I thought social barbarism was a goal. " I pledge impertinance to the flag waving of the unindicted co-conspirators of America and to the Republicans that I can't stand." Or more simply put screw the status quo.
There must be some legal way to bypass such laws. Perhaps having a foreign branch such that they can do what you can not do within the US would be sufficient. Freedom sometimes requires actions that people would not normally take.
If copyright laws were the same way as they were 100 years ago there would be cooperation from the public. But these days copyright has gone way too far in many ways including fair use restrictions as well as lasting for way too many years. Content creators are getting too much protection as it now stands.
We do need to speed up social conventions to match the speed of technology. For example part of the unemployment crises that we are now seeing is due to technology displacing workers. Whet people don't seem to grasp is that there is a very serious intention to replace all labor with machines. Education and shifting from job skill to job skills will not be enough to keep afloat soon. Yet when social scientists try to offer solutions they are seen as crackpots and lunatics. Frankly some of their solutions make a lot of sense.
However there are some basic issues that never resolved before robotics and the like advanced and one wonders what will happen if robotics is able to solve them. For example robots designed to remove dents and to paint cars might be able to keep every car looking new. But sense we were never able to do that before robotics what will be the economic effect of doing it. The same is true of house and lawn work. Good roofs and fresh paint on a sharp looking lawn without human effort would be a shocker. But what does that do to an economy. We don't even know if humans should be involved in an economy or whether we best let robots and computers serve us all things that we need.
Did he lessen the status of corrupt bosses or the supposed glory of the state. Frankly regardless of which nation does this sort of thing the truth is that human history is dark and wicked and anyone foolish enough to actually believe that any nation's history is glorious needs a mental health professional and a lot of appointments.
Until China straightens out its human rights issues we should bar all communications of any type with China as well as all trade. Frankly buying products made in China supports a form of slavery that is not acceptable at all. Governments of this type are haters and enemies of humanity.
We may have thrown right wing politicians into the trash can but the Supreme Court has to die off on its own. Corporations should be banned from all political activity. Their employees and stock holders already get equal footing with others. Let them contribute as individuals.
If Microsoft has deliberately set out to harm open source then the open source community should set out to harm Microsoft. Perhaps a contest could be run with a prize going to the person doing the greatest harm. Hacking, law suits, interesting illegal acts should all be judged for creativity and harm done.
Reputation should not matter and each case should go to the courts on its own merits. However Microsoft is an old whore with a wicked, dirty, reputation. Judges and juries have got to go into a Microsoft trial with a bit of an urge to tie a hangman's knot and I don't blame them. Considering the several billions in losses that Microsoft has already received in various trials perhaps they should be shy of the court house and not think about dragging people to trial.
I will believe it when I see it. Batteries that good are a dream. And as far as the nearly 30,000 foot ceiling of this device cold and thin air might be a serious issue. Pilots generally like to breath and being turned into a frozen, air starved corpse is not a goal for most of us. Or are we supposed to think this thing with have a closed cabin with oxygen and heat available? Jesus, we can't even get good batteries for electric bicycles yet.
I doubt that Obama would keep these people in governmental employment if he knew they were in the pocket of the recording industry. If someone has good access it can be pointed out that this issue stains his administration and appears to be corruption.
Considering the Chinese government's horrid violations of basic human rights I feel that we should ban all commerce with China. We need an official stamp for such nations such as "Hater of Humanity". By applying an official stamp to such nations we could enlist other nations in total economic embargoes. That would surely slap China hard enough to get them to comply with modern nations sense of fairness to its citizens.
I'm not certain whether I should be called a language loonie, a logic loonie or a political radical but here goes my rant: Free trade means free of all laws, all rules, all taxes, all regulations. The blithering about free markets and capitalism is a right wing conspiracy in and of itself. No nation, not even a tribe of primitives, has ever tried free trade for even one solitary moment. The notion of free trade compares to pregnancy. One absolutely is or is not pregnant. There are no stages or shades of grey.
By letting people absorb the false facts about free trade it becomes easy to further manipulate their lives. Obviously it follows as the night the day that if free trade has never existed then nothing really is known about free trade at all. It is false theoretical dribble designed to enslave under educated populations.
I cringe in horror at the supposedly logical, supposedly educated types who spout off about free trade.
