What, makes you speak as though you are thinking more than 2 years in advance? Yeah I made a lot of good calls when it came to stocks while I was smoking weed.....Just too bad I'd already blown my investment capital on weed!
Adjusting our behavior is necessary due to the fact that other species do not threaten the existence of ALL OTHER SPECIES in their pursuit of survival. In all other cases, the survival of a species is contingent on the survival of other species. In the case of humans, because we can supplant the necessity to ensure the survival of other species in order to ensure our own, we often disregard this necessity, making our pursuits our "only" concern. This trait ensures that before too much longer there will only be us, and our "net loss" pursuits here on earth. The way to avoid this is to attempt a more symbiotic relationship with other species (ie attempting to make that which enhances our lives, enhance the ability of other species to exist)...something we as a species are entirely too self-absorbed, and conceited to do.
What fills me with joy is the thought of these copy-protection schemes being made completely worthless by a 14 year old Scandinavian boy after some company spent tens of millions of dollars developing them. It is proof positive to me that given enough determination, imagination, and time, the digital world is such that any wall can be surmounted.
I don't have any idea why someone would mod this statement as funny. Everything like this was considered "tin-foil hat wearing wing-nut conspiracy-theorist fodder" not ten years ago....
Every time I think about your last sentence...I smile. Oil, and our dependence on it has kept us running long enough that many of us are blissfully unaware of what real threat it's loss will mean for the future of our race (sometimes I suspect that was the intent behind switching our dependence from renewable resources, to non-renewables). It gives me a nice warm feeling inside knowing that, I know how to build a shelter, a fire, how to catch, and forage for food. I also know that so few people share the level of knowledge I possess, that I won't have to compete for food for long. First I will take to the hills, while they fight one another over cows, and other forms of farm food. Then they will look at one another as food, and after a few months there will only be those who thought far enough ahead to buy lots of ammo...and people like me. After their ammo is gone, I will come down from the hills, and try to assemble people who are smart enough not to over-populate to the point of exceeding an area's natural carrying capacity, and we'll re-create society in a way that balances our needs with nature's needs.
That is really where we as humans have gone horribly wrong. Whenever I hear some schmuck say "Human's first", I cringe because what they are saying is "It's ok to kill everything else, and spoil the environment in every way possible...as long as I get to keep my car, my ipod, my modern way of life". Well, to them I say, "You can't, and sooner than any of us expect, that lifestyle will no longer be possible...for anyone". It will take a decade or two, but we will get to a better level of existence. I just don't see this version of civilization lasting long enough to get all 8 BILLION+ of us there.
That is act 2 of this little parody called "Track the Planet". Right now they are just trying to establish that they have the legal right to track you via GPS without your knowledge, a reason, or a warrant. Next will be a right to implant one in your body under the same auspices, and the grand finale will be a legal REQUIREMENT that you are implanted with a GPS-type tracking device at in utero or at birth...Stay tuned!
I warned all of you about this when they ran the "cash for clunkers" program! I told you all then that the GPS devices in any newer model vehicles would eventually be used to track you. Everyone seems to be under the assumption that the devices that will be used to track you would be some discreet device implanted on your vehicle "after" some policing body decided they wanted to track you. NAY! The device that came standard in the vehicle you traded for is the same one they intend to track you with. The device ID is probably associated with the VIN# in some data base. All they will need to do is to look up your vehicle registration, get the VIN# of your vehicle, run it through the GPS database and bam...tracking your vehicle's location anywhere on the planet.
I don't know why anyone is surprised at this latest development. We insisted on utilizing UAVs for more than "surveillance" purposes, so now everyone else is starting to get the same idea.
Rather than wasting money on HSR systems, we should be trying to make our air-space traffic-control systems better and concentrate on trying to get people to learn to fly themselves! HSR makes sense between high-density urban centers, but as some have indicated, they aren't very efficient for outer-lying sprawling communities. As it is subways and other rail systems require us to drive the same distance from our point of origin to a HSR departure point, as it is from the departure point to our intended destination.
Maybe to you. Personally, I enjoy the liberty of being able to stop whenever I want, and just take a scenic route for the hell of it. I see the tendency to try to force us to use mass-transit as being forced to take a step backward in the evolution of personal conveyance.
"Honestly EVERYTHING commanded by any religion about sex is only there to control the population"
Hmmm...If that were true, why is it that many religions are against things like bestiality (which as defined is impossible unless re-classified as sex between organisms of differing species...in which case, given what I have noted of the natural world is..."natural"), masturbation, homosexuality, oral, and anal sex? Last I'd heard, these sexual behaviors don't generally end in pregnancy. If what you are saying is true, I'd suspect that such activities as noted above would be accepted, if not at least "tolerated". However, if you mean to imply that what religions have to say about sex is simply there to control the minds of their adherents, I'd say you are correct. Wouldn't want people to have knowledge of, much less be practicing sex-magic openly now would we?
