Aaah, so it would have been as okay in Nazi Germany if Judaism and homosexuality were outlawed first? Seems like a meaningless step to me. I do hope that was intentionally being snarky. The illegal nature of pedophile actions has pretty much universal support. Unless you want to argue that Judaism and homosexuality are on par with pedophilia, I'm just going to assume you are just being arguementative.
While I don't agree with the premise of the sex offender registries, to compare it to the armbands required of the Nazis is a bit of a stretch. These people DID commit crimes, while in Nazi Germany they simply existed.
I'm an avid gamer, and I figured that I could sit on my ass and play Mariokart, or I could jump on the bike while I played. Not the best exercise, but exercise none the less.
Well, I was hit with a bad case of 'controller lean' That sensation that if you just lean a bit, your character will make those turns just a little bit tighter. I also ended up with the odd sensation that if I just peddled a little faster, my racer would pull a bit ahead. I've played games for years, and thought I had broken myself of the habit, but as soon as I introduced the bike to gaming, I ended up with a bad case of it.
It was nearly so bad that I had to put down the game because I was breaking my rhythm and ended up biking a lot harder than I intended to.
That depends on what you use as a benchmark. You mention the moon landing as one, and it seems that you hit on several 'milestones' for measuring progress.
Yet consider what the moon landing actually was. Not much more than strapping a sealed container on a series of rockets and doing a lot of math to make sure they all worked properly. In the scope of 'scientific understanding' there wasn't much of a step forward. It was more akin to a demonstration of what mankind was capable of.
I think a lot of what we view as progress (or our perception of a lack thereof) is skewed by the lack of 'flair' involved.
I mean, as significant as mapping the human genome is, it can't compare it to the gut-punch flair that was detonating the first atomic bomb.
While true, I don't believe these are the types of thefts that spawned this chipped-dvd idea.
However, in such a situation where an online retailer is concerned about such thefts, they could decide to then purchase chipped-dvds to deter such thefts. You do a cost-benefit analysis and determine if the risk and cost of a theft is worth the development of such a system.
It wouldn't be a tough change to implement when you ship an item. Just add a step where the DVD is zapped before it is shipped.
I'm just saying, that most online retailers are large enough to absorb this change w/o batting an eyelash, or they simply won't adopt it. Which is exactly how the situation is today with non-chipped DVDs.
Online retailers would only purchase the 'non-chipped' DVDs for sale. Only stores with a high risk of physical theft would need to install this type of system.
This is for the Sam Goody, FYE, type stores that can actually quantify a loss due to physical theft. If the loss is greater than the cost of installing this system (combined with the expected remaining theft) then that would be their option to install.
Not only that, but they would very likely work out a deal with the distributors. If Store A with no theft reduction device has a DVD stolen, they have to replace it at cost. If Store B with the chipped DVDs has one stolen, they could very well only pay a fraction of the replacement cost since the stolen DVD will likely not re-enter the market.
Edmonton is the capital of Alberta, a Canadian province. It is situated in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies. It is the second largest city in Alberta, with a population of 730,372 (2006[1]), and is the hub of the country's sixth largest Census Metropolitan Area, with a metropolitan population of 1,034,945 (2006[2]), making it the northernmost North American city with a metropolitan population over one million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton,_Alberta
While you may not classify a city with a population of over a million people as a major city, it contrasts a bit with the city where I grew up:
The population was 10,838 at the 2000 census.
When I was in Philadelphia I had no issues with Public Transportation there. I had a selection of trains and busses I could ride. But for anyone even slightly outside of a major city (Edmonton is something I would consider major), then it becomes a very big hassle.
In the United States, it is quite possible that you can't function in society w/o a motor vehicle. Certainly there are ways that you can get around it, but unless you are fairly lucky with friends (Someone to drive you to work) or affluent enough to handle the added costs, it can really wreck some people's lives.
