Now now, there are compromises. The point is intent. If you are intending to decieve the recipient about your own origins, then yes, forging e-mail should be illegal. However e-mail forging tools should not be, likewise forging e-mail for internal use based on a locally acceptable standard that is not intended to be deceptive to its direct recipients.
The point is that if an organization has something to tell millions of netizens without them asking to hear it, they'd damn well better be ready to admit who they are when saying it. A legal "anonymous" tag might be implementable, which any server can promply annihilate. Anonymous e-mails are fine (they'd be filtered everywhere). Headers designed to deliberately mislead the recipient should not exist.
Yes, and the DMA protects my right to free speech. Those of us who don't like the DMA are protecting our right not to be hassled. Those of us who don't like the NRA are protecting our right not to be shot.
And the comparison is perfectly valid. Any organisation, heroic or otherwise, will try and protect their own free hand. If they are in danger of losing it, particularly if the public is against them, they will "bargain" by proposing compromise laws in the hopes that they will be seen as a good team player and be treated leniantly.
While there are justafiable fears about GM pigs, you missed them all. Here are the fears that actually have some basis in reality.
- GM pigs have both pig and human organs in them. This means that pig diseases will "learn" to infect human organs. This will result in pig diseases crossing the gap into the human world, possibly bringing new and dangerous plagues to us. I don't want hoof and mouth disease.
- Humans carrying GM organs can do the same thing. Any human carrying a GM pig organ should not eat pig mean - from a biological perspective, it is very close to cannibalism. While cannibalism is morally wrong for a variety of good reasons, there are good biological reasons it is wrong to. Mainly, eating food of your own biology sets you at risk for every disease that is festering in that corpse - diseases that would not be able to infect you if you were eating a more alien animal (like a chicken). The fact that pigs are already close to human biology is both why the research is possible, and why pork is never served rare (or at all to some religions). Being that much closer raises the risk even higher.
Idunno, I'm still mad at MS for egotistically naming their proprietary document filetype *.doc, which was already being used for general text files, thus meaning that every freaking old doc file I open that's plain text launches in Word and I have to wait all that time for their slow-ass program to boot.
Half the girls on my floor in rez are playing UT now, thanks to my introduction to it. Its more a mental barrier then a preference one - they just never got into games. Find a good, easy, entry level game and throw in some cute mods and they'll love the boys games.
Hey genius - Americans put Bin Laden in charge in the first place. I'm not saying things would be better without American intervention - I'm just saying "They hate Americans 'cause they're jealous" is a crock.
No, they hate you because your CIA and soldiers have been fucking up their region for decades. If you'd just left them the fuck alone they'd probably have done the same. They might have blown each other up, maybe toasted the Israelis and a few neighbors, but they wouldn't have tried to wipe you out.
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You *must* be trolling. Such a system isn't even Darwinistic except in the real-world sense - its mostly based on luck. Skill, intillect, whatever, will not help you in any way if you're born the child of an uncaring unwed crackwhore. A government might. I almost might take you seriously if you were proposing some sort of meritocratic system - but pure capitalism is not meritocratic. It is monarchistic - those who are born high stay high, those who are born low stay low. Slavers and serfs. Do remember the period you outlined included nationally supported slavery.
Well, eating pork might actually be a very bad thing if you have pig organs - the pig organs could be succeptable to swine diseases, and so could contract diseases from the food you eat. These diseases would then redevelop to attack your human body, and then could spread to other humans.
There are known immunodeficiency diseases (like AIDS) that occur in pigs. While transplants would be carefully screened for this, the bacon on your McHulkaBurger is not. Normally these diseases not contractable by human organs - but if you have a pig organ, this could be very, very bad.
Idunno, all I want them to do is blow up the Earth in a TNG movie. Really, Earth is always this sickeningly sweet planet in Star Trek, everybody's home - it gets attacked so friggin' many times. Just fscking blow it up, give us some real tragedy.
Idunno, they tried something like that with Space: Above and Beyond. It was good for a while, but they ran out of storylines.
I think Starfleet Academy would've been better. Even if it was "dawson's creek in space" - it'd still have been better. Watch Smallville for a good idea of mixing sci-fi and teens well.
Unfortunately Starfleet ground combat equipment is - Star fleet ship's crew uniforms with phasers.
Come on, ST could deck out commandoes hardcore, but they never do. We're going to fight the Borg - lets bring phasers and trichorders and nothing else.
