[extasy] With moderation it's not overly harmful. Effects of extasy: Psychological difficulties, including confusion, depression, sleep problems, drug craving, severe anxiety, and paranoia - during and sometimes weeks after taking MDMA (even psychotic episodes have been reported). Physical symptoms such as muscle tension, involuntary teeth clenching, nausea, blurred vision, rapid eye movement, faintness, and chills or sweating. Increases in heart rate and blood pressure, a special risk for people with circulatory or heart disease.
Long term (4 days) effects: Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University demonstrated that 4 days of exposure to the drug caused damage that persisted 6 to 7 years later. Brain imaging research in humans indicates that MDMA causes injury to the brain, affecting neurons that use the chemical serotonin to communicate with other neurons.
there has never been a single law passed by the government that makes life hard on you open source lemmings. name me just one Here goes another answer for another smartass: DCMA sponsored by Hollywood lobbies paying cash miss Hillay Clinton and passed under her husband term in 2000. This law renders illegal reverse engineering under the premises it might lead to copyright infringment. It has been also used to stop research in several fields, so it's just not hampering open source lemmings but competion in general therms. I don't have the slightest glimpse of simpaty for your teachings, smartass.
Oh, wait, did you mean the pirates' rights? Do please elaborate; I don't recall seeing a "right to download other people's IP for free" in any laws recently. Since you sound like a smartass I'll gladly do that: Freedom is at a stake. It's obvious you're not interested in defending your rights but there is people who actually cares.
If you were a citizen of Denmark you can be exposed to any kind of information from the internet that's not blocked: From Jhadis telling their "brothers" how to make bombs, boycott dutch economy and kill your infidel connationals to the occasional phaedophile promoting his acts on the internet. All of this reside on the freedom of speech and information. And while those should be investigated we get a block on piratebay...
The pirate bay brings a way better message that is "copy" and "share" with your fellow human bings. Also it's blog it's actually a very refreshing read. It happens that this message apprently infringes on Imaginary Property. We are not talking here of maimed bodies, killed childs or war of terror. The latter can and will happily reside unquestioned on the net because they are not a concern to imaginary property rights holders.
In conclusion, the court decision infringes on Danish people rights to read information and to access to a convenient file sharing service. I wish the IFMI step aside and go fuck off. This way it will stop bugging the juridical system and give it more time to investigate on really important issues such as those I mentioned earlier.
the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV / AIDS resolves that, 'An HIV-infected person on antiretroviral therapy with completely suppressed viraemia ("effective ART") is not sexually infectious, i.e. cannot transmit HIV through sexual contact I can remember also that newspaper were promoting Extasy as a new social drug with no side effects, marijuana as a healthy habit, Avian Flu as doom of the world and RIAA protecting artists revenues... yeah right, I'll keep this news in that space in my mind...
There is no thing as a perfect gyroscopic controller/accelerometer. In the long run they all tend to drift. So you're gonna need another tracking system to have a working solution. BTW I though that the nintendo WII controller has already embedded accellerometers and gyroscopes. At least for the nunjago attachment!
There are alternatives to "Big 4" music, unfortunately, sometimes the anti-RIAA crowds neglect to mention them. Here you go: http://blue.jamendo.com/ free, legal and... sounds better.
The government collapsed a week ago. Despite the mess they are trying to avoid elections since to obtain a pension they have to be in charge around another year... So that's what I meant "when we will have a government once again". In the meanwhile the people in the chambers will avoid doing anything inpopular which mean literally DO NOTHING in fear of hurting part of the electorate.
Don't rate the parent funny, insightful is better: A italian judge has recently dropped charges against 3 link share websites (Ranging from edonkeyitalia to Bittorrent.com) because linking to copyrighted material is not the same as distributing copyrighted matierial and does not infringe the law. The IFPI immediatly stated that this does not affect end users that are still accountable, and that's partly true: Here the law states that downloading for personal use and without profit is not a felony so you can get sued for doing so only in a civil court. But you also know that your data will not be divulged by the authorities/ISP until a judge orders it, which in turn is very unlikely to happen under these charges.
