And what regulations prevent it? The first two that come to mind are 1) the water is polluted enough to be dangerous, or 2) it's a drinking water supply. The first one is caused by lack of regulation preventing the pollution in the first place, and the second makes a lot of sense to me.
The EPA is needed, but its growing into a giant lumbering obstacle to many economic and personal ventures.
If those "economic and personal ventures" would poison a few thousand people, push a dozen species to extinction, and make a large area of land practically uninhabitable, then good, the EPA should be an obstacle.
You're right, of course meeting with legislators shouldn't be made illegal. What's happened is that the term "lobbying" has been misused to include all of the related activity that goes along with lobbying these days. Typically, very large campaign donations accompany corporate lobbyists.
There are also occasional favors that avoid the whole bag-of-cash problem.
Perfectly okay: A lawyer hired by a large corporation going to Washington and saying, "Hey, Mr. Senator, we should talk about this legislation that could affect the company that hired me."
Not okay: A lawyer hired by a large corporation going to Washington and saying, "Hey, Mr. Senator, we should talk about this legislation that could affect the company that hired me. How about we meet at a golf course in the Caribbean?"
I admit that I'm not completely up to date on land-line phone service (I haven't had one since college), but I was under the impression that most areas are like cable television, with only a single provider (typically the same company that provides DSL).
As for mobile phone service, if the companies had their way instead of the FTC stopping them, there would currently be only two providers, AT&T and Verizon.
Yeah, it's terrible when a bunch of politicians that don't represent you and meet in a far-away city try to control what you and are neighbors are allowed to do.
3. TWC will always respond to outages because they want your money and don't want to get sued (yes, they do it in an incompetent manner). The government pretty much doesn't care.
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.
Resources will go to Electric, Water, Gas, and Storm drains first.
If you're talking about something like a natural disaster, then yes, you're right, and that's how it should be. Most people's Internet connections won't work very well without electricity anyway, and running water and drainage are far more important than your Netflix movies.
The way python wants to use indentation to indicate blocks of code is much more difficult to read for anything of modest complexity.
At the abstract level, I understand why people have trouble with the idea that whitespace is significant in Python (I'm one of them). But after using it for a few years now, I've realized that if you don't indent your code the same way in Python as you would in any other language anyway, you're almost certainly doing something wrong.
I agree that the Android codenames are frustratingly meaningless. If you asked me before I read this article whether "KitKat" or "Lollipop" was the current version of Android, I would have no idea.
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If a company wants to use cute names then can I proffer that Ubuntu does it the right way. If you give me two Ubuntu code names and ask me which one is more recent, I can tell you because I know the alphabet.
Um, you might want to revisit at least one of these two statements.
Does it also come with UI regressions, like the change around 3-4 that turned putting the clock into night mode from a one-tap operation into a 4 tap sequence?
Search Google for stuff like "silent mode" or "vibrate only". Apparently someone in the Android development team decided that nobody ever wants to set their phone to vibrate when they go in to a meeting.
If you want to be "well rounded" there's enough sports broadcast over the airwaves. You don't need cable for that level of sports.
Cable sports is only necessary for the obsessed wannabes that are just another version of the GamerGate stereotype.
The only professional sport that is on the over-the-air broadcasters around here is the NFL. The local MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams are all on regional cable channels.
There's conclusive evidence that star-eating life in our galaxy does not exist: Our sun is still shining bright. Unless you're seriously stupid enough to think that somehow star-eating life would leave us alone for some reason.
There's also conclusive evidence that cow-eating life on our planet does not exist: there are plenty of cows around.
I had always thought it was the latter, but I've also heard the theory that when an electric light bulb was first presented for a rabbinic opinion, the fact that it emitted heat and light was the reason that it was classified as fire.
On top of it all, the premise of the games is... ridiculous.
Primarily as some kind of a deterrent and punishment - when the spectacle around it makes it into entertainment.
Seriously, even if it was a show only for the families of the contestants in order to torture them for some made up reason - THEY WOULD NOT CARE for most of the contestants.
