Also posted a torrent on my wall, also from TPB. It was just a Linux distro, so there wasn't any infringement, but I don't think Facebook has any way of knowing that.
But this reminds me of an anecdote I once heard where the Colombian drug lords offered to pay off the national debt if the Colombian government legalized drugs.
Mmm. I suppose that one of the things that got it "tits down" in the first place was its status as a corporate tax haven. Biting the hand that feeds you is a bad long-term strategy, particularly because Ireland chases off its sugar daddies, they won't come back.
They might use a physical currency. They would not use dollars. The dollar was used historically because is stable, it has a wide international reach, and there wasn't any European currency that could compete with it on scale. Sure, you had British pounds and French francs and German marks, but the dollar was the big boy in town.
Nowadays, that's no longer true. The Euro is a completely viable alternative to the dollar on a broad international scale. It's even used as the official currency in countries outside of the EU: see, for instance, Kosovo. The physical Euro has some nice advantages for Estonians: you can drive to the country next door and actually spend themat any retailer, as opposed to trading them as a "black market" currency. And as the summary notes, it's already going to be the official currency of Estonia, even if not in physical form, which reduces barriers to depositing physical Euros into, say, a bank account. You don't even have to do a currency exchange!
I just linked a torrent over Facebook. Using both the "message" system and the "chat" system. The link works fine, according to my friend on the receiving end. It links directly to the *.torrent file of a copyrighted movie, which is hosted at The Pirate Bay. I did this twice, once with a small independent documentary, and once with a major studio blockbuster.
You clearly have not read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. (I believe it was Restaurant.) If you had, you would know that the early Earth colonists' solution to this particular inflationary dilemma was to burn down all the trees. Problem solved.
I suggest you bow your head and accept that you have been judged on your geekdom, and found lacking. You may recover some lost face by immediately purchasing or borrowing a copy of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide.
You say you want a revolution, well, you know We all want to change the world But when you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao......wait, which side are you on?
Or you'll see non-hyperbolic stuff like I'm lost on a highway in Corsicana, Texas, there's nowhere to pull over (nothing but corn, no gas stations, no nothing) and I need to call someone to get directions back to I-35.
Or my passenger needs to call someone for any reason. Or get a new book on their Kindle for those long road trips.
Or I need to receive a call from someone.
I'll decry the fascist nanny state control freaks, but long before we're even talking about highway heroics.
You don't need experiments to know that's not going to work.
If you have a good theory that's been tested to death and says otherwise, no, you don't. Newtonian physics is pretty good about ruling out the bullet-curving idea. On the other hand, in real science, you need to collect data. Otherwise we'd probably still be trying to determine the theoretical properties of aether. (Hint: it doesn't exist.) Sure, that episode didn't exactly break new ground and produce a publishable paper, but there's nothing unscientific about exhaustiveness. On the other hand, a disdain for collecting empirical evidence is pretty fucking unscientific.
Hell is full of fire. And the Devil would probably use wires to torture damned souls. So Firewire is clearly Satanic as well.
Let's just get to the point and start living in caves.
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That sounds awful. I hope they do make significant advances in stem cell research so that you and others can get the treatment you deserve. That being said, might I suggest you consider a career as a supervillain? I hear the pay is very nice and you get a cool lair.
I thought the whole point of relativity was that it's not just observation that's limited by the finite and constant speed of light in a vacuum, it's that time itself is relative based on relative velocity and acceleration. E.g., we might well be seeing a 50,000,029 year old black hole, based on the way that time passes over there relative to us.
I also was under the impression that time slows down to a crawl within a black hole. (Some sci-fi I read once, aliens cooped themselves up in one to not have to deal with the rest of the universe.) So if you're going by how the black hole feels about time, depending on the coefficient there, we might be looking at a black hole that's only a couple of weeks old.
This is a DRM article, so of course there's the usual slew of posturing and moral outrage. I don't care for most of the more draconian forms of DRM myself. But there's really nothing particularly horrible about Netflix's usage of DRM, other than that it excludes Linux desktop distros and makes problems for Android. It's very clear that when you pay for Netflix, you're not "buying" any movies, you're licensing the rights to stream them from their servers. It's not a big hassle. Nothing particularly wrong with this model so long as they're up-front about it.
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Also posted a torrent on my wall, also from TPB. It was just a Linux distro, so there wasn't any infringement, but I don't think Facebook has any way of knowing that.
Doubtful.
But this reminds me of an anecdote I once heard where the Colombian drug lords offered to pay off the national debt if the Colombian government legalized drugs.
Mmm. I suppose that one of the things that got it "tits down" in the first place was its status as a corporate tax haven. Biting the hand that feeds you is a bad long-term strategy, particularly because Ireland chases off its sugar daddies, they won't come back.
