You understand that getting stuck in a snowdrift doesn't require a lot of snow to be on the road... right?
Ground clearance on a lot of vehicles can be measured in inches. Skidding and getting stuck in a drift 6-12 inches deep is easy to do with front wheel drive. I've seen people skid off I-90 in northwestern Pennsylvania in snowy conditions, and get stuck in drifts while driving a hundred yards behind a snow plow / sand truck. I-90 is a major interstate, and the road was about as clear as it's going to get in snowy conditions.
The real danger would be that, on a seasonal road, it may be very difficult to find any assistance to get yourself hauled *out* of the snowbank.
You're trying to be a lawyer (and failing) - the review process is in no way a copyright compliance check.
When you sign up for the developer program, you assert that you own the rights to sell & distribute anything you submit to Apple for sale & distribution. This indemnifies Apple from any copyright claim, because you have agreed that it is up to *YOU* to ensure that your submissions are in compliance by signing up as a developer. If it turns out you aren't following those rules, then you will be subject to the penalties specified in the agreement you enter into with Apple - likely removal of all software you've uploaded for sale.
If you upload something which you do NOT own the rights to, then the copyright violation is *yours,* not Apple's. Just like you can't sue HP because they made a printer with a scan/copy function which somebody uses to make a copy of Moby Dick - the copyright violation is not HP's fault, it is the fault of the person who misused the tool to infringe someone else's copyright.
Unless you'd also care to argue that the RIAA is well within their rights to sue anybody who makes a bit torrent client, or other peer to peer sharing software, too?
Fair enough, s/put his ass on the line/allegedly put his ass on the line/ in my statement above. That change in wording doesn't change the fundamental point: it wasn't Assange or anybody else at Wikileaks who took those documents from a classified military system and leaked them. Wikileaks is serving as a publishing platform.
I'm not suggesting that I believe Manning or Wikileaks *deserves* the peace prize, I'm stating the logical conclusion of the premises outlined in the GGP post.
Frankly, I think Wikileaks' actions have done more to undermine international "fraternity" than they have to increase it. The State Dept. leaks mean that diplomacy is *less* likely to be taken seriously (and thus, be effective); When talk fails, governments resort to the club.
Assuming your premises are all correct, Bradley Manning should be receiving the Peace Prize, since, you know, he's the one who put his ass on the line to steal those documents and expose the secrets. Without PFC Manning and people like him, Assange would just be an obnoxious misogynist with a web site.
While we're at it, let's give Random House Publishing the Nobel prize for Literature, too. That book they published this year was REALLY good!
You realize that "physical force" isn't the only type of force that can be exerted, correct? If somebody does something under duress, they are being forced to take an action that they would not voluntarily engage in. You can distinguish between the two types of force, certainly, but the fact remains that someone is being *forced* into something against their will.
A DDoS may not exert physical force, but it is most certainly using force to try to get the target to submit to a list of demands.
By your comment, you seem to be suggesting that as long as I don't use physical force to mug you, I'm completely in the right: pointing a gun at you and threatening to kill you unless you give me your wallet is perfectly legal, it's only illegal if I actually shoot you.
Please. This is a bunch of comfortable middle-class kids thinking it sounds like a bunch of fun to fuck with someone else, especially when they can do so from the perceived anonymity of their home. It's low-effort, low-value protests that do nothing but give these people the reputation of being hooligans - They can watch Jersey Shore and post on 4chan while they "express their displeasure."
It got a lot of press for about 15 minutes, and where's the follow-through?
Does the fact that the victim is a crack dealer somehow make it "okay" to threaten (or inflict) harm on them in order to steal their wallet?
You can condemn the actions of a crack dealer AND condemn the actions of a mugger, these are not incompatible positions, and they are in no way mutually exclusive. Two wrongs do not make a right.
There's a difference between non-violent 'civil disobedience' and using force to get someone else to submit to your demands.
What a DDoS attack does is not all that different from mugging someone, it's just a little less personal: "your money or your life" turns into "our demands or your livelihood."