I've never had my license suspended, but I did work for a few years by utilizing public transportation. It was hell. Sometimes the busses were full, sometimes they didn't come at all. I was at the mercy of the bus driver. Now, it didn't matter so much when I was waiting tables at Ruby Tuesday, but I couldn't imagine how I could hold any sort of professional job and rely on public transportation. Worst thing that I experienced was having to track down a friend to come and pick me up during a hurricane because the busses stopped running (Not Katrina). I got out of the area just in time before we both were stranded when the roads washed out.
And that was just me being a poor teenager who simply couldn't afford a car at the time. Now, I realize that some crimes are tied to driving offenses, but more and more crimes that have nothing to do with driving have license suspension built into them. I'd imagine that 70% of the people here would have to hand in their job resignation if their license was suspended.
I wish I COULD use public transportation, but that really isn't an option anymore. Outside of major cities, it is dead.
It does. You don't know what that person is using that AP for. Just because you don't think it will impact them much, doesn't make it right to impact them 'just a little'.
Since analogies seem to be all the rage, allow me to add one of my own.
You are walking down the street, and are thirsty. You notice that I have a garden hose lying in my flowerbed and the valve is within arms reach. So you go ahead and take a drink from the garden hose and politely turn off the valve when you are finished. You walk away, confident that I didn't mind your brief use of my property.
...while I'm yelling because suddenly the cold water in my shower was depleted and I got scalded.
Definately new to the area. And by get a hold of the local governments, I meant drive out those I could. Before I moved here I had a nasty habit of making life hell for the local politicians. Sure I'm idealistic, but I can raise a good rabble when necessary.
But NY beurocracy has driven me insane already. I haven't transferred my license from PA yet because my: PA license, Passport, Military ID, Birth Certificate, Mortgage settlement, Concealed weapons permit, were not enough forms of ID. No sir! I needed to present them with additional ID. Yup. My SS card.
The blue, paper, printed with a typewriter social security card was required. Because it is much harder to fake than what I had shown them.
No DSL for me and I've tried. I'm w/i walking distance of West Corners too. I've taken a look at the COs in the area, and the next closest one to me is in the town of Maine. Sadly, it's not equipped with a DSLAM and I don't think my phone line connects to it even if it were.
I'm probably at 21,000' from the nearest DSL capable CO.
What worries me is that when they actually do roll out FIOS in Endicott that it won't reach me. If I don't get it on the first go round of Endicott, I'll probably get it at the same time they hit up the rest of Appalachia.
All this talk has really made me want to get ahold of the local municiple goverments and try to get them to put some leverage onto Verizon to make sure when they do upgrade here, they do it properly.
A simple solution to the Penn State bandwidth cap is the following:
1. Large downloads can be had from the computer labs. EVERY set of residence halls has one within 1 minutes walk. The ONLY set of dorms that doesn't have a dedicated computer lab are the new apartments. And even those are only 100' away from South Hall's computer labs
2. All intra-university and internet2 traffic does not count to your bandwidth limit. And many linux distros are stored on a university server.
3. *Cough*register the mac address of a router instead of a single NIC and with a little NAT you can have much more flexibility*cough*
Don't try the MAC address thing. I'm not trying to be overly snarky, but if you are already being caught by the bandwidth cap and haven't worked out a way to avoid breaking it you would probably getting yourself into more trouble than it is worth.
Penn State has so many computer labs that there really is no excuse for going over the bandwidth cap. And if you are doing it for class, you can get an exemption.
Well, fearing for sacrificing the little anonymity I have left I'll have to leave it at that. spamfaker@gmail.com is my throwaway address if anyone needs to reach me for my real address;)
I actually considered using this as an opportunity to flex my networking wings and setup a small ISP in the area, but I doubt I'd be able to get any customers other than myself and maybe 2-3 others. There IS cable here, but my home just happens to be a bit too far from the road to latch onto it w/o actually running a fiber line.
Time Warner said they would have me hooked up around June. I don't know how much faith I have, but hopefully once they actually give me the equivalent of my own Fiber Cable run, I'll be a happy clam.
Even though I'm probably SOL (I live in Endicott/Binghamton), before I moved Verizon had just upgraded my old house to FIOS.
