Tokyo also has an extensive subway system in addition to the local train lines. Granted I'm not sure about having a subway in a city hit by earthquakes every week, but I am not a structual engineer.:)
It's easier to take local trains between districts than it is to take subways... Maybe getting around the districts it's easier.. but I just walk.
Actually I didn't see all that many nice cars. I saw a couple neat electric mini-cars, a good number of motorcycles and a whole lot of bicycles. Of course I live in San Francisco which isn't exactly a normal.
Did you go out at night?? In one night I saw 3 ferrari's (2 were older though, only one was new) about 15 Skyline's, a couple souped up porsches (911TTs), more Mercedes than I can count... that was in about 3 hours of time. One thing I will not understand is Mercedes.. why buy one when you can get a Toyota Astro or Celsior.. *Shrug*
Take for example Tokyo and New York City. The actual amount of land used in the center city is quite small, small enough that walking or using a mass-transit system becomes quite viable.
Have you been to Tokyo? Try getting from Shinjuku to Akihabara by walking or anything less than trains. The same trains you can take to other prefectures. Tokyo isn't a "center city", there are dozens of "center cities" that take 30+ minutes by train to get there. Mass transit == Local Trains, and JRL does a good job on that. There isn't the busses and other stuff around Tokyo, but Tokyo still has plenty of roads to drive on. Hence the Tokyo street racer games... if you ever go to Tokyo you will never see that many nice cars in such a short period of time.
In fact, most states have "Good Samaratin" laws which are specifically designed to protect anyone attempting to save someone else's life against prosecution -- this comes up most often in CPR training, since some bozos have had the gaul to try and prosecute the CPR giver for providing CPR and not saving the person's life.
Good Samaratain laws apply to civil lawsuits only. It reads that if I am doing something that I am qualified and trained (officially) to do, to save someones life, I am immune to any civil lawsuits against me. It is not the same as persecution, and if there is someone with higher qualification and training, your immunity disappears.
As for persecution, if there is fire department or police department presence, you will get charged for trespassing. People aren't trained to rescue people, and it creates more of a problem for the police and fire department because they have to worry about idiots hurting themselves trying to do a good deed.
Yeah, a guy may succeed and be a hero. But for that guy, there are 9 other darwin award winners.
As long as there are opponents to DRM and commercialization, the internet will never die.
I'm not opposed to DRM. I think it's a perfectly reasonable tool that can be used to promote good things. For example, signing an applications source and allowing free distribution. It's what media companies want to do with DRM that's horrible. DRM can be PGP signatures or md5sums on source, to prevent trojans and "evil code" on the kernel level. DRM can also kill your rights. Until DRM is extensively used to excercise fair use, I will avoid ever supporting it. I see it as a tool.
Commercialization is fine on the internet. Just stick to your.com's. Why the hell do companies have a right to a.org? A.net if they aren't a Network Service Provider. This is what is wrong with the internet.
I hope that with IPv6, it is possible to setup an alternate internet. Managing our own DNS systems, that hold strict rules for what exactly can be under each domain and get an automated script to find possible offenses.
The internet isn't dying, innovation on the internet is. People stopped doing innovative things with the internet since TCP/IP gaming and Flash became "cool"
There are a few projects that make it different, like FreeNet and P2P applications, but those are going to become endangered. If the geeks unite, we can contribute to lobbyists (EFF, et al) and "campaign contributions" and hopefully keep these projects alive and promote proper innovation and the next step in networking.
Likewise with MP3s and the word "theft". The simple fact that a large number of people call it "theft" does not make it so.
Except definition 1 of theft in the dictionary supports that it is. Taking an MP3 without permission or right constitutes theft, according to the dictionary.
I've noticed that the "99" pricing epidemic is not as prevalent (if at all!) in the ROW (rest of world) outside the US. In fact, most European nations seem to use the "round-price-inclusive-of-tax" technique.
Exactly... how many times have you seen a pence coin? If a penny was actually worth anything, I wouldn't mind. It's easier for me to just let them keep the damned penny. The only time it's a good savings is if I'm buying a lot of groceries and I save $1 on 100 items.
