While I agree that we should rally loudly behind network neutrality, we must be really, really careful what exactly we rally for. The term "network neutrality" could conceivably be hijacked by a disinformation campaign of some sort, and then popular momentum could propel a monster (or more likely a neutered version of what we think of as network neutrality) into being.
I'll give two political examples of what I'm talking about: healthcare and abortion. Anti-abortion campaigns do not need to be careful to implement everything they want a single swipe. For years many activists were all-or-nothing about it and refused to support something they thought wasn't strict enough against abortion. That obviously didn't work. So now the approach is to go little-by-little. A little parental consent here, a partial-birth ban there. The activists have enough motivation to keep going long after achieving a small piece, so they can afford to work tirelessly over time.
Healthcare, on the other hand, does not have enough public and ideological support to make gradual changes. That is why people like Rachel Maddow are getting so angry as Obamacare is being sliced and diced by the public. She (and many other "big healthcare" supporters) realize that government-run healthcare is an all-or-nothing proposition. A half-baked government healthcare system would be ripped apart the next election cycle. The supporters do not have enough ideological support to effect gradual changes.
Net neutrality is more like the latter. There are not enough people who understand it to push it gradually in the right direction. If we accidentally get half of what we want, we'll likely never get the other half because John Q. Public will think, "Net neutrality? We already fixed that." and move on. Therefore, we must not only "say yes to net neutrality,[sic] as loudly and as often as [we] can," we must also try to educate people as to the actual concepts behind it.
His whole post was a reference to that, and hence was modded funny. And yes, there would be a lot of backlash, just as there has been a lot of backlash against the idea of doing it to radio.
My cousin worked at a dent collection call center, and I know for a fact that she is always polite and courteous. She even gave many people basic financial advise to help them pay their debts, and now she is in college majoring in "personal finance coaching" or something like that.
Terrorists aren't the real threat. The old powers are. Russia and China have no great love for the US, and they have real missiles. I applaud whichever far-thinking generals are pushing these programs.
A system like this won't seem nearly as useless when the missiles actually start flying. There are plenty of folks who might do the flying - been keeping up on Iran? They're not slowing down for Mr. "O"pologies. A much quieter but possibly worse threat is Russia. Mr. Putin of KGB success hasn't exactly retired, and Putin-critical journalists are dead or missing. Radiation poisoning is a nasty way to die, whether you're Litvinenko investigating your friend's assassination or a liberal enjoying your healthcare when the missiles arrive.
The world isn't getting better and better every day and in every way. World War I didn't originally end in I. An entire generation had their ideology shattered when Hitler rose to power. Another in the near future is going to find that hoping for change is a poor defense against a megalomaniac, especially one so ruthless and clever as Putin. And with war comes true sacrifice. Just ask an old person.
Ok, so I'm a young person and I want to prevent all this. What are my options? I have already given my SSN to two banks and an application to work at Staples (via UNICRU). Should I just make up an SSN for future use?
You just did. Read Part 15 of the FCC rules. "This device must not cause harmful interference, and must accept any interference even when it may cause undesired operation." (from memory so don't be picky)
Hams are not subject to Part 15. Homeplug is, meaning that if it interferes with a Ham the Homeplug guy is entirely at fault. Also, a Ham can overpower your Homeplug all day long if he had such a capability (probably not).
Credit is little more than a way to keep people working for low wages in crappy jobs. The entire credit system is little more than legalized slavery. We can see how the rise of the credit industry has coincided with a slow degradation of real income for workers.
The credit industry is not interested in "being evil" just to be evil. They just want to make money. It's not even in their interest to keep people working for low wages. If you are a bank/credit company, would you rather have more rich clients or more poor clients? Credit scores are an attempt by the industry protect themselves from losses by people who can't be trusted with credit. It's the modern equivalent of the medieval shopkeeper refusing to give another loan to the guy who didn't pay off his last one. True, there are some companies that want you in debt, but didn't invent the whole thing - they're just abusing it. Now stop spouting nonsense.
What bullshit. If you support stem cell research (as I do) have the balls to call it what it is...
I support stem cell research. Just not embryonic research, which has produced a grand total of 0 medical treatments, compared to 70+ for adult stem cell research. This article is about adult stem cell research.
Not only is this insulting, it's stupid. Stop thinking about our total family consumption and start thinking about per-person consumption. We drive a 15-passenger van and get 170 "personal miles per gallon". I guarantee your greenie car can't come close. We spend roughly $40 per person each month on bulk groceries. Last month's electricity usage per-person was 130 kWh (and that's running AC). How about you?
