If you let the guy you like make police state rules, you don't get to complain when the guy you hate uses them.
What I'm trying to understand is how the hell the GP got himself convinced that not selling drilling rights which he is under absolutely no obligation to sell, qualifies as "police state" behavior at all...
- We love sucking the Kochs of big oil ! We must be angry ! - But the military was against this, and we love the military cock too, we must be happy ! - But the Kochs gave us lots of money ! We must be angry - But the military has all those juicy defense contracts that keep all our other funders happy, so we must be happy !... Obama did this, don't matter what we know, don't matter what else was says - nothing else matters except that Obama did this - we get to be angry no matter what.
I used Britain's own history to show what "invasion" means - and contrasted this with what is happening now, not to say the one justifies the other - to prove the two things have absolujtely FUCK ALL in common.
On a map of regions Britain has never invaded... there are three tiny spots, representing around 0.001% of the surface of the planet.
Considering there is basically nobody who hasn't at some point been invaded *by* Britain (and heard it was justified by the British claim to ancestral superiority) there is basically nobody who doesn't have the right to now go live in Britain peacefully. Calling migration and refugees an "invasion" is a ridiculous hyperboly for a nation whose historical approach to those things consisted largely of showing up with lots of guns and saying "All this land and resources you people have relied on to survive for millions of years... yeah, we'll be taking that. If you shut up and play nice we will let some of you live".
That is an invasion and no nation on earth has done it better or more frequently than the British. The Roman empire was tiny compared to the what the Brits have invaded, Genghiz Kahn managed a fraction of it. Nah, this is no invasion - this is people fleeing for their lives and seeking a place they can safely raise their kids without the constant threat of them being dead tomorrow.
And if every a nation has forfeited it's right to exist by virtue of how many other nations it destroyed it's the British - so shut up and help these people and be grateful that's *all* you are being asked to do.
So are most model airplanes 2-stage engines then ? Because as far as I know only 2-stage engines ever needed oil mixed in with the fuel, 4-stage engines can lubricate the pistons during the off-phases but 2-stage engines lack those and so must get the lubricant and fuel in at the same time. Such are generally limited to lower-end work like lawnmowers and small motorcycles because the 2-stage engines produce a lot more bad smoke (what with burning much of the oil) and are quite a bit less energy efficient (what with a huge percentage of the stuff you blow into the piston before ignition being oil instead of proper fuel).
I suppose it makes sense that the tiny engines on model aircraft would be among the use-cases where the cost-savings on a simpler 2-stage design outweigh the downsides ?
That actually confirms the GP's point. Rust is not a fire risk - unrusted iron particles are. Rust is the ash that fire leaves behind. Every tried to burn ash ?
I have been hearing disturbing rumors lately that the artic is overwhelmed with polution by DHMO-solids ! Though some research suggests that global warming may inadvertently be helping to reduce the levels.
No. Nobody who works for apple has agreed to do whatever the GOVERNMENT says while they do, they only agreed to obey their bosses at apple. If the government wants to force apple to do something - they are forcing the PEOPLE at apple to do it. Apple doesn't really exist, it's an imaginary abstract entity. You can't compel imaginary entities to do stuff. You are always compelling the people doing the imagining.
Right... because I didn't mention people using it in the VERY NEXT SENTENCE. Oh wait.... but hardly anybody writes desktop applications in it anymore. That was java's original primary purpose, to write desktop applications that would run unchanged on whatever platform you wanted. And microsoft DID kill java in that sense. As a server-side language being platform neutral is far less valuable. That it survived on mobile is a result of the fact that way back when it was first created that's what SUN had intended, but SUN was too far ahead of the curve. They wrote a mobile language in 1995, but the mobile revolution didn't really take off until 2005.
And much of the wood coming out of the Amazon is - often the slaves are the very people who used to live in the area that was clear-cut by criminals last year.
If crime was one corporation - that corporation would make more money every year than the top-50 fortune-500 companies combined. It's the largest employer on earth - by far and the vast majority of it's employees are ordinary people just doing a job that they have no idea is not legitimate.
Think about that... There's absolutely no way that much money can consistently be hidden in the economy, there's no way to hide that big a chunk of the global GDP - unless a great deal of the money that those companies made, is also part of the money that crime makes. In other words - when there's a scandal like last year when Goldman Sach's was caught illegally offering bank accounts and investment services to drug cartells and terrorists - don't be surprized. Most banks have to be busy laundering big crime's money for them or the economy as a whole would collapse. Goldman just got caught, and it's more than money laundering, a great deal of the crime profits must actually be PART of the corporate profits or it is just mathematically impossible for there to be that much.
