Consider: Someone holds a gun to your head, threatening to shoot you, but in the end doesn't pull the trigger. Just because they didn't shoot you, doesn't make them an instant good guy.
The issue is that Assange (and you) hold for random what Wikileak proponents believe the world should know. Information Wikileak proponents believes should be free. This tactic diminishes the credibility of those involved. Holding the information for ransom effects the exact action that the government performs by keeping the information secret.
If the governments stepped forward and made a deal clearing Assange of all wrongdoing, would he/you/other supporters release the information in the poison pill later on anyway? If yes, and you plan to "shoot the hostage," why should anyone take the threat seriously? Most of all, give credibility where none is due?
No government is stupid enough to kill Assange. Evil, maybe, but not stupid. If he was killed, that would make him a martyr. And it wouldn't matter what information the organization had. His death would reinforce his point beyond control. Now if Assange committed suicide and made it look like a murder, he'd do 1000x more damage to the "convoluted" governments than releasing every secret from every government.
A-goddamn-men. I'd upvote, except you went AC, AC. Furthermore, stop calling him Robin Hood of the Digital Age. Robin Hood never held the money he stole for ransom when he was caught. Unlike Assange, who threatened to blow his infoload all over the world if the charges against him weren't dropped. Some hero for justice.
What about the dinosaurs that developed flights twice in its evolutionary life? Just because all the non-spike rabbits were eaten or killed doesn't mean the DNA is gone. The spikes allows the rabbits to survive, despite having a significant cost on the species. As soon as the threat is gone, the spikes should disappear gradually as the less-spiked rabbits breed faster because they have more energy to throw around.
Yes the pelt was an advantage... when it was NEEDED. We don't NEED it anymore. You made my argument, and the argument of the TFA!
We lost our thick body hair because we learned fire and clothing. By taking control of our external temperature away from our body, it stopped developing thick body hair. Letting go of the cost of generating the pelt.
Our jaws are shrinking because we no longer eat by tearing raw flesh from the bones. Our meals are prepared and easy to consume. Our wisdom teeth (and little finger) are the first sacrifices to our readily available food sources. Our mouths will get smaller, we will lose more teeth. Because it costs less to have less teeth and a smaller jawbone.
If the world was suddenly thrown into an ice age. And we lost all our technology and all our of higher knowledge. Eventually we would re-evolve our thick body hair, our jaws would extend, our average height would shrink dramatically. Because the cumulative information is stored in our DNA. And the cost of surviving.
If you want to say that a spiked rabbit and a speedy rabbit are branches of a non-spiked, non-speedy rabbit. And so if all the speedy rabbits die, the spiked rabbit is all that's left. I'm amiable to that. Though the original rabbit sucked ass, in my opinion. But even so, the spiked rabbit would eventually evolve the spikes away because the spikes cost too much. Just because the speedy rabbit died off, doesn't mean the spiked rabbit can't evolve out of spikes and into speediness on its own.
And the ability to track other creatures is not a genetic trait, but a result of higher brain functionality. Though you are correct, partly. The higher brain function is a costly feature. The moment we had a free thought, we clung to it. To justify the larger, stronger brain, we've evolved a weaker body. Less hair, no claws, no spikes, no thick skin, nothing. The bigger our brains become through non-selective breeding, the less our bodies will become to compensate.
You are also right about the timescale. To completely remove the thorns on the trees, it will probably takes 1000s of years, if not much more. But evolution is a constant balance with nature. Change nature and evolution adjusts. So even though its only been 500 years, SOME change in the plant should be seen.
Spikes cost more than smooth bark to grow and maintain. Lets say a rabbit developed spikes to ward off wolves. Then the wolves disappeared. The rabbit would likely go back to a state without spikes. Eventually the non-spike rabbits would breed more and faster due to the lesser energy requirements of simply being small and fast opposed to the cost of the body creating hard, pointy spikes.
