I'm curious why we need multiple universes for that when we at least have known precedence for dimensions behaving in that fashion. Adding a fifth dimension which we can't directly observe is at least plausible given that time seems to work a bit like that. Whereas the multiple universes which are, coincidentally, also impossible at present to directly observe haven't even that much going for them.
But, either way you're dealing with pseudo science until somebody can propose a way of testing the hypothesis in a way that is falsifiable.
To be honest, it would probably bother me a lot more if the court that's responsible for making such determinations had some clue as to what the constitution is and what it says. Some of the rulings over the last decade in particular have been pretty mind blowingly stupid.
Since they gained the authority to tax. If you don't like it you're free to move to another country, but somebody has to pay for the things the government supplies. And since conservatives know basically nothing about balancing the budget the amount of taxes is much higher than it otherwise would be. But there are other countries with lower taxes, I just doubt very much that you'd want to live in those sorts of places.
I've noticed that, contracts are presumed to have been agreed to upon informed consent. But, I don't personally have the money to have an attorney on retainer to have them research each EULA, ToS or other contract I might need to agree to. It's gotten to the point where it's completely unrealistic for anybody that isn't an attorney to agree to these things because they regularly include language in it that would require access to a law library to have even a cursory understanding of the language.
So, how much is it worth for them to not let your home burn down, investigate and prosecute anybody that might rob you? Or how about what is it worth to have streets for the ambulances to travel on in case you actually need emergency assistance?
I hear a lot of whining from the anti-tax people about how the government is taking my money and giving nothing in return, but would you really be that better off without the taxes and the things that taxes provide? Money, despite popular belief, is just money. Precisely how much good do you think that money is doing for the individuals who are now lucky to just be homeless in Japan right now? Rather than one of the as yet discovered bodies.
None. I'm not aware of any jurisdiction, at least in the US, that is that literal about it. Typically if you record a conversation that's a wiretap, if you do it with a tape recorder or you do it over the phone it's equally wiretapping. The problem is that since the Google van wasn't a party to those transmissions no state allows that without an appropriate court order. Around here we're a one party consent state, but since the one party has to actually be involved with the conversation, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they did that here.
And when it comes down to it, it's been a really long time since they had to literally tap the wire to listen in, all ISPs and telecoms have some provision for doing it without having to screw around with wires.
Make damn sure that the only parts of privacy that we can sign away are reasonable, and require an honest request with a clear indication as to what we're agreeing to up front when we make that decision. As it stands you can agree to let them share or not, but you're typically not told who the 3rd parties are and as a result you don't really know what you're agreeing to if you say yes.
Next you're going to tell me that I can't drink what I want when I drive. I mean where does it all end?
If you want to smoke what you like, fine, but don't expect the rest of us to pay up for the consequences, either in terms of subsidizing your treatment or picking up the slack because it's interfering with your performance at work.
You have to draw the line somewhere, but the whole notion that online retailers insist upon saving your credit information is absurd. Beyond the tendency to overspend, there's also the issue of all of a sudden you have to worry about somebody stealing the details and running up large bills with stolen credit card details.
That's not how that works. The likelihood of that happening is nihil. It takes a huge amount of energy to get a laser to paint the target, let alone actually cause a perceptible change in velocity, the reason being that light tends to get scattered as it passes through the atmosphere. So, in order to bounce a laser off a bit of debris in space and get it in the eyes of anybody, is more or less impossible, when you account for the loss of energy, the tiny target on both ends.
Even when people are trying to hit larger targets at a closer distance and lower velocity, like say those morons trying to blind pilots, the amount of effort it takes is still pretty impressive, and rarely if ever do they manage to actually get it in the eye of any of the flight crew.
Too many, and I wish more wouldn't. Mostly because a lot of them haven't figured out that they're talking to the phone, not to the people around them and as such don't need to yell.
Personally, I've got a Nexus One, and I use it primarily for the other things, because most of the time I don't need to talk. And frequently trying to talk just causes more problems, because lets face it, the carriers around here suck.