So for a long term employment (3+ years), I would rather hire a young successful TopCoder participant (one can always gain experience but not smarts) than a regular but experienced guy.
Sorry for responding twice, but I just had another thought... I would think a TopCoder participant/winner would be more apt to re-invent the wheel than find an existing solution. While often times, re-inventing the wheel is a good solution, it is still unnecessary and adds too much onto the development time.
Whether it's from A) Lack of experience, B) Arrogance, or C) the "Neat" factor it still is an undesired approach, unless their is something seriously lacking about the existing alternatives.
So for a long term employment (3+ years), I would rather hire a young successful TopCoder participant (one can always gain experience but not smarts) than a regular but experienced guy.
I'd agree, but I also wouldn't expect the TopCoder to stick around at a job for 3 years. Unless it was a very challenging job (Like game development, or scientific research in their area of interest.)
Uh, you are asking a student who has held an Internship. His points are fairly valid:
Test your code
Make it readable
Spend time designing
Those 3 don't happen as much in the real world as one would hope to think. Very few companies do code reviews correctly, nor do most programmers spend enough time testing their algorithms.
I would look at a Top Coder victor the same way I would look at someone who can answer trivia questions correctly. The experience is incredibly valuable, but I wouldn't say that they are parallel at all. Most of the questions and tests are biased against people who have experience doing competitions. A veteran programmer would probably perform 10x better in a real world environment, and is much more valuable than a TopCoder winner who is still in school... but I could be wrong.
I guess I'm lucky my boss doesn't give a shit. As long as I get my projects done, I can sit here and play chess for a few hours a day. If he notices me playing more chess or what not, he assigns a new project to me. Keeps me busy, keeps him happy, and our department is this weird little black box for the rest of the company. Bullshit in, Bullshit out:)
Before doing so, you might consider taking everything it says. If you base your belief system regarding this subject on the definition of a word, it might be a good idea to base it on the entire definition.
Then why don't you take every definition for any word. I did take the entire definition, of meaning 1, in the dictionary. If you take definition 3 and definition 1, than you have something different. Those little numbered lists are complete definitions, and alternate definitions.
Even putting the dictionary aside, legally copyright infringement is not theft nor stealing. People aren't being sued for theft, they're being sued for copyright infringement. The law sees a rather large difference there.
Legal definition of theft is accurate, common terminology reveals that taking mp3s that you do not have a license or permission to take is theft. People say insane constantly, where it is only a legal term... laws always see a large difference between what is common language and not.
I did not realize that IRC could not auto-reconfigure its spanning trees. The algorithms for doing so aren't that hard. The Ethernet bridging spanning tree algorithm points the way. For maximum network efficiency, they should have a per-channel spanning tree that only encompasses nodes who have users on the channel.
It may have changed over time, but a few years ago it was "dumb networking." I'm pulling off of knowledge I acquired years and years ago though, and it's entirely possible I'm wrong about current architectures.
Next time you want to throw out the definition of a word, don't leave out entire sections for the purpose of warping it into your own belief system.
I produced the first definition of the word, you produced a secondary definition. My definition is still valid. I'm not warping anything, I'm taking what it says and using it to build my belief system. Just because you don't agree with my beliefs, doesn't give you a right to invalidate a dictionary definition that doesn't conform with your beliefs.
But, IRC is P2P in a certain sense. The IRC servers form a P2P network among themselves. And, DCC is definitely P2P.
The definition of peer 2 peer is that it is self-organizing, as well. That is the more current definition anyway. It also must not rely upon centralization nor upon "constant routes" (like IRC does)
DCC is not peer-to-peer because it isn't self-assembling, nor is it a many-to-many but a one-to-one connection. DCC is much closer to P2P than IRC is, however. Napster was the original work of a P2P application, but it was still a client/server model at the core. I'll agree you can build a P2P network on top of a client/server (IRC) network, but IRC is definitely not a P2P network.
Gee, really going way out of your way to change the subject, huh? Wonder why that is? Got something to defend there? Chatting, irc, etc are way close enough to be referred to as a sort of P2P.
Change what subject? I'm responding to what you said.
I can discuss with people, just don't "do" insults, which I certainbly didn't start,so if you or anyone else want to talk to me, do it without insults or get ignored from here on out.
