OK, to save companies time and money (except for the Trolls and parasites), just get rid of software patents already. It's not good for buyers or sellers. It's not good for employees. It only benefits lawyers and patent troll parasites. Patent reform shouldn't take years, it should take days. I don't want to see another story like this ever again.
"You've already conditioned them to accept the fact that Authority can and should monitor them for their own good"
This is non sequitur, buddy. Way overgeneralizing. It's a common non-scientific conclusion that obedience to parents means obedience to authority.
First:
This is non sequitur.
No it isn't
Second:
buddy.
I'm not your buddy.
Third:
Way overgeneralizing. It's a common non-scientific conclusion that obedience to parents means obedience to authority.
Nonsense. If you were honest you would admit that the AC wasn't talking about obedience or normal parenting, he was promoting abusive and pathological control of and surveillance of children and teenagers under the age of 18. Your attempt to re-frame the argument failed.
It's a common non-scientific conclusion that obedience to parents means obedience to authority.
Itself is a non sequitur. You're not very good at trolling. You should have spent your time criticizing the logical fallacies of the AC, because there were many of them.
The concept of wealth is of great importance in economics, especially development economics, yet the definition of wealth is not straightforward and there is no universally agreed-upon definition. Different definitions and concepts of wealth have been put forth by different authors and in different contexts. The choice of a definition of wealth can be normative and have ethical implications, since wealth maximization is often seen as a goal or put forth as a normative principle of its own.
And then there's fiat currency. And intangibles of company profit margins that only forensic accountants with PhDs can grasp (think Enron). Much of wealth only exists in theory (like what a bank loans out; "The practice of fractional reserve banking expands the money supply (cash + demand deposits) of a country beyond what it would otherwise be.", Ref. Wikipedia). It's a mind game in many ways, but it drives the economy. People will work like slaves if they think they're actually working for something tangible. In the end they may just end up with a bank account and some stock certificates that are worthless accept as collectors items.
In my original post I was going to make a reference to the story about the king with no clothes, but was too lazy to try and fit it in with a moral of our modern fractional reserve banking system. And so I left the reader with what I thought was a terse, but somewhat witty remark.
Of course, the same with any place that you have to give your credit card too (like restaurants). The point is that these transactions are more transparent than dealing only with complex automated software systems that can easily store, copy, and manipulate data. It is harder for example, to have a cross-site scripting attack with a (non-M$ Windows, programmable, Internet) telephone.
The only time I "buy" anything on the Internet is when or if the company has a 1-800 number so that I can place an order over the phone. Same with banking, which I do over the phone or at an ATM that I know. It's too easy for things to go wrong over the Internet, and too many incompetents that are running businesses (on the Internet).
The reality: The Age of Consent was actually 14 until just recently. The Conservative minority government at the time convinced the struggling appeasement-minded Liberals to vote most of their draconian right-wing legislation into reality. And so,
The Tackling Violent Crime Act took effect on 1 May 2008, making the current age of consent 16.
Quite a liberal use of a qualifier like 'evidently'. What 'evidence' is there that it is a fraud besides the word of some jerks who would be gravely embarrassed if it were not a fraud?
When children turn 18, they get full adult legal rights, including right to privacy, and the camera monitoring is disengaged.
By then it's too late. You've already conditioned them to accept the fact that Authority can and should monitor them for their own good. They're already used to the idea, so the next thing you know they'll think it is normal to pee in a bottle for a Manager so that employers will know what drugs they've taken, or they may think it's normal for companies or governments to monitor what you email to people. Nope, if you treat children like shit then they will grow up to be assholes. Garbage in garbage out.
Then I typed the word "Goat" - I saw the.cx variation - well, at least they're making some attempt at saving the populace from the horrors of the web.
So that would mean that Slashdot has (or likely will be) blacklisted, because it has most of the criteria for blacklisting: it posts secret, patented numbers; sites about gay Negroes, goats, gambling, and references the links to banned and immoral Internet domains (like in this front page story).
The blacklists were reportedly leaked by a Web filter operator to wikileaks which has published the full list of banned URLs.
These numerous government blacklists have proven to be a boon to porn and gambling industries. There are Web sites that I never would have even thought to go to if it weren't for these black lists. I want to thank the government of Australia for helping to open my eyes and my mind to the vast unseen Internet.