They don't even bother to read the title of the legislation anymore. This stinks to high-hell to me. For all anyone knows, this bill permanently suspends the Constitution, and eliminates the need for presidential elections.
II've been telling people for over a decade (for many reasons...mostly having to do with our biological necessities) that we "need to get off of this rock"!
Get over it!!!! What is it about these neanderthals that makes them think that they can silence or purge information of any kind once it is in the wild??? IT IS ON WIKILEAKS.....HELLO!!!! That means that it is stored, cached, saved, archived by SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, OTHER THAN YOU!!! China's failure to keep hackers or other intent individuals from gaining access to "prohibited" materials online should have been the clarion call to all of these schmucks that if someone wants to get to it, and it is available online, they can get to it!!!
I've created many products that in the beginning stages were in fact "derivative works". However, I don't see how your line of reasoning relates to assholes writing crap-ware that fux up your windows machine to the point of rendering it inoperable. How is that supposed to be "fun" for anyone? I can imagine a modicum of smug at having ruined someone's ability to get online, but again, if you are smart enough to do that, you can do much more productive things with your time (whether or not you write "ALL" of the code involved...you know, like making Open Office work seamlessly with Microsoft Office...Or making Battlefield 2 work flawlessly on Ubuntu!)
Yeah sure, seems like a whole lot of fun when I can't use windows online anymore...Your assertion seems dichotomously true, and yet false. I derive great pleasure from making things that no one has had the brain-power to think up before. In that context, it seems like such "derivative works" are the product of laziness on the part of the authors to me.
Why is it that some people suck so badly that they feel the need to do stupid shit like write virii, write scripts that turn your computer into a slave for their use, write scripts that steal your info, write programs that allow them to cheat like little bitches on Battle Field 2, write programs that allow them to listen in on your cell phone conversations, write programs that pretty much bork your fucking windows partition? Why can't these fucking pieces of shit just play the fucking game, surf pr0n, download movies, comment on/., and check their fucking email like normal people????????????? I mean really, if you are so fucking smart you can write programs that do all of these things, why aren't you doing something more productive with your "skillz"?
"Trust me, its not your government that's the problem, its the foundation of American society that has somehow equated the success of the United States to it's belief in God."
This is an assertion based on partial data. Note the lack of the words "god", "Jesus", "The Holy Ghost", "our Lord", in our founding documents. This was due to the fact that the majority of our "founding fathers" were in fact "Secular Deists" and not christian at all. And as one of the replies points out, all that "In God we trust" crap didn't pop up until our chief competitor for global dominance ( a pursuit entirely antithetical to our original "non-interventionist" national policy) became Russia.
If I ever get dumb enough to waste the money on an Apple machine again(I'd only done it before because A) Mac Os 8 was a superior product to winblows 95, B) the G3 processor was vastly superior to the P1 and P2, and C) Apple had done the smartest thing they'd done since going into business and opened up their OS licensing to 3rd party hardware vendors, thus allowing Power Computing to bring in another 100,000+ Mac OS users into the fold), I will want to install an iAd-blocker! Why (in the age of the internet, where if you want "ANYTHING" you can go online and find someone to buy it from) should I have to put up with ads that entirely disrupt my system, just so Apple can have another revenue stream? With 10's of billions in liquid assets you'd think that ol megalomaniacal Jobs could say..."hmmm I think we have enough revenue coming in....But NO, got to stash a portal into the OS itself to FORCE people to watch more fucking commercials!!! If Apple is going to be like that, I'll just stick to building my own boxes and install Ubuntu!
That is some funny stuff. Just because the tools bu$h left Obama are shiney, new, and exciting to use doesn't mean Obama has the good sense to resist using them. Instead he is inventing new less-American, less-Constitutional tools and policies to implement. Meaning even bu$h never dreamed he'd be able to pass legislation that forced Americans to buy something at threat of fine and/or prison time.
I am by no means a devotee of Glenn Beck, but in the whole faux news pantheon, I consider him to be among the most well-informed, and well-intentioned voices in conservative talk radio (meaning more times than I'd like to admit he is actually right about stuff).....Except when he starts talking about "We have to go to god"...then I shut his silly ass off.
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What, makes you speak as though you are thinking more than 2 years in advance? Yeah I made a lot of good calls when it came to stocks while I was smoking weed.....Just too bad I'd already blown my investment capital on weed!
