How do I install this thing on my computer? I can't find a download link. Also it says "works on most email servers as long as the user has access to POP3 and SMTP." Does that include yahoo or googlemail?
The nearby Philadelphia station (Megahertz or Link - channel 35.3) plays Chinese news three times a day. Nothing shocking about it. Also Korean, Japanese, French, German, British, and Euro.
>>>if everyone were to simply ignore laws they don't like, the result would be total anarchy and the collapse of society -
I agree with your 95%.
The other 5% would be laws that are unconstitutional, because they violate the 10th Amendment (powers not given to congress can not be exercised), or the overall Bill of Rights, or the Local State Constitution (which contains more rights not enumerated at the federal level). As an early Supreme Court observed, a law that is unconstitutional is not a law. And never was.
Don't know about "laws of ethics" but there are innate Natural Rights, which all human beings share simply because they are human. Example: The right (or instinct if you prefer) to own one's self, rather than be owned as a slave.
Another right, my personal favorite, is the right to share ideas: "Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point.
"Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property..... Grants of copyright can be justified in very peculiar cases only, if at all - the danger being very great that the good resulting from the operation of the monopoly, will be overbalanced by the evil effect of the precedent; and it being not impossible that the monopoly itself, in its original operation, may produce more evil than good. [Think RIAA and MPAA.]" - Thomas Jefferson
>>>Thinking "our own people" is the source of most of the evil in the world.
I disagree. I think stealing money from people's wallets, especially in the name of good intentions, is the worst evil. Not only does that make the government leader a thief, but a deceiver as well.
If a leader wants to be charitable, he should do it with his OWN money rather than hold a gun, or threat of jail, to people's heads and forcing them to relinquish their dollars (i.e. labor). That is what the Catholic Church used to do, circa 1400 AD, in order to make people Christian. But the road to heaven is not paved with guns. Paradise is reached by choice, not force.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." And: "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs." - "Yes Chairman Stalin, but where is the omelet? All I see are broken eggs and dead bodies."
THANKS.
- I've been eating Turkey bacon which is quite good, with 90% less fat, but still not cholesterol-free. I'll give this veggie bacon a try sometime. (And thus my bookmark list grows every longer - pretty soon it will be the length of a novel.)
We should ask questions of ourselves ALL the time, rather than just blindly push forward. Now of course I don't mean trivial junk like, "Should I go to the bathroom?" but more serious issues like, "Do I have a right to take cash-for-clunkers, when the $3000 I'm getting comes from my neighbors' wallets? They probably need the money more than I do."
Or: "Do I have a right to take a job that involves laying-off my neighbors?" For me the answer is not a simple one. The pros are that Indians overseas get to be employed, instead of being penniless and hungry. The cons are that I'm laying-off my neighbors, and most likely, laying off myself in the future (when my engineering job is also outsourced).
Another consideration: In the long term, oil prices will rise, and shipping goods from China or India will no longer be as cheap as building here at home. Offshore call centers probably won't be affected, but I think it wiser to keep the factories for physical goods HERE, so we will be prepared for that coming Oil Shock (circa 2020) rather than have to rebuild from scratch.
Yeah true but a phone can be thrown-out if it becomes "diseased". Not so with your willy. An open unprotected phone is less deadly and less of a concern.
There ought to be a list somewhere, perhaps a popup as soon as you turn-on your computer/phone, which lists those "common sense" practices. Otherwise people won't know.
BTW I had a family member send a 5000 dollar check to Prince Nabubu in Nigeria, because he thought he'd won a lottery. People like that need a list to tell them, "No you do not send money to strangers."
- "Prince Nabubu never Told you the Truth. *I* am your scammer.";-)
When they ousted Steve in 1985(?) they didn't have any problem finding a replacement. I doubt they'll have a problem finding a replacement when he eventually passes on. Whether said replacement is GOOD is another matter - and not really something you can predict ahead of time.
Random Thought: - the visionary men that made computers what they are today: - Nolan Bushnell (gaming & multimedia computing) - Jack Tramel (mass marketed the #1 and #2 best-selling computers - C=64 and Amiga 500) - Steve Jobs (obvious) - Bill Gates - probably left some off but those are the ones on top.
