Current situation: US unhappy with organisation, so it puts unofficial pressure on payment processors for payment ban. Payment processors comply.
EFF's idea: Increase amount of unofficial pressure necessary by making the fund for channelling funds. Idea is that political pressure necessary to get such a fund banned is much greater, and will exhaust political capital needed to put such pressure up very fast. It hopes to force US government to either take official way where EFF could assist with legal matters, or force the bar for the political pressure necessary to be too high.
Reality: Congress will probably pass legislation to make this pressure official and binding if this proves to be a problem in the way EFF envisions is, under the umbrella of "anti terrorism".
Did you just try to argue that US has no right to criticize policies of other countries? After all, it's the country that does by far the most of such critique due to it's global reach and amount of relationships because of this reach.
Most of the gun shot victims that survive get help fast due to modern emergency medicine. This is rather hard to arrange when you have no access to the building because the shooter is still inside.
So you have people dying to wounds that would be treatable, some easily treatable like blood loss.
Aye, that's what happens when your emergency medicine is of the early industrial age, and people with even minor wounds die to infection and other similar things.
Nowadays if you don't die instantly and don't get short term fatal wounds, you are very likely to survive. And even those are often treatable if ambulance gets there fast enough.
The difference you're missing is that with lava you have massively enriched soil.
With deforestation you get exact opposite.
Essentially you apply fauna-based "lava equals wiping of all I see as important", while flora based point of view is "look at all these new rich minerals in top soil to grow off!"
Your post's first part is correct. Second is opinionated drivel on the level of fox news. Governing world's largest state with extremely complex mixture of cultures and ethnicities that have standing conflicts that sometimes spawn over millenia requires a very hard handed approach.
Most people don't seem to understand that large states are ALL corrupt, but corruption changes face in accordance to local culture. In the East, it's generally low level corruption, with low and middle level bureaucrats that take most of the bribes. The upper echelon of the bureaucracy typically accepts this as a realistic cost of running an Eastern country.
In the West, we typically have a high level corruption where highest of the ruling elite are more corrupt then low and middle bureaucrats. And we the people accept that corruption at highest strata of society is just the way our culture works.
I still remember the old saying about the biggest difference between Russia and USA. In USA, money is power. In Russia, power is money.
How bad of a crash are you willing to take for that little piece of ego boosting?
Because if you think that your current way of life comes purely from US and not from extremely lucrative, essentially colonial exploitation of 3rd world, you are going to hit a wall or reality running.
I can solidly confirm this, as one of the people who got to joyfully beta test the wonderful mess that was steam back on CS 1.6 release. When we were told it was just a "new matchmaking system for CS".
Very little good PR came out of that one, but they sure got their unwilling beta-testers in droves.
It's a well known and researched natural tendency of free market to become an eventual monopoly. This is because the most successful will always want to reinforce its position through purchases, takeovers and dumping until competition is dead and it's the only one left standing.
Correct, and these are functional only on small screens. HUDs are generally build with multiple simultaneous functions of completely different nature (i.e. applications).
One of the biggest promised features on F-35's HMD for example is the enhanced replication of multi-functional display system from current fighter interface. Because when you project across entire field of vision, you can fit a lot of stuff in. On the other hand, when you're displaying on small smartphone that doesn't even fill tenth of person's vision's focus, yeah. No go.
Anyone who thinks AR is going to flourish on the small screen in the future needs to have their heads checked. Their disconnection with reality combined with blind belief in marketing is astounding.
The place where AR may indeed flourish is some sort of a HUD, like google glass. Small screen AR interfaces are usually just toys, because they're actually quite uncomfortable to use.
I'm betting a fad wad of cash that very few of them are rooted in the grand scheme of things. I had an XP machine that couldn't update to SP1 (installer always crashed, as did windows update for some reason) so no updates, not even critical ones.
I ran that machine for over two years. Sane software firewall with tight rule set and constant updates, antivirus, browser, mail client, irc client, games, office suite, etc and user that doesn't download porn as executables. Apparently it didn't matter one bit that OS didn't get any critical updates for years, in spite of being on a public fixed IP address.
At some point I finally broke and got a slipstreamed SP2 torrent off piratebay eventually and installed it with my key. Worked fine and I could update. Funnily, I forgot to unplug it from network when installing it, so it got rooted within about a minute of finishing installation (it was on fixed public and open IP address). By the time I had installed firefox, which was among the first things to get into the machine after drivers, it opened a shitload of advert windows for porn, gambling and so on. Which pretty much spelled out to me what happened.
So I re-formatted the drive, unplugged the ethernet cable, reinstalled windows, installed my good old firewall with same rule set as the vanilla XP machine. Then just did the updates. No problems since. The damn thing is still trucking, through I gave it to my parents.
I am willing to bet people like me are plentiful, and pirated or not, OS itself doesn't need even critical updates if firewall is functional and has a sane ruleset, browser and other software that you actually allow into the internet is updated and you don't do stupid shit like download executables called "awesome porn.exe"
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Current situation: US unhappy with organisation, so it puts unofficial pressure on payment processors for payment ban. Payment processors comply.
EFF's idea: Increase amount of unofficial pressure necessary by making the fund for channelling funds. Idea is that political pressure necessary to get such a fund banned is much greater, and will exhaust political capital needed to put such pressure up very fast. It hopes to force US government to either take official way where EFF could assist with legal matters, or force the bar for the political pressure necessary to be too high.
Reality: Congress will probably pass legislation to make this pressure official and binding if this proves to be a problem in the way EFF envisions is, under the umbrella of "anti terrorism".
