I'm glad we piss you off. You don't "get it" either, dude. Copyright infringement IS NOT a criminal offense. It is a civil infraction. Allow me to paing a picture for you. If you were to go through my hometown, and kiss the ass of every single person who has EVER infringed on a copyright, then you MIGHT HAVE kissed the ass of a criminal. However, there would be no guarantee that you had done so. Copyright is NOT a felony, it is not a misdemeanor, it doesn't even warrant a summons to court by a law enforcement officer. The ONLY WAY to be brought to court for copyright infringement is by way of a civil action, brought by the complainant's lawyers. IF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT WERE A CRIME, there would be police stings just like the pedophile stings that are aired on public television. Have you ever seen such a sting? No? Alright, stop talking foolishness. You people who THINK you know it all are very damned annoying to those of us who do.
Hao Wu is stupid? I don't think so. Engineers are scientists, of a sort. I've had engineers hand me blueprints, and in ten minutes I found problems that SHOULD have been obvious to a kid in junior high school. (Try this: dig a trench in soil, which is 48 inches wide at the bottom, and 36 inches wide at the top, and two feet deep, then put men to work in the trench. See how long the top remains 36 inches) There are any number of educated idiots in this world who should have been drowned when they were still pups. Anecdote and casual observation accumulated over time equate to empirical evidence. Any "scientist" who dismisses empirical evidence is no scientist at all. The moment his experiments run contrary to empirical evidence, he had BETTER reexamine everything he has done beginning with the concepts and assumptions behind the experiment. What is stupid is, assuming that another man is stupid because you can't comprehend his statements.
I think that change is coming - and I don't mean the political "change" promised by today's ruling party. I think that the current economic crisis is going to force a lot of deadbeat layabouts to pull their heads out of their butts, and go to work for a subsistence wage, or maybe slightly better than subsistence. All those people suddenly willing to work for less than $50/hr will entice some startup businesses, and help to reverse the export of jobs. Of course, this is just my opinion. I base that opinion on the fact that things simply cannot continue as they have for the last 20 years. Citizens laying around, contributing nothing but babies and bills. Kids who should be in college, or the military, or at work have been mooching off of soft hearted dummies will begin to disappear, when the soft hearted dummies realize they no longer have the retirement funds and next eggs that they THOUGHT hey had last year. A hungry twenty year old can dig a lot of ditch for $5.00/hr!
Your point? My point is, if I stood up and badmouthed atheists, publicly, I could be charged with defamation. Hate speech, on the other hand, would require me to call for the killing of all atheists. And, the laws would apply to atheists, depending on whether the local prosecuting attorney happened to like or dislike atheists. You can bet the ACLU would want the laws applied equally.
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Anti-defamation laws are more than just hate speech. To say "Kill every dirty (Jew, Moslem, Irishman, your favorite group) in the world" is hate speech. To say "I think (Islam, Christianity, atheism, or your favorit religion) is wrong" is defamation. Notice the not-so-subtle difference. So called "Hate speech" is already interpreted awfully damned loosely, depending on the jurisdiction and the situation. Given an anti-defamation law such as this, you could be imprisoned for disagreeing over a fine point of doctrine.
Errrr, not so, Grasshopper. I have IE4, IE5, IE6, IE7 and IE8 all on the same physical machine, and I can view a page side by side in all of them. What's more I can run Firefox 2, Firefox3, and Firefox 3.1 at the same time that I run Safari, Chrome, and Konqueror. Granted, you can't run them all in the same installation of Windows, but that doesn't stop me comparing browsers.;)
Business editions sold by Dell are great machines. Consumer versions are likely riddled with spyware. I know for a fact that Compaq's low-end consumer machines are shipped with spyware pre-installed. Back when a 1ghz machine was really hot, my wife ordered a Compaq. My AMD K-6 450 was faster than her brand new Athlon - Until I reformatted the hard drive, and installed WinXP Pro (Pirate Edition) THEN they were about even, until I added another 512 MB of memory, THEN the Athlon flew!!
Uhhh, Utopia is just a dream. In the year 25,000 SOMEONE is going to have to dig ditches. And, wipe baby's asses. And, cook dinners. And, manually move stuff around. What's more, if we ever DO develop robots to the point that we rely on them to do everything for us, we will be joining the Elves and the Atlanteans in the list of by-gone races. Maybe the Monkeys will learn from our mistakes? Unless, of course, the robots just take over for themselves.
