I agree that it does look like birth is pretty lethal, but there are billions of us still alive, so saying that birth is 100% lethal isn't accurate. It's likely it is accurate for every one of us alive here today, but we can't be sure they won't come up with an immortality spell tomorrow, so birth has been shown to be lethal in a much lesser percentage than 100 of observed cases so far.
I haven't read the article, let alone the summary, but surely it should say "Intel plans 8 Windows phones". That should be enough. One for Ballmer, one for Gates and six handsets for changing the dud ones while under warranty...
The "Smartbook" from Allways Innovating is similar. The computing power (a (measly) ARM cortex-A8) and storage is in the phone sized "mobile internet device" (no gsm/3g). It plugs into a larger touchscreen to make a tablet, which plugs into the keyboard with extra battery to make a netbook.
Well yes, but no. App store is obvious because it's a store that sells apps. If you'd asked people before there was an "App store" what an app store is, they would have nailed it.
I know what you mean. I used to think I was a cool Wizard when I played nethack, but then it dawned on me that I wasn't, because it wasn't real. So, I went to the basement of my grandparents house to walk around instead. That was more like the real thing. That got kinda boring pretty soon as there was only one level and it's the same every time, not randomly generated, like it should be. Of course, I haven't died, so maybe it's saved when I ascend the staircase, I don't know.
And there are no monsters. Not any more. I did run across a few, well, I guess they were gridbugs, but I haven't seen any more since.
I realized there must be some secret passages somewhere, as I've only discovered three rooms so far. I've tried searching and searching and my legs are pretty sore from kicking all the walls at every, well, foot. (btw, ever noticed how the real world is 3d and nethack is 2d?), but I just can't find the secret doors.
Anyway, I think it's gonna get better, because I've got myself a pick-axe now. I've started chipping away at the walls and the floor too. I'm bound to run into a secret passage or dig through to the next level soon, but man, digging with a pick-axe is way harder and time-consuming in the real world than it is in nethack!
No one has children for any other reason than for themselves.
Ouch. I don't think every parent goes into it for selfish reasons. I think most Kids simply happen because people want to fuck. Wanting to fuck and wanting kids is probably pretty well coded into the genome. I.e. people have kids because people want to have kids.
And, some parents may probably do it for unselfish love of the other parent.
Anyway. Everyone can't stop having kids. That's saving humanity by ending it. Good people whoa can be good parents should have kids. Selfish bastards shouldn't. Of course there wouldn't be any way of enforcing that.
Is why Peter King, who has used [wikipedia.org] his position as a NY Congressman to aid the IRA, has not been denounced for his rank hypocrisy in calling for Assange to be prosecuted.
If Assange can be extradited to the US, I say we should arrest King and offer him up for prosecution by an all-Protestant jury in Northern Ireland...
No need for that. Just dump the terrorist in Guantanamo or some secret prison somewhere and throw away the key.
>Julian is in jail. Nobody believes in him anymore. Wikileaks is dead, and nobody even noticed.
I don't know where you are looking to see this (and I'm not saying what you see is wrong), but a quick search for wikileaks on the website of the Swedish public tv would indicate that at least over here, wikileaks is still alive. There are not many days without a story from or pertaining to wikileaks and on many of the recent days, there have been several a day.
Socialism/Capitalism is kinda like GPL/BSD. One wants to look out for the end user, the little guy. The other would arguably allow you more freedom upfront, but that includes the freedom to fuck over the little guy if you have the power.
Sure. It's a widely used idiom, popular in phrases such as "The sweaty lumberjack lustfully thrust his throbbing pennies deep into the moist slot of the pink piggy-bank."
Good point about the drug wars. I'd like to point out that other places than the US may be better soil for sane legislation, though. (Not that I'm too optimistic about that.)
Maybe someone decides what they want to do is bang trash cans together for eight hours a day to no particular end. Is that worth a 'living wage' (a horrible, horrible term that needs to be smashed to pieces, by the way) in your opinion?
If that is what the people want, the people will download it and based on those numbers, money could be sent their way. If people don't want to download the banging of trashcans together for eight hour a day, they won't and that particular art wouldn't be paid for by taxes.
Of course, with the basic income for everyone, one wouldn't even need to bother banging trashcans together if one wouldn't want to, but that was another point. It would solve the piracy and starving artist problem too, but if you don't want to go all that far in decency, then have a look at the first suggestion again.
As for the music payment scheme, I don't know if I agree with GP. Not all people like music... should those people be forced to help fund musicians through taxation? On the other hand maybe cultural development is for the public good to a sufficient extent... I'm on the fence.
