i think videos like this are interesting. i applied for security positions at a few local colleges when i got out of the army, and was told by one prospective employer that they did not like ex-military types who had not been thru a police academy because of the "shoot first ask questions later" mentality of your average enlisted soldier. i guess a military trained rent-a-cop is more of a liability than a garden variety rent-a-cop. apparently (according to the guy i interviewed with) police academies are supposed to instill in their grads a sense of restraint that the military seeks to disable. the student in question on the video is outnumbered at least 3 to 1... they could easily have cuffeded him without cooking him to "extra crispy". when i see cops overreacting (especially the campus variety) it makes me wonder if the guy i talked to was wise beyond his years, or just a pussy.
one other intersting thing to note is that i read or heard somewhere in a piece about decision making, that cops are more likely to make poor decisions in groups as opposed to when they are alone. incidents like rodney king are far less likely to occur when a cop is alone. some attribute this so having police witnesses (buddies who will cover for you if you made a mistake) some attribute it to being potentially outnumbered, and some say that it is a "group think" issue not unlike the mob mentality exhibitied in riots.
But he said more needed to be done by the web community in general to encourage people to use the internet to "solve problems" rather than simply abuse politicians or make "incommensurate" demands on them.'
abuse and incommensurate demands are what makes the internets great. read *any* website with a comments section and you will see enough abuse and incommensurate demands to last you a lifetime. if you don't like it, then perhaps the 'tubes are not meant for you.
wasn't the premise of the SCO case that linux "pretty much does what SCO (unix) does, but doesn't cost anything"? so how exactly does microsoft's IP get infringed upon? the fact that it's an operating system? because projects outside the kernel (you know, gnome and KDE) have start buttons? or are they claiming to own the idea of making "stuff that makes computers go"?
it was freakin' pathetic when SCO tried to litigate it's way back into significance. to hear that MS wants to do the same thing is... what's the word for "more pathetic than pathetic"?
between the DRM, the possibility of a format/patent war, and all of the proposed flags, i'm going to put off buying HD/Blu Ray anything until there is a clear winner or a viable solution. the DRM part is SO scary that the dark lord himself says blu-ray is anti-consumer:
Gates: Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [movie] studios got too much protection at the expense consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way.
It's not the physical format that we have the issue with, it's that the protection scheme on Blu is very anti-consumer. If [the Blu-ray group] would fix that one thing, you know, that'd be fine.
For us it's not the physical format. Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be. Everything's going to be streamed directly or on a hard disk. So, in this way, it's even unclear how much this one counts.
i hate to be that guy, but sonar is based on sound waves. radar is based on radio waves. the acronym (you did know that SONAR, RADAR, and LASER are all acrnyms, right?) they are looking for is LIDAR which stands for Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging.
he's stealing "profits" dammit! sooner or later you internet hippies are going to have to wake up and smell the money. there is music all around and no money changing hands and that is wrong. it's WRONG!!! if you make money and don't give "teh childre^H^H^H^Hartists" their cut, then you are stealing profits that would have otherwise gone to people like poor britney spears who clearly needs all the money they can get. you thieves all need to pay the industry, and then pay us again. all your moneys are belong to us!!!
i probably did not deserve it, as i am sure that many of us dotcommies did not... but the dot com scene on the west coast (at least in seattle) was like the gold rush in the 1800's: a handful of people cashed out filthy rich, a handful froze or starved to death, and most people came home exhausted and empty handed. so it was a fun ride, and i'll be damn lucky to find another one. but that fun came at a price. i had to take three steps backward financially and professionally when the bottom fell out of the market. moving back to cincinnati was like starting my career over again:-)
ahh those were the days... in january 2002 i was making $35 an hour as a program manager for a seattle dotcom with a suite of benefits that would make a tenured professor jealous. in sept. 2002, after ~6 months of unemployment and moving across the country into my mom's basement, i was making $14 an hour as a contractor installing computers for a hospital in cincinnati. almost 5 years later (3 of which were spent on a helldesk) i am making a little over half of what i did during the bubble and i'm damn lucky to have that. i've got my own place now tho. there must be millions of dot com vets can tell that same story.
i worked for a helpdesk in the US until summer 2005. the trick to working for a helpdesk in the united states is to be rediculously over qualified and willing to work for the crap that's left over after someone has eaten all the peanuts. keep working at it son, soon you will lower your standards enough to break in to the industry.