They might use a physical currency. They would not use dollars. The dollar was used historically because is stable, it has a wide international reach, and there wasn't any European currency that could compete with it on scale. Sure, you had British pounds and French francs and German marks, but the dollar was the big boy in town.
Nowadays, that's no longer true. The Euro is a completely viable alternative to the dollar on a broad international scale. It's even used as the official currency in countries outside of the EU: see, for instance, Kosovo. The physical Euro has some nice advantages for Estonians: you can drive to the country next door and actually spend themat any retailer, as opposed to trading them as a "black market" currency. And as the summary notes, it's already going to be the official currency of Estonia, even if not in physical form, which reduces barriers to depositing physical Euros into, say, a bank account. You don't even have to do a currency exchange!
I just linked a torrent over Facebook. Using both the "message" system and the "chat" system. The link works fine, according to my friend on the receiving end. It links directly to the *.torrent file of a copyrighted movie, which is hosted at The Pirate Bay. I did this twice, once with a small independent documentary, and once with a major studio blockbuster.
I'm not sure what these people are smoking.
Or Euros because the currency in question is the Euro, and it's already printed and minted in Europe where this is taking place.
You clearly have not read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. (I believe it was Restaurant.) If you had, you would know that the early Earth colonists' solution to this particular inflationary dilemma was to burn down all the trees. Problem solved.
I suggest you bow your head and accept that you have been judged on your geekdom, and found lacking. You may recover some lost face by immediately purchasing or borrowing a copy of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide.
No, no, it's nothing about Cold War tensions in Germany, it's a quote from Irving Berlin.
Why use the word "communist" as a pejorative when it has no real relationship to issue at hand? What kind of a carpetbagger would do that?
Why not also take a seat, then, too, and then you can use a laptop?
No, that's not correct either.
The "good" genius works for the corporations. The "evil" genius controls the corporations.
*sings*
You say you want a revolution, well, you know ...wait, which side are you on?
We all want to change the world
But when you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao...
He's got a selection bias. It happens. Especially when you watch Fox News.
Pro tip: A dictator is a single person, not a group of people. Kim Jong-Il is a dictator. Hu Jintao is not.
Or you'll see non-hyperbolic stuff like I'm lost on a highway in Corsicana, Texas, there's nowhere to pull over (nothing but corn, no gas stations, no nothing) and I need to call someone to get directions back to I-35.
Or my passenger needs to call someone for any reason. Or get a new book on their Kindle for those long road trips.
Or I need to receive a call from someone.
I'll decry the fascist nanny state control freaks, but long before we're even talking about highway heroics.
And Archie comics.
You can't eat all those hamburgers!
This irony thing...you don't get it, do you? Hint: it's not what Alanis says it is.
And has been since I was a small child, a teenager, and now a twenty-something.
I think there must be some time-dilation down in those sewers.
You don't need experiments to know that's not going to work.
If you have a good theory that's been tested to death and says otherwise, no, you don't. Newtonian physics is pretty good about ruling out the bullet-curving idea. On the other hand, in real science, you need to collect data. Otherwise we'd probably still be trying to determine the theoretical properties of aether. (Hint: it doesn't exist.) Sure, that episode didn't exactly break new ground and produce a publishable paper, but there's nothing unscientific about exhaustiveness. On the other hand, a disdain for collecting empirical evidence is pretty fucking unscientific.
(2) reasonably young
I'm not sure, but I think a 558-year-old is a little long in the tooth to be considered "reasonably young."
Hell is full of fire. And the Devil would probably use wires to torture damned souls. So Firewire is clearly Satanic as well.
Let's just get to the point and start living in caves.
That sounds awful. I hope they do make significant advances in stem cell research so that you and others can get the treatment you deserve. That being said, might I suggest you consider a career as a supervillain? I hear the pay is very nice and you get a cool lair.
Any astrophysicists around?
I thought the whole point of relativity was that it's not just observation that's limited by the finite and constant speed of light in a vacuum, it's that time itself is relative based on relative velocity and acceleration. E.g., we might well be seeing a 50,000,029 year old black hole, based on the way that time passes over there relative to us.
I also was under the impression that time slows down to a crawl within a black hole. (Some sci-fi I read once, aliens cooped themselves up in one to not have to deal with the rest of the universe.) So if you're going by how the black hole feels about time, depending on the coefficient there, we might be looking at a black hole that's only a couple of weeks old.
This is a DRM article, so of course there's the usual slew of posturing and moral outrage. I don't care for most of the more draconian forms of DRM myself. But there's really nothing particularly horrible about Netflix's usage of DRM, other than that it excludes Linux desktop distros and makes problems for Android. It's very clear that when you pay for Netflix, you're not "buying" any movies, you're licensing the rights to stream them from their servers. It's not a big hassle. Nothing particularly wrong with this model so long as they're up-front about it.
(This will get modded troll, you watch.)