Some 20 years ago, when electronic daisywheel typewriters were starting to take over, Smith-Corona/Marchant came out with a novel way to keep using their mechanical typewriter tooling. They used a conventional mechanical keyboard, where the keys stuck a bar of steel with a piezoelectric sensor at either end.
The delay between the time the impulse reached each sensor enabled a microprocessor to pinpoint exactly where the bar was impacted, and thus deduce which key was pressed.
That's basically the same principle applied, but in three dimensions.
"... Conditioned upon the parties' compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the parties, and their respective officers, directors, agents, servants, employees, parents, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, attorneys, successors and assigns, hereby release each other from any and all claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, rights or causes of action, including but not limited to any claim for attorneys fees, arising out of or relating to the Action and/or the allegations asserted therein...."
Reading this please make your own conclusions about the inner structure of the underlying legal system (IMAGINE YOU WOULD STRUCTURE CODE THE SAME WAY!).
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!"
-- Salvor Hardin
I once totally trashed a company. Completely. Utterly. 50 employees on the street.
I completely destroyed the data on the central computer and the backups.
I was asked to make the company violate the election financing act (Companies cannot contribute to political parties). They wanted me to stealthily add to the payroll (so employees would not notice) the maximum contribution permissible for each employee, in their name. In reality, the company gave 50 times the legal contribution to a party that has been convicted many times of election fraud in the past (I'll name it: the liberal party of Québec).
Without any system functionning, the company was soon unable to perform properly, and I used connections in the tax department to have an audit forced on the company, to which they weren't able to comply... The owner eventually lost his home...
And to drive the point home, I made sure the owner of the company knew full well what happenned and for what reason...
Everyone having guns only works in certain cultures.
Counter-example: Iraq.
Au contraire mon cher, it works perfectly well in Irak: the americans don't dare go out of their secured compounds, which totally nullifies their presence there, in addition to bringing the USA deeper and deeper in debt.
The end is near! The upcoming crash will reverberate throughout History for centuries to come!!!
Think of it as yet another attempt at a thousand year reich...
We are not talking about silencing political speech here. Canada is not China, period. We have had laws against hate crimes and child porn for quite awhile now, and there are specific exceptions allowed in our constitution such that there can be no hiding behind the banner of free speech for these things. They are, unequivocably, criminal acts.
Really?
Currently, in Montréal, there are several controversies:
- A YMCA blanked out windows to a gym because the sight of lycra-women doing aerobics was "distracting" to hassidic boys in the rabbinical college accross the lane. (1, 2, 3).
- Hospital and other health center violate the law by preventing fathers from attending neonatal classes, because it upsets muslim women. Likewise, muslim men won't let male doctors touch their wives.
- The Montréal police union is up in arms over an article published in an internal paper, which says that women police should avoid talking to hassidim jews, and let their male colleagues do it instead.
Now, if I go around and say that jews are a bunch of assholes by thinking they can shove their fucking dirty garbage values down the throats of everyone else, I can be jailed. And if I the same thing about islam, I can be jailed, too. But now, some political leaders are starting to slowly raise a stink about it. Now what's gonna happen? They gonna be jailed too? Their websites will be censored?
(Yes, I think that jews are assholes; 20 years ago, the same hassidic jews outlawed bathing suits in a Montréal suburb; they could not bear the sight of human beings sunbathing in city parks!!! They found a very attentive ear in the same mayor who, 15 years earlier, as justice minister, thought nothing of suppressing individual freedoms and liberties by declaring martial law (and for which 400 people were jailed without trial).
Even if you can build the case against cubicles, you still need to be able to communicate with management. That means, y'know, diplomacy, communication skills, a lil bit of cunning, and what not.
While I know that what I say might come off as a troll or a Microsoft-fanboy (I am neither), I really don't understand the State in this situation at all.
You can't. Don't even try to. Your atrophied libertarian excuse for a brain is unable to.
It's a matter of "public good", something libertarians cannot understand, because they are too much self-centered that they cannot understand why something that is good for them should be prohibited because it's bad for others.
Yadda, yaddda, yaddada21 more anglo-saxon oxdung from Dada21.
Anglo-saxon have institutionalized hatred and distrust of governments, which makes them blind to the fact that such big blunders are not only the province of government, but of private entreprise too.
In fact, there are far more blunders in private entreprise but you never hear about them because, well, private entreprises are (drum roll!!!) private (tadaaah!!!).
They are well-placed to hide their shortcomings under the carpet, without having any public accountability.
Governments **CAN** do things very efficiently, but the likes of Dada21, in their government-hating way, carefully refrain from stating so.
Who developped the atomic bomb during World-War II to win against the japanese? Certainly not Proctor and Gamble or General Dynamics; no, it was the US government who did.