If they don't like any kind of digitizable culture, they can sulk and murmur along with everyone who doesn't like roads or hospitals or public schools or whatever else taxes gets us, in my opinion.:)
The anointed artists would represent the mainstream of culture and how many of those do we need? One per a thousand consumers? The art tax would be vanishingly small.
And we'd be rid of the leeching middle men, the industry executives, of course.
Others, who have enough of a passion would keep rocking and having to get a job until/if they hit it big time, just like they do today.
I don't think Pirating is the best way to go either. FOSS and creative commons is.
Pirating can help, in a way, though. When done by all the middle class kids, it should make politicians realize they're criminalizing an entire generation and that that isn't a good thing or that there isn't even anything they can do about it.
Are you replying to the part about basic income? Are you stupid or something? Do you think all people would settle for whatever little the basic income would give them? Most people would want to work to get paid so they can get fancier food, a bigger house and more stuff.
You know what would rock even more? If we could have both music and movies and and all the other art that we can spread across the world to everyone with a computer virtually for free as well as having the poor artists not starving.
An it would totally rock if everyone had access to all digitalized culture legally, so one wouldn't have to feel bad or fear a one in a million chance of personal economic disaster.
And we can. All it takes is a little socialism. Let the people decide what they like by downloading stuff and give those artists a living wage paid for with taxes.
According to Wikipedia, Berlusconi first became prime minister in 1994.
It bottles the mind how ridiculous his rule is. The guy personally owns large parts of the media in the country and gets laws passed to keep him out of trouble. The part about controversies in the Wikipedia article about him is tl;dr...
>"Foley says it's a team of about six people who operate and take care of the ball year round."
I wouldn't trust much of what this Foley person says. Must be pretty dumb not to be able to count the number of people with exact precision, when they seem to be as few as "about six".
And it's cold in Scandinavia. But is it colder on earth in average for this time of year?
Isn't this just about winds from the arctic blowing over us this year and warmer winds from the Atlantic blowing further south than usual? At least that's how some graphic on the telly was explaining the current harsh winter.
>The main difference between Germany then and the US now is that there are no ideology battles on the streets. There is no Al Quaida party supporters duking it out with Rep and Dem supporters.
I think there is a flaw in this analogy. Al Quaida is not analogous to the Communist party battling Nazis in early 20:th century Germany. I don't know what group would be that opposition. I guess that would be anyone opposing the developing police state.
Al Quaida, with all Muslims lumped together with them are the Jews of today, the ones demonized and blamed for stuff. (It's not exactly in the same way, of course, but if we need an analogy, I think Muslims as the new Jews is fitting.)
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I agree that it does look like birth is pretty lethal, but there are billions of us still alive, so saying that birth is 100% lethal isn't accurate. It's likely it is accurate for every one of us alive here today, but we can't be sure they won't come up with an immortality spell tomorrow, so birth has been shown to be lethal in a much lesser percentage than 100 of observed cases so far.
I'm not dead yet.
I have paused to think. And now I can't get this question out of my head: How many cows would a woodchuck chip if a woodchuck would chip cows?
I haven't read the article, let alone the summary, but surely it should say "Intel plans 8 Windows phones". That should be enough. One for Ballmer, one for Gates and six handsets for changing the dud ones while under warranty...
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you, though... :)
The "Smartbook" from Allways Innovating is similar. The computing power (a (measly) ARM cortex-A8) and storage is in the phone sized "mobile internet device" (no gsm/3g). It plugs into a larger touchscreen to make a tablet, which plugs into the keyboard with extra battery to make a netbook.
https://www.alwaysinnovating.com/products/smartbook.htm
Well yes, but no. App store is obvious because it's a store that sells apps. If you'd asked people before there was an "App store" what an app store is, they would have nailed it.
I know what you mean. I used to think I was a cool Wizard when I played nethack, but then it dawned on me that I wasn't, because it wasn't real. So, I went to the basement of my grandparents house to walk around instead. That was more like the real thing. That got kinda boring pretty soon as there was only one level and it's the same every time, not randomly generated, like it should be. Of course, I haven't died, so maybe it's saved when I ascend the staircase, I don't know.
And there are no monsters. Not any more. I did run across a few, well, I guess they were gridbugs, but I haven't seen any more since.
I realized there must be some secret passages somewhere, as I've only discovered three rooms so far. I've tried searching and searching and my legs are pretty sore from kicking all the walls at every, well, foot. (btw, ever noticed how the real world is 3d and nethack is 2d?), but I just can't find the secret doors.
Anyway, I think it's gonna get better, because I've got myself a pick-axe now. I've started chipping away at the walls and the floor too. I'm bound to run into a secret passage or dig through to the next level soon, but man, digging with a pick-axe is way harder and time-consuming in the real world than it is in nethack!
