Legalizing it at the federal level allows the states to make it illegal within the state. For example, it is illegal to brew your own beer in Alabama, but the federal government legalized production "for personal or family use," however the great state of Alabama (read as sarcastically as possible) considers this to be dangerous and unhealthy. If you really doubt that, there's a great video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVqnUf8NH6g&feature=player_embedded highlighting some of their debate over a bill to allow homebrewing.
Statistics don't support you....in fact, most Christians in the US are democrats.
Show me these statistics that support this claim. A quick Googling reveals this link from a source I've never heard of before with a chart about 1/3 of the way down the page showing that Republicans hold 33% of Protestants and 30% of Catholics while Democrats hold 32% of Protestants and 30% of democrats.
This is admittedly a non-authoritative source and not a large difference, but when you go and call someone out because "Statistics don't support you." and the first thing that I can find is that they (admittedly by a very narrow margin and by an non-authoritative source) do support his claim, you need to be able to prove it yourself.
What were the five common opinions, widely held by geeks? Without that information, it could actually be YOU that was wrong in the argument, and not the other geek.:)
According to TFA:
1. Experts do not deserve any special role in declaring what is known. Knowledge is now democratically determined, as it should be.
2. Books are an outmoded medium because they involve a single person speaking from authority. In the future, information will be developed and propagated collaboratively, something like what we already do with the combination of Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Wikipedia, and various other websites.
3. The classics, being books, are also outmoded. They are outmoded because they are often long and hard to read, so those of us raised around the distractions of technology can’t be bothered to follow them; and besides, they concern foreign worlds, dominated by dead white guys with totally antiquated ideas and attitudes. In short, they are boring and irrelevant.
4. The digitization of information means that we don’t have to memorize nearly as much. We can upload our memories to our devices and to Internet communities. We can answer most general questions with a quick search.
5. The paragon of success is a popular website or well-used software, and for that, you just have to be a bright, creative geek. You don’t have to go to college, which is overpriced and so reserved to the elite anyway.
In the real world, users don't know what swapping is and don't understand that Firefox uses more memory. They just understand that when it's open, everything seems to slow down.
The only clue that it is an opinion is that it isnt based in the reality that I have been observing... more specifically, that he is either completely full of shit living in a fantasy world that bares no resemblance to reality, or that I have missed some rare pundit interview that he is basing his claim upon.
Or that this is Slashdot and nothing without citations in the comments should ever truly be taken as fact...
Again, IANAL, nor am I acquainted with British libel laws or statutes of limitations, but if they can prove that they haven't been tampered with (don't ask me how), than they most likely can be used. It will be interesting.
And your implication appears to be that this translates to everyday driving (where the Tesla gets a range of ~200 miles).
Looks like we've another implied versus stated. I meant that the way it was listed in the show, they ran out of energy mid drive, not simulated running out of energy mid drive. This is a point that Tesla is disputing according to the second article listed in TFS. If you watched the video, they do not state anywhere that they had simulated it dying, or anything of the sort, just show it dead in the water.
First off, the review is linked in the second article and this is slashdot. No one RTFAs, and those links are on the main page! You have a lower ID than me and you didn't know that?
On the second note, if Tesla's claim that they can prove their disputes with the data logging on the roadster proves true, than Tesla's going to win (IANAL, muchless a British one). Disputing your argument above, no where in the segment did they say they were simulating the car running out. From the episode, "...but then, although Tesla say it'll do 2 hundred miles we worked out that on our track it would run out after just fifty-five miles." This is definitely a case of inferred versus implied, as the way it was represented definitely implied to me that they weren't simulating.
Furthermore, in the very article where you found the link, it states that Tesla is disputing the claims about both the brakes (please use the right brake, it makes so much more sense) breaking (point number four in the article), and the engine overheating (point number four). And furthermore, the video cuts before it can get to point number five. "That neither of the two Roadsters provided to Top Gear was available for test driving due to these problems." (Again, FTA).