If it's that big of a concern, one really ought to be tunneling the SIP connection directly to the machine that they want to connect to anyways. That way you mostly have to worry about the end points and less so about the intermediaries.
My understanding is that the Appstore ToS adds restrictions to the licensing of Apps that are sold through it, and that's expressly forbidden under the GPLv2, I assume that to be the case with the GPLv3 as well. Any individual or organization that does that or attempts to do that causes the license to be immediately terminated.
However, since the end users can still use the program and comply with the GPL I'm not sure how much of an issue it really is, but Apple would be infringing upon any software that it distributed in that fashion.
Despite the fact that this was started under a Republican President with Republican majorities in both houses and that it's primarily Republicans agitating for more and more invasive measures? Sure the Democrats have managed to fuck this up pretty good, but let's be honest about when and how this started.
That's one of the things that I like about some of the new online backup firms. Crashplan allows you to pay for them to send you a 1tb drive for you to backup to and send in, so as to speed things up. And both they and backblaze will send a HDD with your files overnight if you need a large amount of files and can't wait for them to download.
It's not perfect, but in some situations that's quite necessary. OTOH last time I really needed a file it was well under a megabyte so downloading was the most expeditious way of getting it.
This is different. Nuclear energy is a useful tool, the air ships in contrast were already in the process of being replaced at that point. The main reason why they were being used is that planes hadn't yet gotten to the point where they could reliably cross an ocean, let alone with enough passengers to make it worthwhile.
I wasn't aware that Japan had nuclear reactors, it was a really dumb idea for them to do. In the US the few nuclear reactors we have are designed so that if power is lost to the core the control rods fall into the core and the fuel rods fall out and the reaction stops. The problem is that if a reactor like that suffers and earthquake you can end up in a position where the rods get jammed and the assurance of an automatic shutdown disappears.
From what I've gathered it's a bit of a moot point as these reactors were apparently built upside down such that they have to have constant power to keep the reactor offline.
But, the result will largely be the same, we'll be deprived of a safe source of base power to augment with solar and wind because of the fear mongering that's certain to result by people who have little knowledge of how a nuclear reactor works.
Tell me about it, I was looking through some of my old floppy disks and most of them no longer read. It's not that big a deal because I got copies of most of those games bundled with others on CDs, but people tend to forget about the tendency of things to get forgotten over time.
In some ways this is good, but we really haven't adjusted to it yet, and it could still cause serious trouble before we do adjust.
Because around here all the GSM providers suck, and if you buy your own phone with a CDMA provider you're stuck buying a new one or signing a contract if you want to switch. I had significantly better service with Sprint, unfortunately that did not extend beyond the network to customer service.
I'm not sure about OSHA, but I know our state L&I compliance personnel don't adhere to that standard. If I'm out flagging and I so much as utter the words "I don't know" that's a willful violation right there, the company is ultimately responsible for making sure that the employees know about the safety requirements and if there is a violation knowing why it was done that way. A willful violation carries a much stiffer penalty than one that's accidental. And often times they'll let you off with a warning if you just correct the error or explain why it wasn't possible to fully comply.
Around here if an accident like that happened, the foreman and the company would still be responsible for the other employees being out of compliance and almost certainly the one that died as well. Just so that they can't sidestep it in that fashion.
What always gets me is when you don't say it or it's actually insightful, but the other people are too stupid to recognize that.
The internet is problematic because once the information is up there, it's up there, and there's little to nothing you can do about it. And unfortunately, you don't necessarily have any control over what other people put up there that might pertain to you.
I think that quote sums it up pretty well. Democracy might suck, but nobody has come up with a better alternative. If a significant portion of the population is willing to bend over for corporate interests and fights any effort at reform, there's really only so much you can do.
But seriously, that blame the victim bullshit from conservatives is a large part of why this keeps happening.
It's more obvious now than it was in the past, but I doubt it's more prevalent. It's the nature of being the prosecutor. If you didn't believe the defendant to be guilty you probably wouldn't have brought charges.
