The last great communistic/socialistic/whatever government on the planet.
Hardly... While there is still some remenants of the old state-run economy, China's increasingly capitialistic these days and has been so for some time. Heck, they recently changed the rules so capitialists can join the Chinese Communist Party. I think "Authoritarian" is the word you're looking for, and there are plenty of other countries that word would also describe.
Supreme Court ruled that pornography can be banned only if it has no artistic merit or is "utterly without redeeming social importance." So in other words, bad porn is illegal but good porn is okay.
Parent is correct. The number of hurricanes globally is not increasing. However, there is evidence that Hurricanes are becoming more intense because of global climate change. Linkie..
(Lots of papers.)
Now that the Supreme Court has set "active inducement" as the standard for liability, the RIAA is trying to establish a paper trail to use in subsequent trials against these services.
Yes, I agree that it has problems. The three article code was really more of propaganda move actually. The Han had just overthrown the Qin Dynasty, which had very strict laws and a highly regimented system of rewards and punishments. (For instance, An official could be punished for doing more than was entailed in his job description as well as for failing to do his job.)
The Han wanted to show that the new laws would be simple and reasonable. Of course, it still assumes that there will be officials, presumably appointed by the emperor, who would be trying cases, determining punishments, arresting criminals, etc. The fact that it's so vague, especially the 2nd article, might actually not be so good for liberty, as it gives these officials rather arbitrary authority. As a result, the 3 article code was only in effect for a few years before it was replaced by something more detailed.
I intentionally did not wipe my old computer's drive before I gave it away. There were some neat old games on there that don't work on "modern" operating systems, and if some wanted to recover the documents folder and read my old homework assignments, so what?
The Declaration basically says that if we don't like our government, we should overthrow it
No it doesn't. It sets a much higher standard than simply not liking the government.
For your dining pleasure:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
In short, lots of the ice is on land, (ie. Greenland, Antartica, Canadian North, etc.) and that will raise oceans if it melts. As far as sea ice is concerned, it will have no effect on sea level. The fact that it is less dense is why the top of the ice berg is above water.
This story suggests a
( ) technical (x) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with Microsoft
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with Yahoo
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid company for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Indeed, There has been talk of the Doom of the Desktop for years, and sure enough there are increasingly many apps that don't require it, but that there will be some big avalanche of abandonment is unlikely.
The Hardware on the Xbox is sold at a lost by Microsoft. (They make their profits off the games they sell.) Therefore, if you can mod an Xbox to be a regular computer, you can get better performance/$$ than you would otherwise be able to get.
forgive me for not jumping into the air at the sight of christiansciencemonitor.com and alternativesience.com
I don't know about the other one, but the Christian Science Monitor is a reputable mainstream newspaper.
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The last great communistic/socialistic/whatever government on the planet.
Hardly... While there is still some remenants of the old state-run economy, China's increasingly capitialistic these days and has been so for some time. Heck, they recently changed the rules so capitialists can join the Chinese Communist Party. I think "Authoritarian" is the word you're looking for, and there are plenty of other countries that word would also describe.
Supreme Court ruled that pornography can be banned only if it has no artistic merit or is "utterly without redeeming social importance." So in other words, bad porn is illegal but good porn is okay.
Parent is correct. The number of hurricanes globally is not increasing. However, there is evidence that Hurricanes are becoming more intense because of global climate change.
Linkie.. (Lots of papers.)
Now that the Supreme Court has set "active inducement" as the standard for liability, the RIAA is trying to establish a paper trail to use in subsequent trials against these services.
Is still more fun than coming up with relevant comments.
Yes, I agree that it has problems. The three article code was really more of propaganda move actually. The Han had just overthrown the Qin Dynasty, which had very strict laws and a highly regimented system of rewards and punishments. (For instance, An official could be punished for doing more than was entailed in his job description as well as for failing to do his job.) The Han wanted to show that the new laws would be simple and reasonable. Of course, it still assumes that there will be officials, presumably appointed by the emperor, who would be trying cases, determining punishments, arresting criminals, etc. The fact that it's so vague, especially the 2nd article, might actually not be so good for liberty, as it gives these officials rather arbitrary authority. As a result, the 3 article code was only in effect for a few years before it was replaced by something more detailed.
The Three Article Code was promulgated ~206 BC in China. As the name indicates, there were only three laws:
1) Anyone who Murders shall be executed.
2) All other crimes shall be punished according to their severity.
3) All other laws are abolished.
I think this qualifies as the "simplest, easy-to-understand legal system in history."
I intentionally did not wipe my old computer's drive before I gave it away. There were some neat old games on there that don't work on "modern" operating systems, and if some wanted to recover the documents folder and read my old homework assignments, so what?
The Declaration basically says that if we don't like our government, we should overthrow it
No it doesn't. It sets a much higher standard than simply not liking the government.
For your dining pleasure:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Please read earlier comments before posting.
In short, lots of the ice is on land, (ie. Greenland, Antartica, Canadian North, etc.) and that will raise oceans if it melts. As far as sea ice is concerned, it will have no effect on sea level. The fact that it is less dense is why the top of the ice berg is above water.
Verison's Slogan, We never stop working for you, is inaccurate.
Their real slogan is: We never stop working you.
I'm cancelling as soon as I get through the one year contract.
Now way no one has posted to this topic by now....
This story suggests a ( ) technical (x) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.) ( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business Specifically, your plan fails to account for ( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats (x) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (x) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with Microsoft ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with Yahoo ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook and the following philosophical objections may also apply: (x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough Furthermore, this is what I think about you: (x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid company for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
who said that they were waiting for a nice picture perfect sunny landing were wrong, as they landed before dawn.
Indeed, There has been talk of the Doom of the Desktop for years, and sure enough there are increasingly many apps that don't require it, but that there will be some big avalanche of abandonment is unlikely.
At my company we use a lot of OSS Libraries in our propritary software. (In a strictly kosher LGPL approved manner, of course...)
In that case, I must be ancient. I like going over to people's houses and talking with them in person.
Vaucanson's Flute Player was a a female android.
The Hardware on the Xbox is sold at a lost by Microsoft. (They make their profits off the games they sell.) Therefore, if you can mod an Xbox to be a regular computer, you can get better performance/$$ than you would otherwise be able to get.
I've always felt that Flash was very aptly named. Annoying things that "flash" on your screen... No thanks.
two parties: the party of Evil and the party of Stupidity.
And occasionally they get together and do something that's both Stupid and Evil. We call this bipartisainship.
As a long time Berkeley resident, I hardily concur!
That's easily avoided. Just type out the alphabet in a text file and copy and paste a lot. Sure it's slow, but it works.
forgive me for not jumping into the air at the sight of christiansciencemonitor.com and alternativesience.com I don't know about the other one, but the Christian Science Monitor is a reputable mainstream newspaper.
That's Nice, but how is doubling copyright lengths going to help?