So, sorry fanboy, but you're too quick to defend and too quick to skip over the details.
Also, I guess it's prudent to note that I have no affiliation with either group, nor do I have any true interest in this at all. As of today I have watched more Top Gear than I have in the rest of my life.
I'm in the audio industry, and, frankly, I doubt that on anything that I own (some decent quality monitors, good quality headphones, as well as shitty iPod earbuds and the like) would I notice a difference between a completely mastered 44.1khz 16-bit audio file and a 96khz 24-bit audio file. I almost guarantee I wouldn't notice a difference between 44.1khz 24-bit and 96khz 24-bit.
Now, when I'm recording or mixing, I always go for the highest available option, but that's mostly because I'm using software based algorithms to treat the sound (EQ, DNR compression, reverb, etc). If I were using actual hardware to handle all of that, I'd be perfectly content at 44.1khz 24-bit.
It's rare that I even notice a difference between the 24-bit final and the 16-bit that I have to give out, and if you do it right, you can prove there is no perceptible difference merely by taking the file, inverting the phase on it (using any audio editor, including Audacity), and then playing it back against the original. It will only play the audio differences then (yay wave cancellation).
The iPhone A) does not cost less than the sum of its parts (see this story for the actual cost of parts of an iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, both of which are higher than they are sold for) B) is sold on a two year contract to a consumer at a much lower cost than it would be without contract C) makes unknown amounts of money for Apple from AT&T and now Verizon.
The PS3 is NOT sold at a loss anymore and has not been for well over six months (see this story on/. no less). They were sold at a loss for a long time, and Sony is still probably trying to recoup their losses on that, but they get money off of every game sold as well.
Get your facts straight before you claim such things.
Repeat after me: Not every business plan is viable or continues to be viable as times change.
Are you a consultant? I work in an industry that needs this advice and Sony's a part of said industry. Maybe they're taking their philosophies from the music branch...
But what you seem to mistake is that filming in a location that has an extremely limited expectation of privacy such as a school room (just ask any COP if they need a kid's permission to search the locker. They don't, they're the school's property) is not illegal. Using this footage in this way can be seen as libelous, but that's a civil, not criminal matter.
If your kid were used in this video, you would have a civil case against Evan Emory without a doubt as it was being implied that the child was enjoying a sexually explicit song. Now if Emory were to have sent the video out directly to the children, he could easily have been charged under obscenity laws, but that's about it.
Long story short, it was a stupid move. He should have used some B-roll that he could purchase licenses from someone and found a way to make it look like he was in the same room with them, or having it played over a TV in the classrooms. At least then he would have covered his ass civilly. Long story short, this is going to be bad for Michigan.
First off, he didn't sing to them as davidwr pointed out.
Second off, legally speaking, it is not illegal to "sing profanity to children" so long as it is, "indecent, but not obscene." Obviously, had he actually been singing to these kids the obscenities used in the song (or, at least, stated that were used in the song as no one seems to be able to find a copy of it) than that could be grounds for an obscenity charge.
As it stands, this is likely to settle, get thrown out, land the guy in jail for much of his natural life for a prank that I'm pretty sure I've almost done, or (possibly the worst outcome of them all) make a law that has (as far as I know) effectively taken many pedophiles off of the streets and away from kids that they can hurt unconstitutional... Kinda sad, but that's what happens when the world is run by paranoid politics...
Generally, model releases are needed for pay. You can take a picture of anyone, as long as they do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy. A school is a public place, hence no real expectation for privacy. He just can't make money, directly, off of it. At least, that is how I have read the statutes to be.
IANAL, but from what few law classes I've taken, this is the truth. If there is no reasonable expectation of privacy (IE this is not a school where it is explicitly stated that cameras are not to be used on campus) and no expectation of income, you can use it. That being said, the parents are still able to seek civil recourse for it.
After all, do you think the news channels make everyone who walks by on the street sign a waiver saying that the channel can use their likeness? I've been in countless videos and pictures where I signed no waiver, and didn't even know that it was being filmed, but that does not grant me the right to see those people put in jail.
