There is a lot more that doesn't quite add up in this story.
For example:
In December 2012, an undercover federal agent began to ask Dread Pirate Roberts about smuggling large quantities of drugs over borders. According to the indictment, the agent asked for DPR's help in finding customers because, he said, "Silk Road sellers only want very small amounts."
Isn't this entrapment? And wouldn't the rest not be admissible in court because you know, the fruit of a poisonous tree? Or have I been watching too much Law&Order?
It's because of tragedies like this that I know that there is no god. No allah, no buddah, no fucking christ. Or they are all cruel assholes that deserve to be publicly executed with the same gun that killed 20 children today. I mean, god is supposed to be almighty alseeing entity. Ok, free will and all that shit. But how hard would it be to make that gun jam on the first try? Or better yet, make the first bullet ricochet right into the black heart of the asshole that was holding it at the time? No, too fucking hard? There is no god...
When playing a game, I can easily tell if it's running at 30 fps or 60 fps, and I *much* prefer the higher framerate, for obvious reasons. It'll definitely take a bit of getting used to when it comes to moves, but it is no doubt a good thing.
I wonder if this also applies to the trailers on DVDs/BRs? Whenever I put a new disk into the player, I have to reduce volume quite a bit for the trailers, until the movie starts, which is mighty annoying.
And while at it, dear FCC, make them stop putting a buzillion of unskippable FBI/etc. warnings on every disk! It only makes me want to switch to PirateBay exclusively.
BTW, WTF is a "digital theft" they keep mentioning in those warnings lately?! Specifically, which digits are more valuable, so that I keep mine locked up. Is it 13? 42? 3.1415926?
Fuck that! "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -George Bernard Shaw
Who the hell cares if the prosecutor's fears were legitimate? What happened to the whole "innocent until proven guilty"?! I can see placing someone in solitary because he/she can potentially cause someone to get killed or do other serious harm. We are talking about goddamn computers here. I have legitimate fears that my neighbors are piggybacking on my WiFi, should we place them in solitary as well?!
Let's forget for a second that a child was involved and that a cute cuddly laptop was taken from her. In what twisted fucked up world is it ok for the police (i.e. the government) to raid someone's HOME just because there is "evidence" that something was downloaded from somewhere on the Internet from an IP address that might or might not belong to a computer (IP spoofing anyone) that might or might not been in that home (WiFi router anyone)???
Insightful?! I'm a netflix subscriber since they were sending out DVD disks in bubblewrap padded envelopes. And yet I'm still reaching for pirate bay about as often as I use netflix. And I'll be doing it until there is a service that lets me download or stream absolutely *any* movies, shows, etc. the *second* they air anywhere in the world. Hell, I'm even willing to pay $300 per month for the privilege, not $7. And yet the entertainment industry continues to keep its head up its arse...
Copyrights, trademarks, and patents are three different things . How can we ever expect politicians to fix our IP system, when even many geeks seem incapable of understanding even the absolute basics?
Huh?! Are geeks suppose to be well versed in all intricacies of the copyright/trademark laws all of the sudden? What's next, are geeks now suppose to know that vulva, vagina and pudenda are three different things?
That is not ironic. The police neither fought in the war, nor are they here to protect our freedom (they are here to enforce laws, and actually often take away the freedom of anyone who violates the laws). It would have been somewhat ironic if the German police was involved. Yes, I'm the irony Nazi.:)
Have to disagree. We are not trying to explain how a "tool" works. The only hypothesis here is about how to differentiate it from rocks, sticks, etc.. So it is perfectly fine to alter the hypothesis when new facts are discovered that do not fit the original hypothesis. Think of how Earth was first thought of as a flat disk resting on backs of some giant animals. Then certain things were discovered and the Earth became round, resting in the center of the universe. Then more things got discovered that made that definition obsolete. And so forth...
Not sure if you realize it, but you just described how science works in general. Especially physics, and to some degree, math. We observe the world around us and come up with a theory that describes it. Then someone makes a discovery that invalidates that theory. Then someone else comes up with a new theory (or expands/modifies the previous one) to make it work with the new discovery. Then someone else makes a new discovery. And so on and so forth, ad infinitum. Sometimes it happens a bit backwards -- someone comes up with a new theory and then a new discovery is made later on that "proves" that theory.
Doesn't "manufactured" imply that the final product is made using other tools or machinery, which wasn't the case here? Shouldn't it be "a parrot made tools" or rather "a parrot uses slivers of wood to poke at a nut in an attempt to retrieve it"? Not as catchy of a title, but also not as misleading as the current one...
Isn't running by definition means that both of your feet have to be completely off the ground at some point? That's why there's walking and there's running. What I'm seeing here (at least from the video clips) is very fast walking. Very impressive, don't get me wrong, but still -- this is not running.
I must be missing something here. With the bandwidth prices dropping sharply in the past couple of years, how come cable companies still lose money? You can get 100 Mbps link from Cogent for $3k per month. That's 100 customers using 1 Mbps all day long for $30 per month.
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There is a lot more that doesn't quite add up in this story.
For example:
In December 2012, an undercover federal agent began to ask Dread Pirate Roberts about smuggling large quantities of drugs over borders. According to the indictment, the agent asked for DPR's help in finding customers because, he said, "Silk Road sellers only want very small amounts."
Isn't this entrapment? And wouldn't the rest not be admissible in court because you know, the fruit of a poisonous tree? Or have I been watching too much Law&Order?
If you google google google is 3rd. :)
It is not our intention...