And who regularly runs the largest high-speed train network in the world, where the fastest trains in the world carry thousands of passengers HOURLY for hundreds of thousands of miles, without any accident? It's not a private company, but the french State-owned railroad company SNCF.
Likewise, the only north-american power grid that did not come-down during the last northeastern blackout not only is owned by the government of Québec, but it sells the cheapest electric power in the world.
No, in reality, what Dada21 and their ilk want is to destroy the State so they don't pay taxes, and it doesn't protect the weaker people from their predations. And to do so, they keep trumpetting a supposed inefficiency of government in the hope that, one day, some one comes along and says "I'm gonna end all that government efficiency if you vote for me!", and the gullible people vote for him, only to realize that his agenda is mostly to scrap Democracy.
This is exactly how Adolf Hitler gained power 75 years ago.
Of course, drugs should be legalized and therefore will be available for cheap, without danger and, most importantly, without enriching organized crime.
With a well-planned welfare system, there is no need for extremely poor people to resort to criminality to survive. This alone explains the extremely low crime rate.
The higher tax rates to insure a much lower crime rate makes it worthwile (but of course, one cannot expect hard-ass anglo-saxons to understand that, given their extremely constipated notion of private property)...
If some other unnamed countries actually enforced thier laws against vanadalism, you would be able to drive down the streets without a constant bombardment of filth spray painted on everything. You never know, it might actually end up safe to actually walk down those streets. But, it's probably a lot easier to sit back and criticize the way others do things than it is to actually fix the issues at home. FWIW, I believe we have read here on/. about folks in florida and another state being charged for just this offence, but, then again, that's probably different, it's 'think of the children' when it happens at home....
Where I live, we don't take a hard-assed look at society. Bums are taken care of with a meaningful welfare system so the criminals are real criminals, and even for them, they don't rot the rest of their days in jail where they learn more crime.
We also outlaw guns so you can walk in the dark in the worst neighbourhoods without being afraid of anything at all.
Hard-assed attitude generate crime, and "jail'em and throw the key" policies only foster crime.
Over here in Europe I am increasingly hearing people who say they don't want to travel to the USA at the moment, whether for tourism or business.
Not only in Europe.
It's a beautiful day here, today. I only need to walk 5 minutes to climb a hill near where I live and I can see both the Adirondack Mountains and the Green Mountains of Vermont.
Stupid things like that would not happen if those amazing inscrutables would not have those "saving face" values... I mean, if someone tells shit about you anonymously, who gives a shit? It's worth where it's coming from: not much.
As a record store owner, My business faces ruin. CD sales have dropped through the floor. People aren't buying half as many CDs as they did just a year ago. Revenue is down and costs are up. My store has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening.
...
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer CDs. Why is no one buying CDs? Are people not interested in music? Do people prefer to watch TV, see films, read books? I don't know.
Well, have you given the thought that when people drag their arses into your emporium, and see that you're charging $20.00 for a handful of songs, and that for about the same price, they can get a good movie DVD?
When they see that, the people think "what a fucking rip-off" and they go out without getting the music.
This is what I do; now, I borrow CDs from friends or the library and copy them on my server at home. Right now, I have almost 4000 songs there, and I may have paid for about 60 of them; that's when I used to be a sucker that paid $20 for a CD, but I know better now. I haven't bought a CD in about 7 years, and whenever I thought I bought it, I cringe at the utter waste of money.
I was fuming. So they were out to destroy the record industry from right under my nose? Fat chance. When they came to the counter to make their purchase, I grabbed the little shit by his shirt. "So...you're going to copy this to your friends over The Internet, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.
"Uh y-yeh." He mumbled, shocked.
"That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.
And you wonder why your store is deserted? If you treat your customers like criminals, well, don't be surprised if they desert or "rip you off"...
You just proved to the kids that downloading pirated songs is much less a hassle than facing a grumpy hardass record store owner.
One day, you will have to do what all senseful anglo-saxons do, and accept responsibility for your actions.
12 years ago, you bought into a losing industry, which makes you a loser.
You have only yourself to blame.
And your imminent bankrupcy is well-deserved, if only for your hardassness.
I could go on, and on, but I have some borrowed CDs to copy.
I have to ask: why is it relevant that the company was French, and in what way do you think that the fact, that it was French, make the executive staff more likely to trigger the virus?
Because the french are the best lovers in the world. The french strategy for world domination is to go to any country, and love the natives by marrying with them.
This also explains why the french gene pool is the most diversified in the world.
It's the 'southerners' of Greece that started Democracy.... or do you conveniently forget such historical truths.
Some "democracy" indeed... A "democracy" where only the elite could vote, but not the slaves and masses... And only Athens had that "democracy"; the rest of Greece did not.
