As I keepsaying, eliminate gTLD's altogether, and run with ccTLD's only. Copyrights and that can be regulated by the country that has proper jurisdiction. If you're truly international or whatever, you can use.int; that's what it's for. But then your copyright whining doesn't get settled in any national court system, but an independent body. That's the trade-off.
I know I've posted this view in much greater detail than the links above, but I can't find it with Google.
ThinkGeek should pick up on this idea. I'd buy one. Especially if the block were molded into a suitably geeky shape. A 3 cm tall Tux that masses half a kg would be pretty cool to have on one's desk.
This is what campaign finance reform is supposed to fix. But I don't support it; I don't think any amount of campaign finance reform will fix the situation.
You need to motivate officials to be honest. I don't know how to do that, but I'm certain adding more rules won't. Until someone comes up with something better, I would rather keep my "freedom of speech".
Here's how you do it. Don't reform campaign finance. That's a red herring, and as you said, it's a free speech issue. Reform the electoral process. Motivate officials to be honest by making the possibility of being voted out a real threat. In the US House, incumbents are reelected like 98% of the time. That's insane.
The system needs to be opened up to challengers, to new ideas, new faces. Right now the Duopoly makes the election laws, so it's not surprising they favor incumbents. Nobody but a Democrat or Republican has a chance, and this is by design.
Freedom of conscience must be restored. If you can't safely vote how you truly feel, then the system is fundamentally flawed. The "wasted vote" problem must be eliminated.
To do this, we must realize that plurality voting is broken, and Condorcet voting must be implemented. It is the only system that is proven to be strategy free and truly express the preferences of the electorate.
Additionally, in presidential elections, the EC votes should not be allocated on a winner-take-all basis, but by district as intended. (You thought the correlation between EC votes and members of Congress was coincidence?)
Work locally. Get active in a minor political party, it doesn't matter which one. In this area (election reform), most have the same goal — fairness. Get these reforms in county and state government. Run for office, and ask why your RepuDem opponents haven't implemented fair voting yet. Educate the electorate about the deficiencies of the system, and how Condorcet is fair to everyone.
That is the best idea I've heard in a long time. People like Mr. Doohan have inspired many of us. Too bad you didn't think of it 18 months ago, we could have had an interview with Desmond Llewelyn too. (That's Q, for the uncouth who don't know their Bond.)
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The problem with those two is their back story: even if it could be squeezed into one movie, it's probably too far- fetched for most movie audiences. A genetically altered human gaining spider-like powers is hard enough to swallow; let's not enter symbiotic alien suits from a galaxy far away into the equasion.
Nah. All you have to do is put the back story into Spidey 2 while he fights Galactus or Kingpin or whatever, and then have the Venom as the antagonist in Spidey 3! One sequel is not enough.
Completely true. This is a scam to net the gov't more money. If they were truly concerned with safety, how about increasing the yellow light time by a second or two? Most people do not want to run red lights...it's a good way to get killed. But they also don't want to brake like a maniac when the signal turns yellow...if they are close enough they continue driving. Especially if the road is a little icy or wet. That's what the yellow light is for. Make the yellow long enough to be a reasonable time to stop, and more people will stop.
No, but using the remains of legally and safely aborted fetuses *IS* coming around.
Legally? I suppose so. Morally? Never.
And I don't think the baby would agree that it was "safely" killed. Oxymoron alert.
Would you prefer the fetal tissue just be disposed of WITHOUT offering any possible benefit to society?
I'd prefer that you'd consider the possible benefit to society that millions of murdered children might have made if they'd been allowed to live. Abortion is genocide on a much larger scale than the Holocaust. Human life is cheaper in the modern U.S. than it was in ancient Assyria or Rome. Now instead of sacrificing people on an altar to Molech or slaughtering them in an arena, we sacrifice them on the altar of convenience and slaughter them in the womb.
I realize you'd prefer to dictate a woman's bodily choices with no real investment in it yourself, but given the choices you DO have, how about making the morally superior of the two?
I realize you're not at all concerned that the baby has no choice how it's body — indeed it's very life — is treated.