There is no reason for anyone other than their immediate family AND MOST CERTAINLY anyone outside their district to care about anyone other than THEIR "tributes".
And if they would care - it would be only in a way that EVERYONE would still love the winner in the end.
Doesn't sound much different than most of the reality shows on TV now. Look around at how many people watch stupid competitions and then highly anticipate who will get voted off the island.
I'm not sure either that they're supposed to be unbiased, but I don't think they ever are. Some are just less biased than others.
My question was more directed at the idea that this incident is because the Wall Street Journal is now owned by News Corp. I was under the impression that the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages had always been like this.
I don't read the Wall Street Journal myself, but if what I usually read online about it is correct, hasn't it been well known for a very long time that the editorial pages are heavily biased?
I can't tell if you don't understand copyright or if I'm not understanding what you're trying to say.
Copyright begins with first publication/release/distribution. An upthread example shows a guy working on a trillogy where the first book was done in 2001 and that 20 years would be too short.
Being part of a series has absolutely no effect on copyright. If the first book in a series is published in 2001 and the last book in the series is published in 2021, the copyright for the first book will expire in 2001 + X and the copyright on the last book will expire in 2021 + X. There is no copyright on the series; each book has an independent copyright.
If Disney grabs $NEXT_BIG_HIT from the pd and creates a hot new princess tale/etc. then that same PD still needs to be available for others to use in the same manner - it can't be locked back up.
This is already true. Copyright covers a specific creative expression (e.g. book, movie, etc.). You can't copyright an idea or basic story. If you want to take the original story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and make a movie from it, you aren't infringing Disney's copyright if your movie doesn't contain anything that was added by Disney to their version of the movie.
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And what regulations prevent it? The first two that come to mind are 1) the water is polluted enough to be dangerous, or 2) it's a drinking water supply. The first one is caused by lack of regulation preventing the pollution in the first place, and the second makes a lot of sense to me.
And people didn't quite understand how dangerous that polluted water was.
The EPA is needed, but its growing into a giant lumbering obstacle to many economic and personal ventures.
If those "economic and personal ventures" would poison a few thousand people, push a dozen species to extinction, and make a large area of land practically uninhabitable, then good, the EPA should be an obstacle.
You're right, of course meeting with legislators shouldn't be made illegal. What's happened is that the term "lobbying" has been misused to include all of the related activity that goes along with lobbying these days. Typically, very large campaign donations accompany corporate lobbyists.
There are also occasional favors that avoid the whole bag-of-cash problem.
Perfectly okay: A lawyer hired by a large corporation going to Washington and saying, "Hey, Mr. Senator, we should talk about this legislation that could affect the company that hired me."
Not okay: A lawyer hired by a large corporation going to Washington and saying, "Hey, Mr. Senator, we should talk about this legislation that could affect the company that hired me. How about we meet at a golf course in the Caribbean?"
I admit that I'm not completely up to date on land-line phone service (I haven't had one since college), but I was under the impression that most areas are like cable television, with only a single provider (typically the same company that provides DSL).
As for mobile phone service, if the companies had their way instead of the FTC stopping them, there would currently be only two providers, AT&T and Verizon.
Yeah, it's terrible when a bunch of politicians that don't represent you and meet in a far-away city try to control what you and are neighbors are allowed to do.
3. TWC will always respond to outages because they want your money and don't want to get sued (yes, they do it in an incompetent manner). The government pretty much doesn't care.
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.
Resources will go to Electric, Water, Gas, and Storm drains first.
If you're talking about something like a natural disaster, then yes, you're right, and that's how it should be. Most people's Internet connections won't work very well without electricity anyway, and running water and drainage are far more important than your Netflix movies.
The way python wants to use indentation to indicate blocks of code is much more difficult to read for anything of modest complexity.
At the abstract level, I understand why people have trouble with the idea that whitespace is significant in Python (I'm one of them). But after using it for a few years now, I've realized that if you don't indent your code the same way in Python as you would in any other language anyway, you're almost certainly doing something wrong.
They just tools that write it for them after drawing it in Photoshop.
Should that be "they just use tools" or "they just are tools"?
Yes.