The greens last elections proposed legalization of P2P, while being part of a coalition that laking anything except absolute incoerence had one of his members (now in the PD- Partito Democratico) write and push the IPRED2 at the europarlament.
In conclusion: unlike Swedes we don't have a sense of pride, I think things are going to change for the worse once we will have again a government... (6-20 months)
To start with when I was 20 I proudly applied statistical data analisys to the breast size of the playboy's bunnies in order to find out whereever they had implants or not. I think statistics belongs there. Otherwise following your reasoning of statistics in politics we could have robots voting istead of people.
That said and getting a serious conversation going on, it is not the specific case of pro-abotion pro-life issues that matters here. And that's because clearly the health service industry is making money wherever there is a abortion or a newborn, that's why you could spot a residual difference beween the two. There are also a basic numbers of sensitive areas that the parties expose to the public in order to convince them to give them a relative majority such as Ground control, mediaid, public instruction etc. And in those areas it is clear that they are buond to express a vote as promised.
On the other hand the problem emerges dramatically when corporate lobbying interests are put at a stake. You have a system that clearly and openly welcomes sponsors to pay your candidates (on both sides). I don't believe that they do so with no ROI (Return on Investment) so to me this means that your candidates are no longer yours. And this issue is exposed clearly by those laws that are custom made against the majority of voters. The DCMA is a brilliant example of the Democratic party limiting civil liberties and research on behalf of the industry...
Take in account that statistical data could not spot a altered vote such as this i depict here: D is majority. D wants a law against the costumer not to be passed, R is in favour because of money previously taken from oligopolist - Oligopolist call selected D senators that received large sum of money - At the vote the law passes because R voted for and a minority of D voted for also. If you spread the pattern of the minority then statistical data analisys will not spot it. If you think this is unlikely to happen think twice, we are ejoying it in italy since 2000 when a duopolic system was established.
I'd suggest american friends to change from a Duocracy system to a real democracy. As much is proven that a duopoly is not effective in favouring the consumer, why whould a duocracy do any better in the political field?
You receive SMS spam because SMS spammers already don't pay for the messages.
This is due to interconnection agreements between network carriers. They can send the message in bulk from malesya or south africa throught a operator on a fixed charge plan. For instance in italy where most free markets interconnects are blocked there is virtually no SMS spamming.
I made a paper for the univeristy some years ago. The marginal cost of a SMS is 0.
They do have a little cost/opportunity. As a matter of fact SMS messages are sent on the control channel. Initially SMS were implemented in the GSM standard as a control system, just like the ICMP protocol of the IP stack. Then NOKIA though to implement a actual instant message function using SMS. The Contol channel is the channel that your mobile listens to in order to receive calls. So for receiving a SMS a control signal is sent. Since bandwidht is somehow limited on these channels it could happen that in a situation of massive usage of texting the control channel gets saturated and normal voice protocol initiation is disrupted. To prevent this carriers nowadays apply a kind of QoS delaying SMSs until there is no risk of congestion. So we can state that the marginal cost is 0 and the cost/opportunity is also 0
Another story is for the MMSs. Their cost/opportunity is even lower since they run almost enterely on GPRS thus using most bandwidht on normal data channels. Thus a MMS with pictures sounds and maybe video SHOULD cost less than a SMS.
So you wonder, why do I pay so much for a SMS or a MMS or even a Call: after the debts for the initial hardware infrastructure have been paid by the carrier you are still paying because of market segmentation (You won't change the carrier on the fly) and a little monopoly (Almost impossible to start a new carrier from 0).
This is a full load of lies and misconceptions. Piratebay: For the most part they are young professionals working in IT. The server are hosted at the same company that gives them work. They get some money for paying the bills.
A Poor Videogame Creator: You coward should know that a private working on a videogame usually does not recoup the costs due to lack of distribution. So either the game is acquired by a famous company and becomes a hit (quite unlikely) or the game will be offered in a bundle that actually can get some revenue despite piracy. All other options like selling 5.000 copies as you said are pure bullshit since no one will print them in the first place. And if you get to work at a software company you get a salary!!! (And I don't see EA bankrupting soon...)