I suspect that Iceland will provide a first rate service. Their climate makes indoor activities and studies much more of a good idea than Miami Beach. It is somewhat like Harvard being in Boston. So much of the year is too cold to do much anything other than study.
The obvious goal is the elimination of human actors which will assure higher profit margins for the film industries. Since legal issues will arise if a character is duplicated by computer art the trick will be to take the admired characteristics of several stars and combine them into a "new" image. Blending Bogart with Eastwood if done by an artist may well present a new film star to the public and create a complex situation in which the Bogart estate and the Eastwood interests both have little if any claim at all to the proceeds. Finding a way to combine voice characteristics might actually be more difficult than the visual elements of film. The monetary interests are large enough that this work will surely be done. Obviously some of it has already been done such as with John Candy completing a film after his death due to computer replications of his voice and person. The trick is to get the cost of the computer work down.
Perhaps the new rule should be : Thou shall make no device that your principal can not understand".
I'll bet what really happened was that the kid made what is called a trembler which is sometimes used by bomb builders to create a trigger if any movement what so ever occurs to the bomb. There are legitimate uses of tremblers which include keeping large fans from destroying everything in sight if they get out of balance. These normally have a drop of mercury sitting in a tiny dimple such that shaking cause the droplet to lift out of the dimple and complete a circuit between two plates of metal, one above and one below the droplet. Obviously ideas like a pendulum can also be used. An 11 year old coming up with an actual, useful and proven device is wonderful. He may have had an interest in earthquake detection or many other legitimate pursuits.
Perhaps we should take the right wing loonies who have denied that global warming is a reality or raised voices against taking action until absolute agreement of every nut jog maverick scientist in the world agrees that it is real and stake them out in the low spots on the English coast. They can then repeat over and over again "I am not drowning".
There is no reason to address the root problem as there is no solution to it. This battle goes back over 2000 years. There are instructions in the Old Testament indicating that God directed the Jews to slaughter all others who occupied Israel including infants without any mercy at all. When modern Israel was created Moslems were considered less than human. If you think about that era you will realise that many races were considered less than human at that time. Not being a racist would have been an abnormality in that era.
Now we have an established nation of Israel with Jews who do not get along at all with Arabs. The Jews cling to the land out of a historic fear of being in a land like Germany where they were at the mercy of the majority race. The Arabs feel deprived and insulted. Other Arab nations amplify the issue by refusing to accept displaced Arabs into their borders. Meanwhile the US has sadly used policies of supporting whichever nations were willing to act in our best interests which generally puts us in bed with Israel. Making matters worse Israel is to weak in its law enforcement to stop illegal expansions onto Arab lands which establishes violence as the criteria of moral action in the region.
To think that these issues will resolve is foolish. They will resolve only when one side is beaten down into the dust. And that will still leave expatriot Jews and Arabs with severe grudges scattered around the world willing to kill each other at the drop of a hat.
These creeps are not dead and they will try other approaches to take away freedoms that we should all have and cherish. They have redefined piracy in order to make normal and usual human activity a crime. Unless copying is blatantly commercial in nature it should be permitted. The notion that because it is easier to copy because we use computers is no excuse for the current plague of laws. This is almost as absurd as telling drinkers that they could not use a device to lift a drink to their lips because it makes getting drunk easier.
Paranoia is not part of my being. I'm not even paranoid in situations where I probably should be paranoid. But this government stuff is beginning to worry me. Now the government wants to take actions against people who simply don't like the government. The snooping is bad. Torturing prisoners is beyond awful. Controlling news releases is frightening. But this stuff seems to be more and more part of our government.
Justification for this nonsense simply doesn't seem to be part of my world either. I have only met one person in my entire life who claimed to be a communist and I doubt that he really was one. I've certainly never met anyone likely to wear a bomb in their underwear. And despite a number of loud mouths on line I really know of no person who seriously advocates revolution in the violent sense of the term.
I am 65 years old and must have know tens of thousands of people. Just how is it that we all must fear these supposed bad people among us? Too me the really bad people are those who might try to take my wallet or steal my car or the like. These are the folks the government needs to be hunting down. I'm willing to take my chances that no creep will detonate his boxer shorts in my proximity.
I am so certain that this poor jerk's investment in a law suit will bring him good results. The settlement will be delivered in a car driven by Elvis with Jimmy Hoffa representing the defendant.
