I can't find the P.E. or the basket weaving courses anywhere.
I believe the basket weaving courses are in the anthropology department. As for Penis Enlargement, there are lots of "courses" available on the Internet.
>Sorry, I'm not understanding the relationship between "copyright reform" and "the Balanced Refugee Reform Act". It would appear that C-11 is related to immigration, not copyright reform?
In Canada we reset the bill numbering after a federal elections. You referenced bill C-11 of the 40th (previous) parliament. I was talking about bill C-11 of the 41st parliament (the current one). Confusing, eh?
Touché, but you guys still have the DMCA... Disclaimer: I am Canadian, I do not usually keep up on current legislation, I know we're just about as bad as you, but still...
You're in *exactly* the same situation as I am (hint, I'm Canadian too). Can we ship Harper south of the border?
I'm only half kidding here. Patent lawyers have replaced Personal Injury lawyers as the scum of the earth. The entire patent system needs to be re-vamped, legislation passed outlawing patent squatting and technology stifling. And a firing squad for the patent lawyers.
Be careful of what you wish for. Canadians wanted copyright reform and got C-11.
If I write in my site's ToS that all spam is unauthorized access, can I get Jeff Bezos thrown in jail every time Amazon sends me another coupon I didn't ask for?
That depends on the amount of legislators and executives you can afford to buy.
I live in Canada, and while we aren't without our problems as well, the headlines coming out of the US lately, including this one, are just ridiculous.
More ridiculous than bill C-11? Because criminalizing the ripping of a legally purchased DVD to play it on your optical-less netbook (since you have to "break" CSS to do that) is the epitome of Canadian values?
some lard ass to taser everyone he sees in the name of policing,
If you want better cops, you need to pay better salaries to attract more qualified people and pay for more training.
According to this, a policeman's salary begins at $52-55K, tops $62K in the 3rd year of service, can go over $80K after 5 years and over $100K for sergeants or commanders. Compare this to the median HOUSEHOLD income of $49.5K and median earnings of $47,715 (for men) and $36,931 (for women) as reported on census.org.
You want real change for marijuana policy? Run for local office, get people to support you, and defeat the incumbents who stand in your way. Get the local laws to support your goals and work your way up the chain. [...] Again, if you want real reform, get elected and don't let yourself get corrupted.
This reminds me of an old Russian story, allow me to provide a rough translation:
A group of mice came to an owl and said: "Oh, wise Owl, hear our plight. We are small, weak, soft and helpless, and all the forest predators hunt and kill us. What shall we do?". The owl considered this and replied: "You should become hedgehogs, for all the animals respect their prickly needles." The mice rejoiced and ran home, but on the way, one of them stopped and asked, "but how should we become hedgehogs?". So they turned back and ran to the owl. Upon hearing their question, the owl replied: "Do not bother me with trifling details, I deal with STRATEGY!"
Now, I do understand, oh wise Rinisari, that you deal with strategy, but please allow me to bother you with trifling details.
1) Getting elected to office, local or otherwise, requires defeating powerful opponents, where "power" means money, connections and influence. Those opponents can easily outspend you and effectively shut you up by virtue of influencing the media. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the voting populace does not get their information from slashdot.
2) You will be fighting a one-against-many war since, unfortunately, the message "voting for a third party/candidate is throwing your vote away" resonates strongly, even among the slashdot crowd.
3) Your opponents will fight dirty, because dirty, questionable, borderline legal and often illegal tactics have proven to be effective. A lot of people will happily vote for corrupt politicians as long as they "bring home the bacon", and a whole lot of people are taken by false promises.
So please, share with us your plan of getting elected without getting corrupted.
True, pre-publishing peer review is meant to catch mistakes, not fraud. However, it's been said that the real peer review begins after publication. That said, I'd argue that two misses (Schon and Bogdanov) are a pretty good hit rate.
I've known a handful of cops. Their reasons for becoming one are varied, but the one constant is a rules-based view of the world. There are rules, and if you break the rules, you must be punished.
(emphasis mine).
It's funny that cops don't have an problems breaking the rules themselves or letting their buddies do it. It's not about rules, it's about power.
there's no reason a paper shouldn't pass peer review
Right. "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"
First of all, partial quoting out of context is an evil practice that would not pass code review. Let me provide the full quote (emphasis mine): If there's anything to the claims, and if the writer isn't completely incompetent explaining them, there's no reason a paper shouldn't pass peer review.
Now, addressing Sokal's hoax, allow me to quote selected text from wikipedia:
In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies. [...] At that time, the journal did not practice academic peer review and did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't find the P.E. or the basket weaving courses anywhere.
I believe the basket weaving courses are in the anthropology department.
As for Penis Enlargement, there are lots of "courses" available on the Internet.
If Lt. Pike is both a criminal and a bad employee why is it not sufficient to see him fired, bared from law enforcement, and prosecuted?
Because he will never be?
History always repeats itself. Swords and pens have become guns and cameras. The balance between them remains the same.
No, it has not.
The sword wielders don't give a flying fuck about the pens anymore.
Come to Canada, we have the wonderful Bill C11 (soon to become law) that criminalizes tampering with DRM.
For the record, I met my girlfriend on a video game.
Meh, lots of slashdotters used to date Tifa Lockhart.
So the survey included twice as many boys as girls in the treatment group, and three times as many girls as boys in the control group
So the real conclusion of the study is that non-gamers get way more girls?
i wish i can grep, less, awk, search in real life.