To steal something is to permanently deprive them of it (or at least intend to)... to steal intellectual property you'll have to erase it from their mind.
No, you don't. You have to "take it withour right or permission" -- in the case of intellectual property, you are taking intellectual property without right or permission.
The notion that theft is depriving someone of a tangible item is wrong.
--hey, go suck a rotten lemon. Ya you, talking to you, don't need your bogus technical skillz to define little miniscule picky points. You know exactly what I was saying, and so does everyone else here.. You are about as elite as roadkill, nimrod. It's close enough with the referenced topic to pass muste
Uhm, no. Just because you want to call a horse a car doesn't make it more of a car. Get over your ego, sparky. Just admit you don't know what the hell you are talking about and move on. The whole reason why I knew what you were attempting to say is because of the idiotic subject line (IRC is P2P) which is just plain wrong.
By you definition, kazaa wouldn't be a P2P, because it uses other peoples routers on the internet, you aren't telnetting between people individually.
Ok, I thought dpt was the biggest idiot on Slashdot but you are quickly outdoing him with this. Do you know the difference between packet routing and telnet?
If they don't include the lyrics maybe the hearing impared should simply sue them back. There are lots of people who can enjoy music but whose hearing isnt good enough to pull the lyrics out of the music.
This is completely true. I can't distinguish song lyrics, but I really enjoy music. I have a hearing disorder that doesn't allow me to make distinctions between certain tones and pitches. Most songs the voices blend in with the instruments and I can't distinguish the lyrics, but I still enjoy the music.
I use the lyric sites all the time to find out what the hell they are saying, which does add to the feel of the song.
Fine, you're a millionaire, this doesn't automatically mean you need to be a prick.. be thankful that someone actually pays to go see your stuff, and realize that without the studios/directors/producers there will be no film, and you woulnd't be getting jack..
Exactly, being a prick has nothing to do with money. I'm not even close to being a millionaire, and I have the art of being a prick down to.. well, an art.
These assholes in their fancy suits and expensive cars, staring in their stupid movies are giving pricks everywhere a bad name.
I was almost physically attacked by and older, obviously wealthy man. He thought it absurd that a man of his standing would be paying with counterfeit money. I politely told him that he could have been given forged money by another store, but this only enraged him further. Luckily, his wife was there to hold him back, but I never saw him in the store again.
It's even worse when it happens to you. Sometimes you get counterfeit money and don't realize it. When I was younger I got a counterfeit $10 from a store that accepted it. Didn't realize it was counterfeit until I tried to use it at another store. I told them where I got it from, they gave me a real $10 for it and talked to the cops. End of my involvement... but it was still kinda "cool" in the neat experience for a 10 year old boy.
Makes me wonder the best way to pass counterfeit bills is to pay your neighbor kids $10 to wash your car, mow the lawn, etc. Everybody takes pity on the poor kid who earned a fake $10.
Toss away several thousand pairs of genes, because two or three of them don't work together in an unusually strong way, and happened to be triggered by events in someone's life? It seems wasteful on the genetic level, and cruel and heartless on the human level. And yes, Nazi-like, given that one of the first things they did was start getting rid of the mentally ill.
I'm in no way proposing terminating people, or reducing their quality of life. I'm saying that I am superior, in the Darwin sense, because I am more likely to breed and produce offspring. If they are weak, they are less likely to breed, thus inferior. You are the one who challenged my assertion that I am superior to them, and I defended it. Now you are attacking Survival of the Fittest.
Do you have your Ph.D. in psychotherapy? What qualifies you to say how a patient needing therapy should be treated? I've never meant to argue medicine; I would leave that subject up to a professional, like I would appreciate that he, if he has no professional training in programming, would do for me.
Do you? You seem to be asserting your opinions as these people should get whatever help they want, no questions asked. You don't help an alcoholic by letting them binge drink in controlled environments. Even if you let them binge drink, and pump their stomache immediately afterwards, you are still promoting the addiction. For most cases of schizofrenia, the delusions manifest themselves from habits (albeit very strangely constructed habits, that get stronger and stronger) that need to be broken systematically and replaced by others.
