Internet magazine Slate quoted the man behind voteauction, James Baumgartner, as saying that vote buying had a proud history in the US, dating back to 1757 when George Washington bought alcohol for voters in his district.
I'd have to quote the whole page from there... Point is, they wouldn't die from sadness. Franklin would probably go on objecting and not getting elected, while Washington would still be boozing up buisnessmen for campaign cash.
The important thing to remember is that politicians have nothing interesting to say and no insight to give. To become a successful politician, you have to reformat your brain and then reload off of a braindead, christian, centric viewpoint. A few drunk driving arrests (AKA Bush) could help, and cocaine use is obviously a plus.
A politician couldn't lead a drunken college student to the toilet to puke. This is the *nature* of a politician. The only thing you can do is form a group that represents your opinion, convince them that you have a hundred thousand voters backing your group, then start writing the letters and checks.
If windows changes how secret interface number 27 works, or one of thier public functions, in a future release of windows and that breaks my code, should I be out a buck?
If someone else releases a piece of software that crashes mine, who owes who a buck, and how would an end user know the difference?
Doesn't this just encourage computer software developers to make thier software fail as silently as possible, which software developers hate?
If you feel you've been ripped off, sue. Sue in small claims if you have to, and if you want revenge more than money, sue the president of the company specifically and drag him personally into it, possibly into the courtroom. We don't need new laws for this. We have too many unused or ignored laws as it is.
(Woah, 0.8 just finished compiling! I can get some work done now!)
I don't know specifically about SSL, but I know when it came to buying something else from VeriSign, it was *cheaper* to go through a VeriSign affiliate than it was through VeriSign. It doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense, but companies that resell VeriSign products sell for less than VeriSign.
I agree. It might not be possible with current technology, or technology achievable within 20 years. But do you think that we are trying as hard as we could?
Space exploration has, to some extent, died off. We spend a lot of time heaving new shiny things into orbit, but we don't seriously talk about new colonies or settling other planets.
I wonder, if this telescope spotted an earth-sized planet, suitable for life, with an earth-like atmosphere, would space research undergo a rennisance? Would the idea that "we can go there!", with a very specific there in mind, a there you could point at in the heavens, somehow inspire the human race?
How about, circle as close to perfect as possible?
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If you are celebrating while others are suffering, then are you responsible for ther suffering? Yes.
Better pack up the beer and party hats. Somebody's always suffering. Empathy broad enough to comprehend the suffering of the entire race tends to turn people into monks, and crazy ones at that.
If you have the resources to help another person who has none, and yet you choose not to, are you responsible for that person's penury? Yes.
If I have enough food to feed twenty people for twenty days, and I give it to twenty people who have none, what have I really done other than create in these twenty people a dependency on my food?
If you see others wasting resources that you know could be better spent elsewhere, then do you have a moral obligation to commandeer those resources and put them to their proper purpose? I submit the answer is: YES!
Congratulations. You are a thief. That you want to steal for others and not yourself does not keep the definition from applying to you.
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Just because there are unhappy people around me, either by poverty or emotional disposition, doesn't mean that I shouldn't pursue what makes me happy, to whit, knowledge.
Just because we've made some mistakes as a race, doesn't mean that nobody in the universe wants to talk to us. Assuming we are the worst race in the universe is also something of a form of arrogance, because to fail completely and utterly is something of a unique achievement, and assuming that your achivements are unique is arrogant.
You don't have to support or tolerate the project. I think it's pretty neat, though. We might get some pretty cool stuff out of it, such as file formats that an editor or viewer can make a "best guess" processing of.
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You could probably communicate an image file format as universal by making the first three images in a series images perfect circles. I'm having trouble imagining that an alien civilization that doesn't understand that a circle is geometrically unique.
The problem is, once we find such a planet, all of the serious anticryptography messages are going to get buried amidst a hundred thousand commercial ads. Every ad monkey in the commercial world will flip at the concept of the first new market in centuries.
I've got to find the addresses of the people who made this software, and see if they ever leave thier doors unlocked. Because if they do, of course, then I assume I have free access to borrow thier Home Entertainment System, and grab a Free-As-In-Beer on the way out.