So fine. The 3 or 4 things in he world thats true off is great. But policy should be build around preventing the bad stuff. Especially when there is a great deal of it around. You cant base policy around the goid extremes. It must be based around the bad extremes because its the only tool we have to deal with them.
Tin and coltane which are common in all electronics including the electronic parts of solar panels.
Now ill be happy to consider solar to be one of the least affected products but unaffected ? Nope.
Hell slavery is even rife in the timbre industry. So you cant buy a wooden chair without good odds there was slavery in the supply chain. 70% of all chocolate is made from beans harvested by kidnapped child slaves. Coffee is about the same. Yeah its depressing as hell. Consumer advocacy doesnt work - ellse one of the exposes on the chocolate industry in the last 25 years wpuld have made some difference. Market conpetition doesnt stop it, in fact it cements. No chocolate company can stop using slave beans because they are cheaper and you cant compete with evil without doing evil yourself. The only thing that works is government. Its what ended slavery in the 19th century and its thinly veilzed still legal version known as peonage in 1940.
You forget the rare earth minerals in the panels. Nearly all the world's supply comes from mines in the eastern DRC where the workforce is entirely slave labour.
Hell you can blame Sun's eventual bankruptcy and the fact that Oracle now owns JAVA almost squarely on MS's embrace-extend-extinguish strategy. MS-JAVA only ran on windows - and had extensions developers liked, so people used them and suddenly java lost it's most important marketed feature - to be multiplatform.
By the time MS dropped JAVA - it was basically dead as an application language. Sun made a valiant effort to reinvent the language in other spaces (mobile and server-side appservers and such) but the damage was done.
Oracle may own it today but microsoft no longer even ships java - they dropped their version when the competition was dead. They never cared about having good java support, or adding value for customers - they only cared about not letting a powerful and popular language (at the time pretty much every CS student learned java) be multiplatform and allow applications to flourish outside their narrow ecosystem.
They did the same with great success to html - and for many years sites often had to have multiple versions targetting multiple browsers, most sites didn't bother and only supported IE6. It greatly slowed down linux adoption that the main linux browser couldn't see half the web - only geeks would put up with that for a better OS.
Sure they didn't actually kill any of these technologies completely dead - and html has recovered so entirely that today microsoft is very careful to toe the line with standards. But all that proves is that the strategy didn't give them final victory - it doesn't remove that they followed the strategy or undo the terrible harm it caused along the way. The embrace-extend-extinguish strategy was absolutely pervasive. It even included a directx rich-content web plugin at one point ! It decisively slowed down the growth of the computer field and delayed many great advances by years (decades in some cases).
I don't see any good reason why we should forgive them for that, and certainly not yet.
Your conclusion is false. Corporate employees are still people and have rights. Since compelling apple means compelling the people that remains a rights issue.
You dont need abstract entities to have rights to preserve any current liberties. You need to revoke them to protect a great many individual liberties that are being steadily eroded because those entities are given all the rights of people while having none of the constraints and refusing to accept any of the responsibilities.
At the botom of every supply chain is slavery. Old fashion whips and chains unpaid slavery. Every product from gravestones to iphones to chocolate is made from resources harvested by slaves. A situation that exists only because the end of the supply chains are non humans that get rights.
Yep... because protecting the freedom of electronic equipment is such an *important* goal for liberty...
It's just like worrying about the 'rights' of corporations - they have none, only human beings have rights, you may as well try to oppress a hammer or enslave a brick.
Go one better, implement a php interpreter in JS, then have your page load a JS script containing the interpreter which loads the PHP scripts and runs them client-side and finally renders the html output (which, of course, can contain lots of JS again - so you can even have your php output JS which contains the interpreter and go full inception mode).
Then market it to companies as having all the power of PHP but client side so they don't need such powerful servers to host pages.
That's a pretty good point. It would also be an argument against going after people who pirate Bieber songs but they already have a pretty much guaranteed get-out-of-jail-free card. Innocent by reason of insanity.
What judge in his right mind would NOT think you have to be crazy to want to download a Bieber song ?
It's disguised as a video of Natalie Portman, naked and petrified.
Damn... showing my age there... for the young'uns - the reference is to an issue of the long defunct comic strip Userfriendly in which the "evil genius" Petr spreads a version of Microsoft's Clippy (a satanic paperclip which tried to take over the world and bring about the apocalypse -not in the comic in real life) as a plugin for the VI editor by disguising it as such a video.
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If you let the guy you like make police state rules, you don't get to complain when the guy you hate uses them.
What I'm trying to understand is how the hell the GP got himself convinced that not selling drilling rights which he is under absolutely no obligation to sell, qualifies as "police state" behavior at all...
- We love sucking the Kochs of big oil ! We must be angry ! ...
