1) While the 30% cost of living reduction would initially be an incentive, the increasing number of people flocking to said community - and the tendency to demand not to pay for services you don't use - would cause those services (police, fire, school) to become more expensive. Eventually government would mandate universal compliance to the "new standard".
2) Government would quickly immunize itself from the transparency (on "national security" grounds). One need not even be a conspiracy theorist to extrapolate from that.
3) "except the bathroom and bedroom" means that there IS privacy. Which means that people WILL take advantage of it. 7 men meeting in a bedroom won't be a scandal because everyone will be aware of the sort of business going on. They won't be able to avoid being marked as associating, but might well form a large number of such "bedroom meeting" associations to obfuscate the significance of one.
On a topic not long ago, someone posted their anecdote of being in exactly that sort of situation. They "ran" the light, and the cop that was waiting for just that ticketed him.
At no small expense, he took it to court and the judge eventually threw it out.
Not, of course, before the victim had paid more to contest the charge than it would have cost to "just pay it". (I do not know if the poster had included "increased insurance costs" as part of his calculation. One should, though, in such situations.)
I'm not clear on what you mean by a "PCI-DSS Level 1 provider". Are you architect for a Level 1 Merchant under PCI-DSS, or architect for a provider of services to such merchants?
However, the scenario the GP posits is that the accusation is true. The accused has little recourse to "suing for justifiable discharge".
This was not a libel trial since in the US, the truth is a defense. But it was a defamation one. Which puzzles me (IANAL), as libel is a form of defamation. So on what basis can a jury possibly award damages? (Perhaps one of you lawyer types out there can answer that.)
On the one hand, "super injunctions" themselves aren't news in the sense of being "a new thing".
On the other hand, they aren't news because, you know, you aren't allowed to report their existence....
As to "not the government", I would have to disagree. Just as with National Security Letters, there have to be legal underpinnings allowing such a concept. If the law didn't permit these "super-injunctions", they could not survive. Of course, I don't know that they have been challenged in court yet. Apparently the Trafigura order got nulled before it could reach court. And The Guardian has been served with almost one a month in 2009. That's a lot of court challenges it would have to undertake in the cause of freedom of speech. I imagine that they have to pick their battles. Perhaps the United Kingdom needs it's own version of the ACLU.
... and it is a wonder how many trolls, jerks, etc create libel suits to suppress honest and accurate comments about their businesses and themselves that happen to be unfavorable. In many cases invoking the Streisand Effect, for all the good that does the defendant of the lawsuit.
Both sides of the coin, friend. Both sides of the coin.
My original intent was: the original work predates the derived one. Therefore, derived work's copyright period expiring implies that the original work's copyright must have expired as well.... which on consideration wasn't completely the case: If the original work's copyright was extended but the derived one's wasn't, the derived work's copyright could indeed expire without the original's having done so.... up to the point where copyrights were no longer having to be extended 'manually'.
Yeah, yeah. Land formation message passing has a great bit-rate, but it is highly granular, and is subject to extreme latency. But hey, it also supports millennial delivery retry attempts.
a) Unlike computers, we don't yet have software to virtualize people. Though it's a neat concept, isn't it? "Restore from save: This will wipe all memory since last save. Continue? Y/N"
b) We are all of us virtual persons here. I doubt your friends call you "h00manist" any more than mine call me "Sabt Pestnu".
c) As reputation is the province of the beholder, not the subject, "virtual reputation" only makes sense if the entity is not a "real person". I guess that actuarial software could hold a "virtual reputation". Many MMORPGs record your character's reputation with factions in the game, so I guess that counts as well. Perhaps the "friends, fans, foes, freaks" for/. accounts counts as virtual reputation also.
d) Virtual testimony, that I'll buy. Since it's not "in person", it could count, I guess. I'd consider it more "written testemony" though, since there's no real presence involved.... and I'm overthinking a virtual jest, aren't I? Still, it was an entertaining session of mulling.
But if the copyright period on the derivative work runs out, it has perforce run out on the original copyright.
Well, mostly. Copyrights before 1978, copyrights were initially for 28 years, and could be renewed for another 28 years. From 1930, the first renewal would be in 1958, lasting to 1986. So if not renewed the copyright would have run out in 1958.
