He can't legally win in the US against bloggers who use fair use excerpts of his companies' stories. There is too much precedent there. As long as bloggers comply with the law, he's screwed. The only ones he can nab are the ones who excerpt half of a story, provide one or two sentences of commentary and that's it. What this means is that his stories won't be indexed in Google, but the bloggers who link to them will be indexed. So really, it's a two-fer against Murdoch. If he were smart, what he'd be doing is putting EVERYTHING they've done online since the founding of his companies, and be encouraging everyone to link to their work, talk about it, excerpt it, etc. so that News Corp would become the most powerful news source in Google's index.
And GM and Chrysler will finally deliver a consumer vehicle that can compete successfully against the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic respectively... meanwhile, Hell's freezing temperatures will so profoundly affect the Earth's climate that the debate over global warming will be made moot.
but I swear, that if Apple puts a "feature" into the iPhone which lets Big Media lock up my device on paid content a la a DVD player, I will break my AT&T contract, throw the device in the trash and buy a Droid.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that many technical and semi-technical iPhone users would do likewise.
Google did this out of ignorance about a language that doesn't look like it's been updated in over 2 years. From the looks of it, the guy hasn't publicly updated his code for Go! in over two years. Do a google search for "Go! programming language" and the only result for his work in the first two pages (where most people look) is a single ACM citation.
You know what Google should do? Offer him an interview with the presumption of being hired to work on their version unless he proves unqualified (unlikely, given the cover similar spaces) and maybe a cool wad of cash to smooth out any IP issues. For a language that has apparently never risen above a research project, even $25k would be sufficiently just compensation for him to renounce any IP claims against Google and go about his merry way.
What Obama has given was a "certification of live birth," not a "birth certificate." The controversy there is that they are not the same legal documents in Hawaii from that era, with the former being derived from the latter.
I'm not a birther, but it does unnerve me that Obama won't just come out with the full monty of official documents and say "please, now STFU." That sort of game, where you let hundreds of thousands of your citizens believe that you are quite literally legally unable to occupy your office is not the sort of game that a politician in such a powerful office should play.
I know the standard excuse for Obama not being 100% open here is that he's just messing with paranoid lunatics. Even assuming that's true, that makes even less sense because paranoid lunatics are the last people you want believing you're an illegitimate leader presiding over an imploding economy. That's like poking a tiger at a zoo with a sharp stick.
How many people know that GPL software powers their routers? Linksys and others could call the Linux Kernel developers and everyone else whose software powers their consumer devices "baffoons" for letting them get away with it. The GPL doesn't protect you from "exploitation."
If that scenario bothers you so much then don't open source anything.
the process of creating obfuscated reports about client billing practices intended to hide nickel-and-diming the customer to death. That would be a shot across the bow of lawyers, doctors, contractors and the banking industry in one fell swoop! Imagine the lobbying then to get rid of business method patents!
after being warned of problems with privacy as well as technical feasibility and high costs
"Being warned of problems with privacy?" Ya.... think?! That's either a nice way of saying that they bowed out of it due to public pressure or they are such blithering incompetents that it never occurred to them that this could harm anyone's privacy. Either way, the British need to wake TFU and bring this regime down. It's an embarrassment.
My wife and I pay about $119/month for "unlimited" data and 200 text messages each per iPhone. We get no reliable signal in most of Virginia past Prince William County unless we are on a major state highway. There are places where Verizon would be 5 bars that AT&T doesn't even get signal at all, and by that I mean not even Edge.
The moral of the story? You get what you pay for. Verizon may be more expensive, but AT&T is a perfect example of what happens when a telecom doesn't plan ahead for getting the kind of revenue it needs to really build out its network. I wasn't very happy with Verizon's customer service, or their phone selection a year ago, but they obviously put that money SOMEWHERE good since I can't remember any place other than inside the Luray and Skyline caverns where my phone didn't get a signal with Verizon...
