I would suggest you start at a local level and move up. It's not so easy to get a 3rd party candidate into the presidency seat. It's much easier to get a 3rd party candidate into the state senate.
You don't get it. Nobody is going to fit your definition of "good" 100%. This isn't a black and white world we live in, where the good politicians vote one way all time, and the bad ones vote the other way. Every person has a set of factors that motivates him or her. Politicians differ from the common person only in that they tend to be juggling far more motivational factors at once than any of us normally would. Which means that they may agree with you on one thing, and then turn around and disagree with you on another.
To put it simply, every politician has bills that are relevant to their "fundraisers" and bills that are not. That is why we have two senators per state. This way, if the telecos fund one, and the **AA fund the other, then at least you have one voting against telecom immunity and the other for copyright reform. Obviously, I'm oversimplifying. But if you can't understand the fact that people don't ever box conveniently into black or white, good or evil, right or wrong, then there's no point in getting too complicated.
For starters, get your fat *ss out of your SUV when going places less than a mile away... And therein lies the root of all our energy problems: surburbia.
Scarcity creates value. And scarcity is partly a function of time at maximum effort.
Our most valuable commodity is time; we're all limited by the amount of time we have on this world. We don't know how much it is, but we have an approximation. At around 30, we know we're close to our mental peak, and we're going to physically start going downhill. At 60, we know we're going to start going downhill mentally.
So the time between when we're say, 15 and 30, is really the most valuable, for us, as learing individuals. Then, from 30-60, as productive individuals, we create the greatest of our works based on what we have learned in the 15 years prior.
So a project that takes 30 years to complete is more valuable in terms of time than a project that takes, 15 years, or 10 years, or 1 year.
Now, here's the catch: except for the works produced by the people at the top of their game, everything isn't really valuable at all. See, an intelligent person might be able to spend 10 minutes doing what would take a normal person 1 hour. So that act would be far less valuable to the intelligent person than to the normal person. And here's the thing, since it takes an intelligent person 10 minutes, that person could do the action 6 times in the 1 hour that the normal person would be able to do it once. Hence, assuming there are only two people in the system, the value of the act is actually 1/7th of an hour, which is to say, even to the intelligent person, it isn't valuable at all.
Now, if the intelligent person spends 10 years on another related act, then it becomes truly valuable. This is because the normal person would require 60 years to do the same thing. And quite frankly, we don't always have 60 years, much less 60 years of peak. So it's improbably, and effectively impossible for the normal person to do the act, which (assuming a two person system again) makes the act twice as valuable now.
If we extrapolate that to the real world, where there may be only 10 people out of 6 billion capable of (not only intelligent enough, but of the persuasion and with the resources) doing certain acts, then the value of that act has gone up 600 million times. And, if we bring time into play, where one in three generations is capable of truly mastering the act, then it becomes even more valuable. Which is why certain things are really, really valuable.
After all, we are physically indistinguishable from our ancestors 3000 years ago, but any engineer or doctor of today would seem to be a genius by classical Greek standards. This is quite untrue. Intelligent people are intelligent no matter when they were born. The only difference is that each person in each era would be intelligent in their respective paradigms. Since our knowledge set is different (and arguably more vast), we may appear to be smarter. But transport any one of the classical greats into this era, and they'd still be highly intelligent individuals capable of the same greatness. Only, they'd be working within current engineering, scientific, mathematical, musical, and philosophical paradigms.
Now, whether they actually achieve it is a different story; the world has become a much smaller place, so the bar for greatness is higher, and the number of contenders for greatness has increased as well.
Since RHEL5/CentOS 5 has been out for quite some time, RHEL4 and variants are considered legacy OSes in many circles, especially when it comes to the fast-changing world of the Linux desktop. And this is why most OSS is not suitable for enterprise environments.
If we could get enough people to encrypt their communications, such a flag would be worthless. They would have to break an enormous number of encrypted messages (which is hard work even for the biggest supercomputers in the world) just to find out that they are not relevant. This would never happen unless encryption becomes the default.
I've never bothered to figure out how to encrypt my e-mails. Why? Because it seems too complicated. And quite frankly, it hasn't been worth my time to make that effort to read about what I need to do to secure my e-mail.
