In any of the recent armed attacks in the US, were there any armed Americans whipping out their pistols to stop them?
I think the whole hero-cowboy-shoot-em-up are just daydreams that castrated white men dream up trying to reclaim their power in modern society. There are always a few examples, but most gun-owners aren't running to their closets to help police do their job.
So how does that pay for police, safe food and pavement? Oh, you want to have a street bill, a police bill and a private food inspection service...works if you have enough money to pay for it, but the majority, well they should just stop being lazy, right? Living in a bubble...it won't work.
You forget that the government is a piggy bank for commericial jails and law enforcement. The money is all going to line others pockets, and the jails/police will do anything to keep those tax dollars streaming in.
now you get to pay to protect their profits, too!
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By making this a criminal instead of civil issue - its not about locking you up - its about getting the government to prosecute copyright infringements instead of the corporation.
By making linking into a criminal law, now largescale content owners can harness the raw power of the taxpayer dollar - the governement is now the plaintiff, and government laywers are prosecuting on behalf of the corporations. Just like they have done with IP and piracy, by linking their profit protection to criminal matters (the Pirates are stealing our product and selling it on the streets!) they get to defray the costs of protecting their profts, and sic the government on anything they don't want to see happening, like sharing passwords or sharing content, when they could be making profits off of those interactions.
I don't know about most of you, but in the larger companies (I work for a Major Telecommunications Company in the US and its the one at the far end of the alphabet), a lot of staff is spread out across the country anyway. I'm in Dallas, my boss is in New Jersey, my team mates are in Los Angeles, Vermont, Philly, St Louis and Boston. When I do go to the office, I'm sitting in a room with a bunch of people that I don't work with.
So Face Time is when we all fly to a central location, twice a year, to meet up. And I have an office job - most of the time is on the phone, email or instant messaging - all of which i can do easier from home in my PJs than driving for an hour to sit in the office, still not have face time with anyone that matters, and add to my dry cleaning bill.
So does telecommuting hurt? Only if I NEVER show up to anything. As long as I make it to events, the occasional face-to-face meeting, I still get the same opportunities as anyone else.
The key difference is that the current administration does not feel the need to involve the courts, as did prior administrations (unreasonable search and seizure). Now, I'm not saying that they never did it, but never did it come out so publicly, and the administration (see Nixon - didn't he resign over illegal wiretapping?) says "Anything we feel like doing, its legal because I'm the president, and I'm protecting you".
See, that's called "probable cause"...if they hear the bomb ticking, probable cause gets you access.
What bush saying he can do is "Person of Interest" - if you go to Aljazeera.net too often, they can have your mail opened, without checking with a judge to see if its OK.
This does not add any protections to the Citizens of the US, but adds protections to the Government of the US. To me, this smacks of Facism (which is used so often its becoming cliche, but the definition is correct in this case). Since when does the government need protection from the people?
The biggest problem is that BushCo feels that judicial review is becoming unnecessary. That's scary. The whole point of it is only to protect us from government abuses. What does stopping that review gain us? Nothing. Having the FISA court (which has NEVER denied a warrant, by the way)gains the government nothing at all, except if they are doing something they should not - Having no evidence whatsoever that the person they want to investigate needs investigation. FISA even allows for RETROACTIVE warrants...we need it now, lets get a warrant within 72 hours..but BYPASSING FISA means they are afraid that FISA will say - WHy are you investigating political enemies???
In the book, Holy Blood Holy Grail is even mentioned - and Sir Leigh Teabing is an anagram of two of the authors names.
Dan Brown acknowleged the HBHG as source material - as the factual basis of the novel; it is credited as a source.
The simple fact - Dan Brown wrote a FICTIONAL NOVEL based on research done by the authors of HBHG. If HBHG is NON FICTION, then you can't sue people for beliving your ideas and using them as the basis of fiction.
This is like Darwin suing Arthur C. Clarke for 2001 because it has its basis in evolution.
In addition, 9 months before the iPod came out...you know that apple had it in development way before that...all they would have to do is show a unit that was manufacturered prior to the filing, no?