in one of his books, "virtual light" i think it was, there is talk about a guy that scientists were able to capture a strain of the aids virus from to manufacture a vaccine from. people worshipped him like a messiah and there were holidays in his name. funny how life (sort of) imitates art.
the BSA in the united states has a simple, and effective, fix for the piracy problem. they raid companies that use unlicensed software for commercial purposes. BSA raids are pretty much on par with the spanish inquisition and have been known to bankrupt a company. in the context of a business using commercial software without paying for it, in support of a venture that makes money, then the BSA is doing what it should, even if their tactics are not something i would agree with. this is piracy in the real sense. just like when the RIAA/MPAA bust people selling burned disks on a street corner, they are right to do this sort of thing because those are real lost sales.
non-commercial private use which is not for profit is really a grey area. the losses sustained may or may not be quantifiable, or even justifiable. is the intent to save money the same as the intent to profit? according to a court in spain it is not. is a copy shared among friends really a loss? according to the fair use laws in the 80's that covered music, they are not. would those friends have used or even needed the software otherwise? does it matter that your friend lives in sweden and you live in the US? even if it can be decided, definitively, that all of these actions are wrong, how exactly do you police the action? speeding on the highway is illegal, and if you get caught or have an accident, you are going to suffer the consequences, but speeding happens all the time anyway.
no one really cares about costs until they reach the point of multiple millions, so to get your point across you just skip real numbers and cut straight to the "millions of dollars every year". for example, underage drinking costs taxpayers millions of dallars each year. i have no idea how much it really costs, but now everyone is paying attention. so, illegal downloads cost the industry millions of dollars each year. teenage sex costs taxpayers millions of dollars each year. watching television while skipping commercials costs television networks millions of dollars each year. sarcastic comments on messageboards cost legitimate posters millions of dollars each year. how much is a gallon of gas today? you guessed it, millions of dollars.
"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out;
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out;
Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
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that's brilliant :-)
i think videos like this are interesting. i applied for security positions at a few local colleges when i got out of the army, and was told by one prospective employer that they did not like ex-military types who had not been thru a police academy because of the "shoot first ask questions later" mentality of your average enlisted soldier. i guess a military trained rent-a-cop is more of a liability than a garden variety rent-a-cop. apparently (according to the guy i interviewed with) police academies are supposed to instill in their grads a sense of restraint that the military seeks to disable. the student in question on the video is outnumbered at least 3 to 1... they could easily have cuffeded him without cooking him to "extra crispy". when i see cops overreacting (especially the campus variety) it makes me wonder if the guy i talked to was wise beyond his years, or just a pussy.
one other intersting thing to note is that i read or heard somewhere in a piece about decision making, that cops are more likely to make poor decisions in groups as opposed to when they are alone. incidents like rodney king are far less likely to occur when a cop is alone. some attribute this so having police witnesses (buddies who will cover for you if you made a mistake) some attribute it to being potentially outnumbered, and some say that it is a "group think" issue not unlike the mob mentality exhibitied in riots.
wow, i always figured gates would become the last pope, as foretold in the book of revelations.
OMFG!!!1! j00 iz j34l0us kuz i r0xx0r3d j00r b0x3rs!1!!!
there's surpsise! i think i might have a heart attack and die because of that surprise.
abuse and incommensurate demands are what makes the internets great. read *any* website with a comments section and you will see enough abuse and incommensurate demands to last you a lifetime. if you don't like it, then perhaps the 'tubes are not meant for you.
that's what i want to know. tho i'll bet it's some bullshit "stuff that makes computers go" patent.
wasn't the premise of the SCO case that linux "pretty much does what SCO (unix) does, but doesn't cost anything"? so how exactly does microsoft's IP get infringed upon? the fact that it's an operating system? because projects outside the kernel (you know, gnome and KDE) have start buttons? or are they claiming to own the idea of making "stuff that makes computers go"?
it was freakin' pathetic when SCO tried to litigate it's way back into significance. to hear that MS wants to do the same thing is... what's the word for "more pathetic than pathetic"?