I was absolutely in love with FIOS and would kill to have it installed here. As it stands, I've waited 8 months and will be shelling out over $1500 just to have cable installed at my house. I'm currently battling with a shoddy dialup connection (28.8 is about the best it can manage due to line noise).
I wonder if I can get some medical grants to pay for my internet since dialup after FIOS is sending my blood pressure through the roof.
The market exists already and would have had IGE never existed. IGE is providing a service that makes the market a bit less scary and puts a 'We aren't here to steal your credit card information' face on it.
Does anyone else find it sad (ironic, funny, etc) that they chose to 'distribute' these songs at tour venues? In essence they distributed this song to the fans who were going to see them perform and very likely paid for their tickets/swag/CDs. Only then to turn around and use them as targets in their campaign?
I made a genetically modified virus for Valentines day. Unfortunately, none of my Valentines seem to enjoy it when I sneeze on them. I'm just spreading the love:(
It isn't just Linux. Back when I was dating, my yet-to-be wife had a service contract with Best Buy. I had removed the default Windows ME installation and replaced it with Windows 2000.
The touchpad on her laptop died from overuse. The key physically would not click anymore. Best Buy's goons would not service it because it had Windows 2000 installed instead of Windows ME
I almost needed to buy a new screen too. Thankfully I stopped just short of using the laptop to beat some sense into the tech.
In a situation where a soldier would bleed and a combat medic is necessary, there is very likely a multitude of fluids on the body. Sweat, water, mud, powder burns. These all could mix with the blood and result in a medley of shades. Speaking as someone who is color deficient and has had a few bleeding wounds far from civilization, blood dries to a brownish tinged color that can be hard to identify as blood.
I've had a slash on my arm that I didn't know was there until I got back and started cleaning up.
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While I don't agree with the premise of the sex offender registries, to compare it to the armbands required of the Nazis is a bit of a stretch. These people DID commit crimes, while in Nazi Germany they simply existed.
I'm an avid gamer, and I figured that I could sit on my ass and play Mariokart, or I could jump on the bike while I played. Not the best exercise, but exercise none the less.
Well, I was hit with a bad case of 'controller lean' That sensation that if you just lean a bit, your character will make those turns just a little bit tighter. I also ended up with the odd sensation that if I just peddled a little faster, my racer would pull a bit ahead. I've played games for years, and thought I had broken myself of the habit, but as soon as I introduced the bike to gaming, I ended up with a bad case of it.
It was nearly so bad that I had to put down the game because I was breaking my rhythm and ended up biking a lot harder than I intended to.
I remember all the button mashing I did back in Myst. Sometimes a game doesn't have to involve twitch interaction to be engaging.
Now that you mention it, I didn't see that explicitly prohibited in the Owner's Manual. brb
And a new warning sticker was born.
That depends on what you use as a benchmark. You mention the moon landing as one, and it seems that you hit on several 'milestones' for measuring progress.
Yet consider what the moon landing actually was. Not much more than strapping a sealed container on a series of rockets and doing a lot of math to make sure they all worked properly. In the scope of 'scientific understanding' there wasn't much of a step forward. It was more akin to a demonstration of what mankind was capable of.
I think a lot of what we view as progress (or our perception of a lack thereof) is skewed by the lack of 'flair' involved.
I mean, as significant as mapping the human genome is, it can't compare it to the gut-punch flair that was detonating the first atomic bomb.
While true, I don't believe these are the types of thefts that spawned this chipped-dvd idea.
However, in such a situation where an online retailer is concerned about such thefts, they could decide to then purchase chipped-dvds to deter such thefts. You do a cost-benefit analysis and determine if the risk and cost of a theft is worth the development of such a system.
It wouldn't be a tough change to implement when you ship an item. Just add a step where the DVD is zapped before it is shipped.
I'm just saying, that most online retailers are large enough to absorb this change w/o batting an eyelash, or they simply won't adopt it. Which is exactly how the situation is today with non-chipped DVDs.
Online retailers would only purchase the 'non-chipped' DVDs for sale. Only stores with a high risk of physical theft would need to install this type of system.
