I like your idea, though I prefer an automated telephone system for this. "Please enter your request ID now." With one phone line to cater to all copyright owners, of course.
So basically copyright holders in France have free reign to find out who any IP address belonged to. With such volumes of request, there's no way their validity will be questioned in any way. Likely the whole system will soon be automated.
He's not doubting that this doesn't vindicate the vaccine conspiracy theorists ideas.
It seems to me that's exactly what the commenter in question meant. Let's break it down: "I wonder how often and loudly you'll need to repeat that in order for it to maintain its buffering effect against reality..."
In this sentence, the thing that needs repeating is the claim that this case doesn't validate the anti-vaccination standpoint, and that is also what is claimed to have a "buffering effect" against reality. I don't see how you can interpret that the way you did.
School kids and college kids would be dropping like flies. They sit a lot.
Not necessarily. It depends on what actually causes the increase in mortality. If it's something like increased risk of blood clots - quite plausible in my mind - then you're not going to see much of that in younger folks. I'd be interested in knowing whether the statistics show some specific causes of death that become more common with a sedentary lifestyle, and if it's a cumulative effect or not. That is, does spending a lot of time sitting as a young person decrease my lifespan even if I radically change my lifestyle later on to become much more active as compared to if I had never been sedentary, or is it a more acute risk factor, pointing to something like the blood clotting I mentioned.
What do you propose, exactly, as the goal to be achieved by wanton acts of violence? As long as you have government, you will have abuses. That is the nature of the beast - deciding how power is distributed and whose rights come first. You always end up trampling on someone, either by design or by accident.
As for having no government... I can't really grasp what that would mean. Government is the entity with the power to make others bend to its will. I have a hard time seeing a group of people of any appreciable size where such an entity does not arise.
But what kind of volumes of water do you need to store? Something tells me it could be quite a bit for the highest production peaks - or to get any meaningful amount of juice from the backflow anyway -, a mere tower might not be enough. Even if it were, you'd need to install new turbines for the water and a whole bunch of other infra. Probably not very cheap. This type of storage may well prove to be useful, but it's going to take some time to figure out the economics of it, how much storage is optimal, and who's actually going to pay for it.
Actually what he seems to be saying is that he's an old crone with an antiquated definition of "art". His insistence on an author's control over the way a piece of art is experienced rules not just games, but much of participative and experimental theatre out as artforms. Modern art in general often runs contary to that stipulation of control. Ebert is a dinosaur, pay no mind.
Absent international intervention, what we know would happen is that the Taliban would take over and we'd have "rich Taliban". Money wouldn't turn these people into secular freethinkers overnight, they'd just be rich peasants.
Then they'd be rich peasants. What business does anyone outside Afghanistan have saying who should rule there?
Nope, just low enough to keep the stroke smooth. At a brush size of about 200 pixels or so it begins to get unusable on any computer I've tried it on. Short strokes work fine, but the longer the stroke, the more it begins to lag behind the cursor.
The problem is, Photoshop sucks, too. It's the best tool out there for what I do (photorealistic painting and compositing for film), but it's not very good. The whole layer paradigm simply sucks, many features are nice-but-not-quite-thought-out, and overall the devs seem to spend way too much time bringing in new nifty tools, resulting in bloat and a lack of focus. I'd love to like Gimp, but it's not even as useful as PS for me (try painting an 8k frame with any reasonable brush size) and sadly there is absolutely nothing out there I know of that is doing things better, or even trying to go into a reasonable direction from a painting point of view. So people like me are left grinding our teeth and wishing Adobe a fast death so the market would free up and some better software would spring up to fill the void.
Google is concerned about the security implications of their source code ending up in hostile hands. I don't see how you can infer anything else from that than that they were relying on obscurity. If they weren't, it wouldn't matter whether someone sees their code or not, because their security approach would be one that didn't rely on the code remaining secret.
Eventually, earth will just be a retirement planet, where its nature and remaining resources are protected and safe from development, and can be treated like the rare and delicate jewel that it is.
How's this going to happen? I don't see us shipping billions of people off-world, so a drastic reduction in human birthrates on Earth would have to be achieved if you want to keep humans from filling every niche. Is that likely to happen?
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Try living in fear of some random nutjob blowing you up for a few months and then come tell us bomb threats are OK as a means to a political ends.
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I like your idea, though I prefer an automated telephone system for this. "Please enter your request ID now." With one phone line to cater to all copyright owners, of course.
So basically copyright holders in France have free reign to find out who any IP address belonged to. With such volumes of request, there's no way their validity will be questioned in any way. Likely the whole system will soon be automated.
