Arresting people who throw things at police is quite reasonable.
Yes, but gassing a peaceful crowd because one nut threw a rock is not. Arrest the guy who threw the damned rock.
If the protesters, the kneeling civilians, are refusing to comply with a lawful order to vacate the area, the police can generally use force of some kind.
IINM the protesters in the infamous case were not refusing to comply with a lawful order, they had every right to be where they were. It was the police who were breaking the law.
I'm sorry, is "society" really entitled to everything a person created, ever? Even if they themselves never published it to the world?
Yes. Article 2, section 8 of the US Constitution:
The Congress shall have power to... promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Copyright is granted in order for more works to become the public domain's. I don't own the stories I write, you do, as does everyone else. I merely have a limited time monopoly on its publication.
My opinion is that, no, society isn't entitled to everything
Your opinion is completely unimportant. It doesn't matter of your opinion is that the sky is green, it's still not green. Your opinion is ignorant and wrong.
And I'd like to add that were copyright lengths sane, this stuff wouldn't be locked up in the first place.
I seriously doubt that very many people using Linux or Macs are using IE, and the first thing a Windows user does when the computer has the slightest glitch is reboot. Knowledgeable users know better, but few of them are using IE.
Windows users are used to rebooting, the rest of us aren't.
The police are outnumbered by the citizens they protect a thousand to 1 at least
I tried to get some numbers but google failed me. But here in Springfield, IL you can't drive two blocks without seeing a police car. And that doesn't count the sherriff's deputies, Illinois State Police, FBI, DEA, and all the other cops.
However, despite whether or not the numbers are correct, I agree with your post.
Indeed, I'll believe a corporation is a person when one goes to prison for mass murder (or rather, mass negligent homicide like you would if you got drunk and crashed your car into a crowd of people).
A few hundred thousand out of three hundred MILLION is very, very few.
If they die from their symptoms, they need no more health care
My insurance premiums aren't funding it because my insurance company doesn't cover it.
You have 20% of "several hundred thousand" from anorxia vs half a million people dying annually from heart attacks, half of them woman and almost all of them overweight. Anorexia is a non-problem. Contrast it with other mental illnesses and you'll see that it is actually NOT a problem. Yes, it's a problem for the individuals afflicted, but not for society as a whole.
Unfortunately, these days with the Internet, people don't realize that their speech lasts a LOT longer than the moment it was uttered - it effectively lasts forever, and what was said decades ago can come back to bite you.
Can, yes, but not necessarily "does". About fifteen years ago there was a hilarious parody of Blue's News called "Yello There," and after being online for years, there is only a single trace of it left, and that's in the wayback machine's copy of my old gaming site ("Kneel" and I were cross-Atlantic friends and mutual fans). And the wayback machine misses almost all of 2002 for my gaming site. It has very little from my old mcgrew.info site (th egaming site was far more popular), there were over a hundred blog posts that are gone completely.
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There is still no direct transfer from a computer network to a human neural network.
Sure there is, it's an optical network that's almost instantaneous. It's called "reading".
Oh for crying out loud, would you kids please stop parroting phrases you don't know the meaning of? It isn't "sew", it's "sow," as in the verb "plant." The phrase means that whatever seeds you plant, that's the plant that will grow. Plant corn, reap corn. Sow cotton, reap cotton. If you sow seeds of discord, discord will grow. Besides weeds, you ALWAYS reap what you sow.
And they modded you insightful... sheesh...
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It's not a problem with tablets or ebooks, it's a PEBCAK problem. If your email client isn't open, your email won't distract you. If your IM client is closed, your IM won't distract you.
payed his full salary... payed for 40 and counting... payed for 40. Get thrown out and get payed. Do you really think politicians loose their income when they loose office? You are a moron.
There's a saying about glass houses and stones. It's not very smart to misspell a four letter word (paid) and misuse a word ("Loose" means "set free", you meant "lose") and then call someone else a moron and an idiot.