HA-HA-HA! "We have our dick up your bum hole, but it is not our intention to rape you any time soon!"
It's because of tragedies like this that I know that there is no god. No allah, no buddah, no fucking christ. Or they are all cruel assholes that deserve to be publicly executed with the same gun that killed 20 children today. I mean, god is supposed to be almighty alseeing entity. Ok, free will and all that shit. But how hard would it be to make that gun jam on the first try? Or better yet, make the first bullet ricochet right into the black heart of the asshole that was holding it at the time? No, too fucking hard? There is no god...
When playing a game, I can easily tell if it's running at 30 fps or 60 fps, and I *much* prefer the higher framerate, for obvious reasons. It'll definitely take a bit of getting used to when it comes to moves, but it is no doubt a good thing.
I wonder if this also applies to the trailers on DVDs/BRs? Whenever I put a new disk into the player, I have to reduce volume quite a bit for the trailers, until the movie starts, which is mighty annoying.
And while at it, dear FCC, make them stop putting a buzillion of unskippable FBI/etc. warnings on every disk! It only makes me want to switch to PirateBay exclusively.
BTW, WTF is a "digital theft" they keep mentioning in those warnings lately?! Specifically, which digits are more valuable, so that I keep mine locked up. Is it 13? 42? 3.1415926?
Wake me up when they start getting anywhere near 1% of the stuff available as torrents...
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Fuck that!
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw
It's a good thing they didn't find pot on him, he'd already be serving life without parole...
Who the hell cares if the prosecutor's fears were legitimate? What happened to the whole "innocent until proven guilty"?! I can see placing someone in solitary because he/she can potentially cause someone to get killed or do other serious harm. We are talking about goddamn computers here. I have legitimate fears that my neighbors are piggybacking on my WiFi, should we place them in solitary as well?!
But seriously, stop with these monochromatic views of the world already. It's destroying us as a society.
Stop stopping the society from destroying itself with trivial shit. It's fun to watch!
Irony, as opposed to wrinkly (saw it on a t-shirt).
a) "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
b) The country with the largest and best financed military force in the world is now afraid of twitter posts? WTF?!
c) What's next, war on Twitter? War on Facebook? Hmm, that last one might not be such a bad thing. :)
d) Profit!
Let's forget for a second that a child was involved and that a cute cuddly laptop was taken from her. In what twisted fucked up world is it ok for the police (i.e. the government) to raid someone's HOME just because there is "evidence" that something was downloaded from somewhere on the Internet from an IP address that might or might not belong to a computer (IP spoofing anyone) that might or might not been in that home (WiFi router anyone)???
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Insightful?! I'm a netflix subscriber since they were sending out DVD disks in bubblewrap padded envelopes. And yet I'm still reaching for pirate bay about as often as I use netflix. And I'll be doing it until there is a service that lets me download or stream absolutely *any* movies, shows, etc. the *second* they air anywhere in the world. Hell, I'm even willing to pay $300 per month for the privilege, not $7. And yet the entertainment industry continues to keep its head up its arse...
Copyrights, trademarks, and patents are three different things . How can we ever expect politicians to fix our IP system, when even many geeks seem incapable of understanding even the absolute basics?
Huh?! Are geeks suppose to be well versed in all intricacies of the copyright/trademark laws all of the sudden? What's next, are geeks now suppose to know that vulva, vagina and pudenda are three different things?
That is not ironic. The police neither fought in the war, nor are they here to protect our freedom (they are here to enforce laws, and actually often take away the freedom of anyone who violates the laws). It would have been somewhat ironic if the German police was involved. Yes, I'm the irony Nazi. :)
Have to disagree. We are not trying to explain how a "tool" works. The only hypothesis here is about how to differentiate it from rocks, sticks, etc.. So it is perfectly fine to alter the hypothesis when new facts are discovered that do not fit the original hypothesis. Think of how Earth was first thought of as a flat disk resting on backs of some giant animals. Then certain things were discovered and the Earth became round, resting in the center of the universe. Then more things got discovered that made that definition obsolete. And so forth...
Not sure if you realize it, but you just described how science works in general. Especially physics, and to some degree, math. We observe the world around us and come up with a theory that describes it. Then someone makes a discovery that invalidates that theory. Then someone else comes up with a new theory (or expands/modifies the previous one) to make it work with the new discovery. Then someone else makes a new discovery. And so on and so forth, ad infinitum. Sometimes it happens a bit backwards -- someone comes up with a new theory and then a new discovery is made later on that "proves" that theory.
Doesn't "manufactured" imply that the final product is made using other tools or machinery, which wasn't the case here? Shouldn't it be "a parrot made tools" or rather "a parrot uses slivers of wood to poke at a nut in an attempt to retrieve it"? Not as catchy of a title, but also not as misleading as the current one...
Nope. The best way is to buy it, open the box and then return it back to the store.
Isn't running by definition means that both of your feet have to be completely off the ground at some point? That's why there's walking and there's running. What I'm seeing here (at least from the video clips) is very fast walking. Very impressive, don't get me wrong, but still -- this is not running.
Hmm, are you refering to this URL: http://www.kaosinc.com/jen.shtml ?
It doesn't load in Mozilla and goes into an infinite loop in IE. Nothing to do with AllTheWeb itself.
I must be missing something here. With the bandwidth prices dropping sharply in the past couple of years, how come cable companies still lose money? You can get 100 Mbps link from Cogent for $3k per month. That's 100 customers using 1 Mbps all day long for $30 per month.