Sure, as soon as immortality (or damn close anyway) for humans becomes possible. Before that, I don't see this kind of project being particularly appealing to any large number of individuals, seeing as any results would be seen in, I don't even care to speculate how many generations at earliest. Projects where the payback comes after you're likely to have evolved into a new species many times over are a little tricky that way.
There's just too many unknown variables at play for speculation on the mentality of any alien civilizations we could encounter to be really fruitful. Maybe somewhere a young, violent race lives close to a highly advanced civilization and have gotten their hands on some high-end tech ---> space crusades!
This is admittedly a stupid question from someone who just doesn't know, but it occurred to me and I thought I'd ask: how does one even measure velocity when time is dependent on the speed you travel, and velocity is distance/time?
DRM is important for Nokia because they want to cash in on digital downloads, which - in their thinking anyway - means getting the big media companies to play along. Ground rules in that game state you have to use DRM. And there you have it.
I don't know about you, but personally I make no commitment to any political system. The ability to choose my own actions (and the responsibility for their consequences as well as the authority to evaluate their morality) is mine, and no-one else's. At least with this so-called democracy there is lip-service to personal freedom. Personal freedom is the only thing that matters to an individual: If you are not free, you are not an individual, you are not living your own life but someone else's. And you only get one life. So on these grounds, I reject all justifications for governing my person. For practical purposes, I will largely go along with majority decisions, but this does not indicate unconditional support for them, nor does it indicate that I will continue to do so in the future.
In other words, no "philosopher king" will ever be good enough for me, unless I am that king. And I don't want to be.
What?
The alternative is to wait for a more economical method of space travel, and when things look better on that front, start testing the human side of things.
That's why a global audience is a good thing. Free jazz definitely doesn't have a big listener base if you compare it to some other genres, but when you have a very large potential audience, then if 1% of people are interested in a genre, that still makes for a while lot of listeners. As long as it's easy to find the kinds of cliques who listen to music you like, having a forum (or torrent site...) as a medium for distributing music is quite workable in terms of finding good, obscure music.
Whenever I hear about law enforcement successes in the "cyber" sphere, I can't help but feel a bit uneasy. I've no love for botnets or the people who run them, but I also don't much like the idea of an increased police influence on the Internet. Whatever techniques they learn in apprehending criminals, they will also apply when acting as censors, and I also fear that these wins over criminals will act as good propaganda for having a policed net in general.
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Good lord, what kind of a dresscode do they enforce at Apple?
Yea, that's true, in the sense that the UFO phenomenon is a psychological side-effect of the whole cold war nuke-scare.
Sure, as soon as immortality (or damn close anyway) for humans becomes possible. Before that, I don't see this kind of project being particularly appealing to any large number of individuals, seeing as any results would be seen in, I don't even care to speculate how many generations at earliest. Projects where the payback comes after you're likely to have evolved into a new species many times over are a little tricky that way.
There's just too many unknown variables at play for speculation on the mentality of any alien civilizations we could encounter to be really fruitful. Maybe somewhere a young, violent race lives close to a highly advanced civilization and have gotten their hands on some high-end tech ---> space crusades!
I'm sure a nice pair of alien boobs to oogle will make the dissection much more pleasant.
This is admittedly a stupid question from someone who just doesn't know, but it occurred to me and I thought I'd ask: how does one even measure velocity when time is dependent on the speed you travel, and velocity is distance/time?
It's been a long time for me, too, but only because there is nothing I can think of that I'd like to listen to on the big labels.
DRM is important for Nokia because they want to cash in on digital downloads, which - in their thinking anyway - means getting the big media companies to play along. Ground rules in that game state you have to use DRM. And there you have it.
Yea, but where's the profit for the telcos then? That's a big consideration for Nokia, since so many of their phones are sold through the telcos.
So where is this "Sweden", I never heard of that state?
I don't know about you, but personally I make no commitment to any political system. The ability to choose my own actions (and the responsibility for their consequences as well as the authority to evaluate their morality) is mine, and no-one else's. At least with this so-called democracy there is lip-service to personal freedom. Personal freedom is the only thing that matters to an individual: If you are not free, you are not an individual, you are not living your own life but someone else's. And you only get one life. So on these grounds, I reject all justifications for governing my person. For practical purposes, I will largely go along with majority decisions, but this does not indicate unconditional support for them, nor does it indicate that I will continue to do so in the future.
In other words, no "philosopher king" will ever be good enough for me, unless I am that king. And I don't want to be.
he did say he didn't lose anything BIG...
'cos I'm SURE those werent intentional misspellings...
Don't worry, the monsanto-bashing has gotten off to too good a start for facts to stop it now.
What? The alternative is to wait for a more economical method of space travel, and when things look better on that front, start testing the human side of things.
How can you be sued if you can't be tracked down? I believe that was gp's point.
That's why a global audience is a good thing. Free jazz definitely doesn't have a big listener base if you compare it to some other genres, but when you have a very large potential audience, then if 1% of people are interested in a genre, that still makes for a while lot of listeners. As long as it's easy to find the kinds of cliques who listen to music you like, having a forum (or torrent site...) as a medium for distributing music is quite workable in terms of finding good, obscure music.
Whenever I hear about law enforcement successes in the "cyber" sphere, I can't help but feel a bit uneasy. I've no love for botnets or the people who run them, but I also don't much like the idea of an increased police influence on the Internet. Whatever techniques they learn in apprehending criminals, they will also apply when acting as censors, and I also fear that these wins over criminals will act as good propaganda for having a policed net in general.
Not to comment on the quality of this particular app, but isn't that kind of the open-source mantra? "It'll be a real choice next year..."
So that's why my parent's generation tends to strike me as somewhat childish and naïve!
actually copyright infringement is relatively new, since the whole concept of copyright isn't so very old.
Do you have a source for that claim? I have never heard it before.
Copyright is automatic, you do not need to register a piece in order to have copyright on it.
My point was, it's not about need, its about want.
Isn't that what telephones are for?
There's no need to use the internet, if you just want to speak with friends.