but the tax benefitting status of marriage is, which should be reserved for a family unit capable of reproduction, as the tax benefits are intended to support a continuance of the species.
Wow... people actually believe this garbage??? So say you wander too close to the microwave tomorrow and get steralised- if you're married already your marriage should be annuled and if you're not married already you should lose the right to marry? Fantastic idea! Or is this a thin excuse for for homophobia?
So remember: next time you tell someone to "fuck off and die" when they're being assholes you could end up being charged with hacking if they're mentaly unstable enough to go through with it. Were there no harrasment laws that could have dealt with this situation?
And a test using TCP tells you about TCP performance, a test using UDP tells you about UDP performance, a test using ftp tells you about ftp performance. Can't be helped if ISP's happen to intentionally cripple their networks for the protocols I care about.
Really it raises the question: could the total cost of fighting file sharing like special equipment, thousands of lawyers, legally mandated logging at ISP's etc surpass the total wealth generated by music. Would it be cheaper to buy the hardware and hire the people to police/admin your network to avoid litigation or just cut a deal with the mafiaa for protection from their thugs.
Shh! stop giving them ideas!!! Also that sounds expensive... and hell to deal with 10K students who can barely use a mouse trying to understand why they need to remember those passwords and why it wtopped working after they deleted those files etc....
phone theft has become almost non-existant here simply because you can lock out your phone an hour after it's stolen and you need some high end equipment to unlock them again.
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also: " A left-wing group would be all in favour of workers' collectives striving to secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof." I can't believe you said that with a straight face. Sure unions are a good thing to the extent that companies will be so afraid of getting a union in their shop they'll treat employees decently. (assuming the right to join a union without getting fired is protected like the right to get married or have gay sex[not in the workplace] without getting fired)
But they also lead to situations where there are vast numbers of completely useless blobs of fat who can't be fired because the union will kick up a fuss. Unions have a massive fucking downside that some people simply lie back and vegetate rather than work. I've seen some good unions and I've seen some bad unions. Some very very bad unions. Don't get me wrong: I've seen workplaces which really needed a union if only to let the kids working in them know that they don't have to take that kind of shit and that the situation isn't "normal". And don't forget that a union can fuck over genuinely good people. "WHY DOES HE GET PAID MORE THAN ME!!!! HE'S ONLY WORKED HERE 6 MONTHS!!!! I'VE WORKED HERE 10 YEARS!!! I HAVE SENORITY AND I'M THE SHOP STEWARD!!!" "Because he is very very good at his job and all you do is sit on your fat ass playing solitare and gossiping" "DISCRIMINATION!!! STRIKE!!!!"
universities can try to provide a name but if someone spoof my mac address or steals my login for the wireless by one means or another then I could be wrongly accused.
Ask the university for the name attached to a student ID and you'll get a name, ask them who was using a certain IP on a certain date and you'll get evidence of who it might have been using that IP on that date.
Sad but true. just leaving the problem that I can change my mac address and even with username/pass systems pilfering a login/pass from a com girl or arts student in my uni would be childsplay
Most of my neighbours have wireless. I could crack into them in minutes and download. Are they supposed to be security experts now? What about when WPA gets cracked? even the ones with a little knowhow will be open for a time.
If someone breaks into your house and commits mail fraud while you're away are you guilty because your door wasn't strong enough to keep them out?
Lets try a situation: So I own a real, useful, solid, patent on something novel. A posterboy patent of when it's a useful system.
They do the "we will not attack anyone unless you attack a subscriber" stunt. The next day one of their subscribers blatantly steals my work, starts producing my product in their fabs and bankrupting me. I try to apply my patent and get raped by their pool of patent troll patents when they use them to fight back.
"censorship and gun control " Lets see how easy it is to legally own a machine gun or other really military grade weapons in America. Handguns and rifles don't cut it.
As for censorship- how long ago was the "7 words you can't say on TV" sketch? There's a great deal of censorship in america. How are they justified in ameria? protecting the welfare of the people at large. There are states in the US where it used to be illegal to swear within earshot of women and children. In fact many local ordinances prohibit cursing in public.
