True. The system here is far from perfect, -1 Offtopic is overused. I can't actually tell if metamoderating has helped or not. But by contrast: have you ever tried to have an actual discussion at a site like townhall.com? It's freakin' chaos.
But it would be even easier to just use Slashdot's reputation/moderation system on your own site
Is/. now offering a "moderated forums that don't suck" site-design package? We have all seen too many forums with no good way to have intelligent discussion or accommodate branching discussions. There is a certain amount of groupthink here but it is also the only place online where I have seen people admit to being wrong or actually change their viewpoint based on new information. It's hard to say who much of that is a good format and how much is good people.
In this anonymous online world, this would be an attempt to establish character. So in the future, acting like an asshat for fun in formus would relfect on you elsewhere. Just like if you act like an asshat at the company picnic, it effects you back in the office and possibly gets back to your friends at home. And yes, I think if someone is a carebear in WoW then they are a more trustworthy eBay seller, and someone with intelligent/. posts is more likely to contribute intelligently to Wikipedia.
"...he is the high-profile leader of one of the most well-known companies in America."
Further illustrating the good old boy club between megacorporations and the US government. We already have too many businessmen in the government. Politicians all about making money, not good governance. Fewer big businessmen, more statesmen please.
But you don't get the interviews or street cred if you start up "SuperStrongCable.com" The space tether is most likely going to come from a materials lab or a rope/cable manufacturer with an R&D budget and many actual products already on the market. Whoever makes the cable has the space elevator industry in the bag. NASA will hoist it for you, and is already hosting the lift car design competitions.
Are we to believe that there has been some new revolution in the ability of a musician to transcribe things by ear? Why would this longstanding exemption suddenly need changing? hmmm... perhaps Greed? Face it the only reason people are going to by a tabliture of your damn song is if they are a FAN. So they probably already own the album and love the song. They are just still developing as a musician and need the help of the more talented musicians at guitartabs to help them figure out how to play this song that they love. That is something to be encouraged if you want your music to have influence and you want to nuture growing musicians. The whole point of music copywright is to foster a good environment for new works. Or at least it used to be, but I guess that is an outdated idea this days.
" If Americans are sheepish enough to standby and allow Bush or any politician to appoint himself dictator-for-life, destroy the fundamental principles on which this nation was founded,"
I seem to remember Bush appointing himself the winner of the Florida. Or least Jeb appointing George.
As for destroying the principles the nation was founded on, are you talking about Habeus Corpus, or the system of Checks and Balances, or Human Rights, or the Geneva Convention?
You are correct. Where there is a free press and democracy, full on civil war is not required. That's how Ghandi was successful in his pacifist revolution. But also remember that Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated, and there were many deaths before his in the pursuit of African-American rights (800 dead in the 1919 Elaine Race Riot, alone). Homosexuals have suffered their share of lynchings and violence as well. The Stonewall Riots lasted three nights of 2000 Homosexuals violently confronting 400 armed police. I think one of the main reasons for the lesser (but not absent)violence of Women's Sufferage is that all participants are the wives and daughters of voting men.
So no, it may not be War, like the American Revolution, but it would still be war, like those pushing the issue have reason to fear for their safety. Still far too much commitment. What Rights are you willing to get beaten with a police baton to protect?
But there is also profit to be had in widespread environmental awareness. Until the UK or the US starts nationalising major corperations, there isn't much monetary profit to be had in protecting freedoms. People are so used to making themselves vassals for a paycheck, that if there is no corporate sponsored awareness TV campaign, there will be no mainstream call for severe political reform.
Yeah, second that. Run some cheap 1" id tubing from your central computer closet, to the same places you run your cat-5. Leave pullcords in each tube. When the next big thing comes along, you have an easy job of rewiring.
So all you have to do is rob people there, since nobody around here is fool enough to intervene
Ahh. there is your problem. People in that nieghborhood don't give a shit. How did nieghborhoods ever have low crime rates before CCTV? Because they stood by their nieghbors and acted in their own best interest by actually doing something about it themselves. By hiding behind closed doors pretending not to see, they are getting the shitty neighborhood they deserve. Act like a victim, get treated like a victim. I have more than once come out of my apartment into the street and made my presence known, when there is a disturbance on my street.(I live in New York City) Guess what happens when I walk out and look them in the eye? Well usually it's some arguement that is starting to turn physical, but when suddenly there is a witness threats go back to being just words. The one actual mugging that I encountered the guy just ran away.
Which is why political change usually comes in the form of War. Most people don't do anything about anything unless they see it as a problem that is costing them more than it would to address the problem. When it comes to regaining eroding freedoms, the cost of getting arrested at a real protest is too high for comfortable middle class folks. Only when things get bad enough that there is no "comfortable middle class" will the masses be likely to deal with the problem of bad government. By that time the only solution is civil war. When a government takes away your freedoms they don't willingly give them back.