While people lived in small villages, there wasn't much of a need to move things over large enough distances to require vehicles.
Sure there was. You can wheel a lot more wood a lot farther with a wagon than by having a horse drag it. And it takes a lot of wood to build a house, even a small one.
Especially with a narrow muddy trail, notice how big the wheels were on stagecoaches?
Do you have any idea how much people actually use and want to use with their current devices?
I don't even know how much data I use. This is about phones and I don't have AT&T for my phone, but I have no clue how much all the streaming and BT I use takes, but I'm sure all those distro uploads/download take quite a bit. I know the lights on my modem and router flash madly almost constantly.
Exactly, and it's illegal. Why are they not being prosecuted for consumer fraud? Of course, when Sony removed OtherOS that fraud was even worse. Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that in the US, corporations are above the law?
Nice sound bite there, sherriff, but the fact is that only the stupid or unlucky criminals ever get caught. You law enforcement types are too busy chasing potsmokers and hookers to do much about real crime.
A better question is, why does anybody think Santorum or Obama, let alone a 3rd world dictator, is any smarter than anybody else? Most people manage most of the rest of their lives just fine, why should politics be any different?
As for religion causing discord between you and your daughter, maybe it's time to lay off a bit?
That isn't the problem. The problem is her having a problem with my being too generous. She's madly jealous of a woman who never knew her father who comes to me for advice, and sometimes a place to lay her head. I've never pushed religion or anything else on either of my kids.
I'm sorry, but anyone who tries to tell me that my kids come second to anything is wasting their breath
Most of the old testament is very much needed; there is much wisdom there to be gathered. What isn't relevant is the directives God gave the Jews, mostly Duteronomy and Leviticus.
The gay-hating preacher doesn't realise that his sins are no worse than mine or yours or a homosexual's, and that the sin has been paid for in blood. He also forgets the passage "judge not, lest ye be judged yourself."
And you have to remember that there are many wolves in sheep's clothing, and many of them stand behind pulpits.
I think 1% is widly optimistic. Few stars have planets the right mass, inclination, and distance from those stars for life to ever begin.
Of all the life that's evolved here so far, only one species has ever been capable of going even as far as the moon.
I think if there's intelligent life out there, it's as rare or even rarer than here on earth. And don't forget, people were as smart five thousand years ago as they are now, they just didn't know as much. Nobody had calculus then, but if you took a baby from 5000 years ago and raised it here and now, likely nobody would ever notice that (s)he was from the past.
"If I see farther than other men, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants."
Maybe there's no economic incentive for them to come here.
I would posit that economics is a primitive thing, that some day we may get past greed, selfishness, and lust for power over others. Because that's all there is to economies. We have enough food and resources to feed, clothe, and house everyone, only economics gets in the way of this planet being a paradise where nobody goes hungry and work is something you do because you enjoy working.
He said a hundred or TWO. If you showed up 200 years ago in a new RV with DVDs, stereo, and all the modern conviniences those things have (like electric lighting and a microwave oven), you'd have either been worshiped or burned at the stake.
Thor was the nerd who invented the hammer. Likewise all the other ancient pagan gods; they were merely really smart men.
As to why I reference only TNG, I don't think TOS actually tried to put scientific explanations on any of this stuff.
No, they didn't, but it did foresee a lot of technology that may not have happened without it. For example, Disney saw the self-opening doors and went to Paramount to find out how it was done, they wanted self-opening doors at Epcot. However, the doors still hadn't been invented, it was just stage hands opening and closing the doors.
Most of the tech on TOS was far-out fiction that nobody would ever see in their lifetimes, like flat screen monitors, cell phones, McCoy's sick bay, etc.
Yes, but stuff we don't as well -- without Moonlighting would we have had Die Hard, Twelve Monkeys, Last Man Standing, The Jackyl, th sixth Sense? That show launched Willis' career.
The net result is loss of the total wealth, but those of us who actually work for a living would be making money hand over fist. There would be one hell of a labor shortage, and it's the 1%ers who would hurt for a change.
