Overall, it sounds like a bit of "social responsibility". Businesses are happy to exploit anyone, and everyone, rich, poor, and in between no matter what country club community or ghetto they come from. Odd thing is, almost all that exploited money ends up in the country club gated communities, and almost none of it goes back to the ghettos.
So, yeah - build and do business in the ghettos, so that some of the ghetto dwellers can at least make a living. Responsibility - what a concept!
Can't help wondering: Does the Department of Transportation put warning signs at the event horizon? Actually, there should be a bunch of them. "Warning, event horizon,.1 light year ahead."
You're certain of that? Hey, today we have all these billions of people competing to deplete the world's resources, while they poison the resources that they can't deplete. A cynical old bastard might conclude that we were better off drinking contaminated water, to ensure that only the fittest survive.
Narrow guage, as far as I know, is restricted to mining and mountains. At least in the US. You might say that it is a separate "standard" for a special purpose. Disclaimer is, I'm not a railroad man, or even a railroad fan - I read somewhere that you'll only find narrow guage rails where there wasn't room to build full scale railroads. Alright, alright, I'll google:
The wikipedia seems to indicate that they started in mines, and later connected the mines to the factories that the mines supplied. Good enough for me, 'cause it makes sense!!
Germs, bacteria, and viruse don't care HOW they are transmitted from one host to another. All they require are the correct temperatures, humidity, and nutrients. Since most of those little critters generally inhabit specific organs or tissue, they are generally not transmitted in unusual ways - but nothing actually bars them from unusual vectors. Imagine - little critter traffic cops, stopping the random green bug for traveling in an orange bug lane, LMAO!
Lemme think a moment. 625 milion. The lawyers take a cut, expert witnesses want their pay, I have to pay for all the expenses involved in being in court for half of eternity. When everyone is paid off - I might have enough to take the taxi home.
No, he seems to be saying that current strategies do NOT maximize profits. See, you have this unique widget, that no one else can supply, legally. You charge ten bucks, or a hundred bucks, or whatever - but not a lot of people can afford it, or else they just don't think it's worth your asking price. So - they steal it, or reverse engineer it, or whatever. In the end, you've made x million dollars, and spent y percent of that on enforcement.
Had you sold your widget at a price that almost all people thought was reasonable, you would have sold a gazillion more units, and made about 10x million dollars, and spent none of it on enforcement.
Current strategies are totally screwed up. In fact, they've been screwed up since the '70's when a cassette or a vinyl disk either one cost an appreciable part of a young serviceman's pay.
How wasteful you are, Bluefoxlucid. Why waste all those resources on a razor, blades, brush, and soap, when you could just become a greybeard like myself? About once a month, I take a pair of scissors to my face. God, or nature (take your pick) put that hair on my face - I'm certainly not going to cut it all off!! I might end up looking like one of those girly-boys on television!
Never thought of that. Picture this: The women all go shopping, and leave instructions "Make sure the baby gets her bath!" The "baby" is a little to old for me to actualy bathe, but a little to young to be left alone in the tub. So, I spend about half an hour, pacing between bath and kitchen, waiting for all those (lever 2000) 2000 body parts to just kind of soak clean. Finally, "Get me a towel, Grandpa!" The chihuahua gets involved, tugging at the towel, she runs, dog jumps up and licks her wet butt, and for another half hour she runs around and around the house, shrieking, "Lick my butt! Lick my butt!"
So - you're saying that as the "responsible" adult, I could be facing jailtime for that? Wow. That would just suck!
Come to think of it, I believe that I read some/. stories while she and the dog were getting their exercise. I have my insanity defense, right there.
Aryden - your view is fairly accurate, but you've left something out that is pretty essential to a full understanding. That would be the Balfour agreement. With Balfour in mind, yes, I'll agree that the western world kicked it off, but there was a little "persuasion" at work behind the scenes. Something a bit less than arm twisting, let's just call it "arm bending".
Reading my own paragraph above, it almost sounds like I claim to understand it all. Well - I do, and I don't. As others have already said, it's past time for one or both sides to just grow up, swallow their pride, and make sincere peace offers.