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He's not doubting that this doesn't vindicate the vaccine conspiracy theorists ideas.
It seems to me that's exactly what the commenter in question meant. Let's break it down:
"I wonder how often and loudly you'll need to repeat that in order for it to maintain its buffering effect against reality..."
In this sentence, the thing that needs repeating is the claim that this case doesn't validate the anti-vaccination standpoint, and that is also what is claimed to have a "buffering effect" against reality. I don't see how you can interpret that the way you did.
Bible-burning doesn't usually reflect on US foreign policy.
School kids and college kids would be dropping like flies. They sit a lot.
Not necessarily. It depends on what actually causes the increase in mortality. If it's something like increased risk of blood clots - quite plausible in my mind - then you're not going to see much of that in younger folks. I'd be interested in knowing whether the statistics show some specific causes of death that become more common with a sedentary lifestyle, and if it's a cumulative effect or not. That is, does spending a lot of time sitting as a young person decrease my lifespan even if I radically change my lifestyle later on to become much more active as compared to if I had never been sedentary, or is it a more acute risk factor, pointing to something like the blood clotting I mentioned.
What do you propose, exactly, as the goal to be achieved by wanton acts of violence? As long as you have government, you will have abuses. That is the nature of the beast - deciding how power is distributed and whose rights come first. You always end up trampling on someone, either by design or by accident.
As for having no government... I can't really grasp what that would mean. Government is the entity with the power to make others bend to its will. I have a hard time seeing a group of people of any appreciable size where such an entity does not arise.
They did say IN a Volvo... Presumably the design includes some kind of disintegrator field on the outside the car.
You must have some serious semi trucks over there. 200 mph?!
You must have stolen someone's account, because you're clearly new here.
But what kind of volumes of water do you need to store? Something tells me it could be quite a bit for the highest production peaks - or to get any meaningful amount of juice from the backflow anyway -, a mere tower might not be enough. Even if it were, you'd need to install new turbines for the water and a whole bunch of other infra. Probably not very cheap. This type of storage may well prove to be useful, but it's going to take some time to figure out the economics of it, how much storage is optimal, and who's actually going to pay for it.
Tough. I want a neural interface. This is here now, though.
Actually what he seems to be saying is that he's an old crone with an antiquated definition of "art". His insistence on an author's control over the way a piece of art is experienced rules not just games, but much of participative and experimental theatre out as artforms. Modern art in general often runs contary to that stipulation of control. Ebert is a dinosaur, pay no mind.
The question is: a shot of what?
Absent international intervention, what we know would happen is that the Taliban would take over and we'd have "rich Taliban". Money wouldn't turn these people into secular freethinkers overnight, they'd just be rich peasants.
Then they'd be rich peasants. What business does anyone outside Afghanistan have saying who should rule there?
Also, regardless of what was or wasn't stolen, there's the whole unauthorized access thing.
This seems plenty extreme to me, compared to the direction Britain has been going in previous years.
Nope, just low enough to keep the stroke smooth. At a brush size of about 200 pixels or so it begins to get unusable on any computer I've tried it on. Short strokes work fine, but the longer the stroke, the more it begins to lag behind the cursor.
The problem is, Photoshop sucks, too. It's the best tool out there for what I do (photorealistic painting and compositing for film), but it's not very good. The whole layer paradigm simply sucks, many features are nice-but-not-quite-thought-out, and overall the devs seem to spend way too much time bringing in new nifty tools, resulting in bloat and a lack of focus. I'd love to like Gimp, but it's not even as useful as PS for me (try painting an 8k frame with any reasonable brush size) and sadly there is absolutely nothing out there I know of that is doing things better, or even trying to go into a reasonable direction from a painting point of view. So people like me are left grinding our teeth and wishing Adobe a fast death so the market would free up and some better software would spring up to fill the void.
The last time I bought a display, it was from a store that had their own dead pixel warranty. You can bet that influenced my decision to buy there.
Google is concerned about the security implications of their source code ending up in hostile hands. I don't see how you can infer anything else from that than that they were relying on obscurity. If they weren't, it wouldn't matter whether someone sees their code or not, because their security approach would be one that didn't rely on the code remaining secret.
Yep, this is like the mob running a protection racket, except only beating up the people who do pay up.
Eventually, earth will just be a retirement planet, where its nature and remaining resources are protected and safe from development, and can be treated like the rare and delicate jewel that it is.
How's this going to happen? I don't see us shipping billions of people off-world, so a drastic reduction in human birthrates on Earth would have to be achieved if you want to keep humans from filling every niche. Is that likely to happen?