Your argument is akin to the murderer saying, "Well I'm stranded on this island. No sense in me dying too, I guess I'll eat my victim." The situation should never be allowed to progress that far. Once you allow this, it's a short step to keep murdering so that you can keep eating. Or paying women to become "stem cell factories" — killing their babies to use for "beneficial research". That you use the side effects to justify the act is sickening. We could reduce the hunger and poverty if Ethiopia if we bombed ¾ of the population, leaving more for those remaining — is this morally defensible in your worldview, too?
That's the free X server for (classic) MacOS, right? How well does it work? I've thought of using it on my G3 to work on my Linux box, at least until I upgrade it to OS X.
Killing babies in order to use their cells is "coming around"? I agree that it's "absolutely morally vacuous". Killing one person so that another can profit is wrong. You have the right to pursue happiness, but you may not infringe on another's right to life in the process. Hatch's pro-life credentials are no longer "impeccable".
You actually thought Wellstone would listen to you? You've got a lot to learn. I voted against him the first two times he ran, and I'm voting against him again this year.
If you want your digital rights protected, you need to vote Libertarian or Constitution. These are the only parties that respect the limits placed on government. (Yes, that's right, Mr. Wellstone, it's the government which is limited, not the citizenry.)
Why? The Constitution is written to be pretty straightforward. What part of "Congress shall make no law..." don't you understand? The concept that people were sovereign and that the US is a constitutionally limited republic were very clear to the Founders. The Constitution is the framing document for the federal government, not others. Having national gov't encroach on other, more local gov'ts was anathema to them.
You actually think HIPAA will protect patient privacy? Think again.
The only people who need my medical information are my health care providers.
Darn right. The government has no business knowing my medical info, either. I work for a major health care facility, and the article I linked scared and completely surprised the people I've shown it to.
No, no, no. Force everyone into a two-letter ccTLD (except for.int of course). Let your own country set the rules, rather than one entity running roughshod over everybody. Trademark issues would be more clearly handled, and the namespace problem would tend to go away then too. I've made this argument many times before, so I won't detail the whole thing again.
Agreed. Any rider to amendment to a bill should be required to be germane to the subject of the original bill and within it's original scope. Giving the Executive a line-item veto puts too much control in the hands of one person, but putting the onus on the Legislature is a good idea. Get back to the original problem rather than trying to patch it elsewhere. One bill, one law.
That's been proposed, too. I don't think a.xxx domain is such a bad idea, though. It is the same idea as.kids is. I'd think that these types of sites (kid-friendly, pr0n) would want to have this type of TLD.
In any case, I think the case for moving everything to ccTLD's is still valid. You can't (and shouldn't) try to force laws on the whole world. You have to stay within your jurisdiction.
Been using Moz since about M10. Since 0.9.5 I've been pretty happy with it. I'm really looking forward to 1.0. Hopefully Netscape will release a 6.5 based on it.
I still use Opera for most of my browsing, though. It starts faster, and I know more of the shortcuts. Plus, I can run it on my (OS 8.1) Mac at home.
If you have a relatively fast machine, give 0.9.9 a try. I think you'll be pleased with the progress. It's not perfect (nothing is), but still very nice.
I've only recently installed YDL on my old-ish Mac and haven't had time to even really configure or use it much yet. So I'll probably give 2.2 a miss, but maybe I'll be ready by 2.3. I'm happy just having Linux available for my hardware, so I'll probably pay for my next copy.
Keyboard shortcuts for everything. If you're into that, Opera beats anything else out there. Moz took its cue to implement mouse gestures from Opera. iCab is the only browser I've seen that has more preference options than Opera. Opera puts the user experience first, IMO.
Much like the Win-Mac dynamic, the little guy innovates. Opera is where you see the cool stuff first.
Sure, the UI is different than other browsers. Who cares? Who says the generally Mosaic-ish UI that IE and Moz have been using for years is the best/only one?
Subtlety. That's what makes employer withholding of employee's income tax just as nefarious. If income tax were "in your face," if you had to write a check to the government every month for an amount equalling your house payment, you'd see a much bigger reaction to that too. Oh, FYI, automatic withholding was a "temporary" measure during WWII. Goes to show that once this stuff gets enacted, we're stuck with it forever.