You can read commonly available books on treatment programs for abnormal psychiatric patients and they will usually reach the same consensus that feeding into delusions is a very bad thing. This klingon-position is setup from a (bad) state law that says that there has to be a therapist/translator fluent in a language the patient chooses to speak in. Even if it's counter-productive to therapy. This is what I take issue with the most. Without looking at individual cases, I can't make a broad statement about the individual. I can however make a broad statement about the broad situation, in which it is bunk to open up a hiring requisite for therapists that will (in general) do more harm than good.
Since you are a programmer, you get to have an opinion in laws and state those opinions. As long as those laws are in relation to something you have a vested interest and are educated in, your opinion is valid. I have education in abnormal psychology with a focus on criminal behaviors, but it still is education. I've read hundreds of DSM case studies, and can say with much certainty that feeding into delusions does nothing but harm to the patient. So why do you attempt to invalidate my opinions here?
Ah, a social Darwinist. Darwin never said anything about inferiority; to be inferior is a human judgement that has nothing to do with nature. Early cancer is a solid Darwinist sign of inferiority, as many people can't have children after that. People who have elective sterilization is an even more solid Darwinist sign of inferiority. The welfare mom with 16 children, however, is vastly superior to you or I in a Darwinist since.
Exactly: Inferior == Less likely to reproduce. These people are inferior to me, as they're locked up in a mental ward. The problem with "curing" people with faulty genes is that you promote decay in the overall genetic pool.
I take it you would speak to the mentally retarded at the furthest reaches of your vocabulary; allowing them to speak like children is not healthy, so we must speak to them as if they were Francis Bacon and expect them to understand.
Mentally retarded individuals often have mental development stunted at a young age, thereby you are acting within the capacities of their minds. Catering to a psychologically divergent fantasy based purely in a delusion is counter-productive. These individuals have the option to speak in their native language, and are choosing (choice between what it is amongst psychologically ill people) to not do it.
All these people, and Wil Weaton actually having public appearances, and somehow he lives. I think perhaps that you are the one have the trouble telling between fiction and reality, and that no one was of the actual opinion that he should be killed.
A lot of people hate on Wil (just read his blog, or a number of newsgroups on the subject) for the Wesley role. There is no fiction there.
Because you seem to be having some difficulties understanding my stance, I'll list it out in a much more detailed summary: Individuals refusing to speak common languages, due to psychological illness, should not be allowed to communicate in "imaginary" languages that are not based in this world. In the examples we're discussing, the language is Klingon. Klingon is not a real language, not any more than Elfish is from Lord of the Rings. Allowing mentally ill patients to communicate as this language enforces the notion that the language has credence in real-world communication. It is obvious that they understand a real language as the only way to learn Klingon (outside of having some really strange parents) is as a second language. There is still a major inlet for therapy to be had within the native language of the patient, without resorting to enforcing fantasy behaviors.
Does that make you feel better? You already have me listed as a foe, which would seem that you just don't want to listen to any argument, but I hope you can eventually see my point here.
And 8-track, and casettes, but the CD/MD players gave everybody what they want... then they want more.
The thing that really concerns me is that you'll get people paying more attention to their car radio than driving.
If you want more selection than that, there's a large array of MP3-playing systems for cars too, from CD-R players (which stores around 6-12 CDs worth of music), to MP3 jukeboxes which are basically hard drives connected to the stereo, which can store your whole collection.
Don't forget Satellite Radio now as well. Tons of stations, mostly commercial free. The only way I could see this to be remotely useful is just talk radio. There are some shows that I'd like to listen to on the radio, but they don't do webcasts and I'm often not in my car or near a radio at the time they're on.
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Tokyo also has an extensive subway system in addition to the local train lines. Granted I'm not sure about having a subway in a city hit by earthquakes every week, but I am not a structual engineer. :)
It's easier to take local trains between districts than it is to take subways... Maybe getting around the districts it's easier.. but I just walk.
Actually I didn't see all that many nice cars. I saw a couple neat electric mini-cars, a good number of motorcycles and a whole lot of bicycles. Of course I live in San Francisco which isn't exactly a normal.