This country is becoming a vile place to live, no strike that, this country is a vile place to live.
Please shout and scream that to every US citizen you know. Tell us how you like your healthcare, your taxes, your gun laws, etc. Please, please try to tell Americans the truth before we fall into the same pit as you. Maybe someone will listen.
Ok, Slashdotters, put your money where your mouth is and start lobbying Slashdot to use https globally. I'll remain highly skeptical of all the talk talk talk around here until we actually do something about it.
Keep your textures synced with the cloud and let the render program pull them locally. It's actually not a new idea. Look up EnFuzion and some threads on BlenderArtists.
Since the mods haven't noticed, and I don't have mod points, let me point out that THIS POST HAS THE ANSWER. A real program that will do what the asker wants. The source is available, but I can't seem to find its license (it includes some of the Independent JPEG Goup's code).
Also, doesn't a jpeg's EXIF data or some other tag in the file tell you what quality it was saved at?
So tell me why should I be forced to pay for someone else's healthcare? I don't care if it works better (which I don't think it does). I work and earn for myself and whomever else I choose to give to, not for society at large. Socialism is a great idea until you run out of other people's money. Socialized medicine is rationed medicine.
I'm quite skeptical that the US government can create and run a reasonable socialized healthcare system, but I don't see any better alternatives.
Oo oo, I do I do! Pick me!
Do the following:
-No federal or state contracts from now on will include health insurance. (I'm sure there's better legalese for that, but you get the idea.)
-Employers won't be forced to provide health insurance.
Tada! Insurance suddenly has to prove it's own worth _to it's actual customers_, not to an accounting troll who wants a 10,000 person package and a bonus. People will suddenly become choosy about what insurance they buy, and also their own personal health (since they are not longer automatically covered if they stuff themselves with trash).
While I think this is a stinky move of Panasonic, they may be serious about the safety thing. I can easily imagine their legal dept. insisting on it to avoid lawsuits.
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While I agree that we should rally loudly behind network neutrality, we must be really, really careful what exactly we rally for. The term "network neutrality" could conceivably be hijacked by a disinformation campaign of some sort, and then popular momentum could propel a monster (or more likely a neutered version of what we think of as network neutrality) into being.
I'll give two political examples of what I'm talking about: healthcare and abortion. Anti-abortion campaigns do not need to be careful to implement everything they want a single swipe. For years many activists were all-or-nothing about it and refused to support something they thought wasn't strict enough against abortion. That obviously didn't work. So now the approach is to go little-by-little. A little parental consent here, a partial-birth ban there. The activists have enough motivation to keep going long after achieving a small piece, so they can afford to work tirelessly over time.
Healthcare, on the other hand, does not have enough public and ideological support to make gradual changes. That is why people like Rachel Maddow are getting so angry as Obamacare is being sliced and diced by the public. She (and many other "big healthcare" supporters) realize that government-run healthcare is an all-or-nothing proposition. A half-baked government healthcare system would be ripped apart the next election cycle. The supporters do not have enough ideological support to effect gradual changes.
Net neutrality is more like the latter. There are not enough people who understand it to push it gradually in the right direction. If we accidentally get half of what we want, we'll likely never get the other half because John Q. Public will think, "Net neutrality? We already fixed that." and move on. Therefore, we must not only "say yes to net neutrality,[sic] as loudly and as often as [we] can," we must also try to educate people as to the actual concepts behind it.
His whole post was a reference to that, and hence was modded funny. And yes, there would be a lot of backlash, just as there has been a lot of backlash against the idea of doing it to radio.
My cousin worked at a dent collection call center, and I know for a fact that she is always polite and courteous. She even gave many people basic financial advise to help them pay their debts, and now she is in college majoring in "personal finance coaching" or something like that.
Terrorists aren't the real threat. The old powers are. Russia and China have no great love for the US, and they have real missiles. I applaud whichever far-thinking generals are pushing these programs.
A system like this won't seem nearly as useless when the missiles actually start flying. There are plenty of folks who might do the flying - been keeping up on Iran? They're not slowing down for Mr. "O"pologies. A much quieter but possibly worse threat is Russia. Mr. Putin of KGB success hasn't exactly retired, and Putin-critical journalists are dead or missing. Radiation poisoning is a nasty way to die, whether you're Litvinenko investigating your friend's assassination or a liberal enjoying your healthcare when the missiles arrive.
