The real breakthrough happens when the system can decode and parse the file accurately to provide "automagic" meta-data.
Which will never happen, because the system cannot look at a jpeg and and say "Oh, that's Jim+Masai Warrior+Africa+Summer Vacation+Draped Clothing+Acacia Tree+Always reminds me of that cute little girl I never actually got to take a picture of+Masai Mara+sunset+. . . "
The only "property" you have with no law is whatever you can defend with your bare hands against the ill wishes of others. ..
Correct.
Besides, what makes the property *yours* anyways? Claiming it's yours?
Under a system of law what makes the property *yours* anyways? Some other guy claiming it's yours?
Let's try an experiment, shall we? Pull a CD at random from your collection. Now, prove to me it's yours in some form other than your own claim. What makes your underwear "yours" other than the fact that it is you that are wearing it?
Even under a system of law everyone understands that in most cases possession may not only be 90% of the law, it is often the whole of it.
And without law of any kind, partnership is a damned-fool idea.
This does not speak to the existence of partnership.
With no force to enforce the contract you've made, there's nothing keeping the other guy from just running off with the money.
It's a shame you've grown up in a culture where a) you can think this, and b) it might well be true, isn't it?
But then in our culture where there is little to no honor and we have to rely on the other men with guns to enforce our own agreements people run away with the money, sucessfully, all the time.
Whereas in many other cultures with no such law or man with a gun the event would be so notable it would stand in story for generations.
It seems unlikely that I'd provide evidence that you can get a traffic ticket for speeding either, or that you would challange me for the ommission.
My statement was as low level fundamental as that.
If you are truly unaware that incorporation is the act of petitioning the government for special rights and priviledges ( and corollary limits and responsibilities for the granting of those rights) then you will find the evidence in your own state's/nation's commercial code, as well as thousands upon thousands of court cases at both the state and federal level.
Without law of any kind there is still property. Without law of any kind there is still partnership. Without specific law there are no corporations. They are a pure construct of the government.
And petitioning the government for the protections and priviledges of this construct is a purly voluntary act in which you agree to legally bind yourself to the rules governing such constructs.
You need not spend any time reading the commercial code regarding incorporation. Its existence is sufficient evidence of my statement.
A quick inspection of an Apollo capsule reveals why they didn't just use a PDP8.
Think of three fat guys trying to move one of those things in a Mini Cooper.
KFG
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He's like Feynman - someone who is quite smart, shows off a hell lot but is just another smart physicist
Feynman used to use this very fact to show off, joking that winning a Nobel Prize was nothing really remarkable, but to win a Nobel Prize with an IQ of only 120, now that was a remarkable feat.
Boy have you got a lot of catching up to do. They both hit their peak in the 50s, Mambo in the early 50s and Bossa Nova in the late 50s through early 60s, hence my joke about hip people having moved on to Bossa Nova.
If you want to check out Bossa Nova rent the 1959 movie Black Orpheus. A retelling of the Greek myth in the slums of Rio at Carnival time. Dynamite movie whose theme song is the second best known Bossa Nova in America. The best known would be The Girl From Ipanema.
I can't make any similar recommendation about Mambo. The 2000 movie Mad About Mambo was really about Samba which was really mostly Bossa Nova (Bossa Nova is the "New Wave" Samba). It was also about an Irish footballer, which was kind of odd, but then Strictly Ballroom was about Flamenco in Australia (although Spanish characters at least featured heavily in that).
Ok, yeah, I admit it. I actually like dance movies if they're any good. Especially latin dance movies.
In DoJ math giving a single mp3 to your sister is the equivalent of destroying America, which is the equivalent of destroying world civilization.
Notice that there is a distinct paucity of numbers in the DoJ math system. They discovered that we use the Arabic system of numerals and that algebra is an Arabic word. They have replaced traditional math within the department with "Freedom Math."
Freedom math is whatever the hell they feel like defining it as at any given moment (so long as that definition is in concordance with The Bible). Thus my opening paragraph constitutes a formal proof in Freedom Math.
