Given, the MPAA/RIAA have gone way overboard, but the other side is just as guilty. There has to be a common ground where everybody is happy and everybody with the genuine talent can make a living from it, but posting some stupid encryption key that the MPAA's already stopped using isn't really getting anybody any closer to that ideal.
No, it is but the first shot in a digital revolution which shall spread forth from these places and light the world aflame!
You know, I often wonder why people think it's such a horrible thing to want to get stuff for free, and yet our society rewards people who pay their employees a few cents an hour. Of course people don't really care about that because it gets us (Americans, that is) cheap crap. But while we try to get the price of replication down to a bare minimum so that we can charge as little as possible for physical stuff, the rock bottom prices for digital stuff (Free!) is made out to be some anti-capitalist bug bear.
Yeah, funny how people get that much more outraged at censorship when they're the ones being censored. Really, it's about time something like this came along to test sites like digg. They'll be at a point soon where they have pretty much no choice but to let the numbers stay up, lest the fall into the **AA business model of attack the customers.
There is one thing pretty much all GMO has in common and that is the terminator gene. They are all made to not reproduce, thus it is completely reasonable that they could have an effect on an animal that is part of their sexual cycle.
"We still haven't ruled out other factors, such as pesticides or inadequate food resources following a drought," she said. "There are lots of stresses that these bees are experiencing," and it may be a combination of factors that is responsible.
It seems that given the high penetration of cell phones in Europe it is likely that Europe would have been hit earlier and harder with CCD. Given that neither of these things are true, it is highly unlikely that it is cell phone tower that are the problem. Some people have bandied about GMO crops as a possible link because GMO penetration is much higher in the US, but I'm pretty sure the mainstream media will ignore that possibility.
Sneakernet is back, baby. among my friends and I we've shared a great number of songs and ebooks among ourselves over sneakernet2.0.
Here's how it works. It isn't really a network in its own right, just as an extension of the internets. See, I hop on my friendly "local" bittorent, invite only site and DL say, rosetta stone language learning software, the whole set of them. Now I don't need all of them, but I get them anyway, nothing new here. After that when I talk to a friend who needs to learn Arabic, I burn him a copy of the CD so he doesn't have to waste time Dling the whole damn thing himself.
Alternately, I just burn some DVDs with all the languages on them and hand them out to everyone who wants one of the languages. There could be around 100 of the things in circulation, more than technically needed, but redundancy is a good thing.
This works with just about anything really. I'm the super node of sneakernet and the others are sub-nodes, because they still trade amongst themselves.
I don't think we should put the Ayatollah in this catagory. He may have wanted totalitarian power, but compared to nearby Saudi Arabia Iran is a libertarian utopia.
Right, so what about the free fire zones in Vietnam? They were standing orders that encouraged soldiers to assume that civilians were enemy forces.
As for your distinction between "civilians" and "places occupied by civilians," if you really want to distinguish between the two then fine, I didn't mean to shoot that man, I just meant to shoot the space he was occupying.
Think about that until you realize why you're wrong.
Why don't you stop rationalizing the murder of civilians?
For instance, radical Islamists seek to enslave "their people" to a theocratic dictatorship, not free them.
No, they seek to free them from a corrupting western materialist path which will lead only to eternal torment. They are just seeking freedom in the *next* world. Point being that one can say what ever one ants about ones motives.
And you're right about Terrorists and Freedom Fighters not being mutually exclusive. I just wish more people would understand this.
That is patently untrue. The U.S. has aimed, though not yet fired, ICBM at civilians for years. During the Yogoslavia Conflict we attacked radio and TV stations. During Vietnam the armed forces were responsible for attacks on civilians on a regular basis. See also the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo during WWII.
So maybe I am an idiot; God forbid I think a group of college students wanting to prevent the advancement of agriculture are simply fucking stupid.
If you think that preventing "the advancement of agriculture" is what is going on based solely on said episode of Bullshit then yes, you are an idiot. If you have done any actual research, then its fine.
Well, you mightt still be an idiot, but there's always that possibility. This is the internet.
You have made the error of assuming that people who are informed and knowledgable about environmental issues and their impact upon society and the world are "hippies" and all love Al Gore. I could use this information to asssume you are a "right-wing idiot" or a "ditto-head," but I tend not to generalize like that, so I will simply say you are misled or merely mistaken.
The point I was trying to make was that the vast majority of people *can* ride bikes. You admitted that you could ride a bike 3 months out of the year. But you appparently don't, why not?