By that definition, cow manure isn't a pollutant either. Just because plants enjoy it doesn't mean it won't cause us problems if there's too much of it.
Just tested Wikileaks right now. Seems to be back up again. For those who can't get it, I will post the front page article here (so those who care about what type of information the Australian et al government does not want you to know. BTW, Google cache seems to work as well, which may be a work-around for people who are censored).:
Murder in Nairobi: Wikileaks related human rights lawyers assassinated
On Thursday afternoon, Oscar Kamau Kingara, director of the Kenyan based Oscar legal aid Foundation, and its programme coordinator, John Paul Oulo, were both shot dead at close range in their car less than a mile from President Kibaki's residence. The two were on their way to a meeting at the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights.
Both had been investigating extra-judicial assassinations by the Kenyan Police. Part of their work forms the basis of the "Cry of Blood" report Wikileaks released on November 1 last year and subsequent follow ups, including a UN indictment last month.
Since 2007 the Oscar foundation has documented 6,452 "enforced disappearances" by police and 1,721 extra-judicial killings.
The murders come just two weeks after United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings Professor Philip Alston called on on Kenya's Attorney General and Police Commissioner to be sacked.
On 18 February 2009, the Oscar Foundation presented its findings for use in a parliamentary debate.
The Oscar Foundation vehicle was blocked by a minibus and a Mitsubishi Pajero vehicle, both of which had been following them along State house road. Several men were in the two vehicles. Two men got out, approached the vehicle of Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu, and shot them through the windows at close range.
According to eyewitnesses, the driver of the minibus was in police uniform whilst the other men were wearing suits. The closest eyewitness to the incident was shot in the leg and later taken away by policemen.
A coalition of civil society organizations released a statement blaming police for the murders.
"These were very decent men who had done more work than anybody in examining police killings," said Cyprian Nyamwamu, the executive director of the National Convention Executive Council, a non-governmental organization advocating social and economic reform. "I have no doubt that is why they were killed."
Police said that students from the nearby University of Nairobi moved Oulo's body into a hostel and one student was shot dead when officers tried to retrieve it.
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights have demanded an immediate external investigation into the deaths. The US Ambassador to Kenya has offered the Kenyan government the services of the FBI. The offer has been declined.
Those with intelligence assets in the area, or non-public information on Police Commissioner General Hussien Ali or other suspects, please contact us via wl-kenya@sunshinepress.org
Make a contribution to assist our investigation of these murders. Every contribution helps:
If they really are thinking in the long term perhaps they should get started on a corporate army while they are at it. I wonder what they will base the bonuses on in that department? Body counts?
And then there is reality:
What is a human life worth to a foreign oil company in Nigeria? Apparently just $143.00, the amount Agip originally offered each of the families of the murdered men to compensate for their loss.
- Ref: a href ="http://acas.prairienet.org/alerts/nigeria/blood&oil.htm">http://acas.prairienet.org/alerts/nigeria/blood&oil.htm
while oil is currently very cheep, it's supply is limited to hundreds of years.
I'm not too sure about that. Regardless however, the equation remains stable: when the supply diminishes then prices increase. It's the paradox of people hunting animals to extinction; the more rare the animal the more money hunters can demand for it until there is no more left.
Oil company's need an excuse to change into generic energy companies. By hook or by crook they'll take the path of least resistance to the highest profit margin (whether it be with oil or solar panels).
If those alternative energy sources were even remotely feasible you can be sure they would be all over them.
"Alternative" energy sources are feasible, but they just don't make as much money as oil. In the long run "alternative" energy sources (like wind for example) are much more economically feasible (to ordinary citizens at least) because they don't cause global warming, smog, lung cancer, asthma, etc.
Lets strap all of the environmental whack jobs to bicycles and have them the pedal generators to a cleaner tomorrow.
Generally people use ad hominems when they don't have a valid argument. Emotional appeals and rants often do satisfy the lowest common denominator in society however. It's one of the reasons why people like you often get Moderated Insightful.
As a company, if they can make more money on oil than on wind, then clearly the shareholders will demand oil. Oil is there bread and butter. I wouldn't expect them to innovate on something that is outside of their corporate culture. Like with the movie and music and software industries; you get innovation and creativity from smaller independent entities, and conservativism from the established entities.
Sorry, how can you possibly link an aborted fetus to pornography?