Next thing you know, they'll be selling software that looks for Smoking Joes (users with the username and password the same), under the logic that if someone is so completely insecure then they obviously meant for thier account to be public access.
A perfect recent example of this is Oni. Oni is a great concept for a game. The gameplay is good too. But the details aren't there. The sound can get distorted or latent, when people fall down the stairs they land horizontal instead of at the slope of the stairs, the clipping sucks, they didn't spend enough time choosing their textures... The list goes on.
Really? I'm enjoying Oni, a lot. I haven't had any sound issues, and the graphics are more than acceptable for me. Who cares if the textures arn't elite enough, a head occasionally sticks through a wall, or if the models don't have true deformability, when you get to do the gun-fu you've always dreamed of! I think the game's an excellent balance of gameplay and special effects.
Idiots! You people will moderate up anything long and inflamatory! This is tripe:
Gee, what happens when people get so tired of this nonsense that they just quit going to movies, watching TV, buying music, etc?
Will that ever happen? The cynical say "Never". But, at this rate, such commercial "entertainment" (a term I use loosely, usually preceded by the word 'mindless') will, in the not-too-distant future be affordable only by those who own and control it.
Affordable only by those who own and control it? Have you been paying attention? Media is sold at the cost the market will bear. The corporations price the goods to fleece the market - us - of as much money as possible. You think that the media companies are going to abandon the mass market, to sell to some kind of elite? You do realize that there's a field called economics that covers this kind of things? Supply and demand? Disposable income? Any of those ring a bell?
Maybe it's time we revert to the practice of people producing art because they are compelled to, not because they are paid to. When artists are paid only on commission, or for a live performance. That is, they earn their living like the rest of us, based solely on the merit of their work - as judged by others.
Maybe you should stop saying it's time for things to happen that neither you or any other man can cause to come about. How are you going to cause this live preformance revolution? Lobby for laws banning recordable media? Start a religion proclaiming that recorded music is the path to hell? Become a culture nazi? If you don't like a product, don't buy it. Rip your tape deck out of your car and go to concerts every weekend. Why should everyone follow your path?
And don't anyone spout that tired old line about how no one will create without getting paid to do so. That would mean that no one, anywhere, ever created purely for the joy and satisfaction of seeing their imagination realized - not to mention such a theory invalidating the whole Free Software movement.
There's only one thing invalid here, and that's your incessant whining. Who the hell are you to dictate who gets paid for what?
Art is not an endeavor in which one should expect to "Earn a living". It is a gift which the artist willingly and lovingly shares with others. His expected reward comes from self-satisfaction, and, hopefully, the appreciation of his audience.
Let's make a list. You've dictated/mandated:
How music should be distributed
What determines merit
How people should and shouldn't be allowed to make a living
What qualities all artists must possess
Congratulations. You've demonstrated that you are very good at demanding people live your way, by your standards. Have you considered running for congress or going to seminary? They've both got places for people like you.
Any artist who would give up his art because no one would pay for it, is most likely a very poor artist.
Or a fool.
Or they just disagree with you. Luckily, that's not a crime yet.
So many of them have said to me, "An armed society is a polite society." Then they fail to be polite. If an armed society is a polite society because impolite people are shot and killed, you think they'd be crusading for gun control as a pragmatic survival issue.
You've got to love that term, sheeple, that a significant minority of Libertarians use to refer to all Non-Libertarians. Every time I hear that word, I hear, "I hate you and what you think, and think that your priorities are misbegotten. Vote for my party anyway, you freedom-hating slave!" No wonder these people got tromped by every other political party. You can't be on a Libertarian mailing list for more than a week without learning about the average Libertarian's total contempt for humanity in general and all Non-Libertarians (sheeple) in specific.
My association with these arrogant, self-righteous fools ended with the Harry Browne campaign - my campaign donations will go elsewhere. How do they ever expect to win an election when they can not hide thier contempt for anyone and everyone who do not think like they do? It doesn't matter if you're right if your mere attitude makes people hate you the second you open your mouth!
Deus Ex is not open ended. It is more open ended than any other game on the market right now, to my knowledge. But Deus Ex's "Hourglass" open endedness (some options at the beginning but they don't matter, because you end up in the pipe-plot, 75% of the game in the pipe-plot, then it forks again during the last mission.) really is embarassing to that term. More open ended? Yes, and Death Valley is more wet than the Sahara Desert.