However, if my e-mail was sent securely when I click the "send" button right off the bat, then I wouldn't turn it off for the life of me. And your country, and mine, would have a dozen more e-mails a day to decrypt.
The same applies to websites./. is a hub where intellectuals and technocrats gather, albeit they might be drowned out by the voices of the more normal among us. The least/. could do is set an example by going exclusively https.
If you're really going to be pedantic, then it's not even copyright infringement. Copyright is the right to copy and distribute. You, the downloader, are not infringing on any copyrights. It is the host (server or whatnot) who makes the copy and distributes said copy to you, who receives the copy and uses it.
That doesn't mean you'll legally get away with having and using an unauthorized copy. However, for the sake of being pedantic...
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers" Slightly redundant and definitely off topic, but Pricess Leia was the one who said this.
That's the easy part. Getting away with it is the hard part. And the part where almost all criminals eventually fail at is being smart enough to stay that way.
Just reply with his full name, addresses of his legal and most frequented vacation residences, passport picture, daily routes to and from work, etc. I'll take care of the rest.
From a moral and ethical standpoint, I don't think it matters whether the person was a US national on US soil or not. The phrase "All men are created equal" is not limited in application to the US citizens or nationals; it applies for all human beings. And as such, there might have been debate back then on whether slaves were to be counted as human beings, there was never any debate on free men regardless of race or creed. Besides, slavery is illegal now, so no such detainee can be lawfully classified as sub-human.
I don't know what the legal standing is. However, what I do know is that the US has no business overthrowing despots and "advocating" human rights when such immoral, inethical act are being committed by official representatives of the US not a hundred miles outside of the US border. And these acts aren't inethical or immoral by international standards only; it is inethical and immoral by its own standards, making the US completely hypocritical.
It doesn't matter; if Bush had his way, it would've been possible to classify everyone and anyone as an enemy combatant, and "All men are created equal" would apply to all human beings once again. But at least the US won't be hypocrites, it'll just be run by a bunch of despots who don't believe in human rights.
GP specifically says, regardless of whether greenhouse gasses cause global warming or not, cleaning up the planet means leaving a clean world for future generations to live in. Geeze, if there ever was a time to think of the children...
Whomever modded this insightful is taking the idea of not reading TFA a little too far. What kind of mod gives mod points without even reading the parent posts in the thread?
Not only that, but the law governs human beings. Human beings change. Society changes, some less, some more, over long periods of time. The constitution, being not law itself but that which is the foundation for all of our laws, should be read according to the society in which it currently represents.
For example, the internet is blurring the line between interstate and intrastate commerce. It is (or not) constitutional for state and local taxes to be applied to sales between a store in California and a customer in Washington, when the server hosting the storefront and processing the sale is sitting in Texas? What if the server is in California? Or in Washington, for that matter? Basically, is this interstate commerce or not?
Or, perhaps the commerce clause should be amended. But if we keep tacking on such minor revisions to every new thing, we end up with such a ridiculously long and convoluted document that only the lawyers will be able to understand (like the federal tax code and accountants). In such a case, the system of government the founders imagined would be thwarted simply because the common People will no longer have easy access to the constitution, and will not be able to carry out their duties as the People. Granted, the common person doesn't anyway, but there are those of us who are not lawyers, politicians, or activists, but are still interested. This is partly why amendments are reserved for times when the constitution needs to actually be amended (outright contradicted in some form), and not where some existing section needs to be clarified. That, and it's incredibly difficult to get one to pass, and could end up being political suicide if it fails to pass.
Televisions do make people dumber. Calculators as well.
Watching television requires absolutely 0 brain activity. Most people don't watch educational TV shows so they don't count. And if you think 24 or CSI or Grey's Anatomy is informative or educational in any way, you seriously need to go outside.
Calculators require just enough intelligence to push buttons, and copy the result off the display. Strictly speaking, actual use doesn't even require someone to be able to correctly write numbers, only to correctly identify them.
The TV is a passtime item. The calculator is a convenience item. The abuse of such things encourage and facilitate one and only one thing: laziness. Yes, they can be used for productive tasks, but they're more often than not not used in this manner. And when cases of abuse outnumber the cases of use so significantly as in the case of television, then the item does in fact a cause of the abuse.
