You miss the point. The danger is that Microsoft controls the patents which control the software technology upon which Gnome depends. Only Suse has a license for these patents.
Two in the Mediterranean, another between Suez and Dubai somewhere, which is not in the Mediterranean at all. The nation of Iran appears to be entirely disconnected from the Internet by these events: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
> Let me guess: money from the tribes is being spent by white developers to produce an artefact > for a museum mostly visited by whites.
Blacks and yellows and reds and blues are also not aborignal Australians. You've got a white-man chip on your shoulder about a mile wide. I'm more than happy to knock it off.
Some people prioritize the preservation of their culture over their self-interest.
Regardless, outsiders would never tolerate the access controls. Those are there for the insiders.
However, obviously, there is no way to prevent the recording of anything that can be seen and heard. So the "DRM" of which you speak is an imaginary object, and is not to be confused with a real technology.
The original article is just blatant b.s. Here's what the Kucinich campaign sent to the NH SoS: Image Link. The guy who paid for the recount thinks it proves that NH can't be trusted to count votes.
FBCB2 is in every humvee. You can't make them all secret, in a theatre deployment, because you've got troops who aren't even US citizens. You've got troops who are there as an alternative to the penitentiary, or in order to get citizenship qualification -- they're never going to get clearance.
More like the illusion of sound method. There is no such thing as sound method, in truth. The gullible credulity of positivism is no less than that of shamanism, which is at least empirical. In practice, we observe socially accepted practices within disparate intercommunicating communities. When you try to communicate between these islands, its pretty rare for the norms to port well between environments. The result is typically a failure to communicate. It's not because sociologists or voodoo priestesses are stupid or insane or inferior. It's because they live in a different world, use a different language, and have different experiences.
Fundamentally, it is inconsistent to believe
(1) your ideation is performed by a material process implemented in your brain
(2) your brain is the result of an undirected process
(3) your ideation is able to accurately represent physical reality simultaneously. You can have any two, but not all three at once.
If your cognitive processes are the result of an undirected physical process, then I have no more reason to believe anything you say than I do to take the advice of a moose or a lichen or an asteroid. In fact, according to the metaphysical theory of scientific materialism, incorporating the neo-darwinian synthesis model of evolution, it is essentially impossible for you to reason accurately about reality, since the ability to do so is not an adaptive trait, as GA experiments have shown.
I would charge the attorney general with prosecuting the members of the current administration with War Crimes under title 18 of the US Code.
I would announce a plan to withdraw all US forces to within US borders or international waters except in cases of the use of facilities for forward placement under terms of mutual agreement with a legitimately elected government, and introduce legislation to make all other deployments of military forces without a declaration of war, except in cases where congress is unable to convene and then only for a limited period, a capital crime.
I would introduce legislation to provide tuition credit vouchers to all residents of the US who pass standardized entrance examinations for their level of education, with preferrential allocation for study in specializations of greater need.
I would introduce a program to study the control of insolation by the placement of mylar mirrors in orbit.
I would introduce a program to study the control of atmospheric carbon by ocean seeding.
I would introduce a program to coordinate humanitarian efforts of volunteers and NGOs for purposes of nutrition and medical care in under-served areas of the earth.
I would introduce tax incentives for small business creation.
I would introduce legislation to balance the federal budget immediately, and to dissolve the IRS, and the department of education.
I would announce an amnesty for all persons convicted of non-violent drug offenses.
I would withdraw all illegal clandestine agents to US borders, and release all state secrets to the public, to save democracy.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution allowing any state to secede from the union on a 2/3 vote of a plebescite.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution protecting the right of personal medical self-determination.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution limiting copyrights and patents to 17 years.
I would introduce legislation to issue currency backed by a rolling basket of futures, to perpetually keep inflation at 0%.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the issuance of currency without commensurate commodity exchange value, or the passage of a budget which did not produce a surplus during peacetime.
I would open the borders to immigration by all persons who are not deemed to be a threat to the public.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution requiring rank voting, abolishing political parties, limiting campaigns to one month, and supplying public information distribution channels to all candidates meeting minimum petition counts.
I would introduce legislation to reverse the effect of Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific, denying corporations the fiction of juridical personhood.
I would introduce legislation to require all able persons to participate in local militia training one week annually, from ages 18 to 32, and compelling all able persons to respond to the local sheriff in cases of emergency.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution to prohibit the use of the death penalty in peacetime except for capital murder witnessed by two eyewitnesses, consistent with material evidence, upon the finding of a jury.
I would institute a special prosecutor to investigate drug smuggling using CIA assets.
