True, but that's sexist as well. And just because the GP is a woman, we can't necessarily conclude that she, too, holds the same generalizations (at least until she displays them, then we can yell at her for being hypocritical and whatnot.)

Why, pray tell, would they need to move if they want things to change? Why not attempt to change it? It's terribly difficult to effect change in the US from Venezuela.

Your argument basically ignores this entire concept, and instead you decide that they're hypocritical, and can't possibly conceive of why anybody who espouses their views would stay.

I don't know if you've noticed, but it's terribly hard to try to change America when you've emmigrated to another country.

And I'm so terribly sorry you can't make it past profanity; apparently telling Americans to leave if they don't like something (rather than try to change it) is far less bothersome to you than a fucking swear word. We must agree to disagree on this; I feel your attempts to disparage the individuals in question by claiming they should leave (as if they're not americans, have no right to say the things they're saying, and subsequently should not be listened to - whether that's your intent or not, that's the end result) are FAR more reprehensible than the word "fuck", but I suppose if that's what you want to fixate on, that's fine.

It's only legit if you tell them it's refurb. if you don't, you're implicitly selling used goods as new goods, and that isn't legal.

Simple: he's an American citizen, and he has every right to vote for whatever set of individuals he wants to mold this nation into the nation he wants it to be. If that means it turns into a socialistic paradise, that's certainly his perogative.

Note: I don't agree with him, but I'm fucking sick of self-righteous tool sheds, like yourself, who don't think he has the right to live here and want this country to be whatever the fuck he wants it to be, as long as he's following the democratic fucking process. If he can convince enough Americans to agree with him, and enough amendments get passed, that's all within the fucking framework of our political system. Just because it's different than what we have now doesn't mean he can't shoot for it, even if, in all reality, he has a better chance of jumping on a trampoline to the moon.

But seriously, snide requests concerning moving to another country just make you look like an entire bag of douche. They don't help your argument, they just make you look like a cunt. For your own sake, please stop. It's the adult equivalent of saying "I'M RUBBER AND YOU'RE GLUE AND WHATEVER YOU SAY BOUNCES OFF ME AND STICKS TO YOU LOLOLOL" as a child. It's a great cop-out for the rest of the argument, because you don't have the testicular fortitude or intellectual standing to continue the argument on its own merits.

That's not true in all cases - I get high def out of my components just fine, and for one of my TVs, it has less artifacts than the HDMI does (likely because of a bad connector on the TV).

It really depends on how locked down your boxes are. The ones our cable company provides are Scientific Atlanta(ic?). They really are atrocious in all other ways, but at least they spit out high def on component!

Very true. I did pretty much the precise opposite and now I'm fairly deep underwater in my vehicle. After another 4 years of this, I should be "okay", but I would have been far better off if I had gone the route you mentioned than the one I took. Far better off.

From Wikipedia:

The Digital Performance in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 together granted a performance right for sound recordings. As a result, copyright law now requires that users of music pay the copyright owner of the sound recording for the public performance of that music via certain kinds of digital transmissions.

From the Library of Congress, Section 3f2: ( http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c104:1:./temp/~c104dVWooD:e844: )

`(2) In the absence of license agreements negotiated under paragraph (1), during the 60-day period commencing 6 months after publication of the notice specified in paragraph (1), and upon the filing of a petition in accordance with section 803(a)(1), the Librarian of Congress shall, pursuant to chapter 8, convene a copyright arbitration royalty panel to determine and publish in the Federal Register a schedule of rates and terms which, subject to paragraph (3), shall be binding on all copyright owners of sound recordings and entities performing sound recordings . In addition to the objectives set forth in section 801(b)(1), in establishing such rates and terms, the copyright arbitration royalty panel may consider the rates and terms for comparable types of digital audio transmission services and comparable circumstances under voluntary license agreements negotiated as provided in paragraph (1). The Librarian of Congress shall also establish requirements by which copyright owners may receive reasonable notice of the use of their sound recordings under this section, and under which records of such use shall be kept and made available by entities performing sound recordings.