I thought that was an odd way to end the submission too. Of course, all the self-described anarchists and radicals who think that this is a useful form of "cyber protest" have surely also considered that what they're doing is using force to bludgeon someone else into submitting to their demands, and that their behavior is identical to the behavior of the people "subjugating" them.
Funny that we only seem to resent the jackboot when it's on someone else's foot, isn't it?
It's surprisingly fresh advice for a lot of guys, from what I've heard from female friends who are dating. It seems like "be yourself," often turns into, "be the Sunday morning after a 2-day-bender version of yourself."
I especially loved the whining about "the futility of reality." That was totally fresh stuff I've never heard from anybody else. Ever. An amazing, original, American voice. Best post of 2011. Front-runner for the Academy Award nod.
You just hit the nail on the head: if your presentation on the first date amounts to an attempt to "fool" the girl into thinking you're some sort of super-stylish fashion plate, you're wasting your time: either it's necessary, and she's not the girl for you, or it's unnecessary, and you're wasting money and possibly turning her off by appearing as a brand-obsessed idiot. Spending a bunch of money on a bunch of expensive clothes is stupid unless you have the money to blow on a whole wardrobe, and it's the type of clothing you wear *all the time,* and you *actually like* the clothing.
But, as I mentioned above, *there is a happy medium* - if your idea of everyday clothing is ripped underwear and a stained tank top, you're going to need to put forth a *little* effort. But a couple pairs of khakis, a couple pairs of jeans, a few decent t-shirts, a few polo shirts, a few oxfords, a decent belt, and a couple decent pairs of shoes will serve you fine on dates & at any job you're likely to get working IT, and can be had for cheap from numerous places.
I'd also suggest, however, that if you find anything more than sweats and a t-shirt to be "uncomfortable stuff," you're probably buying clothes in the wrong size and need to select better fitting articles of clothing. There's NO reason a pair of jeans should be uncomfortable. There's NO reason a suit should be uncomfortable. There's also NO reason why a pair of shoes should be terribly uncomfortable for more than a day or two as they break in and flex around your foot, either. If you're not sure how to pick out something that fits properly: ask for help from one of the employees.
Having spent time on a dating site myself (dated ~15 different girls off & on over the course of about 18 months), I think a big part of being successful is personality & presentation - I'm not particularly stylish, don't wear particularly expensive clothes, and drive a decent-but-nothing-fancy car. I had good luck with 6 of them (2 turned into 3- and 5-month long 'relationships', the rest usually lasted a few dates and involved varying levels of physical involvement), and the rest were just "bad first dates, but great stories" when recounting them to my friends - like the girl who thought "Brokeback Mountain" was a perfectly natural movie to go see on a first date.
If you go into it thinking, "I'm gonna find the perfect girl SOOOO quickly," you'll be discouraged really fast. It's a way to meet people, but that's it - you have to remember that the profiles are only as honest as the person writing them, and that *everybody* on there is going to put their "best foot forward" in their profile - they'll tend to exaggerate the things they think are important/good qualities, and downplay the stuff they know is negative or that they don't realize about themselves.
So, look at it as another way to meet people socially. If you see someone who catches your eye, attracts your interest, or sounds like they'd be fun to meet, say hello. But don't make it your only outlet for meeting people, or if it is your only outlet, bear in mind that it's likely to be a long-ish search, so have fun on the ride - you'll probably get laid a few times, get a whole bunch of "funny-awful first date" stories, and learn more about what you like & don't like in your prospective dates.
Unless you're trying *really* hard to identify with a particular subculture (emo, punk, urban, indie, hipster, apple fans, whatever) by wearing a particular "uniform", then a clean pair of pants and shirts and a pair of decent shoes will generally do the trick for most dates. You don't need to spend $500 on a single outfit. $500 will go a long way at someplace like Old Navy to pick up a few relatively inexpensive pairs of jeans & khakis and some presentable shirts that you can also wear to work.