Society has done a tremendous job in assaulting youth with actions and ideas that lead to mental illness.
For example the neighborhood school and the idea of growing up with classmates from similar backgrounds, similar religions and similar race give children a more stress free way to grow up. Cultural diversity is not good news for everyone. The degree of stress caused by busing and mixing varies with regions and customs. Just spending a couple of hours a day on a school bus is in itself enough to disrupt normal development.
Then we have insulated our kids from reality to such a degree that functioning well in the real world isn't likely to occur. As an example picture a young fellow jumping from high school into the work environment. He has no reality at all in the notion that he is viewed like a shovel. He is simply a tool to use and exploit. Yet he has stepped out of a school system which no longer allows declarations of real worth. When the worst kid in the class is defined as our last, first place, scholar reality gets shattered.
People have not been trained to apply less than social modes of thought. We know that schools are designed to push people away from education. We know that simply because that is what they actually do. That eighth grade teacher may preach the loving doctrine of keeping kids in school but the reality is that we sort them and dump them as they progress. One way to do that is to have colleges that are expensive. That fact alone is sufficient to dump half of all potential college students before they even get started. Then we have the loans available to potential college students. They are enough to insure that most who take those loans will be beaten down financially for most if not all of their lives.
To get the 30% or 40% who do drop out of school prior to college the fastest way is to teach towards the dumbest in the class. Instead of insuring that the dumb and the lazy and the misbehaved are rapidly removed from schools we push teachers to save them which translates instantly into ignoring the better students in order to meet testing standards.
By the time these kids are old enough to confront reality they are so twisted that they can not cope. The idea that society is more than willing to throw them into endless wars, work them to death or put them in deadly positions such as convenience store clerks in bad neighborhoods overwhelms them. Dope and booze will usually finish them off as anything more than redeemed wrecks who can somehow get by in low level situations until they die.
Take your pick. But any definition of stupid includes people who text trivia back and forth to each other. Thought is avoided completely. And any fool who bothers a teacher with a text message expecting a reply deserves an F for bad conduct. We are raising a pile of trash and calling them kids.
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I thought social barbarism was a goal. " I pledge impertinance to the flag waving of the unindicted co-conspirators of America and to the Republicans that I can't stand." Or more simply put screw the status quo.
There must be some legal way to bypass such laws. Perhaps having a foreign branch such that they can do what you can not do within the US would be sufficient. Freedom sometimes requires actions that people would not normally take.
If copyright laws were the same way as they were 100 years ago there would be cooperation from the public. But these days copyright has gone way too far in many ways including fair use restrictions as well as lasting for way too many years. Content creators are getting too much protection as it now stands.
We do need to speed up social conventions to match the speed of technology. For example part of the unemployment crises that we are now seeing is due to technology displacing workers. Whet people don't seem to grasp is that there is a very serious intention to replace all labor with machines. Education and shifting from job skill to job skills will not be enough to keep afloat soon. Yet when social scientists try to offer solutions they are seen as crackpots and lunatics. Frankly some of their solutions make a lot of sense.
However there are some basic issues that never resolved before robotics and the like advanced and one wonders what will happen if robotics is able to solve them. For example robots designed to remove dents and to paint cars might be able to keep every car looking new. But sense we were never able to do that before robotics what will be the economic effect of doing it. The same is true of house and lawn work. Good roofs and fresh paint on a sharp looking lawn without human effort would be a shocker. But what does that do to an economy. We don't even know if humans should be involved in an economy or whether we best let robots and computers serve us all things that we need.
Did he lessen the status of corrupt bosses or the supposed glory of the state. Frankly regardless of which nation does this sort of thing the truth is that human history is dark and wicked and anyone foolish enough to actually believe that any nation's history is glorious needs a mental health professional and a lot of appointments.
Until China straightens out its human rights issues we should bar all communications of any type with China as well as all trade. Frankly buying products made in China supports a form of slavery that is not acceptable at all. Governments of this type are haters and enemies of humanity.
We may have thrown right wing politicians into the trash can but the Supreme Court has to die off on its own. Corporations should be banned from all political activity. Their employees and stock holders already get equal footing with others. Let them contribute as individuals.
