We all do chemistry, yes, but do you think the facts have anything to do with the law?
It's just like with the firearms ban. You can't have assault firearms. What the bloody hell are those? Telescopic stock? Black finish?! It makes no sense!
As for hobbyist chemists, the first thing they are going to try are explosives. After a few grams of nitrocelulose they'll move on to more interesting things. They always do.
This is the kind of story that makes me stare blankly at the screen for a couple of good seconds and wonder "Are they insane? Is this some sort of twisted sick joke?"
I'm not culturally insensitive, nor am I a clod. And hey, I don't even live in the US - I never even went there (thank you Bush). And I'm not the kind who keeps his lawn trimmed, his dog spanking clean and smelling of perfume. No, quite the opposite. I'm not your typical hillbilly though - the kind who aims his rifle at whoever wants to visit me chanting "Thou shall not pass, purdy mouth".
But I'd be insane if I'd blame anyone for taking a look at my car, my lawn, or the obscured silhouette of my house hidden behind layers of trees, vines and unkept vegetation.
I'd be insane to blame anybody apart from myself if I'd be caught pissing under a tree. I mean, shit, we aren't living in the middle ages. If I seriously have to take a piss I at least show the common decency to do so in a place that isn't in full view - a backyard for example. If I decide to piss in a place that's popular enough to have google's street team cruising through it, then it means I'm probably urinating in a place that's in full view - and I won't blame the people who are all around me and looking at me like some bum. I won't blame the drivers of passing cars. I won't blame google's street car for digitizing my stupidity. I'll blame myself.
Using this logic, you see, I should report people who refuse to close their eyes as I take a dump on the white stripe of the highway.
We, as a race, adapted to far more serious changes. We adapted to automobiles, that extended our effective range by ten, if not hundredfold. We adapted to cellphones, being able to be in touch with anybody, at any time, as if the barrier of space and time in interpersonal contact was lifted. And we still blame others for our own stupidity and indecency?
I don't want to get all uptight and start lecturing anybody, nor do I want to sound like your 50-year old conservatist middle-high class male complaining about the world today. I'm not that old really, and I could rather accurately say I'm part of the new generation.
Which is also why I find this more depressing.
Today's generation doesn't believe in ideals. There's a huge difference between being a patriot and being a nationalist. Between being a man who knows his rights and the rights of others and one who raises hell for the sake of it. I've seen few of the first. And they weren't the brightest souls either. In fact the more intelligent people tend to become anything from conformists to apathetic nihilists.
I was raised in a nation that lost and regained it's freedom times and times again during the generations. Perhaps such a mindset wakes only when in face of danger, but the people of my age today would fail to show any initiative, regardless what would be thrown against us.
It's hard to have a good comparison of how the moral spine of the world rises or falls, partly because it involves such a long time span. Taking for example religion we can see that it's role has declined sharply. Even though I personally am an atheist I'd be a fool to dismiss the integrating and strenghtening effect it has on society. It's role however is declining, even though religion was still popular long after it was commonly disproved by science. That would appear to indicate that it's not really the advancement of technology and rational thought that's responsible, as much as a global shift in mindset.
But returning to the original topic, I don't believe society today could react in any meaningful way. Essential liberties could and will be taken away taking us, step by step, into a 1984-like world. I can only comfort myself in the fact that living in a socially and economically weakened eastern-European country I can expect a 10-year lag between the new trends of oppression in the US and here.
There's an infinite number of games you can develop, but a finite number of games that can be played. And eventually, those games that are simple enough to be played by humans tend to become very similar. Especially if you consider party games that everyone, not just chaps with a PHD can play.
This just goes to show what kind of people spammers are.
I only regret he died so quick. There are few people I hate as much as spammers. Rapists can't control their immediate desires, drunken drivers commit crime out of stupidity. Racists are intolerant because that's often what they've been taught and child molesters admit they don't know why they're doing it.
But people like this man do. They know perfectly well what they're doing. They coldly and deliberately capitalize on the very minimal amount of trust they are given. They abuse a system for their own greed. And they only do so safe behind the anonimity of the internet. Even thieves have to look their victims in the eyes and make an effort. They risk being caught - spammers are too cowardly to deal with that risk, and too cowardly to deal with the consequences of their actions.
