The joke presupposed that people have said that "it snowed heaps this year, global warming is a crock". I'm pretty sure you'll find they have.
You mightn't find it funny, and idiots can eat up whatever they like. But it's a pretty standard joke format (take something and flip the sides around).
It could also cause wars. Especially once you factor in that some governments are going to be secretive no matter what everyone else does.
I agree that the US likely has no business keeping these particular things secret - it is supposed to be a democratic republic after all.
However, wars do start. I'm pretty sure the US didn't start WWII for example and the US keeping secrets had nothing to with it starting either.
And I think it's pretty clear that there are cases in which governments should keep secrets - developing new war technologies and military plans when in a war seems one clear cut case.
Note that similar situations in which the government wants to keep information out of the hands of "enemies" is really the only situation. Keeping things secret from their own people is an unfortunate consequence (and why the default should be to be open).
Yes it is disgusting that someone would actually try and enforce the copyright on their work.
What do you expect them to do?
* Just ignore it entirely, information wants to be free and all? * Stuff as much DRM as they can into it to and inconveniance the paying customers dramatically?
Why do you assume they will send letter sto people they know didn't do anything? How do you know what standard of evidence they will require before sending a letter?
Seriously, because one group of people did one something wrong, you think all people will do the same wrong thing?
I know of a guy who drove drunk once. I guess everyone should be barred from driving.
Clearly it means 'If one guy from a "friendly" country can do that, imagine what agents of the "unfriendly" countries can do with the backing provided by the state'.
If that's not practical impose ~250GB limits + 5 cents/extra GB so people will limit themselves (in the same way they limit how much electricity or water they use)
Usage caps are so 1990s, and with more streaming applications and more tools moving into the cloud, I don't think it's realistic to expect end users to accurately estimate their bandwidth usage.
Internet has quickly become an essential infrastructure. I don't know the situation in the US, but in The Netherlands, public infrastructure (rail, road, power, water) is either owned or intensely regulated by the government -- though most maintenance is performed by private contractors. I expect the Internet to be no different in the future.
So you use a 250GB limit and throttle down once it is exceeded.
And I'm sorry but "Internet" is not as essential as water or electricity. And, oh golly gosh, people are charged for their water and electricity according to metered usage.
And of course it's trivial for people to accurately estimate their bandwidth usage, the provider can give them a (close to) real time meter and they can watch and see. They can get a notice when they hit X% so they can think what changed and why it's increased over last month, etc, etc.
Intestine shredding is more a problem than choking, though most kids in the 5-10 age range don't swallow everything they touch. Of course lots of kids in that age range have a younger sibling who might.
There's a farmer who grows sugar (or corn in some strange places) which he sells to the candy bar manufacturer so they can make their candy bars.
We now inflate the money supply without increasing prices.
The farmer looks at his bank account and realizes that he has enough money to live on for the next 200 years. Since farming is hard work and he'd much rather drink beer all day that's exactly what he does.
Soon enough everyone does the same thing, and then everyone starves to death.
Well before everyone starves to death either prices will rise enough so that people actually need money and hence need to produce things in order to get it. Or it all switches to barter.
So you're saying that Ireland gets to collect some tax revenue on money that is made to count as profit in Ireland even though it's really generated elsewhere. And those companies don't even generate much demand on government services and hence costs.
I see how this is a bad thing for other countries, but how exactly is that bad for Ireland?
I used to have to pay for that fondling, or risk getting arrested by some idiot cop because hooking up in the airport bathroom is illegal for some reason.
Now I can just go through security, take the exit, go through security again as many times as I want before while waiting for the plane.
Yes. Do you really think that trade secrets are natural rights? That being able to prevent Bob from telling Sally something you told him by threatening him with violence is an inherit right for all people?
So you are suggesting we throw out TCP completely?
And said enough information to completely authenticate without seeing anything from the server - at least the man-in-the-middle attackers will love that I guess.
You can do a longer take in pure CGI then you can with non-CGI since there are no actors who need to sleep, or camera men knocking over the camera as they nod off 56 hours into the take...
just set it all up, click the button, and go away for a few years hoping the backup generators handle any power outages.
So basically, it had nothing at all do with the topic hand and your comparison "I'll just have bacteria in my yogurt for now" was completely meaningless since no one has suggested building new things with it since that wouldn't work anyway.
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Of course it can.
If my hard drive fails catastrophically what I see is my computer crashing.
If some idiot wipes the hard dive, what I see is my computer has crashed.
If my computer crashes when my poorly written database program is making updates to the disk it can erase my data.
If my computer crashed because it caught fire, chances are I may have lost some data.
If the database file was corrupted some how and hence the database application fails at startup, what I see is that my computer has crashed.
The joke presupposed that people have said that "it snowed heaps this year, global warming is a crock". I'm pretty sure you'll find they have.
You mightn't find it funny, and idiots can eat up whatever they like. But it's a pretty standard joke format (take something and flip the sides around).
It could also cause wars. Especially once you factor in that some governments are going to be secretive no matter what everyone else does.