If Microsoft has deliberately set out to harm open source then the open source community should set out to harm Microsoft. Perhaps a contest could be run with a prize going to the person doing the greatest harm. Hacking, law suits, interesting illegal acts should all be judged for creativity and harm done.
Reputation should not matter and each case should go to the courts on its own merits. However Microsoft is an old whore with a wicked, dirty, reputation. Judges and juries have got to go into a Microsoft trial with a bit of an urge to tie a hangman's knot and I don't blame them. Considering the several billions in losses that Microsoft has already received in various trials perhaps they should be shy of the court house and not think about dragging people to trial.
People will not pay for the times electronic version. Frankly they have no real reason to do so. We will always have superior news on the net.
I will believe it when I see it. Batteries that good are a dream. And as far as the nearly 30,000 foot ceiling of this device cold and thin air might be a serious issue. Pilots generally like to breath and being turned into a frozen, air starved corpse is not a goal for most of us. Or are we supposed to think this thing with have a closed cabin with oxygen and heat available? Jesus, we can't even get good batteries for electric bicycles yet.
I doubt that Obama would keep these people in governmental employment if he knew they were in the pocket of the recording industry. If someone has good access it can be pointed out that this issue stains his administration and appears to be corruption.
Considering the Chinese government's horrid violations of basic human rights I feel that we should ban all commerce with China. We need an official stamp for such nations such as "Hater of Humanity". By applying an official stamp to such nations we could enlist other nations in total economic embargoes. That would surely slap China hard enough to get them to comply with modern nations sense of fairness to its citizens.
I'm not certain whether I should be called a language loonie, a logic loonie or a political radical but here goes my rant: Free trade means free of all laws, all rules, all taxes, all regulations. The blithering about free markets and capitalism is a right wing conspiracy in and of itself. No nation, not even a tribe of primitives, has ever tried free trade for even one solitary moment. The notion of free trade compares to pregnancy. One absolutely is or is not pregnant. There are no stages or shades of grey.
By letting people absorb the false facts about free trade it becomes easy to further manipulate their lives. Obviously it follows as the night the day that if free trade has never existed then nothing really is known about free trade at all. It is false theoretical dribble designed to enslave under educated populations.
I cringe in horror at the supposedly logical, supposedly educated types who spout off about free trade.
I suspect that Iceland will provide a first rate service. Their climate makes indoor activities and studies much more of a good idea than Miami Beach. It is somewhat like Harvard being in Boston. So much of the year is too cold to do much anything other than study.
The obvious goal is the elimination of human actors which will assure higher profit margins for the film industries. Since legal issues will arise if a character is duplicated by computer art the trick will be to take the admired characteristics of several stars and combine them into a "new" image. Blending Bogart with Eastwood if done by an artist may well present a new film star to the public and create a complex situation in which the Bogart estate and the Eastwood interests both have little if any claim at all to the proceeds. Finding a way to combine voice characteristics might actually be more difficult than the visual elements of film. The monetary interests are large enough that this work will surely be done. Obviously some of it has already been done such as with John Candy completing a film after his death due to computer replications of his voice and person. The trick is to get the cost of the computer work down.
Perhaps the new rule should be : Thou shall make no device that your principal can not understand".
I'll bet what really happened was that the kid made what is called a trembler which is sometimes used by bomb builders to create a trigger if any movement what so ever occurs to the bomb. There are legitimate uses of tremblers which include keeping large fans from destroying everything in sight if they get out of balance. These normally have a drop of mercury sitting in a tiny dimple such that shaking cause the droplet to lift out of the dimple and complete a circuit between two plates of metal, one above and one below the droplet. Obviously ideas like a pendulum can also be used. An 11 year old coming up with an actual, useful and proven device is wonderful. He may have had an interest in earthquake detection or many other legitimate pursuits.
Perhaps we should take the right wing loonies who have denied that global warming is a reality or raised voices against taking action until absolute agreement of every nut jog maverick scientist in the world agrees that it is real and stake them out in the low spots on the English coast. They can then repeat over and over again "I am not drowning".
There is no reason to address the root problem as there is no solution to it. This battle goes back over 2000 years. There are instructions in the Old Testament indicating that God directed the Jews to slaughter all others who occupied Israel including infants without any mercy at all. When modern Israel was created Moslems were considered less than human. If you think about that era you will realise that many races were considered less than human at that time. Not being a racist would have been an abnormality in that era.