I am quite sure that when you were growing you had no downloads. As much as I am sure you have been making copies of LPs on tapes!!! So stop being a whiner and start being objective.
it's the average person that watches the movies and listens to the music that will suffer. They are telling this since 1970... I'd pirate just for the fun to see if that's true... BTW I think this is a faster way to get the work done: http://www.jamendo.com/
Hey, let me fix that for you
A couple of other companies have used a similar argument, shortly before getting shut down. Napster and Grokster were basically search engines that could be used for both legal or illegal purposes, but United States courts didn't buy it. You people, why can't you just grasp the concept that US law applies only on US land?
Unfortunately it is the "allowing content to be created" part the has been trolled around since the '70 by the RIAA and recently by the MPAA... Everybody knows that if that was true then there would'nt be any music by now.
The last year we, the costumers, have been exposed to frequent scripwriters strikes. They clearly stated that MPAA associated corporations keep most profits for themself and then starve honest content creators. This is enought to debunk the myth.
Now it is also more than clear that part of the money goes to borderline legal firms like Logistep who (ab)use loopholes in international law to violate citizens privacy and honestly in europe we don't tolerate this. We rate privacy more than corporate profit over here... http://www.mafiaa.org/
Well I kinda disagree. I had a wonderful experience in Greece where no-one could recoup revenues from traditional music (The market there is really small) so instead of whining and pushing this "DRM/I cut your hands if you copy a CD/Sue your family to the third grade" all pop stars to make a living do stage live concerts in special venues. They tour the country so each and every major city hosts tours of singers and bands
Tikets don't come cheap but you have full service including drinks and fruit while you listen to your personal favourite artist. I swear you, this is nothing like sitting on a couch crunching potatoes. Here is a sample of such places (from a mobile phone) http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=LrDGD-Cz_Xs I guess most people here will appreciate the looks of the singer. In this framework the CD is part of the promotion and not the one and only source of revenue.
On the other end the last tour of the spice girls earn each of them around 16 Millions dollar ( http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=236261 ). Anyway I was talking about music performance and a LIFETIME stream of revenue.
maybe someone would download the song...and the rest of that artist's oeuvre. At least if it goes as far as it sounds like you want it to. That doesn't make money for anyone, although it does give us plenty of free music. What about you like it and support the the artist by attending at a LIVE concert??? Why are those getting away with a business model in wich the "artist" only needs to play once in the lifetime and enjoys unlimited copyright?
Think it as: Can You live on a revenue from works you performed earlier? Should they?
Of course this is relevant to the USA! Canada with 1/8 of the population, harsh climate and less resources has been putting the USA in shame all these years.
US Governement already have to bear the differences in welfare and crime rate. They could just get have additional problems in trying to justify better civil liberties and absence of RIAA/MPAA messing with people lifes.
Mexico from this point of view is such a better neighbour:)
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Long term (4 days) effects: Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University demonstrated that 4 days of exposure to the drug caused damage that persisted 6 to 7 years later. Brain imaging research in humans indicates that MDMA causes injury to the brain, affecting neurons that use the chemical serotonin to communicate with other neurons.
With all respect, you better inform yourself and stop taking drugs before posting bullshit. Source http://www.narconon.ca/Ecstasy.htm
If you were a citizen of Denmark you can be exposed to any kind of information from the internet that's not blocked: From Jhadis telling their "brothers" how to make bombs, boycott dutch economy and kill your infidel connationals to the occasional phaedophile promoting his acts on the internet. All of this reside on the freedom of speech and information. And while those should be investigated we get a block on piratebay...
The pirate bay brings a way better message that is "copy" and "share" with your fellow human bings. Also it's blog it's actually a very refreshing read. It happens that this message apprently infringes on Imaginary Property. We are not talking here of maimed bodies, killed childs or war of terror. The latter can and will happily reside unquestioned on the net because they are not a concern to imaginary property rights holders.
In conclusion, the court decision infringes on Danish people rights to read information and to access to a convenient file sharing service. I wish the IFMI step aside and go fuck off. This way it will stop bugging the juridical system and give it more time to investigate on really important issues such as those I mentioned earlier.