Its the same principle why we walk on two feet, it requires less energy than walking on four legs. And growing thick pelts of thin hairs as opposed to a solid pelt of fur is why we have the hair we have now. And now that we don't need the hair, its giving way to baldness.
These trees feel they are still being attacked by something or the non-spiked trees are being destroyed by some force of nature.
500 years is enough time for some change to be noticed.
The appendix is now thought to contain cultures of healthy bacteria so when you have diarrhea, the body can quickly replenish those bacteria afterwards. In developed nations like America the appendix is not as important as in third-world countries. If you removed the appendix of a Honduran, they might die after having a bout of diarrhea from the food they find in the landfills. So if the appendix was evolved out, it'd happen in the developed countries first.
Though that's unlikely, everyone gets has the runs every now and then. And I bet we lose our hair, wisdom teeth, and little finger before we lose the appendix.
No one phases out money. Ever.
Toll roads are made as such with the idea that eventually they will be free. And practically every time, the public just about have to rip the money machines out with their bare hands.
"Two year contract, then its month to month!" "Oh, you broke your phone? We'd love you sell you a new one. Two more years!" "What? Upgrade your minutes so you give us more money? Two more years!" Actually, this has gone away, but as with toll roads, only have people bitched en masse.
But the point stands. Money, not nukes, will end the world. Ironically, though, by a nuke bought with money.
I've always disliked Java. And ruby.
Javascript/Actionscript are based on ECMAscript, not Java. Maybe Java is based on ECMAScript, but knowing that would mean I spent enough time with the language beyond realizing it was a pile of crap.
Microsoft has a language named "M". Digital Mars has a language named "M". Microsoft has a language named "M". Digital Mars has a language named "M". Microsoft has a language named "M". Digital Mars has a language named "M".
You will buy the game, and pray they make another. End of story. Whether or not Diablo 3 is "pretty" will not cross your mind as you hand over the cash unless you were simply not going to buy the game anyway. This has nothing to do with your opinions, you just want to bitch, bitch, bitch.
This is aimed at the bitch in all of you.
Moore called 79p for an iTunes track a ripoff because it is $1.45 USD.
He was not attacking the micro-payment system, because he is obviously masturbating to the idea before the interview if you read the article. He wants to charge a fee for weekly updates of the player stats in tune with the real player's achievements. As well as other nickle & dime rip offs.
I haven't watched the Olympics since they made Curling one of the sports. And that was many games ago. Don't get me wrong, Curling is a fine past time when you are drunk, near a body of ice, and drunk. But you can't convince me it is an olympic-worthy "sport."
What's next: shuffleboard?
Because of Google, my corn keeps being stuck in these enter tubes! I keep putting corn in but they don't come out the other side. It's like a black hole of some kind... a corn hole, if you will.
So let us build a site with 30 second clips of every song iTunes/Amazon has. We'll use Amazon's craptacular storage system. And then provide two options: (1) the iTunes/Amazon link, and (2) the torrent to said song. Keep a running tally on each song's buy vs. theft. And then let the world know that, 'You bastards have bought $2.12 of X Britney Spears song. But stolen $16,239.20 of that same stupid song.'
But sadly, one doesn't have to build such a site to know that 'free' always makes it harder to devalue stupid shit:
The RIAA way: Old: $78.00/30 (gas by the day) + $14.99 (made up CD average) + 30 drive time + 60 mall walk + 5 minute unwrapping, stupid fucking security label = $17.59 + inevitable broken CD case + -10 mood + +2 mood (orange julius or dipping dots) New: $50.00/30 (internet by the day) + $1.06 (song on iTunes + tax) + 30 minutes at worst = $2.72, -3 Mood
The Pirate way: Old: "I can't afford a car, I waste it all on the internet now." New: $50.00/30 + $0.00 + easy to download + no forms (on non-gay torrent sites) = $1.67 You save more than a buck by pirating. Arr. And it is so simple to steal said album. In the time it took to write this article, I could have downloaded an entire album, deleted the fat (read: fluff, crap, regurgitated filth) from the download, copied the remaining two songs to my iPhone, gave the finger to the man, and still have time to finish this reply.