This is for the Sam Goody, FYE, type stores that can actually quantify a loss due to physical theft. If the loss is greater than the cost of installing this system (combined with the expected remaining theft) then that would be their option to install.
Not only that, but they would very likely work out a deal with the distributors. If Store A with no theft reduction device has a DVD stolen, they have to replace it at cost. If Store B with the chipped DVDs has one stolen, they could very well only pay a fraction of the replacement cost since the stolen DVD will likely not re-enter the market.
Edmonton is the capital of Alberta, a Canadian province. It is situated in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies. It is the second largest city in Alberta, with a population of 730,372 (2006[1]), and is the hub of the country's sixth largest Census Metropolitan Area, with a metropolitan population of 1,034,945 (2006[2]), making it the northernmost North American city with a metropolitan population over one million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton,_Alberta
While you may not classify a city with a population of over a million people as a major city, it contrasts a bit with the city where I grew up:
The population was 10,838 at the 2000 census.
When I was in Philadelphia I had no issues with Public Transportation there. I had a selection of trains and busses I could ride. But for anyone even slightly outside of a major city (Edmonton is something I would consider major), then it becomes a very big hassle.
In the United States, it is quite possible that you can't function in society w/o a motor vehicle. Certainly there are ways that you can get around it, but unless you are fairly lucky with friends (Someone to drive you to work) or affluent enough to handle the added costs, it can really wreck some people's lives.
I've never had my license suspended, but I did work for a few years by utilizing public transportation. It was hell. Sometimes the busses were full, sometimes they didn't come at all. I was at the mercy of the bus driver. Now, it didn't matter so much when I was waiting tables at Ruby Tuesday, but I couldn't imagine how I could hold any sort of professional job and rely on public transportation. Worst thing that I experienced was having to track down a friend to come and pick me up during a hurricane because the busses stopped running (Not Katrina). I got out of the area just in time before we both were stranded when the roads washed out.
And that was just me being a poor teenager who simply couldn't afford a car at the time. Now, I realize that some crimes are tied to driving offenses, but more and more crimes that have nothing to do with driving have license suspension built into them. I'd imagine that 70% of the people here would have to hand in their job resignation if their license was suspended.
I wish I COULD use public transportation, but that really isn't an option anymore. Outside of major cities, it is dead.
Which is why I don't want people messing with it. Even if it's 'just a few email's worth'
It does. You don't know what that person is using that AP for. Just because you don't think it will impact them much, doesn't make it right to impact them 'just a little'.
...while I'm yelling because suddenly the cold water in my shower was depleted and I got scalded.
Since analogies seem to be all the rage, allow me to add one of my own.
You are walking down the street, and are thirsty. You notice that I have a garden hose lying in my flowerbed and the valve is within arms reach. So you go ahead and take a drink from the garden hose and politely turn off the valve when you are finished. You walk away, confident that I didn't mind your brief use of my property.
If you think it is about money. Why not check into cell phone use on Air Force One? You might be surprised.
Definately new to the area. And by get a hold of the local governments, I meant drive out those I could. Before I moved here I had a nasty habit of making life hell for the local politicians. Sure I'm idealistic, but I can raise a good rabble when necessary.
But NY beurocracy has driven me insane already. I haven't transferred my license from PA yet because my: PA license, Passport, Military ID, Birth Certificate, Mortgage settlement, Concealed weapons permit, were not enough forms of ID. No sir! I needed to present them with additional ID. Yup. My SS card.
The blue, paper, printed with a typewriter social security card was required. Because it is much harder to fake than what I had shown them.
No DSL for me and I've tried. I'm w/i walking distance of West Corners too. I've taken a look at the COs in the area, and the next closest one to me is in the town of Maine. Sadly, it's not equipped with a DSLAM and I don't think my phone line connects to it even if it were.
I'm probably at 21,000' from the nearest DSL capable CO.
What worries me is that when they actually do roll out FIOS in Endicott that it won't reach me. If I don't get it on the first go round of Endicott, I'll probably get it at the same time they hit up the rest of Appalachia.