This is how European-style web-blocking will come to the US?... I give it
Why don't they just arrest the scammers? Are they in Nigeria and Nigeria won't turn them over? Why don't we send agents abroad to bring them here? Didn't stop us from doing it in Italy to a guy suspected of being a member of Al Qaeda...
But the 4.X beta runs incredibly fast on my dual core Windows workstation. If the Linux version is significantly faster in rendering, I would be very surprised.
You mean like how Vox Day, who is a very big libertarian blogger, has made Paul Krugman look like an utter fool time and again on his blog? Or the way that Maureen Dowd consistently writes stuff that is no better than 90% of the stuff posted daily on the Huffington Post?...
At no point did I defend unions. Your entire rant about them is absolutely irrelevant because it does nothing to address what I said about the very concept of working in a factory being considered a trashy, peon, loser job. To a lesser extent, but still meaningfully felt, tradesmen experience the same thing. The only thing, and I emphasize the only thing, that keeps engineers out of this is the college degree!
People like you don't even grasp what the hell you are saying. Fuck the industrial age? Well fuck the very computer you are using! Fuck the car you drive, fuck half of the materials in your house! Fuck the drugs the keep you alive. Fuck the cheap clothes you wear, and fuck the cheap food you eat. Fuck 90% of the material possession you have had, have and every will have, then.
Guess what? Someone had to make them. The majority of them are made industrially. The majority of what the US makes today is intellectual property and new financial instruments like the ones that Goldman Sachs and company used to plunder the economy and mortgage market. That's it. We don't really produce much more domestically than Latin America does. Probably less, actually, for our size and position than Brazil.
At some point, the rest of the world is going to stop investing in us, and all of those government employees, non-profits, educational institutions, etc. are going to have to wake up to the fact that they aren't producing any wealth worth mentioning. They aren't making anything. They aren't adding value right into the economy. The schools will survive; they'll privatize and compete like businesses like they should be already. The rest, well, not so bright of a future for a workplace fill with all manner of college debt and cliff notes-level knowledge of liberal arts rubbish, but little direct skill in making something....
Our culture does not respect those whose labor directly produces wealth. In fact, it doesn't even have a clue about how to become wealthy and stay wealthy now. The very fact that companies look at their domestic wealth-producing workers and think "these guys are optional" rather than going to H.R., middle management, etc. for budget cuts is proof of that.
All of the reviews of Windows 7 on NetBooks that I have seen so far have been positive about how well it performs on them. Microsoft actually targeted them because it knows it can't afford to make an OS which runs poorly on them or not at all.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
Now a days if US government cuts taxes, the corporations use the savings to build factories in China. So the old argument tax-will-foster-economic growth does not cut it anymore.
In the last 20-25 years, the US has become far less business-friendly than it once was. A lot more regulations, an increasingly litigious society coupled with a legal code that is often vague, more expectations on benefits, etc.
It also doesn't help things that the expectations of the American people haven't changed. My boss' cousin works for Honda as an assembly line worker. He makes a fair wage; the UAW guys practically down the street from their plant expect a few times that pay and benefits for the same job which puts their combined income at a level higher than most of the senior software engineers I work with! They act like it's still 1950 and the American car manufacturers face no serious competition from cheaper, more reasonable Japanese and Korean labor and products.
BUT, That means the Laws of Nevada are dominant, not Washington. Microsoft needed to make one choice, but they seem to want the best of both worlds.
Change their accounting and tax laws and this "problem" will go away! On the other hand, one of the downsides of having a federal system with 50 semi-independent states is you have competition. Washington might not like them, but Montana or Idaho might be more than willing to let Microsoft set up shop with nary a peep said ill of their practices.
Of course, the up side to having that competition is that you have the ability to move to a state that is governed to your liking instead of having to stew in bitter resentment as a one-size-fits-all policy is forced on you.
When the economy gets bad, the government needs to the same thing that everyone else must do: cut spending and lay off workers. I know, I know, it's a hard concept to imagine: government employees and agencies having to operate like EVERY OTHER PART OF CIVIL SOCIETY!