The Japanese government started giving people generous benefits (like 12 months paid leave) to get pregnant and have kids. BUT producing more humans on an already-overpopulated planet is not the solution.
In fact in the long-term Japan is probably better-off with fewer babies being born. In the short term it causes healthcare shortages but in the long term (20-30 years) the problem will pass-away
>>>If you're looking for an ethical out, this isn't it.
I have an ethical out: Hollywood won't let return these that are crap. Even candybar makers advertise, "Satisfaction guaranteed or return for a refund." Why can't CD and DVD sellers make the same promise? So I download to avoid throwing-away my money on shit movies (like transformers 2). I would buy this stuff legally if T2 was returning, but since it isn't, and I don't want to throw-away $20, I watch it first before buying.
And don't try to argue that I should read reviews. Those things are bought-and-paid-for by the companies, and therefore worthless.
If I had to care for a heavy person, I'd put them on a mandatory diet until they dropped to a reasonable level (like 120-140 pounds) that I could lift. IN fact - at that point most people would probably be able to lift themselves and not need so much help (other than balance-assistance).
The Japanese government started giving people generous benefits (like 12 months paid leave) to get pregnant and have kids. BUT producing more humans on an already-overpopulated planet is not the solution.
In fact in the long-term Japan is probably better-off with fewer babies being born. In the short term it causes healthcare shortages but in the long term (20-30 years) the problem will pass-away
>>>I happen to like some of their games, thanks. More than enough to ignore this particular incident.
I like some of their games too, but if they succeed with the "phone home" feature on this game, soon they'll apply to all their new games, and I'll be left out (no net connection to my console). Wiser to let Capcom know we won't put-up with their crap.
Another reason it's not acceptable is because I often take my console with me to hotels, whether it's the PSX, the Nintendo, or the Xbox, and often they don't provide more than one internet line (which is used for my laptop). Also the kids in my family don't have their consoles connected online.
That means we'd all have CD/DVD games that refuse to play because they cannot "phone home" to the Game manufacturer's website to verify their validity. - This is a lousy method of copy protecting disks.
I've not a clue what you're talking about. An actual DS0 line which feeds your home can carry 64,000 bit/second but only 7 of the 8 bits are available for use, so that leaves the line with 56,000 max datastream.
The US FCC imposed a speed limitation of 53,300 to avoid crosstalk between lines, and I get that speed almost every time, regardless of which location I am at. - If your phone company has not upgraded to Digital lines (which would be a violation of the 1996 Telecomm Act), then you would get a speed... not of 48,000... but of 33,600 analog.
>>>if you could negotiate a v42bis connection, downloading 17gb would be faster
MPEG videos (what I'm downloading) are not compressible. So no it would not be any faster. Text-based web-surfing would be faster, but not by a significant amount. .
>>>v92 actually had worse compression then v42bis
And now you really stuck your foot in your mouth. V.92 uses V.44 compression which is about 60% BETTER compression then v42bis.
(whispers to mods) Try "funny". - Oh an obligatory link to my favorite nudity site: http://www.domai.com/ and http://www.goddessnudes.com/ (Note there's no need to pay since he gives hundreds of images away for free.)
Another reason it's not acceptable is because I often take my console with me to hotels, whether it's the PS, the Nintendo, or the Xbox, and often they don't provide more than one internet line (which is used for my laptop).
Also the kids in my family don't have their consoles connected online, so that means we'd all have games that refuse to play because they cannot "phone home" to the Game manufacturer's website.
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Even if it were true (vaccines cause autism), as Penn & Teller wisely argued: Vaccines SAVE more lives than they kill/damage.
See the video for yourself - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo
BIG QUESTION:
How do I install this thing on my computer? I can't find a download link. Also it says "works on most email servers as long as the user has access to POP3 and SMTP." Does that include yahoo or googlemail?
