this data center occupied two floors of a high rise. So we aren't talking about millions of computers.
I don't think anyone even imagined we were talking about millions of computers. But you could pack many thousands of servers into two floors of a high rise, and that is a shitload of computer infrastructure.
His example just did happen. Residents in certain areas were WITHOUT 911 EMERGENCY ACCESS. That's a fuck up of enormous magnitude, and if it was instigated on grounds of a movie being pirated I would want the entire chain of events scrutinized and the people who authorized it brought to account. Whatever your views on piracy, corporate interests do not come before public safety.
Nobody forces you to illegally download music. The OP is discussing the fact that his job will consist of not only doing something illegal, but of actually being the person officially responsible for said illegal activity.
In today's environment, there's plenty to go around. It's not so much "haves and have nots" but "I have and you can't have" that's the problem. People call it the "evils of capitalism" and while greed is a big motivator, look at the pain it causes. They aren't kidding when they say money is the root of all evil.
Most war today is occurring in countries with very low levels of economic freedom. There are far greater evils from government control and over-regulation of economies than from the "free market" of capitalism. The science shows that free markets cause peace.
So greed for power of government over economies is the greed we should truly fear. Lack of economic freedom causes both poverty and war.
I got 2 pages into that PDF before I got fed up with the bullshit. The study you linked talks about DEMOCRACIES being peaceful with each other. It then waffles about how this is because of capitalism. The much simpler and easier to believe reason that democracies are largely more peaceful than dictatorships is because we don't have dictators. Likewise, you are talking about economic freedom. I think you will find that the people you speak of in warzones today have little POLITICAL freedom. I think you may find that political freedom is much more likely to lead to economic freedom than the other way around.
No, that's not what you said at all. What you said is Bob gets the same amount of pay for 0.000X units of work done as Jack gets for X units of work. Therefore, Bob is getting paid 10,000 times as much as Jack. Perhaps you meant something different, but that is what you said. Bob is clearly the winner in the picture you painted.
You might find that those external media are not bought by the vast majority of people. Sorry if I'm getting it wrong, not familiar with Fuse, but I know windows doesn't mount EXT*, and most people want something that works with windows.
On a different note, and again I know nothing about law, if TomTom are doing nothing unusual in how they implement FAT in linux, is there any possible way of forcing this lawsuit into MS vs. Linux instead of MS vs. TomTom? I would assume that if TomTom are using a product in good faith, and Microsoft has not brought any kind of litigation to successful conclusion to protect any patents that are violated by that product, then Microsoft should have to first settle the fact that that product (Linux) is violating their patents in court, BEFORE being able to initiate any proceedings against users of said product. They are instead going about effectively blackmailing small companies who cannot afford litigation. I'm glad TomTom have stood up to them, but it's unfortunate that a single company has to take the brunt of an indirect legal assault by Microsoft when they seem to be either unable or unwilling to make that legal assault in a direct manner.
70 years ago was 1939. Are you seriously going to argue that the world is changing more rapidly now than it was at the beginning of World War Two
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We've been going from one technological revolution to another for a couple of centuries. Pretty much anyone born since 1800 or so has seen a completely different world, technologically and in many other ways, in their adulthood than the one they saw in their youth. And existing power structures have really never been able to keep up.
I would say the world is changing more rapidly. WW2 was all about imperialism, the same as WW1, and most of the wars for several centuries before it. Imperialism did not end with WW2. The aftermath of WW2 was the end of Western European imperialism around the globe, to be replaced by imperialistic jockying between Russia and the USA, with all sorts of militaristic and economic fun in South America, eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.
