Bear in mind that this is also simply the first step in the larger plan. It isn't just about piracy, it is about being to control media. In effect they are aiming for a world where you need to purchase a license from a corporation in order to to be allowed to use content generation technology and storage media of any kind.
In other words, pay them to exercise your right to free speech. In countries, such as Canada, with fees payed to private interests attached to media this is already effectively happening.
A reward of one free E-ticket ride has been posted (airfare, accommodations and entrance into Disney World/Land/Psychosis not included. $99.95 shipping and handling applies)
Are those of us in cars really expected to ride along at 10-15 mph behind a cyclist for 5 or 10 miles?
No. They should make way within a reasonable time. However, if we're going 30 in a 30 zone, yes. Maybe even if we're only going 28, or whatever speed you would be reasonably expected to follow behind another car. Sometimes we're even expected to follow behind a car in front that's holding us up. It happens.
If it were up to me we'd be spending the money to put bike lanes along most roads and have plentiful bike routes, but sadly that's just not the case.
I'd have to disagree with you here. I don't agree that's it's even possible except along the major highways where bicycles aren't even allowed. Of the bike paths that actually exist in America I've never seen one that's even suitable for anything but light recreational use. The designers themselves don't seem to understand that bicycles are high speed vehicles. The roads we already have are perfectly suitable for sharing if we, well, share. Cyclists don't have the right to hog the road and ignore rights of way. Neither do cars. We all "own" the road in common. It would be nice if we acted that way.
IF it comes down to it cyclists (and in many cases even pedestrians) have a right to be there, and drivers only have a priviledge.
I'd agree that 10 miles is about the practical limit for most people. The longest that I'm aware of anyone doing on a regular basis was 60 miles, each way remember, but that person was a competitive ultra-marathon cyclist who subsequently won the Race Across America at a record average speed (15.3 mph).
The cost savings, however, really are quite substantial, as is the benefit to health and fitness, including mental.
Think about this, you likely have a job more than 10 miles away because you have a car. It's a feedback, ummmmmm, cycle.
Even with cars the majority live within 5 miles of work (one of the reasons why most accidents happen within 5 miles of home), which is quite doable even for most begining cyclists, especially those that begin under 30 years old.
But if you work too far away, well, you work too far away, and if you just plain don't want to, well, you just plain don't want to. It's a free country.
Well, sort of.
At the very least, please, while driving your car, give respect to the rights of way of cyclists who are also riding within the scope of law and the social contract, instead of taking out your anger at some other asshole cyclist on the innocent.
Of which there are more than 50 in America alone. The Vegas wedding/honeymoon combo is very popular for the very reasons you state, it has the laxest requirements.
. ..but as an American, you can go anywhere in America to get your license and get married.
This is incorrect. As an American you can go nearly anywhere in the world to get your license and get married.
I'm not talking about every terrorist. Some of them will be caught. They're expendable. There's more where they came from. We're not talking about army operations here where have to happen where and when planned. We've got time. Decades if we need them.
Tell me, where's Bin Ladin?
These laws have nothing to do with terrorists. That's a complete red herring. They're about pot dealers and prostitutes.
If I were a terrorist interested in using the internet to pass messages the spooks would have a hard time even knowing where to look for it amongst the noise.
And once they'd found it, and decrypted it, they'd still be left having to crack the code.
"Honey, could you pick up a chicken on the way home?" might mean "rent a van," "deliver the bomb now," or "Honey, could you pick up a chicken on the way home?"
The spooks are good, I'll give them that. I'll assume they'll crack my messages. ..given time, so I just won't give them that time.
As Huxley noted in an introduction to later editions, you don't. Ever. He came to consider the work as somewhat naive in not including more options.
At least they didn't take you away for torture and brainwashing when you screwed up.
Capital punishment, no. Brainwashing, yes, and brainwashing relies heavily on carful manipulation of pleasant and unpleasant states. Not all torture is capital.
If you're not going to have any freedom, it's better to at least be sorta happy than miserable.