>>>imagine the repercussions
The nearby Philadelphia station (Megahertz or Link - channel 35.3) plays Chinese news three times a day. Nothing shocking about it. Also Korean, Japanese, French, German, British, and Euro.
>>>if everyone were to simply ignore laws they don't like, the result would be total anarchy and the collapse of society -
I agree with your 95%.
The other 5% would be laws that are unconstitutional, because they violate the 10th Amendment (powers not given to congress can not be exercised), or the overall Bill of Rights, or the Local State Constitution (which contains more rights not enumerated at the federal level). As an early Supreme Court observed, a law that is unconstitutional is not a law. And never was.
Don't know about "laws of ethics" but there are innate Natural Rights, which all human beings share simply because they are human. Example: The right (or instinct if you prefer) to own one's self, rather than be owned as a slave.
Another right, my personal favorite, is the right to share ideas: "Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point.
"Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property..... Grants of copyright can be justified in very peculiar cases only, if at all - the danger being very great that the good resulting from the operation of the monopoly, will be overbalanced by the evil effect of the precedent; and it being not impossible that the monopoly itself, in its original operation, may produce more evil than good. [Think RIAA and MPAA.]" - Thomas Jefferson
>>>Thinking "our own people" is the source of most of the evil in the world.
I disagree. I think stealing money from people's wallets, especially in the name of good intentions, is the worst evil. Not only does that make the government leader a thief, but a deceiver as well.
If a leader wants to be charitable, he should do it with his OWN money rather than hold a gun, or threat of jail, to people's heads and forcing them to relinquish their dollars (i.e. labor). That is what the Catholic Church used to do, circa 1400 AD, in order to make people Christian. But the road to heaven is not paved with guns. Paradise is reached by choice, not force.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." And: "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs." - "Yes Chairman Stalin, but where is the omelet? All I see are broken eggs and dead bodies."
THANKS.
- I've been eating Turkey bacon which is quite good, with 90% less fat, but still not cholesterol-free. I'll give this veggie bacon a try sometime. (And thus my bookmark list grows every longer - pretty soon it will be the length of a novel.)
I disagree.
We should ask questions of ourselves ALL the time, rather than just blindly push forward. Now of course I don't mean trivial junk like, "Should I go to the bathroom?" but more serious issues like, "Do I have a right to take cash-for-clunkers, when the $3000 I'm getting comes from my neighbors' wallets? They probably need the money more than I do."
Or: "Do I have a right to take a job that involves laying-off my neighbors?" For me the answer is not a simple one. The pros are that Indians overseas get to be employed, instead of being penniless and hungry. The cons are that I'm laying-off my neighbors, and most likely, laying off myself in the future (when my engineering job is also outsourced).
Another consideration: In the long term, oil prices will rise, and shipping goods from China or India will no longer be as cheap as building here at home. Offshore call centers probably won't be affected, but I think it wiser to keep the factories for physical goods HERE, so we will be prepared for that coming Oil Shock (circa 2020) rather than have to rebuild from scratch.
>>>Open devices are like a girl with open legs
Yeah true but a phone can be thrown-out if it becomes "diseased". Not so with your willy. An open unprotected phone is less deadly and less of a concern.
Given the government's insistence they need to have power to kill-switch the internet, I can't help wondering if this was staged.
There ought to be a list somewhere, perhaps a popup as soon as you turn-on your computer/phone, which lists those "common sense" practices. Otherwise people won't know.
BTW I had a family member send a 5000 dollar check to Prince Nabubu in Nigeria, because he thought he'd won a lottery. People like that need a list to tell them, "No you do not send money to strangers."
- "Prince Nabubu never Told you the Truth. *I* am your scammer." ;-)
When they ousted Steve in 1985(?) they didn't have any problem finding a replacement. I doubt they'll have a problem finding a replacement when he eventually passes on. Whether said replacement is GOOD is another matter - and not really something you can predict ahead of time.
Random Thought:
- the visionary men that made computers what they are today:
- Nolan Bushnell (gaming & multimedia computing)
- Jack Tramel (mass marketed the #1 and #2 best-selling computers - C=64 and Amiga 500)
- Steve Jobs (obvious)
- Bill Gates
- probably left some off but those are the ones on top.