And Bach... well, Bach pretty much wouldn't have a portfolio left except maybe a few keyboard pieces.
That is because Bach wouldn't have bothered writing music much at all. He would have patented the equal tempered scale and retired on the royalties.
Those unhappy with that arrangement could just shut up and enjoy their Gregorian chants, or see him in court.
Thank you very much for the post. Very nice. But I would counter you with Scott Joplin. Thank God he died before Mickey Mouse was "born." I need my Solace.
No, not really. There's bound to be a considerable amount of duplication between their two collections. Let's call it 6Gigs each.
However, in RIAA math that will be 16Gigs of stolen music (taking your latter figure), which is really the equivilent of 832Gigs of stolen music resulting damages of more dollars than there are fundamental particles in the universe.
But the RIAA will settle for whatever they've got in their piggy banks and a public service announcement that they were evil hackers, which is just plain wrong.
Such as the slanderous mambo song "I Saw Mommy do the Mambo."
Not that anybody hip writes sladerous mambo songs anymore. We've moved on to Bossa Nova. You can look that up in the dictionary too, but it really isn't the appropriate reference for the task. Try googling on the key words.
In that centering the stick does not stop a turn, but is instead necessary to continue turning properly and that to stop a turn to the left you have to move the stick to right of center.
The fact that you are using aerodynamics instead of friction against the ground to apply forces to the vehicle really does make things rather different.
Even as a non-root linux user you can fuck up a system by running a malicious script. ..
In Linux this is entirely depedant on the configuration of the system. Sure, it's perfectly easy as root to configure the system to allow a non root user to hose it (and your distro maker configured the defaults as root), but it isn't all that hard either to configure a system so that a user can't do any harm to the system without first gaining root access through some means or other.
And if you're willing to work a bit harder it's certainly possible to configure the system so that there is at least no known way for an unpriviledged user to gain root access.
And a fairly effective process for closing down newly discovered exploits as they occur.
So, I guess what you were missing was a distro with a default configuration centered on system security over user convienience. Even Linux people can write bad code and make bad choices, as heretical as that my sound to some. You won't catch me running Lindows/Linspire/Firedows with the default configuration.
And it was RMS himself who left the door wide open to the Morris Worm by allowing emacs to give root access to anyone, but you still had to use the exploit to get root to harm a properly configured system.
Slashdot Mirror
What if your an idealist??
You write emacs.
KFG
"Utility" would fit better than furniture.
Utility Definition
As it happens something may be both furniture and a utility.
KFG
Here, this might help:
Furniture Definition
Yes, people actually furnish themselves and their homes with an internet connection.
Once one understands what furniture actually means it is also easier to understand the metphorical phrase "become part of the furniture."
KFG
The real breakthrough happens when the system can decode and parse the file accurately to provide "automagic" meta-data.
Which will never happen, because the system cannot look at a jpeg and and say "Oh, that's Jim+Masai Warrior+Africa+Summer Vacation+Draped Clothing+Acacia Tree+Always reminds me of that cute little girl I never actually got to take a picture of+Masai Mara+sunset+. . . "
KFG
Whether it's vandalism or not, it incurs a monetary cost that the chalker is unwilling or unable to pay for.
If you wish to sue him for fifty cents (going rate for sidewalk hosing is about $7.50 an hour), go for it, it is your right.
That is a civil issue, not a criminal one.
KFG
The only "property" you have with no law is whatever you can defend with your bare hands against the ill wishes of others. . .
Correct.
Besides, what makes the property *yours* anyways? Claiming it's yours?
Under a system of law what makes the property *yours* anyways? Some other guy claiming it's yours?
Let's try an experiment, shall we? Pull a CD at random from your collection. Now, prove to me it's yours in some form other than your own claim. What makes your underwear "yours" other than the fact that it is you that are wearing it?
Even under a system of law everyone understands that in most cases possession may not only be 90% of the law, it is often the whole of it.
And without law of any kind, partnership is a damned-fool idea.
This does not speak to the existence of partnership.
With no force to enforce the contract you've made, there's nothing keeping the other guy from just running off with the money.