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Arresting people who throw things at police is quite reasonable.
Yes, but gassing a peaceful crowd because one nut threw a rock is not. Arrest the guy who threw the damned rock.
If the protesters, the kneeling civilians, are refusing to comply with a lawful order to vacate the area, the police can generally use force of some kind.
IINM the protesters in the infamous case were not refusing to comply with a lawful order, they had every right to be where they were. It was the police who were breaking the law.
I'm sorry, is "society" really entitled to everything a person created, ever? Even if they themselves never published it to the world?
Yes. Article 2, section 8 of the US Constitution:
Copyright is granted in order for more works to become the public domain's. I don't own the stories I write, you do, as does everyone else. I merely have a limited time monopoly on its publication.
My opinion is that, no, society isn't entitled to everything
Your opinion is completely unimportant. It doesn't matter of your opinion is that the sky is green, it's still not green. Your opinion is ignorant and wrong.
And I'd like to add that were copyright lengths sane, this stuff wouldn't be locked up in the first place.
I seriously doubt that very many people using Linux or Macs are using IE, and the first thing a Windows user does when the computer has the slightest glitch is reboot. Knowledgeable users know better, but few of them are using IE.
Windows users are used to rebooting, the rest of us aren't.
The police are outnumbered by the citizens they protect a thousand to 1 at least
I tried to get some numbers but google failed me. But here in Springfield, IL you can't drive two blocks without seeing a police car. And that doesn't count the sherriff's deputies, Illinois State Police, FBI, DEA, and all the other cops.
However, despite whether or not the numbers are correct, I agree with your post.
Indeed, I'll believe a corporation is a person when one goes to prison for mass murder (or rather, mass negligent homicide like you would if you got drunk and crashed your car into a crowd of people).
You have 20% of "several hundred thousand" from anorxia vs half a million people dying annually from heart attacks, half of them woman and almost all of them overweight. Anorexia is a non-problem. Contrast it with other mental illnesses and you'll see that it is actually NOT a problem. Yes, it's a problem for the individuals afflicted, but not for society as a whole.
Unfortunately, these days with the Internet, people don't realize that their speech lasts a LOT longer than the moment it was uttered - it effectively lasts forever, and what was said decades ago can come back to bite you.
Can, yes, but not necessarily "does". About fifteen years ago there was a hilarious parody of Blue's News called "Yello There," and after being online for years, there is only a single trace of it left, and that's in the wayback machine's copy of my old gaming site ("Kneel" and I were cross-Atlantic friends and mutual fans). And the wayback machine misses almost all of 2002 for my gaming site. It has very little from my old mcgrew.info site (th egaming site was far more popular), there were over a hundred blog posts that are gone completely.
There is still no direct transfer from a computer network to a human neural network.
Sure there is, it's an optical network that's almost instantaneous. It's called "reading".
If you dont reap what you sew
Oh for crying out loud, would you kids please stop parroting phrases you don't know the meaning of? It isn't "sew", it's "sow," as in the verb "plant." The phrase means that whatever seeds you plant, that's the plant that will grow. Plant corn, reap corn. Sow cotton, reap cotton. If you sow seeds of discord, discord will grow. Besides weeds, you ALWAYS reap what you sow.
And they modded you insightful... sheesh...
It's not a problem with tablets or ebooks, it's a PEBCAK problem. If your email client isn't open, your email won't distract you. If your IM client is closed, your IM won't distract you.
payed his full salary... payed for 40 and counting... payed for 40. Get thrown out and get payed. Do you really think politicians loose their income when they loose office? You are a moron.
There's a saying about glass houses and stones. It's not very smart to misspell a four letter word (paid) and misuse a word ("Loose" means "set free", you meant "lose") and then call someone else a moron and an idiot.
While people lived in small villages, there wasn't much of a need to move things over large enough distances to require vehicles.
Sure there was. You can wheel a lot more wood a lot farther with a wagon than by having a horse drag it. And it takes a lot of wood to build a house, even a small one.