If you want to do a "makeover" - get yourself a decent haircut, spend a bit of money on a good razor, and spend 20 minutes cleaning yourself up before you go out - shave, trim your nails, and generally make sure you're presentable. Show up looking like you took that 20 minutes cleaning yourself up demonstrates that you care about making a good first impression. I guarantee that she spent at least that much time trying to make herself look good for you, if she was interested enough to agree to meet you for a date.
After that comes the hard part: learn how to engage in "small talk," because you're going to need to do it. Be prepared to talk about things that interest you, and be prepared to listen to her talk about things that interest her. Take an interest in her activities and work, make her laugh, and be polite, and you'll probably get a second date. Dominate the conversation by recounting every gripping moment of the last cartoon you watched, be dismissive of her work and activities, talk about how everybody you work with is a bunch of ignorant fools and you're the only person keeping your company alive... you're probably not going to get that second date.
"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
Yeah, I'm always puzzled by this attitude when I see it here.
Change the term "ski lift" to "maglev cable transport" or "launch loop," though, and you'll hear a collective gasp from slashdot like no nerdgasm in history, and multiple people rushing to explain how what amounts to a 2000-km-long "ski lift" is the best possible way to fling shit into orbit, but in this section of comments, we hear about what an AWFUL, inefficient way this would be to move stuff a few miles, especially downhill - WITH gravity! - when the technology to do it is proven, and has been used effectively for centuries.
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You understand that getting stuck in a snowdrift doesn't require a lot of snow to be on the road... right?
Ground clearance on a lot of vehicles can be measured in inches. Skidding and getting stuck in a drift 6-12 inches deep is easy to do with front wheel drive. I've seen people skid off I-90 in northwestern Pennsylvania in snowy conditions, and get stuck in drifts while driving a hundred yards behind a snow plow / sand truck. I-90 is a major interstate, and the road was about as clear as it's going to get in snowy conditions.
The real danger would be that, on a seasonal road, it may be very difficult to find any assistance to get yourself hauled *out* of the snowbank.
You're trying to be a lawyer (and failing) - the review process is in no way a copyright compliance check.
When you sign up for the developer program, you assert that you own the rights to sell & distribute anything you submit to Apple for sale & distribution. This indemnifies Apple from any copyright claim, because you have agreed that it is up to *YOU* to ensure that your submissions are in compliance by signing up as a developer. If it turns out you aren't following those rules, then you will be subject to the penalties specified in the agreement you enter into with Apple - likely removal of all software you've uploaded for sale.
If you upload something which you do NOT own the rights to, then the copyright violation is *yours,* not Apple's. Just like you can't sue HP because they made a printer with a scan/copy function which somebody uses to make a copy of Moby Dick - the copyright violation is not HP's fault, it is the fault of the person who misused the tool to infringe someone else's copyright.
Unless you'd also care to argue that the RIAA is well within their rights to sue anybody who makes a bit torrent client, or other peer to peer sharing software, too?
What basis would they sue on?
"The Daily" is the name of the paper.
"The Daily Show" is the name of the TV show.
Maybe I should start a company named "THE" and sue everybody on these same mythical grounds...
It's funny you should make that assertion! Too bad it's completely baseless.
From the link I just provided: "77.6 percent of the users found their iPad usage went up after their initial “honeymoon” period."
That doesn't mean *this app* will be successful, but it certainly won't fail for the reason you suggest.
Fair enough, s/put his ass on the line/allegedly put his ass on the line/ in my statement above. That change in wording doesn't change the fundamental point: it wasn't Assange or anybody else at Wikileaks who took those documents from a classified military system and leaked them. Wikileaks is serving as a publishing platform.
I'm not suggesting that I believe Manning or Wikileaks *deserves* the peace prize, I'm stating the logical conclusion of the premises outlined in the GGP post.
Frankly, I think Wikileaks' actions have done more to undermine international "fraternity" than they have to increase it. The State Dept. leaks mean that diplomacy is *less* likely to be taken seriously (and thus, be effective); When talk fails, governments resort to the club.