- But the military was against this, and we love the military cock too, we must be happy !
- But the Kochs gave us lots of money ! We must be angry
- But the military has all those juicy defense contracts that keep all our other funders happy, so we must be happy !
Obama did this, don't matter what we know, don't matter what else was says - nothing else matters except that Obama did this - we get to be angry no matter what.
You can't read.
I used Britain's own history to show what "invasion" means - and contrasted this with what is happening now, not to say the one justifies the other - to prove the two things have absolujtely FUCK ALL in common.
On a map of regions Britain has never invaded ... there are three tiny spots, representing around 0.001% of the surface of the planet.
Considering there is basically nobody who hasn't at some point been invaded *by* Britain (and heard it was justified by the British claim to ancestral superiority) there is basically nobody who doesn't have the right to now go live in Britain peacefully. Calling migration and refugees an "invasion" is a ridiculous hyperboly for a nation whose historical approach to those things consisted largely of showing up with lots of guns and saying "All this land and resources you people have relied on to survive for millions of years... yeah, we'll be taking that. If you shut up and play nice we will let some of you live".
That is an invasion and no nation on earth has done it better or more frequently than the British. The Roman empire was tiny compared to the what the Brits have invaded, Genghiz Kahn managed a fraction of it. Nah, this is no invasion - this is people fleeing for their lives and seeking a place they can safely raise their kids without the constant threat of them being dead tomorrow.
And if every a nation has forfeited it's right to exist by virtue of how many other nations it destroyed it's the British - so shut up and help these people and be grateful that's *all* you are being asked to do.
So are most model airplanes 2-stage engines then ? Because as far as I know only 2-stage engines ever needed oil mixed in with the fuel, 4-stage engines can lubricate the pistons during the off-phases but 2-stage engines lack those and so must get the lubricant and fuel in at the same time. Such are generally limited to lower-end work like lawnmowers and small motorcycles because the 2-stage engines produce a lot more bad smoke (what with burning much of the oil) and are quite a bit less energy efficient (what with a huge percentage of the stuff you blow into the piston before ignition being oil instead of proper fuel).
I suppose it makes sense that the tiny engines on model aircraft would be among the use-cases where the cost-savings on a simpler 2-stage design outweigh the downsides ?
That actually confirms the GP's point. Rust is not a fire risk - unrusted iron particles are. Rust is the ash that fire leaves behind. Every tried to burn ash ?
I have been hearing disturbing rumors lately that the artic is overwhelmed with polution by DHMO-solids ! Though some research suggests that global warming may inadvertently be helping to reduce the levels.
No. Nobody who works for apple has agreed to do whatever the GOVERNMENT says while they do, they only agreed to obey their bosses at apple. If the government wants to force apple to do something - they are forcing the PEOPLE at apple to do it. Apple doesn't really exist, it's an imaginary abstract entity. You can't compel imaginary entities to do stuff. You are always compelling the people doing the imagining.
Right... because I didn't mention people using it in the VERY NEXT SENTENCE. Oh wait.... but hardly anybody writes desktop applications in it anymore. That was java's original primary purpose, to write desktop applications that would run unchanged on whatever platform you wanted. And microsoft DID kill java in that sense. As a server-side language being platform neutral is far less valuable. That it survived on mobile is a result of the fact that way back when it was first created that's what SUN had intended, but SUN was too far ahead of the curve. They wrote a mobile language in 1995, but the mobile revolution didn't really take off until 2005.
And much of the wood coming out of the Amazon is - often the slaves are the very people who used to live in the area that was clear-cut by criminals last year.
If crime was one corporation - that corporation would make more money every year than the top-50 fortune-500 companies combined. It's the largest employer on earth - by far and the vast majority of it's employees are ordinary people just doing a job that they have no idea is not legitimate.
Think about that... There's absolutely no way that much money can consistently be hidden in the economy, there's no way to hide that big a chunk of the global GDP - unless a great deal of the money that those companies made, is also part of the money that crime makes. In other words - when there's a scandal like last year when Goldman Sach's was caught illegally offering bank accounts and investment services to drug cartells and terrorists - don't be surprized. Most banks have to be busy laundering big crime's money for them or the economy as a whole would collapse. Goldman just got caught, and it's more than money laundering, a great deal of the crime profits must actually be PART of the corporate profits or it is just mathematically impossible for there to be that much.
So fine. The 3 or 4 things in he world thats true off is great. But policy should be build around preventing the bad stuff. Especially when there is a great deal of it around. You cant base policy around the goid extremes. It must be based around the bad extremes because its the only tool we have to deal with them.
Tin and coltane which are common in all electronics including the electronic parts of solar panels.
