You only remember the titles from 10 years ago which where good but not the 90% of crap in the shelf. Not you look at the shelf and wonder why there is 90% crap.
Ten years ago there was a wider variety of crap, there was more crap, and there was more imaginative crap. Out of that pile of crap, there was a ten percent pile of goodness.
I still look back fondly to the time when a trip to Egghead was something I looked forward to.
Put a whole bunch of smart and dedicated people together on the same project and they will work their ass off to solve that project. Along the way, they will develop (or spin off for development) a slew of other fantastic ideas.
They accepted the risks when they engaged in the covert operations to begin with. People who uncover secrets are not responsible for deaths -- killers are.
I'm sure that the killers have their excuses too . . .
This is eerily parallel to RMS with respect to copyright. Ideally, he would prefer that copyright not exist, but it is the basis for the GPL/copyleft model of enforced sharing.
I think you make a valid point, but when I step back, I see Assange attempting to use governmental power (via the courts and associated governmental enforcement mechanisms) to keep secrets from the people.
Anybody can sue anybody about anything almost anywhere. Frivolous crap like this gets thrown out of court pretty fast.
A lawsuit exposes Wikileaks to civil discovery. Civil discovery is very broad. Think about the story that the Guardian could write with what they learn about Wikileaks personnel in the civil discovery process. Think about the secrecy that Wikileaks gives up by prosecuting a lawsuit.
This is posing. Assange is a nauseating individual. While Bradley Manning sits his ass in jail, that scumbag Assange fritters away the donations of true believers in a frivolous lawsuit that will never go anywhere.
Many judges have deep and long lasting friendships with the lawyers that appear before them.
In my community, a few years a judge (now dead) heard cases where the best man at his wedding was the defense lawyer.
One day, the judge made a ruling that the defense lawyer did not like. The defense lawyer--on the record--accused the judge of being biased against him (because he was bending over too far backward to be fair). The lawyer then left the courtroom in a huff.
What did the judge do? Did he get a fucking clue and disqualify himself from the case? Noooooo. The judge ran out into the parking lot and brought the lawyer back into the courtroom. The judge then reversed his decision.
My shoes are shock absorbing and so are my inserts. That absorbency makes my walk "a little more tiring," but the energy loss is necessary and I accept it gladly.
If shoes and/or inserts can generate electricity and provide comparable absorbency at the same weight, then for all practical purposes there is a free lunch.
Your reasoning is solid when applied to people who walk barefoot. However, people who wear shoes would not necessarily be getting a little more tired when they wear an absorbent charging device in the place of their usual shock absorbers.
Tectonic movement willed by God. See? they're not mutually exclusive.
There! Now you've done it!
One group of sincere religious people will say that God is interested in the world and will "will" things to occur on the planet.
Another group of sincere religious people will say that God is disinterested in the world and provides us with free will (?).
The two groups will disagree. They will fragment and fragment some more. They will form new religious groups. Their disputes will become both organized and violent.
One man's heresy is another man's faith--and with astounding regularity that difference spawns violence.
Laches is the legal term for sitting on your ass while your rights are being violated. After too much ass-sitting, you'll be equitably estopped from asserting any legal rights that you had.
It doesn't seem too unusual to me. Look at the vandals who deface property, often at great physical risk to themselves, and also risk prosecution just so they can put their (often very ugly) tags on some buildings.
The article is just trying to help float a new tech bubble. Except for "Art," software can't get more valuable than the products/services it facilitates. When it does, you've got another stupid bubble.
They jacked up the T-Cells to make leukemia go away. They destroyed tumors!
If there was ever a time to support government-funded science, this is the time. This technology should belong to the people. Not just a subset of the people protected by patent walls.
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Ten years ago there was a wider variety of crap, there was more crap, and there was more imaginative crap. Out of that pile of crap, there was a ten percent pile of goodness.
I still look back fondly to the time when a trip to Egghead was something I looked forward to.
Do you get that now?
Put a whole bunch of smart and dedicated people together on the same project and they will work their ass off to solve that project. Along the way, they will develop (or spin off for development) a slew of other fantastic ideas.
Support the creative stew!
"Species level problems" really don't have much to do with the possible shutdown of Youtube.
You should voice your concerns on a Youtube video!
I'm sure that the killers have their excuses too . . .
I think you make a valid point, but when I step back, I see Assange attempting to use governmental power (via the courts and associated governmental enforcement mechanisms) to keep secrets from the people.