It says a lot about modern man that he will tolerate losing wages, losing his house, etc. and won't snarl at the state behaving like Eric Cartman screaming for more cheesy poofs...
To live unfettered from the personal whims of others is not selfish -- it's called freedom.
Tell that to the children whose parents put their personal happiness above raising them and providing for them. By sustainable liberty I mean recognizing that you have to limit your own liberty and accept your responsibilities toward other. People who live without consideration for others deserve whatever tyranny and harm comes their way.
No, if your logic is internally consistent, it will form a valid base of logic-space and will only lead to correct results.
You still don't get it, just like most people who turn reason into a fetish. A 100% perfect logical system is still dependent on the data that it receives. One of those inputs is raw emotion. Another is instinct. You cannot perfectly control them, and are lucky to just control them most of the time.
That's because most libertarians are selfish bastards at heart. They are not concerned with such collectivist notions as creating a sustainable free society. Rather, it's all about maximizing their ability to put any chemical or object in their body they want, keep all of their money and hire the cheapest labor they can get.
I say this as a political libertarian with social conservative sensibilities. The single biggest reason why libertarianism is going nowhere is because it's such an unfocused movement that grabs whatever liberty it can and that doesn't even pretend to have a higher vision than "I'll get mine." That turns off most voters. Even though under a libertarian system there'd be no corporate welfare at all (since there'd be a simple tax code and subsidizes would be outlawed in the constitution), their behavior gives normal, non-ideological people good reason to believe that a libertarian government would look like a plutocratic-kleptocratic oligarchy of rich people burdening the poor while enriching themselves, and vice totally out of control because libertarians never talk about the practical matter of **regulating vice** so it's like buying beer, not a free-for-all where any store can legally sell your kid crack.
Your brain will try to keep your decisions consistent with previous decisions you have made.
People tend to forget that logic is just a set of rules. If you load it up with bad data, especially data that is driven by pure emotions, you'll rationalize yourself into neat, coherent clusterfuck. The difference between wisdom and intelligence is that the former is an a priori mental filter for bad data, the latter is just raw capacity. That's why a wise person need not follow a life based on reason alone to generally make good decisions.
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Turn the proxies over to another authority or company like a European ISP and make Opera Mini customizable to go back to using proxies like those.
He can't legally win in the US against bloggers who use fair use excerpts of his companies' stories. There is too much precedent there. As long as bloggers comply with the law, he's screwed. The only ones he can nab are the ones who excerpt half of a story, provide one or two sentences of commentary and that's it. What this means is that his stories won't be indexed in Google, but the bloggers who link to them will be indexed. So really, it's a two-fer against Murdoch. If he were smart, what he'd be doing is putting EVERYTHING they've done online since the founding of his companies, and be encouraging everyone to link to their work, talk about it, excerpt it, etc. so that News Corp would become the most powerful news source in Google's index.
And GM and Chrysler will finally deliver a consumer vehicle that can compete successfully against the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic respectively... meanwhile, Hell's freezing temperatures will so profoundly affect the Earth's climate that the debate over global warming will be made moot.
but I swear, that if Apple puts a "feature" into the iPhone which lets Big Media lock up my device on paid content a la a DVD player, I will break my AT&T contract, throw the device in the trash and buy a Droid. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that many technical and semi-technical iPhone users would do likewise.
Google did this out of ignorance about a language that doesn't look like it's been updated in over 2 years. From the looks of it, the guy hasn't publicly updated his code for Go! in over two years. Do a google search for "Go! programming language" and the only result for his work in the first two pages (where most people look) is a single ACM citation.
You know what Google should do? Offer him an interview with the presumption of being hired to work on their version unless he proves unqualified (unlikely, given the cover similar spaces) and maybe a cool wad of cash to smooth out any IP issues. For a language that has apparently never risen above a research project, even $25k would be sufficiently just compensation for him to renounce any IP claims against Google and go about his merry way.
What Obama has given was a "certification of live birth," not a "birth certificate." The controversy there is that they are not the same legal documents in Hawaii from that era, with the former being derived from the latter.