Actually, Covad does support line-sharing (DSL/voice over same line). I have the exact same scenario, Coavd/Speakeasy, in a PacBell area - I have the shared line service. Almost wish I didn't, so I could go for this. With g.lite DSL, it's almost impossible to get DSL over a "dry" pair (no local phone service)
Kinda sucks for people to lay blame to Verizon for their disaster recovery; they have employees on 24 hour shifts trying to get that stuff back up; They are climbing through a CO buried in debris to pull copper wires out; can you think of an easy way to re-direct fiber and copper? One nick in a fiber line renders it useless; they have to trace wires all through manhattan to redirect traffic at the physical layer. Like to see you do it.
C'mon. Its their servers; if they don't want other services using them for free, that's up to them. Tell your cheapo web host to set up their own snmp servers.
I've worked for small companies, and have been able to get about $500 for a class, but only if it is directly related to an assignment Ive been given...on the other hand, I now work for one of the largest telecom companies in the US (rhymes with horizon)...basically, ongoing education is unlimited to all employees, as long as it is work related. Anything not work related, I think it's 5,000 a year. "Work Related" means anything in telecom, pcs, etc. I'm getting my degree, all on this company. Very cool. They also pay for certifications (classes & tests), and general knowledge classes (how to build a pc)
ummm...I have an H-card, still works just fine. I had dabbled in the hack-the-h-card thing a bit,but it turned out to be to much effort, with unlooping, keeping track of new hacks, etc. - so I went back with the pay service. Old card still works, tho.
This would be_easy_ for M$ to implement, as they already have it on their newest versions of Office 2000. User/Serial gets transmitted to the clearinghouse and ties it to the machine...reuse of the "confirmation" number results in a 30-use window to get a new version/confirmation.
I take it that you have not paid any attention to how the system works here in the good ol' USA.
You don't like current laws? Work to change them. This isn't working to change them. This is much more like preaching to the choir.
Work to change them? When was the last time that anybody worked to change the laws that anything happened? Medical Marijuana (In California)? HMO Bill of Rights?
If you want what these people using Napster are doing is more akin to Civil Disobediance, whether they realize it or not. These people do not want to, or cannot, spend between $16-$20 for a CD, especially realizing that the profit margin is about 600% (this means after expenses). Even after the class action lawsuit about CDs (does anyone remember the $.50 checks?)the prices did not change, except to go up. And, as was said before, the manufacturing costs plummeted. When I can buy blank CDs for about $.60 a pop, and make money producing an album and selling it for $5.00 each, is there any doubt that the majors are gouging?
AND to people saying that anyone that dosnt like it, they can hire their own bands, make their own CDs, etc etc...How many independent record labels get bought out a year? All the successful ones. Why? because the indies cannot compete with the Majors with distribution. If you wanna get in Wal-Mart, you have to have a major distributor. If you want that, you have to be affiliated. End of Story
Furthermore, the only people that Metallica is protecting is themselves. I keep hearing "$1 per CD goes to the artist". Yes - true, but about $.75 goes to the artists management, lawyers, expenses, etc. The only artists who can make a living on royalties alone are artists that sell millions of CDs. Metallica makes only approximately $250,000 per every million, before taxes, and before they divide it amongst themselves. A million CDs gives each artist $65,000. Not a lot.
Bill: The same thing we do everyday, Paul. Today we will take over the world!
My point - this is another part of the "Windows Everywhere" campaign. Do you really think that if microsoft builds their own box, that you could put your own OS in it? Right. The whole thing will be proprietary, including where it can connect on the web (MSN will be get hits, at last!), along with what you can load on it (read: Microsoft certified products only!). With a new version of Windows, some type of CE, I'm sure, they are trying to make sure the more-and-more powerful consoles (Dolphin, PS2, Dreamcast) don't infringe on their new internet campaign. With Windows focusing on a internet distribution network, you know that this is focusing on a MS propritary internet. They control the hardware, and the software. This console is just the beginning - next it will be MS Internet Appliances. Is there any doubt? And so many of you out there will buy into it with their billion dollar ad campaigns. And when you turn on your toaster in 10 years, and a Windows logo come up (probably followed by a blue screen of death) you will wonder how it all happened.