Can the CEO of a major corp give a donation? Can said CEO work repayment into their annual bonus with ease? It's pretty easy to circumvent any obvious laws prohibiting corporate sponsorship, and then it become that much harder to see who is giving $$$ to who.
It's more that it's just very difficult to stop, without severely interfereing with the ability of common people to support their prefered candidate. ie: "If I can say good things about this candidate I like, why can't I put a favorable ad in the paper or on TV for him?"
... we prefer to call it "pre-voting". And don't think that who ever those 50 senators are running against in the next elections aren't going to get some "donations" as well. By the time the candidates get to the actual ballots, all of your "democratic" influence is just for show. I'll vote for the guy with a good informative website and not a single TV commercial or trip to my home state.
I don't know about the instrument of death part, but "BSoD? Have beer!" Sounds like a good plan to me. Lando: Haveing problems with your droid? Han: No... No problems.
Maybe this will help address the problem of diamonds, namely De Beers. The diamond industry is one of completely false scarcity and the result of a monopoly on a natural resource. The effect is not only rediculous prices for shiny rocks, but lots of blood shed. As all diamonds on the market serve to feed this beast, every diamond is a "conflict diamond".
No, all you need to work in HR is no soul and no sense of loyalty to anything but your paycheck.
Of course, it's right there in the name. Human Resources. Humans are resources to be used-up, traded, or processed. If that is the nature of the company you work for. However I have worked for companies where Human Resources was actually a resource for the humans that worked there. I think HR people might just reflect the true face of the upper management.
Or just read the post right before yours. Only 6/10 picked right with the $400 headphones. Thats only 1 better than guessing which track was which with no headphones at all.
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True. The system here is far from perfect, -1 Offtopic is overused. I can't actually tell if metamoderating has helped or not. But by contrast: have you ever tried to have an actual discussion at a site like townhall.com? It's freakin' chaos.
But it would be even easier to just use Slashdot's reputation/moderation system on your own site
/. now offering a "moderated forums that don't suck" site-design package? We have all seen too many forums with no good way to have intelligent discussion or accommodate branching discussions. There is a certain amount of groupthink here but it is also the only place online where I have seen people admit to being wrong or actually change their viewpoint based on new information. It's hard to say who much of that is a good format and how much is good people.
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In this anonymous online world, this would be an attempt to establish character. So in the future, acting like an asshat for fun in formus would relfect on you elsewhere. Just like if you act like an asshat at the company picnic, it effects you back in the office and possibly gets back to your friends at home. And yes, I think if someone is a carebear in WoW then they are a more trustworthy eBay seller, and someone with intelligent /. posts is more likely to contribute intelligently to Wikipedia.
" ...he is the high-profile leader of one of the most well-known companies in America."
Further illustrating the good old boy club between megacorporations and the US government. We already have too many businessmen in the government. Politicians all about making money, not good governance. Fewer big businessmen, more statesmen please.
... when Russia is chastising the US for restricitng freedoms, and doing so in a rather humourous manner.
Perhaps you are un aware of recent US/Iran tensions?
People have been selling "fake books" for decades. http://www.sheetmusic1.com/fakebook.ultimate.html With all the tools to make something very similar to the copywrighted songs. If I make a painting that looks very similar to the Mona Lisa, I can't sell it? It's not like I'm claiming that it is The Mona Lisa, it's just something similar. http://www.nextag.com/mona-lisa-painting/search-ht ml
Publishing the transcription, in effect republishing the original artist's work, is the issue.
It's just as argueably a publishing of what I hear when I listen to "the original work". A conveyence of my own personal experiences.
But you don't get the interviews or street cred if you start up "SuperStrongCable.com" The space tether is most likely going to come from a materials lab or a rope/cable manufacturer with an R&D budget and many actual products already on the market. Whoever makes the cable has the space elevator industry in the bag. NASA will hoist it for you, and is already hosting the lift car design competitions.
Are we to believe that there has been some new revolution in the ability of a musician to transcribe things by ear? Why would this longstanding exemption suddenly need changing? hmmm... perhaps Greed? Face it the only reason people are going to by a tabliture of your damn song is if they are a FAN. So they probably already own the album and love the song. They are just still developing as a musician and need the help of the more talented musicians at guitartabs to help them figure out how to play this song that they love. That is something to be encouraged if you want your music to have influence and you want to nuture growing musicians. The whole point of music copywright is to foster a good environment for new works. Or at least it used to be, but I guess that is an outdated idea this days.
eek. of all the names to spell wrong. Thanks for the catch.