Errrr, you're about half right. Stupid people do demand and buy the cheapest thing they can find, even if it's melanine laced. So, yes, they are at fault for not recognizing or demanding quality. On the other hand, government and big business has been actively exporting American jobs for quite a long time now, along with American technology, American money, and American education. Yeah, the idiot "consumer" takes his share of the blame, but the coordination comes from higher up. Who was it, exactly, that gave China it's "most favored trading partner" status? Oh yeah, that same traitor who sold missile technology to China, later sold to N. Korea, then exported to the mideast for use against Israel. Hmmmmmmm.
Uhhhh - the Chinese are smarter than that. They know they can't come over here and take what they want using military power. That is the very reason they are attacking us asymmetrically. Google around for Assasin's Mace. China has been at war with the US for years already, and the US is to stupid to know it, let alone defend itself. But, Sun Tzu was more akin to the Communist Chinese than to any Americans, so they understand him better than we do.
Any damage caused to the environment is a result of wastefulness. As an American, I'm ashamed that the US consumes about 1/4 of the total energy used, world wide. We waste, waste, waste. If Americans practiced conservation, all the damage that we have done to the environment would be cut in half, at least. If Americans practiced INTELLIGENT conservation (complete with workable recycling projects) that damage would be cut even further. So many ways to save energy - starting with working near home, or moving closer to work. Millions of Americans sit for HOURS every single week in traffic, with their engines dumping pollution into the atmosphere. Then, they may or may not send Al Gore a couple dollars for an idiotic carbon credit certificate that does absolutely NOTHING to recover all that wasted fuel, or to recover the pollution. Oh - did I use the word intelligent above? Sorry, I apologize. We aren't. We demand what we want, and we demand it NOW!!! Screw intelligence - we are to damned greedy.
Just based on the assumption that people become more agreeable as they age,
Errrr, what about me? I was a disagreeable cuss when I was twenty. By the time I was 40, I was unbearable. Today? I can't even stand to be in the same room with me!!
All the same, age and treachery will always triumph over youth and naivete.
How sure are you, of that idea? You must realize that your IP is recorded again, and again on the web. Do you use Flash, Java, or any other plugins that potentially give away identifying data? Does your browser leave any data that you are unaware of? What about your operating system? Microsoft has this thing (I forget the name, but almost everyone here knows what it is) where you can sign into one account, then automagically be signed into dozens if not hundreds of other sites/accounts. Google has something similar, if on a smaller scale. I can sign into GMail, and be recognized on YouTube, and MySpace, if I should care to make use of that "feature". Your practices are commendable, but you also need to make sure that you are using the technical tools available to reinforce your practices. We mustn't forget the many forms of malware available to the modern browser. Picking up any common trojan designed to exploit Windows, IE, OE, or WMP can guarantee that you are tracked everywhere, despite any practices or tools that you may employ.
Obviously, you know almost nothing about anonymizing yourself. The admin (and oftentimes, moderators) of ANY site/board can go into his admin tools, and find out A: all the IP's from which you have logged into his site and B: all the posters who have logged in from each and every IP that poster has ever used With nothing more than those two sets of data, the admin/mod can make some pretty good guesses just who the heck you REALLY are. More, your browser sends information in ADDITION TO your IP - as well as Java, Flash, and other plugins. Google "TOR Bundle" Look it over, learn it's features, and you will BEGIN TO understand anonymous browsing. But, be aware - the features are ALL USELESS unless you understand them, and use them properly. IF, and/or WHEN you understand the features of that full bundle, THEN you MIGHT know how to trick/. and other sites into believing that you ain't you. But, only if you also acquire the discipline needed to use the tools properly. Meanwhile, stop your whining. No one appreciates you drooling on the floor, and the admins here know exactly who you are. They are laughing at yet another idiot post by a known idiot.
Heh. To right. When I got TOR up and running, I was tempted to sign into a couple places, to look at my - uhh - "internet profile" being presented by browser, etc. Was reaching for the "submit" button, when I realized, "Hey, this is STOOOO-PID!" I'm no longer anonymous once I sign in ANYWHERE!