between the DRM, the possibility of a format/patent war, and all of the proposed flags, i'm going to put off buying HD/Blu Ray anything until there is a clear winner or a viable solution. the DRM part is SO scary that the dark lord himself says blu-ray is anti-consumer:
nuff said
i hate to be that guy, but sonar is based on sound waves. radar is based on radio waves. the acronym (you did know that SONAR, RADAR, and LASER are all acrnyms, right?) they are looking for is LIDAR which stands for Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging.
he's stealing "profits" dammit! sooner or later you internet hippies are going to have to wake up and smell the money. there is music all around and no money changing hands and that is wrong. it's WRONG!!! if you make money and don't give "teh childre^H^H^H^Hartists" their cut, then you are stealing profits that would have otherwise gone to people like poor britney spears who clearly needs all the money they can get. you thieves all need to pay the industry, and then pay us again. all your moneys are belong to us!!!
i probably did not deserve it, as i am sure that many of us dotcommies did not... but the dot com scene on the west coast (at least in seattle) was like the gold rush in the 1800's: a handful of people cashed out filthy rich, a handful froze or starved to death, and most people came home exhausted and empty handed. so it was a fun ride, and i'll be damn lucky to find another one. but that fun came at a price. i had to take three steps backward financially and professionally when the bottom fell out of the market. moving back to cincinnati was like starting my career over again :-)
regarding your sig: "never trust a junkie"
you're going to become a lawyer?
ahh those were the days... in january 2002 i was making $35 an hour as a program manager for a seattle dotcom with a suite of benefits that would make a tenured professor jealous. in sept. 2002, after ~6 months of unemployment and moving across the country into my mom's basement, i was making $14 an hour as a contractor installing computers for a hospital in cincinnati. almost 5 years later (3 of which were spent on a helldesk) i am making a little over half of what i did during the bubble and i'm damn lucky to have that. i've got my own place now tho. there must be millions of dot com vets can tell that same story.
4% raises every two years for the rest of their lives
holy shit dude, where can i get on that gravy train?
i worked for a helpdesk in the US until summer 2005. the trick to working for a helpdesk in the united states is to be rediculously over qualified and willing to work for the crap that's left over after someone has eaten all the peanuts. keep working at it son, soon you will lower your standards enough to break in to the industry.
in louisville there is a chance that you could get your ass kicked at a polling station.
join more mailing lists :-)
in one of his books, "virtual light" i think it was, there is talk about a guy that scientists were able to capture a strain of the aids virus from to manufacture a vaccine from. people worshipped him like a messiah and there were holidays in his name. funny how life (sort of) imitates art.
the BSA in the united states has a simple, and effective, fix for the piracy problem. they raid companies that use unlicensed software for commercial purposes. BSA raids are pretty much on par with the spanish inquisition and have been known to bankrupt a company. in the context of a business using commercial software without paying for it, in support of a venture that makes money, then the BSA is doing what it should, even if their tactics are not something i would agree with. this is piracy in the real sense. just like when the RIAA/MPAA bust people selling burned disks on a street corner, they are right to do this sort of thing because those are real lost sales.
non-commercial private use which is not for profit is really a grey area. the losses sustained may or may not be quantifiable, or even justifiable. is the intent to save money the same as the intent to profit? according to a court in spain it is not. is a copy shared among friends really a loss? according to the fair use laws in the 80's that covered music, they are not. would those friends have used or even needed the software otherwise? does it matter that your friend lives in sweden and you live in the US? even if it can be decided, definitively, that all of these actions are wrong, how exactly do you police the action? speeding on the highway is illegal, and if you get caught or have an accident, you are going to suffer the consequences, but speeding happens all the time anyway.
no one really cares about costs until they reach the point of multiple millions, so to get your point across you just skip real numbers and cut straight to the "millions of dollars every year". for example, underage drinking costs taxpayers millions of dallars each year. i have no idea how much it really costs, but now everyone is paying attention. so, illegal downloads cost the industry millions of dollars each year. teenage sex costs taxpayers millions of dollars each year. watching television while skipping commercials costs television networks millions of dollars each year. sarcastic comments on messageboards cost legitimate posters millions of dollars each year. how much is a gallon of gas today? you guessed it, millions of dollars.
this is an old anti-nazi propaganda film from the 40's. i think it's ironic how it was produced by the war department of our government. 65 years later things have really changed.
"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out;
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out;
Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984