I'm not a birther, but it does unnerve me that Obama won't just come out with the full monty of official documents and say "please, now STFU." That sort of game, where you let hundreds of thousands of your citizens believe that you are quite literally legally unable to occupy your office is not the sort of game that a politician in such a powerful office should play.
I know the standard excuse for Obama not being 100% open here is that he's just messing with paranoid lunatics. Even assuming that's true, that makes even less sense because paranoid lunatics are the last people you want believing you're an illegitimate leader presiding over an imploding economy. That's like poking a tiger at a zoo with a sharp stick.
How many people know that GPL software powers their routers? Linksys and others could call the Linux Kernel developers and everyone else whose software powers their consumer devices "baffoons" for letting them get away with it. The GPL doesn't protect you from "exploitation."
If that scenario bothers you so much then don't open source anything.
the process of creating obfuscated reports about client billing practices intended to hide nickel-and-diming the customer to death. That would be a shot across the bow of lawyers, doctors, contractors and the banking industry in one fell swoop! Imagine the lobbying then to get rid of business method patents!
"Being warned of problems with privacy?" Ya.... think?! That's either a nice way of saying that they bowed out of it due to public pressure or they are such blithering incompetents that it never occurred to them that this could harm anyone's privacy. Either way, the British need to wake TFU and bring this regime down. It's an embarrassment.
My wife and I pay about $119/month for "unlimited" data and 200 text messages each per iPhone. We get no reliable signal in most of Virginia past Prince William County unless we are on a major state highway. There are places where Verizon would be 5 bars that AT&T doesn't even get signal at all, and by that I mean not even Edge.
The moral of the story? You get what you pay for. Verizon may be more expensive, but AT&T is a perfect example of what happens when a telecom doesn't plan ahead for getting the kind of revenue it needs to really build out its network. I wasn't very happy with Verizon's customer service, or their phone selection a year ago, but they obviously put that money SOMEWHERE good since I can't remember any place other than inside the Luray and Skyline caverns where my phone didn't get a signal with Verizon...
This is how European-style web-blocking will come to the US?... I give it
Why don't they just arrest the scammers? Are they in Nigeria and Nigeria won't turn them over? Why don't we send agents abroad to bring them here? Didn't stop us from doing it in Italy to a guy suspected of being a member of Al Qaeda...
But the 4.X beta runs incredibly fast on my dual core Windows workstation. If the Linux version is significantly faster in rendering, I would be very surprised.
You mean like how Vox Day, who is a very big libertarian blogger, has made Paul Krugman look like an utter fool time and again on his blog? Or the way that Maureen Dowd consistently writes stuff that is no better than 90% of the stuff posted daily on the Huffington Post?...
Not true for threereasons:
1) Most reporters just regurgitate whatever their sources give them (do you ever read what they usually write in a follow up on a crime?)
2) There are bloggers like Radley Balko who have stronger reporter bona fides than most of the people who work at the NY Times.
3) There are many reporters who run blogs as part of their business.
At no point did I defend unions. Your entire rant about them is absolutely irrelevant because it does nothing to address what I said about the very concept of working in a factory being considered a trashy, peon, loser job. To a lesser extent, but still meaningfully felt, tradesmen experience the same thing. The only thing, and I emphasize the only thing, that keeps engineers out of this is the college degree!
People like you don't even grasp what the hell you are saying. Fuck the industrial age? Well fuck the very computer you are using! Fuck the car you drive, fuck half of the materials in your house! Fuck the drugs the keep you alive. Fuck the cheap clothes you wear, and fuck the cheap food you eat. Fuck 90% of the material possession you have had, have and every will have, then.
Guess what? Someone had to make them. The majority of them are made industrially. The majority of what the US makes today is intellectual property and new financial instruments like the ones that Goldman Sachs and company used to plunder the economy and mortgage market. That's it. We don't really produce much more domestically than Latin America does. Probably less, actually, for our size and position than Brazil.
