Legislation related to copyright generally goes into the committee of the judiciary and from there to the subcommittee on courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
Occasionally copies of bill go to the commerce and energy committee, but mostly its just a gesture rather than actual authority, as any bills which are approved by said committee usually get passed back to the judiciary anyway (or a copy is sent to the judiciary at the same time), just to show they're the top dogs.
If he's leaving either of his other committees (IIRC he was seated on the one on courts, the internet, and intellectual property), it's actually a reduction in the influence of reformists. Either way i'm at least glad he was re-elected.
I made some typos and left a couple words out of my sentences while i was distracted, Whoopdy-freakin-doo.
The third paragraph is SPECULATING about him leaving other committees he was seating last I checked, if you'll notice the "If" at the front of the sentence.
I'm not proud of the mistakes, but the message is still quite clear.
I'd be happy to have one of the/. editors or admins correct the typos, but attacking the idea expressed based on typing mistakes is beyond nitpicking.
Legislation related to the copyright into the committees of the judiciary and courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
Occasionally copies of bill go to the commerce and energy committee, but mostly its just a gesture rather than actual authority, as any approved bills usually get passed back to the afore mentioned committees for another pass.
If he's leaving either of the others, it's actually a reduction in the influence of reformists. Either way i'm at least glad he's still there.
In a time where identity theft and warrant-less wiretapping are at the forefront of the public consciousness, you have the potential of sparking a media firestorm which could result in FTC and/or congressional action.
Once people get used to this, what keeps naughty people from sending out legitimate looking upgrade disks that scramble your player or install software that lets them use your network connected player as a spam server? Urgh, basically virus laden spam for snail mail.
I'd actually suggest linking this story in the irc chats of militant anti-drm groups : )
and don't mention it to any consumer groups until it has already been abused.
And so instead of keeping a few grams of mercury out of the air from lower power due to the CFLs, it will instead end up in a landfil, unless you break one, then its still in the air, only super concentrated in YOUR HOME. Good choice.
Oh yeah, and how much energy was saved by that ship load of CFLs traveling half way around the world from China?? That's right, none.
In reality, the economy is what is left after all artificial valuation has crashed. It can't die, only the economy as we know it can die and that shift of real wealth could very well have been a good thing.
Not true.
When artificial value deflates, the economy has a tendency to over-correct and move into a downward spiral as people lose confidence.
well, in the case of remote locations where gas utilities are not justified there isn't a lot of stress on the power grid, so it's not really an issue is it?
It's my understanding though that the cheapest solution for homes like that is heating oil. It can be bought in bulk and on modified futures which virtually guarantee the lowest price (lock-ins that have no penalty if the price falls)
it's generally harder to start a career than it is to maintain one, and conditions are a lot tighter recently than they were in the past
this is a severe understatement.
An assessment from someone on the front lines: Nobody wants to train their labor anymore, period.
With the trends being what they are, they'll continue to expend their training operations in places like mumbai, and as the workforce on US soil dies off they'll just migrate their whole operation.
It is not enough. You do not seem to understand how the scientific method works: you come up with a hypothesis that explains some phenomenon, then you design an experiment that is capable of falsifying that hypothesis.
how about one on monetary policy.
You raise interest rates, and see what happens. You lower them and see what happens.
You do this over a number of decades. You have numerous counterparts in other nations do the same, but at different times.
The same thing happens every time.
I'd call that testing under the scientific method.
Oh? Please point out some Chicago school economists who are currently making such predictions, so we can see just how accurate they are. And if they can predict such small details, then certainly they must have seen the current financial situation coming, right?
Actually, they did. They were hollering about a bubble for ages. I was one of the people who looked at the numbers and said "this is not sustainable".
Politicians and investors don't like to let news like this travel too widely though. The investors want to maximize their gain before they "get out" when the bubble bursts. The politicians don't like to have their pet policies proven wrong.
As for your friend mr schiff.. he was only saying this in 2006?.. was he under a ROCK?!
Economics is about the study of the allocation of scarce resources.
The wealthy are, by nature of this fact, wealthy at the expense of others.
Taxing them will not remove them from this position of power, nor deny them the lifestyle they earned, but it will provide a minimum standard of living to those who lost in the game of life, preserving the healthy middle class which is required for the economy to function and for money to make it to that rich man's account.
