I can't imagine NIntendo letting this company pull this crap for very long. At the same time, anyone who think they're getting a Wii-mote for $15 that doesn't actually say "Wii" on it, well, you know what they say about a fool and his money.
If you have a scientist who is devoutly religious, and who believes that he is serving God's will by torturing his test subjects, there's no end of the misery, since there no beginning of basic scientific or medical ethics. Religion teaches us that other people are not worthy of God's love, and can be used in any way we see fit. An atheist, one who is not beholden to fascism or communism, which are also religions after a fashion, is far more likely to see a human being or even an animal as being worthy of compassion and mercy. Now mod me as Flamebait so no-one else gets riled up by this.
Penn & Teller use the Straw Man a lot, a potent and popular tactic in a visual medium.
They find someone to act as the spokesperson for the position they're arguing against, and that person is always going to be someone who is utterly disagreeable to pretty much anyone who isn't a complete psycho.
For the Wal-Mart episode, they want to show what the anti-Wal-Mart crowd looks like, so they find these two nasty people who print up nasty t-shirts belittling some cruel stereotype of the Wal-Mart shopper, as well as the stereotype's wife and children.
Who's going to agree with that?
Then, on the pro-Wal-Mart side, they've got a nicely-dressed, soft-spoken young college professor.
Penn & Teller are funny and I agree with a lot of their conclusions, but they are very manipulative in their approach.
I'm disgusted that a group of arrogant scientists would put forward some lame "scientific" explanation for something that is clearly the work of Jesus.
Sherlock Holmes, in the very first story in which he appears (A Study in Scarlet), says something to that very effect, that learning something new pushes out another piece of potentially important information. He referred to a man's memory as his "brain attic," and that it was of a fixed dimension and capacity.
Watson, upon meeting Holmes, is shocked to discover that there are large gaps in Holmes' general knowledge.
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."
"To forget it!"
"You see," he explained, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it...."
Holmes then goes on to explain that a wise man keeps in his memory only what he needs to do his job.
As a result of the crisis, membership in the Church of Solar Oxygen has dropped dramatically, with church leaders fearing a splintering of the faithful into rival factions.
Joke or not, this reminds me of this rant this guy was doing on a show called "The 90s" on PBS back in the late 80s. Part of his rant, as he's stalking and panting through some city like New York or Chicago and being followed by a camera, went, "The phone, that's the biggest magnet for me. I should have a phone just welded to the side of my head... I should have a tiny phone implanted in my skull! Leave my hands free, 'cause if I miss one phone call, that's it, I'm a basket case, 'cause I know that that was THE ONE." Of course, these were days before the ubiquitous cell phone or remote voicemail. I wonder where that fellow is now.
I believe this woman created her site as a honey pot in hopes of filing a lawsuit against an archiving site.
Really, who puts of usage contracts like that and then immediately just files a lawsuit instead of requesting a takedown and putting up a robots.txt file?
I'm thinking someone who has a plan to cash in a court system that isn't going to understand that which the rest of us see as obvious, that if you don't want your site spidered, you keep the spiders out.
Why can't she go after spammers instead?
When it comes to patent law, man, money doesn't just talk... it screams through a giant bullhorn. It amazes me just how much a group of lawmakers can be influenced to completely sell out the common people for the sake of a handful of billionaires.
I haven't seen one workable solution come out of this topic yet. So far I've seen pretty much nothing but people saying that it doesn't matter if students don't attend classes and restricting the podcast won't matter. That is not the question that was asked. The question wasn't "Is it morally or ethically right for me to do this?" the question was "How can I do this?"
There's a difference between asking for a solution and asking for everyone's moral opinion.
As for a solution that I might have, well, there likely isn't a foolproof one, since students will definitely find a way around any authentication scheme you come up with.
You could, perhaps, edit out key words and phrases from the podcast, bleeping over them, which would force students to consult the notes they would have had to have taken in class. You could have the professor tell them about the podcast, and then give a warning, "Anyone who thinks he can skip coming to the class and just listen to the podcast will be in for a rude awakening."
Borrowing another student's notes won't help much, since without knowing what piece of information goes with exactly which bleeped-out part, the podcast will be useless. A student will have had to have been there in the class to remember, unless a student from the class is willing to make an index of notes for each class and give that out. Good luck with that.
The government is complicit in the crime if they are going to enforce the results of the crime, as they have apparently done in this case. The victim was correct to refer to "lawlessness."
When I read that Pluto was being downgraded to "dwarf planet" status, I thought, "it'll always be Yuggoth to me," and I broke out in song...
(Sing it to the tune of "Always a Woman to Me" by Billy Joel)
They can harp on its size They can call it a dwarf planet And they can say that it's wise To just keep on ignorin' it They can say it's remote And just too hard to see They can talk about Pluto But it'll always be Yuggoth to me
No, the Mi-Go are far from concerned what we say to it Put your head in a jar And they'll fly you away to it And you'll learn how to speak Buzzing just like a bee Blame it all on Lovecraft 'Cause it'll always be Yuggoth to me
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I can't imagine NIntendo letting this company pull this crap for very long. At the same time, anyone who think they're getting a Wii-mote for $15 that doesn't actually say "Wii" on it, well, you know what they say about a fool and his money.
If you have a scientist who is devoutly religious, and who believes that he is serving God's will by torturing his test subjects, there's no end of the misery, since there no beginning of basic scientific or medical ethics. Religion teaches us that other people are not worthy of God's love, and can be used in any way we see fit. An atheist, one who is not beholden to fascism or communism, which are also religions after a fashion, is far more likely to see a human being or even an animal as being worthy of compassion and mercy. Now mod me as Flamebait so no-one else gets riled up by this.