Did you just try to argue that US has no right to criticize policies of other countries? After all, it's the country that does by far the most of such critique due to it's global reach and amount of relationships because of this reach.
Most of the gun shot victims that survive get help fast due to modern emergency medicine. This is rather hard to arrange when you have no access to the building because the shooter is still inside.
So you have people dying to wounds that would be treatable, some easily treatable like blood loss.
Aye, that's what happens when your emergency medicine is of the early industrial age, and people with even minor wounds die to infection and other similar things.
Nowadays if you don't die instantly and don't get short term fatal wounds, you are very likely to survive. And even those are often treatable if ambulance gets there fast enough.
Actually there are. There are less shootings that lead to deaths however.
Reason for this is not improvement in numbers and quality of shootings, but improvements in medical science.
The types who have been following news on things like Guantanamo.
They seem pretty well under control as a nation to most of us...
Aion (the game) uses this in a smarter way - it randomizes the number placement in the virtual numpad.
Such measure would defeat attempting to use this vulnerability to get someone's clickable PIN.
The difference you're missing is that with lava you have massively enriched soil.
With deforestation you get exact opposite.
Essentially you apply fauna-based "lava equals wiping of all I see as important", while flora based point of view is "look at all these new rich minerals in top soil to grow off!"
Your post's first part is correct. Second is opinionated drivel on the level of fox news. Governing world's largest state with extremely complex mixture of cultures and ethnicities that have standing conflicts that sometimes spawn over millenia requires a very hard handed approach.
Most people don't seem to understand that large states are ALL corrupt, but corruption changes face in accordance to local culture. In the East, it's generally low level corruption, with low and middle level bureaucrats that take most of the bribes. The upper echelon of the bureaucracy typically accepts this as a realistic cost of running an Eastern country.
In the West, we typically have a high level corruption where highest of the ruling elite are more corrupt then low and middle bureaucrats. And we the people accept that corruption at highest strata of society is just the way our culture works.
I still remember the old saying about the biggest difference between Russia and USA. In USA, money is power. In Russia, power is money.
About as much as you're arguing that everyone will be happy to accept complete economic collapse of their country in the style of pre-WW2 Germany.
How bad of a crash are you willing to take for that little piece of ego boosting?
Because if you think that your current way of life comes purely from US and not from extremely lucrative, essentially colonial exploitation of 3rd world, you are going to hit a wall or reality running.
I can solidly confirm this, as one of the people who got to joyfully beta test the wonderful mess that was steam back on CS 1.6 release. When we were told it was just a "new matchmaking system for CS".
Very little good PR came out of that one, but they sure got their unwilling beta-testers in droves.
Whoever modded that funny, ignorance is bliss. That is the most insightful post in the entire discussion.
That wasn't the topic of discussion.
It's a well known and researched natural tendency of free market to become an eventual monopoly. This is because the most successful will always want to reinforce its position through purchases, takeovers and dumping until competition is dead and it's the only one left standing.
Efficiency.
if humans had field of vision that could be filled with a 5.5" object that's not stuck right in their faces, we'd be extinct long ago.
Yes, like a huge display that covers nearly 100% of person's field of view (from person's point of view) in front of him?
Correct, and these are functional only on small screens. HUDs are generally build with multiple simultaneous functions of completely different nature (i.e. applications).
One of the biggest promised features on F-35's HMD for example is the enhanced replication of multi-functional display system from current fighter interface. Because when you project across entire field of vision, you can fit a lot of stuff in. On the other hand, when you're displaying on small smartphone that doesn't even fill tenth of person's vision's focus, yeah. No go.
Current small screen smartphone can be the primary control mechanism for a movie theatre projector through HDMI interface, feeding 1080p video.
Did you have a point there?
Nope, it's a projected HUD. Current generations of smartphones, which is what you referenced are small screens.
Let's not be obtuse.
Anyone who thinks AR is going to flourish on the small screen in the future needs to have their heads checked. Their disconnection with reality combined with blind belief in marketing is astounding.
The place where AR may indeed flourish is some sort of a HUD, like google glass. Small screen AR interfaces are usually just toys, because they're actually quite uncomfortable to use.
The reason for this is exceptionally small screens on these devices, that do not allow for efficient multitasking.
I'm betting a fad wad of cash that very few of them are rooted in the grand scheme of things. I had an XP machine that couldn't update to SP1 (installer always crashed, as did windows update for some reason) so no updates, not even critical ones.
I ran that machine for over two years. Sane software firewall with tight rule set and constant updates, antivirus, browser, mail client, irc client, games, office suite, etc and user that doesn't download porn as executables. Apparently it didn't matter one bit that OS didn't get any critical updates for years, in spite of being on a public fixed IP address.
At some point I finally broke and got a slipstreamed SP2 torrent off piratebay eventually and installed it with my key. Worked fine and I could update. Funnily, I forgot to unplug it from network when installing it, so it got rooted within about a minute of finishing installation (it was on fixed public and open IP address). By the time I had installed firefox, which was among the first things to get into the machine after drivers, it opened a shitload of advert windows for porn, gambling and so on. Which pretty much spelled out to me what happened.
So I re-formatted the drive, unplugged the ethernet cable, reinstalled windows, installed my good old firewall with same rule set as the vanilla XP machine. Then just did the updates. No problems since. The damn thing is still trucking, through I gave it to my parents.
I am willing to bet people like me are plentiful, and pirated or not, OS itself doesn't need even critical updates if firewall is functional and has a sane ruleset, browser and other software that you actually allow into the internet is updated and you don't do stupid shit like download executables called "awesome porn.exe"