If you don't preserve this basic balance and squeeze the low end too tightly, you end up with no revenue, and, if it moves further to that extreme, violent rebellion.
progressive tax rates on the wealthy grease the wheels of society and the economy. WIthout such programs both grind to a halt.
Guess what, bad luck can be overcome by time and hard work. Two concepts that most people these days don't want to sacrifice in the short term to win in the long term.
here's your chance to convince me of this.
is 18 years of my life, 100k in student debt, and a BA in two majors from a good school while almost losing my last parent to cancer enough hard work and sacrifice? Because i'm still here, unable to get arrested, let alone a job without a name tag, and quite frankly the smile I put on every day is feeling more and more farcical.
If you are bright and talented, but don't know someone in HR somewhere, you will get NOWHERE because "behavioral interviewing" weeds out any "eccentricities", which most people of this type have in spades.
Again you are not very good at mind reading and off topic, but again, I will bite. I do believe in safety nets, and I do believe in paying taxes for which a percentage goes to pay for those safety nets. My disagreement with you is regarding that "rich people" (for which I am not) should pay a larger percentage based solely on the fact that YOU believe that it is fair. Fair is a subjective term here which I hope you understand.
Ok, i'll give you an idea on "fair".
Your average rich person has several homes in expensive parts of town, all upwards of 7k square feet, often serviced by staff, each stocked with its own luxury cars and multiples of things most people can only dream of.
I have a chronic medical condition, and, even though my mother and extended family are willing to foot ANY bill necessary, nobody will sell me medical insurance. This means I pay upwards of 2k/mo in prescriptions. Often times I do without rather than burden my family, and i spend time in excruciating pain and resulting exhaustion.
If 2k/mo were siphoned from the rich person's account, it wouldn't phase them one bit, they probably wouldn't notice for 10 years if you didn't tell them.
So, objectively, which is more fair?
The rich person "enjoy" the two houses he never actually visit while I wallow in horrible pain, or i get some medication and the rich person gripes about a small tax hike to his friends as he speeds along in his lotus?
well there's your problem. you bought a blu-ray player.. i'm sure a dead screen is very good fidelity : P..
all wry, sharp humor aside, I know i'm in the minority in my sensitivity on this issue, but I see the differences plain as day, and in a state which is supposedly much more progressive i'd like the capacity to purchase a tv which will cater to that sensitivity.
Different people have different definitions of "Reaganomics". My definition is "reduce regulation, reduce taxes, let the economy grow on its own". And that does work pretty well.
for huge corporations.
For small businesses and individuals there's another more accurate definition:
"tax the hell out of the middle class while repealing consumer and investment protections and allowing anarchy to reign"
it works just fine until the first person takes the rampant fraud to a high enough level to make the big fish too concerned to continue investing.
Of course, by this time consumer spending will be in the crapper because of the eviscerated labor protection driving down wages, and because of the rampant defective and/or unsafe products put out through shoddy manufacturing.
Wait, this sounds familiar, maybe we did experience real reaganomics the past decade+
. In fact, nearly all of macroeconomics is non-falsifiable right now, because we lack the capability to run the necessary experiments
You're kidding right? Do you think economic data going back centuries is not enough?
What do you think the past 20+ years have been as far as testing reaganomics?
The 70+ before that as far as mixed economy and new deal?
The centuries before that as far as domestic non-interventionism and international protectionism?
We've had our experiments in the real world economy. We've seen which ones work best and which ones don't.
So far as "general laws of human action", the modern proponents of the austrian school seem to forget the general law of human action in the absence of government intervention is to lie, cheat, steal, and murder anyone who gets in their way.
The gangsters of the roaring 20's, Enron, Tyco, The S&L scams in the 80's, the CDS markets, and the list goes on and on as to the plentiful examples of why the government MUST step in with regulations to protect investors and consumers.
he part about "post-hoc analysis" is almost exactly the opposite of the truth: the Austrian school uses a priori analysis from first principles to derive general laws of human action that apply no matter the circumstances.
Oh, so they're like the predictions of nostradamus then?.. some austrian school junkie predicts something vague will happen in the vague "future", and, much like psychic friends, it inevitably happens.. "oh look i'm right".