Did you go out at night?? In one night I saw 3 ferrari's (2 were older though, only one was new) about 15 Skyline's, a couple souped up porsches (911TTs), more Mercedes than I can count... that was in about 3 hours of time. One thing I will not understand is Mercedes.. why buy one when you can get a Toyota Astro or Celsior.. *Shrug*
Take for example Tokyo and New York City. The actual amount of land used in the center city is quite small, small enough that walking or using a mass-transit system becomes quite viable.
Have you been to Tokyo? Try getting from Shinjuku to Akihabara by walking or anything less than trains. The same trains you can take to other prefectures. Tokyo isn't a "center city", there are dozens of "center cities" that take 30+ minutes by train to get there. Mass transit == Local Trains, and JRL does a good job on that. There isn't the busses and other stuff around Tokyo, but Tokyo still has plenty of roads to drive on. Hence the Tokyo street racer games... if you ever go to Tokyo you will never see that many nice cars in such a short period of time.
In fact, most states have "Good Samaratin" laws which are specifically designed to protect anyone attempting to save someone else's life against prosecution -- this comes up most often in CPR training, since some bozos have had the gaul to try and prosecute the CPR giver for providing CPR and not saving the person's life.
Good Samaratain laws apply to civil lawsuits only. It reads that if I am doing something that I am qualified and trained (officially) to do, to save someones life, I am immune to any civil lawsuits against me. It is not the same as persecution, and if there is someone with higher qualification and training, your immunity disappears.
As for persecution, if there is fire department or police department presence, you will get charged for trespassing. People aren't trained to rescue people, and it creates more of a problem for the police and fire department because they have to worry about idiots hurting themselves trying to do a good deed.
Yeah, a guy may succeed and be a hero. But for that guy, there are 9 other darwin award winners.
As long as there are opponents to DRM and commercialization, the internet will never die.
.com's. Why the hell do companies have a right to a .org? A .net if they aren't a Network Service Provider. This is what is wrong with the internet.
I'm not opposed to DRM. I think it's a perfectly reasonable tool that can be used to promote good things. For example, signing an applications source and allowing free distribution. It's what media companies want to do with DRM that's horrible. DRM can be PGP signatures or md5sums on source, to prevent trojans and "evil code" on the kernel level. DRM can also kill your rights. Until DRM is extensively used to excercise fair use, I will avoid ever supporting it. I see it as a tool.
Commercialization is fine on the internet. Just stick to your
I hope that with IPv6, it is possible to setup an alternate internet. Managing our own DNS systems, that hold strict rules for what exactly can be under each domain and get an automated script to find possible offenses.
The internet isn't dying, innovation on the internet is. People stopped doing innovative things with the internet since TCP/IP gaming and Flash became "cool"
There are a few projects that make it different, like FreeNet and P2P applications, but those are going to become endangered. If the geeks unite, we can contribute to lobbyists (EFF, et al) and "campaign contributions" and hopefully keep these projects alive and promote proper innovation and the next step in networking.
Likewise with MP3s and the word "theft". The simple fact that a large number of people call it "theft" does not make it so.
Except definition 1 of theft in the dictionary supports that it is. Taking an MP3 without permission or right constitutes theft, according to the dictionary.
I've noticed that the "99" pricing epidemic is not as prevalent (if at all!) in the ROW (rest of world) outside the US. In fact, most European nations seem to use the "round-price-inclusive-of-tax" technique.
Exactly... how many times have you seen a pence coin? If a penny was actually worth anything, I wouldn't mind. It's easier for me to just let them keep the damned penny. The only time it's a good savings is if I'm buying a lot of groceries and I save $1 on 100 items.
So for a long term employment (3+ years), I would rather hire a young successful TopCoder participant (one can always gain experience but not smarts) than a regular but experienced guy.
Sorry for responding twice, but I just had another thought... I would think a TopCoder participant/winner would be more apt to re-invent the wheel than find an existing solution. While often times, re-inventing the wheel is a good solution, it is still unnecessary and adds too much onto the development time.
Whether it's from A) Lack of experience, B) Arrogance, or C) the "Neat" factor it still is an undesired approach, unless their is something seriously lacking about the existing alternatives.