But if renewed, then it would have been retroactively extended at least twice, to 2025.
I know naught of Enzi, so I'll take your word for it.:)
But then, if it's not his "manufactured in china" comment, I can't claim that the "tiniest amounts" fear is his either. For that matter, since the press release didn't say one way or the other, my own "environmental/labor" claim is simply supposition anyway.
You haven't recycled anything serious then. CRTs? Relatively nominal charge for disposal. Got Freon in your fridge? Fee for disposal. Electronics? depends on your state.
> Dimming an incandescent to 75% its output means you get far less light. You are actually making them less efficient.
Wikipedia would tend to agree, but there are limits to how you can generate lumens. Several point sources are more comfortable than a single searing orb. And by that same chart, CFLs scale up even better on lumens/watt than incandescents.
However, later in that same article, you find that CFLs degrade much, much faster when turned off and on regularly. So much so that their lifetime can degrade to be equivalent to that of an incandescent.... at which point manufacturing/disposal costs have exceeded your "use savings". So putting them in your bathroom, closet, or motion detector yard light is probably not a good idea.
The commerce clause (that you pointed out) has been pretty much the green light for anything the US government wants to do, despite it having been designed for suppression of interstate taxation.
Look up Wickard v. Filburn (or find the link from the wikipedia Commerce Clause page).
Just a point of order: The "manufactured in china" quote came from the DeMint office, and seems to be the product of almost 30 separate senators - IE almost 1/3 of the whole Senate. Do you have a quote that puts that objection directly from his mouth?
I can also feel fairly sure that the "Chinee right burbs!" argument is more about environmental and labor standards than about trade imbalance or product quality. Are you really making the world a better place, using your CFL, if Indonesian lightbulb workers are dying of mercury poisoning because of it?
Just because the problem isn't in your backyard doesn't clear you of responsibility for it.
Unless you plan to bury your shoes in a hot-house, you've only got a small window in which you can bury them and get flowers. And that can depend on the seeds involved.
Four years may not be entirely unreasonable for my shoes either. How long would it be reasonable to expect the seeds to remain viable, given the various environments shoes have to put up with.
I'm also curious about whether there can be problems of "early germination". If I wade through too many puddles and leave my shoes in a warm-but-humid environment, am I going to come back to find them "running back to nature" without me?
It entirely depends on your definition of radiation, I guess. Electro-magnetic field radiation (strength) is what they found correlated with brain glucose metabolism.
As opposed to gamma ray radiation induced by positron emission, the factor used to detect said brain glucose metabolism.
I wonder if they considered possible interactions between the tomography equipment and the radio-frequency fields of the cell phones. There may be none, but I know so little I am free to speculate impossibilities...
Some other things whose lack might invoke your "miserable death":
A 2 week supply of water. You don't think public water supplies are going to remain stable, do you? And if you're talking about "death by cold", then you're also talking "pipes freeze". And since you're talking about using sleeping bags and blankets to keep yourself warm, that same water supply needs to be in meltable chunks. You'll be a sad panda when you find your 5 gallon buckets are 5 gallon blocks of ice.... and sadder when the heat comes back on and you find they split...
Emergency sanitation. Frozen pipes. Two weeks. you do the math. And if you're talking "can't open the door because of the snow", don't tell me "just do it outside in the snow".
Your own home. You honestly think you can store all of that in a studio apartment? If you do, where are you going to put the sleeping bag down at?
I'll point out as well that the "old widow", being "old" may well not be able to generate enough heat on her own to keep from freezing, even with the best of insulation. It takes a lot of calories to do that kind of thing, and you have to be able to USE those calories, which an old person may well not be acclimatized to.
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Sure! I'm sure they could swap models and put the Babe in a Burqa....
I would mod you up, had I the points.
But my own "snake in the utopia" runs:
1) While the 30% cost of living reduction would initially be an incentive, the increasing number of people flocking to said community - and the tendency to demand not to pay for services you don't use - would cause those services (police, fire, school) to become more expensive. Eventually government would mandate universal compliance to the "new standard".
2) Government would quickly immunize itself from the transparency (on "national security" grounds). One need not even be a conspiracy theorist to extrapolate from that.