Now, if it could be engineered that stolen media could be given a bad smell, THEN and only then would you see a decline in pirating.
I can't believe no one commented on the fact he might already have a copy of XP and used the EULA policy to get a refund for the retail amount of the OS he paid for at a subsidized cost. Essentially, he got more back than he actually paid in for the OS and software. Brilliant.
$50 bucks is not a reduced sale price, so say people with three digit + 20 IQs. And asking for more money to play the "better" version of online play is like your girlfriend asking you for Mall Money halfway through blowing you. And if your girlfriend dropped to her knees every time she wanted money from you, you'd eventually call her a bitch whore and send her on her way. After she finished this last time, of course. At least you were getting something from that relationship you might have enjoyed, even if you hated yourself afterwards.
With Hellgate, they tell you to bend over, patiently smile while they shove a bad game up your ass, then rape you emotionally by taking pictures of your naked computer and showing it their friends at the pub. Which ends up with one of the drunken friends knocking on your door at 3AM one night (read: advertisements). And after you've struck a tentative balance with the single player version, they lead you along by giving you a little bit of the swinger online play (As in, the single player version will the same mission types, goals, and gameplay, but without actual story), and don't call until they want you to get on your own knees and pay for the just-as-bad online play with the other stupid crack whores. That's one sad orgy.
Online storage + extra stuff + guild creation + vehicle + skimpy outfits for chicks + sink + toliet + the ability to speak a real world foreign language instantly isn't worth shit unless you enjoyed the game to begin.
And, sure, "If you don't like the game, don't buy it." That doesn't solve the problem of (1) crappy games, (2) stupid people who buy crappy game, or (3) people who make crappy games for stupid people. Because this isn't like Deer Hunter (um) 8. This is supposed to be a game for GAMERS, the lifeblood of the gaming industry. But they treat us like whores who swallow on command.
This whole "chick with low self-esteem" analogy is basically saying, if you can't see why this game is aptly titled "Hellgate" and will probably lead to the suicide of the current rarely and barely acceptable game quality, you deserve to be ass raped. Both financially and literally. And if some exec ever read this post, they would print and make it a memo sent to their entire company (as well as the other consortium of the other asstacular game company CEOs) with the header: HOLY SHIT THEY FOUND OUT ABOUT OUR PLAN!
You know what game I love: Civilization 1. You know what game I almost enjoyed: Civilization 2. You know game I entirely ignored: Civilization 3. You know what game I hate: Civilization 4. You can do the same thing with the Sim City series.
Why doesn't this invoke some sort of statute of limitations? ProcMail was developed in 1991, as I've read it, and now they sue sixteen years later? And years after this kind of ability has existed in web mail? Did they not see it, or maybe forget they developed it way back when? Did someone walk down the hall and trip over an old computer that magically booted ProcMail to jog Mr. Ima Useless Dumbass' memory?
Yes, I know: patent troll, but still. Why would a judge even look at this case? You don't report a car stolen years later unless there was never a car to begin with or you yourself had performed illegal activities relating to that car. This has to fall under the same context and as such be immediately dropped. Whether or not the company has a valid case.
Slashdot Mirror
Outside the US.
Consider: Someone holds a gun to your head, threatening to shoot you, but in the end doesn't pull the trigger. Just because they didn't shoot you, doesn't make them an instant good guy.
The issue is that Assange (and you) hold for random what Wikileak proponents believe the world should know. Information Wikileak proponents believes should be free. This tactic diminishes the credibility of those involved. Holding the information for ransom effects the exact action that the government performs by keeping the information secret.
