It is, that's what has to happen in order to form a society. For instance you give up the right to kill whomever you can in a trade for them giving up their right to kill you if they wish. But only a nutjob really believes that most of the regulations are unreasonable. Speed limits are a limitation on your non-essential liberty in an effort to keep fatalities on the roads to a reasonable level. Ideally it's a finely tuned compromise that maximizes the freedom available while reducing unnecessary risk to others.
It's not private property, the telecoms involved with the infrastructure took massive payments from the government and make extensive use of the public right of way. It's not private by any reasonable definition. In fact I'd suggest that were it limited to private property it would never have happened in the first place. Well, perhaps not never, but it would've required wireless, wait, the government owns that too, damn, well, I guess never it is then.
They have the same right to regulate it that I do to regulate the sidewalk in front of my house. That is to say, none, only repairing and maintaining it as needed.
While I agree, I mostly do so out of the observation that pretty much every state has a nutjob that's out to cut taxes to the point where there are no services that can be provided even as they whine about how inept the legislature is at not being able to pay for the upkeep. A more realistic option would be to have companies bid on providing the infrastructure for a period of time, including the cost of maintenance and capacity build outs as needed. They should be barred from buying or selling capacity in a way which picks winners and losers.
Well, that's better than when those jackasses were buying hummers to show that they had the money to waste on fuel after having paid for a massively overpriced car.
PCs weren't that expensive. The computer my parents bought was if memory serves only $1500 or so. It was definitely well under 2k. Sure it's unaffordable to the lower class, but anybody that's in the middle class had no problem affording one. The real thing keeping people out was the manual. The DOS manual that came with it was thick, and I mean bigger than the Bible, and that scares people off.
As soon as you're not free to leave you're under arrest, that's something which isn't very well communicated. Just because they haven't frisked you and put you in handcuffs does not mean you're not arrested. Judicially, there's been quite a bit of slide in terms of miranda warnings lately, with the courts allowing a lot of stuff which really shouldn't be.
In that respect I have to tip my hat to Capital One. Capital One uses a very tough anti-fraud algorithm on their CCs, I have to call them a dozen or so times to get the block on my card lifted, which is a pain in the ass, but as I've told them each time I'd rather call them and verify things than have to deal with the much bigger headaches that could come should somebody steal my CC number and try to drain me dry.
My main complaint about the card though is that they don't offer me virtual numbers.
It's far worse than you think it is. While we now have the legal right to look at our credit report once a year, we don't have the legal right to look at our credit score without paying for it. And often times that's the only thing the lender looks at. Worse still is that a bad credit report can result in a person being unable to find work, as employers view such people as a risk for theft and fraud.
At least in the US, they don't get a choice, they can take your CC number, but once it comes time to pay they are legally required to take cash. Because you typically pay for said services after you've used them they're debts which means that the company is legally obligated to take cash. Paying ahead of time, they can turn down cash, but once it's a debt they don't get a choice in the matter. If cash is what you want to pay with, cash is what they have to accept.
It's the natural result of allowing for an informal cartel to form. Sort of like how around here you can't get DSL that's actually reasonable in terms of latency, bandwidth and price. Since Qwest owns the last mile the investment in that part of the infrastructure seems to be pretty much non-existent requiring them to add 32m for that first hop for error correction. Comcast was even worse last I checked. And while people seem to really like Sonic where it's available, we can't choose them here because they don't have the ability to sell it here.
Likewise, none of the cell phone providers here are particularly great. AT&T being pretty unreliable and seeming to express no interest in upgrading capacity.
It can, but not taking turns. The problem is primarily one of tipping over or having the tires lose traction unevenly, neither problem is going to be made worse by batteries.
You're not going to add enough weight in batteries to make the vehicle have problems turning.
Indeed, around here we're fortunate enough to be able to get 5mbps, and Speakeasy is apparently able to do 10mbps for an arm and a leg. But latency and connection quality suck big time. Qwest the owner of the last mile doesn't seem to do any maintenance on it and consequently none of the options seem to be particularly stellar. Because of this they insist on adding 32ms to the first hop for error correction.
Requiring them to offer the connection is just the first step, requiring them to then make the necessary upgrades is the real goal.
I wouldn't be concerned with that, the batteries are generally placed low in the car, meaning that they don't move the center of mass upwards. Placed correctly they should have no impact on the ability take a hard turn.
Sigh, AOL if it existed now would be superior to AOL back then as well. It's a fair comparison, it's a walled garden with a huge share of the market. Back when AOL was huge, there wasn't much internet to speak of, and due to it's huge slice of the market it was tough to compete with since few people really knew how to use the internet.
In this case they did the right thing, but what I'd like to know is what would happen if it were a much smaller number affected by the bug. Given that they don't generally give people the opportunity to prove their innocence I'm not sure that they would rectify things if only a small number are affected. I'm not sure they even read messages complaining about seemingly inappropriate auto bans.
That would presumably be mass produced. Electric cars have been around for over a century, plug in models that were practical and mass produced are much, much more recent.