Right on target. No one ever does firearms analogies here, it's always cars. But, I grew up with single shot and bolt action rifles. When I went to boot camp, I was issued an M-1, then after boot camp, it was an M-14 semi-automatic. Always, it was a hefty, solid rifle, with a hefty, solid kick, throwing out a nice chunk of lead that followed a sweet, predictable parabolic trajectory. Today, the military says that the M-16 is a superior weapon - but an old dinosaur like myself has no use for that little toy. Back to keyboards, I EXPECT the key to resist the stroke I make, and I EXPECT it to make a little noise. The kid has a laptop, on which I'm lost. How the hell can you touch type, if you can't feel whether the key has depressed or not? I end up with eighteen characters where I wanted one. Jeeeez. I'm not asking for an old manual typewriter - but at LEAST give me an audible signal that the key has moved!
The problem was deregulation. The United States learned some pretty hard lessons, along with the rest of the world, in 1929. Laws were crafted to regulate the financial sector as a result of the great crash of 1929. About, oh, 50 years later, Modern Math students who had worked their way up the various ladders started dismantling those regulations. Net result, by the year 2000, people were buying and selling securities, stocks, and bonds on the market, ON CREDIT. Not to mention, futures (gasoline, among others). IF WE WERE TO re-examine the regulations that were in place in - oh - let's take 1960 - and put them back into place, intact, almost all the abuse would be eliminated. This is not to suggest that the market would be fixed overnight - I only suggest that things would stop going downhill, and that things would begin improving. Slowly, maybe, but they would improve.
Hmmm. I'd have to research a little to answer that accurately. But, I DO KNOW that VMWare Fusion will enable you to run Ubuntu as a guest on the Mac host. (Being a law abiding citizen, I wouldn't DREAM of pointing out that VMWare Fusion can be found on bit-torrent) http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads That page has a download for INTEL MAC - it appears that PPC MAC might be out of luck. I can't offer advice on how to use a Mac, as I've never owned one, but at first sight, it seems that keeping your Mac as the host OS might be wiser. Good luck!
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I'm glad we piss you off. You don't "get it" either, dude. Copyright infringement IS NOT a criminal offense. It is a civil infraction. Allow me to paing a picture for you. If you were to go through my hometown, and kiss the ass of every single person who has EVER infringed on a copyright, then you MIGHT HAVE kissed the ass of a criminal. However, there would be no guarantee that you had done so. Copyright is NOT a felony, it is not a misdemeanor, it doesn't even warrant a summons to court by a law enforcement officer. The ONLY WAY to be brought to court for copyright infringement is by way of a civil action, brought by the complainant's lawyers. IF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT WERE A CRIME, there would be police stings just like the pedophile stings that are aired on public television. Have you ever seen such a sting? No? Alright, stop talking foolishness. You people who THINK you know it all are very damned annoying to those of us who do.
Hao Wu is stupid? I don't think so. Engineers are scientists, of a sort. I've had engineers hand me blueprints, and in ten minutes I found problems that SHOULD have been obvious to a kid in junior high school. (Try this: dig a trench in soil, which is 48 inches wide at the bottom, and 36 inches wide at the top, and two feet deep, then put men to work in the trench. See how long the top remains 36 inches) There are any number of educated idiots in this world who should have been drowned when they were still pups. Anecdote and casual observation accumulated over time equate to empirical evidence. Any "scientist" who dismisses empirical evidence is no scientist at all. The moment his experiments run contrary to empirical evidence, he had BETTER reexamine everything he has done beginning with the concepts and assumptions behind the experiment. What is stupid is, assuming that another man is stupid because you can't comprehend his statements.
I think that change is coming - and I don't mean the political "change" promised by today's ruling party. I think that the current economic crisis is going to force a lot of deadbeat layabouts to pull their heads out of their butts, and go to work for a subsistence wage, or maybe slightly better than subsistence. All those people suddenly willing to work for less than $50/hr will entice some startup businesses, and help to reverse the export of jobs. Of course, this is just my opinion. I base that opinion on the fact that things simply cannot continue as they have for the last 20 years. Citizens laying around, contributing nothing but babies and bills. Kids who should be in college, or the military, or at work have been mooching off of soft hearted dummies will begin to disappear, when the soft hearted dummies realize they no longer have the retirement funds and next eggs that they THOUGHT hey had last year. A hungry twenty year old can dig a lot of ditch for $5.00/hr!