If the governments stepped forward and made a deal clearing Assange of all wrongdoing, would he/you/other supporters release the information in the poison pill later on anyway? If yes, and you plan to "shoot the hostage," why should anyone take the threat seriously? Most of all, give credibility where none is due?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335888/WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange-release-damaging-secrets-killed-arrested.html
Killed OR Arrested.
No government is stupid enough to kill Assange. Evil, maybe, but not stupid. If he was killed, that would make him a martyr. And it wouldn't matter what information the organization had. His death would reinforce his point beyond control. Now if Assange committed suicide and made it look like a murder, he'd do 1000x more damage to the "convoluted" governments than releasing every secret from every government.
A-goddamn-men. I'd upvote, except you went AC, AC. Furthermore, stop calling him Robin Hood of the Digital Age. Robin Hood never held the money he stole for ransom when he was caught. Unlike Assange, who threatened to blow his infoload all over the world if the charges against him weren't dropped. Some hero for justice.
What about the dinosaurs that developed flights twice in its evolutionary life? Just because all the non-spike rabbits were eaten or killed doesn't mean the DNA is gone. The spikes allows the rabbits to survive, despite having a significant cost on the species. As soon as the threat is gone, the spikes should disappear gradually as the less-spiked rabbits breed faster because they have more energy to throw around.
Yes the pelt was an advantage... when it was NEEDED. We don't NEED it anymore. You made my argument, and the argument of the TFA!
We lost our thick body hair because we learned fire and clothing. By taking control of our external temperature away from our body, it stopped developing thick body hair. Letting go of the cost of generating the pelt.
Our jaws are shrinking because we no longer eat by tearing raw flesh from the bones. Our meals are prepared and easy to consume. Our wisdom teeth (and little finger) are the first sacrifices to our readily available food sources. Our mouths will get smaller, we will lose more teeth. Because it costs less to have less teeth and a smaller jawbone.
If the world was suddenly thrown into an ice age. And we lost all our technology and all our of higher knowledge. Eventually we would re-evolve our thick body hair, our jaws would extend, our average height would shrink dramatically. Because the cumulative information is stored in our DNA. And the cost of surviving.
If you want to say that a spiked rabbit and a speedy rabbit are branches of a non-spiked, non-speedy rabbit. And so if all the speedy rabbits die, the spiked rabbit is all that's left. I'm amiable to that. Though the original rabbit sucked ass, in my opinion. But even so, the spiked rabbit would eventually evolve the spikes away because the spikes cost too much. Just because the speedy rabbit died off, doesn't mean the spiked rabbit can't evolve out of spikes and into speediness on its own.
And the ability to track other creatures is not a genetic trait, but a result of higher brain functionality. Though you are correct, partly. The higher brain function is a costly feature. The moment we had a free thought, we clung to it. To justify the larger, stronger brain, we've evolved a weaker body. Less hair, no claws, no spikes, no thick skin, nothing. The bigger our brains become through non-selective breeding, the less our bodies will become to compensate.
You are also right about the timescale. To completely remove the thorns on the trees, it will probably takes 1000s of years, if not much more. But evolution is a constant balance with nature. Change nature and evolution adjusts. So even though its only been 500 years, SOME change in the plant should be seen.
And there are thornless rose bushes, very many species of them, in fact. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080221015317AAxLtH3
Spikes cost more than smooth bark to grow and maintain. Lets say a rabbit developed spikes to ward off wolves. Then the wolves disappeared. The rabbit would likely go back to a state without spikes. Eventually the non-spike rabbits would breed more and faster due to the lesser energy requirements of simply being small and fast opposed to the cost of the body creating hard, pointy spikes.
Its the same principle why we walk on two feet, it requires less energy than walking on four legs. And growing thick pelts of thin hairs as opposed to a solid pelt of fur is why we have the hair we have now. And now that we don't need the hair, its giving way to baldness.
These trees feel they are still being attacked by something or the non-spiked trees are being destroyed by some force of nature.
