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by kahirsch 13y ago
So helping people communicate freely = death squads? I don't really understand what you're trying to say here.
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Dictatorship is just a lifestyle choice! I don't know what you mean about "if Cuba tried anything like this". What would be like this? Americans can already communicate freely over the Internet. I know that my father-in-law u
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by kahirsch 13y ago
> Then people of US don't understand why people from other countries dislike the US and consider it meddlesome. Wait a minute, are you implying that the US is doing something wrong here? This seems like an excellent project.
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by kahirsch 13y ago
The OED has citations of "intellectual property" in English back to 1769. There's an 1855 book by Lysander Spooner[1] called The Law of Intellectual Property .[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysand
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by kahirsch 13y ago
They were convicted of trying to monopolize sales of buses and bus parts, not eliminate mass transit.
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Large cars are also safer in single-vehicle collisions, which account for 65% of traffic deaths. There is some adverse effect on occupants of other vehicles, but this is much smaller than the advantage in safety from the large vehicle. It i
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by kahirsch 13y ago
In fact, you can have multi-character character constants, e.g. printf("sizeof('abcd') %d\n", sizeof('abcd')); printf("'abcd' = %d\n", 'abcd'); produces sizeof
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Text of law: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2014/S1337.pdf
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by kahirsch 13y ago
The Board of Governor's of the Federal Reserve System is part of government. It's an independent federal agency, with about 2,000 employees The system also includes 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, which are quasi-private. The
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Their goal isn't to turn a profit. Almost all of the profits that they do get go to the federal government. The member banks earn a 6% dividend on the amount of stock that they own in their regional Federal Reserve Bank. That amount of
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Every lower orbit will eventually intersect with the cable, so the cable would actually have to dodge most existing satellites. I've read estimates that it would only need to dodge something on average once or twice a year, but I don&#
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by kahirsch 13y ago
There was a funny story[1] (transcript[2]) on the NPR program On The Media a couple of weeks ago about someone[3] who writes and records dozens of songs per day to put on Spotify (playlist[4]). Many songs deserve to not be played. [1] ht
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Can you show a calculation which shows what the effect is on the pricing of healthy v. unhealthy food?
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by kahirsch 13y ago
No, there was a proposed settlement with the Author's Guild that sort of but not really was an exclusive deal with Google. But that settlement was not approved. That proposed deal did apply only Google, but it didn't preclude an
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by kahirsch 13y ago
On the third hand, he's turned down two offers of three to four billion dollars. Perhaps he should be fired for that!
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by kahirsch 13y ago
4. Warn other consumers from buying Toshiba products. 5. Shame Toshiba into living up to their word.
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by kahirsch 13y ago
> depriving their children of the much-needed contact with a diverse population that builds trust. I think the evidence is that more diversity brings less trust.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Put
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Google did not "make whole copies of books available." Not a precedent.
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by kahirsch 13y ago
So, if you are a US citizen that's being held for hours, it's okay for them to not let you communicate? Even to inform the people waiting for you why you're late?
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by kahirsch 13y ago
You're not allowed to use their phones, either. Here's a case[1] of a carload of US citizens being detained incommunicado for six hours at Niagara Falls for six hours, in a cold room. No explanation. [1] http://www.onth
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Can you cite any relevant law? Case law or regulation?
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Theoretically, this could be true. Are there any email systems that are actually case-sensitive?
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by kahirsch 13y ago
There's a documentary about Helvetica that's available on Netflix (US). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica_(film)
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Be sure to read the follow-up, which casts doubt on parts of the story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a-cos...
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Some local e-mail clients update automatically. Mozilla Thunderbird, for example, rolled out a new version with major interface changes automatically.
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by kahirsch 13y ago
There's a 3-video lecture on camouflage by Roger Hanlon (who took that video). The part about color-blindness is in part 2, here[1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtIiSXRv5no&t=33m23s
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by kahirsch 13y ago
In many states it is illegal to record a conversation unless all parties of the conversation have knowledge of the recording (and thus give implied consent).
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You mean 27 years ago. (1986) Five of the justices have been on the court more than 17 years
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But what do these annotations mean ? Are they things that Jobs said that weren't in the prepared remarks? Are they some kind of ironic commentary by Ashton Kutcher? Are they explanatory annotations?
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by kahirsch 13y ago
The FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit is a group of people. See, e.g., this memo.[1] Does the Washington Post have some other information that the FBI's "interception unit" is technology on the premises of the private

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