It's not that tough, you just tax the fuel and let things sort themselves out. Rather than doing a electricity versus gas, what you do is a coal versus hydro versus nuclear versus solar versus wind etc., and tax them based upon impact. Eventually that will come to a natural balance in the most efficient way. Providing that you're providing adequate oversight and regulation to the process. One of the reasons why here in Seattle we have such phenomenal fleet fuel efficiency is that we pay more than pretty much anybody else in the country for our fuel. It's not because our city was designed to be efficient, we have more hills than most and our traffic is pretty much always top ten for congestion.
But, the HOV lane already rewards those that do good, rewarding those that do less good strikes me as regressive. The HOV lanes came into being as a way of encouraging carpooling. Admittedly that was more a matter of congestion than being green, but getting a second person in the car, or ideally more, gives you more fuel efficiency than you're going to get out of an electric car, and it takes a vehicle off the road.
But, the Leaf isn't a zero emissions vehicle either, in any reasonable fashion. Sure nothing comes out the tailpipe, but it's only as green as the electricity used to power it. And right now with CA in the state it's in, I wonder how much longer before they have to give up on clean energy and just go with cheap.
It's not a straw man at all. The thing is that, as unfortunate as it is, that the majority of the people are OK with things the way they are because they don't have a clue as to what's going on. Without popular support you're not going to get it overturned.
Then you keep your copy and download a free replacement online. Since you've paid for a license, you should be able to download a replacement free of charge. Unless of course you're paying for a physical copy, in which case you're legally entitled to make backups of it.
It would've almost certainly passed. The populace has been willing to vote for politicians that openly flaunted their opposition to basic human rights, what on Earth would make you think that something more abstract would get a no vote?
Actually, the anti-circumvention rule doesn't apply to CSS.
1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems
(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.—
(1)
(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter.
I don't think that anybody would seriously suggest that CSS is an effective means of controlling a work. Considering that any number of licensed implementations exist and that you can easily do it yourself with DeCSS.
First off CSS isn't protected by the DMCA, it fails to be effective or a copy protection measure. Subsequently the anti-circumvention shouldn't apply in the first place. Secondly, it is neither reasonable nor non-discriminatory. One of the big drivers of DeCSS was the fact that there were no options for many platforms at all. If you use Windows or Mac, fine there's plenty of options, but FreeBSD for instance doesn't as far as I know have one even now that isn't based upon DeCSS.
Secondly, it's an effort to control what players can play the media, not who can make copies, and that's important, even without DeCSS it was trivial to make a copy of a DVD, it would just be bitwise identical to the original including CSS and any region coding.
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It is, that's what has to happen in order to form a society. For instance you give up the right to kill whomever you can in a trade for them giving up their right to kill you if they wish. But only a nutjob really believes that most of the regulations are unreasonable. Speed limits are a limitation on your non-essential liberty in an effort to keep fatalities on the roads to a reasonable level. Ideally it's a finely tuned compromise that maximizes the freedom available while reducing unnecessary risk to others.
It's not private property, the telecoms involved with the infrastructure took massive payments from the government and make extensive use of the public right of way. It's not private by any reasonable definition. In fact I'd suggest that were it limited to private property it would never have happened in the first place. Well, perhaps not never, but it would've required wireless, wait, the government owns that too, damn, well, I guess never it is then.
They have the same right to regulate it that I do to regulate the sidewalk in front of my house. That is to say, none, only repairing and maintaining it as needed.
While I agree, I mostly do so out of the observation that pretty much every state has a nutjob that's out to cut taxes to the point where there are no services that can be provided even as they whine about how inept the legislature is at not being able to pay for the upkeep. A more realistic option would be to have companies bid on providing the infrastructure for a period of time, including the cost of maintenance and capacity build outs as needed. They should be barred from buying or selling capacity in a way which picks winners and losers.
Well, that's better than when those jackasses were buying hummers to show that they had the money to waste on fuel after having paid for a massively overpriced car.
PCs weren't that expensive. The computer my parents bought was if memory serves only $1500 or so. It was definitely well under 2k. Sure it's unaffordable to the lower class, but anybody that's in the middle class had no problem affording one. The real thing keeping people out was the manual. The DOS manual that came with it was thick, and I mean bigger than the Bible, and that scares people off.
As soon as you're not free to leave you're under arrest, that's something which isn't very well communicated. Just because they haven't frisked you and put you in handcuffs does not mean you're not arrested. Judicially, there's been quite a bit of slide in terms of miranda warnings lately, with the courts allowing a lot of stuff which really shouldn't be.
In that respect I have to tip my hat to Capital One. Capital One uses a very tough anti-fraud algorithm on their CCs, I have to call them a dozen or so times to get the block on my card lifted, which is a pain in the ass, but as I've told them each time I'd rather call them and verify things than have to deal with the much bigger headaches that could come should somebody steal my CC number and try to drain me dry.
My main complaint about the card though is that they don't offer me virtual numbers.
It's far worse than you think it is. While we now have the legal right to look at our credit report once a year, we don't have the legal right to look at our credit score without paying for it. And often times that's the only thing the lender looks at. Worse still is that a bad credit report can result in a person being unable to find work, as employers view such people as a risk for theft and fraud.