But, we're stuck with inbred tribals fighting each other, and there's nothing we can do about it.
That's pretty much my opinion. I've said it dozens of times in various places: There are no "Good Guys" in this conflict. Only the naive - amend that - only the naive who live protected lives in ivory castles - can believe otherwise.
You're sure? I'll have to look again, to be sure, but I think that it actually does support exit nodes. The problem is, no one actually creates an exit node.
The last time I looked, you could limit how much bandwidth you were willing to share. If your overall bandwidth skyrockets after installing Tor or some similar program, then you've failed to RTFM, and to properly configure the program.
I've found Tor to be slower than an unencrypted direct connection made through standard ports. I'll give you that much. But, Tor's usefulness isn't measured in speed. It's measured in anonymity. Think about it - one doesn't buy a 60 horse John Deere tractor for street racing. Why would you "buy" Tor for speed surfing?
Now, if you care to see something that is really slow, you should look at I2P. It's far more anonymous than Tor - and it's also much slower. Go on, test drive it, for educational purposes. Be warned - it's anonymity level is pretty high, and some really creepy characters use it to find and share child pornography. But, you don't have to see any of that, because you are forewarned. Just use one of the indexing services to find your content, and you'll be safe from that sort of trash.
Perhaps you haven't been vocal enough with your outrage at the music companies? For having failed to write a few dozen more "Screw you!" letters, your just punishment is being throttled!
Dingram obviously knows radios, and I LOL at his observation about the US obsession with high powered radios. I've oftentimes talked farther, and clearer with a 10 to 25 watt radio than some clown pushing 1600+ watts out of some shitty antenna. The antenna is at least as important as any other component in a radio setup. Even more heartbreaking, is to see a high powered radio with a good antenna, but the coax is some 3 dollar piece of crap with rust and corrosion going down inside the plastic. No one can understand anything the joker says, so he goes and buys an even higher powered radio! It never crosses his mind that you can't run a clean signal over corroded metal.
There are times when nomenclature makes a fool of people. CPA, for instance. A military man thinks of a CPA as closest point of approach, a medical man thinks cardio-pulmonary arrest, while someone who keeps books will immediately think of a certified public accountant.
I used nomenclature from my own life's experience, and didn't pretend to pass them off as scientific. Nor will I pretend to be apologetic for the terms that I used. Come out of your basement - or stay down there, and get an antenna that will allow you to talk further than 100 yards down your street. Better yet, get a radio with sideband and FM, and start searching the channels for other basement dwellers who have built their lives around citizen's band radio. They'll educate you quickly, regarding the terms I used.
I wish they'd try that in the US. US law is no less screwed up than UK and European law, but I'd really like to see them try that here. The FCC can't even enforce the laws regarding mobile radios in the trucking industry. Any screwball can buy a high powered 10 meter radio and have it adapted to operate on Citizen's band - then add a kicker that puts out 1600 or more watts.
It would truly be funny to see inspectors trying to enforce copyright nonsense at a truck inspection station!
"When music is outlawed, only outlaws will have music!" Yeah - I like the NRA too.
Visit ICE's site. "Pirate" is indeed akin to terrorism. Something like inbred brother and sister, or real close to it. Read ICE's homepage, and they brag about all the "counterfeiters" they've brought to justice. Note exactly what is being "counterfeited". Not US currency, not any sort of financial instrument, not even check forgery, or driver's licenses. In ICE's eyes, downloading a song and sharing it is "counterfeiting".
I don't expect any rational person to believe that. So, go - visit Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security online, and see what they are up to.
Those damned pirates are worse than any terrorists!!! Just as Napolitano!
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Overall, it sounds like a bit of "social responsibility". Businesses are happy to exploit anyone, and everyone, rich, poor, and in between no matter what country club community or ghetto they come from. Odd thing is, almost all that exploited money ends up in the country club gated communities, and almost none of it goes back to the ghettos.
So, yeah - build and do business in the ghettos, so that some of the ghetto dwellers can at least make a living. Responsibility - what a concept!