Today, there is the resentment against imperialism that has ALWAYS been there throughout the ages, but unlike in previous times, there is a general worldwide agreement that it is wrong, and that we really should all try to just get along and work together instead of spending huge sums of taxpayers money on fucking each other over. And one of the reasons I think people actually DO care, is because of technology. Those far away savages that needed to be beaten into submission 100 years ago are now some nice people you might meet on your holiday, or maybe play computer games with in some clan or guild. Technology has a huge impact on modern life and how we think, and the people who legislate should have some idea of what its all about.
capitalism as an ideology isn't perfect, but appears to be the best idea so far, given human nature... socialism, communism, fascism, monarchy, anarchy, oligarchy, etc., all have appeared to completely crumble and fall apart
I'm interested in what examples you'd care to provide regarding both socialism and communism to support that. I'm not terribly interested in monarchies or oligarchies, fascism is just wrong, anarchy... well it could be interesting but far too unstable. But I am unaware of any true communist society ever having been implemented, just dictatorships disguised as communism. As for socialism, most EU countries are socialist to one degree or another, Sweden especially seems to be a good working example of a functional socialist society.
and incidentally, capitalistic-US is becoming more and more socialistic AS it deteriorates... so why is it that we blame capitalism again?)
You seem to be trying to establish a cause effect relationship, although you haven't given any evidence as to which is the cause.
The problem is that Jack does X and gets back money, food, power, etc.
But Bob does 0.000X and gets back the same amount.
That's why capitalism makes more sense.
All men are not created equal.
I assume you mean thats why capitalism makes more sense for Bob. Because people getting paid exorbitant fees for their work only really occurs in capitalist scenarios. Unless you happen to be a government minister somewhere in Africa, where that kind of thing is also perfectly acceptable.
There is nothing inherently wrong with enlightened self-interest
The unfortunate problem of modern capatalist societies lies in the enlightenment part of that sentence. Most people really don't give a crap about long term sustainability. They think only about the sustainability of revenue streams, and shifting the sources of those when one dries up. So resources invariably get used up. Fisheries are fished out, agricultural lands are overfarmed with chemical fertilizers and pesticides until the local ecology is destroyed, oil fields are plundered for quick cheap energy that could be just as easily reaped from slightly more expensive renewable sources leaving future generations needing new sources for advanced materials production. People are not educated as well as they could be, because in the short term, it would cost too much, and in the long term it would inevitably mean a drop in RELATIVE income for people in professions that are currently kept at quasi-artificial proportions of the populace.
All this will bite us in the arse, because we are going to end up in a world with collapsed fisheries, wasted farmland, cheap energy resources squandered before we have put in place a permanent global renewable energy generation infrastructure, and a hungry world population wondering why the generation before them was so smug about having escaped our Malthusian past.
iran is a fundamentalist theocracy which is building nuclear bombs
So what? It's a country that is within nuclear assault range of the USA, Russia, Israel, Pakistan, India and China. I'd want some nukes too if I lived there.
jails and tortures political dissidents
I'm sorry, Americans have lost the right to complain about torture.
it is ok to be anti-american. but why do you think that means you have to be pro-iranian? here's a suggestion: why don't you be anti-american AND anti-iranian,
I'd much prefer to be both pro-American and pro-Iranian. When I think of Iran, I try not to think of the assholes running the country. When I think of America, I try not to think of the assholes running the country. Both countries are made up of mostly hardworking, decent normal people, and if anything there are more dangerous religious fundamentalist people in the USA than there are in Iran (although perhaps not per capita).
Actually, on the topic of what kind of chargers SHOULD be made universal, I really like mac laptop chargers. Obviously a bit on the big side for a phone, but I have to say I like them. I'm not a mac fan (well, haven't used them lately, they look pretty damn nice these days, but they sucked IMO compared to linux back in the early-mid 90's, maybe cause i was a broke student) but the power connectors on other laptops these days are one of the banes of my life ATM, with people expecting me to fix their broken power connectors (It costs about the same to buy a new laptop as to pay for someone to strip a laptop down, de-solder connector, find connector of same type, solder on, and put back together. For some reason, people have no problem paying a plumber, washing machine repair man, plasterer, carpenter.... etc. that rate, but educated techies obviously should be paid peanuts)
I don't get it... how can the same commission that calls for doubling copyright to a ridiculous 95 years also recommend a good-for-the-rest-of-us standard like this? It seems like this commission has some rather conflicted or confused goals and motivations.
Its a political entity. For some things, people get bribed, in other cases a thing is obviously in everyone's best interest. Seriously, if you were willing to spend $600 on the latest and greatest phone, with custom charger, what is the difference between that and spending $600 on that new phone with no charger, but already having 3 compatible chargers collecting dust in your cable bucket?