My ideal Starfleet Marine would be decked out with 1) rifle (compression phaser, old phaser, transporter sniper, whatever). 2) little class 3 phaser (the tiny keychain sized one) as a backup. 3) chemical-propelled projectile pistol with replicator and conventional ammo clips (for those environments where phasors dont work). 4) visor instead of trichorder. Be good for light-amp and scanning - and I'm sure you could set it to see visible. 5) some sort of little unarmed little anti-grav scouts - like flying versions of the spiders from minority report. Lets send the expendable robots to look around that corner instead of the yellowshirts. Give them a live feed to the visor. 6) energy shields. If it only has a 10 second charge or only stops projectiles or something, its still useful. 7) Spock's boots. Death by falling is not an option. These would probably not be used all the time - I'm sure youd just be a target flying around the battlefield. 8) Variable charge grenades that could level a city block. You never know - besides, they've got shields. Star Trek has matter energy conversion - these are quite doable. 9) A short sword. How many times have things become hand to hand combat when all that high-tech crap doesn't work. 10) Armor. People get shot at with conventional bullets and hit with Battleths all the time. Why are they not prepared for this? Throw in Insurrection-style personal cloaking while they're at it. I'm sure its very primitive and can be seen with a simple visor, but you're not always fighting well-equipped people.
One thing they never do - we're behind cover, so are they. We've got a ship in orbit. The enterprise's phasors have been used to bore holes into planets. Why not just request some fire support? Could have some very nice special effects for seeing the main phasor banks hitting a point a kilometer away.
This is why I watched DS9. Stuff happened with aftereffects. Odo went through hell and back many times and got pretty fscked up by it. Nog's seen some serious shit too.
Idunno, I thought Jake and Nog were good characters once DS9 progressed. At teh beginning they were just annoying kids, but they got better. I thought it was a great concept that Jake becomes a writer and Nog joins Star Fleet (since everyone expected Jake and Nog to follow in their parents footsteps). And they're not supergeniuses like Wesley - they're just regular guys.
The B5 pilot came out much before DS9 was shot. B5 was originally pitched to Rodenberry as Star Trek, but he said no way. So they made an independant show called B5. The pilot didn't take for a long time, and DS9 was made as soon as Rodenberry died.
IMHO, the stuff got much better after he stopped holding them back. First, they got rid of his pet Wesley as a regular character, and then they made DS9 - which I call Star Trek with a plot. DS9 actually had a continuing cast other then the heroes - how wierd eh? There were actually non-military characters! Wow.
They are right - it does get much better. In fact, the story just increases in quality gradually over time - until it hits the final season (that was tacked on - they'd planned to end it a season earlier) when it falls like a rock.
Much like Star Trek, first season is mediocre, second is okay, third is awesome.
You forgot the other ones ROFL - roll on floor laughing FOFL - fell on floor laughing FELOFIL - fell easily laughing on floor in (greek) lunch LFNT - there's a huge grey animal in here jhgasd - I have a cat that likes to walk on the keyboard.
Actually, better then Jurassic Park, Sluggy has some storylines about Percy, the cloned carnivorous intelligent wooley mammoth who is a bad influence on the series' lovable-but-slightly-dangerous-former-Giger-alien.
Actually the growing popularity of net-cafe's is getting the best of both worlds. A place in my neightborhood has P4 1.4's with UT, AvsP 2, StarCraft, WC3, all the HL games, and Q3 on the machines. The place is always well filled, but there's usually 3 or 4 seats for me and my friends - the owner even lets me dl mods for the games too.
Still, for trying out hardcore wierd shit games with your friends you can't beat a lan party. I remember playing Descent II CTF, Rocket Jockey, Abuse, Hexen, Battlezone (tons and tons of that)and a host of other oddball games at old LAN parties.
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Just get a long extension cords and run them from all over the house - make some rules for power consumption too - no speakers, small low-power monitors (you can afford $40 for a used 14"). That works for us.
I agree - its much less humourous lately. I find a lot of webcomic authors do that - exploitation now, everything jake, mega tokyo. They all start out as "funny" then they get more and more stories - and the stories start getting serious.
Megatokyo moves too slowly for its serious story, ditto EN. EJake has a bad tendancy to just give up and go written or half-assed for large comics, which is why I gave it up a year back.
