..so you're saying that they want to make it illegal for me to even discuss news stories, let alone actually putting a link to one in my own blog? What is this, has print media decided to start taking lessons from the RIAA?
The average person, unless you put a gun to their head and MAKE them do differently, will choose a password that an 8-year-old can guess, and he wants to make it easier for unauthorized people to see whole or partial passwords? Rediculous. Not that it matters all that much, I guess, since the average person also treats network security like a joke, and lets co-workers have their password regardless of what policy is.
If only there was something you could just plant in the ground that would grow on it's own, powered only by water and sunlight, that would do the same thing..
So are basic human rights. Let's just rebuild our countries into giant prison systems, where you're supervised and watched around the clock, and have to ask permission (submitted in triplicate with the appropriate filing fee, of course) to go pee. You will be born into debt and work from cradle to grave to pay the debt back, you own nothing and can be nothing except what you're told to be. Then all the police AND all the politicians will be happy, right?
All their "campaigning" will fall to the floor like the useless words they are. It will continue, ad infinitum, and there's nothing they can do about it, muwhahahaha!
All the more reason to use things like Adblock Plus, FLashblock, and NoScript (if you're using Firefox that is). I haven't seen an ad on my home or work computers in months.
I'm sure they won't have any problems finding investors -- so long as they cater to the investors who have interest in flying cars, another technology that hasn't actually gotten off the ground yet. What was it someone said about "a fool and his money"?
What does it take to understand that not all people yearn for freedom?
That has got to be the most patently absurd thing anyone has said to me lately. What do most people want, all over the world? They want to be left the hell alone by their government, and live their lives in peace!
I carefully read your post before responding, just to be sure. One element you didn't mention: FEAR. Sure, I'll buy that the Iranian people facilitated the mess they're living in now -- much in the same way that the German people facilitated the Nazi movement. However, remember that power seeks to perpetuate itself; now that this extremist regime has both feet firmly planted, it isn't going to go away simply because the populace doesn't like it. It'll threaten them with imprisonment, torture, death, and threaten the friends and family, even children, of dissidents. It'll threaten with people disappearing in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again. Stories will circulate about someone merely speaking out against the government in casual conversation, yet that person and his whole family will disappear in the middle of the night, never to be seen or heard from again. Some people may have such strength of their convictions as to take up arms and fight against this, but MOST WILL NOT! I'm sure many (most?) Iranian citizens regret the regime they're living under now, but they don't want to see everyone they care about brutally murdered before their very eyes before being murdered themselves!
They have Lucky 13 on the ISS? When did Olivia Wilde get fitted for a space suit? Lucky bastards up there, I'd give my right nut to be in close quarters with her for a few weeks!:9
Anybody remember the monorail episode of the Simpsons?
How about those companies we've read about that were "just on the verge" of mass-producing flying cars that anybody could buy?
Sorry, I guess I'm too cynical, but I'll believe that this idea is for real when I see them being driven down the street on my way to work in the morning. Pie-in-the-sky ideas are a dime a dozen, it seems. It sounds nice, and if it had at least a couple hundred miles range and I could fit my bicycle or four bags of groceries in it, I'd consider being on-board with it -- but I've been fooled before, like everyone else has, and I'm going to have to consider it to be the Duke Nukem Forever of transportation until I can walk into a showroom and arrange a test-drive of a production model.
Bikes work equally well in rain and in dry. What would you expect? They aren't made of rice-paper, you know, or stuck together with gum.
You must live in California, or in one of the southwestern states, then. Riding my bike in 35 degree weather may be chilly but it's possible. If it snowed here in the winter and everything froze over until March or April, that would be another matter.
Some specialists are pretty good within their area.
To be completely fair about it, right now is the first time in my life I've ever had PPO instead of HMO coverage for health insurance, and I think it's going to be a better experience, having hooked up with a doctor in a private practice instead of in one of the huge oversized HMOs like Kaiser or Mercy. We'll see how it pans out over the next, say, year or so though.
