I was thinking something similar. Carbon fiber clothing and aluminum foil, or even metal-flake body paint would work. I saw a prototype of the TWT used for this thing many years ago when I worked in defense radar. It won't take much to block it or reduce it's effect. Metalic paint on cardboard would block it.
So, it's come down to wearing tin-foil hats if you don't want them to bake your hide....The crazier it gets, the more I feel at home.
"...the failures are forgotten in less than a decade no matter how widely marketed."
This is the true nature, the physicality if you will, of IP. The only way it CAN fail is for it to dissapear, by forgetting it. It is not physical. It may have physical representations, but the idea, the pattern, only survives over time by the copying of it. To fail to copy, is to forget it exists. The record industry then depends upon so called "piracy" or alternatively, monopoly of source. The problem with the latter, is that one has to know it's there to offer it, and so the monopolistic source must remember it to those who might buy. That still means copying.
There is no damage to the idea, music, writing, pattern, in the natural mode of remembrance. The copying itself is only harmful to a business model that does not account for the true nature of the thing it sells. To insist in the law that the thing is scarce when it is not, is like trying to insist that water is dry by passing a law that says so. Then, claiming damage from the illegality of wet water as the destroyer of your business.
It is an economic choice for those "elite". They have direct access to to the creation of new "money" by the creation of a debt that the central bank can sell. This is coming to an end, as the worth, the real value of those notes that people call Euros and Dollars are zero and getting smaller with every new one created.
Those same people can conjure up new notes for whatever they decide is a worthy cause. Those worthy causes are the ones proposed by the lobbyists who represent the industries that get the "money" before anyone else.
Every new note created is a decrease in the value of any other notes already in circulation. This causes the inflation in pricing that is observed.
Disconnect the legislation from the ability to create notes out of thin air, and you will remove these draconian "regulations" and the control that political bodies have over our lives.
Insist on sound, real money, not promissory notes that promise nothing.
Exactly. There is no more voluntary when it becomes a law. Voluntary, private, Open, only happen with Free as in freedom. Involve the government and "free" is out the window along with voluntary, private, and open.
That is not very far fetched. We've seen stuff "planted" on people as an excuse for arrest before, and in every country, throughout history.
I want to be able to turn this "feature" OFF!
Absolutely correct! A corporation has as it's fundamental goal, it's own progress. Whether an individual shares this motive or not, there is absolutely no reason to believe, for one minute, that the corporation itself, no matter who is in charge, is going to behave in a manner that does not further that goal. Under the current system of government and economics, there is only one way for any corporation of any given size, to further their goals in a regulatory environment, utilising the political resources at it's disposal. Eliminate the laws that make this utilisation necessary, and you remove the threat to society that the political means of the corporations represent. Left with no other recourse to further the corporate goal, the market becomes the master, and society as a whole can THEN vote with their money on whether or not they support the goals and the means employed by the corporations. It is not that the corporations are evil, it is that they are given only the evil means of politics as a means around the regulatory hurdles of government regulation.
An example of the perversion that results in an attempt at regulating a perceived evil is prohibition. Make something that many people have no problem with illegal, and you instantly create a motive for more illegal behaviour. The Mafia wars of the thirties were a direct outcome in society of the prohibition of alcohol. The new problem was created by the people who sought to remove the "problem" of alcohol through political means. By imposing regulation and prohibitions on the body of society as a whole, society fought back against a foe that didn't exist before the law was created. Create a law making something people want illegal, and you create a criminal world within society that didn't exist before.
In other words, regulation often has an actual outcome that is not at all in line with the expectation of outcome that was desired by the implementation of the regulation in the first place! Want an example? 90% of the available oil booms owned by the regulators are unused in the worst oil disaster the Earth has ever seen, because of a regulation forcing the booms to be held in reserve "just in case there is another disaster". It probably sounded like a good idea at the time....
Most socialists and stateists would baulk at this concept because government regulation is the only means they can see as a way of controlling the immoral behaviour of corporations or other groups of individuals. What they fail to recognise is the compound nature of regulation and political will. Neither one will result in the expected outcome, no matter what the intent of the regulation, or it's purported benefit to society. Regulation as practised breeds corruption because it makes corruption necessary for both the regulator and the corporation. The corruption may be only lobbyists and campaign contributions, but it exists because it is now the only means of positive change when a corporation is faced with regulation or a group of individuals with common goals is faced with the same regulatory hindrances. People think the only way to make change is for government to do something. If it weren't for this belief, there would be little need for government at all, among a people who trusted themselves more than the rest of the population. Real change is created by real people doing real things that other real people find value in. Change is only a catch phrase at election time otherwise.
"Not enough to sustain it."
It's not necessary to have gold itself with a gold standard. It's a standard of measurement, not a standard of holding. You can hold an equivalent value in some other commodity, if you can measure it's value accurately over time.