Imagine if kids spent the time they do now in front of the TV reading instad... Heck, imagine if adults did the same.
It applies in RL too. Part of socializing involves making references to both current events and common interests. Basically, it's worthwhile to be able to pull shakespeare quotes off the top of your head if you were out drinking with a bunch of playwrights.
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That's when you get more ice. Or yellow ice. Depends on how drunk your roommates were at the time.
I would suggest you start at a local level and move up. It's not so easy to get a 3rd party candidate into the presidency seat. It's much easier to get a 3rd party candidate into the state senate.
You don't get it. Nobody is going to fit your definition of "good" 100%. This isn't a black and white world we live in, where the good politicians vote one way all time, and the bad ones vote the other way. Every person has a set of factors that motivates him or her. Politicians differ from the common person only in that they tend to be juggling far more motivational factors at once than any of us normally would. Which means that they may agree with you on one thing, and then turn around and disagree with you on another.
To put it simply, every politician has bills that are relevant to their "fundraisers" and bills that are not. That is why we have two senators per state. This way, if the telecos fund one, and the **AA fund the other, then at least you have one voting against telecom immunity and the other for copyright reform. Obviously, I'm oversimplifying. But if you can't understand the fact that people don't ever box conveniently into black or white, good or evil, right or wrong, then there's no point in getting too complicated.
They get power from the Niagara Falls to New York City pretty efficiently, and that's 400 miles.
Yes, it's been happening for a long time in various places.
Bush just endorsed it, with federal money.
Which is to say, he forced it down everyone's throat, willing or otherwise.
Scarcity creates value. And scarcity is partly a function of time at maximum effort.
Our most valuable commodity is time; we're all limited by the amount of time we have on this world. We don't know how much it is, but we have an approximation. At around 30, we know we're close to our mental peak, and we're going to physically start going downhill. At 60, we know we're going to start going downhill mentally.
So the time between when we're say, 15 and 30, is really the most valuable, for us, as learing individuals. Then, from 30-60, as productive individuals, we create the greatest of our works based on what we have learned in the 15 years prior.
So a project that takes 30 years to complete is more valuable in terms of time than a project that takes, 15 years, or 10 years, or 1 year.
Now, here's the catch: except for the works produced by the people at the top of their game, everything isn't really valuable at all. See, an intelligent person might be able to spend 10 minutes doing what would take a normal person 1 hour. So that act would be far less valuable to the intelligent person than to the normal person. And here's the thing, since it takes an intelligent person 10 minutes, that person could do the action 6 times in the 1 hour that the normal person would be able to do it once. Hence, assuming there are only two people in the system, the value of the act is actually 1/7th of an hour, which is to say, even to the intelligent person, it isn't valuable at all.
Now, if the intelligent person spends 10 years on another related act, then it becomes truly valuable. This is because the normal person would require 60 years to do the same thing. And quite frankly, we don't always have 60 years, much less 60 years of peak. So it's improbably, and effectively impossible for the normal person to do the act, which (assuming a two person system again) makes the act twice as valuable now.
If we extrapolate that to the real world, where there may be only 10 people out of 6 billion capable of (not only intelligent enough, but of the persuasion and with the resources) doing certain acts, then the value of that act has gone up 600 million times. And, if we bring time into play, where one in three generations is capable of truly mastering the act, then it becomes even more valuable. Which is why certain things are really, really valuable.
Now, whether they actually achieve it is a different story; the world has become a much smaller place, so the bar for greatness is higher, and the number of contenders for greatness has increased as well.
I've never bothered to figure out how to encrypt my e-mails. Why? Because it seems too complicated. And quite frankly, it hasn't been worth my time to make that effort to read about what I need to do to secure my e-mail.
However, if my e-mail was sent securely when I click the "send" button right off the bat, then I wouldn't turn it off for the life of me. And your country, and mine, would have a dozen more e-mails a day to decrypt.
The same applies to websites.
If you're really going to be pedantic, then it's not even copyright infringement. Copyright is the right to copy and distribute. You, the downloader, are not infringing on any copyrights. It is the host (server or whatnot) who makes the copy and distributes said copy to you, who receives the copy and uses it.
That doesn't mean you'll legally get away with having and using an unauthorized copy. However, for the sake of being pedantic...