I agree that the US likely has no business keeping these particular things secret - it is supposed to be a democratic republic after all.
However, wars do start. I'm pretty sure the US didn't start WWII for example and the US keeping secrets had nothing to with it starting either.
And I think it's pretty clear that there are cases in which governments should keep secrets - developing new war technologies and military plans when in a war seems one clear cut case.
Note that similar situations in which the government wants to keep information out of the hands of "enemies" is really the only situation. Keeping things secret from their own people is an unfortunate consequence (and why the default should be to be open).
They are often involved when someone is being arrested for a Federal crime.
Yes it is disgusting that someone would actually try and enforce the copyright on their work.
What do you expect them to do?
* Just ignore it entirely, information wants to be free and all?
* Stuff as much DRM as they can into it to and inconveniance the paying customers dramatically?
Why do you assume they will send letter sto people they know didn't do anything? How do you know what standard of evidence they will require before sending a letter?
Seriously, because one group of people did one something wrong, you think all people will do the same wrong thing?
I know of a guy who drove drunk once. I guess everyone should be barred from driving.
Yes. The Americans should have just sent the details of their work on the atomic bomb to Germany and Japan instead of trying to keep it secret.
The full plans for the D-Day landings should have been sent to the Germans at least 2 months before the date.
There are no jobs either way.
There's two options:
1: collect some tax from these companies expoiting the loopholes in tax laws.
2.: connect no tax from these companies since they won't bother setting up a shell presence in Ireland.
Factories and jobs don't come from either option and hence are irrelevant.
Clearly it means 'If one guy from a "friendly" country can do that, imagine what agents of the "unfriendly" countries can do with the backing provided by the state'.
If that's not practical impose ~250GB limits + 5 cents/extra GB so people will limit themselves (in the same way they limit how much electricity or water they use)
Usage caps are so 1990s, and with more streaming applications and more tools moving into the cloud, I don't think it's realistic to expect end users to accurately estimate their bandwidth usage.
Internet has quickly become an essential infrastructure. I don't know the situation in the US, but in The Netherlands, public infrastructure (rail, road, power, water) is either owned or intensely regulated by the government -- though most maintenance is performed by private contractors. I expect the Internet to be no different in the future.
So you use a 250GB limit and throttle down once it is exceeded.
And I'm sorry but "Internet" is not as essential as water or electricity. And, oh golly gosh, people are charged for their water and electricity according to metered usage.
And of course it's trivial for people to accurately estimate their bandwidth usage, the provider can give them a (close to) real time meter and they can watch and see. They can get a notice when they hit X% so they can think what changed and why it's increased over last month, etc, etc.
Intestine shredding is more a problem than choking, though most kids in the 5-10 age range don't swallow everything they touch. Of course lots of kids in that age range have a younger sibling who might.
There's a farmer who grows sugar (or corn in some strange places) which he sells to the candy bar manufacturer so they can make their candy bars.
We now inflate the money supply without increasing prices.
The farmer looks at his bank account and realizes that he has enough money to live on for the next 200 years. Since farming is hard work and he'd much rather drink beer all day that's exactly what he does.
Soon enough everyone does the same thing, and then everyone starves to death.
Well before everyone starves to death either prices will rise enough so that people actually need money and hence need to produce things in order to get it. Or it all switches to barter.
In your backward country maybe.
So you're saying that Ireland gets to collect some tax revenue on money that is made to count as profit in Ireland even though it's really generated elsewhere. And those companies don't even generate much demand on government services and hence costs.
I see how this is a bad thing for other countries, but how exactly is that bad for Ireland?
Whereas I think it's great.
I used to have to pay for that fondling, or risk getting arrested by some idiot cop because hooking up in the airport bathroom is illegal for some reason.
Now I can just go through security, take the exit, go through security again as many times as I want before while waiting for the plane.
Child pornography is contraband. Child pornography can also be encrypted data on a hard drive.
Yes. Do you really think that trade secrets are natural rights? That being able to prevent Bob from telling Sally something you told him by threatening him with violence is an inherit right for all people?
Most people would consider $1.4 million to be have a value.
Congrats on also not being able to understand google's page layout.
Hint actual search results don't display as a link heading, followed by a secondary set of links to different web sites, then followed by a summary.
Don't loan your phone to anyone!
Especially don't let a passenger use your phone.
And get a prepaid anonymous phone for use in the car.
So you are suggesting we throw out TCP completely?
And said enough information to completely authenticate without seeing anything from the server - at least the man-in-the-middle attackers will love that I guess.
You can do a longer take in pure CGI then you can with non-CGI since there are no actors who need to sleep, or camera men knocking over the camera as they nod off 56 hours into the take...
just set it all up, click the button, and go away for a few years hoping the backup generators handle any power outages.
A lot of skill is quite the understatement.
So basically, it had nothing at all do with the topic hand and your comparison "I'll just have bacteria in my yogurt for now" was completely meaningless since no one has suggested building new things with it since that wouldn't work anyway.
And when you reduce the "circulation" numbers the advetising revenue stays the same, right?