The world isn't getting better and better every day and in every way. World War I didn't originally end in I. An entire generation had their ideology shattered when Hitler rose to power. Another in the near future is going to find that hoping for change is a poor defense against a megalomaniac, especially one so ruthless and clever as Putin. And with war comes true sacrifice. Just ask an old person.
Ok, so I'm a young person and I want to prevent all this. What are my options? I have already given my SSN to two banks and an application to work at Staples (via UNICRU). Should I just make up an SSN for future use?
I find it interesting that you posted as an AC.
You just did. Read Part 15 of the FCC rules. "This device must not cause harmful interference, and must accept any interference even when it may cause undesired operation." (from memory so don't be picky) Hams are not subject to Part 15. Homeplug is, meaning that if it interferes with a Ham the Homeplug guy is entirely at fault. Also, a Ham can overpower your Homeplug all day long if he had such a capability (probably not).
Credit is little more than a way to keep people working for low wages in crappy jobs. The entire credit system is little more than legalized slavery. We can see how the rise of the credit industry has coincided with a slow degradation of real income for workers.
The credit industry is not interested in "being evil" just to be evil. They just want to make money. It's not even in their interest to keep people working for low wages. If you are a bank/credit company, would you rather have more rich clients or more poor clients? Credit scores are an attempt by the industry protect themselves from losses by people who can't be trusted with credit. It's the modern equivalent of the medieval shopkeeper refusing to give another loan to the guy who didn't pay off his last one. True, there are some companies that want you in debt, but didn't invent the whole thing - they're just abusing it. Now stop spouting nonsense.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is a safe harbor provision for providers of an interactive computer service. The DMCA does not even contain a Section 230.
How about broadcasting democratic information via FM/AM radio to restricted countries? I'd think it'd be low enough to work.
What bullshit. If you support stem cell research (as I do) have the balls to call it what it is...
I support stem cell research. Just not embryonic research, which has produced a grand total of 0 medical treatments, compared to 70+ for adult stem cell research. This article is about adult stem cell research.
We need some regulation. The item we don't need that you forgot is subsidies.
Not only is this insulting, it's stupid. Stop thinking about our total family consumption and start thinking about per-person consumption. We drive a 15-passenger van and get 170 "personal miles per gallon". I guarantee your greenie car can't come close. We spend roughly $40 per person each month on bulk groceries. Last month's electricity usage per-person was 130 kWh (and that's running AC). How about you?
I have a large family, and we run our dishwasher 4-5 times a day, so scratch that one too. :)
This country is becoming a vile place to live, no strike that, this country is a vile place to live.
Please shout and scream that to every US citizen you know. Tell us how you like your healthcare, your taxes, your gun laws, etc. Please, please try to tell Americans the truth before we fall into the same pit as you. Maybe someone will listen.
Ok, Slashdotters, put your money where your mouth is and start lobbying Slashdot to use https globally. I'll remain highly skeptical of all the talk talk talk around here until we actually do something about it.
Keep your textures synced with the cloud and let the render program pull them locally. It's actually not a new idea. Look up EnFuzion and some threads on BlenderArtists.
Since the mods haven't noticed, and I don't have mod points, let me point out that THIS POST HAS THE ANSWER. A real program that will do what the asker wants. The source is available, but I can't seem to find its license (it includes some of the Independent JPEG Goup's code). Also, doesn't a jpeg's EXIF data or some other tag in the file tell you what quality it was saved at?
So tell me why should I be forced to pay for someone else's healthcare? I don't care if it works better (which I don't think it does). I work and earn for myself and whomever else I choose to give to, not for society at large. Socialism is a great idea until you run out of other people's money. Socialized medicine is rationed medicine.
Nope.
I'm quite skeptical that the US government can create and run a reasonable socialized healthcare system, but I don't see any better alternatives.
Oo oo, I do I do! Pick me! Do the following: -No federal or state contracts from now on will include health insurance. (I'm sure there's better legalese for that, but you get the idea.) -Employers won't be forced to provide health insurance. Tada! Insurance suddenly has to prove it's own worth _to it's actual customers_, not to an accounting troll who wants a 10,000 person package and a bonus. People will suddenly become choosy about what insurance they buy, and also their own personal health (since they are not longer automatically covered if they stuff themselves with trash).
Renegades don't get along with each other very well. Imagine TVB in Iran - what happens when I post a video critical of Muslims?
While I think this is a stinky move of Panasonic, they may be serious about the safety thing. I can easily imagine their legal dept. insisting on it to avoid lawsuits.
FYI, Flash isn't hardware accelerated either.