So for a long term employment (3+ years), I would rather hire a young successful TopCoder participant (one can always gain experience but not smarts) than a regular but experienced guy.
I'd agree, but I also wouldn't expect the TopCoder to stick around at a job for 3 years. Unless it was a very challenging job (Like game development, or scientific research in their area of interest.)
Those 3 don't happen as much in the real world as one would hope to think. Very few companies do code reviews correctly, nor do most programmers spend enough time testing their algorithms.
I would look at a Top Coder victor the same way I would look at someone who can answer trivia questions correctly. The experience is incredibly valuable, but I wouldn't say that they are parallel at all. Most of the questions and tests are biased against people who have experience doing competitions. A veteran programmer would probably perform 10x better in a real world environment, and is much more valuable than a TopCoder winner who is still in school... but I could be wrong.
Well my opinion is to put this crazy stuff on hold. Imagine a rat controlling heavy armed robots. This is for normal sane people a no-go.
After a scenario like that, I don't think your intended audience need worry about their sanity.
I guess I'm lucky my boss doesn't give a shit. As long as I get my projects done, I can sit here and play chess for a few hours a day. If he notices me playing more chess or what not, he assigns a new project to me. Keeps me busy, keeps him happy, and our department is this weird little black box for the rest of the company. Bullshit in, Bullshit out :)
Before doing so, you might consider taking everything it says. If you base your belief system regarding this subject on the definition of a word, it might be a good idea to base it on the entire definition.
Then why don't you take every definition for any word. I did take the entire definition, of meaning 1, in the dictionary. If you take definition 3 and definition 1, than you have something different. Those little numbered lists are complete definitions, and alternate definitions.
Even putting the dictionary aside, legally copyright infringement is not theft nor stealing. People aren't being sued for theft, they're being sued for copyright infringement. The law sees a rather large difference there.
Legal definition of theft is accurate, common terminology reveals that taking mp3s that you do not have a license or permission to take is theft. People say insane constantly, where it is only a legal term... laws always see a large difference between what is common language and not.
I did not realize that IRC could not auto-reconfigure its spanning trees. The algorithms for doing so aren't that hard. The Ethernet bridging spanning tree algorithm points the way. For maximum network efficiency, they should have a per-channel spanning tree that only encompasses nodes who have users on the channel.
It may have changed over time, but a few years ago it was "dumb networking." I'm pulling off of knowledge I acquired years and years ago though, and it's entirely possible I'm wrong about current architectures.
Next time you want to throw out the definition of a word, don't leave out entire sections for the purpose of warping it into your own belief system.
I produced the first definition of the word, you produced a secondary definition. My definition is still valid. I'm not warping anything, I'm taking what it says and using it to build my belief system. Just because you don't agree with my beliefs, doesn't give you a right to invalidate a dictionary definition that doesn't conform with your beliefs.
But, IRC is P2P in a certain sense. The IRC servers form a P2P network among themselves. And, DCC is definitely P2P.
The definition of peer 2 peer is that it is self-organizing, as well. That is the more current definition anyway. It also must not rely upon centralization nor upon "constant routes" (like IRC does)
DCC is not peer-to-peer because it isn't self-assembling, nor is it a many-to-many but a one-to-one connection. DCC is much closer to P2P than IRC is, however. Napster was the original work of a P2P application, but it was still a client/server model at the core. I'll agree you can build a P2P network on top of a client/server (IRC) network, but IRC is definitely not a P2P network.
Gee, really going way out of your way to change the subject, huh? Wonder why that is? Got something to defend there? Chatting, irc, etc are way close enough to be referred to as a sort of P2P.
Change what subject? I'm responding to what you said.
I can discuss with people, just don't "do" insults, which I certainbly didn't start,so if you or anyone else want to talk to me, do it without insults or get ignored from here on out.
The original poster who corrected you didn't insult you at all. Go back and read it, I'll wait.
I just don't like picky crap like this, it's a waste of time. If you can't figure out what my basic thoughts were,
Lets just stick to the language we've all (except you) have agreed upon, ok? Stop inventing words, or misusing them and we'll be fine.