I'm not sure what linux means to you, but it is a OS developed by Linus. If he wants to defend the trademark (by the way, which _is_ his, not "the worlds") then he should do so as he sees fit, political agenda or no. It is not up to you or anyone else to decide that he should not defend it. If he wanted to, he could tell you all to go to hell and name your distros somthing else than linux. But he isn't - and that is what makes it different. If M$ went open, do you think that they will allow people to call it "Red Hat Windows" or whatever? No Way. Linus just dosn't want it to be used to their own gain, without benefiting the Open Source crowd.
The whole thing comes down to money. When the lawyers sue, it is because someone is paying them to. To them, law is free to be twisted to the point of view of whoever has enough money to back the research. Lawmakers, represresent their campaign contributors, and special interest groups. Very little of any of our laws, and patent disputes have to do with justice. It is a fact that large companies can win patent disputes just because they have enough money to pay for it. Etoys could have run etoy into the ground just by throwing money at the case. The only reason they didn't was the publicity - they calculated how many customers they would lose + the cost of the lawsuit vs the cost of customers goting to etoy instead of etoys. It didn't measure out as profitable - thus they somewhat drop the suit - but they know they can win, so it's as their doing etoy a favor. Money is what controls our laws and the outcome of lawsuits.
How about a treadmill except larger - like the entire floor. With the sensor shoes, the room will know the direction that the subject is traveling , and with sensors in the floor the speed. The floor would move to compensate - keeping the subject in the approximate center. The room would have to be large enough to prevent any accidents in hitting the wall. I imagine that floor would be rubber, with the underside of the room having wheels that can pull the floor. When the subject turns, the wheels turn appropriately and continue the movement.3d could be a tilting floor.
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Only because they want to get that sweet profit margin no matter what.
In any of the recent armed attacks in the US, were there any armed Americans whipping out their pistols to stop them?
I think the whole hero-cowboy-shoot-em-up are just daydreams that castrated white men dream up trying to reclaim their power in modern society. There are always a few examples, but most gun-owners aren't running to their closets to help police do their job.
So how does that pay for police, safe food and pavement? Oh, you want to have a street bill, a police bill and a private food inspection service...works if you have enough money to pay for it, but the majority, well they should just stop being lazy, right?
Living in a bubble...it won't work.
You forget that the government is a piggy bank for commericial jails and law enforcement. The money is all going to line others pockets, and the jails/police will do anything to keep those tax dollars streaming in.
By making this a criminal instead of civil issue - its not about locking you up - its about getting the government to prosecute copyright infringements instead of the corporation.
By making linking into a criminal law, now largescale content owners can harness the raw power of the taxpayer dollar - the governement is now the plaintiff, and government laywers are prosecuting on behalf of the corporations. Just like they have done with IP and piracy, by linking their profit protection to criminal matters (the Pirates are stealing our product and selling it on the streets!) they get to defray the costs of protecting their profts, and sic the government on anything they don't want to see happening, like sharing passwords or sharing content, when they could be making profits off of those interactions.
I don't know about most of you, but in the larger companies (I work for a Major Telecommunications Company in the US and its the one at the far end of the alphabet), a lot of staff is spread out across the country anyway. I'm in Dallas, my boss is in New Jersey, my team mates are in Los Angeles, Vermont, Philly, St Louis and Boston. When I do go to the office, I'm sitting in a room with a bunch of people that I don't work with.
So Face Time is when we all fly to a central location, twice a year, to meet up. And I have an office job - most of the time is on the phone, email or instant messaging - all of which i can do easier from home in my PJs than driving for an hour to sit in the office, still not have face time with anyone that matters, and add to my dry cleaning bill.
So does telecommuting hurt? Only if I NEVER show up to anything. As long as I make it to events, the occasional face-to-face meeting, I still get the same opportunities as anyone else.