People who use this argument fail to recognize the difference between a count of value and a unit of standard value measurement.
You don't need to have the standard inch to measure an inch. You just need an equivalent inch, like a tape measure. What the standard is for is consistency over time. The NIST maintains the value of this standard for reference. An inch is an inch today, tomorrow, and 1000yrs from now. That is a standard.
Look up the Dollar and tell me what it measures. What is the unit of value? THERE ISN"T ONE!
You don't know what it is worth, it has no base unit of measurement for the value it is supposed to represent. On the gold standard, it does.
The Dollar, Euro etc don't have a unit at all and so they are baseless.
You could use beer as your store of value, temporarily, but measure it's worth, it's value as it would compare in value to a weight of gold.
My time is worth about.1ozAU/hr no matter how many dollars would buy that ozAU at any time. The gold, and me, remain relative and consistent.
Honestly, the only viable way to prevent government stupidity from ruining our lives is to cut them off from their ability to control the money. Use a real money that has a BASE like gold, silver, etc. and remove their ability to sell bonds and print cash.
Until that happens, you and everyone else will continue to get screwed. It cost's them NOTHING to screw you. It's not your tax dollars that they are using, it's the new ones they just created yesterday that they use.
The fix is to begin transmitting to each other gigabytes of encrypted nonsense. Every day, all day, from multiple machines. Generate a random number file of sufficient size, encrypt it, just for fun, and start passing it around via P2P and email. Everybody gets to change it or roll their own. Let them hold that for a while and see what good it does.
The Miracles of Governance! Saved (in the future) from certain peril. In Australia and New Zealand they are trying to save themselves from certain masterbation by regulating the Internet. "We're stopping the porn to save our children!" "We're ending the terrorism by stopping everybody." "We're ending world hunger by taking taxes" "We're improving education by dumbing down the books." "We're making everybody equal by making everybody equally ineffective"
There! Fixed that for ya!
Fine logic. No problem for you or me. EXCEPT that you now wish for me and everybody else to adhere to the same logic and conduct our own lives in YOUR way? Bite Me.
Having foresight and knowledge is not the same thing as a guess and a law. Using it to justify forcing change on everyone else, no matter how right you think you are, is not a solution. Government mandates are not solutions. They are compulsions. Show me real knowledge of the problem, not a legal compulsion and a guess.
Oh crap! I hope my city council doesn't get wind of this! They've already designated us a nuclear-free zone, in spite of the mandate for smoke detectors....
I live in CA and all the warnings make it like living in the Gorge of Eternal Peril! We have some high ranking idiots in our city council who have insisted that the businesses down town not provide WiFi because it causes cancer. I think they have the diagnosis wrong and it's really causing idiocy, but only in those who are genetically susceptible to the disease. Maybe one or two people at best.
I do. I find I don't use my "smart" phone for anything but these functions:
Voice calling
Address Book
Calendar
Texting
Time and Alarm
Poker game to kill time.
Very rare - Internet.
Multi tasking would be nice, just for calling and checking Calendar and Contact while on call.
For this I'm waiting for a Android phone from Sprint.
All the other crap this phone CAN do, is mostly pointless.
It's quite possible that their test team is tailed. The opportunity to pilfer the phone would be all they need to make a quick buck by selling it to the competition. I have seen this kind of thing before, and it is precisely why most companies keep their development separate from the rest of the company, as well as the public at large.
Apple may have figured the first loss was accidental, and never suspected targeted theft. They may have assumed that no one outside the company would have recognized a next gen phone over a current gen phone.
The fact that two phones of this type were lost in such a short span of time is evidence of a targeted theft, and I would expect Apple to pull the rest back in house and not let them out any more after this.
Is that now all the people who spend their time watching reality TV all day will be out in public interacting with others..
It's like myspace and facebook.. evil.. but at least contained! Better than the anglefire/geocities days!
And yeah.. this is totally a troll.. but it's Tuesday and I just got back from work and I really need to make something for dinner but I don't have anything and I'm too lazy to go to the store..
I'm with him. I'll have what he's having. So, that'll be two plates of stupid please, hold the mayo.
This would be a complete disaster for Americans. They might have to resort to reading, playing board games, or even going outside and playing some sports. Shit, they might even get some exercise.
Yeah! We might freak out when we realize how stupid we were, then our stupid polititians will have to do something. Nobody knows what yet, but it is sure to be stupid, and it will probably hurt!
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I was thinking something similar. Carbon fiber clothing and aluminum foil, or even metal-flake body paint would work. I saw a prototype of the TWT used for this thing many years ago when I worked in defense radar. It won't take much to block it or reduce it's effect. Metalic paint on cardboard would block it. So, it's come down to wearing tin-foil hats if you don't want them to bake your hide....The crazier it gets, the more I feel at home.