I seem to recall seeing an application for win32 written in assembly. It did something to all of the files on your computer - ah, yes. It looked for certain bad libraries often installed by advertisers - the kind of dll that gets slipped in every now and then that you really don't want.
This bad boy flew. It zipped around my drive like a car doing the indy 500, minus the expected crashing. Of course, writing a program that does the act of going through the drive like that takes 2 hours or so of coding in C++, but is probably thesis material in assembly. Still, though. Fast. Ya.
I missed the "conclusive proof" that you claim exists. I did note that Owen approves of putting children to work at ten years of age. Is that an element of his proof?
You have nice equations, though. Let's take a look at them:
Real Cost = Total Expendeture - Total Productivity
Total Expendeture = Base Cost of Work + Cost of Obtaining Labour + Cost of Maintaining Labour
Total Productivity = Work Achieved + Worker Self-Enhancement
Algebra time.
RC = BCoW + CoOL + CoML - WA - WSE
We're most interested in Labour Costs:
LC = CoOL + CoML
RC = BCoW + LC - WA - WSE
Solving for LC:
RC - BCoW + WA + WSE = LC
Unabbreviated:
Real Cost + Work Achieved + Worker SI - Base Cost of Work = Labor Costs.
So raising LC can result in a raise in
Work Achieved, Worker Self Improvement,
or Real Cost. The equation doesn't specify
more than this. Raising Labour expenditures
might result in more Work Achieved. It might
also result in an increase in Real Cost of
Operations. We don't know specifically,
becuase the equation doesn't say.
Got any more irrelevant generalities? Who
do I pay to get my crap posts modded up?
Why am I being blunt? Simple. Your science is crap. You're throwing off unproven generalities, and the burden of proof lies on you, not myself.
Slashdot Mirror
You're right. Let's abandon the WINE project as well.
Bush vs Gore
I quote from the fifth paragraph:
Internet magazine Slate quoted the man behind voteauction, James Baumgartner, as saying that vote buying had a proud history in the US, dating back to 1757 when George Washington bought alcohol for voters in his district.
Here's some more:
Vote Auction History of Voting
I'd have to quote the whole page from there... Point is, they wouldn't die from sadness. Franklin would probably go on objecting and not getting elected, while Washington would still be boozing up buisnessmen for campaign cash.
The important thing to remember is that politicians have nothing interesting to say and no insight to give. To become a successful politician, you have to reformat your brain and then reload off of a braindead, christian, centric viewpoint. A few drunk driving arrests (AKA Bush) could help, and cocaine use is obviously a plus.
A politician couldn't lead a drunken college student to the toilet to puke. This is the *nature* of a politician. The only thing you can do is form a group that represents your opinion, convince them that you have a hundred thousand voters backing your group, then start writing the letters and checks.
If windows changes how secret interface number 27 works, or one of thier public functions, in a future release of windows and that breaks my code, should I be out a buck?
If someone else releases a piece of software that crashes mine, who owes who a buck, and how would an end user know the difference?
Doesn't this just encourage computer software developers to make thier software fail as silently as possible, which software developers hate?
If you feel you've been ripped off, sue. Sue in small claims if you have to, and if you want revenge more than money, sue the president of the company specifically and drag him personally into it, possibly into the courtroom. We don't need new laws for this. We have too many unused or ignored laws as it is.
(Woah, 0.8 just finished compiling! I can get some work done now!)
Here's your link:
TRGpro
If you want to take a look at this thing. I'm not a palm user myself, but I'd look at this first. Compatibility rules.
I don't know specifically about SSL, but I know when it came to buying something else from VeriSign, it was *cheaper* to go through a VeriSign affiliate than it was through VeriSign. It doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense, but companies that resell VeriSign products sell for less than VeriSign.
Go figure.
I agree. It might not be possible with current technology, or technology achievable within 20 years. But do you think that we are trying as hard as we could?
Space exploration has, to some extent, died off. We spend a lot of time heaving new shiny things into orbit, but we don't seriously talk about new colonies or settling other planets.
I wonder, if this telescope spotted an earth-sized planet, suitable for life, with an earth-like atmosphere, would space research undergo a rennisance? Would the idea that "we can go there!", with a very specific there in mind, a there you could point at in the heavens, somehow inspire the human race?
