So. Create a "Murphy" version of the original text or a screenplay proposal, slap it up on Amazon as an e-book for $0.99, and tell Dille to come and get it.
The several elementary and junior high schools I went to assigned extra math problems as punishment. And if you completed your schoolwork early, you got assigned math punishment for that, too.
As a combination of punishment and busy-work, it soured any attraction I ever had for math.
Considering the peel is a significant chunk of a banana's weight, and most vegetables are sold by weight... and that banana peels rapidly start to stink, which is a factor if you live somewhere that only has weekly trash pickup... I'm not seeing a problem there.
As we were taught not that long ago, blue eyes occured spontaneously among various disparate groups as a result of one of the eye color genes being prone to damage.
Usenet and gopher served my internet purposes just fine, until I finally built Mosaic to access some of those newfangled "web page" sites.
I was at the end of an expensive dialup connection then, and well into the 21st century, with metered phone service *and* metered net access.
Every one of those ads came straight out of my bandwidth and my pocket.
I populated my hosts file to block as many as I could, but eventually it got to where a click to some sites might take as long as 20 minutes to load. Ch-ching.
In the past 21 years I have *never* clicked on an ad on any site, nor have I any intention of ever doing so. And, frankly, I doubt many of the people who read Techdirt are the kinds of suckers the advertisers are looking for...
Nowadays I can hit some ad-encrusted site like CNN or eBay and watch my network usage indicator tell me how much bandwidth the rotating ads are sucking up even when the page isn't ostensibly doing anything.
The kind of advertising they're doing is stealing. From me.
It was mostly written by Hess, who pieced together various of Hitler's monologues. Much of the book is a long screed against the politics of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was probably just stuck in there to pad it out, since Hitler had no real stake in it after he went off to Germany.
If you can keep grinding along, there are (at least in the James Murphy translation) some real zingers in there, though. Adolf Hitler never demonstrated anything resembling a sense of humor, so it was probably Hess having a little fun.
Most people don't think of any humor being in Mein Kampf, but they're not alone in not having read it; most of the top Nazis bragged that they hadn't read it either...
So... just change enough of it to keep away from copyright infringement and release it anyway,
That's what Samuli Torssonnen did with "Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning." Which was better than most of the "real" Trek films anyway. And he did it for far less than a million bucks.
> can law enforcement have access to the car's > code to automatically pull a driver over?
...and how long will it take before the black hats put a crack on the internet, and random gangbangers can play real-life demolition derby with their phones?
Arkansas started putting a magnetic strip on their driver's licenses a while back. When the DMV couldn't explain what might be encoded on it, I ran my shiny-new driver's license through my Magnaflux machine. I've been doing that with replacements ever since.
I imagine any RFID devices would be geshtupfed by the Magnaflux as well...
Normally, my entire town shuts down on Christmas Day, other than the Chinese restaurant and the Thai restaurant. If you don't feel like cooking at home on a holiday, those are your choices.
If other areas are similar, the claim of the spike in sales is not surprising.
Surveillance is what they do. That's their performance metric. That's how they get appropriations.
As they see it, they're doing the job they were created, authorized, and funded to do. And even in the government, there are people who still try to do the best job they can.
To limit what they do, you first have to unequivocably define the limits of what they're allowed to do. In the US, anyway, the Fed and Supremes that haven't done that for some things, or have conspicuously ignored violations of others.
To the best of my knowledge the USPTO doesn't make any attempt to determine the validity of a trade mark application. They just collect the money and let the courts deal with any problems.
vehicular related deaths: 51 gun related deaths: 49
Looks like taking away their car keys would do some good for the stats...
However, listing "heart attack" as a line-of-duty death seems disengenuous. Apparently any death while you're employed as a police officer is a line-of-duty death now. And now that everything from bailiffs to dogcatchers are lumped in as "LEOs", it's impossible to tell how many are police and how many are police-wannabees.
If he was using the laptops and his phone for job-related tasks, that information belongs to the City of Stockton; that is, it's government information.
The mayor's response should have been to call his City Attorney, who should have showed up with the Chief of Police and the SWAT team.
If they'll do it to a mayor, they'll do it to a governor. Or a senator or congressman.
"Prime time. There I was in the TV studio, disguised as a paper-shredder, recordin' the assassination of Blocky Yocks. Dunno why the Academy’d bothered—it was seen live coast t’ coast by half the population of the country at the time." ... "But, in its early dyin' throes, the system lashed out at its tormentor. The week followin’ Blocky’s announcement, as I was crouched, sweatin’ inside a plastic bagfulla confetti an' he was in the middle of his openin’ monologue, two CIA loaners an’ a paira outa-work installers busted into Studio B with silenced Ruger Mark IIs an’ emptied their clips into poor Blocky, endin’ his career forever.
Too bad the stupid jerks didn’t think t’ shoot his partner, the ventriloquist."
- excerpted from "The Nagasaki Vector" by L. Neil Smith
That's going to be some hefty processing. I'm mostly deaf and despite years of practice, I can't lip-read enough to pick out more than occasional phonemes.
On the other manipulator, someone who comes up with a working lip-reading algorithm will not only help the deaf, it will also be useful for communicating in noisy environments or when you don't want to make any noise.
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As a combination of punishment and busy-work, it soured any attraction I ever had for math.
On the post: MuckRock's FOIA Redaction Hall Of Shame
In plain English, that's "perjury."
But it's okay when the State does it...
