Seattle's Eat the State has a wonderful article about the media's views on eco-terrorists. Mainstream media obfuscate the fact that these groups act only on property, portraying them as dangerous to individuals, while in most cases, they go out of their way to avoid loss of life or harm to living beings.
The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods has an extensive tutorial on GMOs.
Included in the discussion are such dangers as the spreading of GMO seeds through the wild, untested or barely-tested GMOs, and pesticide-ridden food. An excerpt:
"Scientists say that plans for "terminator" trees --engineered never to flower--could create a "silent spring" in the forests. While these trees would grow faster than traditional trees, they would be lifeless in comparison. Gone would be the bees, butterflies, moths, birds and squirrels that depend on pollen, seed and nectar of normally reproducing trees."
One of the things we have to ask ourselves when we try to determine who is telling the truth, the biotech industry or the environmentalists, is: who has the most to gain by lying?
Dear Mr. Taustin,
We are sending you this request to ask for your support. As the chairman of the "Make Loosenut Millions" Party (licensed under FEC document 591), we would like for you to donate a small portion of your income to our cause. In exchange for a $100 membership donation, you'll receive our FREE pamphlet, "How to Retire NOW", and a complimentary T-shirt with the Party Logo. Thanks for you time, and remember to bend over when we come knocking on your door.
Who was it (McLuhan? Adbusters?) that said that television shows are produced for the sole purpose of keeping viewers' attention long enough to show them some commericials?
You are the product.
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...where the future of the planet is analogous to that couple's children. At least they are forced to deal with their problems rather than ignore them.
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There was a deathmatch level for Ritual Entertainment's "Sin" called "Paradox" that had you shooting at your opponents on walls and ceilings. I can't seem to find any screenshots, unfortunately.
As the article states, in order to use this technology, you will have to have the correct version of Windows media player installed. If WMP decides that it doesn't want to play your MP3 because the watermark tells it that it doesn't have permission, then just play the MP3 in Winamp (or some other media player that ignores watermarks). Assuming that the DMCA doesn't make those kind of players illegal, we have nothing to worry about. The information that we want, the song, is not encrypted.
I'm a junior partner at a CAD consulting agency. They put me on salary a few months ago, and I bill out about 37 hours a week to our clients. Add maybe.5 hours to that each week for administrative stuff.
I've spent a long time working by butt off so I could get to a point where I'm working less than 40 hours a week. Hey, I work hard for my Slack!
Hardware companies are building jets, and most software companies are simply building bigger biplanes with gold plated instruments, leather seats, and a teak prop.
Please don't mix up your analogies like that. You'd be better off saying that the hardware companies are building bigger airports with wider runways and more passenger gates.;)
I had a Celeron 400 oc'd to 450 for a year or so. Not much of a performance increase, I know, but it was something. The only way to do it was to bump the bus speed up from 66 MHz to 75 MHz. This also increased the PCI bus speed from 33 MHz to 37.5 MHz.
I use my PC as a digital audio workstation in my home studio. It worked great for a while, but then I installed a PCI SCSI card and started using my USB port with a MIDI patchbay (why didn't anyone ever tell me that USB uses CPU time?). Suddenly I would get tons of dropouts when I tried to use MIDI while simulataneously recording audio to a SCSI drive, not to mention an occasional lock-up.
I was getting pretty fed up with that behavior, so I stopped overclocking by dropping the bus speed back down to 66 MHz, and now everything works great. I haven't had a dropout or lockup since.
In the adventure video game Rama, based off of Arthur C. Clarke's books, you had to learn some alien languages composed of different symbols. The game allowed you to play with an alien octal calculator, then offered some problems to see if you understood the symbols and the math.
I got a B.S in Electrical Engineering: microprocessor design back in 1997 from UW. I never used anything I learned, but the fact that I had a degree at all got me a partnership position at a technical drafting consulting company within three years.
In fact, of the group of friends that I hung out with back in college, only one of four of us (I didn't have very many friends) is doing anything remotely related to their microprocessor design EE degree. What you study isn't as important as the fact that you hold a piece of paper that says you are capable of jumping the hurdles that college throws your way (unless it's a business degree; that just means you drank a lot of beer in college).
The map creator could be considered an artist if he attempts to make a map that conveys a message or has a certain ascetic. The mapper has to focus and use his knowledge of the tools to create his masterpiece. Or not.
This article does an excellent job of explaining why it is dangerous to grant corporations the rights as people.
I don't blame corportions in general, but I do blame the corporations and the lawmakers who push for and allow corporations to manipulate laws in their favor.
