Sorta... well no, It's still highly illegal and you can get sued for making an illegal copy.
For example: some Canadians got sued for coping "Hurt Locker" (The erotic comedy about two gay shoe store employees and their love of leather uppers.)
The tax was a socialist attempt to remedy the issue but in reality it's just a tax for the sake of tax.
IMHO: I don't even think it's the money Sadam and the other organizations are after, it's more about the distribution control, since it gives them credence to exist at all.
There's this theory floating around that the universe is a simulation on a computer, and that computer could be in a universe that is also a simulation, etc.
A never ending series of Matryoshka doll universes.
So at first I thought it was just Will Wright saying this, and that he was off his rocker, but some actual scientific work is going to try and prove it.
What are your thoughts? Wagers? Derisive laughter perhaps?
Agree completely, and the problem with a civet battery-farm is that an element of why the coffee tastes good is lost.
It's not just that they eat and poop out the beans. It's also the fact they are picky about which beans they eat in the wild.
The technology being developed here (or trying to be) is a Virtual Intelligence like in Mass Effect.
Is it centuries away from true Artificial Intelligence or mere decades, I don't know, I don't think anybody knows that.
So cute when people get full of themselves and take on a title like that. Sometimes the depression is when that lofty self-perception is a kite that gets snagged in one of the trees of reality.
I suspect it's also that a lot of us became computer types after neglecting human ties to some degree, and once we get old enough we either come back and learn to deal with people, or we become increasingly lonely and unbalanced as we age. Sometimes both.
The second sounds like it comes from life experience... but that first line is full of snideness.
Have you been beaten down so much you no longer try to go beyond your own limitations?
I wonder how O'Reilly feels about being labeled this way?
Well http://shop.oreilly.com/category/series/hacks.do
So, profitable, would be my guess.
Anywho, I prefer the term Zen or Organic programming to hacking, I'll just go ahead and mark you down on my list as a convert.
"My aggressive behavior was not the cause of this.... besides they were clearly asking for it."
Wow, that excuse works for bullies, rapists, *and* zealot prosecutors.
I'm not sure how that works but I've seen it happen before. Maybe prosecutors earn extra XP by trumping up the charges.
Running a meth lab? Manufacturing of biological weapons of mass destruction.
Burned a flag? Sedition!
Jail-walked? Terrorism!
That's not hard really. I looked at their movies and it's all indie date films and action schlock.
Go support Asylum studios, they make money the old fashioned way, by conning people into renting their mockbusters.
Their too busy getting sued by other studios to sue pirates.
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Sorta... well no, It's still highly illegal and you can get sued for making an illegal copy.
For example: some Canadians got sued for coping "Hurt Locker" (The erotic comedy about two gay shoe store employees and their love of leather uppers.)
The tax was a socialist attempt to remedy the issue but in reality it's just a tax for the sake of tax.
IMHO: I don't even think it's the money Sadam and the other organizations are after, it's more about the distribution control, since it gives them credence to exist at all.
Science fiction isn't about the science, it's about exploring the human condition using a back drop that is alien to our everyday experiences.
However, I think you should look into "hard science fiction", Wiki has a nice list of books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction
Is the only way now to be an immoral asshole that tramples humanity?
There's this theory floating around that the universe is a simulation on a computer, and that computer could be in a universe that is also a simulation, etc. A never ending series of Matryoshka doll universes.
So at first I thought it was just Will Wright saying this, and that he was off his rocker, but some actual scientific work is going to try and prove it.
What are your thoughts? Wagers? Derisive laughter perhaps?
Agree completely, and the problem with a civet battery-farm is that an element of why the coffee tastes good is lost.
It's not just that they eat and poop out the beans. It's also the fact they are picky about which beans they eat in the wild.
Range compression ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-10360787-47.html ) has done more to destroy the subtitles of music than lossey/lossless formats.
No Billie Dee Williams? But he's got no work all the time.
Or bitcoin mining. Though I suppose if the cure for cancer was found the bitcoin economy would collapse.
And... oh... whois says it's registration is private, that's odd. Are we sure this is real and not just a way to harvest email address?
Replaced entire justice system with Thunderdome: two men enter, one man leaves.
I was a velociraptor in a previous life.
You mean enema or anemia? One would clean out old posts but the other requires a transfusion.
Maybe a bag of O positive redditers?
The technology being developed here (or trying to be) is a Virtual Intelligence like in Mass Effect.
Is it centuries away from true Artificial Intelligence or mere decades, I don't know, I don't think anybody knows that.
So cute when people get full of themselves and take on a title like that. Sometimes the depression is when that lofty self-perception is a kite that gets snagged in one of the trees of reality.
I suspect it's also that a lot of us became computer types after neglecting human ties to some degree, and once we get old enough we either come back and learn to deal with people, or we become increasingly lonely and unbalanced as we age. Sometimes both.
The second sounds like it comes from life experience... but that first line is full of snideness.
Have you been beaten down so much you no longer try to go beyond your own limitations?
I wonder how O'Reilly feels about being labeled this way?
Well http://shop.oreilly.com/category/series/hacks.do
So, profitable, would be my guess.
Anywho, I prefer the term Zen or Organic programming to hacking, I'll just go ahead and mark you down on my list as a convert.
"My aggressive behavior was not the cause of this.... besides they were clearly asking for it."
Wow, that excuse works for bullies, rapists, *and* zealot prosecutors.
I'm not sure how that works but I've seen it happen before. Maybe prosecutors earn extra XP by trumping up the charges.
Running a meth lab? Manufacturing of biological weapons of mass destruction.
Burned a flag? Sedition!
Jail-walked? Terrorism!
No, the phone smells you, it doesn't create a smell... you know what, never mind, here's a wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell
More irony in your title than the actual post.
Since it's only Christians that believe in a Mayan doomsday. Actual Mayans don't give a shit.
That's not hard really. I looked at their movies and it's all indie date films and action schlock.
Go support Asylum studios, they make money the old fashioned way, by conning people into renting their mockbusters.
Their too busy getting sued by other studios to sue pirates.
I have it on cartridge for my Atari 2600.
You spelled superfluous wrong.
No, Richard Dysart's voice... What are you talking about?
The article is confusing... Don't the military have massive basements for this sort of thing? They do in movies. Why the New Jersey Turnpike?
Excellent! I'll add that as citation for the Wikipedia article and then you can cite that article as proof.