I prefer gawk; talk; date; wine; grep; touch; unzip; touch; nice; finger; gasp; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; fsck; fsck; umount; make clean; sleep
>Sorry, I'm not understanding the relationship between "copyright reform" and "the Balanced Refugee Reform Act". It would appear that C-11 is related to immigration, not copyright reform?
In Canada we reset the bill numbering after a federal elections.
You referenced bill C-11 of the 40th (previous) parliament.
I was talking about bill C-11 of the 41st parliament (the current one).
Confusing, eh?
Touché, but you guys still have the DMCA...
Disclaimer: I am Canadian, I do not usually keep up on current legislation, I know we're just about as bad as you, but still...
You're in *exactly* the same situation as I am (hint, I'm Canadian too). Can we ship Harper south of the border?
Laws should work FOR the people whose government represents them.
They do. You're just not one of the "people" that the government represents.
I'm only half kidding here. Patent lawyers have replaced Personal Injury lawyers as the scum of the earth. The entire patent system needs to be re-vamped, legislation passed outlawing patent squatting and technology stifling. And a firing squad for the patent lawyers.
Be careful of what you wish for.
Canadians wanted copyright reform and got C-11.
If I write in my site's ToS that all spam is unauthorized access, can I get Jeff Bezos thrown in jail every time Amazon sends me another coupon I didn't ask for?
That depends on the amount of legislators and executives you can afford to buy.
I live in Canada, and while we aren't without our problems as well, the headlines coming out of the US lately, including this one, are just ridiculous.
More ridiculous than bill C-11?
Because criminalizing the ripping of a legally purchased DVD to play it on your optical-less netbook (since you have to "break" CSS to do that) is the epitome of Canadian values?
For me, spending time with people and sleeping is actually productive
I try to combine the two for the sake of efficiency.
Sleeping with people must double my productivity.
If you want better cops, you need to pay better salaries to attract more qualified people and pay for more training.
According to this, a policeman's salary begins at $52-55K, tops $62K in the 3rd year of service, can go over $80K after 5 years and over $100K for sergeants or commanders.
Compare this to the median HOUSEHOLD income of $49.5K and median earnings of $47,715 (for men) and $36,931 (for women) as reported on census.org.
It is my strong conviction that cops are paid enough for a job that requires a high school diploma with a fatality rate between taxi drivers and garbage collectors.
No, if you want better cops, get rid of the corruption and the "blue wall of silence".
Maybe his keyboard is gl*tchy?
Mitch Bainwol and Chris Dodd.
The best software development managers were formerly software developers themselves.
I respectfully disagree.
Juggling bits and juggling people are completely different skills.
You want real change for marijuana policy? Run for local office, get people to support you, and defeat the incumbents who stand in your way. Get the local laws to support your goals and work your way up the chain. [...]
Again, if you want real reform, get elected and don't let yourself get corrupted.
This reminds me of an old Russian story, allow me to provide a rough translation:
A group of mice came to an owl and said: "Oh, wise Owl, hear our plight. We are small, weak, soft and helpless, and all the forest predators hunt and kill us. What shall we do?". The owl considered this and replied: "You should become hedgehogs, for all the animals respect their prickly needles." The mice rejoiced and ran home, but on the way, one of them stopped and asked, "but how should we become hedgehogs?". So they turned back and ran to the owl. Upon hearing their question, the owl replied: "Do not bother me with trifling details, I deal with STRATEGY!"
Now, I do understand, oh wise Rinisari, that you deal with strategy, but please allow me to bother you with trifling details.
1) Getting elected to office, local or otherwise, requires defeating powerful opponents, where "power" means money, connections and influence. Those opponents can easily outspend you and effectively shut you up by virtue of influencing the media. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the voting populace does not get their information from slashdot.
2) You will be fighting a one-against-many war since, unfortunately, the message "voting for a third party/candidate is throwing your vote away" resonates strongly, even among the slashdot crowd.
3) Your opponents will fight dirty, because dirty, questionable, borderline legal and often illegal tactics have proven to be effective. A lot of people will happily vote for corrupt politicians as long as they "bring home the bacon", and a whole lot of people are taken by false promises.
So please, share with us your plan of getting elected without getting corrupted.
True, pre-publishing peer review is meant to catch mistakes, not fraud. However, it's been said that the real peer review begins after publication.
That said, I'd argue that two misses (Schon and Bogdanov) are a pretty good hit rate.
That's why he will never get to a position of power.
He won't be allowed to.
I've known a handful of cops. Their reasons for becoming one are varied, but the one constant is a rules-based view of the world. There are rules, and if you break the rules, you must be punished.
(emphasis mine).
It's funny that cops don't have an problems breaking the rules themselves or letting their buddies do it.
It's not about rules, it's about power.
there's no reason a paper shouldn't pass peer review
Right.
"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"
First of all, partial quoting out of context is an evil practice that would not pass code review. Let me provide the full quote (emphasis mine):
If there's anything to the claims, and if the writer isn't completely incompetent explaining them, there's no reason a paper shouldn't pass peer review.
Now, addressing Sokal's hoax, allow me to quote selected text from wikipedia:
In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies. [...] At that time, the journal did not practice academic peer review and did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist.
This is about killing the Internet as a medium for free speech.
I got the impression that Tomato does not support dual-band N routers.
Or am I wrong?