500 years is enough time for some change to be noticed.
The appendix is now thought to contain cultures of healthy bacteria so when you have diarrhea, the body can quickly replenish those bacteria afterwards. In developed nations like America the appendix is not as important as in third-world countries. If you removed the appendix of a Honduran, they might die after having a bout of diarrhea from the food they find in the landfills. So if the appendix was evolved out, it'd happen in the developed countries first.
Though that's unlikely, everyone gets has the runs every now and then. And I bet we lose our hair, wisdom teeth, and little finger before we lose the appendix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermiform_appendix#Maintaining_gut_flora
http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/news/20071012/appendix-may-have-purpose
I held on to a prepaid iPhone for more than a year and a half. And then I broke it. And then I was fucked over by AT&T. Now I've bought a 3GS.
This time he'll be nice to me. He's changed. I love him so much. He's just... angry sometimes. Nobody's perfect.
That the Earth's gravity was less powerful back in the time of the dinosaurs?! That's how the necks could be so long! For reals, guys!
No one phases out money. Ever. Toll roads are made as such with the idea that eventually they will be free. And practically every time, the public just about have to rip the money machines out with their bare hands. "Two year contract, then its month to month!" "Oh, you broke your phone? We'd love you sell you a new one. Two more years!" "What? Upgrade your minutes so you give us more money? Two more years!" Actually, this has gone away, but as with toll roads, only have people bitched en masse. But the point stands. Money, not nukes, will end the world. Ironically, though, by a nuke bought with money.
I've always disliked Java. And ruby. Javascript/Actionscript are based on ECMAscript, not Java. Maybe Java is based on ECMAScript, but knowing that would mean I spent enough time with the language beyond realizing it was a pile of crap.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Scale penalties would cure a lot of things.
No! It's Gojira! GO JI RA! Stupid foreigners. /cluck
SKULLY!
/end x-files reference
Microsoft has a language named "M".
Digital Mars has a language named "M".
Microsoft has a language named "M".
Digital Mars has a language named "M".
Microsoft has a language named "M".
Digital Mars has a language named "M".
Damn, doublethink hurts.
You will buy the game, and pray they make another. End of story. Whether or not Diablo 3 is "pretty" will not cross your mind as you hand over the cash unless you were simply not going to buy the game anyway. This has nothing to do with your opinions, you just want to bitch, bitch, bitch. This is aimed at the bitch in all of you.
Moore called 79p for an iTunes track a ripoff because it is $1.45 USD. He was not attacking the micro-payment system, because he is obviously masturbating to the idea before the interview if you read the article. He wants to charge a fee for weekly updates of the player stats in tune with the real player's achievements. As well as other nickle & dime rip offs.
I haven't watched the Olympics since they made Curling one of the sports. And that was many games ago. Don't get me wrong, Curling is a fine past time when you are drunk, near a body of ice, and drunk. But you can't convince me it is an olympic-worthy "sport." What's next: shuffleboard?
Because of Google, my corn keeps being stuck in these enter tubes! I keep putting corn in but they don't come out the other side. It's like a black hole of some kind... a corn hole, if you will.
Ah, but in Japan you can't see penetration, the bits and pieces are pixelated. All that broadband wasted..
Anymore.
So let us build a site with 30 second clips of every song iTunes/Amazon has. We'll use Amazon's craptacular storage system. And then provide two options: (1) the iTunes/Amazon link, and (2) the torrent to said song. Keep a running tally on each song's buy vs. theft. And then let the world know that, 'You bastards have bought $2.12 of X Britney Spears song. But stolen $16,239.20 of that same stupid song.'