She's discovered what I started suspecting some years ago: that most doctors aren't really very good, and that medical science in general should only have the term "science" applied to it very, very loosely. We seem to have barely scratched the surface of how biological systems work, and that's a statement I'll only apply to those who are at the very top of their fields. The average run-of-the-mill HMO doctor I believe to be pretty clueless, which is only made worse by people who won't or can't question the decisions they're making for their health care.
I'll believe this. I don't really believe the Chinese government gives a rat's ass about their youth beyond them being more slave labor in a country that doesn't value the lives of their citizens. I also wouldn't put it past them to make their net-nanny software appear to be uninstallable, but that does leave behind a 'bot for them to control. Cut the cables now and isolate them, it seems to be what they want anyways -- to be isolated.
Conducted my own test based on how OpenDNS works. Changed my DNS server settings to OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220) then tried to browse to a non-existent web page (http://comcast.sucks.com). Since it doesn't exist, I got the OpenDNS Guide search results page instead of a 404 or some other generic error. Unless someone can poke holes in this method, this pretty clearly indicates to me that Comcast is not doing anything sketchy with DNS requests, at least not in my geographic location (Sacramento, California); as always, your mileage may vary.
Oh, I'm sorry, you meant resources necessary for basic existence, like water. Notice I didn't use an example including something as basic as WATER, I used BEER on purpose: something that's nice, but you can learn to live without. Perhaps I should have used a more obvious 'resource' in my example: OIL.
BTW: Don't make the mistake of assuming you know ANYthing about me, Mister Complete Stranger.
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..TPB is going the way of Napster?
..so you're saying that they want to make it illegal for me to even discuss news stories, let alone actually putting a link to one in my own blog? What is this, has print media decided to start taking lessons from the RIAA?
Is their "choke point" technology able to break through SSH and VPN encrypted connections too? Or are they just blocking those connection completely?
I guess jingling his keys at them and driving them around the block over and over again didn't work, so he's trying this.
The average person, unless you put a gun to their head and MAKE them do differently, will choose a password that an 8-year-old can guess, and he wants to make it easier for unauthorized people to see whole or partial passwords? Rediculous. Not that it matters all that much, I guess, since the average person also treats network security like a joke, and lets co-workers have their password regardless of what policy is.
Someone check to see if Google has been buying up useless desert land in Arizona and Nevada!
If only there was something you could just plant in the ground that would grow on it's own, powered only by water and sunlight, that would do the same thing..
You can't charge me a royalty when my phone rings, because it rings like a standard Bell telephone. No copyright on that, assholes!
So are basic human rights. Let's just rebuild our countries into giant prison systems, where you're supervised and watched around the clock, and have to ask permission (submitted in triplicate with the appropriate filing fee, of course) to go pee. You will be born into debt and work from cradle to grave to pay the debt back, you own nothing and can be nothing except what you're told to be. Then all the police AND all the politicians will be happy, right?
All their "campaigning" will fall to the floor like the useless words they are. It will continue, ad infinitum, and there's nothing they can do about it, muwhahahaha!
online games are regarded by many as a sort of spiritual opium..
Yeah sure whatever you say, China. Nevermind that your "governance" is regarded by MOST OF THE WORLD as a "spiritual depressant".
All the more reason to use things like Adblock Plus, FLashblock, and NoScript (if you're using Firefox that is). I haven't seen an ad on my home or work computers in months.
I'm sure they won't have any problems finding investors -- so long as they cater to the investors who have interest in flying cars, another technology that hasn't actually gotten off the ground yet. What was it someone said about "a fool and his money"?
What does it take to understand that not all people yearn for freedom?
That has got to be the most patently absurd thing anyone has said to me lately.
What do most people want, all over the world? They want to be left the hell alone by their government, and live their lives in peace!