Off topic, but I do agree. However, if standards are to be imposed on technology, I believe they should be imposed first on the physical side of things. People will always find ways around artificial software/data restrictions much more easily.
Not really all that surprising. Neandethals are known to have had clothing, jewellery, buried their dead in a respectful fashion (sometimes, yes there is also evidence of cannibalism, something modern humans of course have never done...), some evidence of trade, and highly organised hunts. I'd kind of expect them to be able to talk.
<voice="Kyle, HardCOP>To extract more money from Microsoft!</voice>
Yes, I'm picking on him - he deserves it, if for no other reason persistantly thinking that the only reason EU goes after Microsoft is money, and not because they've broken a law. Come on - if they don't get punished for breaking those same laws in the US, why should the EU profit from it?
If you bothered to actually think about this the whole way through, you would realise that the people who benefit and profit from the EU's prosecution of Microsoft's anticompetitive practices are OTHER AMERICAN SOFTWARE COMPANIES. It has nothing to do with Europe going after money, and everything to do with the law. They're an American company, why the hell do we have to spend money on court cases to police their activities?
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2. indecent; obscene; lewd: a vulgar work; a vulgar gesture.
3. crude; coarse; unrefined: a vulgar peasant.
4. of, pertaining to, or constituting the ordinary people in a society: the vulgar masses.
5. current; popular; common: a vulgar success; vulgar beliefs.
6. spoken by, or being in the language spoken by, the people generally; vernacular: vulgar tongue.
7. lacking in distinction, aesthetic value, or charm; banal; ordinary: a vulgar painting.
â"noun
8. Archaic. the common people.
9. Obsolete. the vernacular.
So, it will be an offense to use words that are commonly spoken by the general public, words used by ordinary people, words that are popular?
Why not just make it an offense to use WORDS?
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this data center occupied two floors of a high rise. So we aren't talking about millions of computers.
I don't think anyone even imagined we were talking about millions of computers. But you could pack many thousands of servers into two floors of a high rise, and that is a shitload of computer infrastructure.
His example just did happen. Residents in certain areas were WITHOUT 911 EMERGENCY ACCESS. That's a fuck up of enormous magnitude, and if it was instigated on grounds of a movie being pirated I would want the entire chain of events scrutinized and the people who authorized it brought to account. Whatever your views on piracy, corporate interests do not come before public safety.
Accidental AC. Clearwire are shit, RUN AWAY!
Nobody forces you to illegally download music. The OP is discussing the fact that his job will consist of not only doing something illegal, but of actually being the person officially responsible for said illegal activity.
In today's environment, there's plenty to go around. It's not so much "haves and have nots" but "I have and you can't have" that's the problem. People call it the "evils of capitalism" and while greed is a big motivator, look at the pain it causes. They aren't kidding when they say money is the root of all evil.
Most war today is occurring in countries with very low levels of economic freedom. There are far greater evils from government control and over-regulation of economies than from the "free market" of capitalism. The science shows that free markets cause peace.
So greed for power of government over economies is the greed we should truly fear. Lack of economic freedom causes both poverty and war.
I got 2 pages into that PDF before I got fed up with the bullshit. The study you linked talks about DEMOCRACIES being peaceful with each other. It then waffles about how this is because of capitalism. The much simpler and easier to believe reason that democracies are largely more peaceful than dictatorships is because we don't have dictators. Likewise, you are talking about economic freedom. I think you will find that the people you speak of in warzones today have little POLITICAL freedom. I think you may find that political freedom is much more likely to lead to economic freedom than the other way around.
for the pointer.
No, that's not what you said at all. What you said is Bob gets the same amount of pay for 0.000X units of work done as Jack gets for X units of work. Therefore, Bob is getting paid 10,000 times as much as Jack. Perhaps you meant something different, but that is what you said. Bob is clearly the winner in the picture you painted.
You might find that those external media are not bought by the vast majority of people. Sorry if I'm getting it wrong, not familiar with Fuse, but I know windows doesn't mount EXT*, and most people want something that works with windows.