I would institute an independent panel with unlimited subpeona power to investigate financial and terrorist crimes by associates of the intelligence community.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution making the secretaries of the departments elected officials, likewise the members of the supreme court, and restoring the control of the senate to the state legislatures, as well as abolishing the electoral college.
That would be wrong. Ron Paul doesn't associate with Stormfront, firstly; The New York Times was forced to publish a retraction on that claim when it was disproven. Secondly, you're pretending that a single incident was extended over a period of decades. In fact, Paul dismissed the editors involved, directly upon being informed of the objectionable content.
I can't imagine what crime they could be committing such that a photo would be proof of anything, unless it is related to pornography, where the act of utterance is the crime. Underage drinking? I think failing to drink results in death, and photographs don't provide a basis for spectrographic analysis of the fluids. Smoking? Again, it could be cocoa beans or jimson weed or salvia divinorum.
This news is very bright. I've seen the effects of Alzheimer's, and it can be horrifically damaging not only to the immediate sufferer, but to their entire family. This sort of dramatically, immediately effective solution for a very real and pressing human need is why science and technology are outrageously cool.
Amgen and Wyeth jointly market Enbrel. Given the size of the aging boomer population, I expect this to make a huge amount of money. Therefore, I'm planning to put my liquid investment funds into AMGN (which is at a better technical condition for a run-up than Wyeth), in the morning. Even if it takes a couple of years before Alzheimer's use gets approval, it's going to see a lot of off-label use meanwhile, and the long-term investment is excellent, in an otherwise pretty dismal market environment.
I would guess that Indian generic manufacturers will take it up too, long before it goes off-patent in the US and Europe, but it's hard to say who will get there first.
Interestingly, Clinton did far better than the exit poll numbers in the locales which were tallied by LHS from Diebold (now Premier) machines, while Obama won in the municipalities which were counted by hand. The discrepancy is about 5%. You can check this yourself. Here's the database of counting systems Bev Harris collated from information supplied by the Secretary of State of New Hampshire before the primary: http://www.bbvdocs.org/NH/state/Jan-08-votingsystems-NH.txt -- and here you can find the AP vote tallies: http://www.politico.com/nhprimaries/nhmap-popup.html (I'd appreciate a better source than this flash, BTW.)
Ronald Reagan and the Republican voters of his congressional district seem to think he's a Republican.
When I read his position statements, they read like the Republican party platform from the late 19th, early 20th century, when they were for limited government, fiscal responsibility, and opposed aggressive war.
In fact, if you were to mass-produce something with the functionality and safety and efficiency of a Model T today, you probably could pull it down around $200. But nobody wants it. The law prohibits it.
If that's your notion of creativity, it seems pretty uninteresting to me. I don't run a word processor to be exhilarated, or to pick up chicks. It would be nice if OO had cool, useful features, but cool useless ones I despise because they are an infestation of bloat and bugs, and I'm not going to complain about free software because unlike Lanier, I'm not a whinging SOB. If I want something done right, I know I have to do it myself or pay someone to do it for me.
I only use free software, simply because I don't want to cede total control over my life to the anonymous controllers of the sort who spend their lives squirming their way into a position where they can do that. Peer-review is the only realistic protection for privacy and liberty in cyberspace, and if the "innovation" gets done in the commercial world while the free world just clones it, that's cool with me -- although I see more of the opposite occuring, frankly.
You assume people care about the use of steroids by athletes. I don't think they do. As far as I can tell, only sports media and athletes care. Athletes care because they don't want to have to take dangerous drugs to stay competitive.
I take piracetam, vinpocetine, adrafinil, and methylphenidate. Of course it gives me an "unfair advantage". That's why I take them. It also benefits society, because it makes me orders of magnitude more productive as an engineer and a scientist that I would be otherwise. It benefits my family, various people in need in my community, and the many children in third-world nations that I can support because my income is freaking enormous. If I were good at something more lucrative than what I do, I might feel less pressure to enhance my performance, but I doubt it. With power (to produce income) comes responsibility (to distribute income).
In 1990 I was running simulations of 100,000 neurons on a Connection Machine CM-2 which predicted from biochemical first-principles both known biological effects and effects later observed in vivo. I'm sure these guys are way, way past where we were 17 years ago.
Effective disenfranchisement is a variety of disenfranchisement. Legal disenfranchisement is another variety. They are logically independent: One does not strictly imply the other. You're talking about the second variety, when responding to someone who is talking about the first. The result is unproductive non-communication.
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You miss the point. The danger is that Microsoft controls the patents which control the software technology upon which Gnome depends. Only Suse has a license for these patents.
Two in the Mediterranean, another between Suez and Dubai somewhere, which is not in the Mediterranean at all.