"...the failures are forgotten in less than a decade no matter how widely marketed." This is the true nature, the physicality if you will, of IP. The only way it CAN fail is for it to dissapear, by forgetting it. It is not physical. It may have physical representations, but the idea, the pattern, only survives over time by the copying of it. To fail to copy, is to forget it exists. The record industry then depends upon so called "piracy" or alternatively, monopoly of source. The problem with the latter, is that one has to know it's there to offer it, and so the monopolistic source must remember it to those who might buy. That still means copying. There is no damage to the idea, music, writing, pattern, in the natural mode of remembrance. The copying itself is only harmful to a business model that does not account for the true nature of the thing it sells. To insist in the law that the thing is scarce when it is not, is like trying to insist that water is dry by passing a law that says so. Then, claiming damage from the illegality of wet water as the destroyer of your business.
It is an economic choice for those "elite". They have direct access to to the creation of new "money" by the creation of a debt that the central bank can sell. This is coming to an end, as the worth, the real value of those notes that people call Euros and Dollars are zero and getting smaller with every new one created. Those same people can conjure up new notes for whatever they decide is a worthy cause. Those worthy causes are the ones proposed by the lobbyists who represent the industries that get the "money" before anyone else. Every new note created is a decrease in the value of any other notes already in circulation. This causes the inflation in pricing that is observed. Disconnect the legislation from the ability to create notes out of thin air, and you will remove these draconian "regulations" and the control that political bodies have over our lives. Insist on sound, real money, not promissory notes that promise nothing.
Exactly. There is no more voluntary when it becomes a law. Voluntary, private, Open, only happen with Free as in freedom. Involve the government and "free" is out the window along with voluntary, private, and open.
That is not very far fetched. We've seen stuff "planted" on people as an excuse for arrest before, and in every country, throughout history. I want to be able to turn this "feature" OFF!
LOL! What is up with the blank lines disappearing when I post?
Absolutely correct! A corporation has as it's fundamental goal, it's own progress. Whether an individual shares this motive or not, there is absolutely no reason to believe, for one minute, that the corporation itself, no matter who is in charge, is going to behave in a manner that does not further that goal. Under the current system of government and economics, there is only one way for any corporation of any given size, to further their goals in a regulatory environment, utilising the political resources at it's disposal. Eliminate the laws that make this utilisation necessary, and you remove the threat to society that the political means of the corporations represent. Left with no other recourse to further the corporate goal, the market becomes the master, and society as a whole can THEN vote with their money on whether or not they support the goals and the means employed by the corporations. It is not that the corporations are evil, it is that they are given only the evil means of politics as a means around the regulatory hurdles of government regulation. An example of the perversion that results in an attempt at regulating a perceived evil is prohibition. Make something that many people have no problem with illegal, and you instantly create a motive for more illegal behaviour. The Mafia wars of the thirties were a direct outcome in society of the prohibition of alcohol. The new problem was created by the people who sought to remove the "problem" of alcohol through political means. By imposing regulation and prohibitions on the body of society as a whole, society fought back against a foe that didn't exist before the law was created. Create a law making something people want illegal, and you create a criminal world within society that didn't exist before. In other words, regulation often has an actual outcome that is not at all in line with the expectation of outcome that was desired by the implementation of the regulation in the first place! Want an example? 90% of the available oil booms owned by the regulators are unused in the worst oil disaster the Earth has ever seen, because of a regulation forcing the booms to be held in reserve "just in case there is another disaster". It probably sounded like a good idea at the time.... Most socialists and stateists would baulk at this concept because government regulation is the only means they can see as a way of controlling the immoral behaviour of corporations or other groups of individuals. What they fail to recognise is the compound nature of regulation and political will. Neither one will result in the expected outcome, no matter what the intent of the regulation, or it's purported benefit to society. Regulation as practised breeds corruption because it makes corruption necessary for both the regulator and the corporation. The corruption may be only lobbyists and campaign contributions, but it exists because it is now the only means of positive change when a corporation is faced with regulation or a group of individuals with common goals is faced with the same regulatory hindrances. People think the only way to make change is for government to do something. If it weren't for this belief, there would be little need for government at all, among a people who trusted themselves more than the rest of the population. Real change is created by real people doing real things that other real people find value in. Change is only a catch phrase at election time otherwise.