This is in sharp contrast to the chicago school which uses actual economic data to make actual predictive price models using real statistics which say "on this day, the price of gas should be, with a margin of 2% error, $X", and are correct enough to be used in decisions at the corporate and state level.
Non-even lighting won't be an issue, because OLEDs emit their own light.
Colour saturation is better (even more so that CRT), and blacks are far, FAR deeper. No view angle issue either of course.
Nice. Since I have a brand new 17" mpb now, I guess that means my next upgrade cycle might come around just on time for apple to be dropping one into their lines.
yeah, plasmas eat up a LOT of wattage. They may be the same form factor as LCD, but they eat gobs of power. Recent NPR reports have had those things eating more watts than your home AC or refrigerator.
Hold out for the upcoming OLED screens. They combine all the advantages of LCD and CRT, and many more besides.
If they don't have 100% even lighting and 8bpp, then they're not good enough, and I do see the difference on LCD's, even the really good ones. It drives me mad and people with less acute attention to detail in this regard wonder why the heck i'm so worked up.
For one I don't live in cali, though I'm trying to make arrangements to get over there.
For another it's very hard for you to break those things.
My household has several rambunctious dogs, in addition to the fact I have bad depth perception and am somewhat clumsy.
I like torchiere style lamps for their soft lighting, and i quite often have these things fall.
I've replaced more lamps than I have bulbs.
The mercury within them is a trace amount. You'll probably be exposed to more in your yearly intake of sushi than you would if an earthquake broke every bulb in your home.
According to the new rule, 100% of government servers must run Linux by June 30, 2009, and 70% of agencies must use OpenOffice.org,
I guess it's time for Steve Ballmer to catch the next flight to Hanoi with cash and incentives in his briefcase. If this approach worked in the past why shouldn't it work one more time?
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This is a "duh" moment.
Have they had their head under a rock since 2002?
... that senior citizens cause bottlenecks on the internet just like in cars! :-)
Lord knows my grandma on the internet is a disaster.
We know they do. Wheelchairs don't do well in tubes. There are always rescue crews trying to winch them out.
Then I submit to you a corrected copy.
Legislation related to copyright generally goes into the committee of the judiciary and from there to the subcommittee on courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
Occasionally copies of bill go to the commerce and energy committee, but mostly its just a gesture rather than actual authority, as any bills which are approved by said committee usually get passed back to the judiciary anyway (or a copy is sent to the judiciary at the same time), just to show they're the top dogs.
If he's leaving either of his other committees (IIRC he was seated on the one on courts, the internet, and intellectual property), it's actually a reduction in the influence of reformists. Either way i'm at least glad he was re-elected.
I hope this clears up any problems.
I made some typos and left a couple words out of my sentences while i was distracted, Whoopdy-freakin-doo.
The third paragraph is SPECULATING about him leaving other committees he was seating last I checked, if you'll notice the "If" at the front of the sentence.
I'm not proud of the mistakes, but the message is still quite clear.
I'd be happy to have one of the /. editors or admins correct the typos, but attacking the idea expressed based on typing mistakes is beyond nitpicking.
Legislation related to the copyright into the committees of the judiciary and courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
Occasionally copies of bill go to the commerce and energy committee, but mostly its just a gesture rather than actual authority, as any approved bills usually get passed back to the afore mentioned committees for another pass.
If he's leaving either of the others, it's actually a reduction in the influence of reformists. Either way i'm at least glad he's still there.
Contact the local news.
In a time where identity theft and warrant-less wiretapping are at the forefront of the public consciousness, you have the potential of sparking a media firestorm which could result in FTC and/or congressional action.
Once people get used to this, what keeps naughty people from sending out legitimate looking upgrade disks that scramble your player or install software that lets them use your network connected player as a spam server? Urgh, basically virus laden spam for snail mail.
I'd actually suggest linking this story in the irc chats of militant anti-drm groups : )
and don't mention it to any consumer groups until it has already been abused.
And so instead of keeping a few grams of mercury out of the air from lower power due to the CFLs, it will instead end up in a landfil, unless you break one, then its still in the air, only super concentrated in YOUR HOME. Good choice.
Oh yeah, and how much energy was saved by that ship load of CFLs traveling half way around the world from China?? That's right, none.
where do you think normal bulbs are made, ohio?
Ah, i guess bauxite just materializes out of thin air?