Ouch. I don't think every parent goes into it for selfish reasons. I think most Kids simply happen because people want to fuck. Wanting to fuck and wanting kids is probably pretty well coded into the genome. I.e. people have kids because people want to have kids.
And, some parents may probably do it for unselfish love of the other parent.
Anyway. Everyone can't stop having kids. That's saving humanity by ending it. Good people whoa can be good parents should have kids. Selfish bastards shouldn't. Of course there wouldn't be any way of enforcing that.
No need for that. Just dump the terrorist in Guantanamo or some secret prison somewhere and throw away the key.
Could be any number of things, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit
In this instance, I think it's most likely referring to baby ferrets.
>Julian is in jail. Nobody believes in him anymore. Wikileaks is dead, and nobody even noticed.
I don't know where you are looking to see this (and I'm not saying what you see is wrong), but a quick search for wikileaks on the website of the Swedish public tv would indicate that at least over here, wikileaks is still alive. There are not many days without a story from or pertaining to wikileaks and on many of the recent days, there have been several a day.
Socialism/Capitalism is kinda like GPL/BSD. One wants to look out for the end user, the little guy. The other would arguably allow you more freedom upfront, but that includes the freedom to fuck over the little guy if you have the power.
>Can pennies throb?
Sure. It's a widely used idiom, popular in phrases such as "The sweaty lumberjack lustfully thrust his throbbing pennies deep into the moist slot of the pink piggy-bank."
/. is eating madness!!!!
Good point about the drug wars. I'd like to point out that other places than the US may be better soil for sane legislation, though. (Not that I'm too optimistic about that.)
If that is what the people want, the people will download it and based on those numbers, money could be sent their way. If people don't want to download the banging of trashcans together for eight hour a day, they won't and that particular art wouldn't be paid for by taxes.
Of course, with the basic income for everyone, one wouldn't even need to bother banging trashcans together if one wouldn't want to, but that was another point. It would solve the piracy and starving artist problem too, but if you don't want to go all that far in decency, then have a look at the first suggestion again.
If they don't like any kind of digitizable culture, they can sulk and murmur along with everyone who doesn't like roads or hospitals or public schools or whatever else taxes gets us, in my opinion. :)
The anointed artists would represent the mainstream of culture and how many of those do we need? One per a thousand consumers? The art tax would be vanishingly small.
And we'd be rid of the leeching middle men, the industry executives, of course.
Others, who have enough of a passion would keep rocking and having to get a job until/if they hit it big time, just like they do today.
I don't think Pirating is the best way to go either. FOSS and creative commons is.
Pirating can help, in a way, though. When done by all the middle class kids, it should make politicians realize they're criminalizing an entire generation and that that isn't a good thing or that there isn't even anything they can do about it.
Are you replying to the part about basic income? Are you stupid or something? Do you think all people would settle for whatever little the basic income would give them? Most people would want to work to get paid so they can get fancier food, a bigger house and more stuff.
You know what would rock even more? If we could have both music and movies and and all the other art that we can spread across the world to everyone with a computer virtually for free as well as having the poor artists not starving.
An it would totally rock if everyone had access to all digitalized culture legally, so one wouldn't have to feel bad or fear a one in a million chance of personal economic disaster.
And we can. All it takes is a little socialism. Let the people decide what they like by downloading stuff and give those artists a living wage paid for with taxes.
(Another solution, even easier to administer, would be basic income http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee )
Anyway... Socialism FTW and fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Peace.
According to Wikipedia, Berlusconi first became prime minister in 1994.
It bottles the mind how ridiculous his rule is. The guy personally owns large parts of the media in the country and gets laws passed to keep him out of trouble. The part about controversies in the Wikipedia article about him is tl;dr...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi#Controversies
>"Foley says it's a team of about six people who operate and take care of the ball year round."
I wouldn't trust much of what this Foley person says. Must be pretty dumb not to be able to count the number of people with exact precision, when they seem to be as few as "about six".
And it's cold in Scandinavia. But is it colder on earth in average for this time of year?
Isn't this just about winds from the arctic blowing over us this year and warmer winds from the Atlantic blowing further south than usual? At least that's how some graphic on the telly was explaining the current harsh winter.
>The main difference between Germany then and the US now is that there are no ideology battles on the streets. There is no Al Quaida party supporters duking it out with Rep and Dem supporters.
I think there is a flaw in this analogy. Al Quaida is not analogous to the Communist party battling Nazis in early 20:th century Germany. I don't know what group would be that opposition. I guess that would be anyone opposing the developing police state.
Al Quaida, with all Muslims lumped together with them are the Jews of today, the ones demonized and blamed for stuff. (It's not exactly in the same way, of course, but if we need an analogy, I think Muslims as the new Jews is fitting.)