"Not enough to sustain it." It's not necessary to have gold itself with a gold standard. It's a standard of measurement, not a standard of holding. You can hold an equivalent value in some other commodity, if you can measure it's value accurately over time. People who use this argument fail to recognize the difference between a count of value and a unit of standard value measurement. You don't need to have the standard inch to measure an inch. You just need an equivalent inch, like a tape measure. What the standard is for is consistency over time. The NIST maintains the value of this standard for reference. An inch is an inch today, tomorrow, and 1000yrs from now. That is a standard. Look up the Dollar and tell me what it measures. What is the unit of value? THERE ISN"T ONE! You don't know what it is worth, it has no base unit of measurement for the value it is supposed to represent. On the gold standard, it does. The Dollar, Euro etc don't have a unit at all and so they are baseless. You could use beer as your store of value, temporarily, but measure it's worth, it's value as it would compare in value to a weight of gold. My time is worth about .1ozAU/hr no matter how many dollars would buy that ozAU at any time. The gold, and me, remain relative and consistent.
Honestly, the only viable way to prevent government stupidity from ruining our lives is to cut them off from their ability to control the money. Use a real money that has a BASE like gold, silver, etc. and remove their ability to sell bonds and print cash. Until that happens, you and everyone else will continue to get screwed. It cost's them NOTHING to screw you. It's not your tax dollars that they are using, it's the new ones they just created yesterday that they use.
Yup, the madness is now global. Woo Hoo! We're all dancing in the zoo!
The fix is to begin transmitting to each other gigabytes of encrypted nonsense. Every day, all day, from multiple machines. Generate a random number file of sufficient size, encrypt it, just for fun, and start passing it around via P2P and email. Everybody gets to change it or roll their own. Let them hold that for a while and see what good it does.
Perfect counter suit!
Better safe than sorry depends on how you make yourself safe. Jump from the frying pan into the fire and you'll be just as sorry.
The Miracles of Governance! Saved (in the future) from certain peril. In Australia and New Zealand they are trying to save themselves from certain masterbation by regulating the Internet. "We're stopping the porn to save our children!" "We're ending the terrorism by stopping everybody." "We're ending world hunger by taking taxes" "We're improving education by dumbing down the books." "We're making everybody equal by making everybody equally ineffective" There! Fixed that for ya!
Fine logic. No problem for you or me. EXCEPT that you now wish for me and everybody else to adhere to the same logic and conduct our own lives in YOUR way? Bite Me. Having foresight and knowledge is not the same thing as a guess and a law. Using it to justify forcing change on everyone else, no matter how right you think you are, is not a solution. Government mandates are not solutions. They are compulsions. Show me real knowledge of the problem, not a legal compulsion and a guess.
Oh crap! I hope my city council doesn't get wind of this! They've already designated us a nuclear-free zone, in spite of the mandate for smoke detectors....
I live in CA and all the warnings make it like living in the Gorge of Eternal Peril! We have some high ranking idiots in our city council who have insisted that the businesses down town not provide WiFi because it causes cancer. I think they have the diagnosis wrong and it's really causing idiocy, but only in those who are genetically susceptible to the disease. Maybe one or two people at best.
I do. I find I don't use my "smart" phone for anything but these functions: Voice calling Address Book Calendar Texting Time and Alarm Poker game to kill time. Very rare - Internet. Multi tasking would be nice, just for calling and checking Calendar and Contact while on call. For this I'm waiting for a Android phone from Sprint. All the other crap this phone CAN do, is mostly pointless.
It's quite possible that their test team is tailed. The opportunity to pilfer the phone would be all they need to make a quick buck by selling it to the competition. I have seen this kind of thing before, and it is precisely why most companies keep their development separate from the rest of the company, as well as the public at large. Apple may have figured the first loss was accidental, and never suspected targeted theft. They may have assumed that no one outside the company would have recognized a next gen phone over a current gen phone. The fact that two phones of this type were lost in such a short span of time is evidence of a targeted theft, and I would expect Apple to pull the rest back in house and not let them out any more after this.
Galaxy 15! Galaxy 15! Go! Go! Go! Hey, it won't mess with Mythbusters will it?
Is that now all the people who spend their time watching reality TV all day will be out in public interacting with others..
It's like myspace and facebook.. evil .. but at least contained! Better than the anglefire/geocities days!
And yeah.. this is totally a troll.. but it's Tuesday and I just got back from work and I really need to make something for dinner but I don't have anything and I'm too lazy to go to the store..
I'm with him. I'll have what he's having. So, that'll be two plates of stupid please, hold the mayo.
This would be a complete disaster for Americans. They might have to resort to reading, playing board games, or even going outside and playing some sports. Shit, they might even get some exercise.
Yeah! We might freak out when we realize how stupid we were, then our stupid polititians will have to do something. Nobody knows what yet, but it is sure to be stupid, and it will probably hurt!
In other news, on May 23, experts are predicting the possibility of a 10 point jump in the average US citizen's IQ.
Will it hurt?
That's the DRM part of the idea!
The problem isn't the competition or the free-market. The problem is Intellectual Property. IP is what is getting in the way.