The nation of Iran appears to be entirely disconnected from the Internet by these events: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
> Let me guess: money from the tribes is being spent by white developers to produce an artefact
> for a museum mostly visited by whites.
Blacks and yellows and reds and blues are also not aborignal Australians.
You've got a white-man chip on your shoulder about a mile wide. I'm more than
happy to knock it off.
Some people prioritize the preservation of their culture over their self-interest.
Regardless, outsiders would never tolerate the access controls. Those are there
for the insiders.
However, obviously, there is no way to prevent the recording of anything that can be seen and heard. So the "DRM" of which you speak is an imaginary object, and is not to be confused with a real technology.
Yeah, it's difficult to give up sex, if you're acoustomed to it.
The original article is just blatant b.s. Here's what the Kucinich campaign sent to the NH SoS: Image Link. The guy who paid for the recount thinks it proves that NH can't be trusted to count votes.
"by Rupert Murdock", I think you mean?
Hey, they can have my scutums when they pry my cold, dead hands...nevermind.
Clearly the computers will very quickly come to weight nothing. Unlike my scutums.
Do you mean that Rupert Murdock is distributing c.p.?
FBCB2 is in every humvee. You can't make them all secret, in a theatre deployment, because you've got troops who aren't even US citizens. You've got troops who are there as an alternative to the penitentiary, or in order to get citizenship qualification -- they're never going to get clearance.
More like the illusion of sound method. There is no such thing as sound method, in truth. The gullible credulity of positivism is no less than that of shamanism, which is at least empirical. In practice, we observe socially accepted practices within disparate intercommunicating communities. When you try to communicate between these islands, its pretty rare for the norms to port well between environments. The result is typically a failure to communicate. It's not because sociologists or voodoo priestesses are stupid or insane or inferior. It's because they live in a different world, use a different language, and have different experiences.
Fundamentally, it is inconsistent to believe
(1) your ideation is performed by a material process implemented in your brain
(2) your brain is the result of an undirected process
(3) your ideation is able to accurately represent physical reality
simultaneously. You can have any two, but not all three at once.
If your cognitive processes are the result of an undirected physical process, then I have no more reason to believe anything you say than I do to take the advice of a moose or a lichen or an asteroid. In fact, according to the metaphysical theory of scientific materialism, incorporating the neo-darwinian synthesis model of evolution, it is essentially impossible for you to reason accurately about reality, since the ability to do so is not an adaptive trait, as GA experiments have shown.
I would charge the attorney general with prosecuting the members of the current administration with War Crimes under title 18 of the US Code.
I would announce a plan to withdraw all US forces to within US borders or international waters except in cases of the use of facilities for forward placement under terms of mutual agreement with a legitimately elected government, and introduce legislation to make all other deployments of military forces without a declaration of war, except in cases where congress is unable to convene and then only for a limited period, a capital crime.
I would introduce legislation to provide tuition credit vouchers to all residents of the US who pass standardized entrance examinations for their level of education, with preferrential allocation for study in specializations of greater need.
I would introduce a program to study the control of insolation by the placement of mylar mirrors in orbit.
I would introduce a program to study the control of atmospheric carbon by ocean seeding.
I would introduce a program to coordinate humanitarian efforts of volunteers and NGOs for purposes of nutrition and medical care in under-served areas of the earth.
I would introduce tax incentives for small business creation.
I would introduce legislation to balance the federal budget immediately, and to dissolve the IRS, and the department of education.
I would announce an amnesty for all persons convicted of non-violent drug offenses.
I would withdraw all illegal clandestine agents to US borders, and release all state secrets to the public, to save democracy.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution allowing any state to secede from the union on a 2/3 vote of a plebescite.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution protecting the right of personal medical self-determination.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution limiting copyrights and patents to 17 years.
I would introduce legislation to issue currency backed by a rolling basket of futures, to perpetually keep inflation at 0%.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the issuance of currency without commensurate commodity exchange value, or the passage of a budget which did not produce a surplus during peacetime.
I would open the borders to immigration by all persons who are not deemed to be a threat to the public.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution requiring rank voting, abolishing political parties, limiting campaigns to one month, and supplying public information distribution channels to all candidates meeting minimum petition counts.
I would introduce legislation to reverse the effect of Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific, denying corporations the fiction of juridical personhood.
I would introduce legislation to require all able persons to participate in local militia training one week annually, from ages 18 to 32, and compelling all able persons to respond to the local sheriff in cases of emergency.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution to prohibit the use of the death penalty in peacetime except for capital murder witnessed by two eyewitnesses, consistent with material evidence, upon the finding of a jury.
I would institute a special prosecutor to investigate drug smuggling using CIA assets.
I would institute an independent panel with unlimited subpeona power to investigate financial and terrorist crimes by associates of the intelligence community.