Again, you mention two religions (at least I think you do: scatholicism = Catholicism?)
Yup, that's it. Catholicism is really a piece-of-shit religion, because it enslaves the mind. It is directly responsible for the fall of the roman empire. Without it, Mankind would not have lost nearly a millenium of progress.
So, I ask: what about those northern areas before Martin Luther? (I'll answer) They were Catholic (for better or worse). And what about Russian Orthodoxy? Talk about living in the cold without the values you claim they should have.
The now protestant areas were quite backwards, just as Russia whose religion utterly crushed the masses under the oligarchy. Orthodox Russia abolished serfdom only 150 years ago...
Just like it can popup within your too. If you don't understand that, then you don't understand the state of man nor the necessity of real religion.
Religions (there is no "real" religion. **ALL** religions are false) is only a brainwashing means of control, which only serves to prevent social progress and maintain the status-quo.
The main idea is to make people believe that they cannot control themselves so they are better listening to what the priests and the established authorities tell them to do.
Now that all cultures mingle and mix to an unprecedented level in History, it is absolutely vital to eliminate and destroy religion, because with all those cultures, languages and even races going side by side, the last need Mankind need is another totally artificial, illogical and 100% bullshit way of divide people and breed hatred.
Now, if you are unable to conceptualize a religionless world, at the very least, you should avoid annoying with your stupid religion the people who are intellectually advanced enough to go about without any religion. Stupid people have no business telling smart people what to do.
Do you have any more academic sources for that point of view? That's a very Jared-Diamond-esque way of looking at how geography influences behavior, but neither JD nor anyone else I've read has explicitly tied democracy to a harsh climate (though it makes senes on the gut feeling level.)
No. It's just my gut feeling.
Why would some of the world's first (sort-of) democratic societies, ancient Greece and the Roman Republic, have evolved in these "southern" countries?
Those societies were far from being democratic. Power was held by an oligarchy of patricians who ruled plebeian and slave classes.
However, the inuit who evolved in arctic conditions, arguably the most harsh environment humans ever inhabited, have soon evolved a socially advanced communistic society. Even today, canadian aboriginals do not have a very developped sense of property; in their communities, all the infrastructure all the way to the individual housing is the collectivity of their band councils.
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Some 20 years ago, when electronic daisywheel typewriters were starting to take over, Smith-Corona/Marchant came out with a novel way to keep using their mechanical typewriter tooling. They used a conventional mechanical keyboard, where the keys stuck a bar of steel with a piezoelectric sensor at either end.
The delay between the time the impulse reached each sensor enabled a microprocessor to pinpoint exactly where the bar was impacted, and thus deduce which key was pressed.
That's basically the same principle applied, but in three dimensions.
I completely destroyed the data on the central computer and the backups.
I was asked to make the company violate the election financing act (Companies cannot contribute to political parties). They wanted me to stealthily add to the payroll (so employees would not notice) the maximum contribution permissible for each employee, in their name. In reality, the company gave 50 times the legal contribution to a party that has been convicted many times of election fraud in the past (I'll name it: the liberal party of Québec).
Without any system functionning, the company was soon unable to perform properly, and I used connections in the tax department to have an audit forced on the company, to which they weren't able to comply... The owner eventually lost his home...
And to drive the point home, I made sure the owner of the company knew full well what happenned and for what reason...
The end is near! The upcoming crash will reverberate throughout History for centuries to come!!!
Think of it as yet another attempt at a thousand year reich...
The troll moderation is ample proof that the jews will not tolerate criticism.
Currently, in Montréal, there are several controversies:
- A YMCA blanked out windows to a gym because the sight of lycra-women doing aerobics was "distracting" to hassidic boys in the rabbinical college accross the lane. (1, 2, 3).
- Hospital and other health center violate the law by preventing fathers from attending neonatal classes, because it upsets muslim women. Likewise, muslim men won't let male doctors touch their wives.
- The Montréal police union is up in arms over an article published in an internal paper, which says that women police should avoid talking to hassidim jews, and let their male colleagues do it instead.
Now, if I go around and say that jews are a bunch of assholes by thinking they can shove their fucking dirty garbage values down the throats of everyone else, I can be jailed. And if I the same thing about islam, I can be jailed, too. But now, some political leaders are starting to slowly raise a stink about it. Now what's gonna happen? They gonna be jailed too? Their websites will be censored?
(Yes, I think that jews are assholes; 20 years ago, the same hassidic jews outlawed bathing suits in a Montréal suburb; they could not bear the sight of human beings sunbathing in city parks!!! They found a very attentive ear in the same mayor who, 15 years earlier, as justice minister, thought nothing of suppressing individual freedoms and liberties by declaring martial law (and for which 400 people were jailed without trial).
