This is the Military Dictatorship Act (Bush overtly claims his authority comes as Commander in Chief). There's no two ways about it
There are millions of Americans out there who are distressed at what's going on, but think we're still ok, because no one has come to take them away for speaking their mind. They overlook the fact that dictatorship is not defined by whether or not they have come to take you away, but whether or not they have the legal authority to come take you away.
Once they have the legal authority when they finally come to take you away you will have no defense; and it is your ability to defend yourself under law that defines a free society.
But don't worry, they aren't likely to slap chains on you, what they do is slap chains on a few select people to make you afraid and get you to slap chains on yourself, like a "good little boy."
And your children will accept without question that you have no rights of speech, because they do not even understand the concept. Be afraid of . . . your children.
Yes, I'm being "alarmist." That's the frickin' point.
Nice treaty. Good treaty. Lie down and play dead. Good boy.
The fact of the matter is that property is defined by the man standing on it with the biggest gun. Mars will be "free" until the very moment someone puts up a hotdog stand and the only reason people can take treaties like this seriously is because they can barely be violated, let alone enforced.
If we go to space, we will war over its territory. And that's the way it is.
His compliant was about the lack of work in the field, that there is no existing body. i.e., he is a zone where he can help establish the state of the art and become a reigning expert.
Hence I found the complaint amusing. He should be running down the street wet and naked, shouting "Eureka!"
. ..worse, of coming to conclusions debunked elsewhere.
Or better, coming to conclusions debunked elsewhere, but have one's work be good, challanging the debunking.
Most papers have a part called "state of the art" whose purpose is to reference previous work done in the area.
He is in the extremely envialbe possision of being able to inscribe "Here there be dragons" in his.
Yeah, I plan on all original work, but its nice to know what other people have done.
Indeed it is. It's nicer still to be the one who is a pioneer in the field who establishes the theoretical background. That's where the chairs and prizes are.
In some fields that hardest part of a research project is simply trying to find a blank space on the page.
Where in that article or the associated links is anything regarding WalMart threatening lawsuits?
Where in the blurb does it say anything about lawsuits? There's actually more ways to threaten someone (or something) than with a court case. Hard to believe, but it's true.
Just click on the link to the original story (this is a Slashback, ya know expanding on a previous story. Kinda like a dupe, only different) at the bottom of the blurb.
And the flaw with that approach is that many people will not want many of the sites that they go to to be known (and indexed) by what is basically an advertising agency.
Well ya don't exactly see me rushing to be first in line to sign up, I can tell ya that.
Now, if you could maintain multiple profiles that would NEVER cross, this might be a good idea.
Hotmail.
They're going to have to provide me with some more service than just centralizing my fake name and fake email address.
"You know, we auditors are often compared to soldiers, and your brothers-in-arms in the field. The only difference with us is that we fix bayonets to our rifles, and go around stabbing our own troops while they lay wounded on the ground."
"Keeeeeeeeeeeeewl! Can ya do me a favor?"
"Yeah, what's that?"
"Go stab that bastard in the next cublicle over? He's got it coming."
So, if this tool allows me to login to multiple sites, but with faked info, I don't see the sites going for it.
This tool does not help you log into the NYTimes by providing their registration process with fake info. It helps you log in to sites that have opted in to the program and agreed to take less info about you during registration.
Sites obviously don't want fake info; it doesn't simply affect their interactions with you, very small amounts of fake info can completely fuck the validity of the statistical inferences that they make from it (and you should think about that the next time you read some study conducted by phone survey). Less info is better than fake info.
So how do the participating sites get targeting and statistical information out of you from this system?
Ahhhhhhhh, well, ya see, there's the rub. The central outfit stores some info about you and the site gets that info from their server. They keep your site cookie. What's in that cookie? A browsing history.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Anyway, the information the sites get with which to target advertising and play with numbers is your history of browsing participating sites. Go to L.L. Bean and they know you're a potential Land's End customer, but probably don't have much interest in Deb or The Limited.