Now the real crazy part of all of this is copyright law. From what I understand, (again IANAL, but I play one on/.) he legally has the copyright to all that footage, regardless of who is in it.
Because planning on doing nothing is political suicide...
It's a lot better for a politician to look like they care than for them to look like they don't care period.
Regardless, a real fence won't keep people out anymore than a lock will keep a thief out, or a password will keep a hacker out. The real problem here is the lack of legal methods of immigration from Mexico, which is not entirely the US's fault, in fact, from my understanding, it's pretty much the Mexican government that makes immigration nearly impossible, while the US government makes it difficult.
Aside from all this, the trek that the illegal Mexican immigrants typically take is a harder path than most anyone on/. could deal with, especially seeing as we all live in our parents' basements, can't speak to a woman, and don't see daylight directly.
Well with all the lockdowns going on with Android, I would honestly wait for the rumored "PalmPad" that's expected on February 9th. I don't know that it will be a ready to sell announcement, in fact, I kind of doubt it, but if it seems worth it to wait for Honeycomb, might as well consider all your available (hackable) options, and unless HPalm decides to change the way webos has worked when they introduce the "PalmPad" it will be easily hackable and easily repairable. I'm currently resetting my Palm Pre right now as I have some craziness going on from some of the poor choices in patching that I did, and it'll take all of 20-30 minutes of an automated system to do it, and another 15 minutes of automated backup restores. Really, I think (cue the flamewar) that Palm's produce line sucks right now, but their software and hackability make them my absolute first choice for anything gadgetie.
As well as a significant disgust for homosexuals, a love for big military spending, and seemingly small government that turns out to be bigger than it claims...
I have to say, if I had mod points, this would be at +1 by now. While its parent is not 100% definitive, it's accurate enough, and this one is even moreso.
Robert Johnson's recordings are some of the best music I've ever heard, personally.
But, technically speaking (namely mark me as flamebait), these works are still legally under copyright, and until they are not, PG is not, by their own mandate, allowed to reproduce them.
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Legalizing it at the federal level allows the states to make it illegal within the state. For example, it is illegal to brew your own beer in Alabama, but the federal government legalized production "for personal or family use," however the great state of Alabama (read as sarcastically as possible) considers this to be dangerous and unhealthy. If you really doubt that, there's a great video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVqnUf8NH6g&feature=player_embedded highlighting some of their debate over a bill to allow homebrewing.
Statistics don't support you....in fact, most Christians in the US are democrats.
Show me these statistics that support this claim. A quick Googling reveals this link from a source I've never heard of before with a chart about 1/3 of the way down the page showing that Republicans hold 33% of Protestants and 30% of Catholics while Democrats hold 32% of Protestants and 30% of democrats.
This is admittedly a non-authoritative source and not a large difference, but when you go and call someone out because "Statistics don't support you." and the first thing that I can find is that they (admittedly by a very narrow margin and by an non-authoritative source) do support his claim, you need to be able to prove it yourself.
What were the five common opinions, widely held by geeks? Without that information, it could actually be YOU that was wrong in the argument, and not the other geek. :)
According to TFA:
In the real world, users don't know what swapping is and don't understand that Firefox uses more memory. They just understand that when it's open, everything seems to slow down.
The only clue that it is an opinion is that it isnt based in the reality that I have been observing... more specifically, that he is either completely full of shit living in a fantasy world that bares no resemblance to reality, or that I have missed some rare pundit interview that he is basing his claim upon.
Or that this is Slashdot and nothing without citations in the comments should ever truly be taken as fact...
Shit, where's my citation?! Ah the hell with it.
Again, IANAL, nor am I acquainted with British libel laws or statutes of limitations, but if they can prove that they haven't been tampered with (don't ask me how), than they most likely can be used. It will be interesting.
And your implication appears to be that this translates to everyday driving (where the Tesla gets a range of ~200 miles).