Spammers should be dealt with nothing else than extreme prejudice. Those are the kind of people who would feel just fine about devastating society for their own gain, if only they'd have initiative.
Every time I read about something bad happening to a spammer I feel a little happier inside.
That's one option. The other is to make a new account, make friends with him, get his MSN address, get his real address and send him a razor letter, trash his car or beat him up.
Being an asshole on the internet does have it's consequences
There's a finite number of games a man can develop and play. Ti-tac-toe is one of them, chess is another. I don't see why both should be free of copyrights while Scrabble wouldn't be. Indeed, some long-dead man invented it one day, but the same applies to all such games.
My logic tells me it makes sense if hasbro wants to prevent companies from releasing scrabble clones. You know, the real stuff you can touch and move. The kind of stuff that is real.
But virtual scrabble? The blocks aren't the same, because they don't exist. The name is different, even if some may see similarities and the rules are different, maybe because there was no code to copy from. It's safe to assume the sued company didn't copy any assets - they wrote something, from scratch, that is similar. Because adding anything more would make it worse.
I think he has far less to fear from the police and prison inmates than from certain mentally disturbed individuals.
Then again I'm sure there are people on/. who've fantasized about beating the living shit out of a guy like him, a guy whose role in life is all about making a selfish profit at the cost of making another man's life more miserable.
The thing that concerns me is that in the end, regardless of how loud we bitch and moan, the plug is in their hands.
Let's discuss a hypothetical scenario. You wake up one cold autumn weekend day, sit in front of your PC and see that the internet you've known - the anarchistic, free and open virtual world is now gone.
What would you do?
[ "Browse the pr0n I had already downloaded instead" is not an option ]
If I have an apple and you have an apple, and we share those apples, we still have one apple each.
If you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we share those ideas, we both have two ideas.
If you feel I'm stealing bits of information from your shares directory, delete eMule, DC or torrent.
If you're still having problems with understanding this concept - you can not steal anything that is of infinite quantity.
How about taking the time to think why are those people blowing themselves up and killing US citizens in the process? After all, going on a suicide mission is a lose-lose scenario and not exactly the kind of thing you do out of dislike alone. I can't really imagine the amount of hate one has to have to deliberately and willingly sacrifice your whole life towards the misery of someone else. Maybe instead of dropping more bombs the question should be asked: "Why do you hate us so much?"
I'd say it's probably a bit of both. Anyone who's smart enough to blow up a plane is probably smart enough to find a solution to whatever problems they think they face without blowing up a large number of people. Blowing up large numbers of people isn't meant to solve anything, that's ridiculous. Especially civilians whose only wrongdoing was at most putting an X by the wrong name.
If you're determined to go and kill civilians you're out for revenge and to cause fear, panic and mayhem. There is no solution to having your family killed for no apparent reason. No matter how smart a man there's no way to resurrect your family and undo the injustice. In such cases intelligent men are even more determined and capable of carrying out such acts than their less gifted counterparts.
You need a blasting cap. One or two grams will be just enough. All you need to do is hermetically seal off that amount of substance (depending on which substance you're using and it's ignition temperature it can be anything from resin to wax), wash it in a solvent or any aggressive substance that'll remove traces of the primer and then put it inside your digital camera, watch, laptop or any other physically complex device. Modern blasting caps are detonated by very low voltages. I used to detonate them with those flat little button cells.
Considering it's really easy to blow up a plane today there are only two possible explanations why it's not raining aluminum:
1. The terrorists are idiots and can't do this kind of attack because they lack knowledge.
2. There are no terrorists willing to hijack planes and kill civilians in modern countries just for the fun of it.
Allow me to expand on yout thoughts sir.
The availability of guns does indeed promote gun violence. People with a natural predispisition towards gun violence are more likely to use a gun should one be available.
The same applies to children. Therefore in order to protect out citizens from violent child crimes we need to ban the manufacture and posession of children.
Problem solved.
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We all do chemistry, yes, but do you think the facts have anything to do with the law?
It's just like with the firearms ban. You can't have assault firearms. What the bloody hell are those? Telescopic stock? Black finish?! It makes no sense!