-Oz
Adjusting our behavior is necessary due to the fact that other species do not threaten the existence of ALL OTHER SPECIES in their pursuit of survival. In all other cases, the survival of a species is contingent on the survival of other species. In the case of humans, because we can supplant the necessity to ensure the survival of other species in order to ensure our own, we often disregard this necessity, making our pursuits our "only" concern. This trait ensures that before too much longer there will only be us, and our "net loss" pursuits here on earth. The way to avoid this is to attempt a more symbiotic relationship with other species (ie attempting to make that which enhances our lives, enhance the ability of other species to exist)...something we as a species are entirely too self-absorbed, and conceited to do.
-Oz
What fills me with joy is the thought of these copy-protection schemes being made completely worthless by a 14 year old Scandinavian boy after some company spent tens of millions of dollars developing them. It is proof positive to me that given enough determination, imagination, and time, the digital world is such that any wall can be surmounted.
-Oz
I don't have any idea why someone would mod this statement as funny. Everything like this was considered "tin-foil hat wearing wing-nut conspiracy-theorist fodder" not ten years ago....
-Oz
Every time I think about your last sentence...I smile. Oil, and our dependence on it has kept us running long enough that many of us are blissfully unaware of what real threat it's loss will mean for the future of our race (sometimes I suspect that was the intent behind switching our dependence from renewable resources, to non-renewables). It gives me a nice warm feeling inside knowing that, I know how to build a shelter, a fire, how to catch, and forage for food. I also know that so few people share the level of knowledge I possess, that I won't have to compete for food for long. First I will take to the hills, while they fight one another over cows, and other forms of farm food. Then they will look at one another as food, and after a few months there will only be those who thought far enough ahead to buy lots of ammo...and people like me. After their ammo is gone, I will come down from the hills, and try to assemble people who are smart enough not to over-populate to the point of exceeding an area's natural carrying capacity, and we'll re-create society in a way that balances our needs with nature's needs.
That is really where we as humans have gone horribly wrong. Whenever I hear some schmuck say "Human's first", I cringe because what they are saying is "It's ok to kill everything else, and spoil the environment in every way possible...as long as I get to keep my car, my ipod, my modern way of life". Well, to them I say, "You can't, and sooner than any of us expect, that lifestyle will no longer be possible...for anyone". It will take a decade or two, but we will get to a better level of existence. I just don't see this version of civilization lasting long enough to get all 8 BILLION+ of us there.
-Oz
That is act 2 of this little parody called "Track the Planet". Right now they are just trying to establish that they have the legal right to track you via GPS without your knowledge, a reason, or a warrant. Next will be a right to implant one in your body under the same auspices, and the grand finale will be a legal REQUIREMENT that you are implanted with a GPS-type tracking device at in utero or at birth...Stay tuned!
-Oz
I warned all of you about this when they ran the "cash for clunkers" program! I told you all then that the GPS devices in any newer model vehicles would eventually be used to track you. Everyone seems to be under the assumption that the devices that will be used to track you would be some discreet device implanted on your vehicle "after" some policing body decided they wanted to track you. NAY! The device that came standard in the vehicle you traded for is the same one they intend to track you with. The device ID is probably associated with the VIN# in some data base. All they will need to do is to look up your vehicle registration, get the VIN# of your vehicle, run it through the GPS database and bam...tracking your vehicle's location anywhere on the planet.
-Oz
I don't know why anyone is surprised at this latest development. We insisted on utilizing UAVs for more than "surveillance" purposes, so now everyone else is starting to get the same idea.
-Oz
Won't hurt my feelings at all....As long as they manage to wipe out Israel in the process...
-Oz
Rather than wasting money on HSR systems, we should be trying to make our air-space traffic-control systems better and concentrate on trying to get people to learn to fly themselves! HSR makes sense between high-density urban centers, but as some have indicated, they aren't very efficient for outer-lying sprawling communities. As it is subways and other rail systems require us to drive the same distance from our point of origin to a HSR departure point, as it is from the departure point to our intended destination.
My solution?....AIRCARS!!!
-Oz
Maybe to you. Personally, I enjoy the liberty of being able to stop whenever I want, and just take a scenic route for the hell of it. I see the tendency to try to force us to use mass-transit as being forced to take a step backward in the evolution of personal conveyance.
-Oz
"Honestly EVERYTHING commanded by any religion about sex is only there to control the population"
Hmmm...If that were true, why is it that many religions are against things like bestiality (which as defined is impossible unless re-classified as sex between organisms of differing species...in which case, given what I have noted of the natural world is..."natural"), masturbation, homosexuality, oral, and anal sex? Last I'd heard, these sexual behaviors don't generally end in pregnancy. If what you are saying is true, I'd suspect that such activities as noted above would be accepted, if not at least "tolerated". However, if you mean to imply that what religions have to say about sex is simply there to control the minds of their adherents, I'd say you are correct. Wouldn't want people to have knowledge of, much less be practicing sex-magic openly now would we?