Anybody can sue anybody about anything almost anywhere. Frivolous crap like this gets thrown out of court pretty fast.
A lawsuit exposes Wikileaks to civil discovery. Civil discovery is very broad. Think about the story that the Guardian could write with what they learn about Wikileaks personnel in the civil discovery process. Think about the secrecy that Wikileaks gives up by prosecuting a lawsuit.
This is posing. Assange is a nauseating individual. While Bradley Manning sits his ass in jail, that scumbag Assange fritters away the donations of true believers in a frivolous lawsuit that will never go anywhere.
It seems to me that energy is too important to be left to private enterprise. Let the people control the energy.
Billing (read: taxation) based upon energy usage would be about the fairest tax imaginable.
When you bait executives with stock, this is what you get. That and watered stock.
Many judges have deep and long lasting friendships with the lawyers that appear before them.
In my community, a few years a judge (now dead) heard cases where the best man at his wedding was the defense lawyer.
One day, the judge made a ruling that the defense lawyer did not like. The defense lawyer--on the record--accused the judge of being biased against him (because he was bending over too far backward to be fair). The lawyer then left the courtroom in a huff.
What did the judge do? Did he get a fucking clue and disqualify himself from the case? Noooooo. The judge ran out into the parking lot and brought the lawyer back into the courtroom. The judge then reversed his decision.
This kind of thing is not rare.
Mitnick presents to me as an excellent case of a person who has rehabilitated himself.
I'm real happy for him.
My shoes are shock absorbing and so are my inserts. That absorbency makes my walk "a little more tiring," but the energy loss is necessary and I accept it gladly.
If shoes and/or inserts can generate electricity and provide comparable absorbency at the same weight, then for all practical purposes there is a free lunch.
Your reasoning is solid when applied to people who walk barefoot. However, people who wear shoes would not necessarily be getting a little more tired when they wear an absorbent charging device in the place of their usual shock absorbers.
I ride almost every day to work. It is far more pleasant than driving.
The key to exercise is finding something that you enjoy.
Tectonic movement willed by God. See? they're not mutually exclusive.
There! Now you've done it!
One group of sincere religious people will say that God is interested in the world and will "will" things to occur on the planet.
Another group of sincere religious people will say that God is disinterested in the world and provides us with free will (?).
The two groups will disagree. They will fragment and fragment some more. They will form new religious groups. Their disputes will become both organized and violent.
One man's heresy is another man's faith--and with astounding regularity that difference spawns violence.
Laches is the legal term for sitting on your ass while your rights are being violated. After too much ass-sitting, you'll be equitably estopped from asserting any legal rights that you had.
Add Atari to my do not buy list.
Anonymous as an agent for change?
That's a joke. They're nothing more than vandals.
It doesn't seem too unusual to me. Look at the vandals who deface property, often at great physical risk to themselves, and also risk prosecution just so they can put their (often very ugly) tags on some buildings.
Anonymous is like a band of taggers.
The article is just trying to help float a new tech bubble. Except for "Art," software can't get more valuable than the products/services it facilitates. When it does, you've got another stupid bubble.
Don't overgeneralize. The same jerks that ride their bikes like asses are the jerks that drive their cars like asses.
I understand your sentiment. A cyclist should treat a pedestrian like the cyclist would want to be treated by an automobile.
The cops should ticket the cyclists you describe.
Thinking about acres of rusting thorium hulks sitting in the illegal junkyards that trouble every county.
Thanks for your post. It was very informative. It was worth wading through the insulting language.
They jacked up the T-Cells to make leukemia go away. They destroyed tumors!
If there was ever a time to support government-funded science, this is the time. This technology should belong to the people. Not just a subset of the people protected by patent walls.
"Violence only perpetuates the hate?"
Violence also perpetuates one other thing you might have overlooked: CHANGE.
The Vandals and the Visigoths didn't just "perpetuate the hate," they also effected change. Same for the U.S. Westward expansion.
The French Revolution was very violent, but it effected a change that many perceive as good.
If you don't address the root causes of violence, you just seal the lid on a boiling pot of water.
While that statement is true, it has NOTHING to do with the discussion. The correct analysis centers on this:
Probable Cause to Arrest != Probable Cause to Take DNA
That's the proper issue.
The federal courts do have a mechanism for disbarring.
Control vs. KAOS. Yes, I've seen this all before.