In reality, the economy is what is left after all artificial valuation has crashed. It can't die, only the economy as we know it can die and that shift of real wealth could very well have been a good thing.
Not true.
When artificial value deflates, the economy has a tendency to over-correct and move into a downward spiral as people lose confidence.
well, in the case of remote locations where gas utilities are not justified there isn't a lot of stress on the power grid, so it's not really an issue is it?
It's my understanding though that the cheapest solution for homes like that is heating oil. It can be bought in bulk and on modified futures which virtually guarantee the lowest price (lock-ins that have no penalty if the price falls)
it's generally harder to start a career than it is to maintain one, and conditions are a lot tighter recently than they were in the past
this is a severe understatement.
An assessment from someone on the front lines: Nobody wants to train their labor anymore, period.
With the trends being what they are, they'll continue to expend their training operations in places like mumbai, and as the workforce on US soil dies off they'll just migrate their whole operation.
We have a civil space program because a belligerent one would be kinda hard to manage!
*badum-crash!*
thank you! i'll be here all night!
It is not enough. You do not seem to understand how the scientific method works: you come up with a hypothesis that explains some phenomenon, then you design an experiment that is capable of falsifying that hypothesis.
how about one on monetary policy.
You raise interest rates, and see what happens. You lower them and see what happens.
You do this over a number of decades. You have numerous counterparts in other nations do the same, but at different times.
The same thing happens every time.
I'd call that testing under the scientific method.
Oh? Please point out some Chicago school economists who are currently making such predictions, so we can see just how accurate they are. And if they can predict such small details, then certainly they must have seen the current financial situation coming, right?
Actually, they did. They were hollering about a bubble for ages. I was one of the people who looked at the numbers and said "this is not sustainable".
Politicians and investors don't like to let news like this travel too widely though. The investors want to maximize their gain before they "get out" when the bubble bursts. The politicians don't like to have their pet policies proven wrong.
As for your friend mr schiff.. he was only saying this in 2006?.. was he under a ROCK?!
Talk about pointing out the obvious.
Any competently designed economics curriculum will have the unit I had on supply side economics.
We spent a week going over the theory, and going over why it didn't work. I'm sad to say most of my classmates were asleep during that lesson.
Economics is about the study of the allocation of scarce resources.
The wealthy are, by nature of this fact, wealthy at the expense of others.
Taxing them will not remove them from this position of power, nor deny them the lifestyle they earned, but it will provide a minimum standard of living to those who lost in the game of life, preserving the healthy middle class which is required for the economy to function and for money to make it to that rich man's account.
If you don't preserve this basic balance and squeeze the low end too tightly, you end up with no revenue, and, if it moves further to that extreme, violent rebellion.
progressive tax rates on the wealthy grease the wheels of society and the economy. WIthout such programs both grind to a halt.
Guess what, bad luck can be overcome by time and hard work. Two concepts that most people these days don't want to sacrifice in the short term to win in the long term.
here's your chance to convince me of this.
is 18 years of my life, 100k in student debt, and a BA in two majors from a good school while almost losing my last parent to cancer enough hard work and sacrifice? Because i'm still here, unable to get arrested, let alone a job without a name tag, and quite frankly the smile I put on every day is feeling more and more farcical.
If you are bright and talented, but don't know someone in HR somewhere, you will get NOWHERE because "behavioral interviewing" weeds out any "eccentricities", which most people of this type have in spades.
Again you are not very good at mind reading and off topic, but again, I will bite. I do believe in safety nets, and I do believe in paying taxes for which a percentage goes to pay for those safety nets. My disagreement with you is regarding that "rich people" (for which I am not) should pay a larger percentage based solely on the fact that YOU believe that it is fair. Fair is a subjective term here which I hope you understand.
Ok, i'll give you an idea on "fair".
Your average rich person has several homes in expensive parts of town, all upwards of 7k square feet, often serviced by staff, each stocked with its own luxury cars and multiples of things most people can only dream of.
I have a chronic medical condition, and, even though my mother and extended family are willing to foot ANY bill necessary, nobody will sell me medical insurance. This means I pay upwards of 2k/mo in prescriptions. Often times I do without rather than burden my family, and i spend time in excruciating pain and resulting exhaustion.
If 2k/mo were siphoned from the rich person's account, it wouldn't phase them one bit, they probably wouldn't notice for 10 years if you didn't tell them.