As for hobbyist chemists, the first thing they are going to try are explosives. After a few grams of nitrocelulose they'll move on to more interesting things. They always do.
Yeah, they should just stick with the nukes. The weather machine belongs to the allies.
This is the kind of story that makes me stare blankly at the screen for a couple of good seconds and wonder "Are they insane? Is this some sort of twisted sick joke?"
I'm not culturally insensitive, nor am I a clod. And hey, I don't even live in the US - I never even went there (thank you Bush). And I'm not the kind who keeps his lawn trimmed, his dog spanking clean and smelling of perfume. No, quite the opposite. I'm not your typical hillbilly though - the kind who aims his rifle at whoever wants to visit me chanting "Thou shall not pass, purdy mouth".
But I'd be insane if I'd blame anyone for taking a look at my car, my lawn, or the obscured silhouette of my house hidden behind layers of trees, vines and unkept vegetation.
I'd be insane to blame anybody apart from myself if I'd be caught pissing under a tree. I mean, shit, we aren't living in the middle ages. If I seriously have to take a piss I at least show the common decency to do so in a place that isn't in full view - a backyard for example. If I decide to piss in a place that's popular enough to have google's street team cruising through it, then it means I'm probably urinating in a place that's in full view - and I won't blame the people who are all around me and looking at me like some bum. I won't blame the drivers of passing cars. I won't blame google's street car for digitizing my stupidity. I'll blame myself.
Using this logic, you see, I should report people who refuse to close their eyes as I take a dump on the white stripe of the highway.
We, as a race, adapted to far more serious changes. We adapted to automobiles, that extended our effective range by ten, if not hundredfold. We adapted to cellphones, being able to be in touch with anybody, at any time, as if the barrier of space and time in interpersonal contact was lifted. And we still blame others for our own stupidity and indecency?
When google's servers go down, in first order, you'll be looking for an atomic shelter. Data backup - somewhere down the road.
Just one question, pal. Does that make nazi Germany during WW2 a bunch of terrorists?
I don't want to get all uptight and start lecturing anybody, nor do I want to sound like your 50-year old conservatist middle-high class male complaining about the world today. I'm not that old really, and I could rather accurately say I'm part of the new generation.
Which is also why I find this more depressing.
Today's generation doesn't believe in ideals. There's a huge difference between being a patriot and being a nationalist. Between being a man who knows his rights and the rights of others and one who raises hell for the sake of it. I've seen few of the first. And they weren't the brightest souls either. In fact the more intelligent people tend to become anything from conformists to apathetic nihilists.
I was raised in a nation that lost and regained it's freedom times and times again during the generations. Perhaps such a mindset wakes only when in face of danger, but the people of my age today would fail to show any initiative, regardless what would be thrown against us.
It's hard to have a good comparison of how the moral spine of the world rises or falls, partly because it involves such a long time span. Taking for example religion we can see that it's role has declined sharply. Even though I personally am an atheist I'd be a fool to dismiss the integrating and strenghtening effect it has on society. It's role however is declining, even though religion was still popular long after it was commonly disproved by science. That would appear to indicate that it's not really the advancement of technology and rational thought that's responsible, as much as a global shift in mindset.
But returning to the original topic, I don't believe society today could react in any meaningful way. Essential liberties could and will be taken away taking us, step by step, into a 1984-like world. I can only comfort myself in the fact that living in a socially and economically weakened eastern-European country I can expect a 10-year lag between the new trends of oppression in the US and here.
There's an infinite number of games you can develop, but a finite number of games that can be played. And eventually, those games that are simple enough to be played by humans tend to become very similar. Especially if you consider party games that everyone, not just chaps with a PHD can play.
This just goes to show what kind of people spammers are. I only regret he died so quick. There are few people I hate as much as spammers. Rapists can't control their immediate desires, drunken drivers commit crime out of stupidity. Racists are intolerant because that's often what they've been taught and child molesters admit they don't know why they're doing it. But people like this man do. They know perfectly well what they're doing. They coldly and deliberately capitalize on the very minimal amount of trust they are given. They abuse a system for their own greed. And they only do so safe behind the anonimity of the internet. Even thieves have to look their victims in the eyes and make an effort. They risk being caught - spammers are too cowardly to deal with that risk, and too cowardly to deal with the consequences of their actions. Spammers should be dealt with nothing else than extreme prejudice. Those are the kind of people who would feel just fine about devastating society for their own gain, if only they'd have initiative. Every time I read about something bad happening to a spammer I feel a little happier inside.