On a different note, and again I know nothing about law, if TomTom are doing nothing unusual in how they implement FAT in linux, is there any possible way of forcing this lawsuit into MS vs. Linux instead of MS vs. TomTom? I would assume that if TomTom are using a product in good faith, and Microsoft has not brought any kind of litigation to successful conclusion to protect any patents that are violated by that product, then Microsoft should have to first settle the fact that that product (Linux) is violating their patents in court, BEFORE being able to initiate any proceedings against users of said product. They are instead going about effectively blackmailing small companies who cannot afford litigation. I'm glad TomTom have stood up to them, but it's unfortunate that a single company has to take the brunt of an indirect legal assault by Microsoft when they seem to be either unable or unwilling to make that legal assault in a direct manner.
It was in the best interest of the monarchy to live.
Most people feel that way about themselves.
70 years ago was 1939. Are you seriously going to argue that the world is changing more rapidly now than it was at the beginning of World War Two
.....
We've been going from one technological revolution to another for a couple of centuries. Pretty much anyone born since 1800 or so has seen a completely different world, technologically and in many other ways, in their adulthood than the one they saw in their youth. And existing power structures have really never been able to keep up.
I would say the world is changing more rapidly. WW2 was all about imperialism, the same as WW1, and most of the wars for several centuries before it. Imperialism did not end with WW2. The aftermath of WW2 was the end of Western European imperialism around the globe, to be replaced by imperialistic jockying between Russia and the USA, with all sorts of militaristic and economic fun in South America, eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. Today, there is the resentment against imperialism that has ALWAYS been there throughout the ages, but unlike in previous times, there is a general worldwide agreement that it is wrong, and that we really should all try to just get along and work together instead of spending huge sums of taxpayers money on fucking each other over. And one of the reasons I think people actually DO care, is because of technology. Those far away savages that needed to be beaten into submission 100 years ago are now some nice people you might meet on your holiday, or maybe play computer games with in some clan or guild. Technology has a huge impact on modern life and how we think, and the people who legislate should have some idea of what its all about.
capitalism as an ideology isn't perfect, but appears to be the best idea so far, given human nature... socialism, communism, fascism, monarchy, anarchy, oligarchy, etc., all have appeared to completely crumble and fall apart
I'm interested in what examples you'd care to provide regarding both socialism and communism to support that. I'm not terribly interested in monarchies or oligarchies, fascism is just wrong, anarchy... well it could be interesting but far too unstable. But I am unaware of any true communist society ever having been implemented, just dictatorships disguised as communism. As for socialism, most EU countries are socialist to one degree or another, Sweden especially seems to be a good working example of a functional socialist society.
and incidentally, capitalistic-US is becoming more and more socialistic AS it deteriorates ... so why is it that we blame capitalism again?)
You seem to be trying to establish a cause effect relationship, although you haven't given any evidence as to which is the cause.
The problem is that Jack does X and gets back money, food, power, etc.
But Bob does 0.000X and gets back the same amount.
That's why capitalism makes more sense.
All men are not created equal.
I assume you mean thats why capitalism makes more sense for Bob. Because people getting paid exorbitant fees for their work only really occurs in capitalist scenarios. Unless you happen to be a government minister somewhere in Africa, where that kind of thing is also perfectly acceptable.
There is nothing inherently wrong with enlightened self-interest
The unfortunate problem of modern capatalist societies lies in the enlightenment part of that sentence. Most people really don't give a crap about long term sustainability. They think only about the sustainability of revenue streams, and shifting the sources of those when one dries up. So resources invariably get used up. Fisheries are fished out, agricultural lands are overfarmed with chemical fertilizers and pesticides until the local ecology is destroyed, oil fields are plundered for quick cheap energy that could be just as easily reaped from slightly more expensive renewable sources leaving future generations needing new sources for advanced materials production. People are not educated as well as they could be, because in the short term, it would cost too much, and in the long term it would inevitably mean a drop in RELATIVE income for people in professions that are currently kept at quasi-artificial proportions of the populace. All this will bite us in the arse, because we are going to end up in a world with collapsed fisheries, wasted farmland, cheap energy resources squandered before we have put in place a permanent global renewable energy generation infrastructure, and a hungry world population wondering why the generation before them was so smug about having escaped our Malthusian past.
iran is a fundamentalist theocracy which is building nuclear bombs
So what? It's a country that is within nuclear assault range of the USA, Russia, Israel, Pakistan, India and China. I'd want some nukes too if I lived there.
jails and tortures political dissidents
I'm sorry, Americans have lost the right to complain about torture.
it is ok to be anti-american. but why do you think that means you have to be pro-iranian? here's a suggestion: why don't you be anti-american AND anti-iranian,
I'd much prefer to be both pro-American and pro-Iranian. When I think of Iran, I try not to think of the assholes running the country. When I think of America, I try not to think of the assholes running the country. Both countries are made up of mostly hardworking, decent normal people, and if anything there are more dangerous religious fundamentalist people in the USA than there are in Iran (although perhaps not per capita).