Sluggy is actually the only one where I *don't* mind when it gets dramatic. If its dramatic, Pete pulls out the stops and works his ass off to get the extra panels in at decent quality so he can properly tell the story at a good pace. But still, drama has killed a lot of good comics - remember when For Better or For Worse used to be funny? Sluggy still tells a joke once in a while - sometimes for a few panels even. It looks like they're getting back to jokes for a bit right now actually.
Actually, as a fellow bloom county/outland fan, I find that www.ozyandmillie.org has much the same style of wacky/cute/political critter humour. I recommend it for Bloom County fans.
For one thing, a democratic government has no right to privacy unless national security is at stake. All doings within the government should be disclosed to its citizens, so that they can properly, responsibly perform their democratic function of selecting the government.
If it is not a threat to national security (opening up opportunities for hackers or other exploitation of a flaw in the system) then this should be extended to software. They can legislate that this material cannot be used elsewhere, but we have the right to know everything they do - a system that distributes SIN numbers, a system that ID's us, a system that handles billing for a government agency - we have the right to know the algorithms and flaws in the system as they effect us and they are accountable to us. They may copyright the functional use of this data to protect the investment of time by those who created the system, but this data should still be freely available information - just not actually compiled and used.
At least in theory. In practice everything I've just suggested is preposterous and impractical. But in theory this is the level of information we deserve from our government.
Besides, at the very least the government should stay at open, universal standards, so that there is no cost of entry into the study of politics. Personally, I believe that every library should have a TV stuck on C-Span and a computer linked to government websites containing existing and pending legislation, as well as information on the operating methods of all those responsible for acting out the government's will. 100% unlimited access to information on political discourse and the doings of a democratic is a right, or else the system is a fraud. A destitute bum should have the ability to find out whatever his government is and has been doing if he chooses to. Whether or not he does is his decision. That's freedom. That's democracy.
Again - this is ideal, and theoretical. Not practical. But we deserve to know everything our government does, no matter how insignificant. Since their code is an extension of themselves implementing the policies they set forth, then we need that too. How else can we make a truely informed decision, as is our right and duty in the democratic process?
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Now now, there are compromises. The point is intent. If you are intending to decieve the recipient about your own origins, then yes, forging e-mail should be illegal. However e-mail forging tools should not be, likewise forging e-mail for internal use based on a locally acceptable standard that is not intended to be deceptive to its direct recipients.
The point is that if an organization has something to tell millions of netizens without them asking to hear it, they'd damn well better be ready to admit who they are when saying it. A legal "anonymous" tag might be implementable, which any server can promply annihilate. Anonymous e-mails are fine (they'd be filtered everywhere). Headers designed to deliberately mislead the recipient should not exist.
Yes, and the DMA protects my right to free speech. Those of us who don't like the DMA are protecting our right not to be hassled. Those of us who don't like the NRA are protecting our right not to be shot.
And the comparison is perfectly valid. Any organisation, heroic or otherwise, will try and protect their own free hand. If they are in danger of losing it, particularly if the public is against them, they will "bargain" by proposing compromise laws in the hopes that they will be seen as a good team player and be treated leniantly.
While there are justafiable fears about GM pigs, you missed them all. Here are the fears that actually have some basis in reality.
- GM pigs have both pig and human organs in them. This means that pig diseases will "learn" to infect human organs. This will result in pig diseases crossing the gap into the human world, possibly bringing new and dangerous plagues to us. I don't want hoof and mouth disease.
- Humans carrying GM organs can do the same thing. Any human carrying a GM pig organ should not eat pig mean - from a biological perspective, it is very close to cannibalism. While cannibalism is morally wrong for a variety of good reasons, there are good biological reasons it is wrong to. Mainly, eating food of your own biology sets you at risk for every disease that is festering in that corpse - diseases that would not be able to infect you if you were eating a more alien animal (like a chicken). The fact that pigs are already close to human biology is both why the research is possible, and why pork is never served rare (or at all to some religions). Being that much closer raises the risk even higher.
Idunno, I'm still mad at MS for egotistically naming their proprietary document filetype *.doc, which was already being used for general text files, thus meaning that every freaking old doc file I open that's plain text launches in Word and I have to wait all that time for their slow-ass program to boot.
Half the girls on my floor in rez are playing UT now, thanks to my introduction to it. Its more a mental barrier then a preference one - they just never got into games. Find a good, easy, entry level game and throw in some cute mods and they'll love the boys games.