The Japanese government started giving people generous benefits (like 12 months paid leave) to get pregnant and have kids. BUT producing more humans on an already-overpopulated planet is not the solution.
In fact in the long-term Japan is probably better-off with fewer babies being born. In the short term it causes healthcare shortages but in the long term (20-30 years) the problem will pass-away
>>>If you're looking for an ethical out, this isn't it.
I have an ethical out: Hollywood won't let return these that are crap. Even candybar makers advertise, "Satisfaction guaranteed or return for a refund." Why can't CD and DVD sellers make the same promise? So I download to avoid throwing-away my money on shit movies (like transformers 2). I would buy this stuff legally if T2 was returning, but since it isn't, and I don't want to throw-away $20, I watch it first before buying.
And don't try to argue that I should read reviews. Those things are bought-and-paid-for by the companies, and therefore worthless.
>>>Open devices are like a girl with open legs
Yeah but a phone can be thrown-out if it becomes "diseased". Not so with your willy.
>>>The solution is to manage the population down gently.
How?
>>>move the sedentary whales in your care.
If I had to care for a heavy person, I'd put them on a mandatory diet until they dropped to a reasonable level (like 120-140 pounds) that I could lift. IN fact - at that point most people would probably be able to lift themselves and not need so much help (other than balance-assistance).
The Japanese government started giving people generous benefits (like 12 months paid leave) to get pregnant and have kids. BUT producing more humans on an already-overpopulated planet is not the solution.
In fact in the long-term Japan is probably better-off with fewer babies being born. In the short term it causes healthcare shortages but in the long term (20-30 years) the problem will pass-away
>>>I happen to like some of their games, thanks. More than enough to ignore this particular incident.
I like some of their games too, but if they succeed with the "phone home" feature on this game, soon they'll apply to all their new games, and I'll be left out (no net connection to my console). Wiser to let Capcom know we won't put-up with their crap.
P.S.
Another reason it's not acceptable is because I often take my console with me to hotels, whether it's the PSX, the Nintendo, or the Xbox, and often they don't provide more than one internet line (which is used for my laptop). Also the kids in my family don't have their consoles connected online.
That means we'd all have CD/DVD games that refuse to play because they cannot "phone home" to the Game manufacturer's website to verify their validity. - This is a lousy method of copy protecting disks.
Eric Holder and John Morton filed the congressman's letter in their circular file. They don't give a frak what congress thinks.
I've not a clue what you're talking about. An actual DS0 line which feeds your home can carry 64,000 bit/second but only 7 of the 8 bits are available for use, so that leaves the line with 56,000 max datastream.
The US FCC imposed a speed limitation of 53,300 to avoid crosstalk between lines, and I get that speed almost every time, regardless of which location I am at. - If your phone company has not upgraded to Digital lines (which would be a violation of the 1996 Telecomm Act), then you would get a speed... not of 48,000... but of 33,600 analog.
>>>if you could negotiate a v42bis connection, downloading 17gb would be faster
MPEG videos (what I'm downloading) are not compressible. So no it would not be any faster. Text-based web-surfing would be faster, but not by a significant amount.
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>>>v92 actually had worse compression then v42bis
And now you really stuck your foot in your mouth. V.92 uses V.44 compression which is about 60% BETTER compression then v42bis.
(whispers to mods) Try "funny".
- Oh an obligatory link to my favorite nudity site: http://www.domai.com/ and http://www.goddessnudes.com/ (Note there's no need to pay since he gives hundreds of images away for free.)
Another reason it's not acceptable is because I often take my console with me to hotels, whether it's the PS, the Nintendo, or the Xbox, and often they don't provide more than one internet line (which is used for my laptop).
Also the kids in my family don't have their consoles connected online, so that means we'd all have games that refuse to play because they cannot "phone home" to the Game manufacturer's website.
Even corporations.
Let's boycott Capcom's games, Capcom's gadgets, and Capcom's websites.