There is no thing as a perfect gyroscopic controller/accelerometer. In the long run they all tend to drift. So you're gonna need another tracking system to have a working solution.
BTW I though that the nintendo WII controller has already embedded accellerometers and gyroscopes. At least for the nunjago attachment!
How can I mod parent as "Consipirationst Spam"?
The government collapsed a week ago. Despite the mess they are trying to avoid elections since to obtain a pension they have to be in charge around another year... So that's what I meant "when we will have a government once again". In the meanwhile the people in the chambers will avoid doing anything inpopular which mean literally DO NOTHING in fear of hurting part of the electorate.
Don't rate the parent funny, insightful is better:
A italian judge has recently dropped charges against 3 link share websites (Ranging from edonkeyitalia to Bittorrent.com) because linking to copyrighted material is not the same as distributing copyrighted matierial and does not infringe the law. The IFPI immediatly stated that this does not affect end users that are still accountable, and that's partly true: Here the law states that downloading for personal use and without profit is not a felony so you can get sued for doing so only in a civil court. But you also know that your data will not be divulged by the authorities/ISP until a judge orders it, which in turn is very unlikely to happen under these charges.
The greens last elections proposed legalization of P2P, while being part of a coalition that laking anything except absolute incoerence had one of his members (now in the PD- Partito Democratico) write and push the IPRED2 at the europarlament.
In conclusion: unlike Swedes we don't have a sense of pride, I think things are going to change for the worse once we will have again a government... (6-20 months)
That's accordin to google labs, porn is for UK, New Zealand and Australia where getting sex isn't a problem while sofisticated porn is difficult to see http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 - Sex is clearly what Egiptians are looking for http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
No more sex for ARABS http://google.com/trends?q=sex :)
Listen my friend.
To start with when I was 20 I proudly applied statistical data analisys to the breast size of the playboy's bunnies in order to find out whereever they had implants or not. I think statistics belongs there. Otherwise following your reasoning of statistics in politics we could have robots voting istead of people.
That said and getting a serious conversation going on, it is not the specific case of pro-abotion pro-life issues that matters here. And that's because clearly the health service industry is making money wherever there is a abortion or a newborn, that's why you could spot a residual difference beween the two. There are also a basic numbers of sensitive areas that the parties expose to the public in order to convince them to give them a relative majority such as Ground control, mediaid, public instruction etc. And in those areas it is clear that they are buond to express a vote as promised.
On the other hand the problem emerges dramatically when corporate lobbying interests are put at a stake. You have a system that clearly and openly welcomes sponsors to pay your candidates (on both sides). I don't believe that they do so with no ROI (Return on Investment) so to me this means that your candidates are no longer yours. And this issue is exposed clearly by those laws that are custom made against the majority of voters. The DCMA is a brilliant example of the Democratic party limiting civil liberties and research on behalf of the industry...
Take in account that statistical data could not spot a altered vote such as this i depict here: D is majority. D wants a law against the costumer not to be passed, R is in favour because of money previously taken from oligopolist - Oligopolist call selected D senators that received large sum of money - At the vote the law passes because R voted for and a minority of D voted for also. If you spread the pattern of the minority then statistical data analisys will not spot it. If you think this is unlikely to happen think twice, we are ejoying it in italy since 2000 when a duopolic system was established.
Excellent piece. BTW: Republicans = Democrats = Sold out. And I mean it, here is proof: http://www.politicalmoneyline.com/ - http://opensecrets.org/
I'd suggest american friends to change from a Duocracy system to a real democracy. As much is proven that a duopoly is not effective in favouring the consumer, why whould a duocracy do any better in the political field?
You receive SMS spam because SMS spammers already don't pay for the messages.
This is due to interconnection agreements between network carriers. They can send the message in bulk from malesya or south africa throught a operator on a fixed charge plan. For instance in italy where most free markets interconnects are blocked there is virtually no SMS spamming.
I know the true cost of SMS messages!
I made a paper for the univeristy some years ago. The marginal cost of a SMS is 0.