Emphasis mine.

I'd rather no light at all than most fluorescent lights. I still roll with them in my house - with a decent enough lampshade, you don't even notice it's not an incandescent, but the moment you stick those long-ass bitches over my head, I start getting massive headaches from the lighting. Luckily work is lenient about us twistingthe lightbulbs out overhead and leaving the lights off, as long as the hallways are brightly lit.

If I had my way, I'd work in a room with natural sunlight. Barring that, I'd accept incandescent. Barring that, I'd rather work in a deep dark pit with only a pair of LCDs to light my way.

Actually, you can buy 2x2GB DDR2 for 45$ - at least in the states. The point is, it's cheap. Really cheap. Almost "yo momma" cheap. Or at least my momma cheap. Either way, it's cheap.

Wait, is it a zombie meteor?

I'm confused.

Not at all. You keep them moving, and you make sure there are enough that you have no dark window. However, angle is still important.

The question is "is that space debris? is that a commercial satellite? is that even WORKING?"

On top of that, I imagine they paint the things with a paint so that the don't reflect much light (just hypothesizing here, but I know I'd do it if I were them), to make it hard to see. Also, what about during the day?

If you figure every piece of space debris is watching you, you probably won't be doing much outside, ever.

The point is, someone is trying to put together information about sensor capabilities from the unclassified data (hell, maybe even we do it to other countries, and that's why we know to protect it ourselves), and that's why the DoD decided being able to pass that shit around wasn't worth it in comparison to possibly compromising the loss of capability.

That's not the point. The point is if we can tell you what meteors are landing and where, it doesn't take an extensive amount of data for you to be able to pinpoint where those military satellites are in the sky. It doesn't take a lot for you to then calculate when you can be doing shit outside, and when you need to be under cover.

The data they may be collecting may end up being unclassified, but the means they're using to collect it are likely classified fairly highly. Usually this information is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_United_States#Sensitive_Compartmented_Information_.28SCI.29_and_Special_Access_Programs_.28SAP.29

It makes sense. If it were possible to determine the capabilities of your sensors (whether we're talking from a satellite or a human informant) by putting together the bits and pieces of their unclassified information, you've effectively leaked highly classified information to well funded and highly motivated foreign entities.

[opinion]At the end of the day, somebody is going to find out about your sensor and it's capabilities. You just do everything you can to make sure it's well past the usefulness of said sensor, so far beyond that the understanding of this information nets the "opponent" nothing[/opinion].

As for writing software that would obfuscate this information enough that it wouldn't give away the methods of gathering it - sure, it sounds simple, and on a case by case basis, I'm sure you could do it. But can you do it for every single scenario even remotely conceivably imagined under the sun, for potentially large quantities of information, with guaranteed 0% failure rate?

If so, I'm sure someone would like to hire you!

I understand, but frankly, that is your opinion. I vastly prefer e-books, and would probably happily drop a few hundred dollars to get an ebook version of every last book I owned, as a PDF, even the books nobody seems to ever have been interested in but me. I'd much rather have the whole kit & kaboodle in one device (that I use, and backed up a few dozen other places), and only keep my hardbacks and reference books around on my bookshelf.

Sorry, but once "your" ideas enter the public, they're not yours anymore. We may graciously allow you to make a profit from them for a few years, but after that, tough.

Don't like it? Keep those ideas bottled up. If 28 years isn't enough for you to make it with your while, chances are overwhelmingly good they never will be. Or maybe you just need to kill yourself to put your ideas/works in stark relief. That's seemed to work for other "artists".

I'm sorry you feel like you own an idea that, as soon as someone hears it, becomes *theirs*, as they, too, now have the idea, but that's how it fucking works. That's the problem with ideas - they're not ACTUALLY property.