The key difference is that the current administration does not feel the need to involve the courts, as did prior administrations (unreasonable search and seizure). Now, I'm not saying that they never did it, but never did it come out so publicly, and the administration (see Nixon - didn't he resign over illegal wiretapping?) says "Anything we feel like doing, its legal because I'm the president, and I'm protecting you".
See, that's called "probable cause"...if they hear the bomb ticking, probable cause gets you access.
What bush saying he can do is "Person of Interest" - if you go to Aljazeera.net too often, they can have your mail opened, without checking with a judge to see if its OK.
This does not add any protections to the Citizens of the US, but adds protections to the Government of the US. To me, this smacks of Facism (which is used so often its becoming cliche, but the definition is correct in this case). Since when does the government need protection from the people?
The biggest problem is that BushCo feels that judicial review is becoming unnecessary. That's scary. The whole point of it is only to protect us from government abuses. What does stopping that review gain us? Nothing. Having the FISA court (which has NEVER denied a warrant, by the way)gains the government nothing at all, except if they are doing something they should not - Having no evidence whatsoever that the person they want to investigate needs investigation. FISA even allows for RETROACTIVE warrants...we need it now, lets get a warrant within 72 hours..but BYPASSING FISA means they are afraid that FISA will say - WHy are you investigating political enemies???
In the book, Holy Blood Holy Grail is even mentioned - and Sir Leigh Teabing is an anagram of two of the authors names.
Dan Brown acknowleged the HBHG as source material - as the factual basis of the novel; it is credited as a source.
The simple fact - Dan Brown wrote a FICTIONAL NOVEL based on research done by the authors of HBHG. If HBHG is NON FICTION, then you can't sue people for beliving your ideas and using them as the basis of fiction.
This is like Darwin suing Arthur C. Clarke for 2001 because it has its basis in evolution.
In addition, 9 months before the iPod came out...you know that apple had it in development way before that...all they would have to do is show a unit that was manufacturered prior to the filing, no?
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress...nuff' said. Weapon of Mass Destruction.
Actually, Covad does support line-sharing (DSL/voice over same line). I have the exact same scenario, Coavd/Speakeasy, in a PacBell area - I have the shared line service. Almost wish I didn't, so I could go for this. With g.lite DSL, it's almost impossible to get DSL over a "dry" pair (no local phone service)
Kinda sucks for people to lay blame to Verizon for their disaster recovery; they have employees on 24 hour shifts trying to get that stuff back up; They are climbing through a CO buried in debris to pull copper wires out; can you think of an easy way to re-direct fiber and copper? One nick in a fiber line renders it useless; they have to trace wires all through manhattan to redirect traffic at the physical layer. Like to see you do it.
C'mon. Its their servers; if they don't want other services using them for free, that's up to them. Tell your cheapo web host to set up their own snmp servers.
I've worked for small companies, and have been able to get about $500 for a class, but only if it is directly related to an assignment Ive been given...on the other hand, I now work for one of the largest telecom companies in the US (rhymes with horizon)...basically, ongoing education is unlimited to all employees, as long as it is work related. Anything not work related, I think it's 5,000 a year. "Work Related" means anything in telecom, pcs, etc. I'm getting my degree, all on this company. Very cool. They also pay for certifications (classes & tests), and general knowledge classes (how to build a pc)
ummm...I have an H-card, still works just fine. I had dabbled in the hack-the-h-card thing a bit,but it turned out to be to much effort, with unlooping, keeping track of new hacks, etc. - so I went back with the pay service. Old card still works, tho.
This would be_easy_ for M$ to implement, as they already have it on their newest versions of Office 2000. User/Serial gets transmitted to the clearinghouse and ties it to the machine...reuse of the "confirmation" number results in a 30-use window to get a new version/confirmation.
I take it that you have not paid any attention to how the system works here in the good ol' USA.
You don't like current laws? Work to change them. This isn't working to change them. This is much more like preaching to the choir.
