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The US Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment is consistent with several arguably reasonable limits on free expression, including:

* Expression that incites criminal action;

* Expression that causes injury;

* Obscenity via the Miller Test;

* Child pornography;

* Regulation of commercial speech;

* Copyright and other 'intellectual property' restrictions;

and so on.

Of course, the various other liberal democracies also enshrine the right to free expression; and they also enforce arguably reasonable limits on that right, some of which are similar to the limits in the US and some of which are slightly different.

Is a country where you can be fined for saying "fuck" on television more or less free than a country where you can be fined for saying a minority should be exterminated, where it can be shown that hateful propaganda has the effect of silencing a whole group of people?

There is nothing special about the US Constitution. It is no better, and in many ways worse, than the constitutions of other liberal democracies. The US Constitution is a legal, historical document that admits of many possible interpretations, and it is nothing if not misleading to pretend to absolutism, however selective, in how it shapes the law.

As for the Second Amendment, the US is perhaps the only liberal democracy that perceives a need to guarantee a citizen's right to own and bear firearms, based on the 18th century idea that governments are inherently tyrannical and the only way to guarantee liberty is with the constant threat of violent rebellion.

As we have seen, this belief has been disproven. The citizens of other countries are able to keep their governments more or less honest through maintaining formal and informal democratic institutions and civic engagement - indeed, the governments of many other countries are more responsive and accountable to their citizens than the US government.
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It's Alice in Wonderland, which was written in 1865, so it's in the public domain. The artist's illustration is inspired by the original Tenniel illustrations, so it's not a derivative of the 1951 Disney adaptation.
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Trying to turn native apps into template-styled web apps is just backwards; you're discarding the fine attention to detail, typography, pixel-positioning, scaling animations, etc, that can make native apps so great.
I use the CLI for batch operations on multiple repos/branches and some complex operations (history rewrites/repo maint) but for general everyday single repo use i typically use tortoiseGit or GitExtensions
Also, last commit over a year ago?
It's not really a technicality. The business model is such:

1) The broadcast networks distribute content freely over the airwaves.
2) The broadcast networks also sell that content to cable networks who then retransmit it.

Forget the law. Is it reasonable for the cable networks to just capture the over-the-air stream and retransmit? I think you can argue both sides. On one hand, there is a public benefit to free over the air TV, but that specific benefit is not served when a for-profit cable provider retransmits that content to paying cable customers. On the other hand, how do you distinguish in a principled way the spectrum between an individual receiving the content with his antenna and what Time Warner Cable might do, with services like Aereo in the middle?

I know we're all about advertising these days, but it's not an unreasonable business model to produce content, then sell that content to distributors who in turn distribute it to paying customers.

It might, however, be unreasonable to be able to expect to do this while also cashing in on advertising revenue by freely broadcasting that same content over the air.
What does that quote even /mean/?
Actually at my enterprise, the team that manages the Windows installs specifically disabled XP mode and application compatibility settings. I've never gotten a response from them as to why, but they mandate anyone who needs to use an IE6-only application has to stay on XP with IE6. Although the good news is, Chrome is the company-wide default, with IE6 limited to intranet use only.

Still sucks.
How is that the animals' problem? But note that I was referring to some discoveries. I just don't believe we're close to making an efficient "use" of the millions of animals subject to experiments every year.
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Well, while Alice from "Alice in Wonderland" is now a "public domain" character, the depiction of her with a blue dress, white belt, and blonde hair with a black bow in it was very much created by Disney.

In this case, the artist herself is remixing a visual design elaborated by Disney.

So, yeah. It's murky, and the remix argument goes both ways.
Wow, that sounds really neat.
That's my main argument for using Postgres:

1 - At the start of your project's life, you'll want it because it's free as in beer. Except for ease of developping (where Postgres is also great), nothing else matter.

2 - Later, when you need some performance, even if you have a usage patter where Postgres is slower, you'll discover that the price of any of the other DBMS is highter than just adding hardware. Thus, free as in beer wins again.

3 - If you get huge, you'll discover that free software is a big deal, and the limitations of the proprietary DBMS add a huge amount of drag. Free as in speech wins now.
Margaret Thatcher was a research chemist, a barrister and former "Secretary of State for Education and Science". Thatcher may also may have helped invent "soft-serve ice cream" [0].

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/margar...
We have dug ourselves the hole really by using feature specific code and relying on certain features in our structure.