How about if the author said, "As soon as I make $X from this, which is what I figure I put into it, I will release it under the FOO open source license." Would that satisfy people? I believe that open source is great for other developers, but also believe that getting paid is great for the original developer.
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As I keep saying, eliminate gTLD's altogether, and run with ccTLD's only. Copyrights and that can be regulated by the country that has proper jurisdiction. If you're truly international or whatever, you can use .int; that's what it's for. But then your copyright whining doesn't get settled in any national court system, but an independent body. That's the trade-off.
I know I've posted this view in much greater detail than the links above, but I can't find it with Google.
ThinkGeek should pick up on this idea. I'd buy one. Especially if the block were molded into a suitably geeky shape. A 3 cm tall Tux that masses half a kg would be pretty cool to have on one's desk.
Here's how you do it. Don't reform campaign finance. That's a red herring, and as you said, it's a free speech issue. Reform the electoral process. Motivate officials to be honest by making the possibility of being voted out a real threat. In the US House, incumbents are reelected like 98% of the time. That's insane.
The system needs to be opened up to challengers, to new ideas, new faces. Right now the Duopoly makes the election laws, so it's not surprising they favor incumbents. Nobody but a Democrat or Republican has a chance, and this is by design.
Freedom of conscience must be restored. If you can't safely vote how you truly feel, then the system is fundamentally flawed. The "wasted vote" problem must be eliminated.
To do this, we must realize that plurality voting is broken, and Condorcet voting must be implemented. It is the only system that is proven to be strategy free and truly express the preferences of the electorate.
Additionally, in presidential elections, the EC votes should not be allocated on a winner-take-all basis, but by district as intended. (You thought the correlation between EC votes and members of Congress was coincidence?)
Work locally. Get active in a minor political party, it doesn't matter which one. In this area (election reform), most have the same goal — fairness. Get these reforms in county and state government. Run for office, and ask why your RepuDem opponents haven't implemented fair voting yet. Educate the electorate about the deficiencies of the system, and how Condorcet is fair to everyone.
That is the best idea I've heard in a long time. People like Mr. Doohan have inspired many of us. Too bad you didn't think of it 18 months ago, we could have had an interview with Desmond Llewelyn too. (That's Q, for the uncouth who don't know their Bond.)
Nah. All you have to do is put the back story into Spidey 2 while he fights Galactus or Kingpin or whatever, and then have the Venom as the antagonist in Spidey 3! One sequel is not enough.
Right on. Too much anti-gun, anti-hunting, anti-trapping in NJ. You couldn't pay me enough to live there.
Completely true. This is a scam to net the gov't more money. If they were truly concerned with safety, how about increasing the yellow light time by a second or two? Most people do not want to run red lights...it's a good way to get killed. But they also don't want to brake like a maniac when the signal turns yellow...if they are close enough they continue driving. Especially if the road is a little icy or wet. That's what the yellow light is for. Make the yellow long enough to be a reasonable time to stop, and more people will stop.
Legally? I suppose so. Morally? Never.
And I don't think the baby would agree that it was "safely" killed. Oxymoron alert.
I'd prefer that you'd consider the possible benefit to society that millions of murdered children might have made if they'd been allowed to live. Abortion is genocide on a much larger scale than the Holocaust. Human life is cheaper in the modern U.S. than it was in ancient Assyria or Rome. Now instead of sacrificing people on an altar to Molech or slaughtering them in an arena, we sacrifice them on the altar of convenience and slaughter them in the womb.
I realize you're not at all concerned that the baby has no choice how it's body — indeed it's very life — is treated.
Your argument is akin to the murderer saying, "Well I'm stranded on this island. No sense in me dying too, I guess I'll eat my victim." The situation should never be allowed to progress that far. Once you allow this, it's a short step to keep murdering so that you can keep eating. Or paying women to become "stem cell factories" — killing their babies to use for "beneficial research". That you use the side effects to justify the act is sickening. We could reduce the hunger and poverty if Ethiopia if we bombed ¾ of the population, leaving more for those remaining — is this morally defensible in your worldview, too?
The ends does not justify the means.