So no, it doesn't undermine the key principle of the country since those are not key principals. Strictly speaking it doesn't actually undermine those things, crappy governments which try to impose communism and fail and have to deal with widespread unrest tend to turn to censorship and gun control to avoid a rebellion but that doesn't make communism itself evil in any way shape or form, merely impractical.
"National Institute of Health"? How much do you think they're gonna care? Try sending them lists of people who you see drinking too much in your local bar and they'll do little but ask you to stop mailing them. As for gamers who play for insane amounts of time- they're less likely to have girlfriends,wives or children unless they got hooked after they got all those things.:D
And sure, I could see a game like you describe working as long as the system treated it differently from a mere disconnect and didn't leave your character/ship/whatever sitting helpless as you'd piss people off too much and lose customers, hell I can imagine there being a market for a WOW client which did that as long as your character wasn't left as a braindead punchbag until it timed out, it would appeal to parents who wanted to limit their kids time ingame.
I once saw a small MMO which to discourage people from staying on every minute (and to save bandwidth cost) it gave you a bonus leveling up for the first hour you were online, normal exp for the second, half exp for the 3rd, 1/3 exp for the 4th hour etc. More subtle but still effective.
Just keep in mind that games aren't always bad for you. There have been times when there have been problems in life which have been out of my control and games have given me somewhere to not think about them. For my mental health I avoid WOW at all cost- never played it, ever and my interest in game genres tends to change fast enough to stop me getting insanely hooked on any one game.
Because the weight of "evidence" required is normally zero. *drafts 3 fake copyright complaints to stonecyphers ISP*
Go back a decade or 2 and a crafted packet "ping of death" could knock someone using windows 95 off the net for a few minutes, now 3 specially crafted packets encapsulated inside envelopes can knock someone off the net for weeks or months no matter their ISP.
Well my european country had to fight a colonial power for it's freedom and had about 800 years of the rebel, take ground,get beaten back, get beaten down, get made an example of cycle before that yet we don't cover every surface with flags.
But then we aren't a military culture. Our army is set up purely for peacekeeping duties with the UN. We don't swear alegience to our flag every morning, we do learn about the hundreds of years of fighting for independance but that doesn't mean we have to brainwash kids.
1. The military is a huge evil system hell bent on massive deception and evil lies while also maintaining 2. The military is a bunch of clueless incompetents that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
It can be both:D They can be clueless incompetents that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground hell bent on massive deception and evil lies with a big enough budget to succed sometimes despite incompetence due to massive piles of cash.
damn, I was writing 2 lists and then combined then without thinking. the above was supposed to be 2 points with 2 being "that anyone who disagrees is for some odd reason a commie"
and the second list is supposed to start with what was #2 above and be prefaced with "what the hell is with:"
ya... So the slightly creepy brainwashing thing is fine case it stops the country breaking up into little pieces.... I used to find when I was in my early teens that particularly on board that had younger, mainly american membership, there was a very very strong belief amongst those kids that
1: America is best at everything, full stop, claims that for example japan has more advanced robotics research were nothing more than evil anti-american propoganda! No matter what america was the best! The UN report putting america at number 7 in the world rather than number 1 in standards of living was a LIE! an evil LIE! because america is the best place to live in the world! 2: What the hell is with the "commie" thing being an insult? The soviet union fell decades ago yet I still see young americans using it as an insult. Communism may be impractical but there's nothing particularly evil about it. 3: Pledging alegience to the flag every morning is just creepy. 4: I don't know what it looks like to you but to people outside america the extremely militaristic "patriotic" videos of marching soldiers with flags all around etc are unnerving as they remind of certain old black and white videos... 5: The american scout organisation- I was a scout in europe but the american scouts I've met seem like mini soldiers, obsessed with the flag and they smile all the time in a creepy way.
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but the tax benefitting status of marriage is, which should be reserved for a family unit capable of reproduction, as the tax benefits are intended to support a continuance of the species.
Wow... people actually believe this garbage???
So say you wander too close to the microwave tomorrow and get steralised- if you're married already your marriage should be annuled and if you're not married already you should lose the right to marry?
Fantastic idea!
Or is this a thin excuse for for homophobia?