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Considering the peel is a significant chunk of a banana's weight, and most vegetables are sold by weight... and that banana peels rapidly start to stink, which is a factor if you live somewhere that only has weekly trash pickup... I'm not seeing a problem there.
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As we were taught not that long ago, blue eyes occured spontaneously among various disparate groups as a result of one of the eye color genes being prone to damage.
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I was at the end of an expensive dialup connection then, and well into the 21st century, with metered phone service *and* metered net access.
Every one of those ads came straight out of my bandwidth and my pocket.
I populated my hosts file to block as many as I could, but eventually it got to where a click to some sites might take as long as 20 minutes to load. Ch-ching.
In the past 21 years I have *never* clicked on an ad on any site, nor have I any intention of ever doing so. And, frankly, I doubt many of the people who read Techdirt are the kinds of suckers the advertisers are looking for...
Nowadays I can hit some ad-encrusted site like CNN or eBay and watch my network usage indicator tell me how much bandwidth the rotating ads are sucking up even when the page isn't ostensibly doing anything.
The kind of advertising they're doing is stealing. From me.
On the post: FBI Turns 18-Year-Old With An IQ Of 51 Into A Terrorist; Dumps Case Into Laps Of Local Prosecutors
That must be a different system from the Stanford-Binet scale I learned decades ago in Psych 101.
On the post: Anne Frank's Diary... And Hitler's Mein Kampf Hit The Public Domain In Europe - Despite Concerns About Both
It was mostly written by Hess, who pieced together various of Hitler's monologues. Much of the book is a long screed against the politics of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was probably just stuck in there to pad it out, since Hitler had no real stake in it after he went off to Germany.
If you can keep grinding along, there are (at least in the James Murphy translation) some real zingers in there, though. Adolf Hitler never demonstrated anything resembling a sense of humor, so it was probably Hess having a little fun.
Most people don't think of any humor being in Mein Kampf, but they're not alone in not having read it; most of the top Nazis bragged that they hadn't read it either...
On the post: CBS Sues Over Star Trek Fan Film Because It Sounds Like It's Going To Be Pretty Good
That's what Samuli Torssonnen did with "Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning." Which was better than most of the "real" Trek films anyway. And he did it for far less than a million bucks.
On the post: If We're Not Careful, Self-Driving Cars Will Be The Cornerstone Of The DRM'd, Surveillance Dystopias Of Tomorrow
> code to automatically pull a driver over?
...and how long will it take before the black hats put a crack on the internet, and random gangbangers can play real-life demolition derby with their phones?
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Re: Who knew the US had a Schengen Agreement?
Sadly, it looks like that prediction is still on track for becoming true...
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Re: Re: As a Minnesota resident...
"Your papers! They are not in order!"
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Re: Re:
I imagine any RFID devices would be geshtupfed by the Magnaflux as well...
On the post: DailyDirt: Fact-Checking Some Christmas Traditions
If other areas are similar, the claim of the spike in sales is not surprising.
On the post: Is There Any Evidence In The World That Would Convince Intelligence Community That More Surveillance Isn't The Answer?
Surveillance is what they do. That's their performance metric. That's how they get appropriations.
As they see it, they're doing the job they were created, authorized, and funded to do. And even in the government, there are people who still try to do the best job they can.
To limit what they do, you first have to unequivocably define the limits of what they're allowed to do. In the US, anyway, the Fed and Supremes that haven't done that for some things, or have conspicuously ignored violations of others.
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47 - gunfire (does not break out "friendly fire")
27 - automobile wreck
18 - heart attack
10 - vehicular assault
5 - struck by vehicle
5 - vehicle pursuit
4 - motorcycle wreck
2 - gunfire (accidental)
vehicular related deaths: 51
gun related deaths: 49
Looks like taking away their car keys would do some good for the stats...
However, listing "heart attack" as a line-of-duty death seems disengenuous. Apparently any death while you're employed as a police officer is a line-of-duty death now. And now that everything from bailiffs to dogcatchers are lumped in as "LEOs", it's impossible to tell how many are police and how many are police-wannabees.
On the post: Homeland Security Detains Stockton Mayor, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords
The mayor's response should have been to call his City Attorney, who should have showed up with the Chief of Police and the SWAT team.
If they'll do it to a mayor, they'll do it to a governor. Or a senator or congressman.
On the post: Coming To A Surveillance State Near You: Lip-Reading Computers
Re: About time. . .
"Prime time. There I was in the TV studio, disguised as a paper-shredder, recordin' the assassination of Blocky Yocks. Dunno why the Academy’d bothered—it was seen live coast t’ coast by half the population of the country at the time."
...
"But, in its early dyin' throes, the system lashed out at its tormentor. The week followin’ Blocky’s announcement, as I was crouched, sweatin’ inside a plastic bagfulla confetti an' he was in the middle of his openin’ monologue, two CIA loaners an’ a paira outa-work installers busted into Studio B with silenced Ruger Mark IIs an’ emptied their clips into poor Blocky, endin’ his career forever.
Too bad the stupid jerks didn’t think t’ shoot his partner, the ventriloquist."
- excerpted from "The Nagasaki Vector" by L. Neil Smith
On the post: Coming To A Surveillance State Near You: Lip-Reading Computers
Re: Moore's law??
On the other manipulator, someone who comes up with a working lip-reading algorithm will not only help the deaf, it will also be useful for communicating in noisy environments or when you don't want to make any noise.
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