Ah, but this is how freedom is lost in the first place.
Mostly, sort of, so long as they took their drugs and weren't made unhappy.
They also didn't have repressive politicians trying to legislate morality. ..
You need to go back and read it again, carefully.
I'd much rather have BNW; at least they got to have lots of sex, and weren't constantly in fear of the Thought Police.
As long as they had lots of sex and took their pills. You need to do some more thinking about the idea of thought control and enforced morality. It's what the Brave New World was all about.
Or just wash a Zantac down with a Coke, get laid and be a happy, happy, happy prole producing crap for wealth. Your own words show the danger of the scenario, and the power of it to the rulers.
As well as Peru, Java and any number of other places. When they relocate Munich (where it was in the 80s F today) to Oz (Melbourne is right in my comfort zone at this wintery moment, I like it cool) , let me know.
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And remember, don't use the brown theme. It's bad shit, man.
KFG
Bear in mind that this is also simply the first step in the larger plan. It isn't just about piracy, it is about being to control media. In effect they are aiming for a world where you need to purchase a license from a corporation in order to to be allowed to use content generation technology and storage media of any kind.
In other words, pay them to exercise your right to free speech. In countries, such as Canada, with fees payed to private interests attached to media this is already effectively happening.
KFG
Wanted, dead or alive: Forrest M. Mims III
Content terrorist.
A reward of one free E-ticket ride has been posted (airfare, accommodations and entrance into Disney World/Land/Psychosis not included. $99.95 shipping and handling applies)
KFG
". . .all music distribution platforms, including satellite digital audio radio service, the Internet and broadcast radio service."
KFG
Think Powerade, although I admit that's more likely to be dyed electric blue.
KFG
I don't see too many of those cylists.
I'm afraid I have to agree with you.
Are those of us in cars really expected to ride along at 10-15 mph behind a cyclist for 5 or 10 miles?
No. They should make way within a reasonable time. However, if we're going 30 in a 30 zone, yes. Maybe even if we're only going 28, or whatever speed you would be reasonably expected to follow behind another car. Sometimes we're even expected to follow behind a car in front that's holding us up. It happens.
If it were up to me we'd be spending the money to put bike lanes along most roads and have plentiful bike routes, but sadly that's just not the case.
I'd have to disagree with you here. I don't agree that's it's even possible except along the major highways where bicycles aren't even allowed. Of the bike paths that actually exist in America I've never seen one that's even suitable for anything but light recreational use. The designers themselves don't seem to understand that bicycles are high speed vehicles. The roads we already have are perfectly suitable for sharing if we, well, share. Cyclists don't have the right to hog the road and ignore rights of way. Neither do cars. We all "own" the road in common. It would be nice if we acted that way.
IF it comes down to it cyclists (and in many cases even pedestrians) have a right to be there, and drivers only have a priviledge.
And I act that way when I drive.
KFG
What is next?
Why, teaching them that mixing corn syrup and caramel color in water is stealing from Coca-Cola, of course.
KFG
But, what if you work in the laundry room?
KFG
I'd agree that 10 miles is about the practical limit for most people. The longest that I'm aware of anyone doing on a regular basis was 60 miles, each way remember, but that person was a competitive ultra-marathon cyclist who subsequently won the Race Across America at a record average speed (15.3 mph).
The cost savings, however, really are quite substantial, as is the benefit to health and fitness, including mental.
Think about this, you likely have a job more than 10 miles away because you have a car. It's a feedback, ummmmmm, cycle.
Even with cars the majority live within 5 miles of work (one of the reasons why most accidents happen within 5 miles of home), which is quite doable even for most begining cyclists, especially those that begin under 30 years old.
But if you work too far away, well, you work too far away, and if you just plain don't want to, well, you just plain don't want to. It's a free country.
Well, sort of.
At the very least, please, while driving your car, give respect to the rights of way of cyclists who are also riding within the scope of law and the social contract, instead of taking out your anger at some other asshole cyclist on the innocent.
