Interesting that you only give credit to politicians from one party, though many of the events you mention happened during administrations of the other party.
Ronald Reagan breaking up AT&T had so much more impact on this here Internet than anything Algore ever did. Then SDI dumped all kinds of dough on the propellerheads. And finally President Bush the First privatized the Internet.
I'm trying to think of what Jimmy Carter did for (what would become) the Internet....
The term "crisis" in Chinese is represented by two symbols together, he advised. "The first means danger...the second means opportunity," Gore said.
Gore is wrong again, of course.
'Those who purvey the doctrine that the Chinese word for "crisis" is composed of elements meaning "danger" and "opportunity" are engaging in a type of muddled thinking that is a danger to society [....]' -Victor H. Mair [emphasis added]
"Didn't the guys at Defcon read RFID from like, 60 feet away? And isn't it easy to clone RFID?"
The distance you can read RFID depends on the implementation and conditions. Some are designed to be read at such distances, even when they're tracking metal or liquid products.
Some RFID is easy to clone, others are designed to be hard to clone. Easier to mimic the signal than copy the device itself, and there may be features of the signal that prohibit easy replication (beyond this guess, my knowledge of the field is the same as David Letterman's: them bats is smart, they use radar!).
Full disclosure: I think I own stock in some RFID company or other, and/or know people who do.
"There is no such right, even though journalists love to pretend it is etched in the First Ammendment or something."
Really, you could have just said, "journalists love to pretend." It is what they do. If there is no news, they make it up. If they don't agree with the facts, they lie.
These worthless pieces of shit need fewer rights, not more!
I cut people all kinds of slack if they're trying to be funny.
I think calling WND "wee bit conservative" is funny, because it's such an understatement.
WND is not just conservative, it is stupidly and blindly so. WND is an embarrassment to the conservative tradition of Buckley and Strauss. It is extremely low-quality and sloppy. It's sort of an Ann Coulter style site - shoot first, research later.
I mean, it's less accurate than the New York Times, and that takes some serious negligence.
"When the state imprisons an innocent man, the state is no longer the protector (which is how all states originally justify themselves) but the aggressor."
Only if the state acts with mens rea against an innocent man, is it an aggressor.
If the state after due process, imprisons an innocent man, that is a mistake.
The difference is the same as that between manslaughter and murder -- it is all in the intent.
Personally, I think the Death Penealty should stay on the books, for the obviously guilty like Tim McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski.
And any state that does not execute traitors, will not be a state for long.
Exactly right. The rest of the world is just a parasite living off the glory that is America!
Some days, I think America deserves Empire. She need only reach forth her hand....
Demand danegeld from the parasitical countries like France. Send some of the second world, like Germany and Russia, back to third-world status just to make the point.
Those with us, will be with us. Those against us, can be nuked. Why the fuck not? We cure diseases, create more art in two centuries than Europe has in millennia, invent entire industries and spread technology the world over. Nuking the worthless shit will free up resources that they can't and won't ever use, resources we and our allies can use to make our lives better. To hell with the rest, all they do is bitch, if it takes a nuke to get them to shut up it's their own damn fault.
Then I realize the truth, *America neither has nor desires Empire.* Selling a Coca-Cola in India is not Empire. Opening an H-E-B in Mexico is not Empire.
And it's not because of lack of resources that America does not want Empire. It is because America is a more moral country than any before or since, that America very much prefers trade between equals to military domination, and to that end we are willing to spend blood to lift the world closer to our level.
And in return, we get bitching.
When America is relatively inactive in world affairs, she is *isolationist*.
When America is relatively active in world affairs, she is *imperialist*.
No matter what America does, America is bad. The America-haters do not operate from facts, as there is no hating America when facts are acknowledged. It is purely an Old World prejudice, a fear of the "other," and is *xenophobia* low as any Kluxer's.
So all the parasites of the world can just S T F U !
We would do well to remember that "open sources" are things like phone books and newspapers, long before "open source" software.
Really, the use of "open source" for software is a pun. The original is descriptive, the pun is not so descriptive unless you know what "source code" is.
Ain't got no idea how the physics of these things would work. Or if other colors might work with other molecules.
But from an evolutionary point of view, since the spectrum of sunlight depends on how much air it goes through and varies with time of day and time of year (see where I'm going? Of course you do you're using your internal compass) -- I will bet a penny that it's something to do with the timing of migrations.
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Somehow, he became a hero to many.
I mean, Algore Junior was bested intellectually by Dee Snider, truly humiliated. Somehow, Algore Junior is regarded as intelligent.
IOW, Algore Junior is a piece of shit.
Interesting that you only give credit to politicians from one party, though many of the events you mention happened during administrations of the other party.
Ronald Reagan breaking up AT&T had so much more impact on this here Internet than anything Algore ever did. Then SDI dumped all kinds of dough on the propellerheads. And finally President Bush the First privatized the Internet.
I'm trying to think of what Jimmy Carter did for (what would become) the Internet....
Oh, that's right, the 55bps speed limit!
Gore is wrong again, of course.
'Those who purvey the doctrine that the Chinese word for "crisis" is composed of elements meaning "danger" and "opportunity" are engaging in a type of muddled thinking that is a danger to society [....]' -Victor H. Mair [emphasis added]
The only jurisdiction like that is the idiot fantasyland between your ears.
The distance you can read RFID depends on the implementation and conditions. Some are designed to be read at such distances, even when they're tracking metal or liquid products.