And last I knew, there isn't any official P2P overlord who has got the one and true legal definition of P2P
Well, I'll inform you that
there is.
BUT, we'll let uyou "win" that one, only the way you describe it is the one true "official" definition. All hail the official P2P uberdictator!
You are just making an ass out of yourself. Don't worry, I'm not going to stop you.
To steal something is to permanently deprive them of it (or at least intend to) ... to steal intellectual property you'll have to erase it from their mind.
No, you don't. You have to "take it withour right or permission" -- in the case of intellectual property, you are taking intellectual property without right or permission.
The notion that theft is depriving someone of a tangible item is wrong.
--hey, go suck a rotten lemon. Ya you, talking to you, don't need your bogus technical skillz to define little miniscule picky points. You know exactly what I was saying, and so does everyone else here.. You are about as elite as roadkill, nimrod. It's close enough with the referenced topic to pass muste
Uhm, no. Just because you want to call a horse a car doesn't make it more of a car. Get over your ego, sparky. Just admit you don't know what the hell you are talking about and move on. The whole reason why I knew what you were attempting to say is because of the idiotic subject line (IRC is P2P) which is just plain wrong.
By you definition, kazaa wouldn't be a P2P, because it uses other peoples routers on the internet, you aren't telnetting between people individually.
Ok, I thought dpt was the biggest idiot on Slashdot but you are quickly outdoing him with this. Do you know the difference between packet routing and telnet?
Except its not stealing, its a copyright violation since you aren't necessarily depriving someone of something.
steal:
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
Since you are taking the intellectual property of another, without right or permission, it is theft/stealing. Stop glorifying it.
If they don't include the lyrics maybe the hearing impared should simply sue them back. There are lots of people who can enjoy music but whose hearing isnt good enough to pull the lyrics out of the music.
This is completely true. I can't distinguish song lyrics, but I really enjoy music. I have a hearing disorder that doesn't allow me to make distinctions between certain tones and pitches. Most songs the voices blend in with the instruments and I can't distinguish the lyrics, but I still enjoy the music.
I use the lyric sites all the time to find out what the hell they are saying, which does add to the feel of the song.
Fine, you're a millionaire, this doesn't automatically mean you need to be a prick.. be thankful that someone actually pays to go see your stuff, and realize that without the studios/directors/producers there will be no film, and you woulnd't be getting jack..
Exactly, being a prick has nothing to do with money. I'm not even close to being a millionaire, and I have the art of being a prick down to.. well, an art.
These assholes in their fancy suits and expensive cars, staring in their stupid movies are giving pricks everywhere a bad name.
I was almost physically attacked by and older, obviously wealthy man. He thought it absurd that a man of his standing would be paying with counterfeit money. I politely told him that he could have been given forged money by another store, but this only enraged him further. Luckily, his wife was there to hold him back, but I never saw him in the store again.
It's even worse when it happens to you. Sometimes you get counterfeit money and don't realize it. When I was younger I got a counterfeit $10 from a store that accepted it. Didn't realize it was counterfeit until I tried to use it at another store. I told them where I got it from, they gave me a real $10 for it and talked to the cops. End of my involvement... but it was still kinda "cool" in the neat experience for a 10 year old boy.
Makes me wonder the best way to pass counterfeit bills is to pay your neighbor kids $10 to wash your car, mow the lawn, etc. Everybody takes pity on the poor kid who earned a fake $10.
Toss away several thousand pairs of genes, because two or three of them don't work together in an unusually strong way, and happened to be triggered by events in someone's life? It seems wasteful on the genetic level, and cruel and heartless on the human level. And yes, Nazi-like, given that one of the first things they did was start getting rid of the mentally ill.
I'm in no way proposing terminating people, or reducing their quality of life. I'm saying that I am superior, in the Darwin sense, because I am more likely to breed and produce offspring. If they are weak, they are less likely to breed, thus inferior. You are the one who challenged my assertion that I am superior to them, and I defended it. Now you are attacking Survival of the Fittest.
Do you have your Ph.D. in psychotherapy? What qualifies you to say how a patient needing therapy should be treated? I've never meant to argue medicine; I would leave that subject up to a professional, like I would appreciate that he, if he has no professional training in programming, would do for me.
