So Greenpeace makes an example of a villain that the most people will notice and be affected by when they learn the story. How is that "hypocritical"?
Greenpeace isn't an order of saints or something. They've got some very strong positions on some values that are also held by some very moral people. But they're very pragmatic about working to conserve specific things for the practical welfare of people in this world, and of the world we're living in. They're not here to save your soul, just your planet.
The point is that there is no license required. I don't need any extra rights or privileges to scan my own books into another format for my personal consumption. I just need an automated book scanner. That scanning doesn't delete any of my rights.
No, you're a lying Greenhouse denier. About the only resistance to the consensus is manufactured by the polluting industries. Unless you're counting the tobacco and other industries that join the party for their own antiscience agenda. And even counting those liars, there's less "scientific" resistance to the consensus than there is on all kinds of other important facts and models, which aren't as "controversial" because they don't put massive liabilities onto those activist industries.
You are the liar. Your own lies are manufactured for you by that industry. You've got nothing but lies. You don't even have the buzz anymore, as more people can see what's clearly going on.
Now get on with your usual lies about how come everyone's walking around in shorts today, nearly November in NYC, while the North Pole won't be refreezing, while the planet is in a state it hasn't seen in hundreds of thousands of years, but which we've been steadily cooking up for the past century. Just don't think you can lie to me about it.
I buy a lot of books for $1-5 used. I might pay up to a dollar per 300pg book to be scanned, which would cost $10K for my whole library. At $0.25 a book, about $0.008 per page, I'd do it.
Even HS kids wouldn't work for $0.42:h. This project calls for a scanner with automated pageflipping. If this Open Library project doesn't have that, then I expect that no one does (yet). I'll wait.
No, I am sure I own the book. Nowhere does the publisher even claim that I bought a license or anything else less than ownership of the object and the rights inherent in real property to use that object. The uses I described are extremely well documented in law as fully protected by law.
Numbers are not an authority, they're facts. You might say consensus is an "appeal to authority" if you agree with the consensus without testing it out. But if you're going to disagree with the consensus without testing that out, then your anticonsensus belief is an appeal to a flimsy authority. Moreover, you're living your life mostly in consensus. If you just disbelieve the consensus on climate change, you're being arbitrary. So unless you believe that consistency is another mere "appeal to authority", you're just being a pain in the ass for its own sake. Which, if you don't disclose that central fact defining your public promotion against the consensus, is dishonest.
Skepticism is essential. Which means actually testing and evaluating the facts. Faking it by just flying in the face of consensus is for children, not for adults who expect to be taken seriously. On such a serious issue.
Yeah, except it's already bad enough that Google has a log of every Web search I make. I don't need them having a log of every book I've read. They'd have a map of my mind. Next they'd require I upload my genome as the "encryption key". Then I'd face an army of imprinted clones, each backed by Google's budget.
I buy a lot of books. I've got probably 10,000 or so. I wish I could search through them. Some for reference, sometimes because I read something that sounds familiar that I want to find where I first read it. I'd also like to read them on my PC sometimes, or even on my phone like when I'm waiting for a while somewhere. And I'd like to copy/paste short passages from them into messages I send on the Internet.
If this project is really "open", can I have my own libarary scanned? How much does it cost? I own the rights to copy my own books for my own personal use. Does something make these other "official" libraries eligible to use their full rights to their content in a way that I cannot?
There's lots of consensus on our guesses about climate and how it's changing. About the only resistance to the consensus is manufactured by the polluting industries, which aren't going to go along just because we know better what's happening. The more we've learned, the more they've generated complaints about what we know.
We've also got a lot of action on climate change. But most of it is bad, like pumping pollution into the sky. Converting more of that action to conserving our balanced environment would probably mean less total action, but less of it requiring extra mitigating actions.
Raising and lowering all those cars probably would consume a lot of energy. While the address uses Con Edison, one of the most expensive utilities in the country.
However, if the elevators used regenerative braking, they wouldn't consume much energy at all. Lowering the cars could charge a battery that raises the next car. Such efficient tech could be applied to all NYC's many elevators, even at lower loads per trip, if it became cheap, reliable and maintainable. Overall the energy saved could be very large.
In the meantime, Americans will proceed to evolve to a point where we never leave our cars. We'll need the wheels just to drive around the batteries for all our mobile devices. Especially as we'll need to stay inside a generated mediasphere all the time, rather than face the ugly reality of a world we've twisted around that growing consumer lifestyle. We'll probably average a kilowatt or two consumption, undocking our personal carts from our larger cars to redock into our office cubicles.
