early 1900s when they were finally successful in getting the government to break up the company, Standard Oil's market share had already been slipping quite a bit. The result is that antitrust laws usually lead to higher prices, not lower prices.
Tell this to your local utilities company,they'll agree wholeheartedly because it's incredibly expensive to lay down the infrastructure to compete. Your electricity bill and water bill will go through the roof without the government smacking them on the hand. These sorts of things are natural monopolies where the cost of competing in the industry outweighs potential benefits to the consumer. There are very few cities in the US that i know of which have multiple cable companies servicing them, do you really want your only option for high speed internet access to have the freedom to determine what services (that they're not providing to you, they're just delivering) you have to pay extra to see?
The reason there isn't multiple cable companies in most areas is because the government doesn't allow it. Natural monopolies generally don't exist in a free market. And if they do, they damn well better provide excellent service or their market share will suffer. There will always be others waiting for the perfect opportunity to steal customers and take their place.
These are all conditional/future statements; the fact of Environmentalists gaining anything from convincing people that global climate change is a reality is a purely theoretical one. Whereas we have observations of Big Oil actually making money by tilting their research. This, to me (and anyone else who actually know anything about how science is done) is a rather important distinction.
Are you telling me that the government does not fund climate change studies? And that the scientists who do these studies are not making any money? So why would the government give them funding in the first place if it was not perceived as a threat? Seems logical to me. Also, as far as I know, the vast bulk of income for oil companies comes from selling oil - not tilting research.
1. Form a Union of Concerned Scientists
2. Scare everyone into believing that Global Warming is an imminent threat to Society As We Know It
3. Convince the government to give them lots of money to fund more studies
4. ???
5. Profit!
The idea that environmentalists have something to gain from the pursuit of (e.g.) alternative energy sources is largely theoretical and is based almost entirely upon cynicism (Exhibit A above)
Absolutely not true. Environmentalists have a huge incentive in the form of government hand outs and subsidies. Which will surely come if they can scare enough people with their FUD. They want nothing more than to feed at the public trough. And if they can make a comfy living for themselves at the expense of Big Oil, in the form of high energy taxes, all the better.
They'll care about it when it's practical for some of them to take a trip into space or to the Moon.
NASA advertising or not, it will be private companies who make space exploration exciting again. Once they are able to cut costs to a reasonable level (the hallmark of capitalism), space tourism will become a financial reality for most ordinary people. This should be when the next wave of excitement comes.
There is no such thing as the "iPod Generation". Do not go and make up a name for that group just because you need to use the word iPod a certain number of times per day on the front page.
How else would the slashdot editors get their product placement dollars? They need to eat too, you insensitive clod!
I actually own the workstation edition of this laptop (the model from last year, nw8240). I think that while the specs (at that time) were top notch and could not be beat in a smaller package, the build quality of the computer is kind of bad. The casing is quite easy to break and is easier to look "beat up." The screen is also questionable, as mine had dead pixels and "yellow" spots after less than six months of use. The service department of my school replaced that computer's motherboard two times in the last year alone, and I am not one to put my computers through the rough.
Why aren't any of IBM/Lenovo's Thinkpad offerings on that list? I see that computer used more often than the high-end HP's in business anyway, which is well deserved because they are rock solid and last a really long time. I had their 760L from 10 years ago working until 2 years ago when someone took the computer and smashed it to the floor. And even after that it still worked! The same went for my Thinkpad 600.
If my computer's internals hadn't been replaced, the thing would have been gone in less than six months, which is unacceptable to me.
My company purchases Thinkpad laptops for all of their full time employees. I am currently working on a T43. Of course it helps that they are one of IBM's biggest commerce partners. I personally can't stand using them... I enjoy using my own laptop much better. It has a lot to do with the placement of keys on their keyboard. Very convoluted for a programmer.
However, how well does the company look upon you when you, as a salaried employee, have finished your work early, and would like to leave early?? If salaried just means getting your work done, no matter the time required...should you not have it as easy to leave early when things are finished early, as it is to have you stay late when things are running late?
Actually, they don't really mind when there is down time, like between projects, and I leave early. And yes, I have actually done so before. Which is probably why I don't mind working a little extra for them. Maybe I have a good company, but people really do work a lot around here.
I think you've made a lot of good points. On the other hand, 40 hours a week is simply an arbitrary number chosen by the government. Why should we take that number as written in stone? Just because they said so? There are times when I don't mind working more 40 hours a week when something needs to be done, even though I am a salaried employee. Maybe this will change when I get married and have kids. But it helps that I actually enjoy coding websites. So I guess my employer is milking me? I'm not so sure.
And governments can only reasonably make a profit in three different ways: 1) tax the bejesus out of the population, 2) actually print money, and 3) take wealth out of other nations without their consent.
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Cops are still agents of an abusive State, even this one. I wouldn't go so far as to root for this guy. Especially since his source code makes ticketing more efficient. Which is bad for the rest of us.