Your point? My point is, if I stood up and badmouthed atheists, publicly, I could be charged with defamation. Hate speech, on the other hand, would require me to call for the killing of all atheists. And, the laws would apply to atheists, depending on whether the local prosecuting attorney happened to like or dislike atheists. You can bet the ACLU would want the laws applied equally.
Anti-defamation laws are more than just hate speech. To say "Kill every dirty (Jew, Moslem, Irishman, your favorite group) in the world" is hate speech. To say "I think (Islam, Christianity, atheism, or your favorit religion) is wrong" is defamation. Notice the not-so-subtle difference. So called "Hate speech" is already interpreted awfully damned loosely, depending on the jurisdiction and the situation. Given an anti-defamation law such as this, you could be imprisoned for disagreeing over a fine point of doctrine.
Tom Cruise, the Scientologist, is associated with Sharia? Awesome. Both Scientologists and Moslems are learning tolerance....
Errrr, not so, Grasshopper. I have IE4, IE5, IE6, IE7 and IE8 all on the same physical machine, and I can view a page side by side in all of them. What's more I can run Firefox 2, Firefox3, and Firefox 3.1 at the same time that I run Safari, Chrome, and Konqueror. Granted, you can't run them all in the same installation of Windows, but that doesn't stop me comparing browsers. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAbBDMWKOpc
Business editions sold by Dell are great machines. Consumer versions are likely riddled with spyware. I know for a fact that Compaq's low-end consumer machines are shipped with spyware pre-installed. Back when a 1ghz machine was really hot, my wife ordered a Compaq. My AMD K-6 450 was faster than her brand new Athlon - Until I reformatted the hard drive, and installed WinXP Pro (Pirate Edition) THEN they were about even, until I added another 512 MB of memory, THEN the Athlon flew!!
Uhhh, Utopia is just a dream. In the year 25,000 SOMEONE is going to have to dig ditches. And, wipe baby's asses. And, cook dinners. And, manually move stuff around. What's more, if we ever DO develop robots to the point that we rely on them to do everything for us, we will be joining the Elves and the Atlanteans in the list of by-gone races. Maybe the Monkeys will learn from our mistakes? Unless, of course, the robots just take over for themselves.
Errrr, you're about half right. Stupid people do demand and buy the cheapest thing they can find, even if it's melanine laced. So, yes, they are at fault for not recognizing or demanding quality. On the other hand, government and big business has been actively exporting American jobs for quite a long time now, along with American technology, American money, and American education. Yeah, the idiot "consumer" takes his share of the blame, but the coordination comes from higher up. Who was it, exactly, that gave China it's "most favored trading partner" status? Oh yeah, that same traitor who sold missile technology to China, later sold to N. Korea, then exported to the mideast for use against Israel. Hmmmmmmm.
Uhhhh - the Chinese are smarter than that. They know they can't come over here and take what they want using military power. That is the very reason they are attacking us asymmetrically. Google around for Assasin's Mace. China has been at war with the US for years already, and the US is to stupid to know it, let alone defend itself. But, Sun Tzu was more akin to the Communist Chinese than to any Americans, so they understand him better than we do.
Any damage caused to the environment is a result of wastefulness. As an American, I'm ashamed that the US consumes about 1/4 of the total energy used, world wide. We waste, waste, waste. If Americans practiced conservation, all the damage that we have done to the environment would be cut in half, at least. If Americans practiced INTELLIGENT conservation (complete with workable recycling projects) that damage would be cut even further. So many ways to save energy - starting with working near home, or moving closer to work. Millions of Americans sit for HOURS every single week in traffic, with their engines dumping pollution into the atmosphere. Then, they may or may not send Al Gore a couple dollars for an idiotic carbon credit certificate that does absolutely NOTHING to recover all that wasted fuel, or to recover the pollution. Oh - did I use the word intelligent above? Sorry, I apologize. We aren't. We demand what we want, and we demand it NOW!!! Screw intelligence - we are to damned greedy.
There are VERY FEW people who would know whether my hand is cybernetic - which one of those are you?
Just based on the assumption that people become more agreeable as they age
What about people like me who were disagreeable at twenty, unbearable at 40, and now even I can't stand to be in the same room with me?
Just based on the assumption that people become more agreeable as they age,
Errrr, what about me? I was a disagreeable cuss when I was twenty. By the time I was 40, I was unbearable. Today? I can't even stand to be in the same room with me!! All the same, age and treachery will always triumph over youth and naivete.