I carefully read your post before responding, just to be sure. One element you didn't mention: FEAR. Sure, I'll buy that the Iranian people facilitated the mess they're living in now -- much in the same way that the German people facilitated the Nazi movement. However, remember that power seeks to perpetuate itself; now that this extremist regime has both feet firmly planted, it isn't going to go away simply because the populace doesn't like it. It'll threaten them with imprisonment, torture, death, and threaten the friends and family, even children, of dissidents. It'll threaten with people disappearing in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again. Stories will circulate about someone merely speaking out against the government in casual conversation, yet that person and his whole family will disappear in the middle of the night, never to be seen or heard from again. Some people may have such strength of their convictions as to take up arms and fight against this, but MOST WILL NOT! I'm sure many (most?) Iranian citizens regret the regime they're living under now, but they don't want to see everyone they care about brutally murdered before their very eyes before being murdered themselves!
They have Lucky 13 on the ISS? When did Olivia Wilde get fitted for a space suit? Lucky bastards up there, I'd give my right nut to be in close quarters with her for a few weeks! :9
Anybody remember the monorail episode of the Simpsons?
How about those companies we've read about that were "just on the verge" of mass-producing flying cars that anybody could buy?
Sorry, I guess I'm too cynical, but I'll believe that this idea is for real when I see them being driven down the street on my way to work in the morning. Pie-in-the-sky ideas are a dime a dozen, it seems. It sounds nice, and if it had at least a couple hundred miles range and I could fit my bicycle or four bags of groceries in it, I'd consider being on-board with it -- but I've been fooled before, like everyone else has, and I'm going to have to consider it to be the Duke Nukem Forever of transportation until I can walk into a showroom and arrange a test-drive of a production model.
Bikes work equally well in rain and in dry. What would you expect? They aren't made of rice-paper, you know, or stuck together with gum.
You must live in California, or in one of the southwestern states, then. Riding my bike in 35 degree weather may be chilly but it's possible. If it snowed here in the winter and everything froze over until March or April, that would be another matter.
Simple solution: Boycott their content completely. Do not need DO NOT WANT.
Some specialists are pretty good within their area.
To be completely fair about it, right now is the first time in my life I've ever had PPO instead of HMO coverage for health insurance, and I think it's going to be a better experience, having hooked up with a doctor in a private practice instead of in one of the huge oversized HMOs like Kaiser or Mercy. We'll see how it pans out over the next, say, year or so though.
Be a Content Provider or be a Bandwidth Provider. You SHOULD NOT be both. Conflict of interest!
She's discovered what I started suspecting some years ago: that most doctors aren't really very good, and that medical science in general should only have the term "science" applied to it very, very loosely. We seem to have barely scratched the surface of how biological systems work, and that's a statement I'll only apply to those who are at the very top of their fields. The average run-of-the-mill HMO doctor I believe to be pretty clueless, which is only made worse by people who won't or can't question the decisions they're making for their health care.
I'll believe this. I don't really believe the Chinese government gives a rat's ass about their youth beyond them being more slave labor in a country that doesn't value the lives of their citizens. I also wouldn't put it past them to make their net-nanny software appear to be uninstallable, but that does leave behind a 'bot for them to control. Cut the cables now and isolate them, it seems to be what they want anyways -- to be isolated.
Conducted my own test based on how OpenDNS works. Changed my DNS server settings to OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220) then tried to browse to a non-existent web page (http://comcast.sucks.com). Since it doesn't exist, I got the OpenDNS Guide search results page instead of a 404 or some other generic error. Unless someone can poke holes in this method, this pretty clearly indicates to me that Comcast is not doing anything sketchy with DNS requests, at least not in my geographic location (Sacramento, California); as always, your mileage may vary.
Oh, I'm sorry, you meant resources necessary for basic existence, like water. Notice I didn't use an example including something as basic as WATER, I used BEER on purpose: something that's nice, but you can learn to live without. Perhaps I should have used a more obvious 'resource' in my example: OIL.
BTW: Don't make the mistake of assuming you know ANYthing about me, Mister Complete Stranger.