I would introduce an amendment to the constitution making the secretaries of the departments elected officials, likewise the members of the supreme court, and restoring the control of the senate to the state legislatures, as well as abolishing the electoral college.
That would be wrong. Ron Paul doesn't associate with Stormfront, firstly; The New York Times was forced to publish a retraction on that claim when it was disproven. Secondly, you're pretending that a single incident was extended over a period of decades. In fact, Paul dismissed the editors involved, directly upon being informed of the objectionable content.
It's a transparent smear.
I can't imagine what crime they could be committing such that a photo would be proof of anything, unless it is related to pornography, where the act of utterance is the crime. Underage drinking? I think failing to drink results in death, and photographs don't provide a basis for spectrographic analysis of the fluids. Smoking? Again, it could be cocoa beans or jimson weed or salvia divinorum.
This news is very bright. I've seen the effects of Alzheimer's, and it can be horrifically damaging not only to the immediate sufferer, but to their entire family. This sort of dramatically, immediately effective solution for a very real and pressing human need is why science and technology are outrageously cool.
Amgen and Wyeth jointly market Enbrel. Given the size of the aging boomer population, I expect this to make a huge amount of money. Therefore, I'm planning to put my liquid investment funds into AMGN (which is at a better technical condition for a run-up than Wyeth), in the morning. Even if it takes a couple of years before Alzheimer's use gets approval, it's going to see a lot of off-label use meanwhile, and the long-term investment is excellent, in an otherwise pretty dismal market environment.
I would guess that Indian generic manufacturers will take it up too, long before it goes off-patent in the US and Europe, but it's hard to say who will get there first.
Interestingly, Clinton did far better than the exit poll numbers in the locales which were tallied by LHS from Diebold (now Premier) machines, while Obama won in the municipalities which were counted by hand. The discrepancy is about 5%. You can check this yourself. Here's the database of counting systems Bev Harris collated from information supplied by the Secretary of State of New Hampshire before the primary: http://www.bbvdocs.org/NH/state/Jan-08-votingsystems-NH.txt -- and here you can find the AP vote tallies: http://www.politico.com/nhprimaries/nhmap-popup.html (I'd appreciate a better source than this flash, BTW.)
Ronald Reagan and the Republican voters of his congressional district seem to think he's a Republican.
When I read his position statements, they read like the Republican party platform from the late 19th, early 20th century, when they were for limited government, fiscal responsibility, and opposed aggressive war.
In fact, if you were to mass-produce something with the functionality and safety and efficiency of a Model T today, you probably could pull it down around $200. But nobody wants it. The law prohibits it.
> Americans tend to be rich.
Not in Paris, they don't. They tend to be poor slobs. Now in Kampala, or Karachi, yeah... W00t! USA number 37!
What's really cool is that now terrorists can rig bombs that only kill people carrying American passports.
If that's your notion of creativity, it seems pretty uninteresting to me. I don't run a word processor to be exhilarated, or to pick up chicks. It would be nice if OO had cool, useful features, but cool useless ones I despise because they are an infestation of bloat and bugs, and I'm not going to complain about free software because unlike Lanier, I'm not a whinging SOB. If I want something done right, I know I have to do it myself or pay someone to do it for me.
I only use free software, simply because I don't want to cede total control over my life to the anonymous controllers of the sort who spend their lives squirming their way into a position where they can do that. Peer-review is the only realistic protection for privacy and liberty in cyberspace, and if the "innovation" gets done in the commercial world while the free world just clones it, that's cool with me -- although I see more of the opposite occuring, frankly.
You assume people care about the use of steroids by athletes. I don't think they do. As far as I can tell, only sports media and athletes care. Athletes care because they don't want to have to take dangerous drugs to stay competitive.
I take piracetam, vinpocetine, adrafinil, and methylphenidate. Of course it gives me an "unfair advantage". That's why I take them. It also benefits society, because it makes me orders of magnitude more productive as an engineer and a scientist that I would be otherwise. It benefits my family, various people in need in my community, and the many children in third-world nations that I can support because my income is freaking enormous. If I were good at something more lucrative than what I do, I might feel less pressure to enhance my performance, but I doubt it. With power (to produce income) comes responsibility (to distribute income).
In 1990 I was running simulations of 100,000 neurons on a Connection Machine CM-2 which predicted from biochemical first-principles both known biological effects and effects later observed in vivo. I'm sure these guys are way, way past where we were 17 years ago.
Effective disenfranchisement is a variety of disenfranchisement. Legal disenfranchisement is another variety. They are logically independent: One does not strictly imply the other. You're talking about the second variety, when responding to someone who is talking about the first. The result is unproductive non-communication.