The ONLY way to tell if a file is infringing is to download and listen to it. There is no technology that can do that except human ears.
Not quite. Cantametrix is working on technology to "watermark" or "fingerprint" audio files. If Napster built this into their client, it could analyze an MP3, send the fingerprint to a master database to check for copyright infringement, then either allow or disallow the file to be shared.
I don't think they have perfected the process yet, but I've seen some betas, and I'm impressed.
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Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real head.
Not to sound like a Luddite, but I can see a few problems with cloning. What if someone makes a secret clone of themselves and then uses it as a slave? Will clones have the same rights as "normal" humans?
Once your standard garage biologist can shoot his seed into a cloning device and out pops Mini-Me, what's to stop him from abusing his clone? There are no hospital records of its "birth", so how would people find out he had a slave hidden away in his house?
For the most part, adapatations of child-protection laws should cover situations like this, but it will just be a little more difficult to enforce with in-home laboratories poppin' out the little tykes.
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assuming that you're a cluefull individual (doubtful, in this case)
No need to get defensive and resort to personal attacks, my friend. I happen to be an engineer as well. My point wasn't that engineers fuck up, it was that people do. Whether it was the management's fault, or the engineers is irrrelevant. We have given a few select individuals access to tools that can effectively destroy the human race.
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I was just listening to (coincidently) Jello Biafra's piece "Why I'm Glad The Space Shuttle Blew Up". It sounds like he wrote and recorded it shortly after the accident. After making it clear that he is saddened by the loss of life, he informs us that NASA had plans to shoot a 72 pound load of plutonium into space. Enough Plutonium to kill all life on the planet. So he was glad because he thought this accident would make NASA think twice about radioactive payloads.
Still, it gives you something to think about. We're placing all of our lives in the hands of a few NASA engineers. Missions like this are not comparable to designing and building a bridge, where, if an error was made, only a few dozen lives will be lost. We've seen that the engineers can make mistakes, and when the stakes involve the entire human race, maybe we should question giving NASA that kind of power.
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Anybody ever read Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience ? As someone else mentioned, remember the Boston Tea Party?
Seattle's Eat the State has a wonderful article about the media's views on eco-terrorists. Mainstream media obfuscate the fact that these groups act only on property, portraying them as dangerous to individuals, while in most cases, they go out of their way to avoid loss of life or harm to living beings.
Included in the discussion are such dangers as the spreading of GMO seeds through the wild, untested or barely-tested GMOs, and pesticide-ridden food. An excerpt:
One of the things we have to ask ourselves when we try to determine who is telling the truth, the biotech industry or the environmentalists, is: who has the most to gain by lying?
Dear Mr. Taustin, We are sending you this request to ask for your support. As the chairman of the "Make Loosenut Millions" Party (licensed under FEC document 591), we would like for you to donate a small portion of your income to our cause. In exchange for a $100 membership donation, you'll receive our FREE pamphlet, "How to Retire NOW", and a complimentary T-shirt with the Party Logo. Thanks for you time, and remember to bend over when we come knocking on your door.
Who was it (McLuhan? Adbusters?) that said that television shows are produced for the sole purpose of keeping viewers' attention long enough to show them some commericials?
You are the product.
...where the future of the planet is analogous to that couple's children. At least they are forced to deal with their problems rather than ignore them.
Pretty soon all info will be so tightly controlled, no one will be able to speak or write without violating somebody's IP...
Then the only form of legal communication will be satire.
Reminds me of Kurweil's "Age of Spiritual Machines". Once you go so far out, you are grasping at straws.
Read The Cyborg Manifesto?
There was a deathmatch level for Ritual Entertainment's "Sin" called "Paradox" that had you shooting at your opponents on walls and ceilings. I can't seem to find any screenshots, unfortunately.
Following a few links from the "prototype" story leads to this Wired Article:
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http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,43389,0
As the article states, in order to use this technology, you will have to have the correct version of Windows media player installed. If WMP decides that it doesn't want to play your MP3 because the watermark tells it that it doesn't have permission, then just play the MP3 in Winamp (or some other media player that ignores watermarks). Assuming that the DMCA doesn't make those kind of players illegal, we have nothing to worry about. The information that we want, the song, is not encrypted.
I'm a junior partner at a CAD consulting agency. They put me on salary a few months ago, and I bill out about 37 hours a week to our clients. Add maybe .5 hours to that each week for administrative stuff.
I've spent a long time working by butt off so I could get to a point where I'm working less than 40 hours a week. Hey, I work hard for my Slack!