It is the height of stupidity that the same political class that wants everyone off the roads and/or to take public transportation adamantly refuses to allow the high density construction that would make it feasible.
People who claim that urban sprawl is just market forces at work and that is just what people want are largely unaware they people are actually being prevented from getting what they want because what they want is against the law.
They are making their choices in a market that does not offer things that they might well choose in preference to their eventual choice; then their choice is ad hoc used to justify that that is what they choose.
When the market offered it in times past, people chose it. That's why we had pleasant, little villages.
It isn't different at all. In fact, at the time, we warned you that it was just practice to go after shit you like later on.
It doesn't matter whether cigarettes are good for you or instant death. What matters is that the tactics used, and used effectively, established the precedent for 1984 style socially manipulative government:
You fat, bad smelling, chip eating, who plays the wrong to sort of games driver, you! Become tolerant, or we will force you to become tolerant by making you adopt our tolerant lifestyle which reviles your behavior, because once you let us do it to smokers, you gave us the power to do it to anybody.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd couldn't prove it, but my thought is that the skin tight suits is a result of the historical necessity to keep art costs down in comics.
I couldn't prove it, but my thought is that skin tight suits is a result of wanting to sell nudes to teenagers without getting arrested.
Draw tits. Ink them yellow. Done.
KFG
OK, I'll bite. Where are the "Terra" and "Pyro" UIs?
Firebird and Gnome. Be careful about how you mix them all up. Ratio is critical.
KFG
This is the Military Dictatorship Act (Bush overtly claims his authority comes as Commander in Chief). There's no two ways about it
There are millions of Americans out there who are distressed at what's going on, but think we're still ok, because no one has come to take them away for speaking their mind. They overlook the fact that dictatorship is not defined by whether or not they have come to take you away, but whether or not they have the legal authority to come take you away.
Once they have the legal authority when they finally come to take you away you will have no defense; and it is your ability to defend yourself under law that defines a free society.
But don't worry, they aren't likely to slap chains on you, what they do is slap chains on a few select people to make you afraid and get you to slap chains on yourself, like a "good little boy."
And your children will accept without question that you have no rights of speech, because they do not even understand the concept. Be afraid of . . . your children.
Yes, I'm being "alarmist." That's the frickin' point.
KFG
Nice treaty. Good treaty. Lie down and play dead. Good boy.
The fact of the matter is that property is defined by the man standing on it with the biggest gun. Mars will be "free" until the very moment someone puts up a hotdog stand and the only reason people can take treaties like this seriously is because they can barely be violated, let alone enforced.
If we go to space, we will war over its territory. And that's the way it is.
KFG
I'm afraid that this post makes the baby KFG cry.
KFG
His compliant was about the lack of work in the field, that there is no existing body. i.e., he is a zone where he can help establish the state of the art and become a reigning expert.
.worse, of coming to conclusions debunked elsewhere.
Hence I found the complaint amusing. He should be running down the street wet and naked, shouting "Eureka!"
. .
Or better, coming to conclusions debunked elsewhere, but have one's work be good, challanging the debunking.
Most papers have a part called "state of the art" whose purpose is to reference previous work done in the area.
He is in the extremely envialbe possision of being able to inscribe "Here there be dragons" in his.
KFG
Yeah, I plan on all original work, but its nice to know what other people have done.
Indeed it is. It's nicer still to be the one who is a pioneer in the field who establishes the theoretical background. That's where the chairs and prizes are.
In some fields that hardest part of a research project is simply trying to find a blank space on the page.
KFG
Have you considered doing original work?
KFG
They're going to toss Anthony, but agree that, in principle, he has a right to have a baby.
KFG
Where in that article or the associated links is anything regarding WalMart threatening lawsuits?
Where in the blurb does it say anything about lawsuits? There's actually more ways to threaten someone (or something) than with a court case. Hard to believe, but it's true.
Just click on the link to the original story (this is a Slashback, ya know expanding on a previous story. Kinda like a dupe, only different) at the bottom of the blurb.