Assuming your premises are all correct, Bradley Manning should be receiving the Peace Prize, since, you know, he's the one who put his ass on the line to steal those documents and expose the secrets. Without PFC Manning and people like him, Assange would just be an obnoxious misogynist with a web site.
While we're at it, let's give Random House Publishing the Nobel prize for Literature, too. That book they published this year was REALLY good!
They wrote "Running With the Devil", for god's sake man. I'd say that's all the credentials you need for anything in life.
Yassir Arafat received it in 1994. I suspect they'll be able to deal with an award to Wikileaks just fine, "politically" speaking.
You realize that "physical force" isn't the only type of force that can be exerted, correct? If somebody does something under duress, they are being forced to take an action that they would not voluntarily engage in. You can distinguish between the two types of force, certainly, but the fact remains that someone is being *forced* into something against their will.
A DDoS may not exert physical force, but it is most certainly using force to try to get the target to submit to a list of demands.
By your comment, you seem to be suggesting that as long as I don't use physical force to mug you, I'm completely in the right: pointing a gun at you and threatening to kill you unless you give me your wallet is perfectly legal, it's only illegal if I actually shoot you.
"enraged to a breaking point"?
Please. This is a bunch of comfortable middle-class kids thinking it sounds like a bunch of fun to fuck with someone else, especially when they can do so from the perceived anonymity of their home. It's low-effort, low-value protests that do nothing but give these people the reputation of being hooligans - They can watch Jersey Shore and post on 4chan while they "express their displeasure."
It got a lot of press for about 15 minutes, and where's the follow-through?
Care to show your work and explain how you arrive at this conclusion?
Does the fact that the victim is a crack dealer somehow make it "okay" to threaten (or inflict) harm on them in order to steal their wallet?
You can condemn the actions of a crack dealer AND condemn the actions of a mugger, these are not incompatible positions, and they are in no way mutually exclusive. Two wrongs do not make a right.
There's a difference between non-violent 'civil disobedience' and using force to get someone else to submit to your demands.
What a DDoS attack does is not all that different from mugging someone, it's just a little less personal: "your money or your life" turns into "our demands or your livelihood."
I thought that was an odd way to end the submission too. Of course, all the self-described anarchists and radicals who think that this is a useful form of "cyber protest" have surely also considered that what they're doing is using force to bludgeon someone else into submitting to their demands, and that their behavior is identical to the behavior of the people "subjugating" them.
Funny that we only seem to resent the jackboot when it's on someone else's foot, isn't it?
It's surprisingly fresh advice for a lot of guys, from what I've heard from female friends who are dating. It seems like "be yourself," often turns into, "be the Sunday morning after a 2-day-bender version of yourself."
I don't know, I'd expect that being kicked while you're down would only help you get into a really deep "self pity" state.
You're welcome.
I think "the sugar" is what you ask the women for. As in: "Now gimme some sugar, baby."
I especially loved the whining about "the futility of reality." That was totally fresh stuff I've never heard from anybody else. Ever. An amazing, original, American voice. Best post of 2011. Front-runner for the Academy Award nod.
You just hit the nail on the head: if your presentation on the first date amounts to an attempt to "fool" the girl into thinking you're some sort of super-stylish fashion plate, you're wasting your time: either it's necessary, and she's not the girl for you, or it's unnecessary, and you're wasting money and possibly turning her off by appearing as a brand-obsessed idiot. Spending a bunch of money on a bunch of expensive clothes is stupid unless you have the money to blow on a whole wardrobe, and it's the type of clothing you wear *all the time,* and you *actually like* the clothing.
But, as I mentioned above, *there is a happy medium* - if your idea of everyday clothing is ripped underwear and a stained tank top, you're going to need to put forth a *little* effort. But a couple pairs of khakis, a couple pairs of jeans, a few decent t-shirts, a few polo shirts, a few oxfords, a decent belt, and a couple decent pairs of shoes will serve you fine on dates & at any job you're likely to get working IT, and can be had for cheap from numerous places.