If you'll be blamed if it breaks, then you need Oracle.
If someone else (or noone) will be blamed, then anything else will do.
Jackson Archer?
How high on the badass meter were they trying to score?
They should have just named him Shaft and be done with it.
"I am Shaft, and these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise." "Shut you mouth!" "Just talkin about Shaft." "Then I can dig it."
Heh.
How about, circle as close to perfect as possible?
If you are celebrating while others are suffering, then are you responsible for ther suffering? Yes.
Better pack up the beer and party hats. Somebody's always suffering. Empathy broad enough to comprehend the suffering of the entire race tends to turn people into monks, and crazy ones at that.
If you have the resources to help another person who has none, and yet you choose not to, are you responsible for that person's penury? Yes.
If I have enough food to feed twenty people for twenty days, and I give it to twenty people who have none, what have I really done other than create in these twenty people a dependency on my food?
If you see others wasting resources that you know could be better spent elsewhere, then do you have a moral obligation to commandeer those resources and put them to their proper purpose? I submit the answer is: YES!
Congratulations. You are a thief. That you want to steal for others and not yourself does not keep the definition from applying to you.
Just because there are unhappy people around me, either by poverty or emotional disposition, doesn't mean that I shouldn't pursue what makes me happy, to whit, knowledge.
Just because we've made some mistakes as a race, doesn't mean that nobody in the universe wants to talk to us. Assuming we are the worst race in the universe is also something of a form of arrogance, because to fail completely and utterly is something of a unique achievement, and assuming that your achivements are unique is arrogant.
You don't have to support or tolerate the project. I think it's pretty neat, though. We might get some pretty cool stuff out of it, such as file formats that an editor or viewer can make a "best guess" processing of.
*Blank look*
Trolling this well is a crime.
Cute, cute.
You could probably communicate an image file format as universal by making the first three images in a series images perfect circles. I'm having trouble imagining that an alien civilization that doesn't understand that a circle is geometrically unique.
The problem is, once we find such a planet, all of the serious anticryptography messages are going to get buried amidst a hundred thousand commercial ads. Every ad monkey in the commercial world will flip at the concept of the first new market in centuries.
Another article, same subject
I've got to find the addresses of the people who made this software, and see if they ever leave thier doors unlocked. Because if they do, of course, then I assume I have free access to borrow thier Home Entertainment System, and grab a Free-As-In-Beer on the way out.
Next thing you know, they'll be selling software that looks for Smoking Joes (users with the username and password the same), under the logic that if someone is so completely insecure then they obviously meant for thier account to be public access.
A perfect recent example of this is Oni. Oni is a great concept for a game. The gameplay is good too. But the details aren't there. The sound can get distorted or latent, when people fall down the stairs they land horizontal instead of at the slope of the stairs, the clipping sucks, they didn't spend enough time choosing their textures... The list goes on.
Really? I'm enjoying Oni, a lot. I haven't had any sound issues, and the graphics are more than acceptable for me. Who cares if the textures arn't elite enough, a head occasionally sticks through a wall, or if the models don't have true deformability, when you get to do the gun-fu you've always dreamed of! I think the game's an excellent balance of gameplay and special effects.
Idiots! You people will moderate up anything long and inflamatory! This is tripe:
Gee, what happens when people get so tired of this nonsense that they just quit going to movies, watching TV, buying music, etc?
Will that ever happen? The cynical say "Never". But, at this rate, such commercial "entertainment" (a term I use loosely, usually preceded by the word 'mindless') will, in the not-too-distant future be affordable only by those who own and control it.
Affordable only by those who own and control it? Have you been paying attention? Media is sold at the cost the market will bear. The corporations price the goods to fleece the market - us - of as much money as possible. You think that the media companies are going to abandon the mass market, to sell to some kind of elite? You do realize that there's a field called economics that covers this kind of things? Supply and demand? Disposable income? Any of those ring a bell?
Maybe it's time we revert to the practice of people producing art because they are compelled to, not because they are paid to. When artists are paid only on commission, or for a live performance. That is, they earn their living like the rest of us, based solely on the merit of their work - as judged by others.
