P2P-free introduces the possibility of finding things I like instead of the advertisers. When somebody monetizes a P2P service effectively, I'll consider paying for shit. Until then, big content got paid. Fuck 'em if they want to get paid twice.
Most people can easily remember a shorter string of garbage, say five characters. A password that is short garbage followed by three dictionary pulls should be maximally strong against any attack.
He's wasting other people's money, and may be interfering with their job, preventing them from dealing with personal crises, or even putting them in danger, all because he insists on holding on to a definition of courtesy that hasn't adapted to the realities of ubiquitous communication. The fact that cell phones are often used for unimportant things doesn't mean that they are unimportant.
Alternately, the programming community could go back to its philosophical roots, from the time when it was programming rather than developing, and realize that an intelligent culture is fostered by the democratization of coding. "Normal" people cannot learn C without a teacher. These are the kids we always hear and talk about on/. who, despite not having the talent to ever become great mathematicians or comp-sci oracles, can still benefit from the practice of well-ordered thought that a basic (woah) understanding of coding provides.
Today's programmers need to be less like the financial industry jackasses of today and more like the programmers of yesterday. You don't need to do everything for a paycheck. Sometimes when you do something, it's for the people, and for the future.
The ad should be retitled "Russia Doesn't Even Bother to Pretend to Have a Legitimate Election." Why would they? It's Russia. Historically speaking, it'd be weird to the point of unsettling if it weren't rotten to the core.
Of course there aren't. That's why most of them don't get to telecommute, either. Their jobs are dumb bullshit that barely serves any purpose, and so most bosses intentionally refuse telecommuting so that their employees can "earn" their pay by suffering.
Then I looked at the pdf. I can see that he chose which files he'd download very carefully. This isn't $5M of effortless movie and music grabbing. The first section of the list is several software tools that have outrageous license prices, like AutoCAD. Crown jewel of the collection: eight years of fiction books, $3M. It is literally an order of magnitude larger than the next largest thing on the list. This work shows how kinds of knowledge and culture that we don't spend a bunch of money and time arguing about in court have been affected by our banged up ideas about IP rights.
Is the cost of evacuating a large part of the biggest city in the nation counted as part of the "damage?" Because if it is, I'm thinking the number might be just a tad inflated.
One of the people who died had a heart attack while installing plywood. Meaning fully half the deaths "caused" by Irene could've been prevented by eliminating the pointless hype machine.
By the way, I would like to point out, before any strawmen get smacked, that this isn't garden variety "eat the rich" sentiment. Many of the people on top are evil, but many more of them are just stuck doing this because of the moronic legal structures we have built regarding corporations. If you're big enough to have influence over an appreciable number of them, screwing the poor is and always will be the most cost-effective way to do business, because their pennies add up to dollars. As a result of that very basic reality, businesses in our society are legally required to do so for the sake of their shareholders.
We have made mistakes, and the biggest one was failing to realize that a free market is naturally inclined to make itself un-free.
I'm ignorant of history? How is it that you missed the fact that the 19th Century was economically a fluke, caused by the rapid gains of industrialization? Same thing's happening now, in case you didn't notice. When computers and networks started being A Thing, commerce boomed so much that everyone's standard of living came up. The people in charge quickly reigned that in, though, and now we've once again reached normalcy: the rich have shut everyone else out of the main growth industry and are bargaining amongst themselves and their home governments to find the most efficient way to climb over more poor people. They went a little overboard this time, though, and so we have banks imploding and suchlike.
The entire problem with income inequality is that eventually, somebody has enough cash to buy laws and regulations that screw up industries in their favor. Equality of opportunity is therefore impossible without some reduction in inequality of result. That is the lesson that history teaches us.
That's pretty much exactly what I was talking about. If you have failed to notice that the rich get richer by making the poor poorer, then your ignorance, generally caused by putting far more trust than is warranted in mass media, which you would only do if you had too much money to ever need to think about it, totally invalidates your opinion.
Note the relative positions of the US and China. We totally suck, and we still beat them. And if you don't think this is the best metric of "evil," then you're probably too rich to have an opinion worth listening to.
Nobody thinks borrowing from China is a good idea. How do we stop, though? They have ALL THE MONEY, because federally mandated accounting practices that keep giant corporations from telling complete fabrications to their shareholders caused all our industries to believe that moving to China was the best cost-cutting measure ever.
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You're thinkng of orgone.
Kid: "These two kids beat each other up in the shower."
Parent: "Did you just say two kids beat each other off in the shower?!?!?"
American educational system: "SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING."
P2P-free introduces the possibility of finding things I like instead of the advertisers. When somebody monetizes a P2P service effectively, I'll consider paying for shit. Until then, big content got paid. Fuck 'em if they want to get paid twice.
