Whatever you may have to say about Kim's past activities, his character, his figure or his motivations here, he appears to be pulling out all the stops on Mega.
Lawmakers can and will work around him, inventing new charges to encompass anything he pulls, and when they can't react quickly enough enforcement will simply flout their own laws to suckerpunch him (as has already happened).
So Kim's fighting them on his own playing field: technology. From this angle, he seems dead intent on Getting It Right and making Mega impervious to ISP blacklisting, server confiscation, and the inevitable vandalism/wholesale destruction that comes when you stand up to the mob.
Mega could be the model for a new Internet. Encrypted end-to-end, truly distributed and thus truly resilient.
Yahoo is actually really big over there. eBay exists, but may as well not: Yahoo! Auctions is overwhelmingly dominant in online auctions. Yahoo! Shopping takes the role of Amazon.com. (Amazon itself has a presence also, and it isn't too shabby.) And Yahoo! Japan is also a broadband provider with a lot of mindshare.
The MG 34 combined four substantial advantages over other machine guns: 1. mobility, being light enough to be carried by a single soldier; 2. an astonishing rate of fire of up to 800 to 900 rounds per minute; 3. the ability of the gun to sustain that fire; and 4. an effective range of over 2,000 meters.
But the fact that you decided to fly off the handle into a profanity-laden tirade wipes out a good chuck of whatever credibility you may have had.
I do like that you pointed out that his decision to lose his composure was indeed a decision, and not some provoked, uncontrollable, animalistic reaction.
Mental fortitude and personal accountability is good.
I was drawing a comparison between becoming careless with one's food preparation practices and becoming similarly careless with one's vaccination regiment. In fact, I'm not sure that vaccination doesn't fall under the broader umbrella of hygiene. In any case, my point is that people can actually take an active role in minimising the risk of contracting these nasties. For example, actively seeking to avoid hookworm infestation by not walking barefoot through a stream that people shit in. This particular example fits under neither category of food preparation nor vaccination, but it still illustrates a precaution one might take to preserve their health. It's still about hygiene.
Now look away from the individual and toward society taken as a whole. As long as we maintain healthy living standards, certain afflictions can't take serious root. When the odd case does occur, it is presented in the news as a curiosity. Like this present tapeworm-in-the-brain case here.
The danger is that we then become complacent, and even start to mock the situation:
Slow news day? 386 cases out of 38,000,000 people? Clearly a serious problem.
Soon enough, this mindset evolves into contempt, and begins to undermine our general health. People begin to neglect to get their kids immunised. They convince themselves to be suspicious of vaccinations, telling themselves it's the secret cause of autism and crap like that. They begin to dismiss Western medicine and science in general, leaving themselves open to an otherwise-preventable death via pancreatic cancer. (Yeah, I'm talking about Jobs.)
We find more cost-effective ways to pack more chickens into each square metre of shed floor than we have before, where they spend their entire lives squatting in their own excrement. (They can't stand — their legs have never had the exercise.) We feed the dead ones to the live ones.
Perhaps smallpox wasn't the most clear of examples, by virtue of the fact that it has been eradicated in the wild, as far as we know anyway. Humanity +1. Go us. On the other hand, if I recall correctly, even in the developed world tuberculosis is already on the rise again. Because we're getting careless.
Eternal vigilance. I know that expression is usually served up with respect to Freedom, and preserving Freedom, but it seems appropriate here.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I've read this story before.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
He got a laugh.
For what little it's worth, so did I.
Well played, qbit!
sed 's/'\â\(TM\)'/\x27/g'
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
Alfred Schnittke.
Well played, sir!
Does that ghastly boat count?
Whatever you may have to say about Kim's past activities, his character, his figure or his motivations here, he appears to be pulling out all the stops on Mega.
Lawmakers can and will work around him, inventing new charges to encompass anything he pulls, and when they can't react quickly enough enforcement will simply flout their own laws to suckerpunch him (as has already happened).
So Kim's fighting them on his own playing field: technology. From this angle, he seems dead intent on Getting It Right and making Mega impervious to ISP blacklisting, server confiscation, and the inevitable vandalism/wholesale destruction that comes when you stand up to the mob.
Mega could be the model for a new Internet. Encrypted end-to-end, truly distributed and thus truly resilient.
Slashdot, interview this man!
A quick page search didn't reveal any mention of Subnormality, so here's a link.
Is that so?
As an Aussie, you misspelled "fibre."
John McAfee, what do you choose?
Poontah, or death?
Read the whole thread for context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Japan
http://www.yahoo.co.jp/
Yahoo is actually really big over there. eBay exists, but may as well not: Yahoo! Auctions is overwhelmingly dominant in online auctions. Yahoo! Shopping takes the role of Amazon.com. (Amazon itself has a presence also, and it isn't too shabby.) And Yahoo! Japan is also a broadband provider with a lot of mindshare.
They've diversified. Wisely so.
From Wikipedia:
The MG 34 combined four substantial advantages over other machine guns: 1. mobility, being light enough to be carried by a single soldier; 2. an astonishing rate of fire of up to 800 to 900 rounds per minute; 3. the ability of the gun to sustain that fire; and 4. an effective range of over 2,000 meters.
Kelvin, you tit!
So, giving up basic freedom for convenience and an illusion of safety, then?
Twenty euros for a stadium renovation ain't so bad.
Sometimes Gabe will choke you.
No, he's right.
Back to grammar school you go!
But the fact that you decided to fly off the handle into a profanity-laden tirade wipes out a good chuck of whatever credibility you may have had.
I do like that you pointed out that his decision to lose his composure was indeed a decision, and not some provoked, uncontrollable, animalistic reaction.
Mental fortitude and personal accountability is good.
Pity that there is now a bunch of talentless hacks trying to pass themselves off as pro photographers..
Are you implying you'd have to be a talentless hack to want to make a living from your photography?
Same logic. Doesn't seem sound when transplanted into another context.
Why do people get so aggressive when talking about guns?
Ad hominem and Godwin in one.
You lose! Good day sir!
^ He speaks the truth.
Seconded.
All in favour?
Now look away from the individual and toward society taken as a whole. As long as we maintain healthy living standards, certain afflictions can't take serious root. When the odd case does occur, it is presented in the news as a curiosity. Like this present tapeworm-in-the-brain case here.
The danger is that we then become complacent, and even start to mock the situation:
Slow news day? 386 cases out of 38,000,000 people? Clearly a serious problem.
Soon enough, this mindset evolves into contempt, and begins to undermine our general health. People begin to neglect to get their kids immunised. They convince themselves to be suspicious of vaccinations, telling themselves it's the secret cause of autism and crap like that. They begin to dismiss Western medicine and science in general, leaving themselves open to an otherwise-preventable death via pancreatic cancer. (Yeah, I'm talking about Jobs.)
We find more cost-effective ways to pack more chickens into each square metre of shed floor than we have before, where they spend their entire lives squatting in their own excrement. (They can't stand — their legs have never had the exercise.) We feed the dead ones to the live ones.
Perhaps smallpox wasn't the most clear of examples, by virtue of the fact that it has been eradicated in the wild, as far as we know anyway. Humanity +1. Go us. On the other hand, if I recall correctly, even in the developed world tuberculosis is already on the rise again. Because we're getting careless.
Eternal vigilance. I know that expression is usually served up with respect to Freedom, and preserving Freedom, but it seems appropriate here.