-Oz
Only if you have proven conclusively that the Mad Fishmonger was in fact Obama's father.
-Oz
I wonder how long it will be before it is illegal to cook food you've grown in your garden/farm (from "genetically-modified" seeds or eggs).....
-Oz
Emerge Emerge Emerge...EMERGE...Finally! Now I can check my email.
-Oz
They don't even bother to read the title of the legislation anymore. This stinks to high-hell to me. For all anyone knows, this bill permanently suspends the Constitution, and eliminates the need for presidential elections.
-Oz
II've been telling people for over a decade (for many reasons...mostly having to do with our biological necessities) that we "need to get off of this rock"!
-Oz
Get over it!!!! What is it about these neanderthals that makes them think that they can silence or purge information of any kind once it is in the wild??? IT IS ON WIKILEAKS.....HELLO!!!! That means that it is stored, cached, saved, archived by SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, OTHER THAN YOU!!! China's failure to keep hackers or other intent individuals from gaining access to "prohibited" materials online should have been the clarion call to all of these schmucks that if someone wants to get to it, and it is available online, they can get to it!!!
-Oz
I've created many products that in the beginning stages were in fact "derivative works". However, I don't see how your line of reasoning relates to assholes writing crap-ware that fux up your windows machine to the point of rendering it inoperable. How is that supposed to be "fun" for anyone? I can imagine a modicum of smug at having ruined someone's ability to get online, but again, if you are smart enough to do that, you can do much more productive things with your time (whether or not you write "ALL" of the code involved...you know, like making Open Office work seamlessly with Microsoft Office...Or making Battlefield 2 work flawlessly on Ubuntu!)
-Oz
Yeah sure, seems like a whole lot of fun when I can't use windows online anymore...Your assertion seems dichotomously true, and yet false. I derive great pleasure from making things that no one has had the brain-power to think up before. In that context, it seems like such "derivative works" are the product of laziness on the part of the authors to me.
-Oz
Why is it that some people suck so badly that they feel the need to do stupid shit like write virii, write scripts that turn your computer into a slave for their use, write scripts that steal your info, write programs that allow them to cheat like little bitches on Battle Field 2, write programs that allow them to listen in on your cell phone conversations, write programs that pretty much bork your fucking windows partition? Why can't these fucking pieces of shit just play the fucking game, surf pr0n, download movies, comment on /., and check their fucking email like normal people????????????? I mean really, if you are so fucking smart you can write programs that do all of these things, why aren't you doing something more productive with your "skillz"?
-Oz
"Trust me, its not your government that's the problem, its the foundation of American society that has somehow equated the success of the United States to it's belief in God."
This is an assertion based on partial data. Note the lack of the words "god", "Jesus", "The Holy Ghost", "our Lord", in our founding documents. This was due to the fact that the majority of our "founding fathers" were in fact "Secular Deists" and not christian at all. And as one of the replies points out, all that "In God we trust" crap didn't pop up until our chief competitor for global dominance ( a pursuit entirely antithetical to our original "non-interventionist" national policy) became Russia.
-Oz
If I ever get dumb enough to waste the money on an Apple machine again(I'd only done it before because A) Mac Os 8 was a superior product to winblows 95, B) the G3 processor was vastly superior to the P1 and P2, and C) Apple had done the smartest thing they'd done since going into business and opened up their OS licensing to 3rd party hardware vendors, thus allowing Power Computing to bring in another 100,000+ Mac OS users into the fold), I will want to install an iAd-blocker! Why (in the age of the internet, where if you want "ANYTHING" you can go online and find someone to buy it from) should I have to put up with ads that entirely disrupt my system, just so Apple can have another revenue stream? With 10's of billions in liquid assets you'd think that ol megalomaniacal Jobs could say..."hmmm I think we have enough revenue coming in....But NO, got to stash a portal into the OS itself to FORCE people to watch more fucking commercials!!! If Apple is going to be like that, I'll just stick to building my own boxes and install Ubuntu!
-Oz
That is some funny stuff. Just because the tools bu$h left Obama are shiney, new, and exciting to use doesn't mean Obama has the good sense to resist using them. Instead he is inventing new less-American, less-Constitutional tools and policies to implement. Meaning even bu$h never dreamed he'd be able to pass legislation that forced Americans to buy something at threat of fine and/or prison time.
-Oz
I am by no means a devotee of Glenn Beck, but in the whole faux news pantheon, I consider him to be among the most well-informed, and well-intentioned voices in conservative talk radio (meaning more times than I'd like to admit he is actually right about stuff) .....Except when he starts talking about "We have to go to god"...then I shut his silly ass off.
-Oz