(Script) Third, it's the story that makes films great. Without a good script, a film is meaningless.
You've obviously never seem a Jackie Chan movie.
Actually, on the topic of what kind of chargers SHOULD be made universal, I really like mac laptop chargers. Obviously a bit on the big side for a phone, but I have to say I like them. I'm not a mac fan (well, haven't used them lately, they look pretty damn nice these days, but they sucked IMO compared to linux back in the early-mid 90's, maybe cause i was a broke student) but the power connectors on other laptops these days are one of the banes of my life ATM, with people expecting me to fix their broken power connectors (It costs about the same to buy a new laptop as to pay for someone to strip a laptop down, de-solder connector, find connector of same type, solder on, and put back together. For some reason, people have no problem paying a plumber, washing machine repair man, plasterer, carpenter.... etc. that rate, but educated techies obviously should be paid peanuts)
I don't get it... how can the same commission that calls for doubling copyright to a ridiculous 95 years also recommend a good-for-the-rest-of-us standard like this? It seems like this commission has some rather conflicted or confused goals and motivations.
Its a political entity. For some things, people get bribed, in other cases a thing is obviously in everyone's best interest. Seriously, if you were willing to spend $600 on the latest and greatest phone, with custom charger, what is the difference between that and spending $600 on that new phone with no charger, but already having 3 compatible chargers collecting dust in your cable bucket?
Off topic, but I do agree. However, if standards are to be imposed on technology, I believe they should be imposed first on the physical side of things. People will always find ways around artificial software/data restrictions much more easily.
Quite common amongst lawmakers, especially recently.
The UK has done something similar with ISPs regarding filesharing.
The UK has demanded a standard set of filesharing protocols? News to me.
Not really all that surprising. Neandethals are known to have had clothing, jewellery, buried their dead in a respectful fashion (sometimes, yes there is also evidence of cannibalism, something modern humans of course have never done...), some evidence of trade, and highly organised hunts. I'd kind of expect them to be able to talk.
Insightful? I modded +1 funny earlier, because I laughed my arse off reading this. Negating it now.
Sorry for replying to myself. Just noticed the sarcasm. Bit slow here today.
<voice="Kyle, HardCOP>To extract more money from Microsoft!</voice>
Yes, I'm picking on him - he deserves it, if for no other reason persistantly thinking that the only reason EU goes after Microsoft is money, and not because they've broken a law. Come on - if they don't get punished for breaking those same laws in the US, why should the EU profit from it?
If you bothered to actually think about this the whole way through, you would realise that the people who benefit and profit from the EU's prosecution of Microsoft's anticompetitive practices are OTHER AMERICAN SOFTWARE COMPANIES. It has nothing to do with Europe going after money, and everything to do with the law. They're an American company, why the hell do we have to spend money on court cases to police their activities?
Its bloody freezing here. I mean, literally freezing, solid water and all. I'm not used to that kinda crap.
vulgar
â1. characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation.
2. indecent; obscene; lewd: a vulgar work; a vulgar gesture.
3. crude; coarse; unrefined: a vulgar peasant.
4. of, pertaining to, or constituting the ordinary people in a society: the vulgar masses.
5. current; popular; common: a vulgar success; vulgar beliefs.
6. spoken by, or being in the language spoken by, the people generally; vernacular: vulgar tongue.
7. lacking in distinction, aesthetic value, or charm; banal; ordinary: a vulgar painting. â"noun
8. Archaic. the common people.
9. Obsolete. the vernacular.
So, it will be an offense to use words that are commonly spoken by the general public, words used by ordinary people, words that are popular? Why not just make it an offense to use WORDS?