More clarity: That's all correct, except that MesaGL doesn't have the 3D (or 2D) graphics because it calls HW (or microcode) GL routines in the VGA (or better) chips. So that functionality would need to be ported to the SPEs.
The US government does quite a lot more than paying for coercive force, though the rightwing pretends that's all that government is for, sometimes pretending that's all it does. Medicare/Medicaid (Federal/state health insurance) and Social Security (Federal pension) combined are bigger probably any other country's total government budget, even in a country which is inadequate in those expenses, and maybe even on a per capita basis.
The war machine just funnels money though a small, unaccountable group which gets to keep the spoils after getting paid to wreak havoc. They use the fear and aggression to perpetuate their hold on power, too.
I live in NYC, so my prices are among the highest in the country: Gas: $3.25 (up to $4) a gallon, which is $0.86 ($1.05) per L Internet: $50:mo cablemodem 8Mbps/600Kbps Phone: Vonage (over cablemodem) $35 unlimited US/Mexico/W-Europe (including all taxes) Electric: $0.20:KWh (maybe the highest in the country) Meat: About $6.50:Kg (depending on which animal/cut/quality) Tomatoes: $0.25 each (but they suck: gas "ripened", really taste-free, hard, not nutritious); $0.50 for organic of high quality, almost as good as the ones I've gotten in markets all over Latin America Milk: $1 per liter A wife who deals with buying everything not required to run the phone: priceless:)
I wonder whether the plane needs to fly at the same altitude with freight as with passengers. And even if it's pressurized, it seems to me that the pressure can come at the expense of a little drag, with just some funnels that make wind and some cold, rather than the human room conditions required. At the very least, proper oxygen isn't necessary.
I'd pay an extra $20-50 per trip (all passengers) for a truck to pick up my bags at my home/hotel before I leave for the airport, deliver my bags to my destination (hotel/home), and send me confirmation before I leave for the airport. All on a separate baggage freight flight.
That flight could have as many stops, at any time, to optimize the routing. It wouldn't need to pressurize the cabin or serve food. It wouldn't need any crew except to fly the plane. It wouldn't attract terrorists, and everything could be X-rayed or otherwise detected, without any "realtime" hassles.
Then my passenger-only flight could have almost twice as much space for paying passengers. I'd know in advance if my bags were lost, so I could initiate whatever recovery is possible without the crisis of being on the road, and send a replacement bag so there is no crisis at all. My airport time would be a complete walkthru, with at most a single 5 pound carryone that must pass a metal detector and X-ray at walking speed or be confiscated and sent on a later flight.
And those baggage flights could sell any excess space on routes for higher priced package delivery without passengers.
The efficiencies gained would be worth $BILLIONS. The hassles saved would make more people fly, and reduce safety risks.
I wish airlines weren't so completely subsidized and insulated from risks of losses. Then someone with actual power to do this right might consider this plan.
I was just talking about the total tax burden. I know that the US offers much more flexibility in managing your finances. But I note that your taxes for your healthcare, though not optional, support a system that's much cheaper, and in many categories better, than what we have in the US. And that's a very big part of anyone's finances. If part of our options was even minimal healthcare (including catastrophic, like hit by a car) paid by everyone's taxes, to which we could add excellent healthcare (like non-health cosmetic surgery), we'd be a lot better off. But then, we'd be a lot better off not paying for $1-2 TRILLION Iraq War that's driving up the expenses of everything else, including the oil we're supposed to be stealing over there.
The PS3 needs help developing native X drivers that work on the Cell's SPEs. Linux currently runs on the PS3 Cell's PPC core, but that doesn't even have the accelerated graphics that cheap PCs have on their videocards (the PS3 RSX is locked out to Linux). The SPEs are so much more powerful, and designed for exactly the pixel pushing that X needs. Once they're running instead of sitting there, the PS3 will be by far the best $600 HD terminal out there. Especially with home theater/automation systems on it like LinuxMCE. But it needs help across that basic milestone.
Those are lots of different taxes. But it seems that you're saying that someone who works for a company pays only 21% as a sales tax on most goods, and less% on some purchases (eg. electric). And your employer pays 3.5% tax on what they pay you for your labor, which means you're not getting (just under) 3.5% of what they're paying to employ you, so it's like you're paying that tax (but you don't have to do the accounting/reporting).