Some RFID is easy to clone, others are designed to be hard to clone. Easier to mimic the signal than copy the device itself, and there may be features of the signal that prohibit easy replication (beyond this guess, my knowledge of the field is the same as David Letterman's: them bats is smart, they use radar!).
Full disclosure: I think I own stock in some RFID company or other, and/or know people who do.
You don't need to enter a password or cooperate in any way.
And possibly, you will be seen as having no need to enter the country.
The way to get your laptop across the border is to pack it in cocaine.
"There is no such right, even though journalists love to pretend it is etched in the First Ammendment or something."
Really, you could have just said, "journalists love to pretend." It is what they do. If there is no news, they make it up. If they don't agree with the facts, they lie.
These worthless pieces of shit need fewer rights, not more!
"they aren't cancerous"
So they are "benign," which while a term of art, is very misleading to layfolks.
A tumor just plain sucks.
+4 Interesting?
How about "-10 Way Off-Topic"
And full of shit, too.
I cut people all kinds of slack if they're trying to be funny.
I think calling WND "wee bit conservative" is funny, because it's such an understatement.
WND is not just conservative, it is stupidly and blindly so. WND is an embarrassment to the conservative tradition of Buckley and Strauss. It is extremely low-quality and sloppy. It's sort of an Ann Coulter style site - shoot first, research later.
I mean, it's less accurate than the New York Times, and that takes some serious negligence.
I like it when Western "philosophers" copy the work of Indians and pass it off as their own.
Real philosophers, like Leibniz and Wolff, gave credit to the Chinese when it was due.
Only if the state acts with mens rea against an innocent man, is it an aggressor.
If the state after due process, imprisons an innocent man, that is a mistake.
The difference is the same as that between manslaughter and murder -- it is all in the intent.
Personally, I think the Death Penealty should stay on the books, for the obviously guilty like Tim McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski.
And any state that does not execute traitors, will not be a state for long.
"so let me get this straight. You want to murder someone for commiting a murder? That makes you (or the state, rather) just as bad."
A state goes through due process before executing a criminal.
A murderer does not.
By trying to equate the two, *you* are on the side of murder. Think of yourself as an accomplice.
If you can think at all!
If George Bush cured cancer, the headline would be "Bush Cures Cancer - Women, Minorities hardest hit."
Exactly right. The rest of the world is just a parasite living off the glory that is America!
Some days, I think America deserves Empire. She need only reach forth her hand....
Demand danegeld from the parasitical countries like France. Send some of the second world, like Germany and Russia, back to third-world status just to make the point.
Those with us, will be with us. Those against us, can be nuked. Why the fuck not? We cure diseases, create more art in two centuries than Europe has in millennia, invent entire industries and spread technology the world over. Nuking the worthless shit will free up resources that they can't and won't ever use, resources we and our allies can use to make our lives better. To hell with the rest, all they do is bitch, if it takes a nuke to get them to shut up it's their own damn fault.
Then I realize the truth, *America neither has nor desires Empire.* Selling a Coca-Cola in India is not Empire. Opening an H-E-B in Mexico is not Empire.
And it's not because of lack of resources that America does not want Empire. It is because America is a more moral country than any before or since, that America very much prefers trade between equals to military domination, and to that end we are willing to spend blood to lift the world closer to our level.
And in return, we get bitching.
When America is relatively inactive in world affairs, she is *isolationist*.
When America is relatively active in world affairs, she is *imperialist*.
No matter what America does, America is bad. The America-haters do not operate from facts, as there is no hating America when facts are acknowledged. It is purely an Old World prejudice, a fear of the "other," and is *xenophobia* low as any Kluxer's.
So all the parasites of the world can just S T F U !
And our friends will be exalted.
Okay, 2000 gees, jeez....
Might want to dispense with the rail gun and use a gun gun. Explosives and a barrel.
There was a modestly successful early science fiction author who wrote a book about it. His name escapes me.
Some of the Nobel Prizes are not leftarded crapthink. The science prizes have the highest ratio of deserved winners to idiots.
And next time any libertine whines about non-leftards hating science, ask 'em about nuclear power.
When communications (papers) cross an international border, the same rules apply.
For instance, Germany forbids import of Holocaust Denial literature, by foot or by phone.
Dan Simmons completely nails little whiny shits like you in his Time Traveller essay.
Personally, I hope President Bush avoids the future predicted by Simmons by jailing the traitors. Yeah, like that's gonna happen.
Dummycrats hate science.
They hate nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and even the defenses against them.
Idiots.
A journalist is complaining about hyperbole?
Remember the Maine.
We would do well to remember that "open sources" are things like phone books and newspapers, long before "open source" software.
Really, the use of "open source" for software is a pun. The original is descriptive, the pun is not so descriptive unless you know what "source code" is.
Ain't got no idea how the physics of these things would work. Or if other colors might work with other molecules.
But from an evolutionary point of view, since the spectrum of sunlight depends on how much air it goes through and varies with time of day and time of year (see where I'm going? Of course you do you're using your internal compass) -- I will bet a penny that it's something to do with the timing of migrations.
You're just not mean enough.
Open and close and open and close an iBook a few times real fast.
Plug in old random hardware to the USB ports.
Oh -- a software-induced hang? I think I've seen one.
Directed by Mel Brooks:
History of the World, Part Zero
It's all about oil.