We are slowly digging ourselves out the hole with dependency injection in our code from a Entity point of view and want to go a similar route with our DB.

We are nowhere near yourselves but we have spent £18k on SQL licenses in the past 2 years. It's a lot of cash and I don't think we see the full benefit to be fair. Coupled with the abundance of other Microsoft licenses we pay out for, more than half our server costs are licenses.

I appreciate your comment, it's taken me a step in the right direction to sorting out DBs out.
Also, not all of us consider Keynesian stimulus to be some wildly successful proved theory; I for one think you merely need to look out the window to see the failures of the theory to match reality. But fortunately, Keynesian is immune to criticism, because no matter how bad things get, Keynesian saved us from it being even worse, thus, no amount of failure can ever disprove the system. Phew! That said, BitCoin isn't the ideal either

Please explain how looking out the window and gathering local anecdotal data disproves a macroeconomic theory that in the short run, demand stimulates economies?
IMHO this looks like a substantial infringement, and $5-10K is peanuts. The signing authority of a middle manager would not factor into a settlement demand whatsoever, if it were me.
Suppose that the people in power are doing things wrong. It is valid and not sexist to point out that putting other kinds of people in power to do the same things wrong, will not solve the real problem. The problem is that they are doing things wrong, not which plumbing they have.
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Also, lots of automobile fatalities are due to intoxicated drivers driving off the road, so if you don't drink and drive your odds get a whole lot better than the quoted statistics. And if I remember correctly, a large percentage of fatalities occur at intersections (especially left turns), so if you drive on highways you avoid those too.
Agreed, CSV sucks if you data contains punctuation. UTF-8 encoded tab-delimited tables are preferred. These are kind of a pain to import into Excel (on Mac at least) because you have to specify exactly what format they are in, but it can be done and there is no worry about quoting conventions and so forth unless your data contains literal tab characters that are important.
As a practical matter, if the broadcast TV folks can't protect their content directly, they'll have to go the way of the Googles and Facebooks of the world, and figure out ways of spying on you and your kids' TV watching habits so they can figure out ever more elaborate ways of selling you and them cheap plastic crap manufactured in China.

That's what "updating your business model" means in 2013.
Again, the same is true for gold and several other metals.
This happens a lot in any industry that loses its relevance.

I grew up in Massachusetts. Cities like Lowell and Worcester are very depressed now because they lost what made them big - manufacturing. Should we have subsidized that industry despite it being overpriced and underperforming compared to its competitors? What about the horse and buggy industry when automobiles came around? The whaling industry once petroleum refineries started being built?

Those coal mines were outdated and inefficient. Unfortunately, the government subsidized them for far too long, which created dependence on them as well as the assurance that the jobs would always be there.

Sadly, there is displacement whenever there is a change. But it's far worse to cling to the status quo when it's blatantly impractical. We should be learning the opposite lesson from the hardship created by these mine closings - it's far better to bite the bullet and take the immediate effects than prop up an outdated system and finally get rid of it once it becomes too much to bear.
I don't pretend to know anything about the relevant IP laws, but from a lay perspective I think there's a big difference between taking one piece of art and making a new derivative piece of art from it, and taking the same piece of art and making salable merchandise.
You are misreading the quote.
Thanks for the link, I've been looking around for software that does similar things.

I have been taking a look at SQL Web Edition in the view of coming away from standard that supports SSIS so it's good I'm getting a few options of other DBs too.

Although a majority of our stack is Microsoft based, I would love to get off the Microsoft train when it comes to the DB. It's a massive cost to our business
Agreed that it's overkill for most use cases (in fact I mention that it's not ideal for most people and we're likely an edge case).

As far as putting a great deal of code into Lua scripts, we'll be putting together a few blog posts explaining how we make this manageable. We were able to double our API throughput by shifting this direction so for us this is worth the difficulty we faced in finding ways to modularize and reuse code in Redis Lua scripts.
Fine, fine....I'll unflag :)

Thanks for taking the time to update it.
It's likely a lazy designer did a Google Image search, saw an illustration that looked like the original Alice in Wonderland illustrations by Tenniel, and assumed it was in the public domain.
If this is all handled positively it could be a win win.
Having Disney license your artwork is something most designers would be glad of reputation wise.

I think she needs to lose the angry tone pronto and at least 'appear' more phlegmatic about it.