Here in America, most employees pay about 25% income taxes, while employers pay over 15% extra in insurance and retirement/pension taxes, for about 40%, another 10% in state taxes (more if you own a home), and another 5-8% (depending on your state) sales taxes on the remaining 50%, for about 55-60% taxes total. And we have our own galaxy of fees. And our healthcare insurance, for which we spend crushing amounts, gives much worse coverage, especially in catastrophes, than what you described in Argentina.
The only "fair" tax I ever heard of is a uniform sales tax (no other taxes) of about 25% total on everything except necessities (like shelter fit for the working poor, healthcare to live to age 75, uncooked food and unsewn cloth, maybe electric/water/gas/Internet for that basic shelter). So our taxes are all unfair. But I think in the US we pay at least as much as you do. But here it's the rich we're subsidizing, not the poor, which seems even crueler to me.
This patent is invalid, by the mass of prior art published on Slashdot alone.
Most times any patent frivolity is discussed on Slashdot, there are any number of "business method designs" for patenting patents, or patenting extortive intellectual property methods or business models. Many in the handy format of "1. XXX / 2. YYY / 3. ZZZ / 4. ??? / 5. PROFIT!!!"
This is the legal legacy of Napster throwing their lawsuit as part of their deal to sell out to BMG. BMG got Napster, its userbase, brand and (so what) technology, but most importantly the copyright industry got a legal precedent that just a directory, but no content, of copyrighted content somehow violates copyright. Of course the original bad precedent was the early attack on MP3.com, which scared stupid old record execs when the Rio MP3 player hit the shelves. So just those two badly fought and lost precedents mean that not only can I not tell you where someone has some content, even if I don't copy it myself, but you can't even put a backup copy of your content on my server to consume on some other terminal across the Net - even if you can copy the CDs and listen to different copies in your home, office and car.
Now we're seeing those bad precedents stop us from doing those same things with video. Without the word of mouth that sharing records and videos has brought several generations, the content that the copyright industry is protecting will just get worse and worse, its quality determined only by the decrepit old weasels fool enough to stay in their business and work with no one but lawyers.
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So Greenpeace makes an example of a villain that the most people will notice and be affected by when they learn the story. How is that "hypocritical"?
Greenpeace isn't an order of saints or something. They've got some very strong positions on some values that are also held by some very moral people. But they're very pragmatic about working to conserve specific things for the practical welfare of people in this world, and of the world we're living in. They're not here to save your soul, just your planet.
Yes, but I haven't published its website yet ;).
The point is that there is no license required. I don't need any extra rights or privileges to scan my own books into another format for my personal consumption. I just need an automated book scanner. That scanning doesn't delete any of my rights.
You asked for it... just hotrod the new Opel, and you got it!
That makes you a loser.
You're a troll.
You shut the fuck up.
I'm rubber, you're glue.
No, you're a lying Greenhouse denier. About the only resistance to the consensus is manufactured by the polluting industries. Unless you're counting the tobacco and other industries that join the party for their own antiscience agenda. And even counting those liars, there's less "scientific" resistance to the consensus than there is on all kinds of other important facts and models, which aren't as "controversial" because they don't put massive liabilities onto those activist industries.
You are the liar. Your own lies are manufactured for you by that industry. You've got nothing but lies. You don't even have the buzz anymore, as more people can see what's clearly going on.
Now get on with your usual lies about how come everyone's walking around in shorts today, nearly November in NYC, while the North Pole won't be refreezing, while the planet is in a state it hasn't seen in hundreds of thousands of years, but which we've been steadily cooking up for the past century. Just don't think you can lie to me about it.
So just shut up already, Anonymous inane Coward.
So? I don't need a copyright exception to do what I described with my own books.
I buy a lot of books for $1-5 used. I might pay up to a dollar per 300pg book to be scanned, which would cost $10K for my whole library. At $0.25 a book, about $0.008 per page, I'd do it.
Even HS kids wouldn't work for $0.42:h. This project calls for a scanner with automated pageflipping. If this Open Library project doesn't have that, then I expect that no one does (yet). I'll wait.
No, I am sure I own the book. Nowhere does the publisher even claim that I bought a license or anything else less than ownership of the object and the rights inherent in real property to use that object. The uses I described are extremely well documented in law as fully protected by law.
Numbers are not an authority, they're facts. You might say consensus is an "appeal to authority" if you agree with the consensus without testing it out. But if you're going to disagree with the consensus without testing that out, then your anticonsensus belief is an appeal to a flimsy authority. Moreover, you're living your life mostly in consensus. If you just disbelieve the consensus on climate change, you're being arbitrary. So unless you believe that consistency is another mere "appeal to authority", you're just being a pain in the ass for its own sake. Which, if you don't disclose that central fact defining your public promotion against the consensus, is dishonest.