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I'm curious why we need multiple universes for that when we at least have known precedence for dimensions behaving in that fashion. Adding a fifth dimension which we can't directly observe is at least plausible given that time seems to work a bit like that. Whereas the multiple universes which are, coincidentally, also impossible at present to directly observe haven't even that much going for them.
But, either way you're dealing with pseudo science until somebody can propose a way of testing the hypothesis in a way that is falsifiable.
To be honest, it would probably bother me a lot more if the court that's responsible for making such determinations had some clue as to what the constitution is and what it says. Some of the rulings over the last decade in particular have been pretty mind blowingly stupid.
Since they gained the authority to tax. If you don't like it you're free to move to another country, but somebody has to pay for the things the government supplies. And since conservatives know basically nothing about balancing the budget the amount of taxes is much higher than it otherwise would be. But there are other countries with lower taxes, I just doubt very much that you'd want to live in those sorts of places.
I've noticed that, contracts are presumed to have been agreed to upon informed consent. But, I don't personally have the money to have an attorney on retainer to have them research each EULA, ToS or other contract I might need to agree to. It's gotten to the point where it's completely unrealistic for anybody that isn't an attorney to agree to these things because they regularly include language in it that would require access to a law library to have even a cursory understanding of the language.
So, how much is it worth for them to not let your home burn down, investigate and prosecute anybody that might rob you? Or how about what is it worth to have streets for the ambulances to travel on in case you actually need emergency assistance?
I hear a lot of whining from the anti-tax people about how the government is taking my money and giving nothing in return, but would you really be that better off without the taxes and the things that taxes provide? Money, despite popular belief, is just money. Precisely how much good do you think that money is doing for the individuals who are now lucky to just be homeless in Japan right now? Rather than one of the as yet discovered bodies.
None. I'm not aware of any jurisdiction, at least in the US, that is that literal about it. Typically if you record a conversation that's a wiretap, if you do it with a tape recorder or you do it over the phone it's equally wiretapping. The problem is that since the Google van wasn't a party to those transmissions no state allows that without an appropriate court order. Around here we're a one party consent state, but since the one party has to actually be involved with the conversation, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they did that here.
And when it comes down to it, it's been a really long time since they had to literally tap the wire to listen in, all ISPs and telecoms have some provision for doing it without having to screw around with wires.
Make damn sure that the only parts of privacy that we can sign away are reasonable, and require an honest request with a clear indication as to what we're agreeing to up front when we make that decision. As it stands you can agree to let them share or not, but you're typically not told who the 3rd parties are and as a result you don't really know what you're agreeing to if you say yes.
Next you're going to tell me that I can't drink what I want when I drive. I mean where does it all end?
If you want to smoke what you like, fine, but don't expect the rest of us to pay up for the consequences, either in terms of subsidizing your treatment or picking up the slack because it's interfering with your performance at work.
You have to draw the line somewhere, but the whole notion that online retailers insist upon saving your credit information is absurd. Beyond the tendency to overspend, there's also the issue of all of a sudden you have to worry about somebody stealing the details and running up large bills with stolen credit card details.
That's not how that works. The likelihood of that happening is nihil. It takes a huge amount of energy to get a laser to paint the target, let alone actually cause a perceptible change in velocity, the reason being that light tends to get scattered as it passes through the atmosphere. So, in order to bounce a laser off a bit of debris in space and get it in the eyes of anybody, is more or less impossible, when you account for the loss of energy, the tiny target on both ends.
Even when people are trying to hit larger targets at a closer distance and lower velocity, like say those morons trying to blind pilots, the amount of effort it takes is still pretty impressive, and rarely if ever do they manage to actually get it in the eye of any of the flight crew.
Too many, and I wish more wouldn't. Mostly because a lot of them haven't figured out that they're talking to the phone, not to the people around them and as such don't need to yell.
Personally, I've got a Nexus One, and I use it primarily for the other things, because most of the time I don't need to talk. And frequently trying to talk just causes more problems, because lets face it, the carriers around here suck.
Actually, you're doing it wrong. That's pronounced. Neek. Cost Call.
If you do that again I shall say neek to you, good sir.