Hey genius - Americans put Bin Laden in charge in the first place. I'm not saying things would be better without American intervention - I'm just saying "They hate Americans 'cause they're jealous" is a crock.
No, they hate you because your CIA and soldiers have been fucking up their region for decades. If you'd just left them the fuck alone they'd probably have done the same. They might have blown each other up, maybe toasted the Israelis and a few neighbors, but they wouldn't have tried to wipe you out.
You *must* be trolling. Such a system isn't even Darwinistic except in the real-world sense - its mostly based on luck. Skill, intillect, whatever, will not help you in any way if you're born the child of an uncaring unwed crackwhore. A government might. I almost might take you seriously if you were proposing some sort of meritocratic system - but pure capitalism is not meritocratic. It is monarchistic - those who are born high stay high, those who are born low stay low. Slavers and serfs. Do remember the period you outlined included nationally supported slavery.
Well, eating pork might actually be a very bad thing if you have pig organs - the pig organs could be succeptable to swine diseases, and so could contract diseases from the food you eat. These diseases would then redevelop to attack your human body, and then could spread to other humans.
There are known immunodeficiency diseases (like AIDS) that occur in pigs. While transplants would be carefully screened for this, the bacon on your McHulkaBurger is not. Normally these diseases not contractable by human organs - but if you have a pig organ, this could be very, very bad.
Idunno, all I want them to do is blow up the Earth in a TNG movie. Really, Earth is always this sickeningly sweet planet in Star Trek, everybody's home - it gets attacked so friggin' many times. Just fscking blow it up, give us some real tragedy.
Idunno, they tried something like that with Space: Above and Beyond. It was good for a while, but they ran out of storylines.
I think Starfleet Academy would've been better. Even if it was "dawson's creek in space" - it'd still have been better. Watch Smallville for a good idea of mixing sci-fi and teens well.
Unfortunately Starfleet ground combat equipment is - Star fleet ship's crew uniforms with phasers.
Come on, ST could deck out commandoes hardcore, but they never do. We're going to fight the Borg - lets bring phasers and trichorders and nothing else.
My ideal Starfleet Marine would be decked out with
1) rifle (compression phaser, old phaser, transporter sniper, whatever).
2) little class 3 phaser (the tiny keychain sized one) as a backup.
3) chemical-propelled projectile pistol with replicator and conventional ammo clips (for those environments where phasors dont work).
4) visor instead of trichorder. Be good for light-amp and scanning - and I'm sure you could set it to see visible.
5) some sort of little unarmed little anti-grav scouts - like flying versions of the spiders from minority report. Lets send the expendable robots to look around that corner instead of the yellowshirts. Give them a live feed to the visor.
6) energy shields. If it only has a 10 second charge or only stops projectiles or something, its still useful.
7) Spock's boots. Death by falling is not an option. These would probably not be used all the time - I'm sure youd just be a target flying around the battlefield.
8) Variable charge grenades that could level a city block. You never know - besides, they've got shields. Star Trek has matter energy conversion - these are quite doable.
9) A short sword. How many times have things become hand to hand combat when all that high-tech crap doesn't work.
10) Armor. People get shot at with conventional bullets and hit with Battleths all the time. Why are they not prepared for this? Throw in Insurrection-style personal cloaking while they're at it. I'm sure its very primitive and can be seen with a simple visor, but you're not always fighting well-equipped people.
One thing they never do - we're behind cover, so are they. We've got a ship in orbit. The enterprise's phasors have been used to bore holes into planets. Why not just request some fire support? Could have some very nice special effects for seeing the main phasor banks hitting a point a kilometer away.
This is why I watched DS9. Stuff happened with aftereffects. Odo went through hell and back many times and got pretty fscked up by it. Nog's seen some serious shit too.
Idunno, I thought Jake and Nog were good characters once DS9 progressed. At teh beginning they were just annoying kids, but they got better. I thought it was a great concept that Jake becomes a writer and Nog joins Star Fleet (since everyone expected Jake and Nog to follow in their parents footsteps). And they're not supergeniuses like Wesley - they're just regular guys.
The B5 pilot came out much before DS9 was shot. B5 was originally pitched to Rodenberry as Star Trek, but he said no way. So they made an independant show called B5. The pilot didn't take for a long time, and DS9 was made as soon as Rodenberry died.