Do you? You seem to be asserting your opinions as these people should get whatever help they want, no questions asked. You don't help an alcoholic by letting them binge drink in controlled environments. Even if you let them binge drink, and pump their stomache immediately afterwards, you are still promoting the addiction. For most cases of schizofrenia, the delusions manifest themselves from habits (albeit very strangely constructed habits, that get stronger and stronger) that need to be broken systematically and replaced by others.
You can read commonly available books on treatment programs for abnormal psychiatric patients and they will usually reach the same consensus that feeding into delusions is a very bad thing. This klingon-position is setup from a (bad) state law that says that there has to be a therapist/translator fluent in a language the patient chooses to speak in. Even if it's counter-productive to therapy. This is what I take issue with the most. Without looking at individual cases, I can't make a broad statement about the individual. I can however make a broad statement about the broad situation, in which it is bunk to open up a hiring requisite for therapists that will (in general) do more harm than good.
Since you are a programmer, you get to have an opinion in laws and state those opinions. As long as those laws are in relation to something you have a vested interest and are educated in, your opinion is valid. I have education in abnormal psychology with a focus on criminal behaviors, but it still is education. I've read hundreds of DSM case studies, and can say with much certainty that feeding into delusions does nothing but harm to the patient. So why do you attempt to invalidate my opinions here?
Ah, a social Darwinist. Darwin never said anything about inferiority; to be inferior is a human judgement that has nothing to do with nature. Early cancer is a solid Darwinist sign of inferiority, as many people can't have children after that. People who have elective sterilization is an even more solid Darwinist sign of inferiority. The welfare mom with 16 children, however, is vastly superior to you or I in a Darwinist since.
Exactly:
Inferior == Less likely to reproduce. These people are inferior to me, as they're locked up in a mental ward. The problem with "curing" people with faulty genes is that you promote decay in the overall genetic pool.
I take it you would speak to the mentally retarded at the furthest reaches of your vocabulary; allowing them to speak like children is not healthy, so we must speak to them as if they were Francis Bacon and expect them to understand.
Mentally retarded individuals often have mental development stunted at a young age, thereby you are acting within the capacities of their minds. Catering to a psychologically divergent fantasy based purely in a delusion is counter-productive. These individuals have the option to speak in their native language, and are choosing (choice between what it is amongst psychologically ill people) to not do it.
All these people, and Wil Weaton actually having public appearances, and somehow he lives. I think perhaps that you are the one have the trouble telling between fiction and reality, and that no one was of the actual opinion that he should be killed.
A lot of people hate on Wil (just read his blog, or a number of newsgroups on the subject) for the Wesley role. There is no fiction there.
Because you seem to be having some difficulties understanding my stance, I'll list it out in a much more detailed summary:
Individuals refusing to speak common languages, due to psychological illness, should not be allowed to communicate in "imaginary" languages that are not based in this world. In the examples we're discussing, the language is Klingon. Klingon is not a real language, not any more than Elfish is from Lord of the Rings. Allowing mentally ill patients to communicate as this language enforces the notion that the language has credence in real-world communication. It is obvious that they understand a real language as the only way to learn Klingon (outside of having some really strange parents) is as a second language. There is still a major inlet for therapy to be had within the native language of the patient, without resorting to enforcing fantasy behaviors.
Does that make you feel better? You already have me listed as a foe, which would seem that you just don't want to listen to any argument, but I hope you can eventually see my point here.
That's why they invented the CD player.
And 8-track, and casettes, but the CD/MD players gave everybody what they want... then they want more.
The thing that really concerns me is that you'll get people paying more attention to their car radio than driving.
If you want more selection than that, there's a large array of MP3-playing systems for cars too, from CD-R players (which stores around 6-12 CDs worth of music), to MP3 jukeboxes which are basically hard drives connected to the stereo, which can store your whole collection.
Don't forget Satellite Radio now as well. Tons of stations, mostly commercial free. The only way I could see this to be remotely useful is just talk radio. There are some shows that I'd like to listen to on the radio, but they don't do webcasts and I'm often not in my car or near a radio at the time they're on.