They do have a little cost/opportunity. As a matter of fact SMS messages are sent on the control channel. Initially SMS were implemented in the GSM standard as a control system, just like the ICMP protocol of the IP stack. Then NOKIA though to implement a actual instant message function using SMS. The Contol channel is the channel that your mobile listens to in order to receive calls. So for receiving a SMS a control signal is sent. Since bandwidht is somehow limited on these channels it could happen that in a situation of massive usage of texting the control channel gets saturated and normal voice protocol initiation is disrupted. To prevent this carriers nowadays apply a kind of QoS delaying SMSs until there is no risk of congestion. So we can state that the marginal cost is 0 and the cost/opportunity is also 0
Another story is for the MMSs. Their cost/opportunity is even lower since they run almost enterely on GPRS thus using most bandwidht on normal data channels. Thus a MMS with pictures sounds and maybe video SHOULD cost less than a SMS.
So you wonder, why do I pay so much for a SMS or a MMS or even a Call: after the debts for the initial hardware infrastructure have been paid by the carrier you are still paying because of market segmentation (You won't change the carrier on the fly) and a little monopoly (Almost impossible to start a new carrier from 0).
I hope ou liked the summary!
Piratebay: For the most part they are young professionals working in IT. The server are hosted at the same company that gives them work. They get some money for paying the bills.
A Poor Videogame Creator: You coward should know that a private working on a videogame usually does not recoup the costs due to lack of distribution. So either the game is acquired by a famous company and becomes a hit (quite unlikely) or the game will be offered in a bundle that actually can get some revenue despite piracy. All other options like selling 5.000 copies as you said are pure bullshit since no one will print them in the first place. And if you get to work at a software company you get a salary!!! (And I don't see EA bankrupting soon...)
I am quite sure that when you were growing you had no downloads. As much as I am sure you have been making copies of LPs on tapes!!! So stop being a whiner and start being objective. it's the average person that watches the movies and listens to the music that will suffer. They are telling this since 1970... I'd pirate just for the fun to see if that's true... BTW I think this is a faster way to get the work done: http://www.jamendo.com/
Unfortunately it is the "allowing content to be created" part the has been trolled around since the '70 by the RIAA and recently by the MPAA... Everybody knows that if that was true then there would'nt be any music by now.
The last year we, the costumers, have been exposed to frequent scripwriters strikes. They clearly stated that MPAA associated corporations keep most profits for themself and then starve honest content creators. This is enought to debunk the myth.
Now it is also more than clear that part of the money goes to borderline legal firms like Logistep who (ab)use loopholes in international law to violate citizens privacy and honestly in europe we don't tolerate this. We rate privacy more than corporate profit over here... http://www.mafiaa.org/
Well I kinda disagree. I had a wonderful experience in Greece where no-one could recoup revenues from traditional music (The market there is really small) so instead of whining and pushing this "DRM/I cut your hands if you copy a CD/Sue your family to the third grade" all pop stars to make a living do stage live concerts in special venues. They tour the country so each and every major city hosts tours of singers and bands
Tikets don't come cheap but you have full service including drinks and fruit while you listen to your personal favourite artist. I swear you, this is nothing like sitting on a couch crunching potatoes. Here is a sample of such places (from a mobile phone) http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=LrDGD-Cz_Xs I guess most people here will appreciate the looks of the singer. In this framework the CD is part of the promotion and not the one and only source of revenue.
On the other end the last tour of the spice girls earn each of them around 16 Millions dollar ( http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=236261 ). Anyway I was talking about music performance and a LIFETIME stream of revenue.
Think it as: Can You live on a revenue from works you performed earlier? Should they?
As Long as americans are still voting for people involved with MAAFIA I'd say you've got no hope.
Information is priceless: http://opensecrets.org/ - http://moneyline.cq.com/pml/home.do
Of course this is relevant to the USA! Canada with 1/8 of the population, harsh climate and less resources has been putting the USA in shame all these years.
:)
US Governement already have to bear the differences in welfare and crime rate. They could just get have additional problems in trying to justify better civil liberties and absence of RIAA/MPAA messing with people lifes.
Mexico from this point of view is such a better neighbour