"thriving gay community"
You post that as if it were a *good thing*. Did your family immigrate from Sodom, or Gomorha?
"It's a lot easier to just" let the KGB or whatever alphabet soup guys listen to all my chat.
FTFY
Can't help wondering: Does the Department of Transportation put warning signs at the event horizon? Actually, there should be a bunch of them. "Warning, event horizon, .1 light year ahead."
A species that was "very useful" to man would have been domesticated. Kinda like sheep, cattle, dogs, cats, and horses.
You're certain of that? Hey, today we have all these billions of people competing to deplete the world's resources, while they poison the resources that they can't deplete. A cynical old bastard might conclude that we were better off drinking contaminated water, to ensure that only the fittest survive.
Narrow guage, as far as I know, is restricted to mining and mountains. At least in the US. You might say that it is a separate "standard" for a special purpose. Disclaimer is, I'm not a railroad man, or even a railroad fan - I read somewhere that you'll only find narrow guage rails where there wasn't room to build full scale railroads. Alright, alright, I'll google:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow_gauge_railway#History_of_narrow_gauge_railways
The wikipedia seems to indicate that they started in mines, and later connected the mines to the factories that the mines supplied. Good enough for me, 'cause it makes sense!!
Germs, bacteria, and viruse don't care HOW they are transmitted from one host to another. All they require are the correct temperatures, humidity, and nutrients. Since most of those little critters generally inhabit specific organs or tissue, they are generally not transmitted in unusual ways - but nothing actually bars them from unusual vectors. Imagine - little critter traffic cops, stopping the random green bug for traveling in an orange bug lane, LMAO!
Lemme think a moment. 625 milion. The lawyers take a cut, expert witnesses want their pay, I have to pay for all the expenses involved in being in court for half of eternity. When everyone is paid off - I might have enough to take the taxi home.
I'll pass, thank you.
No, he seems to be saying that current strategies do NOT maximize profits. See, you have this unique widget, that no one else can supply, legally. You charge ten bucks, or a hundred bucks, or whatever - but not a lot of people can afford it, or else they just don't think it's worth your asking price. So - they steal it, or reverse engineer it, or whatever. In the end, you've made x million dollars, and spent y percent of that on enforcement.
Had you sold your widget at a price that almost all people thought was reasonable, you would have sold a gazillion more units, and made about 10x million dollars, and spent none of it on enforcement.
Current strategies are totally screwed up. In fact, they've been screwed up since the '70's when a cassette or a vinyl disk either one cost an appreciable part of a young serviceman's pay.
How wasteful you are, Bluefoxlucid. Why waste all those resources on a razor, blades, brush, and soap, when you could just become a greybeard like myself? About once a month, I take a pair of scissors to my face. God, or nature (take your pick) put that hair on my face - I'm certainly not going to cut it all off!! I might end up looking like one of those girly-boys on television!
What did you have in mind? A size 54 G-string for his main squeeze? Ooops - that would be size 54 PETITE, I believe!
Never thought of that. Picture this: The women all go shopping, and leave instructions "Make sure the baby gets her bath!" The "baby" is a little to old for me to actualy bathe, but a little to young to be left alone in the tub. So, I spend about half an hour, pacing between bath and kitchen, waiting for all those (lever 2000) 2000 body parts to just kind of soak clean. Finally, "Get me a towel, Grandpa!" The chihuahua gets involved, tugging at the towel, she runs, dog jumps up and licks her wet butt, and for another half hour she runs around and around the house, shrieking, "Lick my butt! Lick my butt!"
So - you're saying that as the "responsible" adult, I could be facing jailtime for that? Wow. That would just suck!
Come to think of it, I believe that I read some /. stories while she and the dog were getting their exercise. I have my insanity defense, right there.
Charlie who? I remember Good Time Charlie - he's the one that had the blues!
Aryden - your view is fairly accurate, but you've left something out that is pretty essential to a full understanding. That would be the Balfour agreement. With Balfour in mind, yes, I'll agree that the western world kicked it off, but there was a little "persuasion" at work behind the scenes. Something a bit less than arm twisting, let's just call it "arm bending".