I agree that the Android codenames are frustratingly meaningless. If you asked me before I read this article whether "KitKat" or "Lollipop" was the current version of Android, I would have no idea.
...
If a company wants to use cute names then can I proffer that Ubuntu does it the right way. If you give me two Ubuntu code names and ask me which one is more recent, I can tell you because I know the alphabet.
Um, you might want to revisit at least one of these two statements.
Ironically, Apple fanboys don't have to buy a new device just to get a software upgrade.
Nope, Apple fanboys just have to buy a new device.
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Does it also come with UI regressions, like the change around 3-4 that turned putting the clock into night mode from a one-tap operation into a 4 tap sequence?
Search Google for stuff like "silent mode" or "vibrate only". Apparently someone in the Android development team decided that nobody ever wants to set their phone to vibrate when they go in to a meeting.
Researchers in Boston found a substance that can destroy living things without any possible defense. The rest of us call it the Charles River.
SciFi, Discovery, the nature type channels that all benefit the most from good quality...
Yes, they definitely would benefit from better quality.
Oh, you meant picture quality.
If you want to be "well rounded" there's enough sports broadcast over the airwaves. You don't need cable for that level of sports.
Cable sports is only necessary for the obsessed wannabes that are just another version of the GamerGate stereotype.
The only professional sport that is on the over-the-air broadcasters around here is the NFL. The local MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams are all on regional cable channels.
No, I was proposing that your statement was completely ridiculous. Hopefully now you see why.
Why yes, it is the same Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter as in that.
I didn't catch his name. What was it again?
That would be Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter.
Are you certain that it's Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter?
There's conclusive evidence that star-eating life in our galaxy does not exist: Our sun is still shining bright. Unless you're seriously stupid enough to think that somehow star-eating life would leave us alone for some reason.
There's also conclusive evidence that cow-eating life on our planet does not exist: there are plenty of cows around.
I had always thought it was the latter, but I've also heard the theory that when an electric light bulb was first presented for a rabbinic opinion, the fact that it emitted heat and light was the reason that it was classified as fire.
If they can do those things, then they will do those things regardless of tax.
Exactly. I always find it rather amusing that so many "free-market capitalists" forget this very basic principle of a free market.
On top of it all, the premise of the games is... ridiculous. Primarily as some kind of a deterrent and punishment - when the spectacle around it makes it into entertainment. Seriously, even if it was a show only for the families of the contestants in order to torture them for some made up reason - THEY WOULD NOT CARE for most of the contestants.
There is no reason for anyone other than their immediate family AND MOST CERTAINLY anyone outside their district to care about anyone other than THEIR "tributes". And if they would care - it would be only in a way that EVERYONE would still love the winner in the end.
Doesn't sound much different than most of the reality shows on TV now. Look around at how many people watch stupid competitions and then highly anticipate who will get voted off the island.
I'm not sure either that they're supposed to be unbiased, but I don't think they ever are. Some are just less biased than others.
My question was more directed at the idea that this incident is because the Wall Street Journal is now owned by News Corp. I was under the impression that the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages had always been like this.
I don't read the Wall Street Journal myself, but if what I usually read online about it is correct, hasn't it been well known for a very long time that the editorial pages are heavily biased?
Copyright begins with first publication/release/distribution. An upthread example shows a guy working on a trillogy where the first book was done in 2001 and that 20 years would be too short.
Being part of a series has absolutely no effect on copyright. If the first book in a series is published in 2001 and the last book in the series is published in 2021, the copyright for the first book will expire in 2001 + X and the copyright on the last book will expire in 2021 + X. There is no copyright on the series; each book has an independent copyright.
If Disney grabs $NEXT_BIG_HIT from the pd and creates a hot new princess tale/etc. then that same PD still needs to be available for others to use in the same manner - it can't be locked back up.
This is already true. Copyright covers a specific creative expression (e.g. book, movie, etc.). You can't copyright an idea or basic story. If you want to take the original story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and make a movie from it, you aren't infringing Disney's copyright if your movie doesn't contain anything that was added by Disney to their version of the movie.