I'd also suggest, however, that if you find anything more than sweats and a t-shirt to be "uncomfortable stuff," you're probably buying clothes in the wrong size and need to select better fitting articles of clothing. There's NO reason a pair of jeans should be uncomfortable. There's NO reason a suit should be uncomfortable. There's also NO reason why a pair of shoes should be terribly uncomfortable for more than a day or two as they break in and flex around your foot, either. If you're not sure how to pick out something that fits properly: ask for help from one of the employees.
Will it be written in a style similar to APK's bombastic style? I should like to read it, and ALL of its P.S. clauses, when it's published.
How should I subscribe to your newsletter, Sir? I really admire your ideas.
Having spent time on a dating site myself (dated ~15 different girls off & on over the course of about 18 months), I think a big part of being successful is personality & presentation - I'm not particularly stylish, don't wear particularly expensive clothes, and drive a decent-but-nothing-fancy car. I had good luck with 6 of them (2 turned into 3- and 5-month long 'relationships', the rest usually lasted a few dates and involved varying levels of physical involvement), and the rest were just "bad first dates, but great stories" when recounting them to my friends - like the girl who thought "Brokeback Mountain" was a perfectly natural movie to go see on a first date.
If you go into it thinking, "I'm gonna find the perfect girl SOOOO quickly," you'll be discouraged really fast. It's a way to meet people, but that's it - you have to remember that the profiles are only as honest as the person writing them, and that *everybody* on there is going to put their "best foot forward" in their profile - they'll tend to exaggerate the things they think are important/good qualities, and downplay the stuff they know is negative or that they don't realize about themselves.
So, look at it as another way to meet people socially. If you see someone who catches your eye, attracts your interest, or sounds like they'd be fun to meet, say hello. But don't make it your only outlet for meeting people, or if it is your only outlet, bear in mind that it's likely to be a long-ish search, so have fun on the ride - you'll probably get laid a few times, get a whole bunch of "funny-awful first date" stories, and learn more about what you like & don't like in your prospective dates.
There's a happy medium.
Unless you're trying *really* hard to identify with a particular subculture (emo, punk, urban, indie, hipster, apple fans, whatever) by wearing a particular "uniform", then a clean pair of pants and shirts and a pair of decent shoes will generally do the trick for most dates. You don't need to spend $500 on a single outfit. $500 will go a long way at someplace like Old Navy to pick up a few relatively inexpensive pairs of jeans & khakis and some presentable shirts that you can also wear to work.
If you want to do a "makeover" - get yourself a decent haircut, spend a bit of money on a good razor, and spend 20 minutes cleaning yourself up before you go out - shave, trim your nails, and generally make sure you're presentable. Show up looking like you took that 20 minutes cleaning yourself up demonstrates that you care about making a good first impression. I guarantee that she spent at least that much time trying to make herself look good for you, if she was interested enough to agree to meet you for a date.
After that comes the hard part: learn how to engage in "small talk," because you're going to need to do it. Be prepared to talk about things that interest you, and be prepared to listen to her talk about things that interest her. Take an interest in her activities and work, make her laugh, and be polite, and you'll probably get a second date. Dominate the conversation by recounting every gripping moment of the last cartoon you watched, be dismissive of her work and activities, talk about how everybody you work with is a bunch of ignorant fools and you're the only person keeping your company alive... you're probably not going to get that second date.
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the sound of the joke passing by high above your head.
"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
Tony Montana was right.
Yeah, I'm always puzzled by this attitude when I see it here.
Change the term "ski lift" to "maglev cable transport" or "launch loop," though, and you'll hear a collective gasp from slashdot like no nerdgasm in history, and multiple people rushing to explain how what amounts to a 2000-km-long "ski lift" is the best possible way to fling shit into orbit, but in this section of comments, we hear about what an AWFUL, inefficient way this would be to move stuff a few miles, especially downhill - WITH gravity! - when the technology to do it is proven, and has been used effectively for centuries.