I feel like that whenever I see someone post a message in all bold.
Somebody obviously has some stock in a major telecomm corporation.
Hardware companies are building jets, and most software companies are simply building bigger biplanes with gold plated instruments, leather seats, and a teak prop.
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Please don't mix up your analogies like that. You'd be better off saying that the hardware companies are building bigger airports with wider runways and more passenger gates.
Reminds me of the Levi jeans pages...
Those pages were from Lee Jeans.
Has Hemos been receiving "favors" from Levi's in exchange for advertising?
I had a Celeron 400 oc'd to 450 for a year or so. Not much of a performance increase, I know, but it was something. The only way to do it was to bump the bus speed up from 66 MHz to 75 MHz. This also increased the PCI bus speed from 33 MHz to 37.5 MHz.
I use my PC as a digital audio workstation in my home studio. It worked great for a while, but then I installed a PCI SCSI card and started using my USB port with a MIDI patchbay (why didn't anyone ever tell me that USB uses CPU time?). Suddenly I would get tons of dropouts when I tried to use MIDI while simulataneously recording audio to a SCSI drive, not to mention an occasional lock-up.
I was getting pretty fed up with that behavior, so I stopped overclocking by dropping the bus speed back down to 66 MHz, and now everything works great. I haven't had a dropout or lockup since.
In the adventure video game Rama, based off of Arthur C. Clarke's books, you had to learn some alien languages composed of different symbols. The game allowed you to play with an alien octal calculator, then offered some problems to see if you understood the symbols and the math.
I got a B.S in Electrical Engineering: microprocessor design back in 1997 from UW. I never used anything I learned, but the fact that I had a degree at all got me a partnership position at a technical drafting consulting company within three years.
In fact, of the group of friends that I hung out with back in college, only one of four of us (I didn't have very many friends) is doing anything remotely related to their microprocessor design EE degree. What you study isn't as important as the fact that you hold a piece of paper that says you are capable of jumping the hurdles that college throws your way (unless it's a business degree; that just means you drank a lot of beer in college).
The map creator could be considered an artist if he attempts to make a map that conveys a message or has a certain ascetic. The mapper has to focus and use his knowledge of the tools to create his masterpiece. Or not.
Or see clone Jesus.
This article does an excellent job of explaining why it is dangerous to grant corporations the rights as people.
I don't blame corportions in general, but I do blame the corporations and the lawmakers who push for and allow corporations to manipulate laws in their favor.
The ONLY way to tell if a file is infringing is to download and listen to it. There is no technology that can do that except human ears.
Not quite. Cantametrix is working on technology to "watermark" or "fingerprint" audio files. If Napster built this into their client, it could analyze an MP3, send the fingerprint to a master database to check for copyright infringement, then either allow or disallow the file to be shared.
I don't think they have perfected the process yet, but I've seen some betas, and I'm impressed.
Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real head.
Not to sound like a Luddite, but I can see a few problems with cloning. What if someone makes a secret clone of themselves and then uses it as a slave? Will clones have the same rights as "normal" humans?
Once your standard garage biologist can shoot his seed into a cloning device and out pops Mini-Me, what's to stop him from abusing his clone? There are no hospital records of its "birth", so how would people find out he had a slave hidden away in his house?
For the most part, adapatations of child-protection laws should cover situations like this, but it will just be a little more difficult to enforce with in-home laboratories poppin' out the little tykes.
assuming that you're a cluefull individual (doubtful, in this case)
No need to get defensive and resort to personal attacks, my friend. I happen to be an engineer as well. My point wasn't that engineers fuck up, it was that people do. Whether it was the management's fault, or the engineers is irrrelevant. We have given a few select individuals access to tools that can effectively destroy the human race.
I was just listening to (coincidently) Jello Biafra's piece "Why I'm Glad The Space Shuttle Blew Up". It sounds like he wrote and recorded it shortly after the accident. After making it clear that he is saddened by the loss of life, he informs us that NASA had plans to shoot a 72 pound load of plutonium into space. Enough Plutonium to kill all life on the planet. So he was glad because he thought this accident would make NASA think twice about radioactive payloads.
Interestingly, NASA finally did decide to undergo this mission, which received lots of opposition, but turned out okay.
Still, it gives you something to think about. We're placing all of our lives in the hands of a few NASA engineers. Missions like this are not comparable to designing and building a bridge, where, if an error was made, only a few dozen lives will be lost. We've seen that the engineers can make mistakes, and when the stakes involve the entire human race, maybe we should question giving NASA that kind of power.