" If Americans are sheepish enough to standby and allow Bush or any politician to appoint himself dictator-for-life, destroy the fundamental principles on which this nation was founded,"
I seem to remember Bush appointing himself the winner of the Florida. Or least Jeb appointing George.
As for destroying the principles the nation was founded on, are you talking about Habeus Corpus, or the system of Checks and Balances, or Human Rights, or the Geneva Convention?
You are correct. Where there is a free press and democracy, full on civil war is not required. That's how Ghandi was successful in his pacifist revolution. But also remember that Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated, and there were many deaths before his in the pursuit of African-American rights (800 dead in the 1919 Elaine Race Riot, alone). Homosexuals have suffered their share of lynchings and violence as well. The Stonewall Riots lasted three nights of 2000 Homosexuals violently confronting 400 armed police. I think one of the main reasons for the lesser (but not absent)violence of Women's Sufferage is that all participants are the wives and daughters of voting men.
So no, it may not be War, like the American Revolution, but it would still be war, like those pushing the issue have reason to fear for their safety. Still far too much commitment. What Rights are you willing to get beaten with a police baton to protect?
But there is also profit to be had in widespread environmental awareness. Until the UK or the US starts nationalising major corperations, there isn't much monetary profit to be had in protecting freedoms. People are so used to making themselves vassals for a paycheck, that if there is no corporate sponsored awareness TV campaign, there will be no mainstream call for severe political reform.
Yeah, second that. Run some cheap 1" id tubing from your central computer closet, to the same places you run your cat-5. Leave pullcords in each tube. When the next big thing comes along, you have an easy job of rewiring.
So all you have to do is rob people there, since nobody around here is fool enough to intervene
Ahh. there is your problem. People in that nieghborhood don't give a shit. How did nieghborhoods ever have low crime rates before CCTV? Because they stood by their nieghbors and acted in their own best interest by actually doing something about it themselves. By hiding behind closed doors pretending not to see, they are getting the shitty neighborhood they deserve. Act like a victim, get treated like a victim. I have more than once come out of my apartment into the street and made my presence known, when there is a disturbance on my street.(I live in New York City) Guess what happens when I walk out and look them in the eye? Well usually it's some arguement that is starting to turn physical, but when suddenly there is a witness threats go back to being just words. The one actual mugging that I encountered the guy just ran away.
but I've decided it's not really a problem".
Which is why political change usually comes in the form of War. Most people don't do anything about anything unless they see it as a problem that is costing them more than it would to address the problem. When it comes to regaining eroding freedoms, the cost of getting arrested at a real protest is too high for comfortable middle class folks. Only when things get bad enough that there is no "comfortable middle class" will the masses be likely to deal with the problem of bad government. By that time the only solution is civil war. When a government takes away your freedoms they don't willingly give them back.
Can the CEO of a major corp give a donation? Can said CEO work repayment into their annual bonus with ease? It's pretty easy to circumvent any obvious laws prohibiting corporate sponsorship, and then it become that much harder to see who is giving $$$ to who.
It's more that it's just very difficult to stop, without severely interfereing with the ability of common people to support their prefered candidate. ie: "If I can say good things about this candidate I like, why can't I put a favorable ad in the paper or on TV for him?"
... we prefer to call it "pre-voting". And don't think that who ever those 50 senators are running against in the next elections aren't going to get some "donations" as well. By the time the candidates get to the actual ballots, all of your "democratic" influence is just for show. I'll vote for the guy with a good informative website and not a single TV commercial or trip to my home state.
I don't know about the instrument of death part, but "BSoD? Have beer!" Sounds like a good plan to me.
Lando: Haveing problems with your droid?
Han: No... No problems.
Maybe this will help address the problem of diamonds, namely De Beers. The diamond industry is one of completely false scarcity and the result of a monopoly on a natural resource. The effect is not only rediculous prices for shiny rocks, but lots of blood shed. As all diamonds on the market serve to feed this beast, every diamond is a "conflict diamond".
Pain relief, then, perhaps
I wonder if it reduces swelling by tricking the body into restricting the blood flow to the "cold" area.
No, all you need to work in HR is no soul and no sense of loyalty to anything but your paycheck.
Of course, it's right there in the name. Human Resources. Humans are resources to be used-up, traded, or processed. If that is the nature of the company you work for. However I have worked for companies where Human Resources was actually a resource for the humans that worked there. I think HR people might just reflect the true face of the upper management.
What ever happened to two weeks notice?
Or just read the post right before yours. Only 6/10 picked right with the $400 headphones. Thats only 1 better than guessing which track was which with no headphones at all.