Most people can easily remember a shorter string of garbage, say five characters. A password that is short garbage followed by three dictionary pulls should be maximally strong against any attack.
He's wasting other people's money, and may be interfering with their job, preventing them from dealing with personal crises, or even putting them in danger, all because he insists on holding on to a definition of courtesy that hasn't adapted to the realities of ubiquitous communication. The fact that cell phones are often used for unimportant things doesn't mean that they are unimportant.
Alternately, the programming community could go back to its philosophical roots, from the time when it was programming rather than developing, and realize that an intelligent culture is fostered by the democratization of coding. "Normal" people cannot learn C without a teacher. These are the kids we always hear and talk about on /. who, despite not having the talent to ever become great mathematicians or comp-sci oracles, can still benefit from the practice of well-ordered thought that a basic (woah) understanding of coding provides.
Today's programmers need to be less like the financial industry jackasses of today and more like the programmers of yesterday. You don't need to do everything for a paycheck. Sometimes when you do something, it's for the people, and for the future.
Dammit, now I forgot what I came to this website for.
The ad should be retitled "Russia Doesn't Even Bother to Pretend to Have a Legitimate Election." Why would they? It's Russia. Historically speaking, it'd be weird to the point of unsettling if it weren't rotten to the core.
How did I know an article with this title would have a Chinese name in it? I must be psychic!
"If God is directing it, how could we tell the difference? We call it random because science is secular."
You know what makes paper alot easier to burn? Shredding it. :V
Of course there aren't. That's why most of them don't get to telecommute, either. Their jobs are dumb bullshit that barely serves any purpose, and so most bosses intentionally refuse telecommuting so that their employees can "earn" their pay by suffering.
Welcome to classism.
Then I looked at the pdf. I can see that he chose which files he'd download very carefully. This isn't $5M of effortless movie and music grabbing. The first section of the list is several software tools that have outrageous license prices, like AutoCAD. Crown jewel of the collection: eight years of fiction books, $3M. It is literally an order of magnitude larger than the next largest thing on the list. This work shows how kinds of knowledge and culture that we don't spend a bunch of money and time arguing about in court have been affected by our banged up ideas about IP rights.
This is a work of art.
Is the cost of evacuating a large part of the biggest city in the nation counted as part of the "damage?" Because if it is, I'm thinking the number might be just a tad inflated.
One of the people who died had a heart attack while installing plywood. Meaning fully half the deaths "caused" by Irene could've been prevented by eliminating the pointless hype machine.
Everything we lose in security will be gained tenfold in liberty if undercover policing shits the bed.
By the way, I would like to point out, before any strawmen get smacked, that this isn't garden variety "eat the rich" sentiment. Many of the people on top are evil, but many more of them are just stuck doing this because of the moronic legal structures we have built regarding corporations. If you're big enough to have influence over an appreciable number of them, screwing the poor is and always will be the most cost-effective way to do business, because their pennies add up to dollars. As a result of that very basic reality, businesses in our society are legally required to do so for the sake of their shareholders.
We have made mistakes, and the biggest one was failing to realize that a free market is naturally inclined to make itself un-free.
That is the article, you twit. The data is right there. Why did you only look at the map?
I'm ignorant of history? How is it that you missed the fact that the 19th Century was economically a fluke, caused by the rapid gains of industrialization? Same thing's happening now, in case you didn't notice. When computers and networks started being A Thing, commerce boomed so much that everyone's standard of living came up. The people in charge quickly reigned that in, though, and now we've once again reached normalcy: the rich have shut everyone else out of the main growth industry and are bargaining amongst themselves and their home governments to find the most efficient way to climb over more poor people. They went a little overboard this time, though, and so we have banks imploding and suchlike.
The entire problem with income inequality is that eventually, somebody has enough cash to buy laws and regulations that screw up industries in their favor. Equality of opportunity is therefore impossible without some reduction in inequality of result. That is the lesson that history teaches us.
No, what I mean to imply is that said accounting practices, which were pretty much necessary, had dire unintended consequences. See here.
That's pretty much exactly what I was talking about. If you have failed to notice that the rich get richer by making the poor poorer, then your ignorance, generally caused by putting far more trust than is warranted in mass media, which you would only do if you had too much money to ever need to think about it, totally invalidates your opinion.
It's actually not! :V
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
Note the relative positions of the US and China. We totally suck, and we still beat them. And if you don't think this is the best metric of "evil," then you're probably too rich to have an opinion worth listening to.
Nobody thinks borrowing from China is a good idea. How do we stop, though? They have ALL THE MONEY, because federally mandated accounting practices that keep giant corporations from telling complete fabrications to their shareholders caused all our industries to believe that moving to China was the best cost-cutting measure ever.
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You sank my battleship! :(