All this talk has really made me want to get ahold of the local municiple goverments and try to get them to put some leverage onto Verizon to make sure when they do upgrade here, they do it properly.
A simple solution to the Penn State bandwidth cap is the following:
1. Large downloads can be had from the computer labs. EVERY set of residence halls has one within 1 minutes walk. The ONLY set of dorms that doesn't have a dedicated computer lab are the new apartments. And even those are only 100' away from South Hall's computer labs 2. All intra-university and internet2 traffic does not count to your bandwidth limit. And many linux distros are stored on a university server. 3. *Cough*register the mac address of a router instead of a single NIC and with a little NAT you can have much more flexibility*cough*
Don't try the MAC address thing. I'm not trying to be overly snarky, but if you are already being caught by the bandwidth cap and haven't worked out a way to avoid breaking it you would probably getting yourself into more trouble than it is worth.
Penn State has so many computer labs that there really is no excuse for going over the bandwidth cap. And if you are doing it for class, you can get an exemption.
Well, fearing for sacrificing the little anonymity I have left I'll have to leave it at that. spamfaker@gmail.com is my throwaway address if anyone needs to reach me for my real address ;)
I actually considered using this as an opportunity to flex my networking wings and setup a small ISP in the area, but I doubt I'd be able to get any customers other than myself and maybe 2-3 others. There IS cable here, but my home just happens to be a bit too far from the road to latch onto it w/o actually running a fiber line.
Time Warner said they would have me hooked up around June. I don't know how much faith I have, but hopefully once they actually give me the equivalent of my own Fiber Cable run, I'll be a happy clam.
Even though I'm probably SOL (I live in Endicott/Binghamton), before I moved Verizon had just upgraded my old house to FIOS.
I was absolutely in love with FIOS and would kill to have it installed here. As it stands, I've waited 8 months and will be shelling out over $1500 just to have cable installed at my house. I'm currently battling with a shoddy dialup connection (28.8 is about the best it can manage due to line noise).
I wonder if I can get some medical grants to pay for my internet since dialup after FIOS is sending my blood pressure through the roof.
Is there a place in the US where this is even possible? For most of my life (East Coast) I've known only Comcast, and Comcast was/is the only option.
I now moved to New York and I now have the option of Time Warner or nothing.
The market exists already and would have had IGE never existed. IGE is providing a service that makes the market a bit less scary and puts a 'We aren't here to steal your credit card information' face on it.
Does anyone else find it sad (ironic, funny, etc) that they chose to 'distribute' these songs at tour venues? In essence they distributed this song to the fans who were going to see them perform and very likely paid for their tickets/swag/CDs. Only then to turn around and use them as targets in their campaign?
Because it is cheaper to fight the very rare lawsuit. On average, how often do you believe that people,
a. violate the limit
b. have enough spare time and cash to pursue a lawsuit?
Probably not very many. Then compound that with what has almost become a truism for advertising:
If it has an '*' after a claim, then that claim is very likely a lie.
I made a genetically modified virus for Valentines day. Unfortunately, none of my Valentines seem to enjoy it when I sneeze on them. I'm just spreading the love :(
It isn't just Linux. Back when I was dating, my yet-to-be wife had a service contract with Best Buy. I had removed the default Windows ME installation and replaced it with Windows 2000.
The touchpad on her laptop died from overuse. The key physically would not click anymore. Best Buy's goons would not service it because it had Windows 2000 installed instead of Windows ME
I almost needed to buy a new screen too. Thankfully I stopped just short of using the laptop to beat some sense into the tech.
In a situation where a soldier would bleed and a combat medic is necessary, there is very likely a multitude of fluids on the body. Sweat, water, mud, powder burns. These all could mix with the blood and result in a medley of shades. Speaking as someone who is color deficient and has had a few bleeding wounds far from civilization, blood dries to a brownish tinged color that can be hard to identify as blood.
I've had a slash on my arm that I didn't know was there until I got back and started cleaning up.