because they believed there was no way they could compete using conventional military forces, and the rocket program was much cheaper than continuing down the mass-army road
some of the first astronomers were priests, in ancient India. the purpose of their work, like Aryabhata's sine table, was partly to ensure the religious ceremonies happened at the correct times.
"Understanding the ISO The ISO operates a robust and reliable wholesale power system that balances the need for higher transmission reliability with the need for lower costs, and acts as a key platform to achieve California’s clean energy goals."
wow. what does that mean? because i just read it, and i dont "understand the ISO" .
him and that wild man Romero, tore the gates off the entrance to the PC graphics and game industry, and stomped on them. they were years ahead of their time, only a tiny tiny handful could do what they did. what they did was absolutely pioneering.
you take one of those and separate it from the other? well, maybe you have to at some point,, they couldnt be shareware cowboys forever.... but sometimes 1+1 is much more than 2 and if carmack can't see that i dont know what to say.
because holy fuck, you remember when that baby blew up the empire state building?
god damn it, load me up with a nother 10 billion dollars worth of backscatter x-rays, and dont ask me to give you an itemized list and keep those god damned auditers off our backs!
"I was on an airplane and there was high-speed Internet on the airplane. That's the newest thing that I know exists. And I'm sitting on the plane and they go, open up your laptop, you can go on the Internet.
"And it's fast, and I'm watching YouTube clips. It's amaz--I'm on an airplane! And then it breaks down. And they apologize, the Internet's not working. And the guy next to me goes, 'This is b___s___.' I mean, how quickly does the world owe him something that he knew existed only 10 seconds ago?""
that Obama personally appointed Lanny Breuer, who is in charge of alot of these 'leak' cases.
And as commander of the armed forces, he is directly responsible for the fate of Bradley Manning.
i dont know who is involved in the Swartz case... so maybe i am crazy on that one.
But the argument that the president has nothing to do with federal prosecutions is a bit off the mark. He sets the tone and sets the priorities, he hires people, knowing their records, and he also allows people to stay in their jobs (like William Welch) even after they make a lot of bizarre mistakes.
i thought it was crazy too, until i started reading up on the facts of the cases. Obama is the worst First Amendment president in modern history.
they had no authorization to engage in massive copyright violation, scanning millions of copyrighted books that they had no right to, specifically violating the exact same laws that drove Kinko's to lose massive amount of university campus business in the 1980s.
and yet.
Google got away with it. Google books is there for all to see. journals, advertisements, the books, the newspapers, the articles, all copyrighted, all obtained by google without permission.
JSTOR did alot of the same stuff. There is no way in hell they owned the copyright to all the stuff they scanned.
They also probably broke some labor laws when they outsourced the whole scanning operation to the Dominican Republic.
this guy is going to get 35 years so that Obama can prove he is 'tough on leakers'? because Eric Holder lost the Thomas Drake case? What the ?@#
holy christ man, the world has gone fucking insane.
He is being threatened with half his life in prison for violating a fucking EULA.
If this precedent is set, we are all fucked for life. Especially when the next "Conservative" administration comes into office and decides we all need anal probes to save us from gay terrorism.
its like having a law that says 'its illegal to bad things on a computer'. what the hell does that even mean? its complete bullshit, which is proved by the wide variety of people that have been prosecuted under it.
Drake was not acquitted, he plead guilty to one misdemeanor under the CFAA (instead of 5 felonies under the Espionage Act) - the point of his case is that the CFAA made it criminal to simply take unclassified information and have it in your house. UNCLASSIFIED.
now the CFAA applies to women telling people to commit suicide? AND to a guy who downloads from JSTOR? And to a guy who jailbreaks his playstation? What the fuck kind of a law is that?
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but what about that third pillar? the quality thing?
we might be unable to buy food and clothing, but at least we will have 3d pornography.
because they believed there was no way they could compete using conventional military forces, and the rocket program was much cheaper than continuing down the mass-army road
studying the earth is studying space science, isnt it?
isn't the best example of a climate-out-of-control the planet venus?
some of the first astronomers were priests, in ancient India. the purpose of their work, like Aryabhata's sine table, was partly to ensure the religious ceremonies happened at the correct times.
very interesting.
then you download the source.... surprise, you can't compile it.
thats what im upset about.
who had pointed this out!
oh wait. there was. in the NSA, there were quite a few actually.
"Understanding the ISO
The ISO operates a robust and reliable wholesale power system that balances the need for higher transmission reliability with the need for lower costs, and acts as a key platform to achieve California’s clean energy goals."
wow. what does that mean? because i just read it, and i dont "understand the ISO" .
what the do these people do all day?