It's a shame you've grown up in a culture where a) you can think this, and b) it might well be true, isn't it?
But then in our culture where there is little to no honor and we have to rely on the other men with guns to enforce our own agreements people run away with the money, sucessfully, all the time.
Whereas in many other cultures with no such law or man with a gun the event would be so notable it would stand in story for generations.
KFG
How can you define land ownership when you have no law?
Real (i.e., that given by Royal grant) is not the only kind of property.
Indians, for example, did not believe one can actually own land.
They did, however, believe that one owned one's own lodge and horse.
KFG
True, but there is a difference between tracking a little mud on the sidewalk, and serially tracking it on the sidewalk all day long across the city.
No, there isn't, because it still does not meet the definition of vandalism, by law.
Much like there's a difference between following a cute girl down the street a bit, and following her home from work every day.
Nor does this meet the legal definition of stalking.
KFG
It seems unlikely that I'd provide evidence that you can get a traffic ticket for speeding either, or that you would challange me for the ommission.
My statement was as low level fundamental as that.
If you are truly unaware that incorporation is the act of petitioning the government for special rights and priviledges ( and corollary limits and responsibilities for the granting of those rights) then you will find the evidence in your own state's/nation's commercial code, as well as thousands upon thousands of court cases at both the state and federal level.
Without law of any kind there is still property. Without law of any kind there is still partnership. Without specific law there are no corporations. They are a pure construct of the government.
And petitioning the government for the protections and priviledges of this construct is a purly voluntary act in which you agree to legally bind yourself to the rules governing such constructs.
You need not spend any time reading the commercial code regarding incorporation. Its existence is sufficient evidence of my statement.
KFG
I do so all the time, both on my home sidewalk and formerly on my business sidewalk.
That's really my only option (that, and I'm not an asshole), because drawing on a sidewalk with chalk was declared not to be vandalism 100 years ago.
That's why the sidewalk artists work in the medium and chalk explicitly for the purpose is sold throughout NYC.
It's perfectly legal to track dirt onto my sidewalk too, because I can just wash it off.
KFG
. . . it takes almost 2 weeks to wash off.
.writing stuff all over the sidewalk (over an extended area) - even in chalk - has to be against some local laws.
By natural erosion, or about 2 minutes with a hose.
. .
Yeah, that's why they arrest all of those sidewalk artists and kids playing hopscotch who aren't engaging in political speech.
KFG
I don't get it... Would it make a chain reaction???
No. It would make a perfectly normal, everyday exothermic chemical reaction.
Cesium FAQ
Shoudn't it be illegal to wear???!!!
If atoms are outlawed only outlaws will have atoms.
KFG
Is the market really free if the state of California tries to regulate it?
If we're going to get into that topic it's worth noting that Microsoft only exists in its current form through governmental regulation.
That horse left the barn the second they incorporated.
Now they must render unto Caesar.
KFG
The panel on AGS is just the user interface. The main unit was much larger (see the MIT site for photos).
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Certainly. I've seen the device in person. I'm old enough to have seen it in Apollo 11. It's notably smaller than a PDP-8. Lighter too.
A Mini Cooper is about the same size as a Mini. .
Well of course it is, the one being a modification of the other. Just like an Integra "R-Type" is built on the same chassis as the base model.
(note, we aren't talking the BMW version here)
Actually, if you go back you'll find that the only time I refered to a MINI I was.
KFG
. . .the whole thing was about 4U high.
Or a few inches larger in each dimension than an average full sized tower, but a hefty 100 pounds.
If you don't mind spending a week locked in a Mini Cooper (not a MINI) with one of those and three fat guys, well, enjoy the trip.
KFG
A quick inspection of an Apollo capsule reveals why they didn't just use a PDP8.
Think of three fat guys trying to move one of those things in a Mini Cooper.
KFG
He's like Feynman - someone who is quite smart, shows off a hell lot but is just another smart physicist
Feynman used to use this very fact to show off, joking that winning a Nobel Prize was nothing really remarkable, but to win a Nobel Prize with an IQ of only 120, now that was a remarkable feat.