So remember: next time you tell someone to "fuck off and die" when they're being assholes you could end up being charged with hacking if they're mentaly unstable enough to go through with it.
Were there no harrasment laws that could have dealt with this situation?
And a test using TCP tells you about TCP performance, a test using UDP tells you about UDP performance, a test using ftp tells you about ftp performance.
Can't be helped if ISP's happen to intentionally cripple their networks for the protocols I care about.
Really it raises the question: could the total cost of fighting file sharing like special equipment, thousands of lawyers, legally mandated logging at ISP's etc surpass the total wealth generated by music. Would it be cheaper to buy the hardware and hire the people to police/admin your network to avoid litigation or just cut a deal with the mafiaa for protection from their thugs.
Shh! stop giving them ideas!!!
Also that sounds expensive... and hell to deal with 10K students who can barely use a mouse trying to understand why they need to remember those passwords and why it wtopped working after they deleted those files etc....
Yes but it's "normal" for companies to infringe vast numbers of patents in any product of decent size.
oh good god...
Do they even bother talking to anyone who has done more than play minesweeper?
phone theft has become almost non-existant here simply because you can lock out your phone an hour after it's stolen and you need some high end equipment to unlock them again.
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Leaning left for civil rights/privacy
Leaning right when it comes to money
also:
" A left-wing group would be all in favour of workers' collectives striving to secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof."
I can't believe you said that with a straight face.
Sure unions are a good thing to the extent that companies will be so afraid of getting a union in their shop they'll treat employees decently. (assuming the right to join a union without getting fired is protected like the right to get married or have gay sex[not in the workplace] without getting fired)
But they also lead to situations where there are vast numbers of completely useless blobs of fat who can't be fired because the union will kick up a fuss. Unions have a massive fucking downside that some people simply lie back and vegetate rather than work. I've seen some good unions and I've seen some bad unions. Some very very bad unions. Don't get me wrong: I've seen workplaces which really needed a union if only to let the kids working in them know that they don't have to take that kind of shit and that the situation isn't "normal".
And don't forget that a union can fuck over genuinely good people.
"WHY DOES HE GET PAID MORE THAN ME!!!! HE'S ONLY WORKED HERE 6 MONTHS!!!! I'VE WORKED HERE 10 YEARS!!! I HAVE SENORITY AND I'M THE SHOP STEWARD!!!"
"Because he is very very good at his job and all you do is sit on your fat ass playing solitare and gossiping"
"DISCRIMINATION!!! STRIKE!!!!"
universities can try to provide a name but if someone spoof my mac address or steals my login for the wireless by one means or another then I could be wrongly accused.
Ask the university for the name attached to a student ID and you'll get a name, ask them who was using a certain IP on a certain date and you'll get evidence of who it might have been using that IP on that date.
Sad but true. just leaving the problem that I can change my mac address and even with username/pass systems pilfering a login/pass from a com girl or arts student in my uni would be childsplay
Most of my neighbours have wireless.
I could crack into them in minutes and download.
Are they supposed to be security experts now?
What about when WPA gets cracked? even the ones with a little knowhow will be open for a time.
If someone breaks into your house and commits mail fraud while you're away are you guilty because your door wasn't strong enough to keep them out?
"accessory to their infringement" is bullshit
Lets try a situation:
So I own a real, useful, solid, patent on something novel. A posterboy patent of when it's a useful system.
They do the "we will not attack anyone unless you attack a subscriber" stunt.
The next day one of their subscribers blatantly steals my work, starts producing my product in their fabs and bankrupting me.
I try to apply my patent and get raped by their pool of patent troll patents when they use them to fight back.
It's still patent trolling.
Ya but the other sides are mostly swarm based or covert.They just need to build more warg banners and invest in espionage tech.
Billy Mc Asshat was brought before a military court yesterday accused of team killing, he was summarily sentenced to death by firing squad.
"censorship and gun control "
Lets see how easy it is to legally own a machine gun or other really military grade weapons in America. Handguns and rifles don't cut it.
As for censorship- how long ago was the "7 words you can't say on TV" sketch? There's a great deal of censorship in america.