Especially with a narrow muddy trail, notice how big the wheels were on stagecoaches?
Do you have any idea how much people actually use and want to use with their current devices?
I don't even know how much data I use. This is about phones and I don't have AT&T for my phone, but I have no clue how much all the streaming and BT I use takes, but I'm sure all those distro uploads/download take quite a bit. I know the lights on my modem and router flash madly almost constantly.
Exactly, and it's illegal. Why are they not being prosecuted for consumer fraud? Of course, when Sony removed OtherOS that fraud was even worse. Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that in the US, corporations are above the law?
Nice sound bite there, sherriff, but the fact is that only the stupid or unlucky criminals ever get caught. You law enforcement types are too busy chasing potsmokers and hookers to do much about real crime.
A better question is, why does anybody think Santorum or Obama, let alone a 3rd world dictator, is any smarter than anybody else? Most people manage most of the rest of their lives just fine, why should politics be any different?
As for religion causing discord between you and your daughter, maybe it's time to lay off a bit?
That isn't the problem. The problem is her having a problem with my being too generous. She's madly jealous of a woman who never knew her father who comes to me for advice, and sometimes a place to lay her head. I've never pushed religion or anything else on either of my kids.
I'm sorry, but anyone who tries to tell me that my kids come second to anything is wasting their breath
It ain't easy being a Christian, believe me.
Most of the old testament is very much needed; there is much wisdom there to be gathered. What isn't relevant is the directives God gave the Jews, mostly Duteronomy and Leviticus.
The gay-hating preacher doesn't realise that his sins are no worse than mine or yours or a homosexual's, and that the sin has been paid for in blood. He also forgets the passage "judge not, lest ye be judged yourself."
And you have to remember that there are many wolves in sheep's clothing, and many of them stand behind pulpits.
I think 1% is widly optimistic. Few stars have planets the right mass, inclination, and distance from those stars for life to ever begin.
Of all the life that's evolved here so far, only one species has ever been capable of going even as far as the moon.
I think if there's intelligent life out there, it's as rare or even rarer than here on earth. And don't forget, people were as smart five thousand years ago as they are now, they just didn't know as much. Nobody had calculus then, but if you took a baby from 5000 years ago and raised it here and now, likely nobody would ever notice that (s)he was from the past.
"If I see farther than other men, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants."
Maybe there's no economic incentive for them to come here.
I would posit that economics is a primitive thing, that some day we may get past greed, selfishness, and lust for power over others. Because that's all there is to economies. We have enough food and resources to feed, clothe, and house everyone, only economics gets in the way of this planet being a paradise where nobody goes hungry and work is something you do because you enjoy working.
He said a hundred or TWO. If you showed up 200 years ago in a new RV with DVDs, stereo, and all the modern conviniences those things have (like electric lighting and a microwave oven), you'd have either been worshiped or burned at the stake.
Thor was the nerd who invented the hammer. Likewise all the other ancient pagan gods; they were merely really smart men.
As to why I reference only TNG, I don't think TOS actually tried to put scientific explanations on any of this stuff.
No, they didn't, but it did foresee a lot of technology that may not have happened without it. For example, Disney saw the self-opening doors and went to Paramount to find out how it was done, they wanted self-opening doors at Epcot. However, the doors still hadn't been invented, it was just stage hands opening and closing the doors.
Most of the tech on TOS was far-out fiction that nobody would ever see in their lifetimes, like flat screen monitors, cell phones, McCoy's sick bay, etc.
You should have linked to the actual text of the story at baen books.
stuff we want to forget about in the 80's
Yes, but stuff we don't as well -- without Moonlighting would we have had Die Hard, Twelve Monkeys, Last Man Standing, The Jackyl, th sixth Sense? That show launched Willis' career.
The net result is loss of the total wealth, but those of us who actually work for a living would be making money hand over fist. There would be one hell of a labor shortage, and it's the 1%ers who would hurt for a change.