Now ill be happy to consider solar to be one of the least affected products but unaffected ? Nope.
Hell slavery is even rife in the timbre industry. So you cant buy a wooden chair without good odds there was slavery in the supply chain. 70% of all chocolate is made from beans harvested by kidnapped child slaves. Coffee is about the same. Yeah its depressing as hell. Consumer advocacy doesnt work - ellse one of the exposes on the chocolate industry in the last 25 years wpuld have made some difference. Market conpetition doesnt stop it, in fact it cements. No chocolate company can stop using slave beans because they are cheaper and you cant compete with evil without doing evil yourself. The only thing that works is government. Its what ended slavery in the 19th century and its thinly veilzed still legal version known as peonage in 1940.
Nothing else has ever done it.
You forget the rare earth minerals in the panels. Nearly all the world's supply comes from mines in the eastern DRC where the workforce is entirely slave labour.
Sun JAVA.
Hell you can blame Sun's eventual bankruptcy and the fact that Oracle now owns JAVA almost squarely on MS's embrace-extend-extinguish strategy. MS-JAVA only ran on windows - and had extensions developers liked, so people used them and suddenly java lost it's most important marketed feature - to be multiplatform.
By the time MS dropped JAVA - it was basically dead as an application language. Sun made a valiant effort to reinvent the language in other spaces (mobile and server-side appservers and such) but the damage was done.
Oracle may own it today but microsoft no longer even ships java - they dropped their version when the competition was dead. They never cared about having good java support, or adding value for customers - they only cared about not letting a powerful and popular language (at the time pretty much every CS student learned java) be multiplatform and allow applications to flourish outside their narrow ecosystem.
They did the same with great success to html - and for many years sites often had to have multiple versions targetting multiple browsers, most sites didn't bother and only supported IE6. It greatly slowed down linux adoption that the main linux browser couldn't see half the web - only geeks would put up with that for a better OS.
Sure they didn't actually kill any of these technologies completely dead - and html has recovered so entirely that today microsoft is very careful to toe the line with standards.
But all that proves is that the strategy didn't give them final victory - it doesn't remove that they followed the strategy or undo the terrible harm it caused along the way. The embrace-extend-extinguish strategy was absolutely pervasive. It even included a directx rich-content web plugin at one point ! It decisively slowed down the growth of the computer field and delayed many great advances by years (decades in some cases).
I don't see any good reason why we should forgive them for that, and certainly not yet.
He may add "Ignite" afterwards though...
Actually - pretty much all of it is made from rare earths mined by slaves in Africa, old-fashioned whips-and-chains unpaid slaves.
Your conclusion is false. Corporate employees are still people and have rights. Since compelling apple means compelling the people that remains a rights issue.
You dont need abstract entities to have rights to preserve any current liberties. You need to revoke them to protect a great many individual liberties that are being steadily eroded because those entities are given all the rights of people while having none of the constraints and refusing to accept any of the responsibilities.
At the botom of every supply chain is slavery. Old fashion whips and chains unpaid slavery. Every product from gravestones to iphones to chocolate is made from resources harvested by slaves. A situation that exists only because the end of the supply chains are non humans that get rights.
Yep... because protecting the freedom of electronic equipment is such an *important* goal for liberty...
It's just like worrying about the 'rights' of corporations - they have none, only human beings have rights, you may as well try to oppress a hammer or enslave a brick.
That would be an increase to infinity, not a decrease to zero. Literally the exact OPPOSITE of a 100% cut.
You must be using common core math...
I only use chrome on PCs. On the phone where chrome doesn't support extensions (like adblockers) - I used FF with ABP instead.
Go one better, implement a php interpreter in JS, then have your page load a JS script containing the interpreter which loads the PHP scripts and runs them client-side and finally renders the html output (which, of course, can contain lots of JS again - so you can even have your php output JS which contains the interpreter and go full inception mode).
Then market it to companies as having all the power of PHP but client side so they don't need such powerful servers to host pages.
That's a pretty good point. It would also be an argument against going after people who pirate Bieber songs but they already have a pretty much guaranteed get-out-of-jail-free card. Innocent by reason of insanity.
What judge in his right mind would NOT think you have to be crazy to want to download a Bieber song ?
It's disguised as a video of Natalie Portman, naked and petrified.
Damn... showing my age there... for the young'uns - the reference is to an issue of the long defunct comic strip Userfriendly in which the "evil genius" Petr spreads a version of Microsoft's Clippy (a satanic paperclip which tried to take over the world and bring about the apocalypse -not in the comic in real life) as a plugin for the VI editor by disguising it as such a video.
I think of it more as /. getting a shot of penicillin actually.
So get rich and buy your own ! It's the republican way !