But sadly, one doesn't have to build such a site to know that 'free' always makes it harder to devalue stupid shit:
The RIAA way:
Old: $78.00/30 (gas by the day) + $14.99 (made up CD average) + 30 drive time + 60 mall walk + 5 minute unwrapping, stupid fucking security label = $17.59 + inevitable broken CD case + -10 mood + +2 mood (orange julius or dipping dots)
New: $50.00/30 (internet by the day) + $1.06 (song on iTunes + tax) + 30 minutes at worst = $2.72, -3 Mood
The Pirate way:
Old: "I can't afford a car, I waste it all on the internet now."
New: $50.00/30 + $0.00 + easy to download + no forms (on non-gay torrent sites) = $1.67
You save more than a buck by pirating. Arr. And it is so simple to steal said album. In the time it took to write this article, I could have downloaded an entire album, deleted the fat (read: fluff, crap, regurgitated filth) from the download, copied the remaining two songs to my iPhone, gave the finger to the man, and still have time to finish this reply.
Now, if it could be engineered that stolen media could be given a bad smell, THEN and only then would you see a decline in pirating.
I can't believe no one commented on the fact he might already have a copy of XP and used the EULA policy to get a refund for the retail amount of the OS he paid for at a subsidized cost. Essentially, he got more back than he actually paid in for the OS and software. Brilliant.
$50 bucks is not a reduced sale price, so say people with three digit + 20 IQs. And asking for more money to play the "better" version of online play is like your girlfriend asking you for Mall Money halfway through blowing you. And if your girlfriend dropped to her knees every time she wanted money from you, you'd eventually call her a bitch whore and send her on her way. After she finished this last time, of course. At least you were getting something from that relationship you might have enjoyed, even if you hated yourself afterwards.
With Hellgate, they tell you to bend over, patiently smile while they shove a bad game up your ass, then rape you emotionally by taking pictures of your naked computer and showing it their friends at the pub. Which ends up with one of the drunken friends knocking on your door at 3AM one night (read: advertisements). And after you've struck a tentative balance with the single player version, they lead you along by giving you a little bit of the swinger online play (As in, the single player version will the same mission types, goals, and gameplay, but without actual story), and don't call until they want you to get on your own knees and pay for the just-as-bad online play with the other stupid crack whores. That's one sad orgy.
Online storage + extra stuff + guild creation + vehicle + skimpy outfits for chicks + sink + toliet + the ability to speak a real world foreign language instantly isn't worth shit unless you enjoyed the game to begin.
And, sure, "If you don't like the game, don't buy it." That doesn't solve the problem of (1) crappy games, (2) stupid people who buy crappy game, or (3) people who make crappy games for stupid people. Because this isn't like Deer Hunter (um) 8. This is supposed to be a game for GAMERS, the lifeblood of the gaming industry. But they treat us like whores who swallow on command.
This whole "chick with low self-esteem" analogy is basically saying, if you can't see why this game is aptly titled "Hellgate" and will probably lead to the suicide of the current rarely and barely acceptable game quality, you deserve to be ass raped. Both financially and literally. And if some exec ever read this post, they would print and make it a memo sent to their entire company (as well as the other consortium of the other asstacular game company CEOs) with the header: HOLY SHIT THEY FOUND OUT ABOUT OUR PLAN!
You know what game I love: Civilization 1. You know what game I almost enjoyed: Civilization 2. You know game I entirely ignored: Civilization 3. You know what game I hate: Civilization 4. You can do the same thing with the Sim City series.
Why doesn't this invoke some sort of statute of limitations? ProcMail was developed in 1991, as I've read it, and now they sue sixteen years later? And years after this kind of ability has existed in web mail? Did they not see it, or maybe forget they developed it way back when? Did someone walk down the hall and trip over an old computer that magically booted ProcMail to jog Mr. Ima Useless Dumbass' memory?
Yes, I know: patent troll, but still. Why would a judge even look at this case? You don't report a car stolen years later unless there was never a car to begin with or you yourself had performed illegal activities relating to that car. This has to fall under the same context and as such be immediately dropped. Whether or not the company has a valid case.