How are they justified in ameria? protecting the welfare of the people at large. There are states in the US where it used to be illegal to swear within earshot of women and children. In fact many local ordinances prohibit cursing in public.
So no, it doesn't undermine the key principle of the country since those are not key principals. Strictly speaking it doesn't actually undermine those things, crappy governments which try to impose communism and fail and have to deal with widespread unrest tend to turn to censorship and gun control to avoid a rebellion but that doesn't make communism itself evil in any way shape or form, merely impractical.
"National Institute of Health"?
How much do you think they're gonna care? Try sending them lists of people who you see drinking too much in your local bar and they'll do little but ask you to stop mailing them.
As for gamers who play for insane amounts of time- they're less likely to have girlfriends,wives or children unless they got hooked after they got all those things.:D
And sure, I could see a game like you describe working as long as the system treated it differently from a mere disconnect and didn't leave your character/ship/whatever sitting helpless as you'd piss people off too much and lose customers, hell I can imagine there being a market for a WOW client which did that as long as your character wasn't left as a braindead punchbag until it timed out, it would appeal to parents who wanted to limit their kids time ingame.
I once saw a small MMO which to discourage people from staying on every minute (and to save bandwidth cost) it gave you a bonus leveling up for the first hour you were online, normal exp for the second, half exp for the 3rd, 1/3 exp for the 4th hour etc.
More subtle but still effective.
Just keep in mind that games aren't always bad for you.
There have been times when there have been problems in life which have been out of my control and games have given me somewhere to not think about them.
For my mental health I avoid WOW at all cost- never played it, ever and my interest in game genres tends to change fast enough to stop me getting insanely hooked on any one game.
*OS not ISP
Because the weight of "evidence" required is normally zero.
*drafts 3 fake copyright complaints to stonecyphers ISP*
Go back a decade or 2 and a crafted packet "ping of death" could knock someone using windows 95 off the net for a few minutes, now 3 specially crafted packets encapsulated inside envelopes can knock someone off the net for weeks or months no matter their ISP.
Well my european country had to fight a colonial power for it's freedom and had about 800 years of the rebel, take ground,get beaten back, get beaten down, get made an example of cycle before that yet we don't cover every surface with flags.
But then we aren't a military culture. Our army is set up purely for peacekeeping duties with the UN. We don't swear alegience to our flag every morning, we do learn about the hundreds of years of fighting for independance but that doesn't mean we have to brainwash kids.
1. The military is a huge evil system hell bent on massive deception and evil lies while also maintaining
2. The military is a bunch of clueless incompetents that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
It can be both :D
They can be clueless incompetents that don't know their ass from a hole in the ground hell bent on massive deception and evil lies with a big enough budget to succed sometimes despite incompetence due to massive piles of cash.
damn, I was writing 2 lists and then combined then without thinking. the above was supposed to be 2 points with 2 being "that anyone who disagrees is for some odd reason a commie"
and the second list is supposed to start with what was #2 above and be prefaced with "what the hell is with:"
ya...
So the slightly creepy brainwashing thing is fine case it stops the country breaking up into little pieces....
I used to find when I was in my early teens that particularly on board that had younger, mainly american membership, there was a very very strong belief amongst those kids that
1: America is best at everything, full stop, claims that for example japan has more advanced robotics research were nothing more than evil anti-american propoganda! No matter what america was the best! The UN report putting america at number 7 in the world rather than number 1 in standards of living was a LIE! an evil LIE! because america is the best place to live in the world!
2: What the hell is with the "commie" thing being an insult? The soviet union fell decades ago yet I still see young americans using it as an insult. Communism may be impractical but there's nothing particularly evil about it.
3: Pledging alegience to the flag every morning is just creepy.
4: I don't know what it looks like to you but to people outside america the extremely militaristic "patriotic" videos of marching soldiers with flags all around etc are unnerving as they remind of certain old black and white videos...
5: The american scout organisation- I was a scout in europe but the american scouts I've met seem like mini soldiers, obsessed with the flag and they smile all the time in a creepy way.
http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/ :D
jumping off trees
You kidding? this is great fun! And years later by great luck I've still never broken a bone.