Maybe you should stop saying it's time for things to happen that neither you or any other man can cause to come about. How are you going to cause this live preformance revolution? Lobby for laws banning recordable media? Start a religion proclaiming that recorded music is the path to hell? Become a culture nazi? If you don't like a product, don't buy it. Rip your tape deck out of your car and go to concerts every weekend. Why should everyone follow your path?
And don't anyone spout that tired old line about how no one will create without getting paid to do so. That would mean that no one, anywhere, ever created purely for the joy and satisfaction of seeing their imagination realized - not to mention such a theory invalidating the whole Free Software movement.
There's only one thing invalid here, and that's your incessant whining. Who the hell are you to dictate who gets paid for what?
Art is not an endeavor in which one should expect to "Earn a living". It is a gift which the artist willingly and lovingly shares with others. His expected reward comes from self-satisfaction, and, hopefully, the appreciation of his audience.
Let's make a list. You've dictated/mandated:
Congratulations. You've demonstrated that you are very good at demanding people live your way, by your standards. Have you considered running for congress or going to seminary? They've both got places for people like you.
Any artist who would give up his art because no one would pay for it, is most likely a very poor artist.
Or a fool.
Or they just disagree with you. Luckily, that's not a crime yet.
Right!
So many of them have said to me, "An armed society is a polite society." Then they fail to be polite. If an armed society is a polite society because impolite people are shot and killed, you think they'd be crusading for gun control as a pragmatic survival issue.
You've got to love that term, sheeple, that a significant minority of Libertarians use to refer to all Non-Libertarians. Every time I hear that word, I hear, "I hate you and what you think, and think that your priorities are misbegotten. Vote for my party anyway, you freedom-hating slave!" No wonder these people got tromped by every other political party. You can't be on a Libertarian mailing list for more than a week without learning about the average Libertarian's total contempt for humanity in general and all Non-Libertarians (sheeple) in specific.
My association with these arrogant, self-righteous fools ended with the Harry Browne campaign - my campaign donations will go elsewhere. How do they ever expect to win an election when they can not hide thier contempt for anyone and everyone who do not think like they do? It doesn't matter if you're right if your mere attitude makes people hate you the second you open your mouth!
What do you mean by sub-storyline? All of the little things you can do that reveal different things about the main characters?
Deus Ex?
Open ended?
Ha.
Deus Ex is not open ended. It is more open ended than any other game on the market right now, to my knowledge. But Deus Ex's "Hourglass" open endedness (some options at the beginning but they don't matter, because you end up in the pipe-plot, 75% of the game in the pipe-plot, then it forks again during the last mission.) really is embarassing to that term. More open ended? Yes, and Death Valley is more wet than the Sahara Desert.
slashdotted takes on a new meaning.
I seem to recall seeing an application for win32 written in assembly. It did something to all of the files on your computer - ah, yes. It looked for certain bad libraries often installed by advertisers - the kind of dll that gets slipped in every now and then that you really don't want.
This bad boy flew. It zipped around my drive like a car doing the indy 500, minus the expected crashing. Of course, writing a program that does the act of going through the drive like that takes 2 hours or so of coding in C++, but is probably thesis material in assembly. Still, though. Fast. Ya.
I skimmed your URLs.
I missed the "conclusive proof" that you claim exists. I did note that Owen approves of putting children to work at ten years of age. Is that an element of his proof?
You have nice equations, though. Let's take a look at them:
Algebra time.
RC = BCoW + CoOL + CoML - WA - WSE
We're most interested in Labour Costs:
LC = CoOL + CoML
RC = BCoW + LC - WA - WSE
Solving for LC:
RC - BCoW + WA + WSE = LC
Unabbreviated:
Real Cost + Work Achieved + Worker SI - Base Cost of Work = Labor Costs.
So raising LC can result in a raise in Work Achieved, Worker Self Improvement, or Real Cost. The equation doesn't specify more than this. Raising Labour expenditures might result in more Work Achieved. It might also result in an increase in Real Cost of Operations. We don't know specifically, becuase the equation doesn't say.
Got any more irrelevant generalities? Who do I pay to get my crap posts modded up?
Why am I being blunt? Simple. Your science is crap. You're throwing off unproven generalities, and the burden of proof lies on you, not myself.