3) "except the bathroom and bedroom" means that there IS privacy. Which means that people WILL take advantage of it. 7 men meeting in a bedroom won't be a scandal because everyone will be aware of the sort of business going on. They won't be able to avoid being marked as associating, but might well form a large number of such "bedroom meeting" associations to obfuscate the significance of one.
On a topic not long ago, someone posted their anecdote of being in exactly that sort of situation. They "ran" the light, and the cop that was waiting for just that ticketed him.
At no small expense, he took it to court and the judge eventually threw it out.
Not, of course, before the victim had paid more to contest the charge than it would have cost to "just pay it". (I do not know if the poster had included "increased insurance costs" as part of his calculation. One should, though, in such situations.)
Just a clarification, if you would:
I'm not clear on what you mean by a "PCI-DSS Level 1 provider". Are you architect for a Level 1 Merchant under PCI-DSS, or architect for a provider of services to such merchants?
The first impression out there is going to stick more than any authoritative refutation.
However, the scenario the GP posits is that the accusation is true. The accused has little recourse to "suing for justifiable discharge".
This was not a libel trial since in the US, the truth is a defense. But it was a defamation one. Which puzzles me (IANAL), as libel is a form of defamation. So on what basis can a jury possibly award damages? (Perhaps one of you lawyer types out there can answer that.)
On the one hand, "super injunctions" themselves aren't news in the sense of being "a new thing".
On the other hand, they aren't news because, you know, you aren't allowed to report their existence....
As to "not the government", I would have to disagree. Just as with National Security Letters, there have to be legal underpinnings allowing such a concept. If the law didn't permit these "super-injunctions", they could not survive. Of course, I don't know that they have been challenged in court yet. Apparently the Trafigura order got nulled before it could reach court. And The Guardian has been served with almost one a month in 2009. That's a lot of court challenges it would have to undertake in the cause of freedom of speech. I imagine that they have to pick their battles. Perhaps the United Kingdom needs it's own version of the ACLU.
... there's always a boom tomorrow.
> Poststamps are anonymous... ... unless you lick them...
Until you've been exposed to it, a meme out of context is merely a non sequitur. It's a large world - internet - out there.
It should not be a sin, to not recognize a meme you've never encountered before. Thank you for your kind link.
... and it is a wonder how many trolls, jerks, etc create libel suits to suppress honest and accurate comments about their businesses and themselves that happen to be unfavorable. In many cases invoking the Streisand Effect, for all the good that does the defendant of the lawsuit.
Both sides of the coin, friend. Both sides of the coin.
My original intent was: the original work predates the derived one. Therefore, derived work's copyright period expiring implies that the original work's copyright must have expired as well. ... which on consideration wasn't completely the case: If the original work's copyright was extended but the derived one's wasn't, the derived work's copyright could indeed expire without the original's having done so. ... up to the point where copyrights were no longer having to be extended 'manually'.
I apologize for being unclear.
Naw. The final level is getting laws written so that if you do get caught, the government defends you (successfully).
Yeah, yeah. Land formation message passing has a great bit-rate, but it is highly granular, and is subject to extreme latency. But hey, it also supports millennial delivery retry attempts.
You find it if you look.
a) Unlike computers, we don't yet have software to virtualize people. Though it's a neat concept, isn't it? "Restore from save: This will wipe all memory since last save. Continue? Y/N"
b) We are all of us virtual persons here. I doubt your friends call you "h00manist" any more than mine call me "Sabt Pestnu".
c) As reputation is the province of the beholder, not the subject, "virtual reputation" only makes sense if the entity is not a "real person". I guess that actuarial software could hold a "virtual reputation". Many MMORPGs record your character's reputation with factions in the game, so I guess that counts as well. Perhaps the "friends, fans, foes, freaks" for /. accounts counts as virtual reputation also.
d) Virtual testimony, that I'll buy. Since it's not "in person", it could count, I guess. I'd consider it more "written testemony" though, since there's no real presence involved. ... and I'm overthinking a virtual jest, aren't I? Still, it was an entertaining session of mulling.
But if the copyright period on the derivative work runs out, it has perforce run out on the original copyright.