And there isn't any particular need for panic I'd have thought as it looks like an open and shut case in terms of infringement.

The person who is in deep trouble is whoever knowingly infringed, they could be out the door.
'It can't deal properly with multi-line strings and spaces'

Works fine in excel 2011 for mac:

$ cat test.csv
abc,"def

ghi",jkl
mno,pqr,stu
$ open -a Microsoft\ Excel test.csv

http://imgur.com/CRUJZ57

This is an example of a poorly laid-out menu structure. To force it to do the right thing, you have to wrap text (right click -> format cells -> alignment -> "Wrap text" on).

Basically, the default rendering is supposed to be a single space for any whitespace (tab, newline, space) and "wrap text" forces it to do the right thing.

Shameless plug: I'm actually working on an XLSX parser: http://niggler.github.io/js-xlsx/
All I can say is that I've made 6$ on a 50$ investment in two days. That's more than a 10% increase in two days.

Problem is, when do I withdraw?

This is just a (zero-sum) game, stop taking it so seriously.
What is the use of doing something if it is the wrong thing? It would be better to do nothing than to do the wrong thing.
So, you think we should all grab our pitchforks and torches and go get her? What are you getting at?
> Get everything you can into git hooks

This is a great idea, and it's one that my company provides: https://circleci.com. You can run standard tests, but also linters and whatever you want to increase your code quality. Users report higher productivity, and shipping code faster!
Her depiction of Alice seems like more of a potential trademark issue, while Disney lifting the design seems like a clear-cut copyright issue.
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Well, if you start out with 400kg, you'll get a ton after 20 years, based on a 5% growth. :)
Cute story.
I agree the content looks good, and so it should really be able to stand on its own merit. Thanks for updating it, I unflagged the post.
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true. agree.
Not seeing how "it would be nice to live in a world without the current incarnation of intellectual property law" is incompatible with "but we don't, so we're going to hold you to the standards you've created". They seem imminently consistent to me.
Your categorical statement about rules is an interesting one. I think this is actually a mathematical claim which I'm fairly certain is false.

It'd be interesting to explore whether the space of rules that keep everyone on an even keel include any rule sets that we'd actually want to live under, though. Ever read "The Lottery in Babylon" by Borges?
Because Disney essentially IS copyright.

The MPAA is just a publicity shunt so that people don't associate the bad press of the MPAA with the 8 brands that are behind it. [0]

The Copyright Extension Act of 1998 is called Mickey Mouse Protection Act. [1]

The modern BS of copyright lasting 100yrs [2] is caused because of the Disney corporation and the Mickey Mouse brand. Copyright will always be at least ($current_year - 1928) because of the Mickey Mouse brand.

She feels hopeless because the company that wrote modern copyright law is infringing on her copyright.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_A...

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

2: Graph of US copyright terms from 1790 (30 yrs of copyright) to modern times

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_term.svg

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I always find the hypocrisy of Disney amazing given that the majority of their IP is a remix of something someone else wrote.
That still depends. It'll depend on the size of query X number of queries, type of data, coverage of your indexes (what depend on your actual data), and a ton of other factors.

I'm not even sure there is somebody out there capable of correctly measuring this. You may need to go with a fast biased study anyway.

Also, why are you assuming Postgres is slower?
For example, one of Rosling's major points is that you don't get health improvements magically by increasing GDP
Sure, if by "barely modified a tiny little bit" you mean "completely redrawn."
Put that type of thing in .hgignore.
Original article:

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How far are you planning to go in your support for css properties ? css animations/transitions ? Positionning (top, left, right) ? There are a lot of similarities, but by going very far you may end up rewriting a lot of the storyboard xml in a css format...
Then maybe later on, you'll want a WYSIWYG css editor on top of it, and i'm a bit wondering whether you won't have ended up rewriting absolutely everything.

From my personal opinion, CSS is nice the first 10 minutes, or whenever you only have a few element to style, but styling a complete app along with animations between states makes you really want to stay away from it as far as possible for mobile apps (and especially ios where resolutions are quite standard)...
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It's also quite possible that someone unauthorized put the picture on a site with a permissive license. That's an easy explanation for how this came about. I really do doubt that Disney or anyone representing them intended to steal this image.
"If on the other hand you just graduated undergrad and had a huge debt and your wage was actually set in bitcoins this would be great for you because the cost of paying off your dept would be from your bitcoin point of view spiraling to zero, as would the cost of everything else. That sounds like a pretty awesome situation to be in."