Once they realized he had no parrot, eye-patch, or pirate hat, they left him alone.
Call of Cthulhu players know that your maximum SAN can never be more than 99 minus your Cthulhu Mythos Knowledge score.
Somewhere, at this very moment, an FBI agent is reading about this and pitching a wicked tent.
Penn & Teller use the Straw Man a lot, a potent and popular tactic in a visual medium.
They find someone to act as the spokesperson for the position they're arguing against, and that person is always going to be someone who is utterly disagreeable to pretty much anyone who isn't a complete psycho.
For the Wal-Mart episode, they want to show what the anti-Wal-Mart crowd looks like, so they find these two nasty people who print up nasty t-shirts belittling some cruel stereotype of the Wal-Mart shopper, as well as the stereotype's wife and children.
Who's going to agree with that?
Then, on the pro-Wal-Mart side, they've got a nicely-dressed, soft-spoken young college professor.
Penn & Teller are funny and I agree with a lot of their conclusions, but they are very manipulative in their approach.
... the disembodied soul of Leona Helmsley.
I don't understand... when did it become possible to patent something that the applicant doesn't actually have the ability to build?
You'll have Star Wars fans lining up to have their memories of the prequel trilogy permanently expunged.
MTV is to music what Fox News is to... um... news.
I'm going to have to spend all my money buying the new books! If I had a girlfriend, she'd kill me!
... is expanding into space quite nicely.
I'm disgusted that a group of arrogant scientists would put forward some lame "scientific" explanation for something that is clearly the work of Jesus.
Sherlock Holmes, in the very first story in which he appears (A Study in Scarlet), says something to that very effect, that learning something new pushes out another piece of potentially important information. He referred to a man's memory as his "brain attic," and that it was of a fixed dimension and capacity.
Watson, upon meeting Holmes, is shocked to discover that there are large gaps in Holmes' general knowledge.
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."
"To forget it!"
"You see," he explained, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. ..."
Holmes then goes on to explain that a wise man keeps in his memory only what he needs to do his job.
As a result of the crisis, membership in the Church of Solar Oxygen has dropped dramatically, with church leaders fearing a splintering of the faithful into rival factions.
Joke or not, this reminds me of this rant this guy was doing on a show called "The 90s" on PBS back in the late 80s. Part of his rant, as he's stalking and panting through some city like New York or Chicago and being followed by a camera, went, "The phone, that's the biggest magnet for me. I should have a phone just welded to the side of my head... I should have a tiny phone implanted in my skull! Leave my hands free, 'cause if I miss one phone call, that's it, I'm a basket case, 'cause I know that that was THE ONE." Of course, these were days before the ubiquitous cell phone or remote voicemail. I wonder where that fellow is now.
And the ID number could be right there on your forehead or the right hand for easy reference and scanning. Think of the convenience!
I believe this woman created her site as a honey pot in hopes of filing a lawsuit against an archiving site. Really, who puts of usage contracts like that and then immediately just files a lawsuit instead of requesting a takedown and putting up a robots.txt file? I'm thinking someone who has a plan to cash in a court system that isn't going to understand that which the rest of us see as obvious, that if you don't want your site spidered, you keep the spiders out. Why can't she go after spammers instead?
Here's the Zune Poor little Zune Goin' over like a lead balloon
Of course we're divorced from reality... it was schtooping the milkman!
When it comes to patent law, man, money doesn't just talk... it screams through a giant bullhorn. It amazes me just how much a group of lawmakers can be influenced to completely sell out the common people for the sake of a handful of billionaires.
Well, that's it, I'm plumb out of ideas. What you got?
I haven't seen one workable solution come out of this topic yet. So far I've seen pretty much nothing but people saying that it doesn't matter if students don't attend classes and restricting the podcast won't matter. That is not the question that was asked. The question wasn't "Is it morally or ethically right for me to do this?" the question was "How can I do this?"
There's a difference between asking for a solution and asking for everyone's moral opinion.
As for a solution that I might have, well, there likely isn't a foolproof one, since students will definitely find a way around any authentication scheme you come up with.
You could, perhaps, edit out key words and phrases from the podcast, bleeping over them, which would force students to consult the notes they would have had to have taken in class. You could have the professor tell them about the podcast, and then give a warning, "Anyone who thinks he can skip coming to the class and just listen to the podcast will be in for a rude awakening."
Borrowing another student's notes won't help much, since without knowing what piece of information goes with exactly which bleeped-out part, the podcast will be useless. A student will have had to have been there in the class to remember, unless a student from the class is willing to make an index of notes for each class and give that out. Good luck with that.
The government is complicit in the crime if they are going to enforce the results of the crime, as they have apparently done in this case. The victim was correct to refer to "lawlessness."
When I read that Pluto was being downgraded to "dwarf planet" status, I thought, "it'll always be Yuggoth to me," and I broke out in song...
(Sing it to the tune of "Always a Woman to Me" by Billy Joel)
They can harp on its size
They can call it a dwarf planet
And they can say that it's wise
To just keep on ignorin' it
They can say it's remote
And just too hard to see
They can talk about Pluto
But it'll always be Yuggoth to me
No, the Mi-Go are far
from concerned what we say to it
Put your head in a jar
And they'll fly you away to it
And you'll learn how to speak
Buzzing just like a bee
Blame it all on Lovecraft
'Cause it'll always be Yuggoth to me