"uh huh. uh huh. well, did you try rebooting it?
uh huh. are you sure its plugged in?
uh huh. well, thank you very much, have a nice day.
"
oh god, the skill!
oh wait, there is no global union of IT workers....
(not yet anyway)
him and that wild man Romero, tore the gates off the entrance to the PC graphics and game industry, and stomped on them. they were years ahead of their time, only a tiny tiny handful could do what they did. what they did was absolutely pioneering.
Romero's creative angst ridden genius + carmack's technical skill = compelling nightmare world
you take one of those and separate it from the other? well, maybe you have to at some point,, they couldnt be shareware cowboys forever.... but sometimes 1+1 is much more than 2 and if carmack can't see that i dont know what to say.
like Chrysler or General Motors (the latter of which is more like a finance company, GMAC, that happens to sell cars as a tiny part of its business)
then they could have gotten bailed out
but the republican leaders are just as bad as the democrats though. both of our political parties are horribly corrupt and incompetent.
because holy fuck, you remember when that baby blew up the empire state building?
god damn it, load me up with a nother 10 billion dollars worth of backscatter x-rays, and dont ask me to give you an itemized list and keep those god damned auditers off our backs!
remember 9/11!
then they would have gotten a billion dollars a year, no questions asked.
in fact, asking questions would get journalists arrested for espionage and harming the troops.
if you dont believe me, ask Thomas Drake or Bradley Manning.
"I was on an airplane and there was high-speed Internet on the airplane. That's the newest thing that I know exists. And I'm sitting on the plane and they go, open up your laptop, you can go on the Internet.
"And it's fast, and I'm watching YouTube clips. It's amaz--I'm on an airplane! And then it breaks down. And they apologize, the Internet's not working. And the guy next to me goes, 'This is b___s___.' I mean, how quickly does the world owe him something that he knew existed only 10 seconds ago?""
It's proof of alien intelligence! It's a government conspiracy to uhm...
err...
trick us into thinking that there was ... no..
look, I'm just saying.
that Obama personally appointed Lanny Breuer, who is in charge of alot of these 'leak' cases.
And as commander of the armed forces, he is directly responsible for the fate of Bradley Manning.
i dont know who is involved in the Swartz case... so maybe i am crazy on that one.
But the argument that the president has nothing to do with federal prosecutions is a bit off the mark. He sets the tone and sets the priorities, he hires people, knowing their records, and he also allows people to stay in their jobs (like William Welch) even after they make a lot of bizarre mistakes.
i thought it was crazy too, until i started reading up on the facts of the cases. Obama is the worst First Amendment president in modern history.
they had no authorization to engage in massive copyright violation, scanning millions of copyrighted books that they had no right to, specifically violating the exact same laws that drove Kinko's to lose massive amount of university campus business in the 1980s.
and yet.
Google got away with it. Google books is there for all to see. journals, advertisements, the books, the newspapers, the articles, all copyrighted, all obtained by google without permission.
JSTOR did alot of the same stuff. There is no way in hell they owned the copyright to all the stuff they scanned.
They also probably broke some labor laws when they outsourced the whole scanning operation to the Dominican Republic.
this guy is going to get 35 years so that Obama can prove he is 'tough on leakers'? because Eric Holder lost the Thomas Drake case? What the ?@#
holy christ man, the world has gone fucking insane.
He is being threatened with half his life in prison for violating a fucking EULA.
If this precedent is set, we are all fucked for life. Especially when the next "Conservative" administration comes into office and decides we all need anal probes to save us from gay terrorism.
how pointless it is.
its like having a law that says 'its illegal to bad things on a computer'. what the hell does that even mean? its complete bullshit, which is proved by the wide variety of people that have been prosecuted under it.
Drake was not acquitted, he plead guilty to one misdemeanor under the CFAA (instead of 5 felonies under the Espionage Act) - the point of his case is that the CFAA made it criminal to simply take unclassified information and have it in your house. UNCLASSIFIED.
now the CFAA applies to women telling people to commit suicide? AND to a guy who downloads from JSTOR? And to a guy who jailbreaks his playstation? What the fuck kind of a law is that?
Thomas Drake
Stephen Kim
Shamai Leibowitz
Jeffrey Sterling
James Risen
Bradley Manning
Trevor Timm
Aaron Swartz
when does it end? Obama's DOJ is clearly off the deep end.
the computer fraud and abuse act is one of the worst laws ever passed in the history of the country.
it is also being used against Bradley Manning and the Wikileaks cambridge people
it was also used against Thomas Drake
they also tried to use it against the Myspace suicide-woman
JSTOR doesn't want it prosecuted
and neither does anyone with a shred of common sense.