IMHO, the stuff got much better after he stopped holding them back. First, they got rid of his pet Wesley as a regular character, and then they made DS9 - which I call Star Trek with a plot. DS9 actually had a continuing cast other then the heroes - how wierd eh? There were actually non-military characters! Wow.
They are right - it does get much better. In fact, the story just increases in quality gradually over time - until it hits the final season (that was tacked on - they'd planned to end it a season earlier) when it falls like a rock.
Much like Star Trek, first season is mediocre, second is okay, third is awesome.
Donahue thinks games are making me violent...... damnit, I'm going to bean him to a bloody pulp and run him over with a truck for saying that.
You forgot the other ones
ROFL - roll on floor laughing
FOFL - fell on floor laughing
FELOFIL - fell easily laughing on floor in (greek) lunch
LFNT - there's a huge grey animal in here
jhgasd - I have a cat that likes to walk on the keyboard.
Actually, better then Jurassic Park, Sluggy has some storylines about Percy, the cloned carnivorous intelligent wooley mammoth who is a bad influence on the series' lovable-but-slightly-dangerous-former-Giger-alien.
Alternately, if they have facing windows a wi-fi could be set up without external aerials. Same for IR in that case.
Actually the growing popularity of net-cafe's is getting the best of both worlds. A place in my neightborhood has P4 1.4's with UT, AvsP 2, StarCraft, WC3, all the HL games, and Q3 on the machines. The place is always well filled, but there's usually 3 or 4 seats for me and my friends - the owner even lets me dl mods for the games too.
Still, for trying out hardcore wierd shit games with your friends you can't beat a lan party. I remember playing Descent II CTF, Rocket Jockey, Abuse, Hexen, Battlezone (tons and tons of that)and a host of other oddball games at old LAN parties.
Just get a long extension cords and run them from all over the house - make some rules for power consumption too - no speakers, small low-power monitors (you can afford $40 for a used 14"). That works for us.
Those are the privacy of the citizens. I'm referring to the government body itself.
I agree - its much less humourous lately. I find a lot of webcomic authors do that - exploitation now, everything jake, mega tokyo. They all start out as "funny" then they get more and more stories - and the stories start getting serious.
Megatokyo moves too slowly for its serious story, ditto EN. EJake has a bad tendancy to just give up and go written or half-assed for large comics, which is why I gave it up a year back.
Sluggy is actually the only one where I *don't* mind when it gets dramatic. If its dramatic, Pete pulls out the stops and works his ass off to get the extra panels in at decent quality so he can properly tell the story at a good pace. But still, drama has killed a lot of good comics - remember when For Better or For Worse used to be funny? Sluggy still tells a joke once in a while - sometimes for a few panels even. It looks like they're getting back to jokes for a bit right now actually.
Actually, as a fellow bloom county/outland fan, I find that www.ozyandmillie.org has much the same style of wacky/cute/political critter humour. I recommend it for Bloom County fans.
For one thing, a democratic government has no right to privacy unless national security is at stake. All doings within the government should be disclosed to its citizens, so that they can properly, responsibly perform their democratic function of selecting the government.
If it is not a threat to national security (opening up opportunities for hackers or other exploitation of a flaw in the system) then this should be extended to software. They can legislate that this material cannot be used elsewhere, but we have the right to know everything they do - a system that distributes SIN numbers, a system that ID's us, a system that handles billing for a government agency - we have the right to know the algorithms and flaws in the system as they effect us and they are accountable to us. They may copyright the functional use of this data to protect the investment of time by those who created the system, but this data should still be freely available information - just not actually compiled and used.
At least in theory. In practice everything I've just suggested is preposterous and impractical. But in theory this is the level of information we deserve from our government.
Besides, at the very least the government should stay at open, universal standards, so that there is no cost of entry into the study of politics. Personally, I believe that every library should have a TV stuck on C-Span and a computer linked to government websites containing existing and pending legislation, as well as information on the operating methods of all those responsible for acting out the government's will. 100% unlimited access to information on political discourse and the doings of a democratic is a right, or else the system is a fraud. A destitute bum should have the ability to find out whatever his government is and has been doing if he chooses to. Whether or not he does is his decision. That's freedom. That's democracy.
Again - this is ideal, and theoretical. Not practical. But we deserve to know everything our government does, no matter how insignificant. Since their code is an extension of themselves implementing the policies they set forth, then we need that too. How else can we make a truely informed decision, as is our right and duty in the democratic process?