Well, mostly. Copyrights before 1978, copyrights were initially for 28 years, and could be renewed for another 28 years. From 1930, the first renewal would be in 1958, lasting to 1986. So if not renewed the copyright would have run out in 1958.
But if renewed, then it would have been retroactively extended at least twice, to 2025.
> But Enzi's still an idiot, ...
I know naught of Enzi, so I'll take your word for it. :)
But then, if it's not his "manufactured in china" comment, I can't claim that the "tiniest amounts" fear is his either. For that matter, since the press release didn't say one way or the other, my own "environmental/labor" claim is simply supposition anyway.
> Recycling costs me nothing.
You haven't recycled anything serious then. CRTs? Relatively nominal charge for disposal. Got Freon in your fridge? Fee for disposal. Electronics? depends on your state.
> Dimming an incandescent to 75% its output means you get far less light. You are actually making them less efficient.
Wikipedia would tend to agree, but there are limits to how you can generate lumens. Several point sources are more comfortable than a single searing orb. And by that same chart, CFLs scale up even better on lumens/watt than incandescents.
However, later in that same article, you find that CFLs degrade much, much faster when turned off and on regularly. So much so that their lifetime can degrade to be equivalent to that of an incandescent. ... at which point manufacturing/disposal costs have exceeded your "use savings". So putting them in your bathroom, closet, or motion detector yard light is probably not a good idea.
The commerce clause (that you pointed out) has been pretty much the green light for anything the US government wants to do, despite it having been designed for suppression of interstate taxation.
Look up Wickard v. Filburn (or find the link from the wikipedia Commerce Clause page).
Just a point of order: The "manufactured in china" quote came from the DeMint office, and seems to be the product of almost 30 separate senators - IE almost 1/3 of the whole Senate. Do you have a quote that puts that objection directly from his mouth?
I can also feel fairly sure that the "Chinee right burbs!" argument is more about environmental and labor standards than about trade imbalance or product quality. Are you really making the world a better place, using your CFL, if Indonesian lightbulb workers are dying of mercury poisoning because of it?
Just because the problem isn't in your backyard doesn't clear you of responsibility for it.
Number of players: 0
Computer chooses: Toccata and Fugue in D minor (white)
Computer chooses: Louie Louie (black)
Start game.
The only winning move is Jam Session.
Unless you plan to bury your shoes in a hot-house, you've only got a small window in which you can bury them and get flowers. And that can depend on the seeds involved.
Four years may not be entirely unreasonable for my shoes either. How long would it be reasonable to expect the seeds to remain viable, given the various environments shoes have to put up with.
I'm also curious about whether there can be problems of "early germination". If I wade through too many puddles and leave my shoes in a warm-but-humid environment, am I going to come back to find them "running back to nature" without me?
Still, it's a nice thought.
It entirely depends on your definition of radiation, I guess. Electro-magnetic field radiation (strength) is what they found correlated with brain glucose metabolism.
As opposed to gamma ray radiation induced by positron emission, the factor used to detect said brain glucose metabolism.
I wonder if they considered possible interactions between the tomography equipment and the radio-frequency fields of the cell phones. There may be none, but I know so little I am free to speculate impossibilities...
... that you can't see our apology, considering that you use your phone to read Twitter...
> 'We're very sorry for the inconvenience,' Microsoft responded on Twitter.
> If you don't have...
Some other things whose lack might invoke your "miserable death":
A 2 week supply of water. You don't think public water supplies are going to remain stable, do you? And if you're talking about "death by cold", then you're also talking "pipes freeze". And since you're talking about using sleeping bags and blankets to keep yourself warm, that same water supply needs to be in meltable chunks. You'll be a sad panda when you find your 5 gallon buckets are 5 gallon blocks of ice. ... and sadder when the heat comes back on and you find they split...
Emergency sanitation. Frozen pipes. Two weeks. you do the math. And if you're talking "can't open the door because of the snow", don't tell me "just do it outside in the snow".
Your own home. You honestly think you can store all of that in a studio apartment? If you do, where are you going to put the sleeping bag down at?
I'll point out as well that the "old widow", being "old" may well not be able to generate enough heat on her own to keep from freezing, even with the best of insulation. It takes a lot of calories to do that kind of thing, and you have to be able to USE those calories, which an old person may well not be acclimatized to.