Reading my own paragraph above, it almost sounds like I claim to understand it all. Well - I do, and I don't. As others have already said, it's past time for one or both sides to just grow up, swallow their pride, and make sincere peace offers.
But, we're stuck with inbred tribals fighting each other, and there's nothing we can do about it.
That's pretty much my opinion. I've said it dozens of times in various places: There are no "Good Guys" in this conflict. Only the naive - amend that - only the naive who live protected lives in ivory castles - can believe otherwise.
Huh? Bahh, I've always been an underachiever anyway. Who needs achievements?
"No exit nodes,"
You're sure? I'll have to look again, to be sure, but I think that it actually does support exit nodes. The problem is, no one actually creates an exit node.
The last time I looked, you could limit how much bandwidth you were willing to share. If your overall bandwidth skyrockets after installing Tor or some similar program, then you've failed to RTFM, and to properly configure the program.
I've found Tor to be slower than an unencrypted direct connection made through standard ports. I'll give you that much. But, Tor's usefulness isn't measured in speed. It's measured in anonymity. Think about it - one doesn't buy a 60 horse John Deere tractor for street racing. Why would you "buy" Tor for speed surfing?
Now, if you care to see something that is really slow, you should look at I2P. It's far more anonymous than Tor - and it's also much slower. Go on, test drive it, for educational purposes. Be warned - it's anonymity level is pretty high, and some really creepy characters use it to find and share child pornography. But, you don't have to see any of that, because you are forewarned. Just use one of the indexing services to find your content, and you'll be safe from that sort of trash.
Perhaps you haven't been vocal enough with your outrage at the music companies? For having failed to write a few dozen more "Screw you!" letters, your just punishment is being throttled!
Dingram obviously knows radios, and I LOL at his observation about the US obsession with high powered radios. I've oftentimes talked farther, and clearer with a 10 to 25 watt radio than some clown pushing 1600+ watts out of some shitty antenna. The antenna is at least as important as any other component in a radio setup. Even more heartbreaking, is to see a high powered radio with a good antenna, but the coax is some 3 dollar piece of crap with rust and corrosion going down inside the plastic. No one can understand anything the joker says, so he goes and buys an even higher powered radio! It never crosses his mind that you can't run a clean signal over corroded metal.
There are times when nomenclature makes a fool of people. CPA, for instance. A military man thinks of a CPA as closest point of approach, a medical man thinks cardio-pulmonary arrest, while someone who keeps books will immediately think of a certified public accountant.
I used nomenclature from my own life's experience, and didn't pretend to pass them off as scientific. Nor will I pretend to be apologetic for the terms that I used. Come out of your basement - or stay down there, and get an antenna that will allow you to talk further than 100 yards down your street. Better yet, get a radio with sideband and FM, and start searching the channels for other basement dwellers who have built their lives around citizen's band radio. They'll educate you quickly, regarding the terms I used.
I wish they'd try that in the US. US law is no less screwed up than UK and European law, but I'd really like to see them try that here. The FCC can't even enforce the laws regarding mobile radios in the trucking industry. Any screwball can buy a high powered 10 meter radio and have it adapted to operate on Citizen's band - then add a kicker that puts out 1600 or more watts.
It would truly be funny to see inspectors trying to enforce copyright nonsense at a truck inspection station!
"When music is outlawed, only outlaws will have music!" Yeah - I like the NRA too.
Visit ICE's site. "Pirate" is indeed akin to terrorism. Something like inbred brother and sister, or real close to it. Read ICE's homepage, and they brag about all the "counterfeiters" they've brought to justice. Note exactly what is being "counterfeited". Not US currency, not any sort of financial instrument, not even check forgery, or driver's licenses. In ICE's eyes, downloading a song and sharing it is "counterfeiting".
I don't expect any rational person to believe that. So, go - visit Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security online, and see what they are up to.
Those damned pirates are worse than any terrorists!!! Just as Napolitano!