At some point, the rest of the world is going to stop investing in us, and all of those government employees, non-profits, educational institutions, etc. are going to have to wake up to the fact that they aren't producing any wealth worth mentioning. They aren't making anything. They aren't adding value right into the economy. The schools will survive; they'll privatize and compete like businesses like they should be already. The rest, well, not so bright of a future for a workplace fill with all manner of college debt and cliff notes-level knowledge of liberal arts rubbish, but little direct skill in making something....
Our culture does not respect those whose labor directly produces wealth. In fact, it doesn't even have a clue about how to become wealthy and stay wealthy now. The very fact that companies look at their domestic wealth-producing workers and think "these guys are optional" rather than going to H.R., middle management, etc. for budget cuts is proof of that.
All of the reviews of Windows 7 on NetBooks that I have seen so far have been positive about how well it performs on them. Microsoft actually targeted them because it knows it can't afford to make an OS which runs poorly on them or not at all.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
–Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In the last 20-25 years, the US has become far less business-friendly than it once was. A lot more regulations, an increasingly litigious society coupled with a legal code that is often vague, more expectations on benefits, etc.
It also doesn't help things that the expectations of the American people haven't changed. My boss' cousin works for Honda as an assembly line worker. He makes a fair wage; the UAW guys practically down the street from their plant expect a few times that pay and benefits for the same job which puts their combined income at a level higher than most of the senior software engineers I work with! They act like it's still 1950 and the American car manufacturers face no serious competition from cheaper, more reasonable Japanese and Korean labor and products.
Change their accounting and tax laws and this "problem" will go away! On the other hand, one of the downsides of having a federal system with 50 semi-independent states is you have competition. Washington might not like them, but Montana or Idaho might be more than willing to let Microsoft set up shop with nary a peep said ill of their practices.
Of course, the up side to having that competition is that you have the ability to move to a state that is governed to your liking instead of having to stew in bitter resentment as a one-size-fits-all policy is forced on you.
When the economy gets bad, the government needs to the same thing that everyone else must do: cut spending and lay off workers. I know, I know, it's a hard concept to imagine: government employees and agencies having to operate like EVERY OTHER PART OF CIVIL SOCIETY! It says a lot about modern man that he will tolerate losing wages, losing his house, etc. and won't snarl at the state behaving like Eric Cartman screaming for more cheesy poofs...
Tell that to the children whose parents put their personal happiness above raising them and providing for them. By sustainable liberty I mean recognizing that you have to limit your own liberty and accept your responsibilities toward other. People who live without consideration for others deserve whatever tyranny and harm comes their way.
You still don't get it, just like most people who turn reason into a fetish. A 100% perfect logical system is still dependent on the data that it receives. One of those inputs is raw emotion. Another is instinct. You cannot perfectly control them, and are lucky to just control them most of the time.
That's because most libertarians are selfish bastards at heart. They are not concerned with such collectivist notions as creating a sustainable free society. Rather, it's all about maximizing their ability to put any chemical or object in their body they want, keep all of their money and hire the cheapest labor they can get.
I say this as a political libertarian with social conservative sensibilities. The single biggest reason why libertarianism is going nowhere is because it's such an unfocused movement that grabs whatever liberty it can and that doesn't even pretend to have a higher vision than "I'll get mine." That turns off most voters. Even though under a libertarian system there'd be no corporate welfare at all (since there'd be a simple tax code and subsidizes would be outlawed in the constitution), their behavior gives normal, non-ideological people good reason to believe that a libertarian government would look like a plutocratic-kleptocratic oligarchy of rich people burdening the poor while enriching themselves, and vice totally out of control because libertarians never talk about the practical matter of **regulating vice** so it's like buying beer, not a free-for-all where any store can legally sell your kid crack.
People tend to forget that logic is just a set of rules. If you load it up with bad data, especially data that is driven by pure emotions, you'll rationalize yourself into neat, coherent clusterfuck. The difference between wisdom and intelligence is that the former is an a priori mental filter for bad data, the latter is just raw capacity. That's why a wise person need not follow a life based on reason alone to generally make good decisions.