That's one option. The other is to make a new account, make friends with him, get his MSN address, get his real address and send him a razor letter, trash his car or beat him up.
Being an asshole on the internet does have it's consequences
For example, in soviet russia, spam dispatches you!
There's a finite number of games a man can develop and play. Ti-tac-toe is one of them, chess is another. I don't see why both should be free of copyrights while Scrabble wouldn't be. Indeed, some long-dead man invented it one day, but the same applies to all such games.
My logic tells me it makes sense if hasbro wants to prevent companies from releasing scrabble clones. You know, the real stuff you can touch and move. The kind of stuff that is real.
But virtual scrabble? The blocks aren't the same, because they don't exist. The name is different, even if some may see similarities and the rules are different, maybe because there was no code to copy from. It's safe to assume the sued company didn't copy any assets - they wrote something, from scratch, that is similar. Because adding anything more would make it worse.
I think he has far less to fear from the police and prison inmates than from certain mentally disturbed individuals.
Then again I'm sure there are people on /. who've fantasized about beating the living shit out of a guy like him, a guy whose role in life is all about making a selfish profit at the cost of making another man's life more miserable.
And frankly, can you blame them?
What happens when a 'Terrorist' finds a way to purge/rupture the coolant?
We invade Iran!
The thing that concerns me is that in the end, regardless of how loud we bitch and moan, the plug is in their hands. Let's discuss a hypothetical scenario. You wake up one cold autumn weekend day, sit in front of your PC and see that the internet you've known - the anarchistic, free and open virtual world is now gone. What would you do? [ "Browse the pr0n I had already downloaded instead" is not an option ]
If I have an apple and you have an apple, and we share those apples, we still have one apple each. If you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we share those ideas, we both have two ideas. If you feel I'm stealing bits of information from your shares directory, delete eMule, DC or torrent. If you're still having problems with understanding this concept - you can not steal anything that is of infinite quantity.
He who controls Google controls the Internet
At least it doesn't block torrent traffic.
Ask him if Vardan Kushnir was his role model and if he wants to be a hero.
Especially true for those yellow stickers with a wheelchair on them, yup.
How about taking the time to think why are those people blowing themselves up and killing US citizens in the process? After all, going on a suicide mission is a lose-lose scenario and not exactly the kind of thing you do out of dislike alone. I can't really imagine the amount of hate one has to have to deliberately and willingly sacrifice your whole life towards the misery of someone else. Maybe instead of dropping more bombs the question should be asked: "Why do you hate us so much?"
Ah so them's those "smart weapons" I been hearing about.
No, it's named properly. CAN-SPAM. As in CAN-THEREFORE-I-WILL. SPAM.
Anybody wanna play worms 3d in Stockholm?
If you're determined to go and kill civilians you're out for revenge and to cause fear, panic and mayhem. There is no solution to having your family killed for no apparent reason. No matter how smart a man there's no way to resurrect your family and undo the injustice. In such cases intelligent men are even more determined and capable of carrying out such acts than their less gifted counterparts.
You need a blasting cap. One or two grams will be just enough. All you need to do is hermetically seal off that amount of substance (depending on which substance you're using and it's ignition temperature it can be anything from resin to wax), wash it in a solvent or any aggressive substance that'll remove traces of the primer and then put it inside your digital camera, watch, laptop or any other physically complex device. Modern blasting caps are detonated by very low voltages. I used to detonate them with those flat little button cells. Considering it's really easy to blow up a plane today there are only two possible explanations why it's not raining aluminum: 1. The terrorists are idiots and can't do this kind of attack because they lack knowledge. 2. There are no terrorists willing to hijack planes and kill civilians in modern countries just for the fun of it.
Allow me to expand on yout thoughts sir. The availability of guns does indeed promote gun violence. People with a natural predispisition towards gun violence are more likely to use a gun should one be available. The same applies to children. Therefore in order to protect out citizens from violent child crimes we need to ban the manufacture and posession of children. Problem solved.