Don't kick your dog either.
KFG
YMMV depending on the jurisdiction. . .
.but as an American, you can go anywhere in America to get your license and get married.
Of which there are more than 50 in America alone. The Vegas wedding/honeymoon combo is very popular for the very reasons you state, it has the laxest requirements.
. .
This is incorrect. As an American you can go nearly anywhere in the world to get your license and get married.
KFG
So what test does Americans have to pass to get a Marriage license?
Blood.
KFG
Someone tell me what makes this modded interesting?
Because his mouse's mickey was a bit off?
KFG
Does this mean that the kids are restricted to cruising the web for Disney porn?
"Whoa! Jasmine with her top off. . . fuckin' Goofy, man!"
KFG
Not until February 1, 2005!
Damn, I really could have used a couple extra bucks for the weekend.
Ah well, guess I can always hit the streets with my tin cup full of PDA styluses.
KFG
Well, in that case I'm moving in the right direction for you.
Maybe I'll have to make up T-shirts that say "Save the Bald Zealots".
KFG
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When do I get my check for a half mil?
KFG
I'm not talking about every terrorist. Some of them will be caught. They're expendable. There's more where they came from. We're not talking about army operations here where have to happen where and when planned. We've got time. Decades if we need them.
Tell me, where's Bin Ladin?
These laws have nothing to do with terrorists. That's a complete red herring. They're about pot dealers and prostitutes.
KFG
If I were a terrorist interested in using the internet to pass messages the spooks would have a hard time even knowing where to look for it amongst the noise.
.given time, so I just won't give them that time.
And once they'd found it, and decrypted it, they'd still be left having to crack the code.
"Honey, could you pick up a chicken on the way home?" might mean "rent a van," "deliver the bomb now," or "Honey, could you pick up a chicken on the way home?"
The spooks are good, I'll give them that. I'll assume they'll crack my messages. .
KFG
As I said, if I had to pick between the two. . .
As Huxley noted in an introduction to later editions, you don't. Ever. He came to consider the work as somewhat naive in not including more options.
At least they didn't take you away for torture and brainwashing when you screwed up.
Capital punishment, no. Brainwashing, yes, and brainwashing relies heavily on carful manipulation of pleasant and unpleasant states. Not all torture is capital.
If you're not going to have any freedom, it's better to at least be sorta happy than miserable.
Ah, but this is how freedom is lost in the first place.
KFG
In Brave New World, people really were happy. . .
.
Mostly, sort of, so long as they took their drugs and weren't made unhappy.
They also didn't have repressive politicians trying to legislate morality. .
You need to go back and read it again, carefully.
I'd much rather have BNW; at least they got to have lots of sex, and weren't constantly in fear of the Thought Police.
As long as they had lots of sex and took their pills. You need to do some more thinking about the idea of thought control and enforced morality. It's what the Brave New World was all about.
Or just wash a Zantac down with a Coke, get laid and be a happy, happy, happy prole producing crap for wealth. Your own words show the danger of the scenario, and the power of it to the rulers.
Happy proles cheerfully incarcerate themselves.
KFG
which makes it winter in Oz.
As well as Peru, Java and any number of other places. When they relocate Munich (where it was in the 80s F today) to Oz (Melbourne is right in my comfort zone at this wintery moment, I like it cool) , let me know.
KFG
The problem is that some software patents are just rediculous. . .
.
.and they should be given to someone that at least tries to implement the idea.
Yes, primarily those involving software, . .
. .
because even fully implimented software is nothing but ideas.
Your work is already protected by copyright.
KFG
No, because that would make no sense at all. It's frickin' August.
KFG
...and just agree to be encased in styrofoam at birth, tagged with RFIDs at birth, and have video cameras installed throughout the land. . .
and load people up on Ritalin and Zantac.
Looks like Brave New World to me, but don't worry, be happy.
KFG
As I've posted before fully autonomous vehicles already exist and are being "driven" on the public roads in testing.
What has this got to do with logging data?
KFG