Some of us live in very cold environments. Some of us live in isolated areas. Some of us are handicapped. And so on...
[sarcasm]Yes, yes, and those cases cover the majority of people who drive a car, it's always for a good reason. [/sarcasm]
And, yes, the lecture comment was a joke. I do realize that not everyone can ride a bike all the time. Heck, I don't ride a bike all the time. But there are a whole lot of people who need to stop making excuses; and, yes, I'm looking at all you people with environmental bumper stickers on your car, especially you Prius owners.
The problem is that we have had three or four generations now raised on cheap energy. It's easy to build all these suburbs and exurbs when you know there is always going to be energy to haul your one ton vehicle (down from two tons a couple of decades ago) around the country.
It's pretty amazing how much energy, resources and space we expend on cars. I only started noticing when I stopped owning one.(don't worry, no lecture, right now, about how everyone must, MUST I say! ride a bike)
Penn and Teller are chumps and that episode was pathetic. They grabbed some random "spokeperson" and had them argue for the anti-GMO side and then had the other side argued by a college professor. Why didn't they go out and find one of the college professors who is against GMO?
Because their show is bullshit.
They mislead and simplify, and if you make decisions, whether or not you're right in the end, by listening to them, you are an idiot.
I think you misunderstand what is meant by a virtual currency. It means a currency which has no physical counterpart, only online, not a currency which is unregulated.
The problem is that virtual currencies such as the QQ dollar are NOT traded on a currency market, and never will be.
to say that virtual currencies are not and will never be traded on a currency market is wrong. The point of the article is that informal currency markets sprung up to deal with the QQ. More than that, I find it very unlikely that there will *never* be a virtual currency traded on some sort of official currency market, it seems a bit of a naive assumption that things will remain as they are.
Or it could be that fact that the US has a poverty problem. Not that most people even recognize that fact. They just assume that people without internet don't want it, not that they can't afford it.
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No orbits are circular, unless one of the objects were to have no mass. Where you been since Kepler yo!
elliptic baby, orbits are elliptic.
Given, the MPAA/RIAA have gone way overboard, but the other side is just as guilty. There has to be a common ground where everybody is happy and everybody with the genuine talent can make a living from it, but posting some stupid encryption key that the MPAA's already stopped using isn't really getting anybody any closer to that ideal.
No, it is but the first shot in a digital revolution which shall spread forth from these places and light the world aflame!
Er, or something.
You know, I often wonder why people think it's such a horrible thing to want to get stuff for free, and yet our society rewards people who pay their employees a few cents an hour. Of course people don't really care about that because it gets us (Americans, that is) cheap crap. But while we try to get the price of replication down to a bare minimum so that we can charge as little as possible for physical stuff, the rock bottom prices for digital stuff (Free!) is made out to be some anti-capitalist bug bear.
Yeah, funny how people get that much more outraged at censorship when they're the ones being censored. Really, it's about time something like this came along to test sites like digg. They'll be at a point soon where they have pretty much no choice but to let the numbers stay up, lest the fall into the **AA business model of attack the customers.
Right here is the T-Shirt.
Good call.
There is one thing pretty much all GMO has in common and that is the terminator gene. They are all made to not reproduce, thus it is completely reasonable that they could have an effect on an animal that is part of their sexual cycle.
"We still haven't ruled out other factors, such as pesticides or inadequate food resources following a drought," she said. "There are lots of stresses that these bees are experiencing," and it may be a combination of factors that is responsible.
It seems that given the high penetration of cell phones in Europe it is likely that Europe would have been hit earlier and harder with CCD. Given that neither of these things are true, it is highly unlikely that it is cell phone tower that are the problem. Some people have bandied about GMO crops as a possible link because GMO penetration is much higher in the US, but I'm pretty sure the mainstream media will ignore that possibility.
Sneakernet is back, baby. among my friends and I we've shared a great number of songs and ebooks among ourselves over sneakernet2.0.
Here's how it works. It isn't really a network in its own right, just as an extension of the internets. See, I hop on my friendly "local" bittorent, invite only site and DL say, rosetta stone language learning software, the whole set of them. Now I don't need all of them, but I get them anyway, nothing new here. After that when I talk to a friend who needs to learn Arabic, I burn him a copy of the CD so he doesn't have to waste time Dling the whole damn thing himself.
Alternately, I just burn some DVDs with all the languages on them and hand them out to everyone who wants one of the languages. There could be around 100 of the things in circulation, more than technically needed, but redundancy is a good thing.