At least in the US, they don't get a choice, they can take your CC number, but once it comes time to pay they are legally required to take cash. Because you typically pay for said services after you've used them they're debts which means that the company is legally obligated to take cash. Paying ahead of time, they can turn down cash, but once it's a debt they don't get a choice in the matter. If cash is what you want to pay with, cash is what they have to accept.
It's the natural result of allowing for an informal cartel to form. Sort of like how around here you can't get DSL that's actually reasonable in terms of latency, bandwidth and price. Since Qwest owns the last mile the investment in that part of the infrastructure seems to be pretty much non-existent requiring them to add 32m for that first hop for error correction. Comcast was even worse last I checked. And while people seem to really like Sonic where it's available, we can't choose them here because they don't have the ability to sell it here.
Likewise, none of the cell phone providers here are particularly great. AT&T being pretty unreliable and seeming to express no interest in upgrading capacity.
It can, but not taking turns. The problem is primarily one of tipping over or having the tires lose traction unevenly, neither problem is going to be made worse by batteries.
You're not going to add enough weight in batteries to make the vehicle have problems turning.
Indeed, around here we're fortunate enough to be able to get 5mbps, and Speakeasy is apparently able to do 10mbps for an arm and a leg. But latency and connection quality suck big time. Qwest the owner of the last mile doesn't seem to do any maintenance on it and consequently none of the options seem to be particularly stellar. Because of this they insist on adding 32ms to the first hop for error correction.
Requiring them to offer the connection is just the first step, requiring them to then make the necessary upgrades is the real goal.
I wouldn't be concerned with that, the batteries are generally placed low in the car, meaning that they don't move the center of mass upwards. Placed correctly they should have no impact on the ability take a hard turn.
Sigh, AOL if it existed now would be superior to AOL back then as well. It's a fair comparison, it's a walled garden with a huge share of the market. Back when AOL was huge, there wasn't much internet to speak of, and due to it's huge slice of the market it was tough to compete with since few people really knew how to use the internet.
In this case they did the right thing, but what I'd like to know is what would happen if it were a much smaller number affected by the bug. Given that they don't generally give people the opportunity to prove their innocence I'm not sure that they would rectify things if only a small number are affected. I'm not sure they even read messages complaining about seemingly inappropriate auto bans.
That would presumably be mass produced. Electric cars have been around for over a century, plug in models that were practical and mass produced are much, much more recent.
It's not that tough, you just tax the fuel and let things sort themselves out. Rather than doing a electricity versus gas, what you do is a coal versus hydro versus nuclear versus solar versus wind etc., and tax them based upon impact. Eventually that will come to a natural balance in the most efficient way. Providing that you're providing adequate oversight and regulation to the process. One of the reasons why here in Seattle we have such phenomenal fleet fuel efficiency is that we pay more than pretty much anybody else in the country for our fuel. It's not because our city was designed to be efficient, we have more hills than most and our traffic is pretty much always top ten for congestion.
But, the HOV lane already rewards those that do good, rewarding those that do less good strikes me as regressive. The HOV lanes came into being as a way of encouraging carpooling. Admittedly that was more a matter of congestion than being green, but getting a second person in the car, or ideally more, gives you more fuel efficiency than you're going to get out of an electric car, and it takes a vehicle off the road.
But, the Leaf isn't a zero emissions vehicle either, in any reasonable fashion. Sure nothing comes out the tailpipe, but it's only as green as the electricity used to power it. And right now with CA in the state it's in, I wonder how much longer before they have to give up on clean energy and just go with cheap.
It's not a straw man at all. The thing is that, as unfortunate as it is, that the majority of the people are OK with things the way they are because they don't have a clue as to what's going on. Without popular support you're not going to get it overturned.
Then you keep your copy and download a free replacement online. Since you've paid for a license, you should be able to download a replacement free of charge. Unless of course you're paying for a physical copy, in which case you're legally entitled to make backups of it.
It would've almost certainly passed. The populace has been willing to vote for politicians that openly flaunted their opposition to basic human rights, what on Earth would make you think that something more abstract would get a no vote?
1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems
(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.—
(1)
(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter.
I don't think that anybody would seriously suggest that CSS is an effective means of controlling a work. Considering that any number of licensed implementations exist and that you can easily do it yourself with DeCSS.
First off CSS isn't protected by the DMCA, it fails to be effective or a copy protection measure. Subsequently the anti-circumvention shouldn't apply in the first place. Secondly, it is neither reasonable nor non-discriminatory. One of the big drivers of DeCSS was the fact that there were no options for many platforms at all. If you use Windows or Mac, fine there's plenty of options, but FreeBSD for instance doesn't as far as I know have one even now that isn't based upon DeCSS.
Secondly, it's an effort to control what players can play the media, not who can make copies, and that's important, even without DeCSS it was trivial to make a copy of a DVD, it would just be bitwise identical to the original including CSS and any region coding.
Color, no, but driving a Prius requires you to forget how to drive and act generally dickishly when behind the wheel.