That's the free X server for (classic) MacOS, right? How well does it work? I've thought of using it on my G3 to work on my Linux box, at least until I upgrade it to OS X.
Killing babies in order to use their cells is "coming around"? I agree that it's "absolutely morally vacuous". Killing one person so that another can profit is wrong. You have the right to pursue happiness, but you may not infringe on another's right to life in the process. Hatch's pro-life credentials are no longer "impeccable".
I can't read the article. My company has it blocked with websense. I guess I'll look at the comments here to see if a KW has posted the text yet...
You actually thought Wellstone would listen to you? You've got a lot to learn. I voted against him the first two times he ran, and I'm voting against him again this year.
If you want your digital rights protected, you need to vote Libertarian or Constitution. These are the only parties that respect the limits placed on government. (Yes, that's right, Mr. Wellstone, it's the government which is limited, not the citizenry.)
Why? The Constitution is written to be pretty straightforward. What part of "Congress shall make no law..." don't you understand? The concept that people were sovereign and that the US is a constitutionally limited republic were very clear to the Founders. The Constitution is the framing document for the federal government, not others. Having national gov't encroach on other, more local gov'ts was anathema to them.
You actually think HIPAA will protect patient privacy? Think again.
Darn right. The government has no business knowing my medical info, either. I work for a major health care facility, and the article I linked scared and completely surprised the people I've shown it to.
No, no, no. Force everyone into a two-letter ccTLD (except for .int of course). Let your own country set the rules, rather than one entity running roughshod over everybody. Trademark issues would be more clearly handled, and the namespace problem would tend to go away then too. I've made this argument many times before, so I won't detail the whole thing again.
Agreed. Any rider to amendment to a bill should be required to be germane to the subject of the original bill and within it's original scope. Giving the Executive a line-item veto puts too much control in the hands of one person, but putting the onus on the Legislature is a good idea. Get back to the original problem rather than trying to patch it elsewhere. One bill, one law.
That's been proposed, too. I don't think a .xxx domain is such a bad idea, though. It is the same idea as .kids is. I'd think that these types of sites (kid-friendly, pr0n) would want to have this type of TLD.
In any case, I think the case for moving everything to ccTLD's is still valid. You can't (and shouldn't) try to force laws on the whole world. You have to stay within your jurisdiction.
Been using Moz since about M10. Since 0.9.5 I've been pretty happy with it. I'm really looking forward to 1.0. Hopefully Netscape will release a 6.5 based on it.
I still use Opera for most of my browsing, though. It starts faster, and I know more of the shortcuts. Plus, I can run it on my (OS 8.1) Mac at home.
If you have a relatively fast machine, give 0.9.9 a try. I think you'll be pleased with the progress. It's not perfect (nothing is), but still very nice.
Sure, it's possible on machines even older than the '040.
I've only recently installed YDL on my old-ish Mac and haven't had time to even really configure or use it much yet. So I'll probably give 2.2 a miss, but maybe I'll be ready by 2.3. I'm happy just having Linux available for my hardware, so I'll probably pay for my next copy.
Keyboard shortcuts for everything. If you're into that, Opera beats anything else out there. Moz took its cue to implement mouse gestures from Opera. iCab is the only browser I've seen that has more preference options than Opera. Opera puts the user experience first, IMO.
Much like the Win-Mac dynamic, the little guy innovates. Opera is where you see the cool stuff first.
Sure, the UI is different than other browsers. Who cares? Who says the generally Mosaic-ish UI that IE and Moz have been using for years is the best/only one?
Yeah, and Torvalds is Finnish. Better stop using Linux, too. :P
(You were joking, right?)
Subtlety. That's what makes employer withholding of employee's income tax just as nefarious. If income tax were "in your face," if you had to write a check to the government every month for an amount equalling your house payment, you'd see a much bigger reaction to that too. Oh, FYI, automatic withholding was a "temporary" measure during WWII. Goes to show that once this stuff gets enacted, we're stuck with it forever.
How about if the author said, "As soon as I make $X from this, which is what I figure I put into it, I will release it under the FOO open source license." Would that satisfy people? I believe that open source is great for other developers, but also believe that getting paid is great for the original developer.
So start reading non-mainstream media instead. No, the Onion doesn't count.