KFG
Isn't it plausible that your "anonymous" Hotmail accounts / multiple profiles could be cross-referenced by your IP address?
Nothin's perfect. Wait'll ya see the unauthorized biographies that start getting written about 20 years from now.
KFG
speaking generally, how much can you do different?
Ever see a cigar sphere?
Me neither.
KFG
Can I have my money now?
I can't do that, Dave.
KFG
What is the unit of scope
Fathoms.
KFG
"Why would you ever want to have a baby".
Damn if I know, but it's way to late to try to stuff her back in; I think she can take me.
KFG
. . .that guy who never provides status reports and vanishes for months at a time, emerging with. . .
.UNIX!
. .
KFG
I rue the day that I get married . . .
But not half as much as she will.
KFG
Ba-roomp-boomp!
Well played and a KFG "I Wish I'd Written That" Award to you.
KFG
. . . shouldn't it be "total of their experiences". . .
.and maybe throw in a couple of opposable thumbs, just so, like, we can go do something else?
. .
Maybe this guy is the sum total of what he's done, but I am the sum total of what I am about to do.
KFG
And the flaw with that approach is that many people will not want many of the sites that they go to to be known (and indexed) by what is basically an advertising agency.
Well ya don't exactly see me rushing to be first in line to sign up, I can tell ya that.
Now, if you could maintain multiple profiles that would NEVER cross, this might be a good idea.
Hotmail.
They're going to have to provide me with some more service than just centralizing my fake name and fake email address.
See? Ya got the idea already.
KFG
"You know, we auditors are often compared to soldiers, and your brothers-in-arms in the field. The only difference with us is that we fix bayonets to our rifles, and go around stabbing our own troops while they lay wounded on the ground."
"Keeeeeeeeeeeeewl! Can ya do me a favor?"
"Yeah, what's that?"
"Go stab that bastard in the next cublicle over? He's got it coming."
KFG
So, if this tool allows me to login to multiple sites, but with faked info, I don't see the sites going for it.
This tool does not help you log into the NYTimes by providing their registration process with fake info. It helps you log in to sites that have opted in to the program and agreed to take less info about you during registration.
Sites obviously don't want fake info; it doesn't simply affect their interactions with you, very small amounts of fake info can completely fuck the validity of the statistical inferences that they make from it (and you should think about that the next time you read some study conducted by phone survey). Less info is better than fake info.
So how do the participating sites get targeting and statistical information out of you from this system?
Ahhhhhhhh, well, ya see, there's the rub. The central outfit stores some info about you and the site gets that info from their server. They keep your site cookie. What's in that cookie? A browsing history.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Anyway, the information the sites get with which to target advertising and play with numbers is your history of browsing participating sites. Go to L.L. Bean and they know you're a potential Land's End customer, but probably don't have much interest in Deb or The Limited.
KFG
Almost makes you wonder why you have a UPS and an internal power supply, don't it?
KFG
It is the height of stupidity that the same political class that wants everyone off the roads and/or to take public transportation adamantly refuses to allow the high density construction that would make it feasible.
People who claim that urban sprawl is just market forces at work and that is just what people want are largely unaware they people are actually being prevented from getting what they want because what they want is against the law.
They are making their choices in a market that does not offer things that they might well choose in preference to their eventual choice; then their choice is ad hoc used to justify that that is what they choose.
When the market offered it in times past, people chose it. That's why we had pleasant, little villages.
KFG
It isn't different at all. In fact, at the time, we warned you that it was just practice to go after shit you like later on.
It doesn't matter whether cigarettes are good for you or instant death. What matters is that the tactics used, and used effectively, established the precedent for 1984 style socially manipulative government:
You fat, bad smelling, chip eating, who plays the wrong to sort of games driver, you! Become tolerant, or we will force you to become tolerant by making you adopt our tolerant lifestyle which reviles your behavior, because once you let us do it to smokers, you gave us the power to do it to anybody.
Mwuaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha!
KFG