This works with just about anything really. I'm the super node of sneakernet and the others are sub-nodes, because they still trade amongst themselves.
The difference is that in Iran it is still a news story when that kind of thing happens, in Saudi Arabia it's business as usual.
The ayatollah
I don't think we should put the Ayatollah in this catagory. He may have wanted totalitarian power, but compared to nearby Saudi Arabia Iran is a libertarian utopia.
English is like that because the spelling was invented by English people.
Right, so what about the free fire zones in Vietnam? They were standing orders that encouraged soldiers to assume that civilians were enemy forces.
As for your distinction between "civilians" and "places occupied by civilians," if you really want to distinguish between the two then fine, I didn't mean to shoot that man, I just meant to shoot the space he was occupying.
Think about that until you realize why you're wrong.
Why don't you stop rationalizing the murder of civilians?
For instance, radical Islamists seek to enslave "their people" to a theocratic dictatorship, not free them.
No, they seek to free them from a corrupting western materialist path which will lead only to eternal torment. They are just seeking freedom in the *next* world. Point being that one can say what ever one ants about ones motives.
And you're right about Terrorists and Freedom Fighters not being mutually exclusive. I just wish more people would understand this.
That is patently untrue. The U.S. has aimed, though not yet fired, ICBM at civilians for years. During the Yogoslavia Conflict we attacked radio and TV stations. During Vietnam the armed forces were responsible for attacks on civilians on a regular basis. See also the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo during WWII.
So maybe I am an idiot; God forbid I think a group of college students wanting to prevent the advancement of agriculture are simply fucking stupid.
If you think that preventing "the advancement of agriculture" is what is going on based solely on said episode of Bullshit then yes, you are an idiot. If you have done any actual research, then its fine.
Well, you mightt still be an idiot, but there's always that possibility. This is the internet.
You have made the error of assuming that people who are informed and knowledgable about environmental issues and their impact upon society and the world are "hippies" and all love Al Gore. I could use this information to asssume you are a "right-wing idiot" or a "ditto-head," but I tend not to generalize like that, so I will simply say you are misled or merely mistaken.
The point I was trying to make was that the vast majority of people *can* ride bikes. You admitted that you could ride a bike 3 months out of the year. But you appparently don't, why not?
Some of us live in very cold environments. Some of us live in isolated areas. Some of us are handicapped. And so on...
[sarcasm]Yes, yes, and those cases cover the majority of people who drive a car, it's always for a good reason. [/sarcasm]
And, yes, the lecture comment was a joke. I do realize that not everyone can ride a bike all the time. Heck, I don't ride a bike all the time. But there are a whole lot of people who need to stop making excuses; and, yes, I'm looking at all you people with environmental bumper stickers on your car, especially you Prius owners.
And where the hell do you live that it is -40C 9 months a year?
Good lord, Someone mentions that they can't ride to work because it's too cold and it's insightful? That's pretty fucking pathetic, mods.
P.S. you didn't really need to specify it was C and not F.
The problem is that we have had three or four generations now raised on cheap energy. It's easy to build all these suburbs and exurbs when you know there is always going to be energy to haul your one ton vehicle (down from two tons a couple of decades ago) around the country.
It's pretty amazing how much energy, resources and space we expend on cars. I only started noticing when I stopped owning one.(don't worry, no lecture, right now, about how everyone must, MUST I say! ride a bike)
Penn and Teller are chumps and that episode was pathetic. They grabbed some random "spokeperson" and had them argue for the anti-GMO side and then had the other side argued by a college professor. Why didn't they go out and find one of the college professors who is against GMO?
Because their show is bullshit.
They mislead and simplify, and if you make decisions, whether or not you're right in the end, by listening to them, you are an idiot.
I think you misunderstand what is meant by a virtual currency. It means a currency which has no physical counterpart, only online, not a currency which is unregulated.
The problem is that virtual currencies such as the QQ dollar are NOT traded on a currency market, and never will be.
to say that virtual currencies are not and will never be traded on a currency market is wrong. The point of the article is that informal currency markets sprung up to deal with the QQ. More than that, I find it very unlikely that there will *never* be a virtual currency traded on some sort of official currency market, it seems a bit of a naive assumption that things will remain as they are.
Apple doesn't have laptops with screens bigger than 17".
Or it could be that fact that the US has a poverty problem. Not that most people even recognize that fact. They just assume that people without internet don't want it, not that they can't afford it.
Rock on with your priviledged self.