I would presume that the fetuses are naked, and nudity is often equated with pornography by the religious right (when it suits their political needs). Showing dead naked fetuses presumably bring out necrophiliac impulses in people who are prone to have that "illness", so in order to stop fetus abuse we need to stop encouraging the demand by limiting the supply. That's the theory the Australian (et al) government uses against the purveyors of fetus abuse. Or at least that's the mindset as far as I can understand it.
Slashdot Mirror
... the fish are to be lifelike in appearance and swimming behavior so they will not alarm their fellow marine inhabitants.
Don't count on it, at least until mating season.
OK, to save companies time and money (except for the Trolls and parasites), just get rid of software patents already. It's not good for buyers or sellers. It's not good for employees. It only benefits lawyers and patent troll parasites. Patent reform shouldn't take years, it should take days. I don't want to see another story like this ever again.
"You've already conditioned them to accept the fact that Authority can and should monitor them for their own good"
This is non sequitur, buddy. Way overgeneralizing. It's a common non-scientific conclusion that obedience to parents means obedience to authority.
First:
This is non sequitur.
No it isn't
Second:
buddy.
I'm not your buddy.
Third:
Way overgeneralizing. It's a common non-scientific conclusion that obedience to parents means obedience to authority.
Nonsense. If you were honest you would admit that the AC wasn't talking about obedience or normal parenting, he was promoting abusive and pathological control of and surveillance of children and teenagers under the age of 18. Your attempt to re-frame the argument failed.
It's a common non-scientific conclusion that obedience to parents means obedience to authority.
Itself is a non sequitur. You're not very good at trolling. You should have spent your time criticizing the logical fallacies of the AC, because there were many of them.
Wikipedia somes it up:
The concept of wealth is of great importance in economics, especially development economics, yet the definition of wealth is not straightforward and there is no universally agreed-upon definition. Different definitions and concepts of wealth have been put forth by different authors and in different contexts. The choice of a definition of wealth can be normative and have ethical implications, since wealth maximization is often seen as a goal or put forth as a normative principle of its own.
And then there's fiat currency. And intangibles of company profit margins that only forensic accountants with PhDs can grasp (think Enron). Much of wealth only exists in theory (like what a bank loans out; "The practice of fractional reserve banking expands the money supply (cash + demand deposits) of a country beyond what it would otherwise be.", Ref. Wikipedia). It's a mind game in many ways, but it drives the economy. People will work like slaves if they think they're actually working for something tangible. In the end they may just end up with a bank account and some stock certificates that are worthless accept as collectors items.
In my original post I was going to make a reference to the story about the king with no clothes, but was too lazy to try and fit it in with a moral of our modern fractional reserve banking system. And so I left the reader with what I thought was a terse, but somewhat witty remark.
Of course, the same with any place that you have to give your credit card too (like restaurants). The point is that these transactions are more transparent than dealing only with complex automated software systems that can easily store, copy, and manipulate data. It is harder for example, to have a cross-site scripting attack with a (non-M$ Windows, programmable, Internet) telephone.
I'm not sure how many people realize that the vast majority of wealth is not in paper form, nor could it be.
Yeah, it's in the imaginations of people who buy financial instruments like stocks and bonds.
The only time I "buy" anything on the Internet is when or if the company has a 1-800 number so that I can place an order over the phone. Same with banking, which I do over the phone or at an ATM that I know. It's too easy for things to go wrong over the Internet, and too many incompetents that are running businesses (on the Internet).
... I didn't get one valid link out of about five or six I clicked.
The links work, it's just that they've been Slashdoted.
You said:
In Canada the age of legal consent is 15.
The reality:
The Age of Consent was actually 14 until just recently. The Conservative minority government at the time convinced the struggling appeasement-minded Liberals to vote most of their draconian right-wing legislation into reality. And so,
The Tackling Violent Crime Act took effect on 1 May 2008, making the current age of consent 16.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America#Canada
Quite a liberal use of a qualifier like 'evidently'. What 'evidence' is there that it is a fraud besides the word of some jerks who would be gravely embarrassed if it were not a fraud?
You obviously haven't read my sig.
Strangely the government is still going to try and find out who "leaked" this fake list.
I could presume it's because the Australian government is intent on fighting fraud, since the blacklist is evidently fraudulent.
When children turn 18, they get full adult legal rights, including right to privacy, and the camera monitoring is disengaged.