It would be! Except for the part where that very spiral discourages employers from paying wages in Bitcoin, since they'd make more money just holding on to those Bitcoins and letting the spiral make them money than they ever could paying workers with them. So those Bitcoin-paying jobs never leave the realm of the theoretical.
I have written this code 5-6 years ago, there is definitely room for improvement :)
You shouldnt generalize. I understand GIT very well and can (and for complex operations beyond the UI) use the CLI. However I generally use UIs because i simply prefer it. I see no need to use the cli for basic commits,pushes and pulls when neither is inherently superior..
That is correct. By that extension, if you are not interested in the content, ignore it. What's actually worse is posting a comment that merely complains about this not being content you think is appropriate.
Should the first female nominee for U.S. Vice Present from the republican party, who rose to the top of an extremely male dominated field, serve as an inspiration for gender equality?

Why not?
> the standards you've created

And that is particularly applicable since the company in question is Disney.
Oh please yes. Make this standard.
That might be true, but in both my examples, the copy-and-paste artists were making salable merchandise from the works that they appropriated.
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That's hardly all the ALF does. Here's a partial list:

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/br...

And, despite what you say down-thread, the FBI also considers abortion clinic violence to be acts of domestic terrorism. For example, scan this list from the FBI:

http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terrorism-200...

From the same document:

Terrorism is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations as
“the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or
property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian
population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political
or social objectives” (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).

So, by that standard, firebombing feed trucks would be terrorism. Secret filming would not.
First of all, really like the tutorial, gave me a great sense of what a Meteor app would look like and how it would work!

As an extension though, I was wondering if this tutorial could incorporate a discussion on how to secure a Meteor app. It seems to me that in the "Client" code section, we get a reference to a Mongo collection without any explicit permission required from the server. Is the security model that we can get access to any collection created with the "new Meteor.collection" command on the server side? How would we go about validating new inputs and removals from clients modifying the points collection? I think examples and a discussion of these questions would really help this tutorial and help to assage any concerns that people like me get from exposing a raw DB collection to the client.

I also was wondering if Meteor had any easy built-in provisions for offline/unreliable connection modes when you wouldn't be able to rely on a "points.insert({})" call on the client side until connectivity returned?

(apologies if these are super basic Meteor questions - I haven't done anything with the framework, so I don't have much experience with it, but I really liked the straight-forwardness of this tutorial, and these were my natural next questions after reading the tutorial).
IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10. AFAIK IE is the only remaining browser making a big deal out of a new version. The only reason I can think of is that for them it's all about sucking less instead of silently becoming more awesome.
Thatcher was not Hitler, but all the things you just said could also be said of Hitler. He won elections, too. So what?
Except in this case, they're refusing you service after they already took your money and your luggage. Plus, calling the cops on somebody goes way beyond refusing them service.
It is painful.

Why would you consider non-flash sites "boring?"

What I want to know when I go to a restaurant site:

1) Hours.
2) Location with google maps link.
3) Menu with prices.

When I get to the menu I may want to see a pic of the food, nutritional info, etc.
> What Americans actually believe is that government actions should not be trusted merely because they are government actions.

This is precisely the exceptionalism I'm talking about. Americans do not have a monopoly on the understanding that individuals are sovereign and that the government operates only with the consent of the people.

The citizens of other liberal democracies are not passive subjects - indeed, aside from selective dogmatism around gun ownership, Americans are far more passive and fatalistic toward their government's abuses and intransigences than the citizens of many other countries.

The US political system is as dysfunctional as it is precisely because so few Americans believe it can be made to work. In the absence of a culture in which large groups of people people actively engage in the formal and informal mechanisms of democratic governance, too many Americans instead express contempt and despair and stockpile guns.
Out of curiosity, is there any way to design a crypto-currency that is at least marginally adaptive to deflation/inflation?

Like say, if the aggregate number of xcoins traded goes down, start allowing more xcoins to be mined and vice-versa?
That number seems low enough that they should do it for the good will it would generate and as part of their "do whatever spreads the web" strategy.
This isn't an all-or-none situation. You lose none of the fidelity of native development, it's just an abstraction of code to markup. It's all natively executed using native APIs. Typography, absolute pixel postions, animation, and much more is all there.
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