Now we have an established nation of Israel with Jews who do not get along at all with Arabs. The Jews cling to the land out of a historic fear of being in a land like Germany where they were at the mercy of the majority race. The Arabs feel deprived and insulted. Other Arab nations amplify the issue by refusing to accept displaced Arabs into their borders. Meanwhile the US has sadly used policies of supporting whichever nations were willing to act in our best interests which generally puts us in bed with Israel. Making matters worse Israel is to weak in its law enforcement to stop illegal expansions onto Arab lands which establishes violence as the criteria of moral action in the region.
To think that these issues will resolve is foolish. They will resolve only when one side is beaten down into the dust. And that will still leave expatriot Jews and Arabs with severe grudges scattered around the world willing to kill each other at the drop of a hat.
These creeps are not dead and they will try other approaches to take away freedoms that we should all have and cherish. They have redefined piracy in order to make normal and usual human activity a crime. Unless copying is blatantly commercial in nature it should be permitted. The notion that because it is easier to copy because we use computers is no excuse for the current plague of laws. This is almost as absurd as telling drinkers that they could not use a device to lift a drink to their lips because it makes getting drunk easier.
Paranoia is not part of my being. I'm not even paranoid in situations where I probably should be paranoid. But this government stuff is beginning to worry me. Now the government wants to take actions against people who simply don't like the government. The snooping is bad. Torturing prisoners is beyond awful. Controlling news releases is frightening. But this stuff seems to be more and more part of our government.
Justification for this nonsense simply doesn't seem to be part of my world either. I have only met one person in my entire life who claimed to be a communist and I doubt that he really was one. I've certainly never met anyone likely to wear a bomb in their underwear. And despite a number of loud mouths on line I really know of no person who seriously advocates revolution in the violent sense of the term.
I am 65 years old and must have know tens of thousands of people. Just how is it that we all must fear these supposed bad people among us? Too me the really bad people are those who might try to take my wallet or steal my car or the like. These are the folks the government needs to be hunting down. I'm willing to take my chances that no creep will detonate his boxer shorts in my proximity.
I am so certain that this poor jerk's investment in a law suit will bring him good results. The settlement will be delivered in a car driven by Elvis with Jimmy Hoffa representing the defendant.
Society has done a tremendous job in assaulting youth with actions and ideas that lead to mental illness.
For example the neighborhood school and the idea of growing up with classmates from similar backgrounds, similar religions and similar race give children a more stress free way to grow up. Cultural diversity is not good news for everyone. The degree of stress caused by busing and mixing varies with regions and customs. Just spending a couple of hours a day on a school bus is in itself enough to disrupt normal development.
Then we have insulated our kids from reality to such a degree that functioning well in the real world isn't likely to occur. As an example picture a young fellow jumping from high school into the work environment. He has no reality at all in the notion that he is viewed like a shovel. He is simply a tool to use and exploit. Yet he has stepped out of a school system which no longer allows declarations of real worth. When the worst kid in the class is defined as our last, first place, scholar reality gets shattered.
People have not been trained to apply less than social modes of thought. We know that schools are designed to push people away from education. We know that simply because that is what they actually do. That eighth grade teacher may preach the loving doctrine of keeping kids in school but the reality is that we sort them and dump them as they progress. One way to do that is to have colleges that are expensive. That fact alone is sufficient to dump half of all potential college students before they even get started. Then we have the loans available to potential college students. They are enough to insure that most who take those loans will be beaten down financially for most if not all of their lives.
To get the 30% or 40% who do drop out of school prior to college the fastest way is to teach towards the dumbest in the class. Instead of insuring that the dumb and the lazy and the misbehaved are rapidly removed from schools we push teachers to save them which translates instantly into ignoring the better students in order to meet testing standards.
By the time these kids are old enough to confront reality they are so twisted that they can not cope. The idea that society is more than willing to throw them into endless wars, work them to death or put them in deadly positions such as convenience store clerks in bad neighborhoods overwhelms them. Dope and booze will usually finish them off as anything more than redeemed wrecks who can somehow get by in low level situations until they die.
Take your pick. But any definition of stupid includes people who text trivia back and forth to each other. Thought is avoided completely. And any fool who bothers a teacher with a text message expecting a reply deserves an F for bad conduct. We are raising a pile of trash and calling them kids.