So, objectively, which is more fair?
The rich person "enjoy" the two houses he never actually visit while I wallow in horrible pain, or i get some medication and the rich person gripes about a small tax hike to his friends as he speeds along in his lotus?
well there's your problem. you bought a blu-ray player.. i'm sure a dead screen is very good fidelity : P..
all wry, sharp humor aside, I know i'm in the minority in my sensitivity on this issue, but I see the differences plain as day, and in a state which is supposedly much more progressive i'd like the capacity to purchase a tv which will cater to that sensitivity.
Different people have different definitions of "Reaganomics". My definition is "reduce regulation, reduce taxes, let the economy grow on its own". And that does work pretty well.
for huge corporations.
For small businesses and individuals there's another more accurate definition:
"tax the hell out of the middle class while repealing consumer and investment protections and allowing anarchy to reign"
it works just fine until the first person takes the rampant fraud to a high enough level to make the big fish too concerned to continue investing.
Of course, by this time consumer spending will be in the crapper because of the eviscerated labor protection driving down wages, and because of the rampant defective and/or unsafe products put out through shoddy manufacturing.
Wait, this sounds familiar, maybe we did experience real reaganomics the past decade+
. In fact, nearly all of macroeconomics is non-falsifiable right now, because we lack the capability to run the necessary experiments
You're kidding right? Do you think economic data going back centuries is not enough?
What do you think the past 20+ years have been as far as testing reaganomics?
The 70+ before that as far as mixed economy and new deal?
The centuries before that as far as domestic non-interventionism and international protectionism?
We've had our experiments in the real world economy. We've seen which ones work best and which ones don't.
So far as "general laws of human action", the modern proponents of the austrian school seem to forget the general law of human action in the absence of government intervention is to lie, cheat, steal, and murder anyone who gets in their way.
The gangsters of the roaring 20's, Enron, Tyco, The S&L scams in the 80's, the CDS markets, and the list goes on and on as to the plentiful examples of why the government MUST step in with regulations to protect investors and consumers.
he part about "post-hoc analysis" is almost exactly the opposite of the truth: the Austrian school uses a priori analysis from first principles to derive general laws of human action that apply no matter the circumstances.
Oh, so they're like the predictions of nostradamus then?.. some austrian school junkie predicts something vague will happen in the vague "future", and, much like psychic friends, it inevitably happens.. "oh look i'm right".
This is in sharp contrast to the chicago school which uses actual economic data to make actual predictive price models using real statistics which say "on this day, the price of gas should be, with a margin of 2% error, $X", and are correct enough to be used in decisions at the corporate and state level.
Non-even lighting won't be an issue, because OLEDs emit their own light.
Colour saturation is better (even more so that CRT), and blacks are far, FAR deeper. No view angle issue either of course.
Nice. Since I have a brand new 17" mpb now, I guess that means my next upgrade cycle might come around just on time for apple to be dropping one into their lines.
yeah, plasmas eat up a LOT of wattage. They may be the same form factor as LCD, but they eat gobs of power. Recent NPR reports have had those things eating more watts than your home AC or refrigerator.
Hold out for the upcoming OLED screens. They combine all the advantages of LCD and CRT, and many more besides.
If they don't have 100% even lighting and 8bpp, then they're not good enough, and I do see the difference on LCD's, even the really good ones. It drives me mad and people with less acute attention to detail in this regard wonder why the heck i'm so worked up.
For one I don't live in cali, though I'm trying to make arrangements to get over there.
For another it's very hard for you to break those things.
My household has several rambunctious dogs, in addition to the fact I have bad depth perception and am somewhat clumsy.
I like torchiere style lamps for their soft lighting, and i quite often have these things fall.
I've replaced more lamps than I have bulbs.
The mercury within them is a trace amount. You'll probably be exposed to more in your yearly intake of sushi than you would if an earthquake broke every bulb in your home.
According to the new rule, 100% of government servers must run Linux by June 30, 2009, and 70% of agencies must use OpenOffice.org,
I guess it's time for Steve Ballmer to catch the next flight to Hanoi with cash and incentives in his briefcase. If this approach worked in the past why shouldn't it work one more time?
Go Ballmer go!
Isn't it supposed to be with his fucking killstick?