Yes. It means that journalists are allowed to print anything that they think the audience should know about, which is totally different.
Bravo!
KFG
Boy have you got a lot of catching up to do. They both hit their peak in the 50s, Mambo in the early 50s and Bossa Nova in the late 50s through early 60s, hence my joke about hip people having moved on to Bossa Nova.
If you want to check out Bossa Nova rent the 1959 movie Black Orpheus. A retelling of the Greek myth in the slums of Rio at Carnival time. Dynamite movie whose theme song is the second best known Bossa Nova in America. The best known would be The Girl From Ipanema.
I can't make any similar recommendation about Mambo. The 2000 movie Mad About Mambo was really about Samba which was really mostly Bossa Nova (Bossa Nova is the "New Wave" Samba). It was also about an Irish footballer, which was kind of odd, but then Strictly Ballroom was about Flamenco in Australia (although Spanish characters at least featured heavily in that).
Ok, yeah, I admit it. I actually like dance movies if they're any good. Especially latin dance movies.
KFG
Ah! That's DoJ math which is something different.
In DoJ math giving a single mp3 to your sister is the equivalent of destroying America, which is the equivalent of destroying world civilization.
Notice that there is a distinct paucity of numbers in the DoJ math system. They discovered that we use the Arabic system of numerals and that algebra is an Arabic word. They have replaced traditional math within the department with "Freedom Math."
Freedom math is whatever the hell they feel like defining it as at any given moment (so long as that definition is in concordance with The Bible). Thus my opening paragraph constitutes a formal proof in Freedom Math.
KFG
And Bach... well, Bach pretty much wouldn't have a portfolio left except maybe a few keyboard pieces.
That is because Bach wouldn't have bothered writing music much at all. He would have patented the equal tempered scale and retired on the royalties.
Those unhappy with that arrangement could just shut up and enjoy their Gregorian chants, or see him in court.
Thank you very much for the post. Very nice. But I would counter you with Scott Joplin. Thank God he died before Mickey Mouse was "born." I need my Solace.
KFG
No, not really. There's bound to be a considerable amount of duplication between their two collections. Let's call it 6Gigs each.
However, in RIAA math that will be 16Gigs of stolen music (taking your latter figure), which is really the equivilent of 832Gigs of stolen music resulting damages of more dollars than there are fundamental particles in the universe.
But the RIAA will settle for whatever they've got in their piggy banks and a public service announcement that they were evil hackers, which is just plain wrong.
KFG
. . .also : the music for this dance
Such as the slanderous mambo song "I Saw Mommy do the Mambo."
Not that anybody hip writes sladerous mambo songs anymore. We've moved on to Bossa Nova. You can look that up in the dictionary too, but it really isn't the appropriate reference for the task. Try googling on the key words.
KFG
How is this different from a car exactly?
In that centering the stick does not stop a turn, but is instead necessary to continue turning properly and that to stop a turn to the left you have to move the stick to right of center.
The fact that you are using aerodynamics instead of friction against the ground to apply forces to the vehicle really does make things rather different.
KFG
Even as a non-root linux user you can fuck up a system by running a malicious script. . .
In Linux this is entirely depedant on the configuration of the system. Sure, it's perfectly easy as root to configure the system to allow a non root user to hose it (and your distro maker configured the defaults as root), but it isn't all that hard either to configure a system so that a user can't do any harm to the system without first gaining root access through some means or other.
And if you're willing to work a bit harder it's certainly possible to configure the system so that there is at least no known way for an unpriviledged user to gain root access.
And a fairly effective process for closing down newly discovered exploits as they occur.
So, I guess what you were missing was a distro with a default configuration centered on system security over user convienience. Even Linux people can write bad code and make bad choices, as heretical as that my sound to some. You won't catch me running Lindows/Linspire/Firedows with the default configuration.
And it was RMS himself who left the door wide open to the Morris Worm by allowing emacs to give root access to anyone, but you still had to use the exploit to get root to harm a properly configured system.
KFG