He initiated the funniest thread in the history of NANAE.
It's a matter of "public good", something libertarians cannot understand, because they are too much self-centered that they cannot understand why something that is good for them should be prohibited because it's bad for others.
Anglo-saxon have institutionalized hatred and distrust of governments, which makes them blind to the fact that such big blunders are not only the province of government, but of private entreprise too.
In fact, there are far more blunders in private entreprise but you never hear about them because, well, private entreprises are (drum roll!!!) private (tadaaah!!!).
They are well-placed to hide their shortcomings under the carpet, without having any public accountability.
Governments **CAN** do things very efficiently, but the likes of Dada21, in their government-hating way, carefully refrain from stating so.
Who developped the atomic bomb during World-War II to win against the japanese? Certainly not Proctor and Gamble or General Dynamics; no, it was the US government who did.
And who regularly runs the largest high-speed train network in the world, where the fastest trains in the world carry thousands of passengers HOURLY for hundreds of thousands of miles, without any accident? It's not a private company, but the french State-owned railroad company SNCF.
Likewise, the only north-american power grid that did not come-down during the last northeastern blackout not only is owned by the government of Québec, but it sells the cheapest electric power in the world.
No, in reality, what Dada21 and their ilk want is to destroy the State so they don't pay taxes, and it doesn't protect the weaker people from their predations. And to do so, they keep trumpetting a supposed inefficiency of government in the hope that, one day, some one comes along and says "I'm gonna end all that government efficiency if you vote for me!", and the gullible people vote for him, only to realize that his agenda is mostly to scrap Democracy.
This is exactly how Adolf Hitler gained power 75 years ago.
When I turn on the radio, I can get all the music I want, for free.
If I want to keep it, I just need to turn-on the tape-recorder.
So, why should I pay for music if I can tape it from the radio???
Of course, drugs should be legalized and therefore will be available for cheap, without danger and, most importantly, without enriching organized crime.
The higher tax rates to insure a much lower crime rate makes it worthwile (but of course, one cannot expect hard-ass anglo-saxons to understand that, given their extremely constipated notion of private property)...
Heck, even the economic growth rate is a state secret!!!!
Feh. Singapore: Disneyland with the death penalty (William Gibson)
We also outlaw guns so you can walk in the dark in the worst neighbourhoods without being afraid of anything at all.
Hard-assed attitude generate crime, and "jail'em and throw the key" policies only foster crime.
(With apologies to Wired Magazine)
(As always, Google is your friend).
It's a beautiful day here, today. I only need to walk 5 minutes to climb a hill near where I live and I can see both the Adirondack Mountains and the Green Mountains of Vermont.
Yet I don't look forward to go there.
Geeez, sometimes, those guys should get a life!!!
When they see that, the people think "what a fucking rip-off" and they go out without getting the music.
This is what I do; now, I borrow CDs from friends or the library and copy them on my server at home. Right now, I have almost 4000 songs there, and I may have paid for about 60 of them; that's when I used to be a sucker that paid $20 for a CD, but I know better now. I haven't bought a CD in about 7 years, and whenever I thought I bought it, I cringe at the utter waste of money.
And you wonder why your store is deserted? If you treat your customers like criminals, well, don't be surprised if they desert or "rip you off"...You just proved to the kids that downloading pirated songs is much less a hassle than facing a grumpy hardass record store owner.
One day, you will have to do what all senseful anglo-saxons do, and accept responsibility for your actions.
12 years ago, you bought into a losing industry, which makes you a loser.
You have only yourself to blame.
And your imminent bankrupcy is well-deserved, if only for your hardassness.
I could go on, and on, but I have some borrowed CDs to copy.
This also explains why the french gene pool is the most diversified in the world.
The main idea is to make people believe that they cannot control themselves so they are better listening to what the priests and the established authorities tell them to do.
Now that all cultures mingle and mix to an unprecedented level in History, it is absolutely vital to eliminate and destroy religion, because with all those cultures, languages and even races going side by side, the last need Mankind need is another totally artificial, illogical and 100% bullshit way of divide people and breed hatred.
Now, if you are unable to conceptualize a religionless world, at the very least, you should avoid annoying with your stupid religion the people who are intellectually advanced enough to go about without any religion. Stupid people have no business telling smart people what to do.
Scatholic is used to describe one of the shittiest religions ever, the scatholics.
However, the inuit who evolved in arctic conditions, arguably the most harsh environment humans ever inhabited, have soon evolved a socially advanced communistic society. Even today, canadian aboriginals do not have a very developped sense of property; in their communities, all the infrastructure all the way to the individual housing is the collectivity of their band councils.