Can you show me any specific examples of a free market monopoly that raises and lowers their prices to discorage competition? I would love to see one if you have it.
Historically, the scenario you describe hasn't ever happened. For example, in the case of Standard Oil, the poster child for antitrust laws, oil prices had been falling steadily for a good couple of decades when they were the only game in town. This is when people got upset because they could not compete, due to the constant low prices. So what do they do? Start building up anti trust fervor. By the early 1900s when they were finally successful in getting the government to break up the company, Standard Oil's market share had already been slipping quite a bit. The result is that antitrust laws usually lead to higher prices, not lower prices.
A speck of light created a billion years ago looks exactly the same as it does today. Astonishing!
These are all conditional/future statements; the fact of Environmentalists gaining anything from convincing people that global climate change is a reality is a purely theoretical one. Whereas we have observations of Big Oil actually making money by tilting their research. This, to me (and anyone else who actually know anything about how science is done) is a rather important distinction.
Are you telling me that the government does not fund climate change studies? And that the scientists who do these studies are not making any money? So why would the government give them funding in the first place if it was not perceived as a threat? Seems logical to me. Also, as far as I know, the vast bulk of income for oil companies comes from selling oil - not tilting research.
1. Form a Union of Concerned Scientists
2. Scare everyone into believing that Global Warming is an imminent threat to Society As We Know It
3. Convince the government to give them lots of money to fund more studies
4. ???
5. Profit!
The idea that environmentalists have something to gain from the pursuit of (e.g.) alternative energy sources is largely theoretical and is based almost entirely upon cynicism (Exhibit A above)
Absolutely not true. Environmentalists have a huge incentive in the form of government hand outs and subsidies. Which will surely come if they can scare enough people with their FUD. They want nothing more than to feed at the public trough. And if they can make a comfy living for themselves at the expense of Big Oil, in the form of high energy taxes, all the better.
They'll care about it when it's practical for some of them to take a trip into space or to the Moon.
NASA advertising or not, it will be private companies who make space exploration exciting again. Once they are able to cut costs to a reasonable level (the hallmark of capitalism), space tourism will become a financial reality for most ordinary people. This should be when the next wave of excitement comes.
There is no such thing as the "iPod Generation". Do not go and make up a name for that group just because you need to use the word iPod a certain number of times per day on the front page.
How else would the slashdot editors get their product placement dollars? They need to eat too, you insensitive clod!
It seems like the Bush admin. has really lost their mojo..
Don't you need to have a mojo first, in order to lose it?
I actually own the workstation edition of this laptop (the model from last year, nw8240). I think that while the specs (at that time) were top notch and could not be beat in a smaller package, the build quality of the computer is kind of bad. The casing is quite easy to break and is easier to look "beat up." The screen is also questionable, as mine had dead pixels and "yellow" spots after less than six months of use. The service department of my school replaced that computer's motherboard two times in the last year alone, and I am not one to put my computers through the rough. Why aren't any of IBM/Lenovo's Thinkpad offerings on that list? I see that computer used more often than the high-end HP's in business anyway, which is well deserved because they are rock solid and last a really long time. I had their 760L from 10 years ago working until 2 years ago when someone took the computer and smashed it to the floor. And even after that it still worked! The same went for my Thinkpad 600. If my computer's internals hadn't been replaced, the thing would have been gone in less than six months, which is unacceptable to me.
My company purchases Thinkpad laptops for all of their full time employees. I am currently working on a T43. Of course it helps that they are one of IBM's biggest commerce partners. I personally can't stand using them... I enjoy using my own laptop much better. It has a lot to do with the placement of keys on their keyboard. Very convoluted for a programmer.
If the videos are in Linux friendly and non-DRM'd-to-hell format I will be a customer
Given that these shows bear the stamp of approval from the major studios, I think it's safe to assume it will have DRM.
However, how well does the company look upon you when you, as a salaried employee, have finished your work early, and would like to leave early?? If salaried just means getting your work done, no matter the time required...should you not have it as easy to leave early when things are finished early, as it is to have you stay late when things are running late?
Actually, they don't really mind when there is down time, like between projects, and I leave early. And yes, I have actually done so before. Which is probably why I don't mind working a little extra for them. Maybe I have a good company, but people really do work a lot around here.
I think you've made a lot of good points. On the other hand, 40 hours a week is simply an arbitrary number chosen by the government. Why should we take that number as written in stone? Just because they said so? There are times when I don't mind working more 40 hours a week when something needs to be done, even though I am a salaried employee. Maybe this will change when I get married and have kids. But it helps that I actually enjoy coding websites. So I guess my employer is milking me? I'm not so sure.
Could somebody please tell me what energy looks like? I really have no idea.
Apparently energy conforms to a small, spherical shape.
And governments can only reasonably make a profit in three different ways: 1) tax the bejesus out of the population, 2) actually print money, and 3) take wealth out of other nations without their consent.
Uh, governments already do these three things.
I remember when apple was a record label... heh heh...