If it's that big of a concern, one really ought to be tunneling the SIP connection directly to the machine that they want to connect to anyways. That way you mostly have to worry about the end points and less so about the intermediaries.
My understanding is that the Appstore ToS adds restrictions to the licensing of Apps that are sold through it, and that's expressly forbidden under the GPLv2, I assume that to be the case with the GPLv3 as well. Any individual or organization that does that or attempts to do that causes the license to be immediately terminated.
However, since the end users can still use the program and comply with the GPL I'm not sure how much of an issue it really is, but Apple would be infringing upon any software that it distributed in that fashion.
Despite the fact that this was started under a Republican President with Republican majorities in both houses and that it's primarily Republicans agitating for more and more invasive measures? Sure the Democrats have managed to fuck this up pretty good, but let's be honest about when and how this started.
That's one of the things that I like about some of the new online backup firms. Crashplan allows you to pay for them to send you a 1tb drive for you to backup to and send in, so as to speed things up. And both they and backblaze will send a HDD with your files overnight if you need a large amount of files and can't wait for them to download.
It's not perfect, but in some situations that's quite necessary. OTOH last time I really needed a file it was well under a megabyte so downloading was the most expeditious way of getting it.
This is different. Nuclear energy is a useful tool, the air ships in contrast were already in the process of being replaced at that point. The main reason why they were being used is that planes hadn't yet gotten to the point where they could reliably cross an ocean, let alone with enough passengers to make it worthwhile.
I wasn't aware that Japan had nuclear reactors, it was a really dumb idea for them to do. In the US the few nuclear reactors we have are designed so that if power is lost to the core the control rods fall into the core and the fuel rods fall out and the reaction stops. The problem is that if a reactor like that suffers and earthquake you can end up in a position where the rods get jammed and the assurance of an automatic shutdown disappears.
From what I've gathered it's a bit of a moot point as these reactors were apparently built upside down such that they have to have constant power to keep the reactor offline.
But, the result will largely be the same, we'll be deprived of a safe source of base power to augment with solar and wind because of the fear mongering that's certain to result by people who have little knowledge of how a nuclear reactor works.
Tell me about it, I was looking through some of my old floppy disks and most of them no longer read. It's not that big a deal because I got copies of most of those games bundled with others on CDs, but people tend to forget about the tendency of things to get forgotten over time.
In some ways this is good, but we really haven't adjusted to it yet, and it could still cause serious trouble before we do adjust.
No you don't. Liar.
Because around here all the GSM providers suck, and if you buy your own phone with a CDMA provider you're stuck buying a new one or signing a contract if you want to switch. I had significantly better service with Sprint, unfortunately that did not extend beyond the network to customer service.
Supposedly, AC prefers "shaved biebers" but I'm not really sure I want to know what that is, given his propensity for goatse man.
I'm not sure about OSHA, but I know our state L&I compliance personnel don't adhere to that standard. If I'm out flagging and I so much as utter the words "I don't know" that's a willful violation right there, the company is ultimately responsible for making sure that the employees know about the safety requirements and if there is a violation knowing why it was done that way. A willful violation carries a much stiffer penalty than one that's accidental. And often times they'll let you off with a warning if you just correct the error or explain why it wasn't possible to fully comply.
Around here if an accident like that happened, the foreman and the company would still be responsible for the other employees being out of compliance and almost certainly the one that died as well. Just so that they can't sidestep it in that fashion.
What always gets me is when you don't say it or it's actually insightful, but the other people are too stupid to recognize that.
The internet is problematic because once the information is up there, it's up there, and there's little to nothing you can do about it. And unfortunately, you don't necessarily have any control over what other people put up there that might pertain to you.
I think that quote sums it up pretty well. Democracy might suck, but nobody has come up with a better alternative. If a significant portion of the population is willing to bend over for corporate interests and fights any effort at reform, there's really only so much you can do.
But seriously, that blame the victim bullshit from conservatives is a large part of why this keeps happening.
It's more obvious now than it was in the past, but I doubt it's more prevalent. It's the nature of being the prosecutor. If you didn't believe the defendant to be guilty you probably wouldn't have brought charges.