That's the easy part. Getting away with it is the hard part. And the part where almost all criminals eventually fail at is being smart enough to stay that way.
Just reply with his full name, addresses of his legal and most frequented vacation residences, passport picture, daily routes to and from work, etc. I'll take care of the rest.
I kid, I kid. No, but seriously...
Actually, Cisco did that.
From a moral and ethical standpoint, I don't think it matters whether the person was a US national on US soil or not. The phrase "All men are created equal" is not limited in application to the US citizens or nationals; it applies for all human beings. And as such, there might have been debate back then on whether slaves were to be counted as human beings, there was never any debate on free men regardless of race or creed. Besides, slavery is illegal now, so no such detainee can be lawfully classified as sub-human.
I don't know what the legal standing is. However, what I do know is that the US has no business overthrowing despots and "advocating" human rights when such immoral, inethical act are being committed by official representatives of the US not a hundred miles outside of the US border. And these acts aren't inethical or immoral by international standards only; it is inethical and immoral by its own standards, making the US completely hypocritical.
It doesn't matter; if Bush had his way, it would've been possible to classify everyone and anyone as an enemy combatant, and "All men are created equal" would apply to all human beings once again. But at least the US won't be hypocrites, it'll just be run by a bunch of despots who don't believe in human rights.
I've heard good things about the Pirate Bay.
Are you saying there's a bun cooking in NASA's oven?
I was going to say something else about phoenicis and bursting into flames, but it would've probably been too much.
Did you not read past the first line?
GP specifically says, regardless of whether greenhouse gasses cause global warming or not, cleaning up the planet means leaving a clean world for future generations to live in. Geeze, if there ever was a time to think of the children...
Whomever modded this insightful is taking the idea of not reading TFA a little too far. What kind of mod gives mod points without even reading the parent posts in the thread?
Not only that, but the law governs human beings. Human beings change. Society changes, some less, some more, over long periods of time. The constitution, being not law itself but that which is the foundation for all of our laws, should be read according to the society in which it currently represents.
For example, the internet is blurring the line between interstate and intrastate commerce. It is (or not) constitutional for state and local taxes to be applied to sales between a store in California and a customer in Washington, when the server hosting the storefront and processing the sale is sitting in Texas? What if the server is in California? Or in Washington, for that matter? Basically, is this interstate commerce or not?
Or, perhaps the commerce clause should be amended. But if we keep tacking on such minor revisions to every new thing, we end up with such a ridiculously long and convoluted document that only the lawyers will be able to understand (like the federal tax code and accountants). In such a case, the system of government the founders imagined would be thwarted simply because the common People will no longer have easy access to the constitution, and will not be able to carry out their duties as the People. Granted, the common person doesn't anyway, but there are those of us who are not lawyers, politicians, or activists, but are still interested. This is partly why amendments are reserved for times when the constitution needs to actually be amended (outright contradicted in some form), and not where some existing section needs to be clarified. That, and it's incredibly difficult to get one to pass, and could end up being political suicide if it fails to pass.
What about life of author or 20 years, whichever is longer.
Heck, we could go up to life of author or 70 years and still result in more reasonable copyright terms than what we have now.
Televisions do make people dumber. Calculators as well.
Watching television requires absolutely 0 brain activity. Most people don't watch educational TV shows so they don't count. And if you think 24 or CSI or Grey's Anatomy is informative or educational in any way, you seriously need to go outside.
Calculators require just enough intelligence to push buttons, and copy the result off the display. Strictly speaking, actual use doesn't even require someone to be able to correctly write numbers, only to correctly identify them.
The TV is a passtime item. The calculator is a convenience item. The abuse of such things encourage and facilitate one and only one thing: laziness. Yes, they can be used for productive tasks, but they're more often than not not used in this manner. And when cases of abuse outnumber the cases of use so significantly as in the case of television, then the item does in fact a cause of the abuse.
Imagine if kids spent the time they do now in front of the TV reading instad... Heck, imagine if adults did the same.
It applies in RL too. Part of socializing involves making references to both current events and common interests. Basically, it's worthwhile to be able to pull shakespeare quotes off the top of your head if you were out drinking with a bunch of playwrights.