Looks like we've another implied versus stated. I meant that the way it was listed in the show, they ran out of energy mid drive, not simulated running out of energy mid drive. This is a point that Tesla is disputing according to the second article listed in TFS. If you watched the video, they do not state anywhere that they had simulated it dying, or anything of the sort, just show it dead in the water.
No, because if you'll read it, I stated the rest of my life, as in, excluding the day of posting.
First off, the review is linked in the second article and this is slashdot. No one RTFAs, and those links are on the main page! You have a lower ID than me and you didn't know that?
On the second note, if Tesla's claim that they can prove their disputes with the data logging on the roadster proves true, than Tesla's going to win (IANAL, muchless a British one). Disputing your argument above, no where in the segment did they say they were simulating the car running out. From the episode, "...but then, although Tesla say it'll do 2 hundred miles we worked out that on our track it would run out after just fifty-five miles." This is definitely a case of inferred versus implied, as the way it was represented definitely implied to me that they weren't simulating.
Furthermore, in the very article where you found the link, it states that Tesla is disputing the claims about both the brakes (please use the right brake, it makes so much more sense) breaking (point number four in the article), and the engine overheating (point number four). And furthermore, the video cuts before it can get to point number five. "That neither of the two Roadsters provided to Top Gear was available for test driving due to these problems." (Again, FTA).
So, sorry fanboy, but you're too quick to defend and too quick to skip over the details.
Also, I guess it's prudent to note that I have no affiliation with either group, nor do I have any true interest in this at all. As of today I have watched more Top Gear than I have in the rest of my life.
I'm in the audio industry, and, frankly, I doubt that on anything that I own (some decent quality monitors, good quality headphones, as well as shitty iPod earbuds and the like) would I notice a difference between a completely mastered 44.1khz 16-bit audio file and a 96khz 24-bit audio file. I almost guarantee I wouldn't notice a difference between 44.1khz 24-bit and 96khz 24-bit.
Now, when I'm recording or mixing, I always go for the highest available option, but that's mostly because I'm using software based algorithms to treat the sound (EQ, DNR compression, reverb, etc). If I were using actual hardware to handle all of that, I'd be perfectly content at 44.1khz 24-bit.
It's rare that I even notice a difference between the 24-bit final and the 16-bit that I have to give out, and if you do it right, you can prove there is no perceptible difference merely by taking the file, inverting the phase on it (using any audio editor, including Audacity), and then playing it back against the original. It will only play the audio differences then (yay wave cancellation).
Hmm. Only place I know of to find them is: http://riaa.org/
The iPhone A) does not cost less than the sum of its parts (see this story for the actual cost of parts of an iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, both of which are higher than they are sold for) B) is sold on a two year contract to a consumer at a much lower cost than it would be without contract C) makes unknown amounts of money for Apple from AT&T and now Verizon.
/. no less). They were sold at a loss for a long time, and Sony is still probably trying to recoup their losses on that, but they get money off of every game sold as well.
The PS3 is NOT sold at a loss anymore and has not been for well over six months (see this story on
Get your facts straight before you claim such things.
Repeat after me: Not every business plan is viable or continues to be viable as times change.
Are you a consultant? I work in an industry that needs this advice and Sony's a part of said industry. Maybe they're taking their philosophies from the music branch...
I believe he was getting to the obligatory, "Get off my lawn!" statements that crop up all around here.
Just like everyone else here, IANAL.
But what you seem to mistake is that filming in a location that has an extremely limited expectation of privacy such as a school room (just ask any COP if they need a kid's permission to search the locker. They don't, they're the school's property) is not illegal. Using this footage in this way can be seen as libelous, but that's a civil, not criminal matter.
If your kid were used in this video, you would have a civil case against Evan Emory without a doubt as it was being implied that the child was enjoying a sexually explicit song. Now if Emory were to have sent the video out directly to the children, he could easily have been charged under obscenity laws, but that's about it.