Work to change them? When was the last time that anybody worked to change the laws that anything happened? Medical Marijuana (In California)? HMO Bill of Rights?
If you want what these people using Napster are doing is more akin to Civil Disobediance, whether they realize it or not. These people do not want to, or cannot, spend between $16-$20 for a CD, especially realizing that the profit margin is about 600% (this means after expenses). Even after the class action lawsuit about CDs (does anyone remember the $.50 checks?)the prices did not change, except to go up. And, as was said before, the manufacturing costs plummeted. When I can buy blank CDs for about $.60 a pop, and make money producing an album and selling it for $5.00 each, is there any doubt that the majors are gouging?
AND to people saying that anyone that dosnt like it, they can hire their own bands, make their own CDs, etc etc...How many independent record labels get bought out a year? All the successful ones. Why? because the indies cannot compete with the Majors with distribution. If you wanna get in Wal-Mart, you have to have a major distributor. If you want that, you have to be affiliated. End of Story
Furthermore, the only people that Metallica is protecting is themselves. I keep hearing "$1 per CD goes to the artist". Yes - true, but about $.75 goes to the artists management, lawyers, expenses, etc. The only artists who can make a living on royalties alone are artists that sell millions of CDs. Metallica makes only approximately $250,000 per every million, before taxes, and before they divide it amongst themselves. A million CDs gives each artist $65,000. Not a lot.
Paul: What are we doing today, Bill?
Bill: The same thing we do everyday, Paul. Today we will take over the world!
My point - this is another part of the "Windows Everywhere" campaign. Do you really think that if microsoft builds their own box, that you could put your own OS in it? Right. The whole thing will be proprietary, including where it can connect on the web (MSN will be get hits, at last!), along with what you can load on it (read: Microsoft certified products only!). With a new version of Windows, some type of CE, I'm sure, they are trying to make sure the more-and-more powerful consoles (Dolphin, PS2, Dreamcast) don't infringe on their new internet campaign. With Windows focusing on a internet distribution network, you know that this is focusing on a MS propritary internet. They control the hardware, and the software. This console is just the beginning - next it will be MS Internet Appliances. Is there any doubt? And so many of you out there will buy into it with their billion dollar ad campaigns. And when you turn on your toaster in 10 years, and a Windows logo come up (probably followed by a blue screen of death) you will wonder how it all happened.
Don't you dare reverse engineer your toaster!
I'm not sure what linux means to you, but it is a OS developed by Linus. If he wants to defend the trademark (by the way, which _is_ his, not "the worlds") then he should do so as he sees fit, political agenda or no. It is not up to you or anyone else to decide that he should not defend it. If he wanted to, he could tell you all to go to hell and name your distros somthing else than linux. But he isn't - and that is what makes it different. If M$ went open, do you think that they will allow people to call it "Red Hat Windows" or whatever? No Way. Linus just dosn't want it to be used to their own gain, without benefiting the Open Source crowd.
The whole thing comes down to money. When the lawyers sue, it is because someone is paying them to. To them, law is free to be twisted to the point of view of whoever has enough money to back the research. Lawmakers, represresent their campaign contributors, and special interest groups. Very little of any of our laws, and patent disputes have to do with justice. It is a fact that large companies can win patent disputes just because they have enough money to pay for it. Etoys could have run etoy into the ground just by throwing money at the case. The only reason they didn't was the publicity - they calculated how many customers they would lose + the cost of the lawsuit vs the cost of customers goting to etoy instead of etoys. It didn't measure out as profitable - thus they somewhat drop the suit - but they know they can win, so it's as their doing etoy a favor. Money is what controls our laws and the outcome of lawsuits.
How about a treadmill except larger - like the entire floor. With the sensor shoes, the room will know the direction that the subject is traveling , and with sensors in the floor the speed. The floor would move to compensate - keeping the subject in the approximate center. The room would have to be large enough to prevent any accidents in hitting the wall. I imagine that floor would be rubber, with the underside of the room having wheels that can pull the floor. When the subject turns, the wheels turn appropriately and continue the movement.3d could be a tilting floor.