How sure are you, of that idea? You must realize that your IP is recorded again, and again on the web. Do you use Flash, Java, or any other plugins that potentially give away identifying data? Does your browser leave any data that you are unaware of? What about your operating system? Microsoft has this thing (I forget the name, but almost everyone here knows what it is) where you can sign into one account, then automagically be signed into dozens if not hundreds of other sites/accounts. Google has something similar, if on a smaller scale. I can sign into GMail, and be recognized on YouTube, and MySpace, if I should care to make use of that "feature". Your practices are commendable, but you also need to make sure that you are using the technical tools available to reinforce your practices. We mustn't forget the many forms of malware available to the modern browser. Picking up any common trojan designed to exploit Windows, IE, OE, or WMP can guarantee that you are tracked everywhere, despite any practices or tools that you may employ.
I just have one question. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, so I have to ask. Are you one of the guys they tell all the Aggie jokes about? :p
Obviously, you know almost nothing about anonymizing yourself. The admin (and oftentimes, moderators) of ANY site/board can go into his admin tools, and find out A: all the IP's from which you have logged into his site and B: all the posters who have logged in from each and every IP that poster has ever used With nothing more than those two sets of data, the admin/mod can make some pretty good guesses just who the heck you REALLY are. More, your browser sends information in ADDITION TO your IP - as well as Java, Flash, and other plugins. Google "TOR Bundle" Look it over, learn it's features, and you will BEGIN TO understand anonymous browsing. But, be aware - the features are ALL USELESS unless you understand them, and use them properly. IF, and/or WHEN you understand the features of that full bundle, THEN you MIGHT know how to trick /. and other sites into believing that you ain't you. But, only if you also acquire the discipline needed to use the tools properly. Meanwhile, stop your whining. No one appreciates you drooling on the floor, and the admins here know exactly who you are. They are laughing at yet another idiot post by a known idiot.
so the first step on concealing your identity is to not use the public social networks.
Bingo!!
Heh. To right. When I got TOR up and running, I was tempted to sign into a couple places, to look at my - uhh - "internet profile" being presented by browser, etc. Was reaching for the "submit" button, when I realized, "Hey, this is STOOOO-PID!" I'm no longer anonymous once I sign in ANYWHERE!
That's nothing - I've been sleeping with a bot for 22 years.
Right on target. No one ever does firearms analogies here, it's always cars. But, I grew up with single shot and bolt action rifles. When I went to boot camp, I was issued an M-1, then after boot camp, it was an M-14 semi-automatic. Always, it was a hefty, solid rifle, with a hefty, solid kick, throwing out a nice chunk of lead that followed a sweet, predictable parabolic trajectory. Today, the military says that the M-16 is a superior weapon - but an old dinosaur like myself has no use for that little toy. Back to keyboards, I EXPECT the key to resist the stroke I make, and I EXPECT it to make a little noise. The kid has a laptop, on which I'm lost. How the hell can you touch type, if you can't feel whether the key has depressed or not? I end up with eighteen characters where I wanted one. Jeeeez. I'm not asking for an old manual typewriter - but at LEAST give me an audible signal that the key has moved!
The problem was deregulation. The United States learned some pretty hard lessons, along with the rest of the world, in 1929. Laws were crafted to regulate the financial sector as a result of the great crash of 1929. About, oh, 50 years later, Modern Math students who had worked their way up the various ladders started dismantling those regulations. Net result, by the year 2000, people were buying and selling securities, stocks, and bonds on the market, ON CREDIT. Not to mention, futures (gasoline, among others). IF WE WERE TO re-examine the regulations that were in place in - oh - let's take 1960 - and put them back into place, intact, almost all the abuse would be eliminated. This is not to suggest that the market would be fixed overnight - I only suggest that things would stop going downhill, and that things would begin improving. Slowly, maybe, but they would improve.
Hmmm. I'd have to research a little to answer that accurately. But, I DO KNOW that VMWare Fusion will enable you to run Ubuntu as a guest on the Mac host. (Being a law abiding citizen, I wouldn't DREAM of pointing out that VMWare Fusion can be found on bit-torrent) http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads That page has a download for INTEL MAC - it appears that PPC MAC might be out of luck. I can't offer advice on how to use a Mac, as I've never owned one, but at first sight, it seems that keeping your Mac as the host OS might be wiser. Good luck!