Skepticism is essential. Which means actually testing and evaluating the facts. Faking it by just flying in the face of consensus is for children, not for adults who expect to be taken seriously. On such a serious issue.
Yeah, except it's already bad enough that Google has a log of every Web search I make. I don't need them having a log of every book I've read. They'd have a map of my mind. Next they'd require I upload my genome as the "encryption key". Then I'd face an army of imprinted clones, each backed by Google's budget.
I buy a lot of books. I've got probably 10,000 or so. I wish I could search through them. Some for reference, sometimes because I read something that sounds familiar that I want to find where I first read it. I'd also like to read them on my PC sometimes, or even on my phone like when I'm waiting for a while somewhere. And I'd like to copy/paste short passages from them into messages I send on the Internet.
If this project is really "open", can I have my own libarary scanned? How much does it cost? I own the rights to copy my own books for my own personal use. Does something make these other "official" libraries eligible to use their full rights to their content in a way that I cannot?
There's lots of consensus on our guesses about climate and how it's changing. About the only resistance to the consensus is manufactured by the polluting industries, which aren't going to go along just because we know better what's happening. The more we've learned, the more they've generated complaints about what we know.
We've also got a lot of action on climate change. But most of it is bad, like pumping pollution into the sky. Converting more of that action to conserving our balanced environment would probably mean less total action, but less of it requiring extra mitigating actions.
Raising and lowering all those cars probably would consume a lot of energy. While the address uses Con Edison, one of the most expensive utilities in the country.
However, if the elevators used regenerative braking, they wouldn't consume much energy at all. Lowering the cars could charge a battery that raises the next car. Such efficient tech could be applied to all NYC's many elevators, even at lower loads per trip, if it became cheap, reliable and maintainable. Overall the energy saved could be very large.
In the meantime, Americans will proceed to evolve to a point where we never leave our cars. We'll need the wheels just to drive around the batteries for all our mobile devices. Especially as we'll need to stay inside a generated mediasphere all the time, rather than face the ugly reality of a world we've twisted around that growing consumer lifestyle. We'll probably average a kilowatt or two consumption, undocking our personal carts from our larger cars to redock into our office cubicles.
More clarity:
That's all correct, except that MesaGL doesn't have the 3D (or 2D) graphics because it calls HW (or microcode) GL routines in the VGA (or better) chips. So that functionality would need to be ported to the SPEs.
The US government does quite a lot more than paying for coercive force, though the rightwing pretends that's all that government is for, sometimes pretending that's all it does. Medicare/Medicaid (Federal/state health insurance) and Social Security (Federal pension) combined are bigger probably any other country's total government budget, even in a country which is inadequate in those expenses, and maybe even on a per capita basis.
:)
The war machine just funnels money though a small, unaccountable group which gets to keep the spoils after getting paid to wreak havoc. They use the fear and aggression to perpetuate their hold on power, too.
I live in NYC, so my prices are among the highest in the country:
Gas: $3.25 (up to $4) a gallon, which is $0.86 ($1.05) per L
Internet: $50:mo cablemodem 8Mbps/600Kbps
Phone: Vonage (over cablemodem) $35 unlimited US/Mexico/W-Europe (including all taxes)
Electric: $0.20:KWh (maybe the highest in the country)
Meat: About $6.50:Kg (depending on which animal/cut/quality)
Tomatoes: $0.25 each (but they suck: gas "ripened", really taste-free, hard, not nutritious); $0.50 for organic of high quality, almost as good as the ones I've gotten in markets all over Latin America
Milk: $1 per liter
A wife who deals with buying everything not required to run the phone: priceless
I wonder whether the plane needs to fly at the same altitude with freight as with passengers. And even if it's pressurized, it seems to me that the pressure can come at the expense of a little drag, with just some funnels that make wind and some cold, rather than the human room conditions required. At the very least, proper oxygen isn't necessary.
I'd pay an extra $20-50 per trip (all passengers) for a truck to pick up my bags at my home/hotel before I leave for the airport, deliver my bags to my destination (hotel/home), and send me confirmation before I leave for the airport. All on a separate baggage freight flight.