By then it's too late. You've already conditioned them to accept the fact that Authority can and should monitor them for their own good. They're already used to the idea, so the next thing you know they'll think it is normal to pee in a bottle for a Manager so that employers will know what drugs they've taken, or they may think it's normal for companies or governments to monitor what you email to people. Nope, if you treat children like shit then they will grow up to be assholes. Garbage in garbage out.
Well, it's understandable why they blocked it - it's kitty porn. /me ducks.
I could presume it's because Australians aren't allowed to see any "pussy".
Then I typed the word "Goat" - I saw the .cx variation - well, at least they're making some attempt at saving the populace from the horrors of the web.
So that would mean that Slashdot has (or likely will be) blacklisted, because it has most of the criteria for blacklisting: it posts secret, patented numbers; sites about gay Negroes, goats, gambling, and references the links to banned and immoral Internet domains (like in this front page story).
The blacklists were reportedly leaked by a Web filter operator to wikileaks which has published the full list of banned URLs.
These numerous government blacklists have proven to be a boon to porn and gambling industries. There are Web sites that I never would have even thought to go to if it weren't for these black lists. I want to thank the government of Australia for helping to open my eyes and my mind to the vast unseen Internet.
Telling indeed. You're advocating a reduction in lifestyle, logically leading to de-industrialization.
He wasn't advocating anything. He was making an observation. Telling indeed that you are attempting to put words in the gp's mouth.
By that definition, cow manure isn't a pollutant either. Just because plants enjoy it doesn't mean it won't cause us problems if there's too much of it.
You can never have too much of a good thing.
Just tested Wikileaks right now. Seems to be back up again. For those who can't get it, I will post the front page article here (so those who care about what type of information the Australian et al government does not want you to know. BTW, Google cache seems to work as well, which may be a work-around for people who are censored).:
I'm not (AFAIK) affected by filters. I think Wikileaks may have been slashdoted (or DoSed?). I can certainly get on other "filtered" Web sites.
So that means much of Slashdot, right wing radio talk shows, and American religious television shows are pornographic.
You said:
If they really are thinking in the long term perhaps they should get started on a corporate army while they are at it. I wonder what they will base the bonuses on in that department? Body counts?
And then there is reality:
What is a human life worth to a foreign oil company in Nigeria? Apparently just $143.00, the amount Agip originally offered each of the families of the murdered men to compensate for their loss.
- Ref: a href ="http://acas.prairienet.org/alerts/nigeria/blood&oil.htm">http://acas.prairienet.org/alerts/nigeria/blood&oil.htm
while oil is currently very cheep, it's supply is limited to hundreds of years.
I'm not too sure about that. Regardless however, the equation remains stable: when the supply diminishes then prices increase. It's the paradox of people hunting animals to extinction; the more rare the animal the more money hunters can demand for it until there is no more left.
Oil company's need an excuse to change into generic energy companies. By hook or by crook they'll take the path of least resistance to the highest profit margin (whether it be with oil or solar panels).
If those alternative energy sources were even remotely feasible you can be sure they would be all over them.
"Alternative" energy sources are feasible, but they just don't make as much money as oil. In the long run "alternative" energy sources (like wind for example) are much more economically feasible (to ordinary citizens at least) because they don't cause global warming, smog, lung cancer, asthma, etc.
Lets strap all of the environmental whack jobs to bicycles and have them the pedal generators to a cleaner tomorrow.
Generally people use ad hominems when they don't have a valid argument. Emotional appeals and rants often do satisfy the lowest common denominator in society however. It's one of the reasons why people like you often get Moderated Insightful.
As a company, if they can make more money on oil than on wind, then clearly the shareholders will demand oil. Oil is there bread and butter. I wouldn't expect them to innovate on something that is outside of their corporate culture. Like with the movie and music and software industries; you get innovation and creativity from smaller independent entities, and conservativism from the established entities.
Sorry, how can you possibly link an aborted fetus to pornography?
I would presume that the fetuses are naked, and nudity is often equated with pornography by the religious right (when it suits their political needs). Showing dead naked fetuses presumably bring out necrophiliac impulses in people who are prone to have that "illness", so in order to stop fetus abuse we need to stop encouraging the demand by limiting the supply. That's the theory the Australian (et al) government uses against the purveyors of fetus abuse. Or at least that's the mindset as far as I can understand it.