Long story short, it was a stupid move. He should have used some B-roll that he could purchase licenses from someone and found a way to make it look like he was in the same room with them, or having it played over a TV in the classrooms. At least then he would have covered his ass civilly. Long story short, this is going to be bad for Michigan.
First off, he didn't sing to them as davidwr pointed out.
Second off, legally speaking, it is not illegal to "sing profanity to children" so long as it is, "indecent, but not obscene." Obviously, had he actually been singing to these kids the obscenities used in the song (or, at least, stated that were used in the song as no one seems to be able to find a copy of it) than that could be grounds for an obscenity charge.
As it stands, this is likely to settle, get thrown out, land the guy in jail for much of his natural life for a prank that I'm pretty sure I've almost done, or (possibly the worst outcome of them all) make a law that has (as far as I know) effectively taken many pedophiles off of the streets and away from kids that they can hurt unconstitutional... Kinda sad, but that's what happens when the world is run by paranoid politics...
-- For the sake of not hurting anyone, if you try this please use videos of kids who are now adults or of possible, well over 50.
For example, anything from here is probably a decent choice for this purpose.
Generally, model releases are needed for pay. You can take a picture of anyone, as long as they do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy. A school is a public place, hence no real expectation for privacy. He just can't make money, directly, off of it. At least, that is how I have read the statutes to be.
IANAL, but from what few law classes I've taken, this is the truth. If there is no reasonable expectation of privacy (IE this is not a school where it is explicitly stated that cameras are not to be used on campus) and no expectation of income, you can use it. That being said, the parents are still able to seek civil recourse for it.
/.) he legally has the copyright to all that footage, regardless of who is in it.
After all, do you think the news channels make everyone who walks by on the street sign a waiver saying that the channel can use their likeness? I've been in countless videos and pictures where I signed no waiver, and didn't even know that it was being filmed, but that does not grant me the right to see those people put in jail.
Now the real crazy part of all of this is copyright law. From what I understand, (again IANAL, but I play one on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCXwx7xfIMY&feature=player_embedded
This is not the video in question in the summary.
Because planning on doing nothing is political suicide...
/. could deal with, especially seeing as we all live in our parents' basements, can't speak to a woman, and don't see daylight directly.
It's a lot better for a politician to look like they care than for them to look like they don't care period.
Regardless, a real fence won't keep people out anymore than a lock will keep a thief out, or a password will keep a hacker out. The real problem here is the lack of legal methods of immigration from Mexico, which is not entirely the US's fault, in fact, from my understanding, it's pretty much the Mexican government that makes immigration nearly impossible, while the US government makes it difficult.
Aside from all this, the trek that the illegal Mexican immigrants typically take is a harder path than most anyone on
Well with all the lockdowns going on with Android, I would honestly wait for the rumored "PalmPad" that's expected on February 9th. I don't know that it will be a ready to sell announcement, in fact, I kind of doubt it, but if it seems worth it to wait for Honeycomb, might as well consider all your available (hackable) options, and unless HPalm decides to change the way webos has worked when they introduce the "PalmPad" it will be easily hackable and easily repairable. I'm currently resetting my Palm Pre right now as I have some craziness going on from some of the poor choices in patching that I did, and it'll take all of 20-30 minutes of an automated system to do it, and another 15 minutes of automated backup restores. Really, I think (cue the flamewar) that Palm's produce line sucks right now, but their software and hackability make them my absolute first choice for anything gadgetie.
As well as a significant disgust for homosexuals, a love for big military spending, and seemingly small government that turns out to be bigger than it claims...
But yeah, Hitler was totally a liberal!
I'm sorry, but I have to laugh looking at that first URL. Somehow anti-DMCA stuff gets filed into terrorism at CMU apparently.
I have to say, if I had mod points, this would be at +1 by now. While its parent is not 100% definitive, it's accurate enough, and this one is even moreso.
Robert Johnson's recordings are some of the best music I've ever heard, personally.
But, technically speaking (namely mark me as flamebait), these works are still legally under copyright, and until they are not, PG is not, by their own mandate, allowed to reproduce them.