That flight could have as many stops, at any time, to optimize the routing. It wouldn't need to pressurize the cabin or serve food. It wouldn't need any crew except to fly the plane. It wouldn't attract terrorists, and everything could be X-rayed or otherwise detected, without any "realtime" hassles.
Then my passenger-only flight could have almost twice as much space for paying passengers. I'd know in advance if my bags were lost, so I could initiate whatever recovery is possible without the crisis of being on the road, and send a replacement bag so there is no crisis at all. My airport time would be a complete walkthru, with at most a single 5 pound carryone that must pass a metal detector and X-ray at walking speed or be confiscated and sent on a later flight.
And those baggage flights could sell any excess space on routes for higher priced package delivery without passengers.
The efficiencies gained would be worth $BILLIONS. The hassles saved would make more people fly, and reduce safety risks.
I wish airlines weren't so completely subsidized and insulated from risks of losses. Then someone with actual power to do this right might consider this plan.
I was just talking about the total tax burden. I know that the US offers much more flexibility in managing your finances. But I note that your taxes for your healthcare, though not optional, support a system that's much cheaper, and in many categories better, than what we have in the US. And that's a very big part of anyone's finances. If part of our options was even minimal healthcare (including catastrophic, like hit by a car) paid by everyone's taxes, to which we could add excellent healthcare (like non-health cosmetic surgery), we'd be a lot better off. But then, we'd be a lot better off not paying for $1-2 TRILLION Iraq War that's driving up the expenses of everything else, including the oil we're supposed to be stealing over there.
The PS3 needs help developing native X drivers that work on the Cell's SPEs. Linux currently runs on the PS3 Cell's PPC core, but that doesn't even have the accelerated graphics that cheap PCs have on their videocards (the PS3 RSX is locked out to Linux). The SPEs are so much more powerful, and designed for exactly the pixel pushing that X needs. Once they're running instead of sitting there, the PS3 will be by far the best $600 HD terminal out there. Especially with home theater/automation systems on it like LinuxMCE. But it needs help across that basic milestone.
Those are lots of different taxes. But it seems that you're saying that someone who works for a company pays only 21% as a sales tax on most goods, and less% on some purchases (eg. electric). And your employer pays 3.5% tax on what they pay you for your labor, which means you're not getting (just under) 3.5% of what they're paying to employ you, so it's like you're paying that tax (but you don't have to do the accounting/reporting).
Here in America, most employees pay about 25% income taxes, while employers pay over 15% extra in insurance and retirement/pension taxes, for about 40%, another 10% in state taxes (more if you own a home), and another 5-8% (depending on your state) sales taxes on the remaining 50%, for about 55-60% taxes total. And we have our own galaxy of fees. And our healthcare insurance, for which we spend crushing amounts, gives much worse coverage, especially in catastrophes, than what you described in Argentina.
The only "fair" tax I ever heard of is a uniform sales tax (no other taxes) of about 25% total on everything except necessities (like shelter fit for the working poor, healthcare to live to age 75, uncooked food and unsewn cloth, maybe electric/water/gas/Internet for that basic shelter). So our taxes are all unfair. But I think in the US we pay at least as much as you do. But here it's the rich we're subsidizing, not the poor, which seems even crueler to me.
This patent is invalid, by the mass of prior art published on Slashdot alone.
Most times any patent frivolity is discussed on Slashdot, there are any number of "business method designs" for patenting patents, or patenting extortive intellectual property methods or business models. Many in the handy format of " 1. XXX / 2. YYY / 3. ZZZ / 4. ??? / 5. PROFIT!!! "
Though this post would make a great joke, the patent crusader Homer Simpson would say " It's funny because it's true. ©.
This is the legal legacy of Napster throwing their lawsuit as part of their deal to sell out to BMG. BMG got Napster, its userbase, brand and (so what) technology, but most importantly the copyright industry got a legal precedent that just a directory, but no content, of copyrighted content somehow violates copyright. Of course the original bad precedent was the early attack on MP3.com, which scared stupid old record execs when the Rio MP3 player hit the shelves. So just those two badly fought and lost precedents mean that not only can I not tell you where someone has some content, even if I don't copy it myself, but you can't even put a backup copy of your content on my server to consume on some other terminal across the Net - even if you can copy the CDs and listen to different copies in your home, office and car.
Now we're seeing those bad precedents stop us from doing those same things with video. Without the word of mouth that sharing records and videos has brought several generations, the content that the copyright industry is protecting will just get worse and worse, its quality determined only by the decrepit old weasels fool enough to stay in their business and work with no one but lawyers.